Corrie Ten Boom said prayer is the engine room of every congregation. If a congregation doesn’t pray, it’s going one way – downhill. A believer is fueled by prayer. With no fuel, they come to a standstill. Prayer is the beginning and the end of every believer’s existence. I sometimes wonder out loud whether the […]
Read moreWe were on holiday in the Southern Cape when I heard about the attack on my friend and his wife at four in the morning on their farm between Stellenbosch and Somerset West. The attackers climbed through a window and attacked them in their bedroom. The attackers beat them with crowbars. Fortunately, his wife was […]
Read moreWe tell all these beautiful stories of prayer. Elijah even prayed for the rain to stop: 17Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t—not a drop for three and a half years. 18Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything […]
Read moreWe’re talking about prayer, especially the prayer of a believer. I have a pen-friend in Johannesburg. He usually comes rushing in, shooting from the hip. Shooting for the Lord’s things. The rest is noise. One morning, a woman who had worked with us for a long time came to me. I knew she was very […]
Read moreIf your best friend was struggling financially and you had access to inexhaustible funds, would you give them enough money to keep their head above water? If you had a remedy that could cure your friend’s incurable disease, would you share it? If you had a book that saved your marriage from the divorce court, […]
Read moreWe all make mistakes – some more than others. I trip up all too often, and one more thing gets recorded in my notebook. I’m a picture person and quickly notice how thick the book of my transgressions is becoming. Fortunately, we know that Jesus came to die as punishment for our sins. It was […]
Read moreWhen we have some crisis in our life, we pray. Sometimes it doesn’t work and then we become discouraged. Then it feels to us as if our prayer does not go further than the ceiling. Then we want to know where the fault lies. Sometimes people will say we don’t pray right. Some people will […]
Read moreAsk, and you shall receive, says the Bible. So, I pray but receive nothing. This upsets me, and my head starts telling me that prayer doesn’t work because, look, you didn’t receive anything. Next time, people helped me a little and said that if you pray, you must do it in God’s name. So, I […]
Read moreI’ve never met Dolf, but we chat often. He’s from the real Johannesburg. He calls a spade a spade. He found God with a bang, and because of his background, he’s not afraid to tackle anyone about their faith in God. Even pastors and ministers and other people of God should just keep going if […]
Read moreSomeone once said the church is weak, dark, poor and imperfect, because there’s not enough prayer. This is so true. And so difficult to understand. If I know that when I’m hungry upon opening the fridge there’s food to satisfy my hunger, I will obviously open the fridge whenever I’m hungry. I get everything in […]
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