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Have Faith

Inspiration for your daily life

When you have an ailment the best place for you to be is in
your local doctor surgery where he can advise the best remedies
and treatments to you back on your feet. Our physical health
is something we all need to take care to the best of our ability.
Even down to eating well, taking regular exercise and reducing to find these very people would scorn if you were guilty of sins
our stress levels. But when it goes a little wrong, off to the which they didn’t approve of.
doctors and get help. yes?
To me, these people were all sick but were ignoring the
Our Spiritual health is just as important but in many ways symptoms. In my mind, we go to church not only to Worship
we overlook the importance because it doesn’t effect the daily our Lord but to be healed of our spiritual ailments. Without
running of our lives. Or does it? exception, that is all of us. None of us are perfect or without
sin. Jesus didn’t give his life for all of the good people of the
One particular passage from the Bible sticks in my mind and world, he actually gave his life for those sin the most so they
is just so true. At Matthew 9:12 Jesus said “It is not the healthy could be healed.
who need a doctor, but the sick.” This one passage really brings
to me the true weakness of humanity. For some time, I avoided If we go to our GP and hold back on our symptoms, how can we
going to church because I saw too many people that went to expect them to give us the right treatment? So next time you
church purely because it was the right thing to do and by them are in Church, let the Lord know all of your spiritual illnesses so
going to church meant they were all spiritually healthy. I used he can treat you properly.

Pause A Moment – LinkedIn group. I pursued just That day, each time I went I’m asking you, in the spirit
Please about every LinkedIn contact near LI, I thought of the of this new platform, please
pause a moment – and spare a
situation. Yes, the person was
listed on my account – South
Africans got special treatment in our thoughts and I even thought for our friend who is
Little more than a month ago, – extra harassment. said the occasional one-liner fighting this fight.
SAFFER Worldwide was still prayer. But I felt powerless – I
a figment of my imagination, Then, a few days later I did a kept wondering about life If doesn’t matter if you don’t
ideas passed back and forth round of bombarding again – and why some folk get more believe in prayer – just pause
between a few people in the submissions please! In came a roadblocks pushed in their a moment to think how a one-
last months of 2019. What number of messages – one in paths than others. liner of support can encourage
happened next was rather particular stopped me in my our friend. For those who feel
remarkable. Paul found time tracks. The message read quite Then, later in the day a the need for saying a prayer –
- time to help me create this simply “undergoing treatment thought dawned. One of the please keep our friend in your
platform - from scratch. Paul – beating this horrid disease core reasons for the creation thoughts and prayers. We’ll
worked between a number of that had thrown a temporary of this platform was to reach ensure this article is placed
fires… no, not irons in one roadblock across my path.” No out to others… fellow South on the website – and open
fire, rather irons in a number scolding, no leave me alone, Africans and friends. To comments. We’ll send the link
of fires. no delete me as a contact. A share a bond, to share the to our friend who can in turn
totally dignified reply. load, however small our see the support. Thank you!
About the only thing I was portion, we can share. So,
doing was trying to find I offered thoughts and
content for the first issue of prayers – because that is
the magazine. In the process, I all I could do. We rose very
established a LinkedIn group early the next day to go off
also going by the name Saffer on “darling duty” – minding
Worldwide. (In fact, in this the grand-kids. However, as
day and age where URL’s and my good lady returned from
social media names and tags the shower, I briefly told her
are mostly taken… we’ve about the previous evening’s
found Saffer Worldwide and conversation. Why? Because I
its derivatives free for all our knew she would also keep this
social media accounts.) OK… stranger in her thoughts and
so, there was me building a prayers.

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