The Beautiful Voices.

Ever wonder why God gave you a good and beautiful voices?

Ever wonder why God gave you beautiful hands to play musics instrument?

Ever wonder why God gave you beautiful mind and thoughts?

Ever wonder why God gave you beautiful eyesight?

....... Lot's of wondering why........

* Use all this talent that God gave to you to sound The Beautiful Voices of His *

Grace.

I think the word and definition of GRACE is somewhat pretty hard to defined. Definition is important as well to understand its meaning but Jesus Christ has shown it and explain it to us in parables, in testimonies and in my opinion never has he define it but rather doing it.

Question now is are we doing it as well? Are we giving out grace to others since we believe that God has shown His grace to all of us no matter how bad we are or how good we are for His Son died on the Cross not for us only but for all mankind, never according to what you have done. That alone is grace to me.

The parables of prodigal son. That alone is grace to me.

The parables of the lost sheep. That alone is grace to me.

The parables of the Unforgiving Debtor. That alone as well is grace to me.

There are so many parables that Jesus has shared to us that God is Graceful and indeed in us that we believe in Him, we received His gift of Grace.

What about actions?

The healing of the sick one.

The physical touch of Jesus Christ on the man with leprosy.

The changing of water into wine.

All these are grace as well. My point is, we have indeed received so much of His grace, but are we pouring out His grace to others who have been out-cast by the society of the ungrace world? Are we acting as a church of God that not only emphasizing in converting them to a "religion" but helping them out in their physical dire, and also the inner healing that God can do?

Maybe you'll say, it's hard or I cannot do it, then let's not forget that we can do everything through Him who strengthens me and I believe He strengthens us every day, His grace are new every morning. Don't wait, but move instantly to Him and I believe opportunity are open everywhere.

May the Lord leads.

The Greatness of Suffering

1. Suffering, the great equalizer, brings us to a point where we may realize our urgent need for redemption.

2. Those who suffer know not only their dependence on God and on healthy people but also their interdependence with one another

3. Those who suffer rest their security not on things, which often cannot be enjoyed and may soon be taken away, but rather on people.

4. Those who suffer have no exaggerated sense of their own importance, and no exaggerated need of privacy. Suffering humbles the proud.

5.Those who suffer expect little from competition and much from cooperation.

6. Suffering helps us distinguish between necessities and luxuries.

7. Suffering teaches patience, often a kind of dogged patience born of acknowledged dependence.

8. Suffering teaches the difference between valid fears and exaggerated fears.

9. To suffering people, the gospel sounds like good news and not like a threat or a scolding. It offers hope and comfort.

10. Those who suffer can respond to the call of the gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.

Adapted from, Monica Hellwig.

Ask Yourself.

I'm here not to condemn you because it does applies to myself. As I blot this out, I myself has been reflecting about incidents and situation that has occur to me but by pass by me.

When I read Philip Yancey's book on Finding God in Unexpected Place, one sentence of word strikes me, "Where is the church when it hurts?" - this question comes out from him when the 9/11 terrorism happens because people in large are asking "Where is God when it hurts?".

It's so sad that nowadays Christian themselves want to find comfort in church, want the church to meet their needs and wants (like a consumer in market place), mixing their beliefs with God's beliefs in how church should run and how Christian should act upon. Christian themselves can't find peace in God but in human, can't find comfort in God but in human, can't find security in God but in the world (not pointing at anyone but in general, my point of view).

If Christians are acting like this, how can a church(not building but people of God) work in times like this (9/11) or Bersih? God can review Himself anytime He wants to the people, but He also will review through you and me. But the problem is how can He review to the people through us if we are acting like selfless fool who only wants to be among ourselves? How much do you want to deny yourself and say we are still lacking of training? Isn't the place at work is a training to you already?

When I reflect on all this, it strikes myself as a Christian on what have we become in this world, and what about God's ultimate commandment and commission for us? I'm deeply trouble by it and may the Spirit leads me to teach me more and act upon learning all of this.

It's definitely a challenge to me to be observant enough to see God works in many places in order to react directly to the mission that Jesus has set for us in this world.

You don't need to have any talents or gifts, what you need is just commitment as people of Christ.

http://lightmyfart.blogspot.com/2011/11/superpowers.html Hope this link helps you too! :)

I hope it does the same to you in challenging you.

May the Lord leads.

Workers vs Fields.

Matthew 9: 37 - 38

"He said to His disciples, "The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into His fields."

Have you ever wonder about this verse? I never really think about it deeply until today when I joined church Christmas Carol.

I've been wondering is this true? Is the field is too big that workers are lesser? Probably at Jesus time, it is so, but look around you now, observe it. In the past, Jesus says this because many has not known the TRUTH, but now, I do not know the exact statistic of how many has not know the truth, but I'll assume 95% has known it and at least hear it before.

Therefore, how can we understands from this truth of this words in our generation? I feel it's simply human being (imperfection). Commitment is truely a big issue now. People want to do what they want to do only and wouldn't care to bother other things and not do it. All they do is "I want to do my stuff (I'm Busy technically)" and they complain about other people doing other things, helping out one another and doing what that guy supposed to do. Christian workers are not few nowadays, there are a lot a lot a lot! Imagine in Malaysia, how many churches are there in Malaysia? 1 mega church can fit thousands of people! Are there really few workers?

How about the field? I couldn't measure exactly how big or small is there now. I'm no God. But based on my own observation, in the past, fields are way bigger than now. Don't you think so?

Therefore, commitment is an utmost important in life. No work can be done through a non commitment actions. Be strong! Courage! Do not let nonsense emotions hold you down from committing yourself to the Lord. It's time to realize that what you have said, have declare, have sung, unto the Lord Your God has to be in your heart and not your head and to put it into practice.

Even when I say this, I find it so hard to do it. Do not know where to starts. Then a verse comes to me,
Matthew 6 : 34 : Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.. "

I'm putting myself into this Commitment and learning from His word day by day to build a solid foundation on a solid Rock. How about you? If I fail, help me out and do not condemn me. Let's love each other.

Mercy and Grace will follow us all the way of our life. That's His promise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKkDzII4s4s
God Bless.

Have you forgotten the promises?

While I'm filtering my pictures on my lappy, I come upon these few pictures. Let's have a look at it :)

Did you remember what you write and what you prayed for? It's always easy to do something then forgetting about it especially when it comes to something that we always do since we are young. Praying, reading Bible, and etc. It's like a sand castle. If we never take a picture of it, the sea water will just gush and wave upon it and it's gone.

I'm here to not say that I'm all perfect that I can remember all my promises, prayers to God and to you and me, but I'm also learning on how to jot down what I prayed, what I promised so that I can keep track of my commitment to God and to you.

It's like love. It has to be tested of its commitment before one can truely love a person. Of course the test must be a test where commitment is there and the absence of it is infatuation.

Brother and Sister,

do not forget what burns your soul when you sing for Him.
do not forget what fires up your heart when you decide to receive Him as your personal Savior.
do not forget who God is and why you are baptized for.
do not forget your commitment to Him. Serve 100%, Rest 100%. He sees the heart.

All this are to be remember and act upon. It's always easy to forget because this is what Satan want us to forget (Genesis 4 : 7b : Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master). Let not sin win over your commitment to Christ, your love to Christ and let not your judgement condemn you whenever a brother or sister tries to help you in ways that you dislike.

Fight the Good race brother and sister. Remember the commitment we made. To Him, It's very important. Let's made it important too.

Let your heart continue to burn for Him.

Passion

Commitment

Love

Endurance.

Some little picture of the past. It reminds me of how they look when they were younger :P

The Heart That Matters.

Ever wonder when was the last time you gave your best shot to the Lord?

I just gave it today. It's unexpected. Like how God use to be huh? Mysterious God ;)

Today, ran with derk, kao meng, jensen and another girl (don't know how to spell) - just like old times. haha. miss that moment. Anyway, was running, upon reaching 5km, my knee couldn't take it, guess that's my limit for now, then in my mind I was thinking "cannot stop! must move on. They are my motivation." Then I pray, and God remind me that motivation and determination, they can come from human, but mainly it comes from the Lord. Then, I repent (i think) and tell God, even though my knee is in pain, let me finish 1 round. 1 word came to me. It's not gonna be easy, suffering will come first and indeed!!! Suffering does come first, running in pain isn't such a good thing. haha

However, keep pushing myself then upon reaching the guard house, in the beginning i think, hmm, take short cut la then after that I tell myself cannot! must finish it like I promised to God. So I keep running and running and when I reach the guard house (almost), derk and kao meng was inside Harvard running already and they ask me to turn in. My heart felt so much relieved! Able to take short cut and rest earlier. No need to push my knee further more.

Well, my point is, the moment you decided to give your best shot, your heart in finishing the race for the Lord, He is glad and definitely happy because what He wants is the heart. The HEART that matters the most. Like Abraham where God ask him to sacrifice his first born child, Abraham wouldn't want it to happen  but he obey and gave his heart to the Lord, but in the end, God called him to stop from sacrificing his son.

He loves to test the heart of His creation. Of course, there are many ways in Him testing your heart. He may test me and let me run the full 1 round rather than short cut. But no matter what, before that happens, my heart has decided to finish it and I'm prepared to do it. Therefore, I guess I pass 1 of the many test in my life for Him.

Remember, failed or succeed, He know what is best for you and me. Heart that matters :)

God Bless.

The Old Times. Now TMM has blossom like never before.