My Confessions ...

My attitude in general is very negative and I have been working hard at the change in my own life, by the way it doesn’t work that way.

I soon came to realize that nothing I say and do can change who I am.  The only ‘One’ able to change me is ‘The Almighty God – Lord Jesus Christ’.

Now after hard work and struggling I decide to hand my situation over to the Lord.  In the meantime I have been learning.

1.      Taking my thoughts captive

2 Corinthians 10: 5 ‘ We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

Now I am instructing my thought life to the Lord Jesus.  When I feel that I cannot cope with my own thoughts I pray and give them to the LORD.

I have decided that I will believe every word of God through the Bible.  Jesus Christ is my salvation and I will submit every thought I have to Him.  Humbly praying about my thinking and asking for guidance and protection.

2.      Protecting my heart

Romans 8: 1 ‘Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,’

I am born again, I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and dedicated my life into His Holy hands.  I have been created by the LORD God.  Ephesians 2 : 10 The Voice ‘For we are the product of HIS hand, heaven’s poetry etched on lives, created in the Anointed, Jesus, to accomplish the good works God arranged long ago.’

I have been created by God and I am the product of His hand, God said that He made me ‘heaven’s poetry etched on lives, created in the Anointed, Jesus, to accomplish the good works God arranged long ago.’  I have been place on this earth with a purpose and I have decided not to allow the devil to stop me getting to my purpose.  I am created by God, He is happy with me.  I will protect my heart each day and call on Jesus in my hour of need.  Protect me with Your blood Lord Jesus.

3.      Stay humble for the LORD Jesus

Romans 12: 3 ‘Because of the grace allotted to me, I can respectfully tell you not to think of yourselves as being more important than you are;  devote your minds to sound judgment since God has assigned to each of us a measure of faith.’

Respectfully I humble myself before the LORD Jesus Christ, I am asking the Lord to guide and protect me.   It is important that I change my perspective of people around me.  I cannot allow myself to think that I am better than other people.  Working hard with an attitude of not trusting people and taking people at their word, I need to humbly pray for guidance.

Submitting my life before the Lord is the only way I can see people in a different light.  I just don’t trust people and because I have been hurt I will be careful as to what they say and do, making me someone that is very judging.

I am arming myself with the Lord Jesus Christ and I am praying when things are coming my way that the LORD Jesus will help me.

I plead the blood of Jesus Christ over my life and also over yours as you read my bible study.  God bless you.

You are a blessing!

You are a Blessing to me!

Working in a multiracial office is always interesting, and my story today is one about sharing and looking out for each other.  

Our cleaning lady doesn’t earn much and I doubt even if they are paying her ‘mini mum wages’.  Nevertheless the people in our office know this and worry about her.   One of the young ladies decided to give her a newspaper with all the latest add in it.  As she paged through the paper she sat next to her and asked her ‘what do you like’.  

Looking at the stuff on the page she pick out a couple of things that seemed impossible to own and said to this young girl.  I like this and I would love to have one of these.

Without her knowledge the Human Resource division made a collection and they then assigned the task to the young lady to buy the things Judy wanted.

We gave her, her gifts today.  I was amazed at her gratefulness, tears of joy running down her face and all she could say was “Thank You God”.

God blesses each one of us with what we have and it is natural to want to keep everything to ourselves but something I learned today was the gratefulness of someone.  They weren’t expecting anything and were happy before they received what they got.

Accepting what you have and being thankful is important, we never realize what it means to have nothing,  loaf of bread, a little of milk, some peanut butter or jam.

The challenge is can you bless someone?  If so, why haven’t you?  Are you so busy that it slipped your mind?  Concisions are like; little wheels, it reminds you constantly, it turns in your head.  Going away but returning to you later.

Lord God, humbly I pray for the ability to be a blessing in the lives of people I can help.  Bless me today and help me become the blessing You wanted me to be.  In the name of Jesus Amen

Lord God You are bringing me into a good land ... I confess it today!

“For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land — a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills.”

(Deuteronomy 8:7, NIV)

I have been hearing from the Holy Spirit through the Bible in quiet time as well as through family and friends and also through my daily devotions.  "The LORD my God is bringing me into a good land - a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills.

I am going to Live my life today ... dream my dreams tomorrow and cherish my yesterday, keeping the good and letting go of the bad.

I am so grateful that the Lord My God has blessed me with the ability to draw and enjoy a full life.  Thank you Father God.

Blessing to you, because all my friends are a Blessing!!!!

Prosper through hard work

Proverbs 14: 23 The Voice  

²³ Prosperity comes from hard work, but talking too much leads to great scarcity.

Thinking about these word I must tell you it is so true, I have seen when I get to work and get down to business and do what is on my desk immediately I have a lot of free time the rest of the day.  By looking at the piles of paper siting on my desk talking about when I get down to doing the work and just paging through them makes no difference.  Later on they are still there and then here by the end of the week I have twice as much to process than before.

So procrastination is truly the same as talking too much about what I should be doing than putting my hands out and actually doing the job.  Another thing that I must tell you I have observed is by being diligent in working hard while the work is pouring in, this not only makes me become better at what I do, I then start to excel.

For me I would like to be the best in what I do, all the time.  I want to excel in my work and be sure that I work properly every time.  Doing something right the first time is more important to me than speed.  

I believe the Word of God that Proverbs reminds me that through hard work I will prosper and on the other hand by just talking about it will lead to disaster and mistakes, which we cannot afford anyway.

Celebrate Jesus with a joy that is glorious and beyond word.

1 Peter 1: 8 the Voice

Although you haven’t seen Jesus, you still love Him.  Although you don’t yet see Him, you do believe in Him and celebrate with a joy that is glorious and beyond words.

I do believe in the Lord Jesus and I really believe that I love the LORD Jesus.  It is my desire to be renewed each day by the Word of God.  I so want to be a true child of God.  I must be honest and tell you at times it seems so difficult to be joyful and act in the appropriate manner.  Circumstances can drive you and me to act out of character.  

Still I love the Lord Jesus and still I want to see Him one day.

To me to celebrate with a joy that is glorious and beyond words, I really am not sure that I will really get my mind around that.  I do the best I can as I feel that my life isn’t 100% right but I do believe that I am a child of God.

My love for the LORD Jesus is real and never stop thinking about Him, each day His on my mind.

Celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ with me and enjoy a wonderful peace filled December.

You are a blessing!!

What is love?

We watch our parents love

Where do we learn to love?

Oscar Wild wrote ‘Keep love in your heart.  A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.’  Love is patient, love is kind, love endures all things and love is unconditional.
December is a month of celebration, thankfulness and mostly of showing how much we love and care for each other.  We all learned this by watching our parents.  Where did they learn it?  Of course from their parents and then the question I pose is how did it all come about?  To my mind I believe it to be through the birth of someone so important and still with each of us.  The Lord Jesus Christ, the fact of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of our Savior.
Just by reading and following the word we learn that the Lord was kind, He loved unconditionally and had deep compassion for people.  We need to take a page from His book.  Watching my grandchildren I have come to realize they have unconditional love.  They love you just the way you are.  They accept you as you are and they adore you for who you are.
Christmas is a time to show your love to family and friends.  We speak about our ‘loved one’s’ let’s start by being considerate, patient, understanding.  Let reach out this Christmas and make a difference.
Love drives away hatred; it drives away pain and brings joy into our hearts.  Remember love is not a feeling it is an act of your heart.  Lift someone’s life up today by loving them for who they are.
Placing someone else happiness before your own is an act of love.  Reminding us to listen more carefully and understand more fully with love we can change each other.
Be a toddler today and love unconditionally, start with baby steps and progress to see a life changed yours and mine.  I love you!
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Name:              Yvette van Niekerk
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5 Best reasons why - Our God is an Awesome God!

      God is a Person

My God is a person, in Genesis 1: 26 ‘God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth.’  So if I am a person God has to be a person too, I believe that God can relate to me because of this verse.  I am made into the image and likeness of my God.

In Psalm 7: 6 (Amp) ‘Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; lift up Yourself against the rage of my enemies; and awaken [and stir up] for me the justice and vindication [that] You have commanded.’  Now it is clear that my God also get angry and He can help us.  A characteristic of the God I love.  Other characteristics are being conscious of what is taking place and He also has joy.

  My God is Immutable

As I think of this word I want to assign it to an Awesome God, my God.  I looked up the meaning of ‘immutable’ and it says that it means something is ‘unable to be changed’ or that the ‘immutable laws of nature’.  Thinking about my Awesome God I decided to incorporate a verse from Psalm 89: 2 (Amp) ‘For I have said, Mercy and loving-kindness shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness will You establish in the very heavens [unchangeable and perpetual].’

Proverbs 12: 28 (Amp) ‘Life is in the way of righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation), and in its pathway there is no death but immortality (perpetual, eternal life).’

As I believe I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ I can stand on these words as I believe in an Awesome God.

My God is Invisible

God is invisible to us because He is a spirit and we cannot see beyond our physical world, we don’t have the ability to see spirit.  Colossians 1: 15 (Amp) ‘[Now] He is the exact likeness of the unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible]; He is the Firstborn of all creation.’  Now as I see it Jesus Christ is God’s firstborn and He is the exact likeness of the ‘invisible God’.   Just because we cannot see God it doesn’t mean He can’t see what we are up to.

      My God is a Good God

‘O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good!  Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him.’  Psalm 34: 8 As a Christian I believe in the Goodness of my God, I know that He has good things in store for me.  Proverbs 31: 18 ‘She tastes and sees that her gain from work [with and for God] is good; her lamp goes not out, but it burns on continually through the night [of trouble, privation, or sorrow, warning away fear, doubt and distrust].’  Working hard to maintain a good life I can only do this because I believe my God is Good, I can trust in Him and know that He will protect me and help me when I need it.

        My God is Anthropomorphism

I had to make sure about this word and it states that in Wikipedia this is a personification, is an attribution of human form.  In Exodus 33: 19 – 23 ‘And God said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim My name, THE LORD, before you; for I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy and loving-kindness on whom I will show mercy and loving-kindness.  But, He said, You cannot see My face, for no man shall see Me and live.  And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place beside Me, and you shall stand upon the rock, and while My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.  Then I will take away My hand and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.’  Awesome isn’t it, God said to Moses that He would let Moses see as God walked past him.  Keeping him safe in the cleft.  My word, what an awesome God we serve.