Immediately after the service of 16th April 2017, Robin Nanyanzi, now Mrs. Sendaula, came and told me that she had cried during my sermon. In that touching sermon (The Father of Jesus (16th - April - 2017) (lat.church), I demonstrated from the Scriptures that God is our Father and He dearly loves us in the same measure that He loves His Son Jesus. Fast-forward six years later last Sunday, it was this same Robin that was divinely and providentially used by God as He demonstrated His caring father-nature to us.
I led the Sunday service, and Joan Isoke preached. When the praise and worship session ended, I fervently prayed that all the children in LAT get to experientially know God as their Father. I earnestly asked Him to reveal Himself as a Father to our children. After that prayer, Brian and Robin testified how God abundantly provided for their wedding a couple of weeks ago. Then I narrated how Robin blessed me when she mentioned in her wedding speech that I am also her father (and not just spiritually), and that she had previously told her father so!
Now, because I knew that Robin would attend the service, I planned to share what she had said of me at the wedding, and to call her up to give her (my daughter), one hundred and fifty thousand shillings. And I did exactly that before the whole congregation. But after doing so, I was for some time tormented by thoughts that some church members were saying in their hearts that I was showing off by giving Robin money publicly. In fact at a certain point I partly agreed with those thoughts that indeed I should have given Robin the money privately.
But God is so good because He amazingly let me know that it had been His perfect will for me to give my daughter Robin money in the seeing of everyone. For when Joan started preaching, she said, “Today is Father’s Day.” I then realized that when I prayed for our children to experientially know God as their Father, and when I referred to Robin as my daughter and gave her money as a father would his child, I was actually flowing in the Spirit, being used of God on Father’s Day, to act out His caring father-nature. Hallelujah!
Joan also has her own (another) testimony regarding that service. Concerning the Scripture verses I used as I led the service, she had this to say in a message she sent me: “To be honest, I am still in awe of your precision in the service . . . I feel so blessed that you led; so blessed, so blessed, so blessed, so blessed!!!! I am definitely adding this to the list of those peculiar Sundays at LAT.” But the take-home message of this article is: God is our caring Father, and we should get to know Him as such. Therefore, ask of Him, and He will provide for you.
God bless you.