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Steven Vermeulen
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R & R Ministries is based in Boksburg, Gauteng. We are ordinary people serving an extraordinary God

  1. 4d ago

    08 Nov 2026 Control

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Control is often fear dressed in the appearance of responsibility. We call it preparation, but sometimes it is simply our refusal to be at peace unless everything meets our expectations. We exhaust ourselves rehearsing disasters that have never happened, correcting people God never assigned us to govern, and demanding certainty where He has called us to trust. There is wisdom in preparation. But when peace depends on everything going according to plan, preparation has become a prison. You cannot surrender to God while insisting He surrender the outcome to you. We need to admit that there is fear beneath our need to control. We need to realise that disappointments have taught us to distrust God's providence. We have mistaken constant vigilance for faithfulness and our own exhaustion for obedience. We need to be set free from the quiet arrogance of believing everything will collapse unless our hands are holding it together. We need to confess how easily responsibility becomes possession, concern becomes suspicion, and discernment becomes an excuse to supervise what God never entrusted to us. We need to learn the difference between stewardship and striving, and allow the wounds that have made uncertainty feel unbearable to heal. We need to be courageous enough to release people without abandoning love, to make plans without worshiping them, and to endure the unexpected without accusing God of being absent. We need to strip away our dependence on predictable circumstances, but not become careless. We need obedient faith, sober judgment, and the humility to acknowledge our limitations. Peace is not the reward for controlling everything. Peace is the fruit of trusting the One who never lost control.

    08 Nov 2026 Control

  2. Nov 1

    01 Nov 2026 Discernment

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Discernment is described as the ability to distinguish between good and evil, truth and error, or the will of God and the desires of the flesh. It is not just intellectual knowledge, but spiritual sensitivity

    01 Nov 2026 Discernment

  3. Oct 29

    28 October 2026 Zoom meeting notes

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Affirmations and scriptures

    28 October 2026 Zoom meeting notes

  4. Oct 18

    18 Oct 2026 Fire

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! I believe there is a movement coming to the church. Not a movement built around titles, platforms, personalities, or a spiritual celebrity. But a movement of ordinary believers who finally realize: If God has given you a house, a Bible, a table, and a burden for people you already have enough to begin.

    18 Oct 2026 Fire

  5. Oct 11

    11 Oct 2026 Faithful

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Failure is a strange word, because a lot of the time when we say we failed, what we actually mean is that something did not happen the way we expected it to. We expected the prayer to be answered a certain way. We expected the door to open. We expected the relationship to work out, the job to last, the plan to succeed, the effort to produce results, the diagnosis to be different, the child to make a different decision, or life to look considerably different by now.

    11 Oct 2026 Faithful

  6. Oct 8

    07 Oct Zoom meeting - Prayer

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Father, search the part of us that obeys You outwardly while resisting You inwardly. Expose every place where righteousness has become routine, performance, or pressure. Deliver us from the kind of obedience that does the right thing while the heart still argues with You in secret. We have obeyed with tension. We have submitted with reluctance. We have done what was right while still loving what was wrong. And that is dangerous. Because a heart that only obeys out of duty may still be waiting for a chance to return to rebellion. Lord, do not leave us there. We do not want to be people who know Your commands but secretly resent Your requirements. We do not want to offer You behavior while withholding affection. We do not want to look surrendered while the heart remains untouched. Forgive us for every time we called it faithfulness when it was only restraint. Forgive us for every time we did what was holy while still grieving what sin could no longer have. Forgive us for every time we obeyed You with our hands while our desires bowed somewhere else. Change us at the root. Do not merely regulate our actions. Reorder our loves. Teach us to want what is right. Take us beyond “I have to.” Bring us into “I get to.” I get to forgive. I get to surrender. I get to serve. I get to repent. I get to obey the God who did not spare Himself to save me. Let holiness stop feeling like punishment. Let surrender stop feeling like loss. Let obedience stop feeling like slavery. Show us that Your ways are not robbing us. They are rescuing us. Break every agreement with bitterness, pride, lust, stubbornness, self-protection, and hidden resentment. Strip us of the lie that You are asking too much, when in truth You are cutting away what would have destroyed us. Father, if we still have to drag our hearts into obedience, then deal with the heart. Crush what resists You. Heal what distrusts You. Confront what secretly accuses You. Transform what still loves darkness more than light. As in Philippians 2:13, work in us to will and to do what pleases You. As in Ezekiel 36, give us a new heart and a right spirit. As in Romans 12:2, renew us until even our desires come under truth. We are tired of correct behavior with divided affections. We are tired of looking clean while remaining conflicted. We are tired of obeying You as if You are a burden. Make obedience worship. Make surrender relief. Make holiness beautiful. Make righteousness desirable. And when our hearts still whisper, “Do I really have to?” Teach us to answer with gratitude: No, Lord I get to. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

    07 Oct Zoom meeting - Prayer

  7. Oct 4

    04 Oct 2026 Armour of God

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A soldier doesn't bring his own armour from home when he enlists in the army. He is issued with armour. When we surrender our lives to God, He takes us from where we were and makes us part of His kingdom and His family. He gives us a new name, new life, and His armour to wear.

    04 Oct 2026 Armour of God

  8. Oct 1

    30 Sept 2026 Zoom meeting - God leading you

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! God is already leading and guiding me, so what do I need to do? • Surrender my own understanding • Hand my plans over to God • Follow His Spirit and His Word as guidance

    30 Sept 2026 Zoom meeting - God leading you
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R & R Ministries is based in Boksburg, Gauteng. We are ordinary people serving an extraordinary God

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  • Creator
    Steven Vermeulen
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Sunday Sermons