When life is though and it seems like there is no way out, God always has a way to pull us through. When we have the sense that we’re stuck and that problems are closing in more and more – He can still open up the way for us. He made a way for the Israelites: He opened the sea so that they could walk right through it. When the Egyptians followed them, pharaoh and army included, God swept them away at the right moment. On that day God’s people got saved, they could be free. God wants to open up the sea for us; He wants to drown our fears, for us to be filled with His love and joy. God made a way through the sea for the Israelites in Exodus 14, they could enter freedom. Today, God made a way through His Son Jesus Christ, towards Himself (John 3:16). We can be free of fear, loneliness and uncertainties, because in Jesus we have love, peace, joy, freedom and so much more. We can step into relationship with the Father again; He cares about us and loves us. We can be His children. Isn’t that awesome? We have God Himself as a father, the one for whom...
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Teaching, an extra-long FITN (until 3am), Mr. B, a seminar about God’s love… A lot of things waiting for us, a lot of things to do, but it was a very good week. Monday and Tuesday I was responsible for SEEK. This week’s theme: the Love of the Father. God gave His Son, so that the way to Him would be open again. Isn’t that awesome? Our Father in Heaven gave the best He had, to show us how much He loves us. Because that’s what he does, whatever we do, nothing can make His love grown stronger or weaker for us. He loves us with every love that He has, and since He is love (1 John 4:16), He literally gave Himself for us. I still can’t contain how immense this is. The question we can ask: What do we give back to Him? The Fire in the Night and seminar on Saturday had the same theme: love. For the FITN we asked the students to prepare a devotional; a short scripture from the Bible, applied to your personal life. This time the students had to add a prayer topic to it, in order for all of us to work with it. What a night! I enjoyed it...
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Holiday is over; the last part of the school year has started. Let’s get started again! Mom and Roeline left for Belgium again on Monday morning, and I had to start working for school again: preparing a SEEK and writing a book review. It was Easter Monday, so I didn’t do more than that. The sun was shining, so we decided to go out for a walk. Ice cream has to be a part of it. Only, since it was Easter Monday, all the shops were closed. Easter is celebrated more intensely here than in Belgium. The shops were closed from Thursday till Monday; well some of them were open on Saturday luckily. Since a few weeks we have Mission Class on Wednesday evenings. We talked about fund raising and what we could do there, or more: what do we want to do there? After a time of brainstorming, the following things came to mind: music, teaching, preaching and children. Probably these will be the main point of interests during the trip. Next Wednesday we’ll talk some more about it. Fire in the Night was also part of the program again this week. Being together with God, having time of worship and prayer… Every time I enjoy it to...
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A day to late, but we are still active. It has been a week in which we have been everywhere imaginable. We had the opportunity to enjoy a couple of days in Belgium. Surprising a friend with an unannounced visit, cosy time at Rein his parents and a day with my little sister. initially we came to Belgium to get our legal papers/documents up to speed. My wallet was lost in Denmark and all my documents as well. Report at the police station and apply for new documents at the city hall. Also my travel passport had to be renewed, as I’ll leave at the end of May to the Philippines! It was yet again an expensive thing to do, passports and the other documents were not cheap. Now all we have to do is to wait for 3 weeks untill everything has arrived. As we were leaving Wednesday we couldn’t wait around and when they asked us how we would get back to Denmark I said: The same way we came, without papers. Luckey for us my parents are visiting us in 6 weeks, and I’ll be legal again in Denmark. With a lot of chocolate and some other Belgian products we returned to our little home at...
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Easter Break is finally here! It doesn’t mean that nothing happened this week, lots of things to do! Nice things, and slightly scary things. Monday I had the honour to do SEEK again in the morning. I’m supposed to do this with a student, but this time I chose not to. There was a reason for it. This week’s theme was ‘Perseverance’. Rein and I wanted the students to learn a Bible verse by heart, always good to have something to fall back on in times of dispair. I ones heard that when you learn a Bible verse by heart, it gets saved somewhere in our memory and is not easy to get out again. But how do you do something like that, learning something by heart all together? “Let’s put some music on it”, is what I thought. After some time in the Music Room, I succeeded in putting music on James 1:12. Having only 4 lines of music was kind of sad, so I wrote some more around it. It’s no Hillsong/Bethel material yet, but still I wanted to share it with the fellow students. I do believe that when we have talents, we’re ought to share it with people around us. Getting some compliments afterwards might...
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“Listening Conference!”, the main thing on this week’s agenda. The mornings were filled with classes about prophecies in the Bible, concerning the end of times. After lunch we had workshops on how to work with prophesying. Listening to what God wants to tell us and others. Both for Rein and me, Tuesday stood out. We had to ask God to tell us what He wanted to tell a specific person, only we didn’t get a name. Everybody started writing down their impressions. When we were done, they told us the word from God was for ourselves. This was interesting… Often when we don’t see what we’re capable of when we look at ourselves. We all dream, but it’s difficult to believe that something will actually happen. Especially when we look at reality through our own eyes. Now, throughout this prophesy we see that God does have a plan for our lives. He knows what are dreams and hopes are, and He wants to bless us in it. To be honest, this week wasn’t quite what I expected it to be. We know that Jesus is coming back soon (relatively soon… 🙂 ) and that we have to prepare. We have to live according to His will and ways, blessing people...
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