The Fountain magazine Issue 02, April 2014
The second issue of the Fountain Magazine by Fountains of Christ ministry, Kenya. www.focministry.org
The second issue of the Fountain Magazine by Fountains of Christ ministry, Kenya. www.focministry.org
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Reflections<br />
Catastrophe<br />
with Divin e<br />
Compliance<br />
by June Ngoya,<br />
Pangani Girls SDA Society<br />
When Christ constrained<br />
the disciples<br />
to enter the<br />
boat, they did not argue, they<br />
entered the boat. He then went to<br />
pray for them. (Matt 14:22-24)<br />
Today, God commands (constrains)<br />
us to obey His commandments;<br />
to do His will. <strong>The</strong> same<br />
way Christ went to pray for His<br />
disciples is the same way God<br />
As you read this am not sure whether you<br />
are alive or dead. Likewise, as you claim<br />
your righteousness, only God can discern your rotting<br />
frame, slowly wasting away to the world. Only<br />
the devil can tell how much he has attempted to<br />
pull you closer to him, that you may be a walking<br />
dead.<br />
I said,<br />
Live!<br />
by<br />
Linda Nyakara<br />
Pangani Girls SDA<br />
Beloved of the most<br />
high, can’t you hear the<br />
solemn call: for how<br />
long shall you crave<br />
for death, while life has<br />
been served to you on<br />
a silver plate? For how<br />
long shall you grope<br />
blindly on the wide narrow<br />
way? For how long<br />
shall you smile feigningly<br />
at the face of death? Shall you not choose to live?<br />
Shall you not heed to the sweet message of the<br />
cross: I died to set you free, that you might have<br />
live, and have it abundantly.<br />
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your<br />
backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou<br />
art the LORD our God (Jeremiah 3:22)<br />
And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted<br />
in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou<br />
wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when<br />
thou wast in thy blood: Live. (Ezekiel 16:1)<br />
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watches over us when we do His<br />
will. He knows that the world is<br />
not skewed to accept it. Sometimes<br />
you may ask, “Where were<br />
you when all these things happened?”<br />
you may be forced to go<br />
for classes when you should be<br />
in church, communing with your<br />
Father, you may be forced to do<br />
laborious duties when you instead<br />
ought to be “keeping the Sabbath<br />
Holy” or be called out of the<br />
church to do what heaven demands<br />
not, but in all these things,<br />
the Lord bids, “My son/daughter,<br />
do not be discouraged. Be faithful<br />
to the end. Though the path is<br />
narrow and the ride rough, I will<br />
always be with you. It may pain<br />
but I am always there for you”<br />
Every good deed is recorded.<br />
Every suffering for the Lord is<br />
recorded. Your reward may not<br />
be realized here on earth but it’s<br />
surely there in Heaven. If we just<br />
do God’s will and obey His commandments<br />
including the fourth,<br />
we will emerge victorious. If victory<br />
was achieved through the<br />
physical death, then it can be<br />
achieved under all circumstances.<br />
Do His will and leave the rest to<br />
God’s hands! He spins the planets<br />
and lights up the stars. He controls<br />
the world and everything in it<br />
alongside the heavens. “<strong>The</strong>n said<br />
he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for<br />
from the first day that thou didst<br />
set thine heart to understand and<br />
to chasten thyself before thy God,<br />
thy words were heard, and I am<br />
come for thy words.” (Daniel 10:12)<br />
God answered Daniel’s prayer at<br />
last! Endure! O soldier of Christ!<br />
Endure!<br />
To keep the love of God before me as my chief good<br />
and highest joy; to find in it my most supreme counsel,<br />
and in the way of God my fullest measure of contentment;<br />
to possess in Christ all the fullness of God, and the perfect<br />
model of my character; to realize the greatest riches in a<br />
virtuous life, and to achieve my highest honor in the loving<br />
service of my fellow men; to learn in study and prayer the<br />
genius of most valuable and<br />
abiding work, and to hold my<br />
talents as a trust from God.<br />
To satisfy my social tastes<br />
in companionship of sincere<br />
people, and to make all society<br />
better by my presence; to add<br />
some knowledge and strength<br />
to myself each day, that I be not<br />
My Ideal<br />
by<br />
Jeff Nyauke,<br />
Chairman , AHS<br />
SDA Society<br />
unprepared and fail in some great and trying hour; to avoid<br />
the compromise of my character, and the giving of an advantage<br />
of evil against myself into the hands of the vicious,<br />
whereby I might be humiliated and undone in the presence<br />
of honor; to invest liberally in the grace of human kindness;<br />
to give no favour to the wrong, and to waste no time nor talent<br />
in that which does not count for good, to know the right<br />
in all my relations, and to be loyal to it; not to be ashamed to<br />
be on the moral side of every question, and to be there; to be<br />
strong in my convictions, chaste in my sentiments, magnanimous<br />
in my spirit, open-hearted in my spirit, open-hearted in<br />
my fellowship, and gentle in my address.<br />
To let the spiritual inspire me above the material passions<br />
and rewards; to find a great reason for all that I do, and to do<br />
my best in all I find; to go to the full length of my appointed<br />
time, render a full measure of the appointed task, reach the<br />
full stature of a man in Christ, and be ready when He calls.<br />
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