Never give up on motherhood

July 3, 2008

I’m a mom.

Many of you are…and one of the things I’ve learned in motherhood is that it’s totally unpredictable.

You never know what to expect or what should happen next.

Try as we may to set routines and schedules, life happens..and sometimes things don’t go as planned. That’s just the way of life.

Children have expectations that we sometimes don’t meet– either because we will not to, or because we simply can’t even if we wanted to. Other times we have expectations of our children that prove futile in the end.

Along the way in this journey of motherhood, God is constantly revealing to us little by little His master plan for moms. Parents are children’s crown, and until they are old enough to make their own decisions they need the blessing of mom and dad’s anointing and direction.

Let us not give up or get weary in our mothering. One day our children will rise up and call us blessed.

But until then, keep being faithful. Keep setting your ground rules. Continue to discipline in love.

Most of all, always disciple your children through prayer and patience.

They are your children for life, but they won’t always be children for life.

One day, if you are faithful, they will rise up and call you Blessed.

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Written by Demetria Zinga · Filed Under Biblical Motherhood

MOTHERHOOD

April 5, 2008

Hello! How has it been having to care for, mentor, train and support your children as they grow?

You can agree with me that though it is not an impossible task, it is all the same a great one.

I coordinate CARE Ministry, the outreach arm of the church I belong to, House on the Rock the Refuge.

Since last year, we have been undertaking a weekly sponsored breakfast outreach for orphans in Abuja Children’s Home.

Recently, we lost a dear friend who also had an orphanage at some other place and her daughter was brought to this orphanage where we had our weekly breakfast. After about two to three weeks, this little girl of about two years began to feel the absence of her mother. Read more

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MOTHERHOOD

April 5, 2008

Hello!

How has it been having to care for, mentor, train and support your children as they grow?

You can agree with me that though it is not an impossible task, it is all the same a great one. I coordinate CARE Ministry, the outreach arm of the church I belong to, House on the Rock the Refuge.

Since last year, we have been undertaking a weekly sponsored breakfast outreach for orphans in Abuja Children’s Home. Recently, we lost a dear friend who also had an orphanage at some other place and her daughter was brought to this orphanage where we had our weekly breakfast.
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Introducing Biblical Motherhood Resident Expert

March 30, 2008

Destiny Chioma. U. Ezenwa-Ogbonna, a graduate of Banking & Finance is a career consultant is the director of LIFE BUILDERS CAREER CENTRE, an arm of Destiny and Purpose Ministry Inc, a ministry whose mission is to equip people for God’s Purpose and Assignment.

A minister, writer and businesswoman, she directs the affairs of LIFE BUILDERS CAREER CENTRE, an institute for Word-based career-focused education for people of all ages and races starting from Africa whose mission is to equip people to choose the best career suited for God’s Purpose and Assignment for them.

She has published three books, ‘Ministering to the widow,’ ‘Career: key to your fulfilment in life,’ ‘ After God in my finance’ and a monthly magazine LIFE BUILDERS. Presently, she has written over 80 manuscripts yet to be published into books.

She and her husband and partner in ministry, Ezenwa and two lovely children, Triumph Moses (12) and Treasure Christabel (8) live in Abuja, Nigeria.

2002 to 2004, she was the North –Central zonal coordinator of one of the largest student outreach in Nigerian Universities. On 3^rd

2006 to date – the Head of CARE Ministry in her church, House on the Rock the Refuge, Abuja; a ministry committed to caring for people within and outside the church. May 2007 to date she has been coordinating breakfast for 70 children and staff of an orphanage, ABUJA CHILDREN’S HOME.

March 2008 (Mothers’ Day in Nigeria) she received the NAOMI Award for resilience and sacrifice in respect of family upkeep and service to the needy.

Contact

P. Box 5128 Area 10, Garki Abuja (FCT), Nigeria

(234) 08034517607, 08033165019, 09-7806510

Email: destinyiseternity@yahoo.co.uk

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Written by Demetria Zinga · Filed Under Biblical Motherhood

The milk of the Word

March 28, 2008

Today as I was rocking my newborn to sleep, she cried and fussed and was cranky…and for a while, although I knew she was hungry, she wouldn’t drink her milk.

I’ve been nursing little Zoe since day 1 and knew that she wasn’t having a latch-on problem, but just an inability to think clearly about taking the breast at the moment because she was so tired.

IN order to calm her down, I began to sing a little lullaby that popped into my head. Looking into her eyes as I rocked her in the glider, I sang:

“Go to sleep…I know you’re sleepy. Just have a little milk and go to sleep.”

Over and over again I sung this verse to her, and as I sang, the Lord reminded me of how that as Christians, newly born again in the Body of Christ, we start off with the “milk of God’s Word”. Paul talks about this in the Epistles. When we are baby Christians, we cannot yet digest the full course meat of the Word, but we can take the milk, and that is all the nourishment we need from day to day until we are older, just like the newborn baby.

But sometimes the trials of life get to us and we become miserable and cranky, sometimes depressed. We cry and become anxious. Our Heavenly Father then precedes to rock us in the glider of His Word and feed us the “milk of His Word”. As I sang the verses, “…just have a little milk and go to sleep”, I was reminded that our Heavenly Father wants us drink from His Word and rest.

When the trials of life become too much for us to bear, we can find rest in the Word of God. Our Father will feed us and rock us into a peaceful haven of safety and rest as we cast our anxieties on Him. He does care for us, you know!

So, if you are a newbie Christian, and even if you consider yourself an “old trooper” in the Kingdom…don’t ever forget that God’s loving arms are available for a warm embrace and the milk of His word is ready for the proper nourishment we need in those delicate times.