I am so glad that when I was born, I was born with a right side and a left side. For some reason if I think about being born or living with only a right side or only a left side it seems kind of icky.
Some of you may disagree with me, but, because I was born with a right side and a left side (a major qualification to understand what I am getting at here), when I eat, I feed BOTH sides of my body equally at the same time. And, quite frankly, I fully expect both sides to work together for the benefit of my whole body...
Kind of a crazy thought isn't it...
But if I saw a person with a big knife in each hand and the left side was trying to cut off the right side and the right side was trying to cut off the left side, I'd almost have to say that person was, well... Bewitched, insane. I'm tempted to almost say, demon possessed...
What do you think?
See what is going on right now politically in this country (USA) is that both "sides" are merely using certain issues to draw people onto their side to gain power for their own purposes which have nothing to do with those issues. To the powers that be, the issues are merely a means to an end... People are being USED!.
But there is a much wider agenda going on in levels far above what we can see in the realm of "power." The "power players" on the "left" and the "right" are merely pawns for, or perhaps even unwitting slaves to this upper level agenda. It's like a multi-level marketing scheme where the lower level people trying to increase their income ultimately contribute far more to goals of someone above them and those further above gain exponentially... and so on... What going on is EXACTLY like that.
But what most people don't know is this: the agendas of the "left" and the "right" are sections of the same pyramid... It's not hard to recognize who is really behind this lust and manipulation for power... Lust for power, spreading and encouraging division, using deception as a tool to keep those below in complicity... Evil at it's highest level...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Passing It On
This morning I was scanning Mukulu Jonathan's (OOCM's founder and director) personal facebook page for potential back dated content for the new "blog" I've been helping out and putting together in my spare time and I happened upon this statement he posted in November 2012 (before I met him). I think, mostly, we only see bits and pieces of people's lives posted on facebook, rarely knowing them in a more personal way. I have also noticed over the years that people tend to become more aware of a "named ministry" and rarely take the time to get to know the people behind it all or how it all started...
Mukulu Jonathan, a local christian and a friend of mine in Uganda, posted this and I think it shows insight into his heart and what drives him in ministry to orphans and the disadvantaged. I have to say though that it is wisdom that is being lived out in their lives on a daily basis but it can also form in us a "seed" of understanding that can grow into a direction in our lives as people and believers in many other different ways and directions.
"All believers need to share yourself with others, life begins to find its meaning to our lord. When you help others you start planting a generation, happiness to young ones. The time you touch the lives of others is the moment you truly live your purpose near to lord. The kindness we do is never lost or forgotten and each act takes root to grow and every bit of love we show in time will come up with good fruit. we also need to uplift friends in prayers, AMEN"
I heard an old brother from the welsh revivals (early 1900's) speak a word once from his experience of many, many decades of life:
"You produce your like!..."
I was thinking this morning about that "word" and how it might apply to Mukulu Jonathan's heartfelt statement above. And how what he said could very well change our lives in the Lord...
Mukulu Jonathan, a local christian and a friend of mine in Uganda, posted this and I think it shows insight into his heart and what drives him in ministry to orphans and the disadvantaged. I have to say though that it is wisdom that is being lived out in their lives on a daily basis but it can also form in us a "seed" of understanding that can grow into a direction in our lives as people and believers in many other different ways and directions.
"All believers need to share yourself with others, life begins to find its meaning to our lord. When you help others you start planting a generation, happiness to young ones. The time you touch the lives of others is the moment you truly live your purpose near to lord. The kindness we do is never lost or forgotten and each act takes root to grow and every bit of love we show in time will come up with good fruit. we also need to uplift friends in prayers, AMEN"
I heard an old brother from the welsh revivals (early 1900's) speak a word once from his experience of many, many decades of life:
"You produce your like!..."
I was thinking this morning about that "word" and how it might apply to Mukulu Jonathan's heartfelt statement above. And how what he said could very well change our lives in the Lord...
Sunday, August 4, 2013
How Things Come About
How things can come about...
This is my personal blog so guess I can talk about things that are happening in my life right?
It's amazing sometimes how we can be walking along a path or even stumbling along it and God can orchestrate circumstances that draw us into another new facet in our lives or even a radical change in direction. I've seen it happen to me in my lifetime many times...In the Lord, I think it almost always starts with being made aware of a need. Virtually always someone else's need. Sometimes it can start with a vision or a dream and other times God just slowly and methodically places things in our lives (even disruptions) that draw us in the direction we need to go.
Seven months ago, (It seems a lot longer than that), a good friend of mine told me he was taking a trip to visit some friends in Uganda. Something perked up in my spirit and I knew I needed to pray for him the whole month he would be there. (Jan. 2013) Never really gave it much thought beyond praying for him except for a growing sense of "being there in spirit" but in mid Jan., a young christian nursing student from Uganda, looking for christian friends in the West, sent a "friend request" to me on facebook and after praying about it, (I am very careful about who I "friend" on facebook), accepted the request. She's about 3 years younger than my youngest daughter.
After months of endless chats with this young lady who was so delighted to meet and get to know this christian father (however imperfect) with a family, (and I to her as well) I slowly found myself being more and more aware of the country, the people and in particular the believers in the Lord Jesus through her. I learned about the lack, the hardships, the poverty of the people and yet witnessed the most amazing ability of a lot of people there to rise up above circumstances and to look forward in life by having a trust in God for things that others in the west would see as impossible or even crushing under the circumstances. One brother from the West who has been there told me it's because they have no choice. They have to believe God. There simply are no other options there. Delightful, inspiring, worthy of mention. This young lady is now in her 3rd term of nursing school with a little help from her friends in the west and will graduate in early 2014. A blessing for her and yet a blessing for many, many others in Uganda because there is a dire need for medical personnel there. Her name is Luthy Monica...
One thing leads to another... One day, I saw a comment on her facebook post by a guy named Mukulu Jonathan and I sensed a particularly strong nudge from the Lord to befriend him on facebook. Well it turns out that he is Luthy's cousin but a little older and he had started a local orphans ministry in a village in a rural area. (most of the country is "rural"). I learned more and more through him and others I've met online about the orphan situation there in Uganda that is an utterly devastating situation... I have found myself involved in one way or another since then.
I really can't help myself in that regard... Somehow in all this, I have not only been growing and challenged to change and respond, but I have gained some very dear brothers and friends in the Lord. I am finding it more and more difficult to hide in my "cave." Now I ask you my friends... Is that really a bad thing or is that a "God thing"...
This is my personal blog so guess I can talk about things that are happening in my life right?
It's amazing sometimes how we can be walking along a path or even stumbling along it and God can orchestrate circumstances that draw us into another new facet in our lives or even a radical change in direction. I've seen it happen to me in my lifetime many times...In the Lord, I think it almost always starts with being made aware of a need. Virtually always someone else's need. Sometimes it can start with a vision or a dream and other times God just slowly and methodically places things in our lives (even disruptions) that draw us in the direction we need to go.
Seven months ago, (It seems a lot longer than that), a good friend of mine told me he was taking a trip to visit some friends in Uganda. Something perked up in my spirit and I knew I needed to pray for him the whole month he would be there. (Jan. 2013) Never really gave it much thought beyond praying for him except for a growing sense of "being there in spirit" but in mid Jan., a young christian nursing student from Uganda, looking for christian friends in the West, sent a "friend request" to me on facebook and after praying about it, (I am very careful about who I "friend" on facebook), accepted the request. She's about 3 years younger than my youngest daughter.
After months of endless chats with this young lady who was so delighted to meet and get to know this christian father (however imperfect) with a family, (and I to her as well) I slowly found myself being more and more aware of the country, the people and in particular the believers in the Lord Jesus through her. I learned about the lack, the hardships, the poverty of the people and yet witnessed the most amazing ability of a lot of people there to rise up above circumstances and to look forward in life by having a trust in God for things that others in the west would see as impossible or even crushing under the circumstances. One brother from the West who has been there told me it's because they have no choice. They have to believe God. There simply are no other options there. Delightful, inspiring, worthy of mention. This young lady is now in her 3rd term of nursing school with a little help from her friends in the west and will graduate in early 2014. A blessing for her and yet a blessing for many, many others in Uganda because there is a dire need for medical personnel there. Her name is Luthy Monica...
One thing leads to another... One day, I saw a comment on her facebook post by a guy named Mukulu Jonathan and I sensed a particularly strong nudge from the Lord to befriend him on facebook. Well it turns out that he is Luthy's cousin but a little older and he had started a local orphans ministry in a village in a rural area. (most of the country is "rural"). I learned more and more through him and others I've met online about the orphan situation there in Uganda that is an utterly devastating situation... I have found myself involved in one way or another since then.
I really can't help myself in that regard... Somehow in all this, I have not only been growing and challenged to change and respond, but I have gained some very dear brothers and friends in the Lord. I am finding it more and more difficult to hide in my "cave." Now I ask you my friends... Is that really a bad thing or is that a "God thing"...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Supreme Court News Flash!
NEWS FLASH!!!
The Supreme Court today handed down it's most far reaching decision in the case "The State of Confusion vs Superman". The court overturned the federal law administered by the FAA that gave Superman a license to fly without mechanical aids based on his unique ability to fly in that manner.
In the landmark decision, the court recognized that not all human beings can fly like Superman but also found that in order to protect the rights of other human beings who cannot actually leave the ground in their attempts to fly but desire to be licensed to fly without mechanical aids, under the Equal Rights clause of the constitution, should be granted licenses to fly by the govt based solely upon the criteria that a person who believes they can fly should in all fairness be considered to be actually flying.
The long awaited Supreme Court decision was met with shouts of joy by a crowd of 100,000 people outside of the court jumping up in the air and falling down yelling, "I can fly! I can fly! I can fly!". Many in the crowd were in tears saying, "I can fly! and now the government recognizes it and I can finally have my license to fly."
Oh and Superman was originally given his license to fly in recognition of his taking responsibility to maintain order in the skies and because it was well known by everyone that he was busy saving the human race from extinction...
It has been reported that Superman has decided to leave planet earth seeing that there are so many people who are licensed to "fly" now that surely they can save the human race from extinction all by themselves...
And you know what? Superman knows that he doesn't need a "license" in order to fly. And that giving someone a license to fly doesn't make them able to. He was just being responsible in applying for one.
End of story.
End of mankind.
The Supreme Court today handed down it's most far reaching decision in the case "The State of Confusion vs Superman". The court overturned the federal law administered by the FAA that gave Superman a license to fly without mechanical aids based on his unique ability to fly in that manner.
In the landmark decision, the court recognized that not all human beings can fly like Superman but also found that in order to protect the rights of other human beings who cannot actually leave the ground in their attempts to fly but desire to be licensed to fly without mechanical aids, under the Equal Rights clause of the constitution, should be granted licenses to fly by the govt based solely upon the criteria that a person who believes they can fly should in all fairness be considered to be actually flying.
The long awaited Supreme Court decision was met with shouts of joy by a crowd of 100,000 people outside of the court jumping up in the air and falling down yelling, "I can fly! I can fly! I can fly!". Many in the crowd were in tears saying, "I can fly! and now the government recognizes it and I can finally have my license to fly."
Oh and Superman was originally given his license to fly in recognition of his taking responsibility to maintain order in the skies and because it was well known by everyone that he was busy saving the human race from extinction...
It has been reported that Superman has decided to leave planet earth seeing that there are so many people who are licensed to "fly" now that surely they can save the human race from extinction all by themselves...
And you know what? Superman knows that he doesn't need a "license" in order to fly. And that giving someone a license to fly doesn't make them able to. He was just being responsible in applying for one.
End of story.
End of mankind.
Friday, June 21, 2013
Blog Introduction 101
The way life goes lately for me between work as a carpenter/handyman and helping others to communicate online, I rarely have time to actually work on my own blog. But I have a certain nudge to add to this as well. Hopefully with balance and the grace of God...
It's funny how life goes sometimes. Years ago I started and ran Inter-National Christian News online for over 5+ years. Also learned to administer the 2 internet web servers for that whole time... I had to shut it all down eventually (2002) in part because of failing support. That's not the first time in my life I've had to do that. One thing that I was left with from those experiences is that I can relate well when ministries and individuals have their dreams, visions and goals and are struggling, and believing God to continue in them (Especially when those dreams, visions and goals are focusing on the needs of others). I also know what it is like to be dependent on God's moving in people's hearts to come alongside and be supportive in those goals...
The concept "Inter-National" is still there in spirit available for anyone with the right heart to apprehend from God and apply in all kinds of ways to their life and walk in the Lord...
The vision I had of that was of believers in and among all nations and people groups functioning together as ONE and each person participating from their own unique and EQUAL local perspective, sharing with others in other nations about their lives and what God was/is doing in their locality... - Without undue reference to organizational status or division... Just God and His people... The way it's supposed to be and God intends and will accomplish some day.Quite likely despite ourselves...
In 2013, I found myself being drawn towards knowing believers in Uganda and the great need there. That's no secret on my facebook page, but it goes a lot deeper than what I feel the liberty on facebook to express for some reason. (like a lot of things on my heart at times). I've gained a lot by allowing God to place their concerns on my heart, maybe even the start of returning to my first love of God...
So I find myself, after a few months of never seeming to have the time (or the drive) to work on my own blog, having the desire to start it by sharing the concerns I have gained (a REAL spiritual blessing) from God for a few people I have gotten to know in Uganda.
The two friends I want to introduce in this post are the first two people I got to know in Uganda on a personal level. Both their lives, even though they have personal needs of their own, are focused in the long term direction of ministering to the lives and great needs of others in their communities in Uganda.
Luthy Monica
A 22 year old delightful young Christian lady in Uganda who, despite extreme poverty and having lost both her parents at a very young age, is endeavoring to become a nurse. Through what has been nothing short of miraculous support from individuals in the "Western world" at different times, she has managed to walk towards that goal and is in her 3rd 5-month semester at Jinja School of Nursing and Midwifery at present. God willing (and people being willing to be touched by the need), she will graduate in 2014 as a fully qualified, and equipped nurse ready to go out to remote villages and provide medical care to the people there or work in one of the clinics and hospitals in the area. Many people in rural Uganda die because they have poor or even non-existing medical care.
If you feel prompted to learn more about her or follow events in her life you can go to the page at the left of this called "Luthy Monica". Hopefully I can keep up a little mini-blog for her. It's my gift to her. You can also open your heart to her life and needs and donate to her education via an online donation link I've set up for her at the bottom of that page.
Mukulu Jonathan
This precious younger brother (31?) in 2010 founded a ministry to orphans and the disadvantaged in their area of Uganda called "Oasis Orphans Care Ministry" which is registered with the government of Uganda.. Together with his staff and volunteers from area churches since then has managed to minister to needs there in spiritual and practical ways...
On my blog page called "OOCM" found on the left side of this blog, you can find more info and links to Mukulu Jonathan's personal facebook page and the OOCM official blog (which I helped them put together). Both sites linked contain much more info and Mukulu's facebook page has tons of photos of the children as well as the staff and volunteers from the village working together to alleviate the needs there. They are in particularly desperate need right now of sponsors no matter how small the amount. There is also a link on he OOCM blog on their support page that leads to a secure online donation form.
It's funny how life goes sometimes. Years ago I started and ran Inter-National Christian News online for over 5+ years. Also learned to administer the 2 internet web servers for that whole time... I had to shut it all down eventually (2002) in part because of failing support. That's not the first time in my life I've had to do that. One thing that I was left with from those experiences is that I can relate well when ministries and individuals have their dreams, visions and goals and are struggling, and believing God to continue in them (Especially when those dreams, visions and goals are focusing on the needs of others). I also know what it is like to be dependent on God's moving in people's hearts to come alongside and be supportive in those goals...
The concept "Inter-National" is still there in spirit available for anyone with the right heart to apprehend from God and apply in all kinds of ways to their life and walk in the Lord...
The vision I had of that was of believers in and among all nations and people groups functioning together as ONE and each person participating from their own unique and EQUAL local perspective, sharing with others in other nations about their lives and what God was/is doing in their locality... - Without undue reference to organizational status or division... Just God and His people... The way it's supposed to be and God intends and will accomplish some day.Quite likely despite ourselves...
In 2013, I found myself being drawn towards knowing believers in Uganda and the great need there. That's no secret on my facebook page, but it goes a lot deeper than what I feel the liberty on facebook to express for some reason. (like a lot of things on my heart at times). I've gained a lot by allowing God to place their concerns on my heart, maybe even the start of returning to my first love of God...
So I find myself, after a few months of never seeming to have the time (or the drive) to work on my own blog, having the desire to start it by sharing the concerns I have gained (a REAL spiritual blessing) from God for a few people I have gotten to know in Uganda.
The two friends I want to introduce in this post are the first two people I got to know in Uganda on a personal level. Both their lives, even though they have personal needs of their own, are focused in the long term direction of ministering to the lives and great needs of others in their communities in Uganda.
Luthy Monica
A 22 year old delightful young Christian lady in Uganda who, despite extreme poverty and having lost both her parents at a very young age, is endeavoring to become a nurse. Through what has been nothing short of miraculous support from individuals in the "Western world" at different times, she has managed to walk towards that goal and is in her 3rd 5-month semester at Jinja School of Nursing and Midwifery at present. God willing (and people being willing to be touched by the need), she will graduate in 2014 as a fully qualified, and equipped nurse ready to go out to remote villages and provide medical care to the people there or work in one of the clinics and hospitals in the area. Many people in rural Uganda die because they have poor or even non-existing medical care.
If you feel prompted to learn more about her or follow events in her life you can go to the page at the left of this called "Luthy Monica". Hopefully I can keep up a little mini-blog for her. It's my gift to her. You can also open your heart to her life and needs and donate to her education via an online donation link I've set up for her at the bottom of that page.
Mukulu Jonathan
This precious younger brother (31?) in 2010 founded a ministry to orphans and the disadvantaged in their area of Uganda called "Oasis Orphans Care Ministry" which is registered with the government of Uganda.. Together with his staff and volunteers from area churches since then has managed to minister to needs there in spiritual and practical ways...
On my blog page called "OOCM" found on the left side of this blog, you can find more info and links to Mukulu Jonathan's personal facebook page and the OOCM official blog (which I helped them put together). Both sites linked contain much more info and Mukulu's facebook page has tons of photos of the children as well as the staff and volunteers from the village working together to alleviate the needs there. They are in particularly desperate need right now of sponsors no matter how small the amount. There is also a link on he OOCM blog on their support page that leads to a secure online donation form.
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