African Leadership

For the kingdom!!

Thank you for your love for Africa and prayer for His kingdom in Africa. It is so privilege to share with you how God’s kingdom is established daily in our life. God’s kingdom is eternal! His kingdom is around us and in us. Let us taste, look and enjoy his kingdom, and proclaim His kingdom.

There is a young German man, a brother, Simon. He worked with us here in South Africa for about 4 months around 5 years ago. Back then he was a law student in his final year who had come here to South Africa for some job experience, but thereafter he decided to do some community service before he returned to Germany, so joined us here in Cape Town. During the 4 months he spent in South Africa, God touched his heart, and He molded him into a new man. He changed so much that his visiting parents saw how his heart had changed to seek after God Simon and I talked often on the phone after he returned to Germany and he would tell me how he went to school every day for the kingdom. He is a faithful servant of God.

During one of our calls, Simon asked me to pray for him. His request was that he would be allowed to use a room with his professor in their graduation trip the following week. This was an odd request so I asked him why? His reasoning was simple. He wanted to share the Gospel with his professor who did not yet know our Saviour’s Love. A week later, we talked again. He had just returned from his trip so, out of curiosity, I asked him if he had shared a room with his professor? He sighed and said that it was a pity he did not get to do so, but he also confessed that it was all in God’s plans. He explained that at the trip the vibe was
to go out and have drinks but Simon sat on the bed of his room reading the bible. His roommate asked him what he was doing, once Simon told him that he was reading the bible his friend sat down beside him and asked him to tell him about the bible. So Simon told me that he and his friend sat all night talking of the bible. The next day Simon’s roommate invited everyone into
their room and began to share the gospel. Simon and I together thanked God for His grace and love; Simon also thanked God for using him. The joy in his voice filled my heart with joy:
Simon goes to school for the kingdom!
He meets his friends for the kingdom!
He looks at the fellow students on the Bench for the kingdom!

He loves His kingdom, His people, and His word. This is the kingdom that is in those who know of the love in his word. Lord, lead us to your kingdom we are here.

For the kingdom!

Young H. Ohm
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For the kingdom!

I thank you for your constant prayers and love. I would like to write about His kingdom, His kingdom that I see and experience here in Africa. The kingdom that He wants and the kingdom that the Holy Spirit is making With you, my brothers and sisters, I would liketo proclaim and establish His Kingdom. I will send an article every month,please read it and share with us here your experiences, views and be a guidance to us For the kingdom Everything should be God¹s kingdom.

 This is the kingdom of God.

I shout, “For the kingdom!” I meet every new day for the kingdom of God and as I meet the new day I feel tension and anticipation for his coming kingdom. How will this kingdom look? What kind of kingdom will weexperience? The whole universe is God’s kingdom! Everything (myself, family, friends, work, shop, school, nation, factory,business, culture, food, houses, mountains, oceans, trees, cars, money,computer, my life, etc.) was of God.

God made everything.There is nothing he didn¹t create. But Satan claims that everything belongs to him. People try to fight against God with their sins transforming from God¹speople into his enemy. Satan deceived us and Satan brought idea of division in our thought between sacred world and secular world, and between the world and the kingdom of God. Such a great deceiver Satan become controller over human being, when people see division. Everything is the handiwork of God, His masterpiece. He owns everything. Everything in this world is God¹s. God¹s world was wounded by Adam’s sin. Satan made his way into this wound,and he contaminated it.But Jesus came into this world, he bore the cross and died; he came closer to the wound. Jesus rose from the dead, and declared, ³the world is mine²and that all authority is in God… Yes, God owns everything. There was nothing in the world that is Satan¹screation. Satan cheated us.

Everything has been restored. Everything will be to the glory of God.In everything we can see God¹s image.The eternal kingdom of God …This is the will of God and God will accomplish Shout! Let us proclaim!Jesus is in me. I am the kingdom of God.The Holy Spirit in me. We live forever.My family will live forever.My friends will live forever.My Life and work is the kingdom of God. My school is the kingdom of God.The Shop is the kingdom of God.The Plants is the kingdom of God.My country is the kingdom of God God has invited us to his world. To the eternal kingdom..From now on, we live forever.We are the kingdom of God. With anticipation and excitement …

For the kingdom. Young Ohm

The Story of Moses

There is someone precious who lives for God’s Kingdom. His name is
Moses. He is not exactly the same but somehow similar to Moses in the
Bible.

He is Chinese and grew up under communism. In the pursuit of a better
living condition, Moses paid much money to come to South Africa. And
there he met Jesus Christ.
He changed little by little becoming a faithful disciple of Jesus
Christ after 2 years. When he first came to South Africa, he was
working so hard to make a lot of money. However, since he met God, he
was no longer interested in money. His heart was towards those who
don’t know about Christ. His biggest interest was for them to accept
Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. At the present, he is preaching the
gospel in a small town in Johannesburg in South Africa.

While on the way to Madagascar for a pastoral training, I happened to
stay in Johannesburg due to a conflict in the flight schedule. And I
met Moses there. I was really glad to see him and started to ask some
questions regarding his ministry in Johannesburg.
Smiling brightly, He began to share… Even though it must have been
so difficult for him to deal with all the hardships, I could sense in
him the joy of living by grace of Lord.

According to Moses, there are a lot of people who just came from
China. They would do anything to earn more money. Yet there are many
who spend all their money on drinking and gambling. God felt pity and
sent Moses to those poor people.
Couple Chinese families share a house where each lives in a room to
save up more money. So is Moses’ family (his wife and two beautiful
little children).
In such circumstance, Moses loves, serves and preaches the good news.
I visited his place and found it to be awful. There was no place for
me to sit. The room wasn’t big enough to raise two children and they
slept on the mattress without the bed frame.
He finds it convenient to have meals together with other families. Not
only that but he also finds it alright to share the washroom. He
considers it good to go through all these things with others because
it creates opportunities to love, to embrace, to mentor and to preach
the gospel. In that way, people get to share their difficulties and
ask for prayer.
Despite the troubles in life, he thankfully calls it all His grace. He
told me he will move out in 2 months. He decided to move to another
place because everyone in his present place heard the Word of God.
When I asked about the new place, he didn’t say anything but smiling.
I applaud his wife for being so supportive and brave.

Moses holding his children with the biggest smile on his face.
Moses doing his best to love others
Moses inviting other households into his place to run a good Christian program
Moses being completely content and thrilled instead of being exhausted
Moses trying to be more grateful and hoping for more to be done
instead of complaining
Moses more concerned about the others’ need
Moses living for Kingdom of Heaven

I asked him how he manages living and he replied, he just prays.
When he needs something, he prays.
His life doesn’t adhere to anything in this world.
He is heart-broken by the situation where he has nothing more to give.
Love welling up for those who do not believe. A true mark of Christ he worships.

He has been preaching the gospel for 3 years raising the disciples like him.
The desire to continue this work, he can’t change with anything.
For the kingdom
Young Ohm