Is pastor Umar Mulinde
Challenging us to re-think the prosperity Gospel? Is God using Pastor Mulinde’s
incident to challenge our Bogus prosperity
Gospel?
Pastor Mulinde before Acid Attack
Mulinde Umar
Friends, whenever we go to prayer
before the Lord, we pray for Gods blessings,
life and security etc, which is good. But i remind you to add on another prayer
for strength & grace to go through different
persecutions that may come your way for the sake of following Jesus and the
spreading the Gospel of truth-Matthew 5:11-12, 2Corinthians 11:25,
1Peter 4:12-16, 2 Timothy 3:12,
Pastor Umar Mulinde’s Caution
Friends, its a danger for any believer who doesnt reserve
time to study and understand the Bible! Also most dangerous if a Pastor doesnt
conduct Bible study for the church.
friends its very important not to pick a few verses that makes you happy but determine to believe the whole Bible as it was revealed by God-2timothy 3;16.
Well as we all need & always pray for Gods blessings,favour, good heal
friends its very important not to pick a few verses that makes you happy but determine to believe the whole Bible as it was revealed by God-2timothy 3;16.
Well as we all need & always pray for Gods blessings,favour, good heal
th and divine security, its also important to regard the
following verses very seriously:
Matthew 6:33
2Timothy 2:3
Hebrews 13:5
Matthew 5:10-12
John 16:2
2Timothy 4:5
1Peter 4:16 e.tc
Matthew 6:33
2Timothy 2:3
Hebrews 13:5
Matthew 5:10-12
John 16:2
2Timothy 4:5
1Peter 4:16 e.tc
Pastor Mulinde After Acid Attack
Unveiling the Scriptures
2 Timothy 3:16
King James Version (KJV)
16 All scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness:Matthew 6:33
King James Version (KJV)
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all
these things shall be added unto you.2 Timothy 2:3
King James Version (KJV)
3 Thou therefore endure
hardness, as a good
soldier of Jesus Christ.Hebrews 13:5
King James Version (KJV)
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content
with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee.Matthew 5:10-12
King James Version (KJV)
10 Blessed are they which are
persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
John 16:2
King James Version (KJV)
2 They shall put you out of the
synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he
doeth God service.2 Timothy 4:5
King James Version (KJV)
1 Peter 4:16
King James Version (KJV)
Pastor Mulinde with his wife and children after treatment
Ugandan Acid Attack Victim Mulinde Speaks Up
http://allafrica.com/stories/201208161072.html
By Vanessa O'brien, 15 August 2012
opinion
Tel Aviv — Bishop Umar Mulinde of the Pentecostal Gospel Life Church
International is a well-known public figure in Uganda, notably because the former
Muslim Sheikh converted to Christianity in 1993. In 2011, he and a group of
religious leaders petitioned Parliament and won a temporary stop to the Muslim
Personal Law Bill, giving provision for the legal establishment of Islamic
courts in Uganda.
After a brutal acid attack, he now tries to recover in Israel from his
physical damages. Contrary to his body, his mind hasn't been broken.With a low-tipped cowboy hat and pink-flesh coloured compression mask hiding his scars, Umar Mulinde (38) moves gingerly across a Tel Aviv hotel lobby, sheltered from the scorching hot Israeli sun. A heavy tiredness envelops him as he finally sits down after his daily trawl to Sheba Hospital, half an hour away in Ramat Gan, which is treating the deep acid burns that scar the right side of his face.
It's hard to believe it's the same man seen in a variety of YouTube clips, energetically preaching like a firebrand in his native Uganda - until he speaks with unwavering conviction. "The people who did this to me, they thought they are serving God. But I feel sorry for them and I forgive them, because they didn't know what they were doing."
Allah akbar
Mulinde was attacked on Christmas Eve 2011, right outside the Pentecostal Gospel Life Church International where he is pastor, and directly opposite a police station in Namasuba, 10 kilometres from Kampala. Two assailants approached him and threw an unidentified acid directly at his face. "As I was opening the door of my car, one poured a bucket of acid on my head," Mulinde recalls. "I had fire from the head up to the toes, to the legs down."
As he coupled over, the second attacker poured acid over his back. The acid that missed Mulinde burned a hole through the metal of his car, demonstrating its potency. Mulinde's last recollection of the assault was hearing the words 'Allah akbar' echoed three times. He thought he was going to die.
Fatwa
It wasn't the first attack on his life. Mulinde is a well-known public figure in Uganda, notably because he is a defector, a former Muslim sheikh, the grandson of an imam, who converted to Christianity on Easter Sunday in 1993. Mulinde says from that time forward, even his own brothers wouldn't greet him in the street.
But it wasn't until he led a group of Christian leaders to petition Parliament with 360,000 signatures, and won a temporary stop to the Muslim Personal Law Bill in April 2011, that a fatwa was issued against his life.
The Muslim Personal Law Bill aims to operationalise Article 129 of the Ugandan Constitution, giving provision for the legal establishment of Islamic courts in Uganda and the administration of justice to the Muslim community under sharia law.
"We even told the government that if they do it and go ahead we will sue them," Mulinde says passionately, while adjusting the dark shades that cover his one good eye, as well as the one that doctors were unable to save. "We will take it to the court of law because if Uganda is 85 percent Christian, and we have never asked for Christian laws in the constitution, how do you put Muslim laws in the constitution? The constitution says that Uganda is a secular state."
Not only for Muslims
More than a year later, the Ugandan Muslim Centre for Justice and Law (UMCJL) is once again trying to expedite having the Islamic courts, which currently operate ad-hoc, legalised. UMCJL president Jaffer Senganda, who knows Mulinde personally, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide that he doubts Muslim involvement in Mulinde's attack. He says the Christian opposition in Uganda was afraid that Islamic courts would have jurisdiction in criminal matters, which isn't true.
When posed with that statement, Mulinde counter-argues that the Christian population's fears were validated by Nigeria's example. "They said, 'This is for Muslims' but they end up applying it to everybody." He believes that Islamic courts will only legalise the persecution of the type of crime he has been a victim of.
Hope
Although Mulinde was raised to hate Israel as a Muslim, he had a change of heart when he converted to Christianity. He has brought several groups of Ugandan pilgrims to the Holy Land and established friendships in the Jewish community. Sheba Hospital's burn unit, which has treated several traumas from terror incidents, is treating him for free.
"He has a long way to go," says Sheba Hospital spokesman David Weinberg, "but his story is one that played on our hearts." Mulinde's treating doctor Haik Yosef says while the physical damage to Mulinde is "severe and deep", his future prognosis is good. "Some people get small scars and become depressed, but sometimes even such a severe burn like Umar's won't change his character or his perception of everything. I think he will do just fine."
The attack has not deterred Mulinde: he still fights the establishment of Islamic courts, and will continue his campaign on the ground when he returns to Uganda in several months time. But first, he has three more surgeries and skin grafts to endure.
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