On Sunday Service, Pst Cho shared about Time and Eternity. He mentioned that everything changes with time. When we all die, time stops and we enter into eternity. Jesus came as a form of a man to the earth to prepare all of us for eternity. When He died on the cross, time stopped and when he rose up from the death, he brought eternity with Him.
Eternity has brought us many things to our life. It has brought us blessings, prosperity and even healing. We must strongly believe that at the moment that we are saved and we accept Jesus into our hearts as our Lord and Saviour, blessings, prosperity and healing has come into our life.
Now as we are servants of God, we are to guide others into eternity as well. We need to love others, have compassion, only then the love of God through us will touch them.
Personality and Character are 2 different things.
Personality - Born with it, refined by can never be changed
Character - Moulded with time, can be changed by circumstances in our life
We need to keep this in our mind and hearts that we have Jesus in our hearts. When we need healing, blessings and prosperity in our life, to get out and have a breakthrough in our circumstances, we actually don't need a pastor to pray for us, we just need to believe and have faith in God, just a small amount of faith, faith of a mustard seed, that 1%, it's more than enough for us to receive our breakthrough.
We need to show our heart to God. It can be done by mouth confession, telling God how much we love Him. It can be by our thinking and also our visions and dreams.
To conclude, I want to be someone who's after God's own heart. I want to be someone who will be able to stand in the gap between the living and the dead for all the love ones in my life. I want to choose love for everyone despite all circumstances. I am going to be someone who is going to believe in God that I am going to be healed!! I will never have back problems, nerve problems and migraine headaches again in my life! I will be headed in Jesus's name!!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Weekend with Pastor Yonggi Cho (Part 1)
Last weekend was Service with Rev Dr Yonggi Cho, Founder and Pastor of the largest church in the world, Yoido Full Gospel Chuch in South Korea.
Pst Cho ministered to us and shared a word that is for this season that our church is going through, which is R&D, Relationship and Discipleship.
Pst Cho first shared about the invisible heart on the Saturday Service. He mentioned about the heart being a gold. He also shared about how powerful our heart is. Our heart is one which will affect things like our attitude, our environment, our circumstances and ultimately, our life.
He shared about having to develop the invisible heart. We can do it by:
1) Getting Rid of Negative Thinking in us
Our thinking is like an attractive agent. If we think positive, we will attract positive things to our life. We need to stop thinking negative, as it only will attract negative circumstances in our life. We need to change our mind to one that is of positive thinking. We can do that by memorising scriptures, continue to repeat out whenever we start to feel or think negative.
2) Having a Clear Goal and Vision
We can only be a somebody ONLY IF WE HAVE A GOAL AND VISION. We need to be firm in our vision and dreams. God will only work after he has shown us visions and dreams. Therefore it is extremely important to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, spent time in fellowship with God more, not to be distracted and just spending quality time with Him. The amazing things about having dreams and visions is this, we don't need to have money or education to be able to dream and see things in our life, you can just be a nobody and God is going to reveal himself to you and give you visions and dreams to do mighty works just for Him. When God speaks to us, we have to learn to trust and obey. Goals, dreams and visions are never by imitation, but definitely by inspiration.
3) Have Faith and Believe
We need to learn how to have faith and believe in Him. In Mark 11, Jesus says that all we have to do is to have faith of a mustard seed. All it takes is a faith of a mustard seed size that you will be able to move mountains. All God needs is that 1% of faith in your life. Focus on that 1% of faith instead of that 99% of doubt.
4) Having a Mouth of Confession
We need to speak our dreams and visions. When God created the heavens and the earth, he spoke and they were created, Even in His ministry, Jesus always tend to speak and only then, the miracles started to happen. We need to learn how to release our faith through our speaking.
This word that Pst Cho shared has indeed stirred me up. It has got me excited all over again for my dreams and visions in my life. It's time to take up the pen once again and start writing down my goals, dreams and visions in my life. I will start to have faith and believe in them and I will start confessing to them and make them happen. So excited and really looking forward more to the future.
Pst Cho ministered to us and shared a word that is for this season that our church is going through, which is R&D, Relationship and Discipleship.
Pst Cho first shared about the invisible heart on the Saturday Service. He mentioned about the heart being a gold. He also shared about how powerful our heart is. Our heart is one which will affect things like our attitude, our environment, our circumstances and ultimately, our life.
He shared about having to develop the invisible heart. We can do it by:
1) Getting Rid of Negative Thinking in us
Our thinking is like an attractive agent. If we think positive, we will attract positive things to our life. We need to stop thinking negative, as it only will attract negative circumstances in our life. We need to change our mind to one that is of positive thinking. We can do that by memorising scriptures, continue to repeat out whenever we start to feel or think negative.
2) Having a Clear Goal and Vision
We can only be a somebody ONLY IF WE HAVE A GOAL AND VISION. We need to be firm in our vision and dreams. God will only work after he has shown us visions and dreams. Therefore it is extremely important to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, spent time in fellowship with God more, not to be distracted and just spending quality time with Him. The amazing things about having dreams and visions is this, we don't need to have money or education to be able to dream and see things in our life, you can just be a nobody and God is going to reveal himself to you and give you visions and dreams to do mighty works just for Him. When God speaks to us, we have to learn to trust and obey. Goals, dreams and visions are never by imitation, but definitely by inspiration.
3) Have Faith and Believe
We need to learn how to have faith and believe in Him. In Mark 11, Jesus says that all we have to do is to have faith of a mustard seed. All it takes is a faith of a mustard seed size that you will be able to move mountains. All God needs is that 1% of faith in your life. Focus on that 1% of faith instead of that 99% of doubt.
4) Having a Mouth of Confession
We need to speak our dreams and visions. When God created the heavens and the earth, he spoke and they were created, Even in His ministry, Jesus always tend to speak and only then, the miracles started to happen. We need to learn how to release our faith through our speaking.
This word that Pst Cho shared has indeed stirred me up. It has got me excited all over again for my dreams and visions in my life. It's time to take up the pen once again and start writing down my goals, dreams and visions in my life. I will start to have faith and believe in them and I will start confessing to them and make them happen. So excited and really looking forward more to the future.
The Anointing
As I was chatting on BBM earlier with Germaine, I began to remember about something. It was about the anointing.
Today in SOT, it was Bro Poh who came and taught there. He taught on the lesson on leading worship. Come to think about it, it has already been 10 months since I first started learning guitar from him.
Over the months, I realise that I really love attending guitar classes with Bro Poh, not just because of the company of Andrew and Gang, all the laughter in class, or even because it's Bro Poh, one of the best Christian Acoustic guitarist in the world who we're learning from. I strongly believe it's the anointing of God that is in his life that draws us to wanting to fellowship and be around him more, not forgetting to constantly learn from him. The presence of God that comes forth once he starts playing the guitar is indeed one that can never be forgotten. Just a single strum and say hello to all the goosebumps.
I was just telling Liwei about this, about why would someone be so drawn to someone else, especially in church. As many in CHC would know, we all love Pastor Kong, Sun and many others and we would be more than willing to spent time to fellowship with them. This is because of the anointing of God in their life.
Indeed to conclude, the presence of God in one's life is something that is so powerful. It can draw people to you and enable yourself to be wonderfully used by God to influence them and ultimately, get them saved into His Kingdom
Today in SOT, it was Bro Poh who came and taught there. He taught on the lesson on leading worship. Come to think about it, it has already been 10 months since I first started learning guitar from him.
Over the months, I realise that I really love attending guitar classes with Bro Poh, not just because of the company of Andrew and Gang, all the laughter in class, or even because it's Bro Poh, one of the best Christian Acoustic guitarist in the world who we're learning from. I strongly believe it's the anointing of God that is in his life that draws us to wanting to fellowship and be around him more, not forgetting to constantly learn from him. The presence of God that comes forth once he starts playing the guitar is indeed one that can never be forgotten. Just a single strum and say hello to all the goosebumps.
I was just telling Liwei about this, about why would someone be so drawn to someone else, especially in church. As many in CHC would know, we all love Pastor Kong, Sun and many others and we would be more than willing to spent time to fellowship with them. This is because of the anointing of God in their life.
Indeed to conclude, the presence of God in one's life is something that is so powerful. It can draw people to you and enable yourself to be wonderfully used by God to influence them and ultimately, get them saved into His Kingdom
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Real Men, Real Faith
I have recently read a book. It’s titled Real Men, Real Faith. It is a book consisting of many stories of great men of God with great faith and there are summarised stories in their life on their encounter with God, in which area of their life was their faith stretched in, as well as their breakthrough. As I listened to Pastor’s sharing during service, I began to get “flashbacks” on the different stories that were inside the book.
Firstly, People of Prayer. Every story of all these men in the book, started with a prayer. All of them prayed different prayers in their life. They were always praying and spending time with God, communicating with Him through prayer. Their faith was built up by prayer as well as medicating on the Word of God.
Secondly, People of Encounter. All these men also had encounters in their life. They all had their own “burning bush” experience what Moses had in the Bible. One was when he was drunk, one was when he was in a church camp, even Pastor Kong’s story was his encounter in Hawaii. All these men experienced encounters after encounters. Each encounter assured them of God’s greatness in their lives.
Thirdly, People of Balance. These men were people of balance. They all had a strong balance in their life between their work, ministry as well as their personal life. They all had a steady career, they all actively serve God through their gifts and talents and of course not forgetting they all have happy families where most of their children are actively serving God in their own areas as well.
Fourthly, People who engage culture. Some of the men inside were people in the marketplace!! They were engaging culture. I remember there were 3 stories of parliamentary leaders, a few businessmen, a doctor, a few athletes, a few teachers etc. All these men were engaging culture.
Fifthly, People of Relationship. All these men were people who had relationships. They had a strong relationship with God as well as His people in church. They were there for anyone who has a need and they were there immediately to meet their needs as well as healing people when they are hurt. They were all a “people’s person”.
Lastly, People of Discpleship. One thing that inspires me a lot about all these men was how humble they were. They always give thanks to God for every single thing. They were already someone really awesome in their own fields and expertise. But however, they still humbly seek mentors and people to disciple them in their lives. Even better, these guys are actually great men of God themselves. Their mentors were men of God like Billy Graham etc.
To conclude, I am extremely inspired as well as all fired up to change and be someone better. I want to be a person of prayer, encounter, balance, engaging culture, relationship and discipleship. I want to be someone who God wants me to be. I strive to pray more to build up my faith in God. I want to build up my spiritual life by praying and worshipping God always. I want to have encounters after encounters with God. I yearn so deep in my heart every single day since then for a strong touch from Him. I just want more and more of Him and less of me. I want to be someone who has a balance in my life. I want to be able to balance all my commitments etc, every single aspect of my life I can think of. I want to be someone who engages culture. I want to be sent out to the market place to bring Christ into every social order in the earth that is within my means. I want to be someone who brings impact to the lives of many individuals though the love of God. I want to be a person of relationships. I want to build bonds and friendships with people around me. Not just one that is a “hi-bye” one, but one that is deeper, one that spends quality time with them.
An Audience of One
As I did my quiet time last night, the story of "An Audience of One" from the book Real Men, Real Faith came to my mind.
I'm still really impacted by the book and the stories in them. The heading itself is more than enough to portray the humility of one has before God.
I thought to myself as I worshipped, "I have always been doing times and wanting all the fame, fortune, recognition.. It has always to be all about me, myself and I.." Deep in my heart, I hardly every humbled myself before God. This time round, let my every action, every word I speak reflects of Him in my life.
I pray that in the future, as I cook, as I mix drinks, as I serve customers, as I play the guitar, as I speak and talk to people and even as I breathe, no, not just that, but my very presence and purpose of living be one that glorifies Him. Let me be an ambassador of Jesus Christ. I want to be a vessel for Him. I want to show the world that with God, there is still love, hope, joy and peace in this earth =)
I'm still really impacted by the book and the stories in them. The heading itself is more than enough to portray the humility of one has before God.
I thought to myself as I worshipped, "I have always been doing times and wanting all the fame, fortune, recognition.. It has always to be all about me, myself and I.." Deep in my heart, I hardly every humbled myself before God. This time round, let my every action, every word I speak reflects of Him in my life.
I pray that in the future, as I cook, as I mix drinks, as I serve customers, as I play the guitar, as I speak and talk to people and even as I breathe, no, not just that, but my very presence and purpose of living be one that glorifies Him. Let me be an ambassador of Jesus Christ. I want to be a vessel for Him. I want to show the world that with God, there is still love, hope, joy and peace in this earth =)
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