ExodusMagSep2017

REVELATION &
MANIFESTATION OF
GOD’S GLORY
With
Pastor Ngulube
THE
MISEDUCATION
OF A NATION
+
YOUTH
CORNER
Pastor
MISHECK
MUZA
Called to
Apostleship
…
Changing
lives through
education
SEPT&OCT 2017
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SEP & OCT 2017
ON
THE
24
COVER
PASTOR
The Gospel
15 RELATIONSHIPS
The imperfect
perfect match
9 E-WOMAN
Dear Single Mother
13 E-MAN
Fountain of Strength
49 YOUTH CORNER 20 Inside word
Intimacy
55
61
MISHECK MUZA
Lifestyle
52 HEALTH
The Daniel Fast
53 BEAUTY
Summer Hair cut
54 FASHION
Spring trends
61 PROMOTION
Namibia
Leadership
33 LEADERSHIP NOTE
Confidence vs. Arrogance
36 BUSINESS
Conceptualisation
38 MONEY MATTERS
Financial wealth
42 CAREER FOCUS
Career Construction P3
45 INTEREST
The miseducation of a
nation
63 LAST WORD Unity
Spotlight
43 SONG OF NOTE
Tasha Cobbs’ Overflow
44 MOVIE REVIEW
3 Idiots

EDITORS NOTE
How do we view education? Is it
something we pursue in order to have
a qualification? What do we want
with that qualification, an opportunity;
a better life or knowledge?
Growing up as youngsters it was always hammered into our heads all day everyday how
important education is. We were told that it is one thing that no one can take away from
you and your ticket to a better life. The only involvement that our parents had was ensuring
that we go to school every day and pass. There was very little interest in how we were performing
or if at all there were any problems, the important thing was a pass. Understandably,
many parents were either very little educated or not educated at all so they made the
only contribution they could.
Today from the lowest grade, parents are encouraged to get involved in their children’s
education up to the level of helping them with homework. Although I do not fully agree
with the homework part, I strongly agree with the involvement. Parents need to be aware
of challenges their children face in order for them to help as much as they can. They also
need to be aware of the areas or subjects where they excel. As much as Maths and English
are the most crucial subjects, I believe that understanding their areas of excellence enables
you to help them with the structuring of their careers. Though I am not saying Maths
should be ignored, but instead of ensuring that they focus all their energies and strength on
a subject that will not carry them through their career, you can now help them excel on the
ones that will carry them through their career and you would have been made aware of all
of this through your involvement in their education.
So education remains important and a ticket to a better life in the physical. A career needs
to be built from High school and not only from University. When built from University a qualification
becomes a piece of paper that helps you climb the career ladder.
There is another education that is much more important, which can hugely impact for better
in your life, wisdom. Educate yourself more spiritually and that will help you with most decisions
you make physically.
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E-WOMAN
Single mother, why are you a single mother?
Dear Single Mother!
Do not be too hard on yourself …
You wake up in the morning, prepare or ensure
that your kid(s) are ready for school. Prepare
lunch packs. You have yourself then to
prep up. Then you must rush to get them to
school and also make sure you make it to
work on time. Your work is not going to grant
you any mercy because you will be busy all
day. After work you have to rush home and
pick up the kid(s) from school, help them
with their homework while you are preparing
dinner. Dinner is served! Its kitchen clean-up
and bath time for a night wrap. Whew! Now
you can relax and maybe catch one episode
of your favourite series. What about
that assignment you need to submit by the
end of the week?
I came across a Facebook status once, of
someone saying ‘I do not even feel sorry for
these women for they have brought all this to
themselves. They are called names because
of what they allowed to happen to them’.
I’m still trying to figure out what to make of
this statement because I am yet to come
across statistics that show the average number
of single mothers and the reasons why
they are single mothers. For someone to
judge one person for something that involved
two people doesn’t make sense to
me. If this involvement resulted in an
‘income’, both people would be in it fully,
but because it is a lifelong ‘liability’, men
have a privilege of running away when they
are no longer interested in the relationship.
Genesis 16:1-4 NIV “Now Sarai,
Abram’s wife had not given birth to any
children, but she had an Egyptian servant
named Hagar. So Sarai said to
Abram, ‘since the Lord has prevented
me from having children, have sexual
relations with my servant. Perhaps I
can have a family by her.’ Abram did
what Sarai told him.”
Hagar was a servant, an obedient servant to
Sarai. She slept with her husband and got
pregnant under the instruction from her
madam, so she could give Sarai a family.
What she did not know before agreeing was
how things would pan out in the future.
Somehow after being a loyal and obedient
servant, she found herself and her son
chased out of the household that was meant
to be a home for them.
A young girl in love and convinced by her
boyfriend to have unprotected sexual relations
has an imagination that things will always
be the way they are at the time of that
unprotected intimacy. She has an imagination
that they will be together forever and
raise the child together. But that’s just what
that is at most times, an imagination.
They believe that
when you get pregnant
you are firming
a relationship.
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E-WOMAN
A child is a God given gift.
Nothing and no one creates
human life except for God.
Hagar had no idea that she was going to
develop certain feelings against Sarai when
she was pregnant with ‘her’ child. Her imagination
was that she would get pregnant,
give birth and life continues. However, feelings
developed that caused her to be driven
out of Sarai’s household. After that she found
herself having to take care of the child
alone, a child she did not plan to have but
someone else wanted. But because of wanting
to satisfy the madam, she did what she
was asked. A young girl fooled by love is no
different to Hagar.
My heart sank once when I heard a 17-yearold
girl telling me that her friends were laughing
at her and calling her dumb because she
had not yet gotten pregnant. They have a
belief that when you get pregnant you are
firming a relationship. I was never so puzzled
in my life the way I was when I heard that
statement. What age would be the father if
the mother is 17 years old? What does any of
them know about parenting when they are
both still in need of parenting. This made me
realise that there is somewhere we are lacking
in carrying out our social and family responsibilities
as adults. These girls need to be
taught how to value themselves, they have
no idea how to do that. So the question then
becomes, ‘What is the society doing to combat
teenage pregnancy?’ Yes, Social services
is giving out grants to take care of the
children that are already there, but what are
we doing to ensure that girls wait and not fall
for premarital pregnancy myths.
We as society need to teach our young girls
that waiting for a husband to give your virginity
to, is not at all taboo or behind as the
world paints it. It is valuing yourself better
than the world values you. It is understanding
who you are in Christ and the plans He has
for your life. This is what Society should be
teaching to teenagers until it is gotten right.
South Africa has a huge number of single
mothers. Some children don’t even have the
privilege of knowing who their fathers are.
There was a time when this was a shame, a
period where in some families, the mother
would adopt her daughter’s child as her
own. In some families when the young girl
falls pregnant out of wedlock, the parents
would arrange for the child to be given up
for adoption right at the hospital. However,
today we speak a different language.
Women have choices. Some choose to have
a child or children out of wedlock because
they purely want children and are not convinced
that they will or even want to marry.
Others choose to have a child because they
are worried about their biological clock. Others
have divorced or separated, and a
‘majority’ was unplanned or somewhat
planned pregnancies. The latter is the basis
on which the earlier mentioned ignorant
statement was formed.
What then do we say about Women that fell
pregnant out of wedlock; women that are
old enough to make decisions regarding
their needs for motherhood and how it
would affect the lives of the children they
are bringing to earth?
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E-WOMAN
Do not be too hard on yourself. You made a
decision that you thought at the time was a
right decision. The truth of it is that you did
not think about how it would affect the life of
your child because you had a plan. Problem
with plans is that they don’t always work accordingly.
What do you do then, when you
are faced with challenges that you had not
anticipated? Take it one day at a time and
seek God for guidance.
A child is a God given gift. Nothing and no
one creates a human life except for God. If
He had allowed you to have a child, it
means He has a plan for that child. All you
have to do is to seek Him and call on Him in
your time of confusion and need. When Hagar
found herself in desperation in the middle
of the bush, God spoke to her and told
her not to worry for He had already taken
care of what she was concerned about.
Genesis 21:15 NIV “When the water in
the skin was gone, she shoved the
child under one of the shrubs. Then
she went and sat down by herself
across from him at quite a distance,
about a bowshot away; for she
thought, ‘I refuse to watch the child
die.’ So she sat across from him and
wept uncontrollably. But God heard the
boy’s voice. The angel of God called to
Hagar from heaven and asked her,
‘What is the matter, Hagar?’ Don’t be
afraid, for God has heard the boy’s
voice right where he is crying. Get up!
Help the boy and hold him by the hand,
for I will make him into a great nation.’”
Whether you made a choice to have a child
out of wedlock, you are separated or divorced,
your prime responsibility remains. The
child or children are your prime responsibility.
Their wellbeing; physical, emotional and otherwise
remains your prime responsibility. Unfortunately,
every child needs both male and
female contributions in their upbringing. Seek
the help of your uncle, brother and/or friend
and ensure that your child builds a relationship
with one of them in order to get the
male guidance of things. That is if the father
is not very much in the picture. Ensure
though that your child knows God for He is
the overall Father. Teach him/her to develop
a relationship and speak to Him in their time
of confusion and need.
What do we do about your busy life? Find a
way to balance it. Your child/children need
you to be present in their lives; they can’t
have two absent parents. You work to take
care of their financial needs, understandable,
but your work should not be an excuse
for you not to spend time with your child.
Find a way to balance it. Even if you spend
20 minutes of your time when you get home
to strictly talk and catch up with them, that
20 minutes a day is 140 minutes a week. Find
time to squeeze in activities you can do together
even if it is once a month, they will
appreciate that.
Ensure though that
your child knows God for
He is the overall Father.
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E-WOMAN
Being busy also means that you can afford
to hire a nanny or au pair that can help with
their homework and other urgent needs. You
cannot do it all on your own, seek help. If
you cannot afford a nanny or au pair, a relative
that can assist you with these would be
a good idea to have. A sister, cousin or relative
that is either unemployed or less busy
than you are would be of great assistance.
Remember to show your gratitude though
whichever way you can.
Boyfriends or potential husbands! People always
ask as to when it would be a great time
to introduce your man to your children, and
the most frequent answer that comes up is
‘when the relationship is serious enough.’ My
answer is when he has shown intentions of
settling down with you and you are comfortable
with how he will be around your child or
children. A serious relationship does not automatically
mean that he will be as loving to
your children, or that he will marry you.
You need a man that you can be comfortable
enough to leave with your children
whenever, a man that you know that he is a
parent to your child. A man that understands
that your child/children have now become
an acquisition for him, meaning they are his
as well as much as they are yours. If he is
clear about all of that, you can introduce
him to your child. Never make a mistake of
bringing men to your home in their presence;
they draw their own conclusions which then
affect their decisions growing up. Remember
they are your prime responsibility, before
anything or any need, they come first.
The life of your child is a precious cargo that
God has entrusted you with. You need to
handle it with care, but it does not mean
that you should not instil discipline. Disciplined
children grow up to be responsible
adults. Train them well. Do not feel so bad
that they have a single parent to an extent
of not disciplining them. It’s not about you
it’s about the next person they meet in their
future. Let us all be responsible mothers. God
granted women strength, take advantage of
that strength and draw it from him whenever
you feel weak.
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E-MAN
FOUNTAIN OF STRENGTH
When I look at the water fountain I always
wonder where the water is coming from, the
source from which the water is pumping
from. I wonder this because of the beauty of
the flow and the soft sound it makes flowing
out of the mouth. Clearly the source is bold,
strong and confident that it will always provide
the water otherwise it would not have
been used as the source to feed a fountain.
Jesus says to the Samaritan woman, “But
whoever drinks some of the water that I will
give him will never thirst again, but the water
that I will give him will become in him a fountain
of water springing up to eternal life.”
A person that has received healing
(whatever form of healing) through Christ
knows Christ. That healing is some of the water
that he would have drank through Christ.
Totality of the water from Christ is life. The
healing would now become the reason why
he would diligently seek Christ. Finding Christ
means receiving life, the totality of the water.
Now imagine yourself as a fountain, flowing
Christ’s water feeding those that are in need
of that water, those that are thirsty.
In our last issue we said the term ‘man’ refers
to a leader than it does physical attributes.
The man is the chosen and appointed
leader of household. The man is the appointed
fountain of every household. As
Christ is the feeder of every church, the man
is the feeder of every household. The bible
says in ...
Ephesians 5:23 NET ‘Because the husband is
the head of the wife as also Christ is the head
of the church’. The tendency is to magnify
how wives should submit to their husbands in
this scripture, and not the responsibility that
the man has over his family, for the wife
represents the whole family.
The ‘wife’ draws strength from the man for
the Lord has given him an ability to represent
Him over His children. Just as the fountain
draws water from the source, he is to draw
water from Christ and pour out that water
into his whole family, that through him, they
may also come to know and experience
God.
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E-MAN
A fountain that has a source that does not
run dry is for a lifetime. When you make Christ
your source, you can never run dry, meaning
that those that feed from your fountain also
can never run dry. When everything goes
wrong in the house the first person to be
looked at and that is expected to do something
about it is the man of the house. There
are a lot of things that the ‘wife’ needs from
the man of the house for her to be strong, for
her to fulfil her own destiny and for her to
serve God. While God is everyone’s source
of strength, the man is the ‘wife’s’ fountain of
strength. God has blessed a woman with
character strength yes, but that character
strength becomes weakened when the man
of the house is pulling to a different direction
all the time. This happens a lot when a man is
not drawing from his source, as well as not
understanding his responsibility as the appointed
leader of the household.
There is a huge misunderstanding of basing
every decision or choice on the ego of a
man; it is on the understanding of the responsibility
that the Lord has placed upon
the man. Somehow, some men think that being
a man means being a dictator and everything
in his house should happen according
to the way he wants, even if Christ is saying
something different. That is the total misunderstanding
of the role of a man in a
household. The Lord has already set a responsibility
upon the ‘wife’ which is to submit
to her husband. In our last issue we also
talked about how a man’s leadership can
make it easy for a woman to do that just as
Christ makes it easy for the church.
A marriage is a ministry ordained by the Lord
to teach and lead the children belonging to
that ministry about Christ and the life He
represents. The man is the appointed leader
of that ministry, so nothing in it is about him
than it is about Christ. It is in this time, that he
makes himself a leader according to his
right, that the fountain runs dry. The problem
now is that once it runs dry it affects those
that are feeding from it as well and not just
him.
The beauty of the fountain lies in the water
that flows out of it, the water that is supplied
by the source being Christ. The power of the
water flowing out of the fountain also lies
with the source. The sound it makes is very
subtle but the power of the flow can chase
off anything that threatens its beauty. As a
man constantly feeds from the source, the
‘wife’ also feeds from the fountain. Be a fine
fountain, supported by the unfailing source.
Let not your misunderstanding of who you
are and what your role is become the reason
of you being a fountain that has run dry.
Seek diligently the Lord as your source, with
the understanding that you are not only
seeking for yourself, but for those that rely on
you as well. Understand that you are a
leader of a ministry ordained by the Lord and
therefore you are always accountable to
Him.
Ephesians 5:27 NET, so
that he may present the
church to himself as glorious
– not having a stain or
wrinkle, or any such blemish,
but holy and blameless.
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RELATIONSHIPS
THE IMPERFECT PERFECT
MATCH
When couples fight in a relationship or fail
to get along, it is because they are both under
the understanding that the relationship is
about them. That each has to get what they
want or need from it in order for it to work.
God created a man and then created a
woman from a man, so that a man can
have a companion. These two are to work
together in good harmony to do what God
has called them to do. God called each one
of us individually to serve a purpose that He
has created us for. When He now forms a union
out of two people, it is because the purpose
He has for each one of us is based on
needing the other person for it to work successfully.
That is why the bible says God
blesses where there is unity (Psalm 133). Couples
fight or struggle to get along because
they have no understanding of what they
together are called to do or that together
they are a ministry.
I spent about 3 months in a house that belongs
to my Pastors, the husband and wife. I
got to see and understand what being a
Pastor means and to what depth it goes. The
Pastoral ministry is one that requires one to
be available 24/7 without complain. People
out there have problems; they have things
they need to be taken care of, in order for
them to have a peaceful life. Some problems
keep you awake at night, to the extent
that it doesn’t matter what time it is, you will
need to speak to the Pastor to get an advice,
counselling or prayers. They would be
woken up by a member or have one at the
house until late hours. He is called to be a
Pastor, but for him to be a successful Pastor
he needs a wife that is called to be a Pastor’s
wife. You can’t just wake up and wish to
be a Pastor’s wife, it is a calling.
The kind of work that is involved in being that
wife requires you to be called. In that way
you understand the vision that God has for
your union. You are able to share the responsibilities
or do them together. God has
blessed her with a gift of counselling and
prophecy. Together they are formidable intercessors.
Their callings complement each
other and together complete the calling for
the union.
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They both know what God requires from
each and together, that way they are able
to serve God together. It is important to understand
what you are called for as an individual
first and the calling of your partner, in
order to understand your calling as a union.
Your life is not your own, it belongs to God
and He has plans to prosper you. He will
prosper you accordingly not according to
your imagination.
Watching a movie the other day, a husband
and a wife were actually talking and laughing
about how they both never intended to
have a relationship. When they met they
were both just two lonely hearts going
through life. They needed company and
amazingly they both had what each
needed from a friendship. That one thing
they both needed gave their friendship a
chance and they enjoyed each other’s
company. In his head he had a design of
the kind of woman he wanted to be with
and marry and she was the total opposite.
She had a design of the kind of man she
wanted to be with and marry and he was
the total opposite, so they thought. Nothing
is impossible with God! However, individually
God called them for different things. He is a
beacon of light, he provides beam into people’s
lives and God is using him to bring His
flock back home. She is a helper, not just his
but for whoever requires it in any form she is
able to help. When they met they did exactly
what they are called for, for each
other. It was as though God wanted them to
understand what they each ought to do for
others by allowing them to do for each
other. For a long time, they never understood
that. They struggled with each other
because of the designs they both had in
their heads, designs of the kinds of partners
they both individually wanted. It didn’t matter
how hard the other one tried, the influence
of the designs in their heads stood.
That is why Apostle Paul provides a simple
understanding of how we are to work together
as man and wife, by giving us the simple
responsibilities we have towards each
other. “Husbands love your wives as you love
yourselves, wives submit to your husbands”.
Submission means love and obedience. The
task we have as a union requires only those
responsibilities managed well for it to work
harmoniously. He knew that we can never
be fully good enough for each other, but
good enough to work as a union. Hence he
says in 1 Corinthians 7:28 NET, “…But those
who marry will face difficult circumstances”.
Believe me there will always be a struggle
when you think a relationship is made for you
to get what you want from it. The union belongs
to God. He formed it for a reason, His
reason. It is for him to get what He wants
from it. The important thing to do for yourself
and your peace of mind is to find out what
He has called you both for as that union.
Once you have that understanding you will
swiftly adjust to his instructions and move in
the direction of his plans for your lives. When
you fight each other you are fighting the
calling He has for you, and you are fighting
the plans He has for you but mostly, you are
delaying your deliverance.
Most of the marriages in the bible were
formed out of responsibility. Even those that
were formed because of some spark that
triggered an attraction were formed out of
responsibility. Abram and Sarai bore a seed
for the nation that God intended to raise.
Jacob and Rachel bore a child that was to
fulfil the word spoken over that nation.
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RELATIONSHIPS
Zechariah and Elizabeth were eventually
given a child who was to tell people about
Jesus, John. Elkanah and Hannah gave birth
to Samuel whom God used. Joseph and
Marry gave birth to Jesus. So who are you to
feel that you should get what you want. Instead
of being grateful to God’s blessing,
you are undermining it by dwelling on its
faults. If you are going to go around carrying
a design in your head of the kind of person
you want to spend the rest of your life with
you are only hurting yourself. Trust who GOD
gives you, be content with the one you have
for He does not make a mistake. Moreover,
He knows you more than you know yourself.
He created you and breathed the breath of
life into your body. He knows how that design
could not work for you, hence Him providing
you with what is suitable for you.
I once listened to a lady at a wedding talking
about how she got to become a divorcee.
In fact, she was still undergoing the divorce
process. She described her ‘husband’
as a waste of energy. He was always trying
out one business after another. Some businesses
would work but would eventually
crumble, while others struggled to even to
take off. She says that with all that she was
always the bread winner in the house because
she had a stable job; a very good job
that allowed her to take care of the household
and the children’s needs. So she did not
mind being a bread winner while allowing
her husband to do what he is passionate
about doing, being an entrepreneur. The
only problem came when he started feeling
resentment for her for always being able to
handle things while he struggled with his
choice of career. Even though she always
supported his business ventures financially,
he could not understand when she finally
said that she could no longer support them
as the children are growing and their demands
financially are growing too. So she resented
the woman and ended up cheating
and being abusive towards her. She could
not tolerate the mistreatment and so she
filed for divorce.
That kind of a man clearly has a certain passion
that needs to be natured and coached
for it is where his dream lies. However, he
had obstacles in his way. He had the right
kind of a woman, who allowed him to do
what he wanted to do, chase after his
dream while she took care of the household
business. All she needed was a strategy,
prayer strategy. They were a perfect match
according to God’s plan. It could be that
their blessing was to come from these business
struggles he had. They both just needed
patience and a good strategy in place.
Imagine if now he had a design in his head
of a certain kind of woman who was nothing
like what his wife was. Perhaps a young lady,
very easy in the eye and very obedient with
interests to only be taken care of. While there
is nothing wrong with obedience, it can also
be harming if the person obeys even what
she sees to be wrong and unproductive.
Partners need to be able to build each
other, help each other through weaknesses
and faults. Lift each other up when the other
one is down and continue in prayer and
hope. Most importantly be able to listen to
each other. Most partners that get through
the toughest of situations are partners that
managed to be in the situation together instead
of just one person doing what they feel
is right, ignoring the other’s thoughts. Others
got through them because one was a diligent
prayer warrior.
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If you have a partner that is according to
your design but nothing according to what
you actually need, that is a recipe for disaster.
That raises a number of scenarios that
come to mind when partners have expectations
from each other that are not being
met. Rather look for positive in the partner
that God has blessed you with. Find out what
it is that God saw that you needed from him/
her in order to sustain you than looking at
their faults and how they are failing to be
who you want them to be. No human is God;
therefore, no one can change another human
especially by hammering into their
heads what they are doing wrong. The best
strategy to better a person is to focus on their
positives and make them understand how
you appreciate what they are contributing
to your life. No one is perfect, everyone is
walking around with black spots. So if you
are going to spend your energy focusing on
their spots, you are not hurting them but
rather yourself. Your spots will be waiting to
be fixed and growing because you are paying
no attention to them but to those that do
not belong to you.
Matthew 7:3-5 NEV Why do you
see the speck in your brother’s eye,
but you fail to see the beam of
wood in your own? Or how can
you say to your brother, ‘Let me
remove the speck from your eye,’
while there is a beam in your own?
You hypocrite! First remove the
beam from your own eye, and
then you can see clearly to remove
the speck from your brother’s eye.
It all starts with you as an individual.
You cannot fix others
or change them to what you
want them to become, only
God can. However, you can
work on yourself. You can
work on changing your mentality
about marriage, your
partner and try to understand
the plan God has for your
marriage. It is when you operate
under His guidance that
you will be fine.
Marriage is a ministry ordained
and anointed by God
to serve His purpose. Through
that ministry children are
born, and the same ministry is
to help guide the direction of
the lives of those children for
God has a purpose for their
lives. When things go wrong in
it, only God can fix the problems
for it is His ministry.
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By Pastor Gibson Ngulube
REVELATION AND MANIFESTATION
OF GOD’S GLORY
Ephesians 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you
the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of him:
Spiritual knowledge and understanding
equals revelation.
To understand what revelation is, we first
need to distinguish between two types of
knowledge:
(1) knowledge that comes through our physical
senses and
(2) knowledge that is revealed.
Knowledge that comes from our physical
senses or Natural knowledge is the scientific,
theoretical, and practical knowledge that
comes through the senses— sight, hearing,
touch, smell, and taste. It is information or
storable data acquired and implemented in
the natural world. Mental or natural knowledge
must be sought after— an act that demands
learning and discipline.
People who live only according to this type
of knowledge often reason like this:
“I believe in what I see, hear, feel, taste,
and smell.”
“I believe in material things because they
can be understood by my senses.”
“I do not believe in God because I cannot
physically see Him and because
He does not speak to me.”
One cannot know God through sensory information
alone— though such information is
vital for living in the natural dimension
of earth.
God created the earthly dimension
and manifests Himself in it, although He
does not belong to it. He is beyond it.
The second type of knowledge is that which
is revealed by God.
Romans 16: 25-26, Now to him that is able to
establish you according to my gospel, and
the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to
the revelation of the mystery, which was kept
secret since the world began, but now is
made manifest, and by the scriptures of the
prophets, according to the commandment
of the everlasting God, made known to all
nations for the obedience of faith:
In this Scripture, the word “revelation” is
translated from the Greek word apokalypsis,
and it means “to reveal,” “remove the covering,”
or “manifest something that was hidden.”
Revealed knowledge comes directly
or indirectly from God’s Holy Spirit to the spirit
of a person, not to the person’s mind or
senses. (Matthew 16: 15– 17. flesh and blood
have not revealed this to you...)
It does not require time to learn, because
it is given instantly; it manifests
in a blink of an eye.
It cannot be researched in a book or
in any other source of information.
Revelation is a fragment of divine
knowledge that was not previously
known by the person receiving it.
It is given by the Holy Spirit in an instant.
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In heaven, things are not learned;
they are simply revealed or known.
Therefore, revelation is spiritual
knowledge about God and His ways
that comes into our spirits as a sudden,
compelling force that drives us
forward.
It induces spiritual motion and stimulates,
activates, and accelerates our
spirits.
It is a window from time into eternity
and from eternity into time, bringing
God’s perspective to us human beings.
And revelation always demands
change.
The change from spiritual to natural knowledge
as the primary means by which human
beings experience and understand life happened
when Adam and Eve decided to disobey
God and eat from the “tree of the
knowledge of good and evil”.
When Adam and Eve sinned, their spirits
died. As a result, they went from having both
kinds of knowledge to having only mental,
sensory, or natural knowledge. Sin destroyed
their connection to their spiritual Source and
to spiritual knowledge. From that moment,
they began to consider everything from the
perspective of natural knowledge.
If you base your life on natural knowledge
alone, what you see/observe is only a
shadow of what is truly there. A lack of revealed
knowledge is a characteristic of spiritual
death because we do not live according
to spiritual reality. Anytime we try to trust
in natural knowledge to operate in the supernatural,
we are essentially eating of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Natural knowledge offers information about
facts or data, but it does not have the ability
to effect lasting transformation because it
comes from the fallen mind of man, not from
the mind of God.
Revealed knowledge supersedes every rational
analysis and carries with it the intrinsic
power to transform. It Erases the Borders of
the Impossible.
If human beings had never fallen, we never
would have known what it is like to live only
according to natural knowledge, and we
would have no way of knowing that
“impossible” things exist. We would not be
able to see the limitations of the natural
realm. This is the mind-set Adam had before
his act of disobedience. Impossible wasn’t in
his vocabulary.
Revelation is superior to natural knowledge.
Although it is good to receive an education
and to be a well-prepared professional, a
revelation from God can enable us to be
more effective in accomplishing our goals
than years of schooling can. Some theologians
study God for decades but never know
Him because they lack revelation from the
Holy Spirit, while others who receive revelation
have intimate knowledge of Him, in addition
to an understanding of theology.
Revelation gives us access to the spiritual
world and to the elevated realms of faith,
and it erases the borders of the impossible.
Reason, common sense, and logic serve the
soul, as revelation serves the spirit. One word
of knowledge, given by the Holy Spirit, can
resolve what doctors are unable to do.
Many churches, ministries, Christian universities,
seminaries, and Bible institutes today are
saturated with intellectual education but
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lack supernatural revelation.
How will believers be transformed from glory to glory if
there is no fresh revelation that enables them to move
from one dimension of glory to the next? How can believers
manifest God’s glory without revelation that enables
them to move in that dimension?
You need to embrace revelation in order to manifest
God’s glory. To reject divine knowledge is to despise
or give little value to what God is saying. We must
learn to choose whom and what to believe because
the enemy will destroy you in any area where you lack
knowledge (my people are destroyed because of
lack of knowledge)
The main purpose of revelation is to lead us to a supernatural
experience in God’s presence so that we can be
transformed.
Revelation comes to transform people and expand
the kingdom of God on earth. But we have to obey
the revelation to see these results. The devil hates it
when believers seek fresh revelation from God. He
wants us to remain stagnant, rather than moving forward
spiritually.
We cannot be common people if we carry a revelation
from God because the revelation makes us different.
The revelation we carry from God enables us to
manifest His glory.
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TEACHING about
the prophetic . The LORD
warns ‘TEST spirits’(1John 4:1)”
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There are things you can explain because your brain
has collected so much information that you have an
answer for most. Then there are things that even that
wealth of knowledge cannot explain because there is
no explanation for them except that it is GOD!
Samuel was a child conceived through faith, a request
made as a result of hardship. He was a covenant
between Hannah and God. Although things
maybe explained to you sometimes you have no idea
of their intensity, like the intensity of the covenant Hannah
made with God. Just after being weaned, Samuel
was dedicated to God through Eli. He was still a
boy when he started to experience God.
The bible says in 1 Samuel 3:2-7 NET, The Lord called to
Samuel, and he replied, “Here I am!” Then he ran to Eli
and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But Eli said, ‘I
didn’t call you. Go back and lie down.” So he went
back and lay down.
The Lord again called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up
and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called
me.” But Eli said, “I didn’t call you, my son. Go back
and lie down.”
Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord; the word of
the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.
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Educated in Gweru, Zimbabwe and completed
a teaching diploma through Gweru
teachers college. Later enrolled and completed
a university degree in Bachelor of
Education (Planning & Policy studies); MBA in
2014 and Bachelor of Theology in 2016.
Pastor Misheck Muza is a Zimbabwean born,
a child of Pastors and a husband to his beautiful
wife Eniah Muzanenhamo. He tells us his
story that led to him being an AFM Klipfontein
Pastor and a Principal at Midrand Christian
College.
Spiritual Journey
“As a child of a Pastor I was raised from a
Christian family observing Christian values.
When one is from the Christian family you just
follow your parents without having your own
convictions. So I followed my parents and attended
their church. However, something
profound happened in 1983 when I accompanied
my parents to a crusade. The
preacher just asked that those who wish to
receive Christ as their personal Savior to
come to the front. Even my parents were surprised
when I went to the front. I was doing
grade 8 at the time. I received Christ and
was also baptised in the Holy Ghost. It was
a turning point in my life.
When you move you don’t realise what you
are carrying, especially with spiritual things. I
was in boarding school, a boy’s school at the
time of my receiving Christ. There was a
prayer group at school and so we would go
to a field as boys to pray. But after accepting
Christ my prayer life had a lot of meaning.
I could relate to God in a special way.
What struck me was that I started hearing an
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inner voice, something I’d never heard before.
The voice was saying, ‘You are not ordinary,
you’ve got an assignment. I am sending
you to nations’. It was so audible I started
thinking that I was dreaming or going mad. I
think it must have been like that with Samuel
when God was speaking to him and he did
not understand. It was an extraordinary experience,
filled with the Holy Spirit. In that
season I started having a lot of dreams
preaching, praying for the sick. I believe that
God makes known the end at the beginning.
Its a preview of the future.
I also started to experience the hand of God
upon my life, even with some manifestations.
So I went back to the hostel after prayer and
as I got into the hostel, something spectacular
happened. Some boys started to manifest.
It was like a row of bags. We were four
boys coming from the prayer session with our
leader who is now a Bishop. We had just
walked in and some boys started to manifest.
I didn’t even understand what was going
on but now I believe God was just confirming
something. Some of the students
were not Christians. When students go to
school their parents believe in different
things. Some were given snuff to protect
them. One of the boys actually took out his
snuff when he was manifesting, it was chaos.
Some of the mature, senior Christian boys
took control of the situation. The principal got
to know about what had happened, and so
my father prayed for me afterwards. His
prayer was ‘Father, thank you because you
have called him …’ I shared with him my inner
voice experience and his response was
‘yes I know’. Then he started to relate to me
that God had said something to him before I
was born, that I was not an ordinary child.
They had to call a Bishop when I was born,
who came and dedicated me.
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His name was Misheck, which is how I got my
name. He gave me his name. He was a Pastor;
Bishop and a Prophet, and he just confirmed
God’s call upon my life. My parents
also told me that when I was a child I got so
sick that I passed away in the house. They
called the police to come and take my
body. While the police was on the way to
fetch the body, apparently I woke up. When
you ask like in my case, as to why were all
these things happening? The explanation or
interpretation is that, ‘when you’ve got God’s
calling upon your life you are attacked because
the enemy knows what your assignment
is. If the enemy tries to attack or discourage
us, we can remind him that we
have already a glimpse of our destiny’ So
I’ve had so many challenges, but I believe
that those challenges were preparing me for
where I am now. Our challenge as children
of God is that we get excited when we get a
prophetic word upon our lives but we don’t
know how to step into that word. After one
receives a prophetic word they must walk a
journey. A prophet gives rhema but one
needs principles to establish the rhema. It is
therefore critical to sit under seasoned man
of God for teaching. In whatever area God is
about to take you, find an expert to teach
you. Moses hearkened to the voice of his father
in law (Ex 18:24).Manoah asked for
teaching (Judges13:8). Through all of that I
managed to finish my schooling and proceeded
to tertiary.
I was appointed in 2014 to lead one of the
branch assemblies where I am a Pastor now,
AFM Klipfontein. When I started the church
had 40 members, and it has now grown
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close to 300 members.
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“From university I was also posted to a
school in the rural areas –the first resettlement
programme area and I was the highest
qualified teacher there. However, there
was no actual school. They were resettling
people to areas but there were no schools. I
was given a mandate to build the school.
Tough assignment it was. We were operating
from a primary school and we had to build
the high school, there was no structure, absolutely
nothing. The students were seating
under the trees. It was also remote, in the rural
areas. From the nearest urban centre you
would get a bus, drop wherever and walk for
about 10 km because it was not accessible.
The first months I resisted the assignment, I
wanted to go to an urban school. A provincial
head said to me ‘we are not putting
anyone this is your task, it’s your assignment.
If you want to move away from the school
you must resign’. I don’t know what he had
seen in me. So I decided to take the assignment.
That’s when I started seeing the hand
of God upon my life. I coordinated the village
heads in that area to mould bricks. The
government gave us 60% funding of the cost
and the other 40% came from the parents. In
four years we managed to put structures in
place. We built six classes and four teacher’s
houses. While there I started to grow spiritually
because one had to depend on God.
The inner voice once said ‘as the school is
growing you are also growing spiritually’. My
character was shaped in that environment.
Faithfulness moves us into ownership.
We then established a church within the
school. That’s when I started to minister to
the community as well.
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I was an AFM congregant and so I observed
the AFM protocol there as well. I also involved
interdenominational organisations like
scripture union to help me with the work.
From that place we managed to establish
seven sub-assemblies in the area. I spent
eight years in that rural area, and then there
was need in another area. Again I was appointed
to lead another school still in the rural
areas. This now was a school with over 700
children. There was chaos there but God
gave me wisdom, that I must respect the
protocol of the environment. He instructed
me to go to the chief and I did exactly that.
From that visit I saw miracles. There was
peace and there was progress. I had international
donors coming in. We identified 400
orphans who got assistance from foster parents.
We built them small houses, gave them
blankets and livestock so that they could reproduce.
So I raised these 400 kids with the
help of Plan International (NGO). I seriously
impacted the area. Even when I go back I
still see the houses standing and most of
those children now have careers. I was there
for four years. Again I established a church
there with three branches. My target to
preach was schools, and I’d make use of the
Christian teachers to spread the word. One
of the schools where I preached was led by
a woman, and she was coordinating everything.
She was leading the staff fellowship.
God joined us together because today that
woman is my wife. I met her on the field in
1999 and we were married in 2000.
In 2001, I was head hunted by John Newbold.
He had existing schools but wanted to
establish a high school in peri- urban centre.
He was apparently told about me. I took the
offer and moved to his estate and established
the school. That’s when I realised that I
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have a gift of establishing establishments. I
start things. That is called an apostolic unction.
If I look at institutions that I have established
thus far, I can confidently say that I
have an apostolic calling. I was there for another
four years. Then there were political
challenges in Zimbabwe, so I decided to
leave in 2005 for South Africa.
In South Africa I decided to leave education
to join the corporate world. I wanted to have
some corporate experience. I met a guy running
a computer company (computer repairs
and selling parts). He hired me as an Assistant
manager. There again I was very instrumental
in the expansion of the business.
From one shop we established seven other
shops. schools.
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Midrand Christian College
“I attended church at AFM Impact.
After one service, the Pastor, Dennis
Erasmus approached me. Little did I
know that he did a background
check on me. He shared with me the
vision of starting a Christian school
and asked me for help. It took me a
month to decide then took a step of
faith and took the offer, resigned from
corporate. I started with all the paper
work, registration etc. We started in
2010 with 3 children (grade 1&2). By
the end of the year we had 8 children.
The following year we had 64
children. The school now has grown
to A-level with about 160 students.
We have two campuses, a primary
and a high school.
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POINTS OF INTEREST
As a Pastor, what gives you satisfaction that you
are in the right direction, that you are doing
something right?
When I see the fruits… I have passion for ministry
so I don’t doubt that I have a calling for it. Like
in my current assembly I don’t earn a salary, but
I believe in investing in people. The best investment
is investment in people. You establish the
work and the work you are doing must be appreciated.
It doesn’t come easy so you need to
grow the work. But I get so much fulfilled after
ministering, and the fulfilment I get is more than
a salary. So seeing fruits is fulfilling. I believe in
the process. If you look at my history its mostly
process. So I believe that even in ministry you
must establish the work.
third year there was just a serious turn around in
his life. He is now at UJ. So when I see these
young people discover themselves and
achieve something, I am motivated. I believe
that you are not only touching the mind of a
child but also the spirit.
You take students from different institutions and
different backgrounds, and they join students
here with a different attitude. What do you do to
bring them to the same attitude level?
We set standards and we are very strict. Like
with the Cambridge curriculum there is no automatic
promotion. You must pass the grade you
are in for you to proceed to grade 12. So that
motivates them. They know that you get the external
examination in grade 11 and if you do
not make it, you cannot proceed to grade 12.
Are you teaching any classes at the moment?
I do a lot of guidance and counselling. I call it
character education, something that is missing
in education. There is a saying that ‘talent must
not take you where character cannot sustain
you’. I believe that character is very important
because you have a lot of people with talent
but lack character.
You have such passion for students who attend
your school to achieve great heights, what motivates
that?
I believe every child has got potential that has
not been tapped. It’s like sitting on a gold mine
and some students don’t discover it. Some students
even get surprised with themselves. So,
when one discovers that ‘this is how I’m wired
and this is the potential I have’, that drives me.
For example, there was one young man who
enrolled at our school but, he had serious disciplinary
problems and the parents had given up
on him. He moved from one school to another.
For two years we struggled with him, but in the
The book of Acts 2:17-19; says that in the last
days my sons and daughters will prophesy.
There is a lot of prophecy happening now and a
lot of prophets … what are we to make of all
this?
These are trying and difficult times. One needs
discernment. The fact that one prophesies does
not mean that they are genuine. The prophetic
attracts crowd, but people must discern, not
only discernment but teaching. There is need
for more teaching about the prophetic . The
Lord warns ‘Test spirits’(1John 4:1).False prophets
have gone out and many are being deceived.
People have real problems and need
solutions ;in the desperation they are deceived.
The word clearly says that ‘you shall know them
by their fruits’. Some have the gift but not the
fruit the fruit. So before one even goes to the
‘man of God’ they need to check their lives.
There are genuine shepherds, and people
should be covered by sound ministries.
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LEADERSHIP NOTE
CONFIDENCE vs. ARROGANCE
In my years of Junior High School, I had such
a gifted choir director. In the three years I
was in the choir I had never had a music
sound come out of her mouth, even when
she needed to affirm a note. She had a small
keyboard that she used to guide us. Every
note she would play on that keyboard even
the off-notes. She had a very attentive ear
and she could pick up who is off tune from a
crowd. She could also pick up a beautiful
voice even when hidden by the other
voices. She taught us a lot about music, different
ways of singing, how to nurture your
voice and how to interpret lyrics through
your sound. I always asked myself as to how
she knew all that because she was a teacher
and had studied teaching. Given that she
never uttered a musical sound, I concluded
that she could not sing. Yet she brought out
the best singers out of us. Her love for music
gave her enough courage to teach herself
about music. It gave her enough courage to
find out every ounce of information there
was about music. It gave her enough courage
to learn to play the keyboard so she
can be able to communicate musically with
singers. That courage gave her confidence
that she can direct a choir. That confidence
brought out confidence from her singers to
sing to their utmost potential. Confidence
shared is confidence built.
People want to be in leadership positions because
they want to have influence. They
want to be able to influence those that follow
them, as well as the decisions of those
that they follow. Having influence means access
to power, which is what humans are
constantly hungry for. But how are you as the
leader influencing your subordinates? Is it
good influence or bad influence? Most of all,
what do you want to achieve with the
power you have?
The dictionary defines confidence in a number
of ways but the one relevant to our discussion
is that, ‘confidence is a freedom
from doubt’.
A young lady that teaches the gospel one
day sat down and weighed her options in
terms of what she could and could not do.
What she knew that she could do she did
with confidence. She knew that she could
stand in front of a crowd and teach without
worry or concern of whether or not she is doing
it well, or if they are paying attention. She
also knew that although she can have the
word to preach, she was not equipped
enough to strip it to its depths in order for her
to make her message clear. With that understanding
she sought out help with those that
were good at understanding, interpreting
and organising the word. She did that to
equip herself enough to speak to the crowd
with confidence and depth.
When you understand your shortcomings,
you are able to do as much as you can to
assist yourself. It is what the world describes
as weaknesses. Weaknesses are not that you
are weak, but that there are others who are
better gifted in those areas than you are.
They exist so we can be able to work together
and assist each other. Because you
ought to do whatever you are supposed to
do free of doubt, it is important to understand
those weaknesses. It is important to
equip yourself through whatever available
resources so you can do whatever you have
to do at your full potential.
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The choir director was the best director, however,
she could not sing. With the understanding
of her weakness, she sought out
keyboard training so she could be able to
communicate properly with those that could
sing and direct to her full potential. The gospel
teacher understood her shortcomings
with regards to putting across the message
to its full intent, and sought out assistance so
she could teach to her full potential.
This is the most important part of building
your confidence. You need to be clear of
what you want to do and what you want to
achieve. Once you have defined those two,
you then need to understand the strengths
you have to accomplish your goals and find
ways to nurture them. One of the mistakes
we make is to think that because you are
good at something, that alone is enough.
You always need to be on top of your game,
and nurturing your strengths affords you that.
Secondly, you need to understand what your
shortcomings are that can prevent you from
accomplishing your goals. Shortcomings not
attended to can actually scream more
loudly than the strengths, which would then
lead to destroying the possibility of goal
achievement. That is why you find that there
are people that can take someone else’s
work, make it popular as their own and make
money out of it. It is because they would
have understood their strengths and weaknesses,
and maximised on their strengths,
while allowing the other person to maximise
on theirs. They would have spent their time
nurturing their strengths and seeking assistance
for the areas of their shortcomings. For
example, a songwriter that cannot sing but
has a very good message would write for a
good musician that would be able to put
that message across musically better than
them.
The problem arises when we fail to understand
how we need each other. It arises
when we don’t acknowledge the importance
of others and their contribution on the
things we want to achieve. You may have a
clear understanding of what you want to do,
how to achieve it. You may also have a
clear understanding of how you on your own
can achieve it with the abilities you have.
However, you may fail to acknowledge the
weaknesses you have that can prevent you
from achieving your goal. You may fail to understand
how you need those that are better
at those areas to help you achieve your
goal. This is what then leads to arrogance.
‘An overbearing pride evidenced by a superior
manner toward inferiors’ is a definition of
arrogance. We have leaders that want to
enforce their position on others because
they are unable to acknowledge
their need for them.
they are unable to accept that they
are less gifted in a certain area, and
to accept that they cannot do it
alone.
If you have ever seen a leader that is a jack
of all trades you will understand how not acknowledging
the need for others, their
strengths and their contribution does to harm
you as a leader.
People start distancing
themselves from you and some even develop
an attitude towards you because you
take them for granted. You now become a
leader that faces insubordination all day
every day. You become a leader that thinks
that money can buy a way out of everything.
You become an arrogant leader. Arrogance
shared is arrogance built.
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The same attitude you give your subordinates or those
that you work with is the same attitude you build in
them, and it is the same attitude you will receive from
them. Arrogance is a result of fear. Fear arising from
failure to acknowledge your shortcomings. Whoever is
arrogant is afraid of something.
We want a society full of leaders that are confident of
what they are doing because confidence achieves
results. You can never build your confidence or other’s
by maximising on shortcomings. You can do so by
maximising on your strengths,
acknowledging your shortcomings and seeking
assistance that covers them, and
acknowledging others whom you need help
from
Be a confident leader rather than an arrogant one.
That way you will achieve results at their fullest potential.
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BUSINESS
CONCEPTUALISATION
In a movie ‘August Rush’, there is a boy that
finds himself so occupied by music. He hears
music wherever he goes. The movement that
objects and people make form a sound in his
head. The same things are what inspire him
to translate all that he hears into a song.
Without formal training he finds himself writing
and playing music influenced by the
sounds his mind has captured. While he is just
a boy and sees nothing else out of this gift
that he has and all he wants is music, the
elders see it as an opportunity to create a
business out of his talent; some with his best
interest at heart and others their own interest.
This is what happens with conceptualisation.
It is defined as ‘inventing or contriving an
idea or explanation and formulating it mentally’.
You find yourself consumed with an idea you
have no knowledge as to where it came
from. As you start receiving the idea, your interest
on it grows. As things about the idea
continue being revealed, you develop an
amazing passion you cannot explain. This
day you have this information about it but as
you start focusing on that information, something
else that makes it even more spectacular
gets revealed. Somehow you find yourself
in a position where all the pieces about it
come together, and boom, an invention is
born. You put it all together in a document
that describes the concept.
Then what’s next, now that you know exactly
what you want to do? It is easier if your concept
does not require intense or complex resources
for it to be implemented. However,
what do you do with it if it does require resources
that you do not have for it to fly? You
know that it is too good to remain on paper,
too good to just remain a concept it has to
manifest.
The Lord our God is a creator of every opportunity
and concepts we get. He places the
ideas in our heads and He creates the opportunities
for us. Though you may be able to
explain the inspiration of the concept, you
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can never explain the origin of the idea.
Even the explanation you have as an inspiration
is an opportunity He would have created
so as to initiate something in you. Therefore,
He will be the director of the invention
from start to finish. The only thing you ought
to do as the receiver of the concept is to
pray on it for God to guide you to its full
manifestation. He would have already put
resources in place by the time you receive
the idea. What makes it not happen the way
He has planned it would be that we’d have
taken it as something of our own rather than
something the Lord wants to achieve
through us. The concept is an assignment for
you as the receiver and God is the originator.
The Lord being the originator means He
wants to achieve something out of it through
you. You are the chosen to action it. However,
you cannot do it on your own. You
need Him to direct you to the resources He
has put in place for you to action the assignment.
The bible says in Exodus 31:2-6
NET, See, I have chosen Bezalel son
of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah, and I have filled him with
the Spirit of God in skill, in understanding,
in knowledge, and in all
kinds of craftsmanship… Vs 6 Moreover,
I have also given him Oholiab
son of Ahisamach, of tribe of Dan,
and I have given ability to all the
specially skilled, that they may
make everything I have commanded
you.
The Lord instructed Moses to build
a tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
However, Moses although he
received all the instruction of how
it was to look like, he had no skill
to make all of that happen. However,
the Lord provided resources
for him to bring it to life. Same applies
to you as the receiver of a
concept. You will have limited resources
to bring it to fruition, but
the Lord who is the originator
knows exactly who He has strategically
placed for the resources
you need.
The trick is to acknowledge Him
as the originator, then pray for
Him to connect you with the resources.
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FINANCIAL WEALTH
Origin and Necessity
It dawned on me once, that a lot of problems
and challenges that the world faces
are all due to money issues. Leaders in politics
and economics that are meant to lead
the countries to prosperity, care mostly
about their pockets than they do about
those that live in their countries. Economic
leaders will play with any country’s economic
growth drivers just so they can get the
results they want. Politicians will form associations
that lead to company formations so
they can get government projects directed
to their companies for benefit. Countries like
South Africa are passive income generators
for investors who care more about growing
their wealth than contributing to the country’s
economic growth. They get assistance
from the leaders in politics that use them to
form their own beneficial companies so they
can also grow their wealth. Who then suffers
from all of this? An ordinary person does.
In the early days, God created a nation
through Abraham, a nation that was to be a
recipient of His favour. Jesus came so God
could demonstrate to us how blessed we
are, if we could just be obedient and humble
ourselves before Him. The Israelites were also
favour recipients as a demonstration to all
those that existed back then, how generous
God can be to all those that are His. They
distributed land amongst themselves, land
that God allocated to them. The importance
of owning land wealth building is quite significant.
When you have land, you are able to
turn it into a commercial space and create
a business from it, any type of business. People
that are aware of this, when they buy
property they look for property in agricultural
zones where they can do whatever business
they want to do without the legalities and
regulations you find in a residential zone.
Even kingdoms would fight just so they could
take over land from each other. The bigger
the land you owned, meant the bigger your
kingdom.
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From the land that they had, the Israelites
could create wealth for themselves through
agriculture and a sale of any resources they
could sell, found from the land they owned
e.g. minerals. Because they were under
God’s covering, these resources could never
run out. Their wealth was God’s creation that
was meant to care for them and their needs
throughout their lives. Their part was only to
be obedient to God’s law in order to increase
their wealth. Wealth that was to take
care of the priesthood, expenses relating to
kingdom celebrations and taking care of the
poor, hence the introduction of the tithing
system (Numbers 18:21; Deuteronomy
14:22:29)
The first understanding we need to have
about wealth is that only God creates it.
Deuteronomy 8:17-18 NET says, be careful
not to say, ‘My own ability and skill have gotten
me this wealth.’ You must remember the
Lord your God, for He is the one who gives
ability to get wealth …
Wealth is built from the riches of the world offered
by a certain land zone e.g. mining
zone or oil zone. Not one individual ever
planted gold; diamonds; platinum and coal,
God did. Not one individual ever planted oil,
God did. Economies of the countries are set
around the production of commodities because
those who invest have their interests
centred on these commodities. They are the
main drivers of a country’s economy. Hence
those after riches are always after the land
that can produce these commodities. So the
original owners of these land sites, the ones
that got them through God are the ones that
had a right to distribute them through sale to
whoever they wish. Then the ones that
bought would be the rightful owners because
they rightfully bought. Anyone who
stole any piece of land and claimed it as
their own is not a rightful owner. Whatever
land they own rights to, rights they didn’t buy
from rightful owners or receive direct from
God is not theirs. It belongs to God and He
can distribute it how He wishes.
Maintenance
In the early days, God introduced the tithing
system so as to create a wealth redistribution
or subsidy mechanism. God gave the riches
to His chosen nation so that they could be
able to live without material lack. He then
gave skills to some, so as to create sellable
material out of these riches in order to generate
income. Income was to flow from the
households that could generate it to other
households that could not generate through
the tithing system. Meaning those that
‘lacked’ were subsidised through tithes. That
way everyone’s material need would be
taken care of, and no one would lack. There
would still remain however, some households
that would be richer than others. The system
though created an opportunity for every
household to grow their income according
to their given abilities. That way wealth
would be retained by the nation.
Ecclesiastes 11:2 NET says, divide your merchandise
among seven or even eight investments,
for you do not know what calamity
may happen on earth
Famine happened in Egypt and its surroundings
even though there were
endless riches because the one that
creates wealth had spoken a word of
famine upon the country. Genesis
41:30; 41:54-55
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That is why it is important that when you generate
income in any way, you accumulate it
to riches and riches to wealth, because no
one knows what tomorrow holds. Even then,
when God is not acknowledged as a Provider
and Creator of that wealth, still anything
can happen. The Israelites were instructed
to sow back to God through the
tithing system. God’s intention was to take
care of all His people using the riches that He
had availed. This is the same intention He has
when He blesses a person. He gave to some
an ability to generate a flow of money
through business creation; to some the skills
to work in order to earn an income; and to
some gifts to work in His kingdom and receive
through it. All those that could receive
income in any form were to give it back in a
form of tithing. That tithing system was to distribute
to those that were, for whatever reason
unable to receive an income. That was
the way set for them to maintain their
wealth, the tithing system. Till this day, the
Jews still practise that philosophy.
Anyone that has been blessed enough to receive
an income is to retain the source of income
through
Understanding your purpose in life
Aligning your income source with
your life purpose
Acknowledging God as the Provider
and Creator of the income source
Thanksgiving, by sowing back into
the kingdom of God
Growing the income through investment
Destroyer of souls
How can now this wonderful gift be
the same known as the destroyer of
souls? Surely God did not intend for us
to suffer or lack financially, so how can
it be a problem if we use the same resources
He availed to fend for ourselves?
Power!
The monetary value worth that one
has, is now a measure of the influence
one has. It is the measure of how powerful
one is. Wealthy people sponsor
presidential campaigns so they can
have the power to control a country
by controlling the president. That is the
kind of power wealth buys. The desire
for power is what has tainted money
as a blessing received from God. Now
people go to all sorts of lengths to acquire
money because of the buying
power attached to it. That’s how
wealth becomes the destroyer of
souls, the lengths which people are
willing to go in order to increase their
buying power. With all the amount of
effort people put on increasing their
value worth, it then becomes about
them having worked hard to be where
they are and owning what they have.
Hence thanking God for the gift loses
meaning to some.
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Even the priesthood brought the judgement unto people’s
riches because they were not sticking to the instruction of distributing
the tithe to those they were supposed to distribute
to. Instead they were robbing God by using the tithe their
way than the way instructed by God. Malachi 3:8-9
The bible says in ...
1Timothy 6:9-10 NET, those who long to be rich, however,
stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and
harmful desires that plunge into ruin and destruction. For the
love of money is the root of all evils …
Chasing riches in order to have power can make one fall into
a lot of traps and temptations.
It is important to understand your purpose in life for God will
bless you according to that purpose. It is when you understand
your purpose that you will not fall into the traps and
temptations of seeking power and chasing after riches.
Allow God to bless you financially as He is the one that knows
how much you need, what you need it for and how much
you can handle. Your value worth and power are not determined
by the amount of money you have. Your purpose in
life determines these things. It is when you lack understanding
of this that you chase after riches and risk yourself being
trapped into temptations and falling off faith.
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CAREER FOCUS
By Bernard Bushe
Career choice construction:
more important now than ever – Part III
Researchers in USA estimate that about two
thirds of humans have no idea what they are
good at or what their strengths are. One
wonders if the majority of humans in whatever
areas of work and industry are doing
what they love if only a third know what they
love. We always say do what you love and
love what you do – what if you do not know
them and have not anchored your career
choice construction around them from the
very start?
In the last article I discussed how to discover
your strengths as a very important life project
in the formative years of your life. If you
missed that opportunity early you may need
to reconsider it now. Bring some passion to
your life. Remember you and I spend about
80% of our life at work. You therefore do not
want to spend 80% of your life in misery of a
career you hate because it does not resonate
with your passion and strengths. That is
not different from dyeing within you while
you still live.
It is important to (1) appreciate the benefits
of your career around your areas of dominant
ability and strengths – discussed in the
previous article, (2) discover your dominant
ability and strengths – also discussed in the
article preceding this one and finally (3) how
How do you benefit from your strengths?
First, build your strengths. You won’t benefit
amply from strengths you have not fully developed.
In the book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
provides a profound informed view that
it takes ten thousand hours, at a minimum, to
become a pro (expert) in any field of human
endeavour. It means that those that desire to
excel in any field, rather than be just average
performers, have to take a deliberate
decision to put in more time and specialised
training. Basketball players like Michael Jordan
on record put in the time, waking up
early and making 500 shots daily to become
proficient at the game. Best swimmers spend
hours and hours in the water. Musicians who
excel spend many hours practicing their art.
Best lawyers spend time in research, coming
to grips with jurisprudence.
Back in the days, Jewish lawyers in the 1970s
spent years developing skills in tax law and
hostile takeovers where many in Manhattan
did not want to focus, and they became the
best tax lawyers in the passage of time. You
will excel in any field to the degree that you
put the effort to build your strengths so that
you can produce extra-ordinary results.
Second, build on your strengths. It is one
thing to build strengths and quite another to
build on them. Once your strengths are built
you need to take a deliberate step to build
to benefit from your strengths – the focus of
your career around them.
this article.
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Building your strengths is foundation while
building on them is the edifice of a wellconstructed
career that will stand out. Many
people build their strengths but for some reason
or the other do not build on them. Some
are just bored. You need to then fight boredom
and construct your career around your
areas of dominant strengths. At best build
projects using your strengths.
Don’t tell me that there are too many barriers
and one of them is finance. Overcoming
such barriers is part of the fun. Would you not
rather fail at doing something than succeed
at doing nothing? Everyone that became
famous became so, understandably, because
of the barriers they overcame to
achieve their dreams. The bigger the barrier,
the greater the results, and the fame that
comes with it.
The Wright Brothers used their engineering
strengths to build the first plane. Alexander
Fleming used his strengths in science to discover
antibiotic which helped cure British soldiers
many of whom were dying on small gun
wounds during World War II. There must be
something worthwhile you can do with your
strengths. If you are not that bold join someone
who is doing well in your fields of
strengths and utilise your strengths.
Third, create projects around your strengths.
Many an African do not realise that creativity
is an art and a process. Even a preacher
who is worth listening to must know how to
create sermons that are informative, inspiring
and impacting. Creating projects around
your strengths means conceptualising and
coming up with projects that would inspire
your strengths to fruition and profit.
I realised my passion to unleash human and
corporate potential a couple of years ago. I
therefore develop writing and speaking engagements
that foster that passion. I create
many of my writings out of speaking to people
who face problems in areas where my
strengths are. It is no small sweat.
What are your strengths? Which projects can
you carry out that can utilise your strengths.
Fourth, Execute projects around your
strengths. Once you have conceived projects
even small ones, you must proceed to
execute them. Once Mark Zuckerberg had
implemented his Facebook Project, he had
to rely on other great talents like Sharon, one
of the best marketers in America to see it into
a global billionaire project. Reliance on other
talents is what is required. There are people
who have complementary strengths you
need, figure out and learn from them. Albert
Einstein was once asked how come he was
able to see and go further than others and
he said, ‘because I learnt to sit on the shoulders
of giants.’ You could only see further
than those on whose shoulders you sit.
Fifth, get results from your strengths. You will
only get the results you plan for in life. Many
people celebrate small results and get them.
Others celebrate quantum results and get
them. There are people happy with a salary
and paying bills. Others want profit and interest
as results, so they engage in projects that
give them such. You have to engage in projects
that give you the results you are looking
for. That is building on your strengths – in career
choice construction. It is constructing a
career that gives you the results that you
want.
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Sixth, celebrate your own successes. Many people struggle
when people do not celebrate them. At times it’s not that
others must, but yourself. You need to celebrate your own
victories. Maybe other people are busy with their own. You
must come to your own party. You cannot expect people to
celebrate you more than you celebrate yourself. It pays to
beat your own drum at times. It is called selfencouragement.
You need that especially in this discouraging
world that is more fault-finding than success-celebrating.
Seventh, start new projects - don’t celebrate the past for too
long. People who keep talking about what happened yesterday
have nothing to do today. A career is a lifetime. It’s either
you are learning, leveraging or leading others. When you
have achieved certain results it is worthwhile to mentor others
to do the same as a career project. That is leadership typified
in the way traditional Africans learnt. They learnt from experts
in their communities. If an African was to learn a trade, they
were sent to live with an expert in their trade until the life of
such guru is transferred into the protégé. Mentors are required
on African soil to get many talents resuscitated from
self-destruction. Many young people given to drugs and selfdestructive
habits need talented people to rise to the occasion
and use their fame and power to help them make something
out of themselves.
Until next time build your strengths and build on them – see
you at the top.
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INTEREST
By Owen Ngandu
THE MISEDUCATION OF A NATION
The education debate is
one that needs to be out
there and open.
Education is the heart of any nation in this
day. It contributes not only to the building of
one, but also to the running and sustenance
of a healthy economy and society of any
nation. As a people success is largely dependent
on how economically successful
you are. The same applies to a race, a tribe
and down to a family. It is not just any education
that’s at the centre of this economic
success; it is the right education. Education
that is aimed at developing a successful and
productive individual. Education that is
aimed at economic independence, sustenance
and growth. Education that is relevant
to one’s environment. Education that
empowers. Education that encourages creative
thinking, to give birth to entrepreneurs,
inventors, innovators and creators of new
products and solutions.
Conversely, miseducation of a people, disempowers
them. It creates a society that is
dependent on other societies or groups that
are deemed superior, knowledge-wise. It
breeds crime as a result of a failed economy,
poverty, corruption and all sorts of social ills.
Until a correct form of intervention is put in
place, it becomes a vicious cycle of misdirected
education yielding the same results
and over time, it will be the demise of a nation,
people, race and/or family.
South Africa seeks to become a developmental
state, in which the state becomes an
entrepreneur for all other forms of entrepreneurship
to succeed. The state intervenes in
the economy in support of market forces.
The most defining element of a developmental
state is quality education. The educational
model for a developmental state is the
STEM model. The emphasis is on Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
South Africa’s aspiration to become a developmental
state may not be realised unless
there is total transformation of the educational
system. The deep roots of poor education
lie in the Bantu Education Act of 1953
that was enacted by Dr Verwoerd, which is
accurately captured in his own words as follows:
“My department’s policy is that
Bantu education should stand with
both feet in the reserves and have
its roots in the spirit and being of
Bantu society . . . There is no place
for (the Bantu) in the European
community above the level of certain
forms of labour … what is the
use of teaching the Bantu child
mathematics when IT cannot use it
in practice? That is quite absurd.
Education must train people in the
sphere in which they live.” - Source:
Lapping (1986) -
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South Africa is the only country in the world
whose government sat year after year to
plan how best to mis-educate its citizens. The
Bantu Education Act discouraged the teaching
of Maths and Science in black schools.
This legacy has not been overcome. There is
still no emphasis on Science and Maths in
black schools up to this day.
The current education model, which is Education
by Objectives (EBO) has not been
successfully implemented because of the following
factors:
The absence of a national curriculum
administered by the Ministry of Education
is a matter of great concern.
The teacher is supposed to formulate
his/her own curriculum. The problem
is that a majority of teachers are not
sufficiently trained to do that.
The closure of teachers training colleges
was a major mistake which
created the greatest obstacle to the
improvement of the quality of education
in South Africa. This is because
the teacher is the key resource in
any education system.
The training of teachers lacks emphasis
on the practical training element.
The model of training teachers
ought to be service training which is
not currently the case.
The above are just but some of the notable
problems that have led to the current state
of affairs in the South African educational
system.
only country that has a register for teachers
and a register for pupils. This is because the
teachers are unlikely to turn up for duty.
The other problem is that educational administrators
and managers are unionized,
which makes it difficult for them to discipline
the teachers that report to them, as they are
their union colleagues. There is a possibility
that the teacher could be senior in the union.
Students in the secondary schools are
also unionized, which comes with its own
problems.
There is a huge problem of students in South
African Model B schools especially having
access to dangerous weapons such as guns
and knives as well as drugs which makes it
very difficult for teachers to discipline them.
There are a lot of reported cases where students
were found in possession of either
drugs or dangerous weapons. This indiscipline
perpetuates more indiscipline as teachers
and administrators end not fully enforcing
school rules for fear for their lives.
The solution to most of these challenges that
the nation currently faces, lie in restructuring
the education system. For example, the
need to incorporate the STEM model of education,
just like China or Zimbabwe who
have achieved milestones. This model as previously
alluded to, focuses on Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics. This
will ensure the country gets more natives in
careers and professions that have a direct
bearing on the development of the economy.
The set standards of educational achievement
ought to be high, in fact the pass mark
should be at least 50%.
In addition to the above issues, the set standards
of education are very low, for example
the pass mark is 35%. For South Africa to be
competitive, its education needs to be better
or at par with the rest of the world.
It is important to note that South Africa is the
There is also a need to re-establish Teachers’
colleges that are dedicated to the training
of teachers, which can be satellite campuses
of universities. The reason for this is that
there are a lot more skills teachers need to
be equipped with than just the subject they
should teach.
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Educational managers and administrators should not
be allowed to be members of a union as this conflict
with the mandate of delivering every child’s right,
education.
The future lies with the young, and a brighter future is
dependent on the training and equipping of these
young ones with the right education. The world is becoming
more and more competitive by the day and
as a nation we need to remain competitive by continually
improving and shaping our skills to suit the current
conditions. The education debate is one that
needs to be out there and open. We need to talk
about it and truthfully.
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INTIMACY
A friend of mine, who is very passionate
about youth, went to one township while
busy with one of her humanitarian projects.
At the time she was pregnant with her first
child. As she drives by a high school, one of
the students coming out of the school was
shouting to another student across the road
asking her for a condom. She tells the other
one that she needs ‘to go and get laid’ so
she must lend her a condom. My friend obviously
disturbed by this very loud conversation
between two high school girls, stops her car
and gets out to reprimand the girl. She tells
her how she should respect herself enough
to at least finish her education before she allows
herself to be a sexual vessel. The girl responds
to her by saying, “Just because you
got yourself pregnant doesn’t mean I am stupid
enough to get myself pregnant”, and
that she must mind her own business. Startled
by the response she indeed decides to mind
her own business and left.
Whether you turn on the television to watch
an episode of the local drama series or the
music channel to watch music videos, you
are greeted by obscene scenes or young
girls and/or women parading their naked
bodies. The magazines and the well-known
celebrities take pride in continuously posting
pictures of their naked selves. The world has
+ YOUTH
CORNER
made it a norm to dress almost nothing and
walk through the streets in the name of being
‘hot’ or ‘cool’. The media sponsors and
motivates this kind of dress sense. Sex is
made cool and something exciting enough
to want to try out. Your friends are doing it
and are boasting to you of how they have
now grown to being women. Young men
don’t want to be involved with you because
you are a virgin. You find that being a virgin
is now taboo and end up feeling the pressure
of giving it up.
With all this happening and as a
young person with a life seriously
influenced by what the television
portrays as cool or hot, you are
bound to want to keep up with
the trends and follow suit. However,
the decisions you make impact
your life and not the life of
those on television or your friends.
How you allow yourself to be influenced
by what the world or
friends tell you determines how
much you value yourself and your
future.
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Intimacy, God condoned as a vehicle of
creating lives. However, the enemy uses it as
a vehicle for spiritual transfer and for destroying
destinies. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
because of sexual immorality. What
He had allowed as something to promote
oneness between those that are married,
Sodom and Gomorrah turned it into a filthy
practise. It is an immoral practise to involve
yourself in sexual relations whilst unmarried,
and every sin carries a price, and for sexual
relations outside of marriage has the risk of
spiritual transfer.
There is a lot more that goes on in the spiritual
realm when you are involved in a sexual
practise. The world shows what you may
deem fun and exciting, but it does not show
you what happens in the spiritual realm. The
picture that is painted regarding HIV and
STDs is the same picture you should have regarding
spiritual transfer. With HIV and STDs,
you can go to the clinic and get medication.
However, with spiritual transfer you need Divine
intervention to rid you of all those spirits
you would have acquired.
As an individual you become a hub that
hosts. You are not only sleeping with whoever
you are sleeping with, but with whoever
they have slept with and the chain is endless.
When you are involved intimately, you connect
spiritually. When you connect spiritually
you tap into each other’s spiritual realms and
share whatever is accessible there. In most
cases it is the bad that is easily sharable. With
all that acquisition you are changing the direction
of the path you are in and possibly
selling out your destiny to the enemy for
‘fun’.
YOUTH CORNER
God has ordained for ministry.
Therefore, He has also
anointed it. It is covered from
all sorts of spirits. Though
sometimes not completely
but according to God’s allowance
for a purpose.
Hence it is recommended to
be involved in sex only when
you are married, because
then you are covered under
God’s anointing.
Yes, it maybe taboo nowadays
to be a virgin. Yes, you
may seem backwards and
not in tune with the real
world. Yes, you may not fit in
with the school clan or friends
of yours that are doing it, but
you have a better secure future
than them. While they will
be focusing on the present,
focus on what you are building
for tomorrow.
A marriage however, is no longer two people.
It is two people joined together as one
to form a unity (Matt 19:5), a unity that
It all starts with a choice!
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HEALTH
THE DANIEL FAST
The Daniel Fast is slowly making its
mark in the diet world. While others
use it purely for fasting, others
use it for health and weight management.
One becomes a vegan
for 21 days. Because it eliminates
sugar and fat completely it
proves to be very effective for
weight management, but hard to
maintain.
It is a biblically based partial fast
referenced in the Bible, particularly
in two sections of the Book of
Daniel:
Daniel 1:12, which states,
“Please test your servants for ten
days, and let them give us vegetables
[pulses] to eat and water
to drink.”
Daniel 10: 1-2, which says, “In
those days I, Daniel, was mourning
three full weeks. I ate no
pleasant food, no meat or wine
came into my mouth, nor did I
anoint myself at all, till three
whole weeks were fulfilled.”
According to our understanding
of the Hebrew definition of
“pulse” that was used in the verse
for vegetables can actually mean
a range of foods.
Daniel Fast Food List of what you
are allowed to eat:
BEVERAGES
Water only-must be purified/filtered
and spring or distilled water is best.
Homemade Almond milk, coconut water,
coconut milk and vegetable juice
VEGETABLES
Fresh or cooked
May be frozen and cooked but not
canned
FRUITS (consume in moderation 1-3 servings
daily)
Fresh and cooked
May be dried like raisins or apricots
(no sulphites or added oils or sweeteners)
May be frozen but not canned
WHOLE GRAINS (consume in moderation
and ideally sprouted)
Brown Rice, Quinoa, Millet, Amaranth,
Buckwheat, Barley cooked in water
No Wheat, Ezekiel bread, others bread,
flours,
or pasta
BEANS & LEGUMES (consume in moderation)
Dried and cooked in water
May be consumed from can as long as
no salt or other additives are contained
and the only ingredients are beans and
water
NUTS & SEEDS (sprouted are best)
Raw, sprouted or dry roasted (no salt
added)
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BEAUTY
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FASHION
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QUICK MEAL
CLOVER SMOKEY HADDOCK PIE
Our chef of Choice is the bubbly Clement Pedro, resident chef of the Afternoon express TV
show, airing daily on SABC 3. This is one of the recipes prepared on the show
Ingredients
3 smoked haddock fillets
4 cups of Clover milk
4T butter
4T flour
2T mustard powder
4T roughly chopped parsley
For the aromatics:
2T Clover butter
1T Olive Pride extra virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
2 leeks, chopped and washed
5 cloves of garlic
2 carrots, peeled and thinly sliced
1/2 small head of broccoli
For the topping: combined
2T Clover butter
1TOlive Pride extra virgin olive oil
4 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped
2 cups breadcrumbs
Method
Combine the milk and haddock together in a pot and heat
over a medium heat until the fish begins flake. Gently
remove the fish and peel away the skin on the underside.
Mix the butter and flour together to form a paste before
stirring into flavored milk, adding a little to the milk at a
time and letting it thicken before adding more. Flake the
fish into the sauce and taste before seasoning salt and
freshly ground black pepper. Cover the dish with cling
wrap and set aside. In a separate pot cook off the leeks
butter and oil over a medium heat until completely softened.
Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper
before adding the garlic, carrots and broccoli.
Return the fish and sauce to a medium heat with the aromatics
added in. Add the mustard powder and parsley
and mix through. Add the mixture to a roasting dish and
top with the breadcrumb topping and bake in the oven
for 35 minutes at 180C or until bubbling and the topping
is golden brown.
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SONG OF NOTE
FILL ME UP
By Tasha Cobbs
You provide the fire
I'll provide the sacrifice
You provide the spirit
I will open up inside
{Repeat}
Fill me up God
Fill me up God
Fill me up God
Fill me up
You provide the fire
I'll provide the sacrifice
You provide the spirit
I will open up inside
{Repeat}
Fill me up God
Fill me up God
Fill me up God
Fill me up
{"I wanna run over"
"I gotta run over"}
Fill me up
Until I overflow
I wanna run over
I wanna run over
Fill me up
Until I overflow
I wanna run over
I wanna run over
*************
Fill me up
Until I overflow
I wanna run over
I wanna run over
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MOVIE REVIEW
Chatur who is a very competitive student. Although
he has love for engineering, it is more
about the success and the lifestyle that
comes with it that makes him attracted to the
field of engineering.
3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian coming of
age comedy-drama film
Co-written, edited, and directed by Rajkumar
Hirani
Produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.
Abhijat Joshi wrote the screenplay.
It was inspired by the novel Five Point Someone
by Chetan Bhagat. [4] The film stars Aamir
Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan,
Sharman Joshi, Omi Vaidya, Parikshit
Sahni, and Boman Irani.
In this movie we see a child being born from
a family that has a dream of him being an
engineer. While the father carried this dream,
he later realised that his son is not as mentally
equipped to be an engineer but refuses to let
go of it. In his luck, one of his gardeners, an
orphan is found wondering at school from
class to class performing wonders in terms of
school work. With this information received
from the school principal, the father uses the
boy to do work for his son all the way to college.
He graduates as an engineer using the
son’s name. The son becomes an engineer.
This happens with another son from another
family. He wants to be a photographer but
the father wants him to be an engineer. He
finds himself studying engineering to please
the father.
We see 4 different characters in this movie.
A character of Raju that only has a dream to
take out his family from the state of financial
lack and get his sick father healing. Engineering
seems to be the most successful field
known in the country to grant one a better
lifestyle.
A character of Farhan that is only studying
engineering to please his father
A character of Rancho a very bright young
man that is studying engineering for someone
else, only to later become a successful and
well known scientist.
The different characters in this movie represent
a different number of young people that
fall into the same traps while trying to climb
the career ladder. Studying certain courses
mostly for the sake of others or because of
what a career in that certain field offers.
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PROMOTION
Namibia,
a country in southwest Africa, is distinguished
by the Namib Desert along its Atlantic
Ocean coast. The country is home to diverse
wildlife, including a significant cheetah
population. The capital, Windhoek, and
coastal town Swakopmund contain German
colonial-era buildings such as Windhoek's
Christuskirche, built in 1907. In the north, Etosha
National Park’s salt pan draws game including
rhinos and giraffes.
Capital: Windhoek
Currencies: South African rand, Namibian
dollar
Namibia is one of the youngest countries in
Africa. It only got independence from South
African rule on March 21, 1990. It is currently
the 3rd youngest country in Africa. Since
2015 the president is Hage Geingob, only the
third president since Namibia gained independence.
With a population of nearly 2,4 million and a
land mass of about 825000 km2, Namibia is
the second least densely populated sovereign
country in the world, after Mongolia.
However, when driving around in the Southern
part of Namibia, it feels like there is no
one around at all. Most of the population
lives in the central and northern part of the
country. The advantage with this lack of human
habitation is that you come across incredible,
breathtaking scenery and landscapes.
The Namib desert stretches along the Namibian
coast all the way up to Angola. It is estimated
that the area has been dry for at
least 55 million years, making it the oldest desert
in the world. The Namib is a very inhospitable
area, with sand dunes near the coast
and gravel plains with mountain outcrops
more inland making it one of the least populated
areas in the world. It is also the only desert
in the world where you can find large
mammals like elephants, rhinos, lions and giraffes.
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PROMOTION
The Fish River Canyon is the oldest canyon in
the world, it is also the worlds second largest.
The Canyon is over 500 million years old. The
Canyon was formed over 500 million years
ago due to the collapse of the valley floor. It
was further formed by water and wind erosion.
It is located in the southern part of the
country, not that far from the South african
border. I have been able to visit the Fish River
Canyon multiple times and every time the
scenery was breathtaking with a very tranquil
atmosphere.
The sand dunes of Sossusvlei in the Namib
desert are some of the highest dunes in the
world. Dune 7 is the highest in the area
measuring 383 meters. The most climbed one
is Dune 45. Most people visiting Sossusvlei will
climb Dune 45 to enjoy a spectacular sunrise.
It is a challenging climb, especially early
morning before sunrise, but really worthwhile.
The main characteristic about the dunes in
Sossusvlei is their red colour, caused by the
presence of tiny iron ore particles that oxidised
over time.
Namibia is that the country is home to two
large but very distinct deserts,
the Namib desert and the Kalahari desert.
They each have a different look and geological
structure. The Kalahari desert is semi
arid sandy desert, covering parts of Namibia,
South Africa and Botswana. It does get
slightly more rainfall than the Namib desert
and therefore attracts a large variety of wildlife
and supports different types of vegetation.
Even though Namibia has a very small population,
the country is home to 13 different
ethnic groups. The Ovambo group represents
nearly half the population. The most famous
ethnic group are the Himba people, a
semi nomadic tribe living in the north eastern
part of the country. The Himba people still
live according to traditional beliefs and culture
and especially the woman are known
for rubbing their skin with red ochre. The
Himba villages are open for tourists to visit
and get to know their culture. Another tribe
you will see often is the Herero, where the
woman wear the beautiful and colourful victorian
dresses. To visit a Himba village should
be on everyone’s list of things to do in Namibia
Even when a variety of languages are spoken
amongst the different tribes and people,
English is the only official language.
When travelling in Namibia, you will hear it
pretty widely spoken, although in many areas
people will also speak German and Afrikaans.
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LAST WORD
UNITY
“How good and how pleasant it would be, before God and man.
To see the unification of all Africans”
-Bob Marley
Someone once said that for one to pray effectively, meaning to see results of the prayers they
have to practice. First you pray for yourself and you see results. That elevates you to praying
for your family and see results. Then you pray for others and you see results. From there it is
for the city, country and eventually the world. Bob Marley’s wish was to see a unified Africa.
Nothing is impossible with God. Prayer warriors have to pray for this to happen as it is not just
Bob Marley’s dream but a necessity. God our Lord makes the impossible possible. However, for
one to be able to focus on praying for the unification of something as broad as the continent,
they have to start with the unification in their households and with their families.
The bible says that God blesses where there is unity. How difficult it is to maintain unity under
depressing circumstances. How difficult it is to maintain unity where there is constant fighting
and disagreement. How then do we maintain unity when we are unable to agree on the simplest
of things? The answer is God. What is impossible with men is possible with God. The simplest
thing you can do is to pray to the Almighty to grant you strength and sound mind to be able to
maintain peace first within self, then within the household. That even through disagreements
one is able to exercise self control. Only God can make that happen, for men on their own can
be controlled by the loud noise of the flesh taking over. We have to clothe ourselves with Jesus
all the time.
Psalm 133
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head,
that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard:
that went down to the skirts of his garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon,
and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion:
for there the Lord commanded the blessing,
even life for evermore.
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