The planning and building agency here in Oslo finally showed up after 5 years of overrun, manipulation and untruth from a completely different side!
We have now lived here in our small residence since 2012. The first two years, the Planning and Building Administration here in Oslo (PBE) was very "normal" and nice to us.
Even when 2 - 3 rabid neighbors began to complain about us with regard to rental, building of booths, stairs and walls, we were defended by our then case officer Kaja Aubert Lange.
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Then there were 5 years of overrun, manipulation and falsehoods!
Something that has been both tiring and expensive. After all, fighting a party that is stronger than yourself is not easy!
But then at the meeting today, finally we were heard and now there is the plan that we will be able to submit a new application.
Why is it like that? That one should face such opposition, negative people and lies?
I don't have the whole explanation, but all of God's men and women have experienced a lot of opposition.
Very much has been unjustified, ugly and unnecessary, as well in our case!
Look here for an article by Norway's "great" son Hans Nielsen Hauge:
http://justismord.janchristensen.net/2018/03/nr-257-hans-nielsen-hauge-fikk-de.html
The Apostle Paul writes about such things several places, including here:
1 Cor. 4. 8 But you are already so full! You are all so rich! You have become kings, but without us! Yes, if you were just kings, then we too could rule with you! 9 But to me it looks like God has set us apostles at the bottom. We are as doomed, presented as a play for the world, both for angels and for humans. 10 We are fools for the sake of Christ, you are wise in Christ. We are weak, you are strong. You get honor, we get shame. 11 Until now, we have both hungered and thirsty; we lack clothing, are abused, are homeless 12 and must strive to bring us our own hands. When we get excused, we bless. When we are persecuted, we hold out. 13 When someone mocks us, we respond with kindness. We have become like waste in the world, like waste for everyone - to this day.
This is something that all men and women of God must go through. Why?
God forms us usable in service to Him in this time, but above all, this is for the time to come. Hear what the scripture says.
2 Tim. 2. 11 It is a credible word; for if we are dead with him, we shall also live with him; 12 If we go out, we will rule with him; we deny, he will deny us; 13 If we are faithless, he is faithful; for he cannot deny himself.
We must reign with Christ, then we must also endure suffering with Him. As he was in this world, we are. He suffered, "lost," and "won" in the end, he must through suffering, judgment and death. We as believers must count immediately. If not so tangible with us as with Jesus, but suffering, degradation and struggle is something we must count on. Listen to what Job says.
Job 7. 1. Is not a man's life on earth a war service, and his days as a day laborer?
Got just the question of is not the best just to move? We get a good price for the house and everything is much easier etc.
To that is just to say, we can't flow from Satan.
He is there all the time and will always attack the person (s) who go with God and then live in His anointing, grace and love.
We have no guarantee that we will not experience the same again, and it may just as well be in a new place like this place, we have no guarantee or promise.
Is everything we encounter as believers Satan and Spiritualism?
No, but very often Satan is behind and triggering people. Not least in this end time. Finally include an article by the now deceased brother David Wilkerson who unfortunately died in a car accident.
The devil has descended to you in great wrath because he knows he has only a little time!
Demons that affect us humans are so many and in the end, they all seem to be able to influence people to do what is against the good and God's will.
"But woe to the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you in great wrath, knowing that he has only a little time." (Rev. 12:12)
As followers of Jesus Christ, we must be constantly alert that the devil is seeking to destroy us. Therefore, Paul says that we should know as much as we can about enemy tactics and plans: "that we should not be overthrown by Satan. For what he has in mind, we are not ignorant." (2 Cor. 2:11).
The above section of the book of Revelation tells us that Satan has declared total war against the saints of God. It also mentions that the devil has a deadline to end his work: "because he knows he only has a little time." (Rev. 12:12)
While many Christians are slumbering at this midnight hour, as Jesus foretold, the devil works with furious will to prepare for the war. He is vividly aware of the short time he has to achieve his evil intentions, so he does not treat his eye any rest. He is constantly planning and thinking about ways to afflict and destroy the Church of Jesus Christ!
But when was the devil first aware of having ns time was short? Did this knowledge come to him during the last century when he read the signs in time? Was it up to him when the nation of Israel was reborn, and then the kingdom rose against the kingdom? Did he recognize it when he saw the great apostasy from the Christian faith? Did he deduce from Bible commentary about these events that Jesus was returning to bring his bride?
And when this went up to the devil, that his time was short, did he panic? Is he moving around to set up a command center on earth, and plan a last crazy trench war against the church? He said to himself: "Time is running out. I have to work fast because I have only a short time before Christ returns!"
No! Satan's deadline was given him centuries ago. It can be traced back to a great underworld that occurred in the heavens. This wonder was an incredible warfare when Satan decided to destroy the Christ child:
"A great sign was seen in the sky: A woman, clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with children and screamed in the midst of childhood and birth." (Rev. 12: 1-2).
The sun in this section represents God. And the woman dressed in the sun represents the bride of Christ, or God's chosen people. (She is crowned with twelve stars, who stand for the twelve tribes of Israel, like the twelve disciples.) Finally, the child to be born here is Jesus, the deliverer. The section continues:
"And another sign was seen in the heavens - and behold, a great fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven crowns; it stood before the woman who was about to give birth to swallow her baby as soon as she had born. " (verses 3-4).
Satan is depicted here as waiting for the earth to destroy the Christ child as soon as it was born. Oh, how often did the devil try to devour Jesus! Satan first used Herod to destroy Christ, and ordered the evil king to murder all the boys in Bethlehem. Herod's extreme anger was a demonic rage, an incarnation of the devil himself!
You may be wondering if Herod was obsessed with Satan, why didn't the devil point out to him which child was Christ? Why did all the boys have to be killed? The Lord blinded Satan's eyes! As this passage tells us, God hid Christ away from the enemy for a time: "She gave birth to a son, a boy child, to rule all the Gentiles with an iron rod. And her children were raptured to God and his throne." (Rev. 12: 5).
Then, the scripture tells, there was a war in heaven: "There was a battle in heaven: Michael and his angels began to contend with the dragon. And the dragon fought and its angels. And they could not stand." (vv. 7-8). This war was triggered by Satan against the son of God and the devil lost. He was overcome by the blood on the cross, beaten once and for all!
In addition, Satan lost his access to heaven: ".... and it was no longer made for them in heaven." (verse 8). ".... the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, who seduces the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him." (verse 9).
Once upon a time, Satan's movements were not limited to the earth. Job tells us, "It happened one day that the sons of God came and stood before the Lord. And among them also came Satan." (Job 1: 6). The devil must have come frequently to the throne of God as the accusers of the brothers.
But today, Satan no longer has the ear of God. He can no longer accuse God's children of anything, because the blood of Christ has overcome all His lies! Jesus' present intercession for us is not at all about refuting Satan's accusations. As far as God is concerned, the victory of the cross has abolished them all!
Satan can lie to you, not give you peace from his charges. But he cannot accuse you of your heavenly father. He has been banished from heaven and all his accusations are meaningless!
The War Rages On and It Is Fought On The Earth!
The great cosmic war is no longer fought between Christ and the devil. Jesus now sits safely with the heavenly father, far beyond Satan's reach. But the devil is constantly fighting a war against Christ by arranging it against his family!
"The dragon was angry with the woman, and went to war against the others of her seed, against those who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus." (Rev. 12:17). The same rage and temptation that Satan directed toward Jesus in the wilderness now comes to anyone who wants to follow Christ!
Peter gives us this warning: "Be sober, awake! Their adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion and seeks someone he can swallow." (1 Pet. 5: 8). This does not mean that the devil floats somewhere in the cosmos and orders his demonic crowds. We have just read that Satan was thrown to the earth when Christ overcame him on the cross. So the devil's kingdom is limited to here and now.
('The Spirit of Evil in Heaven' (Eph. 6:12) that Paul speaks of has to do with me d spiritual depravity in high government positions and apostate church leadership. Paul says that Satan's spirit is in business in many who hold these influential positions.
Contrary to what some Christians believe, Satan is not in possession of omnipotence. He has been overcome by Jesus and robbed of all authority. Satan is also not omniscient, which means he cannot read thoughts. And he's not ubiquitous, he can't be anywhere at any time. He is physically limited to being in one place at a time.
But Satan has the powers and authorities stationed all over the earth. And his crowds of demons feed him with information on his calling and hint. They hear you when you pray, and they see your obedience to God. And that is what raises Satan's anger against you!
When the scripture says "(the devil) knows that he only has a little time." (Rev. 12:12), then it does not refer to the time Satan has left before the return of Christ. It is rather a matter of constant deadlines, a series of short periods that the devil has to perform his work. It is about the short episodes he has to wage war against God's saints!
When we examine what it means for the devil to have this short time, we need to ask, "What are we doing that upset his rage against us? What causes him to flood us with the whole hell's arsenal? How do we awaken the powers of darkness? who are trying to engulf us?
I think we do three things that attract the devil's anger:
1. We anger Satan with every deep awakening toward God
Perhaps you have recently renewed your commitment to praying diligently. Or maybe you have said a hunger to walk with the Lord in holiness. Or perhaps you have dedicated your mind and body to God as a living sacrifice. You have called out: "I will not linger on either side anymore. I give everything I have to Jesus!"
This kind of surrender ignites the devil's anger more than anything else. He knows that anyone who has given his life all the way to God is a major threat to his kingdom. He remembers the lives of Peter, Paul, Philip, individuals who rose from the crowd and shouted, "I will do it in the way of God!" They surrender everything to Christ and they brought destruction on Satan's kingdom!
The devil knows all too well that anyone who seeks God with all his heart will find him praying that saints will eventually win, that God will receive every living sacrifice given with a whole heart so that the hungry spirit can be filled.
But Satan also knows that there is a period between the time when the prayer is made and when it is answered. Dear, that is the devil's short time to work! He knows that the ongoing widow shouted for a while before she was heard. And, in the same way, our answer will come in time. Meanwhile, the devil is trying to engulf us while waiting for the Lord!
The fact is, God does not jump in the chair every time we cry, "Lord, I surrender everything to you!" God knows that dedication, surrender, and hunger for Christ do not always follow a one-time, emotional cry. Therefore, the Spirit does not respond until he sees a sustained decision in us, a kind of proof that we do not withdraw from our hunger.
Satan also recognizes this. He knows when we are not serious about our surrender to the Lord, after observing our lives. If we are not serious about following up all the way through, then he does not waste time on us. He lets us alone in our weakness and sin.
But the moment he sees true devotion in us, a desire to be set free from sin, a decision to put off all foolishness and imitate us Christ, then he knows he has only a short time left. He knows that it will only be a short time before we are out of his claws and walk in glory, acting in faith, and living in victory. That's when he'll start throwing everything in the hell after us!
This is the very reason why so many devoted believers in the body of Christ go through intense trials right now. Revelation 12 tells us: Come again, Christians, get out of your sleep. Surrender your body to Christ as a living sacrifice. Trust that the Holy Spirit will free you from any desire. Seek God with everything in you. But be prepared to face the trial of your life because Satan will come after you with all his power!
"The snake sprinkled with its mouth water like a river after the woman, to tear her away with the river." (Rev. 12:15). You're going to be flooded with terrible temptations, torments, fatigue, discouragement, disbelief, depression. The enemy will try to plague you on body, soul and spirit!
Satan knows your weaknesses, your struggle against the flesh, desire or thought, and he will work hard with you in these areas. He will try to carry you away in a tidal wave of trials and temptations, and do all he can to get you on your knees. He is furious because he sees you on the brink of victory, and he knows he only has a short time left!
Tragically, the devil often succeeds in this short time. Many believers give up the battle, yield to the temptation and the desperation. They believe Satan's race rubbish that they are not good at anything, that they are unclean and will never be free. And they end up suffering shipwreck on their faith.
But yet the truth is that such lies never reaches the ears of God. He will not allow anything of Satan in heaven. So we must shut out the devil's lies too, in faith in the work of Christ on the cross!
2. Another of Satan's deadlines follows immediately after our obedience to a new call to one or another service.
Ask anyone who has been called by God to enter into a new work in the kingdom of God, and that person will tell you that Satan has come against him in rage and hurled one plague after another.
The devil listens to you. He hears all about your new step in faith God has called you to take. You have asked what you have been talking about, you have been seeking advice from others around it. And when Satan heard that you said yes to God, he knew he only had a short time to completely destroy that call.
So it was with the life of Christ. Not before was Jesus baptized and the dove came into view, and the voice of heaven declared him the Lamb of God, the Savior of the world, before Satan went into action. He knew he only had forty days and nights trying to engulf Jesus and stop his ministry. And he worked with feverish zeal, and used every trick in hell!
Not before had Jesus declared Peter a rock of faith before Satan stepped in to aim the disciple, and led him to disbelief and treason. Satan knew that he had to move quickly in Peter's life before Jesus' words about the disciple could be fulfilled. But the tempter finally lost, because one day this rock spread of a man's terror in the kingdom of Satan!
I know what this kind of devilish attack is about. I'm right now getting out of one of the most painful experiences of my life. And everything happened because God recently made a new call for service over my life!
Having spent much time in prayer, I have noticed God's call to extend my ministry to speak to pastors around the world. (I'm not going to leave the service in Times Square Church, or the service of writing these messages. I want this new one as a from-time-to-another service, led by the Holy Spirit.)
I plan this spring to speak to pastor gatherings in the four countries: France, Romania, Poland and Macedonia, as well as in the Balkans. This last collection will include pastors from all ethnic groups where they hate each other - Serbian pastors, Albanian pastors, pastors from Kosovo and the Balkan states. These men will praise together, stand as one in Christ, in love with him and each other.
But no sooner had I planned this trip before Satan entered. Until then, my health had been at the top. But suddenly I was physically knocked out. Within hours I became so weak that I could hardly walk. I felt stinging inner pain, as if I was about to let go of a kidney stone. Soon, large spots appeared on my stomach.
A doctoral student told me I had shingles, a disease that can come as a result of having chickenpox in childhood. The older you are when you get shingles (and I'm over sixty), the worse you will experience it. I spent weeks in pain and no medicine could stop it. I developed wounds on top of the spots and I didn't sleep.
The devil seemed to laugh as he said, "So you're going into this new service, what? You're not gonna do it if it's up to me!"
But right now, when I write this message a few weeks before I leave, all the wounds have disappeared. The Lord has raised me up and given me new strength. Everything was warfare from hell!
It has always been this way through my years of service. Any new reception of a call from the Lord has been followed by demonic attacks, especially against my wife, Gwen and my four children. The devil has often tried to scare me by threatening: "Every" yes "to God will cost you your wife, your children, your health."
In the late 1980s, when we moved to New York City to found the Times Square Church, Gwen had a new outbreak of breast cancer. She had to take an emergency operation and afterwards we wondered if the surgeons had removed all the cancer. And then, the day Gwen came home from the hospital, we received a phone call from Texas. Our daughter Bonnie had a cancer diagnosis. She had a 30 percent chance of survival.
Then I heard the devil laugh as he said, "So, you think you're going to create a church in New York City, what? Think again, preacher!"
Satan is trying to scare and make any servant of God discouraged by such lies. Today, Gwen is healthy and strong, and Bonnie has been free for ten years. And right now, when I write this message, I feel absolutely no physical pain.
The devil comes against us with these intense trials because he knows he only has a short time trying to destroy God's plans. But we should not fear him!
John Knox is a great example of how we can gag the devil's lies. Knox was one of the most powerful preachers. His great preaching fi kk kings and queens to tremble. And he lived a righteous life to substantiate the gospel he preached, uncompromising until the very end.
In Knox's later years, when he became deadly sick, Satan faced another deadline. This man had probably made hell as furious as the apostle Paul had. So the devil sat down, in the short time remaining, to send Knox into eternity in fear and disbelief.
Knox wrote, "All my life I have been tried and attacked by Satan. But my last test has attacked me at the most terrible. He has set out to engulf me and to end me. Before, he would often put all my Sins in front of my eyes, trying to catch me with this world's enticement, but the Spirit mated these attacks.
Now he has attacked me in another way. This clown devil has worked to convince me that I have earned heaven with my faithfulness in service! "Knox knew that salvation was by faith alone. justice, no matter how many good deeds he has done, but now Satan tried to condemn the preacher by making him stumble over his own faithfulness!
Just before he died, Knox testified: "Blessed be God who has enabled me to strike down and extinguish this fiery arrow by scripture paragraphs. ' with me.' (1 Cor. 15:10) Through Jesus Christ I have won victory, the tempter will not touch me again in this short time, I will soon exchange this mortal life against immortality through Jesus Christ! "
Thank God for John Knox's testimony! He used the scripture to oppose Satan, and the Lord freed him. He went home to glory while faithfully singing praises to God!
3. The Devil Has A Deadline For Those Who Want To Come To Christ To Be Saved And Delivered From Satan's Power.
What I am about to say may offend you. But the Bible expresses it very clearly: If you are a slave under the lust, living in sin, without the Spirit of Christ in you, then you are a child of the devil himself. Jesus says, "You have the devil's father, and you will do after their father's desires." (John 8:44). He says: Satan controls your life. Therefore, God is not your father, but the devil. You are part of the enemy's family, not the Lord's!
Now, of course, Christ spoke these words to a religious crowd who believed they were good in the eyes of God. Outside they were clean and religious, but inside they were full of lust, sensuality, adultery and greed.
But there is also a disease that affects the devil's children. It is called sin-sick. The deeper in sin a person falls, the more critical this disease becomes. It reaches its peak when one suddenly loses his joy over sin, and it becomes dull and unsatisfactory.
The culprit of a sinful young TV star sued just a few weeks ago. The actor played in a popular series and earned a fortune. He had just signed a contract to be the star of several films and went out with a beautiful actress. He had fame, fortune and good health.
But then his lifeless body was found in a cheap porn hotel. Apparently, none of this world's pleasures had satisfied him. His life had become empty, meaningless and suicide finally ended. He died as a result of sin-sick!
If you have never given your life to Jesus, the devil has had complete control over you so far. He has ruled and ruled over your life. But maybe Satan sees that now comes a change over your life and he knows he is losing the roof!
Sin has suddenly lost its sweet taste. You no longer go to the evil places you once visited. And you're not so keen on attaching more. Money does not satisfy you anymore, neither sex nor belongings. You feel an increasing emptiness inside you.
And now you're here and reading this message. Perhaps you have been willing to read the Bible. No one pushes you to do so; Something inside you drives you to do it.
Dear, right now Jesus is beating the door of your heart, and the devil knows it. And the one thing Satan fears most of all is that you want to open the door to Christ!
From the moment the devil hears this knocking on your doorstep, until the time you open and receive Christ, all hell will be in panic!
The devil knows that he only has a short time left to work with you. And now he tries to do everything he can to keep you from answering God's call! The Gospel of Luke tells us about a father who led his demon-possessed son to Jesus. Christ said to his father, "Bring your son here. But before the boy came forth, the evil spirit tore in him." (Luke 9: 41-42). The word `slite 'here means violent convulsions, terrible shaking.
This young man came to Christ and was about to be set free, moved out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light. The devil saw that he was about to lose a new victim kk kings and queens to tremble. And he lived a righteous life to substantiate the gospel he preached, uncompromising until the very end.
In Knox's later years, when he became deadly sick, Satan faced another deadline. This man had probably made hell as furious as the apostle Paul had. So the devil sat down, in the short time remaining, to send Knox into eternity in fear and disbelief.
Knox wrote, "All my life I have been tried and attacked by Satan. But my last test has attacked me at the most terrible. He has set out to engulf me and to end me. Before, he would often put all my Sins in front of my eyes, trying to catch me with this world's enticement, but the Spirit mated these attacks.
Now he has attacked me in another way. This clown devil has worked to convince me that I have earned heaven with my faithfulness in service! "Knox knew that salvation was by faith alone. justice, no matter how many good deeds he has done, but now Satan tried to condemn the preacher by making him stumble over his own faithfulness!
Just before he died, Knox testified: "Blessed be God who has enabled me to strike down and extinguish this fiery arrow by scripture paragraphs. ' with me.' (1 Cor. 15:10) Through Jesus Christ I have won victory, the tempter will not touch me again in this short time, I will soon exchange this mortal life against immortality through Jesus Christ! "
Thank God for John Knox's testimony! He used the scripture to oppose Satan, and the Lord freed him. He went home to glory while faithfully singing praises to God!
3. The Devil Has A Deadline For Those Who Want To Come To Christ To Be Saved And Delivered From Satan's Power.
What I am about to say may offend you. But the Bible expresses it very clearly: If you are a slave under the lust, living in sin, without the Spirit of Christ in you, then you are a child of the devil himself. Jesus says, "You have the devil's father, and you will do after their father's desires." (John 8:44). He says: Satan controls your life. Therefore, God is not your father, but the devil. You are part of the enemy's family, not the Lord's!
Now, of course, Christ spoke these words to a religious crowd who believed they were good in the eyes of God. Outside they were clean and religious, but inside they were full of lust, sensuality, adultery and greed.
But there is also a disease that affects the devil's children. It is called sin-sick. The deeper in sin a person falls, the more critical this disease becomes. It reaches its peak when one suddenly loses his joy over sin, and it becomes dull and unsatisfactory.
The culprit of a sinful young TV star sued just a few weeks ago. The actor played in a popular series and earned a fortune. He had just signed a contract to be the star of several films and went out with a beautiful actress. He had fame, fortune and good health.
But then his lifeless body was found in a cheap porn hotel. Apparently, none of this world's pleasures had satisfied him. His life had become empty, meaningless and suicide finally ended. He died as a result of sin-sick!
If you have never given your life to Jesus, the devil has had complete control over you so far. He has ruled and ruled over your life. But maybe Satan sees that now comes a change over your life and he knows he is losing the roof!
Sin has suddenly lost its sweet taste. You no longer go to the evil places you once visited. And you're not so keen on attaching more. Money does not satisfy you anymore, neither sex nor belongings. You feel an increasing emptiness inside you.
And now you're here and reading this message. Perhaps you have been willing to read the Bible. No one pushes you to do so; Something inside you drives you to do it.
Dear, right now Jesus is beating the door of your heart, and the devil knows it. And the one thing Satan fears most of all is that you want to open the door to Christ!
From the moment the devil hears this knocking on your doorstep, until the time you open and receive Christ, all hell will be in panic!
The devil knows that he only has a short time left to work with you. And now he tries to do everything he can to keep you from answering God's call! The Gospel of Luke tells us about a father who led his demon-possessed son to Jesus. Christ said to his father, "Bring your son here. But before the boy came forth, the evil spirit tore in him." (Luke 9: 41-42). The word `slite 'here means violent convulsions, terrible shaking.
This young man came to Christ and was about to be set free, moved out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light. The devil saw that he was about to lose a new victim . So, in rage, he threw the young man on the ground in a last violent attack. He wanted to kill him and take his soul before Jesus could deliver him!
Satan will try to do the same with you today. The moment you move toward Christ, he will try a final immersive attack. He will set the most enchanting temptations in front of your eyes. He will try to throw you down with lies and tell you that you will never be free from sin and desire. He will convince you that you will always be His, not God!
But let me remind you: The moment you move toward Christ, the devil is left helpless. He can't stop anyone who is heading for Christ! He could not keep the demon-possessed young man away from reaching Jesus. All Christ had to do was say one word: "But Jesus threatened the unclean spirit. He healed the boy and returned him to his father." (verse 42).
Jacob tells us: ".... resist the devil, and he shall flee from you." (Jas. 4: 7). So how do you resist the enemy? You do it by faith alone! Simply come to Jesus and trust that he will save you from Satan's claws. "Resist Him, fasting in the faith!" (1Pet 5: 9).
You can be free today. You can say to Satan, 'When I finish reading this message, I'll be a free person. Jesus is my Savior and He will deliver me from every desire and wicked passion. Everything will go that way because he has said it! '
The time ahead can be tough for you. But the father's glorious, glowing sun will shine ever brighter for you! Amen!
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