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“The Power of Choices” by Rev Samuel Mametsa, Mphambo Crusade, Day 3, the 26th of March 2012
Jesus Christ says come to me all those who are heavily laden and I will help you. Most people go to worship God in church whilst carrying tablets and medicines in their bags. In the body of a person you find diabetes having its own room or high blood pressure having a room. Where is our God? Which body must He use if the sickness and diseases are staying in that body? It is high time that people be delivered properly and be freed from sicknesses and diseases and the other oppressions of the devil.
You can’t go to church and leave church being the same. Church is not a party. Sometimes you go to church sometimes you to go a party and when you come back from the party you are different. Sometimes you’ll be drunk showing that you have come from a party but when you come from the church you must be drunk with the Holy Spirit. You must start speaking a different language.
In the past somebody was making choices for you but today you have the power to make your own choices. Life is about choices, we are always making choices all the time.
Today’s word will tell us the power of choices. God has given us the power to make choices but He did not give us the power to see the results of those choices in advance. Every choice you make will affect you, be it a conscious of unconscious decision, regardless of where u made the decision.
Scripture reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-16 “15 "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, 16 in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.” Deut 30:15-16, NKJV.
This is God speaking. God Himself says I put life before you. We are witnessing life because we are alive. He also says I put death before you: we all that one day we will die. He also says I put curse before you. It is up to us to choose which one we want.
The problem of making choices is that we have not been given the power to see the results of what we have chosen. Also, when we make a choice we do not know what will happen on the other side of that choice.
Why did God give us this choice? A lot of people are saying “Why did Go allow me to fall into this mess?”God is not confused. In Genesis He said let’s create man in our own image. He is not a robot. He makes His own decisions and choices. When you come to a traffic robot, you find it synchronized but human beings are not synchronized. The robot changes from green, yellow to red but not a human being. God gave us the power that He himself has. That is why He allows us to make choices, be it good or bad He allows it.
How does He allow it? When you choose wrong or bad things He doesn’t take away His oxygen. He allows us to choose, whether we choose the devil or good He allows it. He knows that the choice will catch up with you.
Going to church is a choice, seating at home is a choice. Drinking or not drinking is your choice. Even if you decide to sleep in a tavern it is your choice. God is not going to take away His oxygen. The danger part is that the choice will catch up with you.
You find a pastor standing on the pulpit and saying “Youth don’t fornicate.” The youth will think “Ah, what is this pastor saying, we were not there when he was a youth.” Your decision will catch up with you and you don’t know the results thereof. The problem of the choice is that when you have made a choice you don’t know what will happen to you or your life.
Deut 30:19-20
“19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them." Deut 30:19-20, NKJV.
What is the bible telling us here? God Himself says I am calling heaven and earth to witness your actions. This means that whatever you do will catch up with you. Why does God want a witness? In the court of law if they can say let’s call witnesses it means that your case is serious. It also means that the end result of the punishment for your sin is very serious.
If you commit your sin in the night then the moon and the stars will witness it, during the day the sun will be the witness. Why is it like this? Because the your case of your sin will be serious.
The problem is that people love to choose wrong things when the right things are there. Is God blind? There are other people nowadays who choose not to worship God but when you ask them whose oxygen are you breathing, they fumble. Some are honest and admit that the oxygen is of God.
The word of God tells us that those who deny God are dead whilst still living. When you ask them where will you go when you die? They say we will go where the others are going? But they don’t know where it is and nobody came and told them of such a place. Let’s say you get drunk and you kill somebody. Will the magistrate release you when you say it is because I was drunk? No, it means that any choice you make, wait for the results thereof.
I was counseling a couple. The wife is a doctor and the husband a lawyer. They want to divorce. The lawyer was adamant that he will win the case. I asked them “What do you want?” They said “Counseling” and I said “You can’t say that as you are already busy with the divorce. It means you are not serious, you are wasting my time.” The husband said “Maybe if you give us scripture references, it can help us.” I told them “There you have the answer.” I told them of
Malachi 2:16 which says “16 "For the Lord God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it covers one's garment with violence," Says the Lord of hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, That you do not deal treacherously." NKJV and I told them “If you want to divorce go ahead but God says I hate divorce and you will never make him to like divorce. When you called us to eat meat it was your choice, even the divorce is your choice. It is your choice what you want to do but you will face the results of your choices.”
You young people, you don’t want to listen. You think this thing of jollying (fornication) is a fashion. It will catch up with you. I always tell students at school not to fornicate, especially the girls as we will see the pregnancy but we will not see what your husband that you gave yourself has done as he doesn’t get pregnant. The young boy will continue with his school whilst you seat at home nursing the baby.
I once advised a school principal not to allow the girls who are pregnant to seat in the class. A pregnant person is an abnormal person. The girl is carrying a baby and you have two people in one person. When she is in class, the one person wants to sleep and she wants to listen to the teacher and this will force her to sleep. The person inside wants to eat and thereafter to rest and this means the mother must also do the same. So when the mother sleeps all the people in that class must sleep. When the child is born, you find that her boyfriend will pass and go to university and there he will find a clever girl who refuses to fornicate who says to him “Don’t play with my life, my future. If you really love me, wait for me to finish my education.” Here we are talking about a clever girl who knows her choices. That boy will have to wait and he will wait. Then later she will say to him “I am finished with my schooling, wait for me so I can work and support my parents who took me to university to thank them.”
Some girls are so foolish; they don’t care about their parents. Once you are married your husband will not allow you to send money home. A clever girl will first work and send money to her parents, build them a beautiful house, or buy them a beautiful car. Then when she gets married, that husband will respect her. He won’t marry that girl and make her to stay in a match box house. He will honour her.
The pregnant girl will be too busy looking after the baby and when she tries to study and the baby is disturbing her she will shout at the baby and say “‘You are disturbing me” Who must the baby disturb?
One girl got pregnant and the parent went to tell the boys’ parents and they replied “These are children and they were playing, why did your child allow him to make her pregnant. She knew very well that he is a student.”
Afterwards when that boy wanted to marry he will be in Johannesburg ( far away from home village) and you will be here in your village and you will hear the news and convince yourself that it is not him. These are the choices that you youth are making.
Another girl realised that the boyfriend no longer cared for her and she decided to get a piece job as a nanny and she was employed by a certain lady on the phone to go and work in Johannesburg. She travelled by bus and went to Randburg to meet her new employer where she found her employer, waiting for her at a garage.
The problem started when the husband came back from work, she found that it was the father of her child. Now she did not want to work. She cried “This is the father of my baby.” The wife said to her “You are here to work; if you don’t want to work you must just go to your home now.” She opted to go home. They put her on the train that same evening. When she got home they asked her why she came back home so early. She could not come clean about her shameful fate. Children of God do not allow your body to be played with. Don’t believe the lies of the boys.
The choice you make will affect you one day, it may not be today or tomorrow but the day will come. Some people blame it on being black. Choice has nothing to do with color or the country you come from. The fact is that the choice you make black or white, Africa or from America will affect. You must know that you must stand for your choice.
When a husband goes shopping with a wife he will find the wife picking things and putting them, over and over again until the husband becomes angry or he leaves. This is because you are confronted with choices. Everywhere you go in life you choose and en you chose you must wait for the results.
When you commit adultery you think God doesn’t see it. You cannot mock God. May people indulge in adultery knowing full well that God doesn’t like it and that God in heaven can see them. It is their choice. Even the bible warns us against adultery. Even if you hide and go to Mauritius, God in heaven is there and He can see you. You can hide under the car, God is there, even though the people cannot see you, the heavens can see it and they are witnesses against you.
One day the film in heaven will be played. If one day God can play the movie of your life and say all the people in the world must see your life, what will happen? We don’t know how He will do it? Why does God want witnesses? The good thing about a camera is that it captures everything, you can’t choose that it must capture half and leave something else. Supposing it is the life of the pastor? We watch the movie of the day and night of that person until he reaches grave after he is dead. His wife and children will be looking and getting surprised as they watch the life of that pastor. Whatever we are doing we must know that one day it will be tested.
1 Corinthians 3:13
“13 each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is.” 1 Cor 3:13, NKJV.
Somebody is now saying’ ‘Ey, I must change my life!” That is good. The word of God comes out to touch you so that we must repent.
The bible also says “Choose life”
John 14:6
“6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6, NKJV. He is the only one with life and life and abundant. If you say to God “I want life” He will give it abundantly. Why? He qualifies. God the creator blessed Him with a name that is above all the names; His name is above the names of your ancestors, even the demonic names, that is why this name has power to save life, to heal all sicknesses and diseases. Why? Because He qualifies. Remember the day when He was going to be crucified, He told His disciples “Wait here I am going to pray.” He prayed until he sweated blood. He even asked God if it permitted, that the cup should pass Him. God left and forsook Him. That is why when He was on the cross He asked God “Why have you forsaken Me?” God did not answer until those who were there saw the veil torn into pieces. They started to realise that they had made a mistake. “This is the beloved one, He qualifies”.
John 14:16 says “I am the way, the truth and the life. Why? Life and death are in My hands, I have defeated death. They thought I was going to rot in the grave but when Sunday came I rose up.” That means you can also be healed irrespective of the sickness and disease. It doesn’t matter who is bewitching you. Nobody has power above Jesus Christ. It doesn’t matter where the sangoma comes from, even if he was initiated in the rive or the sea, the power of Jesus Christ is above his or her power.
Isaiah 53:5 “5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.” Isa 53:5, NKJV. It doesn’t say you are going to be healed, it says you are healed.
I know that your forefathers were blind but now you can see. Why should you rely on the decision of the people who were blind? They chose for you to worship the idols because when you grew in that family they were doing it and you continued to do it. Some of you were cut because of the decision of the forefathers. When they cut you they didn’t tell you what they were doing they just cut and you put something.
I spoke about the blood on Saturday and said that the blood is the seal of the covenant and that any blood covenant is legally binding for our release. That is why Jesus Christ had to bleed because His blood covenant is legally binding for our redemption. Some of you, your names are still recorded in the altar of ancestral worship and you are not getting delivered. You don’t respond to prayer. You go to church with pills in your bag. Your heart and spirit want God but your body is still bound in the ancestral worship altar.
When God wants to help you the devil will accuse Him and tell Him “I never saw this person saying he or she doesn’t want me anymore. You can’t bless him or her. He or she is still mine.” or “Lord, how on earth can you bless this one when she is still mine? I never heard her renounce the blood covenant she has with me. Look at the symbol. It is mine.”
We know that with animals the owners mark them. Say in the case of cows if it is stolen and is found after 2 years and the case goes to court the owner will show the symbol he put on the cow, which shows it is his. When you buy a cow you will remove the symbol from the old owner and put your own symbol.
It is unfortunate that in church people are not being told the truth and are not being delivered. People can’t even dream proper dreams; Christians are dreaming sleeping with spirit husbands, flying etc They dream satanic dreams. Some dream bathing, and this a symbol of you being initiated by the devil. When the devil was chased from heaven he fell into the sea and polluted the water. That is why we have marine spirits.
We have a lot of demonic people in the church. Some even criticize their pastor. We have groups in the church and when the pastor says let’s do this they say “Ah no! We are not doing it.”
It is important that if you are removed from an ancestral worship altar and you have not yet been baptised as yet, you must get baptised as soon as possible as the demon can come back into your life as it is a strong demon.
You can’t go to church and leave church being the same. Church is not a party. Sometimes you go to church sometimes you to go a party and when you come back from the party you are different. Sometimes you’ll be drunk showing that you have come from a party but when you come from the church you must be drunk with the Holy Spirit. You must start speaking a different language.
In the past somebody was making choices for you but today you have the power to make your own choices. Life is about choices, we are always making choices all the time.
Today’s word will tell us the power of choices. God has given us the power to make choices but He did not give us the power to see the results of those choices in advance. Every choice you make will affect you, be it a conscious of unconscious decision, regardless of where u made the decision.
Scripture reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-16 “15 "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, 16 in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.” Deut 30:15-16, NKJV.
This is God speaking. God Himself says I put life before you. We are witnessing life because we are alive. He also says I put death before you: we all that one day we will die. He also says I put curse before you. It is up to us to choose which one we want.
The problem of making choices is that we have not been given the power to see the results of what we have chosen. Also, when we make a choice we do not know what will happen on the other side of that choice.
Why did God give us this choice? A lot of people are saying “Why did Go allow me to fall into this mess?”God is not confused. In Genesis He said let’s create man in our own image. He is not a robot. He makes His own decisions and choices. When you come to a traffic robot, you find it synchronized but human beings are not synchronized. The robot changes from green, yellow to red but not a human being. God gave us the power that He himself has. That is why He allows us to make choices, be it good or bad He allows it.
How does He allow it? When you choose wrong or bad things He doesn’t take away His oxygen. He allows us to choose, whether we choose the devil or good He allows it. He knows that the choice will catch up with you.
Going to church is a choice, seating at home is a choice. Drinking or not drinking is your choice. Even if you decide to sleep in a tavern it is your choice. God is not going to take away His oxygen. The danger part is that the choice will catch up with you.
You find a pastor standing on the pulpit and saying “Youth don’t fornicate.” The youth will think “Ah, what is this pastor saying, we were not there when he was a youth.” Your decision will catch up with you and you don’t know the results thereof. The problem of the choice is that when you have made a choice you don’t know what will happen to you or your life.
Deut 30:19-20
“19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them." Deut 30:19-20, NKJV.
What is the bible telling us here? God Himself says I am calling heaven and earth to witness your actions. This means that whatever you do will catch up with you. Why does God want a witness? In the court of law if they can say let’s call witnesses it means that your case is serious. It also means that the end result of the punishment for your sin is very serious.
If you commit your sin in the night then the moon and the stars will witness it, during the day the sun will be the witness. Why is it like this? Because the your case of your sin will be serious.
The problem is that people love to choose wrong things when the right things are there. Is God blind? There are other people nowadays who choose not to worship God but when you ask them whose oxygen are you breathing, they fumble. Some are honest and admit that the oxygen is of God.
The word of God tells us that those who deny God are dead whilst still living. When you ask them where will you go when you die? They say we will go where the others are going? But they don’t know where it is and nobody came and told them of such a place. Let’s say you get drunk and you kill somebody. Will the magistrate release you when you say it is because I was drunk? No, it means that any choice you make, wait for the results thereof.
I was counseling a couple. The wife is a doctor and the husband a lawyer. They want to divorce. The lawyer was adamant that he will win the case. I asked them “What do you want?” They said “Counseling” and I said “You can’t say that as you are already busy with the divorce. It means you are not serious, you are wasting my time.” The husband said “Maybe if you give us scripture references, it can help us.” I told them “There you have the answer.” I told them of
Malachi 2:16 which says “16 "For the Lord God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it covers one's garment with violence," Says the Lord of hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, That you do not deal treacherously." NKJV and I told them “If you want to divorce go ahead but God says I hate divorce and you will never make him to like divorce. When you called us to eat meat it was your choice, even the divorce is your choice. It is your choice what you want to do but you will face the results of your choices.”
You young people, you don’t want to listen. You think this thing of jollying (fornication) is a fashion. It will catch up with you. I always tell students at school not to fornicate, especially the girls as we will see the pregnancy but we will not see what your husband that you gave yourself has done as he doesn’t get pregnant. The young boy will continue with his school whilst you seat at home nursing the baby.
I once advised a school principal not to allow the girls who are pregnant to seat in the class. A pregnant person is an abnormal person. The girl is carrying a baby and you have two people in one person. When she is in class, the one person wants to sleep and she wants to listen to the teacher and this will force her to sleep. The person inside wants to eat and thereafter to rest and this means the mother must also do the same. So when the mother sleeps all the people in that class must sleep. When the child is born, you find that her boyfriend will pass and go to university and there he will find a clever girl who refuses to fornicate who says to him “Don’t play with my life, my future. If you really love me, wait for me to finish my education.” Here we are talking about a clever girl who knows her choices. That boy will have to wait and he will wait. Then later she will say to him “I am finished with my schooling, wait for me so I can work and support my parents who took me to university to thank them.”
Some girls are so foolish; they don’t care about their parents. Once you are married your husband will not allow you to send money home. A clever girl will first work and send money to her parents, build them a beautiful house, or buy them a beautiful car. Then when she gets married, that husband will respect her. He won’t marry that girl and make her to stay in a match box house. He will honour her.
The pregnant girl will be too busy looking after the baby and when she tries to study and the baby is disturbing her she will shout at the baby and say “‘You are disturbing me” Who must the baby disturb?
One girl got pregnant and the parent went to tell the boys’ parents and they replied “These are children and they were playing, why did your child allow him to make her pregnant. She knew very well that he is a student.”
Afterwards when that boy wanted to marry he will be in Johannesburg ( far away from home village) and you will be here in your village and you will hear the news and convince yourself that it is not him. These are the choices that you youth are making.
Another girl realised that the boyfriend no longer cared for her and she decided to get a piece job as a nanny and she was employed by a certain lady on the phone to go and work in Johannesburg. She travelled by bus and went to Randburg to meet her new employer where she found her employer, waiting for her at a garage.
The problem started when the husband came back from work, she found that it was the father of her child. Now she did not want to work. She cried “This is the father of my baby.” The wife said to her “You are here to work; if you don’t want to work you must just go to your home now.” She opted to go home. They put her on the train that same evening. When she got home they asked her why she came back home so early. She could not come clean about her shameful fate. Children of God do not allow your body to be played with. Don’t believe the lies of the boys.
The choice you make will affect you one day, it may not be today or tomorrow but the day will come. Some people blame it on being black. Choice has nothing to do with color or the country you come from. The fact is that the choice you make black or white, Africa or from America will affect. You must know that you must stand for your choice.
When a husband goes shopping with a wife he will find the wife picking things and putting them, over and over again until the husband becomes angry or he leaves. This is because you are confronted with choices. Everywhere you go in life you choose and en you chose you must wait for the results.
When you commit adultery you think God doesn’t see it. You cannot mock God. May people indulge in adultery knowing full well that God doesn’t like it and that God in heaven can see them. It is their choice. Even the bible warns us against adultery. Even if you hide and go to Mauritius, God in heaven is there and He can see you. You can hide under the car, God is there, even though the people cannot see you, the heavens can see it and they are witnesses against you.
One day the film in heaven will be played. If one day God can play the movie of your life and say all the people in the world must see your life, what will happen? We don’t know how He will do it? Why does God want witnesses? The good thing about a camera is that it captures everything, you can’t choose that it must capture half and leave something else. Supposing it is the life of the pastor? We watch the movie of the day and night of that person until he reaches grave after he is dead. His wife and children will be looking and getting surprised as they watch the life of that pastor. Whatever we are doing we must know that one day it will be tested.
1 Corinthians 3:13
“13 each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is.” 1 Cor 3:13, NKJV.
Somebody is now saying’ ‘Ey, I must change my life!” That is good. The word of God comes out to touch you so that we must repent.
The bible also says “Choose life”
John 14:6
“6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6, NKJV. He is the only one with life and life and abundant. If you say to God “I want life” He will give it abundantly. Why? He qualifies. God the creator blessed Him with a name that is above all the names; His name is above the names of your ancestors, even the demonic names, that is why this name has power to save life, to heal all sicknesses and diseases. Why? Because He qualifies. Remember the day when He was going to be crucified, He told His disciples “Wait here I am going to pray.” He prayed until he sweated blood. He even asked God if it permitted, that the cup should pass Him. God left and forsook Him. That is why when He was on the cross He asked God “Why have you forsaken Me?” God did not answer until those who were there saw the veil torn into pieces. They started to realise that they had made a mistake. “This is the beloved one, He qualifies”.
John 14:16 says “I am the way, the truth and the life. Why? Life and death are in My hands, I have defeated death. They thought I was going to rot in the grave but when Sunday came I rose up.” That means you can also be healed irrespective of the sickness and disease. It doesn’t matter who is bewitching you. Nobody has power above Jesus Christ. It doesn’t matter where the sangoma comes from, even if he was initiated in the rive or the sea, the power of Jesus Christ is above his or her power.
Isaiah 53:5 “5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.” Isa 53:5, NKJV. It doesn’t say you are going to be healed, it says you are healed.
I know that your forefathers were blind but now you can see. Why should you rely on the decision of the people who were blind? They chose for you to worship the idols because when you grew in that family they were doing it and you continued to do it. Some of you were cut because of the decision of the forefathers. When they cut you they didn’t tell you what they were doing they just cut and you put something.
I spoke about the blood on Saturday and said that the blood is the seal of the covenant and that any blood covenant is legally binding for our release. That is why Jesus Christ had to bleed because His blood covenant is legally binding for our redemption. Some of you, your names are still recorded in the altar of ancestral worship and you are not getting delivered. You don’t respond to prayer. You go to church with pills in your bag. Your heart and spirit want God but your body is still bound in the ancestral worship altar.
When God wants to help you the devil will accuse Him and tell Him “I never saw this person saying he or she doesn’t want me anymore. You can’t bless him or her. He or she is still mine.” or “Lord, how on earth can you bless this one when she is still mine? I never heard her renounce the blood covenant she has with me. Look at the symbol. It is mine.”
We know that with animals the owners mark them. Say in the case of cows if it is stolen and is found after 2 years and the case goes to court the owner will show the symbol he put on the cow, which shows it is his. When you buy a cow you will remove the symbol from the old owner and put your own symbol.
It is unfortunate that in church people are not being told the truth and are not being delivered. People can’t even dream proper dreams; Christians are dreaming sleeping with spirit husbands, flying etc They dream satanic dreams. Some dream bathing, and this a symbol of you being initiated by the devil. When the devil was chased from heaven he fell into the sea and polluted the water. That is why we have marine spirits.
We have a lot of demonic people in the church. Some even criticize their pastor. We have groups in the church and when the pastor says let’s do this they say “Ah no! We are not doing it.”
It is important that if you are removed from an ancestral worship altar and you have not yet been baptised as yet, you must get baptised as soon as possible as the demon can come back into your life as it is a strong demon.