Category: Personal

KITTY HAWK

So I decide to go see some airoplanes fly at kitty hawk.This particular man lost his left leg in an airoplane accident . Hope floats !

My dad’s not well

My dad’s not so well.

Last week we took him to the hospital after he’d been complaining about a flue he just couldn’t seem to get over. He’d been coughing phlegm . I tried to be there as much as I could in order for him to get better and to have a sense of someone caring for him.IMG_20160613_195816.jpg

I discovered many things about my dad. He has an enlarged heart. He has scoliosis of the spine. He is intolerant to B+ blood group plasma. I just don’t know why everyone didn’t appreciate him for his courage and determination that he’s displayed all his life. He has been through so many operations and has always come through the other side. Recently he had eye problems . He had an embolism in his eye. So we had to have his eyes seen to . Eventually after 50 injections in his eyes he had to have his lenses replaced because of cataracts .

When I was 28 he had an operation to have his heart valve replaced. He was told he would live for fifteen years and then it would break. The same heart valve is still working to this day. It’s been 18 years.

He has had just about every joint in his limbs operated because of osteoarthritis . I see my dad as Jesus going through death burial and resurrection every time he faces a challenge. And this is how I know faith works. Don’t come and tell me about your little soul issues and how you’re going to counsel them  away. Your soul is supposed to be saved because you have TOTAL trust in what Jesus did. Make your mind up today. You in or are you out ? If you’re not in today you’d better work out your salvation with fear and trembling . I give you exactly one day to make your mind up. It doesn’t take fifty years !

He had constipation and a lack of energy and many things wrong with him but as I watched him handle the pain for the past week I saw that getting old isn’t for sissies. I saw a man on a cross hoping in the resurrection as he coughed his lungs out. And now finally after a week and two days of coughing he has conquered the flue and the fleghm. I admire his determination to want to live. So many of the people in the world have nothing wrong with them and walk around with the weight of the world on their shoulders. This man is made of steel and he’s the greatest dad that ever lived in my eyes. And ofcourse I am biased. I am supposed to be.

He might have to go for another operation to sort out his enlarged heart. I pray he makes the right decision but for me , my dad has displayed the ultimate walk of faith to me. He has not caved in to what people think of him and always did as he saw fit. He didn’t buy a new car every five minutes to brag and always helped whoever needed help. My dad is my hero.

 

LLB here we come ?

I find it interesting that as I approach 50 years old  I realize that the way I spent the early years of my life were the best. I ask myself , isn’t there something out there I’d like to do ? Something that would challenge me to be a better person and also give me something to aim for ?

I’ve always loved a good debate. I love being right. Sorry for those out there with the theology that says it’s not good to always want to be right. It is when someone else’s life depends on it ! Or when you need to get yourself out of a fix , especially when you are right.

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So what about studying law then ? wouldn’t this be a goal I could quite easily reach out and grab ? Interesting challenge. Why climb a mountain ? Sometimes we just climb it because it’s there. I’d really not like to do difficult things but I have a habit of setting myself rediculous goals and actually reaching them. How about this one ? mmm ? Will I be able to reach it ? Time will tell, by the end of this year I’ll know if I am writing in to study this or not.

Where is the love ?

Ok . what is good news ?

It’s something that should have turned out negatively but is now instead a cause for celebration. That’s one perspective at least. There are others , like , being thankful for something. Perhaps coming to the realization that things really aren’t as bad as all that. What about , thinking that something was a curse but instead was God’s way of just preventing something worse from happening ?

Our God is not easily understood. He says, ‘ if your eye causes you to sin , cut it out ‘ . So have any of you lost an eye ? perhaps it wasn’t something you’d wish on your worse enemy but because of it , you couldn’t look left when that sexy lady walked past and would have put you in a downward spiral through her lies and deceit . I don’t think our God wants us walking around without eyes though. He also meant to show us that it’s just about impossible to walk around not sinning without Him. But should you have lost an eye , this could have a weird philosophical positive spin perhaps. What he meant was , people without hope will think their neighbors spouses are more appealing than their own. So, have HOPE , don’t wait till you lose your eye !

black eyed peasI thought , in my naevity that people would want to blog with me . I thought people would jump at the chance at sharing hope in a hopeless world . To me it’s obvious. We are stuck in today and we can’t see tomorrow. If we showed people that there is a tomorrow then this dark cloud would lift and we would move towards it. But we are paralized , this is the effect of bad news. Bad news creates fear , and apathy. It robs people of their dreams. I thought that people would jump at the chance to share hope with each other. I was mistaken perhaps. To me , even someone dying while defending his family is good news. To others its hopeless. I see a light. I see someone willing to sacrifice his life for others.

I know the world is facebook and twitter crazy. I just wanted people not to be corralled into a facebook pen where they hold you hostage. For one thing, if I had to open up this network to the world , it would be invaded by satanists and disgruntled atheists. I don’t have all the answers ok. But I just thought. If we stood together and shared our faith , the world would be a better place. That is what this network was built for. I find myself over revved and hard pressed on all sides. Churches don’t want to join the network because they can’t see the vision. I’ve been told that I need to market it correctly. I’ve been told that this ministry isn’t from God. I don’t have all the answers but I do know this. If you can’t see it you’re not saved and I feel sorry for you.

I won’t carry on pressing this network forever. If I don’t get support , I’ll moth ball it. I’ve got better things to do than to maintain a network in the hope that you’ll wake up. There are many channels you can use to contact me if you wanted to join . I see nothing. Perhaps God meant that it was for an appointed time.

I am not giving up though. But I am tired and disappointed at the apathy the body of christ has sunk into. God is Love . Where is the love ?

 

I’ve been thinking about this

Some people just want to ruin your goals but I’ve decided, who the *&^% ! are they ? nobodies going slowly nowhere. I was thinking about how over the moon I felt when someone posted on here for the first time. And this video says it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fviFNrWKzZ8

Prophetic Art

I was in a craft shop the other day. They had some lose letters laying about. So I bought some. I brought them home and remembered I had some spray paint I could use on them. I duly sprayed them satin black and pasted them on a wall which leads to the computer room. Above it I placed the graphite sketch someone had me prophetically in what was called a ” prophetic art class “. I always used to talk about making a TV station where all they spoke about is good news and all they were about is creating good news. To build people’s trust in God up. So one day this guy came up to me and said ‘ I don’t know why but God says this is for you ‘ and He gave me the light house on the rocks. I thought ‘ God, are you telling me to build you a TV station? ‘ and this is when I created my first blog on blogspot called thekingslighthouse.blogspot.com later on I developed thekingslighthouse.wordpress.com. I decided to host blogs under a new name nikipress.com under which you can still find thekingslighthouse.nikipress.com. This is how the logo turned out.

Grand Total !

Today I calculated how many views nikipress has had since I rebuilt it. Total ? 11267 views on nikipress.com alone. 891 views on nikipress.org . And 1204 on the nikipress.club. The sum total of all views on the network is , *drum roll * 13362 views.Grand Total Which if you add it to the views of thekingslighthouse.wordpress.com of 20608 views gives us a grand total of 30 970 views. This is really impressive. All things considered if we add that to the blogspot total of 1571 views we get to a grand grand total of 35 441 views. Not bad for a dream that I chip away at day in day out. Perhaps some day there’ll be views in the millions. To God Be the Glory ! Great things HE has done !