In my own Force

March 8th, 2007

My name is Susana, I am 24 years old will be 25 on Friday, March 9th. Everything in our lives is all planned by God, nothing escapes his hands. With my testimony you will see how wonderful God is and how he has our lives planned just perfect.

When I came to God’s feet it was like I saw a video recording of my life and he allowed me to see the sin in which I was living in. I had to reach the end of Susana’s will to realize that what I needed was him in my life. What I mean by the end of Susana is that I had to die. The Susana that was lead by the things of this world. The girl who was married to a very wealthy guy, who had the mansion on the side of the ocean, the yacht, the American Express Plt. card with no limit spending, the fancy cars, rolex watches and a “husband”. All of this but guess what she was miserable! She was unhappy, always bitter, mad, sad.. and never understood why. She tried to doe verythig on her own will. after 8 years of dating and living in fornication with her boyfriend, she forced him to marry her, forced him to the alter, a wedding that was all thru her hands, never was it Gods will. she married into a family for money, for monetary happines, thinking that money was going to be her happines, she had it all. But she never understood what it was that she was missing, until God started putting her marriage and her life thru test. He drove me to the bottom of my self. My depression, my misery drove me to aultery, Iwas a liar, I was becoming an alcoholic, and it was all because my husband’s family never accepted me. (I will get into that part later, of why Iwas not accepted) I coulnt understand why, I was not accepted. I was everything a family ever wanted, I studied, even though his family gave us all the money in the world and I had everythign I ever wanted, I worked. But for this family, it was wrong to work and study. Until, finally the hate, the misseary drove me to the end. I began to drink, go out, party and did not care about my self, my husband or my body. This was the end of my marriage and the begining of a new life. There was a very special person on the other side of the world, praying with a pure heart for me, because she wanted to share with me in the kingdom of heaven; it was my sister, praying every night for 3 years of her life for me. She would pray, God if it is your will for her to be with that man, keep them together and joing them in love, and if itis not your will bring her here close to me. She is my blood and I miss her with my life. Becasue of this marriage my sister and I were separted. Long story short, his family did not accept my family. You know the rich don’t mix with the poor. So through her prayers, god saved me. Well the day came when my X decided to divorce me. It was the end of the world for me. He was all I had. I was living in USA, with no family, he was the only person I had in USA, what was I going to do. So I called my sister and she flew in to rescue me from what I now call the dungen of Hell. She came and my X and I decided that we both had given up, that his family was never going to accept my family and that things were never going to change. We packed a small lugage bag with more shoes hten clth in it, yu know us owmen, shoes, purses and that is it. And I flew into Costa Rica. The next day my sister had her service day and I went with her, that day… God called out to me, he put the words i the pastors mouth to speak directly to me. He said these exact words “in a marriage if there is not forgiveness there is no love, if there is forgiveness there is love, where ever there is forgivenss there is LOVE.” Those words entered my heart, and I said God do your will, if we love each other we will forgive and move on and our love wll grow, if we dont forgive, then I know that there was no love. Then I accepted the message of salvation and understood it clearly. I saw a reflection of my life, like in a video recording and I got scared. I was a liar, a cheater, I and had hate in my heart. But once i accepted that he had forgiven those sins, and understood the word, it was all out, gone. I slept like a baby that night. Then I began to read the bible.. and ever passage Iread, refleted my life. I read the passagein which is says… that it is very rare for the rich to make it into the kingdom of heaven becasue they worry more about getting rich then thinking about Gods love.. and I back tracked to my X husbands life and what did I see a person and a family who worshiped money and not God, they are servants to money. my x husbands father never slept at night always thinking baout how to make more money and tied into his slavery to money. and his son my X was in the same path as his father… worried about making money and worshiping idols. The i kept on reading everyday of my life i read and words just cmae out to me…it stated… money wrongly gotten will be destroyed, and I the Lord have spoken… my God.. did this words touch my heart all the money my X had was all wrongly gotten. If you want tog et rich fast you will be destroyed… but the one who works hard and gets rich slowly will have a solid foundation… my life and what I was living was comig out to me… and I said to my self and to GOd, THANK YOU for saving me. thanking for taking me out of there, what would have been of me. Everyday of my life I red and read and the more I read the more  I understood Gds laws. The more I understood the sin I was living in. I was blind. How come I did not see that Iwas literally married to the mob.   Who was I trying to cheat? but when God shinned that light on me I saw the scars of sin all over my body. I saw the pride, I saw the lies, I saw the sin every were it was so very clear to me. I became afraid. You must be wondering and what happen to you right? Well, from riches to rags, but guess what happier now then ever before. I came to learn aout Jesus love for us, I came to Costa Rica with a luggage bag full of shoes and purses and not one dollar to y name, when Iaccepted him, i put my life in his hands, he has been driving my car, I have had just enough to live and more. I have everything one needs to live and even more. I am still not legally divorced becasue the justice war is not over yet, but i have faith in the Lord and I know he will bring justice. It has been 8 months since I accepted Jesus in my life and these 8 months have been the hppiest 8 months of my life. I obey his laws and I honestly am scared of Jesus, I know his pwer, I rather obey and live right. I hvent had not even a cup of wine in the 8 months, and had no need for it.

I had the husband that the world had to offer me, the one that I made with my own force, I married for money, the bible says… those who worship money will be servants to money and will not share in heaven with me. money wrongly gotten iwll disappear. the rich people dont have time for Jesus they are too worried about making money and forget all about him, and if Jesus wants to give us obundance he will. So far i havnet need anything of my past life. And when I accepted him, I let it all go. Now I am a living testimony of his power, because my life depends on him, whatever happen with my life, is his will and not mine, if Iget remarried, it was his will and the husband he had for me. If I dont get married, then his will was for me to obey and follow him. As you can see everything I did in my own force lead to disaster. Once I accepted Jesus I have had everything I needed and more.

If someone would have told me that at one time in my life, I will live from one month to another, without knowing from where our next lot will come, so we’ll survive the next month, I would not believed them.

For years, I lived with a husband who provided for the family, working as an engineer, we did not lack, yet, I always knew from where this provision comes from. We can’t forget from where our health comes from.

In fact, every time I thanked God for the provision, he would say, “Why thank God, you should thank me, I worked for it.”

We cannot blame him, as it is written in Rom 11:25:
…blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

And behold, after he divorced me, I remarried, this time to a Jewish Believer, a God fearing man, praise be to God. He promised he would take care of me and he would pay the high mortgage we have.

It took, may be, a year, he was made redundant because of his faith. So…now our faith was tested.

God in His grace and mercy, taught us His providence, and took care of us in a mighty way. First this walk was unknown to me, unusual, mysterious…later it became exciting…knowing our Father will always take good care of us.

And if someone would tell me today, “Let us go back to the beginning, when you got your salary for “sure”, would you go back?”

I would say, “No thank you, I prefer to be under God’s umbrella all the way….

Please read my testimony: THE TAMBOURINE.

I just wonder if it is a preparation of faith for the appearance of the Anti-Messiah [666]?

Marlene Malachi
© Mishkan Ed
marlene_cohen@hotmail.com

The Bottle Store

September 10th, 2006

After work, Mark asked me if I would go with him to Johannesburg to buy some groceries. On the way he stopped his car at Benny Goldberg’s Bottle Store, and asked me to enter the store with him. I was reluctant, for it was against my principles. After much nagging, I followed him.

At the entrance of the store I noticed a square bookshelf. I searched to see what these books were all about. Looking up, my eyes fell upon a book titled, “Springs of Jewish Wisdom.”

Surprised to find such a book in a bottle store I opened it and read:

“God conceals Himself from the mind of man, but reveals Himself to His heart.”

On the following page was written:

“Have I not commanded thee: Be strong and of good courage, be not affrighted either be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” Joshua 1:9

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The Tambourine

September 10th, 2006

At a Christian camp meeting, in August 2000, I met wonderful sisters and brothers in the Lord. One of those wonderful people was a girl of eleven years of age. Her eyes reflected love, a beautiful daughter of God. Every time we met, we hugged and kissed each other. And so I felt I needed to teach her how to praise God in dance and in playing the tambourine.

She stood before me and I would play the tambourine on her lap. I expressed to her mum that she needed a tambourine and my wish was to buy her one. Since I did not have substance of money, I waited for a miracle and thought it would come in the form of money, but money did not come.

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Parys

September 10th, 2006

On September 14, 1983, I drove to Parys, a small town where I had to meet Marietjie (Marikie), a sweet sister in the Lord. We were to go to a women’s conference in Kronnstad.

As I traveled, I followed the directions given to me, yet within I knew I had taken the wrong direction. I stopped near a traffic light and asked for directions from a policeman who was just passing by. Suddenly we head a hooting. I turned around and there was Marietjie!

When I asked her what was she doing there, she replied that God had said to her, “Marlene has difficulty in finding her way to you. Go to the corner of the A.G.S. Church. You will find her there.”

As she explained, I looked to see if we were at that location, and sure enough we were.

Praise God for people of FAITH who hear, believe, and obey the voice of the Holy Spirit within them.

As It is written:

“Those who are led by the Spirit
are sons of God.”
Romans 8:14

How many of us are missing an experience, or a miracle, because of lack of faith, fear of making mistakes, or by being insensitive to the Holy Spirit.

I pray that we will hear and obey, so that our experiences will bring Glory to the Lord!

Marlene Malachi
Mishkan Ed
marlene_cohen@hotmail.com

As for me and my House

September 10th, 2006

I asked the Lord for direction, if to stay in New Zealand or to prepare to immigrate back to Israel. I asked that if it was His will for us to leave New Zealand that He would sell our house. We put our house on the market and waited.

I dreamt:

Two men were coming to look at our house. One was a short Chinese man and the other was tall, wearing a suit, speaking on his cell phone.

A week later it was a hot day. I just returned from shopping and was very tired. I needed a rest. I took my shoes off, ready to put some order in the house and fix a meal for the children returning from school.

Suddenly the bell rang. I opened the door and my friend Pam, who is a real estate agent, asked if she could bring some people in to look at our home. I said, “I couldn’t possibly let you in when the house is in such a state.” She answered, “No problem, I will help you. I will let them sit in the sitting room while I take care of the kitchen, and you will take care of the rooms. Then when you finish I will show them around.”

So I agreed, and as quickly as possible I put order in the rooms and came back to the sitting room.

I could not believe my eyes! In front of me were the two men of my dream, a Chinese man, and a tall man with a suit and a cell phone.

I invited them to look around the house, meanwhile I whispered to Pam, “These are the people who will buy the house.” She had a wide smile.

As they were about to leave the short Chinese man stopped at the front door, and looked at the beam above the window in the sitting room. He asked a question in Chinese, and since I understood what he wanted to know I answered, “As for me and my house we will serve the LORD!” The Chinese man tapped on his chest and said, “I’m pastor!”

A few day after the house was sold to this child of God, this Chinese pastor. Hallelu-Yah!

Marlene Malachi
© Mishkan Ed
marlene_cohen@hotmail.com

The Message

August 31st, 2006

WHILE I WAS PRAYING 30/1/2006, JESUS GAVE ME A MESSAGE

Jesus gave me a cream-coloured, chocolate chip muffin.
JESUS: What do you see?
ME: It looks and smells good. May I eat it?
JESUS: No! Do not judge by appearance! It looks good from the outside, but inside it is full of greed, jealousy and all sorts of evil.
ME: Who is the muffin Lord?
JESUS: The greatest part of My church.
ME: I do not want it anymore, Lord.
JESUS: I chose you, I know you will do it!

Go tell My church:
I had enough of your false-goodness. Be truly good!
Let your works rise up before Me like a most holy scent,
a scent that never ceases and never perishes.
Give Me which belongs to Me.
Have I hurt you?
My heart is breaking for My church, just as I am breaking this muffin in My hand!

I SAW: the chocolate chip muffin breaking in pieces in His hand.
JESUS: I am going to do a new thing:
and I shall mix My own dough,
I shall pour in the rising agent and
I shall choose the fragrance that should go in there.
I shall do that and no one helps Me.
It shall rise up in My glory.
It shall overflow and raise up even further, it shall rise high!
It shall become great.

I SAW: Jesus smiling, He looks satisfied and full of joy! He looks at His muffin that is baking in the oven. It is rising high! It was a very special moment to see this happening!
JESUS: It shall not tire, slide back and cause problems. No, My church is steadfast, grounded and rooted in the truth! A sweet fragrance shall come out of it and it shall give Me a lot of
pleasure and delight.
JESUS:
I invite you:
Do you want to be part of My church?
It starts with a pure heart, clean thoughts and a clean life. These are the things that glorify My Name.
Jesus kneels down and writes with His finger in the sand and says:
I am writing this with My own finger: THE TIME IS SHORT!
You know the truth; yet, you do not want to be made free? Break away! Run away from iniquity.
Stand together for the truth! My truth is not the worlds’ truth.
See, there is no lie in My truth. You cannot serve lies and Me.
If My people should humble themselves before Me, I will pay the price for them to be set free,
and free they shall be.

ME: What can I do for you Lord?
JESUS: Go and deliver this message. Perhaps there is ‘ONE’ that listens. Purify your hearts, clean
your hands, a small amount of dust causes the scale to weigh heavy.

LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!
JESUS: Just do it! (I must deliver the message). Happy is the one who doubts not. (I must not doubt).

Here ends what I saw and heard
KJV:
*Psalm 12: To the chief Musician upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David
*Ephesians 4:
* Psalm 42:

2nd March 2006 I saw a hand, there was a ring on His finger. In the gold was set something like a pearl. When I looked
inside the pearl; I saw a city of gold! It was surrounded with brilliant light. Indescribably beautiful. He wore the ring
like a seal on His finger.
Revelation 21:9-27
John 8:31,32.
Ephesians 5:25-27.
1 Corinthians 3:13-15.

(Please excuse the English I tried to translate it the best I could)

CHRISTOPHER

June 21st, 2006

As I opened the cafeteria door in sister Ruth Heflin’s Camp, to go up to the room just given to Lorie and me, my eyes met a youngster’s eyes, which I recognized to be demonic. He was all bewitched. Yet…I felt that my duty, as a child of God, was to love him. So I went and hugged him.

The rest was God!

During the next two days HE WAS AFTER ME, wherever I went, he was there, not yet understanding it all.

As I sat in the cafeteria, he approached me, and said to me “I want to be delivered.” He then confessed that he was there to break the power of God in the camp, and added that the love of God was felt through me, and that for 25 years he never received a hug from anyone…

God’s compassion came over me…I just loved him…I explained what he must do, he confessed in writing a long list of his demonic involvements, which were many, and folded it, not for my eyes to see. I took authority in Yeshua [Jesus] Name, He then vomited it all, and was delivered!

Then we went into his room and cleaned all idolatry from his room, putting them into a black plastic bag and with his long folded list he threw them into fire.

At that moment, his eyes and face changed, they became light, he became a new person, his hands were made straight. God made the transformation before our very eyes!

The next day Christopher was not found. I wondered if he went back to idolatry.

When he came back I asked him, “Where have you been?”

He then answered that he went to Richmond Town and preached in the streets.

Praise His Name Forever!

Before he left the camp, I prayed for him, washed his feet, anointed him, blessed him and sent him with words of wisdom.

He left with two precious brothers that came to accompany him into his new adventure and journey with God!

Hallelu-Yah!

Marlene Malachi
© Mishkan Ed
marlene_cohen@hotmail.com

His Way

May 20th, 2006

Friend

I want to spare you all the sad details so here is an outline only of my story. As a child I was mentally and physically abused. With 15 years of this baggage I entered my first marriage. I married a woman who lived only for herself and hated everyone else. Meantime I accepted Christ and became a Christian. She could not live with this and divorced me. A few years later I married another woman who, like me, had been through mental hell but, sadly, she could not forgive people who hurt her. At the beginning it was great and we had two great children but being human and still mixed up I made mistakes we all make and hurt her. We separated and divorced after 11 years of marriage. Now I had the baggage of my childhood and two marriage disasters to add to my messed up mind. During the years I had counseling but I needed to come to the place where God could take really take control. I met another lady who had a list of psychological problems as long as your arm including delusions, hypochondria, phobias etc etc. I thought that with all my experiences I could rescue her, but it was nothing more than co-dependency. I couldn’t cope she pressed all the wrong buttons and she broke me down and I was emotionally wrecked. I felt guilt shame and humiliation, expected no pity and got no pity. Only a dear friend and his wife supported me throughout.

Finally, all alone with serious loss of eyesight and no prospects but now healing big time in my mind through God’s amazing grace, I poured out my heart to God for an opportunity to start my life again with a clean page with my sins all forgiven just as He promised. One day walking along a lane in the countryside I decided to put my case to Him. I called out to God in tears and said Father You know I need someone to love I cannot live on my own. I need someone to love me. I have tried for years to do it my way and have failed dismally, adding sin to sin. You know what I need. You know exactly the person I can love and make happy and you know exactly who can love me and make me happy. I leave it in your hands. If its your will you will provide. But if I must remain alone so be it. Above all, Father, no matter what happens, let me be yourfaithful and loving servant until the end of my wife. I had such peace after that prayer and the comforting assurance He was going to answer that prayer. He did within days. God answered that prayer. He brought me in contact with one of the loveliest souls I have ever met especially in character. She was in middle age, had neve married and was a still a virgin. But she lived in another country and the immigration UK laws did not allow her to come to the UK. This was something that proved me to the quick. My friends encouraged me to believe but it was very very hard to believe that God could work this one out. I almost blew it. But God did. After a series of events that tested my faith down to the very bone marrow, He brought her to the UK by a way that my friends acknowledged as nothing short of a miracle It was an example of divine intervention. He did it, not my way, but His way. When God is in control then, brother, nothing can stop Him from working out His plan, no sister, not even some of the toughest immigration laws that exist.

My wife has a dear sweet loving nature and I can honestly say that I have never heard her complain. If I unintentionally hurt her she just sobs and that is worst that me receiving a heaving beating, it just breaks my heart and I resolve never to hurt her again. We adore each other and have been married now for over three eyars. It has been the happiest years of my life. During this time irrespective of severe sight loss and with my wife’s support I have undertaken a degree course in Social Work and am just about finished. God has provided and He does answer prayer but only when we give up on ourselves and let Him take over.

To God be the praise and the glory! Great is His faithfullness!

Brian

My Testimony

January 27th, 2006

To Dear Friends,

I was born in a pentecostal family…a true pentecostal family….i had a very good childhood…and my parents were great parents who believed in me and taught me to have faith in myself and in god.

But since childhood…. i was a loner…i had many,many friends but i wanted some one ….i grew up but the same kind of voidness remained in me …. i made a lots of friends but did’nt find peace…i wanted that one perfect person who would be mine.

i had trust in my God for that partner….. i had a picture in my mind…i began to pray for a suitable partner…i was very insecure about the whole idea of marriage..But i prayed hard.

i had prayed that whenever the person comes in my life …i would know…i had prayed that i would not doubt..

Anyways i had forgotten about this prayer of mine..A good proposal came but i dont know why i was least interested …i had made my mind to refuse ..but my parents had arranged for a meeting with them……
Finally they came…. the boy got out of the car….and within a fraction of a second decided …..he even had the hairstyle that i had prayed! i mean god is so wonderful that he listens to small whispers of prayers.

I would suggest all the young girls to pray for their partners…because girls have two lives …one before marriage and one after. a bad marriage spoils your life…and if its a good marriage life will be the same as before…Just as my life is Now…PRAISE THE LORD