August 25, 2002

Sigmund

Last night Sigmund knocked on the door. We met him at the cell-group gathering the other day and now he came to see us. He wanted to tell his story of how he came to know the Lord Jesus Christ. �Jesus is now inside me�, he acclaimed as his face radiated with joy and happiness. This joy had not always been his.
At the age of 41 Sigmund found himself at the hospital in Hammerfest in Finnmark. He was seriously ill having heart trouble and nearly died. At the hospital one day he heard a voice telling him that he after he got out of the hospital should move to S�rv�gen in Vester�len. There he would meet a man that would become his friend and would help him to have an encounter with the Lord and from that moment on Jesus would be on the inside of him.
Sigmund was discharged from the hospital with a lot of heart medicine to take for the rest of his life. As soon as possible he left Finnmark and moved to S�rv�gen in Vester�len. Here he was able to buy a house and in spite of his heart trouble he also was able to take on a job. But half a year ago he found himself at a hospital again. Then Bernt Tore, that was living in the same area, started to phone him at the hospital every day to encourage him. God had spoken to Bernt Tore to do that, but Sigmund didn�t know anything about that. To Sigmund�s great surprise he was sent home from the hospital much sooner than expected.
One day in January 2002 while he was walking he met Bernt Tore on the road and they started to talk with one another. During their conversation Bernt Tore shared the gospel with him using the John 3:16 Illustration which he was drawing in the snow. He challenged him to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Sigmund wanted to take more time to think it through and went home. The following morning it was like someone song a well known psalm for him: �The name of Jesus never fades�. There was no other visible person in the room with him. Sigmund joined in, started to sing the psalm with the one who was singing to him. Then he was overwhelmed with the presence of God, fell to his knees and committed his life to Jesus Christ. Immediately he was filled with peace and joy on the inside. �Jesus moved in�, Sigmund says with a big smile, �He is now within me!�
Then Sigmund rose again. He went to the bath room and had a thorough bath. He had become clean on the inside and felt he had to get rid of all filth on the outside as well. After the bath he dressed in his best suit and went to tell Bernt Tore and other neighbours what had happened to him.
�Jesus has moved in. He lives within me!� Sigmund is overflowing with joy as he shares his testimony and adding: �More people in this place will come to Christ to receive this wonderful life!�

August 24, 2002

A blogfree day

Friday I chose not to blog. We needed to spend time in prayer and in the Word all morning. The Thursday night we took part in an exciting cell-group gathering in S�rv�gen. Ten of us were gathered in the name of the Lord around a sofa table lavished with waffles and a variation of home made jam of local wild berries. With water, coffee and tea to drink the chat took off. It was just good to see one another and to be together. Then each one shared something from their week, how the Lord had blessed them or used them to bless others. It was amazing to listen to all these small stories of the goodness of God in the ordinary life of common people. I also shared with them along the content of my blog on Thursday.

So Friday we needed to pray. The demons had been exposed and defeated but we needed to secure our victory ground, no time to blog in the morning. During prayer we felt that we needed to go a different borough: B� in Vester�len. Two appointments with people from that place had been cancelled and we felt this was not right, but a demonic manipulation trying to put obstacles in the way for the new thing God wanted to do in this place. By car we went through many of the small villages and the administration centre praying and blessing all the way. The pleasure of God was with us the entire trip and God even gave me some keys to unlock the spiritual situation in this place.

When we were back in our house a new assignment waited for us. An elderly man, a non believer, had been challenged by Bernt Tore earlier in the day to accept prayer for healing in his body. After thinking it through he came back and expressed his appreciation and acceptance of being prayed for through the laying one of hand. Off we went to see this man and pray for him. We were warmly welcomed into his house by this elderly couple. Bernt Tore shared his testimony. Solveig and I did the same. Then we were able to lay hands on him, pray for healing and bless him and his house in the name of the Lord. We had a good time with them in the presence of God. No instant miracle took place, but I am in faith for him to be healed and for salvation to come to his entire house! Please join me in continuous prayer for him, his wife, their five children and eleven grandchildren that full salvation may come to them all.

After this session of prayer we went home to receive some wonderful friends that we had invited for an evening meal. We enjoyed a good meal together but even more we enjoyed the spiritual fellowship in talking of the things of the Kingdom and praying for its advance in this area. When all our friends were gone, there was no time left to blog! The bed was eagerly waiting for us.

August 22, 2002

The covenant community will put an end to demonic activity

I have discovered that there are lots of demonic activities in this beautiful part Northern Norway. The demonic activities are located in the high places trying to control people�s lives by causing them to do their own things their own ways and follow their own programs. People are deceived to think that they are just reasonable and sensible in pursuing what is best for them and their plans. When their wishes are conflicting with other people�s desires, the demons are clever in convincing them that they are right in the demanding of people to do what they want and meet their own needs. These conflicting interests over small things and personal issues are growing to take on huge proportions and drive people from each other, destroying relationships and community, leaving a long trail of hurting people isolating themselves in their own houses.
But God has decided to do something about this situation. This place is going to see a visitation of God in power and glory. Many people will be brought into the covenant community of God�s people. The city of God will be built on the high places and the demons will be cast down and made to flee from this place. God has determined to glorify himself in this place by raising up a covenant people that will be restoring the community by reflecting his very life.
Covenant love will bind people to God and to one another with bonds that cannot be broken. They will learn to lay down their lives for one another, preferring one another in love. They will walk in the light of God, thinking right of themselves and their fellow believers, honestly confronting untruth in love for the light to protect them. The light of God and the love of God will be their protection and key for advancing the kingdom of God.
The unity of the covenant community will be like a lighthouse guiding the people into a right relationship with God and his people. Here in this place (Vester�len) God will demonstrate his gracious power in bringing people together in love and unity in his glorious light. The community of the covenant people will become the light and the measuring standard for all people in this area longing for righteousness and kindness. Self-sacrificing-love among God�s people will have an amazing effect on ordinary people causing them to run to God for mercy, begging to become part of the covenant community.
There is no need to give the demons any attention. They will be brought down by the proclaiming of the good news of the Kingdom and through announcing the blessing of God on the people in this society. As the covenant community take hold of all opportunities to make it clear the Jesus Christ is Lord and to make known to everyone his good plans for people in this area, the demonic influence will diminish. The daily prayers for neighbours, friends, relatives, work-mates and the society at large will transform the spiritual atmosphere making it difficult to go to hell but easy to turn to God to find life and peace.
Joy will become the hallmark of this community of God-loving-people that are emerging in this place. Exuberant joy will be expressed in high praises. The deep and reverent joy will flow from worship. The playful joy of enjoying life and seeing the finger of God in ordinary life situations will trigger a freedom of faith and expressions of trust that will amaze people and draw them to God and his people. �Thanksgivings will pour out of the windows; laughter will spill through the doors. Things will get better and better. Depression days are over. They�ll thrive, they�ll flourish. The days of contempt will be over. They�ll look forward to having children again, to be a community in which I take pride� (The Message Jeremiah 30:19-20).

August 21, 2002

This morning I finished an article on the Kingdom of God for our magazine Folk. This coming issue of Folk will be a very important one, as we are covering several vital aspects of the Kingdom of God. Unfortunately the magazine is only available in Norwegian at the moment, therefore the readership is limited. If you visit http://www.kristent-nettverk.no you will anyway get some taste of what we are doing.



August 20, 2002

The Message Bible again

I am still excited with my new Message Bible. I have been reading the book of Isaiah, the master prophet and superb poet. While I have been reading and meditating on the Word I have had a fresh encounter with the God �who breathes life into earth�s people, makes them alive with his own life� (Isaiah 42:5). Again I have discovered that �God intended, out of the goodness of his heart to be lavish in his revelation� (Isaiah 42:21). In fact God is saying �Revelation flows from me, my decisions light up the world� (Isaiah 51:4). God is not holding back anything he is generous in his giving of light and life. �Out of myself, simply because of who I am, I do what I do� (Isaiah 48:11).
It is easy to get hold of the Bible from http://www.christianbook.com or http://amazon.com

August 19, 2002

A little boy or a big bear


Yesterday God gave me two visions comprising one message for Geir Arne, an athletic young man in his thirties. He is the father of two nice children, a boy and a girl, successfully married to Liv Anne. He is the normal size of a man but with strong muscles and macho look about him.
I was resting before I went to the afternoon service on Sunday to minister the word of God. Then God gave me the two visions. First I saw a little boy with big dreams a desire to something big. But as he tried to realise his dreams and achieve the big things, he failed. It didn�t matter how hard he tried, he was not able to do what he wanted to do. Then God gave me a new vision. Now I saw a big bear. It was a wild and free bear, a bear that was threatened by nobody. It was very happy and content bear that was playing around and enjoying life. There were plenty of blueberries and plants for food at hand, the bear had no reasons for being concerned for anything.
Then the Lord spoke to me and told me to give him this message: When you only trust your own resources you will be like the little boy with the big dreams and great aspirations unable to do what you want, no matter how hard you try. But when you trust the Holy Spirit and flow with his anointing you will be like the bear. Then you will be able to do what you want to do, you will enjoy life and no one will threaten you. Then you will live a carefree and happy life enjoying the plenty provision of the Lord. This is the free and playing wildlife you are destined to live, not being locked in by all kinds of limitations.
I have chosen to share this with everyone because these two visions and the message apply to most of us. As long as we only trust our own resources we will be limited, but when we allow the Holy Spirit to carry us along, there will be no limitations. Then we will be able to carefree and happy, playfully enjoy life in the grace of God.

August 17, 2002

Running over with excitement

He knocked lightly on the door, he seemed to be afraid to disturb. He didn�t want to intrude into our private world of a rented house, even though he was the owner. He came to welcome us and to make us feel at home in the old house that he had restored. All this was normal politeness, an expression of the famous North Norwegian hospitality.
It didn�t take long for me to discover that his main purpose for coming was a different one. Bernt Tore is devoted believer and a skilled self employed plumber. Last night in their cell-group they had been prayer for one another for boldness and opportunities to share the gospel of the Kingdom with non-believers. Now he was sitting in front of me. He was almost bursting. He was bubbling on the inside. He couldn�t hold back anymore. He had to tell me of his wonderful day.
In the morning he was seeing his hairdresser. While he was having his hair made he discovered that the hairdresser had some problem with a child. That is, the child had problems. Some serious illness had been identified and his mother, the hairdresser, was despairing. Bernt Tore was able to tell her about one of his children that had been healed through prayer in the name of the Lord. He was sharing with her what God had done for him and his family offering to pray for her and her child. She happily accepted that. And Bernt Tore was walking on clouds when he left the hairdresser saloon.
At lunch he met with the local businessmen for lunch. They used to meet every Friday to have a lunch together and keep in touch. Bernt Tore happened to be sitting at the table of a businessman he had been praying for a full year. They were school-mates but had been out of touch in a long time for natural reasons. When the lunch was over and the rest of the businessmen were gone, the two of them were still talking together. Bernt Tore discovered that his friend of old was seeking God, but had been disappointed with the religious establishment. He was able to share with him what God had been doing in his life and how he heard from God and fellowshipped with God. His friend was really interested and accepted the invitation to attend one of the cell-group gatherings. After this conversation Bernt Tore was soaring to new heights in thankfulness to the Lord who had answered his prayers in such a wonderful way this day.
Now he was on his way to his next job assignment. He should install an outdoor Jacuzzi bath for one of the wealthiest businessmen in the area. After finishing the job, the businessman invited him to try out the new bath with him. In this beautiful day, with bright sky, sun shining, magnificent mountains surrounding them, Bernt Tore and the businessman were enjoying the Jacuzzi bath and entering into a talk about the deeper things in life. Again Bernt Tore could from his own experience tell of the emptiness for materialism and share his story of what God was doing for him. The businessman was eagerly listening to him and opening up by telling of his struggles and longing for a greater purpose with life. Bernt Tore was pointing him to Jesus � the unchanging King in the unshakable Kingdom.
It is now wonder that Bernt Tore didn�t know which foot to stand on. He hurried home to share the good news of his day with his wife. She was not at home she had taken the kids to the beach for a quick bath. Now he was sitting in front of me, joyfully telling me how God enabled him to share the gospel with three people that day. He was full to the brim; no in fact he was running over! He was like a refreshing river of life to me. His excitement rekindled something within me, causing me to expectantly rejoice with him.

August 16, 2002

Rocky-mountains

After a most wonderful breakfast with my most excellent and beautiful wife, Solveig, we left Stokmarknes to go to Myre in the borough of �ksnes. We went on a narrow and curvy road alongside the Eidsfjord before we came to the main road taking us to Myre. The scenery on this route is fabulous. The coastline with islands, holms, bays, small peninsulas and rocky-mountains in all shapes and fashions, is difficult to describe. I had to stop every five minutes to take photos with my new digital camera. My wife wondered if we would arrive at our destiny while it was still light since I was photographing all the time. I have never taken so many photos of mountains in my entire life. I will try to include one picture at the end of this blog.



Heroes of faith

Last night we went to see Jens and Gunhild, some precious old friends of us for years. This blessed couple were in their early sixties when we first met them. Now they are well on their way into their eighties and very much alive in God. Jens is the younger one of the two and the age has taken its toll on him. His knees have become feeble, his legs lost their strength, but he is strong in his spirit, you can feel it when he prays. Gunhild doesn�t seem to have changed at all. Well, I must admit though that she seems to move more slowly and there seems to be signs of shivering at her hands. Besides that she is same caring person, giving you all your attention and asking all kind of questions to find out how you and your family are.
Their flat was filled with a sense of sacredness, like a fragrance of holy presence, something unexplainable but still very real and tangible. A godly tenderness and a righteous kindness were breaking forth from their aged faces. They carried with them a royal dignity, a safe, confident trust that was like a holy balm bringing healing and refreshment to your soul. You feel privileged to be in their presence, they give you a sense of significance.
Gunhild, in her mid-eighties, surprised us by being vividly focused on what God was doing in the society and among the covenant community of God�s people. Her prayer life had certainly kept her alive in her spirit. She was still dreaming. She was still seeing visions of God. She was expectantly looking forward to a spiritual breakthrough in the nation. She was still eagerly waiting for revival to transform society.
Jens and Gunhild are heroes of faith. They have sacrificed a lot for God and his people. They have during the years paid a high price, being misunderstood by their own generation. They have been prophetic � ahead of their time. They are still young in faith, still believing God for great things, still not settled for nothing less than seeing the kingdom come and the will of God be done � here in the northern part of Norway and to the ends of the world.

August 15, 2002

Finding the will of God

I have just spent some time with Geir Tore, one of my former Bible School students who has moved to this northern part of Norway to be part of what God is doing here. Together we climbed a mountain, and we reached the top. The view was breathtaking. The scenery in this part of Norway is majestic. But our conversation was even more astonishing. By the grace of God I was just able to ask him a few questions that hit the nail on its head.
Geir Tore was in a dilemma. He had to choose between three good alternatives to get the training he needed to be able to fulfil his destiny. When he told me his plans, I immediately felt that the alternative he was about to choose was not the best one for him in the long run, but perhaps the most exciting at the moment. During our conversation I was able to help him to see his situation in a new light that he could make a wise decision for his future.
Geir Tore has a heart of gold. He has a heart for God. He is fully committed to do the will of God and is willing to go where ever the Lord sends him. He is yearning to see people come to God through his testimony. He wants to become a preacher. He wants to be a church-planter. He wants to serve God and his fellow men in the nations of the world. Oh God, keep me burning with the same zeal to see your kingdom come and keep me humble enough to receive wise counsel from my brothers, because the more wise counsel we follow, the better our chances.

B�rge a living miracle


When B�rge showed up to bring us to Stokmarknes I was filled with joy and thankfulness. A year ago he nearly died twice at the hospital due to maltreatment. But the covenant community interceded for him and God spared his life. There were so many complications for him at the hospital, but God intervened and healed him miraculously. Now he was here in his car with me, sharing his heart and expectations for the days ahead. I felt so good sitting beside him, knowing the is a living miracle next to me, wondering what kind of miracle is at head of me? I am convinced that I will see the power of God at work among the people in this remote part of Norway.

Thank God for modern transportation

Yesterday we went to the northern part of Norway by plane. We left Bergen with the first flight in the morning for Oslo. In Oslo we had to run for our connection to Evenes. Then we caught the bus for Sortland. There B�rge was ready to take us by car to Stokmarknes where we are staying a few days. We left home at 06.15 and we arrived our place of destiny at 13.30. Thank God for modern transportation vehicles enabling us to finish this trip in 7 hours when my parents would have needed 7 days!

August 14, 2002

Early morning prayer meeting
Early this morning I went to a prayer meeting. Six o�clock 10 men gathered together to seek God and to pray for the covenant community of God�s people in our city. Normally we will be 15 plus at this prayer meeting but vacation is still not over I guess.
We had a very good time praying for the Kingdom of God to come and the will of God done in our city. The men were praying bold prayers in the name of the Lord.
However the gathering came alive a new way when Knut suggested that we should pray specifically for Morten, our young leading pastor of our church. We all gathered around him, laying hands on him and fervently praying for him. Some saw visions, others had prophetic words and still others shared words of wisdom with him. Then I was prayed for the same way, and others were prayed for under the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
I was strengthened by the prayers of my brothers. Their care encouraged me. The visions, prophetic words and spiritual insight released more faith in my heart. When they sent me of on my trip to the northern part of Norway with the blessing of God I just knew this was going to be an important journey in the service of God.
I am so thankful to the Lord that he has given me brothers that care for me and pray for me like these men I met with this morning. I am privileged to have men around me that will seek God on my behalf and speak for God into my life. My life has become more full and rich because of them.

August 12, 2002

The Message

At last the entire Bible has been converted into contemporary language by Eugene H. Peterson. The Message Bible was released earlier this summer and it reached me one week ago. I love The Message. I have been reading the New Testament and the Proverbs earlier and now I am reading Isaiah. Eugene H. Peterson has done an excellent job. He is a master with words, a real poet and he knows his God and the people he is living among.
Since English is only my third language and since I have never lived in an English speaking society, I come across expressions that are not easily understood, I must admit. However that only makes me keen to enlarge my knowledge of the English language!
I highly recommend The Message to everyone! Take a look at www.messagebible.com or www.christianbook.com

August 11, 2002

Holiday is over

Today I was back to the ordinary life. Holiday is over. My job is calling me to work again. So this first day of the week I went to church this morning. The building was quite full of people with a lot of visitors and new students in town. The best part of the service for me was when the Pastor during his sermon called Reidar to the front to tell the church of some experiences he had the previous weekend when Reidar had been hiking in the mountains of Hardanger, Norway.
Reidar is a farmer and a carpenter. He is not big or tall, but quite short and broad-shouldered. He is kind of a rough guy, a hard working fellow. The way he walks and talks tells everyone that he is not urban at all. He is not one of these post-modern types you find in universities or libraries or in the virtual world of the Web. He is just an ordinary simple Norwegian village guy, - a real man.
I was touched by his sincere way of telling his story and his story almost moved me to tears in its simplicity. After 10 hours of walking in the mountains he finally reached the cabin for mountain walkers. He was hungry and tired and had little time for preparing food before the common sleeping time. However he took notice of a man on a crutch, he had hurt himself on his walk and was order to rest in the cabin for one week. Probably a helicopter had to bring him back to civilisation. Reidar immediately had compassion on him and felt a desire to pray for him.
Before he went to sleep, the Holy Spirit spoke to Reidar about laying hand on this fellow who had hurt his leg so he couldn�t move with out a crutch. �I was a big glee,� he said, �I was filled with joy. I just knew that God wanted to bless this guy. I almost couldn�t wait for the morning to appear to pray for him.
The following morning Reidar approached the guy and told him that he was a Christian believer and asked for permission to pray for him. Immediately tears appeared in his eyes and he gladly accepted prayer. Reidar shared his testimony with him, read to him from the New Testament before he prayed for him and blessed him in the name of the Lord. After some time of fellowship together Reidar had to leave to reach another cabin in his hiking route.
Did a healing take place? I don�t know. But I know that the man with the broken leg was touched by the love of God expressed through Reidar the carpenter. I also know that if I care for people the same simple way as Reidar, people may encounter God though me.
Reidar really is somebody. If you like to read a simple poem inspired by this story visit: www.tobesomebody.blogspot.com

July 16, 2002

Visiting my mother

The last few days I have been visiting my mother. She is growing old, approaching 85 years. The body is failing her more and more, and she is not well at all. But her inner being is younger than ever. In spite of her pain and diseases she said to me to night: �When I lay down to sleep, I tell myself and my God that I still like to live. I enjoy life! Is it wrong of me thinking like that at my age?� I assured her that it was right of her to like to live in spite of her circumstances.

When I looked at her, she was so beautiful; her eyes so bright and full of life. Her body has become fragile and delicate like an artwork of fine china. Her white hair is like a crown of life. Even though she has shrunk to become seven inches shorter than she used to be, she is a greater person than ever. To me, even the hunch she has developed on her back, has a strange beauty. There is a kind of an inner radiance of beauty breaking forth in the ugliest expression of her aging body.


July 15, 2002

From Bergen to Stavanger

From Bergen to Stavanger
Yester day I went by car from Bergen to Stavanger. I had to cross several beautiful fjords. The first ferry took one full hour to cross over to the island of Stord. The sea was quiet and the sun was shining on the fabulous scenery as my wife and I enjoyed a pizza. God is surely good to us. After 30 minutes of driving in our new car we reached the end of the island and the was another fjord to cross. This time we didn�t have ferry but a long sub sea tunnel (8 km long � 260m deep) to help us to arrive on the other side. An impressive art of engineering created the tunnel, but I prefer the scenery on the outside!

The strawberries for sale alongside the road, I prefer even more than the scenery! Freshly picked strawberries bring with them a foretaste of heaven. They refresh the senses and revitalise my total being. Thank God for strawberries!

July 14, 2002

Pent up and full of words

I feel pent up and full of words
The spirit within me urges me to write a blog
I feel like a wine cask without a vent
My words are ready to burst out!
I must blog to find relief
I must share my insight
And give my answers
I won�t play favourites
Or try to flatter any post-modern person
If I tried, My Creator would soon do away with me!

I met with the church this morning
To worship and enjoy the Lord
It was not an exciting experience
I felt like a lion kept in a cage
The program of worship
And the form of melodies and choruses
Made me feel being imprisoned
My heart was full of joy
But the format of the meeting
Didn�t allow me to rejoice

Oh Holy Presence
Come with your dynamic power
And wipe away all our nice programs
Let your presence fill our gatherings with yourself
That praise and worship may burst forth
In joyful melodies and happy rhythm
Making our feet dance forcefully
And our hearts sing loudly in excitement
To You be the glory!
For you are The Glorious One!
Hallelujah!

Lasting values

I couldn't sleep. My head was full of thought. I was excited with life.
God has been so good to me. Everything in this world is uncertain. There
is no security or rest. People are groping in the darkness to find the
way ahead. Everything in this world is dying or fading away. But God is
here, he gives me faith to live by and to overcome the uncertainties of
the age. My God is the God of hope, in him I have a bright future and
something to run to lay hold on. God is love. I am surrounded by his
love, even when I can't sleep! The love of God is now the motivation of
my life helping me to see everything in a different perspective.

July 13, 2002

My most wonderful wife

Solveig is my most wonderful wife for nearly 38 years. She is my best friend
and my strongest supporter. She is also my honest and true critic, to help me
to progress. She is the most beautiful among all of God=92s creatures. She is
the hardest working woman I know, and her serving heart no one can match! Her
tender love and faithful care are too good to be described in words. Solveig =96
what a wonderful fragrance of joy and happiness surround that name of an
outstanding homemaker. I could fill all the blogs in the world with her
praise.


Covenant keeping
The issue of covenant was forced on me last night. A quite young man sat in front of me asking important questions about his covenant obligation. His marriage had been broken up. His wife had left him appealing for divorce. "If I can't have her back, do I still have covenant obligations to fulfil towards her"? That was the big question, - with many far reaching implications. In a situation like this there is no easy answers, but spiritual laws to follow to work out solutions in life. After he left me these words were born in me:

To be somebody
is to be a covenant keeper
to remain faithful to your promises
to stay loyal to your words
to honour your commitments
in the middle of betrayal and disappointments
It is to persevere in faith, hope and love
allowing nothing to destroy your integrity
but allowing kindness to abound
in spite of hurting circumstances

To be somebody
is to overcome the desire for revenge
to refuse to hit back with the same cruelty that you have been hit
It is to forgive ond forget
but also to hold responsible
and bring the offending partner to justice
when the measure of iniquity is full
and showing mercy in judgment
remembering that the way you treat others you will be treated yourself

July 11, 2002

To be somebody
is to sing
in major and minor
in joy and sorrow
in longing and despair
to let life be a song
and all events be
the music and rhythm
that give the song life
When we grow up we all dream of becoming somebody to be proud of. I have reached the conclusion that when I am true to myself and my Creator, then I have a good reason to be proud. Then I really am somebody because so many seem to compromise themselves.

After my first blog yesterday, we were having a barbecue party at our home. Some friends were gathered to celebrate summer in spite of rain pouring down. Gerd Lillian was there with us. She is a fabulous woman! She is really somebody. Her body is heavily attacked by cancer. She is having to fight several tumours in her liver, hip and shoulder, not to speak about the terrible pain in her body. In spite of her circumstance she is source of encouragement to all she meets. Yesterday she was boldly proclaiming that the God who had saved her og forgiven her sins, would have no difficulties in healing her completely! Gerd Lillian is really somebody, because she refuses to give up or to let circumstances let her down! She is somebody worth praying for! Please join me in prayer for full healing for her!
Erling Thu

July 10, 2002

To be somebody
is to take small and big jumps
into the unknown territory
safely walking in faith
confidently trusting the Beginning and the End
to guide and carry me
through the deep waters
over the high mountains of human limitations
to soar to new horizons
to lay down and dream in a lush meadow
to create my first blog
Sent by Erling Thu