Making room for more water

The Testimony of the dam

This was a creative venture from the Lord that stirred all the faith in my heart to obey. Faith to believe God’s word is the very essence of receiving the promises that He says we can have. Romans 10:17 “... Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God” Water is a source of life and attracts all living creatures. I find it so encouraging to see how many stories in the Bible and testimonies come from encounters with Jesus at a water source. The symbol of water in scripture also refers to the Holy Spirit. John 4:14 TPT but if anyone drinks the living water I give them, they will never be thirsty again. For when you drink the water I give you, it becomes a gushing fountain of the Holy Spirit, flooding you with endless life!” The part of this journey that excited me the most was responding to Jesus when He asked me to prophetically make space for more of His Holy Spirit. Make room for more. Create space for more of the Holy Spirit so that many can come to the source and drink. I want you to be filled so that you may overflow!! I really sense an invitation to live in intimacy with Jesus so that we can give, respond and serve from the overflow. We need to build a dam!

The challenge was to build the dam with a limited budget. Fred and I had so much faith to see this happen, we were willing to hire a bulldozer and become civil engineers. We wanted to complete the dam before the rain season ended so we had to make haste. W

We put stakes in the ground to estimate the perimeter of the dam and often found ourselves doubting the size. Whenever we would come together about the dam everybody agreed that we needed to have faith for a big dam and to not doubt the source of water.

The road was under construction and the Kouga civils excavator was working

on the new paved road and I asked Phillip Nell, the owner if it was for hire. A few days later I received a phone call from Phillip asking me to give him access to the property through the bottom gate. We had to test the composition of the soil and determine how we would build the dam and if it was at all possible in that designated area. Within 20 min Saviwe, the driver had prepared 6 two meter trenches and asked what he should do next. Phillip instructed him to start removing the topsoil.

By this stage we had not communicated nor received any quote. Fred and I made it very clear that we had a limited budget and that there was no way possible to increase our budget as we had received the funds from a donor.

Days followed and this led us into a very nerve wrecking meeting which could have ended in major disappointment due to our lack of funds, but faith was still stirring and we had so much confidence that this was possible.

Phillip Nell arrived Friday the 25th of June and reported with an official quote that it would not be impossible to build a dam so big with the funds we had. The first words that surfaced in my heart was that I was making space for more of His living water, Holy Spirit. I believed that this was all good. Phillip turned to us the second time and said:" I am not sure what is happening here but I am blessed with so much work that I am willing to build this dam for you within your budget. In other words, pay the diesel for the machines and the rest of the costs are a gift to you!" Oh what joy! Oh what a day of joy! Jesus settled the deal that day and it was undeniable.

Water is not just a necessity in Jeffrey's Bay but it's crucial for what needs to be done on the land. There will be a lot of planting.

Job 14: 7-9

At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. 8 Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.