Hii itafanya uokoke! 'Pastor' Dennis Okari's latest message will inspire you like never before

Piece by: Caren Nyota
Lifestyle

Born again NTV investigative journalist Dennis Okari is all about saving the lost sheep.

Betty Kyallo's estranged husband has been spreading the gospel and who knows, soon he might be ordained a bishop.

Well, Okari, who has been lying low like an envelope has shared an inspirational message that will make you reconsider your faith in Christ. In a strong piece titled 'GOD'S TIMING FOR YOU', Dennis Okari is encouraging the hopeless that all is not lost. He used the French sprinter, Wilhem Belocian as an example.

"He had a dream. The excitement grew as he fervently trained every day to participate in the Rio Olympics in 2016.

At twenty-one, his audacious dream came true. Wilhem Belocian flew thousands of kilometers to Brazil for the 110-meter hurdles competition. The young sprinter wanted to make history on the prestigious global stage not just for himself but for his country.

It was Monday, 15 August 2016 at 8:40pm and the French sprinter was psyched up. His medal record was thirteen from different track events in Europe.

Winning gold in the Olympics is the highest and greatest achievement of any sportsman/woman. He wanted it so badly.

He was tipped to win this one without breaking a sweat. It was the preliminary heat anyway. He just needed to be top three.

As he stepped out into the Olympic Stadium, he knew he was facing forty-one competitors from twenty-seven countries. The competition was divided into three rounds: a heats stage with five races, three semi-final races, and a final.

Belocian was in the fourth heat on lane three. Smiles, grins, and waves filled the camera lenses beaming the live event to the rest of the world.

As millions of viewers were glued to their TV screens, the eight competitors from Greece, US, Germany, Cuba, Spain, Cayman Islands and Lebanon were focused on the finish line. Each lost in their own world full of tension.

There was no turning back now. Stretching their legs and pacing up and down the cold stadium, the call to get on their marks interrupted their ritual.

Every man went down on one knee, face down and feeling the pressure on the fingers pressing the synthetic track surface, they were smelling the finish line.

A few seconds ticked away and the starting pistol fired but there was a problem.

The race was stopped.

Someone had removed their feet from the blocks and hands from the track too early.

It was a false start.

No one knew who did it because the movement wasn’t too obvious to the naked eye. But Belocian knew he was the one. Even with a replay, no one could tell what had happened until a slow-motion replay made it clear. It was a tragedy.

The 21-year-old had jumped a fraction of a second too early and the mistake disqualified him instantly. The devastated young man flew 11 hours and 30 minutes to his dream stage and now he was going back home without taking a single stride.

The twitches and flinches that would doom any sprinter hit Belocian so hard that he fell to his knees and pounded the track, crushed that his mistake cost him a shot at Olympic glory and he had to wait for another four years to try again.

The track and field severe rule that disqualifies an athlete for a single false start is so cruel that even elite athletes like Usain Bolt have fallen victim.

Wilhem Belocian fell victim to bad timing. He had qualified up to this level and a fraction of a second is all it took to book him the next flight back home in France. It was a premature exit for such a young promising athlete tipped to win.

Many people today have felt what Belocian felt on that track that day. Life is a race and on that track there are rules. Everyone prepares to run but the bad timing has crushed hopes and dreams."

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Okari went ahead to advise his followers to be patient because good things come to those who wait, claiming bad 'timings give you premature results'.

"Hard work means taking time to build but a fraction of a second, one move, one decision, one choice squashes everything.

You were born with an internal clock. It’s called discernment.

It will cause you to know your seasons and times for everything. The problem is that most people don’t know the ticking sound of their clock. But those who have mastered it know when to make a move.

Bad timing will give you premature results and the problem is not the strategy or concept, you moved too early or too late.

It is frustrating to read about the promises of God in the Bible, understand them but not walk in them.

Promises are super glued to time. They are actually twins.

The problem for most people is they try to take the promises of God out of God’s timing and like a surgeon trying to separate conjoined twins, one wrong move and something will definitely go wrong.

Sarai was told she was going to have a child. (Genesis 18:14) “At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

The wait felt like an eternity and she made a bad move and misadvised her husband Abraham (Genesis 16: 2) “Go into my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her.”

She was desperate. Desperation sometimes can lead you to miss your timing in God.

Like you are too old you need to get married. You are too qualified you need a better job. You are too young you need to stay in school. You are too poor you can’t dream big. You are too ugly no one will spot you. You are a single parent; you are a spent cartridge. You are too young for the position.

Sarah missed her timing because the natural conditions were not convincing enough and her biological clock was ticking so loudly and drowning the voice of faith. She was 90 years old and Abraham was 100 when Isaac was finally born. Despite the mistake, God was still merciful. He was right on time.

The promise is always attached to an appointed time. God didn’t give us time without the gift to discern the right time to make critical decisions.

You have an appointment with a blessing. God predestined you and your divine connection. Give Him time to bring you into your season and activate you.

Don’t compare your season with someone else’s season. You don’t know what was behind them and what they are about to face.

Don’t compare your clock to someone else’s clock. Your 2 pm maybe their 4 am.

You will waste time and energy trying to be someone else and want what they have at the expense of what God designed for you. You are God’s brand. He manufactured you uniquely.

Your passion will fizzle out because you are looking at someone’s clock and their progress in life and fail to appreciate your own progress. Cherish every moment.

Don’t be a spiritually modified organism (SMO) because altering God’s original plan and timing for your life means you will mutate into something different and the results will be slow, tedious and expensive. The effects of Sarah and Abraham’s mistake with Hagar is still felt today."