Hey!

I said in my email that I would keep this for more personal stuff. I am going to try and keep it more about what I am learning. Sweet.

I am really not in the mood to do this, so it prob. is not going to flow as much as it could...if at all.

GRACE. How amazing? How beautiful? I don't need to have fear. I am loved for who I am....not what I do. Its amazing. God will always love me for who I am not matter what. I make mistakes....I do bad things....Im self centered lots of times.....most of the time. But. God loves me. For that....I can love other people and show them grace to. That is pretty amazing. Its a life changing grace. Its really a life changing grace....so much. It does not make sense.

Communication between me and Robert. Sometimes its hard because of culture differences and english is his second language. So I am learning a lot about that. Its like I am practically married. Ha.

Just going for it. Go for it. It doesn't matter. If it doesn't work....oh well. Thats okay. Go for it. Go BIG. Do something crazy and fun.

Hope? Our generation has lost that. Hope in Heaven. Hope in His return. I love it. I really want to hope for heaven.

Wonder. I want it. Wonder for the Creation of God. To see the small things.

Beauty. To be suprised by it. I love that to.

Being filled with his Joy. Putting a smile on my face and laughter in my mouth and heart. To be happy.

That Christ is in my eyes. To love. Oh this love. How beautiful. How full. The love that makes me dance. Yes...I am starting to get interested in dancing. Hip hopish I guess. Its fun. Specially in worship. Very suddle. He makes my heart dance and smile : )

I dont need to look to people. Only God. Its freeing. Easier said than done.

Thats it for now. Oh. Memorzing scripture. Its amazing. Its my way of worship and Bible study. I almost have Ephesians memorized, and then I want phillipians.

This is long. Bye bye!

In Him

Jeremy

Stories!

Well, I have had some time to get myself together and I decided I would write some of the stories that had happened over my week in Spain. I will try to keep them quick and to the point : )

1- Met a Muslim man named Matin, really cool guy. Talked to him for a while. At this point at being in the airport we decided that we would just stay in the airport in the entire week, and that really broke my heart. I could not do that, but I did not say anything though. So after a few hours of talking with Matin and after he had bought us lunch he gave us his card and email and keep in touch. As he walked away my heart just broke, I wanted to cry. It was because I could not stay in the airport the whole week. I have to see culture and history and all of that. So I said to God, you know the desires of my heart, I can't be here the whole week. As soon as I said that, Matin comes walking back and shakes my hand one last time. When he did, he had slipped me 40 Euros. We needed 42 for the bus ticket. Sweet. Then randomly an Italain couple decided to give Robert 10 Euros. SO.....off to Barcelona we go. That was cool.

2-(funny story). I had to get up and move quickly to go down stairs. So I got up and right when I did I said to myself "I am about to fall over" and I did. My WHOLE right side of my body was asleep. As I walked I looked retartded and I am sure the cop there thought I was on drugs.

3- Met a crazy Dutch guy named Peter. He wanted to help us and all he had was 10 euros. He kept 2 for himself for a bus ticket and gave the rest to us. He was a super passionate man that drives trucks for a living and also drives trucks for humanitarain aid.

4- Juan, a british man decided to take us out after meeting us. Then he found out what we were doing and he really wanted to bless as much as he could. Cool guy. Got to pray for each other. Oh and then he took us out for coffee also.

5-Met a guy named Gary from England. He has been to 84 different countries. All over the world. Got to pray for his almost completly dead liver, and as we prayed, he could felt warmth coming into and it freaked him out.

6- Went to Girona for a night, ended up on top of a castle over the whole city. Felt like God had said this is for you. : ) so that was beautiful.

7- Met two Chinese Christians who really were cool. They wanted to bless us and buy us some food. Which was nice.

8- When I was in the bathroom, I was like I had a dream about being here with these people and so on. When I walk out of the bathroom, I am going to meet Gary. As soon as I walked out of the bathroom and sat down, Gary came walking up to me. Cool.

9- Met 33 different nationalities. From Mexico to Australia to China.

10- Sat through a Spainish Catholic mass....which was super cool to me. I loved it.

11- Talked to people for hours which was great! Not just ten min conversations. I think the longest one was 6 hours all together.

There are so many more stories, but I will leave you with those. Hope you enjoyed.

God is great!

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.