Lewende Waters Gemeente

Lewende Waters Gemeente Welkom by Lewende Waters Gemeente Uitruiking na Gemeenskap

As iemand dors het, laat hom na My toe kom en drink! Johannes 7:37-38

Hy wat in My glo, soos die Skrif sê: strome van lewende water sal uit sy binnenste vloei.

Sondag DiensBedien deur : Piet Buitendach 9 uur41 Main road Doonside
29/10/2025

Sondag Diens
Bedien deur : Piet Buitendach
9 uur
41 Main road Doonside

Living in a Peaceful State of MindHow peaceful we feel can be dependent on what we’re focusing on. If we’re constantly f...
28/10/2025

Living in a Peaceful State of Mind
How peaceful we feel can be dependent on what we’re focusing on. If we’re constantly focusing on our problems, things going on in the world and our own thoughts, it’s much harder to feel at peace. The Bible says, “You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you…whose thoughts are fixed on you…for those who are righteous, the way is not steep and rough. You are a God who does what is right, and you smooth out the path ahead of them” (vv. 3, 7 NLT). If our thoughts are fixed on God and we trust Him through everything we’re facing, He promises us His “perfect peace.” When we’re in really tough times and we have problems that seem overwhelming, we need to stop relying on our own abilities to solve things and trust God to bring us through. We can then be at peace, rather than fearful and stressed during the chaos of the situation because we’re focused on God—not what’s going on. Paul says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7 NIV). We don’t have to face things on our own. We can hand everything over to God. By trusting God completely, our levels of peace are no longer controlled by circumstances, other people, our emotions or our limitations. Instead, we’ve got God’s “perfect peace.”

What Now?

Where do you find yourself getting the most fearful and anxious? Write out “You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you” and leave it in that specific place so you can read it when you feel the fear and anxiety rising up.

God Wants to Set You FreeWhen we’re hurting, we can end up isolating ourselves. People try to help, but our pain is all ...
27/10/2025

God Wants to Set You Free
When we’re hurting, we can end up isolating ourselves. People try to help, but our pain is all we can think about. So, we push them away. We may be hurting so much that we feel like we can’t trust anyone anymore. We may feel that we can’t even trust God. But if we believe God caused our pain, we won’t turn to Him. Instead, we’ll turn away. We avoid reading His Word to find an answer. We don’t pray or allow anyone to pray for us. We try and find other ways of coping with or numbing the pain. But those ways will never give us freedom in the end. The Bible says, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.” The only right way to find freedom is to turn to God. “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7 NIV). We can hand over all that pain to Him. Throughout the Psalms, we see David crying out to God through tough times. In Psalm 25, David says, “My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare…Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish” (vv.15; 17 NIV). David chose to keep his eyes on God and to turn to God for the comfort and freedom he needed. When we choose to let God into the pain, He shows us how to find freedom through forgiving others. Forgiveness breaks the chains and sets us free. We may be able to find ways to temporarily alleviate the pain, but God can get right to the root of it and set us completely free.

What Now?

Invite God into all the places in your life that are causing you pain and hurt. Hand them over to Him and let God help you find true freedom.

Good ThinkingOur thoughts are so powerful; our mind can control our actions, emotions and character. The Bible tells tha...
24/10/2025

Good Thinking
Our thoughts are so powerful; our mind can control our actions, emotions and character. The Bible tells that “we have the mind of Christ.” Yet our thoughts don’t always add up to this. Negative thoughts can enter our minds and influence how we feel and act. But we have the ability to stop this from happening. Romans 12:2 tells us that we can be transformed by the renewing of our minds, and in 2 Corinthians 10:5 we are told to take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ. Negative thoughts will still enter our minds, but we can choose to not let them control or change us. Each thought needs to be weighed: Does it fit with Scripture? With what God says about us? With what we know to be true? This isn’t an easy task. Some thoughts are so consuming, so real, that we can struggle to take them captive and not be emotionally affected by them. The more we practice taking smaller negative thoughts captive, the easier it will be to automatically dismiss these thoughts and we’ll have a better chance of taking those bigger, more intense, thoughts captive, too. So, to be stronger in controlling our minds, we need to be aware of what God says is true. And the way to do that is to get into our Bibles and read God’s truth about our identity and His promises to us. Once we start knowing these truths, we can use them to counteract those negative thoughts that come into our minds. We don’t need to be controlled by our negative thoughts. We have the authority to keep our mind on track with the truth.

What Now?

Find five truths in the Bible about your identity. Write them out and stick them somewhere you’ll read them every day.

23/10/2025

Pastoor Hannes Smith

BaggageWe all have things in our lives that we hold onto. Things that slow us down and sometimes prevent us from moving ...
23/10/2025

Baggage
We all have things in our lives that we hold onto. Things that slow us down and sometimes prevent us from moving forward at all. Whether it’s fear, insecurity, perfectionism, past hurts or something else, if we never let them go, then we start to have so much baggage that we can’t carry it all. The baggage can even become something we use to justify why we can’t do what God’s calling us to do. When Saul was to be proclaimed king, the people couldn’t find him. “So they inquired again of the Lord, ‘Is there a man still to come?’ and the Lord said, ‘Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage’” (1 Samuel 10:22 ESV). We can hide ourselves among our baggage, too. But Jesus came so that we “may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10 NIV). And we can’t experience this fullness of life if we’re dragging around all our baggage and using it to hide from things God’s calling us to do. So how can we get rid of the baggage we’re holding onto? Well, sometimes it might mean that we need to spend some time handing things over to God. Other times, we might need to work through the process of forgiveness. Still other times, we need other people to help us out. When Saul was hiding, it took other people to bring him out from behind the baggage. And when they had, “he took his place before everyone, standing tall—head and shoulders above them” (1 Samuel 10:23 MSG). When we leave our baggage behind, we can step into all that God has for us, and we’re able to “run with endurance the race God has set before us” (Hebrews 12:1 NLT).

What Now?

Write down five things that are holding you back (on separate pieces of paper). Put them in your purse/wallet/bag. Then later tonight, unpack them one by one and ask God to help you remove them from your life.

God is Our ComforterEveryone has different ways of coping with things. When life becomes overwhelming and we feel out of...
22/10/2025

God is Our Comforter

Everyone has different ways of coping with things. When life becomes overwhelming and we feel out of control, our natural response is to want to try and take control back. Or when we’re feeling hurt beyond what we feel we can bear, we tend to try to make the pain go away ourselves. We can attempt to justify it by arguing that it helps us to cope or that our actions aren’t affecting anyone other than ourselves. But the truth is that the only way we can truly deal with overwhelming situations and intense hurt is by turning to God. He is the One who provides our healing, our restoration and our comfort. Other things may feel like they help for a short amount of time, but they can’t actually fix anything. Only God can do that. Throughout the Bible we see people struggling with pain, circumstances and emotions, and then trying to find ways to deal with it. Jacob ripped his clothes when he was told Joseph was dead (Genesis 37:34). Job’s friends threw dust over themselves and wept (Job 2:12). Job even inflicted more pain on himself (Job 2:8). But we have a God who is our comforter. We can turn to Him with anything we’re facing. Nothing is too big for Him. No matter how overwhelming our feelings are, they’re never too much for Him. He can handle it all. We just need to let Him. If we’ve found other ways to cope in the past, He doesn’t condemn us. “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1 NIV). He simply holds out His hands and asks us to choose to start giving everything over to Him.

Verse
Romans 8.1

Jars of ClayIf someone called you a "jar of clay," what would you think? It probably wouldn’t be the best compliment you...
21/10/2025

Jars of Clay
If someone called you a "jar of clay," what would you think? It probably wouldn’t be the best compliment you’d ever received, especially as jars may be chipped, flawed or broken. We can all feel that way, though. None of us are perfect. But the truth is that Jesus changed that: “For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy” (Hebrews 10:14 NIV). We may feel like we have nothing to offer and that we’re too broken to be used by God, but that’s simply not true. God has a habit of using the most unlikely people. Throughout the Bible, we see God choosing people who had problems, issues and flaws. From Moses’ struggle with public speaking, to Sarah’s refusal to believe that God would give her a child, to Jonah’s stubbornness…the list could go on. We can’t use our brokenness as an excuse to avoid what God’s calling us to do. God wants to use us now. When we’re struggling, we can still inspire others because they can see God’s grace working through us even though we’re as broken as they are. There’s a Japanese tradition of mending broken pottery with gold. The cracks are still visible but now they’re filled with something beautiful. That’s what God does with us. As the potter (see Jeremiah 18:1-4), He takes us, the cracked jars of clay, and puts us back together again to create something even more beautiful than before. He’s healing all our broken places, but He’s also calling us to partner with Him while that process takes place.

What Now?

The next time something breaks, try to fix it rather than just throwing it out. Use it as a reminder that God’s fixing your brokenness, too.

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41 Main Road Doonside
Amanzimtoti
4126

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Monday 08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 17:00
Thursday 08:00 - 17:00
Friday 08:00 - 17:00
Saturday 08:00 - 13:00
Sunday 08:00 - 13:00

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