TEACHING TRANSFORMATION MINISTRY

“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” John 14:7 NKJV On Sunday I was having a conversation with a friend, remembering our high school days and talking of those kids who had very rich and famous fathers but you couldn't tell as they were humble and down to earth, studying hard just like the rest. On the other hand there were the others just like them but who were proud, arrogant,   rude, lazy, puffed up and always putting others down because of where they came from. This morning I remembered this story and found myself asking myself what kind of a son I was, having the Creator and Owner of all that's in the heaven and that's on the earth (Ps. 24:1, 115:16, Hag. 2:8) as my Father. Am I the kind who is always looking down on others and thanking my Father that I’m not like them (especially either the ones not as “strong in faith” as I am, or most notoriously unbelievers), or I’m I the one whose position...

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8‭-‬9 NKJV We are all of different school of thoughts and have our own ways of seeing and doing things. Not many people will handle the same situation in the exact same way; some are wiser, quicker, slower, neater, more methodical etc. It’s a big mistake to expect people see and do things like us. It’s a bigger mistake to think God is of the same school of thought as we are and expect Him to see and do things like us. God knows this temptation will always come and gave us a clarification that His thoughts and ways are not ours, as a matter of fact they are so far apart that we can't calculate exactly how far. One may see this as an obvious truth but it's not, and this is revealed by the way we live. How many times have we told God how we want Him to work and eve...

And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. Colossians 3:23‭-‬24 NKJV How would you live your life if it was just you on earth, with God? How would you do things, pray, fellowship with God etc.? When God saved and called us, He called us as individuals, for a personal relationship with Him and for His specific work. He wants us to continue living with our focus on Him, doing all we do as ones who do it for God. Sadly what happens to us is we get to a point where we start doing things to please men, especially when it comes to service in the body of Christ and our day to day jobs. At the end you find our motivation to serve God and do what He has called or enlisted us to do being affected by the approval or feedback of men, in some cases even comparing ourselves with other fellow-workers. At the end of our race and work we won't stand before our pasto...

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Galatians 6:9 NKJV The Bible is full of people who waited on God for many years, and even today all around us there are many believers who are waiting on God. At the same time it's not that things are blissful as we wait; trials, temptations, persecution and affliction seem to be close by during the waiting period all through, making the waiting period tougher and seemingly unbearable. The good thing is that God tells us of both the importance/purpose of waiting, as well as what to do while we wait. Our Father is very purposeful in all He does. If He’s having us wait, it's for a reason and for our own good. Sometimes it feels as if He's enjoying seeing us suffer but the cross is proof enough that He truly cares for and loves us. How much care do you give something you paid Kes. 10,000 for? Is it the same care you would accord something you paid 1 million shillings for? Our...

And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” I Peter 4:8 NKJV We were made for relationships, to live with each other. In relationships we will be offended and offend each other, but since the goal of the relationship is unity and peace we should never allow these offenses to ruin God-given relationships. God Himself did not allow our sins and offenses to come between us and our relationship with Him. He said that He is the One Who blots out our transgressions for His own sake (Is. 43:25). He chooses to forget all our sins completely (Heb. 8:12), so that we can have a good and healthy relationship with Him. He then tells us how to do this with fellow brethren, how it becomes possible to overlook offenses and forgive sins: love. Solomon was the first to mention this truth and said that hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins (Prov. 10:12). Because God loves us, He was and still is able to forgive us as His love covers all ...

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith... Hebrews 12:1‭-‬2a NKJV When we accepted Christ we entered into a marriage covenant with Him, where He is our Bridegroom and we are the bride. We started a life with Him, leaving our father and mother (whatever we called home), were joined with Him and became one flesh (Gen. 2:24, 1 Cor. 6:17, Eph. 5:30-32). Now that we are in a relationship with Him we should only have eyes for and on Him alone. However, this isn't the kind of picture many of us believers paint as far as our relationship with Jesus is concerned. Many of us have our eyes on where we came from (life before Christ) or on other people's relationship with Christ, and are pressuring Christ to make our relationship like either like that of the peo...

"You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14-16 NKJV The moment we believed in Jesus, believed in the Word that regenerated us, we became sons of light. Since Jesus is the Light of the world, and we were recreated in His image, we're also lights. We don't become lights when we do what the Word says; we are always lights, and when we do what the Word says and proclaim our faith in Jesus we ALLOW our light to shine; when we don't, we hinder our light from shining. Since we're lights the Bible says that a city that has been set on a hill cannot be hidden. You cannot hide a light for long, and if you do then it will go off. Picture the light of a candle; if you put it under a basket or unde...

Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. Matthew 8:25‭-‬26 NKJV Jesus got into a boat and the disciples followed Him. While on the journey a storm arose and they were all fearful that they were going to perish, and in Mark’s account of this incident they asked Him if He didn't care that they were perishing, Him having been asleep in the boat (Mk. 4:37-38). He awoke and asked them why they were fearful, and I think the disciples were stunned by that question. The boat was already filling with water, the storm was fierce, here was Jesus (probably shouting loud above the noise of the wind and storm) asking them why they were afraid. In our eyes they had all the reason to be afraid; in Jesus’ eyes, they had no reason to be afraid as He was in the boat. Still in a way we can look at them and won...

Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Philippians 2:4 NKJV When God made man He made him in His own image and likeness. Satan, who is self-centered and who got kicked out of heaven because of pride (pride is always rooted in self-centeredness), came and wanted to corrupt this image. Before, man was just like God, Whose focus is always on others as He demonstrated on the cross by putting our interests above His. Satan prevailed in making man not just shift his eyes from the consequences of his actions on his descendants, but also from God. Sin started when man shifted his focus to himself. Since then man has been self-centered by nature from birth, evidenced by how selfish babies can be, wanting everything for themselves and throwing a fit when they don't get it. When we accepted Christ His image in us was reborn, and now just like babies we have to know that the world doesn't revolve around us. We ought to renew our mi...

. ..but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. Daniel 11:32 NKJV As believers we are called to do much for God, be His hands and feet on the world to carry out His purpose and desires. If you're like me, there are times you wish you would go round performing great miracles and not struggling with some of the “small” things and sins we struggle with (lying, lust, pride, worry, fear etc.), and sometimes I feel like shouting to  God, “just snap your fingers and it will be done, Lord!” This is in knowing there's nothing He can't do. However, that's not the way He wants to get things done. He wants us to grow into that level of walking in total victory over all hurdles and walk around carrying out great exploits for His glory His way, and that is through knowing Him. Our identity is hidden in God. The more we know Him, the more we know who He had made us to be. Spiritual strength and ability to carry out great exploits is de...

“Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you." John 16:23b. As you walk with the Lord, realising His promises to you, there comes a time you ask yourself where to draw the line between just having faith that God will do what He has promised you without necessarily asking Him for the obvious, and basically pleading with Him for everything, according to His Word. Sometimes you may ask yourself whether to ask for such  and such a thing, that seems as an obvious expectation from the Lord according His promises, or just to keep moving and assume He’ll do it automatically. This question came to me a while back, and as I was meditating on it the answer came clearly from the Spirit: there should never come to a point where we cease looking up to the Lord, in humility, for anything. Asking from God goes beyond telling Him, “please give me this.” If asking from God only means that to you, then you’ll be so limited in your prayer-life, an...

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? ...If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” Matthew 7:7-9, 11 NKJV If there's a text many believers have struggled believing, me included, it's the above one. Jesus came from the Father and had one of his missions being to reveal the Father, and He told us that if we ask from the Father we shall receive, if we seek we’ll find and if we knock it will be opened for us, and that whoever asks receives, whoever seeks finds and whoever knocks it is opened. The thing that causes us to doubt this text is because probably we've asked for a thing or two and it hasn't happened. Next t...

God called us to Himself first and foremost before asking us to offer service. Jesus said to disciples: "Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men." Mark 1:17 NKJV Following precedes the making so God wants us to follow Him so closely and allow Him to make us what He wanted. Jesus is the one who calls us to Himself.  And He went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him. Mark 3:13 NKJV Never call yourself and fix an assignment for yourself because it will fail. No one comes to authority except God allows him.  Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Romans 13:1 NKJV For exaltation comes neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south. But God is the Judge: He puts down one, and exalts another. Psalm 75:6-7 NKJV God will never be stuck. If a person refus...