Robert Kayanja, the senior Pastor of Miracle Center Cathedral and CEO of Christian TV station Channel 44, reveals through his new book titled ‘The Holy Spirit’ that obedience to God’s instruction on Prayer has seen the Church thrive during the 77 Days of Glory.
Explaining his view and illustrating it with how they miraculously received provisions for the ‘Mass wedding’, the Preacher says asking for material things should not be our prayer point, rather, we should ask and center our attention on being filled with the Holy Spirit. This he says will inevitable attract those things that we did not specifically pray for.
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Why the Holy Spirit? We cannot become what God wants us to be or be effective witnesses of Jesus Christ without the Holy Spirit. We have seen this when He instructed us to tell the people not to ask for cars or houses or marriages or any other material thing but to ask to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
When we did, we inevitably ended up attracting these things that were never specifically asked for; God provided for mass weddings, people started receiving cars which they never asked for. A newly designed compound was speedily and supernaturally created, again, which had not been asked for, because He knows what we want and need.
That is why He teaches us how to pray. We cry out, “Abba, Father” because we don’t know how to pray. So when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, He teaches us how to pray and that prayer prayed with the groaning of the Holy Spirit, God answers it.
If we had prayed in our own understanding to be filled with the Holy Spirit, we perhaps would not have prayed for the bandits aka ‘Kifeesi Boys’ because our prayer would be a selfish prayer.
‘Punish them, they have stolen our laptops and beaten our people. Teach them a lesson they will never forget…’ could have been the sentiment of our prayer-without the Holy Spirit flavour. But because we prayed for the Holy Spirit, He drew them (Kifeesi) to the Lord.
We are supposed to lift Jesus up such that the Holy Spirit may draw men unto Him. That is the exact experience here in the 77 Days of Glory. The worship, the praise and the supernatural have been under the stewardship of the Holy Spirit. The Lord has cancelled out people’s debts miraculously because of the Holy Spirit.
Things we never asked for in the initial stages like professional television cameras, ICT equipment and many more were miraculously brought by the help of the Holy Spirit. We had also run out of office space before the 77D.O.Gs, so we needed offices for the handling and smooth-running of the ministry, and here comes the Lord, providing seventeen customized portable office units.
Extract from Pr Robert Kayanja’s new book, “The Holy Spirit”.
