Category: Encouragement
Posted on March 10, 2022
Freedom in Lockdown
In 2020, the Lockdown Letters initiative was launched. Stories, poetry, messages, lessons, and experiences of people in South Africa across the cultural and age spectrums. Despite the severe Lockdown mandates, God unlocked not just one, but two things …
Posted on July 15, 2020
Shake off the spirit of heaviness
Isaiah 61:3 … the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness … Depress – reduce the level or strength of activity in (something, especially an economic or biological system.) Since yesterday afternoon, I was overcome by a …
Posted on May 8, 2020
Waiting on the Lord
Most of us don’t like waiting, but there is one type of waiting that we can and should learn to do and enjoy – waiting on the Lord. It isn’t the waiting when God chooses to delay something, …
Posted on March 28, 2020
THANKSGIVING DURING A PANDEMIC
I am reading a book during my quiet times – The Prayer Encounters of Jesus by Estell Brink. Today is Saturday, 28 March and day 2 of South Africa’s lock down. On Monday, our president, Cyril Ramaphosa, made …
Updated on March 18, 2017
Within each person is the potential to be a Butterfly
Romans 12:2 “… be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” A caterpillar spends its day with its face down, eating leaves and …