Holidays

 This Holiday Season as been so much fun and quite exciting, at first me and my friend we're supposed to travel down into Europe two days before we left my buddy accidently washed his passport... and they would not let him leave the country... and we were extremely bummed and did not know what to do. When we got back to the base we learned that Western Europe is having massive storms, and then we were extremely thankful that we did not end up going down there, cause we would have probably died... hah But when we first got back we did not know what to do so we just sat around the base for four days doing absolutely nothing playing games, watching movies and eating junk food, i felt like i gained a couple of kilos. And then we got invited to one of our Norwegian friends home in Kristiansand, and his family is such a huge blessing to me they have blessed in so many ways, its unbelievable first of just letting me spend Christmas with them, and then they got us gifts. I felt so blessed by them and just so incredibly grateful. And everyday we have been able to do something every day, we have been snowboarding four times on just sime hills and it was so much fun, that last picture just describes what how good i am at snowboarding :)
 God has just been teaching me so much here on this holiday break, so much just on grace. me and my friend Ezra decided we are gonna sit down and study the book of Galatians, and it kept emphasizing Grace, grace and more grace,  and how all these things are done by the grace of God. Being called to be free, to live with him who redeemed me! and living not just with him but by him and by his spirit that was given to me and being led by it. It is just so incredibly humbling and so exciting to read this and learn it. and so much fun and challenging to actually do it. But the challenge is so worth it. I just want to clothe myself in his grace and in his mercy, there is no reason at all I deserve this and yet he calls me a child of promise. And this is why I will always stand firm in him who strengthens me.

 Galatians 5:1

These past couple of days God has been really emphasizing a lot and reminding me of what LOVE is. and what is really is. and he showed it to me a lot through the letters of John. That we Should love one another, that we are not walking in the light if we do not love one another, and how can we say we hate our brother, which we have seen, yet say we love God who we have not seen. (1John 4:20) i just think thats such a funny paradox on it. Then the spirit just started really pointing out and reminding me of where this love comes from not from us but from him, I love him because he first loved me, and I see this by looking at the cross Jesus died on that cross for me. and now he lives in me and I in him and this is how I know what love is.

1 John 3:16
      " This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for one another."

I love all of you too much not to share with you guys the message of the gospel and what he did not just for me but for you.

Refreshed

So I am currently In Flekkefjord on team week, and I just thought I would write whats going on in my life...

So on Tuesday we left to Flekkefjord and I was already tired, burnt out and just kind of had a bad attitude. I just wanted to sit in my bed and sleep. Just being lazy you could say. And then Tuesday night I started to get sick! and by Wednesday morning I woke up sick with a fever. And my energy was gone. That day went by incredibly slow and it was just so hard... and i did not want to talk to God or do anything, that night I just needed to go outside to get fresh air, so i walked outside and I cried out to God why is it so hard? why can i not be happy- clappy for you all the time. As I said this it started snowing even harder and I could 

litterally feel God refreshing my spirit and soul as I just stood there in the snow. His comfort is so amazing and i cannot even describe it. I'm still sick as i write this and I even got worse the next day but my spirit just feels new again. 

Acts 3:19

     "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord."

So these pictures on the side were from last week... we had a battle of the bands and I was asked to join a band and play punk songs.... and yes that is a sleevless t-shirt I am wearing. They made me wear it.. hahah But it was a lot of fun and crazy.

Team Week in Skien

So many of you might be wondering what is a team week? Just to elaborate, one week is teaching week, and the next is a team week, and a team week is where our base sends out different teams of about 6 people around Norway to work with Churches and serve the community.

And this last week I had my team right here in Skien, and I love being here in Skien for team week, because we're reaching to very people who walk right in front of where we live. And it has the opportunity to build on going relationships and possibly meet these people. And the day before we were being sent out, someone was praying for us and told us " God has really big things for you this week, and what seems strange will not be so strange, living by the supernatural" And when he told us this I got really excited, cause all week I can truly say we lived next to the supernatural. We saw people people getting healed, and young kids really experiencing God and hearing his voice.

Friday was a big day we went to this youth club in Larvik, where 60 people come to this group and only 10 of them are actually Christian. And we our team felt lead to talk about How God Heals. And so after my friend Frederick had finished talking, all I can say is the Holy Spirit fell in this room and he met us there. We prayed for seven people and out of that four of them were healed. It was incredible, God really met them there and touched there lives, one girl even asked how do I become a Christian? She did not except Christ there with us, but we should all just pray for her for God to continue to meet here. Cause moves through prayer so much.

Then that friday evening we received 22 Danish people, and my team got the honor to lead them and put on a program for them... and it was really quite amazing with them here. They were all 11 - 15 years old. And honestly I was so encouraged by them, i have never seen such young people earnestly seeking God. On Saturday we gave them a teaching on "How to hear Gods Voice" And I got the honor to teach it, and after the teaching we did something practical, to practice it. And right as we started I really just felt the spirit enter the room. And one boy could not find his jacket earlier that morning, and when we were practicing he got the words Jacket and table. And after the break he found his jacket next to a table! can you believe it? its so amazing. These kids are hearing his voice. And thats not even all of it, the kids were in different groups and the different groups got the same words and it was so fun and exciting.
Later that night, they were out evangelizing and one of the girls came up to me saying hey can i tell you a story, and she said " So during our times on the street I was asking, God who do you want to talk to?" and then she got the words Joy and freedom, not in Danish though, she kept thinking of them in English and she also thought of red striped hat and I was wearing that hat. And then she told me " I believe these words are for you" then she spoke into my life.

God was speaking to these kids in great ways he was among them just as he is with me and with you.
God moved so much in their lives this weekend, and it was such a blessing to be apart of it this weekend. I just want to thank God for everything he did this last weekend. yes, it was good very good :)

1 Corinthians 14:1,31

         "Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy."

         " For you can all prophecy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged."