Yvette's Whispers of Faith

2 Timothy 1: 7 (NLV) 7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear.  He gave us a spirit of power and of love and of a good mind. Many people do suffer with ‘fear’ and it is created out of an experience or a feeling.  Today I want to encourage you, do not fear.  Something I have learned over the years is to face my fears.  I will stand up and be scared inside of me but I won’t let other people see that I am fearful. The minute I face my fears, I believe God is faithful and will be there with you, His spirit of power is with you and me and that gives way to love and a good mind.  We all experience difficult times and because we do not understand or know the outcome we sometimes give into fear.  May the Lord God touch your live and lift the spirit of fear off of you.  Prayer:  Dear Father God, please will you teach each one of us that we do not have to fear, because You have given us a spirit of power and of love and of a good ...

Ephesians 4:30-32 (MSG) 30  Don’t grieve God. Don’t break his heart. His Holy Spirit, moving and breathing in you, is the most intimate part of your life, making you fit for himself. Don’t take such a gift for granted. 31-32  Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.          Now do you agree with me, ‘Don’t grieve God?  Don’t break his heart.’  Of course you do, I don’t want to break my God’s heart, and I definitely don’t want to grieve my God.  ‘His Holy Spirit, moving and breathing in you, is the most intimate part of your life, making you fit for himself.’  Did you see that God’s Holy Spirit is moving, breathing in my life?  Yes we have the Spirit of God Himself living within us.          Let us practice gentleness towar...

2  Those who follow the right path fear the  Lord ;      those who take the wrong path despise him.  Proverbs 14:2 (NLT) Some people have style, they just seem to look stunning in whatever they dress and others really need a tutor in helping them get a better look. Proverbs is reminding us that we should follow the right path fear the LORD.  Each morning when I wake up the first thought that comes to mind, is Good morning Abba Father.  Thank you for today.   Later on I sit down with my bible and read my daily scriptures and then I pray.  I think I want to cloth myself each day with the LORD Jesus Christ.  I also feel that I need to cloth myself in putting the full armour of God on. My style is plain I am at home and cleaning house, doing washing and ironing.  Cooking meals for the family and just being here.  When I get the opportunity I sit down and write my thoughts for the day.  I ...

18 ‘ Pray for us, for our conscience is clear and we want to live honorably in everything we do.’ Hebrews 13:18 (NLT)   As a Christian I believe the Holy Spirit lives within me and because He does live in me, I think of Him as that ‘little voice’ warning me not to sin.  The thing that is interesting is my obedience.  So this is how I come to realise that obedience to God’s voice is very important.  The little voice is like an alarm, when a burglar comes into your house and the alarm goes off, you have a chance to catch him and have him arrested.  Now that is when you take note of the alarm and carry it through.  You can also ignore the alarm and switch it off and pretend you didn’t hear it and the burglar can rob you blind. My little voice speaks to me mostly when I feel irritated with people around me, I will feel uncomfortable and not happy with my reaction towards them.  I will also feel regret and before I realise it I will r...

13 ‘You ( Yvette ) will seek me and find me when you ( Yvette ) seek me with all your ( Yvette ) heart.’ Jeremiah 29: 13 (NIV) I was about 14 or 15 years old when I was sitting in my bedroom knitting, I used to love sitting on the carpet in my bedroom on the floor.  I heard my mom calling me “Yvette, Yvettie”.  I jumped up and ran over to her.  “Yes, Mommy” I said.  My mom looked up from her reading and answered me “I didn’t call you.”  I said: “Mommy I heard you, calling me.”  She smiled at me and said “No, darling I didn’t.”  Well I turned around and left her and went back to my knitting, I was knitting dolls jersey and my concentrations was on the pattern at hand.  I just got started when I hear my Mom calling me again I heard her calling me “Yvette, Yvettie”.  It was clear as day light and she called me twice.  I put my knitting down and ran over to her in her bedroom.  “Yes Mommy” I stood in front of her expecting h...

Job 33:17; 21 (AMP) 17  That He may withdraw man from his purpose and cut off pride from him [disgusting him with his own disappointing self-sufficiency].  21  His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.             Job was going through a lot and it is apparent that Job started to feel disappointed in his self-sufficiency.  It is understandable that he had no pride left any more as everything dear to him as he knew it was stripped away from him.              Job must have been so sick that he didn’t eat well and because of his malnutrition one could see his bones through his skin.  That tells me he was wasting away.             Job’s testing was server and I don’t believe we as normal Christians could understand what he went...

Psalm 118: 17 “I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done.” Something I realised is that I cannot fight aging, I see new little wrinkle lines under my eyes, I notice that I cannot shed the weight like I used to and I don’t seem to have the strength I used to have.   Being young has the advantages of being able to do many things and not feel tired and you can do even that little more.  As you grow older live changes, you will do two or three chores and then you need a rest. I need to go to bed early so that I can rise early but I realise I seem to be awake around 5h00 am each morning. In the early hours I speak to God and thank Him for the new day.  I believe God hears my prayers and I pray for my children and family.  I bring each member in my family before the Lord asking for the blessings they need for the day ahead of them.  I call each person into the Kingdom of God. I believe that Psalms 92: 14 reminds me t...