Heavenly Father, thank You for another morning and for keeping us through the night when our defenses were down.
Father, thank You for the unseen protection around our lives and for the grace that has carried us through dangers we may never know existed.
Father, today we ask You to dismantle every scheme that seeks to pull us away from Your purposes. Every trap built around temptation, every distraction consuming our attention, every lie attacking our identity, every relationship pulling us toward destruction, expose it.
Father, we refuse to give darkness more attention than it deserves, but we also refuse to ignore what Scripture tells us to resist.
Your Word says, โPut on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.โ (Ephesians 6:11). Father, clothe us today with truth, righteousness, faith, salvation, peace, and Your Word. Let our spiritual defense be more than a morning slogan. Let it shape how we live.
Father, You equipped David to face Goliath when everyone around him saw an impossible opponent. David did not pretend Goliath was small. He simply knew God was greater.
Father, do it again for us today. Give us courage to face what intimidates us without surrendering our confidence in You. In Jesus' name. AMEN. ๐
Heavenly Father, thank You for allowing us to see November. Thank You for every time You protected us from decisions we were too desperate to recognise as dangerous.
As this month begins, we ask for courage. Some of us are entering November with interviews ahead, new responsibilities, business decisions, difficult conversations, and opportunities that make us question whether we are good enough.
Father, do not allow fear to make us abandon what we have prayed for. When we feel inadequate, remind us that we do not have to know everything to take the next responsible step.
Your Word says, "For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline." (2 Timothy 1:7). Let this truth shape how we face the unknown.
Do it again, Father. Gideon was hiding when You called him to lead. He saw his limitations before he could see the assignment.
As November unfolds, give us courage that does not depend on perfect circumstances.
In Jesus' name. AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You for bringing us into November. Thank You for the battles You carried us through since January, the dangers we escaped without knowing and the prayers You answered in ways we may never fully understand.
As this new month begins, we ask You to open doors that align with Your will. Remember those who have waited for employment, those whose businesses need new life, and those who have knocked on the same doors for months without an answer.
Father, let November not find us repeating the same mistakes, entertaining the same fears, or forcing opportunities that are not meant for us. Give us discernment to recognise Your hand and courage to respond when You make a way.
It is written... "See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut." (Revelation 3:8). May we remain faithful even before we see what lies beyond that door.
Do it again, Father. You remembered Joseph in prison, where his gifts were useful but his name had been forgotten. Remember those who have been overlooked despite their preparation.
Let November bring us the right doors, the wisdom to recognise them, and the courage to walk through them. Through Christ our Lord. AMEN. ๐๐ผ
Heavenly Father, thank You for waking us up after a night we could not control. Thank You for breath that continued without our supervision, for protection we may never know about, and for mercy that stayed with us while we slept. Yesterday may not have gone according to plan, but You have given us another morning instead of another reason to quit.
Father, today we ask for the courage to start again after failure. Some of us are carrying yesterday like a heavy bag, replaying the mistake, the rejection, the failed business decision, the relationship we mishandled. Help us understand that falling is an event, not an identity.
Father, give us wisdom to learn, humility to correct, and strength to take the next step without demanding that the past disappear first.
Your Word says, โThough he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.โ (Psalm 37:24). Father, let that truth become real to us today. We may stumble, but we do not have to build a house at the place where we fell. Give us grace to rise again.
Father, You did it for Peter after he denied Jesus. You did not allow his worst night to become the final sentence over his calling. You restored him and gave him work to do.
Father, do it again for us today. Restore what failure damaged, teach us what pain was trying to teach us, and give us courage to begin again. In Jesus' name. AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You for another morning and for every unseen battle in which You sustained us.
Father, thank You for the nights we survived without understanding what was happening and the mornings we entered without knowing what You had already prevented.
Father, today we plead the blood of Jesus over our finances. Protect us from dishonest deals, destructive greed, impulsive decisions, fraudulent schemes, and desperation that makes bad opportunities look attractive.
Father, rebuke the temptation to compromise our integrity because money is tight. Give us wisdom to earn, save, give, invest, and spend responsibly.
Your Word says, โBetter the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked.โ (Psalm 37:16).
Father, teach us that financial provision must never cost us our integrity. We would rather have less with peace than more with chains.
Father, You preserved Joseph's integrity through years when he had little control over his circumstances, and eventually gave him responsibility over great resources.
Father, do it again for us today. Give us wisdom before wealth, character before influence, and provision without compromise. In Jesus' name. AMEN. ๐๐ผ
95% of things on this are irrelevant.
A baby needs 4 things.
1. warmth
2. Feeding, shower and number 2
3. Sleeping
4. Hospital
The rest is luxury by parents.
1. Warmth: Babies don't care if it's Gucci or a cheap one from DT.
2. Feeding: If the mother has milk, this is free. If she doesn't, babies won't care the brand of formula unless they're allergic. In villages they even go straight to cow's milk.
3. Sleeping: Babies don't care even if they're sleeping on the side with mom and dad.
4. Hospital: I'm a doctor and can tell you that it doesn't matter which hospital as long as you see a good doctor and from experience, a good doctor can be found in an expensive one and a cheap one. Even another option is going to government but buy drugs for yourself.
Raising a child is soooo cheap, it's parents with expensive desires. If it wasn't cheap, then it would've been like a Benz. You can't find a poor man owning one but at least, everyone will own a child and raise them within their means.
Get a child, raise them within your means. Don't use them to quench your childhood traumas of going to school with Mr. Picfare math set when rich kids had Oxford sets. Now you feel like your child has to be the one with Oxford... If you can afford it, fine but it doesn't matter.
Heavenly Father, thank You for another morning. Thank You for keeping us fed on a budget that shouldn't have stretched that far. Thank You for grace that doesn't ask for a payment plan.
Father, today we ask You to move on the money situation we've been quietly carrying alone. Some of us are performing calm at family gatherings while doing math in our heads the whole time.
Father, we're not asking to be rich. We're asking to stop flinching every time the phone rings.
Your Word says, "And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:19). Not according to our salary. According to His riches.
Father, You fed Elijah by ravens at a brook nobody would have chosen as a supply line, and later through a widow whose flour jar had no business lasting that long.
Father, do it again for us. Let provision find a way that doesn't make logical sense. In Jesus' name we pray. AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You for this morning, because many have been on the same road for years without the breakthrough they prayed for at the start of it, and You still kept the fire from going out completely. Thank You for a stubbornness in our faith that we didn't manufacture ourselves.
Father, today we ask that You don't let the crowd talk us into quiet acceptance of how things have always been. Some of us have been told to sit down and be patient so many times we've almost believed it's disrespectful to keep asking. We're asking anyway.
Your Word says, "And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called." (Mark 10:49). Bartimaeus had been blind for years and the crowd told him to be quiet. He shouted louder instead.
Father, You did it for Bartimaeus, stopping everything for one persistent voice the crowd tried to silence. Do it again for us today. In Jesus' name. AMEN.
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We the traders, boda riders, youth and ordinary Ugandans have suffered enough. We are not refusing to pay tax. We are refusing to be over taxed and scammed by a system designed to make us poor.
This is how URA over taxes us;
1. Six Taxes on One Item. This is a Scam.
You import one phone or one bale of clothes. URA charges you;
- Import Duty 25%
- Excise Duty
- VAT 18%
- Withholding Tax 6%
- Infrastructure Levy 1.5%
- Environmental Levy 30%
One item, six taxes stacked on top of each other. By the time you reach Kikuubo, the price has tripled. Who can afford that? This is not taxation, this is extortion.
2. PAYE 40% - Highest in East Africa.
In Rwanda PAYE is 30%, Tanzania 30%, Kenya 30%. In Uganda it's 40%. A worker who earns 1M takes home only 600k. Government takes 400k before you even buy food which also has 18% VAT. Where is our take home? ๐
3. Fuel Excise Raised Every Year.
Fuel excise from 1,350/= to 1,550/= to now 1,750/=per litre. Every time fuel goes up, everything goes up taxi fare, food, cement, soap. Yet URA says they are widening tax base.
4. Double Taxation on Small Businesses.
A small shop owner in Kampala pays: Trading license to KCCA, Income tax to URA, VAT 18% plus daily EFRIS fines of 2M, 6M for small mistakes. Many shops closed in 2024-2025 because of EFRIS enforcement without education.
5. EFRIS and Instant Fines are Digital Scam.
URA introduced EFRIS but did not train traders. Now a mistake of not issuing a receipt is 2M fine, then 6M. How can a woman selling tomatoes afford 6M? This is not tax collection rather this is punishment of the poor.
6. 11% Tax to GDP yet Harassing the Same 1 Million People.
URA collects only 11% of GDP, the lowest in EAC because they fear to tax the rich and the corrupt who steal billions. So they squeeze the same 1 million compliant Ugandans, boda riders, market women and small shops over and over.
What we ask not request because we are tax payers;
1. Reduce PAYE from 40% to 30% like our neighbors.
2. Reduce VAT from 18% to 10% like Kenya.
3. Stop stacking 6 taxes on one imported item and harmonize to one single tax.
4. Stop EFRIS fines until every trader is trained free of charge.
5. Publish online how every shilling is used.
URA @URAuganda , you are not collecting tax. You are killing businesses. You are making Uganda the most expensive country to live in East Africa.
If you tax us to death, who will pay tax tomorrow?
We Pay Tax, We Deserve Respect, Not Scam.
#TaxJusticeUg #EndOverTaxation