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What can ever replace a Father's Love? Have you ever thought of that?

Sounds cliche? Sounds Impossible?

Ya, I started to ponder on this when Past Mike talked about a Father's Love. Something he said struck me: The love of our Heavenly Father has 2 main characteristics: Rooted and Grounded. Yes, to be rooted tells us that it is ever stable and so deep and entrenched that it cannot be pulled out. The analogy of being grounded was likened to that of the foundation of a building, where the Father's love is really the Foundation of whatever that we are doing and going through in life.

In City Harvest,we learnt that you can give without loving, but you definitely cannot love without giving. Yes, the Power of Love! Love is as powerful as money. Everyday as u read the papers, you see people doing crazy things over Love. And of cos, during this season of Arise and Build, we Love God, thats why we want to build him an altar of sacrifice. =D

Just now, when Past Mike prayed for those people who were heart broken and delivered those people from the spirits that were tormenting them, such as the spirit of rejection, depression, anger, disappointment and etc etc etc, I felt a sadness arosing within me. I really thank God that he sent such a great spiritual leader and teacher like Pastor Mike, who comes every year to do some "spring cleaning" in our church, so that our people remains pure and righteous! Its so important, so that we can flow as a church...to flow together with the vision of Pastor Kong.

Oops, think i seem to be deviating from what I actually intended to write, if you go back and read my first line of this blog.. haha.. .coming back to talk about the father's love, yes lor, i really also cannot remember did my natural dad ever say " I love You" to us. Being a traditional chinese family, feelings are hardly being openly expressed. The man always must be " Macho" la, cannot show their emotions and feelings easily to the women.. haha.. ya lor.. hopefully next time my husband wun be like that. Keke.. Anyway, to cut the long story short, ya, in the absence of the fatherly love from our natural family, it is so important to know and realise that we have a spiritual father in heaven, who loves us so much much, that He can actually endure all our weaknesses and forgive all our sins. How great can this love be? I cannot imagine what would I be doing now, if 5 years ago, I never made the decision to come back to God and attend a church regularly. I would have never have the chance to experience the love of God ever again.

I tell myself, no matter what happens, I would never want to let go of this love. Even when the whole world deserts me, and I am alone, I will never let go.

That reminds me of a song:

I'M LIVING FOR THIS CAUSE

I LAY DOWN MY LIFE INTO YOUR HANDS

I'M LIVING FOR THE TRUTH

THE HOPE OF THE WORLD

IN YOU I'LL STAND

CAUSE ALL I WANT IS YOU

The blessings of God

i like what i learnt the other day during cell group:

"What God has called for, He will definitely provide"

Wow, such a powerful revelation, isn't it? Yesh, many atimes, we always think of how can we fulfill the dreams that God has given to us. In our natural mind, we always think it is impossible, cos it is simply too BIG a DREAM. But with God, all things are possible. Indeed, so true.

In this season of arise and build, this is the 5th time I am participating in the church Arise and Build. I have always been very excited about it, and this time, I am even more so. Reason?Cant wait to see God's hands moving, and of cos, even more excited about the Mini stadium that we are going to build! God says, if we can see it, we can have it! God already gave the word, and all we need to do is to receive it and embrace it ..=D Isn't that so wonderfully nice?? What better arrangement can we ever find in this universe?

yesh, in this arise and build, even in my own spiritual family, E335, I already start to see and hear how my family members are starting to get blessed and more blessings, some even before they started to pledge! Wow...wow...wow...and the blessings of God are still flowing in non-stop.. I really pray that it will ever continue to flow. Just like the story of the widow and Eljah, where the oil never stop flowing and filling the jars until the sons of the widows told Elijah that there was no more jars left. Wow.. Cant wait to see that happen in E335!

Yesh, God is our Father God, and He never withhold anything from us, his Children. i pray that everyone of us will learn how to receive blessings from God. Cos I have seen people who do not know how to go about receiving the blessings, which are already available and waiting for us to go out and stretch out our hands to get it!

Come on guys, lets start to Arise and Build today! Dun waste an opportunity to get blessed!

Women's heart

haiz.. people always says, Women's heart is the hardest thing on earth to fathom.. sounds so cliche right? but I definitely agree.. it is not hard to understand why.

Women tend to be more emotional. When things happen, you see that women have a bigger reaction than guys. My colleague told me the other day, he thinks that working with women is so tough. You got to be ever ready for them when they change their moods, when they have mood swings.. haiz haiz..

well, I recently got the "priviledge" to experience from someone i know. I really got so upset, cos all along i thought this person B is always a very nice person, and definitely not someone who would go around to bad mouth people behind their backs. But when I found out that this person B was just another typical person who tries to add mor etrouble around in the office, i am really totally put off by the attitude. I am now telling myself that I should just learn to forgive and forget,just like what Jesus did and said during his ministry. Yes, if God can forgive us, what bigger sin can we not forgive others?

Though even as I am blogging at this very moment, my heart is still aching from the hurt, but I believe God will will vindicate the righteous. I need not try to explain myself, for the truth will always come to surface.

Oh God, give me a bigger heart to love everyone! This is my cry!

Finding your purpose

Everything in Life has a purpose and our existence is definitely not by chance.

This statement I must say, I have heard it umpteen times, ever since my schooldays in SAJC. ha.. but man, when Pastor Kong preach about this again last week, I could almost felt a total new revelation that God showed me.

Many people think that whatever that they go through in life are pre-destined, and many just feel that they are just part of the life cycle, going through the motion of life. Thats why we see so many people waste their lives away everyday, doing mundane things and just satisfied when they have a little bit of success.

But no, God has a purpose for everyone of us, even before we were born. Just as what the bible says, even before we were formed in our mothers' womb, God has already planned us in his mind. Wow, isnt that wonderful news to hear? So many people are always searching for what they should do in lives. But the fact is that if they are focused on God, then God will show them their prupose in their life.

To live life to the fullest, we must MAXIMISE the talents and gifts that God places in us. If we do not know what are they, then we are likely to start to abuse our purpose. I like how Pastor Kong defines abuse. Abuse = Abnormal Use. Yes, its is so true. Many of us, including myself at times, will abuse our gifts and talents by not maximising and flagging them to the fullest potential. So many of us are guilty of that, including myself..haha.. better start to change my mindset and start to use the gifts and talents that God has given me, so that I can fulfill my purpose and extract the anointing from God that comes with Maximum success... wowowowowowoowwow....

yesh, so excited that the Arise and Build 2005 is coming in 13 days time. I am still praying and asking God how much to give. Unequal amounts, equal sacrifice... yesh... and I believe that as I give, God will give me even more, so that I can glorify Him in my giving. I am so excited that I can participate in this arise and build. This is my fourth arise and build. I believe as God has enabled me to fulfill my pledge in 2000, 2001 and 2002, God will do it again for me. I am trusting God to fulfill whatever amount that He is going to tell me, and more than that, I will see rivers of blessings flowing into my lives. 13 more days...yeah yeah..get ready and set off..

okie.. going to prepare myself for CG later lioaz.. told xuan to come earlier today, so that we can pray together. really feel that this period of time, the spiritual warfare is so strong, and all things really work only through prayer and fasting. I wan to continue to hold strong to my faith and God is the God of yesterday, today and forever!