JESUS LEER MY ASSEBLIEF BID - His Will His Way

of faith, but not to play with me; it was all or nothing. That same day my life started falling to
pieces and I couldn’t understand it. By the following Thursday I was in tears and asking God
what I had done wrong. Holy Spirit gently reminded me of my prayer of faith.
From that point on my life has not been the same. I was unemployed for six years; I had
decided that I was going to pursue the perfect will of God for my life. Every time I went for an
interview, God would say no to the job offer. It was a frustrating time for me and I was broken
even further. It was an awesome time for growth and deepening, a true account of repentance.
I had decided to pursue a career as a life coach, teaching people leadership, which was my
interest in life. God opened other doors involving teenagers (this was not my idea of fun). I got
involved with teens in crisis and started working with them. After six years of waiting for God to
open doors for me and guide me into His perfect will for my life, He did. I got the call to full time
ministry and was surprised to hear it would be at the local Afrikaans high school. It was amazing
to see God at work. I was not known at the school, I was English, and the headmaster was not
acquainted with me. When he was told that I was to work at the school, his casual reply was
“when can he start”. It was definitely a God thing.
I started there in 2006 and have spent the last two and a half years in the school, ministering to
teens and being where God wants me to be. It has been a tough journey, faith is not easy, and
it is not meant to be. Soon after I started at the school God spoke to me and told me the
following: “I have seen your struggle, you have spent six years in the wilderness, eating manna
and quails and you sought to be in my perfect will, not wavering. I now know that I can trust
you”. These words are more valuable to me than any other words can ever be.
The crux of this testimony is that serving the Almighty God is an absolute; an absolute joy, an
absolute pleasure, an absolute thrill and an absolute commitment. It starts with true repentance
– a changing of how you think about God and what He has done for us. Once we have come to
repentance we can start to know and prove what God’s desire (will) is for us, His perfect,
pleasant and pleasing will. It requires absolute obedience to the Word of God, a total
surrendering of yourself (spirit, soul and body) to the Almighty Father and to His desire for your
life.
It requires a pursuing of Holiness, the absolute standard that God has set for us. God’s desire is
that we live spotless and blameless before Him in love (Eph 1:4-7) and this requires that we
pursue it. My life has not been the same since I truly came to repentance in 1999 and my desire
is that it will continue to change and my desire to pursue holiness will increase daily. God is an
awesome God and one that we must earnestly desire and seek the Word says. Finally, faith is
vital. The Word says it clearly in Heb 11:6 – Without faith it is impossible to please Him; for he
who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently
seek Him.
Hennie Barnard
Ek het groot geword in ‘n tradisionele Christelike huis. Ek was ‘n plaaskind, en my ouers het
geboer. Ek het twee fantastiese ouers, ‘n ouer suster en jonger broer. Ek was ‘n saggeaarde
kind – so het my ma altyd gesê. Toe loopbaankeuses gemaak moes word het ek beluit om ‘n
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