Monday, 15 September 2014
Sunday, 7 September 2014
Sunday, 24 August 2014
SEX IN THE FOREST
One common rule of the jungle is “survival for the fittest”
and no matter the state of the jungle the lion must eat meat. Have you ever
wondered or think of what happens to the weak ones in the jungle? They either
starve to death or migrate to another area to see if they can fit and survive
there.
This is what is happening to the commercial sex workers who can no longer fit in
the “battle” field, survival has become a nightmare for them and according to
them, the worst part of it all is the rate at which the living standard has
risen to the higher level. This has forced them to look for other strategy of
surviving in the field to at least bring something on the table and put on.
The is happening in Chobingo forest in Ukunda town, Kwale
County just some few miles from Ukunda/Diani Airstrip where young,
ladies who indulge themselves in drugs go everyday to stage for the passersby especially men and
young boys. They say that even pupils have also develop the taste of passing
there also to enjoy themselves as they come from school in the evening.
Why cant they fit in the same field with the others? “Each
and everyday new ones come, who are young, charming and fresh which makes it
difficult for us to get our customers” exclaimed one of them. For a long time
they employ the tactics of the field since they have stayed in the field for a
longer period than the new comers but still couldn’t beat them. This has made
them loose clients and if one happens to get one then it will be at a lower
price and you can’t deny the offer for it can be what you get the whole night.
The new strategy of ensuring they do not completely lose is
fleeing the place and go somewhere they too can fit and acquire new clients and
according to them it’s a better place, home away from home and they are liking
their new station. It’s called a “green estate station” it’s a business
conducted in a forest hence the name “green” estate station strategically
located along the path where people pass daily.
The business is lucrative and they conduct it all the time
but since the estate has no street lights they leave it at 7 pm to go and try
their luck in the light even though not guarantee that they will get then go
relax. Here they don’t pay rooms as it used to be which also boost them since
all the money one get is hers to keep. “Before we migrated to this place, we
used to pay rooms or our clients pay room with the amount we are paid which was
making it to look little but now that’s gone and we are happy here” retorted
Alice one of them.
while in streets and in pubs, it was not easy for them to get
customers during the day as some of their customers never wanted to get noticed
and would only appear in the dark but as it stands for them now that one is a
forgone case and now they can get them easily during the day as the forest is
thick and it’s in a path where everybody especially men pass by while going for
their daily chores, others according to them just make it their habit to pass
there to pick one and not really going anywhere. In the green estate they sell
at kshs. 100 or 50 for those who bargain a lot but in the evening at the
streets they sell as little as kshs. 30.
“when we started it here in the forest, people could pass us
and pretend not to notice us but since we have experience in this work, we
ensured that we get noticed and that we don’t lose clients, the news about us
being here spread out like a bush fire.” added Alice
They knew tactics that lure men, and since they are in
business they don’t fear walking naked in front of you just to make you fall in
their trap. This is just one of the many tactics they employed.
According to them life has changed since they can eat, drink,
maintain to buy drugs and meet other needs ever since they migrated to that
place.
Men who had got the taste of them frequent the place without
missing since they could easily access them and being that the price was
favourable for them they never fail to visit. Though they are ladies who
indulge themselves with drugs, this affected them so much that even an offer of
kshs. 20 one will just agree so long as she doesn’t miss the money to buy the
drugs which they go for every evening after job.
They are not ready to quit yet may be only when the bush will
be cleared, this is just because they need money to buy drugs and injection
since they can’t do without it and the commodity is expensive to acquire. Some
even say they don’t care about food but their first priority is on how to get
the injection first then the rest will follow.
“The money we get here, we spend most of it on drugs (kitu)
as they would call it because we and drugs is one thing” retorted one of them
who declined to give the name
One thing one ought to know is that they don’t choose who to
go with; young, old, married, infected what they want is money but they are
also careful, in their station are packs of condoms that they put standby in
case a customer will appear.
This simply tells you that school going children are not left
out either and they at high risk of falling victims since it’s the same path
they use that the station is located.
There is no business that you will do without facing or
meeting challenges on the way, they too face challenges in their business. They
say that they are being confronted with women who pass there that they are
destroying their husbands that they should vacate the place and go somewhere
else a part from there. Sometimes the women come in groups to threaten to beat
them if they don’t leave the place but they are admitting that they are not
leaving very soon, since they don’t force anybody to have sex with them but one
do it willingly and pays without being forced.
“We don’t care whether they are husbands, what we want is
money and we are not forcing anyone to sleep with us. Whoever will accept the
offer we deem as our customer” they added in chorus
To them the business is so lucrative and they are contented
with it and if you have not fallen a victim but use the path, be so keen since
they are not relenting. If you are parent whose boys use the path to school,
you better worry about it lest they become victims too.
Thursday, 17 July 2014
DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHO I AM?
Galatians 3:26-27
"For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ."
Following World War II, there were more than two hundred French soldiers with amnesia who returned to Paris. They had been prisoners in Japanese camps and suffered through horrible ordeals of privation and torture. These men had been so psychologically devastated by their imprisonment that they lost the conscious awareness of who they were and where they had lived before the war.
Most of the soldiers' identities were quickly established from Red Cross records or with the help of fellow prisoners, but after all known efforts were exhausted, there were still thirty-two men whose existence seemed impossible to trace. Not only were there no records of them, but none of the other soldiers knew anything about them. The doctors who were treating these thirty-two men believed that the chance for recovery would be impossible unless they were reconnected with family and friends.
Someone proposed publishing photographs of the men on the front page of newspapers throughout the country. A date, time, and place of meeting would also be given, hoping anyone having information about them would come. The plan was implemented and French newspapers soon published the pictures, adding that the Paris Opera House would open its doors for the potential identification and connection with loved ones.
On the assigned day, a huge crowd gathered inside the opera house to view the veterans. Every seat was taken and people spilled out onto the streets. Finally, in a dramatic entrance, the first of the amnesia victims walked onto the stage of the darkened room and slowly turned around under the glare of the spotlight, giving everyone a full view. Then, according to instruction, he and the other thirty-one soldiers who followed asked the same pleading question: "Does anybody out there know who I am . . . does anybody know who I am?"
Thankfully, many of the men were soon reunited with their families.
Isn't this the same question that all of humanity is asking? Sadly, many people have a terrible case of self-imposed amnesia. But this is to be expected from a generation that has stepped back from God's Word. Sadder yet is the church—professed Christians seem to have forgotten that they belong to Christ.
So who are we? We are called sons of God (Galatians 3); new creations (2 Corinthians 5); children of God and heirs of God (Romans 8). The New Testament is brimming with descriptions of the Christian's identity in Christ.
Understanding who we are in Christ will cause us to recognize why we are different from the world. The truth is, if we don't understand what makes us different from the world, we will never be able to make a difference in the world.
We, of all people, need never ask, "Does anybody know who I am?" We are new creatures . . . children of God.
Prayer Point: Thank God for the incredible, life-changing work He has accomplished in your life: through His death on the cross, paying for your sin; through His resurrection, securing for you eternal life; through His mercy, flowing for you every day. Don't live in a state of spiritual amnesia any longer; instead, meditate on God's promises on your behalf, and thank Him for who He is molding you to be.
Extra Refreshment: Read 2 Corinthians 5
Monday, 30 June 2014
Thursday, 1 May 2014
YOU NEED IT
WHY SHOULD WE PRAY?
In the powerful work, Giving Ourselves to Prayer, I observes that dialogue with the Almighty is part of the fabric of the Bible: “Genesis 4:26 first mentions that ‘men began to call on the name of the Lord,’ and Revelation 22:20 closes the Bible with the prayer, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’ (compare 1 Corinthians 16:22).
The entire history of redemption is framed in prayer. In between these terminal references we find a database about prayer that is so large it requires description beyond simple definition.”
Why do we pray? Here are a few key reasons:
1. We love Him. Just as a man and woman in love desire to be together and communicate, so we, if we love God, will desire to be with Him and to fellowship with Him in proportion to our love for Him.
2. We depend on God. He is our source. He is our life (Colossians 3:4). Through prayer, we receive the comfort, strength, and all the other resources we need in life, both naturally and spiritually.
Prayer—relationship with God—is as necessary to the spiritual life as air is to the natural life.
3. Prayer allows us to resist temptation. Jesus warned His disciples to “watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation” (Matthew 26:41, NKJV). Living a life without prayer can leave us weak and exposed,
giving an opportunity for the enemy to gain ground and potentially lure us into sin.
4. Prayer is necessary for people to invite God to act in salvation.
God gave the earth to Adam and his descendants, so we must invite God to work here. If no one invites Him to work on earth, Satan—the “god of this age” because of humanity’s universal rebellion (2 Corinthians 4:4)—will dominate human affairs, and eventually the judgment of God will come. By inviting God to intercede often and specifically, multitudes can be saved who would otherwise be lost.
5. God commands us to pray. In Colossians 4:2, Paul writes: “Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving” (NKJV). Jesus also encouraged His followers to pray: “Then He [Jesus] spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart” (Luke 18:1, NKJV).
The need to pray is as great as the authority of God, who commands us to “pray without ceasing”
(1 Thessalonians 5:17, NKJV). Prayer is so vital to all that God wants to do on the earth, and
it is so essential to us, that He commands us to do it all the time. Weshould even deny ourselves sleep and food at times to pray more and with greater power (see Matthew 6:16; Luke 6:12; Luke 21:36; Colossians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 11:27). Or, as John Chrysostom wrote:
Prayer has subdued the strength of fire. It has bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, burst the chains of death, expanded the fates of heaven, assuaged diseases, dispelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, staid the
sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. In this communion with God, there is an all-sufficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine that is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain,
the mother of a thousand blessings!
In the powerful work, Giving Ourselves to Prayer, I observes that dialogue with the Almighty is part of the fabric of the Bible: “Genesis 4:26 first mentions that ‘men began to call on the name of the Lord,’ and Revelation 22:20 closes the Bible with the prayer, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’ (compare 1 Corinthians 16:22).
The entire history of redemption is framed in prayer. In between these terminal references we find a database about prayer that is so large it requires description beyond simple definition.”
Why do we pray? Here are a few key reasons:
1. We love Him. Just as a man and woman in love desire to be together and communicate, so we, if we love God, will desire to be with Him and to fellowship with Him in proportion to our love for Him.
2. We depend on God. He is our source. He is our life (Colossians 3:4). Through prayer, we receive the comfort, strength, and all the other resources we need in life, both naturally and spiritually.
Prayer—relationship with God—is as necessary to the spiritual life as air is to the natural life.
3. Prayer allows us to resist temptation. Jesus warned His disciples to “watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation” (Matthew 26:41, NKJV). Living a life without prayer can leave us weak and exposed,
giving an opportunity for the enemy to gain ground and potentially lure us into sin.
4. Prayer is necessary for people to invite God to act in salvation.
God gave the earth to Adam and his descendants, so we must invite God to work here. If no one invites Him to work on earth, Satan—the “god of this age” because of humanity’s universal rebellion (2 Corinthians 4:4)—will dominate human affairs, and eventually the judgment of God will come. By inviting God to intercede often and specifically, multitudes can be saved who would otherwise be lost.
5. God commands us to pray. In Colossians 4:2, Paul writes: “Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving” (NKJV). Jesus also encouraged His followers to pray: “Then He [Jesus] spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart” (Luke 18:1, NKJV).
The need to pray is as great as the authority of God, who commands us to “pray without ceasing”
(1 Thessalonians 5:17, NKJV). Prayer is so vital to all that God wants to do on the earth, and
it is so essential to us, that He commands us to do it all the time. Weshould even deny ourselves sleep and food at times to pray more and with greater power (see Matthew 6:16; Luke 6:12; Luke 21:36; Colossians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 11:27). Or, as John Chrysostom wrote:
Prayer has subdued the strength of fire. It has bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, burst the chains of death, expanded the fates of heaven, assuaged diseases, dispelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, staid the
sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. In this communion with God, there is an all-sufficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine that is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain,
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