Leandi Borgheresi

The last few weeks or months I have been thinking lots about this thing of "drawing near to God". The more I think,  and go through life, I believe more and more that we were created to praise. That it is God's desire to have fellowship with us, to pour out His Spirit on His people, to heal the broken hearted, to bring restoration, to heal the sick to set free the captive. That is infact why Jesus died: m Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, n smitten by God, and afflicted. 5  o But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, p and with his wounds we are healed. 6  q All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; r and the   Lord   has laid on him the iniquity of us all. The thing is that the curtain has been torn. Jesus died so that we can have fellowship with the Father. When we pray, we don

Psalm 34:18 says "The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit." I love this song by Hillsong called "Cry of the Broken" especially inlight of the verse above and because so many people are hurting and have experienced pain many more times than that which could ever be compared to a physical pain. And God's Word says that He is close to the broken hearted, to those crushed in spirit.

Matthew 11:2 2  Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples 3  and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” 4  And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: 5  the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers   [1] are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. 6  And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.” When the Kingdom comes "on earth as it is in heaven" this is what we must see, the blind receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear and the dead are raised up and the poor have good news preached to them. This is the evidence because in heaven there is no sickness or disease.   And Blessed is the one who is not offended by Jesus.

Yesterday at church Heinz, lead elder of my chuch, preached on God's love. He preached from Psalm 36. I don't know where to begin but it's like this is like a precious jewel, to be treasured. I almost feel like yesterday was just the beginning. When I went home I read from 1 John 4:7-21 God Is Love 7  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God , and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8  Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9  In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10  In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11  Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12  No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 13  By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given

I have been reading through Matthew lately and it amazes me how much Jesus brings up this thing of faith. In Hebrews 11:6 it says " and without Faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him." For us to draw near to God we must have faith in Jesus' work on the cross and that His blood shed, has appeased God's wrath. We must believe He died, that He was the Son of God, that His blood covers our sins, that God accepts Jesus' blood as payment when we approach God's throne and that He rose from the dead and overcame the grave.  In Hebrews 10:38 it says " but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve our souls." I believe that it is essential that when we approach God, He finds faith in us. That we believe that

I have a new favourite song, not because of the Meledy but rather, because of the words: God I look to You I won't be overwhelmed Give me vision to see things like You do God I look to You You're where my help comes from Give me wisdom, You know just what to do I will love You Lord my strength I will love you Lord my shield I will love You Lord my rock Forever all my days, I will love you God Hallelujah our God reigns Hallelujah our God reigns Hallelujah our God reigns Forfever all my days Hallelujah Its from their newest album "Be lifted High": God I look to You Truely He is my Strength, my Shield and my Rock!

1:1  There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. 2  There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3  He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. 4  His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5  And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed   [1] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. Satan Allowed to Test Job 6  Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan   [2] also cam

This Story amazes me and I'm not sure if I understand it fully but going along the lines of not being offended by God or not blaming  Him or having a heart that is blameless towards Him: Matthew 15: 21  And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.  22  And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.”  23  But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”   24  He answered,  “ I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ” 25  But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”  26  And he answered,  “ It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs .”   27  She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table.”  28  Then Jesus answered her,  “O woman, great is your faith

This post is a continuation of my previous post, hence read the previous one first. So I am still studying that chapter of trust.. I am a slow study-er. This is not from the Bible but from my Business management textbook but still I thought "How true". It is talking about "What leads to mistrust": Firstly, miscommunication leads to mistrust when parties are not in regular contact. Amazing! In other words come into regular contact with your heavenly Father! Secondly, dispositional attributions, this is when a low-power person(us people, in this case) makes a dispositional attribution for what is really a situational case. A dispositional attribution is one that calls into question another person's character and intentions by citing them as the cause of behaviour or incident, whereas a situational disposition cites situational factors as the cause  of a behaviour or incident. How often do we blame God for things that are actually caused by the fact that we liv

Before you read this let me just say this, I wrote the below paragraphs about 2hours prior to what I'm writing now in between studying. Just now I started a new chapter in my studies of business management and it happens to be on trust. I'm in my second sentence and this is what it says: "Trust is an expression of confidence in another person or group of people that you will not be put at risk, harmed or injured by their actions." I thought its pretty cool in light of what has been on my mind. Funny how God even puts it in my studies.... I have a new favourite verse from 2 Chron 16:9 "For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward Him." another version says " The eyes of the LORD run through the earth, to show himself strong for those who trust him". I could be wrong but the way I have come to see the word "blameless" in the first version is somet

I am dedicating an entire post to this preach of Bill Johnson only because I think it so relevant. I have been seriously wrestling with this thought of why bad things happen etc and what mindset are we to have towards these. Are we to merely accept everything or are we to live in this place of victory that even when  things go wrong, "God will work all things for the good of those who love Him" and that His ultimate will is that none perish but all come to salvation, even if thats not what we see in our lives today.I have come to believe that we cannot build our views of God on our circumstances, but rather we must base it on truth, on who He is, on what He has done for us, on the victory of the cross. It is not something that I at all feel I have complete knowledge of or even know if I will be able to understand fully, but I know this, that God will work it for good for those who love Him(Rom 8:28), that He wants us to have life and life to the full(Jh 10:10), that the fru

God LOVES the World. Its a truth I think I tend to forget. I sometimes forget the importance of one of the most famous verses in the Bible, John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." This is grace. God sent His Son for you and me because He loved us BEFORE Jesus died! His love is not conditional. His love is unfailing. Jesus didn't decide to die for us because we were any good..He died because He is God and He loved us before the cross! It is something I tend to forget.  This Amazing love. How could a God so righteous love us that much, that He would send His son?!? Surely now nothing can separate us from His love. Rom 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." "Since we have now been justified by His blood, HOW MUCH MORE shall we be saved from God's wrath through Him! For if when we were

Somethings that have really been an encouragement to me in this last year in Bahrain and also just since I'v been back in SA, I will share below.. Now there is NO  substitute for waiting on God in the secret place, but the body of Christ, the church, local and universal, is an essential part of Christian life. I don't understand it when people tell me "no it's just me and God for now" because that's not the way His word says it should be, so...... ANYways. Before I mention these, I have to add that by far the greatest miracle God has done in my life is for sure what He has done in my heart. Why I say this, is because I have been through difficult things, OTHER than the accident, and difficult situations have not always taken me to God. Don't wait till things go wrong before you turn to God because often people turn to the opposite sex, drugs, money, tv, alcohol etc. when life sucks. The thing is that we are all going to die in the end and the tragedy is

There was a time in my life where I thought that praying about everything is perhaps a bit super-spiritual and that sometimes we just have to live life! Although, I believe its still true to a degree and we are not too fret about things, I read a few verses today that make me believe that God wants us to tell Him everything and He wants us to pray about everything and allow Him into every area of our lives: "The Lord directs the steps of the godly, He delights in EVERY detail of their lives" Psalm 37:23 "Commit EVERYTHING you do to the Lord, Trust Him and He will help you. He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun." Psalm 37:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in ALL you do, and He will show you which path to take." Prov 3:5-6 I believe that God knows everything about our lives already and so these verses are telli

Today I listened to one of the messages from Bethel Church, called "Hope Happens" and I am reminded how important it is to have hope! And not just have hope for hope's sake but to have hope in the promises of God. When I thought of this and how it applies to my own life, I think of prophetic words but then I thought what if you have never had a prophetic word spoken over you? Does that mean that you have no hope? NO! God's word is FILLED with endless amount of promises for everyone of us, His Children! And we can have such a tremendous amount of hope because there are so many, SO MANY promises for us in His word. One in particular is the verse that says "And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them" Rom 8:28 another: "He gives strength to the weary     and increases the power of the weak. 30  Even youths grow tired and weary,    and young men stumble

This is me with Nurse Thembi. She was my nurse when I was in ICU a year ago and came to visit me in the general ward! Horrbible photo of me though but I'm looking better by the day, I hope;) "Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.   20  For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them" - Matthew 18:19 It was this verse that got me through my time in hospital. Two things that I have known about the local African cultures and have evidently seen this last visit in hospital is their faith in Jesus and their LOUDness! You would think a hospital needs to be quiet, but I tell you, the only time it's quiet is maybe between 1am and 4am. Otherwise, it is constantly noisy. It's the trolleys for medication, trolleys for food, the cleaners, the floor polisher, the nurses with their VERY very loud voices. I have come to a conclusion that a hospital is not a p

One thing that I thought about tonight is this thing of God's universal Kingdom. It amazes me that God can knit the hearts of people together who come from such different parts of the world but because we are all part of another Kingdom and our most treasured "possession" is the same, we are all together sons and heirs. Tonight I said "bye" to Johnny and Connie who serve as deacons to Rivers of Joy and have also become friends of our family. They took us to an amazing Thai restaurant! Thai is some of my favourite food! They have been such a blessing not only to me and my family but to the church. All their children, Isaac, Elizabeth, Eleanor and Ivan have served and blessed Rivers on their short holidays in Bahrain, either through being involved in worship or sound. I have realised this last week that I am also very much sad to leave Bahrain and most importantly SPiKKeLs behind....haha no! but seriously. Somewhere in the Bible there's a verse  where it

Hello friends!! So I haven't blogged for a while, and to be honest, I think my love for blogging has had a bit of hit lately - not sure how long I'll keep this up. But Today I am blogging again to tell you of God's faithfulness. God has answered 2 of my prayers in the last 2 days. The 1st prayer, and less urgent one, is that of my ipod touch. A few days ago it died on me. I plugged it into a power source, pressed all the buttons for numerous intervals of time, but to no hope. It did not want to turn on. So a day or 2 later I decided that I will lay hands on my ipod and ask God to heal it. I thought that perhaps the perfume spill of 4 months ago, which had made my screen seem 3D, has finally taken its toll and sucked the life out of my music source! So directly after I prayed for it I tried to turn it on, but, nothing. Then a day or 2 later I thought that since I had asked God to heal it, I must at least put my faith into action and test it every now and again. So I plug