Monday, June 14, 2021

WHAT DO THE MILLIONS OF SERMONS PREACHED DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY? Josimar Salum


WHAT DO THE MILLIONS OF SERMONS PREACHED DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY? Josimar Salum


Imagine: If we have 100,000 churches, we have 100,000 preachers who preach 100,000 sermons every Sunday. If these churches have two services a week it's 100,000 churches with 100,000 preachers preaching 200,000 sermons a week. At the end of the year, 10,400,000 sermons are preached each year. Where are the deep changes and transformations in the cities and towns where all these preachings are proclaimed?


This church of prosperity preaching, of giving campaigns on the radio, on TV, on the internet, of the millions of evangelical deals is lost, powerless, and cannot save itself.


It is necessary to humble ourselves and recognize that we are poor in the Power of God.


I hate poverty and misery in people's lives. I hate the sin that causes people to live like wanderers. But I also hate oppressive wealth, which makes others miserable.


Don't say that I'm against believers giving up their tithes and offerings, that I don't believe in the God who gives power to acquire wealth, that I don't believe in the God who wants me to be a head and not a tail, that teaches to lend instead of borrow and allows me to eat the best of this earth.


This insistence on asking for money non-stop in the lives of many leaders is only a symptom of an upcoming downfall. The answer they get from thousands is the reason they live: to enrich themselves and continue to despise the poor, the widow, the missionary work and the causes of the Kingdom of God.


We must recognize that we are in a terrible crisis of legitimacy in evangelical leadership, that this avalanche of leaders who get divorced, become involved in scandals, who live in unbridled competition among themselves, who build ever-larger empires around themselves, are symptoms of an apostate church that lives the manifestation of the antichrist in its bosom.


A church that needs to turn totally to God and His Word, to the simplicity of the Gospel, to the exclusive Preaching of the Message of the Cross.


A church that needs to abandon the fads, the exotericisms, the mysticisms, the amulets, the brightness of the stage and the platform and turn to the knees of the dark rooms, to the hills where broken hearts meet the Spirit, to live today as if Jesus was going to come today and work to earn resources to do His work while He is not coming.

 

A Church that is concerned exclusively with what it is in Christ – its identity – and not with what it has or what it wants. A church that learned only to seek the Kingdom of God and His Justice for what God is, and not for the things that will be added. Yes, a Church that seeks the face of Jesus more than it seeks his Hands. Because success with God is measured by who one is in Christ and NOT by what one has.


#ASONE

THE KINGDOM OF GOD SUFFERS VIOLENCE AND THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE. Dr Paul Taylor


THE KINGDOM OF GOD SUFFERS VIOLENCE AND THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE. Dr Paul Taylor


I have been meditating on this scripture for a long time.  


“The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the Kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.”  Luke 16:16


The word “pressing” in the Greek is “biazetai”.  It means “force or pressing oneself into or to seize.”  It is the same word used in Matthew 11:12.  “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.”  The word “violence or violent” is the same word, “biazetai”.  


Why does it take force to enter the Kingdom of God?  What is the resistance to entering the Kingdom of God?  


Please, let me encourage you to read this Scripture before we continue: 


“Strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the Kingdom of God.” Acts‬ ‭14:22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬


I have often made the comment that their will be many who will be saved, but will never walk in the Kingdom of God here on Earth.  


I truly believe there is a great difference. There is no doubt that salvation is needed to enter the Kingdom of God. Salvation is freely given and freely received by those who have faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for the sins of the world. Jesus is the Door, there is no other way to salvation and a relationship with our heavenly Father.  However, I have no doubt that Jesus never intended the salvation message to be the end, but the beginning to a life relationship with God and His Kingdom or realm on the Earth!  


The great difference that I see between the message of salvation and the message of the Kingdom of God is that the first may prepare you for heaven but the second prepares you for a life long adventure here on Earth with God, and to live eternally in His Kingdom. The message of salvation is about heaven, but the message of the Kingdom is about the Kingdom. 


It should be noted that the message of the Kingdom reconciles you with your Heavenly Father and allows you to walk in the realm of heaven on Earth for a life long adventure with God!  However it is a journey, not a destination! It is not the end, but just the beginning.


This relationship with God is amazing, but comes with a price!  Not a price that you can purchase, because you do not earn it!  The price is effort, pressing, violence (spiritual), denying of oneself to enter in to the Kingdom realm. The apostle Paul said it comes through much tribulation or hardships.  The word in the Greek means, persecution, affliction, distress, tribulation. From the Greek word “thlibo”; pressure.


Again, my question is why?


I am sure there are many answers to this question.  When I read the context of scripture I see two enemies or powers that resist my walking in the Kingdom of God.  


Remember I don’t earn it and you don’t earn it.  It was purchased by the blood of Jesus and made available to everyone who is born again.  Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”  John 3:3. 


You cannot even see the Kingdom of God without being born again!  This scripture also verifies that there is more to our relationship with God and our purpose here on Earth than salvation.


The first resistance is that of the religious system, the law.  Read how the Pharisees despised Jesus for preaching the Kingdom of God.  Why?  The law allowed you to manipulate it.  You can keep the law and be far from the Kingdom of God!  Today it may not be the law by the Pharisees, but it is by the church through legalisms, rules and systems.


Jesus doesn’t want your sacrifice of works.  He wants your heart!  The law will allow you to justify yourself before men!  But that can’t happen in the realm of God.  You must press past the resistance of religion!


“Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him. And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭16:14-15‬ ‭NKJV‬‬


As you can notice it is the same problem today. Some leaders are lovers of money and through the preaching of works they make money. As my beloved friend Josimar Salum says: “There is no way someone can make money by preaching the Grace of God.”


The second resistance is your mind, yourself.  My greatest enemy is not the devil.  He has been defeated at the Cross.  My greatest enemy is ME!  My mind!  


“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.” II Corinthians‬ ‭10:3-6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬


I have to battle against my mind and what I know to be true in my flesh.  This is where repentance takes place. I have to change my thinking by God’s thoughts. This is where the battle of faith intensifies.  I know what I see with my eyes or know with my intellect, but the things of God are spiritually perceived!


 “However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.” I Corinthians‬ ‭2:6-16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬


This is an extremely important portion of scripture.  You cannot know God and His Kingdom realm with your natural mind.  You must press past the resistance of your human flesh to SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD!  


Walking in the Kingdom of God is a constant battle between flesh and spirit.  I wish I could say I win that battle every day, but it is my desire to walk in the Kingdom realm of God on Earth, as it is in heaven.  The answers to today’s problems are found in this realm of God!  It is not by an escape from this world fed by the rapture mentality. It is a solution to the problems that mankind faces here on Earth.  It is not super spiritual, but it is supernatural! We are all on this journey together.  


I pray you will join me as I press into the Kingdom of God.


#ASONE

THERE IS NO FREEDOM IN ANY RELIGION. Josimar Salum


THERE IS NO FREEDOM IN ANY RELIGION

Josimar Salum


It is not in God's nature to control anyone. Granting Freedom is God's means. The greater the Freedom you have in God, the more submissive you want to be to Him.


Jesus was anointed by the Spirit to set the oppressed free and open the prison for all inmates.


Sinners today leave their lives of oppression and demonic suffering and become evangelicals to continue living under an even greater weight of oppression from an entity they call "god."


Everything is nothing but a personal and human projection, an oppressive religion that took its inspiration from the threat of hell and judgment, which imposes a fear and a dread of sin based on “it may be the consequence of sin”, the curse of the police-priests of the religion who oppress their followers, making them more miserable than they were when they lived in the “world”.


And the world is still the world, but now religious - decorated with lamps (the established legalisms) and conventional clichés (the idioms of the evangelical: "you're tied up", "go on in victory, the blood of "jesus" have power, get out satan, shalom, peace of the lord, etc.).


It's all just a hypocrisy to maintain themselves with a so-called transformed status, when all they experienced was a botched reform. They live under an infernal charge to stay in the group and to be promoted in it, almost having to sell their souls to the devil again.


The Grace of Freedom in Jesus is that anyone could be whoever they were and strip themselves entirely before the One who not only probes the deepest of hearts, but has the Power to transform any heart, no matter how corrupt. 


Jesus came to give Freedom to the Children of God. And Liberty never matches Religion. There is no freedom in any religion.


#ASONE

Thursday, June 10, 2021

THE IMPORTANCE OF FATHERS BEING OBEDIENT TO THE LORD AND TRAINING THEIR FAMILIES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. Dr. Paul Taylor


THE IMPORTANCE OF FATHERS BEING OBEDIENT TO THE LORD AND TRAINING THEIR FAMILIES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. Dr. Paul Taylor


Josimar asked me to write a message since business has slowed and I have a little more time.  


I have so much to say and want to give just a short message on the importance of fathers being obedient to the Lord and training their families in righteousness.   


I want to encourage you. We can often be hard on ourselves, but your love for God is pleasing to the Lord.  


Your obedience sets you apart from others.  Your family is an amazing blessing and such a testimony of your spiritual leadership as a father, and husband.  This qualifies you to listen in on the plans of God.  


“Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way. And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.””

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭18:16-19‬ ‭NKJV‬‬


 One of my favorite stories.  There is a conversation in heaven and it is recorded here.  


God says, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing...”  The answer is no.  Why?  “For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”  


There is so much in this conversation that we are allowed to listen in on with God.  


The bottom line is the obedience of Abraham to teach his children and household allows God to bring to Abraham all that He had spoken to him previously.  In your case, your obedience will allow you to receive all that God has for you.  This includes the promises of Abraham!!!  


Being a godly husband and father allows God to share with you His plans!  If you can be trusted with earthly things, such as training your children and raising them in righteousness, then God will trust you with some of His plans.  He is looking for faithful men!  


“For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. “ 2 Chron. 16:9. 


Do not think your faithfulness to the Lord goes unnoticed.  


#ASONE

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

REPENTANCE IS THE CHANGING OF CONCEPTS Josimar Salum


REPENTANCE IS THE CHANGING OF CONCEPTS

Josimar Salum


"My thoughts are not your thoughts."


It is necessary to repent, to change our thoughts, because what we believe, what we say, what we learn, what we study in theology, what we have been taught, needs to be revised. We need to change our thinking.


You have to discover the revelation of the Gospel, the revelation of Jesus.


What does the Bible really teach? It is necessary to make an enormous effort to remove all these heavy things that have trapped us, that are not satisfying.


Sometimes we don't even feel the Presence of God. When we hear sermons, they are empty; knowledge preaching only.


Week after week, Sunday after Sunday, and now with the advent of the cell phone you hear messages of all kinds, from everywhere, your choice. 


Then, in the pandemic, believers could choose who they would listen to, right?


Who would they watch on Sunday? Then they heard the 8:00 preaching, the 10:00 preaching, the midday preaching, the 2:00 preaching and it continues the same way.


Why?


"Because My thoughts are not your thoughts."


Repenting has to do with a change of concept, it has to do with a change in thinking, understanding, knowing,  intellection, practice that will bring about a transformation and change in your life.


I told Carlinhos Felix this when he wrote the song, "I want to go back to the beginning of everything, I want to review my concepts, I want to go back to the first Love."


Returning to the first Love does not mean returning to the "jesus" you encountered in childhood, it may not be.


Returning to the first Love does not mean returning to the day you were converted, the day you decided to follow Jesus.


To return to the first Love is to return to Jesus.


I hear a lot of people saying, "Ah, we have to go back to the early church."


We don't have to go back to the early church at all!


There are others who say that we are going back to Eden! We don't have to go back to Eden, we don't have to go back to Paradise, we have to turn totally to God, to Jesus, before the creation of the world, before He had done anything, that's where we have to go back.


#ASONE

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

GOOD LEADERS LEAD BY EXAMPLE. By Carl Golden



GOOD LEADERS LEAD BY EXAMPLE. By Carl Golden


Good leaders must lead by example. By walking your talk, you become a person others want to follow. When leaders say one thing, but do another, they erode trust--a critical element of productive leadership. 


Here are 10 of the many ways to lead by example.


1. Take responsibility.


Blame costs you your credibility, keeps team members on the defensive and ultimately sabotages real growth. 


2. Be truthful.


Inaccurate representation affects everyone. Show that honesty really IS the best policy. 


3. Be courageous.


Walk through fire (a crisis) first. Take calculated risks that demonstrate commitment to a larger purpose. 


4. Acknowledge failure.


It makes it OK for your team to do the same and defines failure as part of the process of becoming extraordinary. 


5. Be persistent.


Try, try again. Go over, under or around any hurdles to show that obstacles don’t define your company or team. 


6. Create solutions.


Don’t dwell on problems; instead be the first to offer solutions and then ask your team for more. 


7. Listen. Ask questions. Seek to understand.


You’ll receive valuable insights and set a tone that encourages healthy dialogue. 


8. Delegate liberally.


Encourage an atmosphere in which people can focus on their core strengths. 


9. Take care of yourself.


Exercise, don’t overwork, take a break. A balanced team, mentally and physically, is a successful team. Model it, encourage it, support it! 


10. Roll up your sleeves.


Like Alexander the Great leading his men into battle, you’ll inspire greatness in your company.  


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#ASONE

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

THE GOSPEL AS IT IS: WHY I FOLLOW JESUS Dr Josimar Salum



THE GOSPEL AS IT IS: WHY I FOLLOW JESUS

Dr Josimar Salum


Following Jesus, deciding to follow the Lord is deciding to die.


When He comes and says: "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be a witness to me" ... we have already talked about it, the word in use is not "witness." This is false. This is a lie.


The word used is to be my "martyrs" ... You will be a martyr, you will die out of love for Me.


This is what He is teaching. Who wants to die for Jesus? Because to earn the life, you have to die ... This is the message of the Gospel.


To earn the life ... you have to give up everything you have.


This is what the disciples talked to Jesus about when they said: "Lord, we left our fathers, our mothers, what are we going to gain?"


They had understood the Truth! You will not gain anything.


Then Jesus added: "He who left his father and mother will receive a hundred times more."


But He adds in the Gospel of Mark an expression: with persecutions, with struggles.


See Peter when he preached in Acts chapter 2… They asked, “What must we do, brothers?” And he said, "Repent."


All this religion, all these things that you are doing, if it were today it would be ... all these services that we are doing, all these meetings that we attended, this is all wrong, ... You have to repent from it!


You have to find the way that pleases the Lord.


But we insist on doing the same traditions, we insist on doing the same things.


If you read the Gospel with this Kingdom perspective, your life will be totally transformed.


Start thinking about the Gospel, not as a rewarding Gospel.


They followed Jesus and what did Jesus offer Peter when he met Jesus there in the Sea of ​​Galilee? He offered for him to be a fisherman of men, that was the promise that He gave him.


He gave no promise that he would prosper greatly ... You can see that on two occasions when they go to meet Jesus, their business was almost bankrupt.


At first, Jesus gave that order for them to catch many fish and there after the resurrection the same thing.


They did not have the dimension of the blessing to follow Jesus.


You do not follow Jesus to be blessed, this is a fake message! You do not follow Jesus to be healed, this is a fake message, this is not the message of the Gospel.


You do not follow Jesus to prosper, this message is a fake message.


You don't find such things here in the Bible, "accept Jesus or convert to Jesus so you can be blessed." No!


We surrender to Jesus because He is Lord. What will happen to my life after that is none of my business.


I can be blessed. "I am blessed, I am in the USA, man. I have a good job, I have an office ..." But there are brothers who are there in Iraq who do not have an office.


They receive Jesus to die, literally.


Those who are in China in the concentration camp.


So who is this God that after I start following Him, my prize will be being imprisonment for 3 years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years? 


It is because we only have the perspective of our place, our city, our country.


We don't have the perspective of the Gospel throughout the earth, and what does that mean?


"We don't want to be persecuted, that's why we are fighting communism in Brazil" But the Church is already being persecuted for something worse in Brazil, for materialism.


I don't need communism to make it ineffective, it already has materialism, it already has all these facilities.


This is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ.


It is true, I will be healed, Jesus heals me but there are others that Jesus does not heal, others He kills. There are others who die injured, there are others who die burned.


I see the brothers in these COVID days, people send me messages, and I'm not saying this to judge anyone, "Look what a blessing, the pastor was healed" Well, my mother-in-law died, what a blessing, she died, brothers. And I don't say this because she is a mother-in-law, all right? My father died, I almost died.


Now, the Gospel of the Kingdom is a Gospel that declares that even if this happens to me, I continue to be blessed, because I was saved, I was reached by Jesus to be like Him.


And to be like Jesus I have to suffer, to be like Jesus I have to die, to be like Jesus I have to be crucified.


To be like Jesus I need to die to receive the Holy Spirit who is the Power of God that vivifies me from the dead.


#ASONE

Sunday, April 25, 2021

WE DARE TO CHANGE! By Dr. Josimar Salum



WE DARE TO CHANGE! By Dr. Josimar Salum


We were programmed to think like a sermon, with introduction, three parts and a conclusion.


Our mindsets were set by a boxed educational system. The theology that arrived in Burundi comes from white people with blue eyes. That is not bad! What is bad is that instead of receiving directly from Jesus, Burundians have now a second hand “revelation”.


Ask of Jesus Himself the right questions. But especially questions whose answers that can be measured by things you see. You don’t need to use a chariot forever, you may ride a car. The only thing that cannot be changed is your integrity, truth, character, honesty and love.


Burundians, especially, do everything inside a box. They follow rules that can’t be broken even if they are not working. It is not bad to break rules and traditions that get you stuck avoiding you to progress and prosper.


We are people who respect the laws, respect authorities and live for peace. I hear this a lot in Brazil: “Oh! This is the way we do things here! It can’t be changed.” So, they get stuck in things that never work out.


Jesus broke rules all the time! He was not conventional! He was creative and innovative! 98% of what we call His ministry was performed outside the temple. 98% of His miracles He performed on the streets, in houses and in the market place. He wouldn’t see things spiritual different from natural. Actually He use only natural things to teach about the spiritual. And everything He said could be proved tangible, reachable and transformational.


We need to bring Jesus out of churches to the streets. We need to free His message from the temples. To change people outside. To solve problems that the government can’t solve. We need to take hold of our lives and stop depending on foreigners and others to solve our problems. We need to go from a begging mentality to a giving mentality. You may say “I have nothing to give”, but you do. You have a brilliant mind, two hands and two feet. You can do all things in God who strengthen you.


The President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza once said to foreigners: “Don’t bring us more Jesus. Bring solutions do Burundi.” What he meant was, “don’t bring us more religion. Bring us innovative ways that can solve our real problems.”


A message that doesn’t change people is empty religion only.


Jesus set us free not simply to live for the future, Jesus changes us now. If He was not concerned with people with their present needs He would not have multiplied the fish and the bread. He would not have healed people. He would not have ministered to the families.


A people who do not live his present well will never have a future.


You should wake up in the morning and ask yourself: “What problem will I solve today?” Not only your problem, but also problems of people around you. 


The world is full of people who became rich just because they were problem solvers.


The greatest tragedy in life is not being born poor. The greatest tragedy is to think like a poor.


You may not become wealthy one day, but you can dream out of nothing of a better life for you and your family. If you have just a fish and few breads, if you have a seed, you can conquer the world starting with conquering your fears by sharing what you have.


If you have trash in front of your home decide to clean it up everyday. You may not be able to clean the whole country, but you will see one day that the whole country is clean, because others thought to do the same what you did.


Everyday day do constructive things that will change your life. Don’t fear anything. Be courageous.


Look! See the fields producing a hundred fold! See your sisters and daughters well dressed and blessed. See your nation prosperous and enriched by the goodness of God. He has planted the seed of goodness in you. Now is your time to plant those seeds around you.


#ASONE

Sunday, January 24, 2021

CHATTY PEOPLE, POISONOUS TONGUES By Fillipe Moreira


CHATTY PEOPLE, POISONOUS TONGUES

By Fillipe Moreira


What enormous power has such a small organ… and you know that, don't you?


Yes you know, because when they hurt you with words it hurts deep in your soul.


And even after knowing what it's like to be hurt by words, you don't seem to learn your lesson, do you? For you continue to hurt other people with your own words.


Learn one thing! I have already learned it!


You have the power to destroy or brighten someone's day, your tongue has this power!


Why not praise someone without falsehood, without lies, without interests just to make that person's day better?


“There are words that strike like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing” Proverbs 12:18


Have you been healing or hurting people?


None of us like to live with people who are liars or fake, because there is never confidence in what they say.


Why not be sincere in your speech? Why not just choose the truth?


“All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one." Matthew 5:37 


Remember, there is a huge gap between truth and ignorance. It is not appropriate to be ignorant with the excuse of speaking the truth.


Ask yourself what results your words have brought to people. Have you motivated them? Have you cheered them up? Or is everything you just say words of heavy weight, demands and judgments?


What about that person who just speaks ill of others, who is always criticizing what other people do, what about this person?


“Therefore, you, who judge others, are inexcusable; because you are condemning yourself in what you judge, since you, who judge, do the same things. ” Romans 2: 1


What about people who say things they shouldn't say when they are angry, sad or disappointed?


Poor people, they are too weak because they cannot control their feelings and let themselves be dominated by them! Do not let your momentary emotional situation take control over your language.


Allow me to give one last piece of advice to those who want to grow and have a healthy mind...


Stay away from people who gossip, complain about everything, hurt others with their poisonous words. Stay away from toxic people.


“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,  but whose delight is in the law of the Lord , and who meditates on his law day and night." Psalms 1:1‭-‬2 


The wise man is recognized for his silence, and the fool for speaking too much!


"Those who guard their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin." Proverbs 13:3 


"Like golden apples in silver salves, so is the word spoken in its own time." Proverbs 25:11


Let this be our prayer:


“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasant before your face, Lord, my rock and my deliverer!” Psalm 19:14 


#ASONE

WHAT KINGDOM MINDED PROPLE DO. Dr. Paul Taylor & Dr. Josimar Salum



WHAT KINGDOM MINDED PROPLE DO. 

Dr. Paul Taylor & Dr. Josimar Salum 


WHAT KINGDOM MINDED PROPLE DO. 

Dr. Paul Taylor & Dr. Josimar Salum 


“It is very unique when godly leaders are teaching business principles and business building to those God has brought to them. 


Most of the time church leaders just want money given to them so that they can pray and preach.  


But what these Kingdom people are doing are not only unique but if is wonderful because they understand the incredible power of prayer and yet know that if people do not learn a trade for business, they will become beggars, and not what God has created them to be.  


We are believing with people who have a Kingdom mindset that  combine prayer and work, value the gathering of God’s people in church, that do not have a sacred / secular worldview but see work as true worship, for tremendous favor and business success.  


Together we can create a different Burundi.  A prosperous and Godly Burundi.


COMMENT BY PR. JEREMIE MANIRAKIZA


So powerful and instructive !


Many people in Burundi believe that prayer is sacred and work is secular which is not true. Most of our pastors could tell us not to work but to go to church to live there and this has created to much trouble and poverty in the church of Burundi.


I like when you say that with a kingdom mindset work is considered as a true worship, for tremendous favor and business success. Thank you for that.


May God transform us so that we may think according to His will.


Thank you.


#ASONE


Comment from Tharcisse Nzosaba


Thank you. Christians from pentecost churches are very poor. Pastors don't teach their members about business. In my association, we are helping young people from churches to know the principles of business. Things will change if  pastors change the mentalities and know  that to work is worship, we hope that God will change their bad mentalities through our advices. I want you to be my mentor and my coach.


 #I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me#