I’ll be honest - I thought these were large blueberries when we bought them at the roadside in Domboshawa this morning. Turns out they are tsubvu- known in English as the smelly berry finger leaf fruit. An acquired taste I think….
@NoloBoqwana When we speak up against these practices many justify their actions with its a way to raise funds for church or pay rentals etc and many buy into that practise blindly
KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT A HUSTLE & GOD'S POWER IS NOT A PRODUCT TO BE SOLD‼️
ONCE ITS MONETIZED, ITS NO LONGER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
Let’s deal with this straight.
Charging people for a “prophetic class”…
Putting a price tag on a “word”…
Locking access to “hearing God” behind a paywall…
Selling the anointing through Holy waters and oils.
and then calling it “Kingdom”?
That’s not biblical.
That’s business wearing spiritual language.
And Scripture speaks directly to it.
Matthew 10:8
“Freely you have received; freely give.”
Jesus wasn’t vague.
If the gift came from God…
you don’t monetize access to God. If you are fundraising, let it be CLEAR.
Now don’t twist this:
There is a difference between being compensated for labor
and charging for spiritual access.
Paul makes it clear in 1 Timothy 5:18
“the laborer is worthy of his wages.”
Teaching, time, structure, administration — that’s labor.
But when you start selling:
• prophecy
• impartation
• “exclusive access to God’s voice”
you have crossed a line.
Because now you’re not teaching…
you’re trafficking something sacred.
Look at what happened in Acts 8 with Simon the sorcerer.
He saw the power of the Holy Spirit and said:
“I’ll pay you for this power.”
And Peter didn’t negotiate.
He rebuked him.
“May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!”
That wasn’t a gentle correction.
That was a hard line.
Because the moment you think spiritual authority can be bought…
you’ve stepped into corruption.
The Greek word for “gift” there is (dōrea) —
meaning a free gift, something given without price.
You cannot charge people for something God never charged you for.
And here’s the truth many don’t want to say:
Some people are not raising disciples…
they’re building dependency.
Teaching people:
“You need me to hear God.”
“You need my class to access the prophetic.”
“You need my system to move in power.”
That’s not equipping.
That’s control.
Because real Kingdom teaching does this:
It points people back to God, not back to you.
2 Peter 2:3 warns:
“In their greed they will exploit you with false words.”
The word “exploit” in Greek is (emporeuomai) —
which literally means to make merchandise of, to trade, to profit from people.
That’s strong.
God is saying there will be people who turn His people into products.
Selling experiences.
Selling access.
Selling spiritual moments.
And calling it “Kingdom.”
But just because something has the word “God” on it…
doesn’t mean God is in it.
This is the real question:
Are you equipping people to hear God for themselves…
or are you building a system where they always need you?
Because the Holy Spirit was never for sale.
The presence of God was never meant to be monetized.
And the gifts of God were never meant to be used to pimp His people.
Yes, honor those who labor.
Yes, invest in growth.
But never confuse honor with buying access to God.
Because the moment money becomes the gatekeeper to spiritual things…
you’ve stepped outside of biblical order.
REPENT OR WAIT FOR JUDGEMENT.
So a Muslim man who has three wives already is trying to convince me to date him & eventually become his 4th wife, obviously I'm like no sir, I can't , I don't want to be married to a Muslim, not that I have anything against the religion but I'm Christian & wouldn't want to change that , as that was going to be one of his conditions of being a 4th wife. And I definitely do not want to be a 4th wife. But then he’s like do you understand that being a fourth wife with me is better than you marrying a Christian man who will cheat on you with five or six women that you don't even know about? I then said you know, it's not always that every Christian man cheats, i could end up with a faithful one..
He said im delusional 😩
@Bqmbulu And when you buy into this be prepared for the fallout because not every game is justified or morally right ,just manipulation hidden behind being good at the game .
When a woman knows you can't easily get sex elsewhere, she withholds it to wield control over you or punish you.
On the otherhand, when she knows other ladies are dying to fuck you silly, she lays her guard down because she knows if she doesn't open her cookie, another woman will, willingly.
This is why if you intend to settle for one woman, you must always position yourself as the prize (of course you are), as being coveted by other women. Subtly let her know other women want you.
Having a sexy hobby/hustle helps with this. (Any interest that exposes you to a beehive of pussy e.g photography, playing guitar, running a gym etc. Rivelino talks about this)
For instance, you could tell her some imaginary girl at your work place (or wherever) has been hitting on you.
It's called COMPETITION ANXIETY & it works on women.
One thing this trick does is it makes her sit up,(that is if she didn't settle for you), to make sure that this new competitor doesn't edge her out.
If she wasn't always available, she'll become more available
If she doesn't cook often for you, she'll become more dedicated in cooking for you
If she doesn't open her cookie jar, she reconsiders...
The whole point is,
Some changes will be made by her so as to safeguard her territory.
I know you may want to whip up sentiments like "Marriage shouldn't be about games & tricks."
But unfortunately that's what it is.
LOVE IS WAR!
Your forefathers played it better by marrying many women because they recognised that polygamy solved almost every marital problem.
But your feminised Western culture banned polygamy to give women an edge.
This is why you must have some tricks up your sleeve to triumph.
LEARN OR PERISH!
BIBLE SCHOLARS please help…
Last night during my Bible study, I learned that after Sarah’s death, Abraham remarried a woman named Keturah. She gave birth to six sons, while Sarah only bore Isaac.
Why doesn’t the Bible say much about these other children?
@au_badela You will have to obey ,no questions asked because in as much as we fear society's backlash ,it will never compare to disobedience backlash from God
Do you know how God speaks? He once instructed a prophet to marry a prostitute. If He’d said that to you…would you have obeyed or were you going to rebuke that voice and say it’s not Him?
Do you know God’s voice?
@NdunawemaDeals1 That mindset worked a long time ago now things have changed,whats key now is how you connect and make money not necessarily going out lest you become a directionless jack of everything that moves ,master your trade and run with it either indoors or outdoors
Munhu wemurume usaswere pamba. Buda, gadzira hushamwari, and create new connections. Basa remurume is to face the world, tora ma risks, and embrace difficulties.
Not everything spiritual is Christ. Some things can work and still be wrong. Pharaoh’s magicians threw down their rods and they became serpents.
The witch of Endor called up a spirit that looked like Samuel. A pagan king sacrificed his son and the tide of battle turned. It worked, but it was not God. They touched the realm of the spirit, but not the heart of the Father.
Paul said, “The law is not of faith, but the man that does them shall live by them” (Galatians 3:12). In other words, spiritual principles can produce results even when faith is absent, but only faith in Christ produces life. The real issue is never “Did it work?” The question is “Did it glorify Christ?”
And that is why, in one of the greatest spiritual seminars ever held, Matthew 6, the Lord Himself confronted this. He picked the three most common spiritual practices: giving, praying, and fasting. He said, “When you give… when you pray… when you fast,” and then immediately warned, “Do not do them like the heathen and the hypocrites.” That was not a suggestion; it was a diagnostic. It means there is a heathen way and a hypocritical way to engage what is otherwise holy. The heathen do these things to get results; the hypocrites do them to get recognition. But sons do them to reveal relationship. The Lord was saying, “Don’t just do the act, discern the spirit behind the act.”
Heaven is not impressed by activity; it is moved by alignment. You can pray long and still miss God if the heart behind it is pride. You can give generously and still miss grace if the motive is manipulation. You can fast for forty days and still hunger for applause. The heathen seek to twist spiritual systems; the hypocrite seeks to impress men; but the child of God seeks to please the Father who sees in secret. Jesus dismantled performance spirituality. He taught that true giving flows in secret, true prayer flows in simplicity, and true fasting flows in joy. These acts do not create grace, they celebrate it.
So yes, prayer, fasting, and giving are spiritual, but they are only alive when they begin and end in Christ. We don’t fast to move God; we fast because He already moved toward us. We don’t pray to get His attention; we pray because we already have His audience. We don’t give to buy favour; we give because favour already found us. Every spiritual act outside Christ becomes self-effort, but inside Christ it becomes Spirit-expression.
This is the loud truth: spirituality without Christ is performance with polish. It produces motion without meaning, sacrifice without submission, and results without redemption. Jesus said, “Your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.” That means the secret place is not about hiding the act; it’s about revealing the heart. What God rewards is not the work of your hands but the worship of your heart.
So examine your motives. When the answer comes, who gets the glory? If it exalts your method, it is religion. If it exalts your Saviour, it is revelation. True spirituality doesn’t boast, it bows. It doesn’t strive, it abides. It doesn’t compete, it communes. It doesn’t manipulate, it magnifies Christ.
Everything that truly begins, continues, and ends in Him will not only work, it will transform, heal, and endure. That’s the kind of spirituality Jesus taught: not the striving of servants but the rest of sons; not the noise of religion but the melody of grace. For in Him, prayer becomes power, fasting becomes fellowship, and giving becomes gratitude, all flowing from the finished work of Christ.