受难节及复活节一周禁食祷告

你能否成功地完成禁食， 与你怎样开始禁食有着重大的关连。 以下是白立德博士所分享的七个步骤， 请按圣灵的带领去祷告， 并在开始之前作好以下准备:

步骤一: 订立您的目标
为何禁食? 是为属灵的复兴? 得着指引? 还是祈求如倍的恩典去处理一个困局呢?
祈求圣灵带领你的方向。

步骤二: 作出承担
禁食祷告会持续多久呢? (一餐/ 一日/ 数天/ 一星期)
你会以哪一种方式禁食? (喝水/ 喝果汁)

步骤三: 预备好自己的心灵
祈求神帮助你作一张彻底列出自己过犯的清单
开始禁食前， 要有一颗满有盼望和信靠的心
不要低估属灵上的攻击， 撒旦有时会在你禁食的过程中加剧肉体与圣灵的争战
(加 5: 16-17)

步骤四: 在身体上作好准备
开始禁食前应进食较少食物
在禁食过程中只可作轻量的运动
要对暂时性的精神不安有心理准备

步骤五: 为自己订下时间表
独个儿找一段时间寻求神的面
若有其它人同时进行禁食， 可与他们一起同心祷告

步骤六 : 逐渐停止禁食
长时间禁食后， 不宜立刻进食大量食物和喝奶类饮品
待身体机能逐渐恢复正常后才可如常进食东西

步骤七: 期待结果
若你诚心谦卑， 祷告寻求主面， 您会大大经历神的同在， 并得着更深的属灵体验!

在禁食祷告的初期， 你或会感到十分肚饿， 很想进食。 你可以求神的恩典帮助你渡过这段时间， 让你能专心祷告和在禁食祷告后有力量继续你日常的工作。

SUKAD 2008/09 – Archery

It’s been some time since I last posted a blog here. Very much ‘distracted’ by many things. After losing badly in SUKAD Squash few months back, I started playing archery. With Julian as the coach, and my 2 brothers as teammate, Alex and Arvind, we started training way back 3 months ago. I know I’m taking a big risk, cause by doing this, I will have less time in studies. But I really wanna try this last opportunity to glorify God in sports. Age is catching up with me, so does time. Archery was my last shot to get a gold in SUKAD. After this, I will ‘officially’ retired from competitive sports. No more intensive training after this. Just as the bible says in 1 Corinthians 9: 24-25, “Do you know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.”
The crown that athletes won in sport is a crown that will not last. Somehow, someday, they will be beaten or their records broken. But the crown that will last forever is the crown of our personal relationship with Jesus. We live a life that glorify God, that’s the crown that last forever. That’s why in sports, we give glory to God when we win.
Our training wasn’t an easy one. It was really a strenuous time. We shot arrows everyday except when it was raining, starting around 4.30pm till around 7pm. On weekends, we trained in the morning and evenings. And most of time, especially in the mornings, I go knocking on Arvind’s door. He will show his sleepy face, opening the door. Then after a few weeks, there come the raining season for about 1-2 months. During that period, I went to district hospital, Hospital Pasir Mas for 3 weeks.
Sometimes our training was fun, all those kutuk-mengutuk and gurau-bergurau between me, Alex and Arvind was hilarious. We used to joke, saying to Arvind, ‘If he hits the bullseye, Lynn will fall in love with him.’ Hahaha! Through this hard but fun training, I develop a bonding with Alex and Arvind.:-)
Came back from district hospital in the early January, we continue our intensive training for 2 weeks before we depart to USM Main Campus together with the female team. My family prayed for me and Im very happy that my dad owiz support my course and struggle in university. Many friends sms me encouraging messages, I was very touched.:-)
We prayed together before we go for each competition. The archery competition in Penang was eventful, we leads both events, 20m and 30m,winning the gold. The women team also got gold. This is my 1st gold won in USM, an unforgettable memory.

Gold medalist

Giver of Life

Testimony by T. W. Hao

I was born into a Christian family. Everybody assumed I was a well-behaved child. But this is not true until I believe and accepted Christ. Since kindergarden I was a very very rebellious child who likes to break the rules. I liked to bully girls and was constantly picking on a fight with the boys. As a consequences, my teacher, frustrated with me, decided to send me away from the ‘excellent’ class as she was worried that I may have a negative influence on the well-behaved children.

Then, I enter into primary school. I started to smoke, gamble, fight, and even steal my parents’ money to buy story books I fancy. I stole books from book exhibitions. My neighbours also thought that my future was gone. By the time I graduated from primary school, my elder sister decided to bring me to church. Initially I was reluctant to attend because I could not stand the boring sermons by the preachers. With my attitude at that time, it was astonishing that I would have the patience to give it another try,but I suspect it was the work of Holy Spirit, that I have the patience for attending the biblical teachings conducted in the church. All of a sudden, I begin to experience a 180 degree change in my life. I became enthusiastic to care and help other people. I do not steal anymore and I even admit my small faults like breaking an egg to my mother. My mother was surprised and touched by the new change in me and encourage me to go to church more often.

However, in secondary school, I became decadent once again. The reason was – all the youth attending at that time were females and I was embarrassed and shy to go to church to mix with them. I was dissatisfied for a few years. Then arrive to the second turning point of my life when I was in matriculation, and my friends invited me to join their Christian gathering, which was conducted weekly. I joined their activities and was again touched by the Holy Spirit. I attended every gathering there and went to church regularly even if the members of the church consists mostly of girls as I do not feel embarrassed in front of them anymore because I know we are brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ.

I was baptized 3 years ago, now I am most happy and relaxed when I go to church and I am drawing closer to God day by day. If it wasn’t because of Jesus, I think I will not be here in USMKK. If it wasn’t because of Jesus, I think you would have seen my photo in newspaper photographed as gangster, thief, robber and any other law-breaker. Jesus Christ is the Giver of my life because He turned my life and gave me a new life. How about you, who is your Giver of life?

Experiencing God in Christmas

Testimony by L. B. Liang

Hi brothers and sisters,
First of all, for those who have never heard of me, I am Lau Bik Liang, a 4th year medical student from Sibu, Sarawak.

Christmas night is coming soon. This is the biggest event for CF. I have been through three meaningful Christmas nights in USMKK that has brought me a lot of good memories.

In my first year, I was so excited about Christmas night that I wished to participate in a lot of performances. However I ended up with only joining choir. Haih… Maybe I really am not a talented person, haha! Never mind, I still enjoyed myself during that Christmas because I found something special about CF – love among brothers and sisters. CF had given me a sense of belonging and we are all like in a big family with lots of care and encouragement from each other. During that time, we spent a lot of time and effort in practicing choir. Despite feeling exhausted, we got support from each other. Besides that, many Christians who seldom turn up for routine CF meeting also came to help for Christmas night. There was a great deal of fellowship among us. It was a warmth Christmas night for me staying so far away from my family

The following year, I was surprised to be asked to take charge of Christmas night choir. In the beginning of our practice, we faced problems like a lack of musicians and song selections. We have a very limited number of musicians as compared to now during that time and most of the musicians were final year students who were very busy in their study. Thus, I feel quite stress at that time. Thanks to the Christmas night committee that year who prayed continuously for these matters and we finally got the musicians. I think God had answered our prayers and that’s why most of our problems were solved. Prayer is great!

Last year’s Christmas was a struggle to me, the most struggling, in fact. I actually felt bored after serving two years in Christmas night. However, David (our previous CF president) came to my room and asked me to become vice president for the Christmas night committee. At first I rejected because of my Pro 2 exam. I wished to focus more on my studies since that was my Pro 2 exam year. Previously we rarely see a Year 3 medical student taking such a heavy job in any CF event. Thus, that discouraged me in taking the position as the vice chairman for Christmas night. The thought of worrying about “others would have a chance to study much more than I do as they continued to stay in their room” had ruminated in my mind. Thank God that in the end, I did agree to become vice president and my results was considered good enough for me to enter my 4th year. Haha! I think this was the first time I struggle to participate in God’s work and I am glad that I had chosen the correct pathway

This coming Christmas, I wish I can continue to involve in the work of God and experience God’s work on me. For those brothers and sisters who still hesitate to help in Christmas night, please hurry to lend a helping hand. I am sure God will make this a special Christmas for you as He had made it for me in the past three years.

May God bless you all!!!

Tuesday with Morrie

Testimony by T. Liszen.

… a book that I read during early in my fourth year in University, I could recall not much of the book’s messages, but there is one chapter, one particular that keeps on lingering in my mind until now…and will once in a while pop out to echo loud in my mind. It is a chapter where Mitch, the author asked his old, bed-ridden professor, Morrie, who had been afflicted with a disease known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS, about his opinion of the Book of Job. I suppose Mitch was wondering how a suffering patient like Morrie would see God’s deeds on Job in order to test Job’s faith.

As a Christian who was very enger to know more about God then, I am ashamed to admit here that I was terrified when reading through the Book of Job.
Yes, I was terrified.
“If I were to give all out for God, will I be experiencing the same situation as Job?”
It was not the adversities to come in the way that I feared the most; It was the process of testing my faith to God.
I love God very much; at least that was what I thought I was then. “But will my faith survive all those adversities if I were Job?”
Despite all these thoughts, I could not help but try to learn to be a good servant of God, because without His salvation, I will not be here writing this. Hallelujah!
Hence I began my journey to learn to be a good servant since my Year 4 in University. And more often than not, I would be encountering helplessness, loneliness and being perceived as a weird person or hypocrite. I survived these and I said to myself. “Hmm, not bad…may be it is not as bad as I thought it will be. Yes, as long as I put my eyes on God, God will help me to go through all those trivial trials. He will be my strength when I am weak.”
I had been holding to that thought whenever I encounter difficulties, until a few months ago, I found myself too weak to even to think of that thought.
I was confused, bitterly in pain emotionally and physically, and worse, I blamed God for what had happened.
I blamed Him for giving me a problem that could not be undo, I blamed Him for allowing that incident to happen, I blamed Him for involving the people I care and love all this while, if all these were to help me to grow…why it could not be that I being the one and only who undergo it?
Then during the CF meeting when Mick came to preach about “Encounter”, he said about how job demands of God an explanation of his plight, and God said,

“Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you, and you shall answer me.
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?”
Those verses were like a slap on my face.

Who am I and what am I to question and to even blame God? Then I realized that I had been loving and worshiping not God, but rather God’s gift and blessings upon me. I love what God can bless me with, to the extent that I idolize the gifts, not the Giver. That is the reason, I suppose, I agonized so much when things gone so wrong in my eyes, and forgot that sometimes, humans will never be able to comprehend all of God’s ways. For God’s ways are higher than our way.

The recently, God put me through a serial of events to help me to seize the meaning of true faith in Him. I could not share with people I love what are in my mind, what are troubling me and why am I acting in such ways. It was indeed a true agony, when the people you love started to doubt you and you could do nothing to make them understand. Then I learned at that time, am I not the same? Putting God into such situation myself? I doubted Him so many times, while deep inside, I know He loves me, and He has always been there for me. It must have been very painful for God too, to have His child to doubt Him, when all the things He has been doing, are for the good of His child, just that it is beyond the child’s ability to learn the blessings behind. Thus, I know now, Father in Heaven, that I should keep on having faith in You, even if the situation looked terribly grim and messed up at that moment.
And at the end of that chapter, Morrie answered Mitch, “I think, God overdid it.”
Personally, I think, God was doing things in His ways, in accordance to His will.
Well, so now I am really grateful and praising God for the trials He has been giving me, and I think there are more to come…but thank you, Father in Heaven, for promising me that You will not give me burden that I cannot bear. And I would really love to end this by sharing with you all these verses.

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” James 1:2-4.

Prayer Meet

Today, life was as usual. Except that I went for prayer meet. What a unexpected decision. CF has its prayer meet, every sat, 6-7pm but most of the time im doing my regular exercise at this time. Today was a bit different, I went for archery at 5pm with Arvind (the coolest macha in USMKK). We finish playing about 6pm. I was in my room at that time when I decided to go prayer meet. Its been a long long long time since I prayed with people. Kinda miss that feeling. Arrived at the prayer meet, saw those commited ones there, Gabriel, Carl, Patrick and Sze Hua. Im amazed by their commitment to prayers but at the same time I felt a bit out there already. Maybe because I long long time didn’t join in CF activities.
During the prayer meet, Gabriel prayed for our CG. I was so grateful to him. Our CG is realy dying and the members are getting less and less interested in CG. Sometimes I just feel like giving up. My actions even seems to show that I had already given up on our CG. No matter what I do, the members will never understand. I began to lose motivation in continuing the CG. Takde semangat edi…
Dunno why, recently I began to lost sense of belonging in church. Owiz feel alone… I already stop attending the MYF in church and soon will stop serving as guitarist in Methodist Church. Will I feel more lost next time? I remember once I talked to Thung Guan over the Msn. He also felt the same at Methodist Church, He owiz feel lonely and it gets worse year after year. Especially when Li Ying in not around, He felt out of place. He shared with me and suggested me to change church. But where should I go? Im very amazed and impressed with the close relationships that some of our frens in Methodist church enjoys. I feel happy for them. But I don’t have a belonging there.
Tomorrow is gonna b a new day. I hope for something meaningful tomorrow.

Faith and Science

Professor: Do you believe in God?

Student: Yes, sir.

Professor: Is God good?

Student: Yes, sir.

Professor: Is the Devil good?

Student: No, sir.

Professor: Did God created everything?

Student: Yes, sir.

Professor: Then how is God good if He created evil?

The student kept still in silence.

Professor: Do you believe in God?

Student: Yes, sir.

Professor: Have you seen God?

Student: No, sir.

Professor: Then how do you know that God exists??

Student: Erm… I think you have to count it on faith, sir.

Professor: Now, that’s the problem science have, Faith.

The whole lecture hall became quiet…

Professor: According to science, everything that exist on Earth is based on the 5 theorical senses; touch, taste, smell, sight and sound. So, have you touched your God??

Student: No, sir.

Professor: Have you ever tasted Him?? Smelt Him?? Heard Him??

Student: Erm… No, sir

Professor: Then according to the fundamental, basic, empirical theories of science established today, it says that your God does not exist.

The student stood still and said nothing. A smile was creeping up on the professor’s face. He thought he had proven his theory right.

Student:  Sir, is there such thing as cold??

Professor: Yes, of course.

Student: No sir, there’s only such thing as cold. You can hit 450 degress below zero, which has no heat but not cold. Cold is just a term used to describe the absence of heat.

All the students were now paying attention to what the student was saying.

Student: Sir, do you teach that humans evolved from apes??

Professor: Yes, I do.

Student: But have you seen the process of evolution??

Shaking his head, the professor was getting confused…

Student: Then sir, aren’t you just preaching your theories and not the actual facts of science??

The student turns to face the whole hall…

Student: Have anyone seen the professor’s brain??

All the students slowly shake their heads…

Student: Have anyone touched the professor’s brain?? Smelt it? Heard it or tasted it??

Turning back to the professor…

Student: Well, sorry to be rude but according to the fundamental, basic, empirical theories of science established today, science says that you do not have a brain sir.

The lecture hall broke into a contagious laughter…

Student:  How then are we supposed to believe anything that you teach??

Smiling, realising where this was heading…

Professor: I guess you have to based it all on faith, my son.

Healer of Heart

I’m the only only Christian

In my group of 29 people

It seems so lonely sometimes

With no one to share with

And sometimes I noticed that

Its seems there’s no difference

Between me and the rest of 28

I looked up the sky and wonder

What on the earth I am here for

My life is so lack of God

So lack of His grace and mercy

I have lost my hope in the Only One

I placed my trust on my own strength

In the end I’m so so dry

I became bitter and bitter

Towards christian friends

I think they just don’t care

I’m supposed to be by myself

But I forgotten, I forgotten

No matter how the world fails

God never fails, never fails

No matter how deserted we are

God is faithful and just

His Love is higher than mountains

Deeper than the oceans and seas

He picked me my heart

Which was hurt and bitter

And turn it into a new one

One full of His fragrance and mercy

My new heart shines a new aroma

Full of fruits of the Spirit

Love, joy, peace, righteousness

Patience, kindness, goodness

Faithfulness, gentleness and self-control

Now that Jesus is in me

I’m not ashamed anymore

I will confess His Love

Till the the ends of the world

Till I say goodbye to the world.

Cameron Trip

Malaysia 4 Jesus!

How bout tis shout, Malaysia 4 Jesus!? It great to when we jz imagine, ‘Malaysia 4 Jesus!’. Its sounds jz like salvation for Msia. How bout us, christian malaysian? R we gonna do something in this country whom we loved?? My desire for christian malaysian is tat we r able to b history makers in this land. Though sometimes we feel that things are not going well, people are being unfair, but tat is life. And with all the problems in this place, its a good opportunity for us to shine for Christ. Imagine thr is no problem in this land, how are we gonna shine for Christ? Come on, lets do it, frens!