deutschland gehört dem Herrn!

the time goes faster than an airplane.

for the last week i have wanted to write a blog.. so i am thankful that i have the opportunity to right now.

since that last time i updated... the days have been filled with much more than one can write and i have been graced more than i deserve.

the time last year here was spent more around boxi.. and though i am there often, my time is divided between people and wandering the streets of berlin.
the german course started almost two weeks ago. so monday through friday, i join about 12 others who desire to learn german as a lifestyle. i am sure God has me there.. mitabsicht! (on purpose)

one day last week i was speaking with some friends about heading to poland for a weekend. why not? as week thought through it, i mentioned we should do something useful with the time if we go.. such as play street worship. one of the others mentioned that we could take some polish Bibles. nothing was planned but the idea still lingers.
a day later, i ate lunch in a park with a polish man from my deutschkurs (german course). we spoke on God, religion.. rules and regulations of the church... so on. he mentioned that he was catholic.. then he told me about a friends fathers friends.. or something to that effect, is a preacher in germany, but has a polish Bible, and how he wanted to ask if he could borrow it.
immidiately i remembered the conversation i had with my other friends the day before. i offered to order one for him... super!

a couple days later as i was leaving, i was talking with a korean from the class. she asked what i did... or do for a job. i told her that i am a missionary. she seemed rather stoked and we agreed to meet the next day to chat about it. the next we spoke for sometime about christianity and buddhism. she mentioned that in buddhism, we are all alone. i then told her about how it is opposite in what i believe. that we are all part of one body.
it turned out to be a pretty neat conversation, but not an easy one..(how cool is it that though she didn't speak englisch, and i didn't speak korean, we were still able to communicate through german!?)

i think on the reason that i am here. ja klar, God loves this place.. germany, berlin... but at the beginning, i understood it that i am suppose to work here to pay off loans.... (trust me.. this is still a big thing on my heart). but due to many complications, foreigners aren't allowed to work unless they attend a university. so we looked into that... then the next thing was that i could enroll into a german course.. but that would mean i am not allowed to work for one year.
(see what i am saying about complications)
so i can try to get a visa through this course, but then i have to show proof that i have enough money to stay here and not live off the money of germany. this proof they speak of.. i don't have. the most i have is matthew 6.33
(sorry, i only have it in deutsch)
Wenn ihr für ihn lebt und das Reich Gottes zu eurem wichtigsten Anliegen macht, wird er euch jeden Tag geben, was ihr braucht.
this is more than enough for me.. but the deutsches bundesrepublik needs more of an account statement.

this is all ok. i thank God for all He has already done.. and it is A LOT!

a little over a week ago was erste mai! (1st may). if you remember last year i wrote about it days in advance asking for prayer. the outcome last year seemed to be good.. i thought.. but was said to be the worst one yet.
this year, i spend the day on the streets again with my friend kathi :)
during the time of the demonstrations, we joined others first to pray, then hit the streets and prayed more.
i remember the streets last year being filled with fear.. a sense of danger and as if the enemy was roaming freely against the barriers of the polizei and other christians... this year the streets seemed to be filled with more a joy with everyone partying. of course the streets had a darkness about them.. but as we prayed, i had such a joy about me and hope. we prayed for God's light to flow through the streets as well as every plan of the enemy to be ruined and stopped.. for stones thrown to be completely off target... and for the people, that they will know His love!
after all was done and thrown.. we heard updates that this year was not nearly as crazy as before. hamburg got hit much harder....

that saying... God heard and answered out prayers! He is taking back this city and nation!
Deutschland gehört dem Herrn!

thank you all for the prayers and i hope that this update can encourage you to continue to!
keep believing in God. hope in what we can't understand and strive for what is to come!

danke Papa dass du unseren Gebete gehört hast.
du liebst diese Leute.. darum werde ich weiter kämpfen.
ich bete für denen, die diesen blog lesen werden. dass du sie ermutigest.
lasst uns ihm einen neuen Lied singen.
Jesus ist König, für alle Zeit! Er ist für uns gestorben und auferstanden.

in other news, i have glasses on the way, and for other reasons, my heart is filled with joy. please pray for continue wisdom, selfless love and support.

Lord willing, on wednesday, i will go to süddeutschland to visit my friend. (more than ecstatic)
then we will see what happens afterwards.. hitchin back or first to austria... what ever happens, may His name be glorified and we be made part of His plan!!!!!!!!!!!

viel Liebe, israel