Blessed Birthday Kar Choon son of Ka(r) Ting..(without the 'r')
Thank u, u're a blessing!
Dun want to write so much about how good this guy is lest he becomes proud of himself
and forget hu he is...Wahah.=P
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Prayer
Amazing God revealed something to me and I just have to share about it. It was a Sunday morning and so I wake up a little early to do my routine stuff. 1st thing to do is to rub my eyes and clean it, show a big yawn and lie around a little while more till I really need to get myself ready to go to church. Bath and get my clothes on. Grab my usual Padini jeans and put on whatever shirt that I want to wear. Depending on how I want to present myself that day lah. Make sure that I have a nice hair day, somehow I am just more particular about my hair on Sunday. Ahah. Now u know.
After that grab my “Our Daily Journey” quiet time material. That day the passage spoke about prayer. And it goes like “when you pray, go into the room so that you will not be seen. Do not be like the hypocrites who loves to pray in the synagogue to be seen by man. And your Father in heaven who sees it will reward you. I feel so strongly about this about myself and I am really guilty of this. Hypocrite is what I am. Da da da da da and den go to church and the same words was repeated again. Wah..i really feel that God is trying to speak to me something. This words comes into my mind.“Boy, you have been in this way for far too long and you need to change”. “Get down to your knees to pray and search me again”. It is good to find myself again with the Lord. The delight, joy, satisfaction, and peace in Him. Indeed there’s no other better place to find your comfort but to be in the arms of Jesus. The verse that says “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart” is the thing that came into my mind. It was really a blessing to search and delight yourself in the Lord. Later on I find myself dumbfounded again by another verse that speaks about how God actually delight himself with us even before we delight ourselves in him. God delighting in us! Imagine a Father who sees his son after he comes back work, the joy and excitement that he gets. So also with God but it is more than that since He is God. Verse 17 says that “He will rejoice over you with singing” . Can u imagine that? God sings over us and dance over us. . This is one of my favourite verse
Zephaniah 3:17
“The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, he will rejoice over you with singing”.
This song written by Matt Redman speaks volumesssss of God’s love for us….
The Father's song
After that grab my “Our Daily Journey” quiet time material. That day the passage spoke about prayer. And it goes like “when you pray, go into the room so that you will not be seen. Do not be like the hypocrites who loves to pray in the synagogue to be seen by man. And your Father in heaven who sees it will reward you. I feel so strongly about this about myself and I am really guilty of this. Hypocrite is what I am. Da da da da da and den go to church and the same words was repeated again. Wah..i really feel that God is trying to speak to me something. This words comes into my mind.“Boy, you have been in this way for far too long and you need to change”. “Get down to your knees to pray and search me again”. It is good to find myself again with the Lord. The delight, joy, satisfaction, and peace in Him. Indeed there’s no other better place to find your comfort but to be in the arms of Jesus. The verse that says “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart” is the thing that came into my mind. It was really a blessing to search and delight yourself in the Lord. Later on I find myself dumbfounded again by another verse that speaks about how God actually delight himself with us even before we delight ourselves in him. God delighting in us! Imagine a Father who sees his son after he comes back work, the joy and excitement that he gets. So also with God but it is more than that since He is God. Verse 17 says that “He will rejoice over you with singing” . Can u imagine that? God sings over us and dance over us. . This is one of my favourite verse
Zephaniah 3:17
“The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, he will rejoice over you with singing”.
This song written by Matt Redman speaks volumesssss of God’s love for us….
The Father's song
I have heard so many songs
Listened to a thousand tongues
But there is one
That sounds above them all
The Father’s song
The Father’s love
You sung it over me and for eternity
It’s written on my heart
Listened to a thousand tongues
But there is one
That sounds above them all
The Father’s song
The Father’s love
You sung it over me and for eternity
It’s written on my heart
CHORUS:
Heaven’s perfect melody
The Creator’s symphony
You are singing over me
The Father’s song
Heaven’s perfect mystery
The king of love has sent for me
And now you’re singing over me
The Father’s song
It’s Heaven’s perfect mystery
The king of love has sent for me
And now you’re singing over me
The Father’s song
The Father’s song
The Father’s love
You sung it over me and for eternity
It’s written on my heart
One of the reason why I like Matt Redman songs so much is that I think he is someone who meditates a lot. In ways how he actually like stand in awe of God by just remaining silent. I can really see that in him. Thanks Matt Redman.
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is an act of will and not feelings. Forgiveness liberates one from his/her own bondage of any grudges and bitterness in him. Forgiveness yields freedom, setting the captives free. Forgiveness gives away freely although it does no justice to him/her. True forgiveness involves commitment to begin anew, to confront the situation as it is. A real man is one who have guards to reconcile with the one who have hurt him/her, showing himself/herself that he/she is confident of who they are. We can only forgive when we began to follow Jesus and start to let go (not to mean that we leave it as it is but to let go of our rights) and let God to act. He is our righteous Judge.
Unforgiveness is like someone who is trap in the prisoner cell, not knowing how to get out from the prisoner bars. Unforgiveness brings back old memories of what happened in the past and affects the relationship at present and in future. Unforgiveness is selfish.
Any healthy relationship involves forgiveness. Healthy relationship accepts, gives away freely without expecting anything in return. Any real and healthy relationship begins with an intimate and close relationship with The Almighty. Imagine a picture of pyramid where we are at the other end of the bottom edge. The bottom edge represents you and me. The top edge represents God Himself. It is only when we draw nearer to God, only then will our human relationship gap be closer. The higher we go the narrower the gap between our human relationship becomes.
We cannot experience true forgiveness unless we start to forgive ourselves. How happy is the man who truly forgives. Freedom in Christ and with men. Forgiveness is one of the characteristic of our God and because of Him we find forgiveness for our sins.
True follower of Jesus forgives because He(Jesus) suffered for the forgiveness of our sins. I think the word forgiveness is a word in which we have taken too lightly especially in our human relationship and maybe with God as well. Forgiveness is cheap but it is also so rich.
Enough of saying..need to act upon it. Need to always be reminded that God is my righteous judge. Do not pay back evil with evil. Not to retaliate. To be careful not to speak against anyone or gossip. Only helpful words, those that will admonish others. Sometimes I just need to keep it to myself. To ponder it in my heart.
Ah! How long will I ever learn that?? Over and over again? Need so much refinement man.
We live in your freedom God. =)
Unforgiveness is like someone who is trap in the prisoner cell, not knowing how to get out from the prisoner bars. Unforgiveness brings back old memories of what happened in the past and affects the relationship at present and in future. Unforgiveness is selfish.
Any healthy relationship involves forgiveness. Healthy relationship accepts, gives away freely without expecting anything in return. Any real and healthy relationship begins with an intimate and close relationship with The Almighty. Imagine a picture of pyramid where we are at the other end of the bottom edge. The bottom edge represents you and me. The top edge represents God Himself. It is only when we draw nearer to God, only then will our human relationship gap be closer. The higher we go the narrower the gap between our human relationship becomes.
We cannot experience true forgiveness unless we start to forgive ourselves. How happy is the man who truly forgives. Freedom in Christ and with men. Forgiveness is one of the characteristic of our God and because of Him we find forgiveness for our sins.
True follower of Jesus forgives because He(Jesus) suffered for the forgiveness of our sins. I think the word forgiveness is a word in which we have taken too lightly especially in our human relationship and maybe with God as well. Forgiveness is cheap but it is also so rich.
Enough of saying..need to act upon it. Need to always be reminded that God is my righteous judge. Do not pay back evil with evil. Not to retaliate. To be careful not to speak against anyone or gossip. Only helpful words, those that will admonish others. Sometimes I just need to keep it to myself. To ponder it in my heart.
Ah! How long will I ever learn that?? Over and over again? Need so much refinement man.
We live in your freedom God. =)
Seek first
Seek FIRST the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and everything will be
added unto you.
Kingdom of God
Kingdom matters: Fellowship, Evangelism, Worship, Ministry, Discipleship.
Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in Heaven hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts, as we also forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Notice that the FIRST part of it speaks about kingdom matters and 2ndly our matters.
It is always the case where we need to put God’s agenda ahead of ours. The challenge would be what are we going to do about it? Plans for God’s kingdom? Not only someone who plans but someone who would dream dreams for God. We need to be “God dreamers ” if we are to see any change in our society, our nation. We speak about revival but revival will only come when the church starts to think first of His kingdom. I guess all of us have somehow or rather have been revived by God many times and in different ways.
The problem is just that we don’t act upon it or we think too narrowly about what we are going to about it. Our dream doesn’t last because we have forgotten about or we are being clouded by it, our dream is small.
Plans for God?
Dreams for God?
Do you have any?
Today, tomorrow, months to come, or years to come?
Where will we be?
I am afraid to say that all of us are guilty of this and we need to come to our senses.
We need to stand in the gap between the saved and the lost.
Yes, this is da sermon talk given. Pondering over them.
added unto you.
Kingdom of God
Kingdom matters: Fellowship, Evangelism, Worship, Ministry, Discipleship.
Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in Heaven hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts, as we also forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Notice that the FIRST part of it speaks about kingdom matters and 2ndly our matters.
It is always the case where we need to put God’s agenda ahead of ours. The challenge would be what are we going to do about it? Plans for God’s kingdom? Not only someone who plans but someone who would dream dreams for God. We need to be “God dreamers ” if we are to see any change in our society, our nation. We speak about revival but revival will only come when the church starts to think first of His kingdom. I guess all of us have somehow or rather have been revived by God many times and in different ways.
The problem is just that we don’t act upon it or we think too narrowly about what we are going to about it. Our dream doesn’t last because we have forgotten about or we are being clouded by it, our dream is small.
Plans for God?
Dreams for God?
Do you have any?
Today, tomorrow, months to come, or years to come?
Where will we be?
I am afraid to say that all of us are guilty of this and we need to come to our senses.
We need to stand in the gap between the saved and the lost.
Yes, this is da sermon talk given. Pondering over them.
To be right
We need to be wad we ought to be. To do the right things despite how we are feeling.
To love to care despite how we feel. We need to master over our feelings or else we
will start to act how we feel like. Feelings come and go but the person who does the
right thing is like a solid rock. He will not be move or swayed away easily by the
things that comes his way. A solid foundation. Secure and stable.The sign of a mature believer is determined by how someone sticks to his conviction despite unforeseen circumstances that comes his way.
Random thoughts..
To love to care despite how we feel. We need to master over our feelings or else we
will start to act how we feel like. Feelings come and go but the person who does the
right thing is like a solid rock. He will not be move or swayed away easily by the
things that comes his way. A solid foundation. Secure and stable.The sign of a mature believer is determined by how someone sticks to his conviction despite unforeseen circumstances that comes his way.
Random thoughts..
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