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Today, not feeling good. Besides what happened yesterday I also went to bed extremely late, so it was a mission to get up this morning. I'm realising that I'm going to have to draw some serious lines in the sand with regards to this balance thing or I'm going to keep oversleeping, or having a ripple effect in other areas of my life or messing up in ways I dont want to. And really dont enjoy this tiredness and the things that go with oversleeping and drowsiness.

gotta go..

Fire Burns - Jon Owens

This song is so anointed and powerful it's great to know and realise this is the fire of God too I am experiencing, and Man my favourite part is

Arise Generation! No longer Forsaken! Arise! Arise! Arise!

Not just for me, but my generation, my sisters and their generation even my father and mother and their generation! No longer forsaken! Arise Arise Arise!

Fire burns - Jon Owens
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Dont wanna go back Lord
to the way I used to live
the way I used to live
I wont go back Lord
to the way I used to be
before You rescued me

I will not stop till every tribe and nation
bows before You
I will not stop till they all see Your glory
See Your Glory

Your Fire burns within me
Burn within me with Your Fire

Lift up your eyes to see the glory of the Lord is on the earth
Arise, Arise!

Arise Generation, No longer forsaken
Arise! Arise! Arise!

http://www.myspace.com/jonowensmusic - the whole song you can listen to here... and the meaning behind the CD is -

""Arize Live" is an alarm. It is to wake up the hearts of men and women that have laid dormant in hibernation. It is to wake up hearts who have seen the darkness that surrounds and have mistaken it for night.

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn. - Isaiah 60:1-3

THIS IS OUR FINEST HOUR!!! This is a time for those in the church to be reminded of their first love Jesus Christ. This is a time for unbelievers to meet the Perfect Lover of their souls and be forever changed. And it is a time for God's beautiful church to rise up and show forth His glory to all the nations.

ARIZE, ARIZE, ARIZE!!!"

Just had to blog this...

Got this on one of the groups I belong to on Facebook, it really answered some things in my life I struggle/am unsure about... (Note I did not write this I just copied it to remind myself of this revelation because its a situation i find myself in regularly)

Depending on Him

Isaiah 30:15-17
Your salvation requires you to turn back to me and stop your silly efforts to save yourself. Your strength will come from settleing down in complete dependence on ME.

30:18
He's waiting around to be gracious to you. He's gathering strength to show mercy to you - God take the time to do everything right- EVERYTHING- Those who wait around for Him are the lucky ones.

Exodus 14:14
God will fight the battle for you. And you? You keep your mouth SHUT!

Have you ever been in a situation where, with all your heart you want to speak something to a person to change their lifes? I get in those situations a lot. And i use to just say what ever popped into my mind but I always found myself getting in to trouble for what i said. I finally got tired of just saying what come up and so i sat down and prayed and these are some verses God gave me.

God Will fight my battles. And i need to just sit back and trust him. He is the only one who will give me the RIGHT words to say and to say it at the right time.

God is waiting for Me to completly trsut and depend on Him.

I Made a promise to God, that from that day on i would look to him and rely on him in these situations. And its amazing to see Him work and how differently things turn out! I would strongly recomend doing this. It will honestly change your life!

Indescribable...

Indescribable - Chris Tomlin

From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea
Creation's revealing Your majesty
From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring
Every creature unique in the song that it sings
All exclaiming

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God

Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
You are amazing God

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
Incomparable, unchangeable
You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same
You are amazing God
You are amazing God

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This has been my experience Saturday at Cape Point and Boulders Beach - Again reminded of the fact that we give gifts of paintings, art, flowers, etc. God's gift to us a creation, he gave it us to enjoy and marvel, thats how much he loves us... We are worth so much more though, yet for us he created oceans, beautiful mountains, sunsets, colourful rainbows, and structured and unstructured trees, pretty flowers...

An accident? (I think not)

Groetjes Jongens en Meisjes

This is just a post to honour the 8 dutch athlete missionary couples who spent the last 3 weeks serving in SA. I'm not sure if they will see this post, but I've said alot of this yesterday at the farewell braai... but it was really great to meet real christians from the Netherlands, and also just be impacted by their lives and FUNNINESS... Goodbye and God bless you Dianne, Huub, Marioryn, Robert, Williana, Wytze, Jan and Esther, we will miss you. Oops and I forgot little Lukas.

Huub and Wytze skiing in the alps...

Robert, Marjorein, Dianne, Williana - We love you guys and thanks Williana for the lovely choc banana recipe ;)

Planning for the Youth Service

Jan and Esther - Here Jan Looks like a pastor :)

Dianne and Huub in their play...

There's a bear!!! And over falls a Sprinbok Rugby player because of Jans strength :)

Thanks So much Robert for helping us with the sound!

Baby Lukas! And the rest of the team... :)


Dankjewel om jullie levenswijze te delen en om te tonen dat er nog echte Christenen zijn in Nederland. Bedankt voor de plezierige momenten maar om onze gemeenschap en onze gemeente te dienen. Jullie werk in de school heeft veel vrucht gedragen en we hopen verder te kunnen werken met de kinderen die willen doorzetten.

Moge God jullie zegenen bij jullie terugkeer in Nederland met Zijn Liefde, Aanwezigheid, Plezier, Doel en Richting. Moge jullie verder grootse dingen doen, niet alleen voor God in de wereld, maar ook in jullie thuis en voor jullie zelf, in de manier dat jullie liefhebben en dienen.

Heel erg veel bedankt en hopelijk zien we mekaar nog terug.

[Lastly if anyone else is interested the group they belong to is Athletes in Action, in particular netherlands - www.aia-holland.com/ athletesinaction.nl , for the rest of the world just do a google search of Athletes in Action]

a glimpse of heaven....

Was singing my favourite song (or at least one of my favourite songs) on the way to work...

Nothing will be the same
All of my life You've changed
Just for a moment, heaven had opened
I saw You..

I then looked up and saw this...



Heaven opening for me,:)

Here's the rest of the song...

Nothing will be the same
All of my life you’ve changed
Just for a moment, heaven was opened
I saw you…

How will I spend my days
Now that you held my gaze
All that surrounds me
I’d lose now you found me
I’d lose it…

Chorus:

For my eyes have seen your glory
For my ears have heard your name
I have placed my hand in Your hand
I will never be the same

My tower, my strength, my song
You are my salvation
Is there no end to your mercy, my friend
You Amaze me...

So I never will return
And it’s only for You I burn
Nothing behind me
Can now undermine me
I’m all Yours…

I have placed my hand in Your hand
and I will never be the same
For my eyes have seen Your glory
For my ears have heard Your name
I have placed my hand in Your hand
I will never be the same

(I will never be the same - Tree63)