Monday, April 9, 2007
Save me, I am yours
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Confession
Do you believe that you have the power of the Spirit in you? Are you abiding in God through Christ? Brothers and sisters remember who you are in Christ, don't stop at confession and become self-pitiful, move on and focus on the one who is abide in you.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Press On!
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Does God rest on Sunday (Sadbath)?
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
You are significant
DAH~ I know I am stupid. Who doesn't want to have someone who is very important to them? Well its easy to made someone to be important to you, but it is hard to find someone to accept that or understand that. Because when you make someone important to you, you are in control to love that person, but having someone who is very important to you to understand you, you are in love. This doesn't just apply to romance, but friendship also.
Maybe you will be thinking, we of course, to be someone who is very important requires commitment. But what really is a commitment? Why so many people afraid they can't keep commitment? Many believe commitment is about the way how we treat each other. It requires you to do many things to keep a commitment. No, I think that's not really commitment encamped. Commitment between two people is that both persons decided to love each other the way they are, not what they should be. Commitment is an oath saying to each other that we will always be important to each other even when it hurts (despite physical abuse). The reason why we always think commitments needed to do many things to keep them because we afraid if we don't do anything, the other party won't feel love and then the person won't love us back. Whether is friendship or romance, if a relationship has a real commitment, the two of them would not worry about what they have to do to love and be loved. All the works is a natural outflow of love. Commitment became works when love and trust is gone. That's why commitment needs to make in front of God, because He is the one who provide faith and love.
Anyway, I have been sidetrack talking about commitment. I really don't expect to find anyone to understand me. He already said that I won't find that someone. He said it long time ago and many times, I won't find that someone. Thank goodness He didn't say forever. It is because the significant other that I find is equivalent to the price Christ pay on the cross for me. I won't find anything more significant than that. Until I align myself in acknowledge that significant, I won't be satisfied with love. Perhaps that's why I am attracted to encourage people to love God, because I am attracted to see the testimony of His love. I want to find someone who to show me who they accept the unconditional love He gave.
Father, this love of yours is too hard to grasp. Noway I can put a price tag on Your sacrifice. The price is more than all the number of the world. I know that your love is deeper than the ocean and wider than the sky, but I am just too dumb and dull. I am afraid and my soul is downcast. I trust in you, Father. Help me not focus on my ability to receive, but the the ability that you give.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Am I a chicken or an eagle?
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Stupid me
I realized now, my greatest fear is not afraid that people didn't need me, my greatest fear is that I might hurt other's feeling and disappointed people. well may be is kind of the same. After you fail someone, the next thing is that they started to have this scar in them every time they try to trust you again. I think that's why I have a had time believe that God would say to me "I believe in you!" I wish someone was there to wake me up this morning. stupid me (>. < i)
I Love Jesus
So I went to the ocean by myself. The night surely was beautiful. I was walking down the beach next to the waves, listening to the audio bible. I didn't know how long I have listened, but surely my heart started to feel a little better after I had listened about 59 chapters of Psalm. Here are some verses that encourage me the most:
LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill? ... [He] who keeps his oath even when it hurts. (15:1, 4) I said to my Lord, "You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing." I will praise the Lord who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices my body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me to the grace...(16:7-10) Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God. (43:5) Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will turn back to You. (51:11-13) But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship... Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you. (55:13,22)
My soul was still downcast and there were nothing extraordinary happened, but I just knew I wanted to praise God anyway. So I changed the reading to worship music. I started to sing praise and trying to dance with the slow music. Nevertheless, I didn't want to make too much of a gesture, don't want people to think that I am crazy or drunk. But when I got to the faster music, I really wanted to jump. The funny thing is that while I still restricting myself to jump with the music, one big huge wave comes in and trying to get my feet. It force me to jump backwards at least 10 feet. It was then I got hooked afterward. I was tracing the waves back to the ocean and the waves trace me back to the shore. Time when by so fast that I didn't even know I worship two more hours at the beach. At the end of the night, I just wanted to write to Jesus so say that I love Him anyway. As I wrote it, the first time, the naughty wave washed it away and got my feet wet. The second time, two people came by and asked me, "what are you spelling?" I laughed and said to them, "I love Jesus." They must have though that I am a Jesus freak, so they walk away without a word. Soon after I finished writing it, the naughty wave came in again and washed it. so I wrote to Jesus the third time, but only this time I wrote it in the starry sky. Nothing can wash it away, and I can see it everywhere I go.
Beauty
Nevertheless, despite of that, what is it beauty could do to us? Why are we attracted to beauty? One thing I believe the function of beauty is to bring balance of the mess it is inside of us. When our hearts has mess up, we tend to draw ourselves to some beautiful thing, such as ocean, sunset, starry sky...etc, because we need that balance to release the mess that is inside. But the ultimate goal that God put in the power of the beauty in nature is really to remind us about the creator. His power and His beauty.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Give Me a Reason to Live
Friday, March 9, 2007
Where is my Faith?
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Your God is too Safe
Current reading...Your God is Too Safe
Mark Buchanan
ISBN:1576737748
"We go to Bible college, hoping that will inoculate us against spiritual languor, will create in us robust faith. But many theolgoical schools and bible college are built on borderlands. There is the danger in such a places that we will learn much more about God and at the same time grow distant from God; we will study the intricacies of doctrine, but lose passion; we will become eloquent at God talk, but cease talking to God." p.21
Scripture: When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the moutain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die." Ex 20:18-19
"We long for hearsay about God, but do not ourselves want to hear God say anything. We want someone else to handle the fire, to risk death or deforming or deafening in the encounter with the living God...to find someone who will keep God afar, make God safe."
I guess the check point for an intercessor is this, are you waiting on God or are you making God wait? Seriously, I have to admit that I am only making Him waiting right now. It's scary. What am I withholding? Of course you there is much blessing and much joy being in the mountain top and bring down all sort of blessing to people around you, I have no problem with this. But how many time in did the people of Israel at the time really say we will listen? Most of the time when you are the intercessor, you are the one to blame. Being the one to blame is not the wrose, having other turning around and condemn you are the wrost. I am stuck in this borderland, I can't go back to my old self, but yet I am strgguling to move forward. People is not the one I afraid the most, failing God is the one I felt. Who can bring me to the new land? who can understand, who really care about who I am rather than what I should be? Why am I still making him wait?
Learning to Love - Jason Upton
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
please return my stereo face ( i)
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Do you believe?
I really don't know how to answer this question. I am scare to look into the eyes of Jesus, I am afraid. Help me Jesus, give me courage. I believe Jesus, that when I look into your eyes, I will find love that I never find before, love that will not be find elsewhere. Thank you for your love Lord. Thank you.
Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus
Monday, February 5, 2007
My Personality DNA report?
I have to admit this test only project the personality that you try to project, or the personality that you consciously aware of. I believe if I take it again on a different day, it will not be the same. Anyhow, it was fun to take this kind of test once in a while.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
THE MAYONNAISE JAR and 2 CUPS OF COFFEE
A Friend of mine just sent me this article. It’s quite pleasant and sweet. I hope you found sometime yourself to enjoy this cup of coffee (coca works just fine if you don't drink coffee. =)
THE MAYONNAISE JAR and 2 CUPS OF COFFEE
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes."
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things like family, children, health, friends, and favorite passions -- things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, house, and car.
The sand is everything else -- the small stuff.
"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
So …pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Don't sweat the small stuff!
Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. "Take care of the golf balls first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."
Remember to always smile!
Monday, January 29, 2007
The Tune of My Father's Heart
Just came back from Kansas City, I am still processing what I see and hear in International House of Prayer. For those of you who are faithfully praying for me, this is a song that I wrote on the flight coming back to CA. I hope you enjoy it. I don't have a set tune to it yet, but perhaps this will be perfect, so you would have a personal tune from the Father's heart instead of me.
The Tune of my Father’s heart
What burns inside of me?
The heartache for the lost,
is the burden of my Lord.
The Father for the broken heart.
His heart, cares for the fatherless.
His love, comfort the mourning souls
Can you hear?
The tune of my Father’s heart.
Do you know?
The day I found my Father,
I couldn’t let Him go.
Oh, He never let me go.
In His arms,
I hear the tune of his heart,
In His eyes
I see my deepest love.
His tune healed my broken heart
Have you found my Father?
His heart is searching for you,
His joy is to sing to you,
a tune for your heart and soul.
Are you, longing the father’s voice?
Your love, is what He loves to sing for.
Can you hear?
The tune of your Father's heart.
Lay down your life,
Exchange His love,
He’s been singing song to you.
Hear the tune of your Father’s heart.
He is singing the tune of his heart to us.
His love is fathering us.
Can you hear?
Hear the tune of our father’s heart.
He is here. He has a song for us.
Listen, to the tune of our Father’s heart.
He is singing over us.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Is there a man in the house?
MEN! We need to listen up!
Is There a Man in the House? Part 1|Part 2
(click on listen now on the web to listen)
Ladies, here is your part:
Is There a Women in the House? Part 1 | Part 2
Hear more sermons on web clink here
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Brokenness
"Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name!"
What am I holding on today of my self-life, that I am willing to keep on holding on to, knowing that it is going to cost of what God’s loving best of my life, and His best for His eternity, the expense of God’s loving best that He has planned?
I remember in the retreat, one of the “Ungame” questions was this, “What is that on thing that you want people to remember you of your life?” This is the kind of dead wish question that Ricardo always likes to ask (^o^). I don’t really remember what I have answer, and I don’t expect anyone does, but one thing that I know now is this and it has been finally able to express in word: “I want people to remember that I am a kind of person that attract them to Jesus.”
Surely, I have not been coming to the point of living out what I just wrote. Because as long as I have my self desire to attract people to remember something about me, I will stand in the way of getting them to see Jesus. Unless my “self” remain dead, otherwise I will be in the way. If I want to be the best of what God intended for me to be, I have to be willing to fully surrender myself to him, but as long as I insist to have things my way, it will never happen.
During the course of this past two months, God has shown me where I have stored my security and trust. Fear has come upon me because I sense that pain is coming, for He is constantly asking me the question will you surrender this? I cry out to Him say, “God not this” or “God help me to keep this safe”. I have come to realize that I have tight my soul into so many other things that I want to hold on to, especially relationships, they cost me what God has intended best for me, which is His the ultimate relationship with Him in my life. Will I willing to surrender my comfort, my security, my relationships, in exchange for a relationship with Him that is in Him alone, so that I may truly keeping my oaks to serve the little ones that he intended for me to feed?
God know my heart’s desire, but he withhold them from me because he knows that if he would have given them to me now, they will take control of my life and become the gods that I serve, He knows that I can't handle them. Our life is rule by the decision that we made. We can choose to live by the control of the Holy Spirit, or we can choose to quash the Holy Spirit and live our ways. God is trying to reset a new vision in me, to replace my old selves: self-advancement, self-centerness, self-dependency, self-righteousness, and self-will; but brokenness is what it takes to reset my life, to bring self-live into an end. God is after all of the self-images that doesn't fit me as who I am.
“God whatever it takes, whatever it takes to get my attention, whatever it takes to get my “self” out of me, send it. It might cost me to fail a thousands times, it might take my heart through the furnace every day. I am going to trust you that your grace is going to help me bear it. I am going to trust you to take me through it. But God, just don't quit on me until you have work me till what you have intended for the best of me."
This is not so much of a gospel song, but it share my moment. I am willing Lord, but be patient with me.
Patience by Take that.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
From ideal to reality 1/17/2007
Lastly, come across an artist presenting Psalm 139 on You tube enjoy!
God will make a way 1/15/2007
7 I will praise the LORD, who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
8 I have set the LORD always before me.
Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest secure,
10 because you will not abandon me to the grave,
nor will you let your Holy One see decay.
11 You have made known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Psalms 16:7-11 (NIV)
While encountering so many thought in my head about where He is leading me, this verse also comes to me tonight. I find some encouragement to it. So anyone is reading my blog, I hope this encouragement would also bless you.
Judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. 1 Corinthian 4:5
God Will Make A Way
God will make a way,
Where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me.
He will be my guide
Hold me closely to His side
With love and strength for each new day
He will make a way, He will make a way.
By a roadway in the wilderness, He'll lead me
And rivers in the desert will I see
Heaven and earth will fade
But His Word will still remain
He will do something new today.
God will make a way,
Where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me.
He will be my guide
Hold me closely to His side
With love and strength for each new day
He will make a way, He will make a way