Tinashe Sambiri– Citizens leader Advocate Nelson Chamisa has urged Zimbabweans to remain hopeful and anchored in faith despite the country’s ongoing challenges, delivering a powerful Sabbath message centred on perseverance and divine promise.

In a statement released on Saturday, Chamisa encouraged the nation to look beyond present hardships and hold firmly to spiritual reassurance. He opened his message by quoting Habakkuk 3:17–19, saying:
“Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls — yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer’s feet, and He will make me walk on my high hills.”

Chamisa said this scripture captures the mindset Zimbabweans must adopt in difficult times. “We hold on to the promise and confidently sing a song of triumph!” he said. “We have the faith and hope that when God is in it, all shall fall into place in His own time.”

He stressed that faith becomes most meaningful when tested. “Faith is to trust God even in the darkest hours and sharpest trials,” Chamisa explained. “Faith capacitates us to await the vindication of His actions and looks forward with conviction to the sure dawning and faithful fulfillment of the promised day of glory.”

Chamisa assured citizens that adversity is not permanent. “Our God will surely enable us to walk above the trials and sorrows of the times, just as a deer walks securely upon the edge of the giddiest precipice,” he said. “Although we go through the valley moment, our mountaintop season and experience surely comes!”

He closed his message with a blessing for the nation: “Blessed Sabbath! #JesusIsLord #Godisinit.”