Rev. Mannie Nsofwa
Pastor's perspective
Of Enlightenement
The mind must be taught to think, the heart to feel and the hands to labour
Dear beloved we are in 2011. As always we continue urging the world to return back home, to God. At sin man lost his way home. He became confused and there was no certainty about his life. He sort out various inventions to find satisfaction for his soul. After so many years of trying man is still scared and his life is uncertain. Man thinks help is out coming from the sky or probably from outside himself. Christ says the kingdom of God does not come with observation. It's withing you. It comes from within you. This is to say, enlightenment does not come with observations either it comes from within you. The only thing that's keeping you from God's kingdom and enlightenment is yourself. Paul says, Christ must rule until he has put all enemies, flesh/humanity, under his feet.
I Cor. 15:25.
So the battle is within one self, between the inner man and the outer man. We need to love God then he and his Christ will come and dwell in us and teach us all things. IJohn 2:20, 27
The mind must be taught to think, the heart to feel and the hands to labour
Dear beloved we are in 2011. As always we continue urging the world to return back home, to God. At sin man lost his way home. He became confused and there was no certainty about his life. He sort out various inventions to find satisfaction for his soul. After so many years of trying man is still scared and his life is uncertain. Man thinks help is out coming from the sky or probably from outside himself. Christ says the kingdom of God does not come with observation. It's withing you. It comes from within you. This is to say, enlightenment does not come with observations either it comes from within you. The only thing that's keeping you from God's kingdom and enlightenment is yourself. Paul says, Christ must rule until he has put all enemies, flesh/humanity, under his feet.
I Cor. 15:25.
So the battle is within one self, between the inner man and the outer man. We need to love God then he and his Christ will come and dwell in us and teach us all things. IJohn 2:20, 27
Kitwe and Chililabombwe visits
On 5th June, 2011, Rev. Mannie Nsofwa visited the household, Church, of Rev. Francis Mangani. During this time Br. Mangani was away on a church trip to des moines iowa in the United States Of America. The church service was very warm. God reminded us of the necessity of the people of God to understand that God is working with family not institution... And that Christ only grew in stature and wisdom when he learnt to submit to family. Luke 2: 48 And when they saw him, they were amazed : and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold , thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing . 49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? 50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. Christ did not grow up in an institution called sanhendren or temple but from a God fearing family. In our time the anoited Church is going to come from respective households composed of God fearing and people who are being cleaned by the word of God from all over the world. people living together and caring for one another as a family. Joh:15:3: Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
on 12th June, 2011 Rev. Nsofwa was at the household of Brother Helings Vinkumbo in Chililabombwe. God there also echoed the same need he echoed in Kitwe. We learnt that why we are different is that God is healing our Spiritual part of humanity which is needed to hear the word of God. Man is composed of body, soul and spirit. in the Body man hears God using instincts, senses or intuitions, in the soul man hears God by "Gnosis" believing the all picture after seeing just a glimpse; got to do with experience and in the spirit he hears by epi Gnosis. Epi meaning from above; Epi-Gnosis means Knowledge that's from above. This understanding mostly understood by Paul; This knowledge comes to your spirit, bounces off your spirit to your soul, then your eyes will see spiritual things. Pure revelation; light. That's when the word grabs you and burns within you.
on 12th June, 2011 Rev. Nsofwa was at the household of Brother Helings Vinkumbo in Chililabombwe. God there also echoed the same need he echoed in Kitwe. We learnt that why we are different is that God is healing our Spiritual part of humanity which is needed to hear the word of God. Man is composed of body, soul and spirit. in the Body man hears God using instincts, senses or intuitions, in the soul man hears God by "Gnosis" believing the all picture after seeing just a glimpse; got to do with experience and in the spirit he hears by epi Gnosis. Epi meaning from above; Epi-Gnosis means Knowledge that's from above. This understanding mostly understood by Paul; This knowledge comes to your spirit, bounces off your spirit to your soul, then your eyes will see spiritual things. Pure revelation; light. That's when the word grabs you and burns within you.
Saints at the household of Chililabombwe with Reverend Vinkumbo,far (L) ; and Reverend Mannie Nsofwa, far (R) 12 th June, 2011
Whats Happening?
God is taking the church at Chilanga to another level. We see Christ being formed every day in the inner man of the saints. We are aware of the vision of the body of Christ. Christ is producing a corporate son who is going to be the hope of all creation. Romans 18:19. The outer man, flesh, humanity is dying everyday in the lives of these saints of God. Every one is pressing forward to be obedient to God and to enter there Sabbaths, never again to indulge in things that elevates the outer man. The outer man, flesh and blood can never be enlightened in the things of God. Its destiny is destruction that's why we are dying; becoming selfless, every day. The answer to dying to self is the continuance feeding on the word of God, not the word of man.
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Lost Souls
The soul of a man, nephesh (neh'-fesh); a breathing creature, (bodily or mental): appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead (-ly), desire, X [dis-] contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart (-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thyself-), them (your)- selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
The soul of a man was meant to be self sustainable. Its lubrication, healing, fulfillment, contentment is vested inwardly. Any time the soul looks outwardly for satisfaction sorrow creeps in. Outward satisfaction brings a yearning not a fulfillment. You will always desire and your soul will have to be serviced with these outward lubrication's all your days of your life in this dimension,earth. So sad we have fallen into this trap. We are born in a vexed dimension,earth, where we are taught the soul has to be sustained by outward elements. Our souls have been deprogrammed to look for maintenance utilities on the out ward. We are controlled by a self imposed system. our lives from the time we are conceived are controlled and determined by the "system". every thing is a model of what the "system" has created. It tell us what to eat, speak, read, know, it even gives us a go ahead on when to move on and live a good life, "education". The system has made us so busy imitating its standards that we have become zombies, dummy, robots, without a mind of our own to look and get the truth about living in this kingdom of the blind.
and so we continue losing our souls and living in sorrow for ever.
Yet the answer is always with us. no external influence will bring enlightenment to this wretched soul. Even the God,source of life, root of life, lives in us. when we stop and beginning thinking, feeding, reading.... from inside we will find peace untold. until then we continue loosing our souls. a lost soul is one which has given its power to sustain itself to the flesh. the flesh is the biggest enemy we have.
Human being = flesh + soul
Flesh tends to feed from outward sources. it's that which makes us sorrow and hope for the physical elements
Soul inclines inwards. Its that which makes us believe and fight to go back to the source of life, inward.
so there is a tug of war in every human. the answer is to kill one. here is wisdom if you kill the soul, lost soul, you will go to Hell rather your life will be a living hell you will always be restless and yearning to fill the place of the soul you have lost with physical elements but alas the soul is irreplaceable. if you kill the flesh, bring the flesh into subjugation to the will of the soul, you will have infinite peace. your soul will reconnect to the internal source, God, Source of life, where comes incorruptible peace and joy. the soul will be blind to the physical elements and hence will never be vexed.
Rev. Mannie Nsofwa. 2008
The soul of a man was meant to be self sustainable. Its lubrication, healing, fulfillment, contentment is vested inwardly. Any time the soul looks outwardly for satisfaction sorrow creeps in. Outward satisfaction brings a yearning not a fulfillment. You will always desire and your soul will have to be serviced with these outward lubrication's all your days of your life in this dimension,earth. So sad we have fallen into this trap. We are born in a vexed dimension,earth, where we are taught the soul has to be sustained by outward elements. Our souls have been deprogrammed to look for maintenance utilities on the out ward. We are controlled by a self imposed system. our lives from the time we are conceived are controlled and determined by the "system". every thing is a model of what the "system" has created. It tell us what to eat, speak, read, know, it even gives us a go ahead on when to move on and live a good life, "education". The system has made us so busy imitating its standards that we have become zombies, dummy, robots, without a mind of our own to look and get the truth about living in this kingdom of the blind.
and so we continue losing our souls and living in sorrow for ever.
Yet the answer is always with us. no external influence will bring enlightenment to this wretched soul. Even the God,source of life, root of life, lives in us. when we stop and beginning thinking, feeding, reading.... from inside we will find peace untold. until then we continue loosing our souls. a lost soul is one which has given its power to sustain itself to the flesh. the flesh is the biggest enemy we have.
Human being = flesh + soul
Flesh tends to feed from outward sources. it's that which makes us sorrow and hope for the physical elements
Soul inclines inwards. Its that which makes us believe and fight to go back to the source of life, inward.
so there is a tug of war in every human. the answer is to kill one. here is wisdom if you kill the soul, lost soul, you will go to Hell rather your life will be a living hell you will always be restless and yearning to fill the place of the soul you have lost with physical elements but alas the soul is irreplaceable. if you kill the flesh, bring the flesh into subjugation to the will of the soul, you will have infinite peace. your soul will reconnect to the internal source, God, Source of life, where comes incorruptible peace and joy. the soul will be blind to the physical elements and hence will never be vexed.
Rev. Mannie Nsofwa. 2008
