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Who is this being that billions of people believe in? Who is God? If you consult the dictionary, here is the first definition of God that you will find:
"A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions."
"A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions."
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because everytime he posted on sunday ..he will kena ambush by us ...
lucky i know how to track him down whenever he start posting ...im god !!!
because everytime he posted on sunday ..he will kena ambush by us ...
lucky i know how to track him down whenever he start posting ...im god !!!
hahaha....
wheres tanwahtiu???
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i dont know ..i did not install GPS on him ...i only installed on this sick pslam23
yeah indeed his spams are so made up...so fake.....and make no sense...
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he dare not even dare to engage us ....just know how to spam ...stupid christain..piece of shit ( with his bird brain he might even see dragonflies as fairy ) ..krappppppppui
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Let us not be weary in well doing (i.e. doing good): for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9)
Dear Brothers and Sisters-In-Christ,
As we can recall, around this time last year, we saw the devastation of Haiti because of a huge earthquake. Sadly, we did not end 2010 too well neither we have a good 2011 start. The news of two major floods - one in Australia and one in Brazil - are something that we don't like to hear. Many other countries too are now under severe floods and this has caused the prices of food, especially vegetables, going up through the roof. In a TV program yesterday, we heard that in Indonesia chillies are even more expensive than meat. For the poor people who got to disburse a big portion of their income to purchase food, this is a very stressing time for them. I pray that the following short message which I have received will strength us in time like this as some of us too have been affected by the raising food prices. In spite of the raising food prices, we must count ourselves very blessed because what we experienced now paled those people in the Queensland, Brazil ,and many countries which are now experiencing severe floods and extreme cold weather.
"In the midst of a passage on the implications of sowing to the Spirit vs. sowing to our sinful nature, the apostle Paul gives us some much needed encouragement: We need to learn to sow good seed in the midst of bad harvests. It is one thing to do good when things are going well; it is entirely different to do good in the midst of tough situations. We can become so tired and lose perspective. Do you feel like giving up? Stay with it. The harvest is waiting."
Let us not be weary in well doing (i.e. doing good): for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9)
Dear Brothers and Sisters-In-Christ,
As we can recall, around this time last year, we saw the devastation of Haiti because of a huge earthquake. Sadly, we did not end 2010 too well neither we have a good 2011 start. The news of two major floods - one in Australia and one in Brazil - are something that we don't like to hear. Many other countries too are now under severe floods and this has caused the prices of food, especially vegetables, going up through the roof. In a TV program yesterday, we heard that in Indonesia chillies are even more expensive than meat. For the poor people who got to disburse a big portion of their income to purchase food, this is a very stressing time for them. I pray that the following short message which I have received will strength us in time like this as some of us too have been affected by the raising food prices. In spite of the raising food prices, we must count ourselves very blessed because what we experienced now paled those people in the Queensland, Brazil ,and many countries which are now experiencing severe floods and extreme cold weather.
"In the midst of a passage on the implications of sowing to the Spirit vs. sowing to our sinful nature, the apostle Paul gives us some much needed encouragement: We need to learn to sow good seed in the midst of bad harvests. It is one thing to do good when things are going well; it is entirely different to do good in the midst of tough situations. We can become so tired and lose perspective. Do you feel like giving up? Stay with it. The harvest is waiting."
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Today’s Scripture Reading [January 16, 2011]
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. [2 Timothy 3:15-17. KJV]
“Going Back to The Basics”. This is one of the common phrases we heard in our office and it is largely associated with training of employees on courses that focus on “Going back to the basics”. Even the most successful companies agree that in order to continue to be successful, all employees need to constantly understand the very basic essentials of doing business regardless of their field of expertise. Over the period of my employment with various MNCs, I was quite fortunate to have attended several of these trainings which were given course titles like Management 101, Finance 101, Sales 101. Human Resources 101. For seasoned professional managers, often they forgot some of the basic essentials of good corporate governance. They have, instead, overshadowed by their desires to climb the corporate career. It’s not incorrect to be ambitious, to climb up the corporate ladder, to generate more profits of the company that we are working for but these must not be done at the expense of others and ignore the rudiment of what a responsible 'corporate citizen'. Many of the ‘101’ training courses are designed just to do that – achievement, accomplishment, progress, they are important but equally important is the need to be a responsible corporate citizen – socially, morally and ethically, either as an individual or collectively as a corporation.
Sadly, the news that we are coming out each day is really depressing and many of us – Christians and non-Christians – seem to be living under a motto of “every man for himself” and this simply means that each person here should do what is best for himself disregarding the consequences of his action, tragically sometimes to the detriment of himself! We all have forgotten the ‘101’ the basic rudiment or 'formula' of true followers of Christ. Instead we are all trying to climb up the social ladder as high as we possibly could. Often we accomplished this by compromising the standards that God has for us.
As Christians, I am sure we are all wondering what is the next thing for us as we enter into the new season, into the new year. As we can see from the news, we have a bad start – the flood in Australia, Brazil, severe cold weather in many countries, political unrest in Tunasia, and endless news reporting of cheating cases that even very well-established government institutions are not spared from this. We see even ‘trusted’ senior civil servants siphoned of million dollars just to finance their own lavish lifestyle that they could ill afford with their normal salary. So, how do we move forward from here and to live our lives for the glory of God when the world is infested with so much problems which no one seems to be able to solve? We are wondering, when will major strike us here? Although we can take comfort that we are very unlikely to experience the flood as the one we now see in Brisbane, Australia, or earthquake in Haiti but massive unemployment due to collapse of global financial system is real. It has happened in the past and it can happen in the future. Most economists will tell you that. The ‘war on currency’ will be an event that no one, not even the most powerful countries like U.S. China, Japan, can predict what graved consequences that the world will likely to face when this war is on full-scale. Can this be a platform for World War III? Can this be a start of a one global monetary system?, one world currency as predicted in the the Book of Revelation? No one can really tell but there is one thing that we, as Christians must acknowledge – these are all endtime events that must come to pass before the return of our Lord Jesus!
Just like in a corporation where employees are told to go back to the basics and not to take for granted that success in the past will guarantee future success. As children of God, we also need to go back to the basics in the light of the uncertainties that are surrounding us today. We need to refresh our walk with Jesus and to be prepared for the endtime events. We need no Finance 101, nor Sales 101, nor Engineering 101 courses. Instead, we are in desperate need of Bible 101 course. We must not allow ourselves to be comfortable and wait for things to happen. We must be prepared and one of the best approaches to prepare ourselves is to go back to the basics of what Christian faith and Christian living is all about. I would like to list four of these basics which we all should understand fully in order to help us stay firm in our faith in Him and to live our lives that will please our Saviour, Lord Jesus. These four basics are:
(a) Don’t forget what God has done for us
Our lives do not belong to us! We are bought with a heavy price (2 Corinthians 7:23a), and the price is the blood of Jesus that is shed for the remission of our sins (Matthew 26:28). Without the redeeming blood of Jesus, we cannot be restored and to become sons and daughters of our dear Heavenly Father. The blood of Jesus gives us a new identity that we are His people and His is our God. We cannot thus live our lives for our own pleasure, and be enslaved by the world (2 Corinthians 7:23b) but our living must be for God’s pleasure! The moment we were born into the world, God was there as an unseen witness, smiling at our birth. He wanted us alive – not just in this world, but into life-everlasting. Our birth gave Him great pleasure. He did not need to create us but He chose to create us for His own enjoyment. We exist for His benefit, His glory, His purpose, and His delight (Revelation 4:11). Anything that we do that brings pleasure to God is an act of worship and we must be mindful that if we do the contrary that displeases Him, it is abomination to our Holy God.
(b) Remember our promises to God
By participating in the water baptism, we have acknowledged our faith that Jesus is our Saviour. The act of baptism symbolizing our identification with Christ in His death, His burial, and His resurrection and this is exclusive to only people who truly accept Jesus as their Saviour. Henceforth, through our baptisum we have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer we who live, but Christ lives in us (Galatians 2:20). The water baptism that we participated is our very first step in public to declare our faith in Him that Christ died for us and we too will be resurrected into His glory. We must continue this declaration of our faith and declare the good news to others as commanded by Jesus (Matthew 28:19-20).
(c) Seek genuine heart repentance
Accepting and acknowledging that Jesus is our Savior, that He died for our sin is not a one-off event. We must continue to repent and turn away from our evil ways. Our occasional (and for some people frequent) loss of temper, or harboring evils thought is still very much part of our corrupt and sinful nature, we must however exercise great efforts and keep them under the control of the Holy Spirit. It is not easy. As a matter of fact, it is very, very difficult but we can always claim the promises of God that He is our Comforter, our Helper and we can, by the power of His Spirit, conqueror the unconquerable – that is turn away from our evil ways and live a life that is holy and acceptable to Him. The Holy Spirit will guide us to all truth and He will tell us the things to come (John 16:13).
(d) Worship God afresh, day in, day out
We must renew our altar-building effort to worship Him daily. This is not a physical altar building that I am referring to. Rather this is a spiritual altar that we must build, not with bricks and mortar, but with the word of God. We must make reading the Bible as our daily habit, our top priority and we must check with the Bible of what we read, see or hear especially on those subjects or topics concerning His Kingdom. Admittedly, we need to read or listen to secular news so that we are aware of what’s taking place in this fallen world, our main source of daily news digest must be from the Bible. Remember, the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12). It reveals who we are, what we are, and what we are not. It penetrates the core of our moral and spiritual life. It discerns what is within us both good and evil. We must not only just listen to what God has to say about us; we must also let the word of God shapes our lives. The word of God is unique in that it will penetrate us like nothing can. The word of God will not leave us alone once the word of God has penetrated our hearts, until we have obeyed. More importantly, our obedience to His word will keep us out of trouble. There is no better way to worship God than to truly follow and to do what He has told in His word, the Bible.
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Today’s Scripture Reading [January 23, 2011]
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. [Genesis 2:23. KJV]
Over the last few weeks, the discussions on our national demography have dominated most of the local news. More specifically, the discussions focused on the falling birth rates, people are getting married at older age, and increasing number of people are choosing singlehood as their preferred lifestyle. There are reasons why such problems are taking place and admittedly many of the reasons are valid and with logical basis. They range from the rising cost of living, especially in housing, healthcare, education to people who are just wanting to be remained ‘status quo’ and find it difficult to change their lifestyle. We all must agree that once you have started a family, your lifestyle can never be the same. Often than not, family problems take the centre stage of our daily life. It is important that as Christians, how we handle our family problems, especially for those married people will determine the strength of our Christian faith and also our position with God.
In the book of Genesis, we noted that God personally solemnized the marriage of Adam and Eve. This holy matrimony took place in the most perfect environment that the world has ever known, the Garden of Eden. It was the perfect matrimonial union as both the bridegroom and bride were the created beings by God himself. They were like ‘God’ in the sense that they were sinless. They were, sadly, the first and the last perfect human couple without inherited sin. Tragically, as we continue reading the book of Genesis, we discovered that after God solemnized the marriage of Adam and Eve, Satan gave them no chance to build their relationship. He immediately came to them and started the first work of deception that has caused the downfall of not just the human race but the whole of God’s creation. Satan was more cunning than any beast which God has made and started to tell Eve exactly the opposite of what God had earlier instructed her: “That if she eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, she will surely not die (Genesis 3:3)”. The destruction that followed after Eve had given the fruit to Adam who also ate it was beyond the imagination for both of them. It was not their ‘honest’ mistake but their conscious attempt to disobey God’s command when they ate of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because God had told them not to eat. God has warned them that “For in the day they eat it, they will surely die” (Genesis 2:17). They indeed died, spiritually, upon eating the fruit, and physically too. God has intended to create them to live forever in the Garden of Eden.
This story in Genesis has taught us extremely important lessons on relationship, especially in a marriage. First, the best way for Satan to destroy God’s people is to destroy the relationship of married couple. Many people are facing problems of marital relationship due to infidelity, physical abuse, alcoholic and drug abuse, gambling addiction, and so on. Especially if you are doing the work of church ministry, it is just simply impossible to be effective when you have relationship problems in your family. It could be between you and your spouse, or between you and your children, or even among your children. How could you preach to someone, or counsel someone about God’s love when you have a dysfunctional family? Satan knew it too well about all these. He took no chance to spare this otherwise perfect union and had succeeded with ‘flying colours’ in destroying this matrimony even though it was personally instituted by God. When our family is destroyed, our testimonies, our Christians will go as well. But I not referring to destruction due to death but rather destruction of family due to divorce, quarrels, children’s disobedience that God hates. Furthermore, it will bring dishonor to God.
Second, we must therefore always be on the lookout for any deception that can creep into our families. Satan is like a roaring lion looking to devour us (1 Peter 5:8). He will never want to let go any opportunity that he could find in order to destroy God’s ministry, and the best way for him to do this is to destroy our family or our marriage, just like what he did to Adam and Eve. Not only they had been chased out of the Garden of Eden after they had sinned against God, and their right to live with God forever was confiscated. Additionally, all the provisions that God wanted to freely give to them for their sole enjoyment were withdrawn. They had to toil their hands to produce all the food for themselves (Genesis 3:18). In the modern days, this is usually the issue at hand for families – the financial well-being and economic survival. Many divorces and marital relationship breakdown were due to problems of finance. We must honestly and humbly agree that in today’s economy, “no dough means no marriage” or sometime “struggling marriage”. This is a global phenomenon especially when a country becomes more prosperous and wealthy, ironically! But this is not just the financial aspect that we all worried about as far as marriage and family are concerned. The statement that ‘marriage is under attack on several fronts, from our culture of serial monogamy and easy divorce to the new push for so-called "gay marriage’ is no more for debate whether it’s true or not. In the last few decades we have been very fortunate to be led to the belief (wittingly or unwittingly) that our government doesn’t just take care of people’s welfare. Senior government officials were (and hopefully they still are) the pure breed with impeccable character. They had led us by their example and they could not tolerate any mischief no matter how insignificant or however ‘private’ a mischief can be. If any senior government official caught having a mistress or a lover, he would run into the risk of losing their position. Whether this is true or not, we really don't know but at least most of us tend to believe that this is what it is (or was?) It is amazing or in fact quite puzzling (at least to me) that even some of our senior ‘respected’ politicians now are quite indifferent towards homosexual and personal character is no more an issue of people of positions so long they can perform and take care of people’s welfare and a shocking comment of “His private life is His private” (and who cares) is something we can least expect. Is the Bible prophecy that we are heading towards the events that will lead us to the end-time is unfolding right before us right now? When Jesus was asked when will the Kingdom of God come, He has warned us that when we are experiencing events such as those took place in Lot’s day, the Kingdom of God will be approaching (Luke 17:24 – 29). We read that during Lot’s day, among other sins, homosexual was rampant and God has to send fire and brimstones from heaven to destroy the sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The third lesson we can learn from the story of Adam and Eve is that, don't take our situation for granted. We may all feel that we are in the most perfect environment - a high-paying job, a huge house, a big car, a good health, a loving spouse, and nothing can happen to my family. We need God's help and never live our lives as if Satan is blind and dead; he is very much alive, and he is watching us and ready to devour us like lion. He will not spare God's people and he will take every effort to bring down a family that is built by God's children. We therefore must not let him have the chance to do so. If Satan can pentrate into the absolute perfect environment to create havoc in the lives of Adam and Eve, we must be prepared and not let him take us by surprise.
What do all these mean to people who are married and have children, and how should we respond to this latest front in the war on marriage, on family? As we read in Psalm 118:8: "It is better to trust the Lord than to put confidence in man", we must prayerfully go to the word of God to get insight, guidance and wisdom. Only His word can be trusted. In particular, the book of Ephesians is a great book on marriage and on family. For example, in Ephesians 5:22-23, Apostle Paul draws a word picture showing the parallel between a married couple and Christ and His church, setting out the proper order for success, not only for physical marriage, but for our spiritual one too. Both the physical and the spiritual are rooted in the love God has for the marriage covenant. Just as a man and a woman are joined as one flesh, so too are Christ and His church joined in one Spirit. For a marriage to be successful, we must therefore make God the center of our life. All serious marriage couples should read the book of Ephesians as often as they could and preferably be read together because this book gives spiritual nourishments essential for a healthy marriage intended by our loving Lord Jesus.
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