What i learnt last week...

Last week was a super chialat week for me. Why? I had much on my plate and a sedentary life is what I love!

So, what happened?

1. my aunt (dad's sister-in-law no. 2) passed away at the age of 83. she had accepted Christ and refused to let her daughters tell her eldest son that she became a Christian and thus was buried in the usual chinese way...
2. i actually am stronger than i think!
3. i am attending a "refresher" course in prayer ministering with aunty nancy.
   

And, what did I learn during this week? I learnt some important LAWS which is the basis of the prayer ministering class that I am attending...

• we need to honor our father and mother (Deut 5:16). Hey! is that supposed to be earth shaking, mountain moving info, you might ask? Well, we may know the verse but do we DO the verse in our day to day?
  
• judge not lest you be judged (Matt 7:1-2). Take time to read and meditate on these verses cos God is serious about it!
• whatever a man sows, this he will also reap (Gal 6:7-8). Law of harvest?
• for in that you judge another, you condemn yourself! (Romans 2:1) - when we judge someone for a particular sin, we condemn ourselves to blindly continue in the same sins! Wow! heavy and controversial!

I plan to regurgitate some of these things i have heard on my blog so that i can re-look at my thoughts and stuff that pass through my brain so that it'll help me...

Will continue soon....

more old pix...

camp 2004...
1.joel with kay li.
2.the atkinsons with loretta.
3.pretty zanne. ooops! dunno how to rotate pix! turn your head please!
4.the maks..

down memory lane...

hey! i learnt to add photos to my blog! yahoo! here are some photos that have never been published!!! enjoy!

My word for this week!

Here is something induced by this week's Word!


Many of today's preachers could be accused of preaching "Feel Good" messages and in many ways, giving the impression that our God has limited facets to His person. Many sermons talk only about God's blessings without correct emphasis on what we as Christians ought to do in order to "attain" these blessings, skimming over this by saying that "so long as you believe…"

I am not suggesting that these preachers are wrong but merely that we may be shortchanged if we do not look in Scripture for ourselves and depend solely on another person's interpretation. In the case of eternal life, this "so long as you believe.." mindset is accurate and true, but insofar as blessings such as material blessings, this may not be the case.

My illustration is this, Matthew 6:33 which says, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all these things shall be added onto you." It does say, seek ye FIRST the Kingdom of God. Another illustration, Psalm 128:1-2, "Blessed are all those who fear the Lord, who walk in His ways. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours."

See other verses like:
Deut 28:1-3
Psalm 1: 1-3
Deut 29:9
Luke 12:30-31
2 Chronicles 20:20
Psalm 111:5
Isaiah 1:19

There are plenty of other verses that I could quote which makes blessings if you like "conditional". These conditions I view as good as it reminds me to thank my Maker for what I have and not forget and end up being ungrateful.