tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131957892024-03-08T15:43:21.783+08:00ONE WAY -> JesusWas there a Day when U sank into Depression & Indulged in Sleep; Ciggis; Alcohol or Drugs? Were U gripped by Intense Fear about how short & delicate life is & U are wasting it? I did & I didn't snap out of it at once. It wasn't as though I was enlightened by something I never knew, existence of God, I mean, "Life Is Short" is so cliché but there are times when clichés confront you at point-blank & U become aware of its true meaning rather than taking it for granted that u already know!Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-61273754481938525932008-07-21T05:21:00.005+08:002008-07-21T05:56:57.318+08:00One Way -> Jesus 2008<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><strong>I'm back! Changing the Aesthetic look of my Blog, Sharing what I went through for these 7 months...with Jesus & the Journey...the Pain & the Gain, the Law & Grace,the Shepherd & the Sheep, The loving Kindness, The Tender Mercy...<br /></div></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><div align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"><strong>Hillsong Live - Healer (Song Story)</strong></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><p align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aZ_ny8hMgRY&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aZ_ny8hMgRY&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><strong>Verse1</strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">You hold my every moment</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">You calm my raging seas</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">You walk with me through fire</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">And heal all my disease</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">I trust in You</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">I trust in You</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><strong>Chorus</strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">I believe You're my Healer</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">I believe You are all I need</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">I believe You're my Portion</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">I believe You're more than enough for me</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Jesus You're all I need</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><strong>Bridge</strong></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Nothing is impossible for You</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Nothing is impossible for You</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Nothing is impossible for You</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">You hold my world in Your hands</span></p>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-11104504316076100372007-11-30T05:23:00.000+08:002008-01-21T03:16:01.118+08:00Born to be a blessing!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Belated Merry X'mas & Happy New Year to all brothers & sisters in Christ!</span> I 'log in' the date of November last year as I blog once a month but little did I know it took me 2 months after my last entry. I had stomach & gastric flu just a few days before the Korea trip with the family & by grace of <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span>; I manage to recover though the doctor warned me that I am not fit to travel. This is another amazingly testimony I will share in the next entry, God is good is definitely an understatement...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I am unwell and had been on medical leaves for near to 15 days, which is why I had not blog as I spend most of my time resting in bed. My asthma was triggered after a week of lung infection & doctor’s explanation was stress & bad weather. I had very bad asthma since young but stopped for 10 years & this relapse is really challenging. Frequent chest pain, feeling breathless, induces fatigue & frustration. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Beloved, pray for me</span> & I am keeping myself joyful with verse<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> 1 Thess 5:16-18 [NCV]</span>, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Always be joyful. Pray continually, & give thanks whatever happens. That is what God wants you in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Christ Jesus</span>."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Dread for medical review coming Monday, was advised to rest in hospital but I chose to stay at home as I never like hospital environment. The smell, the machines...Last Sunday I managed to attend service where <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pastor Brian Houston</span> from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hillsong Church</span> quoted a verse that is inspiring from the book of Nehemiah. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"So Ezra the scribe stood on a <span style="font-weight: bold;">platform</span> of wood which they had made for the purpose...And Ezra <span style="font-weight: bold;">opened the book</span> in sight of all the people; & <span style="font-weight: bold;">opened it</span>, all the people stood up. And Ezra blessed the Lord, the Great God. Then all the people answered, "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Amen, Amen! </span>While lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads & worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Neh 8:4-6 [NKJV]</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">His revelation of the word <span style="font-weight: bold;">"platform"</span> reaches deep into my heart. We have various platforms to share the grace of God from our workplace to our family! What stuck me most was the voice of the Lord; He spoke about the new <span style="font-weight: bold;">"platform"</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">our blogs</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">cyberspace </span>where an island such as Singapore can be reached to as far as United States, Australia, Britain, Africa, India, & China...basically the whole World! In the old covenant, with Ezra just opening the book, everyone fell on their faces to worship the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lord,</span> how much more is the <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">new covenant</span> where <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span>, the son of God, on the old rugged cross gave us life, a life of abundance & grace! Amen?!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Result of good Gospel of <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus Christ</span> is health & wealth. If we are still debating about health & wealth whether these are the portion of the Gospel, then we have problem with <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span>as everywhere <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span> went He healed every individuals. Everywhere <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span> went, He made fishermen who toil all night caught nothing; He gave them a net breaking boat of fishes. He fed 5000 with 12 baskets full of left over! Health & wealth is the result of the Gospel, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gospel of Grace!</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">By Faith Abel offered...By Faith Enoch was taken...By Faith Noah...By Faith Abraham...By Faith Sarah...By Faith Jacob...By Faith Joseph...By Faith Moses...By Faith Rahab...</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Heb 11:1-40 [NASB]</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">By Faith Amen?! All things</span> are possible through <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Christ Jesus!</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">By Faith we are Healed, we are Blessed Amen?!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">With <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span>. No back-door entrance. No late-night arrival. Paradise knows neither night nor second-class citizens. As we accept His forgiveness, our day of gripes & groans becomes a day of gratitude. Gratitude is the firstborn child of grace, the appropriate response of the blessed. When others nail us to the cross of our past, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span> swings open the door to our future paradise. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span> treats our shame-filled days with grace. We are wrong. He is right. We sin. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">He is the Savior. We need grace. <span>Jesus </span>can give it. </span>So ask Him, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Remember me when you enter the kingdom."</span> And when you do, the one who spoke then will speak again. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Today you will join me in paradise."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired By:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Pastor Brian Houston, Pastor Prince & Max Lucado</span><br /></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-83878785826221923362007-10-15T02:01:00.000+08:002007-10-15T04:30:29.371+08:00A good opinion of God!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Praise <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus </span>I get to blog tonight! Just finish listening to one of the sermon of Pastor Prince full of blessings to share. If we are believing right, we will be living right as <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus </span>came to give us grace! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Why do we need faith if we can earn it?</span> I learn this truth just about a week ago when my sister wakes up in the morning complaining of pain & had a relapse. I was half asleep as I was working on one of the project till dawn, in fact I did not sleep at all, mum looked at me for my opinion & I was just exhausted, I could not think...</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">To cut the story short, we sent her to a private hospital, got one of the best doctor to attend to her, X-rays were taken & the doctor initiated another CT scan. When mum told me about this, my first reaction was, "Oh Christ, this must be costly!" as I know all the scans are expensive, indeed this medical incident was expensive. <span style="font-weight: bold;">However, the next day, the scan was reviewed, my sister was just suffering from indigestion & all is good! Thank you <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span>!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">At times, I don't understand God's plan. Why are there trials and tribulations?</span> I came to comprehend this => when God does not give us what we want, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">it does not means He is not loving us but strengthening us inside. When God shuts a window, He will open a door. When God shuts a door, He will open a Big Gate! Amen?! </span>I never dream I will blog for the Glory of God! I never dream I will sit still in Church, listening to sermons, to share God's love for us! <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span> transforms me! Beloved, trust God, trust the goodness of God! Trials can destroy us if we don't have a good opinion of God! We can rejoice in trials as all things work together for Good! Troubles and trials have redemptive quality! <span style="font-weight: bold;">God will use us, our experience to be a Blessing of someone out there...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now I know I am not an accident but born with a purpose in life! Out of our strength of trials, we will strengthen others!</span> Let the result speak for itself! Just like now I am busy training my team, in fact a new team was formed out of His grace, that is why I been so busy but I want to make it a point monthly no matter how busy I am, I must blog to share with all beloved, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">His goodness & grace. </span><br /><br />When we lose our temper with a Child, Christ intervenes: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"I've Paid for that."</span> When we tell a lie & all of Heaven groans, our Savior speaks up: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"My death covered that Sin." </span>As we lust, gloat, covet, or judge, Jesus stands before the tribunal of Heaven & points to the Blood-Streaked cross. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"I've already made provision. I've taken away the sins of the World." "You therefore my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">2 Tim 2:1 [NKJV] </span><br /><br />Lift our eyes off the weeds. Major in the grace of God. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Always be joyful. Pray continually, & give thanks whatever happens. That is what God wants for you in Christ Jesus."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 Thess 5:16-18 [NCV].<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Always be joyful. Give thanks whatever happens. Learn to handle troubles cheerfully & with good opinion, as opportunities rather than irritations for there are plenty of big jobs waiting for people who are not afraid of troubles...<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Impossible, we say? How do we know? How do we know until we give every day a chance?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired By:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Pastor Prince & Max Lucado</span><br /></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-33342345894889313742007-09-18T02:32:00.000+08:002007-09-22T01:13:43.559+08:00Now !!!<div style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >"For He says, at acceptable Time I listened to you. And on the day of Salvation I helped You." Behold <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >NOW</span> is "The Day of Salvation" 2 Cor 6:2 </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">[NASB]</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Powerful revelation from Pastor Prince, as I never notice the word </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >now</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> till last week Bible study! In the name of </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Jesus Christ</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, I proclaim </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">NOW</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, all bondages of yours will break be it spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically or financially! As </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Jesus</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> cried on the Cross: </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">"It is finished!!!"</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Amen?!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">As for me, work is a never ending story, I will Blog at least once a month as daily I miss all of you, beloved Champions! Had stomach Flu for 2 weeks & irritable bowel due to stress. Pastor is preaching about</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Rest</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> & his sermons came at the right time as I am burning out. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Rest simply means to do what you can at your best e.g. in your work place & leave the rest to the Lord!</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Stop laboring your job, thinking how is my proposal? Am I doing enough to follow up with my sales clients, will my director accept my proposal etc...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">On last Wednesday during the Bible Study, out of no where came my worry to Bless my family for a holiday. The deceptions of Satan came with deceptions: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >aren't you upgrading to a premium car? Do you think your family will appreciate you for doing so?</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> [I attend New Creation Church while the rest of my family house themselves in another Church. At times we have conflict over the matter of </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Grace</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> while it is the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Grace teaching from Pastor Prince Ministry that brought me out of the land of lack to prosperity of entering the promise land <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">flowing</span> with milk & honey!]</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >At that exact moment of my thoughts, Pastor preached that <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Money is to be used! Don't save at the expense of fear. Don't use people, love people. I felt that sense of peace words cannot describe..."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Cutting the testimony short, I bless my whole family for a trip to </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Korea in winter </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">as my younger sister wanted to have a feel of snow! My family chooses the package & I bless them with the</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > grace of Jesus</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. I felt the peace in my heart, as</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Devil, you do not tell us what to do in our life as we are Child of most high God!</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Amen?! I had my plans as well to visit sister Janice for the cheese cake, Sister Kitty, Sister Lori Sister Dana etc</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >"This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it"<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Psalm 118:24 [NKJV]</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. So we should give our day by a chance, change our view, & imitate the resolve of the psalmist: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >"I will rejoice & be glad in it."</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> We can't spend tomorrow's money, celebrate tomorrow's achievements, or resolve tomorrow's riddles. We have only today: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >This is the day that the Lord has made.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> We must be present to win! Don't heavy today with yesterday's regrets or acidize it with tomorrow's troubles. But we tend to do so don't we; I confess I do at times!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We sabotage our day, wiring it for disaster, lugging along yesterday's troubles, downloading tomorrow's struggles. Remorse over the past, anxiety over future. We aren't giving our day a chance! </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them. </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Lightning strikes us as well. Thunderbolts of regret can ignite & consume us. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Counteract them with downpours of God's grace, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus blood </span>daily washings of forgiveness.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >"The Lord's love never ends; His mercies never stop. They are new every morning"</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Lam 3:22-23 [NCV]</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Inspired By:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Pastor Prince & Max Lucado</span><br /></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-17979514135532648872007-08-17T03:40:00.000+08:002007-08-17T05:28:56.207+08:00I see Grace...<p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal">Beloved, Child of most high God, pardon me for my slow reply. Just want you to know, every line you left on my blog, I see grace, I felt love of Abba in Heaven & thank you for all the prayers for me & my family. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Deeply appreciated...</span><br /><br />Work is heavy. Encounter many challenges for the month, just like <span style="font-weight: bold;">David versus Goliath. Facing the Giants.</span> My router burnt out, thus I lost internet connection & my desktop computer had some software conflicts & had to be formatted. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Data recovery is a nightmare...</span><br /><br />All in all of the fiasco, I kept telling myself <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"the battle is the Lord's" </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">I shall just rest in Him. </span>My sister should be better, I hardly get to see her as I worked till late, when I'm home she had rested for the night. Mum didn't mention about her medical condition, I just trust the Lord for her healing! Amen?! As God is good!<br /><br />A close friend of mine 'sold me' out of a business deal recently. I was so angry with him as our years of friendship was traded for financial gains. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Every man for himself. Get all you can, & can all you get. Survival of the fittest? I prayed about it & ask Jesus how could such happen to me? Me! Child of most high God!</span><br /><br />He led me to <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Eccles 7:9 [TEV]</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"It is foolish to harbor a grudge"</span>. An eye for an eye becomes a neck for a neck & a job for a job & a reputation for a reputation.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> "Godwyn, When does it stop?"</span> Vengeance fixes our attention at life's ugliest moments. Score-settling freezes our stare at cruel events in our past. Is this where we want to look?<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Will rehearsing & reliving our hurts make us a better person? </span>By no means. It will destroy us...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Revenge removes Jesus from the equation.</span> Vigilantes displace & replace Jesus. "I'm not sure you can handle this one, Jesus. You may punish him too little or too slowly. I'll take this matter into my hands, thank you" <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ever have such thoughts? I admit I do at times. No one had a clearer sense of right & wrong than the perfect Son of God, Jesus! </span><br /><br />Give grace. Forgiveness is not foolish. Forgiveness is, at its core, choosing to see our offender with different eyes. <span style="font-weight: bold;">To forgive is to move on</span>...J<span style="font-weight: bold;">esus lived the life we could not live & took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist. </span>His sacrifice begs us this question: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">If he so loved us, can we not love each other? Having been forgiven, can we not forgive?</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Having feasted at the table of grace, can we not share a few crumbs?</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other"</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Rom 12:21 [MSG]</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Inspired By:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"> Max Lucado</span></p>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-22477658255946206592007-07-03T02:34:00.000+08:002007-07-03T04:01:23.501+08:00My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?<div style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I had not blog since 31st of May, 2007, 'lame excuses' of being with work & family while the truth is, I am not good with time management. As for me, I start things with an aim to finish them. Writing an entry, I have to meditate with the presence of Holy Spirit who guides us through all things. Thus, it can be a few hours just to pen down an entry...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Even though I did not blog & share my awesome testimonies, God never stop loving me. I'm reading "For One More Day" by Mitch Albom instead of Gospel books, I feed myself daily. <span style="font-size:130%;">God did not send lighting down from Heaven to burn away my book. Father in Heaven instead Bless me with another high end sale of a landed property, transacted within 24 hours of an open house. </span>However, I am not saying, we do nothing, just awaiting for favors & blessing as the scripture say, "The lazy shall not eat..."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">My challenges for month of June? Just misplace my car key & Dad found it in the washing machine! As there are electronic devices for key-less entry, the water might have damaged the key, I tried using it & it works! <span style="font-size:130%;">Even in time of tribulations God knows every of your needs.</span> Lost some sales accounts, down with sickness & pain, heaps more & I should not complain as looking back, there is only one who can walk me through,<span style="font-size:130%;"> His name is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span>...Let Jesus be the friend you need. Talk to him. Spare no detail. Disclose your fear & describe your dread...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Sister Janice, Godzhart, Lori, Audrey, PIA & more were concern about my 'disappearance' so kind of them to drop me lines of encouragement. Brother Kevin even wrote me a personal email to up lift my heart. I'm so bless with all your prayers as the scripture says, when two or more agree, it will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. <span style="font-size:130%;">I 'threw' all my work aside, determined to share an entry as I miss all of you!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Some sharing, during this month, I experience the true nature of God; <span style="font-size:130%;">He will never leave us or forsake us as <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span> took it all for us, "<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?</span>" <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Matt 27:46</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">Father forsaken His beloved only Son, for you & me to be a child of God!</span> The new covenant cut between Christ & our Abba in Heaven. Facing tribulations be it being emotions, physical or financial, run to Him! "<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >For sin shall not be master you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but grace.</span>" <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:130%;" >Rom 6:14-15</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">When I am desperate, I go to God's sanctuary. God's sanctuary is the place where God meets & ministers to hopeless hearts. <span style="font-size:130%;">Make God your refuge.</span> Not our job, our spouse, our reputation, or our retirement account. <span style="font-size:130%;">Make God our refuge. </span>Let Him encircle us. Let Him be the ceiling that breaks the sunshine, the walls that stop the wind, the foundation on which we stand. <span style="font-size:130%;">We'll ever know that <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span> is all we need until <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus</span> is all you have. Are you in the wilderness with me? Let's find refuge in God's presence...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Inspired By: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Pastor Prince & Max Lucado</span></div></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-60727015975172011082007-05-31T22:33:00.000+08:002007-05-31T23:45:13.259+08:00Know Your Enemy<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;">My younger sister had been away from school for about a month due to poor health. She is going for another round of medical examination later in the day. This had been going on for the past 2 years & at times I can't help myself but to doubt...<span style="font-size:130%;">Abba are you there? </span> I have been very busy with work & was not feeling too well for the past weeks. Constant flu & fever, doctor never stop but use the same explanation of the letter S...Stress! That briefly summarized for <span style="font-size:130%;">my absence of blogging that I miss most in my life...</span><br /><br />Let's dive into the words I have been 'feeding' for the past one month! Trouble seems to be as much of a part of life as breathing. Everyone has trouble at some point in his or her life. And human nature always wants to place the blame for its trouble on someone else. When trouble arises, the most natural thing to do is to place the blame for it on someone or something. Sadly, for the most part, many Christians have been falsely accusing God of being the cause of their troubles. This is the number one deception sown in the Church today - that our problems, <span style="font-size:130%;">our trials & our temptations are send by God to teach us.</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">This lie says that trials & tribulations are God's tools of developing & strengthening our character...</span><br /><br />The very <span style="font-size:130%;">extreme end of this deception is that God Himself is the author or our troubles or that God is the One who makes us sick in order to teach us something. </span>This is absolutely against the word of God. Why? Because the very <span style="font-size:130%;">basic principle of the Christian life is to know that God put our sin, sickness, disease, sorrow, grief & poverty on <span style="font-size:180%;">Jesus at Calvary.</span> </span>For God to put any of this on us to teach us or to strengthen our faith would be a miscarriage of justice. <span style="font-size:130%;">To believe that God has a purpose for your sickness would mean that <span style="font-size:180%;">Jesus bore your sicknesses in vain. </span>What an insult to His love & care & compassion toward us!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"All authority has been given to Me in heaven & on earth."</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Matt 28:18 [NASB]</span> Satan has been stripped of his power. The devil knows he is defenseless, so in order to stop the revelation of God's word in the believer, <span style="font-size:130%;">his only tool is <span style="font-size:180%;">deception.</span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span>He usually does this most successfully in the area of religion. He uses religion to blind & deceive the people. By sowing the seed of deception through religious tradition, Satan has robbed the Church of her power. He has no defense against our real spiritual weapons, but he can easily defend himself against our carnal, religious traditions...<br /><br />I have good news for you! <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"In righteousness you will be established; <span style="font-size:130%;">You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear; And from terror, for it will not come near you.</span> If anyone fiercely assails you it will not be from Me. Whoever assails you will fall because of you. Behold, I Myself have created the smith who blows the fire of coals. And brings out a weapon for its works; <span style="font-size:130%;">And I have created the destroyer to ruin. </span><span style="font-size:180%;">No weapon that is formed against you will prosper</span>; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their vindication is from Me."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Isaiah 54: 14-17 [NASB]</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The battle lines are drawn. God is not your problem. Satan is your problem-he is your enemy. But the good news is that <span style="font-size:130%;">God has provided our complete deliverance through Jesus Christ...Amen?!</span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">No matter what happens, remember His promise…</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"I am with you always, even to the end of age"</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" >Matt 28:20</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired By:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Kenneth Copeland</span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-3247823241723818122007-04-22T20:28:00.000+08:002007-04-22T21:55:31.016+08:00The Love of God<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Blessed shall you be when you come in, & blessed shall you be when you go out." </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Deut 28:6 [NASB]</span> This is not just a scripture promise, this is reality of life Jesus had given us through His sacrifice. When days I felt beaten, I felt the defeat, I will remind myself reading Deuteronomy 28, our blessing through the love of God, the perfect sacrifice of His only Son for all our sins...<br /><br />My breakthrough of sales came to past on the 9th of April 2007, where Daddy in Heaven blessed me the sale of a high-end condominium worth S$1.7 million & the developer issued a professional fee of S$17,178. Praise Jesus as that was my birthday as well, what a much awaited blessing I pined since my migration of marketing to sales took place. I am just so blessed even little issue of my life such as I need to buy a new belt, I was blessed by a brother in Christ, the exact made I wanted & he had kept it for years never use much!<span style="font-size:130%;"> You may say oh Godwyn, things are good for you thus you declare God is good. You are very wrong my beloved, as there are times I faced great multitude of adversity, I choose to count my blessings & I praise God when things are bad, I praise God when things are good...</span><br /><br />Pastor Prince shared with us his revelation of the love of God a few weeks back & I felt so blessed under his teaching. There are 3 main elements in the <span style="font-size:130%;">love of God, being the state of manifestation, the perfection & measurement of His love for us.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Rom 5:5-8 [NASB]</span>, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"& hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has poured within our hearts through Holy Spirit who was given to us. For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; through perhaps for the good man someone dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." </span>Let us not be self occupied for inside enjoyment, look outside to Christ & the <span style="font-size:130%;">cause is on that cross with the effect, the love of God...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 John 4:17-18 [NASB] </span>demonstrated the perfection of God's love, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because <span style="font-size:180%;">as He is so also are we in This World.</span> There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, & the one who fears is not perfected in love."</span> God looks at Jesus not us for judgment, don't look at our circumstances beloved but trust in Christ who is our new identity. <span style="font-size:180%;">Is Christ rich? So are we in this World! Is Christ Healthy? So are we in this World!</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">In the midst of storm, let us look at Jesus as He is above the storm Amen?! Step out of self occupation & we can step out of our pain...</span><br /><br />The measurement of God's love? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"I in them & you in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the World may know You send Me, & loved them, even as You have loved Me."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">John 17::23 [NASB].</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"God does not see the same way people see. People look at the outside of a person, but the Lord looks at the heart."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 Sam 16:17 [NCV] </span>We are weary of society's surface-level system, of being graded according to the inches of our waist, the square footage of our house, the color of our skin, the make of our car, the label of our clothes, the size of our office, the presence of diplomas, the absence of pimples. Don't we weary of such games?<br /><br />Hard work ignored. Devotion unrewarded. The boss chooses cleavage over character. The teacher picks pet students instead of prepared ones. Parents show of their favorite sons & leave their runts out in the field. Oh, the Goliath of exclusion. Are you sick of Him? Then it's time to quit staring at him. <span style="font-size:180%;">Who cares what he, or they think? What matters is what your Maker thinks. </span>God always see what no one else saw: a God-seeking heart!<span style="font-size:130%;"> Our Father knows our heart, & because He does, He has a place reserved just for you...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired By:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Pastor Prince & Max Lucado</span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-26183103437313738072007-04-02T01:28:00.000+08:002007-04-08T20:45:26.126+08:00David Vs The Giant<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The migration of my work from marketing real estate developments to sales & marketing took longer than I had planned for. Many asked me why I choose to do so as I am quite comfortable managing my team for project launches. Flexible working hours are good, as my younger sister requires medical consultation from time to time. She was to be admitted to hospital on the 30th of March for further medical examination, she refused, as she had an important interview for her gifted program...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Finally she managed to 'bargain' for a day care medical examination with consent of my mum. It is almost 2 years, yet there are no full diagnosis regarding her medical issue. Medical specialists were consulted from top of her head to the bottom of her toe, frustrating isn't it? I am not against doctors, in fact, I learn to pray to our Daddy in Heaven to anoint the doctor with wisdom for a clear diagnosis before we visit the medical consultants. <span style="font-size:130%;">This is indeed a year of new beginning with me especially with the change of career path & I can do all things in Christ, believing Him for His favors & blessings...</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">I felt like David, facing the Giant, the Goliath!</span> Our Goliath doesn't carry sword of shield; he brandishes blades of unemployment, abandonment, sexual abuse, or depression. Our giant doesn't pace up & down the hills of Elah; he prances through our office, our bedroom, our classroom. <span style="font-size:130%;">He brings bills you can't pay, grades you can't make, people you can't please, whiskey you can't resist, pornography we can't refuse, a career we can't escape, a past we can't shake & a future we can't face...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">David said to the philistine, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">"You come to me with a sword, as spear, & a javelin, but I come to you in the <span style="font-size:180%;">name of the Lord </span>of Hosts. The God of armies of Israel, whom you have taunted." </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 Sam 17:45 [NASB] </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"...& that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver us by sword or by spear; </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >for the battle is the Lord's</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> & He will give you into our hand."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 Sam 17:47 [NASB]</span> Notice in the scripture, David said that he come against the enemy in the name of the Lord. He further to declare, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"For the battle is the Lord's...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">What a spirit of David we should adore! He came against them in the name of the Lord & boldly, he declared the battle is the Lord's. Don't let our circumstances, people, or emotion to dictate us!</span> You might say that David knew how to get a head of his giant. When was the last time you did the same? How long since we ran toward our challenge? We tend to retreat, duck behind a desk or work or crawl into a nightclub of distraction or a bed of forbidden love.<span style="font-size:130%;"> For a moment, a day, we feel safe, insulated, anesthetized, but the work runs out, the liquor wears off, or the lover leaves, & we hear Goliath again...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Try a new track! Rush to our giant with a God-saturated soul. <span style="font-size:130%;">Giant of divorce, you aren't entering my home! Gaint of depression? It may take a lifetime, but you won't conquer me. Giant of alcohol, bigotry, child abuse, insecurity...you're going down. How long since you loaded your sling & took a swing at our giant? Giants. We must face them. Yet we need not face them alone. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >Focus first, & most on God.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Do we ponder God's grace four times as we ponder our guilt? Is our list of blessing four times as thick as our mental file or dread? Are we four times as likely to describe the strength of God as we are the demands of our day? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >Focus on giants - We stumble. Focus on God - our giants tumble. </span>Lift your eyes, giants-slayer. <span style="font-size:130%;">The God who made a miracle out of David stands ready to make one out of you...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Inspired by:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Max Lucado</span></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-47148293309537163362007-03-06T01:50:00.000+08:002007-03-06T04:11:25.140+08:00Leading a Supernatural Life<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal">Pastor Prince Sermons are full of great revelation & his last Sunday sermon was awesome! It is an honor to serve the Lord through my ‘blog’, giving praise & glory to our God from His blessing, favors & delivered us out of our daily trials & tribulations. I still have heaps of work to complete but spirit prompted, I opened my Bible, a specific verse brought my attention. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Matt 6:34 </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[</span>NASB]</span> A good reminder about our complex life in the 21st century...<br /><o:p> </o:p><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may <span style="font-size:130%;">prosper</span> & be in <span style="font-size:130%;">good health</span>, just as your soul prospers."</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">3 John [NASB]</span> </span>Isn't this clear that the Lord not only will He <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">prospers us in </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">All </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">things we do, He heals to give us a good health!</span> Let's look at another verse, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Why? Because they cannot pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. Just as it is written," Behold, I lay in </span><st1:place style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" st="on"><st1:city st="on">Zion</st1:city></st1:place><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> a stone of Stumbling & a rock of offense, <span style="font-size:130%;">And he who believes in Him will not disappointed</span>."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Romans 9:32-33 [NASB]</span> Questions, <span style="font-size:180%;">who is the stumbling stone? </span>The Devil...High Priest...No! No! It’s <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus Christ</span></span> our savior!<o:p><br /></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Righteousness is a gift </span>by the sacrifice of Christ! Our body is created by God, having <span style="font-weight: bold;">Spirit -Mind- Body. </span>We come to the house of God to 'feed' on the good Gospel of Christ Jesus! Our mind will be renewed from God's words. Our mind is the deferment to our spirit being righteous. When our mind believes we are righteous by faith, transformation of life from our body will occur!<o:p><br /></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal">The scripture revealed <span style="font-size:130%;">2 major keys to reign</span> in life! <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Rom 5:17 [NASB]</span> wrote, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"For if the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one much more those <span style="font-size:130%;">we receive the abundance of Grace </span>& of the <span style="font-size:130%;">gift of righteousness </span>will <span style="font-size:180%;">reign</span> in life through the One, Jesus Christ.”</span> Righteousness gives life while my friend condemnation gives death. Righteousness is a gift; receive it instead of saying, "I don't deserve it". Be bold, receive & give thanks as the son of God, Christ Jesus had paid for it!<o:p><br /></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal">Make it your aim never to leave God's house. When we're worried about our bill, step into God's kitchen. When we feel bad about a mistake, look up at the roof. When you call on a new client, whisper a prayer as you enter the office. When we're in tense meeting, mentally step into the furnace room & pray,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> "Let the peace of heaven be felt on earth."</span> When it's hard to forgive your friends, family or work mates, <span style="font-size:130%;">pull out the check of grace God has given us...</span><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired By:</span><o:p style="font-weight: bold;"></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Max Lucado & Pastor Prince</span></p>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-37630278737885312932007-02-21T18:06:00.000+08:002007-02-21T20:27:18.373+08:00How Great is our God!<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Almost 23 days since I last pen down my last entry. What have I been doing? What have been happening? I witness the power of praying in the spirit, pastor has been preaching, I have been practicing & through His grace, I was lifted by His mighty hand from a car accident. I loved to sing & pray while I was driving from appointments. I remembered that day, there was an empty lane to my left & my immediate respond was to drive in that lane but at that spilt second, my spirit prompted & I stopped. A car behind me drove in & out of no where came a truck & smashed right into it, the impact was so great, the car spun...<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I was totally unharmed!</span><br /><br />The Lord guided me about anger & rest & He said, if we are out to settle any score, we will never rest. How can we? For one thing, our enemies never pay up. As much as we think we deserve an apology, our debtor may not agree. The racist may never repent. The chauvinist may never change. As justified as we are in our quest for vengeance, we may never get a penny's worth of justice. And, if we do so, will it be enough? The Bible in <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Job 5:2 [Amplified Bible]</span> says, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"For vexation & rage kill the foolish man..."</span><br /><br />A sister in Christ called me from overseas last night with great excitement! <span style="font-size:130%;">"My Mum received Christ just moments ago!"</span> We prayed over the phone for her mum's salvation to receive preservation, healing, wholeness & prosperity! This led me to think about forgiveness. If we can attain forgiveness by forgiving others (or any other good deeds), then why do we need a Savior? If we can pay for our sins through our mercy, why did Jesus die for our sins? If salvation is a result of our effort, then why did Paul insist, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"You have been saved by grace through believing. You did not save yourselves. It was a gift from God." </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Eph. 2:8].</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">Salvation is a free gift!<br /></span><br />This year is a year of new beginning as I need to branch out from marketing to sales. For the past few months, I tried using my own effort, enlarge my 'tent' find new business associates but it just did not work out no matter how hard I try. In fact, the harder I try, the worst it gets.<span style="font-size:130%;"> I was losing my patience & asked the Lord, is it my prayer? Am I using the right words? The Lord corrected me; it's not eloquence He seeks, just honesty. </span>I asked for a verse, He 'smacked' me with <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Ps. 46:10 [Amplified Bible]</span>, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Let be & be still, & know (recognize & understand) that I am God."</span></span><br /><br />In the midst of our daily storms, make it a point to be still & set our sights on Him. Let God be God. Let Him bathe us in His glory so that both our breath & our troubles are sucked from our soul. Be still. Be quiet. Be open & willing. Then we will know that God is God, & we can't help but confess, <span style="font-size:180%;">"How great is our God!" </span>Good news, the Lord just blessed me with a great brother in Christ to extend my 'tent'. He has all the talents & great passion whom I have been seeking for months...favor came when I be still.<br /><br />Many amazing favors, blessing & testimonies blew me away for the past 23 days, there are times of trials, tribulation & prosecution as well, but I learn about what we really need. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">An </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Abba</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">! Yes, an </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Abba </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">who will hear when we call? Who will take our hand when we are weak? Who will guide us through the hectic intersections of life? Don't we all need an <span style="font-style: italic;">abba </span>who will swing us up into His arms & carry us home? <span style="font-size:180%;">We all need a father</span>...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired by:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Max Lucado</span><br /></div></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-29022662239609863522007-01-28T23:01:00.000+08:002007-01-29T04:31:32.111+08:00Rest - Lord Give Me Strength<div style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;">Haven't been posting for quite awhile as I learn to rest in Christ for the past 19 days. I do not mean to rest as not posting & simply doing nothing. Strangely, I found casting my cares & worries [rest] in the Lord quite challenging. It seems like I always like to 'help' God, I will tell myself all these problems be it from work or family belong to Jesus as I trust in Him being a Child of Most High God, yet, I will think about it, try to find solutions from my flesh. I end up being confused in perfect irony. Praise the Lord, our Pastor had been preaching about rest & our identity in Christ & I keep listening to his sermons & find myself learning & I'm determined to break the strongholds of my 'nonsense' to REST...<br /><br />While I was awaiting for my parents after service for dinner, I wondered into a Christian book store, pick up a card with words that comfort me. Title, <span style="font-size:130%;">"Lord, Give Me Strength"</span>. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Give us your strength, Lord. Because sometimes things get tough, & we are ready to quit. Give us your love, Lord. Because people reject us, & we are tempted to hate. Give us your eyes, Lord. Because sometimes life gets dark, & we lose our way. Give us your courage, Lord. Because often we are put under pressure, & it's hard to do what is right. Give us yourself Lord. Because our hearts were made for you, & we will not rest until we rest in you.</span> A summary of all my thoughts...How great is our God?!<br /><br />Today sermon was awesome especially when Pastor Prince shared about his revelation about our identity in Christ. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">2 Cor 5:17 [NASB]</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"They will say of Me, 'Only in the Lord are righteousness & strength.' Men will come to Him. And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame [e.g. the pathetic Satan]. In the Lord all the offspring’s of Israel Will be justified & will glory."</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Is 45:24-25 [NASB]</span> Notice the words <span style="font-size:130%;">"In Christ, In the Lord"</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">In Christ we engage the World with a new mindset where all things are new, being a new creation. In Christ we receive our righteousness & strength...<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Jesus revealed this truth as being <span style="font-size:180%;">"I am"</span>. </span>In John chapter 9, before Jesus healed the man born blind, the scripture wrote <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"While <span style="font-size:130%;">I am</span> in the World, <span style="font-size:130%;">I am</span> the <span style="font-size:130%;">light of the World.</span>"</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">John 9:5 [NASB]</span> Imagine a blind who lives in total darkness, since the day he was born, the <span style="font-size:130%;">"I am"</span> finished the miracle! Halleluiah! <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">We can do all things through Christ who strengthen us.</span> In another occasion, the disciples asked for the bread of God that gives life to the world, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Jesus said to them, <span style="font-size:130%;">I am</span> the<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > bread of life</span>..."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">John 6:35 [NASB]</span> We ask for grace, only to find forgiveness already offered. We ask for food, only to find provision already made. We ask for guidance, only to find answers in God's ancient story...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">What controls us doesn't control Him. What troubles us don’t trouble Him. What fatigue us doesn't fatigue Him.</span> Is an eagle disturbed by traffic? No. he rises above it. Is the whale perturbed by a hurricane? Of course not, he plunges beneath. Is the lion flustered by the mouse standing directly in his way? No, he steps over it.<br /><br />If He is able to place the stars in their sockets & suspend the sky like a curtain, do you think it remotely possible that God is able to guide our life? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">If our God is mighty enough to ignite the sun, could it be that he is mighty enough to light our path?</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">If He cares enough about planet Saturn to give it rings or Venus to make it sparkle, is there an outside chance that He cares enough about us to meet one needs?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired By:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Max Lucado & Pastor Prince</span></div></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-34180832093702079132007-01-09T23:45:00.000+08:002007-01-10T02:42:08.826+08:00A Touch of His Presence<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Migraine, flu & fever kept hitting me with no good reasons & it started to roll in on early hours of both Sundays, 31st 2006 & 7th of 2007. I miss the last sermon of year 2006 but with the wonders of technology, I manage to get hold of the sermon. Satan love to steal, kill & destroy. I believe he came to steal the words of God, our foundation with our relationship with our Lord. Yet the scripture says, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on Every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Matt. 4:4 [NASB]</span></span><br /><br />On the 7th, my migraine was so bad I have to take sleeping pills to 'knock me out'. I sent out distress message to my care group leader for prayer. In my heart, my only desire is to attend the first Sunday service in the year 2007. I do not know how I made it to the last service as I was feeling unwell & it is of quite a distance to drive from home to church. Pastor taught us to seek for the healer not the healing, Jehovah-Rapha. "The Lord that heal" If you are facing any lack, seek Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord will provide! My migraine, flu & fever subsided when the service ended. Halleluiah, we have a good God! Amen?!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus came to set us fee from hell, do you believe it deeply in your heart? </span>We know God has a will for us. <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">'For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare & not for calamity to give you a future & a hope.' </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Jer. 29:11 [NASB] </span></span>God is not the God of confusion, & wherever He sees sincere seekers with confused heart, we can bet He will do whatever it takes to help us see His will.<br /><br />God has given each part of the body of Christ an assignment. One way God reveals His will to you is through Church. He speaks to one member of the body through another member. It could happen in a Bible class, a small group, during communion, or during dessert. God has as many methods as He has people...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">We also learn God's will by spending time in <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">His presence.</span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">The key to knowing God's heart is having a relationship with Him. </span>A personal relationship. God will speak to us differently than He will speak to others. Just because God spoke to Moses through a burning bush, that doesn't mean we should all sit next to the bush waiting for God to speak. God used a fish to convict Jonas. Does that mean we should have worship services at Sea World? <span style="font-size:130%;">No. God reveals His heart personally to each person.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">For that reason, our walk with God is essential. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">H</span></span>is heart is not seen in an occasional chat or weekly visit. We learn His will as we take up residence in His house every single day. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Walk with Him long enough & you come to know His heart.</span> When you spend time with Him in His study, you see His passion. Welcome Him to enter the gateway of your soul & you'll perceive His will...<br /><br />Want to know God's will in your life? Then answer the question: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >What ignites your heart?</span> Forgotten orphans? Untouched nations? The inner city? The outer limits? Heed the fire within! Do you have a passion to sing? Then sing! Are you stirred to manage? Then manage! Do you ache for the ill? Then treat them! Do you hurt for the lost? Then teach them! What is the fire that consumes you? Mark it down: <span style="font-size:130%;">Jesus comes to set us on fire! He walks as a torch from the heart to heart, warming the cold & thawing the chilled & stirring the ashes. </span>He was at once a Galilean wildfire & a welcome candle. <span style="font-size:180%;">He comes to purge infection & illuminate our directions...</span><br /><br />The fire of your heart is the light of our path. Disregard it at your own expense. Fan it at your own delight. Blow it. Stir it. Nourish it. Cynics will doubt it. Those without it will mock it. But those who know it - those who know Him - will understand it. To meet the Savior is to be set aflame. To discover the flame is to discover His will. And to discover His will is to access a World like none we've ever seen...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired By:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Max Lucado</span><br /></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1167073965135112872006-12-25T23:36:00.000+08:002006-12-26T16:04:40.093+08:00Personal Computer Vs Personal Savior<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Had a wonderful Pre-Xmas celebration with my care group beloved brothers & sisters in Christ. We had Pot luck kinda party where we each bring our best food to the table. I brought along a platter of fruits & a bowl of chocolate fondae, complimentary done by my younger sister, idea inspired by a sister in Christ, imagine chocolate with strawberry or Kiwi! The bad news is we over heated the chocolate in the microwave oven...so much so for the excitement!<br /><br />We have a mass service on Sunday at Singapore Indoor Stadium for an English combine service as by the grace of God, the church is growing in an amazing speed, estimated to be at least fourteen thousand believers. Pastor preach about the secret to receive miracles, in short, believe in your heart, confess with your mouth & All things will come to a past!<br /><br />He re-enforce the promises in <span style="font-size:130%;">Deuteronomy 28</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">where we are Bless with our basket , Bless shall we be when we come in, & Blessed shall we be when we go out. The Lord shall cause our enemies who rise up against us to be defeated before us; they will come out against us one way & will flee before us seven ways. We shall lend but not borrow. The Lord will make us the head &amp; not the tail, & we only will be above, & will not be underneath! Amen?!</span><br /><br />Let's talk about computers, our gateway to Internet access that leads us globally. Computers are a legalist, impersonal pragmatists. Push a button & get a response. Learn the system & get the printout. Blow the system & get ready for a long night. Computers are heartless creatures. Don't expect any compassion from your laptop. They don't call it a had disk for nothing. Some folks have a computer theology when it comes to understand God. <span style="font-size:130%;">God is the ultimate desktop. The Bible is the maintenance manual, the Holy Spirit is the CD & Jesus is the 1800- service number.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Call it computerized Christianity. </span>Push the right buttons, enter the right code, insert the correct data & bingo, print out your own salvation. It's professional religion. We do our part & the Divine Computer does his. No need to pray . No emotional attachment necessary. And worship?. No kneeling. No weeping. No gratitude. No emotion. It's great-unless you make a mistake. Unless you err. Unless we enter then wrong data or forgot to save the manuscript. Unless we're caught on the wrong data or forget to save the manuscript. Unless we're caught on the wrong side of power surge. And then...tough luck, buddy, we're on our own.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Religion by computer.</span> That's what happen when we replace the living God with a cold system; we replace inestimable love with pro-form budget; we replace the ultimate sacrifice of Christ with the puny achievements of man. When we view God as a computer & the Christian as a number-crunching, cursor-commanding, button pusher...that is religion by the computer. God hates it. It crushes His people. It contaminates His leaders, it corrupts His children. How do I know? He said so. Jesus condemns religion by the rules. With eyes blazing & pistols firing. Jesus rips hole after hole in the hot-air balloon of the Pharisees...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">A person is made right with God through...Being good. </span>A person is made right with God through goodness. Pay our taxes. Give sandwiches to the poor. Don't drive too fast or drink too much or drink at all. Christian conduct-that's the secret. <span style="font-size:130%;">Suffering.</span> There's the answer. That's how to be made right with God-suffer. Sleep on dirt floors. Stalk through dank jungles. Malaria. Poverty. Cold days. Night-ling vigils. Vows of chastity. Saved heads, bare feet. The greater the pain, the greater the Saint...<br /><br />No, no, no. The way to made right with God? All of above are tried. All are taught. All are demonstrated. But none are from God. In fact, that is our problem. None from God. All are from people. Think about it. Who is the major force in the above examples? Humankind or God? Who does the saving we or Him? <span style="font-size:130%;">If we are saved by good works, we don't need God-weekly reminders of the do's & don'ts will get us to heaven. If we are saved by suffering, we certainly don't need God. All we need is a whip & a chain & the gospel of guilt. If we are saved by doctrine then, for heaven's sake, let's study! We don't need God, we need a lexicon. Weigh the issues. Explore the options. Decipher the truth...</span><br /><br />But be careful, student. For if we are saved by having <span style="font-size:130%;">exact doctrine</span>, then <span style="font-size:130%;">one mistake would be fatal. </span>That goes for those who believe we are made right with God through deeds. <span style="font-size:130%;">I hope the temptation is never greater than the strength. If it is, a bad fall could be a bad omen.</span> And those we think we are <span style="font-size:130%;">saved by suffering, take caution as well, for we never know how much suffering is required.<span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">In fact, if we are saving yourself, you never know for sure about anything. We never know if we've hurt enough, wept enough or learned enough. </span>Such is the result of computerized religion: fear, insecurity, instability. And most ironically, arrogance, making ourselves righteous without God.<br /><br />That's right-arrogance. The insecure boast the most. Those who are trying to save themselves promote themselves. Those saved by work display works. Those saved by suffering unveil scars. Those saved by emotion flash their feelings. <span style="font-size:130%;">Dare we stand before God & ask Him to save us because of our suffering or sacrifice or our tears or our study?</span> I dare not. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"A person is made right with God through faith." </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Romance 3:28 </span>Not through good works, suffering or study. All these may be the result of salvation but they are not the cause of it. How will we escape from God's judgment? <span style="font-size:180%;">Only one way. Through faith in God's sacrifice, His only beloved son, Jesus Christ. It's not what we do; it's what He did. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">A personal computer would be different. In fact it wouldn't be a computer; it would be a friend. A friend who gives us what </span><span style="font-size:100%;">we need instead of what we request. </span><span style="font-size:100%;">A friend who <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">knows more about us that we do. A friend who doesn't have to be turned off at night & on in the morning.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> A computer like that? <span style="font-size:130%;">Too much to ask, I know. A God like that? Still too much to ask. But that's what He is. Why else do you think He is known as our personal Savior?</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Inspired by: </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Max Lucado</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1166367937821247302006-12-17T21:41:00.000+08:002006-12-17T23:05:37.866+08:00The Fig Tree or the X'mas Tree?<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">The washing machine was washing as usual when I step near to enter the bath room for my shower after a late night work. My leg lost the grip on the floor & I fell as mum forgot to put the pipe in the drainage & the floor was flooding with liquid soap. The next moment, I was on the floor feeling great pain on my right ankle, in no time it swell & I shouted to my Dad for an ice bag. I applied the ice bag on my ankle before I bandage tightly applying simple first aid learning...<o:p></o:p> <p class="MsoNormal">A sister in Christ who had worst experience calmed me down for that night. X-ray showed hairline fracture & the swelling was caused by the sprained.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> I refused to look at the X-ray film, telling myself not to look at my own flesh but the perfect work on the cross.</span> As I refused to be admitted for observation & being in cast, the doctor ordered for a review on the next day, 14th of December, 2006.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">16th of December was my much awaited Christmas celebration with the new care group, to fellowship with beloved brothers & sisters in Christ. I would not be able to attend if I am put on cast or hospitalized & it will be a dreadful Christmas & the worst New Year to come. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I applied ice therapy through the 13th & 14th, pray in spirit & focus my pain & swelling on the old rugged cross.</span> In the evening of 14th for review, a second X-ray was taken.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p><span style=""></span>The first question of all was, "What did you do Godwyn with your ankle?" I told the doctor I prayed & applied ice therapy as I have no medical knowledge beyond that. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I experience <span style="font-size:130%;">Divine healing,</span> as I look at the first X-ray in comparison with the second,<span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">my ankle was completely healed! Halleluiah!</span> I remembered in <span style="font-size:130%;">Matthew 21:21</span>, it says in short,<span style="font-size:130%;"> if you have faith, it will happen...</span></span></span><o:p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span></span><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Our God wrote the book on making the impossible possible! In the scripture, it said, Jesus saw a fig tree on the side of the road. As He approached the tree, He noticed that though it had leaves, it had no fruit. So He denounced the tree. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"You will never have fruit."</span> The tree immediately dried up. The next day, the disciples saw what had happened to the tree. They were amazed. Just twenty-four hours before the tree had been green & healthy; now it is barren & dry...<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">"How did the fig tree dry up so quickly? They asked. Jesus gives them this answer," <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Truly I say to you, if you have faith & do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up & cast to the sea,' it will happen. And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Matt 21:21-22 [NASB]</span><o:p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">That is the way God intended it. He intends for all of us to live out our vows but with our own particular accent. For some, it is with an accent on the sick. For others, it is a concern for the imprisoned. Still others have a burden for scholarly research or giving. But whatever our accent the message is still the same.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The message of the fig tree is not for all of us to have the same fruit. The message is for us to have some fruits. </span>Not easy. Jesus knows that. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"If you have faith & do not doubt, you will be able to do what I did to this tree & even more."</span> Faith in whom? Religion? Hardly. Religion is the hoax Jesus is out to disclose. Faith is not in religion; the faith is in God. A hardly, daring faith that believes God will do what is right, every time. And that God will do what it takes-whatever it takes-to bring His children home.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">He is the shepherd in search of His lambs. His legs are scratched, His feet are sore & His eyes are burning. He scales the cliffs & traverses the fields. He explores the caves. <span style="font-size:130%;">He cups His hands to His mouth & calls into the canyon.</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">And the name He calls is yours!</span> God is the father pacing the porch. His eyes are wide with His quest. His heart is heavy. He seeks His prodigal. He searches the horizon.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""></span>He examines the skyline, yearning for the familiar figure, the recognizable gait. His concern is not His business, His investments, His owning. His concern is the son who wears His name, the child who bears His image.<span style="font-size:180%;"> YOU. He wants you home.</span> It is only in the light of such passion we can understand this incredible promise: <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Matt </span><st1:time style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" minute="22" hour="21">21:22</st1:time><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> [NASB]</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:130%;">The fruit God assures is far greater than earthly wealth. His dreams are much greater than promotions & proposals. </span>God wants you to fly. He wants you to fly free of yesterday's guilt. He wants you to fly free of today's fears. He wants you to fly free of tomorrow's grave. <span style="font-size:130%;">Sin, fear & death. These are the mountains He had moved. These are the prayers He will answer. That is the fruit He will grant.</span> This is what He longs to do:<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> He longs to set you free so you can fly...fly home!</span></span><br /><o:p> </o:p><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Inspired By:</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Max Lucado</span></p></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1165340060245938942006-12-05T23:59:00.000+08:002006-12-08T02:01:35.616+08:00Excuse me, are you a Christian?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I will never abandon my blog neither I will forsake it, as faith comes from the listening/reading of the good gospel of Christ Jesus. Amen? Blogging allows me to fellowship with brothers & sisters in Christ from the World! I feed on the words & share as I believe <span style="font-size:130%;">Right believing produce Right living...</span>sharing is loving as God is love...<br /><br />Godwyn, how do you explain your sudden halt? Many medical issues had arose during past few weeks & my workload sank me down like the Tiatanic. I had two day surgeries done for my tootache, the surgeon did a Root Canal procedure. As my gums are truely sensitive, it took long while to stop the bleeding.<br /><br />It was a highly painful event I doubt I will not forget. Things got more challenging with bad news that my Godpa's elder brother passed away peacefully with cancer on Friday morning. The next is the wake, sorrow & grief. Recent days fixing of my ingrowing toe nails make me limp daily to walk...these are the days. <span style="font-size:130%;">Daily, I told myself to put my eyes on the Perfect Finished work on the cross & looked away from my own flesh...</span>it works as Christ always heal...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I'm not a religious person, I just believe in our relationship with our Abba in Heaven. </span>When we think God is too busy for little people like us or too formal for poor protocol. When people are refused access to Christ by those cloest to him, the result is empty, hollow religion. Ugly religion!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">God always hears those who seek him.</span> The right heart with the wrong ritual is better than the wrong heart with the right ritual. Ideally, we approach God with the right motive & the right method. And sometimes we do. Sometimes the words of our prayer are as beautiful as the motive behind the prayer. Sometimes the way we sing is as strong as the reason we sing.<br /><br />Sometimes our worship is an attractive as it is sincere. But many times it isn't. Many times our words falter. Many times our music suffers. Many times our worship is less than what we want it to be. Many times our appeals for God's presence are about as attractive as those of blind men on the Road. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >"You will seek Me, & find Me when you search for Me, with all your heart. I will be found by you." <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Jer.29:13 </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:180%;" >[NASB]</span><br /><br />Ironic. of all the people, the blind turned out to be the ones with the clearest vision - even before they could see...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired by:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Max Lucado</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1163953328105066622006-11-19T23:16:00.000+08:002006-11-20T00:31:37.713+08:00Our Father who is in Heaven<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Toothache, heavy work load & much more are my lousy excuses for not blogging. I have been wondering about issues I cannot solve & reminding myself to let go let God. I am just confuse & trying to rob myself of great joy by going back to the bitter past. Some called it spiritual warfare, others might define it as habits...anyway manage to draft up a post before church service today for sharing as I miss all of you!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">"Our father who is in heaven." God is. Not God was. Not God will be. Not God could be or should be, but God is. He is the God of the present tense. </span><span style="font-size:180%;">When we come to Christ, God not only forgives us, He also adopts us.</span> Through a dramatic series of events, we go from condemned orphans with no hope to adopted children with no fear. Here is how it happens. We come before the judgment seat of God full of rebellion & mistakes. Because of His justice He cannot dismiss our sin, but because of His love he cannot dismiss us. So, in an act which stunned the heavens, He punished Himself on the cross for our sins. God's justice & love are equally honored. And we, God's creation, are forgiven. But the story doesn't end with God's forgiveness...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out <span style="font-size:180%;">"Abba! Father!"</span> The Spirit Himself bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rom. 8:15-16 [NASB]</span><br /><br />It would be enough if God just cleansed our name, but He does more. He gives us His name. It would be enough if God just set us free, but He does more. He takes us home. He takes us home to the Great House of God. God has adopted us. God sought us, found us, signed the papers & took us home...believe it or not, He did...<br /><br />Our achievements, however noble they may be, are not important. Our credentials, as starry as they may be, are of no concern. God is the foundation of our life. <span style="font-size:130%;">The key question in life is not "How strong am I?" but rather "How strong is God?"</span><span style="font-size:180%;"> Focus on His strength, not ours. </span>Occupy ourselves with the nature of God...<br /><br />And we though God adopted us because we were good looking. We thought He needed our money or our wisdom. Sorry. God adopted us simply because He wanted to. We were in His good will and pleasure. Knowing full well the trouble we would be & the price He would pay, He signed His name next to ours and changed our name to His and took us home. <span style="font-size:130%;">Our Abba adopted us & became our Father...</span><br /><br />To some, the thought of trusting a Heavenly Father is doubly difficult because our earthly father might have disappointed us or mistreated us. If such is the case, I urge you: Don't confuse your Heavenly Father with the fathers you've seen on earth. Your Father in Heaven isn't prone to headaches & temper tantrums. He doesn't hold us one day & hit us the next. The man who fathered us may play such games, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >but the God who loves us never will...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">May I remind you, this adoption is something we receive, not something we earn...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the World will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Rom. 8:38-39</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Our Father will never turn us away. </span>When the words of others hurt you or your own failure distress you, step in the house of God. Gaze at this painting & be reminded of our God: <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">It is right to call Him Holy; we speak truth when we call Him King. But if we want to touch His heart, use the name He loves to hear.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-size:180%;">Call Him Father...Daddy</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired by:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Max Lucado</span><br /></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1161772391248558722006-10-25T17:26:00.000+08:002006-10-25T18:35:01.776+08:00In love with you...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Isn't it good to know that even when we don't love with a perfect love, Jesus does? Flat out from work but on my book mark it wrote: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">But seek first His kingdom & His righteousness, & ALL these things will be given to you as well. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Matthew 6:33 </span>Just blog on, leave the work for just a moment...<br /><br />When it comes to love, feeling rule the day. Emotions guide the ship. Goose bumps call the shots. But should they? Can feelings be trusted? <span style="font-size:130%;">Can a relationship feel right but be wrong?</span> Heads are nodding. A single mum is nodding. A college kid with a broken heart is nodding. Feelings can fool you. Teenage girl who is puzzled by the lack of feelings she has for a guy. Before they started dating, she was wild about him. The minute he showed interest in her, however she lost interest...ever been there?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth" </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 Cor. 13:6 [NIV] </span>In this verse lies a test for love. Do I encourage this person to do what is right? For true love <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth" </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 Cor. 13:6 [JB]</span>. <span style="font-size:130%;">If you find yourself prompting evil in others, heed the alarm. This is not love.</span> And if others prompt evil in you, be alert. Check the room key.<br /><br />Classic example. A young couple are on a date. His affection goes beyond her comfort zone. She resists. But he tries to persuade her with the oldest line in the book: "But I love you. I just want to be near you. If you loved me..." <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">That siren you hear? It's the phony-love detector. This guy doesn't love her. He may love having sex with her. He may love her body. He may love boasting to his buddies about his conquest. But he doesn't love her.</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">True love will never ask the "beloved" to do what her or she thinks is wrong. Love doesn't tear down the conviction of others.</span> Quite contrary. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Love builds up"</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> 1 Cor. 8:1</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Whoever loves a brother or sister lives in the light & will not cause anyone to stumble"</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 John 2:10</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Love never celebrates misfortune. You know your love is real when you weep with those who weep & rejoice with those who rejoice. You know your love is real when you feel for others. <span style="font-size:180%;">Real love changes people</span>.</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">Didn't God's love change you?</span> Weren't you, like the prisoner, blind? You couldn't see beyond the grave. You couldn't see your purpose in life until He showed you. And you couldn't hear either. Oh, your ears functioned but, your heart didn't understand. You'd never heard of such love & kindness, & you never would have heard of it, but God spoke in your language.<span style="font-size:130%;"> And, most of all, He set you free. You are free! </span>Free to run away. Free to harden your heart. Free to duck down side streets & hide behind trash cans. <span style="font-size:130%;">But you don't. Or if you do, you come back. Why? Because you've never been loved like this before...<br /></span><br />And does Christ rejoice when you do what is right? Certainly. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"The Lord delights in those who fear Him, who put their hope in His unfailing love"</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Psalm 147:11 [NIV]<span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Does He weep when you do? Absolutely! </span>He is the <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"God of all healing counsel! He comes alongside us when we go through hard times</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">2 Cor. 1:3-4 [MSG]</span>. <span style="font-size:130%;">Do you want to know what love is?</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"This is what real love is: It is not our love for God; it is God's love for us in sending his Son to be the way to take away our sins"</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 John 4:10</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Isn't that good news?!!</span><br /><br />When it comes to love:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Be careful:</span> Make sure you're in the right hotel. Before you walk down the aisle, take a good long look around. Make sure this is God's intended place for you. And, if you suspect it isn't, get out. Don't force what is wrong to be right. And until love is stirred, let God's love be enough for you. There are seasons when God allows us to feel the frailty of human love so we'll appreciate the strength of His love. David wrote these words in the desert: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you...My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Psalm 63:3,5 [NIV]</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Be prayerful:</span> What if it's too late? Specifically, what if we're married to someone we don't love - or who doesn't love us? Many choose to leave. That may be the step you take. But if it is, take at least a thousand others first. And bathe every one of those steps in prayer. Love is a fruit of the Spirit. Ask Christ to help you love as He loves. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"God has given us the Holy Spirit, who fills our hearts with His love" </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Roman 5:5 [CEV].</span> Ask everyone you know to pray for you. Your friends. Your family. Your church leaders. Get your name on every prayer list available. And, most of all, pray for &, if possible, with your spouse. <span style="font-size:130%;">Ask the same God who raised the dead to resurrect the embers of your love.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Be grateful:</span> Be grateful to those who love us. Be grateful for those who have encouraged us to do what is right & applauded when we did. <span style="font-size:130%;">Do you have people like that in your World? If so, you are doubly blessed. Be grateful for them. And be grateful for our Father in Heaven.</span> He passes the test with ease.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Christ always nourishes what is right. He always applauds what is right. He has never done wrong, led one person to do wrong, or rejoiced when anyone did wrong.</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">For He is love, & love</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"does not rejoiced when anyone did wrong. For He is love, love "does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 Cor. 1:6 [NASB].</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired by:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">Max Lucado & a dear sister in Christ</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1160673013946334512006-10-13T00:15:00.000+08:002006-10-13T01:10:14.350+08:00H2O vs. Jesus Love<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">H2O</span> the Chemical representation for Water. No one really know how much water is there on earth. We use it, depend upon it, would perish without it...but measure it? We can't. Ever thought about it before you drink a glass of water...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">H2O</span> bring to mind another unmeasured pool? It might. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Not a pool of water but a pool of love. God's love. Aquifer fresh. Pure as April snow. One swallow slackens the thirsty throat & softens the crusty heart. Immerse a life in God's love, & watch it emerge cleansed & changed. We know the impact of God's love. But the volume? No person has ever measured it.</span> I failed to measure it during my recent weeks of trials where Christ embraces me with His love daily...<br /><br />Want to see the size of God's love? <span style="font-size:130%;">"Ascend the winding path outside of Jerusalem. Follow the dots of bloody dirt until you crest the hill. Before look up, pause & hear me whisper, "<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">This is how much I love you</span>."</span><br /><br />Whip-ripped muscles drape His back. Blood rivulets over His face. His eyes & lips are swollen shut. Pain rages at wildfire intensity. As He sinks to relieve the agony of His legs, His airway closes. At the edge of suffocation, He shoves pierced muscles against the spike & inches up the cross. He does this for hours. Painfully up & down until His strength & our doubts are gone...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Does God love you?</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">Behold the cross & behold your answer. God the Son died for you. Who could have imagined such a gift? The though that Abba in Heaven will give anything moved me daily from fear to joy.</span> I pray for Christ's ways to be in me daily.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> "Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; & walk in love, just as Christ also loved you & gave Himself up for us, an offering & a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma." </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Eph 5:2 [NASB] </span>What species of devotion is this? Find the answer under the category "unfailing". The holiness of God demanded a sinless sacrifice, & the only sinless sacrifice was God & the Son. And since God's love never fails to pay the price, Christ did. God loves you with an unfailing love...<br /><br />What would lead God to do something greater? <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >Love.</span> Trace the greatest action of God to the greatest attribute of God - His love. <span style="font-size:130%;">"It's not about me." If it's not about me, does God care for me? God's priority is His glory. He occupies center stage; I carry props. He's the message; I'm but a word of His love?</span> No doubt. Do you really want the World to revolve around you? If it's all about you, then it's all up to you. Your Daddy rescues you from such a burden. While you are valuable, you aren't essential. You're important but no indispensable. Still don't think that's good news?<br /><br />Our Father knows our limitations. He's well aware of our weaknesses. You can no more die for your own sins than you can solve World hunger. And, according to Him, that's fine. The World doesn't reply on us, yet God loves us too much to say it's all about you. He keeps the cosmos humming. We sprinkle sawdust on oil spots & thank Him for the privilege. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">We don't know what it takes to run the World, & wise are we who leave the work to His hands. To say that "It's not about you" is not to say you aren't loved; quite contrary. It's because Abba loves us that it's not about us!</span><br /><br />And, oh, what a love this is. It's <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"too wonderful to be measured"</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Eph 3:19 [CEV]</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">But though we cannot measure it, may I urge you to trust it?</span> Some of us are so hungry for such love. Those who should have loved you didn't. Those who could have loved you wouldn't. We were left at the hospital. Left at the altar. Left with an empty bed. Left with a broken heart. Left with your question, <span style="font-size:130%;">"Does anybody love me?" </span><span style="font-size:180%;">Please listen to heaven's answer. As you ponder Him on the cross, hear Jesus assure, "<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I do</span>". Amen?!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">When it comes to water, we'll find the limit. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">But when it comes to His love. We never will...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired by:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Max Lucado</span><br /><br /></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1159717124613240892006-10-01T23:37:00.000+08:002006-10-02T01:47:48.490+08:00The Tongue Is a Fire<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have it's perfect result, so that you may be perfect & complete, lacking nothing."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">James 1:2-3 [NASB]</span> For the past few weeks, our family have been encountering various trials after my younger sister was discharged from the hospital, I watched her going through painful medical tests, I felt deeply hurt in my heart, though I put up a strong face. The doctor will review her, this coming Tuesday, 3rd of October, pray with us for the good news that we expect to hear & thank all of you for the prayers that comfort us through...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I never thought I will be unwell but near to 2 weeks ago, out of a sudden night, I went on high fever & flu. The physician diagnosed me as viral flu, kept me at very high dose of anti-biotic. I went back to the same physician twice with really bad tummy pain & I was diagnosed with Viral & Stomach flu that takes 2 to even 4 weeks to recover. Problems arise from work, I have to bear with my pain to bring my sister for medical checkups, and I would say it is one of the biggest trials I endured so far this year. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The stomach flu, viral infection, my sister complex medical conditions are simply pure deceptions of satan as in the book of James, we are promised, <span style="font-size:180%;">endurance have it's perfect result, so that we may be perfect & complete, lacking nothing! </span>No medical! No financial lack! Complete as Jesus said it is finished! Amen?!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I want to share a short testimony surely it will bless you: I was fellowshipping with a sister in Christ over a conversation. I can't clearly remembered how we hit on the topics on installing air-conditioners at home as Singapore is a hot & humid country, her mum objected it for years as she thought the condensing unit for the air-conditioners will be near her room, the noise will affect her. We pray about it and a few days later, her mum actually suggested getting air conditioner units for the house! Halleluiah! When we speak, Jesus is in our midst as He said when two or more are gathered, my presence will be felt! It is written in the Bible as well, <span style="font-size:130%;">when two shall agrees, it shall happen on earth as it is in Heaven.</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Godwyn, so what's the big deal? The 'big deal': our God we serve is a good God who can do the impossible! If you are praying, pray big as we are children of most high God, Jesus will make it happen, at the right time, right place...Amen?!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Let's go into the words of God. Remember the two criminals on the cross with Jesus? One of them punches on Christ: <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself & us!" </span></span>The words thrown that day were meant to wound. And there is nothing more painful than words meant to hurt. That is why James called the tongue the fire. Its burns are every bit as destructive & disastrous as those of a blow touch. I'm not telling you anything new. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">No doubt you've had your fair share of words that wound. Perhaps the words were intended to hurt you, perhaps not; but that doesn't matter. The wound is deep. The injuries are internal. broken heart, wounded pride, bruised feelings.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Or it maybe your wound is old. Though the arrow was extracted long ago, the arrowhead is still lodged...hidden under your skin. The old pain flares unpredictably & decisively, reminding you of harsh words yet forgiven. If you have suffered or are suffering because of someone else's words, you'll be glad to know that there is a balm for this laceration. Meditate on Words from <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">1 Peter 2:23</span></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >When they hurled their insults at Him, He did not retaliate; When He suffered, He made no threats, He entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Did you see what Jesus did not do? He did not retaliate. He did not bite back. He did not say, "I'll get you" "come on up here & say that to my face!" "Just wait until resurrection, Buddy!" No, these statements were not found on Christ's lips. <span style="font-size:130%;">Did you see What Jesus did do? He entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">Or said more simply, He left the judging to God. </span>He did not take on the task of seeking revenge. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">He demanded no apology. He hired no bounty hunters & sent out no posse. He, to the astounding contrary, spoke on their defense. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing"...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Yes, the dialogue that Friday morning was bitter. The verbal stones meant to sting. How Jesus, with a body wracked with pain, eyes blinded by His own blood, & lungs yearning for air, could speak on behalf of some heartless <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">thus is beyond my comprehension.</span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Never, never have I seen such love. If ever a person deserved a shot at revenge, Jesus did. </span></span>But He didn't take it. Instead He died for them. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">How could He do it? I don't know. But I do know that all of a sudden my wounds seem very painless. My grudges & hard feelings are suddenly childish...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people He tolerated as in the pain He endured. <span style="font-size:180%;">Amazing Grace...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired by:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">Max Lucado</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1157910604684204652006-09-11T01:49:00.000+08:002006-09-11T01:50:04.713+08:00Wilderness<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Sister was discharged, not because she is well, she feared staying in the hospital [at a young age, I can understand]. Thus, medical procedures are being arranged in this month for out-patient medical procedures. I just pray with perfect love, it casts out fear. She was diagnosed with possible periodic paralysis with history of laparoscopic adhesiolysis & appendicectomy...<br /><br />My Godpa who is a doctor, never was sick till such extreme was admitted to the hospital with the ambulance last Wednesday morning collapsing at home, before he could visit his patients, how ironic isn't it? He is very dear to me, in fact I am closer to him than my Dad. Physicians did all kinds of test, believe he might have suffered Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) that might lead to a stroke if not treated with care. Discharged on Saturday morning, with prayers, medication & a good rest, he will be well but he has yet willingly to pray the Salvation prayer...I'm trying. For the weeks, I keep telling myself daily<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> I can do all things through Christ!</span> Indeed, it is finished...</span><br /><br />Grief can lead you into the desert. So can divorce or debt or depression. Been through transitions lately? A transfer? Job promotion? Job demotion? A new house? If so, be wary. The wilderness might be near. <span style="font-weight: bold;">How do you know when you're in one? You are lonely. Whether in fact or in feeling no one can help, understand or rescue you. And your struggle seems endless.</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">In the Bible the number 40 is associated with lengthy battles. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Noah faced the rain for 40 days. Moses faced the desert for 40 days. Jesus faced temptation for 40 nights. Please note, He didn't face temptation for 1 day out of 40. "</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days, being tempted by the devil</span></span>" The battle wasn't limited to 3 questions. Jesus spends a month & ten days slugging it out with satan. The wilderness is a long, lonely winter...<br /><br />A tough marriage can make a good man look twice at the wrong woman. Extended sickness can makes even the stoutest soul consider suicide. Stress makes the smokiest nightclub smell sweet. The wilderness weakens resolve. For that reason, the wilderness is in the maternity ward for addictions. Binge eating, budget-busting gamble, excessive drinking, pornography - all short-term solutions to deep-seated problems. Typically they have no appeal, but in the wilderness you give thought to the unthinkable....<br /><br />Second Adam has come to succeed where the first Adam failed. <span style="font-size:130%;">Jesus however, faces a test more severe. Adam was tested in a garden; Christ is in a stark wasteland. Adam faced satan on a full stomach; Christ is in the midst of a fast. Adam had a companion: Eve. Christ has no one. Adam was challenged to remain sinless in a sinless World. Christ, on the other hand, is challenged to remain sinless in a sin-ridden World. Trust His word. Don't trust your emotions. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">In the wilderness heed only the voice of God...</span></span><br /><br />Again, Jesus is our model. Remember how satan teased Him? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"If you are the Son of God..."</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">[Luke 4:3,9 NCV]</span> Why would satan say this? Because he knew what Christ had heard at the baptism. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Matt. 3:17]</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">"Are you really God's son? Satan is asking. Then comes the dare - "Prove it!" Prove it by doing something:</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Tell the stone to become bread"</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Luke 4:3] </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"If you worship before me, it shall all be Yours"</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[v.7] </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Throw yourself down from here"</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> [v.9]</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">What a subtle seduction! Satan doesn't denounce God; he simply raises doubts about God. [Ever caught in one?] </span>Is His work enough? Earthly works - like bread changing or temple jumping - are given equal billing with heavenly works. <span style="font-size:130%;">He attempts to shift, ever so gradually, our source of confidence away from God's promise & toward our performance. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus doesn't bite the bait. No heavenly sign is requested. He doesn't solicit a lightning bolt; He simply quotes the Bible. 3 Temptations. 3 Declarations. "It is written..." <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[v.4 NCV]</span>. "It is written..." <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[v. 8 NCV]</span>. It is said... <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[v.12]</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Jesus' survival choice is Scripture. If the Bible was enough for His wilderness, shouldn't it be enough for ours? Don't miss the point here. Everything you & I need for dessert survival is in the Book. We simply need to heed it.</span> <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"God is...higher than the heaven." </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Job 22:12 TLB]. </span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"The LORD is high above all nations" </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Ps 113:4].</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">Can He not see what eludes us? Doesn't He wants to get us out & bring us home? Then we should do what Jesus did. Rely on the Scripture. Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs. God is constantly & aggressively communicating with the World through His word. God is speaking still!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Hang in there. Your time in the desert will pass. Jesus' did. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"The devil left Him; & behold, angels came & began to minister to Him"</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> [Matt. 4:11]</span> Till the angels come to you:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Trust His word - We need a voice to lead us out.<br />Trust His work - We need a friend like Jesus to take our place.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Thank God we have One who will.</span> My wilderness in these 16 days, I survive with <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"I can do all things through Christ".</span></span> <span style="font-size:180%;">So can you...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired by:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Max Lucado</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1156692294354662192006-08-27T22:35:00.000+08:002006-08-29T01:59:24.576+08:00Loneliness<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Loneliness, a word familiar to us and many has endured. I read an interesting material by Max Lucado that reflects my <span style="font-weight: bold;">17 years wondering in the wilderness</span> though I accept Christ at a young age of 13. I never have any relationship with Jesus till I hit rock bottom 3 years ago. Here the story goes...<br /><br />Godwyn's struggles weren't unusual. He was the paragon of the confused human being. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Half of his life was fantasy, half was nightmare. </span>He was not a social outcast. He was respectable. He hosted parties. He wore designer clothes & had an apartment that overlooked a World class casino. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Though surrounded by people, he was on an island. </span>Though he had many acquaintances, he had few friends. Though he has many lovers, he had little love. Godwyn felt so old. Unloved. Unwanted. Abandoned. Used up. He wants to cry & sleep forever...<br /><br />Loneliness. It's a cry. A moan, a wail. It's a gasp whose origin is the recessed of our souls. Can you hear it? The abandoned child. The divorcee. The quiet home. The empty mailbox. The long days. The longer nights. A one-night stand. A forgotten birthday. A silent mobile phone. Cries of loneliness. Listen again. Tune out the traffic & turn down the TV. The cry is here. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Our cities are full of Godwyns. You can hear their cries.</span> You can hear them in the convalescent home among the sighs & the shuffling feet. <span style="font-weight: bold;">You can hear them in the prisons among the moans of shame & the calls for mercy.</span><br /><br />This moan is a minor key knows all spectrums of society. From the top to the bottom. From the failures to the famous. From the poor to the rich. From the married to the single. Godwyn was not alone. Many of you have been spared this cruel cry. Oh, you have been homesick or upset a time or two. But despair? Far from it. Suicide? Of course not. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Be thankful that it hasn't knocked on your door. Pray that it never will. </span>If you have yet to fight this battle, you are welcome to read on if you wish, but I'm really writing to someone else...<br /><br />I am writing to those who know this cry firsthand. I'm writing to those of you whose days are book ended with broken hearts and long evenings. I am writing to those of you who can find a lonely person simply by looking in the mirror. For you, loneliness is a way of life. The sleepless nights. The lonely bed. The distrust. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The fear of tomorrow. The unending hurt. When did it begin?</span> In your childhood? At the divorce? At retirement? At the cemetery? When the kinds left home?<br /><br />None knows that you are lonely. <span style="font-size:130%;">On the outside you are packaged perfectly. Your smile is quick. Your job is stable. Your clothes are sharp. Your waist is thin. Your calendar is full. Your walk brisk. Your talk impressive. </span>But when you look into the mirror, you fool no one. When you are alone, the duplicity ceases & the pain surfaces...<br /><br />The most gut-wrenching cry of loneliness in history came not from a prisoner or a widow or a patient or Godwyn. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">It came from a hill, from a cross, from a Messiah.</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">"My God, my God,"</span> He screamed, <span style="font-size:130%;">"Why did you abandon me!"</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Never have words carried so much hurt. Never has one being been so lonely.</span> And now on Skull's hill, the sin bearer is again alone. <span style="font-size:180%;">Every lie ever told, every object ever converted, every promise ever broken is on His shoulders. He is sin...</span><br /><br />God looks away. The despair is darker than the sky. The two have been one are now two. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jesus, who had been with God for eternity is now alone. The Christ, who was an expression of God, is abandoned. The Trinity is dismantled. The Godhead is disjointed. The unity is dissolved.</span> It is more Jesus can take.<span style="font-size:130%;"> He withstood the beatings & remained strong at the mock trials. He watched in silence as those He loved ran away. He did not retaliate when the insults were hurled nor did He scream when the nails pierced His wrists. </span>But when God turned His head, that was more than He could handle.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">"My God!" </span>The wail rises from parched lips. The holy heart is broken. The sin bearer screams as He wanders in the eternal wasteland. Out of the silent sky come the words screamed by all who walk in the desert of loneliness. <span style="font-size:180%;">"Why? Why did you abandon me?"</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> Sounds familiar some how? I can't understand it. I honestly cannot. Why did Jesus do it?</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Oh, I know, I know. I have heard the official answers. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"To gratify the old law." "To fulfill prophecy."</span> </span>And these answers are right. They are. But there is something more here. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Something very compassionate. Something yearning. Something personal...</span><br /><br />I kept thinking of all the people who cast despairing eyes toward the dark heavens & cry "Why?" And I imagine Him I imagine Him listening. I picture His eyes misting & a pierced hand brushing away a tear. <span style="font-size:130%;">And although He may offer no answer, although He may solve no dilemma, although the question may freeze painfully in midair, He who also was once alone, understands.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Yet know this, Christ did this so that He can say,</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >"I will never desert you nor will I ever forsake you!" </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Heb 13:5 [NASB] </span><span style="font-size:180%;">"I am the same yesterday & today forever!" </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Heb 13:8 [NASB]</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">P:S</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Please Pray With Us [29 August 2006]</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >My younger sister, Joyce had been admitted to the hospital [Doctor said it might take at least one week or more to diagnose], for her long-standing problems that many doctors could not diagnose.<br /><br />She is at a gentle age of 16 but had gone through innumerable pain at various medical Institutions. Please pray for the Lord's wisdom to be anointed with the doctors examining her, in receipt of the cause of the medical issue, unravel her misery once & for all. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The fact:</span> She was hospitalized. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Truth:</span> The Lord had healed her on the cross! Amen?!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">In 1st John 4:17 [NASB] says,</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"...He is, so also are we in this World." </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Jesus is perfectly well, so also is Joyce [We] in this World! Amen?!</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired By:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Max Lucado</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1155666248357435632006-08-16T00:53:00.000+08:002006-08-16T02:46:20.480+08:00Abandoned<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The week before where I was down with gastric flu, I felt 'abandoned' as no one was at home. Parents were off for functions & my siblings were busy with their church activities. The complete quietness was deafening...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Abandoned by family? Abandoned by a spouse? Abandoned by big business. <span style="font-size:130%;">But nothing compares to being abandoned by God.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span>On the Cross, Jesus cried out a loud shout, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">"Eli Eli, LAMA SABACHTHANI?"</span></span> that is, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"My God my God Why Have You Forsaken me?"</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">[Matt 27:46 NASB]</span> Our Father in Heaven abandoned His Only Son [Earth's only sinless soul] so that we can live through eternity! God loves sinners but hate sins, thus Jesus was the only way out for our salvation!<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Oh how Great is our God Amen?!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Abandon. The house that no one wants. The child no one claims. The parent no one remembers. The Savior no one understands.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> He pierces the darkness with heaven's loneliest question: <span style="font-size:130%;">"My God, My God, Why did you abandon me?"</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In this hour Jesus is anything but righteous. But His mistakes aren't His own. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross so we would stop living for sin & start living for what is right"</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">[1 Peter 2:25 NCV]</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Christ called all our sins in His body...</span> </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">May I get specific for a moment? May I talk about sin? Dare I remind you & me our past is laced with outbursts of anger, stained with night of godless passion, & spotted with undiluted greed? Suppose your past was made public? Suppose you were to stand on a stage while a film of every secret & selfish second was projected on the screen behind you?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Would you not crawl beneath the rug? Would you not scream for Heavens to have mercy? And would you not feel just a fraction...<span style="font-size:130%;">just a fraction of what Jesus felt on the cross?</span> The icey displeasure of Sin-Hating God?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Jesus carried all our sins in His body...See Jesus on the cross? That's a gossiper hanging there. See Jesus? Embezzler. Liar. Bigot. See the crucified carpenter? He's a wife Beater. Porn addict & murderer. See Bethlehem's boy? Call Him by His other names - Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden. <span style="font-size:130%;">Hold it Godwyn, Don't you lump Jesus with evildoers.</span> Don't you place His name in the same sentence with theirs! <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I didn't. He did. Indeed He did more. More than place His name in same sentence, He placed Himself in their place. And yours...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">With hands nailed open, He invited Jesus,” Threat me as you would treat them!" And God did. <span style="font-size:130%;">In an act that broke the heart of the Father, yet honored the holiness of Heaven, sin-purging judgment flow over the sinless Son of the ages.</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The lamb of God who took away the sin of the World...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"My God, my God, why did you abandon me?"<span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Why did Christ scream those words? </span><span style="font-size:180%;">So we'll never have to.</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Inspired by:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Max Lucado</span><br /></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1154773731861209552006-08-05T17:17:00.000+08:002006-08-05T18:38:10.106+08:00Mattew 6<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">For days, I rest in pain being diagnosed firstly having irritable bowel, with a second review from the doctor that I am suffering from gastric flu. Quiet time with the Lord daily is my main source of enduring the physical pain while I have heaps to share but the pain kept me away from writing my new entry...<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">it's not about me but all about Jesus </span>as without Him, I am just an empty vessel that makes the most noise...<br /><br />Since the start of the day, Matthew 6:33 kept echoing in my mind, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"But seek [aim at & strive after] first of all His kingdom & His righteousness [His way of doing & being right], & then all these things taken together will be given you besides.]" </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Matt 6:33 [Amplified Bible]</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Lord said, Seek me first, I will give you all you need!</span> Halleluiah! The next line read, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will have worries & anxieties of it's own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble." </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Matt 6:34 [Amplified Bible] </span>I have been worrying about everything from family, friends to work. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Yet the Lord said, Not to worry as we are the Children of Most High God Amen?! A good God who loves us not to base upon our obedience but the Grace of His son, Christ Jesus...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"Christ in you the hope of glory".</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"In that day you will know that I am in my father & you in Me, & I in you."</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">John 14:20 NASB </span>The Lord says, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >"I am" </span>& that is the mystery of the gospel of...Christ Jesus<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Jesus is in you & me! Christ is the force in you, & He will do what you cannot!</span> Can't stop drinking? Christ can. And He lives within you. Can't stop worrying? Christ can. And He lives within you. Can't stop forgive the jerk, forget the past, or forsake your bad habits? Christ can! And He lives within you...<span style="font-size:130%;">With Christ in you, you have a million resources that you did not have before!</span><br /><br />Through my short episode of physical trial, I realize one thing, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">God seems less interested in talent and more interested in trust. <span style="font-size:180%;">When we assist or resist, we miss God's great grace.</span> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">We miss out the reason we were placed on earth.</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"I have been crucified with Christ; & it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; & the life which I now live in flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me & gave Himself up for me." </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Gal 2:20 [NASB]</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">My steps, but Christ leading. My heart, but His love beating in me, through me, with me. So much Him, so little of me that in my eyes it's Him they see. <span style="font-size:180%;">No Longer I, but Christ in me.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired by:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">Max lucado</span><br /></span></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13195789.post-1152366565018190472006-07-08T20:20:00.000+08:002006-07-08T21:53:38.153+08:00Sa Tan<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The coach shouted instructions to the players frantically, hoping to win the mindset of the opponent, the reward? A goal for the winning team. The devil whispering lies into our mind, the reward? Another lost soul, back slide by his deceptions...<br /><br />The violent rages of a father. The secret binges of a mother. The sudden rebellion of a teenager. Maxed-out credit cards. Internet pornography. Satan does not sit still. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Spiritual warfare as much as you can deny, it is real...</span><br /><br />Self-imposed pain. The demoniac used rocked. We are more sophisticated; we use drugs, sex, work, violence, & food. Obsession with death & darkness. Even unchained, the wild man loitered among the dead. Evil feels at home there. Communing with the deceased, sacrificing the living, a morbid fascination with death & dying - this is not the work of God...<br /><br />Endless restlessness. The man on the eastern shore screamed the day & night <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Mark 5:5]</span> Isolation. The man is all alone in his suffering. Such is Satan’s plan. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">"Be well balanced [temperate, sober of mind], be vigilant & cautious at all times; for that enemy of yours, the devil, roams around like a lion roaring [in fierce hunger], seeking someone to seize upon & devour."</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1 Peter 5:8 [Amplified Bible] </span>Fellowship will foils his work. & Jesus. Jesus wrecks his work. Christ steps out of the boat with both pistols blasting. <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Mark 5:8 NASB]</span>. No chitchat, No niceties. No salutations. Demons deserve no tolerance. They throw themselves at the feet & mercy of Christ...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"My name is Legion; for we are many." & he began to implore Him earnestly not to send them out of the country.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Mark 9-10, NASB]</span> Legion is a Roman military term. A roman legion involved six thousand soldiers. To envision that many demons inhabiting this man is frightening but not unrealistic. The demons are not only numerous, they are equipped. A legion is a battalion in arms. Satan & his friends come to fight. Hence, we are urged to <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">'take the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, & having done everything, to stand firm" </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Eph. 6:13]</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"We are fighting against forces & authorities & against rulers of darkness & powers in the spiritual world"</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Eph 6:12 CEV].</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The devil is a strong devil. But and this is the point of passage, in Jesus's presence, the devil is a wimp. Satan is to Jesus what a mosquito is to an atomic bomb.</span> How hell's court cowers in Christ's presence! Demons bow before him, solicit him, & obey him. They can't even lease a pig without His permission. Then how do we explain Satan's influence? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Satan can disturb us, but he cannot defeat us. The head of the serpent is crushed by Jesus! Halleluiah! Thank you Jesus...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"God disarmed the evil rulers & authorities. He shamed them publicly by His victory over them on the cross of Christ."</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Col. 2:15 NLT] </span>So how does that leave us? Confident. The punch line of the passage is Jesus' power over Satan. One word from Christ, & the demons are swimming with the swine, & the wild man is 'clothed and in his right mind"<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> [Mark 5:15]</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Just one command! No séance needed. No hocus-pocus. No chants were heard or candles lit.</span> Hell is an anthill against heaven's steamroller. Jesus <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"commands...evil spirits, & they obey Him"</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> [Mark 1:27 NCV]</span> The snake in the ditch & Lucifer in the pit- both have met their match...<br /><br />And yet, both stir up dust long after their defeat. For that reason through confident, we are still careful. Satan spooks our work, disrupts our activities, & leaves us thinking twice about where we step. Which we need to do. <span style="font-size:180%;">Alertness is needed. Panic is not.</span> The serpent still wiggles & intimidates, but he has no poison. He is defeated, and he knows it! <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">"He knows his time is short"</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[Rev. 12:12 CEV]</span>...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Little children, you are of God [you belong to him] & have [already] defeated & overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He who lives in you is greater [mightier] than he who is in the World.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[1 John 4:4 Amplified Bible].</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">Believe it. Trust the work of your Savior. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], & he will flee from you.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[James 4:7 Amplified Bible] </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-size:180%;" >"Draw near to God & He will draw near to you." </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[James 4:8 NASB]...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Inspired by: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Max Lucado</span><br /></span></div>Godwyn Limhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001892753448466894noreply@blogger.com28