Tuesday, October 26, 2004

God and I leading worship.

There was class devotion today and drumroll please*** I'm leading it. Actually on the day before, I was worried about how I am going to express myself tomorrow. I didn't have confidence in myself and I'm afraid I will stutter at the words I speak and probably press the wrong chord. I had some difficulty playing B minor chord under pressure. But thank God, it turned out well. I'm certain His Spirit was working within me. It was the best worship session I felt I had ever led. woohoo! God rocks my world.

I chose the song "stand up and shout if you love my Jesus" , "Jehovah Jireh" and "You alone". I started by reading to the my classmates Matthew 18:1-4 which spoke out who is the greatest in the kingdom of God. It is a child. Unless someone humbles himself before God like a child, we will never enter the kingdom of God. Following, I told them, "Let's humble ourselves before God now and worship God with a childlike heart!"

Something real cool happened. The people started to do the actions of the song. The stood and shout "If you love my Jesus!" after that, they changed the verse "Sit down and whisper if you love my Jesus." and also, "Stand up and clap if you love my Jesus." haha.. I'm absolutely delighted by the way God worked in them. My class wasn't that comfortable with each other yet but God managed to humble their hearts and make them delirious. Woohoo!!! The rest of the songs were good. Didn't really mess things up because God was with me, together and always and forever and ever more.

Hallelujah.
Dear Father in Heaven, I just want to thank You very much for leading me in worship today. Thank You for blessing me with confidence and courage. Really thank You. I felt good today after serving You. Glory be to You. Continue to bless me oh God, and lead me in Your ways of righteousness. Lord, I pray for my class. I pray that we'll continue to unite ourselves together with Your love and let us grow in Your love and strengthen our faith in You. Lord, I commit my class to Your hands and pray that You will bless them to lead a righteous life. Because I pray all this in Jesus's Most High, Precious and Sweetest Name. Amen.

Song stucked in my head:
Stand up and shout if you love me Jesus!
Stand up and shout if you love my Lord.
I want to know O ,I want to know,
If you love my Lord.

Justawildthought:
I want to marry a girl who is zealous about God,delirious. But first, I have to be zealous as well too. =)

Saturday, October 16, 2004

How Could I Live Without You?

How could I live without You
How could I survive without Your love
Without Your touch
You're the one that heals me
cleanses my heart
and sets me free...

Because of Jesus, I am free. I am like a dove soaring in the skies. Praise the Holy and Anointed One because of His unfailing and everlasting love. He died for me to set me free. There ain't anymore barriers that will set me apart and lock me up in that cage anymore. Taste freedom in the air.

Now I come right before You
With my hands lifted up

And my heart humbly bowed
At the work of Your cross
As You hung there and died
You were paying the price
For my life, for my life...

One day, I saw this man flying a kite. God spoke to me through that man's actions. He was an expert in kite flying. He could make the kite glide smoothly through the air, make it swoop down very close to the surface of the ground and lift it up and make it soar to heights again. I was enjoying the movement of the kite as God spoke to me. I realised God was the man while I am the kite. The wind is the grace and strength He gives me. He is the controller of my life since I surrendered my life to Him. He guides me in the directions I should go. He makes me soar into the skies at times and make me swoop down to rock bottom, but His grace is always sufficient. He will not give me harder trials than I can handle. That implies from the man's action where he let the kite glide over the surface of the ground without letting it touch the earth. Great skills. Great grace from God too as His peace is always there to prevent my fall.

Suddenly, as the kite glides over the surface of the ground, it lost balance and hit the ground. Dead. Fallen. At that time, I saw two curious wild cats advancing menacingly towards the kite. They were in a stance ready to pounce on it. However, the man drew nearer to the kite to collect it. As he approaches nearer, the cats scurried away. That's God's protection. When You fall, He will come and save you from the enemies(cats, in this case) and pick up again. God is never failing. His loves trusts, hopes and protects. Great is Your everlasting love. Amen.

For Your love is higher than the heavens
Deeper than the sea
All I want is You in my life
No one else can satisfy my soul
Make me feel this way
Only You Lord, Only You

This song really touched my heart. Indeed, Oh God, my Merciful Lord, great is Thy Love, the Heavens declare. God can satisfy my soul and all the emptiness within me. In life, we always seek to be happy. Happiness is a choice, depression is an option. You can choose to be happy. We always try to make ourselves happy but we realise all this happiness is just temporary. It ain't everlasting joy. That's why we need a Saviour for our lives. He is the one who provides everlasting things. Things that are beyond our imagination. The choice is yours, to be happy or not but I would like to say the greatest reason to be happy: If you had known the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and had accepted Him into Your life, be happy! Because you are going to spend the rest of eternity rejoicing. Christ died for us while we were still sinners.(Romans 5:8) Rejoice in the Lord for your salvation that nothing will ever seperate you from Him ever again.

Dear Daddy in Heaven, I pray to You. Lavish Your love on me. Renew my mind with Your words and ways. Let me bear Your ways and words in my mind. Do not let me slip. Bless me the peace that surpasses all human understanding to guard my mind against lies of the devil. Bless me joy and that I would spend my everyday rejoicing and praising You. For Your grace is sufficient and You are my Shepherd, I shall not need anything. Every need of mine is fulfilled in You. Thank You, Oh God. How could I live without You? Without Your love, I wouldn't even exist in Your imagination. You created me to love me and I willingly accept this true and sincere love that no one else could provide. Only You, Lord. Only You. Arigato. In Jesus' Sweetest and Most Precious Name, bless Your prince, Oh sovereign King. Amen.

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want..." Psalms 23:1

"O LORD , hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.
2 Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.
3 The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
4 So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.
5 I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.
6 I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
7 Answer me quickly, O LORD ; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will be like those who go down to the pit.
8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
9 Rescue me from my enemies, O LORD , for I hide myself in you.
10 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground. 11 For your name's sake, O LORD , preserve my life; in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
12 In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant." (Psalms 143)

Song stucked in my head:
I want to be a reflector
I want to shine with your glory
I want to let the whole world know that You're Living in me
I want to burn with your fire
Shine my light a little brighter
I want to let the whole world know that
(shouts)Jesus Lives in me ----(Reflector, Planet Shakers.)


P.S: There's a mirror in front of me. Before it, I stand. When people look into the mirror, I want them to see the likeness of Christ. Amen.

Sunday, October 10, 2004

My Best Friend In Holy White Garments

Throughout my seventeen years of life, I've always been in search of a bestest friend and mind you, I have high expectations. Eventually, I evaluated that the one who fits most of the criteria would be my spouse because she's gonna be with me for the rest of my life on earth. That was my blindspot.

Actually, there is someone who has been there all my life, observing everything I did.
"You may not know me, but I know everything about you." Psalms 139:2.
He is one who is familiar with all my ways.(Pslams 139:3)
He knew me before I was conceived.(Jeremiah 1:4-5)
He watches me sleep and rise up.(Pslams 139:2)
And He is there all the time.
His Name is the mightest throughout all the earth and heavens. Even the mountains bow down and declare His holiness. His Name is the sweetest above all names, yes, His Name is Jesus.

Sometimes I wish Jesus was human and not spirit. Sometimes I wish I can hug Him whenever I want, wherever I want and talk to Him anytime and He would converse with me clearly. How I long to desire that kind of fellowship. It was just recently, that these lyrics and words struck me.
"who was and is and is to come."
True enough. Jesus was with me from my past, He is with me right now and there will come a time when I'm going to meet Him face to face, no physical barriers or whatsoever. When that time comes I'll no longer be human, I'll be spirit and I shall meet, talk and touch Jesus.

I want to thank Jesus for His love for me. You have been always there throughout my troubled times, Your heart ached when I teared. You were there with me during my lonely times and You would touch my hardened heart with Your everlasting love. From the very start, You had the desire to lavish Your love on me.(1 John 3:1). Your thoughts of me are as countless as the sand on the shore.(Psalms 139:17-18). One day, You will wipe away all my tears.(Revelations 21:3-4) and that You ain't counting my sins.(2 Corinthians 5:18-19). Above all things, Your death was the ultimate expression of Your love for me.(1 John 4:10). You endured all the pains, rejections, ridicule and You carried my burdens on that cross. It was I who pinned You there but You didn't mind dying for me so that I could be with You together and always. It was not the nails that held You there but it was Your love for me. How great is Your love. No one can compare to you.

Before my birthday, Jesus told me that I'm gonna have the most special birthday which I ever had in my seventeen years of life. Quite true, I wasn't expecting many people to remember my birthday but it turned out to hit the record. The surprising thing is I don't have many presents on that day but the presents are coming in as belated which means they can come anytime, out of the blue, unexpected. That's the surprise. I like.

Throughout all my life, You have always been there. You are the One who can fulfill all my desires and expectations. I love You. You are my Best Friend and You will always be. Nothing can ever change that fact. Amen.

Dear Father in Heaven, thank You for sending down Your precious Son, Jesus to die for me on the cross. I'm truly grateful. More than anything, I want to desire to know Jesus more and more. May You baptize me with the Holy Spirit so that nothing will go wrong in my life. I commit myself into Your loving hands. Mould me, oh God. Let me be reminded the presence of Jesus everytime. I want to fall deeper and deeper in love with You. In Jesus' sweetest name I pray, Amen.

To my eternal friends: you all know who you are. Really thank God for knowing each and every of you and the happiest thing is that we are going to spend the rest of eternity with each other. thank you all for ur prezzies and prezzies to come. Truly appreciate them. Thank God for these gifts. Pray for each other and encourage each other throughout the hard times k? Draw closer to God.

To my friends who belong to the lost flock: Know my Jesus and you'll see what happens.

There's currently no song stucked in my head.