...when poor come to be served by the King...

But you'll have the title "Priests of God,"
   honored as ministers of our God.
You'll feast on the bounty of nations,
   you'll bask in their glory.
Because you got a double dose of trouble
   and more than your share of contempt,
Your inheritance in the land will be doubled
   and your joy go on forever.
"Because I, God, love fair dealing 

and hate thievery and crime,

I'll pay your wages on time and in full, 

and establish my eternal covenant with you.

Your descendants will become well-known all over. 

Your children in foreign countries

Will be recognized at once 

as the people I have blessed."
I will sing for joy in God, 
   
explode in praise from deep in my soul!

He dressed me up in a suit of salvation, 
   
he outfitted me in a robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom who puts on a tuxedo 
   
and a bride a jeweled tiara.

For as the earth bursts with spring
wildflowers, 
   and as a garden cascades
with blossoms,
So the Master, God,
brings righteousness into full bloom 

and puts praise on display before the nations.
(isa.61:6-11 MSG)

if u haven't...

...yet read these two articles, then u should so it now.
"A recurring dream" by Andy F
"Announcing a new training initiative: Springboard 2009" by Scot B

Somewhere along these lines is the path i want to follow.
Want to walk with me?

"..resist enemy, keep standing firm, in every situation, night and day shout your praises and thank Lord for He is good.."

God is so good.

His goodness is not dependent

on my feelings, status quo or what i know.

He has surprised me so hugely

and i know that i shouldn't be satisfied

with this but keep expecting more.

I am so blessed by having people around

me who trust on Lord and

believe in me too. =)

Solid.

Joy.

pouring out moody blues

Blaah.
I'm so bored and feeling lonely
and angry to myself and frustrated.
There is plenty to do, more than
two days workload undone, waiting.
I can't find enough self discipline
to tackle the load and not enough motivation
to find the discipline.
It's raining outside.
It looks like all my friendships have
shrunk in to a stage where you only call
one when you either need something or something
needs to be done.

I can only see my dreams and everything drift away.
Dwell in selfpity.

I should get a job but am terribly frightened
of the process.
Not sure what to do.

I hate tuesdays.

ps. gotta love the autumn colors, after all X)

no more milk.

i need church.

i believe people are the church, as my brother said but,
i see few problems there. It isn't very simple.
To be a church needs dedication and determination.
Awful lot of both. And it needs community.
I can't be church alone. So i need to step outside
of my comfort zone and share life to be church.
To seek others who are willing to be church with me.

By my experience, there are not many people
(even among christians ;)
who want to pray together when they meet friends.
Or read and talk about the word of God.
Those things are considerad as religious.
Even though you could
do both in m***nalds while eating b*gm*c.

I dearly love both, especially when shared
with people i love.
(And not talking about b*gm*cs here but former two!)
And these things are what church is to me.
Simple as that. "They committed themselves
to the teaching of the apostles, the life together,
the common meal, and the prayers."

Repeat: i think it takes a lot of determination to

dedicate one's life to a rythm of prayer, eating together,
reading Bible together...and so on.
But if you make it to work,
by grace of God,
it is the best way of the church in the world.

Milk. If church only evangelizes, night after night,

same basic message, then there is a danger
of having a whole heap of christians who never
grow up.Evangelize every night, every meeting
and you always just milk-feed.But if you challenge
yourself and your church to live it up, in everyday life,
if you manage to dig deeper, challenge

yourself and your fellows to become a message,

then your lives become an evidence,

and people who don't know God are also challenged,

they are treated differently,
and they will see and

they will believe.

Be enthuastic, live, fail and learn

and breath God, live God and love God
with everything you are.

In great commission Jesus did not say

go and evangelize, he said,
"Go out and train everyone you meet,
far and near, in this way of life, marking them
by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the
practice of all I have commanded you.
I'll be with you as you do this, day after day
after day, right up to the end of the age."

What is the best way to train?
What have been the life-changing experiences for you?

...

..:on agendas:..

the "new black" of the autumn,
top list...

- communities, communal living
- organic food
- fatherhood
- intuition
- (new) atheistic world view and it's consequences on understanding of value of human being
- concept of church
- concept of love and tolerating things in the name of love
- teachings of Jesus
- friendship
- recycling clothes
- teenage angst
- fashion photography
- elections (why should we ever be interested?)

Feel free to share your opinion on selected topic.

secret.