Numeri 14:24 But my servant Caleb—this is a different story. He has a different spirit; he follows me passionately. I’ll bring him into the land that he scouted and his children will inherit it. We’ve already discussed what had happened when Moses sent 12 men into the Promised Land. Ten returned trembling and afraid of […]
Read moreOn the one hand, many people have a problem with Rahab who helped the Israelite spies in Joshua 1. On the other hand, here she’s used as an example: 25The same with Rahab, the Jericho harlot. Wasn’t her action in hiding God’s spies and helping them escape—that seamless unity of believing and doing—what counted with […]
Read moreI am privileged to lead the annual harvest prayer meeting with the Helderberg farmers, just this side of Somerset West. I’m quite familiar with the area since I’ve worked on a wine farm for a few years. I enjoy spending time with fellow farmers retelling all the old stories stored in a deep filing cabinet. […]
Read moreWow, it’s unbelievable how our lives have been changed by technology! Of course, some of it is not good, but some apps have broadened and improved our worlds considerably. Take WhatsApp, for instance. Information is flying everywhere, and we immediately know what is happening in the world. There are no more limits, and no distance […]
Read moreTheo sent me this very touching story: At the beginning of 1971 my dad lost the farm and everything with it. He got a job with Sasol in Sasolburg and we moved from Jacobsdal to Sasolburg. It was a brand-new house. It had no garden and no high walls around it. After three months the […]
Read moreMany people are struggling. Many businesses are going under and people lose their jobs. People have no income. They have no food. It feels as if the stress is gnawing at you from the inside. Not only financial stress, but stress in relationships and so on as well. What do you do then? At times […]
Read moreThis is Celeste’s story of a miracle: I want to witness about a miracle that happened in our lives. In 2008, my husband, Alex, underwent a big back operation. Very successful. In December 2018, he was admitted to hospital again. He couldn’t walk, sit, stand, nothing. He suffered pins and needles in both legs so […]
Read moreLet us look at this verse again: 12Don’t drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. I know we must serve God diligently every day with the same enthusiasm we started with. I know we must serve Him fearlessly like the people before […]
Read morePhilippians 3:1-3 Do you know what really irritates me? When people who believe differently from me makes me feel inferior about the way I believe. As if I’m missing the point through my way of believing, because, actually, their way is the right way. Sometimes I find myself doubting and before I know it, I’m […]
Read moreThere are so many fly by nights out there. Many people come up with brand new plans and persuade many others to also believe in this plan. Some of them are so good at persuading others to believe in it that some trusting people are even prepared to invest a major portion of their hard-earned […]
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