Mpendwa msomaji wangu hebu chukua muda wako kidogo jiulize kwa upole na kwa upendo hilo swali hapo juu. (My dear reader take your little time ask yourself gently and lovingly the above question.)
And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said: “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son, and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come. Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.” ’ But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business. And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them. But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’ So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Naye Yesu akajibu, akasema nao tena kwa mifano, akasema: “Ufalme wa mbinguni umefanana na mfalme mmoja aliyemfanyia mwanawe arusi; akawatuma watumwa wake kuwaita wale walioalikwa arusini; na hawakuwa tayari kuja. Akatuma tena watumishi wengine, akisema, Waambieni wale walioalikwa, Tazameni, nimeandaa karamu yangu; ng’ombe wangu na ng’ombe wanono wamechinjwa, na vitu vyote viko tayari. Njoo kwenye harusi.” ‘ Lakini hawakujali, wakaenda zao, mmoja shambani kwake, mwingine kwenye biashara yake. Na wengine wakawakamata watumishi wake, wakawatendea kwa chuki, na kuwaua. Lakini mfalme aliposikia kuhusu hilo, alikasirika. Naye akapeleka majeshi yake, akawaangamiza wauaji wale, na kuuteketeza mji wao. Kisha akawaambia watumishi wake, ‘Karamu ya arusi iko tayari, lakini wale walioalikwa hawakustahili. Basi enendeni katika njia kuu, na wote mtakaowapata, waiteni arusini. Basi wale watumishi wakatoka wakaenda njia kuu na kuwakusanya wote waliowakuta, waovu na wema. Na ukumbi wa harusi ulijaa wageni. “Lakini mfalme alipoingia kuwaona wageni, akaona mle mtu ambaye hakuwa amevaa vazi la arusi. Kwa hiyo akamwambia, ‘Rafiki, uliingiaje humu bila vazi la arusi?’ Naye hakuwa na la kusema. Ndipo mfalme akawaambia watumishi, ‘Mfungeni mikono na miguu, mchukueni, mkamtupe katika giza la nje; huko kutakuwa na kilio na kusaga meno.’ “Kwa maana wengi walioitwa, lakini wachache wamechaguliwa.”
Je, ndoa hua ni ya likizo! Je, ndoa hua ni ya likizo!
Je, wanandoa ambao wamekuwa pamoja kwa muda mrefu au mfupi wanapokumbana na matatizo ya ndoa, wanaruhusiwa kuachana kila mmoja aishi kivyake? Are couples who have been together for a long time or who are experiencing marital problems allowed to divorce each other?
Ni nini hasa chanzo cha matatizo makubwa ya ndoa?What is the real source of marital problems?
Mpenzi msomaji wangu utakubaliana nami kwamba ndoa sio ya likizo wala ndoa sio ya mandhari. My dear reader will agree with me that marriage is not a holiday nor is marriage a vacation duration or just for picnic duration.
Baadhi ya wanandoa huingia katika ndoa wakiwa na mtazamo tofauti na matarajio mengine mengi ambayo ni gushi kuliko inavyotarajiwa! Some couples enter marriage with a different outlook than many other normal expectations these expectations are more fake than the expected expectations!
Baadhi yao hukubali kuoa wakiwa na mtazamo mmoja; kujaribu. Some of them agree to marry with one attitude; to try.
Wengine hukubali kuolewa kukimbia au kutoroka hali yao fulani halisi. Others accept marriage as a way to escape or escape from reality.
Vyovyote itakavyokuwa, ndoa sio ya likizo wala ndoa sio ya mandhari. In any case, marriage is not a holiday nor is it for vacation duration or just picnic time.
-Be kind to other people. -Help those near and beyond. -Support as much as possible. -Smile and laugh to heal souls. -Love and hug to bring growth. -Give daily and cheerfully. -Forgive for your own success. -Cultivate attitudes of gratitude -Appreciate so as to add value. -Detox from unhealthy habits. -Take a rest in a day -Be empathic. -Show understanding.
If you incorporate these beautiful attitudes and life principles in your daily living one Living Truth will stand out to you * IT IS IN GIVING THAT WE RECEIVE AND IT IS IN DYING THAT WE ARE BORN TO ETERNAL LIFE*
You’re not a prisoner. You’re not a captive. You’re not bound. You’re not lost. You’re not alone. You’re not unknown. You’re not a torment. You’re not condemned. You’re not rejected. You’re not forsaken. You’re not a disappoint. You’re not forgotten. You’re not bad. You’re not unloved. You’re not fatherless. You’re not defeated. You’re not cursed. You’re not doomed. You’re not a fallen. There’s plenty of God’s Faithful promises found in the BIBLE declaring your deliverance and freedom from sin, your deliverance and freedom from fear and your deliverance and freedom from many more lies that stop you from partaking in the available grace of God.
You are CREATED. You are WONDERFUL. You are NAMED. You are BLESSED. You are POWERFILLED You are CHOOSEN. You are God’s IMAGE.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
You are created wonderful, named blessed, powerfilled image! I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in You;
Speak God’s promise upon your life and everyday consider letting the movement of your heart to fully and forever TRUST in Jesus Christ our Savior. I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. When my enemies turn back, They shall fall and perish at Your presence. For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging in righteousness. You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked; You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
GOD’S REST IS #AVAILABLE ! 🌺And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
GOD’S REST IS #SACRED ! 🌺Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
GOD’S REST BRINGS #SAFETY ! 🌺Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
GOD’S REST BRINGS #PEACE ! 🌺Now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies all around, that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells inside tent curtains.” Then Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”
GOD’S REST BRINGS #GLORY ! 🌺If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
JESUS GIVES TRUE #REST ! 🌺Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
REST IS A #REWARD FOR THE SAINTS OF GOD! 🌺And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have ~no rest~ day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.”
It was beginning to pour heavily and crowds were already dispersing. Everyone was rushing to find any near shelter that was available to hide from the heavy rainfall!
Everyone except the bride and the groom! All the guests were in such a hurry to shelter from the rain or so it seemed. No one was remembering that despite the rains there was a wedding ceremony that was taking place!
The reaction of his guests however did not catch the newly weds by surprise. The estrangement that people were beginning to pour towards Levis was undeniably obvious. Just the other day he was a widower and it is the very same people who came to offer him their sincere condolences that mostly were in attendance at the wedding on that day and their reasons for coming were so obvious. Few were actually here to celebrate with Levis his sudden life commitment!
Majority of the people who were in attendance at the wedding had come to confirm the fast spreading rumours about his wife’s death. Apparently, it was flying around that his late wife’s death was not an accident as reported. Something crucial seemed to be missing to solve the puzzling death of Mackey.
Was it actually an accident as reported by Levis and his family or Mackey was indeed murdered? To begin with, Levis and Mackey were one happily married couple which could be best described as a match made in heaven..
“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven…But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father Who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.” Lessons derived from Matthew 6:1-4 are quite many and diverse and one of those lessons is persistence in #faithfulness . Persistence by itself is not bad especially when used for the right reasons and right intention. In the Old Testament we read more of the kings who were persistent in wrong reasons and had wrong intention which ultimately led the nation of Israel to sin before their God. These kings were persistent in the sins of their fathers who had reigned before them. On the other hand when persistence is out for all the right reasons, breakthroughs are inevitable.
Reading Matthew 6:1-4, Jesus simply points out that we ought to remember the prior factor that God CREATED human beings with two hands for a reason. (Highly likely is that God’s desired will for every human being is to operate with both hands.)
…when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing…meaning
Your left hand is supposed to be busy doing something constructive while on the other hand
Your right hand is supposed to be busy doing something constructive as well.
“AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHERE PERSISTENCE COMES IN” @christinekimaita
Be persistent in faithfulness and persistent in your ACTS OF MERCY.
If both of your hands are busy doing something constructive, neither of your hands will have time to find out what the other hand is doing because both hands are working simultaneously towards accomplishment of the desired goals of the owner of these two hands.
The other thing to factor in is that JESUS is clear to point out that these charitable deeds are (meant) to be done before men…plural of man! When you set to fulfill the humble call of MERCIFUL ACTS to help out men (people) , you’ll realize that the calling is so overwhelming that you simply can’t afford to sit down and brag about your act or start blowing up your trumpet on how many friends you’ve helped #today how many strangers you’ll feed #tomorrow !
When you set out to do something to #help others especially when you’re not expecting them to pay back, or they are not in position to repay you, then once the first project on your left side is done, turn to your right side and find out who else needs your help and do the same.
God CREATED you with two hands (literally speaking ,) that when you are busy working with your one hand, you use the other (extra hand ) to reach out to your neighbor who is in #genuine need of help, or reach out to the needy in the #society and less fortunate with your other hand!
Meanwhile back to our narrative, people were yet to come to terms with the rude reality that Mackey was no more. Exactly a week after her burial here was her husband remarrying..! What really happened to poor Mackey is a whole chapter filled with encouragement and hope for the broken heartened, and a chapter that is to continue shortly…(stay blessed!)
“..YOUR FATHER WHO SEES IN SECRET..WILL REWARD YOU IN OPEN..”
There’s never a “perfect person” in life however there will always be a right person available for every right reason! 🎳⛳⛳⛳⛳🎳 “No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 Decisions in life are both crucial and important. However, a good, sound decision should push you to bring change in your own life rather than leave you mark-timing at the same spot or in your “own axis” over and over in the name of waiting for a perfect man to get married to or looking for a perfect woman to marry.
Did you know that waiting for the”perfect partner” to marry will leave you doing just that, waiting for the “perfect person!” 🏆👔👔👗👔👔🏆 There’s never a “perfect opportunity” for doing that which you are supposed to be doing. That which always seems like a ‘perfect opportunities’ is actually the “right opportunity” having presented itself for the right reason. Stop waiting for the perfect opportunity and take advantage of the right opportunities that are presently arising to avoid “lost opportunities.” 🔴✨🔵✨🔴✨🔵 IT IS GOD WHO PERFECTS US.
“..Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.”
“…let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
Treating ulcers, or treating high blood pressure or any other heart and blood related conditions is very expensive compared to working on having both healthy trusted relationship with your employees!
Setting CCTV in the fridge to check how much milk your househeld drinks in your absence will only lead you to one place; “disappointment office.”
Please see that you work on your insecurities in a positive impact such that you as the employer are not distracted by minor house details.
A well trained house employee will eventually yield to minimum supervision once trust is detected.
To #Parents
It is good to always keep tabs on your child’s whereabouts regardless of their age, but to stay in every inch of their space is a serious insecurity issue that will hinder your child’s growth in many ways.
In every training program, trainees are allocated time and chance once in a while to apply the knowledge they have acquired from their respective trainers.
It is not healthy for any trainer to repeatedly train the same program to his or her trainees over a long period of time.
Prolonged repeated training as opposed to art of Mastery creates little room for growth. When a parent keeps training their children from their childhood all the way to late adulthood without allowing the children to develop the acquired skills, will always lead to redundancy in the child’s development.
Most parents with insecurity issue towards their children often camouflage it as training season. As a good parent, work on your insecurities!
Let your 3yr old use your laptop or that office computer on their own once in a while, you never know, your child could learn playing piano faster that way.
Many adults attest to the point where they credit their passion for culinary arts to their early childhood upbringing. Parents who trust their own children enough to let them use electrical cookware as early as 7yrs end up boosting the child’s moral and self confidence in many hobbies upto adult life. As a good parent, work on your insecurities!
To #Wives
“A good wife builds her own house with her hands even as she waters her marriage bed with the sweet seasoning from her own words.” (Sourced from https://christinekimaita.fashion.blog/ ).
As a good wife, never confuse your husband for a domestic pet, one you can tame and tie a rope round their neck to pull around!
Checking on his iPhone messages when your husband is attending the bathroom will add unnecessary coals to your insecurity issue!
As a good wife, work on your insecurities! You don’t have to keep tabs on your husband’s IPhone messages to save your marriage. Save your marriage from its source, the altar where you both made your holy vows before God.
As a good wife, work on your insecurities through prayer! Prayer works and it should work out for the good of your marriage as well!
Nothing is impossible with God. As a good wife, work on your insecurities by praying with all prayer and supplication and watch as The Holy Spirit reveals before hand any genuine cracks of unfaithfulness that are in need of divine intervention.
Work on your insecurities as a good wife because when you put your trust in God, you shall not be put to shame.
To #Husbands
They have it that Men are powerful providers as sourced from https://christinekimaita.fashion.blog/ however it is not clear whether men are good to manage what they provide!
Demanding that your entire household accounts for every tiny grain of cooking salt from the half kilo packet you brought them last month will put unnecessary pressure to your kidneys!
As a good husband, see that you work on your insecurities and focus on other important departments other than the kitchen department affairs unless your career in life is in line with culinary!
As a good husband, work on your insecurities! It is good as the head to walk round your house every night checking on the doors including your kitchen door and the kitchen window. Stay focus on why you went to the kitchen initially!
As a good husband and father and head of the house, you always check out the house at night before bed just to secure your house and not to secure the meat and how many bones they have kept for your next meal etcetera!
Work on your insecurities as a good husband and all the bones will keep following you to your table!
Work on your insecurities as a good husband and you won’t have to rely on unhealthy “controlling behaviors” like barbarism, narcissism and dictatorship to command due respect in your own household. Respect is a slot that comes with every package of any grown man.
Maturity relates that a good husband is confident enough to be aware of who he is first without demanding forced recognition from his household! As a good husband, work on your insecurities!
“Eating meat doesn’t make one rich, eating rice and beans won’t make one poor either!”
A LICK OF PASSION IN WHAT YOU DO WILL DO THE TRICK!
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A single drop of love is sweeter than any “secret ingredient” behind known cuisines.
(Some call it *Jollof rice* others call it *pilau njeri* and some say it’s *rice and peas* Let’s call it #Kusharee
If you DON’T enjoy the preparing and you don’t enjoy what you are preparing in the kitchen, then DON’T expect people to enjoy what you are preparing!
“A lick of passion in what you do is all what youneed“
Show me a giver and I’ll show you a loaded man!!! It is in giving that we receive.
A rich man who keeps saying mere “thank you” s to his employees as a show of complement is a “stingy man.”
“A lick of passion in what you do is all you ever need”
A true rich man keeps “paying more” instead of saying mere thank you to his employees whenever there’s a need for complement to the employees because he is “stinking rich.”
No matter what struggle you may be going through currently, be it out of your own blame or out of pure frame, focusing on the negative circumstance doesn’t help much.
Creating a “pity-party” out of a negative situation with the excuse of nursing the negative circumstance doesn’t help much either!
You might be facing some chronic illness or a terminal disease, instead of believing that God destined you for that crisis, focus on seeing the Might of The hand of God beyond that sickness. See, the devil came to steal, kill and destroy. Don’t advertise the works of Satan! Instead of glorifying the works of Satan, attract the attention of heaven!
Speak God’s mind into your mind. God’s Fatherly Desire for His children is they be in good health. God’s Fatherly Will for you as His child is you prosper in all ways even as your soul prospers.
It is not a sin to face a negative circumstance, but to create a pity-party out of it does not glorify The Name of God!
Remember this; nothing is impossible with God. This Is The kind of God He Is. He Is Our Provider! He Is Our Father! He Is The Lord of hosts!
When you decide to return to God with a repentant heart, it doesn’t matter to Him whether you were an alcoholic or you carried out an abortion or whether you killed someone in the past or whether you stole something. All God wants you to do is you have faith in Him…for without faith it is impossible to please God…
What matters to God first is you return to Him with a repentant heart. If we confess our sins, He Is faithful and just enough to forgive us all our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
God loves us and no ugly past-life ever lived or any current life presently seen will be able to separate you from the unconditionally Love of God.
Don’t allow the devil to create an illusion in your mind that what you are presently going through is so gigantic to fit in prayer or so complicated to match God’s mind.
Never allow the devil to start snoring into your ears about the greatness of your sins.
Truth is, the minute you entertain the enemy as close as into your thoughts, he will know you’ve definitely leased him some free rental space in your mind, then you as a child of The Living God you will start to see and believe the life that God lives very far in the beyond of Seventh Heaven!
God Is Emmanuel!
God With us.
He’s with you even where you are sitting right now!
He’s next to you to teach you in the way you should go …precisely on ways which will help you get yourself out of your present negative situation.
God Is with you to instruct you …probably on how to live a good holy life that is pleasing to HIM.
God stays with you to advice you probably on how to avoid similar negative circumstances in the future.
Believe and live to what the writer of the book of James 1:2-3 says, **Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.**
If some surveillance activities were remotely done on your phone precisely searching your picture’s gallery, how much of your wife’s pictures will be counted compared to images of other women probably of unknown nature?
Learn to take random pictures of your lovely wife and store more of her pictures in your gallery as opposed to pictures of foreign women!
Here’s the reason why this is important:
With all the innovation and chemical reactions all around the world, symptoms of forgetfulness especially the older you become are inevitable, so the more you keep seeing your wife’s beautiful face on your phone, the more your conscious REMINDS you of her as your wife. Ever wondered why you keep receiving alert reminders of your bank loans, alerts for your school fees arrears, alert reminders of your airtime balance and so on?
The more you keep pictures of foreign women other than those of your own wife, the more your inbox will be flooding with debts messages and warning SMS from your debtors. These debts alerts are simple spiritual signals that you owe your wife your love! You are indebted to love her for keeps!
Complying with the simple principle of “paying your debts promptly” will save you all the pain. Acknowledge that it God Who put you together with your wife to begin with then, obey His Word by faithfully loving your wife just as Christ loved the church and gave His life for it then watch God act upon His Word over your life. Pay your wife the “love-debt” you owe her as often as you can.
~The love debt is what is being referred to here!
Pay your wife the “love-debt” you owe her as often as you can.
Love is expected of you by God as a believer to begin with. Owe no one anything except the gift of loving them, in this case, husbands LOVE your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave His life for it as apostle Paul commands in Ephesians 5:25.
Pay your wife the “love-debt” you owe her as often as you can.
WHEN ONE’S LEVEL OF GLORY DROPS, DOES HIS OR HER LEVEL OF FAVOR DROP AS WELL?
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“DON’T WAIT FOR YOUR GLORY LEVEL TO DROP”
When a man habitually and repeatedly keeps relying for simple help from people outside of his own marital cistern is clear indication that the same man is said to be swiftly falling short of his glory as a man being the head!~
Application:
“..outside of his own marital cistern is clear indication that the same man is said to be swiftly falling short of his glory as a man being the head!~”
When the husband starts to repeatedly rely for simple advice on how to treat his own wife from his parents, or from his neighbors, or even from his colleagues, other than from his own wife, this stage is spiritually labeled as the drop-point of the man’s level of glory.
Your duty as the woman of the house is to pray for your husband and seek to win his trust back.
Be a great wife who supports her husband instead of watching her husband while he swiftly drifts to the other side of the “marriage bed.”
When a man starts to repeatedly rely for borrowed money from his parents, or his neighbors or so from his colleagues other than from his wife to provide for his wife’s needs and his own children, this stage of his life is spiritually labeled as the drop-point of the man’s level of glory.
Your duty as the woman of the house is not only to pray for your husband’s financial dream, or to pray for increase of his income sources!
Be a great wife who manages and supports well the readily available income and provisions that her husband is currently earning and bringing home and always live with the expectation of producing more financial folds from what you are presently given by your husband. Women are producers by default!
“…Women are producers by default!”
When a man starts to repeatedly rely for outside help from his parents, or from his neighbors or so from his colleagues other than from his wife in performing simple house chores like changing his car tyres, or assembling a newly bought T.V or Radio, or even so simple chores like changing diapers, this stage of his life is spiritually labeled as the drop-point of the man’s level of glory. Men are providers by default!
“..Men are providers by default!”
Your duty as the woman of the house is not only to pray for your husband to learn basic skills or to pray for your husband to learn how to be a responsible father figure to his children!
Be a great wife who supports her husband with encouragement and expectations of positive changes even when her husband appears to initially lack the basic skills that old cultures engrave!
Be a great mother who takes great care of her own children and who is responsible enough to change those diapers by herself!
To be honest I don’t know about you beloved reader, but for me prayer has always worked out in my life. Whenever I engage in prayer, I have the assurance of God’s Faithfulness! Either it’s a yes, or a no or a wait depending on the circumstance but prayer for me is no try and error but tried and true!
When God blessed me with the international job, my faith shifted from one level of glory to a higher level of glory. Not necessarily because of God answering my prayer, but in the process I learnt I can always depend upon the love of God from any deepness and from all angles!
However, the grievous mistake many children of God make after receiving answer to their prayers is to have an ungrateful heart. Yes I know. By now you are probably saying this in your mind, “no I always remember to say Thank You Jesus for the healing, or Thank You Father for your provision” and etcetera etcetera! But this is one mistake that we tend to so easily forget. “An overstayed comfort-zone digs a pit for ingratitude”
An Ungrateful heart can come in so many shades of color that unless one has the spirit of discernment, it is not easy to know you are being ungrateful as a believer!
Take for instance, there was this day years into my international job when I found myself asking out this question. “After the miracle, then what next?” The reason that prompted me to ask myself the above question is what I’d like to share with you in a moment.
“THINGS OF GOD SHOULD BE MAINTAINED BY GOD”
That particular day started out well and was so promising as usual until the spoiler came! I was busy minding my own, and by my own I mean meditating upon the Word of God while reading one of my favorite Newspapers, #TheStandard #KenyaNewspaper . It was tea break.
Then, out of nowhere, a colleague came up to my desk. Initially I didn’t give it a thought. Our office is a large hall partitioned in a way where one floor has like 12 office desks, so it’s the main con of this setup is there’s very minimum privacy, that’s why it was normal for a colleague to just come over to your desk whenever they wanted. However, being an introvert, I hardly encourage chitchat during office hours but like they say “In every marketplace there’s always a mentally challenged character walking around” and this particular colleague of mine was not an exception!
He came over, sat with all nerve at the end of my desk, leaned towards me with his charming smile like he was initiating some flirting, then out of the very blue instead of a kiss on my cheek, He slapped my ears with a very painful statement!
“Tit-tok! When are we going to celebrate your wedding Ms Christine. You are the only one who’s never carried a child in this office.” What! dude, are you now a walking alarm? I was not expecting it to say the truth.
And he said it a such a way no one heard what he told me but when I briefly looked over his shoulder, I saw 10 pairs of eyes all looking my way with deep anticipation as if telling each other, “let’s wait and see, any minute from now she’s going to burst out with anger!” I say ten pairs of eyes without counting the two of us and several eye glasses used in the office leave alone the security cameras! Every single person in the office was for a minute paying attention most probably to have a live catch at my reaction!
That’s the moment when I realized that there was some foul tongue of gossip that was circulating within the office floor.
*…And every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD. And their righteousness is from Me.” says the LORD.* With no physical evidence, my spirit just whispered in me that there was some very bad wind of gossip that was blowing around the office without my prior knowledge. My new international job had apparently stirred up different jealousy levels at my new work environment while I was busy enjoying the blessing of job promotion, a spiritual challenge which I had overlooked out of clear ignorance!
*For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high…
…thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.*
My miracle of the international job had apparently come with it’s share of “spring challenges” which are usually meant to keep us awake as God’s children. See, it is very easy for a child of God to start worshipping the gifts of God without knowing, instead of worshipping The Giver. It’s easy for any believer full of patches from past wounds to start worshipping the creation instead of worshipping The Creator! It’s very easy!-just like that!~
Years into my new job, I was drifting into zones of ungratefulness without knowing. A job that I had birthed in tears, a prayer moment with body fluids flow-out running out of my body in ounces to the tiled floor of my then bedsitter. This very new job was now swiftly and firmly receiving all my praise and attention more than The Giver of that job. “THINGS OF GOD SHOULD BE MAINTAINED BY GOD”
My reader what I mean by saying body liquids flow-out, I am politely referring to tears running down my eyes and there was some from my nose also but very little. So let’s be at peace knowing that the body fluids flow-out being referred to here is tears only, because as you are aware humans have several types of body fluids flow-out and the women have an additional body fluids flow-out for that matter!
Again, my reader, I am in no way suggesting that focusing on your job is sin, no. The problem caves in when you fail to understand what happens next after the miracle! When God answers your prayer, praise Him to the magnitude where you will hear your inner man echoing and being confident of this very thing, that He Who begun the good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. The Creator of the ends of the Earth neither faints not Is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases their strength. Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. The level of strength which I used to birth my job miracle through prayer should have been equally proportionate to the level of strength I needed to “maintain” my miracle. Applying this simple spiritual principle in your life, it doesn’t matter which Formula you use to solve the riddle in here, “After the miracle, what next? the answer is = Depend on God.
After getting my international job through prayer, I was comfortable with the casual “Oh Thank You Jesus for the job!” kind of prayers and I considered it as coming from a grateful heart. See, our Father doesn’t just require us to thank Him and give Him Praise for all He has done with us, all He has done within us, and all that He does through us. God LOVES when we Depend on Him! The time I wasted reciting reprogrammed prayers to God after receiving the international job as the answer to my prayer, was enough time for the devil to stir up jealousy levels within my work environment!
Let’s look at it this way; No country will receive you with a visa entry bearing the name of a different nation other than the name of the host nation. For example, if you are traveling to Kenya, you require a Kenyan visa in order to be allowed into the country. You can never present a Bahrain visa at the Kenyan airport and expect entry.
One fundamental Truth states “The Things of God must be maintained by God Himself.”
The statement that my colleague whispered in me that day was so piercing that I felt the urge to talk to God about it. That day I waited till evening and when I arrived at home, I immediately went to my prayer closet and poured my heart to God. I remember crying heavily that evening not because of the judgemental words of my colleague, but at some point I knew it was time for a “spiritual combat” with my Father. I needed God to make me understand why I was being attacked! In other words, I was experiencing the “why me, where did I go wrong, and when did I refuse” momentous pullback.
Funny enough the my minute I became aware of The Immense Presence of God in my prayer closet that particular evening and that’s when The Holy Spirit begun to pour understanding in me;
” Evil words or negative words spoken to you from the MOUTH of the ungodly people may pierce you like fiery darts of the enemy or be as painful as the intramuscular syringe injection, but they can never be more powerful than The Word spoken to you by the MOUTH of God HIMSELF.” For The Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Of course after that incident at the office and after applying the wise counsel of The Holy Spirit, as we speak, that particular colleague of mine though he later apologized for his careless mediocre remarks that day, the damage was already done according to his wife. Days later after everyone else had forgotten about it, his wife is said to have woken up one morning after hearing their teenage daughter screaming in her bedroom.
When the mother went to check out her daughter and when she realized she couldn’t pin why their daughter was screaming frantically, she decided to rush her to their family doctor who after several repeated examinations on the child ruled it as aneurysms of the brain as the problem!
It’s a pity that the damage was already done according to my colleague’s wife, but on my hand that a close reminder after receiving the miracle, then I depend on God all the way! One thing I strongly believe is that I don’t have to wait until God “sends” me to His drawing board when I can freely agree to stay on board with Him to begin with.
“..NEGATIVE WORDS SPOKEN TO YOU FROM THE MOUTH OF THE UNGODLY..CAN NEVER BE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE WORD SPOKEN TO YOU FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD HIMSELF”
And if by chance you happen to have wondered away from His presence, can you run to God by faith through prayer after receiving the blessing in this post? And when you receive your miracle..depend on God all the way!
” AFTER RECEIVING THE MIRACLE, THEN I DEPEND ON GOD ALL THE WAY”
“Sometimes I wish I had waited few more years before getting married. You see I got married at a very young and tender age, I was 20years old and Dave my husband was then older with a difference of 12years. I paid dearly to be where I am in marriage. I at times feel that I was robbed of my youthful stage. It all started when I became pregnant with my first child. I was happy of course when Dave agreed that we immediately go for a civil wedding which we did. Little did I know that I wasn’t the only young girl Dave was interested in. He had an unusual liking for young girls especially those in high school. He was always defensive and abusive every time I confronted him about this behavior. Mind you all the while I never mentioning my marital issues to any of our family members because from the beginning our families from both sides never approved of our relationship leave alone the marriage. So eight months into my pregnancy period I felt enough was enough and decided that I was moving out. Unfortunately Dave knew about my plan and he pleaded with me to stay and promised to change. I forgave him. Our marriage was back on the road and I became pregnant with my second child two years later and History started to repeat itself. Again I noticed his infidelity a bit late and made same plan of moving out. Again unfortunately he found out, apologised and I forgave him. Little did I know that my marriage needed more attention than I was giving it. So when I became pregnant with my third child, I decided to be cautious. Of course, Dave was smart and he always covered his tracks, but I read somewhere that women are smart too. I had my sources and when it was confirmed, I decided I’m done with the marriage. It was on a Sunday afternoon and I waited until we had both had our meals then I made my decided known to Dave. I wasn’t ready to forgive this time and he knew I was serious. That night, I slept alone in the bedroom, he slept in the living room which was our norm whenever we had an argument.
My radio was on all night like always playing Christian songs and there was this particular song that woke me up at around 2am . I got up feeling restless like there was something I had not done. Then suddenly the message of the song hit my head. I needed to pray for my marriage.
we had completely locked our families out of our marriage and in the process we had also shun the LOVE of God from our marriage.
That song kept urging me to talk to Jesus Christ about my problems! I remember dragging myself from bed and kneeling down not knowing what to say. I was hurting emotionally, wounded, feeling betrayed, rejected, dirty, discouraged and of no importance. I felt like I was not good enough to be in God’s presence. I tried to mumble a few words to God amidst tears, but all I could manage to tell God was , ” Father please forgive me for rejecting you, I thank You Lord that You did not allow Dave to infect me with any STIs, thank You Lord for this marriage but I can’t take it anymore Daddy, I am leaving tomorrow. Please help me, in Jesus name amen”
To this day I still don’t understand how He did it, but this year Dave and I are celebrating 17years in marriage. Dave is currently an evangelist , ten years and he’s so passionate about his calling. It was not about Dave, but this was all about Jesus Christ.
“Never think that you don’t need God, only a foolish person will think that there’s no God”…“pray without ceasing“
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