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I got married to my husband Jesse on 8th November 2014. On Monday this week we celebrated 7 years in marriage. As I contemplated what I should write in this week’s blog, my friend Mary suggested that I share seven lessons from my seven years in marriage. And so, here they are… A healthy and thriving marriage takes work. A healthy body requires you to eat right and exercise regularly. A thriving career or business requires you to keep learning and improving and doing your best to get good results. A good marriage equally takes work. Over the years I...

This week, let’s take six lessons from Matthew 6. This is a life changing chapter (like all of scripture) in which God desires to change the way that we do things. The ways of God are so different from the ways of man, but God always knows best and desires that we will live our very best. Let’s dive in. When you do good, do it in secret. V1a It is so tempting to want others to see our good deeds and applaud us. When our good goes unnoticed we can even go so far to let others know how...

I became a Christian, in the true sense of the word, in my first year at the University in 2008. Much as I had grown up in a Christian home, gone to Christian schools and owned a Bible, I had never accepted Christ as both Lord and Saviour. I made that decision once and for all after reading The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. If you have not read the book, it is life changing and I highly recommend it. When I became a Christian, there are things that I believed about being a believer in Christ that were...

Trusting God should be the easiest thing to do because it takes the pressure off ourselves. Instead it turns out to be the most difficult thing to do because our human nature pulls us to want to take charge, to do things by ourselves. Should we trust God? Can we depend on Him completely? Can we entrust our lives and all we possess to His care? Let’s look at 5 reasons why we should trust God. God’s unchanging nature. The Bible says in Hebrews 13:8 that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. He is always good,...

A thriving relationship with God is the recipe for a great life. God as our creator knows how best we ought to live and has laid it out for us well in His Word, as we communicate with Him in prayer and while we fellowship with other believers. Let’s have a deeper look into these three ways we can cultivate a deeper relationship with God and feel connected to Him throughout our day. Prayer is simply communicating with God; talking to Him and listening to Him. You can talk to Him silently or out loud. You can talk to God...