The Lord provided us with a Mini-bus to be given as a gift to our friends Leon and Jacobi who are missionaries in the Ukraine for the last 9 years. The mini-bus will make a huge difference in the lives of the people they share Jesus with.

From the 15-28 August we will be driving the mini-bus over to the Ukraine and visit Leon and Jacobi. We will be driving via the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and down to Odessa in the Ukraine, close to the Black Sea.We trust God for amazing favour and time for fruitful labour with Leon and Jacobi. Should you wish to help us financially to cover our expenses to get the mini-bus to the Ukraine please contact us or donate online.

Please pray with us for this very important project and should you wish to help us financially to cover our expenses to get the mini-bus to the Ukraine please contact us or donate online. .

Who's opinion dictates your life?

It is a wonderful thing to know that we can live free from man's opinion. There is a reference to our lives that gives God a claim to our life that is greater than my past history or geneology. The opinion God has of us is so far superior to what the world may give you through status, man's applause or personal achievement. Not even your biggest failure can demolish His esteem of you.

Our origin.
God included us in Christ, before the fall of man. Man's biggest dissapointment couldn't erase our origin. Eternity defined us before time could. God chose us in Christ before the foundation(fall of man) of the world to be holy (set apart) for God exclusively. Eph1:4 The word used chose in verse four in the original text, refers to the thought of association. The word associate implies that it is impossible to think of one person without having to think of the other at the same time. eg. If I walk in the room, my friends would immediately ask me how my wife is doing, if she is not present, because of our association. When they see me they think of her and when they see her they think of me.

Jesus came to the earth to reveal to man His true identity. Jesus Christ carried in Him the blueprint of our design. God knew us way before we could define ourselves through the limitations of the senses. Jesus is the true light of every man, he came to His own and they did not receive Him. John1:9;11 He needed no one to enlighten Him to the testimony of man, for He knew what was in man. John2:25

What gives our lives definition is reflected in His face. In His light do we see light (the light of our true identity), this is the voice of faith. Our faith is not some attempt on our part to get God to move on our part. Our faith finds its expression in our identity. Paul writes in Romans chapter 10. This is what our faith says; "it does not say who will go into heaven as to bring Him down or will go in the the abyss as to bring Him up; but near you is the word in your heart and in your mouth". In 2 Cor13:5 Paul appeals to the Corinthians to examine themselves accurately and to test and see if they are in the faith; do you not realise Christ within you. The conclusion of faith is to see yourself so clearly reflected in Christ that no contradiction or lie of the enemy will be big enough to steal your identity in Christ.

"For if we believe the testimony of man, God's testimony is greater than any other testimony". 1 John5:9 This testimony is not just a "feel good factor" to somehow help us feel better about ourselves or from the circumstances we may face, but it is the revelation of the knowledge of the indwelling Christ. We have the testimony of Christ confirmed in us. 1Cor1:6 What gives our lives substance is Christ revealed in us.

You are the God kind. When God sees Jesus, He sees you. When He sees you, He sees Jesus.
"... As he is so are we in This World..." 1John 4:17-19

Consider your worth!
The value of any product is reflected in the price you have to pay for it. God knew that the only price big enough for mankind to redeem him back to himself, was God himself. You are bought with a precious price, Jesus himself, because that is what you are worth, silver and gold and all the wealth of the world combined was not enough. God identifies you with the last Adam (Jesus), the firstborn among many brethren. To make the first Adam your reference is to walk in error. He abolished the first to establish the new.

The only opinion worthy of your full attention is what God believes concerning you. You are His love dream fullfilled!

Why settle for a visit, If God came to stay.

We spend enormous amounts of time and energy and even large sums of money to try and "track" God. We try to find the latest formula to get God's attention to come and give us a visit. Some will ask; "Where is He now...we cannot afford to miss Him." We are zealously pursueing another touch, move or wave of God. I continue meeting precious people and believers trying so hard to get God's attention in order that they may experience Him in all His fullness. When I sit in this kind of talk I somehow can't help getting a picture of a God that seems very reluctant to meet and have fellowship with His children. In my heart I know this is not true, nothing can be more further from the truth.

Am I asking the wrong question or can it be that we are failing to interpret what God said in Christ?
Personally I think it is the latter. We read in the book of Hebrews in the first few verses of chapter one that God spoke in many various ways but in these last days communicated to us through His son, Jesus Christ. Jesus is the voice of God concerning us. All God ever wanted to communicate to us, He said in His son. Yes, you heard right, ALL God ever wanted to say, He said in His Son. Jesus was the exact and complete expression of the Father. The Bible is all about Jesus and Jesus is all about you. When you see Jesus, you see the mirror of your own life reflected in Him. 2 Cor3:18, James1:22-25. "...As He is, so are we in this world..." 1John4:17-19

Rom10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Rom10:3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Paul is addressing a people who sincerley wish to encounter their God. They are full of the zeal for God, but fail to interpret with understanding the zeal of God. They did not submit themselves to God's achievement in Christ on their behalf. God's zeal produced their righteousness but they were still trying to achieve it on their own.

Religion can be best described as mans attempt to please His Maker or get His attention. It's man made, it has performance written all over it. How you should pray, worship, act, do etc, that will somehow convince God to pay you a visit. Look at what Paul has to say to the religious people of the day.

Acts17: 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. ( very riligious)
Acts 17: 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Acts17: 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

While religion is man's attempt to somehow get a hold of God, the gospel is the revelation of God's achievement in Christ Jesus to get a hold of you. When He came, He held nothing back but gave His best. All God's favour (acceptance of you) was displayed while you were yet sinners. "For God so loved the world that He gave....Christ died for us while we were yet sinners" It is in complete contrast to the religious spirit that is rampant in the church today. It is time to awake to His favour and to see yourself as He sees you. The veil was torn from top to bottom, so He can live and move in you. Rom5:8: John3:16 God is far more eager to meet with us and to share himself with us than all our best attempts to somehow reach Him.

Lets see what the Word says:
Acts17: 27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Acts17: 28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Acts17: 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Acts17: 30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Gal2: 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1 Cor6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1Cor6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

If He lives in us why do we keep on asking Him to come and visit us?
This gospel reveals the nearness of God. The mystery has been revealed, Christ is in you. (Col1:26,27) He is in you!

If Christ in you is not enough, what will be?
Let me assure you , He alone is more than enough. We simply allowed the enemy to fool us into waiting for another visit or move from God, when God waits to move through our lives in His power and glory. We are in for a long wait, if we continue to preach man's gospel (mans's effort) and not Christ and Him crucified (God's achievement). We have become so entangled with ourselves and preaching human experience, appealing to the intellect of man, that the simple truth of the gospel no longer appeals to our ears.

2 Cor11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Eve aspired to become something she already was. She grew dim in her appreciation of her identity. She carried His likeness and image. She was more than a "meat box". The most truth inspiring revelation that ever flooded my spirit was the realisation that all of God indwells in me. Of His fullness have we all received, grace upon grace. We are His dwelling place. Daily He desires to move and touch people through us. He refuse to live in homes made with hands, you are the only one who can accurately display Him in the earth. You carry His image and likeness.

While religion wants to get a hold of Him, the gospel reveals how God got a hold of us. He came to stay and abide. He desired zion as His dwelling place. (Psalm 132:13) God cannot get any closer to us than what He already is. Our ignorance of this truth does not nullify the nearness of His presence. We need to arm our thoughts with this truth. Awake and become aware of what treasue you carry within you daily.

Refuse to accommodate distance between you and God, let it be the focus of your life.
John15: 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. We are united with Him.

I grew-up surrounded by vineyards in Cape Town, South Africa. I noticed the sap that flow through the vine is the same sap that flow through the branches. The branches (that's us) carry the fruit that brings glory to the Father.

Col3: 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. He is in you! He is your identity!
1Cor6: 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

I Am, that I Am is in you. Emmanual, Our God is with us. We are God containers!

I believe a greater awareness of this truth will result in an amazing demonstration of His manifest presence in our lives. Walk with a consciousness of His indwelling presence, you may just find yourself to be the next wave and move of God, you were waiting for.

The Father's Heart.

John 14:3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also.”

When we read this scripture, most of us immediately interpret that Jesus was talking about heaven, as the place he will go and prepare for us. What place then was He talking about?

John 1:18 “…the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, …” In this portion of scripture Jesus indicates, where He is. He is in the bosom of the Father. The place He was going to prepare for us, was a place of intimate dwelling with God the Father. We were created for an intimate friendship with God.

Lets have a closer look at Eph 1:17-18 "that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him… that the eyes of our heart (spirit) may be enlightened…to know the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints” Note it was His inheritance. You enriched God in fellowship, because you were restored to fellowship with your Maker.
The word glory, is the greek word (doxa). It means a mindset or an opinion, which is reality. So the Father has an opinion of you, He has a mindset concerning you and me. He’s mind is made up but we need a spirit of wisdom and revelation, because you cannot perceive it with the natural five senses.

What is God’s opinion of us?

Matthew: 13-17 “This is my beloved Son in whom I’m well pleased.” The meaning of the word beloved is to be loved or it also means, my beloved one, the one I love deeply, the one I am in love with. I know you are all going yes, amen, Hallelujah! Of course, Father God is deeply in love with Jesus; after all, He is Jesus. However, let see how Jesus prays in John 17:26 “ … that the love that you loved me with may be in them, and I in them.” The Father has no inferior love for us than what he has for Jesus. God restored us in Christ to the same position and quality of relationship that Jesus has and desires that we share the same intimate bosom experience Jesus enjoys with the Father.

John10:10 “…Have eternal life and have it to the full/abundantly” that we may have the God kind of life experience, the very “zoe” life of God. The word abundantly = Superabundant, excessive, overflowing, surplus, over and above, more than enough, profuse, extraordinary, above the ordinary, more than sufficient.This leads to the next question.

What is the life Jesus gave us? What is eternal life?

John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”1John5: 20 “ And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, that we may know him who is true. And we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ.” Jesus came to restore us in order that we may know Him intimately. This is far more than just sense knowledge or something we grasp with our minds, but an intimate experience of the heart of the Father, it is "bosom dwelling".

2 Pet 1:3.4 “ seeing His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory (opinion) and excellence, for by these he has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

Eph 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”

Psalm 145: 7-9 “… the memory of your great goodness. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.”

God himself is our exceedingly great reward. Gen15:1 Knowing God intimately is the only way to experience His overflow and extraordinary power towards you, which He worked in Christ Jesus. We are His workmanship. We are a product of His doing. We need to embrace His opinion of us in Christ Jesus. As long as we keep on asking God to do something he has already done, you are training/telling your heart that you don’t have what he says you have IN HIM. Note all the tenses of these scriptures are not for one day in the far distant future. It is a "done deal" Jesus went to prepare a place for you and me to enjoy the Fathers embrace right now.

Proverbs 16:6 “By mercy and truth iniquity is purged from our hearts.”

Righteousness = Straight, right. The opposite of righteousness is iniquity = crooked, crookedness. A crooked heart is one trained to live in a foreign opinion to its original design. People are so trapped in their experiences that they accommodate and suppress the truth of God’s opinion (the truth concerning their identity, as revealed in Christ). Man is either talking himself out or fighting for the right to accept a lessor opinion of himself than what God sees and believes of him. The human race can’t see itself worthy of receiving.
"How lovely are the feet of those that bring good tidings." The gospel is the revelation of mans righteousness on the basis of Christ's finished work on man's behalf. Rom1:16,17 We must learn to receive. It’s a gift, you cannot work for it, or otherwise it will be a reward. God gave righteousness to us as a gift. The giver the determines whether you are worthy enough to receive the gift, that's why He gave you His best, Jesus himself. You are Jesus worth to the Father, because that is the price He paid for you, to enjoy He's embrace.

Pitfalls for not enjoying the Fathers heart.
Unbelief/ Slow in hearing. Dull in hearing. Didn’t mix the word with faith. Heb 4:1-4, Hebrews 5:11 “…of Him we have much to say, but you have become dull of hearing”Matt15: 6 “The traditions of men (human effort and experience contrary to God’s opinion) have made the Word of no effect.”

Summary:

1. Discover the much more gospel/ don’t misinterpret your redemption. Rom5
2. Rom8: 30 & John17: 1 We need to become familiar with our exaltation/glorification, which God worked in Christ on our behalf. Jesus didn’t just do something for you, but with you. It’s only then when we experience his permanent glory in our lives. What you bring about in your life by your own power has to be maintained by your own power and strengths, BUT what God has brought by His doing, He will also maintain by His power, Amen.
3. Pay attention to what the mirror of the word reveals. A mirror reflects. It communicates to you exactly who and what you are, not what you must become. No effort or lack of it on your part, can add or take away, to what the mirror reveals you are. 2Cor3:18, Heb2:1
4. You’re a son that lovingly serves. Stop living and working to gain God’s approval and start to live in His approval of you. Rom5: 8 He knows you far better than the best definition of yourself. Dictionary defines rest as: “to cease from all investigation and find refreshments and recreation.” Rest is the state of realising that God approves of me.
5. Rest in His finished work on your behalf. Matt 11:28 “ …And I will give you rest.” Message bible says: “… we must learn the unforced rhythms of grace.”

For further study.

2Cor 5:17 “…. for behold everything has become new”

2 or3: 18 “For we behold Him as in a mirror”.

Deut 32:4,18 God’s work in you was perfect.

Eph2:10 “You are His workmanship”

Col2:10 You are complete in Him.

This gospel is ALL good news.

There is not an inch of bad news in it. You are all together lovely and the Father loves you deeply.

"My love for you are completely beautiful, devestating, nothing to be improved and totally Ten out of Ten." Songs of Songs, a quote from The Street Bible, Paul Lacey.

Awake , Awake o sleeper and let Christ shine in you!

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. (1 Cor15:34)
And I—in righteousness I will see your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.
(Ps17:15)

Paul prays that the eyes of our understanding be enlightened with the knowledge of Jesus Christ. When we get to know who we really are, what joy, liberty and freedom it brings to our hearts. Anything short of satisfaction is an indication that I did not awake from my "sleep" yet.

To be asleep is to be unaware of anything around you, but being asleep does not alter or change the reality of your surroundings. Your eyes are the gateway. Jesus says. "... the eye is the lamp of the body and enlightens up the whole body" Jesus revealed to us the truth of our lives. "For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light". Psalm 36:9 In His light do we see the light of our own life. Jesus is the revelation of our true identity. He did not come so we can admire Him, He came to reveal who we really are.

He is not ashamed to call us bretheren, because we have the same origin. Heb2:11 The root word for brethren used in this verse, implies those who come from the same womb. He is our origin. He is your life. Peter discovered who Jesus is in the book of Matthew chapter 16 and discovered at that very same moment, His true identity. Blessed are you Simon-Barjona, for you are Cephas(petros=Rock). Deut32 says, "Ascribe greatness to the God our Rock, His work is perfect". "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus..." Jesus is the blueprint of our life. "Do not forget or be unmindful of the Rock that begot you". Deut32:3,4,18 & Eph2:10

You were made for this truth. Only the sound of your true identity will satisfy you. Any other voice will leave you frustrated.

Awake to your true identity and celebrate Jesus in you. You are indeed complete in Him. (Col2:10)

Make the distinct sound of the bugle. "Blow the trumpet in Zion". 1Cor14:8

My desire with this site is to awaken in you the reality of your true identity, to raise up my voice with strength, to blow the distinct sound of God's opinion of you in your hearts that will propel you into a place of intimate dwelling with your Maker.

His bosom is your destiny!
You are His love dream fulfilled!
You are the object of God's desire!
We are exclusively His!

Why wait, He's yours to enjoy now!