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Few people have undergone the trials and tribulations of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He suffered decades of horrendous hardship as a political exile in the Siberian prison system known as the Gulag, and through faith in God, he survived and impacted the world. We can learn from him not only because he is a survivor, but also because he had been in a situation that few of us have ever known—an existence of near total deprivation. He not only lived without luxuries, but he also lived without necessities. Note carefully what he wrote in The Prison Chronicle: “Don’t be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn for happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn’t last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. It is enough if you don’t freeze in the cold and if hunger and thirst don’t claw at your insides. If your back isn’t broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, and if both ears can hear, then whom should you envy? And why? Our envy of others devours us most of all. Rub your eyes and purify your heart—and prize above all else in the world those who love you and wish you well.” Now there’s a man who had figured out what really matters in life: not material things, but your relationship with God and with your loved ones. Jesus said, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:27:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 30 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:45 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730796 https://iono.fm/e/1730796 Die lewe word op verhoudings gebou, nie op besittings nie
Min mense het dieselfde beproewinge en verdrukking as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn deurgemaak. Hy het dekades van verskriklike ontbering as politieke balling in die Siberiese gevangenisstelsel bekend as die Goelag verduur, maar deur geloof in God het hy oorleef en die wêreld beïnvloed. Ons kan baie by hom leer, nie net omdat hy oorleef het nie, maar ook omdat hy in ‘n situasie was wat min van ons al ooit beleef het – ‘n bestaan van amper totale ontbering. Hy het nie net sonder luukshede geleef nie, maar ook sonder noodsaaklikhede. Let noukeurig op wat hy in The Prison Chronicle geskryf het: ‘Moenie vir ongeluk bang wees nie en moenie na geluk smag nie; dit is immers dieselfde. Die bitter hou nie vir ewig aan nie en die soet maak nooit die beker tot oorlopens toe vol nie. Dit is genoeg as jy nie in die koue vries nie en as honger en dors nie aan jou binnekant krap nie. As jou rug nie gebreek is nie, as jou voete kan loop, as albei arms kan buig, as albei oë kan sien en as albei ore kan hoor, wie moet jy dan beny? En waarom sal jy? Ons afguns van ander is wat ons die meeste benadeel. Maak jou oë oop en reinig jou hart - en waardeer bo enigiets anders in die wêreld, diegene wat jou liefhet en jou voorspoed toewens.’ Dit is nou ‘n man wat uitgevind het wat werklik in die lewe saak maak: nie materiële dinge nie, maar jou verhouding met God en met jou geliefdes. Jesus het gesê: ‘…Pas op! Moenie gierig wees vir wat jy nie het nie. Ware lewe word nie gemeet aan hoeveel ons besit nie.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:26:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 30 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730794 https://iono.fm/e/1730794 Don’t keep it to yourself
The writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exposed the horrors that multitudes of innocent people suffered under the old Russian Communist prison system. And here’s how he became a Christian. Jewish physician Boris Kornfeld was imprisoned in Siberia. There he worked in surgery, helping both the staff and prisoners. He met a Christian whose name is unknown, but whose quiet faith and frequent reciting of the Lord’s Prayer moved Dr. Kornfeld. One day, while repairing the slashed artery of a prison guard, Dr. Kornfeld seriously considered suturing the artery in such a way that the guard would bleed to death internally over time. The violence he recognized in his own heart appalled him, and he found himself saying, “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.” Afterward, he began to refuse to obey various inhumane prison camp rules, knowing it would put his life in danger. One afternoon, he examined a patient who had undergone a cancer operation. He saw in the man’s eyes a depth of spiritual misery that moved him, and he told him his own story, including his secret faith in Christ. That night, Dr. Kornfeld was murdered as he slept. But his testimony was not in vain. The patient who had heard his confession became a Christian. And the name of that Christian? The 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Don’t keep it to yourself; share with others what Christ has done for you. “The things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.” ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:25:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 29 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:53 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730792 https://iono.fm/e/1730792 Moenie dit vir jouself hou nie
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn se skrywes het die gruwels wat menigte onskuldige mense onder die ou Russiese Kommunistiese gevangenisstelsel gely het, blootgelê. Hy het as volg ‘n Christen geword. Die Joodse geneesheer, Boris Kornfeld, is in Siberië gevange geneem. Hy is gedwing om beide die tronkpersoneel en gevangenes te behandel en wanneer nodig, te opereer. Hy het daar ‘n Christen, wat se naam onbekend is, ontmoet, maar wat se stille geloof en gereelde opsê van die Onse Vader dr Kornfeld se hart aangeraak het. Eendag, terwyl hy besig was om die slagaar van ‘n tronkbewaarder te probeer herstel, het dr Kornfeld dit ernstig oorweeg om die slagaar so te heg dat die bewaarder mettertyd intern sou doodbloei. Die geweld wat hy in sy eie hart beleef het het hom ontstel, en hy het onbewustelik begin prewel: ‘Vergeef ons ons sondes, soos ons dié vergewe wat teen ons sondig.’ Daarna het hy uitgesproke oor die onmenslike gevangeniskampreëls begin raak, wetende dat dit sy lewe in gevaar sou stel. Eendag het hy ‘n pasiënt wat ‘n kankeroperasie ondergaan het, ondersoek. Hy het in die man se oë ‘n diepte van geestelike ellende gesien wat hom ontroer het. Hy het vir die pasiënt sy eie verhaal begin vertel, insluitend sy geheime geloof in Christus. Daardie nag is dr Kornfeld in sy slaap vermoor. Sy getuienis was egter nie tevergeefs nie. Die pasiënt wat sy belydenis aangehoor het, het ook ‘n Christen geword. Die naam van daardie Christen? Die 1970 Nobelpryswenner vir Letterkunde, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Moenie dit vir jouself hou nie; deel met ander wat Christus vir jou gedoen het. ‘Jy het my baie dinge hoor leer wat bevestig is deur baie betroubare getuies. Leer hierdie groot waarhede aan betroubare mense wat bekwaam is om dit aan ander deur te gee.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:24:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 29 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:21 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730790 https://iono.fm/e/1730790 The Lord believes in you (2)
The faith the disciples put in Jesus isn’t that remarkable—after all, they were eyewitnesses to His miracles. What’s remarkable is the faith Jesus put in them—and the faith He puts in us! It’s not easy to see past people’s problems, much less their personalities. But that’s what Jesus does, and it’s how we should treat others too. Jesus certainly put the disciples in their place when the occasion called for it. When Jesus told His disciples He would die and be raised on the third day, “Peter…began to rebuke him…‘This shall never happen to you!’” (Matthew 16:22 NIV). Whereupon Jesus said to him: “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me” (v. 23 NIV). But in the same chapter, Peter identified Jesus as “the Son of the living God” and Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven” (see Matthew 16:16-19 NIV). Healthy relationships require both “grace and truth.” Grace means, “I’ll love you no matter what,” and truth means, “I’ll be honest with you no matter what.” No one was more graceful and truthful than Jesus. And when these two elements combine in your life, you’re loving people the way Jesus did. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:23:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 28 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:47 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730788 https://iono.fm/e/1730788 Die Here glo in jou (2)
Die geloof wat die dissipels in Jesus gehad het, is nie so merkwaardig nie - hulle was immers ooggetuies van sy wonderwerke. Wat egter merkwaardig is, is die geloof wat Jesus in hulle gehad het - en die geloof wat Hy in ons het! Dit is nie maklik om verby mense se probleme te kyk nie, wat nog te sê van hul persoonlikhede. Dis egter wat Jesus doen en dis hoe ons ook ander mense moet behandel. Jesus het die dissipels beslis op hul plek gesit wanneer die geleentheid dit vereis het. Toe Jesus vir sy dissipels gesê het dat Hy sou sterf en op die derde dag opgewek word, het Petrus ‘…Hom egter eenkant toe geneem en ernstig begin bestraf: ‘…Dit sal U nooit as te nimmer oorkom nie!’’ (Matteus 16:22 NLV). Jesus het hom egter geantwoord en gesê: ‘…Gee pad agter My, jou satan! Jy maak dit vir my bitter moeilik…’ (vers 23 NLV). In dieselfde hoofstuk identifiseer Petrus Jesus egter as: ‘….die Messias, die Seun van die lewende God’ (vers 16 NLV). Jesus antwoord hom toe: ‘Gelukkig is jy… want my hemelse Vader het dit aan jou bekendgemaak. Hierdie wete het jy nie van enige mens ontvang nie. Ek verklaar nou vir jou: ‘Jy is Petrus. Op hierdie rots sal Ek my kerk oprig, en al die magte van die hel sal dit nie oorwin nie. Ek vertrou die sleutels van God se koninkryk aan jou toe…’’ (Matteus 16:17-19 NLV). Gesonde verhoudings vereis beide ‘liefdevolle goedheid en waarheid.’ Genade beteken dat julle vir mekaar lief sal wees en waarheid beteken dat julle eerlik met mekaar sal wees, maak nie saak wat nie. Wanneer jy hierdie twee elemente in jou lewe kombineer, het jy mense lief soos Jesus dit gedoen het. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:22:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 28 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:02 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730786 https://iono.fm/e/1730786 The Lord believes in you (1)
A school district picked three teachers to pilot a special program. They were told, “You are the best teachers we have. We want you to teach ninety high-IQ students and see how much they can learn in a year.” By the end of the school year, after having heard how special they were and what great potential they had, these students had achieved 20 to 30 percent more than the rest of the school district. That’s when the principal called the three teachers into his office and told them: “I have a confession to make. You did not have ninety high-IQ students. They were run-of-the-mill students randomly selected.” The teachers felt pretty good about what they pulled off. Then the principal said, “I have another confession. You are not the best teachers we have. Your names were the first three out of the hat.” So if they were average students taught by average teachers, how did they achieve above-average results? Because someone believed in them and told them so! The German poet Goethe said, “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.” No one modelled this better than Jesus: “The works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do.” We need someone who believes in us more than we believe in ourselves. That’s who Jesus is. That’s what Jesus does. That’s why you need to feed on His Word each day. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:21:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 27 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:38 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730784 https://iono.fm/e/1730784 Die Here glo in jou (1)
‘n Skooldistrik het drie onderwysers gekies om ‘n spesiale program aan te pak. Daar is vir hulle gesê: ‘Julle is die beste onderwysers wat ons het. Ons wil hê julle moet negentig leerlinge wat goed presteer onderrig en kyk hoeveel hulle in ‘n jaar kan leer.’ Teen die einde van die skooljaar, nadat hulle ‘n jaar lank gehoor het hoe spesiaal hulle is en watter groot potensiaal hulle het, het hierdie studente 20 tot 30 persent meer as die res van die skooldistrik bereik. Dit is toe dat die skoolhoof die drie onderwysers na sy kantoor roep en vir hulle sê: ‘Ek moet iets bely. Julle het nie negentig leerlinge wat vooraf goed presteer het in julle klas gehad nie. Hulle was gewone studente wat ewekansig gekies is.’ Die onderwysers het steeds redelik goed gevoel oor wat hulle reggekry het. Toe sê die skoolhoof: ‘Ek moet nog iets bely. Julle is nie die beste onderwysers wat ons het nie. Julle name was die eerste drie wat ek uit ‘n hoed getrek het.’ Hoe het hulle dan as gemiddelde studente wat deur gemiddelde onderwysers onderrig is, sulke bogemiddelde resultate behaal? Omdat iemand in hulle geglo het en dit vir hulle gesê het! Die Duitse digter Goethe het gesê: ‘Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.’ Niemand is ‘n beter voorbeeld hiervan as Jesus nie: ‘…wie aanhou om in My te glo, sal ook die werke doen wat Ek doen; hy sal selfs nog groter dinge as dit doen…’ Ons het iemand nodig wat meer in ons glo as wat ons in onsself glo. Dis wie Jesus is en wat Hy doen. Daarom moet jy elke dag sy Woord inneem. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:20:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 27 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730783 https://iono.fm/e/1730783 Choose your friends wisely
In his book The Mind of Watergate, psychiatrist Leo Rangell, M.D., related what he called a “compromise of integrity” as he analysed the relationship between former President Richard M. Nixon and several of his closest confidants in the White House. He recorded a conversation between investigative committee member Senator Howard Baker and young Nixon aid Herbert L. Porter. Baker: “Did you ever have any qualms about what you were doing? Did you ever think of saying, ‘I do not think this is quite right’…did you ever think of that?’ Porter: “Yes, I did.” Baker: “What did you do about it?” Porter: “I did not do anything about it.” Baker: “Why didn’t you?” Porter: “In all honesty, probably because of the fear of group pressure that would ensue, and of not being considered a team player.” There’s nothing wrong with being a team player as long as you are careful about choosing your team! The old saying is true: “You become like the company you keep.” The psalmist David said, “I am a friend to all who fear you, to all who follow your precepts” (Psalm 119:63 NIV). Solomon had a lot to say on this subject: “Walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous” (Proverbs 2:20 NIV). “He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed” (Proverbs 13:20 NKJV). “Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil” (Proverbs 4:14 NKJV). The friends you choose will profoundly influence the direction your life goes, so choose your friends wisely. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:19:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 26 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:49 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730780 https://iono.fm/e/1730780 Kies jou vriende met oorleg
In sy boek, The Mind of Watergate, vertel die psigiater Leo Rangell van wat hy ‘n ‘kompromie van integriteit’ noem. Dr Rangell het die verhoudings tussen die voormalige president Richard M. Nixon en verskeie van sy naaste vertrouelinge in die Withuis, ontleed. Hy het ‘n gesprek tussen die ondersoekkomiteelid senator Howard Baker en ‘n jong Nixon-medewerker, genaamd Herbert L. Porter, opgeneem. Baker: ‘Het jy ooit enige bedenkinge gehad oor wat jy doen? Het jy ooit daaraan gedink om te sê: ‘Ek dink nie wat ons doen is heeltemal reg nie?’’ Porter: ‘Ja, ek het.’ Baker: ‘Wat het jy daaraan gedoen?’ Porter: ‘Ek het niks daaraan gedoen nie.’ Baker: ‘Hoekom nie?’ Porter: ‘In alle eerlikheid, was ek waarskynlik te bang vir die groepsdruk wat sou volg en om nie as ‘n spanspeler beskou te word nie.’ Daar is niks daarmee verkeerd om ‘n spanspeler te wees nie, solank jy versigtig met die keuse van jou span is! Die geselskap wat jy kies, beïnvloed wie jy word. Die psalmdigter Dawid het gesê: ‘Ek is ‘n vriend vir almal wat U dien, vir elkeen wat u bevele gehoorsaam’ (Psalm 119:63 NLV). Salomo het baie oor hierdie onderwerp te sê gehad: ‘Loop jy liewer op die pad van goeie mense. Hou by die paaie van die regverdiges’ (Spreuke 2:20 NLV). ‘Hy wat met wyse mense meng, verkry self ook wysheid. Meng jou met dwase en jy word self soos hulle’ (Spreuke 13:20 NLV). ‘Moenie dieselfde pad loop as goddelose mense nie. Bly weg van die pad van boosdoeners’ (Spreuke 4:14 NLV). Die vriende wat jy kies sal die rigting wat jou lewe inslaan diep beïnvloed, kies dus jou vriende met oorleg. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:15:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 26 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730779 https://iono.fm/e/1730779 Believe God for your healing
If you’re dealing with sickness and believing God for healing, here’s the most important thing you can do: get into God’s Word and get His Word into you. “He sent his word, and healed them” (Psalm 107:20 KJV). There’s healing in the Word of God, so soak your mind on it. You may want long-term health and strength for your body. One of the most powerful verses in Scripture that reveals the purpose of Jesus’ suffering as it relates to healing is Isaiah 53:4 (AMPC): “Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses).” The word borne means to take or to carry. He took and carried every form of sickness on Himself. That doesn’t mean we won’t experience sickness. But it does mean that when sickness shows up, we can take it to Jesus and believe Him for our healing. Clearly God cannot be the source of sickness in your life, for Jesus carried all sickness, weakness, and distress for you on the cross. He is the source of your healing! Sickness is the result of Satan’s work and of living in a fallen world. But as a believer, you have the right to stand boldly on God’s promises for your healing and continued strength. When sickness rears its head and presses you with symptoms of any kind, remind yourself that Jesus carried that affliction for you, so you don’t have to carry it. The same back that bore the cross that takes away all our sins also bore the stripes that take away all our sickness: “By whose stripes you were healed” (1 Peter 2:24 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:14:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 25 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:45 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730778 https://iono.fm/e/1730778 Glo God vir jou genesing
As jy met siekte te doen kry en God vir genesing glo, is die volgende die belangrikste wat jy kan doen: verdiep jouself in God se Woord en verdiep sy Woord in jou. ‘Met ‘n woord het Hy hulle genees…’ (Psalm 107:20 NLV). Daar is genesing in die Woord van God, week dus jou gedagtes daarin. Jy wil dalk langtermyn gesondheid en liggaamskrag hê. Een van die kragtigste verse in die Skrif, wat die doel van Jesus se lyding soos dit verband met genesing hou openbaar, is Jesaja 53:4 (DB): ‘Hy het al die siektes gehad wat ons eintlik moes gehad het. Hy het die pyn ervaar wat ons eintlik moes ervaar het…’ Hy het elke vorm van siekte op Homself geneem en gedra. Dit beteken nie dat ons nie siekte sal ervaar nie. Dit beteken egter wel dat wanneer siekte te voorskyn kom, ons dit na Jesus kan neem en Hom vir ons genesing kan glo. Dit is duidelik dat God nie die bron van siekte in jou lewe kan wees nie, want Jesus het alle siekte, swakheid en pyn vir jou aan die kruis gedra. Hy is die bron van jou genesing! Siekte is die gevolg van Satan se werk en van die lewe in ‘n gevalle wêreld. As gelowige het jy egter die reg om met vrymoedigheid op God se beloftes vir jou genesing en volgehoue krag te staan. Wanneer siekte sy verskyning maak en jou met simptome van enige aard begin aanval, herinner jouself dat Jesus daardie lyding namens jou gedra het sodat jy dit nie self hoef te dra nie. Dieselfde rug wat die kruis gedra het wat al ons sondes wegneem, het ook die wonde gedra wat al ons siektes wegneem: ‘…Deur sý verwonding is julle genees!’ (1 Petrus 2:24 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:13:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 25 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:08 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730777 https://iono.fm/e/1730777 See your job as your calling
Someone may have hired you to do your job, but they didn’t call you. Only God can call you. You may have been elected to your position, but your constituents didn’t call you. Only God can do that. No matter where you work or what you do, you were called by God. In a sense, your job is your sermon, and your colleagues are your congregation. And that sense of calling means Monday morning begins another week of fulfilling your God-given assignment. Perhaps you’re just starting out and working in a lower-profile job. “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin” (Zechariah 4:10 NLT). While you are working on your job, God is working in you. Get the right perspective here. It’s not your job; it’s His. It’s not your cause; it’s His. It’s not your business; it’s His. It’s not your vision; it’s His. It doesn’t matter what domain of society you work in or where you are on the org chart. You are called by God. You are where He wants you to be—even if you’re not where you want to be. Sometimes the greatest sermon is doing a good job at a bad job or doing a thankless job with a grateful heart. And here’s a promise you can stand on every day as you do your job: “The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens…my ear to listen like one being instructed” (Isaiah 50:4 NIV). So, see your job as your calling. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:11:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 24 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730776 https://iono.fm/e/1730776 Beskou jou werk as jou roeping
Iemand het jou dalk aangestel om jou werk te doen, maar hulle het jou nie geroep nie. Slegs God kan jou roep. Jy is dalk verkies tot jou posisie, maar jou kiesers het jou nie geroep nie. Slegs God kan dit doen. Maak nie saak waar jy werk of wat jy doen nie, jy is deur God geroep. Dit beteken dat op ‘n Maandagoggend nog ‘n week van die vervulling van jou Godgegewe opdrag begin. Miskien het jy pas daar begin werk en probeer jy nog om ‘n lae profiel te hou. ‘Die werk wat nou aan die gang is, lyk miskien klein en nie waffers nie. Maar moenie die waarde daarvan onderskat nie…’ (Sagaria 4:10 DB). Terwyl jy werk, werk God in jou. Jy moet die regte perspektief inneem. Dis nie jou werk nie; dis God se werk. Dis nie jou saak nie; dis God se saak. Dis nie jou besigheid nie; dis God se besigheid. Dis nie jou visie nie; dis God se visie. Dit maak nie saak in watter area van die samelewing jy werk of waar jy op die organogram is nie. Jy word deur God geroep. Jy is waar Hy wil hê jy moet wees - selfs al is jy nie waar jy wil wees nie. Soms is die grootste getuienis om ‘n goeie taak by ‘n slegte werk te doen, of om ‘n ondankbare werk met ‘n dankbare hart te doen. Hier is ‘n belofte waarop jy elke dag kan staan terwyl jy jou werk doen: ‘Die oppermagtige Here het my geleer sodat ek dié wat moeg is moed kan inpraat. Elke môre maak Hy my wakker en leer my luister soos dit ‘n leerling betaam’ (Jesaja 50:4 NLV). Beskou dus jou werk as jou roeping. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:10:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 24 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730775 https://iono.fm/e/1730775 By God’s grace you can rise again
The difference between success and failure is often the ability to get up one more time than you were knocked down! Moses could easily have given up. He had an “interrupted” childhood, lived with a foster family, had a criminal record, a stammering tongue, and a temper that would eventually keep him out of the Promised Land. But when God called him to lead Israel out of Egypt, he said “yes.” Joshua had been to the Promised Land, but then, through no fault of his own, he was forced to wander in the wilderness for forty years. He could have given up in discouragement, but he was willing to go when God said to go. Peter sank while trying to walk on water, was rebuked by Jesus for trying to tell Him what to do, and even denied knowing the Lord. He could easily have seen himself as a hopeless failure. But after he’d been to the upper room and was filled with the Holy Spirit, he preached, and three thousand people were won to Christ in a day. Eventually he became a leader in the church, wrote two books of the New Testament, and ended as a martyr for the cause of Christ. Have you fallen and feel like you can’t get up? These Scriptures are for you: “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord…Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand” (Psalm 37:23-24 NKJV). “Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; when I fall, I will arise” (Micah 7:8 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:08:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 23 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:40 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730764 https://iono.fm/e/1730764 Deur God se genade kan jy weer opstaan
Die verskil tussen sukses en mislukking is dikwels die vermoë om een keer meer op te staan as wat jy geval het! Moses kon maklik opgegee het. Sy gesin moes hom wegsteek, hy het by ‘n pleeggesin grootgeword, ‘n kriminele rekord gehad, hy het gehakkel en ‘n humeur gehad wat hom uiteindelik daarvan sou weerhou om die Beloofde Land binne te gaan. Toe God hom egter geroep het om Israel uit Egipte te lei, het hy daartoe ingestem. Josua het die Beloofde Land binnegegaan, maar sonder dat hy skuld daaraan gehad het, is hy eers gedwing om veertig jaar lank in die woestyn rond te swerf. Hy kon in moedeloosheid tou opgegooi het, maar hy was bereid om te gaan waar God hom gesê het om te gaan. Petrus het begin sink terwyl hy op die water probeer loop het, is deur Jesus bestraf omdat hy Hom probeer voorsê het wat om te doen en het selfs ontken dat hy die Here ken. Hy kon homself maklik as ‘n hopelose mislukking gesien het. Nadat hy egter in die bovertrek met die Heilige Gees gevul is, het hy gepreek en drieduisend mense in een dag vir Christus gewen. Uiteindelik het hy ‘n leier in die kerk geword, twee boeke van die Nuwe Testament geskryf en het as martelaar vir Christus se saak gesterf. Het jy geval en voel dit asof jy nie kan opstaan nie? Hierdie Skrifgedeeltes is dan vir jou: ‘Die Here bepaal die rigting van ‘n mens… Al sou so een struikel, hy sal nie val nie, want die Here hou sy hand vas’ (Psalm 37:23-24 NLV). ‘My vyande, julle moenie julle oor my verlekker nie! Ek het geval, maar ek sal weer opstaan…’ (Miga 7:8 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 23 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:01 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730757 https://iono.fm/e/1730757 Seek to empower others
Secure people seek to empower others. Jesus was a master at it. By empowering His disciples, He ensured that His mission on earth would continue to be accomplished long after He was gone. To empower means to fill with power. Power is energy. When we make a habit of empowering others, we energize them to reach their goals. Jesus practiced this principle: “The works that I do shall [you] do also” (John 14:12 KJV). There’s nothing more demoralizing than being kept out of the loop on information that impacts you. As difficult as it must have been to get His disciples to understand, Jesus knew He had to inform them of events to come that would affect them. “He said to them, ‘The Son of Man is going to be betrayed…He will be killed, but three days later he will rise from the dead’” (Mark 9:31 NLT). Later He told them, “I am going there to prepare a place for you. And…I will come back and take you to be with me so that you also may be where I am” (John 14:2-3 NIV). Empowerment occurs when you trust people with a task or responsibility without micromanaging them. Empowering is simply loosening the reins over how something is going to be done while retaining control over what should be done. Good leaders empower others. They know people perform better when they’re given the freedom to complete their jobs with some level of independence. When this happens, people “take ownership” of a project, job, or function, and things are completed with a better result. This is a win for everyone. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:48:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 22 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730754 https://iono.fm/e/1730754 Bemagtig ander
Mense wat seker van hulself is, probeer om ander mense te bemagtig. Jesus was ‘n meester daarin. Hy het sy dissipels bemagtig om te verseker dat sy doel op aarde lank nadat Hy weg is, volbring sou word. Om te bemagtig beteken om met krag te vul. Mag is energie. Wanneer ons ‘n gewoonte daarvan maak om ander te bemagtig, gee ons hulle energie om hul doelwitte te bereik. Jesus het hierdie beginsel toegepas: ‘Ek verseker julle, wie aanhou om in My te glo, sal ook die werke doen wat Ek doen…’ (Johannes 14:12 NLV). Daar is niks meer ontmoedigend as om oor sake wat jou raak, uitgesluit te word nie. Jesus het geweet dat dit belangrik was om sy dissipels voor te berei vir dit wat voorlê en hoe dit hulle sou beïnvloed. ‘…Sy woorde aan hulle was: ‘Die Seun van die Mens gaan aan die mag van mense oorgegee word. Hulle sal Hom doodmaak, maar ná drie dae sal Hy opstaan’’ (Markus 9:31 NLV). Later het Hy vir hulle gesê: ‘…Ek gaan soontoe om vir julle plek gereed te maak. En as Ek gegaan en vir julle plek ingerig het, kom Ek terug en sal julle na My toe neem sodat julle ook kan wees waar Ek is’ (Johannes 14:2-3 NLV). Bemagtiging vind plaas wanneer jy mense met ‘n taak of verantwoordelikheid vertrou sonder om heeltyd oor hul skouer te kyk. Goeie leiers bemagtig ander. Hulle weet mense presteer beter wanneer hulle die vryheid ontvang om hul werk met ‘n mate van onafhanklikheid te voltooi. Wanneer dit gebeur, neem mense eienaarskap van ‘n projek, werk of funksie en resultate verbeter. Dit is dan vir almal ‘n oorwinning. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:46:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 22 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730750 https://iono.fm/e/1730750 God is fighting for you (2)
Israel conquered the Promised Land not because of their skill, but God’s skill. In his call to battle, Joshua told his men, “Go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you” (Joshua 1:11 NKJV). On the eve of the Jordan crossing, Joshua declared: “The Lord will do wonders among you” (Joshua 3:5 NKJV). As they stood on the western side of the river, Joshua deduced, “The Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan” (Joshua 4:23 NKJV). On the outskirts of Jericho, “Joshua said to the people: ‘Shout, for the Lord has given you the city!’” (Joshua 6:16 NKJV). Joshua summarized the victory by saying, “For the Lord has driven out from before you great and strong nations; but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day. One man of you shall chase a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, as He promised you” (Joshua 23:9-10 NKJV). Envision a single Hebrew soldier with drawn sword racing after an entire battalion of enemies. He is outnumbered a thousand to one, but since God fights for him, they scatter like scared pigeons. Now picture the same for yourself. Fears, dread, hatred, and hurt come at you, and you unsheathe the sword of God’s Word and drive them back with “It is written.” Here’s a great promise: “God guards you from every evil, he guards your very life. He guards you when you leave and when you return, he guards you now, he guards you always” (Psalm 121:7-8 MSG). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:42:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 21 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:47 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730749 https://iono.fm/e/1730749 God veg vir jou (2)
Israel het die Beloofde Land nie as gevolg van hulle eie vaardigheid verower nie, maar as gevolg van God se vaardigheid. In sy toespraak voor die geveg, het Josua vir sy manskappe gesê: ‘…Oor drie dae gaan julle… trek om die land wat die Here julle God vir julle gee, in ontvangs te neem’ (Josua 1:11 NLV). Op die vooraand wat hulle die Jordaan sou oorsteek, het Josua verklaar: ‘…Berei julle voor. Die Here gaan môre wonderwerke onder julle doen’ (Josua 3:5 NLV). Terwyl hulle aan die westekant van die rivier gestaan het, het Josua gesê: ‘Die Here julle God het die water van die Jordaan voor julle laat wegdroog…’ (Josua 4:23 NLV). Aan die buitewyke van Jerigo het Josua vir die volk geskreeu: ‘…Gee die kreet! Die Here gee die stad vir julle!’ (Josua 6:16 NLV). Josua het hul oorwinning as volg opgesom: ‘Die Here het groot en magtige nasies voor julle uit verdryf. Tot nou toe was nie een van hulle teen julle opgewasse nie. Een van julle kan selfs duisend van hulle op loop jaag, want die Here julle God veg aan julle kant. Dit is wat Hy julle beloof het’ (Josua 23:9-10 NLV). Stel jou voor, ‘n enkele Hebreeuse soldaat met ‘n ontblote swaard wat ‘n hele bataljon vyande verjaag. Hy is een man teen duisend, maar aangesien God vir hom veg, verslaan hy sy vyande. Stel dieselfde nou vir jou voor. Vrees, angs, haat en pyn is op pad na jou toe, maar jy trek die swaard van God se Woord uit en dryf hulle met: ‘Daar staan in die Skrif geskryf…’ terug. Hier is ‘n wonderlike belofte: ‘Die Here bewaar jou van alle kwaad en Hy beskerm jou lewe. Die Here hou wag oor jou, of jy kom of gaan, nou en vir altyd’ (Psalm 121:7-8 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:40:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 21 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:17 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730746 https://iono.fm/e/1730746 God is fighting for you (1)
Here’s one of the truly great promises in the Bible: “For he has said, ‘I will never leave you or forsake you.’ So we can say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?’” (Hebrews 13:5-6 NRSV). The Greek word for helper has two meanings: “a shout,” and “to run.” When you need help, God runs with a shout: “I’m coming!” Are you struggling to find a job? God is your helper. Your blood cell count is down? The One who made you is with you. The world is rife with conflict. Still, the Almighty will never leave you or forsake you. Consequently, everything changes! Since God is strong, you will be strong. Since He is able, you will be able. Since He has no limits, you have no limits. “We can say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.’” And God also fights for you! Joshua testified to this–the walls of Jericho had fallen. Thirty-one different kings had been defeated. God had made the sun stand still to give Joshua time to overcome five hostile armies. Now Israel had taken possession of the Promised Land, and in his farewell address, Joshua told the people: “The Lord your God is He who has fought for you.” Did you know that God is fighting for you? “With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles” (2 Chronicles 32:8 NKJV). And “Our God will fight for us” (Nehemiah 4:20 NKJV). And the Lord will “Fight against those who fought against [you]” (Psalm 35:1 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:39:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 20 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:52 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730633 https://iono.fm/e/1730633 God veg vir jou (1)
Hier is een van die grootste beloftes in die Bybel: ‘…Onthou dat God die versekering gegee het: ‘Ek sal jou nie los nie. Ek sal jou nie in die steek laat nie.’ Daarom kan ons moed skep en antwoord: ‘Die Here is my hulp. Daarom sal ek nie bang wees nie. Wat kan nietige mensies my aandoen?’’ (Hebreërs 13:5-6 NLV). Die Griekse woord vir ‘helper’ het twee betekenisse: ‘’n geroep’ en ‘om te hardloop.’ Wanneer jy hulp nodig het, hardloop God en roep: ‘Ek is op pad!’ Sukkel jy om werk te kry? God is jou helper. Is jou witbloedtelling af? Die Een wat jou gemaak het, is by jou. Die wêreld is vol konflik. Tog sal die Almagtige jou nooit verlaat of in die steek laat nie. Dit verander alles! Aangesien God sterk is, sal jy sterk wees. Aangesien Hy in staat is, sal jy in staat wees. Aangesien Hy geen perke het nie, het jy geen perke nie. ‘Daarom kan ons moed skep en antwoord: ‘Die Here is my hulp. Daarom sal ek nie bang wees nie…’’ God veg vir jou! Josua kon daarvan getuig - die mure van Jerigo het geval. Een-en-dertig verskillende konings is verslaan. God het die son laat stilstaan om Josua tyd te gee om vyf vyandige leërs te oorwin. Israel het die Beloofde Land in besit geneem, en in sy afskeidsrede het Josua vir die volk gesê: ‘…die Here julle God… het aan julle kant geveg.’ Het jy geweet dat God vir jou ook veg? ‘…Die Here ons God is by ons en Hy sal vir ons veg!..’ (2 Kronieke 32:8 NLV). ‘…Ons God sal vir ons veg!’ (Nehemia 4:20 NLV). ‘Here, baklei vir my teen hulle wat met my baklei. Veg teen hulle wat teen my veg’ (Psalm 35:1 DB). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:32:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 20 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730631 https://iono.fm/e/1730631 Reckoning the right way
Nick Vujicic was born without arms or legs. But instead of getting angry with God about the things he can’t do, Nick made a defining decision as a teenager to be grateful for the things he can do. And he’s done some amazing things. Nick’s life is a standing rebuke against self-pity. He refuses to be defined by his disabilities. Instead, he has leveraged his limitations and turned them into a testimony. Hundreds of thousands have put their faith in Christ after hearing his testimony. And it’s the suffering Nick has endured that people identify with most. Simply put, God has turned Nick’s pain into eternal gain for thousands of people. And Nick has come to terms with that fact. “I’d rather have no arms and no legs on earth,” he says, “and spend eternity with those who come to faith through my testimony!” Paul wrote, “I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” Paul was comparing present-tense suffering with future-tense glory. It’s an accounting term, logizomai. Think spreadsheet or balance sheet—It’s a record of debits and deposits. Almost like your checking account, your suffering will one day be reconciled. And while we may view suffering as a liability now, on the eternal ledger, it’s an appreciating asset. Peter wrote: “When you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. For to this you were called” (1 Peter 2:20-21 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 19 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:49 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730630 https://iono.fm/e/1730630 Oortuiging op die regte manier
Nick Vujicic is sonder arms en bene gebore. In plaas daarvan om egter vir God kwaad te word oor die dinge wat hy nie kan doen nie, het Nick as tiener ‘n beslissende besluit geneem om dankbaar te wees vir die dinge wat hy wel kan doen. Hy het wonderlike dinge bereik. Nick se lewe is ‘n staande teregwysing teen selfbejammering. Hy weier om deur sy gestremdhede gedefinieer te word. In plaas daarvan gebruik hy sy beperkings en omskep dit in ‘n getuienis. Honderde duisende mense het al hul geloof in Christus geplaas nadat hulle sy getuienis aangehoor het. Dit is die lyding wat Nick verduur het waarmee mense die meeste identifiseer. Eenvoudig gestel, God het Nick se pyn in ewige wins vir duisende mense omskep. Nick het ook vrede met daardie feit gemaak. ‘Ek wil liewer geen arms en geen bene op aarde hê nie,’ sê hy, ‘en die ewigheid saam met diegene wat deur my getuienis tot geloof kom, deurbring!’ Paulus het geskryf: ‘Ek weet vir seker dat ons huidige lyding hoegenaamd nie vergelyk kan word met die heerlikheid waarmee God ons gaan verras nie.’ Paulus het lyding in die teenwoordige tyd met heerlikheid in die toekomstige tyd vergelyk. Dink aan ‘n balansstaat – ‘n rekord van debiete en deposito's. Amper soos jou tjekrekening, sal jou lyding eendag versoen word. Hoewel ons ons lyding tans as ‘n las kan beskou, is dit op die ewige balansstaat ‘n bate wat se waarde vermeerder. Petrus het geskryf: ‘…Om egter die houe te vat wanneer julle goeddoen, dít is iets besonders voor God. Hierdie soort swaarkry maak juis deel uit van dit waartoe God julle geroep het…’ (1 Petrus 2:20-21 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:29:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 19 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730629 https://iono.fm/e/1730629 God keeps His Word
Three times in three verses, Joshua told the people that God did what He said He would do: (1) “The Lord gave…all…He had sworn to give” (v. 43 NKJV); (2) “The Lord gave…rest…according to all that He had sworn to their fathers” (v. 44 NKJV); (3) “Not a word failed of any good thing which the Lord had spoken…All came to pass” (v. 45 NKJV). Six hundred years before this, God made a promise to Abraham: “To your descendants I will give this land” (Genesis 12:7 NKJV). When Abraham died, the only land he owned was Sarah’s cemetery plot. His descendants were sharecroppers at best, slaves at worst, in Egypt for four centuries. Moses led them near but never into Canaan. God promised Abraham, “I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:2-3 NKJV). This promise was partially fulfilled in Joshua and completely fulfilled in Jesus. In Him all nations are blessed. In Him every person has hope and the possibility of redemption. No wonder the apostle Paul wrote, “All the promises of God find their Yes in him [Jesus]” (2 Corinthians 1:20 ESV). Our God is a promise-making and promise-keeping God. Others may make a promise and forget it. But when our God makes a promise, you can count on it: “He who promised is faithful” (Hebrews 10:23 NIV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:28:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 18 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:51 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730628 https://iono.fm/e/1730628 God hou sy Woord
Drie keer in drie verse sê Josua vir die mense dat God gedoen het wat Hy gesê het Hy sou doen: 1) ‘So het die Here… gegee wat Hy met ‘n eed… beloof het…’ (vers 43 NLV); 2) ‘Die Here het vir hulle vrede gegee… soos Hy plegtig aan hulle voorouers beloof het…’ (vers 44 NLV); 3) ‘Nie een van al die goeie dinge wat die Here vir Israel beloof het, het agterweë gebly nie. Elkeen van hulle het gebeur’ (vers 45 NLV). Seshonderd jaar tevore het God ‘n belofte aan Abraham gemaak: ‘…Hierdie land gee Ek vir jou nageslag…’ (Genesis 12:7 NLV). Toe Abraham sterf, was die enigste grond wat hy besit het die grond waarop Sara se graf was. Sy nageslag was vier eeue lank slawe in Egipte. Moses het hulle naby Kanaän gebring, maar nooit ingelei nie. God het aan Abraham belowe: ‘…Ek sal jou seën sodat jy geëerd sal wees, en vir ander tot ‘n seën sal wees. Ek sal dié seën wat jou seën en dié wat jou vervloek, sal Ek vervloek. Deur jou sal al die mense op die aarde geseën word’ (Genesis 12:2-3 NLV). Hierdie belofte is gedeeltelik in Josua en volledig in Jesus vervul. In Hom is alle nasies geseën. In Hom het elke persoon hoop en die moontlikheid van verlossing. Geen wonder dat die apostel Paulus geskryf het: ‘want al die baie beloftes van God in Christus Jesus is ‘n volmondige ‘ja’…’ (2 Korintiërs 1:20 NLV). Ons God is ‘n God wat beloftes maak en sy Woord hou. Ander mag dalk ‘n belofte maak en dit vergeet. Wanneer God egter ‘n belofte maak, kan jy daarop staatmaak: ‘…ons kan op God staatmaak; Hy sal doen wat Hy beloof het’ (Hebreërs 10:23 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:27:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 18 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:15 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730625 https://iono.fm/e/1730625 Rearrange your priorities at home
Bill Galston was at the peak of his career when he resigned as a domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton to return to teaching at the University of Maryland. His reason was “to strike a new balance” between work and family. Galston had worked more than a decade on the ideas he hoped to see come to pass. At the White House, he helped form the National Campaign against Teen Pregnancy, planned the National Service Program, and worked on Education Reform and Head Start Legislation. He consulted widely with administration officials, had an excellent reputation, and loved his job. He tried integrating time with his son, Ezra, into his schedule—even bringing him to his White House office in the evening. However, Galston was continually hounded by the fact that he often came home too tired to spend quality time with the boy. He struggled with the contradiction between his “Putting Children First” theme for welfare and the practical implementation of this ideal in his own home. What triggered his resignation? His son Ezra sent him a note that said: “Baseball is not fun when there’s no one there to applaud you.” Was that a hard choice for Bill Galston to make? Yes, but it’s one he never regretted. Question: Are you giving your family the time they need and the time they deserve? Do these words describe your struggle to balance the demands of work and family? “They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept.” If this Scripture speaks to you as a parent, it’s time to rearrange your priorities at home. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:26:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 17 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:47 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730621 https://iono.fm/e/1730621 Herrangskik jou prioriteite by die huis
Bill Galston was op die hoogtepunt van sy loopbaan toe hy as ‘n binnelandse beleidsadviseur vir president Bill Clinton bedank het om na onderrig aan die Universiteit van Maryland terug te keer. Sy rede was ‘om ‘n nuwe balans’ tussen werk en gesin te vind. Galston het meer as ‘n dekade lank aan die idees wat hy gehoop het om verwesenlik te sien word, gewerk. By die Withuis het hy gehelp om die Nasionale Veldtog teen Tienerswangerskap te stig, die Nasionale Diensprogram te beplan en gewerk aan onderwyshervorming en wetgewing vir ‘n omvattende vroeë kinderjare-program vir lae-inkomste kinders van geboorte tot vyfjarige ouderdom, met die fokus op onderwys, gesondheid, voeding en gesinsondersteuning. Hy het wyd met administrasiebeamptes geraadpleeg, ‘n uitstekende reputasie gehad en was lief vir sy werk. Hy het probeer om tyd saam met sy seun, Ezra, in sy skedule te integreer – hy het hom selfs saans na sy Withuis-kantoor gebring. Galston is egter voortdurend deur die feit geteister dat hy dikwels te moeg huis toe gekom het om kwaliteit tyd saam met sy seun deur te bring. Wat het sy bedanking veroorsaak? Sy seun, Ezra, het vir hom ‘n nota gestuur wat gesê het: ‘Bofbal is nie lekker as daar niemand is om jou toe te juig nie.’ Was dit ‘n moeilike keuse vir Bill Galston om te maak? Ja, maar dis een waaroor hy nooit spyt was nie. Gee jy jou gesin die tyd wat hulle nodig het en verdien? Beskryf hierdie woorde jou stryd om die eise van werk en gesin te balanseer? ‘…hulle het my die wingerde laat oppas. My eie wingerd kon ek nie versorg nie.’ As hierdie Skrifgedeelte met jou as ouer praat, is dit tyd om jou prioriteite by die huis te herrangskik. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:24:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 17 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730619 https://iono.fm/e/1730619 God can set you free from perfectionism
Do you beat yourself up when you fall short of your expectations? Or do you feel that what you accomplish is never good enough? Are you slow to make a decision because you must make sure it is just right? Is your quest to be blameless really an attempt to protect yourself from criticism and disapproval? You’ll never experience peace and emotional security if everything associated with you has to be perfect. Perfectionism is a mindset of self-defeating thoughts and behaviours aimed at reaching unrealistic goals. Psychologist Dr. David Viscott explained it this way: “A controlling adult’s wish to be perfect stems from the childhood wish to be blameless. Since real growth means embracing your faults and examining your weaknesses, controlling people run the greatest risk of becoming rigid and failing because of their insistence on always being right. They need to feel they are beyond criticism so that no one will have a good reason for withholding what they need or rejecting them. They believe they need to be perfect just to be safe, so admitting even small imperfections makes them uneasy and self-doubting.” In today’s society, many people believe that being a perfectionist is desirable and necessary for success. Therefore, they wear their perfectionism like a badge of honour. The truth is that by being a perfectionist, you set yourself up to fail each day. But you don’t have to live that way. Why? Because when you accept Christ as your Saviour, God accepts you with all your imperfections. And His unconditional love and acceptance set you free to love and accept yourself. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:22:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 16 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730618 https://iono.fm/e/1730618 God kan jou van perfeksionisme bevry
Is jy kwaad vir jouself wanneer jy nie aan jou eie verwagtinge voldoen nie? Of voel jy dat dit wat jy bereik nooit goed genoeg is nie? Vat jy lank om ‘n besluit te neem omdat jy moet seker maak dat dit die regte besluit is? Probeer jy blaamloos bly in ‘n poging om jouself teen kritiek en afkeur te beskerm? Jy sal nooit vrede en emosionele sekuriteit ervaar as alles perfek moet wees nie. Perfeksionisme is ‘n denkwyse van selfvernietigende gedagtes en gedrag wat daarop gemik is om onrealistiese doelwitte te bereik. Die sielkundige dr David Viscott verduidelik dit as volg: ‘’n Beheervraat se wens om perfek te wees, spruit uit die kinderjare se wens om blaamloos te wees. Aangesien ware groei beteken om jou foute te erken en jou swakhede te ondersoek, loop beheervrate die grootste risiko om as gevolg van hul aandrang om altyd reg te wees, rigied te word en te misluk. Hulle moet voel dat hulle bo kritiek is sodat niemand ‘n rede kan hê om iets van hulle te weerhou of hulle te verwerp nie. Hulle glo dat hulle perfek moet wees om veilig te wees, dus raak hulle ongemaklik en begin in hulself twyfel wanneer hulle met klein onvolmaakthede gekonfronteer word.’ In vandag se samelewing glo baie mense dat om ‘n perfeksionis te wees wenslik en noodsaaklik vir sukses is Daarom dra hulle hul perfeksionisme soos ‘n ereteken. Die waarheid is dat wanneer jy ‘n perfeksionis is, jy jouself elke dag oopstel om te misluk. Jy hoef egter nie so te leef nie. Hoekom? Want wanneer jy Christus as jou Verlosser aanvaar, aanvaar God jou met al jou onvolmaakthede. Sy onvoorwaardelike liefde en aanvaarding bevry jou om jouself lief te hê en te aanvaar. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:21:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 16 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:08 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730608 https://iono.fm/e/1730608 Prompted giving
We’ve looked at priority giving, percentage giving, and progressive giving. Now let’s look at prompted giving. From time to time, God will prompt you to make a special gift. God uses promptings to communicate that you are in a unique position to meet the needs of His kingdom. As you walk through life, God constantly introduces you to people with needs. Sometimes it’s a spiritual need; other times it’s a physical need. Sometimes you are the one in need, and other times you provide what’s needed. This is how the church works. As stewards, we have the privilege of interacting with our heavenly Father and ministering to the needs of His children in the world. Without the element of prompting, your giving could become very cold and calculated. Promptings are the pulse in the church body. In 1 John 3:17, we read, “If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?” (NIV). God uses the needs of others as opportunities to exhibit His love alive in us. And often those opportunities are revealed through special promptings that are above and beyond our regular giving. Perhaps you’re thinking, “I can’t afford to do that.” Factor God into the equation! Not only can He use you to meet the needs of others, but He can also multiply the seed of generosity you sowed into the harvest you need. When that happens, your fear will have met its match, because “perfect love casts out fear.” ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:59:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 15 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:43 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730607 https://iono.fm/e/1730607 Wanneer God ons aanspoor om te gee
Kom ons kyk na aangespoorde gee. Van tyd tot tyd sal God jou aanspoor om ‘n spesiale gawe te maak. God gebruik aansporings om te kommunikeer dat jy in ‘n unieke posisie is om in die behoeftes van sy koninkryk te voorsien. Soos jy deur die lewe gaan, stel God jou voortdurend aan mense met behoeftes voor. Soms is dit ‘n geestelike behoefte; ander kere is dit ‘n fisiese behoefte. Soms is jy die een in nood; ander kere voorsien jy wat nodig is. Dit is hoe die kerk werk. As rentmeesters het ons die voorreg om met ons hemelse Vader te kommunikeer en in die behoeftes van sy kinders in die wêreld te voorsien. Sonder die element van aansporing kan jou manier van gee baie koud en berekend word. Aansporings is die kerkliggaam se hartklop. In 1 Johannes 3:17 (NLV) lees ons: ‘Iemand wat ryk is aan aardse lewensmiddele en sy broers en susters sien gebrek ly, maar weier om ‘n helpende hand uit te steek – hoe is dit moontlik dat die liefde van God in daardie persoon woon?’ God gebruik die behoeftes van ander as geleenthede om sy liefde wat lewend in ons is, ten toon te stel. Dikwels word hierdie geleenthede deur spesiale aansporings wat bo en behalwe ons gereelde manier van gee is, geopenbaar. Miskien dink jy: ‘Ek kan dit nie bekostig nie.’ Betrek God egter hierby! Hy kan jou nie net gebruik om in die behoeftes van ander te voorsien nie, maar Hy kan ook die saad van vrygewigheid wat jy gesaai het vermeerder om die oes wat jy nodig het, te vorm. Wanneer dit gebeur, sal jou vrees in die niet verdwyn, want ‘…volwasse liefde dryf die vrees uit…’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:51:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 15 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:59 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730602 https://iono.fm/e/1730602 How to deal with temptation
You should deal with temptation in the same way you would deal with weeds in a garden. You can’t just cut off the tops of the weeds, because in a few days, they’ll be back. Similarly, saying, “I’ll just stop sinning” addresses only the externals. Another option is mowing the weeds all the way down to the ground, cutting off the shoots. Now the garden looks good and weed-free for a while, but it doesn’t stay weed-free. The only effective way to deal with temptation is at its root. The Bible says: “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make a way of escape.” What is God’s “way of escape” for you? Living in His Word and allowing His Word to live in you. Satan tempted Jesus three different times in the wilderness, but Jesus overcame him. How? Three times He answered, “It is written.” You need to know and use the Word of God in your encounters with temptation. The battlefield is in your mind. This is why Paul said, “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (Colossians 3:2 NKJV). It’s why he wrote this to the Philippian Christians: “Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things” (Philippians 4:8 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:50:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 14 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730601 https://iono.fm/e/1730601 Hoe om versoekings te hanteer
Jy moet versoekings op dieselfde manier as wat jy onkruid in ‘n tuin sou uitwis, hanteer. Jy kan nie net die bopunte van die onkruid afsny nie, want oor ‘n paar dae sal dit terug wees. Dis soos om te sê: ‘Ek sal eenvoudig ophou sondig.’ Dit spreek net die uiterlike aan. Nog ‘n opsie is om die onkruid en die lote tot op die grond af te sny. Die tuin lyk vir ‘n rukkie goed en onkruidvry, maar dit bly nie onkruidvry nie. Die enigste effektiewe manier om versoeking te hanteer, is om by die wortel daarvan uit te kom. Die Bybel sê: ‘Onthou, die versoekings wat oor julle pad kom, is nie uniek nie; ander ondervind dit ook. God is getrou. Hy sal keer dat die versoeking te sterk vir julle word. Midde-in die versoeking sal Hy vir ‘n uitweg sorg sodat julle kan volhou.’ Wat is God se ‘uitweg’ vir jou? Om in sy Woord te leef en sy Woord in jou te laat leef. Satan het Jesus drie verskillende kere in die woestyn versoek, maar Jesus het hom oorwin. Hoe? Drie keer het Hy geantwoord: ‘Daar staan in die Skrif geskryf…’ Jy moet die Woord van God ken en tydens jou ontmoetings met versoeking gebruik. Die slagveld speel in jou gedagtes af. Daarom het Paulus gesê: ‘Laat julle gedagtes beheer word deur die hemelse dinge, nie deur dinge op hierdie aarde nie. (Kolossense 3:2 NLV). Daarom het hy aan die Christene in Filippi geskryf: ‘Verder, broers, alles wat waar is, alles wat edel is, alles wat reg is, alles wat rein is, alles wat mooi is, alles wat prysenswaardig is - watter deug of lofwaardige saak daar ook mag wees - daarop moet julle julle gedagtes rig’ (Filippense 4:8 AFR83). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:47:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 14 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:06 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730600 https://iono.fm/e/1730600 It’s you that God wants to deal with!
Paul told Timothy, “Pay close attention to yourself.” Preachers often preach to others the very things they themselves need most! If you want to know which battle they’re fighting, just listen to what they’re preaching. When God talks to them, they give it “an introduction, three points and a conclusion,” then pass it on to others. Sometimes they’re the first folks to resist a new move of God because of their position or concern for their financial security. When God begins to rock the boat, it brings both joy and conflict. It wasn’t easy for Moses to leave the comfort of a palace and spend forty years in the wilderness being trained. Imagine trying to explain that to your family and friends. Abraham left everything to follow God and become the father of a nation. It makes exciting reading, but would you like to have made the trip with him? It has been said that some people make things happen, other people watch things happen, and other people don’t know what’s happening. If you’re tired of getting nowhere with God and you’d like to break out, then get into His presence today and stay there until you’ve heard from Him. He may tell you to stay where you are, and if He does, you’ll have complete peace (See Colossians 3:15). He may tell you to get ready for something new, and if He does, He will equip you to handle it. If you’ve spent most of your life telling others what to do, the word for you today is, “Pay close attention to yourself.” ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:46:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 13 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:34 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730599 https://iono.fm/e/1730599 God wil met jou werk!
Paulus het vir Timoteus gesê: ‘Let goed op jouself en jou leer…’ Predikers preek dikwels oor die dinge wat hulleself die nodigste het! As jy wil weet watter stryd hulle voer, luister na dit wat hulle preek. Wanneer God met hulle praat, skryf hulle dit met ‘n inleiding, ‘n middel en ‘n slotsom neer en gee dit dan aan ander deur. Wanneer God die boot begin skommel, bring dit beide vreugde en konflik mee. Dit was nie maklik vir Moses om die gemak van ‘n paleis prys te gee en veertig jaar in die woestyn deur te bring nie. Abraham het alles verlaat om God te volg en die vader van ‘n nasie te word. Dit is opwindende leesstof, maar sou jy graag so ‘n moeilike reis saam met Hom wou deurmaak? Daar word gesê dat sommige mense dinge laat gebeur, ander mense kyk hoe dinge gebeur, en ander mense weet nie wat gebeur nie. As jy moeg is om te voel of jy nêrens met God kom nie en jy wil wegbreek, moet jy vandag in sy teenwoordigheid kom en daar bly totdat jy van Hom gehoor het. Hy mag dalk vir jou sê om te bly waar jy is en as Hy dit doen, sal jy volkome vrede daar hê (Sien Kolossense 3:15). Hy mag dalk vir jou sê om vir iets nuuts gereed te maak en as Hy dit doen, sal Hy jou toerus om dit te hanteer. As jy die grootste deel van jou lewe daaraan bestee om vir ander mense te sê wat om te doen, is die woord vir jou vandag: ‘Let goed op jouself en jou leer…’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:45:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 13 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:41 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730598 https://iono.fm/e/1730598 You’re called to reflect Christ’s likeness
Our destiny has far less to do with what we do than it does with who we become. “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Romans 8:29 NIV). And it takes many different experiences to bring that to pass. Hence Paul writes: “Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’ Then you will shine…like stars in the sky” (Philippians 2:14-15 NIV). Paul likens us to shining stars, and the word shine means to reflect. The scientific term is albedo. It’s a measurement of how much sunlight a celestial body reflects. The planet Venus, for example, has the highest albedo at close to 0.7. In other words, nearly seventy percent of the light that hits Venus is reflected. On the other hand, the moon has an albedo point of only 0.07. Only seven percent of sunlight is reflected, yet it lights our way on cloudless nights. In a similar sense, each of us has a spiritual albedo. The goal? One hundred percent reflectivity. “We…who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” You cannot produce light; you can only reflect it. To be “conformed to his image” means we think like, talk like, feel like, and act like Him. It’s the character of Christ being formed in you until you reflect His love, His power, His patience, and His joy. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:44:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 12 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:53 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730596 https://iono.fm/e/1730596 Jy is geroep om God se heerlikheid te weerkaats
Ons lewensdoelwit het baie meer met wie ons word, as met met wat ons doen, te make. ‘Want God het hulle reeds vooruit geken, en Hy het hulle aangewys om soos sy Seun te word…’ (Romeine 8:29 NLV). Dit verg baie verskillende ervarings om dit te bewerkstellig. Daarom skryf Paulus: ‘Doen alles sonder kla of teëpraat. Dan sal julle as onberispelike kinders van God bo verdenking staan. Julle sal skoon lewe in ‘n wêreld vol oneerlike en perverse mense. Skyn nou in hierdie donker wêreld soos helder sterre’ (Filippense 2:14-15 NLV). Paulus vergelyk ons met skitterende sterre, en die woord ‘skyn,’ beteken om te weerkaats. Die wetenskaplike term is albedo. Dit is ‘n meting van hoeveel sonlig ‘n hemelliggaam weerkaats. Die planeet Venus het byvoorbeeld die hoogste albedo van amper 0.7. Dit beteken dat byna sewentig persent van die lig wat Venus tref, weerkaats word. Die maan het egter ‘n albedopunt van slegs 0.07. Slegs sewe persent van sonlig word deur die maan weerkaats, maar dit verlig ons pad op wolklose nagte. In ‘n soortgelyke sin het elkeen van ons ‘n geestelike albedo. Die doelwit? Honderd persent weerkaatsing. ‘Ons almal weerspieël die heerlikheid van die Here, want die sluier is van ons gesig af weggeneem. Ons word al meer verander om soos die Here te lyk, met ‘n heerlikheid wat steeds toeneem namate die Here, dit is die Gees, dit aan ons gee.’ Jy kan nie lig produseer nie; jy kan dit net weerkaats. Om verander te word om soos God te lyk, beteken dat ons begin dink soos Hy dink, praat soos Hy praat, voel soos Hy voel en optree soos Hy optree. Dit is die karakter van Christus wat in jou gevorm word totdat jy sy liefde, sy krag, sy geduld en sy vreugde weerkaats. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:40:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 12 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:24 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730595 https://iono.fm/e/1730595 You are clay in the potter’s hand
During a prayer meeting one night, an elderly woman pleaded with God, “It really doesn’t matter what You do with us, Lord; just have Your way in our lives.” Adelaide Pollard, a well-known itinerant Bible teacher, overheard her prayer. At the time, she was deeply discouraged because she had been unable to raise the support she needed to go to Africa for missionary service. She was moved by this woman’s sincere request of God, and when she went home that evening, she meditated on these words from Scripture: “Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying…‘As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand’” (Jeremiah 18:3-6 NKJV). Before retiring that night, Adelaide took pen in hand and wrote a prayer that has become a well-known hymn: “Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the potter, I am the clay. Mold me and make me after Thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still. Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Search me and try me, Master, today! Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now, as in Thy presence humbly I bow.” Whatever you may be going through right now, remember that you are clay in the potter’s hand. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:39:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 11 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:44 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730589 https://iono.fm/e/1730589 Recall your past victories
The ability to recall the past is one of the most powerful functions of your brain. And when you recall past victories, you rekindle the courage, joy, and sense of accomplishment associated with the victory. You can never underestimate the power of an experience to re-inspire faith. From the parting of the Red Sea to the fall of Jericho, the Israelites had numerous miracles God had performed on their behalf. And He had cautioned them about forgetting His mighty acts: “Remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear” (Deuteronomy 7:18-19 NIV). If you’ve allowed Satan to give you “experience amnesia” and have forgotten those times of divine intervention in your life, why not recall someone else’s testimony? Faith can come from more than one direction. Recall the good things God has done for your friends, acquaintances, and coworkers. Miracles are exciting, no matter who the recipient is. And if God did it before, He can certainly do it again. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8 NIV). When something in your future feels threatening, stop and remember God’s goodness to you in the past. Recall a time or incident in which He brought you out of a difficult situation that you thought you’d never get through. The word for you today is—recall your past victories. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:36:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 10 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730592 https://iono.fm/e/1730592 Jy is klei in die pottebakker se hand
Tydens ‘n gebedsbyeenkoms een aand het ‘n bejaarde vrou God gesmeek: ‘Dit maak regtig nie saak wat U met ons doen nie, Here; doen net asseblief u wil in ons lewens.’ Adelaide Pollard, ‘n bekende rondreisende Bybelonderwyseres, het haar gebed gehoor. Op daardie tydstip was sy diep mismoedig, omdat sy nie genoeg fondse kon insamel om ‘n sendingreis na Afrika te onderneem nie. Sy is deur hierdie vrou se opregte versoek aan God ontroer en toe sy daardie aand huis toe gaan, het sy oor hierdie woorde uit die Skrif gemediteer: ‘Ek het toe na die werkplek van die pottebakker gegaan en hom gekry waar hy besig was om op die pottebakkerswiel te werk. Maar die pot waarmee hy besig was, was nie ‘n sukses nie. Hy het toe die klei inmekaargedruk en weer begin om ‘n nuwe pot te vorm soos hy dit wou hê. Die Here het toe weer vir my ‘n boodskap gegee. Hy het gevra: ‘O Israel, kan Ek nie met julle net so maak soos die pottebakker met die klei maak nie? Kyk, soos die klei in die hande van die pottebakker, so is julle in my hande’ (Jeremia 18:3-6 NLV). Voordat sy daardie aand gaan slaap het, het Adelaide ‘n gebed geskryf wat ‘n bekende loflied geword het: ‘Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the potter, I am the clay. Mold me and make me after Thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still. Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Search me and try me, Master, today! Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now, as in Thy presence humbly I bow.’ Wat jy tans ook al deurmaak, onthou dat jy klei in die pottebakker se hand is. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:36:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 11 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730588 https://iono.fm/e/1730588 Onthou jou oorwinnings
Een van die kragtigste funksies van jou brein is die vermoë om die verlede te herroep. Wanneer jy vorige oorwinnings onthou, wakker jy die moed, vreugde en gevoel van prestasie wat met die oorwinning geassosieer word, weer aan. Jy kan nooit die krag van ‘n ervaring om jou geloof weer te inspireer, onderskat nie. Van die skeiding van die Rooi See tot die val van Jerigo, het die Israeliete talle wonderwerke gesien wat God namens hulle verrig het. Hy het hulle gewaarsku om nie sy magtige dade te vergeet nie: ‘Moenie vir hulle bang wees nie. Onthou net wat die Here jou God aan Farao en aan die hele Egipte gedoen het. Met julle eie oë het julle die verskriklike dinge gesien wat die Here jou God na hulle gestuur het. Onthou die tekens en wonderdade en die geweldige krag wat die Here gebruik het om julle uit Egipte te lei. Hierdie selfde krag sal die Here jou God gebruik teen die volke waarvoor jy bang is’ (Deuteronomium 7:18-19 NLV). As jy toegelaat het dat Satan jou die tye van goddelike ingryping in jou lewe laat vergeet, moet jy iemand anders se getuienis herroep. Geloof kan uit meer as een rigting kom. Herinner jouself aan die goeie dinge wat God vir jou vriende, kennisse en kollegas gedoen het. Wonderwerke is opwindend, ongeag wie die ontvanger daarvan is. As God dit voorheen gedoen het, kan Hy dit beslis weer doen. ‘Jesus Christus bly steeds dieselfde – gister, vandag en vir altyd!’ (Hebreërs 13:8 NLV). Wanneer iets jou toekoms bedreig, stop en onthou God se goedheid teenoor jou in die verlede. Herinner jouself aan ‘n tyd of voorval waar Hy jou uit ‘n moeilike situasie gebring het. Die woord vir jou vandag is dus – onthou jou vorige oorwinnings. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:34:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 10 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730586 https://iono.fm/e/1730586 Healing for shame and condemnation
Shame and condemnation are two weapons Satan will use to torment you. They will steal your rest and sap the joy out of your life. What’s the answer? Begin to see yourself as God sees you. “God made him [Jesus] who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” When we are aware of our shortcomings, how is it possible to believe that God sees us as “righteous” and wants us to see ourselves that way too? Because when you became a Christian, God placed you “in Christ”; therefore, you are always accepted by Him. “Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1 NIV). The word justified means: “just-as-if-I’d never sinned.” And that’s how God sees you twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred sixty-five days a year, all the way from the new birth to the New Jerusalem. Plus, Jesus understands your struggles since He dealt with them Himself. He “understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most” (Hebrews 4:15-16 NLT). Confession: “Jesus took all the shame and condemnation for my sin on the cross, and I am in right standing with God because I’m ‘in Christ’!” ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:33:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 9 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:44 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730585 https://iono.fm/e/1730585 Genesing van skaamte en veroordeling
Skaamte en veroordeling is twee wapens wat Satan sal gebruik om jou te martel. Hulle sal jou rus steel en die vreugde uit jou lewe tap. Wat is dan die antwoord? Begin jouself sien soos God jou sien. ‘God het Hom wat nie sonde geken het nie, sonde gemaak ter wille van ons sodat ons, op grond van ons eenheid met Christus, deur God vrygespreek kan word.’ Wanneer ons van ons tekortkominge bewus is, is dit moeilik om te glo dat ons deur God vrygespreek is en dat Hy wil hê dat ons onsself deur sy oë moet sien. Toe jy egter ‘n Christen geword het, het God jou ‘een’ met Christus gemaak, daarom aanvaar Hy jou altyd. ‘As mense wat deur God vrygespreek is omdat ons glo, is daar nou vrede tussen God en ons op grond van wat Jesus Christus ons Here gedoen het’ (Romeine 5:1 NLV). Wanneer jy vrygespreek is, is dit asof jy nog nooit sonde gedoen het nie. Dit is hoe God jou vier-en-twintig uur per dag, sewe dae per week, driehonderd-vyf-en-sestig dae per jaar, sien. Boonop verstaan Jesus jou stryd, aangesien Hy dit self ondervind het. ‘Hierdie Hoëpriester van ons kan ten volle met ons in ons swakhede saamvoel, want Hy moes presies dieselfde versoekings as ons trotseer – behalwe dat Hy nie voor die sonde geswig het nie. Kom ons gaan dan met volle vrymoedigheid na die troon van ons genadige God. Hy sal aan ons sy deernis en onverdiende goedheid bewys sodat ons op die regte tyd gehelp sal word’ (Hebreërs 4:15-16 NLV). Bely dus die volgende: ‘Jesus het al die skaamte en veroordeling vir my sonde aan die kruis op Hom geneem en ek is in ‘n verhouding met God omdat ek een met Christus is!’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:32:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 9 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:14 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730583 https://iono.fm/e/1730583 Lessons from James (3)
James addressed “the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad,” those early Christians who had fled Jerusalem. The Greek word James used to describe this is “diaspora,” from which we get the word “dispersed.” The picture is of someone scattering seeds. After the martyrdom of Stephen in Acts chapter seven, the Christians in Jerusalem came under increasing persecution from the Roman Empire. They refused the Romans’ demand to confess “Caesar is Lord.” Instead, they insisted that there was only one Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus, the Bible informs us, “They were all scattered…except the apostles” (Acts 8:1 NKJV). James wrote to believers who had to leave their homes, their jobs, their properties—everything. Talk about stress! Yet God permitted them to experience the scattering and the resulting stress for a purpose. Had these believers stayed in Jerusalem, chances are the gospel would not have spread so completely through the known world. Everywhere these early followers of Jesus were scattered, they shared the Good News of Christ’s redemptive work, and in just one generation, the gospel had spread throughout the Roman Empire. That’s why James wrote to the church that was “scattered abroad”: “Count it all joy when you fall into various trials” (James 1:2 NKJV). Their uprooting from Jerusalem resulted in the planting of the church throughout the known world. “Our God turned the curse into a blessing” (Nehemiah 13:2 NKJV). With God, short-term pain can lead to long-term gain. He uses setbacks we sometimes don’t understand to fulfill His purposes. Is that what’s happening in your life right now? Trust God; He knows what He’s doing! ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:29:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 8 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:51 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730580 https://iono.fm/e/1730580 Jakobus se lesse (3)
Jakobus het vir die ‘die twaalf stamme wat oor die wêreld versprei is,’ daardie vroeë Christene wat uit Jerusalem gevlug het, geskryf. Na die marteldood van Stefanus in Handelinge hoofstuk sewe, het die Christene in Jerusalem onder toenemende vervolging van die Romeinse Ryk gely. Hulle het geweier om te bely dat die Romeinse keiser here is en daarop aangedring dat daar net een Here, die Here Jesus Christus, is. Die Bybel sê: ‘…Al die gelowiges, behalwe die apostels, het uitgewyk na die gebiede van Judea en Samaria’ (Handelinge 8:1 NLV). Jakobus het aan die gelowiges wat hul huise, hul werk, hul eiendomme - alles - moes verlaat, geskryf. Praat van stres! God het egter ‘n doel met hulle verspreiding en die gevolglike stres wat daarmee gepaard gaan, gehad. As hierdie gelowiges in Jerusalem gebly het, is die kanse goed dat die evangelie nie so volledig deur die wêreld versprei sou word nie. Hierdie vroeë volgelinge van Jesus wat so versprei is, het oral waar hulle gekom het die Goeie Nuus van Christus se verlossingswerk gedeel en in slegs een generasie het die evangelie deur die Romeinse Ryk versprei. Daarom het Jakobus aan die kerk ‘wat oor die wêreld versprei is,’ geskryf: ‘…wanneer julle in allerhande beproewings beland, moet julle eintlik baie bly wees’ (Jakobus 1:2 NLV). Hul ontworteling uit Jerusalem het tot die vestiging van die kerk regdeur die wêreld gelei. ‘…Maar ons God het die vloek in ‘n seën verander’ (Nehemia 13:2 NLV). By God kan pyn op die korttermyn tot wins op die langtermyn lei. Hy gebruik terugslae wat ons soms nie verstaan nie, om sy doelwitte te vervul. Is dit wat tans in jou lewe gebeur? Vertrou God; Hy weet wat Hy doen! ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:28:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 8 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730576 https://iono.fm/e/1730576 Lessons from James (2)
North of Israel and teeming with aquatic life of many kinds, the Sea of Galilee is a beautiful blue. South of Israel is the Dead Sea, and it’s called “Dead” for a good reason: There’s no life in its stagnant water. What makes these two bodies of water so different? First, the Sea of Galilee has an inlet: the Jordan River flows into it. On its southern shore, the Sea of Galilee also has an outlet: water flows through the Great Rift Valley. Like the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea has an inlet: the Jordan flows into it. But the Dead Sea has no outlet; it takes in but does not give out. This is the theme of the book of James. Vibrant believers not only take in, but they also give out. They put the word they receive (input) into action (output): “If anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does” (James 1:23-25 NKJV). James warns us not to become so heavenly-minded that we are no earthly good; that it’s not enough to read the Scriptures, but we must also look for practical ways to put them into practice each day. His message could be summed up in the famous Nike slogan: “Just do it!” ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:22:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 7 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:43 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730574 https://iono.fm/e/1730574 Jakobus se lesse (2)
Die See van Galilea, wat noord van Israel lê en wemel van baie soorte waterdiere, is ‘n pragtige blou kleur. Die Dooie See lê suid van Israel en word met goeie rede dood genoem: Daar is geen lewe in sy stilstaande water nie. Wat maak hierdie twee watermassas so verskillend? Eerstens het die See van Galilea ‘n inlaat: die Jordaanrivier vloei daarin. Aan sy suidelike oewer het die See van Galilea ook ‘n uitlaat: water vloei deur die Groot Skeurvallei uit. Soos die See van Galilea, het die Dooie See ‘n inlaat: die Jordaanrivier vloei daarin. Die Dooie See het egter geen uitlaat nie; dit neem in, maar gee nie uit nie. Dit is die tema van die boek Jakobus. Lewendige gelowiges neem nie net in nie, maar hulle gee ook uit. Hulle sit die woord wat hulle ontvang (inset) in aksie (uitset) om: ‘…As jy altyd net die woord aanhoor en nooit doen wat dit sê nie, is dit so goed jy kyk na jou gesig in die spieël sonder om iets aan jou voorkoms te doen. Jy bekyk jouself, gee pad, en vergeet wat jy gesien het. As jy jou egter verdiep in God se volmaakte wet – dié wet wat ‘n mens vrymaak – en jy dóén wat die wet sê en jy vergeet nie wat jy gehoor het nie, dan kan jy God se seën verwag op wat jy doen’ (Jakobus 1:23-25 NLV). Jakobus waarsku ons om nie só op die hemel te fokus dat ons nie goed op die aarde doen nie; dat dit nie genoeg is om net die Skrif te lees nie, maar dat ons ook moet soek na praktiese maniere om dit elke dag uit te oefen. Sy boodskap kan met die die bekende Nike-slagspreuk opgesom word: ‘Just do it!’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:21:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 7 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730573 https://iono.fm/e/1730573 Lessons from James (1)
The book of James has 108 verses, and it outlines how we can put our faith into action. It was written by Jesus’ half-brother, the natural-born son of Mary and Joseph. Apparently, James became a believer as a result of the resurrection. Paul said that after Jesus rose from the grave, “he appeared to James, then to all the apostles” (1 Corinthians 15:7 NIV). Somewhere, privately and personally, the risen Lord met with James, and His little brother’s life was never the same. After his encounter with his older brother, who was the victorious-over-death Godman, James grew in faith and became the undisputed leader of the Jerusalem church. The apostle Paul referred to him as a pillar of the church (see Galatians 2:9), and tradition tells us that James was so devoted to prayer that he was given the nickname “camel knees” because of the calluses resulting from the hours he spent on his knees. Today we are 2,000 years removed from James’ writing, yet his letter remains as relevant to us as the Internet’s morning news. The central message of his book is contained in these words: “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” James addresses our biggest challenge: practicing with our lives what we proclaim with our lips. In every paragraph, he reminds us that when we are walking in step with the Holy Spirit, we will not be wearing out the seat of our pants, but the soles of our shoes. We will put shoe leather to what we say we believe and be “doers of the word.” ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:20:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 6 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:43 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730570 https://iono.fm/e/1730570 Jakobus se lesse (1)
Die boek Jakobus bevat 108 verse en beskryf hoe ons ons geloof in aksie kan omsit. Dit is deur Jesus se halfbroer, die biologiese seun van Maria en Josef, geskryf. Blykbaar het Jakobus as gevolg van die opstanding ‘n gelowige geword. Paulus het gesê dat nadat Jesus uit die graf opgestaan het: ‘…Hy aan Jakobus verskyn [het] en later aan al die apostels’ (1 Korintiërs 15:7 NLV). Iewers, privaat en persoonlik, het die opgestane Here Jakobus ontmoet en sy boetie se lewe was nooit weer dieselfde nie. Na sy ontmoeting met sy ouer broer wat die dood oorwin het, het Jakobus in geloof gegroei en die onbetwiste leier van die kerk in Jerusalem geword. Die apostel Paulus het na hom as ‘n sleutelfiguur in die kerk verwys (sien Galasiërs 2:9). Daar word vertel dat Jakobus so toegewyd aan gebed was dat hy die bynaam ‘kameelknieë’ gekry het, omdat hy so baie ure in gebed op sy knieë deurgebring het dat hy groot eelte ontwikkel het. Vandag is ons 2 000 jaar van Jakobus se skrywe verwyder, maar sy brief bly vir ons net so relevant soos die internet se oggendnuus. Die sentrale boodskap van sy boek is vervat in die volgende woorde: ‘Julle moet mense word wat dóén wat die woord sê. Moet dit net nie aanhoor nie, dan bedrieg julle julleself.’ Jakobus spreek ons grootste uitdaging aan: om met ons lewens dit wat ons met ons lippe verkondig, uit te leef. In elke paragraaf herinner hy ons daaraan dat wanneer ons in pas met die Heilige Gees wandel, ons nie net moet rondsit nie, maar die sole van ons skoene moet afslyt. Ons sal bewys dat ons glo wat ons sê en sal mense word ‘wat dóén wat die woord sê.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:19:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 6 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:06 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730568 https://iono.fm/e/1730568 Fulfill your obligation to the Lord
Paul wrote: “We have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live” (vv. 12-13 NIV). Obligation: it isn’t your favourite word, is it? That’s because we interpret it in a negative light. Don’t think of it as something you have to do but as something you get to do. Our greatest obligation doubles as our greatest opportunity—surrendering our lives to the lordship of Christ. Can you think of any greater privilege than being used by God to help fulfill His eternal purposes? The word “obligation” means to be legally or morally bound, and the best picture might be marriage. When you say, “I do,” at the altar, you are obligating yourself “for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.” And when we enter into a covenant relationship with God through the new birth, two things happen. We are legally and morally bound to Him, and He is legally and morally bound to us. The gospel demands that we give all of ourselves to God. But when we do, God gives all of Himself to us. Think of the benefits of such a trade-off! You’ll never get a better deal. The trade-off also gives full veto power to the Holy Spirit. But once again, that’s a good obligation. Why? Because He will take you places you can’t go and do things in and through you that are otherwise impossible. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:18:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 5 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:41 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730564 https://iono.fm/e/1730564 What Is Your Conscience Telling You?
Fire alarms have an internal switch, triggered by a beam of light. As long as the light is received unbroken by the photosensitive receiver, the detector is quiet. But if smoke, moisture, or an insect obstructs the beam for even a split second, the alarm sounds. Paying attention to that alarm can make the difference between life or death. And your conscience works on the same principle. When sin obstructs the connection between you and God, your conscience signals that something’s wrong. At that moment you should thank God for helping you to feel good about feeling bad. Only a fool would turn off the alarm or develop the ability to sleep through it. While certain things aren’t ‘wrong’ in themselves, they may be wrong for you because of the future God has in mind. That means there are things others can do that you can’t. So instead of being stubborn, rejoice in the knowledge that God has great things in store for you. A French proverb says, ‘There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.’ Listening to your conscience will keep you from going the wrong way. And if you decide to plough on regardless, your conscience will keep you from being at ease with your decision. Always ask yourself this question and you’ll make the right decision: ‘How will doing this affect my confidence towards God?’ The Bible says, ‘…If our heart does not condemn us, then we have confidence towards God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we…do those things that are pleasing in His sight’ (1 John 3:21-22 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:16:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 4 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:42 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730566 https://iono.fm/e/1730566 Vervul jou verpligting teenoor die Here
Paulus het geskryf: ‘Daarom dan, broers, staan ons onder ‘n verpligting, maar nie teenoor ons sondige natuur om daarvolgens te lewe nie. As julle julle lewe deur die sondige natuur laat beheers, gaan julle die dood tegemoet, maar as julle deur die Gees ‘n einde maak aan julle sondige praktyke, sal julle lewe’ (verse 12-13 AFR83). Verpligting is nie ’n gewilde woord nie. Dis omdat ons dit in ‘n negatiewe lig interpreteer. Moenie daaraan dink as iets wat jy moet doen nie, maar as iets wat jy kry om te doen. Ons grootste verpligting is ook ons grootste geleentheid - om ons lewens aan die heerskappy van Christus oor te gee. Kan jy aan enige groter voorreg dink as om deur God gebruik te word om sy ewige voornemens te vervul? Die woord ‘verpligting’ beteken om wettiglik of moreel gebonde te wees. Die beste voorbeeld daarvan is moontlik die huwelik. Wanneer julle by die altaar: ‘Ja,’ sê, verbind julle julself om in goeie en slegte tye, in rykdom en armoede en in siekte en gesondheid aan mekaar getrou te bly, tot die dood julle skei. Wanneer ons deur die nuwe geboorte ‘n verbondsverhouding met God aangaan, gebeur twee dinge. Ons word wettiglik en moreel aan Hom verbind en Hy word wettiglik en moreel aan ons verbind. Die evangelie vereis dat ons alles van onsself aan God oorgee. Wanneer ons dit doen, gee God ook alles van Homself aan ons oor. Dink aan die voordele van so ‘n verbintenis! Jy sal nooit ‘n beter ooreenkoms aangaan nie. Die ooreenkoms sluit ook die Heilige Gees in. Dis weer eens ‘n goeie verpligting. Hoekom? Omdat Hy jou na plekke sal neem waarheen jy nie self kan gaan nie en dinge in en deur jou sal doen wat andersins onmoontlik is. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:16:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 5 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:12 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730562 https://iono.fm/e/1730562 Has God given you a good idea?
Most success stories begin as an idea in someone’s mind. And God is the giver of good ideas. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights” (James 1:17 NKJV). God imparts wisdom and knowledge to those who are humble enough to seek His guidance. His promise is: “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Robert Chesebrough had a product in which he believed wholeheartedly. In fact, it was his own invention. Chesebrough had transformed the ooze that forms on shafts of oil rings—rod wax—into a petroleum jelly that he personally found to have great healing properties. He believed so much in the healing aspects of his creation that he became his own “experimental subject.” To demonstrate the benefits of his product for others, he burned himself with acid and flame. He cut and scratched himself so often and so deeply that he bore scars of his tests for his entire life. Nevertheless, Chesebrough proved his point, and people were convinced. They only had to look at his wounds and how they were healed to see the value of his product, which is still an international bestseller. We know it as Vaseline. What do you see in your future? Do you believe enough in its potential to help others that you’re willing to invest your time, energy, resources, and hope into developing it? If you seek God’s guidance, He will “show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:14:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 3 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730563 https://iono.fm/e/1730563 Wat sê jou gewete vir jou?
Brandalarms het ‘n interne skakelaar wat deur ‘n ligstraal geaktiveer word. Solank die lig ononderbroke op die fotosensitiewe ontvanger skyn, bly die alarm stil. As rook, vog of ‘n insek egter vir selfs ‘n breukdeel van ‘n sekonde voor die ligstraal inbeweeg, lui die alarm. Om op daardie alarm te reageer, kan die verskil tussen lewe of dood beteken. Jou gewete werk op dieselfde beginsel. Wanneer sonde die verbinding tussen jou en God verbreek, stuur jou gewete ‘n alarm dat iets verkeerd is. Slegs ‘n dwaas sal die alarm net afskakel of die vermoë om deur die alarm te slaap, ontwikkel. Alhoewel sekere dinge nie op sigself ‘verkeerd’ is nie, kan dit vir jou as gevolg van die toekoms wat God in gedagte het, verkeerd wees. Dit beteken daar is dinge wat ander kan doen wat jy nie kan nie. Dus, in plaas daarvan om koppig te wees, verbly jou in die wete dat God groot dinge vir jou in gedagte het. ‘n Franse spreekwoord sê: ‘Daar is geen kussing so sag soos ‘n skoon gewete nie.’ Om na jou gewete te luister sal jou daarvan weerhou om die verkeerde pad te loop. As jy egter besluit om ongeag voort te ploeter, sal jou gewete jou daarvan weerhou om gemaklik met jou besluit te wees. Vra jouself altyd die volgende vraag af en jy sal die regte besluit neem: ‘Hoe sal hierdie besluit my vertroue in God beïnvloed?’ Die Bybel sê: ‘Geliefdes, as ons gewete ons nie veroordeel nie, het ons vrymoedigheid om na God toe te gaan. Wat ons ook al bid, kry ons van Hom omdat ons sy opdragte gehoorsaam en dié dinge in sy teenwoordigheid doen wat Hom bly maak’ (1 Johannes 3:21-22 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:14:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 4 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730561 https://iono.fm/e/1730561 Het God jou ‘n goeie idee gegee?
Die meeste suksesverhale begin as ‘n idee in iemand se gedagtes. God is die bron van goeie idees. ‘Van Bo af kom net goeie, ja, volmaakte gawes. Hulle kom van die Vader wat die hemelligte geskep het…’ (Jakobus 1:17 NLV). God gee wysheid en kennis aan diegene wat nederig genoeg is om sy leiding te soek. Sy belofte is: ‘Vra My, en Ek sal vir jou ‘n antwoord gee. Ek sal jou van ongelooflike dinge vertel. Dit is nou nog vir jou ‘n geheim, en jy weet niks daarvan nie.’ Robert Chesebrough het ‘n produk gehad waarin hy heelhartig geglo het. Trouens, dit was sy eie uitvindsel. Chesebrough het staafwas – ‘n dik, donker en klewerige neweproduk wat op oliepompstawe en masjinerie tydens ru-olie-onttrekking vaskleef – in petroleumjellie omskep. Hy het soveel in die genesende aspekte van sy skepping geglo dat hy sy eie eksperiment geword het. Om die voordele van sy produk vir ander te demonstreer, het hy homself met suur en vlamme gebrand. Hy het homself so gereeld en so diep gesny en gekrap dat hy sy hele lewe lank letsels van sy toetse gedra het. Nietemin het Chesebrough sy punt bewys en mense oortuig. Hulle hoef net na sy wonde te kyk en hoe hulle genees het om die waarde van sy produk te kon sien, wat steeds ‘n internasionale topverkoper is. Ons ken dit as Vaseline. Wat sien jy in jou toekoms? Glo jy genoeg in die potensiaal daarvan om ander te help dat jy bereid is om jou tyd, energie, hulpbronne en hoop in die ontwikkeling daarvan te belê? As jy God se leiding soek, sal Hy jou ‘…van ongelooflike dinge vertel. Dit is nou nog vir jou ‘n geheim, en jy weet niks daarvan nie.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:12:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 3 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:12 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730559 https://iono.fm/e/1730559 Stand up to your giant
Are you ready to grab your sword of faith and behead the giant in your life? Your best strategy will always be to attack a giant before it has a chance to get the best of you. Eleanor Roosevelt said, “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” And you can do it! “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV). Whether real or imagined, all threats are perceived as having the potential for loss. It may be the loss of your income, your health, your position, a desired relationship, etc. Freedom begins when you stop and make an honest confession of the loss you really fear. Identifying and acknowledging your real fears will be a giant step toward breaking free from them. To do this, you must go through the process of peeling the “fear onion” to get to the core of your anxiety. And you may have to peel back a lot more layers than expected. David didn’t wait for the giant to come to him. “David ran quickly…to meet him.” Get your problem out into the open, confront it, develop a plan for overcoming it, and remember that God is with you and will enable you to conquer it. Dale Carnegie said, “Do the thing you fear to do, and keep doing it…That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.” And with God on your side, your victory is guaranteed. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:11:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 2 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:39 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730556 https://iono.fm/e/1730556 Staan teen jou ‘reus’ op
Is jy gereed om jou swaard van geloof te gryp en die reus in jou lewe te verslaan? Jou beste strategie sal altyd wees om jou reus aan te val voordat dit ‘n kans kry om die oorhand oor jou te kry. Eleanor Roosevelt het gesê: ‘Jy ontvang krag, moed en selfvertroue deur elke ervaring wat jy vrees in die gesig te staar.’ Jy kan dit doen! ‘Want God het ons nie ‘n gees van skugterheid gegee nie, maar van krag, liefde en selfbeheersing’ (2 Timoteus 1:7 NLV). Alle bedreigings hou die potensiaal van verlies in, of dit nou werklike of denkbeeldige bedreigings is. Dit kan die verlies van jou inkomste, jou gesondheid, jou posisie, ‘n verlangde verhouding, ens. wees. Vryheid vind plaas wanneer jy stop en ‘n eerlike belydenis maak van die verlies wat jy werklik vrees. Om jou ware vrese te identifiseer en te erken, sal ‘n reuse-stap wees om daarvan los te breek. Jy gaan egter deur die proses moet gaan om by die kern van jou angs uit te kom. Dawid het nie gewag vir die reus om na hom toe te kom nie. ‘Die Filistyn het al nader gekom, maar Dawid het hom vinnig tegemoetgegaan.’ Identifiseer jou probleem, konfronteer dit, ontwikkel ‘n plan om dit te oorkom en onthou dat God by jou is en jou in staat sal stel om dit te oorwin. Dale Carnegie het gesê: ‘Doen die ding waarvoor jy bang is en hou aan om dit te doen. Dit is die vinnigste en sekerste manier om vrees te oorwin.’ Met God aan jou kant, is jou oorwinning gewaarborg. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:08:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 2 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730554 https://iono.fm/e/1730554 Your priority gift
Of all the items in your monthly budget, giving to God should be your top priority—not just a priority, but your first and highest one. The Israelites were largely an agricultural people. With that in mind, read this wonderful promise that God made to them and claim it: “Honour the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine” (vv. 9-10 NIV). Notice the words “the firstfruits of all.” That means before you pay the mortgage or buy groceries or pay other bills, the very first check you need to write is to God. Here’s why: If you wait until other expenses are met first, it will impact the bottom line of your giving. That’s just the way it works with priorities. Whatever you place first will take precedence over everything that comes after it. Generosity should be the primary impetus behind your giving plan. And your generosity tends to be highest, immediately after receiving provision. Waiting until that provision has dwindled and been reduced by your monthly obligations has a tendency to squash generosity. However, if you prioritize your giving, then everything else will take its proper place in line behind the priority of God’s work. Honour God with the first portion of your income instead of giving Him the leftovers. That means when you get your paycheck, write a check for God’s portion first. Then use what is left to meet your own needs, such as paying bills or buying groceries. That’s what we mean when we say, “priority giving.” ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:07:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 1 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:43 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1730548 https://iono.fm/e/1730548 Prioritiseer hoe jy gee
Van al die items in jou maandelikse begroting, behoort God jou topprioriteit te wees - nie net sommer enige prioriteit nie, maar jou eerste en hoogste een. Die Israeliete was grootliks ‘n landbouvolk. Met dit in gedagte, lees hierdie wonderlike belofte wat God aan hulle gemaak het en staan daarop: ‘Vereer die Here met alles wat jy besit. Gee vir Hom die beste van jou oes. Hy sal jou opgaarplekke vol maak. Jou parskuipe sal te klein wees vir al die wyn’ (verse 9-10 NLV). Let op die woorde ‘die beste van jou oes.’ Dit beteken voordat jy die verband betaal, kruideniersware koop of ander rekeninge betaal, jy eerste vir God moet gee. Wanneer jy wag totdat ander uitgawes eers gedek is voor jy vir God gee, sal jy moontlik nie in staat wees om ten volle te gee nie. Dis hoe dit met prioriteite werk. Wat jy ook al eerste plaas, sal voorrang bo alles wat daarna kom, geniet. Vrygewigheid behoort die primêre dryfveer agter jou plan van gee te wees. Jou vrygewigheid is geneig om die hoogste te wees onmiddellik nadat jy voorsiening ontvang het. Wanneer jy wag dat jou voorsiening deur maandelikse verpligtinge verminder word, is dit geneig om jou vrygewigheid te onderdruk. As jy egter jou gee prioritiseer, sal alles anders sy regmatige plek na die prioriteit van God se werk inneem. Eer God met die eerste gedeelte van jou inkomste in plaas daarvan om Hom die oorskiet te gee. Dit beteken wanneer jy jou salaris kry, jy eerste vir God sy deel gee. Gebruik dan wat oorbly om in jou eie behoeftes te voorsien, soos om rekeninge te betaal of kruideniersware te koop. Dit is wat ons bedoel wanneer ons sê om te prioritiseer hoe jy gee. ]]> Christianity Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:06:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 1 Nov 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:04 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722710 https://iono.fm/e/1722710 Your words have power
What comes out of your mouth, and what you might text or tweet, is of such importance that James devotes almost an entire chapter to it (see James 3:1-12). Why? Because your words have power. They can bless or break, help or hurt. People who have been the target of harsh words can carry wounds for a lifetime. Too many children have heard a frustrated parent saying, ‘You’re worthless, and you’ll never amount to anything.’ And they have believed it, allowing those words to shape their self-image and determine their self-worth. Other children have had parents who affirmed and nurtured them with encouraging words such as, ‘You’re important, and God has something for you to do that no one else can do quite like you can.’ These children believed that message and ultimately grew up to act on it. James made three statements about the use of our tongues, and he gave two illustrations to substantiate each point. First, he reminded us that speech can be controlled and directed, and he illustrated his point with a horse’s bridle and a ship’s rudder. Second, he said that contentious speech can be destructive like fire and poison. Finally, he pointed out that conflicting speech can be deceptive, and he illustrated this with images of a spring of water and a fig tree. The truth is that our words reveal what is in our hearts. And whether we speak them or type them, they have the power to heal or hurt, help or hinder. Knowing that you never have to take back what you don’t say, David prayed, ‘Set a guard over my mouth, Lord’ (Psalm 141:3 NIV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:51:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 31 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:59 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722708 https://iono.fm/e/1722708 Jou woorde het krag
Wat uit jou mond kom en wat jy dalk SMS en Whatsapp, is so belangrik dat Jakobus amper ‘n hele hoofstuk daaraan wy (sien Jakobus 3:1-12). Hoekom? Omdat jou woorde krag het. Hulle kan seën of breek, help of seermaak. Mense wat die teiken van harde woorde was, kan ‘n leeftyd se wonde daarvan dra. Te veel kinders het al ‘n gefrustreerde ouer hoor sê: ‘Jy is nutteloos en jy sal nooit iets in die lewe bereik nie.’ Hierdie kinders glo hul ouers en laat toe dat daardie woorde hul selfbeeld vorm en hul selfwaarde bepaal. Ander kinders het ouers wat hulle met koesterende woorde soos: ‘Jy is belangrik en God het iets vir jou in gedagte wat niemand anders as jy kan doen nie,’ aanmoedig. Hierdie kinders glo hulle ouers se boodskap en leef dit uit wanneer hulle grootword. Jakobus het drie stellings oor die gebruik van ons tong gemaak en twee illustrasies gegee om elke punt te staaf. Eerstens het hy ons daaraan herinner dat ons ons woorde kan beheer en rig en dit met ‘n perd se toom en ‘n skip se roer vergelyk. Tweedens het hy gesê dat twisgierige woorde so vernietigend soos vuur en gif kan wees. Laastens het hy ons daarop gewys dat teenstrydige spraak misleidend kan wees en hy het dit met beelde van ‘n fontein en ‘n vyeboom geïllustreer. Ons woorde openbaar wat in ons harte is. Of ons nou ons woorde spreek of op ‘n sleutelbord tik, hulle het die krag om te genees of seer te maak, te help of te verhinder. Jy hoef nie woorde wat jy nie geuiter het terug te neem nie, dus het Dawid gebid: ‘Sit ‘n wag voor my mond, Here…’ (Psalm 141:3 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:48:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 31 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722705 https://iono.fm/e/1722705 You can break that bad habit
When we started our relationship with Christ, we began a lifelong journey of becoming the people God created us to be. In the process, we learn how to overcome our weaknesses and draw on God’s strength. That often means learning to break bad habits. Some of these habits are obvious, such as alcohol and drugs. Some are not so obvious, such as gossip, jealousy, and being judgmental. God does not want us to be controlled by our emotions and impulses – He wants us to have victory. Breaking a bad habit requires making a series of good choices, one after another. Most of us try to do that on our own without the help of the Holy Spirit, but eventually, we figure out that we can’t do that without God helping us. Jesus said: ‘The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you’ (John 14:26 NKJV). But the Holy Spirit won’t just show up uninvited; you must ask for His help. The Bible says that we overcome evil with good. That’s one of the biggest secrets in the Word of God. It’s a lot easier to make the right choice when you’re focused on God and your victory instead of your fear of failure. Jesus told His disciples: ‘Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak!’ (Matthew 26:41 NLT). That means if you pray and keep watch, you can break that bad habit. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:45:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 30 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722704 https://iono.fm/e/1722704 Jy kan daardie slegte gewoonte verbreek
Toe ons verhouding met Christus begin het, het ons ‘n lewenslange reis aangepak om die mens te word wat God ons geskep het om te wees. In die proses leer ons hoe om ons swakhede te oorkom en op God se krag te steun. Dit beteken dikwels om te leer hoe om slegte gewoontes te verbreek. Sommige van hierdie gewoontes is voor die hand liggend, soos alkohol- en dwelmmisbruik. Sommige is nie so voor die hand liggend nie, soos skinder, jaloesie en veroordeling. God wil nie hê dat ons deur ons emosies en impulse beheer word nie - Hy wil hê dat ons oorwinning moet behaal. Om ‘n slegte gewoonte te verbreek, vereis dat ons ‘n reeks goeie keuses maak, een na die ander. Die meeste van ons probeer dit op ons eie sonder die hulp van die Heilige Gees doen en misluk dan. Jesus het gesê: ‘en wanneer die Raadgewer, die Heilige Gees, kom wat die Vader in my Naam sal stuur, sal Hy julle in alle opsigte onderrig en julle ook herinner aan alles wat Ek vir julle gesê het’ (Johannes 14:26 NLV). Die Heilige Gees sal egter nie ongenooid opdaag nie; jy moet Hom vir sy hulp vra. Die Bybel sê dat ons die slegte deur die goeie oorwin. Dis een van die grootste geheime in God se Woord. Dis baie makliker om die regte keuse te maak wanneer jy op God en jou oorwinning, in plaas van jou vrees vir mislukking, gefokus is. Jesus het vir sy dissipels gesê: ‘Wees waaksaam en bid. Anders sal die versoeking vir julle te sterk word. ‘n Mens se gees is wel gewillig, maar jou liggaam hou nie altyd by nie’ (Matteus 26:41 NLV). Dit beteken dat wanneer jy bid en waaksaam is, jy daardie slegte gewoonte kan verbreek. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:44:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 30 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:18 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722703 https://iono.fm/e/1722703 Believe in yourself; God does!
A little boy was overheard talking to himself as he strutted out of his house and into the back garden carrying a baseball bat and a ball. He tipped his baseball cap in a salute to his eager puppy. Then he picked up the bat and ball and announced with a loud voice, ‘I’m the greatest hitter in the world.’ He then proceeded to toss the ball in the air, swing at it, and miss. ‘Strike one!’ he cried, as if he were also playing the role of the umpire. He picked up the ball, threw it into the air, and said again, ‘I’m the greatest baseball hitter ever!’ And again he swung at the ball and missed. ‘Strike two!’ he announced to his dog who was watching. Undaunted, he picked up the ball, examined his bat, and then just before tossing the ball into the air, announced once again, ‘I’m the greatest hitter who ever lived.’ He swung the bat hard but missed for the third time. ‘Strike three!’ he cried. And then he added, ‘Wow, what a pitcher! I’m the greatest pitcher in the world!’ Today that is what we would call a PMA: Positive Mental Attitude. And when you know that God has redeemed you, equipped you, and called you to serve Him, it’s the attitude you should have too. Because God loves you, accepts you, and believes in you, you should believe in yourself. David said, ‘In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul’ (NKJV). So the word for today is this: believe in yourself; God does. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:43:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 29 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722702 https://iono.fm/e/1722702 Glo in jouself; God doen!
‘n Seuntjie het met homself gepraat terwyl hy uit sy huis met ‘n bofbalkolf en ‘n bal na die grasperk in die agtertuin toe gestap het. Hy het sy bofbalpet in ‘n saluut vir sy hondjie gelig. Toe tel hy die kolf en bal op en kondig met ‘n harde stem aan: ‘Ek is die beste kolwer in die wêreld.’ Hy gooi toe die bal in die lug, swaai die kolf en slaan die bal mis. ‘Strike one!’ roep hy uit, asof hy ook die rol van die skeidsregter vertolk. Hy tel die bal op, gooi dit in die lug en sê weer: ‘Ek is die beste bofbalkolwer ooit!’ Weer swaai hy na die bal en mis. ‘Strike two!’ roep hy vir sy hond wat sit en kyk. Onverskrokke tel hy die bal op, ondersoek sy kolf en kondig net voor hy die bal in die lug gooi, weer eens aan: ‘Ek is die beste kolwer wat ooit geleef het.’ Hy swaai die kolf met mening, maar mis vir die derde keer die bal. ‘Strike three!’ roep hy uit. Na ‘n oomblik voeg hy by: ‘Sjoe, wat ‘n arm! Ek is die beste gooier in die wêreld!’ Dit is wat mens ‘n positiewe geesteshouding noem. Wanneer jy weet dat God jou verlos het, jou toegerus het en jou geroep het om Hom te dien, is dit die houding wat jy ook moet inneem. Omdat God jou liefhet, jou aanvaar en in jou glo, moet jy in jouself glo. Dawid het gesê: ‘Wanneer ek roep, antwoord U my; U bemoedig my en gee my krag.’ Die woord vir vandag is dus: glo in jouself; God doen. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:42:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 29 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:47 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722701 https://iono.fm/e/1722701 Healing in the Old Testament
The Old Testament is full of healing promises as well as examples of God healing people. Here are some healing promises: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span’ (Exodus 23:25-26 NIV). ‘“I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,” declares the Lord’ (Jeremiah 30:17 NIV). ‘O Lord my God, I cried out to You, and You healed me’ (Psalm 30:2 NKJV). And here are a few examples of healing in the Old Testament: 1) God healing Naaman of leprosy (see 2 Kings 5:14-15); 2) Elijah raising the widow’s son from the dead (see 1 Kings 17:17-24); 3) God healing Hannah’s infertility (see 1 Samuel 1:19-20); 4) The children of Israel being healed when bitten by poisonous snakes in the wilderness (see Numbers 21:4-9). Even beyond the healing of sickness, the Old Testament provides evidence that God cared about the sustained health of His people. Psalm 105:37 says when God delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, ‘He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes’ (KJV). If God would do that for His children under the old covenant, think how much more He will for us who are ‘in Christ’ living under a better covenant. ‘[Jesus] is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises’ (Hebrews 8:6 NKJV). So the word for today is – believe God for your healing. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:40:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 28 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:12 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722699 https://iono.fm/e/1722699 Genesing in die Ou Testament
Die Ou Testament is vol beloftes van genesing, sowel as voorbeelde van God wat mense genees. Hier is ‘n paar beloftes van genesing: ‘Julle mag niemand anders as die Here julle God aanbid nie. Ek sal julle met kos en water en gesondheid seën. In julle land sal kinders nie met geboorte sterf nie. Julle mense sal nie onvrugbaar wees nie. Ek sal julle lank en gelukkig laat lewe’ (Eksodus 23:25-26 NLV). ‘’Ek sal jou gesond maak en jou wonde genees,’ sê die Here…’ (Jeremia 30:17 NLV). ‘Here my God, ek het na U geroep om hulp en U het my gesond gemaak’ (Psalm 30:3 NLV). Hier is ook ‘n paar voorbeelde van genesing in die Ou Testament: 1) God wat Naäman van melaatsheid genees (sien 2 Konings 5:14-15); 2) Elia wat die weduwee se seun uit die dood opwek (sien 1 Konings 17:17-24); 3) God wat Hanna se onvrugbaarheid genees (sien 1 Samuel 1:19-20); 4) Die kinders van Israel word genees toe hulle deur giftige slange in die woestyn gepik is (sien Numeri 21:4-9). Die Ou Testament bewys dat God oor die volgehoue gesondheid van sy volk omgee. Psalm 105:37 sê toe God die Israeliete uit slawerny van Egipte verlos het, het Hy hulle ‘…ook uitgebring met silwer en goud, en daar was nie een swak mens onder hulle stamme nie’ (Psalm 105:37 KAB23). As God dit vir sy kinders onder die ou verbond sou doen, dink hoeveel te meer Hy vir ons wat ‘in Christus’ onder ‘n beter verbond leef, sal doen. ‘…Jesus Christus…[is] Middelaar van ‘n voortrefliker verbond, ‘n verbond wat voortrefliker is omdat dit op voortrefliker beloftes berus’ (Hebreërs 8:6 NLV). Die woord vir jou vandag is dus - glo God vir jou genesing. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:39:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 28 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:38 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722697 https://iono.fm/e/1722697 What matters most is God’s approval
Wallace E. Johnson, president of Holiday Inns and one of America’s most successful builders, said, ‘I keep on a card in my billfold the following Scriptures, and refer to them frequently: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened” (Matthew 7:7-8 NIV). These Scriptures are among God’s greatest promises.’ Then Johnson said something interesting: ‘These verses can seem a little one-sided, and indicate a philosophy of receiving but not of giving. One day as my wife, Alma, and I were seeking God’s guidance for a personal problem, I came across the following verse which has since been a daily reminder to me of what my responsibility as a businessman is to God: “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.” Since then I have measured my actions against the phrase: “A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.” Without knowing that you have God’s approval, your successes, however great, will leave you feeling empty. But when you know you have God’s approval, you are totally fulfilled.’ Paul wrote to the believers in Corinth and said, ‘Our goal is to please [God]’ (2 Corinthians 5:9 NLT). To the Thessalonians he said, ‘We urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you’ (1 Thessalonians 4:1 NLT). So this is the word for today: what matters most is pleasing God. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:38:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 27 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:10 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722695 https://iono.fm/e/1722695 God se goedkeuring is die belangrikste
Wallace E. Johnson, president van die Holiday Inn hotelketting en een van Amerika se suksesvolste bouers, het gesê: ‘Ek hou die volgende Skrifgedeelte op ‘n kaartjie in my beursie en verwys gereeld daarna: ‘Hou aan met vra, en God sal vir julle gee. Hou aan met soek en julle sal kry. Hou aan klop en God sal die deur vir julle oopmaak. Elkeen wat so volhardend vra, ontvang; en wie aanhou soek, kry; en vir elkeen wat aanhou klop, sal God oopmaak’ (Matteus 7:7-8 NLV). Hierdie Skrifgedeelte behels van God se grootste beloftes.’ Toe het Johnson iets interessants bygevoeg: ‘Hierdie verse kan ‘n bietjie eensydig lyk en op ‘n filosofie van ontvang, maar nie van gee nie, dui. Ek het eendag op die volgende vers afgekom wat sedertdien ‘n daaglikse herinnering aan wat my verantwoordelikheid as ‘n sakeman teenoor God is, dien: ‘Werk hard sodat God jou kan goedkeur. Wees ‘n goeie werker, een wat nie nodig het om hom te skaam nie…’ Sedertdien meet ek my optrede aan die frase: ‘Wees ‘n goeie werker, een wat nie nodig het om hom te skaam nie.’ As jy nie weet dat jy God se goedkeuring het nie, sal jou suksesse, hoe groot ook al, jou leeg laat voel. Wanneer jy egter weet dat jy God se goedkeuring het, voel jy volkome vervuld.’ Paulus het aan die gelowiges in Korinte geskryf en gesê: ‘Ons streef in elk geval daarna… om [God] tevrede te stel’ (2 Korintiërs 5:9 NLV). Aan die mense is Tessalonië het hy gesê: ‘…ons [vra] julle om te sorg dat julle leefstyl tot eer van God is, soos ons julle geleer het…’ (1 Tessalonisense 4:1 NLV). Die woord vir jou vandag is dus: God se goedkeuring is die belangrikste. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:37:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 27 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722694 https://iono.fm/e/1722694 God’s part and our part
Paul writes: ‘Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfil his good purpose’ (vv. 12-13 NIV). Salvation is a gift from God, so you can’t work for it – but you can work on it. How do you do that? The same way you work out your muscles. If you want to get into good shape, you’ve got to exercise! And the more you do it, the stronger you become. You’ve got to take your faith to the gym and bench press it. It will involve some trembling – that’s what muscles do when they are pushed to their limit. But that’s how they grow stronger. And as you keep doing it, today’s faith ceiling will become tomorrow’s faith floor. Paul writes: ‘For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son’ (Romans 8:29 NIV). The ‘predestined’ part is God’s part, and the ‘conformed’ part is our part. A good example of this is the oft-repeated maxim: ‘Pray like it depends on God, and work like it depends on you.’ If you only do one or the other, it will result in half-baked spirituality. Our destiny is to be conformed to the image of Christ. And God will use any circumstance, good or bad, to accomplish that objective. Hence, Paul writes: ‘Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation”. Then you will shine…like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life’ (Philippians 2:14-16 NIV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:36:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 26 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:51 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722693 https://iono.fm/e/1722693 God se deel en ons deel
Paulus skryf: ‘…Deur ‘n leefstyl wat vol ontsag en eerbied vir God is, moet julle wys dat julle gered is. Dit is mos God wat julle gewillig maak om te doen waarvan Hy hou…’ (verse 12-13 NLV). Verlossing is ‘n gawe van God, dus kan jy nie daarvoor werk nie - maar jy kan daaraan werk. Hoe doen jy dit? Net soos jy jou spiere oefen. As jy fiks wil word, moet jy oefen! Hoe meer jy oefen, hoe sterker word jy. Jy moet jou geloof gimnasium toe neem en dit begin oefen. Dit sal ‘n bietjie bewerasie veroorsaak - dis wat spiere doen wanneer hulle tot hul uiterste gebruik word. Dis egter hoe hulle sterker word. Soos jy aanhou oefen, sal vandag se geloofsplafon môre se geloofsvloer word. Paulus skryf: ‘Want God het hulle reeds vooruit geken, en Hy het hulle aangewys om soos sy Seun te word…’ (Romeine 8:29 NLV). God het ons reeds vooruit geken en ons moet ons deel doen deur soos sy Seun te word. ‘n Goeie voorbeeld hiervan is die volgende gesegde: ‘Bid asof dit van God afhang en werk asof dit van jou afhang.’ As jy net die een of die ander doen, sal dit tot halfgebakte geestelikheid lei. Ons doelwit is om gelyk met die beeld van Christus te word. God sal enige omstandigheid, goed of sleg, gebruik om daardie doelwit te bereik. Daarom skryf Paulus: ‘Doen alles sonder kla of teëpraat. Dan sal julle as onberispelike kinders van God bo verdenking staan. Julle sal skoon lewe in ‘n wêreld vol oneerlike en perverse mense. Skyn in hierdie donker wêreld soos helder sterre, deur noukeurig te leef volgens die boodskap wat tot die lewe lei…’ (Filippense 2:14-16 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:35:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 26 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:22 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722692 https://iono.fm/e/1722692 Always do the honourable thing
In an extensive opinion survey from 1991 called The Day America Told the Truth, James Patterson and Peter Kim reported these startling findings. Only 13 per cent of those interviewed believed that all Ten Commandments are still binding and relevant today. Ninety-one per cent admitted that they lied regularly, both at home and at work. Most workers admitted to skiving off an average of seven hours a week. About half of the workforce admitted they regularly called in sick, even when they felt well. When they were asked what they would be willing to do for ten million dollars, 25 per cent said they would abandon their families, 23 per cent said they’d be willing to work as a prostitute for a week, and 7 per cent said they’d be willing to murder a stranger! And should you conclude that those surveyed are the unsaved and the unchurched, Doug Sherman and William Hendricks surveyed Christians and found that they were almost as likely as unbelievers to do these things too. They admitted to stealing in the workplace, falsifying their tax returns, and selectively obeying the laws. Paul wrote to the Corinthians: ‘We are careful to be honourable before the Lord, but we also want everyone else to see that we are honourable.’ Then he wrote to the Christians in Rome: ‘Don’t copy the behaviour and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you’ (Romans 12:2 NLT). So always do the honourable thing. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:33:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 25 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:45 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722690 https://iono.fm/e/1722690 Doen altyd die eerbare ding
In ‘n uitgebreide meningsopname in 1991 genaamd The Day America Told the Truth, het James Patterson en Peter Kim die volgende verrassende bevindinge gerapporteer. Slegs 13 persent van diegene wat ondervra is, het geglo dat al Tien Gebooie vandag nog bindend en relevant is. Een-en-negentig persent het erken dat hulle gereeld by die huis en werk lieg. Die meeste werkers het erken dat hulle gemiddeld sewe uur per week by die werk sit en niksdoen. Ongeveer die helfte van die werksmag het erken dat hulle gereeld siekverlof neem, selfs wanneer hulle nie siek is nie. Toe hulle gevra is wat hulle bereid sou wees om vir tien miljoen dollar te doen, het 25 persent gesê dat hulle bereid sou wees om hul families te verlaat, 23 persent het gesê dat hulle bereid sou wees om vir ‘n week as ‘n prostituut te werk, en 7 persent het gesê dat hulle bereid sou wees om ‘n vreemdeling te vermoor! Moet ook nie aanneem dat dit net ongelowiges was wat so gereageer het nie. Doug Sherman en William Hendricks het spesifiek Christene ondervra en bevind dat hulle amper net so geneig as ongelowiges was om hierdie dinge te doen. Hulle het erken dat hulle by die werk steel, hul belastingopgawes vervals en wette selektief gehoorsaam. Paulus het aan die Korintiërs geskryf: ‘Ons is daarop bedag om eerbaar voor die Here op te tree, maar ook voor die mense.’ Toe het hy aan die Christene in Rome geskryf: ‘Moenie julle leefstyl aanpas by die gedragspatrone van hierdie wêreld nie, maar laat God julle omvorm deurdat Hy julle denkpatrone vernuwe. Dan sal julle goed kan onderskei wat Hý wil hê dat julle moet doen…’ (Romeine 12:2 NLV). Doen dus altyd die eerbare ding. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:32:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 25 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:10 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722688 https://iono.fm/e/1722688 How to thrive in enemy territory (2)
Before allowing His people to conquer and inhabit the Promised Land, God commanded all the males to be circumcised (see Joshua 5:2). Circumcision was first introduced by God to Abraham as ‘a sign of the covenant between Me and you’ (Genesis 17:11 NKJV). The act of circumcision meant they were set apart from the surrounding nations who didn’t know God and that they belonged to Him. During the wilderness wanderings, the Hebrews let this practice lapse. But before they began their new life in Canaan, God introduced it to them again as a condition for enjoying a covenant relationship with Him. What’s the secret of survival in enemy territory? First, remember what God has done for you. Second, remember whose you are. The Hebrews did what God commanded – and God protected them and gave them spectacular victories over their enemies. ‘So it was, when all the kings of the Amorites who were on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan…their heart melted; and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the children of Israel’ (Joshua 5:1 NKJV). Their devotion to God brought protection from God. And it still works that way. ‘Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you’ (James 4:7-8 NKJV). These Scriptures teach that when you are surrendered to God, He gives you the power to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:31:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 24 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722687 https://iono.fm/e/1722687 Hoe om in ‘n vyandelike gebied te floreer (2)
Voordat God sy volk toegelaat het om die Beloofde Land te verower en te bewoon, het Hy beveel dat alle mans besny moes word (sien Josua 5:2). Die besnydenis is aanvanklik deur God aan Abraham bekendgestel as ‘n teken van die verbond tussen God en hom (sien Genesis 17:11). Die besnydenis het beteken dat hulle van die omliggende nasies wat God nie geken het nie afgesonder was en dat hulle aan Hom behoort het. Tydens die woestynomswerwinge het die Hebreërs hierdie praktyk laat vaar. Voordat hulle egter hul nuwe lewe in Kanaän kon begin, het God dit weer aan hulle as voorwaarde om ‘n verbondsverhouding met Hom te geniet, bekendgestel. Wat is die geheim van oorlewing in vyandelike gebied? Eerstens, onthou wat God vir jou gedoen het. Tweedens, onthou wie s’n jy is. Die Hebreërs het gedoen wat God beveel het - en God het hulle beskerm en hulle skouspelagtige oorwinnings oor hul vyande gegee. ‘Al die konings van die Amoriete wat wes van die Jordaan bly en al die konings van die Kanaäniete wat by die Middelandse See bly, het gehoor hoe God die water van die Jordaan voor die Israeliete laat wegdroog het… Hulle harte het gekrimp. Hulle het nie kans gesien om teen die Israeliete te veg nie’ (Josua 5:1 NLV). Hul toewyding aan God het beskerming van God meegebring. Dit werk steeds so. ‘Wys dus dat julle van God afhanklik is deur na Hom te luister. Weerstaan die duiwel en hy sal van julle wegvlug. Kom nader aan God, en Hy sal nader aan julle kom…’ (Jakobus 4:7-8 NLV). Hierdie Skrifgedeeltes leer ons dat wanneer jy jouself aan God oorgee, Hy jou die krag sal gee om die wêreld, die vlees en die duiwel te oorwin. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:30:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 24 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722685 https://iono.fm/e/1722685 How to thrive in enemy territory (1)
When Israel entered the Promised Land, there were thirty-one kings who had to be conquered. That means they’d be living in enemy territory. God told Joshua to ‘circumcise the sons of Israel’ (Joshua 5:2 NKJV). When it was done, the Lord said, ‘This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.’ The ‘reproach of Egypt’ was the humiliation of slavery they’d endured for 400 years; now it was time to reclaim their birthright as God’s chosen people. Circumcision, then, was a symbolic separation from the past and a declaration of a new identity: no longer a slave, but free. What about your old temptations, lusts, and shortcomings? He detached you from their power! It cannot be stated too often or too clearly – you are not the person you used to be! When Christ died, you died. When Christ was buried, you were buried. When Christ rose from the dead, you rose with Him. ‘You put off…the old man’ and ‘put on the new’ (Ephesians 4:22, 24 NKJV). Satan is called ‘the tempter’ and ‘the accuser’. When he comes against you in either role, tell him: ‘I have been bought with a price. I belong to God’ (see 1 Corinthians 6:20). ‘I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind’ (see 2 Timothy 1:7). ‘I cannot be separated from the love of God’ (see Romans 8:35). ‘I can find grace and mercy in the time of need’ (see Hebrews 4:16). ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me’ (Philippians 4:13 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:29:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 23 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722684 https://iono.fm/e/1722684 Hoe om in ‘n vyandelike gebied te floreer (1)
Toe Israel die Beloofde Land binnegegaan het, was daar een-en-dertig konings wat verower moes word. Dit beteken dat hulle in ‘n vyandelike gebied sou moes woon. God het vir Josua gesê om die Israeliete te besny (Josua 5:2 NLV). Toe dit klaar was, het die Here gesê: ‘Ek het julle vandag bevry van die vernedering van Egipte.’ Die ‘vernedering van Egipte’ was die vernedering van slawerny wat hulle 400 jaar lank verduur het; nou was dit tyd om hul eersgeboortereg as God se uitverkore volk op te eis. Die besnydenis was dus ‘n simboliese skeiding van die verlede en ‘n verklaring van ‘n nuwe identiteit: nie meer ‘n slaaf nie, maar vry. Wat van jou ou versoekings, welluste en tekortkominge? God het jou uit hulle mag bevry! Toe Christus gesterf het, het jy gesterf. Toe Christus begrawe is, is jy begrawe. Toe Christus uit die dood opgestaan het, het jy saam met Hom opgestaan. ‘…wat julle vroeëre leefstyl betref, [moet julle] die ou, sondige mens soos vuil klere… uittrek… Ja, trek die nuwe mens soos skoon klere aan…’ (Efesiërs 4:22, 24 NLV). Satan word ‘die versoeker’ en ‘die aanklaer’ genoem. Wanneer hy in enige van dié twee rolle voor jou staan, sê vir hom: ‘Ek is teen ‘n duur prys gekoop. Ek behoort aan God’ (sien 1 Korintiërs 6:20). ‘Ek is nie ’n gees van skugterheid gegee nie, maar een van krag en liefde en selfbeheersing’ (sien 2 Timoteus 1:7). ‘Ek kan nie van God se liefde geskei word nie’ (sien Romeine 8:35). ‘Ek kan op die regte tyd God se deernis en onverdiende goedheid ontvang’ (sien Hebreërs 4:16). ‘Ek kan onder alle omstandighede regkom deur Hom wat my krag gee’ (sien Filippense 4:13). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:28:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 23 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:21 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722683 https://iono.fm/e/1722683 In all things, seek to please God!
A young man studied violin under a world-renowned violinist and master teacher. He worked hard for several years perfecting his talent. The day finally came when he was called upon to give his first major public recital in a large city where both he and his teacher lived. Following each selection, which he performed with great skill and passion, the performer seemed uneasy about how to handle all the applause he was receiving. Even though he knew that those in the audience were musically astute and not likely to give such applause to a less than superior performance, the young man acted almost as if he couldn’t hear the appreciation that was being showered upon him. At the close of the last number he performed, the applause was thunderous, and numerous ‘bravos’ were shouted. The talented young violinist had his eyes glued, however, on only one spot. Finally, when an elderly man in the first row of the balcony smiled and nodded to him in approval, the young man relaxed and beamed with both relief and joy. His teacher had praised his work! The applause of thousands meant nothing to him until he had first won the approval of his master. That was Paul’s aim too, and it should be yours. ‘For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts’ (v. 4 NLT). So the word for today is this: in all things, seek to please God! ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:27:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 22 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:45 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722681 https://iono.fm/e/1722681 Streef daarna om God in alles tevrede te stel!
‘n Jong man het onder ‘n wêreldbekende violis en meesteronderwyser studeer om die viool te bemeester. Hy het jare lank hard gewerk om sy talent te vervolmaak. Die dag het uiteindelik aangebreek toe hy gevra is om sy eerste groot openbare uitvoering in ‘n groot stad waar beide hy en sy onderwyser gewoon het, te gee. Na elke lied, wat hy met groot vaardigheid en passie uitgevoer het, het die jong man ongemaklik gelyk oor hoe om al die applous wat hy ontvang het, te hanteer. Alhoewel hy geweet het dat diegene in die gehoor musikaal geletterd was en nie geneig was om sulke applous vir ‘n minder as uitmuntende uitvoering te gee nie, het die jong man amper opgetree asof hy nie die waardering kon hoor wat op hom uitgestort word nie. Aan die einde van die laaste nommer wat hy uitgevoer het, was die applous dawerend en talle ‘bravo!’s het deur die saal weerklink. Die talentvolle jong violis het egter sy oë net op een plek gerig. Uiteindelik, toe ‘n bejaarde man in die eerste ry van die balkon glimlag en vir hom in goedkeuring knik, het die jong man ontspan en begin straal van beide verligting en vreugde. Sy onderwyser het sy werk goedgekeur! Die applous van duisende het niks vir hom beteken, totdat hy die goedkeuring van sy meester ontvang het nie. Dit was ook Paulus se doel, en dit behoort joune ook te wees. ’Nee, ons praat omdat God ons gekeur het. Hy het die Goeie Nuus aan ons toevertrou. Ons doel is nie om mense tevrede te stel nie, maar God. Hy ondersoek die motiewe van ons harte’ (vers 4 NLV). Die woord vir vandag is dus: streef daarna om God in alles tevrede te stel! ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:24:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 22 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722678 https://iono.fm/e/1722678 Believe God for ‘Good Things’
We strive each day to ‘walk by faith, not by sight’ (2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV). But it doesn’t come easily. It takes a mind saturated in scripture to make a faith choice when you’re staring down the barrel of a situation that seems impossible. So how do you develop that kind of faith? For a relationship to thrive, both parties must invest time and energy into getting to know one other. Lasting connections are based on trust, and an intimate knowledge of the other person’s habits and character. And it’s the same with God. Over time, as you prove His faithfulness it becomes easier to let go of your fear and replace it with trust. One author writes: ‘Getting to know God means walking with Him, spending time in His Word, getting to know His spotless character and the countless examples of His unfailing love illustrated in His ironclad promises. It means praying, talking, sharing all the details of your life and the inner workings of your heart. He knows it all already, but He enjoys the intimacy of the conversation. And like any balanced relationship, we can’t always be the one talking. We have to make time to listen, to come before the Lord and get quiet, by silencing the noise of our thoughts and the rush of our emotions.’ Remember, the only place fear has to work is in the empty space where your faith should be. Fear is based on what you see and hear. Faith is based on knowing that God’s Word is reliable, and that He has promised ‘good things’ to those who believe Him for them! ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:23:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 21 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:54 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722677 https://iono.fm/e/1722677 Vertrou God vir ‘Goeie Dinge’
Ons streef elke dag daarna om te ‘...leef deur te glo en nie deur te sien nie’ (2 Korintiërs 5:7 NLV). Dit is egter nie maklik nie. Dit verg gedagtes wat deur die Skrif deurdrenk is om ‘n geloofskeuse te maak wanneer jy ’n situasie in die gesig staar wat onmoontlik lyk. Hoe ontwikkel jy daardie soort geloof? Vir ‘n verhouding om te floreer, moet beide partye tyd en energie belê om mekaar te leer ken. Blywende verbintenisse word op vertroue en ‘n intieme kennis van die ander persoon se gewoontes en karakter, gebaseer. Dit is ook dieselfde met God. Met verloop van tyd, soos jy sy getrouheid ervaar, word dit makliker om jou vrees te laat vaar en dit met vertroue te vervang. Een outeur skryf: ‘Om God te leer ken, beteken om saam met Hom te wandel, tyd met sy Woord deur te bring en om sy vlekkelose karakter en die tallose voorbeelde van sy onfeilbare liefde, te leer ken. Dit beteken om te bid, te praat en al die besonderhede van jou lewe en die innerlike werking van jou hart te deel. Hy weet dit alles reeds, maar Hy geniet die intimiteit van die gesprek. Soos enige gebalanseerde verhouding, kan ons egter nie altyd die een wees wat praat nie. Ons moet tyd maak om te luister, om voor die Here te kniel en stil te word en die geraas van ons gedagtes en die gejaag van ons emosies stil te maak.’ Onthou, die enigste plek waar vrees kan werk is in die leë ruimte waar jou geloof moet wees. Vrees word op die dinge wat jy sien en hoor gebaseer. Geloof word op die wete dat God se Woord betroubaar is en dat Hy ‘goeie dinge’ belowe aan diegene wat Hom daarvoor glo, gebaseer! ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:22:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 21 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:10 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722676 https://iono.fm/e/1722676 Put the past behind you
After falling twice in the 1988 Olympic speed-skating races, Dan Jansen sought out sports psychologist Dr Jim Loehr, who helped him find a new balance between sport and the rest of his life and to pay more attention to the mental aspects of skating. Peter Mueller became his coach, putting him through workouts that he described as ‘the toughest I’ve ever known’. By the time the 1994 Olympics arrived, Jansen had more confidence than ever. He had set a 500-metre world record just two months previously, so that race seemed to be all his! Then the unimaginable happened, and he fell during the 500-metre race. Dr Loehr advised him, ‘Start preparing for the 1000-metre race. Put the 500-metre race behind you immediately. Stop reliving it. Think 1000!’ For years Jansen didn’t believe he could win that distance, as he had always considered it his weaker event. Now it was his last chance at an Olympic medal. As the race began, Jansen said, ‘I just seemed to be sailing along,’ and then he slipped and came within an inch of stepping on a lane marker. Still, he didn’t panic; he raced on and recorded a world-record time that won him the gold medal. There’s an important lesson here for you. Put the past behind and believe that God has greater days in store for you – because He does. So the word for today is this: ‘Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:21:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 20 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:51 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722674 https://iono.fm/e/1722674 Laat die verlede met rus
Nadat hy twee keer tydens die Olimpiese spoedskaatswedlope van 1988 geval het, het Dan Jansen die sportsielkundige, dr Jim Loehr, begin spreek, wat hom gehelp het om ‘n nuwe balans tussen sport en die res van sy lewe te vind en om meer aandag aan die geestelike aspekte van skaats te gee. Peter Mueller het Dan se afrigter geword en hom deur oefensessies gelei wat hy as ‘die moeilikste wat ek nog ooit moes deurmaak,’ beskryf het. Teen die tyd dat die Olimpiese Spele van 1994 aangebreek het, het Jansen meer selfvertroue as ooit gehad. Hy het net twee maande tevore ‘n wêreldrekord oor die 500 meter opgestel, dus het almal voorspel dat hy goud in daardie wedloop sou wen. Toe gebeur die ondenkbare - hy val tydens die 500 meter-wedloop. Dr Loehr het hom aangeraai: ‘Begin nou voorberei vir die 1000 meter-wedloop. Trek onmiddellik ‘n streep deur die 500 meter-wedloop. Hou op om dit te herleef. Dink aan die 1000!’ Jare lank het Jansen nie geglo dat hy daardie afstand kon wen nie, aangesien hy dit nog altyd as sy swakker item beskou het. Nou was dit sy laaste kans op ‘n Olimpiese medalje. Toe die wedren begin, het Jansen gesê: ‘Dit het gevoel of ek goed aan die gang is, toe het ek gegly en amper uit die baan getree.’ Tog het hy nie paniekerig geraak nie; hy het aangehou en ‘n wêreldrekordtyd aangeteken wat hom die goue medalje besorg het. Daar is ‘n belangrike les hieruit te leer. Laat die verlede met rus en glo dat God beter dae vir jou in gedagte het - want Hy het. Die woord vir vandag is dus: ‘Vergeet al die dinge wat in die verlede gebeur het… Ek gaan iets nuuts doen. Dit het alreeds begin gebeur!..’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:19:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 20 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722672 https://iono.fm/e/1722672 Honour God in your home
Joe was a carpenter who worked for a building contractor. One day, the contractor said to him, ‘Joe, I’m putting you in charge of the next house we build. I want you to order the materials and oversee the job.’ Joe accepted the assignment with great enthusiasm. He studied the blueprints and checked every measurement and specification. Then he had a thought: ‘If I’m really in charge, why couldn’t I cut a few corners, use less expensive materials, and put the extra money in my pocket? Who will know? Once the house is painted, it will look great.’ So Joe ordered second-grade lumber and inexpensive concrete, put in cheap wiring, and cut every corner he could. When the home was finished, the contractor came to see it. ‘What a fine job you have done!’ he said. ‘You have been faithful to me all these years, and I have decided to show you my gratitude by giving you this house that you just built as a gift.’ Night after night, as Joe lay in bed listening to the roof leaking and the floor creaking, the message came through loud and clear: The house you built is the house you will live in! Are you short-changing your spouse and your family in love, time, example, and instruction? Count on it: there will come a time when you will regret what you have done and have left undone. And depending on time and opportunity, you may or may not have a chance to undo it. So make this your prayer: ‘As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:18:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 19 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:43 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722670 https://iono.fm/e/1722670 Eer God in jou huis
Joe was ‘n skrynwerker wat vir ‘n boukontrakteur gewerk het. Eendag het die kontrakteur vir hom gesê: ‘Joe, ek stel jou in beheer van die volgende huis wat ons bou. Ek wil hê jy moet die materiaal bestel en toesig hou oor die werk.’ Joe het die opdrag met groot entoesiasme aanvaar. Hy het die bloudrukke bestudeer en elke meting en spesifikasie nagegaan. Toe het hy gedink: ‘As ek werklik in beheer is, hoekom kan ek nie ‘n paar kortpaaie vat nie, goedkoper materiale gebruik en die ekstra geld in my sak steek nie? Wie sal weet? Sodra die huis geverf is, sal dit fantasties lyk.’ Joe het toe tweedegraadse hout en goedkoop beton bestel, goedkoop bedrading ingesit en elke kortpad gevat wat hy kon. Toe die huis klaar was, het die kontrakteur dit kom besigtig. ‘Jy het ‘n goeie werk gedoen!’ het hy gesê. ‘Jy was al die jare getrou aan my en ek het besluit om my dankbaarheid te betoon deur jou hierdie huis wat jy so pas gebou het, as ‘n geskenk aan jou te gee.’ Nag na nag, terwyl Joe in die bed gelê en geluister het na die dak wat lek en die vloer wat kraak, het hy die boodskap hard en duidelik gehoor: Die huis wat jy bou, is die huis waarin jy sal moet woon! Skeep jy jou eggenoot en jou gesin af wat liefde, tyd, voorbeeld en onderrig betref? Jy kan maar weet: daar sal ‘n tyd kom wanneer jy spyt sal wees oor wat jy gedoen het en nagelaat het om te doen. Afhangende van tyd en geleentheid, mag jy dalk nie ‘n kans kry om dit ongedaan te maak nie. Maak dus die volgende jou gebed: ‘…Ek en my huisgesin sal die Here aanbid.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:17:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 19 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:48 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722668 https://iono.fm/e/1722668 Be careful who you listen to
Like David’s older brother Eliab, there will always be people who try to discourage you from killing the giant in your life or taking on any other God-given assignment (see 1 Samuel 17:28). Their resistance could be due to the fact that ‘misery loves company’. Or that they’re projecting their fear and lack of faith onto you. Or it could be envy; they resent your attempt to do what they are afraid to do. And this is even more so when you succeed where they have failed. Whatever their motivation and intention may be, you may have to stand alone in your quest. Nehemiah’s enemies tried every trick in the book to deter him from rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. They were relentless. Notice how he handled their opposition: ‘Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together.”…But they were scheming to harm me; so I sent…this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?” Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer’ (Nehemiah 6:2-4 NIV). Nehemiah remained steadfast in what he knew God had called him to do, and you must too. You must be willing to take the put-downs, the envy, the distractions, the discouraging words, and all other opposition and stand on God’s Word: ‘If God is for us, who can be against us?’ (Romans 8:31 NIV). So the word for today is – be careful to whom you listen. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:16:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 18 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:40 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722667 https://iono.fm/e/1722667 Wees versigtig na wie jy luister
Soos Dawid se ouer broer, Eliab, sal daar altyd mense wees wat jou probeer ontmoedig om die reus in jou lewe dood te maak of enige ander Godgegewe opdrag aan te pak (sien 1 Samuel 17:28). Hul weerstand kan wees omdat hulle nie wil hê jy moet hulle agterlaat nie. Of dit kan wees dat hulle hul vrees en gebrek aan geloof op jou projekteer. Dit kan selfs afguns wees; hulle is wrokkig dat jy poog om dit te doen wat hulle te bang is om te doen. Hierdie weerstand mag dalk ‘n toppunt bereik wanneer jy slaag waar hulle misluk het. Wat ook al hul motivering en voorneme mag wees, jy sal dalk alleen in jou strewe moet staan. Nehemia se vyande het elke truuk in die boek probeer om hom te ontmoedig om die muur van Jerusalem te herbou. Hulle was meedoënloos. Let op hoe hy hul teenstand hanteer het: ‘Toe stuur Sanballat en Gesem vir my ‘n boodskap met die versoek dat ek hulle… moes ontmoet. Ek het besef dat hulle beplan het om my kwaad aan te doen. Ek het toe vir hulle ‘n boodskap teruggestuur: ‘Ek is met ‘n groot taak besig, ek kan nie nou daarmee ophou en julle ontmoet nie.’ Hulle het die boodskap vier keer vir my gestuur en elke keer het ek vir hulle dieselfde boodskap teruggestuur’ (Nehemia 6:2-4 NLV). Nehemia het standvastig gebly in dit wat hy geweet het God hom geroep het om te doen, en jy moet ook. Jy moet bereid wees om die afkeer, die afguns, die afleidings, die ontmoedigende woorde en alle ander teenstand te verduur en op God se Woord te staan: ‘…As God aan ons kant is, wie kan ooit téén ons wees?’ (Romeine 8:31 NLV). Die woord vir jou vandag is dus - wees versigtig na wie jy luister. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:14:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 18 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722666 https://iono.fm/e/1722666 Live in day-tight compartments (2)
In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis demonstrated that God wants humankind to attend chiefly to two things: ‘To eternity itself, and to that point of time, which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.’ In light of that truth, Screwtape, the veteran demon, advised a novice named Wormwood with these words: ‘Our business is to get them away from the eternal, and from the Present. With this in view, we sometimes tempt a human…to live in the Past.’ Screwtape then advised Wormwood about another demonic tactic – getting people to live in the future. ‘We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow’s end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap on the altar of the future every real gift which is offered to them in the Present.’ Whether we are overcoming lifelong addictions or going after life goals, one key to accomplishing things is breaking them down into manageable and measurable steps. A goal is a dream with a deadline. And without a deadline, the dream is dead in the water. Successful programmes that help alcoholics and addicts find sobriety and strength use the slogan: ‘One day at a time!’ If you want to break a habit, break it down into day-tight compartments. Just like boxing, you’ll win some rounds and lose some rounds. But you’ve got to fight one day and one round at a time. Before you know it, your winning streaks will get longer, and your losing streaks will get shorter. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:12:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 17 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:39 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722664 https://iono.fm/e/1722664 Lewe een dag op ‘n slag (2)
In The Screwtape Letters het C.S. Lewis geskryf dat God wil hê dat die mensdom hoofsaaklik aan twee dinge aandag moet gee: ‘Aan die ewigheid self en aan daardie tydstip wat hulle die Teenswoordige noem. Want die Teenswoordige is die punt waarop tyd die ewigheid aanraak.’ In die lig van hierdie waarheid het Screwtape, die veteraan-demoon, ‘n beginner, genaamd Wormwood, as volg aangeraai: ‘Ons taak is om hulle weg van die ewige en van die Teenswoordige te stuur. Met dit in gedagte, versoek ons dus soms ‘n mens om in die Verlede te leef.’ Screwtape het Wormwood toe van ‘n ander demoniese taktiek vertel - om mense so ver te kry om in die toekoms te lewe. ‘Ons wil ‘n hele generasie hê wat voortdurend die einde van die reënboog nastreef, nooit eerlik, of vriendelik, of gelukkig oor waar hulle hulle tans bevind nie, maar besig om elke geskenk wat in die Teenswoordige aan hulle gebied word, op die altaar van die toekoms op te offer.’ Of ons nou lewenslange verslawings oorkom of lewensdoelwitte nastreef, die een sleutel om dinge te bereik, is om dit in hanteerbare en meetbare stappe op te breek. ‘n Doelwit is ‘n droom met ‘n sperdatum. Suksesvolle programme wat alkoholiste en verslaafdes help om nugter te word en innerlike krag te vind, gebruik die slagspreuk: ‘Een dag op 'n slag!’ As jy ‘n gewoonte wil breek, breek dit in meetbare stappe op. Jy sal, net soos in boks, ‘n paar rondtes wen en ‘n paar rondtes verloor. Jy moet egter een dag en een rondte op ‘n slag veg. Voor jy jou oë uitvee, sal die dae wat jy wen baie meer as die dae wat jy verloor word. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:11:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 17 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:06 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722662 https://iono.fm/e/1722662 Live in day-tight compartments (1)
Sir William Osler was the most famous physician of his generation. He organised the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as a professor of medicine at Oxford University. Considered the father of psychosomatic medicine, his textbook, The Principles and Practice of Medicine, was the principal reference book for medical students for three decades. But Osler’s medical career almost ended as soon as it started because of a nervous breakdown. He was trying to finish his academic requirements, start a medical practice, and make ends meet – all at the same time. It nearly killed him. Then he came across something that Thomas Carlyle wrote: ‘Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.’ Those words revolutionised Osler’s life. In a commencement address at Yale University, Osler told the students he owed his success to a simple principle: living in day-tight compartments. He told them that they needed to let go of dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows. ‘The load of tomorrow,’ he said, ‘added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter.’ David said: ‘This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it’ (Psalm 118:24 TLB). Jesus said: ‘Don’t worry at all about having enough food and clothing…your heavenly Father already knows perfectly well that you need them, and he will give them to you if you give him first place in your life and live as he wants you to. So don’t be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time’ (Matthew 6:31-34 TLB). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:10:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 16 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:45 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722661 https://iono.fm/e/1722661 Lewe een dag op ‘n slag (1)
Sir William Osler was die bekendste geneesheer van sy generasie. Hy het die Johns Hopkins Skool vir Geneeskunde bestuur en as professor in medisyne aan die Universiteit van Oxford gedien. Sy handboek, The Principles and Practice of Medicine, word as die vader van psigosomatiese medisyne beskou en was vir drie dekades lank die belangrikste naslaanboek vir mediese studente. Osler se mediese loopbaan het egter, pas nadat dit begin het, amper weens ‘n senuwee-ineenstorting geëindig. Hy het probeer om aan sy akademiese vereistes te voldoen, ‘n mediese praktyk op die been te bring en kop bo water te hou - alles op dieselfde tyd. Dit het hom amper doodgemaak. Toe kom hy op die woorde van Thomas Carlyle af: ‘Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.’ Hierdie woorde het Osler se lewe verander. In ‘n toespraak by Yale Universiteit, het Osler vir die studente gesê dat hy sy sukses aan ‘n eenvoudige beginsel te danke het: om die lewe een dag op ‘n slag te leef. Dawid het gesê: ‘Dit is die dag wat die Here gemaak het. Laat ons daaroor juig en bly wees’ (Psalm 118:24). Jesus het gesê: ‘…Hou op om te sê: ‘Wat gaan ons vandag eet en drink?’ of: ‘Wat gaan ons vandag aantrek?’…Julle het mos ’n Vader in die hemel wat presies weet wat julle nodig het. Hy sal sorg dat julle dit alles kry. Stel God se koninkryk eerste. Doen net daardie dinge wat vir Hom belangrik is. Hy sal vir die res sorg... En los môre se probleme vir die dag van môre. Van probleme het elke dag immers oorgenoeg. Leef vandag voluit vir God!’ (Matteus 6:31-34 DB). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:09:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 16 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:13 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722659 https://iono.fm/e/1722659 Rules for serving
When it comes to serving others, try to live by these three rules: 1) Serve sincerely. ‘Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them.’ God knows your heart, so be honest with yourself about your true motives in serving and sacrificing for others. If you need help in this area, turn to the Scriptures: ‘For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword…and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart’ (Hebrews 4:12 NKJV). 2) Serve silently. ‘When you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet…that [you] may have glory from men’ (Matthew 6:2 NKJV). Note the words, ‘do not sound a trumpet’. When people take your kindness for granted or fail to appreciate the things you do for them, don’t toot your own horn. Look to God for your reward, not people; otherwise you’ll be disappointed. ‘As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters…so our eyes look to the Lord our God’ (Psalms 123:2 NKJV). 3) Serve selectively. You’re not called to go to every place, meet every need, and help every person. On two different occasions God stopped Paul from going into Asia to preach the gospel. But look what happened next: ‘And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”…immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them’ (Acts 16:9-10 NKJV). Why is this important to know? Because when God guides you, He provides for you! ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:08:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 15 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722658 https://iono.fm/e/1722658 Reëls vir bediening
Wanneer dit by die dien van ander kom, moet jy probeer om volgens hierdie drie reëls te leef: 1) Dien opreg. ‘Moenie veins dat jy ander liefhet nie; doen dit uit jou hart uit…’ God ken jou hart, wees dus eerlik met jouself oor jou ware beweegredes om ander te dien en vir hulle op te offer. As jy hulp in hierdie area nodig het, wend jou tot die Skrif: ‘Die woord van God is vol lewenskrag en energie. Dit is skerper as die ontleedmes van ‘n chirurg… Dit vlek ons diepste motiewe en oorwegings oop’ (Hebreërs 4:12 NLV). 2) Dien stilweg. ‘Wanneer jy iemand in nood help, moenie ‘n groot okkasie daarvan maak nie. Dis wat die skynheiliges in die sinagoges en op die strate doen om deur die mense opgehemel te word…’ (Matteus 6:2 NLV). Wanneer mense jou vriendelikheid as vanselfsprekend aanvaar of nie die dinge wat jy vir hulle doen waardeer nie, moenie jou eie beuel blaas nie. Draai na God vir jou beloning en nie na mense toe nie; anders sal jy teleurgestel word. 3) Dien selektief. Jy is nie geroep om na elke plek te gaan, in elke behoefte te voorsien en elke persoon te help nie. By twee verskillende geleenthede het God Paulus gekeer om na Asië te gaan om die evangelie te gaan verkondig. Kyk egter wat volgende gebeur het: ‘Daar het Paulus in die nag ‘n visioen ontvang. Hy het ‘n Masedoniese man gesien wat hom staan en smeek: ‘Kom oor na Masedonië toe en help ons.’ …ons [het] onmiddellik Masedonië toe vertrek omdat ons tot die oortuiging gekom het dat God ons geroep het om die evangelie daar te verkondig’ (Handelinge 16:9-10 NLV). Waarom is dit belangrik? Want wanneer God jou lei, voorsien Hy vir jou! ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:05:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 15 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:13 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722654 https://iono.fm/e/1722654 The consequences of disobedience
The walls of Jericho had fallen, and Joshua was flushed with victory. Their next challenge was the town of Ai, with a population of only 20,000 people. So Joshua decided that 3,000 of his soldiers could do the job. He was wrong. ‘The men of Ai chased the Israelites from the town gate as far as the quarries, and they killed about thirty-six who were retreating…The Israelites were paralysed with fear at this turn of events, and their courage melted away’ (vv. 4-5 NLT). What caused this? Achan, one of Joshua’s soldiers, had disobeyed God’s command and taken the spoils of Jericho and hidden them in his tent. As a result, Israel went down in a humiliating defeat, and Achan and his family were stoned to death in the valley of Achor. Joshua had a meltdown. He tore his clothing and fell on his face and prayed, ‘Oh, that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!’ (v. 7 NKJV). Note what God said to him: ‘Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face? Israel has sinned.’ There’s an important lesson here: there’s a time to pray and a time to ‘get up’ and deal with the issues God’s talking to you about! Sometimes we pray hoping that God will overlook our disobedience or change His mind. But God’s goal is to change us! Why did Achan take the spoils of Jericho? Because he didn’t trust in God’s ability and willingness to provide for him. Is God dealing with you about the same thing? ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:04:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 14 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:43 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722653 https://iono.fm/e/1722653 Die gevolge van ongehoorsaamheid
Jerigo se mure het geval en Josua was oorweldig deur die oorwinning. Hulle volgende uitdaging was die stad Ai, met ‘n bevolking van slegs 20 000 mense. Josua het toe besluit dat 3 000 van sy soldate die stad kon inneem. Hy was egter verkeerd. ‘Die mense van Ai het die Israeliete van die poort van die stad af agternagesit en hulle gejaag tot by die klipskeure waar hulle omtrent 36 van hulle teen die skuinste doodgemaak het. Die volk se moed het in hulle skoene gesak’ (vers 5 NLV). Wat het hierdie nederlaag veroorsaak? Akan, een van Josua se soldate, het God se bevel verontagsaam en van die buit van Jerigo geneem en dit in sy tent weggesteek. Gevolglik het Israel ‘n vernederende nederlaag gely en Akan en sy familie is in die Laagte van Akor met klippe doodgegooi. Josua het ‘n ineenstorting gehad. Hy het sy klere geskeur en op die grond neergeval en gebid: ‘…As ons tog maar liewer aan die ander kant van die Jordaan gebly het!’ (vers 7 NLV). Let op wat God vir hom gesê het: ‘…Staan op. Hoekom lê jy daar op die grond? Israel het oortree…’ Daar is ‘n belangrike les hieruit te leer: daar is ‘n tyd om te bid, en daar is ‘n tyd om op te staan en die kwessies waaroor God jou aanspreek, te hanteer! Soms bid ons in die hoop dat God ons ongehoorsaamheid sal oorsien of van plan sal verander. God se doel is egter om ons te verander! Waarom het Akan van die buit van Jerigo geneem? Omdat hy nie op God se vermoë en bereidwilligheid om vir hom te sorg, vertrou het nie. Spreek God jou ook daaroor aan? ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:03:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 14 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722651 https://iono.fm/e/1722651 The paths to your destiny
You’ll probably travel several different paths on your way to your destiny. When Luciano Pavarotti was a boy, his grandmother often put him on her lap and said, ‘You’re going to be great – you’ll see.’ But his grandmother had dreams of him becoming a banker! Instead, he became a schoolteacher. He taught primary school for a while, occasionally singing at special events. His father was the one who challenged him to develop his voice, telling him he was settling far short of his potential. Finally, at age twenty-two, Pavarotti stopped teaching to sell insurance. He continued to look for something stable on which he could rely financially in case he could not make it in the music world. The insurance business allowed him time to take voice lessons, and, as they say, ‘The rest is history.’ In an interview, the opera star said, ‘Studying voice was the turning point of my life.’ Then he added, ‘It’s a mistake to settle for the safe path in life.’ It takes courage to leave a position you consider safe and launch out in a new direction, but without risk, you can never realise your potential or know all God created you to be. The greatest risk of all is to take no risk because the person who risks nothing accomplishes nothing, has nothing, feels nothing, and, in the end, becomes nothing. God may lead you along several different paths on your way to your destiny, but if you submit to His will and follow His guidance, you will surely succeed. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:02:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 13 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:47 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722649 https://iono.fm/e/1722649 Die paaie na jou lewensdoel
Jy sal waarskynlik verskeie paaie op pad na jou lewensdoel volg. Toe Luciano Pavarotti ‘n seuntjie was, het sy ouma hom dikwels op haar skoot getel en gesê: ‘Jy gaan wonderlik wees – jy sal sien.’ Sy ouma het egter gedroom dat hy ‘n bankier gaan word! In plaas daarvan het hy ‘n onderwyser geword. Hy het ‘n rukkie by ‘n laerskool skoolgehou en soms by spesiale geleenthede gesing. Sy pa was die een wat hom uitgedaag het om sy stem te ontwikkel en vir hom gesê het dat hy ver aan sy potensiaal tekortskiet. Uiteindelik, op twee-en-twintigjarige ouderdom, het Pavarotti die onderwys verlaat om versekering te begin verkoop. Hy wou ‘n stabiele werk hê waarop hy finansieel kon staatmaak, indien hy nie sukses in die musiekwêreld kon behaal nie. Die versekeringsmaatskappy het hom tyd gegee om sanglesse te neem, en soos hulle sê: ‘Die res is geskiedenis.’ In ‘n onderhoud het die operaster gesê: ‘Om sang te studeer was die keerpunt in my lewe.’ Toe het hy bygevoeg: ‘Dis ‘n fout om die veilige pad in die lewe te kies.’ Dit verg moed om ‘n posisie wat jy as veilig beskou, te verlaat en in ‘n nuwe rigting te begin beweeg, maar sonder risiko kan jy nooit jou potensiaal verwesenlik of alles waarvoor God jou geskape het, bereik nie. Die grootste risiko van alles is om geen risiko te neem nie, want die persoon wat niks waag nie, bereik niks, het niks, voel niks en word uiteindelik niks. God mag jou langs verskeie paaie op pad na jou lewensdoel lei, maar as jy jou aan sy wil onderwerp en sy leiding volg, sal jy vir seker slaag. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:01:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 13 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:53 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722648 https://iono.fm/e/1722648 Making peace with your past
We are the sum total of everything we have experienced – both good and bad. We can engage in wishful thinking and imagine that our past negative behaviour had never occurred, or we can decide to accept the reality of it. How we choose to respond to the past will determine our destiny. We have all sinned, and we either responded by asking for God’s forgiveness and going forwards, or we are still stuck in guilt. Indeed, we may actually develop anxiety about possible consequences. Many people are plagued with jealousy because of their own infidelity or prior indiscretions. They live in fear that one day they will reap what they have sown. Some have even resorted to verbal and physical abuse of their partners in order to ward off what they feel will be inevitable. When we repent, we must believe God’s Word: ‘Their sins…I will remember no more’ (Hebrews 10:17 NIV). God doesn’t remember confessed sin, so we need to stop rehearsing it. God doesn’t want to hear about it ever again: ‘When sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices’ (Hebrews 10:18 NLT). Once is enough. There is no need to repent continually. To do so is to offer another ‘sacrifice’. Too many people sacrifice the rest of their lives on the altar of remorse over past transgressions. Yes, you should make every effort to line up your life with the requirements of God’s Word. And when you’ve done that, then stand on this Scripture: ‘The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 12 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722647 https://iono.fm/e/1722647 Maak vrede met jou verlede
Ons is die somtotaal van alles wat ons al ervaar het - beide goed en sleg. Ons kan wens dat ons vorige negatiewe gedrag nooit plaasgevind het nie, of ons kan besluit om die werklikheid daarvan te aanvaar. Hoe ons kies om op die verlede te reageer, sal ons lot bepaal. Ons het almal gesondig en ons het óf daarop gereageer deur God se vergifnis te vra en vorentoe te beweeg, óf ons sit steeds in skuldgevoelens vasgevang. Ons kan selfs angs oor moontlike gevolge ontwikkel. Baie mense word deur jaloesie as gevolg van hul eie ontrouheid of vorige oortredings geteister. Hulle leef in vrees dat hulle eendag sal maai wat hulle gesaai het. Sommiges sal selfs hul lewensmaats verbaal en fisies mishandel om dit wat hulle voel onvermydelik is, af te weer. Wanneer ons berou toon, moet ons God se Woord glo: ‘…Ek sal aan hulle sondes en hulle oortredings nooit weer dink nie’ (Hebreërs 10:17 NLV). God onthou nie belyde sonde nie, daarom moet ons ophou om dit op te haal. God wil dit nooit weer hoor nie: ‘Inderdaad, waar sondevergifnis ‘n werklikheid is, is geen verdere offer vir die sonde nodig nie’ (Hebreërs 10:18 NLV). Een keer is genoeg. Dit is nie nodig om voortdurend berou daaroor te hê nie. Wanner jy dit doen, is jy besig om ‘n ‘verdere offer’ te bring. Te veel mense offer die res van hul lewens op die altaar van berou oor vorige oortredings. Ja, jy moet alles in jou vermoë doen om jou lewe in lyn met die vereistes van God se Woord te bring. Wanneer jy dit egter gedoen het, moet jy op hierdie Skrifgedeelte staan: ‘Wie reg doen, sal vrede hê; wie volhard in regdoen, sal vir altyd rus en sekerheid geniet.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:59:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 12 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:01 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722646 https://iono.fm/e/1722646 Allow God in your finances
God can be sitting on the sidelines watching you struggle financially or actively involved as your financial partner. It all depends on what kind of steward you are. Your finances are yet another area of life where you can begin to experience an interactive relationship with your heavenly Father. But if you want God involved in your finances, you need to put your finances to work for God’s interests. ‘Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well’ (Matthew 6:33 NIV). That means you need to give. And you can start with what He’s already given you. That might mean a percentage of your next month’s salary or a part of your net worth. Wherever the voice of generosity leads you, you need to follow it. Again, this isn’t about giving to get. It’s about neutralising the fears that have been hindering the spirit of generosity inside you. It’s about discovering the thrill of taking part in God’s plan and experiencing the security that comes from knowing that your provider is the One who owns all provisions. When you sow, God shows up in amazing ways. ‘God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you. Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous’ (2 Corinthians 9:10-11 NLT). Once you experience the perfect provision of a loving heavenly Father, your fears will begin to evaporate. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:57:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 11 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:55 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722645 https://iono.fm/e/1722645 Maak God by jou finansies betrokke
God kan op die kantlyn sit en kyk hoe jy finansieel sukkel, of as jou finansiële vennoot aktief betrokke raak. Dit hang alles af van watter soort rentmeester jy is. Jou finansies is nog ‘n area van die lewe waar jy ‘n interaktiewe verhouding met jou hemelse Vader kan begin bou. As jy egter wil hê dat God by jou finansies betrokke moet wees, moet jy jou finansies vir God se belange aanwend. ‘Nee, maak eers die koningsheerskappy van God en dit wat voor Hom reg is, julle heel eerste prioriteit; dan sal God vir julle al hierdie ander dinge as ‘n bonus byvoeg’ (Matteus 6:33 NLV). Dit beteken dat jy moet gee. Jy kan begin met dit wat Hy jou reeds gegee het. Dit kan ‘n persentasie van jou volgende maand se salaris of ‘n deel van jou netto waarde wees. Jy moet volg waarheen die stem van vrygewigheid jou ook al lei. Dit gaan egter nie daaroor om te gee net sodat jy kan kry nie. Dit gaan daaroor om die vrese wat die gees van vrygewigheid binne-in jou belemmer, te neutraliseer. Dit gaan daaroor om die opwinding te ontdek om aan God se plan deel te neem en die sekuriteit te ervaar wat uit die wete dat jou voorsiener die Een is wat alles besit, voortspruit. ‘God wat saad voorsien aan die saaier en dan brood om te eet, sal ook aan julle saad gee en dit laat toeneem en die vrugte van julle goedhartigheid lieflik laat groei. In elke opsig sal julle ryk gemaak word om ook by elke geleentheid vrygewig te kan wees…’ (2 Korintiërs 9:10-11 NLV). Sodra jy die volmaakte voorsiening van ‘n liefdevolle hemelse Vader begin ervaar, sal jou vrese begin verdwyn. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:56:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 11 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:57 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722644 https://iono.fm/e/1722644 Guard against prejudice
James wrote to the church: ‘Suppose someone comes into your meeting dressed in fancy clothes and expensive jewellery, and another comes in who is poor and dressed in dirty clothes. If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, “You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor” – well, doesn’t this discrimination show that your judgments are guided by evil motives? If you favour some people over others, you are committing a sin’ (vv. 2-4, 9 NLT). The early church grew rapidly because prejudice had no place there. Although the Jews and Samaritans despised each other, Jesus made a place for Nicodemus, a Jewish leader, and the Gentile woman at the well who’d been married five times. The early church made room for Onesimus, the former slave, at the same table as Philemon, his wealthy former master. The gospel gives everyone, everywhere, a place of dignity at Christ’s table. The sin of discrimination stands on two legs: prejudice and presumption. And they should have no place in your life. The ancient prophet Habakkuk climbed up in his watchtower in order to ‘watch to see what [God] will say unto me’ (Habakkuk 2:1 KJV). Too much of our Christian experience is taken up with us saying something to God, and spending too little time listening to what God is saying to us. He definitely has something to say to us about discrimination. So ask Him to help you to view people through His loving eyes. You just might see a few people differently than you have in the past. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:54:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 10 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:52 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722643 https://iono.fm/e/1722643 Waak teen vooroordeel
Jakobus het vir die kerk geskryf: ‘Gestel daar kom iemand in julle samekoms in met duur juwele en baie mooi klere aan, en daar kom terselfdertyd ook iemand in wat brandarm is en verslete klere aanhet. As julle dan ‘n ophef maak van die persoon met die deftige klere, en julle sê vir hom: ‘U moet asseblief hier gemaklik kom sit,’ maar vir die arm man sê julle: ‘Jy kan maar daar anderkant gaan sit,’ of: ‘Kom sit hier op die vloer,’ sal julle nie toegee dat julle diskrimineer en mense op grond van verkeerde bewegings beoordeel nie?.. as julle teen mense diskrimineer, doen julle sonde…’ (verse 2-4; 9 NLV). Die vroeë kerk het vinnig gegroei omdat daar geen plek vir vooroordeel was nie. Alhoewel die Jode en Samaritane mekaar verag het, het Jesus ‘n plek vir Nikodemus, ‘n Joodse leier, en vir die nie-Joodse vrou by die put wat vyf keer getroud was, gemaak. Die vroeë kerk het plek vir Onesimus, die voormalige slaaf, aan dieselfde tafel as Filemon, sy welgestelde voormalige meester, gemaak. Die evangelie gee almal, oral, ‘n plek van waardigheid aan Christus se tafel. Diskriminasie behoort geen plek in jou lewe te hê nie. Die profeet Habakuk het in sy uitkyktoring geklim om te ‘…wag om te sien wat die Here vir my gaan sê…’ (Habakuk 2:1 NLV). Te veel van ons Christelike ervaring gaan daaroor om iets vir God te sê en te min tyd word bestee om te luister na wat God vir ons sê. Hy het beslis iets vir ons oor diskriminasie te sê. Vra Hom dus om jou te help om mense deur sy liefdevolle oë te beskou. Jy mag dalk net ‘n paar mense anders as in die verlede sien. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:53:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 10 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:57 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722642 https://iono.fm/e/1722642 God can turn the curse into a blessing
Paul told the Corinthians, ‘Therefore we do not lose heart…For our light affliction…is working for us’ (2 Corinthians 4:16-17 NKJV). Jim Stovall proved this to be true. At age seventeen, his doctor told him he was losing his sight, and nothing could be done to reverse it. Rather than drop out of life, he pursued a college degree and also studied privately with a very successful entrepreneur. His goal was to be in business for himself, even if blind, so that he might manage his own career and life. Even though he had prepared himself for blindness, when the day came that he could no longer see, he felt devastated. In his book, You Don’t Have to Be Blind to See, he said, ‘All I wanted to do was sit in my living room and listen to music.’ But then Jim dug deep down in his faith and, as he said, ‘God opened my inner eyes to a new idea.’ He entered a highly unusual field for a blind person – television! He founded the Narrative Television Network to aid visually impaired people. NTN adds more ‘descriptive narration’ to soundtracks so that listeners might visualise a programme or film and enjoy it more fully. NTN broadcasts to over 20 million households, and amazingly, some 60 per cent of the audience can see. For his work, Jim received television’s highest honour, the Emmy Award, after only one season on the air! So the word for today is this: God can make your problem ‘work for you’ and ‘turn a curse into a blessing’. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:52:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 9 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:51 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722641 https://iono.fm/e/1722641 God kan die vloek in ‘n seën verander
Paulus het vir die Korintiërs gesê: ‘Om hierdie rede gee ons nie moed op nie… Ons swaarkry… bewerk vir ons ‘n heerlikheid…’ (2 Korintiërs 4:16-17 NLV). Jim Stovall het bewys dat dit waar is. Op sewentienjarige ouderdom het sy dokter vir hom gesê dat hy besig is om sy sig te verloor en dat daar niks gedoen kan word om dit om te keer nie. Eerder as om in sak en as te gaan sit, het hy ‘n universiteitsgraad bekom en ook privaat by ‘n baie suksesvolle entrepreneur gestudeer. Sy doelwit was om vir homself ‘n besigheid te bou, selfs al was hy blind, sodat hy sy eie loopbaan en lewe kon bestuur. Alhoewel hy homself vir blindheid voorberei het, het hy verpletter gevoel toe die dag aanbreek dat hy nie meer kon sien nie. In sy boek, ‘You Don't Have to Be Blind to See’, het hy geskryf: ‘Al wat ek wou doen, was om in my sitkamer te sit en na musiek te luister.’ Jim het egter diep in sy geloof gedelf en gesê: ‘God het my innerlike oë vir ‘n nuwe idee oopgemaak.’ Hy het ‘n hoogs ongewone veld vir ‘n blinde persoon betree - televisie! Hy het die Narrative Television Network (NTN) gestig om gesiggestremde mense te help. NTN voeg ‘beskrywende vertellings’ by klankbane, sodat luisteraars ‘n program of film kan visualiseer en dit meer kan geniet. NTN saai na meer as 20 miljoen huishouding uit en verbasend genoeg kan sowat 60 persent van hulle gehoor sien. Vir sy werk het Jim televisie se hoogste eerbewys, die Emmy-toekenning, na slegs een seisoen op die lug ontvang! Die woord vir vandag is dus: God kan jou probleem vir jou bewerk en ‘n ‘…vloek in ‘n seën verander…’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:51:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 9 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:12 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722639 https://iono.fm/e/1722639 Victory is an ‘inside job’
In 1928, a happy, ambitious young nursing student was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Back then, such a diagnosis often meant a death sentence. Her family sent her to a nursing home for several months, hoping she would be cured. She was destined to remain in bed for the next twenty-one years! Many people would have given up, but not Isabel Smith. She approached the threshold of death on several occasions, but her faith remained strong, and she never ceased to pursue the art of living. She read voraciously, wrote letters, studied geography, and taught other patients to read and write. From her bed she studied atomic energy with a fellow patient, a young physicist, and organised a town hall meeting on the topic. While ill, she met a kind, gentle man, also a patient at the sanatorium. She dreamed of marrying him and having a little house ‘under the mountains’. At her lowest ebb, her dream kept her going. And in 1948, she got married. She then authored a book called Wish I Might, which was published in 1955. The book was ‘about all the good things life has brought me’, and it earned her enough royalties to buy her the mountain retreat she dreamed of. A tragic life? Hardly! Isabel Smith achieved everything she set out to achieve, though the odds against her were overwhelming. Even when flat on her back in bed, she never stopped growing, learning, dreaming, and giving. ‘Though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.’ Victory is an ‘inside job’. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:49:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 8 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:55 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722636 https://iono.fm/e/1722636 Oorwinning is ‘n ‘inside job’
In 1928 is ‘n gelukkige, ambisieuse jong verpleegstudent met tuberkulose gediagnoseer. Destyds het so ‘n diagnose dikwels ‘n doodsvonnis beteken. Haar familie het haar vir ‘n paar maande na ‘n sanitorium gestuur in die hoop dat sy genees sou word. Sy was egter bestem om vir die volgende een-en-twintig jaar in die bed te bly! Baie mense sou moed opgegee het, maar nie Isabel Smith nie. Sy was ‘n paar keer op die drumpel van die dood, maar haar geloof het sterk gebly en sy het nooit opgehou om positief en met ywer te leef nie. Sy het gulsig gelees, briewe geskryf, aardrykskunde bestudeer en ander pasiënte leer lees en skryf. Terwyl sy siek was, het sy ‘n vriendelike, sagte man ontmoet wat ook ‘n pasiënt by die sanatorium was. Sy het daarvan gedroom om met hom te trou en in ‘n klein huisie aan die voet van die berge te bly. Op haar laagste het haar droom haar aan die gang gehou. Sy is in 1948 getroud. Sy het toe ‘n boek met die titel ‘Wish I Might’ geskryf, wat in 1955 gepubliseer is. Die boek het gehandel oor ‘al die goeie dinge wat die lewe my gebring het’, en sy het genoeg geld daaruit verdien om die bergtoevlugsoord waarvan sy gedroom het, te koop. ‘n Tragiese lewe? Glad nie! Isabel Smith het alles bereik wat sy wou, alhoewel die kanse teen haar oorweldigend was. Selfs toe sy plat op haar rug in die bed gelê het, het sy nooit ophou groei, leer, droom en gee nie. ‘…Al is ons uiterlike mens besig om te vergaan, innerlik word ons van dag tot dag vernuwe.’ Oorwinning is ‘n ‘inside job.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:48:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 8 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:08 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722634 https://iono.fm/e/1722634 The rewards of vision and hard work
In the autumn of 1894, Guglielmo retreated to his room on the third floor. All summer while on holiday, he read books and filled notebooks with squiggly diagrams. Now the time had come for him to work. Every day, he rose early. He worked all day and long into the night, to the point that his mother became alarmed. He had never been a robust person, but now he had become appallingly thin. His face was drawn, and his eyes were often glazed over with fatigue. Finally, the day came when he announced that his instruments were ready. He invited the family to his room and, pushing a button, he succeeded in ringing a bell on the first floor! While his mother was amazed, his father was not. He saw no use in being able to send a signal so short a distance. So Guglielmo laboured on. Little by little, he made changes in his sending circuits so he could send a signal from one hill to the next and then beyond the hill. Eventually his invention was perfected – partly due to vision and inspiration, but mostly due to perseverance. Guglielmo Marconi was eventually hailed as the inventor of wireless telegraphy, radio’s forerunner. He not only received a Nobel Prize in physics but also acquired a seat in the Italian senate. If you want what successful people have, you must be willing to do what successful people do. And 99 per cent of their success is due to vision and hard work. ‘Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:47:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 7 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:40 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722633 https://iono.fm/e/1722633 Die beloning vir visie en harde werk
In die herfs van 1894 het Guglielmo hom in sy kamer op die derde verdieping afgesonder. Die hele somer terwyl hy met vakansie was, het hy boeke gelees en notaboeke met kronkelende diagramme vol geskryf. Nou het die tyd vir hom aangebreek om te werk. Elke dag het hy vroeg opgestaan. Hy het heeldag en tot laat in die nag gewerk, soveel so dat sy moeder bekommerd oor hom begin raak het. Hy was nog nooit ‘n sterk persoon nie, maar nou het hy verskriklik maer geword en sy oë was dikwels glaserig van moegheid. Uiteindelik het die dag aangebreek om sy werk ten toon te stel. Hy het die gesin na sy kamer genooi en deur ‘n knoppie te druk, het hy daarin geslaag om ‘n klokkie op die eerste verdieping te laat lui! Sy ma was beïndruk, maar nie sy pa nie. Hy het geen nut daarin gesien om ‘n sein oor so kort afstand te kan stuur nie. Dus het Guglielmo aanhou werk. Bietjie vir bietjie het hy veranderinge aangebring totdat hy ‘n sein van een heuwel na die volgende en dan selfs verder as die heuwel kon stuur. Uiteindelik is sy uitvinding vervolmaak - deels danksy visie en inspirasie, maar meestal danksy deursettingsvermoë. Guglielmo Marconi is uiteindelik as die uitvinder van draadlose telegrafie, die voorloper van die radio, beskou. Hy het nie net ‘n Nobelprys vir fisika ontvang nie, maar ook ‘n setel in die Italiaanse senaat verwerf. As jy wil hê wat suksesvolle mense het, moet jy bereid wees om te doen wat suksesvolle mense doen. 99 persent van hul sukses is egter aan visie en harde werk te danke. ‘Luiaards begeer baie dinge, maar hulle kry dit nie. Mense wat hard werk, het meer as wat hulle kan begeer.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:46:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 7 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722630 https://iono.fm/e/1722630 God can heal you (5)
Here’s a prayer for healing and continued good health: ‘Father, the power of Your Word is the source of my healing and continued good health. It declares that You have delivered me from all destruction. I may have made decisions in the past that caused ill health in my life, but You have forgiven me in Christ, and You deliver me continuously from all sickness, pain, weakness, and disease. Your Word says: “Because you have made the Lord…your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling” (Psalm 91:9-10 NKJV). You are my refuge and my dwelling place. There is no sickness in Your presence, and since I abide in you, sickness cannot remain in my life. I am protected because I am in Christ. Your Word says, “Let the weak say, ‘I am strong’” (Joel 3:10 NKJV). So I call myself strong even when I feel weak. Lord, your Word says You will satisfy my mouth with good things so that my youth is renewed (see Psalm 103:5). You are my source of complete satisfaction, and I believe my youth and strength are being renewed. As a result, I age gracefully in Christ. Lord, Your Word says that I can call upon You, and You will answer me. You will be with me in trouble; You will deliver me and honour me. With long life You will satisfy me, and show me Your salvation (see Psalm 91:15-16). Therefore, I stand on Your Word and declare by faith: “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord”’ (Psalm 118:17 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:45:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 6 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:19 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722629 https://iono.fm/e/1722629 God kan jou genees (5)
Hier is ‘n gebed vir genesing en volgehoue goeie gesondheid: ‘Vader, die krag van u Woord is die bron van my genesing en volgehoue goeie gesondheid. Dit verklaar dat U my van alle vernietiging verlos het. Ek het dalk in die verlede besluite geneem wat swak gesondheid in my lewe veroorsaak het, maar U het my in Christus vergewe, en U verlos my voortdurend van alle siekte, pyn, swakheid en kwale. U Woord sê: ‘As die Here jou toevlug is, as die Allerhoogste jou skuilplek is, sal geen kwaad jou tref, en geen ramp naby jou tent kom nie’ (Psalm 91:9-10 NLV). U is my toevlug en my skuilplek. Daar is geen siekte in u teenwoordigheid nie en aangesien ek in U bly, kan siekte nie in my lewe bly nie. Ek word beskerm omdat ek in Christus is. U Woord sê: ‘…laat die swakkes sê: Ek is sterk’ (Joël 3:10 KAB23). Daarom noem ek myself sterk, selfs wanneer ek swak voel. Here, u Woord sê U sal my lewe met goeie dinge vul, sodat my jeug vernuwe word (sien Psalm 103:5). U is my bron van volkome tevredenheid en ek glo dat my jeug en krag hernu word. Gevolglik verouder ek goedgunstelik in Christus. Here, u Woord sê dat ek U kan aanroep en dat U my sal antwoord. U sal by my wees in nood; U sal my verlos en my eer herstel. U sal vir my ‘n lang lewe gee en my u verlossing wys (sien Psalm 91:15-16). Daarom staan ek op u Woord en verklaar deur geloof: ‘Ek sal nie sterf nie, maar lewe, en van die Here se werke vertel’ (Psalm 118:17 NLV).’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:44:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 6 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:14 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722627 https://iono.fm/e/1722627 God can heal you (4)
Just because you haven’t seen results yet doesn’t mean your prayer is not being answered. The Word of God is a seed; it needs time to produce fruit. Ask God for the grace to hold on to what you believe from His Word while it takes root and grows. No matter what the situation, it’s always a good time to be thankful. Satan wants you to focus on your circumstances and what appears unchanged instead of thanking God for the part of your life that has gotten better. As you are standing in faith and allowing the Word to work inside you, continue to meditate on the promises of God about healing. God’s Word works when you plant it in your heart. Keep watering that seed by continuing to speak God’s promises over your life. God said: ‘The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it’ (Isaiah 55:10-11 NLT). What did God say about His Word? ‘It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.’ Keep your faith strong and stand on God’s Word; ‘I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living’ (Psalm 27:13 NIV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:43:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 5 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:37 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722625 https://iono.fm/e/1722625 God kan jou genees (4)
Net omdat jy nog nie resultate gesien het nie, beteken nie dat jou gebed nie verhoor word nie. Die Woord van God is ‘n saad; dit het tyd nodig om vrugte te dra. Vra God vir die genade om aan dit wat jy glo uit sy Woord vas te hou, terwyl dit wortel skiet en groei. Ongeag die situasie, is dit altyd ‘n goeie tyd om dankbaar te wees. Satan wil hê dat jy op jou omstandighede en wat onveranderd lyk, moet fokus, in plaas daarvan om God te dank vir die deel van jou lewe wat beter geword het. Terwyl jy in geloof staan en die Woord toelaat om binne-in jou te werk, moet jy aanhou om oor die beloftes van God wat oor genesing handel, te mediteer. God se Woord werk wanneer jy dit in jou hart plant. Hou aan om daardie saad nat te gooi deur God se beloftes oor jou lewe te spreek. God het gesê: ‘Reën en sneeu kom uit die hemel, en dit gaan nie daarheen terug nie. Dit maak die aarde nat om die plante te laat bot en vrugte te laat dra, sodat daar saad is om te saai en brood om te eet. Net so is dit met die woord wat uit my mond kom. Dit sal nie leeg na My toe terugkeer nie, maar dit sal doen wat Ek verwag en die doel bereik waarvoor Ek dit gestuur het’ (Jesaja 55:10-11 NLV). Hou jou geloof sterk en staan vas op God se Woord: ‘Tog is ek daarvan oortuig: Die Here se goedheid sal ek sien hier in die land van die lewendes’ (Psalm 27:13 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:41:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 5 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:58 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722623 https://iono.fm/e/1722623 God can heal you (3)
Healing can happen in different ways. Sometimes God performs a miracle and instantly heals someone. Other times He heals a person progressively. When looking at Scripture and the many miracles Jesus performed, it’s easy to think He always healed people in the same fashion. But on closer examination, we see that in many cases He didn’t do the same thing twice. For instance, here’s how He healed those who were blind: 1) In Matthew 9:29, Jesus healed two blind men by simply touching their eyes. 2) In Mark 10:52, He healed blind Bartimaeus by speaking to him rather than touching him. 3) In Mark 8:22-25, He put saliva on a blind man’s eyes and laid hands on him twice before he was completely healed. Jesus wasn’t bound by one method of healing people – but He was always willing to heal them. Regardless of the method, the receivers consistently showed belief in His ability to heal and willingness to release His power on their behalf. And the same is true today! If you’ve prayed for healing and nothing happened immediately, that doesn’t mean your faith faltered. It also doesn’t mean that God is angry at you or that He wants you to suffer. It just means it’s time to thank God that you are taking Him at His Word and believing you are getting progressively better day by day: ‘By whose stripes you were healed’ (1 Peter 2:24 NKJV). That means believing that what is already accomplished in the Spirit realm will eventually manifest itself in the physical realm. From God’s perspective, your healing has been bought and paid for. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:39:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 4 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722621 https://iono.fm/e/1722621 God kan jou genees (3)
Genesing kan op verskillende maniere plaasvind. Soms verrig God ‘n wonderwerk en genees iemand onmiddellik. Ander kere genees Hy iemand progressief. Wanneer ons na die Skrif kyk en die vele wonderwerke wat Jesus verrig het, is dit maklik om te dink dat Hy mense altyd op dieselfde manier genees het. By nadere ondersoek sien ons egter dat Hy in baie gevalle nie twee keer dieselfde opgetree het nie. 1) In Matteus 9:29 het Jesus twee blinde mans genees deur bloot aan hulle oë te raak. 2) In Markus 10:52 het Hy die blinde Bartimeus genees deur met hom te praat, eerder as om hom aan te raak. 3) In Markus 8:22-25 het Hy speeksel aan ‘n blinde man se oë gesmeer en hom twee keer die hande opgelê voordat hy heeltemal genees was. Jesus was nie aan een metode om mense te genees gebonde nie - maar Hy was altyd bereid om hulle te genees. Ongeag die metode, het die ontvangers konsekwent geloof in sy vermoë om te genees en bereidwilligheid om sy krag namens hulle vry te stel, getoon. Dieselfde is vandag ook waar! As jy vir genesing gebid het en niks gebeur onmiddellik nie, beteken dit nie dat jou geloof wankel nie. Dit beteken ook nie dat God kwaad is vir jou of dat Hy wil hê jy moet ly nie. Dit beteken net dat dit tyd is om God te dank dat jy in sy belofte kan glo en dat jy dag vir dag progressief beter word: ‘…Deur sý verwonding is julle genees!’ (1 Petrus 2:24 NLV). Dit beteken om te glo dat dit wat reeds in die geestelike ryk bereik is, uiteindelik in die fisiese ryk sal manifesteer. Vanuit God se perspektief is jou genesing reeds gekoop en betaal. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:38:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 4 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:04 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722619 https://iono.fm/e/1722619 God can heal you (2)
The psalmist wrote: ‘Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies’ (vv. 2-4 NLT). David reminded himself of these four things, and you should too. God had forgiven all his sins. God had healed all his diseases. God had redeemed his life from death and destruction. God had crowned him with love, kindness, mercy, and favour. The Bible records: ‘A vast crowd brought to him people who were lame, blind, crippled, those who couldn’t speak, and many others. They laid them before Jesus, and he healed them all’ (Matthew 15:30 NLT). Were these born-again Christians that Jesus healed? No, this took place before the cross. Think about it: if Jesus was willing to heal all of them, then as a redeemed child of God who has put your trust in Christ for salvation, He can heal you too. Are you a believer? Yes? Then read this Scripture and stand on it: ‘These signs will follow those who believe…they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover’ (Mark 16:17-18 NKJV). James wrote: ‘Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up’ (James 5:14-15 NKJV). If you are sick, stand on God’s Word and believe Him to heal you. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:37:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 3 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:20 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722617 https://iono.fm/e/1722617 God kan jou genees (2)
Die Psalmdigter het geskryf: ‘Ek wil die Here prys en nie sy goeie dade vergeet nie. Hy vergewe al jou sondes, en genees al jou siektes. Hy verlos jou van die dood, bekroon jou met liefde en medelye’ (verse 2-4 NLV). Dawid het homself aan hierdie vier dinge herinner. Jy moet dit ook doen. God het al sy sondes vergewe. God het al sy siektes genees. God het sy lewe verlos van die dood en vernietiging. God het hom met liefde, vriendelikheid, barmhartigheid en guns gekroon. Die Bybel sê: ‘’n Groot skare het met hulle verlamdes, blindes, kreupeles, stommes en nog baie ander siekes na Jesus toe gekom en hulle voor Hom neergesit. En Hy het hulle gesond gemaak’ (Matteus 15:30 NLV). Was dit wedergebore Christene wat Jesus genees het? Nee, dit was voor die kruis plaasgevind het. Dink daaraan: as Jesus bereid was om hulle almal te genees, dan kan Hy jou, wat ‘n verloste kind van God is en wat jou vertroue in Christus vir verlossing geplaas het, ook genees. Is jy ‘n gelowige? Ja? Lees dan hierdie Skrifgedeelte en staan daarop: ‘Hierdie is die wondertekens wat dié sal beleef wat glo:.. Hulle sal siekes die hande oplê, en hulle sal gesond word’ (Markus 16:17-18 NLV). Jakobus het geskryf: ‘Is daar van julle wat siek is? Dan moet julle die ouderlinge van die gemeente laat kom. Nadat die ouderlinge die siekes met olyfolie in die Naam van die Here gesalf het, moet hulle vir hulle bid. En ‘n gelowige gebed sal die siek mens gesond laat word; die Here sal hom laat opstaan…’ (Jakobus 5:14-15 NLV). As jy siek is, staan op God se Woord en glo dat Hy jou sal genees. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:36:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 3 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:24 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722615 https://iono.fm/e/1722615 God can heal you (1)
The Bible says: ‘A man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him. “Lord,” the man said, “if you are willing, you can heal me.”…Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared’ (vv. 2-3 NLT). God does not want us to go through life wondering if it’s His will to heal us. That’s why He graciously gave us His Word. David said: ‘O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you restored my health. You brought me up from the grave’ (Psalm 30:2-3 NLT). God is so serious about our healing that He connected it to the death of Jesus on the cross. ‘Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed’ (1 Peter 2:24 NKJV). We don’t doubt Christ’s triumph over death at the cross or our salvation because of it. Neither should we doubt the Father’s will to heal us. Note the words, ‘By whose stripes you were healed.’ That’s past tense. From God’s perspective, all that’s required for your healing was accomplished at the cross. This leper knew that Jesus could heal him; he just didn’t know if He would. Jesus cleared up his doubt with three powerful words: ‘I am willing.’ And then He said, ‘Be healed!’ (Matthew 8:3 NLT). The Bible records that the man’s leprosy disappeared instantly. It also says: ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever’ (Hebrews 13:8 NKJV). That means you can go to Him with confidence and believe for your healing. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:35:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 2 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:59 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722611 https://iono.fm/e/1722611 God kan jou genees (1)
Die Bybel sê: ‘Daar kom toe onverwags ‘n melaatse nader en val voor Jesus neer met die woorde: ‘Here as U wil, kan U my gesond maak.’ Daarop steek Jesus sy hand na hom toe uit, raak hom aan en sê: ‘Ek wil dit vir jou doen. Word gesond!’ En dadelik het sy melaatsheid verdwyn’ (verse 2-3 NLV). God wil nie hê dat ons deur die lewe moet gaan en wonder of dit sy wil is om ons te genees nie. Daarom het Hy genadiglik sy Woord aan ons gegee. Dawid het gesê: ‘Here my God, ek het na U geroep om hulp en U het my gesond gemaak. Here, U het my gered van die doderyk…’ (Psalm 30:3-4 NLV). God is so ernstig oor ons genesing dat Hy dit met Jesus se dood aan die kruis verbind het. ‘Hy het self ons sondes in sy liggaam weggedra kruis toe. Só is ons vry van die sonde. Nou kan ons lewe omdat God ons verhouding met Hom herstel het. Deur sý verwonding is julle genees!’ (1 Petrus 2:24 NLV). Ons twyfel nie aan Christus se triomf oor die dood aan die kruis of ons verlossing daardeur nie. Ons moet ook nie die Vader se wil om ons te genees, betwyfel nie. Vanuit God se perspektief is alles wat vir jou genesing nodig is, reeds aan die kruis volbring. Hierdie melaatse man het geweet dat Jesus hom kon genees; hy het net nie geweet of Hy sou nie. Jesus het sy twyfel met twee kragtige sinne uit die weg geruim: ‘…Ek wil dit vir jou doen. Word gesond!’ (Matteus 8:3 NLV). Die Bybel sê: ‘Jesus Christus bly steeds dieselfde – gister, vandag en vir altyd!’ (Hebreërs 13:8 NLV). Dit beteken dat jy met vertroue na Hom toe kan gaan en Hom glo vir jou genesing. ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:33:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 2 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:12 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722609 https://iono.fm/e/1722609 Take time for rest and restoration
Feeling tired tells you: 1) that your body needs to rest, 2) to take life at a more normal human pace, and 3) to take time to just abide in the presence of God. God ‘rested on the seventh day’ (Genesis 2:2 ESV). Think about that. God – the One who transcends all things, knows all things, and has all power – rested! What makes you think you don’t have to? Now if you’re wired to work, not working will be a difficult habit to get into, even for a few hours. But rest is a secret weapon God gave you to help you defeat the enemy. When you’re exhausted, you’re of little use to God or anyone else. This is one of the main reasons Satan has you running here and there, doing, doing, doing. If he can’t tempt you with addictive substances, wrong relationships, and bad habits, he will tempt you with overdoing good deeds. He wants you to exhaust yourself so that when the real battle – the one you were meant to fight – comes along, you’ll be too tired. John wrote: ‘I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers’ (3 John 2 NKJV). But your soul is not prospering when it is exhausted and stretched to the max, with little time for rest or restoration. What to do? Lay your schedule at the feet of Jesus, including any new projects. Wait for His direction. If it seems slow in coming, stand on this Scripture: ‘Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:32:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 1 Oct 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:52 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1722608 https://iono.fm/e/1722608 Neem tyd vir rus en herstel
Wanneer jy moeg voel, sê dit vir jou: 1) dat jou liggaam rus nodig het, 2) dat jy die lewe teen ‘n stadiger tempo moet benader, en 3) dat jy tyd moet neem om in die teenwoordigheid van God te vertoef. God het op die sewende dag gerus (sien Genesis 2:2). God - die Een wat alle dinge oortref, alle dinge weet en alle mag het - het gerus! Wat laat jou dink dat jy nie rus nodig het nie? As jy daaraan gewoond is om altyd aan die gang te wees, sal dit moeilik wees om selfs vir ‘n paar uur nie te werk nie. Rus is egter ‘n geheime wapen wat God jou gegee het om jou te help om die vyand te verslaan. Wanneer jy uitgeput is, is jy van min nut vir God of enigiemand anders. Dit is een van die hoofredes waarom Satan jou hiernatoe en daarnatoe laat hardloop. As hy jou nie met verslawing, verkeerde verhoudings en slegte gewoontes kan versoek nie, sal hy jou met ‘n besige skedule versoek. Hy wil hê jy moet jouself uitput sodat wanneer die ware stryd aanbreek, jy te moeg sal wees om weerstand te bied. Johannes het geskryf: ‘…ek hou aan bid dat dit in alle opsigte met jou goed mag gaan en dat jy nét so gesond sal wees soos dit geestelik goed met jou gaan’ (3 Johannes 2 NLV). Jou siel floreer nie wanneer jy uitgeput en in alle rigtings getrek word, met min tyd vir rus of herstel, nie. Wat staan jou dus te doen? Lê jou skedule, insluitend enige nuwe projekte, voor Jesus se voete neer. Wag vir sy leiding. Staan op die volgende Skrifgedeelte: ‘Maar dié wat hulle hoop op die Here stel, sal hulle krag terugkry…’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:30:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 1 Okt 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707923 https://iono.fm/e/1707923 Admit your shortcomings
It seems that everywhere you turn today, somebody is making an excuse for his or her poor choices, performance, or behaviour, or failing to admit a weakness or shortcoming. Yet we all make mistakes. One of the best examples of admitting a mistake is found in the account of David being unjustly pursued by King Saul. David became a fugitive, and in the process unknowingly jeopardized the lives of certain priests when he asked for their help. Ahimelech the priest gave him food and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf. Doeg, King Saul’s chief herdsman, witnessed the whole thing and squealed on the priest. Saul confronted Ahimelech, accused him of conspiring with David, and ordered Doeg to kill him and eighty-five other priests and their entire families. “Only Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, escaped and fled to David. When he told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord, David exclaimed, ‘I knew it! When I saw Doeg…there that day, I knew he was sure to tell Saul. Now I have caused the death of all your father’s family’” (1 Samuel 22:20-22 NLT). What an admission! No excuses, just an acknowledgement that he had made a terrible mistake in seeking their help. His next statement shows his commitment to not repeat the mistake and to making amends whenever possible: “Stay here with me…I will protect you with my own life, for the same person wants to kill us both” (1 Samuel 22:23 NLT). Humans make mistakes. They have blind spots. God is present to support our every weakness. Peace comes when we admit our shortcomings to one another. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:47:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 30 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:54 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707922 https://iono.fm/e/1707922 Erken jou tekortkominge
Dit voel of daar vandag om elke hoek en draai iemand is wat ‘n verskoning vir sy of haar swak keuses, prestasie of gedrag maak, of versuim om hul swakhede of tekortkominge te erken. Tog maak ons almal foute. Een van die beste voorbeelde van iemand wat sy fout erken het, word in die verhaal van Dawid wat onregverdig deur koning Saul agtervolg is, gevind. Dawid het ‘n voortvlugtige geword en in die proses onwetend die lewens van sekere priesters in gevaar gestel toe hy hulle om hulp genader het. Agimelek, die priester, het hom kos en ‘n swaard gegee en God namens hom geraadpleeg. Doëg, koning Saul se hoofveewagter, het die hele ding aanskou. Saul het Agimelek gekonfronteer, hom daarvan beskuldig dat hy met Dawid saamgesweer het en Doëg beveel om hom en vyf-en-tagtig ander priesters en hul hele families dood te maak. ‘Net Abjatar, een van die seuns van Agimelek en kleinseun van Agitub, het weggekom en na Dawid toe gevlug. Toe hy vir Dawid vertel dat Saul al die priesters van die Here doodgemaak het, roep Dawid uit: ‘Ek het so gedink! Toe ek dié dag vir Doëg die Edomiet daar sien, het ek geweet hy sou vir Saul vertel. Ek het die dood van jou pa se hele familie veroorsaak’ (1 Samuel 22:20-22 NLV). Wat ‘n erkenning! Geen verskonings nie, net ‘n erkenning dat hy ‘n verskriklike fout gemaak het deur by hulle hulp te soek. Hy het hom egter daaraan verbind om nie die fout te herhaal nie en daarvoor probeer vergoed: ‘Bly hier by my en moenie bang wees nie. Die een wat jou wil doodmaak, wil my ook doodmaak. By my is jy egter veilig’ (1 Samuel 22:23 NLV). Mense maak foute. Hulle het blindekolle. Vrede vind plaas wanneer ons ons tekortkominge aan mekaar erken. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:46:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 30 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:17 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707921 https://iono.fm/e/1707921 How to deal with discouragers
The first person who tried to discourage David from fighting Goliath was his own brother. “Eliab…burned with anger at him and asked, ‘Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are…You came down only to watch the battle.’ ‘Now what have I done?’ said David. ‘Can’t I even speak?’ He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter” (1 Samuel 17:28-30 NIV). Don’t fall into the trap of giving too much thought and consideration to a discourager. Spend your time with those who add to you, not detract from you. Even King Saul told David, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth” (v. 33 NIV). But David wasn’t concerned about how much experience Goliath had, because he knew that his God was all-powerful. How tragic it is when we limit our faith only to what we can see. To think we are inadequate for a task is to engage in self-centeredness and focus on our own capabilities apart from God. This independent mindset shuts God out of the equation and ignores that fact that He has declared that His strength is made perfect in our weakness (see 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV). The name “Eliab,” David’s older brother, means “God is my father.” How ironic, because he had no confidence in God at all. So in order to experience victory, you may first have to overcome the doubts and unbelief of those closest to you. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:45:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 29 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707920 https://iono.fm/e/1707920 Hoe om ontmoedigende mense te hanteer
Die eerste persoon wat Dawid probeer ontmoedig het om teen Goliat te veg, was sy eie broer. ‘Maar Dawid se oudste broer het gehoor hoe hy met die manskappe praat en het kwaad geword. ‘Hoekom het jy hierheen gekom?’ vra hy. ‘En by wie het jy daardie klompie vee in die wildernis gelos? Ek ken jou domastrantheid en vermetelheid. Jy wil net die geveg sien!’ ‘Wat het ek dan nou gedoen?’ antwoord Dawid. ‘Ek het maar net ‘n vraag gevra!’ Hy gaan toe na iemand anders toe en vra dieselfde vraag en kry dieselfde antwoord’ (1 Samuel 17:28-30 NLV). Moenie in die strik trap om te veel aandag aan ‘n ontmoediger te gee nie. Bring jou tyd met diegene wat jou aanmoedig, nie afbreek nie, deur. Selfs koning Saul het vir Dawid gesê: ‘…Jy kan tog nie teen die Filistyn veg nie, want jy is nog maar ‘n seun, terwyl hy van jongs af ‘n vegter is!’ (vers 33 NLV). Dawid was egter nie bekommerd oor hoeveel ondervinding Goliat gehad het nie, want hy het geweet dat sy God almagtig is. Hoe tragies is dit wanneer ons ons geloof tot slegs dit wat ons kan sien, beperk. Deur te dink dat ons onvoldoende vir ‘n taak is, raak ons selfgesentreerd en fokus ons op ons eie vermoëns, eerder as op God. Hierdie onafhanklike ingesteldheid sluit God uit en ignoreer die feit dat Hy verklaar het dat sy krag in ons swakheid tot volle verwesenliking kom (sien 2 Korintiërs 12:9-10 NLV). Dawid se oudste broer se naam was ‘Eliab,’ wat ‘God is my vader,’ beteken. Hoe ironies, want hy het glad nie vertroue in God gehad nie. Om dus oorwinning te ervaar, moet jy dalk eers die twyfel en ongeloof van diegene naaste aan jou oorkom. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:44:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 29 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:11 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707917 https://iono.fm/e/1707917 God is working on your behalf
The Bible begins with these words: “In the beginning God created the sky and the earth. The earth was empty and had no form. Darkness covered the ocean, and God’s Spirit was moving over the water. Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good” (Genesis 1:1-4 NCV). Even when your life seems like a jumbled mess, you can trust the God who brought order out of chaos and light out of darkness to help your life make sense. When you believe that “All things work together for good” (Romans 8:28 NKJV), it redefines the bad things that happen. The worst day of your life can turn into the best day. There’s a silver lining to every cloud, and every downside has a potential upside. When you interpret life through this prism, it gives you confidence that everything is going to be alright. It reassures you that the best is yet to come because God said, “For I know the plans I have for you…they are plans for good” (See Jeremiah 29:11 NLT). But sometimes you have a part to play. God is setting up divine appointments, but you must keep them. God is a gift-giver, but you must fan your gift into flame. God is calling, but you must answer (See Isaiah 6:8). God is ordering your footsteps, but you must keep in step with the Spirit. If you faithfully do your part, you can count on God to do His part—which is to work on your behalf. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:43:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 28 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707916 https://iono.fm/e/1707916 God werk namens jou
Die Bybel begin met die volgende woorde: ‘In die begin het God die ganse heelal gemaak, die hemel daarbo en die aarde hieronder. Maar die aarde was n vormlose, onbewoonbare massa, en die diep waters was toegevou in duisternis. Tog het die kragtige, skeppende Gees van God oor die oppervlakte van die water gesweef. Toe beveel God: ‘Laat daar lig wees!’ en dit was so. Die lig was vir God goed…’ (Genesis 1:1-4 NLV). Selfs wanneer jou lewe soos ‘n deurmekaar gemors lyk, kan jy die God wat orde uit chaos en lig uit duisternis gebring het, vertrou om jou lewe weer sin te laat maak. Wanneer jy glo dat ‘…God alles ten goede laat saamwerk…’ (Romeine 8:28 NLV), herdefinieer dit die slegte dinge wat in jou lewe gebeur. Die slegste dag van jou lewe kan in die beste dag verander. Daar is ‘n silwer randjie om elke donker wolk, en elke nadeel het ‘n potensiële positiewe kant. Wanneer jy die lewe deur hierdie prisma interpreteer, gee dit jou vertroue dat alles goed gaan uitdraai. Dit verseker jou dat die beste nog voorlê, want God het gesê: ‘Ek weet wat ek vir julle beplan het… Ek beplan voorspoed vir julle, nie teëspoed nie…’ (Jeremia 29:11 NLV). Jy het egter soms ‘n rol om te speel. God maak goddelike afsprake, maar jy moet hulle nakom. God gee gawes, maar jy moet jou gawe aanwakker. God roep, maar jy moet antwoord (sien Jesaja 6:8). God rig jou voetstappe, maar jy moet met die Gees tred hou. As jy getrou jou deel doen, kan jy op God staatmaak om sy deel te doen – om namens jou te werk. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:42:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 28 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:11 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707914 https://iono.fm/e/1707914 Study. Work. Hope. Persevere.
Helping the deaf to communicate was what truly motivated Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Perhaps that’s because his mother and his wife were both deaf. “If I can make a deaf-mute talk,” Bell said, “I can make metal talk.” For five frustrating and impoverished years, he experimented with a variety of materials to make a metal disc that would vibrate in response to sound, reproduce those sounds, and send them over an electrified wire. During a visit to Washington, DC, he called on Joseph Henry, a scientist who was a pioneer in research related to electricity. He presented his ideas to him and asked his advice—should he let someone else perfect the telephone or should he do it himself? Henry encouraged Bell to do it himself, to which he complained that he lacked the necessary knowledge of electricity. Henry’s brief answer was, “Then get it.” And so Bell studied electricity. A year later, when he obtained a patent for the telephone, the patent office officials credited him with knowing more about electricity than all the other inventors combined. Study, work, hope, and perseverance are “common things,” but they are the keys to uncommon success in life. And as Bell discovered, perseverance is often the most challenging. Longfellow wrote: “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” Solomon wrote: “Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before unknown men.” ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:41:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 27 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707912 https://iono.fm/e/1707912 Studeer. Werk. Hoop. Druk deur.
Om dowes te help kommunikeer, was wat Alexander Graham Bell, die uitvinder van die telefoon, werklik gemotiveer het. Miskien was dit omdat sy ma en sy vrou albei doof was. ‘As ek 'n doofstom persoon kan laat praat,’ het Bell gesê, ‘kan ek metaal laat praat.’ Vir vyf frustrerende en armoedige jare het hy met ‘n verskeidenheid materiale geëksperimenteer om ‘n metaalskyf te maak wat in reaksie op klank sou vibreer, daardie klanke sou reproduseer en dit oor ‘n elektriese draad sou stuur. Tydens ‘n besoek aan Washington DC, het hy Joseph Henry, ‘n wetenskaplike wat ‘n pionier in navorsing met betrekking tot elektrisiteit was, besoek. Hy het sy idees aan hom voorgelê en sy raad gevra - moet hy iemand anders die telefoon laat vervolmaak of moet hy dit self doen? Henry het Bell aangemoedig om dit self te doen, waarop hy gekla het dat hy nie die nodige kennis van elektrisiteit het nie. Henry se kort antwoord was: ‘Kry dit dan.’ Dus het Bell begin om elektrisiteit te bestudeer. ‘n Jaar later, toe hy ‘n patent vir die telefoon verkry het, het die amptenare van die patentkantoor gesê dat hy meer van elektrisiteit as al die ander uitvinders saam, geweet het. Studie, werk, hoop en deursettingsvermoë is ‘algemene dinge’, maar hulle is die sleutels tot ongewone sukses in die lewe. Soos Bell ontdek het, is deursettingsvermoë dikwels die uitdagendste daarvan. Longfellow het geskryf: ‘The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.’ Salomo het geskryf: ‘Sien jy iemand wat bedrewe is in sy beroep? Hy werk vir konings en nie vir gewone mense nie.’ ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:40:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 27 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:20 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707910 https://iono.fm/e/1707910 Maak gereed vir verandering (2)
In sy boek, Good to Great, vergelyk die sakeleier en skrywer Jim Collins die mega-kruidenierswinkel A&P, die grootste kleinhandelorganisasie ter wêreld in die 1950’s, met Kroger, ‘n klein, waardegebaseerde supermarkketting wat ook in die vyftigerjare floreer het. Beide maatskappye het besef dat die wêreld besig was om tegnologies te verander. Beide maatskappye het slim navorsing gedoen en gekwalifiseerde ontleders aangestel om te voorspel hoe hierdie veranderinge toekomstige besigheid sou beïnvloed. Hulle het elk tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat gerief vir die kliënt van die allergrootste belang sou wees. Eenstop-inkopies sou al hoe belangriker word. Kroger het dus stappe gedoen om sy winkels by die nuwe ‘superwinkel’-strategie wat ons vandag as vanselfsprekend aanvaar, aan te pas. Benewens kos, het hulle begin om toiletware, voorskrifmedisyne, huishoudelike items en meer te verkoop. A&P het egter gekies om die bevindinge te ignoreer. Die resultaat? In 1999 het Kroger tagtig keer dié van sy eenmalige mededinger A&P se winste gegenereer en die nommer een plek in die mark oorgeneem. Daar is ‘n les hieruit te leer. Om dit wat jy in die lewe wil hê te bereik, kan jy nie bekostig om die tekens van verandering of die komende uitdagings te ignoreer nie. Om voor te gee dat iets nie gebeur nie, is bloot om in ontkenning te leef. Is jy dus gereed en gewillig om by verandering aan te pas wanneer dit opdaag? Is die tegnieke wat jy gebruik om verandering te hanteer proaktief en effektief? Soek jy God se leiding en seën? ‘Dit is tog die Here wat wysheid gee. Sy woorde gee kennis en insig’ (Spreuke 2:6 NLV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:39:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 26 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:21 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707911 https://iono.fm/e/1707911 Get ready for change (2)
In his book Good to Great, business leader and author Jim Collins compares mega grocery stores A&P, the largest retailing organization in the world in the 1950s, with Kroger, a small, value-based chain of supermarkets also thriving in the fifties. Both of these companies realized that the world was changing with technology. Smartly, both companies conducted research and hired qualified analysts to forecast how these changes would impact future business. They each concluded that going forward, convenience for the customer would be paramount. One-stop shopping was the name of the new shopping game. And Kroger took steps to adjust its stores to the new “superstore” strategy that we take for granted today. In addition to food, they started to carry toiletries, prescription drugs, household items, and more. A&P, however, chose to ignore the findings. The result? In 1999, Kroger generated profits eighty times that of its one-time competitor A&P and took over the number-one spot in the market. There’s a lesson here for you. To achieve what you want in life, you can’t afford to ignore the signs of change or the oncoming challenges. And pretending that something isn’t happening is simply living in denial. Like the Sam Cooke song says, “A change is gonna come.” So are you ready and willing to adapt to change when it comes? Are the techniques you use to cope proactive and effective? Are you seeking God’s guidance and blessing? “The Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding” (Proverbs 2:6 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:39:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 26 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:58 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707909 https://iono.fm/e/1707909 Get ready for change (1)
We often cling to people and things as if we can keep everything the same, but it can’t be done. What you can do is be ready to deal with change when it happens. You may not be able to predict what the change will be, but you can put things in place to help you to deal with it when it arrives. Children go to college, so wise parents consider saving when their babies are first born. People eventually stop working, so it makes sense to save for retirement. A CEO who will one day step down plans for a successor so the company can continue to flourish. Sometimes change is hard, but planning helps us greet change. With God at your side, you have all the tools you need for success, including the flexibility and adaptability to adjust your course whenever necessary. Think of how technology, such as cell phones and computers, has changed the way we communicate, shop, and live. The GPS is an amazing technological innovation, but initially, drivers weren’t too happy to embrace it. But it has transformed the experience of finding one’s way while driving. As you navigate the changes of life: (1) Realize that God lives in you, works through you, and always has your best interests at heart (see Philippians 2:13). (2) Reach out for the latest tools and techniques, whether they’re technological or involve new approaches to family life, diet, exercise, or spirituality. In other words, get ready for change. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:38:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 25 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:42 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707908 https://iono.fm/e/1707908 Maak gereed vir verandering (1)
Ons klou dikwels aan mense en dinge vas asof ons alles dieselfde kan hou. Dit kan egter nie gebeur nie. Wat jy wel kan doen, is om gereed te wees om verandering te hanteer wanneer dit plaasvind. Jy mag dalk nie kan voorspel wat die verandering sal wees nie, maar jy kan dinge in plek stel om jou te help om dit te hanteer wanneer dit aanbreek. Kinders gaan universiteit toe, dus oorweeg wyse ouers dit om ‘n spaarplan uit te neem wanneer hulle kinders gebore word. Mense hou uiteindelik op werk, dus maak dit sin om vir aftrede te spaar. ‘n Uitvoerende beampte wat eendag gaan bedank, beplan vir ‘n opvolger sodat die maatskappy kan aanhou floreer. Soms is verandering moeilik, maar beplanning help ons om verandering tegemoet te kom. Met God aan jou sy het jy al die gereedskap wat jy nodig het vir sukses, insluitend die buigsaamheid en aanpasbaarheid om jou koers soos nodig aan te pas. Dink aan hoe tegnologie, soos selfone en rekenaars, die manier waarop ons kommunikeer, inkopies doen en leef, verander het. Die GPS is ‘n wonderlike tegnologiese uitvinding, maar bestuurders was aanvanklik huiwerig om daarvan gebruik te maak. Dit het egter die ervaring om jou pad te vind terwyl jy bestuur, verander. Terwyl jy deur die veranderinge van die lewe navigeer: 1) Besef dat God in jou leef, deur jou werk en altyd jou beste belange op die hart dra (sien Filippense 2:13). 2) Reik uit na die nuutste gereedskap en tegnieke, of dit nou tegnologies is of ‘n nuwe benadering tot gesinslewe, dieet, oefening of spiritualiteit behels. Met ander woorde, maak gereed vir verandering. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:37:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 25 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:59 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707907 https://iono.fm/e/1707907 Live the crucified life
Paul wrote: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” It’s hard to get offended when you’re dead. It’s hard to get angry, get upset, or get depressed too. Why? Because you’re dead! The day you put your faith in Christ is the day your old self died. Your desires, your dreams, and your plans are dead in the water. The person who goes down in the waters of baptism is not the same as the person who comes up. You are a new creation in Christ. Of course, you must step into this identity on a daily basis. Paul said, “I die daily” (1 Corinthians 15:31 NKJV). Jesus said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily” (Luke 9:23 NIV). The key word in both verses is “daily.” There’s great freedom in this daily death. Your performance is no longer a statement of your worth. Your ego is no longer on the line. Your reputation is no longer at risk. You are living for the approval of One—that is the Lord! Hence, Paul could write: “God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Galatians 6:14 NKJV). Then to drive his point home, he wrote: “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:36:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 24 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707905 https://iono.fm/e/1707905 Lewe die gekruisigde lewe
Paulus het geskryf: ‘…Ek is saam met Christus gekruisig. Ek leef nie meer nie, maar Christus lewe in my. Die lewe wat ek nou op aarde beleef, leef ek deur geloof in die Seun van God, Hy wat sy liefde vir my bewys het deur in my plek te sterf’ (verse 19-20 NLV) Dis moeilik om aanstoot te neem wanneer jy dood is. Dis ook moeilik om kwaad te word, ontsteld te raak of depressief te raak wanneer jy dood is. Die dag waarop jy jou geloof in Christus plaas, is die dag waarop jou ou mens sterf. Jou begeertes, jou drome en jou planne is dood. Jy is ‘n nuwe skepping in Christus. Natuurlik moet jy daagliks in hierdie identiteit leef. Paulus het gesê: ‘Ek sterf dag vir dag…’ (1 Korintiërs 15:31 AFR53). Jesus het gesê: ‘…as enigeen van julle my dissipel wil word, moet jy jou selfsugtige ambisie aflê, elke dag jou kruis opneem en My volg’ (Lukas 9:23 NLV). Die kern van beide verse is dat dit daagliks moet gebeur. Daar is groot vryheid in hierdie daaglikse dood. Jou prestasie is nie meer ‘n bewys van jou waarde nie. Jou ego is nie meer op die spel nie. Jou reputasie is nie meer in gevaar nie. Jy leef vir die goedkeuring van Een - die Here! Daarom kon Paulus skryf: ‘Maar ek – ek wil my op niks anders beroem as die kruis van ons Here Jesus Christus nie. Want daardeur is die wêreld vir my gekruisig, en ek vir die wêreld’ (Galasiërs 6:14 NLV). Om sy punt tuis te bring, het hy geskryf: ‘Julle het mos saam met Christus gesterf en julle lewe is saam met Hom veilig by God weggesteek’ (Kolossense 3:3 NLV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:34:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 24 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:08 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707903 https://iono.fm/e/1707903 The God of second chances
After suffering a humiliating defeat, God gave Joshua a second chance at victory: “Arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.” The king of Ai, still strutting with pride from victory number one, set out for victory number two. He marched toward Joshua, leaving the town unprotected. Joshua’s elite squad charged in and set fire to it. And Joshua reversed his course, catching the army of Ai in the middle. The victory was complete. Contrast this attack with the first one. In the first attack, Joshua consulted spies; in the second, he listened to God. In the first, he stayed home. In the second, he led the way. The point? God gave Joshua a new plan—“Try again, my way.” And when he followed God’s strategy, victory happened. It always does! Perhaps, like Joshua, you too have suffered a humiliating defeat. If so, here are two things you need to know: (1) Don’t give up on God, for He won’t give up on you. “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon” (Isaiah 55:7 NKJV). (2) God will give you another chance. Jonah ran from the call of God, but God wasn’t through with him. “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, ‘Arise, go to Nineveh’” (Jonah 3:1-2 NKJV). He did. And what God did for Joshua and Jonah, He will do for you if you turn to Him. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:33:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 23 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707899 https://iono.fm/e/1707899 Always do a good job
The first thing God did when He made Adam was put him to work. That’s because work gives us a sense of purpose, meaning, and dignity. “God put the man in the garden…to…work it.” So Adam was a gardener. But whether you count cash in a bank, trade futures on Wall Street, flip burgers in a beach-side stand, whip up pasta specials at a five-star restaurant, fell giant timber in the forest or split and deliver firewood, coach a team, pastor a congregation, publish best-selling books, deliver newspapers in the early morning hours, star in your own television show, farm a large acreage, mow and edge neighbourhood lawns, go out on the road as a salesman for computers, drive a truck loaded with machinery, build homes, clean swimming pools, argue cases before a judge, or settle family disputes as a counselor, always do a good job. A wise man once said: “Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.” The biblical character Daniel did that. And like cream, he rose to the top in Babylon. “Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him” (Daniel 6:3 KJV). There are no small jobs, only people who perceive them as small and become small in doing them. The Bible says: “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper” (Proverbs 13:4 NLT). So always do a good job. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:31:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 22 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:40 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707900 https://iono.fm/e/1707900 Die God van tweede kanse
Na ’n vernederende nederlaag, het God vir Josua ‘n tweede kans op oorwinning gegee: ‘…Vat al jou manskappe en gaan veg teen Ai. Ek gee die koning van Ai, sy volk en sy stad en sy land in jou mag.’ Die koning van Ai was op pad om ‘n tweede oorwinning teen Josua te gaan behaal. Hy het na Josua toe gemarsjeer en sy stad onbeskermd gelaat. Josua se elite groep soldate het ingestorm en dit aan die brand gesteek. Toe het Josua van koers verander en die leër van Ai in die middel vasgevang. Die oorwinning was voltrek. Vergelyk egter hierdie aanval met die eerste een. In die eerste aanval het Josua spioene geraadpleeg; in die tweede het hy na God geluister. In die eerste het hy tuis gebly. In die tweede het hy sy leër gelei. Toe Josua God se strategie gevolg het, het die oorwinning plaasgevind. Dit gebeur altyd so! Miskien het jy ook, soos Josua, ‘n vernederende nederlaag gely. Indien wel, is hier twee dinge wat jy moet weet: 1) Moenie moed opgee met God nie, want Hy sal nie moed opgee met jou nie. ‘Die goddelose mens moet sy verkeerde dinge los, en die bose mens sy slegte gedagtes. Hy moet terugdraai na die Here en Hy sal hom genadig wees. Ja, draai na God, want Hy sal altyd vergewe!’ (Jesaja 55:7 NLV). 2) God sal jou nog ‘n kans gee. Jona het van God se roepstem weggehardloop, maar God was nie klaar met hom nie. ‘Die Here het ‘n tweede keer met Jona gepraat: ‘Maak jou gereed en gaan na die groot stad Nineve…’ Jona het gereedgemaak en na Nineve toe gegaan...’ (Jona 3:1-3 NLV). Wat God vir Josua en Jona gedoen het, sal Hy vir jou ook doen as jy jou tot Hom bekeer. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:31:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 23 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707898 https://iono.fm/e/1707898 Doen altyd jou werk goed
Toe God Adam gemaak het, het Hy hom eerstens aan die werk gesit. Dit is omdat werk ons ‘n gevoel van doel, betekenis en waardigheid gee. ‘Die Here God het die mens in die Tuin van Eden aangestel om dit te bewerk en te versorg.’ Adam was dus ‘n tuinier. Of jy nou kontant in ‘n bank tel, op Wall Street verhandel, burgers in ‘n strandstalletjie braai, spesialiteit-disse in ‘n vyfster-restaurant maak, hout in die bos kap of brandhout kloof en aflewer, ‘n span afrig, by ‘n gemeente as pastoor optree, topverkoperboeke publiseer, koerante in die vroeë oggendure aflewer, in ‘n televisieprogram speel, ‘n groot stuk grond bewerk, grasperke sny en afrond, rekenaars verkoop, ‘n vragmotor vol masjinerie bestuur, huise bou, swembaddens skoonmaak, sake voor ‘n regter argumenteer, of familiegeskille as ‘n berader besleg, doen altyd ‘n goeie werk. ‘n Wyse man het eenkeer gesê: ‘Elke werk is ‘n selfportret van die persoon wat dit doen. Onderteken jou werk met uitnemendheid.’ Daniël het dit gedoen en die boonste sport in Babilon bereik. ‘Hierdie Daniël het deur sy buitengewone bekwaamheid so uitgeblink bo die ander ministers en die goewerneurs-generaal dat die koning van plan was om hom oor die hele koninkryk aan te stel’ (Daniël 6:4 AFR83). Daar is geen geringe werkies nie, net mense wat dit as gering beskou en in die uitvoering daarvan gering word. Die Bybel sê: ‘Luiaards begeer baie dinge, maar hulle kry dit nie. Mense wat hard werk, het meer as wat hulle kan begeer’ (Spreuke 13:4 NLV). Doen dus altyd jou werk goed. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 22 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707897 https://iono.fm/e/1707897 Talk back to your giant
Goliath towered over David. But David looked at Goliath through the eyes of his omnipotent God who sits high, looks low, and conquers all. “You come against me with sword and spear…but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.” Intimidation is one of Satan’s favourite weapons. He will get you to think yourself into a state of fearfulness. One day, cartoon character Charlie Brown was having lunch at school when he confided to his friend Linus that he didn’t feel good enough to approach a certain young lady: “I can’t talk to that little red-haired girl because she’s something and I’m nothing. If I were something and she were nothing, I could talk to her, or if she were something and I were something, then I could talk to her. Or if she were nothing and I were nothing, then I also could talk to her. But she’s something and I’m nothing so I can’t talk to her.” Linus responded: “For a nothing, Charlie Brown, you’re really something!” Charlie Brown had allowed the redhead’s beauty to intimidate him and force him to the sidelines. As His redeemed child, God thinks you’re really something. David said, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy” (Psalm 107:2 NKJV). And because David’s words lined up with God’s Word and His plan, Goliath was stopped. So whatever “giant” you’re facing today, stand up to him and announce, “You are coming down in the name of the Lord!” ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:29:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 21 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:53 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707896 https://iono.fm/e/1707896 Praat terug met jou reus
Goliat het bo Dawid uitgetroon. Dawid het egter na Goliat deur die oë van sy almagtige God wat hoog sit, laag sien en alles oorwin, gekyk. ‘…Jy kom na my toe met ‘n swaard en ‘n spies en ‘n kromswaard, maar ek kom na jou toe in die Naam van die Almagtige, die God van die magte van Israel wat jy beledig het.’ Intimidasie is een van Satan se gunstelingwapens. Hy sal jou gedagtes gee wat jou in ‘n toestand van vrees laat. Eendag het die spotprentkarakter Charlie Brown by die skool middagete geëet toe hy aan sy vriend Linus bieg dat hy nie goed genoeg voel om ‘n sekere jong dame te nader nie: ‘Ek kan nie met daardie klein rooikopmeisie praat nie, want sy is iets en ek is niks. As ek iets was en sy niks was nie, kon ek met haar praat, of as sy iets was en ek iets was, dan kon ek met haar praat. Of as sy niks was en ek niks was nie, dan kon ek ook met haar praat. Maar sy is iets en ek is niks, so ek kan nie met haar praat nie.’ Linus het geantwoord: ‘Vir niks, Charlie Brown, is jy werklik nogal iets besonders!’ Charlie Brown het toegelaat dat die rooikop se skoonheid hom intimideer en na die kantlyn toe dwing. As sy verloste kind, dink God dat jy werklik iets besonders is. Dawid het gesê: ‘Het die Here jou gered? Sê dit dan, jy wat Hy verlos het van die vyand’ (Psalm 107:2 NLV). Omdat Dawid se woorde met God se Woord en sy plan ooreengestem het, is Goliat in sy spore gestuit. Staan dus vandag voor jou ‘reus’ en kondig aan: ‘Ek sal jou verslaan in die Naam van die Here die Almagtige!’ ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:28:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 21 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:17 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707894 https://iono.fm/e/1707894 In partnership with God
Paul wrote: “God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work…Now he who supplies seed to the sower…will…increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion” (vv. 8, 10-11 NIV). Paul couldn’t be more explicit. If we are faithful to give generously, when God wants to meet needs again in the future, He will remember us as capable partners and come back to us. If a restaurant gives good service, it results in repeat business. The same applies to good stewards. And if you sow generously, then God is able to give you more and more. God takes special care of faithful stewards. As long as you are in a giving partnership with Him, He makes sure you get everything you need, exactly when you need it. That’s His offer. True wealth is having everything you need when you need it. That should dispel all your fears about giving. Is fear holding back your generosity? Do you give leftovers because you’re concerned about making ends meet? Have you ever asked God to give you a plan for the stewardship of the money He has entrusted to you? At some point, as a Christian, you’ve just got to go for it and say, “God, because I worry so much about money, I’m inviting You into my finances. I want to know that whether things are good or bad, You’re involved.” ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:27:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 20 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707893 https://iono.fm/e/1707893 In vennootskap met God
Paulus het geskryf: ‘En God is in staat om aan julle elke gawe in oorvloed te gee sodat julle in elke opsig altyd van alles genoeg kan hê… God wat saad voorsien aan die saaier… sal ook aan julle saad gee en dit laat toeneem en die vrugte van julle goedhartigheid lieflik laat groei. In elke opsig sal julle ryk gemaak word om ook by elke geleentheid vrygewig te kan wees…’ (verse 8, 10-11 NLV). Paulus kon dit nie duideliker stel nie. As ons getrou is om vrygewig te gee, sal God ons as bekwame vennote onthou en ons in die toekoms weer gebruik om aan ‘n behoefte te voldoen. Wanneer ‘n restaurant goeie diens lewer, lei dit tot herhaalde besigheid. Dieselfde geld vir goeie rentmeesters. As jy vrygewig saai, is God in staat om jou meer en meer te gee. Wanneer jy in ‘n gee-vennootskap met Hom is, maak Hy seker dat jy alles kry wat jy nodig het, presies wanneer jy dit nodig kry. Dis sy aanbod aan jou. Ware rykdom is om alles te hê wat jy nodig het, wanneer jy dit nodig kry. Dit behoort al jou vrese om te gee, te verdryf. Hou vrees jou vrygewigheid terug? Gee jy net wanneer daar oorskiet is omdat jy bekommerd is oor hoe om kop bo water te hou? Het jy al ooit vir God gevra om jou ‘n plan te gee vir die rentmeesterskap van die geld wat Hy aan jou toevertrou het? Op ‘n stadium moet jy as Christen die sprong neem en sê: ‘God, omdat ek my so baie oor geld bekommer, nooi ek U in my finansies in. Ek wil weet dat U betrokke is, maak nie saak of dinge goed of sleg gaan nie.’ ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:26:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 20 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707892 https://iono.fm/e/1707892 Don’t speak with “a forked tongue”
Note what the Bible says about an uncontrolled tongue: “Sometimes it praises…and sometimes it curses…And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right! Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water? Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs?” (vv. 9-12 NLT). Native American Indians warned about trusting a person with “a forked tongue.” They’ll say one thing at one time in one place and the opposite thing at another time in another place. The Bible says, “This is not right!” We deceive ourselves if we think we can go through life speaking with a forked tongue. Our words are a barometer of what’s really in our hearts. Hence Solomon wrote: “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life” (Proverbs 4:23 NLT). Sometimes a doctor will ask you to stick out your tongue during an examination. Why? Because internal problems can often be identified by the film or coating on the tongue. Now a competent physician wouldn’t just clean off your tongue and send you home. No, they would determine the source of your problem and then treat it. And a heart that’s surrendered to God produces a tongue that’s under the control of His Holy Spirit. Again, Solomon weighed in: “Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are consumed by their own lips” (Ecclesiastes 10:12 NIV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:25:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 19 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:44 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707891 https://iono.fm/e/1707891 Moenie met ‘n ‘gevurkte tong’ praat nie
Let op wat die Bybel oor ‘n onbeheerste tong sê: ‘Partykeer loof daardie tong ons Here en Vader, en ander kere vloek dieselfde tong mense wat na die beeld van God gemaak is. Dit beteken dat lof en vloek uit dieselfde mond kom. Dit kan tog nie so wees nie…! Kan ‘n fontein uit dieselfde oog soet en bitter water laat opborrel? Kan jy olywe van ‘n vyeboom afpluk, of vye van ‘n druiwestok?’ (verse 9-12 NLV). Inheemse Amerikaanse Indiane het gewaarsku om nie iemand met ‘n ‘gevurkte tong’ te vertrou nie. Hulle sal een ding op een tyd op een plek sê en die teenoorgestelde ding op ‘n ander tyd op ‘n ander plek sê. Ons mislei onsself as ons dink ons kan deur die lewe gaan en met ‘n gevurkte tong praat. Ons woorde is ‘n barometer van wat werklik in ons harte aangaan. Daarom het Salomo geskryf: ‘Bo alles wees versigtig met wat in jou hart aangaan. Wat jy dink, bepaal alles wat jy doen’ (Spreuke 4:23 NLV). Soms sal ‘n dokter jou tydens ‘n ondersoek vra om jou tong uit te steek. Hoekom? Omdat interne probleme dikwels deur die film of laag op die tong geïdentifiseer kan word. ‘n Bekwame dokter sal egter nie net jou tong skoonmaak en jou huis toe stuur nie. Nee, hulle sal die oorsprong van jou probleem bepaal en dit dan behandel. ‘n Hart wat aan God oorgegee is, produseer ‘n tong wat onder die beheer van sy Heilige Gees is. Salomo het ook gesê: ‘Dis lekker om te luister na wyse woorde. Dwase se gepraat lei net tot vernietiging’ (Prediker 10:12 NLV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:24:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 19 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707890 https://iono.fm/e/1707890 Obedience: it’s your key to victory & blessing
In Haggai chapter one, we see a group of people whom God told eighteen years previously to rebuild His house. They still had not obeyed Him, yet they didn’t understand why their lives were a mess. They wondered why God was not blessing them. So He said to them: “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?…Consider your ways! You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled…you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages, earns wages to put into a bag with holes.…Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified” (vv. 4-8 NKJV). When God says, “Consider your ways,” He’s asking you to stop and examine your life. If you are not satisfied with the way things are going, is it because you have not done what He told you to do? James wrote: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (James 1:17 NKJV). The words “no variation or shadow of turning” mean that God is intrinsically good, and He longs to shower your life with His goodness. But to experience it, you must walk in obedience. “No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly” (Psalm 84:11 NKJV). Obedience is your key to victory and blessing. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:23:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 18 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707885 https://iono.fm/e/1707885 Gehoorsaamheid: die sleutel tot oorwinning en seën
In die eerste hoofstuk van Haggai lees ons van ‘n groep mense vir wie God gesê het om sy huis te herbou. Na agtien jaar het hulle Hom steeds nie gehoorsaam nie, maar kon nie verstaan waarom hulle lewens ‘n gemors was nie. Hulle het gewonder waarom God hulle nie seën nie. Daarom het Hy vir hulle gesê: ‘Hoe kan julle in weelderige huise bly terwyl my huis ‘n ruïne is?.. Dink ‘n bietjie na oor hoe sake vir julle staan! Julle het baie aanplantings gedoen, maar die oes was maar skraal. Julle het nou wel kos om te eet, maar julle is nog honger. Julle het wyn om te drink, maar nie genoeg om julle dors te les nie. Julle het klere om aan te trek, maar dit is nie voldoende om julle warm te hou nie. Julle geld raak weg asof dit gebêre is in ‘n broeksak met gate!.. Gaan haal hout op die heuwels en begin dan my huis herstel. Dit sal My tevrede stel en Ek sal voel dat julle My eer betoon…’ (verse 4-8 NLV). As jy nie tevrede is met hoe dinge gaan nie, is dit nie dalk omdat jy nie gedoen het wat Hy vir jou gesê het om te doen nie? Jakobus het geskryf: ‘Van Bo af kom net goeie, ja, volmaakte gawes. Hulle kom van die Vader wat die hemelligte geskep het. Anders as die hemelligte, staan Hy onbeweeglik vas. Selfs sy skaduwee verskuif nie soos hulle s’n nie’ (Jakobus 1:17 NLV). God is intrinsiek goed en Hy wil graag jou lewe met sy goedheid oorlaai. Om dit te ervaar, moet jy egter in gehoorsaamheid wandel. ‘…Hy sal die goeie nie weerhou van hulle wat doen wat reg is nie’ (Psalm 84:12 NLV). Gehoorsaamheid is jou sleutel tot oorwinning en seën. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:16:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 18 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707883 https://iono.fm/e/1707883 Be a sower
Three young men were each given three kernels of corn by a wise old sage. He told them to go out into the world and use the corn to bring themselves good fortune. The first young man put his three kernels of corn into a bowl of soup and ate them. The second thought, “I can do better than that,” and he planted his three kernels of corn. Within a few months, he had three stalks of corn. He took the ears of corn from the stalks, boiled them, and had enough corn to eat for three meals. The third man said to himself, “I can do better than that!” He also planted three kernels of corn. But when his three stalks of corn produced, he stripped one of the ears and replanted all of the seeds in it, gave the second ear of corn to a sweet maiden, and ate the third. His one full year’s worth of replanted corn kernels gave him 200 stalks of corn! And the kernels of these he continued to replant, setting aside only a bare minimum to eat. He eventually planted a hundred acres of corn. With his fortune, he not only won the hand of the sweet maiden, but he also purchased the land owned by the sweet maiden’s father. And he never hungered again. There’s an important scriptural principle here. To whom does God supply seed? Sowers. When does God multiply seed? When it is sown into good ground to accomplish good things. So be a sower. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:15:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 17 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:42 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1707881 https://iono.fm/e/1707881 Wees ‘n saaier
Drie jong mans het elk drie mieliepitte van ‘n ou wysgeer ontvang. Hy het hulle beveel om die wêreld in te gaan en die mieliepitte te gebruik om vir hulself goeie geluk te bring. Die eerste jongman het sy drie mieliepitte in ‘n bak sop gesit en dit geëet. Die tweede jongman het gedink: ‘Ek kan beter doen as dit,’ en sy drie mieliepitte geplant. Binne ‘n paar maande het hy drie mielieplante gehad. Hy het die mieliekoppe van die plante afgehaal, dit gekook en genoeg mielies vir drie maaltye gehad. Die derde man het vir homself gesê: ‘Ek kan nog beter doen as dit!’ Hy het ook drie mieliepitte geplant. Toe sy drie mielieplante egter opkom, het hy een van die koppe gestroop en al die sade daarin herplant, die tweede mieliekop vir ‘n liewe meisie gegee en die derde het hy self geëet. Die herplante mieliepitte het hom 200 mielieplante gegee! Met die pitte daarvan het hy aanhou herplant en slegs ‘n absolute minimum opsy gesit om te eet. Hy het uiteindelik ’n honderd akkers mielies geplant. Met sy fortuin het hy nie net die hand van die lieflike meisie gewen nie, hy het ook die grond wat aan die lieflike meisie se vader behoort het, gekoop. Hy het nooit weer honger gehad nie. Daar is ‘n belangrike Skriftuurlike beginsel hieruit te leer. Aan wie voorsien God saad? Saaiers. Wanneer vermeerder God saad? Wanneer dit in goeie grond gesaai word om goeie dinge te bereik. Wees dus ‘n saaier. ]]> Christianity Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:14:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 17 Sep 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:55 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag