Pretoria Wesleyan Church

30/12/2025

22/12/2024

You are invited to join us for our early morning Christmas Day Service @ 08h00.

10/11/2024

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch at Serene Park retirement centre.

29/10/2024

“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” ‭‭I John‬ ‭1‬:‭7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
Learn a lesson from the eye of the miner, who all day long is working amid the flying coal dust. When he emerges in the light of day, his face may be grimy enough, but his eyes are clear and lustrous because the fountain of tears in the lachrymal gland is ever pouring its gentle tides over the eye, cleansing away each speck of dust as soon as it alights.
Is not this miracle of cleansing which our spirits need in such a world as this? And this is what our blessed Lord is prepared to do for us by Hid cleansing blood, if only we will trust Him. F. B. Meyer

28/10/2024

“Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.”
‭‭I Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
There are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness. Among them, let me strongly advise Christians to converse together concerning the ways of the Lord. Christian and Hopeful, as they journeyed toward the Celestial City, said to themselves: “To prevent drowsiness in this place, let us fall into good discourse.”
Christians who isolate themselves and walk alone are very liable to grow drowsy. Hold Christian company, and you will be kept wakeful by it, and refreshed and encouraged to make quicker progress in the road to heaven. Spurgeon

11/10/2024

“Look from the top.”
‭‭Song of Solomon‬ ‭4‬:‭8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
Crushing weights give the Christian wings. It seems like a contradiction in terms, but it is a blessed truth. David out of some bitter experience cried: “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! Them would I fly away, and be at rest” (Psa. 55:6). But before he finished this meditation he seems to have realised that his wish for wings was a realisable one. For he says, “Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee.”
The word “burden” is translated in the Bible margin, “what he (Jehovah) hath given thee.” The saints burden are God given; they lead him to “wait upon Jehovah,” and when that is done, in the magic of trust, the “burden” is metamorphosed into a pair of wings, and the weighted one “mount up with wings as eagles.” Sunday School Times.

10/10/2024

“Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.”
‭‭Joshua‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬ ‭NKJV‬
Wherever Judah should set his foot, that should be his; wherever Benjamin should set his foot, that should be his. Each should get his inheritance by setting his foot upon it. Now, think you not, when either had set his foot upon a given territory, he did not instantly and instinctively feel, “This is mine?”
An old coloured man, who had a marvellous experience in grace, was asked: “Daniel, why is it that you have so much peace and joy in religion?” “O Massa!” he replied, “I just fall flat on the exceeding great and precious promises ,and I have all that is in them. Glory! Glory! He who falls flat on the promises feels that all the riches in them are his. Faith Papers.

09/10/2024

“Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him]; again I say, Rejoice” Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭4‬ ‭AMPC‬‬
It is a good thing to rejoice in the Lord. Perhaps you have tried this, and the first time seemed to fail. Never mind, keep right on and when you cannot feel any joy, when there is no spring, and no seeming comfort and encouragement, still rejoice, and count it all joy. Even when you fall into divers temptations, reckon it joy and delight, and God will make your reckoning good. Do you suppose your Father will let you carry the banner of His victory and His gladness on to the front of the battle, and then coolly stand back and see you captured or beaten back by the enemy? NEVER! The Holy Spirit will sustain you in your bold advance, and fill your heart with gladness and praise, and you will find your heart all exhilarated and refreshed by the fullness within. Lord teach me to rejoice in Thee, and to “rejoice evermore.” - Selected

08/10/2024

“Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭19‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. Composure is often the highest result of power. To the vilest and most deadly charges Jesus responded with deep, unbroken silence, such as excited the wonder of the judge and the spectators. To the grossest insults, the most violent ill-treatment and mockery that might well bring indignation into the feeblest heart, He responded with voiceless complacent calmness. Those who are unjustly accused, and causelessly ill-treated know what tremendous strength is necessary to keep silence to God. Margaret Bottome