Fully alive!

It is amazing. How He listens, how He responds, how He confirms things. In the last weeks I started praying: „Lord, I don´t want to miss a thing..” suddenly I realised that I am saying the lyrics of a very famous rock song which made me feel a bit uncertain, but the Holy Spirit encouraged me to pray further. So I went on: „Lord, I don´t want to miss one smile, I don´t want to miss a single word from You, Lord, I don´t want to miss any expression on Your face, I don´t want to miss any of Your touch, any of Your feelings toward me. Lord, help me not to miss anything that You have prepared for me in Your neverending mercy and love. I don´t want to miss any instruction, any question, any joke You want to tell me. But I also don´t want to fail to bring any gift, that I am able to give to You. I don´t want to fail to give You any song, any prayer, any blessing, any fruit, anything that brings You pleasure.” ...

While visiting Jerusalem recently, I could realise the intensity of the spiritual warfare. The first evening I laid down exhausted and fell immediately asleep. Early in the morning I was awakened by a very loud chanting from a nearby minaret calling all muslims to pray. Then more voices joined. The man´s voice was very intense, steady, fast military. As I checked my phone, I found out it was 5 am. The exact time the Lord usually wakes me up to spend some time with Him before the day starts. And suddenly I heard Him saying, that He is constantly calling his beloved children to come and pray, to be with Him. But He is not shouting, He doesn´t want to break us, but He whispers very gently and He is always giving us a choice. The voice of the Holy Spirit is very quiet, not violent, but it is constantly calling us to wake up and fight. Not only five times a day, but He is inviting us permanently with His voice full...

This morning I got lost in John 17. In this passage Jesus is praying for you! He says, that the hour has come, He had finished the work the Father gave Him to do. That fascinates me, Jesus was on earth just a normal man, like you and me, He couldn‘t do everything, He was simply doing the work the Father entrusted Him to do, fulfilling God’s perfect plan.   He invested into the twelve and in John 17 He prays for them, in verse 9: I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, so that they may be one as we are one. So that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. Protect them, sanctify them by the TRUTH, Your Word is truth. In verse 20 Jesus is praying for those who will believe in Him through their messsage, that ALL OF THEM MAY BE ONE, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me so that they may be brought ...