Honouring God's vessel is a clarion call for the nation

Aug 25, 2018

Uganda’s economy has been on a free fall, the despair in people’s faces is evident.

By Godwin Matsiko Muhwezi

KAMPALA - Looking at what is happening in the nation, the continent and the world over, a careful observer will agree that we are living in interesting times.

Perilous droughts and heat waves are pelting the entire European community, America and Australia and we are farther from finding a nuclear solution or solving the impasse in the Middle East.

Uganda's economy has been on a free fall, the despair in people's faces is evident and it often appears that the government has run out of options.

We are arguably one of the more religious populations in the world and if righteousness exalts a nation, then we should be posting better results on the Richter scale of progress; not quite.

That is not because we have not mastered religion but perhaps we have outdone ourselves and tipped over to modern day Judaism.

It is not the lack of Jesus talk, in fact in some places, that name has been vainly turned into a cuss word.

It is the denial of the power behind the name, and the blatant rejection of His anointing.

We would rather have Jesus, but we do not want Jesus Christ.  We have been so numbed by the provisional relief of religious culture and tradition that we in no mood to receive the cure.

We are in dire need of resuscitation, but we hope to get it on our terms.

There were many widows in the days of Elijah but only one survived the famine, many lepers in the days of Elisha but only Namaan was cured.

When so many thronged Jesus, a woman who touched just a bit of his cloth received her healing.

Thirty-eight hopeless years by a pool can be changed by obedience to a simple instruction.

If you believe that the Lord is the desire of all nations and is the only hope for this perilous age, it is in your best interest and that of the nation to heed His direction.

In that vein, you will realize that for a time, He is held up in glory and requires us to prepare for His return with the help of His Holy Spirit and the fivefold gifts of his anointed vessels.

Not many worry about the salvation gospel in a country like ours because it is common place.

What they contend with is the preaching of a kingdom from above; one that baffles what they have been trained to understand and accept.

Joshua and Caleb were almost lapidated when they told a distraught congregation how the Lord would give them land belonging to seven mighty nations.

A King's chief officer despised the word of Prophet Elisha that the fortunes of their besieged nation would turn in a day.

There were once Pharisees who diligently sought a deliverer but killed Jesus when He showed up. In all cases, the word of the Lord came to pass but the doubters were always cremated in the crossfire.

Today, preachers are shy to preach a Jesus who heals cancer and AIDS because that message does not line up with the god of science.

We refuse to acknowledge that the prosperity of the church and nation lies in His Prophet because we are so entrapped in the death throes of an economic system etched in the curse of Babylon.

For such archfiend doctrines and mausoleum steeples, the writing is on the wall.

I dare say though, that we will not see the Lord until we say, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."

Until we swallow our pride and repent of a culture that dishonors the anointing, it will not work for us. 

When the prostitute who had been rescued by the Lord from the jaws of hell poured expensive perfume on His feet and washed them with her hair, Judas despised not just the action but the extravagance. We know how his story ends.

Honoring the anointing is what is going to restore the fear of God in our generation. It is the only way of receiving God's gift to preserve our nation.

It is the travail against the ensuing secularism and Buddhism that a dead church is extremely powerless against. 

When we esteem the voice of God in our day above the clamoring negativity, we will have exalted the Lord so that he can draw all men to Himself.

We must persevere through the ridicule in establishing the culture of heaven until all the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.

When you hear the clarion call to honor the Lord's sent one, you better board the ark on cue because in this age, there is no garbage time; every minute counts.

The writer is a lawyer and author.

 

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