The Value Of Mystery

An intellectual gospel is always in danger of creating a God that looks a lot like us—one that is our size. The quest for answers sometimes leads to a rejection of mystery. As a result mystery is often treated as something intolerable, instead of a real treasure. Living with mystery is the privilege of our walk with Christ. Its importance cannot be overrated. If I understand all that is going on in my Christian life, I have an inferior Christian life. The walk of faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can’t explain. That’s why Christianity is called "the faith."

All too often believers abandon or dilute their call in order to feel better about the things they cannot explain. To allow what we cannot answer to downgrade what He has shown us is to be carnal minded. Too many only obey what they understand, thus subjecting God to their judgments. God is not on trial; we are. A true cross-walk is obeying where we have revelation in spite of the apparent contradiction in what we cannot explain. To obey only when we see that there will be a favorable outcome is not obedience. Obedience is supposed to be expensive. To embrace what He has shown us and to obey what He has commanded us, often in the midst of unanswerable questions, is an honor beyond measure. It is a great privilege to be a believing believer in the midst of a culture of unbelief. We must embrace this privilege. No Christian should be unmoved by the Lord’s question, “When I return, will I find faith on the earth?” I have set my heart to be His pleasure by living in faith.

Excerpts from 'Dreaming With God' chapter 1

by Bill Johnson

'FUN FACT'

God hides things for us, not from us.

Bill Johnson, author of best-selling 'Supernatural Power Of The Transformed Mind'.

The Language Of The Holy Spirit

When we were young Christians, the Holy Spirit often speaks in our language. We hear things very specifically, we are guided and lead by the Holy Spirit pretty much in detail. Things are going great but as time goes on, suddenly it seems as if the Holy Spirit isn't with us anymore. It seems like He's not speaking to us anymore. Many Christians would question in their mind, "Am I doing something wrong?" Some might think, "I must have sinned, maybe that's why I don't get blessed anymore."

This post is gonna help you a lot, whether you've just accepted Jesus into your life (awesome! [Luke 15:7 & 10]) or you've been a Christians for some years, or if you've been a Christian for ages. Here are some answers to your 'hows', 'whys' and 'whats'.

First of all we've got to understand that the Holy Spirit's first language ain't English or any other tongue that you might be speaking. So if sometimes you don't hear the Holy Spirit speaking, you're probably on the wrong channel.

Another thing that might help you is knowing why the Holy Spirit is here with us. What is the purpose of His coming here on earth. Well, the Holy Spirit is not here to help you overcome your sin. Some of you are going, "WHAT!! THIS IS FALSE TEACHING RIGHT HERE!"

Let me say that if you think that the Holy Spirit is here to help you overcome your sin, you're totally getting it wrong. Jesus has already died for your sins and He has rose from the grave and given you righteousness. And when you accept that fact, you can get what all Jesus has to offer. The Holy Spirit was sent not to do again the thing that Jesus already did. The Holy Spirit is here to bring you to look at Jesus, grace!

You've got to understand that you are no longer a sinner the moment you accepted Jesus into your life [Hebrews 10:10 & 14], and your old man (nature) died and was buried when you we're baptized in water, and out of the water came a new man, a saint, a holy person, a child of God, a royal priesthood [Exodus 19:5-6 & 1 Peter 2:9-10]. What Jesus did, Holy Spirit doesn't need to do again. Still often many Christians go around preaching an inaccurate gospel and live their lives trying to overcome their old man, (which by the way already died in the baptismal tank) as though Jesus didn't do anything. Please do not dilute the value and effectiveness of the blood of Christ just because you are struggling with a certain bad habit or sin [Hebrews 10:29].

Some other Christians believe that they have a new nature but they believe they still have another half with them, their old nature. This is also an inaccurate understanding. I call this.... identity crisis, split personality or a case of CS (Christian Schizophrenia). People that have this mindset live lethargic Christian lives because they believe that although they have victory in Christ and they are an overcoming new man, they do not live lives like that. Its like saying, "Oh I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength, I can overcome but the fact is I actually can't. Oh I'm wonderfully made, oh but no, I'm a sinner and I'm not worthy of anything coz I'm actually a sinner." [Romans 5:12-21]. Come on people, Christ made you worthy. The Father does not see you as you were anymore, because He looks at you through His perfect sinless Son, and you are now WORTHY! You are seated together with Christ in the heavenly places. How can you be in the heaven but you're a sinner?

I'm not saying that you cannot sin anymore as a new man (trust me, I've tried, hahaha), what I'm saying is, is that you're not prone to sin. A sinner is prone to sin. But you are a saint and you are prone to righteousness and glory [Romans 9:30 & Romans 5:1-2 & Romans 6:1-14].

Now having said this, the Holy Spirit purpose is none of the above. He is not here to help you overcome your problems but He is here to empower you to overcome your problems [Acts 1:8]. We have been given a mandate to multiply and subdue the earth. Heaven is God's but the earth is ours for the ruling [Genesis 1:28]. Let us not create a doctrine that gives us permission to not be responsible for the things we're in charge of. The body of Christ for too long, in the name of humility, have castrated and emasculate the call and identity of the Church. It's time we take responsibility and answer this call. Will you?

People are hungry and thirsty for a power that leads to salvation. We have this power within us when the Holy Spirit CAME upon the Church two thousand years ago [Acts 2:1-4]. Let us not disappoint them.

If you are reading this and you wanna have this life as well, come, pray this prayer with me. Salvation and eternal life is but a second away.

Jesus, I believe You are real and true to Your words. Forgive my sins and come into my life and make me new.

If you want to know more or have prayed this prayer, give me a call or any Christian friend you know. Be sure to read more on the authentic gospel (good news) here on daniel wong's blogspot. God bless and bye bye.

FUN FACT

If you're only being blessed by God in finance, you're living a substandard abundant life.

Daniel Wong, Ministry Assistant of WHC

The Little Things

'A Glass of Water' by Mr.Beaver (flickr)'

I read an e-mail recently about "annoying" things that happens to us. We face them all the time. But maybe, just maybe, we're there for a specific purpose or reason. Here's how the e-mail goes, hope you're encouraged and blessed.

As you might remember, the head of a company survived 9/11
Because his son started kindergarten.

Another fellow was alive because it was

His turn to bring the donuts.

One woman was late because her

Alarm clock didn't go off in time.

One of them

Misses his bus.

One spilled food on her clothes and had to take

Time to change.

One's

Car wouldn't start.

One couldn't

Get a taxi.

The one that amazed me was the man

Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,

Took the various means to get to work

But before he got there, he developed

A blister on his foot.

He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.

That's why he is alive today...

Now when we're

Stuck in traffic,

Miss an elevator

Turn back to answer a ringing phone call...

All the little things that annoy me.

I think to myself,

This is exactly where

God wants me to be

At this very moment...

Next time your morning seems to be going wrong,

The children are slow getting dressed,

You can't seem to find the car keys,

You hit every traffic light,

Don't get mad or frustrated;

It may be just that

God is at work watching over you.

I know some of you reading this might get it the wrong way. If you think that every problem that happens to you is from God, dude, God is not giving problems to you, you're just in a stroke of bad luck. So raise up and resist the devil and he will flee (run in terror) from you [James 4:7].

'WORDS OF FAITH'

So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you. (James 4:7 Amplified Bible)

Digesting Jesus

When Jesus said we must eat His flesh and drink his blood, he wasn’t talking about cannibalism, but he was referring to ingestion that leads to incarnation. Christ was the Word that became flesh. It is important that we ingest the Word of God in a way that causes us to digest His life until Christ is literally formed in us. Ingestion without digestion will lead to feeling full but not being transformed. Digestion is more than just a taste test, it is the full meal of His presence that conforms us to His image. There is an old saying that is true in this case, “You are what you eat!”

Many people ingest the Bible but they don’t digest the living, active Word of God. Religion fills their souls but never satisfies their longing for real life. Digestion requires assimilation, not just consumption. Truth was never meant to just be recounted, it was intended to be experienced. When we exchange the communion meal for a dinner commentary or a cookbook, we deprive ourselves of the privilege of abundant life, and relegate ourselves to a meager existence in the Kingdom.

Jesus never intended for us to be full of religion, but He desired us to be filled with His Spirit. Christ is the ultimate happy meal, and as we digest Him, we become one flesh with him. That is why Jesus prayed that,

“We may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me…The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me."

Christ is not talking about His disciples getting along with each other here. He was describing the unity between the babe and the Bridegroom, where the intimacy of intercourse assimilates us into one flesh. When we come to the communion table and eat the flesh of our King, we become an inseparable unity that causes the world to experience His presence every time they encounter us. In other words, when they see us, they have seen the Father.

We are Christ to the world. I don’t mean that we just preach Christ to the world. I mean people should experience Christ when they meet us because it is Jesus who is being formed in us. As a matter of fact, it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

When people experience us preaching the Word without us becoming the Word, the gospel gets reduced to a mere philosophy-- principles to be argued and words that can be wrangled over. But when the Word becomes flesh and dwells among them, they find themselves pierced to the heart and convicted in the depths of their very souls. It is incumbent upon us as the people of God to preach Christ wherever we go and, only if necessary, use words!

by Kris Vallotton, author of best-selling 'The Supernatural Ways of Royalty'

Attack Of The Clones

poster of movie 'Surrogates'

Religious people, like the Pharisees of old, have the hardest time reaching out to folks who think “outside of the box” and don’t behave inside their hopeless shackles. Part of the struggle comes from what they have done to the Savior of the world. They have sterilized the gospel. Jesus took water and turned it to wine, but 2,000 years later, today’s Pharisees have diluted it to grape juice. Religion has reduced the supernatural power of God to a history lesson about serving the dead body of a helpless Christ who, still nailed to the Cross, is incapable of rocking their sacred boat. They emphasize the drowning of baptism, arguing over how people should get wet and what should be said over them during their dipping. Religious people have lost touch with the fact that the bold print of baptism is not on the descent but on the ascension. The death of Christ paid for our sins, but it was His resurrection that gave life to our mortal bodies. Religion embraces death sadistically and moves the risen Christ out of the garden and back to the tomb. Religious people pray things like “God, kill me,” not realizing that even the One who came to give His life as a ransom for us all prayed, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup (of death) from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done” (Luke 22:42). Jesus did not want to die; He wanted to do His Father’s will. If religion had its way, it would rewrite Mary’s proclamation to read, “He is in the tomb just where we laid Him!” We have lost sight of the fact that the Cross was for the old man not the new man, and that the true Christian life is not about dying for Christ, but living in the life He purchased for us to establish His Kingdom on earth! The Church must shake off the shackles of religion and embrace our supernatural destiny.

by Kris Vallotton, author of best-selling 'The Supernatural Ways of Royalty'

'FUN FACT'

We are not allowed to apologize for something that has been given to us for free.
Anonymous

S.O.S?

picture taken by me on pangkor beach

Hey there readers. The recent few days has been real "shaky" for our planet earth don't you agree? At times we may wonder what's going wrong or why are these things happening. This next post is here to cheer you up and settle your mind. This post isn't only gonna pacify your situation or issue (if you do have one), its gonna set you free and heal your soul totally! Believe it or not, just by reading a simple blog and an O-level graduate student's writing, your life can be changed :)

In the New Testament (a part of the Bible if you didn't know), Jesus and many other writers reminds us time and time again of our identity and purpose for our creation. Here are some verses you can check out - [Romans 6:4, 7:6, 8:16-17, 2 Corinthians 5:17].

We know that all these things said about us are true. After these things we are then faced with our o so real life. This is when we have issues and we are challenged in our faith and what we've been taught or even what we preach and teach. Sadly many fail and interestingly, fail not due to the giant problems but fail because they do not apply stuff that has been learnt and therefore succumb to the issue. We've got to began to change things around. We've got to match up verses that have been said about us with the issues we face. But at times, this is not the case. Many times we know what we're suppose to do but we don't do it. Why?

The reason is this. Fear binds us and makes us blur in our focus on Christ. The devil is here to steal, kill and destroy and he does not do anything else but that. If he blesses you, he'll bless you for the reason to steal it away again. He heals you with a price when actually God gives healing free of charge, no strings attached (hey if you're reading this and think that Jesus will heal you but then you gotta be a committed Christian after that and you can't enjoy life no more, dude you've been taught wrongly). The devil gives you a future, but with the intention to one day not only take you down, but your whole family (which you probably don't even have yet). No matter what the devil does, even the good things that he does and gives you, it will probably be a disguise of his stealing, killing and destroying.

Do not fear because He that is in you is greater than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4). In anything we do, fear is the cause for us to succumb to the devil and hand over our authority, which is actually higher than his, to him. The only way to defeat him is by having peace. I'm talking about the peace that only Jesus gives (eh by the way, when you hear or read the word 'give' right, means its free right? Well just a thought). We see an account in the Bible of Jesus sleeping in the boat while there was a great storm (Matthew 8:23-27). We also see in the account that the disciples panicked and were afraid of dying. The only way to beat the "storm" is having peace. Jesus destroyed 3 things in the process of dying on the cross and resurrecting Himself (wooohh how cool is that heh?). He destroyed sin, death and Satan himself. Thus meaning, He destroyed the fear over sin, the fear of dying and the fear of whatever Satan throws at you. Some of us might be addicted in a certain sin and we fear that we can never get out of that sin. Good news for you, Jesus has destroyed that fear. And the sooner you understand that the sooner you'll get peace from Jesus and the sooner you'll not sin anymore. In other words, you'll be TOTALLY set free!
Some of you might have heard God telling you to preach to a 'samseng' or a thug (same meaning actually) in school or something. But because you fear getting beaten up (fear of dying), you back off. Let me tell you that Jesus has defeated death and not only that but substituted that place of fear of dying with ETERNAL LIFE! You don't even have to fear the punk himself, coz' he's been ripped apart, humiliated, dragged around the whole of heaven and hell naked when Jesus died for us.

So come on people, don't be a slave any longer to that 'little pathetic excuse for an alternative' (the devil), for you are a son of God. And if God has punk'ed the devil, so shall we. He's just a dog that barks loud but I think the more you beat a dog up, he'll bark softer (sorry that I've equated the devil to a dog. To all you dog lovin' people out there, sorry). Time to go, divide and conquer.

So what say you? Slave? or Son!?

'WORDS OF FAITH'

Moreover the law entered the the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 5:20-21 NKJV)

'FUN FACT'

When you get saved, you're in the full time ministry. You may suck at it, but you're in it.
Kris Vallotton, author of best-selling 'The Supernatural Ways of Royalty'

What Are The Odds?

True happiness. Wondering how you can get it? You're at the right blog reading the right post at the right time. Check out the odds. You're probably the 0.001% of the entire world population that is reading this post right now. Feeling happy already?

Many people find happiness in different things, such as, occupying themselves with fun filled activities (watching a movie or hangin' out with friends or going on a window shopping spree or just sleeping) or spending quality time with their love ones, or planning for a tour to the Caribbean islands. Some depend on good luck or good fortune to bring them happiness. Some pick up a hobby, like learning a certain musical instrument or learning how to cook, doing some gardening, and our all time favourite, collecting stamps (as if anyone still does this, but if you do, please contact me, I can give you some of mine). Some go on to simply do what they love doing, such as, eating, going for 'makan trips' (best related to Malaysians), reading a book of a fictional nerd wizard boy turn hero (yeah right), watching a favourite movie (studies show that people enjoy watching things that are not real, that will never happen, or anything related to blood), or the all time most popular pass time, sleeping (again?).

All the above are true. People do get happiness in these various ways and probably many other weird and not so common ways which we will not mention about today. But, mind you, all of these have just a temporary effect in bringing you happiness. Temporary pleasure isn't the same as lasting satisfaction and happiness.

I have learned and found out through the years that TRUE happiness can't be found, it can't be earned by what you do or generated emotionally. TRUE happiness is given. It is receivable as much as it is rejectable. Happiness isn't TRUE happiness but TRUE happiness will bring happiness. TRUE happiness stands the test of earthquakes (shaky times in life and surroundings), it defeats defeat without words, it makes you have inexpressible emotions and it even stands the test of test itself.

'WORDS OF TRUTH'

He saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heir according to the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:5-7 NASB)

Dear reader, if you have not yet accepted Jesus Christ (TRUE happiness) into your life. You need to do that right now. The happiness of your life will no more depend on the happenings around you or what you do but it will be found in Jesus Christ (TRUE happiness). And when there is TRUE happiness how can there not be happiness that follow? So take a step of faith and receive Him (TRUE happiness) into your heart. He loves you as much as anytime He has ever loved you no matter what you do right now.

If you want to receive TRUE happiness today, read this following statement with all of your heart,

Jesus Christ, come into my life. Even though I don't know much about You, but with all of my heart, I receive You into my life and this gift of eternal life. Jesus, I feel so stupid doing this, its like I'm talking to this brainless computer, but I'm sure You're listening to me somewhere. Thank you for your love even though I'm not perfect. 谢谢耶稣 ^_^

If you have read this with a believing heart, congratulations, you just prayed and you just got a new life. Your sins are forgiven. Now, you must contact a Christian friend or you can also call me so that we know we have a new brother/sister.

'WORDS OF DESTINY'

For we are God's [own] handiwork (His workmanship, recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which he prearranged and made ready for us to live]. (Ephesians 2:10 Amplified Bible)