Sweet Words

Psalm 119:103 Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁰³ How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

I wonder why people cannot speak sweet and beautiful words.  Men who date their girlfriends use the most charming and a beautiful word, to make sure the lady is crazy over them.  I believe that we should practice speaking beautifully to each other.  Why do we find it so easy to say foul words and swear without blushing? 

I think it is because it is against our nature to speak sweet words that is uplifting and encouraging.  We unintentionally don’t want to see the sun shine on others.  We are selfish and self-centred that is why we don’t speak words of encouragement, speaking compliments and being kind.

My challenge today to you is, why don’t you start speaking sweet words, something that melts in your mouth.  See how life will change and people will become calmer and sweeter.

My words going forward is to speak sweet words, I want to become Holy, I want to be a pleasing person in the Lords eyes.

The test is when I get angry and frustrated not to speak ill words and foul words.  Lord please place a guard before my mouth and mind.  I dedicate my words into Your hands and pray for sweet words that is pleasing on the ear. 

Thank you for speaking sweet words today, thank you for reading my thoughts and thank you for being a blessing to me, you are a blessing in my life. 

God bless you today!

A thought for today ... God is Good ... All the time

I am so excited, today I received a letter on email telling me I won, I wrote a note to one of the magazines - Vrouekeur - and they responded telling me I won.

Awesome, I have never won anything in such a long, long time I wanted to share this with you.  God is great, He is good, all the time.

Don't give up, trust in the Lord.

Abundance - will come my way

John 10: 10 Amplified

¹⁰ The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it^[b]overflows).

Many people I know are blessed with an abundant life, the best is they don’t always know it.  I watch people around me and I feel happy for them.  I am not being jealous or crying about the lack I have right now. 

God is working on my behalf and not too far in the future I will also have the abundance everybody else is enjoying.

So this is my confession, Lord I declare and believe that I am enjoying my life and that I have an abundance, (to the full, till it overflows) enough to give to the poor and needy.  In the Holy name of Jesus Christ.  Amen

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Teach me Your paths Lord

According to Psalm 25 I want to ask as David asked.  Humbly Lord I come to You, O LORD, I lift u my soul, O my God, in You I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.  Indeed, none who wait for You shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous. 

O LORD, make me to know YOUR ways, O LORD; teach me YOUR paths.  Lead me in YOUR truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for YOU I wait all day long. 

Please LORD, remember Your mercy, O LORD and Your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.  Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to Your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of Your goodness, O LORD!

Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He instructs sinners in the way.  He leads the humble in what is right and teaches the humble his way.  All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and His testimonies.

For Your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great.  Who is the man who fears the LORD?  Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.  His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land.  The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

My eyes are ever towards the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.  Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.  The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses.  Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.  Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.

Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.  May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for YOU.

Redeem Israel, O GOD, out of all his troubles.

Prayer

Abba Father You know who my enemies are, LORD You know who speaks ill of me and who has their knifes in for me.  LORD as I sit here in humble prayer I pray LORD that YOU will protect me from them, the words of maliciousness that are spoken against me.  LORD will You shut them up and keep them off of me.  I pray and ask that YOU will bless me and keep me safe in the Holy Name of the Lord Jesus.  Amen

To be alone with God

Mark 4: 34 “He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.”

 

It is important to grow spiritually and spending time in God’s word has always been part of my daily devotion.  The funny thing is some many things have crept into my own life that I get so busy with this, that and the other.  Because I am constantly busy I must collect my own thoughts, I need to sit down and evaluate my life what is happening all around me, and I don’t always know where I am going so I do need direction.  Then I have to get back to basics.

When I first moved to Witbank in Mpumalanga the most difficult part of my life was being left all alone.  Sitting in a house with just the quiet surrounding me, it was difficult to come to grips with who I am.  

I then realized I needed to pray and ask the Lord my God to please show me the Lords way, to teach me His paths and to guide me in His truths.  I believe that I am saved and that the Lord Jesus Christ is my Savior I need Him in my life.  My prayer is that as the Lord spoke to Isaiah ‘Lord brings me the blind by a way that I don’t know, Lord please lead me in paths that I have not known.  Lord takes this darkness and make light before me, and please make straight the crooked places in my life.’

As I am aging and I don’t have the strength to rush around anymore I need to sit and quietly wait on You Lord God.

I am waiting Lord for You to guide me, to show me and to keep me in Your hands.  In Jesus Christ’s name amen.

Book Review on 'Last Stand at Lighthouse Point.'

Book Review:                                   Last Stand at Lighthouse Point

Author:                                              George Duncan

Personal Quality Rating:                    4           

Reviewer:                                          Yvette van Niekerk (South Africa)

Summary:

This Christian Mystery Novel is written using the setting of the “Wild Duck County”.  The story kicks off with a really tragic and horrific murder which takes place at the “Magnum Point Lighthouse”.  Keeping in mind the News Papers and TV Reports always get involved the story revolves about the Editor Drake Saunders and a Reporter Frank Denton.

Drake Saunders gets involved with a beautiful student who is an agnostic and an interesting turn of events takes place with them.  Frank Denton is a prayer warrior and gets literally back stabbed by fellow Christian – story revolving around the bank in the town makes a number of influential people angry and they turn against Frank.

Another important player in the story is Tiffany and let us not omits the sweet little girl Tracy on the side-line.  The four people mentioned are in a major battle against evil and the ending was magnificent.

Social / Historical Context:

The normal day-to-day living of Christian people living and working with non-Christian people and how the dynamics of being a Christian changes the atmosphere they enter.  It was amazing for me to read how the economic situation touches the lives of people in this book.  I didn’t even realise but Frank Denton for instance spoke into my situation and I could relate to his situation

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The sport and other activities were well used making the story come alive when reading it.  Making it feel so real.

Writing Style:

The writing style to my mind is evocation and some common place.  It narrated a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and the devil sure received his due.  The writer to my thinking must have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus. 

The writer knows about the topic he wrote on and it came through the story.   I believe the writer’s point was to make sure that when you read the story you will question your situation.  Where do you find yourself, are you a Christian or not. 

I feel I learned a lot from this story telling, it reminded me of where I find myself in life and that I can always turn back to the Lord in prayer.  There are people interceding for each of us we don’t always know or realise it. 

My Thoughts:

A really good story well thought out and absolutely in my line of thinking.  I identified with some of the people in the story and it made me realise that life isn’t always a bed of roses even in stories or other countries.  The book made me think about my own relationship with the Lord Jesus and I did enjoy the read.  The person or character I really liked despite his one eye was Frank Denton.  I thought if in real life I would easily have made friends with him.

Short version

The Last Stand at Lighthouse Point revolves around influential people living in the Wild Duck County.  Ted Hollingsworth an influential Businessman allows his son Andrew Hollingsworth to spend a night at the “Magnum Point Lighthouse”. 

Unfortunately a brutal murder takes place at the “Magnum Point Lighthouse” and reporter Miss Tiffany Summersby a 2^nd runner up to the Miss Wild Duck Pageant goes to the Lighthouse to see what happened.

As the plot thickens the reporter Frank Dentons uncovers a story on the Atlantic Coast Bank which costs the Bank a load of money.  Newt Balderson the President of the bank has his knife in for Frank.  Ted Hollingsworth is all bitter and twisted at Miss Summersby as she gave a bad report on his deceased son Andrew. 

The murder at the lighthouse draws a number of people to it and a little girl Tracy Sunderlin goes to check out the place.  Tracy escapes with her life as she leaves the lighthouse and her parents bring her to Tiffany.  Tiffany brings both Frank the reporter and Drake the Editor into the story.

This page turner doesn’t allow one to put the book down in fear of missing out on something.  It is definitely a must read.  

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My prayer Psalm 91 Amplified Bible

Father God please help me dwell in the secret place of the Most High so that I may remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand].

As the Psalmist states Lord, I will say of the LORD, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust!

For [then] He will delivery me from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.

[Then] He will cover me with His pinions, and under His wings shall I trust and find refuge; His truth and His faithfulness are a shield and a buckler.

I shall not be afraid of the terror of the night, nor of the arrow (the evil plots and slanders of the wicked) that flies by day, nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor of the destruction and sudden death that surprise and lay waste at noonday.

A thousand may fall at my side, and ten thousand at my right hand, but it shall not come near me.

Only a spectator shall I be [myself inaccessible in the secret place of the Most High] as I witness the reward of the wicked.

Because I have made the Lord my refuge, and the Most High my dwelling place, there shall no evil befall me, nor any plague or calamity come near my tent.  For He will give His angels [especial] charge over me to accompany and defend and preserve me in all my ways [of obedience and service].

They shall bear me up on their hands, lest I dash my foot against a stone.  I shall tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the serpent shall I trample underfoot.

Because I have set my love upon the LORD, therefore will the LORD deliver me; the Lord will set me on high, because I know and understand HIS NAME [has a personal knowledge of God’s mercy, love and kindness – trusts and relies on the LORD, knowing that the LORD will never forsake me, no never].

I shall call upon the LORD, and the LORD will answer me, The LORD will be with me in trouble, The LORD will deliver me and honor me.  With long life will the LORD satisfy me and show me THE LORD’s salvation.

Amen

The Curious Case of Prince Charming - by Charlen Mattson - Book Review

Book Review:                                   The Curious Case of Prince Charming

Author:                                              Charlene Mattson

Personal Quality Rating:                   3           

Reviewer:                                          Yvette van Niekerk (South Africa)

Summary:

The story is about the abduction of a beautiful Princess in Altria a fairy-tale country.  Because the abductor is seen as a villain the palace decides on recruiting the services of a detective in the City – William Tenys. 

It’s clear that William has been doing investigative work for some time and he really gets involved.  A couple of murders take place and there is a twist in the story.  Some evil villain is influenced by an even worse entity.

The story does lean more towards an investigation and not so much about a fantasy world but nevertheless it is quite interesting to see what happens.

Social / Historical Context:

As fiction I would say that the book is really lovely.  The most striking of the story is the fact that the author was set on reminding each of us that good always prevails.  There are many plots and I found that the characters depicted in her book were well thought out.  The story was going in the direction of murders and abductions.  One of the characters in this book looked so good and was so proper but in actual fact was rotten to the core, ‘a beautiful person with an ugly heart’ if I may use this phrase.

Writing Style:

The writing style to my mind is a mixture of evocation and common place.  It was an easy read and I enjoyed the story flow.  The writer definitely enjoyed her own story and I could feel her getting carried away.  I believe the story was well written in the third person and there is a lot of telling before the characters actually do some speaking.  The description of the places was interesting and I could actually see some of the characters in my mind’s eye. 

I think the purpose of the story is to show in essence that good always prevails over evil, that even in difficult times things do get better.

Thinking about how the book has been written I believe it leans more toward being a narrative.

My Thoughts:

I fell in love with the main character Mister William Tenys, this detective was sharp and I enjoyed reading how he went about his business.  The other characters in the book were interesting and they fitted into the story.  I was sorry about one of the ladies in the story that had to die; I think they may have hit it off at some stage in the story.  When drawing to a close I actually felt a little sad to see the story had come to an end.