[John 1] We are so familiar with the beautiful words of Scripture – a familiarity that needs to be revived from time to time to infuse new life and understanding into old concepts. We know the phrase: the Word became flesh, so well, that we do not give it another thought. Maybe we could use…
Author: Ansophie Joubert
Writer and speaker in women's ministry.
82. Unity and power – hell trembles.
We are called and equipped, never left without every possible thing we need to be victorious. That is the promise …you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes, speaking the tongues of angels, unifying the church to make it powerful and unstoppable. The text characterizes the speaking in tongues as an utterance of prayer…
81. Heavenly words, changing earth.
We are in the process of seeking God – already knowing how awesome He is, that there is none like Him and that He loves us with an everlasting love according to His character of goodness and truth. We are now knocking at the door of heaven, praying in the Spirit that Jesus promised, reaching…
80. Through the door.
In searching you find a door. This is quite a mystery. In all your prayer, all your beseeching God for your fears and worries – is there still a place where you have not been? Of course there is! There is a more excellent life awaiting. Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria,…
79. Overthrowing the powers of hell.
Prayer is a plea for God’s ordained order to prevail above earthly powers. We can overthrow hell-power by prayer. When we pray the Word of God we can have on earth what heaven had already decided on. [Jack Hayford] That is why we pray according to Jesus’ command: Whatever you bind on earth will be…
78. Only the very best – always?
Jesus’ response is very simple. One of the Jewish Rabbis asked, “Is there a man who ever hates his son?” Jesus’ argument is that no father ever refused the request of his son; and God the great Father will never refuse the requests of his children. Jesus’ examples are carefully chosen. He takes three examples;…
77. In the secret place of the Most High.
It doesn’t sound like much. Kneeling by a bed behind a closed door and speaking to the God of heaven and earth. It is after all the image we grew up with, if we had the privilege of being raised in the home of praying parents. We might even have the memory of a mom…
76. Our secret power of life.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:7,8 The divinely targeted life seeks the way of the Lord revealed by the…
75. He is good, good, good – always.
What do you “see” when you think of God the Father? Do you have a picture of Him? Do you see Jesus or is He sort of separate? What is this Trinity-doctrine with which the theologians shape our God-concept? Stay with me in these chapters of Exodus; in this most dramatic scene that will shape…
74. Delivered, baptized and … uh-oh, the desert?
Do you know the story? The drama of dreams, kidnapping, lies, slavery, prison, more dreams and then the palace of ancient Egypt at the climax of its civilization – gosh, no wonder Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote an extremely successful musical about it. God delivers Jacob’s family from famine in the story of Joseph, when he…
Pebbles of Perpetuity 