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 A mature relationship is one in which we can talk, discuss our problems and find a way forward. But in order to have a mature relationship, reason must rule over emotions. Emotions are good but of we allow emotions to rule our relationships we will destroy them . Emotion has to be under the control of reason . Many people nowdays allow their emotions to rule over them. "If it feels good do it," is the motto of our time. To live life based on feelings is to be without self control. It would mean if I feel angry, I will act angry. If I feel like eating right now, I will eat right now, whatever I feel at the moment is what I will do. A life based on feeling is a miserable one. A man who live based on how he feels will destroy himself, his relationships and a woman who live based on how she feels will do the same . Our feelings fluctuate, our feelings are inconsistent. One moment you may feel happy and the next moment sad, feelings cannot be trusted, feeling can cloud our judgme

 By now many of you have probably heard the plight of a few millionaires who spent about 250 000 each to get into a submersible to visit the wreckage of the Titanic 🚢. The Titanic was a British passenger liner which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her first  voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. There was even a movie made about it. I know many of you probably saw the movie. When I used to watch movies, I saw it and it was how I  learned about it. The wreckage of the Titanic is at 12 000 feet below sea level, 😬 thats deep, very deep. About the length of 10 empire state building. To get another perspective on how deep the wreckage is at, a giant squid 🦑 goes about about 3000 feet and a sperm whale 🐋 about 4000 feet below sea level. 12 000 feet is very deep. A company named ocean gate offers trip to visit the Titanic for 250 000 thousands dollars a person. The co owner of the company, a millionaire and hi

 When God created man, He gave him a plant based diet. The animals are also ceeatures of God and were not meant to be eating. They were meant to be our friends and companions. But because of sin, God allowed us to eat animal flesh after the global flood had destroyed vegetation. God allowed us to eat flesh meat but with limitation. We could only eat clean meat like chicken 🐔, goats , sheeps etc.. check the Book of Leviticus chapter 11 for more details. Animals like pigs , crabs 🦀, shrimp  are not to be eaten according to the word of God.  Before the flood, man used to live for hundred of years. But after the flood  🌊 , our lifespan started to decrease drastically.  A study by Harvard researchers said " if you want to live longer, trade in some of the red meat in your diet for fish, nuts, whole grains, and other healthier protein sources."  The study was published in the Archives of internal Medicine. "It found that the risk of dying at an early age - from heart diseas

 Imagine you are an investor and as you walk by a certain neighborhood you see a messed up house , broken down and rejected . What would you do ? Well an experience investor will examine carefully the property and see if he can make a great profit and if he concludes that it is a valuable property , he will invest his money to purchase it, fix it up and then sell it at a greater price.  The value of something is determine by the price an investor , a buyer is willing to pay for it . Now we know the human race is of infinite value, we know each person , each human being is of infinite value. Why do I say that? The cost the greatest investor in the universe was willing to pay to purchase us, to redeem us was His own life. Jesus paid the price for your salvation with His own blood. You are of infinite value to God. God is a God of relationship and relationship is about investing. God created us from the dust of the ground, He invested many great things in us. He gave us intelligence, beau

Why do we have relationships ? What is the goal of having a relationship with anyone ? What do you look for in a relationship? These are some of the questions I will look into today and ponder on.  We are living in a day and age when long term relationships can be difficult to maintain . We go from friendship to friendship , from romantic relationship to romantic relationships and we are still dissatisfied , empty and frustrated. Could it be that we for the most part have a wrong understanding of what relationship is about?  Could it that our understanding of what friendship is has been corrupted? When ask what is friendship about ? The majority of people will say friendship is about having someone who cares for you , who help you in time of needs, some one who loves you for who you are, who can be relied on etc.. While the responses are good and true , they often time reveal a selfish attitude and it is one of the reasons why many people have trouble making or keeping friends. So basi

America is a nation in rapid moral decline and nowhere is this more evident than this past weekend when President Joe Biden hosted an LGBTQ+  event to celebrate homosexuality 🤦🏾‍♂️. How "a shining city on a hill " has fallen. America once a beacon of light to the rest of the world has become a sewer of moral stench 🤢, of moral corruptions. The president invited moral degenerates to come to the white house and put up the rainbow bow flag next to the American flag.  In inviting homosexuals to the white house, the president is shaking his fist in the face of God and promoting blatant rebellion against His rule. For God declared homosexuality to be an abomination and the sentence eternal death . One of the homosexual deviants invited by the president to the white house who is "transgender," a deluded man who pretends to be a woman and has spent thousands of dollars on medical procedures to look like a woman took a video of him exposing his fake silicon breasts at the

 Life is tough, life is difficult and the trials of life can be unbearable at times. Each and every single one of us have something we are  dealing with in this life. Sometimes you overcome one problem just to go to another and for some people life seems to give them no break, just problems after problems, suffering after suffering and sometimes we cry out in despair like the prophet Jeremiah in Jeremiah 20:14- 18 and say "cursed be the day I was born, let not the day where in my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee, making him very glad. May that man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew without compassion. The prophet continues," may he ( the man who bore the news of his birth) hear  an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon, because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother's 🤰🏾might have been my grave 💀." The prophet Jeremiah went to say in verse 18," why d

  Tyrants love to silence people and there is no greater tyrant in this world than the Devil himself. Tyrants fear the truth and there is no one more fearful of the truth than the evil one . Tyrants love the darkness of night, the darkness of falsehood and fear the light of day, the light of truth. A society, a church, a workplace,  a home, a friendship controlled by tyrants will be  one in which the truth is not allowed to be spoken. The truth is an enemy to tyrants, for the truth exposes their deceits and for this reason censorship is a major tool of tyrants to stifle the truth, and to promote lies . The spirit of tyranny is widespread in our world. Human beings by nature are tyrants, we always seek to control situations and even other people. In trying to control situations and other people we become angry at anyone who refuse to submit to our rules  and so we try to silence them. We try to silence those who speak the truth in our lives by throwing tempter tantrums. Getting angry an

  " Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18. What a time to be alived ! When evil is being celebrated in the open, when evil no longer hide itself in the closet. Evil has come out of it's shameful closet and is now pressing on the doors of every institution. Homosexuality, a wicked and shameful thing is now being celebrated, promoted at the highest levels of our society. A behavior that God hates is now being promoted as a wonderful alternative lifestyle and to make matters worse, the rainbow 🏳️‍🌈 has become the symbol of the LGBTQ movement 😯.  God set the rainbow in the sky to be reminder for the human race of His covenant with us. God promised to never again destroy the earth with a flood. The Lord had flooded the whole earth with a flood because of the great wickedness of man, saving only 8 people, Noah and his family. The Lord caused it to rain for 40 days and night upon the earth and drowned all those who had refused His c

  God is supreme, Sovereign and absolute.  All things are under His control and He is  working all things according to His eternal plans. The Lord does His will in heaven above and on the earth beneath, the heavens are the work of His hands and the earth His footstool.  The Lord is great in power and infinite in wisdom. Who can fight against the Lord 🤔? Who can frustrate His will, His purposes 🤔?  This is where me and you come in, this is where our frustration come in. The earth is in rebellion against God, the all powerful, all wise One and the result is a life of frustration for all who choose to go against their Creator . All of us have experienced frustration in life. According to the dictionary definition, "frustration is the feeling of being upset or annoyed, especially because of inability to change or achieve something. " This is all of us. Many of us try to make changes in our lives but find ourselves unable to do so. If you never experience frustration then you ar

 This world is evil ! This world is full of pain and sufferings! I didn't have to tell you the world is evil for you to know. Your own experiences have revealed to you the evils of the world. Everywhere we look 👀, we see brokenness, pain and cruelty. Why is the world so evil ? Is it because of the Devil ? Is it because of terrorists? Is it because of evil politicians? Is it because of evil men and women? Is it because of poverty ? Is it because of greed ? Is it because of lack of money, despair, hatred etc..🤔? While all these play a part in making this world a place of misery, ruin and despair, they are not only the cause. The reason for the widespread evil in the world is me and you 😮?  Me and you are the reason for the evils in the world. Why you ask? "Ric, how can you say such foolishness 😤? I am not evil, I am a good person." "Ric, I  normally agree with you, but with this one I can't,  I just can't. " I am a good person and not responsible in an