Sophia Okunowo

Pastor Sophia is a mother, mentor and pastors along side her husband.
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How To Be There for Each Other
02
Sep
By Sophia Okunowo
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How To Be There for Each Other

It is often said that a friend in need is a friend indeed. The value of friendship is known in hard and tough times. Nothing is as soothing as when a friend speaks to you in your down moments. When his or her words are like cold water to a thirsty soul. If the effect of a friend could be that felt, how much more is the effect of a spouse. Of course, our spouse is supposed to be our best friend with who we are vulnerable, with who we can share the joy and the privilege of being naked…
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How To keep Love Ablaze In Our Marriage
01
Sep
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How To keep Love Ablaze In Our Marriage

Before we can talk of keeping love ablaze, we have to talk of couples living true to their covenant responsibilities. First, we should know that our marriages have certain mandate in the heart of God to fulfill. And here’s a second offense: You fill the place of worship with your whining and sniveling because you don’t get what you want from God. Do you know why? Simple. Because God was there as a witness when you spoke your marriage vows to your young bride, and now you’ve broken those vows, broken the faith-bond with your vowed companion, your covenant wife.…
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Ten Things That Keep Couples Together
31
Aug
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Ten Things That Keep Couples Together

Have you seen couples married for over 15 years? One thing that strikes you is that they begin to look alike. There's just something that makes them closer and begins to look alike. Well, it's not a fast and hard rule that couples who have been together for years should look alike. I guess that is the reason why the bible says, the two shall become one flesh. I guess they truly become one flesh in the real sense of the word. The truth is that, if you want to remain close and knitted together, there are some things you…
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What To Do When Things Seem Tough
29
Aug
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What To Do When Things Seem Tough

What do you do when things seem tough? There are times when everything just seems okay. Life is just good. You look at your bank account and smile. There are cars in the garage. The children are doing well, nice school. Your spouse is just so nice. The money keeps rolling into your account. No stress. During weekends you have all the time with your family. During holidays, you and the family get to travel out of the country. Your wife comes home on time, prepares a good meal. Your house is really yours and it is fine. It has…
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Dear Wives, God Is Restoring Your Dignity
28
Aug
By Sophia Okunowo
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Dear Wives, God Is Restoring Your Dignity

This is the scripture I used in our OIL FOR TODAY prayer time, and when I asked my husband what to write on today, he just pointed out this scripture. I want you to pause and say this to yourself "God is restoring my dignity in marriage" So I will be bringing out some salient points from this scripture. I Sam2:8 MSGHe puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope, Restoring dignity and respect to their lives— a place in the sun! For the structures of earth are God ’s; he has laid out…
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How To Relate With In-Laws Without Strife – Part 2
27
Aug
By Sophia Okunowo
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How To Relate With In-Laws Without Strife – Part 2

We started looking at this all-important topic yesterday. "How to relate with in-laws without strife" We looked at 2 scenarios and we will look at more scenarios today. It is impossible to deal with all possible scenarios but this is just to help you draw wisdom from them and know that you are not alone. There are no custom-made problems. You just have to draw the needed wisdom and handle your own situation. Scenario 3Ronke's mother-in-law is a good woman and she has heard a lot of good reports from her husband about how she single-handedly raised her son and…
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How To Relate With In-Laws Without Strife
26
Aug
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How To Relate With In-Laws Without Strife

There are a lot of questions about in-laws that some of us might need answers to. An In-law issue is a very complicated one that one needs a lot of wisdom to address. You love your spouse very much, you don't want to hurt or offend them, and yet there are issues with his/her parents. They have been the ones taking care of your spouse before your spouse met you, so they cannot be wrong. They are flawless. They are saints, so does your spouse see them. How do you handle them in such a way that it doesn't cause…
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Don’t Let Joy Wither From Your Marriage
25
Aug
By Sophia Okunowo
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Don’t Let Joy Wither From Your Marriage

Today's topic is very important, And I want you to give it rapt attention, "Don't let joy wither from your marriage". I know you are a perfectionist. You like to fix everything and everybody. You don't like things out of order. You feel the compulsion to fix your spouse. They have to be in a certain way. Eat in a certain way, laugh a certain way, or talk in a certain way.  Oga, free yourself! You are not the Holy Ghost. You cannot change anybody so don't kill yourself trying. You are sensitive. If things don't go the way you…
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How To Maintain The Spiritual Glow As A Couple
24
Aug
By Sophia Okunowo
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How To Maintain The Spiritual Glow As A Couple

One of the most difficult things to do is to try and maintain the spiritual glow now that you are married. Before marriage, my husband would read about 40 chapters of the bible, pray in tongues for hours and practice the presence of God. Apart from the fact that he is a pastor and must study and pray, all those times given to reading 40 chapters are no longer there. When you are a married couple your time just seemed to be shared. It is no longer your time. The home is there, the kids are there to take care,…
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Experiencing Fruitfulness In Marriage
23
Aug
By Sophia Okunowo
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Experiencing Fruitfulness In Marriage

I am continuing from where I stopped yesterday. We started on the topic how to experience fruitfulness is marriage Now, in the natural, there is a God-ordained way for a woman to go before her womb will carry a child. There must be intercourse with a man. So if you want your womb to be fruitful here are 4 God-ordained way to go about it. 1. Have a relationship with God. Here I don't mean a casual church service relationship with God. I mean love Him, with the whole of your heart. Love him with your life. Decide to marry…
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How To Experience Fruitfulness In Your Marriage
22
Aug
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How To Experience Fruitfulness In Your Marriage

This morning I prophesy to you, the womb of your life shall not be empty. Receive the power to experience fruitfulness in your marriage in the name of Jesus This prayer is not just for married women only looking for the fruit of the womb but for every man and woman who wants to be fruitful, to multiply and to fulfill destiny in life. God abhors fruitlessness and you will see God in scriptures opening wombs and causing them to conceive and bear children. I am persuaded this morning that if you are trusting God for your own miracle child,…
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How To Receive A Happy Marriage
21
Aug
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How To Receive A Happy Marriage

Many of us have some unpleasant things going on in our marriages. We may have been praying for a long time for God to answer our prayers. We may be frustrated about God not answering our prayers. I don't know if you have been there before. A friend came to visit me and she told me when discussing that it’s a man’s world. For wives, in our marriage, we always feel that way. We have to go through God in prayers for God to speak to our husbands before we have some of our desires. That is the process for…
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In the Beginning, It was Not So – Part 2
19
Aug
By Sophia Okunowo
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In the Beginning, It was Not So – Part 2

So today, let's ask ourselves what did God say about our marriage? Do we see anything in our marriage right now that is not meant to be so? Are there things in our marriage that are aberration to what God said in the beginning? Hear what is written concerning you and your marriage from the beginning: And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be…
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In The Beginning, It Was Not So
18
Aug
By Sophia Okunowo
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In The Beginning, It Was Not So

This is a particular statement "In the beginning, it was not so" was declared by Jesus Christ our Lord, when He was asked if husbands could put away their wives, treat them anyhow, or not be compassionate to them. He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. Matthew 19:8 KJV Jesus was and is qualified to talk about the beginning because He was there at the beginning of all things. He was there when the heavens and the earth were being…
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How To Apply Your Faith In Marriage
15
Aug
By Sophia Okunowo
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How To Apply Your Faith In Marriage

The message of faith is fast giving way to other popular messages especially now. I think in my own opinion that we heard more 'how to live by faith' messages than we do now, yet, it comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. As a single lady when I was in the university, we were taught how to trust and believe God for stuff. Then we listened to Papa Kenneth Hagin, the Copelands, Creflo and Taffi Dollars, Jerry Savel, Jesse Duplantis, Bishop Oyedepo, and a host of others. We saw living by faith as a necessity and…
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The Power Of Forgiveness In Marriage
13
Aug
By Sophia Okunowo
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The Power Of Forgiveness In Marriage

Marriage is the place where you will have to come to terms with the practicality of forgiveness. In other relationships, forgiveness is also essential but it may not be as that of marriage. In marriage, you will have to forgive for the relationship to be healed. You and your spouse cannot avoid each other. You live together, have children together, for the sake of peace and progress, forgiveness is very necessary. The standard of the Word of God is so high. That's why it is a narrow road that leads to heaven. The Bible does not mince words when we…
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