Dear Husband,
A woman does not decide to be your wife and choose to be faithful because you are Mr. Perfect. She is faithful because she is a woman of character.
She chooses you every day because she honours her vows, even on the days you are difficult to love. She protects your home because that is the kind of woman she decided to become, it's not because you have never given her reasons to do otherwise.
But don't mistake her character for a reason to become careless.
Don't assume that because she is not the type to cheat, she no longer needs your affection and don't believe that because she stays, she no longer needs to be pursued.
A woman can remain loyal while slowly withdrawing her heart.
Nature does not tolerate empty spaces. If you stop investing in your marriage, she may not seek another man, as a lot of people are quick to think, but she will find somewhere else to pour herself. She may bury herself in work, lose herself in motherhood, devote herself to church or build a life where you are no longer at the centre of her joy.
One day, you may wake up to realise that she is still your wife, but no longer your closest companion.
Don't let it get that far. It doesn't have to.
Listen when she speaks, especially when her words make you uncomfortable. Notice the sacrifices she no longer mentions. Thank her for the things that have become so normal you barely see them anymore.
Hold her hand for no reason. Laugh with her. Pray with her. Date her long after the wedding. Make memories she will still smile about twenty years from now.
Become the safest place she knows.
A loyal wife is one of God's greatest gifts to a man, but even the strongest marriages do not thrive on loyalty alone.
Strong marriages thrive on intentional love, mutual honour, daily kindness and the decision to keep choosing each other every single day.
Meet her loyalty with your own.
Meet her commitment with presence.
Meet her love with firm leadership that serves, not one that controls.
Do that consistently, and your marriage will become a place where two imperfect people make each other feel secure in a world that offers very little certainty.
Something many people spend a lifetime searching for.
Have an amazing Sunday.
Three major things that the Nigerian government did to the Igbos after the Civil War.
1. The ยฃ20 policy.
This completely eroded their wealth and made them poorer, at the time.
2. The indigenization decree.
The Nigerian enterprise promotion decree forced foreign owned companies to sell shares to Nigerians. Hence, the Igbos could not participate in buying shares because they had become poorer due to the ยฃ20 policy.
3. The abandoned property Act.
Properties that were owned by Igbos pre-civil war that were abandoned, especially in places like Port Harcourt and Lagos, were confiscated and declared abandoned. This deprived the Igbos of real estate wealth.
56 years later, despite all that happened, the Igbos have risen to enviable heights, and the country cannot survive without them.
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I told my niece I'd buy her an iPhone if she scored 300 and above in JAMB.
She's 17, wants to study Medicine, and has been borrowing her mum's phone to read past questions since January.
We made the deal in February. Handshake and everything.
Last week, her result dropped.
I was born with sickle cell disease.
I had Crisis after crisis, constant pain, multiple organ damage by age 28. Doctors said I wouldnโt see 35.
During one brutal episode, I prayed like never before while hooked up to morphine. The pain vanished overnight.
Follow up tests showed my hemoglobin was normal. No sickle cells. Geneticists ran every test, markers for the disease had disappeared. I havenโt had a crisis in 4 years.
My hematologist calls me the walking miracle file.
You have to believe that there is God.
@AdageorgeA This same picture have been recycled all over facebook by different people.
I even made a post about it talking about the dangers of healthcare professionals not labelling tablets by their when dispensed to patients.
The controversy surrounding this video is a function of our poor theology in this part of the world.
People cannot literally understand why someone will still die after being prayed for by a pastor!
We have projected the gospel of convenience for too long; the idea of a god that does everything as we want and not according to his perfect will.
Either we die or live, we are the Lords! A man who dies in the Lord did not loose anything! Death is nothing! Cancer is nothing! Sickness is nothing! Christ is everything!
If this prayer helped him to go through his difficult season with grace and hope, that would have been sufficient!
Brethren, Christ is our everything! We are not disadvantaged! He is always faithful, always!
No be my mutual suppose ask this question sha.
You said you needed breakfast inspo Abi? I came through with 20 breakfast inspo from me to you.
Check each slide for details.
Youโre welcome.