Pastor Gregg Garner’s sermon at EST Kampala talks about God’s word. If we don’t know God’s word we falling apart.
There’s no way I am going to produce flavor on the earth when I don’t know the role am supposed to do. Jesus is giving me a role—am not beef or chicken— but am the salt. How do I produce the flavors? Through learning more of God’s word and because the more I learn God’s word the more I be filled with the Holy Spirit.
The more I learn God’s word the more I get mature. And how do I know that am mature in Christ? Always having the word of God coming from me. Pastor Garner talked about those with ears should hear and those with eyes to see. Meaning I am a living stone that God is using to build and how do I know that, by opening up my eyes and ears plus my mind allowing God to show me who I am.
Because as I was growing up you know I grew up in a family where my dad is a pastor. So I saw him struggling with other people’s lives. Everyone could come and cry in front of him. Those with family affairs and others, he would act as a savior giving them money either when they’re lacking what to eat, spending money on church resources, concerned more of other people’s lives. Yet we as children needed him most but he was spending his time at church. So those things could upset me.
As time was passing people started making jokes out of me. Though some of them meant what they were saying about me becoming a pastor. So I didn’t love it at all I used even to hurt some of them because I was like I didn’t want to be stressed by other people’s burdens. I didn’t want to suffer for others meaning I just cared about me and my family other people I didn’t want to know and I couldn’t care about other people’s feelings.
But after seeing Pastor Gregg Garner how and the whole staff how God uses them to serve the community through teaching God’s word and sharing on the same table with God’s children ….
God did that impacted in learning God’s word because through testimonies of other people during the SLAM projects…
It inspired me so much however much we didn’t take money we had to build the rocket stoves that could help them save firewood, build a trash pit for a school we went in while at kabonge so that we make they keep their environment clean by not littering the trash in the compound and classes that they should gather it in one place and be burnt. Whenever it’s full that helped me open up my mind and that we couldn’t do all that if we lost flavor if we took away our mindset.
I Am chosen so I should represent God and serve the community through filling the gaps in the community helping the needy, widows, older people and young children through teaching and sharing the word of God to them. Even if I don’t have money i can use my mind because to God everyone is important and we are of one body Ephesians 2:19.
I conclude by saying you can’t have a healthy body without doing God’s work. You should have a strongest mind and grow spiritually through sharing the mind of Christ and building each other up, be humble and let God use you not you to decide on your own what to do let God direct you as me I let God do his will towards my life I now don’t care even if you tell me am going to be a pastor I now don’t have any problems I just let God to use in His Will.