the Lord always sees us as the overcomers, the age-turners, kings and winners! (2011 Poland camp)

I was counting down the days left until the conference(which was the 17th time the young people in the Lord’s Recovery in Europe met at the Poland camp), and finally there were no days left! I enjoyed this conference very much: God was really speaking to me every day during this camp!

What touched me was an example about the mousetrap. All the things in the world are so attractive and “smell” so good – just like cheese for a little mouse. Even if we’re Christian, we can still fall into this trap. Each one of us is God’s treasure, so therefore we need to stay away from Satan’s trap. We have a higher goal – to build God’s house!

Sins offends God on the one hand and defiles us on the other. What is guilt? Guilt is the stain of sins on your conscience. When you are young, your conscience is only stained a little. But as you grow older, these stains accumulate.

Just like a window which is never washed, the conscience grows darker and darker until eventually very little light can penetrate. No detergent or chemical can wash the stain of guilt from your conscience – our conscience needs the precious blood of Christ!

Sometimes after we sin, we want to run away from God but we have to realize that we should continue to seek Him and pursue Him! When we feel like we’re dying, He is life to us! We can take Him as our shield and know Him as our best protection.

Often when we are depressed or feel so bad, we may think we’re stupid. However, the Lord always see us as the overcomers, as age-turners, kings and winners! In every situation we should turn to Him and give the situation to Him.

The point is that we have to call upon His name and then He will know what to do and He will help us in every moment.

What touched me as well was that relationships are used by Satan to turn our hearts from God. At first we are like a flower and then when we are in relationship our petals keep coming off and after all we are only like a stalk. Young people, don’t you want to be a wonderful and colorful flower for your wife/husband? First of all we should learn how to love the Lord – we have our golden years to do that (13-19 years) – and then learn how to love our wife or husband.

God must gain an instrument, right? But if we want to be useful to fulfill His plan, we have to put ourselves aside and give our life to the Lord to gain His heart’s desire!

Some of the children of Israel may have been as sinful as the Egyptians. Yet, when God sent His angel to slay all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, He didn’t say “when I see your good behavior I will pass over you” – God didn’t require that the children of Israel would pray, do penance, or promise to behave.

God commanded them to slay the Passover lamb and to sprinkle it’s blood on their doorposts. He said, “when I see the blood, I will pass over you” – He never looked to see what kind of people were in the house. Remember: No matter who we are, He will always be our God, and He will always love us with the best love.

Some of the other things that touched me were:

• God said: “Let MY people go!” This means we belong to Him! Praise the Lord! We’re not Pharaoh’s – we are the Lord’s!
• We have hard and stubborn hearts – we are like donkeys (“eeehaa”).
• Satan is a liar and a murderer from the beginning – he wants to make us think that the saints don’t care about us.
• We need to stand on the truth, and love the Lord with the best love, with the first love – we can’t do anything without Him! He loves us sooo much!
• I’m so glad to be in the church life! God chose me and loved me long before the world begun! I’m like a V.I.P!
• The Lord needs young people who will pursue Him, know Him and love Him!
• 4 points how to keep a pure joy: confessing our sins; eating the word of God; praying; and having a fellowship.

[sharing from sister Noemi S(PL) from her topmost enjoyment in the recent European Young People’s conference in Poland]

Lord Jesus We love You, thank You for Your being! Thank You that You love us and You died for us. Without You life is really nothing. Be the First One in our life.