Contents Meet the Team See the faces who
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The Cross Jesus Carries Your Suffering
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He Gave Her Beauty for Ashes
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bring CBN SA to life.
Joy and Suffering
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The Example of Daniel Reflecting on how he
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experienced suffering
so that we can stay
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in touch.
Broadcast Schedule
from Nic as he starts
From Suffering to Joy
a new journey.
Suffering since the fall
A message from Ian, regional director.
Goodbye Nic A short message
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A word from Gordon Robertson.
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joy through it all.
Passion Suffering - of the Christ Jesus suffered on
time to watch CBN
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from the Garden, and
Having the Mind of Christ
Where and what
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Q&A with Pat Robertson Finding Biblical answers to hard questions.
the cross for us. He knows suffering.
He Gave Her Beauty For Ashes| Page 15 Through Orphan’s Promise, Thato received the care and education she needed to thrive!
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The Team
Meet the team behind everything you see happening online, on the ground and on air. We’re a passionate group of people with a desire to share the Gospel with our nation through our various skills and purposes. We’re so grateful that we get to do the work we do on a daily basis.
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Meagan Taylor
Finance Manager
Partnership & Sustainability Manager
Jarryd Doyle
Nicholas Barker
Production Manager
Gertrude Moyo Prayer Volunteer
Leonie Nortje
OP & CBN Project Manager Southern Africa
Robyn Hattingh
Operation Blessing
Communications Manager
Wendy Magida
Thabile Molapisane
Communications & Administration
Superbook Social Media Coordinator
Ian Walton
Regional Director
Yolanda Magida Superbook Manager
Alicia Swartz
Superbook Administrator
Hellen Chisvo Finance Assistant
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Joy and Suffering Written
Joy in the midst of suffering. This is the theme we’re asking the Lord to speak to us about and through us over the next couple of months. I don’t find it an easy one to think about, let alone properly engage with. I have to gratefully add that I don’t pretend to be able to really relate to serious suffering, at least not at this point in my life. Even as I write that statement, I realise that this is likely to change at some point. Not because I’m pessimistic, or because I doubt God’s grace, favour and protection over me and my family, but because I have come to realise that both joy and suffering are something the Lord has packaged into this gift which we are all temporarily holding – life on earth. Joy is a tough word to define. It’s that feeling, a mixture of sheer bliss, anticipatory excitement and deep, nostalgic longing all at the same time. But maybe it is better to just keep it beautifully undefined, because you know what it is at a very personal level. In his book Surprised by Joy, CS Lewis wrote “I doubt whether anyone who has tasted (real joy) 03
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would ever… exchange it for all the pleasures in the world. But then joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.” Suffering and mourning are similarly difficult to grasp and understand. However, they are certainly not unfitting for the season we are in right now – lent and Easter. We are currently faced with all-too-numerous tragedies coming out about fallen leaders and the cracking landscape around many of us. Recently our team has been spending time rediscovering the Beattitudes. Blessed (spiritually joyful, divinely favoured, deeply satisfied) are the poor in spirit. Blessed are those who mourn. What is our Lord trying to teach us with this sort of seemingly incongruous statement? Tim Keller (pastor and author currently fighting serious pancreatic cancer) writes: “There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.” Perhaps he’s talking about the same thing.
“ You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies...” Psalm 23:5
Will you choose to eat from the table the Lord has prepared for you? “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death (suffering)… He prepares a table for me…” The Psalmist also gives us a beautiful picture of this spiritual secret that many of you will have already discovered – that there is a table to feast from in the midst of the valley, prepared specially by our Father. He sets it before us and invites us, but I believe we still have to be brave and faith-filled enough to eat from it.
Joy in the midst of suffering. May we all experience this Easter and Passover time as one in which we are able to truly feast at His table –illuminated with His gift of joy in the midst of whatever else is going on around and within you. Ian Walton | Regional Director
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Goodbye Nic! Nicholas Barker, our Humanitarian / Operation Blessing Manager is moving on from CBN SA after more than 3 amazing years with us. He has done some remarkable work on the ground for CBN and the Kingdom, and been such a massive blessing to each of us in the team. His passion for mission and the Word is so inspiring and his heart for people is contagious! Here is a short message from Nic:
Dear CBN Partners, Donors and friends. It is with mixed emotions that I inform you that my time at CBN as Operation Blessing Manager has come to an end. I will be finishing up at the end of February as the Lord directs my family and I into a new season. It has been such
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a privilege and blessing to be a part of such an amazing team, and to serve our nation in such unique ways over these last three years, and it’s been a joy to see the outworking of many fruitful projects. We are working on the appointment of a new Operation Blessing Manager, and are very excited for this new person. Please pray for CBN South Africa and for the new OB Manager, pray also for me as I step into the Lord’s new assignment for myself and my family. Thank you and God Bless, Nicholas We wish him and his beautiful family all of God’s very best as they move into the next exciting season of their Kingdom calling!
Having the Mind of Christ Written As believers, we have a choice every single day. We can choose between the thoughts of this world or the thoughts of the world to come. That’s why Paul writes, “With the Lord’s authority I say this: Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused” (Ephesians 4:17). Instead, Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:16, “But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.” Jesus was sometimes vexed by what His disciples were thinking and what the Pharisees were saying. Those two groups seemed to upset Him the most. He didn’t seem to be upset with the tax collectors, the prostitutes, the lepers, or the Romans. And in Matthew 8:10, Jesus tells a Roman centurion, “I haven’t seen faith like this in all Israel!” So should we be upset when people who don’t know God do strange things? They can’t possibly think the way Christians think because they don’t know
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Jesus or have the mind of Christ. If you thought there was no heaven and there are no consequences to our behaviour on earth, how would you live? This is why their thoughts are foolish. As Christians, we came out of this thought pattern - yet unfortunately it can still stay with us. The two kingdoms are at war in our own minds. We are reminded in 1 Timonthy 6:12, “Fight the good fight for the true faith. Hold tightly to the eternal life to which God has called you.” Jesus fulfilled every part of the law so we don’t have to; yet what should we do with our liberty? What are our aspirations? How do we orient ourselves? Together, let’s choose to fix our eyes on Jesus, think about what He has commanded us to do, and focus on drawing the world unto Him. God bless you!
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The Cross - Jesus Carries Your Suffering Written
I have spent many years grappling with why we suffer. People had tried explaining the concept to me, I have watched video after video of pastors and apologists explaining suffering and I spent time reading the various scriptures covering suffering. None of these avenues were settling the matter in my heart. I was angry for a large portion of my young adult years. When you experience trauma as a young child, there are wounds that eventually form hard, thick scars if not dealt with correctly. Thick scars that constantly remind you of your suffering and cause pain in certain conditions. It is only through God, and at times, outside help, that these scars can correctly heal. Instead of accepting situations and these childhood experiences, I was questioning them as I realised it was morally wrong and the answers I was getting weren’t making sense. I I had gone through experiences that had left me broken and had caused me to act in ways that left me ashamed. This broke me in ways I didn’t know how to heal from and I didn’t understand how a 07
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loving God had allowed them to happen. I blamed Him for what had happened and for not healing me enough to allow me to act in ways that were true to myself. I had to reach a point where I had no choice but to come before God, broken and in dire need of His truth and revelation in my life, in my brokenness and in my questions. I’m not bashing the other avenues I had tried, they definitely helped me. But God had to work in my heart before truth could sink in. The moment God breathed His truth and life into my brokenness and questions, that’s the moment I started to experience joy like I had never before. I saw Him in the moments where I was at my lowest. I saw Him in the words of encouragement from friends. I saw Him in the gentle whispers, the questions and the stirrings of my heart. I knew that despite the sin and brokenness in the world, He was good in it all. He had a plan despite it. He cried when I cried out in pain, His heart broke alongside mine and He felt the heaviness of my burdens. And He carried that heaviness
onto the cross with Him. He set me free. His blood covered me and would bring the freedom, peace and healing that I so desperately wanted and needed. The healing was painful. The restoration process took time, tears and inner turmoil. But it was GOOD. It didn’t make the suffering disappear or any less difficult, but it made it bearable and it helped me understand why suffering exists. It helped me realise that broken people, break people. I saw how suffering was as a result of free will, choosing sin and allowing it to corrupt our hearts – and the nasty ripple effects and consequences thereof. Now when I think back to those hard moments, my heart breaks for the suffering I had to endure at the hands of others. But I experience such joy at the work God has done in me and through me since then – and the restoration He did in my life. When I experience hardship now, I remember the previous suffering and turn to God immediately. I ask Him to help me carry my burden. It’s not easy, and sometimes it takes a while, but through it, I see Him
working in and around me and my heart is again filled with His joy and love. Today I’d like to encourage you to earnestly seek God in your suffering. Whatever you’re going through, Jesus carried that burden and pain onto the cross with Him. He experienced the entirety of what you’re going through. And at the end of it all, He said “It is finished” and sin lost its victory over us. He reigned victorious then, and He reigns victorious now in and through your life. Allow Him into the broken, painful parts. Allow yourself to experience joy - His joy - and let it carry you through so that you may feast from the table He has prepared for you despite the shadow of death (Psalm 23). “My beloved spoke, and said to me: “Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. […] Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away!” (Song of Solomon 8:10-13) 08
The Example of Daniel Written Before we can begin to restore our relationship with God, we need to understand that this relationship is broken to begin with. We also need to understand why this relationship is broken. The relationship is broken not because of anything God has done, but because of what we, His people, have done. We have turned away from God’s standards (think of the Garden of Eden) and made our own path. The condition of our hearts is the problem. We have allowed sin to creep in and we have left this sin unchecked. The negative situations that we find ourselves in has left us hopeless and we don’t turn to God for help. If anything, we make it worse by leaning on our own understanding with sin festering in our hearts. This is a dangerous combination. So, what practical steps can we take to check our hearts, repent, and draw closer to God? Daniel provided us with a really great example of how we can choose to restore our relationship with God. But Daniel purposed in his heart (made up his mind) that he 09
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would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. (Daniel 1:8) “I was mourning for three weeks; I did not eat any pleasant bread (rich foods), meat or drink any wine...until the three weeks were passed.” (Daniel 10:2-3) “He knelt down at the open windows and prayed to God three times a day and gave thanks to His God.” (Daniel 6:10) Daniel took a stance to lean into God and to discover what God had to say about his situation that was leading to his suffering. He prayed and fasted day and night. He even went as far as making this public. Daniel‘s statement of faith was not just a private act. When Daniel heard about the law, he immediately turned to God. This was a terrible situation that he found himself in. Daniel refused to conform and disobey God. He also did not act sinfully in response to the situation. He went home, and in his upper room, with windows open, in full view of anyone who
wanted to spy on him, he knelt and prayed to God. This was in violation of the law just signed by the King, and of course, the spies watched him. Daniel knew that God cared about him. He knew this because he took time to get to know God. Daniel was under great oppression and experienced great suffering. He could have gotten angry and sinned, but instead, he committed to prayer and fasting. His heart remained pure, his hands remained clean and his eyes were fixed on God. Ultimately, the only way that we can address this issue of separation from God is to check the matter of our own heart and to learn to guard our hearts by
reading the Bible and obeying it just like Daniel did. Instead of allowing sinful thoughts to remain unchecked, we confess them to the Lord. We allow His love, joy, and peace to replace the negative attitudes which are festering inside us. The Bible is clear about this as Proverbs 4:23 says, “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” So friends, just like Daniel, let’s remember that God is on our side and He wants us to be restored back to Him in the midst of suffering – to experience His freedom, joy and relationship. The Bible says in Daniel 6:16: “Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.” 10
From Suffering to Joy Written “looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2) When Adam and Eve were in the garden, before they ate from the forbidden tree, everything was dandy. There was no pain, no hurt and no suffering. The garden brought forth fruit for them to eat without toil. The tigers danced, while the rabbits hopped. The lion and the lamb laid down in the shade together, and the Lord Himself walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day, enjoying each other and having sweet fellowship. They lived in His joy and in His peace, with want for nothing. But then, one day, Adam and Eve chose to ignore God’s Word, and chose to listen to Satan. They ate from the tree after the Lord had said, “Do not eat from it, because if you do, you will surely die..” (Gen 2:17). And from the moment their teeth sunk into that fruit, they knew something was wrong. A cold wind blew into the garden, for a moment 11
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the sun was hidden behind the clouds, and their skin stood on edge as they realised they were naked, and cold. The lamb ran off into the thicket, and the rabbit sprinted for his hole, while the tiger aggressively roared at the lion. Things were different now, death and suffering had been invited in. Adam and Eve hid themselves, their shame going before them. When the Lord eventually came, He called out to them, and they came forth, and confessed their sin to Him. The Father then pronounced a curse over them as a consequence of their disobedience. He said to the woman (Gen 3:16), “You will have severe pains in child birth, and your desire will be for your husband”, and to Adam He said (Gen 3:17-19), “Cursed is the ground before you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life until you return to the dust”. Adam and Eve were then banished from the Garden of Eden and went out into the wilderness, where they endured hardship and suffering. Since then, man has endured hardship and difficulty on earth.
But this is not the end of the story. For a time we will suffer and endure all forms of trials and tribulations, however, before us stands hope and a promise of reconciliation and restoration. We know that our troubles are not to be embraced forever, for He said (Rev 21:4), “I will wipe every tear from your eye”, and (John 14:2) “where I am going, I will prepare a place for you”. He also went on to say (Rev 21:4) that in the New Country there will be no more death, no more mourning, crying or pain, for the old order of things have passed away. Here once more we will walk with the Father in the cool of the day. We will eat freely from the fruit of the Tree of Life. We will drink from the river of the Living Water, and we will see the lion lying down with the lamb under the shade of a fig tree during the heat of the day. How do we get to this place of passing from suffering to joy? We must walk along the narrow path and enter in through the
small gate that is Jesus Christ. He is the Restorer, whom the Father sent to make right the fall of Adam and Eve. And Jesus came into life the way we all came, through our mother’s wombs. He grew up and endured every temptation known to mankind. And at the appointed time, He experienced the greatest trial the world has ever seen when He took on death, sin and the cross. There He died, and the earth received His blood, and although it seemed like He was defeated, three days later He rose victorious, and ascended to the Father where He is seated in all glory, honour and praise forever. Because of this, I say to you - take heart dear brother, and dear sister, though now for a little while you will have to endure all types of hardships and struggles, let joy enter your heart as you eagerly await your inheritance which comes through Christ, and consider Him who has gone before you, because where you are going, He has prepared a place for you.
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Passion - Suffering - of the Christ Writ ten “I want to know Christ - yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead” (Philippians 3:10-11; NIV). One of the things that I have grown to understand about God is His desire to be known intimately by His children. The Bible is filled with scripture relating to being known, but one of my favourite scriptures comes from Paul’s prayer for the Ephesian, “ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him” (Ephesians 1:17). The big question is: why mix suffering with knowing God? Could suffering be one of the gateways to knowing God intimately? If so, why is that? Peter, Paul and the other early disciples certainly believed it can. I would like to argue that perhaps one reason among many would be to cultivate empathy. Not just 13
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for one another (humankind) but to understand Christ at a deeper level. Suffering, from my own experience, has always induced empathy and compassion in my life. An ability to walk in another person’s shoes causes me to shift the way I think and respond to situations. It is often in your own pain that you can identify with other people’s pain. In his book The Fruit of Pain, Hardship and Disappointment Is Empathy, Jack Schafer -a behavioural analyst - says “True empathy and understanding take place only when we have something against which we can judge the physical and emotional experiences of others. The accumulation of our personal experiences becomes standard against which we judge other people’s behaviours and emotions”. Joy perhaps comes in the knowledge of knowing the other person intimately and the sharing of each other’s experiences. What greater honour should it be to know the suffering of Christ, to share in His mission and unwavering commitment in the redemption of humankind.
To understand the depth of His sorrow, the burden on His heart and to be unwavering in the cause before us no matter what the cost. The act of taking up the cross, just as He did. The original meaning of ‘passion’ in Greek is suffering. Anyone pursuing anything worthwhile will tell you that the name of the game is suffering and sacrifice. No pain, no gain is what is often said. Shall we not then assume that it would be the same in pursuing the lover of our souls, which is Jesus. Should we not then count it all joy in knowing Christ our redeemer intimately
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“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me (Jesus), because the Lord has anointed Me... to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning...” (Isaiah 61:1,3) Thato Lebelo is 22 years old and was born in Limpopo. She was raised by a single father. Her mother was tragically killed when she was only 3 years old, as a result she was raised by a single father with help from her grandmother and great aunt. Her dad often worked away from home and was not able to get well paying jobs, as a result he struggled to care for her in the way he desired. 15
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Fortunately, he has matured a lot in the past few years and Thato has a very good relationship with him now. Thato has a younger brother that her father had with his current girlfriend. Her father has suffered with serious illness over the last 12 years. Currently, the little that Thato earns at her job, she must send home to support him and her younger stepbrother. Thato was brought to our Orphan’s Promise supported partner, Dayspring, when she was in Grade 3. She was always a quiet, serious and studious child. She worked hard at school and performed well. We assisted her with a place to
stay and raised funds for her to attend a Private Christian boarding school for grades 1012. She did very well and often received certificates of merit for her studies. While away at high school, she would come ‘home’ to Dayspring on the weekends. Thato has always had a desire to know Jesus and to live for Him. She had to grow up quickly at a young age and learn to trust Jesus to make a way for the provision she and her family needed as well as her dreams for the future. She has been an amazing witness of God’s love, goodness and faithfulness to many of our children living at Dayspring, and to her family. Thato did well on her Grade 12 matriculation exams and qualified to attend university. She chose to attend the Vaal University of Technology and majored in Human Resources. She was the first in her extended family to graduate from high school and go to university. She finished her Bachelors of Technology in Human Resources last year and hopes to study further to get her teaching qualification. With COVID, much of the university courses have gone online so last year she also worked in a local high school where her university is located. She
assisted with administration and COVID related protocol issues. Thato deeply desires to work for our school at Dayspring this year while doing her online post graduate teaching certificate. We are waiting on the different universities to work out some issues and get back to her. She has truly grown into a beautiful, loving, caring and kind young woman of God. We feel so privileged to be a part of her journey with God and life. We are hoping it will work out for her to be with us for the year. In the meantime, she has been staying with us while matters get sorted out. She is so grateful to have grown up at Dayspring. She said, “Dayspring has truly been more of a home to me than anywhere else. I spent most of my childhood years staying on the property. I feel loved like a daughter. I also want to thank Orphan’s Promise for the support you gave me while at Dayspring. My father has rarely been able to support my studies so Orphan’s Promise was a real answer to prayer.” Thank YOU, CBN partners, for making partnering with schools like Dayspring possible. Thato is one of many who gratefully receive your support. 16
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