Why a website...
Perhaps we have met and you're wondering why someone would create a website and name it after themselves... it is... rather random...
Believe me I've wrestled for quite a few years now, could even be 10, with this same thought, and finally caved in at the thought that as an author, people need to be able to find you. Then they'd also like to find you and not some other random person with the same name, but, certainly not the same intentions... so, I gave in and took the site with my name...
The reason for my site is to introduce my writing, you can read why I write here
That's a sideline reason, there is also to establish the connection between my writing and my ministry, I write and that's all lovely and keeps people going and drawing nearer to the Lord, but as James taught us, faith without works is dead... so when you want to know what I'm up to, when I'm not tickling my laptop, these are the things that keep me busy, humble and connected to the everyday people around me (as per the calling I mentioned, from the Lord in this article)...
An overview of what I do:
Asnée King .com - I write what the Lord has put on my heart for the season as per Isaiah 40:1- that's the Home tab
Scarlet Thread - On a weekly basis we have prayer requests of friends and family world-wide shared anonymously and we all pray over each other - this was in response to a dream the Lord gave me of how a wave of disaster would hit the earth, but we Christians would ride the wave because we carried each other, like the priests in the temple carried the names of the Israelite tribes on their shoulders, to the Father and He makes a way for us through, around and over the wave of what the enemy thinks he's going to do to the world and even to us, but the Lord knows his tricks and has forewarned us... so here we carry each other to the Father.
Blessed2Rest - Here the Lord has given me some tactical methods to find rest, stay restored to thrive - I'll share those here.
Shop - I have found some people, who like you (let's face it, if you're reading my blog you probably need either some comfort or restoration) and definitely like me too, have wrestled with God on some matters and have come out with incredible wisdom and insight for us to grab hold of and apply. Here I share these products with confidence that you won't have any new age, strange twists in your product development and there is a Biblical training to go with some, anchoring us to our King.
Coming soon - if you have found any help or assistance in and through Scarlet Thread - we will have promo items available that you can buy, use and wear and spread the good news about life connected with family in prayer, who knows maybe even share some testimonies!
Working in Cape Town
Introducing what we've been doing around Durbanville the last 3 years, it is my privilege to unpack it all here for you.
It all started when my hubby and I lived here, in Durbanville last, which was 15 years ago. I was taking a lift to work with a work colleague who became a good friend, and was thus walking down the road in the early morning to meet her. As I was walking I heard the Lord audibly say, "Jesus walked the earth," as I walked I wondered what the Lord was speaking about and contemplated it... then the Lord said, "Jesus didn't drive in cars, because He wanted to get involved with the everyday people around Him, help them, walk with them and disciple them."
Wow, this was so interesting and, thinking back on it now, feels almost like a Mary moment, where she wondered what the greeting of the angel meant when she met him. I wondered for many years what it would mean
Good morning... Good perspective
This morning as I was preparing this feast for myself for breakie, I realised, some may not see this as a feast... I began considering that and unpicking the thoughts of it and I realised...
When I was a child a strawberry was a unique treat, unless you grew it in your back garden, they were expensive and not readily available... to us, that is, to other middle class families they were probably the norm, but we were not that, we were struggling middle class and with 6 mouths to feed something that could be breathed in and leave you starving, regardless of the health factors, was not an option... hence a simple strawberry became a favourite treat of mine, but I am acutely aware of the rarity to the extent that when I see strawberries I think that's nice for the family, let them eat it and I find I hardly ever touch them...
Why this long talk about strawberries, where on earth are we going here... not to mention blueberries and then there's cheese as well... well, you don't know that you're well off until you realise a piece of cheese in another person's home is a privilege, a blueberry a once a year occurance... I may have seen them twice in our home...
When I see this plate, I see decadence, a mouth watering treat, a delicious delight of the culinary senses I never depicted in my home before... why is this important... at the moment we as a family are going through rough times, we are struggling to make the 25th reach the 1st, nevermind the 25th, and here we have a feast fit for a king ready to serve on a plate... you see I could see this and say, no eggs, no bacon, no toast... poor is me... but when I consider, I have the things I never could afford as a child, I make a meal of it, display each item across the plate and really relish in the beauty of the intense colour, savour the bites and enjoy the juices flowing from within all the way down my throat and imagine the goodness of the Creator God we love and serve, building the building blocks of every cell in my body, I take a step back and realise, Lord, look what the Lord has done... as it says on the cup in my picture above...
Psalm 100:5 "The Lord is good & His love endures forever."
How can I ever forget that, moreover, how can this leave me with a perspective of negative introspection... when look what the Lord has done, provided me on my bad day, what I never had on my first...
This was a head lifter for me, I realised once again, it's not what's happening around me that matters, it's what's happening inside me while the circumstances rage on around me, where do I see myself in align with God and all He has for me, all He has done for me and all He will do for me... take a good long think today, whenever you catch yourself in a negative mindset:
1 - Ask yourself how you got to the negative place, what thought or situation was the catalyst
2 - Compare it to the Word of God - take the thought and ask yourself how it measures up to Philipians 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
3 - if you struggle with your perspective and negative thinking or anxiety, try a gratitude journal... it really works, you don't have to do it daily, it can be done 3 x a week...
have a blessed one!
Rest focus
– God had all but given up on His people, rebellious, stubborn and almost destroyed by Him. In Isaiah 63:10 “But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He became their enemy and fought against them.”
But then Isaiah 63:11 “Then He remembered the days of the past, the days of Moses and His people. Where is He who brought them out of the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit among the flock?”
Then, listen, here is how He leads us in His strength into His rest. Notice how us living in His perfect rest
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