The month of November 2013 was celebrated looking at Grace...
We have seen the tangible grace of God when our Pastor broke his ankle. He was on a hike with his family when he jumped and fell. He heard something snap in his lower leg...and immediately prayed that it is not his leg. It was not his leg but his ankle...by God's grace.
We have heard throughout the month that grace is something, we receive, which we do not deserve. Many times it is more then we can ever imagine. The grace of God allowed Jesus Christ to die for our sins and rose again on the third day so that we can have everlasting life when we receive this. It is by grace that we are saved and that not out of ourselves it is the gift of God...so that no one can boast.
When something happens to you like your ankle that is broken and you cannot fix it yourself, you come to the realization that I have to depend on the person who knows how to deal with broken ankles...doctors. You cannot remove your sin nor can you deliver yourself. You have to come to a point and trust the one True God who specializes in healing and renewing the lives of people. Only He can remove your sin...by His grace.
Pastor shared his story on Sunday and he mentioned that he had to go for an operation while we were in service. This made me think...we cannot service the King of King if we have not allowed Him to operate our hearts...removing the sin and transforming the way we think and aligning our lives with the plan He had already prepared for us. A plan to prosper and not to harm us. A plan to give you and me a hope for the future... while He operates...we need to serve. So why do you still try to fix your ankle yourself (your heart of sin and brokenness)? Give it all to Jesus, He came to give His life so that you can live...live by grace.
He is the only one who know exactly what to do, when and how to do (operate) in your life when you allow him. Come to him by His grace today, allow Him to show what needs to be cut, joint and plastered...so that you can live a life that is more abundantly.
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Friday, 15 November 2013
The Impact Conference Truly Impacted Our Lives!
Here are some of the quotes, lessons and inspirations that transpired from the different speakers. I trust that you will be blessed and greatly encouraged just by reading it.
Pastor Vince Blennies
You are the arrow in God's hands...he is putting you in His bow...positioning you to great things so that you can make an impact wherever you are. Whatever you have is a direct promotion to your faith, without faith it is impossible to please God. We have to develop faith. Faith that has not been tested...cannot be trusted. god does not respond to pain, but to faith. So faith must be trained. We need to have faith in God. When we impact others it is all about God and the Kingdom of God.
To impact others you become a leader and these are some of the qualities that must be evident:
Pastor Nicky Van Der Westhuizen
It is about to rain fish to those who believe. Fish speaks about harvest.
The greater the resistance the greater the revival. The greater the test the greater the testimony. Brand new people is coming forth because of brand new miracles that will be taking place. Nothing is impossible with God for those who believe. To make an impact in the community there needs to be partnership...partnerships of power. When you hear God speaks to you then you need to move, in order to receive your miracle. Joseph needed three people to partner with him, to get him where he was destined to be.
Pastor Fabian Steyn
Impact is to strike something with something else. It is to influence and make an effect. It is force that is exerted. The breakthrough is not without a fight. You must decide to make a high or deep impact. Be willing to take a chance verses a risk. An effective person always ask 'Why?'.
Discovering yourself is the third important day of your life, after being born ad being born again. Before you impact others you must impact yourself. Don't get stuck in your thinking, there is always another level.
Pastor Wayne
Tools to make an impact.
Ezra 6
I trust that after reading all this bits taken from the conference that you have been blessed, inspired and encouraged to Make an Impact!
Here are some of the quotes, lessons and inspirations that transpired from the different speakers. I trust that you will be blessed and greatly encouraged just by reading it.
Pastor Vince Blennies
You are the arrow in God's hands...he is putting you in His bow...positioning you to great things so that you can make an impact wherever you are. Whatever you have is a direct promotion to your faith, without faith it is impossible to please God. We have to develop faith. Faith that has not been tested...cannot be trusted. god does not respond to pain, but to faith. So faith must be trained. We need to have faith in God. When we impact others it is all about God and the Kingdom of God.
- Increase
- Everything gets better and better
- The Gospel has great power- power of the Kingdom and it's force will be made known
- There is order and structure in the Kingdom of God
- The anointing of the Kingdom of God is a gift...use it
- Urgency to share the Gospel
- Success in the Kingdom is generational dominion
- Strength in the Kingdom of God is unity and agreement
- Access to the Kingdom of God is to understand Mysteries
- It is all about God.
To impact others you become a leader and these are some of the qualities that must be evident:
- Leaders must sacrifice
- Leaders must serve
- Be simple yet effective, simplicity, clarity and purpose
- Deal with complexities
- Deal with solutions
- Have high levels of sound judgment
- Do things in the Spirit of God be led by His Spirit
- Achieve balance
- Be significant even in your absence
- Real well
- Do a few things...do it well and with excellence
- Be flexible
- Seek bigger challenges
- Never be jealous
- Travel
- Educate yourself
- Serve the church
- Avoid debt
- Look for mentors and choose one
- Learn how to deal with crises in your life
Pastor Nicky Van Der Westhuizen
It is about to rain fish to those who believe. Fish speaks about harvest.
The greater the resistance the greater the revival. The greater the test the greater the testimony. Brand new people is coming forth because of brand new miracles that will be taking place. Nothing is impossible with God for those who believe. To make an impact in the community there needs to be partnership...partnerships of power. When you hear God speaks to you then you need to move, in order to receive your miracle. Joseph needed three people to partner with him, to get him where he was destined to be.
- Butler- You need someone who will open doors for you
- Baker- You need people who know how to put things in order, put all the ingredients together
- Faro You need someone who will finance your dream
Pastor Fabian Steyn
Impact is to strike something with something else. It is to influence and make an effect. It is force that is exerted. The breakthrough is not without a fight. You must decide to make a high or deep impact. Be willing to take a chance verses a risk. An effective person always ask 'Why?'.
Discovering yourself is the third important day of your life, after being born ad being born again. Before you impact others you must impact yourself. Don't get stuck in your thinking, there is always another level.
- Expand yourself in every way
- Grow beyond your past barrier
- Constantly better yourself
- Your attitude (the spirit that you are carrying) determines your impact
- Attitude makes the difference in the lives of others
- Pray till a fire spread-Revival
- Allow the Holy Spirit to work in your life
Pastor Wayne
Tools to make an impact.
- Do not forsake principals
- Principal of order
- Principal of respect
- Principal of honor
- Principal faithfulness, loyalty, hard work.
Ezra 6
- Let them be given young bulls- young strength is coming
- Rams- speaks of consecration and separation- the must be a difference in your life
- Lambs were given to them (the weakest animal)- we need to be more humble and there will be less strife...be obedient
- Wheat-speaks of transformation-Grain must fall and die...you must be transformed by the renewing of your mind
- Salt-it is a preservative, flavoring, disinfects, bringing healing...do not be contaminated and do not lose your flavor. Jewish babies are rubbed in salt, this means loyalty. We need to rub others with salt to show and prove our loyalty to them.
- Wine(Joy and Oil(Healing and Anointing)-product of blessing. They both go through the process of pressing. The greater the difficulties the greater the anointing. Living a life filled with the joy of the Lord which is your strength
I trust that after reading all this bits taken from the conference that you have been blessed, inspired and encouraged to Make an Impact!
Friday, 18 October 2013
You are born to give 100% of your self to what ever you do.
When you listen, give 100%. When you work give 100%. When you play, play 100%. Pastor Fabian Steyn, recently preached about..."Why give 99 percent?"
Romans 12:1 and 2
"So I beg you, brothers and sisters, because of the great mercy God has shown us, offer your lives as a living sacrifice to Him- an offering that is only for God and pleasing to Him. Considering what He has done, it is only right that you should worship Him in this way. Don't change yourselves to be like the people of this world, but let God change you inside with a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to understand and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what is good and pleasing to Him and what is perfect." (Easy to Read Version-ERV)
Looking at these scriptures and a few others like James 2:22-25, we were reminded how we sometimes give only 99 percent and many times less because we are not doers of the Word. We are only hearers of the Word and therefore we do not see the results we are looking for in our own lives. We are not willing to give our lives to God completely. We are not giving 100% thinking perhaps even subconsciously, that what we are giving is enough. Sometime we even compare ourselves with others...making sure we are doing or giving more then them. What we may not know is that though they may be giving less...that is their 100%.
Many times we drop our standards...we compromise and our 100% becomes 99%! We allow Satan to erode us from within and we become Rootless and Fruitless slowly but surely. May bad things can happen when we do not take stock of our lives to give 100% and become content with 99%. Here are some statistics which were found by Pastor Steyn while he was preparing his sermon. These are from two different webpages.
-22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank account in the next hour.
-Telecommunications companies will misdirect 1,314 telephone calls every minute.
-2,488 books will be shipped with the wrong covers on them each day.
-More than 5.5 million cases of soft drinks in the next year will be flat.
-12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
-Footwear companies would ship out 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes each year.
-The US Postal Service would miss-handle 18,322 pieces of mail every hour.
-Two planes landing at Chicago O’Hare would be unsafe every day.
-315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary would be misspelled.
-Doctors would write 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions this year.
-880,000 credit cards in circulation would have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic -strips.
-291 pacemaker operations would be performed incorrectly.
-3,056 copies of tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal will be missing one of its four sections.
As you can see 99% seems good...but 100% is what is needed. You give your best in many areas of your life...Why not give God your very BEST. Give Him the PERFECT sacrifice. It is not impossible! Be PERFECT because God is perfect...He will not expect something from you which He knows you cannot do. He knows that you can give 100%. So give just that 100%.
When you listen, give 100%. When you work give 100%. When you play, play 100%. Pastor Fabian Steyn, recently preached about..."Why give 99 percent?"
Romans 12:1 and 2
"So I beg you, brothers and sisters, because of the great mercy God has shown us, offer your lives as a living sacrifice to Him- an offering that is only for God and pleasing to Him. Considering what He has done, it is only right that you should worship Him in this way. Don't change yourselves to be like the people of this world, but let God change you inside with a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to understand and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what is good and pleasing to Him and what is perfect." (Easy to Read Version-ERV)
Looking at these scriptures and a few others like James 2:22-25, we were reminded how we sometimes give only 99 percent and many times less because we are not doers of the Word. We are only hearers of the Word and therefore we do not see the results we are looking for in our own lives. We are not willing to give our lives to God completely. We are not giving 100% thinking perhaps even subconsciously, that what we are giving is enough. Sometime we even compare ourselves with others...making sure we are doing or giving more then them. What we may not know is that though they may be giving less...that is their 100%.
Many times we drop our standards...we compromise and our 100% becomes 99%! We allow Satan to erode us from within and we become Rootless and Fruitless slowly but surely. May bad things can happen when we do not take stock of our lives to give 100% and become content with 99%. Here are some statistics which were found by Pastor Steyn while he was preparing his sermon. These are from two different webpages.
In America this is what would happen if they settle for
99%
-The IRS would lose 2 million documents this year.-22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank account in the next hour.
-Telecommunications companies will misdirect 1,314 telephone calls every minute.
-2,488 books will be shipped with the wrong covers on them each day.
-More than 5.5 million cases of soft drinks in the next year will be flat.
-12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
-Footwear companies would ship out 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes each year.
-The US Postal Service would miss-handle 18,322 pieces of mail every hour.
-Two planes landing at Chicago O’Hare would be unsafe every day.
-315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary would be misspelled.
-Doctors would write 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions this year.
-880,000 credit cards in circulation would have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic -strips.
-291 pacemaker operations would be performed incorrectly.
-3,056 copies of tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal will be missing one of its four sections.
As you can see 99% seems good...but 100% is what is needed. You give your best in many areas of your life...Why not give God your very BEST. Give Him the PERFECT sacrifice. It is not impossible! Be PERFECT because God is perfect...He will not expect something from you which He knows you cannot do. He knows that you can give 100%. So give just that 100%.
Monday, 16 September 2013
Life Vision Church Being The Difference!
Welcome to the first blog of Life Vision Church. We are situated in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Here you will find a vibrant community of believers being the difference they want to see by living out L.I.F.E. This means Loving, Impacting, Function and Equip...the people in the community. We trust that you will find a great resource where you will learn how to Love, Impact others, Function as a believer in Christ Jesus and being Equip, Equipping others with great passion and zeal.
Please feel free to support us by visiting this site often.
Here you will find a vibrant community of believers being the difference they want to see by living out L.I.F.E. This means Loving, Impacting, Function and Equip...the people in the community. We trust that you will find a great resource where you will learn how to Love, Impact others, Function as a believer in Christ Jesus and being Equip, Equipping others with great passion and zeal.
Please feel free to support us by visiting this site often.
CELEBRATION AND IMPACT MONTH - OCTOBER 2013
Celebration and Impact Month! October 2013!
What are we celebrating? We are celebrating New Life In Christ Jesus! Who are we impacting? We are impacting those who need Jesus Christ in their lives, who is the only One who can save and deliver someone from a life of sin.
We do this by consistent intercessory prayer on a weekly basis. Weekly we gather for the School of Evangelism. This is a wonderful platform for Christians to learn how to effectively share their testimony and to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. These training sessions bring about the freedom and confidence many lack when it comes to the Gospel.
It is strange...we can talk about anything with anyone without feeling awkward or embarrassed, but when we speak about God the Father, His Son and the Holy Spirit, there is an uneasiness. I think it is because of the fact that when this is our conversation...change is about to take place. Destinies are about to be altered...and that can be scary.
This month you are encouraged to break out of that fear...the fear of sharing the Good News. This gives one great reason to celebrate...as sharing the Gospel Impacts lives. Please pray with us as we are trusting God for a great harvest from the seeds that are sown. May you too be encouraged to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with someone today...everyday.
To end the month we are having an IMPACT CONFERENCE! Starting on the 31st of October 2013 at 7pm until the 3rd of November 2013 at 7pm. The speakers are Pastor Vincent Blennies, Pastor Nicky Van Der Westzhuizen, Pastor Wayne Ballakistan and the, Host Pastor Fabian Steyn. THIS IS AN EVENT YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS...
What are we celebrating? We are celebrating New Life In Christ Jesus! Who are we impacting? We are impacting those who need Jesus Christ in their lives, who is the only One who can save and deliver someone from a life of sin.
We do this by consistent intercessory prayer on a weekly basis. Weekly we gather for the School of Evangelism. This is a wonderful platform for Christians to learn how to effectively share their testimony and to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. These training sessions bring about the freedom and confidence many lack when it comes to the Gospel.
It is strange...we can talk about anything with anyone without feeling awkward or embarrassed, but when we speak about God the Father, His Son and the Holy Spirit, there is an uneasiness. I think it is because of the fact that when this is our conversation...change is about to take place. Destinies are about to be altered...and that can be scary.
This month you are encouraged to break out of that fear...the fear of sharing the Good News. This gives one great reason to celebrate...as sharing the Gospel Impacts lives. Please pray with us as we are trusting God for a great harvest from the seeds that are sown. May you too be encouraged to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with someone today...everyday.
To end the month we are having an IMPACT CONFERENCE! Starting on the 31st of October 2013 at 7pm until the 3rd of November 2013 at 7pm. The speakers are Pastor Vincent Blennies, Pastor Nicky Van Der Westzhuizen, Pastor Wayne Ballakistan and the, Host Pastor Fabian Steyn. THIS IS AN EVENT YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS...
Please feel free to contact the office during office hours should you have any questions at +2711539253. Please visit when you are in the area at 6 Fish Ave, Klipspruit-West, Extension 2, Eldorado Park, Johannesburg.
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