GOD Over Money (Twenty25)

GOD first...

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both GOD and money. (Matthew 6:24)

HE IS WHO HE IS (GOD is self-sufficient; HE can exist without money)...

GOD does not need the offertory we give in Church, but HIS servants working there do...

Why are we slaves to money? Emancipate yourselves...

Money is limited; GOD is infinite...

GOD loves a cheerful giver, but does not manipulate people by pushing them to give under compulsion (2nd Corinthians 9:6-15); all HE requires is 10 percent of your increase. You are free to use the rest of your money the way you choose not lie about it like Ananias and Sapphira...

We have reduced GOD to mere bills yet HE created planets bigger than Earth... Money cannot be compared to even 1 percent of the Almighty GOD...

Why do pastors and prophets or their teams manipulatively put pricetags (eg 200,000 UGX minimum pledge, 900 Million drive) on what people should give to the LORD? GOD accepts jegejege [coins] if it is all someone has; it's HIS storehouse, not some man's business shrine nor empire...

GOD instructed the ravens to supply food to Elijah... (1st Kings 17:2-6)

The Galatian churches collected money on the first day of every week in keeping with each one's income, not a set price... (1st Corinthians 16:1-3)

A 500 Ugandan Shilling coin Sunday offering can multiply into 500,000 UGX (Half a million); that's a thousandfold by GOD's power...

Comparing GOD to money is a shortsighted oxymoron...

Choose between working for GOD or Money! Who is superior? Of course, GOD...

GOD over everything...

GOD heals, not money...

Money comes, money goes...

Love is mentioned more than money in songs...

JESUS is more than gold... (Judikay)

People think it is their jobs that get them money plus sustain them yet GOD gives us life and strength. Money cannot buy life, ask King Hezekiah...

When life throws you bitterness, make bittersweet juice like bitter lemon and sugar or tangawizi in mango juice; it doesn't cost a lot of money...

Animals and plants do not need money, but all their needs are supplied by GOD... They trust in GOD more than money... What happened to humans?

Either you love GOD or money?

Do not commit suicide because of money! Ask GOD...

GOD is the M.I.P. (Most Important Person)...

Prosperity Gospel reduced GOD to bills, fees and prices. Even if I do not have 400 Billion US Dollars, GOD is still greater than money...

How come the value of humans is based on how much money they have, not how much GOD they believe in?

Why commit suicide just because of a few Shillings or Afros?

Tell Robert Kiyosaki that there is no Rich Dad, Poor Dad! We all have one Very Very Very Rich DAD...

In Numbers 11, the Israelites complained that they had left good food in Egypt because GOD now fed them on manna alone. So in HIS anger, GOD sent quail birds to surround their camp a day's walk in every direction plus 90 centimetres high. They ate meat until they died because of meat...

My warped view of corruption is that citizens must maximise the stolen money eg if a public servant steals money and sets up a radio station, transportation business or hotel, then find a way to use those establishments, learn or/ and earn from them the best way you can...

Is your faith in GOD determined by how much money HE gives you?

GOD is not a respecter of wealth; an earthquake can flatten a skyscraper while a tree can smash a high-priced posh car during a storm...

GOD feeds all HIS creation; money has less to do with it unless humans choose it that way...

Prosperity preachers who love money make it seem like without money, GOD has no power... GOD's power is not manifested through money only; HE gives free gifts of the Holy Spirit...

Do not tell anyone that they are nothing nor spit on them just because they have little or no money...

Why can't we talk about GOD more than money?

Te mi dra a'dusi?

Broke today or now, but loaded tomorrow or the next hour...

GOD is more important than money...

Between GOD and money, what would you choose? Choose GOD coz money is earthly...

Money can't buy life...

Why kill yourself because of no money or unemployment?

During April 2025, the Richest Man on Earth was South Africa-born Canadian American Elon Musk who became the first human to reach a net worth of 400 Billion US Dollars. Isn't GOD worth more than that by far? HE created everything we see and can't see, for crying out loud...

GOD created planets bigger than Earth, so how can you put HIM on the same weighing scale as a few trillion bucks?

GOD is enough...

Money ain't a thing...

I've seen GOD get me through situations without me spending any money...

GOD is great, whether I cannot afford foodprices in Serena Hotel or spent less than 2 US Dollars per day...

If you're broke as a broke girl, I don't care... You ain't got to front for me... (Graff)

GOD's greatness is not measured by the private jets owned by prosperity preachers; HE created eagles, swifts, falcons, etc...

DEBT is the acronym for Doing Everything But Tithing... (Pastor John Hagee)

"I the LORD do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me and I will return to you," says the LORD Almighty. "But you ask: How are we to return? Will a mere mortal rob GOD? Yet you rob me. But you ask: How are we robbing you? In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse - your whole nation - because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of Heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruits before it is ripe," says the LORD Almighty. Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land," say the LORD Almighty. (Malachi 3:6-12)

Money ain't everything, my friend; GOD is...

What is depressing you; lack of money? Is GOD not enough?

Someone told me I market GOD with hype, but I feel am not doing enough...

When you're dead broke, GOD makes you feel rich...

After getting rejected from joining the Technical Drawing class in 2001 (Senior 5), I started looking at GOD in a different way with tears in my eyes...

More money, more problems. More GOD, less problems...

GOD is underhyped, less than how excessive HE should be. Most times, it's either money or talents that are hyped, but GOD gives them all...

Talking about money, homie, I ain't concerned... (50 Cent)

Tithes can be multiplied by 10 within a week (tenfold ROI - Return On Investment); othertimes, you get back exactly what you gave on the same day...

Money loses value through inflation...

Who needs money when you have GOD?

GOD is everyone's FATHER, but HE distributes HIS wealth differently; no equality! Some get two or five times more than others...

You reap what you sow: one mango seed grows into one mango tree that produces many mangoes...

JESUS answered, "It is written: Worship the LORD your GOD and serve only HIM!" (Luke 4:8)

Surrender every care to GOD...

GOD created the rocks and waterbodies we see now thousands and thousands of years ago, but paper money is recently printed by men and it gets torn...

Depression is a choice...

'Bu-a 'dale, sende yo [In Heaven there, no money]... (Trust In GOD)

I would rather tithe and lose than bet sports and lose...

Do not get jealous when GOD blesses somebody else with more wealth than you...

When you sow a maize seed in good soil, it multiplies. When you sow offertory in a good Church, it multiplies; the amount is the giver's choice, not the pastor. GOD only asks for 10 percent of everyone's increase...

Money is just a number on financial papers...

GOD can take very good care of you...

Poverty is just an opinion...

I put GOD over money... (Deonte Hall)

Rick Ross said: Being dead broke is the root of all evil, but when you have GOD, then you are not really broke; our FATHER in Heaven owns everything and distributes it differently to all HIS children...

GOD gives freely to unbelievers too because HE created them...

There is a misconception that Devil worshippers or people who visit witchdoctors are richer than those who believe in GOD and live holy lives; Abraham, Job, Solomon, etc were one of the Richest in their generations...

The Holy Spirit can help better than money...

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul?

The Devil got his musical talent from GOD; he's not the original Creator of his superstardom...

The Devil comes to steal your peace by making money seem like it is all you need, not GOD...

My cousin Brian told me that I act like I do not want money. No, I want a lot of it without stress, but I do not worship it. I do not want to be a slave to money, but its master. It's just a tool like a pair of pliers...

Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some fish. (John 21:6)

The Devil does not have his own money; he steals it from other people to bait and trap worshippers with...

GOD is forever rich...

I need GOD, not a job...

Why worry about money, yet GOD is more valuable?

Life is all about food and toilet; temutuletako akajanja! Worship GOD!

Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and all these things including money will be added unto you...

The Devil can take away all your money plus block the channels through which you get it to test your faith in GOD plus force you to turn to him...

In GOD we trust...

Even if I have no money, but have GOD, then am rich...

Follow JESUS, not money...

We lay our future in GOD's hands, not pension plans...

GOD is everything...

What do real Christians want? GOD, not money...

No money, no problem...

Free oxygen, free sunshine, free rainfall, free birdwatching; no money needed...

No one is poor; maybe broke, but not poor...

My UCU newsroom workmate Justin Emedot once said that people might start saying am a member of the Illuminati because of my Art skills; I was not born this way, but keep improving by learning from the Best with GOD's grace, not some candle rituals...

People call to ask me to register their names as members of the Illuminati. I usually ask them two questions: Where did you get my number and why do you want to join? They reply that they get my number from Google plus want to join to get money. So I assure them that GOD has more money than the Illuminati...

GOD provides. Temutukoya...

Aparaka ma tibi agobi. Whatever! How about vegetarians or flexitarians...

If you have a problem, then just look up (oneway) to Heaven...

Pray, work, rest...

They said am jobless, unimportant in society, uneducated, afazi dria yo [nothing in the hands], cursed (No future), poverty-striken, fake, deadbeat, young spiritually, small-minded, without favour, lousy, destitute (homeless), useless, daft, stupid plus a pauper, but GOD is everything and the most valuable, not money...

It is so sweet to trust in JESUS...

Worship GOD, not numbers!

Arua Tourism

Arua is a sweet, excellent (1st Class), peaceful and prudent Business Hub at the Heart of West Nile (Northwestern Uganda)...

The entire locality got its name from a medium-sized rock elevation directly south of the main Avenue Road. The name "Arua" translated from Lugbara means "Small prison" (Others say "In Prison"); Belgian colonialists built a transit point (for the bigger prison in Aru, DR Congo) near a ridge originally named Ojiodri, buried inmates in Barifa Forest on the East of the hill plus fought many battles near there...

Arua Hill has a superfly, 12-star, 360-degree panoramic view of Lugbaraland from Ayivu to DR Congo, Maracha, Terego, Vurra and beyond... With a pair of binoculars, you can see so much more...

The Lugbara Kari Palace used to be near Arua Hill, but was moved to Giligili in the West and later used by the Ugandan Army... The name Arua stands for Peace and Prudence. The Lugbara Tribe is a patriarchal Chiefdom led by a rotationally-elected Agofe (Paramount Chief of all clans, that is Ayivu, Maracha, Terego and Vurra). Nevertheless, JESUS is King in Arua...

Urban Tourism in Arua can entail visiting the Central Business District. Adumi Road (before Smash Roundabout which takes you to Onduparaka) has some of the Tallest Buildings in Arua City; 'ba da sende tawuni-a tipasi [money was poured in town using a tipper]... Nevertheless, the Tallest Skyliner (one of many above 7 floors) during Twenty25 is found near Osu Village...

Hotels: Desert Breeze with swimming pool, Dreamland in Kuluva, Prince Palace, Hotel Arua, Golden Courts, Le Tsuba, Slumberland, the exquisite Harriton Hotel on Avenue Road, Tropical Suites, Crane Resort, Heritage Courts and Park, Santa Maria, head-turning Arua Hill Hotel, Pacific (Oldest in the City), etc...

Oluko Falls is a series of waterfalls in Oluko Suburb - East of Arua Hill and Barifa Forest on River Asa; the Most Visited Attractions include Abairo Falls owned by John Acile (at the end of Waterfalls Road, directly below Arise Center overlooking a steep mini-rift valley) and Oloporoporo Falls bought by an American named Mike Elkins. During the dry season (December to February), Abairo becomes a thinner horsetail waterfall with a punchbowl swimming pool at the bottom, but when the rainfall starts between March and November, the gushing increases and swimming in the pool is not recommended unless safe. Parties, picnics and recreational tours keep this hidden place quite active...

Neighbourhood (West Nile, Uganda): Miriadua Falls, Alikua Pyramid, 1991 Ojapi Air Raid Woodland Peony... Lodonga Basilica... Mt. Wati, Onayi, Olewa Falls on River Enyau... Agoi Falls, Vurra Customs, Ezuku Forest Reserve... Ajai Wildlife Game Reserve, Rhino Camp, Laropi Ferry Crossing to Adjumani... Mt. Liru, Salia Musala... Nyagak Hydropower Dam, Biku Smallest Church on Earth in Nebbi... Pakwach Bridge, Albert Nile, Wadelai, Owiny Solar Eclipse Monument, Gipiri and Labongo Separation Site... Murchison Falls (Kabalega) National Park, Budongo Forest, Paraa, Lake Albert...

Origin of Arua (Name)

Ayivu locals around Arua Hill before the Whitemen came used to call it Ojiodri. The ancient name was given (before the current one) because of the caves situated on the eastern foot of the hill (as you head towards Barifa Playground and cut right inwards or precisely where Dr. Amandua built his house or Access Arua City FM started before moving northwest of the hill and replaced by a kindergarten).

The 1884 -1885 Berlin Conference about the Partition of Africa saw the continent divided among European powers. The King of Belgium (King Leopold II) fought very hard, through the renowned explorer Henry Morton Stanley, to have Congo as his personal property. He was granted his wish and West Nile became part of Congo Free States (Les États Liberté Du Congo). Around 1895 to 1900, he sent his representatives to oversee the collection of taxes, gathering ivory, cowrie shells, skins and hides of wild game in West Nile. The representatives earmarked some places for ease of their work namely Alikua (which they named Mount of Wati Village [Village de montagne de Wati]) in the present day East Maracha, Wadela(y)i in Lower Alurland, Dufile (corruption of Odrukpele [Place of many buffaloes]) and Kajo-Keji in Ma'diland, Goli in Upper Alurland plus Ojiodri (now Arua Hill). It was in Alikua that they found a local Paramount Chief called Kamure whom they appointed to help in overseeing their work. Kamure's influence extended as far as western Ayivu. He was made the most paramount of all the traditional Lugbara chiefs of Lugbaraland. In Alikua, they built a small pyramid-like structure; no one has understood the purpose why it was built though some report that two Belgians were buried there. In some of the above mentioned places, the Belgians built or fixed some instruments to monitor the weather. It was also on Ojiodri (present-day Arua Hill) that they built a house to put their instruments for monitoring the weather and radio messages (Radio Call frequency was already in use for a few years since an Italian called Marconi had discovered it). On the western side of Ojiodri (where Arua Hill Primary School is situated), the Belgians had some houses for residing and also to lock-up offenders brought from the other parts of West Nile (mostly the north). These offenders would be locked up for a few hours or days as they awaited orders to take them to the bigger prison cells in the interior Congo to work on the rubber, coffee or cocoa plantations. The Lugbara mistook the building on top of the hill to be a prison cell. Gradually, they started referring to the building on top of the hill as a prison cell. Hence Aru-a [In the prison cell]. They actually never saw anybody being taken there but believed that it would happen at night.

What was happening at Ojiodri was the opposite of what was taking place at Aru in Congo where they built a bigger prison nicknamed Mokili ya Nguma in KiBangala meaning The Crocodile's Territory. Many people arrested from West Nile ended up being locked up in Arua for a few days to months. Prisoners were not kept for long periods because the Belgians didn't want to incur a lot of expenses in feeding. Because of the brutality of these Belgians, some people lost their lives and others became incapacitated. The hill was put under constant guard; no local would climb it as they used to do before. The young Ayivu girls and women who went up in the evenings to grind millet and sorghum flour on the rocks were banished. The Belgians brought in strange armed guards whom the Lugbara generally called Tukutuku from the interior of Congo to guard the hill and some of their strategic places in West Nile. A local Ayivu man called Tawua (blacksmith by trade who had his workplace where Springs Kindergarten is situated these days) was put under constant watchful eyes and later evicted. They suspected him to be making spears and arrows for an imminent attack. Indeed, it was now "prison everywhere" as the local Ayivu used to say, "Joá mini ne vaa 'da ma amveri co esele aleni be ku [The outside of that small house you see below is not different from its interior]..."

Towards the end of the 1890s and early 1900s, there were Belgian outposts in Alikua, Wadelai, Nimule, Kajo-Keji, Dufile and a smaller one at Goli to effect their administration. On Arua Hill was a small meteorological station and the bigger one was at Wadelai, Kajo-Keji, etc. There was a bigger prison at Aru in Congo which of late has been standing at the roundabout/ junction of Route Aba & Ovisoni route. The prison at the western foothill of Arua Hill was a transit camp used for keeping prisoners for a few days or hours as they awaited their transfer to Congo and infact the biggest prison of all was at Djugu in the Lendu territory in Congo. To this day, it still stands on the eastern part of Djugu Town near the Bypass as you head towards Bunia from the Mahagi - Ngote route. These prisoners taken from Ma'di/ Alur (now Uganda) were moved to do hard labour on the coffee, cocoa & cotton plantations for a few months and released because the Belgians didn't want to incur expenses in feeding a large number of prisoners. Their offenses ranged from failure to pay taxes in form of cowrie shells, fights to hunting the wild game, adultery, etc. On 17th December 1909, King Leopold II of Belgium died and according to the agreement between the British and Belgians during the Partition of Africa in 1884, the eastern part of the Lado Enclave marked by a watershed (the current borderline between West Nile and DR Congo) should revert to the British rule four years after his death. The years 1911 to early 1914 was a period when this eastern area was put temporarily under the Anglo-Sudan Protectorate. A currency (Pound) was introduced and cowrie shells disbanded. This was a period of confusion as there were no direct administrators because Khartoum in Sudan was far away. 

Mount Rushmore sculpture in America depicting the (pre-World War 1) Republican Theodore Roosevelt's face (The World War 2 Franklin D. Roosevelt was a Democrat)…

Many Whites (including the 26th US President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt who died in 1919) came to hunt wild animals in Arua. Roosevelt camped at the western shores of River Nile with his team and they named that place Rhino Camp because they found many rhinos there. They were particularly impressed when they saw some white rhinos near Wadelai. After King Leopold of Belgium died, Lado became like an Elephants Graveyard as hunters trekked there for sport. In April 1914, the British took control of West Nile and raised their flag (Union Jack) on the western side of Arua Hill near the small Belgian prison. They disbanded the Pound and use of cowrie shells, but introduced the Rupee (what the Lugbara used to call Robia). The first District Commissioner was called Mr. Arthur Evelyn Weatherhead and there is a road in his name (Weatherhead Lane) which runs from the current Post Office (near the former Court Hall) along the north end of the Golf Course to Anyafi(y)o Senior Quarters (formerly European Quarters) and ends at the Arua Hill Roundabout. The first DC's offices continued to be at Arua Hill up to 1919 when they built new offices at Giligili which was later turned into a prison facility in the 1930s after building the current offices of the (R)DC...

Arua stands for "Small prison", medium-sized hill, but big aura...

Radio in Arua

On Saturday 12th July 2025, I confirmed for the second time in a month (First time I didn't believe) that NBS TV has an affiliate called Next Radio Arua. After googling the frequency before midnight, I tuned in manually because the scan could not pick it in Arua Hill Division; all I heard was like a test because music played nonstop (especially Bongo). I wondered why most radio stations are secular; even Roman Catholic stations like Pacis play worldly music. Others are predominantly secular, but cue in Gospel songs sometimes eg Capital FM from Kampala which I knew for playing devilish music. I grew up thinking love songs can pass as long as they are not too lustful, violent nor promiscuous, but what is wrong with listening to only worship music? Music was created in Heaven for the worship of GOD, but we have given it many different, distracting purposes including glorifying ourselves, the partners we covet and property we own. Imagine only Gospel music played on radio, Arua would be more peaceful and blessed! Music attracts spirits and repels them too: Do you think alcoholics, fornicators (adulterers), thieves plus other sinners cannot be deterred by Gospel? It changes the environment and casts out demons like exorcism technology; I hope Artificial Intelligence helps us worship GOD better too. Out of about 16 FM stations on air, at least two to four are exclusively Gospel-oriented (Voice Of Life Arua [VOLA] and a Congolese station plus others).

Lessons from Outside Arua

Tom Brady: Let the negatives people speak bounce off the walls.../ Work harder.../ Let's go...

Lionel Messi: Stumble, get up and try again.../ You cannot win all the time.../ Use your instincts...

Michael Jordan: Don't break when you are broken.../ Train hard like it is the actual game...

Stephen Curry: Practise fundamentals...

M7: Otita...

(CC) Angu Neza [Sightseeing]

Nelson Samboko Quotes

I'm from Kenya... I gave my life to Christ in 2000... Everything was going on well with me... From there, I backslid... I went to College, was trained as a teacher and went to the Eastern part of Zambia... While working there as a teacher, I had to resign... I went into business... This is where my story starts...

I discovered that in business, you should have a backing of either the Kingdom of GOD or the Devil... You don't just go in without anything... Business was failing; the few months, everything was okay, then everything just collapsed... I was introduced into diabolical things (by fellow businessmen)... As I started looking for help, I opened my spiritual life to the enemy. This is how I gave him a chance. I met this Nigerian man, desperately explained my situation... He told me I need a money ritual...

I bought seven Ghana-must-go bags, small pot, mirror and seven eggs. In each bag, I was instructed to put a 100 Kwacha note; highest Zambian Kwacha note. I had to set up an altar in my bedroom; no one was supposed to enter. That was the first time I encountered the spirit world... This ritual was supposed to last for seven days... There was even a ring I was instructed to buy plus a red cloth almost two metres... The ritual involved him because he understood the language and everything of the spirit; he recited the incantations... We did the first, second, third day; there was nothing that I saw. But, on the fourth day, I started noticing a change: I started seeing and hearing the presence of spirits in the room. I could hear people talking that I cannot see... We had agreed that if I got the money, we would fly to Nigeria with the man so that he presents me to the shrine. On the 6th day, only a few hours before midnight (the spiritual hour when the spiritual realm becomes active), GOD came in... HE just completely turned me off. Upto today, I cannot explain what happened; I slept... They tried to wake me up (shaking me, doing whatever), I couldn't wake up, not until 6am in the morning... The man was furious: Why did you do that? Even him, he couldn't understand... We started quarrelling... I had to abort that mission...

I went to Dedza, Malawi... An old fetish man could make money appear. I started another ritual in Malawi. The fear in me was never there because I was now used to these things... When I came back from Malawi, I knew I would have issues with Immigration because I had overstayed in a foreign land (for over 30 days). So I needed someone from Malawi to talk for me. The Devil at this point had already started connecting things. The man I sat with in the vehicle talked to Immigration; that's how we crossed. When we crossed to the Zambian side, this man started telling me my life: Where I was coming from, looking for money, in Malawi at such a place, my name, date of birth. Just there, a mind came into me. The Bible says: Words are a spirit... It came strong to me: saying: Why don't I use this in Church? I'm going back to Church with style, with this art of demonic prophecy... That was the time prophecy was at peak...

I went on the internet, started searching for dark sites and came across a man from Colombia (founder of the Church of Satan in Colombia); he was sending me incantations... This man had formed a WhatsApp group; I was the only African. There came a man called Martin who saw what was in me and later introduced me to another man from Costa Rica called Diego; he calls himself the incarnate of the Devil... A master of the art... Diego took me into deeper rituals... They introduce different candles and their colour codes... Four elements of the earth: Light, fire, air, water... I paid nothing... 

You must align with a spirit, deity or entity to give you access to the spiritual realm... When doing incantations, you are summoning the entity you are connected to...

I started gathering pastors; they would be amazed by my knowledge... I would send my thoughts into someone... When a pastor came to me, I would send the pastor to the grave, make the pastor lie on top of a tomb. I'm now initiating the pastor because most of these tongues you hear in Church are demonic tongues... We go to the river with a pastor, then a serpent would appear in the water... We would cut just a small cutting on the finger; the blood has to drop into the water... The more you sit under this pastor, you are being initiated...

There is nothing the Devil can do to someone who is genuinely standing with GOD...

A fake pastor uses actors, but a false prophet uses spirits... I spent years studying the darkest Luciferian secrets to become the witchdoctor that empowered prophets and pastors...

Most of these sicknesses are spirits...

Santa Muerte is a spirit of healing...

He who breaks the hedge, the serpent will bite...

Restoration is a process...

The Devil will close all money sources so that you come back to him...

A Catholic priest has permission to summon the Devil at will...

Osapican is the art of bringing out things. I would command things to appear in someone's stomach... (As told to Ezekiel Azonwu)

A new believer in JESUS is more powerful than a grandmaster warlock...

When things are wrong, don't run to people! Go on your knees and call on the CREATOR of the universe... The solution is in JESUS...