Know Your Enemy

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...Abba are you there? 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 my absence of blogging that I miss most in my life...

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, our trials & our temptations are send by God to teach us. This lie says that trials & tribulations are God's tools of developing & strengthening our character...

The very 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. This is absolutely against the word of God. Why? Because the very basic principle of the Christian life is to know that God put our sin, sickness, disease, sorrow, grief & poverty on Jesus at Calvary. For God to put any of this on us to teach us or to strengthen our faith would be a miscarriage of justice. To believe that God has a purpose for your sickness would mean that Jesus bore your sicknesses in vain. What an insult to His love & care & compassion toward us!!!

"All authority has been given to Me in heaven & on earth." Matt 28:18 [NASB] 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, his only tool is deception. 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...

I have good news for you! "In righteousness you will be established; You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear; And from terror, for it will not come near you. 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; And I have created the destroyer to ruin. No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; 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." Isaiah 54: 14-17 [NASB]

The battle lines are drawn. God is not your problem. Satan is your problem-he is your enemy. But the good news is that God has provided our complete deliverance through Jesus Christ...Amen?! No matter what happens, remember His promise…"I am with you always, even to the end of age" Matt 28:20

Inspired By:

Kenneth Copeland

The Love of God

"Blessed shall you be when you come in, & blessed shall you be when you go out." Deut 28:6 [NASB] 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...

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! 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...

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 love of God, being the state of manifestation, the perfection & measurement of His love for us. Rom 5:5-8 [NASB], "& 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." Let us not be self occupied for inside enjoyment, look outside to Christ & the cause is on that cross with the effect, the love of God...

1 John 4:17-18 [NASB] demonstrated the perfection of God's love, "By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is so also are we in This World. 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." God looks at Jesus not us for judgment, don't look at our circumstances beloved but trust in Christ who is our new identity. Is Christ rich? So are we in this World! Is Christ Healthy? So are we in this World! 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...

The measurement of God's love? "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." John 17::23 [NASB]. "God does not see the same way people see. People look at the outside of a person, but the Lord looks at the heart." 1 Sam 16:17 [NCV] 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?

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. Who cares what he, or they think? What matters is what your Maker thinks. God always see what no one else saw: a God-seeking heart! Our Father knows our heart, & because He does, He has a place reserved just for you...

Inspired By:

Pastor Prince & Max Lucado

David Vs The Giant

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...

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. 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...

I felt like David, facing the Giant, the Goliath! 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. 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...

David said to the philistine, "You come to me with a sword, as spear, & a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Hosts. The God of armies of Israel, whom you have taunted." 1 Sam 17:45 [NASB] "...& that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver us by sword or by spear; for the battle is the Lord's & He will give you into our hand." 1 Sam 17:47 [NASB] Notice in the scripture, David said that he come against the enemy in the name of the Lord. He further to declare, "For the battle is the Lord's...

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! 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. 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...

Try a new track! Rush to our giant with a God-saturated soul. 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. Focus first, & most on God.

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? Focus on giants - We stumble. Focus on God - our giants tumble. Lift your eyes, giants-slayer. The God who made a miracle out of David stands ready to make one out of you...

Inspired by:

Max Lucado

Leading a Supernatural Life

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. "So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matt 6:34 [NASB] A good reminder about our complex life in the 21st century...

"Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper & be in good health, just as your soul prospers." 3 John [NASB] Isn't this clear that the Lord not only will He prospers us in All things we do, He heals to give us a good health! Let's look at another verse, "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 Zion a stone of Stumbling & a rock of offense, And he who believes in Him will not disappointed." Romans 9:32-33 [NASB] Questions, who is the stumbling stone? The Devil...High Priest...No! No! It’s Jesus Christ our savior!

Righteousness is a gift by the sacrifice of Christ! Our body is created by God, having Spirit -Mind- Body. 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!

The scripture revealed 2 major keys to reign in life! Rom 5:17 [NASB] wrote, "For if the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one much more those we receive the abundance of Grace & of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.” 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!

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, "Let the peace of heaven be felt on earth." When it's hard to forgive your friends, family or work mates, pull out the check of grace God has given us...

Inspired By:

Max Lucado & Pastor Prince

How Great is our God!

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...I was totally unharmed!

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 Job 5:2 [Amplified Bible] says, "For vexation & rage kill the foolish man..."

A sister in Christ called me from overseas last night with great excitement! "My Mum received Christ just moments ago!" 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, "You have been saved by grace through believing. You did not save yourselves. It was a gift from God." [Eph. 2:8]. Salvation is a free gift!

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. 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. I asked for a verse, He 'smacked' me with Ps. 46:10 [Amplified Bible], "Let be & be still, & know (recognize & understand) that I am God."

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, "How great is our God!" 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.

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. An Abba! Yes, an Abba 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 abba who will swing us up into His arms & carry us home? We all need a father...

Inspired by:

Max Lucado