“I’ll sing to you Lord a hymn of love for your faithfulness to me – I’m carried in everlasting arms. You’ll never let me go, through it all.”

The worship team led the congregation of the saints into a realm of absolute intimacy with the Holy Spirit as His presence filled the place. This worship and adoration of our Lord ushered in the unadulterated Word of God broken to us by Pastor van Wyk.

Bread of Life

Do we consider how often we eat food when we are hungry? This is how often we need to be feeding off the Word of God. It should be like the food we eat.

This morning the teaching was lead by Pastor Van Wyk. The theme verse was in Hebrew 3v12. Pastor Van Wyk opened the teaching with a strong statement of truth: “Faith in God comes before love of the saints.” The great message for the saints this morning was indeed a warning against unbelief.

When we harbour unbelief, you are considered to be wicked. When you are not a believer, then there’s unbelief in your heart. Unbelief cancels faith and faith pleases God. Surely the deduction is that when we do not have faith in God, then we displease Him. The call is to have the type of faith in God that holds onto Him even when He doesn’t turn up and then to still have the courage in unwavering faith in Him.

Faith starts in your heart not in your mind. Faith finds its roots, there in the centre of your being. The warning in the Word is to guard your heart above all else. This includes taking an active stance in guarding your heart against unbelief. Unbelief sets you on a path away from God toward rebellion. Unbelief despises and rejects God. Self-pity sprouts and leads to rebellion and then turns you from God. A manifestation of rebellion to God is often times seen in people opposing leaders.

Many times, leaders do not choose to be leaders. Their rank was chosen for them by God, the Sovereign. It is He who appoints persons to positions of leadership and it is He who equips them to operate in their ranking.

Just as faith starts in your heart, unbelief also starts in your heart. Constant murmuring and complaining spoken from a heart of hopelessness is the most common manifestation of an unbelieving heart.

When we claim to be believers in God, we are expected to have a strong belief in Him. This along with faith, separates us from those who live in unbelief and darkness. How then is it that we call ourselves believers yet we still carry on nuturing and unbelieving heart? Somewhere, something is wrong in our faith walk with God. We need to take time to reflect and investigate our hearts openly and honestly before God. We need to confess the unbelief in our hearts in true sincerity and ask God to forgive us as this is a sin.

Furthermore, we need to take an active decision to have our minds renewed all the time and be careful to guard our hearts in maintaining an active faith in God. Amen

By Marion Le Fleur