1 Peter 3:20 & 1 Peter 4:19.

The other day, we had a quiet moment, sitting relaxing in the lounge, enjoying some peace and quiet, while sipping tea. I looked up to see through a glass door the cutest little puppy, happily wagging its tail and looking at me through the glass. “How cute” I said and at that moment the awful realization hit: our own black monster of a dog was within striking range this tiny little thing, and its future looked less than hopeful at that moment and the moment was seriously turning ugly.

As Gaston frantically dashed for the door in an attempt to rescue the stray puppy, all I could do was stay inside and pray. I did not want to witness this bloodshed! I could hear the puppy yelping for its life, our dog had it by the throat! Praying I called every Scripture to mind I new concerning the animals of the righteous. In the midst of all this chaos, which included both dogs plunging in the swimming pool. Our dog swam the length of the pool with the puppy’s head under the water.

The Holy Spirit said to me: “Keep it together! I want to show you something”.

Eventually, the puppy was extricated from Splash’ s mouth, and brought inside. Amazingly, it was still alive and unharmed. Splash had not sunk his teeth in at any point. Perhaps he knew that this was a baby. I like to think it was my prayers. Before long, this little number had actually had something to eat and drink, and undaunted by the attack, began doing little tricks for me - hopping up and down like a Springbuck and chasing its tail in circles. Then it hopped up on the couch and on my favorite cushion fell soundly asleep!

Splash convinced he had protected his territory from some huge threat waited on us for approval. How could he view a tiny Toy-Pom puppy a threat? But he did, and went into a fit of aggression to subdue it!

The Holy Spirit said to me, ” My people do this all the time”.

Things happen that seem to threaten our domain, and we go into an overdrive of aggression. Our mind tells us, “This is the end of my life! I must react, and react now!” But God is saying, “You’re Mine! What are you afraid of? Why all the insecurity?”

We are commanded to cast our cares upon Him. Our supposed threats are so tiny they CAN’T hurt us!

If we consider Jesus in the moment of His greatest trial, we can learn some things.

He is hanging on the cross, adrenalin pumping through His body, nails tearing at His flesh and the thorns piercing into His head, He makes a statement of faith: “IT IS FINISHED!”

But was it in fact over? No, not just yet. Your declaration of faith is not the end of what’s still to be done.

The next thing, Jesus is forced to descend into the bowels of the earth. After all that he had so faithfully endured, He finds Himself in this desolation.

STAY FOCUSED! - Jesus understood his purpose - to preach the Good News to the captive. And so, without grumbling or questioning, He does what he was assigned to do. Here, in this dreadful place (Hell), He gives the ultimate altar call.

STAY IN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE! - Don’t fight the little dogs that snap at your heels. Don’t surrender the control of your life and purpose to fears of insecurity! You need to get to the place where you realize, “I’m anointed for divine purpose. This is my purpose”

Jesus conquers hell, takes the keys of hell and the grave, and ascends intending to return to the Father to present His Sacrificed Blood. At this point he could have said, ” NOW! It is finished” and gone and sat down at Father’s right Hand.

But, it wasn’t finished yet.

Outside the tomb Mary, who by faith had anointed Him for His burial, and witnessed the raising of her brother Lazarus. Mary, who had a revelation of resurrection power, was waiting. Jesus comes back to meet with these women and tell them, ” Run! Tell the disciples that I am alive! ”

Even then, Jesus cannot sit down and declare that his purpose is finally finished because, now, Father says to Him: “You will live in each one of them”.

Many of you have experienced the death of a dream, a hope, or an expectation. It’s all there in that tomb, waiting to be resurrected in Jesus.

Never give up. Never sit down and say my purpose is finished! God is saying “Not just yet“.

Once upon a time a young Prince, Don Maullin, found a beautiful Princess Lesley. The minute he saw her, he knew he had to marry her. So he did. He, so handsome, she, so beautiful, their children – a baby boy and a little later a baby girl, stunningly beautiful, a real everlasting happy ending, most certainly expected, BUT the Prince had lost contact with the King!

The Prince and his Princess fought with each other, even though they dearly loved each other. They fought so badly that eventually, the Princess with a broken heart left the Prince and being so beautiful, was soon found by another man.

The Prince was devastated, he rushed round to his Princess, knocked the other man clean off his feet and took her to his heart and home again. For a short while things were fine, but the Prince was still living life his way, away from, having no contact with the King.

Once again with a broken heart the Princess ran, this time not to a man, but to a contact of her Prince’s King and the contact quickly sent the Princess to the King. The minute Princess Lesley saw the King she gave her heart and life to him and made up her mind to reunite her Prince wither King. Very soon through her love and loyalty to her King, she easily led the Prince to her King and his, and everything began to change.

The King said, “I Am the third fold cord, your fighting will not separate you ever again,” and it never did

The King took a long walk on Warner Beach with the Prince and told him very seriously, “Selling sausages is not working for you. You take a position in “Liberty Life”. The King is so into Liberty. He always sets the captive free. “I have lots and lots of millions of money, I Am going to give to you, and “ Liberty Life” will be the pipe line for so much money.” The Prince did exactly as he was told and of course the King met him every day just to make sure the Prince received all the money the King wanted him to have.

There were days the King and the Prince played golf together instead of going to the office and the King always made sure the Prince received his money.

Eventually everyone realized the King had made the Prince into the Best Financial Consultant in the world.

The Princess Lesley did actually live happily ever after, of course they did have a lot more fights but now the King, always with them, would gently take Prince Don’s hand, reach over and take Princess Lesley’s hand and slowly, right through their fighting, bring them together.

The Prince built a luxury home for his Princess in Mount Edgecomb. He did this with the money the King made sure he received.

I know this story and that it is true because Prince Don and Princess Lesley were told by the King to come and faithfully attend our church, which they have done. Prince Don has given a tithe of all the money the King made sure he received and also gave money as seed and Prince Don and the Princess Lesley have given money and things to other people and are generous to their beautiful grown up children. So, it works out my husband and I are their King-given Pastors and Prince Don is our King-given Financial Consultant.

We all live happily ever after because the King, through the death and Resurrection of His Son and the Power of His Royal Adoption has made us all Royalty!

Really my story is so true. Come back to the King, come join us, live a right Royal, happy ever after life with us.

Prince Don and Princess Lesley are millionaires, and me – well we’re moving into our New Church the King made us receive, see, happy ever after! - SPEAK TO ME!

Once upon a time an important couple embraced destiny, answered the call of Almighty, and had an adorable baby boy. He was indeed “a proper child”.

The boy child, uniquely called and appointed for Kingdom purpose, received gifts of music, song, and laughter while still in the womb.

All of his childhood years he was either singing or drumming a tune on anything that could make a noise or bringing joyful laughter into the place. He shared his precious gifts with all he came into contact with. He grew in favor with Almighty and with men.

After his military training, his family missed him so, they welcomed him home with a holiday they received from Almighty to Disney Land, from Amanzimtoti to U.S.A.

They had a fantastic time; the entire family celebrated the young Prince’s 21^st Birthday. A great time, many memories were made, all this Almighty used to increase the music, the song and the laughter in the young Prince’s life.

On the journey home while enduring a four-hour stop over at a foreign airport a deaf man offered the young Prince a “Signing” alphabet. This is a language spoken with hands by deaf people. Our young Prince learnt that entire alphabet of the language of deaf people. He began speaking with his hands as though he had been all his life.

Sunday morning back at church with his family, our young Prince discovered a lovely young deaf Princess had joined our congregation. The Prince nearly burst with confidence; he knew how to speak to her. And speak to her he did. The first words he said were “Mickey Mouse”. She laughed! He had won her heart.

Today their two worlds, music, and silence have harmoniously united and they have a baby girl and a baby boy.

Many people living right here in Amanzimtoti know them. Yes, so many love them. They are Quinton and Florence Nicolas and their babies are Gabrielle and Timothy.

I know this is a true story because; I am the privileged, important couple person who gave birth to Quinton. Quinton is the owner of “Urban Hits’ a recording studio dedicated to helping fresh, young, talented musicians make it, right here in Amanzimtoti.

Quinton plays the keyboard in our church, leading us in our Worship of Almighty and Florence sits with the children in the 2^nd row every Sunday.

I love a good true story, don’t you? - SPEAK TO ME!

We have the most amazing children in our school this year. They are all from very good Christian homes. It is almost like a visit to a workshop in heaven to visit our school. We had one problem, three of our senior boys, Edwin, Wesley and Shannon, were experiencing difficulty with their goal charts. Just so many mistakes and incomplete goals. These boys are upright and honest, they are also popular and leaders among the teenagers, goal charts are simple! Also the Maths Paces were seemingly impossible to conquer.

We fully realize these problems are like gems compared to some of the problems in other schools of our days.

Here in South Africa government schools have to contend with 24,000 pregnant teenagers trying to complete their education and more than half of them are dying and their babies will be born with these diseases doomed to die prematurely. We pray for our country and believe for a miracle turn about.

So we thank God for our problems and with thankful hearts attempt to glorify His Name and overcome our problem.

We all attended the Benny Hinn meetings at the Dome in Durban and came home Full of the Holy Spirit and Praising God for Who He is. We held an assembly and preached the truths Benny Hinn had brought us from the heart of our Father and as soon as we could we laid our hands on the Sacred Heads of these wonderful children. They received all we said and gladly responded with faith and received the Power of God into their lives.

Well by the end of that day Shannon’s completed Maths Pace looked like a work of art and the goal charts of all the boys were good enough to frame we are still seriously thinking of doing just that.

Here’s the thing we had tried to sort out an educational problem in the flesh and we have learned it doesn’t work that well, but when we forgot our problems and got really close to our Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit in us was able to cause us to triumph.

Whatever you are going through, even if it is not so bad, or well of course if it is so big and bad flesh can’t change it, just get yourself close to Him. He wants to cause you to triumph in all things and best of all; it is so great to be close to Him.

I would love to hear from you, speak to me!

Love You,

Ruth.