Denominational Religion divides us unnecessarily: Worship GOD and believe JESUS is the Way to HIM! I was born Anglican (an inheritance from my parents and grandparents) but one Bornagain preacher warns that pulpits in the church have an Illuminati watcher (Eagle carving or image); I think I noticed one while in Jinja plus St. Stephen Church of Uganda Luzira also has it. England and Germany broke away from The Vatican in Rome, Italy to form the Protestant Movement. I only went to Church because my parents forced me (my dad would pull me on the ground from the murram football ground to bathe and prepare for Church), but wanted to play football when I grew up plus practise magic like illusionists; thought it was legit yet came from the Devil. Moses did wondrous things using power from Heaven while Egyptian wisemen used other powers; I believed in GOD above because people talked about HIM, but didn't know the Devil was called Lucifer (The Most Beautiful Angel created by YEHOVA) until after 1995. JESUS, to me, was just a fatherless dude who performed miracles but got crucified by Romans, then resurrected and went to Heaven (Courtesy of the 1979 JESUS film plus comics). I didn't know much about Apostle Paul except that he wrote many letters; his conversion didn't feature much in the children's books I read. Revelation was too much to handle: Four-faced Living Creatures, beasts, scorpion locusts and a dragon which seemed like fantasy stories. Elizabeth, the Queen of England who used to be the head of the Anglican Communion was accused by conspiracy theorists to have been involved in some secret societies that sacrifice babies. Whether true or false, only GOD knows. The first Black Anglican woman-bishop in UK named Rose Hudson-Wilkin was asked by Stephen Sachar on BBC HARDtalk during Twenty23 if homosexuality is a sin and she replied bluntly: No! Like seriously, which Bible does she read or the Devil has successfully clouded people's minds? GOD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of homosexuality and it is demonised in the New Testament as "unnatural" desire. Evil is not righteousness, repentance is better than sugarcoating it. Stanley Ntagali (former Archbishop of CoU) confessed to committing adultery with a married woman; they even had a child. Only GOD can judge them, but sin is sin. Noone is holy anyway, we all need JESUS no matter which religion. Paul says men shouldn't cover their head while prophesying but bishops do while women shouldn't talk in Church, but how about read the Bible aloud or sing hymns to their Maker? Who introduced competition in offertory? Tithe is not about amount paid, but percentage. There are too many question marks. Some Anglicans desert the Church of Uganda apparently because the music is slower and less volatile than in Bornagain churches but it's still divinely inspired; I've felt Heaven before singing those ancient hymns. Every Sunday, we recite the Apostles Creed copied from the Forbidden Books (or Apocrypha) but do not read the books of Enoch nor other lost books which comprehensively expound on the Bible stories we know plus add more...
(Roman) Catholics genuflect before manmade statues of JESUS and Mary; their Bibles removed the 2nd Commandment which says: Do not bow down to graven images! They also have seven more forbidden Apocrypha books than Protestants with 66 books who rejected them because Jews never quoted them eg Bel and the Dragon is a continuation of Daniel. Nevertheless, their generosity and community activity is very noble; I loved the Comboni Mission in Jinja because of Pontious Anguyo. My Best Friend in Jinja was a Catholic and I went to a Catholic school in O-Level because I hoped to meet him again but he moved to Oceania; found me on Facebook 13 years later. After one full year in a Catholic school, I realised that what the Bible says is different from what I saw: I felt uncomfortable asking Mary or dead saints to "pray for us". Dead people know nothing happening on Earth just like Lazarus in Abraham's bosom and the rich man in Hell. Therefore, I embarked on personal research in the Good News Bible instead of waiting for selected Sunday Mass service readings. By Senior 3 after asking GOD to wake me up in time on becoming Timekeeper, I began recording my dreamvisions because they seemed like movies of things that had not yet happened. GOD speaks through dreams. Catholic Catechism teaches that members gather on Sundays because it is the Day of Christ's Resurrection; the Early Church used to collect gifts on Sunday. Sunday worship was started by Roman emperor Constantine in honour of the Sun god. Protestants followed that tradition though broke away from the Vatican Church like 1st Corinthians 11:17-34. Catholic leaders who vow to remain celibate forever do not support contraceptives though some use them; others have been accused of sodomy. Refusing marriage is a huge sacrifice as you battle nature but for GOD's service, it's a noble choice...
Seventh Day Adventists gather on Saturdays for prayer. It's the Jewish day of worship in the Bible too though some teachings claim the Sabbath should be determined by the phases of the moon and falls on any day including some Tuesdays, Wednesdays, etc. The Branch Davidian Waco (Texas) Doomsday cult worshipped on Saturdays and had strict rules against movies, dancing, cosmetics, etc...
Orthodox Christians especially in USSR (Greater Russia) and Ethiopia have over 81 Bible books (including the Forbidden Lost ones which tell unbelievable stories like a lion asked Paul to baptise it, etc). They also celebrate Christmas on my birthday (7th January) making it the 12th day of the JESUS Festival for me. Genesis 5:24 tells us that Enoch walked faithfully with GOD; then he was no more, because GOD took him away. But why are his three books rejected from the Bible by other Christians? Even Jude 1:14-15 quotes 1st Enoch 1:9 clearly. Enoch graphically explains the Nephilim giants introduced briefly in Genesis 6...
JEHOVAH's Witnesses publish Awake and Watchtower magazines that socialised me about Christianity in my pre-teens but claim Hell does not exist. To them, JESUS was crucified on a pole, not a cross. I did not attend any of their sessions until after campus (thanks to Walter Geria) but the music is heavenly. I may question some doctrines, but have less problems with the singing. The Kafeero Family who were neighbours to my parents in Kyebando Kisalosalo used to share magazines with us...
Most Muslims do not believe that JESUS was crucified nor died (similar to the Apocrypha Gospel of Peter plus Basilides) yet the Koran shows HIM talking about the day HE would die and be raised up to life (19:33 [Mary]) plus was taken up by GOD to a high place; mainly Ahmadiya Muslims accept that the Son of Mary died. Women cover their booty honourably without feeling enslaved which is one of the things I admired about Islam. Men are allowed to marry two, three or four wives, that is if they can treat all justly which is not very easy nor feasible. I admire the way Muslims bow down in worship and pray; their short daily prayer sounds like the Arabic version of the LORD's Prayer (said 17 times in five different intervals). I became Muslim on Sunday 1st October 2002 and went to the mosque a few times but couldn't continue with the frequent wudu (washing ritual). Muslims gather on Fridays and are also waiting for JESUS to return. Muslim humour: Can GOD die? No! Did JESUS die? No! So, is JESUS GOD? No! Heehee...
Pentecostal or Bornagain (Savedee) Churches are accused of preaching a grace message like cults or a Church mafia (that uses prophetic witchcraft) eg Augustine Yiga, Apostle Grace Lubega who broke away from a Holy Spirit-filled Church to start Phaneroo, Prophet Elvis Mbonye, etc (Once saved, always saved!) This frees some congregants to sin as they feel; promiscuity is rife like it's communion, though unholy. Women including married ones go to Church half-naked like Devil-worshippers or face-painter Jezebel (with boobs and thighs exposed) forgetting that their bodies are the temple of GOD not fetish for horny men or potential husbands. The rock-concert-style music touches the soul though, more than disco and slow traditional hymns. Prosperity preachers or pastors and prophets like Alph Lukau in South Africa attract many followers. They are like motivational speakers. What do people want? Good health and wealth (success, jobs, money, assets, marriage, children, etc); that's it. Bornagains support the idea that JESUS is GOD using Bible references, but my conviction as a kid was that JESUS prayed to YHWH and HE spoke back, which meant there was SOMEONE else upstairs. Even the statement "GOD is three-in-one" sounded idolatrous to me but I tagged along though no one knows when JESUS will return except the FATHER. JESUS may be the exact image of GOD, but I prefer to believe GOD's hair is whiter...
Mormons or the Church of JESUS Christ for Latter Day Saints have their own Bible set in America where whipping sinners is allowed. Dead people are believed to communicate as spirits with their loved ones still on Earth which is close to necromancy...
Bahai Temple accommodates various religions, it's like a melting pot for everybody but some of the spirits I felt there were quite unsettling. I used to chill a lot in their gardens; the first time I entered the hollow temple, I almost fainted from the magnitude of the dome which seems like Persian architecture; a spirit literally passed through me. Women who smoke emindi and men from Saturday nightclubs go to Bahai too for prayers and a director standing behind me one day mysteriously told me not to kill a long black snake I sensed under the leaves beneath my hanging feet. He disclosed that he talks to it; I threw the thin stick my spirit had led me to use to check the leaves and walked back home immediately. The Ugandan Army uses that hill too to keep watch. I loved the conference hall meetings near their offices, library and gravesite on Sundays. One weekday, I was served food while revising their main book after a dream where someone gave me food...
African traditional societies had their own beliefs before Christianity and Islam arrived. In Lugbara religion, the Creator is called ADRO but has a good and bad part. Some Lugbara clans worship other gods like Rembeyi in Terego. Others make stone altars under the ero [food granary] where they sacrifice animal blood and parts to ancestral spirits, literally demons. There is witchcraft in the Lugbara heart and it's called Ole. Black religions have been written off as animist but when I read Leviticus, it feels like Hebrew rituals. What knocks me off in local beliefs is the blood part, but the cultures never stop even with the knowledge about JESUS sacrificing HIMSELF for all of us...
Judaisers still sacrifice animals as they wait for their Messiah. They can be found in Africa too. For me, the death of JESUS is Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement like Leviticus 16) because the veil or curtain of the Temple was torn (Matthew 27:51). Judaism and Christianity are divided by the rejection versus acceptance of JESUS as the Promised Prophet...
Rastafarians believe Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie is the Lion of the tribe of Judah and features a lot in reggae iconography; the book Kebra Nagast shows the link between King Solomon and Queen Sheba who had a son together called Menelik...
Oriental religions like Taoism, Buddhism, to mention only two, follow honourable values and truths like forgiveness, charity, meditation, etc. Some books claim that before JESUS started his ministry at 30 years, he lived in Tibet, China and learnt some of their spirituality. I once saw a vision of a young, chubby JESUS wearing a golden-blackish Chinese hat with the power to shrink into a plant. Whether he did it or not when attacked by religious people, only GOD can reveal the secret...
Hinduism has multiple gods. You find Indian shops in Arua with a small wall-hanged box where there is a statue that is honoured. It cannot talk nor move but is considered mighty. Even the people who venerate the idols are bigger plus more resourceful than their handmade gods. Funny how those small gods can be destroyed by fire or an earthquake...
Astrologers like the 3 Wise Men from the East who brought gifts to Baby JESUS study the stars and Zodiac to foretell the future but it's a forbidden activity...
Baptist Christianity is Western or American, I guess. They construct distinct churchitecture like Mormons who also originate from America. Baptist Mission has a presence in the Pearl of Africa, even as far as Arua (Northwestern UG)...
Universal Church of the Kingdom of GOD (UCKG) from Brazil seems pretty okay (JESUS Christ is the Lord!) but some members complain about the Campaign of Israel whereby instead of 10 percent, the congregation is told to offer 100 percent of their earnings on the altar...
Future Enemies are fake pastors and fake churches...
Search for the one true GOD through JESUS, the only Way; no other! Things that make me believe in GOD include: Tithe multiplication (gave 500 UGX which was all I had left and put the coin into an Anglican offertory bag as directed by a Sunday sunrise dream in Twenty18 and got 500,000 UGX two days later in a brown Arua Public Secondary School envelope); angels; miracles; sin punishments (knocks for wicked thoughts, random cuts for masturbation plus broken bones for theft); every face looks different; healing; plants growing; new births whether calf or human baby; free food; rainfall; deliverance from Evil or dangers like snakes; sunshine everyday; prophetic dreams eg who might call and what they might say, text or visit; seeing vivid dreams after heavy emotions (like anger, hatred or lust) in the heart; planets; saw the Devil walking barefoot on Buganda Road (in Kampala); etc...
The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch (Acts 11:26). People give up serving GOD because of the "faults of the denominations" but we are all sinners...
JESUS died for everybody: Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Taoists, Pagans, Satanists, etc...
JEGE JEGE FESTIVAL (NYEGE NYEGE FOR JESUS)
GOD forms, Satan deforms, but JESUS reforms. I do not know anyone who doesn't like music; even Muslims have their matali. Preferences in genre may vary like kadongo kamu and others, however it's all music. Sometimes, you might watch a muvi and wonder if the creators were spying on your life plus used it as a reference. Music mirrors life, but can't certain things be relegated and GOD lifted higher than them? In Paradise after Judgement Day, the music there will only worship and praise GOD. Lucifer was in charge of worship music in Heaven because he needed no backup nor instruments, but fell with his prowess intact; as a newly Saved believer, I used to wonder if Hillsong Church Australia's Darlene Zschech could replace him as the worship leader because of her soulmoving songs. Every believer should sing because GOD gave us voices even if we cannot play certain instruments. Nevertheless, I guess the other angels can also sing very well just like the ones announcing the birth of JESUS to shepherds (Luke 2:13-14). Secular music is any sound that does not glorify GOD, but magnifies worldly experiences like love, romance, sex, money, wealth, success, happiness, show business, cheating and so on. A lot of secular music is fairly clean, but vulgarity (using words like: F*ck, "private parts", sh*t, etc), violence, pride, dirty lyrics and blasphemy are what contaminate certain songs; they need editing. Anyone who says, "You fool!" will be in danger of the fire of Hell (Matthew 5:22).
The Holy Bible book Song of Songs is my biggest reason for cherishing love songs. Besides, marriage or matrimony is holy and music celebrates it. Some artistes actually sing about JESUS plus relationships eg Dionne Warwick. One morning, I sat on my bed listening to a new radio station testing its signal in Arua. It played song after song (No talking!) and I started wishing Fille Mutoni who had done "Bye Bye Ex" would do a positive love collabo with Allan Toniks instead of composing songs about her painful relationship experiences. Immediately my line of thought ended, a new song ("Falling") which I had never known before started playing, amazingly performed by the very same two. The moment was so surreal that I messaged both of them about it.
It's not easy giving up all secular music, but the clearly devilish ones like "That's What I Want" by Lil Nas X (showing two men having doggystyle sex), witchcraft influences eg Azealia Banks or suicide promos from performers like Slipknot are definitely worth trashing. Some music videos can actually be categorised as soft pornography; singers, dancers or actors dress scantily and cause a sensual stir within viewers because of nakedness. Adele (British singer) covers herself well but her music is massive; MC Lyte (American rapper) also wanted to portray that image by wearing pants while her colleagues showed a lot of flesh. Even if Sheebah sang in a hijab or omwenda, her lyrics would still sound solid to me though she always defends her dress code as work. Maybe when she's older, she might change her perspective though I won't judge her coz she's lovely. In 2nd Samuel 6:14-23, David danced before the LORD with all his might until he was half-naked; his wife Michal had no children to the day of her death after criticising him. When women snog each other on TV, are they casting spells of lesbianism and homosexuality (LGBTQI+)? GOD knows. A Lugbara musician once said in an interview that who needs a man yet you can satisfy yourself fully with your own fingers; she was having issues in her relationships. Many people look up to her and when she said something unclean, it did not make it right just because she's a superstar. Masturbation is evil; Straight Talk Newspaper taught me in 1997 that it wasn't evil but along the way, I discovered they were totally wrong even though Cosmopolitan Magazine described the best ways to do it. It's wicked just like Onan spilling his semen on the ground in Genesis 38:9; GOD put him to death like his brother Er. Meanwhile, some musicians glorify fornication, alcohol, smoking, magic, witchcraft, orgies, multiple lovers plus snatching other people's mates (Funnily, their mates also get snatched from them). If Lucifer can convince 33 percent of angels to follow him, then how about us, mere humans? We have to be very careful about music, his superpower. In future, the agenda might become: Homosexuality is not a sin; The Bible is a lie; JESUS is not coming back; The Devil is your father; Prostitution is a job; Abortion is your body and choice; etc.
All my life, I've only spent one year in a Church choir but ironically, it was in a denomination different from the one I was brought up in; I quit without apologies (in 1997) because I had my own reservations about certain prayers (to Mary and dead saints like necromancy). I had sung in the alto voice and learnt how to read musical notations that helped me play my toy piano. The first song I wrote was a Ugandan Reply to "Leave (Get Out)" by JoJo in Twenty10.
I accepted JESUS into my heart at the end of 1997 after listening to "Serve The LORD" by Carman from his Absolute Best (1993) album. Even though I went to Church (both Anglican and Catholic) and read JEHOVAH's Witnesses publications, my beliefs were Old Testament (Noah, Moses, David, Solomon-type of way) and somehow blurred; I didn't know Saint Paul well because his story was not emphasized, only portions of his letters. Music can change lives.
There are some soulmoving songs I adore like "Hallelujah" by Taya Smith; "Heilig, Heilig" by Outbreakband; "So Sweet To Trust In JESUS" by various artistes; "Flood" by Jars Of Clay; "I'm Blessed" by Katalina Mezu; "Sinza" by Coopy Bly; "Ale MUNGU Ni" by D2G (Dedicated 2 GOD); "Panadolu" by Gospel Armour; etc and feel goosepimples or teary-eyed because they strike chords within me better than yoga meditation or kabbalah plus make me want to raise my hands up and praise GOD; those ones make it to my own personal ChurchTV list. Imagine a four-day JESUS Festival around Easter or Christmas where a coefficient of those lists from every attendee is played nonstop! Wouldn't it be more fun than dirty vibes inspired by lust, hatred and other vile things? Are there Nyege Nyege alternatives that exclusively play Gospel music. The Collective UG, Proclaim Uganda, etc can be foundation beacons.
When more musicians eg Sylver Kyagulanyi, the beautiful Chidinma (Nigerian), Gabie Ntaate, Desire Luzinda (whom I described on Twitter as having the Best Hips in East Africa alongside Tanzania's Ray C) leave the secular world to sing for GOD, that's more colour added to the better picture: There is something greater on the holy side. Either you go left or right! You have to pick a side because the HereAfter is segregative. Sometimes I wish the lowest bouquet of GOtv had Trace Gospel included instead of Trace Mziki. We need to use our talents to magnify GOD who gifted them to us in the first place, not wicked projects. Kanye West seemed to be turning a new leaf with the JESUS Is King album, but then got into other controversial issues along the way. GOD help all of us!
During Senior 4 (in Y2K), I sat in the 2nd last row of the Eastmost column. While revising my classwork books alone one early evening, I sang the song "Sweetest Taboo" by Glamma Kid featuring Shola Ama; it had just come out the preceding year (1999). Suddenly, an invisible hand (like the one that wrote on the wall in the book of Daniel) slammed my table and I stopped singing immediately plus froze briefly with fear. There was a clear sound like someone banging his hand on top of wood, but what made hair stand on the back of my head (or removed hair from my head) was that I saw the pages on my book move a bit caused by the wind from the unseen hand. Ever since that day, I never sang that song again. I later confirmed that my beloved Sade sang it first in 1985 when I was 1 year old. Some songs might actually be forbidden for Bornagains or Savedees.
Growing up, I adored Michael Jackson's music simply because I did not know he had a pact with the Angel of Death, but a time came when I gave up all of it and remained with only "Stranger In Moscow" (1997 song) as my best from him because of empathy: I could feel his pain and the beats of the masterpiece got me through some moments of rejection in my own life.
When Mowzey Radio was still alive, his music ruled Arua airwaves and spaces. At night, the story was not different but that's the time I could sense the presence of a dark cloud hovering above our Lugbara locality. After his death, his music literally went into limbo and the cloud vanished.
The first time I watched the music video for "Kipepeo" by Jose Chameleone, I felt something repulsive. It's like the images had a power I couldn't connect with though I liked other songs by Mr. Joseph Mayanja like Dolothea, Basima Ogenze, Mateeka, etc. When Allan Kasirye (former Devil worshipper) revealed that Kipepeo was the Devil's anthem, I understood why I always felt the way I did. I have seen mainstream artistes I adore doing crazy, unspeakable things and heard songs in my dreams before they were released, from Eminem ("Love The Way You Lie") to J. Lo to Chameleone ("Baliwa"). Sometimes, I did not know how to interprete what I saw but I pray GOD forgives and redeems their souls. Allan also revealed that ragga music (hiphop, rock, techno, etc) casts spells while reggae like Bob Marley, Lucky Dube, Maddox, etc worships or glorifies the Devil.
What is the Devil's music? I used to wonder if it was rock. A computer repairman in Arua who enjoys ziki as self-motivation at his shop told me that there's nothing like the Devil's music plus the Devil doesn't exist, but I saw him walking on Buganda Road after campus while I looked for a 2nd job near one of his city altars and fellowshipped anew at a church written off as one of his own though didn't know yet. I heard the main pastor confess in one of his lunchhour fellowships after moving from Cineplex to opposite Yamaha Centre that he practised witchcraft in the past and knows a lot about kawuula omugwagwa [reprobate spirits]. Was I really safe? Capital FM used to play the Devil's music and it was my favourite station for over a decade even though they repeated the same songs every hour with staff like DJ Shadow (Roger Mugisha, a former Devil worshipper), Alex Ndawula, etc. Up to Twenty23, they still play that music though added bits of inspirational Gospel especially on Sundays. My first wet dream at age 17 was actually Toni Braxton (musician); saw other musicians later as if Kawuula masquerading. What happened to the Legion demons after they were cast into multiple pigs that drowned (Mark 5:1-13)? Did they become waterspirits or mermaids also? It's weird that the angels who admired and impregnanted the daughters of men were 200 led by Shamjaza or Samyaza. Niccolo Paganini was so gifted as a violinist (played 12 notes in a second) that Italians spread rumours he had made a deal with the Devil.
Some of the electronic music played during the Nyege Nyege Festival at my birthplace (Jinja) is so high quality that you wonder where it originates from, whether the Devil or GOD-inspired. Evil altars promote uncleanness (alcoholism, fornication, prostitution, nudity, obscenity, witchcraft, sorcery [spiritual adultery], etc) but sanctified places worship the Most Holy. Culturally, Nyege Nyege is a huge melting pot for people from all continents, but I wish a GOD-centred Okuza [Lugbara for: Gathering] or Jege Jege Festival was more colourful. GOD is not fake and boring!
Music is spiritual...
You Are About To Meet The Devil (2024 Book)
Aniako ayikoni ku [Lugbara 4: Ignorance is not bliss]! How come we go through the motions of life (temptations, disappointments, lack, rejection, hardships, curses, accidents, losses, sickness, poverty, grief, etc) for at most 120 years without finding out why? Third-eye Blindness (Spiritual myopia) is very risky; dreams are a viewfinder window into the spirit realm and we must pay attention. I was born in Jinja on Saturday 7th January 1984 and the only Church I can remember going to before vacating Busoga in 1995 was St. Andrew's (not very far from the lake); it's Anglican. Within Kampala, my parents took me to another St. Andrew's in Bukoto and St. Francis Chapel (Makerere University); they are also Anglican churches. I was baptised and confirmed in Anglican churches (Bugaddu and Ntinda respectively), so basically am Anglican by mechanical tradition but deep down inside, all I wanted to do was play football and practise Abracadabra magic in the early 90s. Even at Sunday School, I waited quietly for all the talking to end so that I could kick a ball with the rest of the boys. I saw Moses doing fantastic exploits in Bible comics but was inspired more by the reallife magicians who entertained us in the Victoria Nile School main hall. I thought I could get that kind of power somewhere on a Lake Victoria island in the horizon. I believed in one GOD above (Saw JESUS pray to HIM in His 1979 film) and knew about the red devil plus black demons because of illustrations, but didn't know that Satan was the one who traded magic power for your soul; life is spiritual. I even thought Hell was at Namugongo in the capital city Kampala after seeing drawings of the Uganda Martyrs on postage stamps; you carry your own firewood. I always avoided ritualistic witchdoctors who sacrifice blood or Hindu temples, but magic (sorcery using demons) and witchcraft are technically very similar. I loved all secular entertainment (movies, music, TV, etc) and would try to astral project in my bed at night. Some people labelled me "demon-possessed, cursed, going to Hell". I bedwetted for a very long time despite praying for help. Some nights, the harder I prayed, the more the wetness as though a water spirit like an Invisible Girlfriend was involved. If it was a bedwetting curse, then I could not break it completely, so I started using a macintosh sheet and waterproof mat instead to curb random mattress-wetting.
One third of the angels fell with Lucifer and were sent to Hell (2nd Peter 2:4), called Tartarus in Greek. About 200 watchers or sons of GOD went to the daughters of humans and had Nephilim children by them (Genesis 6:4). When these giants died during Noah's flood, their spirits remained roaming around the Earth and are the evil, unclean demon spirits cast out of people today. The women of the angels who went astray became sirens (1st Enoch 19:2). Sirens are the mermaids, marine spirits, kawula and misambwa we hear about like Yemoja (goddess in Yoruba religion, also called Yemaya in Afro-Carribean Santeria religion); they were cursed by GOD to become water spirits of lust that tempt men to fornicate. On Musambwa Island, women are not allowed to spend a night and men stay there with snakes. Ugandans talk about mermaids walking near Lake Victoria; there was also a rumour in the 90s of a red merman near a primary school in our Spire Road hood (Jinja), but I never investigated. Dagon was the fish-god of the Philistines (Judges 16:23 and 1st Samuel 5:1-12); lower part like fish while hands and head like a man. A succubus (spirit wife) like Lilith, meanwhile, is a demon that takes the form of a seductive woman in order to have intercourse with a man in his dream whereas an incubus sleeps with a woman in her dream.
Despite attending church because my parents forced then encouraged me to, there was a lot I did not know in the Bible (Selected verses during Sunday service or in various publications were not enough to educate me about all spiritual reality). The music performed in Anglican services used to seem less energetic than that in Pentecostal settings, but today, when my spirit is right, ancient hymns sound golden and just as sweet. Dynamic Anglican choirs even borrow songs from other churches, no matter the affiliation. I admired how Muslims bowed down in prayer plus their females covered themselves respectably very well but wondered why Christians were different and divided into denominations (I was even skeptical about Robert Kayanja whose ministry gathered at the end of our Spire Road street). As a kid, I wanted to start Uganda's first 24/7 Porn TV station, whether mainstream or hidden as a cable network. It didn't occur to me that porn was wicked; pornstars actually commit fornication and adultery infront of camera in the name of acting. Porn inspires passion (lust) among viewers which results in defilement or rape, sexual assault, vulgarity, bestiality, masturbation plus homosexuality which are all forbidden acts. Marriage is the only holy arrangement for sex. It's better for the unmarried and widows who cannot control themselves to marry than to burn with passion (1st Corinthians 7:9). Unfortunately, people are forced to believe that you must first get a degree and job before marrying and end up fornicating, prostituting and commiting other unclean acts. I first slept naked in a girl's bed at around 7 years old (Primary 2), started watching porn in the first half of the 90s, was masturbating by 13, saw my first wet dream at 17 (Toni Braxton in a lime-green minidress) and sexually assaulted girls. Temptations from Satan always come, but you must will yourself out of them or else sin. Behavioural change and purity are part of salvation. Through the years, I also found raw mairungi unhealthy, beer bland, sherries like V&A expensive though sweet, plus waragi and vodka dangerously acidic, so addiction to drinking never really controlled me; cigarettes were sour and I cannot risk my lungs, but supported medical marijuana in tea. Addiction is a choice; mine was porn. I always fought it, but would return, then quit again repeatedly. Before 2013, I even argued that I will never quit completely because it is everywhere (unless I throw away my eyes like Matthew 5:29): People dress half naked even in church and other public places (Doing Satan's seduction work unwittingly). Porn creators are sent to Hell according to a South Korean artist who saw and painted her visions in 2009; found her video in 2017 after a personal dreamvision about Hell.
One sunny morning in Kyebando Kisalosalo (Kampala City) before I became a teenager, I stood infront of a switched-off black & white Tactics television set (given to my mother by her sister) and summoned "the Most Beautiful Angel GOD made". I called out audibly, "Lucifer, Lucifer, Lucifer! Come to me!" My 3rd sister out of 5 (Chandiru) heard and she walked into the sitting room to tell me that "Lucifer is another name for Satan"; I didn't know that fact and got instant goosepimples. I looked down at my left arm and it was literred with horror dots on my skin showing my inner terror. In 1997, I was admitted into a Roman Catholic school and joined the chapel choir where the master conductor, an Advanced Level student who was also the trainer placed me in alto voice, 3rd of 4 between tenor and bass. It was my first time in a weekly choir and learnt musical notations. We would practise after night prep and Sunday service was a gem but everytime there was an outing for the choir, I fell sick so I never attended any including a trip to State House Nakasero during the holidays. Our CRE teacher told us to genuflect before the statues and I found the 2nd Commandment missing in the Catholic Bible; the 10th Commandment is split in two with "Do not covet your neighbour's wife" forming the 9th. Did GOD give the Church the power to remove a commandment? How about changing Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday? Why don't Catholic priests get married? The Jesuits (a Catholic sect) usually had blackmolded, ominous-looking statues. With all these contradictions racing through my mind [plus the inability to tame my disrespectful tongue (like James 3); lust for porn (which led to masturbation); lying mouth; laziness; hypocrisy; proud countenance; anger in the belly (irritability); greed and hate in the heart that I believe kept me skinny-framed (from Ana in the late 80s to enemies in the 90s)], I decided to turn over a completely brand-new leaf. I felt rotten inside and a classmate told me I got saved from vulgar language which I learnt in American songs. Carman's music video for the song "Serve The LORD" playing on the new roughly five-month-old Lighthouse TV in Kampala convicted me of my unholiness and I gave my heart to JESUS Christ on the night of Tuesday 2nd December 1997. I quit the Roman Catholic choir (with its songs for Mary plus prayers to the Queen of Heaven as well as dead saints like necromancy) and vowed to remain silent until I had read the entire Bible because I felt hell-bound. Before that, the only Bible book I had ever read from Chapter 1 to the end was Proverbs in Primary 7. There was a lot I was ignorant about; even discovered forbidden books in the Jerusalem Bible, not found in the 66-book Anglican bibles I had seen. Some people say that new Bornagains should start with the book of Romans, but for me, what I needed was Acts of the Apostles because I did not know much about St. Paul's life. He is the perfect example of conversion, reformation or renewal. Even though he is the one who wrote Romans, his life story is a clearcut testimony of change. A drama film entitled "Paul" by Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) did a very good job to relay his legacy. As a quiet person, some of my schoolmates regarded me a "holy" person since I tried to live at peace with everybody, but I knew the personal battles I had to fight in order to transform my tongue and mind. In your anger, do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the Devil a stronghold (Ephesians 4:26). During Y2K, I smelt the presence of a goat one day while praying fervently near the Physics Lab and told a yearmate in a different stream who told another in his class. The other brother (Raymond Rwabita) saw a vision about my condition after fasting and a voice-usurping "ancestral dragon of pretended holiness" was cast out of me on a selected Friday night by a gang of Bornagains behind the SMACK Memorial Library. Later, I was baptised in the Holy Spirit by Peter Lukaaga who operated the My Keys canteen.
Criticism, rebuke, spite, belittlement, contempt, mockery and other negative confrontations swarm the heart with resentment or hatred like locusts. The second time I prayed to the Devil was knowingly in 2001. Since I was in a crucible (fiery furnace) of ridicule, I offered the Devil my soul (Was willing to burn in Hell, GOD forgive me) and asked him to numb my conscience so that I could kill a classmate in my new Advanced Level school who kept calling me "daft, stupid, fake and boring". However, the Holy Spirit convinced me to "forgive". Earlier, I had asked GOD to quieten the thorny Musoga belittling me in vain. He wrote down for me three topics to talk about whenever we met; how condescending! Talking about Women, Arsenal and Computers will not take anyone to Heaven; JESUS is the Way! We all get bored, but complaining about it is primitive in the dotcom age. When tired, rest! When hungry, eat, not agonise about it! We all feel hunger everyday. Imagine everyone complained about it instead of feeding their mouth. A classmate gave me a Mormon Bible as a gift with my baptism name written inside and I felt it had a different spiritual presence around it. It was stolen during my 3rd Year at campus. At Makerere College School (2001-2), I was called a Devil worshipper because I knew "the Devil's things". Some people even thought I sneaked out to go dancing in a disco at night, but only left school to watch Arsenal matches, buy medicine or some other requirements; I was never caught, not even once. During my final term at Macos, I spent less time in my classroom during daytime and skipped all internal tests but was never punished for it. I think GOD's grace was on me. On Sunday 1st October 2002 (Kolo Toure's debut for Arsenal), I uttered the Shahada and became a Muslim, but was disturbed to feel spirits in the small room designated as a prayer room in our hostel. Despite fasting during Ramadan that started in November, I did not make it to Makerere University on Government scholarship which is one of my biggest regrets in this life.
The third time I prayed to the Devil was after I started growing apart in 2005 with the campus classmate I wanted to marry. For 16 steady months, I had pursued a Mukonzo for wedlock in vain. The separation started within a week after I went to Miracle Centre Cathedral (Rubaga) for a Friday overnight yet my connection with her used to be promisingly cool. Friends called her my wife, but something feverish came over me the next Thursday night like Venom (character) and we started separating. Then, I asked the Devil to choose for me any other girlfriend so that I can forget about my fading heartthrob who didn't want anything from me after I borrowed a photo from her (without concrete permission). Like Wolverine, I had to remove the parasite of love in my heart making me obsessed about her. I used to admire the Devil's unapologetic rebelliousness and made a decision to detach myself from this girl. Why do people commit suicide after rejection by people they love? It's because they think there is no alternative fallback nor escape plan: Detachment is as powerful as obsession. After three years of going my own way, the Rwenzori Babe came back to me via Yahoo Messenger and apologised for "acting like a bitch", her own words. I told her I forgave her a long time ago and stayed in touch. She's the one who later convinced me that WhatsApp is more enticing than Facebook.
After my final exam at UCU Mukono (April 2006), I moved back to Kampala where I resided during holidays to work for my uncle in a shared-room at Daisy's Arcade. One lunchtime, I went to Cineplex Cinema on Wilson Road (Kampala) to submit my job application inspired by a dreamvision I saw while in Bugujju (Mukono). I noticed a pentecostal fellowship going on in the videoroom and entered to attend; I later learnt that it was for Life Resurrection Church in Nsambya Avemaria. I thought I would hurt nobody by joining the service even if nearby at DV8, there was actually an altar for the Devil (alongside many others including at Sabrina's Pub, the Pork Joint opposite UMA Showgrounds Lugogo, some casinos, Michelangelo School Kisubi, etc). Even though I admired the Luganda music and energetic preaching by the main pastor, I felt uncomfortable whenever he told people with 10,000 UGX and more as tithe or offertory to run first and fast to receive oil anointing from his hand before the rest of us with less. The olive oil even smelt weird; the main pastor once confessed that he used to practise witchcraft but was now bornagain. He even called his church a business and I brushed all the redflags aside but one morning with a 5K greennote for the fellowship in my pocket, I disembarked from a taxi at Shell Kampala Road and walked up towards the Central Police Station Junction. When I cut right onto Buganda Road, I vividly heard a voice whisper in my right ear: You are about to meet the Devil! That road is ever busy with hawkers, lawyers, customs agents, policemen and other people, but on that particular sunrise (like 6:66AM), I saw nobody else except a strange man walking from near Hotel Triangle towards me. It was as if I had been transported into another zone or dimension (like 6D). When the barefooted, pale to reddish-brown man clad in a clean white T-shirt and blood-red gentleman cotton trousers (My favourite fashion because of simplicity) got closer to me, he grinned but I cut right through parked cars to the opposite sidewalk. The Devil looked like a 30-something, well-nourished, goodlooking man who can be your blesser or sugardaddy even though he had no footwear nor anything in his hands (Picture a Brown Congolese with red eraka soil smeared on his skin). Maybe he wanted to make a deal with me (and GOD warned me in advance) or was he trying to harvest my soul since I fellowshipped in a church he allegedly sponsored? Grace Kashemeire in her testimony which I found the following decade lists Sembera as one of the false pastors deceiving people that they are serving GOD yet serve the Devil. She added that TS can turn into a frog, eats people as omusezi and sacrificed his son by hitting him with a car as commanded by Satan; only GOD can judge him but I decided to stop attending the fellowships and break free from his altar though watched Life TV programs. People cannot see that their pastors are false because they make them obsessed; your relationship with the pastor is bigger than the connection to JESUS. Pastors are seen as Mr. Right even when they speak rubbish. Driving a good car or having many church members is not a guarantee that your pastor is not your enemy. Job was so righteous that he caught the Devil's attention (Job 1:6-22). Blessed are those who persevere! You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the LORD finally brought about. The LORD is full of mercy and compassion (James 5:11). Satan asked to sift Simon and all his brothers as wheat (Luke 22:31-32). Are there any hardships you are going through? They might be tests, examinations or trials from Satan. Endure hardship as discipline (Hebrews 12:7). Then JESUS was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. After fasting for 40 days and nights, He was hungry. The tempter came to Him and said: If you are the Son of GOD, tell these stones to become bread (Matthew 4:1-3). Again, the Devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me." JESUS said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: Worship the LORD your GOD, and serve HIM only." Then the Devil left Him and angels came and attended Him (Verse 8-11). Twice, I had failed before to remain loyal to GOD when criticised endlessly by a classmate and rejected by a babe I adored, but was never going to turn to Satan for money after campus because I believe GOD is more valuable, let alone superloaded (HE created everything anyway and if HE doesn't chop some for me, it's HIS respected decision). According to Jonathan Philip Timmons, "Money is the Lowest Form of Prosperity; the Highest Form of Prosperity is to be in the presence of GOD." What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul (Mark 8:34-38)? GOD is wealth.
Some people think Satan does not exist but he comes to Earth (One former Devil worshipper said that he clubs on Saturdays while Joseph Nsubuga who was inspired by Erica Mukisa Kimani's testimony revealed that the Ancient Serpent can shapeshift into a man and speak sweet, convincing words). Satan transfigures himself into an angel of light (2nd Corinthians 11:14). Woe to the earth and sea, because the Devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short (Revelation 12:12). How you have fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer (morning star), son of the dawn! You have been cast down to Earth... (Isaiah 14:12). Be alert and of sober mind! Your enemy the Devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings (1st Peter 5:8-9). Submit yourselves, then, to GOD! Resist the Devil and he will flee from you (James 4:7).
After my Buganda Road encounter with the Devil, I continued attending the Cineplex Cinema fellowship because I did not hate the pastor (His wife actually looked GOD-fearingly devout to me and has lovely songs plus preachings) but grew weary since I did not get omukisa gw'ekibuga [favour in the city] as much as I had greedily wanted it. Something near the ceiling once spat on my forehead in the dark cinema; wondered what it meant or was it just me overthinking? One weekday mid-morning, I went to meet the Pastor himself (Tom Sembera) in Nsambya and was stunned when the lady at the entrance of a glittery room told me to take off my shoes. The self-proclaimed nabi [prophet] did not tell me any secrets about myself; we just prayed. Another thing that caught my attention was a spiritual presence I felt around the ceiling of the LRC reception. Some ladies (probably choir members or ushers) with oil anointed on their faces worked on someone's hair in the room. Natural hair is a crown for women, but artificial hair is a no-go area for me; more Jezebelic than Christian. You can watch Pastor Sembera on Life TV or listen to Joy FM! He exposes kawula omugwagwa [reprobate spirits] though used to teach against watching Nigerian films that show the same.
On the first Sunday I attended a service at his unfinished megachurch, I sat in the front row. A buxom, curvaceous, Winnie Nwagi-thick but brownskinned woman sat on my leftside; she was half naked in an orange minidress that exposed her shoulders, big perfect bust and thick thighs. There was glitter particles all over her booty. The woman was so calm that I did not lust after nor judge her; I took her like any other sinner in church seeking GOD. Only GOD knows who she was or why she dressed that way but after the service, I went my way because I knew about hypocrisy (the veneer cover of virtue) plus humility can be very false; it's a tool for gaining friends. Jamil Mugerwa (former Underground agent) once revealed how ladies dressed like the stranger next to me are sent to churches to distract and derail men of GOD; it happened to Wilberforce Samanya, a vocal preacher who was also a former witchcraft practitioner like Sembera. Jamil claims Samanya sold off his church after sleeping with a halfnaked newcomer sitted directly infront of his pulpit. One night in Arua during 2022, a dream showed me (Probably GOD warning me) that Satan refused to bow down to GOD like other angels and would test me; then a friend's wife asked me to cheat with her in order to get back at her husband who hurt her deeply (literally damaged her heart) by sleeping repeatedly with other women. She always forgave him when he gave the excuse of alcohol, but she was now fed up. I told her I had seen her plans in my dreamvisions, but would not entangle myself in them for GOD's sake (plus unspoken guy code) though meeting or working with her is not bad. The 7th Commandment warns against adultery; I even told her to find the story of a lady called Hadijah (faithful mother of five) whose pastor-husband left her for other women, but her prayers brought him back after almost two decades of coldness between them and they remarried in a lavish ceremony paid for by the Kayanja Ministries (at Miracle Centre Cathedral). The pastor confessed that the Holy Spirit scorched his private parts while he tried to sleep with a woman he was not married to. Fear GOD!
You must not eat any fat or any blood (Leviticus 3:17). And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal (Leviticus 7:26). None of you may eat blood (Leviticus 17:12). Blood is not ordinary; it contains life. In the past, Africans (like Gipiri and Labongo in Alurland) made pacts as brothers; someone would cut their skin, put the blood flowing on a bean seed and let the other person swallow it. The practice continues in some places. A Sudanese-Kakwa gave me his blood to drink in a mixture of juice. Everytime he was about to call me, I would feel it. I could even deduce that he was with a lady not married to him and he would disclose it to me. When he died, I felt attacked in the head by spirits and was even passing near one of the Devil's altars in Lugogo the very moment a mutual friend of ours called me to report his death.
I used to listen to DJ Shadow (Roger Mugisha) a lot on Capital FM, but did not know that he was a Devil-worshipper. Some of the things he confessed he could do were not completely fantasy because one afternoon when I went to look for his brother Matt Bish (Director of "Battle of the Souls"), I saw Roger park his red car downstairs. Then suddenly, he was behind me; I wondered how he climbed the steps very fast.
One night when a certain year was ending, I had a dream about Hell as a long hall where various film characters are sent but in three levels: The worst eg Ghostbusters villains and Michael Myers (the Halloween monster) were at the bottom while my spirit was lifted up out of the lot. The lighter your sins, the higher you fly or are saved. The following day, Erica Mukisa Kimani added me as a friend on Facebook; amazing! I had actually transcribed her audios, videos and podcasts enthusiastically ever since I first heard her testimony on Voice Of Life Radio (100.9 FM) in Arua. Other extremely evil characters I've noticed in movies include Joker; Enchantress in Suicide Squad; The Orphan; Valak in The Conjuring series; Jeepers Creepers; Dracula; etc. On a different night, I watched a horror about a spirit that ate out the tongues of anyone who screamed after seeing it. When I woke up, I had a weird cut on my tongue yet it is considered the toughest muscle in a human. Movies can be points of contact for demons. The King of Tyre described in Ezekiel 28 is probably Lucifer: You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of GOD; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared. You were anointed as a guardian cherub (Verse 12-14). Lucifer was a cherubim angel until wickedness was found in him and GOD drove him in disgrace from HIS mount; HE expelled the guardian cherub from the fiery stones. He came to a horrible end and will be no more. Lucifer makes humans sin against GOD, but no matter the mistakes, there is forgiveness for everything we've done. We triumph over the Dragon by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony (Revelation 12:11). The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to GOD, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living GOD! For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance - now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant (Hebrews 9:13-15).
Music is a portal to GOD (through the Holy Spirit) or the Devil (and evil spirits); a sanctified choir can bring the glory of GOD down to Earth. Considering the fact that angels constantly worship GOD day and night saying: Holy, holy, holy (Isaiah 6:3 and Revelation 4:8), it is possible that Satan led that worship before his rebellion. He was supposed to fall down before the throne (like the 24 elders with crowns) and worship the LORD GOD Almighty! One evening before sunset during Senior 4, I sat in class alone revising my notes while singing "Sweetest Taboo" by Glamma Kid ft. Shola Ama; it had just been released the preceding year though the original by Sade came out 14 years before that (when I was one year old). Suddenly, an invisible hand slammed my tabletop and I stopped singing immediately. My ears heard the slam while shocked eyes saw the pages of my book move because of the wind created by the hand. It reminded me of the hand that wrote on a wall in Daniel 5:5. The jam is about forbidden addiction to (heroin) drugs or sensual pleasure; I've never sang that song again though hear it plus others like it. Some secular songs are quite edifying, but the most repulsive song I've ever watched was "Kipepeo" by Jose Chameleone. I like some of Chamili's other songs but believed Allan Kasirye (former Devil-worshipper) when he revealed that this particular one was the Devil's Anthem; my spirit just felt very bad about the glittering costumes and people bowing down to a throne.
As judgement, the Devil will be thrown into the lake of burning sulphur, where the beast and false prophet will also be thrown; tormented day and night forever and ever (Revelation 20:10).
What kind of father gives his child a stone when s/he asks for mukati [bread] or a snake instead of fish (Matthew 7:9-10)? Maybe a broke father, but GOD is not poor. What do you do when GOD doesn't give you exactly what you want; what you ask, seek and knock for? Do you worship HIM more or turn to Satan as your replacement father? Apparently, Satan gives everything you want, but at the cost of your soul: It is so sweet to trust in JESUS; GOD provides. GOD may take time to respond, but HE answers prayers, whether after 21 days, one year or two decades. When you ask GOD for pilawo and HE gives you rice, go figure! You may ask GOD for juice and then HE gives you mangoes; blend them! One of the two criminals on the cross asked JESUS to remember him when He returns as King (Luke 23:42) and got a place in paradise that very day. When Arsenal lost the 2001 FA Cup final, I looked up to the sky and cussed profanely at GOD, but when I looked back down to a clay village-well where we fetched water, I apologised immediately because I realised HIS wrath would be my sudden death by worms like Ananias and Sapphira. Weeks later, tears formed in my eyes when I got rejected from joining the Technical Drawing class in Senior 5 after dropping out of the Fine Art class; felt like GOD wasn't on my side but that is the turning point when I stopped writing HIS name using small letters. One year later, the Gunners were Double Champions (I called it Double Happiness and learnt patience). On the day of the 2015 final, I woke up with the hunch that Arsenal would beat Aston Villa 4-0; Theo Walcott would score the first goal while the fourth would be by my Favourite Player at Wembley that day - Olivier Giroud (who actually sat on the bench at kickoff). It happened exactly as I wished; GOD is unbelievable; abide with me! In Twenty24, I gave GOD an ultimatum of only 15 minutes to answer me with a sign on my smartphone but by the 3rd one, HE had stunned me with a shocker I'll never forget for as long as I live.
What's the 411? There are only two sides; you have to decide which one to follow! Either you go left or right, worship Satan or YAHWEH. There is no inbetween, no De-Militarised Zone. Get saved or die repenting! Wear the full armour of GOD (Helmet of Salvation, etc)! Jump off the Wrong Train; repent all your sins! Believe that JESUS is the Son of GOD; HE is the only Way to Heaven! We are saved by the grace of GOD.
Worship GOD!
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