Over the last few years we have watched in silence as the world was taking on a new shape and taking on new inventions. We have sat as if in silence, watching, but it is changing again. A while back I listened to Rubibi Emmanuel and Kalule Robert talk and I realized that something is happening that many of us should be aware of us.
The Book Of Ezra:
I was doing research in the book of Ezra and God proved something to me. Like in that time today we are involved in a kind of building of God’s house. The land is dry and barren but this is the kind of land that we are called to. We, I mean you and I. the hungry are many, poverty rampant, violence and sin all the darkness we are to flash out with the light in us. Every Christian is called at this point to begin to realize there position in this work. Every thing we do today is a contribution to that building, or should it be, has the potential of doing so.
We are called to realize that our live are bigger than our needs, immediate needs; our aspirations have to go beyond ourselves as we focus on the kingdom. Don’t get me wrong, this does not mean that we abandon the immediate responsibilities, but we realize there position in the big picture. As we do this we shall realize that we have a mandate that makes us partners with the one who has given the assignment.
The Connection;
You will realize that right in your heart is a dream, one at least that goes beyond you. An aspiration that has your adrenaline rise and yet you try so much to calm your self down. Fear never lets you break away from this poverty mindset. The kind of thinking that has you believing that you are only here for yourself and that God is not passionate about your aspirations and dreams.
Those aspirations are right from the heart of God, His heart beat. You share it coz from that day He wrote His laws on your heart. Gave you his desires, shared with you His thumb print and that was and still is His delight. God wants to share Himself with you more each day, that is His desire, but many of us shun it in fear of what may be and what may not. In this garden He is looking for sons that will take initiative and look at things straight.
The Perspective;
We are not responding in fear but in love. God speaks to us through our own desires and not fears. So you are asking, what if the desires are evil? And I ask back, what is evil doing in light, in the righteousness of God. here is the point, instead of looking for the evil in you look for the good in you, it is more rewarding to look at the results of the finished works of Christ than to look at what He was working on.
We are not competing or trying to prove a point to the world. That too is not our concern. We are simply enjoying the partnership with God; we are making use of the lot that is freely given to us. Our delight is in seeing that we are actually experiencing the fullness of God in all that we do, in all that we are putting effort to.
The Realizations;
We have also realized that we are evangelizing, with every shilling we earn we see more souls come into the kingdom. Our work is an act of service and prayer to God, we worship Him in the prayer room and in the board room. We cannot separate our salvation from all that we do.
We are inseparable and our practice is a going concern.
The Responsibility;
We are the kind that was birthed into responsibility. If you can find one thing to
complain about, you have found a responsibility. From dirty streets, rape, poverty.
hunger, corruption and many more. Those are our responsibilities and those are what we
are supposed to take care of. Some of it will call for a lot of money and all of it will call
for prayer. We all are responsible for it all. Some Christians are so scared of sin, they are building there righteousness and they are keeping away from the responsibility. They believe God for billions to carry on God’s work and yet they are not willing to undertake projects, businesses, and organizations that will see that kind of money come to them. They have not seen the possibility of success because they are scared of prospering in all aspects of life. To theme success and fame are worldly. But they complain about corruption and poverty.
I wonder which is worse. God has given us a responsibility and yet we keep giving it back to Him. WE keep giving our politics out to Him after He says I give you the politics and economics. I here the prayer, ‘God we put our leaders in your hands,’ as we do that we should also pray that we take the politics up, thank Him for the education system that He has put in our hands, that we are to posses.
The Legislations;
Like in the times of Ezra, God is using the ungodly to deliver the resources that are required of us to accomplish the building of the house. They are going to give the gold and the rest we need to accomplish the works of God in this time. Get me right again, laws will change, standards are changing and they will favor the Christians of this time. This is simply because we are the only ones who can combine excellence with honesty. We will benefit greatly from that but not if we don’t take the time to position ourselves today.
The Position;
Peter positioned himself to do exploits when he stepped out of the boat. He walked on the water and God is asking us to do just the same today. Believe that our dreams will come true. Start today to work on them to believe in them. Don’t take anything you have today for granted, dreams, higher education, a stable marriage , a church you are starting and so many. If you realize your responsibility in this time you will know that this generation needs you, the world needs you. That is why you pray as a priest and you decree like the king Christ paid so expensively to make you.
The things that the gospel calls for require of us to give ourselves, in prayer as well as in business. We need to see churches equipping the saints to go and subdue the world of corruption as they reign in wealth, in honesty. The saints need to know that they are not just for themselves. That their dollars are useful in building fully equipped hospitals. But they need to know that money cannot transform a life though it can touch a life.
We are moving toward Christians that will see the blind eyes open yet at the same time they build the hospital, fully equipped. They will operate in the gifts of the Spirit and the fruits yet they will have the monetary power to influence decisions and they will be well positioned to influence policy. You are part of this movement and you have a role to play. Pray, and I mean pray. When you discover the area of direct commission pray for those changes you want to happen. Make it global and not just your country.
The Mathematics;
Ten years from now, the people you know will be major decision maker. Position yourself to take advantage of that. They will need a leader with achievements, integrity and the Spirit of God in them. You are that leader, but you need to realize it now. Stop thinking problems and lack, think provision and Kingdom. We are establishing the Kingdom of God on the crusade ground and in the children home, in political offices and many more. We are going to be there, believe with me and speak that constantly in the days God gives you. Don’t just place the day in His hands, it’s a gift from Him, work through it with Him, pray through it with His word.
Simply Put;
God is counting on you.
Our Role;
Pray and I mean pray, Paul calls it travailing. It will calls for fasts hour in the night of prayer and a lot of God’s word at play. The Spirit of God too will have to be your partner. The wisdom and resources are given, use them. It may seem like you have little but if you choose multiply them now and to value them now, more will be added. If it’s a job ,be the best, school, higher education, business, Local council politics, simply be the best because our time of promotions is here.
Thinking;
As I write this am thinking of friends of mine, Kalule Robert, Kiiza Isaac, Elizabeth Dambya, George Oyite, Sembatya Edirisa, Kiconco Patience, Rubibi Emmanuel, Nalweyiso Easter and many more. They should know they are important right in this time..
Believe with me.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Simply Why?
The other day I was speaking to one of the men I consider wisest in this time and generation and we came to ask ourselves the question, why. Not that we wanted to get the answer but we were left to answer that for the multitudes that remain largely uneducated as to why they do what they do.
At the center of every activity is the answer to the question why. The answer to this question goes a long way in helping many of us realize both our positions and destinations. The student that has not answered this question is the one who does fail in many of there endeavors. There are many purposes that have gone to waste because the people that undertook them were not with the answer to the question why. There are many purposes still that have been abused because those to whom they were entrusted were not with the slightest clue as to why they were left custodians.
So we sit here in the valley of question and pause as though we are without direction. We sit to examine our intents in relation to the purposes we proclaim to be in service of. The world today is in search for the deeper or should we say, inner thing. There are many practices designed to help people reach deeper inside them, to help them understand why they are here on earth. Trust me, this question is one we ask ourselves whether we are aware of it or not. This is with in our very fabrics. So we begin to realize that the answer to this question is just as important as the need to ask this question.
I see people getting married after answering this question but not all of them try to find the right answers to this question. In fact not many of them can tell the difference between the right and wrong answers. There are businesspeople racking their brains to make billions of dollars and yet they too have not conclusively answered this question in the right way.
We as humans are very rational beings, we, apart from those that have abandoned the responsibility to remain human. Timothy Ahumuza once told me that it is the people that know why that will keep getting rich. He was right but not complete. Today I know that it is people that have rightly answered that question that will indeed be richer. Every single one of us is responsible for themselves. Our personal lives are our primary responsibilities. But when we realize that our lives do not exist in isolation we realize that the responsibility we take for our lives is extended to those lives around us. We are all connected in a way that while we are to blame no one for our plight, we are to blame ourselves for the plight of those around us. But as we take on such massive responsibility, we need to pause and ask ourselves why we are doing this. This will not help us determine how much we are responsible; it will also help us realize how to take on such responsibility.
The pedestrian that drops a coin to a street child does well, but not in the long term. This is why. Firstly, this is one way of keeping these children on the streets. If we keep showing them that the streets are a better option than Kefa Sempangi’s homes or Watoto Childcare Ministries, or the Kateyamba In Nalukolongo, or Besania Children’ s home, we are worse than the parents that cast them out of their homes or the diseases that orphaned them. To insist on keeping these precious children on the streets is to continues abusing their rights as humans, to continue sowing that victim mindset in them. We have a lot of ways of healing that guilt that hits us so badly. Support the organizations that have come out to help these children. Give of your money to them, volunteer with them once in a while, pray for them. That is how we decently get children off the streets, not by pilling them on trucks and locking them away, and definitely not by giving them money to heal the guilt of our consciences.
That is just one illustration; marriage is part of this, education, business, employment. If I wrote individually about each one we would run out of space and time.
But how do we get to rightly answer the question why? The answer is in answering to ourselves, what kind of light we are using to look at things. The woman who has been a prostitute will look at married men from a certain light. But just because it is her light does not mean that it is the light. There ought to be a standard that helps us measure right and how far right is. There ought to be that measure that does not change depending on how we feel or are treated.
My suggestion is that in determining this, we go back to the one who made all things. That’s right and if you want to know why, its because He is most right.
At the center of every activity is the answer to the question why. The answer to this question goes a long way in helping many of us realize both our positions and destinations. The student that has not answered this question is the one who does fail in many of there endeavors. There are many purposes that have gone to waste because the people that undertook them were not with the answer to the question why. There are many purposes still that have been abused because those to whom they were entrusted were not with the slightest clue as to why they were left custodians.
So we sit here in the valley of question and pause as though we are without direction. We sit to examine our intents in relation to the purposes we proclaim to be in service of. The world today is in search for the deeper or should we say, inner thing. There are many practices designed to help people reach deeper inside them, to help them understand why they are here on earth. Trust me, this question is one we ask ourselves whether we are aware of it or not. This is with in our very fabrics. So we begin to realize that the answer to this question is just as important as the need to ask this question.
I see people getting married after answering this question but not all of them try to find the right answers to this question. In fact not many of them can tell the difference between the right and wrong answers. There are businesspeople racking their brains to make billions of dollars and yet they too have not conclusively answered this question in the right way.
We as humans are very rational beings, we, apart from those that have abandoned the responsibility to remain human. Timothy Ahumuza once told me that it is the people that know why that will keep getting rich. He was right but not complete. Today I know that it is people that have rightly answered that question that will indeed be richer. Every single one of us is responsible for themselves. Our personal lives are our primary responsibilities. But when we realize that our lives do not exist in isolation we realize that the responsibility we take for our lives is extended to those lives around us. We are all connected in a way that while we are to blame no one for our plight, we are to blame ourselves for the plight of those around us. But as we take on such massive responsibility, we need to pause and ask ourselves why we are doing this. This will not help us determine how much we are responsible; it will also help us realize how to take on such responsibility.
The pedestrian that drops a coin to a street child does well, but not in the long term. This is why. Firstly, this is one way of keeping these children on the streets. If we keep showing them that the streets are a better option than Kefa Sempangi’s homes or Watoto Childcare Ministries, or the Kateyamba In Nalukolongo, or Besania Children’ s home, we are worse than the parents that cast them out of their homes or the diseases that orphaned them. To insist on keeping these precious children on the streets is to continues abusing their rights as humans, to continue sowing that victim mindset in them. We have a lot of ways of healing that guilt that hits us so badly. Support the organizations that have come out to help these children. Give of your money to them, volunteer with them once in a while, pray for them. That is how we decently get children off the streets, not by pilling them on trucks and locking them away, and definitely not by giving them money to heal the guilt of our consciences.
That is just one illustration; marriage is part of this, education, business, employment. If I wrote individually about each one we would run out of space and time.
But how do we get to rightly answer the question why? The answer is in answering to ourselves, what kind of light we are using to look at things. The woman who has been a prostitute will look at married men from a certain light. But just because it is her light does not mean that it is the light. There ought to be a standard that helps us measure right and how far right is. There ought to be that measure that does not change depending on how we feel or are treated.
My suggestion is that in determining this, we go back to the one who made all things. That’s right and if you want to know why, its because He is most right.
Friday, August 1, 2008
The Panting
He pats the leaves in jungle. The wound in his chest acing, and blood all over his face. His legs begin to feel numb and the fear grips him again. They could be any where and yet he is without the strength to keep the race on. His sight is getting blurred and the sun is still miles away. He takes the step and falls upon a sharp tree trunk, the blood is uncontrollable. Then in that moment as he opens his mouth to scream he hears them closer…
Many times our lives are like this picture. We are not with the knowledge of the past or the future. The story can simply take any direction and it will remain the story of our lives. We look at what is around us and it seems like some bad guys are after us and that the sun is far away. It’s a race through the jungle and we are the only victims with no help. If that applies to you just know that you are not alone.
But every jungle has its limits; every night has the sun at the end. When we feel like giving up we should realize that we are giving ourselves up for supper to those many things that have for so long wanted to devour us. The time to quit is never at hand, we only choose to bring it close, and actually we impose it upon ourselves. Today you may seem confused with no direction and you think it is time to throw the towel in but like the story at the beginning we don’t know what may happen if we just took two more steps. What you don’t know is that the sounds that man heard were sounds of the people assigned to help him.
Some times we need to return to the point of our beginnings and regain our strength. There are other times when we need to push a little harder. The person that quits is left with himself to haunt, he is left with nothing to show of his efforts. When the last day arrives, we have to be ready to be identified by our works. The times I find myself wondering if it is time to quit, I ask myself whether the work I set out to do is complete.
When I can satisfy my conscience that it is complete, I am happy to quit and that is not quitting, that is retiring from a complete work.
We were not meant to be incomplete in our works and nature, we were meant to be complete in all of them. This completeness we can only taste if we keep the work in mind and when we keep the nature of that complete work in mind. The people that easily quit did not have the complete picture in mind right from the beginning. The person that sets goals has a clear picture of where they have set out to do.
So the most important thing in what we set out to do is a clear plan. It may not set all the details out but it surely helps one know their road and where it is supposed to lead. There is importance in planning and we need to take the task up daily. Plan for the day, the month, the meeting and all that. We need to realise that God is not mad at us for planning, the men of old planned there wars and God was part of the planning. Those were men whom the Spirit visited. Today He lives in us and He works in us. And like those men we need to take a stand, we need to move in this war fare. The majority of Christians live by chance , of course they call it liveing by faith. They remain affraid to aspire for any thing and when they do they only wish it could happen. Pushing their desires into a future they have taken no responsibility of today.
We need to wake up, the world we live in might be a fallen world but it has the things that we are here to influence. We cannot shun information, knowledge and think we are going to shine like we ought to. It is time we put a stop to all the surprise attacks that have caused insults to the body of Christ. Get knowledge improve yourselves in all aspects. It is time for us to embrace investment, saving, higher education and personal effort to get better. The Christian is not completely praying until they aspire to change this world.
The cahllenge of global warming will not be answeres by those people waiting for the Holy Spirit but by those that have teamed up with the Holy Spirit to find a solution through reseach and propaganda. We are the light of The World, but even the light ought to know how best to shine. Go do research on where to invest, know what we mean by rate of return and turn over, know what global warming is and what the political enviroment is or the economic one. All this will give you a picture of what your faith is up against and as you realise your responsibility in a fallen world, you will not help it but pray and read the word. You will realise how best to direst your prayer and what your faith ought to contain.
Dear friends, it is not only in Masters degrees, it is compound, know how to run a business, and NGO, a political campaign. Be informed but even better ,be ready to move because we are who make things happen here.And realise that the dreams you have are the dreams that can be achieved now when you realise that you are a partner with Christ in His reign. Be the King God paid so expensively to make you, winning you from the kingdom of darkness into in mervelous light. He is the Light shining in you so that you may shine in this world. Don't hide away, shine away.
Life was never designed to be gone through by accident. We are supposed to go through by design.
Many times our lives are like this picture. We are not with the knowledge of the past or the future. The story can simply take any direction and it will remain the story of our lives. We look at what is around us and it seems like some bad guys are after us and that the sun is far away. It’s a race through the jungle and we are the only victims with no help. If that applies to you just know that you are not alone.
But every jungle has its limits; every night has the sun at the end. When we feel like giving up we should realize that we are giving ourselves up for supper to those many things that have for so long wanted to devour us. The time to quit is never at hand, we only choose to bring it close, and actually we impose it upon ourselves. Today you may seem confused with no direction and you think it is time to throw the towel in but like the story at the beginning we don’t know what may happen if we just took two more steps. What you don’t know is that the sounds that man heard were sounds of the people assigned to help him.
Some times we need to return to the point of our beginnings and regain our strength. There are other times when we need to push a little harder. The person that quits is left with himself to haunt, he is left with nothing to show of his efforts. When the last day arrives, we have to be ready to be identified by our works. The times I find myself wondering if it is time to quit, I ask myself whether the work I set out to do is complete.
When I can satisfy my conscience that it is complete, I am happy to quit and that is not quitting, that is retiring from a complete work.
We were not meant to be incomplete in our works and nature, we were meant to be complete in all of them. This completeness we can only taste if we keep the work in mind and when we keep the nature of that complete work in mind. The people that easily quit did not have the complete picture in mind right from the beginning. The person that sets goals has a clear picture of where they have set out to do.
So the most important thing in what we set out to do is a clear plan. It may not set all the details out but it surely helps one know their road and where it is supposed to lead. There is importance in planning and we need to take the task up daily. Plan for the day, the month, the meeting and all that. We need to realise that God is not mad at us for planning, the men of old planned there wars and God was part of the planning. Those were men whom the Spirit visited. Today He lives in us and He works in us. And like those men we need to take a stand, we need to move in this war fare. The majority of Christians live by chance , of course they call it liveing by faith. They remain affraid to aspire for any thing and when they do they only wish it could happen. Pushing their desires into a future they have taken no responsibility of today.
We need to wake up, the world we live in might be a fallen world but it has the things that we are here to influence. We cannot shun information, knowledge and think we are going to shine like we ought to. It is time we put a stop to all the surprise attacks that have caused insults to the body of Christ. Get knowledge improve yourselves in all aspects. It is time for us to embrace investment, saving, higher education and personal effort to get better. The Christian is not completely praying until they aspire to change this world.
The cahllenge of global warming will not be answeres by those people waiting for the Holy Spirit but by those that have teamed up with the Holy Spirit to find a solution through reseach and propaganda. We are the light of The World, but even the light ought to know how best to shine. Go do research on where to invest, know what we mean by rate of return and turn over, know what global warming is and what the political enviroment is or the economic one. All this will give you a picture of what your faith is up against and as you realise your responsibility in a fallen world, you will not help it but pray and read the word. You will realise how best to direst your prayer and what your faith ought to contain.
Dear friends, it is not only in Masters degrees, it is compound, know how to run a business, and NGO, a political campaign. Be informed but even better ,be ready to move because we are who make things happen here.And realise that the dreams you have are the dreams that can be achieved now when you realise that you are a partner with Christ in His reign. Be the King God paid so expensively to make you, winning you from the kingdom of darkness into in mervelous light. He is the Light shining in you so that you may shine in this world. Don't hide away, shine away.
Life was never designed to be gone through by accident. We are supposed to go through by design.
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