A new chapter
Beeloved has entered a new season!
My Beloved has been speaking to me so much about HONOUR.
Our words have the ability to lift someone up, make him larger, expand, bless and prosper, but at the same time also to decrease, disgrace, shame or restrict, especially when said in agreement with others.
A soothing tongue [speaking words that build up and encourage] is a tree of life, But a perversive tongue [speaking words that overwhelm and depress] crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 15:4
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it and indulge it will eat its fruit and bear the consequences of their words.
Proverbs 18:21
We would like to take this opportunity to honour, from the heart, all of the Beeloved friends and family who share our Beeloved journey and who have stuck it out with us this far.
Thank you!
May the Lord bless you and recompense you for the time, love and effort that you have invested into Beeloved and into us as a family, or simply for being part of our journey! May He increase you, make you larger and expand your territory, and lift you up. You are more valuable to us than you will ever know.
Our prayer
Father God, we invite You to be a part of this new journey that we are venturing into. Thank you for Your faithfulness to us in every part of our lives. Thank you that you are the One who ends life and the One who gives new life. You are the One working behind the scenes in the garden of our lives. The miracle that happens to every seed that dies in the fallow ground during the long cold winter and that springs back to life again in the springtime is exactly the same miracle that happens with every seed, every dream and every disappointment that dies in the soil of our cold and hurting hearts. It is the same miracle power that raised Jesus from the dead that resurrects Your plans, Your promises and Your hope in our hearts!
We call every dead heart, every hurt and despondent seed that was planted by You and have died during the harshness of the last winter season back to life in Jesus Name!
You did not stay in the grave.
You are the resurrection and the life.
Thank you for watching over us, caring for us and loving us. Thank You for being our safe place, no matter how deurmekaar or upside-down the world around us may be. We admit freely that we cannot do this Beeloved thing, or life for that matter, without You.
We ask You to bless each and every one of our Beeloved family. Those that have been part of our family forever, those that only shared our journey for a time, the new ones that you have added on our journey, and all those that will continue on this journey with us. Every one of them has been and still are such precious treasures out of Your hand to us, their presence and lives so beautifully intertwined into our life story and enriching us in so many ways.
We pray that they will share in the beauty of the new life that You are offering in this season. We pray that You give all of us the grace to let go of things from the last season that need to die and be forgiven and be put behind us, so that You can truly set us free to embrace the new. We pray that we will drink of Your new wine. And that You make us the new wineskins so that we can carry the weight of what You want to resurrect in the season to come.
May You be glorified in and through us as we move into a new chapter.