The Women’s Director of The Church of Pentecost, Deaconess Philomina Mireku, has charged women to be good stewards of their households to enable them possess their homes for God.
Mrs Mireku made this assertion during a visit to the La Area Women’s Ministry on February 24, 2023, at the Dr Thomas Wyatt Temple.
The programme was organised on the theme, “Repositioning Women in La Area for Maximum Impact in the Nations.”
Speaking on the topic, “Family Life” and using the Puritans as a case study, she said the family comprises a group of persons who are closely knitted together either by blood or adoption.
She hinted that for a family to thrive, women have a major role to play, especially in raising family altars in their homes.
She explained that a family altar is a designated sanctimonious place in homes where families gather together in worship to praise and spend time with the Lord.
“It is, therefore, important that Christian families establish altars in their homes to enable them draw God’s presence and strength each day,” she said, adding, “This way, many issues bothering couples and individuals in the families will be solved without problems.”
She also urged women to be cautious of their attitudes towards their husbands, saying, “Let’s use our lifestyle to win our households for Christ because family exists before the church. It is the family that makes the church. If families are strongly established and are healthy, the church will thrive.”
Deaconess Philomina Mireku stated that just as the Puritans considered marriage as a calling and ministry, members should as well see their marriages in that same perspective and work hard on them in achieving God’s ordained plan and purpose for establishing marriage in other to attract onto themselves generational blessings.
Referring to Titus 2: 1-5, she asked wives to let their lives be pleasing to God in their relationships with their husbands, including their children and other relations.
She advised them to be guided by the values and principles of the Kingdom of God in the training of their children.
“Like the Puritans, let’s respect our children and teach them the ways of God.” She indicated.
The Women’s Director further noted with specific reference to Prophet Eli and Prophet Samuel who even though were great and powerful men of God, yet, failed in training their children in the ways of the Lord.
When family altars are raised in homes, it aids in establishing a good relationship between husbands and wives, parents and children as well as in-laws.
She concluded her message by establishing that women, and for that matter, mothers, are an indestructible component of the family system and, as such, are required to take good care of themselves and their homes by ensuring that their households are fed with good balanced diets, engage in regular exercise, have enough rest and also respect their own husbands.
Report by Gina Akua Padi.