Choosing 'with' & 'without' ..

in one of the Krismas Kita celebration .. the whole beauty of the event was looking at people coming back to FATHER .. and to see people who so readily and eagerly serve hoping to touched others and bring them back to the path where it leads to our Abba Father .. praise GOD everything was made fantabulously just for HIM that few nights ..

on the same night too .. GOD reminded me about salvation .. HE showed me this during the altar call .. it's an image of the mountains and the plains .. but, this image was divided into two with cracked lines running in the middle of it .. on the left it was black & white and on the right, it's a coloured image ..

this image distinct the life with GOD and the life without GOD .. n the distinction is shown by the cracked line cutting the middle of the picture .. life without GOD has no meaning .. like the salt without its taste n our future is just an unseen path, life is just black & white without GOD ..

GOD want us to come to HIM .. to want HIM .. to enable HIM to paint the colours into our lives from HIS colour palette, to make the unseen path visible - with HIM shining the way and holding our hand to walk this path with HIM .. to bring taste our lives ..

i believed that this is not a message to all new believers but it's also a message for all to remind us who are already believers ... that live this life with GOD .. let HIM be a part of ur daily life .. to let HIM show u what HE has install for you !!

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

John 14:6

out of the strong came something sweet ...

I was reading Judges 13-14 this morning in the bus on the way to school .. it was about Samson .. it was this part that actually struck me .. Samson threw a riddle to the Philistines during the 7 days of his wedding celebration n whoever who solved the riddle will be given 30 fine linen robes and 30 sets of festive clothings .. n if the riddle could not be solved, the Philistines will have to do otherwise ..

Judges 14:5-6
As Samson and his parents were going down to Timnah, a young lion suddenly attacked Samson near the vineyards of Timnah. At that moment the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him, and he ripped the lion's jaws apart with his bare hands.

Judges 14:8-9
Later, when he returned to Timnah for the wedding, he turned off the path to look at the carcass of the lion. And he found that a swarm of bees had made some honey in the carcass. He scooped some of the honey into his hands and ate it along the way.

The riddle (Judges 14:14) derived from his experience :

"Out of the one who eats came something to eat;
out of the strong came something sweet."

Judges14:18
So before sunset of the seventh day, the men of the town came to Samson with their answer:

"What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?"

This has reminded me how GOD has been to us ... GOD ALMIGHTY is indeed one supernatural being with so much strong (which is even stronger than the lion) infinite points in HIM - that's what make us GOD fearing ... but, on the strong side of HIM .. let's be reminded also that our GOD has also HIS soft and gentle side in which in this walk with HIM; we have experienced the sweetest things that HE has done for us and is doing for us and it's even sweeter than honey ..

dwell in HIS sweetness today ...

be more & more like HIM today

all Christians carry an identity in us - an identity that reflect Christ. to imitate HIM does require some effort; start working on it today n persist on it, because it's a matter of getting use to - to change n to influence the lives around you ... you must first adopt this changes to yourself.

start today n adopt qualities that Christ have n be blessed =)

Philippians 2:5-11

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

the unseen paradise ...

gosh, it has been ages since i've been blogging ..

hav u ever wonder about ur life, a life is quite confined to where we r n doing so routine stuff .. kinda like u r in a box kinda feeling, detached from the outside world ... not knowing the that u can have more of life than juz living thru it day by day ?

imagine urself looking through a keyhole n through the keyhole u r looking at the most picturesque sight u have ever imagine – nicest blue skies and purest white clouds, birds flying and the greenest plains that u have ever scene … what peace that will filled u when u r looking at it … this is what we see by looking through a keyhole … the things that we r going to experience is juz a door away n y it’s so hard to grasp wat is beyond this door ?

this is where the disappointment comes ~~

bringing us back to reality … a lot of time in life we felt we r so stuffed and we felt that we r so limited to where we are at n wat we can do .. life have become so routine, work come home, do the norms and then head to bed, then comes the next day, gosh, the same things … is there anymore that juz that ??

lil did we know that we can have more than that … life isn’t juz being contained in a small room looking through a keyhole … but we can experience wat life will be like moving beyond this keyhole .. so much so life beyond tis felt like a normal square box television to a wow, a widescreen plasma tv ~

a lot of us r still searching for this key to open this door and get out of the norm routine life… and a lot of us will be weary and afraid when we opened this door - what will life be like – a lot of things have been planted in us that make us so afraid that wat life will be, we r so confined to where we r and we r so protective of ourselves that we rather sit and wait for things to happen – going where life’s taking us ...

UNCERTAINTY, DANGER, ETC ETC … all these going thru our minds daily that so much so most of us tend to procrastinate or not taking this step at all …

Ever wonder to urself – ‘hey, how come this person’s life is so ‘colourful’ and there’s so much happening in his/her life that we somehow felt that we r missing out on something … something which can drive ur current life to a wider perspective … every life holds a key to open the door and experience wat this living can give us - the key of Life that everyone have dreamed of n this can be found only in our Creator … which is GOD … life have been lifted to another level for me when I became a Christian … I went thru the life – trapped in a box n yearning to have a more than juz what I’m going thru, I want the life beyond this door and not only looking through the keyhole … I found this key .. n the Creator has opened this door for me ~

This life beyond this door is awesome … I still do the norm stuff but now there’s more to it … life is viewed at a completely different perspective … I found the colours and I start to paint my life … life began to have a meaning and a purpose … no one will ever imagine … life falling into the rite places (that’s wat we want rite), meeting the rite ppl, doing wonderful n exciting things, going thru a trauma and waking up from it knowing that ‘ hey, I have learnt and these life most important lessons that and the wonderful thing of all is u know y the lesson is for.’, knowing y things happen in ways u thought never possible and experiencing wonders and miracles that can be so mind blasting – that makes ur heart skipped a beat when u thought of the miracles GOD has brought n still bringing into ur lives …

Who is this GOD ?

ask urself today, what is life for me ? I took the first step from a black n white life to a life with colours and I believed many more colours will be added to my palette in time to come … the Psalm of David in Psalm 23 tells us that GOD is with us wherever and whatever we do and when He provides .. it’ll be in abundance … we have GOD we have no lack … this is HIS promise to us ...

Psalm 23

A psalm of David

¹ The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.

² He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,

³ he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.

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 your staff,
they comfort me.

⁵ You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.

⁶ Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.

AMEN

~ have a blessed day ~

laying my future in HIS hands ...

another year has pass ... another year that i have been living in HIS embrace ~ looking back year 2007 ... it's a awesome year ... despite faced wif many challenges, emotional ups n downs, HIS love has never ceased even a second of my life ~ HE has never left me out of HIS sight ... i confessed that most of the times i'm the one who ventilate myself in this bubble of mine ~ away from God ~ during this time, being in my 'leave me alone' situation, i felt very strongly HIS unfailing love picking me from the shattered pieces of emotions ... n constant reminders that HE's by my side ...

at times i find that i want alot of God n at times i will just shun away from HIM ... it's been much of struggle sometimes to keep things at a constant degree / to be at a balance ... i find myself always gripping n balancing myself wif a balancing pole n not to fall off to the ground ...

i was walking alone in singapore - trying to take a breather from episodes n events from 2007 ... God has spoke to me on n on as i read my bible ... HE's there to clear the questions that has been circling in my head all thruout (my self evaluation time wif GOD) ... i was sitting down in Raffles Place (waiting for my friend for dinner) ~ borrowing the light fr the nearby lamp and began to flip the pages of my bible .. i believed these r the answers to the questions that have resurface on n off looking back at the entire 2007 n this is where i wanna start building myself again from where i left it and from what God wants me to do ... i dun wanna act on my desires anymore .. but for God to act on it ... n for HIS will from HIM to be done thru me ...

I believe year 2008 is gonna be a year that I wanna make changes to myself for God (i wanna experience Him as much as i can in 2008, it may sound crazy for those reading this blog ~ but, i wanna tell u, HE is an awesome GOD, n i believe that it's gonna be a wonderful walk if u walk closely wif HIM - u muz really experience HIM) ... i believe this is the season where i need to take a step out leaving my comfort zone to see more of GOD and to shake myself out to the reality of my walk wif GOD ... i believe that 2008 is a challenging year ... n i'm walking this year 2008 by faith ~ as i do not know wat lies ahead of me ... but, i believe that this will be the walk guided by HIM ... you'll never fall ...

Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.

Psalm 55:22

many things came to my head as i was planning to make all these changes ... it's so difficult to make decisions especially when u have brothers n sisters that cared for you so much ~ but, i guess i hav move out n to prioritise my time so that i can reach out ... the decision of spending less time is considered to be very difficult for me ... God spoke to me ... i felt that HE wants me to reach out to people n HE also allow me to see clearly wat i'm doing now ... being stagnant and comfortably stuck at one place ... a thought that came in very clear was "y r u standing there n looking at these people .. they r sad and lost ... can't you see all these people r all still in darkness...wat r u doing? " the words juz cut me thru n thru ... then God has confirmed all these in Roman 15:14~21 ... i felt HIS heart crying out for these lost souls n it's our duties here on earth to share HIS words and wonders that HE had come thru for us ...

Those who have never been told about him will see,
and those who have never heard of him will understand.

Romans 15:21

For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.

Luke 19:10

so, let us reevaluate ourselves once again for year 2008 ... wat God wants us to do and wat r the plans HE have for us in 2008 ??

The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
1 Corinthians 3:8~9

have a wonderful and fruitful 2008 ~ have a blessed day !!