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There is a saying in baseball: “Three strikes and you’re out.” We tend to play life the same way. We give people two or three chances, but no more. But God never gives up on us. It’s not in His nature. When Peter asked Jesus how many times he should forgive his brother, Jesus set the gold standard. Peter answered his own question by saying, “Seven times.” But Jesus ups the ante to seventy times seven (see v. 22 NLT). Then He ups the ante even more with a story of a master who forgave his servant a ten-thousand-talent debt. Let’s do a currency exchange. One talent totaled 180 months’ wages—that’s fifteen years! And that’s just one talent. So a 10,000-talent debt totaled 150,000 years of wages. Using today’s average life expectancy, it would have taken his servant 2,232 lifetimes to pay off the debt. Of course, the average life expectancy in the first century was less than half of what it is now, so it would have taken twice as many lifetimes to pay off the debt. But instead of years, let’s put this debt into dollars. Using a minimum wage of $7.25, let’s take a nine-to-five job, Monday through Friday. That’s an annual income of $15,080. That might not seem like much, but when you multiply it by 150,000 years, it totals $2,262,000,000. (Three commas means billions.) Now here’s the thing: by virtue of what Christ accomplished on the cross, your sin debt—past, present, and future—is paid in full. That’s a truth you can be confident in and stand on. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:30:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 30 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658939 https://iono.fm/e/1658939 Ten volle betaal
Daar is ‘n gesegde in bofbal wat lui: ‘Three strikes and you’re out!’ Ons is geneig om die lewe op dieselfde manier te speel. Ons gee mense twee of drie kanse, maar niks meer nie. God gee egter nooit moed op met ons nie. Dit is nie in sy aard nie. Toe Petrus vir Jesus gevra het hoeveel keer hy sy medegelowiges moes vergewe, het Jesus die goue standaard gestel. ‘…Ek sê vir jou: Jy moet hom nie net sewe maal vergewe nie, maar sewentig maal sewe maal’ (vers 22 ABA). Jesus vertel dan die gelykenis van ‘n koning wat sy dienaar se skuld van tienduisend talente kwytgeskeld het. Een talent het altesaam 180 maande se lone beloop - dis vyftien jaar se lone! En dis net vir een talent. ‘n Skuld van 10 000 talente sou dus altesaam 150 000 jaar se lone beloop. Met vandag se gemiddelde lewensverwagting sou dit sy dienaar 2 232 leeftye geneem het om die skuld af te betaal. Natuurlik was die gemiddelde lewensverwagting in die eerste eeu minder as die helfte van wat dit nou is, so dit sou twee keer soveel leeftye geneem het om die skuld af te betaal. Kom ons sit nou hierdie skuld in rande om. Deur ‘n minimumloon van R28.79 te gebruik, kan ons aanneem dat ‘n gemiddelde persoon Maandag tot Vrydag, van nege tot vyf werk. Dis n jaarlikse inkomste van R67 638.60. Dit lyk dalk nie na veel nie, maar as jy dit met 150,000 jaar vermenigvuldig, is dit altesaam R10,105,290,000 (drie kommas beteken miljarde). Die wonderlike waarheid is dat op grond van wat Christus aan die kruis bereik het, is jou sondeskuld - verlede, hede en toekoms - ten volle betaal. Dis ‘n waarheid waarin jy vertroue kan hê en waarop jy kan staan. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:29:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 30 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:24 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658938 https://iono.fm/e/1658938 Rely on God, not yourself
Several men went on a mission trip to Haiti where they met a nineteen-year-old young man who loved Christ deeply. So they invited him to visit them in America and paid for his trip. The young Haitian felt as if he were in another world. He’d never slept between sheets, had three meals a day, used indoor plumbing, or tasted a hamburger. When it was time to return to Haiti, they asked him for his impressions of what he’d experienced, and he replied: “I have really enjoyed my time here with you. But I am also very glad to be going home. You have so much in America that I’m beginning to lose my grip on my day-to-day dependency on Christ.” Paul spoke of a time of trouble in Asia in which he was “crushed and overwhelmed” (2 Corinthians 1:8 NLT). Then he wrote: “As a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God” (v. 9 NLT). And God wants to bring you to that place also. Yes, He wants you to use the gifts and resources He has provided, but His desire is that you rely completely on Him. Only then can He provide everything He desires to give you, because then you will be open, ready, and mature enough to receive it. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear [reverence, respect, obey] the Lord” (Proverbs 3:5-7 NLT). ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:28:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 29 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:41 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658936 https://iono.fm/e/1658936 Vertrou op God, nie op jouself nie
‘n Groep mans het op ‘n sendingreis na Haïti gegaan waar hulle ‘n negentienjarige jongman ontmoet het wat Christus diep liefgehad het. Hulle het hom genooi om hulle in Amerika te besoek en vir sy reis betaal. Die jong Haïtiaan het gevoel asof hy in ‘n ander wêreld beland het. Hy het nog nooit tussen lakens geslaap, drie maaltye per dag gehad, binnenshuise loodgieterswerk gebruik of ‘n hamburger geproe nie. Toe dit tyd was om na Haïti terug te keer, het hulle hom oor sy indrukke en alles wat hy ervaar het, uitgevra. Hy het geantwoord: ‘Ek het my tyd hier saam met julle baie geniet. Maar ek is ook baie bly om huis toe te gaan. Julle het soveel luukshede in Amerika dat ek my greep op my daaglikse afhanklikheid van Christus begin verloor het.’ Paulus vertel van ‘n tyd van swaarkry in die provinsie Asië waarin hy begin moed verloor en oorweldig gevoel het (sien 2 Korintiërs 1:8). Hy skryf egter verder: ‘…Ons kon onsself nie meer help nie. Ons kon net vertrou op God…’ (vers 9 ABA). God wil jou ook op daardie plek bring. Ja, Hy wil hê jy dat jy die gawes en hulpbronne wat Hy voorsien het moet gebruik, maar sy begeerte is dat jy ten volle op Hom sal staatmaak. Slegs dan kan Hy alles voorsien wat Hy begeer om vir jou te gee, want dan sal jy ontvanklik, gereed en volwasse genoeg wees om dit te ontvang. ‘Vertrou op die Here met alles wat jy het. Moenie staatmaak op jou eie insigte nie. Vra na die wil van God in alles wat jy doen. Hy sal die regte pad vir jou wys. Moenie jouself oorskat nie. Hou eerder die Here voor oë en vermy wat sleg is’ (Spreuke 3:5-7 NLV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:27:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 29 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:06 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658935 https://iono.fm/e/1658935 Overcoming envy
Unlike jealousy, which is the fear of being displaced, envy is ill-will toward those who possess something you want. Jealousy says, “I’m afraid you are going to take what I have.” Envy says, “I want what you have, and I resent you for having it!” Envy is one of the most frequently concealed emotions. You may be more likely to admit to an uncontrollable temper, a phobia, or any other negative emotion than to acknowledge that you are envious. Envy inevitably leads to resenting and criticizing the person you envy. And once you allow envy and resentment to enter your heart, they act like free radicals producing an emotional cancer. Eventually they will manifest themselves in some destructive way, whether it is in the form of taking mood-altering substances, overeating, shopping excessively, lashing out, being sarcastic, or physically harming others. If you harbor envy toward someone, it’s time to deal with it. David wrote: “You desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow” (Psalm 51:6-7 NIV). If you covet what someone else has, ask yourself, “Am I willing to pay the price they paid to obtain it?” The world has a saying: “There is no such thing as a free lunch.” Everything—except salvation—has a price tag. So, whether you want to be thin, rich, educated, or whatever, stop envying the success of others, and ask God to help you succeed in the assignment He has given you for your life. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:26:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 28 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:58 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658934 https://iono.fm/e/1658934 Oorkom afguns
Afguns is ‘n wrok teenoor diegene wat iets besit wat jy wil hê. Jaloesie sê: ‘Ek is bang jy gaan neem wat ek het.’ Afguns sê: ‘Ek wil hê wat jy het en ek neem jou kwalik omdat jy dit het!’ Afguns is een van die mees versteekte emosies. Jy is meer geneig om ‘n onbeheerbare humeur, ‘n fobie of enige ander negatiewe emosie te erken, as om te erken dat jy afgunstig is. Afguns lei onvermydelik tot ‘n wrok en kritiek teenoor die persoon wat jy beny. Sodra jy toelaat dat afguns en wrokkigheid jou hart binnedring, begin dit emosionele kanker word. Uiteindelik sal dit op ‘n vernietigende manier manifesteer, soos om dwelms te neem wat jou bui verander, te veel te eet, oormatige inkopies te doen, woedeuitbarstings, om sarkasties te wees of ander mense fisies leed aan te doen. As jy afguns teenoor iemand koester, is dit tyd om dit te hanteer. Dawid het geskryf: ‘Maar U verwag waarheid uit die hart. Diep in my binneste maak U u wysheid bekend. Neem weg my sonde met hisop sodat ek skoon kan wees, was my dat ek witter as sneeu kan wees’ (Psalm 51:8-9 NLV). As jy iets wat iemand anders het begeer, vra jouself af: ‘Is ek bereid om dieselfde prys te betaal as wat hulle betaal het om dit te verkry?’ Daar is ‘n gesegde: ‘Daar is nie so iets soos 'n gratis middagete nie.’ Alles - behalwe verlossing - het ‘n prys. Dus, of jy nou maer, ryk, geleerd of wat ook al wil wees, hou op om afgunstig op ander mense se sukses te wees en vra God om jou te help om te slaag in die opdrag wat Hy jou vir jou lewe gegee het. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:25:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 28 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:10 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658933 https://iono.fm/e/1658933 Learn to listen to God
If you are serious about having a truly interactive relationship with the Lord in which you speak to one another and hear from one another, you will need to spend quality, uninterrupted time opening your heart to Him. When Samuel finally prayed, “Speak, for Your servant hears,” the Bible says, “Then the Lord said to Samuel.” All too often, our prayer is “Listen, God, for Your servant is speaking.” Listening to God can involve a variety of practices: reading His Word, spending time in solitude and silence, and hearing from God just like a seasoned friend you trust. Here’s an example: “As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, ‘Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.’ And he went on. ‘But you stand here awhile, that I may announce to you the word of God’” (1 Samuel 9:27 NKJV). One of the most effective ways of hearing from God is through meditating on His Word. You say, “But I don’t know how to meditate.” If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. In both worry and meditation, your thoughts and focus are given to a certain thing. When you meditate on God’s Word, you’re focusing your thoughts on the right thing! God told Joshua: “This Book…shall not depart from your mouth [speak it regularly], but you shall mediate [focus] in it day and night, that you may observe to do [act on it] according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success” (Joshua 1:8 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:24:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 27 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:49 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658930 https://iono.fm/e/1658930 Leer om na God te luister
As jy ernstig daaroor is om ‘n werklik interaktiewe verhouding met die Here, waarin julle met mekaar praat en van mekaar hoor, te hê, sal jy kwaliteit, ononderbroke tyd met Hom moet bestee om jou hart vir Hom oop te maak. Toe Samuel uiteindelik gebid het: ‘Ja, Here, u dienaar luister,’ sê die Bybel dat die Here vir Samuel geantwoord het. Dikwels is ons gebed eerder: ‘Luister, Here, want u dienaar spreek.’ Om na God te luister kan ‘n verskeidenheid praktyke behels: om sy Woord te lees, tyd alleen en in stilte in sy teenwoordigheid deur te bring en van God te hoor, net soos ‘n ervare vriend wat jy vertrou. Hier is ‘n voorbeeld daarvan: ‘Toe hulle buite die dorp kom, sê Samuel vir hom: ‘Gee die jong man opdrag om vooruit te loop, maar jy moet hier bly staan, want ek het ‘n boodskap van God vir jou’’ (1 Samuel 9:27 NLV). Een van die effektiefste maniere om van God te hoor, is deur oor sy Woord te mediteer. Jy sê: ‘Maar ek weet nie hoe om te mediteer nie.’ As jy weet hoe om jou te bekommer, weet jy hoe om te mediteer. In beide bekommernis en meditasie word jou gedagtes en fokus op ‘n sekere ding geplaas. Wanneer jy oor God se Woord mediteer, fokus jy jou gedagtes op die regte ding! God het vir Josua gesê: ‘Hou hierdie wetboek altyd by jou. Dink dag en nag daaroor na sodat jy alles kan doen wat daarin geskryf is. Jy sal dan sukses behaal op jou pad. Jy sal voorspoedig wees’ (Josua 1:8 NLV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:23:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 27 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:54 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658928 https://iono.fm/e/1658928 Stay true to the truth of God’s word
The Bible says, “If you know people who have wandered off from God’s truth, don’t write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction” (vv. 19-20 MSG). That means it’s possible for a true believer to do this. It also means we must never put our convictions on the shelf. If we don’t make a deliberate effort to stay close to the truth of God’s Word, we will wander from it. After all, we live in a world with lots of distractions. Today many people are on a quest for “unity at all costs” and are therefore devaluing the importance of the truth as revealed in God’s Word. Knowing he would soon die as a martyr for his faith, the apostle Paul wrote to his successor Timothy: “Continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of” (2 Timothy 3:14 NIV). Then in 2 Timothy 4:2-5, he encouraged Timothy: “Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship…discharge all the duties of your ministry” (NIV). So the word for you today is—stay true to the truth of God’s Word. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:03:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 26 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:44 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658914 https://iono.fm/e/1658914 Bly getrou aan die waarheid van God se Woord
Die Bybel sê: ‘Liewe Christene, sê nou een van julle raak die koers byster en iemand sou hom reghelp, wat dan? Wel, iemand wat so ‘n persoon weer op die regte pad help, help hom om nie sy lewe weg te gooi nie’ (vers 19 DB). Dit beteken dat ons ander mense moet help. Dit beteken ook dat ons nooit ons oortuigings eenkant toe moet skuif nie. As ons nie ‘n doelbewuste poging aanwend om naby die waarheid van God se Woord te bly nie, sal ons daarvan afdwaal. Ons leef immers in ‘n wêreld met baie afleidings. Vandag is baie mense op soek na antwoorde en aanvaarding en onderskat dus die belangrikheid van die waarheid soos dit in God se Woord geopenbaar word. Die apostel Paulus het aan sy opvolger Timoteus geskryf: ‘Jy moet getrou bly aan die dinge wat jy geleer het. Jy weet dit is waar, want jy weet jy kan dié vertrou wat jou geleer het’ (2 Timoteus 3:14 NLV). Hy het ook vir Timoteus aangemoedig: ‘Verkondig die woord van God. Hou daarmee vol, of die tyd geleë is of nie. Jy moet jou mense met geduld reghelp, weerlê en bemoedig met gesonde onderrig. Want daar kom ‘n tyd wanneer mense nie meer na die regte onderrig sal luister nie. Hulle sal hulle eie begeertes volg en leermeesters soek wat net verkondig wat hulle wil hoor. Hulle sal die waarheid verwerp en vreemde mites navolg. Maar jy moet in elke situasie jou teenwoordigheid van gees behou. Moenie bang wees om vir die Here te ly nie... Voltooi die bediening wat God jou gegee het’ (2 Timoteus 4:2-5 NLV). Die woord vir jou vandag is dus - bly getrou aan die waarheid van God se Woord. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:01:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 26 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658913 https://iono.fm/e/1658913 The challenges and rewards of leadership
As a leader, you must understand what you do well and know where you need assistance. Your strengths and weaknesses don’t make you wrong or right; they just make you who you are. If you’ve ever heard the saying, “No man is an island,” it was probably said about a great leader. Few people achieve success on their own. Consider an actor in a play. He may be the one out front in the spotlight; with perfect hair, makeup, and costume; reciting poignant lines and getting all the applause. But he didn’t do it alone. He had to rely on the costume designer for the outfit he wore, the hair and makeup artists who made him look flawless, the playwright who wrote the words, and the lighting and sound crews who set the stage, etc. Good leaders are wise enough to surround themselves with people who have strengths that complement theirs. They are still in charge, but they have teams that help them achieve their vision. You are a leader in some area of your life—home, family, work, church—and you know leadership has its challenges. While there are certainly many benefits, a leader has to deal with conflict, controversy, and naysayers who think they know better. This comes with the territory. But you can’t let others keep you from achieving your goals. Not everyone will be your cheerleader. That’s just a fact of life. If you are going to be an effective leader, hold fast to your vision, build a great team to help you, and stand on God’s promise: “I have called [you]…and [your] way will prosper.” ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 25 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:51 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658912 https://iono.fm/e/1658912 Die uitdagings en belonings van leierskap
As leier moet jy verstaan waarmee jy goed is en weet waar jy hulp benodig. Jou sterk- en swakpunte maak jou nie verkeerd of reg nie; hulle maak jou net wie jy is. Min mense behaal op hul eie sukses. Dink aan ‘n akteur in ‘n toneelstuk. Hy is dalk die een wat in die kollig is; met perfekte hare, grimering en kostuum; wat aangrypende woorde voordra en al die applous kry. Hy het die toneelstuk egter nie alleen op die planke gebring nie. Hy moes op die kostuumontwerper vir die uitrusting wat hy dra, die haar- en grimeerkunstenaars wat hom foutloos laat lyk, die dramaturg wat die woorde geskryf het en die beligting- en klankspanne wat die verhoog voorberei, staatmaak. Goeie leiers is wys genoeg om hulself met mense wat sterkpunte het wat hulle s'n aanvul, te omring. Hulle is steeds in beheer, maar hulle het spanne wat hulle help om hul visie te bereik. Jy is ‘n leier in ‘n sekere area van jou lewe - huis, familie, werk, kerk - en jy weet dat leierskap uitdagings het. Alhoewel daar beslis baie voordele aan die pos verbonde is, moet ‘n leier ook konflik, kontroversie en teenstanders wat dink dat hulle beter weet, hanteer. Dit is deel van die posbeskrywing. Jy kan egter nie toelaat dat ander mense jou daarvan weerhou om jou doelwitte te bereik nie. Nie almal sal jou aanmoedig nie. Dis maar net ‘n feit van die lewe. As jy ‘n effektiewe leier wil wees, moet jy vashou aan jou visie, ‘n wonderlike span bou om jou te help en op God se belofte staan: ‘…Ek het [jou] laat kom. [Jy] sal suksesvol wees in wat [jy] moet doen.’ ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:57:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 25 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:58 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658909 https://iono.fm/e/1658909 Experiencing God’s peace
Within a matter of seconds, Vicky’s life was shattered. A trapeze artist, she lost control of the fly bar and landed head-first in the net. She broke her neck between the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae and became paralyzed, a quadriplegic. Three years after the accident, she had fallen into deep despair and self-pity, determined to take her life. Her attempt failed, and she ended up in a psychiatric hospital. On the fourth anniversary of her fall, she and her husband separated, and bitterness set in. One day, a home-health aide was assigned to help Vicky. Her name was Mae Lynne, a strong Christian who introduced Vicky to Jesus Christ and the Bible. Vicky began to learn how to stand firm in her faith and walk in obedience to God. In addition, a pastor faithfully taught her God’s Word for two years. Then Vicky began a ministry of encouragement by writing letters each week to prison inmates and others with disabilities. The more joy she brought to them, the more she experienced herself. She jokes, “Quadriplegics aren’t supposed to have this much joy, are they?” Vicky still uses a wheelchair, becomes dizzy at times, and has occasional respiratory problems. But she has a deep inner peace and strength because of her relationship with Jesus. And you can have it too. Job said: “Acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. Receive, please, instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart. If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up” (Job 22:21-23 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:51:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 24 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:02 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658906 https://iono.fm/e/1658906 Ervaar God se vrede
Binne sekondes was Vicky se lewe aan skerwe. As sweefkunstenaar het sy beheer verloor en kop eerste in die veiligheidsnet beland. Sy het haar nek tussen die vyfde en sesde nekwerwels gebreek en was verlam, ‘n kwadrupleeg. Drie jaar na die ongeluk het sy in diepe wanhoop en selfbejammering verval, vasbeslote om haar lewe te neem. Haar poging het misluk en sy het in ‘n psigiatriese hospitaal beland. Op die vierde herdenking van haar ongeluk het sy en haar man geskei en bitterheid het by haar ingetree. Eendag is ‘n assistant aangestel om Vicky te help en te versorg. Haar naam was Mae Lynne, ‘n ware Christen wat Vicky aan Jesus Christus en die Bybel bekendgestel het. Vicky het begin leer hoe om in haar geloof vas te staan en in gehoorsaamheid aan God te wandel. Daarbenewens het ‘n pastoor haar twee jaar lank getrou van God se Woord geleer. Vicky het toe ‘n bediening van bemoediging begin deur elke week briewe aan gevangenes en ander mense met gestremdhede, te skryf. Hoe meer vreugde sy vir hulle gebring het, hoe meer vreugde het sy self ervaar. Sy skerts: ‘Kwadrupleë is nie veronderstel om soveel vreugde te hê nie, nè?’ Vicky gebruik steeds ‘n rolstoel, word soms duiselig en het af en toe asemhalingsprobleme. Sy het egter ook ‘n diep innerlike vrede en krag as gevolg van haar verhouding met Jesus. Jy kan dit ook hê. Job het gesê: ‘Onderwerp jou aan God, dan sal jy vrede hê en sal alles met jou goed gaan. Luister na sy voorskrifte en bêre hulle in jou hart. As jy terugkeer na die Almagtige en jou lewe skoonmaak, sal jy herstel word’ (Job 22:21-23 NLV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:50:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 24 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:04 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658904 https://iono.fm/e/1658904 Healing for anxiety
Paul wrote: “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand” (Philippians 4:6-7 NLT). Jesus said: “Don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need” (Matthew 6:31-33 NLT). Instead of meditating on our problems, we need to meditate on how good and loving our God really is. When we keep our minds on our problems, we create anxiety. But when we keep our minds on the promises of God, we get infused with His peace. So, allow the promises of God to heal your soul of worry and stress by focusing on His goodness and willingness to show Himself strong on your behalf. “The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him” (2 Chronicles 16:9 NLT). Our heavenly Father loves us dearly and already knows everything we need. When we take hold of that truth, fear and doubt fall by the wayside. Confession: “I don’t give in to needless worry. I pray about problems rather than complain about them. God hears my prayers, and I thank Him for all He has provided for me. I experience God’s peace because I know He hears me and has already answered my prayers in Christ.” ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:49:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 23 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658901 https://iono.fm/e/1658901 Prayer is your connection to God
The remora fish has an oval sucking disc on the top of its head that allows it to attach itself to the underside of a shark. Once attached, the remora does not have to worry about food, transportation, or safety. It feeds on the food that falls from the shark’s mouth. Of course, it has the option of swimming on its own, but when it decides to attach to the shark, it goes where the shark goes. It does not attempt to go in a direction contrary to the shark. Protection? It’s a non-issue for one that’s connected to such a powerful creature. The remora is secure, and it knows the shark can take it places it could never go alone. Doesn’t this sound like the relationship God desires His children to have with Him? He wants us to feed on the words that come from His mouth. He wants us to go with Him where He leads and not take off on independent excursions, hoping He will tag along. He wants us to live with the assurance that He will protect not only our lives, but also our relationships and all that pertains to us. Oh, that we would emulate the remora! We would then find ourselves securing our attachment to God on a daily basis through prayer. He is waiting to carry us to places we fear going alone. The prophet Isaiah admonished the Jewish leaders: “Cry to God all day and all night for the fulfillment of his promises.” So, the word for you today is this—prayer is your connection to God. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:48:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 22 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:45 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658903 https://iono.fm/e/1658903 Genesing vir angs
Paulus het geskryf: ‘Moet oor niks bekommerd wees nie, maar bid oor alles. Vra alles wat julle nodig het van God, terwyl julle Hom ook dank vir alles wat Hy doen. As julle so bid, sal julle God se vrede beleef. Hierdie vrede is wonderliker as wat ‘n mens ooit kan dink…’ (Filippense 4:6-7 NLV). Jesus het gesê: ‘Moet julle dus nie bekommer en vra: ‘Wat sal ons tog eet?’ of: ‘Wat sal ons drink?’ of: ‘Wat sal ons aantrek?’ nie. Dit is die ongelowiges wat oor hierdie soort dinge begaan is. Julle hemelse Vader weet tog dat julle dit alles nodig het. Nee, maak 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 6:31-33 NLV). Wanneer ons ons gedagtes op ons probleme fokus, ervaar ons angs. Wanneer ons egter ons gedagtes op die beloftes van God fokus, word ons met sy vrede deurdrenk. Laat dus die beloftes van God jou siel van bekommernis en stres genees deur op sy goedheid en bereidwilligheid om namens jou sterk te wees, te fokus. ‘Die Here kyk oor die hele aarde om hulle te help wat met hulle hele hart op Hom vertrou…’ (2 Kronieke 16:9 NLV). Ons hemelse Vader het ons innig lief en weet reeds alles wat ons nodig het. Bely die volgende: ‘Ek gee nie aan onnodige bekommernis toe nie. Ek bid oor probleme eerder as om daaroor te kla. God verhoor my gebede en ek dank Hom vir alles wat Hy vir my voorsien het. Ek ervaar God se vrede omdat ek weet dat Hy my hoor en reeds my gebede in Christus geantwoord het.’ ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:48:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 23 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:02 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658900 https://iono.fm/e/1658900 Gebed is jou skakel met God
Die remora-vis het ‘n ovaalvormige suigskyf bo-op sy kop wat hy gebruik om aan die onderkant van ‘n haai vas te suig. Sodra die remora aan die haai vas is, hoef hy nie oor kos, vervoer of veiligheid bekommerd te wees nie. Hy voed op die kos wat uit die haai se bek val. Natuurlik het hy die opsie om self te swem, maar wanneer hy besluit om aan die haai vas te suig, moet hy gaan waar die haai gaan. Hy probeer nie om in ‘n ander rigting as die haai te beur nie. Beskerming? Dis nie ‘n probleem vir iemand wat aan so ‘n kragtige wese verbind is nie. Die remora is veilig en weet die haai kan hom na plekke neem waarheen hy nooit alleen sou kon gaan nie. Klink dit nie na die verhouding wat God begeer sy kinders met Hom moet hê nie? Hy wil hê ons moet op die woorde wat uit sy mond kom, voed. Hy wil hê ons moet saam met Hom gaan waar Hy ons lei en nie op onafhanklike uitstappies met die hoop dat Hy sal saamgaan, gaan nie. Hy wil hê ons moet met die versekering leef dat Hy nie net ons lewe nie, maar ook ons verhoudings en alles anders in ons lewe, sal beskerm. Was ons maar soos die remora-vis! Dan sou ons daagliks deur gebed aan God verbind wees. Hy wag om ons na plekke te lei waarheen ons te bang is om alleen te gaan. Die profeet Jesaja het die Joodse leiers vermaan: ‘…Julle wat die Here herinner aan sy beloftes, moenie rus nie.’ Die woord vir jou vandag is dus - gebed is jou skakel met God. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:45:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 22 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:47 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658898 https://iono.fm/e/1658898 God forgives and forgets (4)
God has a remarkable memory. The Omniscient One doesn’t just know everything; He also remembers everything. In fact, He remembers it before it happens! Every moment of your life was ordained in God’s imagination before it became a memory—every laugh, every dream, and every sacrifice. The Psalmist wrote: “You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed” (Psalm 139:16 NLT). Nothing is lost on God, not even your tears. He doesn’t just remember them; He collects them in a bottle (see Psalm 56:8 NKJV). There’s only one thing that God can and will forget: confessed sin. So, when you confess sin that’s already been confessed, you’re reminding God of something He’s already forgotten (see Isaiah 43:25). The reason we bring it back up is that even though we are forgiven, we don’t feel forgiven. What’s the answer? Don’t give your feelings a voice or a vote, or they will mislead you. Stand in faith, believing what God says in His Word. “I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me” (Jeremiah 33:8 NKJV). The apostle John put it this way: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9 NKJV). Maybe you’ve struggled with addiction, or your marriage ended in divorce, or you’re in prison for a crime you committed. What should you do? Repent, renounce your sin, receive God’s mercy, and begin to live free from guilt and condemnation. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:44:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 21 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:08 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658896 https://iono.fm/e/1658896 God vergewe en vergeet (4)
God het ‘n merkwaardige geheue. Die Alwetende Een weet nie net alles nie; Hy onthou ook alles. Trouens, Hy onthou dit nog voordat dit gebeur het! Elke oomblik van jou lewe is in God se gedagtes bepaal nog voordat dit ‘n herinnering geword het - elke lag, elke droom en elke opoffering. Die Psalmdigter het geskryf: ‘U het my gesien voor ek gebore is. In u boek is alles opgeteken; elke dag is bepaal voordat een van hulle daar was’ (Psalm 139:16 NLV). Daar is net een ding wat God kan en sal vergeet: sonde wat bely is. Dus, wanneer jy sonde bely wat jy reeds bely het, herinner jy God aan iets wat Hy reeds vergeet het (sien Jesaja 43:25). Die rede waarom ons dit weer ophaal, is dat alhoewel ons vergewe is, ons nie vergewe voel nie. Wat is dus die antwoord? Moenie jou gevoelens ‘n stem gee nie, anders sal hulle jou mislei. Staan in geloof en glo wat God in sy Woord sê. ‘Ek sal hulle rein maak van die sonde wat hulle teen My gedoen het. Hulle het verkeerd gedoen en was opstandig teenoor My, maar Ek sal hulle daarvoor vergewe’ (Jeremia 33:8 NLV). Die apostel Johannes het dit so gestel: ‘As ons egter ons sondes bely, Hy is betroubaar en regverdig om ons sondes te vergewe en ons skoon te maak van elke verkeerde optrede’ (1 Johannes 1:9 NLV). Miskien het jy met verslawing gesukkel, of jou huwelik het in ‘n egskeiding geëindig, of jy is in die tronk vir ‘n misdaad wat jy gepleeg het. Wat staan jou te doen? Bekeer jou, bely jou sonde, ontvang God se genade en begin vry van skuldgevoelens en veroordeling leef. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:43:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 21 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:08 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658894 https://iono.fm/e/1658894 God forgives and forgets (3)
The English word for new is the Hebrew word hadas. It doesn’t just mean again and again, as amazing as that would be. It’s new, as in different. It means never before experienced. Today’s mercy is different from yesterday’s mercy, or the day before that, or the day before that! Just as the seasonal flu vaccine changes from year to year, God’s mercy changes from day to day. It’s a new strain of mercy. Why? Because you didn’t sin today the way you did yesterday! Try this little exercise: figure out how old you are—not in years but in days. Whatever number you come up with isn’t just your age in days; it doubles as the sum total of different kinds of mercy that you have received life-to-date. By the time you are twenty-one, you have experienced 7,665 unique mercies. When you hit midlife, it numbers about 14,600. And by the time you hit retirement, God has shown mercy to you about 23,725 times! And His mercy for you is is a tailored mercy that perfectly fits your sin, your shortcomings, your needs, and your mistakes. His mercy fits like a glove! In Scripture, the word manifold means “multifaceted.” Mercy and grace are not the same thing. Mercy is not getting what you do deserve, and grace is getting what you don’t deserve. The apostle Peter spoke about “the manifold grace of God” (1 Peter 4:10 NKJV). Like snowflakes, God’s grace never crystallizes the same way twice. That’s what makes it so amazing! ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:42:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 20 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:11 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658893 https://iono.fm/e/1658893 God vergewe en vergeet (3)
Die Hebreeuse woord vir nuut is hadas. Dit beteken dis anders. Dit beteken dat jy dit nog nooit vantevore ervaar het nie. Vandag se genade verskil van gister se genade, of die dag daarvoor, of ook die dag daarvoor! Net soos die seisoenale griepentstof van jaar tot jaar verander, verander God se genade van dag tot dag. Dis ‘n nuwe soort genade. Hoekom? Omdat jy nie op dieselfde wyse vandag gesondig het as wat jy gister gedoen het nie! Probeer hierdie klein oefening: Tel hoe oud jy is - nie in jare nie, maar in dae. Watter getal jy ook al kry, is nie net jou ouderdom in dae nie; dis ook die somtotaal van die verskillende soorte genade wat jy tot op hede in jou lewe ontvang het. Teen die tyd wat jy een-en-twintig is, het jy 7 665 unieke genadebewyse ervaar. Wanneer jy jou middeljare bereik, is dit ongeveer 14 600. Teen die tyd wat jy aftree, het God omtrent 23 725 keer genade aan jou bewys! Sy genade vir jou is maatpas en perfek vir jou sonde, jou tekortkominge, jou behoeftes en jou foute. Sy genade pas soos ‘n handskoen! Genade en barmhartigheid is nie dieselfde ding nie. Barmhartigheid is om nie dit te kry wat jy verdien nie, en genade is om dit te kry wat jy nie verdien nie. Die apostel Petrus praat van ‘…God se ryk en onverdiende goedheid…’ (1 Petrus 4:10 NLV). Soos sneeuvlokkies, kristalliseer God se genade nooit twee keer op dieselfde manier nie. Dis wat dit so wonderlik maak! ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:41:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 20 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658892 https://iono.fm/e/1658892 God forgives and forgets (2)
The Israelites had celebrated the Passover as a way of commemorating their exodus from Egypt. The evening before the exodus, the Israelites were instructed to sacrifice a lamb without defect and to mark their doorframe with its blood. Then, when the Death Angel passed through Egypt, he would pass over their home. Little did Jesus’s disciples know that they were eating the Passover meal with the Passover Lamb. Jesus rebooted their understanding of the bread and the cup, explaining that they represented His body and blood. And because of what He accomplished at Calvary’s cross, we come under the protective custody of the blood of the Lamb. Like the Passover, communion is a commemoration of our exodus from slavery. We were slaves to sin, but Christ set us free. Whenever we go to the Lord’s Table, we make a beeline to the foot of the cross—the place where sin met its match. We remember that our sin is nailed to the cross. Are you having a hard time forgetting your sins and failures? Does the devil keep reminding you of them? Stand on God’s Word and serve him an eviction notice. In the Old Testament, God said: “I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” In the New Testament, God said: “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more” (Hebrews 8:12 NKJV). Scripture tells us what God does with our sins: “You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:19 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:39:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 19 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658890 https://iono.fm/e/1658890 God vergewe en vergeet (2)
Die Israeliete het die Pasga as ‘n manier om hul uittog uit Egipte te herdenk, gevier. Die aand voor die uittog is die Israeliete opdrag gegee om ‘n lam sonder gebrek te offer en hul deurkosyn met sy bloed te merk. Dan, wanneer die Doodsengel deur Egipte gaan, sou hy by hul huis verbygaan. Jesus se dissipels het nie besef dat hulle die Pasgamaaltyd saam met die Pasgalam (Jesus) eet nie. Jesus het hul begrip van die brood en die beker verander en verduidelik dat dit sy liggaam en bloed verteenwoordig. As gevolg van dit wat Hy by Golgota se kruis bereik het, leef ons onder die beskermende bewaring van die bloed van die Lam. Soos die Pasga, is die nagmaal ‘n herdenking van ons uittog uit slawerny. Ons was slawe van sonde, maar Christus het ons vrygemaak. Wanneer ons by die Here se Tafel gaan sit, is dit soos om aan die voet van die kruis te gaan sit - die plek waar sonde sy moses teëgekom het. Ons onthou dat ons sonde aan die kruis vasgespyker is. Sukkel jy om jou sondes en mislukkings te vergeet? Hou die duiwel aan om jou daaraan te herinner? Staan op God se Woord en beteken ‘n uitsettingsbevel op hom. God het in die Ou Testament gesê: ‘…Ek sal al hulle oortredings en hulle sondes vergewe. Ek sal nooit eers weer daaraan dink nie.’ In die Nuwe Testament het God gesê: ‘Ek sal My ontferm oor hulle ongeregtighede en Ek sal nooit weer aan hulle sondes dink nie’ (Hebreërs 8:12 NLV). Die Skrif vertel ons wat God met ons sondes doen: ‘…U sal ons sonde onder u voete vertrap, dit weggooi in die diepte van die see!’ (Miga 7:19 NLV). ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:38:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 19 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:01 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658886 https://iono.fm/e/1658886 God forgives and forgets (1)
God forgives and forgets. Amazing, isn’t it? He remembers everything you’ve done right while forgetting everything you’ve done wrong. Yet, while God cannot remember our confessed sin, we have a much harder time forgetting it. We tend to remember our mistakes more readily than our successes. That’s why it’s harder to forgive ourselves than to receive God’s forgiveness. We tend to remember what we should forget while forgetting what we should remember. That inability to forget the sin we’ve confessed is part of our sin nature itself. The fall fractured the image of God in us, including the amygdala. That’s the part of the brain responsible for storing emotional memories. The strength of the memory is dictated by the strength of the emotion. We quickly forget the moments that don’t make a blip on our emotional radar. Strong emotions, such as shame, take sinful snapshots and poster-size them. They get blown out of proportion in the darkroom of the mind. Are you struggling to forget what God has forgiven? Read these Scriptures carefully and prayerfully: “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins” (Isaiah 43:25 NKJV). “I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you” (Isaiah 44:22 NKJV). “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins…I will remember no more” (Hebrews 8:12 NKJV). God has forgiven and forgotten your sin—it’s time for you to agree with Him and do the same thing. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:37:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 18 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:06 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658885 https://iono.fm/e/1658885 God vergewe en vergeet (1)
God vergewe en vergeet. Hy onthou alles wat jy reg gedoen het terwyl Hy alles wat jy verkeerd gedoen het, vergeet. Dit is egter vir ons baie moeiliker om ons belyde sonde te vergeet, selfs al onthou God dit nie. Ons is geneig om ons foute makliker as ons suksesse te onthou. Daarom is dit moeiliker om onsself te vergewe as om God se vergifnis te ontvang. Ons is geneig om te onthou wat ons moet vergeet, terwyl ons vergeet wat ons moet onthou. Hierdie onvermoë om die sonde wat ons bely het te vergeet, is deel van ons sondige aard. Die sondeval het die beeld van God in ons gebreek. Die amigdala is die deel van die brein wat vir die berging van emosionele herinneringe verantwoordelik is. Die sterkte van die herinnering word deur die sterkte van die emosie wat daaraan gekoppel is, bepaal. Ons vergeet vinnig die oomblikke wat nie ‘n flits op ons emosionele radar maak nie. Sterk emosies, soos skaamte, neem egter sondige foto’s en plak dit op plakkate in ons binneste vas. Hulle word buite verhouding in die donkerkamer van die gees opgeblaas. Sukkel jy om te vergeet wat God vergewe het? Lees dan hierdie Skrifgedeeltes aandagtig en biddend: ‘Ek, ja, Ek alleen, is die Een wat julle sonde uitwis. Ek doen dit ter wille van Myself en dink nie weer daaraan nie’ (Jesaja 43:25 NLV). ‘Ek het jou sondes weggevee soos wolke verdwyn. Ek het jou oortredings verstrooi, jou sondes soos wolke wat verdwyn. Keer terug na My toe, want Ek het jou gered’ (Jesaja 44:22 NLV). ‘Ek sal My ontferm oor hulle ongeregtighede en Ek sal nooit weer aan hulle sondes dink nie’ (Hebreërs 8:12 NLV). God het jou sonde vergewe en vergeet - dis tyd dat jy met Hom saamstem en dieselfde doen. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:36:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 18 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:15 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658883 https://iono.fm/e/1658883 Be confident of God’s love for you
When you fail, God’s love for you does not fail. And to enjoy the fullness of what He wants you to have, you must believe that. The knowledge of God’s love will carry you through to victory when the powers of hell are against you. The knowledge of God’s love will carry you through life’s storms and into a place of peace. God’s love is not restricted to the days when you have performed well. He loves you just as much during the times when you fail. You need to be confident of His love, especially when you have trials and the devil is accusing you and saying, “Well, you must have done something wrong.” God’s love is not doled out on a merit system. You did nothing to deserve His love; therefore, you can do nothing to forfeit it. John wrote: “We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect [mature]. So, we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. [We are clothed in Christ’s righteousness.] Such love has no fear, because [God’s] perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced [and embraced] his perfect love” (1 John 4:16-18 NLT). So be confident of God’s love for you. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:35:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 17 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658881 https://iono.fm/e/1658881 Wees oortuig van God se liefde vir jou
Wanneer jy misluk, misluk God se liefde nie vir jou nie. Jy moet dit egter glo om die volheid van dit wat Hy vir jou het, te geniet. Die wete van God se liefde sal jou tot oorwinning dra wanneer die magte van die hel teen jou is. Die wete van God se liefde sal jou deur die lewe se storms en na ‘n plek van vrede dra. God se liefde is nie tot die dae wanneer jy goed presteer beperk nie. Hy het jou net so lief gedurende die tye wanneer jy misluk. Jy moet oortuig van sy liefde wees, veral wanneer jy deur beproewing gaan en die duiwel jou beskuldig en sê: ‘Wel, jy moes iets verkeerd gedoen het.’ God se liefde word nie op ‘n merietestelsel uitgedeel nie. Jy het niks gedoen om sy liefde te verdien nie; daarom kan jy niks doen om dit te verbeur nie. Johannes het geskryf: ‘Ons leef uit die wete en is absoluut oortuig daarvan dat God ons liefhet. God is die liefde self en almal wat uit dié liefde leef, leef in ‘n hegte verhouding met God en God met hulle. Hiertoe is God se liefde ten volle in ons verwesenlik, dat ons vrymoedigheid kan hê op die oordeelsdag. Want dan sal ons ook in hierdie wêreld wees soos Hý is. Ware liefde het nie plek vir vrees nie; volwasse liefde dryf die vrees uit omdat vrees nog met straf behep is, en wie aanhou vrees, het nog nie dié volwasse liefde bemeester nie’ (1 Johannes 4:16-18 NLV). Wees dus ten volle oortuig van God se liefde vir jou. ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:29:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 17 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:53 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658871 https://iono.fm/e/1658871 Click the save button
If you use a computer, you know what the save button is. To save a created document, you just press the save button. Words on the screen descend into the core of the machine. As long as the words are limited to the screen, they are vulnerable to the irascible cursor. It earns its name. We curse the little monster as it gobbles up our hard work. But once we save it, it is safe. Question: Are you clicking the save button on Scripture? You save truth when you deliberately allow what you’ve read or heard to become part of who you are. Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” As you know (save) truth, the truth frees you from guilt, fear, pride, anger, etc. Saved truth has a shaping, reconfiguring impact on your heart. Only when you allow the truth of Scripture to be the authority in your life will you prove that it works. How do you do this? Begin with a prayer: “God, please speak to my heart today as I read Your Word.” Then with an open heart, read until a message hits you, and you will receive great rewards. God told Joshua if he did this, He would make his way “prosperous” (see Joshua 1:8). The promise of prosperity includes finances, but it also refers to a wealthy spirit, mind, and body. God prospers a leader with new skills, a worker with good sleep, a teacher with added patience, a mother with deeper affection, and an elderly person with greater hope. So click the save button! ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:27:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 16 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:49 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658870 https://iono.fm/e/1658870 Kliek op die ‘save’ knoppie
As jy ‘n rekenaar gebruik, weet jy wat die ‘save’ knoppie is. Om ‘n dokument te stoor, druk jy net die ‘save’ knoppie. Woorde op die skerm word dan in die kern van die masjien gestoor. Solank die woorde slegs tot die skerm beperk is, is hulle kwesbaar om uitgewis te word. Ons vervloek die rekenaarmonster wanneer dit ons harde werk verslind wanneer ons vergeet om die ‘save’ knoppie te druk. Sodra ons egter ons werk stoor, is dit veilig. Kliek jy op die ‘save’ knoppie wanneer jy die Skrif lees? Jy stoor die waarheid wanneer jy doelbewus toelaat dat dit wat jy gelees of gehoor het, deel word van wie jy is. Jesus het gesê: ‘en julle sal begryp wat die waarheid beteken, en die waarheid sal julle vrymaak.’ Soos jy die waarheid leer en stoor, bevry dit jou van skuldgevoelens, vrees, trots, woede, ens. Waarheid wat gestoor word, hervorm jou en het ‘n impak op jou hart. Slegs wanneer jy toelaat dat die waarheid van die Skrif die gesag in jou lewe word, sal jy ervaar hoe dit werk. Bid die volgende: ‘God, spreek vandag asseblief tot my hart terwyl ek u Woord lees.’ Lees dan die Skrif met ‘n oop hart totdat ‘n teksvers jou aanraak. God het vir Josua gesê indien hy die opdragte van die Skrif sou uitvoer, Hy sy weg voorspoedig sou maak (sien Josua 1:8). Die belofte van voorspoed sluit finansies in, maar dit verwys ook na ‘n welgestelde gees, verstand en liggaam. God gee nuwe vaardighede aan ‘n leier, beter slaap aan ‘n werker, meer geduld vir ‘n onderwyser, dieper liefde vir ‘n moeder en groter hoop vir ‘n bejaarde persoon. Kliek dus op die ‘save’ knoppie! ]]> Christianity Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:24:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 16 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:13 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658729 https://iono.fm/e/1658729 Meditate and assimilate
Meditation is the most effective way to assimilate God’s Word. David describes the “blessed” man this way: “His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night” (Psalm 1:2 NKJV). And whatever you meditate on and memorize, the Holy Spirit will help you recall when you need it. “He will…bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you” (John 14:26 NKJV). As one of the highest-ranking American captives in Vietnam, Jeremiah Denton was subjected to grueling torture. But he survived, and returned home to become one of Alabama’s United States senators. How did he do it? He says that one of his basic survival skills was quoting passages of Scripture he had memorized. Internalized Scriptures were his unseen sword to fend off the cruelest weapons of the enemy. By inwardly focusing on the power of God to sustain and strengthen him, he was able to rise above his circumstances. Scriptures he had memorized and meditated on years ago became his prayers of deliverance. When you meditate upon God and His Word, recalling His many promises and acts of faithfulness, your faith grows and your fears dissolve (see Romans 10:17). David understood this well. Many times, in his attempts to escape the wrath of King Saul, he recalled the greatness of God and found himself strengthened. “I will meditate on Your precepts, and contemplate Your ways.” “I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; my heart also instructs me in the night seasons” (Psalm 16:7 NKJV). Do yourself a big favour: Begin to meditate on God’s Word and memorize it. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:05:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 15 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658728 https://iono.fm/e/1658728 Mediteer en memoriseer
Meditasie is die effektiefste manier om God se Woord in te neem. ‘Gelukkig is die mens wat… vreugde vind in die gebooie van die Here en sy voorskrifte dag en nag oordink’ (Psalm 1:1-2 NLV). God sal jou help om dit waaroor jy mediteer en memoriseer, te onthou wanneer jy dit nodig het. ‘en wanneer die Raadgewer, die Heilige Gees, kom… sal Hy julle in alle opsigte onderrig en julle ook herinner aan alles wat Ek vir julle gesê het’ (Johannes 14:26 NLV). Jeremiah Denton, ‘n hooggeplaaste Amerikaanse soldaat, is tydens die oorlog in Vietnam aan uitmergelende marteling onderwerp. Hy het egter oorleef en teruggekeer huis toe om ‘n senator in Alabama te word. Hoe het hy dit gedoen? Hy sê dat een van sy basiese maniere om te oorleef was om gedeeltes uit die Skrif wat hy gememoriseer het, aan te haal. Die Skrif was sy onsigbare swaard om die wreedste wapens van die vyand af te weer. Deur innerlik op die krag van God te fokus om hom te onderhou en te versterk, kon hy bo sy omstandighede uitstyg. Teksverse wat hy jare gelede gememoriseer en oor gemediteer het, het sy gebede van verlossing geword. Wanneer jy oor God en sy Woord mediteer en sy vele beloftes en dade van getrouheid onthou, groei jou geloof en jou vrese verdwyn (sien Romeine 10:17). Dawid het dit goed verstaan. Hy het baie keer in sy pogings om die toorn van koning Saul te ontsnap, die grootheid van God onthou en is hy versterk. ‘Ek prys die Here wat my insig gee; ook in die nag is ek daarvan bewus’ (Psalm 16:7 NLV). Doen jouself ‘n groot guns: Begin om oor God se Woord te mediteer en dit te memoriseer. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:04:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 15 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:08 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658726 https://iono.fm/e/1658726 Responsibility and the “ability to respond”
God never gives a person responsibility without giving the ability to respond. So, you can look in the mirror today and say with confidence, “God, You’ve given me this responsibility and the ability to respond to it.” In the Bible, when God called regular people to do great things, they usually responded with a sense of inadequacy. When God charged Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage: “Moses pleaded, ‘O Lord, I’m just not a good speaker. I never have been, and I’m not now, even after you have spoken to me…I have a speech impediment” (Exodus 4:10 TLB). God wouldn’t hear of it, and He told Moses, “Go ahead and do as I tell you, for I will help you to speak well, and…tell you what to say” (Exodus 4:12 TLB). When God told Gideon to lead the Israelites to victory against the powerful forces of Midian, we read: “‘Pardon me, my lord,’ Gideon replied, ‘but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.’ The Lord answered, ‘I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive’” (Judges 6:15-16 NIV). Gideon conquered an army of 135,000 with only 300 soldiers—plus God. That’s a ratio of 450 to 1! So next time Satan reminds you that you are inadequate, say: “You’re correct! But I’m connected to a God who is all-powerful, all-knowing, and always present. Through Him I can do all things!” (see Philippians 4:13). ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:03:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 14 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:57 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658724 https://iono.fm/e/1658724 “I have set the Lord always before me”
Say these words aloud several times and let them roll around in your mind: “I have set the Lord always before me.” Take some time to imagine how this might actually be experienced in your life. What would it be like to wake up with God on your mind? What would it feel like at night if you were aware of Him as you fell asleep? What would your conversations be like with other people if God were the unseen third party present? What would work or school be like if you were continually aware of God and were communicating with Him as you sat in your office or at your desk, asking for His help and guidance, not carrying the burden by yourself? After all, this is His promise to you: “Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall” (Psalm 55:22 NLT). Reflect on the idea that the Lord is at your “right hand.” In Scripture, the right hand is considered the hand of power and the one that does the work. Now reflect on these words: “I will not be shaken” (Psalm 16:8 NLT). Picture yourself receiving bad news or facing opposition; picture someone important who doesn’t like you. Picture your work going badly—but it doesn’t shake you. Why? Because God has given you supernatural peace. Isn’t this the life you want? Then pray, “God, this is the life I choose; show me what I need to do so that it may be so.” ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:02:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 13 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:51 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658725 https://iono.fm/e/1658725 Verantwoordelikheid en die vermoë om daarop te reageer
God gee nooit aan ‘n persoon verantwoordelikheid sonder die vermoë om daarop te reageer nie. Jy kan dus vandag in die spieël kyk en met vertroue sê: ‘God, U het my hierdie verantwoordelikheid gegee en die vermoë om daarop te reageer.’ Wanneer God gewone mense in die Bybel geroep het om groot dinge te doen, het hulle gewoonlik met ‘n gevoel van ontoereikendheid gereageer. Toe God Moses opdrag gegee het om die Israeliete uit Egiptiese slawerny te lei, het Moses ‘… by die Here gepleit: ‘Ag Here, ek is nie goed met my mond nie. Ek was nog nooit iemand wat goed kon praat nie. Selfs waar U nou hier met my praat, haak my tong vas’’ (Eksodus 4:10 NLV). God wou egter nie verskonings hoor nie en het vir Moses gesê: ‘Loop, gaan maak soos Ek vir jou sê! Ek sal jou goed laat praat en vir jou voorsê wat jy moet sê’ (Eksodus 4:12 NLV). Toe God vir Gideon gesê het om die Israeliete na oorwinning teen die magtige leër van Midian te lei, lees ons: ‘Maar Gideon sê vir Hom: ‘Verskoon my, Meneer, maar hoe kan ek Israel red? My familie is een van die swakstes in Manasse. Ek is die onbelangrikste lid van my gesin.’ ‘Ek is dan saam met jou!’ het die Here vir hom gesê. ‘Jy sal al die Midianiete verslaan asof jy net teen een man veg’’ (Rigters 6:15-16 NLV). Gideon het ‘n leër van 135 000 met slegs 300 soldate - plus God - verslaan. Die volgende keer wat Satan jou dus herinner dat jy ontoereikend is, sê: ‘Jy is reg! Maar ek is egter verbonde aan ‘n God wat almagtig, alwetend en altyd teenwoordig is. Deur Hom is ek tot alles in staat!’ (sien Filippense 4:13). ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:02:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 14 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658723 https://iono.fm/e/1658723 ‘Ek stel die Here altyddeur voor my’
Sê hierdie woorde ‘n paar keer hardop en laat dit in jou gedagtes rondrol: ‘Ek stel die Here altyddeur voor my.’ Neem tyd om na te dink hoe dit werklik in jou lewe ervaar kan word. Hoe sou dit wees om met God in jou gedagtes wakker te word? Hoe sou dit snags voel as jy bewus is van Hom terwyl jy aan die slaap raak? Hoe sou jou gesprekke met ander mense wees as God as die onsigbare derde party teenwoordig is? Hoe sou werk of skool wees as jy voortdurend bewus van God is en met Hom kommunikeer terwyl jy in jou kantoor of by jou lessenaar sit, sy hulp en leiding vra en nie die las alleen probeer dra nie? Dit is immers sy belofte aan jou: ‘Gee jou kommer oor aan die Here, Hy sal vir jou sorg. Hy sal gelowiges nie teleurstel nie’ (Psalm 55:23 NLV). Dink na oor die idee dat die Here ‘aan jou regterhand’ is. In die Skrif word die regterhand as die hand van krag en die een wat die werk doen, beskou. Dink nou oor hierdie woorde na: ‘ek [sal] nie wankel nie’ (Psalm 16:8 AFR53). Stel jou voor dat jy slegte nuus ontvang of teenstand in die gesig staar; stel jou voor dat ‘n belangrike persoon nie van jou hou nie. Stel jou voor dat dit sleg by jou werk gaan - maar dit skud nie jou fondasies nie. Hoekom nie? Omdat God jou bonatuurlike vrede gee. Is dit die lewe wat jy wil hê? Bid dan: ‘God, ek kies hierdie lewe; wys my wat ek moet doen sodat dit so kan wees.’ ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:01:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 13 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:52 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658722 https://iono.fm/e/1658722 True repentance brings restoration
The story of the prodigal son illustrates the meaning of true repentance. It’s about a young Jewish man who rebelled against all that he’d been taught, turned his back on his father, was lured by the bright lights of the big city, and ended up in a pigpen feeding swine. But he did three things that turned his life around. First, he changed his mind. “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!’” (v. 17 NIV). Second, he redirected his will. “I will…go back to my father and say to him: ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you’” (v. 18 NIV). Third, he took action. “So he got up and went to his father” (v. 20 NIV). Repentance is a change of mind, which brings about a change of will, and results in a change of action. It led to the prodigal’s forgiveness and restoration to his family. Here are two things about sin you need to know: (1) God will uncover every sin you try to cover up. “Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts” (1 Corinthians 4:5 NKJV). (2) God will cover every sin you uncover. “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13 NKJV). Go ahead—confess and forsake your sin, and God will cover it with the blood of Christ. There is no good reason to wait. Do it now. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 12 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:54 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658721 https://iono.fm/e/1658721 Ware berou bring herstel mee
Die verhaal van die verlore seun illustreer die betekenis van ware berou en bekering. Dit gaan oor ‘n jong Joodse man wat in opstand teen alles wat hy geleer is, gekom het, sy pa die rug toegekeer het, deur die helder ligte van die groot stad verlei is en uiteindelik in ‘n varkhok beland het. Hy het egter drie dinge gedoen wat sy lewe omgedraai het. Eerstens het hy van plan verander. ‘Toe hy uiteindelik tot sy sinne kom, het hy vir homself gesê: ‘By die huis het selfs die gehuurde werkers meer as genoeg kos, en hier is ek besig om van honger dood te gaan!’’ (vers 17 NLV). Tweedens het hy sy wilskrag verander. ‘Ek sal huis toe gaan na my pa toe en sê: Pa, ek het gesondig teen sowel die hemel as teen Pa’ (vers 18 NLV). Derdens het hy opgetree. ‘Hy het dus teruggekeer huis toe na sy pa toe…’ (vers 20 NLV). Bekering is ‘n verandering van denke, wat ‘n verandering van wilskrag teweegbring en lei tot ‘n verandering van optrede. Hier is twee dinge wat jy oor sonde moet weet: 1) God sal elke sonde wat jy probeer toesmeer, openbaar. ‘Julle moet dus nie voortydig ‘n oordeel vel voordat die Here kom nie. Hý sal sy lig laat skyn op die dinge wat in die donker verborge lê, en Hý sal die motiewe van ons harte aan die lig bring…’ (1 Korintiërs 4:5 NLV). 2) God sal elke sonde wat jy openbaar, bedek. ‘Wie sy oortredings verswyg, sal nie voorspoedig wees nie. Wie sy sonde bely en daarvan afsien, sal genade ontvang’ (Spreuke 28:13 NLV). Gaan dus voort en bely en laat vaar jou sonde, want God sal dit met die bloed van Christus bedek. Daar is geen rede om te wag nie. Doen dit nou. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:59:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 12 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:04 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658720 https://iono.fm/e/1658720 Fight for your marriage
Paul wrote: “Submit to one another out of reverence to Christ.” Satan is the enemy of marriage. In order to defeat him, you must first know how to identify where, when, and how he’s at work. As long as you focus on fighting each other or blaming yourself, your marriage will continue to slide into further misery with each failed request for intimacy, each unmet expectation, and each day spent hopelessly wishing your spouse would change. Sure, you need to learn better communication and learn how to forgive, and sickness or money problems need to be dealt with. But when you see these things as being sent from the same evil source, you can fight them so much more effectively. Do these two things: (1) Focus first on yourself. You know you can’t change anyone but yourself. And in many ways, you can’t even do that. You need God’s intervention in your own life right now (see 2 Corinthians 3:18). And you need to understand who God is calling you to be in your marriage. (2) Pray for and with your spouse (see Matthew 18:19). Prayer is indispensable in defeating the enemy of your marriage. Pray for direction in what God would have you to do. If your spouse is willing, pray together and aloud if possible. Invite God to intervene in your marriage and to make it a demonstration of the work only He can do in two people’s lives. The truth is that you can experience Christ’s victory in your marriage. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:58:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 11 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:42 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658719 https://iono.fm/e/1658719 Veg vir jou huwelik
Paulus het geskryf: ‘Omdat julle respek het vir wat Christus vir julle gedoen het, moet julle aan mekaar onderdanig wees.’ Satan is die huwelik se vyand. Om hom te verslaan, moet jy eers weet hoe om te identifiseer waar, wanneer en hoe hy aan die werk is. Solank as wat julle daarop fokus om met mekaar te baklei of mekaar te blameer, sal julle huwelik aanhou om met elke mislukte versoek tot intimiteit, elke onvervulde verwagting en elke dag wat jy hopeloos wens dat jou eggenoot sal verander, in verdere ellende verval. Ja, jy moet beter kommunikasiepatrone aanleer, leer hoe om te vergewe en hoe siekte of finansiële probleme hanteer moet word. Wanneer jy egter besef dat hierdie dinge hul ontstaan by dieselfde bose bron het, kan jy dit soveel effektiewer beveg. Doen die volgende twee dinge: 1) Fokus eers op jouself. Jy kan niemand anders as jouself verander nie. In baie opsigte kan jy selfs dit nie eers doen nie. Jy het God se ingryping in jou eie lewe nodig (sien 2 Korintiërs 3:18). Jy moet verstaan wie God jou roep om in jou huwelik te wees. (2) Bid vir en saam met jou eggenoot (sien Matteus 18:19). Gebed is onontbeerlik om die vyand in jou huwelik te verslaan. Bid vir leiding in wat God wil hê jy moet doen. Indien jou eggenoot gewillig is, bid saam en hardop. Nooi God om by jou huwelik in te gryp en dit ‘n voorbeeld van die werk wat slegs Hy in twee mense se lewens kan teweegbring, te maak. Jy kan Christus se oorwinning in jou huwelik ervaar. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:57:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 11 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658717 https://iono.fm/e/1658717 Hoe om jou gedagtes te vernuwe
Jy is geskape om lief te hê, maar jy het geleer om te vrees! Die neurologiese roetes in jou brein evalueer bewustelik toksiese gedagtes en wanneer jy kies om die situasie aan God oor te gee, onderwerp jy jou nie aan vrees nie, maar tree in liefde op. Liefde is sterker as vrees! ‘Ware liefde het nie plek vir vrees nie; volwasse liefde dryf die vrees uit omdat vrees nog met straf behep is, en wie aanhou vrees, het nog nie dié volwasse liefde bemeester nie’ (1 Johannes 4:18 NLV). As ‘n verloste kind van God is jy vir liefde bedraad, wat beteken dat liefde jou normale lewensuitkyk moet wees. Ongeag die manier waarop jy in die verlede gekies het om te reageer, kan pynlike, toksiese gedagtes vernuwe word. Selfs toksiese gevoelens wat jy so lank gekoester het en waarmee jy so vertroud is dat jy dink dis normaal, kan vernuwe word. Jy kan hulle as gevolg van jou brein se neuroplastisiteit analiseer en herbedraad. Dit is wat Paulus bedoel het: ‘Moenie julle leefstyl aanpas by die gedragspatrone van hierdie wêreld nie, maar laat God julle omvorm deurdat Hy julle denkpatrone vernuwe…’ Sal hierdie ‘vernuwing’ oornag gebeur? Nee. Die wetenskap toon dat jy iets ten minste sewe keer moet oefen en gebruik voordat dit deel van jou word. Soos jy aanhou om dit te doen, sal God se Gees met jou werk en uiteindelik sal jy hierdie wonderlike liefdesbedrading van die brein kan gebruik om jou rede en emosies te balanseer. Wanneer jy dit doen, sal jy ‘n reuse-sprong neem om al jou gedagtes onder beheer te kry, wat dan jou emosies onder beheer sal bring (sien 2 Korintiërs 10:5). ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:56:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 10 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:02 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658718 https://iono.fm/e/1658718 How to “renew” your mind
You were created for love, but you have learned to fear! The neurological love pathway in your brain consciously evaluates toxic thoughts, and as you choose to hand the situation over to God, you do not submit to fear. And love is the stronger of the two pathways! “There is no fear in love; but perfect love [the knowledge and acceptance of God’s unearned and unfailing love for us] casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect [mature] in love” (1 John 4:18 NKJV). As a redeemed child of God, you are wired for love, which means that love is your normal default mode; it is designed to dominate. Regardless of the way you have chosen to react in the past, painful, toxic thoughts can be reconstructed, even toxic feelings you have been nursing for so long and are so familiar with that you think they are normal. You can analyze them and rewire them because of your brain’s neuroplasticity. This is what Paul meant: “Do not be conformed to this world [its values and thought patterns], but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Will this “renewing” happen overnight? No. Science shows that you need to practice using something at least seven times before it becomes part of you. As you keep doing this, God’s Spirit will work with you, and eventually you’ll be able to use this amazing love circuit of the brain to balance your reason and emotions. When you do that, you’ll take a giant leap in the direction of bringing all your thoughts, which produces your emotions under control (see 2 Corinthians 10:5). ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:56:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 10 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:55 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658716 https://iono.fm/e/1658716 Live on purpose, for a purpose
If you make wise decisions now, you’ll have a better future. If you waste your time now, you’ll have regrets. That’s why you need to do the right thing when you have the opportunity to do it. Paul wrote: “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Ephesians 3:20 NKJV). God is able to do great things as His power works through you. So, it’s not just about God doing things for you; He also wants to do things through you. Stop wishing your life would change, and start taking action! Pray and study God’s Word. And as He speaks to your heart, step out in faith and do what He leads you to do. God created you to live on purpose, for a purpose! He hasn’t just called you to be busy—He’s also called you to bear good fruit (see John 15:16 NKJV). It’s easy to get caught up in the busyness of life. But you need to take time out to think about how you’re spending your time! Before you go to sleep, reflect on the things that filled your day: which of them fulfilled God’s plan and purpose and which of them were a distraction? Ask God to reveal the things that need to change and ways you can make better choices that line up with His wisdom. Then lean on Him for the strength you need to make those changes. If you do, you’ll be fulfilled, peaceful, and excited about how God is working in your life. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:55:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 9 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:49 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658715 https://iono.fm/e/1658715 Lewe doelbewus
As jy nou wyse besluite neem, sal jy ‘n beter toekoms hê. As jy nou jou tyd mors, sal jy later spyt wees. Daarom moet jy die regte ding doen wanneer jy die geleentheid het om dit te doen. Paulus het geskryf: ‘Hy moet geprys word – Hy wat mag het om deur die krag wat in ons werk, oneindig meer te doen as wat ons vra of dink om te vra’ (Efesiërs 3:20 NLV). God is in staat om groot dinge te doen soos sy krag deur jou werk. Dit gaan dus nie net daaroor dat God dinge vir jou doen nie; Hy wil ook dinge deur jou doen. Hou op wens dat omstandighede in jou lewe verander en begin aksie neem! Bid en bestudeer God se Woord. Soos Hy dan tot jou hart spreek, tree in geloof op en doen wat Hy jou lei om te doen. God het jou geskep om doelbewus te leef! Hy het jou nie net geroep om besig te wees nie - Hy het jou ook geroep om goeie vrugte te dra (sien Johannes 15:16 NLV). Dit is maklik om in die besige lewe vasgevang te word. Jy moet egter ook tyd neem om na te dink oor hoe jy jou tyd bestee! Voor jy gaan slaap, dink na oor die dinge waarmee jy jou dag gevul het: watter dinge het God se plan en doel vervul en watter dinge was ‘n afleiding? Vra God om die dinge wat moet verander en hoe jy beter keuses kan maak, wat met sy wysheid ooreenstem, aan jou te openbaar. Steun dan op Hom vir die krag wat jy nodig het om daardie veranderinge te maak. As jy dit doen, sal jy vervuld, vreedsaam en opgewonde wees oor hoe God in jou lewe werk. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:54:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 9 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:06 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658714 https://iono.fm/e/1658714 You can make a difference
What do Billy Graham, Campus Crusade for Christ founder Bill Bright, Young Life founder Jim Rayburn, and the Navigators founder Dawson Trotman have in common? The answer is a Sunday school teacher named Henrietta Mears. When Henrietta was thirty-eight years old, she moved from Minnesota to a burgeoning town called Hollywood, California. She taught Sunday school at First Presbyterian Church, and she eventually attracted an astounding attendance of 6,500 students. For four decades, she faithfully devoted herself to her passion of building a cradle-to-grave Sunday school. She also started a publishing company called Gospel Light and a successful conference center called Forest Home. Additionally, she wrote a book, What the Bible Is All About, which has sold more than three million copies. It is impossible to estimate how many millions of people have heard the gospel through this woman and the Christian leaders she mentored and molded for God. Take the ministry of just one of her students, Bill Bright. He started Campus Crusade for Christ, which at last count had 20,000 full-time staff plus 663,000 trained volunteers in 181 countries. Largely due to The Jesus Film project, Bill Bright’s organization has reached over 3.4 billion people with the gospel—half the world’s population. Now you may not influence that many people, but you may influence one person who ends up influencing many others. Andrew, one of the twelve disciples, did that. He brought his brother Peter to Jesus, and Peter ended up bringing multitudes to Him. The point is—you can make a difference. All you have to do is make yourself available to God. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:53:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 8 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658712 https://iono.fm/e/1658712 Jy kan ‘n verskil maak
Wat het Billy Graham en die Campus Crusade for Christ-stigter Bill Bright en die Young Life-stigter Jim Rayburn en die Navigators-stigter Dawson Trotman in gemeen? ‘n Sondagskoolonderwyseres genaamd Henrietta Mears. Toe Henrietta agt-en-dertig jaar oud was, het sy van Minnesota na ‘n ontluikende dorp genaamd Hollywood, Kalifornië, verhuis. Sy het Sondagskool by die Eerste Presbiteriaanse Kerk aangebied en uiteindelik ‘n verstommende 6500 studente gehad. Vir vier dekades lank het sy haar getrou aan haar passie om ‘n Sondagskool te bou, gewy. Sy het ook ‘n uitgewery genaamd Gospel Light en ‘n suksesvolle konferensiesentrum genaamd Forest Home begin. Daarbenewens het sy ‘n boek, What the Bible Is All About, geskryf wat meer as drie miljoen eksemplare verkoop het. Dit is onmoontlik om te skat hoeveel miljoene mense die evangelie deur hierdie vrou en die Christelike leiers wat sy vir God gementor en gevorm het, aangehoor het. Kyk na die bediening van net een van haar studente, Bill Bright. Hy het Campus Crusade for Christ begin, wat volgens die laaste telling 20 000 voltydse personeel plus 663 000 opgeleide vrywilligers in 181 lande het. Grootliks danksy The Jesus Film-projek, het Bill Bright se organisasie meer as 3,4 miljard mense met die evangelie bereik - die helfte van die wêreldbevolking. Jy mag dalk nie soveel mense beïnvloed nie, maar jy mag dalk een persoon beïnvloed, wat uiteindelik baie ander beïnvloed. Andreas, een van die twaalf dissipels, het dit gedoen. Hy het sy broer Simon Petrus na Jesus gebring en Simon Petrus het uiteindelik ‘n menigte mense na Jesus gelei. Jy kan ‘n verskil maak. Al wat jy moet doen is om jouself vir God beskikbaar te stel. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:52:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 8 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:18 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658711 https://iono.fm/e/1658711 Humble yourself, and try to make it right
In 1755, a twenty-three-year-old army colonel was running for a seat in the Virginia assembly, when he made an insulting remark as part of a campaign speech. It was addressed to a hot-tempered man named Payne, who responded by knocking the colonel down with a hickory stick. Soldiers rushed to the colonel’s assistance, and it appeared a full-blown fight would ensue. But the would-be politician got up, dusted himself off, called off the soldiers, and quietly left the scene. The next morning, the colonel wrote to Payne requesting his presence at a local tavern. Payne obliged, but he wondered what motives and demands the colonel might make—perhaps an apology or even a duel. To Payne’s surprise, the colonel met him with an apology, asking forgiveness for his derogatory remarks and offering a handshake. Others may have viewed the move as politically expedient, but Colonel George Washington considered it personally imperative if he was to enjoy internal peace as he continued with his political campaign on his way to becoming America’s first president. Jesus said, “Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Agree with your adversary quickly” (Matthew 5:23-25 NKJV). Solomon said, “If you have been snared with the words of your mouth…Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbour” (Proverbs 6:2-3 NASB1995). The word for you today is: Humble yourself, and try to make it right. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:51:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 7 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:52 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658710 https://iono.fm/e/1658710 Word nederig en probeer om dit reg te maak
In 1755 het ‘n drie-en-twintigjarige kolonel van die weermag ‘n beledigende opmerking as deel van van een van sy politieke veldtogtoesprake gemaak. Dit was op ‘n humeurige man, genaamd Payne, gemik, wat gereageer het deur die kolonel met ‘n stok te slaan. Soldate het die kolonel te hulp gesnel en dit het gelyk of ‘n volskaalse geveg op die punt was om uit te breek. Die voornemende politikus het egter opgestaan, homself afgestof, die soldate weggestuur en die toneel stilweg verlaat. Die volgende oggend het die kolonel aan Payne geskryf en sy teenwoordigheid by ‘n plaaslike taverne versoek. Payne het ingestem, maar hy het gewonder watter eise die kolonel sou stel - miskien ‘n verskoning of selfs ‘n tweegeveg. Tot Payne se verbasing het die kolonel hom met ‘n verskoning begroet, vergifnis vir sy neerhalende opmerkings gevra en ‘n handdruk aangebied. Ander mense mag dalk die gebaar as polities gemotiveerd afgemaak het, maar kolonel George Washington het dit ter wille van sy innerlike vrede nodig geag, terwyl hy met sy politieke veldtog op pad om Amerika se eerste president te word, voortgegaan het. Jesus het gesê: ‘As jy dus jou offer na die altaar toe bring en dit val jou daar by dat jou medemens ‘n grief teen jou koester, los jou offer net daar voor die altaar en gaan maak eers vrede met daardie persoon. Kom dan terug en bring jou offer. Sorg dat jy baie gou op goeie voet met jou teenstander kom…’ (Matteus 5:23-25 NLV). Salomo het gesê: ‘as jy in 'n strik getrap het deur die woorde van jou mond… doen dan dit… Gaan - verneder jouself!..’ (Spreuke 6:2-3 AFR20). Die woord vir jou vandag is: Word nederig en probeer om dit reg te maak. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:50:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 7 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:15 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658709 https://iono.fm/e/1658709 Healing for your mind
We are three-part beings: spirit, soul, and body. When we make Jesus Lord of our lives, our spirit receives healing from spiritual death. But there are still two areas that need Christ’s healing touch: our souls (mind, emotions, and will) and our physical bodies. God’s Word teaches us that physical health and mental health are irrevocably linked. “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV). What we think about ourselves is inevitably what we become. Unhealthy thinking produces unhealthy living. John wrote: “I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers” (3 John 1:2 NKJV). For any area where our souls are sick—whether it be low self-esteem, negative thoughts, or destructive habits—the Word of God is the answer to nourishing us into a balanced and healthy state. The majority of Satan’s attacks begin in the mind. He uses wrong thoughts and images in our minds to lead us away from God’s best. The only way to counteract this is to stand on God’s Word and allow His healthy thoughts to permeate our thinking daily. Thoughts of fear can be replaced with thoughts of faith. Thoughts of lack can be replaced with thoughts of provision. Thoughts of failure and depression can be replaced with thoughts of success and joy. How does this happen? Paul answered: “Be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], and put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image” (Ephesians 4:23-24 AMPC). ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:49:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 6 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658708 https://iono.fm/e/1658708 Genees jou gedagtes
Ons is drieledige wesens: gees, siel en liggaam. Wanneer ons Jesus Here van ons lewe maak, word ons van die geestelike dood genees. Daar is egter steeds twee areas wat Christus se genesende aanraking nodig het: ons siele (verstand, emosies en wil) en ons fisiese liggame. God se Woord leer ons dat ons fisiese gesondheid en geestesgesondheid onherroeplik met mekaar verbind is. ‘Want soos hy in sy siel bereken, so is hy’ (Spreuke 23:7 AFR53). Wat ons van onsself dink, is wat ons word. Ongesonde denke lei tot ‘n ongesonde lewe. 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 1:2 NLV). Enige area waarin ons siel ongesond is - of dit nou ‘n lae selfbeeld, negatiewe gedagtes of vernietigende gewoontes is – kan deur God se Woord genees word. Die meerderheid van Satan se aanvalle begin in ons verstand. Hy gebruik verkeerde gedagtes en indrukke om ons van God se beste weg te lei. Die enigste manier om hierdie aanvalle teen te werk, is om op God se Woord te staan en toe te laat dat sy gesonde gedagtes ons daaglikse denke deurdring. Gedagtes van vrees kan met gedagtes van geloof vervang word. Gedagtes van gebrek kan met gedagtes van voorsiening vervang word. Gedagtes van mislukking en depressie kan met gedagtes van sukses en vreugde vervang word. Hoe kan ons dit regkry? Paulus gee ons die antwoord: ‘Julle moet op ‘n nuwe, geestelike manier leer dink. Ja, trek die nuwe mens soos skoon klere aan, die mens wat na God se beeld geskape is: iemand wat werklik reg lewe voor God en werklik aan Hom toegewy is’ (Efesiërs 4:23-24 NLV). ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:46:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 6 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:11 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658707 https://iono.fm/e/1658707 Jesus conquered death for you
One day your heart will give a final pulse, and your lungs empty a final breath. And barring the return of Christ, you will die. The psalmist asked, “What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the power of the grave?” (Psalm 89:48 NKJV). Young and old, good and bad, rich and poor; neither gender is spared; no class is exempt. “No one has power over the time of their death” (Ecclesiastes 8:8 NIV). The geniuses, the rich, the poor—no one outruns or outsmarts it. Julius Caesar died. Elvis died. John Kennedy died. Princess Diana died. We all will die. We won’t escape death. The finest surgeon might enhance your life but can’t eliminate your death. The Hebrew writer was blunt: “People are destined to die once” (Hebrews 9:27 NIV). Exercise all you want. Eat nothing but healthy food, and pop fists full of vitamins. Stay out of the sun, away from alcohol, and off drugs. Do your best to stay alive, and still, you will die. Death seems like such a dead end until we read Jesus’ resurrection story: “He is not here; for He is risen, as He said…Go quickly and tell His disciples…He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him…So they went out quickly…to bring His disciples word…Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him” (Matthew 28:6-17 NKJV). For the redeemed child of God, death is not the end but the beginning of a glorious life in heaven that will have no end. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:45:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 5 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658706 https://iono.fm/e/1658706 Jesus het die dood vir jou oorwin
Eendag sal jou hart ‘n laaste pols gee en jou longe ‘n laaste asemteug uitblaas. Tensy Christus alreeds teruggekeer het, sal jy sterf. Die Psalmdigter het gevra: ‘Watter mens kan lewe sonder om die dood te sien? Wie kan homself red uit die mag van die doderyk?’ (Psalm 89:49 NLV). Jonk en oud, goed en sleg, ryk en arm; geen mens word daarvan vrygestel nie. ‘Niemand het die mag om die wind te beheer nie. Net so kan mense nie bepaal wanneer hulle doodgaan nie…’ (Prediker 8:8 NLV). Die wyses, die rykes, die armes - niemand kan daarvoor weghardloop of die dood uitoorlê nie. Ons almal sal sterf. ‘Soos elke mens bestem is om net een keer te sterf…’ (Hebreërs 9:27 NLV). Oefen soveel as wat jy wil. Eet net gesonde kos en drink handevol vitamienes. Bly uit die son en weg van alkohol en van dwelms af. Doen jou bes om aan die lewe te bly en jy sal steeds sterf. Die dood lyk soos ‘n doodloopstraat, totdat ons Jesus se opstandingsverhaal lees: ‘Hy is nie hier nie, want Hy is opgewek uit die dood, presies soos Hy gesê het… En gaan sê nou dadelik vir sy dissipels... Hy gaan julle solank vooruit Galilea toe. Julle sal Hom dáár sien… Hulle het toe haastig van die graf af weggegaan… om die boodskap aan sy dissipels te gaan gee… Die elf dissipels het toe na Galilea toe gegaan, na die berg soos Jesus hulle beveel het. Toe hulle Hom sien, het hulle Hom aanbid…’ (Matteus 28:6-17 NLV). Vir die verloste kind van God is die dood nie die einde nie, maar die begin van ‘n glorieryke lewe in die hemel wat geen einde sal hê nie. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:44:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 5 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658705 https://iono.fm/e/1658705 Your debt has been paid
In Old Testament times, you received forgiveness from God by bringing a sacrificial lamb to the altar, where a priest would shed its blood and offer it as atonement. The first person in Scripture to do this was Cain’s brother, Abel (See Genesis 4:4). When Solomon dedicated his magnificent temple, he sacrificed one-hundred-and-twenty-thousand sheep and twenty-two-thousand oxen as a sacrifice for the entire nation. In the Old Testament Tabernacle, the sacrificial fire was never allowed to go out; it had to be kept burning. The Israelites carried it with them on their journey through the wilderness, and it’s been estimated that between Gethsemane and Easter, no less than one hundred thousand lambs died, literally turning the Kidron Stream red. However, not one fluid ounce of the blood that was shed could atone for our sins. They were simply rolled forward, waiting for a lamb whose sacrifice would end all sacrifices, a priest whose finished work would atone for sin once and for all. And that’s what happened when Jesus cried, “It is finished.” In Hebrew, the phrase literally means “Paid in full.” At that moment, the curtain in the temple that separated the people from God was torn from top to bottom. As a result, we can now go at any time where only one man could go one day a year—into the presence of God, knowing we’ll be loved, accepted, seen through the blood of Christ, and deemed righteous. With that in mind, “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:43:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 4 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658704 https://iono.fm/e/1658704 Jou skuld is afbetaal
In die Ou Testamentiese tye het jy vergifnis van God ontvang deur ‘n offerlam na die altaar toe te bring, waar ‘n priester die bloed daarvan sou vergiet en dit as versoening sou aanbied. Die eerste persoon in die Skrif wat dit gedoen het, was Kain se broer, Abel (sien Genesis 4:4). Toe Salomo sy manjifieke tempel ingewy het, het hy honderd-en-twintigduisend skape en twee-en-twintigduisend osse as ‘n offer vir die hele volk gebring. Die offervuur in die tabernakel in die Ou Testament is nie toegelaat om dood te gaan nie; dit moes aan die brand gehou word. Daar word geskat dat daar tydens die Paasfees amper honderdduisend lammers geoffer is, wat die Kidronstroom letterlik rooi gekleur het. Nie een milliliter van die bloed wat vergiet is, kon egter vir ons versoening van ons sondes bring nie. Ons moes wag vir ‘n lam wie se offer alle offers sou beëindig, ‘n priester wie se voltooide werk eens en vir altyd vir ons sonde versoening sou bring. Dit is wat gebeur het toe Jesus uitgeroep het: ‘Dit is volbring.’ In Hebreeus beteken die frase: ‘Volledig betaal.’ Op daardie oomblik het die gordyn in die tempel wat die mense van God geskei het, van bo tot onder geskeur. Gevolglik kan ons nou enige tyd by die plek ingaan, waar slegs die hoëpriester een dag per jaar in die teenwoordigheid van God kon ingaan, met die wete dat ons geliefd, aanvaar en deur die bloed van Christus as regverdig beskou sal word. Met dit in gedagte: ‘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 4:16 NLV). ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:42:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 4 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658703 https://iono.fm/e/1658703 Much more
Just minutes before his final breath, Jesus cried out, “Tetelestai!” from the cross. In English, it is translated as “It is finished.” It was the same word that was written on receipts in New Testament times, indicating that a debt had been paid in full. Jesus’ death on the cross was the final installment on sin. The entire debt for every sinner who comes to Him for salvation has been paid in full at Calvary. Paul wrote: “Where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.” Did you catch it? “Much more!” The mercy bank is never closed. And there are never insufficient funds. The supply of grace is always greater than the demand of sin. The split second we confess our sin, a miraculous transaction happens. All our sin is transferred to Christ’s account and paid in full. But as good as that is, it’s only half the gospel. There’s a second transfer that takes place. All His righteousness is credited to our account, and God says, “Let’s call it even!” Paul explained it this way: “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them…For He made Him [Jesus] who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:19, 21 NKJV). To be “in Christ” means we stand in His righteousness rather than our own. So, when we stand before God, we won’t have to account for our sin, because it was already accounted for at the cross. The Father will see the righteousness of His Son that has been credited to our account. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:40:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 3 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:49 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658702 https://iono.fm/e/1658702 Oorvloediger
Net oomblikke voor Hy sy laaste asem uitgeblaas het, het Jesus van die kruis af uitgeroep: ‘Tetelestai!’ Dit word vertaal as: ‘Dit is volbring.’ Dit is dieselfde woord wat in die Nuwe Testamentiese tyd op kwitansies geskryf is, wat aangedui het dat ‘n skuld ten volle betaal is. Jesus se dood aan die kruis was die finale paaiement om vir die sonde te betaal. Die volle skuld van elke sondaar wat na Hom toe vir verlossing kom, is ten volle by Golgota betaal. Paulus het geskryf: ‘…Maar hoe meer die sonde geword het, hoe oorvloediger het God se genade geword.’ Die genadebank is nooit gesluit nie en daar is nooit onvoldoende fondse nie. In ‘n breukdeel van ‘n sekonde nadat ons ons sonde bely het, vind ‘n wonderbaarlike transaksie plaas. Al ons sonde word na Christus se rekening oorgeplaas en ten volle betaal. Daar vind egter ook ‘n tweede oordrag plaas. Al Christus se geregtigheid word ook na ons rekening toe oorgedra! Paulus het dit as volg verduidelik: ‘Die boodskap van versoening bestaan daarin dat God deur Christus die wêreld met Homself versoen het en nie die mense se oortredings teen hulle hou nie… 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’ (2 Korintiërs 5:19, 21 NLV). Om ‘in Christus’ te wees, beteken dat ons in sy geregtigheid, eerder as ons eie, geklee is. Dus, wanneer ons voor God staan, hoef ons nie rekenskap van ons sonde te gee nie, want dit is reeds aan die kruis verreken. Die Vader sal die geregtigheid van sy Seun wat aan ons rekening oorgedra is, sien. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:39:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 3 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:06 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658701 https://iono.fm/e/1658701 He’s looking for labourers
When Martin Luther began the work that became the Great Reformation, his friend Myconius said, “I can best help where I am. I will remain and pray while you toil.” Then one night, Myconius dreamed that Jesus approached him and showed him His hands and feet, wounded by His crucifixion. He looked into the eyes of his Saviour and heard Jesus say to him, “Follow Me.” Jesus led him to a mountaintop and pointed eastward. Myconius looked and saw a plain stretching away from the horizon. It was dotted with thousands and thousands of sheep, and one man was trying to shepherd the great flock. Myconius recognized him as his friend, Martin Luther. The Saviour then pointed westward, and Myconius saw a great field of standing corn, with only one reaper trying to harvest it all. The lonely labourer was obviously exhausted, but he persisted. Myconius recognized the reaper to be Martin Luther. “It is not enough that I should pray,” he said when he awoke. “The sheep must be shepherded, and the field of corn must be reaped. Here am I; send me.” He immediately sought out Luther and volunteered to serve in whatever capacity Luther desired. The Bible says, “When [Jesus] saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion…Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest truly is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest’” (Matthew 9:36-38 NKJV). The only “prayer request” Jesus ever made was for labourers to go into the harvest field. And He’s calling you to be one of them. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:38:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 2 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:55 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658700 https://iono.fm/e/1658700 Hy soek werkers
Toe Martin Luther die werk begin het wat tot die Groot Hervorming gelei het, het sy vriend Myconius gesê: ‘Ek kan die beste help net waar ek is. Ek sal hier bly en bid terwyl jy jouself inspan.’ Een nag het Myconius egter gedroom en gehoor hoe Jesus vir hom sê: ‘Volg My.’ Jesus het hom na ‘n bergtop gelei en ooswaarts gewys. Myconius het gekyk en ‘n vlakte gesien wat met duisende en duisende skape besaai was en een man wat probeer het om hulle aan te keer. Myconius het die man as sy vriend, Martin Luther, herken. Die Verlosser het toe weswaarts gewys en Myconius het ‘n groot mielieland gesien, met slegs een werker wat die land moes oes. Die eensame arbeider was duidelik uitgeput, maar hy het volgehou. Myconius het die werker as Martin Luther herken. ‘Dit is nie genoeg dat ek net bid nie,’ het hy gesê toe hy wakker word. ‘Die skape moet opgepas word en die mielieland moet geoes word. Hier is ek; stuur my.’ Hy het dadelik na Luther gaan soek en aangebied om vrywillig, in watter hoedanigheid Luther ook al verlang, te dien. Die Bybel sê: ‘Toe Jesus na die baie mense kyk, het Hy ontroerd geraak oor hulle seerkry en weerloosheid… Daarop sê Hy vir sy dissipels: ‘Die oes is groot, maar die werkers wat dit moet insamel, is so bitter min. Hierdie oes is die Here s’n. Vra Hom dan om werkers vir sy oesland te voorsien.’’ Die enigste ‘gebedsversoek’ wat Jesus ooit gemaak het, was vir werkers om die oes in te samel. Hy roep jou om een van hulle te wees. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:36:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 2 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:59 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658699 https://iono.fm/e/1658699 Avoid comparing yourself to others
Elihu suddenly spoke up in Job chapter thirty-two. It’s apparent he had been present all along, but he held his peace because he believed Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar were older and wiser than he was. “I am young in years, and you are old; that is why I was fearful, not daring to tell you what I know” (Job 32:6 NIV). After hearing the long and meaningless discourses of Job’s three older friends, Elihu suddenly felt emboldened to speak: “It is the spirit in a person, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding. It is not only the old who are wise…Therefore I say: Listen to me; I too will tell you what I know” (Job 32:8-10 NIV). Then he spoke nonstop for the next six chapters. He no longer saw himself as a loser in the game of comparison. Feelings of inferiority are generated by comparing yourself with others. Or you go to the other extreme and finish up with a sense of superiority. That’s why you should never play the comparison game. Question: Can you recall a time when you felt so inadequate that you kept quiet and refused to speak up, even though you had a worthwhile thought or idea? You must realize that it is not your ability that determines your success, but “the breath of the Almighty, that gives [you] understanding.” The secret of success is drawing daily on God’s enabling power. When you become persuaded of this truth, you will be able to take on new levels of risk and responsibility without fear of failure. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:35:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 1 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:59 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1658698 https://iono.fm/e/1658698 Moenie jouself met ander vergelyk nie
Elihu het skielik in Job 32 sy stem laat hoor. Dit is duidelik dat hy die hele tyd teenwoordig was, maar hy het stilgebly omdat hy geglo het dat Elifas, Bildad en Sofar ouer en wyser as hy was. ‘…Ek is nog jonk, en julle is al oud. Daarom was ek bang. Ek wou nie waag om te sê wat ek dink nie’ (Job 32:6 NLV). Nadat hy die lang en betekenislose argumente van Job se drie ouer vriende aangehoor het, het Elihu skielik die moed gekry om te praat: ‘Dit is die gees in die mens wat die mens insig gee, die asem wat van die Almagtige kom. Maar soms het bejaardes nie begrip nie… Luister daarom na my mening. Ek sal julle sê wat ek dink’ (Job 32:8-10 NLV). Hy het toe vir die volgende ses hoofstukke onophoudelik gepraat. Hy het homself nie meer as minderwaardig teenoor die ander beskou nie. Gevoelens van minderwaardigheid duik op wanneer jy jouself met ander vergelyk. Jy kan ook na die ander uiterste gaan en met ‘n gevoel van meerderwaardigheid opeindig. Daarom moet jy nooit jouself met ander mense vergelyk nie. Het jy al ooit so onvoldoende gevoel dat jy eerder stilgebly het en geweier het om te praat, al het jy ‘n waardevolle gedagte of idee gehad? Jy moet besef dat dit nie jou vermoë is wat jou sukses bepaal nie, maar ‘die asem wat van die Almagtige kom,’ wat jou insig gee. Die geheim tot sukses is om daagliks op God se krag te steun om jou in staat te stel om daardie sukses te bereik. Wanneer jy van hierdie waarheid oortuig is, sal jy nuwe vlakke van risiko en verantwoordelikheid kan aanpak, sonder om mislukking te vrees. ]]> Christianity Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:34:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 1 April 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651766 https://iono.fm/e/1651766 Demonstrating God’s kingdom where you live
Every time you are in conflict with someone, but you go to them and seek reconciliation and forgiveness—the kingdom is breaking into this world. Every time you have a chunk of money and decide to give significantly to somebody who is hungry or homeless or poor—the kingdom is breaking into the world. Any time someone has an addiction and wants to partner with God so much that they are willing to get help from a loving community—the kingdom is breaking into the world. Every time a workaholic parent decides to stop idolizing their job, rearranges their life, and begins to love and care for the family entrusted to them¬—the kingdom is breaking into the world. Every time you include someone who’s lonely, every time you encourage someone who’s defeated, every time you challenge somebody who’s wandering off the path, and every time you serve the needy—the kingdom of God is once more breaking into the world. Jesus taught us to pray: “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Notice He didn’t tell us to pray, “Get me out of here so I can go up there!” His prayer was, “Make up there come down here. Make things run down here, in my life, the way they run up there.” The answer to this prayer begins with you personally: your body, your mind, your appetites, etc. Then it spreads to your workplace, your family, your neighbourhood, your church, and your sphere of influence. And it all starts by asking yourself this question: “Where do I want to see God’s presence and power break into my world? ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:42:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 31 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651764 https://iono.fm/e/1651764 You are a steward
When the people of Israel brought offerings to build the temple, David said: “For all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours…Both riches and honour come from You…All things come from You, and of Your own we have given You” (vv. 11-12, 14 NKJV). Imagine for a minute that you’re responsible for giving away someone else’s money. You aren’t allowed to spend it; you can only decide where it goes. When you think of it that way, it’s not hard to imagine finding pleasure in playing the philanthropist. Who wouldn’t enjoy being a vital lifeline to those who truly need it? Or wouldn’t you sleep a little better knowing that you had made a difference in the world? Yet as a steward over what God has entrusted to you, that’s the situation you find yourself in. You have been given someone else’s money and the opportunity to decide where it goes. The only thing that stands between you and unbridled joy is embracing that reality and pouring yourself into the work of God’s kingdom in the earth. A farmer doesn’t acquire seed to consume or hoard it. He only decides where to plant it. And only after the seed has been irrevocably cast into the ground is a harvest returned. That’s how joy is realized. If you’ve yet to find your beneficiaries in this world, you could be depriving yourself of a joy you were created to know. Just beyond the fear that is dampening your generosity awaits a harvest of joy. Hence Paul wrote: “See that you also excel in this grace of giving” (2 Corinthians 8:7 NIV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:40:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 30 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:47 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651765 https://iono.fm/e/1651765 Dra God se koningsheerskappy uit
Elke keer wanneer jy konflik met iemand het, maar na hulle toe gaan en versoening en vergifnis vra – breek God se koninkryk in hierdie wêreld aan. Elke keer wanneer jy geld aan iemand wat honger of haweloos of arm is gee – breek die koninkryk in hierdie wêreld aan. Elke keer wat iemand ‘n verslawing met God se hulp probeer oorkom en bereid is om hulp by ‘n liefdevolle gemeenskap te kry – breek die koninkryk in hierdie wêreld aan. Elke keer as ‘n ouer wat aan sy of haar werk verslaaf is besluit om op te hou om hul werk te verafgod, hul lewe te herrangskik en die gesin wat aan hulle toevertrou is, te begin liefhê en versorg – breek die koninkryk in die hierdie wêreld aan. Elke keer wat jy iemand insluit wat eensaam is, elke keer as jy iemand aanmoedig wat ontmoedig is, elke keer wat jy iemand wat van die pad afdwaal uitdaag en elke keer wanneer jy die behoeftiges dien - breek die koninkryk van God in hierdie wêreld aan. Jesus het ons geleer om te bid: ‘Laat u koningsheerskappy spoedig kom. Laat u wil hier op aarde uitgevoer word soos in die hemel.’ Let op dat Hy nie vir ons gesê het om te bid: ‘Kry my hier uit sodat ek na God se koninkryk kan gaan!’ nie. Sy gebed was: ‘Laat die hemelse dinge aarde toe kom. Laat dinge hier onder, in my lewe, verloop soos hulle daar bo in die hemel verloop.’ Die antwoord op hierdie gebed begin by jou persoonlik: jou liggaam, jou verstand, jou denkwyses, ens. Dan versprei dit na jou werkplek, jou familie, jou buurt, jou kerk en jou invloedsfeer. Dit alles begin deur jouself hierdie vraag af te vra: ‘Waar wil ek God se teenwoordigheid en krag in my wêreld sien aanbreek? ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:40:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 31 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651763 https://iono.fm/e/1651763 Jy is ‘n rentmeester
Toe die volk van Israel offers gebring het om die tempel te bou, het Dawid gesê: ‘…Alles in die hemel en op die aarde behoort aan U, Here… Rykdom en eer kom van U alleen… Alles wat ons het, kom van U af, en ons gee vir U net dit wat U reeds vir ons gegee het!’ (verse 11-12, 14 NLV). Stel jou vir ‘n oomblik voor dat jy daarvoor verantwoordelik is om iemand anders se geld weg te gee. Jy mag dit nie spandeer nie; jy mag net besluit waarheen dit moet gaan. ‘n Mens sal dit geniet om so ‘n filantroop te wees! Wie sou dit nie geniet om ‘n lewenslyn te wees vir diegene wat dit werklik nodig het nie? Sou jy nie ‘n bietjie rustiger slaap as jy weet dat jy ‘n verskil in die wêreld gemaak het nie? Dit is die situasie waarin jy jou as rentmeester oor dit wat God aan jou toevertrou het, bevind. Jy is iemand anders se geld en die geleentheid om te besluit waarheen dit moet gaan, gegee. Die enigste iets wat tussen jou en ongebreidelde vreugde staan, is om daardie werklikheid te omhels en jouself in die werk van God se koninkryk op aarde te stort. ‘n Boer koop nie saad om dit te eet of te bêre nie. Hy besluit waar om dit te plant. Eers nadat die saad onherroeplik in die grond geplant is, word ‘n oes teruggegee. Dit is hoe vreugde verwesenlik word. Net anderkant die vrees wat jou vrygewigheid demp, wag ‘n oes van vreugde. Daarom het Paulus geskryf: ‘…munt dan nou ook uit in hierdie liefdeswerk’ (2 Korintiërs 8:7 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:39:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 30 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:54 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651762 https://iono.fm/e/1651762 Be content
People who were happy when they bought their clothes at thrift stores typically remain happy once they can afford designer duds. Those who weren’t are still the same unhappy people they were when they were poor; they just dress better. Learning how to be satisfied with what you have, and to feel grateful for it, starts with understanding what money can and cannot do. There are things in life you cannot put a price on: good health, a family that loves you, the support of a friendship that has lasted many years, the feeling of accomplishment that comes from working hard and seeing your effort pay off. You cannot value these “possessions” in terms of cash. If you think you don’t have anything to be grateful for, consider the sound of your child’s laughter, the crash of the ocean as waves hit the shore, the unconditional greeting you receive each day from your pet, and the hug of a friend you’ve been separated from. Without these assets, you’re in spiritual default. These items are priceless and have nothing to do with shares or profits. When you add up everything in life, the best things are free. If you’re not happy with your financial situation, then you need to take steps to change it. That’s wisdom and good stewardship. But before you do, conduct an audit of your personal assets. Yes, enjoying the spoils of success can be exhilarating. But remember to appreciate the beauty of life as well; it’s free. And it will fill you up in a way that money and things never will. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:37:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 29 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:42 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651760 https://iono.fm/e/1651760 Wees tevrede
Mense wat gelukkig was toe hulle hul klere by tweedehandse winkels gekoop het, bly gewoonlik gelukkig sodra hulle ontwerpersklere kan bekostig. Diegene wat nie gelukkig was nie, is steeds dieselfde ongelukkige as toe hulle arm was; hulle trek net beter aan. Om te leer hoe om tevrede te wees met wat jy het en om daarvoor dankbaar te voel, moet jy ‘n begrip van dit wat geld kan en nie kan doen nie, hê. Daar is dinge in die lewe waarop jy nie ‘n prys kan plaas nie: goeie gesondheid, ‘n familie wat jou liefhet, die ondersteuning van ‘n jarelange vriendskap, die gevoel van prestasie wanneer jy sien dat jou harde werk vrugte afwerp. Jy kan nie hierdie ‘besittings’ in terme van kontant waardeer nie. As jy dink jy het niks om voor dankbaar te wees nie, dink aan die geluid van jou kind se lag, die gebreek van die see wanneer golwe die strand tref, die onvoorwaardelike groet wat jy elke dag van jou troeteldier ontvang en die drukkie van ‘n vriend wat jy lank nie gesien het nie. Hierdie items is van onskatbare waarde en het niks met aandele of winste te doen nie. Wanneer jy alles in die lewe begin tel, kom jy agter dat die beste dinge gratis is. As jy nie met jou finansiële situasie gelukkig is nie, moet jy stappe neem om dit te verander. Dis wysheid en goeie rentmeesterskap. Voordat jy dit egter kan doen, moet jy ‘n oudit van jou persoonlike bates doen. Ja, dit kan opwindend wees om die buit van sukses te geniet. Jy moet egter onthou om ook die skoonheid van die lewe te waardeer - dis gratis. Dit sal vir jou vervulling op ‘n manier wat geld en dinge nooit kan doen nie, bring. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:36:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 29 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:53 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651757 https://iono.fm/e/1651757 The eighth Beatitude
Jesus said: “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice…for great is your reward in heaven” (vv. 10-12 NKJV). To be persecuted for righteousness’ sake is to live as Jesus lived—with His character, His motives, His obedience, His trust in the Father, and His purity of heart. It’s to be a peacemaker, to hunger and thirst for what’s right, to turn your back on sin, and to be a fountain of mercy. If you live this way, you’ll be persecuted just as Jesus was persecuted. You won’t have to be confrontational in what you say or do—your very life will be confrontational. It’s the contrast that will bring confrontation! Jesus spoke the truth, lived the truth, and was willing to die for the truth. He never sought to pick a fight, but He spoke up every time the truth He spoke was challenged. And He promises that when you are insulted and abused for the same reasons He was, if you remain faithful, you will receive the kingdom of heaven. In other words, you’ll have a reward in heaven, and you’ll be given spiritual authority in the kingdom of heaven. What you may suffer here on earth is only temporary rejection, insult, or abuse. What you gain in heaven will be eternal and glorious. The Bible says: “The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:33:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 28 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651756 https://iono.fm/e/1651756 Die agste Saligspreking
Jesus het gesê: ‘Gelukkig is dié wat vervolg word ter wille van wat voor God reg is, want hulle het deel aan sy koninkryk. Gelukkig is julle wanneer julle bespot en vervolg word en allerhande leuens oor julle versprei word omdat julle my dissipels is. Wees bly, ja, jubel daaroor, want God sal julle ryklik daarvoor beloon…’ (verse 10-12 NLV). Om ter wille van geregtigheid vervolg te word, is om te leef soos Jesus geleef het - met sy karakter, sy motiewe, sy gehoorsaamheid, sy vertroue in die Vader en sy reinheid van hart. Dit is om ‘n vredemaker te wees, om te honger en te dors na wat reg is, om jou rug op sonde te draai en ‘n fontein van barmhartigheid te wees. As jy so leef, sal jy vervolg word, net soos Jesus vervolg is. Jesus het die waarheid gepraat, die waarheid geleef en was bereid om vir die waarheid te sterf. Hy het nooit probeer om ‘n bakleiery te begin nie, maar Hy het elke keer wanneer die waarheid uitgedaag is, daarvoor opgestaan Hy het ook belowe dat wanneer jy om dieselfde redes as Hy beledig en mishandel word, jy die koninkryk van die hemel sal ontvang, mits jy getrou bly. Jy sal dus ‘n beloning in die hemel hê en jy sal geestelike gesag in die koninkryk van die hemel ontvang. Die lyding wat jy hier op aarde mag ondervind, is slegs tydelike verwerping, belediging of mishandeling. Wat jy egter in die hemel verkry, sal ewig en glorieryk wees. Die Bybel sê: ‘Ek weet vir seker dat ons huidige lyding hoegenaamd nie vergelyk kan word met die heerlikheid waarmee God ons gaan verras nie’ (Romeine 8:18 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:32:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 28 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:06 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651755 https://iono.fm/e/1651755 The seventh Beatitude
The Hebrew word for “peace” is shalom; it refers to a sense of well-being that produces calmness and confidence, even in a crisis. It’s assurance in the midst of uncertainty and confusion. Those who have an immovable, unshakeable, rock-solid trust in God are those who experience genuine peace of heart. How do you acquire such peace? First, you must know what God says in His Word and believe it. You must make God’s Word the foundation of all you believe and, therefore, of all you say and do. You must take God at His Word and surrender your will to His commandments and His plan. You must root your expectations and hope in His promises and His desires. True peace of heart is always built on truth—the truth of who God is, who you are “in Him,” and how God wants you to relate to Him and with others. To know God’s truth is to experience God’s peace. As you seek to bring this kind of peace to the hearts of others, you are acting like your heavenly Father. It is God’s desire that you be reconciled to Him and experience salvation and genuine heart peace. Our message is this: “Acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you” (Job 22:21 NKJV). Paul put it this way: “Having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1 NKJV). Our ultimate role as peacemakers is not simply to see men and women at peace with one another but also at peace with God. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:31:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 27 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651753 https://iono.fm/e/1651753 Die sewende Saligspreking
Die Hebreeuse woord vir ‘vrede’ is shalom; dit verwys na ‘n gevoel van welstand wat kalmte en vertroue, selfs in ‘n krisis, voortbring. Dis versekering te midde van onsekerheid en verwarring. Diegene wat ‘n onwrikbare, onwankelbare, rotsvaste vertroue in God het, is diegene wat ware vrede in hulle harte ervaar. Hoe verkry mens sulke vrede? Eerstens moet jy weet wat God in sy Woord sê en dit glo. Jy moet God se Woord die fondament van alles wat jy glo, alles wat jy sê en alles wat jy doen, maak. Jy moet geloof in God se Woord hê en jou wil aan sy gebooie en sy plan oorgee. Jy moet jou verwagtinge en hoop in sy beloftes en sy begeertes wortel. Ware vrede van hart word altyd op die waarheid gebou - die waarheid van wie God is, wie jy in Hom is en hoe God wil hê jy teenoor Hom en ander mense moet optree. Om God se waarheid te ken, is om God se vrede te ervaar. Wanneer jy daarna streef om hierdie soort vrede na die harte van ander te bring, tree jy soos jou hemelse Vader op. Dit is God se begeerte dat jy met Hom versoen moet word en verlossing en ware hartsvrede moet ervaar. ‘Onderwerp jou aan God, dan sal jy vrede hê en sal alles met jou goed gaan’ (Job 22:21 NLV). Paulus het gesê: ‘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). Ons uiteindelike rol as vredemakers is nie net om ander mense aan te spoor om in vrede met mekaar te leef nie, maar ook in vrede met God. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:30:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 27 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651749 https://iono.fm/e/1651749 The sixth Beatitude
The Greek word for “pure” is katharos, from which we get our English word “catharsis.” Psychiatrists talk about catharsis as the cleansing of a person’s destructive attitudes. The biblical word refers to a cleansing of all impurities from your inner spirit–impurities that include evil tendencies, evil thoughts, evil desires, lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life (see 1 John 2:16). To be pure is to have all these impurities removed so that you might reflect the character of Christ Jesus. One of the main plagues in our society today, and even in many churches, is double mindedness. We have mixed motives, a divided mind and heart. We must put an end to segregating our lives, which causes us to speak and act one way around fellow Christians and another way around those who don’t know Christ. To be pure in heart is to have integrity—to have your heart, your head, and your hands fully integrated and aligned with the commands of God. To be a person of integrity is to say what you believe, and then do what you say. Jesus said very plainly, “No man can serve two masters” (Matthew 6:24 KJV). “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” The pure in heart see God’s loving heart and mercy in every passage of Scripture. They see God in every event of history, shaping and molding circumstances to serve His higher purposes. And they see God in the midst of their own difficulties, pain, and suffering. When your heart’s desire is to see and know God better, He will fulfill that desire. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:29:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 26 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651748 https://iono.fm/e/1651748 Die sesde Saligspreking
Die Griekse woord vir ‘rein’ is katharos, waarvandaan ons ons Engelse woord ‘catharsis’ kry. Psigiaters praat van ‘n katarsis as die reiniging van ‘n persoon se vernietigende denkwyses. Die Bybelse woord verwys na ‘n reiniging wat alle onsuiwerhede uit jou innerlike gees verwyder - onsuiwerhede wat bose gedagtes, bose begeertes, wellus van die vlees en valse roem op besittings, insluit (sien 1 Johannes 2:16). Om rein te wees, is om al hierdie onsuiwerhede te verwyder sodat jy Christus Jesus se karakter kan weerspieël. Een van die grootste probleme in ons samelewing en selfs in baie kerke, is dubbelsinnigheid. Ons het gemengde motiewe, ‘n verdeelde verstand en hart. Ons moet ophou om ons lewens apart te hou, sodat ons op een manier rondom mede-Christene praat en optree en op ‘n ander manier rondom diegene wat Christus nie ken nie. Om rein van hart te wees, beteken om integriteit te hê - om jou hart, jou kop en jou hande met die gebooie van God in lyn te bring en te integreer. Wanneer jy integriteit het, sê jy wat jy doen en doen wat jy sê. Jesus het baie duidelik gesê: ‘Niemand kan tegelyk twee base dien nie…’ (Matteus 6:24 NLV). ‘Geseënd is dié wat rein van hart is, want hulle sal God sien.’ Diegene wat rein van hart is, sien God se liefdevolle hart en barmhartigheid in elke Skrifgedeelte. Hulle sien dat God omstandighede vorm, gebruik en ontwerp om sy doeleindes te dien. Hulle sien God te midde van hul eie probleme, pyn en lyding. Wanneer jou hart se begeerte is om God beter te sien en te ken, sal Hy daardie begeerte vervul. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:28:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 26 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:02 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651746 https://iono.fm/e/1651746 The fifth Beatitude
Mercy is more than forgiveness, less than love, different from grace, and one with justice. Forgiveness becomes operational only when a wrong is committed, but mercy is operational at all times. Mercy leads to and produces forgiveness, but mercy is more than forgiveness. Mercy reaches out to the weak, to the needy, and to those needing protection and direction. Just as forgiveness flows out of mercy, so mercy flows out of love. Love is the source of mercy, but love is greater than mercy—it exists apart from any need or sin. Mercy offers a reprieve from punishment, but grace offers complete pardon. Mercy relieves our pain, but grace cures the disease. Mercy overlooks the mistakes, but grace forgets the mistakes. God is both merciful and just at the same time. Mercy that ignores or refuses to deal with sin is a false mercy. Justice requires that we face and deal with sin. Mercy grants us the privilege of facing and dealing with it so we might be forgiven of it. Jesus said, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” The more mercy we exercise, the more mercy we receive from God. We are to be conduits for God’s mercy with an ever-increasing capacity to impart it to others. The person who exercises mercy is unshackled from emotional chains, freed of spiritual bondage, and liberated from the bitterness that hinders spiritual growth. Mercy flowing from God to us removes the blockages that keep us from becoming whole. And the good news is that we will never be asked to extend more mercy to others than God has extended to us. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:27:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 25 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651745 https://iono.fm/e/1651745 Die vyfde Saligspreking
Barmhartigheid is meer as vergifnis, minder as liefde, anders as genade en een met geregtigheid. Vergifnis spring eers aan die werk wanneer ‘n oortreding gepleeg word, maar barmhartigheid is te alle tye operasioneel. Barmhartigheid lei tot en bring vergifnis voort, maar barmhartigheid is meer as vergifnis. Barmhartigheid reik na die swakkes, die behoeftiges en diegene wat beskerming en leiding nodig het, uit. Net soos vergifnis uit barmhartigheid vloei, vloei barmhartigheid uit liefde. Liefde is die bron van barmhartigheid, maar liefde is groter as barmhartigheid - dit bestaan los van enige behoefte of sonde. Barmhartigheid bied verligting van straf, maar genade bied volkome vergifnis. Barmhartigheid verlig ons pyn, maar genade genees die siekte. Barmhartigheid sien foute oor, maar genade vergeet die foute. God is terselftertyd beide barmhartig en regverdig. Barmhartigheid wat sonde ignoreer of weier om dit te hanteer, is valse barmhartigheid. Geregtigheid vereis dat ons sonde in die gesig staar en dit hanteer. Barmhartigheid gee ons die voorreg om sonde in die gesig te staar en dit te hanteer, sodat ons vergewe kan word. Jesus het gesê: ‘Geseënd is dié wat barmhartig is, want aan hulle sal barmhartigheid bewys word.’ Hoe meer barmhartigheid ons betoon, hoe meer barmhartigheid ontvang ons van God. Ons moet kanale vir God se barmhartigheid wees, met ‘n steeds toenemende kapasiteit om dit aan ander te bewys. Die persoon wat barmhartigheid betoon, word van emosionele kettings losgemaak, van geestelike slawerny bevry en van die bitterheid wat geestelike groei belemmer, bevry. Barmhartigheid wat van God na ons vloei, verwyder die dinge wat ons verhinder om heel te word. Die goeie nuus is dat ons nooit gevra sal word om meer barmhartigheid aan ander te bewys as wat God aan ons bewys nie. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:26:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 25 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:22 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651742 https://iono.fm/e/1651742 The fourth Beatitude
Righteousness is not an optional spiritual supplement; it’s a necessity for Christian living. It’s something you must desire as much as a starving man desires food and a thirsty man desires water. Are you hungry for more of Jesus? Do you have an appetite for His Word? Do you long to experience the kingdom of God? If so, Jesus says that you will be “filled.” He will give you more of Himself. When you are hungry for righteousness, He will impart to you the power of a righteous life—which means keeping God’s commandments and following the leading of the Holy Spirit day by day. The Lord will give you the power to say “no” to offers that are not right in His eyes. And He will give you the power to say “yes” to those things that are of eternal benefit and to manifest His power in right decisions, right actions, and right words spoken at the right times, in the right situations, for the right results. The Lord will fill you with the ability to be His agent at home, at school, in your place of business, in the political arena, and in church. When you hunger and thirst for righteousness, God will satisfy you with His presence, His power, and His peace. When you deeply and truly desire more of the Lord, you will receive more of the Lord to the point of being filled to overflowing. God keeps His promises, and He will keep this one also: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:22:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 24 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:40 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651739 https://iono.fm/e/1651739 Die vierde Saligspreking
Geregtigheid is nie ‘n opsionele geestelike bysaak nie; dit is ‘n noodsaaklikheid vir ‘n Christelike lewe. Dit is iets wat jy net soveel moet begeer as wat ‘n honger man kos en ‘n dorstige man water begeer. Honger jy na meer van Jesus? Het jy ‘n aptyt vir sy Woord? Verlang jy daarna om die koninkryk van God te ervaar? Indien wel, sê Jesus dat jy ‘bevredig’ sal word. Hy sal jou meer van Homself gee. Wanneer jy na geregtigheid honger, sal Hy jou die krag van ‘n regverdige lewe gee - om God se gebooie te onderhou en die leiding van die Heilige Gees dag vir dag te volg. Die Here sal jou die krag gee om ‘nee’ vir geleenthede wat nie reg in sy oë is nie, te sê. Hy sal jou ook die krag gee om vir daardie dinge wat van ewige voordeel is ‘ja’ te sê en om sy krag vir die regte besluite, regte dade en regte woorde op die regte tye, in die regte situasies, vir die regte resultate te gebruik. Die Here sal jou met die vermoë vul om sy agent by die huis, by die skool, in jou werkplek, in die politieke arena en in die kerk te wees. Wanneer jy na geregtigheid honger en dors, sal God jou met sy teenwoordigheid, sy krag en sy vrede bevredig. Wanneer jy waarlik meer van die Here begeer, sal jy meer van die Here ontvang, tot by die punt waar jy tot oorlopens toe gevul sal wees. God kom sy beloftes na en Hy sal ook hierdie een nakom: ‘Gelukkig is dié wat honger en dors na wat voor God reg is, want Hy sal julle hartsverlange bevredig.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:21:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 24 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651735 https://iono.fm/e/1651735 The third Beatitude
To be “meek” doesn’t mean to be a doormat or to be indecisive, timid, fearful, or spineless. It does not mean to act like a loser or a cowardly wimp. Meekness is “power under control.” The Bible says Moses was the meekest man on the face of the earth in his day (see Numbers 12:3). Yet he was willing to go toe-to-toe with Pharaoh, to lead a grumbling people across a wilderness, and to climb a smoking, shaking mountain to meet personally with almighty God. Jesus described Himself as “gentle and lowly in heart” (Matthew 11:29 NKJV). Yet He was the most courageous man who ever lived. What made Moses and Jesus meek? They manifested supreme power under control. Proverbs 16:32 (NKJV) describes this kind of power: “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” Proverbs 25:28 (NASB) tells us the flipside of meekness: “Like a city that is broken into and without walls so is a person who has no self-control over his spirit.” The meek are those who have the power to hurt but choose not to. They have knowledge to destroy someone’s reputation, but they don’t use it. They have reason to hate but refuse to act on it. Such people exhibit meekness, which is simply strength harnessed and used to do good. And those who exercise meekness walk in God’s blessing. The meek persevere until good overcomes evil, answers are found, remedies are generated, and reconciliation overcomes estrangement. And the meek sleep well at night—because their trust is in the Lord! ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:08:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 23 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:58 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651734 https://iono.fm/e/1651734 Die derde Saligspreking
Om ‘sag van hart’ te wees, beteken nie om ‘n deurmat, besluiteloos, skugter, angstig of ruggraatloos te wees nie. Dit beteken nie dat jy soos ‘n verloorder of ‘n lafhartige swakkeling optree nie. Sagmoedigheid is beheersde mag. Die Bybel sê dat Moses sagmoedig was, meer as enigiemand anders op daardie stadium op aarde (sien Numeri 12:3). Tog was hy bereid om farao teen te staan, om ‘n klaende volk deur die woestyn te lei en ‘n berg wat rook en bewe te klim om persoonlik met die almagtige God te ontmoet. Jesus het Homself as ‘…sag en nederig van hart…’ (Matteus 11:29 NLV), beskryf. Tog was Hy die dapperste man wat ooit geleef het. Wat het Moses en Jesus sagmoedig gemaak? Hulle het beheerste mag gehad. Spreuke 16:32 (AFR83) beskryf hierdie soort mag as volg: ‘’n Geduldige mens het meer waarde as ‘n bedrewe vegter, ‘n mens met selfbeheersing meer as iemand wat ‘n stad inneem. Spreuke 25:28 (NLV) beskryf die teenoorgestelde van iemand wat sagmoedig is: ‘Iemand wat homself nie in bedwang kan hou nie, is soos ‘n stad sonder ‘n muur wat beskerming bied.’ Die sagmoediges is diegene wat die mag het om seer te maak, maar kies om dit nie te doen nie. Hulle het kennis om iemand se reputasie te vernietig, maar gebruik dit nie. Hulle het rede om te haat, maar weier om daarop te reageer. Sagmoedigheid is bloot krag wat ingespan en gebruik word om goed te doen. Diegene wat sagmoedig is, wandel in God se seën. Die sagmoediges volhard totdat die goeie die kwaad oorwin, antwoorde gevind word en versoening vervreemding oorwin. Die sagmoediges slaap snags goed - want hulle vertrou op die Here! ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:07:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 23 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651733 https://iono.fm/e/1651733 The second Beatitude
Jesus was not necessarily speaking about mourning the loss of a loved one, but that those who mourn over their sins will receive God’s comfort. When you weep over your sins and the trouble they brought to yourself and to others, you put yourself in a position to receive God’s forgiveness. True repentance does not focus on self. It’s not morbid or despairing; it doesn’t come from false humility or from wallowing in self-pity. It is acknowledging openly, plainly, and simply that you need God’s mercy and grace. As long as you delight in your sins, try to justify them, or blame others for them, you cannot be forgiven. It is only when you pray, “I confess that I have sinned against You in my thoughts, my words, and my actions” that you put yourself into a position to be cleansed of your sin. The Bible says, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:8-9 NKJV). And in that is your comfort! It is God’s forgiveness that produces genuine joy and comfort in your souls. It is God’s forgiveness that heals your deep inner wounds, and that restores you to intimacy with your heavenly Father. David said: “I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide my guilt. I said to myself, ‘I will confess my rebellion to the Lord.’ And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone” (Psalm 32:5 NLT). ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:05:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 22 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:58 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651727 https://iono.fm/e/1651727 Die tweede Saligspreking
Jesus praat nie noodwendig hier oor die verlies van ‘n geliefde nie, maar dat diegene wat oor hul sondes treur, God se vertroosting sal ontvang. Wanneer jy oor jou sondes en die probleme wat hulle vir jouself en ander meegebring het treur, plaas jy jouself in ‘n posisie om God se vergifnis te ontvang. Ware bekering fokus nie op die self nie. Dit is nie morbied of wanhopig nie; dit spruit nie uit valse nederigheid of selfbejammering nie. Dit is om openlik, duidelik en eenvoudig te erken dat jy God se genade nodig het. Solank as wat jy jou in jou sondes verlustig, probeer om dit te regverdig of ander daarvoor blameer, kan jy nie vergewe word nie. Dit is slegs wanneer jy bid: ‘Ek bely dat ek teen U gesondig het in my gedagtes, my woorde en my dade,’ dat jy jouself in ‘n posisie plaas om van jou sonde gereinig te word. Die Bybel sê: ‘As ons beweer dat ons nie sonde het nie, mislei ons onsself en leef ons nie volgens die waarheid nie. As ons egter ons sondes bely, Hy is betroubaar en regverdig om ons sondes te vergewe en ons skoon te maak van alle verkeerde optrede’ (1 Johannes 1:8-9 NLV). Daarin lê ons troos! Dit is God se vergifnis wat ware vreugde en troos in ons siele voortbring. Dit is God se vergifnis wat ons diep innerlike wonde genees en wat ons intimiteit met ons hemelse Vader herstel. Dawid het gesê: ‘Maar ek het my oortredings bely, my sonde nie weggesteek nie. Ek het gesê: ‘Ek bely my opstand teen die Here.’ En my sonde en oortredings het U vergewe’ (Psalm 32:5 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:04:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 22 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:54 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651725 https://iono.fm/e/1651725 The first Beatitude
What does it really mean to be “poor in spirit”? This phrase has nothing to do with finances or status. It means that you become conscious of your own spiritual emptiness—that without God, you are nothing, you have nothing, and you can do nothing of consequence or eternal benefit. To be poor in spirit means you know that all of your self-righteousness is as filthy rags and all of your self-propelled achievements are short-term and fleeting at best (see Isaiah 64:6). To be poor in spirit means that you know you need God. Why would this cause you to be “blessed”? Because you are open to receiving God’s free gift of salvation and allowing the Holy Spirit to work in your life. You are willing to humble yourself and pray: “Lord Jesus, I need You. I accept You as my Saviour. I want to yield my life to Your will and do things Your way to the glory of Your Name.” If you are poor in spirit, you are willing to declare yourself spiritually bankrupt. And in so doing, you lay down your pride of spirit, your pride of will, your pride of intellect, and your pride of heart at the feet of Jesus. If you are poor in spirit, you open yourself to God’s saving mercy and grace. Consequently, you are able to enter God’s kingdom and enjoy all of its benefits and its blessings. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” means you can sincerely pray, “Lord, I acknowledge my total dependence on You.” ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:03:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 21 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:58 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651721 https://iono.fm/e/1651721 Die eerste Saligspreking
Wat beteken dit werklik om ‘arm van gees’ te wees? Dit het niks met finansies of status te doen nie. Dit beteken dat jy van jou eie geestelike armoede bewus word - dat jy sonder God niks is nie, niks het nie en niks van belang of ewige voordeel kan doen nie. Om arm van gees te wees, beteken dat jy weet dat jou selfgeregtigheid soos vuil klere is en jou selfgedrewe prestasies ten beste kortstondig en vlietend is (sien Jesaja 64:6). Om arm van gees te wees, beteken dat jy weet dat jy God nodig het. Hoekom sal dit jou dan seën en salig maak? Omdat jy ontvanklik is om God se gratis geskenk van verlossing te ontvang en die Heilige Gees toe te laat om in jou lewe te werk. Jy is bereid om jouself te verootmoedig en te bid: ‘Here Jesus, ek het U nodig. Ek aanvaar U as my Verlosser. Ek wil my lewe aan u wil oorgee en dinge op u manier tot eer van u Naam doen.’ As jy arm van gees is, is jy bereid om jouself geestelik bankrot te verklaar. Wanneer jy dit doen, lê jy jou trots van gees, jou trots van wil, jou trots van intellek en jou trots van hart aan die voete van Jesus neer. As jy arm van gees is, stel jy jouself vir God se reddende barmhartigheid en genade oop. Gevolglik kan jy God se koninkryk binnegaan en al sy voordele en seëninge geniet. ‘Salig is die wat arm van gees is, want aan hulle behoort die koninkryk van die hemele’ beteken dat jy opreg kan bid: ‘Here, ek erken my totale afhanklikheid aan U.’ ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:02:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 21 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:57 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651716 https://iono.fm/e/1651716 Prevailing prayer
In an old book titled Prevailing Prayer, author Eli Wigle described John Wesley’s prayer life this way: “As a matter of habit and rule, John Wesley’s ordinary private praying consumed two hours a day. At times he would gather his company and pray all night, or till the power of God came down. Nothing was considered too great or too small to take to the Lord. Seized with pain in the midst of preaching, so that he could not speak, ‘I know my remedy,’ he said, and immediately kneeled down. In a moment the pain was gone…Being seized with a pain, fever and cough, so that he could scarcely speak, ‘I called on Jesus aloud to increase my faith. While I was speaking my pain vanished away, my fever left me, and my bodily strength returned.’…Wesley…stirred the world with the fire of his zeal, because he had stirred heaven by the fire of his prayers. His pleas had access to men’s consciences, because they had access to God.” Why did Wesley spend two hours each day in prayer? (1) Because he saw prayer as a cleansing and correcting force. In one of his prayers he said, “Oh, fill up all that is wanting, reform whatever is amiss in me, perfect the thing that concerns me.” (2) Because he knew that God’s will is the only plan and purpose that God is committed to. “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us” (1 John 5:14 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:01:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 20 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:49 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651713 https://iono.fm/e/1651713 Seëvierende gebed
In ‘n ou boek genaamd Prevailing Prayer, word John Wesley se gebedslewe só beskryf: ‘As gewoonte en reël het John Wesley se gewone gebed twee uur per dag in beslag geneem. Soms het hy sy vriende en familie bymekaar gemaak en die hele nag, of totdat die krag van God duidelik geword het, gebid. Niks is as te groot of te klein beskou om na die Here te bring nie. Een keer het John Wesley tydens sy preekbeurt so erg pyn gehad dat hy nie verder kon praat nie. ‘Ek weet wat die geneesmiddel is,’ het hy gesê en onmiddellik neergekniel. Binne oomblikke was die pyn weg. Wesley het van hierdie oomblik waar hy so pyn en koors gehad het dat hy nie kon praat nie, gesê: ‘Ek het Jesus hardop aangeroep om my geloof te vermeerder. Terwyl ek gepraat het, het my pyn verdwyn, my koors het my verlaat en my liggaamlike krag het teruggekeer.’ Wesley het die wêreld met die vuur van sy ywer aangegryp, omdat hy die hemel met die vuur van sy gebede aangegryp het. Sy gebede het mense se gewete aangegryp, omdat dit hulle toegang tot God gegee het.’ Waarom het Wesley elke dag twee uur in gebed deurgebring? 1) Omdat hy gebed as ‘n krag wat hom reinig en korrigeer gesien het. In een van sy gebede het hy gesê: ‘Vul tog alles wat ontbreek, herstel wat in my verkeerd is en vervolmaak my innerlike wese.’ 2) Omdat hy geweet het dat God se wil die enigste plan en doel is waaraan God verbind is. ‘Dit is die vrymoedigheid wat ons voor God het, dat wat ons ook al volgens sy wil vra, Hy na ons luister’ (1 Johannes 5:14 NLV). ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 20 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:58 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651711 https://iono.fm/e/1651711 Abounding grace
The Scarlet Letter is the story of a woman found in adultery and required to wear a scarlet “A” on her dress as a symbol of shame. We do the same thing, don’t we? We label people based on a mistake. Sadly, it’s just as true in some churches as it is in the culture. That isn’t how God sees us and labels us. He takes off the graveclothes of sin and covers us in the garments of salvation (see Isaiah 61:10). He gives each of us a new name, a new identity, a new destiny. There’s a storyline in John’s gospel that’s not unlike Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. A woman was caught in the act of adultery. The religious mob was ready to stone her to death when Jesus stepped in. His defense was pure brilliance: “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone” (John 8:7 NKJV). One by one, they dropped their stones and walked away. Then Jesus told her, “Go and sin no more” (v. 11 NKJV). When you hear about someone’s failure, remember John Bradford’s famous adage: “But for the grace of God, there go I.” Live by the maxim, “Love people when they least expect it and least deserve it.” That’s how you change someone’s life. That’s what Jesus did with this woman. When the Pharisees were writing people off, He was writing them in. When everyone else showed them the door, Jesus showed them grace. Grace is the catalyst that turns guilt into gratitude. One act of grace can turn the worst moment into a defining moment in someone’s life. And you can be that agent of grace. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:58:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 19 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:01 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651709 https://iono.fm/e/1651709 Oorvloedige genade
The Scarlet Letter is die verhaal van ‘n vrou wat betrap is dat sy owerspel gepleeg het en ‘n skarlakenrooi ‘A’ op haar rok moes dra as ‘n simbool van haar skande. Ons doen dieselfde, nie waar nie? Ons etiketteer mense op grond van ‘n fout. Dit is egter nie hoe God ons sien nie. Hy neem die grafklere van sonde weg en bedek ons met klere van verlossing (sien Jesaja 61:10). Hy gee vir elkeen van ons ‘n nuwe naam, ‘n nuwe identiteit en ‘n nuwe bestemming. Daar is ‘n verhaal in die Bybel wat met Hawthorne se The Scarlet Letter ooreenstem. ‘n Vrou is op heterdaad betrap waar sy owerspel pleeg. Die godsdienstige skare was gereed om haar te stenig toe Jesus ingegryp het. Hy het vir die skare gesê: ‘…Laat die een onder julle wat sondeloos is, die eerste een wees wat ‘n klip na haar gooi’ (Johannes 8:7 NLV). Een vir een het die skare hul klippe laat val en weggeloop. Toe sê Jesus vir die vrou: ‘... Gaan maar, en moet van nou af nie meer sonde doen nie’ (vers 11 NLV). Wanneer jy van iemand se mislukking hoor, moet jy John Bradford se bekende gesegde onthou: ‘But for the grace of God, there go I.’ Wees lief vir mense wanneer hulle dit die minste verwag en dit die minste verdien. Dis hoe jy iemand se lewe verander. Dis wat Jesus met hierdie vrou gedoen het. Toe die Fariseërs mense afgeskryf het, het Hy hulle aanvaar. Toe almal anders hulle die deur gewys het, het Jesus hulle genade betoon. Een daad van genade kan die ergste oomblik in iemand se lewe in ‘n beslissende oomblik verander. Jy kan daardie agent van genade wees. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:57:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 19 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651708?v=1 https://iono.fm/e/1651708?v=1 Live from “glory to glory”
Beginning in 2007, the REVEAL research project surveyed the members of more than a thousand churches. They wanted to determine the percentage of churchgoers who are actually propelled by their faith to love God and love others with their whole hearts. Guess how many met these qualifications? Eleven percent! Nearly nine out of ten believers did not make the grade. Think about it this way: If a school graduated only eleven percent of its students, if a hospital healed only eleven percent of its patients, if a sports team won only eleven percent of its games, if a home builder completed only eleven percent of his projects, wouldn’t changes be made? About 2.2 billion people on our planet call themselves Christians. That’s approximately one-fourth of the world’s population. If the survey is any indication, about two billion of those Christians are chugging along on a fraction of their horsepower. What would happen if they got a tune-up or decided to step up or rise up? How much joy would be unleashed? How much wisdom would be shared? How many marriages would be saved? How many wars would be prevented? How much hunger would be eliminated? What would it take for you to be part of the eleven percent—more compassion, more conviction, more courage? What attitudes would you need to discontinue—greed, guilt, negativity, a critical spirit? Here’s the good news: You can. With God’s help, you can close the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be. You can be “transformed…from glory to glory.” ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:52:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 18 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:52 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651704 https://iono.fm/e/1651704 Neem in ‘heerlikheid’ toe
Vanaf 2007 het die REVEAL-navorsingsprojek die gemeentelede van meer as ‘n duisend kerke ondervra. Hulle wou die persentasie kerkgangers wat werklik deur hul geloof gedryf word om God en ander mense met hul hele hart lief te hê, bepaal. Raai hoeveel het aan hierdie kwalifikasies voldoen? Elf persent! Byna nege uit tien gelowiges het nie die graad gehaal nie. Dink so daaraan: As slegs elf persent van ‘n skool se matrikulante slaag, as ‘n hospitaal slegs elf persent van sy pasiënte genees, as ‘n sportspan slegs elf persent van sy wedstryde wen, as ‘n bouer slegs elf persent van sy projekte voltooi, sou dinge nie moes verander nie? Ongeveer 2,2 miljard mense op ons planeet noem hulself Christene. Dit is ongeveer ‘n kwart van die wêreldbevolking. As REVEAL se opname enige aanduiding is, is daar ongeveer twee miljard van daardie Christene wat nie hul Christenskap ten volle uitleef nie. Wat sou gebeur as hulle besluit om voluit vir Christus te begin leef? Hoeveel vreugde sou ontketen word? Hoeveel wysheid sou gedeel word? Hoeveel huwelike sou gered word? Hoeveel oorloë sou voorkom word? Hoeveel hongersnood sou verdwyn? Wat sou dit verg om deel van die elf persent te word - meer deernis, meer oortuiging, meer moed? Watter houdings sou jy moet laat vaar - gierigheid, skuldgevoelens, negatiwiteit, ‘n kritiese gees? Hier is die goeie nuus: Jy kan dit doen. Met God se hulp kan jy die gaping tussen die persoon wat jy is en die persoon wat jy wil wees, oorbrug. Jou ‘heerlikheid’ kan steeds toeneem. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:50:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 18 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:12 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651703 https://iono.fm/e/1651703 A prayer for God-confidence
Father, I come boldly before Your throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace for deliverance from emotional insecurity (see Hebrews 4:16). Your Word says You will make all Your grace abound toward me so that I will always have all sufficiency in all things and abound in every good work (see 2 Corinthians 9:8). I cast down every thought of inadequacy and every imagination that rises up against what Your Word says about who I am and what I can do (see 2 Corinthians 10:5). I resist any anxiety over the possibility of losing a social, professional, or other position or a desired relationship. I know that no one can thwart Your purpose for my life. You, O Lord, have sealed my destiny (see Isaiah 14:27). “You guard all that is mine” (Psalm 16:5 NLT). I know, according to Your Word, that You deliberately shaped me in the womb to be Your servant. Therefore, I rest, rejoice, and trust that I am designed for my destiny and perfect for my purpose (see Isaiah 49:5). Because of Your grace, I walk neither in self-doubt nor in self-confidence because I know that apart from You, I can do absolutely nothing (see John 15:5). Therefore, my eyes are on You alone to do exceedingly abundantly above all that I could ask or think according to Your power that works in me (see Ephesians 3:20). I thank You that You have heard me and delivered me from all my fears, and they no longer have any power over my life (see Psalm 34:4). In the Name of Jesus Christ I pray, amen. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:48:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 17 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:04 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651702 https://iono.fm/e/1651702 ‘n Gebed vir vertroue in die Here
Vader, ek kom met vrymoedigheid voor u troon om barmhartigheid en genade te verkry om van emosionele onsekerheid verlos te word (sien Hebreërs 4:16). U Woord sê dat U u genade oorvloedig oor my sal stort, sodat ek altyd in alle dinge genoeg sal hê en oorvloedig sal wees in elke goeie werk (sien 2 Korintiërs 9:8). Ek verwerp elke gedagte van ontoereikendheid en elke idee wat in teenstelling is met wat u Woord sê oor wie ek is en wat ek kan doen (sien 2 Korintiërs 10:5). Ek weerstaan enige angs oor die moontlikheid om ‘n sosiale of professionele posisie of verhouding te verloor. Ek weet dat niemand u doel vir my lewe kan dwarsboom nie. U, o Here, het my bestemming bepaal (sien Jesaja 14:27). ‘Here, U alleen is my erfenis, my beker van seën. U waarborg my lotsbestemming’ (Psalm 16:5 NLV). U Woord sê dat U my doelbewus in die moederskoot gevorm het om u dienaar te wees. Daarom verbly ek myself en vertrou dat ek perfek ontwerp is om my lewensdoel te behaal (sien Jesaja 49:5). As gevolg van u genade wandel ek nie in self-twyfel of in selfvertroue nie, want ek weet dat ek sonder U absoluut niks kan doen nie (sien Johannes 15:5). Daarom is my oë alleenlik op U gerig om oneindig meer te doen as wat ek kan vra of dink om te vra, volgens u krag wat in my werk (sien Efesiërs 3:20). Ek dank U dat U my verhoor het, my van al my vrese verlos het en dat hulle geen mag meer oor my lewe het nie (sien Psalm 34:5). In die Naam van Jesus Christus bid ek dit, amen. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:47:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 17 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:20 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651701 https://iono.fm/e/1651701 Be sensitive to God’s presence
One morning in a city called Dothan, a servant of the prophet Elisha awoke and was terrified because an enemy army surrounded him and his boss. “What shall we do?” he cried. Elisha told him to chill out, for “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Then Elisha prayed for him: “Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” And the Lord opened his eyes, and he saw that they were surrounded by horses and chariots of fire—the power of God and protection of God (see vv. 15-17 NKJV). As a result, their enemies were neutralized. What if this became your prayer as well? What if every time you were challenged or burdened, God opened your spiritual eyes to see that you too were surrounded by His power and protection? It happened to two followers of Jesus who were walking on the road to Emmaus after the crucifixion. A third man joined them. It was Jesus, walking and talking with them—but they didn’t recognize Him until He began to pray. And then they knew. Then they said, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24:32 NKJV). What if you were on the road to Emmaus, commuting into work, school, or home—and Jesus was right there beside you? What if you could join the “fellowship of the burning heart” and actually experience His presence? You can. Just reach for Him, recognize Him, and respond to Him. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:45:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 16 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:49 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1651700 https://iono.fm/e/1651700 Wees sensitief vir God se teenwoordigheid
Een oggend het ‘n slaaf van die profeet Elisa in die stad Dotan wakker geword en was verskrik om te sien dat ‘n vyandige leër hom en sy baas omsingel het. ‘…Benoud roep hy vir Elisa: ‘Ag, Meneer, wat moet ons nou maak?’ ‘Moenie bang wees nie!’ sê Elisa vir hom. ‘Daar is meer aan ons kant as aan hulle kant!’ Toe bid Elisa: ‘Here, maak tog sy oë oop sodat hy kan sien!’ Die Here het sy dienaar se oë oopgemaak. Toe hy opkyk, sien hy dat daar baie perde en strydwaens van vuur op die heuwels rondom Elisa was’ (verse 15-17 NLV). Wat as dit ook jou gebed word? Wat as God elke keer wanneer jy uitgedaag of belas word, jou geestelike oë oopmaak sodat jy kan sien dat jy deur sy krag en beskerming omring word? Dit het met twee volgelinge van Jesus gebeur, wat na die kruisiging op die pad na Emmaus geloop het. ‘n Derde man het by hulle aangesluit. Dit was Jesus wat saam met hulle geloop en praat het - maar hulle het Hom nie herken totdat Hy begin bid het nie. Toe besef hulle wie Hy is en sê: ‘…Was ons harte nie vuur en vlam in ons toe Hy met ons op pad gepraat en die Skrif vir ons geïnterpreteer het nie?’ (Lukas 24:32 NLV). Wat as jy op pad na Emmaus toe, op pad werk toe, skool toe of huis toe was - en Jesus was daar reg langs jou? Wat as jou hart ook vuur en vlam op Hom kon reageer en jy werklik sy teenwoordigheid kon ervaar? Jy kan. Reik net na Hom toe uit, herken Hom en reageer op Hom. ]]> Christianity Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:44:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 16 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:49 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650634 https://iono.fm/e/1650634 Take good care of your mother
When your parents grow old and become less capable of taking care of themselves, they need certain things from you, like love, kindness, patience, tenderness, sensitivity, and understanding. When you were a child, perhaps your mother picked you up at school because you didn’t like to ride the bus, and now you’re upset with her for being five minutes late. If you are a teen or a preteen, it’s wrong to be more kind, considerate, and patient with your friends and your friends’ mothers than your own mother. Indeed, if you treated your friends like you treat your mom, you wouldn’t have many friends left. And if you treated their mom like you do your own, their mom wouldn’t let her child have anything to do with you. When your mother gets old and needs more care, it’s payback time! “But she is always complaining,” you say. Yes, just like you did, right? “But she talks about herself and asks the same questions over and over.” As they get older, our parents experience fears they never had before, and they need you to reassure them that you will always be there for them. One of the last things Jesus did when He was dying on the cross was to commit the care of His mother, Mary, to His close friend and disciple, John: “Then he said to the disciple, ‘She is now your mother.’ From then on, that disciple took her into his own home” (John 19:27 CEV). So, the word for you today is—take good care of your mother. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:50:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 15 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:39 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650633 https://iono.fm/e/1650633 Sorg goed vir jou ma
Wanneer jou ouers oud word en minder in staat is om na hulself om te sien, benodig hulle sekere dinge van jou, soos liefde, vriendelikheid, geduld, teerheid, sensitiwiteit en begrip. Toe jy ‘n kind was, het jou ma jou by die skool opgelaai omdat jy nie daarvan gehou het om bus te ry nie, en nou is jy kwaad vir haar omdat sy vyf minute laat is. As jy ‘n tiener is, is dit verkeerd om vriendeliker, bedagsamer en geduldiger met jou vriende en jou vriende se ma’s te wees as met jou eie ma. As jy inderwaarheid jou vriende behandel het soos jy jou ma behandel, sou jy nie baie vriende oorgehad het nie. As jy ook hulle ma’s behandel het soos jy jou eie behandel, sou hulle ma’s nie toelaat dat haar kind enigiets met jou te doen het nie. Wanneer jou ma oud word en meer sorg nodig het, is dit tyd om die leisels oor te neem! ‘Maar sy kla altyd,’ sê jy. Ja, net soos jy gedoen het, nie waar nie? ‘Maar sy praat net oor haarself en vra dieselfde vrae oor en oor.’ Soos hulle ouer word, ervaar ons ouers vrese wat hulle nog nooit tevore gehad het nie en hulle het jou nodig om hulle gerus te stel dat jy altyd daar vir hulle sal wees. Een van die laaste dinge wat Jesus gedoen het toe Hy aan die kruis gesterf het, was om die sorg van sy moeder, Maria, aan sy goeie vriend en dissipel, Johannes, toe te vertrou: ‘Daarna sê Hy vir die dissipel: ‘Kyk, daar is jou ma.’ Van daardie uur af het die dissipel Jesus se ma by hom aan huis geneem’ (Johannes 19:27 NKV). Die woord vir jou vandag is dus - sorg goed vir jou ma. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:49:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 15 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:54 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650632 https://iono.fm/e/1650632 “Keep calm and carry on”
During World War II, the British Department of Information designed three “home publicity” posters. The first said, “Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us victory.” The second said, “Freedom is in peril.” The third and most famous said, “Keep calm and carry on.” The department printed 2.45 million of the third posters, but they were never publicly displayed. That motto had all but vanished from Britain’s consciousness when a bookstore-owning couple in Alnwick—Stuart and Mary Manley—discovered an original copy of the poster at the bottom of a box of old books. With Pharaoh’s chariots bearing down on Moses from behind, and the Red Sea in front of him, he was “between a rock and a hard place.” That’s when God gave Moses these instructions: “The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still” (Exodus 14:13-14 NIV). That sounds an awful lot like keep calm and carry on, doesn’t it? What would be the hardest thing to do if Egyptian chariots were charging straight at you at full speed? To be still! When we find ourselves in this sort of situation, we want to do something—anything. We have a nervous energy that tries to solve problems as quickly as possible. But these are the tests that reveal trust. Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him. Is that where you are today? Then trust God’s power, love, and faithfulness, and He will bring you safely through it. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:48:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 14 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:53 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650631 https://iono.fm/e/1650631 ‘Keep calm and carry on’
Tydens die Tweede Wêreldoorlog het die Britse Departement van Inligting drie plakkate ontwerp. Die eerste het gelees: ‘Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us victory.’ Die tweede het gelees: ‘Freedom is in peril.’ Die derde en bekendste plakkaat het gelees: ‘Keep calm and carry on.’ Die departement het 2,4 miljoen van die derde soort plakkaat gedruk, maar dit is nooit in die openbaar vertoon nie. Hierdie leuse het so te sê uit Brittanje se bewussyn verdwyn, todat ‘n paartjie wat ‘n boekwinkel in Alnwick besit - Stuart en Mary Manley – ‘n oorspronklike kopie van die plakkaat onder in ‘n boks ou boeke ontdek het. Met farao se strydwaens wat van agter op hom afjaag en die Rooi See voor hom, het Moses hom op ‘n moeilike en gevaarlike plek bevind. Dit is toe dat God vir Moses hierdie instruksie gee: ‘…Hierdie Egiptenaars wat julle vandag hier voor julle sien, sal nooit ooit weer gesien word nie. Wag en kyk! Die Here sal in julle plek veg’ (Eksodus 14:13-14 NLV). Dit klink baie soos ‘Keep calm and carry on,’ nie waar nie? Dit moes baie moeilik gewees het om stil te staan terwyl die Egiptiese strydwaens teen volle spoed reguit op die Israeliete afstorm. Wanneer ons onsself in hierdie soort situasie bevind, wil ons iets doen – enigiets. Ons het ‘n senuweeagtige energie wat probeer om probleme so vinnig as moontlik op te los. Dit is egter in hierdie toetse wat geloof en vertroue geopenbaar word. Soms lei God ons na ‘n plek waar ons nêrens anders heen kan gaan as na Hom nie. Is dit waar jy vandag is? Vertrou dan op God se krag, liefde en getrouheid en Hy sal jou veilig daardeur lei. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:46:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 14 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:12 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650630 https://iono.fm/e/1650630 Have you been wronged? Forgive!
When you study the lives of those who were greatly used by God in the Bible, you see that they were not spared from hurt, disappointment, or even betrayal. The truth is, if you live long enough, you’ll be wronged by someone. The question is, how will you react? The apostle Paul tells us how we should react: “Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.” The story is told of two friends who were walking through the desert when they got into an argument. One friend slapped the other in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt. But without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept walking until they found an oasis. Since they were thirsty, they stopped for water. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire, fell in, and started to drown. His friend then reached out and saved him. That night, he etched this in a stone: “Today my best friend saved my life.” The friend who had first slapped him and then saved him asked, “After I hurt you, you wrote in sand. And now you write on a stone. Why?” He replied: “When someone hurts us, we should write it in sand, where the winds of forgiveness can blow and erase it. But when someone does something good for us, we should engrave it in stone where it will be long remembered.” Mercy forgets wrongs and remembers rights! ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:45:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 13 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:41 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650629 https://iono.fm/e/1650629 Is jy ‘n onreg aangedoen? Vergewe!
Wanneer jy die lewens van diegene wat deur God in die Bybel gebruik is bestudeer, sien jy dat hulle nie van seer, teleurstelling of selfs verraad gespaar is nie. Die waarheid is dat as jy lank genoeg leef, iemand jou ‘n onreg sal aandoen. Die vraag is - hoe gaan jy reageer? Die apostel Paulus vertel ons hoe ons moet reageer: ‘Verdra mekaar en as enigeen ‘n klagte teen iemand anders het, vergewe mekaar. Vergewe mekaar soos die Here julle vergewe het.’ Daar is ‘n verhaal van twee vriende wat deur die woestyn geloop het toe hulle in ‘n argument betrokke raak. Een vriend het die ander in die gesig geslaan. Die een wat geslaan is, was seergemaak. Sonder om ‘n woord te sê, het hy in die sand geskryf: ‘Vandag het my beste vriend my in die gesig geslaan.’ Hulle het aangehou loop totdat hulle ‘n oase gekry het. Omdat hulle dors was, het hulle gestop vir water. Die een wat geslaan is, het in die modder vasgesit, ingeval en amper verdrink. Sy vriend het toe sy hand uitgesteek en hom gered. Daardie nag het hy die volgende woorde op ‘n groot klip uitgebeitel: ‘Vandag het my beste vriend my lewe gered.’ Die vriend wat hom eers geklap en toe gered het, het gevra: ‘Nadat ek jou seergemaak het, het jy in die sand geskryf. Nou skryf jy egter op die klip. Hoekom?’ Hy het geantwoord: ‘Wanneer iemand ons seermaak, moet ons dit in die sand skryf, waar die winde van vergifnis kan waai en dit uitvee. Wanneer iemand egter iets goeds vir ons doen, moet ons dit in klip uitbeitel waar dit vir ewig onthou sal word.’ Barmhartigheid vergeet die verkeerde dinge en onthou die regte dinge! ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:44:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 13 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:04 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650627 https://iono.fm/e/1650627 The “downside” of immorality
After his violation of Bathsheba, King David finally got honest and confessed his sin to Nathan the prophet. “Nathan said to David, ‘The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. However…by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme’” (2 Samuel 12:13-14 KJV). Later, David would write in the Psalms: “Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish.” Let’s take a moment and consider the “downside” of immorality when it is found out: (1) Your mate experiences shame, rejection, betrayal, and heartache. No amount of repentance or asking forgiveness can soften the blow. Suspicion replaces trust. (2) The innocence and trust of your children are dealt a devastating blow. Their healthy outlook on life is likely to be severely damaged. (3) The heartache experienced by your parents, family, and peers is indescribable. And you are likely to be embarrassed in facing other Christians, especially those who have openly appreciated, respected, and trusted you. (4) Your fall may be perceived by others as a license for them to do the same. (5) Your inner peace will be gone. (6) Your confidence before God will be forfeited. (7) Your enemies will have further reason to jeer and sneer, and the cause you represent will suffer harm. What a high price to pay. What’s the answer? Be filled and stay filled with the Holy Spirit. Here’s why: “The fruit of the Spirit is…self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:43:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 12 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:55 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650624 https://iono.fm/e/1650624 Die nadele van onsedelikheid
Na sy owerspel met Batseba het koning Dawid uiteindelik sy sonde aan die profeet Natan bely. ‘…Natan antwoord hom: ‘Die Here het jou sonde vergewe sodat jy nie weens hierdie sonde sal sterf nie. Maar jy het vir die vyande van die Here geleentheid gegee om Hom te laster…’’ (2 Samuel 12:13-14). Later sou Dawid in die Psalms skryf: ‘Red my van my oortredings. Moenie dat ek die spot van dwase mense word nie.’ Kom ons neem ‘n oomblik en oorweeg die nadele van onsedelikheid wanneer dit openbaar gemaak word: 1) Jou maat ervaar skaamte, verwerping, verraad en hartseer. Geen mate van berou of om vergifnis te vra kan die seer versag nie. Agterdog vervang vertroue. 2) Die onskuld en vertroue van jou kinders word ‘n verwoestende slag toegedien. Hul gesonde uitkyk op die lewe sal waarskynlik ernstig beskadig word. 3) Die hartseer wat jou ouers, familie en maats ervaar, is onbeskryflik. Jy sal ook waarskynlik verleë wees om ander Christene in die oë te kyk, veral diegene wat jou waardeer, gerespekteer en vertrou het. 4) Jou oortreding mag deur ander gesien word as toestemming om dieselfde te doen. 5) Jou innerlike vrede sal verdwyn. (6) Jy sal jou vrymoedigheid voor God verbeur. 7) Jou vyande sal rede hê om jou te spot en die saak wat jy verteenwoordig, sal skade ly. Dis ‘n hoë prys om te betaal. Wat is die antwoord? Word deur die Heilige Gees vervul en bly deur die Heilige Gees vervuld. ‘Maar as die Gees ons lewe beheer, is die gevolg… selfbeheersing…’ (Galasiërs 5:22-23 NLV). ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:42:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 12 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650623 https://iono.fm/e/1650623 Count your blessings
An observant Jew says a minimum of one hundred blessing prayers each day, beginning with the Hebrew formula: Baruch Atah Adonai. Practicing Jews bless God when they see or experience something for the first time. They bless God for smells and tastes. And if something is pleasurable, they bless God. If you enjoy something without saying a blessing, according to the Talmud, it’s as if you had stolen it. “All these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you.” Note the words “come upon” and “overtake.” You never know how or when His blessings will overtake you. But unlike His goodness and mercy, which “follow” us all the days of our lives (See Psalm 23:6), the blessings of God are tracking you down like a heat-seeking missile. They’re hot on your trail. And one day they’re going to overtake you. Now God doesn’t bless us so we can raise our standard of living; He blesses us so we can raise our standard of giving. The greatest blessing is the ability to bless others. Have you been blessed? That’s where you need to flip the blessing. Where has God shown you favour? That’s where you need to return the favour. There is no greater joy than being on the giving end of a gift. Isn’t that what Jesus said? “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35 NIV). There are hundreds of blessings in Scripture, each with your name on it. If you are in Christ, the blessings belong to you. “No matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ” (2 Corinthians 1:20 NIV). So, count your blessings. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:40:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 11 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:04 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650621 https://iono.fm/e/1650621 Tel jou seëninge
Jode sê elke dag ‘n minimum van eenhonderd seëngebede wat met die Hebreeuse formule: Baruch Atah Adonai begin, op. Praktiserende Jode seën God wanneer hulle iets vir die eerste keer sien of ervaar. Hulle seën God vir reuke en smake. As iets aangenaam is, seën hulle God. As jy iets volgens die Talmoed geniet sonder om ‘n seën te spreek, is dit asof jy dit gesteel het. ‘As jy die Here God gehoorsaam, sal jy al die seëninge beleef.’ Jy weet nooit hoe of wanneer God jou sal seën nie. Anders as sy goedheid en genade wat ons al die dae van ons lewens vergesel (sien Psalm 23:6), volg die seëninge van God jou soos ‘n hittesoekende missiel. Hulle is warm op jou spoor en eendag gaan hulle jou inhaal. God seën ons nie sodat ons ‘n hoër lewenstandaard kan volg nie; Hy seën ons sodat ons in staat is om meer te gee. Die grootste seën is die vermoë om ander mense te seën. Is jy geseënd? Dan moet jy die seën omkeer en ander mense seën. Waar het God jou guns bewys? Dis waar jy die guns moet terugbetaal. Daar is geen groter vreugde as om aan die geekant van ‘n geskenk te wees nie. Is dit nie wat Jesus gesê het nie? ‘…Dit is meer geseënd om te gee as om te ontvang’ (Handelinge 20:35 NLV). Daar is honderde seëninge in die Skrif, elk met jou naam op. As jy in Christus is, behoort hierdie seëninge aan jou. ‘want al die baie beloftes van God in Christus Jesus is ‘n volmondige ‘ja’…’ (2 Korintiërs 1:20 NLV). Tel dus jou seëninge. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:39:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 11 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650620 https://iono.fm/e/1650620 Show your appreciation
Paul takes one entire chapter in the book of Romans to name the people who helped him and to express his appreciation for them. Showing that you care about people beyond what they can do for you lets them know you truly care about them. Sincere praise can energize others and cause them to spring up like wilted flowers that have just been watered. Oh, the dividends that a husband or a wife (or anyone else) would reap from expressing appreciation for the little things. Just in case your gratitude muscle has grown weak, and you take most kindnesses and efforts for granted, read the following list of tasks and responsibilities that you should show appreciation for: Cleaning the house. Preparing meals. Paying the bills. Going to work. Spending wisely. Buying groceries. Washing and folding the clothes. Bathing the kids. Taking out the trash. Filling the car with gasoline. Being on time. Watering the grass or plants. Sending out Christmas and special occasion cards. Selecting family birthday presents. Supporting your career. Being accountable. Listening. The list could go on and on. Why not set a goal of appreciating at least one thing per day for a particular person in your life? If you are a man, don’t be so insecure that you fear you will appear weak if you start to notice the little things. It takes a real man to look beyond his needs and recognize the efforts of another. When you are secure in your own identity, you are able to give people more power by keeping them informed, trusting them, caring about them, and appreciating them. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:38:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 10 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650619 https://iono.fm/e/1650619 Wys jou waardering
Paulus gebruik een hele hoofstuk in die boek Romeine om die mense wat hom gehelp het op te noem en sy waardering teenoor hulle uit te spreek. Deur te wys dat jy mense waardeer bo en behalwe wat hulle vir jou kan doen of beteken, wys dat jy werklik vir hulle omgee. Opregte lof kan hulle soos verwelkte blomme wat pas reën gekry het, laat floreer. ‘n Mens kan baie welwillendheid opbou deur jou waardering oor die klein dingetjies uit te spreek. Indien jy vriendelikheid en inspanning as vanselfsprekend begin aanvaar, lees die volgende lys van take en verantwoordelikhede waarvoor jy waardering moet toon: Die huis skoonmaak. Maaltye voorberei. Die rekeninge betaal. Werk toe gaan. Geld op ‘n wyse manier spandeer. Kruideniersware koop. Die klere was en opvou. Die kinders bad. Die asblik leegmaak. Petrol in die motor gooi. Betyds wees. Die gras of plante natgooi. Verjaardaggeskenke vir familielede kies. Jou loopbaan ondersteun. Verantwoordelik wees. Luister. Die lys is eindeloos. Stel vir jouself ‘n doelwit om ten minste een keer per dag jou waardering teenoor ‘n sekere persoon uit te spreek. Moenie dink dat jy swak sal voorkom wanneer jy die klein dingetjies begin raaksien nie. Dit verg ‘n ware man of vrou om verder as sy of haar behoeftes te kyk en die inspanning van iemand anders te erken. Wanneer jy seker van jou eie identiteit is, kan jy mense bemagtig deur hulle ingelig te hou, hulle te vertrou, vir hulle om te gee en hulle te waardeer. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:37:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 10 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:51 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650618 https://iono.fm/e/1650618 Keep persevering and refuse to quit
We often think of great artists and musicians as having “bursts” of genius. But more often, they’re models of painstaking patience and perseverance. Their greatest works tend to have been accomplished over longer periods and through extreme hardships. Beethoven is said to have rewritten each bar of his music at least a dozen times. Joseph Haydn produced more than 800 musical compositions before writing The Creation, the oratorio for which he is most famous. Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment is considered one of the twelve master paintings of the ages. It took him eight years to complete, producing more than 2,000 sketches and renderings in the process. Leonardo da Vinci worked on The Last Supper for ten years, often working so diligently that he forgot to eat. When renowned pianist Paderewski was quite elderly, an admirer asked him, “Is it true that you still practice every day?” He replied, “Yes, at least six hours a day.” The admirer said in awe, “You must have a world of patience.” Paderewski said, “I have no more patience than the next fellow. I just use mine.” It is said that in the Kentucky Derby, the winning horse effectively runs out of oxygen after the first mile and runs the rest of the way on heart. Basketball legend Michael Jordan says, “Heart is what separates the good from the great.” In the Bible, James wrote, “As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about.” Those who are “blessed” with success are those who keep persevering and refuse to quit. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:32:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 9 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:54 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650611 https://iono.fm/e/1650611 Volhard en weier om op te gee
Ons dink dikwels dat groot kunstenaars en musikante oomblikke van inspirasie het waarin hul meesterstukke geskep word. Meer dikwels is hul meesterstukke egter voorbeelde van noukeurige geduld en deursettingsvermoë. Hul grootste werke word dikwels oor langer tydperke en deur uiterste ontberinge voltooi. Daar word gesê dat Beethoven elke maat van sy musiek ten minste ‘n dosyn keer herskryf het. Joseph Haydn het meer as 800 musikale komposisies geskep voordat hy The Creation geskryf het, die oratorium waaraan hy geken word. Michelangelo se The Last Judgment word as een van die twaalf meesterskilderye van die eeue beskou. Dit het hom agt jaar geneem om te voltooi en het meer as 2 000 sketse en weergawes in die proses opgelewer. Leonardo da Vinci het tien jaar lank aan The Last Supper gewerk, dikwels so ywerig dat hy vergeet het om te eet. Toe die bekende pianis Paderewski redelik bejaard was, het ‘n bewonderaar hom gevra: ‘Is dit waar dat jy nog elke dag oefen?’ Hy het geantwoord: ‘Ja, ten minste ses uur per dag.’ Die bewonderaar het vol ontsag gesê: ‘Jy moet die wêreld se geduld hê.’ Paderewski het geantwoord: ‘Ek het nie meer geduld as die volgende persoon nie. Ek maak net gebruik van myne.’ Daar word gesê dat die perd wat die Kentucky Derby wen basies na die eerste myl uit suurstof hardloop en die res van die pad op hartstog steun. Die basketballegende Michael Jordan sê: ‘Hartstog is wat die goeies van die grotes skei.’ Jakobus het geskryf: ‘Ons gee met reg eer aan dié wat in swaarkry uithou. Job is ‘n voorbeeld van iemand wat geduldig volhard het. Uit wat uiteindelik met hom gebeur het, sien ons dat God se einddoel goed is…’ Diegene wat met sukses geseën word, is diegene wat aanhou, volhard en weier om op te gee. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:18:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 9 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:23 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650606 https://iono.fm/e/1650606 When your mate struggles with insecurity
If you’re dealing with an insecure mate, you must make every effort to be accountable. It’s important to voluntarily provide adequate details. After all, he or she is looking for assurance. Learn to explain your whereabouts in a casual but thorough manner. Short, one-syllable responses will provide more insecurity and leave the person to imagine various negative scenarios. A jealous person is insecure and thus has doubts about having what it takes to maintain the relationship. Do not make the mistake of thinking or saying, “Tough—you just need to get over your insecurity.” If it were that easy, your mate would have done it by now. Continue to pray for their healing from this debilitating mindset, but do your part not to exacerbate the problem with vague communication. Most of all, encourage your partner to talk about his or her fears. Listen without being critical or judgmental. Seek first to understand. Make it clear that you love your mate and have pure intentions regarding your relationship. But here is something important to keep in mind: Stay balanced in your interaction. You must also make it clear that you will not be forced into an emotional prison by having to account for every moment of the day. This too could exacerbate the jealousy and set up unrealistic expectations. Trust is a two-way street. And one way to build trust is by praying together. In prayer, we become honest and transparent, realizing that God already knows every detail about us. When your mate hears you share your heart in prayer, it relieves unfounded fears and creates security within them. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:17:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 8 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650605 https://iono.fm/e/1650605 Wanneer jou maat met onsekerheid worstel
As jou maat onseker is, moet jy alles in jou vermoë doen om verantwoordbaar te wees. Dit is belangrik om vrywillig voldoende besonderhede te verskaf. Hy of sy soek immers gerusstelling. Leer om op ‘n informele maar deeglike manier te verduidelik waar en saam met wie jy is. Kort antwoorde sal meer onsekerheid veroorsaak en die persoon verskeie negatiewe scenario’s laat verbeel. ‘n Jaloerse persoon is onseker en twyfel dus oor wat nodig is om die verhouding te handhaaf. Moenie die fout maak om te dink of te sê: ‘Ag, kom nou net oor jou onsekerheid en jaloesie!’ nie. As dit so maklik was, sou jou maat dit teen hierdie tyd al gedoen het. Hou aan om vir hul genesing van hierdie aftakelende ingesteldheid te bid, maar doen ook jou deel om nie die probleem met vae kommunikasie te vererger nie. Moedig jou maat bowenal aan om oor sy of haar vrese te praat. Luister sonder om krities of veroordelend te wees. Probeer eers om te verstaan. Maak dit duidelik dat jy jou maat liefhet en suiwer bedoelings rakende jul verhouding het. Hier is egter iets belangriks om in gedagte te hou: Jy moet jou interaksie gebalanseerd hou. Jy moet dit ook duidelik maak dat jy nie in ‘n emosionele tronk gedwing sal word deur vir elke oomblik van die dag rekenskap te moet gee nie. Dit kan die jaloesie vererger en onrealistiese verwagtinge skep. Vertroue is ‘n tweerigtingstraat. Een manier om vertroue te bou, is deur saam te bid. In gebed word ons eerlik en deursigtig en besef ons dat God reeds elke detail van ons weet. Wanneer jou maat hoor dat jy jou hart in gebed deel, verlig dit ongegronde vrese en skep dit sekuriteit binne-in hulle. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:16:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 8 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650603 https://iono.fm/e/1650603 Living in the Promised Land
Egypt represents our days in bondage to sin. Then Jesus liberated us and gave us a new life. Our Promised Land isn’t a physical territory; it’s a spiritual reality. It’s not real estate, but a real state of heart and mind. It’s a life in which “we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37 NKJV); A life in which “we do not lose heart” (2 Corinthians 4:16 NKJV). A life in which we are “exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation (2 Corinthians 7:4 NKJV); we are “anxious for nothing” (Philippians 4:6 NKJV); we are “praying always” (Ephesians 6:18 KJV); and a life in which we “do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:17 NKJV). Max Lucado wrote: [In Canaan]…”we win more often than we lose, forgive as quickly as we are offended, and give as abundantly as we receive. We serve out of our giftedness and delight in our assignments. We may stumble, but we do not collapse. We may struggle, but we defy despair. We boast only in Christ, trust only in God, lean wholly on his power. We enjoy abundant fruit and increasing faith.” Canaan symbolizes the victory we can have today, and God invites us to enter it. There is only one condition; we must turn our backs on wilderness living.” Paul wrote: “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:14:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 7 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:15 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650601 https://iono.fm/e/1650601 Lewe in die Beloofde Land
Egipte verteenwoordig ons dae as die slawe van sonde. Toe het Jesus ons bevry en vir ons ‘n nuwe lewe gegee. Ons Beloofde Land is nie ‘n fisiese gebied nie; dit is ‘n geestelike werklikheid. Dit is nie vaste eiendom nie, maar ‘n werklike toestand van hart en gees. Dit is ‘n lewe waarin ‘ons ten spyte van al hierdie dinge besig [is] om ‘n superoorwinning te behaal – oorwinnaars deur Christus wat sy liefde so duidelik aan ons bewys het’ (Romeine 8:37 NLV); ‘n lewe waarin ‘ons nie moed op[gee] nie’ (2 Korintiërs 4:16 NLV). ‘n Lewe waarin ons ‘vol moed en oorstelp van blydskap [is] ten spyte van ons swaarkry’ (2 Korintiërs 7:4 NLV); ons is ‘…oor niks bekommerd… nie’ (Filippense 4:6 NLV); waar ons ‘alles deur gebed en smeking [doen]’ (Efesiërs 6:18 NLV); en ‘n lewe waarin ons alles doen asof ons ‘dit namens die Here Jesus doen. Só is julle heeltyd besig om deur Hom dank aan God die Vader te bring’ (Kolossense 3:17 NLV). Max Lucado het geskryf: ‘In Kanaän wen ons meer dikwels as wat ons verloor en gee net so oorvloedig as wat ons ontvang. Ons mag struikel, maar ons stort nie in duie nie. Ons mag sukkel, maar ons raak nie wanhopig nie. Ons roem slegs in Christus, vertrou slegs op God en steun geheel en al op sy krag. Ons geniet oorvloedige vrug en toenemende geloof.’ Kanaän simboliseer die oorwinning wat ons vandag kan ontvang. Daar is net een voorwaarde; ons moet ons rug op die woestynlewe draai. Paulus het geskryf: ‘…God het julle as sy volk gekies… Dít het God bewerk sodat julle vir almal kan wys hoe goed Hy is. Dit is immers Hý wat julle uit die duisternis in sy wonderlike lig ingeroep het’ (1 Petrus 2:9 NLV). ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:12:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 7 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:13 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650600 https://iono.fm/e/1650600 Trust in Christ alone!
Paul writes, “By grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8 NKJV). Why did Paul say we are saved through grace alone? Because trying to obtain salvation by keeping the law sets you up for failure. “For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.” You say, “That’s an impossible standard!” You’re right! The law is like an X-ray machine; it can reveal what’s under the surface and identify the problem, but it can’t fix it. The law is also like a mirror. It can tell you that you need to apply makeup, or shave, or comb your hair, but it can’t do these things for you. In other words, the law can show you your problem but can’t solve it. But what the law could not do, Christ did on the cross (See Romans 8:3). When Jesus said, “It is finished” (John 19:30 KJV), all your sins from the cradle to the grave were atoned for. And when you put your trust in Him, you are saved for time and eternity. Some people acknowledge that you are made right with God by grace, through putting your trust in Christ. But, they believe you maintain your salvation by keeping the works of the law. The problem is, even on your best day, you cannot live up to all the demands of a perfect God. The hymnist wrote, “Trusting as the moments fly, trusting as the days go by; trusting Him whate’er befall, trusting Jesus, that is all!” ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:11:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 6 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650591 https://iono.fm/e/1650591 Vertrou alleenlik op Christus!
Paulus skryf: ‘Dit is mos dié onverdiende goedheid wat julle gered het toe julle tot geloof gekom het. En julle geloof kom nie uit julleself nie, maar is ‘n gawe van God’ (Efesiërs 2:8 NLV). Hoekom sê Paulus ons is slegs deur genade gered? Omdat jy gaan misluk as jy verlossing probeer verkry deur die wet te onderhou. ‘Julle weet mos: iemand wat al die gebooie onderhou behalwe één, is net so skuldig as iemand wat ál die gebooie oortree.’ Jy sê: ‘Dis ‘n onmoontlike standaard om aan te voldoen!’ Jy is reg! Die wet is soos ‘n X-strale-masjien; dit kan dit wat onder die oppervlak is openbaar en die probleem identifiseer, maar dit kan dit nie regmaak nie. Die wet is ook soos ‘n spieël. Dit kan vir jou wys of jy grimering nodig het, of moet skeer, of jou hare moet kam, maar dit kan dit nie vir jou doen nie. Met ander woorde, die wet kan vir jou wys wat jou probleem is, maar dit kan dit nie oplos nie. Wat die wet egter nie kon doen nie, het Christus aan die kruis gedoen (sien Romeine 8:3). Toe Jesus gesê het: ‘…Dit is nou afgehandel!...’ (Johannes 19:30 NLV), is al jou sondes – van die wieg af tot die graf – versoen. Wanneer jy jou vertroue in Hom plaas, word jy vir tyd en ewigheid gered. Sommige mense erken dat jy deur genade vrygespreek word deur jou vertroue in Christus te plaas. Hulle glo egter dat jy jou verlossing behou deur die werke van die wet te onderhou. Die probleem is dat jy selfs op jou beste dag nie aan al die eise van ‘n perfekte God kan voldoen nie. Soos een gesang lui: ‘Trusting as the moments fly, trusting as the days go by; trusting Him whate’er befall, trusting Jesus, that is all!’ ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:59:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 6 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650587 https://iono.fm/e/1650587 Sacred reminders
Each time David saw Goliath’s armor hanging in his tent, it was a sacred reminder of God’s faithfulness to him and of God’s power that was available to him. The word remember recurs almost 250 times in Scripture. And there is a reason why. We tend to remember what we should forget and forget what we should remember. That’s why God is always telling us to build altars or make memorials. Jacob built an altar at Bethel, where God gave him a life-changing dream (See Genesis 28:18-22). The Israelites took twelve stones from the river Jordan and used them to build a miracle altar in Gilgal, reminding them of how God miraculously parted the waters for them (See Joshua 4:20-24). Samuel built a victory altar at Mizpah called “Ebenezer” after God answered his prayer and marshaled the forces of nature to supernaturally defeat the Philistines (See 1 Samuel 7:12). Without sacred reminders, we could forget the spiritual lessons we have learned along the way. The Bible records the literal weight of Goliath’s armor: 125 pounds, 15 ounces. Every time David took down his tent and pitched it somewhere else, the armor went with him. Why? Because it doubled as a daily reminder of God’s faithfulness to him. It was also a great confidence builder. Whatever the future held, David knew that with God’s help he could handle it. There are two lessons here: First, if God did it for David, He will do it for you. Second, if God did it before, He can do it again. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:58:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 5 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:53 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650586 https://iono.fm/e/1650586 Heilige herinneringe
Elke keer wat Dawid Goliat se wapens in sy tent sien hang het, was dit ‘n heilige herinnering aan God se getrouheid teenoor hom en aan God se krag. Die woord onthou word amper 250 keer in die Skrif genoem. Daar is ‘n rede daarvoor. Ons is geneig om dit wat ons behoort te vergeet, te onthou en dit wat ons moet onthou, te vergeet. Dis hoekom God ons altyd aansê om altare te bou of gedenkstene op te rig. Jakob het ‘n altaar by Bet-El gebou, waar God aan hom ‘n lewensveranderende droom gegee het (sien Genesis 28:18-22). Die Israeliete het twaalf klippe uit die Jordaanrivier geneem om ‘n altaar in Gilgal te bou, wat hulle sou herinner aan hoe God die water van die Jordaanrivier op ‘n wonderbaarlike wyse vir hulle geskei het (sien Josua 4:20-24). Samuel het ‘n oorwinningsaltaar by Mispa genaamd ‘Eben-Haeser’ gebou, nadat God sy gebede beantwoord het en die Filistyne met ‘n bonatuurlike krag verslaan het (sien 1 Samuel 7:12). Sonder heilige herinneringe, vergeet ons die geestelike lesse wat ons op die pad geleer het. Die Bybel teken die gewig van Goliat se wapenrusting aan: sy borsharnas het 57 kilogram geweeg en sy spies het 7 kilogram geweeg. Elke keer wat Dawid sy tent afgeslaan en êrens ander weer opgeslaan het, het Goliat se wapenrusting saamgegaan. Hoekom? Omdat dit ‘n daaglikse herinnering van God se getrouheid teenoor Dawid was. Dit het ook gedien om Dawid se selfvertroue te bou. Wat ook al die toekoms vir Dawid ingehou het, hy het geweet dat hy dit met God se hulp kon hanteer. Daar is twee lesse hieruit te leer: Eerstens, as God dit vir Dawid gedoen het, sal Hy dit vir jou ook doen. Tweedens, as God dit vantevore gedoen het, kan Hy dit weer doen. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:56:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 5 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:19 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650584 https://iono.fm/e/1650584 Use what God gave you
The Bible says: “Saul clothed David with his armor…and David said to Saul, ‘I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.’ So David took them off. Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook…and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine’” (vv. 38-40 NKJV). David had to make a choice; one that would determine his destiny. He could go into battle as Saul—wearing Saul’s armor, flaunting Saul’s sword, clutching Saul’s shield. Or he could engage in battle as David–a shepherd with a slingshot. David chose not to wear Saul’s armor or wield Saul’s sword for one excellent reason; he wasn’t Saul. David decided to be himself—the David God called, anointed, and equipped for the task. There comes a time in all our lives when we need to be brave enough to remove Saul’s armor. And it takes the most uncommon form of courage, the courage to be yourself. We all begin as originals, but too many of us finish up as imitators of someone else. Instead of honouring our uniqueness, and the uniqueness of others, we are too frequently intimidated by it. We abandon our uniqueness because we want to fit in. In one of his best-known essays, “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that…imitation is suicide. He must take himself for better, for worse.” That is what David did, and God gave him great victory. And that is what God wants you to do. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:55:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 4 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:47 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650583 https://iono.fm/e/1650583 Gebruik wat God jou gegee het
Die Bybel sê: ‘Saul laat Dawid toe sy eie uitrusting aantrek… ‘Ek kan nie hiermee loop nie,’ sê [Dawid]. Daarom het hy die uitrusting uitgetrek. Hy neem toe sy herderstok, soek vyf gladde klippies in die spruit en sit dit in sy slingersak. Met sy slingervel in die hand loop hy die Filistyn tegemoet’ (verse 38-40 NLV). Dawid moes ‘n keuse maak; een wat sy lotsbestemming sou bepaal. Hy kon die stryd as Saul aanvoer – deur Saul se wapenrusting aan te trek, Saul se swaard rond te swaai en Saul se skild vas te hou. Of hy kon die stryd as Dawid betree – ‘n veewagter met ‘n slingervel. Dawid het ‘n uitstekende rede gehad om nie Saul se wapenrusting te dra of sy swaard te gebruik nie – hy was nie Saul nie. Dawid het besluit om homself te wees – die Dawid wat God geroep, gesalf en vir die taak toegerus het. Daar kom in almal se lewe ‘n tyd waar ons dapper genoeg moet wees om Saul se wapenrusting uit te trek. Dit verg moed om jouself te wees. Ons word almal as unieke mense gebore, maar te veel van ons eindig as nabootsers van iemand anders op. In plaas daarvan om ons uniekheid en die uniekheid van ander te eerbiedig, word ons te gereeld daardeur geïntimideer. Ons laat vaar ons uniekheid omdat ons wil inpas. In een van sy bekendste skrywes, Self-Reliance, het Ralph Waldo Emerson geskryf: ‘There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that… imitation is suicide. He must take himself for better, for worse.’ Dis wat Dawid gedoen het en God het vir hom ‘n groot oorwinning gegee. Dit is wat God wil hê jy moet doen. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:54:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 4 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:06 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650581 https://iono.fm/e/1650581 Learn to delegate
The Bible says: “The people…stood around him from morning till evening…Moses’ father-in-law replied, ‘What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone’” (vv. 13, 17-18 NIV). You may have noticed on the back of tractor-trailer rigs a sign that communicates their load limit. Highways have weigh stations to make sure these trucks aren’t carrying too much weight. If a tractor-trailer with a huge engine has load limits, then it makes sense that we do too. Moses had exceeded his load limit. Eating on the run, running from one end of the camp of Israel to the other, scheduling meetings, hitting deadlines, and seeing everyone who asked was too much. On the inside he was dying. He had two options: collapse, or share the load. Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, told him to evaluate what only he could do, and delegate the rest. Anytime you are staring at a job that looks larger than you can handle alone, understand that God is telling you, “Don’t try it alone.” But Jethro didn’t tell Moses to ditch the work and throw it on just anybody. That’s a formula for disaster. To delegate successfully, you have to do these three things: (1) Get the right people. (2) Give them the right task. (3) Trust them to do it right; don’t micromanage them. So, the word for you today is—do what only you can do, delegate the rest to others, and trust God for success! ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:53:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 3 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:55 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650579 https://iono.fm/e/1650579 God has a purpose for your life
It doesn’t take many people to bring about change. In fact, too many people can get in the way. Gideon took 32,000 to fight, but God needed only 300. He doesn’t care how many can be counted—He cares only about how many can be counted on. The truth is that your life could be messed up because too many people are telling you what to do. Hang up the phone. Shut the door. Turn off the TV. Get down before God and ask Him to speak to you. He will give you the word you need (see Isaiah 50:4). God doesn’t need a crowd; He just needs one who will listen and obey. If He wants to start a nation, He’ll give hope and vision to an Abraham. If He wants to bring down an Egyptian Pharaoh, He’ll reach into the bulrushes and pull out a Moses. When He wants a lineage for His Son, He’ll go to the “red light district” and find a Rahab. He’s just looking for a willing heart. Listen again: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” Ethel Waters, who sang with the Billy Graham crusades, loved to say, “God don’t sponsor no flops.” Her grammar was slightly off, but her theology was “right on.” Don’t spend your life trying to be ordinary. Don’t pour your life into the mold of someone else’s expectations. God has an agenda for you. The reason He’s brought you through so much is that He has a higher plan and purpose for your life. Get into His presence today and ask Him about it. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:51:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 2 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:59 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650580 https://iono.fm/e/1650580 Leer om te delegeer
Die Bybel sê: ‘...die volk… het van vroegoggend tot laataand by Moses se tent tou gestaan… Sy skoonpa sê toe vir Moses: ‘Jy hanteer die saak nie reg nie. Jy en die volk sal die pas nie kan volhou nie. Dit is te veel vir jou. Jy kan dit nie alles op jou eie doen nie’’ (verse 13. 17-18 NLV). Jy het dalk al agterop vragmotors die bordjie wat hul vraglimiet aandui, opgemerk. As ‘n vragmotor met sy groot enjin vraglimiete het, maak dit sin dat ons ook limiete sal hê. Moses het sy vraglimiet oorskry. Dit was te veel om van die een kant van die kamp van Israel na die ander te hardloop, vergaderings te skeduleer, sperdatums te haal en almal te woord te staan wat sy raad nodig gehad het. Hy het twee opsies gehad: hy kon ineenstort, of die lading met ander begin deel. Moses se skoonpa, Jetro, het vir hom gesê om dit wat net hy kan doen vas te stel en dan die res te delegeer. Elke keer as jy voor ‘n taak wat groter lyk as wat jy alleen kan hanteer te staan kom, sê God vir jou: ‘Moenie dit alleen probeer hanteer nie.’ Jetro het egter nie vir Moses gesê om die werk sommer net te laat staan en dit sommer net iemand anders se verantwoordelikheid te maak nie. Dis ‘n resep wat op ‘n ramp afstuur. Nee, om suksesvol te delegeer, moet jy die volgende drie dinge doen: 1) Kry die regte mense. 2) Gee hulle die regte taak. 3) Vertrou hulle om dit reg te doen; moenie heeltyd oor hulle skouer loer nie. Die woord vir jou vandag is dus – doen wat net jy kan doen, delegeer die res en vertrou op God vir sukses! ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:51:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 3 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:55 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650578 https://iono.fm/e/1650578 God het ‘n doel vir jou lewe
Dit verg nie baie mense om verandering teweeg te bring nie. Trouens, te veel mense kan in die pad van verandering staan. Gideon het 32 000 manskappe geneem om te veg, maar God het slegs 300 nodig gehad. Die waarheid is dat jou lewe ‘n warboel kan wees, omdat te veel mense vir jou sê wat om te doen. Sit die telefoon neer. Maak die deur toe. Skakel die TV af. Gaan kniel voor God en vra Hom om met jou te praat. Hy sal jou die woord gee wat jy nodig het (sien Jesaja 50:4). God het nie ‘n skare nodig nie; Hy het net een persoon wat sal luister en gehoorsaam is, nodig. As Hy ‘n nasie wil begin, sal Hy vir ‘n Abraham ‘n hoop en ‘n visie gee. As Hy ‘n Egiptiese farao wil omverwerp, sal Hy in die biesies reik en ‘n Moses uittrek. Wanneer Hy ‘n voorgeslag vir sy Seun wil hê, sal Hy ‘n Ragab vind. Hy wil net ‘n gewillige hart hê. ‘Dit is nie julle wat My uitgekies het nie, maar Ek wat julle uitgekies het…’ Ethel Waters, wat gedurende die Billy Graham-veldtogte ‘n sangeres was, was lief daarvoor om te sê: ‘God don’t sponsor no flops.’ Haar sinskonstruksie was dalk effens verkeerd, maar haar teologie was in die kol. Moenie jou lewe bestee deur gewoon te wees nie. Moenie jou lewe in die vorm van iemand anders se verwagtinge giet nie. God het ‘n doel vir jou. Die rede waarom Hy jou deur soveel gehelp het, is omdat Hy ‘n hoër plan en doel vir jou lewe het. Kom vandag in sy teenwoordigheid en vra Hom daaroor uit. ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:49:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 2 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:49 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650577 https://iono.fm/e/1650577 Healing for someone you love
Because of the connection we have with those we love, when they hurt, we hurt. One of the greatest things we can do is intercede in prayer for those who need healing. God can use us as an agent of healing: “Pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]” (AMPC). We see this principle throughout the Bible. A Roman centurion went to Jesus for the healing of his servant, and Christ did not disappoint him (see Matthew 8:5-7). Four people tore the roof off a house to get their sick friend into the presence of Jesus so he could be healed of palsy. And Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your bed and walk” (see Mark 2:1-11). A concerned father went to Jesus when his daughter was at the point of death. Because Jesus was delayed, the little girl died anyway. Jesus walked to her bedside and said: “‘Little girl, I say to you, arise.’ Immediately the girl arose and walked…And they were overcome with great amazement” (Mark 5:41-42 NKJV). One of the last promises Jesus gave us before leaving this earth was: “These signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will…lay hands on the sick, and they will recover” (Mark 16:17-18 NKJV). Confession: “As a believer in Christ, I have the authority to pray, to lay hands on the sick, and see them recover because the Spirit of God lives in me.” ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:48:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 1 March 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:44 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1650576 https://iono.fm/e/1650576 Genesing vir ‘n geliefde
As gevolg van die verbintenis met diegene vir wie ons lief is, kry ons seer wanneer hulle seerkry. Een van die belangrikste dinge wat ons kan doen, is om in gebed vir diegene wat genesing nodig het, in te tree. God kan ons as ‘n agent van genesing gebruik: ‘Daarom moet julle julle sondes teenoor mekaar bely en vir mekaar bid sodat julle gesond kan word. Die gebed van iemand wie se saak met God reg is, het ’n kragtige werking.’ Ons sien hierdie beginsel dwarsdeur die Bybel. ‘n Romeinse offisier het Jesus gevra om sy slaaf te genees en Christus het hom nie teleurgestel nie (sien Matteus 8:5-7). Vier mense het die dak van ‘n huis oopgebreek om hul siek vriend in Jesus se teenwoordigheid te kry, sodat hy van verlamming genees kon word. Jesus het vir hom gesê: ‘Staan op, tel jou bed op en loop’ (sien Markus 2:1-11). ‘n Besorgde pa het na Jesus gegaan toe sy dogter op die randjie van die dood was. Terwyl Jesus nog op pad was na sy huis, het sy dogtertjie gesterf. Jesus het na haar bed toe gestap en gesê: ‘…’Dogtertjie, staan op!’ Onmiddellik het die dogtertjie op haar voete gekom en begin rondstap - sy was immers al twaalf jaar oud. Haar ouers was absoluut in ekstase’ (Markus 5:41-42 NLV). Een van die laaste beloftes wat Jesus vir ons gegee het voordat Hy opgevaar het hemel toe, was die volgende: ‘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). Bely die volgende: ‘As ‘n gelowige in Christus, het ek die gesag om te bid, om hande op die siekes te lê en te sien hoe hulle genees word, want die Gees van God woon in my.’ ]]> Christianity Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:46:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 1 Maart 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637689 https://iono.fm/e/1637689 Be the master of your debt
Good credit establishes your future buying power. But when you misuse debt, you experience anxiety each month as you pull the envelope from the mailbox with the credit card bill that says you’ve spent more than you can afford. And what about the unexpected challenges of life? Your car needs a new transmission, or you need a medical procedure not covered by your insurance. The things you buy don’t just cost you money; there are other less tangible costs such as your peace of mind and your sense of security. You forfeit these things when you continue to live beyond your means and throw good money after bad debt by taking out “interest-only” loans, no-down-payment financing, and other seemingly “easy” financing options. Like a juggler, you keep the plates in the air by making minimum payments each month. But eventually, you get tired of the stress and the plates begin to fall. You borrow money to stay afloat and then spend sleepless nights wondering how you’ll be able to keep up with the payments. Your embarrassment only compounds the situation as you hide your financial problems and put on a good face, cutting yourself off from the help you desperately need. If you’re in debt, what’s the solution? (1) Identify the emotions that led you to purchase items you couldn’t afford in order to fill some unnamed hole within you. (2) Live on a budget. “There is desirable treasure…in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man squanders it” (Proverbs 21:20 NKJV). (3) Develop a plan for getting out of debt and staying out of it! ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:41:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 28 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:48 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637688 https://iono.fm/e/1637688 Wees die meester van jou skuld
Goeie krediet bepaal jou toekomstige koopkrag. Wanneer jy egter skuld misbruik, is jy elke maand angstig wanneer jy jou kredietkaartrekening ontvang wat wys dat jy meer bestee het as wat jy kan bekostig. Wat ook van die onverwagte uitgawes in die lewe? Jou motor benodig ‘n nuwe ratkas, of jy moet ‘n prosedure ondergaan wat nie deur jou mediese versekering gedek word nie. Die dinge wat jy koop kos jou nie net geld nie; daar is ook ander minder tasbare kostes soos jou gemoedsrus en jou gevoel van sekuriteit daaraan verbonde. Jy verbeur hierdie dinge wanneer jy aanhou om bo jou vermoë te leef en goeie geld agter slegte skuld aan te gooi deur van persoonlike lenings en ander finansieringsopsies gebruik te maak. Jy probeer al die balle in die lug hou deur elke maand die minimum betalings te maak. Uiteindelik word jy egter moeg van al die stres en die balle begin op die grond val. Jy begin geld leen om kop bo water te hou en bestee dan slapelose nagte om te wonder hoe jy met die terugbetalings gaan byhou. Jou verleentheid vererger net die situasie, wanneer jy jou finansiële probleme wegsteek en jouself van die hulp wat jy dringend nodig het, afsny. Wat is dan die oplossing vir skuld? 1) Identifiseer die emosies wat jou daartoe gelei het om items te koop wat jy nie kan bekostig nie om ‘n naamlose leemte binne-in jou te vul. 2) Leef volgens ‘n begroting. ‘In ‘n wyse mens se huis is altyd kosbare besittings en uitgesoekte olie. ‘n Dwase mens gebruik alles op wat hy in sy huis het’ (Spreuke 21:20 NLV). (3) Ontwikkel ‘n plan om jou skuld af te betaal en skuldvry te bly! ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:40:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 28 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637686 https://iono.fm/e/1637686 Trust in the Lord rather than people
Sometimes we make the mistake of placing our trust in people when we should be placing our trust in the Lord. And since God cannot fail and people can, we end up getting hurt and disappointed. The Bible says that King Asa of Judah had a perfect heart toward God. Yet when an enemy nation came against him, he panicked and purchased a military alliance with another king. And he did it with funds he took from the house of God. Upon hearing the news of Asa’s coalition, his enemy retreated. Asa had figured out the solution. His plan had worked—or so it seemed. Then God sent the prophet Hanani to rebuke King Asa. Why? “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God” (2 Chronicles 16:7 NKJV). This is often the plight of those who are highly logical and intelligent. Their confidence is in their own ability to figure out a solution to their dilemmas. Hanani continued to rebuke Asa: “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars” (2 Chronicles 16:9 NKJV). Later in life, when Asa faced a life-threatening disease, “he did not seek help from the Lord, but only from the physicians” (2 Chronicles 16:12 NIV). They could not help him, so he died. So the word for you today is—never give people the trust that should be placed in the Lord alone. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:39:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 27 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:45 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637685 https://iono.fm/e/1637685 Vertrou op die Here, eerder as op mense
Ons maak soms die fout om ons vertroue in mense te plaas, wanneer ons ons vertroue eerder in die Here behoort te plaas. Aangesien God nie kan fouteer nie, maar mense wel, word ons uiteindelik seergemaak en teleurgesteld. Die Bybel sê dat koning Asa van Juda ‘n hart vir God gehad het. Tog, toe ‘n vyandige nasie teen hom opgetrek het, het hy paniekerig geraak en ‘n verdrag met ‘n ander koning aangegaan. Hy het dit met fondse wat hy uit die tempel van God geneem het, gedoen. Sy vyand het teruggetrek toe hy die nuus van Asa se verdrag hoor. Asa het ‘n oplossing vir sy probleem gevind. Sy plan het gewerk – of so het dit altans voorgekom. God het egter die profeet Ganani gestuur om koning Asa te bestraf. Hoekom? ‘…Omdat jy op die koning van Aram vertrou het in plaas van op die Here jou God…’ (2 Kronieke 16:7 NLV). Dit is dikwels die lot van diegene wat hoogs logies en intelligent is. Hulle vertrou op hul eie vermoë om ‘n oplossing vir hul dilemmas te vind. Ganani het voortgegaan om Asa te bestraf: ‘Die Here kyk oor die hele aarde om hulle te help wat met hulle hele hart op Hom vertrou. Wat ‘n dwaas was jy nie! Daarom sal jy van nou af gedurig oorloë hê’ (2 Kronieke 16:9 NLV). Later in sy lewe het Asa ‘n ernstige siekte opgedoen. ‘…Maar selfs in sy siekte het hy nie hulp by die Here gesoek nie, maar by sy dokters’ (2 Kronieke 16:12 NLV). Hulle kon hom nie help nie, dus het hy gesterf. Die woord vir jou vandag is dus: Moenie mense die vertroue gee wat alleenlik op die Here geplaas moet word nie. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:35:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 27 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637683 https://iono.fm/e/1637683 Sacrificial living
With the national coffers depleted from a series of costly wars, King Frederick William III of Prussia found his nation seriously short of funds as it attempted to rebuild. He refused to capitulate to his enemies and couldn’t face disappointing his people. He asked the women of Prussia to bring their gold and silver jewelry to be melted down and used in exchange for the things the nation desperately needed. As each woman brought her jewelry, she was given a “decoration” of iron as a symbol of the king’s gratitude. On it was inscribed the words: “I gave gold for iron, 1813.” The women came to prize their gifts from the king more than their former jewels! Their decorations were proof they had sacrificed for their king. In fact, it became highly unfashionable in early nineteenth-century Prussia for women to wear jewelry but very fashionable to wear a cross of iron. It was from this that the Order of the Iron Cross was established. There are two sides to the Christian life: blessing and sacrifice. Paul said: “Everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3:8 NLT). Jesus spelled out the cost of discipleship: “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me” (Matthew 16:24 NKJV). The hymnist wrote: “‘Take up thy cross and follow me,’ I hear my blessed Saviour call. How can I make a lesser sacrifice when Jesus gave his all?” ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:34:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 26 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637679 https://iono.fm/e/1637679 ‘n Opofferende lewe
Met die nasionale staatskas wat deur ‘n reeks duur oorloë uitgeput is, het koning Frederik Willem III van Pruise besef dat daar ‘n ernstige tekort aan geld is om die land na die oorloë te herbou. Hy het geweier om aan sy vyande toe te gee en kon nie sy mense teleurstel nie. Hy het dus die vroue van Pruise gevra om hul goue en silwer juweliersware te bring om gesmelt te word, sodat dit vir die dinge wat die nasie dringend nodig gehad het, geruil kon word. Soos elke vrou haar juweliersware gebring het, is sy ‘n ysterkenteken as simbool van die koning se dankbaarheid gegee. Die woorde: ‘Ek het goud vir yster gegee, 1813,’ was daarop gegraveer. Die vroue het begin om hierdie kentekens van die koning meer as hul vorige juwele te waardeer! Hul kentekens was die bewys dat hulle vir hul koning opgeoffer het. Trouens, in die vroeë negentiende-eeuse Pruise het dit hoogs onmodieus vir vroue om juweliersware te dra, maar baie modieus om ‘n kruis van yster te dra, geword. Dit was hieruit wat die Orde van die Ysterkruis gestig is. Daar is twee kante van die Christelike lewe: seën en opoffering. Paulus het gesê: ‘Ja, om Christus Jesus, my Here, persoonlik te ken is só wonderlik dat ek alle ander dinge as ‘n verlies beskou…’ (Filippense 3:8 NLV). Jesus het die koste van dissipelskap as volg uitgespel: ‘…As julle my volgelinge wil wees, moet julle julle eie, selfsugtige ambisie prysgee, julle kruis op julle skouers neem, en agter My aan kom’ (Matteus 16:24 NLV). Die gesangedigter het geskryf: ‘Take up thy cross and follow me,’ I hear my blessed Saviour call. How can I make a lesser sacrifice when Jesus gave his all?’ ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:27:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 26 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:11 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637677 https://iono.fm/e/1637677 Be content
A newspaper cartoon was drawn of two fields divided by a wire fence. Both were the same size, each with plenty of lush, green grass. Each field had a mule whose head stuck through the wire fence, eating grass from the other’s pasture. Although each mule was surrounded by grass, the neighbouring field seemed more desirable—even though it was harder to reach. In the process the mules’ heads became caught in the fence, and they panicked and brayed uncontrollably at being unable to free themselves. The cartoonist described the situation with one caption: “DISCONTENT.” There is a lesson here for each of us. When we focus on what we don’t have, or what someone else has, we become blinded to the blessings which surround us. David 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. He fills my life with good things” (vv. 2-5 NLT). Goal setting, achieving greater things, and desiring more than you have can be good things if (1) you look to the Lord to help you bring it to pass: “The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right” (Psalm 84:11 NLT), and (2) while God is working on it, you enjoy what He has already given you: “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you’” (Hebrews 13:5 NKJV). So, be content. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:26:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 25 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:44 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637672 https://iono.fm/e/1637672 How to pray for your children
The Bible says, “In the last days will come…times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear]” (2 Timothy 3:1 AMPC). We don’t have to look far to see that Scripture fulfilled. It’s why we need to pray for the physical and spiritual safety of our children; that they may “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord…Jesus Christ.” Heather Riggleman writes: “As you and I watch the news, we weep, we cry out in anger, and then we wonder, ‘How we can protect our kids…?’ We wonder if it’s safe to send [them] out the front door. We question whether the world is falling apart. And nothing is more terrifying than the realization that we cannot protect them from life. While we cannot hide our children away from the world, we can…shield them in far greater ways than wrapping them in a plastic bubble or locking them in their rooms for the rest of their lives…We can intercede for [them], praying for wisdom, protection, peace, and strength.” Remember, wherever we are gathered and praying, Jesus is in our midst (See Matthew 18:19-20). Paul said, “Put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil…Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers” (Ephesians 6:13, 18 NLT). When you pray like that, God is bound to honour His Word. Keep covering your kids in prayer—and don’t give up no matter how bad things in the world get. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:25:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 24 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:51 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637675 https://iono.fm/e/1637675 Wees tevrede
‘n Spotprent in die koerant het twee lande wat deur ‘n draadheining verdeel is, gewys. Albei was ewe groot met welige, groen gras. Elke veld het ‘n bees gehad wie se kop deur die draadheining gesteek het en gras van die ander se weiding geëet het. Alhoewel elke bees deur gras omring was, het die aangrensende veld meer begeerlik gelyk - al was dit moeiliker om te bereik. In die proses het die beeste se koppe in die heining vasgehaak, hulle het paniekerig geraak en onbeheerst begin bulk omdat hulle hulself nie kon bevry nie. Die spotprenttekenaar het die situasie met een byskrif beskryf: ‘ONTEVREDENHEID.’ Daar is ‘n les vir ons elkeen in hierdie spotprent. Wanneer ons fokus op dit wat ons nie het nie of dit wat iemand anders het, word ons blind vir die seëninge wat ons omring. Dawid 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. Hy vul jou lewe met goeie dinge…’ (verse 2-5 NLV). Doelwitte om groter dinge te bereik en om beter dinge te begeer kan ‘n goeie ding wees, mits jy: 1) Die Here raadpleeg om dit te bereik: ‘...Die Here… sal die goeie nie weerhou van hulle wat doen wat reg is nie’ (Psalm 84:12 NLV), en 2) Terwyl God daaraan werk, jy tevrede is met dit wat Hy reeds vir jou gegee het: ‘...Laat wat julle het vir julle genoeg wees. Onthou dat God die versekering gegee het: ‘Ek sal jou nie los nie. Ek sal jou nie in die steek laat nie’’ (Hebreërs 13:5 NLV). Wees dus tevrede. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:25:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 25 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637671 https://iono.fm/e/1637671 Hoe om vir jou kinders te bid
Die Bybel sê: ‘Jy moet ook dít weet… dat daar gedurende die laaste dae moeilike tye sal kom’ (2 Timoteus 3:1 NLV). Ons hoef nie ver te soek om te sien dat hierdie Skrif vervul word nie. Daarom moet ons vir die fisiese en geestelike veiligheid van ons kinders bid; dat hulle mag ‘…groei in die onverdiende goedheid en kennis van ons Here…’ Heather Riggleman skryf: ‘Terwyl ons na die nuus kyk, ween ons, ons roep uit in woede en dan wonder ons: ‘Hoe kan ons ons kinders beskerm?’ Ons wonder of dit veilig is om hulle by die voordeur uit te stuur. Ons wonder of die wêreld besig is om uitmekaar te val. Niks is meer vreesaanjaend as die besef dat ons hulle nie teen die lewe kan beskerm nie. Alhoewel ons nie ons kinders vir die wêreld kan wegsteek nie, kan ons hulle op veel groter maniere beskerm as om hulle in watte toe te draai of hulle vir die res van hul lewe in hul kamers toe te sluit. Ons kan vir hulle intree en vir wysheid, beskerming, vrede en krag bid.’ Onthou, waar ons ook al bymekaar kom en bid, is Jesus in ons midde (sien Matteus 18:19-20). Paulus het gesê: ‘Daarom moet julle God se gevegstoerusting aantrek. Dan, wanneer die Bose julle aanval, sal julle weerstand kan bied… Doen alles deur gebed en smeking… Bly in alle omstandighede op julle hoede en bid vir almal wat aan God behoort’ (Efesiërs 6:13, 18 NLV). Wanneer jy so bid, sal God die beloftes in sy Woord eerbiedig. Hou aan om vir jou kinders in gebed in te tree en moenie moed opgee nie - maak nie saak hoe sleg dinge in die wêreld raak nie. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:24:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 24 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:03 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637670 https://iono.fm/e/1637670 Try for reconciliation
Here’s something we don’t think about enough—but should! How you treat those you are in relationship with influences the relationship you have with God. Jesus spelled it out clearly: “If you bring your gift to the altar [if you serve in the church, pay particular attention here!], and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift” (vv. 23-24 NKJV). Jesus commands the offender, even if the offense was unintentional, to take the initiative in healing and restoring the relationship. That calls for true humility. Max Lucado writes: “You may find this hard to believe, but not everyone likes the preacher. There are times when I misstep or misspeak and incur the displeasure of a parishioner. In the early years of my ministry, when I got wind of someone’s unhappiness, I dismissed the problem. ‘If he doesn’t bring it to me, then I have no hand in the matter.’ But then I read Jesus’ words…Jesus commands the offender to take the initiative. I find that passage to be quite unpleasant. Even so, I have tried to apply it to my fragile friendships. ‘Bob,’ I have enquired, ‘have I said something to upset you?’ ‘Mary, there seems to be tension between us. Are we okay?’ Without fail, the step has resulted in restoration. Never in my four decades of ministry has this practical teaching failed to achieve its goal. When Scripture is mixed with obedience, a healing elixir results.” So the word for you today is—try for reconciliation. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:23:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 23 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:54 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637669 https://iono.fm/e/1637669 Probeer om te versoen
Ons dink nie genoeg aan die volgende nie, maar ons behoort daaraan te dink! Hoe jy diegene met wie jy in verhouding is behandel, beïnvloed die verhouding wat jy met God het. Jesus het dit duidelik uitgespel: ‘As jy dus jou offer na die altaar toe bring en dit val jou daar by dat jou medemens ‘n grief teen jou koester, los jou offer net daar voor die altaar en gaan maak eers vrede met daardie persoon. Kom dan terug en bring jou offer’ (verse 23-24 NLV). Jesus beveel die oortreder - selfs al was die oortreding onbedoeld - om die inisiatief te neem om die verhouding te genees en te herstel. Dit verg ware nederigheid. Max Lucado skryf: ‘Jy mag dit dalk moeilik vind om te glo, maar nie almal hou van ‘n prediker nie. Daar is tye wanneer ek verkeerd trap of verkeerd praat en die misnoeë van ‘n gemeentelid op die hals haal. In die vroeë jare van my bediening, wanneer ek van iemand se ongelukkigheid te hore gekom het, het ek dit geïgnoreer. ‘As hy of sy nie hul ongelukkigheid met my kom bespreek nie, kan ek nie die probleem oplos nie.’ Dan lees ek egter Jesus se woorde. Jesus beveel die oortreder om die inisiatief te neem. Ek vind dit nogal onaangenaam, maar tog probeer ek om dit op my brose vriendskappe toe te pas. ‘Bob,’ het ek al gevra, ‘het ek iets gesê wat jou ontstel het?’ ‘Mary, dit kom voor asof daar spanning tussen ons twee is. Is alles reg?’ Sonder uitsondering het hierdie stap tot herstel gelei. Nog nooit in my vier dekades van bediening het hierdie praktiese bevel misluk nie. Wanneer die Skrif met gehoorsaamheid gemeng word, lei dit tot genesing.’ Die woord vir jou vandag is dus: Probeer om te versoen. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:22:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 23 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:09 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637665 https://iono.fm/e/1637665 Do it all for the glory of God (2)
Here are two more things you need to know about your calling. (1) The anointing is for each one of us. In Bible times, anointing oil was poured only on the heads of prophets, priests, and kings, symbolizing God’s presence rested on them in a special way. But the anointing is not confined to those in ministry; it’s for everyone–including you! It doesn’t matter whether you’re a teacher, a doctor, or a lawyer. From the top of the organizational chart to the bottom, God wants to anoint you to do whatever it is you’re called to do. If you need legal help, you certainly want an attorney who has been to law school, but you also want an attorney who is anointed by God. If you need surgery, you certainly want a doctor who has been to med school, but you also want a doctor whose hands are anointed by God. The anointing of God knows no limits when it comes to position or portfolio. The apostle John writes: “You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.” (2) We must seek to please God in all that we do. “Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV). The key word is whatever. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing; do it to the glory of God. Oswald Chambers said, “It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God, but we do not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things.” And when we are, we put a smile on God’s face. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:19:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 22 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:46 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637664 https://iono.fm/e/1637664 Doen alles tot eer van God (2)
Hier is nog twee dinge wat jy oor jou roeping moet weet. 1) Die salwing is vir elkeen van ons bedoel. In Bybelse tye is olie slegs op die hoofde van profete, priesters en konings uitgegiet, wat simbolies was dat God se teenwoordigheid op ‘n spesiale manier op hulle rus. Die salwing is egter nie tot diegene in die bediening beperk nie; dit is vir almal bedoel - insluitend vir jou! Dit maak nie saak of jy ‘n onderwyser, ‘n dokter of ‘n prokureur is nie. God wil jou salf om te doen wat jy geroep is om te doen. As jy regshulp nodig het, wil jy beslis ‘n prokureur hê wat ‘n regsgraad het, maar jy wil ook ‘n prokureur hê wat deur God gesalf is. As jy ‘n operasie benodig, wil jy beslis ‘n dokter hê wat ‘n mediese graad het, maar jy wil ook ‘n dokter hê wat se hande deur God gesalf is. Die salwing van God ken geen perke wanneer dit by posisie of portefeulje kom nie. Die apostel Johannes skryf: ‘Julle almal weet egter waaroor dit gaan, want julle dra die salwing van die Heilige Gees.’ 2) Ons moet daarna streef om God in alles wat ons doen, te behaag. ‘Wat julle ook al… doen, doen alles tot eer van God’ (1 Korintiërs 10:31 NLV). Dit maak nie saak wat jy doen nie; doen dit tot eer van God. Oswald Chambers het gesê: ‘Ons dink dat ons uitsonderlike dinge vir God moet doen, maar ons hoef nie. Ons moet in gewone dinge uitsonderlik wees.’ Wanneer ons is, sit ons ‘n glimlag op God se gesig. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:18:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 22 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637654 https://iono.fm/e/1637654 Do it all for the glory of God (1)
When it comes to your calling, observe these two things: (1) God doesn’t call the qualified; He qualifies the called. God will call you to do something you’re not smart enough to pull off. A God-ordained dream will always be beyond your ability and resources. Why? So, you have to rely on God every single day! David said: “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labour in vain” (Psalm 127:1 NIV). Jesus said: “If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5 NIV). Paul said, “Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God” (2 Corinthians 3:5 NIV). (2) Instead of being critical, be creative. Often criticism is just a copout for those who are too lazy to solve the problem they are complaining about. Instead of criticizing movies or music, produce a film or an album that is better than whatever it is you’re complaining about. The most constructive criticism is called creativity. We should be more known for what we’re for than what we’re against. Anybody can point out problems. We’re called to solve them by writing better books, starting better schools, and drafting better legislation. And we are anointed to do it! “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things…and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him” (1 John 2:27 NKJV). ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:58:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 21 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:48 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637651 https://iono.fm/e/1637651 Doen alles tot eer van God (1)
Wanneer dit by jou roeping kom, let die volgende twee dinge op: 1) God roep nie die mense wat reeds vir die taak gekwalifiseerd is nie, Hy kwalifiseer die geroepenes. ‘n God-gegewe droom sal altyd buite jou vermoë en hulpbronne wees, omdat jy dan elke liewe dag op God moet staatmaak! Dawid het gesê: ‘As die Here die huis nie bou nie, is die bouers se arbeid tevergeefs…’ (Psalm 127:1 NLV). Jesus het gesê: ‘…Wie aan My verbonde bly en Ek aan hulle, dra baie vrugte, want sonder My kan julle niks doen nie’ (Johannes 15:5 NLV). Paulus het gesê: ‘Nie dat ons op eie houtjie iets kan bedink asof dit ons eie breinkind is nie. Ons bekwaamheid kom van God’ (2 Korintiërs 3:5 NLV). 2) In plaas daarvan om krities te wees, wees kreatief. Kritiek is dikwels net ‘n uitweg vir diegene wat te lui is om die probleem waaroor hulle kla op te los. In plaas daarvan om films of musiek te kritiseer, vervaardig eerder ‘n film of ‘n album wat beter is as die een waaroor jy kla. Die mees konstruktiewe kritiek word kreatiwiteit genoem. Ons behoort meer vir dit waarvoor ons is, as dit waarteen ons is, geken te word. Enigeen kan probleme uitwys. Ons word egter geroep om hierdie probleme op te los deur beter boeke te skryf, beter skole te begin en beter wetgewing op te stel. Ons is gesalf om dit te doen! ‘Wat júlle egter betref, die Gees waarmee Hy julle gesalf het, bly in julle, en julle het niemand anders nodig om julle te leer nie. Sy Gees leer julle alles, en wat Hy julle leer, is die waarheid en geen leuen nie. Ja, soos Hy julle geleer het, moet julle in die Seun bly’ (1 Johannes 2:27 AFR83). ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:55:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 21 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:10 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637647 https://iono.fm/e/1637647 Free from the shame of the past
God got Israel out of Egypt in one day, but it took forty years to get the shame of Egypt out of Israel. It happened at a place called Gilgal, 381 miles northeast of Egypt. The Israelites thought like slaves and acted like slaves. After all, it’s tough to break the cycle after four hundred years of slavery. Technically, the Israelites were set free at the exodus. But it wasn’t until they reached Gilgal that they finally left the past in the past. “Then the Lord said to Joshua, ‘Today I have rolled away the shame of your slavery in Egypt.” For some of us, it takes years to bring closure to our feelings of condemnation and get the past out of the present. The good news is, God can still roll away the shame of your past. “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1 NKJV). Note the word “now.” Full forgiveness is our present-tense reality. Right here. Right now. If you are in Christ, you’re no longer defined by what you’ve done wrong; you’re defined by what Christ has done right on your behalf. You are a new creation, but sometimes it takes time for your new nature to become second nature. Jesus came to put the past in its place—in the past. You need to leave it there. How do you do that? By seeing yourself as God sees you—righteous (see 2 Corinthians 5:21). Instead of seeing yourself as clothed in shame, begin to see yourself as God sees you: clothed in the righteousness of Christ. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:47:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 20 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:48 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637644 https://iono.fm/e/1637644 Recognise God’s Spirit living within you
Set aside the question of to what extent you are capable of experiencing God’s presence in your current spiritual condition. Set aside your past failures and your future worries. If you are a redeemed child of God, His Holy Spirit lives within you. Jesus said, “‘He who believes in Me…out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive” (John 7:38-39 NKJV). The Holy Spirit within you is flowing all the time, welling up within you, quenching your unsatisfied desires, and overflowing to refresh those around you. His intention and desire are to work through you all the time, in every place. Remember that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one. So when we speak of God working in your life, Jesus being in your heart, or your body being the temple of the Holy Spirit, it’s the same thing. Author John Ortberg tells of a friend whose five-year-old daughter said, “I know Jesus lives in my heart, because when I put my hand on it, I can feel Him walking around in there.” Some people seem to have that kind of inner radar for detecting the presence of God. Just as certain musicians have perfect pitch, they have an ear for discerning God’s voice. Telling them how to look for God would be like telling a fish how to look for water—where else would they live? Bottom line—just as God’s presence lives in you, you can consciously live in God’s presence every moment. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:45:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 19 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:42 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637646 https://iono.fm/e/1637646 Vry van die skande van die verlede
God het Israel in een dag uit Egipte bevry, maar dit het veertig jaar geneem om die skande van Egipte uit Israel te kry. Dit het by ‘n plek genaamd Gilgal gebeur, 381 myl noordoos van Egipte. Die Israeliete het soos slawe gedink en soos slawe opgetree. Dit is immers moeilik om die siklus na vierhonderd jaar van slawerny te verbreek. Tegnies gesproke is die Israeliete tydens die uittog uit Egipte bevry. Dit was egter eers toe hulle Gilgal bereik het wat hulle die verlede agtergelaat het en waarlik vry geword het. ‘Die Here het vir Josua gesê: ‘Ek het julle vandag bevry van die vernedering van Egipte…’’ Vir sommige van ons neem dit jare om afsluiting van ons gevoelens van veroordeling te kry en die verlede agter te laat. Die goeie nuus is dat God jou vry van die skande van jou verlede kan maak. ‘Vir hulle wat aan Christus Jesus verbind is, is die oordeel nou heeltemal weggeneem’ (Romeine 8:1 NLV). Let die woord ‘nou’ op. Volle vergifnis is tans binne ons bereik. Hier en nou. As jy in Christus is, word jy nie meer deur dit wat jy verkeerd gedoen het gedefinieer nie; jy word deur dit wat Christus namens jou reg gedoen het, gedefinieer. Jy is ‘n nuwe skepping, maar soms neem dit tyd vir jou nuwe natuur om tweede natuur te word. Jesus het gekom om die verlede op sy plek te sit - in die verlede. Jy moet dit daar los. Hoe doen jy dit? Deur jouself te sien soos God jou sien - geregverdig (sien 2 Korintiërs 5:21). In plaas daarvan om jouself met skande te beklee, begin om jouself te sien soos God jou sien: beklee met die geregtigheid van Christus. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:45:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 20 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:07 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637642 https://iono.fm/e/1637642 Herken God se Gees wat in jou leef
Hou op om jouself te bekommer oor watter mate jy in staat is om God se teenwoordigheid in jou huidige geestelike toestand te ervaar. Sit jou vorige mislukkings en jou toekomstige bekommernisse opsy. As jy ‘n verloste kind van God is, woon sy Heilige Gees in jou. Jesus het gesê: ‘Die een wat in My glo – soos die Skrif sê: ‘Riviere lewende water sal uit sy binneste vloei.’ Dit het Jesus gesê oor die Gees wat die mense wat in Hom glo, sou ontvang…’ (Johannes 7:38-39 NLV). Die Heilige Gees vloei heeltyd binne-in jou, wel in jou op, les jou onbevredigde begeertes en loop oor om diegene rondom jou te verkwik. Sy bedoeling en begeerte is om heeltyd, op elke plek, deur jou te werk. Onthou dat God, Jesus en die Heilige Gees een is. Wanneer ons dus van God wat in jou lewe werk, Jesus wat in jou hart is, of jou liggaam wat die tempel van die Heilige Gees is praat, praat ons van dieselfde ding. John Ortberg vertel van ‘n vriend wat se vyfjarige dogter gesê het: ‘Ek weet Jesus woon in my hart, want wanneer ek my hand daarop sit, kan ek voel hoe Hy daar rondloop.’ Sommige mense lyk asof hulle ‘n innerlike radar het om God se teenwoordigheid op te spoor. Net soos sekere musikante perfekte gehoor het, so het hulle ‘n oor om God se stem te onderskei. Net soos God se teenwoordigheid in jou woon, kan jy bewustelik elke oomblik in God se teenwoordigheid leef. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:44:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 19 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:50 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637641 https://iono.fm/e/1637641 Share what you have
Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, prepared for missionary service by working among the poor in London. One night, a man asked him to come and pray for his sick wife. The man had already asked a priest but had been told he would have to pay him eighteen pence, which he didn’t have. He didn’t even have money to buy a loaf of bread. Taylor went with him but was conscience stricken. He was living on a starvation diet himself, but he did have one coin in his pocket—a half crown. He thought, “If only I had two shillings and sixpence instead of this half crown, I would give these poor people a shilling.” Upon arriving at the man’s house, he was overcome at seeing the sunken cheeks of hungry children and the exhausted mother who lay with a tiny infant by her side. Taylor spoke to them, trying to bring comfort and encouragement, but inside he cried, “You hypocrite! Telling these people about a kind and loving father in heaven, yet not prepared to trust Him without a half crown.” So he gave his half-crown to the man. Taylor recalled at that moment how the joy of the Lord came back into his heart. The Bible says, “Do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” What pleases the Lord? Your willingness to share with those in need what God has graciously given you. The saying is true: “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:43:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 18 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:43 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637640 https://iono.fm/e/1637640 Deel wat jy het
Hudson Taylor, die stigter van die China Inland Mission, het hom vir sy sendingdiens voorberei deur onder die armes in Londen te werk. Eendag het ‘n man hom gevra om vir sy siek vrou te kom bid. Die man het reeds ‘n priester gevra om vir haar te bid, maar is meegedeel dat hy die priester agtien pennies sou moes betaal, wat hy nie gehad het nie. Taylor het saam met hom gegaan, maar sy gewete het hom gepla. Hy het self honger gely, maar hy het een muntstuk in sy sak gehad – ‘n halfkroon. Hy het gedink: ‘As ek net twee sjielings en ses pennies in plaas van hierdie halfkroon gehad het, sou ek hierdie arme mense ‘n sjieling kon gee.’ Met sy aankoms by die man se huis was hy oorweldig toe hy die ingevalle wange van honger kinders en die uitgeputte moeder wat met ‘n klein baba langs haar lê, sien. Taylor het met hulle gepraat en hulle probeer vertroos en bemoedig, maar innerlik het hy homself gekasty: ‘Jou skynheilige! Jy vertel hierdie mense van ‘n goedhartige en liefdevolle hemelse vader, maar jy is nie bereid om Hom vir genoeg te vertrou nie.’ Hy gee toe sy halfkroon vir die man. Taylor het vertel hoe die vreugde van die Here op daardie oomblik in sy hart teruggekeer het. Die Bybel sê: ‘Moenie versuim om goed te doen en wat julle het met mense in nood te deel nie. Dit is hierdie soort offers wat God se hart bly maak.’ Wat maak die Here se hart bly? Jou bereidwilligheid om dit wat God jou genadiglik gegee het, met diegene in nood te deel. Die gesegde is waar: Jy kan gee sonder om lief te hê, maar jy kan nie liefhê sonder om te gee nie. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:42:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 18 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:00 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637639 https://iono.fm/e/1637639 Resist envy
Some folks are too insecure to applaud the success or achievements of another, be it a coworker, distant relative, sibling, spouse, or even a child. They feel that they must have comparable success, so they won’t feel inferior. If they can indeed claim a similar personal achievement, then they are quick to mention it. The truth is that someone will always have more success than you do, and someone will always have less. It takes daily, conscientious effort to fight discontentment and to enjoy whatever level of success God has blessed you with. Television commercials and highway billboards and even well-meaning family and friends send the message: “You’re lacking something. Buy this, buy that!” Solomon said, “Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil” (Proverbs 15:16 NIV). Hebrews13:5 says, “Be content with what you have, because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you’” (NIV). If you find yourself feeling the need to compete when a compliment is given to another, immediately recognize and renounce the spirit of insecurity that’s trying to ensnare you. Begin to reject this kind of behavior by responding in the opposite manner. Practice being secure enough to enjoy someone else’s achievements. You will have to “practice” this, because there’s a good chance that you will not “feel” secure initially. Just do it. Allow your faith to dictate your behavior. When you obey the Spirit and allow Him to determine your actions, the flesh grows weaker and must ultimately submit to the control of the Spirit. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:41:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 17 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:56 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637638 https://iono.fm/e/1637638 Weerstaan jaloesie
Sommige mense is te onseker van hulself om die sukses of prestasies van iemand anders te vier, of dit nou ‘n kollega, verre familielid, broer of suster, eggenoot of selfs ‘n kind is. Hulle voel dat hulle vergelykbare sukses moet behaal sodat hulle nie minderwaardig sal voel nie. As hulle wel ‘n soortgelyke persoonlike prestasie behaal het, is hulle vinnig om dit te noem. Die waarheid is dat iemand altyd meer sukses en iemand altyd minder sukses as jy sal behaal. Dit verg daaglikse, pligsgetroue inspanning om ontevredenheid te beveg en om die vlak van sukses wat God jou mee geseën het, te geniet. Advertensies, reklameborde en selfs welmenende familie en vriende stuur die boodskap uit: ‘Jy kort iets. Koop dit, koop dat!’ Salomo het gesê: ‘Dit is baie beter om min te hê en ook respek vir die Here, as om groot rykdom te besit met die onrus daarmee saam’ (Spreuke 15:16 NLV). Hebreërs 13:5 (NLV) sê: ‘Hou julle lewe vry van die honger na geld. Laat wat julle het, vir julle genoeg wees. Onthou dat God die versekering gegee het: ‘Ek sal jou nie los nie. Ek sal jou nie in die steek laat nie.’’ Indien jy die behoefte voel om mee te ding wanneer iemand anders gekomplimenteer word, moet jy onmiddellik die gees van onsekerheid wat jou probeer verstrik, herken en verwerp. Begin om hierdie soort gedrag te verwerp deur op die teenoorgestelde manier te reageer. Oefen om jou onsekerheid te laat vaar en iemand anders se prestasies te geniet. Laat jou geloof jou gedrag bepaal. Wanneer jy die Gees gehoorsaam en Hom toelaat om jou optrede te bepaal, word die vlees swakker en word uiteindelik aan die Gees se beheer onderwerp. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:40:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 17 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:10 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637637 https://iono.fm/e/1637637 Healing when you’ve been hurt
There are times when we all experience rejection, betrayal, and disappointment. But if we hold on to those experiences, we can remain in a state of perpetual hurt. Indeed, when we refuse to forgive and move on, we place a weapon into Satan’s hands that he will use against us at every opportunity. It’s not what has happened to us, but how we respond that matters. If we allow the hurt to gain control of our thoughts, it can undermine our emotional wellbeing. Jesus doesn’t want us to go through life carrying old wounds; He wants to heal us. This is why He gave us the precious promises in His Word. Regardless of how badly we’ve been hurt, God always has our complete restoration in mind. “‘For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord” (Jeremiah 30:17 NKJV). If you have spent years wrestling with unresolved hurt, God has provided a way out. “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” When He was on earth, Jesus was constantly healing people’s pain and comforting them in their sorrow. And when He left earth, He didn’t leave us high and dry. He sent the eternal source of comfort to live inside of each of us—the Holy Spirit, who is our comforter, helper, and friend (see John 14:16). The hurts you’ve experienced are real, but God doesn’t want them to be your greatest reality. His Spirit is always with you and will never leave you (see Hebrews 13:5). And you can draw from His strength through every painful circumstance and find healing when you’ve been hurt. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:39:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 16 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 1:57 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637636 https://iono.fm/e/1637636 Genesing wanneer jy seergekry het
Daar is tye wat ons almal verwerping, verraad en teleurstelling ervaar. As ons egter aan hierdie ervarings vashou, kan ons in ‘n toestand van voortdurende seer leef. Wanneer ons weier om te vergewe en aan te beweeg, plaas ons ‘n wapen in Satan se hande wat hy by elke geleentheid teen ons sal gebruik. Dit is nie wat met ons gebeur het nie, maar hoe ons daarop reageer wat saak maak. As ons toelaat dat die seer beheer oor ons gedagtes kry, kan dit ons emosionele welstand ondermyn. Jesus wil nie hê dat ons met wonde deur die lewe moet gaan nie; Hy wil ons genees. Dit is hoekom Hy ons die kosbare beloftes in sy Woord gegee het. Ongeag hoe erg ons seergekry het, God het altyd ons volledige herstel in gedagte. ‘Ek sal jou gesond maak en jou wonde genees, sê die Here…’ (Jeremia 30:17 NLV). As jy al jare lank met onopgeloste seer worstel, voorsien God vir jou ‘n uitweg. ‘Hy genees die gebroke hart, en verbind die wonde.’ Toe Jesus op aarde was, het Hy voortdurend mense se pyn genees en hulle in hulle hartseer vertroos. Toe Hy die aarde verlaat het, het Hy ons egter nie hoog en droog agtergelaat nie. Hy het die ewige bron van vertroosting gestuur om binne-in elkeen van ons te woon - die Heilige Gees, wat ons trooster, helper en vriend is (sien Johannes 14:16). Die seer wat jy ervaar het is werklik, maar God wil nie hê dat dit jou grootste werklikheid moet wees nie. Sy Gees is altyd by jou en sal jou nooit verlaat nie (sien Hebreërs 13:5). Jy kan in elke pynlike omstandigheid by Hom krag kry en genesing vind wanneer jy seergekry het. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:38:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 16 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:01 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637634 https://iono.fm/e/1637634 Pray for a divine visitation
Jesus told the disciples just before He left this earth to return to heaven: “I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high” (Luke 24:49 KJV). As a redeemed child of God the Holy Spirit lives in you (see Ro 8:9). But this promise indicates that you can also have the Holy Spirit resting upon you and empowering you. How did the disciples respond to this promise? “All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer” (Acts 1:14 ESV). Author Larry Sparks says, “For too long, the Western church has tolerated a prayer culture defined by lack of results.” Then he gives us this strategy for a divine visitation: “Review God’s promises for a Holy Spirit outpouring. Become possessed by them. And ‘tarry’ in devoted, sustained, persevering prayer until revival promises become revival realities. That’s exactly what the disciples did.” We make the mistake of assuming that outpourings of the Holy Spirit are sovereignly fixed dates in heaven’s calendar. One of the great promises God made to us is this: “In the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh” (Acts 2:17 ESV). As long as “all flesh” has not experienced this outpouring of God’s Spirit, we must continue to pray, “Oh, that You would rend the heavens [and] come down!” You say, “What can I do?” Do what the disciples did: “All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer.” Begin to pray each day for a divine visitation of God’s Spirit. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:36:00 +0200 0 0 Word for Today - 15 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:05 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag https://iono.fm/e/1637632 https://iono.fm/e/1637632 Bid vir ‘n goddelike besoek
Jesus het die volgende vir die dissipels gesê net voordat Hy hierdie aarde verlaat het om terug te keer hemel toe: ‘En kyk, Ek sal die belofte van my Vader aan julle stuur. Julle moet in die stad bly totdat julle van God af met krag bemagtig is’ (Lukas 24:49 NLV). As verloste kind van God woon die Heilige Gees in jou (sien Romeine 8:9). Hierdie belofte dui egter daarop dat jy ook die Heilige Gees wat jou rus en jou krag gee, op jou kan hê. Hoe het die dissipels op hierdie belofte gereageer? ‘Hulle het almal saam aanhou bid…’ (Handelinge 1:14 NLV). Larry Sparks sê: ‘Vir te lank duld die Westerse kerk al ‘n gebedskultuur wat deur ’n gebrek aan resultate gedefinieer word.’ Dan gee hy ons hierdie strategie om ‘n goddelike besoek te ontvang: “Hersien God se beloftes wat handel oor die uitstorting van die Heilige Gees. Word daardeur beheers. Talm in toegewyde, volgehoue, volhardende gebed totdat herlewingsbeloftes herlewingswerklikhede word. Dis presies wat die dissipels gedoen het.’ Ons maak die fout om aan te neem dat die Heilige Gees slegs op vaste datums op die hemel se kalender uitgestort gaan word. Een van die grootste beloftes wat God aan ons gemaak het, is die volgende: ‘Só sal dit in die laaste dae wees, sê God: Ek sal my Gees uitstort op elke mens…’ (Handelinge 2:17 NLV). Solank as wat ‘elke mens’ nog nie hierdie uitstorting van die Gees beleef het nie, moet ons aanhou bid: ‘As U maar die hemel wou laat oopskeur en afkom!..’ Jy vra: ‘Wat kan ek doen?’ Doen wat die dissipels gedoen het: ‘Hulle het almal saam aanhou bid…’ Begin om elke dag vir ‘n goddelike besoek van God se Gees te bid. ]]> Christianity Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:33:00 +0200 0 0 Woord vir Vandag - 15 Feb 2026 0 0 Radio Pulpit full 2:13 Word for Today / Woord vir Vandag