Tuesday, February 27, 2007
No Brain, No Heaven???
I was just wondering whether our heavenly Father is concerned about our intelligence? I am curious about it's significance to the Father regarding whether we are wise, knowledgeable or intelligent.
Will the Almighty I AM be impressed with our wisdom, knowledge and intelligence?
I remembered reading in the Bible teaching us to trust in Jesus Christ, our Saviour. That's about all we were required to do.
I am concerned and worried about those who are mentally challenged, and those who suffered other disabilities. Will these people ever get to share fellowship with the heavenly Father someday? Perhaps they needed knowledge too?
Just to refresh your so called Bible knowledgeable mind about knowledge, that it was because of man's desire for wisdom to be equal to God that causes our downfall. The serpent told Eve in Genesis 3:5 that our eyes will be opened and we will be like God knowing both good and evil. And again in Genesis 11 when God scattered man because man wanted to be famous (verse 4) for building the tower of Babel. In both scenario, God displayed His detest for man's wisdom.
In truth the Father is after the guileless personality that's in a child in each of us. The Father wanted us to trust Him alone, in Christ our Saviour.
Because of this, I will do wonders among these hypocrites. I will show that human wisdom is foolish and even the most brilliant people lack understanding." Isaiah 29:14
1 Corinthians 2:5, I did this so that you might trust the power of God rather than human wisdom.
Are we supposed to despise knowledge?
Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7 explained that when we honor God, the Almighty I AM, knowledge and wisdom will develop in us. God shall then provided Himself as our understanding to His wisdom. His understanding to His wisdom will guide us to live our earthly lives for His honor and glory.
Besides godly wisdom, human wisdom engendered our spiritual development.
The greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow. And that's how Solomon expresses his frustration acquiring wisdom and knowledge in Ecclesiastes 1:18
There has to be a reason why Jesus remarked that those who are child like will live with the Father forever. If our Father is in control, do we need more knowledge which is redundant.
So what does it take to remain with our Saviour?
Know and acknowledge that He is God, the Father and Saviour!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Oops! Sorry! Forgive Me, I Wasn't Aware Of Your Warnings!
Where do you think is the most appropriate place for Satan to work his lies and deception on Christians?
Sorry! But I am not going to answer the above question. How about asking the Holy Spirit, gifted you by our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ.
Perhaps the following Holy Scriptures may edify you.
Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from what we believe; they will follow lying spirits and teachings that come from demons. 1 Timothy 4:1
He will brag and oppose everything that is holy or sacred. He will even sit in God's temple and claim to be God. 2 Thessalonians 2:4
And please do read up the entire chapter 2 of 2 Thessalonians and 1 John 4:1-6.
But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you all things, and what he teaches is true – it is not a lie. So continue in what he has taught you, and continue to live in Christ. 1 John 2:27
Be circumspect over your pastors, teachers, your church and those who are accountable to our heavenly Father for your spiritual well being. Remember that every worker who have committed their lives to serve our Lord Saviour possess abilities equipped by the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who filled us to do every good work for the Father's honor and glory. We are asked to recognize and identify the presence of our Saviour in these workers. John 10:4, My sheep knows and recognized my voice.
When the Holy Spirit lives in us, the Light and Truth will expose the charms, seduction, and bewitching lies and deceptions of the evil one, including the works of his servants.
Without the presence of Christ's Spirit in us, we are ineffective and insufficient. The Holy Spirit was gifted to guard and protect us, the sons of the Living I AM, made worthy by the blood of His Son, our Saviour Jesus at the cross. By His grace and mercy in His unfailing love, we were redeemed, priceless to our Loving Father!
Ever stopped, paused and wondered what Jesus meant in his teachings to us, as he constantly endure worries and distress, guarding over our salvation, our spiritual birthright through Him.
Jesus Christ, our Saviour unceasingly cautioned us about false prophets, false teachings, and false doctrines level at us by the evil one as we approached the last days. Evil, lies, deceptions and darkness will continue to breed in the midst of Christ's church, his family.
Allow me to conclude by mentioning the following verses from Matthew 24:23-25, Mark 13:21-23 and John 16:1-4, "Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Messiah,' or 'There he is,' don't pay any attention. For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great miraculous signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God's chosen ones. Watch out, I have warned you about this ahead of time!"
Indeed, we have been warned!
Sorry! But I am not going to answer the above question. How about asking the Holy Spirit, gifted you by our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ.
Perhaps the following Holy Scriptures may edify you.
Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from what we believe; they will follow lying spirits and teachings that come from demons. 1 Timothy 4:1
He will brag and oppose everything that is holy or sacred. He will even sit in God's temple and claim to be God. 2 Thessalonians 2:4
And please do read up the entire chapter 2 of 2 Thessalonians and 1 John 4:1-6.
But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you all things, and what he teaches is true – it is not a lie. So continue in what he has taught you, and continue to live in Christ. 1 John 2:27
Be circumspect over your pastors, teachers, your church and those who are accountable to our heavenly Father for your spiritual well being. Remember that every worker who have committed their lives to serve our Lord Saviour possess abilities equipped by the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who filled us to do every good work for the Father's honor and glory. We are asked to recognize and identify the presence of our Saviour in these workers. John 10:4, My sheep knows and recognized my voice.
When the Holy Spirit lives in us, the Light and Truth will expose the charms, seduction, and bewitching lies and deceptions of the evil one, including the works of his servants.
Without the presence of Christ's Spirit in us, we are ineffective and insufficient. The Holy Spirit was gifted to guard and protect us, the sons of the Living I AM, made worthy by the blood of His Son, our Saviour Jesus at the cross. By His grace and mercy in His unfailing love, we were redeemed, priceless to our Loving Father!
Ever stopped, paused and wondered what Jesus meant in his teachings to us, as he constantly endure worries and distress, guarding over our salvation, our spiritual birthright through Him.
Jesus Christ, our Saviour unceasingly cautioned us about false prophets, false teachings, and false doctrines level at us by the evil one as we approached the last days. Evil, lies, deceptions and darkness will continue to breed in the midst of Christ's church, his family.
Allow me to conclude by mentioning the following verses from Matthew 24:23-25, Mark 13:21-23 and John 16:1-4, "Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Messiah,' or 'There he is,' don't pay any attention. For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great miraculous signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God's chosen ones. Watch out, I have warned you about this ahead of time!"
Indeed, we have been warned!
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
An Everlasting Love: Nothing Can Separate His Love For Us
To a dear brother in Christ Jesus who is undergoing predicament.
May this short message brings you hope and encouragement to pursue our Saviour Jesus without end to answer your prayers to restore His wholesome goodness in your life.
God promised that He will take care of you because His promise in Hebrews 13:5 confirmed it, For He has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you."
May your troubled heart find peace and comfort in the knowledge that you are never alone. May our Saviour's presence ease your trembling spirit and give you rest. Our Lord knows how you feel and He is aware of your circumstances. Our Saviour Jesus, is ready to provide Himself to be your strength, your grace and your peace. He is there to cast sunlight into all your dark shadows, to send encouragement through the love of friends and family, and to replace your weariness with new hope.
Remember that our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus our Saviour, is your refuge, your hiding place and He is your guide, your hope and you need not be afraid.
No circumstances can block His love. No grief is too hard for Him to bear. No task is too difficult for Him to complete. When what you are feeling is simply too deep for words and nothing anyone does or says can provide you with the relief you need, our Saviour Jesus understands.
Our Saviour Jesus is your provider- today, tomorrow, and forever. And He loves you. Cast all your cares on Him....and believe.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow- not even the powers of hell can separate us from His love. No power in the sky above in the earth below- indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus our Saviour. Romans 8:38-39
May this short message brings you hope and encouragement to pursue our Saviour Jesus without end to answer your prayers to restore His wholesome goodness in your life.
God promised that He will take care of you because His promise in Hebrews 13:5 confirmed it, For He has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you."
May your troubled heart find peace and comfort in the knowledge that you are never alone. May our Saviour's presence ease your trembling spirit and give you rest. Our Lord knows how you feel and He is aware of your circumstances. Our Saviour Jesus, is ready to provide Himself to be your strength, your grace and your peace. He is there to cast sunlight into all your dark shadows, to send encouragement through the love of friends and family, and to replace your weariness with new hope.
Remember that our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus our Saviour, is your refuge, your hiding place and He is your guide, your hope and you need not be afraid.
No circumstances can block His love. No grief is too hard for Him to bear. No task is too difficult for Him to complete. When what you are feeling is simply too deep for words and nothing anyone does or says can provide you with the relief you need, our Saviour Jesus understands.
Our Saviour Jesus is your provider- today, tomorrow, and forever. And He loves you. Cast all your cares on Him....and believe.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow- not even the powers of hell can separate us from His love. No power in the sky above in the earth below- indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus our Saviour. Romans 8:38-39
Sunday, February 11, 2007
The Angel In You And The Devil In Me!
Over lunch, a close friend, Ann Gee boasted that she never misses attendance on Sunday church!
Thanks to her statement, allowing me the opportunity to rant about church attendance, something I wanted to do for a long time. I am brassed off by the constant harassing practiced by many inconsiderate, desperate Christians who are trying too hard to please their church leaders, simultaneously boasting to their church mates how fruitful they are by luring people to attend their various church services.
I could literally hear 2.5 billion "Christians" screaming I am guilty of blasphemy and should be nailed to the cross!. As a Christian myself, how could I betray my own belief and faith? In opening, I already exclaimed that I have wanted to rant about this for a long time.
Most Christians view church attendance with critical importance but failed terribly when it concerns attending to people especially those who are with financial needs. I am bored with the rationale that the church is imperfect! So, when does it start working towards perfection?
Owing to her near perfect attendance on Sundays, Ann believed that her heaven bound destination is undeniably secured. People like me, she is worried, might not even get the opportunity to just stand outside the gates of heaven and peek inside.
"So you are the angel and I am the devil?", I quipped.
On a more serious note, I want to share that Christian living is not about going to Church on Sundays. And this statement is going to raise unnecessary controversial ~frown~
Throughout the Bible, we were asked to be obedient to Christ's teachings and lived a life to honor and glorify our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus.
I broach this to her, asking whether she is also mindful when attending to pleas for various support by her brothers/sisters in Christ and non believers? Do you bolt without a doubt and hesitation to a brother/sister or a non believer's adversity?
Our Lord Saviour, Jesus reminded us about being merciful in our way of life. Then there is also a reminder to apply His love, even in foolish situations, as evidence that His love for us on the cross was not in vain. What I meant is, when our Saviour obediently went to the cross, he did not question the Father whether he is dying for friends or enemies? If we hear clearly from the Holy Spirit gifted to us and live in our hearts to guide, teach, counsel, protect and comfort us, we should obey without any doubts.
What is important is whether we obey the teachings of Jesus. As Christians, I believed the most important rule is to do what Jesus has taught us. Our Saviour expect our lifestyle to bring honor and glory to our heavenly Father. Our Christian lifestyle should be above the benchmark of ordinary people.
I told Ann that she may be going to Church everyday for the rest of her life, but if she do not show mercy in situations demanded of it, then she is still nothing. In fact I quoted 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 only in my last post. It's all about ministering to people with love and humility that will please God, our Father and Father of our Saviour Jesus.
The Devil is not intimidated by what we know and how much we know about the Bible, how regular we attend Church, but I am confident we will rocked the Devil by how we obey and apply the teachings of Jesus in our daily earthly lives. It's our lifestyle ministering in His love and humility towards others that will cause the Devil to tremble.
Ann Gee wasn't happy when I mentioned this: How can Christians shake and rock the Devil when most of our Christian lifestyle strayed from what our Lord has taught us? I questioned further about whether as a Church we ministered to each other with the true love and humility of Christ that is alive in our hearts?
While attending church is of extreme importance; The biggie question is do we congregate as a church in His love and humility where Christ is the Head or do we just congregate to worship and failed in every other departments of His teachings.
As a Church, do we care for each other because each of us belongs to the bigger body or are most of us fakes where we live selfishly apart from each other? Do we boast about our perfect attendance in our church services but failed miserably when the demand to minister with love and humility to our brothers/sisters and pagans?
Those who are knitted into the body of Christ care for each other with the love and humility of our Saviour Jesus Christ because we know we are One in Him!
Allow me to add another question: Are we living in His truth? How much do we understand about Church which is the body of Christ, our Saviour?
Thanks to her statement, allowing me the opportunity to rant about church attendance, something I wanted to do for a long time. I am brassed off by the constant harassing practiced by many inconsiderate, desperate Christians who are trying too hard to please their church leaders, simultaneously boasting to their church mates how fruitful they are by luring people to attend their various church services.
I could literally hear 2.5 billion "Christians" screaming I am guilty of blasphemy and should be nailed to the cross!. As a Christian myself, how could I betray my own belief and faith? In opening, I already exclaimed that I have wanted to rant about this for a long time.
Most Christians view church attendance with critical importance but failed terribly when it concerns attending to people especially those who are with financial needs. I am bored with the rationale that the church is imperfect! So, when does it start working towards perfection?
Owing to her near perfect attendance on Sundays, Ann believed that her heaven bound destination is undeniably secured. People like me, she is worried, might not even get the opportunity to just stand outside the gates of heaven and peek inside.
"So you are the angel and I am the devil?", I quipped.
On a more serious note, I want to share that Christian living is not about going to Church on Sundays. And this statement is going to raise unnecessary controversial ~frown~
Throughout the Bible, we were asked to be obedient to Christ's teachings and lived a life to honor and glorify our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus.
I broach this to her, asking whether she is also mindful when attending to pleas for various support by her brothers/sisters in Christ and non believers? Do you bolt without a doubt and hesitation to a brother/sister or a non believer's adversity?
Our Lord Saviour, Jesus reminded us about being merciful in our way of life. Then there is also a reminder to apply His love, even in foolish situations, as evidence that His love for us on the cross was not in vain. What I meant is, when our Saviour obediently went to the cross, he did not question the Father whether he is dying for friends or enemies? If we hear clearly from the Holy Spirit gifted to us and live in our hearts to guide, teach, counsel, protect and comfort us, we should obey without any doubts.
What is important is whether we obey the teachings of Jesus. As Christians, I believed the most important rule is to do what Jesus has taught us. Our Saviour expect our lifestyle to bring honor and glory to our heavenly Father. Our Christian lifestyle should be above the benchmark of ordinary people.
I told Ann that she may be going to Church everyday for the rest of her life, but if she do not show mercy in situations demanded of it, then she is still nothing. In fact I quoted 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 only in my last post. It's all about ministering to people with love and humility that will please God, our Father and Father of our Saviour Jesus.
The Devil is not intimidated by what we know and how much we know about the Bible, how regular we attend Church, but I am confident we will rocked the Devil by how we obey and apply the teachings of Jesus in our daily earthly lives. It's our lifestyle ministering in His love and humility towards others that will cause the Devil to tremble.
Ann Gee wasn't happy when I mentioned this: How can Christians shake and rock the Devil when most of our Christian lifestyle strayed from what our Lord has taught us? I questioned further about whether as a Church we ministered to each other with the true love and humility of Christ that is alive in our hearts?
While attending church is of extreme importance; The biggie question is do we congregate as a church in His love and humility where Christ is the Head or do we just congregate to worship and failed in every other departments of His teachings.
As a Church, do we care for each other because each of us belongs to the bigger body or are most of us fakes where we live selfishly apart from each other? Do we boast about our perfect attendance in our church services but failed miserably when the demand to minister with love and humility to our brothers/sisters and pagans?
Those who are knitted into the body of Christ care for each other with the love and humility of our Saviour Jesus Christ because we know we are One in Him!
Allow me to add another question: Are we living in His truth? How much do we understand about Church which is the body of Christ, our Saviour?
Friday, February 09, 2007
Love Reigns!
Daily, I encounter people from every walk disputing about what they know, people remonstrating about issues, bickering over what's right and wrong, boasting over what they know because of who they thought they are, and the record goes on.
People dispute over everything, and taking center stage could most probably be religion. Even among its own group of believers, people bickered over how well they could interpret the text of each religion's teachings.
As a Christian who sits at the feet of my Saviour Jesus who teaches me everyday, I've learned that the most important role of a true Christian is to live our earthly life, touching other lives filled with Christ love in our hearts. Without love, we cannot please God, our heavenly Father and Father of our Saviour Jesus because our Father is love.
I wrote a fortnight ago that a true Christian is someone who not only carry his own cross but also the cross of others. Repeatedly throughout Scripture, we were reminded of love, and to love, and the highest priority, is to love our enemies like ourselves. Without love as the pre-eminent fruit of our accomplishment, we are nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 expounded our Saviour's stipulation with clarity to those who wished to be His followers. If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains but didn't love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
We can talk and talk and do and do until eternity, but if Christ's love is not in our accomplishment, everything is futile. In truth, as Christians, all we needed is to equip ourselves with Christ's love in the gifting of the Holy Spirit to live our earthly lives. We may spend a lot of time accumulating knowledge, but if our lives are not lived by the fillings of Christ love, we lived in vain for Him.
For when we were still sinners, our heavenly Father overwhelmed with love for us, His children created out of His own hands, came as a man in Jesus to die for us so that we can be sons of the Living God.
Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his only begotten son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love- not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends since God loved us so much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and His love is brought to full expression in us. And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.
1 John 4:7-13
Thank you Lord Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ aka Greatest Valentine of mankind whose love for us is eternal.
Happy Valentines Day!
People dispute over everything, and taking center stage could most probably be religion. Even among its own group of believers, people bickered over how well they could interpret the text of each religion's teachings.
As a Christian who sits at the feet of my Saviour Jesus who teaches me everyday, I've learned that the most important role of a true Christian is to live our earthly life, touching other lives filled with Christ love in our hearts. Without love, we cannot please God, our heavenly Father and Father of our Saviour Jesus because our Father is love.
I wrote a fortnight ago that a true Christian is someone who not only carry his own cross but also the cross of others. Repeatedly throughout Scripture, we were reminded of love, and to love, and the highest priority, is to love our enemies like ourselves. Without love as the pre-eminent fruit of our accomplishment, we are nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 expounded our Saviour's stipulation with clarity to those who wished to be His followers. If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains but didn't love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
We can talk and talk and do and do until eternity, but if Christ's love is not in our accomplishment, everything is futile. In truth, as Christians, all we needed is to equip ourselves with Christ's love in the gifting of the Holy Spirit to live our earthly lives. We may spend a lot of time accumulating knowledge, but if our lives are not lived by the fillings of Christ love, we lived in vain for Him.
For when we were still sinners, our heavenly Father overwhelmed with love for us, His children created out of His own hands, came as a man in Jesus to die for us so that we can be sons of the Living God.
Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his only begotten son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love- not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends since God loved us so much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and His love is brought to full expression in us. And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.
1 John 4:7-13
Thank you Lord Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ aka Greatest Valentine of mankind whose love for us is eternal.
Happy Valentines Day!
Friday, February 02, 2007
Shhhh! Don't Tell The Pastor!
Wandering among the maze of various games tables inside the casino looking for my parent's friend, I glimpsed a familiar face. It was a Church elder I knew personally. I approached his game table, totally ignorant that he is gambling, to greet him. He was horrified to see me, never expecting my presence there.
Beckoning me to edge closer to him, he wanted to whisper into my ears, feeling uneasy and suspicious of the surrounding people eavesdropping.
Shhhh! Please remember don't exposed me in Church, especially the Pastor!
"Huh! I thought you are aware that God is staring down on you from His throne up in heaven?", I replied nonchalantly!
"You don't fear God who can destroy your soul but man who can do nothing to you", I apprise him with a slightly raised voice. I proceeded to remind him of a familiar verse in Hebrew 4:13.
Nothing in all creation can hide from him. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes. This is the God to whom we must explain all that we have done. Hebrew 4:13
I wanted to mention another incident which happened some years ago when I was still a rebellious Christian. I was visiting a Christian brother to pick up a novel he borrowed. He stayed with his parents in an apartment. When I arrived at his residence, I knocked and pushed the door bell, but failed to receive any response.
After a couple more knocks and attempts at the door bell and still unsuccessful with any answers, I started to walk away, exasperated! I was about five steps away from the door when I heard a soft click. I turned around and spotted my friend peeping out from the side of the door. I was about to raise my voice and asked him what took him so long to answer when my friend shoo me and beckoned me to him.
Almost whispering, he told me that he was watching pornography in his room, thus missed hearing my knocks and the door chime. He articulated to me that he make sure his room door was tightly secured and the volume from the television was lowered.
I smiled and look upward towards the ceiling, followed with this question to him, " Hey! Do you think God can hear and see what you were doing from up there, through the ceiling?"
It's funny how we try hiding our wrong doings from man but forgotten that God is always keeping watch over us.
The next time if you are planning to do something bad, remember to look up instead of looking around you! Make sure you are safe from God's watchful eyes!
I guessed you must be wondering what was I doing in the casino? I brought my parents and their friends to watch an opera performance, staged at one of the casino theater, by a renown opera troupe from Hong Kong. I went into the casino to look for my mum's friends who had slipped away from us to try their luck at some of the games tables.
Beckoning me to edge closer to him, he wanted to whisper into my ears, feeling uneasy and suspicious of the surrounding people eavesdropping.
Shhhh! Please remember don't exposed me in Church, especially the Pastor!
"Huh! I thought you are aware that God is staring down on you from His throne up in heaven?", I replied nonchalantly!
"You don't fear God who can destroy your soul but man who can do nothing to you", I apprise him with a slightly raised voice. I proceeded to remind him of a familiar verse in Hebrew 4:13.
Nothing in all creation can hide from him. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes. This is the God to whom we must explain all that we have done. Hebrew 4:13
I wanted to mention another incident which happened some years ago when I was still a rebellious Christian. I was visiting a Christian brother to pick up a novel he borrowed. He stayed with his parents in an apartment. When I arrived at his residence, I knocked and pushed the door bell, but failed to receive any response.
After a couple more knocks and attempts at the door bell and still unsuccessful with any answers, I started to walk away, exasperated! I was about five steps away from the door when I heard a soft click. I turned around and spotted my friend peeping out from the side of the door. I was about to raise my voice and asked him what took him so long to answer when my friend shoo me and beckoned me to him.
Almost whispering, he told me that he was watching pornography in his room, thus missed hearing my knocks and the door chime. He articulated to me that he make sure his room door was tightly secured and the volume from the television was lowered.
I smiled and look upward towards the ceiling, followed with this question to him, " Hey! Do you think God can hear and see what you were doing from up there, through the ceiling?"
It's funny how we try hiding our wrong doings from man but forgotten that God is always keeping watch over us.
The next time if you are planning to do something bad, remember to look up instead of looking around you! Make sure you are safe from God's watchful eyes!
I guessed you must be wondering what was I doing in the casino? I brought my parents and their friends to watch an opera performance, staged at one of the casino theater, by a renown opera troupe from Hong Kong. I went into the casino to look for my mum's friends who had slipped away from us to try their luck at some of the games tables.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Understanding Fellowship
What is fellowship? Define fellowship!
What's the difference between fellowship and socializing?
Are we confusing the connotation of fellowships and socializing?
Fellowship without the Holy Trinity is worldly; fellowship with the presence of the Holy Trinity is godly! Fellowship without the Holy Trinity is called PARTY; fellowship with the presence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is FAMILY REUNION!
When we fellowship, do we fellowship in Christ's presence or without? According to Christ's stipulation on fellowship, two person satisfy the conditions. And our Saviour Jesus promised His involvement in this simple fellowship. I believed our Saviour Jesus intentionally designed our fellowship in the simplest format. Two is more than enough. I believed our Saviour's intention is to produce effectively for two people to care, and love each other.
I used to explain to my children that if we, consisting only four people, cannot fellowship with love within the house, then how are we going to fellowship with love with others outside the house? There are only four in the house; there are 6.5 billion people out there! Similarly, if people don't love each other in their own house or within the body of Christ, how are we to love God's lost children outside the body? Or to put it plainly, if people don't love each other in the Church, how do you expect people to love others outside the Church? Take note that love is not just an expression by mouth, it must be accompanied by deeds!
And to put it bluntly, if outsiders view the Church with a lot of hypocrisy lifestyle how do they have the confident in you, and Jesus Christ to join the family?
The purpose of fellowship is to encourage and support each other usually in times of trouble, sorrow, distress, moments of unhappiness. Of course, fellowship also involves a celebration of sorts at times and not only in tragic moments. Fellowship must relate to forging closer ties with each other.
What is truthfully fellowship? Let's examine true fellowship in the story of Job.
When three of Job's friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words. Job 2:11-13
Now what can we learned from the above fellowship? True fellowship is about esprit de corps that allow the overwhelming love of Christ to rule over us. Fellowship is about being there together to share the emotional status of a brother/sister in Christ or just an ordinary friend, or better, an enemy!
Fellowship is about allowing Jesus Christ, our Saviour to manifest His presence in an assembly. Fellowship is about allowing the love of Christ to fill a congregation and experience Him in us. Fellowship is when we gathered together and the ability to see our Saviour Jesus in everyone around us. Fellowship is when people experiencing the joy of the Saviour's love touching them.
Hebrews 10:25, And let's not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of our Saviour Jesus' return is drawing near. How do you want to interpret this verse? Yes, we must not neglect meeting together and more importantly we must stay put when confronted with problems. We must not turn deserters in times of troubles! Because when trouble or persecution arises and everyone disappears, then the true meaning of fellowship becomes a mockery.
We are One in the body of our Saviour Jesus! We are members of His body, the Church! While we should not neglect meeting together, our fellowship must not be intimidated by the presence of trouble, and persecutions that exist in us because we belong to Christ. We fellowship by His strength and His wisdom. We fellowship in Him.
Fellowship is not about a social function where we congregate, eat, talk and maybe pray. While it is important to remind ourselves to be in contact with our friends, we must not be forgetful about omitting our Saviour's presence in our fellowship. Encouragement is not through words alone but must be accompanied by deeds. It's not about expressing I Love You without responsibilities. It's not about some hugging and maybe some smooching! It's about Christ's love filling us to reach out and touch lives.
(Reprise) While it is important to fellowship, more important its not about just being together for meals but sticking together encouraging and supporting in times of persecutions.
True fellowship is a relationship bonded by Christ love that fills it.
When our heavenly Father who is filled with an overwhelming love for us, says I Love You, He did not just say it with words but He came and suffered on the cross punishing Himself by bearing all our wrongdoing.
So what is fellowship? And how do you define fellowship?
I define it as such: Fellowship is drawing strength from our Saviour Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to aid us to carry the cross of Christ worst enemies. It's not only about our own cross. It's about our cross!
Christ has shown us that while we were still sinners, He came to carry our cross!
What's the difference between fellowship and socializing?
Are we confusing the connotation of fellowships and socializing?
Fellowship without the Holy Trinity is worldly; fellowship with the presence of the Holy Trinity is godly! Fellowship without the Holy Trinity is called PARTY; fellowship with the presence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is FAMILY REUNION!
When we fellowship, do we fellowship in Christ's presence or without? According to Christ's stipulation on fellowship, two person satisfy the conditions. And our Saviour Jesus promised His involvement in this simple fellowship. I believed our Saviour Jesus intentionally designed our fellowship in the simplest format. Two is more than enough. I believed our Saviour's intention is to produce effectively for two people to care, and love each other.
I used to explain to my children that if we, consisting only four people, cannot fellowship with love within the house, then how are we going to fellowship with love with others outside the house? There are only four in the house; there are 6.5 billion people out there! Similarly, if people don't love each other in their own house or within the body of Christ, how are we to love God's lost children outside the body? Or to put it plainly, if people don't love each other in the Church, how do you expect people to love others outside the Church? Take note that love is not just an expression by mouth, it must be accompanied by deeds!
And to put it bluntly, if outsiders view the Church with a lot of hypocrisy lifestyle how do they have the confident in you, and Jesus Christ to join the family?
The purpose of fellowship is to encourage and support each other usually in times of trouble, sorrow, distress, moments of unhappiness. Of course, fellowship also involves a celebration of sorts at times and not only in tragic moments. Fellowship must relate to forging closer ties with each other.
What is truthfully fellowship? Let's examine true fellowship in the story of Job.
When three of Job's friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words. Job 2:11-13
Now what can we learned from the above fellowship? True fellowship is about esprit de corps that allow the overwhelming love of Christ to rule over us. Fellowship is about being there together to share the emotional status of a brother/sister in Christ or just an ordinary friend, or better, an enemy!
Fellowship is about allowing Jesus Christ, our Saviour to manifest His presence in an assembly. Fellowship is about allowing the love of Christ to fill a congregation and experience Him in us. Fellowship is when we gathered together and the ability to see our Saviour Jesus in everyone around us. Fellowship is when people experiencing the joy of the Saviour's love touching them.
Hebrews 10:25, And let's not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of our Saviour Jesus' return is drawing near. How do you want to interpret this verse? Yes, we must not neglect meeting together and more importantly we must stay put when confronted with problems. We must not turn deserters in times of troubles! Because when trouble or persecution arises and everyone disappears, then the true meaning of fellowship becomes a mockery.
We are One in the body of our Saviour Jesus! We are members of His body, the Church! While we should not neglect meeting together, our fellowship must not be intimidated by the presence of trouble, and persecutions that exist in us because we belong to Christ. We fellowship by His strength and His wisdom. We fellowship in Him.
Fellowship is not about a social function where we congregate, eat, talk and maybe pray. While it is important to remind ourselves to be in contact with our friends, we must not be forgetful about omitting our Saviour's presence in our fellowship. Encouragement is not through words alone but must be accompanied by deeds. It's not about expressing I Love You without responsibilities. It's not about some hugging and maybe some smooching! It's about Christ's love filling us to reach out and touch lives.
(Reprise) While it is important to fellowship, more important its not about just being together for meals but sticking together encouraging and supporting in times of persecutions.
True fellowship is a relationship bonded by Christ love that fills it.
When our heavenly Father who is filled with an overwhelming love for us, says I Love You, He did not just say it with words but He came and suffered on the cross punishing Himself by bearing all our wrongdoing.
So what is fellowship? And how do you define fellowship?
I define it as such: Fellowship is drawing strength from our Saviour Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to aid us to carry the cross of Christ worst enemies. It's not only about our own cross. It's about our cross!
Christ has shown us that while we were still sinners, He came to carry our cross!
Saturday, January 20, 2007
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother!
Dearest Lord Jesus, help me today by your strength in the Holy Spirit, gifted to help me live my earthly life to honor and glorify you, not only to carry my own cross but also the cross of those you sent into my life. Amen.
When my Saviour Jesus lives in me, I am filled by His strength and wisdom in His unfailing love and humility to do every good work that belongs to my heavenly Father.
The sun was just rearing it's light over the horizon, making it's presence for another new day when my mobile rang. The call belong to a fellow brother currently in some deep financial misfortune. He wanted a hundred ringgit for food and transport to last until his payday month end. He just started working.
I dug deep into my pockets, struggling hard, I managed to haul up my last two hundred ringgit supposedly to last 10 more days to end month, looked towards heaven, gave thanks and asked my Saviour Jesus to bless it, reply via short messages on my mobile to my brother that he could collect the hundred ringgit anytime.
Honestly, I was doleful to part half of what's remaining, cognizant of running into problems arising from unforeseen circumstances. I battled to ask my Saviour Jesus for strength to give cheerfully and be victorious over my weakness of selfishness. Indeed in my Saviour Jesus, I have the victory; He lives in me to provide me His strength, wisdom in His love and humility.
Boy! It was a proud moment for me and I am certain my Saviour too. I feel certain I had place a smile on my Saviour's face.
Give to those who ask, and don't turn away from those who want to borrow. Matthew5:42
As a Christian, a privilege I proudly proclaim, I have learned to share everything I own because doing that means sharing Jesus and His love in my heart. Of course the ability to discharge this duty belong to the power of the Holy Spirit gifted me by Jesus. It is my Saviour Himself doing His own work through me.
Thank you Lord Jesus for teaching me not only to carry my own cross but also the cross for others because your love filled me with the ability.
I am but only a beacon for the Light!
When my Saviour Jesus lives in me, I am filled by His strength and wisdom in His unfailing love and humility to do every good work that belongs to my heavenly Father.
The sun was just rearing it's light over the horizon, making it's presence for another new day when my mobile rang. The call belong to a fellow brother currently in some deep financial misfortune. He wanted a hundred ringgit for food and transport to last until his payday month end. He just started working.
I dug deep into my pockets, struggling hard, I managed to haul up my last two hundred ringgit supposedly to last 10 more days to end month, looked towards heaven, gave thanks and asked my Saviour Jesus to bless it, reply via short messages on my mobile to my brother that he could collect the hundred ringgit anytime.
Honestly, I was doleful to part half of what's remaining, cognizant of running into problems arising from unforeseen circumstances. I battled to ask my Saviour Jesus for strength to give cheerfully and be victorious over my weakness of selfishness. Indeed in my Saviour Jesus, I have the victory; He lives in me to provide me His strength, wisdom in His love and humility.
Boy! It was a proud moment for me and I am certain my Saviour too. I feel certain I had place a smile on my Saviour's face.
Give to those who ask, and don't turn away from those who want to borrow. Matthew5:42
As a Christian, a privilege I proudly proclaim, I have learned to share everything I own because doing that means sharing Jesus and His love in my heart. Of course the ability to discharge this duty belong to the power of the Holy Spirit gifted me by Jesus. It is my Saviour Himself doing His own work through me.
Thank you Lord Jesus for teaching me not only to carry my own cross but also the cross for others because your love filled me with the ability.
I am but only a beacon for the Light!
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
From Proton To Ferrari
Ah Huat unconsciously scratched his head unceasingly and mumbled to himself wondering how a Proton car could be transformed into a Ferrari. "Is it possible?", he asked. "Okay I want to hear your theory how that is possible."
It all started when a Malaysian made Proton car which had undergone heavy modification drove up to park where we were sitting. We were waiting for our chicken rice to be served while seated on the five foot way in downtown Kuala Lumpur. I threw Ah Huat a silly question by asking him to identify the make of the Proton that drove up to us???
"Aiyah! Even the blind and dumb can recognize it's a Proton lah." he answered with a sense of pride because he was known among our circle of friends for not being 'bright'.
"Wah! You so intelligent ya!" I replied.
Modestly he answered, "No lah! Anyone also can see it's a Proton mah!"
I threw him the mother of all questions. It started him scratching his head trying to figure out the possibility of such a transformation before answering me. I asked him whether a Proton can be transformed into a Ferrari!
"Can meh!?", he asked looking at me with a 'Ya! I know I am dumb' look.
My Chief Mechanic convinced me that it is possible. I am only to put my absolute trust in him.
Every Sunday if I am to drive my Proton car to his workshop and trust him to replace a Proton part with a Ferrari part. Eureka! After hundreds of visits, I finally drove home a Ferrari.
Unbelievable? Impossible?
Jesus Christ told his disciple that with God everything is possible. From a son of man to the son of God? It is not a problem to God, the Creator of heaven and earth.
We can be going to Church every Sunday but if we don't submit ourselves to be transformed by our Saviour's teachings, then we are going home the same person after every attendance. Every one of us was once a son of man. But the proviso required for entry into the Kingdom of God is that you must be a son of God transformed by the Holy Spirit. We are to put our trust and hope in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, the Messiah, the Saviour and Redeemer who went to the cross to redeem us from the wrath of the Father.
The Father is looking for the son in us; God is looking for the Jesus in us because Adam failed Him as a son. Adam was disobedient and Christ obedient.
We were born as Adam but we are to return as Christ.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:16
Read the Book of Romans chapter 5.
It all started when a Malaysian made Proton car which had undergone heavy modification drove up to park where we were sitting. We were waiting for our chicken rice to be served while seated on the five foot way in downtown Kuala Lumpur. I threw Ah Huat a silly question by asking him to identify the make of the Proton that drove up to us???
"Aiyah! Even the blind and dumb can recognize it's a Proton lah." he answered with a sense of pride because he was known among our circle of friends for not being 'bright'.
"Wah! You so intelligent ya!" I replied.
Modestly he answered, "No lah! Anyone also can see it's a Proton mah!"
I threw him the mother of all questions. It started him scratching his head trying to figure out the possibility of such a transformation before answering me. I asked him whether a Proton can be transformed into a Ferrari!
"Can meh!?", he asked looking at me with a 'Ya! I know I am dumb' look.
My Chief Mechanic convinced me that it is possible. I am only to put my absolute trust in him.
Every Sunday if I am to drive my Proton car to his workshop and trust him to replace a Proton part with a Ferrari part. Eureka! After hundreds of visits, I finally drove home a Ferrari.
Unbelievable? Impossible?
Jesus Christ told his disciple that with God everything is possible. From a son of man to the son of God? It is not a problem to God, the Creator of heaven and earth.
We can be going to Church every Sunday but if we don't submit ourselves to be transformed by our Saviour's teachings, then we are going home the same person after every attendance. Every one of us was once a son of man. But the proviso required for entry into the Kingdom of God is that you must be a son of God transformed by the Holy Spirit. We are to put our trust and hope in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, the Messiah, the Saviour and Redeemer who went to the cross to redeem us from the wrath of the Father.
The Father is looking for the son in us; God is looking for the Jesus in us because Adam failed Him as a son. Adam was disobedient and Christ obedient.
We were born as Adam but we are to return as Christ.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:16
Read the Book of Romans chapter 5.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Understanding Faith, Hope And Love
What is faith, hope and love in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God of Israel?
To me, faith in my Saviour means even though I have never seen Him, I know in my heart that He is truly my Saviour, the Son of the Living God, Creator of heaven and earth and that Jesus came to redeem me at the cross and His resurrection assured me with a hope that on the last day, my Saviour Jesus will bring me home safely to my loving heavenly Father.
No matter what people say about my Lord Jesus, the negative perspective of Him will never influence me from what I believe in my heart about my Saviour Jesus. When Jesus truly lives in your heart, you know He is real. When you live your life each day with Him, it's no longer faith, it's relationship! When a relationship exist between two people, faith no longer act as a bond to the relationship. The relationship itself is a bond between two people.
Faith is what you need to establish a relationship. And hope is what you need to grow a relationship. Finally, love plays the all important role in bonding the relationship.
Without faith, we cannot initiate a hope in a relationship where love queue right behind to complete the process.
Faith, hope and love are three main components that's most influential to sustain a relationship. 1 Corinthians 13:13 articulate appropriately, Faith, hope and love are three things that will last forever and the greatest of these is love.
Faith propels us to cling to a hope and hope push us to love. Love completes the process. Love binds everything together.
Love is the greatest because love is the foundation to faith and hope.
God has faith in us, sinners, that we will place our hope in His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Saviour to experience God's love for us at the cross. Faith draw us to God, in Jesus to hope in His only begotten Son to complete God's love for us in a relationship between a Father and His children.
Faith, hope and love must work in unity in our quest to live with our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour forever.
To me, faith in my Saviour means even though I have never seen Him, I know in my heart that He is truly my Saviour, the Son of the Living God, Creator of heaven and earth and that Jesus came to redeem me at the cross and His resurrection assured me with a hope that on the last day, my Saviour Jesus will bring me home safely to my loving heavenly Father.
No matter what people say about my Lord Jesus, the negative perspective of Him will never influence me from what I believe in my heart about my Saviour Jesus. When Jesus truly lives in your heart, you know He is real. When you live your life each day with Him, it's no longer faith, it's relationship! When a relationship exist between two people, faith no longer act as a bond to the relationship. The relationship itself is a bond between two people.
Faith is what you need to establish a relationship. And hope is what you need to grow a relationship. Finally, love plays the all important role in bonding the relationship.
Without faith, we cannot initiate a hope in a relationship where love queue right behind to complete the process.
Faith, hope and love are three main components that's most influential to sustain a relationship. 1 Corinthians 13:13 articulate appropriately, Faith, hope and love are three things that will last forever and the greatest of these is love.
Faith propels us to cling to a hope and hope push us to love. Love completes the process. Love binds everything together.
Love is the greatest because love is the foundation to faith and hope.
God has faith in us, sinners, that we will place our hope in His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Saviour to experience God's love for us at the cross. Faith draw us to God, in Jesus to hope in His only begotten Son to complete God's love for us in a relationship between a Father and His children.
Faith, hope and love must work in unity in our quest to live with our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour forever.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: A Requiem
No break-ups are pleasant.
Break-ups are definitely never easy. It's also the hardest choice to conclude.
Break-ups are so bad that when tears run out from your eyes, they draw up additional water from your bladder, convert them into partial tears and you sort of cry and urinate from your eyeballs, and when all sources of water are totally exhausted, then blood will ooze out of your eye balls, 22 seconds later you drop dead!
5 seconds after that, someone will revived you and because you ran out of tears, your eyes starts to shed shit!
Break-ups are unquestionably worse than death. In death, at least you knew it's gone forever but in break-ups, you can sense it's presence nearby!
Break-ups are torturing, mentally and physically.....mentally because it haunts you for life and physically because you are emotionally paralysed for all eternity.
Dogs are man's best friends, a truism many dog lovers sweared by. Today I discovered they are much more than just best friends. They are one in you and when you lose them, it's like a part of your limbs being torn away from you. I wonder whether the hurt will ever heal? Invisible wounds and invisible pain..that only God's amazing love can help you comprehend.
The relationship between dog and man is beyond any man's comprehension. Only God's wisdom can explain the love shared between a dog and it's owner. You find a piece of a dog's heart in the man and vice versa.
Goodbye to my dearest Terrorist and Dictator; Saddam and Hitler.
Goodbye is a much preferred word than farewell because it holds a hope that someday we meet again whereas farewell sounded so hopeless.
Even though I know we are separated, I can still feel the presence of your cheerful spirit accompanying my miserable solitude. When the wind blew, I was sure I felt one of your gentle loving licks and heard your soft yelping.
Perhaps our heart-rending parting will bring more joy to your new owners; I knew it will. I am convinced that your new life with these new owners is more joyous than your life with me. Honestly, I celebrate your new found joy with mixed emotions; in tears of joy and sadness (a bottle of champagne in one hand and a bottle of king cobra venom in the other hand).
I do not know whether to play Neil Sedaka's Breaking Up Is Hard To Do or The Slik's The Requiem? Or should I play Elton John's Candle In The Wind? Or maybe I should play The 3 Degrees When Will I See You Again to fill my grieving loss with a hope?
Strange, uncanny but true, my hands pulled out the cd of Love Me Love My Dog by Peter Shelley! ~Smiling~ I knew I have to let you guys go because I love you. You will suffer being with me.
I knew you are safe in the love of your new owners.
Peace and Love Always to my most Beloved Saddam and Hitler.
For the sake of remembrance, I am keeping a pee stained piece of cloth and a cube of your shit in an air tight crystal container. This container will be guarded 24 hours by a volunteer group of killer bees.
My apologies that I am not posting any photographs of Saddam and Hitler's because of their exceedingly swollen eyes.
In conclusion, I now solemnly trust my beloved into your hands and have faith that you will love them both in sickness and in health; in rich and in poor; in deep pee and in deep shit; till death do you part.
Love you always Saddam and Hitler.
Break-ups are definitely never easy. It's also the hardest choice to conclude.
Break-ups are so bad that when tears run out from your eyes, they draw up additional water from your bladder, convert them into partial tears and you sort of cry and urinate from your eyeballs, and when all sources of water are totally exhausted, then blood will ooze out of your eye balls, 22 seconds later you drop dead!
5 seconds after that, someone will revived you and because you ran out of tears, your eyes starts to shed shit!
Break-ups are unquestionably worse than death. In death, at least you knew it's gone forever but in break-ups, you can sense it's presence nearby!
Break-ups are torturing, mentally and physically.....mentally because it haunts you for life and physically because you are emotionally paralysed for all eternity.
Dogs are man's best friends, a truism many dog lovers sweared by. Today I discovered they are much more than just best friends. They are one in you and when you lose them, it's like a part of your limbs being torn away from you. I wonder whether the hurt will ever heal? Invisible wounds and invisible pain..that only God's amazing love can help you comprehend.
The relationship between dog and man is beyond any man's comprehension. Only God's wisdom can explain the love shared between a dog and it's owner. You find a piece of a dog's heart in the man and vice versa.
Goodbye to my dearest Terrorist and Dictator; Saddam and Hitler.
Goodbye is a much preferred word than farewell because it holds a hope that someday we meet again whereas farewell sounded so hopeless.
Even though I know we are separated, I can still feel the presence of your cheerful spirit accompanying my miserable solitude. When the wind blew, I was sure I felt one of your gentle loving licks and heard your soft yelping.
Perhaps our heart-rending parting will bring more joy to your new owners; I knew it will. I am convinced that your new life with these new owners is more joyous than your life with me. Honestly, I celebrate your new found joy with mixed emotions; in tears of joy and sadness (a bottle of champagne in one hand and a bottle of king cobra venom in the other hand).
I do not know whether to play Neil Sedaka's Breaking Up Is Hard To Do or The Slik's The Requiem? Or should I play Elton John's Candle In The Wind? Or maybe I should play The 3 Degrees When Will I See You Again to fill my grieving loss with a hope?
Strange, uncanny but true, my hands pulled out the cd of Love Me Love My Dog by Peter Shelley! ~Smiling~ I knew I have to let you guys go because I love you. You will suffer being with me.
I knew you are safe in the love of your new owners.
Peace and Love Always to my most Beloved Saddam and Hitler.
For the sake of remembrance, I am keeping a pee stained piece of cloth and a cube of your shit in an air tight crystal container. This container will be guarded 24 hours by a volunteer group of killer bees.
My apologies that I am not posting any photographs of Saddam and Hitler's because of their exceedingly swollen eyes.
In conclusion, I now solemnly trust my beloved into your hands and have faith that you will love them both in sickness and in health; in rich and in poor; in deep pee and in deep shit; till death do you part.
Love you always Saddam and Hitler.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
The Contrast
A man spoke with the Lord about selfishness and selflessness.
The Lord said to the man, "Come, I will show you what is selfishness."
They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of stew. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving.
Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer than their own arm that it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths. The suffering was terrible.
"Come, now I will show you what is selflessness," the Lord said after a while.
They entered another room, identical to the first - the pot of stew, the group of people, the same long-handled spoons. But there everyone was happy and well-nourished.
"I don't understand," said the man. "Why are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room and everything was the same?"
The Lord smiled, "Ah, it is simple," he said. "Here they have learned to feed each other."
The Lord said to the man, "Come, I will show you what is selfishness."
They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of stew. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving.
Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer than their own arm that it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths. The suffering was terrible.
"Come, now I will show you what is selflessness," the Lord said after a while.
They entered another room, identical to the first - the pot of stew, the group of people, the same long-handled spoons. But there everyone was happy and well-nourished.
"I don't understand," said the man. "Why are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room and everything was the same?"
The Lord smiled, "Ah, it is simple," he said. "Here they have learned to feed each other."
God Understands???
The cliche that God Understands Our Sins attracts a lot of doubt in truth whether God really understands why we sinned!
This statement is, evidently and inevitably directed at believers.
Assuming our heavenly Father understands the constant temptation by the Evil one to seduce us to sin, my question is whether we should succumbed to temptation and sin when God has gifted us the power of the Holy Spirit as our Guardian?
I found that Christians, who constantly does wrong, find comfort sheltering behind this cliche which is a blatant lie that God understand. But the momentous question in reality is whether God truly understand when we repeatedly sin against Him?
My friend, Bush, who is obsessed with pornography, retorted that God understood his sexual compulsions. But in the Book of Romans 6:1-2, it define otherwise, Well then, should we keep on doing wrong so that God can demonstrate more and more of His wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?
The honest truth is God could never, never understand why we continuously repeat our sins. After all He has provided us an escape route when we are confronted by temptations. Thank God for establishing a get away in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour! When we are tempted to do wrong, we essentially muster all our strength to cry to our Saviour Jesus, who will shield us, by equipping us with His strength to run and hide in Him.
Sometime ago, at a dinner gathering, I overheard this conversation between a couple of ladies, presumably "Christians": "Oh! Once we are Christians, worry no more for our sins will undergo automatic cleansing by the blood of our Saviour, shed on the cross for us?" Huh!
"But we are imperfect" defended the constant sinner.
I believed that God truly understand about the Devil's persistent in attacking us to do wrong and enrage our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus. And the solution God has given us is learning to cry out to Him in Jesus' Name so that He could provide us with His strength to run away from doing wrong. The solution is not repeatedly doing wrong and provide comfort assuring ourselves that God will understands and forgive us. And even if God is merciful towards our wrong-doing, let us remind ourselves that we must refrained from repetitions of our sins.
Yes, if the Devil continue hurling us with temptations, we'll keep on running until the Devil is exhausted and gave up attacking us. That's how we claimed Christ's victory for us!
Those who proclaimed Jesus Christ the Saviour, the son of the Living God is never safe from temptation until we are back home at the bosom of our Loving heavenly Father.
Meanwhile, together with the Holy Spirit gifted you, be watchful over every step and every breath you take. Temptation will never abandon the Devil's objective, knocking on the door of your spiritual life every second, seducing you to do wrong!
However, don't fret for our Saviour is alive in us to provide Himself as our hiding place.
May our Saviour Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit constantly watch and guard you because you are a son of the Living God of Israel.
This statement is, evidently and inevitably directed at believers.
Assuming our heavenly Father understands the constant temptation by the Evil one to seduce us to sin, my question is whether we should succumbed to temptation and sin when God has gifted us the power of the Holy Spirit as our Guardian?
I found that Christians, who constantly does wrong, find comfort sheltering behind this cliche which is a blatant lie that God understand. But the momentous question in reality is whether God truly understand when we repeatedly sin against Him?
My friend, Bush, who is obsessed with pornography, retorted that God understood his sexual compulsions. But in the Book of Romans 6:1-2, it define otherwise, Well then, should we keep on doing wrong so that God can demonstrate more and more of His wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?
The honest truth is God could never, never understand why we continuously repeat our sins. After all He has provided us an escape route when we are confronted by temptations. Thank God for establishing a get away in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour! When we are tempted to do wrong, we essentially muster all our strength to cry to our Saviour Jesus, who will shield us, by equipping us with His strength to run and hide in Him.
Sometime ago, at a dinner gathering, I overheard this conversation between a couple of ladies, presumably "Christians": "Oh! Once we are Christians, worry no more for our sins will undergo automatic cleansing by the blood of our Saviour, shed on the cross for us?" Huh!
"But we are imperfect" defended the constant sinner.
I believed that God truly understand about the Devil's persistent in attacking us to do wrong and enrage our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus. And the solution God has given us is learning to cry out to Him in Jesus' Name so that He could provide us with His strength to run away from doing wrong. The solution is not repeatedly doing wrong and provide comfort assuring ourselves that God will understands and forgive us. And even if God is merciful towards our wrong-doing, let us remind ourselves that we must refrained from repetitions of our sins.
Yes, if the Devil continue hurling us with temptations, we'll keep on running until the Devil is exhausted and gave up attacking us. That's how we claimed Christ's victory for us!
Those who proclaimed Jesus Christ the Saviour, the son of the Living God is never safe from temptation until we are back home at the bosom of our Loving heavenly Father.
Meanwhile, together with the Holy Spirit gifted you, be watchful over every step and every breath you take. Temptation will never abandon the Devil's objective, knocking on the door of your spiritual life every second, seducing you to do wrong!
However, don't fret for our Saviour is alive in us to provide Himself as our hiding place.
May our Saviour Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit constantly watch and guard you because you are a son of the Living God of Israel.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
The Fearsome Despicable Terrorists Twins!
I command you to salute and say hello to the world's most fearsome, brutal, tyrannical, and despicable terrorists....Hitler and Saddam, aka the world's most celebrated and lovable terrorist puppies!
Look at their killer look face. Their bark are so ferocious and bloodthirsty; the trademarks of a true terrorist.
Today, Hitler and Saddam brought down the Christmas tree, shit a mile long and pee til the neighbors thought our house spotted a burst pipe. Besides these minor catastrophe, shoes, cushions, carpets, and various household articles were damaged beyond repair and rescue. Apocalypse will begin from my house!
It baffles me how 2 microscopic creature could produce such a heap of shit and a reservoir of pee unless they were bought from FOS Store! FOS Store? What's that?
FULL OF SHIT!
Man are created from dust and puppies must be from shit. Okay enough of the poop talk.
My focus today is about my walk with Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour. When I completely trust my Saviour, and that only He alone can accomplished the impossible, I am convinced my puppies will be transformed into godly puppies.
If Saul aka Paul can be transformed from a Christian persecutor to a Saint, I believe my puppies can too....simply because of my simple faith that my Saviour Jesus is the power!
Until further developments of my puppies, I believe someday these 2 terrorists will be transformed into Saint Hitler and Saint Saddam.
Til then, goodbye for now! Cheers!
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
He Devil And She Devil
My patience was tested today by my 2 schnauzer puppies.
They went on a rampage, I wonder whether they were protesting Saddam's unjustified execution! They almost tore my house apart. I thanked God for the gifting of the Holy Spirit in me, controlling and helping me to subdue the Devil in me as I fear I may lose control of myself and strangle the pups with my bare hands.
I checked up the origin of their species and found they were German and not Iragi; thank God! Hitler? Eh! Hitler and Saddam are celebrity dictator!
I remembered my children were the same too when they were babies. They pee as though they have an in built spring and shit like a factory producing endless sausages. I always wonder what they ate judging by the mass of shit they pile up.
Today, they are, as far as I am concern, the greatest children God gifted me. Thank you heavenly Father!
I hope I am going to have endless fun caring and looking after these 2 pups!
I know and believe I can because Christ is my strength!
Hey! I am not joking okay...it's not easy when you have to wipe pee and sweep shit all day long!
Cheers!
Monday, January 01, 2007
Two New Puppies And Lessons In Love!
Two new shnauzer puppies joined my family of 4 today.
I am just wondering how long can I sustained caring for the pups as I am basically not a dog man. But I hope I am able to look after them well and actually learn from them. Learn from them? Yup! I mean maybe they can teach me a thing or two about loving doggies!
Now that my children have grown up, I thought I could use my spare time to care for these doggies. I am prepared for them to stretch my patience and raise my level of tolerance.
My greatest challenge in life was when I was asked to care for an extremely selfish person. It was hell unleashing it's worst of the worst evil. Honestly, nothing beats living with a selfish person and if you could emerged from it all unscathed, you can live with the Devil without the slightest tinge of a problem.
But victory comes in the form of the Holy Spirit providing me constantly my Saviour's strength and wisdom. Only God, in Jesus Christ can subdued such evil. It's the greatest most gruesome lesson ever!
Coincidentally, I blogged about selfishness just yesterday or was it the day before? What I learned was the greatest lesson about agape love: unconditional love taught by Christ, my Saviour. I learned that without love, I can never conquer anything that is of this life. And not just any sort of love, it must be love that flow from Christ heart into us through the Holy Spirit.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God and God lives in them 1 John 4:16b
It is said, "Love conquers all", how true!
Let us asked the Holy Spirit to fill us with the Father's love so that we can all live in love. And I am sure we can make this world a better world to live in.
A Blessed And Joyous New Year 2007!
I am just wondering how long can I sustained caring for the pups as I am basically not a dog man. But I hope I am able to look after them well and actually learn from them. Learn from them? Yup! I mean maybe they can teach me a thing or two about loving doggies!
Now that my children have grown up, I thought I could use my spare time to care for these doggies. I am prepared for them to stretch my patience and raise my level of tolerance.
My greatest challenge in life was when I was asked to care for an extremely selfish person. It was hell unleashing it's worst of the worst evil. Honestly, nothing beats living with a selfish person and if you could emerged from it all unscathed, you can live with the Devil without the slightest tinge of a problem.
But victory comes in the form of the Holy Spirit providing me constantly my Saviour's strength and wisdom. Only God, in Jesus Christ can subdued such evil. It's the greatest most gruesome lesson ever!
Coincidentally, I blogged about selfishness just yesterday or was it the day before? What I learned was the greatest lesson about agape love: unconditional love taught by Christ, my Saviour. I learned that without love, I can never conquer anything that is of this life. And not just any sort of love, it must be love that flow from Christ heart into us through the Holy Spirit.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God and God lives in them 1 John 4:16b
It is said, "Love conquers all", how true!
Let us asked the Holy Spirit to fill us with the Father's love so that we can all live in love. And I am sure we can make this world a better world to live in.
A Blessed And Joyous New Year 2007!
Sunday, December 31, 2006
A Peek Into My 2007 Commitment
Firstly I want to ask the Holy Spirit gifted to help me to help me dedicate more time to worship God in Christ Jesus in the area of
giving more to the poor
spend more time with those God, my heavenly Father and Father of my Saviour Jesus, sent me
share and teach people to seek the absolute truth that Jesus taught
ask Jesus to help me to teach and share effectively
be sensitive to hear with clarity and obey the Holy Spirit whom God in Jesus gifted me
to live a lifestyle that witness the Living Christ in me
My personal life:
to eat and live healthily
to record daily what the Holy Spirit teaches me
to work harder and pay more of my debts
to expand more accounts of my greeting cards business to bookstores, pharmacies, hospitals, colleges
I pray my Lord Jesus help me to sustain my commitment for 2007.
Holy Spirit, may your Presence in me provide me the strength and wisdom that I needed to accomplish all things for the honor and glory of my Lord, Saviour Jesus, the Son of the Living God who was sent to rescue me from sin and unite me to my Creator, whom I belong.
Praise the Living God of Israel, Father to my Saviour Jesus, forever and ever, Amen!
giving more to the poor
spend more time with those God, my heavenly Father and Father of my Saviour Jesus, sent me
share and teach people to seek the absolute truth that Jesus taught
ask Jesus to help me to teach and share effectively
be sensitive to hear with clarity and obey the Holy Spirit whom God in Jesus gifted me
to live a lifestyle that witness the Living Christ in me
My personal life:
to eat and live healthily
to record daily what the Holy Spirit teaches me
to work harder and pay more of my debts
to expand more accounts of my greeting cards business to bookstores, pharmacies, hospitals, colleges
I pray my Lord Jesus help me to sustain my commitment for 2007.
Holy Spirit, may your Presence in me provide me the strength and wisdom that I needed to accomplish all things for the honor and glory of my Lord, Saviour Jesus, the Son of the Living God who was sent to rescue me from sin and unite me to my Creator, whom I belong.
Praise the Living God of Israel, Father to my Saviour Jesus, forever and ever, Amen!
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Selfishness: A Miserable Life In Solitude
I am sharing a message to a grieving parent who suffered in silent anguish over her daughter's extreme selfishness and felt hopeless how she as a parent can help. She believed she is embarking on a hopeless journey, or so it seems to search for help until she wrote to me.
I am not the Light but I am showing her to the Light that will lead her out of darkness. The Light is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour........ John 1:8-9
Greetings with love and peace in our heavenly Father who is in our Saviour Jesus.
Aunty Margaret, I am saddened by your telephone call regarding your daughter, Adeline. I promised to remember her in my daily prayers. However, I must truthfully admit my joy over your honesty to share about your daughter's problem. Whilst sharing your problem with a fellow brother in Christ, simultaneously you are in reality surrendering your problem to the Almighty God of Israel. Let's discuss about your daughter here as I found that it's the most economic and appropriate method. Thank God for modernization in computer technology.
Selfishness is an illness of excessive self obsession. You can easily identify the traits of a selfish person by his inconsideration, insensitivity, tactlessness, rudeness, and thoughtlessness towards others. A selfish person is someone who prioritized himself first. I have purposely outline about God rewarding those who learn to be selfless in closing. Please read about it at the end of my letter.
Selfishness is a dreadful, frightening, hideous, and literally deadly illness. It silently disfigures a person's character. Selfish people live in isolation in a sociable world. Selfishness is so deadly that in most cases it destroys without any significant symptoms.
In the Bible, we know that selfishness is a part of the Devil's character. Selfishness breeds other fruits of evil like arrogance, erratic emotional moods, hatreds, judgmental, anguish and mental unstableness. In truth, we witness what the Devil is in a selfish person.
Selfish people need urgent assistance. Nope, I am not recommending medical supervision like counseling or psychiatric consultation. What these people need is direct help from God in Christ Jesus. Only God in Jesus Christ can removed such infirmity. Only the power of the Living God in the Holy Spirit can infiltrate the inner soul of these sick people to administer God's potent healing power. Only the Holy Spirit can accomplish correction in our imperfection we suffer in the sin we were all born into. Metamorphosis belongs to the Living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It's a tragic that most of these selfish people suffer arrogantly by not admitting to their selfishness. They virtually erect a wall around them barricading themselves within, isolating themselves from outside help. Any opportunity to help them is very marginal unless they capitulate, acknowledging they warrant aid.
Besides divine intervention, maybe another effective approach is to administer doses of their own medicine. We should live and behave like them; we take on their likeness! Hopefully, our behavior and lifestyle reflect to them their own likeness. By imitating them, we hope for an opportunity to elucidate subtly about the evil of selfishness to them. This modus operandi might work!
Like I mentioned earlier, it's tragic that selfish people rarely owned up to their personality. Selfish personalities have this impression that they are smarter and highly intelligent beings. They are unaware that they are trapped by their own folly. They lived in deception and in misery.
I wonder whether selfishness is hereditary or merely bad habits develop unconsciously as a result of some childhood trauma. Selfishness is the Devil's incognito in us and we must expose this evil by acknowledging it and summon help. I am sad to mention that such people surround our lives and there's nothing very much that we can do to help them unless they stood out and distinctly confessed a mutation. The obvious simplicity is to commit to the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth and everything in it.
Aunty Margaret, I hope I have articulately encapsulated your daughter's 'illness' with the above wisdom. There is no other miracle healer in this whole universe besides Dr Jesus! Perhaps it's God's plan, when you chose to share with me, that I can redirect you back to Him.
I thanked God for your honesty and the Holy Spirit's conviction that you share with someone your problem. I am confident and is convinced that Jesus is standing by awaiting you to approach Him. Jesus always champion those who approached Him with an honest heart ~smile~
Some Holy Scripture to encourage you.....
Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Philippians 2:3
But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your hearts, don't brag about being wise. That is the worst kind of lie. James 3:14
For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and every kind of evil. James 3:16
And of course the best description about selfishness is in Matthew 16:24, Then Jesus said to the disciples, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross, and follow me. It's obvious that Jesus came into the world thinking of us more than Himself.
The Word of God is perfect.
You can never uncover joy until you learn to share! You can never uncover joy until you learn to live with others. If God intended us to be selfish, He would not have created a companion in Eve for us. God would not have established marriage. God would not have share the joy of His only Son with us.
I promised earlier to touch on God's exclusive plan to reward those who share generously. Our heavenly Father purposely design our lifestyle in such a manner that we can only discover joy when we learn to share with others. Selfishness results in emptiness. Selflessness generates an abundance of everything good.
Honestly, I like the way of how God infused His blessings with our obedience. It's a "Do and Get or Don't do don't Get!" application.
If you don't believe me, try giving just a little bit and learn to grow your giving and soon your life will be filled with a celebration of great joy that comes from God's blessings.
In concluding my message to you, Aunty Margaret, I wish you a fruitful journey together with your daughter, as you held her hands and walked with her towards Jesus Christ, our Light and Lord and Saviour.
Let the healing begins.............
Happy New Year 2007!
I am not the Light but I am showing her to the Light that will lead her out of darkness. The Light is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour........ John 1:8-9
Greetings with love and peace in our heavenly Father who is in our Saviour Jesus.
Aunty Margaret, I am saddened by your telephone call regarding your daughter, Adeline. I promised to remember her in my daily prayers. However, I must truthfully admit my joy over your honesty to share about your daughter's problem. Whilst sharing your problem with a fellow brother in Christ, simultaneously you are in reality surrendering your problem to the Almighty God of Israel. Let's discuss about your daughter here as I found that it's the most economic and appropriate method. Thank God for modernization in computer technology.
Selfishness is an illness of excessive self obsession. You can easily identify the traits of a selfish person by his inconsideration, insensitivity, tactlessness, rudeness, and thoughtlessness towards others. A selfish person is someone who prioritized himself first. I have purposely outline about God rewarding those who learn to be selfless in closing. Please read about it at the end of my letter.
Selfishness is a dreadful, frightening, hideous, and literally deadly illness. It silently disfigures a person's character. Selfish people live in isolation in a sociable world. Selfishness is so deadly that in most cases it destroys without any significant symptoms.
In the Bible, we know that selfishness is a part of the Devil's character. Selfishness breeds other fruits of evil like arrogance, erratic emotional moods, hatreds, judgmental, anguish and mental unstableness. In truth, we witness what the Devil is in a selfish person.
Selfish people need urgent assistance. Nope, I am not recommending medical supervision like counseling or psychiatric consultation. What these people need is direct help from God in Christ Jesus. Only God in Jesus Christ can removed such infirmity. Only the power of the Living God in the Holy Spirit can infiltrate the inner soul of these sick people to administer God's potent healing power. Only the Holy Spirit can accomplish correction in our imperfection we suffer in the sin we were all born into. Metamorphosis belongs to the Living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It's a tragic that most of these selfish people suffer arrogantly by not admitting to their selfishness. They virtually erect a wall around them barricading themselves within, isolating themselves from outside help. Any opportunity to help them is very marginal unless they capitulate, acknowledging they warrant aid.
Besides divine intervention, maybe another effective approach is to administer doses of their own medicine. We should live and behave like them; we take on their likeness! Hopefully, our behavior and lifestyle reflect to them their own likeness. By imitating them, we hope for an opportunity to elucidate subtly about the evil of selfishness to them. This modus operandi might work!
Like I mentioned earlier, it's tragic that selfish people rarely owned up to their personality. Selfish personalities have this impression that they are smarter and highly intelligent beings. They are unaware that they are trapped by their own folly. They lived in deception and in misery.
I wonder whether selfishness is hereditary or merely bad habits develop unconsciously as a result of some childhood trauma. Selfishness is the Devil's incognito in us and we must expose this evil by acknowledging it and summon help. I am sad to mention that such people surround our lives and there's nothing very much that we can do to help them unless they stood out and distinctly confessed a mutation. The obvious simplicity is to commit to the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth and everything in it.
Aunty Margaret, I hope I have articulately encapsulated your daughter's 'illness' with the above wisdom. There is no other miracle healer in this whole universe besides Dr Jesus! Perhaps it's God's plan, when you chose to share with me, that I can redirect you back to Him.
I thanked God for your honesty and the Holy Spirit's conviction that you share with someone your problem. I am confident and is convinced that Jesus is standing by awaiting you to approach Him. Jesus always champion those who approached Him with an honest heart ~smile~
Some Holy Scripture to encourage you.....
Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Philippians 2:3
But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your hearts, don't brag about being wise. That is the worst kind of lie. James 3:14
For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and every kind of evil. James 3:16
And of course the best description about selfishness is in Matthew 16:24, Then Jesus said to the disciples, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross, and follow me. It's obvious that Jesus came into the world thinking of us more than Himself.
The Word of God is perfect.
You can never uncover joy until you learn to share! You can never uncover joy until you learn to live with others. If God intended us to be selfish, He would not have created a companion in Eve for us. God would not have established marriage. God would not have share the joy of His only Son with us.
I promised earlier to touch on God's exclusive plan to reward those who share generously. Our heavenly Father purposely design our lifestyle in such a manner that we can only discover joy when we learn to share with others. Selfishness results in emptiness. Selflessness generates an abundance of everything good.
Honestly, I like the way of how God infused His blessings with our obedience. It's a "Do and Get or Don't do don't Get!" application.
If you don't believe me, try giving just a little bit and learn to grow your giving and soon your life will be filled with a celebration of great joy that comes from God's blessings.
In concluding my message to you, Aunty Margaret, I wish you a fruitful journey together with your daughter, as you held her hands and walked with her towards Jesus Christ, our Light and Lord and Saviour.
Let the healing begins.............
Happy New Year 2007!
Sunday, December 24, 2006
The Ability To Be Still And Hear With Clarity
All my years as a Christian, I rarely heard a sermon preached on being still and hear from God in Jesus Christ, sensitive to the still gentle voice of the Holy Spirit.
Albeit the never ending order to pray, I believed it's even more important to listen to our heavenly Father. While praying is conveying our needs to our Saviour God, listening is getting instructions and guidance to live righteously for His honor and glory. This is different from praising and worshipping our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus.
Prayers are important but without listening, how do we ever know what our heavenly Father demand of us? Prayers is imparting our thoughts to our heavenly Father while listening is allowing our Father to reveal his will to us. And I personally believe that it's significant to hear from our heavenly Father.
In order to be still, one needs to learn to navigate his focus on Jesus through the maze of evil set up by the evil one. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to help us be sensitive to his convictions. Honestly, there is no such thing as the best times like waking up in the middle of the night; you only need to open your mouth and ask the Holy Spirit to help you be focus!
I thank Jesus in the Holy Spirit, revealing this awesome truth to me about my unfruitful spiritual life being the fault of me talking too much and failing to listen more. I could witness my spiritual growth as I started learning to be sensitive listening to the Holy Spirit's guidance.
I heard you asking how are we supposed to tune our ears to the still small voice of our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour?
READ THE BIBLE!
Amazingly, this was how the Holy Spirit revealed to me when I asked my heavenly Father to tune my ears to hear Him with clarity.
Reading the Bible is spending quality time with our Saviour Jesus as He teaches us, we listened with the help of the Holy Spirit, gifted to us.
Reading the Bible is allowing the Word of God ministered to us. And the Word is our Saviour Jesus (John 1:1, 14). As we read, we listened and learned obedience, resulting us planting Jesus into our life, building Him as the foundation, the Rock.
Like I mentioned earlier, there is no such thing as waking up in the middle of the night, hiding away on a retreat, locking yourself in the room, or any other man created rubbish reasons. You only need to ask the Holy Spirit to help you develope an honest passion after the heart of our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.
Desire the Kingdom of God and God's righteousness as your priority in worship and all things will be given to you (Matthew 6:33)
Starts reading the Bible today and allow God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ speaks and minister to you as you learned to be still and listens.
God Bless You............
Albeit the never ending order to pray, I believed it's even more important to listen to our heavenly Father. While praying is conveying our needs to our Saviour God, listening is getting instructions and guidance to live righteously for His honor and glory. This is different from praising and worshipping our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus.
Prayers are important but without listening, how do we ever know what our heavenly Father demand of us? Prayers is imparting our thoughts to our heavenly Father while listening is allowing our Father to reveal his will to us. And I personally believe that it's significant to hear from our heavenly Father.
In order to be still, one needs to learn to navigate his focus on Jesus through the maze of evil set up by the evil one. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to help us be sensitive to his convictions. Honestly, there is no such thing as the best times like waking up in the middle of the night; you only need to open your mouth and ask the Holy Spirit to help you be focus!
I thank Jesus in the Holy Spirit, revealing this awesome truth to me about my unfruitful spiritual life being the fault of me talking too much and failing to listen more. I could witness my spiritual growth as I started learning to be sensitive listening to the Holy Spirit's guidance.
I heard you asking how are we supposed to tune our ears to the still small voice of our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour?
READ THE BIBLE!
Amazingly, this was how the Holy Spirit revealed to me when I asked my heavenly Father to tune my ears to hear Him with clarity.
Reading the Bible is spending quality time with our Saviour Jesus as He teaches us, we listened with the help of the Holy Spirit, gifted to us.
Reading the Bible is allowing the Word of God ministered to us. And the Word is our Saviour Jesus (John 1:1, 14). As we read, we listened and learned obedience, resulting us planting Jesus into our life, building Him as the foundation, the Rock.
Like I mentioned earlier, there is no such thing as waking up in the middle of the night, hiding away on a retreat, locking yourself in the room, or any other man created rubbish reasons. You only need to ask the Holy Spirit to help you develope an honest passion after the heart of our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.
Desire the Kingdom of God and God's righteousness as your priority in worship and all things will be given to you (Matthew 6:33)
Starts reading the Bible today and allow God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ speaks and minister to you as you learned to be still and listens.
God Bless You............
What Is A Christian?
Today is Christmas Day 2006.
As I kneel to pray for my family, friends, those who persecute me and my nation whom my heavenly Father has placed me in, I pondered for a minute and asked myself this question: What exactly is a Christian? What am I and who am I when I decided to confess that Jesus Christ is my Lord Saviour, identifying myself a Christian to the world at large?
Jesus Christ my Saviour died, nailed to the cross for my sake. If I claimed myself to belong to Him, how shall I lived my life for the honor and glory of His Majestic Name?
If I am a Christian, I must lived like my Saviour Jesus. I must live according to all He has taught me in the Bible. I wouldn't want my Saviour to pose me this question as in Luke 4:46, Why do you keep calling me, "Lord, Lord!" when you don't do what I say?
And what exactly did our Saviour taught us?
Love each other like we love ourselves.
Love our enemies.
Provide for others.
Share with others
Be prepared to sacrifice our own lives
are just a few examples of what our Saviour taught us.
I know most of us thought these acts are almost impossible to execute. It's totally and absolutely not true! This is one lie the Devil wanted us to believe. If we rebuke the lie, swallow our pride and learned to ask, then we can do what Christ our Saviour taught us. The strength to pray comes from our Saviour in the power of the Holy Spirit that our heavenly Father gifted us when we confessed and believed by faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God.
As Christians, we must lived our new lives in the power of the Holy Spirit gifted to help and guide us to live above the lifestyle of the ordinary man. The gifting of the Holy Spirit is an extra in the ordinary us. The extra of God's gift to us created us anew to become extra-ordinary!
In Matthew 5:43-48 our Saviour Jesus taught us to live apart from the ordinary. "You have heard that the law of Moses says, 'Love your neighbor' and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, too. If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."
Every good works belonged to the power of the Holy Spirit because goodness belongs to God alone. No man who is dust can do God's work except God Himself in the Holy Spirit. Even our Saviour Jesus acknowledged in John 14:10 that his work belonged to the Father who lives in him to empower him.
I also discovered the teachings of our Saviour Jesus are foolishness to men. The unbeliever can never grasp and fathom the ways of our heavenly Father because the ways and thoughts of God are higher than man. Without the Holy Spirit, no one can love their enemies, share kindly and generously, love unconditionally and witness for the honor and glory of our Lord Jesus by living right. God's wisdom to us is to live to please Him alone. God's wisdom is foolishness to man.
To stay away from sinning, I daily seek the Holy Spirit, gifted to help me and constantly remind myself reading and meditating John 8:47, Anyone who belongs to God listens gladly to the words of God. But you don't listen because you don't belong to God.
I spent the last 5 years with the help of the Holy Spirit, gifted to me, learning to run from sin, finding shelter to hide in my Saviour. And each day the strength of my Saviour grew in me to help me confront evil bravely. Each day I commit my weakness to my Saviour Jesus so that He can be my strength. Each day, I learned obedience, grew to be like Jesus as the Holy Spirit slowly transforms me.
This Christmas, I wish for myself that Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour continue transforming me into His likeness. I pray the Holy Spirit remain in me to help me live my earthly life, firmly as a Christian, bearing fruits for the honour and glory of my Majestic Lord Saviour Jesus, Creator and Father.
And may the Holy Spirit filled and equipped me to do the will of the Father, to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.
Merry Christmas 2006!
As I kneel to pray for my family, friends, those who persecute me and my nation whom my heavenly Father has placed me in, I pondered for a minute and asked myself this question: What exactly is a Christian? What am I and who am I when I decided to confess that Jesus Christ is my Lord Saviour, identifying myself a Christian to the world at large?
Jesus Christ my Saviour died, nailed to the cross for my sake. If I claimed myself to belong to Him, how shall I lived my life for the honor and glory of His Majestic Name?
If I am a Christian, I must lived like my Saviour Jesus. I must live according to all He has taught me in the Bible. I wouldn't want my Saviour to pose me this question as in Luke 4:46, Why do you keep calling me, "Lord, Lord!" when you don't do what I say?
And what exactly did our Saviour taught us?
Love each other like we love ourselves.
Love our enemies.
Provide for others.
Share with others
Be prepared to sacrifice our own lives
are just a few examples of what our Saviour taught us.
I know most of us thought these acts are almost impossible to execute. It's totally and absolutely not true! This is one lie the Devil wanted us to believe. If we rebuke the lie, swallow our pride and learned to ask, then we can do what Christ our Saviour taught us. The strength to pray comes from our Saviour in the power of the Holy Spirit that our heavenly Father gifted us when we confessed and believed by faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God.
As Christians, we must lived our new lives in the power of the Holy Spirit gifted to help and guide us to live above the lifestyle of the ordinary man. The gifting of the Holy Spirit is an extra in the ordinary us. The extra of God's gift to us created us anew to become extra-ordinary!
In Matthew 5:43-48 our Saviour Jesus taught us to live apart from the ordinary. "You have heard that the law of Moses says, 'Love your neighbor' and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, too. If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."
Every good works belonged to the power of the Holy Spirit because goodness belongs to God alone. No man who is dust can do God's work except God Himself in the Holy Spirit. Even our Saviour Jesus acknowledged in John 14:10 that his work belonged to the Father who lives in him to empower him.
I also discovered the teachings of our Saviour Jesus are foolishness to men. The unbeliever can never grasp and fathom the ways of our heavenly Father because the ways and thoughts of God are higher than man. Without the Holy Spirit, no one can love their enemies, share kindly and generously, love unconditionally and witness for the honor and glory of our Lord Jesus by living right. God's wisdom to us is to live to please Him alone. God's wisdom is foolishness to man.
To stay away from sinning, I daily seek the Holy Spirit, gifted to help me and constantly remind myself reading and meditating John 8:47, Anyone who belongs to God listens gladly to the words of God. But you don't listen because you don't belong to God.
I spent the last 5 years with the help of the Holy Spirit, gifted to me, learning to run from sin, finding shelter to hide in my Saviour. And each day the strength of my Saviour grew in me to help me confront evil bravely. Each day I commit my weakness to my Saviour Jesus so that He can be my strength. Each day, I learned obedience, grew to be like Jesus as the Holy Spirit slowly transforms me.
This Christmas, I wish for myself that Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour continue transforming me into His likeness. I pray the Holy Spirit remain in me to help me live my earthly life, firmly as a Christian, bearing fruits for the honour and glory of my Majestic Lord Saviour Jesus, Creator and Father.
And may the Holy Spirit filled and equipped me to do the will of the Father, to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.
Merry Christmas 2006!
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