Monday, December 26, 2005
Season's Greetings: The time of the year
Pessimistic people ain't going to enjoy anything, not to mention Christmas.
So sad.. I walk the streets and gaze the faces and non of the people seem to be happy.
Even if they did look happy to me, it was kinda superficial and fake.
Anyway, this Christmas don't be such a pessimist.
Here's something to blow you away...
A young man enlisted, and was sent to his regiment. The first night he was in the barracks with about fifteen other young men, who passed the time playing cards and gambling. Before retiring, he fell on his knees and prayed, and they began to curse him and jeer at him and throw boots at him.
So it went on the next night and the next, and finally the young man went and told the chaplain what had taken place, and asked what he should do.
"Well," said the chaplain, "you are not at home now, and the other men have just as much right to the barracks as you have. It makes them mad to hear you pray, and the Lord will hear you just as well if you say your prayers in bed and don't provoke them."
For weeks after the chaplain did not see the young man again, but one day he met him, and asked ,
"By the way, did you take my advice?"
"I did, for two or three nights."
"How did it work?"
"Well," said the young man, "I felt like a whipped hound and the third night I got out of bed, knelt down and prayed."
"Well," asked the chaplain, "How did that work?"
The young soldier answered: "We have a prayer meeting there now every night, and three have been converted, and we are praying for the rest."
So what now?
Unless we engage faith like a little child, we will not enter the Kingdom of God.
I respect children because they have the ability to make nothing turn out to be something.
They can create something out of nothing.
Just put few of them together and things happen.
(Man... i'm getting back at the pessimist again!!! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? DON'T TELL ME THEY'LL CREATE A MESS!!!!! WAHHS!!!!)
Alright! I think i'm done complaining. ;)
Stay away from me pessimist!!!!!!!! I will spray you with my baygon! hahhs...
Man.. i'm seriously tired. I better go sleep.
Alright one last gift for you.
God delights to increase the faith of His children...I say, and say it deliberately,trials, difficulties and sometimes defeat, are the very food of faith...We should take them out of His hands as evidences of His love and care for us in developing more and more that faith which He is seeking to strengthen in us. - George Mueller
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWO!!!!!!!!
By George Mueller lehz.. wahhhs
Faith please God!
And yawning may not necessarily mean no faith.
wahhs.
Goodnight and byebye!!!
It's the time of the year man! Relax Chill.
I had all time of a night.
I'm out 3:28 AM
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Friday, December 23, 2005
Mental Faith: Not Positivism
Life has many dimensions. To some extent, it's like a game engineered and powered by this wonderful device also known as the brain.
While i was sitting around sometime yesterday, i guess, this amazing thought came surging through. It was such a domineering thought that i just could not think about anything else.
'It's one of those times on one of those days' thingy.
It was not long after i finished my book review SO it was inevitable to not have those little drips and draps of my reflections still hanging around. It's weird and complicated, but that thought i had just linked everything i read on mental faith together.
"If in all our creativity, we can see and imagine in many many creative ways how what we pray for will come to past, then God who has thoughts that are higher will be far able to give us what we have faith for!"
Our mind is super creative. I can't tell you how creative it is man.
It's always buzzing with the potential to create. And most important, the amazing thing it that the mind creates at will. At your will, your mind creates!
Have you lied on your bed at night, after a game of soccer with your friends like many hours before in the afternoon and then start to see from a first person view that you're dribbling the ball and doing all sorts of tricks? And this time, you're playing alongside the Brazilian national team. Then later, still from a first person view, you see yourself looking at the fans and they are all chanting your name. Then all of a sudden, still from a first person view, you see Ronaldo shouting at you in BRAZILIAN, and you actually understand what he's saying and you stop gazing at the fans and focus on the game. Then before you can bring your focus back, Ronaldinho, another great player pass you the ball and you miss timed it and lost the ball. Now, still from the first person view, you see Ronaldinho laughing at you because you looked really funny when you were day-dreaming.
The opposition gets a goal kick and you run back to defend. Still from a first person view, you look at your coach and you see him shouting at your in BRAZILIAN, to focus!!!!!
Then have you lied on your bed at night and then think about your future? From a first person view, you see your kids running to you. From a first person view you see your beautiful spouse?
Many of us may not have these in reality but in another dimension, we have it.
So if we are able to have it in another dimension, surely in this dimension; the material world, we will be able to have it.
Then i also thought, "Everything exists for a purpose"
QUESTIONS EXIST TO BE ANSWERED.
So similiarly,
My imaginations will be 'answered'.
If there is a purpose to my imaginations then surely there is a consequence!
Nothing is an accident here on earth.
So that means,
if i can imagine, then there must be a God that can make it happen.
After all, Peter could thought of walking on water.
He did.
So what more?
I'm out 12:13 AM
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Sunday, December 18, 2005
Love: The Greatest
Alright!
I stumbled upon a thought.
All things are possible with God
God is Love
Wouldn't it make:
All things are possible with Love?
I'm out 2:57 AM
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Monday, December 12, 2005
Situation Ethics
Putting an end to marvelous goodies is certainly not what many of us want to do.
Today, several, actually many of us, stayed behind after the weekend services.
For the first time, at 9pm plus plus, there was people hanging around in church.
Hahhs! Can't blame it. It's festive season man.
The musicians met up with Pastor Lia and 41st Day for a worship cum observe session.
Personally, that session approx 6 hrs ago was the first first session of that kind of nature i had with 41st day!
I tell you, i'm feeling superbly estatic now.
I mean it is and was 41st day!
The pioneers of the church....
At first i thought it would just be 'THAT' kind of meeting.
Like... really 'THAT' kind.
Like just going in, observe and get your brain working, receive what you need to and tata... go home.
Little did i know that it would turn out to be a powerful encounter.
I can't say more folks. I guess you've to experience and taste it yourself.
It's true; the promised land is indeed filled with flowing milk and honey.
Now, i wonder... We people always enter and approach everything in our lives with such a sadistic attitude.
It's always going to be just another thing.
Well, i like what Pastor Derek does.
He gets the congregation to pray before every meeting and tell them to RAISE THEIR EXPECTATION.
Hmmm, that is VITAL.
If not everything will turn out to be FATAL. Wahhs!
The session ended at 11 plus.
I rushed to mark my attendance in hope that we would have time to enjoy the sundae from Macs but then i took freaking-ly long. So goodbye to sundae.
Then me, Sean and Jackson bid farewell to all our folks in the house and left.
We reached Dhoby Ghaut MRT and a phenomenon took place.
We looked at that little sign thingy and it showed 5 mins Jurong East.
In case you don't know what i'm talking about, it's the train schedule.
So at that instance, we searched our hearts and we couldn't deny that we don't want to go home.
But then, you know, we were in this limbo. We could not decide.
Our good good nature says,"go home. Be good."
Our bad bad nature says,"come on! holidays... enjoy"
So tada! 2 mins down and the train will arrive in 3.
Looking at 3... We purposely slow down so that we would miss the train instead of really deciding not to go home.
We were brilliant man. I mean... look...
You can't decide, the clock is ticking...
We allowed it to tick! hahhs. And we got our final decision.
Even if we want to go home. It was not possible. We missed the last train.
We knew we couldn't take cab AGAIN.
So... wahhhs.... we headed to MACs.
Ate and went back to church.
NOW, I'M STILL STILL SO NOT ASLEEP.
whahhs.
Wahhs... So sinful right??? hahhshshshshhshshs
But i love church what!!! Cannot blame me
I'm out 3:48 AM
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
Archaeologist Find Proof Of Goliath's Existence
A small ceramic shard unearthed by Israeli archaeologists mentions two names that are remarkably similar to the name Goliath.
The shard contains the earliest known Philistine inscription ever to be discovered. The shard was found by archaeologists from the Bar-Ilan University at Tell es-Safi, which is the biblical city of Gath. This find is of particular importance since the Bible attributes Gath as the home town of Goliath. Tell es-Safi is located approximately halfway between Ashkelon and Jerusalem.
This archaeological find may also be seen as the first clear extra-biblical evidence that the well-known biblical story of the battle between David and Goliath, and in addition, the very existence of a figure such as Goliath during the biblical period, may be more than just a legend, Professor Aren Maeir said. Maeir has been directing the excavations since they began in 1996.
Other recent findings uncovered at the excavations at Tell es-Safi include a large assortment of objects of various types which are linked to Philistine culture. Additional remains relating to the siege system constructed by Hazael, King of Aram Damascus around 800 BC, were revealed, along with extensive evidence of the subsequent capture and destruction of the city by Hazael, as mentioned in Second Kings 12:18. Remains of the Crusader period fortress, Blanche Garde, built after the first Crusade in the mid-twelfth century AD, were also discovered.
"It can be suggested that in 10th-9th century Philistine Gath, names quite similar, and possibly identical, to Goliath were in use," said Professor Maeir. "This chronological context from which the inscription was found is only about 100 years after the time of David according to the standard biblical chronology. Thus, this appears to provide evidence that the biblical story of Goliath is, in fact, based on a clear cultural realia from, more or less, the time which is depicted in the biblical text, and recent attempts to claim that Goliath can only be understood in the context of later phases of the Iron Age are unwarranted."
I'm out 10:24 PM
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