Teshuvah ~ Return To Your First Love

For the past week I have been hearing these words inside me and unconsciously singing to the tune accompanying the lyrics (from the movie The Greatest Showman).  At first I brushed it off but then found myself singing these words again.  I then realised that we ARE actually in a "From Now On" moment as South Africa dawns into a new era. As I watched the inauguration of the newly elected president this past Saturday, excitement for my country and nation was bubbling up.  And the signs of a new era was so evident in this event and leading up to it.  The Chief Justice led the national assembly held last week, into a three minute prayer time in his capacity as head of authority for our nation at that moment. The rebuilding of the walls based on Nehimiah was noted to the president in the opening devotional message.  Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng handed Cyril Ramaphosa a Bible after being sworn in as president. And then our very president, made referenc...

God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through; find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares. See if there is any path of pain I’m walking on, and lead me back to your glorious, everlasting ways— the path that brings me back to you.  Psalms 139:23‭-‬24 TPT You must catch the troubling foxes, those sly little foxes that hinder our relationship. For they raid our budding vineyard of love to ruin what I’ve planted within you. Will you catch them and remove them for me? We will do it together.  Song of Songs 2:15 TPT Beloved, invite Me to search your precious heart.  Make this a daily appointment where you meet with Me in the quietness of the day. Set time apart for us. Your heart is worth more than any gold or silver for this is where I choose to store My treasures for our relationship with you.  Surrender your heart completely to Me as Your Lord and Saviour. Make Me ...

And you shall know the truth , and the truth shall make you free.”  ( John 8:32 NKJV) “Your Word is truth ! So make them holy by the truth.  ( John 17:17 TPT) The entirety of Your word is truth , And every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.  ( Psalms 119:160 NKJV) Abba Father speaks to us in many different ways through His still, small voice in our inner man, our spirit.  This may be, just to name a few, through His written word, a song, a picture, a butterfly on your shoulder, or perhaps a word through someone in a message.  One of the ways He speaks to me is with words. A specific word will buzz inside me nudging to go digging into His Word for more revelation. This morning the word TRUTH or more specifically His Truth was standing out to me. And my thoughts pondered about His Truth. If we are supposed to speak His Truth, does that mean that speaking the opposite of His Word are lies? For His Word is TRUTH. Truth is found in His word an...

Shalom Beloved, Are you ready to enter into His Rest - The Promise Land? The Israelites experienced the provision and goodness of God in the wilderness for fourty years, yet not all of the first generation entered into the promised land. And the reason as we read below is rebellion of their hearts. (Bold letters emphasised) Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart , And they have not known My ways. ’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest .’ ” Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have beco...