My name is Jeremy Holcombe....and I am a Jesus Follower.

So. Many people thought I went to Spain for my Birthday. No way. Although, the ticket return trip was only $5. That was nice. Does not make sense, it cost $65 dollars to get to the airport. (I have bad English, especially when I do not care to correct because I am tired.)
Anywho.
Spain.

What a week. We went there for faith week. I prayed. Robert prayed. We came together and we both felt like God had said....Spain. I especially got Barcelona. Sooooo off we go, but before we went. We were challenged. Luke 10...but from verse 4: Carry no money, no bag, no shoes..... Of course we took what was on our body. And maybe an extra pair of socks....but nothing else accept passport, towel, and Bible. (and tooth paste because if your going to be talking to people, your breath needs to be decent). We took no money or anything. When I say no money....I do not mean a little bit....or a tiny but....but simply: no money. Faith week. It rocked.

So we prayed ALOT. What else were we suppose to do? We did not know. So we did what the Bible says: Matt 6:25-33:
"²⁵"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life^a]">[a]? ²⁸"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

Now, if your still with me....reread the last verse: "Seek FIRST His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" Man. That was the hardest thing this week and its so true. Its literal. We had nothing this week and God took care of us. When we did not worry about food or shelter, and just started talking to people about our faith, praying, and blessing people, things would be taken care of. We did not tell people what we were doing, some we would after a long time, but God provided for us through people. One point in time, we sat beside a guy after we were really hungry, and all I did was say Hi, and the first thing he said was "Here, have some food, I have plenty, what do you want?" If we ever got money, it could easily be a huge distraction, so a lot of the times we would just give it to other people to bless them, for example: we bought food with the money we had and walked around and gave it to homeless people, which set off a chain of events to some pretty cool things.
SO much stuff happened over the week....its a lot to remember and we wrote it all down though.

So after meeting 33 different nationalites, sleeping in bus stations (with homeless people), airports, and bathrooms, and talking with tons and tons of people we are back in Spain. We made tons of new friends, some of who have invited us to their home countries to visit (lol). We learned lots of lessons. But the I think something that is so cool is that: God is faithful, He always will be. Its so easy to just fall into your own kingdom. His Word is alive and real, and the scripture: give us this day our daily bread became so true to us.

Now I am back in a bed, warm showers, and plenty of food. Thank you Yahew, contiune to rock my world, change my life, and see your Kingdom come. All for you. Amen.

waiting waiting waiting

thats what I am doing. I a sitting on the floor of my wonderful Scottish family waiting for my church to call me, my church that I love very much and miss very much. Great people....very authentic and connected group of people.
Scotland has been wonderful. I love it here, sometimes its a little slow since its the holidays and people are in the rush of things but it has been nice to have a break and go to a coffee shop and sit there and write and talk to God and the people around me. So nice.
I leave here in a couple of days to head to Norway for a thing called workers gathering. Its where all of the YWAM workers in Norway come together for a few days. Should be really good....and not to mention all of the snow there. and cold. lack of heat. haha. I make myself laugh. As I write this, I am watching Alice and Wonderland and I have to be honest, its not bad, and to be honest again, I have never seen the whole thing. Its a newer one by the looks of it.
So after Norway, I go to spain for a week for a thing called faith week with robert. We prayed to God about where to go and we felt God said Spain! So off we go on the 8th of January, quickly followed by my birthday on the 9th : )
Most of my 18th year was in Australia, and my 19th year was spend half and half in Norway, and my 20th birthday will be in spain. How nice....God is great and such a blessing.
Then....I go back to Norway to finish up the lectures there and then off to Berlin for 2 1/2 months.
God is teaching me lots of things, espcially about girls and relationships. How each girl deserves to be fully pursued, not some half hearted thing, so I am not in a place to do that, and won't be for a while. I don't want to cheat a girl out of that and I want to focus my efforts on that when the time is right.
Well
Im done.
much love
Jeremy

soon to be Thanksgiving

The days are dark and rainy....at 3:30, soon to be even earlier than that.

but thats okay. God is still good!

Its nice being here, I enjoy it. Not to much going on at the moment with all of the bad weather and short days. We have a more consistent schduele with a lot of great teaching.

God is doing lots of work in my life personally. Its cool. Its still in progress, and I will update later on that.

One cool recent revelation from God: When you Marry, you become one right? Flesh and spirit. When you become married, you want what best for your spouse right? Only the best. Nothing else with suffice. Well....when Christ died on the Cross, we inherited God's spirit, Christ married the Church. He lives in us now. Our body is His, his dwelling place.
Now....when it comes to sin....selfishness anything ungodly. God hates it. Very much.
The revelation with that in mind is: God does not like sin, because it is not what is best for you. It hurts you, it can damage you. Sometime even lead you to death. He cant stand to see you with nothing less than the best, its painful and causes sorrow. Would you want your spouse being hurt or drawn away from you? Never would I.
Is that not just amazing? God loves you so much. So flipping much. Christ is crazy about you. The Holy Spirit is inside of you.

God, thank you so much for your love. Your perfect love. Thank you for how you see each and every person's heart and are torn by the fact that that person doesnt have whats best for them.

see ya soon.

It has been a while

So I have been all over the place doing many things. I will just sum it up....

After I got back.....another dts came to our base and we pretty much deicipled them. It was good fun. I got to teach everyday, from 30 mins to an hour. It was really good and everybody enjoyed it, not just me : )

They left, and so did we. We went to England where we did tons more evangelism with a whole bunch of other people. We led a lot of it and were able to really encourage people. We have some really cool testimonies. One guy that got to walk after he had not been able to walk for years or something. He was pretty shocked.

It was a crazy schedule but a great time. I was sick the first ffew days and I am still semi sick, getting better. I am tired though, which is part of the reason for not much detail right now.

Then we had a short two day week about discipleship. It was good, and followed by a 5 day weekend. I needed it. I went camping with a friend and it was nice to get away from everybody and just be in the still and quite of things. Oh yeah!

But personally, God is so good. I love the relationship I have with him and things he is doing inside of me. I can def feel his hands in me...moving things around and taking out the bad stuff. It hurts sometimes, but its good. I don't know what it is yet, but it will be big.

I wish everybody could believe in Jesus.....it would change the world and get rid of all this selfishness that goes on.

I don't come up with clever titles

so here we go : )

I really want to make this page more personal, and less professional like. Its about what God is doing in my life personally and around me in Europe. Thats pretty laid back.

I want to share with you from last week a few stories:

I met a girl (my friends ex-fiance) who I had talked to well over a year ago on the internet and had been praying for during that time. It was crazy to meet the girl i had been praying for all of that time and had only talked to once or twice. It was such an encouragement to her and me.

I hurt my neck from sleeping wrong last week also, so I wore a scarf for the first time ever to help keep it warm. I really liked it and had to give it back later. I asked Jesus for a scarf and just thought I would buy one later when we got back into home town. That day, someone came up to me and told me they had really been wanting to buy me a scarf that day and asked me if I would like to go with them to buy me one. How awesome is that.

Each week, we are suppose to set goals for what we want to see done. Last week, I really wanted to see three people get healed. (Yes, obviously I believe Jesus is alive and heals today). I prayed for a few different people last week, and I saw six different people get healed. How awesome is that. Its still kinda new to me, buts its really cool to see someone flip out and be able to tell them that it was Jesus that healed them and tell them about Jesus and what He did.

My friend prayed for a girl who had crutches and her friend had a hurt foot also. The girl got healed and didn't need her crutches, and so did her friend with the hurt foot. They were both going hysterical. The first girl was like "I think I believe in Jesus now," and the other girl was saying "I think I have to become Christian now." (just another really awesome story)

I love God. He is so amazing, and so real, and just so full of love. Jesus is my dad, lover, provider, and just so much more. I love being so real and raw with Him and I love that He is the same way back with me. Constantly renewing me, filling me up, and showing me new things all of the time.

I thought I would

give you a solid update now. I leave soon (I will get to this), and I am more aware of the schedule and what is going on around me and what it consist of.

Since I have been here, in this short amount of time, lots of great things have happened. Weather it be salvations (2), healings (17), or just building new friendships around the community (tons). God is doing great work in this city. I am looking forward to what is going to happen in the coming time.

While I am here, I have lectures everyday from 8:30am-2:30 pm, after that we have different things going on depending on the day and your involvement in the community. For example yesterday we went and did a thing called treasure hunting, which is such a cool testimony. You pray to God to show you a person aka treasure, with details like: name, appearance, place, needs, or anything unusual. Lots of really cool stuff has happened.

In the next few weeks I will give you more updates on what is going on here, and with details about who I will be working with and for what purposes and so on.

On Monday morning though, I will heading off to Oslo with the whole base here for an event called Nations to Nations. There will be some teachings there and then me and the people I am with will lead about 150-200 people in Evangelism in the city of Norway for a week. Then come back and have a "team week" where we will do more evangelism and ministry in the town of Skein and the University of Telemark. The week after that we go to England and have some more lectures and then we will lead another huge group of students in evangelism in london. It will be crazy the next few weeks.

Things here are great and such a challenge, exactly what I expect. Oh! I found out today that my outreach (February-April) will be in Berlin, Germany. I will give more details about that later!

Thanks so much for your prayers and support. Holy cow, thanks.

Keep praying though for great revelation for non christians and christians alike here and that God will use me and grow me while I am here. : )

Thank you so much.

Whew....

Well....Norway is beautiful. Very very very beautiful. I guess its the whole feeling of being in a totally new environment.....with new food too.

Sorry about the delay though, I wanted to wait so I could give you a more solid update instead of many smaller ones. I don't want to be your spam.

This weekend we went on a get to know you trip to a log cabin. There are nine of us. I am the youngest and I am the only american. It was great getting to know everybody. My roomates are three other guys: Craig from England who is 28, Robert from Holland who is 22, and then T-Bear (I don't know how to pronouce or say his real name) who is 21 I think from Norway. Interesting mix. Then you have the girls, who are all from Norway. Also one older guy here who is 38, Kenneth.

I have all the funds I need, God is great, and with no doubt He would provide for me. He def did.
I still need your prayers though, this is going to be the most challenging time in my life so far with no doubt about it. We went over the schudele for the next nine months and holy cow. I don't know where to begin, but this is the place where I am suppose to be right now and its the right thing. No doubt. All I know is I need to wake up, obey God, and everything will be okay. Thats easier said than done at times though.

I will update agian a little bit later!