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  A wedding ring is a crucial part of the wedding because the ring symbolizes an unending and eternal circle of love between the couple. It represents their commitment to each other and is worn to show the world they are married. This emblem of love is exchanged on their wedding day and symbolizes the couple's pledge to each other. So, a man gives his bride a ring and the bride does the same.  But actually is all starts with the engagement ring that is given at the time of the proposal… The guy proposes to his girlfriend and her acceptance of the ring says she has agreed marry him. Often the proposal can be a whole ceremony on its own; from an intimate affair to an event that could include family and friends. Whenever people see the lady, the engagement ring on her finger makes everyone know she is taken.  Sometimes though, all our attention is on the ceremony, the caterers, the event planner, the outfits, the funfair and in a time of social media; the views also matter....

  The image for this week's message speaks to the title. It is the image of a windmill on a farm. We can see the farm with crops growing nicely and if all goes well, it will be a great harvest but above the windmill we can see lightning looming and about to strike the windmill. A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades. Traditionally in the olden days, windmills were used to grind grains, pump water and cut wood. However with advances in technology, windmills also known as wind turbines now generate electricity by converting the wind’s kinetic energy into mechanical energy and then electrical energy.  All things being equal, a windmill will work seamlessly but one thing that can affect the smooth and consistent running of a windmill is lightning. A lightning strike can do great damage. Lightning can destroy the smooth running of a windmill. It can cause structural, electrical or blade damage and even a fire. Li...

  Love is a vital and indispensable ingredient when it comes to faith that produces and it should be easy enough to love until the enemy steps in. Galatians 5 and verse says Faith works by love.  It is not news that we should walk in love. We know it and know the role love plays so why do Christians keep stumbling where their love-walk is concerned? It is easy to read your Bible and share what you read but not so easy to do what you read and shared with somebody else. Love is so powerful that a defective love-walk can destroy your health, finances, marriage, business, your relationships and everything else.  The devil knows how important love is for your overall spiritual, mental and physical health and so he tailor-makes situations specifically to get you and hold you back. He knows you will not progress as long as you stay in strife and that the Word will not produce for you and neither will your faith work and so he is focused on keeping you in strife .  Strife...

  Something amazing happened over the weekend that could only have been a combination of prayer, the will of God and angelic intervention, and it got me thinking. We had traveled to Nyeri because my husband was ministering in a church there. He was to minister on Saturday morning and then we were to head back to Nairobi for another meeting on Saturday afternoon. However, the church in Nyeri asked if he would take their two services on Sunday as well. They had no idea he had a meeting in Nairobi after the breakfast meeting they had invited him for. Well, my husband turned it over, felt a release to minister in the Nyeri church on Sunday and so he accepted their invitation; thus we had a packed and busy weekend with a good part of the weekend spent on the road!!!  We had prayed about the meeting in Nyeri and the one in Nairobi. Both were God-ordained and we were excited to see what God would do at both meetings. However, for the timings to work perfectly, we needed to finish t...

We have been doing an in-depth study on character from Galatians 5:22-23 using the fruit of the Spirit as our theme. The fruit of the Spirit are nine character traits that we should all exhibit especially if we are in a long-term relationship like marriage.  Marriage only works well when the partners have mastered the right character traits. They don't fly off the handle even when they think it is justified to do so. It is interesting how things can end differently if you just step back, take a deep breath and hold your tongue; and I'll talk about this a bit more today using my marriage as an example.  Like I said, our theme scripture is Galatians 5:22-23 and the character trait we will be looking at today is Self-control ! But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [gentleness, self-control . Against such there is no law - Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV So what is Self-Control?  “ Self-control according to the dictionary is ...

  I hope these articles on character have been a blessing and an eye-opener to you. Marriage is work. It is hard work and that is why happily-ever-after does not just happen; you have to work at it. When a couple first get married, they believe that it will be happily ever after but a lot of the time, they will not do the work that happily-ever-afters demands.  They expect that their love for each will help them through any tough times but this is not true. For those who are married or have been in relationships, you will agree that love is not enough to keep a relationship strong. That is why we have been learning about godly character and like I have said over and over during these series, christian marriages would have a better chance of survival if the parties in the marriage exhibited godly character.  So we will go back to our theme scripture, Galatians 5:22-23. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [gentle...