LET THE ONE WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me and asked if I would not share God’s view about glorifying, boasting and bragging about one’s self, with my...
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DID JESUS EXIST AND WAS HE PERFECT? PART 2 Sakkie Parsons In my previous writing in these series about this question that was asked to me, I have shown from outside Biblical proof that Jesus certainly lived and was crucified. In this writing I would like to briefly...
DID JESUS EXIST AND WAS HE PERFECT? PART 1 Sakkie Parsons Someone wrote to me and asked: I just want to know how to explain that Jesus was and is perfect. In my experience, when someone has doubts about the perfection, or the reality of Jesus and you get into a...
ONLY HIS BLOOD Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker I want to share with you what occurred to me after someone wrote something to me. It is certainly wonderful to look at a rainbow and to know that it is God’s sign to us that...
BAPTISM IS A VERY IMPORTANT SACRAMENT IN THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me: “One question please? Must we be baptized to be saved? Thank you” Let me begin by saying:...
HOW DO I KNOW I AM A CHILD OF GOD? Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone asked me: “How do I know that I am saved?” In other words, that person wanted to know, how he/she would know if he/she was truly a child of...
ALWAYS GIVE YOURSELVES FULLY TO THE WORK OF THE LORD – Part 2 Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker In this the second of two short writings, I want to share with you what came to my mind, in response to the question that was...
ALWAYS GIVE YOURSELVES FULLY TO THE WORK OF THE LORD – Part 1 Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me as follows: Ecclesiastes 9:10: "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the...
ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me about how the person’s very nice love filled relationship was destroyed through an addiction to pornography. The person then asked me if I would...
GO THROUGH THE NARROW GATE INTO THE KINGDOM Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone sent to me the following section from the Word and then said rightfully, that our Lord will not allow someone to lie and so become...
COUNT THE PATIENCE OF OUR LORD AS SALVATION Sakkie Parsons I would like to share with you the following question I received: “Thank you for the enlightening writings you sent me regarding faith-healing and divine healing. I want to ask your advice;...
ABOUT DEATH – PART 2 The two types of death Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker In my previous email, About Death – Part 1, I closed off basically saying the following: There is something more that I must share with you...
ABOUT DEATH – PART 1 Has our Lord set up a plan for our lives? Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker In short someone wrote to me and asked if our Lord has predetermined how long we are going to live. I immediately...
ASK ANYTHING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: ...
BUT TAKE HEART, I HAVE CONQUERED THE WORLD Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me and shared with me three terrible tragedies that occurred with her over a two week period and as they say in English: ‘To top...
Our Lord shall not punish you for someone else's sin. Sakkie Parsons Translated from AfrikaansTranslator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me - but before I share the lady’s question with you, just a little background from her letter.All the values that I mention are...
TWO WAYS YOU CAN SHOW THAT YOU LOVE JESUS. Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Our Lord laid something on my heart that I eagerly want to share with you. Think a little back, when you truly fell in love the first time and not just...
CONFESSION OF SINS – Part 3 Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Here is the third and last writing in this short series of thoughts from the Word, where someone wrote the following to me: “I see all the time the verse...
CONFESSION OF SINS – Part 2 of 3 Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker In my first writing in this short series of three thoughts from the Word, I started answering, where someone had written the following to me: “I see...
CONFESSION OF SIN – Part 1of 3 Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote the following to me: “I see all the time the verse from the Bible that if you confess your sins then you will be forgiven. To whom must you...
WHAT MUST I DO TO BECOME BORN AGAIN? Sakkie Parsons Someone wrote to me asking the following abbreviated question: What does it mean to be born again? The author further writes to me and I quote the exact words: "I have adopted Jesus Christ as my Saviour, Lord and...
EVERY PROMISE IN THE WORD IS MINE Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me and asked: “If it is at all possible I would like to know how many promises made by God are documented in the Bible.” I want to...
THE RESULT OF OUR WORDS Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans: "Die gevolge van ons woorde" Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote the following to me: “Sakkie I want to know if you have any advice or an explanation for me about: Death...
AM I ACCEPTABLE TO OUR LORD? Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me and asked the following: “How do I know, that I am acceptable to Jesus? Because, even though I try my very best, I sin every day.” I want to begin by...
WHO ARE THE RAM AND THE GOAT IN DANIEL 8? Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone asked me a few questions about ‘Daniel 8’. Among other things the person wrote to me as follows: “I read last night in the...
TO CONDEMN OR TO JUDGE – PART 3 Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker In my two previous writings from the Word in this series where I was asked the following question: “The section that says: ‘Do...
TO CONDEMN OR TO JUDGE Part 2 OF 3 Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker In my previous writing in this series, where I was asked: “The section that says: Do not judge, because to the extent that you judge,...
TO CONDEMN OR TO JUDGE PART 1 OF 3 Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me: “The section that says: Do not judge, because to the extent that you judge, you yourself will be judged: what does that exactly...
GOD HAS INDEED A PRECIOUS INHERITANCE FOR HIS CHILDREN Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans: "God het inderdaad 'n kosbare erfporsie vir Sy kinders" I want to begin this thought of the day by quoting the following wonderful promise from our...
LET US THEREFORE DRAW NEAR UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE Sakkie Parsons "If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns." This saying that someone sent me brought me to the following thought, which I would like to share with you: NEH1:9...
YOU HAVE A CHOICE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO Sakkie Parsons Someone wrote a very honest letter to me and in this letter the person wrote: "I'm worried about the sovereign will of God for me. Does that mean that if He decided that I was going to hell then nothing...
ON THE WAY TO HEAVEN’S GATE Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker I want to share with you this daily thought about our lifestyle on earth: Our belief – and how we live it – must not be an act, not nice, or be...
Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker For the reason that people have spoken to me about this matter, I feel I must write something in this regard. I am talking here about, on the surface, the illogicalness of our...
REPENT AND BE BAPTISED, EVERY ONE OF YOU, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me and the person is worried/concerned that she will not go to Heaven because she was...
WHEN DO WE RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT? Author: Sakkie Parsons Someone wrote to me to find out if I can help with this question: “When do we receive the Holy Spirit?” The way I understand it according to the Word is as follows: I am referring to...
JOYFULNESS AND PEACE THROUGH OUR FAITH Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Because we have this kind of belief we have peace: HEB 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do...
OUR BODY, OUR SOUL AND OUR SPIRIT – Part 3 Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker In my previous two writings from the Word I shared with you about our bodies, or our tent house as it is called in the Word....
OUR BODY, OUR SOUL AND OUR SPIRIT – Part 2 Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker In this writing I eagerly want to share with you about the soul of a person, as I understand it through the Word. I want to begin by...
OUR BODY, OUR SOUL AND OUR SPIRIT – Part 1 Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker In this writing the following two questions were asked and I deal with it in three different series. Someone asked me to...
HE WILL RESTORE, CONFIRM, STRENGTHEN AND ESTABLISH YOU Author: Sakkie Parsons I once heard about a farmer during the second Boer war that came back to his farm and saw the burned farmhouse and the ruined croplands and said: “The battle...
GOD IS LOVE ITSELF Author: Sakkie Parsons Recently I read the saying that we do not always realise what it means when somebody says that they are praying for you. Then the person mentioned: “Just think about it – The Person to whom he/she is going to...
FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BELONGS TO SUCH AS THESE Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker “I want to start this message with a very important statement: The way I understand the Word, I cannot earn Heaven, or...
WE ARE THE FRAGRANT SCENT THAT RISES TO GOD THROUGH CHRIST Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me – and I quote from the letter in this writing only what I think may be relevant to you:...
THE LORD IS PATIENT BECAUSE HE WANTS PEOPLE TO BE SAVED Author: Sakkie Parsons I would like to share with you the following question I received: “Thank you for the enlightening writings you sent me regarding faith-healing and divine healing. I want...
WHERE THERE IS LIFE, THERE IS HOPE – Part 2. Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker In my previous writing I began with explaining about the man on the cross who Jesus said the following to: LUKE 23:43 Jesus...
WHERE THERE IS LIFE, THERE IS HOPE - PART 1 Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker I want to share with you the following question that someone sent to me and also my answer to the question as well as a following-up...
LET THE ONE WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me and asked if I would not share God’s view about glorifying, boasting and bragging about one’s self, with my...
LET NO ONE SAY WHEN HE HAS BEEN TEMPTED: GOD IS TEMPTING ME Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me with the following question: “I have fallen in love with someone. The person is married...
EVERYTHING BEGINS WITH LOVE Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone wrote to me and told me how they tried to show a loved one how that person’s lifestyle was wrong, but was unable to accomplish it. When I...
LET US NOT NEGLECT OUR MUTUAL GATHERINGS AS SOME HAVE MADE IT A HABIT Author: Sakkie Parsons Translated from Afrikaans Translator: Robin Barker Someone asked me: “Why must a person go to church?” My immediate reaction is that the answer in the...