Operation Trumpet Call pt 2.

Mbonisi arriving at Victory Fellowship in Bulawayo

Mbonisi Malaba, lead Elder from New Creation Church (River of Life church in Bulawayo) also shared a brilliant word. He spoke on The Trumpet Call. He said we are living in the days of a Trumpet Sound. Isaiah 58: “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet.”

(1) Declare to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Mbonisi also read from Nehemiah 4:13 – 19.

Every believer should be asking these 4 questions:
1. Where are we now?
2. Why are we here?
3. What should we do?
4. Where will that take us?

Where are we now?
(2) For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.
(3) “Why have we fasted,” they say, “and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and have not noticed?”

Mbonisi preaching

Why are we here?
Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.
(4) Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.
(5) Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for a man to humble himself? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?
Christianity is both vertical (God and me) and horizontal (You and me). How are we treating one another? To work together we got to be together, be in agreement. Jesus is our answer.

What should we do?
(6) “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
What is oppressing the people? What is the yoke?
(7) Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter – when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
We should:
 Loose the chains of injustice
 Break every yoke
 Set the oppressed
 Feed the hungry

The word coming ALIVE. Relevant word for a relevant time.

Where will that take us?
(8) Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
Ephesians 3:10 “His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms.”
(9) Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and He will say: Here I am. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
(10) And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.
(11) The lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land (There is hope for Matabeleland) and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
(12) Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.”

Compiled by Molly Manhanga