It’s Christmas eve 🎄 it’s finally here. The Day I have been waiting on.
Here comes the verse for today; Psalm 37:21
The wicked borrows and does not repay, But the righteous shows mercy and gives.
This verse is just like what Christmas is all about. To show mercy and be giving.
We celebrate the newborn son that came to this World for us. Our Father gave us a son, to be able to show mercy to others. And we have the oppurtunity to give, show love and mercy.
Merry Christmas.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
Life goes on whatever you do in life that is fact. We do all have day’s when we have more or less things to do. We all have day’s when we do not want to do a tiny thing but we have to because we have a job or family we can not just delete. But the feeling are there.
We have day’s when we want to be more social then other day’s or when we actully are spontanious social because we met someone we have not seen in a long while.
Those day’s are life. They are there.
Do I have this life? Yes! Am I happy every day? No, but I can try to be positiv. Positiv for friends, co-workers and family or neighbors.
I went to church today and there did the pastor talk about our daily life and challenges God askes us to do for him. One of them I reflected pver was “do we see our neighbors need for things in their daily life?” Are we a part of anything they need help with? What can we do practicly for them? How do we get to know our neighbors if we do not know them?
I am lucky to know most of my neighbors where I live, because I needed to get to know them few years ago. I am blessed to live where I live. I have not earned it but God have given me that.
Have you thought about why you are living where you are living? Are you blessed where you live? Cam you get to know your neighbors? Daily thoughts in life.
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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.
The last days has been different at “work”.
On Sunday I got an allergy reaction in my throat after I ate some food-snacks and I realized it must been nut in it.
Walnut.
Bad bad bad.
I had a similar reaction in my throat fifteen years ago on chic-peas. In that time a deathly reaction.
This was nearly the same feeling but I didn’t go to the ER as I probably should have done…
I went from “work” one hour before I was suppose too. Send an email to my boss about what happen on my way home. I just went home cause I thought I had medicine at home, didn’t find it but luckily the swelling went down by my normally allergy medicine.
Monday morning when I woke up the itching was still there so I phoned my doctor, got an appointment. Got there and got good medicine that was helping fast. 🙂 Went to “work” did my hours and everything was finally fine again.
Tuesday came and now I woke up with a bad red, swollen foot.. I thought it would go down during the day but it didn’t, so after the busy time on Tuesday between 7.30pm and 9pm my foot was so red and swollen I just had to call the hospital I had my knee surgery at (in February-13). They told me that I should go to the ER asap so I asked my co-worker if it was okay and he said “health first work always survive” and the night staff would be there quite soon anyway.
So I went to the ER. It didn’t take as long time as I thought it would (which it normally does). But when I met the doctor at ER the foot wasn’t so red any-more. The blood test was negative which was good cause then I could leave and try to get home. I knew that “my bus” didn’t go any more cause of the time of the night but I catch the tram to the central station and then the metro to the closest stop of walking distance. I had a good walk back home and a good chat with God.
Even if those days has been different I am thankful for the health system here in Norway and that I can get help when I need it without high bills.
Today Wednesday was my relaxing day and recharge my battery. And I have.
But when I checked Facebook I got a chock. A quite close friend have just past away. He and his wife was one of the first couple I got to know when I moved to Norway nine years ago. They kind of become extra parents to me. I have been looking up to them as Christians and as marriage couple. And now he is gone. He became 50+… I can’t really understand it. A cording to what his wife wrote on Facebook he was injured at his work in his head and brain.
R.I.P Danny Danson.
Prayers goes to the families. Lots of LOVE to everyone close to this family!
I just had to go for a walk, clear my brain and talk to God. I am still a bit in chock.
/Mia-Simone
Clean your home.
“Cleaning my home for me, is when I know I can feel the sent of green soap afterwards.”
I grow up with Thursday as the cleaning day at home and it was always mom that did most of if at least when I was a child. As I grow into a teenager I started to help mom and when I moved out of home as 16 y.o. I brought this cleaning tradition with me. It was naturally for me. I have had some “thinking” about it but I kind of never changed it until for few y.o. It’s been cleaning day on Thursdays so many years of my life that it was a bit weird to suddenly clean the house/home, wash cloths an other day in the week. I have just bought a robot vacuum cleaner to safe my back from more issues and I am pleased with it so far. It is so easy that I only need to sit down, help it to no t “run” into the mat on the floor but my cat – Silver – is as skeptic to the robot “Rob” as to the more common one. Today I took the floor, washing with green soap. That the perfect end of cleaning at home.
“Is traditions we grow up with that important? Or is it just that we realizing about those tradition’s as adults and just bring them on?”
My mom’s thinking was this, if you clean the house on a Thursday you will have it clean and nice the whole weekend and you can come home from work on the Friday knowing you don’t need to think about cleaning.
It’s nice. But when you as I work weekends that doesn’t really work. I prefer to wash a Sunday if I am free or a Monday. Most times I wash cloths one day and clean the home an other day. It works for now. And it was during that I started to think more about this of “if we clean our home, then we need to clean our heart and mind and soul too”.
Clean your heart and soul.
It’s not just our homes that needs to be cleaned. Our heart and soul needs it too. I realized that I have been missing to listen to worship for the last week or so, when I started my play-list on Spotify yesterday. I have been feeling emptiness inside. To fill my ears and heart with good Christian music is as much important as to have a cleaned home. In one way I am surprised that I kind of lost track of the good things after I started the work-experience. In an other way I can understand it, because when I get home after a day or evening from the Hotel I am so exhausted that the only thing that is in my mind is to relax in-front of the television, which I do. It is only when I am free for more then two days I realizing that it is something missing. For me it is my way to clean my soul, to listen to worship or sit by the water and just clear my thoughts. It’s the best way to re-fill my soul, heart and mind with good words. It is easier for me to talk to God, to read an encouraging book or pray with Christian worship in the background. I am the girl that loves hard core and instrumentally heavy metal normally. But this year I have forced myself to listen to more common worship to see if I feel different or if God can speak to me in an other way. So far (nine months in to it) I can’t say it’s any difference’s of what kind of Christian music I listen to.
As a Christian I need thing that lift me up. I need a Christian fellowship where I can re-fill. To have a fellowship with Christians has become so much more important now when my week is Friday to Tuesday and not Monday to Friday. When Sunday’s isn’t a church-day in the same way as before August..
But I found my Christian fellowship in June, when I went to Torp, Norway. I have now started to be a part of this group on a more regular basis. I can go to church every second Sunday or join the Christian fellowship group on every second Saturday’s. I will see what it will be, this Sunday (the 4th of September) it’s church-day. When it fits I even manage to join my house church too on Thursday’s. I know I need it and I want it. Since I became a Christian the Christian Fellowship is the most important then go to church on a Sunday. The worship, shearing daily life and praying. Talk about life in a small or bigger group where I feel at home is the thing. Knowing that I have friends that will pray for me when I need it there in the group, when I am in the Hotel or have free and that I can be a part of the prayer for my friends. That’s when God can show us all his power.
A new journey has started in my Christian life, to found out what fits with work, what is the next step about my Christian fellowship and which church is mine? And I know God has a plan that fit’s my life!
I am as curious now as before the 1st of August or even more about what God has for me the rest of this year. 2016.
Do you remember to clean your heart, soul, thoughts and mind?
/Mia-Simone.
August Prayer-answer.
Time flies fast, when you have fun or have something to do.
It was first of August just now, well at lest in my head, life, world. But it is the twenty-first! That’s more then half the month. Where did those days and weeks go?
I started as a trainee in a hotel here in Oslo the first of August and I love it! It is a big prayer-answer! Friends have been with me in prayer for this for so may years! It has been a journey with God, where he has tout me how to trust him on 100% and not less. How God has provide my life, financially, with food, with getting to a doctor when I was to sick to catch a bus and a friend drove me. It is so much God has shown me and how great it is when I trust God.
It has been my journey I needed to learn to trust God more.
To understand that this is my foundation for my faith in life. Most people would maybe get mad or crazy to not have a job over five years. It has been a journey with tears, joy, struggles, “whys”, many prayers of “open the right door” and “close those doors that shall not even show some lights”. But I have to say, I have always something to do, one of the things is my customers and secondly is every project I start where I live. And I have been taking some courses during those years, but manly I have trusted God to get into some-kind of work-experience where God wants me, can use me. And here it is. The answer.
As I said above, I have started as a trainee in a Hotel here in Oslo. I love it! It’s fun even those days when we do not have so much to do. Even if my wish was that it would be more that happen during those days I guess that in one way it is good to be here as a trainee in Oslo’s smallest Hotel in the way that it does not take long time to get in to the Hotel-routines, but and yes I have to say but. But I wish it was more going on manly because I need it. I am the kind of person that need the “busy time” to refill my battery (energy) I get energy of meeting and helping people, and here at this Hotel does it feel like everything goes in s-l-o-w-m-o-t-i-o-n or a better description is that when the guests are arriving do they not come everyone in the same time (which is normal) or not even close to each other. A normal day few guest comes maybe around 3pm when we start the in-check and then its a long gap (more then an hour) until next group of guest comes, it can even pasting more then two hours before next guest…
In the same time these days going so fast and I only do four hours per day.
I will start with eight hours next week, which is a bit scary for me. Manly because I have not been working for the last five years, have had back-issues since the summer of 2000 and the worst pain the most recently in the last two years.
But I am to curious to start on those eight hours per day. I am curious and anxiety in the same time about how it will go. And I am to stubborn to not try.
The 17th was my free day – off work. A day I priority to go to the gym, for my health. A routine I got out of during summer, a routine I now struggle to get back into. I miss it so much! But I guess it is normal with new routines in life whatever it is a new job or studies, to get the time to reach to do those things that makes you happy or build up your life in a long term. I guess it is normal when your weeks looks different.
Anyway… I am looking forward to get into a work-routine my body manage.
I received a message from a friend through messenger on Thursday this week, where I had told here about my struggle to get a new routine in my life. And she answered that “it’s normal before all new things get into routines about everything in life” It was just so nice to “hear it” from someone I know and someone who has been in the situation quiet recently.
An ironic detail happen on Thursday.. I managed to get off work thirty minutes before I was suppose to get off. I guess I just was just tired in my head or that I had an other day in my mind. I realized that on my way to the bus so I called the Hotel and talked to the guy in charge. Which in my mind made it normal to think I will start thirty minutes earlier on Friday. Something weird happen there, I can still not say what happen.
During those days at the Hotel have I learn out-check, in-check, double-checking the booking system the hotel is using, where all the rooms are, how many it is, how many conference rooms we have, overbooking, where the fire signs are and some more. How close everyone in the hotel is working together no matter if you are in the housekeeping or in the restaurant. Which also means that “your routine” is not always the original routine, it can be to help someone else in an other ares. Quite many new things, I have got to know around twenty-five new colleges and started to walk much much. All good things in life.
Today is it Sunday, laundry-day and relaxing, charge my energy-day. I have realized that when I am at the Hotel I do not have enough energy when I get home to do more then necessary like eat, maybe check my email, maybe order things that I need (that other people rather buy in the store) to keep up in life. But it is okay for me. Life is to short to think about what other people think I should or could do so I do not do that.
For the future, I really hope and wish I will be able to start to go next to the night-shift worker in a sooner future then I had in mind when I started three weeks ago, and that the night-shift will fit me as much as I think it will. Because that has been my dream so many years now…
/Mia-Simone.
So I have finally picked up the book again. Trying to finishing it. My motivation isn’t really there but I will make it through! The book of Marriage. A very interesting book (!) for us women. It is called “get married, What Woman Can Do To Help It Happen”and it is a lot to both read, adjust and get into the get into everyday life as a single girl/lady (whatever you like to call your self). It is a help in the way most of us woman think and act to get involved in a relationship with a man and NOT how to be his friend.
It is easy to be the girl that is always hanging with the guys (for me that’s who I’ve been more then less my whole life). This book goes deeper then that. This book lets us know how we manage to “jump” over that part of just stay as friends and how we will act to not get into the friend-relationship and actually get “under his skin” and understand how he is thinking and what he appreciate, what he likes to hear from us. It gives us “the key” or “tools” how to be and say to reach his interest.
It also talks about..
“Mentors – how great value it is”… Paul in the bible provided a remedy in the advice he gave in Titus 2. Speaking about the range of ages in any church body, he encouraged the older believers to counsel the younger ones. Getting wisdom from someone who’s further down the road is invaluable. ..maybe even more so – they’re better able to provide scouting than your peers. It’s far trendier, and less awkward, to seek advice and help of your friends. But when it comes to finding a husband, older woman and couples, have a lot more to offer.
Get someone that can challenge you, get you to a higher standard, how to dress like a lady, eating better and exercising.
If you only spend time with people in the same season of your life you’re in, the competition for available men likely be fierce. But if your friends span the generations, it’s probable they will know or be related to eligible men.
“Relationships ebb and flow; what’s important is that this guy carries the qualities and characteristics of a godly man you’ve been waiting for.” (words from the authors pastor.)
Where are the men? And are they actually interested in marriage?
In one word, sleeping. Most of the men in our culture haven’t had any high expectations to meet. …so they’re passive. But you can encourage them, by the greatest motivation, your belief. They need a women who see in them, and encourage, what God designed men to be. Your respect is what leads to his pursuit.
“I gives me things to think of.“
I’ve read this verse before, but it has never hit me like it does in this context. It has open up my eyes of “what a man looking for in me” and how I should start to act and be and say things to a man. In the beginning of this book I thought “I will just read it” but now when I still haven’t got further then half of the book I realize this book is much heavier then I thought! In a good way thou. I gives me things to think of. How am I acting with a man? Am I actually encouraging him? should I skip some things when I am mumbling? I have to say I like this book more and more as deeper I get and as further I read in it. It challenging me!
In this chapter “waking up a great sleeper” the author who been in the same situation her self, talks about her experience and how she met her husband. What her mentor challenged her to do in the same time how she learn to be more lady-like in her mind, what she was wearing and also how important it actually is to take care of our body in a physical way – to go to the gym. She talks about Discern His Charater, Assess His Potential, Ask the Right Questions, Encourage His Spiritual Maturity and Dream With Him. The last part of “dream with Him” is more in the sentence of when you actually got him on some dating. I have just read this chapter and I have say, it have open up new ways, thoughts how I will try it out in real life!
When I was a teenager, I think I was around 14 y.o. was I on a camp for Christians teenagers and during this camp we had prayer and worship in the morning and in the evening. And one of those evenings someone prayed for me with words “you gonna be a prayer woman”. That line of words have during all my years been in the back of my head even those years when I didn’t wanna have anything to do with Christians or believe on God.
Few years later, I think it was in 2002 an other person prayed for me in an other situation and gave me those words “God gonna use you and your creative gifts to reach others”. That is also something I have been wondering about. How will God use my creative gifts to reach others? But I have to say, that after I came back to God and been climbing my latter to be who I am today. God started to show me how to use my creative gifts after 2007 until today. He is really using my creative and visual gift in the that when I pray for someone God most the time gives me a picture, a verse or just a line of words, that for me most the time it doesn’t mean much for me but I know that it means a lot for the person. I have received so much feedback of all the things God have given me to others. I know today, this is one of the gifts God have given me.
And few weeks ago (2016) when I was praying for a friend in my house church (cell-group) I received what I think is the prophetic gift. Which for me was both scary and wonderful! (Maybe this was an answer of what friends have telling my?) I started to dig to learn more about this. I shared it with two of my best Christian friends about what I felt and received and how I could found out more in the bible and how could I learn more about as a dispel and curious Christian? One of my friend she is in a bible-school in the states this year and her respond was easy, «I’ll send you a book about this» and she did. (Which I am reading now to learn more.) My other friend who also is in USA (living there right now) she said I’ll pray for you and ask God to show you more. And God has been answering my questions along since that day! Every time I asking God of guidance He is there and let me cry out in his presence and fill me with more love, grace and joy in my life.
He is there to fulfill what he started. He has a plan for my life and journey. He knows what he is doing. He has control! And I just want to learn more about what he has for me.
It is with Joy I am learning more about this.
It is by Grace I live.
It is by Love God makes my day.
It is by Patience I get through a hard or heavy day in life or that I still don’t have a job to go to.
It is by Patience from God I get through everything in life.
He has promise me to be here for every step I take and he is!
To received a gift from God and learn about how to use it is a journey it self! It takes time to understand and it takes time to understand how to use it and when. But it is with Joy! I am curious to learn more and I can only wait and see what more God has for me in this.
It is a journey!
I have been a part of a New Years festival here in Oslo, Norway and been challenged to have Media fasting. I will have it once a month and I am gonna do it from Facebook, Instagram and my blog. I will do it for a whole week every time. I will start the 4th of January.
For me is it more to be aware of life.
To be still.
To be here.
I will have more over to actually meet friends more regularly, be with God and work out twice a week. And read more good books, eat more fruit and less sugar and probably something more. To be able to have other experiences in life then be more addicted to the social media I have around myself.
It is not one of this New Years Resolutions, no. My New Years Resolution is to not eat sugar at least the first 100 days but hopefully for the rest of the year or at least less sugar and to do more things that is good for my body and soul. To be aware of where the sugar is.
Cutting back on sugar has more benefits than just weight loss.
I actually started yesterday on the 31st of December 2015 when I went down to one of the sports stores by buying a fitness ball for my back. I will use it instead of a chair. To get my back into the right balance and to build up the core muscles. It actually helps me.
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