The Impact of Witch Craft in a community

Witchcraft is foolishness. It is an art of foolishness! Most witches are foolish
Nahum 3:1-4

1. Lying is an agent of witchcraft

2. Immorality is as a result of the power of witchcraft

- too much immorality is going on in our traditional ceremony.

3. Bribery and corruption is as a result of witchcraft

- employing women so that you can entice other men to give you contracts is bribery, corruption and witchcraft

4. Men are turned into eunuch s

- men no longer perform as men in the home
- Jezebel is an example of witchcraft because she takes over the role of her husband

5. Excessive pleasure and recklessness

- pleasure causes people to run away from their homes and abandon their kids because of the power of witchcraft
- seeing someone vandalizing property and just watch them is witchcraft
- calling a woman for another womans husband is participating in witchcraft
- a lot of people are under the spell of recklessness
- glutton is recklessness
- not performing your task accordingly is witchcraft
- if you are faithful with another man's property you will be given yours

6. Witches are able to use the
heavenly elements against you

- when witches rise elements against you, you must rise and declare against what is sent against you
- when witchcraft rises, you also need to rise up

7. Spiritual impersonation

- witchcraft is the art of diversion.
- witches will take your face and go to do wickedness and when exposed people will think you are the one who did the wickedness and they kill you or stone you

8. High level of frustration

-witches will come to frustrate your effort
- people refusing other people to get married is frustrating other people
- in a community where their is witch craft, frustration will be high

9. Intimidation

- witches use intimidation but confronted they are cowards

Pastor elias Lwimbo Zimba

John 5:1-14

The man in the text has had been sick for 38 years. This man lived trusting that God will heal him for this long! Many of us have not yet learned the art of waiting on God. Many of us need to learn that art of patience.
As we meet in our churches many people are believing God, as the year is coming to an end many of us have not yet seen the things that we have been praying for but we must hold on to God.
When a miracle takes long it is possible to get frustrated and pray a frustrated prayer
You have been waiting for that miracle for a long time but today I came to tell you that Jesus is about to pass your way! Maybe people in your family don't even count on you but from today you shall be lifted from the valley of frustration!

Seven things we learn about this man are;

1. He was found in a place of the rejected.
In life people will look at you to be a common person but Jesus is coming to change you status from a kwachanaire to a billionaire in dollars! People knew that you are going no where but not in 2012! 2011 has left you on a wheelchair but 2012 will see you going through a breakthrough! We are all born common but who we meet along the way is important! If we meet Jesus we will move from being common to being special and uncommon! In 2012 things are changing! You anointing will bring a demacation between you and the people in the world!

2. This man had been in bondage for 38 long years
This man had been sick longer than Jesus was alive but he patiently waited for the blessing of the living God

3. This man had been lying in this position for a long time
He was strenghtless this man, even that when the angel stirred the water he found it hard to jump in the water and that moment passed him by. Sometimes you will find that at the time of your rising strength is gone! You may have all the brilliant ideas but strength might not be there to lift you higher! I declare the strength of God to posses your life! This man was lying down for a long time! Strength had left him, strength had left him but Jesus made his strengthless vision to gain strength. in 2012 strength is coming to your side.
Many big companies are supporting foolish artists to stage foolish shows but never once do they produce money to support people who are in need of school fees? No! Strength has left the church! We need to start supporting each other as a church! Church is a place to find solace and strength!

4. His condition around him was not conducive.

5. When Jesus appeared he did not know that his helper had come.
At that pool there were many people at the pool of bethesda who needed healing but God specifically located that lame man! Your helper for 2012 will locate you

6. Jesus restored him by telling him to take up his mat and go! Your restoration shall come quickly!

7. Miracles began to follow him. When miracles begin to follow you people will talk about you! May God give you a blessing that will cause people to talk about you.
May you see the favor of God in 2012! When God blesses you even people will talk! When God blesses you, people begin to talk! You are not yet blessed until people start talking about you! Get ready for people to talk when God blesses you

Calling on the Name of the Lord - Pastor Isaac Machisa

Acts 2:21
Psalm 20:7

A name is a word by which a person or thing is known
- a name is an identity
- a name is a reputation
- a name with a good reputation will open doors while a name with a bad reputation will shut doors for you.

Proverbs 22:1 a good name is more desirable than riches
Keep a good name and let the Lord bless you with a good name

Proverbs 18:10
Use the name of God if you want to encounter your breakthrough

When you call on God he will manifest to you in many ways! He will manifest as the provider to the needy, he will manifest as a protector to those in trouble, he will manifest as a banner to those who feel like giving up! Call on God in your own situation and see God manifest!

Seasons and Time - Pastor Joyce Mwaba

Text: Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
To everything that is in our lives God has instituted seasons and time

- until you find satisfaction in God you will never find fulfillment in life

- spiritually they must come a time where one dies to the flesh and resurrects in the spirit. This is a time we refer to as a time of being born again

- the time should come when our lives become productive lives. This is a time when what is planted in our lives begins to grow

- they comes a time when we must rise and kill whatever brings defeatism in our lives

- a time must come when we build up our lives. Whatever was broken in your life has to resurrect

- times of weeping must come to an end even as we stand on the word of God

- we must have a time were we just dance for God for what he has done for us

- with time we spend seeking God we must believe that God will grant to us our hearts desire

- this is a time to love God. We did not love God but it is God who loved us. This is the time were we need to be at enmity with the things of the world because of the love of the Lord over our lives

Power Must Cross Power - Pastor Zimba

Text: 1 Samuel 5:1-12

Life is all about power and it is all about who is on your side and who is standing with you
The children of Israel had great power on their side which they did not know how to use
- Dagon was a god of the waters, he was a god of fish
- they set God before Dagon to celebrate victory over Jehovah God. (The ark represented God or the presence of God)
- when they set God before Dagon they did not know they were declaring war over their lives
- Dagon fell face down before God on the first day and on the second day dagon was utterly destroyed
- God not only dealt with the god of the Philistines he dealt with the Philistines themselves
- in the ark of covenant was the ten of commandments that God had given to his people
- whatever troubles your life will be summarized to Zero when it encounters the presence of God in your life

Contents of the Ark

- ten commandments
- mercy sit
- moses' staff
- precious stones
- seraphims and cherubims

- the ten commandments represented the very word of God. The Rhema word of God
* Jesus is the one who is suppose to sit on the mercy sit of the ark of covenant. The ten commandments simply showed what Jesus was coming to fulfill
* the mercy sit is in our hearts because that is the abode of Jesus immediately we give our lives to Christ
- if the ark was a symbol of power, then all children of God have power, they have power over the works of the enemy
- the ark was a symbol of authority
- from today you are going to be careful with what you say because you are a symbol of power and whatever the person in power says is taken as gospel truth
- the ark had power of not respecting rank. When God is charging he does not respect people
- the ark of God came to render evil powers useless!
* when God shows up it is too late for the devil
* you are too hot to be handled by the devil
* when the Philistines saw that God was too big for them they decided to say, "Let us send Him away."

Conclusion

* the box of the ark of the covenant which is inside you will cause. Your enemies will bow and you will be an over comer
John 3:8 - Nobody can determine your blessing because it is God who blesses and it is God who can conclude your case, only God can do that! It is not over until God says it is over. Your begining might be small but the God of signs and wonders will be by your side. As long as you are born of the Spirit! Success shall be on your side.
1 Cor. 3:16 - the Holy Spirit always watches over you, when you sleep, when you travel, when you are accused, when you are cast out! Remember greater is he that is in you than the one that is in the world
- you have carried what is too much in your life! You are too powerful, realise that what you carry is too powerful and see the hand of God
1 Cor. 6:19 - when God says you are mine, you are Gods! God will care for you because you are not your own, you belong to God

THE BLESSING OF BUILDING GOD A SANCTUARY - BISHOP ZIMBA

Exodus 25:1-8

God presses an emphasis when it comes to building His house! God will emphasize how exactly His house ought to be. The house of God is not built anyhow and if you build anyhow God will reject that house.
Gods eyes are on his House and whenever you violet the house of God you violet the sight of God.
The house of God is not to be used for stealing from the people of God or to trample on the children of God but the house of God is to be used as a worship place for the people of God.
Whenever you give to the work of God you must never be discouraged because there is a big blessing that comes with building God a house.

WHY MUST WE BUILD GOD A SANCTUARY?

1. So that God's presence of God can dwell with us.

A sanctuary raises a place where people can pray 24/7.

2. So that your relationship with Christ might move forward.

If we refuse to build God a sanctuary you will withhold the salvation of many people who are suppose to be born again.

3. So that you can place a place of prayer

People will come to seek miracles from God in the house of God! The house of God is going to be a house of restoration!

THE VIEW OF GOD ON HIS SANCTUARY

1. God is committed to His building

2. God is moved by what you have built

When you build God a house, God is going to respond! When you make God smile, God will make you smile forever!
The centurions servant who Jesus healed was not a Christian but he had built the temple of God and so Jesus responded to his call and by speaking a word God healed the servant to this centurion.

3. God attaches His glory to buildings

The Shekkinah glory of God only came down after Solomon had built God a temple.

HOW ARE WE TO BUILD A SANCTUARY?

1. With our resources
2. Sacrificially - Solomon built the house of God sacrificially and he saw the hand of God.
Fire will always come down were their is a sacrifice

3. On a land that God has chosen

THE BLESSING OF BUILDING GOD A HOUSE

1. The attention of Jehovah God will come to you
The Roman centurion attracted the attention of Jesus. If you are attracting God in your life you are attracting growth

2. You provoke the Visitation of God by force over your life!
Solomon provoked the visitation of God through the act of building God a Sanctuary and offering thousands of burnt offerings! If you want God to visit you, please God.

3. God will reward your life greatly
Psalm 126:5 those who sow in tears shall harvest in joy!

4. God will end all your battles
Proverbs 16:7. In his reign Solomon never fought any battles because God had silenced the enemies of Solomon through the sacrificial offering Solomon had made when building God a house

5. God will give you financial increase!
2 Chronicles 1:15

6. God will bless you with longevity of life!

7. God will restore your honor
Psalm 126

THE POWER OF A GIFT - PASTOR KAREN MUSONDA (ALL NATIONS HARVEST MINDOLO BRANCH)

Proverbs 18:15

Gen 18:1-15

A gift shall open doors of greatness for you. A gift shall take you where school can never take you

A gift has the power to testify on your behalf in the presence of the almighty God. Most of us have not been blessed because we do not know how to approach the throne of God.

When you begin to give to the work of God will move you from behind and to the front! Your gift will cause God to remember you!

It was because of Abrahams gift of hospitality that God spoke a blessing over his life!

God will protect you like He protected Lot when you are a giver! God will strike your enemies with blindness!

Giving will make you prosper even in a foreign land!

Rahab was a prostitute who gave hospitality by hiding the spies and she and her family were protected a the destruction of Jericho.

Count yourself amongst the givers!