Take the Lead!

Ive been thinking lately a LOT about my life and where im at. We Christians all know that time is short..--there is not much time left..and we gotta prepare ourselves.. so ive been thinking- AM I READY?

Since the end of Feb. God has done a lot of work in me.

Starting with my attitude, lifestyle, desires, use of time, mindset, how i see myself, how i see God.. etc. The list seems to be endless in my head.

So the process has been long and painful.. but it was SO needed.

In the end of August the "desert time" in my spiritual life started coming to an end. But then started the "restoring" time! My soul was hurt and i needed healing. So God started teaching me new things about Himself! God had a message for me in Every preaching at my church (either on friday or sunday). One-by-one He took all the basic truths about Himself and taught me over and over again what's He really like, What He really wants, how He really sees me, How much He really loves me!

And that made me wanna change even more. I feel i wanna change for God. I wanna do it cos i love Him and i don't wanna be left behind..so therefore i wanna get my stuff together and be ready for Him!

I want God to take a lead in my life, in every single area and make His dreams come through through ME!

>>> Job 23:13-14<<<

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? He does whatever he pleases.

He carries out his decree against me, and many such plans he still has in store. (Eesti keeles: Aga Tema on teinud valiku ja kes saaks Teda keelata? Mida Tema hing ihaldab, seda Tema ka teeb! Sest Ta viib täide, mis mulle on määratud, ja seesugust on Tal palju! )

Blindly following God

HA..its so funny how the headline sounds.. and it kinda contradicts itself when it comes to Christianity..

But anyway..what is on my mind is that..

When you read Äripäev ( a business newspaper we have here) or watch news or whatever..you understand more and more how BAD economy is in Estonia. They say its one of the worse in Europe and economy in Baltic state´s have a BAD reputation. And when year and a half or so ago i talked to my friend and told her about a prophecy i heard ab that Estonia is gonna go back to food stamps ..she told me its IMPOSSIBLE cos we are in EU now and in every other union and whatever..so it cant happen. then looking which way things are moving right now it looks like its needed (http://www.arileht.ee/artikkel/475619 ; http://www.arileht.ee/artikkel/476098 )



but now this is the time, when everything else is falling apart, you might have lost your job or you might be looking for a home..its time to BLINDLY FOLLOW GOD (what i mean by that is -- no questions asked). Don´t doubt Him (if He is telling you to do smth, do it; if He is telling you to go somewhere, go there). HE IS YOUR HOPE! Be faithful in what you´re doing and do it right, be honest and trustworthy and things will come your way cos this is the promise of God - Mt 6:31-33 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need themBut seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

The WOW Factor

Summer is almost over. And its normal to think back at the summer and wonder what did i do, was it full of good memories and new situations. Did i gasp hold of every oportunity and am i satisfied with it.
Well for the last 6 months my life has been a time of changing. Yes...sooooo many changes-- starting with 6 months of spiritual desert, throwing away my shoes, losing my "sister" (and getting her back -- thank God) ..to regaining strenght and getting back JOY in my life!

Let me tell you something about joy. The funniest thing..going through the spiritual desert time i had peace in my heart. i knew i was on the right path, moving the right direction and doing the right thing BUT i had no joy...just everything was so super hard and most of all..nothing made any sence (why was i doing anything? ps i knew WHY but for what reason). I knew what i was doing and why i was doing it but i asked myself..WHATS THE POINT. Just nothing made any sence. Lacking joy in your life feels like you wanna throw everything in the corner (your entire life) and just leave. Where?--doesnt matter! Will it help?- nope, probably not. but its just the feeling that everything you do is not woth doing. even tho u know you do the right thing.
So..but what i learned with it was that --- during this time in my life i was left all alone. I had friends but at the same time i had no friends. My family was here but still..i was all alone. that was the feeling..ALL ALONE, nobody understands me etc . anyway..and with that i understood that God is the ONLY one i should really truly FULLY lean on. HE is the only one i should fully trust and hope on. Cos ppl will fail but God will never fail and never leave! and tho friends are the gift from God and they fill your life with so much good then He is the source of everything good.

So ab a week or so ago..i started feeling joy again. and it has been growing day by day. and the gratitude for that in my heart..is indescribable! Everywhere i go, whatever i do i just feel my heart laughing and being soo thankful to God and Praising Him for His goodness and for JOY.

Also a thing that ive learned with this summer..is to thank for the hard times. (you´re thinking DAAAH..thats what Paul said like soooo long time ago). But God truly showed me what it means. and WHy are the hard times so good and so needed. -- Its cos these are the times that change you. really really change you. these are the times that will clean out the mess in your life or deal with your attitude or some areas in your life that need to be changed. and the more you´ll get changed here on earth..the better for YOU..so that one day you´ll be in heaven..you´ll be one step (or more) ahead of the other..just cos u maybe suffered more on the earth..and through that you got changed then go through the same changing process in heaven..but just soooooo much slower (thats why it writes that angels envy us that we can suffer on earth).
So when before i pressed my teeth together and sucked the words out of myself..then now my biggest prayer to God is for Him to take me to the "Court" with myself..here on earth..so He wouldnt have to do it in heaven! and its working! and i dont see myself as a victim anymore as i did before (cos of different things ive gone through in my life..but as a person whom God has showen such a favor by letting me go through these things in such a young age and has made me the person i am now)



So to wrap this up i can just sa that when in the beginning of the year i said this year is going to be different from all the other (how?- i didnt know! Good or bad- i didnt know..just different)..then yes..so far the 8 months have been full of more changes than ive gone through so many years put together. And there is only one explanation to that :) (and thats for me to know and you to figure out :P..or ask me :D )

23

so many of you have heard me say that im not a birthday person.. what i mean is that i DONT want to celebrate my bday. WHY?- cos i have bad memories with it.. but that not the point and thats not what i wanna talk about.

What i wanna talk ab is..to write you how God blessed my birthday and turned the whole day upside down and it turned out to be WOW.

so on the 21st i didnt wanna go to sleep cos i didnt wanna wake up to the 22nd. at 1.30am i was so stressed out and depressed that "tomorrow" was gonna be my bday that i didnt know what to do..but call Andu (my babybro)

we talked ab 30 min and he calmed me down and so when we finished (at ab 2am)...i went to slep with a smile on my face. so thats good

emn but i woke up with a thought..PLEASE NO. can i just skip today??

i tried to pull myself together..i mean i AM 23 NOW..so i should act like one..and just thought ill just take it like yet another wednesday..

but no...still all these expectations and memories of previous bdays etc.

so i got ready to start THE BIG DAY (being sarcastic btw)..when my mama sent me a text msg telling me NOT to leave the house between 1.30-2pm. so naturally i thought they were gonna come and visit me from tallinn (with family). so i started cleaning and cleaned the entire apartment so that when they come it would all be perfectly tidy..

andthen i went to do my makeup..and suddently it was 2.2opm already. so i texted mama and wrote: ITS 2.20 ALREADY

she callled me and asked if i had to go somewhere...and no i didnt but it was 2.20pm ALREADY

and then i went to make myself a smoothie when i hear knocking on the door.

:P thats when it got interesting and SOMETHING started to happen

so this tall handsome man stood behind the door (good thing i had done my hair and makeup already ;) ) with a HUGE and GORGEOUS orchid in his hand.

man: "Hello, are you Hanna?"

Me: Why Yes i am :P

man: HAPPY BIRTHDAY

.. and he gave me the orchid and inside there was a note: Love, Family!

the rchid was PERFECT. it was sooo big and so beautiful and exactly what i wanted to my apartment

so i had to go grab lunch. i called few ppl, talked to few...and noone could come with me. when i talked to andu at 1.30am...we talked ab me going to McDonalds for my bday...cos i never go there..so i needed a McDonalds buddy...

well..i didnt find anyone ..and i thought fine ill go  by myself. i was in front of the house ..and texted andu and said how pathetic is that,,i cant even find a person to go to McDonalds on my bday with.

so in 5 min. andu called me and asked if i had time. i said nooooooo no time..(sarcastic).. i mean i had all the time in the world and noone to spend it with..+ it was my BDAY (being ironic)..

and wat happened then was that andu said,,well ill come with you to McDonalds. So what we did was that we talked for ab 1,5 hours. we started in front of my house and he was in Tallinn, on the bus. we talked till we got to McDonalds (i in Tartu and he in Tallinn), we ordered together, on the phone! we ate together, on the phone (were still talking)..we finished together..still talking. it was SOOOOOOO SWEET! something ill NEVER forget.

in McDonalds..KEtu was working..and she took a 5min brea and gave me this GORGEOUS pot-rose..its in my bedroom now. fits perfectly.

i came quickly home, changed and ran to work. well to WOmen's Conference. were there till 5.45-8.15pm and then RAN to meet KETU!! 

and thats when the whole day changed for goood and positive. 

we both had dressed up, beautiful makeup, nice clothes, heels...very pret and we went to my fav cafe, drank my fav coffee (cinnamon latte and ate one of my fav cakes). we had been there for ab an hour when these guys showed up in front of the cafe (we sat by the window..this huuuge french window). and i dont know what was going on..there were like 10 men? and they were dressed weird and make faces..and one of them had one of his but-cheeks showing and one of his breast was showing aswell..and they had music instrumens with them..,and so they were just looking inside trying to communicate with us.. kinda..and just made us laugh..when SUDDENLY..3 of them came inside the cafe (and let me remind you that its a very elegant cafe/launge) and started playing and singing these old-style estonian SONGS. they were a bit drunk and LOUD but they had a good voice and they were a truly into what they did and the whole singing style. so they came to us..on of the guys pointed at me and the words on the song said something like "this young lady" or smth smth...and they were so loud and it was so OFF-style what the cafe had...but itt was amazing cos it was so out of blue and it was so random and sooooo much fin. so me and KEtu just couldnt stop laughing

one of the waiters asked them to go outside and sing there and one of the guys said ahahh yeah yeah and started with another song that seemed to be even louder than the first one :D and the music instuments were LOUD and fab!! :DD so when they were done singing they wanted to taste our cake. so they ate the rest of what was left :D and then they left. it was sooo much fun. and they wished me happy bday...tho they had NO idea i had a bday.  :) that was cool

so we continued talking with Ketu..we had such a great time just catching up and having a real good quality time and at the same time so much fun..

the cafe started closing so we had to leave. BUT a friend called Ketu and wanted to meet up. so we did..all 3 of us. and we went to another cafe, and just took a drink and talked some more :)

and if you know me and Ketu..you know that we have this thing where we go through things at the same time, through the same stuff...and i mea EXACTLY the same time...without any of us knowing it. till we talk ab it and are yet again AMAZED how can it be EXACTLY at the same time.

So while we were out all 3 of us, talkking...ketu mentioned this thing to me..just out of blue..what had been going on in her life..so i kinda stopped,,a bit shocked..and was like..emn.IT HAPPENED TO ME TOO...exactly the same thing and pretty much at the same time (the same week).. 

so we were quite amazed there.

and then we understood this evening has been just too amazing to let it end like that. so KEtu came over to my place..

and she is till here...half asleep :P (she saw me write that)..leaning on my shoulder and im just thinking how lucky i am to have her in my life. and how much i love her.

i mean this evening has been yet again SO AMAZING (as it always is when we get together) and we've talked a stuff that we've kept inside and God has just healed us somehow and showed His love!!

so all in all..i can say the day has turned out pretty awesome, dont you think ;)

The right feet

Did my morning devotions and read a verse from Habakuk 

3:17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,

3:18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.

3:19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights.

..and i remembered that my teacher at the bibleschool taught us ab the verse. And its so sweet how God reminded me of it today cos a very close person to me really needed it (at least i felt in my heart it was for him). 

Anyhow so the thing with this scripture is..that you have to know the context (as always) :).

 

The feet of a deer are VERY STRONG. Because they run around all day long on a rocky and hard ground and not just only..but (in some places) there are all these dry plants that have sharp and long thorns etc..but it doesn't effect them.

The book of Habakuk is written in Babylonia, Judah and the landscape there is pretty much like that >>

and its desert (rock desert) so that means the rocks gets REALLY HOT + its very "mountainy"..so its quite steep. But still deer can stand on the steep hill, on the HOT stones..and not be effected by it.

ALSO note that Habakkuk wrote that ..He enables me to go on the heights.

Habakkuk doesn't write that He keeps me from going there or keeps me on the skandinavian green pastures .NOO nonono..He writes that God enables us to go to the heights but then he asks for the right feet!! So that when he is there, he wouldn't fall or give up or die there. God is our strenght!

So if you are in a situation in your life where it reallllly feels like rock desert and the rocks are HOT and the thorns stick out and its just insanely hot .. ask God not to take you away from there..but give you the right feet to stand! And the you'll come out of there stronger than ever!

Like you'll never see me again

Mhh..ive been thinking a lot ab what i would like to say to people lets say if it was my last chance to say smth to them. So ive played dialogs or more like monologs in my head what i would say to them. 

And right now i have this moment when i wanna say all these things to this person so that i would never think back and think that WHAT IF i told them this or that...would smth be different..i wanna know i did Everything i could

..anyway..

its not like an EMO moment that im having right now :D im more than good..but if it was your last chance to tell me something..what would you say/tell me? and i really wanna know so leave me a comment or write me an email. :)

Faith is a commitment

My teacher from bibleschool where i went to (CIMC) wrote:

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Faith is basically commitment. After having invited the disciples to live with Him (Jesus), a process of commitment starts. We read several times that "they (disciples) believed", yet right after He tells them off for their unbelief - and then on the last evening He says to them "finally you believe" - they had been growing in their faith or commitment up to this evening where they finally realize who He is and wherefrom He has come.

Faith is a process - our commitment is growing as we remain in Him and keep His teachings - He occurs at times to us in e.g.. prayer answers - and we take steps of commitment towards Him.

Today, when i read this..all of a sudden all of it made sence. Just like a marriage is a commitment/a decision the same way is faith. In marriage..feelings will not last..you'll not stay in love forever..and there will come times where you cant stand it anymore and want out..but its still a decision to stay with the person you committed yourself to and not leave just cos its (insanely) hard (but that means the spouse is normal - not abusive or anything like that and works on the marriage aswell) . 

And i understand its the same way with faith. No-one says its going to be easy and if they have told you that sorry but they've lied! BUT ITS WORTH IT>> every fight, every stuggle..its so worth it! Paul says I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith (2 Tim 4:7).  Why does he say "i have kept my faith"..why not "i have been a real good christian" or something else like that..cos its not about that. God knows we're gonna make mistakes, He knows we're gonna fall..but He doesnt keep count on how many times we fall but how many times we stand up again after we fall and continued trying and fighting. Salomon says: even those make mistakes who  seek the Lord and want to find Him (apocrypha>> The Wisdom of Solomon 13:6). Thats also why you've heard me say and its kinda my trait-sentence already:) - I WILL NEVER GIVE UP! cos if i will then devil will win and i wont let that happen!-  so even if ive come to the point where im not fighting anymore to keep my faith (yes, ive been there few times in my life)..then i fight so that devil wouldnt win..and of course that means im fighting to keep my faith. and in the end..i still do it cos i love God. 

I (my teacher) would have said, "So get a grip of yourself man, and uphold your focus", but Paul would have said,
"Therefore my dear brothers, stand firm, let nothing move you, always give yourselves to the work of the Lord, cos you know that your labor in the Lord in not in vain" (1. Cor. 15:58)

Life is a fight, and you're wondering why its hard?! So keep on fighting .. for the Lord! One day you'll get answers to your 'why's (why did this happen, why me...) and you'll give answers. But right now its about 'Your life for Gods purpose' so put all on the table and live 100% for Him!

Now go read this: http://epistle.us/poetry/whenisayiamachristian.html