The other side I got this email message from a friend this morning, which he related from the sermon at our church yesterday morning, and this really got me going at laying challenges out there. Danie, this mail had me awake from 4am till 5am, praying, and just conversing with God, saying thank you for placing these...

18 July 2009 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 One more thing, friends: Pray for us. Pray that the Master’s Word will simply take off and race through the country to a groundswell of response, just as it did among you. And pray that we’ll be rescued from these scoundrels who are trying to do us in. I’m finding...

Eternal Outsiders Got this from Louis Brittz‘s website In a review of a new book by John Le Carre I read a sentence that stirred my thinking. Whether the thought came directly from the book or from the pen of the reviewer I’m not sure, but it’s a relevant one none the less. Le Carre writes about spies, especially...

17 July 2009 Acts 2:38-39 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off–for all whom the Lord our God will...

16 July 2009 1 Timothy 1:12-14 I’m so grateful to Christ Jesus for making me adequate to do this work. He went out on a limb, you know, in trusting me with this ministry. The only credentials I brought to it were invective and witch hunts and arrogance. But I was treated mercifully because I didn’t know...

The power of Prayer James 5:13-20 (NIV) 13Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person...

Do you really love? 1 John 4:20-21 If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving...

15 July 2009 1 John 4:7-10 My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you...

Children of Light While I was putting fuel into my car this afternoon, I opened the Bible that I keep in my car, at Ephesians 4 From verse 17 to verse 32 it speaks of leaving the ways of the Gentiles behind you as a Child of God, and living like children of Light. The following verses hit home in my current working situation,...

Patience Yesterday was a day in learning patience for me. I have to consciously hold on to Jesus, in order to be able to get through the day at this stage, when it comes to work, and doing it as if I am doing it for the Lord. I want to ask each and every one of you to pray for me today, so that I will get through...