Is God and His inspired Word the ultimate authority that define your destiny? Pastot Bugembe challenges Christians to seek God’s approval and follow Him above man’s approval.
For a Christian to fulfill his or her divine purpose for life, Worship House lead Pastor Wilson Bugembe explains that there must be a shift in priority from desiring man’s approval to focusing on God and His Word.
Speaking during a recent Facebook live broadcast, Pastor Bugembe urged that positioning yourself to please men and not God, often frustrates or contradicts God’s plan for you.
He urged viewers to consider, for example, the miracle of finding the coin in the fish’s mouth (Matthew 17:24-27).
In the Gospel account, coming to Capernaum, a tax collector asked Simon Peter, “Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?” and Peter replied in the affirmative (verses 24-25).
When Peter returned to where they are staying, Jesus spoke of the matter, asking his opinion: “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?” Peter answered, “from others,” and Jesus replied: “Then the children are exempt. But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake (the Sea of Galilee) and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”
The Bible account ends with Peter catching the fish as Jesus predicted, and acquiring the four-drachma coin – exactly enough to pay the temple tax.
Pastor Bugembe stated that had Peter strongly considered the opinion of men over Jesus’ instructions to go to the lake, he might have acted otherwise.
In fulfilling a divine purpose, Bugembe explained that there are instructions that God gives that will make no sense at all to the carnally-minded person.
“The people you spend most of your time with will either build you up or feed your mind with negative thoughts contrary to God’s assignment for you,” Pastor Wilson Bugembe said.
“Negative people can cause a spiritual miscarriage. There is nothing that kills giants like negative neighbors,” he continued.
Bugembe stated that often times God will set those He calls away from crowds.
He quoted Genesis 12:1, NLT: “The LORD had said to Abram, ‘Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.”
In raising Tabitha from the dead (Acts 9:39-42), Pastor Bugembe urged that Peter was wise to lead the remorseful crowd out of the room to focus on what he believed he could accomplish through Christ.
Acts 9: 39-40:”…All the women whose husbands had died were standing around crying. They were showing the clothes Dorcas had made while she was with them. Peter made them all leave the room. Then he got down on his knees and prayed. He turned to her body and said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes and looked at Peter and sat up. “
“Turn your attention away from people, they are not as knowledgeable as the one who has called you.” Pr Bugembe said. “The covid-19 situation has given church leaders an opportunity to move away from distractions, and have a one on one with God.”
