Category: Power of Prayer
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Being Obedient
When our youngest son, Charles, was in primary school he fell while playing at school and hurt his elbow. After being operated on he developed a problem to keep any food down. After weeks of struggling, doctors discovered that the esophageal valve (slukderm klep) was damaged, and he needed an operation to repair this problem. …
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Miracles are easy, it’s the impossibilities that takes longer
2017 was a life changing year. It’s the year when we took the 7-week-old Daniel into foster care in February and then Leah and Tobi in July, just 4 weeks old. Leah had major health complications and it took 4 and a half years of admissions and multiple surgeries at the Red Cross War Memorial…
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Bullets cannot stop God’s Plan
I was temporarily staying in a rented house in Rustenburg, busy moving out, with only a few things remaining – a bed, TV, fridge and curtains. I was supposed to leave for Canada in a few weeks’ time. At 2 o’clock one Saturday morning (6 February 2020) I was surprised by a bugler switching on…
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My Children, My Miracles from God
Our first child, Divan, was born out of wedlock and we got married when he was a year old. My husband, Nico, is however, the love of my life and we were in a long-standing, committed relationship but the pregnancy was unplanned. These circumstances put a lot of strain on the first pregnancy. When I…
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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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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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10 Years a Mom…
Most of our very special friends know the long and hard and sad journey my husband, Barry William Wienand and I walked for 5 years prior to our 10 years of parenthood, anxiously wanting to have children: doing 2x inseminations, then IVF no1, then IVF no2, finally pregnant with IVF no3, just to lose the…
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God’s Promise did not Include Drowning…
We are the Barnard family. I never thought I’d say that we have had the privilege to live through a miracle. This is a testimony of God’s goodness and faithfulness, He prepared both our family as well as our church congregation as His warriors for this miracle happening. We have three children, Mieke is 9…
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God my Provider
There was a time of our lives when we were really struggling financially. We had to get used to new work circumstances and many a time I did not know how we will make ends meet. I had a few chicken and soon a number of eggs too. A neighbour lent me a gadget to…
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Leah’s healing…
Gerhard and I became foster parents of twins in July 2017 when they were 27 days old. Our little boy Tobi is a healthy, normal little guy but his sister Leah was born with a genetic disorder. She has a number of challenges but the biggest is the fact that she was born without an…