Justin van Niekerk - Psalmaic minsitry

Wholehearted devotion...the kind of devotion, that caused men and women of old to be beheaded for their faith. Or In the gaze of history, and the crusades of Christian slaughter - war mixed with religion, in the new testament sense is this something condoned by our Lord? In the face of freedom of religion in many parts of the world, what does God expect from us as wholehearted and devoted Christians? Evangelism of old seemed to be very aggressive in the early Christian life of believers, strong men like the disciples laying the foundation for the Christian faith on Jesus himself seems to make our stance on all other religions a cause to be hateful, disrespectful and uncompassionate. Yet, if our religion's most important command is this: "Love the Lord thy God with all they heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and the second is like unto it love thy neighbor as thy love thyself" Jesus our Lord of our faith, made it clear of everything said and done, al...

The underlying message of all – Is faith, hope and love Introduction The topic in discussion is one that explores the essence of what God is trying to say to His church, and also very importantly the spirit in how it is being said. We can do a major injustice to scripture, the very word of God breathed - to miss what it is saying and how it is saying it (The spirit in how it is said). There has been centuries of study on the word of God, study though can only do so much in understanding who God is. The main purpose of the word of God is to know Him (God) intimately as it is pouring out characteristics, poetry, wisdom and feelings of God’s love towards us. By studying the word of God, to know about Him and failing to get to know Him creates one of the biggest failures to the purpose of the church/bride and body of Christ. The understanding of our place in a world through the word of God, makes one humble, equal with all others and servant along with others to the master and Gr...

Our foundation We understand that a foundation is the basis that carries everything which rests upon it. God made Christ our strong foundation, a solid rock upon which our lives can be built. This metaphorical language of the rock, can be known as Gods guiding word, to teach us what is good. Jesus is that word, and the word made flesh. The word of God does not fail to instruct us, in any aspect of life - whether it touches a element of life directly, or whether the thing which we need guidance on does not get answered directly we can know through the mind of Christ - what we must think, speak and how we must act on any situation. The word of God, helps us to live in our relationships with humans, it teaches us how to please God, through obedience rather than sacrifice. Gods word must be the foundation to every decision, thought or action we undertake because in it He ensures our success through the indwelling of His word. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall a...

Christianity - My philosophy on what is life? The world began, regardless of the thoughts of all wise and foolish man, it began. Life calls Him, it calls her, to know this thing called life - A journey by one predetermining thought, to know our Master or not. I reckon with His mind, I reckon with His heart, It beats so deep, it beats so sweet, it beats a song of love and peace. This is His truth, to live must be to love. He simply died for the truth, one we can't deny. We must die for love, or turn our backs to knowing our very selves. I choose not an intellectual path, no I hinder not on wisdom of man, I reason deeper, I reason within,   and there is where God lies my beginning and end.

Chaining our lives over and over again… What we decide to loosen here, is loosened by a decree given by God. Our faith moves God, for His righteous purpose. What we bind here in the land of the living, is bound by our God in heaven. Our faith in Gods righteous rule, breaks the chains Our faith in ourselves ties them all over again. We are left with choices, but our decisions on the things we choose, determines a smooth and safe path for our feet. Don't do this and don't do that, don't touch this and keep your hands off that! Through every word spoken in our own confidence, we bind the spirit of Gods grace to move in our lives. In Him we live, in Him we breathe in Him we have our being! A chain is made through a series of linkages, when we decide to prohibit the spirit, through every decision made we cause another link to our slavery…

Learning at Jesus feet… Jesus is seated, He is ready to teach. To teach those who will come to His feet. He has a place in life, He sits at the place of our hearts in the room where we reflect. Yes once He comes into our hearts, He seats himself at the fireplace of the holy spirit of God ready to impart knowledge and understanding to His flock. He knows the tomorrows, He is able to plan every detail of our lives…He has plans for good and not for disaster. But, it remains unto us to not be preoccupied but enter the room of conversation where we reflect and learn at Jesus feet…

Why begin at nothing, when nothing doesn't exist Look out into empty darkness, look out in to brilliance of light Start not at either source, but let your heart go on Gods course. In the beginning He was there, He was there when the beginning occurred, The beginning had not been, but God was there - where can one start, without seeing God, where do we end without seeing Him there. Can we escape Him? Can we conceive him? We can't conceive nothing, even if we tried - how then can we start to imagine nothing when nothing is only nothing. We pursue blindly when our first cause is not God, we pursue foolishly when we honor stars, wind and the earthly things of this world. Do we not ask who made these? Do we not reckon their detail is too much for mere chance. Perhaps, a second gaze, or perhaps one last glance We can never come to the end of it, the awesome world created by God!

Our water The water seems to know no end, wherever it goes it finds a way and pushes through come what may. Water has no color, hardly has any shape but it remains a powerful thing one that sings, it makes rocks tremble, It has waves that breaks and then hushes our worries It seems to minister daily the omnipotence of God Almighty! I dare not boast, I dare not exalt myself, in a world where the awesome presence of all natures things seems to make a louder cry of one who is worthy to cry out in glory! Water is one witness that can never be undermined, surely we must listen and understand when water ever so naturally displays the qualities of our powerful Lord Almighty!

My powerful choice My powerful choice holds a certain truth, either I choose to reach out at a hand stretched out, or ignore the call to enter life. My choice is left with two, not one, not 3, not a thousand why would it be so many? Life is not complicated, it is simple it is truth. No, life's power come from only 2 choices presented. A choice of life or death? A choice of drink or thirst? A choice of light or dark? A choice of fountain springs or deserted seas? A choice of Christ or the world? A choice of relationship or religion? You choose… This choice of only 2 leads into worlds where each pays a wage, a wage of either death or eternal life.

Going away from God empty handed His glory, His honor , His splendor, is not such that we are to come with pockets full of treasure, or lands full of gold. No His majesty, has acquainted itself with my poverty. He does not interest Himself, in my fame and accolades, But He stoops low to me to accept a heart full of pain, a heart full of desiring Him. He refuses not the humble and poor in spirit, but He sends away the proud and rich in their own discretion empty handed. Our King owns cattle on a thousand hills, He says, I declare the order of the riches of the world, I give them to those I see fit, Therefore the glory of our wealth doesn't interest Him, why should it? When they are His? But, the one very thing God has given me, the one I own is to love Him freely, this is what God desires this is what He applauds, indeed I am never left empty handed when giving to Father everything He has given to me when knitting me together in the womb of my mother. Wealth do...