"Go inside and warm (cool) yourself in the Church".

My experience in life is that wherever I am, I need the fellowship in Christian family community. This testimony by Linda Berling is very powerful: 

My friends and I were going to join a political demonstration in Uppsala. I was waiting for them outside a church when I suddenly heard a voice saying  "Go inside and warm yourself in the Church".  I answered loudly and angrily. "Never in my life will I go into a church." But it was as if I was being pulled in. The day after this, I went with some to a revival meeting. There I become a Christian.

Linda experienced God`s presence in there and works now with great eagerness to welcome others into the warmth. I am grateful for all the good things I got as a child from the warmth of Töftedal's Mission Church in Dalsland, even if I didn't understand everything and ..... slept during many meetings.  

We are now working purposefully here in Ubon-Pakse to welcome people who need Christian family-community. Many here live back home in broken family relationships and Streams of Grace becomes a wonderful living and loving family.

Locking yourself in your own world is dangerous. We need each other to be helped and to be able to help others. We need advisors. "Where there is no counsel the people fall: but in the multitude of counsel there is safety". Proverbs 11:14-15. 

The best thing in life is to dare to become part of a living biblical church community. 

Acts 3:20 "and times of new life (revival, rest) come from the face of the Lord and he sent ......Jesus. 

We may think: "I am not good enough to go to a church" or "Those who are there are not good enough". But we are all good enough in the Biblical church community. No congregation is perfect, but it pulses with the presence of Jesus and becomes our spiritual family. 

".....in every way grow up to him who is the head, Christ. By him the whole body is joined together and held together by the support which each joint gives, with the power distributed to each individual part. So the body gets his growth and builds himself up in love Eph 4:15-16

Enter and warm yourself in the Christian community. Jesus is there with his heavenly Agape love and there is God's Open Heaven.

Ingvar (Fred)

Life with Jesus - the whole Life - is the best.

                                

We are happy that we have found Jesus the good shepherd. We need him the whole life. We can never become good enough people by ourselves. 

No No No .... we all need Jesus. Let us understand that we never can become good enough in ourselves by our good deeds. But when Jesus is in us we can do good deeds ... to help and bless others. Let us all in the churches have an open door, full of grace for us all. 

Anna came back to Ubon the 28th June and Ingvar on the 1st Aug. We are happy to see all that God is doing. Mark 4:26-29 is powerful: And Jesus said,

“The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

Let us sow many seeds, take care of all weak plants, waterering them  +++ even if we do not know or understand how it grows, and be active in the harvest. 

We are happy that God is doing much more among us than we can understand. 

Today we had a Board meeting of Together for the Nation Foundations and... we all are very happy about what God is doing and what we can do together in the different projects.   

We can do a lot of Prevention

We can do a lot of Rescue

But only God can do Restoration

Thank you for your participation and prayers.

Greetings from Ingvar(Fred) and Anna