What’s the use of living a righteous life?’ http://bible.us/Job35.3.NLT
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
have we ever asked ?
For you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me?
What’s the use of living a righteous life?’ http://bible.us/Job35.3.NLT
What’s the use of living a righteous life?’ http://bible.us/Job35.3.NLT
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Project 52 days -inspired by Nehemiah
A few weeks ago , we talked about How important dreams and visions in our life and we listed down
some of our dream...
Now,
A challenge to our own comfort zone and a revival for our soul , I appreciate all the bro and sis that has committed themselves in serving and growing their faith and love for God ...
Here are the lists ( from 15 Aug till 7 Oct ) , whoever know us , do pray for us that God can deliver
victory over our desire to step up our faith !
Here goes ...
Michelle Kee - bear fruits within 52 days , some of the friends that I am reaching can come to church
(Jie Li,Lisa ,Fong Chun,Mrs Wong,Chien Wong,Mrs Tan,Mrs Heng,Moon,)
- Friend's children , i can invite them to come to join our children English class on Saturday.
- Single sister over night prayer can be fruitful , can have open person wish to study the bible
Mike Loo - within 52 days write 10 cards to encourage Bro / Sis.
Gary Cheong - within 52 days , every week send 3 messages to encourage Bro / Sis
Edwin - within 52 days , write cards to encourage all SINGLE bro / sis
Tien Long - within 52 days , bring someone to church and make myself more
opportunity to reach out!
Eric Lee - within 52 days , on every weeks , spend time with a brother to do QT together.
Victor - within 52 days , let me organize a bible talk in my home or church and
write 2 cards to encourage someone
Catherine Ho - within 52 days , share my good news in my blog at least once a week
and every week encourage at least 3 bro / sis.
Lee Yen - within 52 days , build a worship ministry with spiritual and sincerity to lead.
more to come ...
updated : 2010/08/31
Erica Chew - write cards to encourage someone every two week , Pray from 5:30 to 6am every friday.
Alice Ong - Reach out to neighbour & try inviting them to church within this 52 days...
Selene - Bring 1 person , write cards to 10 person , try to help Hope WW to find people. within this
52 days.
Auntie Leong - bring my grand children , SiMeng and Joey to come to attend/join the english class
YaSiang- Pray for Ah hong and wish to invite him to come to church
Pauline - To write encouragement cards to at least 5 bro/sis every week
Sandy - To write cards to encourage 2 person a week and pray for the lost.
MeiFong - Pray with Sister around my area once a week
Jessica - Bring 1-2 children to english class / friends to church
LeeYong - Fast Coffee once a week
Audrey - bring 1 friend to church
Pris - write 5 cards and bring 1 friend
Lee San - Pray for the church to grow daily @ 10pm
Kyee Nee - write card to all married couples , arrange 2 dating with 2 couples , invite 1 friend for
sunday service
Pei Ting - Pray for the brothers.
Lee Yen - Help Song ministry to build a team that lead with sincere faith .
Jessie - Write cards to all JBCF x'tians.
YeongLiSan - Invite 2 friends to Church.
just as Ezra 3:8 ...The work force was made up of everyone who had returned from exile,
where God has stirred their hearts ,
may God will also stir all our hearts to build a growing church to glorify his name !
some of our dream...
Now,
A challenge to our own comfort zone and a revival for our soul , I appreciate all the bro and sis that has committed themselves in serving and growing their faith and love for God ...
Here are the lists ( from 15 Aug till 7 Oct ) , whoever know us , do pray for us that God can deliver
victory over our desire to step up our faith !
Here goes ...
Michelle Kee - bear fruits within 52 days , some of the friends that I am reaching can come to church
(Jie Li,Lisa ,Fong Chun,Mrs Wong,Chien Wong,Mrs Tan,Mrs Heng,Moon,)
- Friend's children , i can invite them to come to join our children English class on Saturday.
- Single sister over night prayer can be fruitful , can have open person wish to study the bible
Mike Loo - within 52 days write 10 cards to encourage Bro / Sis.
Gary Cheong - within 52 days , every week send 3 messages to encourage Bro / Sis
Edwin - within 52 days , write cards to encourage all SINGLE bro / sis
Tien Long - within 52 days , bring someone to church and make myself more
opportunity to reach out!
Eric Lee - within 52 days , on every weeks , spend time with a brother to do QT together.
Victor - within 52 days , let me organize a bible talk in my home or church and
write 2 cards to encourage someone
Catherine Ho - within 52 days , share my good news in my blog at least once a week
and every week encourage at least 3 bro / sis.
Lee Yen - within 52 days , build a worship ministry with spiritual and sincerity to lead.
more to come ...
updated : 2010/08/31
Erica Chew - write cards to encourage someone every two week , Pray from 5:30 to 6am every friday.
Alice Ong - Reach out to neighbour & try inviting them to church within this 52 days...
Selene - Bring 1 person , write cards to 10 person , try to help Hope WW to find people. within this
52 days.
Auntie Leong - bring my grand children , SiMeng and Joey to come to attend/join the english class
YaSiang- Pray for Ah hong and wish to invite him to come to church
Pauline - To write encouragement cards to at least 5 bro/sis every week
Sandy - To write cards to encourage 2 person a week and pray for the lost.
MeiFong - Pray with Sister around my area once a week
Jessica - Bring 1-2 children to english class / friends to church
LeeYong - Fast Coffee once a week
Audrey - bring 1 friend to church
Pris - write 5 cards and bring 1 friend
Lee San - Pray for the church to grow daily @ 10pm
Kyee Nee - write card to all married couples , arrange 2 dating with 2 couples , invite 1 friend for
sunday service
Pei Ting - Pray for the brothers.
Lee Yen - Help Song ministry to build a team that lead with sincere faith .
Jessie - Write cards to all JBCF x'tians.
YeongLiSan - Invite 2 friends to Church.
just as Ezra 3:8 ...The work force was made up of everyone who had returned from exile,
where God has stirred their hearts ,
may God will also stir all our hearts to build a growing church to glorify his name !
Saturday, May 8, 2010
why don't you try to change God's mind?
We may not always be possible to change God's mind but it is not totally impossible , Abraham, Moses , Joshua , Elijah ... and many people in the bible did it !
as a father , we may failed in many areas and in fact we may be able to see that our children foolishness and we missed our time where we suppose to do something to discipline them where we didn't and end up they grow up not glorifying God and we , if study the bible we know God's standard and it will end up a cursed live ...
in 1 Sam 3:1 ~ 18 , we know Eli knew his sons is rebellious (1Sa 2:22 Now Eli was very old, but he was aware of what his sons were doing to the people of Israel. He knew...) , but after he heard what Samuel told him in 1Sa 3:18 So Samuel told Eli everything; he didn't hold anything back. "It is the LORD's will," Eli replied. "Let him do what he thinks best." ,
Eli only responded look like submission or so called surrender to God's will "Let God do what he thinks best" but the truth is he has no "determination" , "no passion" and "no love" for him to at least "KEEP ON TRYING TO BEG GOD FOR MERCY" and try his very best to fight till the end ...
we read these ... but have we too learn the lesson "never stop trying to ask God for our family salvation ?"
as a father , we may failed in many areas and in fact we may be able to see that our children foolishness and we missed our time where we suppose to do something to discipline them where we didn't and end up they grow up not glorifying God and we , if study the bible we know God's standard and it will end up a cursed live ...
in 1 Sam 3:1 ~ 18 , we know Eli knew his sons is rebellious (1Sa 2:22 Now Eli was very old, but he was aware of what his sons were doing to the people of Israel. He knew...) , but after he heard what Samuel told him in 1Sa 3:18 So Samuel told Eli everything; he didn't hold anything back. "It is the LORD's will," Eli replied. "Let him do what he thinks best." ,
Eli only responded look like submission or so called surrender to God's will "Let God do what he thinks best" but the truth is he has no "determination" , "no passion" and "no love" for him to at least "KEEP ON TRYING TO BEG GOD FOR MERCY" and try his very best to fight till the end ...
we read these ... but have we too learn the lesson "never stop trying to ask God for our family salvation ?"
Crossing over
Joh 5:24 "I assure you, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.
We have passed from death into life , do we have deep conviction about this ?
We have passed from death into life , do we have deep conviction about this ?
Monday, August 3, 2009
Purpose Driven Life
In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:
"People ask me, What is the purpose of life?"
And I respond: "In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body - but not the end of me.
I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity.
We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.
The reason for this is that God is more interested in your c haracter than your comfort;God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.
I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.
No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.
And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.
You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems:
If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which i! s my problem, my issues, my pain. But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her - it has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.
You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life..
Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.
It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.
So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.
First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.
Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?
Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?
When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do.
That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
If you do not pass it on, nothing will happen. But it will just be nice to pass it on to a friend...just like I have done.
God's Blessings."
"People ask me, What is the purpose of life?"
And I respond: "In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body - but not the end of me.
I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity.
We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.
The reason for this is that God is more interested in your c haracter than your comfort;God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.
I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.
No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.
And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.
You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems:
If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which i! s my problem, my issues, my pain. But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her - it has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.
You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life..
Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.
It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.
So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.
First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.
Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?
Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?
When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do.
That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
If you do not pass it on, nothing will happen. But it will just be nice to pass it on to a friend...just like I have done.
God's Blessings."
Friday, July 31, 2009
Combined Sunday Service 28/6/2009
We had a combined Sunday Service with Singapore Chinese Ministry on 28/6 Sunday at Pulai Spring Resort.
Even though we are from different country and background, we sang praises together, we fellowship and encouraged one other...
"If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in Spirit and purpose." Philippians 2:1-2
God's love binds us together !
Even though we are from different country and background, we sang praises together, we fellowship and encouraged one other...
"If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in Spirit and purpose." Philippians 2:1-2
God's love binds us together !
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