Goodluck Gozbert – Asante




Tanzanian Gospel recording artist and minister, Goodluck Gozbert came through with another stunning thanksgiving joint titled Asante.

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When Enemy comes in like a flood,the Spirit of God Will raise Standard against him



 
Our Opening Scripture "When the Enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God will raise a standard against him!" (Isaiah 59:19)

Sometimes living for the Lord is a real battle and a real fight. But the Devil can't lay a nail or a tooth on you, he can't overwhelm you or drown you with his lies if you resist him with the Word of God!

The Bible is God's standard, like a banner or flag that we can wave in front of the Devil and he will flee!
Reading from James 4:7 says”- Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Devil cannot  take the Word!

When the Devil tempts you, what's the first thing to do?...........

Ask the Lord for a Scriptural answer and guidance, That's what Jesus did when the Devil tempted Him and lied to Him, Jesus just quoted the Scriptures, though the Devil was also trying to quote scripture to Jesus, but he twisted them and took them out of context. So the Lord just returned scriptures back at him the way they should have been applied.

As we have seen in Luke 4:1-13 the Word of God says” 1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

 2 where for forty days he  was tempted[a] by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

 4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’[b]”

 5 The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

 6 And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to.

7 If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

 8 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’[c]”

 9 The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. 10 For it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you

    to guard you carefully;

11 they will lift you up in their hands,

    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’[d]”

 12 Jesus answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’[e]”

 13 When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.

Do you see, the Devil fled! He can't resist the Word of God! Shout Hallelujah Somebody, Praise the Lord forever more, he worthy our honor and worship, Amen

So brethren if you find you self in midst of trials and temptation don’t cry, don’t go back but baptize yourself constantly in prayer, soak yourself in the Word, memorize and quote God's Promises!

 You can put the Enemy out of action with the Word, Bury him in a flood of the Truth, Hallelujah….Hallelujah…

Say with me, I am a Victor, Conqueror and Christ in me is the hope of Glory.
It does not matter on the quantity of affliction, trials, abuse and mistreatment, but today I have come to tell you my friend in Christ, IT IS WRITTERN “ When the devil come in like a Flood ,God will set Standard against in Him.
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Nigeria Actor and former addict said he was healed by watching TB Joshua programme on TV

 


 TB Joshua                        Hanks Anuku


The actor and former addict tells how TB Joshua rescued him from alcohol, drugs and the mental problems that plagued him for many years in a recent interview. Hanks battled alcohol and drug addiction for years and his mental state deteriorated over time. The former SA to Delta governor, Uduaghan, who has since relocated to Ghana tells his story...

"Yes I got my healing through TB Joshua. It is our Lord's doing. I never believed in miracles until this happened to me. I was having issues with mentality for over seven years, you will notice I have not been that frequent in movies for long. Even when I was special assistant to our dear governor, I was not in a good state of mind and this affected my work in the government before I was advised to seek for solution in Ghana. I spent so much money visiting hospitals, orthodox and unorthodox doctors without positive result. Until I was introduced to TB Joshua. I was only watching his TV programme in Ghana and was healed. I put my faith into it just like the woman with the issue of blood and knew that I would be healed and I got my healing. I am now a mentally stable man. I have dropped drinking and smoking habit, glory be to God."

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Smith Wigglesworth:The Apostle of Faith who raised his died wife......Lets Learn

 


 
 
 
An Early Call To Evangelism
Smith was born in a small village near Menston, Yorkshire in England on June 8, 1859. Smith’s younger years were marked by a hunger for God, even though his parents were not Christians at the time. His grandmother was an old-time Wesleyan, and she always made sure that Smith attended meetings with her when she could. When he was eight, he joined in with the singing at one of these meetings, and as he began, “a clear knowledge of the new birth” came to him. He realized in that moment just what the death and resurrection of Jesus meant for him, and he embraced it with his whole heart. From that day forth, he never doubted that he was saved.
Soon he began operating as the evangelist, which would be most of his life’s focus. His first convert was his own mother. When his father realized what was happening, he started taking the family to an Episcopal church. Although his father was never born again, he enjoyed the parson, who just happened to frequent the same pub as he did, and remained a faithful church-goer through Smith’s youth.
Smith teaching
 
When he was thirteen, his family moved from Menston to Bradford, where Smith became deeply involved with the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Even though he couldn’t read, it was at this time that Smith began the habit of always having a copy of the New Testament with him wherever he went. Then in 1875 when Smith was about sixteen, the Salvation Army opened a mission in Bradford, and Smith found a powerful ally in his desire to see people come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. In the meetings he attended with the Salvationists, he soon learned there was great power behind prayer and fasting.
At seventeen, Smith met a Godly man at a mill who took him in as an apprentice and taught him the plumbing trade. He also told Smith about what the Bible taught on water baptism, and soon afterwards Smith gladly obeyed and was baptized in water. During this time, he also learned more about the second coming of Christ and strongly believed that Jesus would come at the turn of the century. This made him ever more vigilant to “change the course” of everyone he met.
The Favor of God
In 1877 at the age of nearly eighteen, Smith decided it was time to set out on his own. He went to the home of a plumber and asked for a job. When the plumber told him he had no need for any help, Smith thanked him, apologized for using his time, and turned to walk away. Immediately, the man called him back. He said, “There is something about you that is different. I just cannot let you go.”† At that, the man hired him on the spot.
 
By the time Smith was about twenty, the man he worked for could not keep him busy anymore—he just worked too efficiently! So Smith moved to Liverpool to find more work. There he began to minister to the children of the city. Ragged and hungry children came to the dock shed, where he preached the Gospel to them and did his best to feed and clothe them from what he made as a plumber in the area. He also visited the hospitals and ships, praying and fasting all day on Sunday, asking God for converts. As a result, he never saw fewer than fifty people saved each time he ministered. He was also frequently invited by the Salvation Army to speak at their meetings, but though he saw great results, he was never eloquent. He often broke down and cried before the people because of his burden for souls, and it was this brokenness that brought people to the altar by the hundreds.
Smith Meets Polly
It was also around this time that Smith watched with great interest as a young, socially affluent woman came forward in one of the Salvation Army meetings and fell to her knees. She refused to pray with any of the workers until the speaker known as “Gypsy” Tillie Smith came and prayed with her. When they were done, the young woman jumped to her feet, threw her gloves in the air, and shouted, “Hallelujah! It is done!”
The next night as she gave her testimony, Smith felt as if she belonged to him. As Smith later said, “It seemed as if the inspiration of God was upon her from the very first.”‡ The young woman’s name was Mary Jane Featherstone, but everyone called her “Polly.” She eventually received a commission as an officer in the Salvation Army from General William Booth. Smith did what he could to work near her, and in the coming years a romance bloomed between them.
As Smith and Polly grew closer, Polly eventually faced the difficult decision of choosing either to continue with the Salvation Army or her love for Smith. Even though Smith never officially joined the Salvation Army, he was considered a private in their ranks, and Polly was an officer. There were strict regulations against officers and lower ranks having romantic relationships, so even though they always remained true friends of the Salvationists, Polly retired from their ranks and took up mission work with the Blue Ribbon Army. Those in her Methodist church also recognized her calling and asked her to help evangelize their churches. Hundreds were converted as a result.
A Divine Partnership
Polly had from the beginning the eloquence Smith longed for but couldn’t learn. When in 1882, Smith returned to Bradford, he and Polly wed. Polly was twenty-two years old and Smith was twenty-three. In their thirty years of marriage, the Wigglesworths had five children: Alice, Seth, Harold, Ernest, and George. Before each child was born, Smith and Polly prayed over them that they would faithfully serve God throughout their lives.
Smith and Polly had a burden for a part of Bradford that had no church, so they soon opened the Bradford Street Mission and began ministering together. Polly did most of the speaking, because she was the stronger and more accomplished of the two as an orator, and Smith oversaw the needs of the rest of the work. While she preached, he was at the altar praying for more to come to Christ. Of this relationship, Smith later said, “Her work was to put down the net; mine was to land the fish. This latter is just as important as the former.”§
A Cold Winter
The winter of 1884 was very severe in Bradford, and plumbers were in high demand. As a result, a time of intense work began for Smith that would last for the next two years, and he became literally consumed by his natural occupation. His church attendance declined and slowly but surely his fire for God began to grow cold. In the light of Polly’s increasing faithfulness, Smith’s backsliding seemed all the more pronounced to the point that her diligence began to wear on him.
Then one night, this came to a head when she came home from church a little later than usual. Smith confronted her: “I am master of this house, and I am not going to have you coming home at so late an hour as this!” Polly quietly replied, “I know that you are my husband, but Christ is my Master.”** At this, Smith forced her out the back door, then closed and locked it. However, in his annoyance, he had forgotten to lock the front door, so Polly simply walked around the house and came in through the main entrance, laughing.
When Smith finally saw what he had done, he caught her laughter and realized how silly he had been. Together they laughed about the matter, but to Smith it was also a revelation of how cold he had grown in the things of God. Shortly afterward, he spent ten days praying and fasting in repentance, and God gloriously restored him.
Smith Meets “The Lord that Healeth Thee”
On a trip to Leeds for plumbing supplies, Smith heard of a meeting where divine healing was to be ministered. He attended and was amazed at what he saw. What others saw as fanaticism, Smith recognized as sincere and of God. On his return to Bradford, he would search out the sick and pay for their way to attend the Leeds healing meetings. When his wife grew ill once, he told her about the meetings, somewhat afraid that she would think he had finally gone off the deep end. Instead, she accepted it and agreed to go to the meetings with him. When the prayer of faith was offered for her in Leeds, she received an instant manifestation of healing.
They both became passionate about the message of divine healing and their meetings began to grow, causing them to need a larger mission space. Soon they obtained a building on Bowland Street and opened the Bowland Street Mission. Across the wall behind the pulpit they hung a large scroll which read: “I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee.”†† Not many years after this, in the first years of the 1900s, Smith received prayer for healing a hemorrhoid condition he had battled since childhood. He was soon fully healed and never had a problem with this condition for the rest of his life.
Embracing Divine Healing
Over the years that followed, the healing available through God increasingly became a part of Smith’s sermons and ministry, though healings were not frequent nor truly spectacular at first. Then those in the Leeds Healing Home recognized Smith’s faith and asked him to speak while they were away at a convention. Smith accepted only because he felt he could get someone else to do it once he was in charge of the meeting, but all others refused, insisting they felt God wanted him to speak. Smith ministered his sermon hesitantly, but at the close of the service fifteen people came forward for prayer, and all of them were healed! One of them had hobbled forward on crutches and began dancing around the room without them after Smith prayed for him. He had been instantly healed! No one was more surprised by the results of his prayers than Smith himself.
 
Some of Smith Wigglesworth Books:
 
 
Desiring More of the Spirit
In 1907, Pentecost had reached Sunderland, and Smith heard that people there were being baptized in the Holy Spirit and speaking in other tongues. Smith felt he had to see this for himself. Smith was among those who believed that sanctification and the baptism in the Holy Spirit were the same, so he felt he already had this baptism. Others warned him that these people in Sunderland were not receiving the Holy Spirit, but demons instead. Other friends with whom he prayed urged him to follow his own leadings.
When he arrived at the meeting in Sunderland, which was being led by Vicar Alexander Boddy (who had attended some of Evan Roberts’ meetings in Wales during the Welsh Revival), he was surprised at the dryness of it in contrast to the moves of the Spirit he had experienced elsewhere, especially among the Salvationists. In fact, he grew so frustrated at this, he interrupted the meeting, saying, “I have come from Bradford, and I want this experience of speaking in tongues like they had on the day of Pentecost. But I do not understand why our meetings seem to be on fire, but yours do not seem to be so.”‡‡ Smith was so disruptive that they disciplined him outside of the building.
Smith Receives the Baptism
He soon decided he needed to return to Bradford, but before doing so decided to go to Vicar’s home and say, “Goodbye.” There he met Mrs. Boddy and told her he was returning home without speaking in tongues. She told him, “It is not tongues you need, but the baptism.”§§ Smith asked her to lay hands on him before he left. She agreed, praying a simple but powerful prayer, and walked out of the room. It was then that the fire fell, and Smith had a vision of the empty cross with Jesus exalted at the right hand of the Father. Smith opened his mouth to praise God and began instantly speaking in tongues. He knew immediately that what he had received of God now was much fuller than what he had received when praying and fasting and asking God to sanctify him.
Instead of going home, Smith went to the church where Vicar Boddy was conducting the service and asked to speak. Vicar Boddy agreed. Smith then spoke as he never had before, and at the end of his “sermon” fifty people were baptized in the Holy Spirit and spoke in other tongues. Even the local paper, the Sunderland Daily Echo, picked up the story and headlined the meeting and what Smith had experienced. Smith telegraphed home about what had happened.
“That’s Not My Smith!”
Upon arriving home in Bradford, Smith found a new challenge to what he had experienced. Polly met him at the door and firmly stated, “I want you to know that I am just as baptized in the Holy Spirit as you are and I don’t speak in tongues. . . . Sunday, you will preach for yourself, and I will see what there is in it.”*** When Sunday came, Polly did see what there was in it, as Smith preached with a power and assurance she had never heard in him before. She squirmed in her seat thinking, “That’s not my Smith, Lord. That’s not my Smith!” At the end of the sermon a worker stood to say he wanted the same experience Smith had received, and when he sat back down, he missed his chair and fell to the floor!
Smith’s eldest son had the same experience. In a very short while there were eleven people on the floor, laughing in the Spirit. Then the entire congregation was absorbed in holy laughter, as God poured even more of His Spirit out upon them. In the coming weeks, hundreds in Bradford would receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit and speak with other tongues—one of whom was Polly. The couple soon began traveling throughout the country, answering calls to speak and minister.
This experience also caused Smith to pursue God more than ever through prayer and fasting. He answered every request he could of those asking for divine healing. Sometimes he took a train to the nearest city and then borrowed a bicycle to ride another ten miles to reach the person. Soon he had no more time for his plumbing work, so he vowed before the Lord that if he were ever in severe need again in his life, he would return to plumbing; otherwise, he would serve as a minister for the rest of his days. The Lord made sure Smith never returned to plumbing.
Polly Goes Home to Be with the Lord
Not long after this, while waiting at a train station to leave for Scotland, Smith received word that his beloved wife, Polly, had collapsed at the Bowland Street Mission from a heart attack. He rushed to her bedside only to discover her spirit had already departed. But Smith rebuked death, and she came back. Smith had just a short time to visit with his wife again, and then he was impressed that it was time for her to go home to be with her Lord and Savior, so he released her again. Polly passed away on January 1, 1913, and it was as if her dedication and spiritual power went with her husband after that and multiplied the effects of his ministry.
Immediately, Smith started to minister again throughout the country, traveling with his daughter, Alice, and her husband, James “Jimmy” Salter. Smith continued to preach a simple Gospel of “only believe.” In a time when other ministers seemed frail and failing despite the enormous revivals that had come through their ministries, Smith soon rose to prominence in Pentecostal circles because of the undeniable power in his ministry and the uncompromising stability with which he operated. His convictions would never change in the next four decades, and Smith remained a growing force for God and Pentecostalism right up until his death in 1947.
The Apostle of Faith and His Worldwide Ministry
In the months following Polly’s passing, Smith’s fame in England grew, and in 1914 he began traveling abroad to minister. By the 1920s and 1930s there was no more sought-after speaker in Pentecostalism. Although he never accepted the cloak, his acknowledgement as the “Apostle of Faith” made the Pentecostal world look to him as one of its greatest patriarchs, even though he had never been involved in any of the revivals that started the movement. Miracles, healings, the dead being raised, and other signs and wonders followed his ministry as he continued in the uncompromising and blunt style that no one could ever emulate.
Truth be told, Smith just never seemed to feel the need to be polite when chasing out sickness, disease, and other works of the devil. His sentiment was also that if the Spirit were not moving, then he would move the Spirit. This was not arrogance, but confidence in the work God wanted done on the earth. Smith would create an atmosphere of uncompromising faith in the Word of God, and the Holy Spirit would never fail to show up.
In 1922 Smith traveled to New Zealand and Australia, among other places, and in a few short months saw thousands saved and several Pentecostal churches birthed in the greatest spiritual renewals either nation had ever seen. In 1936 he traveled to South Africa and delivered to David du Plessis a profound prophecy of the upcoming revival of the Charismatic Renewal that would not even start until after Wigglesworth’s death. By this time Smith was in his seventies and probably the most well-known Pentecostal in the world.
Going Home
Then on March 12, 1947, while attending the funeral of a fellow minister, Smith bowed his head in the midst of a conversation and went home to be with the Lord without any pain or struggle at the age of 87.
While Smith would never form his own denomination or write a book, let alone a systematic set of doctrines and theology, his simple faith still impacts believers today. His relationship with God produced power that had not been seen on the earth for many centuries. For this reason, God also showed him things that others only dreamed of seeing. He never wanted to be put on a pedestal and worshipped, but be instead, an example of what every Christian can experience if they would “only believe.”
 
 
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Moses Bliss Biography, Age, Early Life, Family, Education, Songs, Albums, Net Worth


Moses Bliss Biography

Moses Bliss is a Nigerian gospel singer and songwriter.
He came into limelight after the song, Too Faithful

We'd be seeing Moses Bliss's biography, age, early life, family, wife, education, songs, albums, net worth, houses, cars, social media handles and more.

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Moses Bliss Biography, Date Of Birth, Early Life, Family, Education, Gospel Music Career

Moses Bliss is a Nigerian gospel singer and songwriter.
He is based in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory and came into limelight after the song, Too Faithful
Moses has a unique style of music, and is regarded as one of the most exceptional and sensational gospel singers in the country. 

He has recorded a good number of songs, and has been blessing lives musically from before 2017. He released the single, E No Dey Fall My Hand January 2017 and started gaining massive airplays.
Moses Bliss is currently single. 

He has shared the stage with a lot of gospel music stars like Sinach, Samsong, Tye Tribbett, Sonnie Badu, Buchi, Joe Praise and Tim Godfrey.

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You can connect with Moses Bliss on:
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Twitter @MosesBlissLive

Thanks a lot for reading along.
What is your favourite Moses Bliss song?

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KULOLA BIOGRAPHY LAUNCH

 



I cordially invite you to the release of the Biography of the late Evangelist Bishop Dr. Moses Kulola; YOOOH; UTAPENDA NISEME? HUDUMA NA MAISHA YA MOSES KULOLA, by Dr. Charles Sokile.

Dr. Moses Kulola, popularly known as Mwinjilisti Kulola was promoted to glory in August 2013 after a successful evangelistic ministry spanning over 50 years in Tanzania and beyond.

This book is a result of research and publications of many of Dr. Sokile’s scholarly works in documenting the history of lives of men and women of God in Tanzania, focusing on the Christian leaders. Other books already written by Dr. Sokile include “NDANI YA KANISA: Maisha ya Elinaza Sendoro” in 2012; “AARON B.C. MABONDO: A Walk of Faith. The Untold Story of God’s Works and Miracles in the Life of an Ordinary Tanzanian” in 2010; and “AARON B.C. MABONDO : Safari ya Imani. Miujiza na Matendo Makuu ya Mungu Kupitia kwa Mtumishi wa Kawaida Mtanzania” in 2010.

The event will take place at the EAGT Temeke Church Grounds at Temeke, Dar es Salaam, on 9th March 2014, Sunday from 2.00pm.

Thank you for creating time to grace this event.

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A History of Moravian Church in Tanzania

 


Moravian Church in Tanzania

(Kanisa La Moravian Tanzania)

The first missionaries of the Moravian Church came to Tanzania in the late 19th century soon after Germany assumed control of the territory. The first Moravian mission station was established at Rungwe in Southern Tanzania in 1891. Another station in Western Tanzania was handed over to the Moravian Board in Herrnhut, Germany, by the London Missionary Society in 1897. As a result of active evangelism work, these two sister stations grew and became big churches extending over large areas in the southern and western parts of Tanzania. Each one constituted a province of its own. The need to establish cooperation between them was felt right from the beginning of their establishment. The founding missionaries had established communication through correspondence as early as 1899. Later they started meeting and exchanging experiences and the two provinces established cooperation on various matters. In 1965 it was agreed to establish formally a joint board to discuss and agree on matters common to both provinces. In 1968 the two provinces decided to establish a Moravian theological college as a joint venture for the training of ministers. In 1976 the southern province was divided into two, and the same was done with the western province in 1986. Since then the Moravian Church in Tanzania has four provinces.

With the creation of the new provinces the need to establish the Moravian Church in Tanzania as a national body to coordinate and unify the work became greater. The MCT as a church would run and oversee joint ventures and programmes and represent the provinces inside and outside the country. On August 4, 1986 delegates from the four Moravian provinces met at Sikonge and resolved to formally establish the MCT as a church to unite all Moravians in Tanzania. On November 23, 1986 the MCT was officially inaugurated and in April, 1987 it was registered by the government. The MCT was formally recognized by the Unity Synod of the Unitas Fratrum at its meeting in Antigua, West Indies in 1988.

The MCT coordinates and oversees the development and growth of the theological college, which has become, since 2004, Bishop Kisanji University. It is responsible for the publication of hymn books, liturgy and text books and other church literature produced by the Moravian Theological Commission. It represents the provinces before the government, other churches, agencies and ecumenical organizations. Above all, its major responsibility is, through the provinces, to preach the holy gospel of salvation within and outside the church. The church in Tanzania is growing and membership is increasing rapidly. Each province has a specific area for evangelization. Each province is also engaged in outreach work beyond the borders of the country, in the DRC, Malawi and Zambia.

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A History of the Moravian Church And How Church Started

 

 

For over five centuries the Moravian Church has proclaimed the gospel in all parts of the world. Its influence has far exceeded its numbers as it has cooperated with Christians on every continent and has been a visible part of the Body of Christ, the Church. Proud of its heritage and firm in its faith, the Moravian Church ministers to the needs of people wherever they are. The name Moravian identifies the fact that this historic church had its origin in ancient Bohemia and Moravia in what is the present-day Czech Republic. In the mid-ninth century these countries converted to Christianity chiefly through the influence of two Greek Orthodox missionaries, Cyril and Methodius. They translated the Bible into the common language and introduced a national church ritual. In the centuries that followed, Bohemia and Moravia gradually fell under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Rome, but some of the Czech people protested.

The foremost of Czech reformers, John Hus (1369-1415) was a professor of philosophy and rector of the University in Prague. The Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, where Hus preached, became a rallying place for the Czech reformation. Gaining support from students and the common people, he led a protest movement against many practices of the Roman Catholic clergy and hierarchy. Hus was accused of heresy, underwent a long trial at the Council of Constance, and was burned at the stake on July 6, 1415.

Hus being burned at the stake

Organized in 1457

The reformation spirit did not die with Hus. The Moravian Church, or Unitas Fratrum (Unity of Brethren), as it has been officially known since 1457, arose as followers of Hus gathered in the village of Kunvald, about 100 miles east of Prague, in eastern Bohemia, and organized the church. This was 60 years before Martin Luther began his reformation and 100 years before the establishment of the Anglican Church.

According to Gregory the Patriarch, considered the founder of Unitas Fratrum, what made a Christian was not doctrine or what he or she believed, but that a person lived his or her life according to the teachings of Jesus Christ. He described these first Moravians as “people who have decided once and for all to be guided only by the gospel and example of our Lord Jesus Christ and his holy apostles in gentleness, humility, patience, and love for our enemies.” (Rican, History of the Unity)

By 1467 the Moravian Church had established its own ministry, and in the years that followed three orders of the ministry were defined: deacon, presbyter and bishop.

Growth, Persecution and Exile

By 1517 the Unity of Brethren numbered at least 200,000 with over 400 parishes. Using a hymnal and catechism of its own, the church promoted the Scriptures through its two printing presses and provided the people of Bohemia and Moravia with the Bible in their own language.

A bitter persecution, which broke out in 1547, led to the spread of the Brethren’s Church to Poland where it grew rapidly. By 1557 there were three provinces of the church: Bohemia, Moravia and Poland. The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) brought further persecution to the Brethren’s Church, and the Protestants of Bohemia were severely defeated at the battle of White Mountain in 1620.

The prime leader of the Unitas Fratrum in these tempestuous years was Bishop John Amos Comenius (1592-1670). He became world-renowned for his progressive views of education. Comenius, lived most of his life in exile in England and in Holland where he died. His prayer was that some day the “hidden seed” of his beloved Unitas Fratrum might once again spring to new life.

Renewed in the 1700s

The eighteenth century saw the renewal of the Moravian Church through the patronage of Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, a pietist nobleman in Saxony. Some Moravian families fleeing persecution in Bohemia and Moravia found refuge on Zinzendorf’s estate in 1722 and built the community of Herrnhut. The new community became the haven for many more Moravian refugees.

Count Zinzendorf encouraged them to keep the discipline of the Unitas Fratrum, and he gave them the vision to take the gospel to the far corners of the globe. August 13, 1727, marked the culmination of a great spiritual renewal for the Moravian Church in Herrnhut, and in 1732 the first missionaries were sent to the West Indies.

Count Zinzendorf

Moravians in America

The Moravians first came to America during the colonial period. In 1735 they were part of General Oglethorpe’s philanthropic venture in Georgia. Their attempt to establish a community in Savannah did not succeed, but they did have a profound impact on the young John Wesley who had gone to Georgia during a personal spiritual crisis. Wesley was impressed that the Moravians remained calm during a storm that was panicking experienced sailors. He was amazed at people who did not fear death, and back in London he worshiped with Moravians in the Fetter Lane Chapel. There his “heart was strangely warmed.”

After the failure of the Georgia mission, the Moravians were able to establish a permanent presence in Pennsylvania in 1741, settling on the estate of George Whitefield. Moravian settlers purchased 500 acres to establish the settlement of Bethlehem in 1741. Soon they bought the 5,000 acres of the Barony of Nazareth from Whitefield’s manager, and the two communities of Bethlehem and Nazareth became closely linked in their agricultural and industrial economy.

Other settlement congregations were established in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. They built the communities of Bethlehem, Nazareth, Lititz, and Hope. They also established congregations in Philadelphia and on Staten Island in New York. All were considered frontier centers for the spread of the gospel, particularly in mission to the Native Americans. Bethlehem was the center of Moravian activity in colonial America.

Bishop Augustus Spangenberg led a party to survey a 100,000 acre tract of land in North Carolina, which came to be known as Wachau after an Austrian estate of Count Zinzendorf. The name, later anglicized to Wachovia, became the center of growth for the church in that region. Bethabara, Bethania and Salem (now Winston-Salem) were the first Moravian settlements in North Carolina.

In 1857 the two American provinces, North and South, became largely independent and set about expansion. Bethlehem in Pennsylvania and Winston-Salem in North Carolina became the headquarters of the two provinces (North and South).

The Southern Province grew mainly in Forsyth County, but over time established congregations in Charlotte, Greensboro, Wilmington, Raleigh, and Stone Mountain, Georgia. Moravian churches in Florida are growing with the influx of immigrants from the Caribbean basin.

The Northern Province expanded with the influx of immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia into the upper Midwest in the late 19th century. It now reaches both coasts and as far north as Edmonton, Canada. Green Bay, Wisconsin, was founded by Moravians. Such wide geographical spread caused the Northern Province to be divided into Eastern, Western and Canadian Districts.

After World War II, strong pushes for church extension took the Northern Province to Southern California (where only an Indian mission had existed since 1890) as well as to some Eastern, Midwestern and Canadian sites. The Southern Province added numerous churches in the Winston-Salem area, throughout North Carolina and extended its outreach to Florida and to Georgia. In North America, the Moravian Church has congregations in 16 states, the District of Columbia, and in two Provinces of Canada.

Bethlehem in 1757

A worldwide Christian Church

Always ecumenically minded, the Moravians were among the first members of the National and World Council of Churches. The church established a number of schools in America, the most important of which are Salem Academy and College, Moravian College and Theological Seminary, and preparatory schools in Lititz and Bethlehem. In 1957 the worldwide Moravian Church was reorganized into more than a dozen semi-autonomous provinces that remain part of a single global church. A Unity Synod is held every seven years to decide matters that affect the whole Moravian Church.

Today there are more than one million members of the Moravian Church in the world. Most of them live in eastern Africa. Other major Moravian centers are the Caribbean basin (U.S. Virgin Islands, Antigua, Jamaica, Tobago, Surinam, Guyana, St. Kitts, and the Miskito Coast of Honduras and Nicaragua), South Africa, Winston-Salem, and Bethlehem, Pa. There are now 24 provinces of the Unity.

Though the Moravians played an important role in colonial American history, the church in North America numbers only about 60,000 (including Canada, Alaska, Labrador). One of the reasons for the difference in membership between the United States and the rest of the world is that Moravians saw their distinct calling as bringing the good news of God’s infinite love to the poorest and most despised people of the world.

The Moravian Seal

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Swala la ajabu kwa ajili ya Uponyaji kutoka kwa usaliti


Swala la ajabu kwa ajili ya Uponyaji kutoka kwa usaliti

Prayer for Strength in Pain and Relationships

What? Do you need a miracle to save from betrayal? The most powerful prayers that work for healing from betrayal - like the faithfulness of a wife or a friend going back - are those that you pray with faith, and believe that God can do miracles and ask God and his angels to do it if you can deal with it or another form of betrayal.

Here is an example of how to pray for miraculous healing to restore after someone you depended on has betrayed you.

This is the initial prayer. You can use it to encourage you in your own prayers, changing them to suit your situation.

This prayer can help you avoid further emotional damage due to bitterness and negative desires for revenge. It may seem like a miracle right now that you won't suffer from these feelings forever.

Prayers for Healing From Delusions

"Dear God, thank you for always being faithful to me. I can always focus on you loving me completely and without exception. Thank you for being completely faithful. I can always count on you to do what is best for me and help me with whatever I need. Please help me remember that you are here for me even when others get me.

 

You know the painful thoughts and feelings I deal with after being betrayed by [specify your situation here]. I can't believe this has happened to me. It's so sad to have someone I thought I could trust do that to me.

 

God, I need a miracle to find peace after what I went through. Please give me peace so that I can think about betrayal from your perspective and control my emotions instead of my own authority.

 

My loving father in heaven, I know you agree that betrayal is right and is as angry as I am about what happened to me.

 

But I also know that you want me to forgive [name of the person who hurt you]. Of course, I don't want to forgive, but I don't want to hurt myself further by holding on to bitterness or pursuing revenge. Enable me to forgive by allowing myself to go wrong and trusting you that you will bring justice to the situation in the right way and at the right time. Please let me bear the burden of holding grudges and help me move on with my life well.

 

God, I confess that this betrayal has destroyed my courage. I feel safe and I judge myself for the mistakes I made in the relationship before the betrayal. I wonder what I could have done differently to prevent this betrayal from happening. Please give me away from wasting my time and energy living in the past, and help me focus now on how I can move on to the best. Remind me of how worthy I am as a person, and allow me your love in visible ways, like an encouraging message from the guardian angel you have assigned to take care of me.

 

As I continue with other relationships in my life, help me to chastise those who mean well to me by assuming that they will treat me like [your wife, your friend, etc.] did.

 

Help me trust the people I know who find me good. After working through the forgiveness process with [the person who insulted you], help me rebuild trust in our relationship step by step over time, if he is willing to change and connect with me.

 

Show me people who can help me as I recover from this betrayal, like a counselor, religious person, friends, and family who are caring and trustworthy. Thanks to them; please bless them for their help.

 

My faithful God, I love you and I hope to enjoy your true love every day of my life. Amen. "

 

 

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Pata kukutana na Urieli Mkuu, malaika wa hekima


Pata kukutana na Urieli Mkuu, malaika wa hekima

Malaika mkuu Uriel anajulikana kama malaika wa hekima. Anaangaza nuru ya ukweli wa Mungu ndani ya giza la machafuko. Urieli inamaanisha "Mungu ni mwanga wangu" au "moto wa Mungu." Majina mengine ya jina lake ni pamoja na Usiel, Uziel, Oriel, Auriel, Suriel, Urian na Uryan.

Waaminifu hugeuka kwa Uriel kwa msaada wa kutafuta mapenzi ya Mungu kabla ya kufanya maamuzi, kujifunza habari mpya, kutatua matatizo na kutatua migogoro.

Pia wanamgeukia kwa msaada wa kuruhusu hisia za uharibifu kama vile wasiwasi na hasira, ambayo inaweza kuzuia waumini kutoka hekima ya ufahamu au kutambua hali hatari.

Ishara za Uriel

Katika sanaa, Uriel mara nyingi huonyeshwa kubeba kitabu au kitabu, ambazo zote zinawakilisha hekima. Ishara nyingine iliyounganishwa na Uriel ni mkono ulio wazi unaofanya moto au jua, ambalo linawakilisha ukweli wa Mungu. Kama vile malaika wenzake, Uriel ana rangi ya nishati ya malaika , katika kesi hii, nyekundu, ambayo inawakilisha yeye na kazi anayofanya. Vyanzo vingine pia vinasema rangi njano au dhahabu kwa Uriel.

Wajibu wa Uriel katika Maandiko ya Kidini

Uriel hajajwajwa katika maandiko ya kidini ya kidini kutoka kwa dini kuu duniani, lakini ametajwa sana katika maandiko makubwa ya dini ya Apocrypha. Maandiko ya Apocrypha ni matendo ya dini ambayo yalijumuishwa katika matoleo mapema ya Biblia lakini leo yanaonekana kuwa ya pili kwa umuhimu kwa maandiko ya Agano la Kale na Jipya.

Kitabu cha Enoko (sehemu ya Apocrypha ya Wayahudi na Kikristo ) inaelezea Urieli kama mmoja wa malaika saba saba ambao wanaongoza ulimwengu. Urieli anaonya nabii Noa kuhusu mafuriko yaliyoja katika Enoch sura ya 10. Katika Inoko sura ya 19 na ya 21, Uriel anafunua kuwa malaika waliokufa ambao waliasi dhidi ya Mungu watahukumiwa na inaonyesha Henoki maono ya wapi "wamefungwa mpaka idadi isiyo na mwisho ya siku za uhalifu wao zikamalizika. "(Enoko 21: 3)

Katika maandiko ya Apocrypha ya Wayahudi na ya Kikristo 2 Esdras, Mungu anatuma Uriel kujibu maswali kadhaa ambayo nabii Ezra anamwuliza Mungu. Akijibu maswali ya Ezra, Uriel anamwambia kwamba Mungu amemruhusu aeleze ishara juu ya mema na mabaya katika kazi duniani, lakini bado itakuwa vigumu kwa Ezra kuelewa kutokana na mtazamo wake mdogo wa kibinadamu.

Katika 2 Esdras 4: 10-11, Uriel anauliza Ezra: "Huwezi kuelewa mambo ambayo umekua, basi akili yako inaweza kuelewa njia ya Aliye Juu? Na mtu anayeweza kuvumiwa na dunia yenye uharibifu kuelewa uharibifu? " Wakati Ezra anauliza maswali kuhusu maisha yake, kama vile atakavyoishi, Uriel anajibu hivi: "Kuhusu ishara ambazo unaniuliza, naweza kukuambia sehemu; lakini sikutumwa kukuambia kuhusu maisha yako, kwa maana sijui . "(2 Esdras 4:52)

Katika Injili nyingi za Kikristo za Apocrypha, Urieli huokoa Yohana Mbatizaji kutoka kwa kuuawa na amri ya Mfalme Herode kuua wavulana wadogo wakati wa kuzaliwa kwa Yesu Kristo. Uriel hubeba John na mama yake Elizabeth ili kujiunga na Yesu na wazazi wake huko Misri. Apocalypse ya Petro anaelezea Urieli kama malaika wa toba.

Katika mila ya Kiyahudi, Uriel ndiye anayeangalia milango ya nyumba huko Misri kwa damu ya mwana-kondoo (akiwakilisha uaminifu kwa Mungu) wakati wa Pasaka , wakati maumivu ya mauti yanawapiga watoto wazaliwa wa kwanza kama hukumu ya dhambi lakini huwazuia watoto wa familia zaaminifu.

Dini nyingine za kidini

Wakristo wengine (kama vile wale wanaoabudu katika makanisa ya Anglican na Mashariki ya Orthodox) wanadhani Uriel ni mtakatifu. Yeye hutumikia kama mtakatifu wa patakatifu wa sanaa na sayansi kwa uwezo wake wa kuchochea na kuamsha akili.

Katika baadhi ya mila ya Katoliki, malaika wa malaika pia wana patronage juu ya sakramenti saba za kanisa. Kwa Wakatoliki hawa, Uriel ndiye mtetezi wa kuthibitisha, akiwaongoza waaminifu kama wanafikiri juu ya asili takatifu ya sakramenti.

Wajibu wa Uriel katika Utamaduni Mzuri

Kama takwimu nyingine nyingi katika Uyahudi na Ukristo, malaika wa malaika wamekuwa chanzo cha msukumo katika utamaduni maarufu. John Milton alijumuisha naye "Peponi iliyopotea," ambapo hutumikia kama macho ya Mungu, wakati Ralph Waldo Emerson aliandika shairi juu ya malaika mkuu anayemchagua kama mungu mdogo katika Paradiso.

Hivi karibuni, Uriel amefanya maonyesho katika vitabu vya Dean Koontz na Clive Barker, katika mfululizo wa TV "ya kawaida," mfululizo wa mchezo wa "Darksiders," pamoja na majumuziki ya manga na michezo ya kucheza.

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