Today's Scripture Reading

drifter · Apr 19, 2011

CITY Harvest Church founder Kong Hee has stepped down as chairman of the church's 10-member management board in a major leadership shuffle - the second since investigations into the church began nearly a year ago.

Although Mr Kong will stay on as a board member, half of the board will be replaced. The five outgoing members are: Mr Suraj, Mr Aries Zulkarnain, Mr Lee Tat Haur, Mr Chiang Pak Shane and Mr Choong Tsih Ming.

A new chairman is expected to be announced by May 10.

Responding to queries from The Straits Times, a church spokesman said that the decision for Mr Kong to step down had been taken 'after consultation with senior members of the church'.

'In order to have an orderly handover, it was decided that the most appropriate time would be to coincide with the Annual General Meeting,' the spokesman added.

In a church newsletter released over the weekend, City Harvest said that the shuffle, held during the church's AGM on April 10, was to comply with the recently updated charities' code of governance.

In January, the Charity Council tweaked its guidelines to establish stricter distinctions between the board and staff members of charities.

Previously, the governance code stated that paid staff should not serve as board members; now, both paid and unpaid staff are advised not to serve on the board. If staff are also board members, they should not comprise more than one-third of the board.

This was to maintain board independence, the council said. It added that staff members should not chair the board.

Asked to make a distinction between staff and non-staff members, the council said that the key consideration was whether the people were involved in operational work or not.

'In general, if a new board member is only overseeing missions work,ï¿½but is not involved in the actual running of missionary programmes inï¿½the field, he or she is not considered a staff,' the council added.

With the five new board members, the church's deputy pastor Tan Ye Peng, its missions director Bobby Chaw, and Mr Kong will be the only staff members serving on the board, the church said.

Addressing the church on April 10, Mr Kong, 47, who is also City Harvest's senior pastor, said that the new board members would also 'ensure steady renewal of the board'.

He added that because its previous board had 'worked so seamlessly' as a team, that the church had no need to change its board over the years.

It is unclear how long each of the outgoing members has served on the board, but the church noted that Mr Suraj has served as secretary for 18 years.

The church's five new board members are known figures at the independent, 30,000-strong church.

Mr Chaw is the church's missions director, while Mr Lee Kiam Hong, Mr John Lim Geok Peng, and Mr Francis Tay Eng Hock are cell group leaders; the fifth newcomer, Dr Francis Seow-Choen, a consultant at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, is a member of the church's missions committee.

Mr Kong's latest announcement of his stepping down as chairman of the board is the second major management reshuffle since investigations into City Harvest began in May last year.

Soon after the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) launched a probe into the alleged misuse of church funds, Mr Kong stepped down as head of church ministry. He was replaced by Mr Derek Dunn, 39, the church's executive pastor, and Mr Zulkarnain, 38, in June last year.

Mr Kong is one of the 20-odd church members who have been summoned by the CAD. Asked yesterday for a case update, the CAD said as investigations are ongoing, it was unable to give details.

Few City Harvest members, when asked yesterday, said Mr Kong's stepping down as chairman would matter. Said Mr Amos Lee, 40, a church member for 14 years: 'As long as the overall leadership is still intact, and he is still the one giving the direction, I don't think there will be an issue.'

drifter · Apr 19, 2011

drifter · Apr 19, 2011

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drifter · Apr 19, 2011

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Psalm23 · Apr 20, 2011

Today’s Scripture Reading [April 17, 2011]

Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. [John 4:48. KJV]

When something amazing happens, we often say, “It’s a miracle!” However, this is not really technically correct because it was not a true miracle but most probably it’s an unusual event that perhaps defiled some common logic. To really be a miracle, it should (or rather must) require the involvement of supernatural forces. For example, it was known that some hills in the U.S. cars could be rolled uphill even though they were put into neutral gear. But some physicists who did the studies on this phenomenon have said that this was just simply an optical illusion caused by the landscape. According to the technical studies, it was due to the positioning of the trees and slopes of nearby scenery and a curvy horizon line have tricked the eye and distorting the images. The cars were not rolling upward although they seemed to be so. As many of us know, one of the greatest optical illusionists is David Copperfield. He is the most successful commercial magician in history. All his performances were simply optical illusions, tricking the eyes of the audience, letting them see what they thought they were seeing but indeed they were not what the audience actually saw. Through his magical performances, he has generated more than US$ 1 billion of ticket sales. The magic of David Copperfield is purely commercial. There is no question about it, and there is nothing wrong with this. He is no different from all other professional entertainers like actors, singers, acrobats or soccer players who have invested all their lives perfecting their talents. I had watched several of his performances on TV, and I am truly impressed with some of the performance. One of his greatest optical illusions was how he made the Statue of Liberty disappeared. Did he really make the Statute of Liberty disappeared, physically? He obviously didn't because you can go to New York and you can see the Statue of Liberty still standing – safe and sound.

Besides performing magic, there are many people who are doing deceptive works that, unlike commercial magicians, are done to cheat unsuspecting victims. We see in the newspaper that people were cheated by these so-called spiritual leaders. Young women seem to be the most vulnerable group of people falling prey to these evil ‘magicians’ who usually called themselves spiritual leaders of some sort. They tricked them and robbed them of the money, and in several instances, their ‘bodies’ as women were tricked into having sex with them in order ‘to expel the evil spirit’ which the victims were told to have been possessed. We must be aware that our desire and search for signs and wonders can sometimes be the source of our spiritual illusion. When afflicted with this spiritual illusion, it can be very dangerous and damning. There are many (un)spiritual David Copperfield out in the world, infiltrating even into the church and the Bible labeled them as false teachers and false prophets who bring damnable heresies and destructions to themselves (2 Peter 2:1).

But why would we want to search for wonders and signs when these wonders and signs are already everywhere? Just look at some of our daily encounters around the earth alone, they are filled with wonders and miracles that can only be done by a Supreme Being. Take the distance of earth and our sun. The distance between them is 93 million miles. If the distance is shortened (or lengthened) by just 0.5% or approximately 450,000 miles, it would be too hot (or cold) for any life to survive; the earth spins on an axis that is tilted at about 23.5 degree for two reasons, one for the sunlight to be spread more evenly so that all the land mass gets their fair share of the sunlight, and two, to bring about the four-season weather to those land above the Tropic of Cancer; seventy-five percents of the earth is covered with sea-water and this acts as a perfect geological thermostat to regulate the temperature between daytime and nighttime; the proportion of gases, oxygen, nitrogen and other gases in the atmosphere gives perfect harmony to the ecological system, any alteration to the proportions of these elements would have devastating effect on all living things. These are just two of the many thousands of God’s wonders which are the main sources to sustain all lives on earth. They can never occur without direct interference from God, a Supernatural Being that is completely outside time and space.

In almost every religion, miracles are the key cornerstones that are essential to sustain the faith of the believers. We know of thousand and even million of faithful devotees who believe that their religious leaders can perform works of wonder such as creating something out of nothing, or create a bird out of a lump of clay or m&d, healing the fatally sick. Whether these wonders are optical illusions or real miracles, we must not judge. They could be real or they could be just optical illusions. We never know. But one thing we must understand that Satan can perform miracles too, and this no optical illusion. We can read this in the book of Job. Of course, the miracle that Satan performed on Job to cause him to lose all that he had - his ten children, his thousands of sheep, cattle, his servants and inflicted him with terrible disease, literally just overnight - clearly indicated to us that when it comes to miracles, there are good miracles and there are bad miracles. It is plain simple that the events and the calamities that Job was inflicted with was the work of miracle: How could Job lose all his possessions just overnight, unless it’s a miracle. Honestly, people seldom view this as miracle because people always associate miracles with some positive outcomes rather than negative outcomes. As we probe further into the book of Job, we realize that it was Satan who sent calamity after calamity to Job. Satan couldn’t wait to see how Job would respond to those calamities. His main objective of inflicting Job with calamities was not to destroy Job. Rather, his main objectives were to prove God was wrong; he wanted to see Job curse God; he wanted to tell the world that God doesn’t care you even you are righteous. Of course, Satan failed and his plan backfired. Though Job suffered direct attack from Satan, and the attack was so ferocious and extra-ordinary that it could only happen as the result of miracle, the final outcomes were exactly the opposite from what Satan had expected. Job continued to praise and trust God in spite of all that he was facing. We read in the Bible that one of the most consoling and comforting words are found in the book of Job: So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses (Job 42:12). After this lived Job a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days (Job 42:16-17).

Most of us are practical, bottom line people. We all want positive tangible results and outcomes to bring better material things into our lives, and searching for a ‘miracle cure’ of our sickness dominates the lives of people who are suffering from illnesses. Following next to the healing miracle that we are all yielding to experience is our desire to get rich and hope that some forms of miracles could meet our covetous desire for more wealth. All of us want our ‘dreams to come true’ – money, more money and much more money!

As we examine the miracles done by Jesus as recorded in the four gospels – Mathew, Mark, Luke and John – it is interesting to note that many of the miracles done by Jesus were not really earthshaking, although there were several earthshaking miracles such as raising the dead and curing of the lepers. If we compared the magic (or rather optical illusion) performed by David Copperfield and some of the miracles of Jesus such as turning water into wine, the latter is really too ordinary. I think many professional magicians could ‘turn water into wine’ as we know that unlike miracle, magic are deceptive tricks performed mainly to entertain people. We must remember ourselves that Jesus is no magician, and the last thing for Jesus was to entertain people with His miracles. He had never done any of the miracles on stage. He had never collected any money for His performance. There were two dozens or so miracles performed by Jesus and these miracles were performed with the following reasons: First, the miracle of Jesus of calming the raging sea waves (Mark 4:39) proves that He has power of nature. When His disciples saw this miracle, their response was: What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him (Mark 4:41). The answer is simple. He is the Creator of all things, including nature and so nature must obey His command. Second, by casting out the evil spirit that Jesus performed at Gergeseness (Matthew 8:28-34) illustrates that He has Lordship over demonic forces. Third, Jesus performed His miracles to heal the sick (Matthew 8:5-15; 9:27-71; Mark 1:40-45; 1:29-31; 2:1-12; John 4:46-54; 5:5-9) demonstrated His great heart of compassion. Some of the people suffered and tormented by the disease for many years. Fourth, His healing of a paralyzed man and forgiving his sin, demonstrated that He has Lordship and power over sins; Fifth, His miraculous work of rising the dead (Matthew 9:18-26; John 11:1-43) demonstrated He has power of our final enemy – death!

Let us not let our spiritual blindness distort our thoughts and our mind. Just like optical illusions which are performed purely by commercial entertainers, we must not always believe with what we hear and what we see. And the surest way to get the discernment between truth and false is by reading our Bible, the word of God regularly. If we are faithful to His written words, God will open out heart and help us to discern and reveal the true miracles. Miracles are real. The question is of discernment, of understand, of avoiding false teaching, and lastly of continuing to rely on the finished work of our Saviour - His death on the cross and His resurrection, the miracle of all miracles which assure us that Jesus is our Sovereign Lord and our Saviour.

drifter · Apr 20, 2011

drifter · Apr 20, 2011

drifter · Apr 20, 2011

drifter · Apr 20, 2011

Psalm23 · Apr 24, 2011

Today’s Scripture Reading [April 24, 2011]

Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. [Luke 24:1-3. KJV]

Jesus’ final act on earth was intended to win our trust by enduring physical hardship that even the mightiest would find it quite impossible to endure. He did it all for our sake. In the concluding measure of His earthly composition, we heard the sounds of a thirsty man, named Jesus. His lips cracked, mouth of cotton and throat so dry He couldn’t swallow, and His voice was so hoarse that He could scarcely speak. He was thirsty. To find the last time moisture touched these lips we need to rewind a dozen hours to the meal in the upper room. Since tasting that cup of wine, Jesus was being beaten, spat upon, bruised, cut and pierced. He had been a cross-carrier and sin-bearer, and no liquid had salved His throat. He was thirsty.

Why didn’t He do something about it? Couldn’t He? Did He not cause jugs of water to be jugs of wine? Did He not make a wall out of the Jordan River and two walls out of the Red Sea? Didn’t He, with one word, banish the rain and calm the waves? Doesn’t Scripture say that “He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the wellsprings into dry ground (Psalm 107:35) and “the rock into standing water” (Psalm 114:8)? Did God not say, “For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground” (Isaiah 44:3)?

If so, why did Jesus endure thirst? While we are asking this question, we can add a few more. Why did He grow weary in Samaria (John 4:6) – perhaps due to having traveled for quite sometimes; why was He disturbed in Nazareth (Mark 6:6) – because of people’s unbelief; and why was He got angry in the Temple (John 2:15) – because the Temple was used as house of merchandise. Why was He asleep in the boat on the Sea of Galilee (Mark 4:38) – because He needed to recuperate to prepare for His next ministry to cast out demons at the next shore; why was He sad at the tomb of Lazarus (John 11:35) – because of the death of His friend, Lazarus; and why was He hungry in the wilderness (Matthew 4:2) – because He had fasted for 40 days. And, one of the important questions, why did He grow thirsty on the cross? He didn’t have to suffer thirst. At least, not to the level He did. Six hours earlier He’d been offered drink, but he refused it. These ‘questions and the answers’ have pointed to us one of a very important implications concerning the gospel of Jesus Christ that He, indeed, was truly the reincarnated God made in human flesh. Together with the virgin birth and His resurrection, they are greatest mystery in the whole universe! While the heaven declares His glory of limitless boundaries, His suffering on the cross declares His love for sinners beyond human comprehension.

The final destination of Jesus was at a place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull). He was brought there by the Roman soldiers. Then they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh, but He did not take it. And they crucified him. He died. That was the day God died for you and me, two thousand years ago. Three days day, He rose, and there it began the celebration of Easter. Right? Wrong!

Easter celebration has nothing to do with Jesus’ resurrection in as much as Christmas has nothing to do with His birth. As at Christmas, when we are urged to bring back the "true meaning" of the holiday, so at Easter are we again urged to do so and this time the “true or rather false meaning of the holiday” celebrating His resurrection. Even in churches, we heard of pastors and preachers telling their congregations that ‘the first Christmas’ was celebrated by the wise men who came from the east. This is absolutely incorrect because those wise men did not come to celebrate the birth of Christ, but rather they came to worship Him. It’s a world of difference between “to celebrate” and “to worship” – the former gives reverence to the world’s pleasure but the latter gives reverence to our Holy God, obeying His laws and His commandments. It was very obvious that when the wise men met Jesus, they did not meet on the actual day when Jesus was born but much later because the wise men came to the house of Mary and Joseph, and not at the manger where Jesus was born. (Matthew 2:11). Jesus must have been born many days, weeks or even months when the wise men visited Him at Mary and Joseph’s house.

Of course, every one of us has the right to use any reason as we like for celebrating any holiday. But the implication that Easter celebration is authentic only if you do it with the Christ resurrection in mind because it betrays the true history of Christianity just like the celebration of Christmas to celebrate the birth of Christ shows our ignorance of the true fact of the birth of Christ (because Jesus was not born on Christmas day).

This holiday of Easter has been celebrated every spring all over the world in an unbroken tradition going back to many centuries before Jesus was even born or resurrected, and thus cannot have had any original connection to Him. Perhaps, the only ‘consolation’ for us is that Easter holiday is celebrated with much less pomp than Christmas but this is no cause for celebration either. When it comes to our faith and our belief, everything counts and nothing is too insignificant for us to ignore because a small or seemingly insignificance distortion of fact can unwittingly bring opportunity for Satan who is the Father of lies (John 8:44) to manipulate. He can manipulate even the tiniest lie to become a ‘false true’. Ask any child, and they will tell you that Jesus was born on Christmas day!

The truth is that Easter was originally (and still is) a celebration of the fertility of the earth, renewed each springtime. The egg, the chick, the rabbit, the flowers, are all fertility symbols (and much older than the Christian symbol of our resurrected God, Jesus Christ). Its celebration has often been marked by sexual exuberance in the pre-Christian era.

The Christian church, because it could not eradicate the celebration of this popular festival (as well as several others like Good Friday, Christmas, All Saints Day), reinterpreted it and assigned to it a new meaning, but was unable to erase completely its original significance. Undoubtedly current attempts by Christians will have no more success. The egg and the rabbit, the phallic pole or cross (the real symbols of the festival) will continue to be loved and celebrated as long as we can marvel at the new life which the spring brings. But you and I can do something by not celberating those events.

Like all holidays whether they are religious one or non-religious one, they will quickly turn into opportunities for profit-making by shrewd businessmen. Frankly, we should not have problems with those who commercialize holidays into profit-making business opportunities after all these are some of the ways people make their living. The problem is that some of our beloved brothers and sisters are so taken over by all these celebrations that they have fallen into the practice of paganism. It is very difficult and sometimes we are in the danger of offending one another when discussing topics like should we celebrate birthdays, Christmas, Good Friday or Easter. Even churches are split on these topics. There is, however, one source – in fact the only source if you will – that we can rely on to guide our understanding: The Bible. All we need is to ask ourselves just few simple questions: Was this taught in the Bible? Did Jesus participate in celebrating birthdays? Did the apostles celebrate any of these events – the birth of Christ, the crucifixion of Christ, or the resurrection of Christ? If those events are so important to our Christian belief, then shouldn’t they be taught or practiced by Jesus or the apostles? But there were none of this being taught or practiced during the apostolic period. Remember the last few words from our Lord before He gave up His spirit: It is finished (John 19:30). Jesus has completed the job right at the cross of Calvary. We need to do nothing except our absolute obedience to what He has commanded us to do. We must therefore not attempt to re-enact what He has already done because we can never outdo what He has done on His journey to the Calvary. If you are not convinced, just try to fast for three days. I am sure many of us will give up after the second day. Remember, Jesus has fasted for forty days! Your enactment or your celebration in whatever form can never impress Him!

drifter · Apr 24, 2011

drifter · Apr 24, 2011

drifter · Apr 24, 2011

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Psalm23 · May 1, 2011

Today’s Scripture Reading [May 1, 2011]

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. [John 14:27. KJV]

In search for peace!

When we heard the word “peace”, we can easily associate with two very well-known names: The first one is the United Nations that came into existence in 1945, the year that marked the end of World War Two, and the second one is the Noble Peace Prize which was established in 1929 in honor of Alfred Noble. Though they are separate establishments but they have very similar purpose which is to working and promoting peace for all nations. Quite unfortunately, the United Nations was established after more 70 million lives were lost, plus another tens of millions of homes and families were destroyed because of World War II. When the World War I ended, it was dubbed as ‘the war to end all wars’ but tragically, in less than 25 years, the world saw another war – WWII – which was much more destructive than WWI.

The establishments of the United Nations and the Nobel Peace prize raised one question of historical and political importance which every one of us knows the answer fully well. Have these establishments achieved their purpose to bring peace to the world since they were established? The answer is very clear. The world has seen more conflicts – political, ethnic and religious conflicts – than ever before. We see over the last several months, there is a wide-spread political unrest across the African countries, and these are in addition to on-going wars on terrorism and many other conflicts that are taking place all over the world. In particular, we observe that election violence is always expected of many third world countries. Ironically, even though one of the purposes of a national election is to choose a government so as to unite and to bring peace to the people, the opposite results of chaos and, in some cases, anarchy are frequently experienced.

Our country is going into national poll next week. Over the next few days, the subject of Election 2011 will be discussed by people from all walks of life. It brings me memory, bad one of course, of our national elections of the 1950s and the 1960s. Though I was still very young, but I can still remember quite vividly the mounting tensions as political parties were trying to capture control of the nation’s parliament and to form a legitimate government. Just like many elections of the third world countries today, the end results were predictable and we saw people were injured, many of them seriously and some fatal ones, and opponents were arrested, some were trial in open court, others who were not so fortunate were detained for many years or even decades without a court trial. Today we are very fortunate to have civilized form of election process and all political parties are observing the law and order. We can expect a lot of noises, debates, accusations, counter-accusations by the candidates participating in the election, but one thing we are assured of – it will be a peaceful one. We want to thank God for this. Nonetheless, we must not take for granted that this will continue and thus we need to pray earnestly for God’s mercy that we can be spared from violence be it political or otherwise. Violence in whatever form and for whatever reason must not be condoned with because we can never gain anything out of violence which is committed by people with wicked heart (Proverbs 13:2).

Having read my introductory message, you may be wondering what all these have to do with God and the Bible, the word of God. To connect my message to what the Bible has to say about ‘peace’, I would like to share with you a prophecy that was prophesied by Prophet Isaiah. Among the books in the Bible, the prophecies that were written by Prophet Isaiah contained the most minute details about the birth, life, suffering, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, more than other prophetic books of the same topics. Among many names given to the Lord Jesus in Isaiah 9:6, one is the Prince of Peace. Since the conclusion of World War II, the world has been tirelessly searching for peace and most probably, it has squandered more wealth and effort in its endeavor to bring peace to the people than any other time in the history of mankind. Every year, the United Nations spent billions of dollars just to bring peace and stability to many war-torn countries. Often they have failed their missions miserably. Time after time, together with countries like the U.S., Britain, France, they have been asserted that if only they could crush some particular dictator – by the use of military, of course – people will be able to live in peace, in harmony. But we see the vicious cycles of failed missions of sending military troops to enforce peace keep going on one after another. The combined might of the United Nations, the U.S., Britain, France, and several other countries in an attempt to bring peace has shown us that peace cannot be bought or achieved through military might, political power nor wealth. It left us with one important question: Who then can do this job of bringing eternal peace to mankind?

We all know – I mean most Christians – that since the fall of Adam and Eve which resulted in chaos of unprecedented global scale, of biblical proportion, one of main divine purposes our loving God, the God of Peace, is to restore mankind to its original state where “the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them (Isaiah 11:6). It means, only in Him, Lord Jesus Christ, by Him and through Him, people can find true peace. Going more than one thousand years after the Book of Isaiah was written, we find same message was brought to the earth at His birth in Bethlehem. This similar message of peace was brought from heaven by a multitude of heavenly host: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men (Luke 2:14). We also read in John 20:19 that the very first message our Lord Jesus gave to His disciples after His resurrection was: Peace be unto you. The disciples were filled with fear, and they were hiding themselves with doors and windows closed. Their fear, their unbelieving heart and their act of cowardice was later conquered by the appearance of Jesus and His message of peace and it became the very source of divine resource for them to gloriously and fearlessly bring the Good News to all the people. With the exception of Apostle John, all the disciples were martyred for their faith and for the efforts to preach the Good News of Jesus Christ.

The significance and the importance of godly peace can also be substantiated in Apostle Paul writings. In all his epistles, the Apostle Paul had repeated the words grace and peace in the beginning itself: "... Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 1: 7; 1 Corinthians.1: 3; 2 Corinthians 1: 2; Galatians 1: 3; Ephesians 1: 2; Philippians 1: 2; Colossians 1: 2; 1 Thessalonians 1: 1; 2 Thessalonians 1: 2; 1 Timothy 1: 2; 2 Timothy 1: 2; Titus 1: 4). Peace (and of course grace) seems to the very tenet in all of Paul’s introductory greetings. In Christ, you shall find peace was his message to every Christian whom he had written to them. Sadly, often our defeat and our failure to live for Jesus is not that we lack material possession but because we do not find godly peace within us. We are troubled by this and by that and we tried to seek the kind of peace that the world is offering. We assume that having a good job will land us with a good salary, a good future but we soon got disappointed because after landing into a good job we want a better one. The world gives today and takes back tomorrow. We constantly find something to worry about. But when God gives us something He is not one to give today and take away tomorrow. When He gives us the fruit of the Spirit, He gives it to become part of our life — something we can keep. Let us not let our heart be troubled and let the peace of God be our source of strength to continue in our pursuit to live gloriously and fearlessly for Him. Our Living God, Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, made peace for us and through Him we are reconciled to God, brought to a state of peace, justified through faith. While the world is searching for peace and is still squandering the wealth to seek peace which we all know can never be achieved, as believers, we don’t need to look further than just look right up to the Calvary Cross because God has given us the peace through His Son Jesus.

IR123 · May 8, 2011

Hello Psalm23, may i borrow your thread?

Dear Almighty God,

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Psalm23 · May 8, 2011

Dear IR123,

Yes. By all means. I am sure alot of viewers are looking forward to your contribution.

God Bless.

Psalm23

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