Hosting the united family members , Dairy game for Sunday 5 may 2024

Greetings everyone , what a joy it is for me everytime i wake up on Sunday morning ,am always looking forward to sunday morning because its another opportunity to fellowship with my fellow brother and sisters in christ .

MORNING HOURS

I woke up very excited i started my morning routines of cleaning the house because i was expecting some guests later in the day and also i was expected to be in church by 8 am ,so i started doing the necessary stuffs,i started preparing the kids . i had stew on the fridge so i brought it out,all i needed was to boil white rice to eat with the stew , while that was on fire i started doing other things like bathing my daughter , keeping the things they needed for service handy, the two guys had taken their bath and were waiting on the dinning table for their breakfast so that after eating , they can start dressing up, it was a great sunday that we were looking forward to because unlike other service, it was a special combined service meaning that it wasn't two services like before , this one was different, it was an all praise service just one service .

My gas was very fast , in no time , my rice was ready i just needed to warm my chicken stew which i did and shared it for the children to start eating, i told them to hurry up with the food because we were out of time , i rushed to the bathroom to take my bath.

As the first sunday of the month , its always our fasting so normally we were not supposed to eat but the children did eat and i fasted , so when they were done eating, they started getting dressed preparing for service that morning,when i was done with them , i started dressing up myself ,Finally we were done , we headed out off the street to get a cap,
It was very easy just as we approached the highway , we saw a vehicle that conveyed us to church.

T he drive was smooth and safe just within minutes , we were already in church so my children went to their section while i step into mine . my goodness church was already full ,i had to move to my section and i started putting certain things in order.

THE SERVICE

It was a great service and our all praise service , it was different from others, The pastors started leading with different prayer points setting the pace for a great service, so i participated in the prayers ,it was mind-blowing ,i was enjoying every bit of the service,the worship and the reading of our daily devotional ,it was serendipitous . it wasn't long my pastor came up for the praise service to commence so the choir took the lead with different ministration of songs, The atmosphere was filled and charge ,it was numerous praise songs with different choir members taking the lead , the choir seating arrangements was also spectacular to make the service unique ,they also ministered differently, i love the songs , i generally love music so i join in to sing along with the choir.

After the first 4 songs one of our pastors came up for the first reading which was taken from the book of psalms 40vs 1- 10, after the first reading came another loveworld songs titled the Alabaster box, after the song came the second reading from the book of Psalms 101vs 5-12
After the second reading came another song tilted Am grateful lord, after that came like three more songs before the third reading which was taken by Deacon Ubong and it was taken from the book of Psalms 63vs 1- 13. It was mind blowing listening to the book of psalms ,after that came several songs , i felt like not leaving church today but i had to because something was waiting for me at home,the atmosphere was so tensed , the choir ministered 20 special songs, the choir did extremely well ,what a service it was.After the praise came a brief exaltation by our pastor where he taught us with scriptures about how to deal with offense.

Text taken from psalms119 vs 165
Matt 13 vs 5 -7, matt 11 vs 6
Five things that get people offended
Its found in the book of proverbs 9vs5-8
1)correction , it takes humility to accept correction .

1. Rejection.
2. challenges and pressure
   4)Accusation
   Stages of offense
   1)withdrawal
3. Betrayal
   3)Malice
4. Stubbornnesd

HOW TO OVERCOME OFFENSE

1. Expect offense
2. Decide not to revenge
3. Forgive quickly matt 6 vs 14.

The blessings you derive from forgiveness

1. Answered prayers
2. forgiveness causes men to fear you psalms 130 vs 4 and Ephesians 5 vs 1
3. it causes your dreams to be fulfilled.
   4)it breaks every evil circle.
   It was a rewarding service ,after the word came our offerings and other givings then Announcements , and the service was over , i was checking the time i had to rush back home because ill be expecting some guests today at home ,it was a very long service , i didn't wait for any meeting i started rushing back home.

LUNCH HOURS

When i got home , it was already 2 pm so i had to change up,serve the children lunch because they were already hungry ,after that i had to rush to the market to buy some stuffs, i had planned to cook rice and chicken pepper soup for the children that will come and white soup for the adults , so i bought the ingredients i needed for both meals.

I thought of preparing something fast because of time,i was already late so i had to move with speed .i bought chicken
Scentleaves
Fresh pepper
Seasoning cubes
Onions
I added a little dry fish thats for the pepper soup.for the white soup i bought
Chicken
A Little hot leaf
Periwinkle
Crayfish
Dry fish
Yam,stock fish,dryfish,pepper and seasoning cubes.

While i was still shopping,i was called that my guests have arrived.i zoomed off and came back to the house .immediately i boil rice and wash the chicken and boiled for pepper soup ,while the meeting was ongoing,My husband is the
Chairman of the group,so while they were deliberating on several matters,i alone in the kitchen cooking because it wasn't a long meeting ,very soon the children will start disturbing for food so i had to be very fast now.

My gas never disappoints me so it was boiling very fast, i washed and boiled again adding some salts, Not long it was ready while the peppersoup was still on fire , i started preparing my white soup by boiling my stock fish and dry fish to soft abit,after cooking for a while ,i put them aside and boil my chicken for the white soup, the peppersoup was ready , i brought it down and boil my already peeled and washed yam,while the soup was still boiling ,i added all the ingredients for the white soup , i waited for the yam to be ready for pounding, after pounding ,i added it to the boiling soup and lastly added my neatly sliced hot leaf,just a second on fire, i brought it down and started sharing, my bigger son was helping me to serve the food to our guest.it was indeed great .
The food arrived ontime.

EVENING HOURS

They were eating and commenting me for a very delicious meal ,it was very satisfactory ,they all eat and drank ,no one was left out of it at all,they poured their heartfelt gratitude towards me,they were so happy and they deliver some prayers of blessings ,after that,they started departing with their family one after the other ,i had to start cleaning the house especially the kitchen and the parlour ,washing and arranging the house, mopping too because monday will be another great day ,the children are assuming school,another activity day so i cleaned up every where ,cleared the empty can drinks and sachets of pure water then i proceeded to take my bath ,i was so exhausted, after having my bath ,i relaxed in the parlour enjoying myself with the cool breeze from the fan, yes i needed it not long i slept off before them they children had already gone to bed.

Thanks so much @ngoenyi for your encouragement Also @goodybest and Alli001.Thanks a lot everyone for supporting me.