Social Work - Kenya

Happy Life Children’s Home
Hope for Abandoned babies

At the Universal Church we have a group called Sisterhood, and today as part of our work, we went to visit a children’s home, and it was an awesome experience to all of us. We took some things to share with them like toys, gifts, snacks and drinks, and off course our love to bless their lives.

The children were so happy, it is amazing how with just a few we could do so much to them, end of the day I think we were the ones blessed by them. The smile on their faces was priceless, and we do believe soon we will be visiting them again that we may share and give what our Lord has given us.

Special thanks first to our Dear Lord Jesus, and to all those who sponsored this remarkable date.

Thank God for having touched the hearts of the organizers of this orphanage to help these children, May God enable them to help many other children as well. Very good job.

Ask Event - Kenya - Start Today!

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you'll always be in the same place.

Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, No. 1 Kijabe Street, Former Globe Cinema or Sabaki Centre opposite Shell Petrol Station, Mathare North.

Thinking BIG

Small thinkers live small lives

"Ask of Me, and I will give you
 the nations for your inheritance, 
and the ends of the earth 
for your possession." Psalms 2:8



Thinking big, in a nutshell, is to think like God. God's thoughts are more than big. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts," He said in Isaiah 55:9.

Man is limited only by his thoughts. And unfortunately, most people have been prisoners in the tiny prisons of their small thoughts.

You can only do what you think is possible. That's why people who think small, live small lives.

What is it to think small?

It's to think of what you don't have instead of what you do.

It's to think of what you can't do instead of what you can.

It's to think of a problem instead of a solution.

It's to think of what's going against you instead of what you've got going for you.

It's to think that you already have enough because there are people poorer than you.

It's to think that you've tried everything, when you've really only tried a handful of things.

It's to think that successful people are just ‘lucky' and that you aren't one of them.

It's to doubt you'll ever succeed and to believe you're destined to fail.

You can only do what you think is possible. Henry Ford said, "If you think you can or you think you can't, you will ALWAYS be right."

So when you catch yourself wondering why your life is the way it is, why it doesn't get better, the answer will inevitably come down to your thoughts.

To think big is to think like God. And to think like God, you need to know what and how He thinks. And to know what and how He thinks, meditate on what He said in His Word. Here's just one example:

"Ask of Me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession." Psalm 2:8

What was it again you asked Him the last time you prayed?

Ask Event - Kenya

17th October 2010 @ 10am - The time has come for us to ask like never before, join us in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, No. 1 Kijabe Street, Former Globe Cinema or Sabaki Centre opposite Shell Petrol Station, Mathare North. All are welcome!!!






17th October

Gold from your enemies

Exodus 11:

1 And the LORD said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out of here altogether.

2 “Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let every man ask from his neighbor and every woman from her neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.”

3 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians.
Nine plagues had already come upon the Egyptians. By this time, they knew exactly what was going on and who was behind it — the Israelites and their God!

Turning your neighbor’s rivers into blood, causing frogs to crawl up in their beds, and killing their cattle with hail, among others, weren’t exactly the top tips on how to make friends… There’s no doubt that by this time, the Egyptians hated the Israelites. They were sick of them.

And yet, here comes Moses with another one of his God’s brilliant ideas. Go ask your neighbors — that’s right, the Egyptians who hate you — to give you silver and gold. Give you, not sell to you.

What is God thinking? Does He want us to antagonize the Egyptians even more? Is He trying to get us all killed?

No. He was simply trying to teach His people how to use the power of asking. Notice that He was already planning on giving the Israelites favor in the eyes of the Egyptians. But the Israelites would only find that out if they went and asked them.

Lesson?

God wants us to have the courage, the brazen face to ask what we want even of those least likely to give us anything. In other words, if somebody has what you want, just go and ask. It doesn’t matter if he’s your enemy. And it doesn’t matter the size of your request either. Gold and silver? Of your enemy? Just ask!

We of course, with all our fears and shyness and other little monsters scaring us in our minds, wouldn’t dare ask such things even of our friends.

What is God thinking? That’s what I want to know.

And that’s how I want to think too.

Two ways to Receive

In Matthew 7:7 Jesus said: “Ask and it will be given to you.” In Luke 6.38 He said: “Give and it will be given to you.” Okay, wait a minute. What must I do to receive something — ask or give?

Both.

The Lord Jesus gave us two parallel streets that lead to getting what we want. Ask Street is where our requests travel as they ride on prayer, perseverance, and faith in His promises. Give Street is where our requests travel secretly, wrapped in gifts. It’s like a limousine with dark tinted windows; you can’t see who’s inside, but you know it’s somebody important. Our gifts carry unspoken requests and announce their importance, and that’s why it’s a powerful way of asking.

Asking and Giving are two ways that lead us to Receiving. Each of them is powerful if used alone, in appropriate situations. If used together, they’re irresistible.

Jesus was teaching us that if we want to receive, we must not be ashamed of asking or afraid of giving. We need to overcome our laziness, doubts, and lack of faith to ask. And we need to overcome our stinginess in giving.

If we are brave enough to ask boldly and give generously, the only trouble we'll have will be finding room to put everything we will receive…

What I want is...

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of Life. The Problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.(Mark Twain)


God must have been speaking through Mark Twain when he said the above. I’m sure that’s exactly how He feels about us many times. Can you say out loud what you really want? Yes, I mean right now, before you continue reading this?

“Well, er… sure… umm… where do I start? Umm…”

How many things do you want in one day? You want a better job in the morning, to lose weight at lunch, spend more time with your family in the afternoon, and pay off your debts in the evening. And you probably won’t have done a thing about any of those wants by the time you go to sleep. But you want them. Or so you think.

Moses spent 40 years in the desert as a fugitive of Egypt. If anybody asked him, on any day, if he wanted his people free from Egyptian slavery, he would have answered with an emphatic, almost angry, “Yes, of course!” But on the day God told him on Mount Sinai He was going to use him to do just that, Moses said, “Not me, Lord, please send somebody else.”

If you say you want something, then do what it takes to make it happen. Any less than that is self-delusion.

The Power of Asking