This week has for sure had it’s up’s and down’s! First proper week after the start in Notodden.
Digital teaching on Monday and Thursday. Mondays are easier because it isn’t so much book related as it us on Thursdays. Tuesdays are only digital if we need help with a practical task.
I haven’t found a good rhythm yet… Which I really need especially on Thursdays.
But thanks to the Lord I have House Church on Thursday evening 🙌🙏✝️.
Wednesday the 27th of August I went by the school I have signed contract with to work extra at, because I had some questions. After meeting with the principal I headed towards the city. Praying ” Lord I don’t want to ask you for sick teachers but for opportunities to work when in need. I will get crazy if I don’t get any hours.”
Friday the 29th of August I finally had 3 lessons as a substitute teacher in art&craft 🤩.
September 12th.
The weeks pasts so fast. It’s a month since I started this education 🤪. I have realised that sewing can work on Thursdays. I will work on something private that doesn’t have anything to do with my studies.
Today (12th of September) I finally received a positive message from the loan found here in Norway. I will get some support for my studies. The Lord still need to provide for me, but I trust Him. He has provided for me step by step until now. Can’t stop Trusting Him now.
I went to a workshop with two guest’s from US to IMI Church, yesterday evening (Monday September 30st). About creativityand being a Christian. A really interesting workshop! The Lord confirmed things for me and has started something new inside me.
I am curious on what HE has for me from now on. How to express my creativity. How to do what is me, my designe & calling God has put inside me.
I will do some changes, again. All good!
I just want to be able to write or sew, whatever the Lord put on my heart to do and share. I am curious on my new path in creativity. How the Lord can and will lead me how to use my gift’s.
I have withdrawn few posts as you might see if you following my blog. It’s all in the hands of the Lord ✝️.
My goal right now is to be happy and singel and enjoy life and see where the Lord takes me. I’ll be moving tmrw and on Friday 🤩. The date is finally here 🤩🤩. Yes I have got some issues to sort out but I trust the Lord! I am gonna breath in what’s around me and become active in the Church I feel is my spirital home here in Stavanger.
Life is to short to be angry, to analyse things that just such energy!
Singel sounds good for now and a good periode forward. I don’t want to stress to find my future husband! So I am going to live! And try to enjoy every day now. No matter how painful it feels. The lord is my life!
I had a bad night, didn’t sleep well at all 😔. Have maybe slept 4,5h 🤪🤪. But didn’t have a problem to get up at 06am. 😊 Had enough time to get ready, eat breakfast and catch the bus into town at 07.14 am. It was🌡+14°C when I woke up and it can be +24°C.
It’s Wednesday, June 29th 08:13am. I’m on the train towards the interview. The sun is up. It will be an other warm day… The train takes 30 min going south from Stavanger to Klepp county. And the school I have applyed to is 7 min away from the train station.
Bore school yard.
The interveiw was at 08.40am ish, for approxy 30min. As any other interveiw I’ve been to, I asked the Lord for the right words before I got there and so I said what I got. Walked around the school yard before I went back to the local bus, back to the train and texted my referenses that this school would call them the same day.
I got on the train further back home with a small break at the bushub in Stavanger for some breakfast and energy 😉.
Got home around 11.30am and 11.59am the school called and offered me to work with them 🤪🤪😊. It went crazy fast!!
I have been going through a summer full of different feelings. Issues to actually Trust the Lord about this situation. Learning it doesn’t help to try by myself. Only helps to Trust the Lord.
The front picture is my symbol for how narrow my space has felt. How narrow the Lord has been. How narrow my mind has been. Yet, I can only see Gods Love through this Summer for me.
3 hours of creativity the other Day this week. ❤
How the Lord has given me timeto becreative to not think to much. Given me time with friends or to start at the gym, to not think to much.
My prayers; ” Thank you GOD for the peace in my weard situation. Only you know what I am going through. Only you can give me what I need. Only you know what’s coming. How my future look like. Only you know how to hlp me get through this. Thank you GOD for the peace, grace, patience, love you given me in this & for this. “
I use this picture to describes my longing for a man in my life. I stand on the road far away from the mountain which for me is a symbol of my future hubby/ husband.
My prayers; ” Thank you GOD for helping me understand on the way. Thank you GOD for given me this. Thank you GOD for your blessings. Guide my steps. Guide my future hubby. “
My doubts is there, not 24/7, but close. Is this the right time? Is this what you wants for me? How can I trust? Well GOD has given me peace lots of it every day I doubt. ❤ Every time I wonder the peace gets bigger and deeper. And his love! WOW!!
My prayers; ” Thank you GOD for this day, tmrw and the coming week and weeks. Thank you for taking care of me and my thoughts, prayers and life. ✝️ Guide him, guide me. Lead us. Bless us where we are and in what we are doing. Bless the times we will have together when that time comes. ❤
My prayers; ” Surprice me by given me patince & knowlegde. “
And the Lord does!🙂😍❤✝️
God allowed me to try something I was sceptical to; Tinder. You have heard about it I know that. You can find all different types of websides or app’s to find love now day’s. So I ended up on Tinder. Where it’s a lot of weard people for sure! But it is also some, meaning few!, who are more interesting!
I’ve been chatting with few more interesting guys this Summer. I ended up with one (good!) And this guy is the one I have had doubts about. All this blog is about him and God... This guy have I prayed for since day one,and I believe God is with Him. He is still a bit of a mysterious person but GOD has given me peace about him. And I trust GOD about him. I don’t have a clue where this will go or lead but just the fact I have Peace for him and whatever happends is good enough for me. ✝️❤✝️
Our path is God’s path. He will LEAD US when WE trust Him.
Thoughts after house church meeting on zoom, June 6th. Where the theme was John 14 & 15. And those who were leading the house church a couple they started to read those chapters each by them selfs and than together. This was as much as I recall of what I manage to follow before I ” fell out “..
I started to read JOHN 15 and I kind of fell off or out of the ” meeting ” while I read v. 8, v.16-17 and v. 26. They spoke to me. In different ways. How the Lord is Vine and I am a branch (v.8), How HE chose me (v.16-17) & at last HE will send the Spirit & Truth to me (v.26).
Does it speak to you? What are your thoughts about this?
What is my thoughts about the fruit that John is talking about? Have I (you) been in a situation where the Father (the Lord) is the gardener and cuts of the branches of mine that doesn’t produce fruit?
Maybe. I can’t recall any situations right now. But I probobly have. How will I otherwice grow as a Christian person? How does he do it? How does he cut the branches while I still live? Well he doesn’t do it physical it’s a metafor or picture. And what is the fruit? How do I know it is a fruit from the Lord?
I recall one of the others talk about how they were thinking of the fruits. Like being a helping person or testify about what I/you belive. How Jesus is a part of my/your life.
Am I that kind of person, that talks about what I belive to those I meet? No, and I have never been. But I have a tattoo that for me is my testify of my faith. I have chosen to do it this way mostly becauce I have easily to chat with new unknown people.
In John 15 vers 8, Yes, I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who remaine in me and I in them, will produce much fruit.
How to stay and be the good branches? How to produce more fruit? That is my questions after reading this. How can I produce more fruit in my life as a Christian while I am who I am? He is the vine I am the branch. 😍 ✝️
In John 15 verses 16-17; You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. This is my command: Love each other.
HE, Jesus chose me. ✝️
He chose me to Love each other!
To do things out of love, no matter what it is You do for others.
John 15 vers 26; “But I will send you the Advocate —the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me.”
This vers talked to me in the way that ” the advocate will come to me from the Father.. ” Whatever happends I will be able to recive this as a believing Christian. I need to seek and read and talk to him who chose me. He has given me this. He has given me the Spirit of thruth! WOW what a gift to recive!! This is big!
HowI sharing my faithwith those I meet daily. As I wrote above, I have chosen to do it by tattoos (I will finish the one tattoo I started on in 2008 (P.U.S.H.)). Which for other people is just a symbol or letters has a bigger and deeper meaning for me and I know what it stands for and than I tell them my story. How I became a Christian and how those 4 letters is how Christian people around me prayed for me. How theirs prayers became my new path in life. The continuing of this tattoo is F.R.O.G. – Fully Rely On God. My way to the Christian I am today.
Worship is important. Maybe even more important in this crazy time of Corona.
I can not say I have felt less Christian until now. No. But I can say, I have not been worship as much I maybe should, and been needed. Yesterday, Saturday May 9, did I met up with my house church online. A wonderful few hours! And we were worshiping, praying and sharing.💜✝️
There and than I could not stop the melody in my head. It was like this song was just what I needed. It’s a Norwegian song, called “The grave is empty”.
The lyrics to, The grave is empty;
Jesus was tormented until death. Chose to bleed for my sin. He who was pure was ashamed. God made a mockery for my sake.
(Bridge) //: The tomb is empty Jesus is alive now. In honor and in power. Eternal – death is subject to Him. ://
The sun rises over the garden. The day when death came to life. Jesus is not in the grave. The night is eternally over.
Bridge; //: The tomb is empty Jesus is alive now. In honor and in power. Eternal – death is subject to Him.://
See He who died He lives. Rays of honor and brilliance. The power that overcame death. Live in those who are His.
Bridge; //: The tomb is empty Jesus is alive now. In honor and in power. Eternal – death is subject to Him.://
You can find this Song in Norwigian at YouTube. To find the melody.
For me those words were just what I needed to hear. The deep meaning, the Love from Him who loves us more than anything!
A word from those hours yesterday that stayed with me was Act 27:34-36.
“Please eat something now for your own good. For not a hair of your heads will perish.”, “Then he took some bread, gave thanks to God before them all, and broke off a piece and ate it.”, Then everyone was encouraged and began to eat.”
How important it is for us Christians to eat and be encourage from the Lord. To stand in faith in this crazy time in the world. To worship the Lord. To have focus on the cross.
Life challenge when we ask God specific what we want and which door He open.
Genesis 15:1-5;
1,«After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, «Do not be afraid, Abram I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.» 2,But Abram said, «Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damscus?» 3,Then Abram said, «Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!» 4,And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, «This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.» 5, Then He brought him outside and said, «Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you able to number them.» And He said to him, «So shall your descendants be.»
What do we do when things doesn’t go like we want? Have God told you something that you are still waiting on? How does God’s challenge you? And does God challenge you like he challengedAbraham?
Are you trusting God and God’s plan, when things aren’t going like you thought? Are you standing there and asking «where did you go God?» Just because you don’t feel God?
What does the Hebrew letter say to us?
Hebrew 6:13, 6:19.
6:13; «For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself»
6:19; «This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the evil.»
Where are your anchor?
Who is your anchor?
Are you trusting God and His plan for your life?
Why do we fear God and don’t trust ourselves? Because we don’t trust God enough.
How and what do we do with the covenant we have to and with God?
Make sure that the anchor fall totally down to the bottom. Make sure that the anchor do it’s purpose in your life!
Does your faith endure challenges?
Do you trust God?
The challenge from God can look or feel like this sometimes.
My thoughts….
I know I trust God. I reminding myself of the fact that I have to put all my life into his hand if my life is gonna to work. If I don’t trust my Heavenly Father I don’t know how my life would look like. Well I know it wouldn’t look like it do right now.
This preaching has enough questions to read this more then twice! Which I hope you do. Sit down somewhere you feel you can get some input from God. Think over those questions, see if you can answer them right away or if you actually need some time maybe days. It’s not an easy answer here!
As far as I know, I know I trust God and give Him my life every day but do I listen to all He says? I believe I miss some of all the things he is trying to tell me. I can be busy with other things or maybe it’s the TV that take “all my attention”?
I want to be challenge of God in my life, I don’t know if I am ready for it all the times though. I believe those questions are important! to live with every day! And I think it’s one of the challenges God has given us.
To be there and listen to him.
To trust him always.
To not fear.
To accept a challenge and learn on the way in our Christian life wherever we are in our journey with Him. ❤
mia-simone. svenberg 