Each women who attended the “Unlock Your Destiny” women’s Conference in the Meyerton/Vereeniging area last weekend was touched deeply as she was lovingly served the best bread and wine from the beautiful banquet table of Jesus, says one of the conference-goers in a Facebook comment.
And the conference organiser, Maritilie Weideman of Sodezo Ministry Africa agrees, saying that their blessed, first women’s conference came about after she and her husband Adré took a step of obedience and restored a neglected, rubble-strewn property on the banks of the Klip River as a place where the Lord can meet with His children.
“The tangible presence of the Holy Spirit and the change in every person [at the women’s conferene] is worth all the work that we had put into this place for His work! We pray for new open doors. The best is yet to come!” she said.
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During the conference weekend one of the women shared a dream — 555 — which Martilie said the Lord showed them referred to triple grace (5 is considered a biblical number for God’s grace and favour to people), to 55.5 (which they understood to point to Isaiah 55: 1 -5 — Surely you shall call a nation you do not know and nations who do not know you shall run to you. Because of the Lord your God, and the Holy One of Israel; For He has glorified you), and 5.55, which they understood to mean the time 5.55am.
On checking the hour of sunrise the next morning — Sunday February 18 — they discovered it was 5.55am and the women at the conference agreed to meet at the river at that apparently prophetically-ordained time.
At sunrise on the Sunday morning as the women gathered on a balcony overlooking the river, Martilie blew on a shofar and her husband was tasked with capturing the occasion on video.
“My husband thought he took a video of me blowing the shofar but ‘on’ was off and ‘off’ was on, and he took a video of the moment after the shofar,” said Martilie.
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That evening she was about to delete the mistimed video, which shows the group of women on the balcony and then focuses on the lawn. But she said she felt a clear impression that she should listen to the video clip and when she did she heard what sounded like a roaring lion. The lion sound surprised her greatly as there were no lions in the area and they had not heard any lion sound that morning — “We just experienced His presence.”
View the surprising video clip below:
Quoting author Larry Sparks — “There is a roar that proceeds out of the fire, producing a people whose reformational impact roars in society” — she said: “When I heard this roar of the lion, and I knew we did not hear it with our physical ears, I knew there is a message ….. ‘I am sending out my true warriors, true worshippers, true children who know their identity in Me . I will use them were they are to bring reformation and they are going to impact the society where they are,’ ”
Martilie, who is a photographer and founder of a ministry that has been active in Kenya since 2007, said she has loved the the Lord since the age of 2 and “the spiritual realm to me is as true as the natural realm. I am just myself — I do not want to preach a message — I just want to be a message to the world.”
