Hey our friend

During the last week we could see again and again the faithfulness of our father and how he has great things for us even in little things. Every time we fly to a place we get a free flight snack like cookies. I (Markus) really love those cookies. When Jen came back from the funeral of her grandpa she asked the steward if he could give her one of the cookies for her husband. He ended up giving her 3 big packages with those cookies. So instead of a little blessing God just went over the top. But that is the way God cares for us. He wants to bless us just because He loves us, but we have to let Him. That is true for every part of our life. I think just looking at ministry and people we can see the biggest breakthrough in people that are willing to let God work in their lives. I saw that in children, adults, homeless, rich, middle class or every part of society.  So it depends on us and how much more we want of God, not on Him, because He already gave everything. Please pray this Prayer with us. Father we pray that you give us, our families, friends, acquaintances and people we minister to a deeper hunger for you so that they can experience relationship with you, your love and blessings in a deeper way. Amen

How can we get more patience?

Jen and I have been doing ministry for over 10 years and one of the most important things we needed in that time is patience. Many times when you work with people things are not going as fast or as planned. But does that mean things are not going at all? No not at all. God is working in those times. So if we want to grow in patience we need to look at the one who is in charge. If we look at circumstances it is sometimes easy to lose patience. Paul wrote to the Corinthians that love is patient, so that means to be more patient we need to have more of Gods love in our life. How can we be more filled with His love? By spending time with Him and also asking Him to give us more of His love so we can love more in true love. But to change our way on how to respond to impatience in our life is not necessarily a quick process; it is taking time to re teach ourselves. It takes us years to learn a habbit, so be patient in the process of re learning.  But as more we practice love in our everyday life as more patience we get as well. We start seeing things out of Gods perspective and who could be a better teacher then Him.  Graham Cooke said it really well:
“…You don’t learn patience in a weekend. You don’t learn patience by being focused on your circumstances. You learn patience by being focused on God in your circumstances.”

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen