MESSAGE FROM PROPHET T.B. JOSHUA ON SUNDAY 28.09.2014 FOLLOWING THE FATAL INCIDENT THAT HAPPEN IN THE SCOAN'S BUILDING ON 12.09.2014

 SINCE THE VERY BEGGINING OF THIS YEAR, PROPHET T.B. JOSHUA PROPHESIED THAT THIS YEAR IS THE YEAR OF CROSSING THE BRIDGE.

AND IF YOU FOLLOW HIM CLOSELY IN HIS PREACHINGS, YOU MIGHT FIND OUT THAT HE MIGHT HAVE FORESEEN OF DIFFICULTIES THAT HE MIGHT ENCOUNTER THIS YEAR AS FAR AS HIS MINISTRY IS CONCERNED.

AND HE INSISTED TO PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE TO SEEK GOD THE MORE.

FOLLOWING THE INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED IN THE SYNAGOGUE, CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS (SCOAN), ON 12TH OF SEPTEMBER 2014,  THE PROPHET , PERSONALLY AND THE SYNAGOGUE ENDURES THE PAIN WITH ALL THE VICTIMS OF THE INCIDENT.

ALSO, TANZANIA GOSPEL NETWORK, JOINS HANDS WITH THE PROPHET AND THE SCOAN TO COMFORT THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN INJURED DURING THE INCIDENT AND THOSE WHOSE LOVED ONES HAVE PASSED AWAY

"PAIN OF ONE IS PAIN OF ALL"

MAY THE GOD ALMIGHTY COMFORT AND CONSOLE ALL THE WOUNDED HEARTS IN JESUS' NAME.

HERE BELOW, IS THE PROPHET'S MESSAGE

MESSAGE FROM #TBJoshua -
Good morning church and viewers all over the world. I want to thank you for your prayer and your love for the victims and relations of all those involved in the incident.

The battle is for the Lord. I really want to thank God. God has been doing so much. We need to know a thousand victories, all the way long. Glory and honour to God Almighty.

For those who are outside the Lord, they would not know. When you are outside God, you will not know what I am talking about. When you are outside the light, you can’t understand what I am talking about.

For the three weeks before the incident, if you heard my message and sat down, you would know I was giving you a vision and prophetic Word on how to handle the situation at hand. Trials and tests are meant for our belief. I go by the directives of God.

I salute the martyrs of faith and the victims. I also salute their relations. My love and my prayers are always with them. The martyrs, victims and their relations, what they would like to see is the work of God continue. That is what they died for, suffered for and are living for.

From your heart, commit the relations of the martyrs to God. Ask God to strengthen them and open their understanding more to know and understand what happened here. Ask God to give them the grace to continue in God. In Him we live; in Him we move. Ask God to give them the grace to continue the work of salvation.

Remember the victims in one way or the other and ask for God’s intervention. Ask God for His power of resurrection within them and outside them, in Jesus Christ’s name we pray.

Remain silent and give thanks to God, within you. I want you to change your confession and give thanks to God.

Listen to God, not men. Don’t let your faith be disturbed. If anyone wants to disturb your faith with their negative words and message, remember God. See the need of God the more. See the need of serving the Lord the more, the need of moving closer to Him.

Don’t be disturbed. Pray for the relations; pray for the victims. That is your assignment – your love and prayer for the victims and the relations of the martyrs. That is your duty at this time.

Don’t allow yourself to be used by satan. If you do, satan will use his people to run to you and disturb you the more. This is an opportunity for them to disturb your faith with their negative words. Those who hate you and those who want you to die will run after you because of this issue. It is not that they love you but they want to see your countenance, your appearance, how you look and whether you are worried. Never allow this. Remember Jesus. Don’t change your words in a moment. Jesus is Lord.

What you saw happen - God is aware. If God is aware, who else is aware does not matter. The martyrs, victims and relations want to see your faith grow; they want to see the work of salvation and the work of God in your life continue. They want to see you serve the Lord the more. The only way you can allow the work of God to continue is to be with yourself and God, not to allow intruders and people around you to advise you and tell you what to do when they could not stop what happened.

I pray the satanic agents should be the only ones to suffer this. I said, our God will get back to them. Warn your family and brothers about their talk. You will know I am a man of God this time. People who are looking for your downfall and run to disturb your spirit, warn them to be careful of their tongues and the people who come to them. God is a God of vengeance – anybody can go for it.

You cannot help me, only God. Don’t disturb me; please leave me with God. You will see the outcome. I am saying this so that only the people who did this will suffer for it and you will not in any way suffer for it. The people who are writing whatever they are saying - all of us will see the outcome of this. Leave it for God.

I have been on this journey for 27 years. Do you think God can close His eyes and rubbish everything here? They are asking God to bring more evidence of whether He is the One who called me. Warn everyone to be very careful. This issue at hand is a delicate issue.

People are using all this to gain money and friends. This is a warning. Whatever anybody wants to write, let them write it; they will be the ones to read it.

I said, our God will get back to them. He has started somewhere. He is coming. If your brother is involved, unless he can resurrect the people who died, he will join them. If you can resurrect the people who died, you can go free. The servants, the people who sent them, the people who heard the stories all around and those who want to use it for themselves and disturb my spirit, you may likely join them. Be careful. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Let us be very careful of our tongue.

Your responsibility is to the victims and the relations of the victims and martyrs of faith. If you say you are born again, wherever the victims and their relations are, wherever the relations of the martyrs of faith are, look for them. Let them know you are praying for them. What you eat, let them eat it. What you wear, let them wear out of it. What you have on your table, let them have it on their table, too. Share what you have with them – your love, prayer, affection and strength. Share it with them at this time. This is what we call ‘born again’ – my pain is your pain. Your joy is my joy.

The multitudes of people who claim to be with T.B. Joshua in prayer – if the same people turn to the families of the victims and martyrs of faith, do you not think life would be better for them than before? Join them, look for them, as many others are doing now.

BISHOP ANDREW MUKASA PRAYING FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE SUNDAY SERVICE AT VICTORY CHRISTIAN CENTRE - BOKO, DAR ES SALAAM IN TANZANIA.

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PASTOR MYAMBA WEDDING ON AUGUST 2 2014

PASTOR MYAMBA CLOSES THE OPPORTUNITIES OF LIFE AUGUST 2

HE WILL BE GIVEN MILLIONS OF MONEY 

Pastor Myamba and his wife Praxiza showing off their wedding rings

It's not a movie or a drama but the fact is that the awkward Bongo Movie actor who does justice to pastoral scenes, Pastor Myamba has officially passed away a bachelor's life after tying the knot with his long-term fiancée Praxceda yesterday.

Seemingly overjoyed, Myamba was able to post some of his wedding photos on his Facebook page, including a large gift of a large sum of money on a trolley given to them by the committee members.

                   

Mr and Mrs Myamba leaving the church after the marriage ceremony ended
                
MR & MRS Myamba on the beach in a group photo with their maids
             

Who do I call you Money ???? Mr & Mrs Myamba showing the minutes awarded by the wedding committee                                        

                     

Pastor Myamba na Praxceda on the send off day

source: http://larrybway91.wordpress.com

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Team Leader - EC Zanzibar Non State Actors (NSAs) Support Programme (ZANSASP)

Objectives of the role:

The global objective of ZANSASP is to strengthen democratisation and good governance, through support to civil society initiatives on accountability, participatory development and policy advocacy in Zanzibar. Its specific objectives are: i) to strengthen NSAs leadership and management capacities ii) increase transparency and participatory development by increasing NSAs' engagement in policy development and planning, formulation, monitoring and evaluation of poverty reduction strategies and programmes.

The programme foresees a) support to the demand-side of governance and social accountability through provision of a range of grant and essentially non-grant forms of capacity development support to Zanzibari Non-State actors (NSAs) engaged in advocacy and dialogue with the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar (RGoZ) on issues of governance and development, as well as b) technical assistance to relevant authorities of the RGoZ to improve the legislative and regulatory environment for civil society organisations and the supply side of governance and transparency.

The Team Leader will be expected to lead a technical assistance team whose remit includes the provision of technical assistance to NSAs and relevant RGoZ authorities; the design and implementation of a comprehensive capacity development programme for Zanzibari NSAs (capacity development for CSOs, mapping and research on CSOs, support to dialogue between CSOs and partner country governments and/or local authorities, supporting partner country governments in improving the legislative and regulatory environment for CSOs) and the management of grants contract to local NSAs.

Length of the project: 48 months

Start Date: January 2015 (at earliest)

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Master’s degree in social sciences (e.g. organisational development, international development, development management, business studies, MBA, politics, economics) or similar
Ability to develop non state actor (NSA) representative structures; coalitions, platforms and networks for civil society
Skills in managing capacity building and training of NSAs
Good level of English and preferably Swahili

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Experience working in sub-Saharan Africa, preferably East Africa, ideally Tanzania and Zanzibar
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1.1 BUSINESS SUPPORT MANAGER (1 POST)

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WISDOM OF RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS

  Bishop Zachary Kakobe

Today, we are studying the Bible from MATTHEW 21: 23-46. Although our subject is “WISDOM TO ANSWER QUESTIONS”, there is still much to learn in these verses. In these verses, we find four different things to learn: -

(1) WISDOM TO ANSWER QUESTIONS (vv. 23-27);

(2) BAPTISM COMES FROM HEAVEN (vv. 25-27);

(3) GRACE ACCOMPANIED BY REPENTANCE (vv. 28-32);

(4) THE EXAMPLE OF A HOME PERSON (vv. 35-46).

(1) WISDOM TO ANSWER QUESTIONS (vv. 23-27)

Jesus Christ was so wise in answering the questions he was asked that people did not dare to ask him questions (MATTHEW 22:46). We do not have to answer every question we are asked, in the same system. Some questions do not require our answers at all (JOHN 19: 8-9; MATTHEW 27: 12-14), and the answers to other questions are to ask those who asked us (MATTHEW 21: 23-27). Before we know what to do when faced with a question, it is important to first understand the NIA of the question we were asked, as well as the nature of the question. The questions we are asked are in the following six ways: -

a. TRAP QUESTIONS (MATTHEW 22: 15-17) - It is important to be careful in answering questions like this, so that our answers do not cause us to fall into the trap set by the questioner.

b. QUESTIONS INTENT TO TRY US (MATTHEW 19: 3; LUKE 10:25) - These questions are intended to test our understanding, to test how we will respond, so that the questioner may have the opportunity to blame us, accuse us or send bad information somewhere. Caution is needed in answering these questions.

c. QUESTIONS INTENTIONALLY HARMFUL (MATTHEW 2: 3-8) - By giving a complete answer to questions like these, we can give the person who asked us the opportunity to do the harm he or she intended in his or her heart. A thief may ask, Does this person return in the evening from work every day? When I come in the morning is it hard to find him? There is no one left in his house? Caution is needed in answering such questions. Evil questions, too, should not be answered.

d. QUESTIONS INTENTIONAL (LUKE 10:29) - some people, not that they ask for education, no, not at all. They pretend to be more educated than we are and so they ask questions to find fault with us, and then they show us their knowledge. We have to be careful. Let us not answer questions with the intention of seeking the “Who knows more” contest, let us seek more answers to make the person stop being evil. To answer the question of the meaning of the locks, seals and trumpets of the Revelation of John from a person who is not saved or who does not live according to the principles of holiness, is a waste of our free time (2 TIMOTHY 2:14, 16-18).

e. FOOLISH AND IGNORANT QUESTIONS, UNKNOWN As we witness to people about salvation, we should avoid their questions related to internal teachings - the Trinity, the Sonship of God, the Atonement of Marriage, the Attire of a Saved Person, Baptism, etc. Let's just tell them how to overcome sin and avoid other questions. They will know it AFTER being saved. A person does not start seventh grade, he starts first grade. Nonsense questions like "Where did God come from", etc., we must reject. Before a person knows where God came from, let him know where he came from!

f. STUDY QUESTIONS (MATTHEW 19: 25-29; LUKE 20: 27-37) - These questions are well-intentioned, however, we must first look at a person's spiritual level. When a five-year-old child asks "Where do children come from?", You can't answer that they come from a sexual act! To do so would be to alienate him from pure values. Likewise, spiritual babes, we answer questions that only build them up in their infancy. Give it to them milk, and let us not give them bones (HEBREWS 5: 12-14; 1 PETER 2: 2).

HOW TO GET WISDOM TO ANSWER QUESTIONS - God's wisdom is needed in answering questions. With this wisdom in mind, we can better understand the purpose of the question and know how to respond to it immediately. This wisdom is obtained by praying to God in faith that He will give it to us, that we may serve Him well (JAMES 1: 5-7).

(2) BAPTISM COMES FROM HEAVEN (vv. 25-27)

In these verses, we clearly learn that John's baptism came from heaven, not from men. That is why the chief priests and the elders of the people were afraid to answer him, because they did not believe John, even though all the people considered him to be a prophet. If John's Baptism came from heaven, it is clear that the baptism of Jesus, who was greater than John (JOHN 1: 28-30), CAME FROM HEAVEN AND NOT TO HUMAN BEINGS (JOHN 3: 26-27). Since this water baptism we are commanded to be baptized by the one who gave us that command is Jesus Himself (MATTHEW 28:19; MARK 16: 15-16), and not man, we should not agree with human teachings on Baptism. Jesus never commanded that infants be baptized. He was not baptized as a child, but blessed, and in his ministry he blessed the children, and did not baptize them (LUKE 2: 27-35; MARK 10: 13-16), Jesus was baptized as an adult (LUKE 3: 21-23). How is this baptism from heaven done? The word "baptize", in the original Greek language, is called "BAPTISM", which comes from the Greek word "BAPTO" meaning "Dip" or "soak", such as dipping a lump of porridge in a sauce or dipping clothes in water or blood. , or dip your finger in water (LUKE 16:24; REVELATION 19:13; JOHN 13:26). Thus, baptism from heaven is done by immersing the person in the WATER that covers the person (JOHN 3:23) and not by sprinkling water on the face. Likewise, the baptism from heaven takes place AFTER (not before) a person hears the preaching of the Gospel and believes in it, and repents of his sins by means of forsaking them, and decides to be saved (ROMANS 10: 13-14; ACTS 8:12, 36-39). Only in abundant water can one come down from the water and climb into the water (MATTHEW 3:16; JOHN 4: 1-2; LUKE 2: 27-35; MARK 10: 13-16).

(3) GRACE ACCOMPANIED BY REPENTANCE (vv. 28-32)

God is pleased with people who are willing to repent or confess and STOP what they were doing, and start doing what they did not want to do. Such people receive mercy or grace to enable them to overcome sin, and to gain the right to enter heaven (PROVERBS 28:13). There are some people who are unwilling to repent, who are proud, and who think that they are righteous, because they do not drink alcohol, do not smoke, do not commit adultery, do not steal, and do all religious acts. These will go to the river, overwhelmed by tax collectors and prostitutes who are ready to repent and give up. Any form of self-condemnation is an abomination to God, for by nature everyone is a sinner, and repentance is necessary in order to avoid judgment (JEREMIAH 2:35; 1 JOHN 1: 8-10; ROMANS 3:12, 22-23). No matter how sinful a person is as a prostitute, repenting in the sense of giving up, he is forgiven and saved (ISAIAH 1:18; 55: 6-7). Likewise, it is important to be ready to repent even after being saved. After we are saved and even after being sanctified, we will still be subject to the SINS OF IMMORALITY THAT WE MUST COMMIT (JAMES 4:17). We must always be ready to repent like David (1 CHRONICLES 21: 1, 7-8; 1 JOHN 2: 1-2)

(4) THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE HOUSEHOLDER (vv. 33-46)

The landowner planted a vineyard and put a fence around it. The vineyards were surrounded by enclosures or stone walls (PROVERBS 24: 30-31). He dug a pressure hole in it. The pressure hole, is a juice extractor from grapes. The grapes are placed on one side of the plant, the pods fall into the ditch and the juice passes to the other side. He hired tenants and set out. Farmers were given these lands for rent for a year or a lifetime and were also given by inheritance. The person who owns the house here, is God Himself (1 CORINTHIANS 3: 9; HEBREWS 3: 2,6). This vineyard, is a desert church that was inherited only by the Jews and had a wall, no non-Jew was allowed to enter that church. God sent His servants, the PROPHETS, to ask for fruit from the Jews. The Jews arrested them, stoned them to death (MATTHEW 23: 34-37). Finally, God decided to send his Son, Jesus, to say that they would honor him. And they tortured him outside the gate and killed him. As a result, the Church will now be inherited or will be given to the Gentiles and a wall that will not allow them to enter, will not exist (ACTS 13: 46-49; 15: 13-18). Jesus is the chief cornerstone. Whoever falls on it will be shattered. His grace will cause him to have a broken and contrite heart, and thus be saved (PSALM 34:18; 51:17; 147: 3). But those who reject him; they will fall by the Stone and will be crushed to pieces and destroyed (ISAIAH 8: 9; ACTS 7:38).

milk, and let us not give them bones (HEBREWS 5: 12-14; 1 PETER 2: 2).

HOW TO GET WISDOM TO ANSWER QUESTIONS - God's wisdom is needed in answering questions. With this wisdom in mind, we can better understand the purpose of the question and know how to respond to it immediately. This wisdom is obtained by praying to God in faith that He will give it to us, that we may serve Him well (JAMES 1: 5-7).

(2) BAPTISM COMES FROM HEAVEN (vv. 25-27)

In these verses, we clearly learn that John's baptism came from heaven, not from men. That is why the chief priests and the elders of the people were afraid to answer him, because they did not believe John, even though all the people considered him to be a prophet. If John's Baptism came from heaven, it is clear that the baptism of Jesus, who was greater than John (JOHN 1: 28-30), CAME FROM HEAVEN AND NOT TO HUMAN BEINGS (JOHN 3: 26-27). Since this water baptism we are commanded to be baptized by the one who gave us that command is Jesus Himself (MATTHEW 28:19; MARK 16: 15-16), and not man, we should not agree with human teachings on Baptism. Jesus never commanded that infants be baptized. He was not baptized as a child, but blessed, and in his ministry he blessed the children, and did not baptize them (LUKE 2: 27-35; MARK 10: 13-16), Jesus was baptized as an adult (LUKE 3: 21-23). How is this baptism from heaven done? The word "baptize", in the original Greek language, is called "BAPTISM", which comes from the Greek word "BAPTO" meaning "Dip" or "soak", such as dipping a lump of porridge in a sauce or dipping clothes in water or blood. , or dip your finger in water (LUKE 16:24; REVELATION 19:13; JOHN 13:26). Thus, baptism from heaven is done by immersing the person in the WATER that covers the person (JOHN 3:23) and not by sprinkling water on the face. Likewise, the baptism from heaven takes place AFTER (not before) a person hears the preaching of the Gospel and believes in it, and repents of his sins by means of forsaking them, and decides to be saved (ROMANS 10: 13-14; ACTS 8:12, 36-39). Only in abundant water can one come down from the water and climb into the water (MATTHEW 3:16; JOHN 4: 1-2; LUKE 2: 27-35; MARK 10: 13-16).

(3) GRACE ACCOMPANIED BY REPENTANCE (vv. 28-32)

God is pleased with people who are willing to repent or confess and STOP what they were doing, and start doing what they did not want to do. Such people receive mercy or grace to enable them to overcome sin, and to gain the right to enter heaven (PROVERBS 28:13). There are some people who are unwilling to repent, who are proud, and who think that they are righteous, because they do not drink alcohol, do not smoke, do not commit adultery, do not steal, and do all religious acts. These will go to the river, overwhelmed by tax collectors and prostitutes who are ready to repent and give up. Any form of self-condemnation is an abomination to God, for by nature everyone is a sinner, and repentance is necessary in order to avoid judgment (JEREMIAH 2:35; 1 JOHN 1: 8-10; ROMANS 3:12, 22-23). No matter how sinful a person is as a prostitute, repenting in the sense of giving up, he is forgiven and saved (ISAIAH 1:18; 55: 6-7). Likewise, it is important to be ready to repent even after being saved. After we are saved and even after being sanctified, we will still be subject to the SINS OF IMMORALITY THAT WE MUST COMMIT (JAMES 4:17). We must always be ready to repent like David (1 CHRONICLES 21: 1, 7-8; 1 JOHN 2: 1-2)

(4) THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE HOUSEHOLDER (vv. 33-46)

The landowner planted a vineyard and put a fence around it. The vineyards were surrounded by enclosures or stone walls (PROVERBS 24: 30-31). He dug a pressure hole in it. The pressure hole, is a juice extractor from grapes. The grapes are placed on one side of the plant, the pods fall into the ditch and the juice passes to the other side. He hired tenants and set out. Farmers were given these lands for rent for a year or a lifetime and were also given by inheritance. The person who owns the house here, is God Himself (1 CORINTHIANS 3: 9; HEBREWS 3: 2,6). This vineyard, is a desert church that was inherited only by the Jews and had a wall, no non-Jew was allowed to enter that church. God sent His servants, the PROPHETS, to ask for fruit from the Jews. The Jews arrested them, stoned them to death (MATTHEW 23: 34-37). Finally, God decided to send his Son, Jesus, to say that they would honor him. And they tortured him outside the gate and killed him. As a result, the Church will now be inherited or will be given to the Gentiles and a wall that will not allow them to enter, will not exist (ACTS 13: 46-49; 15: 13-18). Jesus is the chief cornerstone. Whoever falls on it will be shattered. His grace will cause him to have a broken and contrite heart, and thus be saved (PSALM 34:18; 51:17; 147: 3). But those who reject him; they will fall by the Stone and will be crushed to pieces and destroyed (ISAIAH 8: 9; ACTS 7:38).