BetSeber

Give us a battle plan, a plan of strategy with each man in our life, some men need constant boosts of their ego, other despises it, some need you to ask for assistance, some just want random information about your life, but teach us, You are the best teacher, You know the inner chambers of their hearts, you know the voids in their life, please teach us. Who taught Delila how to tempt Simson? Was it You or was it the enemy? If it was You, please teach us the same way you taught Delila, if it was the enemy, he copy cat something you made to be used for something beautiful, so teach us how to use it conductively. We want the Delila super power. Give us good connections too, something that we see that will remind us of them, something intimate we can share with them and they will understand the context of this. Please also clear all the blocked communication the enemy has blocked. Please flood our communication channels with your elysian, Spiritual drain cleaner. 

I once dated a Swiss guy, his first language was German, then Swiss-German, then French, then English. So our communication was strained, to say the least, shoutout to all international couples out there I salute you, that is challenging to say the least. Deepl translator soon became my best friend while we were dating. He battled to say he was scared; instead he used to say I’m scary, so this part of the podcast is then appropriately named 50 shades of scary. The numerous masks I have encountered that men decide to wear when they are scary, are as countless as the stars in the sky. This realization only came to me after years of Spirit-led counselling and life-coaching. This time last year I thought I had a battle-plan against the deep-seated root of fear when entering a relationship, it is only now that I realize no earthly battle plan, no earthly weapons can enter this spiritual war, hence now I’m changing once again my strategy to heavenly or spiritual weapons against the 50 shades of scary. 

On this topic of understanding the subtitles of their emotions, their messages, I once listened to this very profound Podcast from Rob Bell, this is just another note, prayer and declaration that I would like to make, I want the double portion of anointing than Rob Bell have, all the healing and grace I have written on the tables of my heart by listening to all of his podcast, my prayer is that this Podcast will have double the anointing effect on the listeners. Just me feeling generous, just me feeling loved and sharing the love. Rob Bell spoke about the order that we have to love God with all our strength, he touched on the topic that some people have less strength, or less muchness as he explained it on the Podcast. 

This also stroke a chord deep inside me, I know I’m intense, I overlove, I invest a lot in other people’s life, because God has filled me with His Spirit and not with a small measure, God has given me so many beautiful flower-people along the way, so I have a Land Cruiser size love-tank inside me, but some people only have a Pasola kind of love-tank inside of them. I have also been down and out in my life, where just the hallo how are you kind of whatsapp message was all that I had energy for to muster up, just to get a little bit of attention. So this is also a journey I’m currently on, like Jesus saw the lady giving only two coins and He said she gave the most, some people can only muster up a little bit of love, only the two coins amount of love, but they gave you all the love they have inside of them. May we learn daily not to trample on the two coins kind of love, because it is literally all they have. May we celebrate these two coins kind of love, the same way we will celebrate the Land Cruiser love tank kind of love, because after all, it is only grace that we have the Land Cruiser love-tank, nothing special we did right and they did wrong. I want the men in my life to love me like they do, I do not want them to conform to the existing ideas and thoughts I think this is what love is, I want them to love me like they do.

I truly belief something magically happens when you plan a romantic date or a romantic breakaway for your loved one. I actually think that you invest a small little part of your heart or your soul into the other person. Thinking and planning what the other person will like, what will please them. I’m not a Mugg and Bean kind of date girl, I know I’m high maintenance, I was actually at a hair salon about three years back, and then the topic once again surfaced why are you still single? Then the cleaning lady chirped into the conversation, saying she is difficult. It is a label I will take on gladly, I have standards, I’m worthy and I know I’m something special, so are you, we all are. We need to be cherished. So last week I went on one of those finely planned and orchestrated dates, my first Uber ride ever, it was one of my favourite dates ever. May God infuse the men with a copy and paste effect of my planned date for all of the Princesses out there. I have recently heard that the reason why we have to give testimonies is because the root of the word testimony is for God to do it again. 

Editors note – while I was writing the script for this podcast, the song from James actually played on the radio, I listened to LM Radio – a huge shoutout to LM Radio all the way from Maputo, Mozambique for your fantastic playlists, always providing me with a source of inspiration in the music stream. While the song was playing, I said a little prayer to God –please God restore the passion again in our marriages, in our relationships. 

I have been intensely journeying with several women over the cause of the past three years, numerous times I have seen the severe influence the condition of the man’s heart have on the women. I truly belief in happy wife, happy life. In order for this statement to manifest, I cannot help but to think that we should really start investing more time in praying for the emotional wellbeing of the men in our lives. So this is the sole purpose of this podcast season, giving you bullet-points on how to pray for the men in your life, do not only think about your husband, boyfriend or fiancee, no think broader think about your father, your brothers, your friend’s husbands, your colleagues and your male friends. I have realized that we serve a talking-God, God wants us not only to think about Him, but He wants us to declare His Promises over our lives, He wants us to declare His blessings over our lives. Furthermore I see one of my callings on life to inspire fellow pilgrims to inspirational creative, next level prayers, so here goes. May this inspire you. 

Furthermore before I continue to pray, I have seen time and time again that the darkest hour is just before the dawn, that it usually goes a little bit more difficult before it gets easier. I want to pray against that from the start, please place us in your bubble of protection, but furthermore please erase all the backlashes from the devil as we launch this prayer campaign for praying for the men in our lives. Furthermore I also declare that You will infuse me with Your creative Holy Spirit in order for the ideas to flow, furthermore I also declare that You will give us confirmations on so many different levels, You are the creative, limitless God, that will answer our prayers in a myriad of ways. 

I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien, this is how feel time and time again when I spend time with my family. I feel weird, I feel a little bit unnoticed. Jesus preached that a prophet will not be recognized in their own fatherland, this is something that I can definitely say a big fat huge amen to. This is something that I came across time and time again. So I have this new policy about my journey called life, I will invest 90% praying about a matter, then 10% talking to the person about the problem. I really see things happen when we pray, we actually ask God to soak their minds and hearts in His Holy Spirit, the same way we allow a good old steak to marinate before we cook it, the same happens when we pray about something. So let the marinating begin. 

I want God firstly to unlearn all the mental strongholds we have cultivated over the years. I recently listened to an Alan Storey sermon, I will post the link below on Peter unlearning what he thought was right about the gentiles. God took Peter on an adventurous journey, first through visions, then secondly by travelling to Cornelius, then lastly God had the Holy Spirit manifest on the gentile Cornelius family. This is how I see God, He constantly wants to take us out on adventures, so may He take our family on a lovely adventure together to unlearn all the lies we are currently believing in. 

http://cmm.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-05-26-ALAN.mp3

So this is the third conflict, accusing situation by the Pharisees to Jesus, when will they ever learn? When will they ever cease? Maybe you can relate to this, you have the same issues resurfacing continuously in your life. I personally have a boulevard of broken love relationships. Even Jesus battled with the same issue popping and re-entering continuously in His life, even when He has won notoriously and victoriously every time before. First with the paraplegic by performing a double whammy of a miracle, healing the man and reading their thoughts, they still kept coming back for more, for more humiliation. 

The second time they tried to ask Him a trick question, He aced it, giving them the royal flush or three very valuable answers, that He likes a challenge, that He is not a threat for them, He goes to the lost cases, Priests and Pharisees waited for people to come to them, so they were serving to totally different markets. It is as good a five star restaurant are scared that they are going to loose business because a burger king opened up next to them. 

Now the opening scene of confrontation number three – why do you not fast like all the other rabbis and disciples? So take heed my beating restless heart, Jesus already has the solution for every recurring issue in your life. 

Luk 5:27 And after this, Jesus went out and looked [attentively] at a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office

What in the world is a tax collector and why is this so significant? Two years ago the book – A President’s Keeper was released here in South Africa. Broadcasting and publishing all the corrupt fraudulent business of then President Zuma and his chromies. They stole, especially Zuma and the Guptas, the book was so depressing for me, I had to read a couple of chapters, then put it down and either watch a feel good rom-com or go and visit some of my upbeat friends. I’m not usually prone to depression, but this book made me miserable, how could evil persist like this? Luckily the book shed some light and shortly after the release of this book Zuma was removed as president. So this is my best comparison to the perspective of a tax collector in first century Israel, the tax collectors is compared to corrupt state of the parties in the book the President’s Keeper. 

This is why this little sentence and the whole story is actually so profound for me, remember a few podcasts back, after the miraculous fishing, Peter, then Simon said to Jesus go away from me as I’m a sinner, then Jesus gave him the soft comforting words, the hot chocolate with marshmallow words on it. Now this story about Matthew/Levi is just the illustration on steroids, that Jesus can convert the most useless case of a sinner in an instant. Nobody is too lost for Jesus. So if you know people who are a lost case, please pray with me now, and we declare that the same way You Lord Jesus went searching and chasing after Matthew/Levi, please do the same for the people I’m thinking about. 

1. Luk 5:17 One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and religion teachers were sitting around. They had come from nearly every village in Galilee and Judea, even as far away as Jerusalem, to be there.

So up to this point we have only heard about all the rumours going out about Jesus, so the critics came first. I’m sure God told Jesus in His alone time that this will happen. Please Lord Jesus warn us before hand when we will attract the critics in our live, so that we can be prepared. We will attract crowds to us as we walk closer to God. 

2. Luk 5:20 Seeing the demonstration of their faith

Teach us daily how to demonstrate the big faith like the four friends. We know that only faith can impress you, so please teach us daily new ways of showing and manifesting this big faith that impresses You. I know that you have storerooms full of inspiration for us to demonstrate big faith, the faith that actually impresses you, please teach this to us. Just like in a romantic movie where the hero at the end of the movie demonstrates this big gesture of romance, I want to do it for you, I want to demonstrate the big romantic gestures of faith, please inspire me. 

Luk 5:13 Jesus put out his hand, touched him, and said,

So Jesus touched the leper, He broke the rules as by touching the leper He also became unclean, so Jesus will break a rule for you, to show you that He cares. Ask Him today to break a rule for you to show you how much He cares. Secondly this must have been the first touching the man has had in ages, so if you are lonely, have not been touched, have not felt the loving affection of someone special, ask Jesus to touch you today. 

The Greek Root for this word of touching the leper is to set a fire, to light a candle. I once went on a Spiritual Sound Journey workshop, while the different sounds were playing, I felt a heat inside me, it felt as if a fire, a gently warming fire was lit in my soul. I have also heard that sometimes people will refer to someone as the ice queen, so please Lord Jesus touch us to warm us, just like what I experienced that day with the sound journey. I sometimes see Jesus as a warm cup of hot chocolate with little marshmallows in it on a cold winter’s day. So please come and touch us. I often in the winter sit and bask in the warm winter sun; this feels as if God is giving me a warm embrace, maybe this is what the leper felt that day. Please Lord Jesus touches me this way. Just also furthermore on the note of leprosy, even though in Western cultures we do not have the disease anymore, I think this healing can be copy and pasted into every skin disease, maybe it is acne, maybe it is sun stains, maybe it is a foot fungi, I would like to encourage you to think creative in the empty vases you would like to bring in front of Jesus with the skin diseases. 

Luk 5:13 “I want to. Be clean.” I could marvel at this simple sentence for days to come, firstly Jesus wants to heal us, He wants to help us. Milydia se storie – ek wil jou help.... May we daily see this manifest, that He wants to help us. I once heard the story of Joyce Meyer telling the story that God whispered softly into her ear that He wants to help her with her hair, doing her hair in the morning. May Jesus too reveal to us daily new aspects that He wants to help us with new things in our life. I have asked God to help me wash my car, to help me to see the deeper meaning of the Bible, may He show new and new ways where He wants to assist us with. 

Why did Jesus preach from a boat when the crowd was pressing in on him? First, sound travels quite easily over water, and on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, by Capernaum, there is a naturally occurring amphitheater, where the acoustics would have also made it easier for people to hear Jesus. Today this spot is called the "Bay of Parables." Gospel stories that seem odd or illogical often turn out to have sensible explanations when you think about them carefully, or when you are able to see the locales in which they happened. I talk a lot about stories and places like this, as well as about the Bay of Parables, in my new book "Jesus: A Pilgrimage." 

So firstly Jesus knows Physics, in today’s world He would have multiple Nobel Prizes, I belief having an intimate relationship with Jesus He can teach us so many wonders and marvels about Physics. Maybe your child needs extra physics lessons, ask Jesus to come and teach him/her. This is my wish and my prayer for both me and you, may Jesus daily teach us new physics wonders. 

The second wonder in this tale was when they actually caught so many fish that the nets wanted to tear, now firstly in the previous podcast I explained about the poverty in Galilea, I’ll explain it again: Fishing was also a source of income, but Herod Antipas started fishing commercially, basically taking all the fish, so the fishing industry was dying. I recently went to Ponta Do Ouro for a holiday, one of my favourite places in the world. The Mozambique Government gave the fishing rights away to the China as a barter deal for the road they built from the Ponta border to Maputo. Usually we will have an abundance of fresh shellfish available, to sell on the beach, in shops or even to eat in restaurants. With our last visit there, and I think the barter deal has only been operational for at least 18months, we obtained no prawns. Our first stop back in South Africa was to John Dory’s just to eat prawns. It was so sad. Furthermore the crime has ten folded increased in Ponta, because of the lack of income of local fishermen. I think this is to a lesser extent what happened in Capernaum, the people were very poor.