From the first day we arrived in the Philippines with all it's promised beauty and extraordinary adventures.. We hit the ground running from sleeping in a very small airport to taking a 36 hour ferry in a room with more than 500 beds amd not even mentioning the heat this country has to offer. We arrived at the first venue for the parents visit with excitement and even a few nerves. What a great time this was spending time with friends and family and getting to know our fellow travellers even more, with snorkeling, scuba diving amd jumping of...
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In the Bible Jesus asks 307 questions. He is asked 183 of which he only answers 3. Asking questions was central to Jesus' life and teachings. In fact, for every question he answers directly he asks—literally—a hundred. During the time that the guys worked on a farm in Turkey, we were forced to learn a lot about endurance. The farm owner didn't have a lot of grace with us and expected a lot from us, because we follow Jesus. He believes that to be an example, we need to work harder and achieve more than the rest of the...
The Christian life is not a play ground it is a battle ground. My battle is not agents flesh and blood but against the spiritual enemy whom apposes me so I will draw the battle line and face my enemy with a bold determination. Even when it hits me to my knees I will not let it keep me there. I will keep on fighting keep on moving for I do not draw my strength from my body of flesh but from the spirit of God that lives inside me and still have the same power that raised Jesus from...
I don’t know how deep the water is. I don’t know what’s underneath me. Through the murky blue I can see eery shapes in dark brown and black, but nothing more. I am trying to swim as fast as I can while still putting in the effort to appear graceful and in control. The truth is, I am not at all in control and I am honestly really really scared. I don’t understand why I’m feeling like this. Usually, I’m like a fish in the water. I have always loved the ocean. Its actually the one place where...
As I walk up the steep, stone steps and look behind me at the valley I was convinced I had to make my home in, I am undone at the beauty my eyes behold. A spacious, inviting room adorned with greenery and fresh flowers in every corner- in the middle is the most beautifully set table I have ever seen. As the setting sun spilled in and lit up the room, I see a seat the has my name on it: a spot reserved and set just for me. You come and take my hand to lead me to my...
Kosovo was just heart-blowing, like one of my teammates would say. Jesus loves surprising us - and that’s what He did with me in Kosovo. I really experienced God here. He showed me that I was believing the lie of rejection all my life ‘till now. It’s really a lot to take in if you had believed a lie for 19 years of your life. Jesus gave me new eyes to see , He took the veil off. I see things clear and different now. I learned to know what the Father is really like and it radically...
Where do I start. I haven't blogged since training and it's our 6th country on journey. But a friend, back in Jeffreys Bay, had encouraged me to blog. Driving in the back of Steve's land cruiser, listening to Jack Johnson, on our way to the Frey's home to stay there for the weekend. It's our last weekend and I don't want to say goodbye. There has been so much freedom here, so many breakthroughs. A lot of prophecy in team and unity I've never experienced in my life. Although the spiritual atmosphere was heavy. For the first time I experienced...
Some of you might not know this about me, but my father passed away about 8 months ago, And although he was a GREAT man and i loved him very very much, his fathering skills sometimes lacked here and there, to say the least, which left me at the bottom of the mountain - longing for the love that makes you shout it from the mountain tops, but lacking the love that gets you there. Throughout my life i had never met the Father, never allowed myself to see Him as a loving, caring, devoted Father, because of the...
Kosova was close to home. Coming from a farm in the Western Cape, nothing is closer to home (or my heart) then rolling hills, fields that stretch into the distance and most shades of green. God the Father knows this about me. I think He did what did in me here, because He knew I would need it. I’ve had one of the toughest weeks of my life here. On the other hand, it was one of the most refreshing and freeing weeks of my life. It was a time of becoming. Team became family. Uncertainty became adventure. Tiredness became...
The empty tomb was just an empty tomb.Mt. Olives’ beautiful view was just another mountain with a beautiful view. The garden of Getsemaneh’s colorful flowers was just a garden with colorful flowers. I’m not gonna lie, i’m thankful off my socks that i got to experience the places where my Jesus did the breathtaking things he did, but something that i realized throughout the past 10 days in Israel is that Jesus lives, which makes all of these places just that - places. Its beautiful to see and experience, but something i’ve tricked myself into believing is that...
