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Sunday, July 12, 2009
 Took this picture outside church. I think is really amazing that even of the smallest of things can thrive at places we hardly notice. Due to GABRIEL GOH'S suggestion that i should post the sermon notes on my blog, i decided to try it out. I think i would publish this on a weekly basis for now, and when i have more time after my o levels, i would publish a separate blog FOR THIS PURPOSE. One more thing, these notes are the parts that touched me during the sermon. It is not the word for word sermon that the priest/pastor made. It is what i took down and posted in my own words. Hope it'll be helpful (GABRIEL GOH GABRIEL GOH! SEE THIS!!) This is my first time doing this, so i am bound to make mistakes, please give me your feedback on this by texting me on my cell phone. HEARTS ON FIRE YOUTH RALLY @CJC 11.07.2009 Dear brothers and sisters in christ, our God would like to tell all of you that he is madly in love with us. He wants to make that connection with us in our life and is trying hard to reach us. However, many of us are usually connected with the world, which is not what he wanted. Most of our characters and emotions are defined by the world we live in. For example, we feel gloomy for the whole day when we hear a song about breakups or how sad the singer is. Maybe we feel defeated when our favourite soccer team loses in a match. Once again, this is not what he wanted. When he calls us, we must listen. "If you are called, reply, 'Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.'." 1 Samuel 3: 9. We should try to quieten down our hearts and listen to the lord. Bombard him with your prayers. Jesus went to a quiet place to pray as well and we should follow in his footsteps. Many of us would think that, ' I've strayed really far away from God, would he even bother to listen?' HE DOES! No matter how far we stray, he is there. No matter how much suffering we go through, he is there to walk with us. Jesus is here to carry our burdens, our worries, our fears, our suffering. He is here to walk with us. We should allow him to use us as an instrument to touch the broken. To do that, we should humble ourselves down, i repeat, humble ourselves down and hear his calling. He is pleased with us, he accepts us for who we are. Our job is to lift everything to the lord. He has the power to transform. With God, all things are possible. Remember, God loves us more than anyone on earth, he is crazy! CRAZY IN LOVE with YOU. So the next time your girlfriend/boyfriend says that he is crazy in love with you, ask him to bang the wall because you know that God's love is greater than everything else! We should connect to him by being prayerful and with constant confession. + Hilary Says: For those who do not pray so often, try praying for at least 5 minutes everyday. You will feel the difference :D Bible Sunday! @ SFA 12.07.2009 Prophets. In the old testament, they usually sent to go around warning the kings that some mishaps are going to happen if they do not do what they are asked to by God. When the king does not believe them, it really happens. They indeed sound like the fortune tellers that we visit or the horoscope pages that we read. However, prophets are NOT fortune tellers. No one could ever tell our fortune, i repeat, no one could tell our fortunes. Prophets are people called to speak on behalf of him. Now, all of us christians are also called to speak on behalf of God. We are all chosen by him to proclaim the Good news. How do we know when to say and what to say? We could, buy listening to the gift that God gave us, which is the holy spirit. As humans, we usually say we are loaded with time, the minutes, the hours, the days we have. Instead of spending our time stoning, gaming, slacking, all the other things you do to kill time, why not spend the time studying, the word of God, praying, treasuring the word of God in your heart. Look at Mary, she kept God's world in her heart and remained as a faithful servant to God until she died. Money Money Money. Without it, we are nothing. How sure are you about this statement? It is not money that makes the world go round. It is God's words that make the world go round for us christians. Anyway, you can't take you money with you to where ever you are going after you die right? Gold, many are crazy over it. They want it, they want to possess it, they want to have it all to themselves. Did you know that heaven is paved with gold? Lets not be like the others who want and chase desperately for fame, money, everything that belongs to the world. Instead, follow jesus and we will find the peace that we need when we cast our burdens on him. Therefore, coming back to the God's words and taking it seriously, we will find the peace, joy, happiness that we can never ever imagine. I urge you fellow christians to let his word be part of our lives, living by his words day by day and growing spiritually. Even the devil acknowledges God, everyone can do that. What he can't do and what other people can't do, including some of us , is to follow God's words closely. Be someone who follows his words, live by it. Proclaim God's word, using your lives. Show the love, show the love that Jesus would show. Let God's word radiate through you. + |
