MY TESTIMONY

My name is Joseph Kamau, born in 1959 in Kiambu in republic of Kenya. I was raised by Christian parents in a godly environment and by the age of 9, i was serving as an alter boy in the Catholic Church where I was baptized. My teen years were spent in a missionary school, which was very strict on morals. But besides all these I found myself involved in all things religion calls sin. I continued my education and graduated in 1983 with a degree in chemistry and immediately I join employment. On looking back now I feel my early life was more religious than Spiritual, but I am grateful for the Christian influence in which I grew up. In March 1993 in a local church after 30 hours of non stop drinking I felt an awakening which I could not explain and at the age 34 I responded to the call for salvation and started the journey of faith and this resulted in a desire to study the Bible and devoted my life to prayer.

One night in 1994 in a night vigil of prayer the Lord supernaturally baptized us in the Holy Ghost. This encounter brought revival in our community. Many lives were changed, bodies healed, but this did not auger well with religious establishment of the day who were evangelical in nature. Ways and means were used to stop this newfound freedom in Jesus Christ. Although they managed to remove us from the system, the zeal to know the truth was burning in my heart. I did not know what it was all about but my searching for truth drove me deeper and deeper in the waters. Through all those years I was questioning some of the Traditional doctrines of the Church and the charismatic movement teachings in my heart. I had heard of so many prophecies on end time event especially on Y2K and the more prophecies were given the more they failed to come to pass. This at times made me depressed and confused since I knew God cannot lie. By the year 2000 I was made a church elder of our church so as to try and "tame" me and fit into the system. This was not to last long as I came head to head with the real stinking religious order. After two years I tendered my resignation, which was not taken lightly but for the first time I felt like I have been freed from a death sentence.

I continued with my search for truth and I read every book, viewed video on various teachings I could lay my hands on looking for answers, but one day in 2001 I was stopped in my tracks, not by anybody but by the leading of the Holy Spirit as I was searching the web site and doing bible study, I stumbled on a writing on the Kingdom of God by Bill Britton. It was very different from what I had known but somehow the Holy Spirit was confirming the truth I was reading. This led me to the kingdomlife and sigler websites and I can confirm my life was changed forever. I started listening to the voice of Christ in the writings of men and women who have submitted to authority of the King. I understood about the Kingdom Of God, heaven as a realm of Life and not a place you go to, the truth about the rapture lie, the devil and Lucifer and many more. As I submitted to Christ and his washing by his word and by His refining fire, I can only say He has done a great job by removing the contamination of the serpent in my mind.

As this truth was been revealed in my inner man, other things were happening to the outer man. By 2001as I was having refreshing in knowing Christ, my business being run by my wife started experiencing a down turn. People started taking off with the money and soon we found ourselves in debt. By 2003 we could no longer run the business and auctioneers sold it off but still it could not pay off the debt. Our creditors started taking us to court, and some we given permission to attach our household goods and car. At the same time the business was being sold off, I lost by job as a chemist. By 2004 we had nothing as far as the wealth of this world is concerned but we were happy to know Christ as our all in all.

You know the Lord is good all the time and He never leaves as in darkness. Before those things happened, the Lord had ministered as in dreams to me and my wife. He also sent men and women with prophetic words of encouragement. Those words kept us going otherwise we could have given up on our own. We had become the laughing stock in our community. Some very religious men came to tell us to repent any sin we had done and God will hear us and restore us. We need to go back to the church cause God is angry for forsaking his work. Every time there are Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar in the life of every Job. By the time they came, I knew about tribulation of the saints, which we are supposed to receive them as every thing happens for good to those that that love the Lord. The connection and the love to the world must be cut off. Death must come before the life of Christ is experienced in every man. Many are the things I learnt and continue learning about the dealing of our Lord. Every saint must have a mount Moriah where we must lose our human identity for Christ to live as our life. Great is the promise of our Lord and saviour that he will never leave us or forsake us. The Lord has become my shepherd, and wherever he leads I will follow. You ask me today about the journey I have taken; I will tell you it is the best since it leads as into the very presence of the Almighty. Fear, discouragement, anger, resentment, lack are all in the outer man who has been crucified with Christ. I can now life as Christ and this is my burning desire.

I have a desire to reach the world with the gospel of the Kingdom since it is the only good news the world is waiting to hear. All other gospels have been preached but we continue seeing "Christians" in bondage just like the heathen. In Africa, I see the level of poverty, lack, sicknesses and diseases and my heart cries "thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven". No amount of aid from the west, World Bank or any other will do. Only Christ raised up in our people will do it. " If I be lifted up, I will draw all men to himself" and I say a hearty amen to it. He does not need any assistance from men or religious order for the word declares that it is finished, as He will do it. We only became coworkers with Him.

It has been my delight to know Des Walter and the Christ in him. He has been an encouragement to me and my family and when I joined him in his mission to Kenya and Rwanda in May 2006, we delighted together to see the kingdom being established in the hearts of men and women and I pray there shall be an increase of His kingdom and I have bowed myself to the authority of the King and wherever he sends I will go.

Be Blessed, Brother Kamau