WHAT DID THE LORD JESUS SAY LAST?
Go Ye......preach the Gospel!

#644/2016 for 14 March 2016

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ALMIGHTY GOD
Is everything to you.

#645/2016 for 15 March 2016

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DAILY SURRENDER TO GOD, HIS WORD AND HOLY SPIRIT
Leads to you changing from glory to glory

#646/2016 for 16 March 2016

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SPOT A NEED 
And be the one to fill it.

#647/2016 for 17 March 2016

POWER TIME WORD DAILY DEVOTION with Overseer Mukwena

BIBLE READING: 
Luke 6:38
Acts 20:35
2 Corinthians 9:7
Isaiah 58:4-96-7

SELF AND FAMILY HAPPINESS

In the Heiress Films documentary, "Making Families Happy", a group of elite psychologists sets out to help three Australian families as they navigate their way through a world-first experiment to make them happier.

One strategy they used to make the families happy was to let them spent time passing out flowers to people at the High Street mall. 

They discovered that helping others was associated with high levels of positive mental and emotional health. 

"Showing kindness and giving things helps the giver to be happier and reduce stress and discomfort tendencies", they concluded. 

LIVE IN LOVE, GOD'S POWER & SOUND MIND
Instead of hatred, weakness and fear

#641/2016 for 11 March 2016

POWER TIME WORD DAILY DEVOTION with Overseer Mukwena

BIBLE READING: 
2 Timothy 1:7
1 Corinthians 13:13
Acts 1:8
Proverbs 29:25

What gets you going on a daily basis?

Is it food, work, pleasure, entertainment of God's word?

Everything else gives limited strength to live, the word of God gives you Love, Holy Ghost Power and soundness of mind which is necessary when problems arise. 

Instructing young Timothy, Apostle Paul said, "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7 KJV).

THE PRAYER OF AGREEMENT WITH OTHERS
Are effective always. 

#640/2016 for 10 March 2016

FOR MOST CHILDREN ITS "ME", "MINE" AND "NO".
But as they mature - It's Care for others.

#642/2016 for 12 March 2016

POWER TIME WORD DAILY DEVOTION with Overseer Mukwena

BIBLE READING: 
1 Corinthians 13:11
Philippians 2:4-5
1 Corinthians 14:20

The documentary titled, "The secret lives of 4 to 6 year olds" has some astounding insights.

That is an age when futures are formed. 

Child Psychologists secretly observed the behaviour of 12 children playing together in a ground with teachers nearby allowing them to be free. 

Initially the children showed extensive selfish behaviour, insecurity and prejudice. 

They yelled, quarrelled, fought, cried, discriminated each other from various perspectives and cheated as well as lied heavily in different circumstances.

The most frequent word was, "No! no! no!"

After "no", the next most frequent word was, "Mine, mine, mine", which tied with, "Me, me, me!", as they haggled over space, toys, friends, respect and privileges. 

Let's leave Child Psychology alone and just learn something from it and from the Bible.

Apostle Paul wrote, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." (1 Corinthians 13:11 KJV).

CAN A WOUNDED HEART BE HEALED?
Yes, By Jesus Christ!

#643/2016 for 13 March 2016

POWER TIME WORD DAILY DEVOTION with Overseer Mukwena

BIBLE READING: 
Psalms 46, 61:1-2, 107:20, 143:
Matthew 11:28
Jeremiah 8:21-22

Hurts, heartaches and heartbreaks may come from self infliction, as you get into trouble because of your own errors, mistakes and fallibility.

Sometimes heartbreaks come from the rejection, derision, refusal, ridicule or dislike you may have witnessed in your early life or now. 

Do not worry.

No one will endeavour to mend broken hearts with sellotape and cheap strings.

The Master Surgeon General - JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth is there for that, having settled the medical and Heavenly Health Service bill with his blood.

As he does dew upon mountains

#639/2016 for 09 March 2016

POWER TIME WORD DAILY DEVOTION with Overseer Mukwena

BIBLE READING: 
Genesis 22:13-14
Psalm 16:5-6, 23:3, 133:1 & 3
James 1:6-8

Modern advancement deprives most inhabitants of the earth from enjoying seeing how God has ordained some mysteries of nature. 

Dew is one of the greatest wonders. 

Nightfall causes dew to fall from clear skies and waters dry lands to sustain nature when no rain is falling. 

It is as if God commands the dew to fall on the mountains.

God has commanded some blessings to fall on you.

Know God, not the future.

#494/2015 for 07 October 2015

POWER TIME WORD DAILY DEVOTION with Overseer Mukwena

BIBLE READING: 
Psalms 121:1-2
Deuteronomy 18:10, 
Leviticus 19:31, 
Acts 20:17
Exodus 22:18 and Isaiah 8:18
Colossians 1:17-18

MESSAGE

In Macbeth, Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, a brave Scottish general named Macbeth received a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. 

Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murdered King Duncan and took the throne for himself. 

Wrecked by subsequent guilt and paranoia, he became a tyrannical ruler and was forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. 

The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly took Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of arrogance, madness, and ultimately death.

What started as a casual prophecy by seemingly innocent fortune tellers led Macbeth into a trap of evil doing.

In the Bible King Saul is reported to have displeased God by consulting a witch. (1 Samuel 28:7-25).

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Tragedy is averted, and a harvest opportunity is set.

#493/2015 for 06 October 2015

POWER TIME WORD DAILY DEVOTION with Overseer Mukwena

BIBLE READING: 
Malachi 3:10-11
Genesis 22:16-17
2 Samuel 24:24-25
1 Kings 17:13-15
Philippians 4:15, 16-17 & 19).

MESSAGE

I trust you do not cringe inside when you see that topic - Tithes and Offerings.

Let your mind not rush to being taken from, robbed, fleeced or milked.

No!

PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER! One of the most powerful ways of healing and building relationships is to pray for one another. When we pray, though man may make his plans, it is the Lord's that will prevail. 
relationships is to pray for one another. God hears prayer and answers prayer. He is always faithful. Man may plan his way, but it is the Lords will that will prevail. 
James 5:16-18 KJV
[16] Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. [17] Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. [18] And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Pray for God answers prayer!

2016 is a new year and it provides a new opportunity to begin again. Where one missed it in 2015, or you were disappointed, or failed, or gave up, the new year gives a chance to begin again. Failed expectations, unfulfilled dreams, disappointment, hurts are a cause of pain in families. If there is one thing that can stand in the way of one's beginning again on a fresh page, that is pain. Even if you begin, with pain hidden in the recesses of your soul, it becomes the filter through which you see life, you respond to relationships and take action. Pain is a negative factor that inhibits positive growth. Pain is like an uncovered sore on a limb, and it festers and worsens as time goes on. It hurts more and because you want to protect the pain, your responses and reflexes are governed by the pain. This is why a person who has been hurt and wounded in life can easily hurt also, unintentionally though, because they are seeking to protect their own wounds and their pain pervades all their actions. 
But do you want to stop the pain, in yourself and in others around you? The best way of dealing with pain is not to manage it, but heal it. The place for healing pain is by exposing it to the cross of Jesus. 

Valentine day came and went by. Some spouses were celebrated and others were not, maybe because of forgetfulness or not believing in a valentine day. But the important thing is that we still have one another as spouses. So lets continue and celebrate each other. Love must be celebrated daily. People must also be celebrated daily. Its not a one day affair. Daily make a point of surprising your spouses with something good. It could be something simple. But it is the thought that counts. A different thought, action and word daily takes out routine from your relationship. So do something different today and put a new energy into your relationship. Romans 12:10 says 'Love earnestly and outdo one another in doing good.'

The pressures of today's world and the demands and expectations on individuals affect family life and relationships in a big way. People work long hours, and also add study time to it such that the time one gets gets home, you are utterly exhausted. The best of our time is taken away by the imposed priorities of survival and personal achievement. And it seems these two, survival and personal achievement have taken top priority in people's lives. But closely following that in third place is technology. Most people resort to modern gadgets to relieve themselves from the pressure of work and learning. So once on their way home, they sit listening to music or hide their face into their phone and chat away with the whole world. And when they get home, they immediately switch on to their favorite TV channel. Little time is left for family except a few words to say good night, if that happens at all. So life goes on. And what going on in the relationship, people become more and more strangers by the day. 
So my encouragement today is:
Spend time with one another. Create time to have quality fellowship as a family, or as a couple. Eat together or play together. Take time to create conversation which is not only about home administration such as paying bills and attending to the children, or just asking children to do their homework etc. But talk about your attitudes and feelings about what is going on in your family, what your challenges you are facing together or individually and learn to carry each other's burdens. Seek to be kind hearted and tender and create an environment of affection, warmth and encouragement. Ephesians 4:32 says, 'Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God for Christ sake has forgiven you.' And James 5:16 says,'Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another that you may be healed.' This is how to prosper as a family, and to be in good health when you do these things. Improve on doing these things and you will succeed as families.

The kingpin of family, the small nucleus family is parents. Most parents love their children. But unfortunately parents are also not perfect though its difficulty for most parents to accept that. But don't be afraid to acknowledge where you mess up as parents. Just ask God to sincerely guide and help you by His Holy Spirit. But also learn to acknowledge where your own parents messed up—then forgive your parents for being human. 

• Forgive them for the ways they hurt you. 
• Forgive them for the times you felt ignored, slighted, or disrespected. 
• Forgive them for the days that they were too distracted by their own problems to meet your needs. 
• Forgive them for the times they embarrassed you in front of your friends. 
• Forgive them for the times that they leaned on you instead of letting you lean on them. 
• Forgive for the moments they weren't there for you, when they forgot to pick you up from school or didn't make it to your big school event. 
• Forgive them for the devastating things, like abandonment, abuse, and addiction. 

Yes, that kind of forgiveness is so hard to do, but remember these words I once heard: "Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it just makes you free." 
Jesus put it another way. "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. . . . Do to others as you would have them do to you" (Luke 6:27–28, 31). 

The bottom line about family and family members is love them, appreciate them and cherish each one of them. God's divine purpose for family is to become a support system for love, care and encouragement for each other so that each person becomes the best that God made them to be. So, if you family member, mom, dad, siblings or child is being wayward and causing dysfunction in the family, that is the where your support system role is called for. The challenge is how can you love, care and motivate them to become the best God designed them to be. So seek constructive actions and thoughts. This is what we have been talking about. Whatever you do, let your motive be love and not anger. Learn to love without expecting any benefit. Extend yourself and grow.

Hey talking about changing attitude. How do you change attitude when an offender consistently does the same thing that angers you even after you have told them. When this happens, its a great opportunity for growth on your part. Wear new lenses. Consider this. Does this person intentionally want to mess up, or is it because they are failing. If they are failing, instead of judge and be angry or be offended, why not think about other ways of responding that will help the offender and also help you make progress in being more positive and constructive. And what if the person is really wicked and spiteful? Do you get angry and also become spiteful? Remember negative emotions are not constructive on your part. Forgive all wrongdoing against you, and choose to ask God to help you to focus on the person God wants you to be. Instead of being drawn into negativity, focus on whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.' This is what the Bible says in Philippians 4:8. Some practical hints on changing your attitude:

• accept that all people, including you are not perfect and so will not always do what is expected. 
• accept that other people are different from you and will not always think the same things that you think, or act the same ways you expect to act.
• accept that you have different personalities, upbringing and different world views and so you may not always agree on what to do.
• proactively think about the good things that the same person does, even if you have to stretch matters. Make a list of at least 3 to 5 things. Choose to think that about the person, and begin to make those positive comments about them. What you say becomes real. Do this sincerely, without spite and negativity and you will see what a change it makes.

Change in a relationship takes one person who can determine to do positive actions that can bring a shift from the status quo. The greatest place to begin is to change your attitude from blame mentality and fault finding to acceptance. Recognise that blaming the other person is disempowering on your part. You can easily feel like a victim because you think it is all because of the other person that the relationship is failing. You cant change the person by blaming them or finding more of their faults. But accept that no one is perfect and that we are also at different stages of development, and so we see things differently. The bottom line is accept difference. The next stage is to choose to change the negative attitudes that flood your heart as a result of blaming the other person. Forgive them, and if it is difficulty to do so, you know, you can ask God Almighty to help you to forgive the other for the wrongs you feel have been done against you. But beyond that also open your heart for God to heal you of the hurts and the disappointments you have suffered. So many times, we end up blaming other people so much and not realise how extremely negative we have become in our attitudes to life, and to other people. SO at the end of the day, the critical change required is in you first. Once you begin to take steps to change, you will begin to see the situation and the other person differently. But the greatest work is in changing yourself. The greatest way of achieving sustainable change is giving your heart to God. In Romans 12:1-2 the Bible says, '.....present your bodies to God....., and be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,......' This is a transformation which God does in you, by you allowing God's good and kind thoughts about yourself, about other people to permeate your heart and mind and take precedence over your hurt and wounded feelings and thoughts. Lets be working at this and see how we find ourselves this week.