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Boek 4 – Die Geheimenis van die Eeue

VOORWOORD

Die Geheimenis van die Eeue is natuurlik die geestelike wêreld. Christenkerke kan steeds nie die vraag beantwoord: “Hoe is dit moontlik dat ek in die oggend so heilig is en in die middag die duiwel vanself is nie?” Ons staan op met die beste voornemes, maar verloor op die een of ander manier beheer gedurende die dag. Ons word siek. Ek het persoonlik mense geken wat gely het aan epilepsie, bitterheid, depressie en wat gesterf het van kanker. Ons glo in God, maar het bitter min antwoorde vir die wêreld wat ‘n bespotting van ons maak.

Wat is dit dan wat ons verskillend van al die ander gelowe maak?

En waar is die hemel in alle geval? 

Hierdie en sommige ander vrae sal deur hierdie boek beantwoord word.

Ek is persoonlik geleer dat die hemel op ‘n ander planeet is en dat ek daarheen sal gaan as ek goed is. Jy moet net vasbyt my broer en suster, een van die dae is ons in glorieland! Die enigste rede hoekom ek as Christen volhard, is omdat my moeder vir my op vyfjarige ouderdom, Bybelverhale voorgelees het. Sy het vir my gesê dat, as ek wil, kan ek op my knieë gaan en my lewe vir Jesus gee. Vir my, as kind, het dit geklink asof Jesus die grootste held van alle tye is en ek het gewillig my lewe vir Hom gegee. Onmiddellik het ek hierdie Hoë Plek gesien. Dit was van goud en vol van liefde. Jesus was daar en dit was ‘n plek waar daar geen bekommernis was nie. Dit was ‘n plek waar jy enigiets kan kry wat jy begeer. As ‘n kind, kon ek nie ophou praat van hierdie wonderlike plek nie, want ek was onder die indruk dat almal van hierdie plek geweet het.

My moeder het my egter op ‘n dag vasgetrap en uitgevra omtrent dié plek waarvan ek so baie praat. Ek het aan haar verduidelik dat dit in my gedagtes is. Sy was baie ontsteld en het gesê dat ek dit nie weer mag doen nie, want dit is meditasie en meditasie is Oosters en sonde, direk van die duiwel af.

Ek het aan haar gevra hoekom sy kerk toe gaan? Sy het geantwoord: “Hulle het vir my gesê dat ek nie hemel toe kan gaan as hulle my nie begrawe nie.” Toe ek die eerste keer kerk toe gaan, lyk die priester vir my eerder na Batman en nie naastenby soos Jesus nie. Ek was die hele tyd ongemaklik in die kerk. By nabetragting het ek gedink ek moes miskien ‘n ander kerk probeer het, want sommige priesters en hul gades is soos engele op die aarde. My vader het die kerk gehaat en het hulle bedrieërs genoem. Hy het sy eie soort van geloof gehad en het dit ‘ wees goed en doen goed’ genoem. Hy het my aangemoedig om eerder die hoenderhokke op Sondae skoon te maak en daarom het ek nooit kerk toe gegaan nie. Ek het egter steeds geloofskonsepte en tradisies op skool geleer.

Ek het regdeur my hele lewe soekend gebly na iemand wat my meer van dié plek, wat ek as kind gesien het, kon vertel. Ek het almal gemeet teenoor dit wat ek in die hoë plek gesien het. Ek het daarna by die Vloot aangesluit en baie mense van regoor die wêreld ontmoet. Daar was egter niemand wat dié plek geken het nie. Daar was somtyds van die ouer garde wat verstaan het wat ek bedoel, maar hulle het ook nie geweet hoe om daar te kom, of hoe dit werk nie. Na ses jaar het ek die Vloot verlaat en stoksiel alleen in die bos gaan bly, waar ek totaal van God afhanklik was. Indien ek in die proses sou sterf, sou dit ook aanvaarbaar wees, want ek het ten minste ‘n punt probeer bewys. My filosofie was: “Laat God, God wees en gee God ‘n kans.”

Dit was ‘n beter lewe as die dag tot dag voortploeter volgens mensgemaakte reëls en wette en vooropgestelde idees, van wie God is en hoe om ‘n lewe te maak. Die groot probleem was, ek was siek en sat van die sosiale strukture wat so min geweet het hoe om te oorleef en gelukkig te wees, sonder om afhanklik van ‘n bank te wees. Ek het ‘n nege tot vyf werk gehaat, want dit is so onvervullend. Wil God regtig hê ons moet soos marionette aan iemand anders se toutjies dans?

Ek het gedroom dat ‘n mens selfonderhoudend kan wees. Alles self kan doen en totaal van God, as bron, afhanklik kan wees. Ek wou self die argitek, bouer, loodgieter, elektrisiën en skrynwerker van my eie huis wees. Ter selfdertyd sou ek vir my gesin sorg deur die werk van my hande en in die proses uitvind wie God is. Ek het gedroom dat my kinders sou kon terugkyk op ons lewe en sê: “Dit is die ware Jakob.” Ek wou lewe sonder pretensies en God ‘n kans gee om God te wees. Ek het geglo dat indien ek dit sou regkry, dit die baie mense wat ons ontmoet, wat nie die antwoorde van die lewe met sy baie fasette ken nie, sou kon help.  

Later in my lewe het ek kennis gemaak met die Pinkster Protestante en die Charismatiese bewegings. Hulle het my geleer van die duiwel. Hoe hulle hom beveg en uitdrywe, maar hy keer elke keer terug. Ek wou weet, as daar ‘n duiwel is, waar is hy? Ek is geleer dat hy enige plek kan wees. In ‘n deurhandvatsel, of dat hy die oorsaak is dat die motor gebreek het. Ek is geleer dat alles wat sleg is, is die duiwel se make, maar is dit?

So het ek nag vir nag en dag vir dag, die duiwel beveg. Maar dit het ook nie gehelp om my gesin te versorg en ander mense te help nie. Een nag, het ek die duiwel uitgedaag om my te vermoor, as hy soveel krag het. Dit kon hy ook nie regkry nie. Dit het ten minste bewys dat hy nie oor soveel krag beskik nie. Beslis nie genoeg om my te kon dood nie. Al wat vir my oorgebly het, was om uit te vind, hoekom so baie slegte dinge met my gebeur as die duiwel geen krag het nie.

Ek het probeer om alle onsinnige leringe te vermy. Ek het probeer om my eie lewe te leef, sonder gelowe en tradisies met vooropgestelde idees van wat God sê. Ek het gesê: “Indien God, God is en Hy werklik is, laat Hy met my praat en my Sy reëls leer.”

Dit is wat my laat besluit het dat, indien ek my lewe gaan wy, om uit te vind wat die geheime van die lewe is, en indien ek van God persoonlik wil hoor, ek God persoonlik sal moet leer ken. Ek was gewillig  om hard te werk en het dit baie geniet om my eie huis te bou en toe te sien hoe God al die boumateriaal verskaf. Toe ek begin beeldhou, is ek gelei deur ‘n innerlike wete. Dit het gesê: “As jy gaan beeldhou, moet jy die anatomie van die mens gaan bestudeer.” Ek het dit gedoen soos vir my gesê is. Dit was vreemd dat die regte boeke altyd op die regte tyd daar was.

Ek het begin agterkom dat wanneer ek ‘n nuwe projek wou begin, Hy altyd voorsien het. Toe ek begin skilder het, moes ek leer om verf op die doek te plaas en dit voor my bed te laat voordat ek gaan slaap het. Wanneer ek in die oggend wakker word, het ek figure en karakters in die kleure gesien. Dit is die goed wat ek geskilder het. Die enigste probleem was, ek het dinge geskilder wat ek nie verstaan het nie. Ek het dinge gedoen waarvan ek, op daardie stadium, geen skriftuurlike kennis gehad het nie. Ek het eers jare later agtergekom dat ek besig was om die Tuin te skilder.

Toe ek begin eensaam word, het ek God gevra om vir my ‘n lewensmaat te gee. Tot op daardie stadium het ek nooit ‘n gelukkige huwelik gesien nie en tweedens het ek geweet dat geen persoon, self daardie keuse kon maak nie. Waar sou ek in alle geval ooit ‘n persoon kry wat so mal is om met my te trou? Ek het myself op daardie stadium as ‘n totale, sosiaal wanaangepaste beskou, terwyl ek myself oortuig het, dat ek maar net onkonvensioneel was. Maar hierdie verhaal het ek reeds in my boek Die Lyn vertel.

Ons kon aanvoel dat ons gelei word en so het ek en Yvonne van krag tot krag gegaan. Desnieteenstaande, het ek fisies harder en harder begin werk deur beelde uit harde hout te sny, nuwe huise en besighede te bou, vir my gesin te sorg, na die bekommernisse van verbygangers te luister, soveel so, dat ek weens uitputting, nie langer vir God kon hoor nie. Toe ek uiteindelik klaar maak met wat ek gedink het, ek vir Jesus moes doen, was ek uiters moeg en sterwend. Ek het my vrou, Yvonne gevra om met my saam te stem dat ek Jesus sou vra om my liewer te neem na die huis van my Vader in die hemel. Ek het in daardie afgelope dertig jaar, meer vermag as wat tien mense in ‘n leeftyd sou regkry. Die Here het op Sy sagte manier my geleer dat ek nou, onmiddellik, deel kan hê in die hemel.

Op hierdie stadium, het ons pas klaargemaak met die bou van ons huis en die besigheid op ons huidige perseel, hier by Die Skoen. Ons het die Grot ook klaargemaak. Die Grot het talle mense gehelp en ek het gedink dat ek nou gedoen het, wat ek veronderstel was om te doen met my lewe. Yvonne en die kinders sou hier kon lewe en aangaan om ‘n vriend en helpende hand te wees vir die eensames, die verwardes en die depressiewes. Ek was doodmoeg en kon God nie meer hoor nie. Daarom het ek besluit om my te wend tot iemand wat wel kon.

Ons het al die pad Kaapstad toe gery. ‘n Duisend-agt-honderd kilometers, waar ‘n bejaarde dame haar hande in haar skoot gevou het en vir die Here gevra het, hoekom Hy nie meer met my praat nie. Na ‘n rukkie het sy opgekyk en gesê, die Here sê: “Sê vir hom, Ek wil nie met hom praat nie.” Die dame het gesê: “Ek het nog nooit van so iets gehoor nie.” So het ons al die pad terug gery huis toe. Oppad terug, het sy gebel en vir my Job 11:16 gegee. Dit sê basies die volgende: ‘Wanneer die oggendson kom, sal al die probleme verdwyn.’ Ons was baie verward.

Ek het huis toe gery en ‘n kamer vir my gaan bou, waar ek alleen kon wees en waar ek op God kon wag. Twee weke later het Hy met mening daardie kamertjie binnegekom en my ‘mind’, wat ek aan harde werk oorgegee het, kom terugeis. Hy het gesê: “Ek het aan die kruis gesterf, sodat Ek altyd by jou kan wees.” Hy het my vir weke in trane gehad. Sedert daardie dag, gee ek die eerste drie tot vier ure, elke dag aan Hom. Dit is hoe ek die kennis kry wat ek in die vorige boeke met u kon deel en so ook in hierdie boek, Die Geheimenis van die Eeue.

Die ‘oggendson’ waarna verwys word in Job, is een van die name vir die Koninkryk van God. Volgens Strong se woordeboek, is die ander name ‘blydskap’ en ‘weerlig’. Die eerste plek waar hiervan, in die Bybel melding gemaak word, is in Genesis 1:3, toe God gesê het: “Laat daar lig wees.”

Hierdie boek sal vir u nuwe insig gee in die volgende:

  • Wat gedurende die kruisiging in die geestelike wêreld gebeur het en hoekom Jesus moes sterf.
  • Dit sal u wys hoe diep ons is.
  • Hoekom gebeur slegte dinge steeds met my, al is Jesus die Here van my lewe?
  • Waar is die hemel en hoe lyk dit daar?
  • Waar is die hel?
  • Wat is epilepsie?
  • Kan die kragte van die hemel, nou in my lewe werk?        

U sal al die antwoorde tussen die lyne vind en die Gees wat in u woon, sal verduidelik terwyl u biddend lees. Ek belowe u, baie mites sal te ruste gelê word.

INLEIDING

Hierdie boek is die resultaat van deur ‘n maand by die Here deur te bring. Ek kon duidelik in die gees sien, hoe dit met my gesin en vriende gaan, dog ek het geen openbaringskennis gedurende die tyd ontvang nie. Hierdie boek het myself geweldig baie gehelp, daar ek altyd gewonder het, wat het gedurende die kruisiging, in die geestelike wêreld gebeur?  As jy voel die ‘Passion’-fliek het dit nie vir jou gedoen nie, hierdie boek sal die prentjie vir jou voltooi.

Hierdie boek is geskryf asof dit die draaiboek van ‘n rolprent moes wees. Ek het bloot net die dinge geskryf wat ek in die gees gesien het. Ek het gedink dat dit iets soos ‘The Lord of the Rings’ sou wees. Die grootste probleem was egter dat niemand die boek kon verstaan nie. Dit is die rede waarom ons die eerste drie boeke moes skryf om hierdie boek te verduidelik. Ook die skildery wat u weldra sal sien, is aan my gegee deur hierdie boek en dit sal ook help om die boek te verduidelik.

Ons het geen probleem met demone buite ons nie, maar wat gebeur as ons na ons innerlike self kyk en sien dat ons hierdie plek alte goed ken?

Dit is die ‘mind’ van die ongeredde persoon…

Kry die boek en lees ook die visioen wat ek gehad het oor die Kruisiging en sien hoe die prentjie hier bo van die ongeredde mens verander in ‘n geredde mens.

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Boek 3 – Die Tuin

VOORWOORD

Hierdie boek is ‘n geen nonsens, geen duimsuiery, op die man af, soliede Bybel-gegrondveste lering, wat net een doel voor oë het. Dit is om u in staat te stel om Jesus Christus, die GROOT TUINIER, self in u eie denkbeeldige tuin te ontvang. Om Hom van nader te leer ken en ‘n beter verhouding met Hom op te bou. Hierin gaan ons leer hoe om die tuin binne te gaan en om die dinge wat ons begeer, te kry. Ons gaan in hierdie tuin leer om die antwoorde te vind op al ons lewensvrae. Verder gaan ons in die tuin leer hoe om te bid, om te visualiseer, om geestelike instruksies te ontvang, om bemiddeling van Jesus self te ontvang en om inspirasie te kry.

Al die skilderye wat in hierdie boek gebruik word is die oorspronklike werk van die kunstenaar, Ron van Zyl en is die resultaat van meer as vyftig jaar se soeke, na die tuin wat hy reeds as kind gevisualiseer het. Hierdie kunswerke is nie te koop nie en kan slegs by DIE SKOEN,  hul huis, besigtig word, waar u op ‘n begeleide toer deur die GROT,  wat spesiaal vir hierdie doel gebou is, geneem sal word.

Daar is ook ‘n DVD-seminaar oor hierdie onderwerp beskikbaar.

Na bestudering van hierdie boek sal u saam met die outeur kan uitroep en sê dat ons nie net gelowig is nie, maar dat ons in ‘n noue verbintenis met die Here ons God lewe!

INLEIDING TOT DIE TUIN

Hersienend tot die vorige twee boeke, weet ons nou dat die koninkryk van lig, bo is.  Dit is die verblindende lig, die oggendson, vreugde en blydskap!

Onder, of benede, is die donkerte, die bose, hartseer en onkunde.

Ons het gesien dat Jesus ons red en verhef tot ‘n hoër lewe in Christus, wat beteken dat die Kruis die poort is tot ‘n hemelse leefwyse. Daar sit ons saam met Christus in hemelse plekke, soos uitgebeeld word in die eerste skildery in DIE LYN. Die enigste wyse, wat enigeen wat hierdie hemelse leefwyse begeer, dit is die lewe in God, is om die hoogte bokant die lyn te bereik. Die enigste manier om dit te kan doen, is om die BERG uit te klim.

Die berg vorm dus die verbinding tussen die hemel en die aarde.  Dit is die berg van God. Dit is die berg Sion van Hebreërs 12:22 , waar ons inwoners  van die hemel is. Laat U wil geskied op die aarde soos in die hemel (Illustrasie 1).    

Wanneer ons nou ‘n skets van die menslike skedel oor die lynskildery lê, plaas dit die koninkryk van God, presies daarbinne. (Illustrasies 1 en 3)

Die kruis is nou ons sentrale punt en dit is waar Dawid vir Goliat gedood het, en ons sentrale brein is die hippothalamus. (illustrasie 4). As ons nou op hierdie punt ‘n vierkant teken, (illustrasie 4), kom die afmetings presies ooreen met dié van die hemelse stad  Jerusalem in Hebreërs 12:22.

Ef 3:17:     “…sodat Christus deur die geloof in julle harte kan woon, julle wat in die liefde gewortel en gegrond is.”

Ef 3:18:   “…en julle in staat kan wees om saam met al die heiliges ten volle te begryp wat die breedte en lengte en diepte en hoogte is.”                 

Ef 3:20:  “En aan Hom wat mag het om te doen ver bo alles wat ons bid of dink, volgens die krag wat in ons werk,…”                                                                                                          

Ons het ‘n Christus-denkwyse nodig en daarom word ons gedagtes en denkwyse só verander tydens die ervaring wat ons beleef as ons, ons berg uitklim.

Om die berg suksesvol uit te kan klim, moet die volgende instruksies sorgvuldig nagekom word:

1 Pet 5:6:  “Verneder julle dan onder die kragtige hand van God, sodat Hy julle kan verhoog op die regte tyd.”

1 Pet 5:7:  “Werp al julle bekommernis op Hom, want Hy sorg vir julle.” (Al jou angste, bekommernisse, belange, eens en vir altyd).

 Ps 55:22:  (55:23) “Werp jou sorg op die HERE, en Hy sal jou onderhou; Hy sal nooit die regverdige laat wankel nie.”

U sien, God lewe in diegene wat oor ‘n nederige en boetvaardige gees beskik. Hy lewe saam met hulle in  hoë en verhewe plekke (Jes 57:15).

Ons moet toelaat dat Christus die kaptein van ons gedagtes word. Ons moet toelaat dat Christus die kaptein van ons gedagtes word. Ons moenie eers so min as vyf minute vooruit probeer dink, sonder om Hom daarin te ken nie.

Sedert ek as kind hierdie verhewe plek gesien het, het ek bly soek. Verkeerdelik het ek gemeen dat ek ‘n kortpad vir my gesin en geliefdes kan vind. Ja, my vrou en kinders is geestelik saam met my en hulle is geestelik waar ek is, maar hulle moet die berg nog uitklim. Om te sterf in jouself is baie moeilik en dit neem ‘n bergklim-proses om jou geloof in God volkome te maak. Dit is, dat jy glo met jou hele hart en siel en nie dalk ‘n Ismael maak nie. Abraham en Sara het God probeer help om Sy belofte na te kom, maar hulle kon, net soos ons, nie op God se tydsberekening wag nie. Die bergklim-proses is moeilik, maar ‘n werklikheid en ons moet mekaar liefhê terwyl ons daarmee besig is.

Die sewe Genesis-sketse (uit die Kort Swaard), bewys dat ons op hierdie planeet geplaas is om geestelik te groei. Hoekom is dit dan so moeilik om ons lewes oor te gee aan God se volkome beheer?

Omdat ons donker en diep is!                                                                                                      

Ons het ons eie gedagtes (mind), ons eie wil, intellek en emosies (Illustrasie 5).  Om te sê, nie langer my wil nie, maar God se wil, is nie maklik nie. Ons het uitgevind dat ons oor baie emosies en gewaar-wordinge beskik en ons intellek wil aanmekaar beheer oor ons gedagtes neem. Hierdie probleem spruit dalk uit ons verlede. Waar kom hierdie emosies en her-inneringe  van die verlede vandaan?   Dit kom uit ons binneste!        

                                          

Onthou u nog Genesis?  Ons is ‘n diep, baie diep, bruisende massa. Ons emosies is voortdurend rusteloos.

Gen 1:2:  “En die aarde was woes en leeg, en duisternis was op die wêreldvloed, en die Gees van God het gesweef op die waters.”

Gen 1:2:  “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

Ons is in die donkerte gewees! In die Engelse teks sê die Bybel dat God beweeg het op die gesig (face) van die waters. ‘Face’ meen die gedeelte wat beweeg. Die Gees van God het beweeg, gesweef, oor die gesig van die dieptes. Want ons is gevul met ‘n see van emosies wat aanmekaar probeer om beheer oor ons gedagtes te neem.

Kom ons herinner onsself kortliks aan die Genesis-sketse:    

 

Ons dra in ons rond, ‘n see van donker emosies wat ons gedagtes probeer oorheers. Dit is waar die klein sonnetjie in illustrasie 7 skyn. Die Genesis-sketse wys ons geestelike groei uit die donkerte (A), deur na die eerste ontdekking van lig (B), dan die begrip van God se Woord (C) . Ons gaan deur  geestelike droë plekke (D), om te groei in die kennis van wat binne ons is (E) en dan word ons tuinbewoners (F), wat steeds die keuse het of ons op God, volkome, met hart en siel vertrou, en sodoende ‘n ewige sewende dag van rus ervaar (G), en of ons steeds op ons eie intellek en begrip van dinge gaan bly steun.

Die see van emosies, binne ons gaan eventueel eindig as die dooie see. Die onderwerp word verder bespreek in die boek: “‘n Kamer met ‘n Uitsig”.

In die Kort Swaard het ons uitgevind dat Adam met presies dieselfde probleem geworstel het. Solank hy bereid was om van die boom van die Lewe te eet, (skrynwerker, Jesus, Illustrasie 8), sou hy ‘n skoon en veilige gewete (mind) hê. Deur gemeenskap met God te hê, word ‘n veilige tuin geskep. Die woord ‘tuin’ beteken ‘omhein’.

Adam mag die tuin-gewete behou deur slegs met sy Here God gemeenskap te hê en op Hom te vertrou. Dit kon hy nie doen nie, verloor sodoende sy tuin en staan dit af aan die slang wat later so groot word deur die verbeelding van die mens, dat hy die monster, die draak van die see word. (Illustrasie 9)                       

 Watter see? Die see van emosies wat regeer oor die gedagtes en denke van die mense van Israel. (Illustrasie 10).  Aan die linkerkant van illustrasie 10, sien ons die draak is op die see en aan die regterkant word ‘n Egiptenaar uitgebeeld.

Geestelik is ons Israel.  Ons is slawe van ons emosies net soos die Israeliete slawe van Farao was. Dit is vir ons nodig om die Bloed en die Paaslam te verstaan sodat die see rooi kan word, kan skei, sodat ons in die Beloofde Land kan lewe.

Ons is die nakomelinge van Abraham wat ‘n ster-volk bedink het, deur in God te glo en op Hom te vertrou,  die sterre  getel het (Illustrasie 11), om geloof in sy verbeelding te skep, waar die krag van God gesetel is om te voorsien in al die begeertes van ons harte (minds).

Later het die Wet deur Moses gekom en die gedagtes van die mens is nou gevul met die Wet, in plaas van die slang (Illustrasie 12).

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How to handle Rejection

Rejection? What? I have issues with Rejection!

That was my response when I first realized why I was so upset when my family did not invite me to their BBQ…we live on the same property and I was told that I am not invited!

There are many areas of rejection but my purpose of this blog is not to name all the areas and talk about each but rather the purpose of this blog is to help you look up to the Creator of our lives and know that God will never reject you!

People will always fail you. God is even mindful of us and knows that we are just flesh. I am not saying we should not trust people, I am not saying we should not care about people. No God wants us to love people just like he loved us. We are required to do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Jesus suffered the utmost rejection, he was rejected by the people who shouted “Crucify him!” He was abandoned by his disciples and even betrayed by his own Judas and denied by Peter. I want you to know that Jesus has suffered all rejection. It does not mean we will not be rejected by the World but it does mean that we have been made victorious and that the World has no power over us!

I am currently reading a book written by Lester Sumrall, ‘Take it it’s yours!‘. You can click to download. Right in the begging of the book he says one morning God spoke to him and asked him:

Do you have dominion?

He said: Yes Lord.

God said: Then Look like it!

Your appearance must not be sad, depressed or defeated.

Again God said: Do you have dominion?

He said: Yes Lord!

God said: Then Talk like it!

A third time God asked: Do you have dominion?

He said: Yes Lord.

God said: Then walk like it! Keep your shoulders high and walk with victory in every step!

Ephesians 1:19 to 23 says that we have the exceeding greatness of his power! It was given to us who believe because Jesus Christ was given to sit at the right hand of God. Jesus Christ was given the highest name above all things and he was given to sit far above all principality and power and might and dominion not only in this world but in the world to come. All things were put under his feet! Ephesians 2:6 says we are raised up with Christ to sit with him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus!

The only thing Satan still tries to do after he was already defeated and declared Naught, is to let you forget that you have the same dominion and power in Jesus Christ.

I made a study of the word rejection and I found that in the Old testament there are numerous promises that God will not forget and reject his people. In the New Testament Jesus came to fulfill the Old Testament in creating an everlasting bond between God and us.

Romans 6:39 says that there is no height or depth or anything else that can separate us from the Love of God that is in Christ Jesus.

Timoty 3:4 says when the Kindness and love of God appeared he saved us not because of the righteous things we had done but because of his mercy. He saved us through the wasing of rebirth and the renewal by the Holy spirit.

1 John 3:1 says how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us that we whould be called the children of God!

2 Corinthians 5:17 says if any man is in Christ he is a new creature and the old things are passed a way! All things are made new!

I want to encourange you to fill your heart and mind with the word of God. It does not matter what comes against you, it is just Satan trying to make you forget that you are a blood bought child of God who is seated far above all problems in Christ Jesus. I have written these scriptures which I mentioned on notes and I have put them up on my wall of my office. I read them every day and I declare ….

Satan you have been defeated! I command you to get out of my house! God loves me and I shall feel no rejection! I am seated with Christ in heavenly places and all things are under our feet! The name of Jesus is above every name!

Read my post on How to Pray and remember to leave me a comment.

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Boek 2 – Die Kort Swaard – Voorwoord

VOORWOORD

My vrou, Yvonne en ek het besluit om in die platteland te woon en om ons kinders ‘n gehalte manier van lewe te gee. ‘n Plaaslike boer het vir ons ‘n stukkie grond gegee om op te bou en te lewe. Ek het in die omliggende berge, droë hardehout versamel en beelde daaruit gekerf. Yvonne het dit in die padstal wat ons gebou het, verkoop. Alhoewel ons arm aan wêreldse besittings was, het ons ‘n gehalte lewenstyl gehad en die hoop op ‘n blink toekoms.

Ons was egter nie toegerus vir die ‘bagasie’ wat besoekers en toeriste by ons agtergelaat het nie.

Yvonne, met haar sonnige geaardheid, het graag na die besoekers geluister en vir my gevra om met hulle oor hul probleme te praat en hulle te bemoedig. Dit het ons gedoen en hulle probeer versterk deur hulle te vertel hoe ons, ons probleme hanteer, deur te lewe in die geloof en by wyse van ons persoonlike getuienisse. Ons het hulle aangemoedig om die Bybel te lees, God se krygstuig aan te trek en om die Bloed te verstaan. Ons staan vandag nog stomgeslaan oor hoeveel van God se volwasse kinders nie eers hierdie basiese dinge doen nie en dan blameer hulle vir God. Ons frustrasies het al hoe meer toegeneem en toe smeek ons God vir ‘n wyse, om die mense wat ons so ontmoet, te kan help.

Om drie-uur een oggend, het ek buite onder die sterre gesit en mediteer. Die volgende oomblik het ek die Geestes-Wêreld gesien wat in ‘n grot verduidelik word. Ek het gesien hoe dat baie mense op dié manier gehelp word. Van daardie oomblik af, het dit ons strewe geword om ons eie eiendom te besit en om die grot te bou. Hierin het ons uiteindelik geslaag, gepaardgaande met baie beproewinge waarvan ons u in die boek, ‘Die Lyn’ vertel.

Saam met ons kinders Michelle en Aldo, het ons vir ses jaar, duisende mense deur die grot begelei, voordat die Here aan ons ‘n skildery en ‘n bonatuurlike wyse gegee het om te bewys dat daar ‘n geestelike skeidingslyn tussen die Koninkryk van die Lig en die Koninkryk van die Duister is.

Vir die eerste keer het ons nou al die werk wat op Golgota gedoen was en die Kruis verstaan. Al ons persoonlike probleme is deur die openbaringe opgelos. Ons het ook, deur middel van die bekendmaking van hierdie kennis, kon sien hoe ons vriende genees word en van hulle laste verlos word. Ons het nie meer nodig om iemand te besoek vir genesing nie. DAAR IS ‘N HOë PLEK IN ONS GEDAGTES waar ons die Here in die koelte van die dag ontmoet en waar ons genesing ontvang en instruksies kry om probleme op te los.

Die ‘Kort Swaard’ is die resultaat van ons bereidwilligheid om ons geestelike groei te saai en met ons naaste te deel. As jy saai, sal jy maai.

Daar is so baie siek, arm en depressiewe Godvresende mense, wat om een of ander rede, skynbaar nie kan begryp waaroor die Bybel eintlik gaan nie. Die doel van hierdie boek is dan ook, om nie net as ‘n handleiding te dien nie, maar om aan u die kerngedagte van elke Bybelverhaal, makliker te laat verstaan en hoekom God dit hoegenaamd in die Skrif opgeneem het. Verder sal dit u aanmoedig om die Bybel te bestudeer en om uit te vind hoe elke storie lei tot die Christusstorie.    

DEEL 1

DIE GEDAGTES

Dit is algemene kennis dat daar krag in ons denke is. Ons weet ook, dat daar baie mense is wat hierdie krag suksesvol aanwend. Hulle is egter meestal nie-Christene en dit is wat my daarvan weerhou het om die ‘mind’ te bestudeer. Vir ons Christene is dit ‘n ongekarteerde gebied en ons wil ons nie blootstel om deur demone beset te word nie.

Dit is daarom vir my ‘n groot verligting gewees toe ek uitvind dat die ‘siel’ die ‘mind’ is. Jesus het Sy siel vir die mens se sondes geoffer. Sonde is in die wyse wat ons dink. Dit is hoe ek tot die gevolgtrekking gekom het dat Jesus vir ons gedagtes gesterf het.

Soos ons aangaan met hierdie studies en jy ernstig genoeg is om die waarheid vir jouself uit te vind, sal dit baie baat as jy e-Sword op jou rekenaar aflaai. Dit is gratis vir almal. Kyk op ons kolofoonblad (bls.2) vir die posadres. Dan kan u al die stellings en bewerings vir uself nagaan en sommer hoor wat Die Gees van die Waarheid hieroor te sê het.  

Ek wens ons kon net die kerngedagte van elke Bybelstorie vasvang vir u gerief. Maar ons hoop om die aandag te kry van mense op elke vlak van geestelike groei en daarom moes ek redelike agtergrond van elke storie gee. Die doel van die boek is om as handleiding te gebruik vir die teken van eenvoudige sketsies, of om selfs net te deel met diegene wat u op u pad ontmoet. Dit laat my altyd so magteloos, as ek nie al die gereedskap het om die hulpbehoewendes te kan help nie. As jy van nou af besoek by ‘n hospitaal aflê en die Here gee jou die geleentheid om Sy Woord te bedien, haal eenvoudig net jou ‘Kort Swaard’ uit en wys hulle die prentjies. Daar is baie krag in ons denke.

Gen 2:7:   “En die HERE God het die mens geformeer uit die stof van die aarde en in sy neus die asem van die lewe geblaas.” So het dan die mens ‘n lewende siel geword.  (1Kor 15:45-49)

Hy is nou ‘n wese wat asemhaal (H5315). Hierdie nommers in hakies word vir u gerief gegee. Tik dit in jou e-Sword, daar waar die verkykertjie is en kyk wat die konteks is in die Hebreeus Griekse woordeboek. Die Ou Testament is vertaal uit Hebreeus en die Nuwe Testament uit die Grieks.

Die krag wat in Adam is, is God in hom. Die asem van God is die krag in ons. Hy is die ‘EK IS’. Hy het Homself aan Moses voorgestel as ‘EK IS!’ – DIE KRAG BINNE JOU. Laastens, my persoonlike waarneming; Hierdie krag in ons, is God in ons. Dit is die enigste rede waarom ons harte klop. Sonder Sy teenwoordigheid in ons, sal ons sekerlik sterf.

Daar is mense wat die krag van binne hulself gebruik tot groot sukses en God nie die eer daarvoor gee nie. Sommiges kan met die krag selfs ysters buig, oor gloeiende kole loop, genesing ontvang en dan noem hulle dit, die krag van die ‘mind’. Mense soos Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Marconi, Mark Twain en andere het almal die ‘eindelose krag’ gevra vir inspirasie voordat hulle gaan slaap het. Hulle het almal baie tyd spandeer, deur na hul persoonlike droom te kyk en hulself daarmee te vul. Nie een van hierdie mense was bekend gewees vir hul toegewyde geloof nie, hulle het eenvoudig net die negatiewe geïgnoreer en op die positiewe gekonsentreer. Een jong knaap van ongeveer agt jaar oud, het die situasie mooi opgesom deur te sê:  “Oom, dit klink baie maklik, maar dit is nie so maklik nie, nê?”

My eie swaer was ‘n nie-Christen, ‘n suksesvolle besigheidsman. Ons het hom eenkeer gevra om ‘n groepie, tydens ‘n naweek seminaar, toe te spreek. Hy het gesê, daar is ‘n krag binne ons. Hy weet nie wat dit is nie, miskien is dit God, maar hy glo nie in God nie. Deur persoonlike dissipline het hy hierdie krag aangewend vir finansiële gewin. Hy het elke oggend, winter of somer, in die swembad geduik. Dit was om homself te oefen om sy gedagtes gefokus te hou op, wat ookal hy na gestreef het. Hier kom my nuwe kar, sou hy sê, terwyl hy sy hande in afwagting vryf. En dan het hy dit gekry!

Hierdie nie-Christen het eenmaal die volgende stelling gemaak: “Wanneer jy besluit het wat die doelwit is, moet jy konstant daarna kyk. Moet nie bekommer omdat daar nie geld is nie, die geld sal kom.” Hy het nooit iemand iets beny nie, nooit jaloers op iemand gewees nie en HET GEEN BENUL VAN NEDERIGHEID GEHAD NIE.

Hy het daarin geglo om goed te wees en het altyd van ‘ou Niek’ gepraat as sy persoonlike kastyder.

Hy was egter nie so gelukkig in ander gebiede van sy lewe, soos sy huwelik en verhoudings met ander mense nie. Daar was ‘n diepe, persoonlike hartseer in my swaer, wat nie gevul kon word met besittings en ‘n kompeterende leefstyl nie.

As u my ander boek ‘Die Misterie van die Eeue’ gelees het, sal u ‘n idee hê van die oorlog wat binne ons plaasvind. Die doel van hierdie boek is, vir ons om ‘n holistiese voorspoed te beleef.

In my persoonlike studies, het ek nie op een van hierdie suksesvolle mense afgekom, wat fisies hard gewerk het nie. Hulle spandeer baie tyd aan hulle persoonlike drome en doelwitte.  

KRAG

As Christene word ons nie juis aangemoedig om die krag van die denke te gebruik nie, want ons is bang ons word deur ‘n duiwel of ‘n demoon beset en bowendien, dit klink darem baie Oosters. Ten spyte daarvan bid ons Ef 1:17:

Ef 1:17:  “… die Vader van die heerlikheid, aan julle die Gees van wysheid en openbaring in kennis van Hom mag gee, …”

As kinders word ons nooit geleer van die krag van die ‘mind’ nie, maar ons word aangemoedig om geld by die bank te leen. Die banke sê: “Jy het God nie nodig nie, leen by ons geld en bly die res van jou lewe in skuld.” Dit mag dalk net die rede wees hoekom ons in skuld beland, want ons wil dit nóú hê. In kontras hiermee, leer die Bybel ons: ‘Nie deur krag of mag nie, maar deur My Gees.’

Baie van hierdie ‘krag van die verstand’-boeke, verduidelik wel die krag wat in ons is en gebruik dit wel baie suksesvol. Hulle gebruik selfs aanhalings uit die Bybel. Ons weet egter dat ‘n mens enigiets uit die Bybel kan bewys. Wat ons graag wil weet, is hoe kan ons dit doen deur die Gees en die waarheid en aan God die eer gee?

Hierdie tipe boeke vertel in baie gevalle van bonatuurlike gebeure, wat plaasgevind het omdat dit deur die brein gewil is en daarvoor, in afwagting gehoop is. My vriend Trevor Thomson het my van so ‘n geval vertel. Hy sê dat hy een Kersfees vir die kinders ‘n verrassing gebou het. Daarvoor het hy egter baie goiingsak benodig. Terwyl hy oppad is om van die goed in die hande te probeer kry, vind hy ‘n hele baal daarvan in die pad. Nou wat is die kans dat so iets gebeur? Ek kan maar net aflei dat dit die Hemel is wat voorsien het, maar Trevor staan nie sterk op Christenskap nie. Miskien het hy die krag van sy brein gebruik. Hy sê dat hy juis op daardie oomblik geestelik sterk gevoel het. Hy was duidelik op daardie tydstip seker daarvan, dat wat hy doen, reg is en hy het op die Hemel gehoop om te voorsien. Wat is dan die doel van die kruisiging as ons hierdie krag kan gebruik en regkom daarmee, sonder die kruis in elk geval? Vir hierdie rede is dit noodsaaklik dat ons moet uitvind wat die ‘mind’ is.

SIEL

‘n Studie van die woord ‘siel’ in die Hebreeus en Griekse Konkordansie het gelei tot die volgende ontdekking: Die Siel is die ‘Mind’. As ek hierdie feit as kind geweet het, sou my lewe waarskynlik heeltemal anders daaruit gesien het, want soos die mens dink, so is hy.      

Die Vines Woordeboek het die volgende van die SIEL te sê:

Vines oor Spreuke 16:2: “Die woord blyk baie meer te meen as slegs die element van lewe, dit blyk te meen ‘Siel’. In die mens se oë is al sy weë skoon, maar God oorweeg die Gees.”

Die ‘King James Version’ gebruik alleen meer as agt-en-twintig verskillende terme vir hierdie een Hebreeuse woord. Ons sal dit met u deel gedurende die loop van die boek en ook in die diep studie wat gemaak word in die volgende boek oor die LYN, ‘ ‘n Kamer Met ‘n Uitsig’. Dit is dan ook om hierdie rede dat ons deurgaans, waar dit moeilik is om ‘n goeie Afrikaanse ekwivalent te vind,  die term ‘mind’ gebruik het.

Die Siel en die Gees van die mens is van die verwarrendste onderwerpe in die wêreld, maar na alles gesê is, bly dit steeds die krag van die ‘mind’ wat jou in staat stel om ysters te buig en oor gloeiende kole te loop.

Wat is dan die GEES?

Wanneer iemand byvoorbeeld sy woede mediteer, dan kyk ons na hom en sê hy het ‘n kwaai gees. Dit beteken dat sy woede-denke nie bloot meer gedagtes is nie, maar dat dit die meditasie van sy hart geword het.

Soos ‘n mens dink, so is hy. Kom ons kyk nou wat die HART is (3 Joh 1:2).

HART

Wanneer jy die meeste mense vra waar die siel in jou geleë is, sal hulle na die hart wys.

Spr 4:23:  “Bewaak jou hart meer as alles wat bewaar moet word, want daaruit is die oorspronge van die lewe.” 

Hierdie woord ‘Hart’ word ook vertolk as ‘mind’ en ‘kern’ (3820) en in hierdie konteks word dit 666 keer in die Ou Testament gebruik. Kom ons lees bostaande skriftuurplasing nou reg:

Bewaak jou ‘mind’ (kern) meer as alles wat bewaar moet word, want daaruit is die oorspronge van die lewe.   

 In ander woorde, soos die mens dink, so is hy.  In Psalm 21:2 sê dit dat God ons die begeertes van ons harte gee,maar die woord beteken eintlik denke (mind).

Dus, God gee aan ons dit wat ons in ons harte dink. Hy gee aan ons diep gemediteerde denke, of dit nou goed of sleg is. As ons dink ons is siek, dan is ons siek. As ons dink dat ons gesond is, dan is ons gesond. Dit is hoekom ons die Bybel moet lees, want ons wil God se denke dink, tyd by Hom spandeer in ‘n verhouding met Hom, wat gelei word deur die Gees, in die koelte van die dag. Die eindresultaat is ‘n Geesgeleide lewe. Ons doen dit nie deur krag of mag van die ‘mind’ nie, maar deur die Gees van die Waarheid. (Sag 4:6).

God het die hart van Farao verhard (Eks 7:1). Hy het nie die pompende spier in Farao se liggaam verhard nie, maar sy denke (mind) teenoor die Israeliete. Ons doen dit ook dikwels bv. wanneer ons sê ons sal nie weer iemand om een of ander rede vertrou nie. Hierdie is ‘n persoonlike keuse en is nie geesgelei nie.

Gen 6:6:  “…het dit die HERE berou dat Hy die mens op die aarde gemaak het, en daar was smart in Sy hart.” (Mind)

Spr 3:5:  “Vertrou op die HERE met jou hele hart (mind) en steun nie op jou eie insig nie.”

Dit bring ons by die belangrikste vers. Die woord ‘siel’ is ons ‘gedagtes’ (mind). Strong’s nommer 5315. Dit beteken ook ‘wese wat asemhaal’. Dieselfde asem wat in Adam geblaas is. Hierdie woord is ook dieselfde lewe wat in alle lewende skepsels voorkom. DIE ASEM VAN GOD.

Jes 53:11:  “Weens die moeitevolle lyde van sy siel sal Hy dit sien en versadig word; deur sy kennis sal my Kneg, die Regverdige, baie regverdig maak; en Hy sal hulle skuld dra.” 

Die wyse wat ons dink, is sonde.

Sonde is nie lewensvatbare denke nie. Niks skeppend kan uit sondige denke kom nie, as jy ongeluk dink, gebeur ongeluk. As ons denke oor so ‘n geweldige krag beskik, wat die lewe of die dood kan veroorsaak, is dit nie nou die tyd dat ons besin oor wat ons dink nie?

Deut 30:19:  “Ek neem vandag die hemel en die aarde as getuies teen julle; die lewe en die dood, die seën en die vloek het ek jou voorgehou. Kies dan die lewe, dat jy kan lewe, jy en jou nageslag,”      

In Openbaring 1:18, sien ons Jesus Christus hou die sleutels van die lewe. Dit beteken dat net HY aan ons ‘n veilige ‘mind’ kan gee waarin ons lewegewende denke kan dink. (Joh 10:10)

Illustrasie 2 is waarna ons hunker. Ons wil God se Koninkryk wees, Sy krag en Sy glorie. Ander mense moet kan sien die Koninkryk is in ons. Hierdie son in die sentrum van ons wese (mind), is die naam van die Koninkryk van God. (Gen 1:4).

Matt 16:19:  “En Ek sal jou die sleutels van die koninkryk van die hemele gee; en wat jy ook op die aarde mag bind, sal in die hemel gebonde wees, en wat jy ook op die aarde mag ontbind, sal in die hemel ontbonde wees.”

Wanneer ons lewe dink en praat, verloor ons die hemel in die aarde.

Het Jesus werklik vir ons ‘minds’ gesterf?

Die krag is in die ‘mind’. Daarom is dit seker die magtigste kragbron op aarde. Maar hierdie kragbron staan onder konstante aanval van nie-lewensgewende, persoonlike en dierlike gedagtes. Gedurende die res van die boek, sal dit bewys word dat DIE WERK WAT BY DIE KRUIS GEDOEN IS, VIR ONS ‘MINDS’ WAS.

Dr J. Murphy se boek ‘The Power of the Mind’ sê: “Wetenskap lig ons in dat ons elke elf maande ‘n nuwe liggaam bou. Maar as ons defekte in ons liggaam inbou deur negatiewe gedagtes soos vrees, jaloesie en woede, dan kan ons niemand behalwe onsself daarvoor blameer nie.”

Die Goddelike krag binne ons is goed en oorvloedig. Dit is vol van elke goeie ding wat jy jou ookal kan verbeel, dink, of voor wens (Ef 3:2). Dit is voordurend besig om te skep en ons te druk vir lewensdenke. Tradisies en geloof het ons egter beroof van hierdie konstante bron van lewegewende mag en dit vervang met vrees.

Wanneer jy die lewens bestudeer van die grootste, suksesvolle besigheids-manne, digters, kunstenaars, sprekers en skrywers, sal jy altyd vind hulle het hulle beroep op die ‘innerlike kragte’ om dinge te openbaar, wat niemand van geweet het nie. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dale Carnegy, Giacomo Puccini, Johannes Brahms, om net ‘n paar te noem, sê almal dieselfde, nl: “Dadelik het die idees my begin binnevloei, direk vanaf God.” Hulle was nie noodwendig groot Christene nie en hulle het nie die Kruis verstaan soos ons dit vandag verstaan nie. Ook het hulle die beginsel van die Bloed nie verstaan nie, maar hulle het geglo in die krag van die denke.

Die meeste van hulle het geglo dat hulle self die kaptein van hulle siele is. Ons glo nie so nie, want ons het ‘n Kaptein wat dinge aan ons openbaar deur Sy indringende Gees.

Ons word voortdurend gelei deur Sy Waarheid en is die nuwe generasie, wat die wêreld voor gewag het om geopenbaar te word (Rom 8). Nasies sal kom na hierdie LIG (Jes 55:5). In hierdie generasie is die Lig van die wêreld (Matt 5:14).

Daarom, staan op, want jou lig het opgekom. Die glorie van God het oor jou gekom (Jes 60:1). Die kennis van die glorie van God het nou na ons toe gekom (Hab 2:14).

To Be continued…

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Boek 1 – Die Lyn – Voorwoord

Boek 1 – Die Lyn

‘n Huldeblyk aan die Skrywer

Dit is nie aldag dat ‘n mens iemand teëkom op wie se verbintenis jy so kan vertrou nie, iemand wie se woord nog sy woord is.

Iemand, so opreg in die waarheid wat hy verkondig, met onwrikbare geloof, wat daardeur in staat is om die groot Waarheid van God te ervaar in eenvoudige opregtheid. ‘n Man wat dit durf waag het om die twyfelagtige metodes van die praktiserende ‘Christenskap’ te bevraagteken en voort gegaan het om te bewys dat God geen leuenaar is nie.  In der waarheid, verder gegaan het en bewys het dat God se Woord die waarheid is en dat Sy beloftes in geglo kan word. En glo dat ons bedoel is om altyd te lewe in die ‘Guns van God’.

So ‘n man is Ron van Zyl. ‘n Baie talentvolle kunstenaar in wie God die verstommende gawe geplaas het om Sy Waarheid op ‘n unieke wyse te verklaar en uit te lê. ‘n Man van integriteit, wat sy God van naderby ken en gereeld saam met hom wandel. ‘n Man wat deurentyd van die Groot Skrywer van sy werk, hoor.

Moontlik die grootste vermeldbare eienskap van Ron is die toewyding waarmee hy sy kinders onderrig en leer van ‘God se Beginsels van die Lewe’. Die bewys hiervan kan gesien word in die lewens van Yvonne en hul kinders, Michell en Aldo, wat elk op hul eie wyse, die paadjie saam met God stap, op die fondasie wat deur hul man en vader gelê is. Wanneer gaan die res van ons ooit die kuns aanleer van sulke onbelemmerde, Christelike integriteit?

Vir my is dit ‘n groot eer om betrokke te wees met die produksie van hierdie ‘Kunswerk’.

Dit is (as ek dit mag sê) met groot trots dat ek my so bevoorreg vind om hierdie werk,

Die Lyn deur Ron van Zyl

aan u te bring.

Wees geseënd deur die ‘God van die Heelal’ terwyl u hierdie ‘kunswerk’ geniet.

Dankie Ron,

Nils Gregersen      

VOORWOORD

Hierdie boek is heeltemal buitengewoon. Dit is die lewenstaak van ‘n man wat as kind, ‘n visie van God en Sy Heerlikheid gehad het. Nodeloos om te sê, sy wedervaringe is nooit verstaan deur diegene rondom hom nie, veral nie gesien in die lig van toendertyd se ‘menslike persepsies van die bonatuurlike’ nie. Gevolglik is hy deur sy meerderes die swye opgelê sodra hy oor sy ervarings met God gepraat het. Maar die visie het nooit vervaag nie, tewens dit het met die tyd net duideliker geword.

Hierdie boek is nie ‘n lang, uitgerekte outobiografie nie, maar vertel eerder op ‘n praktiese, op die man af, Bybel-gegrondveste wyse van ‘n lewenswyse wat gely word deur ‘n gesin wat bewys het hulle kan leiding neem, sonder om gebuk te gaan onder die druk van hedendaagse stres en norme van die gemeenskap.

Hierin sal u hul storie interessant, boeiend en vinnig bewegend vind. Maar u kan dit nie vinnig lees en ten volle verstaan nie. Daar is eenvoudig net te veel inligting. U sal hierdie boekie altyd byderhand wil hou en as ‘n gereedskapstuk gebruik, om aan almal wat u ontmoet, die ‘Evangelie van God se Koninkryk’, aan die hand van die baie skilderye wat deur die skrywer verskaf is, te verduidelik. Hierdie skilderye en beelde is deur Ron, onder die leiding van God self, gemaak.

Vir die eerste keer het ons, as Christene, nou prente van die Geesteswêreld wat ons geloof bewys en bevestig dat ‘n ‘diepe kennis’ van ons besit neem as ons, ons lewens vir Jesus gee. U kan dit nou deel met u geliefdes en diegene wat u nooit vantevore kon bereik nie.

U sal nou saam met almal wat reeds Die Skoen besoek het, hul bevindings kan bevestig en getuig dat die openbaringe slegs van God self af moes kom. Geen mens kan self hierdie dinge weet, tensy dit vanaf God direk, ontvang is nie.  

Na baie jare se wag, kan ons nou uiteindelik sê dat God vir Ron van Zyl en sy gesin op ‘n merkwaardige wyse gebruik het om ‘n visionalisering te skep, wat net met een woord beskryf kan word nl: Uniek.

INLEIDING

DIE KUNSTENAAR SE STORIE

As ‘n seuntjie van ongeveer vyf jaar oud, het my moeder my ‘n Bybelstorie vertel. Die een van Samuel wat as seuntjie, die stem van God gehoor het. My moeder het my vertel dat ek ook my lewe vir Jesus kan gee en dat Hy dan ook met my sal praat. Ek het op my knieë gegaan en nadat ek my lewe vir die Here gegee het, het ek hierdie hoë plek gesien. Dit het die kleur van goud gehad en Jesus was daar. Dit was gevul met blydskap, liedere, vreugde en vrede. Dit was ‘n plek waar jy enigiets kon kry, wat jy ookal benodig het. As ‘n vyfjarige het ek gedink dat almal van die plek geweet het, daarom het ek vrylik en die heel tyd daarvan gepraat. Uiteindelik het my moeder my vasgetrap en gevra: ”Waarvan praat jy?” Ek het haar vertel:  “Dit is die prentjie wat ek gesien het toe ek my lewe vir Jesus gegee het. Dit is hier in my gedagtes!”.

Sy was baie ontsteld en het my vertel om dit nooit weer te doen nie, want dit is meditasie, en meditasie is van Oosterse afkoms, dat dit direk van die duiwel af kom, ensovoorts. My moeder het uit ‘n baie streng gelowige agtergrond gekom, maar het min of geen begrip van die ‘Geestes realm’ gehad nie. Daarom was enige ervaring wat vir haar ‘bonatuurlik’ geklink het, direk van satan af en nie God nie.

Maar ek het steeds almal wat ek in my lewe raak geloop het, gemeet aan dit wat ek daardie nag, as kind gesien het. Toe sy my eenkeer saamvat kerk toe, het ek daar niks gesien of gehoor wat vir my hoegenaamd gelyk of geklink het soos dit wat ek daardie nag gesien het nie. Die hemel vol vreugde, liedere, geluk en vrede! Godsdiens glad nie!

Sonder om enige substansie in die alledaagse lewens van die gewone mense rondom my te vind, het ek my geboortedorp, Kaapstad verlaat om my eie spasie te skep. Ek het my gaan vestig in die Oos Transvaal, wat nou ingesluit is by die Limpopo, waar ek die eensame lewe van ‘n kunstenaar geleef het. In ‘n plattelandse boeregemeenskap is ek geïgnoreer en afgemaak as eksentriek.

Op die ouderdom van 24 het ek besluit om al my talente en my lewe aan God die Vader te wy. Ek het my by my broer, wat ‘n sendingstasie in Limpopo het, aangesluit en daar het ons saam ‘n Bybelbeeld-Tuin as toeriste-attraksie gebou.   

Dit is eintlik net logies dat ‘n kunstenaar wat die heeltyd in die teenwoordigheid van die Heilige Gees lewe, in staat sal wees om deur middel van sketse, skilderye en beelde, die Geestelike realm te kan uitbeeld. Maar dit was eers in 1974, negentien jaar na my eerste visie van ‘Hemelse Plekke’ as seuntjie, wat ek deur God toegelaat is om onder instruksie en leiding van die Heilige Gees, die ‘Geestes Wêreld’, deur my kuns bloot te stel.

 My eerste probeerslag was ‘n beeldhouwerk teen ‘n rotswand van vyftien meter hoog. Dit is voltooi op die ouderdom van ses en twintig en ons het dit ‘Die Hel’ genoem. My broer Paul het my gehelp om ‘n steier te bou en agter ‘n skerm, om nuuskieriges weg te hou, het ek van bo begin met die werk. As gevolg van die skerm, kon ek nie terugstaan om perspektief van die werk te kry nie. Die skerm was egter noodsaaklik, want toeriste het my dikwels uit die werk gehou. Die nadeel was dat ek nie die werk op ‘n afstand kon oordeel vir eenvormigheid of balans nie.

Terwyl ek een naweek weg was, het my broer die steiers afgebreek en gesê, dat teen die tempo wat ek werk, ek dit nooit gaan klaarkry nie. Deur dit te doen, het hy die voltooiing van die taak afgedwing. Toe ek terugkeer, het ek tot my verbasing gesien dat alles in perfekte balans en verhouding is. Die figure aan die bokant was presies sewe voet ses duim (2,3 meters) en die aan die onderkant presies vyf voet ses duim (1,7 meters). Dit het sommer vanself so gebeur en toe het ek tot die besef gekom en die hand van God in my werk gesien.

Hierdie rotswand is waar ek van die frustrasie, deur nie die hemelse plek wat ek as kind gesien het te vind nie, ontslae geraak.

Dit het twee jaar geneem om Die Hel te voltooi en in die tussentyd het ek anatomie bestudeer. Dit het my egter gedwing om die skriftuur te bestudeer om uit te vind wat die hel is. Uit hierdie studies het interessante onderwerpe om te skilder, gekom.

Die Hell – 20 km Noord van Ohrigstad op die R36 hoofpad, oppad na die Eggo Grotte

Die meeste mense is bekend met die Bybelstories en my kuns het geblyk ‘n goeie manier te wees om kontak met die toeriste te maak.

Vreemd, daar was nie ‘n enkele persoon wat bereid was om te sê wat hy hiervan dink nie. Soveel so, dat ek naderhand gedink het dat ek hiermee aanstoot aan mense gee, tot een oggend toe my vader kom kyk het hoe dit lyk. Hy het net gesê: “Dit is ‘allright’”. Hy was ‘n baie harde man en as hy gesê het, iets is ‘allright’ dan is dit presies wat dit is. Dit was die naaste wat ek gekom het aan enige wyse van ‘n kompliment. Maar ek het weer God se hand hierin gesien, ook Sy waarskuwing aan my, dat as ek vir Hom wil werk, moet alle eer Hom toekom, Hom alleen. Ons Groot en Genadige God was besig om my te beskerm van die euwel, TROTS. 

Twee jaar later, in 1978, is ek en Yvonne getroud en ons het vir ons ‘n huis gebou. Saam met my vrou het ons alles wat ons nodig gehad het, eiehandig ‘geskep’. Saam het ons geleer om in geloof te lewe. Van die berge rondom ons het ons die klip om die huis te bou en die hout vir die beelde gaan haal. By wyse van harde werk en die geloof in ons Skepper, die Almagtige God, is ons deur moordende woestyne van die lewe, deur die Heilige Gees gelei. Ons het ontdek dat jy alles wat jy benodig, van die Groot Verskaffer, die Vader, die Almagtige God, kan kry.  

Die eindresultaat was, dat ons as gesin, Yvonne, ekself en ons twee kinders, Michell en Aldo, ‘n toring van krag geword het vir diegene rondom ons, in ‘n wêreld waar antwoorde opgedroog het. Deur die verduidelikings en lewende getuienisse wat hierdie boek bevat, sal u as leser ook uitvind hoe om enigiets wat u benodig, te kry. Ja, enigiets wat jy benodig sal deur die Vader, die Almagtige God aan jou verskaf word. Dit is Sy begeerte vir jou!

Dit is die ‘Hart van God’, soos opgesom in die woorde…. “Vader van barmhartigheid” (Strong’s 3628) en “die God van alle vertroosting” (Strong’s 3874). Ook 2 Kor 1:3.

Ondersoek dit vir jouself. Die woorde ‘barmhartigheid’ en ‘vertroosting’ word somtyds vertaal as net ‘genadige’ soos in ‘genadige Vader’ of ‘genadige God’, maar dit dra inderwaarheid die hart van God en sluit onder andere in die volgende:

Bejammering – soos in ‘God bejammer ons in ons omstan-dighede’.

Medelyde – soos in ‘God ly mede (met ons) in ons omstan-dighede’.

Begeer – soos in ‘God begeer om ons alle goeie dinge te gee’.

Is dit nie hoog tyd dat ons die ‘Hart van Vader’ vasvang, wie in elk geval die Almagtige God is, en dan voortgaan in ‘n ‘Lewe’ in en leef in ‘Sy Begeerte’ vir ons nie?

Jy sal baie gou die algemene foute wat ons as Christene maak, agterkom. Jy sal nie langer jou seëninge in die kerk gaan soek nie, maar ‘n seëning vir die kerk word.

Die enigste vereiste wat van jou verlang word, is om Die Here Jesus Christus met jou hele hart te ken en te verstaan.

Die doel van hierdie boek is om jou stap vir stap daarnatoe te neem. Ons sal jou daarnatoe neem met behulp van reekse beelde, skilderye, tekeninge, stories en praktiese wenke vir toepassing en dan toekyk hoe jy ‘ hoog en vry’ loop terwyl jy alle eer aan God gee.

Ons is nie gelowig nie! Ons het ‘n verhouding met God! Gelowigheid is nie Vryheid nie!

As iemand ons gelowig noem, beskou ons dit nie as ‘n kompliment nie. Die Sadduseërs en Fariseërs was gelowig en hulle is deur Jesus gehaat as gevolg daarvan. Hy het hulle skerpioene en adders genoem. Ons het ‘n verhouding met Jesus Christus en Sy Gees leer ons alles wat ons nodig het om te weet. Dit is dan ook ons gebed vir jou.

Geniet asb. hierdie boek as ‘n openbaring van die ‘groter dinge’ wat vir ‘n ieder en elk van ons beskikbaar is in Christus Jesus.

Ron van Zyl.

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Book 1 – The Line – Foreword

Book 1 - The Line
The Line – Book 1

This book is completely out of the ordinary.  It is the life’s work of a man, who, as a child, had a vision of God and His glory. Needless to say, his experiences were not understood by those around him because of the then ‘popular human perceptions’ toward anything supernatural. Consequently he was ‘shut down’ by his superiors from verbalizing his experience with God. However, the vision never faded; in fact it grew over time.

This is not a long drawn out autobiography but rather tells of a practical, down to earth,

Bionically based lifestyle lived out by a family which has proven that they can lead without bowing to the social pressures and norms of society.

You will find this story intriguing, fast-moving, spell binding, but you cannot read it quickly with full understanding, as there is simply too much information.

You will want to keep this book with you always and use it as a tool to show the ‘Gospel of the Kingdom of God’ to anybody you meet, by simply explaining the many pictures provided by the artist/sculptor.

For the first time we Christians will have pictures of the Spirit world that prove our faith, and confirm that deep ‘knowing’ that comes to you when you give your life to Jesus.  You can now share it with all your loved ones, and those you could never reach before.

You will, along with all who have visited “The Shoe”, echo their findings that these revelations can only be from God.  No person could ever know these things unless they had been given by God.

After so many years of waiting we can finally say, God has used Ron van Zyl and his family in an exceptional way to create a visualization of, what can only be referred to as Unique.  

Introduction

The Artist’s Story

When I was a boy of about 5 years old my mother told me a Bible story.  The one about Samuel who as a boy heard the voice of God.  My mother said that I could also give my life to Jesus and He would talk with me.  I went on my knees and after giving my life to the Lord, I saw this “High Place”.  It was gold in color and Jesus was there.   It was full of joy, song, happiness and peace.  It is a place where you can have anything you need.  Being only five years old, I thought everybody knew about that place and so I talked about it freely all the time.  My Mother finally cornered me and asked me: “What are you talking about?”  I told her ‘it’s the picture I saw when I gave my life to Jesus, its here, inside my mind’! 

She was very upset and told me never to do that again because it was meditation and eastern of origin, that it was from the devil and so on. My Mother had come out of a strict religious background with little or no understanding of the “Spirit Realm”, thus, any such ‘mystical’ experiences were, in her opinion, from Satan, not God. 

But still I measured everybody I met in life against what I had seen as a child.  When she took me to the church, nothing that I saw or heard there looked remotely like what I had seen that night.  Heaven is full of joy, song, happiness and peace, not so religion!

Not finding anything of substance in the everyday lives of ordinary people around me, in the town of my birth, Cape Town, South Africa. I set out to find my own space, settling in the Eastern Transvaal, now called Limpopo. Here I lived the solitary life of an artist.  It being a farming community, I was ignored as an eccentric.

At the age of 24 I decided to give my life and talents to the Lord Jesus. I joined my brother who had a mission station in the Eastern Transvaal (Limpopo) and together we built a Bible Sculpture Garden as a tourist attraction. 

It is logical, that an artist, who remains in the presence of the Holy Spirit, will be able to reveal through drawings, paintings and sculptures, what the ‘Spirit Realm looks like’.  But it was only in 1974, 19 years  after my childhood vision of ‘The Heavenly Realms’ and with Holy Spirit instruction and guidance, that I was allowed, by God, to ‘expose the spirit world’ through my art. 

My first attempt was a 15 meter high rock face sculpture, completed at the age of twenty six and named “The Hell”.   My brother Paul helped me build a scaffold and I started at the top working downwards behind a screen for privacy as the tourists would keep me out of my work.  Because of the screen I could never stand back and look at the work.  I was not able to examine it from a distance for uniformity or balance. 

While I was away on a weekend trip my brother broke the scaffold down saying that at the speed I was going I would never finish.  By so doing he forced completion of the work.  On returning I was amazed to see that all the work was in perspective, the figures at the top were seven foot six inches (2,3 metres) tall and at the bottom five foot six inches (1,7 metres). That happened by itself and I began to recognize the Lord’s hand in my work. 

This rock face is where I got rid of the frustration of not finding that heavenly place I had seen as a boy.  It had taken two years to complete, as I was studying anatomy at the same time.  It also put me on the path to reading scripture to find out what hell is.  Out of these studies came intriguing subjects to paint and sculpt.  Most people are familiar with bible stories and my art proved to be a great way to connect with tourists. 

Strangely, there was not even one person who would say what they thought of it, and I began to think that it offended people, until one day my Father came to look at it and he said: “It is alright”. He was a very hard man and if he said that something was alright, that is exactly what it was.  That’s the closest I got to receive any compliment, but again I recognized the Lord’s hand in it – warning me – if I wanted to work for Him the glory would always belong to Him – and Him alone!  Our Merciful and Gracious Lord was protecting me from pride.    

My son Aldo – Standing at the bottom. The Doomed 20km North of Ohrigstad just off the R36 Mainroad, on the way to the Echo Caves.

Two years later, in 1978, I married Yvonne and built a house for us.  Along with my wife, we ‘created’ everything we needed with our own hands, together we learnt to live by faith.  From the mountains we took rock to build our home and wood from which to carve.  By means of very hard work and faith in our Creator, God Almighty, we were led through grueling deserts of life by the Holy Spirit. We discovered that you can have anything you need, supplied by your Father – Almighty God. 

The end result is that we as a family, Yvonne and I and our two children, Michell and Aldo, have become a tower of strength to those around us in a world that has run out of answers.  Through the explanations and living testimonies contained is this book you too will see how you can get anything you need, Yes, anything you need, supplied by your Father – Almighty God – it is His Desire for you.

This is the ‘Heart of God’, summed up in the words “ .. Father of  mercies,3628 and the God of all comfort;3874   … “  –  2 Cor 1:3 (KJV) (Strong’s Numbers).

Check it out for yourself. The words ‘mercy and comfort’, sometimes translated only as ‘merciful’, as in ‘merciful Father’ or ‘merciful God’, carry with them the heart of God, which include, interalia, the following:

‘Pity – God pities us in our circumstances’,

‘Compassion – God has co-passion together with us in our circumstances’, and

‘Desire – God desires to give us all good things’.

Isn’t it time that we captured the ‘Heart of our Father’, who is after all God Almighty, and hence enter into ‘Life’ living in ‘His Desire’ for us?

You will quickly find out the general mistakes we Christians make.  You will no longer search for your blessings in the church, but will become a blessing to the church.

The only demands on you, is a disciplined dedication to know and understand the Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart. 

This book is meant to take you there, step by step.  We will take you through a series of sculptures, paintings, drawings, stories, and practical application to where we will watch you walking ‘high and free’ – giving God alone the praise.

We are not religious!  We have a relationship! Religion is Not Freedom!

When they call us religious it is not a complement.  The Sadducee and Pharisees were religious and their religion was hated by Jesus.  He called them scorpions and vipers. 

We have a relationship with Jesus Christ; His Spirit teaches everything we need to know.

This is our prayer for you also.

Please enjoy this book as a revelation of the ‘greater things’ available for each and every one of us in Christ Jesus.

Ron van Zyl

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Security and Protection

We Are more than concourers in Christ Jesus

This morning I as up early and I was praying for safety. We all need safety and protection. Not only in this time of the Covid 19 Virus but in our every day lives.

As I was praying I saw the virus destroyed by the Sharp two edged sword of the Word of God. So I created the image for you. Send it around and lets spread the victory!

Praying soft prayers of begging God for protection will however not do it.

Please see my article on How to Pray.

We have been given authority and power over all the power (ability) of the enemy. (Luk 10:19) This is what Jesus said to the 70 disciples whom he sent out to go and heal and preach the gospel. When they returned they said to him. “Even the devils are subject unto us!” But then Jesus replied and said: “I saw Satan fell from heaven as lightning… don’t rejoice because the devils are subject unto you but rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” (Luke 10:20)

We should rejoice because the work that Jesus Christ came to do for us was to overcome the Devil. Every time we take authority and act like Jesus in the earth we are removing Satan and his evil spirits from ‘heaven’ which is the minds of people. Jesus came to save us, he has won the war! Every person who are still in bondage of some kind is just a prisoner of war. They do not know that Jesus has already won the war. We are to enforce the will of God, we are to preach freedom to the captives and proclaim liberty to those in bondage.

Satan has been overcome and we are overcomers in Christ Jesus. Proclaim the fact that we are free! Proclaim that Satan has no right to attack us! He has no right to make us sick or put us in bondage.

While you stand to pray like I described in my post about How to Pray then declare the World of God. Declare your protection and declare that you are healed.

Lets Declare!

Copy this declaration and hang it on your walls. Declare the Word of God over your life daily. I say daily because we have to renew our minds and we have to start believing the truth. Faith only comes by hearing and hearing comes by the World of God! Without faith it is impossible to please God. But we have been given the Faith of Jesus Christ!I declare that Jesus Christ was made manifest so that the works of Satan is destroyed. (1 John 3:8)

* I have been predestined to be conformed to the Image of Christ. (Rom 8:29

*I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power and love and a sound mind! (2 Tim 1:7)

* 2 Peter 1:3 All things that pertain unto life and godliness has been given unto us…we are blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavens. (Eph 1:3)

*I am in Christ and God is in me! Together we are made perfect! (John 17:23, Eph 4:13)

*I am saved and I have received the promise of the Holy Spirit, which is the power of God in me! (Heb 10:10, Heb 10:36, Act 2:33)

*There is power in the Name of Jesus Christ, we are protected by the name of Jesus (John 17:11), every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord! All things in heaven and earth are subject to the name of Jesus. (Phil 2:10, Rom 14:11)

*God is faithful and he will accomplish every Word of his mouth!

*2 Thes 3:3 God is faithful and will strengthen and protect me from the evil one. (Prov 4:6, Prov 2:11)

*The Angels of the Lord is given command to protect me and encamp around me. (Ps 91, Ps 103, Ps 34:7-10)

*I am established in righteousness, tyranny is far from me, terror will not come near me and God’s unveiling love for me will not be shaken and his covenant of peace will not be removed. ( Isa 54:9-15)

*No weapon formed against me will prosper, I will refute every tongue that accuses me for this is the heritage of the servant of the Lord. (Isa 54:17)

*Ps 91:10 No evil shall befall me and no plaque shall come near by dwelling.

This is my daily declaration for safety and protection. I urge you to speak the World of God and make it part of your life. If you are sick then start declaring the healing of God over your body! Here you can find healing declarations with scripture references. They have it in a downloadable document which you can print and speak out.

Remember it is God’s will for us be victorious and overcome. When we just sit around without fighting the enemy, we are attacked and then believe it should be God’s will for the bad to happen. That is not true. Jesus came to save us and deliver us from evil and give us the power to overcome. It is up to us to use that Power.

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How to pray – Practical lesson on how to pray

 

The Previous lesson was about spending time with God. How to spend time with God by seeking Him and being disciplined. Read lesson 1 first here.

By now we have established that you are earnest about seeking God and that you have started giving Him your time.  The problem is that now you are sitting there and you are giving God an hour every morning but it feels like you don’t know what to do, your mind keeps running away with you and you sit there staring at the Bible but you are not getting anything from it. We are going to look at how to pray. How to spend time with God. Once again I am sharing with you our own personal experience.

How to Pray

I usually start with Communion. I get a cracker and a little juice. Then I start by imagining. Using your imagination is very important. We are to take every thought captive. Seeing in your imagination while you pray is the best way of keeping your thoughts captivated.

Sometimes I imagine the crucifixion as we saw it in the movie The Passion, sometimes I see how Jesus served communion to his disciples on the last evening before he was crucified.

I see how I lay my life down with Jesus. As I eat his flesh, I lay down my sin, problems, heart aches and sickness. I see how my flesh is consumed by his flesh. Then I drink the blood of Jesus and I start to think about all the scriptures I have on the blood of Jesus.

I pray this: Thank you Lord for your blood that you shed for me. Your blood is for the forgiveness of my sin, it is for my salvation. You saved me, washed me with your blood. You also healed me, you redeemed my life and made me righteous. Your blood brings peace! The Spirit of Christ is within me and the peace of God which fills my heart and mind and soul is within me.

I see how I am now clothed with the risen Christ Jesus. I am seated with him in heavenly places, my mind is the Kingdom of God, I am the temple of God and I am righteous before God. Righteousness means I am in right standing with God and I get to stand in the presence of God without feeling ashamed or guilty.

I believe that I am now a new creation and that I am completely saved. Now I must also believe that I am like Christ.

1 John 4:17: “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.”

So what should my prayers sound like if I am like Christ?

‘O dear God thank you for clothes and food and please give me a job…?’

No that is not the kind of prayer Jesus would pray. There is no mention that Jesus ever asked God for food or clothes. In facet Jesus said that we are not to worry about what we should eat or wear as our heavenly Father knows what we need. (Matt 6:25) There is also no mention that Jesus ever Asked God to heal any of the people Jesus healed. Jesus simply spoke to the sickness or the evil spirit and commanded it to leave. He never once prayed and asked God to heal the people. He is the Son of God, He did not need permission from his Father to heal and he did not need God to do it for him. He was God in the flesh and the Holy Spirit was upon him. As Jesus was in the earth so ARE WE!

We also have the Holy Spirit and the Power of God is also in us! We can just speak to our problems and command them to leave. That is how we should pray.

My prayer is: Thank you Lord that I have all the power over the enemy. Thank you that your Word is true and thank you that you accomplish every Word You have ever spoken. So now by the Power of the Spirit of Christ in me I command sickness to go! I command my body to receive healing!

So I continue. I keep on telling every one of my problems to leave and I call every good thing and every blessing of God into my life. I also pray out loud and I pray in tongues while I concentrate or imagine how the problem leaves and how the blessings of God arrive. This is how you pray with power and in the Spirit.

The Spirit of God in us can only accomplish the things of God when we move and when we speak. We must break through being ashamed of the things of God and we should start to accomplish the things of God.

Yes we should read the Bible and we should study the scriptures but we should also worship God in Spirit and in Truth.

I also recommend that you listen to some of the training supplied by John G Lake Ministries. They are based in the USA and the chair person is Curry Blake. He teaches people how to minister healing to others. I found a website who lists all his seminars for free. You can click here to go to that website.

Let’s Recap – Why pray like this?

So I started with Communion. Why?

Because I am a fleshly person who needs to get my mind into the spirit. I use communion because it reminds me of who I am supposed to be in Christ and it helps me to ‘Enter in’ to the presence of God. The Blood of Jesus washes me and it helps me to KNOW that I am righteous. No I did not loose my righteousness in the night and the Holy Spirit did not leave me every time I sin, but committing sin causes me to feel removed from God. Another way to say it is that your conscience is not clear towards God and you feel condemned. By using the communion daily helps me to move into my righteous position where I can not be condemned because I am in Christ. I actually need to convince my fleshly mind that I am no longer a person after the flesh but that I am in Christ and I am after the Spirit!

If your mind has not been renewed to this way of thinking you might need to spend more time reminding yourself that God is on your side! You can do that by praying the Word. For example I would pray Psalm 23 like this:

Thank you Lord that you are my Shepherd and I shall not want! You lay me down beside quiet waters where you give me rest. You restore my soul and you guide me in paths of righteousness for Your name sake! Even when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will not fear evil, For You are with me! Your rod and Your staff comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies and you anoint my head with oil and my cup overflows! Surely goodness and mercy shall folow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever!


You can also pray Psalm 103 and Psalm 91 like this and keep on reciting and praying the Word until you believe it. It can only come to pass if you believe! Unbelief and doubt are the only things that can keep prayers from being answered. Faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the Word of God! Romans 10:17

Then once you believe we go over into action and then we start commanding and saying how things should be. We speak in tongues because it builds us up in our most holy faith! (Jude 1:20)

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The Reason for The Cross

Crucifix hand fridge magnet. 7 cm Wide.

I created another new magnet. It is the crucifix hand. While I was creating this magnet I was also studying the Holy Spirit at the same time.

A while ago I made a study on the Blood of Jesus and I was baffled that The Holy Spirit is actually accomplishing the same things in us, that the Blood of Jesus is meant to accomplish.

Let me show you what I mean.

The Blood of Jesus has the following purposes:

I am paraphrasing in my own words here so please go and read all the scripture references and make this knowledge your own. It really blessed me.

  • The Blood of Jesus gives us a clean Conscience and cleanses us from all sin. (Heb 9:14, 1 John 1:7)
  • The Blood of Jesus is for the remission of sins. (Mark 14:24, Mat 26:28, Luk 22:20)
  • The blood of Jesus in the form of Communion gives us life. (John 6:53-56)
  • We have been purchased with his blood. (Act 20:28)
  • We have been justified and saved from wrath by His blood. (Rom 5:9)
  • We have redemption and forgiveness of sin by the blood. (Eph 1:7)
  • By the blood we are brough near to God. (Eph 2:13)
  • His Blood brings peace and reconciliation. (Col 1:20)
  • By His death Jesus destroyed the Devil. (Heb 2:14)

So these are just a quick summary of what the bible says about the purpose of the Blood of Jesus and I use this list every day when I use communion. I think them over and remind myself what the Blood of Jesus did for me.

When I did a study on the Holy Spirit I did a search on the Greek reference number for the Word ‘Spirit’. (G4151) It gave me 385 scriptures to work through!

I use E-Sword. It is a free Bible program (App) available for computers and for I-phones. Download it at www.e-sword.net.

The following is a short summary of the purpose of the Holy Spirit.

Once again I am just paraphrasing, please go read the references for a more extensive study.

  • John said that Jesus will baptize us with the Holy Spirit. (Mat 3:11, Mark 1:10)
  • Jesus was exalted by the Right hand of God, he received the promise of the Holy Spirit from God and then he poured it out on us. (Acts 2:33)
  • The Holy Spirit is given to believers, who ask an believe. (Luk 11:13, John 7:38, Gal 3:14)
  • The Holy Spirit always comes with Power. (Act 1:8, Rom 15:13, Rom 15:19, Eph 3:16, 2 Tim 1:7)
  • We are washed, sanctified and justified in the name of Jesus and by the Spirit. We are purified in soul. (1 Cor 6, 2 Tes 2:13, 1 Pet 1:22 )
  • The manifestation of the spirit is given to every believer. (1 Cor 12:7)
  • We all receive the same Spirit, we are one in the Spirit, the same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead lives in us. (1 Cor 12:3, 1 Cor 6:17, Eph 2:18, Eph 4:4
  • We are sealed by the Holy Spirit. (Eph 1:13 Eph 4:30, 1 Tess 5:23)

These are just a few things that stood out to me which are similar between the purposes of both the Blood of Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

Jesus shed his blood for our redemption, forgiveness, cleansing and unifying unto Himself. The Holy Spirit accomplishes exactly that. When we give our hearts to God we also receive the Holy Spirit and thus we also receive redemption, forgiveness and unifying with God. We receive Peace, we are justified and we even receive the same spirit of Faith. Galatians 4:6 says we receive the Spirit of Christ.

How do you know if someone has The Spirit of Christ?

1 John 4:2 says if any man confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord and has come in the flesh, he is of God. Any person who speaks against God does not have the Spirit of Christ. And then of course a sign of the Spirit is speaking in tongues.

There are of course much more to say about this subjects. Feel free to leave your comments!

I can send you a full list of all 385 Scriptures if you want! Let me know down below!

PS – If you would like to own one of these magnets send me an email.

Michell

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Noah’s Ark

Fridge Magnet showing Noah's ark and the covenant rainbow.
Fridge Magnet 6cm x 6cm

I made this design because I want to remind people of the Covenant promise which was made to Noah and also to us. The first covenant ever recorded in the bible was when God promised Noah that he would never again destroy all the people of the earth.

Gen 9:13-15: “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.”

You can read the entire story on Noah in Genesis 7 to 9. We have this covenant promise from God that he will not destroy all flesh ever again. God said while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22

God’s word is true and God can not lie. This promise was given to every living thing. Whenever disasters strike the earth remember God’s promise. The disaster does not come by God.

Isaiah 54 is one om my favorite chapters in the Bible. Please read the whole thing because it has so many great promises and contains great declarations we can pray for safety and protection. See my post on Safety and Protection.

Isaiah 54:9: “To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again. Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

This is a great promise. God’s unfailing love will not be shaken! If you read this same chapter further down it is the same place where He says that no weapon formed against us will prosper! It also says that all our sons will be taught of the Lord and they will have great peace! Another great promise we can declare over our lives.

Have you ever wondered why God made the flood to come in the first place?

Here is the reason:

Genesis 6:5-7: “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.”

Because the imaginations and the thoughts of men’s hearts were continually evil. When God blew breath into Adam, he became a living soul. The soul refers to the part in us where our Will, Intellect, Emotions and Feelings live. You can say Adam became a living will. He could have dominion over the earth after his own free will. Adam’s will was in line with God’s will as long as Adam obeyed God’s command. The same is true for us. We will be doing God’s will in our lives as long as we do what the Bible says we should do. But when we start to follow our own will then it means that our thoughts and intents of our heart (Mind) is evil. The word used in the Hebrew for ‘heart’ is translated directly as ‘mind’.

God by his grace does not destroy us when our hearts are evil but it does remove us out of God’s blessing. To return to God’s pure and perfect will simply means we must repent and lay down our will to him. Once our will is in line with God’s will again, we can return to our position of dominion and authority over all the power of the enemy as he promised us…

Luke 10:19: “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.”

Also have a look at my post about How to Pray with authority

As I made this little magnet my prayer was that people will be reminded of God’s sure promises. That they will start saying His promises out loud and that they will start to believe the promises. When we believe we can talk to a mountain and doubt not in our hearts and it shall be removed. Mark 11:23

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More interesting facts about Noah’s Ark – Did you know they found the ark!?

John 3:16

John 3:16 Fridge Magnet 7cm high

I am sitting at home, it’s Lock Down around the World and the only thing I keep on thinking of is how sad it is that every body is focused on Covid-19 and not on the saving power of Jesus Christ!

 

So I began to pray. I have learnt how to take authority and how to pray the Word. So I am praying: ” In the name of Jesus I command this Virus to Stop and to Die! The Word of God says no weapon formed against us shall prosper! No Plague shall come near my dwelling! Angels of the Lord, I command you to go and stand between the sick and the healthy and stop this virus. Corona Virus I command you to stop and die!”

Then as I was praying I saw the cross on top of the World and I heard the words of John 3:16 in my spirit. FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, SO THAT WHO EVER BELIEVES ON HIM SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE!

I saw how the blood of Jesus dripped off the cross onto the World. How the light that shined forth from the drops of blood started to envelope the entire earth until all the darkness in the world was replaced with pure light. 

I encourage you all to look to Jesus for he is the Healer. He is the savior. I would not mind to die because I know that I am going to Jesus to go and live with him forever and ever. I just hope that all the people who have died so far were able to say the same. But at the same time I know that no harm will befall me or my family because I have the promises of the Word of God and because I believe every Word that God has written for me.

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but that of POWER and LOVE and a SOUND MIND! 

I urge you to not be afraid. There is no power in fear, the Holy Spirit comes upon us with power. That power is the power of Love, healing and salvation. God does not kill, steal and destroy, Satan does.  Jesus died and he concoured Satan, he declared all the power of the enemy void. Then Jesus gave us that power. We have power over all the power of the enemy. Believe it, be Bold and declare the Word of God over your life and your loved ones. Declare that you are protected and declare that you are healed! Let’s not give Satan any foothold in our lives. If you would like to get hold of my magnets send me an email. 

I just molded my new John 3:16 magnet now. I posted pictures below.

Post your replies down below! I would love to hear your thoughts.

Michell

Creation

This Magnet is named CREATION.

Creation Fridge Magnet 6 cm x 7 cm

I love John 1 that starts with:  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…and later in verse 14 it says and the Word became Flesh and dwelt among us…

In this magnet I am portraying how the same word of God who created the world as described in Genesis 1 is the same word who became flesh. (Thus the hand coming out of the Bible)

The fact that the Word of God creates everything it is sent to do and that it never comes back empty gives me Goose bumps. As I was thinking this over I suddenly realized that not only was I created by the Word of God, but that the same Word who became flesh died for me on the Cross.  Then Jesus ascended up to the Father where he sat at the right hand of God. Then according to ACTS 2:33 Jesus received the promise, the Holy Spirit which he then in turn poured out on us! Thus we did not only just receive the Holy Spirit but we received the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

When I studied all the scriptures I could find mentioning the Holy Spirit I found a few key facts:

The Holy Spirit abides in every believer, the Holy Spirit is always demonstrated with Power. Luke 4:14 says Jesus returned from the wilderness in the power of the Holy Spirit.  ACTS 1:8 says believers shall receive power after the Holy Spirit came upon them. Rom 15:19 says through the power of the Holy Spirit the apostles did mighty signs, wonders and miracles. Then the Holy Spirit is also the Word of God. Eph 6:17 says we should take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. 

Thus in the magnet I show how the Word became flesh but the same Word is also the Spirit of God(demonstrated by the Dove) which was sent forth with Power to create. This very same power is also in each of us for the Spirit of God was not poured out in measure John 3:34 and the manifestation of the Spirit is given to EVERY believer! 1Cor 12:7.

The power to create is in us, and it is in our words. We should be careful to speak only what is pure, lovely and truthful. 

My prayer I was praying over this magnet as I created it and over every one I paint is that you will be made aware of the Power of God in you! That we will start to use the Power of God, to accomplish the will of God in this world. 

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How to have Quiet Time – Practical Lessons on how to spend time with God

Ron van Zyl has over 40 years of intensive experience in hearing the voice of God. He has built many things under guidance of the Holy Spirit and he has learned many things firsthand. Up until now he has written a dozen books in which he tells of his revelations he had had directly from God. As his daughter, I have been involved in the Ministry with him from the age of 14. Our whole family have been growing in the Lord together and we share our knowledge with you in a practical way.

Ron, Yvonne, Michell and Aldo van Zyl

I am setting out to create a training program in which I will guide you through the practical experiences we have had ourselves. I want to share our lives with you and I want to share the things that God has accomplished in us.

I am going to start at the beginning and share with you everything we have learned. I don’t know how many training classes there will be. I guess it might never stop as we are still learning and growing in the Lord daily.

We will start with the foundation stuff and if you are willing to follow along you too will be able to experience what I have experienced by working side by side with my dad. I have gone and dug up all my old diaries and I will share with you the road on which God has taken us, the narrow road on which we still tread carefully today…

Remember to post your comments at the end. I love to hear from you.

Lesson 1

Spending time with God

One of the first things we learned was to spend time with God daily, to have discipline and get up earlier in the morning and spend a set time with God.

I want to challenge you to spend a daily set time with God. Louis Malherbe wrote a book in which he said: Get up, finish with the night, wash, dress and go and spend time with God. Resist the urge to stay in bed a bit longer. If you are serious about God and go out to meet Him, He will meet with you.

If you are seeking God with all your heart and if your heart desire is to have a real relationship with God then you have to make a decision. You have to choose to seek God with all your heart and you have to choose to spend time with God daily. Choose the amount of time you are going to spend and choose your daily time and let this be your offer to God. By offering your time to God, you are giving him a small portion of your day. We are strong believers of Tithes and if you think about it a tenth of your day is actually about 2 hours and 24 minutes. No one has that much time a day unless you are at home all day and besides that it is very difficult to spend that much time with God and stay focused on Him. We have to train our spirit to spend time with God. It does not come naturally for we are naturally dark. By choosing to spend time with God we are training our spirit to be obedient and to stay tuned into the Spirit of God longer and longer every day. So by sowing time with God you will also start to reap time.

The Bible says if we Seek God we will find Him and if we knock the door will be opened.

In Genesis 19:27 Abraham rose early in the morning to go to the place where he met with God, from here he could see Sodom and Gomorrah burn. The Hebrew word for ‘early’ is H7925 shâkam. It means to literally pick up your load, to rest your load on the shoulder. It reminds me of Jesus saying if any man wish to follow him, they should pick up their cross and follow him. (Luke 14:27).

Here are some examples of people who rose early in the morning to be with God:

Pro 8:17:  “I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.”

Mark 16:2:  “And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.”

Mark 16:9:  “Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.”

Luke 21:38:  “And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.”

John 20:1: “The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.”

Revelation 22:16 Jesus is the bright and morning star

Jesus was up before the sun even came up, He too had to spend time with his Father. He had to give up sleep and walk away from the people to go and find solitude. From personal experience I know that if you have made this decision to spend time with God every day you will sometimes get into situations where you have to take a stand and tell your sleep over friends to give you your time. This has not made me popular and people could interpret this as you being a selfish person. Even in our Guest house we have denied giving breakfast because we are giving our early morning hours to God. We provide people with continental breakfast in their rooms, to which they help themselves.

When you make this decision to give your time to God you might need to make a few changes to your life. I promise you that you will reap the fruit of this decision in no time.

My Dad has carved many statues with a clock in them. He loves teaching people that you can also sow time with God and sow time with people. Ecclesiastics says there is a time for everything.

A time to be young and a time to be Old. Lead wood carved by Ron van Zyl

We always recommend that people should spend time with God in the morning because our minds are fresh and sharp. We can quickly subdue our thoughts before the troubles of the day comes into our minds.

Go into your closet

Mat 6:6:  “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” 

Obviously now that you have made a decision on spending time with God you also need to find a place where you can do it. I have an office where I go but you can go anywhere you like. So go today and prepare your ‘inner room’ as the Bible says. We are to go into our ‘closet’ or ‘inner room’ or even ‘upper room’ to spend time with God. 

What is the difference between the Soul and the Spirit – How to Divide

What is the difference between the Soul and the Spirit?

At The Shoe Ministries, God has given us a dividing line.  This line was given to us in a miraculous way and by using this principle of the Line, we are able to, not only divide between soul and spirit but also know what is the difference between the soul and the spirit.

Let’s start with the spirit

The way to understand the soul and the spirit in a Biblical sense is by using the cross. We are an artistic family and we use pictures to explain spiritual truths.  In this picture you can see the head or face of a person with a cross on it. The horizontal beam of the cross divides between the soul and the spirit of man.  The horizontal line runs across the forehead on the same place Jesus Christ wore his thorn crown. Where the horizontal and vertical beams cross, marks the spot where Goliath was killed with David’s stone from his sling shot.

The upper part of the cranium is where the spirit of man resides. Remember there is a difference between the spirit of man and the Spirit of God. When we draw the line across the forehead the upper part of the cranium represents a rising sun, like in the second picture here.

The spirit of man should be as calm and at peace as a beautiful, tranquil sunrise. In a calm spirit we make contact with God. The aim is that we want the Spirit of God to rule in our spirit.

The soul of man

Unfortunately we have a lower sinful nature that steals our peace.

When God created Adam He blew a breath into him which is the living soul. (Genesis 2:7)  This living soul part of man is where the will, intellect, feelings and emotions reside. We are naturally ruled by things that come out of the living soul to rule in the spirit of man. For example things like fear, anger and pride, come out of the living soul, below the Line, into the spirit of man and causes a different ruling spirit of fear, anger, pride and so on.

How to divide between soul and spirit

The work Jesus did on the cross was to divide between spirit and soul. By understanding the work of Calvary we can be saved from the way the natural sinful man comes into the spirit, from below. When we give our lives to Christ, His Spirit comes to live in our spirit, to teach us how to overcome the sinful nature of the living soul. The idea is that the spirit of man will be the throne of Christ and the living soul part, will die as the will, intellect, feelings and emotions of God come into our spirit.  The Bible calls this indwelling adversary the flesh. In Galatians 5 we are given a list of the fruits of the flesh. We are all capable of these things as they reside in us naturally.

Gal 5:19-21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

This list is not complete for words like evil, Devil, Satan, wicked, sorrow, ignorance should have been here also. This is what our natural sinful man looks like.  These things are in us but it is for us to discipline ourselves and practice self-control. As we know the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Because it is just about impossible to really deal with this part in us, God sent His Son to die to the flesh and rise in the Spirit.

In Luke 9:23 He invited us to follow; To lay down our life (flesh), take up our cross and follow Him daily. We can crucify those things we know should not come into the spirit. We can crucify those things we are heavily loaded with, nail it to the cross, die to it, and then rise in the Spirit free from the things that steal our peace. We invite the Holy Spirit to guide us in these things and gradually the fruit of the Spirit begins to flow from us.

Gal 5:24:  “And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”

Gal 5:22-23:  “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

Gal 5:25:  “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

Conclusion

When we look at a man with a living soul and spirit; he is called a soul. A man who has not been saved from the flesh, or is not at least taking part in becoming a better person is longing to be fulfilled with the nature of God. These unfulfilled people are the ones who listen to soul music and are constantly looking for love in the wrong places because they long to be fulfilled with love, joy and peace in their spirit.

1 Cor 15:45:  “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”

In the past it has not been possible to explain the soul and spirit in this way because no one knew what the cross stood for. The Line was found by an artist family in 2005- in a miraculous way.  Read about how the Line came about here.

Read more about the miracle of the Line and how it came about on the ‘About The Line’ post on this website.  The Line is useful in explaining and understanding all religions and every possible controversial Biblical question.  Look at the right side menu for more articles or under the ARTICLES tab at the top.

Recommended reading to continue with this topic:

The Series: The Line

Click here to read the foreword on each book or to obtain a PDF or hard copy.

These books cover the following topics:

  • The Garden of Eden – The Spiritual meaning of the Garden
  • The flood and the ark – The Spiritual meaning of the Ark
  • The Exodus out of Egypt – The passing through the Red Sea – The Spiritual meaning of it.
  • All other Bible stories explained.
  • The Promised Land
  • The Virgin birth explained logically.
  • The book of Revelation explained logically
  • The true work of the Cross and what happened in the spiritual world during the crucifixion.

And much much more…

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About the Line

The Line – How it came about

The knowledge of the Line came to us the hard way. Craving to know more about God, I was praying outside at three in the morning. It was then that I had a vision of a cave where people would sit down in rooms where soft

Ron and Yvonne van Zyl

lights would fall on them and the frown of each person would disappear and a crown would take its place. Once people have gone through the cave they would even look different. I think the muscles they use to think with relaxes, for their faces change. Some say because the cave is under ground it seems like a baptism into the Word as you descend and ascend on your way out. When I saw this vision I told the Lord that I would like to be involved with such a thing that can make a difference and bring truth to people.

However my life became hard since that day. We were poor people Yvonne and I, we had no money and no property at that time. We build our own house on a piece of land a farmer gave us but it was not our property. At  least my sculptures were selling and I have a hard working selfless wife. Together we bought our property by faith, brought up our children in the same way. I build every building with stone from the mountain on the property and carved wooden sculptures continually for an income and my wife made hamburgers as we built our guesthouse.

When everything was completed the Lord said that I should build the cave. I thought that it was unfair for I believed that we deserved a two year holiday. But there was no holiday and no money to build the cave with. We just started digging under ground and build the cave during a period of three and half years. Without money, only hard work and faith. I was so tired

The Alpha Omega Cave – Room 5

while I was doing those sculptures underground that it seemed that I was dying on my feet. I carved those things that were imprinted in my mind during that night of the vision.

My life was a sea of tiredness. I went to bed tired and rose tired but the Lord provided. A man bought four sculptures with post dated checks, this was the finance for the project.

My wife had to bath me at night. I told my family that if it should be that I would die during the building of the cave, that they must fill it in with soil for then the cave could not be the Lord’s will.

Alpha Omega Cave – Room 6

Looking back I can see that my pride would have been in the way for I had no understanding of what the flesh was. While I was doing this work  I was completely dependent on the Holy Spirit to guide me. He built the cave and put things in there that I did not know at the time.

By the time the Cave was finished the children were teenagers and began to take groups through the cave but it caused  offence. We struggled though those tours where people were fighting with us about religion. It was war for six years while we were in the school of the Holy Spirit. We had to study all religions so we could find common ground, but to no avail. We could not find a way to help all people understand the Bible.

Eventually when we could not stand the fighting any longer we decided to sell the property and move away. In my vision I saw masses of people saying that the cave have helped them but there were only a few that loved the cave.

The children went their way and Yvonne and I bought a broken down house by the sea where we meant to build and  live.  The Shoe property just would not sell. We were willing to give it away but no one wanted it, all the doors closed.

The first painting – The Line

During that time I did a painting in my quiet time over three months that we did not understand either.  One night the Lord woke me up early in the morning and told me to put a ruler on the painting. He specifically said look for the two edged sword. When I put the ruler on the photograph I had  of the painting, there was a line running straight through the painting, showing the cross beam of the cross divided between flesh and spirit.

Painting with the Line on it

For the first time we realized what it meant to be above and not beneath.  The people that were above were blessed but those below were cursed. (Deut 28:13)  And God would place His people above…

When I told the children, all were so amazed and we started to live the LINE. No longer looking down into the worldly fleshly things but looking up, living by the fruit of the Spirit. It changed our lives and brought other challenges that showed that we are all sinners dependent on the work of the cross. God loves it when a family strive together to be better people. We learnt to use the cross daily and lay our lives down or crucify the flesh; which can be a lot of fun when you do it together. However it is also a very hard thing to be circumcised in your heart. To face your dark side. The old preachers knew about the  circumcision and called it the cutting.  We thanked the Lord for the Line but did not feel like going back to the cave. The Lord told us to go back and do our work in the cave and promised that from that day only the meek hearted will be allowed to go on the tour. (Isaiah 61).  As we started obeying the Lord He showed us that there was a Line inside each of the rooms of the cave. We had the cave for six years and did not know there was a Line.

The Alpha Omega Cave – Room 1

It blessed us and it is a great blessing to our visitors. The Line has removed the burdens of carrying the problems of others. We simply show the Line and how it proves the cross as the place to lay down your life as Jesus taught. Since that day we have no more arguments in the cave. Even the Doctors and Professors cannot argue against the Line. The Line is a tool which God has given all people to discern between flesh and spirit.

Books and DVD’s

Our books are called ‘The Line series‘ because of the supernatural way God has taught us about the heart or conscience through paintings and the cave. In this way we learnt that the horizontal cross beam of the cross causes a division between flesh and spirit. We learnt that all-though we were completely devoted to having time with God we used to start above this Line in the spirit in the morning, then as the day continued we would begin to live below the Line, in the flesh, as the storms and troubles of the day had its way with us. We learnt that below the Line is our will, intellect, feelings and emotions which came into our spirit above the Line and caused that we lost the blessing of God this way.

We see the cross all over the world but no one knows what it really means.

It was a long learning curve for us as the Holy Spirit used the Line to transform our minds out of the fleshly into the spiritual. Because of the Line we learnt that all people wake up below in the flesh. Just because we gave our lives to God, as Christians do, God did not remove the flesh and it’s sinful lust from us. No! In fact we have to learn to overcome the flesh in Christ. This is the work the Holy Spirit performs in our hearts as we learn to become a living sacrifice, Rom 12:1-2.

God has given us a Line to discern between spiritual and earthly things. This Line has disproved many doctrines of religions and statements that are still being made by well meaning teachers.  It has also at the same time proven that some religions and understandings were correct. The Lord has given us a tool that can be used by all to understand the Bible and its many controversies.

For example I was reading the work of a person who was teaching that the Old Testament did not happen physically. He says it is stories that are supposed to teach us how spiritual things should happen inside the minds of people who wish to grow spiritually. Statements like these cause offence, yet no one knows how to give satisfactory  answers to those who are truly searching for the truth.

Let me give you a taste of the kind of content you will find in our books.

By using the Line to rightly discern by and the Strongs dictionary we learnt that the Genesis creation was a physical event that portrays the spiritual growth of those who wish to grow spiritually. I am saying that everything that is physical is also spiritual. People are trees, wildernesses, gardens or mountains.  People can be the Tabernacle of God or they can be the dwelling of all the hoards of hell.  The Genesis creation acts is the story of the way we are created dark and deep. These words of Genesis 1 is translated out of the Hebrew text as wicked, sorrow and ignorant. I was dark and deep but then the Holy Spirit moved upon the face of my deep soul and called light into being. This is the day we give our lives to God. The word ‘light’ is translated as happiness and morning sun. Jesus is the son of the morning. This was our happy day, however after giving our hearts to Jesus then follow the wilderness as we are Led by the Spirit into the “dry land”, in the same way Jesus was led into the wilderness for testing. As we read Genesis 1 we see how we eventually begin to realize that we have the light but we also have the night in us. During the trials the Holy Spirit teaches us when we are in the light and what we look like when we are dark. When we eventually learn that we will never be able to keep our minds above in the light by ourselves we are like the prodigal son who comes home to his father and knows that he has to trust in the Lord his God with all his heart and not lean on his own understanding. Read our books the “The Short Sword” and “A Room with a view” complete with pictures and scriptures. In these books you will see that the physical garden with two types of fruit is a physical creation that shows that we are God’s garden where we can choose to eat the fruit of the flesh or the fruit of the Spirit. Gal 5:19-22. In this way every physical event that happened in the Old Testament is those spiritual events that will take place inside each one of us who strive to have the heart to become the Kingdom of God. This transition for each man to exercise his own will and choose between light and darkness is of such importance to our Creator that all the generations of the Old Testament would show the way to the New Testament people who would become kings and priests of an indwelling Tabernacle of God in mankind. Remember that most of the main players in the Old Testament can be traced as the blood line of Jesus Christ.

I am convinced in my heart that the Bible is a spiritual book. Although it uses history to portray the spiritual growth of people, it does not prophesy world events. The spiritual growth of us, the New Testament people, is of such importance to the Holy Trinity that thousands of years of preparation have gone into this final great climax; “That a man shall become the dwelling of God!”

The arguments that there is no archaeological proof for Biblical events are untrue.

Many people have spent their lives proving the Bible as historically and archaeologically correct. They are not hard to find. My work however has been to prove that the Bible is spiritually correct.

Do not be misled, God had planned from the beginning of Genesis that a man born in the earth as being dark, sinful, prideful, wicked, ignorant and ruled by his fleshly lusts can become the dwelling of God. As those four thousand years of history came to a climax the Son of God is born in the earth without sin. By example he teaches humility,self-control and discipline. He teaches that we should follow Him and lay down our sinful carnal nature daily; die as He died to the flesh and rise in the Spirit, to live a life free from the flesh. Right here in the earth we can be heavenly minded and saved from the flesh daily, to live a life in Christ.  Adam and Eve could not keep their garden by themselves, but because of Christ we can—in Christ. In this way we can now be the garden of God.

Woman fighting her lower nature

I have seen how people with blood pressure problems normalize as they understand that the Line teaches the conscience.  The terrors of the conscience can cause excessive eating, drinking and smoking. These are only crutches as they try to stay sane while the conscience accuses. Most irrational  behaviors come from the state of the conscience.  I was not taught about the conscience by preachers. I was taught about grace, faith, forgiveness and God’s love. When God confronted me with the state of my conscience I learnt lessons that explained the confusion that religions have brought to the world.  I realize now that the cave is not for people as much as it was for me. No one taught me that to crucify my problems was the only way to forgive and forget. When my body started to ache and shake the Doctor said that I worked too much. In fact it was the state of my conscience, and I had no idea how it worked or what God required from me.  I grew up with preachers in the family who knew nothing about the conscience for I remember the pride, jealousy and bitterness that ruled their lives.  They were good people who loved God and had great testimonies but they were just as confused as I was. As I studied the works of the old preachers like Watchman Nee, Jessi Penn Lewis, Henry Matthew, F.B. Meyer, Morison, Spurgeon and Martin Luther I was amazed to see that they had exactly the same understanding of the scriptures as what God has given us by the Line. It seemed to me that Luther must have walked through the cave to have the understanding that we have by means of the Line. It seemed as if I had grown up in a spiritual dark age, for the basics of the Line has been taught as long as people searched for God.  They did not have a proven Line as we have but they understood that the heavens should be in the heart. They lived and walked in heavenly places looking down on the chaos below. This subject of the conscience is not popular as it means that you have to work on yourself.

Moses – The most humble man on the face of the earth.

Teaching grace is by far more popular for that meant that no matter what you did with your conscience you would be forgiven. I did not realize that I was searing the conscience of those I offended.  When I studied Luther;s commentary on Galatians I found the word ‘conscience’ at least once on every page of a five hundred and thirty page book. Luther slayed me when he mentioned in the foreword that the conscience should be the throne of the Christ Spirit. I have never heard this language outside of the cave. Yet the old preacher knew these things that somehow was lost along the way.

The moment God taught me about the sanctification of the heart by the Line, my body healed. Because of the Line we know how to get our prayers answered. Where to get healing and how to find out what is the will of God for our lives.

Through this revelation called The Line, we have learnt how to understand and explain the wonderful teachings of the Old and New Testaments in a practical way of how to overcome the flesh and live in the blessing. The physical flood for instance is a example of what happens in the hearts of all of mankind as lower emotions rule in us at will. We are flooded with various  chemicals that produce imaginations in the heart.  These chemical combinations produce the fruit of the flesh such as rage, depression, pride and so forth. However as the ark of Noah was saved from the flood to settle safely on the mountain so can we be saved daily into Christ.  Once we understand the line every question you have ever had about the Bible will be understood.

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Ron van Zyl