Wednesday, April 29, 2009

All Eyes On You

Have you ever wondered why people can go to church week in and week out, some even serve in the ministry and yet still are unfruitful and defeated? Some do spend time with God yet along the way they somehow get stagnant. In my search of this answer, going through times like what I've just described myself, a verse in the Bible concluded it.

Revelation 4:8 says this......... and truly its really a revelation.... haha
The four living creatures, each having six wings, full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying:
"Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty,
Who was and is and is to come!"

Wow! What kind of creature is that?!? Ridiculous!! Eyes all around AND within? Can you imagine that? Eyes on it's wings, eyes on it's legs, on it's hands, IN it's bones...... My goodness! Why so many eyes??
And as I asked the question earlier in the post, God's answer comes with just one word, perspective.
These four living creatures could keep on saying "Holy holy holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!", night and day, all their lives, because they saw different aspects of God every moment with their many eyes. Perspective. The only reasonable action for us to do now is to be on the constant search of who God is, not to know more about God, but knowing more about God so that we can worship Him in a new aspect and experience that very new expect of Him. We will never run dry or feel "out of steam" as we serve God. It all comes back to worship, which is total obedience and submission to His will.

So since we need to know more about God and who He is, let me just help you with some words that I've come to realise its true meaning. In the bible......

Strength - Perpetual success and impenetrable to temptation
Holy - Different
Word of God - Jesus
Minister/Ministry = Servant/Serving = Shut up and just do it!
Rejoice - Jump up, spin around in the influence of a violent emotion
Hallelujah - (halle) To boast, to shine, to put on a show, to rave (lu) for (Jah - short for Jehovah) God

I hope this helps you a little in your perspective of who God is now. So now when you say or sing, 'You are my strength, Your strength is made perfect in weakness, holy are You God, I'll spend time with Jesus, You rejoice over me or hallelujah', doesn't it give you a totally different picture of the promises of God for us or the greatness of God or how much He longs to spend time with us?

When we worship God in the very essence of what a word means, we not only bring glory to Him, but we also grow in faith + the devil is trembling because we know our identity in Christ. He must be shaking now.... hahaha....

Enough said, let us have all "eyes" on God in these last days of human history. May His "force" be with you.

'WORDS OF FAITH'
The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One will save, He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17 NKJV)
p.s. - I'm sure you're really amazed now at what this verse actually means but check out the Amplified Bible version of this verse, its gonna be an additional "eye" for you.

And find out what pleases the Lord. (Ephesians 5:10 NIV)
p.s. - I'd like to just highlight this verse, but whenever a verse in the Bible starts with an 'and', please go and read the verses before it.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Enemies Camp

Greetings everyone, its been awhile since I last posted something, but I'll be posting at least once a month and I hope to do more. 

These 1/4 of the year has been an unsafe time for our community as we hear and read about many bad happenings in our community like robbery and theft and even murder. This post I'm sending out is so that we the children of God will stop the devil in his pursuit to destroy our community. Some of these victims are people I know personally and please, people of God, we cannot let this unruly events continue anymore. Let us pray for our community, not only cover them with prayers but as well let us be in the attacking position towards the enemies camp. Let us also pray for our MP YB Wee Choo Keong for wisdom and favour as he tackle this issue. I believe that we are the ones who can make a change in this world, TODAY!

Here's a testimony I'd like to share with you, to encourage you to pray for our community and hunger and thirst after the higher things in life. I hope you are blessed : )

Just a year ago, we decided to launch our church's youth outreach toward the secondary schools in our community. We've seen our youth group grow from 0 to around 20+ that we're actively in contact with. Here's a cool mathematical fact........ We're not only seeing things double, triple, quadruple but we're seeing things grow from nothing into something. Just yesterday, some of us celebrated one of these youths birthday and we and he had real good time. Just seeing him so happy as we wished him 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY!' and buying him a cake, made all the sacrifices of money and time and personal leisure totally and absolutely worthwhile. 

Many surprising things have been happening to 'the little darling' recently too. Well as you know part 4 of 'the little darling' was the last part but if you're still interested to follow more on the life of 'the little darling', let me know and I'll starting writing again....... soon.

All these happenings, extremely bad and extremely good must surely be pointing towards the second coming of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Therefore let us live our lives seeking first His Kingdom and His righteousness.

'WORDS OF FAITH'
Let us hear the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is man's all.
For God will bring every work into judgment,
Including every secret thing,
Whether good or evil.
(Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 NKJV)