Using the Mind as a tool

By Rev Stephen Okhutu
Tel:+256 712 734 661
s_okhu@yahoo.com

I have been wondering how many people are living in total poverty! the list is endless but many of them are suffering just because they fialed to use their mind as a tool to help them come out of this situation.

May be this is because they have failed to realise that you are what you are because of what you think, what a serious problem!

I know of a friend here who has always complained of poverty but when you could consider his expenditures, it is like he owns a financial institution or something of that sort!

He is poor, true, but this comes as a result of what he always think! he trained his mind to think small and to believe that he is poor!

you may wonder why this is so! Is it not because we have failed to rearise that prosperity in not mesured in monetary value only?

Think about it this way. Who would be more richer, a person who does not buy food but never misses a meal or the one who has alot of money but could not afford a meal beacuse of financial commitment like debts and such things of the sort? What about someone who lacks money but is healthy, he has a nice house and all the necesaries or the one who has money but he is always on the run because he fears his creditors?

May be this has taught you something! We all need money and indeed without money life may be difficult but we should not take it to be the solution to all our problems.

Many people have even failed to work because they take themselves to be poor.

They train themselves to believe that they don't have capital to start a business and the end result is more time wasted in worrying and suffering! This means we cause suffering to ourselves, not so?

Could you ask your self how many times you caused yourself to think that you are too poor to start a certain project? and what did you get from that? Just discourage! but what about when you see a person you believe to be very poor than you, doing the project you thought you can't do?

I want to tell you that you are not poor, it is your mind that has failed to show you what to do. May be you have trained it to be like that! Surely I say unto you, it will take you no where unless you consider utilising it and making use of it.

That mind of yours is a tool that God gave you to help you solve most of your problems. So please stop using it in worrying because as a tool, it will be generating only the prducts of worrying and that means more problems to you. remember it is always working, either negatively or positvely.

Discourage it and it will discourage you! heard that? Discourage it and you will live most of your life suffering!

Put you mind into some positive thinking, you will see where it will take you. may be you will give me a call when you see results, not so? and I will live to be the most happy man because you have taken my advise. I know God has blessed you even before you have started doing that project so please, start working now! remember how Jacob worked for 14 years and came out the richest person? yes he even met losses but he never lost hope and he even never worried, he was focused on what he wanted to achieve.

Utilising the blessing of God in Prosperity

By Rev. Stephen Okhutu
Tel:+256 712 734 661
s_okhu@yahoo.com

When we talk about prosperity, most christians believe that this will come out of the blue and hit their life!

May be this has been caused by the confusing surmons from their leaders who aim at causing division in the church for their own benefit. at the end they have distorted money from them.

This means there is a problem!

Many Christians believe that a miracle will come out of the blue and within no time they will be rich! OK, this may happen but it is not a guarantee.

Our Lord Jesus promised that whoever obeys his command shall have supernatural power. This was a confirmation of what happened at creation in Genesis when God blessed Adam to Command all other creations.

The bottom line is for one to get blessed he must first obey the commandments of God and then take a step forward with his faith to do something through which he will receive the blessings.

The Blind Batemoius knew his problem and also knew that with Jesus near his all his problems will be over. So much as he could not see, he kept on shouting on the top of his voice so that Jesus could hear his and heal him. The same was with the Woman with the Hemorrhage and many other people who received miracles from Jesus. This must be a lesson to all of us that though we have the faith a Christians, we should add on Action.

We should stop looking at work as a curse! Let us all know that work is a command from God, and like he said whoever keeps my commands will be blessed we need to work in order to get prosperity, period!

It should be also noted that when Adam sinned in Eden, he was not told to work as a punishment but the punishment was put in work! This may be a bit confusing. It means that regardless of what you do, you still need to work, but if you work hard, you will b blessed [through sweating you will get what to eat] unless you don’t need to eat!

Jesus himself taught work and always advised his disciples to earn a living through work. In fact most of the people he appointed disciples were working people; some were fishermen, others tax collectors and many other institutions.

Remember when the tax collectors wanted to arrest him for tax defaulting! He had the power to make money through his miraculous power but he commanded his disciples to work for it – to go and fish so as to get the money to pay tax! If he could do that to himself what about you? Don’t you think you need to work in order to get the blessings? Like the money came from the mouth of the fish, the same miracle could also happen to you if you work!

At this rate, the duty of religious leaders could be mobilizing the followers into work. Starting up jobs that could help his followers get out of poverty instead of distorting money from them.

This reminds me of a Pastor in Uganda who mobilized his church followers into farming. He dubbed this get out of Poverty campaign. He leased equipments from the bank and started farming.

All the money collected from the congregations was regarded as investments.

The church was then to find market, each ones had to contribute a small amount in loan repayment and like that the cycle goes. Hardly a year that the problem of hiking food prices hit the country giving market to all the products produced.

If all churches do like this, I know the people would be blessed and even the tithe would come as it is supposed to come!

There are many other areas where the church could invest and transform its people from poverty. Personally I believe that if one believes in God and then remains in poverty then he is not reflecting his faith properly. This is the person I would call a sinner, otherwise why is he not blessed!

God loves us equally and his blessing is there for us all, it is only our sins that are preventing us from taking this blessing, by sin I also mean bad thinking, worry and fear! Some of us may even fear to invest thinking that their money may not make profit. So they take this money to a pastor to pray for the Money. No wonder some of these pastors are tempted to use the money! (And these things happen! People take millions of dollars to their religious leaders for cleansing and later complain).

More tips on how to get out of poverty

I understand that some people would love to begin small investments but lack the money to start with. I say it is not money only that can start a business. Start with the little you have, use the available resources near you including the people you live with, and slowly you will witness the power of God working within you!

Make friends. Don’t hate people just to prove that you can hate! Hate only helps to punish you instead! Do yourself a favor and help people in need since through them God may help you also.

Be patient, have faith but don’t forget to have hope, it is the best thing in life, in fact that is why you’re living - because you have hope!

If you have a business plan, tell it to the people who could help in funding it, you may be discouraged but don’t lose hope.

Don’t wait to start big; the little you have is enough to make you a billionaire!

May be let me share this with you; I remember the days when I could not own a penny in my pocket for weeks. My wife encouraged me to work and I tried everything I could but still could not make it! I will not go into the details of the problems I faced, but I suffered! My employers could spend over four months without paying me. Until one day when I realized that God has already blessed but I had to do something. I told this to my friend and within no time I founded a powerful Business which transformed me from within days!

I did not have the money to start the business but I had friends!
Because I passed through the same life, I know what I am talking about and I need every one to come out of poverty.

God is not looking at how many times you go to church, but he considers what you do, this will take his presence with you everywhere.

The Power of forgiveness

By Rev. Stephen Okhutu

Tel:+256 712 734 661

Email:s_okhu@yahoo.com

I LOVE YOU: Women showing love through a handshake. This gesture can do wonders

I my life I have seen many people suffering and sympathized with them. I have always wondered why God could keep on punishing his people when the Bible promises that he will love us when we keep his laws!

I kept on wondering until I discovered that what we call keeping laws is a misrepresentation of what the Bible means.

We should note first if we are to be good relationship with God that his command was Love. There is no way he should love us when we don’t love.

It is so funny how many Christians are praying these days! Cursing and asking God to destroy what they call their enemies! May be they forget that our Master Jesus commanded us to love and ceaselessly forgive!

Or may be they think they are the only ones that matter to God and so all the good thins should go to them!

But I say God loves us all regardless of who we are!

But how then do we suffer?

The answer is simple, we don’t forgive!

Forgiveness is a sign of love and when we forgive we prove to God that we are able and willing to be loved. Simple! Then God will also fulfill his promise.

Plainly the issue is, most of the problems we suffer are caused by us, because we have failed to love fellow human beings. So when the cycle of hatred causes its effects on us, then we will blame God!

This reminds me of a Servant in the Bible. He begged the King to write off his debt, because he was so poor to pay back. But he failed to forgive his fellow servant who begged for some time in which to clear the debt. In fact he just killed him! But when the King heard abut this, he had no alternative but to put him in jail until he pays off the debt.

Is this not what many people are doing today? And then we blame God!

This reminds me of a poem I read in my Secondary school. A man was praying to God for the healing of his Son who was admitted in a hospital in critical conditions, but in the process he saw a pregnant Cockroach trying to live. He moved from where he was praying, killed it and resumed his prayers blaming God for not being Just, why his child!
May he forgot that the cockroach he killed with its children also had life and wanted to live!

You can also imagine how many times you killed, or even caused harm to others but now you ask God to take away that problem on you. Do you think other people are happy to have problems and you are the only one to live a happy life? Think twice. The Bible says that you should do to others what you want them to do to you.

Do you now realize that most of the hardships we go through are to a larger extent a result of our ‘sins?’

Why don’t you consider forgiving that person? I know he wronged you, but do you think hate him will help?

I want to remind you that Jesus commanded us to forgive always because our reward is in heaven.

I know of a woman whose sister killed her daughter. This woman has moved for over 5 years without conceiving. She went to the prophet with the problem but he told her, the problem will be over after she has forgiven her sister. This was hard!

But because it was the only solution, she forgave her with her heart. As a test, she met her sister for the first time since the death of her daughter, imagine what happened!

Her sister was coming out of a public van while she was also trying to board! At that moment she felt the voice of God talking to her that this is the time! She hugged her and they all cried! She thereafter realized that her sister was living a very hard situation.

Within a year she conceived!

This means, her problem was not getting a child but love; she had to love her sister in order to get another child, much as it was the sister who killed her child! I know you can also forgive.

Otherwise you have an alternative, not to forgive and live with that problem of to forgive and live a happy life! The choice is yours.

I suggest that you begin by forgiving within you, then take a step and tell the ones you have hated that you love them and have forgiven all their transgressions, and hug or give a hand shake!

Or even give me a call or send an email and I will guide you. Remember you should do that before it is too late.

I remind you that God loves you and all his wishes to you are good, it is only you who have tried to be wild! By thinking that you are so special. Ok, you are, but others are also special before God!