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Lord Jesus.
I pray over these words to have Your Spirit. To be written and read, sent and received by the power of the Holy Spirit. According to Your perfect will; for all of us involved.
May the past and present come into perfect alignment to Your plans. So they are fulfilled. In the land of the living. Your plans to not harm but prosper us, to give us hope and a future.
Bring Your light Almighty God kulesisimo. Kulencwadi.
You are a God of truth. A God of Love.
Mayenzeke intando Yakho. Lapho nathi masizehlise; ukuze kuphakame Wena Mnini Mandla Onke.
For the Glory of Your Name.
Ngegama likaJesu.
Amen.
Hi
I have a name.
I have a past.
I am present.
I have a future.
I am a human being. With a spirit, a soul and a body.
The Lord calls me fearfully and wonderfully made. How awesome is that?
God is for me and everything concerning me. My life, blessings, experiences, ministry and fruit of my womb.
There are things I would like to bring out into the open.
I do not know you. I do not know what you believe in. Where your source of wisdom and counsel are from.
But I know the Lord and believe when He says that He is faithful and just. He strengthens his people and guards them from the evil one. SIC 2 Thessalonians 3:3.
The Holy Bible says: "What God has put together, let no man put asunder." I believe that marriage is a covenant and respect the unity of it. This is why I maintain a respectable distance and have been observing from that distance. Ngoba, ukwesaba uNkulunkulu, kungukuzithoba.
A great teaching says we must confess to one another that you may be healed. Another says not to give room for satan as well as to speak the truth in love - so that we can grow.
I can guess that you may have heard many renditions of who I am from those who were a part of my life. Which has had some bearing on your conduct towards me. I assume.
Queen Esther in the fourth chapter of her book instructed her eunuch to say to Mordecai, “All the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that they be put to death unless the king extends the gold scepter to them and spares their lives. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.”
When Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai, he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
How is it that women partake in women empowering or unity campaigns outside of their homes. But.... within their immediate spheres, do the exact opposite or not even try? Try empowering each other and unifying each other?
That norm needs to be relooked at.
I have also witnessed first hand, wives living this very dynamic. From different generations of my family. But would it be wisdom to use that in judgement of our dynamic?
Imvuselelo, mayiqale kithi. Ngoba uma ingeyokuhlobisa, siyobe sizikhohlisa thina. Kodwa uma kungeyeqiniso likaJehova, izoba nemithelelo emihle.
Typically, one would expect a spillage of old laundry and dirt about now. To justify one's past. Things that you do not know or partly know. That angle is boring and has been done before. Ihlosa ukwakha inzondo nje kuphela. Nokwehlukanisa.
I am not interested in that.
For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God.
Ngobuhlakani bakho, angazi ukuthi ubona kanjani uma inhloso yomuntu ilungile noma cha. Ukuqonda kwakho angikwazi futhi. We are all as wise as far as we understand. Kodwa uMoya oNgcwele makabe nawe. Ngazi imfundiso ethi:
"Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else. Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus."
With the above words, I rejoice in the Lord that He approves you to be in this dynamic or relation with me. With us. To play the role you are playing in our child's life. For however long a season that God allows. Izindlela zikaNkulunkulu akusizona ezethu. Nemicabango Yakhe; ingaphezu kweyethu.
I pray for you the words of Paul. Apostle Paul to Timothy. Guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, which some have professed and in so doing have departed from the faith.
Over the years, I have come to witness over and over that God's word is true. I am reminded again and again. God says don't be deceived. He cannot be mocked and His justice comes to light every morning.
I've observed that you have some preferences that you favor, on who our child spends time with or how he apportions it. You both seem to favor gestures of flowers and perfumes and blankets and polishes and nail polishes and clippers. And all small gifts when he comes to see me. However, things like school, mother's day gifts, art, term reports, milestones and hurdles? They just remain undiscussed.
i wonder. And I'd love to know and I invite you, ukuthi wenabe ngalokhu.
Akusiwona umkhuba omuhle ukwehlulela umuntu ngamazwi nezenzo zabanye abantu kuphela. So, I extend an invitation for open and truthful discussion.
There is a story in John 4 of Jesus with the woman at the well.
Where the woman says: Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship Him in the Spirit and in truth.
The time that Jesus speaks of; I believe is now.
Older people have beliefs and ways of doing things. Tradition if you like. They pass these down to the younger generations as wisdom. It is what they know and knew to always work.
Kodwa, izwi likaNkulunkulu limi njalo. Lona lifundisa ukuthi a tree is known by its fruit. It's been years now. Me just standing by. Observing indawo yakho in fearing uNkulunkulu. Observing this tree and its fruits. Again I say. The time that Jesus speaks of in the scripture, is now. Worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth. How we live and how we treat others; are forms of worship to God. Isikhathi sokukhuluma iqiniso ngothando. Isikhathi sokukhula; as written in Ephesians 4.
We are accountable to God. So let the seeds of apathy or division be uprooted in the name of Jesus Christ.
God has to do exceedingly, abundantly, above and beyond what any of us could ever ask or think. We are the called according to His purpose.
That much? I know.
What if we were raised for a time as this? What if we were raised for such a time a this?
Read the book of Esther. Make the time.
Are you called by the Name on the Lord? What do you confess and which name do you call upon?
I believe in Jesus Christ. He has been gracious, merciful and wonderful to me in very tangible ways. Ways that I cannot even explain.
The email you wrote to our child on the eighth birthday. What was the meaning of that? A familiar spirit. We did experience that spirit in the past. From a young girl. Using a blog and not email; like you. Vindictive and verbose in nature. Bearing unGodly fruits.
Cast that spirit down. Cast it down for exalting itself against the knowledge of God. It is the will of God that happens. That comes to pass; and that prevails. Have no fellowship with the fruitless works of darkness. In Jesus' mighty Name.
I am not a baby mama. And I'm not the bitter ex.
I am my child's mother. You? You are the wife of the father.
God commended me to conceive, carry and to birth. Way before you were a part of this dynamic.
It is not the one who commends himself but the one that God commends that is approved.
Again. Ngicela ukuzazisa kuwe.
I am a child of God.
I have a name.
I have a past.
I am present.
And I sure have a future.
"A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart."
He weighs izinhliziyo.
Amen
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