YOUR GOD REIGNS!

On Saturday 1 May a group of us accented the highest point in Namibia, the summit of the Fire Mountain (Brandberg) and claimed Namibia for God.

Praise God and pray for each faithful servant of God who proclaims the gospel in Namibia. Ask that He will provide in their spiritual and physical needs. Pray that they will trust God their Father and be true to His calling. Just intercede for them now, that they will be encouraged by the Living God and experience His presence.

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!" Isaiah 52:7

The message of the cross

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,

but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1Corinthians 1:18

Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth
was a man accredited by God

to you by miracles, wonders and signs,

which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.

This man was handed over to you by God’s set purpose

and fore knowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men,
put him to death by nailing him to the cross.

But God raised him from the dead,
freeing him from the agony of death,
because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.
Acts 2:21-24

Pray that the message of the cross
will be proclaimed in Namibia
and all over the world and that men and women
will call on the Name of the Lord and receive salvation.

Push the boat into the water!

Starting a Blog is like building a boat. Once it is finished, you can admire is, sit in it, sleep in it. But there comes a time that you have to put to test. Like Admiral Grace Murray Hopper said: "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." You have to push the boat in the water. That is what I did yesterday. The boat is in the water now. But will it sail?

I invite you to join me as we put this boat to the test. Sailing is also a spiritual exercise. Just consider these sayings that I have found about sailing: "Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down." John Masefield. My vision for this Blog is that it will help us all to look up.

Please consider also these words of wisdom: "Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made." Robert N. Rose. My hope is that this Blog will help us to fulfil our dreams for Namibia and for building God's Kingdom in and through its people. My hope is that you will again and again return to this Blog to find that you have been challenged and changed. Roselle Mercier Montgomery put it so well: "Never a ship sails out of a bay, but carries my heart as a stowaway." That is what I trust this Blog will offer to us (you and me), a place where we can stowaway from the storms of life and meet with God and just spend time with Him.

Will this boat sail? Will this Blog survive? John Rousmaniere said this: "The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself." This is my dream for this Blog that it will survive, not because of us, but in spite of us. Will you pray with me and trust God, that He will be the Master Sailor, the Master Writer and that through the Holy Spirit He will take us to places far and above our highest expectations.

Luke 8:22 One day Jesus said to his disciples, "Let’s go over to the other side of the lake." So they got into a boat and set out.