HOW DO WE CRITICIZE?

When God allowed me to fellowship at Mavuno Church for nearly 5 years, before i left, i learnt so much and i do not regret being in that Church even a single minute; because they produced a fearless woman who is wired for greatness in her Ministry.  The leader i am today was made my Mavuno Church and that for sure no one can change.  When i first entered that church, the first thing that i felt was, this is home. 

The reason why i made it home was because you are taken the way you are and you are appreciated with all your mess/flaws/issues.  What???  Yes, in Mavuno, you sit with people who have these issues and for sure no one will look at you with those eyes of, 'Do you know you are in Church and you should come here when you are sober or not in that mini skirt?'  At Mavuno, that is not a wonder. That is actually a blessing because people are ready to walk with you and help you overcome your issues/flaws/weaknesses e.t.c.

When i entered this church to be precise, there were a few things i did not really agree with, but that does not mean other Churches do not have things that i do not agree with.  I have hopped Churches for long and i can tell you, the many things i did not agree with all the Churches i have ever attended.  However, my biggest lesson about church hopping is this; no Church is perfect, just as no one is perfect.  We all have flaws that God deals with in us, on a daily basis and he perfects us through His Son Jesus Christ.  My advice to all those that have never Church hopped or are still Church hopping,  please stick to where you fellowship unless the Lord sends you out, as he did with me from Mavuno to where i am today.  (This is a story for another day.  But i am happy where i am). 

In my case, i would never have dreamt out of Mavuno even a single day as i had found a home.  But the Lord clearly told me that, i was just there to be coached to be a Leader and a Leader who is fearless, and that is exactly who Rose Gatobu is today.  A FEARLESS WOMAN WHO IS WIRED FOR GREATNESS.  Where i fellowship today, I see so much i will do for the Ministry because i have all it takes to serve there, and i thank God i had passed through Mavuno to get the training's and the many things i learnt when i was there.  One aspect that made me love Mavuno is, the aspect of being sincere and open and telling all, of who exactly you are (being real).  Very few Churches do that, and it is from that openness and sincere virtue that i have found myself being so real to an extent that people hate me for being real and honest.  One wonders why real people are never liked. 

 Let me tell you.  By the time i left Mavuno, God had dealt with nearly all my issues and today i am a free Woman of God.  If there is anyone who can point a finger at me, let him or her do it right now.  The last person that i would have expected to do that would be my Ex who hurt me so deep.  When i asked God to help me get rid of him, he did something i will never forget and i was able to come out of that stronghold that was tearing me apart from God.  Today i am set free because, that is the only person who would have stood up and say Rose is lying because she says she is born again and she sleeps around with me (Fornication).  These are things many people in Church are struggling with, and if one asks me how i overcame, i will always tell my story.  How many people are in Church today, and can stand up and tell us the things they are doing in the secret that are not right?  When Sunday comes, we see everyone in their Sunday best and we would think we are all angels and yet inside us we have struggles that are weighing us down.   Can you dare like me and say things exactly as i am doing if you are bold enough? It is not an easy thing to do if that is not a calling my dear friend.    Then, why would you want me to live a lie and expect me to serve God in Truth and Spirit?  I am talking boldly today because God has delivered me and i would also want others to be delivered.   Today i am as a clean woman who has been set free as the most of the shit i had, i have dealt with it, by the power of my Lord.  I know i am not perfect still but one day at a time as the Lord perfects me.  

As much as you will stand up and tell me you do not want to hear about my sleeping around, the many men that i have dealt with whom i have shared about, the children i have out of wedlock, the way i lack and most of the time i advertise it here on my page, and many other things that i share on this blog and Facebook, that are too personal and you feel, Rose is out of her mind; i want to ask you one query; what have you shared with us, as something you have struggled with and conquered it to encourage us who have been struggling all this time and we need to be set free like you and you have not shared?    If you are not selfish why do you just celebrate yourself and yet we should be celebrating our victories together?  My joy today is that, i do not try to show the world how holier than thou i am and yet i know inside myself i am rotting and i am wired for Hell.  Lord, thank you for making who i am, because every day you make me to be more like you and i am proud of whom i am in Christ Jesus.  Amen!

So what about criticism?  I nearly forgot that was the main thing in my writing today.    What i want to say is this, the first time i heard about personalities was at Mavuno Church, where I was given this CD as a present, as a new visitor in that Church.  When i went home i put it in my DVD player and Pastor M and Pastor Carol talked so well about personalities and gave their testimonies how they had to cope with their different personalities and realized their personalities were meant to compliment them and not shutter them.  Actually it reached a point where they thought they were not meant to be, as they all did things so differently.  Thanks be to God, when they learnt about their personalities and why they behaved the way they behaved, made them to be so close and built a very strong relationship. 

After doing a test on personalities i came to realize that i am a Choleric Sanguine.  This personality is not a joke!  It is the second strongest extrovert personality that i do not think many would love, especially when you read about their flaws.  Now i know why people do not love me that much.  Why? Because of my personality.  Simple!  But who can change who God created me to be?  Only God can do that.  Needless to say, to be very honest, people of my personality, hate criticism.  This is one of our flaws.  I won’t mention the others for now but you can google and get all what i am talking about in relation to personalities.    For a fact, when you criticize us, our friendship ends there.  That is because we believe in ourselves; which is very wrong, but that is who we really are in the real sense.  However, there is hope for us, when we get born-again that is people with this personality, we take criticism very keenly, but first, we coil ourselves and then we go to consult with the Holy Spirit who interprets the criticism amicably and we come out with the answers that God reveals to us and expects us to execute them as children of God.  That is the sweetest thing because if you lie on your own understanding you can mess up.   

God has always given me directions, some he tells me to take them up and others he tells me, they are just ways of intimidating me and i leave them at that.  I had a tendency of hating people who criticized me in the past, but God has taught me how to love them the way they are and prove to them that they are very wrong in the way they think about me and  clearly God reveals to them why i had to share my testimonies for His glory.  I will honestly say, God does it through the guidance of the Holy Spirit as many confess to me later on.    That for sure has worked for me and i thank God that my honesty and openness has helped me conquer most of my weakness.  I do not need to hate anyone who does not agree with me, but i need to take criticism positively if it is genuine and drop it, if it is meant to hurt and  humiliate me. 

I had this conversation with Him (Holy Spirit) a few days ago, where someone echoed exactly the same words another person did in the past, who criticized me about how i talk and what i say.  Most of the time, i find myself talking about my very deep personal things in public in a very innocent way, in the name of wanting to make things clear or help someone struggling to know they are not the only ones struggling, with no offense about it, only to find out later there are those that were not amused and others appreciated.  

Immediately i say anything, i always get people who praise me and say, "Rose to be honest you are very honest and courageous woman and not many can say the things you say” and they tell me,  "You really encourage us and give us hope about our weakness that God can also help us and set us free."   And the other lot says, "We do not want to hear about your mess or the things you do not like or like, nobody will support you even if you tell us all about your issues.  We all have our past, so, what are you telling us?  No wonder people run away from you, hate and reject you, because of your flaws and no one wants to be associated with you, keep your secrets, secret and die with them if you want people to love you and respect you" 

Who wants to hear the latter version, as it is always my hardest thing to hear from people whom you think love you and yet they think that negative or bad about you.  As much as people love keeping things to themselves and it is a good idea, let us separate when it is a testimony to help others come of the problem than making it personal.  I am not very happy when i expose myself most of the time because i know the repercussions, as i have always indicated and clarified that, this is my Ministry.  God can not allow you to go through painful experiences and give you victory to keep them to yourselves.  He wants you to use your testimony to build, encourage and correct others so that they can see their victories too in Christ Jesus.  What do you do when you find yourself in my shoes?    Most of the people in my shoes, get depressed, hate themselves and get lost through confusion.  As for me i go to Jesus and ask Him what to do.  And He clearly tells me that, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made".  Amen!  He also tells me "Before i was in mother’s womb, He knew me.” Amen!  He also tells me that "All things work together for good to those that are called according to his purpose” Amen!  "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."  My list is endless if you know where i am quoting all these Words from.  For the sake of those who do not know, when does Jesus tell me all that, it is in His Book the Bible.  Now you know.  

When you look at those two remarks i have mentioned, you will get confused and wonder which one do you believe in.  The one that people are praising you for who you are, or the one that people are judging you from?  Let me be very candid today here on this blog  and other places that i talk or express myself in.  I do not say anything that is not good about me, so that people can emulate me, but i do talk about my weakness so that i get help, and also help those that have the same weakness and give them hope from my testimonies.   

You can imagine when one knows you have been a drunk, a prostitute, a thief, an adulterer, and they suffer the same problems and they hear how God helped and delivered you, they tend to get attracted to you and want to be helped and be set free like you.  That is the essence of my sharing and not to paint a picture of how bad i am and no one should relate with me because of my struggles.    Very few people would want to be as real as i am, but God knows why he allowed me to be the way i am so that he can use me for his Glory.  The biggest thing i have struggled with since i was a small child has been REJECTION.  And until the Lord revealed to me why i get all these rejections (because i do not know how to hide my problems and weakness and thus many people judge me).  One time i cried to Him and asked him why i am always rejected and i understood so many things about me that were beyond my control contributed and he comforted me by making me understand that even him who is God has been rejected.  So who tells me i will be loved especially when God wants to use me?  When i read from the Word of God, people like David, Joseph, Mary, Moses, Caleb, Abraham, Jacob, Isaac and the rest did not have a bed of roses in their journey of their call.   They went through fire and God took them through until they fulfilled their purpose on what God had called them to do.  What is so different from me who is being used of God to be a World Changer through my pain, joy, weaknesses, strengths and so on and forth?  No one will love me and the few that God will put my way, who love me for who i am, will support me to the very end  because God ordained them to love me just the way i am and to me, that is a miracle!  Halleluyah.  (Credit goes first to  my children and my family who have always loved me for who i am and a few friends).

If you are waiting to be loved when you are real and say things the way they are, my friend, you will have no friends.  But what the Lord is telling you and me who has this personality, is that, be strong and courageous.  Not all will admire you for who you are, because most of the time they will see you as a threat, competitor, you do not deserve, who are you, who do you think you are and so on.  

So, love yourself for who you are, because even those who criticize you negatively crave to be who or what you are but they can not.  If someone really loves you, they should come openly and tell or teach you to be another better personality they think is the best.  Unfortunately, no personality is better than the other because they are all meant to compliment us and make us all to be world changers.  No one can change who God created you to be and people will always try to pin you down,  shut you up and make you feel so stupid and yet you are supposed to be who God created you to be.   It is not wrong to be who you are, but it is good to take positive criticism because they will make you a better person and a positive world changer. 

When i talk that boldly and fearlessly about criticism, i do not mean all criticism is wrong, what i want to say today here before the year ends is, can we be calculative when we want to criticize others in a godly way. Not in a way that you make one feel so intimidated and full of good for nothing feelings.  There is a way you can tell someone in correction in a positive way and not a way that looks so judgmental.     

Those two ladies who have called me aside and told me Rose we do not like the way you talk, have  hurt me because they have never taught me how to talk good or help me to be like them who are good when they talk.  I know they wish good for me and they would want me to express myself in a different way, but why would they explode a bomb to me and leave the bomb shells with me and i wonder will the bomb shells really help me to get the change they want from me?  I guess the best way to help me is to introduce me to a counselor who will be able to handle me in a professional way because i have never been counseled in my life time.

Unfortunately, they leave it at that and i wonder where will i get a class that will help me know how to talk and express myself in a better way.  The fact that i am always left to feel so silly for whom i am and good for nothing as i feel so much judged, makes feel bad and  I can't advocate to anyone.  If i have to criticize someone, i will say the facts and how to help the person and not just gossip and talk to others about them and not help them.   I know we all have issues but pinning others down because of a weakness or weaknesses they have, instead of helping them, kills me and i can never agree with that.  Take it from me.   

Usually i take the criticism so positive and pray to be what they always want me to be.  But it is not that easy as you do not know what is people's expectation and most of the time i have kept quiet or avoid them who criticize me  and that has not helped me so much, until i take it to the Lord in prayer, that is when he has given me the best solution than keeping quiet and running away from the reality.     I heard someone say the other day,  'Rose nowadays does not talk much' and i love it that way because that is what people want from me.    But I wish they visited my Facebook page and know where i take my talks.  I always feel free talking there through my writing than telling anyone anything because i do not know how people will take it.  To me, that is the safest place for me or this blog to express myself and get relieved.   No one talks back to me, as they keep everything to themselves and that is a good thing.  In the process, i am able to say exactly what i wanted to say and help those i wanted to help and for the angels, they can wait for me in Hell, but they will be shocked the way tables will be turned.  I will be in Heaven and not the Hell they have always thought i will be and they will wonder and ask God, 'What happened, we thought we lived a better life than Rose.  We were holier than thou God, what exactly is this that you are doing?' On the other hand, i will be celebrating with my Lord because i will have done my work according to the purpose he created me for and i will take my position as a good faithful servant. I am not trying to judge here or show the world how holy i am, but i want us to look deep down at our hearts before we criticize others and pin them down negatively.  

I am not blowing my own whistle about what will happen in Heaven because God knows, but i just put a picture to help us know, not what we think will really happen as we know from the word, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has conceived the things God has prepared for those who love him".  We should therefore, leave God to be the the judge; and  love and bear one another in both good and the bad but purpose to correct the bad in a good way not in a way of tearing one another.     

As we go to 2016 let us work on ourselves.  I have come to realize we have worked on others too much and forgot the whole problem is not others but us.  Why don't you just take a moment and just look at yourself and ask God to forgive you where you hurt others through your words, behaviors, dressing, handling others, conflicts and others.  That of course will start with me.  I have pinched myself that, when i talk to anyone henceforth,  i will be very careful, but when i want to correct an anomaly, i promise, i will not sugar coat it, but say it as it is.  I know i will not be loved anyway, but i will bring that positive change that i intended to bring.   I do not care how much i will be rejected but how much i will help and bring a positive change around me.  That is me. 

As i close the year 2015.  I beg you all please, if i have offended you, hurt you, said anything that you did not agree with, please forgive me from the bottom of my heart. If there is a way you can help me to be a different person, i am ready to change but you have to do it in a godly way so that you do not hurt me too. 

God bless you as you continue enjoying the Christmas season. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2016!

I HAVE CRIED… YES I HAVE

Crying is normal to all human beings especially when they want to express their inner feelings that none can understand, but can only be seen through the cry whether loud or with tear drops.   As I have said, I have cried many times and today I cried like a baby. Why did I cry?  I did not really fathom the pain and bitterness that was piling up inside my heart until a colleague did something that triggered my cry.  Everyone in the office was so shocked that such a woman can sit down and cry her heart out without feeling any shame like a baby.   (What a shame, but do I care?) 

Most of the time we are told not to cry in front of people because it portrays a very bad picture and people will look down upon us.    I will totally disapprove and say, that is not me.  If I am pressed down and made breathless I will cry my heart out to release what is inside me.  That has really helped me so much because when I look at the things I go through, if I carried all that baggage, one day I would explode and I do not think it will be a good thing for me.  The best thing for me is to release all what is inside me, when it is triggered so that I am set free.   I am saying when it is triggered because, most of the time we do not understand the things that pile inside our hearts,  as when people look at us, think things are fine with us, whereas in the real sense we are hurting so much deep inside us.  But when something triggers the hurts to come out, my friend, that is when you realize what mountain you were carrying inside you, that you could not fathom it was, until the trigger triggers it and you explode. 

Of course the crying moments are not my best moments in terms of what people will think about me, but they are my release moments that set me free and show whom I really are, as that time, I am as good as naked and that is what many people will not want any person to know about them, that is, their weakest point.  That is when people understand that I have been going through so much pain but I have been keeping it to myself.  That is the time I pour out my heart and say exactly what is paining me and people understand the root cause of my cry and the pain coming out of my cry as I say it then.  Of course there are those that will be disappointed with my cry because, they are the cause of my cry and that is a sign of setting them up, and there are those that really feel me because they were going through the same pain but they had nothing to do but to keep it to themselves and never cry.  Happy are those around me, in my shoes, because a crybaby will make their pain be known and they will be met at their very point of their need, as they sail the same boat with me, and the issue will be handled amicably and the story afterwards will be, ‘If it was not for Rose’s cry, we would never have been helped’.  Sometimes it is good to cry out your heart and save the many people around you who are in pain and yet they cannot express themselves.    When I say people to cry, I am not meaning people to be crying here and there like crybabies.   No!  What I mean here is that when you have to, cry it out as it is a therapy that sets you and others free.   

It is important to note that, to be a world changer you have to be radical and a don’t care person (not in terms of wrongs/negative).  But in terms of bringing positive change that not many embrace because, those who do extraordinary things usually, they are extra ordinary and fearless in the way they think and do their things.  When they succeed, that is when everyone wants to be associated with them.  This is because when you listen to the many voices that surround you; you will never do what your inner person tells you because that is where your strength sits. 

Let me give a very good example.  When one of our own Kenyan son, Julius Yego (Javelin World Champion  - 2015), won his Gold and title, everyone especially us Kenyans we were so excited and celebrated him so much and took the Kenyan glory as he is part of our family.  But to tell you the truth, in the past years, months and days, we were the same people who were finding him very ridiculous and wondered how on earth someone can train through YouTube?  To us, that was madness of the highest order.  I can imagine those who were nearer him were telling him to stop being a fool.  Unfortunately, Yego did not listen to those negative words but relied on his innate strength that lead him to those who were seeing something that was positive in his ability; and those people are the ones who supported him all through to his success; and I am giving credit to his trainer on YouTube who saw the interest, talent and victory in this young man’s life.  I am proud of you, Julius Yego! Yes I do, because you make me not give up on what I want to pursue but you give me so much hope when there is no hope. I even over heard someone comment about him and said, for him to be listed to go and play, one said, “this crazy guy thinks he will make it, but let us just give him a chance and see if he will make it really”.  That was his starting point as he continued to prove to the world he was not a mad person but knew what was inside himself that needed to come out.  That gives me so much hope that nothing is impossible with God. When given a chance, you can all do exploits that you can’t think of or imagine. 

God’s time is always the best time and I know the tears you cry out just because someone has made you cry, or the hardships and struggles that you are going through have weighed you down,  those tears, will be wiped away by God, do not give up.  Julius Yego, I guess in his closet cried to his God and God heard his cries and today he is a World Record Champion in Javelin.  What am I talking about?  It will cost you a cry, for you to reach your destiny. Can you cry the more and do exactly what you ought to do.  You better cry a million times to succeed than to corrupt to succeed.  You might not cry when you are corrupt to succeed but the day you will be paying the price you will cry your heart out, unfortunately that time you will be crying out paying the price and that will not be the best thing.

Today I am at peace and all what was inside me eroded away when I cried out.  What I mean, the pain has not gone away, but now I can sit, eat and do many other things without thinking about it and I have left it to God so that he can fight it for me.  He has done that in the past and I have come out victorious and most of the time I forget that I went through some pain.  When they come back, I am reminded that the battle is not mine but the Lords and the more I meet the challenges ahead of me, God is making me a stronger person in me day by day and I am very sure tomorrow I will not be the same person.

Of course I will not cry about the same thing, but I will encourage someone else who will be going through what I have gone through and give her or him hope, that all is not lost and crying is not a crime but a way of expressing our pain and disappointment.  Have you cried in the recent past or crying as you are reading this.  Do not give up.  Help is on your way.  Be positive, think positive and take things lightly.  You may wish to cry your heart out, not necessarily like me in front of people but even in that closet of yours where no one is seeing you but God.  He will answer your cry and restore for you all what you have lost.  Just believe and trust in Him that he is able to fight the battles for you.  Be encouraged as I encourage myself. 

God bless you so much and keep you. 

ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY GOD AND ALL ARE HIS FOR HIS GLORY

In the morning when I was walking to work, I was thinking about our God and how good He is to us and especially to me.  I tried to figure out, what about this person who does not believe that God exists and he is real. 

I am privileged to know Jesus as my Lord and Saviour and this I did through accepting him as my Lord.  I believed in my heart that Jesus is Lord and I believed that God raised him from the dead and I was saved.  From that day I made that declaration, I have been walking with him and he has taught me so many things that I cannot tell it all. God is good to me.  

So what was I thinking when I was walking to work?  Well, I will say I was not at my very best while I was walking in terms of feeling good about myself and all what I am going through, but I enjoyed the walk where I had a fellowship with the Holy Spirit and I was just reasoning with him. I remember I was thinking so deep about this person who thinks that there is no God and I tried to figure out what makes him or her think that there is no God and yet he himself or herself he/she is a living testimony? 

Most of the time we try to make things look like there is no God just because we have made the choices to believe so, but that is not the case.  To me, God is there and existing and he is so real than you can think or imagine.  When I look at myself I am fearfully and wonderfully made and I did not create anything in me myself.  I have been growing since childhood and the many changes I see in my body I do not know how they come about.  To me there is God and He is so real that he can make me from a single cell to what I am and live this long to see of his goodness and fullness in this world he has placed me in.    

What about, if you give me a minute to tell you about my Lord whom I have walked with for 24 years now.  I know you are wondering 24 years?  Do not wonder because in those years I have been growing in my Lord and I can tell for sure if I just got born again like yesterday, I would be having very little testimony to tell you to believe in the God I am talking about.  The things I have seen in those years is a prove to me that he is a Mighty God and no one else can be compared to him as I am a living Testimony and all glory and honour goes to him alone. Amen!

The twenty four years in salvation have had many ups and downs and in all those aspects (ups and downs) were meant to make me become what God had purposed.  I would have chosen many things if it was me making decisions on how I should live and grow, but I realized I have nothing in control but God only is in control and he is the only one who has the map of my life and all what I have to go through while on this world.  What I deeply know whether good or bad, God had ordained it and he was so real when he said I, be and I live for him.    I am happy to be called his child and to have known him on a deeper and a personal level, because if I chose otherwise today I would be a lost person. 

With all what I have learnt walking with him, the best thing to do in this life is to have a personal relationship with God and stop religion.  To make you understand, religion is following something just because others are following or doing it or you found yourself doing it and yet you do not really know what is that you are following.  If you can purpose and sit down one day and reflect, where did I come from and where will I go after I am gone, that should enable you make the best decision in life to be connected to God directly.  That, for your information can only be done by accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour.   What am I saying?  Believe in your heart that God exists, and His Son Jesus Christ died and rose again.  Confess with your mouth and live that life that calls you a child of God who has been washed by the blood of Jesus his Son.    

If you do not believe that God exists and his Son Jesus Christ came and died for you and me then I think I need to tell you about him in a more detailed manner.  But since you are just reading this script from a stranger who does not even know you, that does not mean I am saying nothing.  God in a divine way allowed you to read my script so that he can communicate to you on a personal level.  Do you believe in God?  Do you know that he loves you so much and cares about everything about you?  If you do not believe that, let me dare you make this confession and your life will never be the same. 

Say,  

Lord Jesus, I am a sinner.  Please forgive my sins and wash my sins with the blood of your Son Jesus. Write my name in the book of the lamp.  With your help Lord, let me know you on a personal level and may you help me and guide me in all what I undertake to know you more and more. In Jesus Name I pray. 

If you have said the above prayer, know that from today you have been born again and Jesus is your Lord.  Look for a Bible believing Church and get someone (Pastor or someone from that Church) to walk with you, and start connecting with God through the Word (Bible) because He is the Word.  Your life will never be the same. 

God bless you and bye for now.  God loves you and so do I. 

WHY ARE WE MEAN WITH OUR LOVE, SERVICE AND RESPECT?

I have observed with so much keen that most of us nowadays have commercialized all what we do, even helping people in good faith.  What happened to the respect that we used to give to our elders, to one another and those in authority?  I am not very sure if the removal of the cane from school resulted to this, but I will not talk in those lines lest I be stoned to death as that is a law that was passed in schools that teachers should not cane children.  But I wonder how come in our days no one died because they were canned?  Anyway, I still do not want to discuss about canning but I am really offended by what I see around us nowadays. 

There is no respect for the elderly, one another, for those in authority, to make the matter even worse, no respect of God.  What happened to us people?  This query has lingered my mind for a while now and it is nagging my heart as every day you can’t fail to find one who in not respecting, loving and serving others without expecting anything in return.  For example, have you seen what the youngsters are doing to the elders, like, imagine boarding a public means and a young fellow sees this old man or woman and he competes with them to get a space in the vehicle during peak hours.  The young person pushes his/her way inside the vehicle and gets a sit before the old man or woman and he/she is very comfortable and happy that he left the old man/woman falling behind him and thus gets a sit with his earphones on and bumping his head like he is in another world dancing to his lyrics which you cannot even understand what it talks about.   That is lack of manners!  You see a young person urging with an elderly person as if they are age mates trying to make him look stupid calling them people of yesteryear's who are not aware of what is happening technologically. ‘Ati si ma dot com’. ‘people who are not computer literate’.    Let me tell you young people, you need to talk to the elderly and seek for their council and guidance as we are losing all the virtues and morals we were taught by our forefathers and we are wired for calamity if we do not change our ways.    The world of today is losing focus just because technology has come and it is eroding all the virtues and morals we once knew about and we want to embrace the new aspects that are coming around with the technology especially the negative aspects.   As I am celebrating the world of technology, I would want to tell us that we should not lose our morals and virtues just because we want to be seen to be technologically wise, connected or informed because even too much information is poisonous.  I have come to love technology so much because if it was not because of it, today I would not be able to pass the message I always pass to all my Funs through this channel.  But I want to say as much as we have so much evil in the World Wide Net compared to the good, I want to emphasize and tell the whole world that,  the world net is not only meant for evil but for good. It will depend on your choice.  If you chose to go the evil way, that is your choice and if you chose to go the godly way, that is your choice too and you are not bound by anyone to make any of the two.  It is you, and you alone who will decide and chose which way to go.  The Bible tells me the wide way leads to the way of death but the narrow way leads to the way of life.  But majority select the wide way as it seems to have all what they want and has no difficulties as  compared to the narrow one as you can get away with so much and have all what you want.  Unfortunately it leads to hell.  By the time you realize it is too late and nothing can be done to you but just sympathize with you or ask God to give you another chance and rescue you according to His Will.  The narrow way leads to life unfortunately, this is the way many do not like to follow as it has a lot of pains, sorrows, things are not well defined and we need to search for the definitions ourselves; it has so many thorns, valleys, rivers to cross through and many difficult things just to mention, but a few.    But very few chose it as they do not want to go through any pain or miseries not knowing it is through them that we are made to be who God created us to be as we are taught about patience, love, care, compassion, forgiveness, tenderness, mercy, good leadership, fear of God and many other good and positive aspects that God wants us to live in as we serve him and have life in abundance.    But when you look around, how many want to choose that narrow route?  Very few!  The choice is yours.  I want to encourage most of us who visit the World Wide Web to be keen on what we watch.  What you plant in your mind makes you become that and thus that is why you see crime has increased because of what we are feeding in our minds.  That is why today, you see people have taken advantage of others just because some media stations (radio and television) and other Medias on the Web, are promoting.   That is why you see our children engaging in drugs, pornography and things that are not good just because they want to promote a certain set of people or celebs that influence them that way.  Majority of the Media Channels love the negative information as that is what sells so much and thus continue impacting with negative information that make things look like we are in hell on earth and thus create a picture that nothing good can come in this world.  I know as a child of God this is not my home, but as much as it is not my home, i need to live in peace and harmony so that i enjoy the abundance of life that God has given me and not the unkind and miserable world we see around us.  Why can’t we stop embracing the bad and bring in the good news so that our minds can be changed and be restored? Let those who belong to the evil world belong, because this is their home.  But for you child of God, what are you doing to influence the world you are living in positively as i am really concerned about you as a servant of God? 

Today because of the way life has become so difficult, many people have tried to look for ways of survival which are not very good ways of making money.  I am not trying to pin down our street children, but look at what they are doing to us when you go to a parking lot in town when parking or leaving it.   Just helping you do that without scratching other people’s car you have to pay them.  I am not saying what they are doing is wrong, but they have made it look like it is a booming business and thus have taught every other person to do that in the name they worked for you, just helping you out.    I can’t value 20/= to losing my car side mirror or my car tire which is more expensive, but you see from that scenario nowadays, everywhere you go not only the street people are doing it, it has become a way of life with many people taking it that, to help someone park a car anywhere you are supposed to park in or out, you have to pay for it.    Giving one directions when they loose track and they look lost and confused,  when they come seeking for help to be shown the right way or the direction you have to pay, when you ask for a cup of water today, you have to pay for it.  No wonder the phrase ‘hakuna cha bure’ as in ‘nothing is for free.’  I will ask, really?  When one supports that phrase and you are a Christian then you make me shudder as we are supposed to help one another.  I do not mean you go to your bank account and draw out everything in the name of helping.  I mean, showing one direction, giving a cup of water, feeding the hungry and the needy through sharing what we have, clothing those who have no clothes, supporting the orphans, single parents, elderly, less fortunate in all manner of life is not something to be paid for, as that is a service that you should give for free if God has enabled you to serve in whatever way.  Jesus taught us so much and told us to wash other people’s feet.  What he meant here is not literally washing others feet but surrendering to him and becoming a servant as he is to us and not a master over others.  What does this mean once more?   It means when you have food, share with those who do not have, if you have clothes, cloth the naked, if you have money sponsor and help those who are in need, if you have mercy, have mercy on others, if you have compassion have compassion on others, if you have comfort, comfort others and many other gifts he has given us and taught us to serve one another as in the case of the illustration of washing his disciples feet.  Meaning we should always be servants and not masters.  When I say this, I do not mean you go not respecting people and belittling others who are senior than you and are serving you.    What I mean here is that you should respect everyone one as when you do that you will encourage others to respect others.  Today when you look around even small children are abusing elders and have no respect for them and not only elders but any other person.    When you read in the Newspapers, and in  Social Medias we see how people are not respecting those in authority and calling them names just because they have the right of speech.  We have taught our children to be manner less to a point as you sit down to listen to our children conversations with their peers, you will think they are adults as they engage in adult talk about sex, money, politics and so on and you wonder when will they play children so that they grow to be adults and start talking adult stuff when they grow up?  Where are we ended to if we will not change our ways?  If we want this world to change, let us change first and the rest will follow us.  Can we teach our children the good virtues and morals and practice them so that when they go out there they will teach others of the same?  I remember one time when I was young I was taught this mantra that I have always kept in my mind to date that says, ‘bye bye leads others follow.’  It means that, what you leave, others will follow you.  As in if you leave the evil things and follow the positive things, then, those around you will follow exactly that.  If you leave the good and chose the evil, then everyone will follow you with the evil.  You can imagine how much you influence the world with your choices.  Can we  purpose to make the right choices today?   My message to you and me today, is that we embrace being servants who seek for the good and not the evil so that we influence our world positively and we will eat the fruit of the land,  that is Peace, Love and Unity.   God in heaven who sees in his hidden place will reward you and me accordingly and thus we should be used of him to bring the positive change and not the negative daily as long as we live.    Remember you are the brain of God, his hands, legs, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands, fingers and the whole of your body is used of God.  That is why you are his temple.   You have nothing that belongs to you.  God bestowed authority to you and made you just a steward so that you can take care of what belongs to him including yourself.