In church today, the pastor asked the question,
"Do you know Jesus?"
He said, all those who know Jesus please stand up.
As expected, almost the entire church stood up. There was no doubt, no denial. It was clear - everyone of us knew Jesus and placed Him as the King of our lives. Then the pastor asked,
"If you know Jesus, why aren't you doing anything about it?"
This question left me pondering and reflecting about myself as I realized I did not have enough urgency in my heart to share the word of Christ with the world. God gave us 24 hours a day, yet sometimes we just let the days slip past. Jesus commanded us "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation". Jesus is our saviour and He exists in our lives...is that a good news to us? Everyday as we pray, we get to meet the most awesome wonderful amazingggggggg God...is that a good news to us?
Let's say one day, you suddenly meet hmmmm.. TOM CRUISE. or JOHNNY DEPP! (i guess this applies more to girls ^_^ ) Not only that, guess what?! You talked to him for a loooong time. WOW. I think I would be calling all my friends and sharing with them my excitement. "Oh my gosh, I talked to TOM CRUISE today!" You get the picture.
Well then, compared to this, what a great joy and excitement do we have in having Jesus as our Lord! Jesus, the King of the entire universe. King of you and me and Tom Cruise and everyone else in the planet. Shouldn't we be sharing with the world our joy of knowing Him personally?
In FireAC, we always ask God to give us a revival, that He would set as on fire for Him.
But the thing is, this fire starts from..... *drum roll*...... YOU. It starts from ME. from each one of us. This revival doesn't just happen one day when we keep waiting, doing nothing about it, and not answering His call to each one of us.
Are we placing God as the most important part of our lives right now? If not, what are we waiting for? Why not start devoting more time with Him and letting Him be the number one in our lives?
Are we sharing the word of Christ to others? If not, what are we waiting for? Why not start now?
Time is running out.
What are we waiting for?
Why not start now?
Right now.
Let us all let God move in us.
Right now.
Sunday, 8 July 2007
Faith and trust!
Please check out this link if you have 10 mins to spare:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuXpEz34TY8
Why are we still sleeping? GOSH ALL OF YOU GET YOUR BUTTS OUT OF BED, THE SUN IS SHINING ON YOUR BEHINDS! This particular video starts off by saying how "The church of Jesus is largely sleeping, like a great bedroom and you have all the Christians in bed and they're all sleeping... and they're saying "Please, don't wake me up! I want to sleep on!" And of course when God starts to operate a revival people cannot sleep, you can't sleep in church when the spirit of God awakes the people." This clip to me was essentially a powerful one. Try watching it and ask yourself why are we still sleeping? Why aren't we alive and kicking on God, and remember the chairs message? Why are we still sitting on the comfortable grey chair, God hates lukewarm Christians and will PUKE you out. SO ITS TIME TO GET SITTED ON THE RED CHAIR AND BE ON FIRE FOR JESUS, THE ONE WE CLAIM WE LOVE SO DEARLY!
Okay anyway back to my main experience today, yea as you all know i'm in Boy's Brigade, and there's this even called BB cares, it's a event where by the BB people go to the less fortunate people like orphanages and old folks home to bless the people there, and yeap i was given this great task of planning on how to implant this heart of service into the boys. I was told by an officer i actually have an official one hour with the boys on the 7th of July but i thought i heard it was on the 14th of July, and i OVERSLEPT on the 7th. By the time i came to hear of it, i realised how deep trouble i was in. The short 14 days i had had become even shorter with lesser time to impact the juniors! I was so worried... So worried that i couldn't pray.
Then today's message came, it was about faith. Matthes 6:25-34 if i'm not wrong. It was about living each day not worrying about food or clothings as if our Father in Heaven would feed the animals daily then what say us? He loved us so much to give His one and only Son, how then can He not give us our daily bread? Suddenly i stopped worrying any longer, I just stopped and pray and entrusted the entire BB cares into the hands of the Lord knowing that He will guide me through this! What are you waiting for? Trust the Lord! He's there ALWAYS :) I LOVE GOD, HE ROCKS MY SOCKS! FLAME ON FIREAC! RAWRRRR LIKE NEVER BEFORE!
In the Lord's service,
ah lua
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuXpEz34TY8
Why are we still sleeping? GOSH ALL OF YOU GET YOUR BUTTS OUT OF BED, THE SUN IS SHINING ON YOUR BEHINDS! This particular video starts off by saying how "The church of Jesus is largely sleeping, like a great bedroom and you have all the Christians in bed and they're all sleeping... and they're saying "Please, don't wake me up! I want to sleep on!" And of course when God starts to operate a revival people cannot sleep, you can't sleep in church when the spirit of God awakes the people." This clip to me was essentially a powerful one. Try watching it and ask yourself why are we still sleeping? Why aren't we alive and kicking on God, and remember the chairs message? Why are we still sitting on the comfortable grey chair, God hates lukewarm Christians and will PUKE you out. SO ITS TIME TO GET SITTED ON THE RED CHAIR AND BE ON FIRE FOR JESUS, THE ONE WE CLAIM WE LOVE SO DEARLY!
Okay anyway back to my main experience today, yea as you all know i'm in Boy's Brigade, and there's this even called BB cares, it's a event where by the BB people go to the less fortunate people like orphanages and old folks home to bless the people there, and yeap i was given this great task of planning on how to implant this heart of service into the boys. I was told by an officer i actually have an official one hour with the boys on the 7th of July but i thought i heard it was on the 14th of July, and i OVERSLEPT on the 7th. By the time i came to hear of it, i realised how deep trouble i was in. The short 14 days i had had become even shorter with lesser time to impact the juniors! I was so worried... So worried that i couldn't pray.
Then today's message came, it was about faith. Matthes 6:25-34 if i'm not wrong. It was about living each day not worrying about food or clothings as if our Father in Heaven would feed the animals daily then what say us? He loved us so much to give His one and only Son, how then can He not give us our daily bread? Suddenly i stopped worrying any longer, I just stopped and pray and entrusted the entire BB cares into the hands of the Lord knowing that He will guide me through this! What are you waiting for? Trust the Lord! He's there ALWAYS :) I LOVE GOD, HE ROCKS MY SOCKS! FLAME ON FIREAC! RAWRRRR LIKE NEVER BEFORE!
In the Lord's service,
ah lua
Friday, 6 July 2007
heart, mind and soul
when one is led only by the mind - distracted by endless planning, worrying over trivialities, organization and getting structures into place - one finds that there will always be a scarce amount of energy, and our passion, or the construct of it, is easily depleted and difficult to replenish. perhaps for too long our focus has been on the themes, the frameworks, the spiritual technology, that we may have lost sight of the initial purpose of us being here in FireAC. why, a true timely reminder, that it is high time we searched and prayed to rediscover our hearts.
and in all of us, there is a heart - much like the carebears i am tempted to mention, ahhh to much (unhealthy? no rather..strange) influences - but there is a heart, and one that we need to pray that God will help us to discover and unleash. many a time, it is only when we are fully convicted, and not merely convinced of the cause, that God can really start to move through each and every one of us. on a personal note, tim has had a rather fluctuating passion, ups and downs of the sine curve of emotion, and has struggled to keep the flame alive. tim wonders, if there is indeed that true conviction in his heart, but he prays for it, tries to, though sometimes he might not feel like it.
and we need to seek enlightenment; of our purpose in this school. was FireAC merely the product of a group of people who decided to band together and be (for lack of better word) funny? or was it truly, and sincerely, a group that was called by God to glorify Him through evangelism, through love, through service to the school? Do we really feel empowered by the Holy spirit to do His work? or do we live day by day discouraged and feeling defeated, our efforts and seed-planting all in vain? high time we ask ourselves.
and we need to pray like never before. that God will instill that passion in our hearts. beyond the work, beyond the distractions, we need to look at God and say - that we want Him to be glorified! and definitely, through this, there will be infinite joy, and men will certainly be satisfied in God (:
so seek the fire. seek the heart. seek the conviction once again.
send revival. start with me. (yes that's every one of us)
in God's love,
in His strength
tim
and in all of us, there is a heart - much like the carebears i am tempted to mention, ahhh to much (unhealthy? no rather..strange) influences - but there is a heart, and one that we need to pray that God will help us to discover and unleash. many a time, it is only when we are fully convicted, and not merely convinced of the cause, that God can really start to move through each and every one of us. on a personal note, tim has had a rather fluctuating passion, ups and downs of the sine curve of emotion, and has struggled to keep the flame alive. tim wonders, if there is indeed that true conviction in his heart, but he prays for it, tries to, though sometimes he might not feel like it.
and we need to seek enlightenment; of our purpose in this school. was FireAC merely the product of a group of people who decided to band together and be (for lack of better word) funny? or was it truly, and sincerely, a group that was called by God to glorify Him through evangelism, through love, through service to the school? Do we really feel empowered by the Holy spirit to do His work? or do we live day by day discouraged and feeling defeated, our efforts and seed-planting all in vain? high time we ask ourselves.
and we need to pray like never before. that God will instill that passion in our hearts. beyond the work, beyond the distractions, we need to look at God and say - that we want Him to be glorified! and definitely, through this, there will be infinite joy, and men will certainly be satisfied in God (:
so seek the fire. seek the heart. seek the conviction once again.
send revival. start with me. (yes that's every one of us)
in God's love,
in His strength
tim
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