Jesus har forandret mitt liv :)

I denne teksten vil jeg fortelle litt om min barndom og ungdom, om hvordan Gud har forvandlet mitt liv. Jeg vil fortelle litt om hva Jesus betyr for meg.

Jeg ble født i kristiansand, og mine foreldre har hele tiden hvert aktive kristne. Jeg vokste opp i voiebyen, og hadde en litt vanskelig barndom. Fram til jeg var 5-6 år virket alt veldig bra. Men i veldig ung alder opplevde jeg mye vondt. Jeg har blitt fortalt at jeg holdt på å dø. Jeg fikk konstatert at jeg hadde farlig epelepsi, og dette gjorde alt vanskelig for meg. Men da jeg kom i tredje til fjerde klasse, så hadde jeg vokst av meg dette. Det takker jeg Gud for.

Barneskolen var ikke bare bare gøy, jeg hadde vanskelig med å få meg venner og motoriske vansker. Men jeg begynte å trene karate og det hjalp veldig på å bygge meg opp motorisk. Musikk korpset var også til hjelp for meg sosialt sett. Rundt 5 klasse fikk jeg noen faste venner, det var godt. Men ikke alle disse vennene var brennende kristne. Selv om jeg trodde og ba hver dag, trengte en forandring. Jeg godtok i mitt liv mange onde ting. PÅ skolen var jeg ofte i slosskamp. Selv om de andre ofte begynte å terge, opplevde jeg det aldri som så bra å ta igjen. Etter slosskampene hadde jeg ofte vondt inni meg. Da jeg kom til ungdomskolen, var alt bare vanskelig.

En natt ba jeg til Gud og Jesus intenst, helt desperat etter en forandring i livet. Da opplevde jeg at Guds kraft virket inni meg og at skole hverdagen etterpå ble lettere. Det ble noen flere slike kvelder. Den kraften jeg kjente var så utrolig at det ikke kan beskrives.

Likevell ble ting enda mere vanskelig da jeg begynte å akseptere enda flere onde ting inn i livet mitt. Siste del av ungdomskolen var veldig ille. Jeg trengte en fullstendig overgivelse til Jesus. Jeg vitnet ofte om han i båten, men mine rod og tanker var ikke alltid bare så positive. Jeg ble sjeldnere med på møter og ting var vanskelig.Da jeg var rundt 17 år, var jeg med på en kristen leir. 

Denne gangen dro jeg litt på møtene der au. PÅ det ene møte var jeg så kalt opp til forbønn. Jeg kjente kraften og jeg klarte ikke å la være å gå opp til forbønn. Jeg gikk og ble bedt for. Jeg kjente ikke så mye der og da. Men i etterkant kjente jeg en frihet over mitt liv. Jeg tok noen valg og valgte å følge jesus 100%. Jeg valgte å bevist å vende om fra all synd, og omvende meg fra all dobbeltmoralhet.

Fra den dag til i dag har kristen livet mitt forandret seg radikalt, og de som kjenner meg vill vitne om at jeg er forandret.

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Let's Praise the Lord

Praises to God!

God is wonderful and Loving God because he loves and cares for his every  children in wonderful way. Since the day we started our bible study team in the last of April 2011, we were wondering how God would make the way for us to Go ahead for his cause. God is the only one who deserves our praises and thanks of our hearts. God has given us a blessed team –which is doing a discipleship study now. It has been such a blessing for us to learn in team, be changed ourselves and to influence our world with God’s Love and biblical perspective! Now we have regular 6 and irregular 6 members in our team. On the backside we have several prayer members in Norway and outside of Norway constantly praying for us. We once in a week have a lesion from Bible and try to find the ways out to implement in our practical life personally and together in a team for another 7 days until we meet again! We had a day outreach to the old people at Randesund Old peoples’ home on 10^th of July. Meeting Lonely Old people became a blessing for us in a way that inspired us to go out to reach the unreached with the gospel of peace, love and joy! We have got new inspirations and dreams out of it! A heartily thanks to Our Almighty Father, God the son and the Holyspirit for loving and guiding us!

Prayers to remember! Please remember the following things in your prayer time!

• We are translating our first discipleship course into Norwegian language, for that reason, our some team members are helping and we need more translators!
• We are going to start new session from coming August so we are planning to create several possible groups including all interested and different labeled people.  Also we need more group facilitator, we have been thinking to train them when the right time comes!
•  We are in need of direct and indirect volunteers who will support us in our practical and technical issues!

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Abundant life-study starts.

The abundant life study group 1 has been started from the 2nd week of August. Our future leaders have been being involved effectively. During this month This group study will be accomplished and new groups studies are supposed to come, the plans are on the way! Every one is welcome to the first course of the study series. We are working to produce it in Norwegian language too. Hope that  it will come into action soon. All who are interested have 2 options to choose the language, i.e, Norsk or English. Let's give a big hand for this handy spiritual movement in Norway!

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Good news- for those who live in a broken world!

“All creation groans with pain ….” (Romans 8:22 GNT)

Nothing works perfectly, because sin has damaged everything. We only need to look at the physical world around us to see this. Natural disasters and deformities are everywhere. We live on a broken planet; it’s not perfect anymore.

Before sin entered the world, there were no earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, blizzards or extreme weather phenomena. The environment was in perfect balance. But when Adam and Eve sinned, “creation was condemned to lose its purpose …” (Romans 8:20 GNT). Or as the Contemporary English Version says, “Creation is confused … .” There is confusion all around us in the environment, in animals, and in human beings.

And we see the effects of original sin in another way — physical decay and death. Because death entered the world with sin, everything is decaying and will ultimately die. Solomon, the wisest man in the world, summed it up this way: ‘No one can control the wind or stop his own death” (Ecclesiastes 8:8 NCV).

God never intended for animals and humans to have defects and deformities, breakdowns in DNA. Yet we all experience genetic issues to one degree or another. Nobody’s body works perfectly.

But that doesn’t stop us from trying! People go to great lengths to postpone the decay with creams, lotions, Botox, surgery — you name it. No matter what we try, “our physical body is becoming older and weaker …” (2 Corinthians 4:16 NCV). It’s inevitable. It’s even a scientific law. The second law of thermodynamics says that everything is in a state of decay or decline.

Now I know this is not the most uplifting message you could read. No one needs to remind you about aging and decay. But there is hope. We can thank God, because he will not leave us in this imperfect world forever.

While we deal with sadness, sorrow, suffering, difficulties, dead ends, and discouragement, keep this in mind: God is preparing a better place for us. He wants us to live forever with him in a perfect heaven where there will be no more sorrow or tears.

The Bible tells us, “Our earthly bodies which die and decay are different from the bodies we shall have when we come back to life again, for they will never die. The bodies we have now embarrass us for they become sick and die; but they will be full of glory when we come back to life again. Yes, they are weak, dying bodies now, but when we live again they will be full of strength” (1 Corinthians 15:42-43 LB).And that’s good news!

Source: Purpose driven life

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