FIRE: the power of love

The most powerful weapon on earth is not the atomic bomb nor is it any nuclear weapon. Men has spent centuries and even dedicated lifetimes to create the ultimate weapon that would dismantle and weaken enemies. Governments have spent billions, sorry, trillions to create weapons that keep getting outdated. its safe to say the world is still looking for the most powerful weapon.

what makes a weapon powerful? its simply! its should leave the enemy powerless, unable to respond, weak to retaliate. it should leave the enemy on his knees.

The ancient tell a story of God who moved heaven and hell, sacrificed his own son on a cross. He had been at war with the human race since the day they rejected him, this was it! this was the day of reckoning! God on one side and mankind on the other, God brought his secret weapon and laid it bare for mankind to behold... 2000 years later mankind is still falling on their knees, still to this day mankind cannot help but admit defeat in the hands of their maker.

God's most powerful weapon was love made bare on a wooden cross! the love of God has a name JESUS!
at this name, men is humbled, broken, defeated, and at the same time exhalted ... the most powerful weapon is love and love has a name.. Jesus

The father @ UJ

The cross was not an end to Jesus rather a means to an end. Jesus didnt come on earth just to die, no he had a greater plan than that, he came to seek that which was lost , to find that which was hidden and to reveal him who is unseen. The mission statement of Jesus was simply this " they must know my father and me"


Jesus came on earth to reveal the father to his children... he didnt come to judge the world, he didnt come to maintain a moral standard, he didnt even come to simply save people ( his plan is much bigger) he came to reveal who our real father is. Countless books are written on  fatherless children and the negative effect this has on humanity, stories are told of fatherless children who join gangs , who have no sense of identity yet as soon as a father figure comes into the picture their life style and choices change.

Jesus came on earth to reveal the uncreated one, the Holy one, the self-existing one. God is our father.. and he loves us, this is the good news we proclaim all over the world even over UJ!

the ring : stories of UJ

A story is told of a wise king who had an even wiser advisor, not to be outdone by the wisdom of the advisor, the king came up with a plan to humiliate the advisor, it had to be a brilliant unheard of trick, one that the wise advisor couldn’t  get out of and it had to be public, after days and nights of thinking the king called the advisor into his chamber and asked this of him “ my most senior advisor, you know that you are my favorite  in all the kingdom, I am going to give you this task so that I can establish you as the greatest advisor that ever lived, are you up for the challenge” the advisor smiled thinking that his moment to shine had finally come “ but there is a catch” said the king  “ if you fail at this task you will be stripped of your position and it will be given to another, not only that but you will have to publicly admit that I am wiser than you”

“What is the task” asked the advisor
“I want you to find an object that makes happy people sad and sad people happy” answered the king
The advisor sunk even lower to the ground as he bowed

He left the kings chamber and wondered the streets of the kingdom for 40 days and 40 nights and still had nothing, how could such an object exist, if it did it would by far be the most powerful of weapon to mankind, it would spar sad soldiers to greater victory and visa versa, it could humble the proud and exalt the humble, as though in a fairytale or the stories of old the advisor had a dream about a powerful ring with an even powerful inscription! 

The very next day the advisor had the ring made, it was of pure gold, the most beautiful and precious in the land, he went to the kings chamber and found the king smiling happy even, for today the king would humiliate the advisor, the king motioned for the advisor to approach his throne, with one swift move the advisor took the ring out of his pocket and it lit-up the room up! The king’s servants were amazed and blinded by the shine but not the king for he had lived long enough to see greater wealth and prestige, he laughed at the advisor and said “do u think wealth makes people happy and sad, well maybe you are right cause am happy and I have all these wealth but that ring of yours does not affect me, it neither makes me happy or sad” with humility the advisor replied “my king read the inscription” the king did! 

The king’s face changed, where there was a smile was now a frown, laughter replaced with dead silence even a hint of tears  In scripted on the ring where this words “this too shall pass” 

Whatever you are going through right now will pass, bad times will end, good times will also end, everything changes summer goes away so winter can come, winter goes away so summer can return, this is the story of life.
Yet there is one constant, he is the one you can hope for in times of trouble, he is the one you rejoice with in times of great joy, he is the uncreated one, he is the one that never changes HIS NAME IS JESUS!  Great year ahead at UJ kingdom continues.........