Matriarch Moments Episode 1 Honoring Pastor Nkechi Ene by Pastor Mildred Kingsley-Okonkwo: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Titus 2 and the mothers of faith

I'm a lover of the word of God. Every time I find something in the word I ask myself, how do I live this? How do I obey this? How do I act on this?

Titus 2:3-5

I don't want the word of God to be discredited. So I decided to obey the scripture by finding some of the older women to teach the younger women

Where are the mothers of faith? I decided to start with my own spiritual mom, Pastor Nkechi Ene

Before I got a chance to interview her, she went home to be with the Lord on the 29th of October 2025. This first episode honors her and some of the things I learned from her

It reinforced my desire to talk to the mothers before they're all gone

How Pastor Nkechi became my mother

Over 20 years ago I was living in Port Harcourt with my cousin. One Saturday morning I put on the TV. I was already a Christian.

I knew God had called me into ministry, but I had no idea what that meant or how I was going to achieve it

I had seen other women of God doing great things, but there was a disconnect. Some of them had very loud voices. Some of them had the passion and I didn't.

I was just a simple girl who loved the word of God and wanted to transfer that to other people

That Saturday I saw a very beautiful woman sitting on a chair with a Bible on her lap, simply speaking the word of God. Not yelling at me, not speaking from emotions.

It was the pure, unadulterated word of God. I was hooked

I moved out of Port Harcourt and never got to worship at the Carpenter's Church where she pastored. But I never forgot some of her messages

Years later I got married and became a pastor's wife and a pastor. I began my own faith journey, trusting God for children

Every time I felt the need to give up, one message of hers stood out. The things we see are temporal, which means they are subject to change

Every time it was getting too much, I would hear her voice say, it's temporal, it's subject to change. For many years she was a distant mentor

When I wanted to start a women's ministry, I told my husband the first person I wanted to invite was Pastor Nkechi Ene. He said, who is that?

I said, a phenomenal teacher of the word I met many years ago in Port Harcourt. I've never been to her church, but I used to watch her every Saturday morning.

He said, maybe one day we can make it happen

In the 15th year of my conference, Pastor Kingsley had invited her for International Word of Faith Conference. All I could think about was how to connect with this woman.

I took the most expensive thing I had, a gift, and met her in the green room

I said, this is how much you blessed me over the years. I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would meet you in person.

I had dedicated my books to her, never knowing whether she would see them

She said something that changed our relationship. She said, I don't know why, but I just love you. She hugged me and I held on to her. From that minute she became a spiritual mom

She would call me and check on me. She wasn't the kind of spiritual mom who would throw scriptures or prophecies at you for the sake of it. Our relationship was very personal, very intentional, very private

I was learning. I was watching. Not only was she a teacher of the word and of faith, she lived it

One day she signed off her message, your personal mama. That changed the dynamics of our relationship

What I learned from her

She lived a life of absolute faith. She believed in the unadulterated word of God. She believed in following God

Faith is choosing what God has chosen for you

She left us books and messages, 27 years' worth of messages on Fresh Dew TV

We don't wait till the mothers start going home before we start learning from them

Thank you, Pastor Nkechi, for your yes. Because of your yes, there are many more yes to come

Grief with hope

Someone sent me a message and said, why are you crying like someone who does not have hope? 1 Thessalonians 4:13

I am not crying like someone who does not have hope. I'm crying like someone who lost their mom

I didn't know it would take over 20 years to meet her in person, but when I did, my life changed. She covered me for 3 years and 3 months.

She didn't just teach me about faith, she wore it like a second skin. I watched her live it in the mundane and in the miraculous

Faith isn't just what we preach. It's what we become when no one is watching, when the lights are dim, and when life presses hard against our hearts

She taught me what it means to be a woman in ministry. Not timid, not apologetic, but confident in the calling of God

She was my man of God with breasts. Every time I said that to her, she would smile. My question is, Mama, are you smiling now?

She broke ceilings we didn't even know existed. She did it with such grace and made it look effortless

In her words: Pastor Nkechi Ene

Ecclesiastes 10:7

That is a crisis situation. That is an identity crisis

When you meet a minister who talks about Jesus Christ, you expect water to come out of him. Water that symbolizes life

We are playing dangerous games with our lives, and we have forgotten the miracle of our birth

You are born again. You are a child of God 2 Corinthians 5:17

With the renewing of your mind, your thoughts will become his thoughts and your ways his ways. But because we are renewing our mind with the word, sometimes God's way may contradict your thinking

Psalm 91

This Psalm is for you if you have made a decision to abide with God

John 3:16

It doesn't matter what your background is or where you're coming from. Whosoever, as long as you're a human being, God's love is available to you

When God is with you, you are delivered out of all your troubles

These are deposit slips. You sow your seed. You make deposits into your account in heaven Matthew 6:20

When you reach out in faith and you begin to act on the word of God, speak the word you have heard and believe, something has taken place.

If it's in your body, something has taken place in your body

Following God's Spirit as a lifestyle Romans 8:14

That word son is indicative of a relationship

The knowledge of God is found in his word. In his word you'll find out that you're accepted Ephesians 1:6

That should smack down every ambitious thought that tells you rejection is your lot or your portion

If you wait until you have it in your hand, you will continually live with doubt, and you may never have it in your hand

Mark 11:24

If you can say, I have received this, the revelation happens on the inside of you. You receive a zero tolerance of doubt

Go to the doctor knowing the healing word has the supremacy over whatever the doctor has to say. The doctor will work within the limits of his knowledge, but God knows everything

Psalm 107:20

His word has the potency to heal you

If it is service, it will cost you something. It will cost you your time. It may cost you your money. It may cost you your dignity. Service is all about sacrifice

You want better sex. You want a better marriage relationship? You do better things. You take your counsel from the same page of the word of God

It is when you recognize you have authority in Jesus Matthew 28:18-19

We go in his power to influence people to live a godly life

How many of us have made decisions against our convictions in the time of famine because fear has appeared to us as reality?

Child of God, sometimes you can actually live below the covenant line. Forget the poverty line set by economists and educationists. Look at the covenant line

With the way false ministers have kicked up their manifesto, with the speed and the urgency, you almost begin to feel you're the only one who hasn't bowed your knee. But there are others like you

You look to the left, you see a false minister. You look to the right, you see somebody perverting the gospel. And you wonder, what's going on?

God's dealings with us are not static. There is movement with God, and the movement is always into a greater

Even with Abraham Genesis 14, it was by faith he responded to Melchizedek. It was by faith he responded to the blessing

As a believer, a child of God, you have one destination. You have one destiny. And that is victory

Victory in your health. Victory in your marriages. Victory in your finances

The magnitude of the exchange that Christ did for us is yet to be discovered

You have a big brother who went and paid all the debt you owe. Thanks be to God

Just receive the overflow. It's right here