Tag: God

With a cheeky smirk on my face I said to God, “Okay Daddy, you’ve given me the candy wrapper, but where is the candy? You can’t give a child a candy wrapper without the candy in it can You?”

A beautiful story of faith. That is what this is about. An event that took place ten years ago and yet the Lord reminded me of it this week! He wants me to share it, and I am absolutely delighted to…

In 2009 I attended Rhema Bible College in Johannesburg, South Africa. While I was there I asked the Lord for something; I asked Him for a Blackberry cell phone. Blackberry’s were the ‘in’ thing at the time, many of my friends had one! The phone I carried around was a little beat up flip phone. The screen was probably the size of an Apple Watch screen. Believe it or not, it was an upgrade from the phone I had before – some Nokia something. How do I even remember the name of that?! Do they even make Nokia’s anymore?! Oh dear… my children will never know the struggle.

I didn’t want just any Blackberry, I wanted a puurple one – because that was my favorite color… So finally the day came when I boldly approached God and said, “Daddy, I really would like a purple Blackberry, and I know you care about me and I know that nothing is too hard for you.” When I uttered these words I remember having unshakable faith in my heart. I didn’t know when and I didn’t know how, the only thing I knew was my non existing bank account. However, I knew something greater; I knew that God loved me enough, I knew that He did not only care about the BIG things in my life, but that He also cared about the little things. I knew that if He could send somebody to pay for my full tuition at Bible school, including my groceries and my rent for two years, then He could get me a purple Blackberry Phone. It was a done deal, and I was certain that it was only a matter of time until my purple Blackberry arrived.

Back to the story! Several weeks went by and my faith was still undisturbed, I refused to let doubt distract me. And so on one sunny day, once class was over, I took a little detour on my walk home; stopping at my favorite little pizza place for lunch (Luigi’s Pizzeria). I ordered my large pizza to go and as I sat down to wait for it, a cook walked out of the kitchen to greet me. To my surprise, he pulled out a blackberry phone cover and asked me if I wanted it. Wide-eyed and speechless, the words “no thank you” almost slipped out of my mouth, because I didn’t own a Blackberry so why on earth would I need a cover? Then it hit me like a bucket of ice cold water and I instantly reverted my response to, “Yes, I’ll take it. Thank you!”

That day, I received the blackberry phone cover from that stranger by faith. It wasn’t a blackberry, but it was symbolic of the whole concept of faith!
Hebrews 11:1 – Faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things not yet seen! The phone cover was the substance of what I was hoping for, it was the evidence of what I had not yet seen! Oh man, I was so PUMPED.

With the pizza in my one hand and the blackberry cover in the other I skedaddled home and that was the moment I smirked and said to Him, “Okay Daddy, you’ve given me the candy wrapper, but where is the candy? You can’t give a child a candy wrapper without the candy in it can You?” I said it playfully with great joy and expectation in my heart. Ya’ll won’t believe what happened that following weekend…

A close family friend came to visit me at the girls commune I was staying at and guess what she brought with her? A brand spanking new PURPLE BLACKBERRY. Ahhhhhhh!! For ME?! The joy was surreal. And quite frankly, in that moment, I was more excited about what God had done than I was about the actual phone. I hadn’t asked anyone for one, or told any family members how much I wanted one, but guess what? My Heavenly Father knew, and He spoke to somebody’s heart concerning me. God showed up for something that I didn’t even ‘need‘. I mean, if He cares about the things we want, how much more does He care about the things we need?

The blackberry cover the stranger had given to me did not fit, so the lady who gave me the phone drove me to a shop to pick out a pretty purple cover to match it! How awesome is God?! I pray that this little story would ignite faith within you. I pray that it would plant a desire inside of you to truly know your Heavenly Father; to know ‘Daddy God’. I pray that you would get to know His heart and that you would grow in the knowledge of His infinite love. I pray that you would trust Him concerning every detail in your life – the big things, and in the little things…

Lastly, I pray that He would become as real to you as the phone in your hands. – Kyla

Talk to Him

Dear God, I want to know You as my Heavenly Father, I want to know You as MY Daddy. There have been people who have hurt me and sometimes I get angry at You because of what they did to me; sometimes I see You through the words and the actions of others. I am sorry for judging Your character before seeking out to know You for who You really are. I would want somebody to know me before they judged me too… So please forgive me, and please give me the heart and the discipline to spend time with You everyday. I understand that to know somebody you have to put in the effort to spend quality time with them. I want to know You. I want to know Your love, I want to feel what Your heart feels, and I want to trust You; in the big things, and in the little things. I want You to be as real to me, as this device in my hands.

Now, talk to yourself

I am important to God. He is a loving Father and I am His beloved child. I see myself exactly the way He sees me and I can walk boldly into His presence at ANYTIME. I am not a burden to Him and what I say, do and feel matters. He cares about all things that concern me; nothing is too big and nothing is too small. I have faith to believe in the impossible because Jesus lives inside of me, and with Him nothing is impossible. I will not worry about anything – I will trust in Daddy God, because He cares deeply about me. I am fearless, I am confident – I AM A WOMAN OF FAITH.