Coming soon !!!

After I got a contact from MNS. U in stavanger that I might help them to translate a book named " En helt overkommelig disippel" by Knut Tveitereid. From Norwegians into Thai. At that time I wasn't sure because my Norwegians was and is not good at all..... However I waited for God's opinion what God think about. I knew myself that I cannot but I believe with all my heart that with God all thing are possible!!!

I prayed a lot and sought Him. Finally I got the answer from Him and also the wonderful encouraging word from John Fredrik Askjer a little brother at Hald ( our school), so I said YES!!! I will do !!!

Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

1Corinthians 1:26 -31

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. It was by their faith that people of ancient times won God's approval. And it is by my faith that this book will win by God's approval too!!!

The deadline for me is coming soon. In the end of February I have to finish to translate this book. Jesus and I by the helping of the Holy Spirit still working hard for that ( or actually Jesus is working hard on me :P Every thing that I am doing, I would love to give all glory to God alone.

Because I am a lone who know my self better how little I am, how weak I am and how nonsense I am. In the other hand God is a lone who know me better how much glorify I will give to Him, how much I love Him and how much I have faith and trust in Him.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways,”

declares the LORD.

“As the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

As the rain and the snow

come down from heaven,

and do not return to it

without watering the earth

and making it bud and flourish,

so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

so is my word that goes out from my mouth:

It will not return to me empty,

but will accomplish what I desire

and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Isaiah 55: 8-11

Hosanna in the highest !!!!

The Best Of Gifts

Having trouble selecting that perfect gift for someone?

A friend shared with me a few suggestions:

• The gift of listening. No interrupting, no planning your response. Just listening.

• The gift of affection. Being generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, and pats on the back.

• The gift of laughter. Sharing funny stories and jokes. Your gift will say, “I love to laugh with you.”

• The gift of a written note. Expressing in a brief, handwritten note your appreciation or affection.

• The gift of a compliment. Sincerely saying, “You look great today” or “You are special” can bring a smile.

But as we begin this special month of celebration, why not pass on the best gift you’ve ever received? Share the fact that “the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 6:23). Or share this verse from John 1:12, “As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.” Remind others that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

The best gift of all is Jesus Christ. “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” (2 Cor. 9:15). — Cindy Hess Kasper

The greatest Gift that has ever been given
Is Jesus Christ who was sent down from heaven.
This Gift can be yours if you will believe;
Trust Him as Savior, and new life receive. —Hess

The best gift was found in a manger.

Solid food !

I am the one who love to tweet on twitter with some reasons as followings:

• I love to read some random ideas of Pastors, Peace makers and Churches.
• I just want to know what other people that I never know them thinking about.
• There are a lot of good words which encourage me a lot

Today I was sitting on the computer almost all day ( I don't like to do it that much but I don't know why I didn't do some thing else) By the way, I saw a tweet of my favorite young Pastor named Matt Chandler http://twitter.com/MattChandler74 and then a random thinking just came up to my mind..

I knew him via a friend of my Eirik Larsen, he recommended me to listen his preachings.Below is the website...After that I just followed to listen to him always. In each week I needed to know how God used this Pastor to encourage us.

http://hv.thevillagechurch.net/sermons

Since I am in Norway over 1 year and since God gave me the wisdom to understand Norwegian. I didn't hear that much a about strong and hard preaching in Norway. Perhaps there are some but don't know where.

Thanks God, I knew my self I am not a kind of spiritual milk and I can receive real food or solid food for my soul. Actually I am really hungry for solid food as well. Many times I would like to give some solid food to other young people by speaking, encouraging but it seems difficult,because I have to be care full. Their spirituals might not grow enough to receive the hard words.

The ideas came: with the example of 2 Pastors:

1. From a big church in Kr.Sand ( there are many many youth there! )
2. From Matt Chandler

For example,the topic was about the youth just live together without getting married! So I heard this preaching for long time ago from the first Pastor in Kristian sand. He preached to the youth in his church that " I don't care what the other people think about you or don't except you because of you don't get marry. Anyway this church accept you.... and welcome you always !! we love you and accept you no matter what how you are... God love you anyway and so and so.....( with many beautiful words ) But in the end he closed up with " but it will be much more better for you if you get marry and I believe that God will bless you more than you don't "

His preaching was absolutely true but really soft, mind and be care full.

Almost the same topic. Matt said " Com'on your wife is not your sex toy! or not your slave! she has a soul and she is your soul... you have to respect her!

Matt was also absolutely true but really hard rock, strong and direct!

So both of them are right! What does it mean ?

I think, I knew the reason why the first pastor has to preach soft like that for the youth in his church. Maybe because he knew the positions of them how the level of their spiritual are. They might not ready to eat the solid food.

But the question is how long that this pastor has to give the milk for those youths, if he give only milk for them how strong of their spiritual.

PS. until now he still give milk to the youth in his church.

Think! What will be happened if the first pastor said like this to those youth : You !! you are lier !! you said you are Christian, you belong to Christ! but you just hiding you sin in front of God's eyes. You fool !! why you still love to go to club, drinking, smoking and free sex. You just kidding with God all the time. You idiot!! shouldn't be even here!! Because you are so sinful!! You think on body no it, you just think that is my life I can do what I want. You think,Jesus gave the salvation and that's it!! You!! Sinner how long that you will be like this!! You know what !!?even you sinful but God still has mercy for you ,so he still waiting for you to REPENT !!! Com'on let's throw those sin things and start to come back to him.

Uhmm... what will be happened ?

1. Oh!! the Pastor is not polite... So stupid.... I don't need to come to this church any more
2. Oh!!! yah he is alright I am sin, I am lier, I need God's grace and I would like to repent and turn back to God!!

Let's we see what the Bible said :

Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.

1 Corinthians 3:1-2

In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

Hebrews 5:12-14

The last question is : do you want to drink milk or eat solid food for your soul ?

Reflection

Yesterday we have has a leaders meeting. There were 8 God's workers . We started by reflection of a day.... Normally supposed to be a short speech from the Bible but that morning Hanne showed us a short film which is soooooooo touching in my heart...I cried a bit because God spoke some thing to my heart through this short film :

Does God speak some thing to you too ?

Regards,

That's My King!!

I wonder, do you know Him?

Funny prayer!!

I think I have to share this funny story at less for me my self.

Today is was quite a good day and quite long long day to work. I started at 10.00 am. til 9.00pm. On every Wednesday we will have " Bønnetimen" or pray time at my office. I waited waited and waited but nobody came until at 8.00 pm. An old man ( around 75 years old) with a big guitar bag and with black color came to my office, so I never seen him in this Bede huset before. Javel!!! I started to greet him. I guess, he was a bit disappointed to see me alone and more than that I look really ASIA ASIAAAA woman !!

He told me that he is a prayer man, walk around from the place to place which has prayer group but normally he went to Filadelfia in Mandal. ( I love Filadelfia ....) I thought WOW !!! God !! Thank you so much that you sent some one just has the same heart like me and same style to worship you.

I was not the leader for prayer but it supposed to be other dame but she didn't come. I said to him that " Ok! let's we do like this, we just let's the Holy Spirit work out and lead us what He need us to pray for. Because I have no idea for now what we suppose to pray" He answer me " it seems ok but I would like to start by singing first and then we pray!" ( I love his style ) actually I love to play guitar when I pray too, but I am not so good to sing in Norwegian!!" I told him

Oh! PS. we have spoken in Norwegian.

" just do whatever the Holy Spirit lead us!!" so,we agree!!

The worship time from the 2 generations start to open.!!! Gringgg!!!! ......He started to play guitar and sang and I started to focus on God but his song......

was like traditional Norwegian melody and the way that he sang,it really really really made me laughing. By the way I said to me self " No Prem you have to control your self!!! stop laughing Focus on God ....Focus on God Prem!!!" but the more that I try to stop to laugh and control my self the more made me laughing at him.

I have to open my eyes and look at him a bit. But he looked really in love in God and suddenly he just shout! out to praise the Lord ( I love his style anyway) I was a bit startled and tried to focus on God once again but it didn't work neither.

Then he start to pray with more power and fire!! I felt my office was really warm ( I still love his style) but it made me more laughing.

Normally I am just like him when I pray but I never expect that I will see such the person like him in this old age and powerful to pray before.

So, I just said AMEN!!!! HALLELUJAH !!! all the time =) ( I love his style^^)

=) Believe or not ...we use about 1 hour to pray for every thing in Mandal but he is the main person who prayed a lot ^^!

If God will angry me about this, I accept and must apologize the old hard rock man for my disturbance!!

By the way in the end we have a good chatting together about our faith !!! ;)

Walk of Faith

Constructed to give people the illusion of walking on air, "The Walk of Faith" is a platform of laminated glass at the top of a 385-foot tower in Blackpool, England. An Associated Press photo showed a woman at the edge of the invisible walkway, fists clenched against her face, trying to summon the courage to take a step. She had been told the platform was safe, but she was still afraid.

Sometimes we feel that way about our circumstances. Perhaps a serious health problem has caused us to question the power and the presence of God.

It's encouraging to note that Paul's familiar words "We walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Cor. 5:7) occur in his discussion about being "absent from the body and . . . present with the Lord" (v.8). He used a powerful metaphor, calling our body an earthly house that's being destroyed, yet he said we have a heavenly building made by God. He spoke of groaning in our earthly frailty and longing for our heavenly home. He concluded that no matter what circumstances we face, we should make it our goal to please the Lord (v.9).

Our walk of faith can be challenging and sometimes scary. But because God is powerful and present, we can step out in confidence today. — David C. McCasland

The Lord wants us to walk by faith,
Because our eyes can be deceived;
And even though our path may fade,
God's Word can always be believed. --Sper

It is better to walk with God by faith than to go alone by sight.

Julemessa i Mandal!!

I felt that I became a presenter of Normission already but really love to do that any way. Yeah!! I am coming with the program which I would love to invite all of you to join ' Julemessa ' or

Christmas fair in Mandal!!!!

I have painted many pictures, if any of you would like to support Normission projects you might buy my paintings :) he heh because all of money will belong to Normisjon in Mandal.

Hope to see you there friends!!!

13-19 Høsttur,2009

I really start to work at Normisjon in Mandal. There are many activities that I have to join and to work with but my main working is working with the youth as the Ungdom Abeider

( Youth worker )

We have also youth meeting which is called 13-19. It mean the youth group between 13- 19 years old ( I am an excuse hehe..) By the way this meeting will attend on every Tuesday evening. That is really amazed for me because I never know before that there are really many youths in Mandal. There are around 60 - 100 which came to the youths meeting in each week.

Last week, we have a camp or we called Høsttur 2009. Nor mission in Mandal has own cottage or the Norwegians call " hytte" We were there together around 40 guys .... But I have been there only 2 days. Because of working on Friday.

So I miss the hiking trip!!! It was a bit sad for me.

Anyway it was so awesome!!! " Det var knall gøy!!" Especially in the evening, those youths organized entertainments and I have joined them as well (Actually I did not need it neither but a boy at the camp putted my name in it ) And the thing I have to to do is the " Girls contest 2009", so we have to flight many different things but one of contest which was so weird for me is drinking these!!!

Fresh milk + Raw egg!!! = Drinking!!!!

It was so weird and so terrible !!!! but anyway I was the WINNER!!!! Hurray y!!! After that I felt vomit all night :P

I slept not so well because it was quite cold and a bit noisy.... But I understood when many youth were together , they always have lots funs, talks, plays and so on .....it was almost at 3 Am. that they went to bed... Hallelujah!!!

Yes!! not only funny time that we have but also the great time with God. A boy in the camp, his name is Johaness. He has a speech and shared us about The Vine and the Branches It was very nice speech from him. Actually he is my first friend at 13 - 19 youth group :)

I can say that I am very much glad to work with them here and feel very lucky to work at Bede Huset in Mandal.... Thanks God so much that He lead me to be here.

Be still

Be still, and know that I am God;—Psalm 46:10

As I sat in the dentist’s chair, I braced myself for the drilling that would begin my root canal. I was ready for the worst, and my body language and facial expression exposed my sense of dread. The dentist looked at me and smiled, saying, “It’s okay, Bill. Try to relax.”

That isn’t easy to do. It is actually very difficult to try (requiring effort and exertion) to relax (requiring an absence of effort and exertion). Try and relax just don’t seem to fit together—not only in the dentist’s chair, but in the spiritual realm as well.

Far too often I don’t limit my efforts of resistance to visits at the dentist’s office. In my relationship with Christ, I find myself not pressing for God’s purposes but for my own interests. In those moments, the hardest thing for me to do is “try to relax” and genuinely trust God for the outcome of life’s trials.

In Psalm 46:10, we read, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” In the moments when my heart is anxious, this verse reminds me to “be still, and know.” Now, if I can only put that into practice and rest confidently in His care, I’ll be at peace. — Bill Crowder

Lord, we know that true rest can be found only in You. Help us to end our striving and to trust that You will provide. In Your loving arms we find rest. Amen.

God knows the future, so we are safe in His hands.

http://www.rbc.org/odb/odb.shtml