In a few days, we shall be celebrating our ten years of existence as a church. This anniversary, like all the past ones, is worth celebrating, because from what we have been hearing from God Himself, our report card is very good.
It was on 2nd November 2000 when God vividly spoke to me that I will one day build Him a house (church) that will go on to become of great magnificence, and fame, and splendor in the sight of all the nations (1 Chronicles 22:5). Then fourteen years later on 31st August 2014, which is now ten years, the “construction” of that house began, when we held our first service.
Our journey from the beginning up until now has been that of faith and obedience. Faith is the assurance that what God has said will come to pass. Since 2nd November 2000, I have believed that our church will one day be of great glory and much fame in Uganda and beyond, just as God said. I thank God that this spirit of faith now works within many of the people in the church.
Our faith in God’s word is attested by our obedience. We have endeavored to obey God in everything He tells us to do that will get us to what 1 Chronicles 22:5 says. That we have indeed been obeying Him these last ten years, and are therefore destined for “1 Chronicles 22:5”, has often come to us in the dreams of the Holy Spirit. For example, just after we celebrated our seventh anniversary, God spoke to us in a dream that we had successfully completed the first phase of our service unto Him, and a second phase, which was to be much shorter than the first, had begun. Then when we asked Him for a progress report in July 2023, He responded emphatically in dreams that we were in a very good spiritual condition, destined to beat the second phase deadline.
2024 came with an instruction to pray until something happens. We believed this instruction, and we therefore obeyed it. Months later, God again spoke to us in a dream that in the spirit, we had “arrived”. Actually the last dream concerning that issue was by Christine Mugimba. She saw when our church was literally overflowing with people.
Faith and obedience have brought us this far closer to 1 Chronicles 22:5. Therefore, let us celebrate with God what we have achieved for Him by His grace these last ten years.