Your Heart your Life Part 1

Guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of Life (Proverbs 4:23). We’ve all heard and read this verse over and over again. I paid a little bit more attention to this verse than I usually do. But why would the bible tell us to guard our hearts, Come to think of it, why not our brains? May be the following will shed some light exactly how important your heart is.

1.The heart is the wellspring of life.

“The source of supply for anything”. Our hearts are the sources of our actions and feelings. Every word that comes out of your mouth starts in the heart. Our actions are driven by our heart desires.

2.The lord seeks our hearts.

Proverbs 23:26

“My son give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways.” The lord seeks our hearts because that is where praise originates from. Psalms 9:1 …

“I will praise you o lord with all my heart I will tell of your wonders”.

 3. Heart is always the Enemy’s target.

Our hearts are and will always be under constant attacks from the enemy because the heart is fragile and vulnerable. The enemy knows this, so he will constantly send attacks targeted to our hearts because once our hearts are distorted, so will our actions and by that he will achieve what he wanted from you. Thank God, our God (See what I did there, I thank Him for him) his wisdom from Psalm 136:5 is overwhelming. The same wisdom he uses to teach us , constantly give us the test till we pass with flying colors talk of a perfect teacher. After all what doesn’t kill makes you stronger.

4. Heart as a Source of Joy

The heart is a source of joy: Proverbs 17:22 a cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

5. We will see God with our Hearts through Jesus Christ our Lord

The heart as a gateway to His Goodness: Mathew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. I will virtually underline the word Pure & Heart for you of course, me I have the picture already that is. You see with a broken heart, not only will it be hard to see God but to feel his goodness and enjoy the plans He has for us. The bible screams to us that God has plans for both if not all of us, those plans-to give you a future and hope – but with a broken Heart rests assure  you’ll suffer the same fate as what happens to all  broken records. Broken hearts VS broken records that is a story of another day.

We need to be careful about the things we allow into heart. We can’t allow Satan to dump his garbage of fear, doubt, and sin in the well of our heart.

So how does this apply in our lives as young Christian youths living in a world turned so upside down? As a young Christian woman I will tell you, living a life pleasing to God in this day and age is not as easy as I thought it would be. I have to be cautious of my words, my actions and of how I lead my life. I am constantly being watched by the world. You know, like they did to Jesus. It isn’t easy but it’s worth it.

The major tools that the enemy is using day in day out to attack us with, are relationships and marriages. Relationships these days have become something else. Divorces are rising, why you may ask? The enemy hates God and he hates relationship , where the bible specifically mentions that when two or more meet in a fellowship God is among them, more so with marriages too, I guess cause marriage itself is a portrayal of the Gospel( Ephesians 5:32).  I tried to compare relationships from ten years ago and now, there is a drastic change same to Marriage. The argument that we use to defend our actions is that this is another generation. “hizo enzi zilikua za wazazi wetu” (those were the old days). True, you are not wrong but the bible tells us that we are not of this world.

John 17:6(NIV) They are not of this world (disciples) even as I am not of it (Jesus).

So why should we conform to the ways of the world when the Lord himself has set us apart? Sexual immorality is at a high-rise in the current world. Sex is no longer sacred and for only the married, it is a daily trend to youngsters. The contents in our media and in some music are saddening. Purity is an irony to most of us. We’re stuck in a generation where sex is proof for love. This at the end of the day turns out to be heart-break, only to realize later that it was not real love. We end up giving too much of our hearts till we have no more to give because each time you give your heart to someone something is taken from you. So the more you give it to many people the less you will have to offer when you meet your soul mate. Some of us end up being so mad at the world and run around hurting people instead of healing our wounds. Sex in marriage is different. There is still passion and intense feelings from emotions but sex in marriage is based primarily on the coals of trust, devotion and sacrifice (1^st Corinthians 7:1-5).

Love is that 1^st Corinthians 13:4-8 and much more.

In conclusion, if you are heartbroken, let yourself heal first and guard your heart till you back on the life grid with God promises and goodness. If you are not hurt, guard your heart still , yes guard it jealously and learn not to awaken love till it so desires.

Songs of songs 1:7:“Daughters of Jerusalem. I charge you by the gazelles and by doves of the field do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires”.

As hard as this might sound, I will still tell you for free that you should know that not every single and saved person you meet is your future spouse, especially in youth meetings and christians gathering to me you should be as careful as how you’d be in unfriendly places, those places we mark sodom hehe…I mean in Christian gathering we can most probably put our gaurd down as far as our hearts is concerned,after all we are all humans but take it from me consult God regradless and tread like you are constantly on thin Ice so that you can keep your heart protected.

For the heart-breakers out there, you should know when you heartbreak someone,  you are poking God in unpleasant way.

See you next time on the second series of your Heart your life.

Article by Cate

 

 

August the Blessed Month..

The month of August is here, I first thank God for the gift of life and that we that is you and I are in August, for it’s never guarantee you’ll see the next day. Recently a young soul was lost a friend passed away,it was abruptly but it was God’s Will and Plan. But what happens when God’s plan hurts? One said “We move on and hope for the best”, at that point is when your Faith comes into action, and believe that God has good plans of future and hope says Jeremiah. It’s my prayer that God’s grace and mercies shall be upon our young life and his Favor be on us this month. All your dreams and desires will be fulfilled just after u believe that God is Able.

This month make sure u pray more, read the bible more, and smile, it doesn’t matter what kind of difficulty you going through, they’ll be days where you loose the  battle but grace says don’t worry  cause  Jesus already won the war. On a lighter note if u are a big fun of social network try using the hashtags to guide you through the week and also connect you to many Christians sharing the same sentiments and prayers like you or you can encourage a stranger any where on Earth some of the hashtags are… #ImelaThursday #WorshipWednesday #WordedTuesday #HappyMonday #SpeedPrayerFriday #BibleSaturday #SermonSunday

August for us is a good month, for a lot of schools and institution close for the holidays, and more so the Youth National Conference is on the month of August, so double excitement. The youth conference 2015 will be in Nakuru county. We still trying to convince as many youth as possible to go for the conference for it will be graced by powerful speakers, mentors, singers and best of all You. So join me and the rest of Presbyterians Youth in bringing more youth to this exciting National Youth Conference 2015.  So kuja Twende kazi

Vision Statement

A vibrant and well co-ordinated Youth Movement
 Extending to every corner of East Africa and beyond

How to be, Not just a member but a recognized Youth Member?.

God have your way

P.C.E.A Ayub Kinyua Youth

Youth group- Age bracket of 18-35  years. If you fall in that category then you are a young and youthful human being, hence you  are termed as a  youth. If you want to be a full member of the youth group,it is very simple. Just register as a youth in your respective parish at a cost of an annual amount of 100/=. Easy, right? You will be shocked how people forget easy and simple things. Anyway ,after that step of being a registered member, you take heels to the next step- assuming you are a Newbie ( a recently joined member of the youth group), you register for the youth seminar and get commissioned and you will qualify for the card, which will cost you 250/=.

After been awarded the membership card, you will qualify for a youth badge after 6 months of good morals, yeah you have to…

View original post 146 more words

How to be, Not just a member but a recognized Youth Member?.

Youth group- Age bracket of 18-35  years. If you fall in that category then you are a young and youthful human being, hence you  are termed as a  youth. If you want to be a full member of the youth group,it is very simple. Just register as a youth in your respective parish at a cost of an annual amount of 100/=. Easy, right? You will be shocked how people forget easy and simple things. Anyway ,after that step of being a registered member, you take heels to the next step- assuming you are a Newbie ( a recently joined member of the youth group), you register for the youth seminar and get commissioned and you will qualify for the card, which will cost you 250/=.

After been awarded the membership card, you will qualify for a youth badge after 6 months of good morals, yeah you have to show you are worth to be awarded badge which also cost 250/=. Only a day to the Youth seminar and 2 (two) days to the commissioning. After getting both the membership card and the badge,it’s now up-to you conquer the world and spread the gospel of Jesus as P.C.E.A youth member, taking part in major decision making as far as Presbyterian youth of Kenya is concern.

 

The commissioning was a success, we were graced by our regional youth coordinator Mr. John Kiriungi and our own Parish minister Rev. Ephraim Mbugua. We thank God for that day. Below are some of picture gallery of what happened on that day.

 

    

The Candles represented the new light in the ones life that we rekindle after been commissioned  and the same candle was the one used to invite new youth, and the

same candle was used   

P.C.E.A Ayub Kinyua Convention 2015.

The date was 26th of June, the long awaited convention. We all were ready for this day from the start go. All teams were armed with all that was needed for the convention to be as successful as it  was.

The convention was awesome says the Youth secretary Ms. Regina Kiarie . Our theme was from Genesis 22. A story about  Abraham’s Faith. and this is the account of the 3 day event

Day 1: The start of our conventions our parish minister Rev. Mbugua launched it,  he also gave a word about the blessings that the lord has kept for us to kick start the event. The Youth was the biggest in population, talk of getting excited cause of the event.

Youth #Convention

Day 2: This day was a door to door evangelism day, where it was Led by our Evangelism Team- on the front line  Rev Mbugua  and Ev. Paul Muguru. Door to door evangelism resulted to 25 saved Souls *Halleluiah Halleluiah  Halleluiah, Praises* It was a happy day and . That is nothing compared to the joyous celebration in heaven when 25 people received Christ as their personal Savior.

During evening session, we had a speaker from Uganda Evangelist Rodgers Bwire who talked about  sacrifice and gave a good detail information on giving the best & expect more. After the evening session, at night we had the revival where a guest Rev from St Andrews Church preached that eve and the sermon was about how us Christians should be  getting connected with our blessings

 Day 3: The last and the third day of this event was on Sunday it was the climax & Rev Emmanuel Nkoitik from Thika parish was the man the speaker of the day. A lot happened on that day, from powerful message the youth choir and the praise team were all under anointing of the Holy spirit. People were blessed beyond measure. You could tell that after the service, people simply didn’t want the event to end.

 

We were blessed the teachings, Faith strengthening stories and wonderful preaching from all the guest speakers the turn out all was amazing, I was touched especially with the turn out and more so the participation of the youth as a Team. May God bless us and what we were taught during the the whole convention grow in us as our daily bread.

Can’t wait for the Youth Seminar and Commissioning till next time for me it’s bye bye.

 

 

 

Youth Group: Media & I.C.T

Media and I.C.T

This group was founded on the year 2012 when the church thought of installing in a Projector, and the leadership of former parish minister Rev. Philip Gichuri. The youth took up the ministry of I.C.T & Media and they was a big impact. Later the church leadership added 3 Display units to make the ministry due to the growing need of the ministry for it helped during the service.

Dedication of the team also grew up with the need of the congregation, new supporting software and innovation ideas were brought to ground and finally, it was a recognize ministry of the church.

Now the I.C.T & media group, is one of the many recognize youth group in church- in charge of the Media related activities and any IT related issues. Also the managing of this blog and other social media accounts. Online involvement particularly has been good medium for gospel preaching, making gospel accessible online as far our congregation is concern. Under the leadership and support of our current parish minister Rev. Ephraim Mbugua, we believe we will grow as the Youth both in number and more so spiritual, reaching all manner of people all over the world with the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Our prayer is that God to bless what we have started and guide us all the way through.

Compiled by head of the Media & I.C.T group @Mwangipat.

Good Start…

P.C.E.A Ayub Kinyua Youth is church based youth organization in Eldoret whose mission is to reach all range of youth through the Gospel of Christ Jesus. This is been a new project “Blog” we pray, what we have started works. Under the ministry of Media and I.C.T we hope all will work for us the Youth to spread the gospel to all over the world. We all have dreams and wishes, but the difference is the determination and courage we have to chase those dreams.

God is a merciful God, He has plans for all of us as it’s clearly stated in the bible Jeremiah 29:11 “¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” #bible. And thus my initiative to go for my dreams, dreams of expanding our voice online as youth so to as to reach bigger audience , a dream to use modern ways to spread the gospel, a dream, for empowering our P.C.E.A youth, to spread love n create awareness of how great our God is. For that and much more in future it is my prayer that this new medium of spreading the word of God and more so to communicate with the youth out there, will prosper and achieve greatness as humble as it’s now. May God bless the work of our hands and let us keep on dreaming. till Next time for me it’s Adios.