Laetitia.GloryRealm

  I was grounded by my husband today. While he was busy in his study, like a teenager, I sneaked out of the house into the street in front of our complex, armed with a black refusal bag. I was out on a mission: “Mission Street garbage cleaning.” I sneaked out because I knew he would not let me clean the street without him helping me. I sneaked out because he was busy with something urgent, that needed his attention, and I did not want to distract him. And this is where he found me, half an hour later, in the street, covered in blackjack weeds (k napsek ê rel ) which took him about another half an hour to remove. In my defence, I explained: “In Mossel Bay, where I was privileged to reside for five years, certain things are not tolerated. In other words: There is a certain standard, an energy, and when you move there, and you are not accustomed to it, you lift your standard and energy to come into alliance with, to match the standard and energy of the area. It is not an eff...

  Nobody likes to feel rejected; to feel the pain of being excluded. The word rejection became popular in psychology in 1931, when parental rejection was seen as a motivation of bad behaviour in children. The Latin word for rejection, which is the ancestor of the word rejection, means “to throw back”. Rejection can come in many forms: Divorce:   Maybe your spouse decided to stop loving you; exchange you for someone else. Job application:   Maybe you have sent you resum é to several employers without any success. Maybe your children rejected you, don’t make any contact with you, forgot about you. Maybe you parents rejected you. Abuse is also rejection. Maybe you’re in laws don’t accept you as your spouse’s husband or wife. Have you ever experienced rejection? Have you ever experienced the pain of being excluded? My passion is assisting and mentoring people in spiritual growth. Like everyone else, I have experienced extreme rejection in life, but in...

  In Matthew 15:16-20, Jesus says: (the Passion Translation) “Even after all that I’ve taught you, you still remain clueless? Is it hard to understand that whatever you eat enters the stomach only to pass out into the sewer? But what comes out of your mouth reveals the core of your heart. Words can pollute, not food. You will find living within an impure heart evil ideas, murderous thoughts, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, lies, and slander. That is what pollutes a person. Eating with unwashed hands doesn’t defile anyone”. Did you know? What you say about other people are more of a reflection on you than on them? Did you know? Talking about the unholiness of others, does not make you more holy? The Bible makes it clear that our thinking and our hearts are inseparably linked. What we think in our hearts, in turn, affects our actions. Jesus Christ himself confirmed the connection in Matthew 15:19. For instance:   If you meditate or focus on your spouses’ flaws, the...

  I love rising early in the morning, enjoying the quietness of the new day, and listening to nature waking up. When it is so quiet, it is easier for me to also find the quietness within and then step into a deeper dimension where I can have a face-to-face encounter with God. For days I was walking, just carrying on with my everyday life but with such a deep desire to be in God’s presence because I had questions and concerns in my heart and mind about some things. You see, my one and only desire is to be in God’s will and from that one desire many other desires sprout, … like being a good wife for my husband and a good mother and honor God in everything I do. It is in His will where there is Glory. I want to be so saturated with Yahweh that I will be an overflow of love into others. But the last couple of days I really struggled to silence my mind. And still I had this deep desire to move closer to God and just spend time with Him. This morning, in the quietness I ste...

I often hear people say that marriage is hard work. But “work” reminds me of law and since Jesus set us free from law, I do not agree with this statement. You see, when you are in Christ, you have a new identity. And when you live from this identity, and manifest Christ, it comes naturally. My focus, and motivation is therefor not on my husband, but on Christ in me. The same with him, my husband. He also lives from his new identity, Christ in him. And whenever I am upset about something, I will always first go to Yahweh. On a more practical note:  I go and sit in a chair and meditate. I concentrate on my breathing and go into myself and engage Him, Face to Face inside me. It is there where I find peace again, by engaging peace. When we disagree about something, we never raise our voices, we first engage with peace inside us and then we will sit and talk about it because both of us understand the power of our words. With our words, we create, we speak life or death, and power is in ...

  Two months before my wedding, I was at my hairdresser deciding on different styles concerning my hair for the wedding. The next moment, the woman in the chair next to me said:   “Only remember, when it is your second wedding, when you enter, your veil is not supposed to cover your face”. I was dumbfounded. Not that I needed to, but I started explaining to her that although it is my second marriage, it is my fianc é ’s first marriage. What I did not tell her is that my fianc é and I already had a conversation about the veil, and it was his desire to experience a veil moment with me. She was still not convinced and carried on: “Before you do such a thing, first check with your pastor”. I left it at that because not only was I about to marry a Pastor but also the Pastor that was going to do the marriage confirmation, is a friend as well and I know he would say: “You are free to do as you please.   We are not under the law anymore”. This incident encourag...

  I was at the car wash when someone made the comment: “You are most definitely not from this area, because you are laughing”. This comment inspired me to introduce you to the Spirit of Joy. On 25 April 2020, I was alone in my apartment in Reebok, Mossel Bay. Not only was it during the Covid-19 lock-down but it was also my birthday. For my birthday, I wanted to go down the Mossel Bay zip line, but things turned out completely different than planned. Instead of feeling sorry for myself being alone on my birthday, I immediately renewed my mind and instead of thinking that I am “locked down”, I decided to rather see it as “separated” and “hidden in the Beloved” – the Beloved is mine and I am His. I decided to share a video on Facebook, inviting family and friends to join me in a laughing meditation. Galatians 5 states that joy that overflows is one of the fruits produced by the Holy Spirit within you. The meaning of my name, Laetitia, is joy , because the Joy of the Lord is...