Wednesday 19 June 2013

Use what you have, so it can Grow

Today I asked my oldest, who is 12 years old,  if she is already praying in Tongues. She said: yes, but not so confident as my husband and I or other adults."

I then told her to look at baby language. How many words do they know? Not many, but they can communicate with that to us. Their language will grow as they grow.

I then encouraged her to use whatever utterings she has. It will grow with confidence.

This catapulted my mind into a flow. This is how we are gifted and using our gifts. We have to use them, no matter how small or insecure we are about them. As we get more experience through using them, we will grow and so will our gift. I then remembered the story of the servant who buried his talent. He never took the time to develop it. Maybe he expected it to operate perfectly without him putting much effort into it.
The Lord of the gifts was not amused.  The one who mastered his talent multiplied it and was given more.

This means to me now, that as you grow in your gift, you then teach others to use theirs and you will start flowing in other gifts. The Lord trusting you with more gifts.

I desire to grow in the Lord. I am a busy mother and have a growing business too. For me to be able to share my thoughts with you, I feel that i am emptying myself and then I receive more. If I was to contain everything in me, it might be lost trough forgetfulness. But me sharing this with you is, I guess in a way, multiplying this gift. Because I hope you, my dear readers, feel encouraged.

Well, may God bless you in your walk with Him, reveal your gift and help you to develop them.

Just start by using what you have.

God Bless!!

Tuesday 18 June 2013

Rekindling the Fire - A Trip Down Memory Lane of Healings

Mark 16:17 -18
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Lately I have been feeling the desire again to pray for healing. To lay hands on people and command healing to their bodies. This seems so huge to me that it kind of holds me back. I also want to move in operating the gift of Word of Knowledge. This gift I notice more when I randomly pray for people. In my spirit I see like a landscape of happenings ( images) and these I speak forth.

This morning while doing the dishes(!) I  reminisced about times in the past when I have prayed healing for people, laid hands on them and they were healed. I just had faith for their healing. Even if I would never hear from them again.

A few incidents came to mind:

* Once I had a college who was regularly going to the doctor for the disease of Crown, a bowel infection. I believe she even had an operation scheduled... I had asked her if she believed the Lord Jesus could heal her. She might have even been a Muslim, I don't fully remember.  However I prayed for her, during a time that our canteen was quiet and commanded her body to be healed. A few weeks later I saw her again and asked her how her doctor appointment had been, and she said they could not find anything!!!

* My sister was on her way to the hospital for an required abortion because the doctors said that she had an out of womb pregnancy (I'm afraid I don't know the medical term). She happened to stop by my house on the way there. I then also prayed for her. When she came back to me, she said that everything was fine with the baby and they were not going to abort anymore.

* I had a college who walked limp. She had mentioned that one of her relatives had had a similar condition and that the foot had to be amputated or something like that. This is SO long ago.
I then called her apart and took the foot and prayed healing to it. I felt something pop. Like a vessel was blocked and reopened.  Her walking improved immediately and that was that.

* An aunt of mine was in hospital and had a surgery planned. I believe she had already had one, but their was still something going on and she could not eat or so..I also prayed for her and I believe the next day new tissue had grown and the surgery was no longer needed and she was discharged that week.

AMEN!! The healing power of Lord Jesus! These events are of many years ago now, some as old as 10 years up to a few years ago. However I kind of stopped laying hands on people.

After a turbulent time in my faith, during which I had "thrown away" precious things, I feel like now this gift has been rekindled in me to lay hands on the sick.

I am SO excited to see the sick get healed again and even greater things. All for the Glory of the Lord.

Keep me in your prayers as I try to operate in these gifts for the Glory of YAHWEH-RAPHA - The Lord who Heals.

If the Lord has led you to this page and you are reading this now and you need healing and are feeling a stirring up in your heart, then I speak to you. No matter what condition is going on in your body.

 1 Peter 2:24
BY HIS STRIPES YOU ARE HEALED!! BE HEALED IN THE NAME OF JESUS. THE NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES!!!

Father I thank you for healing this person for the Glory of your name! AMEN!

Now go and repent of your sins and serve Him!

God Bless!!

Sunday 16 June 2013

Don't Be a Leech. Don't Let Greed Fuel Your Prayer.

Prov. 30:15
“The leech has two daughters, ‘Give! Give!’ they cry!"

 Other translation reads "greed has two sisters" .

Last night, after I had spoken to the Lord, this scripture came to my mind and suddenly I felt a flow of thoughts I had to write down. I will try to write the flow as accurate as I felt it. I believe it is a Word from the Lord.

Even after almost 14 years of being saved i still don't know how to pray properly. Or rather I know, I just don't do it, because I can get so overwhelmed with my desires, or situations that we face, so the majority of my prayers are in the line of "give, give".

It is really annoying to hear "give give", every time someone speaks to you. Like that is the only thing you are good for. Whenever they spent time with you, it is because they want something from you. But I now realise that The Lord finds this just as annoying if all we ask for is stuff to satisfy our flesh. When the Lord hears all prayers and thoughts, He wants to answer, but we constantly ask for stuff that is perishable, instead of values that we can take back home or ask for the nations.

Here it goes....


“The leech has two daughters.
    ‘Give! Give!’ they cry


This is how many of us pray. Small minded, like the Lord does not know what we need or desire.

The Lord's Prayer is filled with much more. Yes, we can pray for our daily bread, but The Lord already provides for us daily.

We chase after our desires, our materialistic desires, when we could and should be praying for so much more.

The Lord hears our prayers. Every word, every thought. We could be, should be asking for the nations. The Lord tells us to. Instead of chasing after our desires.

In the Psalms, which are David's devotional time recorded, do we read of his materialistic desires mentioned?  Like "God give me a new this or that"?

We see his plea for salvation from his enemies. This is also a part of the Lord's Prayer, to "deliver us from evil".

We see his expression for loving God's laws and regulations. This also applies the Lord's prayer. "Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven".

David was a blessed man. He lacked nothing, for the Lord blessed him.

If that were not enough, He would have blessed him more.
David spent time with God. He documented his prayers.

We don't even have time to write a letter to God.

Because David documented his devotional time, we now have his words, which are actually God's inspired words through him.
In a smaller way just like I am doing now.

David knew that it is the Lord's blessing that maketh rich, and He adds no sorrow with it. This blessing is a product/result of the Lord's presence.

The Lord's presence is sought and found when we spent time in prayer, in His Word or in worship. When we are mindful of Him all the time.

This will cause us to do what pleases Him. We will do His righteousness.

The Lord is a Holy God. His presence dwells with righteousness.

David knew how to seek God's kingdom and His righteousness (living upright in His sight).
As a result, David was blessed. Everything was added to him.

David was not busy seeking after his materialistic desires in just food, shelter and clothing.

After this I flowed in to how I see God's names in a lot of His promises. Even in the Lord's Prayer the Lord's names are revealed.

I then said to the Lord, "Father it is like I see your name in everything." Then I had the thought, "That is because My promises are steadfast".

I will share His names in a new blog, as the Lords leads.

For now, this was my prayer last night and is today, but I also pray this for you....

Father, please help me to bring Glory to You in everything I do.
Please help me to serve You and walk worthy of the calling.
Amen!!


God Bless!!

Friday 24 May 2013

The heart of David and Prosperity


Ephesians 1:15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, 16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit[f] of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

I have been thinking about David lately and how much God blessed him.  God even said to him that He would have given him more if he did not have enough. We know that David lacked nothing. 

I was thinking about this because I have thought about how wrong the mainstream prosperity teaching is and how much it feeds unholiness within us. Prosperity teaching proclaims that God wants us to live in huge houses, drive fancy cars and have a great abundance of wealth. It makes us want to chase after the things of this world and not focus on the Lord as our source.

And It is very true that the Lord has promised us wealth when it reads, "the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous". (Proverbs 13:22) But is this a given? Should we just lay back, and do nothing? 

I was one of those who wanted to believe the prosperity preachers. I wanted to believe their prophecy of wealth etc...But after years of waiting I have learned some things along the way. It is not so that I don't believe this promise anymore, because I very much do, "For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God.  (2 Corinthians 1:20),  but I have come to understand that God needs to be able to trust us with this wealth. I believe He tests our heart to see if we will not just make an idol from this wealth, and not use it for what it is meant. 

This brings me back to David. Here are some happenings that show the state of Davids heart.
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Of David the Lord said, that "he was a man after God's own heart". 1 Samuel 13:14.
The life of David showed a very intimate friend-relationship with God. In 2 Sam 7, we see how God replies to David, wishing to build Him a house and how David replied
When David wanted to build God's Altar he said: "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them. (2 Sam 24:24).

David did not just want to receive from God, as many of us do. David wanted to give to God. (1st clue)

This tells me also that David was a man that loved God a lot. There are many statements in David's life that show his love for God. His last words in 2 Sam 22 show a debt in this friend- relationship he had with God.  He loved God more than anything else. (2nd clue) 

He always put God first, except for that one time that he followed after his flesh with Bathsheba. Even from that came the one who God gave his kingdom to. 

David trusted God because he knew God. He knew who he was with God, one who could do the impossible. He had a faith in God few had, as demonstrated in his battle with Goliath. 

David heard God's voice. He had the Spirit of Wisdom. David was a prophet; he had the Spirit of Revelation. This is seen clearly from David's last words. David had the knowledge of God described in Ephesians 1:18  The eyes of his understanding were enlightened.

David’s Last Words


1These are the last words of David:
“The inspired utterance of David son of Jesse,
the utterance of the man exalted by the Most High,
the man anointed by the God of Jacob,
the hero of Israel’s songs:
2“The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me;
his word was on my tongue.
3The God of Israel spoke,
the Rock of Israel said to me:
‘When one rules over people in righteousness,
when he rules in the fear of God,
4he is like the light of morning at sunrise
on a cloudless morning,
like the brightness after rain
that brings grass from the earth.’
5“If my house were not right with God,
surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant,
arranged and secured in every part;
surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation
and grant me my every desire.
6But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,
which are not gathered with the hand.
7Whoever touches thorns
uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear;
they are burned up where they lie.”

This means that throughout his life he followed God. He did what the Lord commanded Him. 
He obeyed God. ( 3rd clue) 
When we Give, Love and Obey God, we do what Jesus commanded us to do and the outcome of this is that God will "bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire"

But when we don't Give, Love and Obey God:  James 4:3, "When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures." Is this not the financial state of many believers these days?
1 Timothy 6:9,  "Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction."
But there is Hope! I believe the Lord will fulfil His promises to His Body for His purpose. He is looking for people with the heart of David.
2 Chronicles 16:9, "For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him."
The Lord has been and is testing people. He will strip them to nothing if that is what it takes. Just to test their heart. Will they still love Him, like Job or will they stop serving Him, and fervently chase after Mammon?
It is the Lord who promotes and humbles. (1 Samuel 2:7)  It is the Lord who grants fame and fortune.

I want to say something to all Christian Entrepreneurs and professionals out there. Search your heart. If you truly wish to prosper, which is also the Lord's desire for you, set your priorities straight. The Lord shall not have any other God before Him. If he has called you to something greater, don't settle for the crumbs by worshipping Mammon. Be a giver, Love God and be obedient. Spend time with Him, listen to Him. Follow as He leads. Be faithful.

I am not saying that I have achieved it all already. I too have gone through many testings, and maybe there is more to come. But as I go I pick up certain truths.

God is not in a hurry, we are. He will bring you to where He wants you to be, no matter how long it takes. Why should we be wasting time by resisting God? I have followed after my own heart and have had to learn hard lessons. When you burn your self you have to sit on the blisters. What ever we sow in the flesh we harvest in the flesh. In all of this road of learning, I have learned that what stated in 2 Corinthians 15:9  is true: "But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." 

If God has given you faith, then He has called you for so much more that the state you are in right now.  Stick with it: (Philippians 1:6) "because being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." No matter what gifting or calling.

If there is a stripping process going on in your life, it is for the purpose that God can clothe you with His mantle. The outcome of this stripping should be that you will desire God more than any other thing. In this state you will care less about the wealth of this world. In that state i believe, God can trust you with His wealth meant for His purpose because He knows we will obey Him. In this I see the promise of Matthew 6:33 being fulfilled: "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

May the Lord enlighten the eyes of your understanding. 

God Bless!!

Wednesday 22 May 2013

From Transformation to Transfiguration: Our Hope for the Future.


(I felt inspired to write while listening to my favourite teacher, pastor Peter Tan. I have listened to his teaching for years and I always feel spiritually well fed afterwards. He teaches indepth spiritual truth that creates such a hunger for more of God and holiness in me.  Feel free to look him up on www.petertan.net.)

From Transformation to Transfiguration.

When I heard these words I immediately thought of Jesus on the mount with Moses and Elijah. He was transfigured.
Matthew 17:After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.

This is also the promise of the Bride of Christ; we will be transfigured when we receive our Glorified bodies at the rapture.
Phill 3:21 Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

The Church will first have to be transformed on the inside. In our soul as our spirit man grows. We have to became without spot or wrinkle.

Efe 5:27 So that he might present the church to himself in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish

We have to grow from glory to glory until we become one with Jesus completely, as He is without spot or wrinkle. In Him there is no sin and darkness. He invites us to this unity with him in His prayer to the FATHER. We have to grow to Christ who is the head, and walk with God in such a way as Elijah did before he was taken away. He embodied the Glory of God and his body did not die, but changed when taken up to Heaven.

Moses saw and walked in the Glory of God and his body did not age. He was still in his prime of strength when he went up the mountain and was taken by God.

The Glory of God was with the Israelites in such a way that during the forty years in the wilderness not even their clothes nor shoes broke.

The complete transformation within will lead to the transfiguration at the rapture. The Lord will come for a Holy Bride. Not a half backslidden, sleepy, dirty bride. But one without spot or wrinkle.

Who of us can say we are there already? Who is preparing themself?

I desire to. My flesh is slowly catching up to my spirit. In my spirit I want all these things but my flesh often chooses something else. I pray that my flesh may be more submitted to my spirit so that my transformation can be completed in due time. There is no formula for this to happen. We just have to follow the examples set by Jesus Himself. How he spent time with the FATHER in prayer, and also Enoch who walked with the Lord and was in His presence and Elijah who also walked closely with the Lord in prayer.

So prayer, spending time with the Lord,  is the key to the complete transformation that will lead to transfiguration. I believe prayer in Tongues has the greatest part in this process because it is the spirit man that has to grow to that stage. There are many testimonies of people who spent a lengthy time in prayer, in tongues, with the Lord, and then had some level of spiritual awakening and open visions. A more close walk with the Lord.

Let us join in more fervent prayer in Tongues, so the spirit can do His complete work in us.


God Bless!!

Thursday 11 April 2013

Dream and interpretation: How our mouth produces an open sewer in the spirit world.

Matthew 15:18
But the things that come out of a person's mouth come from the heart, and these defile them

I had a dream a few days ago that I felt so embarassed about when I woke up. I could not tell anyone about the dream because it was too filthy for words.

In my dream I saw myself vomiting excrement.

I prayed about it and asked the Lord to give me insight into the dream. If it was from Him, then He should show me the dream's meaning, and if it was not from Him then He should take it away from my mind.

The image of my dream stayed with me. I was very shocked by it.

Today as I was talking to a sister in the Lord, the image came back to me again and I understood what it meant.

I believe that it refers to when we gossip about and slander other people all the bad stuff we can say with our mouth, even when we think we are justified about doing it. Our mouth is like an open sewer. It produces filth. That is what defiles us. In the spirit it is an open stream of filth. The most disgusting kind.

I remember reading in a book written by Anna Rountree how she saw a stream of sewerage in the spirit world and how much demons loved it. She was shown by the Lord how that place was being created by the mouths of the people. Whenever they spoke bad language, gossiping, back biting or all that other bad stuff we speak with our mouths.

Now I know the meaning of a dream I was so embarassed about, I now have the boldness to share it with my readers. Please watch your mouth at all times. It can be hard at times but The Lord can help all of us.

We are called to such a special time as this. We, the endtime church,  have to become Holy, without spot or wrinkle. Without defilement. Guarding our mouth is a step in the right direction.


God Bless!!!

Lydjus