Understanding The Art Of Salvation

By Zamani Zulu

‘THE ART OF SALVATION is a theme that I use to define the things that let me accept the Lord God as my Saviour.’ Zamani J Zulu

This book is all about encouraging church goers to remain constant faithful to God until living on this world becomes in favour on the righteous people. The main purpose of the author is to contribute in building a new and fruitful world; and the world that could please the Lord God. The book is based on the things that the author was taught through visions and dreams, since he was a non church goer and was totally against the Christianity. But things changed the time he was suffered from so many recurring revelations about his own life, family and the world. More especially he was taught the things that bring shame to the world. This event forced him to sacrifice his own goals and start to follow his calling; although he was promised that if he would do as he was taught he will be blessed with everything he wished to achieve ever since he was young.

This book could be helpful to those who still doubting the presence of the Lord God; as well as those who which to discover their own purpose on this land. The author encourage people to live a healthy life, a life that could not cause them to adopt a bad habits; just to please the Lord God and increase their chances to live longer on this land. It is inspiring in terms of faithfulness to righteousness; individual spriritual growth and social development. The author finally tell about the future of the world as he believes that it was revealed to him through visions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zamani Zulu
• Release date: Feb 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005494223

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UNDERSTANDING THE ART OF SALVATION

The only way to save the world.

The Lord Jesus Christ said:

"God blesses those who are humble,

For they will inherit the whole earth."

(Matthew 5:5) NLT BIBLE

ZAMANI J. ZULU

Copyright © 2020 Zamani Zulu

Published by Zamani Zulu Publishing at Smashwords

First edition 2020

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Edited by Brenda Van Rensburg & Hugo Chandler for Reach Publishers

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work is based on the things I was taught at the time I was called to serve the Lord God.

I was nobody in this land but due to some people who sacrificed their time to raise me, I became the grown person that I am today. I would like to thank everyone who contributed to my life.

To my mom Natalia for raising me with patience and for being a good mother to me.

To my teachers at Mkhazeni Primary School for the role they played to train my mind for the future.

To my teachers at Ginyane Secondary High School for developing my mind to understand the things of this world better.

To the woman of note the prophetess, Mother Christina Nku and the prophet Masango for accepting their calling from God to heal people from their various illnesses.

To the prophet Madwe...

To reverend Nzimande my spiritual father for the guidance and support he offered to me until I turned to accept my calling.

To my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (the head and the source of every gospel, synagogue, missionary churches and ministries of the Unseen God).

To my creator the Lord God (the One and Only Mighty Chief Justice and Major Governor of all times), for leading me this far.

PREFACE

The English dictionary defines Salvation as a preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss. Theology defines Salvation as a deliverance from sin and its consequences, believed by Christians to be brought about by faith in Christ. I wondered what makes salvation attractive to people. I realised that it is something called faith. Faith is something that exists within the human soul. It is truly an individual’s stronghold, where on a daily basis, motives occur.

Faith is the source of a human soul. Faith is where everything that we see with our naked eyes is planned, formed and completed before it becomes a reality. Some people are abused, in denial, are betrayed or oppressed, but if their faith is strong there is nothing that can stop them from succeeding. A child can grow up under unfavourable conditions, such as poverty or in rural areas, but if that child has faith within themselves, they can achieve a lot in this world.

Faith is the power that God keeps within the human soul so that they can live life to the fullest; to perform mysterious work in this world and to enter into heaven after death. It is a pity to see people doing things that separates them from the Will of God. Because I strongly believe that the more people become faithful to the Will of God, the more the world will change and become a peaceful place to live.

This book is my endeavour to witness that the Lord God is still in control of everything. Even though this world has become full of greedy people, hypocrisy, false prophets, fake teachings and different religious beliefs but God wishes to see people live in peace, unity and prosperity. This book gives inspirational advice, reveals the importance of visions, dreams, creativity, innovation, talents and skills development in life. This book raises some opinions on how people are expected to respond to some facts of life, social ills, ethics, religious beliefs, diversity and the future of the world. This book is my prayer to the Lord God to give me the strength to remain faithful to His Will all the time. This book is my prayer to the Lord God to provide the world with leaders who will be brave enough to lead people to a peaceful and prosperous future according to the Will of God.

THE PROMISED NEW WORLD

For those who believe in the unseen God.

For those who trust in His everlasting glory.

For those who weighed themselves

For the Will of God.

For those who have abandoned the evil desire

For the sake of God.

For those who try by all means

To fulfil the main purpose of God

About their own life.

For those who believe in God with no doubts.

For those who are always faithful to God.

For those who endure being taken for granted

For the sake of God.

For those who endure being insulted and persecuted

For the sake of God.

For those who have lost everything

For the sake of God.

For those who never stop preaching the Will of God

For those who have a hope

For the new world, full of goodness.

For those who believe in eternal life.

The Lord God is watching over them.

The time for good living will come soon,

It will rain quietly.

Those who have abandoned the evil desire

They will rejoice,

While others feel ashamed for their actions.

Let those who believe in God never give up.

Let those who have abandoned the evil desire

Never give up.

The world of plenty filled with good living

Is waiting for them.

The land full of peace and harmony,

Will appear to them.

They will see it,

Enjoy it,

Live it,

Forever.

ZULU J.Z

Table Of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

THE PROMISED NEW WORLD

THE STORY OF MY LIFE

THE IMPORTANCE OF REVELATIONS

UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF LIFE

CREATIVE THINKING AND INNOVATIVE IDEAS

SOCIAL ILLS AND ETHICS

THE FORMATION OF BELIEFS, RELIGIONS AND DIVERSITY

THE HUMAN BEING MEASURES AND ETERNITY

1

THE STORY OF MY LIFE

Introduction

Every child is a blessing to his or her parents. Every parent finds hope from every child they brought into this world. Most people name their children according to their wishes. In KwaZulu-Natal there are a lot of people who are named Sibusiso which means Blessing. This name shows the hope that parents have that one day their child will grow up and become the helper in their lives, their family and other people.

It is disappointing to meet a criminal who is named Sibusiso. My mother told me that I came into this world at the time when my father was about to retire from work. In the early months he had no income to support his family. As he was a person who was afraid of hunger he would wake up early in the morning every day and disappear and come back late at night, but my mother says that at that time she had a lot of chickens at home. She sold those chickens to put food on the table. When the day came for me to come into the world, my father gave me two names Zamani and the name start with a letter (J)

My mother used to say that my father was very careful when giving names to his children. He especially paid attention to the meaning and the history of the names he chose for his children’s baptism.

I was unfortunately very young at the time when my father passed on, so I didn’t have a chance to ask him why he gave me a name starting with the letter (J). The name starting with a letter J was not my favourite ever since I was young. My mother had no explanation for our names. Later after I matriculated, I heard a pastor preaching on radio. The pastor mentioned the meaning and the background of the name of mine starting with the letter J.

I was so disappointed about this name, because I found that the name of mine is related to the Bible and church.

In those days I didn’t want anything to do with the church and Jesus and this made me dislike this name even more. There were many times when I thought of taking this name out of my personal documents, but because of the respect I have for my father I didn’t. Now I have accepted this name as part of my life, but still, I prefer everyone to call me Zamani.

The Plans I Had for my Future

I was born and grew up in KwaMadzikane (Ngwagwane area) next to Ixopo, in KwaZulu-Natal. I went to school at Mkhazeni Primary School and Ginyane Secondary High School. I was seen as a child full of big dreams and plans for the future. I was brave enough to face every challenge I met and to prevail. My dreams were far bigger than what was shown by my looks, because I was naturally a shy person.

My ambition was mostly driven by bad living conditions at my home. However, these conditions made me stronger and I realised that I needed to work hard at school, so that I could change the situation at home and in my local area. That made me become more self-reliant regarding my words and my plans for the future. I thought that no one was going to take my dreams seriously even if I told people about them. I told myself that I needed to work hard for my dreams and for everything I wished for, without expecting help from anyone else.

My mother was a woman who served the Lord God, mostly with prayers. She always prays to God on our behalf and for those who are in need. I can’t remember even a single day when she failed to pray before going to bed; no matter if she was happy or frustrated; feeling good or was exhausted.

Before my matriculation I was not interested in anything concerning the church and Jesus, but I didn’t show this at home. I kept it to myself. My mother taught her children to pray before we ate. So, every day before the family meal we always prayed, giving thanks to God for the food. It was like a poem that we recited before every day. It didn’t matter how bad the food was. She still told us to pray and thank God for giving us the food.

Whenever I saw people going to church, I told myself that they were lost, because Christianity is not part of our African religion and culture. I had a plan, that when I grew up, I would remind people about the religion that belongs to us as Africans, especially my nation, the Zulus. I planned to play a huge role in impacting this change in my community, especially by encouraging people to get back to their own roots culturally, religiously and become economically independent.

I wanted to encourage African people to worship the Lord God in the way our great grandfather had done before the invasion of their land by missionaries. I wanted to teach my community to become self-reliant in terms of economic development. I was concerned about our agricultural sector (commercial farmer of animals and plants and agro-processing industrialism). I had a belief that if this initiative could be nurtured in my community that it could be spread further and influence other people from various communities. I believed that all this could happen if people got back to their roots, worked together and supported each other.

I had a theory that: The reason why white people will always remain more successful than Africans is because the king (Jesus) will always look after His own people (whites) first, before He thinks of the black Africans who worship Him. So, the Africans needed to abandon serving God under Christianity and start to worship God in their own African way.

In those days I did not believe that Jesus Christ was originally the son of God, who was born to save humanity. I did not believe that He came to this world to save us all from our trespasses before the Lord God. However, I now believe what we need to fix in this world is our attitude towards each other. The selfishness that causes us not to help each other as some people have succeeded in life. The only thing we seem to enjoy is to perform better than others without helping them to become independent. The jealousy that causes us to hate the fact that some people have more than we do. The witchcraft, racism, and oppression of one person by