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Surrender

Faith Is Not Religion

By July 2013, my husband and I had been courting for two years. When
we started our journey together in July 2011, he was fresh from campus
and no job was in sight. I edited countless applications, and we prayed
over each of them before we sent them until in 2013 I stopped and
asked Daddy what was going on. This was very odd to me, as I am used
to getting any kind of response from Him quite fast… and when He
does not, then I know we need a deeper conversation. More on this lat-
er, but for the purposes of this chapter, my husband finally got his first
and only positive response from the biggest global soft drinks producer.

His first position as a Quality Analyst at the company meant that he
would work 12-hour shifts alternating day and night weekly. On the
weeks he worked the night shift, he would leave work at 7am every
Sunday and go all the way to the ASK Arena-Showground- (about 25.5
km away), where the church he attended would start at 9am. On some
Sundays, he would join me after his service in Hurlingham, where I
went to church from 3pm-7pm. This proved to be quite a strain for
him, and our relationship suffered too. We tried alternating by visiting
each other’s churches but this was not the preferred option, because we
were both attached to the churches we went to and the compromise of
doing both eventually became too much. One day I sat down and I cried
out to my Father and asked Him to help us nurture what He had put
together as well as please Him. His response was anything but expected,
“Who told you to do church as usual?!” I sat down properly and asked, “What
do you mean?”

This right here was the beginning of a liberating revelation that culmi-
nated in Him calling me out of the church, as most know it, in 2015 and
teaching me a whole new way of doing church… at Home. It catapulted
me to a whole new level of my faith journey. He has since been teaching

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