Gospel News — Jun-Aug 2012

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NEWS FROM BROTHERS & SISTERS

day of our life. Enjoy fellowship with Him. God is concerned about anything that concerns us, and the Bible says that God will perfect what concerns us. He is working in our life at all times, bringing us into His will more completely.

We should have fear of God, but don't be afraid of God in a wrong way. This means we should respect Him and know that He is all-powerful and means what He says. But we should never be afraid that God gets angry every time we fail to be perfect. God is merciful and slow to anger. He is longsuffering and He knows our frame and understands our weaknesses.

Most of us have many things in our life and personality that needs to be changed – and God will change them. But the good news is you can enjoy God and enjoy your life while He is doing it. The life we have right now may not be the one we want to end up with, but it is the only one we have at the present time. So we need to start enjoying it – find the good things in it. Learn to see the good in everything. Enjoy our family and friends. Don't pick them apart and stay busy trying to change them: pray for them and let God do the changing.

Enjoy your work, enjoy your home, and enjoy ordinary, everyday life. Keep your eyes on God, not on everything that is wrong with our life, your family and the world. God has a good plan for us and He is already starting to work it out. We can rejoice ahead of time, looking forward to the good things to come.

Most people live like they cannot enjoy life as long as they have any kind of problems, but that is wrong thinking. Don't dwell on the mistakes or regrets of the past. Continue to think about the great future you have through Jesus Christ.

I have learned to enjoy where I am, while I am in the way to where I am going, and I strongly urge you to do the same. There is much for God to do in our life, like babies must grow into adults, and Christians must also grow. It is a process that often takes longer than we want it to. We should admit our failures and ask for forgiveness for our

sins, being willing to learn from them. If we will do this, God will do the rest. You have stepped out into a new way of living, and I believe you will never be sorry. Enjoy God, enjoy yourself and enjoy the future life Jesus died to give you.

Thank you for this very important notice and news: I am so happy that at last we are going to have a full Bible, written according to God's word, not human doctrines. Yes, we are not re- writing the Bible but simply adding some pages of Bible Basics to help us understand it better. I shall be so glad if you will include me, plus my two students among those to receive copies of the NEV. Bible. My students have completed the 40-lesson course and are awaiting baptism. We stay very far away from town, so are in isolation.

CHIPINGE

We are growing maize in our field and we are looking at a good harvest: this does not mean all farmers will have the same harvest. This year we want to change our farming pattern, as we want to reintroduce piggery and expand our poultry production and backyard rabbits. We have also ventured into Cademia, at present we have 63 plants.

We are very much looking forward to the return of Christ, but we shouldn't forget our Scriptures which say, `The Lord is not slack concerning His promises, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance' (2 Pet.3:9). For me, the delay means we must prepare ourselves to make sure that we are fuelling our lamps to keep them burning. This can be done through initiating preaching programmes to reach other people outside our fellowship, as well as introducing programmes at an Ecclesial level which will encourage brethren and sisters to grow spiritually and maintain a high standard of doctrine and practice.

Sis. Evelyn, my wife, was very ill and she was said to have ulcers: she was given treatment. So