THE BRUISING CRUSH OF CREATIVITY IN CHURCH

In a certain Church somewhere , a ban has been slapped on the youth dance troupe because their dance has been suggestive........

In another Church, the FEAR of false tongues crushed the speaking of tongues..
In another Church, the youths with certain gifts and talents of preaching teaching and evangelism were quenched, because no-one is supposed to over shadow the resident pastor....
In another Church a certain Pastor who waxed original whose word was filled with the anointing of heaven and whose service was free flowing was demoted to the office of a curator...

Recollect what Jesus said concerning the Pharisees;

"The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses seat, so you must do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. Thy TIE UP heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. Everything is done for men to see...they love the places of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues.They love to be greeted in the market-places and to have men call them 'Rabbi' (Matthew 23:2-7)

A youth who desired to join the choir in service to God was discouraged because her desire to innovate and render a song in a certain youth friendly manner was rudely turned down.

"this is not a disco!"
she said,
"I will never go back to that Church again!" insensitivity may have damaged, even lost a soul!!!!!

The service order is the "same old", "same old", the same old songs, the same style, the same liturgy, the same...the same...the same....
One pastor in defense of this said; "God is the same yesterday today and forever"-I say yes he is is but HE who is the same, did he not say through the prophet Isaiah;

"Forget the former things
do not dwell on the past
See I am doing A NEW thing!
Now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?(Isaiah 43:18-19)

If HE is the same, then logically, it is in his nature to ALWAYS DO A NEW THING!!!!

Are we so afraid of change that we would rather maintain the status-quo, and crush the spirit of creativity in our youth in our Churches?
When Bezalel was filled with the Spirit of God, did not skill, ability, knowledge and creativity follow him to make all kinds of artistic designs for the Tabernacle? (Ex 35:30-31)

We MUST admit that we have CRUSHED the youthful zest for creativity, we MUST admit we have quenched the Spirit of God, we have hurt many precious saints with our posturing,our gerrymandering,our gymnastics, our fear; fear of change, fear of being out-shined, fear of falsehoods.

What manner of fear is this that cannot allow saints freedom to express praise in a certain way?
Is it not written,
"Now the Lord is the Spirit,
and where the Spirit of the Lord is
THERE IS FREEDOM"(2 Corinthians 3:17)

So in view of this, where there is no freedom, where there is no room for creativity, it follows, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS NOT THERE

Now if the Spirit of the Lord is not there, then there is NO LOVE
Where there is no love who reigns????fear is a factor of the reign of Satan

YET
"Perfect love castes out fear"(1 John 4:18)

What kind of perfect love quenches, scorns, scorches, and pierces? What perfect love is that?
That is NOT LOVE...It is something else.
Is it a wonder that youth are mass migrating in droves, either to disco's or the Charismatic Churches, where their creative juices can find acceptance accommodation and expression?

Yes yes, if the dance is suggestive, who is there to mentor them? to groom them? (not to monitor and judge them) no one should judge if they have not mentored. A mentor has a right to say, do it this way not that way, but one who neglects walks in foolishness if they stand as judge and jury.....
"Make disciples" Jesus said; not neglect then judge...the youth services are neglected, the main services are "WELL SERVICED", no? perhaps that is where the MONEY is no?

This is the eternal question that Peter was asked by our LORD,(Thrice was he asked) "Peter, do you LOVE ME? then FEED MY SHEEP"
Do we feed them rough rod, rough shod with the sword of judgement, the sword of Damocles, having never taken time to 'incarnate' into their lives, understand their 'lingo', their 'issues', and their 'turn of phrase'?

That in itself is a sin, when Jesus met with the Samaritan woman, he did not tell her, "stop that, come on, that is sin"
HE simply asked her whether she wanted to stop being thirsty, and he gave her water that would never be quenched....

But we are leaving the youth so hurt, and we have added bitterness, anger, pain resentment; What JESUS was calling "heavy loads", which we are "not willing to lift a finger to move !!!!!!

So we have added more sins on their backs, and the WOE appended to the Pharisees, is now speaking to US!!!

I SAY LET US JUDGE OURSELVES BEFORE WE ARE JUDGE BY THE JUDGE. FOR JUDGEMENT BEGINS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD!!!

CANING..GOD'S VIEW.....

It is written...."Heed the rod and the One who has appointed it" Micah 6:9a

I work in a Non-Formal School where the rod is not applied.
the Government has banned Corporal Punishment as cruel and unhealthy and many Christians are in agreement with this stand.

Within a few short years; the character and the behaviour of the kids ran from mundane to criminal.....and this followed the complete eradication of the CANE.

In order to contain discipline in the school various alternatives were suggested; the staff were sent on psycho-social training sessions, in order to learn how to connect and reach out to the child...that was a serious flop...I heard the students deriding it...they knew how to work the system...and they would sit outside my office and laugh at the in-effective efforts of the teachers...they knew their rights, they knew that they were covered, some had even occasioned the sacking of some teachers who were dilligent with the cane...

They tried punishments, simple ones..."do not hurt, or exhaust the child" that would be a human rights issue, and in order to drive the message home a child protection policy was developed that protected all the rights of the child and gave the teacher no rights what so ever....

.in part the child protection policy stated..

"
Physical contact

Physical contact may mean but not limited to the following;
• Unwarranted or unwanted touching of a child or young person personally or with objects (e.g. pencil or ruler)
• Corporal punishment (physical discipline, smacking etc)
• Initiating, permitting or requesting inappropriate or unnecessary physical contact with a child (e.g. massage, kisses, tickling games etc)
• facilitating situations which unnecessarily result in close physical contact with a child
• Inappropriate use of physical restraint (force applied to the head or neck, restrictions to breathing, punching, kicking, holding by the hair or ear, confining a child or young person in a locked room or limited space)

Observe the following;

• Seek consent of child in relation to physical contact (except in emergency or a dangerous situation)
• Check with children about their level of comfort when doing touch exercises.


wheeeeeew....the instructor /teacher will have to walk on serious tenter-hooks...otherwise he/she may find herself sacked!!! or even worse...incarcerated!!!

In the past few years after the withdrawal of the cane, the number of suicides in schools have increased, the number of indiscipline cases have multiplied, the number of schools recording strange demonic attacks have increased, the number of schools burned by strange fires have increased, the number of pregnancies in school children has increased...almost as if God is trying in vain to SCREEEEM at society...to get back to the WORD!!!!! But you know what the word says don't you...

“... They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.(Ezekiel 12:2)


WILL YOU HEAR WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS?

"He who spares the rod hates his son
but he who loves him is careful to discipline him" (Proverbs 13:24)

So apparently every policy that removes the rod from where-ever means in effect that that society hates its children...end of story!!!!!!
you can argue yourself hoarse on that point...quote all the relevant statistics, get back up from PHD holders with erudition ooozing from their well oiled commentaries
get all the research papers in the world to analyse trauma incidences, link childhood caning to whichever abberation you may be led to...but God's word states, eclectically, and I paraphase " If you do not cane your child, you hate him"

another proverb states the obvious...

" Foolishness/folly is BOUND UP IN THE HEART of a child
but the ROD OF DISCIPLINE will drive it far from him"
(proverbs 22:15)

This is the most obvious thing, the child is unknowing, adventurous, curious, and there are certain habits that in childhood, if un-checked will cause your son/daughter to become foolish. Now no one desires to have a foolish child, especially mothers, their children are their pride and joy...no?
that is not in dispute, for many mothers the format of discipline matters, soft discipline, let the child stare at the wall for....10, no 5 minutes, eeeeh? are you kidding me? thats bollocks (pardon that)...what are we doing huh?

listen to this other proverb on the subject of pain...

"do not with hold discipline from a child
if you punish him with a rod he WILL NOT DIE
punish him with the rod and you will save his soul from death" (proverbs 23:13-14)
other translations render the last part of that verse "sheol, underworld, nether world..HELL"

So what are we saying...better protect your child from pain here on earth and allow him to burn in hell for eternity? that is the best alternative no? we are happy with that...no? that keeps our concience clean ..no? can you believe it, you are responsible for the child you bore BURNING IN HELL because you could not stand him/ her crying in pain? mull over that a while.....

The writer of proverbs wrote this exciting one...

"the rod of correction IMPARTS WISDOM
but a child left to himself disgraces his mother" (proverbs 29:15)

So, the schools in this land are ecking out fools by the number
uncountable..numbers of fools find themselves running bussinesses, hospitals, Government... ad finitum...because we did not understand the meaning of these wise words...the cane IMPARTS WISDOM!!! NO-CANE IMPARTS...FOOLISHNESS...YES YOU HAVE GOT IT
And to cap it all; There are alot of disgraced mothers to boot!!!!!

The most terrifying thing in this whole affair are the words of our Saviour Jesus Christ, concerning these weighty matters, this is his take...

"It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
So watch yourselves.(Luke 17:2-3)


therefore I say to you all...
"Discipline your children for in that there is hope
do not be a willing party to their death" ( derived from proverbs 19:18)

End

FIGHTING TERRORISM...THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH

How do we defeat a nebulous enemy who uses terror tactics against a nation?
Terrorists have a face; they are Boko Haram in Nigeria, they are Al Shabaab in Somalia, now targeting Kenya's populace, especially the Church gatherings, and Al Kaida....and all these three have a common source of inspiration...THE QURAN!

First we must begin at the beginning... when there is an outbreak of war against a nation, whereby the security of that nation was unable to foil the terror antics of the group, then the Church must seek for reasons from heaven!!

Remember Solomons case:

Solomon Kingdom was firmly established (1Kings 2:20)

But it is recorded:

As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done.
On a hill east a of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD'S command.( 1 Kings 11:4-10)

When ever a nation is attacked by another, we must understand that there are underlying reasons and those reasons are not neccesarily from the perspective of human offence....

it is written in the scripures...

"Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom." (1Kings 11:14)

" And GOD raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah." ( 1 Kings 11:23)

"Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon’s officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah."(1Kings 11:26)

The LORD raised these adversaries against Solomon because of the idolatry in the land...

WHAT ARE THE GOD'S IN KENYA?

a) KAYA practices of the occcupants of our coastal region....
b) ISLAM that prevails and has been allowed to permeate even the very constitution of our land
c) ANCESTRAL WORSHIP that affects all the 42 tribes in the land
d) FREEMASONRY the worship of a convoluted god called jabulon...
e) WITCHCRAFT especially borrowed from some of our neigboring countries
f) CELEB IDOLATRY the odoration and veneration of celebrities, we stalk them , we idolize them we immitate them....
g) HINDUISM.the over 3 million gods that are worshipped
h) MARYOLOGY...the worship and veneration of Mary the mother of Jesus, a human being who has died.

and many many others. A nation that practices these implodes and begins to crack from within. because of the practice of Idolatry, Israel went into exile, the nations of Caanan, were almost annihilated by Israel at the command of God...


1. NINEVE TYPE REPENTANCE

In view of this what is GOD saying to the nation? before we can actually hear God, understand his will, and walk in it, the first thing we need is to set aside a national day of prayer AND REPENTANCE, which is the NINEVE TYPE!!

EVERYBODY, from the least to the greatest ought to be involved! in sackcloth and ashes...that day must involve fasting, for we have allowed the nation to be filled with idolatry from one end of the nation to the other...therefore THE LORD has removed our protection from all enemies foreign and domestic.

2. REMOVE THE ALTARS



After that stage when we have repented and renounced our sins as a nation we must look to the nation and REMOVE ALL THE IDOLS IN THE LAND. Just as in the days of Josiah KinG OF Judah who actually destroyed the two calfs erected by Jeroboam son of Nebat

It is written....

" this is what you are to do to them: break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their ashera poles and burn their idols in the fire..." (Deuteronomy 7:5)

there must be no idol in the land.

3. CRY OUT TO GOD

we need to cry out to God for his deliverance. In the book of Judges, we see an interesting pattern; whenever Israel sinned against GOD, he would hand them over to their enemies to be enslaved and oppressed. When Israel cried out to God he would send them a deliverer. it is almost like clockwork...observe...

The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
Jdg 3:9 But when they cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, who saved them.(Judges 3:7-9)


Once again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and because they did this evil the LORD gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel.
Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.
The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.
Again the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer —Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite (Judges 3:12-15)


After Ehud died, the Israelites once again did evil in the eyes of the LORD.
So the LORD sold them into the hands of Jabin, a king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim.
Because he had nine hundred iron chariots and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the LORD for help.
Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading 18 Israel at that time (Judges 4:1-4)

they did evil
he handed them over to their evemies
the cried out to God
He raised for them a deliverer.

So we need to cry out to God, to seek his favor, to invoke his name, to repent, confess, turn away...

4. SEEK TO ENGAGE IN SPIRITUAL WARFARE

Ask God to raise up Elishas, those who God has given the gift of sight, to see what the enemies of the Country are doing...spiritual intelligence gathering; and I want now to introduce weapons of God...

The weapons of God are placed securely in His arsenal..did you know that God has an arsenal of weapons?
did you know that these weapons are available to us as we pray and seek to battle spiritually??

It is written....: " The Lord has opened his ARSENAL and brought out the WEAPONS of his wrath" (Jer 50:25a)

So what weapons of his arsenal are available to us??

1. TERROR...

It is written...." Then they set out, and the TERROR OF GOD fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them." (Gen 35:5) NIV

It is also written..... “I will send MY TERROR ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. (Ex 23:27) NIV

So terror is one of the weapons in God's arsenal so that when you are confronted by enemies too strong for you; pray this prayer with dilligence...

" Dear Lord ...send your TERROR against my enemies, that they may not pursue me in Jesus name AAAMEN.........!!!"

2. CONFUSION

It is written.... "But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great CONFUSION until they are destroyed. j( Deut 7:23) NIV

It is also written....."The LORD threw them into CONFUSION before Israel, who defeated them in a great victory at Gibeon.Israel pursued them along the road going up to Beth Horon and cut them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.(JOSHUA 10:10) NIV

It is also written..." Then Saul and all his men assembled and went to the battle. They found the Philistines in TOTAL CONFUSION, striking each other with their swords (1SAM 14:20) NIV

In spiritual warfare we need to recognize that God can cause confusion to hit a whole army, so that they either destroy themselves, or run away. so that one of the weapons of warfare is confusion, and this is how to pray...

" Dear LORD...SEND MY ENEMIES, (AND YOUR ENEMIES) into total confusion, so that they may no longer be organised enough to wage war against your servant/s in Jesus name AAAMEN!!!!

3. AMBUSHES



It is written ....... "As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set AMBUSHES d against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.The men of Ammon and Moab rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another. When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped." ( 2 CHRONICLES 20:22-24) NIV

This is how to pray sl that it happens

" Dear Lord set ambushes against my enemies so that none escapes in Jesus name AAAMEN.


THEN THERE ARE THE NATURAL WEAPONS THE WEATHER, THE ANIMALS.
There are the locusts,(Joel) the hornets(Josh 24:12), the lions,(2Kings 17:25) and other animals

The weather is also used by God....Hail(Ex 9:22) storms (Zech 9:14), fire (lev 10:2)(psalms 18:8) and so on....

then God also raises WARRIORS... them of David's calibre, those either who have technological skill in inventions, or fighting skill, such as Davids mighty men who are able to destroy 1000 men in a single rout (1 Chronicles 12:14) or most important SPIRITUAL WARRIORS.... those who know that the most important battles are won by prayer, praise , intecession....in the heavenly placs.


Therefore warriors, from all walks of life, the battle has come to Kenya, we are being bombarded by grenades, by Satanic forces of death, by terror, panic, in Nigeria, the battle has gone physical.....we must arise, we must pick up the war chest and begin to battle remembering these words.....

he gives victory to the upright and confounds the wicked


BE UPRIGHT

GADAR

DEALING WITH ALCOHOL ADDICTION

Alcohol addiction is a serious disease, and it has the tendency to spread like gangrene to the spouse and family members even though they do not drink.

Now when the spouse comes home late, say 3.00am... everybody else sleeps late, because they worry about him/her.

therefore all family members tend to wake up with a hangover, even though they never drank any alcohol, because they had a "worry filled night" Not an alcohol filled night.

When the spouse cannot wake up to go to work, and delays he must give an excuse, most times the wife has to lie on his behalf because he cannot answer the phone...he is dead asleep....

she lies to protect her husband, his income, which she needs for sustenance and his name. So alcoholics are consummate liars, they also cause their spouses and their CHILDREN to adopt the same behaviour. The child sees her mother lie for and on behalf of the father, and she picks that up. The mother may ask her to answer the phone while she attends to an emergency, the child answers the phone, and lies....she has seen her mother do it countless of times.

Alcoholics also isolate themselves from normal family activities because those activities interfere with the desire to feed the addiction, when that happens the wife cannot be fully involved in normal family activities, because some of them include the support of the husband. She must give excuses.


But what exactly is alcohol addiction?

It can be defined as:
"increased tolerance, causing the abuser to drink greater amounts of alcohol to achieve the same desired effect."

The American Council for Drug Education termes signs and symptoms of substance abuse thus:

Smell of alcohol on breath
Irritability
Euphoria
Loss of physical coordination
Inappropriate or violent behavior
Loss of balance
Unsteady gait
Slurred and/or incoherent speech
Loss of consciousness
Slowed thinking
Depression
Impaired short-term memory
Blackouts"

They also state in part thus:

"When a person consumes alcohol, the drug acts on nerve cells deep in the brain. Alcohol initially serves as a stimulant, then induces feelings of relaxation and reduced anxiety. Consumption of two or three drinks in an hour can impair judgment, lower inhibitions, and induce mild euphoria. Five drinks consumed in two hours may raise the blood alcohol level to 0.10 percent, high enough to be considered intoxicated."

But let us look at this from another perspective....

Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine.
They have harps and lyres at their banquets, tambourines and flutes and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the work of his hands.
Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding;their men of rank will die of hunger and their masses will be parched with thirst.
Therefore the grave enlarges its appetite and opens its mouth without limit; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.
So man will be brought low and mankind humbled,the eyes of the arrogant humbled
(Isaiah 5:11-15)

Embedded in this text are several truths.....

* There is a woe prepared for the drinker by God, look at the picture, the scenario painted by the prophet,
he describes the bars, and discos, and music halls that sell the drink, he describes the music instruments of meriment back in their days

He declares his THEREFORE..THE CONSEQUENCES in these terms

* They go into exile, exile is not home, it is away from home, 90% of alcoholics only use their home to sleep off their hangovers, they do not see their children growing up, they do not cultivate a relationship with their children, they are already alienated from their spouse and children, they have been exiled!!!!

* The second is serious, it says " men of rank will die of hunger and their massess will be perched with thirst"

do you know what the symptoms of withdrawal are? The American Council for Drugs Education describes them thus...


" Tremors
Agitation
Anxiety and panic attacks
Paranoia and delusions
Hallucinations (usually visual)
Nausea and vomiting
Increased body temperature
Elevated blood pressure and heart rate
Convulsions
Seizures"

This is an accurate description of perched with thirst, they are in the throes of death, it is a consequence of making wine their god, and totally disregarding the deeds of the LORD.All addicts must go through a hard time to break the addiction.

* Then there is the inevitable consequence after death, this text does not even try to go round it, it talks of HELL, the final resting place of the damned, if they continue to pursue this course, the grave is said to ENLARGE ITS APPETITE, opening its mouth without limit to HUMBLE the nobles and the arrogant.

Addiction is a condition as we said...And in scripture there are always answers.

Now before we get to the anwers to this in scripture I want to examine a certain myth in Roman pantheology.

In Roman pantheology there was a god of wine and intoxication called bacchus. His festival was celebrated on March 16 and 17. The Bacchanalia, orgies in honor of Dionysus the same as bacchus, were introduced in Rome around 200 BC. These infamous celebrations, notorious for their sexual and criminal character, got so out of hand that they were forbidden by the Roman Senate in 186 BC. Bacchus is also identified with the old-Italian god Liber. (for liberality)

These kind of tales by the way are sometimes very important in dealing with the root cause of the problem, Bacchus is the original derivative of the word baccy where you get the now tobacco. He is the god of wines and spirits...so, you will find that actually this is devil worship, there are actually songs composed in beer dens in worship and adoration of beer, some even call beer their first wife. In some cases the Lords prayer has been re-written to incorporate alcohol...eg

" Our Father
Who art in the bar
Give us our daily dose of wine.." etc

Now there is a reason the GOD of heaven hates idolatry

1. if you look at the worship of bacchus above you will see the fruit.
* crime
*sexual immorality
*liberality (doing whatever you want in disregard to those around you)

It got so bad that it was banned. Satan cause one to remove ALL INHIBITIONS....
Then he chains you, puts you in bondage...lets look at some interesting scriptures...


The case of Zedekiah the King of Judah is very interesting. Jeremiah the prophet speaking the word of GOD to him told him that if he would surrender to Nebbucchadnezzar King of Babylon he would live,(Jer 27:12) but he rejected the Word of God.

And this is what happened to him....

" Then he(Nebbuchadnezzar) put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon." (Jer 39:7)

Because the King rejected the word of God, he was BOUND IN BRONZE SHACKLES and his EYES WERE PUT OUT.

Do you know, that bondage and blindness co-exist. One is the result of the other, addiction is caused because of disregard to the danger of excessive drinking(blindness), the King was put in chains, I want to suggest to you that the route to addiction starts with the taste,(enticement) at the first drink you can stop, there is no chain, as you progress, satan starts shackling the chains around you, with time they are tied tighter and heavier and heavier and heavier, until at some point you just cannot stop!!!!

It is written....

Some sat in darkness and the deepest gloom, prisoners suffering in iron chains,
for they had rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
So he subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help. (Psalms 107:10-12)

The darkness and gloom, is the last position of an addict, many begin to become suicidal, they know that they are in bondage, because of their rebellion.

BUT THERE IS A WAY OUT!!!! HALELUHYA!!!!

There are several scriptures that show that shackles and chains can be broken... lets look at a few...

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.
He brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their CHAINS.
(Psalms 107:13-14)


Listen to me..they cried out, fervently, desperately, determinedly to the Lord, the hebrew word used there is zaak...literally to shriek...
And he did it, he broke the chains...

Remember the story of Paul and Silas?...

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.
Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.(Acts 12:5-7)

Do you know that it is written....

" He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him" ? (Heb 11:6)


There are several steps to follow here....

1. You must accept that you have that condition. You must agree with God that you have sinned, you have become a worshipper of bacchus, and have practiced idolatry!
You must agree that you ARE ADDICTED.

2. You must REPENT of that lifestyle, REPENT means to turn away...the greek word for repent is " metanoia" which means to change ones mind, direction, ways....

3. You must RENOUNCE that lifestyle, it must become your MOST SEVERE enemy. It is Satanic worship!!!!! It has no place in your life now

4. You must accept JESUS CHRIST in your heart. No option, he is the chain breaker, no other one is effective, have you ever heard of relapses...those are other methods.... good but they dont have the Lord Jesus in it.

It is written...

"Whom the Son sets free is FREE INDEED!!!" John 8:36

5. Unrelenting prayer and fasting.

It is written...

"such will not come out except by prayer and fasting" Matthew 17:21

PRAY THIS PRAYER...

DEAR LORD...I AGREE WITH YOUR WORD THAT I AM A SINNER, I ASK YOU TO FORGIVE ME FOR ALL MY SINS. I HAVE BEEN A WORSHIPPER OF BACCHUS AND I HAVE GIVEN HIM MANY SACRIFICES, EVEN SACRIFICING MY FAMILY AT THE ALTAR OF BACCHUS.
I HAVE DENIED MY CONDITION I HAVE LIED AND ALIENATED MY FAMILY AND LIED TO MY EMPLOYERS..FORGIVE ME.

IN MY OWN STRENGTH I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I CANNOT BREAK THESE CHAINS AWAY, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD CAN BREAK ANY CHAINS PLEASE BREAK THESE CHAINS OF ADDICTION TO (MENTION THEM).....AROUND ME DEAR LORD

I RENOUNCE ALL SATANIC WORSHIP, ALL DRINKING AND ALL SINS OCCASSIONED BY THESE DRINKING SPREES

I ASK YOU LORD TO COME AND TAKE OVER MY LIFE, AND BE MY LORD AND SAVIOUR.

I NOW COMMAND THE SPIRIT OF BACCHUS AND ALL HIS MINIONS TO LEAVE ME RIGHT NOW AND GO TO THE PLACE WHERE GOD WILL TAKE THEM AND NEVER RETURN IN JESUS NAME AMEN

please remember, to some their healing will be instant, to others it will require ministry teams to do it, but this is my final statement,

NEVER GIVE UP UNTIL YOU FIND YOU FREEDOM

MAY YOUR HEALING COME

CAPTAIN GADAR PERETZ ALIAS SAMUEL GITARI

ORIGINS OF HIV AIDS

The origins of HIV AIDS have been disputed for a very long time. I give the TRUTH

Let me preamble by stating this...that if you know the origin of a problem, you are easily able to provide the solution.

The second thing I wish to state is this.... that if you have a two tiered philosophy of life.. this proposition will not make sense to you.If you divide the Physical and spiritual realms into two neat packages, there will be an excluded middle. The one and the other complement, one can actively affect the other, and if you are not careful, you may be lost in (great) speculative theories about all things because you have relied on your own two tiered wisdom.



So what is the origin of HIV AID'S?

Lets delve deep for a while into a history lesson...

There was a French man who was called Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who thought to design a large statue and present it to the America's. Bartholdi joined the Freemasons Lodge Alsace-Lorraine in Paris in 1875. The Statue of liberty was presented as a gift from the French Grand Orient Temple Masons to The Masons of America and in 1884 it was presented.

several things I want to point out before I go on with this history...

1. Freemasonry is not Christianity it is satanism!!!

2. The statue of liberty is derived from the ancient Roman goddess of liberty "libertas", the goddess of freedom. It was originally a diety of personal freedom and has evolved to become the goddess of the commonwealth. So clearly it is an IDOL, about which the second commandment in the law of God states.....


" You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above and on the earth beneath or in the waters below...(Ex 20:4, Deut 5:8, )

" Dear children keep from idols" (1 John 5:21)

So let me continue with this history...

When the Statue of Liberty was presented to the Americans, it was placed in NEW YORK harbour.(I will look at the importance of that city later),
And the then President Groover Cleveland made the following remarks...

" We will not forget that Liberty has made here her home, nor shall her chosen ALTAR be be neglected" This was said on October 28 1886.

And this symbol has remained the visual and spiritual nerve center of America, ever since.

Now let us see if there was some kind of effect of this statue....

1. THE REMOVAL OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FROM PUBLIC LIFE....

In 2001, Roy Moore, then Chief Justice of Alabama, installed a monument to the Ten Commandments in the state judicial building. In 2003, he was ordered in the case of Glassroth v. Moore by a federal judge to remove the monument, but he refused to comply, ultimately leading to his removal from office. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, allowing the lower court's decision to stand.


Remember the second commandment above???


"Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth. Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, because I am the LORD your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation." ......


So ONE of them , either the Statue of Liberty or the 10 commandments had to go...WHICH WENT??? AND WHICH IS SYSTEMATICALLY BEING REMOVED FROM EVERY PUBLIC SPHERE IN AMERICA????

2. ABORTION


The American court issued its decision on January 22, 1973, with a 7 to 2 majority vote in favor of ABORTION

The Roe Court deemed abortion a fundamental right under the United States Constitution.
Judge Harry Blackmun wrote the courts majority opinion.

Consequences of Roe vv Wade an estimated 54,559,615 (FIFTY FOUR MILLION)abortions in America only

These figures were given by NRLC education director Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon.
The data is based on research from the Centers for Disease Control and the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, a former Planned Parenthood research arm.

Astonishing.......

3. GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN USA

1969 is often regarded as the year that the gay rights movement took off.
When the NYPD raided a gay bar in Greenwich Village and started arresting employees and drug performers, they got more than they bargained for--a crowd of some 2,000 lesbian, gay, and transgender supporters of the bar took on the police, forcing them into the club. Three days of riots ensued.

A year later, activists in several major cities, including New York, held a parade to commemorate the revolt. Pride parades have been held in June ever since.
It is now considered ok in the USA for sexual orientation to be same sex, with such acronyms as msm,(men sleeping with men) now in vogue.

4. THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION

The sexual revolution in 1960's America was typified by a dramatic shift in traditional values related to sex, and sexuality. Sex became more socially acceptable outside the strict boundaries of heterosexual marriage.
Studies have shown that, between 1965 and 1975, the number of women who had had sexual intercourse prior to marriage showed a marked increase.
With the discovery of the pill and birth control so easy and effective, the last vestige of sexual restraint went out the window.
And moral decay was the result….rapid moral decay
liberty-liberty to do what we want.


So is it not written ....

"Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple?"
(1 Cor 3:16-17)

When Nadab and Abihu, presented strange fire(un-authorised)before the Lord contrary to His command, HE consumed them with fire(lev 10:1-3)

When Uzziah became unfaithful to his God by entering the temple of God to burn incense contrary the law that stated that only a consecrated priest from the tribe of Levi could do so, he was struck by leprosy(2 chron 26:16-20)

WE ARE HIS TEMPLE!!!!!!!!!


I believe that the statue of liberty became a SNARE...

In the days of Gideon, he made an Ephod, out of gold and this thing became a snare to Gideon and his family(Judges 8:27)

But they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
They served their idols, which became a snare to them. (as a result…..)
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;
they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. (abortion/neglect/no discipline) Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds. (pornography adultery and licentiousness)
(psalms 106:35-39)


Now It is written:

" ...The sin of the Amorites has not reached its full measure" (Gen 15:16)
In 400 years the wrath of God would be visited on the Amorites because of their sin....


Similarly, the liberal atmosphere in America, the licensciousness, the homosexuality,these sins reached their full measure...

Concider...

At the beginning of the 1980s various reports began to emerge in California and New York of a small number of men who had been diagnosed with rare forms of cancer and/or pneumonia.
The first official documentation of the condition was published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on 5th June 1981. Entitled “Pneumocystis Pneumonia – Los Angeles”, the report detailed the cases of five young gay men hospitalized with serious PCP, cytomegalovirus, and disseminated Candida infections.

Almost a month after the CDC’s announcement, the New York Times reported that a total of 41 homosexual men had been diagnosed with Kaposi’s Sarcoma, eight of whom had died less than 24 months after the diagnosis was made.

At the end of 1981, 5 to 6 new cases of the disease were being reported each week.
By 1982 the condition had acquired a number of names - GRID (gay-related immune deficiency), ‘gay cancer’, ‘community-acquired immune dysfunction’ and ‘gay compromise syndrome’
By June, 355 cases of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and/or serious opportunistic infections in previously healthy young people had been reported to the CDC.A total of 20 states had reported cases and the disease was no longer solely affecting gay men; there were a small number of cases among heterosexual men and women. Over half of those identified as heterosexual had used intravenous drugs at some point.

By mid-1982 there was a panic. People were starting to tremble with fear. It was clear that these were more than isolated incidents
It was not until July at a meeting in Washington, D.C., that the acronym AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) was suggested. The CDC used the term for the first time in September 1982, when it reported that an average of one to two cases of AIDS were being diagnosed in America every day.

From the outset, AIDS was linked to groups such as gay men and intravenous drug users
as the ‘80s started going along, after ’82, say ’83, ’84, more and more people were getting sick. Fear was gripping the city and the nation. Gay people stopped going out. Nobody knew how it was transmitted and people were afraid…

I call all this "FULL MEASURE OF SIN"
Is it not a strange coincidence that at the heart of New York, WHERE THE STATUE WAS PLACED, is where the OUT BREAK was discovered??, I would want to say also BROKE OUT? But scientists say that it started somewhere in Africa...really???

There is a reason that this study concentrates on America...Through out History, the dominant culture influences thought, religion, culture, language and behaviour of the rest of the known world. When the Romans were in control, the world spoke the Roman language, and adopted even their religion. So America, which is the dominant culture of today, influences other cultures.

So what they do significantly influences the rest of the world!Even spiritually!!!

Now my proposition is this that the snare led to liberty to do anything, and that brought forth the wrath of God!!!

So what must America do?

They must:

"BREAK DOWN THEIR ALTAR...SMASH THEIR SACRED STONE, CUT DOWN THEIR ASHERA POLE, AND BURN THEIR IDOL IN THE FIRE....."(THE STATUE OF LIBERTY)(DEUT 7:5)

THEY MUST RE-INFLUENCE THE WORLD BY RENOUNCING LIBERTAS...AND STAND WITH THE LORD THE GOD OF HEAVEN

THEN THEY MUST

"REPENT AND TURN TO GOD SO THAT THEIR SIN MAY BE WIPED OUT, THAT TIMES OF REFRESHING MAY COME FROM THE LORD..." (ACTS 3:19)



MAY YOUR HEALING COME

CAPTAIN GADAR PERETZ.......

WHERE HAS THE STRENGTH OF MEN GONE?

1. Murder (hatred, jealousy, abortion, anger, resentment rage)

Gen 4:9 and Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?
Gen 4:10 And He said, what have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to Me from the ground.
Gen 4:11 And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Gen 4:12 When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. And you shall be a vagabond and a fugitive in the earth.

The grounds strength was taken away from Cain
The reason was because of the sin of shedding innocent blood
Cain’s judgment was to be a vagabond and a fugitive upon the earth

2. Incest (defiling the fathers bed)

Gen 49:3 Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the
excellence of dignity and the excellence of power.
Gen 49:4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then
You defiled it. He went up to my couch.

Reuben lost excellence, might, dignity and strength because he defiled his Fathers bed
He also lost his heritage as the first born.

3. (breaking the nazarite vow; sexual immorality, drunkenness, defilement)


Jdg 16:17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Jdg 16:18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
Jdg 16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Jdg 16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Jdg 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

Samson was a nazarite, a man dedicated from birth to the service of God by a vow. He was supposed to be taught the way of a nazarite by his parents. (Numbers 6)
A nazarite was separated to God, he was to remain Holy, he was never to take strong wine, he was never to allow a razor near his head, he was never to go near dead person or animal…. He was not to defile himself in any way.)
However Samson defiled himself in all the above ways, he slept with prostitutes, he married a philistine, he drank of the grape vine, he went near dead bodies, and he allowed his hair to be shaved…. The bible states “his strength went from him” and he “knew not that the Lord had departed from him”


4. (despising discipline, and scorning the altar of Jehovah)


Sa 2:27 And there came a man of God to Eli and said to him, "Thus the LORD has said, 'Did I indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh?
1Sa 2:28 did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.
1Sa 2:29 Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?'
1Sa 2:30 Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,' but now the LORD declares: 'Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
1Sa 2:31 Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
1Sa 2:32 Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.

Eli’ s house lost its strength because He was not diligent in disciplining his children.they desecrated the offerings made before God, and despised the laws of the levite, for this reason, God “cut of..” their strength, so that they had no old man in their fathers house, from then on Eli was the last man in that house to live to old age, the rest died in their youth”


5. Rebellion arrogance and disobedience.

1Sa 28:16 And Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has turned from you and become your enemy?
1Sa 28:17 The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me, for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David.
1Sa 28:18 Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day.
1Sa 28:19 Moreover, the LORD will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me. The LORD will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines."
1Sa 28:20 Then Saul fell at once full length on the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night.




The cardinal problem with saul was he did not “obey the voice of the LORD and he did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek”
Samuel in his life had told Saul that “rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and arrogance like the sin of idolatry…” and because of this Sauls strength was taken away, and he lost the battle of the philistines the next day.




6. Sin

Psa 31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
Psa 31:11 Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
Psa 31:12 I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
Psa 31:13 For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
Psa 31:14 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."
Psa 31:15 My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

The writer of the psalms declares that”… his strength has failed because of his sin.”
His bones are wasting away and his adversaries have become his reproach; probably because of David’s sin with Bathsheba, adultery and murder which caused the sword to be sent against him was the occasion of this psalm.
David says that he has become a reproach because of his enemies. The scriptures declare that “the enemies of God showed utter contempt” because of the sin of David
This probably is what caused David’s strength to fail.
Remember David singlehandedly killed a philistine giant,
David singlehandedly killed 200 philistines. He had Gods strength with him…. And under his anointing mighty men were raised, one raised his spear against 800 men, and another killed a mighty Egyptian, and another killed a lion. Yet the scriptures’ state that “his strength failed because of his sin.”



7. Un- confessed and un- repented sin


Psa 32:2 Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psa 32:3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psa 32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
Psa 32:5 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

He who does not admit that he has sinned, or that there is a problem, or who hides his iniquity, or who ignores the fact that he is in wrong terms with God and man, “wastes away” both physically, through, stress related illnesses, such as hypertension, high blood pressure, and others, and spiritually. He has no peace, David said he “groaned all day long” and when he confessed his sin God “forgave him” and he stopped wasting away. He who hides his sin looses strength, and many men in this day and age hide their sins from others. They waste away and they wonder why they are doing it. And they end up blaming others for their own sin.


Men are the strength of a nation, they are its Providers protectors and its priests, they are the ones who have allowe the enemy to come in and take away their strength...ther is however alot of hope....it is written...

"But they that wait upon the lord...
He shall renew their strength...
they shall mount up with wings as eagles
they shall run and not be weary....
they shall walk and not faint.." Isaiah 40:31

GADAR

THE CONTINUING SERIES OF SAMSON AND DILA!

In the previous fictional post of Samson and Dila, Dila had just entered her house and ran into her mothers arms and wept. So we continue from there.

Introducting Dila's mother

Her name in Mimmi, in her youth she was a raging beauty of the modelling ilk; she is passionately in love with her husband, and adores Dila so much.She sometimes allows Dila to do whatever she wants, because she fears offending her. She sometimes conspires with her daughter against her husband to allow Dila room to be free to do whatever she wants.


Introducing Dila's father

His name is Zakar, and he is a stern man, not given to much talk. He has strong emotions, and has an inflexible will. It is not easy to change any set oppinions he has. He is also very particular about appearances, he would never reveal to ANYONE, his struggles, nor the skeletons in his own chest.


THE CONTINUING SAGA OF SAMSON AND DILA

Dila couldn't stop sobbing in her mothers arms, she wept and wept. Mimmi just held her, what else could she do, she kept telling her daughter, whatever it was, its going to be ok..but Dila was inconsolable, so Mimmi, just held her and waited for the weeping to subside.

Then she asked her daughter.."what is it dear?" and Dila asked her Mom; "Do you love me no matter what?" "O Dila, you are my joy, and I love you no matter what. we are a family, and we have weathered some storms together, and we can face the storms so long as we support each other"

Then Dila told her mother in a small voice..."I am HIV positive mum..." that shocked Mimmi, quite a bit, and her automatic response was "dear God!!!"

Then she caught her self and hugged her daughter again and said.."Well we will handle that but just know that thats not the end of the world, we will work on it." and Dila was comforted.

Mimmi told her that they should both sleep on it and then tommorrow after Dad was off to work, they would put their heads together and see what to do.

The next day after dad had left, Mimmi and Dilla sat down together and talked.

Mimmi told her daughter that there were several things that they needed to make a decision about. the first was to tell Dad about it. the question was how?, the second was to know at what stage of the progression of the HI virus had she reached, did she need to be put on ARV'S or was she to simply be put on nutrition therapy?.

Then Mimmi asked her whether she knew who infected her, and Dila immediately said to her mum.."It was Samson, and imagine he was the one that I wanted to marry mom.."

Mimmi asked her a strange question..." Do you love Samson" and Dila replied..." Yes mum, I still have very strong feelings for him, but he has betrayed me. I dont feel like talking to him ever again!"

" Don't discount him just yet, I am sure that he is very remorseful about this and he is dealing with alot of issues. I think you shouldn't cut of ties with him. You will need to confront him and tell him that what he did was not good and then you will have to forgive him Dila. Only then will both of you be strong enough to face the future."

" what abour Dad?" Dila asked.
" I will talk to him tonight when he comes home.
I will talk to him when we retire to bed.
I have to speak tenderely to him so that the shock does not affect him badly" Suddenly Mimmi had a premonition, and said to her daughter, maybe we better not tell him" "Lets wait abit", but Dila said, " No Mum, lets be done with it. I will feel much better when I know that we are all in this together"

In the evening after everyone had retired to sleep, Mimmi delicately broached the subject. In divers ways she prepared her husband for the bad news, she prepared his favorite meal, she, spoke of how proud she was of her daughter, she basically tried as best as she could to prepare him for what she was going to say.

Suddenly it dawned on her that this was not a very easy subject to introduce to her husband! But she had no choice...she was committed to this course of action.

" My dear, I have something I need to tell you"
" yeees" Zakar responded
" Dila is sick" she said.
" Oh, why didn't you tell me? I would have taken her to hospital immediately I came home, why did you wait until this hour?"
" It is not a normal disease"
Suddenly Zakar tensed.
" what do you mean ...not a normal disease, speak it out.."
" She has been infected" Mimmi said
" Infected? infected by what? what are you telling me Mimmi?"
" She has the Virus" Said Mimmi
Zakar gritted his teeth together and said slowly, "what virus?"
"HIV AIDS virus" Mimmi said
"whaaaat???? what are you saying, that daughter of yours has been whoring around, sleeping around? Does she know how much shame she has brought to me? does she? She is no longer my daughter, she must leave this house tomorrow, NO TONIGHT!!!!!"
And Zakar leapt from his bed, grabbed open the door, and found his daughter eavesdropping at the door. she had tears in her eyes.

Zakar said. "Pack your things and go! You have brought shame to me. Do you not know that I am an Elder in the Church, I am the CEO of Security and Protection services?, and a pillar in my community, do you know what you have done to me?

Mimmi tries to calm him down.
" Where will she go honey, let her sleep and then tomorrow we will discuss this, it is too late to tell her to leave. Let her organise herself tomorrow honey"

"NO" said Zakar, " She goes NOW!!!NOW!!! I will not host a whore in my house"
He went to her room, started packing her clothes, and putting them in a bag, then he took her forcefully to the door and virtually thew her out of his house.He told the security gaurd manning the gate thus...

" I do not want to see that woman anywhere near this house...EVER...UNDERSTOOD?"
"yes sir" said the gaurd.

And like that...Dila found herself plunged into the streets.....


LOOK OUT FOR MY NEXT FICTIONAL POST OF THE CONTINUING SAGA OF SAMSON AND DILA!!!


I have questions for the reader:

1. Was Mimmi's approach to disclosure the best. What would have been the best strategy of disclosure in this case?
2. Was Zakar justified in his actions? Give reasons for your answer!
3. Dila is in the streets right now, if you were to drive into the night and find her and this stage, what would you do?


GADAR

GREAT DECEPTIONS IN HIV AIDS THOUGHT

Now what is a deception?

A deception is a perversion of the truth, and this deception has its subtle origin in Satan's wiles...originating in the garden of Eden when he told Eve..."You will not surely die..." in direct contradiction of God's word, which he told Adam "but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” (Gen 2:17)

In this generation there are subtle deceptions that have even found themselves in the handling of HIV AID'S thought, and I want to discuss a few of these deceptions:

1. THEORIES OF ORIGIN

Actually I believe that this is has become such a deception that it has drawn away even the CHURCH from the truth.

AIDS has been said to originate from a monkey (the so called sooty mangabey located in Central Africa).

Some say HIV was manufactured as part of a biological warfare programme, designed to wipe out large numbers of black and homosexual people.

Many say this was done under the auspices of the US Federal 'Special Cancer Virus Program' (SCVP), possibly with the help of the CIA.

Cut hunter theory states that an African native, received a bloody wound or infected splash while preparing a Chimpanzee carrying a similar virus (i.e., SIV.)

Others say it is not important to know the origin. They give the example of a snake. If there is a poisonous snake in your house; you first get rid of it, you don’t find out where it came from; you will die before you do.


When you look at scripture after scripture in the word, the origin of any plague is sin and the definition of sin is disobedience to Gods law!!!!!

All the plagues of Egypt were as a result of disobedience.

Deut 28: 15 is a warning… “if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all His commands, and decrees I am giving you today all these curses will come upon you and overtake you”

And then Moses proceeds to describe what these curses entail.

Deut 28:20 the Lord will send on you curses confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him”
Deut 21: the Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.
Deut 22: the Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation
Deut 28:27 the Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured

The world talks about fighting HIV AID'S;

Why is it that we are all fighting this battle in the flesh, in each and every one of the texts that I quoted, the bible states clearly for all to see “ the Lord will send, the Lord will, the Lord will…can we fight God?


If the bible states that the Lord sent this disease, then are we not being distracted from the real issues?
If AIDS is a normal disease, then we will never confront the real issue!
If AIDS is a conspiracy we will never confront the real issue!
If AIDS originated from a monkey we will never deal with the real issues!

We will hold meetings, give speeches, support causes, but never confront the real issues.
No wonder that 30 years later there is no cure!!!


2. THE GREAT CONDOM DECEPTION


There are those who use condoms for the right reasons, those who are married and discordant, and those who are married and both are positive and want to prevent re-infection. As far as that is concerned the condom is in use for the right reasons.
However, we must not neglect to proclaim that if the Lord is sought for healing by the discordant and the HI positive couples, he would heal them. No need any more for the condom!!!!!!!!!

There is a theory propounded, that not everyone is a practicing Christian, and therefore we must strive to DISTRIBUTE CONDOMS!?!?

Let’s see this argument in light of God's word.

“Today I am giving you a choice. You can choose life and success or death and disaster.
For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase...
But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient…I declare to you that you will certainly be destroyed” (Deut 30:15-17)

So, the question is if you use a condom for the wrong reason, or for “ safety….” But also against Gods ways; are you exempt from the above?
Remember ROMANS 6:23 states that … “the wages of sin is death…” whether you use a condom or not. Sin is sin, it does not change because you have decided to use a condom.


3. CRITICAL DECEPTION “AIDS IS NOT A CURSE; TO SAY IT IS A CURSE IS TO STIGMATIZE THE SUFFERER"


These are the arguments that are consistently used:

“That the gospel is about restoration and not condemnation”
“That Jesus never stated to those who he was healing that they were under a curse."

The language is sanitized.

Please note that whenever language is sanitized these days and the politically correct language is used, sin is made to look more acceptable (MSM, standing for men sleeping with men, CSW’S standing for commercial sex workers, Pro-Choice movement, standing for abortion movement)
Now it’s not right to call the disease a curse; a plague, judgment, rather, a syndrome.

The deception is subtle

Yes Jesus came to restore.
Yes Jesus did not come to condemn and judge.
Yes Jesus did not condemn the woman caught in adultery

But what was the process that brought about the coming of Jesus
Before the appearance of Jesus in Israel there were preparations for his coming.
The preparation


Isa 40:3 a voice of one calling in the desert, “prepare the way for the lord, make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God”
Mal 3:1 “see I will send my messenger who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the lord you are seeking will come to his temple: the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire will come” says the Lord Almighty”

The way

John fulfilled these texts in Matthew 3:1ff, mark1:1ff, Luke 3:1ff and john 1:19ff
John came to prepare the way, and Jesus was the way. (John 14:6)

How did he prepare the way?
Repentance was the only preparation that was needed
Repentance
THE WAY TO HEALING:

“When I shut up the heavens, so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chron 7:13-14)


REPENTANCE

Psalm 107:17 -20

Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered because of their iniquity
They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
Then they cried out to the lord in their trouble
And he saved them from their distress
He sent forth his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave

• Acts 3: 19 “ repent then and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out and times of refreshing may come from the lord


4. STIGMA...THE GREAT DISTRACTION

People have been stigmatized for many things, because they are fat, short, tall, talk funny…
If you KNOW who you are in Christ, all the rest is detail. You may be offended by the stigma, but you need not give that the time of day, because what you are in God is what matters
Stigma is another person’s idea of who you are, and 90% of the time it is wrong, you cannot dwell on what others are saying about you, that is too much spent energy. No man can define you only God can do that; not my status, not my titles, nor my weight nor my background, nor my color nor my past hinders me from being what I should be in God.

Stigma must be fought in the mind first. One must have a revelation of who he is from God, then the world and its prejudices will never matter.
One thing is certain, there will always be those who are prejudiced against you, but your eye must be on God.
Therefore while it is good to sensitize people about stigma, the real issue is dealing with sin

5. INNOCENSE..USED AS A TOOL TO DISTRACT

There are thos who got the virus through no fault of their own. What about them, if God is just, why did they get it?

The innocent wife who was a virgin and had sex for the first time in her marriage bed and trusted her husband who infected her?
The innocent child who was infected in the mothers womb?
The innocent recipients of contaminated blood?
The innocent doctor contaminated while performing an operation?

Firstly; no one is innocent in Gods eyes. No one.(rom 3:23)
Secondly there are several reasons for God afflicting the innocent

To test them (jobs case)
To chasten them (King Manasseh (2 Chron 33:10-13)
To show Gods Glory (John9:1-3)
To keep one from being conceited (Cor 12:7)
To prepare for and fulfill purpose (Jesus and all his disciple)


It is not condoms but confession
It is not found in the wisdom of men but in the ways of God
It is not in evading the real issues, but acknowledging the need for God and has a repentant heart


If we veer too far from the truth, the lie will eat us up, if we veer TOWARDS the truth, we will be saved, healed, delivered....

The choice is yours...


Captain Gadar