This is God!!

There are instances I've literally waited on God to give directions, waited on Him to speak and to act in my situation and He did..

There cases I waited for His guidance, but somehow, didn't experience Him in the way I had experienced Him in the past experience.

There are also instances I've waited on Him to speak and to act concerning a thing and nothing happened..😭. Or I didn't get it.😥
But the times He showed up, I knew, This is God!.

I kept the testimonies intact. I kept the experiences soo dear to me. I recall it vividly each an every day I'm trusting God for something new again.
Every experience in different, it's unique, it reveals more of Him.

He showed up!
When I was still in college and serving with high school ministry, we used to have overnight discipleship trainings. Thank to Mr. Genesio Mugo, Miss. Joyce Karanja & Rev John K. Munene. After one of the trainings early Saturday morning, my colleague Arthur had an invitation to a children's home in Wangige, so he requested I accompany him. I did..

Invitation was not an issue the problem was, we were at Thogoto and
1. We didn't have enough fare for both of us to Wangige and back.
2. We didn't have anything to take to the children's home.
3. We were sleepy and exhausted from last night training.

We agreed we walk to kikuyu town and board a Matatu there to Wangige. We consoled ourselves that our presence, time and love to the children is what matters most than the gifts we would take.

We begun to walk.
After few meters, A vehicle with Tanzanian registration made a stop right ahead of us. They greeted us, and asked for directions towards the famous Muguku Portly farm. It was a couple.. The gentleman was driving..

Arthur told them "It's a few kilometers from where we are, maybe we can take you there, we're headed towards the same direction" to our surprise they agreed. We knew for sure God was on our side. We were not going to walk to kikuyu instead now we would be dropped ahead of kikuyu town and now we would board a Matatu from gitaru which would be cheaper.

This was very important for us, because we were in college and didn't make any coin. we depended on our little pocket money given by our parents and tokens from ministry.

It didn't end there, as we drove towards Kikuyu, the couple we're very interactive, and we informed them we we're headed to a children's home. They laughed" a children's home?"
"They are going to a children's home" the lady who was more concentrating on the conversation echoed to the husband.

Then she said " We've some clothes and dolls, some Children staffs we have in our car, we kept them there two weeks ago when we left Tanzania, we've been looking for a children's home to give them out. God is good that He connected us to you guys"

When we arrived at the junction towards Muguku farm, the lady gave us three paper bags full of clothes and children shoes, dolls and different items to take to the children's home this was God!.

VISION

Vision is one of the most important thing that You require in life, and all other staffs will fall into place..

Where there's no vision people perish..
Vision gives you purpose.. Even to live.
It dictates your priorities.. You know where to go and where not..

A man without vision will not care where he goes. nothing dictates his where-abouts.

I'm here today because of the vision that I have. It might not be the best place for me neither comfortable but my vision requires me here, Its not money that holds me back from leaving this job, Its not the friends I've made here but my vision requires me to be here at this time.

If there's anything that should dictate the friends you should keep is your vision..

You will know what movies to watch,
What conferences to attend,
What groups to associate with,
What meals to take,
And how long to rest.

Get your vision, stick with it until you achieve it.

Vision requires discipline, It calls you to be a slave of it, It wakes you up early in the morning, and gives you sleepless nights.

Your vision will always be tested, stick to it. believe it, go for it. Its yours.

No one wants to follow anyone without vision.

Change your company to people with visions.

#Mwangivibes
#kioneki
#visions.

Bridge Dreamer

Joseph the dreamer,

The crazy dreamer, he believed in dreams soo much..

-Believing in it even when itsn't working for you at the moment but believing it will work one day.

-Ever found yourself convincing someone something can work, even though it haven't worked for you yet?

-Unless you had seriously first believed and trusted you could make it from the beginning. Your drive to encourage them escapes you.

We think the worst undoing is when they achieve it before we do, because you encouraged them to go for it.

-Maybe because of the price you have already paid and have not yet achieved it, you might think of discouraging/warning them from going for it. its costly, can't you see I'm not yet there..
-You will only  do so if your focus diverted..
-But if you believe in what you have gone for, you will be confident enough to guide someone through what you are aiming for.

- you started earlier than they did, and they achieved it before you did.
-There's nothing stresing than witnessing your students bypass and achieve what you are yet to achieve because you motivated them to go for it.

-It calls for a special character a generous personality. an anger free human. bitter less, a man of character, humble,

Joseph found himself in a similar fix.
He had a dream as a teenager, he believed in it and looked forward to achieving it, Its the same dream that landed him in prison,.

This dream thing...

There comes these two guys who also had a dream, chief backler and the cup bearer,

He interprets the dream to them.

A dream to himself hadn't worked, worse more it had landed him in prison, He believed in it soo much that he didn't say, "leave alone the dream thing it landed me here, do not ever think dreams work, they don't I have an experience, and gives his story.. "

Instread he interpreted and believed it to happen.

The following day, pap! dream exactly as interpreted.

Joseph had negotiated his pay, "remember me when you are restored" It took two years.

More frustrated he was the cup bearer was restored.

It took him two years to remember Joseph the dream interpreter.

God wouldn't allow Joseph out of prison until he had worked on his anger, bitterness and revange.

Had he a plan to revange he would go for his brothers, who makes the twelve tribes of Israel, Saviours lineage.

God wouldn't risk the twelve for one.

continue encouraging them.

celebrate their victory, yours is almost there.

Your success is tired up in others success.

They win you win.

They lose you lose too.

blessed day as you help someone succed.

It can Never get lost.

Some things in life takes too long to build, they demands a lot of our time, money, commitment and much more resources, Others demands life to be fully accomplished.

Surprisingly to bring them down takes seconds.

It demanded a lot from the wright brothers to bring up the aeroplane. Imagine the pain when it first crashed and all they had as a reward of their years hard work turned back to zero.

I thought they lost all.. but wait... Even if it crashed to a point they couldn't collect any piece to build up another one. The art to build the next one couldn't be crushed!!! they didn't lose it all. Its the only thing that gave them hope.

Its heartbreaking how a tree can struggle from a seed to became a tree, only after years of tough times, its cut within minutes, and all is lost. a lifetime painful investment. But unless its fully uprooted, it will still sprout again, stronger maybe.

Most times the fear of losing all is much greater than the zeal to became. watch what you loose, you don't  lose everything, the art to became remains within you. The next process becomes simpler, don't be afraid of loses.

A friend is not made in a day or two neither three, but it takes time, years maybe, s/he's a friend because of maybe a common goal,

perhaps s/he got attracted to you because of who you are, what you do, what you believe, what you possess, what you like or what you hate. You determine the kind of friends you attract and that's you.

The moment you know who you are, even your friends will be consistent, because you will be real, you will be you. what ever attracts them and keeps them to you is the you that you don't struggle to became.

You will lose them if you keep changing who you are, more worse is when you don't know yourself. you can't even keep friends.

Loosing a friend is not easy, you've invested on them, let me put it correctly, you've wasted a lot with them. Maybe they discovered who you really are, maybe they were wrong when they made you a friend, there's something in you they hadn't seen. The made a wrong investment.

If it was the real you they didn't like, there's nothing much you can do about it.

If still on the process of discovering yourself, there's still more chance to learn all isn't lost, The art is not lost. Let them befriend you for who you are, for what you do, for what you believe, let them love you for you.

Your Identity is in Christ Jesus.

#MyidentityinChrist
#Youarelovable
#Youareacceptable
#@2mwangi

When God defines You.

God sees things differently from us. -Change your perspective. He calls Gideon a mighty man of valor, don't you think that was a joke of their times? When he was running away from their enemies, living in the caves.. God comes and calls him "Mighty man of valor" God doesn't call you according to what you are currently going through, He calls you rich even when you are currently poor, He calls you healed even when you are seriously sick.. He calls you a winner a conquer even when situations says otherwise, Whenever He introduced man to himself, everyone gets amazed, Gideon, Moses, David, Paul, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, name them.... he called him mighty not because of what he had done, not because of his past experiences, but because He knew what he was capable of doing, and what he would do.. God does not call you by your experiences, what you've gone through, He doesn't call you a failure because you failed all through, He calls you a success because He knows you will succeed.. My prayer this day is that God will introduce me to myself, I have paid soo much attention to my society, my parent, my environment, and I have been cheated of who I am.. LORD introduce me to myself and make me believe. Amen.!! Blessed Thursday!!

Young Men

My fellow young men in Gatundu North, along Chania river, and to be specific Makwa area, towards "Galilee" Chang'aa will wipe you and your descendants out.. Its meant to finish you. watch out!! Don't wait for the Chief to fight it out, the fight against it starts with you. You are an over comer, don't be a slave.. To the parent of this young men, your security, your peace, wealth, joy, economic growth, is in the hands of this young men, they go nuts they still remain to be your children.. Protect your children. The solution to your society is hidden in between the cords of love. its love for one another that will help you rehabilitate your society, To the Fathers, be responsible, be on the front line to lead the way, you are the foundations of those families, they emulate you, It takes courage to confront a young son who's out of school, for the sake of your descendants(your name) challenge them to be a Man in the society by being one!! To the spiritual leaders in the area, the task is on you!! keep watch lest the enemy devours the whole society.. do your part. To the Mothers, let tough love be in you. support your kids, pray for them, feed them, train them in the way they should go, nature them, teach them, the society is entrusted to you. To the big brothers, be good role models. be your brothers keeper.. To the young brothers and sisters, education!! education!! education!! take the bitter roots and you shall enjoy its sweet fruits.. study now thank me later. Education will wipe out that poverty!! To the political leaders - God is watching you!! lead your society, its entrusted to you..!! And Finally to you. Do what you must do for the sake of your society. some people lay down their lives for this generation that's the people this generation need..

Education Systems

Has the education systems changed? a few days ago, my neighbour requested me to assist her class 7 daughter do her assignment, Its long since I checked on the primary school books. Mathematics!!.

Okay, I value education, "let me know when they are ready.." a few minutes later a knock at my door, the daughter and her class 6 sister, both with a bunch of books... it was around 8:30pm. just about to prepare supper, I was eagerly waiting to see this "difficult maths"..

"I'm assigned from here to here" it was about 30 Mathematics questions, "But can we first begin with social studies?", Okay, still wondering,  "30 working  questions!!!" social studies there were like ten questions, where one is expected to read about the colonies and from the chapter answer the questions..

We quickly tackled the social studies questions.. went on to maths, but by the time we were starting maths she was seriously struggling, dozing off, I though for a moment, I'm I a boring teacher? I guess no.. only to later realize she had been working on other assignments since she left school..

As she left we had struggled to tackle 15questions, 15 more to go,.. may be she did it the following morning..

I kept wondering should the Education systems be change, could it be that they are being over worked? for the institutions to show the parents that their kids are seriously learning in school? Is it a plan to alienate/ separate the kids from spending time with their parents in the evening? when will they ever learn to do the kitchen chores? milking? when will they accompany their Mama to do shopping? questions crossed my mind unanswered,
I'm n't against education, it has played a big role to be where I am.. but not at the expense of other equally important things..

Can I propose, if there should be an assignment to the kids, let it be achievable.. there are still some lessons at home away from school to be learnt now that they scrambled off Art and craft, home science, carpentry and equals..

Every Parent in the neighbourhood is fighting with their children over school assignments, tell me when the kids will embrace education positively.. Are high schoolers pressured in education too?? but I guess they are the same people who were under same pressure in primary school...

©Sam Mwangi