Pastor Sinamusanga Asks Lungu To Learn How God Added 15 Years To Hezekiah’s Life

PILGRIM Wesleyan Church of Zambia Pastor Bob Sinamusanga says the mood of the Zambian people is getting tense over the continued fuel crisis.
And Pastor Sinamusanga says if the Church wants its leadership to dance to the tune of corruption, he is ready to be disciplined for refusing to follow suit.
Meanwhile, Pastor Sinamusanga has asked President Edgar Lungu to read the Bible and learn how God added 15 years to Hezekiah’s life after he prayed and put his house in order. In an interview, Pastor Sinamusanga said people were becoming increasingly impatient with the worsening economy. “The mood of the people in the three months President Edgar Lungu has served as President really has been bad. Look at the shortage of fuel; soon you will see them increase fuel prices and everything else, including transport costs will go up. People want to know what kind of President this is.
They are becoming impatient with this crisis,” he added. “I urge the Church in Zambia, not only the Pilgrim Wesley Church, but all churches, let us all come out and speak for the people. They look up to us and if we keep quiet, it will not help this country.” Pastor Sinamusanga also reacted to a letter from Pilgrim Wesleyan Church presiding bishop Rev Alfred Kalembo, who accused him of misrepresenting the Church when he said prayers that Zambians were holding for the Head of State would be in vain if he did not abandon beer drinking.  Rev Kalembo said Pastor Sinamusanga was not the official spokesperson of Pilgrim Wesleyan Church of Zambia and urged people to ignore his statement with contempt. 
Rev Kalembo further threatened to “take administrative remedial measures to ensure that its clergy do not misrepresent the church in future”. But Pastor Sinamusanga said he was shocked to see that some of his church leaders were aggrieved with his advice to the Head of State. He further wondered why remarks he made in his individual capacity to criticise the government unsettled the presiding bishop. “Sorry to whoever was aggrieved with my statement.
But I still stick to my point and my advice to the President. I issued that statement not as spokesperson of the Pilgrim Wesleyan Church of Zambia but I spoke in my own individual capacity. Yes, I am pastor at the church but those are just my personal views,” Pastor Sinamusanga said.  He said there was nothing wrong with any clergyman offering counsel to the Head of State. “If people feel what I am saying about the President is wrong, let them read 2 Kings chapter 20.
When Hezekiah was sick, God told him, ‘Put your house in order for you shall die.’ Hezekiah then turned his face to the wall and prayed, cried until God returned to him and said, ‘I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears, behold, I will heal you.’ And the Lord added 15 more years to Hezekiah’s life,” Pastor Sinamusanga said. “That is what I said to President Edgar Lungu. The people of Zambia are praying for you, but their prayers will be in vain if you do not put your house in order and stop your beer drinking. Is this bad advice for my church to disown me? Is it wrong to criticise the government if it’s decisions are affecting the people in our church?” He said he was ready to be disciplined.
“My church, my Bishop can do what they feel is right to me. I am ready. But Zambians cannot continue to please the leadership of this country which is misleading them. We need to come out of it and if they are not ready to protect the integrity of this nation, let them leave and bring in other people,” Pastor Sinamusanga said. “Those who want to dance to their tune of dictatorial leadership, let them do so.
If the Church wants its leadership to dance to the tune of corruption, then it’s unfortunate because some of us will not follow suit and we are ready to be disciplined for that.” He said a lot had gone wrong since President Lungu took over leadership of the country. “A lot of things have gone wrong, there is a lot of mishandling of the economy and investors are getting scared.
Look at the continued depreciation of kwacha, and soon they will be failing to pay civil servants because there is no money in the country and no one will  intimidate me for talking about this, because people are seeing this and they are talking about this in the communities we live in,” said Pastor Sinamusanga.