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MARK MAGARA’S TESTIMONY PART 2

00:47 I welcome you to the second part of our program “Shield of Faith” here on Rite TV. 00:57 A station with a new chapter whose aim is to change and revive people’s lives. 01:07 I always tell our dear viewers that if you are not yet born again, get ready to do so and if you are born again, get ready for a revival. 01:11 A person who is revived is one who knows the right thing to do and has the power of the Holy Spirit to do it. 01:23 Our dear viewers, the reason we host people with testimonies or bring you all other RITE TV programs is to help those who are born again but not doing what is right with God to be revived. 01:37 If you are not yet born again, kindly watch this testimony and may The Lord have mercy on you so that you also receive Christ. 01:48 Follow us on all our social media platforms to watch the gospel of the Lord as well as testimonies and the good news is, RITE TV has launched an APP. 02:02 For those using Androids, go to Play Store and type the word Rite tv which will take you directly to the RITETV APP. 02:25 Download the APP and you will be able to watch RITE TV from wherever you are at your convenient time. 02:36 I welcome you to the second part, watch and follow us. We are still with our guest brother Mark Magara, let him tell us what happened next when completed S.6. 02:48 Remember he had told us that the Lord delivered him from all the bad spirits of witchcraft that had been cast on him, so let’s hear what happened next. 03:02 Praise God Praise Him. 03:03 True, The Lord delivered me from the bad spirits and it was a gradual process from one step to another. 03:20 After completing S.6, I went back to our humble home and becoming born again created thirst in me of wanting to do something good which I couldn’t do without fully knowing Christ since I couldn’t do it on my own. 03:50 I used to pray at a church in our home area though I was faced with a lot of temptations since we were a poor family. 03:57 Just like others, I decided to go to Kampala to look for a job. 04:00 My father was opposed to it so I used my sister Dora who lied to my dad that she had got me a job in a supermarket of someone she knew. She even sent me transport money. 04:12 But during my vacation, I used to sell milk on a bicycle to the community and while peddling the bicycle, I used to hear a voice telling me that the steps you are taking as you ride that bicycle are the same steps you should take to salvation and preach the gospel of The Lord and you will be delivered. 04:34 I used to ride while preaching to myself and encouraging myself. 04:41 I was able to raise some money which was topped up by my father and I went to Kampala to look for a job. 04:47 I was received by a team of people who knew around Kampala and already had jobs but were not yet born again. 04:54 I had Christ in me and here I was with my very little money. 05:00 I thought it was so easy to find a job in Kampala. 05:07 I used the little money I had to make copies of my CV and for transport while searching for a job and it got over before I got anything I could call a job. 05:15 Within me, I felt that I should find a job and use that opportunity to preach about Christ so that they can also accept Him. 05:30 I wanted them to know that God lifts you up from nothing to something. 05:38 I continued looking for jobs much as I didn’t know a lot about Kampala. 05:46 My money got finished and I resorted to walking on foot. 05:48 We used to stay in Kasubi in a place called Kawaala. 05:59 I stopped looking for jobs in big companies and went to low end companies, those of my social class. 06:05 I had a very small phone and I would always wait to be contacted by companies where I had submitted my CVs. 06:16 I could save contacts from posters or TV just in case any vacancy was advertised. 06:25 I didn’t have any decent clothes to put on while going for interviews. I used to walk on foot from Kawaala to Seguku to go for prayers at Prayer Mountain. Really? Yes. 12:29 I tried looking for jobs in vain so I reached a point where I was no longer searching for jobs but looking for survival. 12:45 I went to Mega supermarket and I requested to see the bosses. I was told to go upstairs to Aponye mall but I lost my way and ended up in some other office. 13:00 They were dealing in electronics business for StarTimes and I asked them for a job. They laughed at me because of my pathetic appearance. 13:10 They asked me about who had told me that they had vacancies and I said to them that I was willing to do any available job. 13:17 They wrote down my contact on a cover of some book and I doubted whether they would even remember it. I left with very little hope of getting a job with them. 13:31 Three days later, one of their employees resigned on job and they gave me a call. 13:39 Once again, I put on my elder brother’s suit and also asked him to lend me 500/-, so I boarded a taxi from Kasubi to town. 14:01 I reached their office but since they didn’t know much about me or even where I come from, so they couldn’t trust me. 14:07 They decided to give me empty boxes of StarTimes decoders and I would go on the streets to look for customers and whenever I got one, I would rush to the office upstairs to collect the decoder. 14:10 The job was so competitive since I had no experience at all and I felt ashamed of doing it. I was also not good at the Luganda language. 14:25 I worked for six months without earning a single coin and in the 7th month, I was able to sell some decoders. 14:33 While testing decoders for customers, we would have an opportunity of watching some TV channels so I used to watch sermons from the 77 Days of Glory. 14:44 I also used to go there at night for prayers and in the process, I started making connections. 14:56 My sales grew each day and I was honest. 15:02 Many of the sales guys, after selling decoders or any other electronics they used to go buy them from Yamaha centre and replaced them, then they took the profit money and lied to the bosses that they hadn’t made any sales. 15:15 I was a born-again Christian who knew that sinning is bad so I made sure that what I sold is what I declared and my bosses always praised me. 15:25 As a result I got favour from my bosses. 18:05 I kept around and I was given an opportunity to learn computer basics using the computers in the sales department. 18:14 The lady supervisor took long to recommend that I get a salary and even when I was still working at the Mega branch, they used to send us some allowances but still, I never got it. 18:31 Our names were always included on the pay lists but the money was always taken by our supervisors. 18:36 At the office, I was never paid and the money never reflected on my bank account. 18:42 Life was hard though I had hope since I was at the head office. 18:45 I worked diligently and the Chinese bosses were impressed so they finally started paying me a salary of 194,000 Uganda shillings. 19:00 While I was still at the Mega branch, I stopped staying with my colleagues at Kasubi because life had become hard. 19:19 I requested one gentleman whom I had met while we were doing promotions, to help me find a place to stay. 19:41 I didn’t have any household things except for the overall that I was given at work and it was what I used to cover myself with. 20:00 The gentleman had no choice but to help me. 20:04 I told my colleagues that I had got a job with StarTimes and they gave me free accommodation and that we were not allowed any visitors at work except staff. 20:24 My colleagues were so happy for me saying that Jesus is faithful, so I moved to a new place and I used to cover myself with the overall. 20:34 Life was really hard while staying at the new place because it was dirty and a bit congested. 21:00 But I felt peaceful staying at a place where there were no people who were promiscuous or drunkards. Much as I was not sleeping comfortably, I grew in spirit. 21:21 While I was still staying with my colleagues, they didn’t care much about me and when I left, they started to care. 21:31 One evening I had to tie my stomach with a belt because I was starving since there was nothing to eat. So, I slept on an empty stomach. 21:44 The following day, I went to a “Chapati” vendor whom I asked to give me one to eat and I had to leave him with my National ID as collateral since I didn’t have any money on me. 21:56 It took me two weeks to pay him back but as you know God always takes us through hard times when He is preparing us for better times. 22:19 During the Christmas period, we celebrate the life of The Saviour. 22:43 We need deliverance in so many things in life. 22:55 The Bible says that it is only God who can raise us from the dust. 23:07 As you have all heard, he used to stay with people who were not born again. They were drunkards and promiscuous. 23:29 Tell us more about your life at the new place you were renting. 23:31 I continued working and I was so prayerful but after a short period of time I went back to Lumumba Avenue. 23:45 I later decided to go rent another house in Kitintale. 24:11 The Lord delivered me from the kind of lifestyle I was in. 24:17 The company gave us phones on loan so I joined a WhatsApp group called “Future Uganda Elites” on which platform I used to teach and preach God’s word. 24:38 But it is quite challenging to preach God’s word in a community of people who know you because they make fun of you and call you all sorts of names. 24:54 Amidst all that, one friend of mine together with some of my siblings, organised a surprise birthday party for me to take place at Centenary Park. 25:25 One of my siblings killed the surprise and told me about it and also asked me to invite my close friends, which I did. 25:44 A young man staying in Masindi said he wanted to come and attend the party because he wanted to meet me in person after listening to my sermons. 25:55 I got a bit worried, because of the awkward place I was staying in and yet he treated me with high regard. 26:02 So I lied to my sister that the fumigators had spoilt my bedsheets while fumigating my room so I requested her to bring me another pair when she was coming for the party. 26:22 I was trying to avoid being embarrassed. 26:33 But unfortunately, she was not able to bring the bedsheets. So, you weren’t settled during the party? I was agitated. 26:45 I asked a colleague of mine who had a car to help me and keep my birthday presents which I would pick from him later. 27:04 I thought that my sister had brought the bedsheets wrapped like a present but she said she was unable to bring them and my friend hadn’t confirmed yet whether he would spend the night. Did he come for the party? Yes, he did. 27:12 He wasn’t born again but he used to love my sermons. 27:22 He said we didn’t have time to ourselves during the party so he suggested we spend the night together in order to catch up till morning. 27:30 He was happy that he had got an opportunity to come to my place and yet on my side I was unsettled because of the poor state in which my place was. 27:43 All I had in my room was a tiny mattress and an overall I was given from office so I told him that he shouldn’t be surprised about the poor state of my place. 28:01 He simply laughed it off and he paid for the transport to my place. 28:07 My birthday presents were in the hands of my sister Dora who also had no idea of where I was staying and the type of job I was doing. 28:23 When we reached my place, the night guard wasn’t around so we had to jump over the gate and right away I knew there was going to be some challenges. 28:36 Imagine you brought a guest at your place but you had to jump over the gate to get it! 28:41 I made him feel at home but he was a bit confused when he saw the cars that had parked there for the night. 28:48 We were staying opposite a hospital building and I was really worried about my friend considering where he came from. 29:06 I opened the door to my awkward room, we entered and all I had in there was just a small mattress. 29:30 Since the security guard wasn’t around, I borrowed his bedcover because I thought he might not come back that night. 29:40 My friend did not complain at all, we covered ourselves and slept on a bare mattress. 29:49 At around 3:00am in the morning, the security guard came back and when he entered his room, he realised that his bedcover was missing. 30:04 He started making noise which I could hear since I was half asleep so because of the tension, I told my friend that the owner of the bedcover was back and he needed it. 30:27 The security guard shouted at me until he later slept off. 30:30 Deep inside me I felt that I should pray with my friend and give him a testimony since he had come all the way to meet me, though I was unable to. 30:42 The following morning, I went and bought him a soda from a nearby shop but unfortunately, he was confused by the drama and had nothing to say to me so he left. 31:00 From that time to date, he has never contacted me again. 31:10 He must have regretted meeting me in the first place. 31:15 So I went back and rented a house in Kitintale, I continued preaching God’s word and going for prayers at Prayer Mountain. 31:35 One evening I had gone for prayers at Prayer Mountain and it started raining heavily, so many people looked for shelter from the rain but I heard a voice speak to me telling me not to move. 31:49 I continued praying while it was raining on me and again the voice said to me that I had endured the heavy rain, the cold, the wind, I had eaten food but was still hungry and that I had also tested all earthly drinks but I was still thirsty. “Go and tell my people that, I am the river of life and whoever drinks of Me, will never be thirsty again.” 32:11 I felt relieved because my prayers were answered so I went and joined others who had sought shelter from the rain. 32:18 God had answered my prayers. 32:20 Like I told you earlier that getting a chance to talk to a pastor wasn’t easy at all. 32:31 So, that is how “Rivers of Life Ministry” started as we fellowshipped online. 32:31 Amidst all that, I was blessed to meet some elders one called Barbara and another Justine Kyabihenda whom I fellowshipped with at “Saints Revival Ministries” and I later joined “Shield of Faith Ministries.” 32:55 During one prayer night at Ggaba, The Lord did wonders to us because we prayed for a man of God called pastor Abel, who used to reside in Mutundwe and he was delivered. The two ladies were spiritually blessed. 33:13 When they listened to my testimony about my lifestyle, they were impressed by my resilience, so Aunt Justine requested that I move from Kitintale where I was renting a house to a free and self-contained one in Seguku which she owned. 33:35 I couldn’t believe that I was also going to stay in a house where I am neither inconvenienced nor inconveniencing others. 33:46 Meanwhile while I was still staying in Kitintale, I heard a voice speak to me that I will be moved from bad days to better days. 33:58 Those who practice witchcraft or worship other gods, ruin people’s lives so I had to preach the word of God which would move people from the bad days to better days. 34:11 It is now coming to 5years and I have been preaching daily from evening to mid-night, “crossover prayers before The Lord.” 34:18 We used to dedicate and cover the crossover prayers with the blood of Christ. 34:27 God’s people would always flock the fellowship during the crossover prayers and preaching. 34:41 A house with a servant and true believer of God is one that will bring mercy on all God’s creations. 34:58 When you have a calling and stand in The Lord, you can communicate to all God’s creations. 35:05 So when I moved to Seguku, life became better. 35:12 I had all the freedom. 35:15 I remember it was a new and empty house that even had no curtains, though I had a bed. 35:25 One brethren gave me a TV set. 35:34 Aunt Justine the owner of that house, gave me some money which I topped up and bought curtains. 35:44 I really gained freedom while in that house. 35:47 There was no more misery and I rejoiced. 35:58 So I used to work hand in hand with my pastor while doing God’s work. 36:02 One time while I was in a taxi coming to town, a voice spoke to me and ordered me to get out of the taxi. 36:13 So I got out of the taxi and walked down to clock tower gardens where The Lord asked me to fellowship and start preaching his word in that particular place. 36:23 I couldn’t recall that opposite that place, is where I was delivered. 36:28 I got in touch with the area management team, who tasked me to pay 1.5million shillings per sitting. 36:35 My small salary couldn’t even facilitate a single sitting. 36:40 I prayed and bargained with them until they reduced from 1.5milliom shillings to 50,000/- per sitting. 36:46 We started preaching God’s word. 36:50 The Lord wanted me to do His work at a place where most of my suffering happened while coming from attending night prayers and it was where my journey to salvation began. 36:59 So that is where I have been doing God’s work from. I have been joined by many people and one of the ladies I told you about earlier, gave a love offering of 1million shillings to me as a person because she had received a breakthrough. 37:17 I decided to buy a cow with the money. 37:24 Within me I felt that I needed to show some achievements as a born again Christian, a blessing from Christ. 37:36 That was my first achievement to take back home. 37:40 From that time, I got a breakthrough from The Lord. 37:43 In our family, my sister Dora was the first one to make an achievement when she bought a car when she got married. 37:51 So I also had a desire of buying a car in order to break bondages, though I was not in position to do so. 37:59 We decided to join finances with a colleague at church so that we could start an UBER business. 38:05 So we bought our first car which was partially paid for and we were to clear it in instalments. 38:12 He was working with Hisense while I was working with StarTimes. 38:17 I would work up to evening then drive the UBER during the night. 38:22 I love working hard and earning money as opposed to depending on church finances. 38:31 During the lockdown, the UBER business collapsed so, I agreed with my partner that I pay him off and I keep the car. God has really blessed me. 38:49 We agreed as born-again Christians and I paid him off and I owned the car. 39:00 God blessed me with another car. 39:04 I was heading the StarTimes sales team in the western and central region so my salary was increased and I also earned on commission basis. 39:16 The more sales I made, the more commission I earned. 39:20 I decided to start my own business so that I was in position to freely serve The Lord. I didn’t want to be tied down by the job. 39:39 With my salary, commission earned and after selling off the car, I raised capital to start a personal business. 39:57 I started the business but continued working with StarTimes. 40:02 What business did you start? 40:05 I agreed with StarTimes to be one of the official distributors of their products. 40:09 So being an employee with StarTimes, I was not allowed to conduct the business, I therefore registered it in the name of Sarah Bukuru. 40:41 Within me, I was thirsty to serve The Lord without any hindrances. 40:44 I resigned at my workplace since I had been given and signed the contract to start my personal business. 40:56 I was self-employed and I also continued doing God’s work through “The River of Life Ministries.” 40:59 We were no longer preaching online but through fellowships. 41:04 We are nearing the end of the show and truthfully, we can see that God does wonders because your testimony is a true sign that God can lift up someone from nothing to something. 41:24 How was your lifestyle spiritually as you were doing God’s work? 41:35 That is what I was about to tell you. 41:38 The day I bought a car and had someone to open the gate for me, then my salary had been increased, I owned a personal business and had a platform to preach from, I totally forgot about my past. 41:59 I forgot about everything I went through and felt that I had a say, I had a following and the congregation would clap for me. 42:06 I thought that if I didn’t appear for fellowships, things would go wrong. 42:14 I felt that I had all the power. 42:17 By the way, I completed S.6 when I was still a virgin, 42:21 So when God raised me up, I started developing thoughts of involving myself with women. 42:31 The devil will always fight you every time you are lifted to a new level. 42:34 Married women started tempting me while I was serving The Lord, to the extent that one would even say that come what may, they had to go to bed with you. 42:45 And when it came to girls of my age group, oh my God! The devil would tempt me with women of all age groups and social class. 42:56 I engaged myself in the lifestyle of promiscuity. 42:59 I forced the women that I had impregnated to terminate the pregnancies in order for people not to find out that I was a sinner. 43:10 I would repent, do it again then repent and go on like that. 43:12 One day, the devil wanted to uncover what I was hiding. 43:14 I slept with one born again Christian whose aim I didn’t know was to extort money from me since she knew that I was in charge of all church finances. 43:36 She asked me to give her 3million shillings which she would use during antenatal visits. 43:46 Things became tough and I had no choice but to confide in my colleague at church, Abius. At first, I kept it as a secret to myself because it was a hard one. 43:57 The lady actually went and told Abias what I had done to her. Is that so? Yes. 44:07 Abias asked me about it and I told him the truth. 44:11 By the time that incident happened, I had done it with many other women. I would go to bed with a woman and the following day I repent through prayer and fasting, then do it again and again. 44:26 On the outside, I kept my name clean yet I was rotting away in sin on the inside. 44:31 I never took any alcohol but I was so promiscuous. 44:37 I would fornicate on phone, in my mind and practically doing it. 44:43 God’s work was rotting away. 44:46 So the situation became worse during that lady’s incidence. Abius asked her what she wanted us to do for her. 44:50 The lady insisted that she wanted money. 44:55 So Abius had to intervene. 45:00 She said she wanted money in order to take care of the unborn baby. 45:04 She didn’t want to terminate the pregnancy? 45:06 Was she even pregnant! She wasn’t pregnant? No, she wasn’t but she wanted money. 45:14 It wasn’t an easy war to fight because she really played about with us by requesting to meet us now and again and I saw how the devil wanted to take me down. 45:28 I was fighting to do God’s work and also buy somethings for my parents but here I was with the devil pulling me down. 45:39 It is at that point that I decided to fight tooth and nail to become righteous again and be straight in The Lord by doing God’s work with integrity. 45:48 The only sin I committed then, was being promiscuous. 45:52 The moment the devil puts you down, you lose it all. 46:01 I knew that if I continued with my promiscuous lifestyle, I would end up in death. 46:06 God has had mercy on me and I am now righteous with The Lord. Praise God. Praise Him. 46:15 We thank The Lord because every single point in your testimony gives hope to someone and I believe that for those who are watching us, there is deliverance and revelation in your lives 46:30 As we wind up, I would like to remind you that when you commit sin, you don’t ask to be prayed for, you repent. 46:39 You realize that you kept your sin as a secret from your friend Abius but the devil unveiled it to him anyway. 46:55 But when you repented, The Lord lifted you up. 47:01 God doesn’t want us to be unrighteous in life and that is why Pastor Rogers Atwebembeirwe of New City Church reminded us of the qualifications of coming to the cross. 47:17 He said that all you need to come with at the foot of the cross is your sin and nothing else. The sin you commit, is what you bring with you to the cross. And now that Christ The Saviour is going to be born during this festive season, He will take away all our sins like John says in the bible that “whoever lives in Christ, all their past will be forgotten and their lives renewed. 47:51 It is only Christ who will renew your life, make you forget about all the misery you faced and saves you. 47:08 Within me I felt like crying as I was listening to your testimony. 48:07 It is only God who lifts up a person and saves them. 48:20 If you don’t stick to the cross and live a life of repentance, you can easily forget your misery which led you into backslide like the way the devil led you to promiscuity. 48:33 This reminds me of what members of the revival church used to do, the preaching of the gospel and repenting publically hadn’t spread yet until the Revival Church was introduced here in East Africa. 48:46 Members of the Revival church started repenting of their sins publicly and it created a new chapter. 48:53 All those that used to hide their sins like you did, started talking about them and repenting of them publicly and they would be healed. 49:03 God had mercy on all those who repented of their sins and their lives changed totally. 49:11For those who are watching us, as we prepare for the birth of Jesus Christ, we should all know that what we have to do is repent of our sins. Praise The Lord Mark. Praise Him. Thank you for coming here. 49:30 There’s one more thing I would like to say about repenting. 49:33 One time a voice spoke to me and asked me to repent of all my sins so, I went to my pastor in Entebbe and I found him attending a gathering but the voice insisted that I shouldn’t leave that place without repenting. 50:05 As they were busy introducing themselves during the gathering, I stood up, grabbed the microphone and I started coming out clean and how far I had strayed. 50:18 That was the end of the service. Everybody young and old that was in church that day, started repenting of their sins. 50:24 Repenting is very important because ever since I did it, I felt a relief in my life. 50:29 Like you said, repentance is the door to testimonies, the door to salvation and the door to knowing about God. Praise God. Praise Him. 50:37 We have been blessed by your presence and may The Lord continue to raise you up as you do His work. 50:43 We also thank Him for bringing change in your family. 50:47 When I had just received salvation, I used to ask myself, why me of all people in my life yet some were even older than me! 51:03 Whenever one accepts Christ as their personal Saviour, there is a reason for that happening. 51:09 God turns you into an ambassador from wherever you are be it in your home or at your workplace. 51:18 I do believe that many people received salvation on that day as you were receiving deliverance. 51:23 Praise God as He continues to use you as His ambassador while you teach His word and give people words of hope for those who are not yet born again. 51:39 We have been so honoured to host you on the Shield of Faith program here on RITE TV and thank you so much for sharing with us your testimony. 51:43 Are there any words of wisdom that you would like to share with us? 51:58 I would like to tell everyone watching us that you can’t wait to receive the word or life of salvation if you haven’t repented of your sins. 52:10 Whenever a dirty cloth is washed, it looks new and nice. 52:15 When you repent, your life is renewed. 52:19 Let us keep our lives in repentance be it day or night. 52:28 Everyone should repent of their sins. 52:30 John chapter 7:37-38 says “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. 52:39 Drink of Christ in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening whether you are with brothers and sisters in Christ or not. 52:48 All you need to do is repent because then will your spiritual life be renewed. May God bless you all and I wish you all a life of salvation. Amen, that brings joy in our lives because Christ The Son of God. Praise God. Those watching us and all those who follow the program, may continue to be blessed. These testimonies are not only for you to listen to but are intended to change your lives. Praise our Lord. The program is Shield of Faith here on RITE TV. We are on all social media platforms. We also have an APP, go to Playstore and type the word Rite TV which will lead you directly to the APP which you should download. You will be able to watch us at your convenience. May The Lord bless you and I remain Nuwamanya Godfrey your host. If you want to watch all our other programs at your own convenient time, go to YouTube and type the word Rite tv Uganda and you will be able to watch all our programs in full God bless you all and may the light of God shine upon you always.

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