By Apostle Aje Pelser

Here are some revelations about kindness that will reveal God’s love through our lives.

 

People Desire Kindness

“What is desired in a man is kindness”

²²     What is desired in a man is ⁶kindness,

     And a poor man is better than a liar.

Proverbs 19:22

 

I prayed about this and asked God to help me be kind even to people who constantly treat me disrespectfully.

 

Kindness is the next level of Love

I heard the Holy Spirit within:

“You have learnt patience, now you can learn kindness.”

This is perfectly true, because love is patient and love is kind…

The Holy Spirit brings things to our remembrance.

 

Jesus was Kind to Sinners

The Word admonishes us further:

³⁵ But ^slove your enemies, ^tdo good, and ^ulend, ⁸hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and ^vyou will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.^[1]

Luke 6:35

 

It’s About respect:

When people receive the desired kindness from you the level we all seek to attain to is that of respect from our fellow man.

 

But a meditation on that reveals:

“God’s grace over many years has helped us to gain the level of respect we now enjoy.”

Respect breeds respect, but add this: “over time!”

 

Virtuous Women are Kind

The World has taught women to be self assertive and harsh, in order to be competitive in the work place.

Men know that women are tough, they give birth to children, something a man will never do!

So ladies don’t actually have to prove their toughness and can operate in a higher law, a law of kindness.

Proverbs 31

She opens her mouth with wisdom,

     And on her tongue is the law of kindness.

Love never fails, so kindness will win the day as well.

In the Church – if we compare the Church to a virtuous wife, after all the Church is the Bride of Christ- then we can learn more kindness. This is easier said than done especially when undergoing trials and persecution. But allow the Holy Spirit to develop His fruit of kindness in your life. There will be times when you consciously sow kindness, and then don’t expect it in return, be kind anyway.

If you want a harvest of fruit, seeds need to be sown:

Examples of seeds of kindness could include:

Reacting in the opposite spirit on the Road, at work, in your family!

In our speech: “A soft answer turns away wrath”. This is how we disarm principalities and powers, with the force of God’s love manifested in kindness.

 

When people treat you badly and you remain kind to them, they don’t know what to do. Sometimes people get angry and persecute you, but in time the power of the Holy Spirit will either convict them or repel them so strongly that they will never hurt you again.

 

God’s Kindness Appeared when Jesus Came

Titus 3:3

³ For ^cwe ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. ⁴ But when ^dthe kindness and the love of ^eGod our Savior toward man appeared, ^{5 f}not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through ^gthe washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, ^{6 h}whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ that having been justified by His grace ⁱwe should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

^{8 j}This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

^[2]

 

The Process through which kindness Appears:

Jesus Came - God’s Kindness Appeared in Christ

Not by works – Pharisees hated Jesus because he stimulated faith which made men righteous. Legalism is harsh, God’s spirit is kind.

According to His MERCY He saved us – mercy triumphs over judgement

James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Washing & regeneration of the Holy Spirit – Ephesians 5:25

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and ^lgave Himself for her, ²⁶ that He might ⁷sanctify and cleanse her ^mwith the washing of water ⁿby the word, ^{27 o}that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, ^pnot having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish^[3]

Holy spirit poured out by Jesus in our lives –

Romans speaks about the Love of God being poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit

^{5 i}Now hope does not disappoint, ^jbecause the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

^[4]

Justified by His grace

We are heirs according to the hope of eternal life

The reason we preach on kindness is…?

GODLY Family Principles

By Apostle Aje Pelser

Preached Sunday Evening, 23 May 2010, at Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town

Principles that help us serve God as Families.

 

Preserve the Unity of the Spirit

Ephesians4:1

¹ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

² With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering,forbearing one another in love; ³ Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Apostle Andre often preaches on the unity of the Spirit and the unity of faith, because, although many speak about creating unity, it can only be preserved. There was unity with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit from the beginning, and we have entered into that unity by faith in Jesus name. From there it needs to be preserved.

Similarly, in marriage, there is a union between man and wife from the start, and as children are added, family friends, son in laws, daughter in laws, that unity needs to be preserved through Christ.  Let's teach our children to value the unity of spirit in our families and in our churches, and those whom God adds will value it too and preserve the unity as well!

Observe Boundaries

Deut 19:14“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Deut 27:17 ‘Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s landmark.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Job 24:2“Some remove landmarks; They seize flocks violently and feed on them;

Prov 23:10Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;

Hos 5:10 “The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

Itis fine to set boundaries, daughters become mothers, sons become fathers with their own households. Gen 2:24  Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Prophet Nola Prophesied about a word God gave her for the overcomers conference: "SHIFT".

There is a shift in boundaries during the growth of a family, church and business, and regular family meetings can help to redefine boundaries that will ensure each member is valued and appreciated. If this is done prayerfully and the Priest of the home, or the patriarch of a family recognizes members by the Spirit, it ensures that the kingdom values of righteousness, peace and joy of the Holy Spirit are established in relationships. Solid families mean solid communities and churches, and this will lift nations to fulfill their redemptive purposes for God. 

 

Measure of Faithequals Area of Authority

Rom 12:3  For I say,through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

 You discover your measure through trial and error and it is revealed through a body of believers. Everyone will know what your gift is because your gift makes room for you. What value do I add to this church? This move of God? My family? This household?

Responsibility givesauthority

You can only speak into someone’s life if you love them and take spiritual care ofthem.

 

Understand Functions

Romans 12, I Corinthians 1. See Household leaders training manual, Gifts and Functions Manual, Five Fold Ministry Manaul available from MBC.

 

Enjoy Serving God asa Family

Joshua said:

Jos 24:15  And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the otherside of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

  Gen 18:17  And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,

  Gen 18:18  since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Gen 18:19  For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him."

 

Focus your Energy

Focus on outreach and winning new souls – energy needs to be directed to evangelism, away from family issues. There is a time to deal with family issues and a right way to do it, aligning with the Word of God. But the Bible warns us not to bite and devour one another to the point that a person runs down the stairs out the door never to return, unfortunately, this is where most familes find themselves - ready to give it all up! What a lie of the devil! Let's have a balance of inward and ouward focus. He who leads many souls to righteousness is wise! With joy draw water from the wells of salvation. An easy way to reach out is to include those who do not have their immediate families with them, in some family meals on Sundays on holidays, now and again, and let them feel part of the family of God that way, their conversion will follow shortly in Jesus' name! 

Ify ou lose your life you will find it! Be a combine harvester! 

Commendations for an OvercomingChurch

Preached by Apostle Aje Pelser at HARVESTER Reformational Church, Cape Town.

 

The Lord spoke to me by His Spirit and said: “Commend them” regarding the Overcomer’s Conference.

He Lords commendations for a church will propel us into new conquests for His kingdom!

The Meaning of Commendation: 

Act of commending: “praise of somebody's abilities”

Recognition of Accomplishment: “an award or citationgiven to somebody in recognition of an outstanding achievement”

Encarta Dictionary.

 

Well done good andfaithful servants! Enter into the joy of the Lord!

Luk 19:16  Thencame the first, saying, 'Master, your mina has earned ten minas.'

Luk 19:17 And he said to him, 'Well done, good servant; because you werefaithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.'

Mina G3414 - Thayer Definition:

1)in the OT, a weight of 300 shekels was one pound

2)In the NT, a weight and sum of money equal to 100 drachmae, one talent was 100pounds, a pound equalled 10 1/3 oz. (300 gm)

Partof Speech:noun feminine

ARelated Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: of Latin origin

 

Drachma; Dram

drak´ma,(δραχμή, drachmḗ): The word is used in the Septuagint as therendering of בּקע, beḳa‛,“half-shekel,” which must refer to the light standard for the shekel, as itsweight was about 62 grains. In the New Testament the word occurs only in Luk_15:8,Luk_15:9, where it is rendered “a piece of silver” (m “drachma”). It wascommonly taken as equivalent to the Roman denarius, though not strictly so.

Denarius

dē̇-nā´ri-us (δηνάριον, dēnárion): A Roman silver coin, 25 of which went to the aureus,the standard gold coin of the empire in the time of Augustus,

this was the ordinary wage of a soldier and a day laborer.

 

Youexecuted God’s Will through a Body!

Heb 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "SACRIFICE ANDOFFERING YOU DID NOT DESIRE, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME.

Heb 10:6  IN BURNTOFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES FOR SIN YOU HAD NO PLEASURE.

Heb 10:7  THEN ISAID, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE COME— IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME— TODO YOUR WILL, O GOD.' "

 

Well done foroperating in His rest!

Mat 11:28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Mat 11:29  Take Myyoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Mat 11:30  For Myyoke is easy and My burden is light."

Demons are restless! They are looking for the rest that belongs to us, they can’t have it in Jesus’ name.

 

The Lord commends youfor esteeming others higher than self.

Php 2:3  Letnothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness ofmind let each esteem others better than himself.

Php 2:4  Let eachof you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests ofothers.

 

Your servanthoodis commendable, you took on the form of Christ!

Php 2:5  Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

Php 2:6  who, beingin the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,

Php 2:7  but madeHimself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and comingin the likeness of men.

Php 2:8  And beingfound in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to thepoint of death, even the death of the cross.

 

 

Your strength wasunder His control – meekness

Col 3:12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tendermercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

Col 3:13  bearingwith one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint againstanother; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

Jas 1:21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

 

You showedtremendous hospitality

Rom 12:10  Bekindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;

Rom 12:11  notlagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

Rom 12:12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly inprayer;

Rom 12:13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.

 

The truth has setyou free – you were honest with God about your problems!

Joh 8:25  Then theysaid to Him, "Who are You?" And Jesus said to them, "Just what Ihave been saying to you from the beginning.

Joh 8:26  I havemany things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; andI speak to the world those things which I heard from Him."

Joh 8:27  They didnot understand that He spoke to them of the Father.

Joh 8:28  ThenJesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will knowthat I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Fathertaught Me, I speak these things.

Joh 8:29  And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him."

Joh 8:30  As He spoke these words, many believed in Him.

Joh 8:31  Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, youare My disciples indeed.

Joh 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

 

You arecontinually Overcoming through Christ!

Rom 8:37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,

Rom 8:39  nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

06/03/2005;  revised: 02/05/10

Apostle Andre Pelser

 

I want to discuss several aspects about the name Ebenezer to revive your spirit and strengthen your faith to believe that the Lord is ready to help you as well! He will help you in a marvellous way!

 

The Audible Voice

 

On 19.02.92  I heard the voice of the Lord audibly speak to me when he woke me up and said: ‘I am Ebenezer!’  This happened in the double storey house we rented in 14 Quest Road, Milnerton.

 

At that time I sweated in prayer for provision for my family. The income in the church was no more than R4 000 per month. The hall in Milpark Centre we rented cost R4 000 per month. Our house cost R2 000 per month and the schools R2 000 per month as well. We had no idea how we would survive in this new venture having started a church and a bible school in the Cape.

 

We called it Milnerton Christian Centre at that time. Later on that year the children suggested that we change it to Harvester, a chain restaurant in England where we liked eating whenever we went to minister with John Waller, an Elim pastor who pioneered a work in Slough, East of London. The children said, ‘why don’t we change the name of the church to Harvester? It is a good place to eat!’ Because we provide spiritual food for people we decided to change the name.

 

The Mustard Seed

I immediately knew that he had revealed himself to me in a way he has never done before. I made a vow to accept him as Ebenezer and to serve him accordingly: ‘Lord I will plant my mustard seed size faith to believe that you who helped me thus far will remain Ebenezer to us for the rest of our lives. I will not be slack in any business matters for I put my trust in you to provide, to lead and to guide me and to give me wisdom to obtain wealth and to do your work in the earth

 

Mark 4:30-32

30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: 32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

The King James Version

 

I will be your son – be a father to me. Give me wisdom to speak to people as much as they can understand.

 

Sometimes we speak to people on a level that interests us but goes over their heads. That is not wise; sometimes we under-estimate the understanding of people. I saw in the bible how Jesus and Paul gauged their audiences and I desired this gift as well. So I included it in my vow to God.

 

The Meaning of Ebenezer

 

68 Õeben { eh’-ben}

 

from the root of 1129 meaning to build; TWOT - 9; n f

 

AV - stone(s) 247, weight(s) 7, divers weights + 68 3, hailstones 3, stony 2, carbuncle + 688 1, hailstones + 1259 1, hailstones + 417 1, headstone 1, masons + 7023 1, plummet 1, slingstones 1; 272

 

1) stone (large or small)

1a) common stone (in natural state)

1b) stone, as material

1b1) of tablets

1b2) marble, hewn stones

1c) precious stones, stones of fire

1d) stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon

1e) weight

1f) plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal

1g) stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice

1h) sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines

1i) (simile)

1i1) sinking in water, motionlessness

1i2) strength, firmness, solidity

1i3) commonness

1j) (metaph)

1j1) petrified with terror

1j2)   perverse, hard heart[1]

 

1129 banah { baw-naw’}

 

a primitive root; TWOT - 255; v

 

AV - build 340, build up 14, builder 10, made 3, built again + 8735 2, repair 2, set up 2, have children + 8735 1, obtain children + 8735 1, surely

1) to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue

 

5828 `ezer { ay’-zer}

 

from 5826; TWOT - 1598a; n m

 

AV - help 19, help meet 2; 21

 

GK - 6469

1) help, succour

1a) help, succour

1b)    one who helps[2]

 

5826 `azar { aw-zar’}

 

a primitive root; TWOT - 1598; v

 

AV - help 64, helper 11, holpen 3, succour 3, variant 1; 82

 

GK - 6468

1) to help, succour, support

1a) (Qal) to help

1b) (Niphal) to be helped

1c)    (Hiphil) to help[3]

 

A brief account of the Ark

 

1. Philistines go to Aphek to attack Israel. The Israelites suffer a heavy defeat in battle.

2. Israelite messengers bring the ark to Ebenezer (the Israelite camp) believing this will save them.

3. In a second battle, the Israelites are again defeated. The ark is captured.

4. Philistines take the ark to Ashdod and keep it in the temple of Dagon. The statue of Dagon is discovered broken and a plague breaks out in the area. (Possibly bubonic plague spread by the mice of 1 Samuel 6:4–5.)

5. They send the ark to Gath . . .

6. . . . and then to Ekron. In both places, plague spreads.

7. The ark is sent back to Israel, with gifts, on a new wagon without a driver. It arrives in Beth Shemesh.

8. The Israelites are overjoyed at the return of the ark. It had been missing for 7 months.

9. The ark is moved to Kiriath Jearim, where it stays for 20 years until David moves it to Jerusalem.

 

The Blessed Presence of the Lord

 It stayed in the house of Obed Edom and his household prospered tremendously because of the help of the Lord. The Ark represented the presence of the Lord in those days. Today we do not have to build physical arks to obtain the presence of the Lord. Jeremiah prophesied and said we do not have to build one because there is an eternal ark in heaven that was the original ark and the Holy Spirit provides the presence of the Lord in our gatherings and in our lives. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

EBENEZER [ebb un EE zur] (stone of help) — the name of a place and a monument in Israel:

1. A place where Israel was defeated by the Philistines and the Ark of the Covenant was captured (1 Sam. 5:1). Its location was perhaps at modern Izbet Sarteh near Aphek.

2. A stone erected by Samuel to commemorate Israel’s victory over the Philistines. It may have been named after Ebenezer No. 1 to show that Israel’s defeat there 20 years before had been reversed (1 Sam. 7:12).

 

The previous name of Ebenezer

1033 Beyth Kar { bayth kar}

 

from 1004 and 3733;; n pr loc

 

AV - Bethcar 1; 1

 

GK - 1105

 } & 4122

 

Beth-car = “house of the ram” or “place of the lamb”

1)                a place apparently belonging to the Philistines[4]

 

3769 karar { kaw-rar’}

 

a primitive root; TWOT - 1046; v

 

AV - dance 2; 2

 

GK - 4159

1) (Pilpel) to whirl, dance

1a)    whirling, dancing (participle)[5]

 

The interpretation of the meaning

The Philistines obviously danced and whirled around because they captured the ark that represented the presence of the God of Israel. Now they knew that Israel could no longer defeat them.

 

Could this have been the reason why David danced and whirled before the ark? He ‘kararred’ before the ark, because ‘karar ‘ is a root word of ‘Bethcar’. The Name was changed to Ebenezer after the ark was taken back.

 

⁹And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.  ¹⁰And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel. ¹¹And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar. ¹²Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, [6] saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.  [7]

 

The application of the message

Maybe you have faced difficult situations for twenty years and you have wondered when it would end. Today the Good News is this: if you can believe that this word is for you, if you can hear it echo in your heart, if you are willing to confess it with your mouth, it will become a reality to you as from this very moment! Faith comes by hearing the word of the Lord. When faith comes, faith produces substance for what you are hoping for. Faith brings evidence that what you are hoping for is not in vain.

 

It is time for you to take back what the enemy has stolen from you. It is time for you to enjoy the refreshing presence of the Lord again. It is time for you to know God as Ebenezer again.

 

The Word that is sure

 

As I heard that audible voice, hear it today: I am Ebenezer! Hear the voice of God in your spirit! Hear it in your mind!

 

Peter said we have a ‘Word made sure’, namely the written Word of God that is more sure than the audible voice of God, that rises in our hearts like the morning star till the day dawns and the light breaks forth. He says we should hold on to that Word until everything becomes clear!

 

I have brought the Word of the Lord to you today: Today the Lord says to you: I am Ebenezer! Believe it! Act on it!

 

The time is here for you to dance

It is time for you to rejoice and to Karar before the Lord like David did when the ark finally returned! It is your time to dance and sing, because the presence of the Lord is with you. He said I will never leave you nor forsake you. He said I will be with you till the end. He said My Spirit will be in you and He will lead and guide you like a good shepherd. He said He will show you things to come. He is your Comforter, Your Paraclete. He is your friend that sticks closer than a brother. He is your strength, your provider, your healer, your saviour and your deliverer from all kinds of evil.

 

Ebenezer is with you today!

Let us rejoice!

 

Elohim

In the book of Genesis the name Elohim is used of the Creator.

El=Strong One

Daniel (God is my judge), Samuel (heard from God), Immanuel (God is with us)

Psalm 19:2: The heavens declare His wonders.

By faith we understand that the worlds were created by God. We were not there when it happened. We need faith to believe the word of God. (Hebrews 11:3)

El Elyon

Genesis 18:18 High and Lofty One

The God of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:1) who had no ancestry. Jesus is the new High Priest of the New Testament according to the order of Melchizedek. Jesus was not from the tribe of Levi or from the line of Aaron who ministered in the Old Tabernacle. Jesus is the First Born from the dead and He is the Head of the Church of the Firstborn. All born again believers become part of that heavenly Church (mentioned in Hebrews 12:22) and therefore all believers now become royal priests that can enter into the holy presence of God like the Old High Priest under the Old Covenant could only do once a year. What a new way of living! Jesus opened up a new way into the holiest of all – for all who will follow in His wake! He lifted us up into a new dimension of living and ministry!

Daniel 3:26

It

El Shaddai

The Mighty One

Genesis 17:1

God appeared to Abraham as the Mighty One who could create and maintain what He created

 The Mighty One can break all barriers and help us to overcome Satan, Sin and Self in our lives. There is nothing impossible to Him. All things are possible if we can believe.

El Shaddai mentioned 31 times in Job

El Olam

Genesis 21:33

Ephesians 1:9, 10

The Eternal One who knows all secrets. He reveals mysteries to us. It is an apostolic gift to open up the mysteries of God to the church so that they can understand the ways and the mind of God so that His will can be done on earth as it is in heaven.

David says, when I worship on the harp, the Lord reveals dark secrets to me.

Adonai

Lord

Genesis 15:2

This redemptive name expresses the relationship between God and man. When Abraham prayed for Sodom and Gomorrah he used the name Adonai. He knew who He was speaking to and what he wanted from Him. He wanted Him to remember that they were human beings.

Jahweh

Used 6 000 times in the Bible

The God of the Ten Commandments: JWH no vowels written out of reverend fear for the great God whom they served.

Moriah – the face of Jaweh

Josiah – help from Jaweh

Hallelujah – glorify Jaweh

He has given us a New Commandment: to love God with all our heart, soul and being and to love our neighbour as ourselves. In this all the other Old Testament Commandments are fulfilled! He is a covenant keeping God. There are more than 7 000 Promises of God for believers in the Bible. Every need is covered with a divine promise. He has already provided for you.

Those who participate in sponsoring apostolic missions to other nations have this promise from apostle Paul: My God shall supply all your needs (Philippians 4:10-19).

Jehovah Jireh

Genesis 22:14

God is our Great Provider. The cattle on a thousand hills belong to Him. All the silver and the gold is His. He is our Heavenly Father. He knows what we need. He answers even before we call on Him. He desires that we prosper and be in health even as our souls prosper (3 John 2)

He is the ‘many breasted one’ that can feed all of us at the same time!

Rapha

Exodus 15:26

The Lord God is our Great Physician and our Healer if we walk according to His Word. Keep the word before your eyes, in your heart, in your mouth and it will be health to your bones! It will do you good like good medicine! The Lord sent His Word and healed them – Psalm 107. By His stripes we were healed ( I Peter 2:23, 24).

Deuteronomy 7:15

Nissi

Our Banner

Exodus 17:15

Deuteronomy 28:7

Lord of War. Israel marched under four Banners under through the wilderness. The sign of a Lion represent the tribe of Judah, an Eagle, the tribe of Dan, a Calf, the tribe of Ephraim and a Man represent the tribe of Rueben. These also symbolize the four faces of Christ’s nature. The Lion is the King, the Calf the strength of an ox to labour; the man speaks of the Word being made flesh and the Son of God coming in the form of a man; and the eagle speaks of the soaring one, the spiritual being, the one who can scale the cliffs and pierce the heavens.

Solomon wrote: My beloved is mine and I am His and His banner over me is Love!

The Lord has stretched His banner over you already! In the Spiritual realm the angels and demons can see under whose banner you are marching! If God is for us who can be against us?

Shalom

Peace

Judges 6:23, 24

He reconciled sinful man with Holy God – made peace. Peace comes after war. The battle for your soul has been won on Calvary. Jesus defeated Satan and wiped out the handwriting that is against us and nailed it to the cross. Then he disarmed Satan of all the weapons in which he trusted and displayed him openly as a defeated foe. He gives you peace. He is the Prince of Peace. The world cannot know peace because they reject the Prince of Peace.

He forgives sins and gives us peace within

Sabaoth

I  Samuel 1:3

Lord of Hosts

The Lord of War and Majesty

Psalm 24:10

God wants to give us comfort in great anxiety. Only God can do that. No one else can give yo peace that passes understanding. In the midst of trials and tribulation he can give you a Sabbath’s rest! The battle is the Lord’s. He will fight your battles and give you the victory! Put your trust in Him. His armies will fight on your behalf. Those who are for you are more than those who are against you!

Ra-ah

The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want (another shepherd!) He makes me lie down in green pastures (he does not drive me like a cattle driver to exhaust me – he is not a slave driver or a dictator like Hitler!) and leads me beside still waters (He does not build a bridge for me over troubled waters!) Sheep are afraid of rough waters because if they fall in their wool will get too heavy and they will drown. They only drink when the water is still. That is where the Shepherd restores our soul so that He can lead us paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake.  

Psalm 23:1

Tsidkenu

Righteousness

Jeremiah 23:16

Isaiah 54:17

Your righteousness is of Me says the Lord; the Lord has become our righteousness according to I Corinthians 1:30. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. He made Him who knew no sin to become sin so that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus (II Corinthians 5:210

Shammah

The Lord is there: before you get there, the Lord is there! He prepares the way for you to get there! He is always there. He never fails to show up – wherever you go, He’ll be there!

Ezekiel 48:35

Revelation 21;22, 23

I’ll be there for you for a thousand years

Yakaddish Kem

Holiness

 Exodus 31:3

I Corinthians 1:30 – The Lord is our holiness. Holiness has become a person, not just an attitude or moral behaviour. As Christ gains ascendency in our lives, as He increases and we decrease, our holiness augments.

 

I would like to give some facts concerning angels to establish belief in the actual existence of angels. The Sadducees in Jesus' time did not want to believe in angels or any supernatural actions. The Pharisees believed in angels. The Modernists don't believe in angels. They say the theory concerning angels developed when the Jews in exile were influenced by the theories of the Babylonians.

Facts about their existence
1. Mentioned 180 times in Old Testament and 160 times in New Testament
2. History proves their existence
3. Jesus confirms their existence (John 1:52/ Luke 15:10/ Matthew 26;53)

Facts about their nature
1. They are created beings (Good/evil)
2. They were created before human beings
3. We are not to worship them (Col 2:18/ Rev 19:10)

Facts about numbers of angels
1. Innumerable company (Hebrews 12:22/ Daniel 7:10)
2. They are part of the church of the First Born
3. Their lord is the Lord of hosts

Facts about their ranks
1. They are ministering spirits (Heb 1:14/ Rev 19:10)
2. Authorities and powers (I Pet 3;22)

Facts about the Angel of the Lord
1. He can forgive trespasses (Ex 23;20-230
2. He can go before you (Ex 32:34/ 33:14)
3. He is called the Angel of His Presence/ Face ( Is 63:9)
4. We can see God reflected in Him
5. The Name of Jehovah is in Him
6. Jacob encountered Him (Gen 32:30)
7. He is the Son of God, the Messiah

By Apostle André Pelser 

The first sign

We landed on 26^th January 2010 in Chennai. India is the 60^th nation I go to before I turn 60 to preach the Gospel. It was India's 60^th celebration of their Independence on that same day! There were flags waving everywhere and the news broadcasts celebrated the event on almost every channel. It was a sign to both Yve and myself that we were stepping into the perfect will of God for our lives, walking in the footsteps prepared for us before the foundation of the world, as Paul describes divine destiny in Ephesians 2:10-12.

Pastor's Seminars

By ministering to 470 pastors over a period of eight days in the South of India we effectively reached as many congregations of thousands!

My book God's Genius about the apostolic reformation has gone to many pastors and Nola's Praise and Worship CD and manuals, Aje & Chantal's reformational songs have been sown in churches. Several pastors have asked me to return to India and promised to organize greater seminars and even crusades. The doors to Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia have been opened as a result of this mission to India!

Pastor James Raj of the Church of Pentecost in Ghana was our host. He oversees 72 COP churches in India and gets a salary from the HQ in Ghana.

Yve the missionary

It was a great privilege to take my daughter Yve with me on this trip. She was a tremendous team player and a great 2-IC (Second in Charge, as they say in the army). She took 14 hours of footage on hand held camera and over 500 photos. Apostle Aje and Yve are currently busy editing the footage on our new editing suite! There will be six to eight DVD's all together and one short one to summarise the adventure! Editing is probably the most painstaking process of film making and maybe also the most expensive. The fact that we have our own editing suite now is a tremendous advantage to boost our media division.

We have given all our DVD's to Brother Wilson to show on cable TV for 700 000 viewers over the next few months in India. Can you imagine what it would cost to pay for such an opportunity anywhere else? It would be a small fortune!

On TV with 60 million viewers

On the first of February (my late father's birthday) I coached cricket at Laidlaw College, a private school in Ketti, high up in the Nilgiris Mountains. When I finished coaching about 60 boys, there were two TV reporters who interviewed me and put my interview on the news broadcast of two local channels with a viewership of 60 million people! Amazing! Yve and I watched me on the TV that night.

They asked me what my own cricket highlight was and I could tell them that I took 6 wickets in 7 balls as an off-spin bowler! Imagine teaching Indian boys how to spin a cricket ball! Mr. Gardener, the headmaster, a wonderful old gentleman, received us in his office and pleaded that we should come back and coach other schools as well. I told him Aje, my son, was a professional coach and that he would love to come to India.

"It is a feather in the cap of India that we have Gary Kirsten from Cape Town, South Africa coaching our National team and now we have Andre Pelser from Cape Town as well to coach our schools!" They said on the news broadcast on both channels.

Our travels in India

Chennai used to be Madras. Many of the names of cities in India have reverted back to their original names before colonisation. From Chennai we went to Coimbatore. The following day we ministered in Pollachi for an entire day. The following morning we drove to Tirupur for a seminar and then travelled by train for 8 hours to Chennai where we ministered in two churches over the weekend. The early morning service was at 5.30 am to avoid the city traffic! We returned to Tirupur by train again.

The train journey in India was something to experience. It is jam-packed full of overnight commuters and curtains separate the compartments. Joshua a young boy that accompanied Pastor James Raj was Yve's constant helper and companion. He helped to carry all the bags of camera equipment.

Finally back in Tirupur we drove for four hours up the Blue Mountains to Coonnoor, where Pastor James Raj lives. He is actually an apostle and accepts the fact after our visit. From Coonnoor we drove through the breathtaking tea plantations on the slopes of the great mountains to Devarshola, a little village high up in the mountains to speak to another group of pastors. 

We visited Ooty the next day and also drove all the way to Glenmorgan Hydro-Electric Scheme. It is not open for public viewing, so special permission was requested and granted for us to visit it. It is situated in a quiet valley between several mountain ranges and there are three power stations. From the top of the mountain it looks as if there is nothing happening down there. But there is a 50 mile tunnel that the British dug through a mountain of solid rock to bring the water from another lake to the power station.

What impressed me was the peacefulness of the whole scene - and yet it supplies the power to 60 million people! That is more people than we have in South Africa! I think with all the trouble we have in our electricity supply from Eskom we could go and learn something from the way things are done in the South of India!

We drove back down the mountain to Coimbatore and flew to Chennai, to Dubai and back to Cape Town.

The journey there took 33 hours with all the delays and the stopovers at airports and our return journey was only 22 hours!

Incredible India

Incredible India! It is a wonderful experience just to be there. The poverty is shocking, the vast crowds are stunning, the traffic is frightening and the hot humid weather is stifling - but the food, ah, the food is exquisite and the teas are an education to the western palate.

The thing that impressed me the most was the friendliness of the people. They are not friendly to get a tip from you in the hotels, in fact, they don't want a tip. They are friendly because they like being friendly!

I thought about that for a long time. Then I realised that most of them believe in Reincarnation. They are friendly and they love to serve because they believe they will come back on a higher level in their next life! Their concept of eternal rewards makes them wonderful people to be amongst.

Shouldn't the concept of Eternal Life have the same effect on Christians? Maybe we don't really believe in an afterlife as we should. Maybe we need to preach about it more often.

Pastor James Raj

Pastor James Raj was amazing. He was always talkative, always friendly, always a good PRO and translated all my sermons into Tamil or Hindi. He can speak four Indian dialects. There are over 700 and 130 official languages. Yet the country is not divided. It is not language that bonds them together but culture.

Pastor James Raj survived the Dehli bomb blast 13^th September 2008 in which 30 people were killed and more than 200 seriously injured. He was 12 feet away from the suicide bomber in a busy market place. The people who were serving him on the other side of the tables were all killed. He and the two people with him had burns and cuts on their backs and on the back of their legs. They were the first to be dismissed from hospital. Hundreds of people died that day. His testimony was on the front page of the daily newspaper the next day. The headlines read something to this effect, Death came but God did not allow it for this pastor!

Apostle Thomas

There are only 2% Christians in India - and most of them are Catholics. The idolatry of the Catholics fits the mind-sets of the Hindu's and the Buddhists.

The Catholics have made a shrine of St. Thomas Mountain in Chennai, where Apostle Thomas was murdered by the Brahmins. He went to India in 40 AD and died in 70 AD. He gave his life to sow the seeds of the Gospel in India.

The church leaders still call him, ‘Doubting Thomas', but wherever we went I vindicated the apostle by explaining that the moment of doubt lead to the revelation of who Jesus really was: he was the first apostle to make the confession: ‘My Lord and my God!' He was the first apostle to believe that Jesus is God, not only the Son of God! So whenever anyone referred to him as doubting Thomas I corrected them immediately and said, He had great faith.

It was wonderful to walk in Thomas's footsteps - but it was disgusting to see how the Catholics have commercialised the scene of his murder. Religion has a way of messing up something very precious because it wants to stamp its own imprint on an event instead of letting it speak for itself. They even have a giant poster with an image of what Apostle Thomas might have looked like, with the inscription: ‘Come I will take you to Your Lord!'

The need in India

There is a great need for upgraded bible school material in India and also a need for a training centre to train incumbents from 700 000 villages in India.

There is also a great need for discernment of spirits because people cannot discern what is demonic and what is from the Holy Spirit.

The level of dedication among pastors is also very low. They do not live the kind of life you expect from a minister and they all have the excuse that they have to do ‘other things' in order to survive.

There are many young men who want to go into the ministry but they cannot afford to go to a theological seminary. The need for a proper apostolic training centre is great and the need for new dimension churches even greater.

Christianity needs an enormous boost of finances to support the ministry as well as spiritual refreshment or reform in order to push back the forces of darkness in this great country.

There is also a great need to teach new believers to leave their old Hindu and Buddhist ways as well as those converted from the idolatry of Catholicism. They tend to add Christianity as another collection to their many gods instead of forsaking their old lifestyle of idolatry and demon worship.

Lying signs and wonders

In Tirupatti in Andraprodesh there is a temple where healings and miracles and signs and wonders take place on a regular basis. People pay millions of Rupees and sell their houses and give it to the miracle working priest at the shrine. They bring diamonds, gold and bank certificates and hand over entire bank accounts in order to be healed from their diseases. And they do get healed! The demon spirits make men successful in their businesses and makes people rich and famous, besides healing them. The cash rolls in all the time!

Many pastors go to these shrines to obtain spiritual power to make their ministries powerful and to make them wealthy...many come from overseas as well...

In Sabari Malai (only for men) there is another such a shrine in Herala State where similar things happen. They fast 40 days and wear black Dhoti's (linen cloth wraps around their waists) instead of pants and keep from women for 40 days and walk barefoot.

In Bangalore, Sai Baba was announced as ‘god'. People give their properties to him. He vanishes and appears somewhere else. He can be transported by evil spirits. He called an evangelist to preach Sai Baba as Jesus and promised to make him very rich and famous.

‘If I show you Jesus will you preach me?'

Then he spoke some mantras and Jesus appeared on the cross in front of the evangelist - alive!

The voice of the Holy Spirit told the evangelist; ‘Look at Jesus, he's blinking. Look at his hands, they are not pierced!' Then the evangelist rebuked Sai Baba: ‘You devil this is not the real Jesus!' Then Sai Baba disappeared. People then came to fall at the feet of the evangelist to worship him. He tried to stop them but they made sacrifices to him, but he kept yelling, ‘Don't worship me, I am just a man!'

These kinds of things happen all over India. The healings are temporal. The diseases lift for a while and then come back with vehemence. You fall under the spell of an evil spirit if you go to get your healing in those places. The demonic spirit in the healing priest controls you now. He can use you for whatever he wants to do with you.

They contact you in the spirit realm, in dreams and by other forms of spiritual communication, even by appearing to you, and command you to do certain things for them. If you don't, you will be punished.

The difference between Hinduism and Christianity

The Hindu gods make people suffer. The people live in fear. Jesus suffered for us. Christianity is too simple for Hindu's. They find it hard to believe that someone else will pay the price for their salvation.

The people go on long pilgrimages, barefoot, and carry heavy idols, so that their feet bleed and their bodies collapse along the way. They get robbed and mugged and even killed before they get to the shrine. Yet the number of pilgrims is on the increase every year. They want to earn their healing or their blessing.

Apparently these shrines and temples belong to the government and most of the money goes to the government. The priest gets a salary from the government!

There is so much to learn in India

Travelling in India is an education in itself. We have learned so much about so many things; it would take a book to write it all down! For instance, Biriyani is derived from the Persian word, ‘Birian' which means, ‘fried before cooking'. Pastor James Raj's wife cooked the best Biriyani we had in India!

India is the land of spices...and the spices are not just there to satisfy our taste buds, they have medicinal use and healing qualities. When Yve had a bit of a head cold because of the cold air con in the one hotel room, the cook in the restaurant prescribed Masala tea four times a day. You cook the tea leaves in the milk mixed with water and it has an amazing effect - almost immediately!

The British have done so much for India in education, organization, infra-structure and legislation that you feel the effect of the British everywhere you go. Like Pastor James says, ‘if they had stayed longer, they could have done more!'

Sponsors make missions possible

The mission to India was made possible by the generous giving of sponsors. We only received one offering in India which we gave back to Pastor James for petrol money. The entire trip cost a small fortune, but think of the riches invested in the saints and then everything was worth it all. Who could calculate the value of a soul? Who could calculate the work that the Holy Spirit did on this trip in the hearts of 470 pastors who came to attend our seminars and in the churches where we ministered? Who would know just how big a harvest the seeds of reform would produce in years to come? How many hundreds of thousands of viewers will be reached in the next 5 months on cable TV? How many lives have been touched as a result of this single venture?

Yve and the Indian women

Yve was a hit with all the Indian women. They just loved her and loved to touch her skin and her hair. Even though they could not communicate in language they had many heart to heart talks. One such old lady could only say five words in English: ‘sorry, sister, brother, mother, father!' So she kept on talking to Yve mentioning those five words and Yve would talk back to her. Yve decided to talk to her with an Indian accent and bobbing her head along with the old woman. In the end they were screaming with laughter and everyone else joined in.

Yve spoke to the young women in India where she was asked to address a congregation. They simply adored her.

If hearts can meet, language is almost superfluous...

We touched hearts in India and India touched our hearts.

We returned on the 5^th of February 2010 to Cape Town. The first time I ventured out overseas, I returned on the 5^th of February 1972. Now on my 60^th mission I return on the same date.

Yve met an actress friend of hers on our Emirates flight. She had become an air hostess. When she saw Yve she screamed with delight and lost her air hostess pose completely! It was a sign to Yve that we had to be on that flight that night. There were a few complications at the airport because our agent had booked us for the next night. So we had to pay a penalty and eventually after a big struggle we got onto that particular flight at 3.30 am in the morning in Chennai. If we had not been on that flight Yve and her friend would not have met. The friend bestowed all the goods on us that she could. She treated us like royalty in economy class!

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