Well, I missed the American Christmas and New Year; but above all, I missed my love, my Berhan and my lovely kids.
Of course, I also missed each and every one of you, my Facebook fans!
Yes, I’m in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I don’t want to talk about Addis’ gorgeous weather because I don’t want to hurt some people who are, as we speak, dealing with snow.
Ethiopia might be the poorest country in the world, there is Continue reading His Banner Over Me
To all of you, our Appeal for Purity friends and families, have a wonderful new 2015!!!
May the LORD Jesus Christ take 2015 for His glory!!!
May 2015 be His stage to show who He is!!!
We thank each of you for your prayers and supports throughout the past 2014! We believe that Appeal For Purity (A4P) ministry has been a blessing in your life. May every praise, honor and glory be to the LORD Jesus Christ!
May God bless you and yours! ///
We, at Appeal For Purity, are sure that you guys are aware of Modesty Competition of this year, right? If you came to this page recently and/or not aware of it yet, oh, yes we are doing Appeal For Purity’s very first time modesty competition called “The Esther’s Like Modesty.” And we are so excited about it!
We are now working on to let all of you take part in voting to the one girl to win the title, “Queen of Modesty.” She will receive cash prize of $500!
We also are so excited to announce this additional news:
Continue reading Modesty Competition: Final Round – Stay Tuned!
Turn-A-Round, the new magazine of A4P ministry is released!
Cover and back pages Continue reading Turn-A-Round
Today is a new “today”. It didn’t come before. It won’t come again. Today is a unique day.
God’s mercy is new today, everyday and certainly today, Sunday. Aren’t you excited about the fact that your LORD adds this unique day in your age? I’m!
So let’s go today to the house of worship to give thanks, praises and glories to our God together with brothers and sisters in Christ! ///
I believe with all my heart that God has some sense of humor.
Most Bible scholars also share this view too. I don’t think God is a mean looking old man, with a rod on His hand. I believe He is a fun God to be with; and I believe He loves making things fun so that we enjoy life to the fullest.
Some of the stories I read in the Bible are very funny, at least for me.
When it comes to praying to God to look “marvelously spiritual,” I was very good at it. And God usually answers them all. Continue reading Remember: God Answers our Prayers!
If it has been long since you laughed at yourself or somebody else, I sure invite you to come to my house and take one of the Banko’s with you for a week. Don’t worry, I won’t charge you.
These people know how to crack up even the most serious person you can ever find.
You see, I spend most of my time dealing with very serious life issues. So, it is sometimes hard for me to smile, let alone laugh.
But God is good all the time. He blessed me with these funny families who know how to crack me up. You have no idea how funny my Berhan is and the kids are picking up from him very well. They usually make my day! Like yesterday! Continue reading The Airplane is from God; the airport is from us!
I am sure you all have heard about the 18 year-old African American, Michael Brown, from Ferguson, Missouri, who was killed by an Officer Darren Wilson, on Aug. 09, 2014.
I cried when I first heard the news and asked myself this question: “If Michael was my son, and if I happened to be at the scene before Michael hit the ground, what would I say to Officer Wilson?”
It didn’t take me too long to come up with an answer because I’m a mother of two young handsome black boys.
While my tears were rolling down my face, I said to myself, Continue reading “Hands up! Don’t shoot!”
I always try to pray for our kids before they go to bed. My little one is the one who reminds me if I forget.
Yes, I sometimes forget about it and sometimes, well, I purposely forget it if I’m very tired or grouchy.
Yesterday night, while I was devouring one book (I will tell you about it when I finish it), my little one came and said, “Come and pray for us.” So, I first went to my daughter’s room. She is fourteen now and she got rid of all the night-lights. Big girls don’t need night-lights. Hooray! Continue reading Prayer Request
Do you know the meaning of the word: “imposter?”
It means: a person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name.
The one word that is very close to the word impostor is masquerade. And the word masquerade is defined as: false outward show; disguise.
A masquerade or an imposter leads a double life. He may look from the outside as someone who is a serious servant of God who doesn’t compromise but in his/her private life, he/she leads a sinful life.
Do you know if a person chooses to be an “imposter” he/she can get to the point where nobody can help him/her?
If for example a husband who is an imposter has a marriage problem and goes to marriage counseling, he presents himself to the counselor as someone who is very spiritual. And the counselor looks at his wife with a suspicious look that says, “Why are you complaining about this kind and spiritual man?”
Wow! Do you know that nobody can help an imposter, not even God? Nobody! Until he/she comes to his/her senses and says to him/herself, “Enough of this life,” he/she lives in darkness. It doesn’t matter if he/she goes to the church and gets involved in a ministry; he/she lives in darkness.
Do you know a big imposter? You guessed it! It is the devil! Listen what the Bible says:
“For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.” 2 Corinthians 11:13-15
Who are we lying to when we masquerade and impose? To no one but ourselves!
Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
That means God knows who we really are and other people will eventually come to know who we really are. So when we impose, we pretty much lying to nobody but to ourselves. Think about it!
Let’s be true to ourselves, others and God because that is where we find our healing. ///