DAILY PROMISE: God promises to be near

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:8

When we draw closer to God through prayer and reading his Word to us, He promises to come near to us! What a beautiful invitation for an intimate relationship with our Lord and Savior. Nkusabidde osemberere Mukama naye anakusemberera. Ye yeka asangula amaziga, anyiga ebiwundu ate era akomyaawo emeeme. Blessed day.

Rev Samuel Muwonge.

Daily Promise:God will give you peace

"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you" Isaiah 26:3

When we readjust our thinking from the "what ifs" and "what could have been" and we focus on trusting Jesus, we can experience steadfast peace. Recall Scripture, meditate on God's word and you will become steadfast in faith. The peace of Jesus is perfect, it lacks nothing because it knows the victory is already won.may God give you peace. Psalm 29:11. Rev Samuel Muwonge.

DAILY PROMISE: God promises to protect you

“For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease.” Psalm 91:3 

In a world filled with uncertainty, God promises His protection over every part of our lives. We can trust in His divine security from physical and spiritual harm.Shalom and blessings.

Rev Samuel Muwonge.

DAILY PROMISE: God Heals you.

“He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.” 1 Peter 2:24 

When sick people were brought to Jesus, He healed them all. The Lord's heart for humanity has not changed. Jesus desires to heal all. If you are sick anywhere in your body - eyes, digestion, mental illness, blood condition, cancer, any ailment - embrace the promise of total healing because of the wounds of Jesus.Remember with God everything is possible. Shalom

REV SAMUEL MUWONGE.

Daily Promise: GOD HAS MADE YOU A NEW CREATION

“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 

As the righteousness of God in Christ, you are a new creation. You were a sinner. You were full of sinful desires, but that is the old you. Now you are righteous and desire righteousness. You were weak but now you are strong. Your life is brand new.Therefore walk in the newness of life. Shalom and blessed day.

Rev Samuel Muwonge.

Daily Promise: God promises to work everything together for good

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." - Romans 8:28

For those of us who love Him and are called to his purpose, He promises these powerful words, “in all things God works for the good.” In everything. Not just the good things that happen, but in it all, we can be assured, He will indeed bring good from it. He is our Redeemer, and He will not waste our pain.Have a blessed day. 

Rev Samuel Muwonge.

Daily Promise: God promises us that nothing can seperate us from His love

God promises us that nothing can seperate us from His love

In Paul's letter to the Roman church, he asks, “who can separate us from the love of Christ?” The answer: no one and nothing. Not life or death, angels nor demons, no power or living creature, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ (Romans 8:35)

Even when the world is spinning out of control, despair and tragedy all around, we are carefully in the grip of God’s love. If He is for us, who, or what can come against us (Romans 8:31)? Nothing. God promises that we will never be without His love. Beloved begin the day knowing and trusting that God is with you and for you. 

Blessed day. Rev Samuel Muwonge.

Good Friday: THE CROSS - Three Powerful Things the Cross of Jesus Does for you

I want to examine the spiritual phenomena of the power of Jesus' cross to draw all men to Himself and keep them there. Because, when it comes to Christianity, we need to understand that:

It isn't the church

It isn't our good lives

It isn't even the Bible

that draws people to Jesus. These things point the way but they in themselves do not have drawing power. What draws people to Christ is His cross:

The church proclaims it

Our good lives confirm it

The Bible records it

In the end, people come to God because of the cross of Jesus. It is the magnetic force within Christianity that has the power to pull people toward God. In this Mini Book I will try to explain what it is about the cross that attracts people to Jesus.

1. The Cross has the Power to Set Men Free

Whether they admit it or not, people carry in their hearts an incredible load of anxiety and fear because of guilt. This is normal because all men are guilty of sin, and this fact has been well documented in the Bible. The universality of sin is a core Bible doctrine.

What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD; ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE."

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

- Romans 3:9-12; 23

All are guilty, and this problem has moved people to seek relief from the mental, emotional, and physical ravages caused by the effects of sin. Social reform, new philosophies, escape through drugs, magic, even denial ("I have no sin"), all of these and more have been tried to no avail. No avail because none of these so-called solutions can do what the cross does: remove the cause of guilt, which is sin. These other things deal with the symptoms of sin but the cross effectively eliminates the root cause: sin itself.

And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness for by His wounds you were healed

- I Peter 2:24

What Peter is saying here is that Jesus heals us of the effects of sin by removing our actual sins from us and taking them on to Himself. He doesn't excuse them, justify them or hide them. He removes them through a process of transference, a process that was previewed for centuries by the Jewish sacrificial system.

In the Old Testament when the priest would offer up an animal as sacrifice for someone's sins, he would first lay hands upon the animal as a symbol that a transfer was taking place (Leviticus 4:13-21). The sins of the individual were being transferred to the animal, and the animal was being slain in order to symbolize that the payment for the moral price of sin, which is death, was paid (Genesis 2:15-17). With the sin symbolically transferred to the animal, and the animal then sacrificed (sacrificed because death was the way something was transferred from the physical realm to the spiritual realm) the person was thus cleansed from the burden of guilt caused by sin.

Of course we know today that this was a preview of what was to come. Jesus, the perfect and innocent lamb, taking on the sins of all men (not symbolically, but literally), and then offering up His sinless and eternal being in a sacrifice on the cross in order to make moral payment for all sin, for all time. I say an innocent and perfect life because the sacrifice had to be without sin in order to atone for sin. Not to have a perfect life would contaminate the sacrifice. I say an "eternal," "divine" life because Jesus was the Son of God and as such the value of His life made His sacrifice adequate for all men not just one or two. His divine nature makes His sacrifice good enough and valuable enough to exchange for not only one person - its value is enough to exchange for all men. (I could exchange my perfect human life for only one other human life. Jesus is perfect and divine; His life is worth all other human life.)

People are attracted to the cross because they see in it the place where they can transfer all of their sins and be released from their guilt. When people hear how Jesus died in order to pay the moral debt they have before God, they are attracted because they have found the only way of dealing with their guilt that removes it forever: forgiveness! The most compelling words to a sinner in the New Testament are those of Peter and Paul. Peter said,

Repent and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.

- Acts 2:38

Paul said,

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

- Romans 8:1

Sins are transferred to the cross - forgiveness comes from the cross - guilty sinners are drawn by the cross.

2. The Cross has the Power to Create in Me a Desire for Righteousness

The cross has the power to create in a person the love and desire for what is good, right, true, and pure. Even though a person cannot achieve perfection on this earth, the cross of Christ gives him a thirst for it. No law can produce this in one's heart. No threats of punishments can make me want what is right and good (I'll do it out of fear but you can't force me to want to obey.) No amount of self-discipline or will power can make a person love righteousness. However, the cross of Christ has attraction because it has the power to create this desire in the human heart. How?

When I contemplate Jesus' sacrifice for me, I see for the first time the essence of God's deepest goodness and purest justice. I see, by the cross, that I worship a God who took upon Himself a human nature and entered into human history in order to suffer the punishment for the sins that I committed and for which I truly deserved punishment. In other words, God transferred my sins onto Himself! This knowledge awakens in me the desire to have and do what He did. Paul explains this:

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

- Romans 7:5-6

In the same way that I craved after evil and the pleasures of sin, after the cross I hunger and thirst after righteousness, now that I've seen what perfect righteousness does. Because of the Law, the sin in me was aroused. Because of the Cross, the spirit in me is aroused. Moreover, the cross makes me want to abandon forever my weak attempts at goodness and self-justification through works, and desire to be good and righteous as He is good and righteous; a goodness and righteousness that totally eclipses my own!

There are many things in the world that will change a person's appearance, even his state of mind, but only the cross of Christ has the power to change a person's heart. Before the cross I desired only what served me, after seeing the cross all I desire is what will serve God.

3. The Cross has the Power to Convince Me that I am Loved

One of the common issues found in diverse problems such as teen suicide, depression, alcohol and drug abuse, and marriage breakdown is the problem of low self-esteem. Sometimes we just don't like ourselves very much. We worry about our value as human beings, and we have trouble liking others because we have a poor estimate of ourselves. Sometimes it begins in youth when in different ways we get "messages" that tell us that we're not ok, names other kids call us, failure in school, trouble between our parents. Whether these messages are accurate or not is not the problem; the problem is that we think they are true and begin to store them away in our subconscious minds. In many ways these kinds of thoughts motivate us as we grow older; we try to improve, to quiet the inner voice that says, you're not worthy, you're no good, you'll never be good enough.

Children who grow up believing they're not ok become angry, depressed, frightened and insecure adults who often end up raising the same kind of kids. But the cross of Jesus Christ has the power to finally break this cycle because it loudly and clearly says, "I love you," "you're ok now." When nobody cares about you, even when you don't care about yourself, the cross says, "I care."

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

- John 3:16

For while we were still helpless, at the right time God died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

- Romans 5:6-8

The cross convinces me that I am loved because in it I see that:

God loved me; even when I ignored, ridiculed and even hated Him, He was planning my salvation.

The innocent died for guilty me.

My friend gave His life up for me.

John writes,

No longer do I call you slaves for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father, I have made known to you.

- John 15:15

The cross draws men because it has the power to convince them that no one has ever loved them in this way before or ever again. Even if our personal history is filled with people and events that have told us that we're not worthy of love, the cross of Christ stands as an eternal witness that no matter what: God loves us. So long as we keep our focus on the cross we'll never doubt that we're ok with Him.

Summary

In Romans 1:16 Paul says that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation, and this is true, but the power of the gospel is the cross of Jesus Christ. Why?

It draws me because of its power to release me from the crushing burden of guilt that I carry because of my sins.

It redirects the attention of my heart. Once I craved for my own glory and independence from God, now I desire to glorify Him and know His will for my life.

The cross has the power to reestablish my worth as a person. I tried to be important and loved by manipulating people, using money, and competing with others. Now my importance is based on the fact that God has noticed me and sacrificed Himself for me. I can honestly say that the power that the cross has is the power to completely change my life. Rev Samuel Muwonge. N.B. i invite you to the a victory night at St Stephen's Church Kitende. 7pm to 6am today. Plan not to miss.

Rev. Muwonge and Online friends donate uniforms to Kasanje Church of Uganda Primary School Pupils

Rev Samuel Muwonge with pupils of Kasanje C/U Primay School

 Pupils of Kasanje Church of Uganda Primary School in Kasanje, Wakiso District will lays remember Maundy Thursday of 2025. This has been a great day for them as they received Uniforms as an Easter present from Rev. Samuel Muwonge and online friends.

The children could not   hide their excitement after Reverend Muwonge announced that he and his online friends had bought them school uniforms so that they resurrect together with the risen Christ.

Abaana abo baweeredwa uniform c/o Rev Muwonge and online friends

Children respond to an alter call

 HOLY THURSDAY

This day reminds us that Christianity is all about love and service.

Holy thursday , we are reminded of humility and service.

Today Jesus Christ gave a new commandment "Love one another"

Rev Muwonge prays for the children

it's time to pray

HOLY THURSDAY: Meaning and importance of the last supper

The LAST  SUPPER its all about love and service.

Holy Thursday , we are reminded of humility and service.

Today Jesus Christ gave a new commandment “Love one another”

The Last Supper is what we call the last meal Jesus ate with His disciples before His betrayal and arrest. The Last Supper is recorded in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 26:17–30; Mark 14:12–26; Luke 22:7–30). It was more than Jesus’ last meal; it was a Passover meal, as well. One of the important moments of the Last Supper is Jesus’ command to remember what He was about to do on behalf of all mankind: shed His blood on the cross thereby paying the debt of our sins (Luke 22:19).

In addition to predicting His suffering and death for our salvation (Luke 22:15–16), Jesus also used the Last Supper to imbue the Passover with new meaning, institute the New Covenant, establish an ordinance for the church, and foretell Peter’s denial of Him (Luke 22:34) and Judas Iscariot’s betrayal (Matthew 26:21–24).

The Last Supper brought the Old Testament observance of the Passover feast to its fulfilment. Passover was an especially holy event for the Jewish people in that it commemorated the time when God spared them from the plague of physical death and brought them out of slavery in Egypt (Exodus 11:1—13:16). During the Last Supper with His apostles, Jesus took two symbols associated with Passover and imbued them with fresh meaning as a way to remember His sacrifice, which saves us from spiritual death and delivers us from spiritual bondage: “After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, ‘Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.’ And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you’” (Luke 22:17–20).

Jesus’ words during the Last Supper about the unleavened bread and the cup echo what He had said after He fed the 5,000: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. . . . I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. . . . Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink” (John 6:35, 51, 54–55). Salvation comes through Christ and the sacrifice of His physical body on the cross.

Also during the Last Supper, Jesus taught the principles of servanthood and forgiveness as He washed His disciples’ feet: “The greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves” (Luke 22:26–27; John 13:1–20).

The Last Supper today is remembered during the Lord’s Supper, or communion (1 Corinthians 11:23–33). The Bible teaches that Jesus’ death was typified in the offering of the Passover sacrifice (John 1:29). John notes that Jesus’ death resembles the Passover sacrifice in that His bones were not broken (John 19:36; cf. Exodus 12:46). And Paul said, “Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 Corinthians 5:7). Jesus is the fulfilment of the Law, including the feasts of the Lord (Matthew 5:17).

Typically, the Passover meal was a family celebration. However, at the Last Supper, the apostles were alone with Jesus (Luke 22:14), which suggests that this particular meal has specific meaning for the church, of which the apostles became the foundation (Ephesians 2:20). While the Last Supper had implications for the Jews, it was designed for the church as well. Today the Lord’s Table is one of two ordinances observed by the church.

The Last Supper was rooted in the Old Covenant even as it heralded the New. Jeremiah 31:31 promised a New Covenant between God and Israel, in which God said, “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people” (Jeremiah 31:33). Jesus made a direct reference to this New Covenant during the Last Supper: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood” (Luke 22:20). A new dispensation was on the horizon. In God’s grace, the New Covenant applies to more than Israel; everyone who has faith in Christ will be saved (see Ephesians 2:12–14).

The Last Supper was a significant event and proclaimed a turning point in God’s plan for the world. In comparing the crucifixion of Jesus to the feast of Passover, we can readily see the redemptive nature of Christ’s death. As symbolized by the original Passover sacrifice in the Old Testament, Christ’s death atones for the sins of His people; His blood rescues us from death and saves us from slavery. Today, the Lord’s Supper is when believers reflect upon Christ’s perfect sacrifice and know that, through our faith in receiving Him, we will be with Him forever (Luke 22:18; Revelation 3:20).

Rev. Samuel Muwonge

N.B Don’t forget the victory night tomorrow at St Stephen Kitende C.O.U. 7pm to 6am.

HOLY WEDNESDAY / SPY WEDNESDAY: Judas Iscariot approaches the High Priests to betray Jesus

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him. Matthew 26:14-16 KJV. 

What do we learn first is that There will always be the bad among the good – the tares among the wheat - in those who follow the Lord Jesus. We must never expect a perfectly pure society this side of heaven. Also, it does us well to remember that it is not about us – never has been – rather, it is all about Him. Nothing is lost by a life of sacrifice rather all is lost by my failure to obey the call of God on my life.

There is great gain in contentment. Paul tells us it is a learned secret:  11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength. Phil 4:11-13 (NIV)

Satan’s ultimate purpose on my life is to ruin me. Nkusabira Yesu akuwe okumalibwa wewale omululu. 

Rev. Samuel Muwonge 

Holy Week. Tuesday Reflection: Jesus confronts the hypocrisy of Jewish leaders

Among the people of God, authority can be misused. Jesus used his divine authority, not to dominate, but to serve. Whatever authority I have, let me use it in loving service of those around me. In this exchange, Jesus might look as if he is playing a cheap trick on the Chief priests and elders.In Mt. 21-23 Matthew is demonstrating that God did not forsake his people, Israel, even though the Jewish leadership has not accepted Jesus’ claims. Instead the Jewish leaders forsook God by not receiving the servants that God sent.  

The Bible tells us that a hypocrite is someone who puts on a mask and pretends to be something he is not. Hypocrisy is to claim to know and follow certain beliefs but to behave in a way that counteracts those beliefs. Mukama atutaase atuggyemu obunanfuusi.

Holy week day 1

JESUS CURSES THE FIG TREE 

“In the morning, as he (Jesus) was returning to the city, he became hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, ‘May no fruit ever come from you again!’ And the fig tree withered at once. When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, ‘How did the fig tree wither at once?’ And Jesus answered them, ‘Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, “Be taken up and thrown into the sea,” it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith’” (Matthew 21:18-22).In this Holy week God expects you and me to be fruitful and also have faith. Like a mirage in the distance, Jesus demonstrated to His disciples a simplistic lesson that fruit is evidence of a blossom, both practically and spiritually. The fig tree bore the appearance of abundance but in actuality did not even have the most simple and miniscule evidence of fruit on it. How prophetic when compared to our own spiritual health!

Jesus taught a piercing lesson on hypocrisy and authenticity that echoes that of the prophet Ezekiel: "And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it" (Ezekiel 17:24). Or stated more plainly, "Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall" (1 Corinthians 10:12). 

Those who present themselves publicly as Christians must bear the fruit of God's Word in their lives, otherwise they are a greater detriment to the cause of Christ due to their unrighteous behavior. Perhaps that is why Simon Peter declared, "For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them" (2 Peter 2:21). Rev Samuel Muwonge.

Olunaku olwa 30 nga twefumiitiriza ku kisiibo

Okugonjoola enkaayana

Mu kitabo kyange ku bufumbo ekisangibwa mu Cathedral Resource Centre, Entebbe Bookshop, Uganda Bookshop nkikozeeko kino ku lupapula 67--75.

Leero ka tulabe engeri gye tuyinza kugonjoola  enkaayana ng’abafumbo.

1. Beera ng’omuyizi. Mwembi mujja kuwangula ku nkomerero singa mwembi musobola okuyiga n’okukula ng’oyita mu bumanyirivu. Ekyo kiteeke nga ekigendererwa kyo okuva ku ntandikwa. Kasita omala okukitegeera nti waliwo okusika omuguwa, ekisinga obukulu si kufuula munno kutegeera ndowooza yo, okumumatiza/ ye nti oli mutuufu, oba okuwangula ensonga. Wabula ekikulu kwe kuyiga ekintu eky’omuwendo ekijja okukuyamba okufuuka omuntu Katonda b’ayagala obeere.

2. Wuliriza n’emitima gyammwe. “Okuddamu n’eggonjebwa kukyusa ekuruyi: Naye ekigambo eky’ekkayu kisaanuula obusungu.” (Engero 15: 31). Ojja kutuuka ku kikolo ky’ekizibu era okikolere mangu, singa oyita munno akubuulire ky’awulira, ebyetaago byabwe bye biruwa, engeri gye bandyagadde okuddamu, ne ky’osobola okukola kati okuyamba okugonjoola ekizibu mu ngeri ejja okuba esinga obulungi gye bali. Ekigendererwa kirina okuba okuwuliriza n’obwegendereza, okuwuliriza “ n’amaaso go,” n’okutegeera si bigambo byabwe byokka wabula n’enneewulira z’omwoyo gwabwe. Weewale okukemebwa okuwa eby’okuddamu eby’amangu.

3. Enneewulira zo zikuume nga zifugibwa.

   Obusungu tebujja kukola kintu kyonna mu kugonjoola obutakkaanya oba mu kutuyamba okukula, “......Kubanga obusungu bw’omuntu tebukola butuukirivu bwa Katonda.” (Yakobo 1: 20) .

    Katonda ayagala tukiteeke ku ffe (Abaefeso 4: 31). Saba okwefuga ku nneewulira zo.

4. Lowooza nga tonnaba kwogera. 

     Abamu ku ffe tulina emimwa gyaffe mu ntambula nga ebirowoozo byaffe tebinnaba kuli mu ggiya. Era bwe tuba nga tugezaako okugonjoola enjawulo, ekyo kiringa okuyiwa petulooli ku manda agookya. Okusirika okugaziyizibwa kuzimba okusika omuguwa kubanga kutera okutaputibwa ng’obutakkaanya. Naye okusirika okumu kuba kulungi singa tukozesa kitono okulowooza ku bye twagala okwogera n’engeri gye tusaanidde okukyogera. “ Okuddamu n’eggonjebwa kukyusa ekuruyi: Naye ekigambo eky’ekkayu kisaanuula obusungu.” (Ngero 15: 1). Mazima ddala tetwagala kusika busungu bulala nga tugezaako okugonjoola obutakkaanya. Twagala ebigambo byaffe bikkakkane n’okusirisa embeera ejja okutwala ebirowoozo ebimu. Mu kiseera kino eky’Ekisiibo Katonda akuyambe okugonjoola entalo zonna era obeere n’emirembe. 

Rev. Samuel Muwonge.

Lenten Reflection Day 39: Conflict Management

Conflict Management

In my book Marriage instruction manual found at Cathedral resource centre, Entebbe bookshop, Uganda Bookshop I have addressed this on page 67--75.

Today lets look at how we can manage conflicts as marrieds.

1. Adopt a learner’s posture. Both of you will win in the end if you can both learn and grow through experience. Set that as your aim from the very beginning. Once yoh realise there is tension, the most important thing is not making the other person understand your point of view, convincing him/ her that you are right, or winning the argument. Instead, the important thing is to learn something valuable that will help you become the people God wants you to be.

2. Listen with your hearts. “He whose ear listens to the life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.” (Proverbs 15: 31). You will get to the root of the problem and work it out more readily, if you invite your spouse to tell you what they are feeling, what their needs are, how they would have liked to respond, and what you can do now to help resolve the problem in a way that will be best for them. The goal should be to listen attentively, to listen “ with your eyes,” and to understand not only their words but the feelings of their soul. Avoid the temptation of giving quick answers.

3. Keep your emotions under control.

   Anger will never make a contribution to resolving a conflict or in helping us to grow, “......for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.” (James 1: 20)

    God wants us to put it away  from us (Ephesians 4: 31). Pray for self-control over your emotions.

4. Think before you speak. 

     Some of us have our mouths in motion before our minds are in gear. And if we are trying to resolve a difference, that is like pouring petrol on burning charcoal. Extended silence builds tension because it is usually interpreted as disagreement. But some silence is good if we use sparingly to think about what we want to say and how we should say it. “ A gentle answer turns away wrath, but harsh words stir up anger” (Prov. 15: 1). We certainly don’t want to stir up any more anger when we’re trying to resolve a conflict. We want our words  to calm and quiet the situation that will take some forethought. In this season of LENT may God help you manage all conflicts and have peace. 

Rev. Samuel Muwonge.

Okufumiitiriza ku kisiibo olunaku 38

Era n'anziya mu bunnya obw'okuzikirira, mu bitositosi; N'ateeka ebigere byange ku lwazi, n'anyweza okugenda kwange. Era n'oluyimba oluggya alussizza mu kamwa kange, kwe kutendereza Katonda waffe: Bangi abanaalabanga, ne batya, Ne beesiga Mukama.

Zabbuli 40:2–3.

Okunywera ggulugulu.

Ekiseera ekizibu, eky’ekizikiza mu bulamu bwo tekirina kukukuuma ku nkomerero yo. Oyinza okuba ng’oli mu kinnya nga Dawudi bwe yagamba nti abadde, naye olina okwetegeka, kubanga ovaayo. Okuba nti okwennyamira si nkomerero, obulwadde si nkomerero, era omuze  si y'essuula esembayo. Omuntu akulesseewo si y’enkomerero yo. Era bwakuleka mubutuufu oyinza okuba nga tonwetaaga. Era abakulekawo, kitegeeza trbali kitundu ku nkomerero yo.  Katonda ajja kuwa omuntu asingako. Ayagala okukuwa oluyimba oluggya mu mutima gwo.

Tosuula nnanga ng'oli mu bunny.  Toleka kwesaasira n’okuggwaamu amaanyi okubba obwagazi bwo. Olina okuddamu okufuna omuliro gwo. Buli mukisa Katonda gwe yakusuubiza ajja kugutuukiriza. Abantu tebasobola kuguziyiza, ebiziyiza ebibi tebiyinza kugulemesa, era ensobi z’okoze tezirina kugukomya. Ebirooto ebijja bibaawo mu biseera byo eby’omu maaso, nga byeyongera, obungi, okutumbula, obulamu, n’okuzzaawo. Ekyo ky’ekyo ekiri waggulu mu maaso go. Okunywera ggulugulu y’engeri emboozi yo gy’ekomekkereza.

Okusaba kwa leero .

“Kitaffe, webale nti obunnya bwe nneesangamu buba bwa kaseera buseera mu kkubo erigenda mu kifo we ngenda okusembayo.Weebale nnyo okundaga nti kati nsobola okuyimba oluyimba oluggya olw’okutendereza kubanga onsitula okuva mu byonna ebinkwata okunziza emabega. Nzikiriza nti ojja kuntuusa we nteekeddwa okuba. Mu linnya lya Yesu, Amiina.”

Lenten Reflection Day 38

He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God.

Psalm 40:2–3, NLT

*Solid Ground*

A difficult, dark time in your life doesn’t have to keep you from your destiny. You may be in the pit as David said he had been, but you need to get ready, because you’re coming out. That depression is not the end, the sickness is not the end, and the addiction is not the final chapter. The person who walked out on you is not the end. If they left you, you didn’t need them. If they walked out, they were not a part of your destiny. God has somebody better. He wants to put a new song in your heart.

Don’t get comfortable in the pit. Don’t let self-pity and discouragement steal your passion. You have to get your fire back. Every blessing that God promised you He still has every intention of bringing to pass. People can’t stop it, bad breaks can’t stop it, and mistakes you’ve made don’t have to stop it. Dreams coming to pass are in your future, with increase, abundance, promotion, health, and restoration. That’s what’s up in front of you. Solid ground is how your story ends.

A Prayer for Today

“Father, thank You that the pits I find myself in are only temporary stops along the way to my final destination. Thank You that I can sing a new song of praise because You lift me out of whatever holds me back. I believe that You’ll get me to where I’m supposed to be. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

God bless you

Lenten Reflection Day 37

"Do to others as you would have them do to you." —Luke 6:31

"Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." —Colossians 3:12-14

"Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it." —James 4:11.By Rev Samuel Muwonge

Era nga bwe mwagala abantu okubakolanga, nammwe mubakolenga bwe mutyo. Lukka 6:31

“N’olwekyo, ng’abantu ba Katonda abalonde, abatukuvu era abaagalwa ennyo, mwennyambe n’okusaasira, ekisa, obwetoowaze, obuwombeefu n’obugumiikiriza. Mugumiikiriza munne era musonyiwe munne singa wabaawo omu ku mmwe alina okwemulugunya ku muntu. Musonyiwe nga Mukama akusonyiwa. Era empisa zino zonna ziteeka ku kwagala, ekiba kikwatira wamu byonna mu butuukirivu.” —Abakoolosayi 3:12-14 .

“Abaganda ne bannyinaffe, tebavumagana. Omuntu yenna ayogera ku muganda we oba mwannyinaffe oba abalamuzi ayogera ku mateeka n’asala omusango. Bw’osala omusango gw’amateeka, oba togukuuma, wabula otudde mu kusalawo ku nsonga eyo.” —Yakobo 4:11.Bya Rev Samuel Muwonge .

Rev. Samuel Muwonge

Lenten Reflection Day 36 And who is the burden-bearer in 1 Peter 5:7?

It is the Lord. The Lord, gracious and loving. The Lord, strong and wise. The Lord, the Creator and sustainer of all things. The Lord, like whom there is no other. This is the invitation we are given. It’s not just to fling off our burdens into nothingness or onto someone barely more capable than we are – it is to cast them on the Lord.

In those terms, then, casting is not just a command; it’s an act of logic! Why would we try and bear the weighty, complicated, troubling burdens of life when there is someone so much more equipped to bear them?

Why would we insist on hanging onto that which is better handled by another?

In that light, perhaps our refusal to cast our burdens on the Lord is more about our own pride and desire for control than it is about either the weight and complication of the burdens themselves or the ability of the Lord to handle them.

Right now, Christian, what burden are you bearing that feels too heavy? Too complicated? Too much in every way? There is another better equipped to bear it. If we will trust Him enough to do so. Psalm 55:22. Just cast to Him for am sure he cares. 

Rev Samuel Muwonge.

Construction of vestries at St. Stephen's Kitende on a steady path of progress.

Construction of offices/vestries at St. Stephen's Church of Uganda Kitende is smoothly going on.

The white clay bricks from Butende used for construction of the Church walls have given the Church structure a unique appearance amongst the buildings in the area.

We thank God for the provision of funds used to turn His house of worship into a better and magnificent building.k

More of your financial support is needed to enable us complete this work preferably before the end of this year.

"Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the LORD. Haggai 8:1

LENTEN Reflection day 35. What was Jesus' intentional design for disciple making? Nothing in Jesus' ministry was accidental or random. From His childhood visit to the temple, to His last words before His ascension, Jesus understood His purpose and pathway that would take Him there. His great purpose was to proclaim the gospel of God's Kingdom and His timeless strategy was to raise up a small group of disciples who would multiply the gospel to the end of the earth. We are part of that same strategy today as we have been commission to make disciples of all Nations. Mathew 28:16---20. Therefore we must pay careful attention to Jesus' intentional design in disciple making. In the gospels we see several key strategies Jesus used in leading a disciple movement.1.Prayerful selection of a few disciples.2. Intentional training and expereiencemark 6:7--13.3. Relational accountability mark 3:24.4. Multiplication. Chosen to go and bear fruits. Mathew 28:18--2o. May God give you grace in this season of LENT to grow by multiplication by being and making one.Rev Samuel Muwonge.

 ministry was accidental or random. From His childhood visit to the temple, to His last words before His ascension, Jesus understood His purpose and pathway that would take Him there. His great purpose was to proclaim the gospel of God's Kingdom and His timeless strategy was to raise up a small group of disciples who would multiply the gospel to the end of the earth. We are part of that same strategy today as we have been commission to make disciples of all Nations. Mathew 28:16---20. Therefore we must pay careful attention to Jesus' intentional design in disciple making. In the gospels we see several key strategies Jesus used in leading a disciple movement.
1.Prayerful selection of a few disciples.
2. Intentional training and expereiencemark 6:7--13.
3. Relational accountability mark 3:24.
4. Multiplication. Chosen to go and bear fruits. Mathew 28:18--2o. May God give you grace in this season of LENT to grow by multiplication by being and making one.
Rev Samuel Muwonge.

Nothing in Jesus' ministry was accidental or random. From His childhood visit to the temple, to His last words before His ascension, Jesus understood His purpose and pathway that would take Him there. His great purpose was to proclaim the gospel of God's Kingdom and His timeless strategy was to raise up a small group of disciples who would multiply the gospel to the end of the earth. We are part of that same strategy today as we have been commission to make disciples of all Nations. Mathew 28:16---20. Therefore we must pay careful attention to Jesus' intentional design in disciple making. In the gospels we see several key strategies Jesus used in leading a disciple movement.
1.Prayerful selection of a few disciples.
2. Intentional training and expereiencemark 6:7--13.
3. Relational accountability mark 3:24.
4. Multiplication. Chosen to go and bear fruits. Mathew 28:18--2o. May God give you grace in this season of LENT to grow by multiplication by being and making one.
Rev Samuel Muwonge.

Kiki Yesu kye yakola mu bugenderevu mu kulonda abayigirizwa?

Tewali kintu kyonna mu buweereza bwa Yesu kyali kya butanwa oba nga kya kimpowooze. Okuva ku kukyala kwe okw’obuto mu yeekaalu, okutuuka ku bigambo bye ebisembayo nga tannalinnya, Yesu yategeera ekigendererwa kye n’ekkubo lye ebyandimutwaliddeyo. Ekigendererwa kye ekinene kyali kya kulangirira Enjiri y’Obwakabaka bwa Katonda era akakodyo ke akataggwaawo kaali ka kusitula ekibinja ekitono eky’abayigirizwa abaali bagenda okukubisaamu enjiri okutuuka ku nkomerero y’ensi. Tuli kitundu ku nkola eyo yennyini leero nga bwe tubadde akakiiko okufuula abayigirizwa b’amawanga gonna. Mathew 28:16-20. N’olwekyo tulina okussaayo omwoyo n’obwegendereza ku nteekateeka ya Yesu ey’ekigendererwa mu kukola abayigirizwa. Mu Njiri tulaba obukodyo obukulu obuwerako Yesu bwe yakozesa mu kukulembera ekibiina ky’abayigirizwa.

1.Okusunsulamu abayigirizwa abatonotono.

2. Okutendekebwa mu bugenderevu n’obumanyirivu . 

    Makko 6:7--13.

3. Akabonero k’obuvunaanyizibwa obw’enkolagana 3:24.

4. Okukubisaamu. yalondebwa okugenda okubala ebibala. Mathew 28:18-2o. Katonda akuwe ekisa mu sizoni eno ey’Ekisiibo okukula ng’okubisaamu ng’obeera era ng’akola ekimu.

Rev. Samuel Muwonge

Okufumiitiriza ku kisiibo Olunaku 34

 Ebisumuluzo bya Katonda okuyingira  mu nsonga zo .

Okuyingira mu nsonga z’obwakatonda kintu ekibaawo nga Katonda yeenyigira nnyo mu kukyusa embeera ezimu mu nsonga z’abantu. Mu kiseera kino  eky’Ekisiibo n’omwaka gwonna nsaba ofune okuyingira mu kuyingirira okw’obwakatonda byonna by’oyitamu nga Peetero bwe yakola, nga Lazaalo ,Danyeri n'abalala. Okuyingirira okw’obwakatonda kye kikolwa kya Katonda ekiyingira mu nsonga z’obuntu, emirundi mingi mu ngeri etasuubirwa era ey’ekyamagero. Kye kwolesebwa kw’amaanyi ga Katonda, okwagala, n’obufuzi bwe.

Ebisumuluzo by’okuyingira mu nsonga z’obwakatonda bye bino:

1. Okutegeera obukulembeze bwa Katonda .

“Kubanga ebirowoozo byange si bye birowoozo byo, n’amakubo gange tegali, bw’agamba Mukama.Kubanga ng’eggulu bwe liri waggulu okusinga ensi, n’amakubo gange gali waggulu okusinga amakubo go, n’ebirowoozo byange okusinga ebirowoozo byo” (Isaaya 46:9-10).

Tulina okutegeera obufuzi bwa Katonda era ne tukkiriza nti amakubo ge ga waggulu okusinga agaffe, nga twesiga amagezi ge agataliiko kkomo n’amaanyi ge.

Kikwata ku kumanya nti Katonda ye Mutonzi era omufuzi w’obutonde bwonna era nti enteekateeka ze n’ebigendererwa bye bulijjo biba birungi, ne bwe tuba nga tetusobola kubitegeera.

Bwe tutegeera obufuzi bwa Katonda, tusobola okuwummulamu mu magezi ge n’enteekateeka ye, nga twesiga nti bulijjo akola ku lw’obulungi bwaffe.

2. Weesige obulungi bwa Katonda .

“Era tukimanyi nti ebintu byonna bikolera wamu ku lw’obulungi eri abo abaagala Katonda, eri abo abayitibwa ng’ekigendererwa kye bwe kiri” (Abaruumi 8:28). Tulina okwesiga obulungi bwa Katonda era tukkiriza nti bulijjo akola olw’obulungi bwaffe, ne mu mbeera enzibu.

Ekitundu kino kiggumiza obukulu bw’okubeera n’obwesige mu mpisa za Katonda n’okwagala kwe gye tuli. Kikwata ku kukkiriza obulungi bwa Katonda n’okwagala kwe eri ebirungi mu bulamu bwaffe. Bwe twesiga obulungi bwa Katonda, tusobola okufuna essuubi n’emirembe, ne bwe tuba nga tugezesebwa n’okusoomoozebwa.

Tusobola okwesiga nti Katonda akola buli kimu ku lw’obulungi bwaffe, era nti ajja kutuyisa mu biseera ebizibu eby’amaanyi era eby’amagezi.

Tusobola okusaba n’obuvumu, nga tumanyi nti Katonda alina amaanyi ag’okuddamu essaala zaffe n’okutuukiriza by’ayagala mu bulamu bwaffe.

5. Noonya okubeerawo kwa Katonda .

“Musembererenga Katonda, naye anaabasembereranga mmwe.” (Yakobo 4:8). Tulina okunoonya okubeerawo kwa Katonda n’okussaawo enkolagana ey’amaanyi naye, nga twesiga ekisuubizo kye eky’okutusemberera nga bwe tumusemberera.

Kino kikwata ku kukulembeza enkolagana yaffe ne Katonda n’okunoonya okubeerawo kwe mu bulamu bwaffe obwa bulijjo. Kikwata ku kutondawo ekifo eri Katonda, okuwuliriza eddoboozi lye, n’okulaba obulagirizi bwe n’okubudaabudibwa kwe.

Bwe tunoonya okubeerawo kwa Katonda, tusobola okubeera n’okuwulira emirembe n’essanyu, nga tumanyi nti tetuli ffekka era nti Katonda abeera naffe bulijjo. Tusobola okufuna amaanyi mu maaso ge, amagezi mu bulagirizi bwe, n’essuubi mu bisuubizo bye.

Nga tunoonya okubeerawo kwa Katonda, tusobola okunyweza okukkiriza kwaffe, okukula mu kutambula kwaffe okw’omwoyo, era ne tufuna obulamu obw’amaanyi Yesu bwe yasuubiza.

6. Okubeera n’obulamu obw’obuwulize .

“Bwe muba munjagala, mukuume ebiragiro byange” (Yokaana 14:15). Tulina okubeera n’obulamu obw’okugondera ekigambo kya Katonda, nga twesiga obulagirizi bwe n’amagezi ge okulungamya amakubo gaffe.

Kikwata ku kusoma, kutegeera, n’okukozesa ekigambo kya Katonda mu bulamu bwaffe obwa bulijjo, okwesiga ebiragiro bye n’ebisuubizo bye.

Bwe tubeera mu bulamu obw’obuwulize, tusobola okulaba emikisa gya Katonda, essanyu ery’okussa ekimu naye, n’emirembe egiva mu kumanya nti tuli mu kiraamo kye.

Tusobola n’okukulaakulanya obwesige obw’amaanyi mu Katonda, okukula mu kukkiriza kwaffe, ne tufuuka okufaananako ne Yesu Kristo. Nga tuwangaala obulamu obw’obuwulize, tusobola okulaga okwagala kwaffe eri Katonda n’okwewaayo kwaffe okumugoberera. Omwagalwa si mu kiseera kya kisiibo kyokka naye mu bulamu bwo bwonna osalewo okugondera Mukama era obulamu bwo bujja kusikiriza Katonda okuyingira mu nsonga zo.

Rev Samuel Muwonge.

Lenten Reflection Day 34

 Keys to Divine intervention

Divine intervention is an event that occurs when a deity becomes actively involved in changing some situation in human affairs. In this season of LENT and throughout the year i pray that you will recieve Divine intervention all your going through as peter did, as lazarus ,Daniel etc. Divine intervention is the act of God intervening in the affairs of humanity, often in unexpected and miraculous ways. It is a manifestation of God’s power, love, and sovereignty.

The keys to divine intervention are:

1. Recognize God’s Sovereignty

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 46:9-10, KJV).

We must recognize God’s sovereignty and acknowledge that His ways are higher than ours, trusting in His infinite wisdom and power.

It’s about recognizing that God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe and that His plans and purposes are always good, even when we cannot understand them.

When we recognize God’s sovereignty, we can rest in His wisdom and provision, trusting that He is always working for our good.

2. Trust in God’s Goodness

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28, KJV). We must trust in God’s goodness and believe that He is always working for our good, even in difficult circumstances.

This passage emphasizes the importance of having confidence in God’s character and His love for us. It’s about believing in God’s goodness and His desire for good things in our lives. When we trust in God’s goodness, we can find hope and peace, even in the face of trials and challenges.

We can trust that God is working everything out for our good, and that He will bring us through difficult times stronger and wiser.

We can pray with boldness, knowing that God has the power to answer our prayers and accomplish His will in our lives.

5. Seek God’s Presence

“Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you” (James 4:8, KJV). We must seek God’s presence and cultivate a deep relationship with Him, trusting in His promise to draw near to us as we draw near to Him.

This is about prioritizing our relationship with God and seeking His presence in our daily lives. It’s about creating space for God, listening to His voice, and experiencing His guidance and comfort.

When we seek God’s presence, we can live with a sense of peace and joy, knowing that we are not alone and that God is always with us. We can find strength in His presence, wisdom in His guidance, and hope in His promises.

By seeking God’s presence, we can deepen our faith, grow in our spiritual walk, and experience the abundant life that Jesus promised.

6. Live a Life of Obedience

“If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15, KJV). We must live a life of obedience to God’s Word, trusting in His guidance and wisdom to direct our paths.

It’s about reading, understanding, and applying God’s Word to our daily lives, trusting in His commands and promises.

When we live a life of obedience, we can experience the blessings of God, the joy of fellowship with Him, and the peace that comes from knowing we are in His will.

We can also develop a deeper trust in God, grow in our faith, and become more like Jesus Christ. By living a life of obedience, we can demonstrate our love for God and our commitment to following Him. Beloved not only in LENT period but throughout your life choose to obey the Lord and your life will attract Divine intervention.

Rev. Samuel Muwonge