Oh my Oh my!!

Hey, sorry I didn't write for two days now, but so much has happened.



Well yesterday, I was running around trying to do deals to get money in so we can pay our rent, and I thought everything was going great, until the guys I am doing business with phoned me and gave me crappy news about my steel load. According to them it was waste and not steel, while I know that there was steel, and yes some waste... So you know I thought and said to myself, no way no how, the blooming devil is not going to get me down again. I made arrangements to go and see the manager at this place today, so I had the rest of yesterday off.



Well I have been struggling with this friend that I have, because I so badly want her to experience what I experience, and that is the Glory of God, but doesn't matter how I hinted and spoke about my God, she just turned a deaf ear, so I prayed to God and said to him "Lord what now did I fail, because I just cannot get Minette to listen and even show remote interest, should I just give up or what do I do now?" and God send me an answer through the Bible " If a person does not want to listen to what you want to tell them about God, then dust yourself off, turn around and walk away." This hurt, because she has three kiddies that I love to bits and I love Minette to bits to, but I will do as God says, so I went on with my day, and eventually, I drove, and stopped at Minette's house, why? I had no idea. So I went in and found her in the kitchen, and when she turned around, I just thought to myself you are such an ugly person to me right now, and the whole house feels depressing and ugly. ( Not that Minette is an ugly woman she is actually very pretty ) I sat down for a bit but inside I was praying to God to help me get out of that environment, because I so did not want to be there, and at that time my phone rang, and it was my cousin ( that I haven't seen in about 15 years saying that they where in Witbank and wanted to have coffee with me ) So I left for the Wimpy to have coffee...

I met my Cousin's wife for the first time yesterday, and she is just the best person! We caught on like a house on fire and started chatting about the old days, and finally, we started talking about God and the Bible ( the are both re-borned Christians ) I told them about my predicament with Minette, and Santie ( my cousin's wife ) said to me, "just remember Lelanie, you wanted to get out of that house by Minette, and you prayed for it and just then I phoned you, so God listened." Further more she said, " remember that the devil will be testing you from now on, and he is doing so by making you feel sorry for Minette's kids, and feeling like you are letting her down, when in fact you are doing exactly as you should." Just then my phone showed an sms, and it was from Minette saying that she wanted to know if I still wanted to work with her and be her friend because it doesn't feel like it, I laughed at this as I knew it was the devil again playing me. Well we had an awesome two hours in the Wimpy and then I left. Feeling much better! Just as I was on my way to the car when I got another sms from Minette saying that she wants to start doing Bible study with me and that she is ready to turn her life to God... Af freaking mazing, GOD IS THE ALMIGHTY SAVIOUR, PRAISE THE LORD! I wrote to her on facebook and today was our first day for doing Bible study!!!!!!

Hello peeps...

This is the man in my life... aka Earl, aka Parrie...



Well, well, well, I had a brilliant day today, I went to work for the first time in about a week again... Well true, you guys don't even know what I do for a living... I have my own scrap steel business, or at least I try to do business, but the last couple of months were really difficult, but I guess that is what happens when you are a woman in a man's world!! ( How true is that though, a man's world... because when we leave this world, we will be going to God's world, like the Bible says, on earth our bodies are tents, but in the eternal life they are our homes. )

Anyway, this morning I so was not sure on what I was going to do, because we still have to pay house rent, but without business there is no money, and with December there just was no business... So this morning I went with Earl to his work, ( he recently resigned from his job as sales agent, for a very big company, and decided to go into recycling ). There I sat down, and did my Bible study, and prayed to God to just lead me for the day as I had no idea where to start but I did know that I had to make money to pay the rent. So I got in my car and started driving, and eventually found myself at one of my clients that I spoke to just before the holiday started, and to my absolute happiness, he said that I could load his steel today, and also that I didn't have to pay him for all the steel, because I had to sort it as it was mixed with waste!!! Hallelujah, thank you God, you are amazing!!! So I started loading the steel, and we will probably be finishing by Wednesday with the loading, and then we can pay the rent... How good is God, He is the bomb!!

Well as I was sitting at the buyer of my steel, I started chatting to the admin lady, and before you know it, I started telling her about my new lease on life, and that I found God. So we talked for about two hours, and I think she is still thinking about everything, and I will be praying tonight that God work in her heart, so that she also go back to our Shepard. Well after a day like today, what can I want more, life is fab.

Here is a little something for you to read, it is precious!!

You are who you are for a reason.
You're part of an intricate plan.
You're a precious and perfect unique design,
called God's special woman or man.

You look like you look for a reason.
Our God made no mistake.
He knit you together within the womb,
you're just what he wanted to make.

The parents you had were the ones he chose,
and no matter how you may feel,
they were custom - designed with God's plan in mind,
and they bear the Master's seal.

No, that trauma you faced was not easy.
And God wept that it hurt you so,
but it was allowed to shape your heart
so that into his likeness you'd grow.

You are who you are for a reason,
you've been formed by the Master's rod.
You are who you are, beloved,
because there is a God.

By Russel Kelfer

Me again, let me tell you how it started...

Well the 30th of December 2009, I had an Epiphany, ran up my stairs, grabbed my Bible, and started reading...

Firstly I never knew that us as Christians live by the New Testament, and I started asking my boyfriend Earl questions about the Bible and that is how I got to find this out! I didn't even think that Earl knew much about the Bible and Christianity, but it turns out he does... I always wondered about the things people would say about the Bible, like" God says we have to love everyone, and that he has no racial issues" and so forth, but I always read a book from cover to cover, and did so with the Bible too, this is why I never understood or got to the good stuff ( not that it wasn't good, just didn't make sense ) Anyway that evening, I took the Bible and started reading Matthew ( New Testament ). I started reading and immediately I found something that didn't make sense, but I wrote it down, and later send a message with all my questions, to Thalia on facebook.

Now Thalia is married to my ex-husbands cousin, so after my divorce we never really spoke, but recently I read Thalia's status bars on facebook, and noticed that she and also Herman ( her hubby ) had given their lives over to God. So I sent Thalia my questions, and within minutes she replied, and since Thalia and Herman has been there for every simple small little thing that I want to know about. I wish I could tell them in words how much it really means to me! I would never be able to do this alone ( I know I know, God is with me, but I have not been christened and has not yet been blessed by the Holy Spirit, and the devil puts a lot of doubt in me ).

This is what I discovered on my very first night of reading the Bible:

It says in Matthew1:1 Jesus son of David, and I didn't understand how David could be the father of Jesus as Josef was his dad. This was my first question and I will give you all the questions and answers later, and then on top of that Earl said to me that Josef was not Jesus's biological father as the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, what...?? amazing this book had me right there, it is the best book I have ever encountered.

In Matthew1:18-25 I read all about the birth of Jesus, do yourself a favour and read it it is beautiful.

Jesus also known as Immanuel means " God with us "

I have many times before said to God, " if you do this one thing for me God I promise I will never do this or that ever again " and really I can not tell you if God did what I asked Him or not, but one thing is for sure I never gave anything up for whatever I asked for. Then I read in Matthew that we are not allowed to test God or ask Him favours in return for anything, IT IS WRONG!!

Weird thing happened that night while I was reading a green fly kept on flying into my face, and immediately, I looked up and said to Earl, " you know babe, this is now the devil trying to get my concentration away from what I am doing with the Bible and God ", so we sprayed the bugger with doom, and I continued with my study. I posted this incident on my facebook status and went to bed at about 3 that morning. The next morning I woke up bright and early and could not wait to start reading again, but I logged onto facebook and there it was, Thalia commented on my status about the fly, " Beelsebul (other name for satan ) is known as Lord of the fly" how amazingly amazing was that, satan did not even try to disguise himself that night, he came as he is, the doomed freak!!

Anyway

So, I struggled a bit to get my first post, posted, but eventually its done...

This blog basically is going to be my little diary, I do Bible study, and also every day do a lesson out of my book, The Purpose Driven Life, I will be posting what I read on my blog. Feel free to join in please.

Oh by the way it is my oldest son Luan's birthday today, and he is 8. Him and his two brothers are at their dad for the holiday, so it is tough not having him here for his birthday. I spoke to them earlier, and my word I miss them a whole lot!! I am going to attach a pic of the boys, they are: Luan (8), Hanro (5) and Xandre (4), see pic above...

Hey every one, well I am currently going through a life change, and thought what better way of sharing it with everyone than a blog, seeing as phoning all of my friends will just be to expensive LOL!! So here goes, I hope you enjoy seeing me grow and learn all there is to learn in life. If you wanna know anything please leave me a comment, I will reply to all of them.
All you guys out there who knows me, knows that I use to love parties, drinking, dancing and just all the yummie stuff that goes along with life... Well the last couple of months was just so hard, I mean everything in my life just basically fell apart one by one, and instead of me doing something about it or asking the right questions I got angry and tried to get even with every person that hurt me. Well needless to say that did not work out to well for me, and came middle of November I realised that I had nothing and nobody and life as I knew it was basically over.
I was lying in bed one night asking God why all these things where happening to me, when I honestly did not feel that I deserved it, and something ( now I know it was God ) told me to open up my Bible, and I did... It fell open and I started reading Job, and my word it sounded like me in that Bible complaining and moaning and asking questions, but still I did not get it. The next day I went onto facebook and read posts by my ex-husbands cousin and his wife and how they turned their lives around, and then I knew... that is why my life was falling appart, it was God giving me a wake-up call saying come back to the straight and narrow, and find a purpouse for your life, and so my journey starts... one day at a time...