Last Saturday, I attended a memorial service, in honor of Deborah Sempebwa, mother to Dennis Sempebwa, a doctor who belongs to the legendary gospel hip hop trio called Limit X.
The background of the story is that Dr Dennis wasn’t able to make it home to bury his beloved mother at the time of her passing, as Uganda was experiencing its second lockdown. When opportunity came for the concert, on the Friday before, at Worship Harvest, he went on ahead to have a memorial for dear Deborah.
She had been a primary school teacher for many years. She impacted so many children’s lives, as many of them used to follow lovely Dennis home to play and along the fun, their bellies had to be filled. He was always anxious about this, but Deborah dealt with it all somehow.
Dr Dennis said, ‘I once asked mom why she was never worried about children randomly showing up at hers, without warning (…and yet they all ate something after playing at his house. He also added on, how she dealt with never having sufficient funds for fees and et cetera…)
With a life giving smile under his glistening bi-rectangular spectacles, Dennis said in continuation, ‘Mom smiled at me telling me her favorite scripture … which was, ‘I was young, and now I am old, and yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken, nor their children begging bread.’ And that’s how, my friends, God provided for us, all those years…’
He concluded. Having emphasized how his mom always mentioned that again when need had to be met.
Now, on the projection screen, as many paid uttermost attention, the verse was quoted in KJV, which says ‘nor their seed begging bread…’
As I looked at the screen, the word ‘seed’ resounded, capturing my attention totally! The word seed also means offspring. Offspring not only means ‘one’s children’, but also, ‘anything produced by someone’, or ‘the effects of someone’s efforts’.
God had already started preachin’ to me.
He therefore concluded for me that my seed can be businesses … (After all I haven’t had children yet, though I know they’ll not beg bread either) … seed can be my books, seed can be ideas — anything, as long it is produced by you.
This goes on to transfer the blessing to everything that has its origin as you. If you started a restaurant, we can boldly say, your restaurant shall not beg bread! Bread means food … money … or sustenance in general! That means you won’t go out getting loans to keep your restaurant running! No! You won’t get into debt. The power of the scripture concerning your seed is mighty to be your buckler, if you believe it.
If you have a product or a service that solves problems, this is your seed. It originated from you. It will not be forsaken. God will be with it, just like He is with you, just like He was with Moses. And so He says ‘Do not fear. Do not be afraid.’ Though a thousand businesses have failed on your left, and ten thousand on your right, it shall not come near you!
I have a TV show—Biggie’s Gospel Show, that runs on YouTube & Facebook. Of course finances are needed to buy data and boost posts of the gospel to rich millions. Even this … is my seed. It shall not beg sustenance. The show will not beg for money. God, who says silver and gold are His, is with it, supplying all its needs, exceedingly, abundantly, above all it can ask or think!
Say to your children … Say to your biological ones, to your financial ones, to your ideas yet to be implemented … Say to anything that comes out of you … the songs you need to record professionally … that they will not … & shall not … BEG at all!
So what if the sponsors have pulled out! They are the ones who’ll beg you to let them sponsor soon! They think they are forsaking you, yet they are missing out on a big life opportunity. ‘It’s them forsaking their own mercy’. God is with you. God is the Nissi of all your children. Will He give and not provide! For if men know better not to give their children stones when they ask for bread, how much more He!
Say good bye to failure. Say good bye to loans. You’ll buy, own, inherit, get established and occupy till He comes. Yes… Even your children’s businesses, & their children’s … shall not beg bread. God opens up the riches & treasures of Heaven to serve you and all your children! Do they want to go to Pluto? They’ll not beg to go there! Do they want to go be missionaries in the deep Amazon? They’ll not lack to go there!
You’re now young, but one day you’ll be old. And you too will indeed say, ‘I have never seen the righteous forsaken, nor their seed begging bread!’
As the Lord ended His words towards me, Apostle Grace Lubega from Phaneroo Ministries International, was giving a benediction, and he said, ‘It’s the things that are never said, that we pick and learn from beyond the words that are spoken when someone has lived their life very well.’ He also added ‘When people ascend … their spirits leave something behind. And in the few minutes we spent here, you’d feel that that woman left a very heavy mantle… And for those of us who are alive today, I pray when we are done with life, may we leave a mark indelible, like Maama Deborah.’
From Dr Dennis’ testimony of his mom, I have picked and learnt so much…
I pray that the mantle of Jaaja Deborah—that of taking God at His word & declaring it in the tautest of situations — may envelope us, and be a great reminder of our lives everyday, so that we too, to many generations, can leave a mark … so indelible! A mark of, by, and for … God!
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Thank you for passing by … And I encourage you to sum this all up with a few minutes’ praying in the Spirit!
And to the Sempebwa family, and those who have lost loved ones…
“…2 Corinthians 5:1-2 For we know that if our earthly house, [this] tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven. The tents are very temporal. When you’re done camping, they are packed and shoved away. But a building, a mansion … Heaven, … it is permanent. It can’t be ‘packed away’. It is there to stay, and that’s where Maama has gone!’ ~ Apostle Moses Mukisa
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