Jeanine Smit (de Swardt)

I am currently in a new season of my life. I experienced a lot of stress regarding the wedding and moving into my new house. I was sharing my worries and concerns with my sister and she reminded me of the testimony of my life. When I was born, my mom asked the Lord to take care of me because my parents weren't in a financial position to care for me. In supernatural ways, the Lord provided clothes, food, diapers, etc. The first time my mom had to take money out to buy me something was when I went to school for the first time and needed shoes. My sister asked me if there was anything that I lacked or needed. I realized that the Lord has been providing everything I needed. He provided a car, a place to stay, furniture for our house, a washing machine, and a wedding dress. I was looking at all the circumstances rather than God's grace and provision that has already been provided. And He is still providing!! God is faithful to take care of you. Praise the Lord!!

Anonymous

I needed to do some medical tests and would have had to use my holiday finances to cover the expenses. A family member who was unaware of my financial situation contacted me and asked if they could bless me to help cover the expenses for the tests. I asked them to pay what they feel Holy Spirit is guiding them to pay. It was exactly enough to cover the tests and the meds. I shared that with this family member afterward who was very blessed to know they heard Holy Spirit accurately in the amount they needed to bless me with.

Our God is such a great provider, but I'm also grateful when fellow human beings obey the unction of the Holy Spirit. There is always someone else at the other end of your obedience.

All glory to God.

Sharoné Marais

Last week started very rough. I was very emotional and very tired. I already knew it would be a long week because I was going to study Word. And Word is a very big subject! It was very intimidating to me because it's a lot of content to study in one week. And I didn't feel like I really had the capacity to remember all of those Scriptures. Also, I didn't want to just study it. I wanted to take it to heart, make it part of who I am. And like I said, it was really an emotional week!

But by Thursday, I realised how much the Word had impacted me! The people or situations that would annoy or frustrate me, wouldn't bother me so much anymore! I had such a deep love and compassion for them that wasn't there before. And instead of reacting without thinking, I was acting out of love and had grown such compassion for those around me

Holy Spirit reminded me that I am studying Word and filling myself with God's character. Now my reactions and thoughts flow more from God. It was really amazing to see how my flesh died and my spirit grew! And how I could really just feel His presence throughout the whole week - it ended really well!

It may have started horrible, but God really lifted me up out of the ashes. And I really enjoyed being in His presence!