Seeking God´s Face...

"I lift up my eyes to the hills -
where does my help come from?

My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and eath.

He will not let your foot slip -
he who watches over you will not slumber."
Psa 121:1-3

I wanna take this moment (yes, in the midst of my studies...) and give you a few thoughts and inspirational scriptures...

A few thoughts on seeking God... It is just so stirred up in my spirit right now, of how amazing God is and how faithful He is and the importance of always taking time and seeking God, being in front of the throne in His presence... You know, we can always have excuses, not to put God first, not to take that time, but the truth is that if we don't cling on to God and remain in Him, we are up for a failure!

In my current situation - when the pressure is high of the "stress" of having to study and getting in all in my head - I am so thankful to God that in the midst of all that, I can take those moments with Him, and He gives me the strength and joy to keep on pressing on... I seriously don't know what I would do without Him!!!


It is not always about how much time you take, because sometimes we don't have the time to spend half of the day just being with God, if you know what I mean. But it is more the attitude of the heart and that you do life with God, not just take the time with Him... Yes, like in any relationship you need quality time, to sit down and talk and share, but that doesn't mean that you spend a whole day just talking... (yes occasionally) but like any other relationship, you "do life together", you eat together, you walk together, and so on...And that is the relationship God wants with us, that we don't walk around ignoring him all day, but that we continually are in fellowship with Him... How wonderful is the Holy Spirit!!!:-) And I think that it is this "every moment walk" with God that is so exciting, cause you can just talk with him while doing the dishes, cleaning, and even when you are studying and you´re frustrated!:-)


Walking with God makes you hunger more after Him... Like John Bevere says "What you feed on is what you hunger for". We need more of God everyday!!! And the good news is that there is ALWAYS more of Him!!! :-) Even all of eternity we will get to know God more and more!!! How exciting!!! :-) So yes, God is so good!!! We are nothing without Him!!! He is like the air that we breath, He is the water that satisfy our soul! How can we do anything but praise Him? (That was actually a few parts from my latest songs...:-) ) Well, anyways, I didn't mean to preach, but there you go...:-) Keep on seeking God´s face, cause when you seek Him, then all the rest will also fall into place!!! Praise God

Ps 27:8

"My heart says of you, "Seek his face!" Your face, Lord, will I seek."

Ps 14:2

"The Lord looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God."

Jer 29:13

"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

Luke 19:10

"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that what was lost."

Ps 10:4

"In his pride the wicked does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God."

Matt 6:33

" But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

Ps 42:1-2
" As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Where can I go and meet with God?"

Ps 46:10a
"Be still, and know that I am God..."

Ps 22:26

"The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the Lord will praise Him-may your hearts live forever!"

Ps 34:4-5

"I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame."

Ps 37:4

"Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."

The last three weeks...

Well, I decided to take a break in my studies and actually try to sum up these last three weeks or so in a short update. Cause there has been alot of other things happening besides school and studies, if you thought otherwise...:-) This update comes in a "picture update form"...It´s nicer anyhow to see pics and not just read one mile of text!;-)

So lets start from this last week and go back in time...

This week a team of ten people from England has been here in Estonia... They ministered to us throughout the week. God blessed me so much through them! It´s been a great week!

Here you can see seven of the ten people in the team.(plus Helina:-)

The worship at our Friday youth service at Elu Sõna...

Here the team did the youth evening at a Baptist Church...


Two weeks ago my dear sister and cousin, Hanna and Catrin, came to visit me! We had a great time although I had to take some time to study in between our program...:-) We walked alot around the city, went shopping, went to my church to the youth evening, went out to eat, etc. It was such a blessing having them here! So come back now, you hear!:-)


Hanna, me and Catrin

Hanna and I

Catrin and Hanna in front of the main University building...

Then three weeks ago was a little bitter sweet, as we had Sigurd´s going away party. He has been here in Estonia for the past two years working as a missionary, and now he went back to Norway. That Sunday my apartment was filled with people as we "celebrated" Sigurd. Here you can see some pics from that evening...

Tom and Julia gave Sigurd an Estonian "passport".

It was a multicultural party as there were people from Estonia, Norway, Finland, Spain, Mexico and Tajikistan...:-)

The guy´s corner...:-)

That same weekend we had a combined cell group with Andrus´ and Sigurd´s cell and Julia´s and my cell group...We had a blessed time together!

Some of the guys...

Andrus and the girls...

Then that same weekend we had the honour of celebrating Kristiina´s birthday as she got a year older (don't we all!!) :-)

Some of the guests at Kristiina´s place...

And here we have the birthday kid!!! Happy birthday once more!:-)

Powerful songs! :-)

I just have to do a little add here...I have seriously been so blessed by the song "solution" from the new Hillsong United...well there are so many good songs,,"Hosanna" is just so amazing too I just LOVE it!! but this song "solution" is one of those songs that just stirs you up and fill you with energy! The lyrics are just so powerful as well... anyways, if you haven´t heard it yet, go check it out! It gets you fired up! I have been listening to it in between my studying, and it really gets you going again when you feel drained from the studies...:-)
well listen to the songs and you know what I mean! More updates later...I have to keep on studying now...had my first exam today, tomorrow I will have a parasite test and then two more big exams, and summer here I come!!!:-)
http://www.myspace.com/hillsongunited

I am still alive!!!

Don´t worry, I am still alive, but I just haven´t had any time to update lately. Actually this is not a real update either...that will have to come later on...right now school is crazily hectic, so I have to share some more later on... So be blessed!!!:-) God is soooo good and so faithful!!! Praise God! :-D Keep smiling! The best is yet to come! :-D

Wonderful wonderful!!!

Saturday I woke up to a beautiful day and went out for a nice jog in the morning! It was so nice and refreshing! Then I spent most of the rest of the day studying...On Saturday evening Anette came and spent the night here. We had a girls evening watching "Pride and Prejudice" and had some beauty treatment...Nice, nice...:-)

Anette and I

Sunday was really amazing! In the meeting at church that morning pastor Markus was preaching. It was so good! He started his preaching with a good quote... "There are two kinds of Christians, one group is the ones who say "God, let your will be done" and to the other group God says "Ok, have your way". That was freely translated (as the preaching is in Estonian). But anyways, I thought it was really good and I pray that I´d be in the first group! That God´s will would be done in and through my life! But yes, so he was preaching about how we are the branches, Jesus the tree and God the Gardner. Our lives should bear fruit and we need to ask God, what kind of fruit am I bearing? And we need to always be open to God to do a work in our lives, to be pruned and really ask God, what is standing in the way for us to be everything He has created us to be. The Bible says that "you will know them by the fruit". Sometimes the fruit can look good on the outside, but if you taste it it can be sour and bitter! There are different seasons to bear fruit, and it is not our job to go around judging our fellow Christians.."oh, where is your fruit?" no, but it is between us and God to ask what kind of fruit we are bearing. Some people might be in a winter season, others in spring, and so on... We all go through different seasons, but we are all called to bear fruit, fruit that will last! :-) And then he was preaching about how we have been cut into God´s family, and that we are no longer a part of the old tree, the old nature. And that is also the prize we have to pay; we are dead to our old self and alive in Christ! :-) And that is also when we see who we are in Christ, the position we have in Him. But at the same time we know that we need to abide in Christ, because we are nothing without Him! We are apart of that tree and the life of Christ is flowing in and through us! :-) And then he was talking about how to cut away the things that are hindering us from bearing fruit and moving forward with God. And he was saying how fear is such a big stronghold and that we give away our ground little by little to the devil by being fearful. We need to see is there any area in my life that is in fear? We need to respond with faith and stand our ground not letting the devil steal it from us! And when we know who we are in Christ and what we have in him, we can boldly hold on to those promises and stand against the devil! It was just such a good message and he used wonderful illustrations! God spoke so much to me through that message! Powerful!

Pastor Markus preaching...

After church Anette, Helina, Ketlin and I went to eat lunch at La Dolce Vita. After that Ketlin went home, and the three of us went on to Kristiina´s place to see her new sweet puppy, Emmi! She is sooo adorable!!! (You know me and dogs!:-D) Here is also some pics!:-)

Kristiina and Emmi:-)

From there Anette and I went on to help out Julia to prepare her birthday party. It was a garden party, the first this year! And it was just such a beautiful weather!!! There was some food and grilling, games, worship, music, and I played football and volleyball with the kids, which was just sooo lovely!!!:-) Such a nice and relaxing time to celebrate our dear, dear wonderful woman of God, Julia!!! So Happy Birthday one more time Julia!!! :-)

Tom and Julia

Nice, nice...:-)

Helen, Anette, Julia, and I

Youth meeting...

Today was youth meeting...there were less people than usual, because there was also "Going Up" that Risttee church is organizing, so quite many youth were there as well... But we had a great evening with pastor Algis preaching from Nelipühi Kirik, and it was really good! He preached about relationships...He was asking what is it in our lives that makes life good and worth living...and in conclusion we could agree that relationships is very important. If our relationships are good then we are also good, but if we have bad relationships then life is not so good...and this goes for both our friendships and our relationship with God. But the preaching was good, because he drew the parallel between our relationships to others and to God. He was saying how the one thing that is the mostly important firstly as being a disciple of Jesus is to be with him, to spend time with him. Out from that everything else flows... the power, the anointing, etc... And the same way in our relationships, we need to get to spend time and get to know each other well... and then he was saying how men and women are different, that men wants to "do things together" and women wants to "spend time together". And we need to learn how to do both in a marriage for example, but also with God. We will get tired if we just do and do and do things for or with God, but we need to take that quality time as well and just spend time with him. It was just a really good and practical message, with good advice for everyday life in relating to people and with God.:-)

Nice evening...

On Tuesday evening Anette had made some delicious dinner at her place. We had a good evening together with....

Worship and prayer...

Dinner and fellowship...

Resting and enjoying Josh Groban singing...and Anette singing as well...:-)

And putting together Anette´s new tv-table...

Then we took a nice evening walk down the river and then to town, where we also stoppen for a evening tea (and dessert for Sigurd) at a café...

And here is the closest I could get to Sydney here in Tartu!:-)