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Spiritual independence for the nations of Africa

image from  https://www.quora.com Last week during an intercessors prayer meeting for Africa, a topic discussed was slavery and the ravages it did on the African person and the continent.  This led me to thinking about colonisation too. Slavery came to Africa in the 15 th century.  Africa’s wholesale colonisation was in-between the 1870s and 1900.  The wave of liberation and self rule was majorly in the 1960’s.  Those are many years of toil and trouble. The gaining of independence, was the removal of imperialist power over us.  I Googled the word imperialism.  It says that it is “a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.” Of interest to me is “or other means”.  Which translates to me to mean “or any other power/s”.  Power operates in two realms.  The physical, and the spiritual.  Ephesians 6:12 [KJV] says that, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powe

Body, soul and spirit – the human’s journey to God

image from https://www.riverchasechurch.org/ 1 Corinthians 13:11 [KJV] 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. The human, has three key parts – body, soul and spirit.   And the usually discovery process is staged, first the body, then the soul, then the spirit.   So too sometimes is the God process, the human’s journey to God. Body.   Which is physical.   Five senses, sensory level.   Go to church because it is what should be done, has been a personal or family tradition and is carried on.   Prayers are words – empty spoken physical words, that falling out of a physical mouth, onto a physical space and go no further than that because they are just that – words.   Soul.   The will, mind and emotions.   It is what is wanted, thought and felt.   These – the desires, ideas and emotions define your relationship with God.   Prayers are focused on the “I”.   What I want,