Today I make new realizations. The people that tell our story are the people that we tell our lives, the people that hold the trophies with us are the people that we run the race with. Life my, friend, is nothing if without people. The stories of our lives will never exist in isolation; they will always be stories of enduring sharing, everlasting giving and unselfish receiving.
When we talk of the times in which we live, we talk of the people that we are living with. It is strange to me that there are many times when we share a seat with people that are living in a time far distant from ours. Couples share a bed and yet the two are living in different times. Then it seems to me that the times can be distant and yet the lives living them are so close.
Times my friend is what I am talking about. There are times when everything less means so much more and yet there are times when even the greatest of things means nothing at all. Those times live with us all the time and yet we all don’t live in them all the time. When we are in love, and I mean with anything, we seem to put weight on nothing at all. Pain, endurance, sacrifice and the many that may accompany us on our love walk will mean so much less. They will be superseded by a greater existence, a greater power, love. They all will seem like tiny children that are a natural result of the love we have.
Yet when we are out of love with those very things or people, we seem to shift the weight of importance. We seem to deem endurance a heavier power than love. Times, my friends change. Imagine then a husband and wife in which one is in love and the other out. The two will share a bed, a life, a family and God knows how much more and yet they will live in different times, and the time that unites them will mean greatly different things to the two of them.
Do you find yourself like that some times? In and out of different times? Well you are not at all alone. That is how we find life. If we were to remain permanently in one time zone, if I may borrow that phrase, I believe life would be very boaring.
But that also is for a particular time zone. We all have to get to a point of stability, which if you ever get to think of it, never happens. Life as we know it never stays stagnant. We keep getting better and it is because of that upward climb that we seem to ourselves and those that will tell our stories that we experience instability. It is a paradox, instability in the midst of stability and stability being the cause and result of instability.
At this point I make the most important paragraph of this article. Maturity is a result as well as a process. There is an instability that blows us out of proportion. It happens greatly and many times too when we are moving to maturity of a certain level. It makes us change our confessions and our beliefs. It almost makes us think that all that we experienced in the past is a lie and that the truth is yet to be discovered. This makes us seem like different people from the people we were when we believed. That is allowed but for a season. At the highest level of maturity, we have mastered how to put even instability in its proper context. We are not different people as the instability that brings in better maturity comes in. but to do this we need an anchor, a force greater than us and of course permanently stable. What will that be for you? What will make you look at things, people and life through only the window of truth? If you seek for the answer, you will find it.
When we listen to people we should be slow to judge and slow to speak. We need to realize that people are constantly on a journey of discovery and some discoveries put previous discoveries out of context only to put them in a better position later on. The person that has stopped discovering is one dead. And we should treat ourselves thus, until a point when we have matured enough to put every discovery in context without displacing the other discoveries of our lives, or orderily putting them in context.
That, my friends, is a much summarized explanation of my recent realization about times. We make them and yet they make us. When we listen to our selves and when we tell of ourselves to those many that will tell the story or hold the trophy with us, we need to let our selves know that we are all learning. And being the better man does not mean that you do not make mistakes. Because only in the summary of life, shall we no know for the first time what truly was a mistake and what was not, who truly was useless and who was not.
The people we meet today and the places we visit are not mistakes. And we can never make them that. I could make this the longest article I have ever written but I will leave all the other chapters for you to write. Times my friends, times.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Living In Today
I woke up in the morning and I got this feeling that I was late. I was an hour into my usual wake up time and I was not late for anything but myself. I got to work early and then I begun to realize me. I had left today and was living in a time far from today. But aren’t many of us like me? We many times catch ourselves leaving in a far off tomorrow. We begin to feel like we are not satisfied with where we are seated at the moment and time passes by with many of us doing nothing for ourselves.
A sence of worthlessness begins to sweep over everything we see and touch and we begin to ask ourselves what it really is that we are here to do. I was late today and yet I can tell you many more times when I was late, or I thought I was. Life to me is a series of many things , some good some bad. And because of that very fact, we can never tell what truly was a mistake and what was not until we have left this life for another.
We think of ourselves as beings whose future stretches through time. Yet we always look at that time as brief and so everything we need to do should be done quickly. But again, here I ask another question, how fast is fast enough?
We have seen men that had it all and then lost all of it or lost the most important elements of life, we have also seen men who seemed to never have had anything at all ,all their lives and yet we don’t know how much value they added to life in total.
Some how we all have an addition we make to life, even the wicked man for the day of judgment. Think of the bible talking about God punishing the sinner and yet all we see are the righteous. Think about many things , like political campaigns taking place whaen there is no corruption or economic instability.
We are a part of these things, when the thread of life is finally stretched out, we shall see just how much everything we did or experienced led to time coming to its end.
I remember my morning and I realize that while we strive to live where we are , we should strive to live in a better future. And I should add that we don’t have to worry about that because that time will bring us to fight for what it of greatest value and we shall make tomorrow better. We are never late and yet we are never too early. I believe we are always on time. The feelings we experience and the testimonies of others are all part of the devices designed to move us to where we are supposed to be. Many times I beleive that even our responces to those things could not have been different and yet they satisfy that same purpose.
So why the depression?
For some of us, it is given to have that desire to be better, for some that is simply absent until it will be stirred up to come to life. some men have not strived to be where they are and yet some others have. would things have been different? I don’t think so, I think other wise.
I have written this with no editing or premeditation, just an impulse being responded too. For this reason I know how easy it is to find me incorrect on many grounds and yet in know the opposite too can happen, and that would be right.
A sence of worthlessness begins to sweep over everything we see and touch and we begin to ask ourselves what it really is that we are here to do. I was late today and yet I can tell you many more times when I was late, or I thought I was. Life to me is a series of many things , some good some bad. And because of that very fact, we can never tell what truly was a mistake and what was not until we have left this life for another.
We think of ourselves as beings whose future stretches through time. Yet we always look at that time as brief and so everything we need to do should be done quickly. But again, here I ask another question, how fast is fast enough?
We have seen men that had it all and then lost all of it or lost the most important elements of life, we have also seen men who seemed to never have had anything at all ,all their lives and yet we don’t know how much value they added to life in total.
Some how we all have an addition we make to life, even the wicked man for the day of judgment. Think of the bible talking about God punishing the sinner and yet all we see are the righteous. Think about many things , like political campaigns taking place whaen there is no corruption or economic instability.
We are a part of these things, when the thread of life is finally stretched out, we shall see just how much everything we did or experienced led to time coming to its end.
I remember my morning and I realize that while we strive to live where we are , we should strive to live in a better future. And I should add that we don’t have to worry about that because that time will bring us to fight for what it of greatest value and we shall make tomorrow better. We are never late and yet we are never too early. I believe we are always on time. The feelings we experience and the testimonies of others are all part of the devices designed to move us to where we are supposed to be. Many times I beleive that even our responces to those things could not have been different and yet they satisfy that same purpose.
So why the depression?
For some of us, it is given to have that desire to be better, for some that is simply absent until it will be stirred up to come to life. some men have not strived to be where they are and yet some others have. would things have been different? I don’t think so, I think other wise.
I have written this with no editing or premeditation, just an impulse being responded too. For this reason I know how easy it is to find me incorrect on many grounds and yet in know the opposite too can happen, and that would be right.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Eradicating Poverty
What is poverty? When we define it as the lack of, we may be correct but not completely. We look at poverty as a state of being or a force that creates or is a result of a form of being. Many time we consider ourselves to be poor simply because their things we deem ourselves unable to do, change or create. I n those moments when we are without the means to, we are poor, or so according to our measure.
If that is anything to go by, the world is one big poor bunch of people; every one finds themselves in desperate need of means to change something once in a while. It may not be that we are eternally poor, but we all get to experience the coldness that comes with poverty. Again, that is by our standard of measure.
But we take a moment and think. What do we mean we say that we are trying to eradicate poverty? We are trying to day that we are working to remove that inability. If that is right, and by our standard it ought to be, we are attempting the impossible. As long as we shall live we will always have an inability to do or not do something. We will always find ourselves in a place of incapability. Then we realize that poverty is not a state and not a result of a state. Poverty is who we are or not.
Please follow closely. When a man has a million dollars we would deem him rich. But what happens when he cannot salvage his marriage or when he is the agent of destruction? I will tell you the answer, what happens is that he too realizes how insignificant his million dollars is, or his wife does. If we maintain that poverty is the inability to, we ask ourselves who is unable. The man is or his wife is, but more than being unable, they or one of them presents that inability. They are the source of the inability. And if you go any further, they are the inability.
When we find ourselves in those desperate situations we ask ourselves where the inability is. And if we find it in us we have not to solve the problem but build ourselves out of that nature. Take this illustration; a celebrity took a slum and built it into a city, he then gave the city to the residents who had earlier on inhabited the slum. Months later, the city begun to rot and the water stopped flowing. They told him they could not afford such standards of living. Devastating, ha? Well this serves to point to something more important, the solution to poverty.
Money
When we think of solving poverty we look to money and we believe that if we just inject money into things and places we would have solved a lot. If the above illustration is anything to learn from, we learn that that is incorrect. People present the habitation of poverty. It is in their attitudes, mindsets, and passions and in summary, it is in their nature. It is who we are if we are poor. So how do we solve people if they are the problem?
I say we educate people. But the other question is with what? Not all information is relevant to solve particular problems. We look at money as a tool that solves poverty, when in fact money cannot solve poverty. I here some say that true we need money to solve poverty. That may be correct but the truth is money will only help people realize just how poor they are.
I am kind of stack at this point. I will add to this article later.
Wait for the continuation and I pray that you have got the point for now.
If that is anything to go by, the world is one big poor bunch of people; every one finds themselves in desperate need of means to change something once in a while. It may not be that we are eternally poor, but we all get to experience the coldness that comes with poverty. Again, that is by our standard of measure.
But we take a moment and think. What do we mean we say that we are trying to eradicate poverty? We are trying to day that we are working to remove that inability. If that is right, and by our standard it ought to be, we are attempting the impossible. As long as we shall live we will always have an inability to do or not do something. We will always find ourselves in a place of incapability. Then we realize that poverty is not a state and not a result of a state. Poverty is who we are or not.
Please follow closely. When a man has a million dollars we would deem him rich. But what happens when he cannot salvage his marriage or when he is the agent of destruction? I will tell you the answer, what happens is that he too realizes how insignificant his million dollars is, or his wife does. If we maintain that poverty is the inability to, we ask ourselves who is unable. The man is or his wife is, but more than being unable, they or one of them presents that inability. They are the source of the inability. And if you go any further, they are the inability.
When we find ourselves in those desperate situations we ask ourselves where the inability is. And if we find it in us we have not to solve the problem but build ourselves out of that nature. Take this illustration; a celebrity took a slum and built it into a city, he then gave the city to the residents who had earlier on inhabited the slum. Months later, the city begun to rot and the water stopped flowing. They told him they could not afford such standards of living. Devastating, ha? Well this serves to point to something more important, the solution to poverty.
Money
When we think of solving poverty we look to money and we believe that if we just inject money into things and places we would have solved a lot. If the above illustration is anything to learn from, we learn that that is incorrect. People present the habitation of poverty. It is in their attitudes, mindsets, and passions and in summary, it is in their nature. It is who we are if we are poor. So how do we solve people if they are the problem?
I say we educate people. But the other question is with what? Not all information is relevant to solve particular problems. We look at money as a tool that solves poverty, when in fact money cannot solve poverty. I here some say that true we need money to solve poverty. That may be correct but the truth is money will only help people realize just how poor they are.
I am kind of stack at this point. I will add to this article later.
Wait for the continuation and I pray that you have got the point for now.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Worth The Fight
When we are standing on the road back home we are always sure we are getting there. We stand with no fears of what may not be or what may be. We have been on the road for the same purpose many times and the same thing has happened, we got home. But what happens when the car breaks down and there is no remedy to this? Do we sit there and wallow or do we pick our languages and trek the remaining distance?
I read a very interesting story the other day. A young widow chose to cling to her mother in law to where ever the mother in law was to go. She chose to ignore the mother in laws please and journeyed long distances back to the kinsmen of the mother in law. What is most fascinating is that she chose to ignore her own land and kinsmen and followed almost blindly.
This story makes me realize how vital is for many of us to understand what is of greatest importance. There are times when it seems pretty obvious we know what we want and that we truly love it. Then there are times when it is not clear we actually love it. In those moments we actually spread our scope of comparison to greater horizons. We seem to be in search of some better thing out there. Something that we may not really know but we are sure it is not what we have at our hands. We may even be ready to leave what we have for what we are not sure of.
Think of the visions we have, the jobs we get, the schools we go to, the university programs we enroll for, the people we get married to. Many times we find ourselves tired way too early and we opt for something better out there. We believe ourselves to have done all we can and that the person should have known what to do all the time.
There are people that have stood and watched as the vision they once treasured vanish and did nothing. It vanished and they later got to realize that some other person perfect what they once worked upon. The pain is not comparable to the agony that they face for rest of their lives.
The things we love will not always glitter but even in the times of gloom, they are worth fighting for. That is as simple as I can put it. I wish I could explain any further but my friends know exactly what I mean. Have a lovely day my friends.
I read a very interesting story the other day. A young widow chose to cling to her mother in law to where ever the mother in law was to go. She chose to ignore the mother in laws please and journeyed long distances back to the kinsmen of the mother in law. What is most fascinating is that she chose to ignore her own land and kinsmen and followed almost blindly.
This story makes me realize how vital is for many of us to understand what is of greatest importance. There are times when it seems pretty obvious we know what we want and that we truly love it. Then there are times when it is not clear we actually love it. In those moments we actually spread our scope of comparison to greater horizons. We seem to be in search of some better thing out there. Something that we may not really know but we are sure it is not what we have at our hands. We may even be ready to leave what we have for what we are not sure of.
Think of the visions we have, the jobs we get, the schools we go to, the university programs we enroll for, the people we get married to. Many times we find ourselves tired way too early and we opt for something better out there. We believe ourselves to have done all we can and that the person should have known what to do all the time.
There are people that have stood and watched as the vision they once treasured vanish and did nothing. It vanished and they later got to realize that some other person perfect what they once worked upon. The pain is not comparable to the agony that they face for rest of their lives.
The things we love will not always glitter but even in the times of gloom, they are worth fighting for. That is as simple as I can put it. I wish I could explain any further but my friends know exactly what I mean. Have a lovely day my friends.
Monday, August 18, 2008
The Wave
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.
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.
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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