Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Life is unpredictable.
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Ok, this is my fault.
I had not been updating this blog for 1 month! oh goodness.
Pls forgive me for my absolute laziness in short-changing your life and ur time to check out this blog frequently if you are that frequently free.
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Ps 37 : 5- 6 ( The Message Bible)
Open up before God, keep nothing back;
he'll do whatever needs to be done:
He'll validate your life in the clear light of day
and stamp you with approval at high noon.
The title of this posting is, Keep nothing back.
Ended of 2009 with a message of Ezekiel, but starting of 2010 with A David Psalms.
I have been reading the message bible translation from the net and i know that the translation is simple and sometimes very clear-cut.
We also know that life can be simple on the outside, but it is never on the inside.
A Day ago, I was chatting with my buddy and he shared about his conviction in his quality and effort that he feels in lack in a particular area of his life.
I thank God for spiritual buddies, they just inspires me often.
Though he shared something that was from his problem, his need, his troubles, i felt inspired as me, ChuenHeng, myself, needs to work even harder in any areas that i am in lack, or in strength.
Even it was just a merely problem-sharing session/talk/walk we had for just a split mins, we still made into decision to work things out.
On that night, i start placing all my efforts and committment in agreement with him on the solutions we had.
Telling you the truth, it was an holy encounter last night at my own living room. :D
Our God, the awesome God, knows everything about me and you.
But why does God still wants us to seek him and hold nothing back?
Readers in this place, we need to come to a point of absolute open-ness before His presence.
What the verse said, He will do whatever he needs to be done.
If you let your problems stay in your cells, God cannot do anything.
Because we need to seek first the Kingdom of God and all his righteousness shall be added onto us, and thus God will help us in whatever situation we may be in.
I also thank God for buddies, Like what the bible study teacher mention last night.
I thank God for leaders and pastors that are always there lifting me up when i am done, kicking my butt and get moving with God!
Likewise, we need to go all out and hold nothing back between you and God.
Lets hold nothing back in 2010, 2009 may ended wonderfully in ur perspective, but let give back to God.
In you problems, your situation, dont hold anything back when you share to someone you can trust, dont build unessary holes for your partner to fall into.
Lets keep nothing back when we desire our breakthrough, Go all out in ur thinkings and wonders!
hope this sharing helps! :D
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Updating my 2 blogs with 2 different prespective! :DD
Previous post i hinted that i am sharing on the book of Ezekiel.
Yup!
Title of this short message is called, Ending the year right!
Going to share few verses that i was reading thru, and kept on thinking on bus. :D
EZEKIEL 8 : 10- 12
10 So I went in and saw, and there—every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.
12 Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
something caught my attention.
In v10 : it says that the room contains idols of abominable potrayed on the walls. this means that it contain idol pictures / statues. Abominable means sort of poison, evil and bad. D: How did Ezekiel enter this room, in verse 8, God said to Ezekiel to dig the wall, and the found a door to this room.
V11 : The room of this door contains 70 elders holding insence, to worship the idols.
and v12 was the concluding sentence, the actions by the Elders was in the dark.
Okay, after the summary, something caught me.
Living in darkness vs choosing the Fear of the Lord.
The Elders in the room hold insence to worship vemon idols, they are doing action in dark. Likewise in life, have you found yourself doing things in the dark ? what are some of the areas that are in dark?
Is this dark room hide inside somewhere in the heart? Just like Ezekiel, digging the wall and find the door to the darkness ?
Ezekiel did something very AWESOME. yes, its in verse 8
8 Then He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall”; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door.
Ezekiel heard God, and did what God asked him to do.
HEY! Real Life context, who would dig into the wall? unless it is ATM machine. ahah!
Back to the oldren days, walls were easily dug as they the cement and the bricks are easily moved.
Some sort of harry potter finding the secret brick to open the door.
back in realilty, how can u dug into the wall using ur hands? haha. all the layering done by the walls or subletion will cause ur hands to bleed.
Ezekiel did and OBEY God.
God may called you to do the most stupidist thing on earth,
(Wright brothers visions to fly, ended today, we have A380 aeroplane)
craziest thing,
(like pst.kong to raise a generation of people to take asia by storm)
or the most wierdest thing!
EZEKIEL did that! Digging into the wall.
2 characters i want to look :
A. THE ELDERS
1 Audacious for the wrong reason, Thinking that they are more powerful than God.
2. Pretenders of Faith, thinking that God will not see, and giving blames to God that He forsaken the land.
3. No accountabilty, someone would ask me, elders can account to who?
Elders have to account to stronger Elders!
B. EZEKIEL
1. Audacious for the right! Who will be so awesome to dig into the wall? HAA. not just for this reason, read the whole book of ezekiel! He is really audacious for Him ! :D
2. Disciple of Faith, Not just being a believer! Like the wall again, he is a follower of God and really believe in his way. Come what may, will your forsake the land that God gives you? Thats a true disciple!
3. Accountability, though this element is not shown vividly here. But continue reading before chapter 8, see the way how Ezekiel account. Its really powerful and awesome! haa!
Likewise today, 30 Dec. Similarly i posted on the other blog, how are you going to committ this day. hmms.
being a believer or disciple? Be like the 70 Elders, or Ezekiel ?
Even as 2009 is ending, lets challenge ourselves to be like Ezekiel! Be Audacious, Discipled, Strong Accountability! 2010 approaching, lets have the Fear of the Lord in our lives. The Elders lack of this element .
For Greater things are yet to come! :D
HAPPY NEW YEAR IN ADVANCE!!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
I was constantly reminded over certain areas in my life.
Sometimes, it can never be express thru words! haha.
Just when it can be expressable, He took them away, haha! AWESOME!
Mediating on the book of Ezekiel to end my year for 2009. Hope its a really good way! haha.
Ezekiel post would be on 30 Dec, where i do 2 great post in both my blogs. :D:D, or maybe earlier. :D
Somehow, i was reminded of this worship song that the CG did not sing for the past 11 months in CG.
And so does the Church, haha. I have no impression that this song was even sang in church / cg / zone meeting for 2009, and yes. i did not worship with this song for the past 11 months in my Q.T as well. hmms.
I sing a love song to You Lord
Every day every night
I tell of Your goodness and mercy
Tell the world how You rescued me
Picked me up from sin and shame
Your breathe gives me new life
Where can I go without Your presence
Under Your wings I take refuge
Your spirit lives within my heart
I know you'll never be apart
Everyday I draw closer to You Lord
I long to see Your face
And hide in Your embrace
All my life dwelling in Your Holy place
My heart O Lord You've changed
I'll never be the same
I'll never be the same
I think that this song speaks everything i wanted to share previously to anybody. haha! Quite cool ah. :DD
Sacrifce , Thanksgiving, Humility , longing for breakthrough, and Refuge. haha!
not keeping it wordly. but it is worthy for this post! Really impacted!
:DD
At the end of the journey, will you be the same? because My heart, O Lord, You've changed.
Merry christmas and happy new year! come back on 30 Dec ! :D
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Recently, there has been a Facebook Event call : In 2013, i will laugh at 2012.
But i think, we should create
In 2010 , We will SMILE with VICTORY Because i have KEPT MY FAITH , And finish my Year race for 2009.
Remember SOT graduation Service?
One SOT student preach about the acronym of SOT.
Lets See...........
1. SACRIFICES
Looking back, I Thank God for 2009. It is a season of real testing and real transistion.
Firstly, one of my favourite illustration , Devastating O levels. Fought and prepare for 30weeks, In which i wasted some of them. Running after the vision of the Cell Group, Ups and downs in my life. More recent, NO-ALLOWANCE POLICY until School starts in APRIL' 2010.There are things in life you have to sacrifice for. You can never ever serve 2 master. Less TV time, More phone time on classified Ads, Quality time in Prayer and Fasting.
These seasons that I had been through, I always remember one miraculous thing that JESUS does in the bible. You can forget/unable to recall about his preaching and Parables, But you will never forget this.
HE DIED ON THE CROSS FOR 3 Days. And i caught 2 points.
01 : Humility.
When he died for us on the cross, Jesus went down to the bottom of the pit. The Glory of Him and he spoke such wisdom, that even the kids would understand (Corrine May , 5 roti, and 2 ikan billis). He humbled himself to die for all our sins. Big sin, small sin, podka dot sin.
Thank God, This season of 2009 really thought me this. Humility is a process of GROWING UP in MATURITY.
Jeremiah 29 : 11-14
It speaks of the Lord thinks of Jeremiah, with thoughts of peace and not of evil and in which it gives a future and hope.
Sometime in life, we were caught up with so many things. True fact : I caught the vision, and sidetrack. One day, will you slow down your path, OBSERVE the surrounding.
Illustration : I always travel to RiverWalk via Raffles-Place. I set my target and walk towards it. But not too long ago, i just realise that the UOB building(of which i came out from the MRT), was the tallest building found in Raffles Place area.
Likewise, do i slow down my path, to check my Alignment . Have I been to busy with my life and neglect ministry? Or Have i been chionging with ministry and lost the true purpose of ministry?
It speaks of one thing, To align the God's destiny purpose for you.. He has the purpose of my life. He wants me to have the meaning, and focus, in prepration for Eternity.
Realigning myself back to God! That is the Constant thing i have to do in life!
02 : Patience
When Jesus gave his life on the cross, He waited patiently for the 3 days. You dont get to see him fast-forward his time to 3 days later? haha. God planned and Jesus followed the plan.
Very commonly, we want God to be following my time-table. Why is God not following? When is the breakthrough going to come? How long Lord ? Why must we this this and that that?
So many questions imposed to God. Ever wonder what God will ask you ?
Matt 6 :25
Do not worry about tomorrow!
But in 6: 33, Powerful.
Seek first the kingdom of God and all his Righteneous will be added upon to you.
We got to have FAITH to arise to a whole new level. 25 days left before 2009 ends, Will you arise ?
Proverbs 16:32 (New International Version)
Better a patient man than a warrior,
a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city
One Area in my life which i am deeply convicted ; Emotions.
Jesus died is to allowing up to take control of our emotion. Faith is another step to help u with controling with your emotion
Felt left out? felt no-one cares for you? Felt that being a wallpaper rocks more than a active paper?
Yea. I admit, sometimes, the writer of this blog feels the same way tooo.
But think again 2nd time,
I dont have to feel left out, I don have to feel no-one cares for you. Because, when you shut into ur closet, God is there with you, to cry with you. And after the sobbing and mobbing, He gives you direction to connect back to the people. Thou AWESOME!
Here are three magical words that will produce more peace of mind than a week at an expensive retreat: "You are right."
Accept others! Thats the act of humility!
Do you know, the word humility is said to be the most beautiful word in the dictionary ? :D
Ha, its getting a bit wordy , so i decided to end of here.
Continuing my convictions on SOT soon.
Thanks for reading.
Thats the cry of my heart.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Standing in front of another mountain once again.
Yes, wierd shape , ugly nature.
What lies ahead?
*done with my introduction*
*To Be Continued*
*done with my introduction*
*To Be Continued*
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Currently mediating on a few books in e bible.
will update here once i am complete. Awesome!