Obdience rather than sacrifice.

23.8.2013 13:14
This week I went with my mother to a prayer meeting in an old fisherman's cottage in our region. (Check out the interior design. Big time Finland nostalgia.) Ahhhh, how I love to pray - and especially with humble prayer warrior women such as these. Powerful stuff. I could feel things being accomplished! And I was so happy to be home amongst people fervent in prayer and so sincere in faith and living!
There was one woman that I didn't recognize from my childhood, going to church in this particular village. For some strange reason another lady started talking about the power in music to bring a message across, and then the lady that I didn't know started sharing her story of how she came to faith. And that story involved me - completely unknowingly! When I still went to school and high school, I was sometimes called to come sing at a hospice for old people that had took part in The War. I can't say I enjoyed it, as I seldom did or do when I perform. The endless struggle to find suitable music. The stress of a very full yearly schedule. The uncertainty of not knowing if anybody liked it. But being raised with a strong sense of duty I still sang whenever people asked me to. Thinking that I had to use the talent God had given me. This lady told us how she had worked at that hospice and how she had sat in a corner listening to me singing. How something had reached deep inside of her, too strong for words and how she had sat there in the corner crying, realizing her desire and hunger for Jesus. And that's where her journey started, almost 20 years ago. Quite incredible what happens when we make ourselves available. Even in our grumpy moments. As long as we go.
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Dr. Nanna Rosengård

. stolt finlandssvensk . missionär tidigare stationerad i Sydafrika, nu i Aten . älskar att möta människor hjärta-mot-hjärta . fascinerad av språk, kultur och identitet . intresserad av en hälsosam livsstil . gräver gärna i rabatter om tillfälle ges . extrem-exalterad över att Jesus har befriat oss för att leva i frihet (t.ex. från fördömelse, förväntningar och synd) . ogillar att stå inför stora grupper men sjunger ändå emellanåt (mindre nu än förr) . doktor i teologi/judaistik . känner skaparglädje tillsammans med min Canon 7D .

Jag lever för att andra ska få känna mer liv. Jag önskar vara mer medveten om Jesus närvaro överallt och i alla och hjälpa andra att erfara Hans befriande närvaro och nåd.

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