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  • In your struggle with sexual impurity, isn’t it time? Sure, fighting back will be hard. It is for everyone. You might take a beating at first. Your sin might humble you. But how much do you want that victory? Your life is under a withering barrage of machine-gun sexuality that rakes the landscape mercilessly. Right… Read more

  • You stand before an important battle. You’ve decided that the slavery of sexual sin isn’t worth your love of sexual sin. You’re committed to removing every hint of it. But how?Your maleness looms as your own worse enemy. You got into this mess by being male; you’ll get out by being a man. What will… Read more

  • Do you know that being male is an enough cause for the sexual prevalence among men? One, men are rebellious in nature. When Paul explained to Timothy that “Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.” (1 Timothy 2:14), he was noting that Adam wasn’t being… Read more

  • In the last article, we looked at how mixing standards can get us in the wrong. Today, we continue that conversation and we look at how mere excellence can affect our purity. Tolerating mixed standards in other areas of our lives can lead to us mixing the standards of sexual purity. Let’s us ask ourselves… Read more

  • I am excited to be back. It has been quite a break..almost two weeks or even more. I am really excited we’re on this series because it’s one that touches on my personal life. Having been a slave to pornography, I am really grateful to God that He was able to get me out of… Read more

  • I am so excited we’re starting a new series within this new month. I have a confession to make. I have tried writing this article for a whole week now and I can’t seem to get it right and even as I post it today, I felt it is too sketchy and I have not… Read more

  • NEXT UP!

    Hello fam! I am honored to be walking this journey with you. I never thought that by sharing what God has been teaching me from His Word and from other books would be received this warmly. Thank you so walking with me. So what’s next? We’ve just concluded a nine part series of what I… Read more

  • HOW TO DATE.

    When your goal in dating is finding someone to marry, you should go about dating in away that helps you accomplish that goal. The whole point, in other words, is to get to know the person well enough to make a decision:either yes, we should get married, or no, we should not. Some people call… Read more

  • READY TO DATE?

    If you have read my previous eight posts, I have taken time to discuss the causes of unsuccessful dating in our times. ( If you haven’t, kindly spare time and have a look at them). If you have to get dating right, then you have to distance yourself from the mentioned causes. You could be… Read more

  • If your definition of “the one” is that one and only person who was created and is perfect for you, then I am sorry. That person doesn’t exist. Fact is, there are a number ofpeople who could make a good spouse for you, and you for them. In a world of approximately 7B people, anyone… Read more

  • Single people often see marriage as this end-game accomplishment. They think, once you get married, you’re done. You’re complete. You’ve fixed all the problems of singleness. Except you haven’t. Married people have just as many problems as single people. God’s Word actually promises that we’ll have problems: 1 Corinthians 7:28 says that “those who marry… Read more

  • One complaint particularly from single Christian women, is that they never get asked out on a date. They may be great, godly women, and know some great, godly guys, but then those guys never make a move to ask anyone out. Guys it’s one thing to not date because you’re not yet ready for marriage.… Read more

  • Love is more of an action and a commitment than it is a feeling. You can never really base your relationship on a feeling. Feelings change. You can feel in love with someone today and tomorrow you have feelings for another. God’s Word talks more about love as an action, not a feeling. For example,… Read more

  • Living together before marriage is the ultimate in the “try before you buy” mindset, and it’s become so common and so ingrained that it deserves special mention. Depending on which statistic you look at, about two-thirds of young adults now live together before marriage. What would have been a foreign concept a couple of generations… Read more

  • Our culture’s acceptance of premarital sex has caused more problems pain in dating and marriages today than we could have imagined. The idea that it is okay, or even recommended, for people to have sex outside ofmarriage is a very recent strange change. In the Bible, there was supposed to be no hint of premarital… Read more

  • 2. FOCUSING ON THE PHYSICAL. In dating, physical beauty is typically the biggest thing people look for. Right? While that makes a little sense, you must remember you’re choosing life partner. If your goal in dating is marriage, then you want to picksomeone who will be really good at marriage. How someone looksis never a… Read more

  • Hello my WordPress Family. In the next five or more posts, I want to focus on the factors that contribute to the modern version of dating becoming unsuccessful. Let’s learn together. 1. SPORT DATING OR DATING FOR FUN. This can also be referred to as recreational dating. The main reason as to why we date… Read more

  • DEAR YOUNG MEN,

    Let’s get a bit raw, real and Godly! Dear young men, don’t let your life’s direction be controlled by your erection. Harness your hormones bro! Keep them in check! Don’t compromise to enjoy a few seconds of temporal pleasure and trade all that for a long lasting God ordained pleasure in marriage. Think using your… Read more

  • Gen 2:18The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper SUITABLE for him.” (NIV) Genesis 2:18[18]Now the Lord God said, It is not good (sufficient, satisfactory) that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper MEET (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him. (AMP)… Read more

  • If the partner you’re dating is not actively helping you to be like Christ, he/she will not do it when you’re married. Do not be in a hurry to get married that you overlook important elements of a relationship such as faith and character of a person during the dating period. Why settle for less?… Read more

  • Did you know there’s a big difference between being a beautiful lady and being a pretty girl? Here’s my take: Being pretty is how God created a girl but being beautiful is what a girl made out of herself. Who you are is God’s gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift… Read more

  • As You Love Yourself.

    A good relationship with another person begins with having a good relationship with yourself.A good relationship with yourself is born out of having a good relationship with God.God shows you how to love you, so you can love your neighbour as you love yourself. If you don’t love yourself, you can’t love your neighbour. God… Read more

  • A Princess Must Prepare. When you picture the perfect man for you, what is your prince like? Do you see a man devoted to God? A man of character-teachable, loyal, faithful, gentle, and kind? What kind of woman do you think this godly man desires to marry-a shallow woman or a woman full of charm… Read more

  • AWESOME BLOGGER AWARD.

    I really wasn’t expecting this but I want to thank https://doriskoki.wordpress.com for the nomination across these three categories. It is such an honor! My blogging story is quite crazy. I had began other two blogging accounts with WordPress but I didn’t really follow up with them. When I began Penzi, I deleted them and decided… Read more

  • Here’s how God loves us. His love is so reckless. You have messed in the past and you think God is done with you but guess what, He gives you a second chance to rewrite your story. God desires to take you back to the beginning, because His plans far outreach your plans. His design… Read more

  • BURIED OR PLANTED?

    God doesn’t cut us to kill us but to heal us. It’s the difference between experiencing the blade of a dagger in a back-alley attack and the blade of a scalpel in an operating room. The pain of recovery is so intense after an operation because the body responds the same as if it had… Read more

  • YOU’RE NOT A MISTAKE.

    Have you ever felt like you were a mistake? Have your parents told you they wished you had never been born? Are you a child whose parents have told you: “I wish you would have died when you were a baby”? You may have come into this world as the result of a rape. Your… Read more

  • Hello my WordPress fam. My good friend Keith has a session with us who are single and looking forward to that time when we will get a mate. Join us at 5:45pm Kenyan time (EAT) via zoom as we get to discuss on this very important issue Here’s his message for us. Dear King In… Read more

  • CHASE GOD FIRST.

    We live in a world that has more and more relationships andless and less love, more and more sex and less and less intimacy-Mike Todd. People are together for all the wrong reasons in our age. The pop culture has given us this ideology of hit and run kind of situationships where dating, sex and… Read more

  • Never force a relationship to work. The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes. What’s meant for you will fit into you. What’s right fits. When you go into a shoe shop you only settle on what suits you.. Treat relationships that way. Spend time knowing God and yourself so… Read more

  • A key thing to note is that narcissists are predictable. Once you figure a person is a narcissist, you can always figure out what he will do and is capable of doing. A relationship with a narcissist is the kind of “Beauty and the Beast” relationship. Its full of fantasy. The beast never changes, really.… Read more

  • Most people dating the narcissist assume the CARETAKER ROLE with or without them knowing. This means that you play the role of making this relationship work and you like ‘baby sit’ this narcissist. You try please them and get the best for them but to the narcissist, this life is all about them. Therefore it… Read more

  • Narcissism simply defined is selfishness, involving a sense of entitlement, a lack of empathy, and a need for admiration, as characterizing a personality type. We have commonly come across people with this trait in our families, society in our relationships. It could be even you. Among the characteristics of narcissistic persons include: An increased sense… Read more

  • You probably have heard of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. He states his order or level of needs that need to be met to make life conducive from the most basic at the bottom of the pyramid. Using that same illustration, here’s a pyramid for the hierarchy of our dating relationships.☝🏿 At the bottom of the… Read more

  • Dear Future Husband.

    “What a sad thought it is, that some of us will surrender and settle down long before we have met the person we are supposed to love” Beau Taplin I write this so I will not flow with the distractions of anyone who may come wrapped up in a cloth like yours but not yours.I… Read more

  • In dating, your property is your own soul and that is what boundaries seek to protect. Boundaries surround the life God has given you to maintain and mature, so that you can become the person He created you to be. Here are some of the contents of your self that boundaries define and protect. 1.Your… Read more

  • Boundaries in relationships are very important. A boundary is a property line. Just as a physical fence marks out where your yard ends and your neighbor’sbegins, a personal boundary distinguishes what is your emotionalor personal property, and what belongs to someone else. Youcan’t see your own boundary. However, you can tell it is therewhen someone… Read more

  • I cannot really overemphasize the fact that a thriving relationship with God is the best asset you can bring into your dating relationship. If your walk with God is thriving, then you will be able to relate healthily with people and especially your dates in this context. Why so? Your relationship with God will dictate… Read more

  • Some of us have this notion that we have to be in a relationship to be happy. While I don’t rule out that relationships indeed have a joy in them, they should never be our primary source of Joy. God is and must be our primary source of Joy. Whenever you find that you your… Read more

  • As soon as there is any kind of deception in your relationship, stop everything. The whole thing is a farce, and you should not go any further until yousettle the issue of deception. At that point, that is the most important thing you ought to work on. Trust is everything in a relationship, and when… Read more

  • Matthew 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (KJV) The best place to find a godly person is on the road to God’s Kingdom. When looking for the person,look for him/her wherever the Spirit of God is. Why? In God’s scheme, wefind… Read more

  • HOW FAR IS TOO FAR?

    We’ve often found ourselves asking that question right? “Can we kiss? Can we cuddle? For how long can we hug? Can s/he sleep over?” These are some of the questions we often try to use as a bargain with sin. “I promise we will only kiss. No sex. I promise.” Is that not what we… Read more

  • BE THE ONE

    Almost every person has a list of the things he or she would want in their mate but most people are not even half of what they are looking for. Everybody seems to be looking for a service nobody is offering. Would you marry you? Are you the person whom the one you’re looking for… Read more

  • SEXUAL PURITY

    The world has many false ideas about the Christian and sex and unfortunately some Christians have these notions embedded in their belief system. The standard for the believer is to reserve sex for the marriage bed between one man and one woman. This may seem an archaic move for many contemporary people, but we must… Read more

  • A question many professing believers ask is Is it okay for me to date or marry an unbeliever? The answer may seem to obvious to many mature followers of Jesus, but for many growing believers, this question ought to be answered well for them to understand why the answer is No. Often there is a… Read more

  • Falling in love is as a result of expended time, conversations and emotions with someone of the opposite sex. The general anatomy of an Emotional Affair is this: Exclusive and consistent energy spent with someone else of the opposite sex will create a connection between the two of you. If this is not a person… Read more

  • As opposed to the power based masculinity which states that , The more power you have the more masculine you are, What the world needs right now is men who are led by values. Power based masculinity is based on the 3G’s; Girls, Gold and Glory but Value Based Masculinity is based on God who… Read more

  • The message of purity is primarily for the believer not the unbeliever. We must pursue purity for the sake of the gospel. The gospel is not a pile up of more morality. It is to turn away from sin and follow Jesus and it demands spiritual fruit and not religious nuts. The pursuit of purity… Read more

  • A man or woman who is not accountable is dangerous. Marrying a man or woman who is not accountable is relational suicide. The charm of the enemy is made for the lone rangers. Men and women who get into cycles of moral degeneration often have superficial friendships with fellow men and women. Accountability helps one… Read more

  • Roots and Flowers

    Committing to love and overcoming the temporary feelings is not enough. Your commitment needs the resolve to withstand the waves of feelings if you’re committed to something solid. If you get attracted to a woman’s beauty, you will lose it when another attractive woman comes your way. If you commit to a man’s bank account,… Read more

  • THE LOVE GENESIS

    Have you ever imagined how beautiful and successful the love story of Adam and Eve was? It was a successful one because it had one person at the centre of it all- God.If we want to get the basics of marrying well right, we must begin with the beginning of everything – the Creator God.… Read more

  • WHAT IS A SOUL TIE?

    The Bible speaks of what is today known as soul ties. In the Bible, it doesn’t use the word soul tie, but it speaks of them when it talks about souls being knit together, becoming one flesh, etc. A soul tie can serve many functions, but in it’s simplest form, it ties two souls together… Read more

  • In order to attract “The One” we must be prepare for/to love and ready for them. What expectations do you have on love? In order to attract what you want, you need to be that. We often have those huge well written lists of who or how we want our mates to look like but… Read more

  • Our soulmates seldom appeal to our personality—our ego. That’s why they are called soulmates rather than egomates. —Carolyn G. Miller, Soulmates In his book Soul Mates, author Thomas Moore defines a soul mate as _“…someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the… Read more

  • Love for Love’s Sake

    When human relationships fail … they fail because they were entered into for the wrong reason. One reason that so many relationships fail is that we are going into them for reasons that can’t sustain us. We’re afraid to be alone. We want someone to give us what our parents did not. We are hoping… Read more

  • God is a Match Maker.

    Isn’t amazing and exciting that God first appeared on the scene of human history in the role of a matchmaker? (Gen 2:22) What human mind can fathom the depth of love and joy that filled the heart of the great Creator as He united the man and woman in the first marriage ceremony between Adam… Read more

  • One, among many, reasons why we don’t pursue the mission of God is because we have made marriage an end goal. Inasmuch as we desire marriage, we must recognize it is not the ultimate goal of life. Marriage is a good and noble union that men and women should pursue. In fact it is one… Read more

  • It was hard to let you go It was sad to see you off I don’t understand why We couldn’t be You were my lover You were my girl. I remember our vows To each other By the lake. The birds chirped As they sang to Our love. The breeze whispered Our mutual feelings In… Read more

  • You have heard of the notion that God has a specific individual that you will marry. That God has already chosen that one mate, preserved for you and whom you will marry, right? However, you will notice as you read Genesis that the true pattern of God is that God presented the woman to the… Read more

  • When God created Adam, He gave the man seven gifts that fulfilled his singleness and made him a complete individual. It is this gifts that made him effective in his work. These are the same gifts that we are to follow if we are to become effective singles. _1. Image._ God’s first gift to us… Read more

  • We are all aware of the saying that a wife’s money is hers alone and the husband’s is theirs, right? I strongly believe that this is a misplaced thought and especially in our times. Therefore, before getting into marriage, it is very important that you and your mate get a well laid out financial plan.… Read more

  • In your financial planning, have three categories, namely the Savings, the Spending and the Sharing. Why the three categories? There are essentially only three things you can do with money. You can save it, you can give it away, or you can spend it. Deciding the percentage that you will allocate to each of these… Read more

  • THE GATEWAY TO MARRIAGE.

    God has established a high standard for marriage but this does not mean it is unattainable. There is one condition of unique importance, which stands like a gateway at the threshold of the life God has prepared for His people. All who would enter into His plan for their lives must pass through this gateway.… Read more

  • There is a difference between being single and being unmarried. Most unmarried people consider themselves single. It is singleness that makes a marriage so successful. The more single you and your mate become become, the more your marriage improves. The average person has never been single, even though he or she may be unmarried or… Read more

  • Sex and the Marriage Bed

    Does it not worry you that your kid will grow up or is already growing up knowing sex before marriage is a kawaida thing? A norm? Alot of misconceptions have come up concerning sex in the recent past and this is negatively affecting our teens and youth! We need to say it o’er and o’er… Read more

  • The Love Tragedy.

    Quoting pastor Marion, “We live in a generation that thinks its knows so much about love but in the real sense knows nothing about it.” Truth be told, we live in a generation that shows so much love outwards yet experiences little of it. The question that therefore begs is, “Where did we go wrong?”… Read more

  • INTIMACY IN DATING.

    What every relationship should be working towards is developing intimacy. This takes time to groom and to grow. Most people however mistake intimacy for sex. Intimacy is not sex. Intimacy is not an act either. It is a state of existence in which both partners in a relationship trust the other more and more with… Read more

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