My lifeguard be like...

Hey there!

I hope your Christmas was awesome!

Today I’m back with a new topic about our own lifeguard.

Let’s start!

We all have a lifeguard who even walks on water. A lifeguard that is able to save every one, even the ones in the midst of the deepest storm. His name is Jesus.

You might be in a horrible storm or maybe just in some strong winds. But wherever you are and however you feel, He is always your lifeguard.

He doesn’t just watch over you and keep you save from harm but He also pulls you back up when someone or something has pushed you down.

Often we don’t even realize all the times where our lifeguard saved us/ kept us from harm.

I want to encourage you to ask God for a mind that sees the ways He works in your life. So that you might be able to thank Him.

I also want to tell you that you can call out to God for help. He is there at his post, like a lifeguard at the beach, waiting for you to call out to Him. You don’t need to feel like you bother God when you ask Him for help. He loves honest people and His shoulders are broad enough for all your troubles!

But now, you might not all the time be in the midst of a great storm. Well during those „good” times praise God and use your life as a worship to Him.

To be exact, praise God in every situation. I have started to praise God always when I feel „down“. It takes a step of faith to do that and I know it might be hard to praise when you feel like shouting of anger/sadness/... But I promise you that you will feel better with a time of worship than a time of burning in anger/sorrow/...

God will refresh your soul. It might not happen in the same second but you will realize that God really gives peace. 

As a plus, when you praise Him your relationship with Him gets stronger.

So call out to God first and remember to worship Him. Because He wants to give you the peace and the rest for your soul. So when you worship, you give God the sign that you really want it and not just that but you also grant Him the thanks that He deserves.

Some verses:

Isaiah 40:31

Ephesians 2:8

Philippians 4:6

This was today’s message for you!

Be blessed this last week in December 2k17 :)

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CHRISTmas <3

Hey peeps!

I just want to wish you all a Merry Christmas!

This year I made gifts for 4 poor people and we delivered them on Friday. I was so happy to be able to do something like this during this special period where we remember the birth of Jesus!

The gifts were gloves, warm socks, a hat, toothbrush, toothpaste, showergel, deodorant, tissues, a towel, a small towel, nut packages and some mueslibars.*

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But other than that, I also backed a lot and did some fun relaxing things... 

Here is a sneekpeak :)   

And now finally, after so long waiting, the party can begin!!!

Don’t forget the reason why we celebrate: because Jesus is born!!!   John 3:16

And all these decorations, songs,... are worship to Him. With them we can show Him respect and love!

So with this all said, I wish you guys the happiest of Christmas! Enjoy!!!

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Who? Me?

Helloo!

I hope you’re all doing well!

I have still exams and a lot to study but today I thought I could write something and hopefully encourage you guys.

For meany years already (actually since I can remember) I have prayed for my friends (aspecially the non-chrsitian friends) that they would get to know God. But for a while I didn’t get that God wanted to use me for this purpose. When I realised it, I had missed already some opportunities and somehow I felt a little sad because I thought that now they will never know who God is.

But I worried for no reason because the past few months I have realized that God has found new ways to get through to those old friends with whom I missed the opportunity. God put in their lives other christians that He can use. For example: a classmate from my old school is now in the same class with one of my good christian friend. And things like that.

Today I want to give to you 4 things that you need to remember:

1) I want to encourage you to let God use you. You might not know yet what God’s plan is for you but one thing you can know: God chose you to tell people the good news (that He saves). 

2) You might be scared and that’s normal but pray that God will overcome your fear. It doesn’t mean your fear is gone, it means that His will is stronger than your fear!

3) If you have missed an opportunity, remember that God always finds new ways. 

And He is not mad at you because you missed an opportunity! He understands your fears.

4) You are not alone (you are not the only christian in your environment)!!! I always thought that the only christian friend that my non-christian friends had or ever would have was me but one day I was going through a friend’s „friends“ on instagram and I found some other christians. And I realized this with a lot of my friends. So remember you are not alone. God puts other christians in your friends lives too and this means that christianity is not something that is dead but that is living with a living God!

Some verses:

• Phillipians 4:6 •

• Isaiah 41:10 •

• Joshua 1:9 •

• Matthew 20:28 •

#drawingskills 😂

Be blessed this week!

<3<3<3

Snow, exams, hot drinks

Hey people!

It’s that time of the year again! Exams, snow, Christmas preparation, hot drinks,...

I love all of this excapt exams!!! Annyone want to take them over from me?! 

No just kidding ;-)

Last week it snowed here!!! The snow brought a really nice wintery antmosphere everywhere! Thanks God for snow :).

Today I‘m studying math...

Exams are a lot of work and tiring for everyone but just remember during this time that God is all the time with you. He is there to give you strength and He will help you get trough your exams with good grades! He promises this if you do your best ;).

„Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.“

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:6‬ ‭

I wish all of you students good luck with exams and all other people a good december <3 

Ps: don’t forget to take brakes and once in a while enjoy this christmas time! You don’t need to do big things to get in christmas atmosphere. Just little things here and there ;)

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Wintertime and pastel colours ♡

Helloo!!

Yesterday I marked the start of the christmas period for myself by setting up my christmas tree.

That’s the best part of the year!!!

This year I chose pastel pink, silver and white as my theme coulours. It probably sounds weird to use silver and pastel pink at the same time but actually it turned out quite nice. To be precise, this is my favorite xmas tree decoration since a long time :).

And ... tomorrow the December countdown starts!!!! Awwww I‘m getting so excited ;-p!!!!!

Have a happy start of December <3

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|God’s initials|

Hey guys!

You might have read the title and been like nooo math. Don‘t worry I‘m not here to teach you math, hahha. Just to share a thought ;-).

On Thursday was Fibonacci day. Fibonacci sequence is a row of numbers that make a spiral.
-> 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,...=> 1+1=2, 1+2= 3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8,...

And now you might wonder why Fibonacci day, well Thursday was 11/23 so that’s why :-).

In math we watched a little film about this and it made me realize that this formula is in so many natural things (flowers, andimals, our bodyparts,...). To be precise in (almost) all that God created.

It’s like God would have put his initials on everything He created (like a painter puts his initials on his paintings so that people know who’s painting it is).

The formula is so perfect and can be used in so many different things but it’s really hard to copy. 

Here is the video that we watched in class. Don’t skip it, it’s really good! :

https://youtu.be/greG6_f7Y7Q

Some bible verses:

- ‭‭Nehemiah‬ ‭9:6‬ ‭

- Revelation 22:13

Be blessed!

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. CHOSEN .

Hi there!

Sory, I haven’t blogged in a while, I‘ve been very busy.

But anyway let’s begin ;-).

We all are chosen! We are chosen by God to be in the situation we are in. 

You might be in a situation right now that you don’t like and you might be asking the question „why me?“.

The answer is simple: God chose you not to punish or to harm you! But simply to teach you something/ use you trough this/ strengthen you/ make you braver/...

Right now you might not understand what God wants to do trough your situation but you will understand it in time!!!

God also knows what you want. He knows who you are and his plans will fit to your personality. Even though you are right now in a situation you don’t really „like“ (your job, place you live in,...) Gods plan is based on what you like. He might use this period later in a part of your life that you do „like“. 

So trust God and know that He has chosen you! Whatever you do and in whatever season you are believe this. You are special and God chose YOU!

• 1 Peter 2:4-5 •

• Proverbs 16:9 •

• Jeremiah 29:11 •

• Hebrews 11:6 •

• Matthew 6:8 •

Be blessed!!!

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Sicknesses...

Hey everyone!

Today I just want to tell you guys something little that I have realized while going trough this (difficult) part of my life.

So in the summer of 2016 I was diagnosed with a scin disease wich was quite serious. I got strong medications for it, I had a lot of doctor visits, a lot of tests were done to me,... 

The medication made me very tired. This tiredness wasn’t just a tiredness that goes away with some sleep but a sort of fatigue that is there all the time.

I still have this sickness, this medication, these doctor appointments,... and it all still makes me very tired.

I get a lot of support from family and friends (older than me). But somehow I feel like people my own age (but also some addults) don’t really get how I really feel. 

In school I need to do less and I get to come home urlier. And my friends who know my sickness often are kind of „jealous“ of these special things. But in reality I would rather be healthy and do all schoolwork instead of being sick!

I know that some (many) of you have a familymember, a friend or someone in their life who has some sort of sickness. Wether it’s a skin disease, a chronical sickness, cancer or something else but things like that always are hard. It seems for others like it’s not such a big deal but in reality it takes a lot of energy to be sick.

I would love that more people my own age would really ask me questions like how are you doing?, how do you feel?, can I do something for you?...

And that they wouldn’t get jealous because I get to go home urlier or get to skip a test.

(I‘m not mad at my friends, in many ways they love me and support me. But I just want to tell you the point of view from a sick person because this might help you to understand.) 

So I encourage you all to go to these people that you know are suffering some sort of sickness and ask them if they want to talk, need help,... 

=> support them!

Ask them also to explain their sickness and feelings to you so that you may understand them better. Because you can look from the outside but that often isn’t how they really feel.

Here are some texts that I found really describe well how people feel with sicknesses:

I hope you take my advice and start showing support to people with sicknesses (pray for them, talk with them, help them,...). Please understand that being sick isn’t fun and be thankful for your health!

Have a blessed end of the week!

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LOVE

Heeyyy!!!

Hope you’re doing all fine!

Todays topic is love. There are different ways where love is used so let me clarify about what love we’re going to talk: love between friends and godly love.

First of all „godly love“. God loves us soooo much! You can’t even imagine how much. 

Sometimes (or well let’s say often) we wonder why He loves us since we are sinners and far away from perfect. He loves us because He created us, because He is our father. 

And you might think that okey He loves me but how since I don’t always love Him back?

We ask this question because we only look with a „worldly“ perspective: love others but if they don’t love you back, you don’t need to love them anymore.

But that’s not who God is! He loves us because He does not depend on our love. And if we love God and have a relationship with God then He will give us the love we need so that we are not depending on the love we get from the world. This brings us to love between friends.

=> relationship with God -> love that overflows -> you don’t depend on the love of people around you -> you will be able to love everyone 

Now with the love you have from God you can start working for God by loving people who need love. 

And don’t say okey I will love people and then just love the ones you want to love. NO, love everyone and especially those who are in deep need. Because Jesus also died for everyone!

When you love people you will not only be giving them love but also help. And because you took the time to help them they will be able to figure themselves out too. They will get to know who they really are and the hope that God has given us.

And also remember that this work you do by just loving is also a way to serve God.

One last thing! The people you help might never tell you in person how much your love helped them. But don’t let that discourage you because that’s just another sneaky way from the devil so that you would stop spreading Gods love!

Here are still some bible verses to this topic:

John 13:34

1 John 4:11

1 John 3:23

(There are many more verses about this. I just listed a few of them)

Be blesses this week!!!

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Holidays must be jolly days...

Coucou!

That was a french word for hello ;)

I’m on holiday this week so we decided to go to PARIS!!!

We had so much fun and got to see a lot of beautiful statues, landmarks and places.

Here are some pictures and they are in the order that we walked so that you get a picture of our route:

• day 1:

- l‘Arc de Triumph -

- I loved the metro stations, they were so cute -

- Tour Eiffel -

- from the Eiffeltour by night-

• day 2:

- Louxor Obelisk-

-background: Louvre, the picture that I‘m holding is a picture that a man drew of me close to Louvre. But he didn’t totaly get me right :) -

During my holiday (back at home) we did still some really fun stuff. 

One evening I made us some hot chocolate with marshmallows :) ...

... and we ate some delicious macarons from Paul backery!

Here was my holiday summed up ;)

Hope your holiday was awesome too (if you had holiday ;))!!!

Love you all <3

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...choice...

Hii ♡

Todays topic is about a choice everyone has to make, with or without evidence.

So let’s start!

First of all read Matthew 28:19.

God tells us to go into the world and make disciples. He asks us to SPREAD his word.

But sometimes we understand this as „go spread the word and make shure everyone believes it“. This is not what God means. He has given everyone a free will so He lets you choose: whether you believe in Him or you don’t. He does not force you to believe in Him. He could but he doesn’t do that!

So now what He asks you to do is to TELL the world about Him. This means that He gives everyone that choice.

But now you might think „what’s the point in just telling people?“. Here is the point: you tell people so that they can have this fair choice. You can’t make a choice if you only now one part of the question. (Example: your mom asks: worms or pasta? -> if she only tells you that she could make worms you will never now that there could have been something better.)

We need to tell people about God so that they can really make a choice.

You will see that many people will choose God. Not only because of what you have told them about God but also because of your style of living (being kind, loving, caring...).

But REMEMBER: you’re job is just to tell about God and give them a real chance to make this choice. After telling you just can pray and be an example to them by living a christian life.

So don’t force people to make the same choice as you. 

Also read: 

Isaiah 58:10-11

Joshua 1:9

Ephesians 5:1-2

!!!John 1:1-13!!!

Revelation 3:20

(Maybe I have put some of these verses already in my earlier blogposts but they are just so powerful :))

Summerizing images:

-> if people don’t know God there only choice can be something else than God

-> we need to show people who God is so that they can make a fair choice

Be blessed ♡ 

FAITH!

Heyy!!!

Long time since I have blogged but here I go again ;-).

I read this bible verse this week: 

„These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.“

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭11:39-40‬ ‭NIV‬‬

It reminded me about something that had been bothering me for a while.

I thought that because you don’t get something you have to trie harder and harder all the time and if you are not able to get it you are a failure. But that isn’t true! 

We need God to help us „get“ things. He doesn’t do all the work but He helps us and gives us strength, wisdom,... (for example: you need to walk yourself, God wil not walk for you but He will give you strength to be able to walk).

But sometimes God doesn’t help us because it is not what He has planned for us. You might want something that isn’t what God wants for you. Then you are trying and trying to get it by your own strength and you won’t be able to get it (or atleast not in the way you wanted it). And often when you don’t get it, you feel like you failed. But that isn’t really true: you just failed because it wasn’t the will of God. You need to trust God, do the things that He askes you to do and trust in His plan. His plan never fails. 

It might be that He has promised you something but you haven’t „got“ it yet and you feel like God forgot (you) or that it wasn’t from God. But don’t feel like that because God promises you that His plan is perfect and that when it is the right time for Him, He will give you what He promised!

Have faith in what God has planned for you and the promises He made.

(Read also Hebrews 11:1)

Stay blessed ♡ 

♡ Light, love, peace ♡

Hey people!!

Here I am again with a new painting :,-). But I just want to share this with you because I feel like there is a message behind this picture!

So when you first look at this picture you see a guy and a girl. Your first reaction is like „oo romantic“.

But when you think again you might see what I see in it: the „guy“ isn’t just a guy but is Jesus.

You see that this girl is standing in the midst of darkness but then there is that light...

This light is formed like a heart. Because God promised us that He would send His son to this world to bring light and love.  Romans 5:8

In the right corner of the heart you see some red color. This symbolizes Jesus who died at the cross so our sins would be forgiven. 1 Peter 2:24

You might be walking trough darkness, trough hard times. But you don’t need to stay away from God, His love, His help, His forgiveness,... 

Sometimes we think because we are in darkness we can’t enjoy God or His love and presence. But that’s a lie!!! God wants us to walk with Him and trust Him even when it’s hard. 

Sometimes your not able to walk with Him but he is patient: He will wait for you and start walking again when you are ready. But even while your still and resting He is there and you can rest in His presence.

Don’t be ashamed to spend time with God. He wants to spend time with you even while your broken. 

He loves us and we need to believe it too! He send His only son to this world to save us. So if that isn’t a reason why we should believe that He really loves us I don’t know what would.

1 John 1:7

John 8:12

Joshua 1:9

Romans 8:38

1 John 4:10

Isaiah 9:2

Be blessed this comming week

<3<3<3

_Welcome Fall_

Heyy guys!

Fall is on it's way! Well actually I don't really like fall. It's such a dark period and it takes still so long until spring. But on the other hand I love candles and thick pullovers! 

Talking of candles this made me think about and aspect in life we often forget (and with 'we' I include myself). Fall is a dark period but it doesn't take the whole year, we have hard periodes (=dark periods) in our life but they never take our whole life. During this fall time (=dark period) we still have little fun things: like candles, warm pullovers, hot chocolate,... The same is with the dark periods in our life: they are not dark every hour of every day. We can still make the best out of those periods and have little fun things.

-1 Corintians 4:5-

-Psalm 139:12-

-Joshua 1:9-

!Remember the little things in life. Don't just think that the big things matter, the little are important too. And we need especially those little things during hard (=> dark) times.

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Brussels by day, blogging by night

Do you guys have a favorite city?

Mine is Brussels!!! Why you might wonder well because there are so many people with so different backgrounds: some might be born in Brussels and might live there their whole life, others might have moved there for work, some might be immigrants and still some might just love the city. And what I really love about the people there is that they are from all over the world: Amerika, Afrika, Asia and ofcourse Europe ;-). What I really like too is the atmosphere! You can't imagine it but when you get into the city you just feel it!!! And somehow God is in the midst of the city. He led all the people there for a reason. And once I'm old innough I'm going there to minister! So that other people can feel Gods presence there (and actually every where) too!!! 

You know why I really want to minister in Brussels? Well because there are so many needs: around every corner you find somebody you'll be able to pray for and help. Brussels needs ministers!!! And I'm going to be one of them, you can be shure of that ❥ 

~Matthew 5:14~

~Matthew 28:19-20~

~Acts 13:47~

Just btw today I went into the city to visit the new clothesstore Arket. After wards we still walked to Grand Place and drank a Starbucks frappuccino. We had a lot of fun!

Starbucks ^ ;-p

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Be the light!

Hey!

This week i made a new painting.

Somehow this painting inspired me! Because sometimes when we look at the world we just look around us and see darkness and a world that is a mess. But this isn't the way we should look at the world! Often we just see darkness but we have to look further and then we will see the blooming flowers! And as christians we are like that light that is shining. We might not see  it ourselves but that's who we are and other people will notice!

Read Mathhew 5:16
I love that verse!!!

Be blessed!

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Summerdrawing...

Hey guys!

I haven't blogged for sooo long but here is soemthing i did this summer :-).

This is a picture i drew with watercolourpencils and then i went over it with a wet paintbrush.

The picture is kind of like a sunflower mixed with a daisy, don't ask me why :'-).

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