Restoration Is At Your Doorstep: Watch Carefully! Listen Attentively!

 “In that day “I will restore David’s fallen shelter— I will repair its broken walls and restore its ruins— and will rebuild it as it used to be,..."
Amos 9:10-12 


Restore -To bring back to an original condition, a former or original state.


Shelter/ - Something that provides cover or protection, as from the weather.
 Breaches - An opening, a tear, or a rupture.


Repair - To restore to sound condition after damage.


God has promised to restore our possessions, our prosperity and our wealth that has been stolen away, that has been depleted - holes punched out in our purses, wallets, savings, bank accounts, professions we had, professions that never reached their fullness, careers made redundant, careers cut off in birthstage or midstage. 
Mental abilities/ faculties to excel, stunted growth, stunted development, world systems -educational, institutional, governments, doctrines, principles. 


For God created us with no blemish, no spot or wrinkle in our genes and chemical or biological makeup. But sin entered us right from birth, not from creation, maybe from conception as humans, then genes got distorted accordingly as from the sins our ancestors and parents committed. Since God has set natural laws, physical laws, and spiritual laws, as well as principles. Any flaw, any deviation or any break results in a side effect. It is like a ripple effect you may see in water or in a river. "I am a jealous God, I will punish the sins up to the fourth generation..."  
Our enterpreneurial abilities to venture, our capabilities for stable marriages. Marriages will be repaired, they will be restored, they will be rebuilt as God intended them to be. "Therefore shall a man leave his mother and father and cleave/cling to his wife, and they shall become one..." Genesis. Different yet complementary. Different yet equal. With true intimacy. No more divorce for there will be listening to each other. Giving honour and respect to one another. Patient and kind, giving allowance for everything. Seeing the man, the husband as the "image of God - male" and the woman, the wife as the "image of God - female".  


For stable friendships, for stable relationships, reaching out to each other for giving of ourselves unselfishly and meeting the needs of others.  


For stable blood ties with our families and relatives, for they are God ordained for us to live in harmony with one another, to uplift and encourage each other. For in numbers we are stronger, we are happier and we take pride in. We shall be gathered to one another, from East and West, North and South. We will listen to each other and respect one another for we shall see the image of God in one another. 


Health that has been depleted by all sorts of diseases, - life eating bacteria, viruses, organisms. 


Warped magnetic fields and electrical emissions from electrical and electronics, those that we use on a daily basis like cell / mobile phones, televisions, radios, cameras, desktop computers, laptops; medical, educational, recreational, entertainment.
Solar and other cosmic emissions, illnesses that have been in hibernation, mutants, distortions by people through ignorance or wickedness, such as biological weapons, nuclear weapons, atomic weapons, infirmities, disabilities. 


To restore is to bring back to the original state of something.


God has promised us to rebuild our lives as he intended them to be for God (Elohim- Hebrew plural) "created us in their own image, male and female..." and put everything created under our management or administration. Genesis 1:26-28. Since our fall as human beings, creation, things created for our own use, instead have used us!  Created for our own consumption, instead have consumed us!  Created for our own good, instead have turned against us! "He knew us even before we were conceived in our mother's womb!" Jeremiah 


Above all, He will restore us to Himself so that we may again enjoy a full fellowship, a friendship, and a full holy communion with Him.
He will rebuild His relationship with us as His Daugthers and Sons again! That relationship is divine. It is spiritual. Through Jesus, the Christ, His own Son, we have been adopted. Jesus is our Brother, His first born creation. 
God, the King of kings, we shall be His princesses and princes destined to reign with him for eternity, all ages! 
We are royal.
We are priests, with Jesus, our High Priest. "We are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, brought into His wonderful Light from the deep darkness" Peter.

Voices of Destiny shouts out from inner city - Nightly News - Making a Difference - msnbc.com

Voices of Destiny shouts out from inner city - Nightly News - Making a Difference - msnbc.com

Official Google Africa Blog: How volunteer translators impact local communities: A Ugandan case study

Official Google Africa Blog: How volunteer translators impact local communities: A Ugandan case study

BibleGateway.com - About the Bible Gateway searchable online Bible.

BibleGateway.com - About the Bible Gateway searchable online Bible.

What it is

The Bible Gateway is a tool for reading and researching scripture online -- all in the language or translation of your choice! It provides advanced searching capabilities, which allow readers to find and compare particular passages in scripture based on keywords, phrases, or scripture reference.
You can view a complete list of available Bible versions and translations. To access some of the Bible Gateway's other features (a Verse of the Day widget, Bible commentaries, audio Bibles, and more), use the navigation menu on the left.

History

The Bible Gateway was first started in 1993 by Nick Hengeveld who was attending Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI at the time. In 1995 Nick became the first webmaster at Gospelcom.net, now Gospel.com. He brought the Bible Gateway with him, and for 13 years the Bible Gateway has been a favorite online resource. Today, the Bible Gateway team continues to add new translations, languages, and functionality to the site.
The Bible Gateway is extremely grateful to many publishers and Christian organizations that have contributed their many Bible resources and translations for use in the Bible Gateway, including Gospel.com community memberssuch as Biblica and The Lockman Foundation.

I am forever grateful for these wonderful tools where we can instantly access the Bible, God's Holy Word, and use to advance God's Kingdom. I think I have used it for four years as I instantly quote and in any translation. May God bless Nick for having embraced the vision and those who agreed to work with him.
Rev. Jessica Nakawombe, Los Angeles, Dec. 10, 2010

What Is Holy Communion?

A man and a woman take off their clothes so as to have a communion. I am talking about a matrimonial communion where they have been married either by the law of the land in civil union, or the church. They get ready to become one. Indeed they come in a conjugal bond, in a sexual union. They become one in body, mind and soul. That's when you hear of a soul mate. They reach a climax and sexual orgasm occurs simultaneously. It is a sweet and holy act that is fulfilling. It is ecstatic. No words can explain that. Before they have a union, they have eyes and ears only for each other. They have a longing for each other, a deep desire. So they are drawn towards each other.
So don't be dismayed/appalled when Christ calls the Church His Bride. The Church, His bride shall be caught up with Him at the Rapture.


God wants holy communion with us His children, His creation. More than a physical communion of a man and a woman. More than the breaking or eating of bread. More than the drinking of the wine, (of this you shall remember Me) 1 Corinthians 11:26. For God is Spirit and those who worship Him, worship Him in spirit and truth – John 4:20-24.


We should have eyes only for God. We should desire Him as the deer pants for the water brook, so my soul longs for Him. Psalm 42:1-2


Song; You alone are my heart's desire... You are the real joy giver and the apple of my eye. (Martin Nystrom, 1984 Maranatha Music)


When we have shut out everything, our worldly desires, our children, our parents, our relatives, our friends, our jobs, our businesses, our houses, our debts, our fears, our worries, our concerns, our cars, our plans, then we are ready for Him. Since the Lord our God is One, and a jealous God, Exodus
20:4-5. He desires us only for Himself. Then He may approach us when we are ready for Him, and have sweet communion. And have sweet fellowship. It is ecstatic, beyond words, beyond description. True ecstasy was designed in heaven. Since we are in our natural and carnal form, ecstasy is for a moment.  ...now we can see in part...then we will see in full. (1 Corinthians. 13:10, 12)

However, we cannot forget the moment, that experience! It is indelibly marked in our memories, in our psyche. It is like a laser image, not erasable. The more we make ourselves available to God, the more He will reveal Himself to us. … if you seek me with all your heart, then you shall find Me...Deuteronomy 4:29, Jeremiah 29:13. The more He will show us who he truly is, the Truth, the Life and the Way, John 14:6. The more we will come to know Him. The more we will desire to be like Him. The more we will see and know God as Abba, our Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, here on earth as it is in heaven...Matthew 6:9. All the saints casting down their golden crowns and the angels bow down a worship Him…Isaiah 6:3. Hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy...


God will delight in us. He will shower us with His blessings. Abraham, David, Solomon, the nameless women and others. Since He loved us before we loved Him, John 3:16, how much more will he love us when we know Him?

God Breaks Down Gates of Bronze

"This is what the LORD says to His anointed, 

       to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of 

       to subdue nations before him (Jessica) 

       and to strip kings of their armor, 

       to open doors before him (Jessica)

       so that gates will not be shut:

 I will go before you 

       and will level the mountains; 

       I will break down gates of bronze 

       and cut through bars of iron.

 I will give you the treasures of darkness, 

       riches stored in secret places, 

       so that you may know that I am the LORD, 

       the God of Israel, who summons you by name." 

(Isaiah 45:1-3)

It is amazing! After many years of so much moving, I kept some of my belongings at a Church. They were so kind my property was there for about 2 years or even more. At times  I would be so tired and so weak that my private documents were just left there for all to see! Just on Tuesday, September 13, 2010, the Church had emailed me the previous week that they needed the room in less than two weeks so I had to move my things or else they would be donated to the Salvation Army.I was so tired after working the graveyard - night shift for over a month. I had to act swiftly. I went and looked at some boxes that were open. I was amazed! There were so many folders that contained personal information from 2001 to 2002 in another state I had lived in. It was there for everyone who wanted to see or use it in a malicious way. Partly they had not been destroyed since I was moving so much. Whenever I had planned to take care of them, i would either be packing them again or too tired to look at them. That became a pattern for me for over five years.


Lesson here is that God cares so much about us to the littlest details. There had come a point in my life where I did not care who got hold of those documents. I had been beaten down so much that I had given up. I did not care about tomorrow. I was just living one day at a time. "Amazing love how can it be that Jesus would die for me and care so much for me! As I write this, I am just shedding tears of joy.
Like Israel Houghton, "I am a friend of God and He calls me friend."  "Is it true that You are thinking of me, how You love me, Its amazing!"


Looking through those papers, I have been shredding them in these two days. God know me so much and loves me so much that he knew that I did not want my stuff to just be in the public arena of trash bins. I am amazed that after all these years I have been able to shred them as I wished so.


God reminded me that he was breaking down the prison walls that the our Enemy, the Devil, Satan had kept me in.

 "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10)

My joy had been stolen, my blessings had been stolen, my dreams had been stolen, my career had been stolen. But Jesus is restoring everything by His power. And restoring them in a new way. For God says, 

"Can't you see, I am doing a new thing. Eyes have never seen. Ears have never heard!" (1 Corinthians 2:9)

Song: Amazing love, how can it be, that my Lord would die for me!....


God's restoration power is so amazing and He does it in his own way. Just keep your eyes open and ears.


Rev. Jessica

419-2 Back to...Where?

Carole comes back to Church after 40 years. This is a miracle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjfMQKW5uoI

Repentance Has Cleansing Power Unlike A Sponge Or Stone

Confession of sin to God, Our Father, and repenting, we bathe in the blood of Jesus Christ. Have you ever spent two or more days without taking a shower or a bath? Say it is summer time and the heat wave is on? Think about it. That is how we are spiritually in the eyes of God. We become so dirty, so unholy that our spirit smells from a distance so that we cannot approach the Holy God. What is surprising, this unholiness, this spiritual dirt is not visible to the natural or naked eye! You may see a good looking man well dressed and well shaven with good smelling after shave, cologne, but deep inside, he may be smelly and rotting! Likewise you may see a beautiful woman and well dressed with perhaps the right make up, right hairstyle and even jewelry. But she may be smelly and rotting inside! That tells you and  that it is quite difficult to know a person's spiritual state just from seeing them. Sometimes you may talk to them and then find out their spiritual state from the language and words they use.

Sometimes it is so obvious for a person's dirt and it is visible to everyone. Dark spots settle on your body wherever there is a folding. Sometimes the stench that is coming from a man or woman is so much that everyone else gets as far away from them. I take buses everyday in Southern California, but there is a certain bus route that has smelly buses because of many homeless, dirty people and drunk people who get on it. Day in, day out, these buses are so smelly, you just have to hold your breath and pray for the end of the route - 25 - 30 minutes!

Sometime we may not even know that there is a smell coming off our bodies, until someone lets us know! my dear Grandmother, Manjeri Mwagale, would say sometimes in my teens that Jessica, today you have a bad smell coming from you. She would ask me to wash my body thoroughly. She recommended some herbs that purge away the smell when used as soap. Remember David in Psalm 51 asked God to purge him with hyssop (Ezov in Hebrew). Until one washes off the dirt with soap and water, perhaps and a sponge or a stone, then cleanliness sets in. While you are taking a bath or shower, you may see so much dirt off your body. I have often wondered about this. Why is this dirt not so visible many times? 

Confession and repentance is needed daily and as often as we realize sin. We wash our hands every time after the bathroom, after contamination, and every before a meal so that we are clean. 

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (Hebrews 4:16)

It is only God, our Father, Most Holy who can show us the spiritual dirt that we cannot see in our lives. Since He is Holy, as we approach Him, our unholiness is magnified, and we can only get near to Him when we confess our sins, repent and ask for His forgiveness.

Luganda Hymn: Luyimba:

Nsanyuse, nsanyuse, Yesu yanaazako ebibi.

Yanjagaza byayagala.

ansanyusa ennaku zonna.

Nsanyuse, nsanyuse, Yesu yanazaako ebibi.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. (1 John 1:17)

Mu musaayi, munaabe, ogubanazaako ebibi.

Rev. Jessica Nakawombe

hyssop family

God Is Driving Out Your Enemies One by One

Conquest of the Land

20"Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
21"Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him.
22"But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
23"For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.
24"You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces.
25"But you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.
26"There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
27"I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28"I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.
29"I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
30"I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land.
31"I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
32"You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
33"They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you." (Exodus 23)

This angel may be in the form of a female. Just be sensitive to the Spirit so that you don't miss your blessing from God. Remember angels are neither male nor female. When they come in human form which we are used to so that we do not run away from them, they may appear as men or women. Many times the Bible has recorded them as men. And many times people have seen women and men they have never seen before who have helped them in times of trouble and danger.
mal'ach (mal'achim) plural in Hebrew (מלאך)
means “messenger,” especially the envoy of a leader or king who communicates the king's wishes and represents the king. God is our King so He sends messengers to us in a form that will not bring fear to us, but whic hwe embrace, for God is Love, full of grace and mercy.

Rev. Jessica

I Shall Restore To You Double The Years The Locusts have Eaten

"I shall restore to you double the years the locusts have eaten." (Joel 2:25) 

That's what God Almighty promises to do for us. To restore, (Hebrew - chayyah; Greek - katartizo). Compare to 1 Peter 5:10
 And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. ¹¹ To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.
Many people especially Christians are living unfulfilled lives since our enemy, Satan, the ruler of this world stole from you and I.
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10)

Satan can kill your life - your motivation. He can destroy your motivation to be productive. Has Satan has destroyed your marriage? Are you struggling, single, separated or divorced?

God wants to return your life to its original or usable and functioning condition.

God has promised to regenerate your health: to give new life to your dreams and new energy to your joy.

God has promised to give you back your finances that the locusts ate. To bring back your wealth that Satan snatched from you its rightful owner!

He has promised to repair, restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken in your psyche, in your mental faculties. To repair the damage to your reputation.

Have you been struggling all along in your life jumping from career to career? Moving from place to place?

God has promised to restore, to bring back into original existence, original use, original function, and original position; "restore law and order"; after a life of disorder, after a life of lawlessness, "reestablish peace in the region"; reestablish peace in your life after living a chaotic life, after a life of confusion. After emotions riding high and low on a roller coaster.

God intends us to have a perfect life but sin has entered in this world with Satan, as the ruler, therefore many things have been broken in our lives. Restoration - the act of restoring something to a satisfactory state or to a previous position. Our finances, our joy, our love, our marriages, our ability to plan intelligently, with knowledge, understanding and wisdom.
restoration - restitution: getting something back again; restitution of what the thief, the Devil, Satan stole to its rightful owner, you and I.
God has promised to restore to its former good condition our ability to see and hear clearly.

When our lives have been restored or reconstructed, we will look exactly like the original! that’s when you hear people saying that, “You changed!”

God has promised to restore, to bring back to a state of health, soundness, and a vigor as well to our jugdement.

The verb form of the root word is shalam and is usually used in the context of making restitution. When a person has caused another to become deficient in some way, such as a loss of livestock, it is the responsibility of the person who created the deficiency to restore what has been taken, lost or stolen. The verb shalam literally means to make whole or complete. The noun shalom has the more literal meaning of being in a state of wholeness or with no deficiency.
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/27_peace.html

Since Satan is evil, he does not restore what he has stolen, killed or destroyed. It is only God Almighty, our Father who can restore.
Restore what has been taken away from you by force, stolen away from you, cheated out of you, plucked from your hands / possession, snatched from you, stealthily taken without your knowledge and without your permission.
Then when you are complete and made whole again as on the day of your creation, you will be able to live in harmony with your political life, social life, cultural identity, mental faculties, psychological state, emotional state and spiritual state.

He has said it. He will do it. Just believe.

The Year 2010 and the Decade are of Triumph and Victory

Our God is a Mighty God, the Holy One of Israel. He does not sleep or slumber. He is Majestic. He is Mighty to save. He is a Great God. He spoke and the heavens, the earth and the waters were. He spoke and separated them. Who can tell the beginning or the end of the earth or the waters? Who can tell the depth of the seas? Who has measured the height of the skies? For no one can. For we are limited in all our thinking and actions. It is only our God who can enable us when He has revealed his knowledge and secrets to us. 
"I will give you the treasures of darkness,
riches stored in secret places,
so that you may know that I am the LORD,
the God of Israel, who summons you by name." (Isaiah 45:3)
For God, our Father in heaven, the Son, Jesus Christ, our Saviour, and the Holy Spirit, our Illuminator, gives knowledge, understanding and wisdom (Sophia, Amagezi)

Rev. Jessica