The Journey
I believe that the need of the hour is an army of soldiers dedicated to Jesus Christ who believe not only that he is God but that he can fulfill every promise that he has ever made and that there isn't anything too hard for him - Dawson Trotman
Monday, March 22, 2010
So, God Created Human Beings...
Sunday, December 20, 2009
I'm Home
Before I left I could see it in your eyes
The sorrow the pain
When I said, “Let me go, let me go”
Look the riches is waiting for me
The glory the power the love
Just hearing is not enough
Let me see Let me enjoy it
And yes here I am
Having all that I’ve wanted
Lust became my lord and pride became my god
But little did I know
The alternatives that have robbed my soul
The substitutes that have killed my mind
From my ecstasy who can rescue me?
When I came to my senses I thought of you
Would you let me come back I don’t want to die
Make me all you want me to be because I’m sorry
So I made my way home and there’s no turning back
But while I was still a long way off
I saw you’ve been waiting for me
You ran and couldn’t wait to embrace me
How can I fathom your love
That I can be called your child
I was dead and is alive again
I was lost and am found
I was a stranger and now you’re my Father
Monday, October 12, 2009
God our Creator
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Saturday, August 01, 2009
A little reflection on China's "One Child Policy"
It's clear that abortion a sin because once a sperm and ovum is united a new being exists and that would be MURDER in God's eyes. No compromise.
But what happened was some of them, even pastors, free-willingly aborted their baby once they got pregnant unintentionally. Then they gave excuses saying that they had no other options, that there's no way out because of the overpopulated China and that they think abortion is not wrong because fetus is not life.
The Bible says that:
"As you do not know what is the way of the wind, Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, So you do not know the works of God who makes everything. " (Ecclesiastes 11:5)
I think these Chinese should really be educated. If they agree on one child policy, OK. Fine. So, instead of killing their babies or abandon baby girls or making fetus into fetus soup to be consumed by their men who want to increase their sex vigor (allegedly so), they should be educated and learn that God made the birth cycle in a woman in such a way where she can only become pregnant when she ovulates. God therefore gives us an example of birth control (she can only be pregnant at certain times of the month). Well this is just an example. But I pray that Christians in China would seek God more when they think that there is no way out.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Haha...
Chinaman : 你会说中文吗?(Do you know how to speak Chinese?)
Me : 我不会 (I don't know)
Chinaman : ....
Friday, June 05, 2009
Getting rid of pest
The other one said, "Well, I've been having problem with cockroaches and lizards in my church. They are driving me crazy. I've also tried everything; Ridsect, roach baits...but they don't kill them all."
The third one said, "I once had problems with mice, cockroaches, lizards and termites in my church too. But I baptized all of them and made them members of the church. Since then, not one came back!"
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Little Kevin
In all the B.M. spellings I gave him, he would write :
1. hfrjikh
2. fhieoid
3. fflmnn
4. trmbgf
5. fllgdmc
He can't sit still, he is a restless child who would go around disturbing his classmates and speaks unintelligibly. Most of his classmates would bully, tease, beat and despise him because of his weakness. I could see him feeling helpless and hopeless, but I've never seen him cried. Many times, I would try my best to protect and comfort Kevin whenever he was bullied and teased. But of course, I would still punish him whenever he's naughty.
I kept encouraging him to study for his spellings, at least. He would nod his head but showed no confident.
One day, I was touched by this little boy as he gave me a sheet of stickers to express his appreciation. Despite his disabilities, I believe God can do amazing things in him, because God can use anything, no matter what circumstances or condition, and he does everything for His glory!
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Why?
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Why did it have to be a friend
Who chose to betray the Lord?
Why did he use a kiss to show them?
That's not what a kiss is for.
Only a friend can betray a friend,
A stranger has nothing to gain.
And only a friend comes close enough
To ever cause so much pain.
And why did there have to be
a thorny Crown pressed upon His head?
It should have been a royal one
Made of jewels and gold instead.
It had to be a crown of thorns
Because in this life that we live
For all who would seek to love,
A thorn is all the world has to give.
And why did there have to be
A heavy cross He was made to bear?
And why did they nail His feet and hands?
When his love would have held Him there.
It was a cross for on a cross
A thief was supposed to pay.
And Jesus had come into the world
To steal every heart away.
Yes, Jesus had come into the world
To steal every heart away.
by Michael Card
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Go and Tell
A suffering man being someone he was not
He was living in the darkness
Struggling within his mind
The people had to bind him with chains
Though he could tear the chains apart
He could not break the chains bound by the enemy
Day and night among the tombs and in the hills
He would cry out and cut himself with stones
In agony there was simply no way for freedom
From a distance he saw Jesus
He ran and knelt in front of the Lord
For he knew he could come to Him
Just as he was he came to the Saviour
The living God the source of hope
Now free at last his mind restored
He wanted to follow the Lord who heals
But Jesus told him to tell and share
How much the Lord had done for him
How much the Lord had done for him
The Bible- Mark 5:1-20
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Refuge
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [a]
2 I will say [b] of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust."
3 Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 If you make the Most High your dwelling—
even the LORD, who is my refuge-
10 then no harm will befall you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread upon the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 "Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call upon me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him
and show him my salvation."
Source: www.biblegateway.com
Joblessness, sickness, financial crises, broken relationship...Everything just does not seem right. Peace, prosperity, stability and what not are the things everybody wants. But somehow there will be some points in life that lead to darkness, crises, brokenness. It's like inevitable.
Often on the streets, I see some people wandering on the streets, hair grew untrimmed, dirty and babbling away in their insanity. I asked, "Why?"
But God has again and again revealed Himself as the source of hope and help. He is our shelter and refuge in the storms. All these while many with sickness, joblessness, broken relationship and other odd problems have come to the ministry. I think God wants us to know that He is using a hopeless situation or difficulty to draw people's attention to Him and seek Him. The amazing thing is, God never failed. I see God using His servants to pray for the sick, and they are healed. Some were jobless, one of them even to the point of not able to buy a meal. God's servants prayed and seeked Him, and now our sister's life is going to change because she's going to work next month! Just as it is written in the above Psalm 91:4 "He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart." God manifested His love and power through His servants who continually pray for many. This is how God reveals Himself.
I just want to thank God for allowing some difficulties and circumstances in order to grab our attention. He wants to teach us to humble ourselves because He knows that we often forget and ignore Him whenever life is comfortable. He often give us warning signs whenever we think that everything will be under control by our human strength, ability and knowledge. If we think everything that we have comes from our own effort, strength, ability and knowledge, I think God would want to remind us that health, opportunity and wisdom come from Him and none other. Everything we have are given by God. He just wants us to know Him, seek Him and come to Him just as we are, because he desires an intimate relationship from us and wants us to worship Him only, just like a father who desires his children just to spend some time to sit with him and chat about anything.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Harry Potter: What Does God Have To Say?
Pastor David J. Meyer
I am writing this urgent message because I was once a witch. I lived by the stars as an astrologer and numerologist casting horoscopes and spells. I lived in the mysterious and shadowy realm of the occult.
By means of spells and magic, I was able to invoke the powers of the 'controlling unknown' and fly upon the night winds transcending the astral plane. Halloween was my favorite time of the year and I was intrigued and absorbed in the realm of Wiccan witchcraft. All of this was happening in the decade of the 1960's when witchcraft was just starting to come out of the broom closet.
It was during that decade of the 1960's, in the year 1966 that a woman named J.K. Rowling was born. This is the woman who has captivated the world in this year of 2000 with four books known as the 'Harry Potter Series.' These books are orientation and instructional manuals of witchcraft woven into the format of entertainment. These four books by J.K. Rowling teach witchcraft! I know this because I was once very much a part of that world.
Witchcraft was very different in the 1960's. There were a lot fewer witches, and the craft was far more secretive. At the end of that spiritually troubled decade, I was miraculously saved by the power of Jesus Christ and His saving blood. I was also delivered from every evil spirit that lived in me and was set free. However, as I began to attend fundamental Christian churches, I realized that even there witchcraft had left its mark. Pagan holidays and sabats were celebrated as 'Christian holidays.'
As time went on, I watched the so-called 'Christian' churches compromising and unifying. I also watched with amazement as teachings from Eastern religions and 'New Age' doctrine began to captivate congregations. It was a satanic set-up, and I saw it coming. Illuministic conspirators were bringing forth a one-world religion with a cleverly concealed element of occultism interwoven in its teachings.
In order to succeed in bringing witchcraft to the world and thus complete satanic control, an entire generation would have to be induced and taught to think like witches, talk like witches, dress like witches, and act like witches. The occult songs of the 1960's launched the Luciferian project of capturing the minds of an entire generation. In the song 'Sound Of Silence' by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, we were told of seeds that were left while an entire generation was sleeping, and that the 'vision that was planted in my brain still remains.'
Now it is the year 2000. All of the foundations for occultism and witchcraft are in place. The Illuminists have to move quickly, because time is running out.
It was the Communist revolutionary Lenin who said, 'Give me one generation of youth, and I will transform the entire world.' Now an entire generation of youth has been given to a woman named J.K. Rowling and her four books on witchcraft, known as the Harry Potter Series.
As a former witch, I can speak with authority when I say that I have examined the works of Rowling and that the Harry Potter books are training manuals for the occult. Untold millions of young people are being taught to think, speak, dress and act like witches by filling their heads with the contents of these books. Children are obsessed with the Harry Potter books that they have left television and video games to read these witchcraft manuals.
The first book of the series, entitled 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone', finds the orphan, Harry Potter, embarking into a new realm when he is taken to 'Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.' At this occult school, Harry Potter learns how to obtain and use witchcraft equipment. Harry also learns a new vocabulary, including words such as 'Azkaban', 'Circe', 'Draco ', 'Erised', 'Hermes', and 'Slytherin'; all of which are names of real devils or demons. These are not characters of fiction!
How serious is this? By reading these materials, many millions of young people are learning how to work with demon spirits. They are getting to know them by name. Vast numbers of children professing to be Christians are also filling their hearts and minds, while willingly ignorant parents look the other way.
The titles of the books should be warning enough to make us realize how satanic and anti-Christ these books are. The afore-mentioned title of the first book, 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone', was a real give away. The second book was called 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', while the third book was entitled 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.'
Sadly enough, this blatant witchcraft has been endorsed by well-known and respected 'Christian' leaders, such as Dr. James Dobson and Chuck Colson, who have proven themselves to be modern day Judas Iscariots. Nothing could be more obvious than that Harry Potter books are pure witchcraft and of the devil. The 'Christian' leaders, however, defend them by saying that good magic always wins and overcomes evil magic.
This is the oldest con game ever hatched out of hell. As a real witch, I learned about the two sides of 'the force.' Apparently, so do many 'Christian' leaders. When real witches have sabats and esbats and meet as a coven, they greet each other by saying 'Blessed be', and when they part, they say 'The Force be with you.' Both sides of this 'Force' are Satan. It is not a good side of the force that overcomes the bad side of the force, but rather it's the blood of Jesus Christ that destroys both supposed sides of the satanic 'Force.'
High level witches believe that there are seven satanic princes and that the seventh, which is assigned to Christians, has no name. In coven meetings, he is called 'the nameless one.' In the Harry Potter books, there is a character called 'Voldemort.' The pronunciation guide says of this being 'He who must not be named.'
On July 8 at midnight, bookstores everywhere were stormed by millions of children to obtain the latest and fourth book of the series known as 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.' These books were taken into homes everywhere with a real evil spirit following each copy to curse those homes.
July 8th was also the 18th day (three sixes in numerology) from the witches' sabat of midsummer. July 8th was also the 13th day from the signing of the United Religions Charter in San Francisco . Now we have learned that the public school system is planning to use the magic of Harry Potter in the classrooms making the public schools centers of witchcraft training.
What does God have to say about such books as the Harry Potter series? In the Bible in the book of Acts, we read the following in the 19th chapter, verses 18 - 20: 'And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the Word of God and prevailed.'
As parents, we will answer to God if we allow our children to read witchcraft books. The Word of God will prevail mightily in your life only if such things of Satan are destroyed. This tract has been prayed over, and I hope it has helped you. If we may be of further assistance, please contact us.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
For God So Loved The World...(Part 3)
This is the solution!
Because God is holy, sin has SEPARATED us (humans) with God. We live in a world of relationships. There's a relationship between God and humans too. Simple. Think of the relationship between a child and his parents. It was great in the years of his childhood. Obedient, happy, loved parents and parents loved him. But, all sorts of bad influence came to him during his adolescence. As you could have guessed, he started to become disobedient, had bad company, fought with parents and finally left home. Broken relationship. Broken hearts. Can you imagine how the parents felt? Relationship is something very real, very true. The description was talking about disobedient (sin), broken relationship and finally,- separation. It applies to all kinds of relationships and when we talk about the relationship between human and God, it's the same story (see Genesis 3). So in a nutshell of Genesis 3, God made Adam and Eve, happily at first (because they were in the dwelling of God), then the serpent (devil) came to deceive, they chose to disobey (because God created men in such that they have FREEWILL instead of being a 'robot'), that led to the terrible consequence of SEPARATION.
You see, humans have choices. We can choose to do or to have whatever we want, making decisions. But, there must be consequence(s) and we have to bear it ourselves, whether good or bad.
We can do nothing about redeeming ourselves by doing charity, meditation, donating blood and so on in order to 'cover' our sins. Sin is sin. And there's no way to keep it from coming to us by ourselves. Bear in mind that the consequence of sin is going to a very hot, fiery, horrible and definitely unfriendly place called the Hell. Hey, I didn't 'create' this term myself. It's in the bible (see Revelation 20:11-15). I want to make the point here by an illustration, a common situation. Let's say a man who was once righteous and good but evidence has shown that he committed a murder against his wife's boyfriend. He went up to the judge and said, "I was a good man. I gave so much to the charity and contributed to the country. What I did was out of anger." Do you think the judge would release the man because of the 'good' things he had done in the past? So, my point is God is holy and righteous. Everything we do has consequence(s). The consequence of sin is death and hell.
But God is God. So, if God is God, there's nothing too difficult for him or anything that he cannot do. And whatever he does, it is done because he loves us so much, SO MUCH that no one can ever describe.
So, more than 2,000 years ago, he came out with this idea that since we could not redeem ourselves from sin, he would come to redeem us HIMSELF. OK, I cannot die for your sin because I myself have problems (sinful). You also cannot die for my sin because you have the same problems as I. So, the only way was that God, being the righteous and holy, die for our sins. Yes, the whole idea is "God died for our sins". Wait, I haven't finished with the story yet. The man (murderer), sure was going to get his penalty according to the law. He was surely going to die. But, lo and behold! The judge was the man's father! Finally, the judge stood up and said, "Yes, surely he's going to get his death penalty. But, I'm going to bear the penalty for him." Do you know what it means? It means that the judge (father) was to die for his son (murderer). Again, I want to stress that there's nothing impossible with God because he is God.
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us."
When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus. - Matthew 1: 18-25
Jesus' birth was a no ordinary birth because he was conceived of a VIRGIN and was from the Holy Spirit (God). This means that, God who was eternal and so BIG, humbled himself to become a foetus and eventually a baby human. This means that the Lord Almighty came to the earth to live a life of an ordinary man but SINLESS because he was God, in order that he could sacrifice his life and died on the CROSS, so that the blood that he shed would wash away our sins. This is redemption. But that was not the end of it. On the third day after Jesus died, he rose again (he was resurrected-see Matthew 28:1-10). In this way, sinful men who were supposed to die and be thrown into hell eternally will live an eternal life in heaven with him IF we believe in Jesus Christ, to restore the relationship with God, even when we are dead physically (our soul and spirit is saved). Because of the restored relationship, God could do amazing things in our lives beyond what we could imagine and comprehend.
Romans 5:6-11 says:
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Romans 10:9 says:
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. - John 14:6
This is the GRACE of God. Grace is something given to us free eventhough we did not deserve it. Take a look at this situation. An Indonesian maid was alone at home doing her household chores as usual. She was wiping the master's antique vase when suddenly she got loose of it and the 500,000 dollars vase fell onto the floor and was broken into pieces. Terrified, all she could do was to stare helplessly at the shattered pieces of clay for a moment. She thought to herself, "That's it. Not even my whole life of work will I be able to pay."
The master came back. Still trembling, the maid told him what happened and apologized. She could feel her heart leaping with joy and was overwhelmed with great relief when her master told her that she was forgiven and that she didn't need to compensate.
So, in other words, grace is like a free gift. But in fact it is something more than a free gift, of course. We might have received many free gifts from dealings but which one of them was without any condition? For instance, there were times when I drove recklessly and nearly killed myself and others in just a split of a second, but somehow I escaped any tragedy. So, this is grace, because I was supposed to die for being reckless. But now, I'm sitting in front of this machine composing about God's salvation which I hope through this, God would touch your heart and let you know that he loves you too, so much.
God knew that we are all sinners. He knew that there's no way we could go except to hell. We did not deserve eternal life because we were against him in the first place. But, he loves us so much that he gave himself as a sacrifice in order for us to have life.
If you asked me, "How could it be so simple and easy that by just believing in him, we could have eternal life in heaven?"
Well. Just believe. Because the redemption had been done. Say it simple and easy as you want but I would always remind myself that such grace had cost him his life.
So, by FAITH we are saved. Faith is something that we cannot see but we believe and know it is there. It is just like a friend gave me a present, a small box wrapped nicely with colourful wrapping paper. It was not my birthday or Christmas. So, I would consider the present as grace because I didn't deserve it. Apparently, I didn't know what was inside the box, but I believed that it was something sweet and nice. So, I would consider my belief as "by faith". But that's not the end of it. In order for me to receive the present, I had to open my heart and be WILLING to accept the gift. Well, you know some people would go, "Aiyah...no need lah, don't want lah." Finally, I had to stretch out my hand to receive it and say "Thank you."
Do you want to believe in Jesus today and accept him as your personal Lord and Saviour? If you're willing, simply say this prayer:
"Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen."
You can always talk to God anytime, anywhere in your own language through prayer because he is a God who listens and answers.
If you've said the prayer above, Congratulations! You are now a Christian.
I'm more than willing to hear from you and to get to know you. You can e-mail me at chewphuiyee@gmail.com