Saturday, July 24, 2010

CONFRONT THAT SITUATION



Are you tired of any circumstance in your life? Do you want it to change? If yes, then you have got to confront it now. Remember you can not change what you are not tired of neither can you confront what you don’t want to change. Unless you get tired of your undesired situation, you can not confront it.
Ever since I began reading the Bible, I have never come across any personality of influence
who changed his/her undesired situation for the better without first confronting it. Do you know of any? Maybe you can show me. If Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
had not confronted the idol worship of King Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue, they would
have remained bound to king Nebuchadnezzar’s idol worship like the rest. But they said,  “Your Majesty, we will not try  to defend ourselves. If the God whom we serve is able to save us from the blazing furnace and from your power, then he will. But even if he doesn’t, Your Majesty! ye be sure that we will not worship your god, and we will not bow down to the golden statue that
you have set up. ”  (Daniel 3:16:18), Mind you, this was a king
they were talking to like this, he had the powers over their lives and property. But these
men could not stand this idol practice any longer, they were tired of it. So, they had to
confront and challenge the king. And at the end of it all, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were released and promoted to higher positions in the province of
Babylon (Daniel 3:30) Even king Nebuchadnezzar
praised the most high God because he saw how this God saved the three men from the blazing furnace (Daniel 3:28). Get tired of that situation, challenge it and you will see
it change. I know of a friend who had his girl friend with whom they had only sexual relationship every time they got together. It was like this for so long. Even when the boy got fade up and tired of this kind of relationship
nothing changed. He would determine not to sit next to her avoid arousing their sexual feelings but all in vain because whenever they met privately even to discuss other different issues they would end up at least romancing with each other. This was a serious problem isn’t it?
Well, it was not until he shared with me what he was passing through, that I advised him to talk to his girlfriend on how to lead their relationship or even turn it to just mutual friendship. And from this point onwards their mentality changed, they developed respect and unconditional love for each other. Why? Because both of them made it clear to each other that we are young, born again Christians who don’t deserve to live in fornication or in this kind of life. They decided to confront the situation. Now, they are even happier as friends than before because they were just living in bondage not really love as they thought was the case.

You may be going through a similar situation and you are wondering how you can come out of it. Please my brother and my sister there is a way out always as long as you are now tired of that life and you are also ready to confront your current situation. Surely, I guarantee you; you can come out of it as you live as a youth with a purpose.
GOD BLESS YOU!   
                 
David Lakuch
Asst. General Secretary
VCC Youth Ministry/ Chief Advisor YDVIO

 
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Monday, July 19, 2010

WHY HE IS CALLED THE YOUNGEST RADICAL EVANGELISTIC PREACHER AND WRITER

  
WHY HE IS CALLED THE YOUNGEST RADICAL EVANGELISTIC PREACHER AND WRITER
From the records of the few preachers and writers, Mr. Bril Emmanuel Opanyi  Born in 1985 is found to be the youngest Radical preacher and writer. Bril is a Kenyan Citizen and also a Ugandan Citizen by Birth. After a divine call of God upon his life in 2001 it took bril Emmanuel only 2years to begin doing exploits. In one of his statements Bril said that one day Napoleon stood up and said' An opportunity will dance with you only if it finds you on the dancing floor.' indicating that all our communities need is not condemning them but showing them the way, Truth and life through the Gospel.

Over the seven years of internet ministry Bril Emma has reached over 20million people across the globe. Many are getting saved, transformed and empowered. Young people are turning to the Lord, we have seen Miracles happen through prayers. Bril believes in showing Nations the way to attaining personal deliverance. However, inspite of all God has used Bril to do , He is not a Church Pastor but a minister at Victory Church Of Christ Ministries in Kampala Uganda.

Bril Emmanuel is one of the Youngest Evangelistic Preacher and Writer whose features are Christ like. When i look at him i see the likeness of Pr. Chris Oyakilome of Nigeria  in him. The day he visited our ministry. The message he shared was worth listening to. In a nutshell, He is a man worth  listening to.

I want to encourage you who is reading this to visit Bril Emanuel's blog you will like it www.yourdailyvictory.blogspot.com
With his likeness our Generation is safe.

God bless you all
Benjamin in Malaysia

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Friday, July 9, 2010

SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE ABOMINATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY

SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE ABOMINATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY

Fellow Ugandans and the world at large please wherever you are in your own capacity, stand-out of the crowd and speak out against this monster of Homosexuality and lesbianism that has come to degrade and destroy the youths of Uganda. It is so surprising how our leaders are being pressurized by powerful western states to support homosexuality and refuse the anti-gay bill that appeared at our parliament recently. The future of our youths as the leaders of tomorrow and the future of Uganda and that of Africa is at stake because of the threat of homosexuality.
Homosexuality is a threat because it is being systematically advanced by a well organized homosexual’s fraternity together with their allies. Not only that they have brought the leadership and governments of the western world on their side.
In addition to that the recruitment drives of the homosexuals are very aggressive and backed with massive financial resources that the homosexuals are able to mobilize.
Homosexuals populate their ranks and file through recruitment .They are not interested in old people except for purposes of support, but they are interested in recruiting children and the youths.
The homosexual fraternity has stepped up their recruitment drives in Africa at this material time. So please for the sake of our youth and children wherever you are speak out against this horrifying act that has come to rob us of future prophets, presidents, and other important people in society.

So here from Bible reference we are told in 1Corinthians 6:9-11 that:
“Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulteress nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy, nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

The word of God is very blunt about homosexuality just as it is about other sins. It says no homosexual will inherit the Kingdom of God. It also offers hope for the homosexuals, because in that very Corinthian Church there were ex-homosexuals who were set free because of God’s power.
So far church leaders who are paged by homosexuals to speak something nice to keep homosexuals happy in their sins and to help them victimize our young ones is a big disservice to the cause of Christ.
Yet 1 Timothy 3:15 calls the church as “the pillar and foundation of the truth”. The church leaders, teachers, students, and any concerned individual should uphold the truth about homosexuality. It is through the church that the freedom giving truth can be dispensed after all.

But also, the enemy of our souls is attacking and compromising the custodian of the truth.
There was a letter written by the Angelican Bishops of Southern Africa which shows you how serious things are.
The title of the letter is:
Statement of the Province of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill before Parliament in Uganda.

19 February 2010
We, the Bishops of the Anglican church in Southern Africa, meeting at Thokoza conference centre, Swaziland, from 8th to 12th February 2010 are disturbed by the debate among Ugandan Law makers of a draft Bill that seek to criminalize homosexuality and to prosecute gay people. It even proposes imposing death penalty, which we regard as a bread of Gods commandments,” You shall not murder,” given in Exodus 20:13. We also deplore the statement attributed to our fellow Bishop, distributing those who are opposed to this legalization as “lovers of evil”. Though there is a breadth of theological view among us on matters of human sexuality, we see this bill as a gross violation of human rights and we therefore strongly condemn such attitudes and behaviors towards other human beings. We emphasize the teaching of the scripture that all human beings are created in the image of God and therefore must be treated with respect and accorded human dignity.

We are therefore also deeply concerned about the violent language used against gay community across sub-Sahara Africa. We therefore appeal to law makers to defend the rights of the minorities. As Bishops we believe that it is immoral to permit or support oppression of, or discrimination against, people on the grand of their sexual orientation, and contrary to the teaching of the gospel, particularly Jesus commands that we should love one another as he has loved us without, discrimination (John 13:34-35). We commit ourselves to teach, preach and act against any laws that undermine human dignity and oppress any and all minorities, even as we call for Christians and all people to uphold the standard of holiness of life.

We call on all Christians to stand up against this bill so that its provisions do not become law in Uganda or any where else in the world.
We also call on our President and Law makers to engage in dialogue with their counterparts or the rights of minorities.

It is unbelievable that this letter can be written by Christian Leaders. It is very clear that section of church leaders are consciously fighting on the side of the army of Satan. Whatever tittles these kinds of leaders carry, with contempt, reject their ideas. Talking of dignity, such leaders should know that there is no dignity in what homosexuals do because even animals can’t do what they do for sure I’m really disappointed in these Bishops. Yeah! it’s a very big shame. For example take this young man who got hurt by homosexuals who in their sexual acts prefer pushing their hands up to the elbow in to the rectum and pulling out the feaces that is there.
If I may ask, what does such a person hope to achieve by doing that and what dignity is in that?
Nothing but their agenda is to destroy the world of God by support homosexuality. In Gen. 19:1-29 we see God judged Sodom and Gomorrah and wiped out all its inhantants because of homosexuality. Again Judges, 20:46-48, twenty five thousands Banjemites were slaughtered by the army of Israel except for six hundred men who escaped. This happened because these people were involved in homosexuality and they defended it. There is only one type of human sexuality. The order of God makes this clear in Genesis 1:27 which say: “so God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
It is clear that, male and female he created them. It does not say male and male or female and female He created them.

Uganda must stand firm and pass the anti-gay Law. In fact Christians from U.S.A, U.K and Canada are sending messages to the church and the people of Uganda that this is a moment of truth.
This law is the hope of the world if it is passed. It will enable the blanket of homosexuality to be rolled back to those very nations that are strongly supporting it. Many would be set free and God’s Judgment and depution that comes through homosexuality will be staged.
I appeal to our Government and Parliament and to whomever is reading this message to pray and act so as to have this law passed.
The church leaders should also serve God. They should resist the temptations to trade our Children for money. Remember what 1Tim 6:10 says:
“For the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, graving money have wandered from faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.”
Child of God, make a stand now and speak or keep quiet forever. I for one will do anything in my power to shun this abomination and horrifying practice. Let it be your plea, my plea and everyone’s plea and desire to see this outrage brought to nothing.
God Bless You!
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FIVE REASONS MANY CHRISTIANS ARE POOR:


FIVE REASONS MANY CHRISTIANS ARE POOR:

The bible says in 3Jn 1:2 ‘Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth’KJV. God’s master plan my dear friend is that you may prosper and live in good health. Unfortunately many Christian instead are eaten up by poverty.  Below I want to share with you the five reasons why many Christians are poor and in my next chapter I will share with you a very important subject and that is: WHY POVERTY MUST DIE 
Let's now look at these five reasons below:
1. God will not give you what will kill you. It is like a small boy watching his daddy shaving and he says, “Daddy, give me the blade, give me the blade.” No matter how he loves the child, he will not give him the blade. So your spiritual level and your level of brokenness may be too low for God to entrust wealth to you. That is why the Bible says, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and its righteousness and all other things shall be added unto you.” They are automatic addition. Here comes the first question to you in this message. “Can you confirm in your spirit that the kingdom is in you? Are you a broken Christian? That is the first poverty destroying weapon
God may be looking at you and He is saying, “If I give this my child fifty million shillings, will he not backslide?” If God sees that anger, greed, dishonesty, lying, unkind, ruthless, quarrelsome and quick to judge others, Hypocrisy are still in your life, He will not give you His prosperity. Get the kingdom first; submit the whole of your life to God and then you will never be forsaken. This statement simply means take no glory for you. Avoid ‘I’, ‘My’ ‘Me’ in most of your statements. The Bible says that God never forsakes the righteous but you have to be righteous to have that privilege. There are many people now who are very serious with the Lord because they are poor. But when money comes, they would become irregular and totally they change contrary to the Word of God. I have seen pastors who at one point they were so badly off but when God blessed them they have now become another log before God who called them. Many are praying, “O Lord, promote my husband,” and God is saying, “When I have not promoted the man, he is running after strange women, when he is promoted, he will now build castles for them and abandon you completely. Why don’t you let us get him saved first?”
There are people who were working and praying hard when they did not have a fan in their house and at night mosquitoes came and by the time they slapped themselves thrice, they would stand up to pray. But now they got the fan, apply mosquito repellants and split air conditioner, and eventually they over sleep. God does not want that. Many forget the household of God immediately they obtain contracts. They would not be seen again in the church until the money is gone. Before then when you call a prayer point like: “Let every contract be released now, in the name of Jesus, they would pray and shake their heads and respond with a strong AMEN. But when they get it, the next place you would see them is the VIP lounge at the airport with very starched clothes, sitting down and eating meat pie and ingesting tea as early as 6.30 am. But when they were looking for it, it was dry fast everyday.
Many who used to come early to church when they had no cars now come late to church in spite of the fact that God has blessed them with cars and drivers. And when you ask them why they come late to church, they would say, “That foolish driver did not wake up on time to bring me to church.” But when there was no car and driver, they got to church before everybody, swept the floor, joined the prayer warriors, and then settled down before service. God sees all these.
Some people were praying very well when they had no job. But now that they have a job, they forget their spiritual duties because of over- time. Some prayed and fasted to get a job and by 5:00 am., they have arrived at the office. But when it is service days, you see them strolling in one hour late. God normally allows that which keeps a man from Him to be withdrawn so that He can get his attention. God has had to withdraw cars, houses and comfort from people in order to save their souls. Some of the few attacks you go through at time is to wake you up so you can seek God and make Him the Lord over your life. So, check your life today. Are you broken to the level where God can obligate the riches of the Gentiles into your hands? Do you have clean hands, a kind of hand that God will rest this sort of riches on? This is the first headache of the Almighty when it comes to prosperity.

2. Wrong giving is the second reason.
 Proverbs 11: 24 says, “There is one who that scatters, yet increases more;  and there is one who  withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty” The liberal soul shall be made fat. And he that watereth shall be watered also himself.” And Luke 6: 38 says, “Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, and shaken together and running over, shall men give into your bosom.” This is an area where the devil has blinded the eyes of many believers. Many pray that they want prosperity, but how is the prosperity going to come when they have sown no seed. It is like a student praying to pass his examination when he has read nothing. It is like a woman praying to get pregnant without a husband or without a man. You must sow a seed. It is that seed that the Lord will multiply for you. Someone who wants prosperity should do more than tithing. Some people have been writing me letters asking: “What should we tithe? Is it the gross pay or the net pay?” It is better for you to over pay than to under pay. If God is asking you for a tithe and you say, “O God, take 20 per cent or 15 per cent, it is better for you to owe me than for me to owe you.” You must not treat God as a beggar. You treat God as a beggar when you give Him the extra that you don’t need. If you cannot be generous with the Almighty when things are hard for you, you would not be able to give when there is abundance. Sowing in the time of famine attracts abundant blessings and prosperity. Remember the story of the woman in Mark 12:41-44, who just threw in some coins and God said, “This one has contributed more money than every other person.” So, if you find it hard to give a tenth unto God, of the money that belongs to you, you are inviting poverty. If you completely forget to pay your tithe and your offerings, you are inviting poverty. If you feel or believe that the tithe and offerings you give are too much, you are inviting poverty. If God gives you 20,000 shillings and you find it difficult to pay 2,000 as tithe, you are writing to poverty. Wise believers double the tithe. Also, they sow a big seed and challenge the Lord. Giving to God is sacrifice. You have not started giving to God until you feel the pinch. Many are so tight-fisted when it comes to financing God’s work. Tithe borrowers are looking for trouble too. It is foolish to borrow your tithe because the outcome can be grievous and it is also an insult to God. God can allow an ordinary boil to swallow 40,000.00. He can allow a single problem to take away the money you refuse to give to Him. The principle of giving will enable you to experience many financial miracles. Fear and unbelief will keep a lot of people in poverty. Many give sparingly but the Bible wants you to give and it tells you how to give. We must know that the money that the Lord needs to finish His work has been in the world before you were born. God will not force you to part with your money. But when you do it willingly, He will open the door of your life to blessings and many other good things will begin to happen. You must give sacrificially, that is, you give as much as you can until it pinches because your offering is measured by what you have left and not what you give. You should give according to your income. Not that you get a big income and you give a small offering. You should give cheerfully. You should give systematically. You should give at any opportunity you have to give without grumbling or complaining. You don’t give under compulsion. The Bible says, “Do not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing.” You should not be the kind of Christian who wants a gift from God but you don’t want to give to Him. You should give regularly. And the Bible says that you should give without display or open show. So, if you have not been giving that way or you have been giving only when the man of God says, “I want twenty people to give one million shillings each,” then you march forward and people clap for you. That has no blessing. So wrong giving is the second reason. That is why we say, ‘change your offering and change your destiny.’

3. Psalm 78:41 says, “Yea they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy one of Israel.” The third reason is that many of us limit God. Many limit God by the way they talk and act. Many do not believe that God can do something outside their normal salary or income. So, anytime they pray, they focus their attention on what appears to be obvious. They are not on the look out for the miraculous or supernatural. They limit God completely. That is why sometimes when you ask some people, “How are you?” They would answer “rough, Fair, or fifty fifty.” Negative and inferior thinking invites poverty. You should not limit God. The Bible says that with God, nothing shall be impossible. It is only in our dictionary we find the word impossible or difficult.

4. Staying in the wrong business and wrong profession. In Luke chapter 5, we see the example of Peter. Peter was trying to catch fish when he was destined to fish for men. God will not bless the wrong thing you are doing. Check prayerfully whether you are in the right business. That is the reason I said that if you are a bit confused about what to do, you must pray to God to make His way plain before your face. If you have no business or job, pray and get direction from the Lord on what to do. Forget how prosperous you were before, face realities now and ask the Lord to show you the way.
The fact that God is your Father is enough to make you find out what He wants you to be doing. If you are doing what God wants you to do, you can refer back to Him when there is a problem. You don’t just enter into the university and study anything just for the sake of having a degree. Ask the Lord what to do. For God will not prosper what He does not support. Some are spiritually lazy and will not stay before the Lord for a long time to receive from the Lord. When you ask such for people to go and pray, they come back the following day to say that they did not receive anything. The fact that God is refusing to talk to you about your own life shows that you need some spiritual adjustment quick, and you must make this adjustment. Once you are in the right thing, you must surely prosper even if it is a very small thing.
Sometime ago, I learnt of  a story were one small boy of about seven would come to the Bus stop and wait for cars and would ask drivers which kind of  passengers he should call.” This young boy when asked why he was doing what he was doing, he said, “This is how I feed my daddy and mummy”. A boy of seven running bus conductorship for some hours everyday and whatever he gets, he takes it home for all the members of his family to feed on.

5. Giving place to the enemy. Ephesians 4: 27 says, “Nor give place to the devil.” If a person gives room to the enemy, he would allow poverty to operate. There are spirits of poverty and there is also what we call poverty dreams. Regular dreams of being naked, roaming about the market place, being broke, selling and not getting result, are signs that the spirit of poverty is in operation. You should bind the spirit of poverty. This spirit looks ugly and tattered in the spirit. Sometimes, it appears like an old ragged man with one leg. What I am saying is that, some people have already given place to the spirit of poverty in their lives and it does not matter whether you give them ten million  to run a business, they will soon finish everything and nothing will come in. When the spirit of poverty is in operation, the person will be experiencing unexplainable loss of money. He would not know exactly what he does with his money. The person may be bombarded by starving and unrepentant relatives. Before he wakes up in the mornings, they are already knocking at his door. He may be facing wastage of materials. For example, his food may be getting spoilt without explanation. Cups and plates would break; the children would loose their bags in the school. Their money would be stolen, etc. It is the work of the spirit of poverty.
When a person is always being duped by fraudulent people, constant attack by robbers, attack by fire, uncontrollable birth of children, dismissal from various places of work, loss of materials including clothes are all signs of the operation of the spirit of poverty. Sometime ago, I was shocked when a man told me that his clothes were stolen while he tried to dry them outside his house. He said it was not few minutes he put the clothes on the line, and went inside. By the time he came out, the wet clothes were gone. The spirit of poverty has turned managers to servants. It has turned teachers to pupils.

WAY OUT
When you check your life and you find out that the spirit of poverty is in control, then you need to resist it. Think now about your finances. If you have cheated God, ask for forgiveness. Take a positive stand on what you will do in God’s house. If you have things that you have stored up somewhere and you know that you don’t really need them. Sell them off and put the money into God’s work. The last step to take is an aggressive one. It is to pray poverty destroying prayers. You must pray against the spirit of poverty with holy aggression. Some sicknesses are not ordinary. They are just ladders of poverty and you need to break them to pieces.

PRAYER POINTS
1. You heaven that has become brass, break open and bring rain, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every spirit of poverty, I break your control, in the name of Jesus.
3. Lay your hands on your eyes and pray like this: O Lord, anoint my eyes to see the hidden riches of the world, in the name of Jesus.
4. Lay hand on your head and pray this: O Lord, advertise your prosperity in my life, in Jesus’ name.

5. Lay one hand upon the other hand and pray like this: Let the riches of the ungodly be transferred into my hands, in the name of Jesus.

6. O Lord, let divine blessings shower my life, in the name of Jesus.
7. O Lord, give me dumbfounding breakthroughs, in the name of Jesus.
8. Every curse working against my destiny, be broken, in the name of Jesus
God bless you
Bril Emma Opanyi

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