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FAITH STORIES
One word, surrender! the areas where we continue you go through life and the
bitterness of it and you come
to grow even more as we
That is one thing that my learn and enjoy what love and to a place of conclusion that
life is consistently about; freedom in Him really is. is simply not consistent with
who He is. I don’t think that
a life of surrender, Please share your was the revelation that God
which is consistent with perspective of your gave Job of Himself. I think that
was from a place of pain and
journey as seen through
the love and freedom God’s lens. neither from the place of growth
nor the place of Rhema. For
expression I have shared One word, surrender! That me, if there’s one thing I know
is one thing that my life is
about. consistently about; a life of about my Father, He is a giver.
surrender, which is consistent Period. Even when you think
all if God had not sown those with the love and freedom I about the life of Christ, He got
seeds Himself. The words I told to that place of surrender. He
have shared about.
the doctor when she gave me was like, “This cup of suffering
I see this every time and in
the diagnosis were, “I will not is not funny, I may not even
every level, so much so that
take any drugs. If and when like it but Your will be done;
when Zara was born, where
Daddy sees it fit for me to carry most children are born with I’m Your hands and feet. You
His seed, He’ll plant that child use Me.” And Daddy was like,
their fists clenched, she was
Himself in my womb.” It hit “Great! Because I know You
born with her hands open.
me later, “Oh yeah! The Lord get what I am trying to give
One of the things God was
Himself plants.” my children in the end.” (My
teaching us through these
When we began to seek Him pregnancies was that these paraphrase!)
out to know what to name our If there’s one thing I want
children are not ours; they are
children we sought to know people to understand it’s
His. When you live your life
from God what He called each that, because every time
with your hands open, so that
child, since He knows us from someone dies they say, “God
you literally become His hands
before we are in our parents’ and feet, you become a point has given and He has taken
wombs. Zara in Hebrew means away.” I think it’s just a proper
of exchange between you and
seed or to sow and Thandiwe is misrepresentation of who the
God; meaning there is mutual
a South African name meaning Father is, and I think if you
understanding about giving
beloved, from the root word don’t know Him, it’s just a sure
and receiving. You no longer
thanda which means “love”. hold back anything that He’s place of pain you’re creating to
Therefore, she is a seed (love) wallow in.
already given you; instead,
sown to the beloved (By Love.
you are aware that you are
For love. Colossians 1:16-20). Is that what inspired your
only a steward; a conduit. That
Our son’s second name, Huru, book?
set us free. So then we don’t
is Swahili meaning free or raise them with or in fear and My book is about the whole
liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17). In
prevent them from going out journey; the faith, trust,
summary, Jezreel Huru is one love and surrender. He was
and literally playing with dirt,
who has been sown by God to teaching me these concepts
or live in the constant fear
be a living epistle of one who is independently of each other,
that they would choke on their
like the wind and is therefore, food. These and more things one word at a time in 2009.
led (only) by the Spirit.
the Holy Spirit teaches them, When He asked me to put
Now, because of our children, them together, I thought they
because there’s only so much
I know what my husband and were linear and then one
you can do as a parent.
I have been brought together day in 2015, He said, “I Am
One thing I would want to
for: love and freedom. You dispute that many take at face eternal.”Then it hit me that it’s
know, you’re mostly tested in
value, is that the Lord gives a cycle: there’s no faith without
the area where your purpose trust, no trust without faith.
and takes away. I don’t believe
really is and those have been There’s no trust without love
He does that. Sometimes
the biggest areas of battle for and there’s no love without
us as a couple. Those are also
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