Wednesday, June 27, 2012

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Marriage Restoration Net Work Uganda

We request you always remember Marriage Restoration Network Uganda in your prayers as they minister God's love to the married coupls

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18 And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” 19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:18-24 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

ABOUT MARRIAGE RESTORATION NETWORK UGANDA Praise God my brothers and sisters out their, more especially those who cherish the institution of marriage. Well come to Marriage Restoration Network Uganda. A ministry which is doing every thing possible in teaching the married couples to involve God in their marriage and base it on the principles of His word. Remember before other things like schools, governments and any other institution came to existence, God first instated marriage. In genesis chapter 3:8a says that God used to visit man in the cool of the day. Because God is all knowing, compassionate and loving, He said it is not good for man to be alone. Genesis 2:18 NIV but I will make a helper suitable for him. God in His all knowing power made a woman not man for Adam. Genesis 2:22 NIV. In genesis 2:18NIV, God is talking of making a suitable helper for Adam. The one who can suite his needs. Genesis 2:24 say that the only reason for a man to leave his father and mother is when he get married to a woman, and before her he can strip naked and not get ashamed. Verse 25. What was God’s plan in this? God made male and female in His Image and likeness for them to have dominion over every thing on the earth, to be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth. Genesis 1:26-28KJV. And to get an offspring which fears the Lord. Malachi 2:15b. The scriptures say that after this, He saw every thing He made and behold it was not just good, but very good including marriage. Genesis 1:31kjv. Emphasis added. We saw in the word of God that He created man and woman in His Image and likeness to show the world who He is through marriage. God is love and love should be seen in marriage. God is compassionate, He expects us to have compassion towards your spouse. God is forgiving, and the world should see forgiveness in married couples more so if they are Christians. God is a provider and this should be seen in marriage. And many more you can think of concerning the Image of God and marriage. The scriptures say that God designed and created marriage as a good thing. It is beautiful, priceless gift. He uses marriage to help us eliminate loneliness, multiply effectiveness, establish families, raise children, enjoy life and bless us with relational intimacy. But beyond this, marriage also shows us our need to grow and deal with our own issues and self centeredness through the help of a life long partner. If we are teachable, we will learn to do the two most important things in marriage- that is to love and to respect another imperfect person unconditionally. It is difficult, but it is life changing. So from this background we see that God is so serious with marriage. Proverbs 18:22Niv says that “he who finds a wife finds what is good, and receives favor from the Lord”. The bible goes on to say that God hates divorce”. Malachi 2:15. So marriage is a serious matter in the eyes of the Lord. So let us return to God’s principles concerning marriage and put them into practice. Now if marriage was started by the Almighty Lord, why are we seeing many problems in marriage, why the violence in marriage? And why the many divorces we see every minute around the world? The word of God in Hosea 4:6kjv says “my people are destroyed for luck of knowledge. Not because there is no knowledge, not because there are no things to teach, but because they have rejected knowledge. Emphasis added. Since the fall of Adam, people think they know what is best for them and that they don’t need God and can do what pleases them, meaning that they are independent and don’t need help. This is a lie from Satan and it has caused a lot of misery in the world. See what the word of the Lord says in proverbs 3:5-7kjv. “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6in all thy ways including marriage acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. 7be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord and depart from evil”. Emphasis added. Romans 1:21-23 talks clearly of people who profess to know God, but don’t glorify Him, and think that they are wise but turns out to be that they are fools. Even go to the extent of exchanging the things God made to suite them. Remember marriage pictures God’s Image here on earth and it for His glory not to be exchanged. The bible teaches that marriage is for life, they teach that you can opt out whenever you fill like for this is you life. The bible teaches that marriage is a covenant, but they say marriage is a contract. The bible teaches that a man should marry a woman; they teach that you also have the right to marry your fellow man. So my dear brothers and sisters who love the Lord and cherish the institution of marriage, knowing that we are the salt and light of the world Mathew 5:13-16, and that God choose us for a purpose, in His kingdom 1peter 2:9-10, let us join hands with Marriage Restoration Network Uganda to uproot, tear down, destroy and overthrow all imaginations, strong holds, bad habits bad cultures which are against the word of God and hinder many of us to enjoy the marriage God intended for us. And build and plant better habits, behaviors and cultures based on God’s word that glorify His name. Let us encourage each other to mend our relationship with our creator, fellowship with Him knowing that marriage minus God have a lot of problems. Let us invite him to be our partner in our marriage. Come and help build the kingdom of God through marriage teachings. Be blessed of the Lord as you of this call. MARRIAGE RESTORATION NETWORK UGANDA. Marriage restoration network Uganda is a none denominational group of people who have the burden of restore ling marriage to live according to God’s word. They are married couples who go around the country to teach the married to allow God into their marriage. They believe that marriage is divine and that marriage was started by God. They also believe that marriage is between man and woman. They also believe that man should have one wife and no mistresses, and the woman should also have one husband. OBJECTIVES Marriage restoration network Uganda’s objective is to see married couple stay married, and to see that God is allowed in their marriage and to also allow Him to build their marriage. For the bible says that “unless God builds a house, those who build labor in vain in this case unless He builds your marriage, you only have straggles all the time. They want to see that those who intend to marry should know that marriage is for a life long commitment and not for a few years. And that marriage is a covenant and not a contract. They also want to see that the church teaches the married to realize this and offer them help. That is why the M.R.N.U. go around the country conducting marriage seminars, helping them renew their marriage vows and also help them realize that it is God’s will for them to stay married. M.R.N.U. is doing this for in this country, many men mistreat their wives, and some times kill them. Also a few of the women kill their husbands; there are a lot of divorces in this country and even in the church VISION: Restoring marriages to the original setting by God from the cultural setting. MISSION: To uproot, tear down, destroy and over throw every belief that stands against God’s plan for marriage, and to build and to plant God’s plan for marriage. (Jer. 1:10) PURPOSE: Marriage Restoration Network Uganda is a Christian ministry seeking to; Help couples around Uganda and the world over to restore, promote and strengthen their marriages as God intended. To build Christ centered homes/ marriages and maintain God’s design for marriage. To offer marriage seminars and related activities to address the most pressing challenges facing marriages, to help the married couples and their families grow in their relationships with each other, with God and the church in Uganda, Africa and the world. To combine Christian values and practical methods to improve communication between husband and wife. To teach couples to focus on each other freely from distraction of every day life through seminars, workshops, conferences and counseling programmers. To encourage and help the married examine their marriages and discuss feelings, joy, disappointments and hopes through daily dialogue. Marriage Restoration Network Uganda is for couples who value marriage between man and woman and would like a good marriage and wants to make it better. AIMS OF MARRIAGE RESTORATION NETWORK UGANDA (MARNU) To teach the couples to base their marriages on Biblical principles. To create the basic unit for Kingdom purpose. Mal. 2:15, Gen. 1:28. To teach the couples to love each other as quoted in Eph. 5:22-33. To promote and encourage the unwedded couples to have holy matrimony. To allow couples to renew their commitment to God, their spouses and families in a positive and personal manner by allowing couples to explore these new learned teachings in the privacy of their homes. To teach couples to practice openness and honesty between themselves. To teach couples to learn to spend quality time with each other, something lacking in most marriages today. To teach couples to take and understand a Biblical view point of “A man shall live his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.) Gen. 2:24. To teach the couples the skills to better their communication with each other therefore building a stronger union. To strengthen marriages by educating couples practical methods of communication and renewing their commitment to their marriages to ensure a decrease in divorce that God hates as written in Mal. 2:16. To build and maintain the momentum of marriage programmes as designed by God. So that is our mission and we request you to stand by us in prayers so that God can give us the strength, for breaking these cultural beliefs is very had. For most of them have been here for ages. Thing like when a brother dies, a brother takes over the widow, or if the brother had two, he can inherit all of them no matter what the brother died of. They also say that a man is the owner of the home and that the woman has no say in family matters. Some sell the family land and run away leaving the wife and children suffer leading some of the children run to the streets of the towns. That is the work we have here and we need your help in terms of teaching materials and if possible in future to come and teach in these seminars. Thanks and on behalf of M.R.N.U, I say be blessed as you work for the Almighty Lord and savior Jesus Christ. The people who coordinates the ministry. THE EXECUTIVE MEMBERS Pastor Moses Kerejji Leader Mrs. Ruth Kerejji Mr. Tom Mugoya finance Mrs. Frida Mugoya Mr. Godfrey Ouma Publicity Mrs. Sarah Ouma Mr. Festo Gooloba Testimony Coordinator Mrs. Margaret Gooloba Pastor Bukenya Jonathan Central Region Coordinator Mrs. Bukenya Teddy Pastor John Mafabi Western Region Coordinator Mrs. R. Mafabi Pastor Samuel Kato Eastern Region Coordinator Mrs. Mary Kato Elder Mike and Teddy Etwalu are prayer coordinators. Pastor Richard Masembe Northern Region Coordinator Mr. Roland and Mrs. Judith Biber in Canada International Coordinators M.R.N.U P.o.box 28777 Kampala Uganda.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Praise God my dear friends, Greetings in the mighty name of the most high God. May His blessing be upon you all! This week from Thursday 19th to 22nd we will be speaking in a married seminar in Bungoma Kenya. From 26th to 29 we will also be in Busitema. We request you stand with us in prayer that God’s will be done in these seminars, and that he grants us journey mercies and to those who will be attending. Psalm 127:1 So it is our prayer that all married couple should allow God to build the marriage with them. Remember the institution of marriage is under attack like never before. Pray for these pastors who will be traveling with me, that God will keep their family safe. Pastor Richard Masembe, pastor Jonathan Bukenya and pastor Samuel Kato. Be blessed as you pray with us and may the Lord be with you. Your friend in the Lord, Moses

Saturday, April 7, 2012

THE SPIRITUAL, IMPLICATION FOF MARRIAGE: Similar to the way a human family reflects God’s plan to have a family, human marriage also reflects a spiritual relationship. Human marriage is modeled after the relationship between Jesus Christ and the church. Notice how Paul explains this concept. After discussing the responsibility, of husbands and wives and the relationship between them. Paul says: this is a great mystery, but I .speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you ,in particular so love his own wife as himself, and .let the wife see that she respects her husband” (Ephesians 5:32-33). What beautiful example the relationship between Christ and the church is! Paul explains that Christ loved the church so much that He gave, his life her (verse 25). How could those of us in the church ever doubt his love for us? How could we not respond to the thing He asks us to do? The understanding that marriage between a man and woman is a type of the relationship between Christ and the church is further understood by a vision Jesus Christ revealed to john at the end of the first century. John recorded this vision in the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation. After Jesus returns to take over the kingdoms of the earth and establish the kingdom of god, He reveals that his going to be involved in every special marriage. Here is how john recorded the vision “let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready”. And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine lien, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the Saints. Then he said to me, ‘blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the lamb!’(Revelation 19:7-9). The faithful saints who have been part of the church founded by Jesus Christ will become the Bride of Christ. Their righteous behavior is likened to fine, costly linen. Happy human marriage gives us insight into a greater marriage one that will truly last forever because both parties will be spirit, similar and closely related to family, marriage also gives us a window, of insight into God’s love and plan for humanity, Because human marriage are patterned after this spiritual relationship, they can help us comprehend this present and future God-plane relationship. Now family represent, we can more closely examine the instructions He gave for marriage.
How do you view your marriage? Do you think that marriage is holy? In your opinion, is marriage a contact or a covenant? And as you view your marriage relationship from this point on, we challenge you to consider it a covenant instead of a contract. These two words sound similar in meaning but are in reality much different. Seeing marriage as a contract is like saying to your spouse, “I take you for me and we’ll see if this works out.” But realizing it as a covenant changes it to say, “I give myself to you and commit to this marriage for life.” There are many other differences between covenant and contracts. A contract is usually a written agreement based on distrust, outlining the conditions and consequences if broken. A contract is a verbal commitment based on trust, assuring someone that your promise is unconditional and good for life. It is spoken before God out of love for another. A contract is self-serving and comes with limited liability. It establishes a time frame for certain deliverable to be met and accomplished. A covenant is for the benefit of others and comes with unlimited responsibility. It has no expiration date. It is “till death do us part.” A contract can be broken with mutual consent. A covenant is intended to be unbreakable. The Bible contains several major covenants as part of the unfolding story of God’s people. God made a covenant with Noah, promising never to destroy all flesh with a worldwide flood (Genesis 9:12-17). He made a covenant with Abraham, promising that an entire nation of descendants would come from his family line (Genesis 17:1-8). He made a covenant with Moses, declaring that the people of Israel would be God’s permanent possession (Exodus 19:3-6). He made a covenant with David, promising that a ruler would sit on his throne forever (2 Samuel 7:7-16). Ultimately, He made a “new covenant” by the blood of Christ, establishing an unending life for those who believe in Him (Hebrews 9:15). Never once has God broken any of these covenants. And then there’s marriage—the strongest covenant on earth between two people, the pledge of a man and a woman to establish a love that is unconditional and lasts a lifetime. In marriage, your wedding ring represents your covenant vows—not merely commitments you hoped o keep but premeditated promises, publicly spoken and witnessed by others. As you’ve read numerous times in these pages, keeping this covenant is not something you can do in your own strength. There’s good reason why God was the One who initiated covenants with his people. He alone is able to fulfill the demands of His own promises. He alone is able to forgive the receivers of His covenant when they fail to uphold their part of the agreement. But the Spirit of God is within you by virtue of your faith in His Son and the grace bestowed upon you in salvation. That means you can exercise your role as covenant keeper, no matter what may arise to challenge your faithfulness to it. Especially if your spouse is not in a place of receiving your love right now, the act of covenant keeping can grow more daunting with each passing day. But marriage is not a contract with escape clauses and exception wordings. Marriage is a covenant intended to cut off all avenues of retreat or withdrawal. There’s nothing in all the world that should sever what God has joined together. Your love is based on covenant. Hundreds of years after the prophet Malachi recorded these words, people are still wondering why God withholds His hand of blessing at times from their homes and marriages. “’You say, ‘For what reason?’ Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant….for I hate divorce, says the lord, the God, the God of Israel, and him who covers his garment with wrong, says the lord of hosts. So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously “Malachi 2:14:16”. Every marriage is called to be an earthly picture of God’s heavenly covenant with his church. It is to reveal to the world, the glory and beauty of God’s unconditional love for us. Jesus says “as father as loved me, so have I loved him. Now remaining my love” (john 15:9NIV) let his words inspire you to be a channel of God’s love to your spouse. The time is now, man or woman of God, to renew your covenant of love in all sincerity and surrender. Love is too holy a treasure trade in for another, and too powerful abound to be broken without dire consequences. First in your love afresh on t his one, the lord has given you to cherish, prize and honor. Your life together is before your. Dire to take of it and never let go We pray that you allow God to help you fulfill your part of the covenant