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Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge
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Jeremiah 23:9-25:14
More listening to God
God speaks. You and I can listen to the words of God. This is what makes the Bible so powerful ‘“Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?”’ (23:29).
Jeremiah spoke ‘holy words’ (v.9) to the people of God and rebuked their leaders for a failure to lead holy lives: ‘The land is full of adulterers’ and leaders who ‘use their power unjustly’ (v.10). He accuses them of being sex-driven, living a lie (v.14, MSG). He calls them to repentance (25:5–6).
At the root of their problem is a failure to listen to God, ‘You refused to listen’ (v.7, MSG).
The Lord asks through Jeremiah, ‘But which of [the prophets] has stood in the council of the Lord to see or hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word?’ (23:18). ‘I never sent these prophets, but they ran away. I never spoke to them, but they preached away. If they’d have bothered to sit down and meet with me, they’d have preached my Message to my people…’ (vv.21–22, MSG).
If you hear the words of God and speak them out, they will have a very powerful impact: ‘But you prophets who have a message from me – tell it truly and faithfully... Isn’t my Message like fire? ... Isn’t it like a sledgehammer busting a rock?’ (vv.28–29, MSG) The words of the Bible are so powerful – like fire and like a hammer that breaks a rock to pieces. The more I study it, the more it breaks the rock of my heart, and the Holy Spirit works a process of transformation and sanctification.
Lord, help me to spend more and more time listening to and hearing your words, and to live a life more and more loving, holy and pleasing to you.
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More listening to God
God speaks. You and I can listen to the words of God. This is what makes the Bible so powerful ‘“Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?”’ (23:29).
Jeremiah spoke ‘holy words’ (v.9) to the people of God and rebuked their leaders for a failure to lead holy lives: ‘The land is full of adulterers’ and leaders who ‘use their power unjustly’ (v.10). He accuses them of being sex-driven, living a lie (v.14, MSG). He calls them to repentance (25:5–6).
At the root of their problem is a failure to listen to God, ‘You refused to listen’ (v.7, MSG).
The Lord asks through Jeremiah, ‘But which of [the prophets] has stood in the council of the Lord to see or hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word?’ (23:18). ‘I never sent these prophets, but they ran away. I never spoke to them, but they preached away. If they’d have bothered to sit down and meet with me, they’d have preached my Message to my people…’ (vv.21–22, MSG).
If you hear the words of God and speak them out, they will have a very powerful impact: ‘But you prophets who have a message from me – tell it truly and faithfully... Isn’t my Message like fire? ... Isn’t it like a sledgehammer busting a rock?’ (vv.28–29, MSG) The words of the Bible are so powerful – like fire and like a hammer that breaks a rock to pieces. The more I study it, the more it breaks the rock of my heart, and the Holy Spirit works a process of transformation and sanctification.
Lord, help me to spend more and more time listening to and hearing your words, and to live a life more and more loving, holy and pleasing to you.
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As we promised before we will begin peeking at CCM end of the road
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For them elections come and go but CCM rules forever
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But they failed to understand who vote in Tanzania and why?
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As weird as it might be Nyerere oversaw this in many ways
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Two years before he died that was in 1997 celebrating his mom hitting a centurion he prophesied about CCM and about himself
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He got horribly wrong about his own predicament but he was spot on about CCM wellbeing
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Nyerere said he saw three CCM presidents handing power to each but couldn't see a fourth CCM administration
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Meaning CCM was to lose power after the second CCM president who was jk handing power to Magufuli
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Nyerere prophesy is akin to one king of Israel Josiah who paid a courtesy visit to the man of God, prophet Elisha
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Knowing his days were truly numbered, Elisha the prophet commanded King of Israel to strike the ground with an arrow
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Josiah struck the ground thrice unknowingly he would beat the king of Syria only three times
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The prophet was inconsolable because he expected him to have hit the ground five to six times
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