Romans 9
18 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory
Thank you Lord, simple for what you have made me and has provided for me. I come to you today and there is just one thing I want to say, thank you, for all the blessings that I have received - as simple as life and breath.
I will choose to life in your will and allow you to take and mould me to who you want me to be.
I pray and ask for your joy and blessings for my family. I pray that we will know your purposeful life simple in your presence.
Fill me with joy so that I can be a witness for you. Amen.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
18 Nov 2009
Romans 8
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
How much do we excersie the spirit man that is in us? We see and we know and estimate how much can we achieve or how long and what we can pray.
v23 but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Do we really does that? No. Not groaning in spirit, and neither waiting eagerly..
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Yes we hope for, for all the good stuffs, but not in patience.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be [8] against us?
So, who is against us that we need God to protect us?
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
So and yes nothing can separate us from God. So..
No wonder our spirit man is not growing inside. I have excercise too much of what I know and what I need of God, so lacking in the perspective of God and failing to interceed for the matters that convern not the physical self or body by the heartbeat of God.
Change me Lord that my heart will be in tune with your spirit. Let there be a groaning and an impatient waiting to see the works of God through the me onto the lives of others. Indeed the promises given to II is real, let us pressed in in prayers for the promises to come to past. Let that hope in the promises be seen.
I knew how much god has provided- food shelter and family. I pray that I can see myself as conquerors and that with God and through Him I can do much much more.
Lord Jesus, keep my spirit man close to your heart. Amen.
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
How much do we excersie the spirit man that is in us? We see and we know and estimate how much can we achieve or how long and what we can pray.
v23 but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Do we really does that? No. Not groaning in spirit, and neither waiting eagerly..
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Yes we hope for, for all the good stuffs, but not in patience.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be [8] against us?
So, who is against us that we need God to protect us?
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
So and yes nothing can separate us from God. So..
No wonder our spirit man is not growing inside. I have excercise too much of what I know and what I need of God, so lacking in the perspective of God and failing to interceed for the matters that convern not the physical self or body by the heartbeat of God.
Change me Lord that my heart will be in tune with your spirit. Let there be a groaning and an impatient waiting to see the works of God through the me onto the lives of others. Indeed the promises given to II is real, let us pressed in in prayers for the promises to come to past. Let that hope in the promises be seen.
I knew how much god has provided- food shelter and family. I pray that I can see myself as conquerors and that with God and through Him I can do much much more.
Lord Jesus, keep my spirit man close to your heart. Amen.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
17 Nov 2009
Romans 8
v9 Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
If you are going to die, you will look at life at the last moments very differently. As I reflected this on the movie "2012", it is the relationship that matters, not the wealth or the pocession that matters.
As I eat my breakfast today, I give thanks to God for His provision, yes its a simple breakfast, but I can aford it, with a cup of coffee plus another cup of milo, not plain water.
As I looked at my father this morning, the medicine is making him weak again, soon he may lose his strength and no longer can say it is he himself that he can make it.
We are all dead to sin and soon all dead in our physical body because of sin. Wealth and strength will become no more. What is then that I will look forward? My Jesus and my family. These are the people that will be with me not because I am rich or because I am able.
But not all knows Jesus and will die not only to the body but also to the spirit. What is it so worth like my father who yet to know Christ intend to continue not to know Christ because he has himself to depends on?
I pray for my spirit man that I may hear and continue to be sensitive to the spirit of God. I pray for my family that they will choose to be near with Jesus and to those like my father, they may know Jesus. Amen.
v9 Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
If you are going to die, you will look at life at the last moments very differently. As I reflected this on the movie "2012", it is the relationship that matters, not the wealth or the pocession that matters.
As I eat my breakfast today, I give thanks to God for His provision, yes its a simple breakfast, but I can aford it, with a cup of coffee plus another cup of milo, not plain water.
As I looked at my father this morning, the medicine is making him weak again, soon he may lose his strength and no longer can say it is he himself that he can make it.
We are all dead to sin and soon all dead in our physical body because of sin. Wealth and strength will become no more. What is then that I will look forward? My Jesus and my family. These are the people that will be with me not because I am rich or because I am able.
But not all knows Jesus and will die not only to the body but also to the spirit. What is it so worth like my father who yet to know Christ intend to continue not to know Christ because he has himself to depends on?
I pray for my spirit man that I may hear and continue to be sensitive to the spirit of God. I pray for my family that they will choose to be near with Jesus and to those like my father, they may know Jesus. Amen.
Friday, November 13, 2009
13 Nov 2009
Romans 7
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
The law forbids this and the law forbids that... when that happen Christainity becomes a religion of don't do this or else and do this so that..
Likewise with my family, it is not about doing but being. I need to get connected with my children through being, the purpose behind the doing.
Like the way I choose to obey the law is because of Christ, not out of a need to.
Lord I pray and ask that you help me to connect my family. To Rachael, allow me to connect the emotions which I have failed to understand. To my children, playing with them and know what they like and are going through. The emotions..
Lord, help me to realease that part of me, there are not always reasons for doing, but just connecting the understanding heart to heart and mind to mind. Teach me Lord. Amen.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
The law forbids this and the law forbids that... when that happen Christainity becomes a religion of don't do this or else and do this so that..
Likewise with my family, it is not about doing but being. I need to get connected with my children through being, the purpose behind the doing.
Like the way I choose to obey the law is because of Christ, not out of a need to.
Lord I pray and ask that you help me to connect my family. To Rachael, allow me to connect the emotions which I have failed to understand. To my children, playing with them and know what they like and are going through. The emotions..
Lord, help me to realease that part of me, there are not always reasons for doing, but just connecting the understanding heart to heart and mind to mind. Teach me Lord. Amen.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
11 Nov 2009
Romans 7
4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
The law requires us to do and abide by it. Its about doing what is right and correct. In Christ, so that you may belong to another and belong to Christ. By it, it is about abiding in Christ. Christ is the vine and we are the branches.
In Christ, it is about not doing, but waiting on Him and do through Christ.
Wow, is this not wonderful. Doing through your own strength and verus not doing but wait on Christ and do through Him! I missed the point by just doing and lament that II has no super natural profits, so lets wait on the Lord, which was the key word from the Lord during that prayer meeting.
The world has only this life to live and we must do and do to achieve what we need to achieve this life. In Christ, it is eternal. Let's take time to wait and allow God in His time to fulfil the achievement through us. This is not about passive, but doing waiting and doing soaking in the Lord, for it is the Lord who will bring about the plans and bring them to past. SO that when the achievement is done, not me by my God who has done it through me.
Jesus, let me wait on you, leaning my ears actively to you and hears your heartbeat so that I may just love you. bless not my hands for the works I want and desire to do, but through me fulfil what you desire to accomplish. It is not about works but about getting the heart right with you. Amen.
4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
The law requires us to do and abide by it. Its about doing what is right and correct. In Christ, so that you may belong to another and belong to Christ. By it, it is about abiding in Christ. Christ is the vine and we are the branches.
In Christ, it is about not doing, but waiting on Him and do through Christ.
Wow, is this not wonderful. Doing through your own strength and verus not doing but wait on Christ and do through Him! I missed the point by just doing and lament that II has no super natural profits, so lets wait on the Lord, which was the key word from the Lord during that prayer meeting.
The world has only this life to live and we must do and do to achieve what we need to achieve this life. In Christ, it is eternal. Let's take time to wait and allow God in His time to fulfil the achievement through us. This is not about passive, but doing waiting and doing soaking in the Lord, for it is the Lord who will bring about the plans and bring them to past. SO that when the achievement is done, not me by my God who has done it through me.
Jesus, let me wait on you, leaning my ears actively to you and hears your heartbeat so that I may just love you. bless not my hands for the works I want and desire to do, but through me fulfil what you desire to accomplish. It is not about works but about getting the heart right with you. Amen.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
10 Nov 2009
Romans 6:
I too have worries and anxieties.
But I know my God will see me and supply all my needs. I have little wants, just keeping the family going. Praying and waiting for the breakthrough in II.
What is it to live just in Christ and just live in his promise. v17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
I pray for breakthrough in peace through Christ, in relationship among the family members and in your provision and in ministry through II.
I too have worries and anxieties.
But I know my God will see me and supply all my needs. I have little wants, just keeping the family going. Praying and waiting for the breakthrough in II.
What is it to live just in Christ and just live in his promise. v17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
I pray for breakthrough in peace through Christ, in relationship among the family members and in your provision and in ministry through II.
Monday, November 09, 2009
9 Nov 2009
Romans 5
5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we [1] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
This was the first song I played with the guitar, learning it by hard to master the chords for two whole weeks.
I have been kept busy, busy with the works of the world. It should have been God's ministry. If it by works then the world will be justified. But because it is not possible to be justified by works, God has to sent His son Jesus to jusfitifed us not through works but by faith.
If it is by faith, then to God, the works are not our justification for our being to be close with God. Our peace through God is through Christ, so how much are we keeping close to that?
I speak for myself, that the works I am doing should be a ministry. I need to know how to wait on the Lord. the world will come and will pass, the tings on this earth will pass. So let me not be worried about the concerns of this world. Rather let my spirit man be lifted up so that I can be in Christ. Let this peace from christ through me.
Lord let me be close to you, not that I want you to bless the works of my hands, but rather, like the way I am determine to play the guitar to master it to worship you. Let me pursue that peace through Christ.
Let there be something and at least one thing that God you want to speak to me and one thing you want me to learn about you today. Let me have grow in statue, in wisdom and in favour with God and man. Amen.
5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we [1] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
This was the first song I played with the guitar, learning it by hard to master the chords for two whole weeks.
I have been kept busy, busy with the works of the world. It should have been God's ministry. If it by works then the world will be justified. But because it is not possible to be justified by works, God has to sent His son Jesus to jusfitifed us not through works but by faith.
If it is by faith, then to God, the works are not our justification for our being to be close with God. Our peace through God is through Christ, so how much are we keeping close to that?
I speak for myself, that the works I am doing should be a ministry. I need to know how to wait on the Lord. the world will come and will pass, the tings on this earth will pass. So let me not be worried about the concerns of this world. Rather let my spirit man be lifted up so that I can be in Christ. Let this peace from christ through me.
Lord let me be close to you, not that I want you to bless the works of my hands, but rather, like the way I am determine to play the guitar to master it to worship you. Let me pursue that peace through Christ.
Let there be something and at least one thing that God you want to speak to me and one thing you want me to learn about you today. Let me have grow in statue, in wisdom and in favour with God and man. Amen.
Friday, November 06, 2009
6 Nov 2009
Romans 4
The Promise Realized Through Faith
We had a wonderful time worshipping and fellowship last night for Isaiah Initiative. Indeed I feel so blessed with people who hears from God.
Indeed I am convinced that as leader of II and the head of my household, I should be seeking close with God.
God has promised great things for II and for the family. Now is what next and that what next can only be reveal through waiting on the Lord.
Rom 4:16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham.
As man, as one with knowledge and talent, I will run the course with my own strength, but will the people that follows run the same way as I am. They may, they may not and I will get frustrated. This is because I have pursuit the promise through the strength of myself.
Instead, if God has promised, He will bring it to pass, and it will be through the generation and the next.
Seek God and allow Him to move the plan that He has promised for you in your life and through the generations. I pray that I will move in and seek God and pray that for any major moves for II, God will reveal to at least 2 or more of the members. Of course I pray for the conduct of the training, is it time yet and when and should we ...
Nevertheless, God forgive me that I have not pressed into seeking you closely each day. Amen.
The Promise Realized Through Faith
We had a wonderful time worshipping and fellowship last night for Isaiah Initiative. Indeed I feel so blessed with people who hears from God.
Indeed I am convinced that as leader of II and the head of my household, I should be seeking close with God.
God has promised great things for II and for the family. Now is what next and that what next can only be reveal through waiting on the Lord.
Rom 4:16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham.
As man, as one with knowledge and talent, I will run the course with my own strength, but will the people that follows run the same way as I am. They may, they may not and I will get frustrated. This is because I have pursuit the promise through the strength of myself.
Instead, if God has promised, He will bring it to pass, and it will be through the generation and the next.
Seek God and allow Him to move the plan that He has promised for you in your life and through the generations. I pray that I will move in and seek God and pray that for any major moves for II, God will reveal to at least 2 or more of the members. Of course I pray for the conduct of the training, is it time yet and when and should we ...
Nevertheless, God forgive me that I have not pressed into seeking you closely each day. Amen.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
3 Nov 2009
Romans 3
Is it better to be Jew or a Gentile?
A number of time we ask the similiar question and yet find a unfavourable answer. It is better to be a Jew because they are God chosen people. The Gentiles are not subjected to the law. But depends on how we view it, is it better to be or not to be under the law. Blessings comes first to the Jews then to the Gentiles, judgment also comes first to the Jews then to the Gentiles.
Is it better to stay at home or to go school? This is my boy's recent question. By norm, he should go school. But he is not getting any lessons and accordingly, the class always get scolding from the teacher for being noisy.
such questions is best to answer in what does God say and what does God wants to do in your life? How is the words meets the actual situation of life?
Is there some learning points Josef need to go trough and something God wants to do in his life, besides just lessons and scolding from school? Yes, I pray that God will speaks to him regarding this situation that he may hears and know what are the reasons for going to school and what are the reasons for not going. More importantly in both good and ideal and in bad and not ideal situation, there is something God wants to teach us. To Josef, I pray that he will learn about the unfairness of man judgment, but the fair judgment of God. I pray that he will learn about studying not just for knowledge but going to school to learn about social interactions and community interactions. I pray that he will go school to grow in wisdom, and in favour with man. Amen.
Is it better to be Jew or a Gentile?
A number of time we ask the similiar question and yet find a unfavourable answer. It is better to be a Jew because they are God chosen people. The Gentiles are not subjected to the law. But depends on how we view it, is it better to be or not to be under the law. Blessings comes first to the Jews then to the Gentiles, judgment also comes first to the Jews then to the Gentiles.
Is it better to stay at home or to go school? This is my boy's recent question. By norm, he should go school. But he is not getting any lessons and accordingly, the class always get scolding from the teacher for being noisy.
such questions is best to answer in what does God say and what does God wants to do in your life? How is the words meets the actual situation of life?
Is there some learning points Josef need to go trough and something God wants to do in his life, besides just lessons and scolding from school? Yes, I pray that God will speaks to him regarding this situation that he may hears and know what are the reasons for going to school and what are the reasons for not going. More importantly in both good and ideal and in bad and not ideal situation, there is something God wants to teach us. To Josef, I pray that he will learn about the unfairness of man judgment, but the fair judgment of God. I pray that he will learn about studying not just for knowledge but going to school to learn about social interactions and community interactions. I pray that he will go school to grow in wisdom, and in favour with man. Amen.
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