I actually realised that l did not choose to be who I am. just imagine yourself drinking Chibuku as food in drink in White City or Naledi, you are who you are by the grace of the almighty. I soon lost appetite and tears started flowing freely from my eyes.
All the Zimbabweans in the world will be fasting on the 7th of September 2005 and I told myself that I will be one of them because I want to see what will happen next. Will God prove his word. I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt that people have tried what they can do as humans, but with no solutions. Lets stop the blame game of saying its Mbeki or SADC leaders and look up to Jehova. Naturally the next victim of the blame game is president Mogae, but blame will not help. What the Zimbabweans needs is the intervention of God not politicians. The problems bedevilling Zimbabwe require divine solutions not human. We are not going to be like the Israelites who asked for a king when God was their leader through his prophets. We are going to go before God in earnest, waiting for his answer, not with our suggestions.
This fasting will start from morning until 4.00p.m. Lets fast for God to take control because he is a loving God, who says, ‘I know the thoughts I have about you, not of destruction but of victory and prosperity’. I challenge you to take a bold step and fast because we want to see what will happen. I remember a lady called Cindy Jacobs from America who prophesied about Zimbabwe without knowing where it is. She said there is a country in Africa south of Sahara which shall experience social and economic problems, but eventually this shall pass and people shall come from far off nations to trade with it because God shall bless it.
All Batswana and other nationalities who are sympathetic to the Zimbabwean situation are most welcome to join, for the lord says ‘I am the God of all the flesh’. Lets be apolitical in this prayer bearing in mind that its God who knows what is good for us.
I grew up in a rural area called Gokwe where there is too much of spiritism. One year we had been threatened with a drought so they went to consult the spirit medium called Nevana, for one week we waited impatiently for rain but nothing came forth. After one week the church gathered on a Sunday afternoon to pray for rain. I remember that the rain poured before we could finish the prayers. He is the same God and with him nothing shall be impossible.
African nations have fallen prey to greedy, power hungry anarchists who do not fear God. People in Zambia cried for change but were not resolute on the type of change needed. Change took place, but it was hijacked by looters who became richer than the country. This issue is no longer about Mugabe or Tsvangirai but it’s about starving and suffering Zimbabweans who need God to intervene because he is just. No rains have been experienced in southern Africa because people have lost human values, last week I was reading about a party of lesbians, it real seemed fashionable, but l am saying the few people with sanity left should take a stance because Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of too much sin. A mysterious rock fell from the sky in Zimbabwe last week, floods are killing thousands, but the only solution is to surrender to God before the world gets damaged beyond repair.
Where two elephants clash it’s the grass that suffers. Sanctions have been imposed on Zimbabwe and it’s the people who are suffering. People are dying from hunger and the leaders seem to be in a contest of power. The children of the soil have scattered in the world where they have been subjected to abuse, some are cleaning pots, baby sitting with degrees in their pocket.
The bible says the Israelites cried to God who heard their prayers and delivered them from Egypt, right now the Zimbabweans are behaving like orphans. With an orphan you can kick, spit saliva and make him sleep outside the house in winter because no one cares, but I want to say to those who are going to fast, THERE IS A GOD WHO SEES IN HEAVEN. He shall restore all my days of want. He is the God for the crippled, broke hearted, orphans, neglected and street kids. Keep your cool, endure because the answer might delay but it will surely come. You might move in the darkness for a while but joy comes in the morning. If we do no take action as Zimbabwe, SADC and AFRICA history will forgive, but not forget. Let’s not give room to the next generation to cry over our graves because we did nothing to correct certain situations which we could.
