Am called Obed Ndyamuba ,am born again, Am married to one wife- Phiona Nuwe Ndyamuba, We are blessed with three children, Ahumuza Emmanuel, Asasira Elisha and Angumya Eliola,I come from Kiruhura District,Nyabushozi county. Kashwa church of Uganda and North Ankore Diocese.
And in Kampala I pray from Kitala Church of Uganda. I thank the lord for my being here.
I still have both my parents; Rev Canon Johnson Ndyamuba and my mother Victor Ndyamuba, they are servants of God and they serve in Sanga Archdeaconry church of Uganda. We are 12 children and am the 5th child,
I went to school, I started in Rushere Primary School from Primary one up to P7. From 94 to 2000. Then I went to Muntuoyera high School Kitunga, It’s a boys school. From senior one to senior four. And I went to Nganwa high School for senior five.
I studied only senior five from there because I had started bad manners like drinking, fornicating and all other sorts of moralism, going to clubs and even beating up teachers, so due to my bad manners I was chased from school.
Yes the devil does not look at that, never. Imagine I was promoted to senior six but, they told me to find another school elsewhere. So I went to Nyakayojo Secondary School for senior 6.in 2006, much as I was so stubborn I was doing well academically.
Then I put a pose on my studies and I first went to look for money. Then after six years, in 2012 I joined Makerere University, I graduated with bachelors in Humanities and social sciences in 2016 and that’s how I studied.
I also got a chance to go out ,that time they were taking people to Iraq and I joined them, went and made some money and in the process I learnt to use a gun, But now am a soldier of God.
Me and my wife, We met at the University, became friends and started cohabiting and even got pregnant. We were not born again yet, but since the lord is so merciful and never takes pleasure in seeing the sinner perish, he later helped us and we wedded, we did not wed just because of the pregnancy but we truly loved each other much as we were in sin.
We got married on the 20th June 2015, we had just finished our exams and we were doing the same courses we wedded and gave birth to our first boy in July and 2016 we graduated.
They expelled me out of Nganwa School basically because of boozing, bad manners, smoking and taking weed, I took a lot of weed and reached an extent of losing weight and my mum would wonder what is happening but deep down me I knew what the problem was.
Weed was eating my life up. And most of the time people who drink and smoke lose apetite. But I remember I did not start doing all those in Nganwa,before I went to Nganwa I was already addicted to those things. Every time I would feel like drinking or smoking I would just stop whatever am doing and make sure I run away from school.
So I started drinking, smoking and fornicating in Kitunga . I started fornicating at a very young age. I remember at one time, some young girl from my village came to our home, I think her parents had sent her for something and we ended up having sex and we were both very young kids.
As I was growing up, every time I would go to some relatives home for holidays I would involve in the sin of fornication with some girls there. So by the time I reached high school I was already a terrible sinner.
I was already the devil’s agent…And I believe the devil did not struggle to seek for who to send because I did all kinds of bad manners.I was a drunkard, a smoker, a womanizer ,I liked clubbing etc. etc.
So that’s how the devil used me and I remember I was doing sciences very well especially chemistry but some student lied to me that if I continue with chemistry at some point we will start making some Panadol’s, so I thought in my heart that this will require a lot of my time and I will not find time to drink and do my personal duties.
And that time we were still allowed to cut down some subjects so I decided to cut chemistry off so I can have time for my satanic duties, I did not want it to take a lot of my time. And another reason for dropping chemistry was the fear that, what if I make the Panadol when am drunk and it doesn’t come out properly and a person takes and dies because of me.
Therefore I concluded in my heart by saying instead of doing away with alcohol I would rather drop chemistry so I can continue with my drinking. I started sin at a very early stage.
I wanted to remain with the easy subjects where I would just come from my drinking and I just go through the notice and go do the exams and pass. I was doing so well in arts.
Surprisingly it was not my parents servanthood that made me get close to God and I will not say I was young, first of all I loved singing and it is something that brought me close to God and I still love singing. My parents being the servants of God, I never valued it at all or thought it was that important, and my mum is someone who is so principled and who even knew us so well that sometimes she could look at us and know that something was not right.
But that did not stop me from drinking either, their service did not stop me from drinking, the devil does not look at serving God neither does he respect it.
Reverends can never be posted to their home area, they are always posted far from where they live and they move with their wives because they would both be serving, so because the home can be abandoned, they would tell me and my big brother to go to the farm, so we had all the freedom to do all sorts of things.
We would smoke all we want and drink all we wanted because we used to know when they would come back home. While our parents were serving the lord the devil was busy wasting us. Like God made away for us not to perish and he gave his only begotten son to die for us, so the devil also plans to destroy us, that’s why there are levels and different prices of alcohol for stance there is alcohol for 5k,10k or even for 2k so that everyone can afford to drink.
Whenever the parents were available, the devil would make a plan for us, I remember one time my parent was around and I was going to sneak into someone house to rape a girl. My father came, I greeted him, he asked me how the cows, were, the home generally and he went to bed. In my heart I knew he was so tired to wake up and he can only wake up in the morning so I went out of the house and did what I wanted to do. Therefore even when the parents were around the devil also made a way for us.
We would not be with parents all the time foristance every time I would leave his sight I would go and smoke and then after I would chew some herbs so it doesn’t smell for him. Or u make sure u do not come closer to him or her.
But You know u can never hide sin, sometimes they would hear from roomers ,then my mum was so smart that she would look at you and know or even stalk you and check your pockets and wallets until she finds something. So we even started finding other ways of hiding our cigalates, I remember sometimes we would put them in polythen bag to prevent them from rain and leave them in the bushes.
Then one day they chased me away from school( Nganwa and even Nyakayojo) that time my father got me red handed, They called him in a parents meeting and they called me in when I was very drunk, When I entered the office ,the first thing I saw was the collar ( the white stuff the Reverends wear in the neck).
When I looked at him I immediately became sober. Then we moved out of office, he was so sad and disappointed, he told me so many words but u know talking to a drunkard is like holding an expensive pen writing on water.
The grace of God is so great. When you serve the lord it’s not in vain at some point God rewards you.
So did u continue in that sinful life? Isn’t there a time where u felt it was too much and u were hurting your parents?
The voice comes of course but it only comes when you get into a problem, otherwise it had never crossed my mind that am hurting my parents, so the only time It came to me is when they chase me from school.
I used to do all my sins at night in the dark, to the extent that if you mention in my village that am a drunkard or a fornicator nobody could believe you. I was slow but sure. The only time I felt I hurt them is when I did something and I found out about it.
I got saved after getting married on the 28th of august 2016. My young brother who had just joined university and staying with us, was saved already and he invited me for a fellowship at normal gallery
I heard that there was praying at Nommogallery, yet a few years back like 2009/10I had gone there for boozing so I was wondering how can there be praying in a bar? So I said let me follow this boy and I see if he is going to the right place, he might be going for some cult. Imagine me who was a sinner
Who was drinking and cheating on my wife but I was following my brother so he doesn’t end up in some fake religion. So I went following him at Nommogallery and found serious prayers and worship and that’s how I joined Shield of faith Fellowship.
When I reached there I found a preacher sharing about ‘’shifting during the day’’ it is in Ezekiel 12:3 That word became new and so important in my life, and I got the revelation about it, I realized that I have to shift from those who have ears but they do not listen ,have eyes but do not see.
Knowing and seeing that sin is bad but not shifting from the drunkenness, from fornication. I have been seeing people dying of sleeping around and dying but they just continue in sin. We left the fellowship but the message kept in my mind.
The following day it was Saturday, then Sunday and the voice kept coming back, I had a deep thinking about how I have lived my life and how God has been faithful to me .He did not allow me to die in accidents, he did not let me die in fornication
I decided in my heart to accept Jesus to be my personal savior, I was with my wife very early in morning at 6 am, I woke her up and told her that I had decided to accept Jesus Christ to be my lord and personal savior. And something in me was telling me to confess all my sins to her.
I had the confidence to confess to her because I had cheated on her. Yet while I was still a sinner I used to promise myself that, God I ask you that if I ever get married I should never cheat on my wife or smell alcohol for her.
But I had cheated on her with a girl I saw at our (me and my wife) graduation day. I had been looking for that girl and we had never met until the day of our graduation. And from there we connected and we slept. So the day I got saved it was the first thing I told my wife.
0n the 28th, it was a Sunday I went to Kitara church of Uganda and I confessed all my sins and I gave my life to Jesus. And I started my new life with shield of faith. And I found out that in shield of faith fell there were people were doing exactly what I was doing so I felt like ohh so I was not alone?
So I gained my confidence and realized even others were like me , yet God has transformed them so he will do the same to me ‘and most of them were my age mates so the salvation journey became so easy for me.
So I got serious with salvation but I was still thirsty for alcohol. So every time my wife would be away I would go get some alcohol and take some. Because I did not want her to smell it. Every time I looked at the posts of club beer on the road side I would also get tempted, but I made sure I stayed in fellowship until I overcame.
I overcame and I made sure I never went in a bars again, to the extent that whenever a person called to meet me in a bar I would frankly tell her/him that I am saved no I cannot sit in a bar anymore, so it became an opportunity for me to inform people that I born again and I no longer go to bars.
I like sports so much that I used to go to bars to watch football. Time came I stopped it also and said I would rather start paying a monthly subscription fee for TV I will do that but I will not go back to the bars.
So I overcame the addiction of alcohol and football. I was a slave to football and I would end up in a bar because of football. I also overcame the sin of fornication by avoiding to chat with girls because I knew what my problem was.
I really stopped chatting with girls and I only chat with them on business issues. When business ends that will be the end of my chatting with her. I made up my mind to focus on Christ and do away with all sins because I knew all the tricks the devil used on me.
Shield of faith program, here on Rite TV. This is the first part of Obed’s testimony as you have heard. To the youth watching us right now. It is important to make a choice and stick to it .Please stay with us, we will soon bring you the second part. God bless you.
