Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

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The first casualty in this cynical move is to interrupt what CDM timetable of today and possibly thereafter

The regime fails to understand we were born to be free so any attempt to curtail freedoms enshrined by Our God just to permit a coterie to eat on our behalf is most likely to be met with ceaselessly protests ......why trouble own soul for passing pleasure of sin? Are we not pilgrims and sojourners in this passing world? Were we not born with nothing and we are bound to leave with nothing? Is it only in burials we say mtupu nilikuja na mtupu nitaondoka?

What is going on right now is protests against oppression...had the regime not substantially muzzle the opposition over the last four or more years such excitement we are now a witness to wouldn't have been there at all!

Tamper with inherently freedoms at own peril.

Powerful European colonialists attempted to put us on a leash but miserably failed why do the regime thinks it can prevail to fight God?

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Trust God to Do it His Way

I sometimes wish I kept more of a diary. I am glad that, at least, I have recorded some of my prayers. Alongside the words of today’s passage, ‘We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you’ (2 Chronicles 20:12), I have jotted down some of the seemingly insurmountable problems and situations we have faced over the years. It is amazing and wonderful to see and have a record of how God has delivered us from so many of them, in his own time and in his own way.
Being reminded of God’s ability to deliver us increases our faith that he can do it again. God really is powerful. In fact, God is all-powerful; he is ‘omnipotent’. You can trust him.


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Psalm 102:12-17

Trust God to answer prayer

‘Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence,’ as Charles Spurgeon famously said.
When you see the problems in your life and in your nation, what is your first response? As the psalmist looks out at the mess that the people of God are in and the fact that his city is in ruins, his first response is to cry out to God.
The psalmist extols God for both his power and his love, declaring his greatness: ‘You, O Lord, sit enthroned forever’ (v.12a) and his ‘compassion’ (v.13) for Jerusalem: ‘For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity’ (v.14).
As I look around our nation today, I see that so much of the church is in ruins. But God has the power to rebuild his people in this land.
You can be confident in the power of God to answer your prayers. It is not that you can control God’s power by your prayers, but that God is always active in the life of his people and his world: ‘He attends to the prayer of the wretched. He won’t dismiss their prayer’ (v.17, MSG).

Lord, I cry out to you to rebuild the church in this nation. Please send your Holy Spirit upon us again and on our nation, I pray.



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2 Chronicles 18:28-21:3

Trust God to fight your battles

What battles are you facing in your life? Jehoshaphat had his battles to fight. He was facing various ‘-ites’; ‘Moabites, Amonites and Meunites’.
But with us, as Joyce Meyer writes, ‘It is the ‘fear-ites’, ‘disease-ites’, ‘poverty-ites’, ‘bad marriage-ites’, ‘stress-ites’, ‘grouchy neighbour-ites’, ‘insecurity-ites’, ‘rejection-ites’ and so on.’
When he fought against the King of Aram, ‘Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him’ (18:31). We see in this the providence and sovereignty of God. God allowed a random arrow to kill the King of Israel, but protected Jehoshaphat who cried out to God (vv.28–34).
Jehoshaphat ‘turned [the people] back to the Lord’ (19:4). He appointed judges. He called them to avoid ‘injustice’, ‘partiality’ or ‘bribery’ (v.7). What a difference it would make to the world today if all the judges of the world were like that.
In spite of the fact that Jehoshaphat followed the Lord (‘He walked in the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord’, 20:32), he continued to face battles. Just because you are facing battles in your life at the moment it does not mean you have done something wrong. Sometimes you face battles not because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right.
A vast army came against him (v.2). Jehoshaphat proclaimed a nationwide fast and called together a massive prayer meeting with regional gatherings (vv.3–4).
He prayed to God. He recognised the power of God: ‘You rule over the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you’ (v.6).
He recognised that, ‘We have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you’ (v.12).
God responded with the words of a prophet. The Spirit of the Lord came upon him as they waited on God (v.14).
He said, ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s’ (v.15). ‘You will not have to face this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give you… Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you’ (v.17).
Jehoshaphat worshiped the Lord (v.18). ‘They praised at the top of their lungs!’ (v.19, MSG). He told the people, in a message that pretty much sums up the whole of the book of Chronicles, ‘Have faith in the Lord your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful’ (v.20).
They began to praise the Lord, singing, ‘Give thanks to the Lord, for his love endures for ever’ (v.21). Worship is a weapon. As they praised, the Lord delivered them (v.22).

Lord, I trust you today with the battles I face. Thank you that they are your battles. I don’t know what to do but my eyes are upon you.



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