Ntsako Mabunda
POLOKWANE – BONNKE Shipalana, who presents a Sunday show on Capricorn FM, recently held the third leg of The Power Within tour at Kingdom Life Chapel International at Tweefontein just outside Polokwane.
“I’m like a trainer at the gym. I can encourage you to pick up the weights and do the work, but I can’t make you do it, neither can I do the work for you, ” says Shipalana, an inspirational speaker, author and businessman who hosts The Power Within tours around the country.
“My messages are like seeds people can take and plant, those who are hungry can do something with it. I want people who attend these tours to be able to answer one simple question: “what would people have lost had I not been born?’ This question will help people find their purpose. There are three main objectives behind The Power Within tour, to remind people that they were born to be great, remind them of the power within them and that they were born for a purpose,” Shipalana said.
He strongly believes that we tend to hand-over our power too easily – to government which we expect to fund us, to our pastors without whom we cannot move and make decisions until they’ve laid hands or prophesied over us, to the bank, which should give us a loan before we can start our business, etc. What should happen should none of these elements go our way? This makes it essential to find the power within ourselves.
Pastor Skhumbuzo Twabu, founder of Kingdom Life Chapel International, who took an interest in working with Shipalana from the first time he met him at a wedding a couple of years back, partnered with Shipalana as host at his church as the culmination of a dream.
Though their relationship didn’t take off instantly, when they did get a chance to have a discussion, the idea of having some of the tours hosted at his church where people wouldn’t have to book and pay for tickets was born.
“Shipalana has a passion for speaking to people trying to show them what it is they have, as many of us still don’t know what that thing is. That’s the calling he has. The Lord uses him mightily in that,” Twabu shared.
He further added that what he liked about Shipalana was the fact that he was not just one of those motivational speakers who spoke what they had read somewhere, but spoke from his experience with Christ, whom he had a relationship with.
For Thubani Twabu who attended the conference, the highlight of the seminar was the analogy that Shipalana gave that we should all have a dream which would be like a light at the end of our tunnel.
The dream is not in detail, but knowing that it’s there gives you something to look forward to and work towards.
