“I’ll sing to you Lord a hymn of love for your faithfulness to me – I’m carried in everlasting arms. You’ll never let me go, through it all.”

The worship team led the congregation of the saints into a realm of absolute intimacy with the Holy Spirit as His presence filled the place. This worship and adoration of our Lord ushered in the unadulterated Word of God broken to us by Pastor van Wyk.

Bread of Life

Do we consider how often we eat food when we are hungry? This is how often we need to be feeding off the Word of God. It should be like the food we eat.

This morning the teaching was lead by Pastor Van Wyk. The theme verse was in Hebrew 3v12. Pastor Van Wyk opened the teaching with a strong statement of truth: “Faith in God comes before love of the saints.” The great message for the saints this morning was indeed a warning against unbelief.

When we harbour unbelief, you are considered to be wicked. When you are not a believer, then there’s unbelief in your heart. Unbelief cancels faith and faith pleases God. Surely the deduction is that when we do not have faith in God, then we displease Him. The call is to have the type of faith in God that holds onto Him even when He doesn’t turn up and then to still have the courage in unwavering faith in Him.

Faith starts in your heart not in your mind. Faith finds its roots, there in the centre of your being. The warning in the Word is to guard your heart above all else. This includes taking an active stance in guarding your heart against unbelief. Unbelief sets you on a path away from God toward rebellion. Unbelief despises and rejects God. Self-pity sprouts and leads to rebellion and then turns you from God. A manifestation of rebellion to God is often times seen in people opposing leaders.

Many times, leaders do not choose to be leaders. Their rank was chosen for them by God, the Sovereign. It is He who appoints persons to positions of leadership and it is He who equips them to operate in their ranking.

Just as faith starts in your heart, unbelief also starts in your heart. Constant murmuring and complaining spoken from a heart of hopelessness is the most common manifestation of an unbelieving heart.

When we claim to be believers in God, we are expected to have a strong belief in Him. This along with faith, separates us from those who live in unbelief and darkness. How then is it that we call ourselves believers yet we still carry on nuturing and unbelieving heart? Somewhere, something is wrong in our faith walk with God. We need to take time to reflect and investigate our hearts openly and honestly before God. We need to confess the unbelief in our hearts in true sincerity and ask God to forgive us as this is a sin.

Furthermore, we need to take an active decision to have our minds renewed all the time and be careful to guard our hearts in maintaining an active faith in God. Amen

By Marion Le Fleur

“Hallowed be Thy name…”

The congregation of believers was warmly welcomed by the scripture verse: “Blessed are those who dwell in your house.”

Aunty Val thanked the believers for their faithful prayers as she testified to her recovered health. This morning, Pastor Roger introduced to the church the reality of the role of the body of believers regarding politics. Surely God is God of the government too. ‘The political scenario is changing..’

God in His faithfulness has always raised up leaders from His kingdom to fulfill His destiny in government. “Let your kingdom come and your will be done” is part of the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples to pray. God is faithful in maintaining His commands and His will to be fulfilled on earth as it is done in Heaven. Will the believers be ready t be raised up to be in governance?

One such man headed the call to be raised up to govern and serve is Pastor Dourie. The sermon was lead by Pastor Dourie who is a man serving in parliament. The message he had to share came from Matt. 27v19. He was sure to encourage all to read the entire chapter of Matt. 27.

Truth and Reconciliation

This word seems to have been spoken of in great lengths in the political arena since our country gained it’s freedom from apartheid in 1994. However, true reconciliation has it’s roots founded in the word of God. Secondly, reconciliation can only be performed toward people and not toward objects or material.

The fundamental message of God’s word is that He (God) wants us (his people) to be reconciled to Him.

Deuteronomy says that life is in the blood. If reconciliation is about new beginnings and life, then surely the blood of Jesus marks the foundation and beginning of man’s reconciliation toward God. The death of Jesus and His resurrection is the foundation of the gospel.

Matt. 27v19 was the main verse of this sermon and in this verse Pilate’s wife sends a message to him urging him by saying “Have nothing to do with this man…”

Pilate seems perplexed by the presence of Jesus – called the Messiah, King of the Jews before him. In the movie, ‘Passion of the Christ’, the character Pilate asked Jesus what was Truth or Veritas (the Latin word for truth) All the while the Truth was standing right in front of him. The Truth is Jesus and Jesus is the Truth.

The question is, will we allow the Truth being the person of Jesus Christ guide our lives or will we listen to the voice of the Deceiver and choose to “Have nothing to do with this man”

The Word says “And you will know the truth and the knowledge of the truth will set you free.” Let us walk in Truth, Freedom and Reconciliation as we allow God’s will to be done in our lives, families, community, country and the world. Amen

By Marion Le Fleur

This week we had the privilege to welcome Carl Wills and Dr. Gary Wills from the UK who shared the Word of GOD and really blessed many as we gathered at the Main Hall and Impact Centre. This is really a season for where God is not going to let anything slip through our fingers as we open our lives for more of GOD. Gatherings were held every night this week and we saw the Power of the Holy Spirit moving in the lives of people like never before.

With such accuracy was the Prophetic Word that it really penetrated the hearts of people and many will not be the same anymore. With God wanting to show us more of His Glory and longing for us to walk into what He has instore for us this week has been one of unlocking that which He has placed within us. Our nation needs God like never before and this is the time for a people of God to rise up and allow His voice to be heard through us as we begin to speak and live the Living Word of Jesus Christ.

We’ve not only seen people experiencing the Holy Spirit but also saw many lives being transformed by the Power of Jesus. This is only the beginning to what is ahead for us for this year and we are going all out in order for God to reveal as much of Himself to us during this time.

Impact Direct Ministries would like to wish you and your families a wonderful year ahead. May God increase His anointing over your life as He pour out His blessings over you.

After a year where we saw GOD reconstructing the lives of people young and old, and touching the nations of the world we are looking forward to see what GOD has instore for 2009. We know that whatever we do we do it to bring honour and glory to the King of kings. Last week Saturday we started the year with a day of prayer as many people gathered at the Impact Centre in prayer and thanksgiving unto the LORD.

The key themes of the prayer gathering was Vision, Encouragement, Unity and Thanksgiving along with the numarous prayer requests received from people. It was revealed to us that GOD desires to make known His manifold wisdom to all the earth. We as a people have been given this mandate to carry this wisdom to all the earth sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Vision

Encouragement

Thanksgiving

Unity

May 2009 be a year where we experience more of GOD

Today Impact Direct had the privilege celebrating with the Reconstructed graduates as they’ve successfully completed a year of Social Media training. Not only was it wonderful to see what they’ve achieved in such a short space of time but the atmosphere at the graduation was such a wonderful experience that many would agree that this year has been special and an inspiration to many.

The graduation was opened by the dean of Faculty of Informatics and Design, Prof. Johannes Cronje, who welcomed the graduates, family, friends and colleagues. Apostle Roger Petersen followed with a prayer not only for the graduation but for every young person who needs hope roaming the streets and in our communities in Cape Town. The Reconstructed project then launched two new services namely their first podcast (you can download it right here under multimedia) and the “Angel Service” on MXit. This was followed by Marlon who shared a little about the year that has passed and then the moment we all waited for, THE RECONSTRUCTED GRADUATION.

Every graduate made us all proud, not only the people who were present but surely they are a beacon of hope for every person who needs that light. They are truly products of the Power of JESUS CHRIST and the Holy Spirit. So congratulations to all our graduates: Brent Williams, Clinton Liederman, Craig Ross, Jerome Mias, Michael Abrahams, Ricardo Johnson, Clive-marcus Evertse, Jason Martin, Kyle Jonck, Jerod Aspelling, Monique Theron, Shameez Liederman, Nazier Fortune and Bradley Naidoo.

Also special prizes went to Craig Ross (Best Blogger), Clinton Liederman (Best Micro-blogger), Jerome Mias (Mobile Blogger), Kyle Jonck (Twitster “Twitter Gangster”), Jason Martin (Most Innovative Blogger) and Brent Williams (Drug Advice Support [DAS] Ambassador). Special thanks to all the sponsors Media 24, Springleap, CPUT, Impact Direct and everyone who contributed to this extraordinary year. May GOD bless you as we look forward to the Reconstructed Intake of 2009.

The past two weeks we received a life changing word around how to break the rebellious heart. Many of the problems in the world and in society is because of rebellion. We’ve experienced a culture of rebellion where people choose not to have freedom in the LORD. Apostle Roger Petersen shared a few scriptures Acts 5:27-32, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Deuteronomy 21:18-21 and Matthew15:4.

The heart of stone needs to be broken in order for God to give us a heart of flesh. Whenever someone is in rebellion then they will always oppose authority. If we are open to give GOD the freedom to transform our lives then God can change us from a culture of disobedience to obedience. The time for God to break the rebellious heart is now so that we can have the freedom to live in obedience to God.

It has been an exciting week with visits from Derek, Jim and Sylvia Holl from the UK and Apostle Willie Norris from Bloemfontein. It is amzing to see how God is using ordinary people and transforming lives. Not only do we see the transformation of lives but also God’s Glory covering the earth. In a time where many are looking for answers, we have the opportunity to look towards Jesus Christ who is the answer. We therefore ask God to show us more of His Glory as we keep our eyes fixed upon Jesus.