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Years of breakthrough or doom?

Many believers take prophets on their word
Many believers take prophets on their word

In the weeks preceding January 1 2013, pastors and prophets of different churches prophesied that it was going to be the year of breakthroughs, the year when God would answer supplications of this nation.

Some clergy declared that 2013 would be a year of answers for the nation spiritually and economically.

But as it turned out, the year did not bring the envisaged breakthroughs to the nation.

Instead, the ‘breakthrough’ came in the shape of the plunder of government resources, christened cashgate, that forced donors to suspend budgetary support to Malawi.

The despair-laden nation closed 2013 with deaths of eight members of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church in Lilongwe when lightning struck their church.

Such problems notwithstanding, prophets and leaders of various Pentecostal churches are going ahead to declare new themes for 2014.

For example, leader of the Calvary Family Church (CFC) Apostle Madalitso Mbewe has described 2014 as a ‘great year with fruitful harvest and overflowing unstoppable growth’ while his Nigerian counterpart, TB Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (Scoan), has declared it ‘a year of crossing the bridge.’

Mujifumbe Zimba of Kamalibwe Catholic Church in Mzimba said it is an insult for the clergy to declare 2013 a year of breakthroughs because of the many sad events that characterised the year.

“The year 2013 deserved to be declared a year of national mourning, not breakthrough.  How do our latter-day prophets measure breakthroughs? Is it in the loss of innocent lives to drug stock-outs in public hospitals? Is it in the loss of lives to lightning?

“Certainly, there can’t be a breakthrough where public resources are being plundered at will by civil servants. Let me warn latter-day prophets to tread carefully because their actions may easily frustrate believers, especially when their prophesies don’t come to pass,” said Zimba.

Reverend Billy Kamphata Banda of the Livingstones Baptist Church in Blantyre described such prophesies as false and warned believers to beware of ‘men of God’ peddling them.

Banda said believers should beware of false prophets who are on the prowl to lead God’s people astray through unsubstantiated prophesies.

“Although there is nothing wrong about hoping for a successful new year, it’s very wrong for pastors to give people false hopes. I totally subscribe to those questioning the rationale behind labeling 2013 a year of breakthrough because this was a year of disaster, sorrow and mourning for the nation,” he said.

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  1. Ma prophet ndi ku Malawi komwe? Koma Yesu akuzionera.ndiye ndinakwera tax kuchokera ku 43 kupita mtauni, man ena a ku Nigeria amalalikira mchizungu ena kumamasulira,ndiye amalongolora bwanji? M’busa amwene tai ali kuno jecket atavalira dzuwa likun’gamba man. Ndiye ndinazifunsa kuti ada amenewa akulalikadi zoti anthu alape kapena akufuna mpamba wa gen?

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