Trust God He knows your need

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

~Aristotle

Hallo daar!!! In ‘n toneel in een van die immergewilde Charlie Brown sketse staan hy vir ‘n oomblik verslae voor sy posbus. Dit is nadat hy besef dat hy nogmaals geen brief of kerskaartjie ontvang het nie. Dan stap Charlie weg en mompel: “Nobody sent me a Christmas card today. I almost wish there weren’t a holiday season. Now I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to draw attention to it?” Eina! Maar tog bied hierdie sprokieskarakter ‘n venster op die eensaamheid wat vele hier in Kersfeestyd ervaar.

Miskien is Charlie Brown se belewenis ook ons almal se diepste vrees. “Sê nou mense hou nie regtig van my nie?” “Sê nou ek roep uit ‘hallo daar’ en niemand antwoord terug nie?” Vrees vir publieke verwerping word nie verniet as een van die dominante drie vrese uitgelig wat alle volwassenes in die gesig staar nie. Wel, hier’s goeie Kersfeesnuus: Jesus gee om. Nee, hierdie is nie net nog ‘n voel-goed opmerking nie. Christus gee soveel om dat Hy hierheen gekom het om dit met sy eie lewe te kom sê, ook vir jou en my. Jesus antwoord elke keer met hemelse genade as ons uitroep of Hy daar is.

Vrede

Stephan Joubert

Hebrews 11:1

What is faith? It is the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead.

- I want to encourage those who are trusting God.
- When we are trusting God we are exercising our faith.
- Faith is the thing that moves God.
- Let's keep on trusting and believing God.

DECLARATION: I will trust in the Lord with ALL my heart! 

Have a great Wednesday.
Kind Regards
Pastor Andrew & Vanessa Roebert
ALIVE TO GOD
Email: andrew@alivetogod.com

Sunday is my Father's birthday. I hope you'll help me pass the word by
wishing everyone you meet today a Very Merry Christmas!

T' was the night Jesus came and all through the house,
Not a person was praying, not one in the house .

The Bible was left on the shelf without care,
For no one thought Jesus would come there.

The children were dressing to crawl into bed,
Not once ever kneeling or bowing their head..

And Mom in the rocking chair with babe on her lap,
Was watching the Late Show as I took a nap...

When out of the east there rose such a clatter,
I sprang to my feet to see what was the matter...

Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and lifted the sash...

When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But Angels proclaiming that Jesus was here...

The light of His face made me cover my head...
Was Jesus returning just like He'd said.

And though I possessed worldly wisdom and wealth,
I cried when I saw Him in spite of myself...

In the Book of Life which he held in his hand,
Was written the name of every saved man...

He spoke not a word as he searched for my name,
When He said "it's not here" My head hung in shame...

The people whose names had been written with love,
He gathered to take to his Father above...

With those who were ready He rose without sound,
While all of the others were left standing around ..

I fell to my knees but it was too late,
I'd waited too long and thus sealed my fate...

I stood and I cried as they rose out of sight,
Oh, if only I'd known that this was the night...

In the words of this poem the meaning is clear,
The coming of Jesus is now drawing near...

There's only one life and when comes the last call,
We'll find out that the Bible was true after all.

In Hom is die volle wese van God beliggaam, en in verbondenheid met Hom deel julle in sy volheid. Kolossense 2:9-10a

Soms is dit asof Christus so in doeke toegedraai is in ons eie gedagtes, dat ons die volle impak van sy bestaan miskyk.

Besef ons werklik dat Christus gelyk is aan die Vader wat Hom in die Seun uitgestort het? Is ons bewus daarvan dat Christus met alles wat Hy is, in ons woon? As ons dit nie uit eie ervaring weet nie, dan bevestig die Woord dat ons deur Christus toebedeel is met elke geestelike gawe.

Hy het sy eie Seun nie gespaar nie, maar Hom oorgelewer om ons almal te red. Sal Hy ons dan nie al die ander dinge saam met Hom uit genade skenk nie? Romeine 8:32

 God se onbaatsugtige gawe van sy eie Seun, omvat ʼn “rykdom van wysheid en kennis” (Kolossense 2:3), “elke geestelike gawe” (Efesiërs 1:3) en die “volle natuur van God” (Kolossense 1:19). As ons dit weet, is daar geen nodigheid vir ons om ons geloof gedurig in stand te probeer hou met ʼn smag na tekens en wonderwerke om God se gawes aan ons te bevestig nie. Wanneer ons so bejag is op daardie dinge, trek ons God se versekering dat ons reeds in besit is van die gawes wat Hy deur Christus aan ons geskenk het in twyfel.

Dis nie die gawes wat ons nodig het nie; dis Christus. Deur Christus ontvang ons die gawes en deur Hom kry ons die ewige lewe. Om Christus te ontvang maak die verskil tussen godsdiens bloot ter wille van godsdiens en ʼn deurleefde geloof.

Kom ons verwyder die “geskenkpapier” vanjaar om Christus en leer ken Hom vir wie Hy werklik is: die Seun van God met al die eienskappe van God juis omdat Hy God is.

Gebed: Here, wat ʼn wonderlike waarheid dat ons deur u Seun die saad van die ewige lewe in ons eie harte dra. Gee dat ons hierdie waarheid met blydskap sal aanvaar. Amen