Lately God talked to me a lot about hope... And I realized that many christians are looking for hope in some kind of visible action of God. Well, those are giving hope for sure, but I was thinking what if they wouldn't see any of those? Isn't hope something you can't see but it's there? I see many christians giving up hope on nations or people or in any situations... But if so, I thought,... how did I survive until now? I never had seen any of those visible actions of God. But... God never failed me in hope. There was not even one second in my life I had no hope. Yes, even in those dark days when I didn't know anymore, I could still see hope shimmering silently somewhere in the distance. "There is hope", I tell you... "There is hope..." And that hope is deeper than you think it is. Hope lies not in some kind of action or occasion. Hope does not vary on some action or occasion. Hope does not come and go. Hope abides. I knew this verse since I was a little kid: "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." [1.Cor13:13] There will be no day on earth nor in heaven that hope will fail! I saw many christians they gave up on nations... How arrogant... God even hasn't given up hope, who are you to declare it for hopeless? Same goes to anyone out there who gave up hope on something saying "There is no hope, there is no hope"... God's telling you, there is hope. And I'm not only talking about hope of eternal life. If you don't have hope, you don't have faith. Then how are you different from the world? The world? Yes, they do not know hope. But us who believe in Christ Jesus, we ought to have hope, don't you think so? Faith leads to trust and that leads to hope. And hope leads to trust and trust leads to faith. Jesus is Hope Himself. If you have Jesus, you have hope! To those who are in such "hopeless" situation: I'm not accusing you for not having faith/Jesus. I'm encouraging you to look deep inside your heart. If you calm down and listen carefully, there is this gentle whisper and a shimmer. That's God telling you "Don't give up, there is hope, I have everything under control". Trust. A sister sent me this a few days ago. This gave me the confirmation that God wanted to talk about hope. This was the last writing of Pastor David Wilkerson on his blog the day of the accident when he passed away: "Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail - his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world." Pastor David Wilkerson, April 27, 2011 When you can't see – look at Jesus and hope! Jesus has lots of hope, Jesus IS Hope! And I am putting a lot of Hope into this blog entry. 16.12.2016, I don't remember what I was going through back then, but I remember I cried a lot. And I guess God spoke to me that day cause I recently found a note I had written down that day: "You are a dancer in the desert." Desert, where there is nothing and hard to stand, we dance. Christians are dancers in the desert. This world is a desert, we are the oasis. We are hope, for Hope Himself lives in us. We have strength, we have joy, we have love, we have life, we have faith, even if the desert doesn't give us anything making that possible or even try to destroy us. And another word God gave me: "cry and you will laugh loose and you will know the fullness suffer and you will know joy fall and you will fly be afraid and you will know courage stumble and you will jump mourn and you will dance" That's hope. My mom used to say sometimes "A doctor who was never sick is not a good doctor." That's true. I see such great love and such privilege that God gave us stormy days. He forms us to a better pot. He lets us bloom more beautifully. He lets us shine brighter and brighter. He teaches us so many things including gratefulness that leads to joy. Only if we went through darkness, we can appreciate the brightness more. The darker, the brighter. Look. There is hope. Listen. There is hope. Hope abides. The Lord wants to talk about hard times... I know I'm having those for month now. You see... I'm almost finished with my art-school but I feel like I have learned too little and the things I still want to learn are so many. And I stood there, in front of my eyes a huuuuuge pile of things I want to learn while I am still studying and I didn't know where to start. So I jumped from one thing to another, totally confused, panicked and I worn out myself to the point where tears automatically fell down in front of my teacher without me noticing why. That pile of stuff I wanted to do was chucking me, literally. I couldn't breathe. And it was not like I wasn't praying, oh I desperately begged God for help every day lol. "God I can't do this without You, God I can't do this without You, help me help me help me, I don't know how where when what, help me!!!!" XD But I didn't hear anything from God in this. But seriously, where to turn but to Him? And not only in my studies but also in my relationships with people out there. Rejections, loneliness, fear of people,... They can really tear you up. But I know better: Rejections turn to treasures, brings me nearer to God; I don't get loneliness cause I'm still wondering how I can get lonely when I have Jesus and most of the time I want to be alone, but I still feel lonely from time to time. Fear of people? What, fear? God always said not to fear for He is with me. So why do these very true words not help sometimes? And what do I do when they come? What do I do when I just don't know what God is doing? When I just don't feel any help coming from God when I need help? I have one song for you as an answer. It's "Who you are" from JJ Heller: "I don't know I don’t know what You’re doing, but I know who You are." May it be stress, may it be broken hearts, separation from loved ones, pains, sufferings, anything... God knows and understands. He knows how it feels like to be rejected, to be betrayed, to be robbed, to lose a loved one, to be desperate, to long for someone He can't reach, being in stress, He knows everything. So this is the first thing I want to tell you: God knows! The second thing is: How do you know peace if you never knew stress? How do you know deep love if you have never been hated? How do you know how to value a relationship if you have never been rejected? How do you know gratefulness if you have never lost? I don't want to talk about yin & yang or whatever the world would say... I want to talk about how God always has a purpose and they are always good. His thoughts towards you, thoughts of peace and not of evil. Remember His promises and remind Him those too. Here comes the third point... hope never fails... I don't know about you but I can tell, whenever I go through trials and I sometimes even just want to go home to heaven where I can jump around with Jesus, when I feel to give up, there always is this gentle drumming in my heart that says "I'm excited how God is going to solve this this time? / What's going to come out of this? / There is HOPE!" Hope never fails you. 4th: What do I do when I don't know what to dooo? I know who knows the answer: Dory! Have you watched the movie "Finding Dory"? Oh it touched my heart and encouraged me so much, I watched it just in perfect time. So what does Dory do when not knowing in and out? "Just keep swimming, Just keep swimming swimming swimming!" Thats right, whenever we don't know just try singing "Just keep going, just keep going going going!" Cause GOD HAS EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL! He has MASTERED your situation ALREADY for you! SO TRUST AND JUST KEEP GOING! And for the last point I want to say: You are the light! You are shining in this world. Honestly, I never was the type fearing people. I was bold in some ways and I didn't care what people were thinking of me. I still don't. But recently this fear was starting to pop out from time to time in my life and I didn't know why suddenly. It's like out of character lol. I guess I can say it's the enemy's doing. But I'd rather like to say it's because God wants to teach me something new so that I can understand and help more people out there. So I am grateful for this experience. Reminding me myself that I am the light and the salt in this world helps me to overcome the fear of people. I am royal, I am a princess! As the King's daughter I don't walk around with hanging head. I walk around with a straight back! I am the strong one, the strength comes from the Lord! I am the head and not the tail! If God is for me who can be against me? I have the lion walking side by side. I cannot lose when I already lost everything to God. And He is taking good care of that everything. Losing is gaining, but only if I bring them all to God. And I'm ending with this song: "I'm no longer slave to fear, I am a child of God!" Glory be to God ! King of kings of kings of kings! Thank You Jesus! Happy blessed new year!
Welcome 2017! It's time for the harvest! I saw angels with sickles in their hands and they were calling "It's time for the harvest! It's time for the harvest!" They went out to the field and started to cut what's ripe. Then I saw them gathering together and starting to sing "It's time for the harvest! It's time for the harvest! Gather them together, gather them together! It's time for the harvest" And when I asked God what harvest was meant, a light appeared in the midst of the angels and Jesus came out as the King and He showed me what was behind the light: a feast. A reeeeeally really long table, I couldn't even see the end of it, set with so much high class super delicious food and other gorgeous stuff and as soon as anyone came and sat at the table they got healed and restored. 2017 God is going to harvest what you have been sowing through your prayers (some have been praying for years and years) and He is going to harvest everything that He has been preparing for years over years. And I saw healings and restorations and bringing back of things that have been robbed of. And I saw not only the angles with a sickle in their hands but also people. Jesus said "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." [Matt9:37-38] And laborers will be seeeeent~ hope you are one of theeeem~ :D What does it mean to bring in the harvest? It means to bring the Kingdom Of Heaven to earth. We receive. We give out. This is the word for 2017 I have received from God and I am very excited about this year! I pray that this year God will bring you nearer to his heart, that His people will know that it's all about Jesus. I pray that God will show you who you are in Christ, how He created you in each special ways, so that you may stay strong in the identity that He gave you and not the world! Shine your light out, full of love. Know, that God is for you and not against you, that HE LOVES YOU no matter how it may look like to you right now. I pray that we will love more than yesterday's year, to make a difference to this world, in Jesus holy awesome name! Let's go Jesus, let's go! yaaay:D |
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