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Leaving his neighbourhood for a career opportunity was supposed to be a step forward, but it led Yamkela straight into the hardest season of his life: a broken marriage and financial collapse. When all seemed hopeless, God stepped in - not only rekindling the broken marriage, but flinging open doors of breakthrough in the workplace. From the brink of divorce and bankruptcy to restored peace, love, and career success, this is Yamkela and his wife Zimasa's incredible testimony.
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00:00I remember one time my mother decided to take my kids for holiday and my daughter, my eldest daughter was
00:06narrating the story to my parents how now things are between me and my husband and my mom was telling
00:13me that my daughter was even crying. She was so devastated about this situation of our separation so it was
00:21affecting us as a family and also our kids mostly.
00:31Grace and peace to you children of God. My name is Yamkela and we're connected from South Africa and the
00:38lady next to me is my wife Zimasa.
00:41Grace and peace to you children of God is my husband as mentioned. I'm Zimasa and the gentleman next to
00:47me is my husband.
00:49Well we're here to give all the glory to God for what God has done for this family for the
00:55reconciliation of my marriage and the breakthrough that I've brought into this family.
00:59This is my testimony.
01:032023 I received a transfer to go and work in another province.
01:08This is a transfer that I took because I saw an offer but it's not something that we prayed about
01:17it with my wife and it's not something that we thought that it can be a problem.
01:23Because of the offer I took it because of the offer I took it and I went to this province
01:27to work.
01:29Now along the way this now offer started to affect my family and I was only allowed now to come
01:40and see them only once a month.
01:41Now you can imagine now someone who used to stay with his family almost every day.
01:47My family would see me, I would be with them and I was being reduced to only two days a
01:53month.
01:54So it affected my family so bad in a way that me and my wife we started to quarrel about
01:59this thing.
02:00It was not well, it was not okay for her because I would only come only twice and also the
02:07time that I spent with them it was short.
02:10So we started now to have some argument.
02:14We started also now to have small problems whereby now he lost trust on me because she felt like maybe
02:24there's something that I'm doing here.
02:26Why would I only come only for two days and live?
02:30And that now it built up to a point whereby now my wife was not a care for that.
02:35Yeah, and that issue of trust, on my side, because of the distance, I ended up suspecting that maybe he
02:43was busy with something else today.
02:46Hence he can't come to see us more often.
02:48Phone calls while he's away, we are no longer communicating more often as we should.
02:54And that also affected our communication, our communication, we couldn't even find a common ground.
03:03Arguments were sparked up with just a little thing and then parry.
03:07And that led me to lose affection.
03:10And also I felt disconnected from my husband emotionally as the wife.
03:16And that led me to fall into temptation of having an affair outside my marriage.
03:22During that time now, when I was working, I just think it built up to a worse now because all
03:29this argument, as I just mentioned, the job now, it ended and I had to come back home.
03:35I came back home to a house that was not yet like, okay, we still argue, we still like, I
03:44mean, have those conversations that we are complaining about one thing or another.
03:48And during this time, that's when I find out that, you know, there was this thing that my wife was
03:55doing, which it was an affair.
03:57And it was not okay.
03:59I didn't take it well because of lack of self-control.
04:04I was angry at what I find out.
04:07And I told her to leave.
04:09And she left.
04:11Mind you now, this time I was not working.
04:14I was just sitting at home, unemployed, and the savings that I had, I was using them up.
04:20So my wife had to go and live at her own.
04:25And I was left behind with the kids and the kids will visit her and visit me.
04:30So it affected me so much that I was starting to be depressed.
04:36And I noticed now that my kids as well, they are starting to be affected by this because they were
04:42not used now with this way of living because my wife was living on the other side and I was
04:47on my own this side.
04:48And at some point I would find out that at school, they were not doing well because they called me
04:54and told me that your children are not doing well.
04:56So it was also affecting them in as much as it was affecting me.
05:00And I noticed that now I'm becoming depressed by this thing.
05:05Yes, it affected us so badly.
05:08Like on a personal level, me, because now of a financial strain because my husband was still unemployed.
05:14I involved myself in a lot of debts.
05:17I was in debt, left right hand center because all the yoke of financial burden was on me.
05:23I had to take care of the kids and also my needs and I had to start my life from
05:28scratch.
05:29I remember one time my mother decided to take my kids for holiday.
05:33And my daughter, my eldest daughter, was narrating the story to my parents how now things are between me and
05:40my husband.
05:41And my mom was telling me that my daughter was even crying.
05:46She was so devastated about this situation of our separation.
05:50So it was affecting us as a family and also our kids mostly.
05:55I was no longer confident to approach the throne of grace because now I know that I'm not in the
06:03right standing with God.
06:04So now I was losing faith.
06:06I was losing hope as well.
06:10My faith was breaking.
06:12I was not praying more often than I was no longer in the word of God as I showed.
06:18So it was at this point now where I decided that, look, this thing now is beyond my strength.
06:27I cannot handle this thing anymore.
06:29Knowing Brother Chris from school, I conducted them.
06:33I told them about the situation that I was going through.
06:36And by God's grace, I was invited to join the interactive prayer of which I joined it.
06:43After the interactive prayer, I felt like, no, there is a change and there is a need for me to
06:49seek God.
06:50From the teachings of that day, I decided that, no, let me just seek God the more.
06:55And also to do the intro inspection to check myself.
06:58How is my work with God?
07:00How am I doing with God?
07:02And that's where I find out my weaknesses.
07:04Then I started to pursue, I mean, the freedom from those weaknesses.
07:09And I prayed more often.
07:10It and every first week of the month, I would join the interactive prayers.
07:14And pray along with Brother Chris as well as we're praying in those interactive prayers.
07:19It was at this point where I received a call from God's Heart TV telling me that Brother Chris would
07:26like to talk to me.
07:27And Brother Chris there, he reached me and he encouraged me to stay in God and seek God.
07:35He told me that there's nothing that God cannot do.
07:38What I need is to believe and trust God for reconciliation of my marriage.
07:42And of which, that's what I did.
07:44I trusted God that God indeed one day will reconcile my marriage.
07:49Yes, after my husband received the call, I was also invited by one of the consultants from God Hub TV.
07:55He invited me, inviting me, making an appointment that Brother Chris would like also to speak with me, which he
08:02did.
08:03And he was counseling me, telling me, encouraging me.
08:07Because I remember one of the things that he was stressing the most, that marriage is from God.
08:12There is no way that God can be a divider.
08:17God is a united.
08:19So I must not look at my husband as the enemy.
08:22We have a common enemy, which is the devil.
08:25So I need to pray more and also concentrate on building up my relationship with God and make sure that
08:32I'm in good standing.
08:34And that call, like, truth be told, children of God, after that, I felt this sense of calmness and my
08:41heart was no longer hardened.
08:42Because I noticed that my heart was hard for that call.
08:46So my heart now was no longer hardened and I started to see things in a different view, which I
08:53was more encouraged to pray more, to read the Bible, the more and to get myself closer to God.
09:00So I continued to seek God and I joined the interactive prayer of crossover for the new year.
09:08Step out in the direction God has called you to go.
09:13Step out with boldness and watch God step in with favor.
09:21After that interactive prayer, I was just encouraged.
09:24Something just told me that, no, just open your company.
09:27And I opened my company with the hope that God will see me.
09:32Just after two months, I received a call from my former colleague telling me that, no, are you available?
09:38We're looking for someone here at my workplace.
09:41I said, yes, I'm available.
09:42God is amazing.
09:44He's amazing.
09:45He's amazing.
09:45Because I was not working.
09:46I was just sitting at home.
09:48And they called me after a few weeks and I went there.
09:52In my mind, I was thinking that, okay, fine, maybe this is my interview.
09:55And I went there.
09:56When I arrived, they told me that there will be no need for us to interview you.
10:02We have seen your CV and the company that you have worked for.
10:04Do you have a company that is registered?
10:07So I told them that, yeah, I do have a company that is registered.
10:11So they told me that, okay, fine, we'll take you as a subcontractor.
10:13And I was surprised because this is a company that I just opened.
10:16And I didn't know that, okay, fine, there's something like this that can happen.
10:21And they took me as a subcontractor.
10:23And that's how I started to work.
10:25How long were you jobless for?
10:27That season of joblessness and struggle?
10:29It was one year and some months not working.
10:32So I received the offer and I started to work as a subcontractor under my car, the company that I
10:38just opened.
10:39Now, during this time now, I saw a shift, children of God.
10:44That I was, even myself, I didn't understand what was going on.
10:47I saw a shift.
10:49Me and my wife, we started to talk more.
10:52We were starting to get closer.
10:54Yes, of course, we were just talking about kids.
10:56You know, the future of our kids.
10:58And now, I was allowed now to come and visit her.
11:02You will allow me to come into her place.
11:04We will see it as a family.
11:06And, yeah, it carried on like that.
11:08And then I was keeping on praying, praying to God.
11:11Because I saw that there's something happening now.
11:15My wife have allowed me to come into this place.
11:19And that was a shift for me.
11:21Before I know it, me and my wife, around May of this year, we were reconciled.
11:27And my wife decided that, no, let's just put this thing behind it.
11:31And we got back to each other.
11:33As we speak today, you have this job.
11:36And you and your wife are back together, yes?
11:39Yes, yes.
11:40And how are your children?
11:42How are they now that the family has been reunited?
11:45Remember I told you that children of God, they were so affected by this thing.
11:49Now that we are back together, they are happy.
11:52Even at school, they are doing well.
11:54That is a shift that God has brought upon us as this family.
11:57Something that I have noticed during the time of separation,
12:02and just to take it back to what happened,
12:04is that I took that offer without, like, praying with my wife.
12:11Because people who are married, they are not meant to be, I mean, afar from each other.
12:17They must always be together.
12:19So I took that decision, thinking that it was a good decision.
12:22And the reason why is because I had never involved God.
12:26So the first thing that I would say to every couple out there,
12:31marriage is from God.
12:33And it is very important that in whatever decision that we want to take,
12:37we take together as a couple and with God as a center of that decision.
12:42Because without God, we'll end up making decisions that will get at the end of the day.
12:47Like I did, because I reprinted what I did.
12:50Because if it was not because of what I did,
12:53maybe I would have not, like, my marriage went to what it went to.
12:57And because I didn't pray about it, it affected my marriage so bad.
13:03So what I would say to couples is that God must be the center of everything that we're doing as
13:09a couple,
13:10as married people, in whatever that you're doing,
13:13so that God will guide you.
13:16What I've learned on my side regarding this whole situation that happened in my marriage,
13:22not every opportunity, not everything it has is gold.
13:26That opportunity looked like something that will bring food in the table,
13:30but not knowing that it will steal something.
13:34So, on my side, like, what I've learned that every decision,
13:39we must always put it in the light of God's word,
13:42we must seek God in everything.
13:44And also, when we face challenges in our marriage,
13:48we must pray God, we must pray more to God,
13:50we must get closer, not apart from Him.
13:53We must get into Him so that He will protect us.
13:56Because as a result of what happened, I ended up going on the other way,
14:02which is not right.
14:04Which is not good.
14:05It created a lot of conflict.
14:07So, I advise couples to stay in God and stay in prayer.
14:11Amen.
14:16Smoking, I just lost the edge.
14:18I was just feeling nausea.
14:20So, even just to get the smell,
14:23because usually before you get triggers,
14:25if you just get the smell of cigarette,
14:28you will be triggered to get yourself one and smoke.
14:31No matter how you told yourself,
14:33no, I'm not going to do it again.
14:35But after the prayers,
14:37the edge, even just to pray, just disappeared.
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