Fully alive!

It was an incredible but quite exhausting day. Travelling from early morning I found myself speaking with many different people. I was really looking forward to boarding the night train, which would take me to my final destination. After leaving my taxi I found I could not walk past an older lady who was sitting on the bench right in front of the train station. She looked sad so I sat down next to her. I introduced myself, asked her name and if there was anything she would like me to pray for. Immediately she showed me her right leg. It was inflamed and covered with ulcers. She explained that she had a hospital treatment planned for the next day. I prayed a simple healing prayer and at the same time I noticed a few gypsies gathering around the bench. I didn’t want to get distracted and remained focused on praying for the lady. She became tearful and asked for a hug and kiss. By then the number of men watching us had increased from three to about eight. (For those who have b...

I love freedom!! It enables me to do, what I was created for; speak out, when I have something to say, laugh, when nobody else is laughing, dance, when the others are sitting, sing, when there is a dead silence all around me, acting free in every situation. I am convinced, that each person has to fight for himself to get and stay free. The history of mankind is full of fighting for freedom. Mostly it is not just one battle, but battles and wars, that last up to several years. Freedom is worth fighting for and you will win this battle only if you don´t give up on it. John 8:31-32 says: So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and and the TRUTH will set you free." It sounds so easy, but this is just the beginning. I believe that this verse is one of those "everyday verses", that seeking and proclaiming the truth for our lives, families, relationships and nations is our nevere...

It just didn´t make any sense. The Bible says: All things work together for good for those who love God, who have been called according to His purpose (Rom. 8:28, NIV). But I just couldn´t understand, Lord, how could our dad´s suicide work for anything good in our lives?? At that time I was 22years old, my both sisters 20. How can that work for good??   If I could, I would simply renounce God´s existence and I would somehow move on with my life without Him. But by then, I knew Him well enough to be able to say that, and what was even worse, I knew He could have easily healed my dad. I believed, that with just one Word He could.. But He didn´t.. So my question was, what do I do with my God now? I can´t tell He is not real, and I can´t tell He is not almighty and sovereign. So I decided to tell Him to leave me alone. This rebellion lasted for about two years.   In this time I found myself   ´secretly´ praying to Him, occasionally even reading my Bible and late...

Last year I established a prayer, that would quickly refocus my heart giving me a heavenly perspective for every situation. It is short and sweet which is ideal for my busy schedule. Thank you Lord!   Just three simple sentences: 1. Lord, it is all about You not about me. 2. Lord, please don´t let me stay where I am now. 3. Lord, give me Your Wisdom every day. The first prayer immediately sets my heart right; it´s not my story, it´s His story and I am just so grateful to be able to play a small role in it. He is the great Maker and Creator. All I can do is listen and choose to obey. It´s that simple. The recognition of who He is instantly takes away my pride, self-righteousness, false sense of responsibility, all striving and brings instead peace, joy and anticipation of greater things to come. It realigns my perspective, He is in the heavens and He reigns. He is Creator, I am created. It reminds me that all is complete in Him and in surrender ...

After one sermon on pure heart, I was troubled, really troubled with a question how can I keep my heart pure in this fallen world. Working full-time in a hospital, surrounded by gossip and a lot of pressure resulted in many ungodly thoughts and evenings spent with colleques where out of frustration too much alcohol was being consumed. How can I, Lord, keep my heart pure in the middle of this?? I really didn´t have a clue, so I thought, I will simply ask Him. After a short time of waiting for an answer I saw a clear picture. I saw a man entering a river of something that looked like magma, being completely immersed and melted in it. After a while a new person rised up. It looked like a metal statue and I was 100% sure the metal was bronze. The meaning of the picture was pretty straightforward: we have to come daily into God´s Presence, His burning Love, let ourselves be cleansed from all impurities and rise up as a new creation. It made sense and it worked! Just coming and spending ...

Let us go back at the beginning of my story. After the fall of the communist regime in Slovakia in 1989, the grammar schools have introduced two new compulsory subjects: religion studies and ethics. At my school we had only an option to be taught either catholic religion or ethics. Because I was secretly baptised as a child by an evangelical pastor in High Tatras (our biggest mountains) and my grandparents were proud Protestants, I started to attend evangelical religion studies in a different school. This was led by a nice young man, who really loved the kids and enjoyed his job very much. The classes were interesting, they made us think hard and reevaluate many things we used to believe. And all this was happening in an atmosphere of love, peace and acceptance. I loved it! Being a believer sounded like having so much fun! It is such a pity, that I cannot become a Christian, I thought to myself. My family was not attending church on regular basis, we didn´t pray before the m...