00:23 Praise God, I am Nuwamanya Godfrey and I welcome you to the shield of faith program here at Rite TV. This is part 2 of the testimony of our guest Vicky. In the first part of her testimony, she told us about her background of being born in an Awakened Christian family and how she went to school in Kampala. Being a girl from the village, God protected her during her school time in Kampala because she stayed strong in faith and focused. 01: 14 before we start our second part, I would like to tell you that there is a problem in this generation because of the generational gap. There is a big gap between this current generation and the former generation’s i.e between our parents and our grandparents most especially those who were under the foundation of East African Revival. 01:50 The way they behaved, the way they received salvation, the way they lived their lives and even how they handled matters concerning marriage and other issues of morality. Our generation was invaded by bad habits like watching pornography and things like that; we were invaded by shamelessness amongst the young people especially the girls. 02:38 Then we were also invaded by too much love for money which has caused most young people to compromise their behaviors in all ways by engaging in acts of stealing and sleeping around with men for money. Even in marriages, most people get into marriages for other reasons but not the true sense of marriage. That’s how the devil invaded the current generation. 03:13 Therefore as Rite TV, we think and believe that God is not rising us for no reason especially in this generation but I want to tell you that Rite TV is a change agent. We have come to bring you a new chapter and that’s why we bring you guests like Vicky and others to make sure that such issues of immorality are solved. 03:40 Therefore allow me to welcome her once again, you remember in the first part she was telling us how she was about to complete university and like you know the devil never fails to get his way into someone’s life so she got a boyfriend along the way. 03:50 We welcome you Vicky to this second part, please tell us your story. Praise God. Praise Him indeed. 04:00 As you all listened to my salvation journey, when I was about to complete University, I listened to other voices and I ignored the one of Jesus that I used to listen to. 04:18 Those voices made me lose focus in regard to salvation because my colleagues told me that I have to get married and therefore I have to stop giving those testimonies and also behave like a city girl. I agreed to their suggestions and got a man though I lost peace and I also stopped giving testimonies regularly. 04:49 I could no longer be in the presence of other Christians since I couldn’t pretend to be born again. I had stopped giving testimonies and attending fellowships. I could no longer face the women who had raised us in a Christian way. My life in Kampala was good because I met there many relatives and other people who loved me so much. 05:30 I would go out with my boyfriend yet I never used to take alcohol nor go dancing but I had no choice. He would call my phone endlessly and by the way, there were other men who also used to call me as well. Another colleague of mine wanted me to date a colonel. What rank was your boyfriend? He was at the rank of a private under ISO. Most of the guys who had interest in me were army officers and yet I used to fear them. At some point, over five men would call me at the same time in one day and so I had to switch off my phone. I continued dating my boyfriend but I lost peace and my life changed totally. I would no longer repent of my sins or give testimonies but I kept behaving like a born-again Christian. Some of my colleagues wondered why I was no longer giving testimonies but deep inside me, I knew what was causing all that. 06:55 On 1st of May 2009 God gave me a second chance and I once again received salvation at Pastor Ssozi’s church where a white lady was preaching at the time. We were many girls at the time and so we asked one lady who was born-again, how they were lucky to get married to born again men. But of course, we knew that that was their chance and our time was also coming. 07:40 As we were going to Dr. Samson Kibende’s place to attend a fellowship, we asked her whether it was okay to get married to men who were not born again much as we knew in our hearts that it was not right. The woman of God told us that it was not right and we should let the spirit to guide us. However, I personally had already decided on what I would do. 08:15 In 2009, there was a song that said “Jesus showed me amazing grace.” A sinner that I was, a lot was bound to happen to me like the unwanted pregnancies, abortions and sickness but Jesus showed me grace. 08:55 That woman of God told us that anyone of us who was born again and was still holding onto anything that is not righteous, should let go and would then see the goodness of God and indeed Jesus did wonders. When she talked, I heard a voice of God telling me “Boyfriend,” I pretended not to listen to the voice but it insisted that I have to let go of that relationship with the boyfriend. 09:11 The Lord’s voice said, “If you really want to come back to the life you used to live, you have to repent of having a boyfriend and leave him because you are not legally married.” It was quite a hard decision to make but I switched off my phone and I went into prayer and fasting for four days. I asked for God’s help and guidance in order to let go of that boyfriend because we both loved each other so much. I cut off communication with him for four days, I went into fasting and praying over it. 09:57 I stayed in the house crying and praying to God and I thank Him because it worked. Praise God Immediately I switched on my phone on the 5th day, he called from Lira and I told him that I needed to talk to him urgently. 10:15 I was working with Simba Telecom at the time and by 5:00pm he was here in Kampala. So, we met somewhere and I did not even ask for tea or anything else. I simply told him that I was born again. He said, “but you have always been” and I said to him that I had backslid the moment I allowed him to be my boyfriend yet we were not legally married. 10:39 I asked him whether I had ever introduced him to my parents and whether we officially wedded. I also asked him why he was attracted to me yet Kampala was full of very many beautiful girls, who come from rich and famous backgrounds. I told him that I was not that beautiful but because of him, I backslid as a born-again Christian which hurt me a lot and therefore my God had told me to leave him. He kept staring at me. What did he say to you? 11:08 He said he used to think that I was special but he realized that I was just like all those other girls in town who leave their poor men for richer ones! I told him that I was born again and I repent of all his time that I had wasted and the money he spent on me but my God has ordered me to let go of him. 11:44 I bid him farewell and asked him to go and find himself another woman to marry. There was a lot of tension at that moment. Meanwhile he had a pistol with him but I was not scared of death since I had repented of all my sins. 11:59 I was hurting so much because I knew exactly what it meant to be born again. 12:12 I could not mix the devil with God; imagine I had even stopped going for fellowships! I bid him farewell and he could not believe it. I advised him go find some other girl to marry. I got up and he followed me and I kept thinking in my heart that he was going to shoot me, he followed me until I entered the taxi and he kept looking at me until the taxi drove off. I thanked God because I had overcome. 12:47 That night I slept peacefully and I thanked Jesus. Praise God That is the day that I actually became born again. The Lord asked me to go and repent to the brethren and to the women who had loved me yet they were not my relatives and neither were they of my social class. So, I started going back for fellowships at Kitara and I was able to preach the gospel again like I used to do. Praise God. 13:17- The Lord saved me though I would still get calls from different men, one after the other. One time, a friend of mine brought me a man who had separated with his wife and he offered to give me a car if I accepted to be his wife. He said he was ready to marry me and he didn’t want to waste any time in regard to that. Was he born again? No, he was not and he had separated with his wedded wife. 13:51 The Lord spoke to me, “the truth will always remain the truth.” I looked at the car yet I did not own one and imagine I had just completed at Makerere University so one would want to get a rich man. 14:12 But I had never prayed to get a rich man. I always prayed to get a man who was born again or one from a background of the Awakened Christians. Those were the only things I used to pray for and I can assure you, it is exactly what God blessed me with. 14:30 So that man left your life and went away? Yes, and remember I was into promiscuity and I also had a desire for money but the Jesus in me helped me overcome all that. It was not by my might but by the Jesus in me. 15:14 So I had to end everything with the colonel because he was a married man otherwise my mother would never want anything to do with me ever again. 15:29 I also told my friend that I could not be in a relationship with her cousin, the army officer. I never wanted to repeat the same mistake so I told the army officer that there would be no relationship between us. So that was it with the army officer? Yes, but others kept hitting on me. 15:50 I would lock myself in the house and never answered calls. I forgot to tell you about a guy from my home village whom my parents wanted me to get married to because he was from a rich family and they had many cows. But I said no to him because I was not moved by the cows they owned since I had grown up seeing them, I was into the holy spirit. He told my family that I had rejected him and they were not amused at all. They were looking for a successful life? At that time, there were five men chasing after me, my husband inclusive. 16:52 Before you tell us how your husband came into the picture; I want to say this to our viewers. Many people have tried to explain the meaning of a “successful life” as having many cows and having a lot of money on a bank account but I want to remind you about what Vicky was telling us. Living a successful life means to live a pure life with the Lord. Having material things doesn’t mean success. The bible says, of what benefit are the earthly things if you are not able to enter the kingdom of God? So, Vicky ended her relationship with the Colonel and rejected the man who had brought her a car because she knew all about the goodness of the Lord. Tell us about your husband. 17:53 I never used to make any decisions without consulting with my close relatives, for fear of landing into trouble. 18:10 I am a fearful woman so I wondered that if I went into a relationship with that man and he impregnated me or something went wrong, what would I do? In case of anything, they had to know about it and that is how we were raised. 18:27 The Awakened born-again Christians were always open and did things in the open with all honesty. 18:33 I remember whenever my mother would want to go to the market to buy something, she would always inform her fellow Christians about it. So, I was also used to doing things in the open, I didn’t want to be caught up in trouble all by myself. 18:54 When my husband visited my parents, they all said he was the right man for me. He was also an army officer, well disciplined and not a drunkard. His mother also said he was the right man for me. A colleague of mine got married to a man who was not born again but because she was materialistic. The Lord had prepared the right man for me. 19:33 When my husband came to me, I had never met him before and neither did I know where he came from. He called me and introduced himself as Fred Tumwesigye who worked with state house. I always wanted to marry someone from Ankole not from Buganda. 10:56 I asked him where he was born and how he got my number. He told me that he was born again. Many guys would keep calling me now and again while for him he would call me only once in a month and I used to wonder whether he was serious. 20:28 So one day he called and requested to meet me but I told him that I was not interested in men anymore since I was born again and that whoever told him about me must have mentioned my religious background to him. 20:46 He said that the reason he had called was to tell me that he is also born again. 21:00 As I was going to meet him, I asked God what I should tell him since he knew that I was born again yet I had back slid. The Lord told me to tell him about all my sins most especially promiscuity and I wondered how I was going to do that. But the Lord insisted that that is what I should do. Imagine gong on the first date with a man who had intentions of marrying you and you start by telling him how you were promiscuous! And indeed, that is what I did. 21:30 So when I met him, I greeted him and he asked me to introduce myself. 21:40 The first thing I said to him was that I was born again and that I believed that whoever told him about me must have mentioned it to him. However, I sinned when I became promiscuous. 21:52 I told him about my whole testimony like I have done here with you. 21:57 His reply was that he had done worse things than me, so we sung a praise song and that was the beginning of our journey together. 22:14 We courted for a whole year and whenever we met, I used to carry my bible and he too would carry his. 22:18 We never used to discuss anything else except talking about God; we even used to go to the beach with our bibles until God told me to stop going to the beach to watch naked people so we stopped. I can tell you that we courted for a full year and he never even touched me. 22:50 Whenever we met, we would read the bible and talk then he would drop me home. 22:55 At that time I was staying alone since my sister had gone back home. I had just started working at Civil Aviation. I had all the freedom to sleep with him since I was staying alone but I thank the Lord, because of His Grace I was born again and therefore I could never compromise anything. 23:30 So finally you got married? Yes, we got married. Which year was that? 23:29 We got married on the 9th of August 2008. How many children do you have? We have 4 children and the Lord has kept us so well and saved us. God told me one thing, to always say sorry to my husband. 24:00 The women pf Kampala Revival fellowship organized a surprise bridal shower for me because I never had any relatives here in Kampala and I never expected anything from anyone. I have attended some bridal showers but mine was different and Godly, and I learnt how to always repent and say sorry. 24:40 It is now about 13 or 14 years in marriage, how have you found marriage and how do you handle it? 24:50 In marriage, if you walk with Jesus, all will be well. Anything that has Christ in it does not have to be sugar coated, like for example when I was promiscuous and pretending that all was okay yet deep inside me, I was dying of guilt. When you walk with Christ, all will be well So, I went into marriage when I was already born again and I had repented of all my sins. The Lord encourages us to always repent of our sins. My husband is such a humble man who had even testified to me about his sins which he thought were worse than mine. 25:28 When we got married, Christ had mercy on us and we had received salvation because can you imagine we spent 11 months in marriage with no children! 25:38 Do you know what that means when the relatives and in laws start mounting pressure for you to bear a child? While I was undergoing the pressure, he kept calm and said that with Christ, all things are possible. 25:48 As the year was winding up, in December we got a double blessing when I became pregnant with twins who were both boys. The Lord had answered your prayers by blessing you with twins? Yes, and we thanked the Lord. It is not that I now have it all like the bible says, I leave everything to Jesus. Some years back I started getting fatigue and I wondered why I had to continue repenting! 26:26 Then a time came and I got used to the marriage life and I became relaxed. 26:31 I stopped doing things in the open for example initially I always used to inform him whenever I would be going to Kitara church for fellowships where I was also a preacher then all of a sudden, I stopped informing him. 26:29 Sometimes he would call me and ask where I was and I would just answer that I am at the church or I am with fellow Christians. So that relaxation created a dark cloud in our marriage. 26:51 I stopped repenting and I was like after all he was my husband so I did not have to tell him about everything I do or wherever I go. 27:00 Then one day the Lord spoke to me and asked whether I was still a born-again Christian. Then grace and renewed salvation came upon me and I repented to my husband and things went back to normal. Imagine we used to wake up in the morning and fellowship together the way we used to do it back home. But all that had stopped. He used to wake up early to do morning exercises. So, I started complaining about things that were not going right and I wanted things to be done like what I saw in other people’s marriages. 27:44 I thank God because we came back to our senses and we started fellowshipping together like we used to do and I would make sure to always kneel down whenever I was praying. The Holy Spirit guided us to start kneeling down while praying as opposed to doing so while seated in the chairs. So, if Tumwesigye is not at work, do you go for fellowships together? Yes, we do pray together and I am blessed to have a mother-in-law and father-in-law who are both born again Christians. 28:27 Many married couples and other people do not take fellowshipping together seriously. It is not a common practice to find a man and woman in a home starting a day by praying together even when they are born again Christians. Many people take salvation for granted for as long as they are born again, the rest doesn’t matter. Many don’t know that fellowshipping and praying together is a blessing. For people who have lived together for a long time, you can’t avoid dark moments in the home. That is a very important point and I think our viewers should learn a thing or two from it. 29:09 A couple or family that doesn’t pray together has low faith. Amos 3:3 says that, “Can two walk together, unless they have agreed?” We thank the Lord for that. As we about to take a short break, the Lord blessed you with twins? 29:59 God blessed us with twins in 2012 and the Lord’s favour was upon them as they grew up because I used to work with Civil Aviation Authority and I would do night shifts. I used to leave them with their father though I would make sure that everything they needed while I was away was prepared i.e the milk, the diapers and clothes for changing. He gave me a lot of peace in everything and I believe it was because of salvation. By God’s grace, we got a maid to take care of them. We don’t have much but His mercy. 31:00 Whenever I think of the hymn that says, “The Lord had mercy on me,” I always can’t believe that it is me who was once a sinner and sometimes I used to think that the heavens would just fall down and hit me. By God’s grace, I will forever love and respect my husband for choosing me despite what I had done in the past otherwise he would have wondered what to do with a spoilt girl from Kampala. 31:38 He had all the reasons not to marry me because I was not holy, and because of that I would quickly forgive him whenever he wronged me or whenever we disagreed. But God keeps telling me to humble myself and He said, “I called you to get saved, to preach the gospel and to be a born-again wife.” 32:15 Thank you so much Vicky for your testimony and I am reminding the viewers that what we can learn from her testimony is that, having a successful life is not putting your trust in the things of the world that perish like the bible says. What will it help you to eat the world and you lose your life? But Vicky and her husband even though he is not here, have painted for us a picture that to have a successful life is staying pure in Christ. Allow us to go for a short break then we will proceed to the third part of her testimony and how God has been lifting up their family. Praise God.
FATHER, FORGIVE THEM!
April 18, 2025
