MaryD's Life Lessons

 MORE LESSONS ON THE FIRST ARTICLE (1) From this article, we learn that women are to be submissive to their husbands. The book of Ephesians 5:23 says "wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord". We could see total submission in the life of Chioma's mother. Even though it looked foolish, she totally submit all to her husband. God is calling wives unto submission to their own husbands. It's true, he's beating you, it's true, he is not providing for your needs, many of those things are true but, leaving the home for him is not the best way to solve it. Rebellion against him, that's not the way! Fighting back at him won't bring peace into the home. Your children may be led astray that way and the word of God says "train up your child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it - Proverbs 22:6". Is that the way you want your child/children to go through? Instead of arguments, why don't you go

 LESSONS DRAWN FROM THE FIRST ARTICLE ON MARYD'S LIFE LESSONS BLOG ✓Your background is not the only determinant factor of your success. You might have come from a very humble background, you might say your family is as poor as a church mouse but, you must know that that, is not the end. It is only the beginning. So, quit the self-pity party and begin to work hard and trust God for good success. P.S: You also need the Saviour Jesus Christ. Scripture says in John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life." Chioma was becoming "successful" even before she came in contact with Jesus but she could not affect her family. However, things really turned around when she met Jesus. Joy came, success came, her prayers positively affected her family and those who surrounded her. It is only after we have accepted Jesus Christ that we become God's children and he can use us

 EPISODE 4 Chioma graduated as the best graduating student in Effulgence Academy and was awarded a scholarship to study Banking and Finance in one of the best Universities of her days. After four years, she became a Banker. She went for Youth Service and got a high paying job in one of the finest banks in the country. She did not relent on  prayers and things continued to change in her life, family and those around her. She was a powerful intercessor. She had won many souls for Christ and had affected many lives positively. Many children looked up to her as their role model and wished to be like her. She never stopped to tell them to put God first in all things and work hard because, things really changed when she met Jesus Christ. She was able to affect territories and not just her own life. She had become a territorial warrior; spiritually. Chioma visited her village, some years after she had started working and earning big, with her Toyota Corolla car and she was stunned by the sigh

 EPISODE 3  Chioma immediately accepted the great task. She received burdens and began to tend to them. She began to raise voices of intercession unto God and prayer altars to God on behalf of her family and, of course, she put the headmaster's family in prayers too. When she got to SSS3 class,  things began to turn around for her family. Rapid change began to take place. A young missionary came to her village together with his family and held a crusade. The power of God moved mightily and Chioma's father was one of the converts. He visited the missionary's house and was followed up by the missionary. His way of life changed and he began to work hard on his farm. He received a grant from an agricultural association and got a bigger farm. He became fruitful and his produce multiplied.  Chioma's brother who do steal, repented and accepted Jesus. He became an apprentice at a welder's shop and was doing very fine. Chioma's mother found favour when a rich man suddenl

 EPISODE 2 Chioma's elder sister, after completing her primary school education, began to flirt around considering the fact that her family was so poor and she had come of age because she repeated, many times, different classes and she had to be pushed to just complete the primary school education. Before long, she was put in the family way and she packed her loads to her husband's house (a drunkard).  At the age of ten, Chioma graduated from the primary school as the best graduating student because she had received double promotion and she was given scholarship to further her studies. That was how she received help and support to further her studies. In fact, the headmaster, having known her family background, promised to take care of her even to higher institution because he was a great lover of education. Therefore, Chioma had to kiss her family goodbye and she moved to a city to begin her secondary school education. She lived in a boarding house and the headmaster's wif

 ARTICLE ONE In a small village lived a family of ten. Chioma happened to be the fifth child and the third female. Here is a quick breakdown of the gender of the children. First three children were male, fourth child female, fifth child female (Chioma), sixth child male and last two children were female. This makes a total of four male and four female Children. Now, as beautiful as the composition of this family is, they were very poor. Chioma's father was a drunkard, having a little farm. He uses most of the little sales he derive from his farm to drink palmwine at the popular palmwine joint. Chioma's mother was a petty trader. She sells her husband's little farm produce coupled with some other petty things in the village market square and as a submissive wife, she gives the returns of the sales from her husband's farm produce to him so that he gives her and the children what he seems fit (as commanded by her husband). Life continued in Chioma's family with little

 This is a collection of short articles to depict what happens in life. The objective of this write-up is to motivate everyone to have a different perspective of life as opposed to the one life seems to bring to us. Many times, things come our way and we feel like giving up. If only we can just hold on and keep being diligent, we will see that there is always light at the end of the tunnel. Enjoy your reading and I pray God bless you in Jesus name. Note: The characters in these stories are fictitious. I apologise for any resemblance in names or storyline. P.S: At the end of each article by God's grace, lessons would be drawn by the writer and you wouldn't want to miss such inspiring lessons that are capable of giving a great turn-around and life to any deadness.