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2008-06-24
By Guardian Reporter, Dodoma
National Assembly Speaker Samuel Sitta has called for prayers for the august House as it passes through a difficult period.
He told hundreds of believers attending a weeklong religious seminar on `Strategies for Owning and Managing the Economy through Prayers` which ended here on Sunday evening that some legislators who fought for justice were being targeted.
Sitta, however, expressed hope that such MPs and the National Assembly would eventually triumph.
The facilitator and preacher of the seminar, Christopher Mwakasege, welcomed the Speaker who was among MPs attending the seminar to speak to the audience.
The Speaker, likening the situation which the said MPs and the House were passing through with tribulations which the Biblical Job suffered, said just as Job emerged victorious from the devil's attacks, pro-justice MPs would eventually prevail.
``Some of the MPs who are pro justice are under attack. Ultimately, we will rise above evil,`` he said, quoting from the book of Job: ``I know that my Protector lives; and that He will eventually reign over the land.``
In his teachings, Mwakasege said: ``Don`t feed your hunger, feed your vision.
Even if you are in a position of leadership, you have to realise that God wants to use you, but what you `eat,` the people you associate with can ruin your relationship with God,`` he said.
He gave an example of a boxer and a legislator saying, a boxer had a special menu that empowered him to fight.
Mwakasege said an MP had to compare his campaign statements with his behaviour two years after being elected.
``If he changes for worse and does not care about the electorate, it may be because what he eats and people he associates with have corrupted him,`` he said.
Mwakasege said there must be something that the MP had eaten or people he was associating with that could corrupt him.
He said if a legislator was corrupt and associated himself with dishonest individuals, his behaviour would also change and he would lose the ability to make rational decisions and ultimately descend to injustice.
Mwakasege said: ``Where are you? What have you eaten? Why is your presence not felt? Why are you not open about what you believe in?`` he asked.
Quoting from the Book of Daniel and Psalm 1, Mwakasege urged people to be careful with what they ate and their choice of friends, lest they lost their direction in life and angered God.
SOURCE: Guardian
By Guardian Reporter, Dodoma
National Assembly Speaker Samuel Sitta has called for prayers for the august House as it passes through a difficult period.
He told hundreds of believers attending a weeklong religious seminar on `Strategies for Owning and Managing the Economy through Prayers` which ended here on Sunday evening that some legislators who fought for justice were being targeted.
Sitta, however, expressed hope that such MPs and the National Assembly would eventually triumph.
The facilitator and preacher of the seminar, Christopher Mwakasege, welcomed the Speaker who was among MPs attending the seminar to speak to the audience.
The Speaker, likening the situation which the said MPs and the House were passing through with tribulations which the Biblical Job suffered, said just as Job emerged victorious from the devil's attacks, pro-justice MPs would eventually prevail.
``Some of the MPs who are pro justice are under attack. Ultimately, we will rise above evil,`` he said, quoting from the book of Job: ``I know that my Protector lives; and that He will eventually reign over the land.``
In his teachings, Mwakasege said: ``Don`t feed your hunger, feed your vision.
Even if you are in a position of leadership, you have to realise that God wants to use you, but what you `eat,` the people you associate with can ruin your relationship with God,`` he said.
He gave an example of a boxer and a legislator saying, a boxer had a special menu that empowered him to fight.
Mwakasege said an MP had to compare his campaign statements with his behaviour two years after being elected.
``If he changes for worse and does not care about the electorate, it may be because what he eats and people he associates with have corrupted him,`` he said.
Mwakasege said there must be something that the MP had eaten or people he was associating with that could corrupt him.
He said if a legislator was corrupt and associated himself with dishonest individuals, his behaviour would also change and he would lose the ability to make rational decisions and ultimately descend to injustice.
Mwakasege said: ``Where are you? What have you eaten? Why is your presence not felt? Why are you not open about what you believe in?`` he asked.
Quoting from the Book of Daniel and Psalm 1, Mwakasege urged people to be careful with what they ate and their choice of friends, lest they lost their direction in life and angered God.
SOURCE: Guardian