A Letter to My Grandchildren: Chapter 1 The Evil that has Kept the Poor Locked down: Fear of Hell

“The Almighty God is the MASTER of all Creation who made a copy of Himself by creating a MASTERPIECE called MAN. Therefore, it will take the Master to RESTORE the Masterpiece"

Second on the list of evils that hold the poor lockdown is, The Fear of Hell: In talking about the subject of hell, I am fully aware that different religious groups have described Hell within the contexts on which their spiritual foundation is founded.  I do not intend to challenge these beliefs in any way in this letter but I would like to look at the subject of Hell with an open mind because I notice how people are more afraid to enter this place of supposed eternal torment than to live in perpetual poverty. Based on the teaching I have received through my Christian background, HELL is a place where sinners are destined to end up. A place of eternal torment of souls who disobeyed God’s law, to put it in simple terms. While Heaven is the promised kingdom or paradise of abundance where the 'elect' or faithful ones will spend their eternity with the creator. However, there is one catch to all this, one needs to die to go to heaven or hell as their final resting. The mere Biblical description of Hell as “a lake burning with fire and sulfur” has scared the wits out of religious followers to an extent that they spend their lives trying to figure out ways to avoid it than find their purpose in life.

Symbols, places, products, clothes, and many things have been identified that are presumed access to the evil that takes one straight to Hell. The poor have been convinced that wealth and excessive riches are devilish hence, not to be aspired for. Therefore, the pursuit of self-actualization that results ultimately in wealth creation has in most cases been avoided, as doing so is associated with towing with the devil. Now, wait a minute! I thought the Bible in the following verses and more actually puts the record straight that all good things come from God; Matthew 7:11, James 1:17, Psalm 103:5, Psalm 85:12 the list goes on. Ask yourself the question, has the devil created anything? And it is written somewhere in some evil script that the devil in the era of so and so created the bla bla bla… Here is the problem, whatever religious groups do not understand they label it evil, and add it to the ‘not-to-do list for a spiritual person. The implication of this has been that religious folks spend more time to learn ways of avoiding getting to hell than learning more about who they are in God's eyes in power, capacity and learn how to build themselves to manifest and innovate the good things that the creator has invested in the physical universe to His glory. What is the point in eulogizing poverty when you also want to have food? In doing so the poor have developed subconsciously self-destructive attitudes towards nice things and the people who own them. They hate anyone who is rich with the assumption that it is the rich that are taking everything away while leaving them with nothing. Believe me, there is more in this life to go around and nobody is taking anything away from anyone. Life teaches us all that whatever you are afraid of, you will attract in your life. Even the Great JOB of the Old Testament Bible learned that bitter lesson in Job 3:25. Therefore, religious people keep attracting the evil that they are so afraid of to an extent that they have put it on autoreplay in their everyday dangerous prayers of sending evil away. People learn to hate things of value without realizing that things of value will never show up in their lives because of hate. While the message of Heaven and Hell has been embraced as an essential pillar of religious teaching, it has, however, been framed in a cloud of a fear-based-gospel to enforce obedience to some spiritual laws which in most cases are embedded with human laws or the fear of the religious group leader, you never know!

What is the identity of the victim destined for Hell? Now I would wish for you to look further into identifying who would really go to Hell. This is my opinion and you don’t have to agree with it but I would wish that you look it with an open mind without any biases. Here we go;

Genesis 1: 26 reads "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." 

This is how I look at it “The Almighty God is the MASTER of the entire Creation who in Genesis 1:26 made a copy of Himself creating a MASTERPIECE called MAN to operate, govern and translate what the Master has accomplished in the spiritual realm into the physical earth. That is the reason God did not create chairs, cars, planes mobile phones name it but hid them in the physical universe that He created. of course, we know that the Masterpiece (man) was already built with the potential to bring out everything into the reality that 'the man' can think or imagine as we have witnessed in the 20th century. Therefore, this Masterpiece called man, a copy of God and connected to God but clothed with flesh is you and me regardless of whether we are operating at our full potential or not.  In accordance with the doctrine of Hell, therefore, if 'the man' is found wanted in relation to the law, man will be sent to Hell. Are you with me so far? But to go to Hell the man must die which is a process that essentially takes off the flesh from the man and transforms man back to his original spiritual identity which disconnects him from physical reality. When I consider all these factors, I am left with the question of who God is really sending to Hell if that was His ultimate objective in relation to wrongdoing? Himself, a copy of Himself, the man? WHO and I mean the real identity (refer to Gen 1:26)!

Does that mean there are no Dos and Don’ts in this life and everyone is free to act as they please? No! that’s not what I am saying. Experience has taught everyone an important lesson that to every action there are consequences attached, Good or Bad and we experience them in our lifetime. Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

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A Letter to My Grandchildren: Chapter 1 The Evil that has Kept the Poor Locked down

“The Almighty God is the MASTER of all Creation who made a copy of Himself creating a MASTERPIECE called MAN. Therefore, it will take the Master to RESTORE the Masterpiece"
(It's my prayer that this letter will one day turn into a book)

The aim of this letter written in the year 2020, is to reach out to the future generation and remind them that Ignorance is and has been the greatest killer of all time. Albert Camus a French philosopher, author, and journalist once wrote "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding". False doctrines have taken root in life and cults have even been formed around lies that ride on people's ignorance in the process, creating slaves, not disciples. It is my desire that none of the coming generations are ever deceived by selfish men and women through religious machinations. It would be interesting to you to learn that during my time I witnessed seasons when some people sold water as an anointed healing potion, yet when a deadly coronavirus showed up in the year 2020, non of that so-called anointed healing water or oil could even be used as hand sanitizer which was the recommended preventive measure. Looking back, I ask myself the question, did these so-called anointed potions suddenly lose their power in the face of the virus or it was just a scheme all along and we all chose to feign ignorance. The biggest team of losers or victims in the whole game of life as I experienced it, were the poor who remained poor yet so spiritual, faithfully waiting for the promised kingdom to come and take them out of the misery that life has continuously inflicted on them. I will attempt through this letter to share with you how to avoid what the poor consistently do ignorantly that keeps them in the only place they know better, poverty. In all this, I wish above all things that you choose to be hopeful and know that you are special human beings created in the image and likeness of the creator. Therefore, you are gods ready-made to create your own gardens of Eden effortlessly. I hope when you read in context, you will be able to comprehend the wisdom behind the words. 

To start with, we are all shaped by words and the meaning we give to what we hear. Our cultures and beliefs are all crafted in words. A man speaks in words yet thinks in pictures. Therefore, the pictures one forms in their mind out of words determine what unfolds before them or what they experience whether real or imagined. Proverbs 4:7 of the Christian Bible (Old Testament) records the following "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. The Bible in Hosea 4: 6 further declares "my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children" Therefore, my dear loved ones, I do not wish for any of you to be ignorant because it will destroy you and you will think life is unfair to you when it is actually you who is unfair to "life" by failing to show up to manifest for everyone's benefit what the creator has invested in you. Everything you become is not for you alone but for others to benefit from as well just like a mother's breast milk is not for her but for her baby. The creator designed it that way because just imagine what would happen if a mother's breast milk was for the mother! Wow! your guess is my guess. God is the observer while you and I are the main players on the pitch in this game of life. Do not in whatever way give in to the fear-based gospel that reminds you everyday of how hell is always near your doorstep and how you need to clean up the house in order to enter heaven. No! God is love and that's all He is all about "period". Anything else is man's own creation to subjugate others to obey "the man". Do not allow this fear to suck the life out of you because that is the most vulnerable place your ultimate defeat happens

My dear children, there is a fundamental truth recorded in the Bible that Christians do not want to think any deeper at what it actually entails regarding who man (i.e everyone living male or female) really is and it is explicitly recorded in the Genesis 1: 26 "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

Therefore, according to the foregoing Biblical verse, the man is God moving on the physical planet earth endowed with the capacity to multiply, dominate, and replenish the earth with what is required at any time. Look at it this way, God is the Master who made a copy of Himself and created a Masterpiece called Man to rule and govern the physical universe that he created with absolutely beautiful things in it. Therefore, if the man is living below the standards of God, impoverished and busted, it's not God's choice but man's choices usually arising from ignorance. If you have a perfect seed of maize and you want to harvest corn but you do not plant it in good soil, water it and provide the necessary soil conditions, don't blame the source of the seed for your inability to invest in knowing how to grow maize when the seed fails to germinate. Well, I know that in many of life's problems that people encounter, someone will confidently tell you that Jesus is the Answer! Ok, what's the question. How the name of Jesus is abused! There are problems in life that require logic and intelligence to solve. When one wants to eat they need to learn to cook food because the food will not cook itself by prayer.

Before I proceed with too many details, let me first take a moment to share with you what I consider as the evils that keep the poor who are in Church in perpetual poverty. This is important in order to provide context to everything else I would be addressing in my letter: [note: I use the word poor not in a demeaning way but to describe people who truly have the desire to have success but for some unique reasons seem to live below their potential]

Top on the List is Obsession with Fortune tellers and psychics (Prophet Syndrom): During my time it was and probably is in your time quite evident that the majority of poor people had or have no knowledge and understanding of the key principles of success. They strongly believe that what’s holding them back is spiritual and only fortune-tellers and Psychics can guide them on which path they should take, but it is unfortunate, that Fraudstares took advantage of the ignorance of the struggling poor to cash in at their expense by asking them to give sacrificial offerings for success to finally happen in their lives. Therefore, Fortune tellers, Psychics, and Magicians all joined the Church pulpit to teach the gospel, conduct their magic tricks, predict people's futures, and hope to bend it to their advantage as they called it. You should know that nobody will pray you to your success. nobody will tell you anything new about your future other than what God has already said about you. I witnessed during my time magic shows in the church in the guise of what was being referred to 'time of miracles' when the church members fell under hypnotic trances thinking it was anointing in the process screaming uncontrollably. Prophets will come and tell you about your past, your name may be, even tell your mobile number, so what? some will even predict pending deaths of people, so what? The fact that they can predict future events doesn't mean they can easily bring wealth into your life out of thin air.  To crown it all these scammers took on the new title of Prophets or was it Profits. Most Poor people fail to accept the fact that one’s future depends on the life choices one makes and if one wants a good prospect they need to make good choices otherwise all practicing Christians would have been Billionaires in reality (this is arising from the kinds of prophecies I used to hear being given to people). Christians replace thinking with prayer which should not be. Success is a system with principles that govern it. Success is born out of ideas, ideas which are a fruit of thinking. We are are all born with everything we need inbuilt in us. All men and women are born with children in them and that is the reason when they provide the required environment children get brought forth into existence fully formed effortlessly. In the same way, wealth is already inside every one of us waiting for the required environment in order to be brought forth into existence. While the future may be unknown and unpredictable, the future is by divine design replete with opportunities waiting for your calling. You can prepare for the future by the decisions you make today. Heaven has already done its work and you have been brought here. It's now your responsibility to use your divinity, Intelligence,  and logic to transform this earth for the good of all. Your eyes, hands, legs name it are with you and nobody else has them for you. hence, stop blaming others for your failure but look at others who have succeeded in life and ask them how they did it. Don't let prophets define you, whatever they say about you, isn't you. You are a masterpiece, self-contained with a divine body machine that grows, heals, and defends itself. You don't even need a charger in order to get by. Say enough of that hearsay nonsense that other people have spent their careers to fill you with.

The Fall from VIP (Very Important People) to VHI (Very High-Risk People)

“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.”~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

Hellen Keller, a poet and author once said, “The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” Yesterday it was fashionable to live in the big cosmopolitan cities of the world, travel across international lines by air and feel so important. People lived with the thought that living in affluent cities turned them into heroes who could overcome anything. The people living in small towns and villages were considered to be living in the diaspora of poverty, struggle, and weakness.

When news of city folks’ escapades in cities like Rome, New York, Paris, etc. even my own city Lusaka, it was always a Wow, factor to those in the imagined internal underprivileged Diasporas. In my country, because you live in the capital city and you happen to visit family and friends in smaller towns and villages, you are treated with VIP (Very Important Person) status. How lovely it feels to be bestowed with such unsolicited honor.

However, in recent times, how the tables seem to have turned by one little, tiny and invisible creature called CORVID 19 teaching us a big unsolicited lesson that all we thought we were was just an illusion. CORVID19 has just transformed people living in big cities with the perceived affluent lives, from being VIP (Very Important People) to VHI (Very High-Risk People). Living in the epicenter of the CORVID19 outbreak just canceled every human formula that categorizes populations into classes and renamed all with one title, which is not even pleasant. I hope we don't get to the point where city folks are barred from visiting villages or get chased from the villages because of suspicion of being CORVID 19 carriers. That will be tragic 

What is the lesson? Whatever you think you are is not important, but how you treat others. It's not how you met someone but how you leave them that is paramount. People will not remember what you gave them or not but how you made them feel in your presence. We are all humans with the same body biology, which entails that we will all decay the same way. You may be living in a big city, don’t insult those living in the remote village because as CORVID 19 has taught us, the village may just be the safest place while your big city might just be one big hospital requiring you to wash your hands every hour and wearing a face mask.

Life is fragile let us be one another’s keeper and continue helping each other at all times. Above all whether you live in a big city and have everything expensive to your name, you are just human and let being human be your value to others

You Scream, Yet Your Voice is not Loud Enough

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." ~ Steve Jobs

More often than not we are time and again trapped in the mediocre perception of ourselves as not being good enough. We tend to believe that anything we can do will always fall short of the required standard. The question then is, what is that standard which we are always falling short? We judge our own capacities by other people's opinions. It is amazing that you are the only one in this world and yet you are trying to beat a standard set by another person. Your only competition is you and not anybody else. Who has told the so-called standard setters that you are only the best when compared to another person. There is non-like you now, before and after you. You are the same yesterday, today and forever beautifully crafted in the creator's image. When you look in the mirror the only one you see is you. You may wear make-up but all you will still see is you. The only important issue is what you call the one you see in the mirror Great or Minion, it's your choice

You wake up every morning putting up every effort to smile, yet you are deeply morning in your heart because the world has convinced you that nothing better will ever come your way or out of you. You have believed such lies, hence, you have set out to gain society's approval. But you realize that the standard you are trying to meet does not fit your DNA and at the end of every effort, you are worse than you were before. Your inner voice has kept crying out for more of you and the God essence of being more than a conquerer invested in your soul, yet you do everything to silence that authentic voice just to follow other people's lies upon your life and destiny.

Look! enough of those lies and its time to wake up the champion in you. You carry diamonds within you, yet society's lies have made you think diamonds are somewhere else. You are the greener pastures the world has been waiting for yet you have spent a lifetime looking for greener pastures God knows where. You carry God, yet you are asked to look for and find God. In fact, you are a god. therefore, if you are looking for something you already possess, then you will never find it. This is the reason people move from one prophet to another for the sole purpose of finding God and themselves, who they already are. What a shame!

Its time to change the strategy and find you by you. Don't you think?

Resurrection from the Grave of Lies

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Literally Not much (Nothing)." -~Jim Rohn

In the three years of Jesus Christ's ministry on earth, I have not found any scripture in the Christian Bible that gives an account of Jesus starting an orphanage or vulnerable group establishment. This aspect of the Jesus story may help us to understand that He did not come to find the vulnerable groups to leave them vulnerable so as to make them a source of compassionate giving towards his ministry. Every person Jesus touched was transformed into a champion.

Just picture some of the highlights of the Bible; When a group of mourners meets Jesus on their way to the burial site, that was the end of the funeral procession because the dead met the resurrection power and had no time remaining dead. Even if Lazarus had been dead and buried four (4) days ago and Jesus showed up at his grave, the tomb had no choice but to gave up the dead and produced a live Lazarus. In the presence of Jesus, sickness and disease did not even need an announcement but left people's bodies noiseless. The bottom line is that Jesus did not give any form of tribulation the pleasure of being named such as the disease of the year to the extent of naming movements or events by the names of troubles such as Lazarus Ressurection day, Cancer day, Aids day, etc. Jesus was able to extend festivities without an additional budget for beer during one wedding celebration he attended. In fact, we could easily say that Jesus disrupted companies that preyed on people in that biblical time, the professional mourners' associations, funeral services, who could not continue as funerals prematurely got disrupted with unexpected resurrections

Contrary to the Jesus style, Today, we want to identify the orphans or widows and we want to ensure that they keep that title forever possibly engraved on their foreheads for easy identification. We have given diseases such honor that we dare anyone to forget their names. vulnerable groups have been hypnotized over and over with lies that a better life awaits them in heaven. crooked religious teachers have made it their life's goal to ensure that they thrive over the people's ignorance while extorting the poor of their hard-earned meagre incomes under the guise of giving to the Lord. How are the poor being helped when even the little they have is being taken away from them.

The mission of every man or woman is typified by Jesus' attitude. Don't leave your fellow man worse than you found them. Don't make your fellow man forever dependent on you as though it is the best thing you can do. You are not helping the poor by ensuring that they remain poor for your own benefit. But ensure always that you help the poor to find and wake up the champion in them.

A good leader is not the one with the most followers but the one who raises the most leaders. A good King is not the one with the most subjects but the one who raises the most Kings. Cherish every relationship that you create in the course of your life because every person that has crossed your path, is there for a purpose. Find that purpose and you will not miss out on life. Every good and kindness that you will give out there will always come back to you in a more amplified form for your good. Whoever you raise up out there, you will be raised even higher by the almighty. Just ensure you don't give out some really bad Sh**t to someone because you might just receive a load of the same back and amplified.

Today, Go out and do some good out there because that is who you are in the image of God.

Because I Don't Quit

"Darkness May Abound all around, but hidden in it is humanity's Light"

Taking inspiration from the words of a wise man who once said and I quote "Winners are the people who, when the odds are stacked against them and those around them have fallen, will have the courage to look within themselves and make the unbelievable believable, and the impossible possible"

It seems everything in this life starts with darkness. The Christian Bible gives an account in Genesis 1:2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. The Creator called light out of the darkness and we can safely say that everything God began to put in order, that he later called good was hidden in the darkness.

The world today is experiencing one of the waste cases of darkness, the kind that has left even the most powerful nations with nowhere to run and desolate trying to survive. The kind nobody could have anticipated in the guise of a deadly virus with a name that rhymes with the word Crown. The virus has broken through the shield of the world's most advanced technologies like child-play and almost bringing the world economy to a standstill.

Everyone now is asking the question of what happened and how could we not have seen this strain of virus coming. This may not be even the time to start trying to interpret the scenarios and after-effects of the corona devastation with subtle Sudo blame games. We should rise above blame games because no matter who we think is to blame, we still have to suffer the consequences. Therefore, its time to pool our energies together and do what we can do without worrying about the things that are beyond our control. This is no time for any so-called prophet to try and explain God or the devil's hand in this. It is time to do what humanity is supposed to do in times like this. We mourn our compatriots who have gone but we honor the departed with what and how we rise above the devastation and tragedy so that their death is not in vain.

When Darkness dawns on our doorsteps, it is time to look through it and find the light hidden in darkness that moves us even higher. Darkness never leaves until light dawns because the Light will always subdue the darkness. Our greatest triumphs in life are never devoid of hardships or tragedies. Let us take comfort in the fact that God will never allow circumstances beyond our ability to handle to subdue us. Everything we need, God already built it inside of us the ability to overcome and there is no problem that God has not already made a provision for. We should continue to pray for God's comfort but we should never neglect thinking because it is in the thinking process that our God-given hardware (the brain) and software (the mind), help our intellect to compute and deal with scientific problems like the one we have now. We may all not be scientists but we can pray and send positive vibrations that scientific solutions find their way to the Scientific minds for a remedy. Remember that God never created a Chair but He created a Tree and thinking pulled a chair out of a tree.

Let us not concentrate on the pain but let us take valuable lessons from this episode to carry through to our future. Humanity did not quit in the Face of past plagues and HIV/AIDS. Let us look to the strength that God has provided for within us and make the unbelievable believable and the impossible possible

We should not quit NOW because we don't QUIT   

The HEM, The HYMN and The HIM

When You are Hanging by a THREAD, Make sure it is the HEM of HIS Garment"~ TOBBY MCHEEHAN

The Christian Bible gives an account of a woman reported to have had an issue of blood for 12 years. the Bible records how this determined to be a healed woman fought her way through the crowd just to touch Jesus Christ for healing. She convinced herself that "If I Could Just Touch The Hem Of His Garment, I Know I Would Be Made Whole!" The account ends with her getting her desired healing after she touched the HEM of Jesus' garment.

This is a wonderful account of faith and determination working together to achieve the desired goal. When we breakdown the various components of this event, we see that there is someone (the woman) with a problem and there is someone (Jesus) with the solution, and there is a garment worn by the solution provider (with a HEM). The woman believed that Jesus held her healing and she did not have to touch, hug or kiss Jesus to get the result but just to touch a figment of him overflowing in His garment was going to be enough. This conversation that she had was her HYMN of victory as she already believed she was already healed. Therefore, she visualized the HIM who was God incarnate, the source of life and she connected to the overflow of healing through the HEM of HIS garment and pushed towards the presence of God to confirm the healing.

There are two ways you can look at this Biblical account; one (1) as an inspirational story of a woman healed after a 12-year stint with an ugly sickness. I have experienced this perception of the story in religious circles where songs or HYMNS have been created to eulogize the extraordinary healing episode. Well, it sounds religiously correct but Christians have been doing that for far too long. They have sung songs of how God made a way through the Red Sea for the children of Israel to pass and many countless miraculous Biblical events, but poverty still ranks high amongst the so-called faithful. We are missing something here!

The second way is to look at the account as holding an eternal principle hidden underneath; Remember that Jesus taught in parables so that the principle should transcend through time and be relevant to every generation. This Biblical event is also a parable that should be relevant today. The woman represents anybody looking for solutions or salvation in an area of their life where everything is bleeding away. This could be finances or relationships etc. The woman identified her own problem and recognized her solution provider and she needed to chart her path. Before she approached Jesus she had to believe that she is already healed. She did not have to stay still and wait, she had to push her way through every obstacle and negative reactions from others in her pursuit of healing. She was inspired by her own HYMN of victory. Your song will reveal your dominant mindset paradigms. put simply, your song defines your destiny. If you exhort poverty, poverty will abound in abundance and if your push hard to go to heaven where you believe there are no problems, do not be surprised if you end up there fast enough.

The woman sang a song of healing received while pushing forward through the maze of human obstacles to the source of life. It is not uncommon to hear songs of complaints or sorrows abounding in this life from religious circles to the extent of the faithful wanting to go and live with the Lord in heaven. Many people believe unconsciously that complaining about a problem is equivalent to doing something about it. You can talk about the crucifixion of Jesus but if you miss the principle, you cannot benefit from it. 

Its time to go beyond the HYMN to the HIM who holds your solution and start your journey to your real life. If you want wealth, learn the principles of wealth creation and management, and above all believe that it is possible for you to become wealthy. If you want to be married become a husband or wife in your mind and be ready to receive your partner otherwise you will be caught unaware without knowing what to do with your new partner. When you don't understand the purpose of anything, You will abuse it and lose it

Don't Be Afraid because no one gets out of life Alive