Panther Savage ™️👩‍👧👶🏽🧑‍🧒‍🧒🤍🐱

The amount of witchcraft that millennials and Gen Z are practicing in Kenya is worrying. Acheni uchawi na impatience. The devil is a trickster and a very hard taskmaster. He takes people's glory, works them like horses and gives them peanuts. Whatever he offers you, know that what God can give you is infinitely better.

A few pieces of unsolicited advice for single moms, from your fellow single mom: 1. Do not badmouth your child's father anywhere, any time. "Honor thy father and thy mother" is the first commandment with promise. That "deadbeat" may be your ex, but will always be your child's biological father and as a mother I trust that you mean well for your child. Teach honor. Model it in your speech. You do not have to lie to do this. Remember that the internet never forgets. 2. Please do not fight a man for child support. This is my personal opinion (as is everything in this tweet) and you are free to disagree. As an adult of sound mind, he knows he has a child. Going to court in Africa often just reinforces rejection, wastes a lot of time and energy and isn't even always successful. Even in the US, I had a co-worker whose ex-husband quit his high-paying job and went to work at McDonald's because he didn't want to pay child support. The chaos isn't really worth it. 3. Avoid social media arguments. As single mothers, we will not win against the reasoning of angry men on Twitter, and even if we do, they'll be back to attack in a short while. Many of the people who insult us have abandoned their own children. Many don't and probably won't ever get it. Many have their own personal issues that tint everything they see with the shade of bile. Many are themselves not fathered, and therefore go to strange mentors where they hear all types of nonsense and repeat it back to us. We are on different wavelengths. It's not worth it. 4. Hold on to Psalm 68:5 with all you've got. God is the Father of the fatherless. A dear friend says God is her Co-Parent and she literally reports her child to God when there is an issue with discipline. Need food, rent, child support? Get it from the God who gave you that child. Feeling lonely, exhausted, frustrated? Vent to God. Take His Word back to Him. He will come through. 5. Stay away from bitterness, strife, offense, anger and unforgiveness. They make mothering infinitely more difficult than it already is. Forgive your child's father. Forgive yourself. Some of you might even need to forgive your child(ren) for existing. Learn to pick up on when offense is being used by the enemy to ruin your day. It often comes through these social media arguments, by the way. Very early in the morning. Refuse to be snared by it. 6. Declare with faith and authority that everything that is called a disadvantage will be a double advantage for your child(ren). Your child(ren) will not be a negative statistic(s). Your child(ren) will not make the mistakes you made. Etc. Learn to open your mouth and speak! 7. Finally, pray. You cannot afford not to be close to God as a single mother. You have a generation to steward and you need as much help as you can access. You will learn by week 3 of single motherhood that "vain is the help of man". You will answer before God for the way your children turn out. You need His help to ensure that He is glorified for this bountiful investment He has placed in your hands. You will likely need miracles from time to time, and you need to get used to calling on Him. Single motherhood is not ideal, and I'm sure that it is not the portion you desired for yourself. I'll never forget how a friend of mine laughed at me when I told him he was an "uncle" and said "I'm sure if you were asked five years ago where you saw yourself in five years, this would not have been your answer." 😂😂😂Of course I laughed as well. But we are here, and we must make the best of it, for God's glory, by His grace. May the God who saw Hagar help us all, in Jesus' Name. Amen. I love you all to life.

May God deliver Kenya from this man

This is one thing I find extremely annoying about Kenya. It wasn't always like this. We imported a culture from a place I won't mention, and now it appears people have to look a certain way to be able to get good service at the bank, not be followed around or treated weird in shops, get served on time at restaurants, and be spoken to with respect at government offices. I also can't stand the switch that happens after you tip. Where people first took their time and decided you couldn't afford their services, they now rush to welcome you from the parking lot and even end up getting into "huyo ni customer wangu" arguments with their coworkers. A friend of mine walked into a wig shop in town on her way home from a chama meeting in Syokimau. She asked how much a wig was. The shop owner glanced at the dust on her sandals and told her. "You can't afford that one." She spent about 60k on wigs in that shop that evening just to prove a point. Petty, but I honestly can't judge her. And can we talk about the way ushers at church move people to the back so that they don't mess up the camera shots? Anyway... it's true. If you hate being inconvenienced in Nairobi, dress like you're a potential Cabinet Secretary going to be interviewed before a panel, on national TV... even if you're just going to Sonford.

May God help Kenyan parents love their children and enjoy spending time with them

Low* self-esteem* is about right. We esteem God first (Mark 12:30), others next (Phil 2:3), self last. Healthy *self-image*, which is important, means understanding that there's no such thing as a self-made man. Without God, we are nothing; in Him we live, move. have our being.