A monthly column in which Julita Kok shares on living adventurously with God
And so we are at the end of the first month of a new year, 2025. The saying “how time flies” surely has become a reality. And as it goes with a new year, we are all looking ahead to great and good things, trusting our Heavenly Father to work with us in making this a year to accomplish and conquer.
Yesterday, my daughter and I had lunch with a couple who one year ago, embarked on a journey leaving the secular world of business behind and joining the missionary fields of a specific country. As it goes with missionaries, the conversation went to God being provider and a miracle-working God. And as they spoke, it reminded me of my beginning years and how God has carried me the past 42 years. Never failed me to this day!
One of the things the gentleman spoke of was trusting God for fuel in his vehicle. Oh my word, I have a thousand stories. Right in the beginning of my walk with God, I just jumped at any opportunity to spread the Word. So many times, it happened that I was in a place somewhere, perfectly fine to get there with the fuel in my car, but not enough to get me back home. And usually I trusted God to provide for me THERE for the journey home. And many times He simply did not provide. Today I am so thankful that He did not, because I realised later on, that He was putting me through “school” and teaching me to trust beyond the natural. You know how when the fuel light on your panel goes on you can easily drive another 50km? I pushed that by faith to 125km. God taught me such a lot of trusting beyond the natural by using fuel situations. And then there came a time where I had to use that same faith in many different situations, but the faith was the same. Allow me to share.
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Faith beyond the natural
Remember I said, faith beyond the natural. I have a friend who always says he does not want to fly with me, because if I am late getting to the airport, I delay the flight with my prayers and then he has to change his schedule, hehehe. But it is the truth. I have many times during airport transfers arrived late in an airport knowing that I will not make it to my next flight and never to this day, have I missed a flight as there is always something happening with my next flight; delayed for half an hour or something. I simply ask the Lord to keep it for me if He knows that I have to be on that flight. If not, it can leave without me.
And so I have experienced many times whilst crossing borders, how God closes the eyes of the police or they just simply ignore me and I take hundreds of Bibles or my own books in plain sight, through the borders without paying anything or without anything getting confiscated. When something with a potentially bad outcome happens to me (speeding tickets; border control; finances; flights…lots of things), my first reaction is always to allow God to enter the situation.
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So, I have had lots of practice. And then a big one came. I was travelling from Cape Town to Cairo and back in my car during the Covid period. It was the time of PCR reports and vaccinations and and and. We all remember. And I was not vaccinated and that posed a huge problem. Every time I had to cross a border I had to pay $100 (R1 850) for a PCR report and to just get that report in the African countries was a huge, huge challenge. Sometimes the clinic was just a very dirty tent somewhere in a field and I had to wait more than 24 hours for the results.
So, when coming down from Egypt back to South Africa, it became a huge challenge to get the results in time to cross the next border. It influenced everything and I prayed to our Father and told Him: “Lord, I have seen through the years what You are capable of and I have heard so many testimonies of the old missionaries smuggling Bibles into Russia and China and how the angels would cover the eyes of the soldiers. I need that same grace and miracles for my journey home.”
This was easier said than done. The thing about faith is that you need to move in it. So for my last three border crossings, I decided to not do the test and trust God to get me to the other side. What an adventure with God! Of course, when you cross a border, you show your PCR report at the health department first before you move on to immigration and the rest. My first border after this decision, the guy is hitting his little scanner on his hand. I am asking what is the problem and he says, the scanner just worked with the previous person, but now it won’t work. Standing there for 10 minutes (looked like it was the only scanner they had), he tells me he cannot keep me waiting forever. I must just show him my QR code on the phone. I have plenty of QR codes on my phone. So I show him a QR code and he stamps my little slip from the gate and lets me through. No PCR in hand.
The next border, my daughter joined me for the last bit of my journey. She is very beautiful. So we come to the health guy of the next country and he looks at me, looks at Julanie and he sayS: “Oh mama, you can go but your daughter must stay”. So I walk right through without presenting a PCR and he chats up Julanie for a while before letting her go as well. How is this possible? God using Julanie’s beauty to close his eyes, hehehhee.
When we got to the third and last border, the PCR requirement was lifted just that morning so they were not even interested. But it taught me that God is above the systems of this Earth. And often not in a spectacular way — just in simple little things. A scanner not working, a guard not wanting to keep the queue from moving forward; a beautiful girl drawing the attention of a man — no fireworks in any of this. Just simple little things. And I learned to never fear the systems of this world for God is far greater than any of it. It was impossible at the time to travel from one country to another without a PCR and yet, I did simply because I allowed Him to take care of my situation in which ever way He thought to do it. Not telling Him how to be God. He knows exactly.
Faith is an interesting thing. I have learned that my faith is not always “enough”, but if I rely on His faith, living on the inside of me — Christ within me — then truly nothing is impossible for God. So I want to tell you that none of your issues, circumstances, challenges or whatever you have is impossible with God. Only decide to allow Him to be part of it and then allow Him to be the great God He is. Truly — nothing is impossible with God.
If we only believe…….
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