爱是等待

6th April 2009
2:41 p.m.


最近我忽然察觉到自己已经有三年的时光处于感情空白的状态了。
虽说因着某些原因，我选择如此。
再则，我也非常清楚自己的目标，所以并不会贸然进入任何的关系。
可是说真的，心里或多或少都会有丁点儿的落寞，焦虑。
更会有点儿焦急，盼望能够早日......

如果我试着以这种心情想象基督再来临的心情时，我开始可以稍微明白基督的心情了。
很多时候我们都在或讨论、或推测基督再临的时间。
我们都会在想，为什么他还未来呢？

我在想，当我凭着我的感受去体会耶稣基督时，也许他就处于这种状况。
基督老早已经准备好了，更是从创始开始已经准备好了。
他在耐心地等待他的新妇做好准备。
我在想象基督的心情：焦急、忧心、挂心；耐性、温柔、兴奋、喜悦......
他在等待、等待、再等待。

基督是如此地彰显他的爱---等待。
我又何尝不能如此呢？
因为爱，所以等待。
因为爱，所以坚持，准备，并等待。
在爱里耐心地等待。

God is a LOVER looking for a Lover

6th April 2009
00:45 am

God is a LOVER looking for a long last lover


刚刚回到家，梳洗过后，我感觉到心里有股莫名的鼓动。
那是一种情感，一种很深入，根植于内心深处的情绪与感觉。
思绪在这时候是非常混乱的。说混乱又不尽然是，因为我感觉到它是有一
个大方向的，然后却又感觉到参杂这许多旁支的思绪，在交错着。
我感觉到这仿佛是神的一种情绪。
一种很伤心、很焦急、很痛心、爱怜、温柔的情感。
我的眼泪不住地夺眶而出，泪流满脸。
我觉得我能够控制这种情绪停止。
但是同时间内心却有股确据，知道这是圣灵的工作。
正如以往一般，我随时预备自己，把眼泪借给神来祷告。

我逐渐明白神在为着全地全人的灵魂而哭泣。
他也为着基督的众肢体而叹息。
全地全人都是神的创造，是神所喜悦的、是神所深爱的。
神就是那唯一的爱人，在寻找着他失丧了的爱人。

God is a LOVER looking for a lover.

所有被他创造的人，都是神的爱人。
可是这位爱人已经不在他的身边了。
他们曾经是如此的亲近，常伴左右、长相厮守。
可如今因着某些错误的抉择，神的爱人离开了。
有的掩面而去、有的变得铁石心肠，有的无颜回转、有的跟了别的坏情人
走了、有的被捆绑、有的被侮辱、被强暴，已经无能为力了，自力不能更
生了、有的被蒙骗，有的自我放逐、有的选择继续悖逆、有的更是选择憎
恨，蓄意报复。

试想象，有一天，当你回到自己温暖的爱窝，原本心里想着可以见到心爱
的爱人，是如此的令你振奋，欢愉。可是你却发现房子里头已经有了些微
的改变，很小却令人痛彻心肺的改变。
家具还是一样，厨具也是、床单也是......
可就是有一些地方不一样了。
牙刷不一样了、衣厨里的内裤不一样了。
不一样，就是这一切都不再是你的了。
熟悉的地方却摆放着不熟悉的物品。
除了痛心，还是痛心......

又或者，你亲眼看着自己心爱的爱人被强暴、殴打、虐待......
可他/她却不自知，还仿佛很享受般任凭处置。
除了心痛，还是心痛......

又试着想象，主就是那位新郎，基督肢体就是那位新妇。
主已经把所有的嫁妆、化妆品、上好的礼品，绝佳的绸缎与丝袍赐给了他所爱的新妇。
目的就是要这位新妇好好地装扮，把自己最好的一面呈现出来，等待迎娶她的新郎---主。
可是这位新妇却完全不懂得如何装扮自己。
对前面摆着的上好的化妆品、绸缎、丝袍、礼服无动于衷。
不但如此，她却跑去自己寻找一些有的没的统统套在身上，敷在脸上，自以为已经合新郎的心意了。
更甚的是，她还埋怨自己的头发不够长，不够乌黑亮丽。
埋怨轮廓不够美、埋怨手不够白皙，十指纤纤，更是埋怨双腿不够修长。
埋怨上面，下面，这个那个的，仿佛整个身体都要碎裂了，完全不再是一个整体了。
可她重来没有想到新郎根本不是在乎这些。
新郎在乎的是他的新妇有没有专心投注目光在他身上，藉着如此，从新郎的身上支取那完整的爱来装扮自己，把新郎认为自己最好的一面呈现在新郎的面前。

新郎是如此的荣美，完善，圣洁。
除非这位新妇已经成功地藉着新郎的能力与祝福装扮自己，否则新郎是不会贸然来迎娶这位新妇的。

我觉得神就是处于这两种心情。
他对基督徒是如此，对全地全人更是如此。

我的心很痛，我是为神而痛；更是为着我们全地全人而痛。
我泪流满脸，是为着神而流；更是为着我们全地全人而流。
主啊！我稍微明白你的心情了。

Kingdom of Comfort (333 : 插曲)

"Everything" Skit by LIFEHOUSE

2:30 p.m.
3 March 2009

When I saw this video, my tears started flowing out, I could feel my heart was stir up by Holy Spirit. I became so emotional that I felt something is shaking inside of my heart, and THAT thing is turning me upside down, started to overflow from the inside out of my heart.

"He" is so gentle, warm, tender, soft, yet passionate, full of strength, might, power, and security.
It is kind of deep feeling and profoundly for me regarding the LOVE of Jesus on us.

The beginning of the skit, I have had a strong and deep feeling about God's wonderful and fantastic creation in this world, is all for us to enjoy, to have pleasure, to appreciate, to manage, to maintain TOGETHER with HIM.
This remind me of the feeling of I strongly enjoy the moment that walk with God

day by day, moment by moment, step by step, choice by choice.

And yet, at the meantime, we are so weak and easily influence by the lust of the material things, the lust of the false relationship, pride of the power and authority, wealth and possession......etc.
A lot of the time we will make a lot of wrong decisions and choices, that we started to left Him behind.
The gab become greater and greater until we don't see Him anymore.
He can grab us back in anyway, but He was always Gentle, Kind and Lovely.
He want us to have free will to make a choice for ourselves.

Then, by His Grace, we sooner or later realize that we should get back to Him.
And this will always lead to a battle.
We need to be the initiative to against the odds, been through a process of pain, hardness, tough, challenging times, sorrow.
A lot of the time we are so suffering until we might think want to give up and let it be.
But the best is yet to come, because

"The ONE (Jesus) that is inside of us, is GREATER than the one (evil) that is in this world." (1 John 4:4)

Love will make a way to breakthrough.
And this Love is not a kind of humanism Love.
It is the Greatest Love we have ever seen.
It is the Eternal Love.

All these is a matter of choice.
Whether we choose to be there, the dark side with full of pleasure of lust, pride, possession......etc.
or
we choose to embrace the Eternal Love with pain, tough, challenge at the beginning but joyful, peace, glory, lovely, just, righteous in eternity.

These make me think of one song from Delirious.

"Save me, save me......From the kingdom of comfort where I am king."
"From my unhealthy lust of material things."

"Save me, save me......From the kingdom of comfort where I am king."
"To the Kingdom of Heaven where You are King!!"

The Key to the Kingdom

17 Jan 2009
11:15 am

Past few days, I'd read a very profound and insightful article from the renowned leader, Rick Joyner from Morning Star Ministry.
I would like to take this opportunity to share with you all.

From the article, the key thing is about the PEACE OF GOD.
From Hebrew 12 and other verses, we 'd been told that for everything in this world that can be shaken will be shaken, but we have been given the kingdom that cannot be shaken.

Yes, it is the Kingdom Of God.

The primary way for us to build our lives on this kingdom is to use the key of the kingdom in every major decision in our lives.

Now, what is the key of the kingdom?

The key that God revealed to us is on Matthew 6:31-33:

“31Do not be anxious then, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘With what shall we clothe ourselves?’ “32For all these things the Gentiles eagerly seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. “33But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.”

With here we are very clear that the key to the kingdom is refuse anxiety.
Anxiety mean we are lack of faith to God; that there is something is greater than God; that there is something that God cannot do.
It is the sin of unbelief.

But the truth is, God is the ultimate answer to every human problem.

Reject anxiety!!

We must trust Him, and anxiety is evidence that we do not trust Him.

Reject anxiety!!

We repent of sin by confessing it and then turning away from it. Determine that your response to a problem will not be to feel anxious, but to see it as a wonderful opportunity to grow in our faith in Him.

We read in I Peter 1:6-9:

In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.

To be tempted is not sin.
We can all be tempted to doubt and to be anxious, but the quicker we recognize it and turn away from it, turning our attention instead to God, the more we will learn to walk in the peace of God.

This is my favored passage from Rick Joyner.

"Walking in the peace of God is basic to a victorious life, as we are told in Romans 16:20: “And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.” Notice that he did not say that the “Lord of hosts,” which means the “Lord of armies” would crush Satan, but the God of peace would. It is the peace of God that is an impregnable fortress. The peace of God is the linchpin fruit of the Spirit, which if we lose it, all of the other fruits of the Spirit will also be lost. Think about it: If you lose your peace, you will quickly lose your patience and faith—then it is hard to love…. We must guard our peace. "

It is true that the peace of God that we should seek for all the times.
Especially in this very critical time of financial crisis.
We will look for a lot of method to change the situation, we will tend to change the way we doing things in the past.

But the key point is that we must change the way we think instead of the reverse way.

And to change the way we think, we must engage to the realm of the Peace of God.
Like the Bible said,

“And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.”

My sharing will end here, but there is lot more experience and feeling that I encounter with the Lord after I read this articles.

2 days after I'd read this article, during a prayer meeting with my mentor, my beloved spiritual father, Titus, the Holy Spirit fill me and consuming me totally till I cannot withhold and keep on weeping and have had a deep emotion feeling regarding the Peace of God.

I will share more regarding the Peace of God that I had experience in the coming post.

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For those who interested on the original article from Rick Joyner,
please check here.

Focus is not enough, we got to be PRIORITIZE.

1 Jan 2009
00:30 a.m.


Recently I'm kinda worried.

Ya, no doubt I'm heading to my purpose that God put in my life. But yet I found that I'm slightly lack of focus. The term of "Focus" I'm referring here is to focus on God, which dealing with the quiet time with God, fellowship with the Lord.

A lot of the times I found myself too tired to stay together with Lord.

Ya, no doubt I'm with God everyday, I can feel the presence of God from moment to moment, I'm still doing things that favor by God ( I hope so).
But what I'm most concern is the quality times with God is getting lesser. I miss God so much till I'm worried about the intimate relationship with HIM.

This is kinda feeling like the husband and wife relationship, that you miss your wife so much due to outstation job......etc.

I'm kinda lack focus until I can't even focus on writing my personal journal, don't even say put it on the blog.
In fact, I'm actually been through quite a lot of excited thing that God blessed me. But the fact is I don't even bother or grab a time to record it in word anymore, at least at the moment not able to.

I miss my old sweet time, where I could spent hours just to quiet myself with the Lord.
Either praying, say thanks, praise His name, singing to Him, worship Him, weeping for His mercy for certain society issues.
I have had so many wonderful and precious time with the Lord, that I received wisdom, revelation, personal direction, encouragement, joy, peace from Him.
I love to dwell into His river of Life, that will never stop flowing, that I can gain strength, energy, courage, boldness......etc.

Oh...I miss you so much, Yeshua.
You are my Lover,
my King,
my Lord,
my Best friend,
my Teacher,
my Mentor,
my Redeemer,
my Light,
my Savior.

2009, this is a year for us to CHANGE.
The current global financial crisis will made us to be CHANGE.
No matter what, take it or not, we got to CHANGE.

A lot of people will CHANGE the way of doing things, whether in career context, in business, in academic, in daily life......etc, to adapt to the current situation.

But, what I learned from one of my life mentor, Mr. R.
2009 is a year of CHANGING.
But we must CHANGE the way we THINK, instead of CHANGE the way we DO things.

How to DO things is just a methodology, it is a end result from what we are THINKING.

If we changing the method but remain the same old THOUGHT, the result that yield will be the same.

But the question is, how do we change the way we THINK?
Here is the resolution, the 5 P's

Prayer
Purpose
Prioritize
Process
Provision

Engage ourselves to Prayer, which mean
hearing from the Lord,
receiving the wisdom and revelation from the Lord,
waiting for the divine moment from the Lord to act,

from Prayer, we will know our Purpose.
the Purpose will lead us to our destiny.

With Purpose driven life, we need to Prioritize.
For sure when we know our purpose, there will be a lot of opportunities that offer by
God through man to us,
Man,
The Devil through man to us.

Prioritizing involve repositioning, remapping, refining, reduce.
Eliminate whatever is irrelevant to our Purpose,
Reduce whatever is extra that might ruin or interfere our Purpose,
Raise whatever needed to be improve, for enlightenment and enhancement,
Create the relevant method or resolution to pursuit the Purpose
(thanks for the idea of Blue Ocean Strategies)

Prioritize will lead us to go through a Process.
It might be hard, very challenging, time consuming, sometimes even feel want to give up.
But the Lord is with us, all the time.
Stay focus on the Lord, while He will perform to us His mercy to breakthrough.

After gone through the Process, now here comes the Provision, the yield, some may view it as miracle or wonder.

Definitely I'm currently at the stage of Prioritizing.
Oh, Lord, thank you for the purpose that you had reveal to me more and more clearly.
Now is the time for more prayer and prioritize.

My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their whole body (Proverbs 4:20-22).

>>Faith<< from a Renowned Student

11:33 a.m.
17 Nov 2008

I had just read a interesting and yet profound article from an email.
It is very inspiring.
With below I would like to share among of my friends.

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Cited from an email

An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his
> Class on the Problem
> Science has
> with GOD, the ALMIGHTY. He asked one of his New Christian
> Students to stand
> and . . .* *
> **
> Professor :* *You are a Christian, aren't you, son ?
> Student :* *Yes, sir.
> Professor :* *So, you Believe in GOD ?
> Student :* *Absolutely, sir.
> Professor :* *Is GOD Good ?
> Student :* *Sure.
> Professor :* *Is GOD ALL - POWERFUL ?
> Student :* *Yes.
> Professor :* *My Brother died of Cancer even though he
> Prayed to GOD to
> Heal him.
> Most of us would attempt to help others
> who are ill.
> But GOD didn't. How is this GOD good
> then? Hmm?* *
>
> (Student was silent )* *
>
> Professor :* *You can't answer, can you ? Let's
> start again, Young Fella.
>
> Is GOD Good?
> Student : Yes.
> Professor : Is Satan good ?
> Student :* *No.
> Professor :* *Where does Satan come from ?
> Student :* *From . . . GOD . . .
> Professor :* *That's right. Tell me son, is there
> evil in this World?* *
> Student :* *Yes.* *
> Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn't it ? And GOD
> did make everything.
> Correct?
> Student :* *Yes.* *
> Professor :* *So who created evil ?* *
>
> (Student did not answer)* *
>
> Professor :* *Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred?
> Ugliness?
> All these terrible things exist in the
> World, don't they?
> Student : Yes, sir.
> Professor :* *So, who Created them ?
>
> (Student had no answer)* *
>
> Professor :* *Science says you have 5 Senses you use to
> Identify and
> Observe the World around you.
> Tell me, son . . . Have you ever Seen GOD?
> Student :* *No, sir.
> Professor :* *Tell us if you have ever Heard your GOD?
> Student :* *No , sir.
> Professor :* *Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your
> GOD, Smelt your GOD?
>
> Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of
> GOD for that
> matter?
> Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
> Professor :* *Yet you still Believe in HIM?
> Student :* *Yes.
> Professor :* *According to Empirical, Testable,
> Demonstrable Protocol,
> Science says your GOD doesn't exist.
> What do you say to
> that, son?
> Student :* *Nothing. I only have my Faith.
> Professor :* *Yes,Faith. And that is the Problem Science
> has.
>
> Student :* *Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
> Professor :* *Yes.* *
> Student :* *And is there such a thing as Cold?
> Professor :* *Yes.
> Student :* *No, sir. There isn't.* *
>
> (The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of
> events )* *
>
> Student :* *Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More
> Heat, Superheat,
> Mega Heat, White Heat,
> a Little Heat or No Heat.
> But we don't have anything called
> Cold.
> We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which
> is No Heat, but we
> can't go any further after that.
> There is no such thing as Cold.
> Cold is only a Word we use to describe
> the Absence of
> Heat.
> We cannot Measure Cold.
> Heat is Energy.
> Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir,
> just the Absence of
> it.* *
>
> (There was Pin-Drop Silence in the Lecture Theatre )* *
>
> Student :* *What about Darkness, Professor? Is there
> such a thing as
> Darkness?* *
> Professor :* *Yes. What is Night if there isn't
> Darkness?
> Student :* *You're wrong again, sir. *
> * Darkness is the Absence of Something*
> *You can have Low Light, Normal Light,
> Bright Light,
> Flashing Light . . . *
> * But if you have No Light constantly, you
> have nothing and
> its called Darkness, isn't it? *
> *In reality, Darkness isn't. *
> * If it is, were you would be able to make
> Darkness Darker,
> wouldn't you?
> Professor :* *So what is the point you are making, Young
> Man ?
> Student :* *Sir, my point is your Philosophical Premise
> is flawed.
> Professor :* *Flawed ? Can you explain how?
> Student :* *Sir, you are working on the Premise of
> Duality. *
> * You argue there is Life and then there
> is Death, a Good
> GOD and a Bad GOD. *
> * You are viewing the Concept of GOD as
> something finite,
> something we can measure. *
> *Sir, Science can't even explain a
> Thought.*
> * It uses Electricity and
> Magnetism, but has never
> seen, much less fully understood either one. *
> *To view Death as the Opposite of Life is
> to be ignorant
> of the fact that
> Death cannot exist as a Substantive
> Thing. * *
> Death is Not the Opposite of Life: just
> the Absence of it
> Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your
> Students that
> they evolved from a Monkey?
> Professor :* *If you are referring to the Natural
> Evolutionary Process,
> yes, of course, I do.
> Student :* *Have you ever observed Evolution with your
> own eyes, sir?*
> *
>
> (The Professor shook his head with a Smile, beginning to
> realize where the
> Argument was going )* *
>
> Student :* *Since no one has ever observed the Process
> of Evolution at
> work and
> Cannot even prove that this Process is an
> On-Going
> Endeavor,
> Are you not teaching your Opinion, sir?
> Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?*
> *
>
> (The Class was in Uproar )* *
>
> Student :* *Is there anyone in the Class who has ever
> seen the
> Professor's Brain?
>
> (The Class broke out into Laughter )* *
>
> Student :* *Is there anyone here who has ever heard the
> Professor's
> Brain, Felt it, touched or Smelt it? . . .* *
> No one appears to have done so. * *
> So, according to the Established Rules of
> Empirical,
> Stable, Demonstrable Protocol,
> Science says that You have No Brain, sir.
> With all due respect, sir, how do we then
> Trust your
> Lectures, sir?* *
>
> (The Room was Silent. The Professor stared at the Student,
> his face
> unfathomable)* *
>
> Professor :* *I guess you'll have to take them on
> Faith, son.
> Student :* *That is it sir . . . Exactly !* *
> The Link between Man & GOD is FAITH.
> That is all that Keeps Things Alive and
> Moving.
>
>
> NB:
>
> I believe you have enjoyed the Conversation . . . and if so
> .. .* *
> You'll probably want your Friends / Colleagues to enjoy
> the same . . . won't
> you?* *
> Forward them to Increase their Knowledge . . . or
> **FAITH**.* *
> That student was Albert Einstein**.*
>
> *| p r i n c e s s * s h e r y l |*

Ephesians 6:14-17

2:24 p.m.
1 Oct 2008


"14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."
Ephesians 6:14-17


Yesterday, one of my beloved mentee, Andy told me that he saw a vision from the Lord during his bath.

It is started as his beloved Mom and elder Bro' have a hard argument due to some conflict between them. After they had stopped, his elder Bro' came into his room and complained to him saying what had he done wrong. At that moment, Andy out of a sudden felt very sad. His heart was so hurt and feeling kind of broken, and he kept weeping until he can't withstand anymore. I believe Andy is feeling the brokenness as the Lord is feeling during that time regarding his family issue.

He quickly reached to the bathroom, under the shower, he let the water flow through his whole body to calm down his emotion. Out of sudden, he saw a vision, and I believe it is from the Lord. He saw a full set of the battle armor in front of him. These armor are the armor which mentioned in Ephesians 6:14-17. But after a close observation to it, Andy found out that it is not a full armor of God but left off the shoes. (v15)

I'm not sure what can I suggest him regarding this, but to encourage him saying that Lord revealed to him his current spiritual equipment condition. And I also encourage him to ask Lord to equip him with the shoes of peace which comes from the good news of the gospel, to speak peace and love to all the people around him.

Of course this is the vision given by the Lord to him, surely He will reveal more regarding this to Andy, if he seek for Him.

Oh, Abba Father, I ask in Jesus name that please equip Andy whatever is necessary, and continue guide him in Your way.

Be The Change Agent

12:42 a.m.
1 Nov 2008

I'm just got back from a music training session for the youth, I'm kinda tired in physically, but I'm so encourage and excited in spiritually.

Actually this music training session is not that kind of very professional music course. Rick and me didn't went through that kinda very intense professional music training. All we have is about the passionate heart to music, and I think this is the most important factor that should be take place.

We are just playing a role as a facilitator to influence them regarding the idea, creativity of playing music, the right attitude towards music; to lead them how to pursue music in proper direction.

And thank God that they are keep growing. Most of the time I feel very awesome to see them keep on being matured not only in musical context, but also personalities, attitude, self esteem......etc.

But tonight the Lord is doing something very differently and yet very remarkable to us. Rick sensed the Lord want to anoint the youth to be the change agent for their century.

We are called to be the "church" of Christ, as originally in Greek root word meaning "gather". It is meaning of a group of people gather together and strategist to serve the purpose of God.

With here, I would like to highlight 2 major point.

First,

"Church" doesn't mean a 4 wall building, that letting a group of so called "Christian" people gather within it, and doing some activities, program, religious ritual......etc.

"Church" is people, not the building, nor any congregation, or denomination.

Matt 18:20 revealed to us that wherever people are, wherever Jesus is, and wherever the "church" is. And yet the Lord Himself always referring us to the context of Kingdom of God, and only speak about "church" not more than 10 times.

But, what am I trying to say is not to ignore the context of "church", but rather to get back to the true meaning and function of "church".

Yes, the world need "church", but not in the misconception context. We need people of God ("church") that is truly devoted to God, empowered by the power of God, to emerge and penetrate into every corner of society to manifest the justice, hope, and love of God. Every single individual of the children of God have to stand firm in their position at their family, residential neighborhood community, schools or campuses, workplace......etc.

More precisely, we must disperse into 7 area of the society likewise:

Art & Entertainment

Business & Finance

Cultural & Religion

Distribution & Media

Education

Family

Government

These are the basic main structure of our society, of course each of every one of the sector can be derive to other relevant sector.

This will lead us to another very crucial thing------Leadership

Without leadership we will ruin a lot of things, and yet, yes, the TRUE Leadership must take place in order to mobilize God's children to emerge and disperse in the society to fight for the justice, righteousness, freedom, peace, which all this work rooted in the Love of the Lord.

I will share more about the true leadership in future.

Second,

We are called to be the children of God that need to fulfill 2 main things in our entire life, no matter what we are doing or dealing with.

Matt 22:37-38 is the first and greatest commandment for us to love God wholeheartedly.

Matt 22:39 command us to love others like loving ourselves.

This is the 2 greatest purpose which God required us to be fulfill.

We don't want to do all the so called "good deed things", or "meaningful things".

We want to do right things in Lord's sight.

Because doing Good doesn't mean doing Right; but doing Right will always lead to Good matters.

It is the Lord that make sure all the right things that He command us to do is for the sake of His good deed to the world, His beloved creation.

Rick and me ended the music session with praying for them and anointing them in the name of Jesus Christ with the authority and power of apostolic to be the Change Agent of the Lord, to bring transformation to wherever they go.

We wanna be.............

The History Maker in this land.............

We wanna be.............

The speaker of Truth to all mankind.............

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

The Call

This is one of my all time favorite song, by Regina Spektor

The Call
It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into a hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word

And then that word grew louder and louder
'Til it was a battle cry
I'll come back
When you call me
No need to say goodbye

Just because everything's changing
Doesn't mean it's never been this way before
All you can do is try to know who your friends are
As you head off to the war

Pick a star on the dark horizon
And follow the light
You'll come back when it's over
No need to say goodbye

You'll come back when it's over
No need to say goodbye

Now we're back to the beginning
It's just a feeling and no one knows yet
But just because they can't feel it too
Doesn't mean that you have to forget

Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
'Til they're before your eyes
You'll cone back
When they call you
No need to say goodbye

You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say goodbye
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Every time when I heard of this song, I will picture out the scene of Aslan the Lion from the Chronicles of Narnia.
It is the literally icon of Jesus Christ, Lion of the Tribe of the Judah.
Where author C.S. Lewis wrote this amazing fantasy novel series based on the Bible.

I personally loved the second verse very much.

"'Til it was a battle cry"
"I'll come back"
"When you call me"

It is something very profound and significance for me,
that I can feel the promises from the Lord to us as His beloved children,

regardless of race,
regardless of culture,
regardless of tribes,
regardless of tongues,
regardless of religion,

Because we are living in a century of Multi-......

multiracial,
multicultural,
multi-tribal,
multi-religion,
multifunction,

That when we call upon His name,
He will come back to us.
In fact He will never leave us alone,
just that we don't think He is with us,
cause we Chose to believe so.

Lord, in my prayer I prayed that WE will always acknowledge Your presence, that we will always be open heart to You.
Please help us, to open our eyes and ears, to see You and hear You.
That we will answer to THE CALL from You.
Saying,"Here I am, Send Me!"

The Missing True Identity

11:28 p.m.
25 Oct 2008

A couple days ago, I met a youth who named Andy. I supposed to meet two of them ( another one would be Justin) for some weekly discipleship in term of life development, regards their dream and passion, their future direction......etc.

End up I'm just manage to meet one of them which is Andy while Justin got to prepare for the school examination. May God lead him in preparation of his exam.

After some conversation with Andy, I found our that he is a person who fear of God. He loves God very much and he had a passion of bringing people, especially his friend and schoomates to know Jesus more. No wonder he growth with rapid pace, and I can feel God love him due to his obedience. I can be the witness of him regard his change of personality.

During that time with him, I generally brief him regard his future direction after secondary school graduation. Though it is still early for him to deal with this context ( he is form 4 ). But I just felt that it is very crucial to let him know the possible future direction.

Actually I found that a lot of the youth they did think about their future. But the problem is lack of life mentor to lead them regard their future planning.

A lot of them end up with nothing in mind regards their future, because they don't exactly know what is the "FUTURE" about. They don't have the idea to think about.

Yes, the youth generation had lost their true identity. They seek their identity, or more precisely, significance through talent, academic achievement, material possession, "love" relationship experience, physical appearance, online game virtual reality experience......etc.

For Andy, he is much more better that he knew his true identity in Christ. But he is still very weak for he will easily interfered by the gossip and criticism of his friend to him, especially from his only beloved good friend. He was so depressed for not being good enough that people will gossip about him.

I felt that he is wounded by this kind of issue. Without my doubt and lead by Holy Spirit, I quickly reveal to him the truth of identity with the Word of God.

We are Acepted
First, our true identity in Christ.
Who is Christ?

John 1:1-14 revealed to us who is Christ. And we are called to be God's children. Our true identity of royal prince, priesthood, and prophet in Christ.

John 5:30 revealed to us that we all empowered by God's might.

John 6:57 revealed that we live because of Him.

We are NOT in the process of becoming children of God; rather, we are the children of God who are in the process of becoming like Christ.

WHO WE ARE DETERMINES WHAT WE DO.

John 15:15 revealed that we are Christ's friend.

Col 1:14 revealed that we have been redeemed and forgiven of all sins.

Col 2:10 revealed that we are complete in Christ.

We are secured

Second, we are clean and pure in front of God, not by our act of flesh, but by the Love of God manifested through the Holy Blood of Jesus Christ.

No one can finger pointing to someone, nor be criticize and justification by self righteousness.

Rom 8:1-2 revealed that we are free from condemnation.

Phil 1:6 revealed that all the good works of us will be perfected by God

2 Tim 1:7 revealed that we have not given a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind.

1 John 5:18 revealed that we are born of God and the evil one cannot touch us.

At last, I thank God that all this Word that He gave me is to strengthen Andy's heart, and raise up his true identity in Christ much more firmly.

Youth generation need to be revive and awakening from their "dream", so that they will pursuit their "DREAM" in Christ.

The future is much more depends on them, but needed us as the elder generation to equipped them, according to their passion and called to be, not by our self thought on them.

"Treat a person as he is,

and he will remain as he is."

"Treat him as he could be,

and he will become what he should be."

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

>>FAITH<<

12:13 a.m.
22 Oct 2008
在刚过去短短的几个小时里,我又见证了神在中国学生奇秒的作为,使我的内心受到莫大的鼓动说:"神对我们的爱是如此地真实!"

话说Ps. Deborah, Rick和我三人到UCSI中国学生的家带领家庭聚会。他们很多的初信者和未信者,都需要有人去带领与教导。神既然委托他们给我们,就两肋插刀,火里火里去、水里水里去啦!
这次的聚会他们向我们捎来了好消息,就是有一位名叫时光秒(真的名字,中国无奇不有)的朋友自从上次第一次的聚会过后不久,就选择信主。Amen!!

说真的,我们真的没有预备任何的讯息或程序。我唯有先让他们各自自由分享与神同行的生活和作见证。同时我一边聆听、一边祷告,求问神要说些什么或作些什么。
感些神,一切都很流畅。而我在其中,透过他们所分享的,神就带领我把他要表达的讯息融合人们说话内容的方向,再以圣经经文为根基,完成了神自己的目的。

今次的讯息主要围饶在4个点:
1. 我们不能靠善行、修行、行为来达到神的标准。

(也可作上天堂、或成佛、或涅盘、或直登 极乐世界......等的解释,其实不尽然正确，但对某些人会比较容易理解。)
(加拉太书3:11)

2. 我们唯有靠着"信心"才能成事,就是相信耶稣作为成就一切的救主.

(加拉太书2:16)

3. "信心"就是对看不到或还未看到的事,因着神放在我们心里对它的鼓动、鼓舞而相信。

(希伯来书11:1)

4. 我们选择相信耶稣作为救主。神是自由的神,他给我们自由意志(free will)作选择,只是我们须要对所作的决定负上责任。

当然其间也回答了一些疑问与理清一些宗教上的错误迷思。例如真正的佛教其实不是宗教,要称它为佛学会来得正确,因它是一种教育。诚然,基督教也不是宗教,正确来说是信仰,是关于与神的关系的维系。

这一切都出自我的口。
真的吗?

认识我超过十年的朋友都知道我是沉默寡言,不善言辞的人。我甚至曾经被人说过不善于表达自己,说话前文不对后语。哈哈!我举手脚赞同。

但是现在人们很难想像我曾经是这么样的一个人。就连我自己有时候都顶不顺现在的自己,毕竟我本性还是属于文静的人,还是会表现出自我为中心的一面。

但是神的恩典,慈爱无时无刻都充满我,使我快速地转变,不断地鞭策我、催促我成长。
现在很多时候我信口成章都不是靠自己,是圣灵在帮助我。

每当我回头想起我所说的任何的话,
I'm amaze, by the powerful work of the Lord that done through my life.

结果,讯息完了过后,我就挑战他们的信心,呼吁他们如果心里有鼓动的话,在一分钟后就跟着作决志信主的祷告。

哈哈!新来的都愿以信心回应神。
I knew You are always here with us. That You love all Your people so much.

Thank you Yeshua.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone