Lovers of God

Back- fear? reverence?

2010-01-22T04:51:00.000-08:00

Hey people!! wow i haven't been updating like for ages! Well now i come back again, refreshed and renewed by God again after sooo long... yeah i can say it was tough but praise God really! I am almost out! So many things had happened! so many good stuff recently and so many bad stuff in the pass.. God indeed is faithful!

I just want to share a word on Proverbs... Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom!! this is what this book is mainly titled as: the book of wisdom. I like these two verses from proverbs 11:2 & 30

prov 11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with _______ comes wisdom.
v30: the fruit of the righteous is a ____________, and he who wins souls is wise.(find out that blank yourself)

to my main topic... Fear of the Lord (reverence) well? a wise man shuns evil, as he fears the Lord! The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom. The fear of the Lord is a secure fortress, it causes a man to walk upright! It is a fountain of life, turning a man from snares of death. And the best...the fear of the Lord brings life. Amen!

I know this part is a bit out of topic but, really i have a word for the cell.. God told me, he told me and i felt it so strongly so strongly that he wants us to build the culture, the habit, good habit of praying for each other! Pray for each other! Beside them, and God promises a transition! Relationship by love!

Camp -day 1

2009-12-08T03:30:00.000-08:00

First day of camp was ok, but it simply gets better towards the end with a great man called Mr. PAT! I thought my group will be angry, or at least not really happy cos i have not really helped them in any of the meetings.. ya la but they were not..lol

I was surprised with the kind of "chiong " attitude that my group and tribe had! Although i dont know them much but they were seriously fun to 'interact' with :)

The most wonderful and best time was with pst. pat! HIs altar call, his message. He spoke about "The tomb of the unknown soldier"... my favorite part was, Did anyone drop you?

And my first thought was my father..although i know i am wrong i know that it was still my fault but i had anger towards him.. and i have felt hurt by him before too.. and thats why i always had these same problems...should'nt i forgive him? Yea i did ...really then i loved the feeling after that! JOY, Lightness, Love.. and the best of all Mark encountered God! Can you believe it, one of my goals in coming for the camp is to help Mark encounter God and God done it for me! Really thank you Jesus!

Past few weeks back i doubted that God was there for me and that he even existed, but last night he showed it to me. -Mark Ng

Today...cell...

2009-11-23T05:01:00.000-08:00

Thanks Nic for today! you know today talking to him him and spending some time with him in band was just wonderful and fruitful! Thanks for opening up nic! Thanks for working with me throughout...well almost half a day...!
I am really encouraged you know, to see people like brandon, nic, mavis and more all coming and getting closer to the cell! I am so happy to see nic have the heart to come to cell and brandon for even joining us! I hope the cell will improve greater ! GUYS REMEMBER TO SEEK GOD!!! have a good day!

Let's SEE

2009-11-19T05:29:00.000-08:00

I am really, to say desperate for an attitude of awareness towards our visions by God that we all can share! Last night during band camp i could not sleep, so i read the bible and i came across to this passage: Prov 2! The Whole of this chapter really makes a lot of sense to me and if i can say we as an outreach should have that attitude as written in prov 2!

¹ My son, if you accept my words
       and store up my commands within you,
² turning your ear to wisdom
       and applying your heart to understanding,
³ and if you call out for insight
       and cry aloud for understanding,
⁴ and if you look for it as for silver
       and search for it as for hidden treasure,
⁵ then you will understand the fear of the LORD
       and find the knowledge of God.
⁶ For the LORD gives wisdom,
       and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Having the hearts that hold God's Word so dear is what God wants His people to be. He wants His creation to receive His wisdom, treasures and most importantly His blessings! How gracious a God we worship!

The outreach

2009-11-12T17:25:00.000-08:00

In the outreach..if i were to say, it has never ever been full attendance in prayer meeting before!! I know some of you cannot make it, stay too far away, i understand.. But if you are late once awhile, i think its acceptable. But your attendance in prayer meeting speaks much about your desire to see this generation saved! This school, your friends, your class, your teachers saved! You know initially, we planned a vision for ourselves, right? Yeah, and so what was the vision the goal :"to see at least 8 sec 1s saved and 3 sec 2s" right? Although it was coming to the end of the year when school was about to close, but there were still a few prayer meetings after we had planned, and the attendance, how has it improved? Prayer meeting in an OUTREACH is mainly on interceding for the School. Intercede what? The salvation of our friends of course! And if you reflect clearly, are we not going against our vision. And why do we always get so little ppl saved during events like Who's who? its because previously we don't have the desire, the whole heartedness to see our friends get saved! And in the end we start to rush on getting ppl into the events when the date come nearer. Its like your relationship with Jesus, you should not only seek him in the downtimes but every time, have a heart for him. And the same for our friends, have a heart for them, a compassion for them, spread the love that God gave us. You already know how God's love can change us, can fill us, so lets share it! YES

Fellowship..backbones

2009-10-27T02:37:00.000-07:00

I think it was on mon..I was sort of having quiet time with God before prayer meeting. I usually did it but just did it..normally? But on mon i just felt that it was wonderful! That time spent with God was just so 'filling' to my hunger. I was reading Leviticus and i was reading the first few chapters about offerings, how they are suppose to be done. You know i use to think that all this preparations like how the tent of meeting should be made in exodus are just not important so i would skip them. Then because i thought since i finished exodus why not go on to leviticus..so i went on. Then i read about leviticus 3(the fellowship offering [NIV]). I read till lev 3:9 From the fellowship offering he is to bring a sacrifice made to the Lord by fire: its fat, the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone.

I stared at the bible, and i placed the offering thing aside. I thought is it not true that as a fellowship group, we should not leave anyone outside of the backbone(the main structure, foundation, boundary)? We should cut it off, but not to cut of those that are outside but cut off the chances of leaving another behind! So true! Amen!

Love

2009-10-26T03:36:00.000-07:00

One of the most difficult thing in life, i feel is to LOVE. Love is the basic of the basic of God's commandments and is the main reason why we are here being able to speak to our savior and our creator.

Imagine yourself without being loved, not even once have you felt love, not once have you been praised, cared of. Its is unbearable! I feel thats was how Joel initially felt when he came into the outreach (but not to the extend that we dislike him). We all may say that it is because he does not like to change, he thinks too much, he is rash but i tell you, over the past months knowing him, he still loved the outreach! Despite all the behind-back gossips, he still loves the outreach! Over the few months i just felt that Joel should be really loved! And i have gone to the extend that i once really find him very very irritating but is that all? Tell him," stop thinking so much!" and over? Don't we need to water the seed in his heart, guide him through what we have told him instead of telling him?

The bible says " Prov 3:12: because the LORD disciplines those he loves..." I feel that we should really help Joel through commitment! Can we all achieve it?

I believe we can really have that unity and love for each other, that it is only love that bonds not by the humor or anything else!

I believe!

Humility

2009-10-24T19:57:00.000-07:00

Many times, our anger our pride covers humility. When we get angry, we shout back, when we are accused out of misunderstanding we simulate anger to overcome that hurt of being misunderstood. Sometimes we face circumstances where you are bad-mouthed, we simulate hatred and anger against anyone who called you by your "bad-way" worst still, we place our fists ahead to a body. Yesterday ck said about asking yourself "is there a better way?"... Our reactions determine about 90% of our lives! The 10% are by what God has called you and planned you to be. If you put it in an example, Your exams are coming, you surely will have choices, how you choose to react to the exam that is oncoming. You can study hard or slack. And what your reaction is determines your outcome, your result be it negative or positive, but it does not end there..there are still choices..

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO REACT TO THIS SITUATION NOW THAT YOU HAVE COME TO THIS POINT?

Leave it or solve it? We may be called to lets say preach to your entire class, but what will you do once you know that you will preach? Prepare for the Word of God or just reject?

Reactions determines your outcome, how people will see an image of you, how people can trust you.. mostly how people will see your maturity and responsibility.

Read

2009-10-09T18:34:00.000-07:00

Romans 12:9-21
1john 3:16-18

Standards that you follow

2009-10-06T04:48:00.000-07:00

Who sets our standards? God, family, friends, school? As christians our standards should be God-based, but yet it seems so easy to just get lost. There is this group or company that goes around schools talking about how to keep yourself free from sex-related diseases, they teach you how to do it safely...but what did God say, "you shall not commit adultery". There are always collisions between God and the world. Why...? Its because the world does not have the reverence for God, therefore they do not read the bible, go to church and they worship idols. Most people these days live life at their own will, no boundaries, drifting through everything! So based on what do we set our barriers, based on who do we do things and based on what do we live our life? You know the answer! :)

Let us also get excited about the 25 oct event!!

Seeing sin

2009-10-04T06:35:00.000-07:00

In the book of Exodus, it speaks again about the Isrealites. There were 10 plagues that God has brought to Egypt and the last one was the death of the first born son. Before the angel of death came to Egypt, God told Moses to prepare a feast, the passover. Everyone was to slaughter a young pure lamb and spread its blood over the frame of their door so that when the angel came, he would pass it over. They were also told to eat bread without yeast, but why no yeast? It is like when we were sinners, we live a life that is so infected, but God gave them a new life, that we would be a new creation. When we confess our sins (sincerely), God says that He is faithful and Just and will remember no more of our sins. He had taken away our old dough (previous self) and gave us a new dough, and He wants us to let this dough remain pure and un-infected by sin. God told the Isrealites not to add yeast because He want us not to be infected and affected by anything that is harms our body and mind and the realtionship with Him. Like yeast, one little drop can multiply and spread to the entire dough! Just like sin, a small sin if untreated can lead to a deeper and higher level for you to treat it, if nothing is done, gradually you become insensitive to it and it no longer seems wrong.
When we sin, we should confess right.. and God told us to enter into His presence boldly, sometimes when we sin, satan makes thoughts in our minds like "you are no longer worthy to seek forgiveness from a holy God", He makes us feel ashamed of our own sins so that we will not have the courage to seek forgiveness from God! Even though we sin, why dwell over it when God himself say that He is faithful and just, but also do remember that you must no longer compromise yourself that even if you sin that same sin again He will always forgive you.. is is still your duty to discipline :)

God's plans for us never changes!

2009-09-27T08:13:00.000-07:00

Truly God never changes, He has finished everything! Before I formed you in the womb i knew you (Jer 1:5). God loved us so much, that He even built a relationship with you even before you entered into a world where it all seems God-void, but He has a plan for you in this world! Individually we are all called to be something for God.. mainly to be the "salt and light of the world". God never had left you, His plans still stays, however, it is your respond to His plans that make a difference. God can never plan for you to worship satan when He said "You shall have no other gods before me...for i am a jealous God"(Exo 20). Why would he plan such a thing that goes againsts Him when He loves you!
We can all have a plan, but it depends on how we want to do it and whether we want to do it! You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God. (lev 18:4) isn't it clear that we are to obey Him and to follow His laws(commandments). He did not say in the bible to worship other gods and make idols among yourselves. No, he had made His point clear and He will never change it...not even Heaven changes , unlike in this world where things are always growing older and new things are invented, there is no end to such competition among man!
God called Lucifer to be an arch angel, to worship Him but Lucifer wanted more! He tried to broke the boundary between God and himself, He disobeyed. Imagine if He had obeyed, he would be pleasing to God, and man would not suffer in the depts of sin, earth would be clean. It tells one thing too, don't live a life un-aligned with God's plans , its up to you to choose, obey and be led by God or try to indulge yourself in this world where at the end is destroyed by hurt, dust, anguish and by the flames.

God-based decisions

2009-09-22T06:35:00.000-07:00

During this time... we often face difficulties... but we just don't know what and how to do them.. I see many christians who just rush out a quick decision without remembering what God requires of you. We are so in that fluttering state that the devil attacks your patience and that is dangerous.

1 Peter 5: 6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. (NIV)

We are just too focused on things that are are no hindrance to our lives at all...but only if we focus on Jesus! Isn't live suppose to be all about Jesus.. then why let those small things break us from when we are "under God's mighty hand" and he promised "that he may lift you up in due time" When it says due time means it is not immediate therefore your fruit of patience comes in.17I will wait for the LORD,who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob.I will put my trust in him. (Isaiah 8 NIV) Our trust is it there? Well it should be. When we rush we tend to always miss out points, there is no certainty if we missed out the word God but still there is a chance, but i am super sure that that chance is high with the devil around! We all are bound to be vulnerable without the foundation of Jesus!

God will definitely reach to you if you seek Him

2009-09-20T07:44:00.000-07:00

I am very thankful for Mark and nicholas to come for cell on sat... it was really unexpected but I know it is Your work! So wonderful! On sat, it was the first time I saw mark praying in such seriousness, alone, without any supervision and with that willingness! And nicholas! he told me that he would even negotiate just to come cell.. I believe it is that he wants to meet God again.. that feeling of peace.

When i was told to lead the sec 1s i was really lost and i really don't know what to do... I look at caleb, nicholas and cherise and i just don't know how to even start that spark. I was just simply discouraged when they don't respond to me.

That night i just prayed. For the plans that He planned for me to do.. about how to do it. Then i noticed that i always only sometimes pray for them.. and i just stop and just tell God to finish it.. there are only words but no action that follow ups those words... so i asked them.......and mark responded for the first time to my sms about going to cell and it was 'yes'......I asked nicholas and he said '245 i coming'!.. then that day ck talk about faith and works.. true true..

Prayer is not a very small thing.. from hat small prayer of mine.. to the faith i have that God will soften their hearts ... and plus what i did my best to ask to follow up(my heart was there). God will answer you, if your desire, your heart is there.. he will answer you.

Just remember not to ask what is against his purposes for you and His words, His commandments.. for He is forever Holy..and his plans and purposes will also be holy

19 sep cell!!

2009-09-18T04:44:00.001-07:00

Ice Breaker will be fun!! Not only that, all will be fruitful! :) Bye!

Clear? :s

2009-09-16T04:55:00.000-07:00

Hi cell! i know that lately i have been quite harsh to some of you.. actually i was just quite disappointed in the beginning but..ya i got over it..
So really sorry guys..especially for Rebekah, Vivien, Chien Wai and Caleb..
:)

Clinging on

2009-09-11T06:10:00.000-07:00

I see so many things happening in the cell. I feel that it is really the time to stand firm, I know and surely you all know too that God wants us to find peace and rest in Him.

Psalms 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,

for you are with me;

your rod and staff they comfort me.

There was this thought that came to mind a few weeks back, I was doing my english schoolwork when I came upon this 'quiz',"when you stumble do you most likely stumble forward or backwards?" and the answer is forward. Its just like when you stumble across a problem, we should most likely stumble forward (that pain when we fall is the experience we faced), which means to overcome that problem! We should not let those thongs hinder our faith and trust on God.
Our spiritual life is like a staircase, our problems are like odd steps that seem and look too high for us to take that step, but that does not mean we should not do anything and let time just pass by with hurt! We should find another way, seek God's help to climb it, since you cannot put your leg over to get up! If you are tired while climbing, why don't you seek God who does the impossible instead of clinging there. Like climbing a mountain, if you cling on to the side of the mountain(take everest for an example) you would gradually run out of that energy to hold on and fall to your death, in spiritual terms, backslide.
Can we all count on God :) Together lets pull through and don't let the devil have the last laugh

All the best! :)

What I see in the cell

2009-09-05T07:25:00.000-07:00

   As a cell, we always seem to meet together and fellowship, to others, we may seem and look very very bonded very open very close. I tell you man, its a different story in God's eyes.
  We always go for fellowship to eat and all that but the truth is, there is no bond at all. In the dictionary it says that fellow ship is a group of people meeting to pursue a same interest. To me it means a gathering where we come as one to bond, the truth is what i see us do is when we go for fellowship, we break up into our own groups and talk things with no unity as a group. Worst still, sometimes we even leave just one person out alone. Fellowship should be a moment where we get to know more and more about people! Fellowship in this cell has just no bond and bond is actually the main root of the meaning of fellowship! So if there is no bond in fellowship, the word fellowship now is just only a cover with no content, no meaning, the word simply becomes outer (where other people see), not inner (where God sees).
  Cell, lets make ourselves pleasing and satisfying in the things we do to God, not where people see. Let us learn ok ! :) take care!

What MOST are like today as Christians

2009-09-04T02:34:00.000-07:00

I feel that most Christians today are just like Moses when he first got called by God to send the Israelites out of Egypt.

Exodus 6:12

But Moses said to the Lord, "If the israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me since i speak with faltering lips."

We have so much doubts that our trust and faith on God wavers with fear.

   We focus way to much on our weaknesses and disadvantages that we simply forget the impossibilities that God can conquer and accomplish! Mainly faith is the key. I feel that it is our face that we care more then the faith we should have!

   Faith in this world just seems so 'foolish' and it most of our minds it is a full-stop there. But there is more, 'faith pleases God'!

   Seems to me like Face is more important then Faith. So let us stop thinking about ourselves, our disadvantages and weaknesses! Let us allow God to straighten our paths.

My transition #1

2009-09-01T04:15:00.000-07:00

A lot of things are done... but more are yet to come.. agree??!!... YES

I see a super great transition, mostly they are in the outreach, but i am going to tell you about mine.

In the middle of August, initially, i felt like why on earth do i keep facing the same problem over and over again. I know that there is something that i have really never overcame that God has been placing them infront of me again, to finish and to master it.

In the beginning of August.. there was a thought that was bad but yet i still think God! During the beginning of the month, i felt like, "where am i going? Forward? Stationary? Maybe?" Basically i just felt the absence of God in my life, i left my desire to grow :(

Then God gave me a problem, it was the same problem that i really hate the most, it is the problem that keeps coming and leaves me without a 'map' and a don't know where to go, what to do.

At that time i was really angry at myself worst of all i was also angry at God. My inner self kept telling me "what are you doing?! Blaming God despite His faithfulness to you all those past times!?" So i woke up. I went straight to pray and to really come to a point where i am so desperate for God.

The next night, things got a little better but still i was helpless, i still didn't know what to do during that time.

To be continued...

Understanding

2009-08-31T02:30:00.000-07:00

To me undertanding can affect ones relationship. Like for example if you someone confronts you and you mistaken it for an insult, what will happen..you know...
Before we do something we should first seek that wisdom to understand, especially God's ways. You know in the bible that God's wisdom and ways are so much higher than us, which means that there are super many loads of things that he has done and placed in our lives that we simply don't purely understand ourselves!

Not only to God, also from the people around us. I see many of times that we do things without or with no understanding! Like the early years of Peter before he denied Jesus. Sometimes we ought to learn how to wait and to slowly digest what is placed infront of us so that we can see what we can do about it to overcome it so that we can move on.

Making Decisions

2009-08-28T04:53:00.000-07:00

I am talking about the tougher one..haha..

Ok last week was a super great transition for me. although no problems are done, but i see that God is moving in my life! Last week i started to see what i needed and lacked to know, i see what we have been going through and what we have not been focusing on what we should do.

On band that sat, i was sort of thought on how to make good decisions. To make them, i think we should see which one gives us a greater peace, rather then decide a quick move and regret. We should also think far like what LR said, Jesus thought far when he died on the cross."when he is lifted up high he will draw man to him." We also should think about the consequences we will face in time and what must we change to ensure it is right.

Fellowship

2009-08-26T06:35:00.000-07:00

Fellowship to me is a very super important thing in a cell or even as friends. Fellowship to me can build up many things that can strengthen relationships like for example, openness.

Fellowship is basically like coming to together and build trust along with the understanding of each others' characters, weaknesses, and strengths. Through fellowship, we can also see each others' different reactions in different times because you are with them when they do different things.

Fellowship is linked to many many things! From fellowship we build relationship, we get to see each others' way of orientating with people and from there trust is born. With trust, openness comes in which leads to Unity! If we lack unity we cannot do things peacefully and as a group, we cannot work as one just as God wants us to. Without openness we would not know each others' spiritual growth and also we may not encounter others' breakthrough as motivation. Without trust, we cannot have security about what you share to others because you are afraid they let it out and therefore you would rather not tell.