The last few days I have been together with my friends in the apostolic team at Gullbotn. It was a very precious time of fellowship in the presence of God. We really experienced the reality of Psalm 133 about the precious fellowship of brothers living in peace and harmony with one another. We have shared with one another from our hearts and we have been praying together and received prophetic words of encouragement and direction. We have enjoyed delicious meals prepared by Solveig. The food always tastes better when eaten in the company of covenant friends. And we have been planning for the future.
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We are living in exciting times. The Spirit of God is moving in new and unprecedented ways. From the four corners of the world we are receiving news of the movement of the Holy Spirit. And we Norwegians are not left out! Praise God, he is at work in Norway also! This morning at our weekly early prayer meeting we had lots of reports of what the Spirit is doing among the believers in the covenant community. Young people are on fire for God. They are witnessing for their friends and they are functioning in spiritual gifts. New people are coming to Christ and are being baptised and discipled. Healing are taking place. The level of the power of God is rising among the believers.
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Friday Solveig and I flew to Skien to join the covenant community for a family retreat at Vegårstun camp site. Our long standing friends Åge and Astrid took us by car to the beautiful camp site in the forest by a lake. This is a perfect place for a retreat with the entire family.
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One of the main Christian understanding of God is that he is omnipresent. The Psalmist is saying that there is no place he can avoid God or be out of his sight (Psalm 139). In fact our life is an open book to him, even from a distance he knows what we are thinking. His reassuring presence is always with us.
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Christianity in
China is booming. With 100 to 150 million believers, far more than the 74
million-member communist party, Jesus is a force to be reckoned with in
the People’s Republic. Jane Macartney
from The Times talks to the new faithful who love China – but
love God more.
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Today I have received a very encouraging report from our recent visit to India. I attended a worship service with the covenant community when the Lord gave me a prophetic word for Anil, a former fruit seller, now one of the leaders among the people of God in that place. I have posted the entire report and I am sure you will be excited to read what a word from God can produce!
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The palm tree occur many places in the Bible. Elim - the oasis with seventy palm trees and twelve springs of water is the first place it is mentioned (Exodus 15:27). One palm tree for each of the seventy elders and one spring of water for each tribe of Israel. The Bible
is saying that the righteous will flourish like a palm tree. There are many
things we may learn when we compare the righteous with the palm tree.
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Sunday morning I had the joy of meeting with the covenant community in Jaipur. The gathering was full of life, joyful singing and dancing, powerful testimonies and uplifting prophetic words. As I listen to the testimonies and watched the response of the people I was excited. Testimonies about God at work in the ordinary life of simple believers are really powerful.
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We are having a two days prophetic seminar at Jaipur Covenant School and I am very encouraged after we have finished the first day. We are really meeting with a prophetic company. Actually the Living Christian Fellowship in Jaipur is itself a prophetic company and we are meeting with the very cream of that company. As we were worshipping together the prophetic Spirit of the Living God came upon us. Solveig was the first one to start prophesying. She was exuberant as she was proclaiming the word of the Lord. Her prophetic word released a stream of encouraging prophetic words and visions. I was not able to teach what I had planned. The prophetic anointing was so powerful among us that I just had to prophesy the word of the Lord to this prophetic company.
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Among the Nepali Christians we met some real powerful but simple
believers. Ganesh is one of them. He lives in a remote village high up
in the mountains of Himalaya. He has to walk for full day to reach a
road! But God is working powerfully in that remote village. Since our
last visit to Nepal three months ago he had only seen two families come
to Christ, but he had seen some great miracle take place before they
came to Christ.
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Our trip to Nepal is about coming to an end. We have been meeting believers in Kathmandu and Hetauda mainly, but also some from remote villages in this area. They are all reporting that God is at work. They are seeing people come to Christ, being baptised and added to the covenant communities. Believers are being filled with the Spirit, speaking in tongues and operating in spiritual gifts. The political situation is somehow unstable, but the Kingdom of God is fast advancing in this former Hindu kingdom.
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We arrived
in Kathmandu yesterday after a long journey from Rajahmundry via New Dehli and
we rested in the hotel. This morning Henry came to see us and we went to Thamel
which is a famous shopping area in the middle of Kathmandu. I like walking in
the narrow streets, almost bursting with
life. It is quite crowded with people, cycles, bikes, cars and rickshaws moving
in all directions. Here we find shops of
all kind, but they are all different from the shops in the West. First of all
they are normally very small. Then they are overloaded with goods. And there is
little light because of power cuts. I have done no shopping today, only Solveig
bought one shawl. The main purpose of going to Thamel today wasn’t shopping but
fellowshipping.
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We have another wonderful day in the presence of God in Rajahmundry. We met at Zephry's Church Hall at Anand Regency. Eleven disciples joined us. Eleven servants of God were with us. Together we entered into the presence of God through songs of thanksgiving and worship. All shared what God had been speaking to them about this great nation of India. It was a very encouraging time to listen to all the prophetic promises given by God for this nation.
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We have witness a wonderful move of the Holy Spirit today as we have been together with a new generation of young Indians serving the Lord Jesus Christ. Yesterday we discovered that none of them were baptized in the Holy Spirit. We gave them some homework to do among which one was to read certain chapters in Acts to find out what happens to people when the Holy Spirit is coming upon them.
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The world has become very small, like a global village, by the many inventions of transportation and communication. We can now fly to any place on the earth and reach the most remote area in hours in a helicopter. Via satellites we can survey what is taking place at any place on earth. On Google Earth we can see so many details of buildings and streets far away from where we live. Through this service on the Internet we may fly anywhere on earth to view satellite imagery,
maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons
of the ocean. Via mobile phones we can talk with people around the globe and via Internet we can be part of many communities while we are still far away from each other geographically.
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The last few days I have been together with leaders of covenant communities from many different states of India. They are all giving very good reports of what God is doing in this great nation. From Kerala in the south to Sikkim in the north we are hearing that the Word is producing wonderful fruits in changed lives. Unreached people groups are given the Good News of the Kingdom and they are experiencing the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. People are being set free from demonic oppression. Many sich people are being healed. And many come to Christ.
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We always thank God when we pray for you! This is the way the apostle Paul is beginning his letter to the Colossians. He heard of their faith in Christ, their love for all the saint, and their hope because of the Gospel. The good news about the Kingdom of God has reached them through Epaphras, Paul's fellow servant and minister on his behalf among the Colossians which Paul had never met, and it is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world as well as in the Colossians.
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Today I have been reading Paul's letter to the Ephesians. I love that letter very much. I think it is best letter he ever wrote to the covenant communities. He gives us revelatory insight in the mystery of Christ and the eternal plan and purpose of God in the first three chapters and takes us down to earth in the last three chapters where he is teaching us the practical outworking of being in Christ and being a member of the new covenant community.
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One of my Indian friends
sent me a very interesting analysis of the situation in Orissa where Christians
have been killed and persecuted recently. I have posted the entire article
titled: Hinduism in Double Trouble: Mao & Christ Come Together in Orissa.
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Moses is the greatest prophet of the Old Testament and the Jewish religion, but he cannot be compared with Jesus and his new covenant. Moses gave the people the Law written on tablets of stones. Jesus writes the law of love and freedom in the hearts of those who believe in him. Moses brought the people out of Egypt. Jesus takes Egypt out of people. Moses took the people to the promised land. Jesus puts the promised land into every believer.
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I was stunned when Sushikant gave reports of God working miracles through him in Mumbai at the conference for covenant leaders in Jaipur. He told us some incredible stories of the works of God in his life. This was the second time we met him and I am already looking forward seeing him again. In spite his young age he is a wonderful man of God.
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Today we have been together with about sixty leaders from all over India. These people are living under very difficult circumstances, very different from from our situation at home. Several of them have been facing persecution because of their faith and all of them have gone through many hardships as followers of Jesus Christ. Together we have been looking at the first chapter of the book of Daniel. This book is very relevant for the covenant community in India. The main message of the book of Daniel is simply that God is in control, even when you find yourself a prisoner robbed of all your civil rights.
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As I was enjoying my Masala Chai the waiter at the hotel asked me why the foreigners were so fond of the Masala Chai, I had to think twice before I gave an answer. The first answer I game up with was simply that it is different. However, I was not pleased with that answer myself, so I had to think once more and came up with this one: We like Masala Chai because it is the taste of India! I love Masala Chai in all the many different tastes in which it comes, there is nothing like it. It is the taste of incredible India.
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Early this morning we arrived at the airport in New Dehli. It was warm inside the terminal. We came from real winter weather in Bergen and snow was pouring down. Our flight was cancelled. The next flight we were put on was delayed. But praise God for the good service of SAS at Copenhagen, they took us by car through the entire airport to the departing gate. The gate were about to close, but we was able to reach in time.
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I have been unconnected to Internet for the last few days, but I have not been disconnected to life. During this weekend Solveig and I have hosted sixteen persons at the house in the forest for a prophetic retreat. We have thoroughly enjoyed every moment. Solveig has been very busy with food and all the practical things, but in spite of that she has also taken active part in sharing insight and bringing prophetic words. This weekend I have not taken much part in the practical work, but I have been talking or to put it in a nicer way, I have been in dialogue with the young people all the time, sharing and receiving spiritual insight.
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When we read about the prophets in the Bible we soon discover that they have several traits in common, even though they were very different in style and personality. At Bergen Bible School today I shared five hallmarks of the prophets with the students.
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On
Tuesday morning the leaders of Kristent Fellesskap in Bergen area come
together to seek the Lord and to enjoy fellowship as we have breakfast
together. Solveig rises early morning at 0500 to prepare the breakfast
for the brothers and friends praying together. We have a wonderful time
praying together, but the time of fellowship as we enjoy the delicious
breakfast only Solveig can make, is even more precious to us. The
brothers always give praise to God for Solveig, they really appreciate
her - and her breakfast!
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I have been traveling and visiting covenant communities in the northern part of Norway the last few days together with my friend Zephry D'Souza from India. He has been sharing in all the gatherings about sowing and reaping in one way or the other as he has been telling stories of what God is doing in the great nation of India. In his unique and kind way he has been giving thanks to the Norwegian brothers and sisters for their involvement in the work in India over many years.
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Yesterday I came to Øksnes in Vesterålen in the northern part of Norway together with Zephry D'Souza from India. We had a very good time with brothers and sisters in the covenant community here. God has been working wonderfully in this part of Norway for some time now and many people have come to Christ. The new and emerging church in this area has seen a very good growth through new births.
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As I have been reading the prophet Zechariah one sentence have stuck with me. It is the last sentence in chapter six and verse fifteen: "This will happen if you diligently obey the Lord your God." In the previous verses God had given some wonderful promises of the temple being restored and build by the Lord's servant the Branch - ultimately the Messiah - but immediately Joshua son of Jozadak. After God had given these wonderful promises he said that there was a condition to see the prophetic words fulfilled: obedience to God.
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The leadership in the covenant community in Bergen has a wonderful habit of praying together early every Tuesday morning. This morning we met for the first time in 2009. We started by sharing our expectations and what we sensed God was saying concerning the year ahead of us. Even before we entered into the presence of God we were in wonderful harmony and that just deepened as we were praying and seeking God together.
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We are already "far" into the new year 2009 and I wonder along with many others what this year will bring. I have had a break from blogging as I have been celebrating Christmas and our wedding anniversary at the house in the forest. It has been days of rest and tranquility. Now I am back home and take up the normal routines of life again, - like blogging on what the new year will bring.
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