What if I move...

Jer 42:10 If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you.
Jer 42:11 Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not fear him, declares the LORD, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.

If we through this whole passage, it's about how people in Judah did not trust God even after the asking Jeremiah to seek God. After ten days Jeremiah seeking and asking God about the future or people in Judah, God want them to stay in Judah! But what did they do?

Jer 43:2 Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, 'Do not go to Egypt to live there,'

This story or passage can be referred of two things, our ministry and our spiritual life. Let's talk about spiritual life. People in Judah can't stand to live in Judah anymore due to disaster, wars, and afraid to the enemies around them destroying them. But God clearly speak through Jeremiah and telling them to STAY!!

This happen to most of us in our spiritual life. God clearly speak to us directly or through the sermons we heard or read, but still we want to go to our "better" place to satisfy our desire! This what happen to me too. For me, sometime we hate our situation, our life our sickness, our failure, our families perhaps and probably hate of what happen to us. And we tend to leave God or leaving our committed life and our ministry, our Christian life to ordinary people level (hope you understand what i mean here). We hate this thing happen because even we closer to God and read God's word everyday, and we pray every moment or we actively in church ministry, still bad thing or "disaster" happen in our life. (I know it's pain).

This is what happen to people in Judah. They serve God, burn offering and listen to God but still they live a worry or scaring life. So they decided to move to Egypt. They thought maybe in Egypt they will have a better life, and no army dare to kill them. But God say... NO!!

Sometime we think, the best way or the best solution we can have or do is to leave our active christian life or committed christian life since even we serve, we face the same hardest time like non-believer do. But when God make a promise, He want us to stay and He Himself will build us, STAY!!!! Jer 42:10 If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you.

But in early stage, Jeremiah already told them to obey God's voice but they didn't. Jer 38:20 Jeremiah said, "You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the LORD in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared. When i continue to read and study the chapter, this is actually what happen to them. Even most of them burn offering and committed to God, but secretly most of the wives burn offering to other idols and worship them.

Let's check our life and confirm it. Do we worship or obeying or stuck with other idols in our life that we can't leave it? If yes, that is why God want us to leave it all. I believe that is what Jeremiah want to tell them, people in Judah but they don't want to listen to God's voice. Thus they want to keep the idols, bring it with them and depart to Egypt.Maybe some of us is like that. We want to live our christian life or committed life and bring the idols with us, and ignoring God's voice. The disaster is not because of God want to punish us, not that God want to test and destroy us too, but because of our own life, our SECRET life.

God want us to stay, so we stay. But God also want us to throw away the idols in our life and the things that we SECRETLY do that against God.

GBU.

David’s wish list

Last Saturday during our youth fellowship, we suppose to have our creative ministry. I been praying and seeking God on what should we do for that creative session. Some suggest we do a group study with those who will sit for the exam; but we feel it’s a bit late already for preparation because we need to study the subject and open a book again. As I prepare myself I told God, “God I surrender this week activity into Your hand and You speak to us what you want us to do.”

During our worship session, a voice in me told me to do History session and to study it. So I open up my bible and turn to 1 king 2:1-12. It’s about David’s advice to Solomon before he passed away. So we study the verse one at the time and question our self the famous way to study the word or history; which is Why, Where, When, Who, What and How (5W1H). After that we also learn how to meditate on the verse.

For me, there is few main points that David wants Solomon to remember before David’s pass away; verse 3 and verse 12.

V3 : And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself,

David is a humble and faithful servant of God. He advice his son so also follow his footstep and be faithful to God. What we can learn and know about this verse is that, when we keep charge of the Lord thy God and when we walk His ways we will be PROSPERS!!! Yeah..That is true! This is the secret to be PROSPERS in our life, work, study, friendship, and anything. KEEP CHARGE OF THE LORD!! Many of people nowadays looking for better way to prospers or success or rich. But God said, KEEP CHARGE TO HIM AND WALK HIS WAYS!!! Don’t believe me?

V12 : So Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established.

Yea…Solomon sat on the throne of David and his kingdom was FIRMLY ESTABLISHED!!! See it. When God promise us thing and if we KEEP CHARGE OF THE LORD AND WALK HIS WAS, we will prospers like Solomon did!!! So, there is no need to look for other solution but come to Jesus and He will prospers us!

What I learn here is that, when we make our life right in front of God, He will surely make us satisfied and fulfill our need. He will make us prospers in everything just like Solomon’s kingdom is widely known.

If we want our study to be success, come to the Lord and make our life straight. If we want our business success, come to Him, if we want our ministry established come to Him and make ourself right and if we want our life success, keep charge of the Lord and walk His ways. That is His promise.

GBU.

I can bypass a FERRARI!!

Last Friday during our Home Group Fellowship (HGF) Elder Baru Tai share to us regarding God’s presence exists in our life. We study from John 6:15-21 where Jesus and His disciple on the boat while a strong wind was blowing, and the sea was getting rough (v18). If we read the whole chapter, Jesus is walking on the water, and He calms the sea. After He calm the sea, we know that Peter want to know if what He saw is Jesus or Ghost walking on the water (Matt 14:28).

Most of us know about this song and what we understand us our life is like that ship and the wave or the rough sea and the wind that blow is just like a problem in our life.

Let’s see other verse, “Joh 6:21 then they willingly received Him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.” What we understand from this bible translation is that the disciples willingly received Him into the ship, BUT the already land whither they went!! In verse 19 says that they had rowed about three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat. They became terrified. Just imagine, you just rowed about few kilometers but when JESUS enter you boat, suddenly you reach your destination. Wouldn’t it great?!

Another reference we learnt is in 1 King 18: 41-46. Elijah was on the top of Mount Carmel and his servant is checking up by looking to the sea if there is any sign of a rain. The servant has to check the rain for seven times. On the seven times than He have the sign of rainy day. When there is a sign, Elijah asks the servant to go to Ahab and tell Ahab to make a move with his CHARIOT (v44) (My friend call it Ferrari, a traditional and probably first version of it). So Ahab rode on the CHARIOT and makes his way to Jezreel.

The best part is this, in verse 46 and the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. Isn’t it amazing!!! Elijah bypasses Ahab who is already on the chariot!

What we want to learn here is that, in 1 King 18 and John 6 whenever the hand of God upon us or God’s presence in our live or Jesus is invited willingly in our life; miracle happen in our life!! Miracle will happen to us in whatever we want to do, as long as there is God!!

Isn’t its amazing God promise to us? Wonderful!! So if we expect miracle in our life, make sure God’s presence exist in our life, God’s hand is upon us and we receive God willingly in our life. Wonderful!!

Do you believe in Supernatural?

For those who close to me, they surely know and always hear that i am a big fan of Supernatural. I watch supernatural from season 1 and till now (currently season 5). In supernatural it shows us many ways of evil spirit can distract and posses us. They can even go into our body or just outside the body and try to steal our soul. The question is, do you believe in that supernatural power thing? Do you believe there is power outside there wanting our soul, body and mind?

Last Saturday, after our sunday service practice i sent my friend back home. On our back home, i share to him and tell him about supernatural power thing. They exist and really can go into our body and distract us. This happen to some people who going through this and saw this thing (evil spirit). After i sent him home, i was asked to join them to pray for another family nearby. At first i was ask to lead by i pass it to his sister. We went and pray and Pr. Samuel (from Bidayuh ministry) was invited to share for them. And we pray for the family and that night three family members accepted Christ!

Last night also, we went to my sister's rented house in Bau with Pr. Henry Padin. The night before my family when there and saw a lot of "barang" hanging on the wall and belive was spell before. So my dad took all of it and burn it to cast the evil spirit from the house. After that my sister want to go to sleep, but she hear a voice outside the house saying, "Ouch, Ouch! It's painful!" Non stop! Than suddenly my sister feel her's leg was pulled by someone, but no one in the room!

The day before also she couldn't play a mp3 in her's laptop and try to run the e-Sword software, and it couldn't! As an IT expert i check my sister's laptop, from the event viewer, there is no error. She complain that the laptop hang almost most of the time! What a supernatural thing.

And last night we went again to the house and i can feel the evil spirit is in the house especially upstairs. And we begun to pray, and pray. From downstairs to upstairs. We gather at downstairs, as we pray for her's roommate, i saw a black figure coming down the stairs but disappear as soon as we continue to pray. I went to the stairs and hold the stairs holder pray and claim the blood of Jesus to wash and cover the stairs!

What happen after that is, everyone in the house feel joy and peace after we pray for the house and cast out demon.

What i'm trying to tell here is that, we believe the evil spirit is out there and or maybe some of us already let the evil spirit live inside us. But unlike Supernatural series, we can't resist or cast out demon like how Dean and Sam did; but by the power in the name of Jesus Christ!! Remember when we invite Jesus in our life, there is no room for satan anymore and His spirit is stronger than the spirit outside us!

If our answer is we believe in supernatural thing, keep on praying and ask Jesus to cover us with His blood! Don't scare to them and loose to them, but keep on praying!! Eph 6:18 says....Keep on praying!! Satan will use a way by giving us a hallucination of them, and cause we scare to them; but always remember we have the authority from Jesus that He gave us to resist demon and cast them far away from us.

Supernatural do exist! Few more story i can share to you regarding this; maybe in the future.

God bless you.

I receive this mail from a friend…(That’s God)

Have you ever been just sitting there and all of a sudden you feel
like doing something nice for someone you care for? THAT'S GOD talking
to you through the Holy Spirit.

Have you ever been down and out and nobody seems to be around for you
to talk to? THAT'S GOD wanting you to talk to Him.

Have you ever received something wonderful that you didn't even ask
for, like money in the mail, a debt that had mysteriously been
cleared, or a coupon to a department store where you had just seen
something you needed, but couldn't afford? THAT'S GOD knowing the
desires of your heart.

Have you ever been in a situation and you had no clue how it was going
to get better, how the hurting would stop, how the pain would ease,
but now you look back on it...
THAT'S GOD passing us through tribulation to see a brighter day.

Dear God...

I know you're watching over me
And I'm feeling truly blessed
For no matter what I pray for
You always know what's best!

When i receive this email and i read it till the end i am so touch and so bless how wonderful and loving God is to us. It is just the matter of our self, whether we hear Hm or not, whether we want to let Him manifest in our life or not, or whether we trust Him or not. My close one always SMS me and remind me again and again to keep on trusting God. Sometime we always think that when we are in trouble, we tend to asking "why this happen, why not this, and why i am such a bad in this?" The question always why, why and why.

But as we read this mail, now ask God when things not right happen to us. Ask God, what God really want us to know or do in our life today and to thing that happen to us. Ask God what He want to show us and correct in our life.

For everything happen, there is a reason. Trust God in everything we do. Together we learn, together we support and build one another, and together we grow spiritually in Christ.

GBU.