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Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge
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Do Good
There are some people in our church community who never seem to stop doing good. Whenever I see them, they are serving or washing up, praying for someone, encouraging others, offering to take food to the sick, or doing some other kind act. They give generously to the work of the church. They do all these things with such grace and enthusiasm. I am always encouraged and challenged by their example. They never seem to tire of doing good.
In our society, the term ‘do-gooder’ has become pejorative; it is used as an insult. But doing good should not be seen in this way. Jesus, ‘went around doing good’ (Acts 10:38).
St Paul writes to Titus, ‘Remind the people… to be ready to do whatever is good’ (Titus 3:1). His desire is that those who have trusted in God ‘devote themselves to doing what is good’ (vv.8,14).
To quote John Wesley, ‘Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.’
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There are some people in our church community who never seem to stop doing good. Whenever I see them, they are serving or washing up, praying for someone, encouraging others, offering to take food to the sick, or doing some other kind act. They give generously to the work of the church. They do all these things with such grace and enthusiasm. I am always encouraged and challenged by their example. They never seem to tire of doing good.
In our society, the term ‘do-gooder’ has become pejorative; it is used as an insult. But doing good should not be seen in this way. Jesus, ‘went around doing good’ (Acts 10:38).
St Paul writes to Titus, ‘Remind the people… to be ready to do whatever is good’ (Titus 3:1). His desire is that those who have trusted in God ‘devote themselves to doing what is good’ (vv.8,14).
To quote John Wesley, ‘Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.’
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Psalm 119:113-120
Do good, not evil
The opposite of doing good is doing evil. The psalmist is determined to do good. That is why he says, ‘Away from me, you evildoers’ (v.115a). The evildoers are ‘double-minded’ (v.113). They stray from God’s decrees and are deceitful (v.118).
Choose to avoid evil and do good. Love God’s words (vv.113,119). God is your refuge and shield (v.114a). Put your hope in his word (v.114b): ‘I’ll give total allegiance to your definitions of life’ (v.117, MSG).
The psalmist writes, ‘Sustain me according to your promise, and I shall live; do not let my hopes be dashed’ (v.116). Our hope being deferred is bad enough. The book of Proverbs says, ‘Hope deferred makes the heart sick’ (Proverbs 13:12). Bring your hopes before God today and pray, like the psalmist, that your hopes will not be dashed.
Lord, I love your words. Help me to live by them, to stay away from doing evil and to do good. Today I bring my hopes to you again… Do not let my hopes be dashed
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Do good, not evil
The opposite of doing good is doing evil. The psalmist is determined to do good. That is why he says, ‘Away from me, you evildoers’ (v.115a). The evildoers are ‘double-minded’ (v.113). They stray from God’s decrees and are deceitful (v.118).
Choose to avoid evil and do good. Love God’s words (vv.113,119). God is your refuge and shield (v.114a). Put your hope in his word (v.114b): ‘I’ll give total allegiance to your definitions of life’ (v.117, MSG).
The psalmist writes, ‘Sustain me according to your promise, and I shall live; do not let my hopes be dashed’ (v.116). Our hope being deferred is bad enough. The book of Proverbs says, ‘Hope deferred makes the heart sick’ (Proverbs 13:12). Bring your hopes before God today and pray, like the psalmist, that your hopes will not be dashed.
Lord, I love your words. Help me to live by them, to stay away from doing evil and to do good. Today I bring my hopes to you again… Do not let my hopes be dashed
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Titus 3:1-15
Always be ready to do good
There is such a striking contrast between Paul’s life before he experienced a relationship with Jesus Christ and his life afterwards (and I relate to this in my own experience). Paul writes, ‘We too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another’ (v.3).
However, Jesus utterly transforms us: ‘when the kindness and love of God our Saviour appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy’ (vv.4–5). Doing good is a response to God’s kindness and love for you. We often think of the kindness of our family and friends, but God is infinitely more kind than that. If God has been so kind to you, it is a natural response for you to be kind to others.
Out of his kindness and love, God has not only forgiven you, he has also given you the Holy Spirit: ‘He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives’ (vv.5–7, MSG). It is the Holy Spirit who enables you and empowers you to do good.
Therefore, Paul can write of the kind of lives we are now to lead: ‘Remind the people to respect the government and be law-abiding’ (v.1, MSG). This is our civil responsibility – to obey the laws of the country – unless they are contrary to God’s law.
But obedience and submission to rulers and authorities is not enough. We must ‘be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility towards everyone’ (vv.1–2). He urges them twice more to devote themselves to doing what is good (vv.8,14).
It is striking that Paul’s focus here seems to be on their relationships with other people. Paul is encouraging an ‘other-focused’ mindset, rooted in humility, truthfulness and consideration for others. While you are to be motivated by love, sometimes it is by actually serving others that you learn to love them.
Even after you have been reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit, there will be temptations to get sidetracked and become unproductive. Don’t get involved in incessant arguments. Paul writes, ‘Avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless’ (v.9).
Paul is concerned that the Christians in Crete be distinct and different from the culture in which they live. He writes, ‘Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives’ (3:14).
You live out what you believe in front of a watching world. If we are lazy and unproductive, it will be noticed. You are to reflect ‘the kindness and love of God our Saviour’ (v.4) as you ‘do good’.
Doing good and living a productive life does not necessarily mean that you need to change your job. When I was practising as a lawyer, I remember considering whether God was calling us to ordination in the Church of England. I was very struck by the mention of ‘Zenas the lawyer’ (v.13). It reminded me that if I were to stop practising as a barrister, it was not because there was anything wrong with being a Christian lawyer. Wherever you are in life and whatever your job or ministry, it is possible to go around doing good.
Lord, thank you so much for the way in which you have transformed my life. Help me to lead a productive life and, like Jesus, to go around doing good.
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Always be ready to do good
There is such a striking contrast between Paul’s life before he experienced a relationship with Jesus Christ and his life afterwards (and I relate to this in my own experience). Paul writes, ‘We too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another’ (v.3).
However, Jesus utterly transforms us: ‘when the kindness and love of God our Saviour appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy’ (vv.4–5). Doing good is a response to God’s kindness and love for you. We often think of the kindness of our family and friends, but God is infinitely more kind than that. If God has been so kind to you, it is a natural response for you to be kind to others.
Out of his kindness and love, God has not only forgiven you, he has also given you the Holy Spirit: ‘He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives’ (vv.5–7, MSG). It is the Holy Spirit who enables you and empowers you to do good.
Therefore, Paul can write of the kind of lives we are now to lead: ‘Remind the people to respect the government and be law-abiding’ (v.1, MSG). This is our civil responsibility – to obey the laws of the country – unless they are contrary to God’s law.
But obedience and submission to rulers and authorities is not enough. We must ‘be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility towards everyone’ (vv.1–2). He urges them twice more to devote themselves to doing what is good (vv.8,14).
It is striking that Paul’s focus here seems to be on their relationships with other people. Paul is encouraging an ‘other-focused’ mindset, rooted in humility, truthfulness and consideration for others. While you are to be motivated by love, sometimes it is by actually serving others that you learn to love them.
Even after you have been reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit, there will be temptations to get sidetracked and become unproductive. Don’t get involved in incessant arguments. Paul writes, ‘Avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless’ (v.9).
Paul is concerned that the Christians in Crete be distinct and different from the culture in which they live. He writes, ‘Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives’ (3:14).
You live out what you believe in front of a watching world. If we are lazy and unproductive, it will be noticed. You are to reflect ‘the kindness and love of God our Saviour’ (v.4) as you ‘do good’.
Doing good and living a productive life does not necessarily mean that you need to change your job. When I was practising as a lawyer, I remember considering whether God was calling us to ordination in the Church of England. I was very struck by the mention of ‘Zenas the lawyer’ (v.13). It reminded me that if I were to stop practising as a barrister, it was not because there was anything wrong with being a Christian lawyer. Wherever you are in life and whatever your job or ministry, it is possible to go around doing good.
Lord, thank you so much for the way in which you have transformed my life. Help me to lead a productive life and, like Jesus, to go around doing good.
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Lamentations 1:1-2:6
Stay close to the one who went around doing good
‘To be human is to suffer. No one gets an exemption. Lamentations keeps company with the extensive biblical witness that gives dignity to suffering by insisting that God enters our suffering and is companion to our suffering,’ writes Eugene Peterson in his introduction to the book of Lamentations.
The book, as the name suggests, focuses on the sorrow, sadness, grief, pain, loss and tragedy that the people of God experienced during the exile. Our circumstances may be different, but our suffering is just as real.
The writer laments how the once great nation of Israel has gone into exile because of her many sins: ‘she’s stuck between a rock and a hard place’ (1:3, MSG), ‘… lost everything’ (v.7, MSG), ‘… Massacres in the streets, starvation in the houses’ (v.20, MSG).
As we read today’s passage there seems to be very little hope. It is all about judgment and suffering. The writer says, ‘Is any suffering like my suffering…?’ (v.12). That is often how we feel when going through difficulties and trials.
He writes, ‘My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have come upon my neck and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand’ (v.14).
The picture is of his sins being like a great heavy yoke around his neck, weighing him down. He is weary and burdened by them.
This is the experience of exile, judgment and immense suffering. The physical exile lasted approximately seventy years, but there was a sense in which the spiritual experience of exile continued.
Thank God that Jesus came to announce that the exile was well and truly over, and that you need no longer go around weary and burdened by sins. Jesus said, ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light’ (Matthew 11:28–30).
This is the secret of doing good: stay close to the one who went around doing good. Hand over your burdens to Jesus and receive his rest. Take his yoke upon you as you learn from him – from his gentle, humble heart – because he is the source of doing good.
Thank you, my Lord and my Saviour, that you take the yoke of sin from me and remove its heavy burden. Thank you that when I am yoked to you, my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Help me today to stay close to you, to minister in the power of your Holy Spirit and, like you, to go around doing good.
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Stay close to the one who went around doing good
‘To be human is to suffer. No one gets an exemption. Lamentations keeps company with the extensive biblical witness that gives dignity to suffering by insisting that God enters our suffering and is companion to our suffering,’ writes Eugene Peterson in his introduction to the book of Lamentations.
The book, as the name suggests, focuses on the sorrow, sadness, grief, pain, loss and tragedy that the people of God experienced during the exile. Our circumstances may be different, but our suffering is just as real.
The writer laments how the once great nation of Israel has gone into exile because of her many sins: ‘she’s stuck between a rock and a hard place’ (1:3, MSG), ‘… lost everything’ (v.7, MSG), ‘… Massacres in the streets, starvation in the houses’ (v.20, MSG).
As we read today’s passage there seems to be very little hope. It is all about judgment and suffering. The writer says, ‘Is any suffering like my suffering…?’ (v.12). That is often how we feel when going through difficulties and trials.
He writes, ‘My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have come upon my neck and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand’ (v.14).
The picture is of his sins being like a great heavy yoke around his neck, weighing him down. He is weary and burdened by them.
This is the experience of exile, judgment and immense suffering. The physical exile lasted approximately seventy years, but there was a sense in which the spiritual experience of exile continued.
Thank God that Jesus came to announce that the exile was well and truly over, and that you need no longer go around weary and burdened by sins. Jesus said, ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light’ (Matthew 11:28–30).
This is the secret of doing good: stay close to the one who went around doing good. Hand over your burdens to Jesus and receive his rest. Take his yoke upon you as you learn from him – from his gentle, humble heart – because he is the source of doing good.
Thank you, my Lord and my Saviour, that you take the yoke of sin from me and remove its heavy burden. Thank you that when I am yoked to you, my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Help me today to stay close to you, to minister in the power of your Holy Spirit and, like you, to go around doing good.
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Titus 3:14
‘Our people must... not live unproductive lives.’
I wonder what God thinks is productive in our lives. Life is busy. Choosing what to do is hard. In God’s upside-down kingdom, something we think is insignificant is probably the most important thing to God.
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Titus 3:14
‘Our people must... not live unproductive lives.’
I wonder what God thinks is productive in our lives. Life is busy. Choosing what to do is hard. In God’s upside-down kingdom, something we think is insignificant is probably the most important thing to God.
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Verse of the Day
‘… devote [yourself] to doing what is good’ (Titus 3:8).
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‘… devote [yourself] to doing what is good’ (Titus 3:8).
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Mbowe is sadly a power monger...instead of focusing to retain his Hai parliamentary seat he is beginning to dream big...the problem which he fails to grasp CCM NEC has no plans to declare him a winner of Hai constituency irrespective of what the ballot boxes say...once rigged out at his Hai constituency he will be busier mobilising his supporters for civil disobedience clamouring for electoral justice or trudging judicial corridors or both as a result he will have no time to dream about the premiership
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NEC CCM is plotting to announce its own "cooked results" which have no bearing to what is in the ballot boxes.. In fact, by now CCM has its own polling stations filled forms which they will soon after the elections declare as official results from polling stations...never be perturbed or despondent knowing God will have the last laugh over this...just have faith in God!
So the challenge for the opposition is how to have original polling stations forms before impostors tamper with them...it look very much a tall order because the elections are handled by their political rival who will declare he has won by a landslide..
That his mandate to govern is above reproach!
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So the challenge for the opposition is how to have original polling stations forms before impostors tamper with them...it look very much a tall order because the elections are handled by their political rival who will declare he has won by a landslide..
That his mandate to govern is above reproach!
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Remember since hapakazitu has been exalting himself above God we have already projected he will declare himself he has won more votes than JK of 2005...so anticipate over 82%
And the parliament will be 85% CCM and they will quickly mock Nyerere by knocking off his last legacy still standing...presidential terms limits and we will soon have our own KAMUZU BANDA....but God is very merciful.
.on the day CCM dominated parliament knocks off the presidential term limits we gonna make A BIG PROJECTION on how many days hapakazitu still has in office...give glory to My God Christ Jesus [emoji120] for He is worthy it.
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And the parliament will be 85% CCM and they will quickly mock Nyerere by knocking off his last legacy still standing...presidential terms limits and we will soon have our own KAMUZU BANDA....but God is very merciful.
.on the day CCM dominated parliament knocks off the presidential term limits we gonna make A BIG PROJECTION on how many days hapakazitu still has in office...give glory to My God Christ Jesus [emoji120] for He is worthy it.
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We project CCM NEC will declare Tundu Lissu like Dr. Slaa in 2010 lost his home constituency just to spite him the way they did to the latter...as NEC CCM unabashedly declared JK won Karatu constituency then you will know history has a way of replication....
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Mhh.......
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We also project CCM NEC will declare in fact Tundu Lissu didn't win even a single constituency....and that his swarming fanatical base were not even registered voters...remember Mrema 1995 dèjavu?????
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Never miss this thread for most well thought out political PROJECTIONS...We never disappoint!
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CCM is greed for power but knows not power is not why we are here. We are here to execute justice nothing less! And a soul that sins shall die says the Lord Our God....
Mkapa had power but today he has none so unless power performs the will of Our God it is an exercise in futility!
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Mkapa had power but today he has none so unless power performs the will of Our God it is an exercise in futility!
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