MINISTRY IS OUT THERE.

Why do we think like this? Well i have come to realize that 'there' is not as for sure as here is.
How many many opportunities have we missed to look into the eyes of a child, youth, mother and see their pain and say. Jesus knows your pain or even ask how can i pray for you? Stop just for 30 seconds it will count for eternity. its worth it. you will know when you get back to heaven some day. Real ministry is right in front of you now. Just stop and take time to look at it. its here and now not over there. "God Samaritan story"

We live day to day lives aware that God has a plan for our lives like Jeremiah 29:11 says.
We spend sleepless nights planning, making calls and having meetings for our next steps in life.
Yet we forget to enjoy the people, places and opportunities right in front of us.
'Enjoy' does not mean to look at today in view of tomorrow in this instance,  by enjoy ministry today I mean taking the people we meet today as divine appointments from God. No body we meet is a mistake it was pre- determined by God even before we were born. He says i planned out every day of your life and so we need to live every moment to its fullest unto God. when we enjoy these opportunities, we bring God absolute glory.

As i tour North America and are at a different church , a different host home and bed every Friday. I have learned to serve and love like there is no tomorrow. This may be the only opportunity i have with a child, youth, woman or worship experience and if i don't do it to my best unto the Lord there is no grantee for tomorrow. Even if i lived, i may never see the people i meet today so serving God and taking every person as a divine appointment is the best way to go.

Like papa Wess Starford says in his book "just a minute" we can change the life of a child in happy heart city  or base camp, youth and during the services in just a minute. we never loose time with people if we still have one minute left. Even now we have a minute to change destiny. As long as you have a minute you have eternity in your hands.

So l have decided, i will give it my all today and tomorrow belongs to God.
Ministry is here and not out there today. I live today to the fullest unto God.

Is this verse in the bible?

Is this in the bible?

John 5:39-40
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me ...

So many people are so sick spiritually and it's manifested physically.
But it's easy for us to believe the psychologist when they say your emotional state affects your physical yet we run away from the reality of how sick our spiritual life is and how that is affecting us day after day from choices to even health, name it... We have chosen ways that are so far away from God and believed that as better.

The state of sickness in people's spiritual lives cannot be replaced by anything. But God.
John 5:39-40
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

Their spirit man yarns for God. We talk of decades and years back when God moved mightily as though He is dead today. God is Alive.

Have you dared to call him in a desperate way. Or have we replaced Him with something else? To an extent that we don't know who He really is yet we claim we do. We have rejected His power and replaced His power with desire for knowledge and man has become his own god. No one lives without being under some kind of influence. What influences your life is it God and His power? or...

This time is not independent of times past when they had the Torah and God Spoke in an audible voice yet man went his own way. God din't come to abolish the Old Testament, He came to fulfill it. If we read the Bible page to page we shall see the consistence.

1 Samuel 3 The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions.
But there is Hope. It is just a call away, a prayer away, a surrender away

Why is intimacy and intercession in church today dead?

The hurry to fix things is death to intercession and intimacy with God.

The power of intercession lies in trust worthiness- the ability to see or know the depths from God's perspective and keeping it the secret. Until He desires to lay it in the open. At times he may never. At times it's just a call to pray not to act.

Intercession has become hard lately because many prayer worriers take pride in knowing the secret things and wanting to share with people or even disqualify those God is calling them to pray for. The hurry to fix things is death to intercession and intimacy with God.

When God cannot trust you with the deep things that are seen only when we get intimate with Him, then you cannot be in His office - He sits at the right hand of the father interceding for us day and night. He hires intercessors. We claim the office as a title but He qualifies. The greatest quality is your ability to see man through His eyes no mater what He shows you.

To love those around you even when he opens their lives before you. You don't have to tell them, it's a call to prayer not to fix things. But also to be ready just incase he says now is the time to fix it then you open your mouth

WHERE IS THE CHURCH?

What are we doing? Have we got so busy in creating boundaries in teaching and doctrine and forgotten to live? What happened to us? Where did we fall? Is it possible that we can return to the place we fell and rise up again?  Have we become so knowledgable that we choose to ignore the power of the triune God and His ability to give life to the his word. What are we doing trying to help Him. What if we just obeyed? What if we just followed? I know we want to make sure it is safe and we shall not be hurt. We want to make sure that this journey will have a happy ending and be a happy one. But is that what the gospel is all about? Did He not promise hardship, sacrifice, pain and yet joy that passes understanding? Why are hearts not changing? I don't men those outside the church? I am concerned about us as a body the rest will come if we live for who we TRUELY are.  Should the gospel massage not have the power to change me and you? Should the gospel massage not have life? Why are we neither hot or cold? How will the world know that we are true followers if we don't love each other and those less privileged? How will the world see a difference if we don't live different? Why do we love to fit in? We are not called to merely fit in but to be representatives of the most high.

What happened to our identity? Who blurred the church? What identifies you? Is it your job, marriage, children or academics? Why not God? What do you describe as true success? What do you want to be remembered for when you die? And finally before the throne of God what will you say you lived for? Someone has to ask these questions and I will.

Millions of people are living daily in slavery and poverty today and are wondering where God is or if he hears them. Gary Haugen  (CEO IJM) asks the question of where are the people of God not where is God. I have the same question.  What happened to right and wrong? Why is there no moral clarity today? 

Scott C Todd ( founder of Isaiah 58) says that the end of extreme poverty is possible when the church rises up and begins to be the church. But what are we doing? Opening one organization after another and evading running away from abiding in God so he can change us. What if the church lived? What if the church could rise up in this generation? What if there was true brokenness and less self protection. What of we totally obeyed? 

So what are we doing, where is Love for the things that break God's heart? Are we just going to play church and go through the motions and sing the songs of "break my heart for what breaks yours" but close our hearts to pain and protect ourselves? What are we doing? Who are we?

We have to wake up and ask these questions.

I have seen hard things in this world at my young age told people some of these things but their hearts are so numb to compassion and moral clarity. Everyone protecting their own and few ready to be broken by God. I know it is scary, I get scared to sometimes when I have to follow God. But how long is the body of Christ going to behave like grasshoppers. When shall we see ourselves for the great army that we are? We have to make sacrifices, great sacrifices at that. It may mean to abandon your comfort, your luxury. "You begin to live  and bear fruit when you die." Dr. Thrasher ( prof at Moody Theological seminary for 32 years).

We have to start somewhere church. What shall we say about all this before the throne room? That I    was scared of criticism? Or that I couldn't speak or write? Or shall we say that we were so busy      taking care of family and loving those close to us " Family should be a mission force and not an idol." Dr.Thrasher. Are we making our hearts to small to accommodate only those we see each day at our dinning tables and forgetting those crying out to God? Mark 3:31-35 Then Jesus' mother and brothers came. They stood outside and sent a person in   

to tell Jesus to come out. Many people were sitting around Jesus. They said to him, "Your mother and brothers are waiting for you outside." Jesus asked, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" Then Jesus looked at those people sitting around him. He said, "These people are my mother and my 

brothers! My true brother and sister and mother are those people that do the things God wants." 

Church, it's our time. Are we so blind that we cannot see and too deaf to hear the call? Look at the numbers that gathered in 2013 passion conference, look at the numbers with IJM, Compassion International and Isaiah 58 to mention but a few. All these cried out to us as a body of Christ. The question is where is the church and the solution is the church.

We have to start some where. The hope is that there are remnants. Those that have not defiled their eyes or ears. Those that God has kept for Himself since birth. Those he talks about in Rom 8, Jeremiah 1:5, Deut. 14:2 and Jeremiah 29:11, John 15:16, God has never left creation with no witness and he is not about to. 

So arise or you army of The Lord and die so you can live for the purpose to which you have been called. Begin to shine for The Lord has heard the cry of those in need and slavery and he is waiting for you to go. He is waiting for you, don't think that you are waiting for Him. You are busy trying to let go and dye. Make up your mind and get to work for the mater is waiting. 

Yes church you can do it, you just need to believe, trust His heart and let go of what you are holding on to. It all comes down to trust and belief. Hebrews 11. 

For slavery and poverty to end in this generation. It has to all start in the church returning to God in total surrender. Many have spoken and showed videos and documentaries but the church is in deep sleep. Someone has to shake the boat and wake us up that our bones will burn like Jeremiah's. that we shall stop living for less and criticism and begin to live. 

I think  

I thought snow came from the ground not the sky...

I prayed for you today

I wept and still my spirit groans within me. Oh how I wish you saw and felt the depth of my intercession for you.

Your sins are washed as white as snow. In 2010 I saw my first snow. In Uganda While I was reading my bible, I read about snow in relation to cleansing. I prayed and dreamt that one day I will see how white snow is that the bible would choose to use it in comparison to how we look like when we are 
washed by the blood of Jesus. As I left my class in Moody Seminary in Chicago during my first winter experience in 2010, I touched my first snow. It was not a lot on the ground so I slowly 
motioned my hand onto someone's car and touched my first snow. You should have seen my eyes. I 
already have big eyes but they were even bigger. I thought snow came from the ground as it froze in cold but it came down like rain.

My heart swelled within me, my countenance light up I was filled with joy and looked my friend in the eyes and said, " this is what the bible means when it says our sins are washed as 
white as snow."
It was a dream come true. I love Jesus He answers our childlike prayers too !

A few days later it was dirty again. Isn't that just like you and I. We fall again and again but we are washed again and again. Just as the snow season is constant so is the blood. Oh America 
be washed heavily this season. May you realize that the blood covers multitudes of your wrong.
Just as snow covers the ground remember his blood covers your sin, it's finished. Snow may melt away but Jesus' blood was poured once and for all. Snow may get dirty again just like our lives. But it snows again. The season is consistent and so is God's faithfulness to us. His character is not 
determined by what we do but by who He is. I wish you and I would realize God's love through His 
eyes and not through our eyes.

I wept for you, that you will use this snowed in time to stop and get together as a family and pray. That this time will be a time of reconciliation as a family. A time were relationships are restored and wounds are healed. As many cannot leave home, may you have conversations started. I pray that you will find the boldness to talk about your fears and struggles and let others come along side you. 

I prayed for a healthy family time. It all starts in the home. Not in the church or school or government. When you fail in the family you fail in the public arenas too. Oh my heart weeps within me for us as a nation and world.

Oh I pray that alters of prayer will be started in every home. I pray that men will return to their creator. I pray that this time will be a time when men, families and the nation will hunger more for God. Huddle in prayer circles behind closed door.

I cried out to God on your behalf that you will not be bored in prayer or get busy on your phone but that you and I will will find this time when office is closed to pray. My heart weeps and groans for you that you will hear God calling you and stopping you to pray as a region and a nation. Oh God cause us to pray give us a motivation and a delight to talk to you. May we enjoy you more than we enjoy things that have replaced intimacy.

WHAT JESUS CHRIST WOULD LIKE FOR CHRISTMAS.

He would like to be Lord of your life. Not just your savior but also your Lord. 

Lets not go ahead of our selves. Lets back track a little. Consider Mary the mother of Jesus in Luke 1. Or let's say Hannah in 1 Samuel 1

These ladies were despised, rejected, ridiculed, Hannah's womb was closed by God himself. Mary was told by an angle that she will have child in a culture that cast out any girl unmarried yet with child.

Have you felt ridiculed, ashamed, despised. Miss understood, hated, an outcast and rejected?

Mary and Hannah felt just like you and so do I many times.

Authors you would agree with me that the chunk of space given to a topic determines the level of its significance right?

In the book of Samuel and the book of Luke, only one chapter is allotted to the misery and sorrow these ladies felt in comparison to the space and chapters / celebration given to the story that unfolds later. Did you know that God is for you? There is a bigger picture here?

The question is why? What made the difference for these ladies?
This is the answer. Hannah chose to believe God and Mary chose to say, "Be it unto me according to your word." Your attitude when something goes determines who is Lord.

See what happens centuries later. You and I are celebrating Jesus' birth. What celebrations are you holding back because you don't want Jesus to be Lord? Could that be the reason for pain and suffering today? We have accepted Jesus as Savior only and refused him as Lord? I am speaking to me 

The world needs to address the poverty question differently

The world needs to address the poverty question differently

NEW YORK TIMES Very sadly publicly displayed the African corruption, ... and the problem in African leadership in general. We have trained and capable people but this is what happens on day today living... Go change your country is a question we need to consider deeply as it is not just a mater of go, it's how do we help our leaders in Africa that is where it should start. It's the reason for poverty, injustice, ignorance and name it. It's not an easy walk into change that's if we are talking about Real Change. It cannot be done by an individual, it has to a collective effort. Many of the developed world wants change for under developed world but for real change to occur and for your seeds you plant in the children to sprout you need to clear the weeds in the garden or else the seed will choke as it finds it's way up, or plant strong trees that withstand thorns and bushes...

“I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination,” he said at his 1964 trial. “I’ve cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” Mandela.

Today we suffer under black domination, being dominated by our very own. We seek a society with equal opportunity for all persons.

It is the imbalance in the question you have always asked.
Today as I travel around North America, the states I have not been to I can count on my fingers. The big question is why do Africans come here, study and find it hard to go back. It is like exile running away from the reality of dying with your dreams and potentials. This is the one of the many answers. The well educated want to put their skills into practice in a society of fairness and equal opportunity something Mandela fought for all his life.

If organisations that want to see a better Africa begin to focus on the real problem then we shall be talking lasting change but for now, we are fighting poverty cutting it's branches and not the root...
My personal opinion and conviction.
I know we need a solution not a problem trust me been boiling in my inside giving me sleepless nights for the past two years... The world needs to address the poverty question differently
The gap between the child helped with nutrition and developing their potential then giving them a platform. There is need of leadership development not just education but fighting to clear the bushes to the platform it's not a one man work... Especially with the gift of media.

Gary of the International Justice Mission real close to the problem by writing this

http://www.thelocusteffect.com/join-the-launch-team
Gary is putting his nose to the ground and getting his hands dirty together with his team and I commend him for REAL change. Lets support him. This is my passion right here real change...
Well compassion International gave me a voice to speak up it's developing it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/world/africa/mandela-memorial-interpreter.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=WO_IAM_20131212&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1385874000000&bicmet=1388638800000&fblinkge0&_r=0