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Vervolg van p. 5Vervolg van p. 5 mooi kans nie." nie beëindig deur sy dood nie - dit wêreld vertel, asseblief?" "Ek sal,
"Tom, kan ek jou 'n groot guns het net verander. Hy het die reuse Tommy, ek sal my bes probeer."
vra? Jy weet, die tyd toe jy in my "Gaan dink maar daaroor, en as jy stap geneem: van geloof na
klas was, was jy vir my 'n groot gereed is, laat jy my weet." werklikheid! Hy het 'n nuwe lewe Dus wil ek vir julle, liewe lesers,
pyn. Maar nou kan jy opmaak vir gekry, baie mooier as wat ek en jy baie dankie sê dat jul die tyd
alles as jy sou instem om na my 'n Paar dae later skakel Tommy ooit van kan droom - baie heer- afgestaan het om hierdie eenvou-
Teologie-klas te kom en vir my my. Hy was gereed om sy verhaal liker as wat enigeen van ons ooit dige verhaaltjie van liefde te lees.
studente te kom vertel wat jy met die klas te kom deel, en hy gesien of ondervind het! En vir jou, Tommy, daar waar jy
vanoggend vir my vertel het. Hoe wou dit doen vir God en vir my. êrens in die hemel is - ek het vir
lyk dit? Jy weet, as ék dit vir hulle Voordat Tommy dood is, het hy hulle vertel Tommy, so goed as
moet vertel sou dit nie naasteby Ek het 'n afspraak met hom nog een laaste keer met my wat ek maar kon.
dieselfde effek hê nie." gemaak, maar hy kon daardie gepraat: "Ek sal dit nie kan maak
afspraak nooit nakom nie, want na die klas toe nie." "Ek weet Hierdie is 'n ware verhaal…
"Ooooo… ek weet nie so mooi nie daar was 'n ander, baie belang- Tommy."
- ek was gereed om vanoggend riker afspraak wat hy moes - John Powell, afgetrede Profes-
met u te kom praat, maar vir die nakom - baie belangriker as ek of "Sal u asseblief vir hulle vertel? sor aan die Loyola Universiteit in
klas - daarvoor sien ek nie so die klas. Inderwaarheid is sy lewe Sal u my verhaal aan die hele Chicago, VSA.

od's Word is filled with believer's mouth can change Actually, God has spoken, and all definitely negative facts years
inherent power. When God circumstances. We may expe- we need to do is believe what He ago!
Gspeaks, powerful things rience negative facts in our lives, has said. His Word is loaded with
take place! Isaiah 55:11 tells us: but God's Word is Truth, and truth promises that are for anyone who God compares His Word to seed.
"So shall My Word be that goes is more powerful than facts! will believe them and act accor- When we plant the seed by
forth out of My mouth: it shall not dingly. Just as you may have, I had speaking it, praying it, believing it,
return to Me void [without produ- Lazarus was dead; that was a fact. a set of unpleasant facts in my life. and acting upon it, it will produce
cing any effect, useless], but it But when Jesus, Who is the Truth, I had been badly abused, I was what it says. God promises us that
shall accomplish that which I walked up to the tomb and spoke, emotionally wounded and expe- it will produce! Begin to speak
please and purpose, and it shall that truth changed the facts. rienced various personality dis- God's Word regularly and believe
prosper in the thing for which I Throughout the Gospels, we orders as a result of enduring a what it says more than you believe
sent it." So we can be sure that His repeatedly read of people who very dysfunctional life. I had a sour your circumstances. Hold fast to
Word never returns void; it always were sick and demon-possessed attitude, a chip on my shoulder, your confession of faith in Him
accomplishes its purpose! who went to Jesus. When He and was filled with bitterness and (Hebrews 4:14), and soon you will
spoke, their facts changed! They unforgiveness. be sharing your testimony of
When we learn to speak God's were healed, delivered, and set victory with others!
Word instead of rehearsing how free. We must never magnify the But Jesus came into my life, and I
we feel or declaring what we think, facts of our circumstances above learned to believe and speak His [The Everyday Life Bible, Notes
we are also releasing power! The God and the power of His Word. Word in faith, and today I am free and Commentary by Joyce Meyer,
Word of God spoken in faith from a When God speaks, things change! from all those things that were Faith Words, New York, 2006].