Praying for others

Our Father who art in Heaven, I come to thee with sadness, hope and faith;
Sadness about the suffering of children, women, elderly people and the disabled in the current fighting taking place in Lebanon and Israel as well as in the ongoing instability in Iraq and Afghanistan. Innocent lives have been lost. Young lives have been lost. It is a tragedy Lord.

I don't forget the suffering people of Somalia, victims of the civil instability in Sudan's Darfur Region, the hungry people of Niger and the poor of Zimbabwe (the former breadbasket of Africa) now suffering from hunger, disease and unemployment with inflation reported today at one million Z$ to a British £.

I have hope Lord, that:-

• all this suffering will come to an end;
• you will answer our prayers;
• these wars come to an end;
• you will remind the world's powerful rulers about their obligation to safeguard lives rather than to score points through proxy wars
• you will bring sanity to the merchants of death who are trading in and transporting more and more sophisticated bombs to be used against defenceless civilians
• human beings will one day learn to resolve any conflict through peaceful proccesses always and everywhere

I also have faith in the Lord, that:

• He will deliver us from evil, through the blood of Jesus Christ for ever and ever!

Amen

References: 'Zim dollar hits a million to the pound'

http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=14873 accessed on 30th July 2006.

'Cabinet in open revolt over Blair's Israel policy'

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1833538,00.html

'The day Israel realised that this was a real war'

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1833349,00.html accessed 30th July 2006.

'Israelis edge closer to war with Syria' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news

accessed 30th July 2006

"I am the light of the world"

The following except from John, chapter 9 have inspired me a lot today in this world of disbelief :

1: As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.

2: And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

3: Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.

4: We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day; night comes, when no one can work.

5: As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

6: As he said this, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the man's eyes with the clay,

7: saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Silo'am" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

8: The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

9: Some said, "It is he"; others said, "No, but he is like him." He said, "I am the man."

Source:http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/accessed 39th July 2006.

Ndinokutendai Samatenga

Mwari Baba wedu vari kudenga
Ndinotenda netsitsi dzenyu dzisingapere
Ndakakunda zvizhinji mumazuva mashoma apera aya
Zvichisanganisa hutano nekushushwa nevavengi
Asi imi Ishe makandinunura
Makandirapa
Makandipa simba
Muri kundipa makomborero
Hongu ndinoada
Ndidzivirireiwo pakunetswa naSatan
Dzingai mamhepo
Ndiropafadzeiwo neMweya Mutsvene
kuburikidza nezita raJesu Kristu Mwanakomana wenyu

Psalm 104

33: I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
34: May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
35: Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!

Source:http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=RsvPsal.sgm&images=images/

God will Provide

I never give up hope, even when I am right on the edge, because I know that

• the Lord is with me
• I am God's creation
• Jesus Christ died for my sins
• I will be saved by the truth
• whatever my enemies do, they can't beat God
• whenever I am in need I ask our Father who Art in Heaven
• GOD WILL PROVIDE

Lord have mercy, hear our prayers.

Amen

For everything there is a season

In Ecclesiastes1 I have learnt that for everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
and a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep and a time to cast away;
a time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace

Amen

Mwari Mune Rudo

Mangwanani anhasi ndaverenga Mabasa avapostori ukondadziidza nezvekupondwa kwa Stephen. Makaratidza rudo rukuru nevzishamiso zvakaitika ipapo.

Zvanzi muBhaibhiri, "But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at his right hand. And Stephen's face was like the face of an angel.

"Behold I see the heavens opened," he said, "and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God."

May the Lord bless the reading of his Book!

Ndinokumbira kuti mundisimbaradze mushoko renyu. Ndipeiwo simba. Ndiitei mushandiri wenyu.

Amen

Hymn 99

Ishe ndinzwei nokufara
Ndinzwe netsitsi dzenyu
Dzamunopa nanhu vose
Ngadziuye mandiri
Mandiri

Regai kundisiya Baba
Kana ndiri mutadzi
Ndino kuipa pamwoyo
Asi uyai mandiri
Mandiri

Uyai pano Muponisi
Ngandichengetwe nemi
Kana muchindishovedza
Ndichauya kwamuri
Kwamuri

Mweya Mutsvene waMwari
Regai kundipfuura
Ngandione ndiri bofu
Taurai izwi resimba
Resimba

Rudo rwenyu Mwari Baba
Ropa raIshe wangu
Nokuwadzana kwoMweya
Kungavepo kwandiri
Kwandiri

Amen!


Ndinzwirei tsitsi Mwari, nokuda kwounyoro hwenyu; dzimai kudarika kwangu nokuda kwengoni dzenyu zhinji. Ndisukei zvakaipa zvangu zvose, ndinatsei chivi changu. Sikai mukati mangu mwoyo wakachena, Mwari, vandudzai mukati mangu mweya wakarurama.

Source: Nziyo DzeMethodist, 1964 page 347
Amen