It Ain’t Over....Until God says....It’s Over.

I am super excited and encouraged in my spirit today.
Because God is so good! Not only is He good; He’s faithful! He’s merciful. He’s just. He is a loving God. He’s kind. He’s a provider. He’s a way-maker. He’s a deliverer. He’s a healer.

 I am here to tell somebody: “Don’t throw in the towel just yet”. Though it may appear that all hope is gone, that everyone else is finishing the race without you, It Ain’t Over!!!! Don’t give up just yet.
Today many want to quit due to the various situations and trials facing their life. However, God has blessings for you that if you don’t quit you will see His promises for your life.
I want to talk to people that have hopeless situation at the moment. 
Hope-less- situation, because of what your doctor said or because of what your circumstances are saying.
A Hope-less situation does not mean that God has left you
Just because things don’t work out exactly how we planned them does not mean that God is not at work in your life.
No matter what your situation is saying, I can tell you that God is at work in your liFe at the moment.

The visions in our text today, Ezekiel 37 - included dialogue between God and Prophet Ezekiel in the case of the valley of dry bones-
The place is a graveyard, it is a cemetery, they are dry bones
The symbolism is of- a people- whose hope- has died- and has been dead- for- a long time.
This is a situation where there is no future, just bones, no body, just bones, and no signs of life.
The Lord asked him a question that God is asking you today about your situation – CAN THIS DRY BONE LIVE?
Ezekiel looks at the bones, he sees no possibility of a return to life 
Ezekiel said there seems to be no human solutions- for this hope-less situation for they are very dry and it’s only you God that knows.
Ezekiel said "Lord- you know". In other words he is saying I don’t God but you do.
Why did he said that? He believes this situation is so out of human comprehension. 

Lord know if it’s going to work out for you, 
God know if you are going to be healed you know- 
It’s only God that knows if you and God knows if you are going to be delivered.
It’s only God that knows if you are going make it or not.
I know you don’t know, but God know.
There are some situations we face in which human solutions
will not work- the only thing that will work will be--- hearing from God!
I brought the word of God to you today that it is not over because God hasn’t say so.
Ezekiel hears from God, Ezekiel receives instructions from God that he must prophesy; he must speak to the dry bones now.
Ezekiel had to go down to the graveyard and tell dead dry bones that God’s word said It ain’t over until

God says it’s over.                                                                               
Ezekiel had to go down to the cemetery and tell the dead dry bones that God is not thru with them yet for I know you feel like dying, but God is not thru, I know you’ve lost hope but God has not finish with you yet.
Ezekiel had to go down to the valley of the shadow of death and tell death that God will enter them.
Listen the transformation and restoration all started by hearing of word. The word was the beginning of the process that brings back these hopeless back to life. 

You may be in a situation that looks hopeless, it may look like the end is near and it’s time to give up, it may look as if you’ve lost... well, it doesn’t matter what it may look like, the final outcome will come when God says it’s over. Man may count you out, the enemy may tell you you’ve lost, the chance for victory may look impossible, but it’s not
over until the Lord says it’s over.

Your turnaround comes when you begin to hear from God. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God!....
Who is talking to you, which report do you believe?
You have to hear from God, if you are going to be fruitful, if your marriage’s is going to live.
Words have power. Speak the word! Prophesy the word! Declare the Word! 
God asked Ezekiel to preach, speak to dry bones but notice what happens when he preaches- God’s word---- to these bones.
V 7- Says that something happens in the middle of the valley there is a noise a sudden "rattling sound“. Praise God!
Maybe you’ve never heard this before! 
Dry bones have ears, if only you can speak!
Mountains have ears only if you can command!
Your womb has ears!
Money can hear! 
Cancer, fibroid, diabetes does have ear if you can preach to them! 
when Ezekiel come face to face with dry bone he was only asked to do one thing, because they have ear even though they are bones and very dry.
v4, prophesy, to your situation, to your womb, because they respond to prophesy.
Every situation and circumstances have ears and they are capable of responding to prophesy. What u cannot see have ear. 
They may not have physical ear but they have spiritual ears.
Your situation awaits instruction .... Your situation awaits direction, the spirit buying and selling in your life awaits order. If you fail to give order, it will remain like that. 

Ephesians 3:20 - according, to the power that works in you. God will work according to the power that works in you.

As soon as Ezekiel prophesy, bones began to sort themselves out
If you can speak, your situation will be sorted. It’s not over for you!
Jarius thought it was over - his daughter was dead - but God hadn’t said it was over. 
The man at the pool of Bethesda thought it was over because he couldn’t make it into the water, but God didn’t say it was over. 
Everyone thought it was over for Daniel when he was thrown into the lion’s den, but God didn’t say it was. 
Nebuchadnezzar thought it would be over for Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego, but God said it wasn’t over. 
Job’s wife thought it was over and encouraged her husband to curse God and die, but the Lord didn’t say it was over. 
It Ain’t Over Until God Says It’s Over!
I don’t know WHAT the future holds...but I state with complete certainty that I know WHO holds my future!
When most people think it’s over, God asks, "Did I say it was over?"
Weeping may last for a night, but Joy comes in the morning.” It’s not over until God says it’s over.
It ain’t Over- until- God says it’s over because
A marriage can come back together-
A family can come back together-
A church can come back together-
A business can come back together-
A dream can come back together-
Hope can come back together-
(Why?) Cause it ain’t over….until God says it’s over. 

Keep fighting. Keep praying. Keep fasting cause it ain’t over. No! Keep pressing….progressing. Keep moving cause it ain’t over. No! Keep reading…interceding. Keep believing. Keep trusting. Keep trying. Keep travailing cause it ain’t over. Keep living. Keep giving. Keep going cause it ain’t over! So keep fighting until the victory is won!!!!” 
When people say you can’t, remember He can….He can. When you don’t know what to do, please remember He has the master plan. 

Today, the Lord says to you….It ain’t over until He says it’s over! I don’t care what it looks like. It ain’t over until God says it’s over!!! God, and God alone has the final say! It ain’t over! God Bless and have a wonderful day. 

Seeking the God Who’s Seeking Us.

My son, Jason, is four -and-a-half and loves to play hide-and-seek. Sometimes he hides, but usually the game involves hiding my cell phone. Unfortunately he doesn't yet understand the object of the game. He makes me close my eyes—that much he gets. First of all, he always hides my phone in the same place: on the carpet, in plain sight. No matter how many times we play, he always puts my phone on the carpet. When I open my eyes, I know my phone is on the carpet, but I'll pretend like I don't see it. I'll look on the sofa, or under the table. It's my way of trying to teach him what the point of the game really is. What I've ended up teaching Jason is that his father is completely stubborn, because the moment I look somewhere else for the phone he says, "No, Daddy. The phone isn't there. It's on the carpet, silly goose." And then he rolls his eyes at me. There's nothing like having your intelligence insulted by a four-year-old.

I've been trying to show Jason that the fun of hide-and-seek is the seeking. But for Jason, no matter what I try, the fun part is always the finding.

God wants us to seek him. But, like Jason, he understands that the real joy is not in seeking, but in finding. He wants to be found. God has not intended the Christian life to be an impossible hunt for an elusive God that requires enormous faith. Quite the contrary. The Christian life is a simple walk to a welcoming God that requires only child-like faith.

The story that best illustrates our God who wills to be found is the parable Jesus tells of the lost son in Luke 15. In the story the son rejects and abandons his father to live selfishly and wildly in a distant country. When he sees how foolish he's been, he decides to return home, to seek his father. Expecting his father to be furious with anger, the son is met with a surprise. When the father sees his son at a great distance, he does not wait for him to reach the house. Instead, the father, full of joy that his son has returned, runs out to meet him on the road, embraces him, kisses him, and is overjoyed to have his son home again.

This is the image Jesus presents to us of our heavenly father's love. It is the image of a God who wants to be found, the God James says will draw near to us if we draw near to him. He is the God who stands at the door and knocks, and is prepared to come in and eat with anyone who opens the door. We are called to seek the God who wants to be found. This should be our goal for us all Christians to intentionally seek the God who is passionately seeking us.

By The Grace Of God I Am.

Grace: This is one of those special words that belong to the child of God. God has given us some words that the world just doesn't know how to properly appreciate. For instance, there are words like glory, amen, hallelujah, faith, etc. The dictionary defines grace as, "unmerited help given to people by God." However, grace is much more than that! Look at this definition, "the merciful kindness by which God, exerting his holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of the Christian virtues." That, my friends, is grace!

In these verses, the great apostle was defending the resurrection of the Lord Jesus against the doubts of unbelievers. He mentions the fact that the resurrected Christ was seen by Peter, the, His earthly brother James and then last of all Paul. Paul proceeds to tell his readers that because of his sins and attacks against the church, that he was the least of the apostles and is not even worthy to be named among them. However, Paul goes on to say that he knows God has used him and that anything he has, is, or ever will be, is because of the precious grace of God.

I would like to remind each of you that the same is true for you and me. Because of our sinfulness we deserve nothing less than an eternity in Hell apart from the presence of the Almighty. However, because His grace was revealed unto us in the Person of His Son the Lord Jesus, we can be saved and used by the Lord in a wonderful fashion. Today, by the help of the Lord, I would like to show you some of the possessions that belong to the child of God because of grace. Join me for a few moments as we consider, together, the thought, "By The Grace Of God I Am!"

1.      I AM SAVED BY GRACE  Eph 2:8, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:"
Eph 1:7, "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;"

2.       I AM SURE BY GRACE Rom 5:2, "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God."

3.       I AM SECURE BY GRACE  Rom 3:24, "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:"

4.       I AM STRENGTHENED BY GRACE 2 Cor 12:9, "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."
2 Cor 9:8, "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:"

5.       I AM SUPPLIED BY GRACE Heb 4:16, "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."

6.      I AM SOMEBODY BY GRACE Eph 3:7-8, "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

7.       I AM SATISFIED BY GRACE Eph 2:7, "That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus."

8.       I AM SURPRISED BY GRACE 1 Cor 15:8-10, "And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Many things in life will fail us. Friendships will blossom and then die. Health can be an elusive thing. Riches and wealth will often remain just beyond the reach of your finger tips. Those we love will pass from the scene leaving a void in our hearts hard to be filled. However, there is one thing that every child of God possesses that can never fail, never end, never run out, never run dry and that will never be found to be insufficient, and that is the grace of God! Yes, the road may be long and dreary, the days may be filled with difficulties and struggles, but rest assured that there will be grace sufficient for every need and every trial. That is the promise of God and that is the hope of the saints.

Ronald's Story

Ronald, after joining the 1 MILLION* Ugandan vulnerable children that face life without a chance, without a choice due to uncertainties of life, was raised up by Vangrace Compassion Orphanage where he has been able to acquire education, food, and medication.

Ronald's dream is to become a leader in this broken war-weary nation.

This year Ronald is completing his primary level so he has to push on with his studies to the secondary level and he needs a sponsor who will help him to complete his studies.

You are vital part in helping Vangrace Compassion Orphanage to see that all vulnerable and abandoned children get education. We believe with your support, Ronald's dream will come to pass.

Repent That Your Sins Be Forgiven.

The scribes and Pharisees once condemned and reproached the Lord for eating and drinking with publicans and sinners. To this the Savior said:   ‘for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance’. (Matthew 9:13 KJV). From these words of Christ it is evident that the purpose of His coming into the world was our repentance. If repentance was the purpose of Jesus Christ’s coming into the world, then it is clear that we, too, ought to consider repentance the purpose of our entire lives and all our labors.

Acts 2:38 - Repent and be baptized for the remission of sins. Some people do not realize that the Bible teaches baptism is essential. Other people have been shown but still will not accept it. These people are not showing true repentance!

Remember, repentance is a decision to do what God's word says. When a person sees what God's word says but will not do it, that person is not showing true repentance.

When a person refuses to be baptized, his primary problem is not baptism: it is his faith or his repentance! If believes the truth he will know he must repent and be baptized. If he then truly repents, you won't be able to keep him from the water!

Sometimes children of God sin after they have been baptized. They do not need to be baptized again, but they do need to repent again.

Acts 8:22 - Simon was told to repent and pray that his sin might be forgiven. The Christian who sins needs to repent and pray, not repent and be baptized. [1 John 1:9; Matthew 6:12]

If one has wronged other people, he must also confess to them - Matthew 5:23,24. If the sin is known and has been a bad influence on the congregation or hindered the effort of the church to teach, then the whole church needs to be told the person has repented.

Acts 26:20 - After forgiveness men must do works worthy of repentance. [Luke 3:8-14; Matthew 3:8]

Ezekiel 18:21-32 - To avoid death, the wicked must turn from evil and do right and keep God's statutes.

Matthew 21:28-31 - The ultimate question, in the story of the two sons, was which of the two did the will of the father. The son who was right was the one who eventually went and did what he was supposed to do.

Proverbs 28:13 - We prosper, not by hiding our sins, but by confessing and forsaking them.

The gospel is a message of change. Sinners can change. You can change.

Note: the attitude of the father when the son did return: Luke 15: 20,22-24. Truly there is joy in heaven among the angels when a sinner "repents" Luke 15:7-10.

Transforming Lives

The love and happiness that our kids share here at Vangrace Compassion Orphanage is so hilarious. Caring not about what they have gone through, still they grasp every opportunity they get to read, play and eating their little meals they are provided with as a way of being happy and also to interact with each other. Above all they do all that with  smiles on their faces.

Transforming Lives of Orphans and Vulnerable Children at God's Village- Vangrace Compassion Orphanage . Sharing Love in Our Lord Jesus Christ that we share despite our many/ difference situations/conditions good or challenging but we stay United with all children/people not discriminating wether director or anyone but we all do all works, services as a team.

THEIR DREAM IS TO BECOME PASTORS TO ALL NATIONS.

These are one of our amazing children at Vangrace Compassion Orphanage that God blessed with Divine Callings and gifts. They love God and they say that even during their best moment they tell others about the goodness of God here at Vangrace Compassion Ministries- Church (God's Village) despite the challenges they are all going through here at the Orphanage. Now they are preaching to their fellow orphans to trust God in all. 

One  gives a testimony that as "he had no hope of being loved /cared for and on streets and no one cared for his life , no education" Until when Papa Ivan picked him up and brought him to God's Village where he learnt to lift his Faith and trusted in God . Now thanks to Pastor Ivan Ssewankambo who is now taking care of him and educating him. He says that he still believes that everyday God is doing great things in his life.

Psalm 16:1 (KJV)

16 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

Christ the Healer

With just one touch from his Almighty creative hand, He has healed the sick and raised the dead. How amazing is His Lordship over all the earth, how powerful is his redeeming love. How great was his sacrifice for our sake and bring forgiveness and hope to us all that believe in him. By his stripes we ask for healing and we are healed. Standing within His reign and rule we ask for restoration. May life and wellness grow in fullness until it overflows.

Our Father of mercies and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need: 

Run to him in time of your need and confusion. He will show you mercy/ healing, and comfort you with a sense of His goodness. He will preserve you from the temptations of your enemy and give you patience under your affliction. He will restore you to health so that you may live without fear. Let him dwell within your life.

Isaiah 53:5 (KJV)

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

THE HIGH LEVEL OF VULNERABILITY IN RURAL AREAS OF AFRICA.

In Africa most of the people in the rural areas are experiencing a high level of vulnerability. As well, it is the same problem we face here at Vangrace Compassion Orphanage. Children have very humble back grounds of which some didn’t even get a chance to see their parents who died of Aids. After they were left alone with no body to help. This is why we choose to give the support we can to these very orphans vulnerable children. In this they lack the basic necessities of like clothes, medication, scholastic materials and proper shelter. We think that sponsorship for each child can be a suitable solution to respond to this problem.

CHILDREN CLEANING THE COMPOUND AT GOD’S VILLAGE

Children participating in general cleaning of the compound so as to remove the rubbish and grass. The little ones are collecting the rubbish while others are sweeping.

Fear Not but Trust In His Love

Your heart and mind are flooded with fears. Sometimes you are paralysed, you feel unable to go on.  These fears are overwhelming; they remain with you day and night. Yet you hold onto God’s truth. He has told you not to fear, for you have overcome the world. So cling to God, trust in his promises, that he will never fail you, and never forsake you. In moments of such crippling fear. Choose to trust him for he has experienced the most fearful places, believe that he rose again. In him all promises meet and new life begins. He is our saviour, we hide in him, and we are protected by his love and sheltered by his grace. He is our father indeed.

2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)

7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Isaiah 41:10 (KJV)

10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Children Enjoying Sports at God’s Village Foster Homes.

Children at Vangrace compassion orphanage playing football and they have divided themselves in to two groups. They are using a ball they made from polythen bags and banana fibers. It is a very happy moment for them and they enjoy it despite of the fact that they lack playing equipments.

DEVOTA NDAYISHABA YET TO FINISH HER PRIMARY AND NEEDS MORE SUPPORT FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION

Devota Ndayishaba one of our children at Vangrace Compassion Orphanage. She is an orphan who lost her parents and later joined God’s village foster homes. We are happy that she is now in primary seven and this year she is going to do her primary leaving examinations. She a very intelligent and disciplined girl. She is looking forward to joining secondary but due to the fact that we do not have a secondary school, she needs to be taken in another school for higher studies so that she may not stop in primary. She needs a sponsor who will help her with school fees for higher studies. We believe that she will be so happy to join secondary. 

HELP THE PARENTLESS CHILD

Many children in Africa are orphans of which some of them their parents died of HIV AIDS. Some of the children were just abandoned by their parents due to the fact that they couldn’t take care of them as a result of their poor financial status. This is why Vangrace Compassion Ministries  comes up to support these poor innocent children so that they can also grow up in a family, receive education, medication, guidance, and above all love like any other child in a family. We work hard to make them feel that isn’t their fault to be in such a situation and to create hope in their hearts that they can make it in life.

SICK CHILDREN AT THE ORPHANAGE

Two of our kids at God’s village are so sick that is Nanjala Shaluwa and Kisakye Harriet. Nanjala Shaluwa was admitted yesterday as she said that she had stomach ache but we couldn’t really tell what is exactly is her problem. As time went on her condition was worsening and we rushed her to hospital for further medical shake up where she is admitted now. Kisakye Harriet was admitted today suffering from fever. A lot of medical care is needed for these kids and this calls for financial support for their well-being.  

CHILDREN ENJOY READING STORY BOOKS

Children love reading since they believe that it is a source of knowledge. They read story books with interesting pictures with the help of the volunteers who explain to them the difficult words they come across. Through story reading, the children have been able to improve on their English language, love for art and writing, and filled their minds with knowledge. We are glad that the children have managed to finish all the story books and we are so thankful to the loving and caring people from the USA who donated to us these books in May 2014, they have real made a great impact on our children.

Surrender All To Jesus

Do you really want victory in your life? Have you tried all you can to become victorious and failed? The answer is surrendering all your worry to Christ.  If you know in daily life what absolute surrender is, that is what you have to do to God. Living implies life. Life is an everyday experience. Offering ourselves to God is not something that should be contained every time. A living sacrifice is a sacrifice that is alive and continuous in action. God expects your surrender as you wait for his blessings. Who is God? He is the Fountain of life, the only Source of existence, power and goodness. Throughout the universe there is nothing good but what God works. God has created the sun, the moon, the stars, the flowers, the trees, and the grass. Are they not all absolutely surrendered to God? Do they not allow God to work in them just what He pleases? When God clothes the lily with its beauty, is it not yielded up, surrendered, given over to God as He works in it its beauty? And God's redeemed children, oh, can you think that God can do His work if there is only half or a part of them surrendered? God cannot do it. God is life, love, blessing, power, and infinite beauty, and God delights in communicating Himself to every child who is prepared to receive Him. But ah! This one lack of absolute surrender is just the thing that hinders God. And now He comes, and as God, He claims it.

You know that everything has to be given up to its special, definite object and service. I have a pen in my pocket, and that pen is absolutely surrendered to the one work of writing. That pen must be absolutely surrendered to my hand if I am to write properly with it. If another holds it partly, I cannot write properly. A coat is absolutely given up to me to cover my body. This building is entirely given up to religious services. And now, do you expect that in your immortal being, in the divine nature that you have received by regeneration, God can do His work, every day and every hour, unless you are entirely given up on Him? God cannot. The temple of Solomon was absolutely surrendered to God when it was dedicated to Him. And every one of us is a temple of God, in which God will dwell and work mightily on one condition-absolute surrender to Him. God claims it, God is worthy of it, and without it God cannot work His blessed work in us.  Surrender your future, your past, your dreams, your worries, and everything so that he uses you in the way he wants to use you.

James 4:7 (KJV)

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Is the Father to the Fatherless

Children experiencing God’s love on father’s day at God’s village orphanage. This has made them so happy realising how much God loves them. They are so happy to hear that even though they have no earthly fathers, there is a father who loved them before even they were formed in their mother’s wombs and that’s God. They are glad to know that despite of the hard life they have passed through; God loves and cares about them so much. Through their Daddy Pastor Ivan Ssewakambo they have been able to feel God’s love for them. “Waving to you earthly fathers that care, love and support African orphans and vulnerable children the orphans”

Matthew 19:14 (KJV)

14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 18:16 (KJV)

16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

JOSEPH WASSWA EXPERIENCES SEVERE PAIN AFTER CUTTING HIMSELF ON THE KNEE.

Joseph Wasswa one of our children at Vangrace Compassion Orphanage got an accident as he was chopping firewood using a panga. In the processing of chopping, he cut himself on the knee and the wound is deeper, this is making him experience a lot of pain. We are afraid that he may get tetanus because the wound is becoming deeper; however we are still trying our best to see that we provide all the medication he needs though the expenses are too much.

ENTERTAINMENT OF THE AFRICAN CHILD-GOD’S VILLAGE

Though African child’s day was held yesterday, this didn’t stop kids at God’s village to have their celebrations today as a way of having fun and also remembering that they are part of African child regardless of their vulnerability. Seeing children having their entertainment brings much pleasure to us. It’s one the signs that shows that they are happy and what amazes is that they have used the little resources they have like drums to make their entertainment so colorfully. It’s also another way of how kids promote their talents.