MWANGA'S "We Will Rule" Album Launch: Do not miss out on what the Lord is doing in this season!!

I remember this day like the first and last time I witnessed an ultra sound, that moment when I witnessed my nephew take little breaths of life. My world stood still for a moment, my world stood still people!

And so this day when Mwanga had their first album launch, as most of us stood still in the presence of the Lord, in that auditorium, nothing could have possibly convinced us that God does not exist.  He was alive, right there among us, just like he was in the little breaths of life my nephew was taking in that womb.  

This was in 2014 during the release of their debut album by the name "God of Flavor", the year the Lord was restoring all that the devil was taking from me. Some of y’all may not even understand these terms I’m throwing here today but you just seek a moment in the presence of God…..all those fallacies that atheists talk about will vacate premises! Shift houses kabisa!

I’ve never really looked at myself as the straight up Christian who's perfect and all, but in the presence of God I’m like a hopeless romantic. I just give in and loose it! I stand there like a child, utterly helpless!!

In the presence of God is when all guards break loose. This is where you forget about your little achievements that make you feel a little better than others in a crowd. This is when the man or woman you love stands beside you insignificantly. This is when your guilty pleasures that have been striking you with endless guilt somehow tend to stand way behind you as you take in God’s presence. 

This is when you stand amazed at a God so good! A God so merciful! A God so gracious! A God whose wholeness you can’t fathom because even the greatest thoughts you have of who He is can’t describe him in the most subtle of ways.

This God of ours!

This God of ours exists! He exists whether we acknowledge it or not! And in Mwanga’s ‘We Will Rule’ album launch there’ll be a most plausible opportunity for us to experience Him once again. Here is "We Will Rule" Trailer 2016

Most of us go to God for all sorts of reasons. Others simply because they desire to grow in their relationship with Christ….but others, where the majority of us are categorized, we just go to God because of our helplessness. We go to God for redemption, for restoration, for reconciliation. We go to God to confess about our sinful nature. We go to God to tell Him about what burdens us. To tell him about our sexual misconducts, our hell-condemned escapades, our failures, our fears…..and mainly we go to God because He is the only one we can be true to. He’s the only who allows us to feel that despite how irredeemable our lives have been, He’d still consent for us to come before Him and worship Him. We go to God for victory! We go to Him to rule again! 

The opportunity to take back what the devil has stolen from us is here again! Let’s show up, let’s be there in numbers. Gather everyone, even the person sited next to you in that PSV. Let them know that here is an opportunity for us to worship. Here is an opportunity to stand naked and yet be most covered. In worship is where truth sheds off everything on and in you and covers you with the Holy Spirit.

There will be a Premier For the "We Will Rule" Album on the 2nd of June 2016 at the Westgate Mall from 6PM-9PM. Moreover the Album Launch will be held at the Parklands Baptist Church on the 5th of June 2016.

I do not want to miss out on what the Lord is doing in this season. I need a lot of Jesus…..and so I’ll make me available. I’ll go for this launch just as I am, you should too!

Having a "sponsor" or not is an entitled choice for a lady to make

“Sponsor” talks are making rounds on social media like a blazing Australian forest fire!!

Most folks are busy siring opinions on what’s right and what’s wrong: On what’s the moral. And a good percentage of that gang want their opinion to receive the seal of “the most right opinion of the discussion”.

I hear them! I even see them! I mostly see how they are quick to judge these women for sinning differently from them…smh!

I didn’t want to react….buuuuuuuttttttttt, who am I to resist??

So here I am, I’ll share my two cents…

As humans we were given the ability to choose whatever we want to do with our lives. 1 Corinthians 10:23 says that “Everything is allowable, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable, but everything does not build others up.” Our choices, independent of what has influenced them, are entirely ours to make. Independent of who gets affected, for as long as it is in line with the law of the land in which you call yourself a citizen, it is for us to decide what works for us. KEEPING IN MIND THAT NOT EVERYTHING IS EVENTUALLY PROFITABLE, and therefore this means that we eventually have to live with the consequences of our choices. 

If one chooses to have a sponsor, by all means they should do it big and thrive while at it.

If one chooses to remain celibate, let nothing hold them back.

If being gay is your most desired sexual preference, then by all means seek thee he or she that has the same interest and enjoy the boat ride.

Whichever way we choose to please ourselves sexually, for as long as the LAW OF THE LAND PERMITS, and the FAITH YOU SUBSCRIBE TO ALLOWS IT, then let not the voices of anyone outside your system stop you.

Most of us want those existing in the earth’s ecosystem to do as our core believes would have us do. We want other people to behave as our conscience, preference, and even choices would have us do.

But really, they are entitled to the same freewill given unto us. We speak against other people trying to impose their faith and beliefs on us, especially us Christians, but we’re in most cases the first to impose what we think is right on others. WHY DON’T WE LEAD BY LIVING CHRIST-LIKE LIVES THROUGH OUR ACTIONS BEFORE MAKING OUR OPINIONS ON OTHER PEOPLE’S CHOICES?

It is not a lack of love, to allow people, even those closest to us, to do as they please. It is actually the greatest sense of love to accept them as they are. We should instead caution them on the consequences of their actions, aggressively share why they should choose otherwise (according to our sense of wisdom), preach to them what we believe is the TRUTH, BUT STILL ACCEPT THEM AS THEY ARE.

What is defined as the lack of love is to do nothing about their choices. SILENCE IS HATRED!

Not being silent however does not translate to condemnation. Condemnation has never been the way to reverse another person’s choices.

Photo courtesy of google.com

So, if a lady chooses to have a sponsor, if you know her and don’t agree with her choices, and YOU’RE TRUE TO THEM (leave alone these social media humans filled with self-righteousness and bile over what does not suit their beliefs), then with love strongly caution them on why they shouldn’t pursue that path.

What I should add though is that we live in a world where one man’s meat is another’s poison.

Just as you’re ready to caution, be ready to get cautioned over your own choices; even those you believe in strongest!  

My conversation with a Cancer Survivor

Recently, a good friend from campus saw it fit to nominate me for a cancer awareness selfie challenge for 10 days. I was not particularly consistent because, oh well, one can’t afford to be online 7 days a week consecutively….I mean, Uhuru said we need to build the nation!

Anyway, while at it, Lynn Mutakale, a very heartwarming go-getter made a comment on one of my posts telling me about how she survived cancer.

Because the writer in me felt the need to capture that in writing, I had to engage her in a chit chat.

Her story is the story of a few women who were conscious enough to get themselves checked whenever they observed some discrepancies with their health. However, there are many (and maybe you are among them...or a girl you know is among them), who are not keen enough to note the changes or discomfort in our "Victoria's secret". We can prevent spending millions on medical bills, putting time into pay bills, or worse still watching our loved ones agonize in pain as we lie helpless on hospital beds. 

I besiege all of us therefore to take up the Cancer Awareness challenge and let your social network know that we can all beat cancer! 

This is how it went down….(Disclaimer: we did a lot of aimless laughing while at it...just because we can..hehe) 

The beautiful Lynn Mutakale

My conversation with a Cancer Survivor:

Me: heeeyyyyy

Lynn: Hey!!

Me: Will now be a bad time for you to share about your cancer victory??

Lynn: Hahaha not at all. How would you like to do this?

Me: Hehe....right here should be fine

Let’s chat up about it

Begin from anywhere (tongue emoticon)

Lynn: Hahaha okay let’s start with a disclaimer, I was found to have pre-cancerous cells in my cervix that put me at a high risk of cancer developing.

Me: Disclaimer noted...

Lynn: Secondly it has been about 3 months of medication and doctor visits but now I am clear of the cells, but still undergoing studies for evaluation.

So... I will redirect you to my blog. Read it first then from there I can answer more questions that you may have regarding the same is that okay??

Me: that's OK...please post the link here for me

Lynn: https://reneemutakale.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/my-battle/

There you go.

Me: great! Thanks! Will get back to you

(After a few mins...)

WWWWOOOWWW!!!

OK...lemme first comment as a writer, you can write madam Mutakale!!!! (The African instincts in you....haha)

That was a good read

Lynn: Hahaha I am humbled. Very humbled thank you

Me: Then now as a fan and audience, that was very inspiring!!!!

now mamas need to get that pap smear yo!!!

Lynn: Haha mafans!! Gosh Judy slow down. You will make this head grow big.

Me: hehheee.....

and then I got a mention in your blog....hehhee

I have made it in life!!! *happy dance*

anyway, what more would you like me to add as I write down as part of your story.....now that it's all written down ... hehehe

Lynn: Hahaha. Anything more you would like to add I am willing to give. I doubt I would miss a bit of royco or kachumbari to make it better.

Me: hehhe.....lemme just work with what you've given

Should I need more I already know where to find you J J

Lynn: Fantastic!

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