MY TESTIMONY

I was born in a family which was deeply rooted in witchcraft.We are seven in our family and I am the third born.I started having funny sicknesses in which when I was taken for medication no sickness could be seen but I still felf sick.I was taken to all known hospitals but to no avail.Then my parents decided to go to the witches where we spend a lot of money.I remember one time we went and stayed in a witchdoctors home for one week.But after returning home,I got headache which ached for one month(it was terrible).Then I was taken to another witch where the headache was appeased.
During my school days it was strive and struggle because I was always in and out of school because of frequent sicknesses.In fact,I just got used to the sicknesses until I started making herbs for myself to come to learn later (after I got born again)that the enemy wanted to make me a witch(in Africa we call them Traditional Healers).
I used to go to a religious church.Not much is done(praying for the sick for example is strange to them)in these churches.
Then one day(I was in senior two),we went to door to door preaching.When it was time for lunch,we went to eat our food telling stories of how the mission went.Then something unusual happened.I was left alone and a voice started speaking to me.The voice said:You are not born again and if you die now you will
go to hell.But I was going to church,was a Sunday School teacher,a choir member,I used to give,was involved in many church activities.But inside me,I was undone.
The first time the voice came,I said those were my thoughts.I brushed them off.Then the voice came again:You are not born again and if you die now you will go to hell,but I still brushed it off.The third time,the voice was so bold,authoritative,and like thunder.It made me shake,fear and tremble.At that point I knew deep within me that that was not man not the devil but God who was speaking to me.Without hesitation,I said:Jesus I give you my life that you be my Lord and my Saviour.Instantly,I got so much peace and I knew that transformation had started and that I was not the same again.
After one week,the Lord Jesus came to me and said:I have healed you of all your sicknesses,now I send you to heal the nations.From that time sickness became history to me.
After I gave my life to Jesus(after two years in salvation),I was rejected byb my parents.They said they did not understand me and that they could not contain me in the house.So they forced me out of the house.I had no money,no clothes,totally with nothing.I went to the church that is the religious church to seek for assistance but I was also rejected.So I ended up in a place called cave.This was a place where born again Christians used to go for prayer and fasting.It was a cave(three caves)Which could hold over sixty people.So I stayed there for nine months.Sometimes I could come out and go and pray for people and then go back to the cave.It had become my home.To get food when I go to pray for people was by the grace of God.It was a hard undertaking.
Then after nine months,I got connected to a lady who called herself an apostle and I went to stay with her (she had two grown up children).But I did get peace there so I left her place and went to stay with a brother who was helping street children and I stayed there for one month but had no peace either.
Now I had a sister(married woman)who was helping me in prayers and supported me financially while I was passing through all these hard times.So after I left the brother who had street children this sister gave me some money to go back home.I did not know what I was to find home.
But when I reached home I found my parents(who had rejected me)waiting for me to pray for them.They asked me to forgive them and we reconciled and they gave their lives to Jesus(Genesis45:4-7).That which was purposed for evil God turned it to be for good.If they =had not rejected me they would not have got born again.But after seeing them and praying for them I went back to the cave.
A short time after I got connected to a doctor whom I started staying with but he was not born again.I stayed with him for three =years and four months.THer whole family gave their lives to Jesus.Also the doctors marriage which was in the verge of breaking was restored.All these happened not because I prayed a lot but because of the Mighty Hand of God.

EXHORTATION
You are there and you are passing through similar things as I passed through.If you are born again you get encouraged ,God is on your side and He will help you through.But if you are not born again this is your chance to give your life to Jesus.There is no peace outside Jesus.Read Isaiah 57:21.You can be changed today you can be saved today.Pray this prayer now and Jesus will come to your life now:Lord Jesus Christ,I need you.I repent of all my sins wash me with your blood come into my life make me a child of God .Be my Lord and my Saviour.Today I am born again.Amen.
If you have prayed this prayer you can contact me on this address.Email:mwanziasamy@yahoo.co.uk..cellphone:+254734748373.
THE NEWLY BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS.
If you have just got born again it is of great importance that you get joined to a church near you where The True Word of God (Birth,Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ)is preached.
These three thing are important:
1.Prayer
2.Reading your Bible daily
3.Fellowship with the brethren
PRAYER
Prayer is talking to God and God talking to you.There is no systematic way or method of how to pray.When you get born again you become a child of God and God becomes your Father.So you talk to God the same way you talk yo your father.When you hear about fearing God it does not mean that God is an old man up there ready to kill people.No.He loves you,He cares for you,He wants you.(To fear God is to honour,reverence and adore Him for who He is and what He has done for you).
So just go to Him and tell Him how good He is;thank Him for what He has given you and the many things He has done for you.Then praise Him.Pray all prayers in The Name of Jesus Christ.The following Scriptures will help you in your prayer time:
Matthew.6:9-13,7:7-8.Mark 9:23,11:21-24.Luke 1:37,11:9-13.John 14:13-14,15:7,16:230-24.I John 5:14-15.
READING YOUR BIBLE DAILY
Scripture Reference Psalms 119:105
It is also important to read your Bible daily.The same way your physical body needs food also your spiritual body needs food which is the Word of God.Read your Bible daily;you may not understand it but just read it.Start with the Gospel of John(The Fourth Book of The Gospels).
FELLOWSHIP WITH THE BRETHREN
When you give your life to Jesus you will need to join yourself to a church where The True Word of God is preached.Get connected to The Pastor who will help you grow spiritually in the Word of God.If you do not get a Bible believing and practising church you will die spiritually.Sometimes you may feel so low,then you will need a person to encourage you.Note:In the things of God we do not move by what we feel but what we believe.II Cor.5:7.


GOD`S CALLING AND HOW I CAME TO UGANDA.
After I got saved in 1996 The Lord Jesus called me into ministry.He said:See I have healed you,go and heal the nations.I was so happy that the Lord had appointed me His Representative on the face of the Earth.In spite of all the hardships I was passing through I was happy that God had chosen me into His work.
At first I did not understand the intensity of the call of God in my life but it started unfolding as years went by.In the year 2000 The Lord lgave me a dream.I saw myself in Kampala Uganda.I saw myself seated round a table with four people.In the second dream I saw myself landing in the largest airport in London. Here people were fighting for me to go to their houses to speak to them about Jesus and pray for them.
Now a week after seeing the two dreams I was preaching in Nairobi in an open air.Then I met a man who did not know Swahili but was enjoying my preaching to learn later it was Pastor Benjamin Grace Kintu.Then he invited me to Masaka Uganda where I stayed for two weeks and went back to Kenya.On my way to Nairobi The Lord said to me that He had given me Uganda.I brushed those words off.I told Him He better send me to South Africa,America or UK.Then He told me that the time I would obey Him I would see The glory of God.I fought with the Lord for one and half years.Things were very hard for me but afterwards I gave in to the voice if God.
The lord provided everything I needed for my coming to Uganda and that is how I came to this Land which is God`s Vineyard.
I started serving with Jireh Ministries-Mountain of The Lord ChurchesMasaka Uganda.The first dream was fulfilled when I found myself seated on a round table with The Director of Believer School of Ministry The Reverend Timothy Way,Fredrick Tushabe and Pastor Benjamin.I graduated on 2004 October 30th after two years of being in the Bible College.I got married in Holy Matrimony a week before the graduation.Since then I have been serving in Masaka in The ministry of the Church,Church Planting,Jireh Children Centre and other Ministry programs.I leave in Nyendo Masaka with my wife and two children.
It is not easy to leave my country and come to a strange land.But God reminded me of Abraham in Genesis 12:1-5.I passed through hard things which I can`t explain in writing.
Of all the things God gave me, I would like to testify of one.When I came to Masaka,I could not here nor understand the local language called Luganda.But I remember praying about language barrier and The Lord said to me had given me both to hear and to speak this language.After two weeks I started hearing what people were saying here.When I started speaking few words and now I can hear,speak and understand Luganda.Praise The Lord.
MINISTRY.
Currently,I am serving alongside the senior Pastor Mountain of The Lord Churches(which is under Jireh Ministries).I am also involved in Church Planting,day to day running of Jireh Children Centre.In Church Planting we lhave 53 Churches.The Churches are not only in Masaka but also in other places in Uganda.