Some Berlin Outreach Highlights!

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever should believe in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16

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Amazing Song! Something of what we listened to while on the Berlin Outreach

I’ll let go of all, because all I can keep is you. Put my eyes to sleep to the pleasures of this world. Let them pass me by like the scenes of a train window. Let the disappointments fall by. I’ll pass them by like shadows in the field.

But your song floods my heart to hope for more, to joy in trusting you. To trust and obey.

This is the last half hour and soon I’ll be home. Maybe I’ll be last now, maybe overlooked, but so much more blessed than words could say. Let it all be well with my soul – I want to go all the way.

I am a thinking nobody in the dim reflection of this train window. A thinking nobody chosen by God for the best thing, only One thing. He is my destiny.

“Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, Nor allow My faithfulness to fail. My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of my lips. Once I have sworn my holiness; I will not lie to David: His seed shall endure forever, And his throne as the sun before Me; It shall endure forever, And his throne as the sun before Me; It shall be established forever like the moon, Even like the faithful witness in the sky. Selah”- Psalm 89:33-37.

I pour my heart to you like a broken box of alabaster. I choose to extravagantly “waste” my heart, my life for your pleasure. You are eternally worthy of all worship. You are beautiful; you alone are good. You are right and true. Be still my heart, for you have found life in Him. Be still my soul, for God is your rest.

The fragrance of every broken heart rises as greater love for you. You are worth the broken box; nothing else compares. God, you are worth all and, in You, I truly have all.

“I will love you, O LORD, my strength” I will love you. 

Would if my fingers could type like playing the keys of a piano. To play out thoughts of life like human tunes on paper. Sometimes I would like if thoughts could give rise to music, rather than to actions.

I like sometimes to enter into another world of adventures never written, a world of ink. Can pages of a book transcend reality, or do they only portray reality in new stories? Can the mind conceive of new? No, we only reflect what already is in new ways of expression. The subconscious is trying to process the passing by of life. It is trying to capture the fleeting moment that is gone forever. 

God is Faithful - The Theme of this Season

“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”- Isaiah 41:10.

God wants us to exercise greater trust in Him. When another test comes or another stretching circumstance happens, lean hard into God. Believe His word with all your heart, because God is faithful.

We ask for faith and more trust in God, so it follows that situations in our lives will happen to make us have to trust harder and longer, to test our faith more than before. Don’t give up on God, but in the closet of prayer, experience the power of His resurrection. It is in these times that we will get to experience, more than ever, the power of Christ in the midst of our own weakness and uncertainty in life.

We are appointed not only to believe in Jesus, but also to suffer for His sake (Philippians 1:29).  God knows that sometimes only suffering or perhaps, unexpected challenges will be able to bring out the gifts that He has given to us. God deepens our heart and character, often using things that may hurt or be challenging above what we previously thought we could handle. All that the enemy hoped would harm us, however, God uses to make us ever more children of Heaven. We are more than conquerors in Christ. God uses everything that happens together for our good - to change us to become more like Jesus. 

"Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.  For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

 “For yet a little while,
And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.

Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”

But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul."- Hebrews 10:35-39

God is not only interested in advancing the kingdom of God in this world of nations; He is also looking to advance His kingdom in our hearts. As this spiritual war rages on, there is a quiet strength of the closeness of God’s heart that we can enter. Find your peace and faith in His trusted Word. “Thy word is truth.”

“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed into His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection of the dead.”- Philippians 3:10-11