Daily life

Daily Life     1 Dec 2012

     Did you know that by the way you live each day, you are exerting an influence that is affecting the people around you? 

     Every moment of your life, you are exerting a tremendous influence that is going to affect the eternal destiny of your family, your friends and
the ones you work or study with. You are making an impression on them either for God or against God. 

     The question that I hope you will think about is this: “What kind of impression am I making right now
by the way I am living?” Do people say to you, “I have seen the kind of person you have
become since you became a Christian, and I would like to find out how my life can be changed to be like yours too. Please tell me about Jesus Christ.”

     Or do people say, “You know, the way that you live just confirms in my heart that you Christians are just a bunch of hypocrites. What kind of God do you have anyway that tolerates the things you do?”
I would like to use an analogy that may help you to remember this. We are like stones that are found on the ground where peoplewalk. 

     Do you know that stones on the ground can sometimes be very helpful? When it rains heavily and the path where we are walking becomes full of puddles of water, these stones are useful to step on,
so that you can keep your shoes dry. These are what we call stepping stones.

     On the other hand, stones on the ground can sometimes be a great nuisance and even a danger to people. When it gets dark, it’s very easy for a person to trip or stumble over a stone and fall to the
ground, getting himself hurt. These are what we call stumbling blocks. Stumbling blocks prevent people from making progress, but stepping stones help them to move on.

     As Christians we can either be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. If we are helping people to make progress toward God

1 Corinthians 8:9
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

Romans 14:13
Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way.

The Journey Of Faith

 The Journey Of Faith   -    30th Nov 2012


Faith is a journey with a promise ahead of us. In bible, God called Abraham to take a journey and made him a promise. It was a marvelous promise that came about entirely by God's initiative. No one asked for it or anticipated it. 


God sometimes breaks into our lives when we're not expecting it. God approaches us at times when we are not specifically asking for anything. God calls our name and says, "Come." God takes the initiative and gives promises to us before we even ask for them. 


Faith asks us to let go of what is familiar and comfortable. It calls us to take risks. We must trust God to handle every part of our lives. By faith we move forward when God calls, approaching the future with the confidence that God will lead the way. 


The journey can take many twists and turns. Sometimes the going is smooth. But often, when the ride is rough, we listen best and cling to God as never before. 


May God adjust our thinking and help us to see him on the way ahead of us, and to follow him. 

1. "Have FAITH in God," Jesus answered. (Mark 11:22)
2. Now FAITH is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1)
3.  And without FAITH it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
4. Fight the good fight of the FAITH. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. (1 Timothy 6:12)

LOVING OTHERS

                                   LOVING OTHERS  -  29th Nov 2012

Today quiet time teach us to love one another as Jesus had told us early in bible. We are to love each other as Jesus loved us, and he loved us enough to give his life for us. We may not have to die for someone, but there are other ways to practice sacrificial love such as listening, helping, encouraging, giving.
Think of someone in particular who needs this kind of love today. Give all the love you can, and then try to give a little more. 


Besides, Jesus said our love for each other  is our greatest witness to the world. He said, "your strong love for each other will prove to the world that you are my disciples." So, start to practicing this greatest command in our life now. 


Love is more than simply warm feelings; it is an attitude that reveals itself in action. How can we love others as Jesus loves us? By helping when it's not convenient, by giving when it hurts, by devoting energy to others' welfare rather than our own, by absorbing hurts from others without complaining or fighting back. This kind of loving is hard to do. That is why people notice when you do it and know you are empowered by a supernatural source. The Bible has another beautiful description of love in 1 Corinthians 13. 


In conclusion, the best time to love is now. Our life is all about love. Start to care and love the people around us in our life, whenever you possibly can, whenever you have the opportunity. 

• My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. (John 15:12-14)

• Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does not harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (Romans 13:9-10)

• Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. (1 Peter 1:22) 

"The best use of life is LOVE, The best expression of LOVE is time. The best time to LOVE is now." 

A GREAT FUTURE

   A GREAT FUTURE   - 28 Nov 2012

God has a great future planned for you. I know this because he said so. He says you have not seen, nor heard, nor even imagined anything as great as what He has prepared for you (1 Corinthians 2:9).

Most of the time, we human will become anxious about our future, or we need encouragement about what is ahead, but what we need to do is to listen to God as He speaks to our heart.  

Although we live in a world where everything in our lives can change in an instant, and we can't be certain what tomorrow will bring, but God is unchanging. You may not know the specific details about what is ahead, yet you can trust that God knows. And he will get you safely where you need to go. In fact, the way to get to the future God has for you is to walk with him everyday. 

"For I know the plans I have for you, "declares the LORD," plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11)


Let us be always watchful in our prayers, because we don't know when the end of our life will be. 

Rise Of The Guardians Part 2

Rise Of The Guardians Part 2 - The Existence Of God (27 Nov 2012)


After I had watched this movie, i learn up some lessons from here, that is one little boy called Jamie, the only one believing child left in the world although every child out there choose not to believe all the guardians and the existence of Easter and Christmas day due to the super bad fellow, Pitch (The Boogeyman), the essence of fear and the Nightmare King snatch away all of the child's dreams, childhood's memories, their believes for all the guardians and destroy their faith. But still, Jamie, the valiant little boy, his faith in the guardians has conquer the occasion which sounds so impossible in the world.  


This lesson taught me that, it is so important to believe and to know that the God we worship is real. In Genesis 14:19 mention that, creator of heaven and earth. Indeed, this earth is created by our God, from the very 1st day with light until the last day -7th day, God rested and declared all he had made to be very good. And also this verse, "do you not know? have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth." (Isaiah 40:28) This proof that God does exist and he created all these. The universe is belong to him. 


Not only that, another lesson that I've learn is faith. The faith that we can't see but we feel, sense, know it from our hearts. One quote that i remember deeply n i found it meaningful is "Faith, is not believing that God can, it's knowing that He will." Ya, truly, by faith we able to walk so long until the end of the road. To really commit ourselves to God, to serve in God's ministry, to obey his words and do whatever things that he command, so on and so forth simply because of what we believe and trust that our God is REAL. 
In addition, we live by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7) for what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:18).


Every things God planned for us has a reason behind. Even we can't see it but I believe that God always gives and provides the best for us. The only thing that we need to do is have FAITH on him, pray continually. 


Serve with a passion heart. 

Rise of the Guardian

Rise of the Guardian 26 Nov 2012

just watch a movie call "Rise of the guardian",one of the script strike me it said" do you not believed in moon when you only can see the sun?do you not believed in sun when cloud blocked it?

we had a lot of nightmares growing up. we wake up, startled and holler for our father. He’d come to our bedside, over and over, and he’d explain why we didn’t need to be afraid.
He often used the example of light, summarized in the song lyrics, “There is a light that can overcome the darkness, there is no darkness that can overcome the light.” (See also John 1:5.)
We believe in Jesus Christ, the light of the world, and because we believe in Him, we have no need to fear.
“The light always wins.”

sometimes we will facing down turn of our life, sometime we will even want to give up but please hold on a little longer, because we have a guardian that almighty HE can help us in our trial and difficulties.

we might experience injustice ,bad guy can get away but we will see the final judgement and can see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked.

Malachi 3 

¹⁶ Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lordlistened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.

¹⁷ “On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty, “they will be mytreasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. ¹⁸ And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.

Dear brother and sister Don't Lose Faith, United we stand and don't give up in HIS way.

万有也靠他而立

万有也靠他而立        25 Nov 2012

歌罗西书1:17

他在万有之先，万有也靠他而立

他在万有之先，万有也靠他而立。保罗说：“他在（现在时态）万有之先”，而不是“他曾在（过去时态）万有之先”。圣经常用现在时态来形容神不受时间限制。例如：主耶稣说：“还没有（过去时态）亚伯拉罕，就有了（现在时态）我。”（约八58）

　　主耶稣不单在一切受造物以先就存在，而且万有也靠他而立。意思是他维持宇宙的运行，他也是永恒运转的源头。他控制星宿、太阳和月亮；即使他在地上的时候，他仍然掌管使宇宙井然运作的定律。

神不单创造世界，也维持世界，他联络、保护及引导一切事物，以免分裂和陷入混乱之中。基督维持我们的生命，谁也不能离开他，我们全都是他的仆人，必须每天仰赖他的保护、眷顾和供应。

 Literally "He is continually ("is" = present tense) before all things" emphasizing His absolute existence.

“Christ existed before anything else existed”, “...before anything was created.”

He - Emphatic in the Greek sentence. The personal pronoun He (autos) is used for emphasis ("He Himself" or "He and no other" is the idea).  

Paul  makes a clear declaration of His eternal preexistence as the Son; for the whole passage is a presentation of His Deity, His relationship, His creative and sustaining power as “the Son of His [the Father’s] love” (v13). The teaching that His Sonship had a beginning at His birth or at any other time is utterly erroneous, and derogatory to His glory. The apostle does not say “He was before all things,” but “He is.” Therefore his preexistence is absolute existence. 

He is (present tense)  = continually = timeless present = the existence of the Son is apart from all time ~ expresses immutability of existence) describes Christ’s absolute existence as the eternal “I Am” . Thus Paul does not say that Jesus “came to be before all things,” but that “He is continually (which gives the sense of “I exist, I am”) before all things”

Jesus claimed His eternal timeless existence before the Jews when they asked Him

"You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?" to which Jesus replied "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I Am . Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself, and went out of the temple." (Jn 8:57, 58, 59)

THE INNER LIFE

 

The Inner Life         24 Nov 2012

when one considers the millions who call themselves Christians, the main impression one gets is that in our time the Christian religion consists almost exclusively in going to church on Sunday mornings. I know there are exceptions, but we have to be realistic: the church has very little to say to young people –they are bored by church services and preaching, and so they turn to other things. Yet people are vaguely aware that there is something wrong with their inner life. And even if they don’t go to their pastor or priest about it, they do seek help, often by going to a psychiatrist. It is true that once the inner person really changes, everything else will change. But that will come about through God, not through people. 

Christ taught that there should be a complete change in every person, and that this change should begin in our inner being. Peter and the apostles taught the same at Pentecost.

 (Act 2:37-38 )When the people asked Peter, “What should we do?” he said, “Believe, repent, and be baptized in the name of Jesus.” And when they responded, the inner change that took place carried over into the practical and economic areas of their lives. They laid everything at the feet of the apostles

and no longer owned anything. Everyone gave up his property voluntarily, yet since each one shared everything with the others, no one suffered need. 

For our time, too, we believe in a new society like this, brought about by a change that starts in our inner

being. When God enters our inner life, the change he brings will also affect our outer life. If our Christianity is a religion for Sunday morning only, it will remain shallow and empty.

 

               
                 Bible verse 2 Cor 5:14-19

¹⁴ For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. ¹⁵ And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. ¹⁶ So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here! ¹⁸ All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹ that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

There are hypocrites in the church but there will be no hypocrites in heaven.