Pretoria Great Commission Bible College

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20/04/2024

Winning takes more than guts, it takes an attitude that says 'I will.'

28/03/2024

Christ is NOT DEAD, but ALIVE – and your purpose, health, career, family, finances, everything the enemy is attempting to steal and kill- IS NOT DEAD, but IT IS ALIVE, IT IS RESURRECTED. I declare it now, if you stand in faith with me.

You need to grab a hold of this, step out in sacrificial faith, and don’t let go. John 10:10 says, “He came to give YOU life, and life MORE ABUNDANTLY.”

13/03/2024

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

07/03/2024

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

01/03/2024

Greater things are yet to come...

25/01/2024

Limits are just a state of mind, you can always push yourself to do better, no matter what the cost might be. Keep going at it and you will succeed.

22/01/2024

What you choose to think determines how you will feel. Your thought process is powerful.

12/01/2024

Isaiah 54:17 “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me,” says the Lord.

Man looks at your sin, your faults and failures. God’s DESIRE for you is that you see your fellow Christians as He sees them. To accomplish this He has given you His Word, His Spirit, and the blood of His Son Jesus. Jesus, the sinless Son of God, took your place. God’s wrath was moved from mankind and placed on Jesus. As long as you live under His protection, Jesus contin­ues to cover your sins. God does not remember your previous sins, nor holds them against you. You remain under this protection as long as you continue to place your faith in Jesus. When you take your eyes off the Creator, and spend more time looking or lusting after part of His crea­tion, you are starting to slip out from under His protection.

Speak the Word! “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.” Remember, the Word going into you, and coming out of you, is Satan’s worst nightmare!

31/12/2023

All decisions have dilemmas and all choices have opportunity costs. For every win there's a loss somewhere.

08/04/2023

Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne. Hebrews 12:2

It’s insulting to God to suggest that all religions lead to Him. If that were true, then why would He have allowed His Son to go through the suffering of the cross?

Jesus knew there was no other way for our sin to be dealt with. There was no other way for us to experience fellowship with God, from whom we were separated by sin. So, Jesus had to taste death for everyone. He had to go to the cross and die for the sins of the world.

Jesus, being omniscient, knew that His disciples would forsake Him, Peter would deny Him, and Judas would betray Him for thirty pieces of silver. And He knew He would go through unimaginable suffering and pain. So, what kept Him going through it all?

We find the answer in Hebrews 12: “Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne” (verse 2 NLT).

Jesus heard the mob cry out, “Crucify him!” (Matthew 27:22–23 NLT). He endured the mocking and taunting of the soldiers. He made His way through the winding streets of Jerusalem, knowing He was about to die. But He kept going. What kept Him going was the joy awaiting Him.

Jesus told a story about a lamb that went astray. The shepherd went searching for it, found it, put it on his shoulders, and returned with joy. Then Jesus said, “In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!” (Luke 15:7 NLT).

The joy awaiting Him was you. The joy awaiting Him was me. It was the knowledge that we would come into communion and fellowship with Him. He loved us so much that He went to the cross on our behalf.

08/04/2023

If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. Mark 8:34

In the first century, the cross was a scandalous symbol. You wouldn’t have seen a Christian wearing one because the cross was a symbol of one of the worst deaths imaginable.

The Romans didn’t invent crucifixion, but they perfected it as a form of torture. So, wearing a cross would have been the modern equivalent of wearing a miniature hangman’s noose or an electric chair as an accessory.

The cross meant dying a bloody, painful, grueling, and long death.

Yet Jesus said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it” (Mark 8:34–35 NLT).

We might refer to afflictions or challenges as our cross to bear, but that isn’t what Jesus meant. Bearing a cross means the same thing for every person. It means dying to ourselves. It means living the Christian life the way Jesus wants us to live it.

Jesus was saying, “If you will get your priorities in order, deny yourself, and take up the cross, then you will find the fulfillment you have been looking for.”

In his letter to the churches in Galatia, the apostle Paul wrote, “My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20 NLT).

Every day we have the choice to either live for ourselves or deny ourselves. If we will seek first the kingdom of God and put our priorities in order, then the rest of life will find its proper balance.

08/04/2023

For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9

Though Jesus mentioned many times that He would rise from the dead, it never seemed to pe*****te the minds and hearts of His disciples.

After all, the crucifixion left them dumbfounded. They didn’t know what to do. They weren’t sure where they should go or what they should do. And when they heard that Jesus was alive, it came as a surprise to them.

Mark’s Gospel says, “Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead” (8:31 NLT).

The disciples couldn’t wrap their minds around the idea that the crucifixion was part of God’s plan. How could something like that be a good thing? How could all that suffering and sacrifice have any value? But it was through Jesus’ death that life came.

Jesus was saying, “I’m in control. I know it sounds radical when I say that I will suffer and die. But I’m also saying that I will rise again. This is part of the plan. I know what I’m doing.”

This is what God says to us as well. There are times in our lives as Christians when we may not understand what God is doing. Why did He allow this thing to happen? Why did He allow those problems? Why did He allow that tragedy? And why hasn’t He intervened?

It is hard to know why sometimes. But Jesus is saying, “I’m in control. I know what I’m doing.”

The absolute truth for every Christian is that whatever you give up to follow Jesus will be more than made up to you in this life and in the life to come. It will be worth it all.

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