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25/03/2023

Good morning friends

It pains my heart to see pastors making fun of others on the social platform like this one, simply because they think they are more relevant, smarter and have achieved better than others.

Dear minister/pastor, do not ever use the platform God created for you to preach the Gospel, to advance your pride and look down on those who have materially achieved less than you. Do not mock them.

For the fact that God has revealed their lack of resources to you, don't you think that God has done so for you to assist them with your abundance of resources, without exposing their weaknesses on social media? If you can't help them nor even pray for them, then leave them alone.

It has been now many times I see the so called rich pastors making fun of those with smaller congregations, less resources, uneducated, churches in poverty stricken areas, etc.

Please stop this evil act. The Church belongs to Christ, not you. He calls whosoever He likes, according to His purpose and standards, not our standards. We must respect and support all those called into ministry to spread His Gospel. More respect to those who are able to do so under very difficult situations with no material resources like money, transport, etc.

We are called to preach the Gospel with love and tolerance. We must show the love of Christ to the world through our actions and speeches. Let us not bring each other down, please.

Many people have resorted to this trending slogan, "I have left the church not God". By the look of things, our conduct as leaders has led to the trend of the slogan.

The Church must be a place where every person, irrespective of class or status, must experience the love of Jesus Christ. People must find peace and soul restoration from our speech and actions, and be willing to reconnect with Christ.

This attack of pastor to pastor destroys the credibility of the Church in the eyes of many people. How can we persuade people to follow Christ when our actions are displaying the opposite.

My apologies if I have offended anyone, but sometimes the truth needs to be told even when it hurts. My heart bleeds from these things. We can do better as leaders of the most divine Institution, the Church.



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05/06/2022

The Day of Pentecost

Today is what is known as the day of Pentecost, the day when the disciples received the Holy Spirit (Acts 2) as it was promised to them by Jesus Christ before He left.

Because of slowly scrapping the Christian Holy Days by authorities, many Christians have stopped remembering and commemorating days such as this.

This day to us is not only about an event in the upper room, when 12 men received the Holy Spirit that came on them as flames 🔥 of fire, but, it marks the most important day in the history of the Church, the Birth of the Church.

This the day when the Church was born. This the day when the first sermon was preached by Peter, after receiving the Holy Spirit, and 3000 men were saved, and the first congregation was born in Jerusalem.

So, the Church must never ever forget such days, no matter the pressure. This day always reminds us that the Church is a spiritual entity which was born by the power of the Holy Spirit.

May God bless you all as you remember this wonderful gift our Lord, Jesus Christ has given us.



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26/05/2022

Good morning brethren

Today is one of the most important days in the Christian calendar, 26 May 2022, "The Ascension Day", " Ascension Thursday" or "Holy Thursday".

This is the day when we remember Christ physically ascending to heaven from Earth. Luke, in Acts 1, relates the story very well, with the conversation between Christ and His disciples before He left.

Acts 1:4-11

4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me;
5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.
8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel,
11 who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”

Three things standing out that makes us, Christians, remember this day every year.

Firstly, it marks the day when Jesus ascended to heaven, taken by the cloud whilst His disciples were watching. Which assures us that Jesus is no ordinary man, but who He always said He was, the Son of God, and the important character in the Triune God.

Secondly, this day marks the beginning of the 10 days leading to Pentecost. It was in this day, after the ascension of Christ, that the disciples went back to the city, to start the 10 day waiting period in the upper room, for the promised Holy Spirit, which Jesus had said to them it will be "not many days from now" (verse 5).

Thirdly, it was in this day when the disciples were plainly told for the first time that Jesus would return in the same manner as He was taken to heaven. Which is the reason why the church is expecting Christ to return on the clouds, the same way as He was taken.

So we, the church, as today's disciples have reason to celebrate this day, because the above mentioned three reasons are the basis of the foundation of the Church. We believe that Christ is the Son of God, which makes Him God. We believe in Pentecost. We believe that Christ is coming back on the clouds.

Even though this day is no longer a public holiday in South Africa, but we still remember and commemorate it as the Church.

God bless you.



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24/10/2021

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."
Proverbs 9:10

22/10/2021

Your faith must be your spiritual hand held by God's gracious hand as He walks you through your path, and you know you will achieve what you were destined to!
Then you don't worry about all the obstacles you may face, because He holds your hand.



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19/10/2021

People will always define your future by your background. They will always define your destination by where you come from. They will always conclude your finishing by the way you start off. And we, most of the time, view ourselves based on how people define us. We shouldn't allow ourselves and our future be defined by how we are perceived by others.

Here is the truth! The Gospel of Jesus Christ changes the messes of the past to be the blessings of today, it changes lives to be better today, it changes the doomed future to be bright, and it changes the person's eternity.

1 Corinthians 5:17, "When a man be in Christ, he is a new creation, the past is gone, and behold, the new has come."

We might not know what a man is today, but we know what he will be when in Christ.



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17/10/2021

There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, those who live not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1

10/10/2021

Those who put their trust in God may look like fools and losers in the enemy’s eyes, but believe me they prevail in every situation because God fights their battles!

26/09/2021

23 “The steps of a [good and righteous] man are directed and established by the Lord, And He delights in his way [and blesses his path].
24 When he falls, he will not be hurled down, Because the Lord is the One who holds his hand and sustains him.
25 I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned Or his descendants pleading for bread.
26 All day long he is gracious and lends, And his descendants are a blessing.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭37:23-26 AMP

19/09/2021

Do not let unwholesome [foul, profane, worthless, vulgar] words ever come out of your mouth, but only such speech as is good for building up others, according to the need and the occasion, so that it will be a blessing to those who hear [you speak].

Ephesians 4:29 AMP

Words spoken will either build or destroy those who hear them. Be careful what comes out of your mouth, no matter how angry or sad you may be.
You know, when a word is spoken, it cannot be reversed. Even if you apologise after, what was said, was said, and cannot be taken back.
Words come out of the mouth with intentions, and believe me, once spoken, they do what was intended of them.

My dear brothers and sisters, be very careful of what you say to others, as this has a potential to either build or destroy them.
Speak to build, to bless, to encourage, to lift up and to motivate others, no matter what they did to you.
Don't even swear back at others, as you will be stopping down to their level. Bless them with your words, and believe me, that is the greatest revenge to those speaking bad you or about you.
Always speak good building words.

Have a blessed Sunday.



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