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

Bad day yesterday...& thought for the day

Lets start with thought for the day:

I hope to never complain again when God gives me a  spirit of peace, instead of laughing, falling over, etc.etc...Cause its' really his supernatural peace that carried me this weekend it really was unexplainable the peace,and i think ti was God doing that so mom's birthday and stuff will be a blessed experience,and Monday that peace (manifested peace) gone again. So now in the struggles and relational stuff I am facing I say Lord, please give me once again, your peace that passes all understanding in Jesus Name...

Now for yesterday:

Well,the day started with communion. Then a disappointment (will not elaborate more here). Then went to Zevenwacht mall to change shoes and do some other things.

1) Banked money (but forgot that mom gave me money too to buy stuff afterwards) so banked too much.
2) Lost phone in toilet (prayed and got it back)
3) ordered food as hadn't eaten since breakfast, only after ate, realised about mom's money. so had to use my remaining money to buy her shopping with, was 50c short,fortunately the cashier allowed me to buy.
4) popped in at someone in Northpine seeing as I was thats side of the world and dont have petrol to drive thru othertimes.
5) got into trouble for coming late with the goods.
6) shoes i went to swop don't fit anyway
7) got negative attitude about almost losing phone and money and everything(didnt even say everything)....(this all happened today now) so bit sad/mad/ but now am choosing instead

to pray for God's peace that passes all understanding...

Profound Question

Do you want to be free?