Showing posts with label Pinky Promise. Show all posts
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Your Purity is so Important

As I write this blog I am thinking about my 15 year old sister, who like me is growing up in a world where the culture of WHOREDOM (please click and watch) has taken supreme. What is whoredom? Whoredom is a cultural phenomenon where females young and old are having pre-marital sex left and right not only because they can't consume themselves to lust to one guy they may marry, but also because we have single and married females where sexual partners exceed more than one; a culture where the dressing of women is intentionally made to exude outright sex appeal not to cover our bodies up to God's glory; a culture were every avenue of media is saturated with sexual content. Even though it is socially accepted to kiss many toads before you find your prince this was never what God intended. 

Let's look at the female anatomy. Every female is born with a foreskin over her vaginal area. This was no accident and this was created by God. This identifies to us that sexual intercourse for a female is very personal, intimate, and chaste. When she chooses to engage in sexual intercourse that foreskin is broken forever. Why is purity an issue God cares very much about? He cares because he understands things like soul ties that can happen when sex is done pre-maturely. What is a soul tie? A soul tie is two souls tied together by the spirit. So if you don't end up staying with the person you've given your body to, then emotional you are bound to that person.  
When sex is done based on feelings, unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases can happen. 

Keeping your purity up until marriage goes against everything our culture teaches, I understand. In public schools we are told having sex is our innate nature so to not experience the consequences that come with it, they teach us to masturbate and or have sex with condoms. But we must understand the best way to understand the importance of PURITY, the best way to enjoy sexual relations is to consult the maker of us all, God. In the word of God it helps us understand how we are able to stay sexually pure and why we are to stay pure.

Psalm 119:9 
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. 

To keep your purity in a culture like this you must read and meditate on the Bible, the only book full of wisdom upon wisdom on purity, sex, and much more. It reveals the truth about you and helps you navigate through this life. 


Our lives were made to show reverence to God. In 
1st Thessalonians 4:3-5 it reads


For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.

What is sexual immorality? It's having sex outside of marriage and when married cheating on your spouse. 

Nowhere in the bible, which is the guide book to my life and should be of yours does it say it's ok to have sex with multiple people before you get married, which is often the case in society today. It actually says in 
Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

God will judge the females and males who choose to not listen and decided to be sexual immoral. This means your eternal destiny is in hell.

So when is your purity able to be broken? In marriage. What is marriage? 
It is between a male and a female.  

In 1st Corinthians 7:3-5 it reads

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

To the GOOD NEWS finally! You need to know you are not alone in this purity walk. *RAISES HAND* I am with you, but most importantly God is with you. When you choose to remain pure till your wedding day God will surly reward you for not following the culture or your flesh. In Galatians it reads..

Galatians 6:5

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Some practical tips on helping you not fall into sexual immorality, which of course is all birthed from God via the bible and prayer:

Watch what you watch and the music you listen to. Fill your ears with things of God, not of lust and sex. (Psalm 119:37;Proverbs 4:23)

Watch who you are around. If you have friends who only talk about having boyfriends, girlfriends, and sexual immorality you will fall into this lifestyle too (1st Corinthian 15:33).
 

Pray for guidance from God! (Jeremiah 33:3)

Watch what you wear. I will be blogging more about modesty. But we humans get turned on with the eye. You want your future spouse to be most attracted to your heart not your body before marriage. (Matthew 5:38)


Lastly, if you have already fallen into sexual immorality you are not alone and it's never too late to make yourself pure and whole again in God's eyes. Your physical purity can never be given back but spiritually you can become born again. I invite you to repent receive Jesus into your life as I have and develop a relationship with him so you can reverence God in body and spirit. For my males and females who still have their purity, do NOT get weary and tired, your reward is coming!!



(Me after an Interview)
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Healing Hands: A Saturday of Service

Upon being saved, meaning becoming a born again Christian, every believer is immediately given two ministries. One is praying and the other is sharing the gospel, the good news of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who died for our sins on the cross at Calvary. In the Word of God, the bible, Jesus himself says:

Luke 18:1

 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Matthew 28:19-20
 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Evangelism is very important. How else would I have known Jesus came to tell me I no longer had to be boggled down by my past, he has instructions to aid all of us in this life, and the promises he has for us eternally once we die? It was only through someone opening their mouth, hosting an event and telling me about the Gospel. 


I am the leader of Pinky Promise Northern NJ, a group for single and married women who have made a promise to honor God with their entire lives. While single to stay sexually pure till marriage and while married to let their husbands lead their household. God placed in my heart to reach out to minister to this particular Woman's Shelter, the Apostle House in Newark NJ. Without confirming a date with the shelter I made this flyer, emailed them a proposal letter introducing myself and started praying for God to intercede on my behalf.


Yes, without confirming the date with the Shelter I made the flyer in late June. I had been contacting them since early June/late May though. By God's grace the week before July 20th they confirmed it would be ok for us to visit the Woman at the Apostle House and fellowship with them! Prayer works yall!

The demographics of the Apostle House in Newark, NJ encompasses minority woman mostly mothers in their twenties to early thirties. Most have 2 or more small children. The Shelter can hold up to 11 women and their children (both male and female). The quarters are tight but aesthetically pleasing and safely located on the outskirts of Newark.  



My vision for the day was to let the woman there know they are loved by God. To let them know although they might be in their current situation, by having the lord lead their lives they were able to receive a better future. I planned for us all to make cards with scriptures written inside, to remind them of God's love; also to write letters talking to God to affirm God hears them. I also wanted me and other Pinky Promise Girls to share our testimonies and how God really helped us.

So, on July 20th the event was awesome. I was being lead to buy breakfast for the event. I am so glad I did because I was told by the lovely receptionist Jackie, on the weekends, the mothers were on their own in regards to food. The lord always puts the right things in your heart! About eleven residents both women and children joined us. We started with an opening prayer and had about 20 minutes to get and start eating breakfast.



(Ladies and children getting breakfast)


Due to the fact many of the women had their children with them, involving them in arts, crafts and letter writing deemed difficult because they were watching their children. My amazing Pinky Promise Sister Ebony suggested while we make the cards for the residents, we share our testimonies and open up the floor to the residents to share their encounters with God. This was amazing, many of the ladies opened up about their past and how they were lead to the Apostle House. Many like Ameera, a mother of 3 girls were grateful for the Apostle House although they desired to have their own space very soon. Even the children talked freely about their hurts in living in a shelter but reminded us to count our blessings because at least they were alive and well. My sister Bernice Songonuga, whom just got saved by becoming born-again a couple weeks ago, shared amazing scriptures of healing, perseverance, and the strength of the Lord with the ladies. Her testimony was also received very well by the Residents.



(On the far left is PPsister Ebony, some residents at the Apostle House(Marquette,Ameera, Eyicah) , on the far right my Sister Bernice)

(On the far left is PPsister Ebony, some residents at the Apostle House(Marquette,Ameera, Eyicah) , on the far right my Sister Bernice)

The ladies also asked us about certain situations and if the bible and God had answers. Tye, specifically a mother of 2 asked how she could better her relationships with her parents. Gladly we all answered and refereed her to Matthew 10, read it and advised her to forgive any hurt her parents have done to her; build her relationship with God and ask him for more wisdom in relation with her parents.
We ended with individual prayers for every single women. I was blessed to pray for Mary a 60 year old resident at the shelter.
Her prayer request was for her illness to go away. She explained all her family was in Haiti while she started crying. Mary, my sister Bernice, and I prayed, touched and agreed all will be well with her.
 
It reads in 
Luke 4:18
 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokeenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

That's exactly what I endeavored to do on July 20, 2013 and for the rest of my life. Join me in gaining the spirit or peace, joy, and love from your creator God. If and when you do have the joy of the lord in your life, endeavor to not only be happy yourself, share the love of God, go out and share his love to those who may have and those who don't.

Also check out this post for a special invitation to an awesome event: DCLM: America's National Convention 2013


(Take 2 with me on the far right)
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From your Sister in Christ with a Servants Heart,
Janet Adeola Songonuga

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