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A testimony from Brother
George Kamponge Jilowa (Ex Prisoner) MY TESTIMONY
IN THE MESSAGE BEFORE I
BELIEVED The first time
I heard this end time message was in 1993 in Kitwe on the Copper belt province
of Zambia. There was a day
I was invited by a certain man by the name of Mr. Gilbert Lukatula who was
working as a mine police officer in the then (ZCCM).
The message which was preached was about restoration of the bride tree.
This teacher emphasized much on repentance and baptism in the name of Jesus
Christ. Just that same day I was convinced and I was ready to be baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ. This took place in the next service. I became so disturbed
in my mind to say this is very real. This is what I want in my life. I was not
free in the denomination. As days went by I became reluctant and I started
drinking bear, womanizing and doing all sorts of evil things. When ever I
planned to do something wrong my heard had to tell me you have to go back to
God. By then the Pastor was Brother Kabaso in Kitwe tabernacle. This man could
come to my home with his car to pick me to go to church but I was still a
drunkard.
One day in January 1995 I was drinking some beer after after running away
from the word of God, this led to a fight and that fight I was involved. We were
about four in a group who fought. I used a metal to stab that person in the
stomach and that person was almost dieing.
He lost of blood and he was rushed to the hospital in ( Ndola Central on
the copper belt province). I was arrested with two of my friends and we were
three the fourth one ran away. Amongst us I was the only person who accompanied
the person we injured. I was beaten by the mob and almost lost my life but God
was with me.
I was taken to the police cells right ion Ndola town where my relatives
could n ot vista me. Right there in the prison at the remand section I became
very ill. I had dysentery. This out break of dysentery killed a lot of inmates
in prison. I was taken to Kitwe Central Hospital and I was isolated from my
friends because of the same disease. Out of the number of patients who were in
the isolation about 5 I was the only person who survived all of them died of
dysentery. God was with me. This case I was told was changed into Aggravated
Robbery meaning that we had stabbed a person and grabbed some money from him
things we did not do. We appeared in
the High Court of Zambia and one of the people we were with was acquitted.
We remained the two of us. The complainant brought about eight fake
witnesses against the two of us. After a very long trial we were sentenced to
fifteen years imprisonment with hard labour .I was taken to maximum security
prison in the central provinces of Zambia. This prison you find people serving
years ranging from seven years, forty-five years and death sentences .The trial
judge advised me to appeal to the supreme court of Zambia within fourteen days.
I appealed to the Supreme Court and my appeal came out as quick as possible
leaving those who appealed before me. Right there in
prison there was an out break of cholera, a lot of inmates died but God kept me.
At the Supreme Court I wanted to withdraw the case as I was threatened by the
inmates that the sentence will be increased to a bigger term. I rose up my hand
and I said I don’t have a lawyer. They said they would give me a government
lawyer. All the same I refused but they emphasized to say whether you like it or
not we are giving you a government lawyer. This brought a lot of questions in my
heart as to why they were forcing me to continue with my appeal. After an
adjournment we went there for the second time and trial began. This government
lawyer demanded a fifty thousand kwacha from me I said I did not have4 then he
said no problem I am going to stand for you. Trial began.
There was an argument between my lawyer and the government advocate. This
advocated seemed he had nothing in mind to present to the court in other words
he was disturbed or confused. I do not know what confused him. Judgment was
set the same day. My friend was acquitted and my sentence was quashed from
fifteen years to seven years imprisonment with hard labor. Praise be to God I
said in my heart. When I was
coming out of the dock all the police officers, prison workers were amazed that
it has never happened before where one wants to withdraw the appeal and is
forced to proceed. I RECEIVE
THE MESSAGE IN PRISON I was taken
back to prison and I was only remaining with a few months to go out because the
sentence was with effect from the month of arrest. As I was in
maximum prison I became so hungry for the word of God.. In prison or rather
Zambia prison, there are a lot of preachers who enter to preach from different
denominations. No matter how much they preach my hunger was not quenched by
these comprising messages. I was one day telling my closest friend Zimba Andrew
that there is a message which I once heard when I was outside the prison. This
message is very true because it does not compromise. It talks of restoration of
what God was lost in the Garden of Eden. I said once I find that message I will
be very free. My heart will be settled. I kept on hungering and thirsting. One
day there was a service in the prison cell that service I wanted to go and hear
the word of God but my fellow inmates said I should go there because there was
already Catholic Church which was gathering. But I refused to go to catholic and
I went to gather there. This man by the name of pastor Mbewe was the one
preaching and the title of the message was the god of this evil age. He
mentioned things I was doing. He talked of neck chains. , wearing of prohibited
things and I was wearing a neck chain and some other ornaments inside my Aust
Coat I said in my heart this is God speaking now. He emphasized very much on
these rubbish things. After knocking off I followed that man of God and asked
him a lot of questions about the message he answered and said this is the
message of restoration, restoring what was lost in the Garden of Eden. The
message of the Holy Spirit. Then I asked do you know William Marrion Branham he
answered he is our prophet then my heart was carried and I was disturbed in my
mind to say why this message has followed me even in prison. I told him this
message has followed me here. I ran away from it a few years. God is great .The
pastor produced one of the prophet messages and gave me. That same day I was
happy and my heart was settled because I had found what I lost. I was baptised
there in prison in the name of Jesus Christ and I was delivered. I had wanted
very much to go back to the family after my release but things couldn’t work
out. When I came out of prison the pastor kept me at his home for three months
with an intention that after three months I go back to my relatives but things
failed. One thing that surprised
me was that all my friends that I was with in the prison I mean those two
gentlemen passed away after their release. I am now alive and I came to discover
that the person who was the elder brother to the person I injured is a message believer. We
met at one of the conventions in Kitwe. He saw me when I was song leading. After
song leading he approached me and started apologizing to me. That’s how God
has kept me up to now.
I am a song leader of a church in Kabwe town and married with one child.
Besides I am a trustee. WHAT GOD HAS
DONE SINCE I BELIEVED While in the
message I have gone through many experiences. One time I was complaining in my
heart that since I’m not working I just wasting my time staying here in Kabwe
since there are no relatives. I told the pastor that I was leaving for Kitwe. He
told me not to but I emphasized until I went .When I arrived in Kitwe I became a
very ill. I decided to go back to Kabwe and immediately I arrived in Kabwe I was
instantly healed. This made me
become amazed because it was something strange. The pastor told me that God did
not want me to go back to my relatives. This made me
change my mind and started desiring to receive the Holy Ghost. This message is
about receiving the Holy Ghost. The pastor preached this several times. I wanted
very much to have an experience on my own. I started fasting and praying over
the Holy Ghost. It was in the
year 2000 when there was a convention for Kabwe church .Other churches in the
southern province of Zambia. We went as a church using a train to Monze town in
the same province. There I had a desire to say ‘Lord I don’t want to go back
to Kabwe as I came back a changed person. The message was preached in the
morning and it ended up to 12:00 oclock.The was a break and the announcer said
those who wanted to remain praying at the alter could remain and pray. But those
who wanted to go and have their lunch could do so. I decided to be among those
who remained praying. During another
service in the afternoon. There was confusion just after preaching a few
minutes, God came down. I was slain, I started weeping. I felt as if something
has entered my heart and became so happy and started praising the Lord at the
top of my voice. I started jumping up and down with joy. I did not want to leave
that place, it was my day. I was born in the spirit. From that time I was never
the same. We went back to Kabwe church. One day I dreamed that we were in the
church, the pastor was preaching, I saw at the pulpit an old umbrella
colored red,green,blue with all the colors of the rainbow
and I decided to rush to the pulpit and all those who knelt down at alter were covered in a big old umbrella. There are a lot
of things which God has shown me in dreams and visions and have happened the
same way. God has really blessed with the gift of dreams and visions. One thing that
I am always asking myself is that why is that all my friends who were imprison
at the time I was there and and were released in the same year have committed
other offences and within a shortest period of time and have gone back to
prison. This means that it is not the word of God only but with the Holy Ghost
converting a person. If you are not
converted you can do anything wrongly.
Another thing which happened one day at my neighbor is that I was praying
at night and my land lord was a witch. This man when I was praying he came in
his magic to see what was happening God revealed to me that there was something
around, I saw some fire chasing a lot of short people, making them scatter and
this was real and I woke up. In the
morning this man approached me and asked which church I go to I told him and he
said who is your pastor I said he is Mr. V.N. Mbewe and he said continue young
man praying like that. A lot of people fear this man where I stay but God has
been on my side. God
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