Today's Scripture Reading

[wrcboi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od2aRld-jvo&feature=related

 

[Psalm23]

Brother sam_sung-in-Christ,

I have received very wise advice from IR123: We have better things to do than to engage with all kinds of meangingless arguments. Our God is real; Jesus is real. The only Person with the authority to convict our conviction is the Holy Spirit. No amount of argument or debate can convict a person to come to this knowledge. Salvation is the work of the Holy Spirit, not by meangingless argument. End of story.

Let's spend more of our time reading and sharing His Word with fellow Christians. If there are genuine questions on our doctrine, we should check and reply and if we are wrong, we need to pray for God's forgiveness and to pray to God to correct our understanding to ensure our belief is doctrinally sound.

Brother IR123 has contributed several valuable messages in this thread and I am really blessed by his messages. You might want to go and read them.

Thanks to IR123 wisdom. Sadly, I should have known this myself earlier.

God Bless.
Psalm23

 

[Psalm23]

World's Greatest Miracle Book - The Bible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV0hUldrYp4&feature=related​

May God Bless You The Watching Of This Video​

 

[tanwahtiu]

....... just so happened that the west embraced christianity and it changed their civilization forever. most of the civil laws are from the bible. don't you find that western standards for humanitarian equality fare better than the east?...............

I guess you know very little of the East. The Chinese had 5,000 years of civilisation before the West. Kingdoms raise and fall and with it came new laws and orders from each ruler. One of the Chinese rulers produced Chinese Words and it has been used till now. Confucius and many talent scholars wrote book of life, more quotes than in OT or NT, and laws for the people to follow.

.... if not for the western influence in our society, i'd probably be working on saturday and sundays like some maids here are subjected too. it has nothing to do with me being chinese right? it applies to all mankind....

The maids that worked for Singaporeans are under abuse and the digusting PAP (not a government) just keep quiet about it. Not working on Sat or Sunday is the East adopting the West business system of conducting businesess with the West. Only they, the West, refused to work on these 2 days citing their Gods' law, which in actual fact just plain lazy and want more for less.
The East still works 7 days a week. Only lately the West begins to work on Sat and Sun when they find their Godly messages from the Bible contained many (more 2,000) lies and deceptions and find making money on Sat and Sat make senses. When you have to pay rent in weekly (7 days) and work only 5 days only how to cover costs and increase profits in these days of high rental and property prices.

......... without the Bible or OT Law.. we'd be lawless. how can there be peace and prosperity when there is lawlessness? ............

Bible and OT law is not about the common laws, traffic laws, criminal or business laws. It showed you don't undertand much about the 'law' in the Bible? Go ask your pastor what the law in the Bible means.

http://biblebabble.curbjaw.com/laws.htm Here is something from the Bible or OT Law. If you follows these laws, you will be in trouble with your neighbours friend and work. There will be lawless scoiety if you stick to the Western believe on their fake "Word of God' text book the Bible.

The Bible has become a ridiculous book to read and bad for human consumption. If you based on the law of the Bible, ow many Italian men used their belt to whip, slashed and bashed their children 'spare the rod and spoil the child'.

 

[sam_sung]

oh dear.. bro tan

you the man alright.. hehe

 

[Unrepented]

B - Basic

I - Instructions

B - Before

L - Leaving

E - Earth


Quote from the Love Guru.

 

[Psalm23]

[Please use the message here as the Lord leads, but nothing on the message must be used for profit!]​

Today’s Scripture Reading [June 20, 2010]

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. [1 Corinthians 1:27-29. KJV]

In the world where ‘money talks’ and ‘power is everything,’ many of us want to associate with wealthy people or people of great esteemed and social status. This is no wonder that when a rich and famous died, we can see pages upon pages of newspaper obituaries with standard message of sympathy “Our deepest sympathy to the family of the Late ,…… “ In spite of the fact that often the family members of the deceased had appealed to decline all donations and wreaths, many people still placed prominent and sometimes over-sized obituaries in the newspaper to offer their sympathy. They want to associate with these rich and famous ‘even till death’. I don’t know how much the family members really valued these obituaries but I know that the newspaper companies must be very delighted because they could rake in a lot of money from these obituaries which, in my view, can be put to better use like donating to the poor.

Quite unwittingly, rich and famous people can become our ‘personality cult’ whom we admire them more than the true God. The names of the rich and famous tend command a premium; they are considered to be infallible and nothing can go wrong with them; their words carry weigh, rightly or wrongly and they seem to have a touch of gold – everything they touch turns to gold! Some of them are so influential and are practically worshipped upon that they could literally carry their names to the graves.

‘A good and a famous’ name commands a big premium. It is no wonder when companies are preparing for new listing in stock exchange they will invite people of high social and business standing to be members of the board of directors. These people of high social and business standing who hold or have held high positions like high court judges, government ministers, university professors, partners of big accounting or law firms, etc are in the “wanted list” in the financial and business community. Many in fact are not businessmen themselves and have not managed big companies before and yet they are highly sought for the appointment of independent directors who are supposed to play “crucial roles in the corporate governance.” We have heard of news that, sadly, some don’t live up to investors’ expectations. Many of these people just lend their names so as to increase the profile and marketability of the companies that seek initial listing on the stock exchange. Of course, we must not forget that the directors’ fee come with such appointments do not come cheap and often they are also offered special share incentive plans that could translate into million dollars of the monetary reward. To make the mockery of the independent directorate system, some could sit on board of directorship of up to 10 or 15 companies and the question usually asked is: How could they find time to attend all the meetings, let alone help manage the companies. Are they really that good and do they really understand all the businesses of those companies which they are members of the board of directors because the businesses of those companies could range from manufacturing toilet papers to gold mining?

Admittedly, most of these ‘wanted men’ have good proven track records of the professions they were previously doing, however, we have seen quite a few have not lived up to the expectations of the investors for their new role as independent directors. In fact, no one can really define clearly the roles and responsibilities of independent company directors other than they have to attend a number of Board of Directors’ Meeting. Many ignorant investors have lost their savings all because they trusted the names of some famous people and erroneously self-assured themselves that nothing could go wrong. They were highly influenced by the names of the people running the companies and the classic example is the Madoff scandal. He was former chairman of Nasdaq and people just trusted him with millions!

In Proverbs 3:7, we are told that many men are wise in their own eyes, and in 1 Corinthians 1:23 we are told that the foolishness of God is wiser then men and the weakness of God is stronger than the mightiest man, and in 1 Samuel 16:7, we are told that man looks on the outside appearance, but God looks at the heart. Unless God chooses our path, our plan will not succeed (Proverbs 16:9). Only God decides whether we will finally succeed or fail and no amount of education or qualification can guarantee our success. The financial crisis of 2008 has proved to us that no matter how wise or clever those directors or businessmen are, they are no panacea to securing our future. The latest near-apocalyptic event in which massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has many people wondering how could the combined might of the American technology, all the wise and clever men of the BP Board of Directors and the White House fail to fix a broken pipe. After all it was man who first fitted that pipe on the ocean floor. Isn’t it just a broken pipe? And we see that more than USD 50 billion of the market value of BP wipe-out, literally overnight and the company is still counting the cost of compensation which could amount to USD 40-50 billion, or even more. Nobody really knows at this time. Besides the financial loss, the environmental and ecological damage is irreversible and is inestimable.

When Jesus was choosing His disciples, He did not go and look for government ministers, judges, professors or wise wealthy businessmen. Instead, He chose ordinary and simple people: fishermen, political activists, tax collector, common people but full of faith, goodness and sincerity. Very little was recorded in the Bible about the occupation of His disciples and it therefore points to us that they were not holding important positions nor they have excelled in any particular trade or profession. But one thing is very certain and that is the occupations of the disciples were not important to Jesus’ calling. Jesus was not looking for models to stage catwalk. Rather, He was looking for real people to roar out like lions and to fly like eagles. He chose people who could be changed by His love, and they in turn will go out to tell the world that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Light and no one can come to the Father except through Jesus Himself.

Despite the lack of credentials, the disciples became powerful witnesses to His ministry. The story of Jesus’ disciples does not end with the Gospel, it continues in the book of Acts. Together with letters and the epistles which we can read them in the Bible, they were all written by several of His hand-picked disciples who had very little or no social standing. These letters and epistles collectively known as the Word of God have transformed the lives of many people from the most incorrigible convicts to kings since they were written two thousand years’ ago.

Whether we are a minister, a judge, a criminal convict, a murderer, a slanderer or just a plain simple road-sweeper, it doesn’t matter. We can be part of His ministry and He has promised us that He will come and take us to a place that He has prepared for us but we must first truly acknowledge Him as our Saviour. What really counts is not who we are but what we have become of after we have experienced His transforming power, the Spirit of Christ. Despite the current confusion that the world is experiencing and the lack of understanding of who Jesus is, our job is to be His witnesses of His transforming power; to share His gospel of love, of sacrifice and more importantly, to let the world knows that the power to defeat Satan is in the blood of Jesus!

Great men, simple men, rich men, poor, wise men or foolish men, let us all admit honestly that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) and the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). With no exception, everyone of us will finally have the same epitaph written on our tombstones: Our date of birth and our date of death like March 1, 1929 – March 1, 2009. This plain epitaph is a clear reminder to us that our life journey on earth comprises nothing more than a little ‘dash’ but that little ‘dash’ is nevertheless very significant because how we made up of that little ‘dash’ will determine where our soul will end up: In His Kingdom or in the kingdom that God has prepared for Satan and his angels. The decision in now yours but make no mistakes about it, by the blood of Jesus we can now consider worthy to be His sons and daughters if we repent of our sins.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Today’s Scripture Reading [June 20, 2010]
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; ....................

Your are talking in your sleep? making foolish assumptions and carnal messages, not spiritual.

When Jesus was choosing His disciples .............. simple people: fishermen, political activists, tax collector, common people but full of faith, goodness and sincerity........

People in any civilized society, present or past, even in Jesus time has to work and do a trade. Hey! Your Jesus has a trade, he was a carpenter by trade. So are you saying Jesus was not good enought to be GOD ro rabbi, as he was just a carpenter?

Have you seek any pastor help to write your messages before you make a mockery of God, used his name disparingly and put your words in God's mouth!

Heard of dead man tell no lies! You can say 'that dead man' said told you this and that and it was true and GOD is not around to rebut your message.

Despite the lack of credentials, the disciples became powerful witnesses to His ministry. The story of Jesus’ disciples does not end with the Gospel, it continues in the book of Acts.

Who wrote the book of Acts? Who was Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? and when was the NT written? Matthew was not the same Jesus Matthew that penned and wrote his own biography, so was Mark. Gospel of Mark was siad to be the first book to write about Jesus -from Paul's point of view. Read Galation 1 : 4 to 25 and you will clues about Paul version of Jesus was 'made up'. Remember Paul met Peter and James three years later (this is the clue for you) and Paul said his version (of Jesus was true) and those other version of false and those who listen to 'the other version' will be 'accrused' by Paul (another clue for you). Galation Chapter 1 is a give away of many controveries or truth of Paul own version of Jesus. Also remember that Paul was once a traitor and killed Jesus people and you think Peter and James will want to have anything to do with Paul? or share Jesus life story with Paul.

So who was Mark? Mark followed Paul around and he wrote Jesus story according to what people remembered. Remember Paul never met Jesus and was not around when Jesus was alive. Paul went all over Minor Asia to hear stories about Jesus from people (who remember this and that) who was alive to tell the story of a man call Jesus killed by the Roman. So Paul travelled for 3 years to gather stories of Jesus... Galation Chapter 1 is a give away... read about it.

And who was Paul? Church have told you that Paul wrote all the 13 Epistles in the NT and Paul was inspired by God to wrote all these. Paul only wrote 4 Epistles out of the 13. So how Paul was inspired by God when he wrote only 4? So who has been lying to you all these time?

Stop abusing Jesus and God name in vain. If you want to pray, just pray to your ancestors will do.

 

[Psalm23]

Dear Brothers and Sisters-in-Christ,

I pray that we all have a blessed week ahead of us. Attached are two videos which I believe can encourage all of us to walk closers with our dear Lord Jesus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMF_24cQqT0 [There are over 6 million views and I believe many must have been touched by it.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAYWWsaXZeg&feature=related


God Bless.

 

[Psalm23]

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Today’s Scripture Reading [June 27, 2010]

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. [Galatians 5:16. KJV]

A preacher once made this comment, “Bible will keep us away from sin or sin will keep us away from the Bible.” A similar verse can also be found in Galatians 5:16 which instructs us to walk in the Spirit so that we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. It is a beautiful promise that speaks of holiness that when we walk with the Lord we will not obey or fulfill the temptations and desires of our flesh.

As we consider our daily walk, in things public and private, everything seems to add up from the tiniest irritation like trying to catch a cab during rush hours to more life-pressing issues like attending to a sick child. Admittedly, no one can escape the daily drudgery of life, not even the most pious and faithful servant of God. We are bombarded daily with news that caused many of us to feel insecure and in extreme case, to lose our faith in God. Besides the dreadful crimes of robbery, abuse, murders, cheating, raising food prices, raising petrol prices, raising housing prices, etc. that are constant fare on the news, there are many other things, though seemingly insignificant, can stress us up too. For example, your well-deserved vacation with your family to a beach might end up with unpleasant encounters. Hoping to have a good sunbath in a nice beach, instead the beach were filled with all kinds of garbage from plastic bottles to empty beer cans, soft drink cups, leftover food, cigarette buds, etc. They were left on the ground by self-centered and thoughtless people and you felt that it would even be better to stay at home. Or, perhaps you have been robbed, and instead of enjoying your vacation on the beach, you spent much of your time reporting the lost of your credit card and going to the police station to report the robbery. Though I must add this is not a ‘life and death’ matter, it would be the worst that anyone would one to encounter these things while having holiday vacation overseas. We all take for granted that our holiday will be plain sailing and such things would never happen to us. Sadly, we can be wrong because no place is safe on earth!

Because of the drudgery of life which we all face each day, many of us tend to be unaware of what’s going on around our surroundings. For example, when we do our marketing or shopping, and although we have no intention to eavesdropping, we often heard words of vulgarity and curses pouring out from fellow shoppers to complain about their children, their husbands, their wives, their friends, their colleagues or their employers. Unaware ourselves, we may have acquired the habit of coughing out words of vulgarity or curses to the extent that it has become a habit. We used swear words; we abuse God’s name; call out His name without reverence whatsoever. We are numbed and have become insensitive to what we speak, and sometimes what we do is no difference to those incorrigibles garbage 'throwers' who have insensitively and indiscriminately thrown away all kinds of leftovers disregarding the environment and the welfare of others.

Good habits and good basic virtues do pay good dividends over time while foolish and worldly pursuits of self-indulgences and self-centered behaviours seldom bear good results. There are some good examples in modern times just as there were also some good examples of ancient Bible personalities with good habits and virtues such as Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, Ruth, Esther, King David and King Solomon. Their virtues are worthwhile for us to emulate and we can notice that most of them have many positive similarities – they kept their faith strong even when facing unimaginable difficulties; they might have sinned against God at one time or another but, they repented fully of their sins; they were obedient to God and not to man; they loved Yahweh enthusiastically; and they served Him with all their hearts. So too were their end results – they were all richly blessed and their life stories are told over and over again by Christian preachers, evangelists and sometimes even by secular teachers.

On the other hands, they are some poor examples in both modern times as they were also in ancient times like the Egyptian Pharaohs, King Saul, King Herod and Judas Iscariot. They too have many negative similarities – they were disobedience; they sinned but refused to repent; they were greedy; they were unfaithful to the True God. So, too, were their end results – they lost their possessions; they were punished by God and some lost their lives tragically.

How about each of us? Does it really matter how we live our daily lives? In the New Testament Jesus said, “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the Day of Judgment. For by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned’” (Matthew 12: 36-37). Over and over, the Book of Revelation refers to those who “overcome” and it culminates with these words: “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son” (Revelation 21:7). If we are required by God to account for every word that we have spoken, how much more would we need to account to Him for every deed that we have done!

It is therefore that we to come to the wise knowledge that what we say and what we do, however small or insignificant they may be, they are all going to add up in this life and in the life to come and the results of our deeds will finally be made known: “We are known by our fruits” (Matthew 7:16) In a parable, Jesus was noted to have praised a faithful servant with these words, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things” (Matthew 25:23). Let us therefore endure and let our lives be our testimony and through the testimony of our spoken words and our deeds, we can bring others to Christ and also we can confidently account to Him on the Day of Judgment and let Him say to us: “Well done my good and faithful servant”.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Today’s Scripture Reading [June 27, 2010]

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. [Galatians 5:16. KJV]

Recruitment again are you? .................... testimony of our spoken words and our deeds, we can bring others to Christ and also we can confidently account to Him on the Day of Judgment and let Him say to us: “Well done my good and faithful servant”

3 basic subminal messages most pastors preached:

1. More you give more you received (as if);

2. Obedience to God (and the church according to Paul);

3. Recruitment.. go out a preach the Gospel....

 

[Psalm23]

All My Dear Brothers and Sisters-in-Christ,

I have just come across the following encouraging message from a Christian website and I am being led by the Holy Spirit to share with you.

For most parents who have school-going children, today is the first day of a new term. Some parents may feel inadequate to coach their children in their school works and thus feel very anxious as each day drew closer to the year-end school examinations. Many children, too, are feeling the same anxiety. Given the competitive society we are in, everyone wants to excel and having a good school results is an important part of to get people a good start to their working career. It is understandable that we all are anxious for our children and pray that our children can do well in their school examinations.

Let us pray to our dear Lord Jesus for His continuing strengthening. In God's eyes, we are never inadequate. Yes, we must admit, we have nothing to offer Him because of our sinfulness and our wickednes. Like David, he had committed many sins but God still proclaimed that he was a man after God's own heart. Let not our sinfulness be our stumbling block and let us put our trust in the power of the blood of Jesus do the cleasing work of removing all the stumbling blocks of our life, including our sins. But we must do our part - repent!

-----------Message from Chrisma, A Christian Devotion Website-----------​

After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. Then the people asked for a king, and he gave them Saul son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years. After removing Saul, he made David their king. He testified concerning him: "I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do." —Acts 13:20-22

King David has been a puzzle, a mystery, a holy conundrum for thousands of years. His life perplexes, maddens, and humbles students of the Bible. To many, it doesn't make sense that this man who was so prone to personal weakness was able to "get away with" so much and still have God treat him with special favor. He was many things: a shepherd, a psalmist, a king, a liar, a murderer, and an adulterer. But most important of all, he was the only person in the entire span of the Bible to be called a man after God's own heart. Can you think of four more stunning words in all of creation? A man—lowly and often full of doubts and sin, like all of us—and yet God singled him out and called him a man after His own heart. What an awesome, almost unfathomable compliment! But in saying those words, God threw open the door to every person on the planet to be, like David, a man or woman after God's own heart.

----------End of Message-----------​

 

[tanwahtiu]

..I have just come across the following encouraging message from a Christian website and I am being led by the Holy Spirit to share with you.

I believed you have trangressed and gone too far. How are you led by the Holy Spirit, if there is one? How does it look like? Where it came from before it see you? Are you in a trance when the Holy Spirit see you? Or was it one of the 7th month ghost from Kong Ming Hill (bright Hill) was your holy spirit?


Even qualified Pastors dare not says they are led by Holy Spirit to speak to his/her members on the rostrum. Hey hello! have you gone senile? ... hahahaha

For most parents who have school-going children, today is the first day of a new term. Some parents may feel inadequate to coach their children in their school works and thus feel very anxious as each day drew closer to the year-end school examinations. Many children, too, are feeling the same anxiety. Given the competitive society we are in, everyone wants to excel and having a good school results is an important part of to get people a good start to their working career. It is understandable that we all are anxious for our children and pray that our children can do well in their school examinations.

Let us pray to our dear Lord Jesus for His continuing strengthening. In God's eyes, we are never inadequate. Yes, we must admit, we have nothing to offer Him because of our sinfulness and our wickednes. Like David, he had committed many sins but God still proclaimed that he was a man after God's own heart. Let not our sinfulness be our stumbling block and let us put our trust in the power of the blood of Jesus do the cleasing work of removing all the stumbling blocks of our life, including our sins. But we must do our part - repent!

Like that also want to pray. Pray for this pray for that, you Christians really kena brainwashed by Pastors.

Must pray for you to die early or not? That is one thing you Christians don't find it appropriate enough that is to pray for each other to die early so you can see Jesus sooner! Why? dead is inveitable and one must die to see if there is really 'that' Jesus kingdom awaiting for you as it was said in the Bible John 14: 1-3

When one of your Chirstain fello is sick you pray for their early recovery. Why don't pray for their early death so he/she can fulfil his/her destiny and see your Lord Jesus asap John 14: 1-3.

​

 

[Psalm23]

Revelation 8:8-9 [KJV]: And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

By now, I think we all know about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But do we all know how serious the situation is? If you were to go to Youtube and search for “BP Oil Leak” you will see many sordid details of the oil leak – miles and miles of beaches are destroyed by the oil, so are the wildlife, the plants and even crops. We think that the colour of the oil is black but you will be very surprised when you look at the Youtube that it is actually reddish-brown and literally looks like blood. It appears that the situation is so bad that the authority has banned reporters from speaking to the workers who are helping in clean up operation. They fear that it will cause great public panic. The clean up operation is such a failure that residents living around the affected areas now want the U.S. government to declare a state of emergency because the state of emergency will allow the U.S. Federal Government to take full control of the clean up operation which is now left to BP, a private company.

There is no end in sight of when BP can cap the leaking oil. BP engineers have gone through Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D.... to cap a broken pipe that causes the oil spill. All have been utterly unsuccessful. Nothing seems to work. They have the most advanced technology to dig 5,000 feet right into the ocean to extract the oil but they don’t have the technology to fix the problem. Their research seems to be only in the area of how to extract the oil and create more wealth but not how to fix the problems.

The oil spill is not just going to affect the Gulf of Mexico. It is going to affect all of us because if the spill continues for the next few months, millions upon millions of oil are going spilled out into the ocean and it is a matter of time that the oil will its way into our sea.

The only Person that we all can now turn to is God. Christians have been asked to come forward to pray for God’s intervention. I, too, felt a deep calling from the Holy Spirit to share with our fellow Christian brothers and sisters here to pray that a miracle can happen to stop the oil leak. To help us to pray in one voice, let us use the prayer below that was prepared by one of the U.S. church leaders. Let’s us join our hearts in seek God’s intervention in one voice and in one accord.

"God, step in and stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico! We ask this because we don't know what else to do! We acknowledge that humans caused this problem, that our actions and inactions are now corrupting this beautiful and bountiful part of your planet. Forgive us. And then step in to act where we cannot. Give BP engineers supernatural wisdom to make the right, rapid decisions to remedy the leak. Give them stamina and creativity that is beyond their own capacity. Bless their technology so that it works even better than it is designed. Give governmental leaders, local, state and federal, unity and focus to deploy all their energies in the right direction. And beyond all this, please reach out your hand to protect the parts of your creation that will be damaged by this disaster. We humbly come to you to ask you for your grace. May the consequences of our stupidity, greed, laziness, and ignorance in this case be less than they should be! We know we should reap what we have sown, but here, we ask for a stay in your hand of judgment. We do not deserve your pardon here, but we ask it anyway! In Jesus name, fix this problem that we so pitifully cannot!"​

 

[tanwahtiu]

The only Person that we all can now turn to is God.

Here you go again annoying God whenever you have a problem. Christains never ceased annoying their God.

I, too, felt a deep calling from the Holy Spirit ......

Holy Spirit? Hello! have you transgressed and commit inqiuity. Tell us how the Holy Spirit looks like and where it came from?

"God, step in and stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico! We ask this because we don't know what else to do!

船到骄头自然直 is Confucius message for you.

 

[commoner]

haha,, dun be like that le,,,,,,,,,,

if God can stop the oil leak, they claim God stopped the oil leak.

if God cannot stop the oil leak, they will claim it is God's will not to stop the leak, or God's punishment for man's iniquity for damaging the earth, or people never pray enough or it cannot happen because not enough faith,,,,,

what did jesus say in the NT..... what will the mountain do if you have faith of a mustard seed,,,,,,,,

aiya,,,, some people need daily massage to feel shiok, and some thinks they need encouragemnt.........

let them be la,,,,,,, you cannot stop them all, tanwahtiu

 

[tanwahtiu]

Cannot stand his messages always says a holy spirit spoken to him. All his messages was about 'fearing God' when you can embraced God and ask God for prosperity 'fatt choy' instead.

Most of his messages are carnal and nothnig spiritual and I beleive he is not qualified to write messages without verified by a pastor.

 

[Psalm23]

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Today’s Scripture Reading [July 4, 2010]

Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. [Jonah 1:1-3. KJV]

There are several valuable lessons we learned about servitude and servanthood to God in the Book of Jonah. These lessons can be summarized as follows: (a) God feels concerns for the world, the sinners and is asking His servants to warn them of the judgment. As children of God and His faithful servants, we must therefore take steps to relate the events of the world to our unbelieving friends and relatives the imminence of God’s judgment. (b) When facing difficulty, we are inclined to evade our responsibilities; we attempt to seek and rest on the comfortable zone and hope that God will leave us alone. But God is all-powerful. He can use the forces of nature for His own purpose and bringing us to where He wants us to be. (c) Though God will punish the disobedience, He will show mercy; but we must not abuse and take advantage of God’s kindness and we must be genuine towards the our repentance of all our sins. (d) We are often discouraged when we face failure in our mission work but the Book of Jonah tells us that the most unpromising mission fields are often the most responsive; we must not give up in our pursuit to reach out to the lost sinners. Our living God is always pleased with our contribution when it is done for His glory no matter how small or insignificant it may be so long our service to Him is not harboured with any ulterior motives like trying to please men or for self-glory. Just like Jesus who came to serve and not to be served and to give His life as a ransom for many (Matthew 20:28), we must likewise humble ourselves go and share the good news of the finished work of our Redeemer on the cross. It is God’s wish that no one should perish but everyone should come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).

Our Christian servanthood and servitude is a life-long journey and it is a privilege that conferred to us by God. I prayerfully hope that the following article “What is Servant Leadership” will bless you in your daily walk and your service to our God.

What is Servant Leadership
By Roderick C. Meredith​

Servant Leadership is a concept and a practice that all Christians should implement. But what is Servant Leadership? And how can we practice it?

In all human history, the best example of Servant Leadership is that of Jesus Christ. He had been with the Father from eternity. He had awesome glory, power and majesty. As the “Word” or Spokesman for the Father, it was His voice that said, “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3). At the very throne of God, He was surrounded by indescribable beauty and majesty. Over 100 million angels were there, worshipping and praising Him and the Father (Revelation 5:11-12).

Yet, since the Word and the Father had decided to bring millions of human beings into their Family, this great Being was willing to “empty” Himself—as the Greek word is correctly translated in Philippians 2:7. He took the “form of a servant.” Then, “being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross” (v. 8).

In the human flesh, Jesus “gave” of Himself all day long. He lovingly and patiently taught, He healed, He blessed, He encouraged, He served. Jesus had very clearly taught His disciples by His example, “Whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:26-28).

In all our activities, the emphasis must be on serving—not on pleasing the self or exalting the self or seeking a bigger “position.” All of us must constantly humble the self through God’s Spirit, and try to be sure that we are genuinely motivated by a spirit of service in whatever we do. If we have to take a lower position for a time-as even the Son of God did—in order to better serve, let us graciously do this and thank God for the opportunity.

God is testing the attitudes of every one of us! He wants to know if we are truly learning the lessons of Servant Leadership. Are we willing to take the “lowest seat” if that works out better and helps us serve more? Are we constantly thinking about how we can best use our talents, our time and our resources to better serve others and to prepare for the Kingdom of God?

John, the beloved Apostle, tells us, “By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren” (1 John 3:16). Let us be truly be motivated by a spirit of giving, helping, serving and encouraging one another. Then, without doubt, we will be granted entrance into our Father’s everlasting Kingdom which will be totally based on that spirit of love, kindness, patience, service and profound joy.

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Today’s Scripture Reading [July 4, 2010]
Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. [Jonah 1:1-3. KJV]

This is a problem with you Christians, pluck a few lines here and there from the Bible and you think you can say anything on behalf of God. Who is this

Lord in Jonah's time? Where is Nineveh and Tarshish?

A few lines like this you can talk high low and you think you can think like Jesus and God Yehweh?

Hey hello! seng mok tee? Go have your brain re-wash and just pray to your ancestors is enough. Your father teaches you how to pray to your ancestors you think he prayed to devils, when you quote the Bible you think you speak for God and Jesus.

Hey, leave the OT to the Jews. Go ask the Jew Rabbis how they interpret the OT.

 

[commoner]

aiya,,,, jonah story talks about 3 days and 3 nighhts in the fish tummy,,,,, and not getting digested by the fish,,, this story talks about jesus in hell for 3 days 3 nights as claimed by himself,,,,,,,,,,,,,

STOP,,,,,,,,,,,

jesus supposed to die on Friday and raise on Sunday Morning,,,,, thats maybe 3 days 2 nights,,,,,, must be on Chan Brothers travel package,,,,,,,,,,, claimed 3 days 3 days but actually do maybe 2 days 2 nights