📸 'Do not let corrupt put hands on food systems'

“Do not let the corrupt put their hands on the food systems, your children will be slaves in their own land,” Rubaga Miracle Centre Cathedral senior Pastor Robert Kayanja has said.

Some of the members of the Miracle Centre Cathedral Worship teams leading the faithful in praise and worship.

Kayanja says many of the issues facing men of God in the Bible rotate around food: “Jesus is the bread of life; Satan uses hunger to reduce humanity to nothing.” 

Believers that converged at Miracle Centre Cathedral Rubaga watching fire was that was popped to celebrate the New year 2023. This was at Miracle centre Cathedral Rudaga Kampala on December 31, 2022.

He adds that Abraham in the Bible almost lost his wife due to food: “Many of you must go into farming, value addition and processing!”

Kayanja made the remarks before hundreds of people who thronged the cathedral in Kampala to usher the New Year in prayer and to watch the spectacular display of fireworks yesterday. 

By midnight, the sky, which still had the moon in sight, was spread with all manner of fireworks colours and bombastic sounds that left believers in awe as they crossed over into 2023.

r. Dr. Jesca Kayanja preaching during the service.

With smartphones, believers flushed them in waves that appeared like a sea of glow worms as Kayanja prayed for blessings on those attending the event. 

He then asked the saints to write down the 23 things they wanted to have in 2023.

Normally, Christians use the far west side gate to enter the church's premises, but this New Year saw another old but often closed entrance, off Nabunya Road opened to permit walking Christians to enter quickly into the churchyard.

“We shall not have an inch of space left,” Kayanja said soon after stepping onto the podium as his wife, Pastor Jessica Kayanja, concluded a prayer against strongholds standing in the way of people’s success: “The lord is setting you free,” she said, “nothing is going to keep you behind!” she added.

The overnight prayer usually occurs inside the church but due to the large number of people who turn up during the New Year prayers, many often never find a seat. 

This time around, the prayers were planted outside the church with extra chairs alongside large screens that would enable one to see clearly without the need to move closer to the podium. Others preferred standing.

Some believers still in the Christmas mood were seen taking pictures near the large artificial Christmas tree before it could be dismantled in 2023 and near the blue glass church that still had dangling Christmas lights.

Dressed in a silver Kitenge, Kayanja thanked God for His grace that enabled the believers to go through a year that was filled with unpredictable diseases such as Covid-19 and Ebola while other countries are still fighting the diseases within their populations like China and the USA.

He based his sermon on Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want and that No weapon formed against you shall prosper, “this year God will prepare a table before your enemies!” he said.

Some of the members of the Miracle Centre Cathedral Worship teams leading the faithful in praise and worship.

With videos and pictures at the platform, Kayanja showed believers how Karamoja was hit by a dry spell and how the church intervened to help a desperate community, “we found people burying their dead!” he said, “then we started giving, then we started farming.”

He showed believers a Karamojong man who had buried his entire family and was left with nothing but nakedness, Kayanja then spelt out the need for holy communion in the fight against famine, diseases and prayer for blessings in families.

Kayanja preached from the book of 1 Corinthians 11:24 that Jesus never asked anyone to read the bible, and build churches in remembrance of him, but asked believers to eat his body and drink his blood in remembrance of him.

He also narrated how his daughter survived cancer by taking holy communion with the scripture that remembers Jesus, but he also warned that if Christians do not start tilling the land to get bread (grow food) for holy communion then the body of Christ would face a disaster.

To gather money, he urged believers to till their land or acquire land to do so, “wherever you go, God has made provisions!”

Kayanja prayed for those intending to become exporters, professionals in various fields, farmers and those in the services and business sector. 

Chicken and meat were later served and believers were anointed with oil to enter into the year 2023.