Be Still and Know That He Is God...

Today Lg, i was asking God again, what to say...it was amazing because rayson and i didn't plan that we going to 'speak' the same topic. i just praying to God and writting down things HE show me! I was so shocked when i hear him speak the things that God lay in my heart. I felt overwhelmed.

Well we didn't use the same words/ exactly same thing etc.. this is what God show me :

I felt the father's love for us and the people here. how he want to be in our lives to care for us, guide and lead us. You know, Peter and John both love Jesus.

Peter is the one that says if all these shall betray you, I'll never. I will go to the eneds of the earth and where you go, I'll follow. I lay down my life for you. where as, John, during the last supper, he was leaning on Jesus bossom. John is very cute, he express his rship with Jesus by calling himself "the disciple that Jesus loves" ( this only appear on book of John). Jesus love all the 12 disciples but John KNEW IT.

Peter proclaim that ' I love Jesus'
John proclaim that "Jesus loves me"

Before the night was over, the one that says i lay down my life for Jesus deny Jesus 3 times. While John was found at the foot of the cross, minister comfort to Jesus.

The famous children song "JESUS Loves me this i know" and not "I love JEsus this i know"

1JOHN 4:16 AND SO WE KNOW AND RELY ON THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US.

I am not saying that we shouldn't say I love Jesus. But more of John realized.. HOW MUCH JESUS LOVES HIM and HE was found at the foot of cross.

GOD'S LOVE FOR US I NOT JUST GIVEN IN EXCHANGE FOR OUR EFFORTS;
HIS LOVE FOR US FREES US TO REALLY LIVE.

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I am still very overwhelmed by God's love and grace towards me lately. I truly want to soak in HIS LOVE daily. His love for me does not just stop in the day where i say yes to HIM. His love for me is a daily, minute, second thing, where everytime HE IS SHOUTING HIS LOVE.... and that empowers and makes me want to SHOUT OUT HIS LOVE TO THE WORLD AS WELL!

Last Friday LG was my first time chairing in a LG setting. It was funny because how can i hide away from chairing these 5 years.. I have no idea. ) It just happened. I consider it all good because i am afraid of chairing, so many things to say and what am i going to say? Especially the after praise and worship moment; or communion. or how to go about when the LG is small like last week, and this new friend kept sharing his testimony which is so encouraging, how do i go about asking everyone lets go to pnw ? @_@ haha..But God is good. He still me and ask me not to be afraid. He give me words and tell me is okay. This week i am chairing again @_________@ i can do it THROUGH CHRIST!

Last friday this new friend is very cute, he kept sharing his testimonies, first time i encounter a MALE that remember details - dates, names, TIME @_@ and he just kept sharing GOD'S GOODNESS in every situation he can remember. IS HIS FIRST TIME in LG....AND HE SHARED NON STOP FOR 1HOUR +? i think so..coz by the time pnw is 9pm. yup. IT WAS VERY ENCOURAGING AND FUNNy. REally hope he can join us )

I love my LG. It is just a growing love upon our LG. Really pray that God will continue to move in our LG -

 each lives touched->

each lives connect to the only Source->

each lives transform ->

each lives impacting other lives->

amen.

yesterday i am so encouraged when T came to church; i asked her so S encourages you to come to church? and she said yea. It was very cute, because in the past years S is a non believer; she brought her to church in back home country and Aus few times.. and later she just well stop going to church.. in her heart, there is God. However, the rship just went backwards. and.. i was happy to receive S sms that even in her back home country(she went back for good), she is inviting T to church!@_@

well, i sms T, come on sunday ok. and T say ok. T answer my question ya, S encourages her; not only that, S's mum encourages her too. what shocked me is "S's mum"! @_@ what, did i hear wrongly. because S mum is strong buddhist and S still dun have courage to tell her mum that she is a christian. because her mum will be very angry. and T said, yea, u didn't hear wrongly, S's mum encourages me too. and she said when S's mum is in Aus, she was very touched by your love and cares..

i am very very very encouraged when i hear this. really. i am the one RECEIVING ENCOURAGEMENT!

why.

because i only get to see and spend time with her 1 day plus? and i didn't really do anything special to her!! We were busy in S's graduation!! @_@

God works in HIS WAY, HIS TIME, we are HIS TOOL.

i want to be that faithful tool - use by my Father in heaven to sow GOD'SLOVE in the lives of people !

secret key : DARE TO RECEIVE GOD'S LOVE FOR YouDAILY!...that will be the ONLY UNENDING SOURCE POWER to love others.

Last friday LG, i was very encouraged by this non-believer girl, we were asked to group up and asked when this scenario happens, what we going to do - practical ways, and this girl she said things like being role model and what touches me was when she mentioned 'care for the person'.. without any hesitation or thinking hard; she just mentioned so simply - care for the person. i was very amazed at even a non - believer can know the answer is love. i so long for her to be able to come to know WHO is love.

anyway pondering upon this:

wouldn't it be nice if love were like a cafeteria line? what if you could look at the person with whom you live and select what you want and pass on what you don't? what if parents could do this with kids? ' erm..i will take a plate of good grades and cute smiles, and i am passing on the teenage identity crisis and tuition fees'.

what if kids could do the same with parents? " please give me a helping of allowances and free lodging but no rules or curfews, thank you'.

and spouse with spouse? "Hm..what about a bowl of good health and good moods. But job transfer, in laws, lanundry not on my diet'.

wouldnt' it be great if love were like a cafeteria line? it would be easier. it would be neater. it would be painless and peaceful. But you know what?

IT WOULDN'T BE LOVE. Love doesn't accept just a few things. love is willing to accept all things.

1corinthias 13:4-7 ..love..bears all things, believes all things.

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Continue to love, dare to love, LOVE NEVER FAILS.

Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He says, "Look to Me, and be saved . . . ." The greatest difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God, and His blessings are what make it so difficult. Troubles almost always make us look to God, but His blessings tend to divert our attention elsewhere. The basic lesson of the Sermon on the Mount is to narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ. "Look to Me . . . ."

Many of us have a mental picture of what a Christian should be, and looking at this image in other Christians’ lives becomes a hindrance to our focusing on God. This is not salvation— it is not simple enough. He says, in effect, "Look to Me and you aresaved," not "You will be saved someday." We will find what we are looking for if we will concentrate on Him. We get distracted from God and irritable with Him while He continues to say to us, "Look to Me, and be saved . . . ." Our difficulties, our trials, and our worries about tomorrow all vanish when we look to God.

Wake yourself up and look to God. Build your hope on Him. No matter how many things seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to push them aside and look to Him. "Look to Me . . . ." Salvation is yours the moment you look.

-Oswald Chambers- 

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Was researching on something and just suddenly pop by oswald chambers devotion for today and the first few sentences touches me, one of them is " greatest difficulty spiritually is to concentrate/focus on God"...so true, the famous song : a broken spirit and a contrite heart you will not despise..LORD MY HEART IS PRONE TO WANDER, PRONE TO LEAVE THE GOD I LOVE.Lord here is my heart, take it and seal it... 

i always reminded of the little drawing my sis shinwee draw for me in 2005, is like there's so many roads and wah left side seems so much glorious; right side wow..got so many things i love to do.. etc etc.. but yet, i shall not be distracted by the left side or right side or any ways or the roads that is so amazing/attractive...that i shall continue faithfully walk this path towards my God.

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