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• Pauline Brown

  Amen and thank you for your comment this morning. Present truth is applicable in every era of our Christian journey and for this time we are to be made aware of Second coming of Jesus Christ which led to the 1844 awakening to the Judgement now taking place in the Most Holy Place followed by the observance of the 7th day Sabbath. I join in your prayer.

  The Lord has promised in Jeremiah 3:15 "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding" This is the Word of God. Let's keep praying and continue to remain under the Blood-stained banner of Prince Emmanuel. Be blessed.

• Penebid

  “Heavenly Father, send us leaders at every level of this church – leaders that will bring about a revival and reformation.”, says Pastor Pardon. How true, how true. It is now even more important that we have leaders at every level of this church because we are living in perilous times, times of the end and there is much to get ready. We need leaders who are not afraid to stand for the truth, truth that comes from the Word of God. We need revival and reformation throughout our church. Only the Holy Spirit can change our hearts and I pray diligently for God to prepare our hearts to receive the Holy Spirit. NOW IS THE TIME TO BE READY FOR CHRIST'S RETURN!

• Pauline Brown

  Amen and amen sister!

• Stanley Peters

  Very Good morning to my RBHW family. I am tremendously blessed by your great comments today Pastor Mwansa - Thank you. Allow me to express my deep concern about revival and reformation. I am convinced that a revival is happening right now, and a high note of praise must ascend to God. However reformation has me a little concerned as it relates to the Sabbath. Verses 17 & 18 Nehemiah was quite clear to announce that it was because they profaned the Sabbath the disaster was brought upon them. Should we not take a closer look at our Sabbath observance. By this I mean, holding meetings, hosting sporting activities, much cooking for large gatherings on the Sabbath day. The sanctity of the Sabbath is lost even because the day is cluttered with non-essentials. Lets rigorously apply Isaiah 58:12 - 14 to our Sabbath practices. And I am trying for reform in my own life in that area.
  Having said all of that could someone clarify the real meaning of John 5:17 in its context as it relates to this.
  I am not celebrating Fathers' Day but I am grasping the opportunity to express my sincerest gratitude to fathers who would have done their best to rear children in the fear and the admonition of the Lord. God bless all of you, and mothers' who would have to play the role of fathers God abundantly bless you too. Today my mother celebrates her 89th birthday, I solicit your prayer as she has not embraced the Sabbath, which I have tried to introduce to her. Have a great day family.

• Pauline Brown

  Stanley, I pray that God will somehow, some way, break through to your mother's mind and cause her to turn to Him with all her heart. Lord, I pray that you will bind Satan from blinding Stanley's mother's eyes to Your truth and break every influence he has on her mind. In Jesus' Name I pray. amen

• Pauline Brown

  Thank you Stanley for your comment. I too am very concerned about our Sabbath observance--meetings that can be held on Sunday or another day in the week are brought forward to Sabbath not to mention the carting of food cooked on the Sabbath and we see nothing wrong with this. Oh how we need revival and reformation!! My heart is heavy. Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, have mercy on us!!

• Jaye_Ghee

  I endorse your sentiments Stabley. I tremble at the things I see happening in church and on the Sabbath too, such as paying of bills (even if these are for religious materials), the paying at the door to enter an event and the list goes no......Lord have mercy on us!

  Praying a special prayer for your mother and look forward to your testimony of praise

• charock01

  Thanks Pastor Mwanza; it's been a good sharing the through Ezra and Nehemiah with you. Blessings on your continued ministry.

  As I reflect on this chapter it really appears that revival and reformation cannot happen without ruffling feathers, being accused of being insensitive, and of being politically incorrect. On every level it's a tough job, but someone's got to do it - under the guidance of the Holy Spirit of course.

  I thought specifically of the eviction of Tobiah, and how today we would have legal technicalities (with rent boards and all) to obstruct our being able to get rid of him as easily as Nehemiah did. Today a whole sleuth of laws are emerging that have a tendency to regulate the practice of our faith. We must be resolute to remain faithful to God and God alone.

• Erpidia Mercado

  Amen. We need leaders that seek God's counsel and lead by example. I praise God that He forgives me and lifts me up as I repent and lift my hands toward Him. Nehemiah was challenged but his faith and trust in God kept him moving forward. As I walked my dog early this morning, I prayed for those around my community, that they too would seek the Lord. Heavenly Father, may I be an example of Your love to all whom I meet. May I always put you first in all I do. Bless us this day I pray in Jesus name. Amen.

• AKIN

  Amen as the Church prays for leadership

• Maronne

  Thank you Holy Spirit for inspiring Elder Mwanza. All Seventh-day Adventists need to join in prayer for leadership, who under the direction of the Holy Spirit will bring about revival and reformation among His people. The three areas mentioned in the devotion are critical to our renewed positioning in Christ.

• Prince Odai

  thank you pastor for sharing this bible test,may God keep on blessing you

• Judith Lorraine

  Amen Pastor Mwansa!

• KT Abbequaye

  Thank you Pastor Pardon Mwansa for sharing these gems and insights! May The Lord give us grace to be faithful always! Amen

• Derek Morris

  Thank you, Pastor Mwansa, for your thoughtful insights about Present Truth. We have been blessed to receive much truth from the Word of God, but there is still more to learn. Let us be like the commended Christians in Berea who searched the Scriptures daily to see if those things were so. His Word is still a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. That's why I'm so thankful for this Revived By His Word initiative, and I'm looking forward to the book of Esther!

• Penebid

  Amen! Praise the Lord!!!

• AKIN

  YES!!!!! We love HOPE SABBATH SCHOOL, as the WORD is made understandable and applicable

• Blanca Brown

  Thank you Pastor Mwansa and also Pastor Morris for your comments and I also can wait for the book of Esther, continue the good work on the Sabbath school on Hope channel. AMEN AND AMEN

• Harriet

  Amen pastor D" I'm so thankful for the fact that you are my leader in this process of RBH.

• Magdiel Perez Schulz

  Ne
  13 - That courage of Nehemiah! Preached, counseled, admonished,
  scolded... because he took the right side, God blessed him and Israel! #RbHw

• Danny Moonie

  God called His people out of Babylon and only a remnant faithfully obeyed the command. They endured difficult trial as a result, but many years later are found committing the same sin that those who were in Babylon committed. The very same Sabbath command, which they recognized was important to keep when they came out of Babylon, they were now breaking. Nehemiah reminded them of the example of Solomon who received great blessing from God, but little compromises led him into sin. The sobering lessons in this chapter are for us, God's people who have faithfully obeyed the call to come out of spiritual Babylon. It is difficult to even think of the instances where I have acted like God's people back then. It is difficult also to recognize just how similar our corporate mistakes are to that of ancient Judah. I believe that one of the central message for us here is to take courage and stand up like Nehemiah. May God give us wisdom and courage to make a difference.

• Pauline Brown

  Amen!

• Stanley Peters

  Amen and I am praying for us Elder that God will indeed help us out of Laodieca.

• Harriet

  Amen

• Colleen (cfinneganv)

  My prayer as well amen

• Denis Lavrut

  We were truly blessed by the testimony of Nehemiah but what a sad ending. Nehemiah has gone just a few years and every moral standard collapsed. It is not just the testimony of the time of Nehemiah unfortunately, it is simply how it is between the garden of Eden and the second coming of our Lord. Today you clean your garden and it is clean and beautiful, you go away just a few days and come back to find bad grass crawling from everywhere. That is why this morning I want to lift my hands up and thank our Father in heaven for Jesus His Son. Thank You dear God because without the Blood of Jesus we are all lost. We praise You today and fall tomorrow, but because of Jesus we get up again and continue our walk with You with our head up. We rejoice because we have a Saviour and we are victorious because of the name of Jesus. That is all now I can focus on.

  2 Cor 4:16-18 says "Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal" . Amen Father !

• Pauline Brown

  Amen

• Harriet

  Amen

• Eddie Armstrong

  Denis,
  i was blessed by your comments today. Sad but true that sin pulls the outward man towards death. But the inward man controlled by the Spirit is renewed and prepared for eternal life.

• Penebid

  So true! Amen!

• Gloria Mosha-Onchiri

  Amen.

• mona

  Hold on to our hands as we walk with You today dear Jesus. Amen

• Harriet

  Good morning blessed of my father, and thanks to pastor Mwansa for the inspiring blog.
  Neh 13:14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its services!
  Brothers and sisters I know I cannot use this prayer today, but it is my aim through the power of his might that one day I will be able to pray like Nehemiah here;
  my aim in this reformation process is to encourage many people to read the word of God for themselves especially women and I have been trying to teach women on how to study the bible effectively both in Zambia and Botswana since I'm currently a resident of these two countries because of my husband working in Botswana and myself in Zambia.

  Heavenly father we have learnt all what Nehemiah did for you, and the fact that he was neither a priest nor a prophet but a reformer who you raised for yourself, this gives us courage to believe that even the RBHW family has been raised to bring about reformation in all our family circles and all the people around us will see the light. Thank you father for choosing us while we were yet sinners, in Jesus's name I pray, Amen.

• Erpidia Mercado

  Amen. May God continue to bless your ministry as you bring His Word to all who are thirsting.

• Irma

  Amen

• Colleen (cfinneganv)

  Amen and amen

• Danny Moonie

  Amen! God wants us all to be faithful like Nehemiah and do what He is calling us to do. May we be faithful to the end!

• mona

  Amen Harriet.

• Matie

  Amen Pastor Mwanza

• Gordin Malaba

  24" And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of one or the other people." This verse gave me some food for thought; what language do our children speak? And by language I mean the slangs of this world; do the words they speak reflect a Christian background? Or they now speak the language used by the so called musician of this world? It's very important that the speech our children is different from that of the world!

• Harriet

  Amen Gordin, not just our children actually even adults, one day I was given a lift by one of my church sisters and the kind of language she used whenever we came across a careless driver made me wonder as to whether she was a christian or not. I could not even talk to her about it on the same day I had to go home first and I asked God on how to go about it. But even after talking to her she was still convinced beyond imagination that the drivers in the country were so unruly.

• mona

  Yes, we are blind to our own sins.

• Ruth Sejeso

  Our God has promised to be with us always, in the book of Nehemiah we are being taught to labour for the Lord and have a weapon on the other hand to protect ourselves. I need further explanation on that and how do I reconcile it with trusting the angel that is set beside me?

• Harriet

  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph. 6:11, 12 {ML 309.1}

  It is not safe for us, when going into battle, to cast away our weapons. It is then that we need to be equipped with the whole armor of God. Every piece is essential. {ML 309.2}

  While Satan is constantly seeking to blind their minds to the fact, let Christians never forget that they "wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits {margin} in high places." The inspired warning is sounding down the centuries to our time: "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." . . . {ML 309.3}

  Ruth as a Christians you and me cannot go round doing God's word without that weapon in our hand because we will be defeated and that weapon is non other than the WORD OF GOD.

• Harriet

  Amen

• Gordin Malaba

  Hey, my sister how are you? Long time, how is Botswana? I think this has more to do with being vigilant at all times. Of course it doesn't mean we don't have faith; for even with that weapon we still need God's protection.

• Jabu Mangena

  Thank you bretheren for your insights. The book of Nehemiah is really a blessing to me. The God of Heaven will surely bless you. Let us not forget to share/distribute the book Great Hope.

• Wojtek Janiuk

  Amen brother Pardon

• Ruth Haamankuli

  Yes indeed, hope you had a blast Sabbath.

• Ruth Haamankuli

  "Present truth is not motionless. Present truth is dynamic. Present truth is always new and continues unchanged through the ages." Amen to my childhood preacher; pastor Mwansa.The King Heralds are singing at our Camp meeting in Minnesota and had a powerful afternoon concert. This just increased my joy from the chapter 12 concert. Alas, I like stories that end well: I had hoped for a happy retirement of Nehemiah after this concert when these events unfolded before me in this chapter: seeming Israeli bigotry and racial discrimination against their relatives through Abraham's nephew, the Ammonites and Edomites (Lot's descendants from his incest marriage with his daughters) who wronged them nine centuries before, God's portrayal of vindictiveness and ease provocation, Nehemiah's seeming over reactions regards kids from mixed marriage, reaction to the high priest who was in alliance with Israel's enemy, openly chasing away the priest's son married to a foreigner, Israeli profanity of the holy day leading the man of God to order closure of gates at sunset on friday.......This spiraled my emotions in a not so intended laughter.
  
  The main blog cleared it all for me, praise God.This is really power filled pastor Mwansa, I sensed the energy tantamount to that of Nehemiah in Ch 13 in your closing blog. You really allayed my anxiety. This nation honestly had really corrupted the principles (we/Iam no better though), calls to the Levites to sanctify themselves were endless in this chapter alone. These corruptions had even made the faithful few to start with holding their tithe. Folks, the more truth we are imbued with, the more the Lord demands from us, because our lives always influence the other on-looking brethren. Before we know it, our errors go viral. That is why Solomon's error lingered long in generation and still comes up to Nehemiah's mind at this apostate time.That is why there has been incidents where a "fall" of a church leader led to so many lost souls who had high esteem on them in as much as we can humanly attest that Christ is the leader. Nehemiah reacted the way Christ did in the temple towards the money changers, probably worse. How can he not when Christ was looking for strong stand against evil and ways for no evil to continue in his days? "Flesh" is the relative we have to rid like the Israelites had to rid the Ammonites and Edomites. A few good men, a few good ladies, to stand fearlessly, now are needed. The battle, friends is getting more rough, front-wise and rear, and all angles, for Christ is about to come, we all ought to gird our loins and prepare to stand boldly like did this fine man of God. He promises to fight on our behalf though. I am encouraged again.
  So, I echo Isaiah's short answer/phrase to the Lord's question today: " Here I am Lord, send me" as an agent of the needed revival and reformation.

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