Category: Life Story
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The Living Word became my reality…
How God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, through His Word, became a reality in my life. I am a sinner, saved by Grace! Ephesians 2: 8-9 (Aramaic English New Testament – AENT). “For it is by His grace we are rescued, through faith; and this is not of yourselves, but it is the gift…
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Clean Up by God
Well here goes nothing… While driving around, after buying a bag of drugs, thinking to myself: ”Am I always going to be doing the same thing over and over again? Or can I rather be with my family and those I care about?” If I could just stop using drugs and be a clean, straight…
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Walking is like Life – A Metaphor.
“There are like a gazillion examples in the Bible and a gazillion verses that mention walking and there is so much about “walking” that is like life and true to life that it’s almost like, if you stop walking – you die life is movement. Learning to walk holds many lessons for life, there are…
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Stumped, not just pruned!
Father had to break things in us so that He could love people and we wouldn’t be the ones loving them. Often we want to do things ourselves and we want to serve them and we do it out of our own strength. It took 11 years, living out of Father’s hand in our own…
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God’s Triumph over Relational Adversity
I am (happily) married, although it has been a difficult marriage, over time it got better. In short, reason being that my husband, the third of 4 brothers, grew up in a family where conflict was dealt with in an aggressive way – shouting and screaming, attack and defence where the norm. Hardly ever where…
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Perfect Daughter of the Most High God.
When people look at me they see someone beautiful with whom everything is normally ok and prosperous. Little do they know that I have always been struggling with low self-esteem and inferiority, nothing severe but always in the back of my mind? This causes me to react with hurt and feelings of rejection to something…
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A Significant Day – 6 April
Probably an insignificant day for most, but a day of double importance and real meaning to me. Firstly our country was founded on 6 April 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck arrived at the Cape of Storms, and it became known as the Cape of Good Hope. Since 1952 with the celebration of our nation’s third…
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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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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…