HAPPY THANKS-GIVING 2012 TO ALL!

This is thanksgiving day, and we all know that the world that surround us is dark. Financial difficulties, wars and rumors of wars keep murmuring ominously our end around us. Troubling thought of uncertain future never stop to creep in our minds. However, in all these things, we can still look at the Lord Jesus and have hope.

I still have a reason to be grateful to God. I am grateful for His salvation  that i have kept by the Holy Spirit for the past two decades, for my family which i have kept enjoying their toxic laughter and contagious joy, for my friends who keep encouraging me and provoking me to good works and for my relative success over this year. Twice i took honorific places in two Governmental competition: First, by holding the Silver Medal of the 2nd best Business Plan with BDC - 5th cohort (in August 2012) and second, by being selected among the Top 3 Young Entrepreneur of Rwanda 2012 at the BPR Award (November 2012). I am definitively grateful to God for these two relatively small blessings.

The year is dragging to its end, i am unaware of the future but i advance toward it with confidence and hope and still fixing my eyes on Jesus - the author and the perfecter of my faith.

Thank you to all my readers for keeping this blog alive. You have been visiting it from more than ten countries and many other Islands. All continents represented.

Happy Thanksgiving 2012 in Jesus' name.

"Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" - 1 Thessalonians 5:18

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AFLEWO 2012 - PRAISING WITH PURPOSE

There has never been a better time to worship God and celebrate his gift of life and salvation as this Friday night 23rd November 2012 at CLA (Christian life Assembly). This is not a denominational gathering. It is a inter-denominational Christian gathering, where all Christians regardless of their personal ecclesiastical doctrine preferences are invited to share the brotherly and divine love through singing and dancing in the presence of the Lord. People are coming from different countries to join us in this Night of Worship. 

IF YOU MISS IT - YOU'LL MISS OUT!

What are you going to miss? More than mere songs and dances. Singing and dancing are mere expressions of a deeper spiritual truth. It is more than what meets the eyes. What happen when we praise is abundantly more powerful than most of our little plans of victories over the prince of darkness.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, “‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?” Matthew 21:16 - NIV

"Through the praise of children and infants, you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger." Psalm 8:2 - NIV

God's strategy is to bring praises out of His children mouth - because those praises are what defeats the enemies (foe and avenger). Thus, do not miss out of this great night of victory for YOUR LIFE!!!

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Top Young Entrepreneur of Rwanda 2012

It was a great and a humbling experience to have been initially among the Top 10 young Entrepreneur of Rwanda 2012. And then among the Top 3 young Entrepreneurs of Rwanda 2012. My company El Puente ltd. that i co-founded with Maurice Masozera has seduced more than one during the selection and the competition process.

May God be glorify for that!
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Manuscript Evidence for Superior New Testament Reliability

Since my exposure to historical Apologetic through the writing of Josh McDowell classic: "More than a Carpenter", i have shown great sympathy to the "evidentialist position" although i still believe that many things in my faith should be received by faith.

Two years ago, I had found a new apologeticwebsite and i kind of liked their approach on the manuscript of the New Testament. This paragraph below sums up the whole argument of the link below:

"If the critics of the Bible dismiss the New Testament as reliable information, then they must also dismiss the reliability of the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Caesar, Homer..."

Read more by clicking on this link:

http://www.carm.org/questions/about-bible/manuscript-evidence-superior-new-testa\
ment-reliability

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The Habits of The First American Millionaire

The First Millionaire

I have started to re-read Brian Tracy book, 'The Million Dollar Habits' and i find it refreshingly new again and informative. I'd like to share with you a short story found in its pages.

Much Success to all!

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During the same period, Benjamin Franklin, who began as a printer’s apprentice and went on to become the first self-made millionaire in the American colonies, adapted a similar process of personal development [As explained the book].

As a young man, Benjamin Franklin felt that he was a little rough, ill mannered and argumentative. He recognized that his attitudes and behaviors were creating animosity toward him from his associates and coworkers. He resolved to change by rewriting the script of his own personality. He began by making up a list of 12 virtues that he felt the ideal person would possess. He then concentrated on the development of one virtue each week. All week long, as he went about his daily affairs, he would remind himself to practice that virtue, whether it was temperance, tolerance or tranquility, on every occasion that it was called for. Over time, as he developed these virtues and made these habits a part of his character, he would practice one virtue for a period of two weeks, then three weeks, then one virtue per month.

Over time, he became one of the most popular personalities and statesmen of the age. He became enormously influential, both in Paris as an Ambassador from the United States during the Revolutionary War, and during the Constitutional Convention, when the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for the United States was debated, negotiated and agreed upon. By working on himself to develop the habits of an excellent person, he made himself into a person capable of shaping the course of history.

The fact is that good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with. Bad habits, on the other hand, are easy to form, but hard to live with. In either case, you develop either good or bad habits as the result of your choices, decisions and behaviors.

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