Dear Friends,
Before I go to todays hot topic, I want to share you you all something that has happened as a result of this blog. Someone read last weeks message and accepted Christ!!! This is fantastic, this was my primary intention when I let this weblog go public and God has answered my prayer.
“Dear Father in Heaven, I know that I may not be perfect in all the things I do in this world, but in your holy Name I thank seek forgiveness for all my inequities and most of all Father I thank you for that soul that came to you as a result of this weblog. Thank you Lord for answered prayer and for the courage and words to put here. Halelujah.
Amen”
Man Moskode (Sammy) asked us all to embarass ourselves in the eyes of Men in decalring Christs love for us.
Isaiah 54:1
The Future Glory of Zion
1 “Sing, O barren woman,
you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,
you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband,”
says the LORD.
As for me I will ask you all to seek ye first the kingdom and his rightousness and all the things we need will be added unto us. Please read Mathew 6:24-34. Pastor Tony, Please give us a sermon on Seeking the Kingdom when you get a chance.
Back to kawa blogging…
Friends when you go for a bash you seek a homie to go with and you do it with alot of psyke. When it comes to story of going for a funeral, you appear alone…, there where Pasi’s opening remarks, ha ha ha, How about when you come to church on Sunday, do you tafuta a homie? Be proud of Sunday and the service, bring a pal, kanisa sio matanga (Church is not a funeral arrangment meeting)!!! remember the bible says…
Mathew10:20
20For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.”
Pasi says he wrote this sermon on 6th of July, for such a string message, that was rather a short time for prep. That is how you can easily tell that God has inspiration in all he does and its not the prep time but the essence that counts.
Here we go…
Friends we are all important before the eyes of God, Mandela, Malcom X, Kenyatta and even that blind beggar you see on the streets… before the eyes of God, they are all equally important. The bible was not written by saints was it, look at the mix of the 40 different people who took 1500 years to write the bible, God did not use the man’s way to choose holier than tho peeps to write the bible, He had His own style. Thus why we find some of the guys where players like akina Solomon who had 700 wives and 300 concubines, akina Moses who where Murders, akina Peter the sons of Zebedie who where cheapskate fishermen (infact when God called them they had missed to catch fish in the lake, it was thier worst day).
There was a 400 year break between the end of the first testament and the beginning of the second testament and still, the bible connects the time lines so well making it at Autobiography of the Lord God that connects like no second was left out. Has any of you noticed the end of Malachi having a 400 year silence before the beginning of Mathew? I guessed not.
Friends God is not 1 dimensional like most of us are, ya akina me who see a chick and instantly fall in love ‘Lust’ to be precise before even throughly knowing them. God is multidimensional, he know all the aspects of all his creation and He knows the reason as to why he chose specific people for specific tasks. Reverend Tony Kiamah not withstanding. I think he has told us his vibe a thousand times and that he is no saint.
bottom line friends, know yourself, be proud of yourself, Nairobi 100 years ago was probably huts and ero’s(maasai’s) with their cows, Nai 100 years to come will probably be a concrete jungle and to tell you the truth, no one will know you or your existence because you never knew yourself. Pasi gave example of how he as lost 3 members of his your congregation in many years, Some of them your friends, Mercy, Dorcas and Pauline. They where all beautiful people, with beautiful lives in Christ but the point is, their story was all written bo other people, it was summerised in one page of an eulogy.
Friends, who will wrote your story? Pasi does not know your story, your family menbers do now know your story, its you who knows your story… YOU!!! is your life worth 200 words in a karatasi on your funeral day? is it? like a standard 6 composition? pasi was very emotional on this issue.
Some of us will never have a decent conversation with our parents, the drama we will ever have in our lives is probably the one where the jirani has beef with his wife. Simply put, dont let other write your story, write your own story, get a pen and a paper or start a weblog like mine and give tit bits of who you are.
Pastor Kiamah thanks a lot for this message, though its tough I think its high time I began saying who I really am in ink. not who a bunch of my relatives will think I am when I am dead.
Pasi stressed that we should all grow up like US simply because we are our own individuals. Gossip is like a bush fire, its the spice of life, like a guy shot in a movie, we all enjoy and we know its bull sindio? dont let you story be gossiped, write it yourself.
Then pasi gave the story of the Author of the song Amaizing Graced. I will not write if here but will give you a reference to his full story. His name is John Newton.
Newton was born in London July 24, 1725, the son of a commander of a merchant ship which sailed the Mediterranean. When John was eleven, he went to sea with his father and made six voyages with him before the elder Newton retired. In 1744 John was impressed into service on a man-of-war, the H. M. S. Harwich. Finding conditions on board intolerable, he deserted but was soon recaptured and publicly flogged and demoted from midshipman to common seaman…
Go to http://www.anointedlinks.com/amazing_grace.html and read more.
Friends Pasi stressed that you should write and re-write your story and one day is will help someone else’s life more than you ever will know!!! you count, people, your experiences count. Tell your ups and downs, tell your falls and climbs. There was dead silence when pasi mentioned how useless eulogies written by others are.
God has written His story, THE BIBLE, who will write your story? You mean alot friends, kill the story of the devil and eulogize yourself. God wrote His, who will write yours?
We finished the service by singing the hymn Amazing Grace. Please read the story of this hymn on http://www.anointedlinks.com/amazing_grace.html to understand it.
Amazing Grace
Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)
That sav’d a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev’d;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ’d!
Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promis’d good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.
Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease;
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call’d me here below,
Will be forever mine.
Thanks a lot and sorry for the delay.
God bless you all and have a wonderful week ahead
Please feel free to comment, Your comments will be checked by pasi. Please don’t write stuff that will not please you.
I hope I have cut down on the slang.
Kathukya.
i liked the sermon, it was worth the time spent to sit and listen to what is important. i am actually thinking of “eulogizing myself” on the internet… more details soon….
By: sandra on July 12, 2007
at 4:12 am
i saw a nice page once, full of good stuff that can help out develop the necessary thoughts to write about yourself…. check out “http://jaribuuone.blospot.com” i liked it…abit cruel, but i liked it
By: moskode on July 12, 2007
at 4:18 am
So I’m sitting in the computer lab reading this sermon and I almost cried I know people around me would have slowly started moving away….anyway the point I’m trying to make is that the sermon really hit a nerve! Thanks Pasi for the impact that you have even half way across the world. God bless you immensely! oh and of course to whoever writes the weblog…Thanks for giving me the perfect way to start a week!
By: Nina on July 16, 2007
at 3:45 pm
Thank you guys for the feed back and yes this blog has become a favourite place for me.
Nina thank you for that line and i’m glad that your doing well in Him.
bless you Jonah and i hope your doing beeter this week, and the Lord will heal you perfetly.
By: Rev. Tony kiamah on July 17, 2007
at 7:01 am
ala? Nina? wah! nice to read you!!
By: moskode on July 17, 2007
at 11:24 am
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