As you pray - 18 August 2007

We are thankful for the opportunity that South African Christians had at the natio-nwide Public Hearings to express their views on two important pieces of proposed legislation - on abortion and traditional healers (izinyanga and izangoma). It is our prayer that in spite of the misgivings that Christians have about the outcome of such hearings that they will not cease being watchmen on the walls of Zion.

Linda Magqabi from Johannesburg is thankful for the blessed time he and his colleague had at KSB last weekend.

On a more personal note, today I was moved again by the special support of two friends, Uncle Keith and Aunt Tish Kelly. Except for brief periods when they are not at KSB, the dear couple prepares and brings me a fresh supply of carrot juice everyday. That is not just for a week or a month; they have been doing it for years already. What commitment. As difficult as the path of illness is, when I start counting such blessings I am indeed surprised at what the Lord has done.

Our prayers are with Rev Erlo Stegen and the team that left early yesterday for a weekend of services in Manguzi, in the far north of Zululand, near the Mozambique border.

We shall also be thinking of our DSS athletes who are  travelling to Dundee today for the Christian schools competition.

We shall be thinking of Marc and Francoise Trometer together with their children as they return to France. On Thursday they sang me one of my favourite French songs about Christ the Eternal Rock. That theme is very close to my heart.

Our Polish Australian friend, Uncle Vojtek, left for home the other day. He has a wonderful testimony to share to the glory of God.

From Australia, Albert Trinkle requests that we pray for the wedding of Remi Brosille from Montmiral, France, and Rachela Czudek from Lobethal in South Australia, tomorrow. We join the families and the brethren in wishing the young couple God's blessing.

Great Escape?

As believers it is by faith that we accept that God sees everything, everywhere. The moment our finite minds try to imagine how God sees everything they hit a blank. 

These days it occurred to me that with the rapid advances in technology nowadays we are seeing developments that not so long ago would have been regarded as stuff of which fantasies are made.

South Africans are following with great interest the recent escape of ten dangerous inmates from one of the country's top security jails,  Qalakabusha in Empangeni. At first it sounded like a 'Great Escape' but as the security system was assessed it soon became clear that this must have been an 'inside job.'

It was a dramatic moment when a video that was retrieved from the system showed the inmates filing past and thanking a warden who must have just seen them through a checkpoint. Would anyone have wished to be in that warden's shoes at that moment?

Obviously more wardens must have been involved. Pending the outcome of an investigation, 11 wardens have been suspended.

If mere mortals can already produce such irrefutable evidence what will the day be like when God, He who neither slumbers nor sleeps, pulls out His 'videos' from His system?

"And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works." (Revelation 20:12)

Have a blessed weekend.
 
Pressing on!
 
In His love
 
Fano Sibisi