Kenya Women, Arise!!!!!!!

Statistics say 60% of Kenyan women of marriageable age are single mothers.This is not condemn single mothers but one thing is obvious,there is someone who never took his responsibility of a father seriously,thus landing our girls to this unfortunate state.
As this trends of irresponsible fatherhood grows by leaps and bounds,then what should the women who are in their early yrs do,before getting hooked before marriage
Wisdom teaches that in such a situation,some measures must be put in place,before any good and Godly woman says i do!
I may not know all the measures to put in place,but i have one that i feel is fundamental.The 1st one is the fear of God.When you fear God,the devil has no room to bring you down
The 2nd Investment for any single lady in her early yrs of life,is to educating yourself before you say i do .
Many times the media is full of hoary messages of women who have been abandoned, and with kids dangling on their back and on an empty stomach.When they cry for help to the government,anyone with amind should know how to avoid such a situation happening to him in future.Yes,not all marriages will last however how much we want but investing in educating yourself will make you have something to cushion you,and your kids,from impending danger of starvation and thus when you have a job,you will be able to see the kids through anything that comes with an irresponsible fatherhood.As they say,love never pays bills and for sure,it's true.Look for a way of sustaining yourself before you say i do.It will help you pay the bills and if [God forbid],your marriage crumbles,you will move on with ease,aware that you have something that will pay your rent,water and fees for the kids....just thinking buy you can add your thought too

Women are not property but Land is property that women in Kenya can own.
Support them to realize this goal and especially those who come from communities that treat them as one.

I am doing it through writing stories that will address this vice...and you what are you doing to ensure that they are liberated?
The ball is in your court now my dear reader.....

RAINS AS SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS TO MANY!!!

The rainy season is here with us here in Kenya.It has been raining in most part of the country since the beginning of this month.Farmers all over the country have welcomed the rains with a great relief since according to them, the rains are long overdue.
I had traveled to my upcountry home on Sunday last week where I stayed visiting till Wednesday of this week.Our upcountry is very hilly and what I saw during my short visit is breathtaking!!!The beautiful landscape that was covered by green vegetation.Majority of the families were busy in their farms planting crops like maize and beans.
The good news is that , most primary and high schools have closed and the children are at home.They are helping their parents with the planting of the crops instead of hiring people/ domestic workers to do the manual labour for them who have to be paid at the end of the day.The money saved is used to buy fertilizers and treated seeds for planting from recommended dealers/shops.These seeds are disease resistance.
I had a chance to visit some of these farmers while at home, who shared some of their experiences with me.Many expressed their joy over what they termed as a miracle(the long waited rains)Even though they were expecting it would rain, they said at times they rains fail to come at the expected time/right time like in the  year 2011 and the planted crops in the farms dries up.This situation can cause drought  and famine and when severe it can results into loose of  people lives together with their animals.
Benson Mwangi is an upcoming young farmer .He shared with me how his maize and beans dried up last year.He was forced to buy food for the first time since he ventured into active farming five years ago because he depends on money he gets from selling his maize and beans to meet his household needs.Mwangi says the crops have been doing well in all those five years until last year when they failed to yield.
Majority of people in big cities like Nairobi hates rainy seasons because of what they termed as exploitation from public vehicles drivers and their conductors.When it rains, as I found out from many of these commuters who use these public vehicles as means of transport,  is that they get overcharged by double or triple their normal fares.This is because when it rains , there is alot of traffic jam and vehicles move ''bumper to bumper''kind of style.This situation causes these vehicles  to consume a lot of fuel. As we  all know fuel is quite expensive here in Kenya due to the rate of inflation which was experienced last year when the value of  the Kenyan shilling went down.
But when I asked Benson to comment about the current rains which we are experiencing as a country lately, he reaped with joy saying,"RAIN MEANS EVERYTHING TO US FARMERS!"Water is life,life to plants animals and us people.Without rains our farming is doomed and those who buy food from us will suffer too.Mwangi added ..''I hope this year it will come with good tidings.May GOD grant us favorable weather conditions and enough rains so that He can compensate me and my fellow farmers from the lose we experienced last year when our crops dried up.
As I was watching it rain this afternoon from the window of my house, I just remembered the elated Benson Mwangi and many other farmers  whose to them ''RAIN'' is a sign of good yields, hope and good tidings in their lives as farmers.We in Nairobi and other major towns laments when it rains because we don't want to be held in traffic jams or pay more for fuel of fare not knowing that the foodstuffs that we but at the market/supermarkets are as a result of these rains.What we take for granted as NAIROBI-ANS'' means so much to others out there.
I was left wondering at the diversities in peoples way of earning their daily bread.Oh!It is truly amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you dear God for these showers of rains; they are truly showers of blessings to us as a nation!

 

HOW WILL I KNOW IF I'VE MET THE PERSON I SHOULD MARRY?

HOW WILL I KNOW IF I'VE MET THE PERSON I SHOULD MARRY?


The choice of a marriage partner should not be based on "I get a warm, wonderful feeling whenever we're together and I want to have that warm wonderful feeling forever, so let's go get married".
Feelings have no logic on their own. They need to be acknowledged, of course, but they need considerable assistance from your brain.
Marriage means choosing the person you will spend the rest of your life with. This, as you may have guessed, is a very long time to spend with one person.
This person will live with you, eat meals with you, sleep with you and go on vacation with you. More important yet, this person will share your children.
You need to choose wisely.
The decision should not be made based on Feelings alone. You need to as yourself some tough questions. The decisions have to be made on solid considerations like.
-Will this person be a good partner?
- Is she mature enough to put her own selfish desires aside to look out for what is best for the family?
-Is he prepared to be a good provider?
-What is his track record?
-Is he responsible enough to get a good job and keep it?
-Will this person be a good parent?
-Can you stand the thought of your children turning out exactly like this person?They will, you know. Children spend a lot of time with their parents and consequently pick up many or most of their parents' character traits. You had better like your spouse's traits a lot because you will be seeing them again in your children. If something were to happen to you, would you completely trust this person alone, with the task of raising and forming your children? This is not a pleasant thought, but it is an important consideration.
Not everyone dies at a ripe old age with great grandchildren gathered around the bed. Sometimes a parent dies and leaves young! children in the care of the other parent. If you feel that you would need to be around to correct or lessen this person's influence on your children, then you are considering the wrong person.
Does this person share your faith in God? God does not give us children So that we can mold them into the coolest, most popular people in school.
Our job is to get them to heaven. The bible says "Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. [Malachi 2:15].
To do that what Malachi says, we need to raise the kids and make sure they believe in God.
It is tough to do that if only one parent believes. Saying "This is right and that is wrong, and I want you to ignore Mommy until you are thirty-five" does not work. Small children ask about eight million questions in a single day. The answers to those questions go a long way toward forming the kind of adults they will become. Who will be answering those questions for your children?
-Does this person you are marrying have sexual self-control?
Single People sometimes have this idea that marriage is just some kind of lifelong sex festival, and that as long as they have each other,they will never be tempted by other people. Wrong!
There are many times in every marriage when one partner or the other is sexually unavailable. Issues to do with illness, the last months of pregnancy, travel and etc can live a couple sometimes with days if not months of sexual inactivity and if your man\woman has not self control,disaster looms for the marriage.
Still on self control, there are also times when spouses, just get on each others nerves. At times like this, other people can seem very appealing. That can be dangerous, because there are plenty of very attractive people out there who are willing to make themselves available to married men and women. Do you want someone who has never said "no" to sex? If he is not good at saying "no" at eighteen, it won't be different at forty. Do you want to worry about whether or not your spouse is being faithful?
These are very important questions, and if you are not comfortable with All of the answers, you should definitely not marry this person.
None of this questions says that feelings play a big role in a marriage decision as it does in relationships.Every single man should look at their partners beyond the feeling and project if for real they meet this requirements as set in the questions above
You don't have to wait until you are married to realize that feelings can lie.Infact,if you you have a man you don't feel for much,yet he possesses all this qualities you better run for him and marry him.Marriage goes beyond feelings.
You need to be happy and excited about the prospect of spending your Life with someone,but your brain however must acknowledge that this person as a good choice too.Don't listen to your heart alone nor your head alone. Wait until your heart and head agree.Then go ahead without fear.May God help you

TRUE LOVE , PURE LOVE, WHO CAN FIND IT? A POEM COMPOSED BY MARGARET FAVOUR BLESSINGS

TRUE LOVE , PURE LOVE, WHO CAN FIND IT? A POEM COMPOSED BY MARGARET FAVOUR BLESSINGS

by Margaret Favour Blessings

1)   True love and pure love, who can find it?
Who can give it out for the sake of his friends?
Yes, true love and pure love is hard to find!
For it's costly! It costed someone's life; who knew no sin,
For us to be loved and redeemed.
John 3:16 talks about the man Jesus Christ, gave away his life,
For me, for you ,for all of us.
Because He loved us that much.

2)  True love and pure love, the love straight from the heart,
Overflowing on the outside,
He gave it all my brother, my sister,
For the sake of His friends, who were so sinful and thus rejected by GOD.
With no one to love or pardon them;
He became a friend to them,
A friend referred to in the book of proverbs 17:17;
A friend who loves at all times.

 3)  True love and pure love,
The love Christ had for the church.
John 15:13 says.......Greater love has no-one than this;
That he laid down his life for his friends.
He loves us that much, to the point of death,
At the cross of Calvary.

4) True love and pure love,
The love that Christ gave for his church,
The love He is still offering today,
For the sake of his brides to be.
True love and pure love...is all about loving unconditionally,
Loving without reservations, loving the unlovable, undeserving;
Yes, loving them all till end.
True love and pure love is found in Jesus Christ.

5)  Are you saved my brother, my sister?
Do you have Jesus in your heart?
If you do....
Then, you have that true love and pure love within you,
The love I am talking about today?
Then, share it with your friends and become an ambassador of Christ;
To the entire world and you will be spreading that true love and pure love,
That Christ has for all of us today.....amen.

OH KENYA, MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY, MY MOTHERLAND. A POEM BY MARGARET FAVOUR BLESSINGS.

OH KENYA, MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY, MY MOTHERLAND. A POEM BY MARGARET FAVOUR BLESSINGS.

by Margaret Favour Blessings

Oh Kenya, my beautiful country, my motherland.
What has become of you?
The beautiful green cover that you use to have,
Yes, those forests filled with singing birds, wild animals, butterflies;
Are now gone...yes,gone gone , gone forever.

Oh Kenya, my beautiful country, my motherland,
This treasure that I adore most, given by my maker, GOD.
What has become of you?
Those beautiful rivers which use to run and emptying themselves;
In to bigger rivers like Athi and Tana.
Causing them to swell,swell,swell with waters reaching the river beds.
Have dried up.
Yes, gone,gone forever and forgotten.

Oh, Kenya, my beautiful country, my motherland,
What has become of you?
The flora and fauna you used to boast of, is now destroyed,
Gone, gone forever.
Oh my fellow Kenyans, my country men,
Can you stop cutting down trees and burning charcoal illegally,
Can you stop for a minute and think what kind of a future,
Your children and their generation will have?

Oh Kenya my beautiful country, my motherland,
Who robbed you of your natural resources? Is it not man?
He boast of farming near water catchment areas,
he boast of grazing in virgin forests and cutting down trees for timber,
But instead, nature is watching ready to revenge on him,
And this time with all it's might. Yes, no rain,no food,no animals,no forests, nothing;
Yes,I hereby quote Professor Wangari  Mathai once said;
"Nature is quite unforgiving, if you destroy it, it will destroy in return.
Watch out!, for that is what it is doing now......

What is the solution to this problem my dear Kenyans ?,
Respect nature, avoid illegal cutting down of trees,
Avoid farming near water catchment areas like Mau forest,
Stop overgrazing and avoid water and air pollution.
My fellow Kenyans, wake up, let's save our country Kenya,
Yes, let's save our motherland.
Yes, plant a lot of trees, let's practice the right farming methods.
Together, let's make Kenya better than the way it is now;
For the sake of the future generations.

Thank you. God bless you. MARGARET FAVOUR BLESSINGS.

GROWING DEEPER IN GODLY CHARACTER AS GOD'S CHILD INSTEAD OF EMBRACING CHARISMA (PART TWO) BY MARGARET FAVOUR BLESSINGS

margaret.nyambush@gmail.com GROWING DEEPER IN GODLY CHARACTER AS GOD'S CHILD INSTEAD OF EMBRACING CHARISMA (PART TWO) BY MARGARET FAVOUR BLESSINGS

by Margaret Favour Blessings

A man or a woman of Godly character lives a great legacy behind when they die. We all face similar temptations but we choose how to respond and react,either to go for the kill or consider the consequences of our actions.

HOW DO WE DEVELOP GODLY CHARACTER'S

1)  Fear of the Lord. (Proverbs 3:5-8)
The fear of the Lord is what will lead us to having a Godly character in us. To stand firm in Him. Let's have Godly standards as His beloved children.

 2) By hiding the word of God in our hearts all the times (Psalm 119:9-11). Let's be filled with the word of God in our hearts and do what it expects of us as His children.

3) Choices.
Developing our character is always a choice we make. We have character flaws, but each of us should make deliberate efforts to work on our characters. (Make bad choices). When we take shortcuts; they will cut us short instead and destroy us completely.

4) The choice of people whom we hang out with as friends. One writer said "Show me the friends and I will tell you who you are"...This is very true in our lives for light and darkness cannot walk together. Gets Godly Bible believing people. Partner with your fellow Christians.

5) Commitment and Dedication to God's work and His ways.
God is looking for people who will say" I stand to be counted on this worthwhile mission of living in integrity and winning souls for Him even if it means standing alone. Joshua challenged the children of Israel to choose whom to serve....but as for him and his family he they were dedicated to serve the Living GOD. Others examples includes JOSEPH and PHOTIPHAR'S WIFE, Daniel in the lion's den, Shadrack, Meshark and Abedinego. I really love the movie" The GLADIATOR"....It talks about this too.

Today, we have role models in our midst, men and women of GOD who walks daily in integrity e.g. world known neurosurgeon Ben CARSON, the late mother TERESSA e.t.c. My brothers and sisters let us be dedicated to things that are of noble cause in our lives and the lives of other people. Let's remember that aggravation and challenges that we normally go through as God's children is what forms the Godly characters in us. It reflects maturity in GOD and the faith that we have in Him. (Romans 5:3)...Don't be conformed in to the patterns of this world e.g., don't do drugs the will destroy you and your life in due season, don’t murder, fornicate, commit adultery, commit suicide e.g. because if you do so there will always be some consequences to be faced individually. Don't make decisions that are against GOD'S perfect will in you.

It is in this 21st century that we are witnessing on daily basis the degradation of moral standards among our youth and children and thus affecting family units. Yet, in decisive moments and times like this, it is always wise to pray for our families and nations as well. Weak family units translate into a weak nation and vice versa.

For those of you who have gone back to the world or backslidden...I have some good news for you today! God is a God of second chance!!!A righteous man may fall seven times but he rises up against the obstacles in his or her life. We should beware of our strengths. Be careful when we think you are strong in your faith...it can be our own doing sometimes. Always depend upon GOD even when you thing you are doing great salvation wise. Remember where we are strong is where we fail sometimes for devil knows this too well. Our strengths can become our weakness if we are not careful. We should always know GOD IS A HOLY GOD and we ought to walk in holiness as He is.

Remember that GODLY character in a man never dies. Character ensures the longevity of your career, vocation, ministry, family, and your whole self. Let us choose to have a Godly character in us and be filled with the fear of GOD which is the beginning of wisdom. Let's be Godly role models to others as we serve Christ in His vineyard. Have Godly character in you forever....AMEN

GOD BLESS YOU MIGHTILY.

MARGARET FAVOUR BLESSINGS.