AsgerP's Blog

Hi thereâ¦.I am back again. It is a rainy and sleepy day here after a blessed week with teachings from Dan Baumann (Imprisoned in Iran). The theme was âLoving Jesusâ but probably more correct should be âLoved by Jesusâ â because here it is where everything should rightly begin!! It is in the moment, in the view of when we know how much we are loved by God, by Jesus, by the Holy Spirit that we wish to love Him back. It is in this light that we realize who we are and our lives get the identity that is His. The opposite is true as well, when we forget who we are, we get caught up by sin and get distracted because our focus have turned the wrong way!

In the Garden when Mankind was a âbabyâ, a new beginner â we had our walk with God and we were both enjoying the fellowship, nothing more complicated than that. It was not so much about what we did as it was about the thing that we were just being together. Like when you want to hang out with your friend and the important thing is not so much what you do together as it is the point of just hanging out together, just spending time together!

After that, came the knowledge of what is good and bad and we thought we did not need God (and many have kept believing that!!) and we invented plenty of things that could substitute God (in fact, they could not really do that, we just thought they could). As we discovered that we could not substitute Him â some did not see that â we took the choice of running into His arms OR continue to try finding something else to substitute that relationship with God, as the substitutes one by one was not qualified enough to cover fully!

But God DID the initiative, Heaven meet Earth when God Himself crawled down on all 4, became a little baby and talked human languageâ¦.became visible, became reachable. Yes, God became PERSONAL â God got a face in the God-Son!

That is really how simple it is and it is nothing else but thatâ¦..Jesus was NOT a plan B, a âOh, humans, you have screwed upâ¦..you have been messing aroundââ¦..The God-Son coming to Earth was even planned before the Creation of the Earth by a Loving Father who deeply desired that relationship with Humans which âHe saw was goodâ and rejoiced over us! The last wall was hit down and once again God was able to walk among Humans, the Second Garden â the same fellowship, the same intimacy, the Garden of Gethsemane. God LOVES you â not because of what you do, you cannot make Him love you more and you cannot make Him love you less! God does NOT love you more when you go to church or no, when you read your bible or no, when you pray or no, when you sing Christian songs or noâ¦..NOâ¦.how can we get those religious thought out of our heads? We ARE loved by God, 24 hours a day, He is WITH us 24 hours a day!! You do not became a Christian by going to church (same as well as a dog does not turn in to a car just by staying in a garageâ¦..). It is all about discovering the relationship that God wants with us and that He has made possible for us to have, 24 hours a day! I say it again, God LOVES you â just as you are, not for what you do but just and that simple for who you are !!! Restâ¦.

Hi there..... :-)

Today I am back in Thailand, praise God - at least it is for 3 months, if not more, let us see.....and most importantly question: is it the will of God ?

I travelled monday afternoon, 5 PM to go to the bus, Chiang Rai bus station and then arrived Udon Thani tuesday early morning, about 7 AM. It was a very long travel and then to find a bus from Udon Thani to Nong Khai and cross the border to Laos. So tuesday afternoon I arrived in Vientienne - capitol of Laos - and find a guest house to stay while I had to wait for wednesday to can visit the Thai Consulat.

Wednesday was THE BIG DAY, while I was standing in line with a whole lot of other foreigners, I praid that they - the embassy/consulat people - would not ASK me questions....... the thing I feared, was the question about the 40.000 baht a month income (or 400.000 baht on a bank account) which the law says as a demand for getting a VISA "O" (marriage). The wonderful thing was that they did NOT ask me ANY questions at all !!!!!

Before this, I had a strange experience in Nong Khai, where one angry and very determined man, an officer, very direct told me to go in to the room of Immigration and just sit and wait. At that time I had no idea what so ever on what was going on and what all the fuss was about !!! I was quite surprised.....and specially also about just sitting and waiting without getting information WHY...... then I figured oui that it was because I just got a new passport and they wanted to copy some pages from the old passport as well as pages from the new passport, me to sign on it and put in a lot of stamps....it seemed more of less also of a show of power !!!!

That experience scared me a bit......while friends was waiting outside - some strangers I just meet at the border, an Israel guy and a guy from Holland - and they did not know what I was doing in the office!!!

All this was in the back of my mind while I was in the Thai Consulat in Laos, waiting. After turning in the passport and the forms, I went and paid for the VISA fees. Next day, thursday, in the afternoon I could pick up the passport, so I had to wait one more day before I had any answers..............

Thursday, yesterday, it did not take long time and BIG was my surprise, when I found out that the thai consulat had put a VISA for 3 months inside the passport and I could just pick it up - Praise God, it did not see this as possible, as i just TRIED to apply based on marriage with a thai (the have also some rule about ONLY 1 stamp like that, within 12 months.....last time we got this was in december 2007...........).

After that it went hurry..................... take a Tuk Tuk to the bus station, just to find out that the bus was full crossing to Thailand........then we took a nother Tuk Tuk (I meet friend at Thai Consulat, a boyfriend of one of the students here.....he is South Korean....) to the bridge / border area (22 kilometer) to the Laos / Thailand area. My heart start beating at the thought of I know how sometimes the dates on a visa from a consulate/embassy does not always match the thinkings of the immigration people at a border......but thank God it did - 3 months it was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 18 august 2008 it was...................

Then we was 9 people suddenly, renting a van together, to save money, 3 of them phillipinos and hehe....God is funny, because it turns out that 2 of them is CHRISTIANS ALSO - WOW !!!!

Then we arrived at Udon Thani yesterday afternoon...................there was a Internet cafe and I could do some business there and then in the evening, 6.20 PM I took bus from there and arrived Chiang Rai, about 9 PM this morning !!! About 30/40 minutes later I was back here at the school..............meeting my wife and even got a little out of the lectures.....this week about Spiritual Warfare !!

Just an update on my VISA-sitation...............please PRAY with us on the FUTURE....where are we suppose to go and what are we supposed to do...............

With love in Christ / Asger

Hi there..... :-)

Today I am back in Thailand, praise God - at least it is for 3 months, if not more, let us see.....and most importantly question: is it the will of God ?

I travelled monday afternoon, 5 PM to go to the bus, Chiang Rai bus station and then arrived Udon Thani tuesday early morning, about 7 AM. It was a very long travel and then to find a bus from Udon Thani to Nong Khai and cross the border to Laos. So tuesday afternoon I arrived in Vientienne - capitol of Laos - and find a guest house to stay while I had to wait for wednesday to can visit the Thai Consulat.

Wednesday was THE BIG DAY, while I was standing in line with a whole lot of other foreigners, I praid that they - the embassy/consulat people - would not ASK me questions....... the thing I feared, was the question about the 40.000 baht a month income (or 400.000 baht on a bank account) which the law says as a demand for getting a VISA "O" (marriage). The wonderful thing was that they did NOT ask me ANY questions at all !!!!!

Before this, I had a strange experience in Nong Khai, where one angry and very determined man, an officer, very direct told me to go in to the room of Immigration and just sit and wait. At that time I had no idea what so ever on what was going on and what all the fuss was about !!! I was quite surprised.....and specially also about just sitting and waiting without getting information WHY...... then I figured oui that it was because I just got a new passport and they wanted to copy some pages from the old passport as well as pages from the new passport, me to sign on it and put in a lot of stamps....it seemed more of less also of a show of power !!!!

That experience scared me a bit......while friends was waiting outside - some strangers I just meet at the border, an Israel guy and a guy from Holland - and they did not know what I was doing in the office!!!

All this was in the back of my mind while I was in the Thai Consulat in Laos, waiting. After turning in the passport and the forms, I went and paid for the VISA fees. Next day, thursday, in the afternoon I could pick up the passport, so I had to wait one more day before I had any answers..............

Thursday, yesterday, it did not take long time and BIG was my surprise, when I found out that the thai consulat had put a VISA for 3 months inside the passport and I could just pick it up - Praise God, it did not see this as possible, as i just TRIED to apply based on marriage with a thai (the have also some rule about ONLY 1 stamp like that, within 12 months.....last time we got this was in december 2007...........).

After that it went hurry..................... take a Tuk Tuk to the bus station, just to find out that the bus was full crossing to Thailand........then we took a nother Tuk Tuk (I meet friend at Thai Consulat, a boyfriend of one of the students here.....he is South Korean....) to the bridge / border area (22 kilometer) to the Laos / Thailand area. My heart start beating at the thought of I know how sometimes the dates on a visa from a consulate/embassy does not always match the thinkings of the immigration people at a border......but thank God it did - 3 months it was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 18 august 2008 it was...................

Then we was 9 people suddenly, renting a van together, to save money, 3 of them phillipinos and hehe....God is funny, because it turns out that 2 of them is CHRISTIANS ALSO - WOW !!!!

Then we arrived at Udon Thani yesterday afternoon...................there was a Internet cafe and I could do some business there and then in the evening, 6.20 PM I took bus from there and arrived Chiang Rai, about 9 PM this morning !!! About 30/40 minutes later I was back here at the school..............meeting my wife and even got a little out of the lectures.....this week about Spiritual Warfare !!

Just an update on my VISA-sitation...............please PRAY with us on the FUTURE....where are we suppose to go and what are we supposed to do...............

With love in Christ / Asger

Hi there :-)
Oh....I know that I probably should update what is going on, so you know that I have now forgot my blog at this website, im still here!! The main problem is right now that I dont seem to have a computer available, my own computer seems to be quite crazy at the moment.....Windows is starting up and after the logo appears, it just restart by it self and it continues doing this over and over again and never get to start up....maaaaannn...I am tired of it and have not being using my computer for some days because I cannot start it up ! Please PRAY with me that something will happen about that.........you see, the thing is that my ORIGINAL cds - Windows - is back in Denmark and I do not have the option of getting them here, all my stuff is in a back - 8 big boxes - packed down and put on my brothers ceiling (taped town and all that....honestly I do not even remember what I have in the boxes anymore!).
Then now I set my hope to my friend, who is here at the school, and he knows quite much about computers and he talk about that he can copy most of my things from my computer into a temporary disk, re-install a copy of Windows Home and then copy back some of my files and hopefully my harddisk can still running (I guess it is TOO full as well.....). My computer is getting old and not much good running!! I do not have the money to buy a new one.....that would probably need about 1500 US DOLLARS !!!!
Then the other thing is my VISA-situation, I will go to Laos tomorrow - bus, Chiang Rai to Udon Thani, to Nong Khai to Vientienne and then visit the Thai consulat on wednesday and trying to apply for a VISA to Thailand - please pray with me about that as well, thanks!
A good thing in the middle of all this, is that God made it possible for me to get a NEW passport - hallelujah, because I saved money of just getting it through the post from Danish Embassy in Bangkok. I am happy to have a new one and need it when I go to Laos.
Pray for my stay in Vientienne, Laos, alone at a guesthouse there from tuesday to thursday/friday this coming week. We also just finish a week of lectures on "Evangelism" with a guy from Uruquay, Pablo, who shared about how carefull we have to "not putting God in a box" or making Him into a formular !!! God help us to look at people, even look at ourselves, in the same way at you look at eyes - help us to look through the same "glasses" that you look through!
Yesterday, I was helping some of the students at the base and staff to cut down / removing some bamboo trees, that was pretty hard wark but sometimes it is fun to use your body hard, hard work can be fun! I did pain my hand though but thank God it is getting better today!
I am still quite confused about the future and what plans God has for us, I dont know about it and I just know that we are very very open for new plans, to go where ever we can something for God (of course I know that God can use us everywhere, but I mean in general and I am honest to say that I have NO clue what so ever to say where we should go and what we should do in the future....pray with us about that as well, thanks!).
Beyond all that, we are okay, I hope to get my computer fixed in about 1 week or more, as well as I hope - if it is the will of God - to get a VISA back to Thailand to so I can come back to Thailand (from Laos) in the coming week.
I guess that is what is happening at the moment........always feel free to write me if you feel like it.
Blessings out there, from Thailand, Chiang Rai.

Hi there.... :-)
These days as news p@##ings so quickly though, the eyes of the world seems to turn to Burma - which is pretty understandable - and then as that happened, the eyes quickly turn on to China, because of the big Earthquake. Do you think God has something to do with that ? Now comes the inevitable question which everybody seems asking, is this from God ? I am not to give the answer, you probably did not expect me to do so anyway........but I think there is a DIFFERENCE between something coming from God AND then the statement that God can use everything ! Then after that we can always start to discuss what causes a cycloon and what causes a earthquake to happen, but that is a whole other subject and I am not exactly an expert on that.....I suggest you take a Google-search on the subject if you really do want to know, or I will provide you links if you cannot find (then just message me here.....).
Anyway..........I just thought about that it is thoughtable that it is communistic countries that is experiencing disaster after disasters (China just had a BIG earthquake today as well.......) and is it coincidence or no ? Communism basicly build a belief (I belive it is much more than "just politic") where one statement is "There is no God" - and then compare that with Psalms, that proclaim "only fools say in their heart, there is no God" - so what to call communism ? FOOLISH - indeed !
As a European growing up in the 80s and 90s I did experience, and remember quite easily how they showed it on the TVs and we read it in the newspapers, on the communistic control systems in Rumania, Bulgaria, Germany (that time is was divided into East & West Germany), Russia (Soviet-union), Poland, Tjekkoslovakia, Jugoslavia etc. A lot of communism, more or less, was flowing and influenting big parts of Europe!!
Personally I belive that what happened in the early 90s - Gorbatjov, Glasnost, Perestrojka, fall of Berlin-wall etc. - was because of many Christians prayers for YEARS more than it was "just" a change of system and fall of communism! There was a Spiritual dimension as well.......things are not always what they seem right.....
So I has this in mind and I am reading on the historic connections, diplomatic and friend-connection between Burma and China - both Communistic countries, I wonder is this something we have to think deeper on ? Is this catastfrofic situation a tool in the hands of God to use for freedom, democracy, openness etc. ? Is this a situation that God can turn upside-down ? That He can turn something evil into something good ?
As my thoughts continue.......my thinking surveys Asia and I cannot stop thinking what about Cambodia - Laos, 2 other communistic countries, are they next ? Is this a piece in the big puzzle - and if so in whose hands ? If any ?
Remember out there how temporary and SHORT life is......at least 10.000 people lives ended suddenly yesterday in China as those young people was getting up to what they though was "just a nother normal monday morning"......life IS short and suddenly can END or change dramatically................. Blessings - GOD LOVES YOU, HE IS WITH YOU, HE DOES NOT CHANGE, JUST BECAUSE THE CUR@@%!STANCES DOES !!!!