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A while back, God put it on my heart to write about this topic.  Phew…I thought, that’s quite a thing. Of course, I write all my blogs from my own experiences, my own pitfalls and victories together with God, and so it is often personal stuff that I share with you, and I have no […]

At the time of writing, it is March and spring is slowly arriving in our country. The wind is still fresh, but in between there are glimpses of spring. “March moves its tail” says the Dutch proverb, which means that the weather in March can sometimes change from one extreme to the other. Which reminded

There are many people around me who think that God does not exist. As if He is a fairy tale or a fable, and the Bible is a storybook, and you probably recognize it from your own environment. Yet it also strikes me that even though they do not believe (Yet 😉), they do keep

When I was a little girl, my family and I used to go to church. All I can remember about that was that the pews were hard and cold, and my mother gave us a mint during the service. I was about twelve years old when my parents divorced. My father (and that whole side

A while ago, I was reading Deuteronomy 1:8 and something struck me. God spoke to the Israelites through Moses and said that He had given them the promised land. But at that time, the Israelites were still in the land of Moab. “See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the

It was a hard learning process for me to hear God’s voice, and sometimes I still have trouble with it. I often wondered why it had to be so cryptic sometimes, couldn’t He just communicate more easily by giving the answer on a silver platter?  It could sometimes feel like a treasure hunt, one big

I can still remember so clearly what life was like without Jesus. I mainly looked forward to the worldly fun stuff; vacations, drinks, trips and weekends. There were always fun things planned during the weekends, but on Sunday evening I thought, “Arrggghhhh, back to work tomorrow”. I looked forward to holidays and trips, weekends away

Sometimes you can pray so long for a breakthrough that it seems like God isn’t hearing you. Do you recognize this? You can become frustrated because there seems to be no end to the situation you find yourself in. So I was in such a situation and eventually discovered that I was the problem. Ai!

“Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”- Matthew 16:24 Following Jesus; what exactly does that mean for our lives? At first, you will have to make some sacrifices. Look at Simon and his brother Andrew (Matthew 4:18–20). They left

It strikes me that there are so many people; fellow Christians, of all people, who continuously judge other brothers and sisters or ministries. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think that is the assignment Jesus gave us; to condemn each other. Sure, everyone is allowed to have an opinion, but is it to