Small snake!

Check out this snake, nice!

Mats-Jan

As a child!

Today I spent almost all day with my 6 year old son, what a wonderful time there is to be children. He asks and I reply, he asks again and I say again, he asks … Jesus said we must turn and become like children if we are to enter the kingdom of God. Luke is a child, a 6year old. I tell my 16 year old son the only difference between a 6year old and 16year old is number one before the! Luke’s innocent and extremely curious. He will be space scientist when he grows up. Today, he scratched my back in the morning because I bribed him with me to give him something if he did it. He did not know what and neither I for that matter. After an hour he asked if we would go to the toy store and buy toy, I said I was not promising you a toy, an hour later, he wondered if we would go to the store and buy a candy bag to him as I promised, I said I did not promise him a candy bag but something. He was firmly convinced that what dad promised he would keep! It moved my heart.

A couple hours later we ended up at the Moll and I would now fulfill my promise, we lomme off first towards the supermarket, but I stopped and said we are going the other direction instead, I had an idea. I said I will give you something for your brain to work. He saw the Gamestore and exclaimed, ‘Yes, a PS 2 game, a cheap in the box’ (he knows that itch on your back is not enough for a full-price version, see the free market mentality), I walked past the Game and enter the college bookstore and 6year old exclaims, ‘No, not a book, I hate to read books, it sucks’ (vocabulary from 16 year old) But I got resulut into the children’s section to get what just popped up in my mind, ‘How does it work’ books. Now there was no such but a ‘Kluringarna in big wide world’. The 6year old tried with a book about the Vikings, another on piratologi and another, with parts to build a truck, in a book! Creative to say the least!

But I was firm and I gently persuaded him that this particular book fits both because of content and price, 69kr on sale, just what the itch on your back might be worth.

A few hours later, it was bedtime and time to read the book, which first sucked, then been avoided but now it was the best thing that happened to him, for now he would learn maths, he will be the best in the whole kindergarten in, mathematics. We laid down in bed and slowly I read paragraph by paragraph, looking at pictures, read captions. It begun with the solar system, 6year old, to be space scientists are studying each picture, text box (though he can not read yet, he absorbs himself in each letter) asking about how the earth spins, and how big the sun is relative to the earth. Suddenly he says ‘It takes one month for the moon to rotate around the Earth’! I look at him in surprise and asks, ‘How do you know? “He replies briefly,’ I just know it ‘! We finish reading in  the book and he huddle themselves besides me and whispers ‘ Dad. that book is super, thank you! “

It is clear that my father’s heart beats a few extra kind! Then he says ‘Today I give you 6 kisses instead of three kisses,’ “and disappears into his bunk bed. I get my six kisses and go wondering into my little office, thinking: ‘He knows nothing about any problems in the world, he is innocent, curious, searching for knowledge, excited about what the future will invite him and I realize that I, as a middle-aged father has a tremendous responsibility to keep this curious, hungry flame alive, and I ask the Lord to preserve his innocent and hungry heart.

Mats-Jan

Google russian / Русский Google

I will try to use google translate to run a russian blog! It will probably sound a bit funny time to time but I will still try it out

I will be thankful for any comments about how the quality is in russian

Я постараюсь использовать Google Translate для запуска Русский блог! Это будет возможно, звучат немного смешной времени, но я все равно попробуйте ее

Я буду благодарна за любые замечания о том, как качество на русском языке

Благослови
Bless

Mats-Jan

Comeback!

Wonderful! This week I have started working a little bit again, after nearly three-month sick leave and vacation, it feels wonderful to begin again. During the week I left the marketingdepartmern at Word of Life and Johan Ericsson has begun instead of me.

I’m starting on the missionsdepartment again and is planning to travel and preach as much I can (have to take it easy and careful, have my wonderful pastor admonished me, yes, yes I am listening:)

Together with Roar Sörensen and Lennart Fjell we have begun to work with, just that, launching next years Israel tour, it will be something extra ordinary. I personally think that the trip we usually do is already super packed and a great experience of the Land of Israel and the biblical sites, fellowship with Christians from many countries and wonderful meetings with preaching from the Word. But this tour next year, don’t miss it!!

I will write regularly about the backstage stuff is happening around Israel at this trip, so hang with both the blog and the trip next year.

Date? 31/8-8/9

Check http://www.livetsord.se//default.aspx?idStructure=5581&language=en

Mats-Jan

Bibleschool!

Then it gets rolling and it was so nice today when the Word of Life Bible College started with several hundred students. 

Worship arose and hands were lifted, now we are here and spends a year or 2 in order to seek the Lord and His Word, His will for our lives. Pastor Ulf spoke so sweetly of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as the God we know. 

I have great expectation for what God will do tomorrow when we will pray for all pupils, God is a miracle doer and He loves His children and wants to bless and pour yourself over them. 

Imagine what good that will come out of these students in future

 

Mats-Jan

Bibleschool begins!

Today Word of Life Bible School starts in Uppsala, it started 26 years ago, not bad at all. I am sitting and thinkng about how it was when I went to bible school in 1987, it is a looong time ago!

The week before I could move to Uppsala from the little town I had chickenpox (?), I had nowhere to live and no job or for that matter. But went I did the day it started, I had just become free from infection. I had got hold of a place to stay on Saturday before it started and moved in with a guy I knew through a friend who then got a job for me at a hotel dishwasher / kitchen worker. So I got a place to stay for him and he got a job for me and we have remained good friends since that year, great.

Bibleschool was revolutionary in many ways, the discipline, communitybut above all was the Bible, which opened up through all the good teaching we received.

Now I’ll go to the startup myself, many years has passed and now I teach myself the subject of Mission at the first year, see what God is doing through time!

 

Mats-Jan

Friends

Tommorrow me and my wife aregoing to celebrate a good friends 50th birthday, Jan Rosman, down in Norrköping. First time we came to visit them many years ago he proposed us to put our tent in their garden. II didn’t really understand it was yoke thought to myself, being a missionary in the Ukraine at the time, Swedes are strange. Placing the sunday morning preacher in a tent in the garden, quite unheard of  inmost other corners of the world.

But when arriving they of course placed us in a nice and cosy guestroom in their mansion like house.

God bless Jan on your 50th birthday!

Mats-Jan

Pray for Vietnam!

 

Women ine Vietnam

I read on the Charisma Magazine’s website that Christians in Vietnam have a tough situation where the police storm house meetings and disrupt housechurches life in several ways. 
Especially northern Vietnam is exposed where the Communist regime has a stronger foothold than down in the south. Vietnam is a wonderful country with happy and open people. I was privileged to visit Hanoi a couple of years ago and meet many Christians there, most were new saved with a lovely glow for Jesus and the joy of salvation. 

There are over 90 million people in this country which is not larger in area at all but the church as a whole is not so huge, but some parts of the country is in principle unreached with the gospel. 

Pray for these brave and at the time of writing, suffering brothers and sisters that the Lord will strength them and lead them. 

Be that as it is meant to harm them will contribute to further spread the gospel beyond Vietnam

 

Mats-Jan

Blog drought

I have an illness, blog-idé-dryup, I think it is called. Do not know what the pills or prayer to help against it. Shall gather strength for the re-launch again. Isenbayeva learned a lesson and Galkina of 1500 m, one must be humble. 

TL Osborne: ‘God has a thousand ways Thursday Humble a man’ 

Russian Siberian Bear Karelin had not lost a match in 14 years but lost his last in against an American? in his last Olympics final! 

How was it he wrote that Solomon sometime time long ago? 

Yes, Pride goes before fall! 

How easy it is to take credit and look at ourselves in the mirror instead of looking at Jesus, or the birds or the fields as Jesus said we would. 

Mats-Jan

Testimony part 2

Testimony part 1

After my bold proclamation on the ferry that there is no God the summer holidays -84 begun. I and three friends went to the mountains to hike in Padjelanta close to Kvikkjokk in Lapland. After one week, we went home traveling by train, but poor as we were, we went without sleeping compartment and slept on floors and in an empty sitting compartment. During the night, something happened that came to affect the rest of my life, I saw a vision in the middle of the night! 

In the vision I saw myself standing in front of a brick wall that was as far as I saw for both right and left, the wall was so high that I did not see the edge upwards. It was dark and gloomy and with my the hands I searched for an opening took me through the wall but I found nothing. Suddenly it struck through a fist from the other side and bricks flew around so I duck not to be hit, and out through the hole that occurred flowed as a liquid light, which was filled with love. On the other side of the wall inside the bright lights, I saw the outline of a city and so the sight ceased. 

When I came to myself I sat up with eyes in the open, hands shaking with fear and I thought I do not believe in these things, signs and visions and madness! It was no ordinary dream, I had felt them the hull of bricks, experienced the liquid lovelight as if it was for real but still it was not there. The compartment was still there, one of my friends slept on the other side and I thought “Now, it has been too much fresh air in the mountains so I’m hallucinating! When I lay me down on my back I couldn’t not let go of what I have seen, and a thought flew through my head-

What if God exists?

It was an impossible thought for me, I did not believe in God, not a higher essence nothing like that nonsense. But now there was the question in my mind: 

- What if God exists! 

(to be continued) 

 

Mats-Jan