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Understand Your Value

Have you ever felt like a failure, or of no use to God, or thought that God wouldn’t want to answer your prayers?
Until I first read Colin Urquhart’s book, In Christ Jesus, I had never realised how significant that little word ‘in’ is in the New Testament. Understanding that, as a Christian, you are ‘in’ Christ Jesus revolutionises how you see yourself, your self-image, your identity and how you understand your value to God.
Write your name on a piece of paper. Take hold of your Bible to represent Christ. Place the paper in the book and close it. You are in Christ. Where the book goes you go. Where the paper goes he goes. You are not part of the book, but you are now identified totally with the book.
Paul uses this expression, ‘in Christ Jesus’, over and over again. God has taken hold of you and placed you in Christ. In Christ, you have received ‘every spiritual blessing’ (Ephesians 1:3). All of the blessings, including those that the Old Testament speaks about, are yours in Christ.


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Psalm 109:21-31

The blessings of God’s love and healing

‘You will bless,’ writes David (v.28). All of God’s blessings flow out of his love for you: ‘out of the goodness of your love’ (v.21; Ephesians 1:4,5,11; Isaiah 54:10). God’s love supports you and helps you to stand, even when others ‘scorn’ and ‘curse’ you (Psalm 109:25–26). He stands at your ‘right hand’ (v.31a).
God saves our lives (v.31b, Isaiah 52:10). He heals our wounded hearts. David says, ‘My heart is wounded within me’ (Psalm 109:22). God loves to use people who have been wounded and then healed because no one can minister better than a person who has had the same wound and then been healed by God (see 2 Corinthians 1:3–4).

Lord, thank you for your wonderful love for me. Heal my wounded heart and help me to bring healing to others.



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Ephesians 1:1-23

The blessings of being in Christ Jesus

Many struggle with a low self-image. The New Testament answer to this problem is to know who you are in Christ Jesus: ‘It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for’ (v.11, MSG). Understand what your identity is in Christ. While you may not have every material blessing you want (Paul was in prison when he wrote this letter), God has blessed you ‘with every spiritual blessing in Christ’ (v.3). This passage lists many of these blessings:

Grace and peace
Paul starts his greetings with ‘grace and peace’ (v.2). Later he says, ‘The riches of God’s grace... [have been] lavished on us’ (vv.7–8). Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues. You have peace with God.

Chosen, destined and adopted
‘Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world... He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children’ (vv.4–5, AMP; see also v.11).

Redeemed, forgiven and free
You are redeemed through his blood (v.7a; Isaiah 52:3,9). ‘Redeemed’ was the word used for the buying back of a slave – a captive set free for a price.

Your sins are forgiven (Ephesians 1:7b). Marghanita Laski, a well-known atheist, made an amazing confession on television. She said, ‘What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness.’ She added, rather sadly, ‘I have no one to forgive me.’

‘We’re a free people – free of penalties and punishment chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free!’ (v.7, MSG).

In-dwelt by the Holy Spirit
‘Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit’ (v.13). The Holy Spirit has come to live within you. In the ancient world when a package was dispatched a seal was placed on it to indicate where it had come from and to whom it belonged. You have been sealed with the Holy Spirit.

Hope for the future
Your inheritance is guaranteed. You have ‘the guarantee of our inheritance [the firstfruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it’ (v.14, AMP). You have ‘the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints’ (v.18b).

Power and position
His ‘incomparably great power for us who believe’ is in you (v.19a). Power belongs to God, but he has come to live within you and to give you ‘endless energy, boundless strength!’ (v.19, MSG).

You are seated with Christ in the heavenly realms (v.20). God has placed us ‘in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments’ (vv.20–21, MSG).

Authority and responsibility
In Christ, God has placed everything under you for the sake of the church ‘which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way’ (vv.22–23). At her coronation when the orb (the globe under a cross) was placed in her hand, the Queen was reminded: ‘When you see this orb set under the cross, remember that the whole world is subject to the power and empire of Christ our redeemer.’

God has given you great responsibility. His plans for the universe are now in the hands of the church, which is Jesus’ ‘body’ on earth (v.23). ‘The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church’ (vv.22–23, MSG).

Lord, I praise you for every spiritual blessing that you have given me in Christ. May the eyes of my heart be enlightened in order that I may know the hope to which you have called me, the riches of your glorious inheritance, and your incomparably great power living within me (vv.17–19).



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Isaiah 51:17-54:17

The blessings of the good news of Jesus

Isaiah writes, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news… who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”’ (52:7). God’s salvation is such good news that it makes even the smelly feet of the messenger seem beautiful! This good news is Isaiah’s message in the next chapter (52:13–53:12). It is the last and greatest of the four servant songs that reveal God’s plan of salvation. There are five stanzas, each revealing an unexpected contrast:

Apparent failure and actual success (52:13–15)
The cross shatters human expectations. Here, Isaiah foretells Jesus’ scourging and death, his ‘ruined face, disfigured past recognition’ (v.14, MSG). Yet the cross is not the end. The stanza ends in success and triumph, with an image of cleansing and forgiveness across the world; ‘he will sprinkle many nations’ (v.15).

Our view and God’s view (53:1–3)
‘Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this?’ (v.1, MSG). Here we see a contrast between God’s view and the human view. Isaiah foresees that the people would reject Jesus, even though he came to save them.

Our sin and his suffering (vv.4–6)
Jesus loves you so much that he died instead of you. That is the message at the heart of this passage – indeed of the whole Bible:

‘He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed.
We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.
We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.
And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him’ (v.5–6, MSG). Wow!

The guilty and the innocent (vv.7–9)
This stanza tells of a miscarriage of justice, but one that the innocent Jesus took upon himself voluntarily to bring salvation: ‘He died without a thought for his own welfare, beaten bloody for the sins of my people’ (v.8, MSG). It also predicts Jesus’ death with extraordinary accuracy: foreseeing his silence at his trial (v.7); that he would die with the guilty and that he would be buried with the rich (v.9).

Tragedy and triumph (vv.10–13)
What looked like defeat was in fact a victory, ‘what God had in mind all along’ (v.10, MSG). What makes Jesus’ death a triumph? First, ‘he will see his offspring’ (v.10) and ‘make many righteous’ (v.11, MSG) – the millions of transformed lives which are the fruit of his death. Second, ‘he will see the light of life’ (v.11) – Jesus rose again! Lastly, God exalted him, giving him ‘a portion among the great’ (v.12) because of all that he did for us.

As a result of what Jesus did for us, we are promised expansion and growth (54:2). You need not be afraid (v.4) because ‘your Maker is your husband’ (v.5). His love and compassion will never leave you (v.10). ‘No weapon forged against you will prevail’ (v.17).

Lord, thank you for the good news of the gospel; that through your suffering, I am made righteous. Help me to expect great things from you and attempt great things for you.



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Pippa Adds

Isaiah 54:2–3a
‘Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left…’
This is a constant challenge for me not to play it safe, but to keep going for growth.


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Kuhusu Uhuru, Haki na Maendeleo ya Watu.

Na TUNDU Lissu
16.09.2020
Mbeya.

Andiko hili limetolewa kama ufafanuzi malalamiko ya CCM juu ya hoja za Uhuru, Haki na Maendeleo ya watu.
Pia linafafanua juu ya maendeleo ya upendeleo katika utawala wa Rais Magufuli (nyumbani kwao chato na kukwepa kwenye upinzani) na pia linafafanua ahadi zangu kwa Kanda ya Nyasa kwa ujumla: juu ya uzalishaji wa kilimo; ujenzi wa viwanda; kuimarisha biashara kusini na Nchi Jirani (Zambia, Malawi, Congo and Zimbabwe) kupitia Kanda hii.

Maelezo yake

1. CCM wamekuwa wakilalamika sana kuwa tunapotosha wananchi juu ya uhuru, haki na maendeleo ya watu. CCM kupitia mgombea Wao, Katibu Wao Mkuu, na viongozi wengine wanadai nchi hii tayari iko huru na kuwa hakuna shida ya haki na maendeleo yanafanywa ipasavyo hadi imeingia uchumi wa kati.

A. Uhuru
Tunapaswa kuonesha tofauti ya Uhuru wa Bendera wanaousema wao CCM na ule tunaomaanisha. Sisi tunataka Uhuru kamili kutenda na kushiriki mambo muhimu ya jamii, uchumi, siasa na mengineyo.
Tunaposema Uhuru kwa vyombo vya habari tunamaanisha vyombo vya habari kutoa taarifa, kufanya uchunguzi na kuhoji mapungufu wanayoona bila kutishwa, kuonewa na kufungiwa. Utekwaji waandishi habari kama Azory Gwanda au kuuawa kwa David Mwangosi sio Uhuru wa habari wala Uhuru kwa waandishi habari. Unawezaje kusema kuna Uhuru endapo mtu akimkosoa kiongozi anaishia jela au kutekwa, kupotezwa au kuuawa? Mfano: Ben Saanane; Azory Gwanda; Mdude Nyagali, Alfonce Mawazo nk. Ni Uhuru gani ambapo mawazo yanapigwa rungu baadala ya kujibiwa kwa hoja?

B. Haki.
Haki ina sifa nne: itambulike, itendeke, ionekane ikitendeka na itendeke kwa wakati. Tanzania ya magufuli kila kitu ni dili. Ukikamatwa hujui hatima yako mpaka upate upendeleo wa polisi. Dhamana imekua hiyari ya watawala. Mamlaka zinatumia vibaya sheria na kanuni za uendeshaji nchi kuwakandamiza watu wasiowapenda na kuwapendelea wengine.
Mfano: Kama wahujumu uchumi Seth, Rugemalila na wenzake walisota rumande bila dhamana kwa tuhuma za uhujumu uchumi; imekuwaje Aliyekuwa Waziri wa Mambo ya Ndani Kangi Lugola aachwe mitaani kwa kosa hilo hilo? Tena mshirika wake Andengenye ameteuliwa na kupewa nafasi ya kuongoza jamii?

Je, kuna haki gani kwa wakulima kupangiwa mahali na wakati wa kuuza mazao yao (Eti kwa kisingizio nchi itapata njaa) wakati wazalishaji bidhaa viwandani hawapangiwi na serikali?

Je ni haki wananchi kupangiwa viongozi na Tume ya uchaguzi kama ilivyokuwa uchaguzi wa Serikali za mitaa 2019 na hii engua wagombea wa Chadema na vyama vingine vya upinzani kwenye uchaguzi huu?

C. Maendeleo ya watu.
Hapa tunataka kutofautisha ujenzi wa miradi, miundombinu na majengo bila kuzingatia mahitaji ya huduma na watu kwenye kutatua changamoto zao.
Mfano: Ujenzi wa uwanja wa Ndege Chato. Ambako hakuna hata Ndege moja inayotua kupeleka au kutoa abiria au bidhaa kwenda popote. Mabilioni ya fedha yametumika bila faida huku *Mradi wa umwagiliaji Igurusi* ukiwa umekwama. Zilihitajika shs bilioni 2 tu kukamilisha ule ujenzi ambao wakulima wa mpunga 4,200 wanateseka wakiwa na hekta 12,991 wamebaki kutegemea maji ya mvua. Kwa zaidi ya miaka mitatu sasa Halmashauri zote nchini zimekosa fedha za kukamilisha miradi ya kilimo. Haswa ya umwagiliaji. Halmashauri ya Same imeongoza kwa kupata shilingi sifuri tangu 2015 hadi 2018/19.

Tunaongelea matumizi ya fedha nyingi kwa mabilioni kujenga bomba la gesi kuhamisha toka Mtwara hadi Dar wakati ingeweza kujenga kiwanda cha kuzalisha umeme hukohuko Mtwara na zile fedha zingesaidia kujenga njia za kusafirisha umeme na zaidi ya 60% zingewekezwa kwenye mahitaji mengine ya vipaumbele ikiwemo kumalizia miradi 21 ya umwahiliaji wilaya ya Mbarali ambapo mashamba ya mpunga zaidi ya hekta 32,000 zinaathirika kwa kukosa maji ya uhakika.

Tunamaanisha matumizi ya mabilioni ya fedha kujenga daraja la Oysterbay baharini wakati barabara zinazohudumia watu, wazalishaji na huduma toka Mbeya kwenda vijijini; kuunganisha Mbeya na mikoa jirani ni changamoto.

Unaongelea flyover za DAR es salaam wakati zaidi ya 75% ya barabara za mikoani ni za udongo tu. Wilaya kama ileje ndio imesahaulika kabisa.

2. Maendeleo ya upendeleo.
Rais magufuli na CCM yao wamekuwa wakijinasibu “maendeleo hayana chama”.

A. Amesikiwa mara kadhaa sasa akiwaambia wananchi wasichague wapinzani kwa kuwa hatowaletea maendeleo. Tena anawaita hao kuwa watoto wa mama wa kambo. Sasa ile dhana kuwa maendeleo hayana chama hapa ina maana gani?

B. Ujenzi wa kijiji cha Chato ni mfano wa kutosha. Uwanja wa ndege. Hifadhi ya wanyamapori wakati hawapo na imebidi wasafirishwe toka kwengine. Ujenzi wa tawi la CRDB mpaka sasa linahudumia wateja 15-20 kwa mwezi. Uwepo wa mataa barabarani hakuna magari( baiskeli na punda). Sasa wanapanga kujenga uwanja wa kimataifa wa michezo; wakati hakuna hata timu ya kijiji!

C. Mipango ya halmashauri sasa imesahaulika. Kila kitu utasikia RC amepewa fedha za ujenzi wa shule, au Tulia foundation wakati Madiwani na halmashauri ndio wenye watu na wataalam na mipango ya maendeleo kila mahali nchini. Au mmesikia ile miradi ya ujenzi wa ofisi za walimu na vyoo vya shule aliyopewa Makonda ilivyofeli DAR es salaam?

*Umetupwa wapi ule mfumo wa mgawanyo wa fedha za maendeleo kwa kutumia mahitaji na idadi ya watu kila wilaya? (Formula based allocation of development resources?)*

3. Ahadi zangu kwa Kanda ya Nyasa

Mahitaji ya Kanda kwa ujumla: uzalishaji wa kilimo; ujenzi wa viwanda; kuimarisha biashara kusini na Nchi Jirani (Zambia, Malawi, Congo and Zimbabwe) kupitia Kanda hii.

A. Kanda hii ndio tegemeo la uzalishaji wa chakula nchini. Mpunga, Mahindi na Maharage huzalishwa kwa wingi. Mazao mengine kama ndizi, viazi na matunda yapo ya kutosha.
Chadema itahakikisha inajenga mazingira bora zaidi kwa wazalishaji kuongeza uzalishaji, tija na kujipatia tija katika kilimo chao.

Hii ni pamoja na kuruhusu Biashara Huru ya chakula. Acha wakulima wauze kulingana na soko na faida. Tutawawezesha wakulima kuuza nje ya nchi na hata kuwapatia uwezeshaji katika gharama za kutafuta masoko na kuingia mikataba tukilenga haswa nchi jirani za Zambia, Congo, Malawi na Zimbabwe. Tutawaunganisha na Sudan Kusini na wahitaji wengine.
Itapobidi tutawajengea uwezo wakulima kuuza wenyewe mazao yao yakiyochakatwa.
Mambo ya marufuku za Biashara kwenye kilimo na mifugo itakua historia.

B. Biashara ukanda wa kusini.
Nyasa ndio kiunganishi muhimu na nchi za Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Congo na hata Angola na nchi zengine kusini mwa Afrika.

Tunatambua jukumu kubwa la wafanyabiashara wetu kuongeza mapato yao, kujiimarisha kiuchumi na kuchangia uchumi na kipato cha nchi. Kuna kodi na mapato mengi kupitia biashara mipakani na au usafirishaji.
Hata hivyo kwa sasa kuna vikwazo vingi sana kwenye Biashara hii. TRA, uhamiaji na polisi wamekuwa kizingiti kwa wafanyabiashara wetu kiasi cha kulazimisha kufanya biashara ya magendo.
Sisi tutajenga urafiki, tutawawezesha na kuwajengea mazingira mazuri wafanya Biashara wetu; kuwatambua na kuwasaidia wanapokwama kibiashara nje ya nchi. Tutaanzisha mfumo wa mafunzo kwa wafanyabiashara wetu wa mipakani na kuwezesha kutatua shida wanazozipata wakiwa nje ya nchi. Kuanzia wakati huo Mfanya Biashara wa Tanzania anapopata shida akiwa nje ya Tanzania atachukuliwa kama mtumishi wa umma aliyekwama huko. Litakuwa ni jukumu la serikali yangu kuhakikisha anapata haki yake kwa haraka na tija.

C. Ujenzi wa viwanda kanda ya Nyasa.
Tutawezesha ujenzi wa viwanda vya kimkakati Kanda hii tukilenga mahitajiya jamii, mahitaji ya biashara na nchi jirani na kuongeza ajira. Ile hali ya vijana wengi kulazimika kwenda mikoa mingine kutafuta ajira na bidhaa za kuuza nchi jiarani itakwisha au kupungua. Tunataka Kanda hii nayo iuze bidhaa zake za viwandani kwenda kanda nyengine na nje ya nchi.
Tutaanza na ujenzi wa kiwanda cha chuma Liganga na kuendeleza Kiwira. Tutaimarisha mgodi wa makaa ya mawe na uzalishaji saruji. Saruji ya Mbeya ilikuwa ya kimataifa sana kwa miaka mingi.

Sambamba na haya tutaimarisha mtandao wa barabara zinazounganisha vijiji na maeneo ya kibiashara mipakani.

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J. of Modern African Studies, 49, 2 (2011), pp. 241-262. [emoji2398] Cambridge University Press 2011
doi:io.ioi7/Soo22278Xi 1000036


' Watching the watcher':an
evaluation of local election
observers in Tanzania


Alexander Boniface Makulilo

Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University ofDar es
Salaam, PO Box 75, 116 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Email: makulilo76@yahoo.co.uk


ABSTRACT

The unfolding of the Third Wave of democracy cast a mounting weight on
election observation in transition countries, partly due to the inability of regimes
in power to conduct free and fair elections. However, observation is not always
neutral. Sometimes observers distance themselves from the data they collect,
leading to controversial certification of elections. In this case stakeholders may
view them as partial, hence downsizing their credibility and trust. Yet observers'
reports have rarely been reviewed. This article evaluates three reports by the
leading election observer in Tanzania, the Tanzania Election Monitoring
Committee (TEMCO) for the 1995, 2000 and 2005 general elections. It notes that
despite the prevalence of the same factors that TEMCO considered as irregula
rities in the 1995 and 2000 general elections when it certified those elections as
'free but not fair', it issued a 'clean, free and fair' verdict on the 2005 general
elections. This conclusion, at variance from the data, reveals problems in assuring
observer ne

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was not independent. Implicitly in 2000 it held a similar position, since the
same factors held as in 1995, and it recommended that NEC should be
reconstituted before the 2005 elections, in order to win the confidence and
trust of all political parties and voters. For the 2005 elections there is
confusion. First, it noted as stated above that the composition of NEC was
guided by the same framework as before. This alone is sufficient to place
TEMCO among those actors who argued that NEC was not independent.
Additionally, the factors advanced by TEMCO in 1995 and 2000 were the
same in 2005. Third, the failure to present the other side of the debate is a
serious omission. Nonetheless, TEMCO (2006: 165) held that 'all con
stituency reports by TEMCO observers affirmed that NEC election offi
cials performed their roles independently and impartially. They consulted
all participating parties in preparing campaign timetables and listened to
their complaints and suggestions.' Here comes a serious methodological
problem. How are independence and impartiality measured? There are
various ways. However, in 1995 and 2000 TEMCO advanced the follow
ing criteria: appointment procedures of NEC's commissioners, tenure of
office by commissioners, independent budget deliberated by the parlia
ment, and that TEMCO should have its own staff nationwide. In contrast,
the independence of NEC in 2005 elections derived from 'compiling
timetables' and 'solving complaints'. Based on these criteria, I would ar
gue that TEMCO stood on the side that viewed NEC as an independent
organ. Applying TEMCO's criteria for assessing the independence of
NEC as was the case with the 1995 and 2000 elections, Makulilo (2009)
finds that NEC is yet to be independent since such factors have remained
unchanged

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In its report on the 1995 elections, TEMCO clearly argued that NEC
was not independent. Implicitly in 2000 it held a similar position, since the
same factors held as in 1995, and it recommended that NEC should be
reconstituted before the 2005 elections, in order to win the confidence and
trust of all political parties and voters. For the 2005 elections there is
confusion. First, it noted as stated above that the composition of NEC was
guided by the same framework as before. This alone is sufficient to place
TEMCO among those actors who argued that NEC was not independent.
Additionally, the factors advanced by TEMCO in 1995 and 2000 were the
same in 2005. Third, the failure to present the other side of the debate is a
serious omission. Nonetheless, TEMCO (2006: 165) held that 'all con
stituency reports by TEMCO observers affirmed that NEC election offi
cials performed their roles independently and impartially. They consulted
all participating parties in preparing campaign timetables and listened to
their complaints and suggestions.' Here comes a serious methodological
problem. How are independence and impartiality measured? There are
various ways. However, in 1995 and 2000 TEMCO advanced the follow
ing criteria: appointment procedures of NEC's commissioners, tenure of
office by commissioners, independent budget deliberated by the parlia
ment, and that TEMCO should have its own staff nationwide. In contrast,
the independence of NEC in 2005 elections derived from 'compiling
timetables' and 'solving complaints'. Based on these criteria, I would ar
gue that TEMCO stood on the side that viewed NEC as an independent
organ. Applying TEMCO's criteria for assessing the independence of
NEC as was the case with the 1995 and 2000 elections, Makulilo (2009)
finds that NEC is yet to be independent since such factors have remained
unchanged.
STATE INSTITUTIONS AND PERSONNEL
In a democratic state, institutions and personnel should act impartially
towards all contending parties during elections. The reason for this is that
they are funded by taxpayers' money, and so should ensure a level playing
field for all actors. TEMCO has consistently observed the police force,
regional and district commissioners, div

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