06/03/2005;  revised: 02/05/10

Apostle Andre Pelser

I want to discuss several aspects about the name Ebenezer to revive your spirit and strengthen your faith to believe that the Lord is ready to help you as well! He will help you in a marvellous way!

The Audible Voice

On 19.02.92  I heard the voice of the Lord audibly speak to me when he woke me up and said: ‘I am Ebenezer!’  This happened in the double storey house we rented in 14 Quest Road, Milnerton.

At that time I sweated in prayer for provision for my family. The income in the church was no more than R4 000 per month. The hall in Milpark Centre we rented cost R4 000 per month. Our house cost R2 000 per month and the schools R2 000 per month as well. We had no idea how we would survive in this new venture having started a church and a bible school in the Cape.

We called it Milnerton Christian Centre at that time. Later on that year the children suggested that we change it to Harvester, a chain restaurant in England where we liked eating whenever we went to minister with John Waller, an Elim pastor who pioneered a work in Slough, East of London. The children said, ‘why don’t we change the name of the church to Harvester? It is a good place to eat!’ Because we provide spiritual food for people we decided to change the name.

The Mustard Seed

I immediately knew that he had revealed himself to me in a way he has never done before. I made a vow to accept him as Ebenezer and to serve him accordingly: ‘Lord I will plant my mustard seed size faith to believe that you who helped me thus far will remain Ebenezer to us for the rest of our lives. I will not be slack in any business matters for I put my trust in you to provide, to lead and to guide me and to give me wisdom to obtain wealth and to do your work in the earth

Mark 4:30-32

30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: 32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

The King James Version