Testimony: Madri

Hi!  My name is Madri.  I’m from Me2 Durbanville, Cape Town, South Africa. 

At our year end function, on the 3^rd of November, our leaders gave each lady a key ring as a gift.  On the key ring is either Faith, Love or Joy, with a scripture on the back. 

Mine is Faith….

Lizette challenged us to keep the key ring somewhere close to remind us continually to actually do what it says.

Last night I just sat with a smile and realized that even though it is only 2 weeks later, I’ve been challenged to stand on faith quite often.

God is walking with me this year to lay a specific fear at His feet.  And what is the opposite of fear?  FAITH!!!   

Gotta love it!  God is so faithful! 

Testimony: Luba

Hello, my name is Luba and I am part of me2 at Christ Centered Christian Church, Hattem, Holland.

I had been struggling for 3 years with resentment and un-forgiveness in my heart towards my sister-in-law.

One day during a quiet time with the Lord, I felt the urge to write her a letter explaining my feelings of hurt to her. She wrote back and we made a date to talk.

About a week before our conversation, the church ladies in our me2 group met. We had to read a certain part of a book before that meeting. While reading, the Holy Spirit convicted me about my pride and selfishness, especially in regard to my sister-in-law. He reminded me as well that I had a plank in my own eye and was trying to take a sliver out of her eye.

The ladies listened to me and prayed with me for healing in this relationship and suggested that I wash my sister-in-law's feet. The only thing I had to lose was my pride.

They all prayed for me on the day of the confrontational talk. The talk itself was difficult, and it seemed like we couldn't understand each other very well. Only at the end, when I asked to wash her feet and explain what God had done in my heart did she come over to me, throw her arms around me and also apologized. God did something in our relationship that we couldn't do.

I'm so blessed to have such an amazing group of ladies at the me2 who pray and encourage me to live the way God is calling me to!

Testimony: Martine

Hello, my name is Martine and I am part of me2 at Christ Centered Christian Church in Hattem, Holland.

During our last me2 meeting we talked about becoming a humble woman. Being humble, and learning to submit yourself.

One of the things that triggered within me was the point of submitting yourself to your husband. I realised that that was something within me that I had to deal with, it was encouraging to see that I wasn't the only one, there were more ladies who understood my struggle with this. That is what I so enjoy about me2, you can be real about things because we all are a work in progress.

So because during this Me2 meeting I experienced this, I kept on thinking about it and I discovered something great! Submission, being humble, I am almost "allergic" to it!  Just like the word authority. But when I asked myself the question "do you want to submit to God? Do you want to be humble for Him? Do I then also respond in a negative, rebellious way?"  The answer for me was NO!

But then I realised that it is God who placed me next to my husband. It is God's will to give me that position. I started to see that by being rebellious towards my husband I was in rebellion towards God! And that I don't want to be submissive and humble towards God! It was a real eye opener to me! God doesn't ask of me to be humble and submissive to break me or to humiliate me.

When I am humble and submit to my husband, I am humble and submissive to God, and in doing this I honor Him!