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I greet you in the Wonderful name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Ever since I can remember I’ve been addicted to masturbation. At first I did not watch pornography, but I started watching it at a later stage. I was not as addicted to watching pornography to get me into masturbation, because usually…

Matthew 5: 9 – God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God. We are to ask God for the strength and courage to live out His word. To follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit into the good works He has prepared for us. One night I was…

Have you ever been faced with issues and questions that not even Google could resolve? Often these types of issues relate to one’s personal set of circumstances and therefore generic answers e.g.  Google answers do not suffice. I faced such an issue recently. As a teenager I was fascinated by a water dowser (dowsing is…

Carina & Rustin Vigne, Oudtshoorn Carina and Rustin, a farming mother and son due, use a tracker device to keep tabs on their sheep on the farm as they have no one to watch over them. Late at night, after a full day’s work, they must go and fetch the sheep and use the tracker…

As our theme was “A Reason to Believe”, allow me to share a few of the testimonies of the families whom we had the privilege to meet on our way around the Kamanassie Mountain area. I believe that each of these short testimonies prove to us as believers that Father is real and cares for…

Good morning, Beloveds. It is Thursday, 30 March 2023, today and as is practice by some of us, we wear black as we agree and stand together against violence and abuse against women and children. As I was preparing to share this with you, I am led to remind someone that God indeed redeems broken…

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. …

I attended a men’s fellowship, (called X 3de Kamp) where I met an older guy who testified that he never heard anything positive from his dad. He was always put down, told how useless he was and that he could never do anything right. His dad has since passed away and he could never forgive…

We stayed on Leeupoort, close to Bela Bela and I was employed on Swartklip when my son went on a school trip on 9 August 2000. I was phoned at work at 4 in the morning, being told that my son of 13 years had 3rd degree burn wounds over 80% of his body, after…

During 2021 my daughter, Malaika, fell pregnant and immediately was advised to terminate the pregnancy due to growths discovered on the body of the baby. The family decided to make this a prayer issue instead and everyone joined in praying and fasting for a healthy pregnancy and baby. She went for a second opinion and…

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…

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…

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…

I woke up during the night, reminded of how difficult times are for Churches and how they are struggling, impoverished by the tuff times, and I started to pray. In a clear voice God spoke to me saying that His people are approaching Him with their firepans filled with all the wrong ideas, offerings and…

Betty’s bay is my husband’s “happy place”. He has spent many happy holidays with his family at their holiday home right on the rocks in Sunny Seas at DeWetsbaai. A few years ago we were fortunate enough to build a house opposite the original family home. It is a special thing to have family who…

“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…

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…

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…

The confinement of lockdown caught me and the handing out of Bibles was delayed. We were anxious to get away again and to tackle the work we would like to do. The moment it was permissible, we started driving around on weekends to hand out Bibles. Initially we drove from Rustenburg further west in North…

All glory to God. Lockdown – We are all in the same boat, exposed to serious restrictions, rules and regulations, influencing our everyday lives. Our tenants notified us in December 2019 that they will be moving out at the end of March 2020. When the National Lockdown in South Africa was announced to commence on…

My brother had cancer and I asked God to heal him. In a letter, on 14 December 2019, I promised God that I will be a witness for Him if He healed my brother. I emphasized that it will be an added bonus if he lived and both of us can testify in our Christian…

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…

A few years back Charles and I attended a Worship evening hosted by a congregation in our hometown. Us being present was the first miracle as I received a random invitation on Whatsapp, from someone I did not know that well at the time, on a group that I then only recently joined. The evening…

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…

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…

For the best part of my school career I attended boarding school. It was compulsory to attend Sunday school every Sunday as well as to attend both the morning and evening church services. In other words I was raised in the Christian tradition. By the end of 1959 I proclaimed my faith and was confirmed…

(Note to readers: This testimony was written before the lockdown occurred) In light of the current threat and the potential consequences of the corona virus, I was asked to share my story about the effects of the recession in 2008. The 2008 financial crisis started as a result of a sub-prime mortgage crisis which had…

We were flicking through job ads, knowing it’s time to move on, our season Pietermaritzburg was over, but we had no idea where to next. So I gallantly, out of the blue, said to my husband “what about Addo?”….From a city to …well, we knew nothing of this little hamlet in the Eastern Cape…. Needless…

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…

Our dream started about 20 years ago when we were on holiday in the Western Cape, dreaming of our own little farm with vineyards. Every year when we went to the Cape for a holiday, our desires and dreams for this increased. Because I grew up on a farm, I wanted to have my own…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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.

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,…