Author: Stephne
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My Story of Hope and Faith
I was born in April and soon after my parents moved to a small town where I later started school. The example that my parents lived was of a loving relationship, respecting each other, showing affection, dealing with differences in a calm, respectful way, discussing and resolving issues behind closed doors. Fighting was not an…
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Food Addiction – My Sabbath Day’s Journey to Deliverance
Rejected…Enslaved by food…Delivered I would like to share my journey of rejection, enslavement and later deliverance with you, eventually getting to the happy ending of freedom in Christ. This was a journey laced with God’s Grace throughout. My life’s journey was predestined but my later reaction to what happened was my choice – right or…
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Bultfontein’s own Prayer Warrior…
The realisation of a need to pray for the many addicts in our community lead to another part of my ministry. Many people in our community are addicted to ‘over the counter’ medication, which is easy to obtain and therefor very dangerous. Visiting a lady in town one mid-morning, we found her already on a…
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Alcoholism – The Spirit overcomes the spirits
In 1997, I, for the very first time, admitted to myself and others that I have a problem with alcohol addiction. I attended a clinic for alcoholics and was discharged 2 weeks later. It went well for approximately 6 months after which I relapsed. My father’s brother heard about a Christian counsellor, Aunty Kotie, who…
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An Alternative Look at “Church”…
We used to be part of a traditional, Afrikaans church but a group of us felt lead to look for more growth in our faith walk, including organising small groups for fellowship and to be able to sing different, alternative songs and so forth. This made others uncomfortable and we were asked to rather go…
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Boks vir ‘n Boervrou (Farmers’ Wife Gift Boxes)
This nationwide project to spoil the wives of farmers in the drought stricken areas has touched many lives and have blessed many a farmer’s wife when she least expected it but most needed it. In Bultfontein we came across some of the miracle stories related to this project as told first by a farmer’s wife,…
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Beyond the Farmer lies a Prayer Warrior
Christo Marx. Onverwag Boerdery, Bultfontein. 6 March 2020 Herewith some of the amazing testimonies shared by Christo Marx, a corn farmer from Bultfontein, Free State, South Africa. Most farmers in our part of the country are Christian believers. A farmer knows too well that he does not have control over all the variables that impacts…
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Saved from our Burning House
On the 1st of June 2019, early in the morning when Chris, my now husband, already left to get started on his work on the farm, my son, Duandre, and I were still at home, getting ready for the day. Because it was a cold day the heater in the TV room was on and…
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Poems by a Child of God…
A friend in Botswana, Ngoni Moeti, shared a few of her inspired poems expressing her love for God, with me. These are the personification of her close relationship with Jesus, the Living Word: Hope you are able to read some of her insights and thoughts.
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Minke, Our Miracle Child
There is a little girl, she wears glasses and has braces. Should she take off her glasses you would notice her squint but if you should stop and look closer, you would see Jesus in her eyes – the Man from Golgotha whose wounds on the cross gave her healing! Miracles still happen every day,…