As a child growing up in New York City I heard nothing about submission. I was married when I was thirty-two, and it was around that time I first started hearing about the idea of obeying your husband. I thought, “Oh, okay, I’ll obey him.” But I had no idea how unsubmissive I really was. It was not until later that the Lord showed me my attitudes, my controlling spirit and other destructive areas of my life.

I am delighted to write a brief update about the Lord’s work here in Namibia, especially in our lives. We have quite a story to tell of God’s dealings with us until now. We started out totally ignorant and for that reason many unpleasant things were used of God to show us on the way that we are in today. I am sure we must be among those with whom God is most patient. Many things could have been avoided would there have been more mature brothers around to lead us by their example. But alas, we were alone in Africa; seeking God with thousands of other confused “Christians” around; only the Lord could help us.

By Faith...

...Sister Helen Enns comes to God, trusting Him to help her in child rearing, believing that He stands behind her as the Chief Teacher and Instructor and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him and heed His counsel.

Through faith she shall continue fighting in the spiritual warfare, taking up daily the whole armor of God, knowing that God has prepared for her a better country—a heavenly one.

By faith she shall keep her home orderly as is pleasing to the Lord, not with eye service, but doing the will of God from the heart (the daily duties of dishes, baking, laundry, cleaning and tidying), knowing that she shall reap a reward if she faints not.

By faith she will submit to her own husband as unto the Lord, knowing that God has divinely appointed him as her head for leadership, protection and spiritual growth of her family (just as Christ is the head of His church).

By faith she will take captive every thought and bring it into the obedience of Christ, occupying her mind with only virtuous and praiseworthy thoughts.

By faith she will endeavor to edify the local body of sisters, submitting herself to them, exhorting them with uplifting conversation, making an effort in getting to know them personally, praying for them daily, knowing that our spiritual combat is not only an individual matter but also a corporate one.

Taken from "The Heartbeat of the Remnant"

 

 

By Faith...

 

...Sister Margaret Buhler and her husband are training their children for the Lord, knowing that if they do it for His glory and honor, it will not be in vain. “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Pr. 22:6).

By faith they trust the Lord to watch over and protect their children when they cannot.

By faith she is learning that God’s ways and timing are perfect, “being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in [me] will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil. 1:6).

By faith she trusted the Lord to give her the grace she needed to get through her third pregnancy and postpartum period, and more fully learned to rest in Him. And He said to her, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9a).

 

Taken from "The Heartbeat of the Remnant"

By Faith...

 

...Sister Mary Friesen has been praising our wonderful Lord Jesus that she has been feeling physically better, and believes that her trials are for her good. Through faith she has received strength from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to continue to go on without murmuring about the circumstances that He has allowed to come her way through carrying this reward in her womb.

By faith she believes God’s promises about child training, continuing to seek Him for more wisdom. By faith she trusts that He will show her areas of her life that could be hindering her from seeing progress in training her son Zephaniah. By faith God has been revealing answers to her concerning her need to be a more submissive wife.

By faith she believes that God is doing a work in the lives of her extended family. Not seeing what God is doing in their hearts, she believes that they will be saved.

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him” (Heb. 11:6).

 

Taken from "The Heartbeat of the Remnant"

 

 

When someone asks you to give your testimony in front of a large crowd, don’t you immediately feel small and unworthy for the unspeakable honor it is to be a mouthpiece for God’s glory? Well, that is how I feel now as I sit here writing. No, I am not standing in front of you, but I do know that what I write will be heard by many. It humbles me.

By Faith...

 

...Sister Sara Klassen trusted that God would provide a house for them in three months time. The price of the home went low enough for them to afford to buy it.

By faith she believed that God would spare the life of their son Rob when he was a very sick baby.
By faith she and her husband prayed, asking the Lord to give them children. God heard their prayer, and in six months time, they conceived their first child. It was a miracle because her body was not well enough for pregnancy.

Taken from "The Heartbeat of the Remnant"