Ezekiel 36:

 ¹⁶Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 ¹⁷Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
 ¹⁸Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
 ¹⁹And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
 ²⁰And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
 ²¹But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
 ²²Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
 ²³And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
 ²⁴For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
 ²⁵Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
 ²⁶A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
 ²⁷And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
 ²⁸And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
 ²⁹I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
 ³⁰And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
 ³¹Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
 ³²Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
 ³³Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
 ³⁴And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
 ³⁵And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
 ³⁶Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
 ³⁷Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
 ³⁸As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD

Thoughts on Dominion...

I thought I should post what's on the brain before I forget

Today My Status on FB was:
thank you God for all you taught me this weekend!!!! Today I will try and take dominion over my life, health, room!, work, new job, relationships, relationship with you for YOUR GLORY!

So I go to bed last night and wake up this morning praying this over my life and ready to change my attitude towards life and work and body, health after a weekend of preaching at Helps Ministry Training on (PASSION, LOVE, COMMITMENT, SACRIFICE = OWNERSHIP) and Sunday Night Evening Service (Work of FAITH, Labour of Love, Enduranec inspired by Hope) - we all as people work, labour,endure  but for us the difference is faith hope and love added to what we do...! Also with this is Arthur Burk teachings on Dominion...(the reason why we dont see it...cause its for his glory not ours) and then YAM prayer... Where there was a word about us Young adults taking Dominion over what God has given us, our lives, our jobs, etc.etc... So after all of that I decide that I am going to do things differently have to change my attitude, have to be intentional, etc.etc...

Then the day starts and I end up being late for work training...! But as I drive, and forgetting the name of the school I stop someone who is going to the school which was a miracle for her, and for me and it was just showing me that despite my shortcomings, God is apart of the agenda in the little thigns even( reminder to self that Stanley at Church said, as he got older start thanking, giving Glory to God for all the things hte little things that happen to us!) But anyway as I am pondering, about work, the revelation of training, my stress and fears about the job even though it is all falling in place nicely I realise this about all of this...

God calls us to take Dominion... That was what was said in the garden in Genesis (how funny we were taught about this so long ago and only now this is making sense to me!) Anyway we are called to rule, designed to rule/take ownership, influence, fix, with Gods help of course, the life/area/situation God has placed in our lives, to let his kingdom come in that area... So yeah we get this, we are hearing this preached this now, but what is needed to actually see dominion not just preach dominion?

Work. Taking Dominion over a difficult relationship, My WEIGHT, etc.etc... is not just a prayer, now I am not saying prayer can't work even on its own, I believe it can, God may be calling you to PRAY regarding a situation and in this case, this is work too, something we are doing, to change the situation...But besides prayer sometimes Seeing Dominion may require more. We may not even see it in our lifetimes, but we labour to take dominion of the earth! And again with Adam and Eve after they fell and didnt take dominion but instead chose to listen to serpent and own desires, work now became toil, the earth produced thorns, it was harder...So taking dominion will not be easy, there will be thorns...it will be hard, there will be resistance... But we are called to take dominion so we must anyway, its just this dominion now includes HARD WORK... :)

Which can make us feel INADEQUATE, UNPREPARED, TIRED, STRUGGLING,  and maybe other people from the work take their identity from it, make Work the objective, so push hard, work hard, but without the heart, or anointing or others procrastinate, Stress!etc.etc...but the bottom line is toil creates in us a UNFINISHED, even INSECURITY WHICH makes us then CRY OUT TO GOD

As we cry out to God for help, HE comes gives us answers, perspective, lifts the load, helps us have purpose in the the labour, moves through us, does something bigger than we thought through it, shows us how it was all him in the first place, we realise our identiy and our call through him intervenng and opening our eyes and lifting us, in the situation...

and DOMINION HAPPENS! it's like the seed that falls to the ground, then dies, and new harvest comes from that... Dominion doesnt come just from Praying, or Working the Dominion, or Struggling with it, but as we take it to God he comes and does all of the above through us with a different mindset, heart, view, strength and courage in us! It's like taking his call, and giving it back to him, and then living out what he calls! I think all is necessary, Just all is not isolated, but works together!

One of the Keys!

Isaiah 33:

⁵ The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high;
   he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.
⁶ He will be the sure foundation for your times,
   a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge;
   the fear of the LORD is the key to this treasure.

Hectic Schmectic, and very appropriate.... This week during quiet time, God gave me this scripture, it is quite apt because last week there was alot of high and low moments, really experiencing God's presence, but then falling really deeply but then Sunday (yesterday) looking back I had to say that it was good week regardless! Well thursday night at YWAM Muiz (which was awesome but no time to elaborate on this post) We were just worshiping and exalting God, all the songs were lifting him up, Jesu Phakeme,etc...And at the end of at least 3 songs we all just went silent! Previous Sunday at church we were praising God for 5 min loudly non stop...

This scripture begins with
 The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high;

Yep that is the starting point. God is good, great, worthy to be praised, lift him up, lift up your praise, whether you do or not he is exalted!

Then
   he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.

This has been a prayer for me, righteousness, purity, fill me Lord with justice and righteousness. Fill my family, our land, the world too with justice and righteousness.

⁶ He will be the sure foundation for your times,

This weeks earthquakes,tsunamis, so much going on, so much uncertainty and fear, in this times, God will be our sure foundation, he will be the only thing steady...Besides even natural disasters there is a lot going on, emotionally, spiritually... But he will be the sure foundation for us in our times. And even for all our days...

   a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge;

Wow, a rich store, quality, abundance, of salvation (for me, for my family for the situations we find ourselves in, wisdom and knowledge) in Him I will find a rich store of salvation,wisdom and knowledge.

   the fear of the LORD is the key to this treasure.

God is exalted, He will fill us with justice and righteousness, he will be sure foundation in our times, he will be a rich store of salvation, wisdom and knowledge. What is the key to all of this...

The fear of the Lord.

May we revere, honour, hold highly in regard, may we cast down our idols, may we let God break our hearts, may we humble ourselves, May God teach us what it means to fear him so that all of this will be ours, for His glory... May we find ourselves in him.

I love the way it all begins and ends in him!

Suddenly...

I am struck with sadness...and this is not because of Valentine's Day, as I had an awesome funny day. But because of the messed up relationship that I have with someone close to me. I cannot not be in right relationship with people yet that is what she requested and now I am respecting that. And it hurts, and it sucks, maybe I should be ignoring what she said and loving on her anyway...but her words hurt to much.

Anyway God, I give you even this. Please intervene. Lord bless her and keep her, in Jesus name.

Lord keep bitterness from my heart.

Chan

The Crown of Friendship

(still to be cleaned up, spoken about for years, only now made up into words...)


The Crown of Friendship
By Chandre De Wet


Did you know, friendship is a crown... Given to you by God. Adorning your head. So at this stage all the lonely people check out as they feel they don't have a crown, but wait. That crown is not people... The crown is Jesus... We are given a crown of friendship and that crown is Jesus, so even if we have no people in our lives we still have the one main, best, dearest, truest friend, Jesus, and really that is sufficient, enough!...

In time, or through Life, God adds people to our lives (and removes). Every person that he adds to our lives, every friendship, is a jewel on the crown. Sometimes you have big jewels, some are precious and rare. Some people have few jewels on their crowns, some have many, Some have different jewels and sometimes you'll have none...but even if your crown is empty, you are not alone as you have the best friend of all Jesus...and he is the crown that brings you more gems, but ultimately people are just an added blessing to the crown of friendship you already have!

Why don't you dig a little deeper...

Kids just love this song, even though sometimes I am tired of singing it again...But the purpose of this blog post is not to talk about children's actions songs but to share where I'm at. Digging deeper. Finally, I am beginning to understand somethings about my life...Its like when u dig u get soft soil but as u go deeper it gets to a point where the sand is so hard u have to use a pike to break it up. I've been digging and digging these years, going to DTS, victory weekends, encounter weekends, deliverance ministry, but still my life was just not working out, not the way other people's do. And people who have fairly simple lives have begun to get frustrated with me. But finally I am beginning to understand what that harder ground is, what the roots of my problems are and can deal with it...

...in God's love.

There are times that my problems overwhelm me. There are times when I say thank you for your grace. Thankyou Lord that I'm not married or have children cause u wanted to heal me first!!!

Although being where I am can be scary, today I am grateful that I am here, because I know I am not without God's love, and I know he will carry me through, even when it doesn't feel like that.

Chan

P.S...

Awesome Sara Groves song...

Hello Lord, it's me your child
I have a few things on my mind
Right now I'm faced with big decisions
And I'm wondering if you have a minute, cuz
Right now I don't hear so well
And I was wondering if you could speak up

I know that you tore the veil
So I could sit with you in person
And hear what you're saying but
Right now, I just can't hear you.

I don't doubt your sovereignty
I doubt my own ability to
Hear what you're saying
And to do the right thing
And I desperately want to do the right thing
But right now I don't hear so well
And I was wondering if you could speak up

I know that you tore the veil
So I could sit with you in person
And hear what you're saying but
Right now, I just can't hear you.

And somewhere in the back of my mind
I think you are telling me to wait
And though patience has never been mine
Lord, I will wait to hear from you
Oh Lord, I'm waiting on you

Right now I don't hear so well
And I was wondering if you could speak up

I know that you tore the veil
So I could sit with you in person
And hear what you're saying but
Right now, I think you're whispering

I hope it wasn't so but if it was...?

I hate being the rebound girl