Okay... just in case anyone doesn't get the title.. it is actually the hebrew for Jehovah Jireh... God is my Provider. I want all of you guys to know, that God provides! and He answers prayers. so be bold to ask God, and be alert to see His power unfold! as you would ask according to His will. I just want to share that there is so much allignment in what God has been speaking to me about our generation, and it's so much excitement now that IGNYTE ministry is getting on the same mantle. Just to be very exact so that no one can say that i am being unclear and unprecise. This season's visions:
1) Outward-looking. Looking forward to bless others and know that in doing so, the Lord of the harvest will pour back in so much into our lives, so that we can keep filling jars with oil, with Him providing for us, just like what Elisha did with the widow's oil.
2) Students of the Word. In 1st Corinthians chapter 8, it says that knowledge puffs up but love builds up. In this season where we learn to be students of the Word, i pray that all of us will use what we know, to be an encouragement to other believers, to love them in this way, that they may themselves catch this fire within them to be students of the Word and lean upon God's Word.
These two visions of course have to be founded upon our love for God, as we have been commanded to do. To love him with all our hearts, souls, minds and strength. I believe when this generation of christians learn to be outward-looking and students of the Word, they will definitely be committed to God's commission to make disciples of all nations. I am so excited, because i know the latter will be greater than the former!
Brothers and sisters, keep trusting in our Heavenly Father who loves us so much! Stand firm! and fight the good fight!
God is good! AMAZINGLY good! His love is so wonderful, better than anything else in the world i have ever known. Such a love that makes grown men want to cry, that accompanies, through every part of your life; the highs, the lows, the everywheres and the everywhens. I am fully convinced that God is real! I was looking at people when they worship God yesterday in service... and i saw the macho-est of men in the chapel - Brother Eric Gwee. God told me, that even for the macho-est of men in the whole world, God's love is the same. As a loving Father is to a child. Even the most powerful of men, the wisest of men, the strongest of men, is as a child to the Father God.
You know sometimes, in church, the pastor prays for people who think they might be facing their dry seasons in their lives, being in the desert or just can't seem to find God in their lives. They pray that they will find God. But the promise of God is clear... that "you will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13. This is a promise, friends. Forget what people tell you, that you have to be alone in the desert sometimes, that God will leave you sometimes to let you sort out yourself, that sometimes it's just that He is not with you. I think this is a lie. You can be sure, that when your heart is true and alligned with God, seeking Him with the purest of your whole heart, you WILL find Him! Therefore, the only times that you will feel that you cannot find God, is when you do not seek Him with your whole heart.
To everyone reading this, i want to share that God's Word is really very exciting when you read it, understand it, study it and apply it with every effort. There is just so much to learn about it. I exhort everyone of you, to be a student of the Word!
And about being outward-looking! I think this is a long standing truth and teaching that has never been out of style. It is very true that when you spill/pour out your life for the sake of others, just like what Jesus did for us, you will be filled! Like the widow with the unending outpour of oil into the jars; they keep pouring out the oil from the jars being filled, but God just keep filling them up to overflowing all the time! Yaay!
And cell was a great time of discussion, although YewThong and I felt a little different as from the time when we were in AF, I believe that God can work wonders through all of our lives in the cell, and i am determined to be an outpouring jar!
PS: someone told me in church yesterday that there is a certain someone waiting for my earstud, seems like people read my blog in more detail than i think they do. : )
You ask me who do i Say that You are and i Say that You are the Christ Son of the living God.
Haha... i was just watching this music video by hillsongs called "Best Friend", i think this is a good song to use for worship at weddings.
Jesus, You are my best friend, You will always be, Nothing will ever change that.
Many people think that your newly wedded spouse should have been and will stay as your best friend. However, i think the truth be told that only when Jesus is the best friend of both the bride and bridegroom, that's when the marriage will be of God's will.
I yearn very much to pray with someone i really love, to seek God together with, and to find Him together. "as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15b. Reminds me of an all time favourite song by hillsongs, haha heard it in the church van pastor Gary was driving recently. haha now that he's married (hallelujah!), i am gonna miss the times i sit in the van to go for soccer with him... sigh... haha...
There is something going on in my life now, just to share so that people who read my blog may understand my heart. I realise recently how much i'd love to talk to people on a sincere and loving basis, to find out abt their lives and their walks with God, although sometimes my humour gets on, which is bad i know. I'd love to speak with you, so that i can know you and pray for you. I find it so, especially if and when i get a chance to speak with the girl i really like. For now, very honestly, i think i just like her because she is pretty... but my heart's desire is to know her and to find that she is actually beautiful to me, and that she will serve the Lord together with me. Again, "as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15b. : ) Pray for me.
Anyways, on the lighter side of my life, my hair is short again! woohoo... i was just sharing about my roger federer's hairstyle dream last saturday, about how i would keep my sideburns when i play tennis. haha looks like the dream has to be put on hold now. besides, i really like my hair style now. easy to manage and cool! haha... i hope she likes it too... haha...
Yup, in my last post i said i will share abt the prayer on the bookmark i had received, it's called the "Teenager's Prayer"... haha it's been awhile...but well, here goes,
Please open up my eyes, dear Lord that i might clearly see help me stand for what is right bring out the best in me. Help me, Lord, to just say "no" when temptation comes my way that i might keep my body clean. When my teenage years are over i know that i will see that life is lived its very best with you walking next to me.
It is actually poetic, try reading it aloud. Well, i believe this should mean a lot for all the youths in today's society.
Dear friends, if you were ever afraid of what the devil is trying to do to you and your destiny, know that he has no power over you, except that which you, yourself, have given him. So do not give him a foothold in your life by agreeing with the devil what he has told you, but instead, proclaim that God lives in you, and you have victory!
For it is written: "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world." 1 John 4:4
If you are feeling very stressed now about your examinations, which i know will come soon, let me remind you that "we are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:37), we "can do everything through Him who gives us strength" (Phillipians 4:13). Whatever the results will be, know that God's promise is to "prosper you and not to harm you and to give you a hope and a future."
We NEED to believe everything that God says is true in his Word! Take a look at these verses: "I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength." Ephesians 1:18-19
It's just so amazing how true God's words are, but yet we always choose to doubt. I want you to know friends, that whatever it is that God has called you to, i have full faith that it is going to be a wonderful work! For we are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, set apart for his glory!
Now, also, be encouraged through the experiences of my life. I am still a soldier serving national service currently, just two more months to my ORD! So this week, my understudy is already slowly taking over the roles and responsibilities of my job in the army. I feel really really blessed! For one thing, my understudy is a very interesting kid and we hit it off really well. I enjoyed everyday that i worked with him up till now, and i believe it will be so until i officially am done with my job here in the army. Now that i think about it, this is one of almost everything in my life which i have not deliberately prayed about but yet God has blessed me so much in. I come to realise this only now when i put it to words. Amazingly, i was on the train going home just this friday that has past, and i was just taking a nap on the train. Now, suddenly, i felt someone tapped me. It was this lady, and her first words were, "are you in the army?" (Now i wasn't wearing army clothes, neither did i have anything on me that suggests i am in the army). So i replied, "yah..." in that kind of grouchy tone that, you would give a stranger, who woke you up to ask you a question that you felt was totally out of the way. Then, she handed me a bookmark, which had a prayer in front (which i will share about next time) and a verse at the back of it. Then, she spoke words of blessings, and alighted.
The verse is Isaiah 65:24, here goes... "And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear."
It amazes me just how God is good to me! Praise God! Now that i see this verse, it just amazes me that God means it, that indeed also, as children of God, we are highly esteemed people, the apple of his eye! So my prayer for you, is also that this verse will remind you that God knows all our worries and cares even before we call. So do not worry! He is sovereign above all!
i am a jar of clay. but yet, i am fearfully and wonderfully made. And a treasure was put into me! : ) just like any of my brothers and sisters in Christ. i really wanted to sleep already, but i guess i'll just put in an entry today, before my blog turns rusty again.
haha, if you know me, you'd also know that i wear a black rose ear stud. i bought it in a pair. so i was thinking i should give the other half to someone i really like, maybe on the next valentine's day. i don't really know if God has called me to celibacy, but i know whatever it is, and whoever she is, that i might love, we'll love and serve Him together. haha, but i really wonder if i will ever pluck up enough courage to tell her i like her. you see, i am actually a really shy boy. haha. but i guess if God wants me to love her, haha oh well... : )
i am really looking forward to this coming november, other than turning 20, i'll be returning to studies, and i'll be studying something that i really love. i believe that God works for the good of all those who love Him, so yup : ) yaay... i need to sing a song of praise!!!
Praise the name of Jesus Perfect Redeemer, Star of the Morning Yesterday, today and forever Jesus the same, Jesus the same...
woohoo! My friends, always remember to keep the joy that comes from God. protect it. love it. like this beautiful song sings, Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. Moreover,
"For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through Him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God." 2 Corinthians 1:20
These are the days of Elijah Declaring the Word of the Lord And these are the days of Your servant Moses Righteousness being restored And though these are days of great trials Of famine and darkness and sword Still we are the voice in the desert crying Prepare ye the way of the Lord
Behold He comes riding on the clouds Shining like the sun at the trumpet call Lift your voice it's the Year of Jubilee Out of Zion's hill salvation comes
These are the days of Ezekiel The dry bones becoming as flesh And these are the days of Your servant David Rebuilding a temple of praise And these are the days of the harvest The fields are white in the world And we are the laborers in Your vineyard Declaring the Word of the the Lord
My favourite song for now! I think it speaks to my church's IGNYTE ministry! So IGNYTE folks, prepare ye the way of the Lord!
today at prayer meeting... we all prayed for youths. i want to write this now, to all our youths in church today. I pray God speak through this!
Ephesians 5:3 "But among you there must not be even a HINT of SEXUAL IMMORALITY, or of any kindof impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people."
1 Timothy 4:12 "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."
Indeed, God knows all our secret deeds and thoughts.
that's why i am so ashamed. because in all my waywardness, wilfulness and disobedience... God still shows me that He loves me. So i hope that all you good folks out there can be encouraged, because in all our faithlessness, God is still faithful! i am 11050 Thai Bahts richer today. and my mission trip's been paid for, which is so cool. When my dad pays for things i myself cannot pay for, it always reminds me of how God did it for us in the same way. Giving His Son, Jesus to die for us, to pay a debt we could not pay. Awesome stuff!
and just to be very honest, i like a girl, but i feel like i am always unprepared, and i am afraid. although i keep thinking of her, and keep asking God to let me know her more, it seems like everytime i have the chance to, i am afraid. i even look away. it's so tiring and yet so funny. haha. i am a weird kid. so God have Your way in me. Please. :)
