Ivy Sutton

📖 Writer • 🎤 Speaker • ❤️ Women’s Ministry | Married since ’82 to my best friend | Laughing, loving, and living grateful. Grace is Wild☘️

[Ivy Sutton @IvySutton]

Grace is Wild

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[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Rick Renner @RennerRick]

Sometimes people want to pray, but they simply don’t know where to begin. That’s why praying the Word of God is so powerful.
When we pray God’s Word in faith, renew our minds, and stay sensitive to the Holy Spirit, we position ourselves to hear God’s voice more clearly and to stand strong in spiritual warfare. No situation is beyond God’s ability to intervene. Whether you’re praying for a wayward child, a financial breakthrough, healing in your family, or victory in a difficult battle, your prayers matter. As you mix faith with the Word of God and continue in intercession, Heaven moves on your behalf.
The enemy may try to release fear, confusion, and destruction, but believers are called to release the promises, peace, and power of Heaven into every circumstance.
— Rick Renner

[Ivy Sutton @IvySutton]

“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us,”
Ephesians 2:4 CSB https://t.co/e5uAibsx17

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[Alice VL @RiseAgainstEvil]

Warrant Officer Karl Sander (sometimes spelled Sanders), a dedicated KwaZulu-Natal Hawks narcotics veteran with over 40 years of service, testified at the ongoing Madlanga Commission. He described how his personal coffee machine, the one thing he called his "only safe space" during exhausting, dangerous shifts fighting drug syndicates, was brazenly stolen from right inside the Hawks' own Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) offices.

Instead of launching a proper investigation into the theft or supporting one of their own officers, senior management (including a General Senona) treated him as the prime suspect. They subjected this loyal officer to a humiliating polygraph test over the theft of his own damn coffee machine. He even laughed bitterly on the stand while recounting it, saying he "just wanted it back."

This wasn't some isolated prank. It happened against the backdrop of major drug theft scandals in the Hawks, including the 2021 disappearance of 541kg of cocaine (worth around R200 million) from a Port Shepstone exhibit room; cases where honest officers like Sander have been sidelined, transferred, denied promotions, and harassed for actually doing their jobs against the cartels.

South Africans, fed up with the endless corruption and dysfunction, exploded in support. A BackaBuddy campaign launched by Durban paramedic Kyle van Reenen with a humble R5,000 goal has now smashed through R350,000+ (and still climbing) from thousands of donors.

People are calling it a rare feel-good moment in a country drowning in crime and betrayal.

Sander has said he’ll buy a new coffee machine and use the surplus to fund narcotics detection dogs for harbor operations, turning public outrage into something practical.

But let's be real. This story shouldn't even exist. In a functioning country, a veteran anti-drug officer shouldn't have to rely on public crowdfunding because the very institution meant to fight crime can't stop its own people from stealing a damn coffee machine, or worse, turns on the honest ones.

This is the ANC's South Africa in 2026. Institutions hollowed out by cadre deployment, protection of criminals, and persecution of those who refuse to play along. The Hawks, supposedly the elite unit, are a circus of theft, suspicion, and incompetence.

One decent officer gets a rare win from the public, but it doesn't fix the broken system that's destroying this country.

[Alice VL @RiseAgainstEvil]

Warrant Officer Karl Sander (sometimes spelled Sanders), a dedicated KwaZulu-Natal Hawks narcotics veteran with over 40 years of service, testified at the ongoing Madlanga Commission. He described how his personal coffee machine, the one thing he called his "only safe space" during exhausting, dangerous shifts fighting drug syndicates, was brazenly stolen from right inside the Hawks' own Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) offices.

Instead of launching a proper investigation into the theft or supporting one of their own officers, senior management (including a General Senona) treated him as the prime suspect. They subjected this loyal officer to a humiliating polygraph test over the theft of his own damn coffee machine. He even laughed bitterly on the stand while recounting it, saying he "just wanted it back."

This wasn't some isolated prank. It happened against the backdrop of major drug theft scandals in the Hawks, including the 2021 disappearance of 541kg of cocaine (worth around R200 million) from a Port Shepstone exhibit room; cases where honest officers like Sander have been sidelined, transferred, denied promotions, and harassed for actually doing their jobs against the cartels.

South Africans, fed up with the endless corruption and dysfunction, exploded in support. A BackaBuddy campaign launched by Durban paramedic Kyle van Reenen with a humble R5,000 goal has now smashed through R350,000+ (and still climbing) from thousands of donors.

People are calling it a rare feel-good moment in a country drowning in crime and betrayal.

Sander has said he’ll buy a new coffee machine and use the surplus to fund narcotics detection dogs for harbor operations, turning public outrage into something practical.

But let's be real. This story shouldn't even exist. In a functioning country, a veteran anti-drug officer shouldn't have to rely on public crowdfunding because the very institution meant to fight crime can't stop its own people from stealing a damn coffee machine, or worse, turns on the honest ones.

This is the ANC's South Africa in 2026. Institutions hollowed out by cadre deployment, protection of criminals, and persecution of those who refuse to play along. The Hawks, supposedly the elite unit, are a circus of theft, suspicion, and incompetence.

One decent officer gets a rare win from the public, but it doesn't fix the broken system that's destroying this country.

[MDN NEWS @MDNnewss]

[ICYMI]

Warrant Officer Karl Sander told the #MadlangaCommission that his coffee machine was stolen from the Hawks offices in Durban, and that he was later subjected to a polygraph test over the incident, which he says was authorised by suspended KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major-General Lesetja Senona.

The testimony has since sparked widespread public reaction, with South Africans raising over R400,000 through a crowdfunding campaign to replace the stolen machine.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

Many times as leaders, we ignore marriages saturated with sin and deceit without truth or care because we value the external appearance of marriage over the holiness of God lived out in hidden places.

[Ernest Somolekae @esomolekae]

These thieves!

Look at what they did to the man... I guess even now, he is in disbelief! How do you go to an extent of manufacturing polygraphs to suit your evil plans?

General Senona and his accomplices must be punished accordingly for the crimes they have committed.

[levi lusko @levilusko]

If you focus on your spouse’s failures, you’ll start noticing every way they fall short. But when you slow down long enough to make a list of what’s good, you begin seeing more of that too. And here’s the marriage hack: people tend to repeat what gets appreciated.

[Ivy Sutton @IvySutton]

Don't spend your whole life fearing death.
Rise up and embrace the life God has given you.
One day when the doorway of your actual death is before you, you'll simply walk right out of this world into a new world,beyond anything you could imagine.
Death is not the final reality

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Grace is Wild☘️

[Ivy Sutton @IvySutton]

“The starting point for acquiring wisdom is to be consumed with awe as you worship Yahweh. To receive the revelation of the Holy One, you must come to the one who has living-understanding.”
Proverbs 9:10 TPT https://t.co/92KhkqOc5J

[Ivy Sutton @IvySutton]

Grace is Wild

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“The vision still awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove to be false. When the appointed time comes, it will happen with breathless haste. Although it may seem slow, just be patient and wait. For it will surely come right on ti… https://t.co/8L9GPn0OMD

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John 14:16-17 TPT https://t.co/3IGAQJNmQT

[Ivy Sutton @IvySutton]

“But when the Father sends the Spirit of Holiness, the One like me who sets you free, he will teach you all things in my name. And he will inspire you to remember every word that I’ve told you.”
John 14:26 TPT https://t.co/PnsiYTUgIt

[Ivy Sutton @IvySutton]

“As they prayed the earth shook beneath them, causing the building they were in to tremble. Each one of them was filled with the Holy Spirit, and they proclaimed the word of God with unrestrained boldness.”
Acts 4:31 TPT https://t.co/EAStXUs4t5