Stories of Faith. Moments of Grace. Lives Transformed.

Discover how God is moving in everyday lives. Each testimony shared here carries a spark of hope, reminding us that His goodness is alive and active today.

Yet another kind of addiction…

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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…

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The price of peace

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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…

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Ignorance about evil spirits

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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…

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Klein Karoo Ministry & Cycle Tour Testimonies (1)

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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…

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Redeemed Child of God

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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…

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Being Obedient

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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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Servant of God, standing in the gap

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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…

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My son was saved

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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…

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Our Miracle Baby

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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…

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The Living Word became my reality…

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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

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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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Outreach after Covid 19 Lockdown

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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…

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I could not Bargain with God…

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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…

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Stumped, not just pruned!

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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 Word for us, then and now…

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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…

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God’s Triumph over Relational Adversity

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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.

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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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Never too late for Salvation

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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…

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When the Global Economy Gets the Flu…

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(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…

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Time to Move Again…

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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…

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A Significant Day – 6 April

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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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Exodus to Little Canaan

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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…

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My Story of Hope and Faith

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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

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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…

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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

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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”…

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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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Beyond the Farmer lies a Prayer Warrior

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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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Poems by a Child of God…

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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

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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,…

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10 Years a Mom…

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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 can Take Away any Pain…

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My name is Julie Meyer. On 24 June 2019 I had a stroke. Due to the stroke my central nervous system was damaged. Since then my left eye started twitching non-stop, for months on end. It got really bad and even started to affect my driving abilities. In Desperation, one Sunday morning in December, I…

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Our Surplus in Heaven

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On the 27th of June 2018 my husband, Reon and I were blessed with a beautiful baby boy, Hugo. I had a perfectly healthy pregnancy and our son is a perfectly healthy, growing 16month old boy. Earlier this year we started praying about baby number 2. We decided to leave it all in the Lord’s…

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God’s Provision in my Shopping Cart…

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Needing to get a few things for the house, we stopped at a nearby Supermarket. I should just mention that money was tight since I went on pension a few months ago and with my husband, Gert, already having been on pension for some years. Passing by the pet food in an aisle, a lady…

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Not Running…Following

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In February 2019, my hubby, Matt, and I made one of the biggest, most life changing decisions we have had to make until now. We decided that we are moving to Canada. We’ve spoken about moving since we got married in 2016, but I could never quite get myself to make that commitment, so we…

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A Lifetime in His Service…

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Kobie and Regina Klerck have a long history of serving God in many ways, especially distributing Bibles in the neighbouring countries of South Africa. Some years ago Kobie had a serious health scare when he was told that he had cancer as well as that his heart had serious problems. The Oncologist advised that he…

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Coffee with a Gangster

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On Sunday, 26 May 2019, the Minister in Church spoke about having a heart for the less privileged. He prayed that our hearts will be open towards the poor. As I sat in church, the first thought that came to mind was, “but how do we trust beggars these days?” On Monday morning at 9:00…

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a Legacy of Service

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Joan van Wyk, when we hear her name many different images come to mind, most of them involving her helping or serving others in some or other way. Joan turned 90 in 2019 and her life serves as an example to anyone who aspires to live a life that matters. In summary she estimated that…

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Children’s Prayer Meeting

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At Church we have a well-trained team who can attend to prayer needs of members, for commitment to Christ, forgiveness, healing or any other prayer need what so ever. After a Service someone can just meet with a team member in the Prayer Room. One evening after a Service I felt a prompting of the…

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From the Seed Spreads the Word…

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“Show me a farmer who does not have a deep love for Creation and I will call you a liar.” To talk about farmers is impossible without acknowledging the Hand of the Father in their daily lives. As farmers, Kobie and Regina Klerck from Arnoldistad, on the way between Kroondal and Rustenburg, Northwest, needs no…

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Perfect Provision for Freie Christengemeinde, Linz am Danube, Austria

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During 1966 Fritz and I visited Linz, Austria, his birth place. Amongst other things, we visited the Freie Christengemeinde (Austrian for congregation), where the fact that female attendance far outweighed male attendance caught our attention. Pastor Griesfelder, the minister at that time, invited us over, giving us the opportunity to enquire about the odd gender…

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God’s Promise did not Include Drowning…

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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

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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…

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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…

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Heed the Warning from the Holy Spirit…

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Years ago Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) had a lottery similar to the current South African National Lottery. At the time my husband and I were living in a tented camp, Seyferfontein, meant for roadworks staff. Our homes consisted of various tents for living quarters and bedrooms, as well as a corrugated iron building which served…

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God’s Protection during our Burglary

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12.10.2018 Background At 03h22 on 12.10.2018, Xtrasec, our Security Company, received notification of our panic alarm. They called us immediately and I said “Come! There’s someone in our house!” Six minutes later it was all over, but how much did we experience and learn during those six minutes… Earlier that same night Precious, our stray…

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I Blamed God…but He Forgave me

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On Monday morning, 11 February 1980, my son, Gerrie, 7 years old and a Grade 2 learner in Dagbreek Primary School, Carltonville, was hit by a car and fell off his bike. The school bus, driven by the Principal, Mr Oberholzer, could not stop in time and the back wheel of the bus went over…

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God is my Rock

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I was 23 years old, my husband 26 years old and we had three small children. On the 1st of March of that year we moved to Tzaneen, in Limpopo Province of South Africa. Jan, my husband was a telephone technician in the postal services. On the 9th of March he was working to repair…

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God’s Voice, my Personal GPS…

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At the age of 83, I am proud to say that I still enjoy my independence, travelling from Rustenburg to visit my children in Silver Lakes, east of Pretoria. On one such an occasion, I was travelling from Rustenburg to Pretoria, on my usual route, the N4 highway, when suddenly traffic was stopped completely. This…

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Good Morning my Picasso…

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This Poem is about letting go of yourself and giving over to the creator, allowing God to control every aspect of your life including your body and mind. This poem exposes how it can be so easy to give your life to God. It’s like falling asleep and letting God break you and make you…

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Masada, my Miracle, Building my Faith

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The impression that a place like Masada leaves on you is everlasting. A majestic, steep mountain, towering above the surrounding arid area in central Israel. The place where the last of the Jews tried hundreds of years ago to stand their ground against the Roman forces trying to reach them from below. Over a period…

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God’s Perfect Plan for my Life

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Years ago I had a vision of God’s Hand hovering over a puzzle, slowly putting the pieces together, fashioning the plan He had for my life. It dawned on me that every single encounter, direction and exposure was part of His perfect plan for my life. I studied in Johannesburg, met the love of my…

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God can turn Something Worthless into Gold…

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I come from a perfect background, I had fantastic, loving parents, and our family was filled with enough love to go around. Our family was at peace, we regularly attended the Lutheran Church, being involved with the choir and orchestra at church. I was living the so-called “perfect life”, blessed with intelligence, growing up well-disciplined…

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Unexpected Healing

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I have been a wrestler all my life long. As a young man I participated in South Africa, not internationally due to political restrictions, and I stopped for a number of years due to work pressures. In the meantime my sons also started wrestling. As the boys started to participate I took up wrestling again…

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Stopping the Witchcraft

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This is the final testimony of Melinda Koehler, a long term missionary currently living and working with her husband, Dan, in the Sioma District of Western Zambia. Melinda gives us a peak into the kind of challenges that they have been dealing with on a daily basis, for more than 30 years of sharing God with…

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Room 1, Bed 2…

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Melinda Koehler shares how God tought her the importance of prayer in Tanzania in 1997. In 2001 a Word from God to pray for her husband, Dan, saved him from certain death after being hit by a bus & being robbed while lying injured in the road. A former Hindu, convert to Christianity, saw a vision…

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