Free Baptist Church Klipspruit West

22/02/2023

Goeiemore families en vrinne
Johannes 3:19-21

En so kom die skeiding: die lig het na die wêreld toe gekom, en tog het die mense eerder die duisternis as die lig liefgehad, want hulle dade was sleg. Elkeen wat kwaad doen, haat immers die lig en kom nie na die lig toe nie, sodat sy dade nie aan die kaak gestel moet word nie. Maar wie volgens die waarheid handel, kom na die lig toe, sodat dit duidelik kan blyk dat sy dade in gehoorsaamheid aan God gedoen is.”

22/10/2022

Job 12:7-10

7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; 8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

16/04/2022

Thank you Lord Jesus for a wonderful blessed day as we walked the way of the cross in the community of Klipspriut West today. What a blessing it was to see just what you endured for us so that we could have eternal life. You made a way for us and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Take up your cross and follow Jesus
(Luke 9:23), He is the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6)

02/02/2022

29/01/2022

Day well spent, junior youth shenanigans.
Pleasant day with this bunch of kids. Fun was had.
Thank you Lord for blessing us with good weather good company and good fun.

03/02/2021

According to Rev 6 the pale rider is the fourth rider. That means the prophetic fulfilment of the first three needed to take place.

If you do not know that the first three took place how can we be sure that events happening now relates to the fourth Rider.

15/01/2021

Hope
Thanks be to God, there is hope today; this very hour you can choose Him and serve him. — D. L. Moody

Have you ever felt hopeless, worthless, or just downright useless? I believe we all have those days, months, or even years when we feel like we are nothing but a shadow in a world of color—like our existence is meaningless, or that the day of our birth was a catastrophic mistake in the space-time continuum.

And while all of those things might feel very real to you, I’m here to tell you that they’re wrong. In fact, they’re straight-up lies. And that’s not just my opinion.

Jeremiah 1:5 states, “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.” Did you catch that? God knew you before He formed you in your mother’s womb. He knew you before you were born. And on top of that, He set you apart from the beginning of time to be someone of substantial worth in His name. . . .

God is the author of all hope. Hope brightens the darkened soul; it breaks the slave’s chains; it sustains those in spiritual exile and comforts those in a place of suffering. When our hope is in God, our spirits cannot be crushed.

The apostle Paul is an amazing example of this enduring Christian hope. He wrote letters of hope and encouragement to churches all over . . . from prison. Alone and in chains, Paul had so much hope from the Holy Spirit that he felt compelled to put pen to paper and share it with everyone else! I don’t know of anything else in the world that can give someone in such bad circumstances a powerful sense of hope.

This year is the year to focus on the hope that God has purposed for your life, a year to break away from Satan’s lies and realize you are intended for a life with God. Don’t let people’s opinions interfere with God’s directions for you.

Will this mean things are going to be perfect? No. But this does mean that you have someone in your life who gives you worth, acceptance, and love.

Challenge:

Discuss the hope of your Savior with someone who has yet to know it, and encourage him or her to personally discover the wonder of God’s love.

14/01/2021

Love
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that, at this very moment, we are standing on holy ground. ― Brennan Manning

First Corinthians 13:4–7 tells us:

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Love is the foundation that God has called us to construct our lives upon. After all, if we follow Jesus, perfect love already is the foundation of our lives. But we aren’t just called to love our Lord Jesus Christ. Second and “equally important,” says Jesus, is to love your neighbor as yourself (Mark 12:31).

I know what some of you are thinking: “But you haven’t met my neighbors, they’re crazy!” Or “But sometimes I just have a bad day. What then?” Although loving others might be hard to do sometimes, we need to remember that Jesus’ statement to love isn’t a request; it’s a command.

Ask yourself how you can be a representation of God’s love today. When God desired to show us His love, He sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins (John 3:16). What an incredible act of service, selflessness, and sacrifice—all done to show a real and tangible representation of the invisible God. (It was actually the ultimate act. In John 15:13, Jesus tells us, “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”)

Love without sacrifice isn’t really love in the first place; it’s kindness. The greatest example of true sacrificial love can be found in the blood of Jesus Christ. That’s not just “kindness” or “being nice.” Jesus’ sacrificial love was and is the most important act of all time. Nothing else compares. His love spares us from a life separated from God, and it opens us up to eternal life spent resting in His perfection. Be an example of love, and let those around you know how much you really care.

Challenge:

Be honest with yourself in answering these questions: Are you loving others the way Jesus loves you? What steps can you take to be a visible, tangible, and reflective image of God’s love this year?