Family Update

The children are home for a seven-week holiday. We are enjoying their company. They start a new school year at the end of April. Thandiwe will be joining PP2. Ivanna is joining PP1. We are also expecting. As of this reporting going out, we are two months pregnant.

SADREF – Friday 25th February 2022

SADREF stand for separation and divorce recovery Africa. They invited me to speak to separated and divorced Christians who are struggling to maintain sexual purity while outside the confines of marriage. The focus was on pornography and masturbation addictions. I was to handle the session with Robert Burale but he failed to show up. Here is the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdDI2o7928I&t=29s

Powerhouse Season 14 – Saturday 26th February – Saturday 12th March 2022

We completed Powerhouse season 14. The men in this season seemed to carry more brokenness than previous seasons. We had a great ending and are looking forward to Mount Longonot.

Premarital Class Season 4 – Sunday 6th March – Sunday 27th March 2022

Our premarital class season 4 has been ensuring pretty well. We formed a WhatsApp group for this season. It proved to be most effective. We have been able to keep close contact with the couples and answer questions that have arisen in the homework that we assign.

Mamlaka Hill Chapel City Campus – Sunday 27th February 2022

Mamlaka Hill Chapel City Campus invited me to speak to singles on the subject, “Till Death Do Us Part.” This was part of their BLAST series. BLAST is an acronym that stands for Building Lives Around Sound Truth. The session was aimed at discussing the validity of marriage in the backdrop of the reality of death. I was honoured to deliver the plenary talk. After it, I was part of a panel discussion with Pastor Richard Bundi, Pastor Cathy Matei and Pastor Lorraine Bundi. We managed to answer a variety of questions that the youth asked.

C’s Deliverance – Friday 1st March 2022

A lady by the name C came for inner healing and restoration. C was carrying the pain of father wounds. She had a terrible relationship with her dad and was struggling to forgive him. She was also suffering from the baggage of previous failed relationship. One of the relationships ended due to the death of her boyfriend. The man died just after she had had an argument with him. She was feeling guilty and responsible for his death. She managed to forgive herself, release the guilt and heal from the pain of her broken relationship.

Loving Women Purely – Thursday 10th March 2022

GAM Kenya led by Geoffrey Kim, invited me to speak at their DAVIDIC CROWN III event. The aim of the event is to raise men who are after God’s heart like King David of the scriptures. I was part of a team of four men who were appointed to deliver the plenaries for the event. The other men were John Ng’ang’a. Emmanuel Mule and Waihiga Mwaura. I was speaking on the first day on the topic Loving Women Purely. We did an exposition on Genesis 2:15-18 and looked at the prerequisites for handling a relationship with the opposite sex.

M’s deliverance – Friday 11th March 2022

A man by the name M came for inner healing and restoration. M was struggling with an unquenchable sexual addiction. He had slept with several prostitutes and several random women in his own life. The body count neared 150. In his own admission, he felt dead and numb inside. He kept feeling tremendous spiritual opposition to come for the session. However, he asserted himself and came along. M was liberated from the bondages and confessed to feeling a weight leave his body during the prayer session.

ACK St. Francis – Sunday 13th March 2022

I spoke at ACK St. Francis church in Karen, Nairobi on the subject of sexual addictions. The talk was in the youth church congregation. We looked at 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 and exposited the words of Paul the Apostle on how to live sexually pure lives in a perverse generation.

S’s deliverance – Monday 14th March 2022

A man by the name S came for inner healing and restoration. S was struggling with a persistent sexual addiction. He was also holding pain from several hurtful relationships. S released the pain caused by his offenders. He had been part of a healing journey for his sexual struggle. When the session was done, he admitted to feeling unburdened and light.

G’s deliverance – Friday 15th March 2022

A woman by the name G came for inner healing and restoration. G had grown up in a home where both her parents were verbally and emotionally abusive. She had also been sexually abused and introduced to lesbianism by a house-help who would constantly finger her private parts. The house-help managed to ensure that G was silent. This totality of abuse led to a life of alcohol and promiscuous living. She also developed a struggle with pornography and masturbation as a result. She eventually settled down in marriage but wasn’t satisfied. She claimed to have married her father. The verbal and emotional abuse that she was running away from continued in her own marriage. G was harbouring a lot of pain and unforgiveness. She forgave her offenders and submitted to God in prayer. When the session was done she wept a lot and couldn’t believe that the pain in her heart could actually come to an end.

M’s deliverance – Wednesday 16th March 2022

A lady by the name M came for inner healing and restoration. M had been introduced to sex by her cousins. As a result, she had slept with several of her own cousins and was steeped in incest. She was also carrying the guilt and shame of an abortion. All this was further hardened by harbouring bitterness from painful relationships. M was willing to forgive and let go of the past. She was liberated and left feeling free.

W’s deliverance – Wednesday 18th March 2022

A lady by the name W came for inner healing and restoration. W had a husband who was a sex addict. He had committed adultery several times and was very abusive. He had neglected his family and they were on the brink of divorce. W was struggling with a sexual addiction to porn. She had resorted to it when frustrated with her marriage. She was also harbouring lots of pain from hurtful relationships. She released all the pain in humility. We had a victorious prayer session and she left feeling relieved. She wrote to me days later in disbelief that the addiction to porn had worn off completely. She resurrected her Bible reading and realigned her spiritual formative practices.

Longonot trip with Powerhouse Season 14 – Saturday 19th March 2022

We completed Powerhouse Season 14 with a hike to Longonot. We had 26 men show up for the hike. The weather was uncharacteristically hotter than previous hikes. The men decided to keep the WhatsApp group open for lifetime accountability and fellowship.

City Church Buruburu – Sunday 20th March 2022

Bishop Mutinda Musyimi and the men’s ministry invited me to speak to the men of City Church Buruburu. The topic was “The Brotherhood.” It was evident, as in many men’s fellowships, that the men in church often shy away from intimate relationships with fellow men. We looked at Judges 18 and did an expository study of the chapter. The session was interactive and left the men desirous of belonging to a brotherhood.

J’s deliverance – Monday 21st March 2022

A lady by the name J came for inner healing and restoration. J was struggling to forgive her husband who had been perennially unfaithful to her. They had attempted counselling but had had fruitless attempts. The husband was finally showing strong signs of change and repentance and she was relieved. However, she was hurt by the entire ordeal. It also left her with several insecurities. We took her through the healing session and she felt tremendous relief and hope resurge in her personal life.

PCEA Kahawa Farmers Boys’ ROPES camp – Tuesday 22nd March 2022

PCEA Kahawa Farmers held a rights of passage experience (ROPES) camp for newly-circumcised boys at Kiukenda in Kiambu. I was honoured to help the boys understand God’s pattern for their sexuality and how to embrace biblical masculinity in a fallen world.

CITAM Valley Road HOPES Camp – Wednesday 23rd March 2022

CITAM Valley Road held their HOPES camp for boys and girls transitioning to high school at Lakewood Emerald School in Kitenegela. We had a great session with the children. Four teenagers gave their lives to Christ. We also had a time of healing from wounds and hurts from the past. The LORD was present in the session.

W’s deliverance – Thursday 24th March 2022

A lady by the name W came for inner healing and restoration. W came from a very poor background. She was harbouring a lot of pain from emotionally abusive relationships. She was humble of heart and willing to forgive. She did so and received her healing speedily.

Rusinga School Easter Concert – Friday 25th March 2022

Rusinga school invited me to be the guest speaker on their closing day Easter Concert. The theme was Victory Belongs to Jesus. In attendance were staff, faculty, students and parents. I shared the Gospel from Romans 5 and Romans 8.

Let’s Talk Podcast – Saturday 26th March 2022

I had a great session with Mark and Stanley on the Let’s Talk podcast. The topic was “Is marriage the main mission?” You can listen to the episode here: https://anchor.fm/mark-arodi/episodes/Is-Marriage-the-Main-Mission-e1g9c8k

PCEA Kasarani West – Sunday 27th March 2022

Pastor Charles Mathenge invited me to speak to the teenagers and college students on sexuality and relationships. I preached from 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 and conducted an interactive segement with the youth.

C’s deliverance – Monday 28th March 2022

A lady by the name C came for inner healing and restoration. C was battling same-sex attraction and was overwhelmed by guilt and shame. She was also battling the loss of her sister to an unknown disease. She confessed her struggle and admitted that it was the first time she had mentioned it to people and prayed about it openly. C was open and humble in prayer, She experienced an overwhelming relief after the session. Like many who attend the session she mentioned feeling lighter.

PCEA Kahawa Farmers Girls’ ROPES camp – Tuesday 22nd March 2022

PCEA Kahawa Farmers held a rights of passage experience (ROPES) camp for girls transitioning to high school. The session was held at Main House Kiukenda in Kiambu. I spoke to the girls about biblical sexuality and how to manage themselves before marriage. We also had a session of inner healing and forgiveness. The session was very fruitful.

TESTIMONIES

This is a testimony by a lady called W who came for recently came for inner healing and restoration:

I have a great testimony. After we prayed about the issue on my struggle with masturbation I am now fully delivered. I thank God for this may he be glorified. May the Lord continue to manifest greatly in your ministry. I am more than grateful because it was after 18 years of struggle. Be Blessed Ernest, Mungu awe nawe. I am extremely grateful to God and to you! It’s not only that. I have been able to overcome the debt life. I wake up feeling blessed and fresh unlike other times where I used to wake up really tired. And my health is great and my mind renewed. In short so much has changed, my face was really struggling with acne and was struggling with self-esteem especially not feeling beautiful. But nowadays my face has really smoothen and I am feeling really beautiful and confident I thank God for the changes I am seeing. Was struggling with my studies CPA and now I will be completing in July. May the Lord receive all honour and glory. Ni God tu,

I also received a second testimony from a young man we helped.

Hi Ernest I wanted to thank you soo much for your prayers and time I overcame masturbation and pornography I don’t know the last time I watched pornography. Considering it’s something I had already embraced as part of me because it was starting to be impossible to overcome, looking back I can’t believe this is me and right now my life is full of Joy dwelling in the word of God. Thank you soo much for allowing God to use you. Only God knows the impact you’ve made so some of us.

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