Eng. Ronny OMT🧢

The Civil_Engineer👷
A husband and A Dad to Be,
A leader,
A brother,
A friend,
A mouth piece of the gospel, a written Epistle.

[PaulsCorner-VerseQuest @TNTJohn1717]

The Last Letter From the Last Apostle

Key Passage: 2 Timothy 1:1 — “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus.”

Second Timothy is not just another letter in the New Testament. It is not Paul writing a friendly religious postcard from a comfortable study with a hot cup of tea and a clean desk. This is the old apostle in the shadow of the sword. This is the prisoner of Jesus Christ writing from the edge of departure. This is a man who has already been beaten, hunted, slandered, resisted, forsaken, and chained, and yet the first thing out of his mouth is not complaint, bitterness, fear, or self-pity. It is authority, apostleship, the will of God, and the promise of life in Christ Jesus. That tells you something about the kind of Bible you have in your hand. The Holy Ghost does not open Paul’s last letter by making Paul look like a victim. He opens it by showing you a commissioned man, under divine authority, anchored in eternal life, speaking from a Roman prison with more certainty than Caesar had sitting on his throne.

This book is Paul’s final inspired charge before his departure. That matters. If a man knows he is about to die, you listen carefully to what he says. A fool may waste his last words on hobbies, grudges, sentimental nonsense, or earthly regrets, but Paul spends his final inspired breath charging a young preacher to hold fast sound words, endure hardness, rightly divide the word of truth, continue in the Scriptures, preach the word, watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, and make full proof of the ministry. That is not the language of a man who believes the Church Age is heading into a golden religious utopia. That is the language of a battlefield commander handing final orders to the next soldier before the enemy closes in. Paul does not say, “Timothy, prepare for worldwide religious harmony.” He says, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” He does not say, “The world will finally endure sound doctrine.” He says, “The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.” That is not pessimism. That is prophecy.

So when you open 2 Timothy, you are not walking into a soft devotional room. You are walking into a war room. This letter was written in the shadow of apostasy, betrayal, persecution, and coming judgment. Asia has turned away from Paul. Demas will forsake him, having loved this present world. Alexander the coppersmith will do him much evil. At his first answer, no man will stand with him. And yet Paul stands. Why? Because his life is not chained to Rome, his hope is not chained to men, his doctrine is not chained to public approval, and his soul is not chained to death. He opens with “the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus.” That is the great banner over the whole epistle. The old apostle is about to die, but he writes about life. Nero may sharpen the sword, but Paul is standing on a promise that Nero cannot touch. That is where this study must begin.

Chapter One: Paul Writes as an Apostle, Not as a Religious Influencer

The first word after Paul’s name is not “prisoner,” although he is one. It is not “victim,” although he has suffered. It is not “martyr,” although his departure is at hand. It is “apostle.” “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God.” Before you can understand 2 Timothy, you had better understand who is writing. Paul is not giving Timothy personal opinions, ministry preferences, denominational advice, or inspirational thoughts from a difficult season. He is writing as an apostle of Jesus Christ. That means his words carry authority. That means this epistle is not optional reading for a preacher or a Bible believer. That means when Paul commands Timothy to study, rightly divide, preach, endure, shun, flee, follow, turn away, and continue, those are not suggestions from an old preacher with strong feelings. They

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

How to overcome prayerlessness

[PaulsCorner-VerseQuest @TNTJohn1717]

The Christian Who Can’t Stop Looking Back

Luke 9:62 — “And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

There is a certain kind of Christian who never really moves forward because his neck is permanently turned backward. He may be saved, he may know the language, he may sit under preaching, he may talk about the Bible, and he may even have a sincere desire to do right, but spiritually he keeps living with one eye on Egypt, one foot in yesterday, one hand on the plough, and one part of his heart still trying to negotiate with what God told him to leave behind. That is a miserable way to live. It is also a dangerous way to live. The Lord Jesus Christ said in Luke 9:62, “No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” That is not soft language. That is not a devotional coffee mug verse. That is a sharp warning from the mouth of the Lord. A man cannot plough a straight row while constantly looking behind him. He cannot serve God faithfully while romanticizing the world, nursing old wounds, dragging yesterday’s failures, or keeping sentimental attachments to what God already judged.

Now, we need to be careful and rightly divide the matter. This passage in Luke 9 has kingdom language in its immediate doctrinal setting, and the Lord is dealing with discipleship under the terms of His earthly ministry to Israel. But the spiritual principle is obvious and powerful for any believer today. Looking back ruins forward progress. You cannot run the race looking over your shoulder. You cannot fight the good fight while daydreaming about the camp you were delivered from. You cannot walk in newness of life while constantly digging through the cemetery of your old life. Paul said in Philippians 3:13-14, “forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark.” That is a saved man with his eyes facing the right direction. He had a past. He had religion, zeal, failure, persecution, regret, and memory, but he refused to let any of it become the steering wheel of his Christian life.

The devil loves a backward-looking Christian because that kind of Christian is easy to weaken. If Satan cannot send you to hell because you are saved and sealed in Christ, he will try to make you useless, distracted, bitter, nostalgic, fearful, double-minded, and spiritually paralyzed. He will remind you of old sins to bury you in condemnation. He will remind you of old pleasures to tempt you with Egypt. He will remind you of old wounds to keep you bitter. He will remind you of old relationships to make you compromise. He will remind you of old failures to convince you that forward obedience is pointless. He will remind you of old victories to make you live in yesterday instead of serving God today. The devil has a whole warehouse full of rearview mirrors, and he hands them out free to Christians who are trying to plough. The problem is that a ploughman looking backward will not merely slow down; he will wreck the field.

Chapter One
Looking Back Begins When the Heart Refuses to Let Go

Looking back is not first a problem of the eyes. It is a problem of the heart. The body may move forward while the heart stays behind. Israel physically left Egypt, but Egypt did not immediately leave Israel. They crossed the Red Sea, walked under the cloud, saw manna fall from heaven, drank water from the rock, and still their appetite kept wandering back to Pharaoh’s menu. Numbers 11:5 says, “We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely.” Freely? That is the language of a corrupted memory. They were slaves. They were not eating freely; they were eating in bondage. That is how the flesh remembers sin. It edits out the chains and keeps the seasoning. It remembers the pleasure and forgets the slavery. It remembers the laughter and forgets the shame. It remembers the taste and forgets the whip.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

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It’s up to Man United whether they want to proceed with the deal or not, and when.

[𐙚⋆ @voidwithverses]

“𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵, 𝘪𝘧 𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴... 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘮, 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴.”

— 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘴

[𐙚⋆ @voidwithverses]

“𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.”

“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 ��𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳.”

— 𝘍𝘺𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘺

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

12:00 AM Prayer 🙏 🤲

Heavenly Father, I come before You tonight with a grateful heart. Thank You for preserving me throughout this day and for Your mercy that never fails. As I enter this new moment, I surrender my life completely into Your hands.

Lord, every burden I have carried, I lay at Your feet. Every fear, every worry, every unanswered question, I hand over to You. Fill my heart with Your peace and let Your presence surround me.

Father, strengthen me spiritually. Rekindle the fire of prayer within me and draw me closer to You. Let my heart desire You above every distraction and every temporary thing. Give me wisdom to walk according to Your will and strength to remain faithful.

I pray for divine protection over my life, my family, and all that concerns me. Let every plan of darkness against my life be cancelled. Let Your light shine upon my path and let Your favor go before me.

Lord, open doors that no man can shut, provide where there is lack, bring healing where there is pain, and restore every area that needs Your touch.

I declare that this season will not defeat me. By Your grace I will rise, I will overcome, and I will walk in the purpose You have prepared for me.

Thank You because You hear me. Thank You because You are working even when I cannot see it.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

[Government of Uganda @GovUganda]

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[Yoweri K Museveni @KagutaMuseveni]

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There’s no player more dangerous than Bruno Fernandes with the ball at his feet.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🏅 OFFICIAL: Bruno Fernandes wins Premier League Player of the Season Award.

8 goals, 20 assists. 🇵🇹

[Premier League @premierleague]

A season for the history books 📖

@manutd's Bruno Fernandes is @EASPORTSFC Player of the Season ❤️

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

7 THINGS YOU MUST DO EVERY MORNING IF YOU TRULY WANT TO GROW SPIRITUALLY 💪🧵

Spiritual growth is not accidental.
You will never grow spiritually by chance.

The way you start your morning matters.

If you truly want to grow in God, develop these 7 habits consistently👇

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

6 WARNING SIGNS YOU ARE DELAYING YOUR OWN BREAKTHROUGH (This is why nothing is changing).

Because sometimes the delay is not spiritual warfare... it is disobedience.

1. YOU KEEP OVERTHINKING WHAT GOD ALREADY TOLD YOU TO DO
You asked for direction. You prayed. You got the answer.
But instead of moving, you started analyzing, questioning, and waiting for confirmation after confirmation.
Partial clarity is still instruction.
Breakthrough is often waiting on the other side of a simple step you keep postponing.

2. YOU ARE HOLDING ONTO PEOPLE YOU HAVE OUTGROWN
Not everyone in your life is assigned to your next level.
Some people were meant for a season, not a lifetime.
But because of history, emotions, or fear of being alone, you keep forcing connections that are no longer aligned.
What you refuse to release may be what is blocking what God is trying to send.

3. YOU PRAY FOR CHANGE BUT AVOID ACTION
You are asking for a new life, new opportunities, new results.
But your daily habits look exactly the same.
Prayer is powerful, but it was never meant to replace responsibility.
You cannot pray for doors to open while refusing to move your feet.

4. YOU CHOOSE COMFORT OVER GROWTH
You say you want more, but you keep choosing what feels safe.
You avoid difficult conversations. You avoid risk. You avoid stretching yourself.
But growth will always feel uncomfortable before it feels rewarding.
If it is easy, it is probably not changing you.

5. YOU IGNORE SMALL INSTRUCTIONS
You are waiting for a big sign, a big moment, a big opportunity.
But God often speaks in small, consistent nudges.
Send that message. Start that idea. Wake up earlier. Let it go.
The breakthrough you are praying for is hidden in the small steps you keep dismissing.

6. YOU KEEP GOING BACK TO WHAT GOD ALREADY FREED YOU FROM
Every time you feel lonely, uncertain, or tired... you return to old habits, old people, old mindsets.
But you cannot heal in the same place that made you sick.
You cannot move forward while constantly revisiting your past.
Freedom requires consistency, not just a moment of decision.

Read this carefully:
Nothing is changing because you are being called to change first.
Your breakthrough is not missing... it is waiting on your obedience.

PRAYER
Lord, expose every place I’m holding back out of fear or disobedience. Give me the courage to obey instantly, the strength to let go of what’s holding me back, and the faith to act on what You’ve already spoken. Break every delay in my life by Your Spirit. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

[PaulsCorner-VerseQuest @TNTJohn1717]

Why the Prodigal Was Still a Son in the Far Country

Introduction

Luke 15 is one of the most abused and misunderstood passages in the Bible because men read the prodigal son and forget to notice the one word that controls the whole story: son. The young man did not become a son when he came home. He was a son before he left, a son while he wasted his substance, a son while he sat hungry in the far country, a son when he came to himself, and a son when the father ran to meet him. His condition changed, his fellowship changed, his clothing changed, his joy changed, his usefulness changed, his testimony changed, but his relationship as a son was not erased. The far country ruined him, but it did not un-son him.

That distinction matters because many people use the far country as if it proves lost salvation. They see the hogpen, the hunger, the shame, the rags, and the misery, and they say, “See, he lost everything.” No, he lost plenty, but he did not lose sonship. The Bible is careful here. The father says in Luke 15:24, “For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.” He does not say, “This stranger has become my son.” He says, “this my son.” That phrase is not accidental. It is the father’s own testimony over the returning prodigal. The boy had been dead in practical fellowship, lost in practical walk, ruined in condition, and separated in enjoyment, but he was still “my son.”

This essay is meant to put the prodigal back into the correct doctrinal category. The far country is not a picture of a child becoming unborn. It is a picture of a son destroying his fellowship, wasting his inheritance, losing his joy, bringing shame upon himself, and then being restored by the father’s grace. It is not a loophole for sin. The prodigal did not have a good time forever. He went down, ran out, got hungry, smelled like swine, and came home ashamed. Sin stripped him. The far country robbed him. The hogpen humiliated him. But when he came back, the father did not perform a second birth. He restored a son. That is the doctrine people miss when they confuse broken fellowship with lost salvation.

Chapter 1: The Story Begins With Sonship

The parable begins with this plain statement: “A certain man had two sons.” That is the starting point. Not two strangers. Not two hired servants. Not two probationers. Two sons. The younger son’s rebellion was real, foolish, selfish, and shameful, but his rebellion took place inside an already established relationship. He did not become a son by returning. He returned because he was a son. That matters because the entire emotional and doctrinal power of the parable depends on the father-son relationship.

If the prodigal were merely a stranger who made bad choices, the story would mean something else. But he is a son who dishonors his father, leaves the house, wastes what he received, and discovers that the world he wanted is crueler than he imagined. That is why the story cuts so deeply. Sin is not just lawbreaking in the abstract. It is a child walking away from a father’s house. It is rebellion against goodness. It is a son treating the father’s provision like a tool for self-destruction. The far country becomes more shameful precisely because the prodigal had a father and a home.

This is the first correction to sloppy eternal-security debates. Sonship is not erased because a son acts like a fool. A son may rebel. A son may disgrace himself. A son may leave fellowship, lose joy, waste substance, and stink of the world. But the story still calls him a son. If you cannot let that word stand, you will twist the parable into something it is not saying. The prodigal’s conduct was rotten, but his relationship was not rewritten into strangerhood.

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

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[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Galatians 4:4 looks like a transition verse.

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.”

If you read it fast, it sounds like a timestamp. But if read slowly, it is the most staggering sentence in the Bible.

‘Fullness of time’. Paul isn't saying God picked a convenient moment. He is saying God declared a moment complete. “The preparation is finished and everything I have been building across centuries is exactly where I need it to be”. God looked at human history and said: now.

Which forces the question. Why then? Why not a thousand years earlier, when Moses was fresh? Why not a thousand years later? What was so perfect about the first century?

I started looking into it and I have not recovered.

God needed a people with the theology. He spent 2000 years forming Israel; the covenant, the sacrificial system, the prophets, Isaiah 53 written seven centuries before Calvary, the framework of a coming Messiah who would bear the sin of the world. The Jews were shaped by wilderness, exile, and divine discipline, until the theological infrastructure for substitutionary atonement was fully in place.

But theology alone could not travel. God needed a language. Not a tribal dialect, but a universal tongue. So five hundred years before the Gospel, He let the Greek philosophers begin.

Heraclitus sat in Ephesus and concluded the universe was governed by an invisible rational principle. He called it the Logos.

The Stoics built on it. Philo of Alexandria stood at the intersection of Greek thought and Hebrew scripture and said the Logos was the mind of God in creation. For five hundred years, philosophy built a conceptual category it could not fill.

Then God sent a conqueror with no interest in theology. Alexander the Great wanted glory and empire. God let him want it. In satisfying his ego across three continents, Alexander Hellenized the ancient world and forged Koine Greek, the common tongue of the docks, markets, soldiers, and slaves. A language stripped of complexity, simple enough for anyone, universal enough for everyone.
The Hebrew scriptures were translated into it. The Septuagint was born. God used a pagan conqueror’s ambition to translate His own Word.

Then Rome came and paved the road. The Pax Romana. Piracy cleared. Stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. A framework for movement the ancient world had never seen.

None of them knew they were collaborating.

Heraclitus thought he was doing philosophy. Alexander thought he was building a monument to himself. Rome thought it was building an empire for Rome. Not one of them understood they were stagehands. God was with Heraclitus in his pondering, with Alexander in his conquest, with Roman engineers laying stone, quietly requisitioning their work for a purpose none of them could see.

And then, when the covenant people were in place, the language primed, the roads built, and the category ready, when everything He had been quietly assembling was finally set, God stepped into the room they had unknowingly prepared.

John picked up his pen and wrote: “In the beginning was the Logos.”

Every Greek philosopher in the Mediterranean felt the ground shift. “And the Logos became flesh.” The category they spent five centuries constructing was not a principle. It was a Person.

The ‘fullness of time is not a timestamp’. It is God’s signature on a completed work. And the humbling thing is that this work was not built by saints. It was built by conquerors, philosophers, and emperors who thought they were writing their own story. God let them think that. And used every word. If this is not amazing then I don’t know what is.

[Andrew M. Mwenda @AndrewMwenda]

A good decision

[Eng. Ronny OMT🧢 @Eng_OmtRonny]

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[Anita Annet Among @AnitahAmong]

RE: SPEAKERSHIP RACE
I wish to draw the attention of the public to the matters regarding the Speakership race.
After wide consultations and deep introspection, and to maintain harmony and clarity in my beloved party, the @NRMOnline, I wish to categorically and unequivocally state that I will not be offering myself for the Speakership race of the 12th Parliament.
I am greatly indebted to H.E @KagutaMuseveni, my party, the @NRMOnline, and members of the 11th Parliament for giving me the opportunity to serve as Deputy Speaker and Speaker.
I am equally indebted to my family and friends for the solidarity and support they have extended to me over the last five years.
I pledge my total support to the candidates who will be endorsed by the President and the Party, and Implore all colleague MPs of the 12th Parliament to do the same.
I shall remain available to the service of my country as the party and the President may assign me.
In the meantime, I pledge to continue cooperating with all ongoing investigations as initiated by the relevant organs of the state to get to the root of all the allegations raised.
FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY.
ANITA ANNET AMONG