Jaricha equally at home in the skies and pulpit
DENNIS Tendai Charles Jaricha ( is not your everyday writer or minister of the word of God, or a lay counsellor purporting to know so much about the world he/she is still to live. Neither is he your common motivational speaker or author, but a spiritually motivated being, whose only inspiration is the knowledge of God’s existence, not only in his life as reflected through his experiences, but in all humanity’s toils.
There is a promise for all of us, Jaricha intones in his writings; what is only required is faith, and positioning yourself within the good Lord’s orbit, for it is not of our making that events are what they always become.
He may appear far away from our daily tribulations, or silent to our pleas, but in due time, His promises come to fruition.
Having endured the trenches in the liberation struggle from 1975 at the age of 19, and remaining militarily astute after Independence in 1980, which has seen him rising through the ranks in the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), to become an Air Commodore, Jaricha’s call to God’s servantship came through in 1994. Since then he has never looked back, despite his highly decorated military fatigues.
The call saw him embarking on a journey in pursuit of the word of God through ZAOGA Forward in Faith Ministries under the stewardship of Apostle Ezekiel H. Guti.
A holder of a master’s degree in International Studies and a doctorate in Theology, Jaricha does not strike you as a liberation war veteran and soldier of repute, as he remains rooted in that which constitutes creation
— the word.
He remains humble and alive to the folly of the worldly call, which has a way of leading one down the wide path to doom.
It is not often that the military hardman and the servant’s softie exist in the same body, but if God wills, all things are possible. So it is with Jaricha, who has to date written 10 Christian motivational books, all within a period of two years. Equally proficient in English as in Shona, the born-again writer straddles the jet fighter and the printing press to reach out to God’s people in the two languages.
His first book “God’s Promises Are Unstoppable” (2017) is a toolkit for those of us hard done by waiting to such an extent that the temptation to give up becomes so nagging that the only reasonable thing to do becomes questioning the existence of God, the Creator.
It is only human to do so, Jaricha intimates, for hope has a way of dissipating with the passage of time; but the Lord’s way is unquestionable. He is the God of love, after all; and nothing beats that — love.
As certain as the sun will peep out of the golden eastern rim in the morrow, God’s promises will be fulfilled, no matter the circumstances leading to sunset.
It is just a matter of time — God’s time. Remember the stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, Joseph and the children of Israel in general.
Jaricha writes: “God does things at His time because even in Genesis 27:1, where we read that, ‘. . . it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were so dim, so that he could not see’, we notice that at the time, Jacob, the son in line of God’s promise to Abraham was still not yet married.”
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