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All my life you have been faithful

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!!

Hi our friend

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

 

Pelicans or better together

I hope this 2nd blog on Pelicans inspires you and you can learn from their life.

Hi our friend

What a wonderful week. Jen and I got to go on vacation to Tahoe with friends which was so much fun. How did your year start?

Don’t forget this week to find someone that might have lost the connection and start to bring that person back into the community!

Have a blessed week!!

Markus and Jen

 

Pelikan Formation

I hope this blog inspires you and you can learn from the life of the Pelican birds.

Hi our friend

Welcome to 2020! We hope you had a wonderful celebration! San Francisco has every year a beautiful fireworks display and it never fails to amaze!

Jen and I are excited for this new year and the things God has planned for it. Every year we pray either at the end or the beginning of the new year and ask God for words for the year. It is always exciting to look back and see how God moved. Take some time out of your week and spend some time praying for this new year!

Don’t forget this week to look at your strength and see how you can use your gift to help someone else.

Have a blessed week!!

Markus and Jen

I do trust, help my lack of trust

This is the last blog of the year 2019. As the year comes to an end its time to look forward to the new year and that is exactly what we are doing. Every year a group of different Christians that encourage to read the bible pray together and choose a verse for the year. This year’s verse is in Mark 9.24. So be inspired through the video where we will talk more about it!!

Hi our friend

We hope Christmas was a time of family, community, and reflection for you. A time to be inspired and encouraged about the love that God has for us that he sends his son into the world as a baby for his plan of redemption. What a wonderful father we have! We hope that the love of the father reflects through ours and your lives to our and your neighbors so they can find his love for themselves. We truly love all the people around us and we just want them to know more and more of the love of God because it really changed our life!

Don’t forget this week to reflect on your life and look at the areas where you have a lack of trust and ask God to increase your trust in those.

Have a blessed week and a happy new year 2020!!

Markus and Jen

Merry Christmas with the Gospels

When you open your bible to the first book in the new testament you will notice that the first thing you see is a genealogy of many different people which then lead to Joseph the husband of Marie, the mother of Jesus. This first part would speak to all who love genealogy and history but it also shows how God had a salvation plan for a really long time.

And then it goes into the story about a man that struggled because he found out his soon to be wife is pregnant but not with his child. Next we hear about the angel telling Joseph, that man, in a dream that all is good and that his wife is having the savior of the world. Which then happens a little while after in a barn, a place you would not think of for such an important man to be born.

But the story keeps going and this baby gets his first visit by shepherds (see in Luke), people that were looked down on in this time. God brought the down under first to see Jesus. But then this group of really smart and rich guys comes to visit Jesus as well in this barn and bring him valuable gifts. So God shows that he cares about all people. And that is just the beginning of the story which is followed by an escape.

To this point Jesus hasn’t done anything besides being born. Isn’t that more exciting than any blockbuster, reading about the life of Jesus and how he changed the world. When you read through the gospels the life of Jesus and also his love for us and his calling for our life becomes so much more real. When you go deeper into it you learn about all the prophetic words spoken about Jesus a long time before he lived and how they came true with him. Its amazing.

We want to encourage you to read one of the gospels during this Christmas break. Let Jesus and his life inspire you in a new way. May it bring a deeper hunger for him and his love for you as well as all his children.

Hi our friend

We want to wish you a merry and blessed Christmas. May it be a time of peace and hope for you and all the people that you are connected with. Jen and I are excited to celebrate here in San Francisco with our neighbor friends. Invite someone to your Christmas celebration even if it is last minute!

May you fall deeper in love with Jesus this season by reading more of his life and love for you!

God bless you

Markus and Jen