Friday, 14 January 2011

JESUS, ons bron van lewe en krag!


Vandag, toe ek weer die foto bestudeer van my pragtige seun wat so vol lewenslus en energie sy fisiese talente vir sy ouers vertoon (foto geneem: Kersaand, 2010-12-25), besef ek toe dat daar ‘n BAIE BELANGRIKE LEWENSLES vir my in hierdie oënskynlike pronkerige pret-gevulde foto opgesluit lê!

Net soos wat my kind fisies sterk geraak het van al sy ge-oefen en oor-en-oor probeer slae, tot hy sy toertjie vervolmaak het en hy dit vir ons NET REG wou wys, vol ekstra woema gepomp van die spesiaal vervaardigde Kersfees weergawe vanuit die botteltjie Coke a Cola, springend van die ekstra kaffeïne wat dit hom gegee het, net so…

…raak ons as kinders van ons Vader God, Koning Jesus, God Heilige Gees geestelik sterker as ons ons geloof oefen, oor-en-oor tot God nader in gebed tot heiligmaking (‘n voortdurende proses), en ons woema, ons krag, kry ons van God se spesiale Kersgeskenk vir ons: Sy Woord wat op die voorgrond van die foto onder die Haleluja boekie uit loer: Die Bybel, wat propvol is van die lewende, onuitputlike bron van lewe en energie, DIE WOORD WAT LEWEND GEWORD HET, ons eie spesiaal voorsienne kaffeïen: JESUS CHRISTUS wat ons harte vol van Sy vrede en blydskap maak tot ons kan opspring van opgewonde dankbaarheid vir Sy Verlossings werk vir ons!!!!

Hoe bevoorreg is ons nie om kinders van ‘n LEWENDE GOD te kan wees nie! Dankie Abba Vader! Haleluja! Amen!

Geseënde Kersfees inderdaad!

Lizette De Klerk
2010-12-27

© 2010-2011. Lizette De Klerk.
All rights reserved worldwide.

First published to: http://lizettedeklerk.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/jesus-ons-bron-van-lewe-en-krag-2/

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Read The Bible on Your Cellphone / Lees die Byble op Jou Selfoon

ENGLISH TEXT: The Bible in various languages on your cell phone.

You can now download the Bible in various languages on your cell phone.

Follow the steps below & read the Bible anywhere you take your phone.

1. With the internet access function on your phone, go to this link: http://m.bibles.co.za

2. Choose the language of your choice (See list of available languages below)

3. Choose if you want to download the Bible in one, four or eights parts. (Some phones can only handle downloading the Bible in parts.)

See additional info below.

Available Bibles:
Afrikaans 1933/53-translation, 
Afrikaans 1983-translation 
Afrikaans Die Bybel vir Almal translation; 
English King James Version; 
North-Sotho 1951- translation ; 
South-Sotho 1909- translation ; 
Tswana 1908- translation  of 1970 revised translation ; 
Xhosa 1975-edition of 1996- translation &
Zulu 1893- translation , 1959- translation  of die New Testament & Psalms 1986- translation.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, read here:
http://www.bybelgenootskap.co.za/images/stories/downloads/Selfoonbybelhandleiding.pdf

TO TRANSFER FILES TO YOUR PHONE FROM YOUR COMPUTER:
http://m.bibles.co.za/

HELP MAKE BIBLES AVAILABLE / GET INVOLVED:
http://www.bybelgenootskap.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=21&lang=af

FROM /: http://www.bybelgenootskap.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=407&Itemid=101&lang=af ON 10 Maart 2010 with thanks.


AFRIKAANSE TEKS: Die Bybel op jou selfoon

Laai vandag nog die Bybel in die taal van jou keuse gratis af op jou selfoon!

Volg net die volgende stappe en met die druk van 'n knoppie lees jy jou Bybel enige tyd op enige plek.

1. Met die Internetopsie op jou selfoon gaan na http://m.bibles.co.za

2. Kies die taal en vertaling van jou keuse

Die volgende vertalings is tans beskikbaar:
Afrikaans 1933/53-, 
Afrikaans 1983-vertaling of 
Afrikaans Die Bybel vir Almal; 
Engels King James Version; 
Noord-Sotho 1951-vertaling; 
Suid-Sotho 1909-vertaling; 
Tswana 1908-vertaling of 1970 hersiene vertaling; 
Xhosa 1975-weergawe of 1996-vertaling en 
Zulu 1893-vertaling, 1959-vertaling of die Nuwe Testament en Psalms 1986-vertaling.

3. Maak 'n keuse of jy die volledige Bybel in een, vier of agt dele wil aflaai (sekere selfone kan die Bybel net in vier of agt dele afgelaai word).

Vir meer inligting oor die Bybel op selfoon, lees hier.
http://www.bybelgenootskap.co.za/images/stories/downloads/Selfoonbybelhandleiding.pdf

Indien jy die lêers via jou rekenaar op jou selfoon wil laai, klik hier en gebruik 'n datakabel of Bluetooth om dit op jou selfoon te plaas.
http://m.bibles.co.za/

Help die Bybelgenootskap om meer Bybels beskikbaar stel. Klik hier en raak betrokke!
http://www.bybelgenootskap.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=21&lang=af

bybelgenootskap van suid-afrika © kopiereg 2005 - 2010

Afgetrek op 10 Maart 2010 vanaf: http://www.bybelgenootskap.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=407&Itemid=101&lang=af met dank.

© 2010 Lizette De Klerk. Alle regte voorbehou. All rights reserved.

Friday, 19 February 2010

Future Vision News


Future Vision News, edited by Lizette De Klerk, Calgary, Canada.

The vision and mission statement for Future Vision News & key matters that we would like to address are:

Spreading the Good News (The Gospel) to all;
More involvement of youth in ministry;
Publishing interesting religious and other articles of interest;
Having an online church community congregation gathering point and social network for members of our faith;
Providing a space where we as Bible believing Christians can network socially online;
Acting as a conduit for relevant information; &
Acting as an information collection and distribution contact-point for members of the church and faith - to name but a few.

Information is posted in dual medium, namely English and Afrikaans.

The group name is derived from a Trust organization the group creator is affiliated with and is used with permission of the trustees.

You are invited to join the group and the discussions.

We look forward to your support and involvement.

Lizette De Klerk

Past Editor: Vision Newsletter & The New Vision Newsletter Facebook Group
Group Creator: Future Vision News Facebook Group
2010-02-19.


Lizette De Klerk (2007)
Lizette De Klerk is the creator and editor of the Facebook group Future Vision News.



Facebook is a wonderful tool if used responsibly. As editor of the Future Vision News, I invite you to join in the various discussions, share & submit ideas & requests for publication content, & in general just have a good time with fellow group members. © 2010


Unless otherwise specified by the poster, all content in this group falls under © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 of Lizette De Klerk.
All rights reserved. Alle regte voorbehou.

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Thursday, 18 February 2010

EVIL will FLOURISH if "GOOD" PEOPLE do "NOTHING!"

"The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke


Upon deciding to write something from a Biblical perspective, about this subject, I Googled the phrase "cases where good people did nothing and evil flourished" and, sure enough, one-hundred-and-twenty-thousand instances of how "evil flourished when good people did nothing" became available for perusal on my laptop screen. Incidently, I copied Burke's quote, above, from this IMDb website about Hitler: The Rise of Evil  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346293/ )



Tuesday, 19 January 2010

2010-01-19: UP AGAINST SOME VERY SERIOUS ODDS, WHERE TO?


Today it came to my attention that a couple is up against some very serious odds to save the life of their infant son.

Please see the article quoted below which featured in the Calgary Sun on January 18th, 2010.

{{As their baby fights for his life, a Rocky Mountain House couple are about to battle Alberta Health Services and Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital who want to take their son off the machines helping keep him alive.

Rebecka and Isaac May will be in court in Edmonton Tuesday to try to get a 90-day injunction to keep their three-month-old son, Isaiah, on life support.

After Isaiah was born Oct. 24 with severe oxygen deprivation and had to be airlifted to Stollery hospital for treatment, doctors told his parents he was brain dead.
“They said he would never move, his eyes wouldn’t dilate,” Isaac said.

But as the little boy remained on life support, his parents thought things were looking up as Isaiah began to gain weight and show signs of improvement.

Then last Wednesday they received a letter from Alberta Health Services stating his diagnosis was unchanged and that the hospital would be withdrawing life support on Jan. 20, prompting the couple to take the matter to court to fight for their son’s life.

“He’s doing everything they said he wouldn’t,” Rebecka said.

“We believe he will keep improving and we just want to give him more of a chance.”

“We believe every life is a life worth fighting for.”

Holding her baby in her arms at the hospital, she continues to be optimistic.

“I will fight for him until I can’t fight for him,” she said.

“Because I love him.

“As a parent you always want to hope.”}}

Retrieved from: http://www.calgarysun.com/news/alberta/2010/01/18/12520211.html on 2010-01-19.



While I am not aware of the full situation, I do believe that no society has the right to put a price on a human life.

It made me ask: "Is there anything I/you/we can do to assist the parents in their struggle to keep their baby alive?"


In support of the parents, I posted this message in my Facebook status;

"Baby fights 4 his life; Rebecka & Isaac May 2 battle in court Alberta Health Services & Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital CANADA wanting 2 take their 3 month old infant son off machines helping keep him alive. Please post this message in u're status 4 an hour if u care about the life of little Isaiah May! DO NOT LET LITTLE ISAIAH DIE! (Read more: http://www.calgarysun.com/news/alberta/2010/01/18/12520211.html )"

A Facebook friend then raised the following, very valid, question:

"This is hard what happens to the child if he is a vegtable and the parents die who then look after him/her just asking It happen to a friend of mine he and wife are dead the child/man 30 yrs old has nobody to look after him but a hospital with Goverment nurses ?"

This was my response:

"..., my answer below is not meant as a judgement upon you or anyone, but, rather, is how I believe, we should view the world and all suffering. I am quoting it from the KJVR, as I cannot say it any better than it is already stated in His perfect Word:

'Thou shalt not kill. (Exo 20:13 & Deu 5:17)

Mat 5:21 Ye have heard ... Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: ...Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. (Mat 5:21-26)

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (Rom 13:9)


O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth forever. ...I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? ...
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes....
The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation....
The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD...
This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes....
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it....
God is the LORD, which hath showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever. (Psa 118:1-29)


Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Mat 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Mat 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Mat 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Luk 12:22-34'

To sum up:
1. Love other people as you love yourself (fallible humans have no right to say who lives or dies, only God does)
2. Trust God in & for everything (even to look after braindead people)
3. The whole world is under Gods Will & Control (even death)
4. God's mercy is enough for us (He is our strength, even when life is bad)."

I hope this will be of some comfort to you as you traverse the terrible trails of your life's journey.

For His Glory,

Lizette De Klerk
2010-01-19.

© 2010 Lizette De Klerk.

Monday, 4 January 2010

A New Year Ahead: 2010

Here's wishing that your year will be a very blessed, Christ filled one.
May you grow in His knowledge, grace, mercy, and peace.

Lizette De Klerk
© 2010 (2010-01-04)

Friday, 27 February 2009

Uncorrupted

Mat 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.


Tit 2:7 In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
Tit 2:8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.


2Pe 1:15 ... have these things always in remembrance.
2Pe 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pe 1:17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2Pe 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

2Pe 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2Pe 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2Pe 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
2Pe 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
2Pe 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2Pe 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment# to be punished:
2Pe 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.


2Pe 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2Pe 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;


2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pe 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants* of corruption**: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
2Pe 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2Pe 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

2Pe 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2Pe 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Pe 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
2Pe 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.



2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,


2Pe 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
2Pe 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.

Notes:

# G2920
κρίσις
krisis
kree'-sis
(Subjectively or objectively, for or against); by extension a tribunal; by implication justice (specifically divine law): - accusation, condemnation, damnation, judgment.

* G1401
δοῦλος
doulos
doo'-los
From G1210; a slave (literally or figuratively, involuntarily or voluntarily; frequently therefore in a qualified sense of subjection or subserviency): - bond (-man), servant.

** G5356
φθορά
phthora
fthor-ah'
From G5351; decay, that is, ruin (spontaneous or inflicted, literally or figuratively): - corruption, destroy, perish.