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WHOLENESS 6 Being Your Best Self 10 A Rejected Heart 14 Peace of Mind 18 Rejecting Rejection
SPIRITUAL ETIQUETTE 20 Before You Give Up On Love 34 Rejection By Man is Not Rejection By God 38 Taking Time To Worship 44 A Heart for Widows 48 The Wise & The Foolish
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LIFESTYLE 38 Fitness For The Soul 44 Please Don't Judge Me 48 Women in Business
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COVER FEATURE
24 SPECIAL FEATURES 62 Kingdom Man: Why I Love What I Do • • • • • •
24 Stepping Out With Preethy Kurian
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Jeffrey Daniel Fredrick Leonard Adrian Trujillo Alex Flores, Kenneth Nwokeji Maurice Elrod
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BEFORE YOU GIVE UP ON
Love TRY THIS!
by Dr. Sara-Jayne McLeod
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llow me to start with the obvious, 2020 has been eventful. The virus COVID 19 swept in and disrupted every single part of our lives. During this lockdown period which is partially still ongoing, many have felt the effects of social distancing. Maybe you are one of those who find themselves without a partner in life at present, and you have noticed that you are single. Your home has never felt so quiet without the humdrum routine of work and the excitement of your usual entertainment activities or social events. You start to think about the future, but how exactly do you date during a pandemic? There are three things I am going to share with you today that may inspire you to
"God has a way of blessing us with precisely what we need"
action. Simple actions that you can take to transform your singlehood experience. As the world’s first Singlehood Consultant, I run my coaching/matchmaking agency on the ethos that faith without works is useless. You require both a winning mindset and effective practical strategies to achieve your hearts desires. It is a positive thing to know exactly what you want. However, if your ‘ideal’ requirements for a man and ‘perfect love story’ are too restrictive, you may miss out on potential prospects for marriage. There are definite non-negotiable, or deal-breakers, i.e. one wants children the other does not. That is a compatibility issue which cannot be negotiated or adapted. The rest height, age, job, the cultural background is preferential. Date outside your type! There
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Stepping Out
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n a i r u K thy Preethy Kurian, engineer, pastor and prophet is a woman who is definitely living her purpose. I sat down with Preethy to find out how she balances life with the many hats she wears.
WEW: Who is Preethy Kurian? I’m a daughter, a wife, a mother, I think there are seasons in your life when you are different people at different times, For example, with my daughter going through her studies, right now, I am more in the role of mother, and maybe when she’s older that may change too. So, I am a wife to not just a good husband, but I’m also a wife to My Lord and I think that makes me a better wife in this realm. In the sense that one of the things that I realise is that this life I live, I live for Christ and so a lot of decisions of who I am today, is because of my identity as the Bride of Christ. The trith is that, the preparation and the sacrifice to be His Bride has made me who I am today. I am a friend, I think I’m a decent friend. I like making friends although I wish I had more time to spend with friends. I am a sister, I have brothers but I am friends with my brothers. By profession I am an engineer, I’m a director of a FinTech company called CrossPay. I am also the senior pastor of Capstone Church. If you ask most people who is Preethy Kurian, they will say she is probably quite happy. WEW: You started with describing yourself as a daughter and most times women don’t start with that description, but for those who
don’t understand, can you please explain by what you mean you are a daughter? I would like to speak from the spiritual aspect of being a daughter. John 1:12 says that to all who believed and received, He gave them power and the authority to be called children of God. My father was the fifth son of in a family of boys, meaning they didn’t have girls in the house until after my father was born; so the family really values daughters. I was born after 2 boys, so when I was born, I became the apple of my father’s life. I really experienced his love. My mum said when I was a child in my crib hearing my father’s car as he was returning from work, I would start giggling; my mum said I would constantly be giggling at the sound of his voice and the more I giggled, the more I would attract my dad, I was really the apple of my father’s eye. When I was about 11 years old, I lost my father, something went wrong in surgery he was undergoing. It was so devastating that I remember thinking, how would I live, because I really didn’t have a lot of relationships within other members of my family at the time; I had a lot of friends, but I couldn’t imagine life without him. I always knew there was God, but I didn’t know how to get to Him, He seemed distant and far and www.wewmagazine.com
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MAN GOD REJECTION BY
REJECTION BY
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oo many times we look to man for approval, acceptance, or validation. We look to man for our self-worth and being good enough. This kind of thinking is dangerously wrong and out of alignment with our identity. As a Christian, a believer, in our Lord and Savior we should come to know who we truly are and WHOSE, we truly are. This will set us free in so many areas of our lives. Once this revelation sinks in we will be released from looking to others to weigh our importance. I have seen this in so many wonderful people, and sadly, myself, who have placed the value and importance on the opinions of man. If the person whom we care for so many rejects us, we find ourselves at a place of insecurity, invaluable and possibly begin to think; we are a nothing. These thoughts are unhealthy and can be dangerous for our tomorrow. Do not allow a man to defined you. Do not allow a man to tell you if you are or are not good enough. If someone has caused you to feel unwanted, unworthy, or unloved then it could be you have given that person too much control of who you are and not WHOSE you are. It most certainly is a beautiful thing when we find love in the natural, it feels up the
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fleshy part of you and makes you feel whole and complete, totally alive, but what happens, what happens when that feeling fades, from either that person changes their minds or you do? What if there was a child whom you raised and gave them all that you had to give, and they grow up and decide you were the worst parent ever? Then what? We are left broken just a shell of whom we once were and completely undone. That should never be the case. Learn WHOSE you are. THE GREAT I AM....that is whose you are.
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"Someone
needs what you have to offer."
Why? Why are we now a broken soul? Because we gave man too much control of
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KINGDOM MAN
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SPECIAL MEN'S FEATURE
WHY I LOVE WHAT I DO
Including: Feature interview with Jeffrey Daniel Plus: Fredrick Leonard, Adrian Trujillo, Alex Flores, Kenneth Nwokeji, Maurice Elrod www.wewmagazine.com