By Kivumbi Earnest Benjamin (E K Benj) updated 2235 EAT on Sunday 1st January 2023

WAKISO- City Pastor Irene Manjeri ushered Ugandans into the New Year 2023 at her mega Cathedral in Kitovu, Kitende , Wakiso on Entebbe Rd. Manjeri who had just returned from Canada and USA prayed for Ugandans to get miracles in 2023.

She paid tribute to fallen former Pope Benedict who died on Saturday.

Several people testified who received healing during the deliverance night.

She invited me on the pulpit to speak to Ugandans. I began with my legendary worship song “Ompisse Mukama”. I read the scripture which I introduced at Katomi Kingdom Resort on Thursday when I spoke during the Thanksgiving of Uganda EX Vice President Gilbert Bukenya.

Psalms 40:1-3 .

I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry. 2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. 3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the LORDand put their trust in him.

I told the congregation that even the great go through difficult times which they will never tell the world. Even with billions of money some keep in their houses, they suffer in agony silently. Some have incurable sicknesses, yet others disappointed by the state of their children who turned nuisance .

“There some world leaders you have admired but they cry alone with eventualities like childlessness.” The list is long but I can mention a few;” I mentioned

Barack Obama who has no boy child for his continuity! Several European leaders don’t have biological children. Take a look at the following list:

• Germany’s Angela Merkel

• France’s Emmanuel Macron

• Britain’s Theresa May

• Italy’s Paolo Gentiloni

• Lithuania’s Dalia Grybauskaitė

• Holland’s Mark Rutte

• Sweden’s Stefan Lofven

• Ireland’s Leo Varadkar

• Luxemburg’s Xavier Bettel

• Switzerland’s Simonetta Sommaruga

• Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon

• President of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker

All of the above leaders are childless.

People who have no children see the world differently than those who do. They have a different outlook on life, they analyze the past, present, and future differently. In contrast, any person who has children lives with a certain sense of responsibility for his or her family, which accompanies and influences their decision-making processes.

A childless leader lacks instincts that he or she cannot acquire in any other way. They could be highly intellectual, incredibly skilled and gifted in many different ways, and yet, they lack a natural drive that exists in any average parent—to care for and protect their children. And their decisions will be affected by that lack.

Only one leader of the six founding countries of the European Union is a parent.

Some African business people and some politicians have undergone this pain too.

This is evident that powerful as they are, they are hit by unbearable pain and only God can pull them from this miry and mud.

I told Ugandans that their hope can not be in wealth, politicians or families but only God and I prophesied a great year for them.