Friday, February 20, 2009
Hope
Every being hope for or hope in something. You are studying hard and you hope for good results. You are a filial son and you hope to gain a smile from parents. You are working and you hope to perform well in your company. You are tired and you hope to get some rest. You are courting someone and you hope there will be good progress. You are sick and you hope to get heal and be well. You are in a deep situation and you hope to get out of it. Like wise, there are some who lost hope. Hopeless in getting good results. Hopeless in being a filial son. Hopeless to perform well in his/her company. Hopeless for a relationship. Hopeless in getting heal. Hopeless in a situation. Hope gives you a vision and possibilities for you to cling on too and work towards it. Hope gives you the strength to move on. To place your hope in something or in the right person, it is something important. Look to Him who gave it all.
Jedidiah; 12:32 PM
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Great is thy faithfulness Ha!
2009/02/17
Surrender: Let Go and Let God Work by Rick Warren
Surrender yourself to the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Psalm 37:7 (GWT)
*** *** *** ***Surrendering your life means:·
Following God’s lead without knowing where he’s sending you;·
Waiting for God’s timing without knowing when it will come;·
Expecting a miracle without knowing how God will provide; ·
Trusting God’s purpose without understanding the circumstances.
You know you’re surrendered to God when you rely on God to work things out instead of trying to manipulate others, force your agenda, and control the situation. You let go and let God work.You don’t have to always be in charge. Instead of trying harder, you trust more.
You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You are not self-serving, you don’t edge others out, and you don’t demand your rights.
The most difficultthing for many people to surrender is their money. Many have thought, “I want to live for God but I also want to earn enough money to live comfortably and retire someday.”
Retirement is not the goal of a surrender life, because it competes with God for the primary attention of our lives. Jesus said, “You cannot serve both God and money,” (Matthew 6:24 NIV)and “Wherever your treasure is, your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21 NIV).
The supreme example of self-surrender is Jesus. The night before his crucifixion Jesus surrendered himself to God’s plan. He prayed, “Father, everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will, not mine” (Mark 14:36 NLT).
Jesus didn’t pray, “God, if you’re able to take away this pain, please do so.” He began by affirming that God can do anything! He prayed, “God, if it is in your best interest to remove this suffering, please do so. But if it fulfills your purpose, that’s what I want, too.”
Genuine surrender says, “Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another’s life, please don’t take it away!” This level of maturity doesn’t come easy.In Jesus’ case, he agonized so much over God’s plan that he sweat drops of blood. Surrender is hard work.
In our case, it requires intense warfare against our self-centered nature.
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Jedidiah; 1:09 PM
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Let Go and Let God. Let God be God. Be still and know I'm God (Psalms 46:10). I was wondering what in the world does it mean when God spoke to me all of the above. I was like 'O come on Dad...what the hack you're talking about?" I was thinking about many things. Praying and seeking God. When I'm done with my reflection or my quiet time with God. He showed me one thing after another that I haven't really realised was happening in me.I was too self-centered. I want some control. I want this. I want that. I think. I thought. After this should come that. An older sister talked to me and for the good she mentioned with love that I've quite a 'BIG' me in me. I dwell in that. Reflected and prayed. Nevertheless, God is faithful. He spoke through sermon last sunday. Let God be God. Great is His faithfulness. Only in Him that I realised what goes wrong. I apologised thereafter because subconsciously I never realised that I may have been alittle too pushy or taking things in my own stride. It was never really my intention. Forgive me.What a divine timing when I read the daily devotion.We aren’t God, and we never will be. We’re humans, and the times when we try to be God are the times we end up most like Satan, who tried to be equal with God, too.We accept our humanity intellectually, but not emotionally. We give mental assent to the idea, but when faced with our own limitations, we react with irritation, anger, and resentment. We want to be taller (or shorter), smarter, stronger, more talented, beautiful, and wealthy. - Rev. Rick WarrenC. S. Lewis observed, “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because he made us.He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”上帝虽然慢，但他不会误事； 往往不是上帝慢，而是我们太急躁， 上帝答应过给你的，他一定会给。 上帝总是不慌不忙，他有的是时间， 而是最佳的时间。Jedidiah apense
Jedidiah; 11:34 AM
Monday, February 16, 2009
Things just came one after another last week. Some issues that I gonna pray about. I got diarrhea for couple of days after wednesday and what's more? I got a "pain in the ass", piles.
It was never a good feeling to be a woman alright. Nearly need to use a pad. What a pain in the ass'sssssss.
Just want to vent my fastration and "shout" it out loud...
Jedidiah; 12:18 PM
Saturday, February 14, 2009
2 things the Lord had spoken.
Be Still and know that He is God (Psalms 46:10)
Be Strong and of good courage (Joshua 1:6)
Jedidiah; 9:27 PM
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
When things are not within my control or I can't see a possibility ahead. I'll feel that it's troublesome, irritating and I'm pissed off. Not with things or others but myself.
I just feel pissed. What the hack. WAO LAO EH.
I can't find any other words to describle how I feel.
Really WAO LAO EH.
Lesson I've always been learning. Be still and know that He is God.
Jedidiah; 7:38 PM
Friday, February 6, 2009
Think, Do and Live - all with Love
1 Corinthians 13The Greatest Gift1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.[NKJV 1 Cor 13]I was kind of doing reflection. Certain things or rather, many things that were in the past. What was done. I might had 'done alot of things'. I might be 'obedient' in a lot of ways. I might have tried to live a good life. I spoke like one who preach. I teaches others to live a godly way. Been there done that. But, if I have not apprehend this revelation "...have not love, I'm nothing" then what I have been doing, I took the Lord's name in vain.As apostle Paul had said. Should I speak the the languages of men and angels, having the gift of prophecy and understand much mysteries and knowledge, giving my all to others yet without love, I'm nothing. I had done all in vain.Be conscious of not what you can do but what Jesus can do through you.If I'm consicous of what I can do. I do like what a mere man will do.If I'm conscious that I am able to teach then I will teach like what a man will teach but if I'm consicous of how Jesus had taught me, I will teach just as how Jesus had taught me.Be conscious of Jesus. Be conscious of His love. Be conscious of what He has been doing. Be conscious of what Jesus had done then I will be conscious of love and love will I live out for others."...but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." [NKJV Philippians 3 : 13b -14] Jedidiah apense
Jedidiah; 11:16 AM
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Every man understand what it meant by fighting a war himself. He'll feel tired, exhausted both physically and mentally, wounded, morale low, worst still ; He have to keep fighting. Putting on a good front, fighting a good fight even though it will be a losing end. Companions who died along with him, Pride and Ego.What is pride and ego? Is it any worth? Get a few friends who will fight with you.
Jedidiah; 12:55 PM
Sunday, February 1, 2009
I was having discipleship with my two boys this morning. We talked on the topic of Servanthood. What is a servant? I asked them. Both gave me a political right answer. A Master over him! Said one. Do the things as he has been told or instructed. Said another. What is a godly servant then? I asked again. Cracking both their heads. Serve God.The difference between a normal servant and a godly servant is about the individual Master whom we served. A normal servant serve the master or do what their told to do but God, however, works through His servants. God desires a relationship with us. In humility we serve God, putting ourselves down, serving others as though we are a servant. That's precisely what we should do or what Jesus has been doing! He came down as a God and man. He is God. Look, if you do not understand the meaning of God. Flip through Genesis. As a God Himself, He came down to mingle with the sinners, serving them ( Preaching, Healing, Casting out demons, providing fishes, washing the feet of His disciples!) and of course not to mention that He saved us all from the fiery of the fier'ies (Hell). Jesus mentioned in the bible that "28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:28) He came not to be served but to serve. That's the life protocol of Jesus. He serves and He still does. That's my Jesus. Never ever say when do I serve Man and How do I serve God! If you're serving the very least or rather if you're serving people. You're serving God! (Matthew 25 : 35-40)
Be humble, be willing to be mold, be willing to serve, be willing to love this God.
Jedidiah; 6:55 PM
Mountain moving faith, a book given by loved one. A fairly good book or rather, it was given at a right time. Read a few pages while I'm traveling down town.
What is faith?
You earned it. You need to 'beg' to get it. You need to fast and pray and ask for it. That's what you think.
People who received Christ always say, "I've no faith.." when this God's given Faith was already in you when you received Christ. Without Faith, you would not have believed and trust in Jesus. It's just a matter of how you exercise this Faith of yours.
Jedidiah; 5:47 PM
