adminA pulpit is an erected and raised platform above the surraounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
It is a raised place where one would stand above his audience so that the person will be viewed and heard by all without any obstruction.
We can see such platforms erected from the Old Testament for example in the book of Nehemiah 8:4 throughout the New Testament, even our Lord Jesus at one point used Peter’s ship as His pulpit (Matthew 13:2).
A church pulpit must be a sacred place. A place where believers should use as a place of contact with their Lord should they choose to come forward to it and cast their burdens unto Him.
It must be a place exalted and the most holy part of the temple.
When choosing to use it, one has to check his or her books with the god of that place to see whether they are good and if bad then seek peace and correct them (books) before occupying it. A pulpit must be a place reserved for the priest of the temple where he would stand after receiving from the Lord and then distribute the divine and sacred bread of heaven to God’s people.
If a pulpit is erected unto the Lord then it means the one employed there must be holy and even his or her mouth must be divinely circumcised.
Most seating arrangements in our churches today are such that the congregation faces the pulpit where the man of God will be ministering from.
When people come to church all they desire to see is Jesus through the man of God. The man of God will then help the people through the Holy Ghost to know the will and the mind of God concerning their lives.
When people come to church and look to the pulpit, all they want is to see the God of that pulpit through the one standing on it meeting their needs.
Some come with unexplainable situations, their hope and focus will be on the man standing on that elevated platform.
Some come to church to find shelter from the differing winds of life.
Those with missing body parts hope that one day the man of the pulpit will cause the parts to appear and locate them as he always claim that the invisible God is on that pulpit.
It is my father in the Lord Prophet Makandiwa’s prayer that God may cause every pulpit in our nation to give living waters and meet the needs of God’s people in every church. People don’t come to church to give praise to the bishop and his wife, they have needs that need to be met. Pulpits are not places where a man should come and manifest of his hatred and anger.
I saw some men of the cloth who used to earn a lot of respect having their ministries going down the sewer line due to unresolved anger and hatred.
Why would one just become angry when he gets to the pulpit?
Venom and bitterness become the daily food for the children of that church. Some in their pulpits after reading the scriptures to the people forget to explain them and start to preach by attacking other men of God.
Sorry for the poor, sick and afflicted flock that will be listening to their drunken and confused priest. When will their needs be attendant to?
Many churches today are suffering from spiritual kwashiorkor, what is happening at their pulpits are children’s plays. If a man of the cloth fails to respect the pulpit, then the supernatural will ignore of such. Pulpits have to be respected if God’s people want to see the supernatural in their churches. Jesus should be preached from the pulpits, not Makandiwa.
Some churches are feeding their congregants on a daily basis with Makandiwa this and Makandiwa that yet those members have chosen not to follow prophet Makandiwa.
Your members have listened to you by not coming to UFIC, why using your pulpit to inform them of what is happening in UFIC? Pastors, use your pulpits well to nourish God’s flock out there, our UFIC prayer lines are jamming with prayer requests from various churches who are against the miraculous and the prophetic.
Ask God what you are supposed to give the flock before you lean on that pulpit. People want to come out of their wheelchairs, they want to be healed of so many ailments, they want to get out of poverty, thus the gospel of Jesus!
Pulpits must not be good enough places to preach Satanism, cults and end time frightening messages. The gospel of Jesus Christ must be preached! Surely you cannot have a pastor who knows much about the devil than Jesus. Is healing the sick Satanism? Delivering the demon afflicted, is it Satanism? Blessing the poor, is it occultism?
I wonder why some men of God have bowed down so low to the devil and allowed him to empty them to such an extent that they are now just mere farmers, secretaries and social leaders instead of being spiritual representatives of Christ’s Kingdom.
I heard some men of the cloth castigating my father about having a spiritual father from Ghana. Some say Ghana is known for vodooism, but I am surprised by most of those who sent the comments and yet they have never been there. I have been there with my father and I concluded that Ghana is one of those countries that respects God and
His servants above board in Africa. Clergymen do your research well!
My question to many men of God out there is: in our nation who carries the anointing and grace that can father and guide my spiritual father if it is a question of your desire to father him? Can that man be found in Bulawayo or Chitungwiza? I do not think so.
May we give life from our pulpits not deaths, bitterness and hatred. May our pulpits be turned into oasis of life? Jesus has to be preached from our pulpits. He is the ultimate source of life and power.
There is no other name above the name of Jesus, Philippians 2:9. Some men of God are complaining that UFIC members respect and speak too good of our father prophet Makandiwa more than any other men of God.
Why should we pay any particular attention to someone who is driving his own boat?
We are sailing in our own God-given boat and we are happy! God is in the boat, that’s good news to us! Its not pride as some failed businessman-cum-scribes are writing in newspapers complaining.
Prophet Makandiwa is not forcing anyone to believe in him or even to come to UFIC. I have not heard him speaking about any men of the cloth despite the attacks he is getting from other synagogues.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation (Romans 13:1&2). Let him that has an ear listen to what the voice of wisdom is saying.
Come to UFIC, come to the world of God. Its revival time, come catch the fire of God! Dry bones you can live again!
Pastor Takura Rukwati is a pastor with the United Family International Church (UFIC).
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