Barikiwa Podcast

2020 was supposed to be the year that we augment our dreams. We had a perfect vision for 2020. But the year turned out to be unprecedented, devastating and pervasive. But what do you do when you are faced with adversities? In this final episode of season 1, Isaac Mwenja drops some principles on how to discover the most fulfilling joy, contentment and peace to give you encouragement as we wind up 2020.

In this episode, i dive deep into the attributes of Sincere Faith. Listen in as I break down part 2. Blessings

In this walk with GOD, you cannot please HIM without Faith. Our Faith has to be sincere for we should draw close to GOD sincerely. Listen in as I break down on sincere Faith part 1.

After having the assurance of salvation and being aware of the fact that we are called Blessed what other thing we need to acknowledge is that we are blessed because God promises to sustain us believers.

God is true to himself and keeps His promise all we need to exalt is God's worthiness not His wealthiness because who God is is more important than what we receive from Him

A lack of assurance is not necessarily sinful unless you know the truth and resist it or reject it.

In this three part series on God, I have labored to show why it is important to have the right understanding of God, to give an assurance of the reality of God and to prove that the Bible is the only sure means through which He can be known. In this last episode of the series, I will describe TRUE LIVING GOD through His word, The Bible. Believing anything else about God short of how He has revealed Himself through The BIble is believing in an idol and that is why I believe that this topic is of great importance! May you be blessed as you listen!

Atheism seems to be growing gradually among millenials and truth be told; many within the church struggle with whether God was just an idea passed to them by their parents or is He really there? Among the atheists in Kenya, many speak of once being churchgoers. Therefore, it is a topic that we can't ignore as a church! This episode, through logic, seeks to assure us of the reality of God while giving us the sure means through which we can know HIm.     

In a time when it seems like what we believe about God doesn't really matter and that every idea about God is permissible, this episode seeks to show why it is important to have the right understanding of God.

For the Christian lifestyle to be reliable, it would have to measure up. Reliability is directly linked with practicality. Everyone in society agrees that virtues should be upheld in the world we live in and they help propagate life on earth ... It is therefore unique of the Christian lifestyle to bear this virtues as a supernatural package that transform the world; Galatians 5:22-23 shows us this package; "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." In this episode, I will unravel how the Christian lifestyle is both attractive and reliable. It is a lifestyle full of life!! Thus, you can be sure to live for eternity as a Christian.

Mankind has two parallel natures that exhibit a sense of inevitable duality. This mind-boggling fact portrays another uniqueness of the Christian lifestyle. The Christian Lifestyle is mostly about what INFLUENCES your life in the environment you're born in. That is why this lifestyle flows from INWARD transformation. What motivates your ACTIONS?? Is it all about making yourself better for yourself or being made better by GOD for GOD and others!?? A breakdown of why this tension is very significant in day-to-day life will briefly be presented in this episode of Barikiwa Podcast.

Everyone has a certain notion and goal to a lifestyle that he/she wants to live. Living as a believer in God is progressively becoming difficult and "impossible". Currently, we're living in a society where the real is being overtaken by the virtual matrix of things. Two seemingly contradictory currents mark our society today in regards to Christian lifestyle; that Christianity is all about obeying a strict set of rules that govern your life which leads to the notion that there is nothing fun about Christian lifestyle. In this episode, I will seek to break down for you  the reality of Christian lifestyle and why it is the most unique of all lifestyles.

The message of salvation is incomplete without mentioning the cross, yet it's not the best story we'd ever want to hear. The events surrounding the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are marked by great ridicule, excruciating pain, and humiliation. This was not as regal as one would expect of the King of the Jews, or the Prince of Peace. Nonetheless, Christ took our place on the cross so that we would not undergo such pain. He did not take our place because we were so worthy, or innocent, or righteous. He took our place despite all our unrighteousness, and became the law, so that anyone who would receive Him as Savior would be reconciled to God. God saved us by sending His only begotten son who knew no sin and did not deserve death to become sin. All this for us to be deemed righteous before God. All that we deserve from God is judgment, and the death of Jesus Christ on the old rugged cross and His conquest over death constantly reminds us of God's grace upon our lives.

*Transformation of Self* Once you have been liberated from obsession with self, what next? The call to salvation isa a call to stop serving your individual desires to having Christ at the center of your life. It's a call to abandon your sinful nature and adopt a transformed life through Jesus Christ. Jesus is the true vine in which every believer must abide. He is the true vine through which His disciples, the branches, are connected to and reconciled to the husbandman, God Almighty. Your true identify is in Jesus Christ, and your purpose as a believer is to glorify God by bearing fruit. Salvation is a call to deny oneself and follow Christ, through whom we live for the glory of God.

*Liberation From Self* We all have dreams, however big or small they could be. We also experience various challenges. That means two things are constant in every man's life; the chase after a dream(s) and the quest to tackle certain problems. All this sets us on a journey towards pursuing joy. The deeper into this journey of life you get, the more you'll realize this chase never ends. Focusing on carnal goals in order to obtain joy is like chasing the wind, or a mirage. It's a waste of one's life. And if so, the greatest liberation a man needs is liberation from self. When one becomes obsessed with self, as is our default setting, sin seaps in. What if you had an option that assures you of eternal joy whether or not you achieve your goals or become problem-free notwithstanding? This is a call to surrender your worries to Jesus Christ, the answer to it all.

I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!”The Great Commission says to make disciples, not get followers. There is a difference.”The Great Commission is too big for anyone to accomplish alone and too important not to try to do together.” The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.” This is an invitation for all to know God and to make Him known...

This gospel is not just a good idea or good advice but the very Good news. Learning to share my faith has brought so many important issues into focus. It has made me work through things I had never thought about before. And, child of God..after you lead someone to Christ you never forget it. It's like you can't stop! There's nothing like it!” New Testament paints a picture in which every disciple of Christ is normally and naturally involved in evangelism as much as in Bible study, prayer, and corporate worship. From the brand new Christian to the wizened old saint, sharing the gospel is necessary and integral to a growing life in Christ Imagine that parent, that cousin, that teacher, that boss, that brother,that sister, that friend, that wife, that husband being birthed into CHRIST EVERY DISCIPLE SHOULD EVANGELISE BECAUSE IF IT WERE NOT FOR EVANGELISM YOU WOULD ALSO NOT HAVE KNOWN CHRIST

The truth of the matter is that we all need to start somewhere. During small beginnings, what normally happens is that one tends to put in a lot of work, effort so to speak with minimal support and encouragement.

We bring our very first guest interview with William Wamae, as he shares his journey with Christ and living a Christ-centered life.

Welcome to another episode Barikiwa. In this episode i explain the difference between Identity, Calling and Assignment. These words are used interchangeably in church but how many of us know the difference? Here, i break it down to simpler terms that you can easily apply to your everyday life.

I was stirred recently by the Holy Spirit and he led me to this passage: “Ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life” (Jude 20–21). As I read these verses, I heard the Spirit whisper to me: “Jayden, you've never yet come into the fullness and joy of my love. You have the theology right—but you haven't yet experienced the ecstasy and rest of keeping yourself in my love. Up to now, you've only been in it up to your ankles. But there's a whole ocean of my love for you to swim in.” From my devotional garden I share with you today that "there can never be greater love than this.......

Our GOD is a covenant keeping GOD. In this covenant of Love, He already fulfilled His part by sending His Son Christ Jesus to die for us. The real question is have you fulfilled yours by accepting Him as Your Lord and Savior? Listen to this episode as Zjay Timoh breaks this down for you. Hope it will be a blessing.

In this episode, Zjay Timoh encourages us to look unto Jesus in this race of life

Jesus was not a transgressor, but He was mocked, bore the shame and eventually died as if He was a transgressor.