In 1990, He fell seriously ill with symptoms of a killer – wasting disease that manifested itself through intense fever, inflammation, loss of all his hair, scaly skin, anemia, and dehydration.
Tucker Nsubuga Walugega of Christ Sanctuary International Church Uganda attended the best clinics with the best medical doctors in the country where all kinds of tests and treatments were done over a period of a year.
When doctors failed and sent him home to die, he was taken to various traditional healers/witches and wizards but all was in vain. He tried to take his own life on two different occasions because of the suffering he was going through.
“After my father passed away, there was a scramble for his property. My step-mothers went to the witches, cast spells against me because I was a beneficiary of my late father’s estate. That is when I begun falling sick.” Tucker Nsubuga said.
The gospel minister was speaking during an interview with CBN’s Tuning Point Program when he noted that all medication failed because it could not address a spiritual phenomenon.
“The more medication they gave me, the more it weakened my system. Doctors were sending me home to die. They literally told my mother; your son is going to die, prepare for his burial.” He said.
“I was ready to just die. I tried to take my life twice because I hated to live. It was so painful to live and see others alive and well, going about their business and I was busy just dying. I could hardly eat or drink. My contemporaries could no longer come to see me.” He said.
“I tried to go to witch doctors to get my life back. I paid them chickens, goats. I told my mother let us sell everything we’ve got because I was going to die. She did this in tiers. The more we took these things, they said they were appeasing spirits, paying for the sacrifice of my life. They said those that had bewitched me had used a lot of money, so i had to use double the amount of money they used to be able to redeem my self from the sacrifice they gave.” He stated.
Turning Point
The father of three says a year latter a high school student, a friend with a Gideon small pocket Bible introduced him to Jesus Christ, when all hope of healing and living was gone.
“That young man told me I didn’t have to die without Jesus. He told me there are two kinds of deaths; death with Jesus and one without Him. He told me the death with Jesus is deeper, because you know where you are going. But one without him is so agonizing, painful and so blunt. He didn’t even tell me you are going to be healed. He just told me a death with Jesus is a better death.” He said.
“He told me you do not have to pay for your healing,,. you just have to believe in Christ Jesus. And when you do, He is going to come into your heart and become your ever present help in times of trouble.” He said.
God delivered him from all the witchcraft, disease and pain gradually as he pressed into His word and exercised it in prayer each day. In Christ his new Lord and Savior, Tucker found a much better, incorruptible inheritance.
“Peace came upon me that I cannot describe with words. A huge weight over my life came off. The restlessness left me. I began to read the word of God. I took all the fetishes used at the witches to pastors who burnt them. My body became alive again all of a sadden body weight began to come back again.I started to look forward to hope, life and joy.” He said.
Today, God has graciously anointed Nsubuga with several gifts and a holistic ministry. He has ministered in several crusades, seminars and conferences in Uganda, South Africa, Lesotho, U.S.A, U.K, Germany and Canada.
As a church planter he has graciously planted six churches in Uganda; Christ Sanctuary Kireka, Christ Sanctuary Luweero and Christ Sanctuary Kiganda and Christ Sanctuary Gayaza.
On the 1st of July 2009 the National Executive committee (NEC) of the National fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches (NFBPC) in Uganda appointed Tucker as the Head Minister in charge of fostering Science, technology and the work Ethic among all the 23,000 churches under this organization.
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