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Are you compromising your destiny for company?
It is impossible to live a life that is unaffected by other people. Your association/friends can take you closer to your God destiny or far away from it. Their attitudes and opinions, like pollen, blow into our lives, shaping our perspective and influencing our...
The Miracle Baby – An Amazing Testimony!
With God, all things are possible! Matthew 19:26. In this post we want to feature an amazing testimony of faith and healing from our friend Damian Fernandes. Based out of Mumbai, Damian is a worshipper at heart. He is self employed and stays with his wife Vijaya, a...
Repentance and Running After God Again
In the previous post, we addressed brokenness as a means to chasing God's heart and in this post we will look at the heart of repentance. Brokenness brings repentance, weeping, humility and sensitivity to the things of the Spirit. David, tagged as the man after God's...
Drawing Near to God With Brokenness
God is yet to deny a broken and repentant heart! In other words, if you want to draw near to God’s heart, know that your brokenness and repentance will hold the key.
Contemplating Marriage? Here’s the First Step! (Video)
How do I know God's plan concerning my marriage? How do I know that the partner I selected is from Jesus? In this below video Derrick will encourage you to put first things first in seeking a partner for your life. Mind you, this is not an elaborate teaching on the...
4 Ways Mothers Can Bring Up Their Children
This guest post is by my friend Suzanne Karkada. A software engineer by profession she recently got married and resigned from her job in order to devote her full time towards her family. Suzanne loves singing and her deepest desire is to use her voice for God’s glory....
Anger in Marriage: When Demons Party!
Last week Derrick and I had an argument. While my husband, I feel, is the right candidate to win the 'Most Patient Man' tag, it doesn't take much time for my temper to flare up. In the end, a trivial issue just got the better of us and got blown out of proportion. At...
7 Dos and Don’ts of WhatsApp Group Chat
Group chats can be immensely annoying at times. And if you don’t take guard, they can drain you of your precious time and peace of mind.
A Love Much More Than You Could Ask For
(By Pastor Derrick D'souza) As a child I always used to love hearing my Mom tell me how much she loved me (I was the youngest sibling among five). I used to ask her the same question over and over again until I was confident she was not just saying it to make me...
Parenting Lessons From a Pastor’s Wife
Recently I happened to talk to Pratibha Kinkar, who co-pastors New life Fellowship, Nerul (Navi Mumbai) alongside her husband Pastor Daniel Kinkar. Our discussion revolved around pregnancy and parenting, and in this post, I thought of sharing excerpts from our...
Your Past – Once Buried, Always Buried?
We are excited to have our friend Melanie Philipnery write a guest post on Soargirls this week. Melanie grew up in church from age 5, got saved at 8 and stepped into ministry as a teen. She had two careers before settling for teaching in Adult Education. Melanie is a...
A Letter to the People Pleaser
Dear People Pleaser, I write this to you out of love and concern. Time is running out faster than you can imagine, and if you are using bulk of your time trying to please people around you – that’s a sheer waste! The very purpose you were created was to please your...
Why Every Woman Should Remember Anna
There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day,...
Hear From the Greatest Lover of All Times
(By Pastor Derrick D'souza) From the Father, To You… My love for you existed even before it could get conceived in your heart (1 John 4:19) My love for you is a fruit of my will and pleasure. (Ephesians 1: 5) My love for you made me give you all that I ever had...
The Incredible Power Behind Submission
I was following my daily bible reading planner for 2014, when I stumbled upon a very important principle which will help you to grow in every area of your life. I noticed that the word "Submit" was mentioned for the first time in the Bible in the story of Hagar and...
50 Years of Marriage & Selfless Love!
May be some of you have reached a point in your marriage where you are wondering, “What’s there in it for me?”
Fighting Depression – How My Friend Did It
I love visiting the house of this friend of mine for one reason. Everywhere you see you will find paper cuttings and scribbled notes of Scriptures from the Word of God stuck on her house walls. And not even the washroom is spared! The Scriptures also remind me of her...
Watch Out: 5 Signs of An Independent Spirit
An independent spirit is one that seeks self glory, operates in conceit and often is in rebellion to the authority established by God (and hence against the Word of God). People with independent spirits are barriers to the works of the kingdom of God and can...