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SHALOM DEAR FRIENDS & FAMILY

It has been a while since we have shared something. We as a family have gone through a very challenging season these past two years and have learned so much in these dark times. All glory and praise be to YHVH that He is shining His light on us to get a better understanding for what to do in this season right now and how to grow in Him through it.

We continue to work on the development of the Harvest Life School vision and again thank everyone for their support and prayer. We are making good progress with the school’s website which we plan to launch early next year, and we are looking forward to sharing more detail about the school soon. Although the school will not open yet, the fundraising for the school continues, and we continue to press on in order to give birth to this vision, as we desire to build a strong foundation that will be able to stand when everything is shaken. Babylon will fall but that which is built upon Abba’s Kingdom (love) will stand. We will advise the opening date of the school well in advance, and we encourage you to find alternative means of education for your children in the meantime.

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I want to share a Scripture that really hit me to the core.

Ezekiel 22:30-31

So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. ³¹ Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.

My question is this: Are you standing in the gap for someone or for your family or for your country? You see, if you stand in the gap, pray, and seek the Father’s face, you will not speak against a person or a group of people. My encouragement is to keep on praying, and if you haven’t started, don’t wait, please start. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God through the pulling down of strongholds. I urge you to use your spiritual authority that has been given to you through the resurrection power of our Messiah. No one said that this journey was going to get easier. Truth be told, it’s going to get harder; you need to grow stronger in God, you cannot afford to compromise. The churches also will either grow colder or be on fire for God. We need to continue to follow the first principles of our faith as taught in Deuteronomy:

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! ⁵ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. ⁶ “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. ⁷ You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ⁸ You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹ You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 11:13

‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Mark 12:29-31

Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. ³⁰ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. ³¹ And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

This Scripture purely shows that obedience flows out of love for God, and it also reveals how much you love yourself because it’s seen in how much you love others. Everything will fail but LOVE will remain. Yeshua also says if you love Him, you will obey Him. I am sharing this foundational truth because our foundations need to be solid when there is a shaking, and all the building that you did will be in vain. You don’t want to spend a lifetime on building something and then, when the test comes, the whole house comes tumbling down.

We went today to look at a house that my parents was interested in buying… it’s the most beautiful house. But something caught my eye, and my father also picked it up and inspected it by examining it. The foundation walls were built with amazing rock face bricks that are almost resistant to deterioration, needing almost no maintenance, but the problem was that the cement that had been used to build the foundations was not strong enough, and the wind and sand from the ocean and desert carved out the cement between the bricks just because the builders did not use the correct strength of cement and sand mix. If nothing is done to the foundation walls, the high walls of the house (worst case scenario) will crack and tumble down. All of this, just because of a single ingredient that was not added sufficiently.

We need to examine our foundations, and the test is love. I am just blown away by the thought that this one simple ingredient could cause so much damage.

I want to encourage you to take a look at your foundation. Does it need a little maintenance, like filling the gaps that the past seasons have made, with the love of GOD. And does your cup overflow with His love?

May Abba fill you in this time of rest with His love so that you can run this race of faith with endurance because you are waiting on Him. Hallelujah!

Much love and blessings, Rion and family

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Shalom dear friends, we are very pleased to announce that the NEW PRINTED version of the book, “Jubilee – Sounding of the awakening blast of the horn” by Sarah van Vuuren, is now available in English and Afrikaans. You can purchase the printed books on www.bridalharvest.com. NB: Printed books are available for purchase on the Bridal Harvest Website and not on this App. For any order-related enquiries, please contact Naomi on bridalharvest@gmail.com or on WhatsApp: 082 843 3688. Please find our banking details below if you would like to support our ministry: Account name: GOLDEN EAGLE TRUST, Bank: Bank Windhoek, Cheque account: 800 549 0253, Branch code: 481172, Branch: Gobabis. Please specify that it is a donation.

Shalom dear friends, we are very pleased to announce that a new, edited version of the book “Jubilee – Sounding of the awakening blast of the horn” by Sarah van Vuuren is now available in English and Afrikaans to download for free on our website and on our Bridal Harvest App. Go to www.bridalharvest.com or go to the Digital Books in this app and find the Jubilee Digital Book buttons. The printed book will soon be available to purchase, so look out for that post!

SHALOM FRIENDS. We hope and pray that you are growing in Abba’s character and that your roots are going deeper and deeper into the love of the Father. We are doing well. Rion and I celebrated our seventh year of marriage this week, and we could just thank Abba for the gift of companionship. Evah is discovering her love for singing, Judah learned to ride his bike (which he now rides 30 times around the house each day) and it is a joy to watch his face as he speeds around the corners. We are happy that it helps him get all his boyish energy out. Elaiyah, our youngest, turned two a few weeks ago and she is bubbling the days away. We are thankful for family, for being able to grow together and shape each other. That may sound very sweet and pleasant, but we also have our challenging days where the flesh wants to rule. Those cold days when the kids can’t play outside, and they play the whole house into a mess when you are making dinner and the noise of play is turned up so loudly that you struggle to think straight. Or those days when you feel you are failing and you wonder whether what you’re giving to Abba, your family, and even others, is enough. Those inner voices seem to present themselves around any corner and then you need to take the time to stop and bring your mind and heart back to your First Love.  Life is messy and wonderful at the same time. Emotions present themselves in situations and you wonder, Where did that come from? Emotions, thoughts, kids, racing time, calling, household, family, farming, ministry, school… the list goes on… There is always a lot of ‘stuff’, but the wonderful thing is that we are discovering deeper friendship with Yeshua in and through all of this. For the past two years, I have been in a deep and very difficult process that has left me quite broken. I defaulted into trying to figure it all out and then trying to fix things in order to escape the fire, but unfortunately that doesn’t work, it just leads to a lot of defeat. I don’t know if I am through the fire yet, but I am learning to be okay with it. Instead of anticipating the night to end, I am learning to rest in Yeshua and detach myself from the outcome. I am learning more deeply to just love Him, and let the rest go. I choose to believe that good will come out of the struggle and that Yeshua will be glorified in and through it. It is first shocking and then enlightening to see what comes out of you in the fire. It is there where you see whether you live what you know. I have been faced with the reality that when the fire hits so hard, a lot of the things, which you know but did not deeply live each day in the business of life, are exposed, and you see that you truly are dust, deeply dependent and unfortunately, sometimes, double minded, as Paul describes it best. One thing I have realised deeper than ever before, is how much I need Yeshua. John 15’s “without You I can do nothing” has become my every breath as I cry out, “YHVH help me hold on to You.” Let’s pray for each other that we will run our races without losing heart, focus and first-love devotion. Fire is necessary. It prepares us for His face and His presence. Let’s learn to see the hardship in our lives through the eyes of the King and know that joy comes in the morning, the night will fade. My letter for this week is ‘Remember Eden’. Love, Sarah and family. Please find our banking details below if you would like to support our ministry: Account name: GOLDEN EAGLE TRUST, Bank: Bank Windhoek, Cheque account: 800 549 0253, Branch code: 481172, Branch: Gobabis. Please specify that it is a donation.

SHALOM BELOVED FRIENDS IN THE MESSIAH. We want to give you an update on the online school after a time of seeking Abba about how we should proceed going forward with the practical matters of starting the school. We need to stay true to the vision we have received from Abba, because along the way there are a lot of pitfalls and distractions. We are making progress, but it is slower than we thought. We have someone that is busy on a constant basis working on the website of the school, creating templates, and doing layout and design. Abba is truly faithful in guiding us through the process, showing us the way. We need to be faithful also to abide in His rhythms, following Him. It is by no means an easy task. With every assignment there are challenges, obstacles, giants, and certainly resistance. Abba is also dealing with us with performance and perfectionism in this process, because we cannot give birth to this vision if it comes from anything inside of us except the heart of the Father. With that said, we won’t be able to launch the school in September. In this process, Abba is still stripping us from the structures of the systems that we grew up in and if we rush this process, we will miss Abba. We want to build this school with an unshakeable foundation upon YHVH, and unfortunately, in most of our false programming (that comes from the serpent seed) in today’s life, we want it to be done yesterday, with a consumerism mentality full of performance. Abba is speaking to us about the root of ‘rushedness’, doing things at a pace that is out of the rhythm of His rest. When we rush, it means we are driven by fear. We have had to lay down the pressure of the times that we live in, in order not to move out of His rest. He is showing us that we need to be patient with this birthing of the school, because if we move too quickly then we miss His heart in the process. As you know, it takes time to cultivate a harvest for the King. The more we abide in Him in the process and in who Abba really is and what He really asks of us, the more we see how deeply the serpent seed of fear-driven performance and perfectionism really has gripped our hearts. This is the spirit driving the educational system, and we need to search our hearts in order to return to His garden. We are so thankful that Abba reveals it with so much love. We can just humble ourselves before Him and repent. Beloved, we are in a time where we cannot afford to miss Abba’s heart. We need to fix our gaze and keep it fixed. Staying in His presence, listening with great sensitivity and waiting, only to move when His Spirit speaks. The pen must remain in His hands, He must remain the Author of our stories. We want Him to be the Author of Harvest Life School’s stories, therefore, we cannot make promises now about a timeline. We simply need to trust in Abba’s perfect timing, and restfully abide in His leading. We want to thank each and every one of you for the seed that you sow into Bridal Harvest & Harvest Life School. We bless the seed that you will receive a 100-fold harvest from the Father. We honour you for sowing in faith and love with an open heart. May your friendship and fellowship be blessed with Yeshua. I urge you to start to journal His voice. It is so refreshing to listen to what He tells you, instead of only writing your thoughts and prayers and petitions to Him. Take the time to listen to Him, take the time to write down His words. I want to encourage you, beloved, to listen to your SHEPHERD, your BEST FRIEND, your KING, and your BRIDEGROOM. He wants to be part of every process and season that you go through. John 1:3-5 (NKJV) “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. ⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” May your spirit comprehend the meaning of this Scripture, which is to entrust everything to Him because ALL things were made through HIM, and true life will only be found in Him, to give you light and to guide you through the darkness. Much love and blessings, Rion & Sarah

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Shalom dear friends. We hope you had a wonderfully blessed Shavuot in the presence of the Spirit of the living God. We need Holy Spirit so deeply. Without Him we cannot do anything! To me, it feels like I am becoming more and more dependent on Him, or maybe I am just becoming more aware, tasting and seeing that I can do nothing without Him. If He is not at the centre of everything, things are so much less than what they could be in Him. With this said, we are very excited to share with you the second last song from the album, “I will carry you”, called, “The Throne”. The heart of the song is about inviting Him to come and sit on the throne of everything in your life. Sometimes, we put our battles on the throne. Sometimes, we put our finances on the throne. Sometimes, our purposes or even people. There is only One who belongs on the throne of every area of our lives and that is YHVH. We were made to worship Him, love Him, and seek after Him. We were made to fear and revere Him. I don’t want to live the kind of life where He isn’t on the throne. I only want to bow before Him. May you be blessed by this song. May it be more to you than just listening to the song, may it take you into His throne room and may His throne room come in you as it is in heaven. I have also been painting and enjoying Abba’s joy gift to me. I share two of the paintings that came before and during Shavuot, during worship time. Abba alone be glorified in and through it. Psalm 103: 17-22  But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who [reverently] fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children, ¹⁸ To those who honor and keep His covenant, And remember to do His commandments [imprinting His word on their hearts]. ¹⁹ The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, And His sovereignty rules over all [the universe]. ²⁰ Bless the Lord, you His angels, You mighty ones who do His commandments, Obeying the voice of His word! ²¹ Bless the Lord, all you His hosts, You who serve Him and do His will. ²² Bless the Lord, all you works of His, in all places of His dominion; Bless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul!  May He establish His throne within us and not just in the heavens.  May His sovereignty rule over us and in us. May you be blessed. Love, Rion and Sarah

Shalom dear friends. Please find this week’s letter and video! May YHVH fill your week with colour, with His glory and His beauty… This week’s letter and video is called At His Table | Colour | Part V. Love, Sarah and family. Please find our banking details below if you would like to support us financially to help us walk out the call that we have received from Abba. Account name: GOLDEN EAGLE TRUST; Bank: Bank Windhoek; Cheque account: 800 549 0253; Branch code: 481172 Gobabis.

Shalom dear friends. I pray that you are well, and that this week’s letter and video will bless you! The title for this week is Meditating | At His Table | Part IV. Much love and blessings. Sarah and family. Please find our banking details below if you would like to support us financially to help us walk out the call that we have received from Abba. Account name: GOLDEN EAGLE TRUST; Bank: Bank Windhoe; Cheque account: 800 549 0253; Branch code: 481172 Gobabis.

Shalom dear friends. We greet you from a cold and windy Uruguay. There is currently a tropical cyclone moving through, so we are thankful for shutters and heaters. Thankfully, this time around our power is on, and hot water flowing!

This week Romans 12:12 has been speaking to me a lot.

Romans 12:12  Constantly rejoicing in hope [because of our confidence in Christ], steadfast and patient in distress, devoted to prayer [continually seeking wisdom, guidance, and strength]. 

Although this is such a beautiful Scripture, it surely isn’t easy fruit to have in one’s trials. Thankfully, we don’t have to accomplish this in our own might or effort, but we can abide in Him who carries us. Only then will this fruit of hope, joy and faithfulness be a reality.

BEING FAITHFUL IN PRAYER is something that I feel we can so easily underestimate. We pray, but we easily become weary and discouraged when things don’t seem to shift. Instead of faithfully persevering in prayer, we start murmuring within. We become negative. At least, I do…  

This week, Holy Spirit and I are working a bit on my prayer muscles. They need strengthening. Have negativity, passivity, fear, or discouragement weakened your prayer life? Today, I want to encourage you not to stop praying about the things you face, even if it has been years without change. DON’T STOP! Pray Abba’s word into your struggles. I promise you that you will meet the high and holy One, and you will come to know the favour of the One who dwells in the burning bush. We struggle the most to have hope, joy, and faith in the times that we are deeply weak, vulnerable and our soul feels cast down and discouraged. This is the most important time that we need to be faithful in prayer, even when we don’t feel like it. Even when our faith feels weak and our emotions downcast. Even if you fall in the way you think, the lies you entertain, or the emotions you embrace, don’t stay down there, get back up and press on. Fight your fight of faith with everything you’ve got.

Recently, I have found myself in a valley in the spirit, and I heard the voice of Yeshua clearly telling Me, “You will go through this valley praying.”

I bless your prayer muscles, may they be strong enough that you pray through your valleys, and through your deserts. When we pray, we fix our gaze on Yeshua. When we pray in the spirit, we turn our focus off of ourselves and the battles we face, unto the One who carries us through it all.

May you stay seated at His table of love, talking with your King about every detail of your life. My letter for this week is Meditating | At His Table | Part III. Love, Sarah and family.

Shalom dear friends. With this email, please find Part Two of the series, “At His Table”. When you listen to the audio, drink in every word. Go with Him to the places, the areas, the memories where you have experienced pain and suffering and let Him breathe into them. Remember to meditate on His word. Remember to stop and take the time to cultivate your intimate connection with Holy Spirit. This week I, too, am meditating upon who Yeshua is in suffering, in trials, in pain and hardship. When we are able to lock our eyes on Him, we will be able to endure, preserve and overcome the trials we face. I want to encourage you this week with the trust that nothing is able to separate you from Yeshua’s love – NOTHING! Wash your thoughts in His love. You may ask me, “How do I do that?” Let me tell you how I do it… I start talking to Yeshua… “YHVH, You are love and the truth is that Your perfect love casts out fear. Your love seals me, Your love delivers and heals me. I know that You are love, but I don’t have a personal revelation of Your love. I want Your love to be a reality in me. In Your word it says that Your thoughts towards me are as much as the sand upon the seashores. Will You help me to discover Your thoughts towards me in this day? I give my thoughts to You, and I place them within Your fire of love. Let my thoughts dissolve into Your thoughts so that we may become one. You are my heart’s devotion. I meditate upon You, I bring every distracting thought and here, as I wait upon You, I eat Your words, I drink Your truth until it becomes a part of my whole being. I breathe in Your love, it is truth, I exhale Your love into every part of my being, into every fear, into every lie. Your love overcomes it all. I keep on breathing in Your love until I do not feel the pain anymore, until the fear becomes faith, until suffering becomes okay because You are here with me in the flames. Let Your word fan the flame of love in my life. Again, I breathe in, You are love. I breathe Your love into my soul, into my body, into my calling, into the past, into the present and into my future. You are love.” Then you do it again… until you feel a release. This is how we train our spirit man to have communion with Yeshua. We breathe in the reality of what is, there in the heavenly places where we are seated with Yeshua, and then we release it into our realities here, until it is on earth as it is in heaven, until heaven and earth become one again and you find yourself in the Promised Land Garden of Eden where you walk with Him again, as it was before the fall, before sin brought separation, because that is what Yeshua’s blood did for us. It brought us back into that sweet fellowship with Him. Back into the light, back into love. Your breath can prophesy, so prophesy His love into the dark places, the heavy spaces, the ditches, the lows, the pain, the fear, the dry bones, and they will come to love, and they will come to life. Until you find yourself in the overflow. You are invited to His table. Take your position because no one can take your place at the table but you. It was prepared for YOU. He wants YOU in His presence, eating His word (meditating on Him) and drinking in His presence. TAKE YOUR POSITION! May you have a blessed week. Love, Sarah and family. My letter and YouTube video for this week is Meditating | At His Table | Part II.

SHALOM DEAR FRIENDS. We pray that you are well and abundantly blessed! This week we had a storm, and our power was out for more than a day. When the power was fixed, we discovered that our water pump had been destroyed by the thunder, so we have been without water for a few days. It’s a good time to practice joy during testing. There are currently 10 000 people in Uruguay without electricity, so we are thankful that our power is back on. Other than that, we are working on the Harvest Life School vision as well as the Joseph vision that we received from Abba. We are very close to opening the temporary kindergarten in our garage until we are able to build the official school base. We are also working on a video to share more about the school vision, so we will share that as soon as it is complete. At the same time, while we are preparing the physical school here, we are working on the preparations for the online setup of the school. My letter and video for this week is Meditating | At His Table | Part I, you can find these under Letters and Videos. I pray that you are blessed through it and that it helps you to grow in your relationship with Yeshua. If you would like to support us financially to help us walk out the call that we have received from Abba, our bank account is: Account name: GOLDEN EAGLE TRUST, Bank: Bank Windhoek, Cheque account: 800 549 0253, Branch code: 481172 Gobabis. Much love and blessings, Sarah and Rion.

SHALOM DEAR FRIENDS! We hope you had a beautiful Passover! For us it was a blessed time in Abba’s presence with loved ones. Our dear friends, Lize and Bertie, came to visit us here in Uruguay and it was a beautiful time to celebrate the harvest of life and love with them. If you have not yet seen their testimony and latest music video, please find it on YouTube under Finally Home | Lize Hadassah Olivier and The Story Behind ‘Finally Home’ | Bertie & Lize Hadassah Olivier. Also see my new video for this week, titled, “STOP!”. Be blessed and secure in YHVH. Love, Sarah and family.

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