January 2010
68 posts
Coming from your identity in Christ- 31/01/2010...
Sometimes preachers say smthg is free then later say not. The cost of preaching grace= being called names by experts. It will cost u to blv the truth. But the cost not to do w gospel. He paid it all. Cannot add but can rcv the finished work.
When blessed, others will be jealous. Think Abraham- Phil envied him. Worse kind of Philistines are those in the kingdom of God.
Those vs prosperity -...
“Running is not everything, there is much in the way which we select: a swift...”
– Reminds me of all the times my Dad would tell me to walk, not run, when I was a kid. :) Better to always keep a steady and well- paced restful walk beside Him. :)
““It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying...”
– The journey takes us from unrighteousness, to self righteousness, to utter surrender leading to Christ-righteousness, Christ-consciousness, Christ-is-my-ALL-IN-ALL-ness!
The spirit of "I don't dare to because what if...
I was at a Comedy Film Production talk last weekend (held by 2 Emmy Award Winners) and I was surprised at this sentence that kept popping up over the two days - that the Public Television Networks in America are operating from FEAR. In the past, the studios dared to take bold moves because they came from a “I can’t lose” mentality. These days, they come from a “I am trying...
Hear Only The Good Stuff
(In response to a precious pte message from a sister… And a Qarah word for the hubby.)
I love this Mediacorp Radio ad campaign that has been running for a few years already. It always showcases a person being told negative stuff, but her/his hearing filters all the negative stuff out so all is heard is the good not the bad.
I always tell Kae that just as we dun necessarily like everyone,...
“To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. -Joan Klempner”
– Yup! Becoz u have to rest on His finished work. Itz not about striving to achv, but resting to rcv. So sleeeeeep. This is a year of RESTFUL INCREASE folks! Amen! :)
“Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance? -Phyllis Diller”
– Dust will always be there. Some things r more important than sweeping n sweeping the floor. :)
Spider Man, Newton, Physics, Grace & Rest
I was reading Strazynski’s AMAZING SPIDER MAN earlier on and well, although the comic has a sucky ending, I found something really awesome to think about.
I haven’t thought about Physics in a long while (sorry teachers) but well, thanks to Peter Parker’s musing, I was brought to look at this good old Physics principle-
“An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an...
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -Helen Keller”
– For me itz more SONshine than sunshine (^.^)v
“Vanity Fair is nothing if not on the cutting edge of where society is and is...”
– “Feel The power” By Joseph Aaron
To bear or not to bear?!?!? Lost in translation!!!
Luke 14:27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Today, during quiet time, I was led to this verse. I had asked Daddy God about misunderstood verses becoz they were lost in translation and thus application.
This is a verse many legalists love to fall back on. In fact, I grew up, like so many, assuming this verse meant if I didn’t get crucified...
“ Joy is that deep settled confidence that GOD is in control in every area of my...”
– hungribunni
“Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold...”
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“God dwells in eternity, but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our...”
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24/01/2010 SERMON NOTES - Pastor Prince
Ps Prince
The Church is impacting the world.
God gave TV to preach to four corners of the world.
Gospel not about how u are dressed or what ur hair is like.
The good shepherd sought us thus we are saved. Came to where we were so that we can be where we are today.
Pastor shares about Ps Ray Bevan- How he was a once a rock and roller, but is now anchored to the rock that never rolls.
1st...
When answers are delayed...
A farmer does not harvest the fruit before it is ripe n sweet for the plucking. If we decide to ignore his suggestions to wait, and harvest before it is ready anyway, the fruit might be sour tasting and biting to the tongue.
Just as different fruits take different lengths of time to ripen, everything has a season.
Another example- you do not make wine from the first harvest of grapes on vine....
“Sometimes, some people are pretty unlovable. But then I think about all the...”
– This is a quote by Joel Houston. Love is really a decision and it is easier to make that decision to love when you realise this truth- no man’s perfect.
Purgatory is a DECEPTION :)
Purgatory - a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
Purgatory negates the truth that Christ FINISHED off ALL SIN and CONQUERED DEATH on the Cross. It insults His work as imperfect and defames His unconditional...
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Why I am MIRTHFUL, not mournful
Neh 8:12 - “And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.”
When we have come to discern the Word and the prophesies (not prophecies) of the Holy Spirit, we cannot help but be filled with the joy of the LORD.
We come to understand the PERFECT LOVE of the LORD...
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“The voice of God is a quiet voice. The voice of God’s (unconditional) love and...”
– Bracketed definitions added by moi. :)
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17/01/2010 Sermon - Living Life with a RELAXED...
PP talks abt how he watched a special prog on Christian TV. They interviewed Anne Rice and talked abt her recent fiction book based on encounters with angels but how it all points back to Christ. She said the same readers that followed her Vampire series are now following her Christian inflc ones. Many of them asking her how to find God. The vampires in her books hold her voice when she was an...
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“Jesus wept.” - Jn 11:35”
– There are only 2 words in this verse, and this is the absolute heart of our LORD about witnessing the suffering we have fallen to in this fallen world.
Our God knows how we feel. I think that is the most beautiful thing of all. He came to Earth to experience our fears, our pain, our trials, our...
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Kung Fu Panda- many truths in one hilarious...
I never thought I’d watch Kungfu Panda and leave the cinema feeling like I had just exited a sermon personally taught by the HS Himself, but I did. And I see from PP, Jimmy and my hubby and my son’s response to the movie that the same HS that taught me, also taught them the same things. We have an amazing teacher who is probably more creative than the MOE teachers at teaching us the...
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“Many Haitians have a deep joy & hope through this disaster. They feel the...”
– PTL! The joy of the LORD is their strength! How childlike is their faith! What a wonderful opinion they have of their AWESOME GOD!
The world paints a bleak picture, Legalistic Christians are busy accusing the Haitians and judging them like Job’s friends condemned Job… but the Haitians,...
AVATAR & the Christ Walk- IMHO
So AVATAR is like the biggest movie of the season and I loved it. I guess some people watched it and focused on how weak the script was to them, how it was all special effects (I loved that the 3D drew ppl into the movie, not distract them from it)…. besides all the big hooha of the show, is there any depth to take from it at all?
Well, IMHO when we experience any movie or story, we...
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"Stranger Than Fiction" strangely attuned to the...
So there I was channel surfing on the Hub Station (local equivalent of the Tivo) when we God-incidentally came upon the movie “Stranger Than Fiction”. ((Rein, you asked me to tag you on blog/notes that take films and point them to Christ… I think this was God’s idea that we ditch watching the second episode of GLEE to watch a movie I watched some years back, and to receive...
God is not judging Haiti... if then Christ's work...
I am very pissed of with people…esp self-professed Christian leaders… who say rubbish things like God is judging Haiti.
God has done all His judging on the Cross of our LORD Jesus Christ and what he wants is to love His people back to Him. He doesn’t bring about natural disasters… that is the work of the devil & dun u just “love” how the devil gets the...
“FORGET THE FORMER THINGS DO NOT DWELL ON THE PAST. ( ISAIAH 43:18 )”
– Dwell. I used to dwell in my locked room, amongst tissue papers and angsty music. I dwelled on past after past after past. And itz like a cobweb, the longer one dwells, the more one sticks to the web of denial n deceit. And on that web is a spider that is only scary if u have a phobia of spiders....
“Today, while reading my Bible I found that Isaiah 1:14 says “I hate your...”
– This was so funny I juz had to reblog it (from http://spiritualsounds.tumblr.com)!!!! In stitches right now. But seriously, many pagan religions celebrate new moon festivities n feasts… This is esp so in Asia. While they give Asia the mystical air that the Western world is so smitten by, they...
“By laying hold of God’s WORD, all the things you are afraid of will go...”
– God’s Word is the sum of all His choicest blessings and promises to us all bundled up in the Word made flesh, JESUS CHRIST. Today when we know we have Him and He has us, the devil cannot help but flee from us! Hallelujah!! YES! Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so!! ( Kae’s choice of...
“The thing that is seen is lack. What is needful for us to do is to look towards...”
– Stop thinking of the problem. Focus on the expected end- victory from the Cross. Christ prevails!! See Phil4:8- “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something...
God loves to use the imperfect man
People usually assume that the necessary requirements to be a figure of authority is that you must first have strength or looks or skill or charisma or eloquence. But those can coz pride as they are fleshly qualities.
See Moses- bad tempered, lack of self-control, stammers. God used him greatly.
See David- runt of the family, ruddy faced kid, a shepherd (a lowly job in his days). God made hima...
“If God goes by logic there will be no miracle becoz miracles r out of this...”
– My 7 year old’s reflections after I read him my post on “My Unreasonable God” was very insightful. Have repeated them here at his behest. XD
“MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE; BUT MAN LIVES
BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS...”
– The revelation I just had is this- whatever we need we seek it out in His Word and declare His promises over our circumstances. As new wine in new wineskin, we don’t focus on the bread (literally) but on The Word made flesh who made His dwelling amongst us. Speaking His every blessing (good...
““It is their interpretation of God’s ‘blessings’ as material gain and freedom...”
– I dun get what the problem is? Didn’t Jesus ask His disciples to go forth and amongst the list of things to do, he said to free the sick by laying hands on them?
Mark 16:15-18 & 20 Jesus said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes...
Prophesising to these dry bones! AMEN! =)
The patient man is perfect and entire, lacking in nothing (James 1:4). Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen (Heb 11:1). Your life of faith is a response to God’s power (1 Cor 1:31) because the One who calls you is faithful and He will do it (1 Thess 5:25). In nothing be anxious (Phil 4:6), ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves,...
Here I read a passage from Watchman Nee’s...
““This Christmas the vicar of the Anglican cathedral urged his members to...”
– MY VIEW- Emulating Jesus requires us to imitate Jesus, but the true Christian life is not about emulation, it is not about trying to change- it is about a DIVINE EXCHANGE that took place on the Cross 2000 years ago & that we freely receive- It is no longer we who live but Christ who lives in...
LIVING FROM THE INSIDE OUT- by Pastor Ray Bevan...
More on... How to kill a lion on a snowy, icy day...
“Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, who performed great exploits. He struck down two of Moab’s best men. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion. And he struck down an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet tall. Although the Egyptian had a spear like a weaver’s rod in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club. He snatched...
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You know the lion is in the pit, but if you are still intimated by its roar of fear that says go this far and no further, this is a message for you to hear. Face your fear, those broken dreams and any sense of hopelessness you are feeling & deal with it in Christ!
Such a powerful sermon from the guest pastor, Ps Ray Bevan of King’s Church in Wales, who is coming to our Church on the...
WatchJesus’s Gift Of Righteousness Has Made You An Heir Of The World - video podcast linked from http://is.gd/69KSC
Kae speaks over his mummy :D
Mummy: (grinning away at her iPod Touch hahaha)
Kae: Mummy why are you smiling?
Me: I can barely recognize an ex-classmate. Last time, when we were kids, I was skinny & she was chubby. Now she is skinny and I am fat.
Kae: (protests sincerely) But you're not fat!
Reflection: I dun care what the weighing scale says. I am buying his argument. Hahaha. Feeling loved. What a great way to start the day. =D
“Love requires thoughtfulness - on both sides - the kind that builds bridges...”
– Marriage is about two people on the same team, in Christ. Dun turn it into a war of diff agendas. ;)
My Wednesday War Cry =D
I love watching Rugby because of the Kiwi All Blacks.
I started watching it with my Dad when Jonah Lomu was playing in the All Blacks. Loved watching him in action. He retired from the scene due to severe kidney failure where his body started shutting down, starting with his strong legs. Heard he is back after 3 years of suffering from a kidney ailment… and dear ones, he is a Christian! =D
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“If He is to have ALL of the glory, He has to do ALL the work. He has to rule out...”
The 8 yo speaks =)
Me: So what are you learning for math in Primary 2?
Kaelen: We are learning adding and subtracting up to 1000
Me: Wow. That's a lot of numbers.
Kaelen: Ya! Mummy, it is like God multiplies right and adds blessings to us all the time.
Me: Amen.
Kaelen: And the devil wants to minus and divide. He wants to steal away from us.
Me: Good point.
“God sealed Noah n family in the vessel, protecting them against the flood....”
– I have always imagined Noah struggling against the strong winds of the impending storm, trying to reel the bridge in and close the ark. But when my pastor shared with us that it was God who PERSONALLY sealed Noah in the ark & hence guaranteed that he and his family would be save in the ark that...