During the bs, was reminded that...
I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. (Malachi 3:6)
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Do not take revenge, my friends. (Romans 12:19)
There are times when doing nothing demands much greater strength than taking action. Maintaining composure is often the best evidence of power.
Fear not, be strong.
The apostle Paul said, "None of these things move me" (Acts 20:24 KJV)
Februray 10 Streams in the Desert
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Day 4
Scripture
We love because He first loved us.1 John 4: 19, NIV
God’s Love
There was a time when I knew in my head that God loved me, but I really didn’t know it in my heart. It was just words to me. That was the reason why I first went to an Ellel Ministries weekend course (Love’s Healing Power) and soon afterwards to a longer 9-week training school.
It was on the 9-week school that the change happened and I began to feel in my heart that I was truly loved by God. There had been a block in the way and once that was removed, the difference was awesome. God’s love is warm, radiant and sustaining. However, it takes time for a major change like that to reach every part, and the awareness of being loved by God is still growing and enlarging, reaching new parts of me as I let Him have access to them.
One important aspect has been learning to receive God’s love and not to brush it off or dismiss it. I think we tend to do that because we’re afraid. We fear that we might believe we are loved when we aren’t and so we’ll be disappointed (again!).
I would hear words in my mind, which seemed as if they were from God. Loving, kind, approving words like “well done, I’m pleased with you.” I would be afraid to accept that it could possibly be God speaking. What if I was wrong? Could that be blasphemous in some way, to believe God was more pleased with me than he really was? Yet I came to see that He loves me (and you as well) far more than we can possibly imagine. It’s impossible for us to assume He loves us more than He really does!
Do you ever find yourself in church, and you just can’t join the worship in your heart? Perhaps the words of the song say how happy you are feeling (but you’re not) or how glowing your love for God is (when you know it isn’t today). I used to have times like that, until I allowed God to highlight a few of the words of the song and sing them to me!
It might be just one line or a whole section of a song. Perhaps words like “I love you so much” or “you are beautiful beyond description.” Can you imagine God singing that to you? He would like to. If you don’t really feel loved by God, why not allow him to sing to you sometimes?
We love because he first loved us.
Prayer: Father, thank You for your immense, unchanging love for me. Help me to trust You, that You really do love me personally, and that You love not just the nice parts of me, but the whole of me just as I am now. That’s so amazing. Please help me to accept that love. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
http://www.seedsofthekingdom.com/devotionals/0212/god’s-love.php 20 March 2009
We love because He first loved us.1 John 4: 19, NIV
God’s Love
There was a time when I knew in my head that God loved me, but I really didn’t know it in my heart. It was just words to me. That was the reason why I first went to an Ellel Ministries weekend course (Love’s Healing Power) and soon afterwards to a longer 9-week training school.
It was on the 9-week school that the change happened and I began to feel in my heart that I was truly loved by God. There had been a block in the way and once that was removed, the difference was awesome. God’s love is warm, radiant and sustaining. However, it takes time for a major change like that to reach every part, and the awareness of being loved by God is still growing and enlarging, reaching new parts of me as I let Him have access to them.
One important aspect has been learning to receive God’s love and not to brush it off or dismiss it. I think we tend to do that because we’re afraid. We fear that we might believe we are loved when we aren’t and so we’ll be disappointed (again!).
I would hear words in my mind, which seemed as if they were from God. Loving, kind, approving words like “well done, I’m pleased with you.” I would be afraid to accept that it could possibly be God speaking. What if I was wrong? Could that be blasphemous in some way, to believe God was more pleased with me than he really was? Yet I came to see that He loves me (and you as well) far more than we can possibly imagine. It’s impossible for us to assume He loves us more than He really does!
Do you ever find yourself in church, and you just can’t join the worship in your heart? Perhaps the words of the song say how happy you are feeling (but you’re not) or how glowing your love for God is (when you know it isn’t today). I used to have times like that, until I allowed God to highlight a few of the words of the song and sing them to me!
It might be just one line or a whole section of a song. Perhaps words like “I love you so much” or “you are beautiful beyond description.” Can you imagine God singing that to you? He would like to. If you don’t really feel loved by God, why not allow him to sing to you sometimes?
We love because he first loved us.
Prayer: Father, thank You for your immense, unchanging love for me. Help me to trust You, that You really do love me personally, and that You love not just the nice parts of me, but the whole of me just as I am now. That’s so amazing. Please help me to accept that love. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
http://www.seedsofthekingdom.com/devotionals/0212/god’s-love.php 20 March 2009
Day 3
Day 3
The Relinquished Life
“I am crucified with Christ.”Galatians 2:20
No one is ever united with Jesus Christ until he is willing to relinquish not sin only, but his whole way of looking at things. To be born from above of the Spirit of God means that we must let go before we lay hold, and in the first stages it is the relinquishing of all pretence. What Our Lord wants us to present to Him is not goodness, nor honesty, nor endeavour, but real solid sin; that is all He can take from us. And what does He give in exchange for our sin? Real solid righteousness. But we must relinquish all pretence of being any thing, all claim of being worthy of God's consideration.
Then the Spirit of God will show us what further there is to relinquish. There will have to be the relinquishing of my claim to my right to myself in every phase. Am I willing to relinquish my hold on all I possess, my hold on my affections, and on everything, and to be identified with the death of Jesus Christ?
There is always a sharp painful disillusionment to go through before we do relinquish. When a man really sees himself as the Lord sees him, it is not the abominable sins of the flesh that shock him, but the awful nature of the pride of his own heart against Jesus Christ. When he sees himself in the light of the Lord, the shame and the horror and the desperate conviction come home.
If you are up against the question of relinquishing, go through the crisis, relinquish all, and God will make you fit for all that He requires of you.
http://www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/my_utmost/utm.cgi?0308 8 March
Day 2
Day 2
Undaunted Radiance
“Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.”Romans 8:37
Paul is speaking of the things that might seem likely to separate or wedge in between the saint and the love of God; but the remarkable thing is that nothing can wedge in between the love of God and the saint. These things can and do come in between the devotional exercises of the soul and God and separate individual life from God; but none of them is able to wedge in between the love of God and the soul of the saint. The bedrock of our Christian faith is the unmerited, fathomless marvel of the love of God exhibited on the Cross of Calvary, a love we never can and never shall merit. Paul says this is the reason we are more than conquerors in all these things, super-victors, with a joy we would not have but for the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us.
The surf that distresses the ordinary swimmer produces in the surf-rider the super-joy of going clean through it. Apply that to our own circumstances, these very things - tribulation, distress, persecution, produce in us the super-joy; they are not things to fight. We are more than conquerors through Him in all these things, not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. The saint never knows the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it - "I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation," says Paul.
Undaunted radiance is not built on anything passing, but on the love of God that nothing can alter. The experiences of life, terrible or monotonous, are impotent to touch the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Day 1
Day 1
Psalm 16:5-6
LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure.
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.
Great is Thy faithfulness
Complete
You raise me up
Blessed be Your Name
How great is our God
when i opened the bible gateway for Ps 16:5-6, this is the Verse of the day:
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
My Redeemer Lives
God will make a way - was reminded our time in Timor Leste when leaving SP
Jehovah Jireh
Amid A Crowd Of Paltry Things
“… in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses.”2 Corinthians 6:4
It takes Almighty grace to take the next step when there is no vision and no spectator - the next step in devotion, the next step in your study, in your reading, in your kitchen; the next step in your duty, when there is no vision from God, no enthusiasm and no spectator. It takes far more of the grace of God, far more conscious drawing upon God to take that step, than it does to preach the Gospel.
Every Christian has to partake of what was the essence of the Incarnation, he must bring the thing down into flesh and blood actualities and work it out through the finger tips. We flag when there is no vision, no uplift, but just the common round, the trivial task. The thing that tells in the long run for God and for men is the steady persevering work in the unseen, and the only way to keep the life uncrushed is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the Risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to damp you. Continually get away from pettiness and paltriness of mind and thought out into the thirteenth chapter of St. John's Gospel.
http://www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/my_utmost/utm.cgi?0306 6 March
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pre Day 1
洪 水 泛 滥 之 时 ， 耶 和 华 坐 着 为 王 ； 耶 和 华 坐 着 为 王 ， 直 到 永 远 。詩 篇 29:10
when i look back, it seems that You prepared me for what was to come...
Psalm 16:5-6
LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure.
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.
Great is Thy faithfulness
Complete
You raise me up
Blessed be Your Name
How great is our God
when i opened the bible gateway for Ps 16:5-6, this is the Verse of the day:
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
My Redeemer Lives
God will make a way - was reminded our time in Timor Leste when leaving SP
Jehovah Jireh
Amid A Crowd Of Paltry Things
“… in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses.”2 Corinthians 6:4
It takes Almighty grace to take the next step when there is no vision and no spectator - the next step in devotion, the next step in your study, in your reading, in your kitchen; the next step in your duty, when there is no vision from God, no enthusiasm and no spectator. It takes far more of the grace of God, far more conscious drawing upon God to take that step, than it does to preach the Gospel.
Every Christian has to partake of what was the essence of the Incarnation, he must bring the thing down into flesh and blood actualities and work it out through the finger tips. We flag when there is no vision, no uplift, but just the common round, the trivial task. The thing that tells in the long run for God and for men is the steady persevering work in the unseen, and the only way to keep the life uncrushed is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the Risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to damp you. Continually get away from pettiness and paltriness of mind and thought out into the thirteenth chapter of St. John's Gospel.
http://www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/my_utmost/utm.cgi?0306 6 March
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pre Day 1
洪 水 泛 滥 之 时 ， 耶 和 华 坐 着 为 王 ； 耶 和 华 坐 着 为 王 ， 直 到 永 远 。詩 篇 29:10
when i look back, it seems that You prepared me for what was to come...
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
What difference does the Holy Spirit make?
1. sudden brilliant consciousness of God being actually present
2. He gave them the joy of the Holy Ghost
3. the power of their words to penetrate and arrest
4. a clear sense of the reality of everything
5. a sharp separation between them and the world
6. they took a great delight in prayer
7. a passionate love the Scriptures
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Sharing on 27th Feb
was sharing the Shack during last friday at CG.
It is about a story of a man who daughter died under a tragic circumstance and how his world is changed forever during his greatest moment of sadness when God invited him back to the Shack.
The Shack "is a metaphor for the places you get hurt, you get stuck"
It is a cross between fiction & theology
I was stuck for sometimes, when the portray of God the Father is not what I have expected. Then I realized I had a mental image of God.
Which I shouldn’t as the 2nd Commandment: You shall not make for yourself an idol
Exodus 20:4
"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
You will enjoy the book even as a novel, but it will make you think about the nature and character of God even more.
Where tragedy meets eternity
Good
Involved
It is about a story of a man who daughter died under a tragic circumstance and how his world is changed forever during his greatest moment of sadness when God invited him back to the Shack.
The Shack "is a metaphor for the places you get hurt, you get stuck"
It is a cross between fiction & theology
I was stuck for sometimes, when the portray of God the Father is not what I have expected. Then I realized I had a mental image of God.
Which I shouldn’t as the 2nd Commandment: You shall not make for yourself an idol
Exodus 20:4
"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
You will enjoy the book even as a novel, but it will make you think about the nature and character of God even more.
Where tragedy meets eternity
Good
Involved
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