Dear Friends,
Today is indeed a special day.
after listening to a lot of teaching from men of GOD
I stepped out to do what I had not done before.
I will tell you all about it.
Cheers
AK
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
LAMENTATIONS
I have been attending Sunday services at H.O.P (the gathering at KATI KATI)
I particularly like the way the word is taught and the Q and A session at the end is one that does it for me.
I really enjoyed the teachings on CHURCH leadership and i think it was well researched and quite deep.
Let me add that I am quite a distance from being a pastor, bishop or.....
Bless God.
it was deep stuff.
AK
I particularly like the way the word is taught and the Q and A session at the end is one that does it for me.
I really enjoyed the teachings on CHURCH leadership and i think it was well researched and quite deep.
Let me add that I am quite a distance from being a pastor, bishop or.....
Bless God.
it was deep stuff.
AK
Friday, June 06, 2008
10 YEARS SINCE I ACCEPTED CHRIST!
On heroes day 1998 in wandegeya, a Kampala suburb where i went to school, something happened. It was a great setting to get all the attention and as part of a dance act that would ROCK the rest of the school, the dance moves had been done and i knew my routine. It was the MAKERERE HIGH SCHOOL Celebration!
In the hot sun than started blazing at 11am, we gathered in the school Chapel where all the equipment was being installed and tested for a 12pm praise rally. Bob Kibirango was on the drums making organized noise as "TRUMPET VOICED" Simon Kinobe made noise with the electric guitar this time round. A truly amazing site, The kids were in control except for one "MZEE" Francis Kaggwa who was just among the kids.
The guest list was amazing: Musumba DJ, HEAVEN BOUND, BV, GO10, YUNNIE ZAWEDDE and Annette Namigadde who was a ready to rewind cassette player of the hit INSTEAD of ME... you took the cross at Calvary, instead of me you shade your blood.....trying not to get carried away.
Well all went as planned and then, the moment of truth... Johnathan Bukenkya, Anita Asiimwe Brenda, Bob, Myself and a few others got onto the stage to bring 3 weeks practice down.
"FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT THINK GOSPEL MUSIC HAS GONE TOO FAR....!!!"
As the speakers belted out KIRK's STOMP, I was gliding across the stage with the the mic in my hands making sure it was well switched off in case people noticed i had a challenge with the lyrics!
Then I fell into formation and the group of 6 started moving like mirror images. The show was fine alright, the crowd was on its feet and you could see people at the very end hanging in the windows just to get a glimpse. It was not long and we were off the stage to a THUNDEROUS applause. Met back stage and threw hugs and Hi 5's around. THE SATISFACTION!!!!
Well, whatever happened in between was but fuzzy till today but I walked back to the hall where the M'sumba DJ aka Martin Sempa was on the mic talking about the Love of GOD, salvation and JESUS. He spoke in the kind of accent that made the makes many "NOT WANT" to listen but "WANNA" listen and listen "aaigh".
Well, I remember he made the alter call and i thought it was time. Hesitated at first and then i heard a voice call me out. Before i could make my way to the front a one AZIZ, well known school kid with a smooth tongue and a sizable ladies fan club walked forward and as though it was like ... He can do it, So can you. I got the courage and then a SOUND BUBBLE... could here my footsteps as i made ma way to the front to receive Christ. THEN as i placed my hand in Martin Sempa's hand the bubble burst and all I could hear was an "EMIRATES stadium" roar.
There.... I received Christ and had the best 5 months of revival sweeping home with God touching my Dad in a way He's never touched him and salvation for DAD came faster than mine. He was invited to a prayer breakfast and THERE 8 people gave their lives to JESUS.
I have had my moments where i stepped out of my lane but JESUS has qualified me that He picks me up and lets me run on without PENALTY....
I was hosted on TOP radio and had my testimony beamed to Uganda to the Glory of JESUS.
TODAY IS BEAUTIFUL!!
In the hot sun than started blazing at 11am, we gathered in the school Chapel where all the equipment was being installed and tested for a 12pm praise rally. Bob Kibirango was on the drums making organized noise as "TRUMPET VOICED" Simon Kinobe made noise with the electric guitar this time round. A truly amazing site, The kids were in control except for one "MZEE" Francis Kaggwa who was just among the kids.
The guest list was amazing: Musumba DJ, HEAVEN BOUND, BV, GO10, YUNNIE ZAWEDDE and Annette Namigadde who was a ready to rewind cassette player of the hit INSTEAD of ME... you took the cross at Calvary, instead of me you shade your blood.....trying not to get carried away.
Well all went as planned and then, the moment of truth... Johnathan Bukenkya, Anita Asiimwe Brenda, Bob, Myself and a few others got onto the stage to bring 3 weeks practice down.
"FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT THINK GOSPEL MUSIC HAS GONE TOO FAR....!!!"
As the speakers belted out KIRK's STOMP, I was gliding across the stage with the the mic in my hands making sure it was well switched off in case people noticed i had a challenge with the lyrics!
Then I fell into formation and the group of 6 started moving like mirror images. The show was fine alright, the crowd was on its feet and you could see people at the very end hanging in the windows just to get a glimpse. It was not long and we were off the stage to a THUNDEROUS applause. Met back stage and threw hugs and Hi 5's around. THE SATISFACTION!!!!
Well, whatever happened in between was but fuzzy till today but I walked back to the hall where the M'sumba DJ aka Martin Sempa was on the mic talking about the Love of GOD, salvation and JESUS. He spoke in the kind of accent that made the makes many "NOT WANT" to listen but "WANNA" listen and listen "aaigh".
Well, I remember he made the alter call and i thought it was time. Hesitated at first and then i heard a voice call me out. Before i could make my way to the front a one AZIZ, well known school kid with a smooth tongue and a sizable ladies fan club walked forward and as though it was like ... He can do it, So can you. I got the courage and then a SOUND BUBBLE... could here my footsteps as i made ma way to the front to receive Christ. THEN as i placed my hand in Martin Sempa's hand the bubble burst and all I could hear was an "EMIRATES stadium" roar.
There.... I received Christ and had the best 5 months of revival sweeping home with God touching my Dad in a way He's never touched him and salvation for DAD came faster than mine. He was invited to a prayer breakfast and THERE 8 people gave their lives to JESUS.
I have had my moments where i stepped out of my lane but JESUS has qualified me that He picks me up and lets me run on without PENALTY....
I was hosted on TOP radio and had my testimony beamed to Uganda to the Glory of JESUS.
TODAY IS BEAUTIFUL!!
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
WHAT CARD WOULD U HAVE PLAYED?
When ADAM was placed in the Garden of EDEN and instructions passed to him, everything seemed merry. We don't know if that was the case because GOD, who had declared that everything HE had made was good realized that it was not good for man to be alone.
Fast forward to the serpent tempting Eve and the events that followed. When God returned and demanded accountability, ADAM blamed EVE and as the story goes the serpent didn't have a "leg to stand on".
Well, It was nice seeing that OBAMA rose high in popularity because of his accountability and HILLARY initially blamed the campaign manager who walked, then the press which run way from her and finally her Gender which did not have a leg to stand on.
I am thinking..... If Obama was in her shoes, would his GENDER have a leg to stand? considering the fact that the press and the campaign team would walk. I am glad that the BLACK RACE HAS LEG and its walking tall and PROUD on the SHOULDERS of OBAMA
YES WE CAN!!
Fast forward to the serpent tempting Eve and the events that followed. When God returned and demanded accountability, ADAM blamed EVE and as the story goes the serpent didn't have a "leg to stand on".
Well, It was nice seeing that OBAMA rose high in popularity because of his accountability and HILLARY initially blamed the campaign manager who walked, then the press which run way from her and finally her Gender which did not have a leg to stand on.
I am thinking..... If Obama was in her shoes, would his GENDER have a leg to stand? considering the fact that the press and the campaign team would walk. I am glad that the BLACK RACE HAS LEG and its walking tall and PROUD on the SHOULDERS of OBAMA
YES WE CAN!!
Obama's first test: Handling Hillary
Barack Obama would like to remind you of something: He won and she didn’t. It’s about him now and not her. He has made history, and she is history. Not that Hillary Clinton admitted to any of that in her nonconcession concession speech Tuesday night, after Obama attained the delegate votes he needs for the Democratic presidential nomination
For someone giving indications she would like to be Obama’s running mate, Clinton was surprisingly ungracious. In fact, if you had just awakened from a (blissful) 17-month sleep, you would have thought she had won.“Because of you, we won together the swing states necessary to get to 270 electoral votes,” she told the crowd in New York City. “I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard and no longer to be invisible.”
But her fighting words only increased the need for Obama to show that he can be strong, tough and in charge. Clinton’s unwillingness to recognize Obama as the victor only increased the need for Obama to act like a president and not like a doormat. And denying her a vice presidential slot may be a way of doing that.
It has been a hard-fought and sometimes bitter campaign, but Obama is not, one of his senior advisers assured me Tuesday night, going to spend a lot of time in the next few months wooing Clinton supporters whose feelings may be hurting.
“I think there are always immediate feelings of disappointment and anger,” Anita Dunn said. “But in the months ahead, he must appeal not just to the constituency groups who favored her in the primaries, but those he wants in the general election, and that includes independents and Republicans.”
Another Obama adviser, who asked not to be identified, said that he was not worried that Clinton supporters would stay angry.
“Look at how many switched today to Obama,” he said. “Look at the Clinton supporters, look at Maxine Waters [the congresswoman from California who endorsed Hillary Clinton in late January but switched to Obama on Tuesday], who were passionate advocates for Hillary, but who switched to Obama.”
“At the end of the day,” he went on, “Hillary supporters will look at John McCain and decide they are not going to vote for a man who will put judges on the Supreme Court who would overturn Roe v. Wade.”
The easiest way, the Obama campaign has decided, to turn the page away from Clinton is to go at McCain full bore, start the general election campaign immediately and ignore the media chatter about what Hillary does or does not want.
“Now is the appropriate moment to begin the general election discussion,” Dunn said. “That is why Sen. Obama chose Minnesota [the site of the Republican convention in September] for his speech.”
And while Obama spent a few moments praising Clinton in his speech in St. Paul, he spent most of his time attacking McCain, raising the issue he so effectively used against Clinton: the need for change.
“Change is a foreign policy that doesn’t begin and end with a war that should’ve never been authorized and never been waged,” Obama said. He used that argument against Clinton, it worked, and now he is going to use it against McCain again and again.
“Obama put his stake in the ground tonight for the general election campaign, just like McCain put his stake in the ground for the general election campaign,” a senior Obama adviser told me. “The story will shift to that. Obviously, the vice presidency will be part of the back story, but there is going to be a pretty active general campaign story going on."
McCain did his part by giving a major speech in New Orleans on Tuesday night. “I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought in to so many failed ideas,” McCain said. “Like others before him, he seems to think government is the answer to every problem.”
But the three speeches — Clinton’s, McCain’s and Obama’s — showed off one of Obama’s great advantages: While McCain was reasoned and detailed, while Clinton had a few good lines, Obama soared.
“Behind all the labels and false divisions and categories that define us, beyond all the petty bickering and point-scoring in Washington, Americans are a decent, generous, compassionate people,” he said. “America, this is our moment. This is our time.”
It was, after a momentous struggle, Barack Obama’s time Tuesday night. And he made sure everybody knew it.
For someone giving indications she would like to be Obama’s running mate, Clinton was surprisingly ungracious. In fact, if you had just awakened from a (blissful) 17-month sleep, you would have thought she had won.“Because of you, we won together the swing states necessary to get to 270 electoral votes,” she told the crowd in New York City. “I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard and no longer to be invisible.”
But her fighting words only increased the need for Obama to show that he can be strong, tough and in charge. Clinton’s unwillingness to recognize Obama as the victor only increased the need for Obama to act like a president and not like a doormat. And denying her a vice presidential slot may be a way of doing that.
It has been a hard-fought and sometimes bitter campaign, but Obama is not, one of his senior advisers assured me Tuesday night, going to spend a lot of time in the next few months wooing Clinton supporters whose feelings may be hurting.
“I think there are always immediate feelings of disappointment and anger,” Anita Dunn said. “But in the months ahead, he must appeal not just to the constituency groups who favored her in the primaries, but those he wants in the general election, and that includes independents and Republicans.”
Another Obama adviser, who asked not to be identified, said that he was not worried that Clinton supporters would stay angry.
“Look at how many switched today to Obama,” he said. “Look at the Clinton supporters, look at Maxine Waters [the congresswoman from California who endorsed Hillary Clinton in late January but switched to Obama on Tuesday], who were passionate advocates for Hillary, but who switched to Obama.”
“At the end of the day,” he went on, “Hillary supporters will look at John McCain and decide they are not going to vote for a man who will put judges on the Supreme Court who would overturn Roe v. Wade.”
The easiest way, the Obama campaign has decided, to turn the page away from Clinton is to go at McCain full bore, start the general election campaign immediately and ignore the media chatter about what Hillary does or does not want.
“Now is the appropriate moment to begin the general election discussion,” Dunn said. “That is why Sen. Obama chose Minnesota [the site of the Republican convention in September] for his speech.”
And while Obama spent a few moments praising Clinton in his speech in St. Paul, he spent most of his time attacking McCain, raising the issue he so effectively used against Clinton: the need for change.
“Change is a foreign policy that doesn’t begin and end with a war that should’ve never been authorized and never been waged,” Obama said. He used that argument against Clinton, it worked, and now he is going to use it against McCain again and again.
“Obama put his stake in the ground tonight for the general election campaign, just like McCain put his stake in the ground for the general election campaign,” a senior Obama adviser told me. “The story will shift to that. Obviously, the vice presidency will be part of the back story, but there is going to be a pretty active general campaign story going on."
McCain did his part by giving a major speech in New Orleans on Tuesday night. “I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought in to so many failed ideas,” McCain said. “Like others before him, he seems to think government is the answer to every problem.”
But the three speeches — Clinton’s, McCain’s and Obama’s — showed off one of Obama’s great advantages: While McCain was reasoned and detailed, while Clinton had a few good lines, Obama soared.
“Behind all the labels and false divisions and categories that define us, beyond all the petty bickering and point-scoring in Washington, Americans are a decent, generous, compassionate people,” he said. “America, this is our moment. This is our time.”
It was, after a momentous struggle, Barack Obama’s time Tuesday night. And he made sure everybody knew it.
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