Someone reading these words might wonder how I got to where I am now….confident in the Lord. Here is a bit about my back story. I grew up in a harsh area of Cape Town, South Africa. The grace of it is that when you are living like that as a child, you don’t actually realise it. I attended a Catholic church. In the area I lived there were also more charismatic movements in the beautiful body of Christ. I remember experiencing horrible nightmares as a child and one day I told a friend about the nightmares. Her name is Theresa. Her family was part of this charismatic movement. When I told Theresa, she asked if I knew what to do about it. I told her that I did not and she boldly replied that I should call on the name of Jesus if it ever happened again. It happened again…and in my dreaming state I remembered Theresa’s words. I called on the name of Jesus. It was not audible, I couldn’t actually get out the sound but in my mind I was shouting Jesus! Then the most amazing thing happened…the nightmare and fear subsided.

I believe that was the beginning of my heart growing confident in the Lord….and part of my journey of discovering that God is absolutely good. God the Father; Jesus, the Son of God; who is the light of the world, and God’s Holy Spirit; who is the third person of the Trinity. In Christianity, we believe in One God displayed in these three persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. I am still on my journey of understanding the God of love who sacrificed himself for me. Romans 8:32 says: For He (God) who spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him (Jesus), grant us all things. How do you process this kind of love?

As a parent, I know the importance of boundaries. If you see your precious child running unchecked in the road, wanting to play with matches, making choices where you in your role as loving parent can foresee the danger, don’t you stop them or warn them? Well, God is our Heavenly Father, who can see the outcome of our choices. Thus there are boundaries in His Word, for our protection, out of a heart of overwhelming love for us.

Friends, we are in a battle, the battle is real and I believe it is to distort the image of our Loving Heavenly Father. If people are not aware of this, it is to our detriment. God is a gentleman! He gives us the freewill to choose His gift of salvation for ourselves. We get to decide which Kingdom we embrace and empower.

Every thought, word and action we undertake,sends ripples into eternity. We are very much responsible for the trajectory of our lives. Of course there are circumstances beyond our control…but what do we do with the things within in our control? There is great comfort in Deuteronomy 28. If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. You will experience all these blessing if you obey the Lord your God: Your towns and your fields will be blessed. Your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed. Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be blessed. Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed. The Lord will conquer your enemies when they attack you…..WOW!

There is actually much more to this verse…read it for yourselves :-),but I certainly understand the principles being shared here. If you are on God’s team there are wonderful advantages but it is contingent on us choosing God and following His ways.

Till next time 🙂