Posts Tagged ‘Relationships’
{ May 5, 2010 @ 9:47 pm }
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{ CF, Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Hospital, Religion }
{ Tags: Academics, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Church, Faith, Jesus, Personal, Relationships, Spiritual Life } · { }
It has happened to God’s greatest servants, and it could happen to you. The night may come, if it hasn’t already, when you lie awake in violent outrage beseeching God: “How should I answer these false accusations? I’ve done nothing wrong! What should I say? What should I do?
God’s answer may come as a shock. He may instruct you to say nothing at all. Joseph, set up by Potiphar’s wife; David, slandered by Saul; and Jesus, whose trial was a total mockery, all behaved the same way: By exercising incredible self-control, they trusted God for their defense.
David described himself as being like a mute, restraining his mouth with a “muzzle” while the wicked were before him (Psalms 38 and 39). But unbeknownst to him, God was using these trials to prepare him for greater things.
It is possible that God is preparing you to face future persecution, through your experiences with false accusations now. What you are learning to handle and the way you handle it could bring great glory to Him.
As He told the disciples: “Now when they bring you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer; or what you should say. For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say” (Luke 12:11-12, NKJV).
As difficult as it is, look at these painful accusations as a training ground for unprecedented progress in the Lord. He has tremendous things in store for you!
{ May 5, 2010 @ 9:37 pm }
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{ Personal }
{ Tags: Personal, Relationships } · { }
Today, as I took my usual jog in this small humble town, i came across this shop which sell jewellery and souvenir. Walked in, was greeted by a small gal, about 11 years old who called her mom. Her mom, the owner came and greeted. I just said to her, I just would like to look around. She went back to do her cooking.
As I was walking around this pretty small shop, I came across a photo of the owner and her 2 daughters. The elder one looks so familiar, seems like someone i met before. Her smile on the photo caught my eyes, such beauty… such elegance… Then i remember, she was a student in usmkk too… Cant believe my old memories in usmkk still fresh…
Quite some time i gazed at her smile… I remember once, I saw her a few times in usmkk, did ask her to join some cf activities but didnt saw her in cf activities at all… Jz cant believe tat i recall this in this small town…Rupanya this is her hometown..
Gained strength, I asked her mom about her, and her family. Seems to me, she has a very loving and caring mom.. We had quite a long chat.
{ March 25, 2010 @ 11:57 pm }
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{ Housemanship, Medical studies, Medicine }
{ Tags: Blogs, Food, HO, Houseman, Medical studies, Medicine, Personal, Relationships, Travel } · { }
{ March 12, 2010 @ 11:40 pm }
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{ Church, Faith }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Faith, Personal, Relationships } · { }
“I just don’t understand her!” “He’s impossible!” These little phrases have caused many sleepless nights.
How many times have you gone to bed with your mind churning over someone you just can’t understand? Questions like, “Why is she so miserable?” “Why doesn’t he change?” or “How could he do this?” rage on and on.
You soon discover that there’s no peace in trying to figure this person out for yourself; you need God’s help. Only His understanding can give you the serenity necessary not only to sleep well, but to deal with the individual later on.
How can you “tap into” God’s understanding? Merely desire it and seek Him for it and it’s yours! He says, “apply your heart to understand; Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding… Understanding will keep you, To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things, From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness” (Proverbs 2:2-3, 11-13, NKJV).
By gaining His understanding you will enter into a love and appreciation of those who now trouble you. No longer will you be in bondage to the distresses they cause. Through His understanding you will be free!
{ March 12, 2010 @ 11:37 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Hospital, Housemanship, Medicine, Personal, Religion }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, Campus, Hospital, Houseman, Medicine, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, USMKK } · { }
8 months into housemanship, 16 more months to go… Im counting days of being a houseman in a beloved country called Malaysia… Housemanship is only once in a lifetime, many ppl says we should learn as much as possible during housemanship… I do wonder… Hav I been learning enough the past 8 months? Still seems so much is lacking within me.
Im currently in a new posting, a very much different posting than the previous 2 ones. The previous 2 ones was really a very hectic and busy ones. They really drained me of my adrenaline… And now I really feel so tired and ‘malas’ already…
Here in this posting, I got more time for sports and social. Got to play badminton and futsal more often. Get to spend more time socialising with friends. I feel much ‘younger’ now… Really miss those days in USMKK where sports is an everyday thing to me…
But the past 8 months of hectic life has also drained me of my spiritual life. I oso now feeling tired and ‘malas’ spiritually. Tried to pray sometimes but really difficult to concentrate… Tried to read the bible but my eyes gets heavy in a short while. I need God’s love to overwhelm me again, that I will continue to desire Him more and more…
{ March 10, 2010 @ 7:49 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Hospital, Personal, Religion, Testimony }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, Cell Group, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Exams, Faith, God, Medicine, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, Testimony } · { }
Have you become totally impatient with yourself? I have heard even the strongest Christians cry in utter frustration, “What’s wrong? I’m supposed to be a ‘new creation’ in Christ, but nothing seems to be changing. It’s the same old me!”
You may spend wakeful nights, feeling you can’t possibly measure up to God’s expectations of you, but put your mind to rest. Realize that spiritual growth is a process; sometimes a long process. Genuine maturity does not happen overnight.
The following Scripture, with which you may be very familiar, offers some helpful insights: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NKJV). In the original language the full meaning is that old things are in the process of passing away; behold, all things are in the process of becoming new.
This refers directly to your life. What God is telling you is that all things in your soul and your innermost being are in the process of being transformed in and through His Life!
Don’t be impatient. Don’t be frustrated with yourself when progress doesn’t come as quickly as you’d like. You aren’t failing God. In His time He will complete a work in you that far exceeds what you could ever imagine or believe!
{ March 8, 2010 @ 6:53 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
{ Tags: Blogs, Christ, Christianity, Faith, God, Jesus, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, Testimony } · { }
As you prepare for bed tonight, consider what is troubling you the most at this point in your life. What (or whom) have you been calling on to help you with this problem?
How easy it is, in moments of panic, to call on everything we can think of (except the Lord) to relieve an uncomfortable situation. Maybe we call on the refrigerator, an aspirin or a coke. Anything to give us relief.
Or there are other alternatives, too…like complaining, venting our feelings on others, sleeping to escape, or just giving up.
Yet all these temporary means of relieving discomfort do little to help us cope any better the next time. Only the Lord can do that. That is why He urgently tells us over and over again to call on him. He wants us to get into the habit of letting Him come to our rescue, day and night. He promises us, “He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him…the LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth” (Psalms 91:15; 145:18, NIV).
{ March 6, 2010 @ 11:04 pm }
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{ CF, Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
{ Tags: Blogs, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Faith, Forgiveness, God, Jesus, Life, Medicine, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, Trials } · { }
Hidden unforgiveness is the root cause of many sleepless nights – yet how many of you are aware of it? Sometimes our negative hold on others keeps our own spirits in a vise far below our conscious thoughts. Unforgiveness can be a tormentor.
One very powerful testimony is from a man named Bob who didn’t believe God wanted him to forgive his neighbor for molesting his child, yet ever since the incident he had been plagued with many tormenting physical ailments. A clergyman convinced him to go to his neighbor and freely forgive him. The impact of this meeting was so powerful that the neighbor accepted the Lord several weeks before he died. Meanwhile, every one of Bob’s symptoms was healed.
Jesus once told Peter to forgive his brother “seventy times seven.” Why? I think it may have taken Peter that many times to deal with unforgiveness in himself! Forgiveness is a very serious matter for God says: “…if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matthew 6:14-15, NKJV).
Ask the Lord to search your heart tonight and reveal any buried resentments of which you may not even be aware. Once they are purged, you will have sweet dreams.
{ March 3, 2010 @ 11:05 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
{ Tags: Campus Life, Cell Group, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Desire, Dreams, God, Hope, Jesus, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Trials } · { }
As a child, did you ever wish upon a star? What did you wish for then? What would you wish for now? Some of you might want a spouse; some a bigger house; some a sense of happiness, and some would just hope to make the next car payment.
King David had his own way of “wishing upon a star.” He wrote psalms to the Lord expressing his hopes and dreams. In this psalm he told God exactly what he would want if he could have but one desire fulfilled: “One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD And to inquire in His temple” (Psalm 27:4, NKJV).
What an incredible testimony this is to the love David had for His God! How many of us would ever have thought of that?
Yet that is exactly what God is hoping we’ll desire! Over and over again He exhorts us to dwell in Him; to abide in Him; to come to the “secret place.” Where is this secret place? It’s in your heart. It is the place where you will truly experience His beauty and receive His counsel in all things.
Seek the Lord and ask Him to help you dwell there, as David did. As you do, may you enjoy a bountiful rest.
{ February 26, 2010 @ 2:06 pm }
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{ Hospital, Housemanship }
{ Tags: Blogs, God, HO, Job, Love, Passion, Pressure, Relationships, Religion, Work } · { }
Pressures from work can weigh on your soul in the middle of the night like a wet blanket. Has your work become dreary? Is it taking you twice as long to do things than it used to? Has the striving to get somewhere become too much?
One dark, stormy night, the twelve apostles were together in the same boat. There they were, out on the sea of Galilee trying to get to Capernaum, but Jesus was not with them. They were left to struggle with the storms of nature on their own, and quite frankly, they were not getting very far.
Suddenly an amazing thing happened: “…they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the boat; and they were afraid. But He said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” Then they willingly received Him into the boat,, and immediately the boat was at the land where they were going” (John 6:19-21, NKJV).
When Jesus, the God of love, joined the endeavor, they immediately got to their destination! This story gives us a major insight as to what love can do for any project. When love is involved, time flies; work is accomplished with grace and ease. Pray for love of your work! Pray for Jesus, the power of Love Himself, to get into your “boat” and lead you through.
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