It is not good enough to refrain from pronouncing negative words in our children’s lives; we need to take an extra and much-needed step in pronouncing positive declarations over them. A field with no weeds remains a fruitless field if no seeds are planted in it. It is the planting of good seeds that causes it to produce good fruits. As life is spoken to our children's hearing (not just in your private prayers), it becomes the hum in their lives.
Read MoreA farmer knows that if he/she wants a harvest (certain outcome), good seeds need to be sown in advance in order to generate a harvest. Likewise, to generate a joyful and glorious atmosphere in your home and marriage, there are seeds that need to be planted prior, to acquiring the desired atmosphere outcome. This is where aphrodisiacs come in!
Read MoreIn our last blog, ‘Vulnerable- Part 1’, we talked about what it looks like to be vulnerable. In today’s blog post, we will examine some hindrances that prevent people from being vulnerable with their spouses and explore how to deal with such barriers.
Read More“And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” (Genesis 2:25, NKJV)
This was what happened after God created woman (Eve) out of man (Adam) and presented her to Adam and he confirmed her as the bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh (Genesis 2:21-24). The first time I truly understood this above passage in Genesis 2:25 was when I got married. You see, normally as humans, we are not keen to show our nakedness to the world but when a man and a woman get married, that is meant to change. Nakedness is not just physical but spans different aspects of a person’s life including emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of their lives. Let’s look at some practical examples of what it means to be vulnerable in these different areas
Read MoreIn the last blog, we discussed some wisdom nuggets in dealing with in-loves (aka in-laws) from the perspective of daughters/sons-in-loves. Today, we will be focusing on how parents/siblings-in-law should treat and relate to their in-loves.
Read MoreI remember in high school when a senior female student mentioned hoping her mother-in-law was not alive when she wanted to get married. I had not experienced difficulties with mothers-in-law firsthand but I had seen movies where it depicted animosity between the wife and the mother-in-law with most portraying the husband’s mother as a “monster-in-law”. In today’s blog, we will explore some wisdom nuggets that can be applied by daughters/sons-in-law in relating to their in-laws.
Read MoreWe have a gas cooker and I was happy enough to have it to cook our regular meals. One day we had a friend visit that was so ecstatic about it and honestly, I didn’t understand why she was so excited about the cooker because it was “just” a cooker until she mentioned it had racks that help with grilling or barbecuing food items. I became way more excited about it because I could visualize several fun ideas I could do with our meals. It moved from being just a regular cooker to a super cooker in my mind. In the very same way, when God created each and every person in a family, they weren’t “regular” people but “extraordinary” people/carbon copies of God (remember we were made in the image and likeness of God- Genesis 1:27).
Read MoreThe perfect storm or circumstance allowed the true nature of Hagar to be revealed. Hagar was a woman that had the seed of covetousness but just like every seed requires the right condition for it to grow, in Hagar’s case, the perfect storm of Abraham and Sarah being desperate provided the seed of covetousness to germinate. Covetousness is a deadly seed that if allowed to grow, causes a lot of damage and all sorts of evil. Covetousness stems from envy and jealousy of another person (another’s possession, another’s friend, another’s attention/time, another’s position, another’s vision, etc). Where there is envy or jealousy, there are all kinds of evil and confusion (James 3:16).
Let’s examine how covetousness grows and how to deal with it!
Read MoreSignal jammers are devices and software utilized in blocking the flow of information from a device or place. Take for an example a mobile phone jammer or blocker, this device will deliberately transmit signals on the same radio frequency as the mobile phone it wants to jam, thereby interfering and disrupting any communication between that cell phone and the cell’s tower or base station, thereby successfully disabling that cell phone or any cell phones within the range of that jammer and effectively preventing such phones from receiving any signals and transmitting any signals from them. Likewise, in a home, there are some signal jammers that we need to ensure are not allowed access into our home, as this can interrupt us from receiving signals from God. Let’s examine some signal jammers and how that can affect the destiny of a home or people in a home.
Read MoreThe bible reminds us not to be ignorant of the devices of the enemy (2 Corinthians 2:11) and we need to be mindful that our home and family are at war with the devil. He has a target on your family and home. A family consists of a father, mother (marriage), and children. Marriages and children are target points for the devil and it requires divine strategies from God to effectively neutralize the schemes of the enemy. Studying materials on effective parenting, having a godly home, etc are very good and highly encouraged, but it takes discernment and specific wisdom from the HolySpirit to know which of these weapons and strategies need to be employed when tackling specific attacks on your home.
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