To hold up the staff means to do the same as Moses did at the sea. BEFORE the sea was parted, or the impossibility dissolved, he first had to hold up his staff in FAITH. Only THEN did this amazing miracle happen and the sea parted!
"God always says YES! To every single confession of mine - no matter if out of faith or out of unbelief. He always and exclusively says YES to it." (internal message of Sept. 3, 2022) Uhgg! If that's true, then I have to immediatly watch out what I say!!! Do you know how many more things come out of my mouth, where God just says YES to it because I said so? For example, "I'll never get it right." He says, "Yes!" "I'm always the problem" "Yes!" "Life is really sad ..." "Yes!" "I think I'm sick", "Yes!" etc.
For as long as I can remember, the same scene has repeated itself over and over again on our family vacations. At some point we just sit until late at night and listen to the most exciting stories from the time when we were still in diapers or did not even exist. One question follows the last one and again and again something new comes up, so that you 'feel like' you had never heard this before.
"We have this feeling often enough. We think: Now I've done everything wrong, now it can't turn out well. But the Lord says: Why not? After all, if I make the rules of the game, no matter what you did wrong, whether you wanted to or not, it comes out BETTER in the end!"
Summertime is almost over again and with it our big outreach time at the basis, here in Panorama Center. One practice day followed the next and in between there were also volunteer weeks, in which OCGers could come to us in Walzenhausen for organic training. I had the opportunity to prepare a lot of projects, visualize and "resurrect" in some challenges, so that we could even function together as a swarm and move the mountains very practically!
This summer, we as OCG have spent a lot of time on the topic of "rest on every side". The term comes from the time of Moses, when God promised him and the whole people of Israel a rest from all enemies. This rest didn't just come automatically though, they had to take it piece by piece and defeat all enemies - who were many times superior.
On the last day of training we could summarize with my father-in-law, one point appealed to me very much. First he talked about one of the greatest "weapons" of the devil - the weapon of distraction! Distraction has never been so great as it is right now in our time. Starting with television, all the cell phones, sex, drugs, alcohol, partying, stimulants, all the over-the-top entertainment, music, sports, games, pleasure - all enemy tactics to distract. But what exactly is the devil distracting from?
The UPF (Universal Peace Federation) has a consultative role with the United Nations (UN). In September 2018, it invited representatives from a wide variety of backgrounds to the international World Peace Conference. OCG founder Ivo Sasek also spoke there on "The Way to Inter-religious World Peace." In this excerpt from his speech, you will learn the essence of evaluation: How do we come to this power that makes us love, even when we stand before our greatest enemies?
It is so wonderful that more and more people are networking with each other and that as a result we can exponentially increase our joint clout in the area of exposing media lies and many other things. But what saddens me time and again is the following fact: when it comes to lending a practical hand with this, many people still apologize profusely, report on all their problems and hardships, and then sink back into their holes of lousy circumstances.
Our middle son had a small trampoline accident a few months ago. Since it left him with a torticollis, we went to the doctor, but he couldn't find a fracture on the x-ray. We were then discharged, but the doctor called us again that evening and said he kind of had a "funny feeling about it" and asked us to get an MRI* just to be on the safe side.
