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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Asia Conference, FINALE!
1. We are to be in the world, not of the world. Cultural Mandate.
2. WHEN NO ONE WANTED US, WHEN THE DEVIL WAS TRYING TO AUCTION OFF OUR SOULS, SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD STOOD UP! "WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO BUY THIS PERSON?! WHAT IS YOUR NAME SIR?!" "My name is Jesus Christ."
3. WOO GOD OF MY LIFE!
4. Dont have money in your pocket at the end of the age. Feed the hungry! Light the lamps! Sow the seeds!
5. Is the way the world is today the way it is supposed to be?
6. Movement is not Progress
7. Who we want to reach out to starts with valuing them and honoring them.
8. Every Talent is God given. For us to honor Him, build relationships with people.
Okay, you know what, the whole conference today over the radio was fantastic. My only regret was that I did not experience it with everyone else. Nevertheless, this will be a huge change in everyone's life. And Harvest teens will make PROGRESS. [Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,
5:21 PM
Asia Conference, Pastor Reinhard Bonnke
Tonight was an amazing night. God filled the halls with his presense, as the masses came running to their heavenly Father. And He granted them visions, anointing, forgiveness, and most of all, love. He granted everyone Love for one another.
Me? I know He has something different for me. He gave others a heart for the nations. He gave me a heart for my home. To make my home His home. He doesn't want me at any other place, He wants me here. All that has transcended, it was the preparation phase for me. Our God is a creative God. He gives each and every one of us different purposes, each one with its own unique-ness.
For the past few weeks, I dreaded being alone. I ws depressed whenever I'm alone, thinking unreal and depressing thoughts that almost, but thank God it didn't, bordered on the suicidal. But all of that was God preparing me. Because this path that He has given me, is different from everyone. This is a path that I have to walk by myself, with people joining in along the way or at the end of the way, not at the start.
So now, it's different. God prepared me to be by myself, and that alone means I'm not, because God is with me.
Harvest Teens, I love you. And that's way, I will reap the harvest that is before me. Harvest Teens, you will grow. Not only in numbers but spiritually. The only way for you to go is up.
It all starts with prayer.
Breaking through. Watch out, because here. we. come.
[Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,12:53 AM
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Asia Conference
Asia conference has been nothing short of awesome. To see the number of souls hungry for God has been amazing. And we all know that we are more than that. I really want to see the day come when the gates of heaven open, and all nations bow down in worship of the Lord, our Father.
Today's one was awesome. Just what I needed. God dug me out of the hole I was digging myself into. He refilled my cup till it overfloweth. I'm ready to start giving everything again to everyone. This time will be different.
To love one another just as He has loved us. This is a new command. [Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,
1:25 AM
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Dream.
Gonna train in basketball more often. I got sidetracked from what I dreamt about doing, but now this dream has got an added purpose to it. To spread the love of God on a bigger stage. On a bigger court. [Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,
12:04 AM
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Love: Nay.
They can conjure up a world within the limit of one's imagination. They can tear down a reputation that took who knows how long and how many hands to build. Words can be used to communicate feelings that one finds hard to express. Words can cause a heart to flutter and to break.The subtlety, the colourful, the depressing, the joyful, all sorts of expressions can be expressed with words. Subtlety and being indirect, I guess ever seeing those words and reading them was my downfall from the beginning. Words can bring a man up to infinity and beyond, but they can also cause a man to fall into the depths of hell. I guess I shouldn't believe everything that I read on the net.
I wonder if she were to read this, would she think,"Is this directed at me?" Because every post that she wrote, I had my doubts at first but ultimately there was a little thought at my head, that's ever so small,"maybe, just maybe it's me." And because I believed that, it's what led to this. Conclusion?
Remember the lessons you learnt in Vietnam. Remember why you wanted to wait till you're 21. Even though she seems ever so awesome now, God has a guaranteed plan and purpose for you. Guarantee or no guarantee? Love: Yay or Nay?
God, loving you has been the best thing that ever happened to me. And having this crush on her has been killing me so far, with quite a few short spurts of ecstacy in between, but reading her recent words? Whether it's for me or not, it's time I put a plug onto the road that leads to my heart. Love: Nay. That is until I'm 21.
[Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,10:46 PM
Saturday, May 15, 2010
God is good.
This started to make me think. Actually, it started with a song that some of us are recently engrossed about, Secondhand Serenade's Your Call. The chorus of the song got me thinking. Here it is:
"I was born to tell you I love you
I am torn to do what I have to do
To make you mine, so stay with me tonight"
See the supposed relation? Here's what I felt was connected.
Jesus was born to tell the world that God loves them.
Jesus is torn to do what he has to do, that is, to die on the cross for us.
To make us his, so he tells us to stay with him.
Continually, Jesus has shown us his and our Father's love for us, and tells us to love our brothers and sisters, sinners and prostitutes alike. He calls us to love our neighbours as we would ourselves. There are many accounts for the love he has shown to everyone, for the compassion he shows towards us. He is the ultimate testimony of God's Love for us. He was born to tell us that He loves us, that God loves us.
In Matthew 26:38a, it says "Then he said to them,'My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death..." On the inside, He was tearing himself apart. Jesus knows of the plan God has for Him. But after all, He is human. Another example is Luke 22:44, "And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground." He was anguished! He was so affected at knowing what He has to do, He did what He knew best would help him: pray. And He prayed so hard. But ultimately He did what he had to do. He saved us all. Even though he was filled with sorrow, He did what God set out for Him and died on the cross. Jesus was torn to do what he had to do.
Again, in Matthew 26:38b, I continue on with what Jesus to Peter and two sons of Zebedee "Stay here and keep watch with me." In Mark 14:34, " 'My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,' he said to them. "Stay here and keep watch." But continue on from these two verses and Jesus continually finds his disciples asleep. In Matthew, Jesus tells them to stay and keep watch with Him. I'm not sure why it differs in that way in Mark. My point being, Jesus didn't ask. He told them to stay and keep watch WITH him, as he went further away to pray. What did He pray about? He prayed "Abba Father, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will." in Mark. In Matthew, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will."
Jesus knows what He has to do, to save us all. His life was to show of God's Love, to tell us HE LOVES US. But He was torn to do it. But, He knew he had to, and I believe this showed that he WANTED TO as well. He prayed that may God's will be done, and not his own. For the sake of us, He died for us. The ultimate sacrifice.
Now whenever I hear or play the song, I think of Jesus. I could almost imagine him singing ,"I was born to tell you I love you. I am torn to do what I have to do, to make you mine. So stay with me tonight." to his disciples. Or at least, telling them that.
So related or unrelated, I want to learn more about the meaning of sacrifice for what is right and good. And when I think of sacrifice, I think of Jesus's ultimate sacrifice on the cross. The very symbolism of sacrifice.
The greatest thing in the world to happen to someone is not that he knows God. The greatest thing in the world to happen to someone is that God knows him. [Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,
11:55 PM
Thursday, May 13, 2010
The Night.
I find that whenever I'm down or depressed, I always want to eat. It's like my default function, to eat. I think in my past life, I was a food tester. Eat in the good times, eat in the bad times, my livelihood was to eat.
I try to talk to friends at night to alieviate the depression and lonliness. Nothing better than the company of friends right? Well, they're human too, they have their bad nights as well. They face the same stuff that I do everyday. Misery loves company? I do love company.
I'm trying to start a sports ministry in church. It's going to get off to a rocky start, I foresee. I feel sports is one of the greatest gifts that God has given us, along with Love, music, and food =P. But I honestly sometimes cannot understand how someone can get by not loving one sport along the journey of their lives.
This has been a random post. I want to rant, but I have work to do.
Wish me luck. [Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,
12:37 AM
Sunday, May 02, 2010
The Value of Money
With me wanting and making a list of things that I want, money is needed.
With me wanting to save up for an oversea semester's worth of America's sports education, money is needed.
With me wanting to pimp out my room, money is needed.
With us wanting to grow bigger in numbers, a bigger place is needed, money is needed.
With us wanting a bigger space for activities, money is needed.
With us wanting to pimp out our spaces, money is needed.
At the base of it all, underneath the administration, the manpower, the logistics, the events to be unfolded, money is needed.
When God decides to move our church to a new place, this is when God also moves people to take action towards it, and in effect, also helping people to better manage their own expenses and lives.
For me, I'm taking up a more serious view towards how I spend my money. For the past month (or year), I've always spent my money quite loosely, hardly thinking about savings, but only putting aside a certain sum for tithing every week. I think it's because there was nothing I desired strong enough to be saving money for. I wanted alot of things, but I didn't want it strong enough to take long term actions for it.
But I want this. I want to help towards the building of our new church building. I once told myself that when I'm older, if I have enough money, I want to build a new building for my church. God has done so much for me through it. Not only is it right that I want to pay back what God has given me, but I think for the first time, this is something that I really, really want. I never felt this desire for something in a while. Since buying a basketball, saving up for my first team jersey, or buying yugioh cards since primary school. And so, I want to help.
During the prayer meeting we had for the church building fund, they had a slide on how different 200 people can contribute towards the building fund. I took it as a challenge like "Which category of people do you want to be in?". And so God showed me a category that I can take within my means (or alot out of it), and I took it.
On the ride home today, I took out my book, and did some calculations. How much I need to put aside to save that amount. How much I can put aside for myself as well. I took this chance to really manage out my expenses, to save towards something that I desire to see happen, and towards some stuff that I wanted to buy for a while =p. For my oversea's education of one semester, I decided to put aside that thought and did not leave any savings for it. I'm leaving the matter of this up to God. This is what I want to do, where I want to go, but is that where God wants me to go? We'll find out when that time comes.
So yeah. I thank God for this opportunity to help me fully realize better the value of money. I thank God for giving me this chance to better my life. To become a better, more responsible man. To become a man of worth. A man after God's own heart. Like David.
12:50 AM