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loved man. They were saying that the
Bible works. So when I read “ask and
you will receive”, I thought: “let’s try
it”. Within weeks God had changed
my life, internally and externally! It
was like He was listening to every little
thing I was saying and cared to do it!
As the Bible says: “you have tasted that
the Lord is good” (1 Peter 2:3). This is
how God many times attracts us to
Himself. And this I will never forget. I
have passed through extreme difficult
times where God does not seem to be
anywhere around. Prolonged months
and years of wilderness. In those times
I go back to those early days and to the
miracles God has done in my life and
take refuge there. Walking with the
Lord is not always easy. Persecution
will arise, even from Christians! Let’s
not forget: “small is the way and
narrow the path”. At the same time
God never leaves us nor forsakes us.
As I have come to know: Life is hard,
sometimes very hard, but God is good.
Both are true!
B: You've stated you're an econo-
mist by education, with several years
of expertise in that field. How do you
manage to juggle your job with your
work in JBA and with your family?
last book was written in the train going
to work. Basically all that I did the
last years was done in the train and
very early in the morning. In the past,
before 2004, I was using the full wee-
kend. 20 years ago in my army service
I was carrying a desktop (there were
no laptops at that time) in my luggage
and was sending the new articles from
primitive internet cafes. With the fa-
mily obligations things are even more
difficult but it is the way it is. In any
case, I’m just one of millions of God’s
people. If I don’t have the time to write
something because of work or family
obligations then somebody else will
do. It is so in the body!
B: What led you to write a book?
Do you plan to write more?
AK: Sometime in 2008 I moved
from writing relatively short messages
based on a topic to writing moved
by “burdens” I had. I consider the
last book, “the warnings of the New
Testament”, the most important of
what I have written. It was a burden I
was carrying 6-7 years before I wrote
it. Sometimes a topic is in my heart
and mind for years before I pick up the
keyboard to write about it.
AK: It is a challenge all the way
through. It was like this always. The
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