‘How valuable is the dream of the believer.’ Bill Johnson I had an ‘aha’ moment this week while watching a Bill Johnson teaching at JSSM this week. He was sharing how important it is to dream. He said, ‘The moment you stop dreaming, is the moment you start dying.’ Bill’s statement is so true… It …
Amid a difficult season, we can learn to be thankful. And at the end of a hard year, we can also look back with gratitude. Even when we feel like there’s nothing to be thankful for, we can still change our perspective and so refresh our spirits and souls with renewed hope. There are three …
We are now nearing the end of this year, and everyone and everything is shutting off. Businesses, schools, and people. After a busy and difficult year, I am also looking forward to the summer holidays, where I can simply switch off and not think about anything or everything. I’ve been asking myself why and how …
This week, I attended a gym class. Afterwards, I waited outside for my mom to finish talking to one of her friends. I glanced at a bulletin board and started reading the flyers. All kinds of random advertisements were posted, and yet all of them seemed trivial and irrelevant. ‘How on earth do people think …
Keys have played a significant role in the prophetic realm this year. It popped up at the beginning of this year, and the theme carried on throughout the year. Keys are always a mysterious thing. What does it open? What will you find on the other side? Recently, I was in Hartenbos for a prophetic …
As a child, being a leader came naturally to me. But somewhere along the way, I lost that quality. Even after I was chosen as Head Girl of my high school, I still had struggles fitting into that role. This year, I became the director of JSSM. But I was reluctant in my role as …
We are often taught that we need to be tuned in to what God is saying to us, but sometimes we also forget that God is tuned in to what we are thinking, feeling, and saying. I had an incredible experience this week. I was thinking of a situation, and there were many different ways …
On Saturday afternoon, the bell rang. My mom opened the door, and I stood behind her. I got the fright of my life: Standing in front of me was a 6-year-old girl, wearing a clown mask with a clown outfit. For a moment, my mom and I were confused. What on earth was going on? …
Throughout the years, I’ve identified with many characters in the Bible. At first, it was the life of Joseph. Then it became Esther, then Joseph again. Then it was the tragic story of Tamara, and then I identified with the beggar who threw off his cloak of identity. I also love the story of Jacob …
What a year this has been so far. I started focused, ready to take on everything that came my way. But then… I got distracted with other things, and it kept me occupied for most of the year. I couldn’t understand what was happening. That’s why it so so great to listen to prophetic leaders, …
In September, I attended a conference in Hartenbos. One of the themes for the weekend was ROAR – that it is time to ‘make our voices be heard’. I didn’t pay attention to the theme until I started walking around town during the breaks. In almost every shop I went into, people commented on my …
‘The pure in heart will see God.’ Jesus Every night, I light the candles in my bathroom before taking a bath. It’s a relaxing ritual, and it is something I look forward to doing every night. When I light the match, I pay attention to the whooshing sound it makes, and the smell that comes …
‘Rejection is redirection to what is truly meant for you.’ This week, I was wrestling with why a certain group of friends chose not to make me part of their weekend plans. Again and again, they would choose not to include me on their trips and getaways. This made me feel like I was back …
‘You’re a threat to men…’ ‘You need to flirt more..’ ‘You need to show him that you need him…’ These are just some of the comments and feedback I’ve received from various women throughout my life. These comments come especially from married women, because ‘they know what they’re talking about, for they’re married…’ and I’m …
‘Idols always break the heart of their worshippers.’ C.S. Lewis At the beginning of this year, I received a strong prophetic word regarding a season shift that is meant to happen in my life this year. I started getting confirmation upon confirmation until I couldn’t keep up with all the signs. It became overwhelming because …
This week, keys have been popping up everywhere. On Tuesday, I had coffee with a friend of mine. She told me of two separate incidents that involved keys: The first was where she had moved into a new house. She found a key lying on the floor, but it didn’t fit anywhere. It didn’t open …
Sometimes a prophetic word will keep repeating itself until you finally get it. In 2016, the word ‘royalty’ kept popping up everywhere. People prophesied that word over me, some drew pictures of crowns and gave it to me, some simply wrote the word ROYALTY on index cards and gave it to me. I was in …
‘Do you show contempt for the riches of His kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?’ Romans 2:4 In 2016, I got on a plane, and headed for the US. I said to the Lord, ‘Now it’s between me and You.’ We had things to sort …
My father always used to say that it’s important to get inside other people’s houses. ‘It shows you what’s going on in their lives,’ he would say. My father knew what he was talking about, for he was a pastor for 32 years. And so I grew up with the mindset that it’s a good …
Imagine what it would be like to be completely free. Close your eyes for a moment, and imagine what freedom would look like to you. How would you live your life? How would you dress? What would you speak about? What would you do with your hours? Visualize your life for a moment, free of …
God knows the desires of our hearts. However small or insignificant it might seem, he knows it, sees it, and hears it. I had a friendship with two girls that come from similar backgrounds as I did, and after a fleeting friendship, it didn’t work out. My heart ached because they were creatives just like …
We all know the story of Jabez pretty well. His birth was a painful one, so his mother cursed him and gave him a name that means ‘he who causes sorrow’. But Jabez flipped the curse by asking the Lord, ‘Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might …
‘Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be broken.’ In high school, I struggled with flexibility. I desperately wanted to control everything in my life. It’s only recently that I realized that the root cause of it was because there was one thing in my life that I couldn’t control: my hearing loss. Fast …
How do you know when your season is about to change? This previous Saturday, we hosted a Winter Workshop in Jeffrey’s Bay (for more info, go to The Creative Community). The focus was on ‘The Art of the Heart’, and we asked the participants to write a summary, then a timeline of their lives thus …
‘The thing about favour is that it opens doors, but it also starts wars in the form of jealousy. Just look at the life of Joseph.’ Bernie Ooley For the last week or so, the Lord has been highlighting someone to me in my thoughts. Every conversation I’ve had with her in the past, every …
Throughout the years, my father always took care of my car. He regularly sent it in for a service, made sure it was filled with petrol, and always arranged with the gardener to wash my car. I never had to worry about it, I simply drove it. Now that my father isn’t here anymore, the …