New administration under Samia Suluhu gives hope after 5 years of hopelessness

Learn to know the signs of the times. Pray God to teach you to discern when it is TRULY OVER.
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We find this evidence very compelling and Chacha Wangwe could be speaking from his grave day in and night out demanding revenge and the Sovereign God has remembered Mbowe sins which are many, nefarious and multifarious.

However, my own concern is this evidence admissible in a court of law seeing it is mere hearsay?

We know it is very legit because it is collaborative evidence of what the principal prosecution witness has already deponed under oath.

Obviously, Mbowe plotted to fix the Hai DC Sabaya who had posed a serious threat to his political career. Without being a Hai MP his path to the much coveted premiership ambit where the bread was, it was all in smokes and smots.

All Mbowe victims from Chacha Wangwe, ZZK, 7 ousted Arusha CDM councillors not excluding Sumaye and Dr. Slaa can easily relate to this impeccable evidence with Mbowe despicable character.

He belongs in jail for a minimum of at least ten years without a chance of parole. We cannot in anyway groom political thugs and expect different results.




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Three Ways You Can Exercise Faith

The islanders were cannibals. Nobody trusted anybody else. His life was in constant danger. He had come to tell them the good news about Jesus. He wanted to translate John’s Gospel into their language, but he discovered that there was no word in their language for ‘trust’, ‘belief’ or ‘faith’.
John Paton (1824–1907), a Scot, had travelled to the New Hebrides (a group of islands in the south-west Pacific) determined to tell the tribal people about Jesus, but he struggled to find the right word for ‘faith’. One day, when his indigenous servant came in, Paton raised both feet off the floor, sat back in his chair and asked, ‘What am I doing now?’ In reply, the servant used a word that means, ‘to lean your whole weight upon’. This became the expression that Paton used. Faith is leaning our whole weight upon Jesus.
 
Psalm 124:1-8

Faith as trust when under attack

‘Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark,’ wrote Sir Rabindranath Tagore.
There are times in all of our lives when our faith is tested. We come under ‘attack’: ‘When everyone went against us’ (v.2, MSG) and there seems to be a ‘torrent’ (v.4) of ‘raging waters’ (v.5) – temptations, doubts, fears, and so on.
These things could overwhelm you, but for the fact that the Maker of heaven and earth is on your side (v.1). Faith means trusting that he won’t leave you defenceless. He frees you from the traps: ‘Their grip is broken; we’re free as a bird in flight’ (v.7, MSG).
David is one of the most tried and tested figures in the Bible. Like David, remain faithful to God. Trust in the Lord. He will protect you from raging torrents and from being ‘swallowed alive’ (v.3). Your ‘help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth’ (v.8).

Lord, help…
 
Hebrews 11:17-40

Faith as choice, perseverance and expectancy

What does heroic faith look like? Moses was the supreme figure in Israel’s history. He rescued them from slavery. He gave them the Law. In today’s passage, the writer shows that Moses was pre-eminently a man of faith.
As we have seen, the word ‘faith’ carries a number of meanings. It describes your whole relationship with God – trusting in him, leaning your whole weight on Jesus, and having the courage to act on your belief. Through the example of Moses, we see three ways in which you too can exercise faith:

Faith as a choice

Moses was ‘no ordinary child’ (v.23). He was brought up in the Egyptian royal household and received a first-class education and training. He was also physically good looking (Exodus 2:2). So many people strive today, as they did then, for money, sex and power. Moses could have had them all in abundance.
Moses had another great advantage – the faith of his parents (Hebrews 11:23). Pharaoh’s daughter gave Moses’ mother the job of bringing him up. However, at the end of the day, Moses himself, like you and I, needed to make a choice.
He could have chosen ‘to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time’ (v.25). However, ‘he chose to be ill-treated along with the people of God’ (v.25). Moses chose to be identified with a group of people that those with an upbringing like his regarded with contempt – a slave nation, the people of God. By identifying with them he brought upon himself danger, scorn and suffering.
He made this choice because ‘he regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt’ (v.26). Compared to the pleasures of the world, which are fleeting, God offers you an everlasting reward.
Faith as choice is the faith that justifies. This initial act of faith can be summarised with the mnemonic:
Forsaking All I Take Him (FAITH)

Faith as perseverance

Moses left Egypt twice. The first time he was fleeing as a criminal after killing an Egyptian. The second time, he left as leader of the people of God. In between, he persevered with courage and determination. He ‘persevered because he saw him who is invisible’ (v.27). His eyes were opened to the whole spiritual realm.
From the moment of choice to the moment of triumph, there will be many battles. This is the pattern in the Bible. First comes the call, then the problems. Finally, there is the fulfilment. In between, keep persevering and trusting.
This kind of faith can be summarised in another mnemonic:
Feeling Afraid I Trust Him (FAITH)
This aspect of faith is one that is particularly stressed by the author of Hebrews. It is also probably what Paul has in mind when he lists faithfulness as a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22).

Faith as expectancy

When I interviewed Pastor Rick Warren at the Alpha Leadership Conference, he asked rhetorically: ‘Why does God use me?’ And he gave the answer: ‘Because I expect him to use me.’ Joyce Meyer defines expectancy as ‘a joy-filled looking forward to receiving a desired result’.
Moses heard God. He did what God told him to do. He knew that God had the power to kill, but he believed he would pass over the Israelite homes that were sprinkled with blood (Hebrews 11:28). He believed in God’s power to perform signs and wonders, such as the crossing of the Red Sea (v.29).
Expectancy is that mysterious surge of confidence that God will perform a mighty work. In the first three Gospels, nearly two-thirds of the references to faith occur in relation to miracles. Faith here must be understood to be trusting in God’s power.
The writer goes on to give many other examples of faith in the Old Testament, including those ‘who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned into strength’ (vv.33–34). I particularly love the fact that God turns your, and my, weaknesses into strengths.
He concludes this sweep of history by saying something quite extraordinary: ‘God had a better plan for us’ (v.40, MSG). He is saying you are better off than Noah, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Samson, David, and all the others. ‘Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised’ (v.39, MSG). While they could only look forward to something better, you live in the age of the Spirit and have received this better and fuller revelation in Christ.

Lord, help me to trust you, to persevere and have an expectant faith in you to perform healings and wonders.
 
Ezekiel 24:1-25:17

Faith in times of tragedy

‘Faith is not shelter against difficulties, but belief in the face of all contradictions,’ wrote Paul Tournier.
Ezekiel’s faith is remarkable. His message is a very tough one. God is saying to his people that he has tried to cleanse them from their impurities, but they would not be clean and therefore his judgment is coming: ‘You will be judged according to your conduct and your actions’ (24:14). If we refuse to accept God’s forgiveness (which we now know is made possible through the cross of Christ), we will be judged on our own conduct and actions.
Ezekiel’s faith survives the tragic loss of his wife (‘the delight of [his] eyes’, v.16). God says he is going to take away Israel’s sanctuary – which is the delight of their eyes, the object of their affection (v.21). He is foretelling the terrible destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians.
He warns the other nations not to rejoice with malice in their hearts (25:6,15). God strongly disapproves of that feeling of secret glee (by which we can be tempted) when we see other people getting into trouble – it is the opposite of love.
When people hurt you, do not take vengeance into your own hands. Trust in God who promised that, in the end, he will ensure that justice is done (vv.15–17).
In the midst of the darkness in this passage, there is one ray of light. As the messenger arrives with news of Jerusalem’s destruction, Ezekiel’s enforced silence (see Ezekiel 3:24–27) comes to an end. This heralds a remarkable shift in his ministry. When his focus returns to the nation of Israel (chapter 33), the prophet of doom is transformed into a messenger of hope. The God of Justice will also be revealed as a God of grace and salvation.
Jesus has taken the judgment on himself. The blood of Jesus cleanses you from all sin. The Holy Spirit lives in you. Expect him to do great things through you – as you lean your whole weight on him.

Lord I bring to you today all my fears, anxieties and the challenges that lie ahead. I put my trust in you. I lean my whole weight on you today.
 
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CHADEMA and its sympathisers for the first time, albeit grudgingly and reluctantly, concede their 'god' is in deep shit. Efforts to extricate him from the heinous crimes he had committed through legal technicalities bore no fruit and the hearing is tormenting them like no business.

Instead of acknowledging he is reaping what he had sown and be remorseful they are summoning a water-leaking defence that their god is above the law, and as a result he should be set free to do whatever he wants to do which includes plotting to assassinate public figures who stood and grandstanded against him during the last general election.

We have heard enough evidence their god is guilty as charged and should rot in jail.

He made his own choices to be an outlaw and seeking a defence of "I am Mr. Politician....." is really mounting "I am guilty as charged.." kind of covert submission. And, we gladly take it as it is.


He is looking forward to serve a very long term sentence without a possibility of parole and those who have worshipped a creature more than the Creator naming a mortal man "Mwamba" a titular only reserved to Our Redeemer God will also reap what they had diligently sowed.

Chacha Wangwe is speaking from his grave and we are witnessing mighty things of God.

Nobody terminated his political career but he unplugged it with his own hands when he embarked upon being a law trespasser.


What we think of Shangazi wa Taifa:-

We believe albeit without any evidence to anchor our postulation that her acerbic attacks against SSH are very personal and have nothing to do with the issues at hand.

We also suspect she feels her father made a colossal blunder to have appointed SSH into Zenj cabinet where SSH political career whetted its teeth. We restrain ourselves to peek at Shangazi motives of spitefully treating SSH because our crystal ball eyes are guided by hunches which we cannot substantiate to the satisfaction of a human eye.

We have a reason to ask ourselves whether Shangazi perceives SSH political advancement may have occurred at her family expense? Her misplaced recriminations resemble a daughter's uncompromising resentment towards her step mom or her daddy's cruel mistress.This is a Pandora Box which we refuse to open up for obvious reasons. But all these queries and compelling analogies are worthless indulgences because surmises are what they say they are.

Our Take.

We pity Shangazi for backing a wrong horse who never respected rights of his sidekicks and treated those rights with so much contempt. What goes around always comes around.

We lament that such a brilliant legal mind is wasted because of siding with political thugs of our day. We say so because even before a case was in motion our good lawyer had a judgment scrawled by her moisty fingers carefully stuffed in her beautiful purse that declared her "client" in the Twitter World was innocent and should immediately be released forthwith.

When she began to hear the damning and incriminating evidence she knew that her "client" will never be freed now instead of eating a humble pie and apologise that she had made a huge mistake she keeps on playing an old tune again and again as part of face saving stratagem.

The evidence is overwhelming and befits the character of a man behind a misty mirror as we came to know of. He is on record buying thugs to harm his own feet in a forlorn hope he will garner more sympathy than Tundu Lissu 16 bullet ridden body and outbid him for the CDM presidential ticket.

His connections and association with the underworld is known and his obsession of power, money, sex among other lusts is legendary. Was he not caught seducing the newly CDM glamorous recruit poached from CCM enticing her to hook up with him in a plane to Arusha for a memorable rendezvous? Was he not with Godbless caught red handedly plotting how to block Tundu Lissu from gunning down the presidency before earning a CDM endorsement? Was he not who funded the Hai elder trip to Dar to urge himself to run for presidency blowing us apart with spurious claims he was the man of the people? Was he not the one who declared himself the PM and Tundu Lissu the president one day before the elections? As far as he was entitled to, the ballot could as well perish in hell!

Are his sins not a multitude? Is Shangazi really a law keeper or a lawbreaker when she justify the unjustifiable? Siding with the bandits make you not only a sympathiser of bad guys but a fully blown transgressor of the law too.

Regrettably, our beloved Shangazi has two faces and merging them yield just one gospel fact: She is besotted by equivocation. She pulverised Mwendazake as the butcher of Chato but her grandfather she seeks solace in convenient amnesia. She just has no recollection what he did because she was either a toddler or was insulated from coming to terms with the atrocities her great grandfather unleashed to his own people just to keep himself in power.

We urge Shangazi to seek the "Damascus light" and reclaim her true pedagogical platform as the vanguard of the gospel truth no matter who is a beneficiary or a victim. We will never cease to pray for her poor soul.




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The Race Marked Out for You

I have made many mistakes in life and have quite a few regrets. When I was nineteen I took part, on a whim, without any training, in ‘The Boundary Run’. It was slightly longer than a marathon and involved running around the boundary of the city of Cambridge, with much of it across ploughed fields.
For the first 14 miles, I was fine. After that, various bits of my body started to seize up. Although I completed the race in a reasonable time, it took me weeks to recover. Running a marathon without training is not a wise thing to do.
The writer of Hebrews says that the Christian life is like running a race. It is more like a marathon than a sprint. We are ‘long-distance runners’ (Hebrews 12:13, MSG). It requires training, endurance and discipline ‘if we are not to grow weary and lose heart’ (v.3). In each of the passages for today, you see what you need to do in order to run ‘the race marked out for [you]’ (v.1), as well as some of the results of doing so.
 
Psalm 125:1–5

Stay on track and keep going

‘Nothing great was ever done without much enduring,’ wrote St Catherine of Siena.
The key to endurance lies in trusting God: ‘Those who trust in God are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures for ever’ (v.1). This is not based on wishful thinking, but on the character and protection of the God in whom we trust.
God is with you. He is for you. He is above you. He is in you. He surrounds you: ‘the Lord surrounds his people’ (v.2). This protection is something you can rely on ‘both now, and for evermore’ (v.2).
Faith (‘trust in the Lord’, v.1) leads to righteousness (Romans 3:22), and the rest of this psalm focuses on the long-term outlook for both the righteous and the wicked. Regardless of how things may seem at the moment, ‘the sceptre of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous’ (Psalm 125:3a).
The psalmist warns against turning off the track: ‘Those who turn to crooked ways the Lord will banish with the evildoers’ (v.5). When we wander off the path we lose our peace. The psalmist’s prayer is ‘peace be upon Israel’ (v.5b).

Lord, thank you that you surround those who trust in you. I trust you with my life again today. Please protect me and give me your peace.
 
Hebrews 12:1–13

Run the race with perseverance

There is a race ‘marked out’ for you that you are urged to ‘run with perseverance’ (v.1). In this race, you have great encouragement. You are ‘surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses’ (v.1). These are the men and women of faith. Those listed in Hebrews 11 have all died, but the witnesses that surround us also include those still alive who are living examples of faith: ‘all those pioneers who blazed the way, all those veterans cheering us on’ (v.1, MSG).
Running your race is not going to be without its obstacles, difficulties, opposition and challenges. There are things that can trip you up along the way: ‘throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles’ (v.1).
In the ancient world, contestants stripped down to a loincloth for the race. Don’t be a spectator. Get in the race as a contestant.
Too many clothes would hinder an athlete. This is an analogy of getting rid not only of sin but also of other hindrances and distractions. Today, for example, social media can be good but it may also be a distraction.
The key to running the race successfully is to ‘fix our eyes on Jesus’ (v.2). Where an athlete looks is key to their success. Good athletes keep their eyes fixed on the finish line.
Jesus ‘never lost sight of where he was headed – that exhilarating finish in and with God’ (v.2, MSG). The only way to make ‘straight paths for your feet’ (v.13, KJV) is to be looking ahead at the goal rather than looking down at your feet. Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus. For every one look within, take ten looks at him.
As a follower of Christ, you will receive a lot of opposition, criticism and negative publicity, but it is absolutely nothing compared to what Jesus endured for you.
Jesus is ‘the author [‘leader’, ‘originator’, ‘pioneer’] and perfecter [‘completer’, ‘finisher’] of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God’ (v.2, AMP). The key to your endurance is to ‘consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart’ (v.3).
Keeping your eyes fixed on Jesus should help you to put it all in perspective. For most of us, in our struggle against sin (like the readers of this letter) we have not yet resisted to the point of shedding our blood (v.4).
Running a successful race requires training. Training is hard work; it requires discipline and can even be quite painful.
Here the writer uses the image of parents disciplining their children. It is done out of love: ‘the Lord disciplines those he loves’ (v.6a). Discipline is the proof ‘that God regards you as his children’ (v.6, MSG).
He goes on, ‘God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. He’s treating you as dear children. This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, the normal experience of children’ (vv.7–8, MSG).
‘We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God's training so we can truly live?’ (v.9, MSG). God is training you for your own good that you may ‘share in his holiness’ (v.10). It may be painful at the time but, ‘later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it’s the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God’ (v.11, MSG).
Keep running the race: ‘So don’t sit around on your hands! No more dragging your feet! Clear the path for long-distance runners so no one will trip and fall, so no one will step in a hole and sprain an ankle. Help each other out. And run for it!’ (vv.12–13, MSG).

Lord, help me to endure hardship as discipline, knowing that you are treating me as your child (v.7). May I come to share in your holiness and produce a harvest of righteousness and peace.
 
Ezekiel 26:1–27:36

Throw off anything that slows you down

Western society is in danger of going in the same direction as Tyre. It was wealthy and powerful. It was a nation of successful business and global trading. This has a contemporary feel. As Ken Costa describes in his book, God at Work, ‘Tyre was at the corner of all financial and commercial transactions in the region. Tyre could so easily be the City of London or Wall Street or Tokyo.’
Tyre is an example of society organised to fulfil itself without God. It is attractive (27:3), and that is what makes it so seductive. Money-making, empire building and luxury are attractive.
We are supposed to love people and use things. We go wrong when we start loving things and using people. Consumerism is a great danger in the modern world, but it is nothing new. Tyre was a nation that had ended up loving things and using people – even trading slaves (v.14).
To run the race successfully we have to ‘throw off everything that hindersand the sin that so easily entangles’ (Hebrews 12:1).
The sins of Tyre were pride, revelling and self-sufficiency (Isaiah 23; Ezekiel 27:3). There was treachery and slave trading (Amos 1:9; Ezekiel 27:13). Ezekiel warns that God’s judgment will fall on the nation (Ezekiel 26:1–6). Its pride will be its downfall. Tyre boasted, ‘I am perfect in beauty’ (27:3).
But God warns, ‘Everything sinks – your rich goods and products, sailors and crew, ship’s carpenters and soldiers, sink to the bottom of the sea. Total shipwreck’ (v.27, MSG).
This prophecy was partially fulfilled in 586–573 BC, when Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, laid siege to Tyre for thirteen years. Nebuchadnezzar did not completely destroy Tyre, but Alexander the Great fulfilled these verses in 332 BC.
The focus on trading, money and consumer goods seems eerily similar to some aspects of modern consumerism (especially in this season as we lead up to Christmas). We need to remember that, however enticing these things may seem, they are transitory and fleeting.
Don’t get entangled. Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus the author and perfecter of your faith (Hebrews 12:1–2). Throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. Run with perseverance the race marked out for you.
 
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