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Why Mature Women need to take more of the Initiative towards Marriage  On the few occasions that I have hinted at this, I have received the wide-eyed exclamation, “What, me a woman to propose marriage to a man?!” Yet how many men would one see at prayer camps praying to get a wife? When men are ready to marry, they literally walk out and bring a wife home! Is it thus not unfair that women do not (not cannot) exercise similar (not the same) initiative? Well, any unfairness in the matter cannot excuse the women from the blame of failing to take the right initiative. This is because women can exercise such initiative in their own fashion, as the remarkable story of Ruth in the Bible illustrates. You may read Ruth chapter four for the full details, but here I have enough space for just some provocative thoughts on why such initiative is needed: 1. It is not forbidden by the Bible, but it requires a lot of wisdom. This is one reason why a mature woman is better placed than a novice to carry

 If a person knows the difference between good and evil and has somehow convinced himself that God has waived the consequences of either, he knows more than enough. No further time should be wasted on him.  When the Pharisees and others played that card, either by pre-qualification or PREDESTINATION, Jesus warned them and left them alone. He considered them twice lost: the blind who claimed to see! It is to the once lost that we are sent; to the people who still reel under the burden of sin, fully aware of the fleeting nature of sin's pleasures. These know they deserve God's condemnation because of their wrong doing, and are seeking to abandon their sinful ways if there is hope of salvation. These are the people walking in ignorance of God's redemption through Christ. Leave the door open to the twice lost, but go to the once lost with the good news, that THERE IS FORGIVENESS OF SINS IN THE NAME OF JESUS FOR WHOEVER TURNS AWAY FROM HIS SINS. #WarnThem

 Seth Asare Ofei Badu The two books of Kings turn on the house of King OMRI the founder of Samaria, the more famous capital of the Northern Kingdom, Israel. His 4-generation dynasty had succeeded two failed dynasties (of JEROBOAM I-NADAB, and BAASHA-ELAH), and two other usurpers (ZIMRI and TIBNI). REHOBOAM, ABIJAH and ASA, the first three kings of the Southern Kingdom (Judah), had stayed aloof of the idolatry instituted by Jeroboam I (founder of the Northern Kingdom). But the next three kings of Judah, namely, JEHOSHAPHAT, JEHORAM and AHAZIAH kept very familiar ties with Omri’s successors, AHAB, AHAZIAH and JORAM. The first book therefore closes with Elijah’s severe ministry in a bid to end idolatry in Israel, which threatened to rope in Judah by virtue of the close association of the two kingdoms' then ruling houses.  2 Kings shows the commencement of Prophet Elisha’s ministry that triggers the unlike but parallel ‘house-cleanings’. In Israel JEHU exterminates the house of Omri in