Category Archives: Focus your life

Faith and Trust grow with every step

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This month our trust and faith topic is on how it will grow when we start taking steps. Be encouraged!!

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How was your week? And especially how are you doing in this very different season?

Our week here in San Francisco looked very different than any week we had so far. Starting Tuesday we had to stay inside and could only go out for grocery shopping or daily walks. That leads to many changes in the way you can love your neighbor and neighborhood. But you know what we were still able to love people in the morning during our runs by encouraging them with 6 feet distance from each other. Or we called seniors on the phone or wrote encouraging cards. We also started an online video series on how you can love your neighbor from home #loveyourneighborfromhome with a daily tip on how to do it till the end of virus crisis. Make sure to follow us on facebook l-y-n , on Instagram @loveyourneighborsf and on YouTube Playlist Love your neighbor from home – daily tips to get those videos daily. This is the season for all of us Jesus lovers to show his love to people that are lonely and isolated through creative ways!! Lets all do it and for that build stronger neighborhoods and communities that are in love with Jesus!!

Start this week to take a step in faith to increase your trust and also to give unbelieve a smaller and smaller role in your life!! You can do it!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

your true idendity

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This week is all about identity and how important it is that we know our true identity! Be encouraged!!

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How are you? We hope great!! How was the last month for you?

I have to say our February in San Francisco was awesome! We had so much time with people, amazing weather and many God moments. Doors opened this month in big ways too which is super exciting. Last weekend we got to meet with a friend who helped us get started in the editing process of the book which is such a blessing. We just feel hold and guided by God all along the way. So awesome!!

Start this week to take a step in faith to increase your trust and also to give unbelieve a smaller and smaller role in your life!! You can do it!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Fasting

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This weeks blog is about fasting. Fasting is often seen as hard but often we forget about the blessings of it. Be encouraged and inspired by this video blog!

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We hope you had a wonderful week!! If we would have to put a headline on top of ours, it would be community. On Wednesday we hosted 2 of our church friends for dinner which was a lot of fun. Our church small group also met for the first time this year in our house and then we had our bi-annual review and evaluation meeting with all the ywam leaders. On Saturday one of our neighbors was inspired by us and hosted a lunch and movie time at his house. It was wonderful. At night we had a dinner event with the boys and girls club and on Sunday we hosted a little event at our house to watch the Oscars together. Besides those, we had all our normal weekly things going on. And somewhere in between Jen and I had a date night. What a great week.

Look at your life and see what things have a hold of you and then come up with a plan to fast them and let God help you in it!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Whatever you focus on affects you

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Today our blog is about focusing our lives on the right thing and how that brings hope.

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We hope you had a wonderful week!! Our week was busy in a good way. We had our quarterly meeting with other ministry leaders from the bay area and it was encouraging as usual. We also were able to connect in a deeper way with our community here. A very good week. And Jen and went out on a date night together which was really fun.

Remember to look at your thoughts and the things you focus on and make sure to focus on Jesus!

Have a blessed week!!

Markus and Jen

All my life you have been faithful

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Recently I was listening to a worship song called Goodness of God. One of the lines is “All my life you have been faithful”. I love that truth in that line that God is always faithful.

But In a world where we see unfaithfulness and betrayal all the time its easy to fall into a pit and start thinking and believing that God might not be faithful either. We might look back at our life and look at the moments of failure and hard times we went through and wonder Is God really faithful? Maybe we started to believe a lie: Because we got sucked into the world and started being faithless we blew his faithfulness and now He might not be faithful either anymore.

In 2.Timothy 2.13 it says: If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for he cannot deny Himself.

So Paul makes a clear statement about God here in Timothy God will and cannot deny Himself. He will always be faithful. We see that through the whole bible how even people failed and things in the world went wrong, God was still faithful and stayed true to his promise. So when we look back in our life, we have to look with the truth of this statement. We have to look at the moments in our life where we feel God hasn’t been faithful and ask him to show us the truth about this situation. If he doesn’t show us anything about a specific case we have to come back to the truth He cannot be unfaithful.

When I look back at my own life I see moments where things were really hard. There were times were I was bullied in school were friends walked away from me, God never did. He was right with me in those hard moments. Why did those things happen then you might ask. People have free will and make choices. Some of them affect others in a bad way. But even when that happens God is still right there with us and he is still faithful. He is faithful in the good and bad moments in our life.

We want to encourage you to look back at your life and first see all the clear moments where god has been faithful in your life and write them down. Then after you did that,  go in Prayer together with him to the places where you believe he hasn’t and let Him speak to you. It will change your life!!

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We hope you had a wonderful week! Jen and i enjoyed our vaccation and are back starting this week. Sometimes we all need a break and this one was so refreshing for both of us. We hope you got a good break too recently!!

Remember this week to look at your life and write out the moments you remember where God was faithful and ask him about the ones where you think he wasn’t!

Have a blessed week!!

Markus and Jen