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Wednesday, February 02, 2005
God's grace is His power at work
IN AND AROUND YOU
to keep you until you change,
to bring you to the threshold
of change and to change you.
Do not be carried about by different and varied
and alien teachings; for it is good for the heart
to be established and ennobled and strengthened
by means of grace (God's favor and spiritual blessing).
HEBREWS 13:9
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EVERYTHING THAT COMES to you through your Lord Jesus, any blessing related to your salvation, is a gift of God's grace. You are never asked to pay for any portion of your forgiveness, justification, sanctification, or eternal life.God freely gives His grace. There are no "if " conditions written in front of it. And His grace extends to His power that is at work in your life today—power that is changing you, conforming you to the image of Jesus.
Remember that in freely giving you His grace God gives you Himself.He adopts you as His child and becomes your Father.He pardons your sin and gives you His righteousness. He gives you His love, His wisdom, and His power. He answers your prayers and comforts you in your sorrows. He gives you the Holy Spirit who dwells in you and empowers you to change. Receive them freely and without measure for these are all given without price.
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Posted at 03:57 pm by Flubber
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
FInding contentment in life II
In joyce meyer's four part series of finding contentment and satisfaction in life, she speaks about the four stages of growth in our lives
"To everything, there is a season. A different season for a different area at the same time."
1) ploughing
2) Seeding and planting
3) waiting and weeding
4) harvesting and pruning
Ploughing is the preparation in our lives. It digs up the hardened soil, the bugs, the worms, the rocks in our lives. This, in order for us to reach to a new level of obedience.
The things in the ploughing stage needs to be gotten rid of becoz nothing is change because things are left dormant. attitudes arent change becoz sometimes we make excuses for it which does not allow us to deal with it. and God has to intervene to dig up and turn things over.
Ploughing gives hope. as in ploughing, we think about the harvest.
For more of the above, hear it one her website...... =)
Posted at 11:31 pm by Flubber
Monday, January 31, 2005
"Seek and Find that the Lord is Good"
I have been visiting these two websites its great! do check it out! Its "food" for your soul!!
Posted at 10:14 pm by Flubber
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
i have been resting alot at home this week. let me share my sickly week
sunday: bad cramps..no medicine so had to lay in bed and pray the pain will go away
Monday: felt a little feverish, numbness in throat, however still managed to catch a movie..heh dun ask me y.. feel kinda of bad for turning me fren down i guess... neway the movie suck hahah
Tues: had to study for test on wed but rested in bed for the whole day coz my temperature kept fluctuating..was determined not to see the doc as i am positive is due to my menses
wed:i woke up with my left eye having lots of white/yellow pus ,yet i have to stay in sch til 9 for meeting and i have to do my dance assignment tml!! pray my eye will recover....
tml will be a better and brighter day..
"by his stripes i will be healed!!!!!"
Posted at 07:23 pm by Flubber
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Ok.. i m lazy... yesh too lazy to blog..haha.. but besides that reason i choose instead to spent more time talking to God then "talking" to blog..(it RHYMES!! God-Blog hmm...) so anyway, ya.. i will blog soon.. but before i go.. i wanna proclaim that GOD is FAITHFUL!!! its exciting to see life unfolding before you!
Posted at 10:09 pm by Flubber
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Disciplining your thought life
2 truths for today
1) Doubt is a choice
2) Unbelief is disobedience
Don't reason in the mind, just obey the spirit, trust god and not human reason
Hebrew 4:11
"Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter the rest, that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience."
Posted at 01:20 pm by Flubber
Sunday, December 12, 2004
This life you gave, I live for you
Lord, all my days are beauty filled
This road I walk is paved with gold,
each step I take, my dreams unfold
And lord if I should stumble
your hand won't let me fall
Lord, I take delight in you
Lord, I know your love will see me through
You'll always be there by my side
You take me up on wings so high
Lord you've shown the light of a new day
In your son you chased my fears away
In your love I'll stay forevermore
And I'm so grateful lord
-How loved, worship experience-
Posted at 07:53 pm by Flubber
In the Garden of Gethsame
The book "A woman's walk with God, growing in the fruits of the spirit" by elizabeth george is indeed a good book to invest it.
As i did my Qt today.. a sudden excruciating pain and tug in my heart came upon me and in my mind, i pictured a man knelt on the ground, crying out desperately to the Father. That dread, fear and confusion i am reminded of in my own circumstance, was not even a fraction, not even worthy compared to HIM who struggled in the garden of gethsame for 3 whole hours. I am convinced that truly it is more difficult to overcome a struggle when tempted than to give in to temptation as what pastor has mentioned yesterday. Jesus, exemplified to me the need to attain the peace, love and joy of the Father before carrying out the purpose the Father had for him. I knew that right there and then, i am assured that the lord knows what I am going through.. i don't know how else i can say it...i admit that i still struggle..but yet i am truly grateful.. so grateful...
Posted at 07:15 pm by Flubber
Growing in the fruits of the spirit
I am suppose to continue on the previous book but i am so refreshed by this new book i'm reading that i realised that each new book i read seem to be in continuation with one another. As for this new book, it covers a bigger picture to the issues covered in the previous book. Amazingly, each book i read really has an appropriate timing to it.. so relevant , so true.. simply refreshing. I believe the lord is indeed speaking!!
Have you ever wondered why the fruits of the spirit : love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, mentioned in the bible is in this order??
the first 3 fruits speaks about the attitude of the fruits of the spirit, without love, joy and peace of the lord, it is impossible to developed the next 3 fruits that reflects the actions of the fruits of the spirit. And the last 3 fruits are the application of the fruits of the spirit.
Having read the fruit of faithfulness.. i am reminded of what it really means to be faithful.
3 insights of faithfulness
1) The God of faithfulness
"The truth of God faithfulness should bring us comfort. when we pause to ponder God's faithfulness, strenth is infused to our sore souls and we find courage to stand on Him, the rock."
2) The core of faithfulness
"Faithfulness is defined as loyalty, trustworthiness or steadfastness. it is characteristic of the person who is reliable, and it applies to christian behavior in respect to people as well as toward God. "
3) The marks of faithfulness
4) The essence of faithfulness
"Faithfulness means doing it.. no matter what, doing it regardless of feelings, moods or desires-if the lord wills"
The struggles to be faithful:
1) tiredness
2) laziness
3) hopelessness
4) procrastination
5) rationalization
6) apathy
7) rebellion
Need i explain more??? truly i need the grace of God even more..
Posted at 06:51 pm by Flubber
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Lies women believe..about emotions
Reading this book.."Lies women believe and the truth that set them free"
When i first found this book in my sister's room.. i really wondered why women? What u think women are stupid!! do we need a book to tell us we've been decieved!!!..but... realised the author was too a woman..and that kinda of made me even more curious to what she has to say...
Back to basics.. women listen up! It all begins in the setting of Eden and a woman called eve (alright alright we totally blame her for the thing we called PMS and child bearing pains but well let's give her break.. imagine the guilt and the blame she has to endure!! unwanted legacy.poor lady.....)
Interestingly..as i read i really realised why women are women...what "difficult" creatures we are and yet God redeemed us women by using women to bear the son of God. How gracious is our Father..thank God i din live in the era before jesus was born..haha..
Now i am born a girl and no doubt God create emotions and fortunately or unfortunately we women happen to be more emotional than man.. I confess sometimes being a "women" became my passport to the very reasons of my actions.. as i read the following..i recognised boy, was i living a lie..though i knew somewhere in my heart that i shouldn't have followed my emotions.. but the tendency for me to feel that it is "right" to feel a certain way was only natural and impossible for me not to..
ask urself if u ever fall prey to any of these lies.. and let the truth set u free.. it certainly has for me..a victim of almost every of the following emotions...I admit i am quite a "Queen of emotions"..
The LIE
1) If i feel somethings, it must be true.
The Truth
- my feelings cannot always be trusted. They often have little to do with reality and can easily decieved me into believing things that are not true
- I must choose to reject any feelings that are not consistent with the truth
haha..i admit to that totally! Put it in a nicer way this would be deemed as "wisdom".. or sometimes disguised as what we women call it the "six sense" ..
The Lie
2) I can't control my emotions
The Truth
- I do not have to be controlled by my emotions
- I can choose to fix my mind on the Truth, to take every though captive to the Truth, and to let God control my emotions
The Lie
3) I can't help how i respond when my hormones are out of whack
The Truth
- By God's grace, i can choose to obey him regardless of how i feel
- there is no excuse for ungodly behaviour, response and attitudes
- My physical and emotional cycles and seasons are under the control of the One who made me, cares for me and has made provision for each stage of my life
Alright..guilty as charged... PMS..blame it all on PMS.. sigh.. told ya.. its a "women" thing
The Lie
4) The answer to depression must first be sought in medication and/or psychotherapy
The Truth
- Physical and emotional symptoms of depression may be the fruit of issues in the spirit that need to be addressed
- if my depression did not originate as a physical problem, medication will not permanently relieve my depression
- i do not have a "right" to "feel good". regardless of how i feel, i can choose to give thanks, to obey God and to reach out to others
- God has given us powerful resources-His grace, His spirit, His word, His promise, the body of christ -to minister to our emotional needs
Especially the first point on the fruits of the issue.. it is important to find the root cause of feeling depressed...such as ingratitude, unresolved conflict, irresponsibility,guilt, bitterness,unforgiveness, un-belief, claiming of rights, anger and self-centredness.
Now, now.. i really never knew i have such a book lying around in my house.. i wished i had i read this book earlier but then again i am convinced i would have been uninterested then... having read so many books over the past few weeks really made me realised that 1) it is worth investing in such books 2) the quality of my QT in the past was probably a grade C 3) attitude in seeking the lord accounts for how much i learn
I shall continue part 2 ..in my next entry.. *sleepy*
Posted at 12:14 am by Flubber
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"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wing like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, and they will walk and not be faint."
Isaiah 40:29-31
In the midst of running the race, my struggles and joy is very much apparent here. As you read, may you pray with me as well as may it bring a blessing to all.
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