Prophecy

My son, you are  A Runner. You are a Person who wants to get the job done. You are the type of Person that wants to be focused, you don’t want to be a distracter.

This is The Time, This is The Hour.

The Lord  Says, I am bringing changes in your heart. There are areas of struggle in your life, where you say: God I want to Break Through, I want to overcome. You say I hate this I hate that. The Lord says I shall empower you, I shall give you Strength. Press in, Don’t give Up. Hold on the promises of God. There is a certain skill God has given you. A certain direction of career you are taking. God is going to help you to exalt in that. God is going to use you in this area. There is such a great hunger in your heart to study the word of God. And that’s why you shall be equipped with the word of God. And more, grow strong in God’s word. You shall excel into it. And the word shall form you, so you can do the things you could not do before. Don’t give up says the Lord.

two years ago

Wisdom

I, Wisdom call aloud outside, I raise My voice in the open squares

I cry out in the chief concourses,  at the opening of the Gates in the city.

If you incline your heart to it you will understand the fear of the lord and find the knowledge of God.

Who listens to Me will dwell safely and will be secure, without fear of evil.

I, Wisdom, dwell with prudence and find out knowledge and understanding.

Counsel is Mine, and sound wisdom, I am understanding, I have strength.

Happy is the man who finds Me, And the man who gains understanding;

Riches and honour are with Me, and My fruit is better than gold

I traverse the way of righteousness, That I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth,

that I may fill their treasuries. For My proceeds are better than the profits of silver,
more precious than rubies, And all the things you may desire cannot compare with Wisdom.
Length of days is in My right hand, And in My left hand riches and honor.
My ways are ways of pleasantness, And all My paths are peace.
I am a tree of life to those who take hold of Me,
And happy are all who retain Me.

I am life to your soul and grace to your neck.

And blessed are those who keep my ways.

The LORD by Wisdom founded the earth;

I have been established from everlasting,

From the beginning, before there was ever an earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
When there were no fountains abounding with water.
Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills, I was brought forth;
While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields,
Or the primal dust of the world.
When He prepared the heavens, I was there,
When He drew a circle on the face of the deep,
When He established the clouds above,
When He strengthened the fountains of the deep,
When He assigned to the sea its limit,
So that the waters would not transgress His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth,
Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman
And I was daily His delight,

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

Wisdom is the principal thing,

SO GET WISDOM!

proverbs 1-9

My Prayer

Worship

¹¹ “ On that day I will raise up  The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages;  I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;  ¹² That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,” Says the LORD who does this thing. ¹³ “ Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,  “ When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;  The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, And all the hills shall flow with it. ¹⁴ I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.  ¹⁵ I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them,”   Says the LORD your God.

Amos 9:11-15

Peace

Matthew 10: 34-39 "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. ³⁵ For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; ³⁶ and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’^{[e] 37} He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁸ And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

This verse came to my mind as I was watching a movie about the crusades in Jerusalem fighting against the Muslims. One of the knights in the movie had a wish ‘that one day the Muslims and Christians shall live hand in hand next to each other’. As great as this wish sounds, it reminded me of the words of Jesus about peace, saying ‘Do not thing I came to bring peace, but the sword..’ What a strange words for Jesus to speak, and I remember them disturbing my mind the first time I read them.

It says that Jesus did not come to bring peace on earth. To bring peace, yes, but not here on earth, because until the day Jesus comes back there will be a war between God and satan over the souls of people and nations. And as much as I would love this wish of peace to occur I know there will never come a time that Muslims, Buddhists Christians, an any other religion will live hand in hand next to each other, because this is not Gods purpose. His will is that everyone will be saved, so every path that leades to death will not be one He lives in peace with. Because more than a feeling, peace is a person, and if we want to enter this peace there is only one door. And this has nothing to do with God not loving unbelievers or those who worship falls gods, in contrarily, He loves them too much to let them live a life that misses the beauty and fullness of what He intended it for.

And this does not mean we cannot be friends with one another, but God does gives us a warning that we should Not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. So more than a issue of friendship, it is about a yoke, about being unequal joined together. Because the yoke of our Lord is easy, and His burden is light, but that of a falls god is a heavy yoke of slavery and emptiness. Walking together would mean there cannot be harmony and it will lead not one, but two people of the road.

Christ and Belial just have no similarity with each other,

 "For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ And what agreement has the temple of God with idols". (2 Cointhians 6:14)

So as friendship might be there in the natural, in the spiritual there are two kingdoms apart from one another. One is operating out of hate, purposed to steal and destroy, the other is operating out of love, purposed to save and give life. That’s why it is so important to look at others through the redemptive eyes of Jesus, filled with love knowing we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,^[c] against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12).

And then the verse continues saying we are not worthy of Christ if we love anyone, even our parents, sons and daughters more than we love Him. And as much as the words in the verses can sound negative, they actually are very positive. God wants us to taste the fullness of life, remove every limitation that holds it back and get us in line with His purpose for life. The prize He paid for this was high, and what He has to bring is of unknown value. He is simply saying that anyone who goes easy with this, loving less more, is just not worth it. Because when we really want to live without any compromise, we will face choices we have to make. And if we choose a path of less, a path that not honour God’s gift even if it means losing friendships and relatives, we are not worthy of the high price God paid for us. I mean, would you offer up your sons life for someone, if you knew this person would afterwards chose death anyway, for any reason? Would you count this person worthy?

There will be moments we have to take up our cross and decide to live for Jesus, and nothing less.  It is about understanding that He is all in all, the purpose of life and life itself. He is the truth, the way and the life. So if we want to live life our own way, making our own decisions neglecting Jesus, we neglect the one who gives life and we will lose it. But when we chose to lose our live for His sake, acknowledging there is nothing in life outside of Him, He will give us Life in its fullness. The more we separate ourselves for Him from our flesh and the ways of this world, the more space there will be in us for the fullness of life to live in us.

For you^[b] are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

      “ I will dwell in them
      And walk among them.
      I will be their God,
      And they shall be My people.”^[c]

 ¹⁷ Therefore

      “ Come out from among them
      And be separate, says the Lord.
      Do not touch what is unclean,
      And I will receive you.”^{[d]
       18} “ I will be a Father to you,
      And you shall be My sons and daughters,
      Says the LORD Almighty.”^[e]

 2 Corinthians 6: 16-18

 

Manasse Elias

By Anne Elisabeth

My Fragrance

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. ¹⁵ For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

What a beautiful thing that we can be the fragrance of Christ to the people around us! Because just as fragrances exist and influence the natural, they also do in the spiritual realm. And what a powerful thing that we can change and have impact to the atmosphere around us just by the fragrance we carry with us.

Imagine yourself sitting inside a room and someone with a terrible smelling perfume comes in and sits himself next to you. You would smell it, feel it through your body, react on it and if possible you would even find another place to sit. On the other side, someone with a very pleasant and good smelling perfume would not disturb you. Investigation has even proved that some ones smell has a powerful impact on the way people are attracted to others. In this case, as it is in the natural it is also in the spiritual. If we carry the fragrance of Christ with us we will impact our atmosphere. Every evil spirit and demon will smell it, tremble of it and will hurry to find another place to be. People would feel that something good is nearby, something pleasant and even attractive to be around.

Carrying this fragrance is all about being cleansed and purified by Jesus through the Holy Spirit. This is a cleansing that starts from the inside out and will revolve in the refining of the way we think, we speak, we act, we look and what we put our interest in. As this progres proceeds we will be able to spread more and more of His fragrance.

Thoughts.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.

I just love this verse as it is so powerful and radical that David longs that all the meditations of his heart, his entire thought life, will be acceptable in the sight of God. To accomplish this we have to train ourselves in bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, because out of the heart without God proceed evil thoughts (Matthew 15:19) It is a process of dying of ourselves and completely surrendering and yielding to the leading of the Holy spirit. This purifying of our heart will take time, discernment, obedience and repentance as we draw near to God. We need to endure our own dying and let Gods spirit correct and renew us. But in time our thought life will be more and more under the control of the Holy Spirit, as He teaches us the will of our Lord and to meditate on whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy.

Words.

What we speak is so significant and powerful. Our words will always have impact on the atmosphere around us, for Death and life are in the power of the tongue! (proverbs 18:21) What a power God has given us, and what a great responsibility we have to control our thong. For as small as it is it will control the course of our life because it shifts and moves things around as they are spoken. And as they fill the airwaves of the natural and spiritual realm, they can be like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.

Works.

¹⁴ What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? ¹⁷ Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. ¹⁸ But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your^[d] works, and I will show you my faith by my^[e] works. ¹⁹ You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! ²⁰ But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?^{[f] 21} Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? ²² Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”^[g] And he was called the friend of God. ²⁴ You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. ²⁵ Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

What more is there to say about this? And if you ask yourself this question: How can a young man cleanse his way? The answer is also given: By taking heed according to Your word.

Appearance.

You might wonder, what has my appearance to do with this? But this is the first thing people see when they look at you. And when we study scripture we will find that God speaks and reveals through pictures,  images and different kinds of clothing’s. Pictures can prophesy about the God of the light and on the other side about the god of this earth. Our Gods nature is creativity, He created heaven and earth in all of its splendor. God loves to bring forth His creative character  through His children and fulfill our longing for fresh and good styles. And through the creativity that is inside of us we are able to show Gods character in all kinds of styles and new looks.  But when we walk around with pictures of sculls, pain, death or all kind of evil words on our clothes we showcase the way of the satan and walk in the way of darkness. This is the same for clothes that draw a sexual attention. For the character of what you use to draw attention will be the same then the character you attract. Rather Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel— ⁴ rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God

Input.

(Matthew 6:23) “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness”

This is a important question we need to ask ourselves: are the things that I am seeing shining light or bringing darkness into my heart, spirit and soul? Because if we long for this fragrance of Christ, which is a spiritual fragrance, we need to guard our eyes so that no filth can enter in. The verse is very clear that the eye is the lamb of the body, so whatever it sees shines inside. We have to take the task to protect our eyes, and by that our body, serieus to be a holy, pure and accepteble sacrefice unto God. For this to acure we need to keep in prayer and ask the Holy Spirit for discernment. And then, as we work the ground of our body and let it be filled with good fertilizer as our eye captures light, we will be able to diffuse His fragrance more and more.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ²

Purposed Education

As a teacher in practice I spend a lot of time sitting in and standing in front of the classroom.

I remember coming home so many times frustrated because I could not imagine that Gods plan and purpose for schools and education was what I experienced that day. And I understand that math, reading and writing, nature and all these things matter, but spending hours and hours practicing on them to get high scores?

Because no matter how much we learn, how much wisdom and knowledge we get in life, it just misses its purpose if not placed on the right foundation which is Jesus Christ only: 1 Corinthians 3:11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."Because we can gain all, but if it stays without an eternal goal all will just wither away in the wind. The wisest man that lived faced this reality every day, writing down the words: Preacher 1:1 meaningless meaningless, everything is meaningless..  And what when the storms come and all this knowledge fails because it cant shoot roots, has no fast ground to stand on. Jesus was very clear about this when He spoke this comparison:

Matthew 7:24-27 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: ²⁵ and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. ²⁶ “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: ²⁷ and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

So we teach and teach, fill the children with knowledge and insight and then sent them into a world that is meaningless without the knowledge of the One who created it. Because by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and FOR  him.

And: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

And then we wonder why generations seem to scatter and fall in all kinds of meaningless practices and are lost in a feeling of hopelessness and despair.

But what if schools would lay the foundation in Jesus? What if their first mission was to bring the children to the one who gives meaning to life? What if we would give all effort to make the roots holy so that the branches will be holy to? What a generation we would raise! And what a holy and purposeful work would they be able to do!

I had a dream two night ago. I was on a school as a teacher, not sure whether or not inside a classroom. I was not the one teaching the children, but a other older and more experienced teacher was. I saw him walking among the children, laying hands on them and prophesying over their lives. As he laid hands on a child next to me I heard him clearly say: ‘and you shall be a carrier of windows'. After that he also laid hands on me as another teacher, blessing and prophesying over me.

I don’t know whether or not is was a purposed dream, but it was so beautiful and it awakened my heart even more with the hope of seeing the day that schools find their meaning and purpose that God gave them.

I just had a thought as I read Ephesians 4: 11-16. Imagine a school on wich the fivefold minestry has some kind of place to equip the children for the edifying of the body of Christ. Leading them into their part of ministry according to that what Jesus has made them for. To grow into the body until they all come to the unity of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That they will not stay as children being tossed and carried about with every wind of doctrine because of a lack of foundation in truth, but that they will speak the truth in love. That they will grow up in all thing into Him who is the head of the body, Christ. So that they will supply the body according to the effective work that He gives them, causing growth to the body for the edifying of itself in love.

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; ¹⁴ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, ¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Across The Cross

After God saved the Israelites from Egypt slavery and brought them into freedom, there was a difference in mentality among the people. This difference made the dessert the end point for most of the Israelites, as for a few (only two actually) it was the starting point of entering a great promise, a new land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus 3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
This call of God to enter the promised land is still the same, and as for the Israelites then our mentality will still determent our entering. Every believer will go through a proces of transformation as he alows God to renew his mind. And of course, this picture is flat in the scale of the deep and various processes that a person goes through, but in some degree it shows three big and important places in life.

1. Unbelief.
The place in life where someone does not know Jesus. The cross has no place in life and a person is not a new born. But he will always be engaged in a spiritual war, stand between the pulling of two kingdoms. God will seek for him  and try to knock on the door of his heart as often as possible.

2. The Cross.
Someone has excepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. By believing in his heart and confessing with his mouth a person is saved. Jesus takes a person out of the kingdom of darkness and puts him in to the Kingdom of light.
This is a process of changing from captivity to freedom, just as the Hebrew people did when they left Egypt, crossed the red sea and entered the dessert as a free people. But as I said before, after this step there still is a big diversity in mentality. Because after we have been born again, what will we do? This phrase is so common, but so true: If God does not has a bigger plan with me than being saved, why am I still here? Gods plan was not only to deliver the Israelites, but to bring them into a land flowing with milk and honey after He helped them defied seven nations stronger and mightier than them:
Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you
Although the landscape of ground and the form of the enemies has changed God is still calling His people to take out seven enemies greater and stronger then we are.
So we have to decide what our mission will be about. Will it be about salvation of souls, or will it be about the salvation of nations? About the taking of ‘seven nations’ and walking into the promise land, or walking in ‘the dessert’ a little more? About showcasing Gods greatness in all seven sectors of society instead of singing songs and preaching the gospel. Even though this is a great and good thing, it is this and much more. So another choice has to be made, will the cross be my end point until I see Jesus, or will it be my starting point to accomplish His bigger purpose for me in His plan?

3. Promised land. 
God is releasing a new thing on the earth that brings the body of Christ in a time and place of restoring and reshaping it’s vision of mission and purpose. Because of this a third choice is now in place. This one is all about seeing the bigger calling. To disciple nations as we showcase the light of God to the world on all seven sectors of society, establishing His mountain on these mountains. And it says that nations shall flow to the Lord!

Isaiah 2:2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the LORD’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.

There is so much more to say about this, but it comes down to the great challenge of changing the old wineskin for a new one as God is pouring out a new wine. So let’s lay down the old and plug in to this new move. Lets grab it with both hands. Every giant is shaking and trembling as the sons and daughters start to walk in there calling, for they know the God that will lead them into triumph. And as we walk in this new vision for mission, we must always push our faith to see God as big as He is so that we won’t be afraid of the giants possessing the land.

That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. ² All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness! ³ Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt…..

 ⁵ Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole Israelite assembly gathered there. ⁶ Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes ⁷ and said to the entire Israelite assembly, “The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good. ⁸ If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us. ⁹ Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them'.

Discerning

Proclaim, Proclaim, Proclaim! This word was repeating itself in my spirit for three days in a row about a week ago. I thought it was just me and my longing to pray and to proclaim, but now after a week or so, I think it was a little more than that. As God started to speak clearly about proclaiming and structured prayer to others, a new prayer movement is now on it's way, and it will turn the status of the spiritual realm up side down! And I can't wait for it to manifest and be part of experiencing it! Thank you Jesus!

The experience just showed me I need to train my discernment on when to share and speak about the things that go through my mind. Not that it would have made any difference for this move, but the time might come that my silence, your silence, will keep the flow of Gods move in a specific time and place. Imagine if Daniel would not had spoken the day he met Goliath, Jonah would not answer his call (as he tried the first time) to correct the people Nineve or any other prophet would have kept silence about the things being revealed. Not that I'm  comparing myself with any of these, but is paints a picture of the importance of one mans speaking.

I just thank God He is so faithfull and full of patience as He gives me time and space to practice and grow to spititual maturity. I, and many other, just feel that God is working on something great that will bring forth revival and a fresh flow of His Kingdom. And I am so thankfull that I'm in a place where I can experience and learn from the mature in spirit as they recieve and respond to Gods call!

All about Relation.

All about relation.

It just keeps coming back, this thing between Relation and Religion. I heard it the last week in sermons, church, and read about it in the Word. And I believe it will be this very thing that will determent how much of our work will keep standing as it one day will be tested by the Fire (1 Corinthians 3:12-15).

But what is the difference than? I believe a good answer to this is found in these versus in Matteus 7:
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Even when we do all the great things, walk in wonders and signs, prophesy and cast out demons, we can still practice lawlessness and walk more in religion than relation. And we see that all this wonders are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord. Religion is all about the things we do in the  name of God, not done out of relationship with His living son Jesus. God is, and always has been a God of the heard: Samuel 16:7 For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

God knows our hearts and seeks after those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. God is always about relation, looking for those who long for Him, more than what He has to offer.
It is in the place of intimacy that everything finds a meaning, a purpose, where revelation flows and our deepest longings are met. Lets seek Him and worship Him for who He is, not for what He has to offer. As we seek Him and His kingdom first He will give us the rest.

Through Heaven's Eyes

Wow, I could have never imagined having a blog! Yet here it is, And I'm so happy with it!
For me it is a perfect place to write down and capture some of the things that are filling my thoughts.

While making the blog (or rather, while watching Anne making my blog as she proved her eye for excellence and beauty again) I wanted it to have a good name. After brainstorming on it for a while I decided to wait until I found a fitting one. So, since the making was paused for a while, Anne and I wached this great movie about Moses called "The Prince of Egypt". What a exciting and inspirational movie! And than, listening to one of the beautifull songs in the film that Zippora's father sings to Moses, the name came.

The name is just a perfect expression of the longing and challenge in my life: to see through the eyes of heaven rather than my own eyes. As God radically changed my life I could have never imagened the great things He did in just a few years. Experiencing big changes in my life that did not line up with anything I thought or hoped for at that time, I in some degree learned too see them not through my eyes, but through the eyes of Heaven. As God teached me this along the way I kept being blown away more and more by the beauty, the power and the perfection of His bigger plan and purpose.
As we seek to see Gods view on things and respond to His invitation to come up and look through His eyes, we will find that there is something bigger that we are part of, and that there is always hope and future. As Paul writes in Romans: And we know that All things work together for the good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Come up! See that we are called according to His purpose and that He will make all things work together for the good of those wo love Him. See that God  is calling you to be part of His bigger plan. As the song says: A single thread in a tapestry -Though its color brightly shine- can never see its purpose,In the pattern of the grand design. For us to see, we must look from above to the big picture. And ofcourse there will be difficulties and discouragements along the way, but as we lift ouselfs up we will always see that God is for us, for His people and He is always bigger than our circumstances.

So this is my challenge in life, and I want to Challenge everyone to rise above our own view on circumstances, and seek to see His grand design.

Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says The LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.