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B. E.: I got to realise that God loes me as I am, with all those faults for which I’ve been flogging myself day by day. This consciousness was very important for me to be able to turn back to the right path. The other thing I bacame aware of was that Jesus had already redeamed us. He loves me so much that He died for me, for my weaknesses and meanness. Another thing that brought me here was the desire for a community, I really felt the need of it. I had belonged to a community some time ago, and I had felt its power to keep me, it had helped me go on the road I wished to go, on which I can feel good in my skin, and even my relationship with God is all right. It was last night when I started thinking that all this is so beautiful, it is good to be on this Philip course,some decisions have been born in me, I understood that Jesus had saved me, He loves me as I am, but what would come next? Who will be there to help me when I make the wrong turn again and I go off the rails? I said to myself, it is good indeed to have a community who can help me. So I will seek the community to which I can belong to. I’m thanking God for me being here and for the decision I got to make again.

P. B.: These few days brought me many new things, but they also woke up the desire for a community, because I’ve put it aside lately, and I feel this is one of the reasons I couldn’t stay on this road; I started alone in a direction, and quit the community which could have helped me continue. The thing that really got burned in my heart is that conversion does not happen once in a lifetime than everything is cool, and going on well, but we need to convert every day, every hour and every minute if it’s necessary.

F. Zs.: I felt myself discriminated in the school, I was marked with all kinds of attributes, and I always felt that nobody loved me. On this course the first thing that touched me was the sentence: I love you the way you are! And this made me not to care about what kinds of attributes others put on me, because I knoe that someone is helping me, and that someone is God, and the person I can fully trust is and rely on is Him. No matter what problems I would have I can share with Him, I can ask for help from Him, He is the one who leads us to the road which is the most important to walk on. 20 years needed to pass for me to take part in a course like this and to realize that God is the only one, and it takes only a moment to open our hearts and let Him in. I wonder for how long is God standing in front of the door to my heart and I haven’t opened it for Him. I opened it instead before the enemy, before the bad things. I realized what kinds of friend I’d been surrounded with, because the ones I though would lead me towards good things, in fact came with nice words and lead me by my nose, and I was not aware of it. Then comes a retreat as this, only three day, and it deeply touches my soul. I plan on building up my faith more, to be able to follow the Scriptures more wholeheartedly. I would like the community to feed me.

M. R.: I have always known that God loved me, and I accepted His love, but sadly I went off the road. But I experienced Him again and he strengthened me. I was aware of the fact that Jesus had saved us, but I was strongly touched by realizing that it was us who nailed Him on that cross with our sins. I feel that community was the last missing link in the chain that I needed. I used to ask God to send people to help me in my problems, and He did, but my eyes weren’t open wide enough to see. I received a lot of things here.

L. B.: This weekend could make up for all that was missing due to my not frequenting community regularly. Even the enemy could sneak into my life a little bit, but I am happy that I could participate in this course with an open heart.

Philip Course - Dealu, 1-3^rd of December, 2017.

L. E.: All that I received was phenomenal. When they prayed for the Holy Spirit to be poured out on me, I burst into a laugh of joy, that I couldn’t do without tears, and these were also tears of joy.

N. J.: I came here expecting to know God and myself more. I found out that I am a wonderful creation of God, and He loves me as I am, and from my perspective, I am the best for Him. Another thing that hit me was how can we show love and give importance to people who are antipathetic or we even feel hatred towards them. The answer I found was prayer, and to think positively and with love about them, and then for sure in time it will bring fruits. And I hope that I will also get to accept with love all those people who were antipathetic to me.

M. T.: I felt that I was unable to trust my life totally to God. Many times I found myself taking back the steering wheel, then giving it again, but grabbing it again even unconsciously. Making the decision to give my life to Jesus was a great help in this. I knew that God loved me unconditionally, but it impacted me as a new thing that I have a sinful nature I am not responsible for. When I fail in something I seldom fall into the trap of accusing myself, and not only for a moment, since I tend to say things over myself even after a week. So it is a little bit calming that there sinful nature exists, and I am only responsible for watching out that I don’t fail, but even if it happens the solution is to repent and ask the Holy Spirit to help so that it wouldn’t happen again, so I don’t have to stone myself.

S. M.: There were many things that captured me and deepened in me on this course. I felt strengthened by knowing that God loves me as I am, at least it went down from my head into my heart. When I feel that I am far from Him, it is because my sinful nature and also my little sins separate me from God. On this course I experienced the love of God in a deeper way, I felt peace filling me on the very first night when I got home; and it is so wonderful to be in relationship with Him on a daily basis. We have to call on the Holy Spirit continuously, in whatever problem, at our workplace, in hardships, so that He would help us. I’ve learned also that I don’t have to be in control all the time, I should not want to solve all things by myself, but I just have to leave them to God, and He will give me the grace to know what kind of things I have to do and when.

H. A.: It really struck me that God loves me as I am. The Holy Spirit helps me and gives me strength. At the invocation of the Holy Spirit I felt that as if a big lock would have fallen off my heart and a good feeling filled me.

L. R.: On the first night I learned that God loves me just the way I am. And I have hope that he is waiting for me in the Heaven with such a great love, and He forgives all my sins. Yesterday I was moved by realizing how rancorous I am, and envious and the like, and these just wouldn’t pass away, but last night I already started counting the persons I should understand, because first I have to understand that the other person is not the way he is by his own will, but he also has a sinful nature, and that is why he commits sins. I’m still at the point of understanding, and haven’t made steps yet, but here I am standing and starting to realize why people do what they do. The best thing in all this is that you came here from Targu Mures and didn’t put us in our place telling how to live, how to do things because you do that way, but you did it masterly, interactively and with the help of illustrative tools. I am so glad that all this happened here at the parish, because the most important thing is to belong to one community.

Philip Course - Targu Mures, 3-5^th of November, 2017.

P. A.: I have come here wearing many masks, because I wanted to comply and to satisfy. I already belong to a community, but after a while I felt that I bacame so apathetic, that I said things one way and did it the other way; there was a huge contradiction inside me. This course was good and helped me take off this old garment, and now I can be in unity within me.

F. B.: I became aware that God created me this way with a certain reason, He loves me, and every creature of His is wonderful. I new this in theory, but now God made me understand that I am also wonderful the way I am. It is so easy for us, people, to point at others with our finger, and we hardly take notice of it, but I realised that in fact I am just as sinful as the other person. I became conscious of the importance of using the gifts of the Holy Spirit in order to give on to others what I have inside, and I should not act and do good things to people as if I needed to prove something to God, because I don’t have to prove anything to Him, and I can’t do anything for Him to love me more.

L. N.: I have come here, because I felt that I have received everything I wanted from life, almost everything possible, but still there was something missing, which if existed I would feel utter joy in my heart. I feel that I have found it here. I understood that God loves me as I am, with my sins and everything,and that He redeemed me. I accepted the Holy spirit and I want Him to stay here inside, because thus I feel myself totally happy.

K. J.: I had many interesting downturns in my life, and I felt that I needed an order that noone else could instrument. I`ve been searching and looking in many places. On this Philip course I got strengthened in many things, mostly in accepting that it is no coincidence that I am alive and I exist on this planet. I don`t know yet what my calling and my duty is, how can I make a difference in this world, but I know now that it is good that I exist. I usually read a lot and listen to a lot of things, but I need to drink from clear springs. Last night I decided that I would buy my first own Bible, so today I did. When we prayed last night and I closed my eyes, I felt such a wormth which I usually feel when I`m in a good place and I am happy. Now that I laid my life into God`s hand, I know that He will lead me in the good direction, and finally I will find my community.

F. L.: I recognized myself in everything you spoke about; truly we are so much alike in our failures and experiences; some get more, some get less, but we all need to go trough them. What happened to me yesterday is the will of God, I think, and He uses me, and I just have to open my mouth. I arrived home with a huge smile on my face, my colleagues noticed this and started putting questions which I also did a while ago. And I found the truth here in the things that you unveiled to me. That sin exists because God is truthful, and the wages of sin is death. And God loves and respects us so much that He let us choose. What would be the point if He told us: „worship me, and me alone, because I am the great guy”? He lets you do what you like.

N. E.: I had quite a lot of knowledge about these things due to the communities I`d been to, and the different retreats, but here I became conscious about many things. I feel that the hardest thing for me is to persevere and to keep on going on this road. But last night I already managed to react with kindness in a situation where it would have been easier to raise my voice. I remained calm instead, and I think it is the Holy Spirit working in me. I am so grateful for this weekend.

Philip Course - Sovata, 8-10^th of September, 2017.

Gy. A.: There have been some things I remembered, and they came to surface again. One of these is that our steps have their order, one cannot skip the other, because it will end up in disorder. I received some confirmations from God that I’ve been longing for for two-three years. I feel now that I have the answers, even though they are partial answers.

V. J.: On this course i experienced, that some concepts earned new and complete meaning for me, for example: the original, ancestral sin, which I understood on the level of knowledge, but I didn’t know what it really meant. I found it a little strange to hear that God needs me, I thought it was a mistake, it had no sense, so it can’t be true. But it changed, and now I accept this truth. I got many feedbacks to those issues, on which I am thinking lately. One of the practical illustrations was an answer itself, because I also felt myself very withered and aimless for a long time, but the good news is that in appropriate circumstances there is a chance to blossom and to change.

J. R. I am very thankful for being here, at the course. I want to highlight 2 things, which touched my heart: the first is, that we don`t have to talk with the devil, we have to resist him, not to try to convince him, because for sure we will lose against him. Many times I commit the same mistakes or even sins, because I feel that ”oh, this is still acceptable, this is not a sin yet...” The other thing was that the Holy Spirit is the person of the deep love between the Father and the Son. I am happy for being here; I will go home happy and renewed.

G. N. : At the beginning of this course I felt, that I don`t understand why am I here. I participated already in many spiritual exercises, but this one really touched my heart. This morning, when I woke up, I just realized, that I am praying, and I was surprised how the Holy Spirit started to work in me. Yesterday when I got prayed for, I felt the warmth and peace of the Holy Spirit fill my heart. I felt, that I am free and happy, and I know that God loves me very much. I want to go home with this messages living in my heart and in my mind.

H. B. In the last period I had many questions, fears and fights in my life, so I arrived here with fear, but in the first night God spoke to me, saying, that ”I have created you, and you are special” and I am precious in His eyes, even if I don`t see myself in this way. I realized that God doesn`t create garbage.

Inner Healing Course - Odorheiu Secuiesc, 31^st of August - 3^rd of September, 2017.

R. E.: I feel that I’ve learned and experienced a lot about the way I can be set free from the sins and hurts that I accumulated throughout the years of my life. I got to know that I don’t have to do something enormous, still I can be free from my memories, deeds, sins and all the bad things, and I know that I had a lot of these in my life. I was able to forgive, although there was one person to whom it was very hard to forgive. I am thankful to God for imparting with me all these good things here on this weekend. I feel that I came as a person and I go home as another one.

B. A.: I understood how vital is every little act of caring starting from our fetal age. I felt and I knew, though I was not so sure about it, that I was carrying a dosen of huge rocks in my backpack. The person to whom it was the hardest to forgive was me and my mother. I realized that I didn’t take my problems to God until now, but I took every other opportunity instead to console myself. For example I said many times to my mother that I forgive her, but I couldn’t do it in a sincere way. I succeeded only when I took it to God so that He would help me to forgive. How important it is to know to whom we are going for help!

L. M.: On this course I understood and experienced how strong is the forgiveness of our mighty God. If we let Him, He will love us, just how we are. I made mistakes and comitted sins many times, I failed, started again and failed, because I didn`t know, that the problem starts from the root. I was angry at myself, how can I commit all these things, even if I am a christian. It was hard to forgive to myself for these failings. Now I ask the Lord to strengthen me, to be victorious.

D. T. : I heard the story of the prodigal son many times, but only from the perspective of the father or of the younger son. It was good to see the story from the point of view of the older son, who lived his hole life at home. It was hard to forgive my mother, but I did it, thank God, and now I can go home free and trust God, that I can use in my every day life all those things I`ve learned here.

Discernment Course - Baile Harghita, 19-23^rd of July, 2017.

K. I.: In the first place in my life stands my relationship with God: through prayer, worship, reading the Word and meditating upon it. It became important for me to know how much space do I give to God to form and lead me according the best plan He has for me. I have nothing that I have not received – I will repeat this for myself to be able to stay in humility before God. I became aware of the constant battle we are in, and that I should not reply to the evil one in times of temptations, but pray with even more zeal. I will not make decisions in the state of desolation.

B. A.: I understood the importance of making my decisions. I was able to give up my values for Jesus Christ, to give Him back everything that He has given to me (laying my wishes and values into the hands of the Lord), even persons. Everything.

K. A.: I can recognize those states of my spirit, which I’ve been fighting with until now, and I didn’t know what to do. I will not make my decisions according to my feelings. I have a deep desire inside to know the Lord more. Knowing my Lord and the way He does things, I can use the methods of discerning more effectively.

P. M.: I understood how can I fend off the tactics of the enemy, and that I have to examine my decisions, my plans whether they are from God or not. I realized that I have to devote more of my time to the relationship with God, because this is what strengthens me.

P. A.: My sadness derives mostly from my state of desolation, which the enemy drives me into – but from now on I won’t let him torture me with that. I finally found the consolation I was searching for! Glory be unto God! He never gives up! Never renounces me, my husband or my dreams!

N. Z.: I understood the meaning of humility; that being poor in the spirit is the real richness; and that the Holy Spirit doesn’t accuse me.

Gods Answers to the Great Challenges of Life – Arad, 19-21^st of May, 2017.

B. M.: It became clear to me what is the process when we fall into depression. Until now I thought that when I am in a bad mood, it means I am depressed already, but in fact I am still far from being ill of depression. And this gives me peace in itself. It is normal to be bad-tempered from time to time because of certain things. There is a way out, so I will not worry. I decided to learn to say NO, which is not an easy thing for me to do, and I will lay down the burdens that are not coming from God. I still have to work on finding out the limits, knowing what is my duty and what is not.

B. Zs.: I understood the awefulness and depth of fear, but there is a way out of it, we could hear some tips too. There are three words that help me in this: Jesus calls, protects and leads me continuously. I decided to make some changes on my schedule and the priorities in my life, because I tend to try to solve millions of things in a single day. I already started making a list, and I will even cut out a few things if necessary. Inner healing and spiritual harmony are very important for me, because in lack of these nothing else will work neither. I would also like to hear the voice of Jesus both in calm and in storm.

K. F.: All that I heard here was instructive. I realised that if I collapse, there will be only me to blame because of the excess of jobs undertaken. I will have to change this, will have to learn to set up limits and to say NO. If you realize in what situation you are in, it is already a step to coming out of it. If you pray to God and ask for His help, He will show you how to go up on the stairs.

J. E.: If I look at the very essence of this course, I will always remember to read verses from the Bible, thus I will be able to manage things, because the base of the Bible is God’s word, and only He can take us out of the trouble. No matter how heavy is the burden we have on our shoulder, we can go on with it only with God’s help. This course lead me to the decision that I will start searching for niceties every day. I don’t know yet how much I will find, because I haven’t looked at thing from this perspective until now, but I will do my best to find as much as I can.

Philip Course - Odorheiu Secuiesc, 7-9^th of April, 2017.

N. A.: God loves me as I am, a small sinner or a big sinner. I could easily accept that Jesus redeamed me. I understood that I have to be part of a christian community, because it holds me up. It gave me a hard time the fact that I belong to different secular groups, and I didn’t know how will I be able to attune them. But I understood that I have to be a lantern in order to lead others to God.

B. Zs.: It became clear to me now that Jesus loves us. During one of the worship times I felt as if they cut the film, when I saw the line of a song: „I will follow You no matter the circumstances”. I tried to hide my tears which started falling, but when it became untenable, I went to the back of the room and wept for three hours, because I realized I had questions from my past and my painful events that not even priests could answer. Finally I found out that I have to put down these questionmarks to the feet of Jesus, I have to commit them to Him, and only thus will I be able to walk along with Him. Jesus wants me wholely, not lukewarm, not just partially. This means total devotion.

D. J.: I’ve heard of so many things that were already alive in me, because I’ve already decided some years ago to follow God, and I am letting it grow stronger in me day by day. However, I knew that God can give me new things all the time, so I came to find this new thing out. The first thing that touched me deeply was understanding how hard it must have been for God to see His Son being crucified. I imagined the pain of Jesus before, but what the Father could have felt, knowing there was nothing He could do, it was such a recognition that I suddenly started to cry. But God said to me, that it was so much worth that He could do it a hundred times more for me and you.

T. Sz.: When I was even younger than now, I let the reins very loose, I made my own rules, I lived my own life as I wanted. But at a certain point I felt so disgusted by myself, I said: is it really me? I can’t live like that! My parents didn’t observe anything, and I started feeling anger towards them, for they didn’t care about what was going on with me. On this Philip course I understood that my healing has only just begun. God lead me here to tune me up, to give me strength to be able to hold on and not to fall back into the abyss, where I’ve been for so long, but rather to take into account His love instead. I managed to forgive my parents, and I decided to accept them, because they are still my parents, even if they didn’t notice that I was in trouble.

V. R.: This was not my first encounter with Jesus, but I needed one. I came here with a great chaos in my life, and I felt that if this doesn’t help, then nothing would. I feel that things started to clarify. I had so many judgments toward me and others; it was so easy to judge others, to form on opinion about the person. It touched me that God is not biased. Concerning sin I was touched by the fact that it makes no difference whether it is about a silk thread or a heavy chain, sin is sin anyways.

Sz. T.: I am so glad that I can be here. I feel that God touched me more times at a row. I didn’t know the Holy Spirit, but now I found out what it all is about. I knew that God loves me very much but I was not aware of Him loving me despite my weaknesses, hardships and sins. I experienced it only now that in this sinner state I tore myself away from God and from myself, and I walked in darkness. I was not attentive to the voice inside me. The Spirit can strengthen you in the everyday life, no matter where you are or what happens to you. There will always be an obstacle, there will be temptations, but the Son of God already died for all these sins. I never felt what this meant but now I really experienced it. I don’t have to walk in darkness now.

Blessing in the Family - Sangeorgiu de Mures, 3-5th of March, 2017.

P. A.: I understood that I cannot be indifferent in what I say. The blessing of the husband/father is very important. One blessing from the husband is stronger than ten blessings from others. The blessing of the husband brings security and protection.
I would like a change in what I declare over other people, especially when I realize that I can say something wrong about everyone. I would like to introduce the culture of blessings in our family celebrations. The first celebration like this I would like to have on our wedding anniversary (this year we will have the 10th wedding anniversary).

A. E.: As Jesus accepted us when we were guilty, and as He accepted my husband, the same I have to accept my husband. I have to accept him not the one who will become, but the one he is NOW. I would like to practice blessing one another. I decided, that I will appreciate him more and I'll give positive feed-back to him. I want to allow him take more responsibilities.

I. Sz.: I understood what it really means to be a blessing for people and to speak out blessing. I understood the meaning of celebrations and those things that make them really blessed. It was a very deep moment for me when we blessed our son. I would like to appreciate more what I have, and not to look towards what I don’t have or what is wrong. I would like to express my appreciation toward the other person and his/her importance in my life.

A. I.: I understood that even if I am right I can do the first step in asking for forgiveness and to reconcile. The world now, in the 21st century, is alienated and hostile because it is not aware that everyone needs God's blessing. We humans need to bless each other in the name of God. The enormous number of broken families are the consequence of lack of blessing. I would like to implement the culture of blessing in our family, to bless each other: my wife will bless me and I will bless her. Besides of my family I would also like to be a mediator of God’s blessing in the society through my ministry. I would like to do something so that families who are in hardships can experience the blessing of the Lord.

K. Sz.: Blessing has a great power. Words can be either blessing or curse in our life. Each word has power. We can bless our parents and they can bless us. I would like to celebrate Shabbat in my family. I try to be a mediator of God’s blessing in the world.

Sz. K: What especially touched me was that by our words we can bless or curse others. II have to be more aware to become a blessing in my family, environment and for my friends. Blessing is such a weapon by which we can take away the power of Satan and declare God’s blessing, peace and love. Because we are not fighting against blood and flesh but against spiritual forces. In my daily life I want to implement praying together in the family and bless each other. It is very important to change my thoughts and not let that anger and wrath would rule, but even in hardships I can discover what is good and positive.

A. T.: I have to help my dear husband to become the man whom God created. If it is necessary I even make some steps back in different areas of my life, so that he can have more space. I would like to use the power of blessing and of my words in a very practical way. In the midst of our friends I would like to make a habit to bless each other and also bless our children.

N. CS.: I understood that it is very important to practice blessing in the family: to bless our kids and not to blame them. I would like to make a habit in the family to pray together and bless each other.

K. A and E.: We learnt to use our words as blessing. We would like to restart reading the Bible together with our kids once a week and to introduce the culture of blessing in children's various life stages.

N. E.: What I understood in a new way: the parent may determine the future of his children by his words. I need to bless my parents. (List at least three good things). I'm going to bless my husband and my child more. I thank my father three things I am thankful for.

Inner Healing Course - Cluj-Napoca, 23-26^th of February, 2017.

A. A: It was a new thing for me to understand the direct relation between my relationships and my keeping the anger in my heart. If I am angry with a person then I’m accusing him before God. Thinking about this I realized that it is not worth taking burdens up on me and putting on the other person too. Hearing about the false convictions I recognized myself in many cases. I got used to exploding towards the surrounding people, and I already felt that it had bad consequences, especially when I crossed persons who could feed my anger by agreeing with me, thus we both began hating the other one, and this was even worse. I was the one whom it was the hardest to forgive, because my own decisions led me into different things, so there is no one else to blame.

F. E.: I never realized how much power inner oaths have, and what effects they have over me. I will start paying attention to the measure I devalue myself, because it infiltrates in my smallest deeds and daily life. I used to believe that I am not able to address God with my own words, and I communicated with God only through prayers, but the most important in these few days was that I realized that I am able to say prayers on my own, using my own thoughts and words, and it is much deeper.

K. I.: I started studying occult things just to see what it is all about, to have some information about it. I never got too deep into anything like that, I was just interested in the topic. Although it can be a good base for evangelization, still I have to be very careful. If I happen to find myself face to face with something occult, God will give me the necessary wisdom to know how I have to react in that certain situation.

M. Á.: The theme about occultism was very new to me; I admit I was pretty curious. It made me recognize things about rock music, which I had been listening quite intensively, now I know what consequences it has. I always had the idea, that if someone prays over me, it has effect only if I feel something. I understood that there is no need for great things to happen; I just have to believe that God is acting even if I can’t see it in an obvious way. I didn’t take forgiving seriously enough, because nobody told me until now that it is essential in order for healing to begin or take place in me. When it came to forgiving during the inner healing procedure, I realized that there is so much to forgive, and it was really hard to forgive specific persons, but I did, and it underlined the fact that even if I don’t feel uplifted, mostly because of my tiredness, I will surely experience the power that it holds.

S. R.: I’ve been flogging myself for so long if something didn’t go well, I said I was dumb and booby, nothing works for me, but now it’s clear that I’ve been cursing myself with all these statements. If I look back at these moments I can recall that I really did feel low. It captured my attention that it is so important to be part of a community. I used to go to the youth group when I lived in my hometown, but not that regularly though, and in the period when I did go, I somehow felt totally another person than in the times when I didn’t feel like going. Now this has changed, and I desire to come to the community because worshipping is so good, people are so cute, and it feels good to belong to a community. Even if I come tired, it fills me up with strength enough for the rest of the week. Regarding forgiving, it was a little bit strange for me at the beginning, because it came for me to say „I would like to forgive”. But it was important to say that I do forgive, and not just „would like to”.

Sz. I.: I always forgave everybody, and it was something natural for me to do so, and even the rancor disappeared, but if the same person did me something wrong, the bad memories came back. On this course I realized that it happened because I forgave only with words and it was not deep enough, it was not a decision.
There is an important question I have to put myself from time to time: Do I really need the thing that I want to buy? Because when I enter a shop to buy some food because I’m hungry, I suddenly observe this and that, and I burst out: Let’s buy it! But do I really need those things?
Forgiving was an easy task for me, and I felt myself relieved afterwards.

Gods Answers to the Great Challenges of Life – Oradea, 20-22^nd of January, 2017.

M. L.: During this weekend I realized, that self-pity is not a solution for my problems. I have decided, that I don`t want to solve the problems of the other people, and I will try to deal with only those problems, which I am able to solve with joy. The rest I will try to allocate to my coworkers and people around me.

B. Cs.: I understood many things this weekend: I wasn`t born to solve other peoples life; the Lord is with me wherever go; in the cage is darkness and cold, but I can always go to the fire as many times I need it. I have decided: every morning I will talk to myself in this way: "Good morning dear beloved child of God" I will try the "joy-olimpics" and I will fight against fear with the truth of the Lord.

Sz. E.: This course meant a lot for me. Friday night, when I went home I felt, that if this would be all, it would be enough for me, it touched my soul, it comforted me. It was very good to hear about dealing with challenging things, so we won`t find ourselves in deep depression. I realized that God doesn`t want me to stay in the cage of self-pity, because He has better things for me.

K. J.: It really touched me the fact that I am God`s beloved child and this will give me strength. My favorite Bible verse is "Don`t be afraid, just believe" ; this will give me strength for a long time, I hope. I understood, that is very important to settle a good time schedule. I have so little time for my family but a lot of time for my work. That`s not ok. I want to have a better schedule. I want to try to find the good things in the other people, and to build up each other, and to help each other.

D. A.: I understood, that it is not about that if we believe in God and we ask His support, we will not have any problems and troubles in our life, but we will overcome these situations easier in our daily life. I formulated to myself in this course, that if I don`t ask God, than He can not give an answer to me. I should be brave and dare to ask His help. I really liked that we could choose a biblical motto, so mine will be: "For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline." 2 Tim1,7

M. Gy.: I understood, God can only work in my life if I will be his coworker. And now I realized how can I be His coworker, and what is what I have to change in my life , for example to recognize those sign which show that I am in depression, sadness. We shouldn`t stay in these situation, but to ask Lord Jesus help to cope with all these, especially in our life and after that in our environment. Coming out from the cage of self-pity had a huge impact on me. I will only hear the voice of the Lord, if I have a relationship with Him, and I will have a relationship with him, if I cut every other thread which keeps me away from Him, I need a totally new beginning. Only than I will hear the voice of the Lord, when he is calling me out. And it depends on me, if I stand up, come out and do my best, or I listen to other voices. I made a promise to myself that I will not listen to negative thoughts, as David did: first he started to accept those thoughts after that many negative consequences came. I will look at the small joys to, like the birds singing, the green grass, we have a lot of beautiful things around us. It`s important to find these beauties and good things in each other. Another very important thing , that I will not start anything without prayer. I don`t want to be far away from Jesus, it never has a good end, if I loose the connection with Him.

B. M.: I didn`t want to participate on this course, but God used people to invite me here. He wanted to give me a totally new life, which I received here. The Lord took of my dark glasses, since I am a widow, I was looking to my life trough that, and gave me a bright one. So I can look to my life with joy and brightness. I want to change my attitude, I want to have joy-bringer things in my life and I gave my disappointment and despondencies to God.

Sz. I.: I have realized, that the basics are very important, it is necessary to come back to the spring of life and to strength my identity: Who am I in Christ? I felt that the Lord had filled my heart again. Although I knew the Bible says ``For the Spirit God gave us the spirit of fear , but gives us power, love and self-discipline``, the fear in me was only a feeling. Now I understood, that it`s a spirit, and I should take it serious.
The example with Edison really touched me, it is very important how I look to the happenings in my life.
I reminded those verses where the old Simeon had spoken to Mary, and after that she pondered his words in her heart.
My thoughts many times are not the Word of God, but rather things which cause sadness, or pushes me to the cage of self-pity.
I decided, that I will meditate and concentrate on God's words, and I will try the joy-olimpics too, and I believe that I will observe more joyful things in my life.