Wednesday, December 30, 2009
30 DEC post!
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
As 2009 is ending in about 4 days time....
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
It is now 6 Dec. You have only 25 Days left before 2009 ends.
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.