THE NATIONAL BUDGET, JEHOVAH GOD AND SECTION 65 IN MALAWI

What is actually happening in Malawi's politics?

By: Peter Qeko Jere

Parliament in Malawi has again adjourned indefinitely, a situation which leaves many poor Malawians wondering why these honorable people could abandon their responsibility in the August house this time around. The house adjourned without passing this year’s budget. There are many questions that patriotic sons of the land are asking. Some are wondering ifever the almighty God has forgotten the suffering poor in Malawi? Others are saying, why have these parliamentarians decided to intentionally punish the voters by refusing to have the budget passed? Who is behind all the political madness in the house? And if we were in the shoes of His Excellency Bingu Wa Muthalika, what could we have done in this situation? Finally who is ruling in that house? Is it God or Satan?

To begin with, let us openly say that what the opposition parliamentarians led by John Tembo and Ntafu have done this time around is bad for this nation. These en have decided to punish Malawians by denying the people their right to have this budget passed. This is denying Malawians the right to development which comes through the budget.

As veteran politicians, Malawians expected element of wisdom from John Tembo and Ntafu mainly on this budget issue. Infact John Tembo could have been the first person to advise his MCP comrades to support the budget because he knows that budget is not a game or a joke but real thing for the electorate out there. From what they have done, we this time around are failing to understand the nature of people they are because they have decided to intentionally punish the very people who put them into power (tragic indeed!)

Having said this then, why have our parliamentarians decided to intentionally punish the poor in the many villages nationwide? In response to this, we argue that they have done so because they care less about the poor in their constituencies. These opposition parliamentarians’s are there to promote their party ideologies and programs on the expense of the poor. To them, party politics comes first and the electorate comes second. They are the “Yes Bwana” to everything that comes from their leaders. It’s from this understanding that when the budget was presented in the house, they openly declared war and made it clear that section 65 was a priority to them. While Malawians all over cried out that budget was a priority, our opposition parliamentarians led by John Tembo and Ntafu, declared that to them section 65 was a priority. They are the kind of heartless people who care less about the poor. Their actions as of now is so much geared to destroy anything that is good in the country.

Someone was asking, who is to blame for all this mess in the house? I heard people saying that it’s not good to point fingers this time. But we strongly think that we need to clearly say that all opposition parliamentarians are to blame for this mess and pain that Malawians are going through now and in particular, leaders of MCP, UDF. Many were expecting opposition parliamentarians to consider the budget for the sake of those who voted for them. Parliamentarians have refused to discuss the budget because of the influence and dictatorial tendencies by their leaders to dictate on what their parliamentarians need to do when they are inside the house. We agree that due to lack of freedom and democracy in the opposition parties, parliamentarians are not free to make their own decision. Opposition parliamentarians live in a shackle of political fear because they always are there to say yes to orders from their political masters. They are always afraid hence they go by what their party leaders dictate on them even when it comes to serious issues of the national budget. The way forward to internal party freedom and democracy, is for parliamentarians to be liberated from threats and bulldozing so that they can serve the interest of their voters.

Now in a situation where opposition parliamentarians have refused to have the budget passed, many are asking as to where will government get the money to function. If we were in Bingu's shoes, what could we have done in this situation for the sake of the poor? In response to this, we could sit down and deeply consider the welfare of the poor and do the right thing about it. This is because God blesses when rules are broken and violated for the sake of serving the weak and the poor. When it comes to dealing with the poor, God has his own ways and means of protecting those who do something about their warfare. Now if we were in the shoes of the president, we could make sure that the weak and the poor are saved even if it means breaking whatever law because you cannot keep the law and watch the poor dying. The law is good when it is serving the needs of common poor. There is no need of having the kind of law that kills lives and deny the poor access to life. We all need to live and life is not only for the rich but for all of us and we need to equally benefit from the law. We thus could spare no law but break and tear it apart if it is denying the poor access to food. Its as simple as A,B,C: Should you keep the law and watch people die or break it and save them from death? Once again these laws we have are there for our own good and not to deny or stop us from accessing our blessings. Any law that stops our blessings is useless and need to be destroyed forth with. Also you can not follow protocol if its main goal is to destroy and kill people who are the very image of God. It’s better to do good than to have rules that will cause pain in the lives of the poor. Now we could take drastic steps here to protect the poor from dying using whatever money available for the sake of the poor. We hear some opposition guys saying that they will prosecute the minister of finance should he begin to use whatever money they are talking about. These threats are sick and wishful thinking because no one will prosecute our minister of finance now or even in future because we shall not just watch and see this happening. This current finance minister has done alot for this country and Malawians will not just sit phwii watching some confused, selfish politicians playing games to their advantage.

Also some are asking as to who is in charge of this house? Is God or Satan? Some are asking this question because it is evil to reject or say no to the budget which is the very lifeline of the poor. Someone said that we have this situation now because Satan has taken over the house. They say this because of the way deliberations are handled in the house. Their analysis of the parliament deliberation shows that something evil has taken charge in there. To this view, we strongly say that its true that Satan has taken over the lives of some parliamentarians but this does not mean that God is loosing the war. What we know and believe is that God is in total control of that house though at the same time He has allowed Satan to use some parliamentarians this time around purposefully. Here are the reasons why we share the notion that God is in total control of that August House.

Firstly is that activities in that August House shows that God is busy preparing the downfall of some prominent politicians in the country. This is because blindly politicians are sailing in a boat that has no political future and soon or later their political career will be no more. Their hearts are so hardened that they are not able to listen while their eyes so much blind that they can not see anything good. God has hardened their hearts as He did with Pharaoh in Egypt. God hardens purposely the hearts of those He has prepared to bring down and humble. What we are saying is that God almighty has allowed a situation which shall continue to make opposition Parliamentarians unpopular in the country. This situation will at the end make things difficult for them to politically survive. For as long as pharaohs armies died in that Red Sea, it will be so much hard for all parliamentarians ( who refuse the budget) to make a strong come back into Malawi’s politics again. So God is in charge and there is a blessing behind all this political madness we see now. We are saying this because prophetically, we have signs of the times that clearly show that the almighty God is doing something about the downfall of some politicians in the country. These signs of the times include the way various social political issues were handled in the country recently and these include the third term, impeachment, section 65 and budget. What we see is that the same people who promoted these issues are the ones who by and large have refused to discuss the budget. We see God at work each time we analyses the pattern of events from the third term issue to this abandoned budget setting of parliament. We see that God has blinded them so much that their actions are making them unpopular as never before. God will continue to hardens their heart until there are fit to be destroyed and wiped away from the political platform in the country.

Secondly some are asking that how can you say that God in heaven is planning the downfall of politicians in Malawi? They are saying how can God do this? Some are saying that we have gone out of mind and that we don’t know what we are talking about. But listen here! because in history we see people’s impending downfall through what we call signs of the times. These are pattern of events that take place in the social political life of someone that tells that there is more to what we hear and see. In this regard, we are not out of mind but knows that God is in charge of all what we see taking place in Malawi. Also that God is too busy hardening hearts of particular individuals so that blessings of His people should continue flowing. While God is in charge, he has allowed the devil to get into their hearts and hardens them even more so that He (God) can easily implement His divine plan to have them wiped away from the political face of the land. The issue is that these men have decided and given in to the plan of the enemy, the devil to use them and in the process go against God’s divine plan for his people. The mistake they have made is going against God's will for his people.Therefore the only sin committed by these gentlemen is that they have said yes to the calling from Satan to use them and it’s from there that the divine Chikwanje from heaven will cut them off from the political life of this nation. God knows that these men should go otherwise the coming generation will have their blessings blocked. We also should know that while God cuts some off, He at the same time raises some to prominence to His own glory. So there are young politicians that the Lord is busy preparing and they will not have their dreams come to pass unless some of these heartless politicians are cut off from the political scene in Malawi something that only God could do.

Finally we should know that as a nation, we are going through a time when God is doing great things and no one will stop Him. God will remain God in Malawi even in this situation where confused parliamentarians says No! to the budget. God controls the universe and Malawi is just a drop in the ocean as far as His authority and power is concern. Nothing will ever be too hard for the Lord to fail to sort out because He is bigger than the opposition’s ideologies. God loves this nation and His people. We are moving in a time when He is opening the flood gets of heaven blessing this nation and its leadership as never before and He will turn plans of all enemies into total foolishness to His own glory. We are in a season and a time when God is revealing His supernatural power upon this land as he expose the inner thoughts and plans of evil men. God will remain the God of this land and in Jesus name Malawi shall continue to be a blessed nation.

MALAWI POLITICS AND GOD'S HARDENING OF HEARTS

As God takes Control of Malawi's social political situation

By: Peter Qeko Jere

This time around, many people in Malawi are still wondering with the continual refusal of the opposition Malawi Congress Party and the United Democratic Front to consider and make the national budget a priority.

It’s so much shocking that the opposition parties have openly declared war on the budget and are decided not to discuss it unless section 65 is sorted out first. Led by John Tembo and Dr. George Ntafu the MCP and UDF still maintain that the budget is not very important but section 65. NGO’s, the church and Malawians all over the country have called upon the John Tembo and the UDF to come to consider the poor who voted for them by considering the budget. The one question in mind is; why is John Tembo and the UDF hardening their hearts like this? Why it is that he is not able to see that his actions are likely to destroy and kill Malawians social economic expectation and hope? Should Malawians suffer because of their actions? I mean should the poor be denied access to the national budget just because of their selfish ambitions?

Before I respond to these questions, let me bring you back to the time when Israelites were in Egypt suffering in the hands of pharaoh and what the Lord God did to have them redeemed. We all know that for a long time God’s children suffered in the hands of Pharaoh. Moses went to Pharaoh several times to ask him to release the people but couldn’t. The bible says that Pharaoh hardened his heart such that he could not allow them to go. Pharaoh could not listen to anyone but instead oppressed God’s children even the more. While we know that pharaoh hardened his heart, the bible also says that it was the Lord God almighty that hardened his heart so that he should be easily crushed and destroyed. Divine darkness overshadowed Pharaoh such that he was stubborn and his heart hard that he could not listen to anyone even when Moses demonstrated God’s powers. The encounter we see is that God hardened the heart of Pharaoh such that he could not let the people go. We are actually saying that IT WAS THE LORD GOD WHO HARDENED PHARAOH’S HEART AND in other words, God stepped into the poor people’s situation and he begun a redemption process by hardening Pharaoh’s heart. God almighty got involved because of Pharaoh’s selfish ambitions and the injustices that that God’s children went through. God will always be involved when it comes to mistreating his children and denying them justice. God gets involve and punishes those responsible and he begins the process by hardening their hearts as he did with Pharaoh.

Having said this therefore, what is happening in Malawi’s politics today is similar to what God’s children went through in the book of Exodus during the days of Moses. Just as God’s children complained against Pharaoh, in Malawi many are complaining about what John Tembo and the UDF party are doing about the budget. Many are complaining that these guys are denying them access to the budget which is the very lifeline of all Malawians. Just as Pharaoh had selfish ambitions, John Tembo and the UDF have selfish program and ambitions that will not benefit Malawians. Just as Pharaoh could not listen to the voice of the people, John Tembo and the UDF have made up their minds not to listen to anyone but maintain their stand on section 65. Just as many Jews cried and needed to be redeemed from Pharaoh, many Malawians currently have raised their voice against John Tembo and the UDF in total unity.

In the bible, Pharaoh didn’t listen to anybody and had one goal and that was to oppress and deny the people freedom and liberty. Even when Moses went several times to ask him to change his mind, Pharaoh never could listen but went ahead to oppress God’s people even the more. This is exactly what we see today happening in our social and political life of this country where the opposition led by John Tembo has hardened their hearts and are not ready to listen from anyone’s view on the matter at hand.

We therefore see that this hardening of heart is done by God himself as he prepares to destroy those who oppress His people. Hard and stony hearts is a sign that God is in charge and in total control of things. This is the strategy and technique that the almighty uses against oppressors of God’s people. Since He is God, He does everything possible that will prepare somebody’s downfall and in this case we see that God has hardened the heart of John Tembo and the opposition parliamentarians to prepare their downfall.

What we see is the kind of thing that shows that God is in charge preparing their very downfall. In other word, what is happening today means that God almighty has taken charge and is controlling the political game in Malawi and that its just a matter of time when we shall all witness the very end of John Tembo, Ntafu and other opposition parliamentarian’s political life in this country. Normally God hardens people’s heart for a purpose and that is to destroy and crush them. Hardening of people’s hearts is a sign that somebody’s downfall is eminent and at the corner.

What we mean is that we should not be alarmed with the hardness of heart that we see in John Tembo and others in opposition because this is the sign that God almighty is preparing their downfall and the very end of their political life. We are saying this because we have enough evidence to show that in the bible Pharaoh’s history never lasted long because his army died in the Red Sea waters. Now in this situation, we need to know that God is always in control, in charge and command of this very situation we see around us and we should not worry about it but begin to see that the Lord God almighty is in control and in charge in Malawi. In this regard therefore, Malawians should know that John Tembo and the entire opposition will never soften their position because this is God hardening their hearts in readiness for their downfall. We need to know that this uncompromising spirit is a sign that God is executing his divine judgment upon those that are hardening their hearts.