Tag: Church

Thoughts of my nearest future, my life here and now and the loneliness I feel.

It’s nearly been a week since I got back from my holiday (July 22nd today).

After I’ve been home for two days I realised I really want to have a family around me. A husband with family. If it’s his growen kids or his siblings it doesn’t really matter as long as its family (person’s).  It also means I litterly need to meet people every day, especially when I have a school break. Because when I work I always have people around me and my quote for the social part gets quite high but than when I don’t have a work to go to because it’s Summer, my quote goes down to fast 😔.

Anyway, I have been a bit creative yet not been sewing 😬🤪🙈.

On Saturday (20th) me and my 74 years old neighbour went to a plant store. I bought soil, orchid peat and basicpon to my flowers and 4 new plant pot’s in two sizes. Gave my outdoor plants and my aloe vera basicpon. And new seed soil and clay balls to my indoor flowers. And it looks like they liked it.

Painting a drawer which I’ll use as flower shelf.

Sunday 21st I finally managed to go to Church 😊 on my way I walked on my favourite bridge which also is a roundabout for traffic under. The weather forecast said rain from morning to evening, but we were lucky to not have the rain until during the service. Met a close friend from Oslo after the service, I haven’t seen since I moved three years ago. (It feels like this summer is the summer for meeting up with friends I haven’t seen in too many years.)

My favourite bridge in Stavanger. Because of the colours!
It was raining after Church.

Painting…

This door haven’t I done much with for the past year.

Now I paint it with acrylic turquoise colour to figure out if this is the colour I want. And I think so. So until I can afford the reel paint this stays.

I still haven’t decided if I will have black or white edges 🤔.  I guess it has to grow on me as everything else I do 😆.

I chose to paint this too. The furniture I don’t know what you call, but it’s mostly used as a writing table back in the day’s both with drawers and cupboards. And the turquoise colour pop’s more to the black than the red colour did.

Today, Monday 22nd, I haven’t done much 🙈. I have cleaning my mother’s sewing machine and I found a bulb that fit 😍 and giving the machine some oil. I have the luxury to own two sewing machines now. My mother’s sewing machine was made in 1953 and I think mu mother bought it in the 1960’s.  So it’s been along quite long time! A good but heavy machine.

The best part with this machine is the sewing table 😍

I haven’t been sewing yet 🙈😆 but I will 😉. 

Faith and Trusting the Lord. I still don’t know what or where I will work in August yet I have peace inside me for this autumn. I am Trusting the Lord and have faith he will guide my steps. He has already blessed me to be able pay a bit less next time I have to pay the rent 😍🙏✝️.  I gave money to the missionary work my church, yesterday, they are doing in Thailand and trust that God will bless my money for how I will live and pay bills in August.

Thoughts for the future… one of them are if I should save up for a used car (becoming an adult in an other level). I know I need a job to be able to save up money  – to realistic brain to think otherwise.  I have been looking at job’s but nothing so far fit’s me 🙈😔.

Pray and have focus on the Lord.

Its 5.42pm and I’m waiting on the bus towards church. First time this Summer I managed to go. No pain anywhere 😊😊 Thank you Lord for that!!

I have no clue what the service will be about. Often I don’t though 😆🤪. But today nothing can stop me. I am going! Yay.

And I let you know more after the service.

I came in to the worship, just what I needed. A part of one werse ” I have notice, you are speaking”. It was peaceful, love and care both in the text and in the autmospher.

Here are the worship and lyrics;

A voice came to me during those few minutes I took part of the worship. I will bless you.

My question is still, where should I move? Should I move closer to work this year or should I just move in to the city of Stavanger? I have peace to be in Stavanger but it will cost money and time to go between every day, is it worth the travel? Where does the Lord want to use me?

The thread from the preaching is : bend your knees and pray. It doesn’t need to be on your knees if you can’t the point is to pray and have focus on the Lord.

To stay in the trust when the doubts comes.

To stay in the trust to the Lord when the doubts comes and the time getting closer to the date of my new job. To not doubt. To focus on positive and be thankful for what I have, got, the prayer-answers.

Daily life.

A walk with podcast in my ears to clear my thoights. I am so bored at home. I need friends. I need to get to know people. I need a life. Not just a job. To not have anyone to hang with, take a coffee with just chill is boring! But how to meet new people? If you don’t go out, like in the evening, how and where do I meet new people? I don’t. 😔. It feels like my life is so boring.

It’s Monday 11am, I’m in the city. Just don’t know what to do. Would love to start work this week but I have to wait… so what to do this week?

July in Norway isn’t the best month to chill with people becauce almost everyone have theire vaccation. As a singel christian lady I don’t go out in the evening, I haven’t even been on a date, which I had hoped for. My church only have service at 6pm on Sunday’s. …

My veiw right now 11.28am.

Watching people, trying to think on what to do today… It’s a cloudy day today. Just like my brain right now 🤪. But back to the title… to trust the Lord in all. To trust for a miracle, to not doubt when your search doesn’t give you anything of what you are looking for. To be able to encouraged others by standing in faith all the way, to not give up on the lord. To not fall for the doubts whatever happends.

Outside the swimminghall 😉, Stavanger.

I struggle to stay in focus in my faith to trust the Lord from day to day or even some day’s from hour to hour. I can be honnest on that. I ask the Lord as soon as it happend. I am human to doubt but I am also in need of the script & worship to not fall out. And Christian friends in my age to hang with. How many are we, singel Christians without kids that don’t want or can’t have kids? How often do you see or hear about ‘young adults without kids’ groups in your church? I haven’t in my church. Not even in my old church. Why? Well most churches has groups for young adults & students – an underline of “you might find your partner and we hope you become a family soon” is at least my feeling on what the church wants. How is it in your church?

When you don’t have a partner, life sucks!

Worship gives me peace and I get calm on the inside and in my soul. Right now the only thing, therefor I’ll stop writing and hope some of you out there will come with inspiration to me. How you do in your struggles and how you meet new people.

Overandout 12.22pm

When you know you are home.

The peace and calm feeling to step into Church after months. WOW! The atmosphere! Just to come, be, sing or listen to the worship and the preaching. 💜.

The bridge in one of the worship songs.

Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
I want everything you are,
I want everything you are.

Knowing you are in the right city and know that the Church you been a part of before. In my case I went here eleven y.a. Yet, I got the same feeling now and my fi4st time in Nowenber when I got into the Church building. 💜.

Today I am thankful that my back is okay. 😊🙏. Months since last time.

Yeshua

(From the preaching) To feel that you are Home also means you know that here are your Christian family, the Lord- ABBA – Father or Dad is here.

Give Him the space, to get the experence to get to know Him. This is also a big oppurtunity to ask him in to your daily life, your workplace or studdylife. Let Him in, into your life through music or podcast’s. Let Him Abba get more space in your life.

No matter how your biological Dad has been the Lord loves you no matter.

The challenge is to come with an open mind and open heart to the Lord our Abba Father.

You might have wound from your childhood, as a teenager, a young aduldt or whereever you were hurt to be able to see how Abba Father are standing there and just loves you.

Maybe we just need to remind our self how much we are loved. That he see’s us and how He can use ypur gifts?

Question; How will you describe God as your Father?

Powerful worship text.

If you want to do something different next year, check out the Bibleschool Acta in Stavanger through https://en.imikirken.no/ and the new program; community builder.

Forgiveness

An comman word this last two weeks both in Church and with my transdermal cell group is; FORGIVENESS. We have been sharing our thoughts and experence about forgiveness, about how to be able to move forward .

What have you been through in life that has given you a bitter taste or bitterness or maybe even depretion?

How can you Forgive those around you so you will be free and forgiven?

How to trust our heavenly Father?

How to change a pattern you have had for years?

Well, what I did was. I made up my mind. Made a decition. I had a conversation with the Lord about what I wanted to change, years ago. I have been forgiven many old classmates that bullied me as a teenager. I have forgiven my dad who hurt me for many years menthally. I have forgiven people who for some reason have hurt me.

And by forgiven them all I recieved a peace inside of me.

I steped out in faith.

I hope you get inspired to do the same. God, our heavenly Father want to help you the whole way and through the whole process it will take for you.

❤ ✝️ 🙏

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.2020.

Station your Life.

Station your Life.

I have not been able to go to church for weeks or months because of work and body. But last Sunday the 23rd of July I did go. And I did not just enjoyed the worship I also liked the preaching. It was like God wanted to remind me of important things about life.

The headline was: Receiving Guidance from God.

The important W’s…coming below.

Three ways to tune-in to God;

1, I must realize that God cares about the details of my life. Matthew 6:31-32. To tune-in to God. 2, Ask God a specific question. James 1:5a 3, Believe HE wants to Answer. Pray with exceptions to God. James 1:5b-6.

How to receive Guidance from God;

The first W; WITHDRAW. Get alone in a quite place. Focus on God.

Habakkuk 2:1. “I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected.”

This is something I have a hard time with. To have it quite around me… I like to have music around me. It’s easier for me to focus with sounds (even when I write a blog I need music to focus). So how will I do this?But I have found a time in my life when it’s more then less quite, and that is when I am out walking my cat. Then I talk to God, asking God for advice and telling Him how I think about things in my life. I guess God knows me that well that he uses me when I am surrounded by people in prayer, because that is my best “quite time”.

The second W; WAIT. Calm your thoughts and emotions. To be quiet. To station your life = don’t move. Good have make you good!

Sometimes it’s so hard to wait! To wait on answers, on God to make a move, to let Him take control. But it’s worth it. My time isn’t God’s time and that means that he do answer when he knows I am ready to hear what he has provide for me. I have learn that it is worth waiting on the answer after I have asked God for a specific thing. I also know that I can ask God for whatever I want. But it doesn’t mean he will answer everything I ask for. I call that faith to trust God, that he really do knows what I need.

The third W; WATCH. Let God give you a picture.

Habakkuk 2:1. “I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected.”

Ephesians 1:18. “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints”

Hebrews 5:14. “But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their Senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”

God is using my creative brain in many ways. One way is by giving me pictures when I pray for others. He has done that since the Day an other person prayed for me. But watch is also about how to let God in to your brain and let him be apart of your prayers in a visual way. Like, if you are in focus with God in your prayers God will use your brain if you let him. HE wants us to watch and write done what we receive from him.

The fourth W; Write. Record the ideas you’re receive.

Habakkuk2:2. “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.”

Benefits of write is… A)Keep you focus on God. B) Allows you what you said to God and what God said to you. C) Not every IDEAS is from the Lord.

When the woman who were preaching said this, and I thought this fit me. I write, a blog, that I feel I have got as a gift from God to do. And it was also like an answer from God and he gave me this line; “I want you to write more. More about your faith on me.” Which is what I at least do know.The woman who preached also said “always bring a journal with you so you can write down what God is telling you”. Nearly wherever I go I have this small notice-block with me if God is speaking to me or giving something to me. We should all have a notice-block with us. I also have a notice-block on my smart-phone, and I just have to say Thank you God for Apps !! Some of them are SO good!! 🙂

I do keep my focus on God and asking God what to write about in life. Out of experience I’ve learn the hard way that not every idea is from God but in my life many are! To write allows me to both remember what I said to God and to hear his voice.

The fifth W; WORSHIP. Thank God for speaking to you.

Habakkuk 3:2. “O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.”

Through your relationship with God, God will fill you. Believe in God. Became friend with God.

For me is Worship the Holy part of connecting with God and listen to what and if He has something to tell me, greetings to someone else or maybe a picture that says more then words. It’s my way to «Catch-up» with God. To sing out my prayers in the worship. To honer Him, He who is my Father. To be  in his atmosphere and just enjoy and receive grace and love from Him. I always ask God to use me if He want or need me to give someone else a picture or a greeting, in the worship, because I know He hears my willingness to be used by Him.

We ended the preaching with this song; “You are a good, good father.” And the words in this song is powerful.

Good Good Father by Chris Tomlin. Good good Father

I’ve heard a thousand stories of what they think you’re like
But I’ve heard the tender whispers of love in the dead of night
And you tell me that you’re pleased
And that I’m never alone

You’re a good good father
It’s who you are, it’s who you are, it’s who you are
And I’m loved by you
It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am

I’ve seen many searching for answers far and wide
But I know we’re all searching
For answers only you provide
‘Cause you know just what we need
Before we say a word

You’re a good good father
It’s who you are, it’s who you are, it’s who you are
And I’m loved by you
It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am

Because you are perfect in all of your ways
You are perfect in all of your ways
You are perfect in all of your ways to us

You are…

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.