"May the best day of your past Be the worst day of your future." My Dad always wished me this Irish Blessing and I want it to matter today and every other day in my life.
Friday 27 March 2015
Thursday 26 March 2015
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
Wednesday 25 March 2015
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.
Monday 23 March 2015
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
.
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:
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 2nd 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.
Friday 20 March 2015
Interesting
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<td colspan=2 align=left>The higher of these two numbers below indicates which side of your brain has dominance in your life. Realising your right brain/left brain tendancy will help you interact with and to understand others.</td>
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Thursday 19 March 2015
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
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