My family came at the end for a ten day vacation in Mississippi and Texas, I am sooo thankful to God for my family! Now I am in Stockholm a couple of days before I fly to Tanzania for a big festival next week.
I love the summer! The last 20 years it's been a time of adventure, signs and wonders, but also some extra time for fun and of course a nice sun tan!
In Europe the entire society kinda goes down into a "low-gear-coma" from the middle of June until mid-August. Everyone look exhausted and takes a looooong pause or siesta. I have always had mixed emotions about this culture I have to say. Many just totally drop their routines and disciplines, and become confused, depressed and hebetated. Summer is a dangerous time where many lose their sharpness, readiness for battle and their spiritual sensitivity. Sin is luring at the door, and with that, also condemnation and its evil spiral...
Make a decision that the summer will instead be a time for more exercise and fun fellowship with family and good friends. The summer is a time for mission trips, spiritual adventures and breakthroughs. The summer is a lovely time with BBQ's and good laughs in the summer night, but also a time for salvation miracles and answers to prayer.
My son Adam (13 years old) was baptized in the Holy Spirit on a deck in front of a boat house in Austin Texas, after father and son had read the Bible together an early morning. Another summer-memory that we will carry with us for the rest of our lives. So good and right in a way, to be baptized in the Holy Spirit right there on the deck in the morning sun...
Zip-lining between mountaintops in West Virginia and then healing miracles. Boat rides, gun shooting, motorcycle rides, and then people giving their lives to Jesus - yes, that is summer for the Amritzer family...
Why not make the summer a time for your adventure, instead of a time for your constant "relaxed defeat"?!
See ya!
