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BUSINESS

there’s one thing I have to do.” I shop of items made and manufac-
went and got a basin went upstairs tured by Afrika. I tell you, I was
and got perfume from my suitcase going for it, by hook or crook. He
because the Lord had also given stopped me in my tracks because
me the scripture about the alabaster what I was doing and the way I was
box and I knelt by my husband’s doing it was very damaging to my
feet. He asked me, “What are you family and to my husband especial-
doing?” I said, “The Lord has told ly. That was not the correct picture
me to wash your feet.” And I asked of family, so He was restoring the
his friend to read Isaiah 43. At that right order of family. If I had car-
moment, my heart was hard as a ried on in that way, I would not be
stone, but as he started speaking alive today, literally. He had to stop
those words in Isaiah 43 and I me in my tracks to deal with those
started washing my husband’s feet, foundational issues, because if they
it’s like that stone rolled away. His were not sorted, what was ordained
friend started crying, my husband by God, the enemy would have
started crying and that was our rec- brought crumbling down.
onciliation. And the business was Just recently I completed a mini-
the sacrifice. People would ask me, MBA and the facilitators of the
“Why aren’t you in supermarkets?” course asked me to present my
It’s because I had to lay the busi- business plan to my husband as I
ness down for the sake of the Lord would to an investor. I did so, and
and that began the journey of the he made an investment in my busi-
Lord dealing with the foundations ness that has allowed it to go to the
of Rizichi. next level and we partner together
I remember when we eventually in that growth.
moved back to Kenya as a family, means their natural essence is not
we stayed in Nairobi for 4-5 days, By your journey with God, tampered with so that when they
and then we went to the coast. you have become a life-giving are taken in they will not harm
When we were there, I heard clear- product in His hands. How the consumer. So God has taught
ly, “It’s time to clear the ground.” me that being myself, who He has
What do you do when you go to do you transfer that life to called me to be, is what is going to
the Promised Land before you your customers through your bless and speak to others. This is
start building? You have to clear products and services? what is going to bring healing and
the ground. From 2014 up until The products themselves are just a restoration. Sometimes we dis-
December of last year has been physical manifestation of what He obey by trying to be someone else.
clearing ground and setting the takes us through in our journeys. That onion is an onion, it will not
foundation and fighting all those We make chilli products, chut- pretend to be a tomato, but if you
things, little by little. I went through neys, and cooking sauces. All the put onion and tomato together it
a season where I had to let go of products that we create have to go will be something great. Apart from
everything and sit at His feet and through a process. Each product’s it being a business, the products in
submit to my husband. I have seen separate ingredients go through themselves tell a story of culture
God transform my heart for the their own processes before they and tell a story of an individual and
sake of the family and I have seen get to us. Once they reach us, they of how the Kingdom works.
Him restore my family. are chopped up, put in heat, sit, My products are a gateway to my
The vision was to build a brand heat again, and so on and then put customers. It could be an individ-
that celebrates an Afrikan heritage in the dark to sit before you can ual, a company, or a home. I don’t
and becomes a household name. taste them. Through the process, look at my customers as just cus-
There wasn’t an Afrikan Marks & God has taught me that the gift of tomers. A lot of them have become
Spencer that has everything within the product becomes a gift to the church because God will tell me to
it. It doesn’t have to be a Rizichi person. They celebrate our heri- pray for a customer or give me a vi-
brand product, but it’s products tage, they are all-natural, and not sion about a customer. If I’m going
from Afrika. Seeing Afrika in one using any preservatives or additives

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