Skip to main content

About Me

My photo
Janine Claire Robinson
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Welcome to my little writing corner. I count my many blessings to be a cherished wife and an ever-learning-loving-growing mother to 3 amazing children this side of Heaven and a precious little boy in Heaven. Together as a family we pastor a precious church community called Redeeming Hope Church. I've had the privilege of loving and following Jesus Christ since my earliest memories as a child. No matter what I've gone through in life, He has always been so present. At heart, I'm an encourager ... so this is a place where I get to wear my heart on my sleeve and share my journey of learning to live a life of love in action.

Delighting in answered Prayer

If you ever wonder if God really listens to your prayers ... then this post is for you. It's an encouragement that He  DOES listen and He DOES answer.

If you are anything like me, relationships are important! When I got married, I moved to a beautiful coastal city called Port Elizabeth. The only downside - it's far away from my family. 5 years ago God called my precious mom to the US where she serves in an amazing church who have embraced, celebrated and made room for her incredible musical gifts. My sister and I miss her so much. One of the things that I love about God is that He loves relationships too :) Each year that my mom has been away, God has made amazing ways for my sis and I to go and visit her. This year ... well, lets just say in our eyes, we didn't know how on earth it could possibly happen. Here's the thing with God ... He loves it when we ask Him for what seems to be "impossible" to us. So guess what ... Niqui (my beautiful sister) and I asked Him again. And guess what ... HE MADE A WAY ... AGAIN!!! This time we managed to completely surprise her! A memory I will always treasure! (Just look at all of us with our watery eyes!!! This was taken just after we surprised her.)
One of the things that always reveals to me how deeply God loves us individually is His attention to detail in the ways that He answers our prayers. When Niqui and I began to dream about a visit to mom we both said that we would love to be able to go over in the fall and surprise her on her day off. My mom and sis share the same birthday. On my sisters birthday her husband said to her that he would love to buy her a ticket to visit my mom in October - which just happens to be the beginning of Fall in Virginia. So we started looking for tickets. On the evening of their birthdays I felt prompted to check out a certain travel website and lo and behold they were having an unbelievable special to travel direct with the airline we wanted to fly on the dates we wanted to go! There and then our wonderful hubbies bought our tickets. Now in my heart I was asking God if mom would be ok with us just showing up. She had NO CLUE what we were planning. When I chatted to her the day after her birthday, she said to me that on her birthday as she was looking outside  she mentioned to the Lord how she would love to show her girls how beautiful Fall is in Virginia. Do you know that that was the very night God led us to buy our tickets! God gave all 3 of us the desires of our heart. We spent 2 glorious weeks taking in the beauty of Fall together in some amazing places!
I will have to post some more pics of some of our beautiful adventures together in the days to come. For today I wanted to encourage you to ask God for the desires of your heart. He says to us that as we delight ourselves in Him, He WILL give us the desires of His heart. This holiday I glimpsed His delight in seeing His girls delighting in His blessings and love.
All my love,
Janine 

Comments

Adeye said…
The PERFECT blessing for all three of you, my friend.

Delighting in Him right there with you.

How AMAZING is our Daddy God?
Annie said…
Janine, I had to come back and explore your blog a bit and I am so glad I did. This post felt like it was just meant for me tonight and I know why God led me here tonight of all nights! Thank you for this wonderful post. You and your Mom and sister are all gorgeous - inside and out!!!
Anonymous said…
Janine the timing was perfect! It was meant for me xx Looking forward to reading many more of your posts regularly. Blessings

Popular posts from this blog

Reasons to Celebrate

I am quickly typing this in between trying to pack up for Cape, and while packing I am having this to celebrate :0) What to celebrate you may ask ... well you would be amazed at how many amazing blessings you will discover of how good God has been to you when you start looking back and remembering what He has walked you through. Today I am celebrating many wonderful things! I am celebrating how no matter how dark certain moments have appeared to be, His light has ALWAYS broken through!!! Hope & Love have ALWAYS overcome the deepest of fears.  I am celebrating the precious family He has surrounded Brett and I with and the amazing friends and loved ones who have cheered us on and been praying us through. I celebrate how He has cocooned both my daughters hearts with the same peace He has cocooned Brett and my heart with and sheltered our precious family in constant hope of abundant life! I celebrate that as an extended family He has faithfully taught us all how to walk in victory

We are Seeing the Miracles Unfold!

Precious friends and family ... we are starting to see the miracles unfold! We just KNOW that we are living in the miracle :0) Yesterday we had a scan with the specialist who discovered and diagnosed all of Zac's heart defects in August. It's been about 6 weeks since the day we heard the horrible news. As you may remember, the defects she discovered that day in "that" heart were so complex ... not only one defect, but multiple! There was the issue of only 1 chamber; only seeing one major valve from the heart to the lungs where there must be 2 and then the complication of not being able to clearly see the arch of the aorta. What she saw of it, as well as  several other specialists, it looked too narrow and underdeveloped from what we could understand. When we came back from that first scan and spoke with our friend and paediatrician ... this was one of his biggest concerns. The aortic arch is so important in the functioning of the heart!  So before we went for the

The Day of Promise has Arrived

Precious friends ... The big day has finally arrived! Come 4pm today we will be taken into theater to meet our precious miracle son! Our hearts are filled with the Promises of our Beloved Jesus. This post is our hearts response of praise and adoration to Him because He has faithfully carried us through each day with "heart peace", strength, hope, faith and incredible love. He has coached us in how to stand leaning into His Almighty power, wisdom and goodness and has taken all the fear out of this journey. Today our hearts are soooooo excited. It is the day of promise ... Zac's appointed day to shine forth His Glory. As a family we want to thank each and every person and family who has lavished their love, encouragement and prayers to stand with us in looking to Jesus, the Great Physician in knitting Zac's inward parts intricately and wholly in my womb. We will keep you posted as we rejoice in great expectation at witnessing God's amazing love in action! Our eyes