Robert Kayanja is the founder and Senior Pastor of the Miracle Centre Cathedral in Kampala. He is Founder and CEO of a Christian television Channel 44 Television. Courtesy Photo.
In our personal lives, and on a global scale, we face various issues that challenge our faith in Christ. While some Christians are able to face them with confidence, others struggle to overcome them.
Pastor Robert Kayanja of Miracle Centre Cathedral – Rubaga, in Kampala says God is more than able to lift one up out of every terrible situation and challenge he/she may be faced with.
The Channel 44 Television CEO however, emphasizes that it is important that Christians do not despise those challenges, but approach them with resolve.
“Night seasons will always come, whether to a person’s individual life or to a nation,” he says.
According to Pastor Kayanja, everybody that God has ever called or promoted had to become a fighter or was involved in a conflict of some sort.
“I think the reason why Adam and Eve lost their first battle was because they underestimated the snake. Those who do not underestimate their adversaries stand a greater chance of being victorious over them,” he says.
“We are told of a battle involving nine kings in Genesis 14, in which Abraham’s nephew, Lot was taken captive along with the king of Sodom. When Abraham realized that his nephew had been captured along with the kings, he decided to arm his men and go to war to rescue the members of his family that were in captivity of the enemy,” Pr Kayanja says.
Genesis 14:14 [NKJV]
Now when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
Pastor Kayanja explains: “He [Abraham] did not go for negotiations, he went for war because he knew that whoever captures that many kings is out for nothing short of war. We also see the same with David; he never underestimated his enemy, Goliath, the Philistine giant
“Similarly, we cannot underestimate the challenges that face Africa today. The bondages that have held Africa over the years must be approached with the knowledge that as small as they may seem, they have plagued us for centuries,” he says.
