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SEPTEMBER 2015 GRAMMY®winner and 21-time Dove Award winning artist YOUR HOME OF VARIETY CHRISTIAN ENTERTAINMENT MY FAITH_SEPT 2015_PRINT.indd 1 22/07/2015 04:31:58 PM presents TWO NIGHTS WITH PRESENTED BY: BENNY HINNDR ANDRÉ & JENNY ROEBERT 22 - 23 OCTOBER RIVER PARK 19:00 JOIN BENNY HINN FOR UNFORGETTABLE MEETINGS OF SIGNS, HEALING & WONDERS. ENTRY AT R5 AND PREFERRED SEATING R200 PER PERSON PER EVENING. AVAILABLE FROM COMPUTICKET 22 - 23 October 2015 @ 19:00 General Seating: R5.00 1 Pontoon Road, East London Preferred Seating: R200.00 Studio B, River Park * Subject to change AFRICA TERRESTRIAL Tel: 086 174 8377 • [email protected] • events.myfaithtv.com Myfaithtv @myfaithtv EDITORIAL From the I recently went on a work/vacation trip during which I decided to write a daily blog in keeping friends and family “posted” about the happenings. So this blog really documents everything that my family and I get up to while relaxing in new environments, and briefly mentions some of the work-related elements as well. Now, blogging is nearly as old as a primary school child, so it needs no new introduction. This whole process got me thinking again though. Firstly, we are discovering new places, people and experiences every day, and in all I am reminded of the goodness of God. I have come to realize again that God is indeed universal, and wherever a packed suitcase may take us, there God goes with as well. David puts it far better in Psalm 139: God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. I’m an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking. You know when I leave and when I get back; I’m never out of your sight. You know everything I’m going to say before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you’re there, then up ahead and you’re there, too — your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful — I can’t take it all in! Is there any place I can go to avoid your Spirit? To be out of your sight? If I climb to the sky, you’re there! If I go underground, you’re there! If I flew on morning’s wings to the far western horizon, You’d find me in a minute — you’re already there waiting! Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I’m immersed in the light!” It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you (The Message). Secondly, I have met some amazing people and have been overwhelmed at the creativity of God. I have realized that all people are people! By this I mean that as a human I am no different from another – often we think that a different race or culture is a different species! The greatest discovery (perhaps it is more of a reminder) is that God cares for all the people on earth, no matter where they are. While it may take me nearly a day to travel to a new place on earth, God is already there. Global travel may take time for me, but the globe is in the palm of God’s hand! The blog I write in a sense becomes the documentation of God’s hand in the life of my family and I. And we are overwhelmed… by an indescribable love and an immeasurable grace. We are also confronted by God’s sense of humour and Him taking delight in our smallest pleasure. So the blog becomes a testimony to and of God in a sense. Who ever thought a blog could serve as a reminder of God? Initially I didn’t, but now some weeks into our journey, I have come to see that the greatest experience of life is simply to encounter God, even in what we consider small things. May this issue of MyFaith Magazine be a blessing this new spring month, and may you experience God in the smallest of small things! Send us a mail, drop a message on the website or Facebook, and share with us what God means to you. Publishers: River Media Waldo Malan | Editor Address: P/Bag X9027 | East London [email protected] 5200 | South Africa | +27 (0)43 711 4800 Printers: River Rock Media Melanie Flanegan | Sub-Editor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] +27 (0)43 711 4808 Jayson Duncan | Graphic Designer [email protected] Website: www.myfaithmag.com Johandre Janse van Rensburg | Graphic Designer Facebook: www.facebook.com/myfaithmag Twitter: www.twitter.com/myfaithmag [email protected] Rudi Le Roux | Graphic Designer No staff member or direct family or an [email protected] advertiser and their direct family may participate in any of My Faith Anadore Kenny | Online Publishing magazine competitions or giveaways. [email protected] The views expressed in articles, letters and pictures are the responsibility of the Pat Kruger | Advertising respective authors and are not necessarily [email protected] those of My Faith magazine - the acceptance of advertisements does not indicate editorial endorsement. 4 | SEPTEMBER 2015 myfaithmag.com CL CONTENTS Regulars 2 EDITORIAL 18 FAITH KIDS 32 TV GUIDE 34 HIGHLIGHTS 38 SCRIPTURES 40 WINNERS Soundbites 30 AMBASSADOR J LOEMBA 30 12 Inspiration 4 FAITH LIFE: OUR ETERNAL PURPOSE 10 ENJOYING EVERYDAY LIFE: OVERCOME DOUBT 12 GRASSROOTS: OUR DIRECTION FINDER Leadership 20 22 CHANGE REVOLUTION Faith Broadcasting Network 6 20 STUDIO ROOF UPDATE Culture 8 FAMILY FEUDS 14 50 SHADES OF GREY 24 EVERY BOY’S HERO 25 EVERYTRIBE MISSIONS: COMMISION EXPERIENCE Competition Giveaways 28 COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Cover Feature 6 JASON CRABB Contributors André & Jenny Roebert, Waldo Malan, Joyce Meyer, Angus Buchan, Lodewyk Spies, Esther Saunders, Phil Cooke, Eric Lindile Kona, Lesego Malemela, Thalia B Tsoaeli JASON CRABB CL myfaithmag.com SEPTEMBER 2015 | 5 FAITH LIFE By André and Jenny Roebert Spring is in the air and soon enough, the chill of What is my purpose? winter will be behind us as we move into the next season of the year. As we well know, seasons So many people go through life wondering what outside of time. This means that our purpose is not come and go bringing with them new expecta- their purpose in life is. They ask the questions, just for this time on earth, it’s for eternity. That’s tions and promises of change. But these aren’t the “Why was I born? Who am I? What is my purpose?” why it’s imperative to begin to see our lives from only seasons we experience in life, in fact, since the Today, we want to dispel any doubt concerning an eternal perspective and only the Word of God, time we were first conceived in the heart and mind your purpose by casting light onto the One Who through the leading of the Holy Spirit can do that of our creator, our seasons in life began. And they created you for His purpose. The Word of God because eternity cannot be grasped by our minds will continue to fill our lives for eternity. Seeing gives clear evidence that God is an eternal God and but by our hearts! life from an eternal perspective can make those His purpose for each of us has an eternal signifi- seasons full and meaningful as we learn to live on cance. The word eternity means: infinite time or purpose. the state of existence 6 | SEPTEMBER 2015 myfaithmag.com CL Take God’s Word for it... After all that he had accomplished for the kingdom Once again, it’s confirmed that our purpose is an of God on this earth, Paul still placed the purpose Take a look at what God’s Word says concerning instinct that is grasped by our hearts and not our of knowing God instinctively of greatest impor- our purpose: minds. Look what Romans 1:19 says, “For the truth tance - in fact, he said that nothing he ever did Psalm 139:16, “Your eyes saw my unformed sub- about God is known to them instinctively. God has compared to the importance of it. stance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] put His knowledge in their hearts.” were written before ever they took shape, when Paul explained that to Know God instinctively, is a as yet there was none of them. How precious and So the question we should be asking ourselves process whereby we are continually transformed weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How is, “What is that instinctive purpose placed inside to experience life from God’s perspective. A victo- vast is the sum of them!” of us that can only be satisfied by God Himself?” rious perspective as believers seated with Christ in Surely, if we know the answer to that question, we Heavenly places. Believers not overwhelmed by Ephesians 1:4, “Even as [in His love] He chose us will know the answer to our eternal purpose. the circumstances of this natural world. He also [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in understood that in knowing God instinctively, we Christ before the foundation of the world, that we Paul lived on purpose... would experience the power of His resurrection should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) flow in and through our lives into the lives of oth- and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, Probably the best example, outside of Jesus Christ, ers.