As I’m on my bike, I could squeeze through, just as the traffic starts to flow. On the opposide side, I see this scene:

Whooaa, I thought, there’s no way someone will get out of this one alive, and my mind jumps to an audiobook I recently bought where a guy, Don Piper, told how he was crushed to death in a similar accident but was prayed back to life (90 minutes in Heaven). What I surprise I got this morning when I heard the following story on radio! 702 Eyewitness News reports:

A Johannesburg man has described his miraculous escape from a 25 car pile up on the N1 in Sandton.

Absolom Morifi crashed into a truck on the highway between Rivonia Road and the Buccleuch Interchange late yesterday afternoon.

The truck driver lost control of his vehicle after his brakes failed, causing him to swerve across all four lanes.

Emergency personnel were amazed to hear Morifi talking as they tried to reach him in his wrecked car, wedged under the truck.

As he was removed, unscathed from the wreckage, he dusted himself off and praised God.

Morifi says he went to church on Sunday and felt bad about not paying his tithe and so yesterday morning cancelled his life insurance so that he could cede his monthly installment to the church.

He says as he saw the truck heading towards his car, he called out Jesus’ name and prayed.

The Buccleuch Interchange was badly backed up for several hours and two other people were slightly injured. [702.co.za]

Big up, Absolom, that you weren’t found hanging from the proverbial tree, and please write your story so that we can keep it for the future!

In fact, I thought of compiling a book of crashes of the N1, which is notorious for its fatalities (1 person dead per km per year, I think)… “N1: 1 life/km/yr” would be a fairly unlame title. But I won’t, not until there’s more good news like this…

As I’m on my bike, I could squeeze through, just as the traffic starts to flow. On the opposide side, I see this scene:

Whooaa, I thought, there’s no way someone will get out of this one alive, and my mind jumps to an audiobook I recently bought where a guy, Don Piper, told how he was crushed to death in a similar accident but was prayed back to life (90 minutes in Heaven). What I surprise I got this morning when I heard the following story on radio! 702 Eyewitness News reports:

A Johannesburg man has described his miraculous escape from a 25 car pile up on the N1 in Sandton.

Absolom Morifi crashed into a truck on the highway between Rivonia Road and the Buccleuch Interchange late yesterday afternoon.

The truck driver lost control of his vehicle after his brakes failed, causing him to swerve across all four lanes.

Emergency personnel were amazed to hear Morifi talking as they tried to reach him in his wrecked car, wedged under the truck.

As he was removed, unscathed from the wreckage, he dusted himself off and praised God.

Morifi says he went to church on Sunday and felt bad about not paying his tithe and so yesterday morning cancelled his life insurance so that he could cede his monthly installment to the church.

He says as he saw the truck heading towards his car, he called out Jesus’ name and prayed.

The Buccleuch Interchange was badly backed up for several hours and two other people were slightly injured. [702.co.za]

Big up, Absolom, that you weren’t found hanging from the proverbial tree, and please write your story so that we can keep it for the future!

In fact, I thought of compiling a book of crashes of the N1, which is notorious for its fatalities (1 person dead per km per year, I think)… “N1: 1 life/km/yr” would be a fairly unlame title. But I won’t, not until there’s more good news like this…

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The revival story so far…
27May06: corporate repentance service
03Jun06: corporate baptism service
04Jun06 (day of Pentecost): corporate outpouring of the Spirit service on Pentecost day.

6-week recap:
Teachings about priorities, the Cross life, self-denial. We saw the Cross as the Power and Wisdom of God. We learnt to apply the power of the cross in our lives as being dying to self and being restored to the throne snd the sons of glory and only theounght the crosscan we egt bto bthe throne. Thed cross is the powwer that brings you to the throne. We nust lose our li ves and found it again. We are made little lower than Elohim, made tot rule, brougghht back tokingship back through Christ.

There’s an error where slaves are riding horses while the rulers must walk (Eccl). We have the wisdom of God, and must know nothing else but Christ crucified. Not with wise or persuasive words [not rest on man's wisdom], but with the demonstration of … So that our faith will not rest on man’s wisdom. The power of the wisdom of God – the Cross – will lift us up to rule in heavenly places. We are healed by beholding the slain lamb on the cross and receive healing through the Cross.

Why is Christianity in such a state? Because Satan has an open door in our lives but if we die to self on the cross those doors become non-existent.
We die, are buried and raised with Christ, col 3:1
Since we are raised with Christ – what now? We are enthroned with Christ in heavenly/spiritual/on high places. Now we must set our hearts on things above. If we are seated with Christ in heavenly places, why don’t we experience the throne-life? We must set our hearts on things above, the kingdom of God must be the affection of our heart.

So, set your hearts on things above where Christ and you are seated (and ruling).

This week:
The word ‘rudiments’ was placed on Johan’s mind. Col 2:1: Paul’s hope for the Colossians are that they may know Christ (ditto for the Ephesians), in whom all the treasures of divine wisdom and spiritual knowledge are. How do we sway to humanistic approaches to aid us in our spiritual growth? See examples of ppl preaching for 1hr or more without using the Bible, the Cross or the blood. v4 I say this so no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. See their steadfastness in v5. God told Johan that the church as never intended to drop standards in order to accomodate 1/2 baked Christians. (remember joke about guy seeing woman smoke in church? He was so offended he nearly dropped his beer!) v6 regulate your lives (get priorities right), walk in union with him and in conformity to Him. We must become a spiritual people. v7 have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted in him, being continually built up in Him…v8

We don’t live spiritually, so we don’t experience the spiritual. v8 we must move past and don’t be caught up in the rudiments, which is
the basic principles,
elementary teachings,
the first principles,
the world’s ideas & rules,
worldly principles,
philosophy,
so-called intellectualism,
Vain deceit,
Idle fancies and plain nonsense,
Following human tradition,
Because the power doesn’t lie in this. It lies in dying to self on the Cross.

Church 23/04/06 Brother Willis: “Give God No Rest”

Willis understands authority

Isa 62:1

The battle is taken up by the Father

Don’t let God rest:

“Lord, this is not my sickness, its Your sickess”

If the Lord delights in us, he will give us the land

Why are those problems of sickness still there?

DIY! Some things you have to do yourself.

Job – “my Redeemer lives”. You can take everything but my Redeemer lives!

Demon going back to clean house. You must fill the house!

Apply the Word to your doubts.

What are you filling your mind with?

Weapons in Eph 5 are all defense, except the sword of the Word.

Remind God of his promises from the Word.

If you really need a miracle, you will not rest asking. Eg Jesus: “you don’t throw meat at dogs”. Woman persisted, didn’t get offended. She gave Jesus no rest and got her miracle. God is ever willing to give as long as we’re ever willing to ask.

You are not supposed to keep coming back for the same problem

appropiate the healing!

Get up at night and pray

Get rid of all demonic artefacts; they’re open doors.

We’re called to be watchmen, be alert!

Luke 18:1 – pray and not faint

Dan 10 – daniel was seeking the face of God for many many weeks

Day 1: nothing happened

Day 2: nothing happened

Day 3: nothing happened

Daniel kept praying; could his prayers energise the angel fighting the demon of Persia?

So, don’t give up praying; “give God no rest”

Andy Cominsky 17/10/031.We need to be loved before we can love.

2. We get love from God and oher humans, esp mom & dad.

3. We’re born with a profound sense of seperation from love – if parents are struggling as well, problems!

4. Shame is native to our state of seperation and blocks us from partaking in God’s gifts. Its a stronghold which distorts reality, esp wrt relationships and the ability to give & receive love. It focuses us on our weaknesses & inferiorities

5. Freely loving someone can set him/her free!!

6. Only in Eden was there no shame

The father-wound

Symptoms of fatherlessness

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The power of the cross: Johan

The cross & its purpose is a violent, in-your-face, bloody thing. In coming to the cross in your sinfulness, we should expect same!

We have to confess (Greek: to agree with) our sins.

Cheap grace: ‘Im ok, you’re ok’, without the sacrifice. Gay churches = cheap grace! No – our God is a loving God, yes, but He is also a Holy God!

Is the cross in the center? The cross is at the center of the Gospel!

‘I Tend to exagerate?’ No, you LIE!

Conviction, initiation to confess from Holy Spirit via conscience (‘joint knowing’ in Greek)

Are we unreconciled with God? Prerequisite to reconciling is agreement with God.

Ezek: in the gap. Abba ran to the prodigal son. This is the kindness of God!

• The deeper the confession, the deeper the healing.

1. Stay with the Spirit until you can name your sin

2. Ask HS for Godly sorrow, don’t run too soon!

3. Stay until there’s experience of the iniquities of the sin.

Symbols bind up reality – L-A Payne

Remember the good of Christian fellowship! Our Christian borthers and sisters are there to confess our sins to, to pray with us and to bless us. It breaks the power of isolation, pride, independence and shame.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said: Cross destroys pride. Its power was released through the public death of Christ. We can’t have the power without the cross, without identifying with the Lamb who died for us!!

Prayer: Father, by your Spirit, convict me, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Andy Cominsky 18/10/03

Healing broken relationships between men and women

• Identify wounds

• Find Jesus in our hurts. He didn’t die for our suffering, but he taught us how to handle our suffering

• Forgive the wounder. Love him/her from your position IN CHRIST

Bronwyn’s testimony: Christian for 2yrs – a rollercoaster ride! At age 17 entered into lesbian relationship for 18 yrs. She became reborn, and for 5 months she tried to be a gay Christian, even though she knew it was wrong, but only because she couldn’t break off the relationship. Dad was a mysogenist. She hated being part of a weaker gender, even considered a hysterectomy. She felt that men weren’t even part of the human race. L/W taught her the complementary nature of man/woman. She only now embraces her femininity – whereas she hated to go to hairdressers, she now takes an afternoon of for it!

Heather: Healing the true feminine soul

• Essence of the feminine: not clothes, makeup, but their capacities of being – to carry, hold, sustain life.

• Mysogeny can also be from women.

• Actioning only on wounds w/out healing only bring on resentment, anger, bitterness.

• Research: boys perform better in co-ed, girl in single-sex. Girls *naturally* underperform in the presence of boys -> related to attraction. (Note: This is very interesting research, but I forgot to ask her what her sources are)

She shared 2Sam 13, where this one guy raped his half-sister he desired and then treating her like crap afterwards. Read it here.

Healing the masculine soul

• ‘I can’t help myself any more’

• New life from old surrendered in Christ

• Not bound in cultural expressions of masculinity. The ‘being’ and ‘doing’ must be in surrendering.

• How many men live in prisons their dads built?

Image – Craig

Grew up in conditions of worth in perfectionism, legalism, etc. Youngest of 5 sons, mom only 24. Parents struggling financially, mom assumed some of dad’s responsibilities, Craig @ 9yrs didn’t believe Dad loved him – emptyness & longing to be good enough -> 16yo abused him. Craig knew it was wrong, but there was a drawing to men – guilt & shame ensued. Porn & masturbation followed. Went o/seas & stayed with Christian friend – so, still couldn’t take mask off. Overcame homosexuality but left with a fear of no identity. Went o/seas again, and got answer as to why there’s such a fear of no id. Felt emptiness in heart and after speaking to trainer, told God how he felt. The Lord showed him image of lit house, where Craig isn’t letting Him into the inner room.

• Acknowledge mask

• Deal with the ‘need’ for masks.

Lastly, choose life…

Oh, and end-note, I opened my door on a champagne-color Corsa but couldn’t find the owner to apologise… so if you know anyone with this car please let me know — I got the reg. number as well, just thought of checking with the Police — I’m sure they’ll be able to help me. *doh!*