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ROAD TRIP AFRIKA

Lake Ellis, Mount Kenya.
Photo: Samuel Phillips stolen from us
by the ones who
told us we were
backward, igno-
rant, illiterate and
without a spiritual
connection to our
Maker, the Father
of the Lord Jesus
Christ... and we
commanded
AfriKa and her
people back into
alignment with
Him - and nothing
and no one can
ever take that away
from us again.
ones who came before us I mean. them good harvests and healed Descending Lake Ellis
The ones who were called primitive them. He Who gave them access to For our descent from the lake, we
and told they were worshiping a Himself. “He Who Causes That- chose to use the Chogoria route,
rock when in actual fact the igno- Which-Is To Be & He Who Causes which, before you reach the base
rant foreign observers did not know That-Which-Can't-Be To Fall” camp has some sections of road
Who it was they called upon. Did which is the meaning of YHVH ac- that demand some of your best
they know that they were a part of cording to Abarim Publications. Did offroading techniques and exper-
something so much greater than they know what we discovered that tise - depending on the weather.
themselves that words could barely day? That God’s presence is there. The landscape and scenery make
frame what their hearts knew inside you want to sit still for hours, saying
to be true? Is that why they offered Small wonder we were taken to the nothing as you listen to what the
sacrifices of goats and sheep to waters of Lake Ellis, in the month ancient gigantic trees will whisper
the One, the Maker, the Creator of purification to purge the idols to the wind of the things they have
of all who in certain languages of from our hearts and land as Eli- seen for thousands of years and
the people of the mountain was jah did in his day. Ellis, the name what they see today. That’s my way
called Mwene Nyaga – the Owner derived from Elias, which in turn is of saying that it is absolutely and
of the Ostriches, referring to that derived from Elijah which is derived totally breathtaking in its beauty -
high mysterious humbling mountain from Eliyahu, which means “Yah and a rushed trip there won't do it
peaks? Is that why they were able is God” or “Yah is my God”. To justice. We eventually reached the
to connect their understanding of re-acknowledge Who He is in con- smoother road I mentioned earlier,
their Creator to the Words captured cord with those of the raised land but keep in mind if you choose that
in the Bible when the missionaries of ‘Ka’. AfriKA! Those with hands route, elephants do use it from time
came along? Not that they were outstretched to God. to time so do drive carefully.
duped but that they recognized
a strand of something they had In that moment, time stopped, we When in 2019 we shared our ex-
connected to and wanted more of? stepped into eternity and connected perience of visiting Marsabit, we
Standing there worshiping not the with the Divine nature and awe-in- pointed out that every journey has
rock and not themselves – as some spiring power and presence of the a purpose, I just want to highlight
in error have led themselves to be- Almighty and worshiped Him... with here that it is not a purpose that is
lieve – but worshiping He Who gave hands outstretched to Him, recon- restricted to road trips - but more
them life, strength, health, cattle, He necting the ancient streams and lines than that it is that every life’s jour-
Who gave them sons and daughters, that unite Heaven and earth, God ney has a purpose – perhaps – if
He Who looked after and protected and man and His creation. In that you haven’t already – you can find
and watched over them and gave moment, we got back what had been yours in the stillness.

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