12 December 2010 Sunday Sermon

Woke up late again today... These few days are really tiring, went to NCC 2nd service, and today's pastor in-charge is Pastor Lin, a female pastor. Her sermon is about Joy, God wants us to rejoices and celebrate, and keep your Joy, don't let go of your Joy no matter what comes to you, because in Isaiah 12:3 "With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation."

So to my dear friends and family, don't let negative emotions, anger, unforgiveness, hatred, lies, regrets, bitterness, don't let them control you, don't let go of your Joy. If things ever happen to drag you down, Genesis 26 :19-22 said Issac's servants dug a well and there's flowing water, then was taken by other people, well of Esek (dispute), they went and dug another well, but was taken by other people again, well of Sitnah (Opposition), and they went and dug another well, this time, those people never take their wells, Issac name the well Rehoboth (room), and he said, God has given them room and they will flourish.

We should learn from Issac, let go of all the disputes and oppositions, we don't have to deal with them, let them go, as we let them go, we let our heart free from worries and pressures, and look to the cross, Jesus is standing there, always, waiting for us to call him, to ask him for help, ask him to be with us.

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation, put your faith on Jesus, and believe him, even though everything is against you, but remember God favors us, Jesus loves us, just let Jesus take away your burden, when you're tired, Jesus let him handle the things, and believe in him, and rest...

PS: I'm resting too :-P

The Power of Word, The Power of Healing, The Power of God

Today woke up and I got stuck on my bed, my bed loved me so much that it doesn't want me to go anywhere. Well I got up anyways, attended the 2nd service, I remembered that there's a pastor from US a gonna preach to us, but I forgot what is it about, his name is Richard Roberts, son of Oral Roberts, ministry of healing. He gave a lot of testimonies, about how people were healed through "touch".

Healing is one of the gifts from God, and here he is, Richard Roberts, the one that gonna help us, to learn how to use the word of God, to heal people. There 3 methods to heal people, 1st, by touching. Through your hands, and faith, you're passing God's power from God into him/her, and pray in the authority of Jesus Christ, ask the thing to come out from the person. Well I did that with a lady, she was shy =.=lll then I have to reach my hands to hers, and I prayed for her, then she told me she felt something when into her. LOL! not dirty things of course. I can feel that there's a flow from me towards her. 2nd methods is by sending the word, is the same thing as the 1st method, just that, you imagine that, you're sending something, like you're sending powers, here is your faith, send your faith into that person, and pray in the name of Jesus Christ and rebuke the negative. 3rd method is like what they show in the movie, the holy water, or oil or clothes, you pray and imagine you put your prayers into the object, and let the person receives it. Of course, everything happens because of God not us. It is God that heals the sick and rebuke the devil, but we as believers, we have to believe and have faith in our prayers, and believes that our prayers will happen.

Prayers doesn't need to be long and naggy, come to God boldly and righteous, and believes in Him that He is the Almighty God, which makes impossible into possible.

Purpose

God's plan or my plan? This is a big question, that I always...always ask myself, is it this is what God wants me to do, is this where God want me to go? God has a plan for us, everyone of us, has a plan, has a purpose in this life, to fulfill. I have been a christian for 5 years, after I baptised. But ironically I still looking for the purpose in my life.

Jeremiah 29:11, God has a plan for us, it is to bless us, to help us, to give us hope and future, not to harm us. So even now if I lost everything, I know, it is part of His plan, even though I have to suffer, I will endure, because this is His plan, I will follow His plan, to make God happy. God cares about us, everyone of us is special in His eyes, everyone of us is important to Him.

Any future plans you asked? Nah... I don't have plans for myself, because I don't need to, God already planned everything for me before I even born, why should I bother to plan for myself when the Almighty God, the king of kings, the lord of lords, the one who created this universe, planned for me, and all I have to do is, follow, because I know where I'm going after this life, back to Him, so I don't really bother about what happen if I die, this world won't bother about me, why should I bother about this world? This world has rejected my Lord, my Savior, my Brother Jesus Christ, who is the only Son of God, so there is no way that they won't reject me.

God, I know You listens to my prayer, every one of them, You loves me, You cares about me, even though it takes me to hate You, You still loves me when I realised that, You did all the things just to protect me. I have faith that in You my God, my Father, You are the Almighty One that nothing is impossible in You, You planned for us, our role, our purpose, to glorify and magnify Your Name, there is an incredible joy in me, when I felt Your presence, when I heard Your voice, its like, Father calling me, and I shall happily reply with yes.

Today's sermon is about the difference between a believer and a non-believer. We believers are recognized by Holy Spirit as disciples, while for those non-believers, Holy Spirit recognized them as  man. What's the differences between disciples and man? We are disciples of Jesus Christ, he is our Lord, our savior, whom die on the cross for us and take the sins away from us and make us righteous in front of Father, Almighty God. We are righteous, and we have missions with us, and we are protected by our Father. As a man, there's nothing a man can do, and from him there's no righteousness in front of God, no matter what the man do, give to the poor, build the church, but he is still a non-believer, because he doesn't believe in Jesus, that he is the savior, and through him there's salvation.

God is a GOOD GOD! in Joel 2:28, the Lord will pour out his spirit on us, no matter what age, no matter what gender, no matter what status, everyone of us is equal, and everyone of us will have it. How graceful is our Lord Jesus, he willingly to die for us, and call us brothers... while we don't even deserve to untie his sandals. Jesus is my Lord, my Savior, my Brother, my Family... In these 3 years, I'm without family, without relatives, He constantly reminds me to go church, constantly reminds me I'm loved, constantly reminds me that He is with me. Without Him, I will not be able to survive through these 3 years, others might think that these 3 years is fun for me, but its not. Family is what I need now, to be felt loved by family, by the love ones, by friends.

"Have faith!" I keep on reminding myself, its easy to say, but it's hard to practice. I'm still learning to have faith. Have faith in God, is one of the way to make Him happy, its like have faith in your family, in your friends, which makes them happy.Pastor Prince said, you have to believe it, so that you can feel it, then you can see it! I protect what is given to me, and I defend them again my enemy, just like eagles! God protects us from our enemies, God protects His children.

Unmerited Favor

God loves me, His grace, He pour His blessing on me, and changed all the wrath from devil, and glorify Him. God thank you for all the things you've done for me. Thank you lord Jesus, as you freely give so freely I received. You answered my prayers, and you loved me the same. I'm sorry I keep on asking you the same question over and over again, and Father you answered my question over and over again, without feeling frustrated, without feeling angered, thank you Father. Even though my family is not around me, Father you take care of me.

Father thank you for answering my prayers, its a faith between You and me. Please give me strength Father.

Missed Calls, anyone?

Today's a tiring day, wasted 5 hours waiting for the IM, and ended around 4.30pm, and dragged myself down to Vivocity to look for ear stud. I walked around Vivocity and amazingly there isn't any shop selling ear stud, then I gave up and head to cell group. While I'm waiting for cell group, I started to check my phone, then I thought of something interesting. I imagined God holding the handphone, and constantly checking the handphone for messages or any missed calls. Then the feeling that you're waiting for someone to reply your messages or call you to chat with you, that feeling is obviously not nice. Then when that someone send you a message, you read it and you felt happy, just like God read our prayers or our comments about Him, or when we talk about Him, He will read it immediately, and even though sometimes its something that saddening, but He'll still be happy, because someone He cares and loves talked to Him.

The feeling of waiting for someone's message or calls is obviously not nice, and yet you still willing to wait for him/her message or calls. This is how God actually do. He constantly waiting for us to message Him, to call Him, to talk to Him about our life, our problems, our joy, our pain, our weak, our hope and faith, and our love. This shows that how much He loves us, and He is willing to wait for us to call Him and no matter how late it is! 

I've been praying and God answered my prayers. He gives me faith and hope again everything I fall, or I lost hope. He want me to learn patience, want me to endure, want me to have faith and be confident. 

In God I Trust, In God I found Faith, Hope and Love.

Good night world! Goodnight Father, Goodnight Jesus! Your will be done!

Amazing Sunday

Woke up quite late today, abit sleepy...but today is the day that Father is going to teach me something new, or tell me something good! So I forced myself up, bathe with cold water as usual, and went to NCC. The sermon's about Eagles, its an interesting sermon, and more interestingly is that, God actually told me something important today, that is do not fear when something's bad happen to you, but instead, soar high and ride it, with grace and faith, and glorify your LORD your God! 2nd Sermon is about Fire, Proverbs 17:3, through fire silver and gold purifies! And God also train us to be stronger and so able to do His will! Thankyou LORD for all you have done for me, you constantly searching for me, and constantly encourage me, to fly, to be courageous, to endure, to be patience, to love. Thank you my Lord my Savior!

Guitar speaks

Playing gospels with my guitar, its such a wonderful thing to do!

My Savior, My God, My Father, My Lord

I used to love rock and pop songs, but after I listen to christian songs, I found out that nowadays the songs are meaningless, like Lady Gaga, her songs full of crap, what Poker Face, Bad Romance, or whatever it is. I just browsed through Billboard Top 50 Singles for this week, I was shocked to see Like A G6 is no.1. This song is a  party song, and its totally meaningless, like I Gotta Feeling from B.E.P. People who lives in this age, doesn't know that a song, is actually a mixture of emotions, beautiful meanings, like a poem, to someone or something you love.

My Savior,My God by Aaron Shust, is a beautiful song, its a totally different feeling when you listening to modern songs and christian songs, when you're listening to christian songs, you will feel like you're in another realm, peaceful, joy, not like modern songs, Like A G6, its about sex, self-seeking, self pleasure, and all links to sin. No wonder nowadays the teenagers like to club, bad influences from medias, what's the point of getting drunk and wasted and end up destroying your body? 1 Corinthians 3:16, we are the temples of God, and God's Spirit lives in us. And if we dirty the temple, which is we sin and do not obey God, the Spirit will go away. Do not seek things that pleasures your body, as the body will decay but not the spirit. It is our spirits that we have to take care of, because our spirit is everlasting and only God can destroys it. I'm not of afraid of man, what they can do to me? Destroys my body, but my spirit still lives.

Its ironic that we fear man more than we fear God, man's word cannot kill us, but it is the God's word that will destroys us. Man can't do a thing, as we are all the same, we are all sinners, not even Satan can destroy my spirit, only God can destroy my spirit. I encourage everyone to fear God, because He is the Almighty.

Man's law is nothing but a piece of paper, and there's nothing significant out of it. It is God's law that is powerful. But yet it is not the law that saves us, but the Grace of God, the Love of the Son, Jesus Christ that died for us on the cross and through Him we are saved. He purchased our spirit and soul with His blood. We belong to Him.

Blessed be the name of the Lord, when the darkness closes in, still I will say blessed be the name of the Lord!

Today's sermon

Woke up late today, because last night was quite drunk, went to Blue Jaz with Hennes, nice pub, cozy sofas, nice people, nice drink and nice food. Quite cheap though. I woke up around 10am, so was quite late, I took a cab down to Suntec City, because I don't really like to be late for service, especially meeting God and I want to listen to His words, they are beautiful and powerful!

Today's sermon was about faith. Hebrews 11:6, said that without faith, it is impossible to please God. The faith here is not blind faith, which is your own faith, the faith here in Mark 11:24, Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. I have to believe that I received it, then I will receive it. Abit confusing here but, its just like, when your dad tells you that he will buy you a car, then you believed him that you will get a car, and then you get your car. Its something like that. It's hard sometimes, because when you're in desperation and frustration, you tend to want it immediately, but the pastor said, its like getting pregnant, when female conceived, she can't see it, but it is there. You must believe that you received it, then you will get it. In Matthew 13:12, says that whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. In order to have it, one must believe it, believe that you receive it, and you will get it.

We must be in the realm of Faith, which is where God wants us be, not realm of Feelings, which is where Satan want us be. Yes we have feelings, but we're not controlled by feelings, even when we're being struck down, we're not destroyed, because Jesus is with us! 

Have faith my brothers and sisters, and control well your feelings, don't let the feelings control you, as when it happens, Satan will control you. Live in the realm of faith not the realm of feelings. :) God bless!

It took a legion of demons to take me down,
but in Father my victory is found,
wearing the armor Father gave me,
Stands in front of my enemies shouting,
I shall not fall in front of thee,
as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is in me.

Awesome Sunday

First of all, PRAISE THE LORD! Heavenly Father, Prince of Peace and the awesome Counselor. Really hit the wall today, pissed our supervisor, but we have faith in Him, as He will turn a tragic accident into a glorious victory. Graceful Lord, Loving Father, and Merciful God, when I was so frustrated, He send her to cheer me up, at that moment, I realized that must have Hope in God, and have Faith, I prayed to Him, please guide us through, at 3.25pm, our supervisor email us, say our report is good to go and GOOD JOB! I know it His Grace, really thank God.

Faith

Today I woke up quite late, so I missed out the first 2 services. But luckily I still went for the 3rd service, because the sermon is about Faith. Well the sermon briefly talks about Moses helped the Israelites escaped from Egypt and stayed in wilderness for 40 years. But amazingly, it is also talks about Jesus. First year of wilderness, the Israelites were complaining about thirst and Moses used his rod to struck (beating) the boulder, which represents Jesus on the cross. And at the 40th year in wilderness, the Israelites complained about thirst again, and this time, God asked Moses to use Aaron's rod which blooms, represents Grace,Life, Resurrection, to speak to the cliff (Jesus). But Moses didn't obey God and he used the rod to struck the cliff, Jesus's body, which represents the church! But still the water flows out abundantly, and the people and animals drank it. So basically it says, Jesus took the beating and there shouldn't be any beating to the people after that. Instead of beating, God wants us to love and speak to Jesus whenever we face our problems and don't beat ourselves or our loved ones.

The pastor also added this, this part I think is the most important part of the sermon. It is not LAW that makes the people to repent, but it is the LOVE of GOD that makes the people to repent. By forcing people to follow the LAW, it is like beating them and it's not gonna work as good as telling them how much Jesus LOVES them.

Also, Faith is important in our life, the word Amen is not just so simple as it is. It means rock in hebrew ,means your prayers are as hard as rock, and when you put Amen behind, meaning you're believing it that its going to happen, by Faith! Faith is the way that you believes in God, and Faith also shows that you Love God.

Don't stop believing, don't stop having Faith, Don't stop loving God.

Faith, Hope and Love comes together, it is the three virtues that a christian should have.

Memorizing verses

Memorizing verses is a joy, and everytime you finish memorize a verse, you can feel that you're much more closer to God. I recently just started to memorize verse. Its not alot, but I know someday I can memorize the whole book.

Its been 3rd time that God talks about the Cost of Following Jesus to me. The first time is during a cell group with Andre, I flipped through Luke, and the verses captured me, I pondered on it quite some time but i still dun get it. 2nd time its through Andre's work, reminds me of the Cost of Following Jesus, and 3rd time is through yesterday's cell group.

Its not easy to following Jesus, but if its His calling, I will, surely follow Him, let the dead bury their own dead, and I go proclaim the kingdom of God.

"No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the Kingdom of God." Luke 9:62

The Cost of Following Jesus (Luke 9:57-62)

This verse is the verse that I pondered upon, and keep thinking about it. It's a though Jesus is talking to me, are you sure you want to follow me, even though He has no home in this world, and you will be the same, you have to be ready for the mission even though it means to go ahead of your beloved ones, and never look back while you are doing His work.

There is strong feeling of me right now after I read this verse. Serving God is not an easy task, I maybe get killed in the way, but I know that even if it means to lay down my life just for the sake of glorify Father, I will do it. When its Father's calling, its just like my dad called me, I will answer it immediately, and put down what I'm doing and start his request. It is a joy and excitement when you're doing your dad's request, it is the same applied to our Heavenly Father. Even though my dad is poor dad, but I have a rich Father, who owns the world, and He is willingly to help me when I'm in need.

I pray to you Father please guide us through, and let us respond with joy and excitement when You called us to do Your work.

3rd SMA Karate Championship 2010

Alot of things flash through my mind when I first heard about SMA Championship, like am I up to the challenge? Am I well trained enough? Do I got enough guts to face my opponent? Well,everything was answered when I took part in the tournament, and finish it with all I got. Its a tough fight no doubt about it. Never in my life I feel so threatened, feel so pressured when I was facing my opponent. He's from Nepal, slightly taller than me, darker skin, bold head, doesn't look like any fighters I ever met. He is fierce, fast, aggressive. I was kinda scared, but after received some punches and kicks, I knew that I can do this. His kicks are strong, but I managed to block it with my knee and counter back. After a few rounds, we got into a draw, its troublesome, because if I don't get a point soon, its gonna be the judges vote, and I don't like it. So, I try some punches and kicks, but didn't get him(well he's a blackbelt anyway, found out after the match), so the match dragged further on, until both of us were dead tired. After 3 minutes, we were still in a draw, so we're going to fight another 1 minute, if we still draw, then the judges decide. And so, I wished it didn't, but it was the time for the judges to decide, and I lose, because he's more experienced and aggressive than me, well I agreed with that too. But I never feel embarrassed or discouraged, because I learned something from it.That is winning is not just about training hard and proper technique, also about your heart, guts. Although I didn't win anything, but I'm proud of myself because I faced a worthy opponent.

Karate is not about strength and training, its all rounded. Remember that.

Love In The Ice

It's not your fault that those hands are cold ,clinging onto the wounds of the past
Afraid to love someone by turning your back against the true meaning of the story
The heart that is hugged ,slowly melts......like an ice...
To be loved by someone, by anyone ,it makes life shines
If it was me ,and it is me,I will make your heart once again ,warmth with undying love

Fates play .Even though it still makes your heart ache when your tears end ,a ray of light will shine into darkness ,we can grasp it.
Sorrow and loneliness ,that every person endures ,and searching for ,and hold onto those ,who will be the one ,which will share the joy and pain ,which will last forever.

Yes ,for you the place is here ,don't worry ,don't falter anymore ,I will protect you ,will whatever strength I left. Because it is love ,my love ,as beautiful as it is miserable ,don't be afraid.

Let you know my mind, let you know my heart , this beautiful ,beautiful moments ,it is ephemeral.

For I will warm your heart will undying love ,melts like an ice

My Religion: I am a Christian ,a letter to God

Yes I am a christian ,from baptist church. Its been a year that I haven't attend any Sunday Service ,I am very sorry, I always came up with alot of excuses when people asked why I didn't attend any church ,like I'm busy with schoolwork ,I'm busy with my training ,I'm busy this ,I'm busy that .To think that I actually see those things more important than God ,I'm really not a sincere christian at all.

I break the rules that I ,promised myself to Jesus that I will not break them again .I break them again and again ,and I'm always pray for forgiveness ,I can't even keep a simple promise ,and I expected that Jesus to keep His promise .Yes ,He always listen to my prayer ,and always forgive me. But I took advantage of His gentleness and Forgiveness ,I'm not a good christian after all.

Today ,I searched some christian songs ,and there's a song ,Here I am To Worship ,with a video ,about Jesus. I cried when I watched the video ,that Jesus ,died on the cross for me, for you ,for us. I thought of alot of things after that ,like what am I doing all the time ,and I feel that God is love ,Jesus still loves me ,as He still listen to my prayer every night ,guide me through all the obstacles ,help me overcome all the difficulties, and hold me ,when I'm falling down ,help me stand up when I'm defeated.

I'm really sorry for all the things I had done to you Lord ,I may not be a good sheep ,but I'll try my best to be one for You .

Doctor and DJ

We'll know to doctor heals people's wounds and injuries and saving people's lives. It's my dream to become a doctor. I am not attracted by fortune and fame of being a doctor ,what attracts me is ,saving people's life ,and helping those in pain .The feeling of happiness and satisfaction is really unmeasurable ,diagnosing people ,and find out the cause of the illness ,and treat it ,and see the patient recover from illness ,and feel proud and happy about it ,this is what a doctor should feel ,not because for the high paid,big house and big cars ,but the feeling of wanting to help people ,is very important .Even if unable to treat their mental injuries ,but at least treat their physical injuries ,so to lessen their pain.

Yes ,I don't have money if I really wanted to study Medicine ,but I believe if there's a will ,there's a way. I won't give up my dream of being a doctor unless God tell me ,this career does not suits me ,if not ,I'll fight hard ,and let my dream come true.

DJ ,is another one of my dream job ,although I don't know much about a DJ does ,but what I do know is DJ mixes songs ,compose Techno ,Electro ,Trance, awesome songs ,which when I listen to them ,I feel relaxing .I know afew DJs, DJ Splash ,with his Bass Is Kicking ,which is really awesome. DJ Raaban-Drop The Base ,DJ Mangoo-Eurodancer ,Tune Up-Feel Fine,East Clubbers ,and so on.

Its tough to be a DJ ,though it seems kinda easy ,but being a DJ ,you need to have creative mind, aspiration ,and alot of patience ,to compose a song.

Being a Doctor or DJ is tough ,what I believe is ,nothing is easy in this world ,even if sweep floor also a tough job ,imagine keep sweeping for 8 hours ,I don't think its an easy task.

Still ,I wanted to be a doctor the most now ,even though the journey will be tough ,but I think it'll be worth it.