To begin with, I haven’t had the excitement of being in ministry for a while now, even though there have been many things that have occupied my time. It is amazing how one can become so accustomed to doing ministry that the work could actually get done without the minister being wholly involved in the actual activities. What I am trying to say is that I discovered that I had been doing ministry for the last few weeks because I could, not because I was compelled by my desire for the work of the Lord in the lives of those I was ministering to. It has been a saddening experience to discover that the work can go on in a physical sense without my spirit and His Spirit being involved, and this is the very real danger that many ministers and ministries could find themselves in.
I went for school ministry to Mwingi last week and what transpired brought me back to my knees. I had agreed to preach for the whole weekend challenge at a school, yet I hadn’t experienced a real breakthrough of the Word of God that week and was operating mostly on my previous sermon preparation abilities. Thankfully, we had a car accident and this jolted me to the reality of my low spiritual levels. It was a great opportunity to get right in my spirit with God and He sorted me out wonderfully. I was able to share for the weekend and also for the week that followed. It was an amazing transformation for me and I learnt a lot as I prepared the sermons and also as I delivered them.
I had another opportunity to teach at a schools’ rally in Nairobi and the response from the students wasn’t too enthusiastic. I returned home wondering if I had delivered the message as properly as I should have. I was also annoyed that the guitar I had borrowed refused to work and I thus couldn’t sing for those in attendance. I seriously need to get a good concert guitar, because it was not the first time I had been failed on stage by a guitar. I left that particular meeting with mixed feelings and was grateful for a traffic jam on the way back to Diguna. I slept for most of the journey home and was back on time for the Bible study group. I rested a little in my room then joined in the Bible study and 1 Peter 4 was up for a very interesting discussion. We raised money for milk and biscuits and then Floice and I prepared tea for the group. This Floice is one amazing lady, so young yet such a gifted leader and an awesome person to have around. She makes my work so much easier, it’s somehow as if she is another me.
I had been invited to sing on Sunday at the ACK St. Faith Ongata Rongai during their worship afternoon and I was there on time. They graciously allowed me to sing early so that I could leave to attend to my duties at the Diguna Champions League. Only one match had been played before the heavens opened and put an end to the day’s fixtures. Now we have to source for an extra day to have all those matches played. No complaining though, because we need the rain and we thank God for it. Now back to the normalcy of life, but also to the absolute unpredictability of my forthcoming events, now that I am RE-CONNECTED.
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