Sari @sarikorpi@dingdash.com

@Berrybunchfamily 😂

@Berrybunchfamily 😅 exactly! I just read in the Finnish national news (yle), how it's bad for the environment that the cows chew the cud! That's how crazy it can get when you understand nothing about God as the Creator...

@Cherishingsparrows2020 @Jo_PrayerN_actionCenter
This is the book:
https://www.ywampublishing.com/p-1808-face-to-face-with-jesus.aspx

@Jo_PrayerN_actionCenter I have actually one thought myself to share on the subject.
I read a book about a muslim woman who became a Christian. She lived in a country where there was a risk as a lonely woman to be raped on the streets if not walking with a man escort. Then she heard of a Christian missionary who had started giving women courses in self defense (including karate or something !) and she felt God lead her to go to the courses. With those skills, she was then able to attend church meetings on other side of town and yes, she was sometimes forced to use her skills for not being raped or harassed.
BUT when her own father found out about her Christian faith, he became full of anger and started heavily beating her up. At this moment she didn't resist him at all, but let him do what he did, in other words she turned the other cheek and just felt God's love in that moment and towards her father too. This I found very interesting to read.

@Jo_PrayerN_actionCenter Dear Lord, bring your healing to those injured and recovering and help those who got arrested! Amen. 🙏

@Jo_PrayerN_actionCenter This truly is a very hard question, which I've also been pondering many times. Where goes the limit between turning the other cheek and defending yourself (or your family, people, country etc) ? What if the attackers would had for example started raping the woman in front of your eyes, would it had been right to just do nothing..?
I would love to hear peoples comment on this subject. 🙏

@Olamide Amen, Glory to God! 🙌Blessings to you dear brother. 🙏

@Olamide Thank you, good words! I have the experience from my church background, that we are preaching the word (which is of course the fundamental thing!), but we don't as a church search for spiritual gifts, well, we do pray for the sick, but we dont cast out demons AT ALL. And this is also a problem -because I'm sure God would love to give us also these things for equipping his church to minister to the lost, because He wants not only save people but also do these things of his goodness! It's sad that the prosperity movement have in a way spoiled this in that way that many Christians are afraid of all kinds of healings and miracles, because they have seen how these movements are abusing these gifts for selfish purposes. So it feels in a way safer to just preach the word, and not search for anything more. It's great to hear you have found a balance in this! Jesus did these things because he cared for people, and that should also be our heart, and only so that God can have ALL glory.

@weavers4jesus I pray for you and your daughter that the things you have faced today and the anger and the words you have had to listen, would just lose it's effect and be wiped off your minds and hearts by the grace of God and in Jesus mighty name! Lord, lift this whole family above all these negative things and fill them with your love! You have lead them to China and you are able to work all things for good! Thank you Lord that you will give them everything they need to fulfill their task, because you are strenghtening them. (Phil. 4:13). 🙏💖

@faith20 Also in Finland the talks about the threat of nuclear radiation started when Russia attacked Ukrainian nuclear plants. In just couple of days all iodine was sold out at shops and pharmacies, even from the stock, when people became aware of it.

@faith20 You spoke earlier about the situation in Italy, and it's quite shocking to hear. Sadly I don't believe it's going to get easier with time, instead it seems to be something they want to make happen in other European countries, too. I got a confirmation about this when we had covid in my family just couple of weeks ago. I haven't taken the vaccin, so I called a nurse to ask whether I should need a pcr-test to verify it's covid. She said that a verification showing you have had covid wouldn't be of any use, because they are preparing for a vaccine passport next.
And that means, you can get the passport only by taking the vaccine, not in any other ways. So it's obviously coming to Finland too. What they'll use the passport for is something we'll have to wait and see.
We are praying for you and your family. God bless you and give you hope and strenght to each day 🙏

@Knittinggrace by the way, does anybody know how the underground church in China is working today when there's all the covid restrictions? Are they able to meet face to face?

@Knittinggrace I believe we believers in the West need to start learning from the underground house church movement in the persecuted countries. It strongly looks like that's going to be also our future.

@Chidiotamiri This is encouraging! I and my husband have also been praying for revival in Ukraine since the war started. I believe for sure God can use a terrible thing like war for His purposes and to change it to become a blessing. Also in the book of Acts the church met persecution and when they fled Jerusalem and went to different places, the church started to grow wherever they went. May Gods fire - the lives he has touched - spread allover Europe and change the life of millions of people! And may his Church in different countries show God's love to the unbelievers from Ukraine, and may He use everyone of us to be a part of His work, in one way or another!🙏💖

@Chidiotamiri thanks!