WHY JUDAS THOUGHT HE WAS A HERO IN THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS CHRIST

(Excerpt from My Biography; Letters to My Grandchildren and Their Grandchildren )

 “A BRIDGE DOES NOT REMEMBER WHO WALKED OVER IT TO SAFETY.” ~ Dr. Bright Mulenga

“The reason why your former persecutors and abusers seem to have a short memory”

Jesus died at the age of 33. Did mankind need Jesus to live to his 70s or 100s, or like Noah to his 1000s? No! because he came for one reason, to restore man to God’s glory. Man needed the blood of Jesus as the default power base that no weapon formed against man (us) should withstand. What was the price to achieve this? The price was the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, and through that death, the resurrection of the Son of God. Therefore, for brother Jesus to die, someone in the family needed to do the deed and betray Christ to the highest bidder, the executioner, for the execution to happen. Someone might ask, Did it have to be Judas? Well, he happened to be the great, greedy, and fearless Judas Iscariot who volunteered. It didn’t have to be Judas, and it could have been anyone else, but he chose to be the one, and the bottom line of the prophecy was that our Lord Jesus Christ needed to die, no matter what. Thank God Judas made himself available for the job and used his negotiation skills to betray God’s beloved Son Jesus, through whose crucifixion and resurrection, we all have received God’s redemption, mercy, and regained our full Christlike power. Hallelujah Church! And hear someone say Amen. 

The moral of the story OVER YOUR LIFE is that everyone born of a woman has a prophecy upon their lives Jeremiah 29 v 11 “For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”. Fortunately, this prophecy comes with a price and smells of crucifixion and death.

In the journey of life, you could have been mistreated, abused, and persecuted in so many evil ways that seem to have been crafted and forged specially for you, such that you were even convinced that your persecutors or abusers were born from the devil himself, though some of your executioners could have been your blood relatives. Are you catching the drift here? You could have even faced situations of Loss, such as the loss of a parent, sibling, or child. As I write, I lost my father at the age of 8 and my life was turned upside down in a flash from living an affluent life in Kitwe’s Parklands area, a life of plenty with servants doing everything for me to the point a didn’t even know how to wash or iron my clothes, to living in a small one bedroomed house where I had to start to learn how to Iron my clothes with a strange ironing instrument that uses charcoal. I cried through the ironing experience as the Iron burnt me more than it ironed my school uniform, at least in the beginning. It was rough, and I have endured abuse, humiliation, and everything in between in my life.  I know what mental torture is, and I know what rejection is

Ultimately. I believe that the majority of you reading this today, after going through the valley of the shadow death, probably life has turned you into international celebrities, or you are living your dream life as a successful businessman or lady, have a wonderful family, found the love of your life, or probably with a successful career, and you have travelled the world and everyone knows your name.

Here is the Iron of God on your life, and it starts with Isaiah 46 vs 10 “I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, 'My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.” What you are today, the Lord completed before your beginning. You were successful even before you did one successful act. However, the principle of God is that before your enthronement, you need a crown of thorns to squeeze out the King and Queen out of you, you were supposed to go through crucifixion, that represents every evil pain you have been through in your life and indeed it has been painful but as the story of Jesus goes, after crucifixion, you needed to die to your old you in order to resurrect into the King or Queen that you are today full of wisdom, power and compassion and the your persecutors who thought they had buried you and had covered your tomb cant perceive what in heaven happened. They even used a heavy stone to close your tomb so that you never ever amount to anything. Suddenly, the devil woke up one day only to find the stone had been rolled away by the Lord, and the tomb was empty because, according to the Lord, your training was over and you were ready for your throne. Ati Basalapuke! Pwanku, baitika, they found you on the throne as the King or the Queen in the place you are today. Out of your wounds, you have become wiser, and out of your pain, you have been resurrected to your place of Power. Hallelujah. I know what you are thinking! But these are the same people now asking for help, and they have forgotten what they did to me. Yes! They did not know what they were doing; they were just playing their assigned roles in God’s playbook in the story of your life. Simply put, they were used as bridges from one glory to another. As it is a bridge does not remember who walked on it to safety, it has a short memory.

You see, God needed Judas to be a close member of the family in the story of Jesus. In your story to your throne, God needed some close Judas members to push you to your throne, and they were carefully selected for their skill sets, such as greediness, hatefulness, Jealousy, gluttony, stinginess, and everything in between. However, they had a choice: either to love you in your vulnerability or to hate you and play the Judas role in your story. Someone can remember the time he or she was forced to leave one town to go to another area against your will by force, and you cried all the way to where ever you were forced to flee, feeling abandoned and rejected, without knowing that that’s where your dream job was waiting for you, or the love of your life was waiting for you? Wow! A place where beautiful things began in your life. What do you do for the wonderful outcome? Do you hate the person who chased you or who denied you something you thought was special?

Naaa! They were made the BRIDGES OF YOUR LIFE to carry you from one place of glory to another

But how did you get there? It’s through pain. See in nature how beautiful roses are supported by stems of thorns. Isn’t that wonderful

You may be at work, and all of a sudden, someone just begins to pick on you with Loads of work in an abusive way! Just know that your time of promotion is at hand, and without knowing the supposed abuser, has just begun to play their role in God’s playbook for your journey to the top in your professional career. Don’t complain, but thank God

Know this, Judas still had to pay for his crimes against Jesus, no wonder he committed suicide, so does everyone who has played the Judas in your life. But leave that to God Almighty, who can see your enemy no matter how big their smiles are

In Their eyes We Looked like Grasshoppers

 WE are so Great as Africans no wonder someone has spent all their energies to convince us that we are nothing. Unfortunately, we have believed the lie and we have become our own destructors

2024! CALLING on Willing Animators to join me in telling the story of the Resilience of our GREAT African ancestors through animated movies.

Growing up as a Kid, I always wanted to tell stories using cartoons but, back in my days, this was not an easy cup of tea to undertake. I used to make cutouts from packaging boxes to make human images and begin to show other kids of my age in a kind of Muppet Show behind a shadow and lighting up the images with Candlelight. Those of my age who grew up in the '70s and '80s can relate to my experience I enjoyed creating conversations in an imaginary story. I love animated stories and I have always looked forward to a time when by God’s grace I can finally tell the African story through a unique animated Africa series.

I know many of the old-school complaints are that technology has replaced our culture as our children spend most of their time watching Western-style cartoons. We tend to paint technology the darkest black and accuse it of the moral decay we are seeing today. But Technology is the river with a very fast-moving current and everything is being swept in it's current. Well, technology is a river we cannot do anything about. It’s here to stay. Let’s however, learn from the wisdom of the river. Whenever one is caught up in a fast-moving river and wants to survive the current, one should not try to swim against the current but must move along with the river’s flow direction and the chances of survival are high. Therefore, instead of blaming technology for the eroded culture and building a generation that believes that everything from the West is supreme and as a consequence regard even their own dark skin as inferior. Let’s use the same technology to flip the narrative to tell our own stories about who we are as Africans. Let’s use technology to tell the story of how the Bantu-speaking people traveled all the way, whether from West Africa or the mountains of Cameroon, without navigation systems, without proper clothing, braved the harshest weather conditions, crossing the most dangerous terrains until they found themselves in a country like Zambia and many other countries. Let’s use technology to tell the story of how the great Ngoni People crossed the Zambezi without a bridge, and how the great Tonga-speaking people started smelting Iron before any mining and metallurgy textbooks were written (Wow!). How the resilience of the great Barotse Kingdom management system still shines as an example of unity and development without referring to any management textbook (Wow!). Let’s tell the intriguing story of how the Luba people from Kola (Angola) during their journey got baptized in the Luapula River and emerged on the other side as the great Bemba people of modern-day Zambia. Only great, Intelligent, Wise, and creative people could manage to pull it off. We are truly descendants of greatness and we don’t know it at all.

Let’s use the same technology medium we accuse of distorting our African story to flip the narrative and let our children learn the greatness, creativity, and wisdom of our ancestors to have survived such that we are here without realizing what they overcame to afford us this opportunity of life. Come and join me to create the biggest animated story of our true identity.   

I would be more than glad to join hands with you (inbox if interested or email brightmulenga@gmail.com)

As the saying goes “Successful people never Reach their Goals Alone”

The Evil Disease waiting for you in 2024. It is called “IGNORANCYMALAITIS MUNGULU 24 Virus”

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of people (in the year 2024) ~1 Corinthians 7:23

Who Am I?

Jesus answered, 'Is it not written in your law, “I said, you are gods”? If those to whom the word of God came were called “gods”—and the scripture cannot be annulled ~John 10:34-35

Lesson 1: I am a god but I just don’t know that I am. Nobody tells me this to help me wake up the Giant in me. Sometimes I am even being asked to pay for not knowing. Therefore, I have been told I have to look for myself somewhere

The Coming of the Kingdom of God

Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”^[a]~Luke 17: 20 -21

Lesson 2: The kingdom of God is within me and I was born pregnant with it. I carry everything I need because I just don’t know. Yet somebody has been busy convincing me that I have nothing and that I need them to get my piece of the kingdom pie. And the worst is that they want me to worship them as well

What about tithe? Are you a thief?

²² Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.²³ Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.²⁴ But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away),²⁵ then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose.²⁶ Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice    

Lesson 3: read again and pick what suits you from Deuteronomy

Truly there is an evil ....

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Eccl 10:5-7

Lesson 4: The Gold I think that I don't deserve, that's what I deserve  

But who has bewitched us?

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. ~ 2 Timothy 4:3-4

The Choice is yours 

CROSSING OVER TO NOWHERE!

"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Genesis 1: 26

Are We gods who have lost their memory and are now lost in the City trying to find the god they already are?

Made in the likeness, but praying for that likeness to come? already made with the authority to call things into existence? but still, praying for the authority they already have to come down from somewhere? I wonder if we shall not be looking for what we already have forever

Who has bewitched us? The new year is just around the corner and the so-called Cross-Over events will flood the country more than the number of any new ideas that have come via divine revelations in the last 59 years Zambia has been independent. The religious forks will be like 2024 is my year of success, miracles, divine favor, multiplication, and walking with God. The spiritual will even speak in Tongues like never heard before, Hallelujah!
But Let me tell you what will happen to you on the 1st of January 2024 which I am 100% sure shall be true.
When you wake up on the 1st, or 2nd + of January 2024, YOU WILL STILL BE YOU. If you don't have money on 31st Dec 2023, you will still have no money on the 1st January 2024.
Here is where your Wealth is! Your wealth creation machine is actually YOU. Look at it this way, Supposing you want to have a child, who has the assets and instruments to give birth to a child? is it God? Are the assets in heaven? If you want the year 2024 to be different! use the divine campus, Luke 17:21, to locate where your wealth, peace, and abundance are hidden and you will discover that the one who has been holding your wealth is Actually 'YOU' and only 'YOU' because there is none like 'YOU' before, now and forever.

RISING FROM THE DEEP OF REJECTION

I woke up this morning and a strange word just dropped right into my heart. Let me confess it in the first person and I will sign it with my name,

"I am NOT just A PIECE of THE PIZZA THAT LEAVES THE GAP. But, I AM THE PIECE THAT MAKES THE PIZZA WHOLE AGAIN" ~ Bright Mulenga

You know what? Anyone who rejected you in the Past has found themselves with a gap, a hole that they can't fill up because you, the rejected one, were the Piece that made the Pizza whole.

They complained about you and they blamed you for all sorts of things. You know what? that part of their life was complete because you were around. At least you gave them a reason to wake up every day and have something to do. Now you are gone and they are suffering from your absence.

What a wonderful God we have who turns shit into fertilizer and pain into power

When Pain is the Bow of Soup You Need to Drink! A Lonely Night without!

When God's Rescue Plan was hatched before I was Born!

It was a dark night, life took away the only pillow I so much needed in my days of being nothing, I was in a strange place yet at that moment I had just become homeless and the time was 21 hours. Where was I supposed to go? Should I find my way to the main bus station and pretend I was going to stay overnight as I wait to board an early morning bus just to have a place to spend the night? Yet I had no money to my credit and I could have even preferred that God would suddenly turn back the clock so as not to allow me to experience that moment. But the Pain was necessary in God's plan. As I was trying to figure out what to do, God had prepared a stranger who became my friend and rescued my situation. He took me in during that night. The once-almost-homeless guy of that night is the guy you see today.

I smile today because I may not know what will happen tomorrow, but I trust the one who holds my tomorrow.

My name is Bright Kayula Mulenga son of Rachael Kayula Mfula and I love the movie of My Broken Past so much because it was wonderfully cooked and mixed in Bowl of Pain to produce the Powerful Me you see today. I do not focus on the Pain but I pay attention to the Power of the Leason and I leave the Bowl Pain in the past. Then I declare no more fishing from the past waters

Listen, today you may feel alone and abandoned. The kinds of moments you wish that some of your modern heroes portrayed in books and movies would just show up to end your nightmare on a high note. Well! Just drink that bowl of sweetened Pain before you with joy because your real hero hatched your rescue before you were even conceived in your mother's womb.

Wow! Isnt that a wonderful reason to celebrate today

When the only way to win is to lose (Extract from my biography)

“like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.” ~ Deut 32:11

I have learned in my life that sometimes the only way to win is to decide to lose. You can lose the battle but you haven’t lost the war. When life places you in the pot of rejection and covers the pot with a cover of hate, usually the natural response is to fight back and try to defend yourself from those you consider the adversaries pushing you to the corner. You feel the people around you are taking your life and trying to squeeze it. Therefore, you want to use every opportunity to defend your cause lest people can believe you and your case against your assumed adversaries. Time and again we have tried to defend ourselves in the face of such to no avail because, in the mental court where you have been tried in absentia, you have been found with a case to answer. Life has taught me that in the face of rejection, do not say anything. No matter how tramped up the charges or the cause of your rejection are. Be still and do not say anything for your cause because, remember you have been found guilty and usually with tramped evidence already. Therefore, nothing you can say or do will save the situation. You can cry, you can even roll on the ground or you can swear by the heavens to prove your innocence, the final judgment has been cast in stone and you are thrown under the bus.

Why not defend yourself or fight back? I was rejected and abused verbally and mentally to the point where I could have easily lost my self-worth as a human being and probably committed suicide. I must confess there were a few times when I had considered that option but I didn’t. In the year 1997, I lost my mother who was my friend, my sister my everything. Her death was very painful and it has taken me a while to heal and to adjust to her absence. In the very year she died I also suddenly developed a medical condition that affected my legs to a point that I became immobile and I couldn’t walk. Not being able to walk meant that I couldn’t work and believe me that period was one of my walks in the valley of the shadow of death. As the icing on the cake, I was involuntarily left alone to fend for myself despite my physical incapacity. When I look back now, I realize that the city was rejecting me as well and was crafting ways to eject me out of it too. In the face of all that I was going through, I chose to keep quiet and to help me to deal with it, I chose to shut my mind, my brain including my heart so that I wouldn't feel the pain of what I was going through. I realized that I needed my whole heart and not pieces of it to remain sane as not doing so could lead someone to commit the most heinous crime. I had two daughters and a son, and they needed me alive. In the face of rejection, we always do not know the entire divine game at play for the sake of the life of the rejected. And because we don’t know, it's better to keep quiet and not fight battles you don’t comprehend fully what is at play because not doing so might just lead you to miss your bus to your God-given destiny. Think about it, the job you have in the city you live in could probably be a result of you being chased badly by a relative in another city where you could have been comfortable being unemployed for example. The wife or husband you have today could have been victims of serious family abuse which forced them to run away to the perceived city of safety where you two met under unexplained circumstances. What I am saying is that rejection was the vehicle that transported the good things you are thanking God for now into your hands.  

Many times we get used to familiar environments in a way that we think any idea of moving to another place is considered a mischievous maneuver by the devil to deprive you of your comfort zone. Well, let’s look at it this way, how can God move you to the place of your destiny? A place where you need to increase and prosper? Do we expect the almighty to come with a kind letter of request to you saying please move to X city? Heaven No! God will dangerously shake your nest to its foundation like the eagle does when its time for eaglets to be independent, and disturb your comfort without even considering the pain that will be inflicted on you in the process and allow rejection to eject you from that nest and drop you where you are supposed to be which is your place of grace. Put simply God allowed the abuse and the rejection to eject me from my city of comfort Luanshya, a town that didn’t have my things so that I could be dropped in the capital of Zambia where my life changed like night and day for the best. Today I thank God for the abuse and rejection I had to go through while in Luanshya. Every person who abused and rejected me is innocent of all charges because the divine only used them to push me to my destiny. Hence, I love them all because without them I wouldn’t have been where I am today enjoying the best of my life.

In every circumstance, be still and know that there is a God who is ordering the steps of your life