Listening to God

By Rev. Stephen Okhutu.
Tel: +2586 712 734 661

"For everyone who asks will receive and annyone who seeks will find and the door will be opened to him who knocks". (Mat. 7:8)

Greetings to all the Moslems and thank you for dedicating yourself for a special relationship wit God, surely as you cerebrate Idd, know that God has already blessed you!

My reader I welcome you once again here, I believe the Lord has blessed you abandantly. I understand you have been praying pretty much to have the grace of the Lord uopn you and have at times wondered why you are in that trying moment. You have even tried to challenge the Lord for a blessing!

But in doing all that, have you ever wondered what plans the Lord has for you? And how many times have you laboured to listen to the voice of the Lord?

More often people miss opportunities while many have fallen into problems just because they have failed to listen to what the Lord is telling them!

For one to claim his rights as the true son of God, he/she must obediently listen to the commands and guidance which God is persistently comunicating through his holy spirit.


I understand that you are trying hard to get a solution from God, but do you bother listening to what he is telling you? There is only one procedure of having a personal conversation with God; Listening!

Heven't you realised that in your prayers you have been doing the talking leaving the listening only to your God? This means you have not given him a chance of talking back to you, just because you are not listening.

The fact that God listens to everything that you communicate to him means that he has been labouring to talk back to you but because you think you don't have time, or because you think you have alot to tell him, you have never provided chance for him also to tell you what you should do. Sometimes you may hear his voice but because you have not paid attention, you end up missing the whole information.

Mathew 6:6-8 cautions us against using meaningless words while praying. This implies that because God knows what we want to tell him even before we could say it, we should always just pay attention to what he has to tell us than what we are saying to him!

We all know that God is a spirit, unless when you believe otherwise. So because God is a spiritual being, he talk to us through our spirits. This implies that when you go tompraybefore God, you should go in spirit ready to talk to a spiritual being. This will help you not to miss a point. Our Lord Jesus teaches us this when he commands us to lock ourselves in prayers.

While praying, know that you are entering into a personal conversation with a spirit. In this way you should pay attention to that small still voice within you. It is the voice of God parked with wisdom guidance and commands that will help you come out of that situation. It is easy to miss that voice or to disregard it when you enter into prayer in a physical you or when you look at God as a physical being.

Remember God promised to fulfil his promises to whoever follows his commands. How will you then follw his commands when you are not listening?

Please call me back if you are blessed by this teaching, i want to pray with you in that situation believing God will provide an answer. Please don't forget to tune to Drum Radio every sunday for that live teaching. I will be live speaching into your life.

Money or Happiness? Decide your destiny today.

By Rev. Stephen Okhutu
Tel: +256 712734 661
s_okhu@yahoo.com

"It is easy for the carmel to enter the eye of the needle than a rich man to
enter the kingdom of God."

This morning I was counselling a lady who was complaining of her husband's bevaviour. Her problem was that ever since her husband got money, love and peace started moving out.

I know most familes especially well to do families live in the life like this and have neither peace nor love.

Should we then work to remain poor for Love's sake? My answer is no! In love or happiness, the ingredient is neither money nor poverty.

Let us not forget that our mind determines the biggest percentage of how we live. The problem is that most people postpone their happiness until the day they will get money. This may be good for people who know when they will be rich and perhaps when they will die!

But for the few of us who are ignorant on when to die or when to be rich, we have a duty of living in peace otherwise we may end up living the whole of our lives in misery!

The Bible cautions us against thinking about tommorrow for no body knows what tommorrow may come with.

Like the case of the woman above, She spent most of her life preparing for a prosperous life (or what in her minds was a succesful life). All her days she was looking at the day she will live a perfect life. Unfortunately, she failed to realise that life is what we live it. She thought the husband may live the same life he lived at the time when he was still poor! To me this was a total miscultulation, an insult on her God.

Money and happiness are totally two different things, though they are all essential, we should always aim at gaining happiness than Money.

We have the power, given to us by God to live a happy life, for this is what he wants us to be. the problem is in what we believe in. we tend to go for the less important and decide to live in fantasies than the reality!

Decide the life you want to live and live it now. You have the power (Luke 10:19, John 14:27) to create all whatever you want in your life.

Love, like it was commanded in John 15:17 and you will see how life becomes easy for you.

But spend most of your life frowning and soon young children will be running away from you, otherwise who would wish to live with a person wearing problems on his face!

Here are some hints on being happy;

1. Smile. smiling will help in creating a lovely face and you never know, your face could be the reason why people are hating you and then you say you don't have favours! Your husband is running away because your face scares.
2. Think good. what you think is what you are. Think success and you will be successful. But when you think hatred, your face will show it and whatever you say will be more like venom! You can not lie to your mind, whatever you tell it is what it will do. Don't wait until that three year old daughter asks, 'Mom, what is happening, you look sad?' in order for you to know that you are boiling inside
3. Help. Try to help other people find opportunities. This way you will be helping yourself. remember Joseph in a prison when he helped the King's wine stewardess, that act alone was a gateway to Joseph's becoming a Prime Minister of Egypt. The people you help are assets. They will be the ones to refer you to that opportunity you have always longed for!
4. Know that you are not alone in that situation and that it will not end with you. So try to think about some people in the same situation as you are in. May be you will realise that in crying you are just insulting people in real problem that you claim to be in. there is a story in my community about a woman who cried because she did not have a nice shoe. But the day she met with a nice looking woman 10 times richer than her, but amputated legs, that is when she realised that may be she would rather live without a shoe than a leg!

I believe God is blessing you wherever you are and that after reading this teaching, you life will never be the same again!

Please contact me if these teaching are doing a blessing in your life. I need to hear from you and also pray with you. I believe God has ecerything that you want in life, so please look upon God for your blessings!