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For you my
dear sister
God gave me the gift to see
you like my sister in Jesus Christ.
Another worker in the vine-
yard of Lord. A sister I can share
Bible with. Someone, who has
the same spirit bearing different
fruits for the God′s glory.
Person, who can inspire me with
hope, faith and love.
Somebody beloved in my heart
This book is my small present I
would like to share with you
your brother
Small biblical story as
my introduction
So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew;
and I fear the Lord, the God of
heaven, who made the sea and the
dry land.” Then the men were
exceedingly afraid, and said to him,
“Why have you done this?” For the
men knew that he fled from the presence
of the Lord, because he had told
them. Then they said to him, “What
shall we do to you that the sea may be
calm for us?”—for the sea was growing
more tempestuous. And he said to
them, “Pick me up and throw me into
the sea; then the sea will become calm
for you. For I know that this great
tempest is because of me.” Nevertheless
the men rowed hard to return to
land, but they could not, for the sea
continued to grow more tempestuous
against them. Therefore they cried out to
the LORD and said, “We pray, O Lord,
please do not let us perish for this
man’s life, and do not charge us with
innocent blood; for You, O Lord, have
done as it pleased You.” So they picked
up Jonah and threw him into the
sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.
Jonah 1;9-15
Jonah felt by his conscience, that he did something,
what was not good in the eyes of God. But he tried to
hide this fact in front of himself and in front of the
people. Till the moment, that there was no other
option, then to tell the truth to the people on the boat.
The man on the picture is like Jonah, can be like each
of us. He took his own decision and start to go this
way.
I would like to tell you my story today, even if I am
always thinking, what is in this story that, what I can
boast about and I can honestly say-nothing. Because it
is quite sad story. When I was living in Czech, I was a
teacher. The school, where I was teaching was not
Christian at all, because in Czech Republic the state
schools are secular. But I had a very nice and friendly
director, really gift of God and in my art lessons I could
do, whatever I wanted. I was happy with my work and I
really liked working with children, but I felt my personal
life unfulfilled. All my life I was dreaming about serious
relationship, but nothing happened. Till a moment I
have met a girl, who was just bit younger than I, and
she had already a child. I don't know why, but I was an
angel in hers eyes. A kind of prince, a woman is
sometimes waiting for. We tried to live together as I
always felt, that if such opportunity is coming, I have to
grasp it tightly and don't do, like I don't care. Not
knowing God so much in that time I just took decision,
like Jonah did. I took my boat like the man from the
picture and tied up the boat of my girlfriend and her
child to my own. So as you see, I grasped it really
thoroughly. And I started to row. But I was not an
angel, only a man, so after one year first wave appear.
Then a bigger one and even bigger one. I was not
Christian, and she was not Christian, so we didn't know
what to do, to make the storm calm. I was just rowing
best, as I could. The one wave was so big, that it was
better for her to jump into the sea. Because I was not
an angel. My boat turned off, and at once I was in the
sea, alone, slowly sinking to the bottom.
But I think, that God loved me, because he prepared a
great fish to swallow me. The fish was Jesus Christ.
Before I was searching God in my life, I had many
questions, but I never understood, who is Jesus Christ.
With His help and presence I was able to overcome a
hard time of my life and try to find a sense of life again.
When the fish vomited me, I felt, that it is important to
be grateful to God. So I said to my director, that I
would like to do with the children a ceramic project of
fourteen stations of the way of the Stations of the Cross
for one place, which was beloved in my hard. My goal
wasn't to create something to worship it, just to create
something to the glory of God as my thanks, that I
have found a sense of life again. So I took the children
from the school, God gave me to work with them and I
prayed to have some help of a volunteer for this
project. I think, that God was listening to my prayers,
because He gave me a man from Senegal, who came
to help me for three months, even if he was Muslim,
after a Christian teacher from Ghana and after a
woman from Colombia. When I was about in the half
of the project, because it took me three and half years,
a woman arrived with two nice daughters. It was such a
Jonah felt by his conscience, that he did something, what was not good in the eyes of
God. But he tried to hide this fact in front of himself and in front of the people. Till the
moment, that there was no other option, then to tell the truth to the people on the boat.
The man on the picture is like Jonah, can be like each of us. He took his own decision and
start to go this way.
I would like to tell you my story today, even if I am always thinking, what is in this story
that, what I can boast about and I can honestly say-nothing. Because it is quite sad story.
When I was living in Czech, I was a teacher. The school, where I was teaching was not
Christian at all, because in Czech Republic the state schools are secular. But I had a very
nice and friendly director, really gift of God and in my art lessons I could do, whatever I
wanted. I was happy with my work and I really liked working with children, but I felt my
personal life unfulfilled. All my life I was dreaming about serious relationship, but nothing
happened. Till a moment I have met a girl, who was just bit younger than I, and she had
already a child. I don't know why, but I was an angel in hers eyes. A kind of prince, a
woman is sometimes waiting for. We tried to live together as I always felt, that if such
opportunity is coming, I have to grasp it tightly and don't do, like I don't care. Not
knowing God so much in that time I just took decision, like Jonah did. I took my boat like
the man from the picture and tied up the boat of my girlfriend and her child to my own.
So as you see, I grasped it really thoroughly. And I started to row. But I was not an angel,
only a man, so after one year first wave appear. Then a bigger one and even bigger one. I
was not Christian, and she was not Christian, so we didn't know what to do, to make the
storm calm. I was just rowing best, as I could. The one wave was so big, that it was better
for her to jump into the sea. Because I was not an angel. My boat turned off, and at once I
was in the sea, alone, slowly sinking to the bottom.
But I think, that God loved me, because he prepared a great fish to swallow me. The fish
was Jesus Christ. Before I was searching God in my life, I had many questions, but I never
understood, who is Jesus Christ. With His help and presence I was able to overcome a
hard time of my life and try to find a sense of life again. When the fish vomited me, I felt,
that it is important to be grateful to God. So I said to my director, that I would like to do
with the children a ceramic project of fourteen stations of the way of the Stations of the
Cross for one place, which was beloved in my hard. My goal wasn't to create something to
worship it, just to create something to the glory of God as my thanks, that I have found a
sense of life again. So I took the children from the school, God gave me to work with them
and I prayed to have some help of a volunteer for this project. I think, that God was
listening to my prayers, because He gave me a man from Senegal, who came to help me
for three months, even if he was Muslim, after a Christian teacher from Ghana and after a
woman from Colombia. When I was about in the half of the project, because it took me
three and half years, a woman arrived with two nice daughters. It was such a huge gift to
me, that I was so happy in my Lord, that He is giving to me once more an opportunity to
start a relationship. But I didn't want to do as before. I was very happy, when she told me,
that she wants I become her husband. I felt safe, because she was Christian, evangelic
Christian, and she teach me lot of things about living God. She was divorced and there
was something unhealed from past, something unsolved. Very small spot, which looked
like really of no importance. You know, just one very small spot of infection, but from
where the whole body can be infected. She wanted, to take me as a patch of this old scar.
It was very difficult for me, because I felt, that God wants to heal this scar not that I cover
it with my “empathy“. So I was wrestling inside me between God and love to her, to
don't lose her. This was my biggest fear from the time of the first relationship. So I became
Jonah again. I decide to be on her side as a good future husband and slowly I have lost
friendship with my sister, with my mother, with my brother. I was rowing again as before,
but the waves were still bigger and bigger. I was so afraid to lose her, that I didn't care
about the waves, just praying to overcome it. After a year we get married and it was the
most beautiful wedding ever, maybe because it was my. I felt like, now I am sure with God,
because from the beginning I took her as a gift of God. I overcame the biggest wave and
expected, that now the sea will be calm. But the real storm just started. There was half year
of a storm with some days, when I saw sun. And I was really happy to see the sun,
because it makes me sure, that my choice was good and our love still exists. After some
nine months after the wedding, my wife took the girls and went to France. I felt myself like
Josef, just being sold to Egypt by his brothers. We were planing together some new life as
it is, so it was not difficult for me to stop my job, rent my flat, put everything to the
garage, take my bike and went by to France too. I tried here to start a new life for the third
time, but it was totally without success. The small spot already infected all our relationship.
My wife told me, that it will be the best, if I will take my things and go, because to live with
me is too difficult. So they threw me to the sea of not known country for me. Without
language, without sense of life and without future.
But God was good and prepared some other fish to swallow me. So I learned french and I
started to do volunteering work and live just listening to the voice of Holy spirit, if I may
say so. So, that is the reason, why I am in France, even if I am Czech. Because God knows
what I have to do, I personally really don't know and I don't want to be again like Jonah
and take my own decision.
When I draw this picture I was thinking about the storms of life, everyone of us has. I was
thinking about taking own decisions or follow the plan of God. I was thinking about being
disobedient and become obedient. I was thinking about the three days, sometimes three
months or three years, everyone need to stay in the belly of the fish to be able to be
changed. To be able to be a good tool for God´s plans with people. To be a blessing, to
be a just a tool of God not some kind of crazy Christian really tired from evangelization
and really disappointed, how less people want to follow the good message.
I loved you as my sister and I know, that you have your own Jonah story of your life. May
our stories testify, that God always knows, where we go.
My and your Father
So he got up and went to his father.
But while he was still a long way off,
his father saw him and was filled
with compassion for him; he ran to
his son, threw his arms around him
and kissed him. “The son said to
him, ‘Father, I have sinned against
heaven and against you. I am no
longer worthy to be called your
son.’ “But the father said to his
servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best
robe and put it on him. Put a ring on
his finger and sandals on his feet.
Luke 15;20-22
God the Father created us to His likeness. That though
each of us is different, we all together can be the
bearers of God spirit, testifying this gift with our life,
reactions and whole our heart. Everything, what God
has created was good, it means there was nothing
being spoiled or created with some bad idea from the
beginning. We all, Christians as not Christians are the
owners of the God´s heritage. Each person has in its life
free choice to search its own happiness and in fact we
have two choices, same as the two sons. Is this just a
story of different life choices of two sons of the same
father? I think, it is a story about our life choices.
The one choice is to be the righteous son. Knowing my
roots, maybe raised up in a Christian family I know
from the beginning, who I am, who is my father and
what is my heritage. I guess, that the same feeling I can
have being a member of some another religion of the
world, which worship one God, one Father. I will go in
the way of the law, to keep all commandments, the
Father is telling me through my religion. I feel, that I
deserve attention of the Father because of my
obedience, same as the righteous son felt in his heart,
that he deserves at least a young goat for all his
obedience and slaving. Thinking of the older son was
like the thinking of many religious people. For my
moral life, obedience to your commands and for my
devout life I deserve your heritage, because it is the
way, how we people are thinking about things. And the
father replied: My son, you are always with me, and
everything I have is yours. There is nobody, who should
be excluded from the plan of salvation, from the gift to
have real relationship with God and feeling of blessing
in life. God wants to have relationship with man, He
wants, that man search Him, that he is asking in his life:
Lord, who are you? I imagined so many things about
you, but I know, that you are as different, as different
my own imaginations about you can be. The older son
was angry and refused to go in, to take part on the
celebration. Well, deeply rooted in my religious
imagination of God, I will refuse to be happy, that a
human can be lost and found again. Lost in life,
imaginations, religion. I will feel righteous in that, how I
see and perceive life, what I understand from all kind of
scriptures. My father loves me and knows me well. I
know Him just from perspective of my own obedience.
The second choice is to be like the younger son. I want
to go my own way in life, I want to search, what all life
is about. And I have some knowledge, that there is a
kind of heritage for me. The individual heritage, what I
see, that are my skills. So I do bit like the younger son.
Father, I say in my heart, give me, what belongs to me.
I don't shame to ask for that, what the younger didn't
shamed to ask for also, because I don't know my father,
I don't know, that everything is from Him, so I more
imagine, give me, what belongs to me. Then I go to
explore and conquer the world in front of me,
equipped with my own skills. But often happened that
all my heritage is gone. I just squandered His property
with prostitutes. Distinction, pride and ignorance can
be perhaps their names. They robe whole my property
God the Father created us to His likeness. That though each of us is different, we all
together can be the bearers of God spirit, testifying this gift with our life, reactions
and whole our heart. Everything, what God has created was good, it means there was
nothing being spoiled or created with some bad idea from the beginning. We
all, Christians as not Christians are the owners of the God´s heritage. Each person has in its
life free choice to search its own happiness and in fact we have two choices, same as the
two sons. Is this just a story of different life choices of two sons of the same father? I think,
it is a story about our life choices.
The one choice is to be the righteous son. Knowing my roots, maybe raised up in a
Christian family I know from the beginning, who I am, who is my father and what is my
heritage. I guess, that the same feeling I can have being a member of some another
religion of the world, which worship one God, one Father. I will go in the way of the law, to
keep all commandments, the Father is telling me through my religion. I feel, that I deserve
attention of the Father because of my obedience, same as the righteous son felt in his
heart, that he deserves at least a young goat for all his obedience and slaving. Thinking of
the older son was like the thinking of many religious people. For my moral life, obedience
to your commands and for my devout life I deserve your heritage, because it is the way,
how we people are thinking about things. And the father replied: My son, you are always
with me, and everything I have is yours. There is nobody, who should be excluded from
the plan of salvation, from the gift to have real relationship with God and feeling of
blessing in life. God wants to have relationship with man, He wants, that man search Him,
that he is asking in his life: Lord, who are you? I imagined so many things about you, but I
know, that you are as different, as different my own imaginations about you can be. The
older son was angry and refused to go in, to take part on the celebration. Well, deeply
rooted in my religious imagination of God, I will refuse to be happy, that a human can be
lost and found again. Lost in life, imaginations, religion. I will feel righteous in that, how I
see and perceive life, what I understand from all kind of scriptures. My father loves me and
knows me well. I know Him just from perspective of my own obedience.
The second choice is to be like the younger son. I want to go my own way in life, I want to
search, what all life is about. And I have some knowledge, that there is a kind of heritage
for me. The individual heritage, what I see, that are my skills. So I do bit like the younger
son. Father, I say in my heart, give me, what belongs to me. I don't shame to ask for that,
what the younger didn't shamed to ask for also, because I don't know my father, I don't
know, that everything is from Him, so I more imagine, give me, what belongs to me. Then
I go to explore and conquer the world in front of me, equipped with my own skills. But
often happened that all my heritage is gone. I just squandered His property with
prostitutes. Distinction, pride and ignorance can be perhaps their names. They
robe whole my property as I used all my skills to made me famous. Continue going in
such a strange way, so I hire myself to the ministry of the evil one, and he sends me to the
field with the pigs as I have no higher value for him. But even this, what he is giving to the
pigs, doesn't belongs to me. It can be often a past life of many of us. The perspective of a
man, who is able to manage everything in his life. And being with pigs,
he imagines perhaps being with kings.
But let´s go back to the story. The story said, when he came back to his senses. It is the
only way, how to understand who I am, and what has happened with the heritage of my
father. So when he came back to his senses, and he understood, that he is a sinner, like
each of us, he went back to his father, knowing, that there is no more heritage for him,
that now he should hardly work to deserve everything, what he lost. This story is a story
about merciful father full of compassion, like our Father in heaven is. Being lost in our life
and coming back to our senses, He is running toward you to hug you and to kiss you. We
have nothing more, what can make us righteous in front of Him, and we know it, but He is
giving us everything. The robe of faith the sandals of hope and the ring of love.
And whole heaven celebrates our return home as it is written in Bible. As we were lost and
are found as we were dead and are alive again.
God used this story told by Jesus to make as sure, how different is He from our
imaginations. You will sin against Him, but coming back to your senses He will always run
toward you. Having lost everything, what you asked for? He will be not angry about your
choice, He will make you His son again with everything, what belongs to it. Feeling
righteous, He will love you same as the lost one, but maybe understand, that you
are same lost in your imaginations.
Our Father is our God and our Lord, the one who is the same from the beginning, and He
decided to put His spirit into a man, knowing what will happen, to have the way for your
steps, the light, which can enlighten your mind, that you are able to come back to your
senses.
How beautiful father we have
Roots of disbelief
He replied, “If you have faith
as small as a mustard seed,
you can say to this mulberry
tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted
in the sea,’ and it will obey you.
Luke 17;6
When I was reading this verse for the first time, I didn't
believe, that something like it is described in this verse
can happen. That standing in a faith I will command
such a nonsense to a tree and it will happen.
Sometimes I think, that because I am reading the text
as it is written, without searching, what can be the
meaning of such text, my heart is not touched with the
message inside. I just jump it over to more interesting
parts of the scripture. But why I don't ask God to
understand the text, to ask, what is the meaning?
Maybe I feel, that the meaning is clear: Having strong
faith in God, with His help is everything possible. And
this is just a kind of illustration of that meaning. But
when the meaning is different? Is it not a pity, that I
don't search it?
The tree on the picture is not really a tree, even if it
looks like maybe like a tree. That is me, some ten years
ago, same as maybe you. I arranged my life according
to things like most of the people do. Search some job,
find a place to live and do many things like is normal.
To buy food, to insure my life. Each decision was one
root to the usual things of this world. So I became well
rooted to everything, what I liked. I had nice
apartment, quite cheap, I could do in my job quite
whatever I wished, I could travel, do my hobbies and
many many other things. During my life I slowly
recognize, that I am missing water, what is for a tree
quite important. I mean water of real living God. He
was merciful and I found water, I start to live living faith.
And I started to produce fruits of my happy life, to
share my happiness with others and to try makes
others happy too. I saw slowly from a moment I found
water, that somewhere really far from me is a sea, full
of water.But I decided in my heart, I will let this sea with
its water to those, who are better in Faith, then I, who
are pastors, preachers, evangelist, people, who were
somehow created for this, as I am not. And I was
happy with my small source, I have found.
In this verse I slowly recognized, what stayed hidden to
my eyes. If I will have really faith, if I will really believe,
than I can do a step, that everyone will just comment it:
“Such a crazy man“, then I will be obedient to this
command, as crazy as it sounds. When we are reading
the 11 chapter from Hebrews about the Heroes of faith,
we look at them as examples of strong faith in midden
of usual world. But how crazy were they for the world
at that time, doing things, they just believed? All of
them command to themselves to uprooted from the
place, ideas, imaginations, expectations and life at that
time. Each one walked on the sea. And the sea was
everything unknown. Everything, what I am not able to
make even one conclusion, to give one advice, to make
one strategy. The fear from deepness of everything,
what is unknown for me…….but known for God.
More roots you have, more difficult it is, to do such
decision. There is a battle in a heart between a desire
of uprooting from stereotypes and a fear of sea,
you don't know. I wish you dear sister, that if you do
When I was reading this verse for the first time, I didn't believe, that something like it is
described in this verse can happen. That standing in a faith I will command such a
nonsense to a tree and it will happen. Sometimes I think, that because I am reading the
text as it is written, without searching, what can be the meaning of such text, my heart is
not touched with the message inside. I just jump it over to more interesting parts of the
scripture. But why I don't ask God to understand the text, to ask, what is the meaning?
Maybe I feel, that the meaning is clear: Having strong faith in God, with His help is
everything possible. And this is just a kind of illustration of that meaning. But when the
meaning is different? Is it not a pity, that I don't search it?
The tree on the picture is not really a tree, even if it looks like maybe like a tree. That is
me, some ten years ago, same as maybe you. I arranged my life according to things like
most of the people do. Search some job, find a place to live and do many things like is
normal. To buy food, to insure my life. Each decision was one root to the usual things of
this world. So I became well rooted to everything, what I liked. I had nice apartment, quite
cheap, I could do in my job quite whatever I wished, I could travel, do my hobbies and
many many other things. During my life I slowly recognize, that I am missing water, what is
for a tree quite important. I mean water of real living God. He was merciful and I found
water, I start to live living faith. And I started to produce fruits of my happy life, to share
my happiness with others and to try makes others happy too. I saw slowly from a moment
I found water, that somewhere really far from me is a sea, full of water.But I decided in my
heart, I will let this sea with its water to those, who are better in Faith, then I, who are
pastors, preachers, evangelist, people, who were somehow created for this, as I am not.
And I was happy with my small source, I have found.
In this verse I slowly recognized, what stayed hidden to my eyes. If I will have really faith, if
I will really believe, than I can do a step, that everyone will just comment it: “Such a crazy
man“, then I will be obedient to this command, as crazy as it sounds. When we are
reading the 11 chapter from Hebrews about the Heroes of faith, we look at them as
examples of strong faith in midden of usual world. But how crazy were they for the world
at that time, doing things, they just believed? All of them command to themselves to
uprooted from the place, ideas, imaginations, expectations and life at that time. Each one
walked on the sea. And the sea was everything unknown. Everything, what I am not able
to make even one conclusion, to give one advice, to make one strategy. The fear
from deepness of everything, what is unknown for me…….but known for God.
More roots you have, more difficult it is, to do such decision. There is a battle in a heart
between a desire of uprooting from stereotypes and a fear of sea, you don't know. I wish
you dear sister, that if you do kind of decision of faith in your life, that you have enough
courage to uprooted yourself, to start something new. And if you already learned how to
swim in your life, because believing in our good Lord as your everyday solution for all
needs, that you are strengthened to swim in the deepness of Lord.
God knows your
mountain
Abraham took the wood for the
burnt offering and placed it on
his son Isaac, and he himself
carried the fire and the knife.
As the two of them went on
together, Isaac spoke up and
said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,”
Isaac said, “but where is the
lamb for the burnt offering?”
Abraham answered, “God
himself will provide the lamb
for the burnt offering, my son.”
And the two of them went
on together.
Genesis 22;6-8
I think, that each of us has his own mountain of Moriah
in the life. Somebody just a small one, according to
that, how big cross he can carry and somebody a big
one. Mountain of Moriah is something in the life, I
know, that I am unable to cross by my own skills,
wisdom, knowledge or life experiences, I already have.
Any of that I can use. If I want to climb up the
mountain, it means, I believe in God promise as strong
as huge madness it is for everyone, who don't believe
it.
Is it not huge madness to take own son, the only one,
God gave me and to sacrifice him to God? Is it not a
madness to build an arch in a place of no water, just
believing, that waters of a huge flood will lift it up? Is it
not madness to believe that walls from Jericho will fall
down by themselves? Is it not a madness for this world
to know, that is possible to resurrect Lazarus, who was
already dead three days? Is this everything not a
madness for this world, because of standing just in faith
of invisible?
People believe in God, when they saw with their own
eyes a part of invisible world. When they see miracles,
something extraordinary. Bible is full of stories, when
the people started to praise Lord or at least were afraid
of God, when they saw things, no one of them can
explain. Our Lord wants, that you, believe in Him
independently if you will see miracles or not in your life.
Jesus said to Thomas: „blessed are those who have not
seen and yet have believed.” God wants, that you
believe in the invisible world just by faith, knowing, that
for Him is everything possible. Who knows what is
happening in the heaven already before things happen
on this earth, as the earth and the heaven are
connected. People want to enter the invisible world
directly. By experiencing powers, which nobody can
explain.
The way of Abraham was only his faith, his feeling
inside His heart, that God knows the end of the story
from the beginning. That the end of the story is good,
because God is good. Maybe in his heart Abraham
believed, that love of God can't be against Abraham´s
own love to his only son.
There is an easier, but unclean way to get powers as
God, to do miraculous things. With help of unclean
spirits, which look like holy. Who will be impressed by
the story of Abraham or Noah or many others, not
knowing the whole story? That this people only
believed in something, what has been promised to
them and at the end it has happened. But many
people are impressed by miraculous things, which
happen in front of their eyes immediately. Then they
think, yeah, we saw a piece of heaven right now! And it
is true, they saw a piece of invisible world. But those,
who showed them this, who uncovered veil of the
temple was not the God, but the devil.
Invisible spiritual world is the holy place.
Moses couldn't see the face of God, when he asked to
be able to see it. In front of the throne of God are
Cherubs, who cover with their wings, what is behind
I think, that each of us has his own mountain of Moriah in the life. Somebody just a small
one, according to that, how big cross he can carry and somebody a big one. Mountain of
Moriah is something in the life, I know, that I am unable to cross by my own skills, wisdom,
knowledge or life exeriences, I already have. Any of that I can use. If I want to climb up the
mountain, it means, I believe in God promise as strong as huge madness it is for everyone,
who don't believe it.
Is it not huge madness to take own son, the only one, God gave me and to sacrifice him
to God? Is it not a madness to build an arch in a place of no water, just believing, that
waters of a huge flood will lift it up? Is it not madness to believe that walls from Jericho will
fall down by themselves? Is it not a madness for this world to know, that is possible
to resurrect Lazarus, who was already dead three days? Is this everything not a madness
for this world, because of standing just in faith of invisible?
People believe in God, when they saw with their own eyes a part of invisible world. When
they see miracles, something extraordinary. Bible is full of stories, when the people started
to praise Lord or at least were afraid of God, when they saw things, no one of them can
explain. Our Lord wants, that you, believe in Him independently if you will see miracles or
not in your life. Jesus said to Thomas: „blessed are those who have not seen and yet have
believed.” God wants, that you believe in the invisible world just by faith, knowing, that for
Him is everything possible. Who knows what is happening in the heaven already before
things happen on this earth, as the earth and the heaven are connected. People want to
enter the invisible world directly. By experiencing powers, which nobody can explain.
The way of Abraham was only his faith, his feeling inside His heart, that God knows the
end of the story from the beginning. That the end of the story is good, because God is
good. Maybe in his heart Abraham believed, that love of God can't be against Abraham´s
own love to his only son.
There is an easier, but unclean way to get powers as God, to do miraculous things. With
help of unclean spirits, which look like holy. Who will be impressed by the story of
Abraham or Noah or many others, not knowing the whole story? That this people only
believed in something, what has been promised to them and at the end it has happened.
But many people are impressed by miraculous things, which happen in front of their eyes
immediately. Then they think, yeah, we saw a piece of heaven right now! And it is true,
they saw a piece of invisible world. But those, who showed them this, who uncovered veil
of the temple was not the God, but the devil. Invisible spiritual world is the holy place.
Moses couldn't see the face of God, when he asked to be able to see it. In front of
the throne of God are Cherubs, who cover with their wings, what is behind them. We,
Christians have an access to this holy place, but only through the blood of our savior Jesus
Christ. All other ways are not the ways of light. It is the way to robe that, what is holy.
Moriah is the mountain, I have to cross by my own foots. You can also decide in
life don't go, because the way is too difficult. God will not punish you for your decision,
but you refused to know the end of the story. The glory of God. But I want to tell you,
sister, if you will feel once in life, that your mountain is just too high, may the Bible and its
word always encourage you to believe, you can cross it. If the way will be just to tiring,
may the feeling, you have others brothers and sisters, who can support you with their
prayer give you new powers for your way.
My teacher of
reconciliation
See, I will send the prophet Elijah to
you before that great and dreadful
day of the Lord comes. He will turn
the hearts of the parents to their
children, and the hearts of the
children to their parents; or else I will
come and strike the land with total
destruction.”
Malachi 4;5-6
Elijah already came in Jesus Christ our Lord. In Him
everything achieve reconciliation. A man to God. Man
and woman to each other. Children to parents and
parents to their children. People to creation and people
to each other. Follow Jesus Christ means to deny
myself, what is the most difficult step in life of each
man. Deny myself means resign to all my imaginations
and dreams about my life. To reject my own personality
by the same way as Jesus has rejected his own
personality of son of God. But who am I, rejecting
myself? All this world is walking in totally opposite way,
to glory my personality my uniqueness, to achieve a
goal of life to became famous, someone, who is not
the last of the lasts. God is loving me as a unique
person, everyone can be used with his own uniqueness
to His glory.
This world is giving me every day´s occasion to built
relationships. But to build a relationship you need two
people, not only one, who wants and other who
doesn't care. And who knows the heart of another
person better than God? If something should be
revealed to me, God needs in my heart an empty
space for His revelation. Without imaginations,
expectations, my own plans. When God wanted to
reveal His plan to Mary, He needed her´s humble heart,
being able to receive His plan with her. And Mary was
very thankful to God for His revelation, believing, that
what He promised He is able to fulfill.
It is very difficult attitude in eyes of all other people,
when they will ask: „So, what you will do in this
situation?“ and I can just answer: „I don't know what
to do, God knows and the only thing, what I can do, is
to pray to Him, to show me the right direction for my
life.“ It looks like very passive way, doing nothing, any
step, what some other person will do. But I believe, that
by the same way as in the heart is a time of waiting, it
is also a time for action. Sometimes the circumstances
create the action and really later I am exploring, that it
was already a step of God. Everything is revelated
through conscience and by conscience we control,
which step is from God and which isn't. In conscience,
we recognize reconciliation and forgiveness same as
through conscience we recognize sin.
Law in all the fifth books of Moses was a kind of written
conscience, for those, who were able to live faith
without conscience. In Jesus this law achieved
perfection. Denied everything, what was humans and
achieve everything, what was from God. Sometimes I
feel, that most bad behaving, which destroys, has a
spiritual background. People feel like victims of others,
living without self-critisism, following an easy way, how
to achieve their own happiness, without looking to
others. And to be able to break these powers of
darkness, we really need help of God to overpower evil
by the power of reconciliation. If not for our
relationship, then at least for the reason, that once we
can stay straight in front of God´s justice. Straight in our
conscience.
Elijah already came in Jesus Christ our Lord. In Him everything achieve reconciliation. A
man to God. Man and woman to each other. Children to parents and parents to their
children. People to creation and people to each other. Follow Jesus Christ means to deny
myself, what is the most difficult step in life of each man. Deny myself means resign to all
my imaginations and dreams about my life. To reject my own personality by the same way
as Jesus has rejected his own personality of son of God. But who am I, rejecting myself? All
this world is walking in totally opposite way, to glory my personality my uniqueness, to
achieve a goal of life to became famous, someone, who is not the last of the lasts. God is
loving me as a unique person, everyone can be used with his own uniqueness to His
glory.
This world is giving me every day´s occasion to built relationships. But to build a
relationship you need two people, not only one, who wants and other who doesn't care.
And who knows the heart of another person better than God? If something should be
revealed to me, God needs in my heart an empty space for His revelation. Without
imaginations, expectations, my own plans. When God wanted to reveal His plan to Mary,
He needed her´s humble heart, being able to receive His plan with her. And Mary was
very thankful to God for His revelation, believing, that what He promised He is able to
fulfill.
It is very difficult attitude in eyes of all other people, when they will ask: „So, what you will
do in this situation?“ and I can just answer: „I don't know what to do, God knows and the
only thing, what I can do, is to pray to Him, to show me the right direction for my life.“ It
looks like very passive way, doing nothing, any step, what some other person will do. But I
believe, that by the same way as in the heart is a time of waiting, it is also a time for
action. Sometimes the circumstances create the action and really later I am exploring, that
it was already a step of God. Everything is revelated through conscience and by
conscience we control, which step is from God and which isn't. In conscience, we
recognize reconciliation and forgiveness same as through conscience we recognize sin.
Law in all the fifth books of Moses was a kind of written conscience, for those, who were
able to live faith without conscience. In Jesus this law achieved perfection. Denied
everything, what was humans and achieve everything, what was from God. Sometimes I
feel, that most bad behaving, which destroys, has a spiritual background. People feel like
victims of others, living without self-critisism, following an easy way, how to achieve their
own happiness, without looking to others. And to be able to break these powers of
darkness, we really need help of God to overpower evil by the power of reconciliation. If
not for our relationship, then at least for the reason, that once we can stay straight in front
of God´s justice. Straight in our conscience.
All, what is over that, is for the day of judgment.
Lord′s temple
“But will God really dwell on
earth? The heavens, even
the highest heaven, cannot
contain you. How much less
this temple I have built! Yet
give attention to your servant’s
prayer and his plea
for mercy, Lord my God.
Hear the cry and the prayer
that your servant is praying
in your presence this day.
May your eyes be open
toward this temple night
and day, this place of which
you said, ‘My Name shall
be there,’ so that you will
hear the prayer your servant
prays toward this place.
1 Kings 8;27-29.
When king David decided in his heart to build a temple
for God in this prayer he saw, that any temple on this
earth can be big enough for God, who has created
everything around man. It was a need of his heart, that
on this earth can exist a place, where I can come to be
sure, that here can God hear me same as I can hear
God. Jerusalem became this place and till the time of
Jesus Christ we believe, that it was the only place of
God.
When I started to search God in my life and somehow I
became sure, that God exists I had a need to
communicate with Him. Church was the first place, I
have entered. Not because temple has been built as a
place of God, but I felt the difference between the
noisy world behind the walls of the temple and the
silence inside. In fact many things were different. Noise
and stress outside, peace and silent indoor. In summer
hot outside and cold indoor. Lot of light outside and
kind of shadow indoor. I took it like a different place in
the heart of the noisy town. I believed, everything is so
different, for sure here has to be God. I just loved to
enter churches, especially a kind of small one, hidden
between houses in a small road, so that you even don't
recognize, that between the houses is a
church. I entered, and there was nobody, just
silence. I was fascinated by all the decoration to glory
the God. I was not offended at all by the lot of statues
and decorations, I took it as good gifts, which has been
given to the craftsmen to glorify creator. In that time I
felt really disturbed, when there was a service in the
church. I could stay for a while, but I had always to all
the people there one question: “Do you really believe
that, what you are practicing?“ Maybe same to the
priest:“Do you really believe that, what you are
preaching?“
The temples were for me like people. Some of them
were very monumental and huge, but I felt emptiness
inside. I remember how I was disappointed, when I for
the first time enter the San Pietro basilica in Rome. I felt
like in museum of Christianity. Like if you walk in this
strange museums, where you are looking at mount
animals covered with dust to see the real nature. So
strange. And I remember some beloved churches,
where I felt the atmosphere of present God.
Really later I understood this, what is Jesus explaining
to the Samaritan woman by the well of Jacob, when he
is saying: “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is
coming when you will worship the Father neither on
this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans
worship what you do not know; we worship what we
do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is
coming and has now come when the true worshipers
will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for
they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is
spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and
in truth.” John 4;21-24 At the beginning I needed a
place to feel, I can communicate with God, listen to His
voice and speak to Him. Later I discovered, that the
place helps me to be focused on God, but by itself is
same as any other place, where I can concentrate on
Lord.
When king David decided in his heart to build a temple for God in this prayer he saw, that
any temple on this earth can be big enough for God, who has created everything around
man. It was a need of his heart, that on this earth can exist a place, where I can come to
be sure, that here can God hear me same as I can hear God. Jerusalem became this place
and till the time of Jesus Christ we believe, that it was the only place of God.
When I started to search God in my life and somehow I became sure, that God exists I had
a need to communicate with Him. Church was the first place, I have entered. Not because
temple has been built as a place of God, but I felt the difference between the noisy world
behind the walls of the temple and the silence inside. In fact many things were different.
Noise and stress outside, peace and silent indoor. In summer hot outside and cold indoor.
Lot of light outside and kind of shadow indoor. I took it like a different place in the heart of
the noisy town. I believed, everything is so different, for sure here has to be God. I just
loved to enter churches, especially a kind of small one, hidden between houses in a small
road, so that you even don't recognize, that between the houses is a church. I entered,
and there was nobody, just silence. I was fascinated by all the decoration to glory the
God. I was not offended at all by the lot of statues and decorations, I took it as good gifts,
which has been given to the craftsmen to glorify creator. In that time I felt really disturbed,
when there was a service in the church. I could stay for a while, but I had always to all the
people there one question: “Do you really believe that, what you are practicing?“ Maybe
same to the priest:“Do you really believe that, what you are preaching?“
The temples were for me like people. Some of them were very monumental and huge, but
I felt emptiness inside. I remember how I was disappointed, when I for the first time enter
the San Pietro basilica in Rome. I felt like in museum of Christianity. Like if you walk in this
strange museums, where you are looking at mount animals covered with dust to see the
real nature. So strange. And I remember some beloved churches, where I felt the
atmosphere of present God.
Really later I understood this, what is Jesus explaining to the Samaritan woman by the well
of Jacob, when he is saying: “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when
you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans
worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the
Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is
spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” John 4;21-24 At the
beginning I needed a place to feel, I can communicate with God, listen to His voice and
speak to Him. Later I discovered, that the place helps me to be focused on God, but by
itself is same as any other place, where I can concentrate on Lord.
Today I know, that Jesus has shown us that, what was hidden to the eyes of people of Old
Testament. The temple is our heart with everything, what belongs to temple. By this way
even these parts from Bible as Leviticus or Numeri full of rules for service in the temple has
for me some symbolical sense. It is me, who brings everyday offer to the altar of my heart.
Who should maybe burn the best, what I imagine and to say thank you, for that, I have
got. It is my heart, kind of sanctuary, I don't want, that unclean things enter. Sanctuary,
which is washed by the blood of Jesus same as the ancient sanctuary has been washed by
blood of goats and rams. That same as God´s glory has entered the temple time to time,
Holy spirit, the glory of love of God can enter my heart and fill it, that no other idea may
enter. And same as a temple was a place for wanderers, who didn't want to die, my heart
can be a place for others, that through message in my heart, they can be healed.
What a wonderful message. You or I don't need to travel long days to
Jerusalem anymore to pray to God, to have relationship with Him. It is God, who decided,
to travel to the temple of a heart of each of us, if we allow Him to enter.
Mirror of Jesus Christ
Anyone who listens to the word but
does not do what it says is like
someone who looks at his face in a
mirror and, after looking at himself,
goes away and immediately forgets
what he looks like.
James 1;22-24
James says that the word of God is like a mirror. This
word shows me, who am I, remember me my past
deeds, shows me solution out of my trouble, chastises
me, same as it is giving me mercy. Each of us has a
physical image, that what we see in real mirror, I look
every morning in and a spiritual likeness, which I may
see in another kind of mirror, in my conscience. And
my natural habit is, that same as I perhaps don't like
how I really look like by my face, I don't like my real
reflection in the mirror of my conscience. So what is
mostly the first step, what one is doing? He takes the
cream, make-up and all necessary staff to change his
own image to his own imagination. With our physical
image it is maybe sometimes funny, that we still want
to look like younger, though we can't turn the time
back. But often we want to do the same with our
spiritual likeness, with our heart, and that is tragic.
On the picture is man in front. Maybe it is you. Behind
him, he sees Jesus, our Lord in the mirror. This is the
spirit, Jesus is talking about in John 14….as the
Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in
my name, will teach you all things and will remind you
of everything I have said to you…., this spirit would like
to dwell in each of us, be seen in the mirror on the wall
of our heart. I mean, that everyone has a mirror in his
heart, as everyone has received conscience from God.
Our „house“ inside us is set up like this. But some
people prefer to have tiny mirror in beautiful golden
frame. Each day they are coming in front of it, looking
at themseves, and they see just their own satisfied or
miserable face, not be able to see something more. In
their conscience they see just their own pride or their
own misery, as the mirror is too small, and they don't
want by anyway move on the side or further, to see
other things, because they are always used to be in the
center of their own interest. If they allow in their heart
to see, what is behind them, their life may be changed.
We all are sinners, but we all may repent and receive
mercy. ll
When I was young, my mirror was quite small. I liked to
look at me every day, how clever, intelligent and comic
I am. Sometimes I saw something in my conscience,
what was not good, but I was like the man form James
letter. I looked, I saw, but I mostly forgot, what I saw.
When I became Christian and try to look at things
differently than just with a perspective of a selfish man,
I saw, that the mirror of my conscience has been
extended. Now, when I was standing in front of it, I saw
myself, but it was also big enough to see Lord´s hand,
which told me, what to do. And when I decided to put
Jesus in my life, I saw one more extension of the mirror.
Like: „Wow, it automatically gets bigger
again!“ Perhaps I am a funny man with this
expression, but I think, that this is the way, how Holy
spirit is coming to dwell in each heart. That he may be
seen each day in the mirror of our conscience to give
us good guidance.nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
James says that the word of God is like a mirror. This word shows me, who am I,
remember me my past deeds, shows me solution out of my trouble, chastises me, same as
it is giving me mercy. Each of us has a physical image, that what we see in real mirror, I
look every morning in and a spiritual likeness, which I may see in another kind of mirror, in
my conscience. And my natural habit is, that same as I perhaps don't like how I really look
like by my face, I don't like my real reflection in the mirror of my conscience. So what is
mostly the first step, what one is doing? He takes the cream, make-up and all necessary
staff to change his own image to his own imagination. With our physical image it is maybe
sometimes funny, that we still want to look like younger, though we can't turn the time
back. But often we want to do the same with our spiritual likeness, with our heart, and that
is tragic.
On the picture is man in front. Maybe it is you. Behind him, he sees Jesus, our Lord in the
mirror. This is the spirit, Jesus is talking about in John 14….as the Advocate, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of
everything I have said to you…., this spirit would like to dwell in each of us, be seen in the
mirror on the wall of our heart. I mean, that everyone has a mirror in his heart, as
everyone has received conscience from God. Our „house“ inside us is set up like this. But
some people prefer to have tiny mirror in beautiful golden frame. Each day they are
coming in front of it, looking at themseves, and they see just their own satisfied or
miserable face, not be able to see something more. In their conscience they see just their
own pride or their own misery, as the mirror is too small, and they don't want by anyway
move on the side or further, to see other things, because they are always used to be in the
center of their own interest. If they allow in their heart to see, what is behind them, their
life may be changed. We all are sinners, but we all may repent and receive mercy.
When I was young, my mirror was quite small. I liked to look at me every day, how clever,
intelligent and comic I am. Sometimes I saw something in my conscience, what was not
good, but I was like the man form James letter. I looked, I saw, but I mostly forgot, what I
saw. When I became Christian and try to look at things differently than just with a
perspective of a selfish man, I saw, that the mirror of my conscience has been extended.
Now, when I was standing in front of it, I saw myself, but it was also big enough to see
Lord´s hand, which told me, what to do. And when I decided to put Jesus in my life, I saw
one more extension of the mirror. Like: „Wow, it automatically gets bigger
again!“ Perhaps I am a funny man with this expression, but I think, that this is the way,
how Holy spirit is coming to dwell in each heart. That he may be seen each day in the
mirror of our conscience to give us good guidance.
James continues in his letter by saying: But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that
gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—
they will be blessed in what they do. What is this perfect law of freedom? Is it not our Lord
Jesus Christ, the offered lamb for our sins, who made us free from each spite? Is this not
the freedom, the law, which is engraved in man´s heart. His picture in the mirror of our
conscience? An answer of the spirit to each doubt. I mean, when I do something during
the day, what was not good reaction, He is telling me: „But I wouldn't act like this Přemysl
in the same situation. Remember my words and my deeds.“ And I am sure, that God will
prepare for me a new similar situation to test me, if I am not forgetting what I have heard
or I do.
I wish you, that you my dear sister in Jesus Christ can see Lord in your own mirror every
day. The Lord who says: „Don't, cry“ and his word has the power to lift up, same as the
Lord, who says: „You don't know, which spirit you have.“ That both we want to hear, the
first as a word of pleasure and encouragement and the second as the word of warning. I
wish that you clean your mirror in the heart, that the reflection of Lord in it can be still
clear. That His voice is clear, and you may to hear him. Because He is calling you, his
sheep, by name and the sheep know His voice.
The Jews had the law, and it was their mirror to know what is good and evil. But nobody
could save himself by following all the rules of the law, he saw in. You received a mirror for
your own heart and a perfect picture of a living word in it in Jesus Christ. What a beautiful
activity is to look in it. To see him and us close to each other.
Wait for the fire of the
spirit
On one occasion, while he was
eating with them, he gave them this
command: “Do not leave
Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my
Father promised, which you have
heard me speak about. For John
baptized with water, but in a few
days you will be baptized with the
Holy Spirit.”
Acts of apostles 1;4-5
Perhaps this verse sounds just like a description of a
situation, which has happened in Jerusalem in the early
church period. Reading it carefully, the sense of the
command, Jesus gave to his disciples seems more clear
and actual for my life. As He said: Wait for the gift my
Father promised … it is very important to follow this
command in one´s life. I think, that waiting belongs to
each prayer, to be able to take best decision for each
situation, which is happening. That spirit of God can
give me the good direction for my deeds.
Luke describes the Holy spirit as a fire in Acts and I
think, we may see it so. When I pray for something
what I have on my heart as a desire why I do it? I know,
that I am incapable to resolve the situation like a
human, so I ask God, as the almighty one, who knows
all people, people´s desires and motives of the hearts
to help me to resolve the situation. And it can be my
own problem in life, relationship, same as misery of
others, because their pain of heart is like my own pain.
And as I pray, humble in front of God, knowing who
am I, my prayer should have a character of fire, even if
I don't see any. Having this character I believe, that the
prayer may arrive in front of God´s throne. As
fire burnt naturally everything what comes in its flame,
even it can make the fire stronger, it goes for the
spiritual world too. If somewhere in heaven exist
invisible powers, which have an interest, that my
prayer won't arrive to God´s throne, they try to
extinguish the flame. And small flame, you can quench,
when you will cover it, but a huge one will burn even
the cover.
As we believe, that our Lord cares, that He is interested
in a man like you, he answers. His spirit, which has
the ability to see all situations, circumstances,
everything, what will happen, can give you wisdom, for
your own decision in life. His answer is clear as his word
is like a sharp sword. Therefore, I drew this picture like a
fire, which descends to the man same, as his prayer lift
up to God. This fire of God´s spirit burn everything
unclean, which is coming into its
way. Therefore, demons are scared of our sincere
prayers, because they know if they will arrive to God´s
throne, God´s answer will surely arrive down to our
heart. To believe in this word, perhaps it has been
described to our edification, what has happened, when
God was speaking to Moses: On the morning of the
third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick
cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet
blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led
the people out of the camp to meet with God, and
they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai
was covered with smoke,because the LORD descended
on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke
from a furnace, and the whole
mountain trembled violently. As the sound of the
trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the
voice of God answered him. Exodus 19;16-19
Maybe you have a question, so why I will not die like
there was the warning to people of Israel, being
just a usual man or woman, when God is answering? I
think, because once in your life, you already did
Perhaps this verse sounds just like a description of a situation, which has happened in
Jerusalem in the early church period. Reading it carefully, the sense of the command, Jesus
gave to his disciples seems more clear and actual for my life. As He said: Wait for the gift
my Father promised … it is very important to follow this command in one´s life. I think, that
waiting belongs to each prayer, to be able to take best decision for each situation, which is
happening. That spirit of God can give me the good direction for my deeds.
Luke describes the Holy spirit as a fire in Acts and I think, we may see it so. When I pray
for something what I have on my heart as a desire why I do it? I know, that I
am incapable to resolve the situation like a human, so I ask God, as the almighty one, who
knows all people, people´s desires and motives of the hearts to help me to resolve the
situation. And it can be my own problem in life, relationship, same as misery of others,
because their pain of heart is like my own pain. And as I pray, humble in front of God,
knowing who am I, my prayer should have a character of fire, even if I don't see any.
Having this character I believe, that the prayer may arrive in front of God´s throne. As
fire burnt naturally everything what comes in its flame, even it can make the fire stronger,
it goes for the spiritual world too. If somewhere in heaven exist invisible powers, which
have an interest, that my prayer won't arrive to God´s throne, they try to extinguish the
flame. And small flame, you can quench, when you will cover it, but a huge one will burn
even the cover.
As we believe, that our Lord cares, that He is interested in a man like you, he answers. His
spirit, which has the ability to see all situations, circumstances, everything, what will
happen, can give you wisdom, for your own decision in life. His answer is clear as his word
is like a sharp sword. Therefore, I drew this picture like a fire, which descends to the man
same, as his prayer lift up to God. This fire of God´s spirit burn everything unclean, which
is coming into its way. Therefore, demons are scared of our sincere prayers, because they
know if they will arrive to God´s throne, God´s answer will surely arrive down to our heart.
To believe in this word, perhaps it has been described to our edification, what
has happened, when God was speaking to Moses: On the morning of the third day there
was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet
blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to
meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with
smoke,because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke
from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. As the sound of the trumpet
grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him. Exodus 19;16-
19
Maybe you have a question, so why I will not die like there was the warning to people of
Israel, being just a usual man or woman, when God is answering? I think, because once in
your life, you already did a decision to be His child, to love Him, to serve Him. And He
wants, that we stay His beloved children and as each child is growing, that we may grow
also to the fullness of God. When his answer come back, are we really prepared to receive
it? And how surprised I am, when the word, what I should do or say, arrives like a fire and
it burns all my clothes I have put on me. And at once I see, that I am naked in front of His
answer.
Jesus said, wait for the gift my Father promised ……, and I see the waiting as something
important in once life. It is not to be passive, it is just to don't sometimes follow my own
imaginations, what is best, but be patient for the answer of Lord, what should be best to
do. And even, if He says: Just do nothing now, to have the courage to believe it, seeing,
that I should do something. If I will take my own decision being inpatient, Lord will bless
my way, from His love, but coming to the same point I could come by a shorter and easier
way I will see, that I made my own way longer and more difficult. When I will reject His
proposal, it is me, who is rejecting His gift for me.
It will be strange to imagine, that once we have received His Holy spirit, from that moment
we have a promise to walk with Lord all the time. Our Lord is not God of stereotypes,
but He is living God, and what is living is each day different. Did you sometimes see a
plant, which is all time the same? Well, an artificial one. But I wish for all of us, that we are
not artificial Christians, but the real one.
The real sacrifice
The LORD smelled the pleasing
aroma and said in his heart:
“Never again will I curse the
ground because of humans, even
though every inclination of the
human heart is evil from
childhood. And never again will I
destroy all living creatures, as I
have done. “As long as the
earth endures, seedtime and
harvest, cold and heat, summer
and winter, day and night will
never cease.”
Genesis 8;21-22
When I lived in Czech republic, being a teacher at
school I had one Art-Christian project, for which I have
searched volunteers. It was an interesting story how
Lord is giving people to us, if we stay faithful to Him. I
did the project, because I have a strong feeling in
heart, that I would like to be thankful to God
discovering, who is He. I imagined, that maybe
someone from Czech will come to help me and finally
my first volunteer was a man from Senegal, who
contacted me to come. And he was Muslim. That are
such strange ways totally against our imaginations with
Lord sometimes. I lived with this man 3 months, and I
am thankful to be able to see, how you build
relationship with God in Islam. For this my friend it was
really important to follow the command to pray five
times per day. When he arrived, maybe half of his
suitcase has been filled with a sack with something, I
shamed to ask, but it looked like sand. Finally, it was
cous-cous for cooking, what he used to prepare some
kind of food before his prayer. As I understood the
food should be halal, therefore he couldn't buy it in my
country.
Already in Jewish law was written: If an animal has a
defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you
must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.
(Deuteronomy 15;21) The sacrifice should be clean in a
way, to don't offer to Lord something, what is unclean.
Little same as my friend could´t eat something, what
was not halal for his Lord. At many parts in Old
Testament is written, that Lord smelled the pleasing
aroma of the sacrifice, what was the way, how He
accepted it. By this way of sacrificing people could stay
in front of Him unclean in heart, as their sacrifice was
vicarious. The blood of the rams and goats made them
clean, as in the blood was life and this life was
sacrificed for their sin.
When I draw this picture, I was thinking, how this verse
of Bible can actually speak to me, to my way, how I
want to build relationship to my Lord. And to this
relationship belongs also the way, how each of us
sacrifice the daily life imaginations to Lord. Lord wants
your heart same as my as literally the center of one´s
character. We should burn everything bad in our heart,
what we don't want to have for Lord by the same way
as people burn in the time of Ancient Israel their
sacrifice. It is not you, your effort to desire Lord´s love
by burning all bad in you, but the fire from God´s love
through your conscience, which set up the fire of love
to Him in your heart dear sister. For His love and
through His love you want to burn everything bad in
you and the smell of this burnt offering pleases the
Lord. He knows, who you are, but His promise is
encouraging: As long, as the earth will exist, even
though every inclination of the human heart is evil
from childhood, I will never again destroy all living
creatures, as I have done.
How do we smell for our Lord? We smell after our
character. And each of us can easy stink out one´s life
being insincere in front of Lord. And there are many
When I lived in Czech republic, being a teacher at school I had one Art-Christian project,
for which I have searched volunteers. It was an interesting story how Lord is giving people
to us, if we stay faithful to Him. I did the project, because I have a strong feeling in heart,
that I would like to be thankful to God discovering, who is He. I imagined, that maybe
someone from Czech will come to help me and finally my first volunteer was a man from
Senegal, who contacted me to come. And he was Muslim. That are such strange ways
totally against our imaginations with Lord sometimes. I lived with this man 3 months, and I
am thankful to be able to see, how you build relationship with God in Islam. For this my
friend it was really important to follow the command to pray five times per day. When he
arrived, maybe half of his suitcase has been filled with a sack with something, I shamed to
ask, but it looked like sand. Finally, it was cous-cous for cooking, what he used to prepare
some kind of food before his prayer. As I understood the food should be halal, therefore
he couldn't buy it in my country.
Already in Jewish law was written: If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any
serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 15;21) The
sacrifice should be clean in a way, to don't offer to Lord something, what is unclean. Little
same as my friend could´t eat something, what was not halal for his Lord. At many parts in
Old Testament is written, that Lord smelled the pleasing aroma of the sacrifice, what was
the way, how He accepted it. By this way of sacrificing people could stay in front of Him
unclean in heart, as their sacrifice was vicarious. The blood of the rams and goats made
them clean, as in the blood was life and this life was sacrificed for their sin.
When I draw this picture, I was thinking, how this verse of Bible can actually speak to me,
to my way, how I want to build relationship to my Lord. And to this relationship belongs
also the way, how each of us sacrifice the daily life imaginations to Lord. Lord wants your
heart same as my as literally the center of one´s character. We should burn everything
bad in our heart, what we don't want to have for Lord by the same way as people burn in
the time of Ancient Israel their sacrifice. It is not you, your effort to desire Lord´s love by
burning all bad in you, but the fire from God´s love through your conscience, which set up
the fire of love to Him in your heart dear sister. For His love and through His love you want
to burn everything bad in you and the smell of this burnt offering pleases the Lord. He
knows, who you are, but His promise is encouraging: As long, as the earth will exist, even
though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood, I will never again
destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
How do we smell for our Lord? We smell after our character. And each of us can easy stink
out one´s life being insincere in front of Lord. And there are many devilish stinks, which
has the power to stink out everything in my life. Sometimes it is difficult in life, to confess
all of our sins in front of Lord. Some of them we perhaps don't feel like sins, having
happened to far from today. And sometimes it stays in our life some unresolved
relationship, that we already forget, maybe. One unresolved relationship is like one nail on
your skin. A small nail, what the evil one will see, and he will always try to hang his stinking
things on it. And these things will stink out finally all your character.
Imagine, that we will be a bride of Jesus Christ. How you would like it if your bride arrived
at your wedding stinking? Will you be pleased with it or it will be disgusting for your nose?
Sometimes, when I am looking at all of our denominations, all movements like New Age,
Gospel of Prosperity and I don't know whatever, how many stinks are between Christians?
Please, my dear sister, protect your heart from all this stink and be always sincere to Lord.
If there is something too difficult, yet we believe, that our Lord can and wants to lift us up.
May you offer your sincere heart to Him, that He is pleased with its smell. That He can be
proud of you, like He was proud of Job in front of the evil one, like a husband will be
proud of his wife.
I wish you, you become a beautiful bride of Lord
Lord is your wind and
your harbor
We put no stumbling block in anyone’s
path, so that our ministry will not be
discredited. Rather, as servants of
God we commend ourselves in every
way: in great endurance; in troubles,
hardships and distresses; in beatings,
imprisonments and riots; in hard work,
sleepless nights and hunger; in purity,
understanding, patience and kindness;
in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
in truthful speech and in the power
of God; with weapons of righteousness
in the right hand and in the
left; through glory and dishonor,
bad report and good report; genuine,
yet regarded as impostors; known,
yet regarded as unknown; dying,
and yet we live on; beaten, and yet
not killed; sorrowful, yet always
rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich;
having nothing, and yet possessing
everything.
2 Corinthians 6;3-10
Sometimes I think, that so many things can make one
angry. Or at least to feel injustice to myself, comparing
myself with others. Each of us I dream sometimes
about many things. I imagine, how the things could be
and I feel sad, that they are not like this. But it is only
my imagination. Nothing, what makes me sure, that it
can be like this. I feel each day, that God cares about
me, but often I am thinking about those Christians,
who are every day in danger, suffering, starve of
hunger, persecution. How strong their faith should be,
believing in good God, when no good things arrive in
life. kjdjwdwdwhdwhdwdhwudhwhdwhdwhdwuhd
This verse has been written to encourage Christians,
who were overwhelmed, lost, feeling at the end of their
way. It is just an encouragement how to live faith in life,
but I feel more and more if I change my life according
to this sentence, then it is really nothing, what can
destroy me.
Feeling, that I am firmly attached to my Lord what
should destroy me? Jesus said: I am the vine; you are
the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will
bear many fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15;5 If He is the strong trunk no storm of evil no
storm of life can turn the tree upside down. A storm
can break the branch, but such branch never break
itself close to the trunk, because there is the firmest. I
can be broken, if I will be far from the trunk, but
disproportional to the trunk. Farther the branches are
from the trunk, less thick they are. Farther I am from
Jesus Christ in my life, I mean I know, how Jesus is, but I
am unable to live Him, to put whole my life in His hand,
because I just don't believe it, thinner I should be in my
own imaginations, who am I.
Unfortunately in one´s life it is often opposite.
Christians don't even know, how far are they from living
God, but they imagine themselves as such important
branches. Humans pride destroyed many churches in
the past. They were just broken down, being too far
from the trunk and too heavy, that the trunk may carry
it. Maybe with the same comprehension is apostle Paul
speaking about the Jews, saying: If some branches
have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive
shoot, have been grafted in among the others and
now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do
not consider yourself to be superior to those other
branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support
the root, but the root supports you. Romans 11;17-18
If you in your life will always feel, that you are close to
the trunk, that nothing will separate you from Jesus,
your life will be easier, though being in troubles.
Because you will feel, that against each storm of the life
you are not alone, lonely tree standing on a meadow,
but a branch of the most deeply rooted tree, as it can
be. And if we are sure, that nothing has the power to
refute the tree, why do you doubt about your own
resistance, if it is not you, who is ingrained in the
ground, but Jesus our Lord.
Sometimes I think, that so many things can make one angry. Or at least to feel injustice to
myself, comparing myself with others. Each of us I dream sometimes about many things. I
imagine, how the things could be and I feel sad, that they are not like this. But it is only my
imagination. Nothing, what makes me sure, that it can be like this. I feel each day, that
God cares about me, but often I am thinking about those Christians, who are every day in
danger, suffering, starve of hunger, persecution. How strong their faith should be,
believing in good God, when no good things arrive in life.
This verse has been written to encourage Christians, who were overwhelmed, lost, feeling
at the end of their way. It is just an encouragement how to live faith in life, but I feel more
and more if I change my life according to this sentence, then it is really nothing, what can
destroy me.
Feeling, that I am firmly attached to my Lord what should destroy me? Jesus said: I am the
vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear many fruit;
apart from me you can do nothing. John 15;5 If He is the strong trunk no storm of evil no
storm of life can turn the tree upside down. A storm can break the branch, but such
branch never break itself close to the trunk, because there is the firmest. I can be broken,
if I will be far from the trunk, but disproportional to the trunk. Farther the branches are
from the trunk, less thick they are. Farther I am from Jesus Christ in my life, I mean I know,
how Jesus is, but I am unable to live Him, to put whole my life in His hand, because I just
don't believe it, thinner I should be in my own imaginations, who am I.
Unfortunately in one´s life it is often opposite. Christians don't even know, how far are they
from living God, but they imagine themselves as such important branches. Humans pride
destroyed many churches in the past. They were just broken down, being too far from the
trunk and too heavy, that the trunk may carry it. Maybe with the same comprehension is
apostle Paul speaking about the Jews, saying: If some branches have been broken off, and
you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in
the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those
other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root
supports you. Romans 11;17-18
If you in your life will always feel, that you are close to the trunk, that nothing will separate
you from Jesus, your life will be easier, though being in troubles. Because you will feel, that
against each storm of the life you are not alone, lonely tree standing on a meadow, but a
branch of the most deeply rooted tree, as it can be. And if we are sure, that nothing has
the power to refute the tree, why do you doubt about your own resistance, if it is not you,
who is ingrained in the ground, but Jesus our Lord.
Feeling this, life can be like a blessing, feeling happy, though starving, be satisfied
and thankful, though having anything, have joy and love in heart, though
others don't. Then you will feel like the man on the boat, carried with wings of hope and
faith through all difficulties of life.
May you grow
I pray for them. I am not
praying for the world, but
for those you have given me,
for they are yours. All I have
is yours, and all you have is mine.
And glory has come to me
through them.
John 17;9-10,26
Meeting between people is not just a coincidence.
Someone will say, it is more or less just
a coincidence and because we people have a need to
live together, we also meet together and create
relationships. Or I can take it, that a person is a gift. I
am sure, that looking to people by a way, that this
person is a gift will really change my relation to them.
How I see them, how I am able to find something nice
on them, how I can care about them, if I feel, that their
way is not a way of God.
If Holy spirit would like to dwell in me, then I am not
growing like a lonely tree just for myself to achieve the
heaven, but I am growing to be able to produce
fruits. Finally, just one sort of fruit is enough, because
all the kind of sweet tastes are already inside. I mean
love. Growing in love means, that my eyes are not
focused on my needs, my wishes and my imaginations,
but my eyes are sensitive to look around. Sensitive in a
way, that I can distinguish. Maybe is more my heart,
which is able to recognize needs of people. God wants
to change you and me to his likeness, that, how it is
written in the verse of John 17, that Jesus can be in us.
Because there is no other testimony of living
God, then our own life, our own faith, hope and love.
So people, who croosing your life are getting an
answer of a testimony of our life, that God is
living, carrying, loving.
If I look to Bible, there were many people meeting
Jesus and many people following Jesus, but just some.
of them have been given from God. And Jesus says it
clearly: I do not pray for the world but for those whom
You have given Me, because they have been given
from some reason, which God knew, before we know:
…that, I am glorified in them. That I will declare Your
name to them. And I think, that for the same reason is
God using us and is giving people in our way of life.
When I did this picture I did it by this way to see, that
you, same as me can grow to the fullness of love in all
levels. Love which is helping, love which cares, love
which warns, knowing circumstances. Because to a gift
I have relationship because of the joy to a person, who
is giving. I remember, when i was child I quite like to
use a given gift not only for my own pleasure, even if
my own pleasure was big, but to show my happiness
and pleasure to a person, who gave me the gift. And
so same as my aunt was happy, that I enjoy her gift, I
was happy seeing joy of others from a gift given by
me. If we see each person like a gift, we appreciate,
that God gave us an opportunity to meet someone, to
share, to speak to feel interested in each other life.
It is very easy to refuse a gift, not knowing if that
person is a gift. This world has invented so many ways
how to isolate me from others, take my own earphones
and listen to my music, watching my video, searching
for my websites and replying to my chats.
People will come and people will pass by. Maybe being
sad in their heart, that they didn´t find anybody to
speak with, to share with that, what they wanted. May
Meeting between people is not just a coincidence. Someone will say, it is more or less just
a coincidence and because we people have a need to live together, we also meet
together and create relationships. Or I can take it, that a person is a gift. I am sure, that
looking to people by a way, that this person is a gift will really change my relation to them.
How I see them, how I am able to find something nice on them, how I can care about
them, if I feel, that their way is not a way of God.
If Holy spirit would like to dwell in me, then I am not growing like a lonely tree just for
myself to achieve the heaven, but I am growing to be able to produce fruits. Finally, just
one sort of fruit is enough, because all the kind of sweet tastes are already inside. I mean
love. Growing in love means, that my eyes are not focused on my needs, my wishes and
my imaginations, but my eyes are sensitive to look around. Sensitive in a way, that I can
distinguish. Maybe is more my heart, which is able to recognize needs of people. God
wants to change you and me to his likeness, that, how it is written in the verse of John 17,
that Jesus can be in us. Because there is no other testimony of living God, then our own
life, our own faith, hope and love. So people, who croosing your life are getting an answer
of a testimony of our life, that God is living, carrying, loving.
If I look to Bible, there were many people meeting Jesus and many people following Jesus,
but just some of them have been given from God. And Jesus says it clearly: I do not pray
for the world but for those whom You have given Me, because they have been given from
some reason, which God knew, before we know: …that, I am glorified in them. That I will
declare Your name to them. And I think, that for the same reason is God using us and is
giving people in our way of life.
When I did this picture I did it by this way to see, that you, same as me can grow to the
fullness of love in all levels. Love which is helping, love which cares, love which warns,
knowing circumstances. Because to a gift I have relationship because of the joy to a
person, who is giving. I remember, when i was child I quite like to use a given gift not only
for my own pleasure, even if my own pleasure was big, but to show my happiness and
pleasure to a person, who gave me the gift. And so same as my aunt was happy, that I
enjoy her gift, I was happy seeing joy of others from a gift given by me. If we see each
person like a gift, we appreciate, that God gave us an opportunity to meet someone, to
share, to speak to feel interested in each other life.
It is very easy to refuse a gift, not knowing if that person is a gift. This world has invented
so many ways how to isolate me from others, take my own earphones and listen to my
music, watching my video, searching for my websites and replying to my chats.
People will come and people will pass by. Maybe being sad in their heart, that
they didn´t find anybody to speak with, to share with that, what they wanted. May we will
care not about just those, we love, but all, who are given to us, even if sometimes maybe
just for a while just for a short moment of a life, also a short moment can change
everything. Because this short moment is maybe a short while, when our seed of love and
care can be plant in the heart of others and a similar but different plant can once start to
grow. We don´t know, when the plant will start to grow, but God knows. God is giving the
increase. But we plant on the field, He is giving. njnjnjnjnjnjnnjjjjjjjjjjujuuubzztffzfzfzfzfzffzf.
Door of love no one
can close
“To the angel of the church in
Philadelphia write: These are
the words of him who is holy
and true, who holds the key
of David. What he opens no
one can shut, and what he
shuts no one can open. I
know your deeds. See, I have
placed before you an open
door that no one can shut.
I know that you have little
strength, yet you have kept
my word and have not denied
my name.
Revelation 3;7-8
Sometimes I have a question. Lord, who can hear you?
I see how people busy themselves. Their heart is full of
their own life and there is no space for other man,
when God wants to use him to speak to man's heart.
Some of them even lock their heart very well. Jesus can
knock on their heart as strong as he wants, and they
don't hear, having earphones. nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
But they may hear. Jesus says my sheep hear my voice.
It is free decision of everybody, if he wants to hear the
voice. Jesus the one, who is standing outside behind
the door of the heart is patient, knocking, though the
owner of the heart may not open. As it is written, if He
opens, nobody can close. If man decides to open the
door of his heart, and explores the love, that Jesus has
for each of us, finally it is God, who opens the huge
door of love in front of each of us. Like you have a
room with a huge window, but in front of the window
are shutters, which are closed. The room is dark,
though outside is already daylight. If the window is
huge, it is difficult to open the shutters. How difficult is
sometimes for Jesus to open the heavy doors of our
own heart. How many prejudices, feelings,
imaginations are hanging on the shutters. And the light
is not always pleasant, being very clear, shining in one's
face and illuminating all mess in the room of the heart.
But if you open, and start to enjoy the light and fresh
air in the room, which was locked, dark and stuffy for
ages, who wants to close it again?
When Jesus opens the door of our heart and I learn to
love people, to be able to see each person like a small
gift, love and happiness is coming out of my heart and
nobody is able to stop it. When I explore, that Jesus
died for me, that my debt has been paid from mercy,
this gift of love I want to share with others. It is the
power of first love and for this first love I am able to
offer whatever the love asks. And later, as difficult
situations are coming, often I am losing the first love,
like it is written in Revelation: Yet I hold this against you:
You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider
how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you
did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and
remove your lampstand from its place.
And blessed are those, who don't lose it.
From the time, Jesus was living on this earth, God
opened the door of mercy for each of us. That each
person can have a personal relationship to God. And
there is no power of devil to close the door. And once,
when this period of mercy will come to its end, God will
close the door, same as He closed the door of arch
behind Noah. Nobody was able to open it anymore.
Paul said in his letter to Romans: Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or
sword? If you have decided in your life to open the
door to Christ and his love, it is God, who opened the
door of your heart. And when God opens, no power is
able to close it.
Sometimes I have a question. Lord, who can hear you? I see how people busy themselves.
Their heart is full of their own life and there is no space for other man, when God wants to
use him to speak to man's heart. Some of them even lock their heart very well. Jesus can
knock on their heart as strong as he wants, and they don't hear, having earphones.
But they may hear. Jesus says my sheep hear my voice. It is free decision of everybody, if
he wants to hear the voice. Jesus the one, who is standing outside behind the door of the
heart is patient, knocking, though the owner of the heart may not open. As it is written, if
He opens, nobody can close. If man decides to open the door of his heart, and explores
the love, that Jesus has for each of us, finally it is God, who opens the huge door of love in
front of each of us. Like you have a room with a huge window, but in front of the window
are shutters, which are closed. The room is dark, though outside is already daylight. If the
window is huge, it is difficult to open the shutters. How difficult is sometimes for Jesus to
open the heavy doors of our own heart. How many prejudices, feelings, imaginations are
hanging on the shutters. And the light is not always pleasant, being very clear, shining in
one's face and illuminating all mess in the room of the heart. But if you open, and start to
enjoy the light and fresh air in the room, which was locked, dark and stuffy for ages, who
wants to close it again?
When Jesus opens the door of our heart and I learn to love people, to be able to see each
person like a small gift, love and happiness is coming out of my heart and nobody is able
to stop it. When I explore, that Jesus died for me, that my debt has been paid from mercy,
this gift of love I want to share with others. It is the power of first love and for this first love
I am able to offer whatever the love asks. And later, as difficult situations are coming, often
I am losing the first love, like it is written in Revelation: Yet I hold this against you: You have
forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the
things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your
lampstand from its place.
And blessed are those, who don't lose it.
From the time, Jesus was living on this earth, God opened the door of mercy for each of
us. That each person can have a personal relationship to God. And there is no power of
devil to close the door. And once, when this period of mercy will come to its end, God will
close the door, same as He closed the door of arch behind Noah. Nobody was able to
open it anymore.
Paul said in his letter to Romans: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? If you
have decided in your life to open the door to Christ and his love, it is God, who opened
the door of your heart. And when God opens, no power is able to close it.
Such miraculous power of love, like the man on the picture sees, that he has received
P.V. 2020

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  • 3. God gave me the gift to see you like my sister in Jesus Christ. Another worker in the vine- yard of Lord. A sister I can share Bible with. Someone, who has the same spirit bearing different fruits for the God′s glory. Person, who can inspire me with hope, faith and love. Somebody beloved in my heart This book is my small present I would like to share with you your brother
  • 4. Small biblical story as my introduction
  • 5. So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you that the sea may be calm for us?”—for the sea was growing more tempestuous. And he said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest is because of me.” Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them. Therefore they cried out to the LORD and said, “We pray, O Lord, please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O Lord, have done as it pleased You.” So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. Jonah 1;9-15
  • 6. Jonah felt by his conscience, that he did something, what was not good in the eyes of God. But he tried to hide this fact in front of himself and in front of the people. Till the moment, that there was no other option, then to tell the truth to the people on the boat. The man on the picture is like Jonah, can be like each of us. He took his own decision and start to go this way. I would like to tell you my story today, even if I am always thinking, what is in this story that, what I can boast about and I can honestly say-nothing. Because it is quite sad story. When I was living in Czech, I was a teacher. The school, where I was teaching was not Christian at all, because in Czech Republic the state schools are secular. But I had a very nice and friendly director, really gift of God and in my art lessons I could do, whatever I wanted. I was happy with my work and I really liked working with children, but I felt my personal life unfulfilled. All my life I was dreaming about serious relationship, but nothing happened. Till a moment I have met a girl, who was just bit younger than I, and she had already a child. I don't know why, but I was an angel in hers eyes. A kind of prince, a woman is sometimes waiting for. We tried to live together as I always felt, that if such opportunity is coming, I have to grasp it tightly and don't do, like I don't care. Not knowing God so much in that time I just took decision, like Jonah did. I took my boat like the man from the picture and tied up the boat of my girlfriend and her child to my own. So as you see, I grasped it really thoroughly. And I started to row. But I was not an angel, only a man, so after one year first wave appear. Then a bigger one and even bigger one. I was not Christian, and she was not Christian, so we didn't know what to do, to make the storm calm. I was just rowing best, as I could. The one wave was so big, that it was better for her to jump into the sea. Because I was not an angel. My boat turned off, and at once I was in the sea, alone, slowly sinking to the bottom. But I think, that God loved me, because he prepared a great fish to swallow me. The fish was Jesus Christ. Before I was searching God in my life, I had many questions, but I never understood, who is Jesus Christ. With His help and presence I was able to overcome a hard time of my life and try to find a sense of life again. When the fish vomited me, I felt, that it is important to be grateful to God. So I said to my director, that I would like to do with the children a ceramic project of fourteen stations of the way of the Stations of the Cross for one place, which was beloved in my hard. My goal wasn't to create something to worship it, just to create something to the glory of God as my thanks, that I have found a sense of life again. So I took the children from the school, God gave me to work with them and I prayed to have some help of a volunteer for this project. I think, that God was listening to my prayers, because He gave me a man from Senegal, who came to help me for three months, even if he was Muslim, after a Christian teacher from Ghana and after a woman from Colombia. When I was about in the half of the project, because it took me three and half years, a woman arrived with two nice daughters. It was such a
  • 7. Jonah felt by his conscience, that he did something, what was not good in the eyes of God. But he tried to hide this fact in front of himself and in front of the people. Till the moment, that there was no other option, then to tell the truth to the people on the boat. The man on the picture is like Jonah, can be like each of us. He took his own decision and start to go this way. I would like to tell you my story today, even if I am always thinking, what is in this story that, what I can boast about and I can honestly say-nothing. Because it is quite sad story. When I was living in Czech, I was a teacher. The school, where I was teaching was not Christian at all, because in Czech Republic the state schools are secular. But I had a very nice and friendly director, really gift of God and in my art lessons I could do, whatever I wanted. I was happy with my work and I really liked working with children, but I felt my personal life unfulfilled. All my life I was dreaming about serious relationship, but nothing happened. Till a moment I have met a girl, who was just bit younger than I, and she had already a child. I don't know why, but I was an angel in hers eyes. A kind of prince, a woman is sometimes waiting for. We tried to live together as I always felt, that if such opportunity is coming, I have to grasp it tightly and don't do, like I don't care. Not knowing God so much in that time I just took decision, like Jonah did. I took my boat like the man from the picture and tied up the boat of my girlfriend and her child to my own. So as you see, I grasped it really thoroughly. And I started to row. But I was not an angel, only a man, so after one year first wave appear. Then a bigger one and even bigger one. I was not Christian, and she was not Christian, so we didn't know what to do, to make the storm calm. I was just rowing best, as I could. The one wave was so big, that it was better
  • 8. for her to jump into the sea. Because I was not an angel. My boat turned off, and at once I was in the sea, alone, slowly sinking to the bottom. But I think, that God loved me, because he prepared a great fish to swallow me. The fish was Jesus Christ. Before I was searching God in my life, I had many questions, but I never understood, who is Jesus Christ. With His help and presence I was able to overcome a hard time of my life and try to find a sense of life again. When the fish vomited me, I felt, that it is important to be grateful to God. So I said to my director, that I would like to do with the children a ceramic project of fourteen stations of the way of the Stations of the Cross for one place, which was beloved in my hard. My goal wasn't to create something to worship it, just to create something to the glory of God as my thanks, that I have found a sense of life again. So I took the children from the school, God gave me to work with them and I prayed to have some help of a volunteer for this project. I think, that God was listening to my prayers, because He gave me a man from Senegal, who came to help me for three months, even if he was Muslim, after a Christian teacher from Ghana and after a woman from Colombia. When I was about in the half of the project, because it took me three and half years, a woman arrived with two nice daughters. It was such a huge gift to me, that I was so happy in my Lord, that He is giving to me once more an opportunity to start a relationship. But I didn't want to do as before. I was very happy, when she told me, that she wants I become her husband. I felt safe, because she was Christian, evangelic Christian, and she teach me lot of things about living God. She was divorced and there was something unhealed from past, something unsolved. Very small spot, which looked like really of no importance. You know, just one very small spot of infection, but from where the whole body can be infected. She wanted, to take me as a patch of this old scar.
  • 9. It was very difficult for me, because I felt, that God wants to heal this scar not that I cover it with my “empathy“. So I was wrestling inside me between God and love to her, to don't lose her. This was my biggest fear from the time of the first relationship. So I became Jonah again. I decide to be on her side as a good future husband and slowly I have lost friendship with my sister, with my mother, with my brother. I was rowing again as before, but the waves were still bigger and bigger. I was so afraid to lose her, that I didn't care about the waves, just praying to overcome it. After a year we get married and it was the most beautiful wedding ever, maybe because it was my. I felt like, now I am sure with God, because from the beginning I took her as a gift of God. I overcame the biggest wave and expected, that now the sea will be calm. But the real storm just started. There was half year of a storm with some days, when I saw sun. And I was really happy to see the sun, because it makes me sure, that my choice was good and our love still exists. After some nine months after the wedding, my wife took the girls and went to France. I felt myself like Josef, just being sold to Egypt by his brothers. We were planing together some new life as it is, so it was not difficult for me to stop my job, rent my flat, put everything to the garage, take my bike and went by to France too. I tried here to start a new life for the third time, but it was totally without success. The small spot already infected all our relationship. My wife told me, that it will be the best, if I will take my things and go, because to live with me is too difficult. So they threw me to the sea of not known country for me. Without language, without sense of life and without future. But God was good and prepared some other fish to swallow me. So I learned french and I started to do volunteering work and live just listening to the voice of Holy spirit, if I may
  • 10. say so. So, that is the reason, why I am in France, even if I am Czech. Because God knows what I have to do, I personally really don't know and I don't want to be again like Jonah and take my own decision. When I draw this picture I was thinking about the storms of life, everyone of us has. I was thinking about taking own decisions or follow the plan of God. I was thinking about being disobedient and become obedient. I was thinking about the three days, sometimes three months or three years, everyone need to stay in the belly of the fish to be able to be changed. To be able to be a good tool for God´s plans with people. To be a blessing, to be a just a tool of God not some kind of crazy Christian really tired from evangelization and really disappointed, how less people want to follow the good message. I loved you as my sister and I know, that you have your own Jonah story of your life. May our stories testify, that God always knows, where we go.
  • 11. My and your Father
  • 12. So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Luke 15;20-22
  • 13. God the Father created us to His likeness. That though each of us is different, we all together can be the bearers of God spirit, testifying this gift with our life, reactions and whole our heart. Everything, what God has created was good, it means there was nothing being spoiled or created with some bad idea from the beginning. We all, Christians as not Christians are the owners of the God´s heritage. Each person has in its life free choice to search its own happiness and in fact we have two choices, same as the two sons. Is this just a story of different life choices of two sons of the same father? I think, it is a story about our life choices. The one choice is to be the righteous son. Knowing my roots, maybe raised up in a Christian family I know from the beginning, who I am, who is my father and what is my heritage. I guess, that the same feeling I can have being a member of some another religion of the world, which worship one God, one Father. I will go in the way of the law, to keep all commandments, the Father is telling me through my religion. I feel, that I deserve attention of the Father because of my obedience, same as the righteous son felt in his heart, that he deserves at least a young goat for all his obedience and slaving. Thinking of the older son was like the thinking of many religious people. For my moral life, obedience to your commands and for my devout life I deserve your heritage, because it is the way, how we people are thinking about things. And the father replied: My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. There is nobody, who should be excluded from the plan of salvation, from the gift to have real relationship with God and feeling of blessing in life. God wants to have relationship with man, He wants, that man search Him, that he is asking in his life: Lord, who are you? I imagined so many things about you, but I know, that you are as different, as different my own imaginations about you can be. The older son was angry and refused to go in, to take part on the celebration. Well, deeply rooted in my religious imagination of God, I will refuse to be happy, that a human can be lost and found again. Lost in life, imaginations, religion. I will feel righteous in that, how I see and perceive life, what I understand from all kind of scriptures. My father loves me and knows me well. I know Him just from perspective of my own obedience. The second choice is to be like the younger son. I want to go my own way in life, I want to search, what all life is about. And I have some knowledge, that there is a kind of heritage for me. The individual heritage, what I see, that are my skills. So I do bit like the younger son. Father, I say in my heart, give me, what belongs to me. I don't shame to ask for that, what the younger didn't shamed to ask for also, because I don't know my father, I don't know, that everything is from Him, so I more imagine, give me, what belongs to me. Then I go to explore and conquer the world in front of me, equipped with my own skills. But often happened that all my heritage is gone. I just squandered His property with prostitutes. Distinction, pride and ignorance can be perhaps their names. They robe whole my property
  • 14. God the Father created us to His likeness. That though each of us is different, we all together can be the bearers of God spirit, testifying this gift with our life, reactions and whole our heart. Everything, what God has created was good, it means there was nothing being spoiled or created with some bad idea from the beginning. We all, Christians as not Christians are the owners of the God´s heritage. Each person has in its life free choice to search its own happiness and in fact we have two choices, same as the two sons. Is this just a story of different life choices of two sons of the same father? I think, it is a story about our life choices. The one choice is to be the righteous son. Knowing my roots, maybe raised up in a Christian family I know from the beginning, who I am, who is my father and what is my heritage. I guess, that the same feeling I can have being a member of some another religion of the world, which worship one God, one Father. I will go in the way of the law, to keep all commandments, the Father is telling me through my religion. I feel, that I deserve attention of the Father because of my obedience, same as the righteous son felt in his heart, that he deserves at least a young goat for all his obedience and slaving. Thinking of the older son was like the thinking of many religious people. For my moral life, obedience to your commands and for my devout life I deserve your heritage, because it is the way, how we people are thinking about things. And the father replied: My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. There is nobody, who should be excluded from the plan of salvation, from the gift to have real relationship with God and feeling of blessing in life. God wants to have relationship with man, He wants, that man search Him, that he is asking in his life: Lord, who are you? I imagined so many things about you, but I
  • 15. know, that you are as different, as different my own imaginations about you can be. The older son was angry and refused to go in, to take part on the celebration. Well, deeply rooted in my religious imagination of God, I will refuse to be happy, that a human can be lost and found again. Lost in life, imaginations, religion. I will feel righteous in that, how I see and perceive life, what I understand from all kind of scriptures. My father loves me and knows me well. I know Him just from perspective of my own obedience. The second choice is to be like the younger son. I want to go my own way in life, I want to search, what all life is about. And I have some knowledge, that there is a kind of heritage for me. The individual heritage, what I see, that are my skills. So I do bit like the younger son. Father, I say in my heart, give me, what belongs to me. I don't shame to ask for that, what the younger didn't shamed to ask for also, because I don't know my father, I don't know, that everything is from Him, so I more imagine, give me, what belongs to me. Then I go to explore and conquer the world in front of me, equipped with my own skills. But often happened that all my heritage is gone. I just squandered His property with prostitutes. Distinction, pride and ignorance can be perhaps their names. They robe whole my property as I used all my skills to made me famous. Continue going in such a strange way, so I hire myself to the ministry of the evil one, and he sends me to the field with the pigs as I have no higher value for him. But even this, what he is giving to the pigs, doesn't belongs to me. It can be often a past life of many of us. The perspective of a man, who is able to manage everything in his life. And being with pigs, he imagines perhaps being with kings.
  • 16. But let´s go back to the story. The story said, when he came back to his senses. It is the only way, how to understand who I am, and what has happened with the heritage of my father. So when he came back to his senses, and he understood, that he is a sinner, like each of us, he went back to his father, knowing, that there is no more heritage for him, that now he should hardly work to deserve everything, what he lost. This story is a story about merciful father full of compassion, like our Father in heaven is. Being lost in our life and coming back to our senses, He is running toward you to hug you and to kiss you. We have nothing more, what can make us righteous in front of Him, and we know it, but He is giving us everything. The robe of faith the sandals of hope and the ring of love. And whole heaven celebrates our return home as it is written in Bible. As we were lost and are found as we were dead and are alive again. God used this story told by Jesus to make as sure, how different is He from our imaginations. You will sin against Him, but coming back to your senses He will always run toward you. Having lost everything, what you asked for? He will be not angry about your choice, He will make you His son again with everything, what belongs to it. Feeling righteous, He will love you same as the lost one, but maybe understand, that you are same lost in your imaginations. Our Father is our God and our Lord, the one who is the same from the beginning, and He decided to put His spirit into a man, knowing what will happen, to have the way for your steps, the light, which can enlighten your mind, that you are able to come back to your senses. How beautiful father we have
  • 18. He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you. Luke 17;6
  • 19. When I was reading this verse for the first time, I didn't believe, that something like it is described in this verse can happen. That standing in a faith I will command such a nonsense to a tree and it will happen. Sometimes I think, that because I am reading the text as it is written, without searching, what can be the meaning of such text, my heart is not touched with the message inside. I just jump it over to more interesting parts of the scripture. But why I don't ask God to understand the text, to ask, what is the meaning? Maybe I feel, that the meaning is clear: Having strong faith in God, with His help is everything possible. And this is just a kind of illustration of that meaning. But when the meaning is different? Is it not a pity, that I don't search it? The tree on the picture is not really a tree, even if it looks like maybe like a tree. That is me, some ten years ago, same as maybe you. I arranged my life according to things like most of the people do. Search some job, find a place to live and do many things like is normal. To buy food, to insure my life. Each decision was one root to the usual things of this world. So I became well rooted to everything, what I liked. I had nice apartment, quite cheap, I could do in my job quite whatever I wished, I could travel, do my hobbies and many many other things. During my life I slowly recognize, that I am missing water, what is for a tree quite important. I mean water of real living God. He was merciful and I found water, I start to live living faith. And I started to produce fruits of my happy life, to share my happiness with others and to try makes others happy too. I saw slowly from a moment I found water, that somewhere really far from me is a sea, full of water.But I decided in my heart, I will let this sea with its water to those, who are better in Faith, then I, who are pastors, preachers, evangelist, people, who were somehow created for this, as I am not. And I was happy with my small source, I have found. In this verse I slowly recognized, what stayed hidden to my eyes. If I will have really faith, if I will really believe, than I can do a step, that everyone will just comment it: “Such a crazy man“, then I will be obedient to this command, as crazy as it sounds. When we are reading the 11 chapter from Hebrews about the Heroes of faith, we look at them as examples of strong faith in midden of usual world. But how crazy were they for the world at that time, doing things, they just believed? All of them command to themselves to uprooted from the place, ideas, imaginations, expectations and life at that time. Each one walked on the sea. And the sea was everything unknown. Everything, what I am not able to make even one conclusion, to give one advice, to make one strategy. The fear from deepness of everything, what is unknown for me…….but known for God. More roots you have, more difficult it is, to do such decision. There is a battle in a heart between a desire of uprooting from stereotypes and a fear of sea, you don't know. I wish you dear sister, that if you do
  • 20. When I was reading this verse for the first time, I didn't believe, that something like it is described in this verse can happen. That standing in a faith I will command such a nonsense to a tree and it will happen. Sometimes I think, that because I am reading the text as it is written, without searching, what can be the meaning of such text, my heart is not touched with the message inside. I just jump it over to more interesting parts of the scripture. But why I don't ask God to understand the text, to ask, what is the meaning? Maybe I feel, that the meaning is clear: Having strong faith in God, with His help is everything possible. And this is just a kind of illustration of that meaning. But when the meaning is different? Is it not a pity, that I don't search it? The tree on the picture is not really a tree, even if it looks like maybe like a tree. That is me, some ten years ago, same as maybe you. I arranged my life according to things like most of the people do. Search some job, find a place to live and do many things like is normal. To buy food, to insure my life. Each decision was one root to the usual things of this world. So I became well rooted to everything, what I liked. I had nice apartment, quite cheap, I could do in my job quite whatever I wished, I could travel, do my hobbies and many many other things. During my life I slowly recognize, that I am missing water, what is for a tree quite important. I mean water of real living God. He was merciful and I found water, I start to live living faith. And I started to produce fruits of my happy life, to share my happiness with others and to try makes others happy too. I saw slowly from a moment I found water, that somewhere really far from me is a sea, full of water.But I decided in my heart, I will let this sea with its water to those, who are better in Faith, then I, who are pastors, preachers, evangelist, people, who were somehow created for this, as I am not. And I was happy with my small source, I have found.
  • 21. In this verse I slowly recognized, what stayed hidden to my eyes. If I will have really faith, if I will really believe, than I can do a step, that everyone will just comment it: “Such a crazy man“, then I will be obedient to this command, as crazy as it sounds. When we are reading the 11 chapter from Hebrews about the Heroes of faith, we look at them as examples of strong faith in midden of usual world. But how crazy were they for the world at that time, doing things, they just believed? All of them command to themselves to uprooted from the place, ideas, imaginations, expectations and life at that time. Each one walked on the sea. And the sea was everything unknown. Everything, what I am not able to make even one conclusion, to give one advice, to make one strategy. The fear from deepness of everything, what is unknown for me…….but known for God. More roots you have, more difficult it is, to do such decision. There is a battle in a heart between a desire of uprooting from stereotypes and a fear of sea, you don't know. I wish you dear sister, that if you do kind of decision of faith in your life, that you have enough courage to uprooted yourself, to start something new. And if you already learned how to swim in your life, because believing in our good Lord as your everyday solution for all needs, that you are strengthened to swim in the deepness of Lord.
  • 23. Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together. Genesis 22;6-8
  • 24. I think, that each of us has his own mountain of Moriah in the life. Somebody just a small one, according to that, how big cross he can carry and somebody a big one. Mountain of Moriah is something in the life, I know, that I am unable to cross by my own skills, wisdom, knowledge or life experiences, I already have. Any of that I can use. If I want to climb up the mountain, it means, I believe in God promise as strong as huge madness it is for everyone, who don't believe it. Is it not huge madness to take own son, the only one, God gave me and to sacrifice him to God? Is it not a madness to build an arch in a place of no water, just believing, that waters of a huge flood will lift it up? Is it not madness to believe that walls from Jericho will fall down by themselves? Is it not a madness for this world to know, that is possible to resurrect Lazarus, who was already dead three days? Is this everything not a madness for this world, because of standing just in faith of invisible? People believe in God, when they saw with their own eyes a part of invisible world. When they see miracles, something extraordinary. Bible is full of stories, when the people started to praise Lord or at least were afraid of God, when they saw things, no one of them can explain. Our Lord wants, that you, believe in Him independently if you will see miracles or not in your life. Jesus said to Thomas: „blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” God wants, that you believe in the invisible world just by faith, knowing, that for Him is everything possible. Who knows what is happening in the heaven already before things happen on this earth, as the earth and the heaven are connected. People want to enter the invisible world directly. By experiencing powers, which nobody can explain. The way of Abraham was only his faith, his feeling inside His heart, that God knows the end of the story from the beginning. That the end of the story is good, because God is good. Maybe in his heart Abraham believed, that love of God can't be against Abraham´s own love to his only son. There is an easier, but unclean way to get powers as God, to do miraculous things. With help of unclean spirits, which look like holy. Who will be impressed by the story of Abraham or Noah or many others, not knowing the whole story? That this people only believed in something, what has been promised to them and at the end it has happened. But many people are impressed by miraculous things, which happen in front of their eyes immediately. Then they think, yeah, we saw a piece of heaven right now! And it is true, they saw a piece of invisible world. But those, who showed them this, who uncovered veil of the temple was not the God, but the devil. Invisible spiritual world is the holy place. Moses couldn't see the face of God, when he asked to be able to see it. In front of the throne of God are Cherubs, who cover with their wings, what is behind
  • 25. I think, that each of us has his own mountain of Moriah in the life. Somebody just a small one, according to that, how big cross he can carry and somebody a big one. Mountain of Moriah is something in the life, I know, that I am unable to cross by my own skills, wisdom, knowledge or life exeriences, I already have. Any of that I can use. If I want to climb up the mountain, it means, I believe in God promise as strong as huge madness it is for everyone, who don't believe it. Is it not huge madness to take own son, the only one, God gave me and to sacrifice him to God? Is it not a madness to build an arch in a place of no water, just believing, that waters of a huge flood will lift it up? Is it not madness to believe that walls from Jericho will fall down by themselves? Is it not a madness for this world to know, that is possible to resurrect Lazarus, who was already dead three days? Is this everything not a madness for this world, because of standing just in faith of invisible? People believe in God, when they saw with their own eyes a part of invisible world. When they see miracles, something extraordinary. Bible is full of stories, when the people started to praise Lord or at least were afraid of God, when they saw things, no one of them can explain. Our Lord wants, that you, believe in Him independently if you will see miracles or not in your life. Jesus said to Thomas: „blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” God wants, that you believe in the invisible world just by faith, knowing, that for Him is everything possible. Who knows what is happening in the heaven already before things happen on this earth, as the earth and the heaven are connected. People want to enter the invisible world directly. By experiencing powers, which nobody can explain. The way of Abraham was only his faith, his feeling inside His heart, that God knows the
  • 26. end of the story from the beginning. That the end of the story is good, because God is good. Maybe in his heart Abraham believed, that love of God can't be against Abraham´s own love to his only son. There is an easier, but unclean way to get powers as God, to do miraculous things. With help of unclean spirits, which look like holy. Who will be impressed by the story of Abraham or Noah or many others, not knowing the whole story? That this people only believed in something, what has been promised to them and at the end it has happened. But many people are impressed by miraculous things, which happen in front of their eyes immediately. Then they think, yeah, we saw a piece of heaven right now! And it is true, they saw a piece of invisible world. But those, who showed them this, who uncovered veil of the temple was not the God, but the devil. Invisible spiritual world is the holy place. Moses couldn't see the face of God, when he asked to be able to see it. In front of the throne of God are Cherubs, who cover with their wings, what is behind them. We, Christians have an access to this holy place, but only through the blood of our savior Jesus Christ. All other ways are not the ways of light. It is the way to robe that, what is holy. Moriah is the mountain, I have to cross by my own foots. You can also decide in life don't go, because the way is too difficult. God will not punish you for your decision, but you refused to know the end of the story. The glory of God. But I want to tell you, sister, if you will feel once in life, that your mountain is just too high, may the Bible and its word always encourage you to believe, you can cross it. If the way will be just to tiring, may the feeling, you have others brothers and sisters, who can support you with their prayer give you new powers for your way.
  • 28. See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.” Malachi 4;5-6
  • 29. Elijah already came in Jesus Christ our Lord. In Him everything achieve reconciliation. A man to God. Man and woman to each other. Children to parents and parents to their children. People to creation and people to each other. Follow Jesus Christ means to deny myself, what is the most difficult step in life of each man. Deny myself means resign to all my imaginations and dreams about my life. To reject my own personality by the same way as Jesus has rejected his own personality of son of God. But who am I, rejecting myself? All this world is walking in totally opposite way, to glory my personality my uniqueness, to achieve a goal of life to became famous, someone, who is not the last of the lasts. God is loving me as a unique person, everyone can be used with his own uniqueness to His glory. This world is giving me every day´s occasion to built relationships. But to build a relationship you need two people, not only one, who wants and other who doesn't care. And who knows the heart of another person better than God? If something should be revealed to me, God needs in my heart an empty space for His revelation. Without imaginations, expectations, my own plans. When God wanted to reveal His plan to Mary, He needed her´s humble heart, being able to receive His plan with her. And Mary was very thankful to God for His revelation, believing, that what He promised He is able to fulfill. It is very difficult attitude in eyes of all other people, when they will ask: „So, what you will do in this situation?“ and I can just answer: „I don't know what to do, God knows and the only thing, what I can do, is to pray to Him, to show me the right direction for my life.“ It looks like very passive way, doing nothing, any step, what some other person will do. But I believe, that by the same way as in the heart is a time of waiting, it is also a time for action. Sometimes the circumstances create the action and really later I am exploring, that it was already a step of God. Everything is revelated through conscience and by conscience we control, which step is from God and which isn't. In conscience, we recognize reconciliation and forgiveness same as through conscience we recognize sin. Law in all the fifth books of Moses was a kind of written conscience, for those, who were able to live faith without conscience. In Jesus this law achieved perfection. Denied everything, what was humans and achieve everything, what was from God. Sometimes I feel, that most bad behaving, which destroys, has a spiritual background. People feel like victims of others, living without self-critisism, following an easy way, how to achieve their own happiness, without looking to others. And to be able to break these powers of darkness, we really need help of God to overpower evil by the power of reconciliation. If not for our relationship, then at least for the reason, that once we can stay straight in front of God´s justice. Straight in our conscience.
  • 30. Elijah already came in Jesus Christ our Lord. In Him everything achieve reconciliation. A man to God. Man and woman to each other. Children to parents and parents to their children. People to creation and people to each other. Follow Jesus Christ means to deny myself, what is the most difficult step in life of each man. Deny myself means resign to all my imaginations and dreams about my life. To reject my own personality by the same way as Jesus has rejected his own personality of son of God. But who am I, rejecting myself? All this world is walking in totally opposite way, to glory my personality my uniqueness, to achieve a goal of life to became famous, someone, who is not the last of the lasts. God is loving me as a unique person, everyone can be used with his own uniqueness to His glory. This world is giving me every day´s occasion to built relationships. But to build a relationship you need two people, not only one, who wants and other who doesn't care. And who knows the heart of another person better than God? If something should be revealed to me, God needs in my heart an empty space for His revelation. Without imaginations, expectations, my own plans. When God wanted to reveal His plan to Mary, He needed her´s humble heart, being able to receive His plan with her. And Mary was very thankful to God for His revelation, believing, that what He promised He is able to fulfill. It is very difficult attitude in eyes of all other people, when they will ask: „So, what you will do in this situation?“ and I can just answer: „I don't know what to do, God knows and the only thing, what I can do, is to pray to Him, to show me the right direction for my life.“ It
  • 31. looks like very passive way, doing nothing, any step, what some other person will do. But I believe, that by the same way as in the heart is a time of waiting, it is also a time for action. Sometimes the circumstances create the action and really later I am exploring, that it was already a step of God. Everything is revelated through conscience and by conscience we control, which step is from God and which isn't. In conscience, we recognize reconciliation and forgiveness same as through conscience we recognize sin. Law in all the fifth books of Moses was a kind of written conscience, for those, who were able to live faith without conscience. In Jesus this law achieved perfection. Denied everything, what was humans and achieve everything, what was from God. Sometimes I feel, that most bad behaving, which destroys, has a spiritual background. People feel like victims of others, living without self-critisism, following an easy way, how to achieve their own happiness, without looking to others. And to be able to break these powers of darkness, we really need help of God to overpower evil by the power of reconciliation. If not for our relationship, then at least for the reason, that once we can stay straight in front of God´s justice. Straight in our conscience. All, what is over that, is for the day of judgment.
  • 33. “But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! Yet give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy, Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence this day. May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which you said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place. 1 Kings 8;27-29.
  • 34. When king David decided in his heart to build a temple for God in this prayer he saw, that any temple on this earth can be big enough for God, who has created everything around man. It was a need of his heart, that on this earth can exist a place, where I can come to be sure, that here can God hear me same as I can hear God. Jerusalem became this place and till the time of Jesus Christ we believe, that it was the only place of God. When I started to search God in my life and somehow I became sure, that God exists I had a need to communicate with Him. Church was the first place, I have entered. Not because temple has been built as a place of God, but I felt the difference between the noisy world behind the walls of the temple and the silence inside. In fact many things were different. Noise and stress outside, peace and silent indoor. In summer hot outside and cold indoor. Lot of light outside and kind of shadow indoor. I took it like a different place in the heart of the noisy town. I believed, everything is so different, for sure here has to be God. I just loved to enter churches, especially a kind of small one, hidden between houses in a small road, so that you even don't recognize, that between the houses is a church. I entered, and there was nobody, just silence. I was fascinated by all the decoration to glory the God. I was not offended at all by the lot of statues and decorations, I took it as good gifts, which has been given to the craftsmen to glorify creator. In that time I felt really disturbed, when there was a service in the church. I could stay for a while, but I had always to all the people there one question: “Do you really believe that, what you are practicing?“ Maybe same to the priest:“Do you really believe that, what you are preaching?“ The temples were for me like people. Some of them were very monumental and huge, but I felt emptiness inside. I remember how I was disappointed, when I for the first time enter the San Pietro basilica in Rome. I felt like in museum of Christianity. Like if you walk in this strange museums, where you are looking at mount animals covered with dust to see the real nature. So strange. And I remember some beloved churches, where I felt the atmosphere of present God. Really later I understood this, what is Jesus explaining to the Samaritan woman by the well of Jacob, when he is saying: “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” John 4;21-24 At the beginning I needed a place to feel, I can communicate with God, listen to His voice and speak to Him. Later I discovered, that the place helps me to be focused on God, but by itself is same as any other place, where I can concentrate on Lord.
  • 35. When king David decided in his heart to build a temple for God in this prayer he saw, that any temple on this earth can be big enough for God, who has created everything around man. It was a need of his heart, that on this earth can exist a place, where I can come to be sure, that here can God hear me same as I can hear God. Jerusalem became this place and till the time of Jesus Christ we believe, that it was the only place of God. When I started to search God in my life and somehow I became sure, that God exists I had a need to communicate with Him. Church was the first place, I have entered. Not because temple has been built as a place of God, but I felt the difference between the noisy world behind the walls of the temple and the silence inside. In fact many things were different. Noise and stress outside, peace and silent indoor. In summer hot outside and cold indoor. Lot of light outside and kind of shadow indoor. I took it like a different place in the heart of the noisy town. I believed, everything is so different, for sure here has to be God. I just loved to enter churches, especially a kind of small one, hidden between houses in a small road, so that you even don't recognize, that between the houses is a church. I entered, and there was nobody, just silence. I was fascinated by all the decoration to glory the God. I was not offended at all by the lot of statues and decorations, I took it as good gifts, which has been given to the craftsmen to glorify creator. In that time I felt really disturbed, when there was a service in the church. I could stay for a while, but I had always to all the people there one question: “Do you really believe that, what you are practicing?“ Maybe same to the priest:“Do you really believe that, what you are preaching?“ The temples were for me like people. Some of them were very monumental and huge, but I felt emptiness inside. I remember how I was disappointed, when I for the first time enter
  • 36. the San Pietro basilica in Rome. I felt like in museum of Christianity. Like if you walk in this strange museums, where you are looking at mount animals covered with dust to see the real nature. So strange. And I remember some beloved churches, where I felt the atmosphere of present God. Really later I understood this, what is Jesus explaining to the Samaritan woman by the well of Jacob, when he is saying: “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” John 4;21-24 At the beginning I needed a place to feel, I can communicate with God, listen to His voice and speak to Him. Later I discovered, that the place helps me to be focused on God, but by itself is same as any other place, where I can concentrate on Lord. Today I know, that Jesus has shown us that, what was hidden to the eyes of people of Old Testament. The temple is our heart with everything, what belongs to temple. By this way even these parts from Bible as Leviticus or Numeri full of rules for service in the temple has for me some symbolical sense. It is me, who brings everyday offer to the altar of my heart. Who should maybe burn the best, what I imagine and to say thank you, for that, I have got. It is my heart, kind of sanctuary, I don't want, that unclean things enter. Sanctuary, which is washed by the blood of Jesus same as the ancient sanctuary has been washed by
  • 37. blood of goats and rams. That same as God´s glory has entered the temple time to time, Holy spirit, the glory of love of God can enter my heart and fill it, that no other idea may enter. And same as a temple was a place for wanderers, who didn't want to die, my heart can be a place for others, that through message in my heart, they can be healed. What a wonderful message. You or I don't need to travel long days to Jerusalem anymore to pray to God, to have relationship with Him. It is God, who decided, to travel to the temple of a heart of each of us, if we allow Him to enter.
  • 38. Mirror of Jesus Christ
  • 39. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. James 1;22-24
  • 40. James says that the word of God is like a mirror. This word shows me, who am I, remember me my past deeds, shows me solution out of my trouble, chastises me, same as it is giving me mercy. Each of us has a physical image, that what we see in real mirror, I look every morning in and a spiritual likeness, which I may see in another kind of mirror, in my conscience. And my natural habit is, that same as I perhaps don't like how I really look like by my face, I don't like my real reflection in the mirror of my conscience. So what is mostly the first step, what one is doing? He takes the cream, make-up and all necessary staff to change his own image to his own imagination. With our physical image it is maybe sometimes funny, that we still want to look like younger, though we can't turn the time back. But often we want to do the same with our spiritual likeness, with our heart, and that is tragic. On the picture is man in front. Maybe it is you. Behind him, he sees Jesus, our Lord in the mirror. This is the spirit, Jesus is talking about in John 14….as the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you…., this spirit would like to dwell in each of us, be seen in the mirror on the wall of our heart. I mean, that everyone has a mirror in his heart, as everyone has received conscience from God. Our „house“ inside us is set up like this. But some people prefer to have tiny mirror in beautiful golden frame. Each day they are coming in front of it, looking at themseves, and they see just their own satisfied or miserable face, not be able to see something more. In their conscience they see just their own pride or their own misery, as the mirror is too small, and they don't want by anyway move on the side or further, to see other things, because they are always used to be in the center of their own interest. If they allow in their heart to see, what is behind them, their life may be changed. We all are sinners, but we all may repent and receive mercy. ll When I was young, my mirror was quite small. I liked to look at me every day, how clever, intelligent and comic I am. Sometimes I saw something in my conscience, what was not good, but I was like the man form James letter. I looked, I saw, but I mostly forgot, what I saw. When I became Christian and try to look at things differently than just with a perspective of a selfish man, I saw, that the mirror of my conscience has been extended. Now, when I was standing in front of it, I saw myself, but it was also big enough to see Lord´s hand, which told me, what to do. And when I decided to put Jesus in my life, I saw one more extension of the mirror. Like: „Wow, it automatically gets bigger again!“ Perhaps I am a funny man with this expression, but I think, that this is the way, how Holy spirit is coming to dwell in each heart. That he may be seen each day in the mirror of our conscience to give us good guidance.nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
  • 41. James says that the word of God is like a mirror. This word shows me, who am I, remember me my past deeds, shows me solution out of my trouble, chastises me, same as it is giving me mercy. Each of us has a physical image, that what we see in real mirror, I look every morning in and a spiritual likeness, which I may see in another kind of mirror, in my conscience. And my natural habit is, that same as I perhaps don't like how I really look like by my face, I don't like my real reflection in the mirror of my conscience. So what is mostly the first step, what one is doing? He takes the cream, make-up and all necessary staff to change his own image to his own imagination. With our physical image it is maybe sometimes funny, that we still want to look like younger, though we can't turn the time back. But often we want to do the same with our spiritual likeness, with our heart, and that is tragic. On the picture is man in front. Maybe it is you. Behind him, he sees Jesus, our Lord in the mirror. This is the spirit, Jesus is talking about in John 14….as the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you…., this spirit would like to dwell in each of us, be seen in the mirror on the wall of our heart. I mean, that everyone has a mirror in his heart, as everyone has received conscience from God. Our „house“ inside us is set up like this. But some people prefer to have tiny mirror in beautiful golden frame. Each day they are coming in front of it, looking at themseves, and they see just their own satisfied or miserable face, not be able to see something more. In their conscience they see just their own pride or their own misery, as the mirror is too small, and they don't want by anyway move on the side or further, to see other things, because they are always used to be in the center of their own interest. If they allow in their heart to see, what is behind them, their life may be changed. We all are sinners, but we all may repent and receive mercy.
  • 42. When I was young, my mirror was quite small. I liked to look at me every day, how clever, intelligent and comic I am. Sometimes I saw something in my conscience, what was not good, but I was like the man form James letter. I looked, I saw, but I mostly forgot, what I saw. When I became Christian and try to look at things differently than just with a perspective of a selfish man, I saw, that the mirror of my conscience has been extended. Now, when I was standing in front of it, I saw myself, but it was also big enough to see Lord´s hand, which told me, what to do. And when I decided to put Jesus in my life, I saw one more extension of the mirror. Like: „Wow, it automatically gets bigger again!“ Perhaps I am a funny man with this expression, but I think, that this is the way, how Holy spirit is coming to dwell in each heart. That he may be seen each day in the mirror of our conscience to give us good guidance. James continues in his letter by saying: But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it— they will be blessed in what they do. What is this perfect law of freedom? Is it not our Lord Jesus Christ, the offered lamb for our sins, who made us free from each spite? Is this not the freedom, the law, which is engraved in man´s heart. His picture in the mirror of our conscience? An answer of the spirit to each doubt. I mean, when I do something during the day, what was not good reaction, He is telling me: „But I wouldn't act like this Přemysl in the same situation. Remember my words and my deeds.“ And I am sure, that God will prepare for me a new similar situation to test me, if I am not forgetting what I have heard or I do.
  • 43. I wish you, that you my dear sister in Jesus Christ can see Lord in your own mirror every day. The Lord who says: „Don't, cry“ and his word has the power to lift up, same as the Lord, who says: „You don't know, which spirit you have.“ That both we want to hear, the first as a word of pleasure and encouragement and the second as the word of warning. I wish that you clean your mirror in the heart, that the reflection of Lord in it can be still clear. That His voice is clear, and you may to hear him. Because He is calling you, his sheep, by name and the sheep know His voice. The Jews had the law, and it was their mirror to know what is good and evil. But nobody could save himself by following all the rules of the law, he saw in. You received a mirror for your own heart and a perfect picture of a living word in it in Jesus Christ. What a beautiful activity is to look in it. To see him and us close to each other.
  • 44. Wait for the fire of the spirit
  • 45. On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts of apostles 1;4-5
  • 46. Perhaps this verse sounds just like a description of a situation, which has happened in Jerusalem in the early church period. Reading it carefully, the sense of the command, Jesus gave to his disciples seems more clear and actual for my life. As He said: Wait for the gift my Father promised … it is very important to follow this command in one´s life. I think, that waiting belongs to each prayer, to be able to take best decision for each situation, which is happening. That spirit of God can give me the good direction for my deeds. Luke describes the Holy spirit as a fire in Acts and I think, we may see it so. When I pray for something what I have on my heart as a desire why I do it? I know, that I am incapable to resolve the situation like a human, so I ask God, as the almighty one, who knows all people, people´s desires and motives of the hearts to help me to resolve the situation. And it can be my own problem in life, relationship, same as misery of others, because their pain of heart is like my own pain. And as I pray, humble in front of God, knowing who am I, my prayer should have a character of fire, even if I don't see any. Having this character I believe, that the prayer may arrive in front of God´s throne. As fire burnt naturally everything what comes in its flame, even it can make the fire stronger, it goes for the spiritual world too. If somewhere in heaven exist invisible powers, which have an interest, that my prayer won't arrive to God´s throne, they try to extinguish the flame. And small flame, you can quench, when you will cover it, but a huge one will burn even the cover. As we believe, that our Lord cares, that He is interested in a man like you, he answers. His spirit, which has the ability to see all situations, circumstances, everything, what will happen, can give you wisdom, for your own decision in life. His answer is clear as his word is like a sharp sword. Therefore, I drew this picture like a fire, which descends to the man same, as his prayer lift up to God. This fire of God´s spirit burn everything unclean, which is coming into its way. Therefore, demons are scared of our sincere prayers, because they know if they will arrive to God´s throne, God´s answer will surely arrive down to our heart. To believe in this word, perhaps it has been described to our edification, what has happened, when God was speaking to Moses: On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke,because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him. Exodus 19;16-19 Maybe you have a question, so why I will not die like there was the warning to people of Israel, being just a usual man or woman, when God is answering? I think, because once in your life, you already did
  • 47. Perhaps this verse sounds just like a description of a situation, which has happened in Jerusalem in the early church period. Reading it carefully, the sense of the command, Jesus gave to his disciples seems more clear and actual for my life. As He said: Wait for the gift my Father promised … it is very important to follow this command in one´s life. I think, that waiting belongs to each prayer, to be able to take best decision for each situation, which is happening. That spirit of God can give me the good direction for my deeds. Luke describes the Holy spirit as a fire in Acts and I think, we may see it so. When I pray for something what I have on my heart as a desire why I do it? I know, that I am incapable to resolve the situation like a human, so I ask God, as the almighty one, who knows all people, people´s desires and motives of the hearts to help me to resolve the situation. And it can be my own problem in life, relationship, same as misery of others, because their pain of heart is like my own pain. And as I pray, humble in front of God, knowing who am I, my prayer should have a character of fire, even if I don't see any. Having this character I believe, that the prayer may arrive in front of God´s throne. As fire burnt naturally everything what comes in its flame, even it can make the fire stronger, it goes for the spiritual world too. If somewhere in heaven exist invisible powers, which have an interest, that my prayer won't arrive to God´s throne, they try to extinguish the flame. And small flame, you can quench, when you will cover it, but a huge one will burn even the cover. As we believe, that our Lord cares, that He is interested in a man like you, he answers. His spirit, which has the ability to see all situations, circumstances, everything, what will happen, can give you wisdom, for your own decision in life. His answer is clear as his word
  • 48. is like a sharp sword. Therefore, I drew this picture like a fire, which descends to the man same, as his prayer lift up to God. This fire of God´s spirit burn everything unclean, which is coming into its way. Therefore, demons are scared of our sincere prayers, because they know if they will arrive to God´s throne, God´s answer will surely arrive down to our heart. To believe in this word, perhaps it has been described to our edification, what has happened, when God was speaking to Moses: On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke,because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him. Exodus 19;16- 19 Maybe you have a question, so why I will not die like there was the warning to people of Israel, being just a usual man or woman, when God is answering? I think, because once in your life, you already did a decision to be His child, to love Him, to serve Him. And He wants, that we stay His beloved children and as each child is growing, that we may grow also to the fullness of God. When his answer come back, are we really prepared to receive it? And how surprised I am, when the word, what I should do or say, arrives like a fire and it burns all my clothes I have put on me. And at once I see, that I am naked in front of His answer. Jesus said, wait for the gift my Father promised ……, and I see the waiting as something important in once life. It is not to be passive, it is just to don't sometimes follow my own
  • 49. imaginations, what is best, but be patient for the answer of Lord, what should be best to do. And even, if He says: Just do nothing now, to have the courage to believe it, seeing, that I should do something. If I will take my own decision being inpatient, Lord will bless my way, from His love, but coming to the same point I could come by a shorter and easier way I will see, that I made my own way longer and more difficult. When I will reject His proposal, it is me, who is rejecting His gift for me. It will be strange to imagine, that once we have received His Holy spirit, from that moment we have a promise to walk with Lord all the time. Our Lord is not God of stereotypes, but He is living God, and what is living is each day different. Did you sometimes see a plant, which is all time the same? Well, an artificial one. But I wish for all of us, that we are not artificial Christians, but the real one.
  • 51. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 8;21-22
  • 52. When I lived in Czech republic, being a teacher at school I had one Art-Christian project, for which I have searched volunteers. It was an interesting story how Lord is giving people to us, if we stay faithful to Him. I did the project, because I have a strong feeling in heart, that I would like to be thankful to God discovering, who is He. I imagined, that maybe someone from Czech will come to help me and finally my first volunteer was a man from Senegal, who contacted me to come. And he was Muslim. That are such strange ways totally against our imaginations with Lord sometimes. I lived with this man 3 months, and I am thankful to be able to see, how you build relationship with God in Islam. For this my friend it was really important to follow the command to pray five times per day. When he arrived, maybe half of his suitcase has been filled with a sack with something, I shamed to ask, but it looked like sand. Finally, it was cous-cous for cooking, what he used to prepare some kind of food before his prayer. As I understood the food should be halal, therefore he couldn't buy it in my country. Already in Jewish law was written: If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 15;21) The sacrifice should be clean in a way, to don't offer to Lord something, what is unclean. Little same as my friend could´t eat something, what was not halal for his Lord. At many parts in Old Testament is written, that Lord smelled the pleasing aroma of the sacrifice, what was the way, how He accepted it. By this way of sacrificing people could stay in front of Him unclean in heart, as their sacrifice was vicarious. The blood of the rams and goats made them clean, as in the blood was life and this life was sacrificed for their sin. When I draw this picture, I was thinking, how this verse of Bible can actually speak to me, to my way, how I want to build relationship to my Lord. And to this relationship belongs also the way, how each of us sacrifice the daily life imaginations to Lord. Lord wants your heart same as my as literally the center of one´s character. We should burn everything bad in our heart, what we don't want to have for Lord by the same way as people burn in the time of Ancient Israel their sacrifice. It is not you, your effort to desire Lord´s love by burning all bad in you, but the fire from God´s love through your conscience, which set up the fire of love to Him in your heart dear sister. For His love and through His love you want to burn everything bad in you and the smell of this burnt offering pleases the Lord. He knows, who you are, but His promise is encouraging: As long, as the earth will exist, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood, I will never again destroy all living creatures, as I have done. How do we smell for our Lord? We smell after our character. And each of us can easy stink out one´s life being insincere in front of Lord. And there are many
  • 53. When I lived in Czech republic, being a teacher at school I had one Art-Christian project, for which I have searched volunteers. It was an interesting story how Lord is giving people to us, if we stay faithful to Him. I did the project, because I have a strong feeling in heart, that I would like to be thankful to God discovering, who is He. I imagined, that maybe someone from Czech will come to help me and finally my first volunteer was a man from Senegal, who contacted me to come. And he was Muslim. That are such strange ways totally against our imaginations with Lord sometimes. I lived with this man 3 months, and I am thankful to be able to see, how you build relationship with God in Islam. For this my friend it was really important to follow the command to pray five times per day. When he arrived, maybe half of his suitcase has been filled with a sack with something, I shamed to ask, but it looked like sand. Finally, it was cous-cous for cooking, what he used to prepare some kind of food before his prayer. As I understood the food should be halal, therefore he couldn't buy it in my country. Already in Jewish law was written: If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 15;21) The sacrifice should be clean in a way, to don't offer to Lord something, what is unclean. Little same as my friend could´t eat something, what was not halal for his Lord. At many parts in Old Testament is written, that Lord smelled the pleasing aroma of the sacrifice, what was the way, how He accepted it. By this way of sacrificing people could stay in front of Him unclean in heart, as their sacrifice was vicarious. The blood of the rams and goats made them clean, as in the blood was life and this life was sacrificed for their sin.
  • 54. When I draw this picture, I was thinking, how this verse of Bible can actually speak to me, to my way, how I want to build relationship to my Lord. And to this relationship belongs also the way, how each of us sacrifice the daily life imaginations to Lord. Lord wants your heart same as my as literally the center of one´s character. We should burn everything bad in our heart, what we don't want to have for Lord by the same way as people burn in the time of Ancient Israel their sacrifice. It is not you, your effort to desire Lord´s love by burning all bad in you, but the fire from God´s love through your conscience, which set up the fire of love to Him in your heart dear sister. For His love and through His love you want to burn everything bad in you and the smell of this burnt offering pleases the Lord. He knows, who you are, but His promise is encouraging: As long, as the earth will exist, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood, I will never again destroy all living creatures, as I have done. How do we smell for our Lord? We smell after our character. And each of us can easy stink out one´s life being insincere in front of Lord. And there are many devilish stinks, which has the power to stink out everything in my life. Sometimes it is difficult in life, to confess all of our sins in front of Lord. Some of them we perhaps don't feel like sins, having happened to far from today. And sometimes it stays in our life some unresolved relationship, that we already forget, maybe. One unresolved relationship is like one nail on your skin. A small nail, what the evil one will see, and he will always try to hang his stinking things on it. And these things will stink out finally all your character.
  • 55. Imagine, that we will be a bride of Jesus Christ. How you would like it if your bride arrived at your wedding stinking? Will you be pleased with it or it will be disgusting for your nose? Sometimes, when I am looking at all of our denominations, all movements like New Age, Gospel of Prosperity and I don't know whatever, how many stinks are between Christians? Please, my dear sister, protect your heart from all this stink and be always sincere to Lord. If there is something too difficult, yet we believe, that our Lord can and wants to lift us up. May you offer your sincere heart to Him, that He is pleased with its smell. That He can be proud of you, like He was proud of Job in front of the evil one, like a husband will be proud of his wife. I wish you, you become a beautiful bride of Lord
  • 56. Lord is your wind and your harbor
  • 57. We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. 2 Corinthians 6;3-10
  • 58. Sometimes I think, that so many things can make one angry. Or at least to feel injustice to myself, comparing myself with others. Each of us I dream sometimes about many things. I imagine, how the things could be and I feel sad, that they are not like this. But it is only my imagination. Nothing, what makes me sure, that it can be like this. I feel each day, that God cares about me, but often I am thinking about those Christians, who are every day in danger, suffering, starve of hunger, persecution. How strong their faith should be, believing in good God, when no good things arrive in life. kjdjwdwdwhdwhdwdhwudhwhdwhdwhdwuhd This verse has been written to encourage Christians, who were overwhelmed, lost, feeling at the end of their way. It is just an encouragement how to live faith in life, but I feel more and more if I change my life according to this sentence, then it is really nothing, what can destroy me. Feeling, that I am firmly attached to my Lord what should destroy me? Jesus said: I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear many fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. John 15;5 If He is the strong trunk no storm of evil no storm of life can turn the tree upside down. A storm can break the branch, but such branch never break itself close to the trunk, because there is the firmest. I can be broken, if I will be far from the trunk, but disproportional to the trunk. Farther the branches are from the trunk, less thick they are. Farther I am from Jesus Christ in my life, I mean I know, how Jesus is, but I am unable to live Him, to put whole my life in His hand, because I just don't believe it, thinner I should be in my own imaginations, who am I. Unfortunately in one´s life it is often opposite. Christians don't even know, how far are they from living God, but they imagine themselves as such important branches. Humans pride destroyed many churches in the past. They were just broken down, being too far from the trunk and too heavy, that the trunk may carry it. Maybe with the same comprehension is apostle Paul speaking about the Jews, saying: If some branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. Romans 11;17-18 If you in your life will always feel, that you are close to the trunk, that nothing will separate you from Jesus, your life will be easier, though being in troubles. Because you will feel, that against each storm of the life you are not alone, lonely tree standing on a meadow, but a branch of the most deeply rooted tree, as it can be. And if we are sure, that nothing has the power to refute the tree, why do you doubt about your own resistance, if it is not you, who is ingrained in the ground, but Jesus our Lord.
  • 59. Sometimes I think, that so many things can make one angry. Or at least to feel injustice to myself, comparing myself with others. Each of us I dream sometimes about many things. I imagine, how the things could be and I feel sad, that they are not like this. But it is only my imagination. Nothing, what makes me sure, that it can be like this. I feel each day, that God cares about me, but often I am thinking about those Christians, who are every day in danger, suffering, starve of hunger, persecution. How strong their faith should be, believing in good God, when no good things arrive in life. This verse has been written to encourage Christians, who were overwhelmed, lost, feeling at the end of their way. It is just an encouragement how to live faith in life, but I feel more and more if I change my life according to this sentence, then it is really nothing, what can destroy me. Feeling, that I am firmly attached to my Lord what should destroy me? Jesus said: I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear many fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. John 15;5 If He is the strong trunk no storm of evil no storm of life can turn the tree upside down. A storm can break the branch, but such branch never break itself close to the trunk, because there is the firmest. I can be broken, if I will be far from the trunk, but disproportional to the trunk. Farther the branches are from the trunk, less thick they are. Farther I am from Jesus Christ in my life, I mean I know, how Jesus is, but I am unable to live Him, to put whole my life in His hand, because I just don't believe it, thinner I should be in my own imaginations, who am I.
  • 60. Unfortunately in one´s life it is often opposite. Christians don't even know, how far are they from living God, but they imagine themselves as such important branches. Humans pride destroyed many churches in the past. They were just broken down, being too far from the trunk and too heavy, that the trunk may carry it. Maybe with the same comprehension is apostle Paul speaking about the Jews, saying: If some branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. Romans 11;17-18 If you in your life will always feel, that you are close to the trunk, that nothing will separate you from Jesus, your life will be easier, though being in troubles. Because you will feel, that against each storm of the life you are not alone, lonely tree standing on a meadow, but a branch of the most deeply rooted tree, as it can be. And if we are sure, that nothing has the power to refute the tree, why do you doubt about your own resistance, if it is not you, who is ingrained in the ground, but Jesus our Lord. Feeling this, life can be like a blessing, feeling happy, though starving, be satisfied and thankful, though having anything, have joy and love in heart, though others don't. Then you will feel like the man on the boat, carried with wings of hope and faith through all difficulties of life.
  • 62. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. John 17;9-10,26
  • 63. Meeting between people is not just a coincidence. Someone will say, it is more or less just a coincidence and because we people have a need to live together, we also meet together and create relationships. Or I can take it, that a person is a gift. I am sure, that looking to people by a way, that this person is a gift will really change my relation to them. How I see them, how I am able to find something nice on them, how I can care about them, if I feel, that their way is not a way of God. If Holy spirit would like to dwell in me, then I am not growing like a lonely tree just for myself to achieve the heaven, but I am growing to be able to produce fruits. Finally, just one sort of fruit is enough, because all the kind of sweet tastes are already inside. I mean love. Growing in love means, that my eyes are not focused on my needs, my wishes and my imaginations, but my eyes are sensitive to look around. Sensitive in a way, that I can distinguish. Maybe is more my heart, which is able to recognize needs of people. God wants to change you and me to his likeness, that, how it is written in the verse of John 17, that Jesus can be in us. Because there is no other testimony of living God, then our own life, our own faith, hope and love. So people, who croosing your life are getting an answer of a testimony of our life, that God is living, carrying, loving. If I look to Bible, there were many people meeting Jesus and many people following Jesus, but just some. of them have been given from God. And Jesus says it clearly: I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, because they have been given from some reason, which God knew, before we know: …that, I am glorified in them. That I will declare Your name to them. And I think, that for the same reason is God using us and is giving people in our way of life. When I did this picture I did it by this way to see, that you, same as me can grow to the fullness of love in all levels. Love which is helping, love which cares, love which warns, knowing circumstances. Because to a gift I have relationship because of the joy to a person, who is giving. I remember, when i was child I quite like to use a given gift not only for my own pleasure, even if my own pleasure was big, but to show my happiness and pleasure to a person, who gave me the gift. And so same as my aunt was happy, that I enjoy her gift, I was happy seeing joy of others from a gift given by me. If we see each person like a gift, we appreciate, that God gave us an opportunity to meet someone, to share, to speak to feel interested in each other life. It is very easy to refuse a gift, not knowing if that person is a gift. This world has invented so many ways how to isolate me from others, take my own earphones and listen to my music, watching my video, searching for my websites and replying to my chats. People will come and people will pass by. Maybe being sad in their heart, that they didn´t find anybody to speak with, to share with that, what they wanted. May
  • 64. Meeting between people is not just a coincidence. Someone will say, it is more or less just a coincidence and because we people have a need to live together, we also meet together and create relationships. Or I can take it, that a person is a gift. I am sure, that looking to people by a way, that this person is a gift will really change my relation to them. How I see them, how I am able to find something nice on them, how I can care about them, if I feel, that their way is not a way of God. If Holy spirit would like to dwell in me, then I am not growing like a lonely tree just for myself to achieve the heaven, but I am growing to be able to produce fruits. Finally, just one sort of fruit is enough, because all the kind of sweet tastes are already inside. I mean love. Growing in love means, that my eyes are not focused on my needs, my wishes and my imaginations, but my eyes are sensitive to look around. Sensitive in a way, that I can distinguish. Maybe is more my heart, which is able to recognize needs of people. God wants to change you and me to his likeness, that, how it is written in the verse of John 17, that Jesus can be in us. Because there is no other testimony of living God, then our own life, our own faith, hope and love. So people, who croosing your life are getting an answer of a testimony of our life, that God is living, carrying, loving. If I look to Bible, there were many people meeting Jesus and many people following Jesus, but just some of them have been given from God. And Jesus says it clearly: I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, because they have been given from some reason, which God knew, before we know: …that, I am glorified in them. That I will declare Your name to them. And I think, that for the same reason is God using us and is giving people in our way of life.
  • 65. When I did this picture I did it by this way to see, that you, same as me can grow to the fullness of love in all levels. Love which is helping, love which cares, love which warns, knowing circumstances. Because to a gift I have relationship because of the joy to a person, who is giving. I remember, when i was child I quite like to use a given gift not only for my own pleasure, even if my own pleasure was big, but to show my happiness and pleasure to a person, who gave me the gift. And so same as my aunt was happy, that I enjoy her gift, I was happy seeing joy of others from a gift given by me. If we see each person like a gift, we appreciate, that God gave us an opportunity to meet someone, to share, to speak to feel interested in each other life. It is very easy to refuse a gift, not knowing if that person is a gift. This world has invented so many ways how to isolate me from others, take my own earphones and listen to my music, watching my video, searching for my websites and replying to my chats. People will come and people will pass by. Maybe being sad in their heart, that they didn´t find anybody to speak with, to share with that, what they wanted. May we will care not about just those, we love, but all, who are given to us, even if sometimes maybe just for a while just for a short moment of a life, also a short moment can change everything. Because this short moment is maybe a short while, when our seed of love and care can be plant in the heart of others and a similar but different plant can once start to grow. We don´t know, when the plant will start to grow, but God knows. God is giving the increase. But we plant on the field, He is giving. njnjnjnjnjnjnnjjjjjjjjjjujuuubzztffzfzfzfzfzffzf.
  • 66. Door of love no one can close
  • 67. “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. Revelation 3;7-8
  • 68. Sometimes I have a question. Lord, who can hear you? I see how people busy themselves. Their heart is full of their own life and there is no space for other man, when God wants to use him to speak to man's heart. Some of them even lock their heart very well. Jesus can knock on their heart as strong as he wants, and they don't hear, having earphones. nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn But they may hear. Jesus says my sheep hear my voice. It is free decision of everybody, if he wants to hear the voice. Jesus the one, who is standing outside behind the door of the heart is patient, knocking, though the owner of the heart may not open. As it is written, if He opens, nobody can close. If man decides to open the door of his heart, and explores the love, that Jesus has for each of us, finally it is God, who opens the huge door of love in front of each of us. Like you have a room with a huge window, but in front of the window are shutters, which are closed. The room is dark, though outside is already daylight. If the window is huge, it is difficult to open the shutters. How difficult is sometimes for Jesus to open the heavy doors of our own heart. How many prejudices, feelings, imaginations are hanging on the shutters. And the light is not always pleasant, being very clear, shining in one's face and illuminating all mess in the room of the heart. But if you open, and start to enjoy the light and fresh air in the room, which was locked, dark and stuffy for ages, who wants to close it again? When Jesus opens the door of our heart and I learn to love people, to be able to see each person like a small gift, love and happiness is coming out of my heart and nobody is able to stop it. When I explore, that Jesus died for me, that my debt has been paid from mercy, this gift of love I want to share with others. It is the power of first love and for this first love I am able to offer whatever the love asks. And later, as difficult situations are coming, often I am losing the first love, like it is written in Revelation: Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. And blessed are those, who don't lose it. From the time, Jesus was living on this earth, God opened the door of mercy for each of us. That each person can have a personal relationship to God. And there is no power of devil to close the door. And once, when this period of mercy will come to its end, God will close the door, same as He closed the door of arch behind Noah. Nobody was able to open it anymore. Paul said in his letter to Romans: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? If you have decided in your life to open the door to Christ and his love, it is God, who opened the door of your heart. And when God opens, no power is able to close it.
  • 69. Sometimes I have a question. Lord, who can hear you? I see how people busy themselves. Their heart is full of their own life and there is no space for other man, when God wants to use him to speak to man's heart. Some of them even lock their heart very well. Jesus can knock on their heart as strong as he wants, and they don't hear, having earphones. But they may hear. Jesus says my sheep hear my voice. It is free decision of everybody, if he wants to hear the voice. Jesus the one, who is standing outside behind the door of the heart is patient, knocking, though the owner of the heart may not open. As it is written, if He opens, nobody can close. If man decides to open the door of his heart, and explores the love, that Jesus has for each of us, finally it is God, who opens the huge door of love in front of each of us. Like you have a room with a huge window, but in front of the window are shutters, which are closed. The room is dark, though outside is already daylight. If the window is huge, it is difficult to open the shutters. How difficult is sometimes for Jesus to open the heavy doors of our own heart. How many prejudices, feelings, imaginations are hanging on the shutters. And the light is not always pleasant, being very clear, shining in one's face and illuminating all mess in the room of the heart. But if you open, and start to enjoy the light and fresh air in the room, which was locked, dark and stuffy for ages, who wants to close it again? When Jesus opens the door of our heart and I learn to love people, to be able to see each person like a small gift, love and happiness is coming out of my heart and nobody is able to stop it. When I explore, that Jesus died for me, that my debt has been paid from mercy,
  • 70. this gift of love I want to share with others. It is the power of first love and for this first love I am able to offer whatever the love asks. And later, as difficult situations are coming, often I am losing the first love, like it is written in Revelation: Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. And blessed are those, who don't lose it. From the time, Jesus was living on this earth, God opened the door of mercy for each of us. That each person can have a personal relationship to God. And there is no power of devil to close the door. And once, when this period of mercy will come to its end, God will close the door, same as He closed the door of arch behind Noah. Nobody was able to open it anymore. Paul said in his letter to Romans: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? If you have decided in your life to open the door to Christ and his love, it is God, who opened the door of your heart. And when God opens, no power is able to close it. Such miraculous power of love, like the man on the picture sees, that he has received