The Big Same Sex Marriage Lie
Same-sex marriage will never be widely accepted in America for a simple reason: It’s based on a lie. But don’t take my word on this; leading LGBT scholars and activists say as much.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Do You Inquire of the LORD Before You Do Anything?
15 After David had constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. 2 Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister before him forever.”
3 David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to the place he had prepared for it. 4 He called together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:
5 From the descendants of Kohath,
Uriel the leader and 120 relatives;
6 from the descendants of Merari,
Asaiah the leader and 220 relatives;
7 from the descendants of Gershon,
Joel the leader and 130 relatives;
8 from the descendants of Elizaphan,
Shemaiah the leader and 200 relatives;
9 from the descendants of Hebron,
Eliel the leader and 80 relatives;
10 from the descendants of Uzziel,
Amminadab the leader and 112 relatives.
15 After David had constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. 2 Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister before him forever.”
3 David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to the place he had prepared for it. 4 He called together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:
5 From the descendants of Kohath,
Uriel the leader and 120 relatives;
6 from the descendants of Merari,
Asaiah the leader and 220 relatives;
7 from the descendants of Gershon,
Joel the leader and 130 relatives;
8 from the descendants of Elizaphan,
Shemaiah the leader and 200 relatives;
9 from the descendants of Hebron,
Eliel the leader and 80 relatives;
10 from the descendants of Uzziel,
Amminadab the leader and 112 relatives.
The priests symbolically separated themselves from sin and evil. This was done by washing themselves and their clothing in a special ceremony - numbers 8:5-8. While we are not required to t carry out this ceremony today, we can purify ourselves by reading God's word and preparing our hearts to participate iN worship.
God has ordained natural ways governed by laws and principles of how everything should be done. Therefore, we have to inquire of the LORD how we should go about it all, everything. I have regretted in my life why I never inquired of LORD how I should gO about everything that didn't work out in my life. Yet the Spirit would prod me and I would not take heed, not listen!
If he created us in His own image, he created everything on earth and outside earth, in heaven, wouldn't he know what would be beneficial to me?
This time David saw tO it that the Levites carried the Ark -Numbers 4:5-15. We may not fully understand the reason behind God's instructions but we do know that His wisdom is complete and His judgement infallible. The way to know God's instructions is to know his Word. But just as children do not understand the reasons for all their parents' instructions until they are older, we may not understand all of God's reasons in this life. it is far better to obey God's first, and then discover the reasons. We are Nev free to disobey God just because we don't understand.
References: Some notes from the NIV Life Application Study Bible.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
She Who Was Said to be Barren is in Her Sixth Month
The Birth of Jesus Foretold
26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail.”38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.Luke 2
Each one of us may have barren areas in our lives that have failed to conceive, that have failed to be fruitful, that have failed to multiply. Yet God said, "Go be fruitful and multiply, Genesis 1
Barrenness or failing to conceive is a curse. It is not of God. Barrenness may be physiological, physical, mental, financial, social, in relationships, or even spiritual.
God is saying to you and me today like the Angel told Mary that "she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month." For nothing is impossible with God. No word from God will fail. that you, that me is with child. Is pregnant. Is bearing good news of a child. Is life giving.
What are your circumstances right now? "Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age,..." Is your situation age, are your circumstanced limited by things natural, by distance, by location not within reach? by a low school education? By a low self esteem?
By your past? By your lineage? By your blood line? By your heritage?
What is it that is keeping you from conceiving your God given plans, desires, dreams and hopes He has put in your heart?
What have people said so far that have limited you from conceiving?
do you believe what the word of God says?
do you believe what the word of God says?
the Angel told Mary an accompanying encouragement to emphasize what God can do and what God had done so she could believe. so she could not doubt. Elizabeth knew her relative of course. Probably her Jajja.
First of all, Not only was Elizabeth old in age, past the years or period where women conceive babies, but she was also known to be barren, that she could not conceive. It was common knowledge.
So what is common knowledge about you? What have people said about you? What have they spoken about you, maybe negatively?
2. For God to be magnified, He has to turn around completely a situation that is commonly known. For God to be magnified He has to turn upside down a negative circumstance into a positive one that is commonly known. That people have spoken about and have given up for you. There should be witnesses to your situation.
There should be witnesses to your circumstance. So that there is no doubt as to who change your situation, your circumstance.
When natural laws and natural principles have reached their limit. Then God who made them is the only one who can bypass them for he is Supreme in all the Earth and heaven. And God delight in changing our circumstances ans situations for the better if only we could trust Him totally. If only we could leave everything to him in His hands to solve. He loves us so much that he has given us free will. He does not coerce us, he does not force us. Never. For God loves us so much to give us freedom of choice to work with Him. God is the Supreme Aristocrat, King of kings, Lord of lords, God of gods.
Why do we find it so hard to trust in God with all our hearts and mind? With all our strength? To love Him with all our hearts, all our strengths, all our minds, and all who we are? Yet we put all our trust in the created who can make mistakes? Yet we give our hearts, our minds, our strengths, and love those who have no perfect love? those who betray us again and again?
So where do you stand? Where are you?
Today you may realise that you who was barren physiologically, medically, financially, socially - could not keep any relationship whether relatives, friends or wife or husband for long, being single for a long time, no marriage around the corner, married but divorced or separated, mentally - could not achieve the heights you have been reaching for - bagamba mbu tolina magezi, mbu oli musiru; or even spiritual - oyo tayinza kulokoka, that you who could not conceive, but you are already pregnant with you miracle. For there is nothing impossible with God. For no word from God will ever fail.
3. Are you ready to receive God's angel today and hear God's word for you?
Any idea to be birthed, it has to be conceived first, to be kept in the womb for security, nurture, warmth, protection, formation of parts - limbs and organs to make a whole. So when it is birthed, it is truly the one. No one can mistake it. It is a whole. A child conceived in her mother's womb in not recognisable at about three months. But the DNA is complete, the genes are complete, the sex is complete and so much more. In the Kingdom of God, this child is already known by God like He told Jeremiah when He called him that He knew him even before he was conceived in his mother's womb? Jeremiah 1.
4. Protect your conception. Honour it for it is from God. Respect it. Give thanks to God and magnify Him.
Monday, December 31, 2012
I Will Gather You Up From All the Nations And Bring You Home Again To Your Land
Obubaka bwomwaka 2013
Ekyabalamuzi 4:4-9
New International
Version (©1984)
"'For I will
take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries
and bring you back into your own land.
New Living
Translation (©2007)
For I will gather
you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your land.
English Standard
Version (©2001)
I will take you
from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you
into your own land.
New American
Standard Bible (©1995)
"For I will
take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring
you into your own land.
Holman Christian
Standard Bible (©2009)
For I will take
you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will
bring you into your own land.
International
Standard Version (©2012)
I'm going to
remove you from the nations, gather you from all of the territories,
and bring you all back to your own land.
Jeremiah 32:37
Isaiah 43:5 Do
not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the
east and gather you from the west.
Isaiah 43:6 I
will say to the north, 'Give them up!' and to the south, 'Do not hold
them back.' Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of
the earth--
Jeremiah 30:3 The
days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will bring my people
Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I
gave their forefathers to possess,' says the LORD."
'Ennaku zijja,'
Mukama bwalangirira, 'nja kuleeta abantu bange Yisirayiri ne Yuda
(Buganda) okuva mu buwambe era mbakomyewo ku butaka bwenawa ba
jajjaabwe okutwala,' bwayogera Mukama.
Yeremiya 30:3
Ezekyeri 34:13
Ngenda
kubakungaanya okubagya yonna mu mawanga gonna (munsi zonna), era nja
kubaleeta munsi yaabwe. Nja kubasumba ku nsozi za Yisirayiri, mu
biwonvu era ne wonna ku butaka.
Ezekiel 39:27
When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them
from the countries of their enemies, I will show myself holy through
them in the sight of many nations.
New International
Version ©1984 by
Mukama Katonda,
Omutonzi weGgulu n"ensi, Ebirabika n'ebitalabika, abasajja
nabakazi, atuwa obulamu aweebwe ekitiibwa mu Ggulu ne ku nsi.
Yeebale okutuwa Obuganda. Yeebale kukozesa buli omu
omulimu. Yeebale okutugumya wakati mu kutiisibwatiisibwa okwamaanyi
okutasobolwa Mutitiizi yenna. Yeebale okutuwa Eddoboozi netwogerera
abatalina maloboozi, abanku, abaavu, abantu afuuse emombooze mu nsi
yaabwe, abatalina we bassa mitwe kuwummulako. Yeebale okutuyisa mu
bumwa bwengo. Yeebale okutuwonya obusagwa bwemisota gyonna egitubozze
mu ngeri ennyingi. Yeebale okutuyimusa mu mulembe guno. Ebyafaayo byo
tubikoze. Ate tujja kukola nebisingawo awo. Atutumye mu Nsi yaffe
Buganda. Mwebale kuwuliririza Edoboozi lya Katonda nemugonda,
nnemuyitaba, nemukkiriza. Nabbi Isaya (Ess. 6 Oluny. 8), yayitaba
nti, “Nze nzuuno,” nga Mukama abuuza nti, “Naatuma ani?” “Ani
anatugendera yo?” mu Buganda. Omunuunuzi Musa yalina muggo gwokka
gwe yakozesa ebyamagero nalyoka alaga obuwanguzi bwa Katonda
obwamaanyi, ku buyinza bwa Falawo bwonna bwe yalina neggye eddene
lityo. Buganda, Mukama alina Musa ajja, Okuva 3. Mukama Katonda
yamutuma ngawulidde okukaaba kwabantu be. Musa yagamba nti, “Nze
nzuuno.”
Ekyabalamuzi 4:4-9
Debula, Nabbi,
muka Lappidosi, yeyali akulembera Yisirayiri mu biseera ebyo. Embuga
yagikubanga mu Binazi bya Debula wakati wa Ramah ne Beseri mu nsozi za
Efulaimu, era Abayisirayiri gye bagendanga abasalire ensonga zaabwe.
Yatumya Balaki mutabani wa Abinowamu owe Kedesi mu Nafutali era
namugamba nti, “Mukama, Katonda wa Yisirayiri akulagira ati,
“Genda, otwale abasajja omutwalo gumu abe nafutali ne Zebuluni
obakulembere ku Lusozi Tabori. Nze nja kukulembera Sisera, omuduumizi
w'eggye lya Yabini, namagaali ge n'abajaasi be ku Mugga Kisoni era
mubawe mu ngalo zammwe,”
Balaki namugamba
nti, “Bwonagenda nange, nange nja kugenda; naye bwotogende nange,
nange sijja kugenda.”
“Mazima nja
kugenda naawe” Debula bwe yagamba.
“But because of
the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord
will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went
with Barak to Kedesh. 10 There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali,
and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up
with him.
Anakulemberamu
Buganda ajja kuba nga ssi yasuubirwa.
Mukama nalagira
Musa okugamba Alooni ne batabani be okukozesa ebigambo bino okuwa
omukisa abantu ba Yisirayiri (Buganda):
Mukama abawe
omukisa era abamalire ebyetaago byammwe;
Mukama abalage
ekisa kye nokubeerwa kwe;
Mukama
abatunuulize obuganzi awamu nemirembe.
Era Mukama
nagamba nti, “Bwebalilangirira Erinnya lyange ngomukisa ku bantu ba
Yisirayiri, nange ndibawa omukisa.
Okubala 6:23-26
Kale kibeere
bwekityo nga bwagamba.
Mu Linnya lya
Yesu Kristo.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
I Will Gather You From All Nations
Ezekiel 36:24-38 (New International Version)
24 " 'For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. 28 You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you. 30 I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine. 31 Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices.32 I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign LORD. Be ashamed and disgraced for your conduct, O house of Israel! 33 " 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt. 34 The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it. 35 They will say, "This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited."36 Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the LORD have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.' 37"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Once again I will yield to the plea of the house of Israel and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep, 38 as numerous as the flocks for offerings at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts. So will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Abaganda tuddayo ewaffe. Mugume emitima.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas 2012
Christmas 2012
1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
3 And everyone went to their own town to register.
4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.
5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born,
7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
Chapter 2
There was no room for Him.
Do you have room for him?
Jesus the Christ was born in a manger in Bethlehem of Judea.
Joseph and Mary, who was heavy with child but all the rooms at the inn were taken.
It was such a time as this and God knew exactly what time he wanted His Son to be born.
He knew that there would be a Census and people all over had to go home and be registered in their ancestral home. So Jesus had to be registered as a Jew and as a son of David's house.
In this world we have many rooms for everything that knocks on the door of our heart, or even that which simply barges in.
Will you have room for him today?
People we have given room in our hearts have hurt us, betrayed us, violated us, disrespected us, belittled us, called us names of everything inhuman and immoral, abused us,
yet we still hang on to them.
Yet Jesus is the Prince of Peace, the Early rising Sun, akasana akaberyeberye.
The rock of ages,
He will sweep away the chaff in your life for he is Holy, he is pure, He is gentle,
He is The Way, the truth and the Life.
No one comes to the Father, to God except through Him.
So who holds your heart?
What holds your heart ?
Since we are all travellers in this world, After this journey where will you be?
For Jesus said that, in my Father's house there are many rooms.
Ebyensi eno bisusunku na birerya.
Temusookanga kunoonya bisusunku na birerya, oliba oli awo mangwago nebigwaawo nebibgwaawo.
Mwe musookenga okunoonya bwakabaka bwa Katonda.
Tebugwaawo, Tebugwaawo.
O Night Divine.
O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining.
Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.
Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices!
O night divine, the night when Christ was born;
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!
http://http://www.carols.org.uk/ba32-o-holy-night.htm
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