Love without Motive

"Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor, giving preference to one another; not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality."

Romans 12:9-13

"Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus." 

Phillipians 2:3-5

Love with a love that doesn't have a motive or expectation of anything in return. Honor your brother and sisters in Christ (all of them, no matter who they are or what title they may have.) Care for one another and think of others more than yourself. Be there for them no matter what you are going through yourself. Pray for them. Rejoice with them. Walk in patience when they are going through something hard. Hospitality- welcoming, helpful, warm, kind, cater, courtesy, generosity, entertain. Give out self to the needs of others with hospitality. Have the mind of Christ, who is Love.

Love's Not

One of the best poetic, lyrical raps I have heard and it's about love...or really mostly about what love is not. :)

Love. What is it? A solid or a liquid?
The question resonates from inner space to outer limits
Outer space to inner city dwellers timid, not committed
Love just isn't built on child support and weekend visits
You kill it like strychnine when you treat it like a cancer
You don't feel it so you spend time seek pleasure, not the answer
In clubs peeping dancers in a jacked-up type of manner
Stuffing g-strings with dollars that should buy your baby's Pampers
Love's not waking up with different women every morning
Love's not beating her down at nine months, with child forming
Love's not leaving your wife and your seed with no warning
Love's not, and when it's raining its pouring
Scoring no points you smoke joints, and toke your life away
You might have another year or two but you really die today
Display respect for yourself, or you can't love nobody else
The hand you're dealt requires action, not just something you felt


I know what love is and it just don't stop
but I explain it better when I can say what love's not.
Yeah I know what love is, and it just don't stop
But I can explain it better when I say what love's not.


A house divided against itself is prone to utter desolation
So for this generation on the brink of extermination
I pour out a libation, a lyrical libation
In observation of the annihilation of the moral foundation
The desperation of the situation was clearly foretold
That in these last days the love of many would grow stone cold
And if hell is without love
Then all hell has broke loose in this culture
Feel the negativity circling overhead like a vulture?
The inverted priority of the majority, squander the sacred
To give what's profane seniority
And incredibly we fail to see collectively
The roots of why things fall apart like leprosy
Passion is the fashion taboos are taboo
Do you see through this voodoo
Cause it stinks like doodoo
Yo it's sad but too true how many don't have a clue
To the fact we'll be judged for all we think say and do
From east to west coast and all areas in between
Real love is like a ghost -- talked about but rarely seen
Except on TV screens where they flash these caricatures
That on the down low are meant to influence our characters
But love is not love if it's manufactured for the moment
That makes it more than the physical between a man and a woman
Wisdom is justified by her children in the end
And real love is being willing to lay down your life for a friend

I know what love is and it just don't stop
but I explain it better when I can say what love's not.
Yeah I know what love is, and it just don't stop
But I can explain it better when I say what love's not.


Love's not caught in mug shots or seen in drug spots
Love's not sex or who you do next Love's not
Road rage, porno pages in the eyes of a racist
Loves not whoring and love's not abortion
Of course then love doesn't bomb clinics to make it finish
Love's not hate and love's not a cynic
Love's not seen on Jerry Springer or expressed by middle finger
And love is rarely captured in the words of any singer
Love's not domestic violence saying shut up or be silent
And love's not represented in the wail of the police sirens
Abandoned children in abandon buildings
Random killings, love's not slow to help you, love is ready and willing
Love is patient and kind, love is sight for the blind
Love was born before the morning, love's transforming your mind
Love is body and blood, bread and wine, remember the time
Love is God divine, crucified for mankind

-by Mars Ill-

Hear My Prayer

This is a poem that I wrote when I first gave my life to God.  I was so new to the whole praying out loud with nothing already being written out to say.  I wasn't good at putting things into words in general, so to put into words how I was really feeling and wanting to ask of God Himself was that more difficult.  Through poetry I began to say what was really on my heart and what I really wanted to say and ask of God.  And because God is love, and He is faithful always, He began to speak to me as I poured my heart to Him through rhymes.

Why can't I say the words I need to say?

How much longer can I wait

Til there's a bigger price that I will have to pay?

On the outside it may seem like nothing's wrong at all,

But inside this secret I've been keeping

May cause my world to crumble and fall.

Please Lord hear my prayer.

For it is You that I love and adore.

I ask for the strength, the power, and the wisdom

For this secret to be no more.

A Getting Out of The Box

So...I realized how much I've been living in this little box.

Same ways, Same people, Same town, Same house, Same room, Same bed.

Then I realized how much I wanted out.

So...I began to think outside this box.

And here I am.

Blogging and Vlogging.

Things I never thought of doing before.

Until Now!

And it is so great.

I have already met some awesome people.

I will be using this for updates and such

but mostly to voice my heart.

In phrases, scriptures, pictures, poems, and songs.

There's a lot in me that God has done over the years.

And a gift He has put inside me that I want to begin to walk in.

So...for those who read, I pray that what God speaks to me and through me

Will speak to your heart as well.

Let Him love on you.

You are loved by Love. (1 Cor. 13:4-8, 13)

MC