Angelique Syn Thia II O my sisters, do not be weary, Lord is with us. God can even though we cant. The victory you gain from what you've been granted has shown that He is with you, by your side at all times. Always remember, being a Christian doesnt means tht you will not have hardship but there will be more victories thru His strenght ♥
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Angelique Syn Thia II The strenght He has shown to me n thru the whisper of the Holy Spirit; noted as "never under estimate the slowest learner, nevermind if you need to learn from difficult teacher; the wisdom you have always prayed for will be given."
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Angelique Syn Thia II Only God will knows; maybe my weakest is the strongest He will built in me n maybe that is what He has shape me to be. Maybe what I've always though tht those as my strongest are actually my weakest which I've never realize all these years.
JAR OF HEARTS........♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Working as a team
Angelique Syn Thia II I have this boss b4; whenever the 3rd week of the month when he sees tht the sales are low n cant meet target for that month already, he will inter challenge us. If we can hit the target he will treat us to a feast on his own acct. Amazingly always e targets r met. Bcause we challenge him; he likes to say, haha, u all cant meet e target one lah.
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Angelique Syn Thia II Now, he owns his own million dollar sales based company.
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Angelique Syn Thia II That is how e team look into things. When most ppl hear tht from their boss; targets are not met because they are reluctant to fight in the friendly match. Many will say: Boss says cant hit one mah, so dont hit lor. No need to work so hard to hit lor.
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Angelique Syn Thia II Our team in e past look at it in a different way; tht is how we met e targets with lotz of fun instead of stress. The secretary n me, e marcom person also excited about the sales figures. We always asked e sales manager, can ar? This month can meet ar? The sales manager will always announce loudly in e office with how many days n how much yet to meet. Meeting sales targets are stressful but it seems like fun to us. Non of the sales person there paid by commision. They based on a not so amazing basic salary.
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Angelique Syn Thia II One thing everyone whom leads shld believes in for e sales n marketing team is not abt how many tasks ur staffs has in hand. It is abt how much sales have they drives in together. S&M is a very special team. It wont works when e team always thinks abt what belongs to who. The focus is only one- sales figures.
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Angelique Syn Thia II To increase sales, one must be very focus. If anyone from the team is everywhere, the sales figures just wont goes up.
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Angelique Syn Thia II That is how e team look into things. When most ppl hear tht from their boss; targets are not met because they are reluctant to fight in the friendly match. Many will say: Boss says cant hit one mah, so dont hit lor. No need to work so hard to hit lor.
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Angelique Syn Thia II Our team in e past look at it in a different way; tht is how we met e targets with lotz of fun instead of stress. The secretary n me, e marcom person also excited about the sales figures. We always asked e sales manager, can ar? This month can meet ar? The sales manager will always announce loudly in e office with how many days n how much yet to meet. Meeting sales targets are stressful but it seems like fun to us. Non of the sales person there paid by commision. They based on a not so amazing basic salary.
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Angelique Syn Thia II One thing everyone whom leads shld believes in for e sales n marketing team is not abt how many tasks ur staffs has in hand. It is abt how much sales have they drives in together. S&M is a very special team. It wont works when e team always thinks abt what belongs to who. The focus is only one- sales figures.
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Angelique Syn Thia II To increase sales, one must be very focus. If anyone from the team is everywhere, the sales figures just wont goes up.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Voice of satan
When Satan start to talk to me, it sounds like this: ST, you must hate Tammy, because of her sinful adultereous nature n commits are driving him with emotionally imbalance. So now, you got to suffer with the shit she has created". Obviously, that msg is not from God.
Every single now n then. Satan is attacking me with that. The second thing is that I still cant forgive those whom have accused me saying I do not accept my god-son Justin.
Jefpage Jef God Bless
Pray hard so may I not lead to satan's temptation. And may the wisdom of forgiveness is given to me thru e Holy Spirit.
Every single now n then. Satan is attacking me with that. The second thing is that I still cant forgive those whom have accused me saying I do not accept my god-son Justin.
Jefpage Jef God Bless
Pray hard so may I not lead to satan's temptation. And may the wisdom of forgiveness is given to me thru e Holy Spirit.
Just do it!
James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Winston Churchill exemplified integrity and respect in the face of opposition. During his last year in office, he attended an official ceremony. Several rows behind him two gentlemen began whispering. “That’s Winston Churchill.” “They say he is getting senile.” “They say he should step aside and leave the running of the nation to more dynamic and capable men.” When the ceremony was over, Churchill turned to the men and said, “Gentlemen, they also say he is deaf!”
Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said “The human race is divided into two classes — those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, ‘Why wasn’t it done the other way?’”
How many times have we left a job, a project, a church, an important relationship because we just didn’t find it good enough? Some of us make a lifestyle of it! But God wants us to be the kind of remarkable people who don’t criticize, complain and go out looking for something
better all the time. He wants us to be a people who determine to make a difference in the lives of the people and situations He allows us to face!
>>>Just do it! It was the verbs which appear in my dream last Saturday! Happened to find daily devotional emails n one of the title is this.
Your job is boring and you need a change? Ask the Lord how you might grow in your giftings there. Ask Him to help you come up with a creative solution and maybe even improve your workplace altogether! You want to leave your church because it doesn’t have an exciting children’s ministry? Perhaps the Lord is calling you to help start one up!
Let’s be a doers! Let’s be people of vision! There’s much too much to be done for the Lord to be sitting around criticizing. Let’s determine to stop being complainers and go forth and do great things for Him!
Winston Churchill exemplified integrity and respect in the face of opposition. During his last year in office, he attended an official ceremony. Several rows behind him two gentlemen began whispering. “That’s Winston Churchill.” “They say he is getting senile.” “They say he should step aside and leave the running of the nation to more dynamic and capable men.” When the ceremony was over, Churchill turned to the men and said, “Gentlemen, they also say he is deaf!”
Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said “The human race is divided into two classes — those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, ‘Why wasn’t it done the other way?’”
How many times have we left a job, a project, a church, an important relationship because we just didn’t find it good enough? Some of us make a lifestyle of it! But God wants us to be the kind of remarkable people who don’t criticize, complain and go out looking for something
better all the time. He wants us to be a people who determine to make a difference in the lives of the people and situations He allows us to face!
>>>Just do it! It was the verbs which appear in my dream last Saturday! Happened to find daily devotional emails n one of the title is this.
Your job is boring and you need a change? Ask the Lord how you might grow in your giftings there. Ask Him to help you come up with a creative solution and maybe even improve your workplace altogether! You want to leave your church because it doesn’t have an exciting children’s ministry? Perhaps the Lord is calling you to help start one up!
Let’s be a doers! Let’s be people of vision! There’s much too much to be done for the Lord to be sitting around criticizing. Let’s determine to stop being complainers and go forth and do great things for Him!
Using What God Gave You. Day 32
Using What God Gave You
Since we find ourselves fashioned intoall these excellently formed and marvelouslyfunctioning parts in Christ's body, lets justgo ahead and be what we were made to be.Romans 12:5 (Msg)
What you are is God's gift to you;what you do with yourself is yourgifit to God.Danish proverb
God deserves your best.
He shaped you for a purpose, and he expects you to make the most of what you have been given. He doesn't want you to worry about or covet abilities you don't have. Instead he wants you to focus on talents he has given you to use.
When you attempt to serve God in ways you're not shaped to serve, it feels like forcing a square peg into a round hole. It's frustrating and produces limited results. It also wastes your time, your talent, and your energy. The best use of your life is to serve God out of your shape. To do this you must discover your shape, learn to accept and enjoy it, and then develop it to its fullest potential.
DISCOVER YOUR SHAPE
The Bible says, "Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to. "' Don't let another day go by. Start finding out and clarifying what God intends for you to be and do.
Begin by assessing your gifts and abilities. Take a long, honest look at what you are good at and what you're not good at. Paul advised, "Try to have a sane estimate of your capabilities." Make a list. Ask other people for their candid opinion. Tell them you're searching for the truth, not fishing for a compliment. Spiritual gifts and natural abilities are always confirmed by others. If you think you are gifted to be a teacher or a singer and no one else agrees, guess what? If you want to know if you have the gift of leadership, just look over your shoulder! If no one is following you, you're not a leader.
Ask questions like these: Where have I seen fruit in my life that other people confirmed? Where have I already been successful? Spiritual gift tests and ability inventories can have some value, but they are limited in their usefulness.
In the first place, they are standardized, so they don't take into account your uniqueness. Second, there are no definitions of the spiritual gifts given in the Bible, so any definitions are arbitrary and usually represent a denominational bias. Another problem is that the more mature you become, the more likely you are to manifest the characteristics of a number of the gifts. You may be serving or teaching or giving generously out of maturity rather than because it is your spiritual gift.
The best way to discover your gifts and abilities is to experiment with different areas of service. I could have taken a hundred gift and ability tests as a young man and would have never discovered that I was gifted at teaching because I had never done it! It was only after I began accepting opportunities to speak that I saw the results, received confirmation from others, and realized, "God has gifted me to do this!"
Many books get the discovery process backwards. They say, "Discover your spiritual gift and then you'll know what ministry you're supposed to have." It actually works the exact opposite way. Just start serving, experimenting with different ministries, and then you'll discover your gifts. Until you're actually involved in serving, you're not going to know what you're good at.
You have dozens of hidden abilities and gifts you don't know you've got because you've never
tried them out. So I encourage you to try doing some things you've never done before. No matter how old you are, I urge you to never stop experimenting. I have met many people who discovered hidden talents in their seventies and eighties. I know a woman in her nineties who runs and wins 10K races and didn't discover that she enjoyed running until she was seventy-eight!
Don't try to figure out your gifts before volunteering to serve somewhere. Just start serving. You discover your gifts by getting involved in ministry. Try teaching or leading or organizing or playing an instrument or working with teenagers. You will never know what you're good at until you try. When it doesn't work out, call it an "experiment," not a failure. You will eventually learn what you're good at.
Consider your heart and your personality. Paul advised, "Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. "3 Again, it helps to get feedback from those who know you best. Ask yourself questions: What do I really enjoy doing most? When do I feel the most fully alive? What am I doing when I lose track of time? Do I like routine or variety? Do I prefer serving with a team or by myself? Am I more introverted or extroverted? Am I more a thinker or a feeler? Which do I enjoy more-competing or cooperating?
Examine your experiences and extract the lessons you have learned. Review your life and think about how it has shaped you. Moses told the Israelites, "Remember today what you have learned about the LORD through your experiences with him." Forgotten experiences are worthless; that's a good reason to keep a spiritual journal. Paul worried that the believers in Galatia would waste the pain they had been through. He said, "Were all your experiences wasted? I hope not!"
We rarely see God's good purpose in pain or failure or embarrassment while it is happening. When Jesus washed Peter's feet, he said, "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand." Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.
Extracting the lessons from your experiences takes time. I recommend that you take an entire weekend for a life review retreat, where you pause to see how God has worked in the various defining moments of your life and consider how he wants to use those lessons to help others. There are resources that can help you do this.
ACCEPT AND ENJOY YOUR SHAPE
Since God knows what's best for you, you should gratefully accept the way he has fashioned you. The Bible says, "What right have you, a human being, to cross-examine God? The pot has no right to say to the potter: `Why did you make me this shape?' Surely a potter can do what he likes with the clay!"
Your shape was sovereignly determined by God for his purpose, so you shouldn't resent it or reject it. Instead of trying to reshape yourself to be like someone else, you should celebrate the shape God has given only to you. "Christ has given each of us special abilities-whatever he wants us to have out of his rich storehouse of gifts."
Part of accepting your shape is recognizing your limitations. Nobody is good at everything, and no one is called to be everything. We all have defined roles. Paul understood that his calling was not to accomplish everything or please everyone but to focus only on the particular ministry God had shaped him for. He said, "Our goal is to stay within the boundaries of God's plan for us."
The word boundaries refers to the fact that God assigns each of us a field or sphere of service. Your shape determines your specialty. When we try to overextend our ministry reach beyond what God shaped us for, we experience stress. Just as each runner in a race is given a different lane to run in, we must individually "run with patience the particular race that God has set before us." Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you; just focus on finishing your race.
God wants you to enjoy using the shape he has given you. The Bible says, `Be sure to do what you should, for then you will enjoy the personal satisfaction of having done your work well, and you won't need to compare yourself to anyone else." Satan will try to steal the joy of service from you in a couple of ways: by tempting you to compare your ministry with others, and by tempting you to conform your ministry to the expectations of others. Both are deadly traps that will distract you from serving in the ways God intended. Whenever you lose your joy in ministry, start by considering if either one of these temptations is the cause.
The Bible warns us never to compare ourselves with others: "Do your own work well, and then you the shape he has given you. will have something to be proud of. But don't compare yourself with others." There are two reasons why you should never compare your shape, ministry, or the results of your ministry with anyone else. First, you will always be able to find someone who seems to be doing a better job than you and you will become discouraged. Or you will always be able to find someone who doesn't seem as effective as you and you will get full of pride. Either attitude will take you out of service and rob you of your joy.
Paul said it is foolish to compare ourselves with others. He said, "We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise." The Message paraphrase says, "In all this comparing and grading and competing, they quite miss the point."
You will find that people who do not understand your shape for ministry will criticize you and try to get you to conform to what they think you should be doing. Ignore them. Paul often had to deal with critics who misunderstood and maligned his service. His response was always the same: Avoid comparisons, resist exaggerations, and seek only God's commendation.''
One of the reasons Paul was used so greatly by God was that he refused to be distracted by criticism or by comparing his ministry with others or by being drawn into fruitless debates about his ministry. As John Bunyan said, "If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me."
KEEP DEVELOPING YOUR SHAPE
Jesus' parable of the talents illustrates that God expects us to make the most of what he gives us. We are to cultivate our gifts and abilities, keep our hearts aflame, grow our character and personality, and broaden our experiences so we will be increasingly more effective in our service. Paul told the Philippians to "keep on growing in your knowledge and understanding," and he reminded Timothy, "Kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you."
If you don't exercise your muscles, they weaken and atrophy. In the same way, if you don't utilize the abilities and skills God has given you, you will lose them. Jesus taught the parable of the talents to emphasize this truth. Referring to the servant who failed to use his one talent, the master said, "Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents." Fail to use what you've been given and you'll lose it. Use the ability you've got and God will increase it. Paul told Timothy, `Be sure to use the abilities God has given you.... Put these abilities to work."
Whatever gifts you have been given can be enlarged and developed through practice. For instance, no one gets the gift of teaching fully developed. But with study, feedback, and practice, a "good" teacher can become a better teacher, and with time, grow to be a master teacher. Don't settle for a half-developed gift. Stretch yourself and learn all you can. "Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won't be ashamed of." Take advantage of every training opportunity to develop your shape and sharpen your serving skills.
In heaven we are going to serve God forever. Right now, we can prepare for that eternal service by practicing on earth. Like athletes preparing for the Olympics, we keep training for that big day: "They do it for a gold medal that tarnishes and fades. You're after one that's gold eternally."
We're getting ready for eternal responsibilities and rewards.
DAY THIRTY-TWO THINKING ABOUT MY PURPOSE
Point to Ponder: God deserves my best.
Verse to Remember: "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth."
2 Timothy 2:15 (NN)
Question to Consider: How can I make the best use of what God has given me?
Since we find ourselves fashioned intoall these excellently formed and marvelouslyfunctioning parts in Christ's body, lets justgo ahead and be what we were made to be.Romans 12:5 (Msg)
What you are is God's gift to you;what you do with yourself is yourgifit to God.Danish proverb
God deserves your best.
He shaped you for a purpose, and he expects you to make the most of what you have been given. He doesn't want you to worry about or covet abilities you don't have. Instead he wants you to focus on talents he has given you to use.
When you attempt to serve God in ways you're not shaped to serve, it feels like forcing a square peg into a round hole. It's frustrating and produces limited results. It also wastes your time, your talent, and your energy. The best use of your life is to serve God out of your shape. To do this you must discover your shape, learn to accept and enjoy it, and then develop it to its fullest potential.
DISCOVER YOUR SHAPE
The Bible says, "Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to. "' Don't let another day go by. Start finding out and clarifying what God intends for you to be and do.
Begin by assessing your gifts and abilities. Take a long, honest look at what you are good at and what you're not good at. Paul advised, "Try to have a sane estimate of your capabilities." Make a list. Ask other people for their candid opinion. Tell them you're searching for the truth, not fishing for a compliment. Spiritual gifts and natural abilities are always confirmed by others. If you think you are gifted to be a teacher or a singer and no one else agrees, guess what? If you want to know if you have the gift of leadership, just look over your shoulder! If no one is following you, you're not a leader.
Ask questions like these: Where have I seen fruit in my life that other people confirmed? Where have I already been successful? Spiritual gift tests and ability inventories can have some value, but they are limited in their usefulness.
In the first place, they are standardized, so they don't take into account your uniqueness. Second, there are no definitions of the spiritual gifts given in the Bible, so any definitions are arbitrary and usually represent a denominational bias. Another problem is that the more mature you become, the more likely you are to manifest the characteristics of a number of the gifts. You may be serving or teaching or giving generously out of maturity rather than because it is your spiritual gift.
The best way to discover your gifts and abilities is to experiment with different areas of service. I could have taken a hundred gift and ability tests as a young man and would have never discovered that I was gifted at teaching because I had never done it! It was only after I began accepting opportunities to speak that I saw the results, received confirmation from others, and realized, "God has gifted me to do this!"
Many books get the discovery process backwards. They say, "Discover your spiritual gift and then you'll know what ministry you're supposed to have." It actually works the exact opposite way. Just start serving, experimenting with different ministries, and then you'll discover your gifts. Until you're actually involved in serving, you're not going to know what you're good at.
You have dozens of hidden abilities and gifts you don't know you've got because you've never
tried them out. So I encourage you to try doing some things you've never done before. No matter how old you are, I urge you to never stop experimenting. I have met many people who discovered hidden talents in their seventies and eighties. I know a woman in her nineties who runs and wins 10K races and didn't discover that she enjoyed running until she was seventy-eight!
Don't try to figure out your gifts before volunteering to serve somewhere. Just start serving. You discover your gifts by getting involved in ministry. Try teaching or leading or organizing or playing an instrument or working with teenagers. You will never know what you're good at until you try. When it doesn't work out, call it an "experiment," not a failure. You will eventually learn what you're good at.
Consider your heart and your personality. Paul advised, "Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. "3 Again, it helps to get feedback from those who know you best. Ask yourself questions: What do I really enjoy doing most? When do I feel the most fully alive? What am I doing when I lose track of time? Do I like routine or variety? Do I prefer serving with a team or by myself? Am I more introverted or extroverted? Am I more a thinker or a feeler? Which do I enjoy more-competing or cooperating?
Examine your experiences and extract the lessons you have learned. Review your life and think about how it has shaped you. Moses told the Israelites, "Remember today what you have learned about the LORD through your experiences with him." Forgotten experiences are worthless; that's a good reason to keep a spiritual journal. Paul worried that the believers in Galatia would waste the pain they had been through. He said, "Were all your experiences wasted? I hope not!"
We rarely see God's good purpose in pain or failure or embarrassment while it is happening. When Jesus washed Peter's feet, he said, "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand." Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.
Extracting the lessons from your experiences takes time. I recommend that you take an entire weekend for a life review retreat, where you pause to see how God has worked in the various defining moments of your life and consider how he wants to use those lessons to help others. There are resources that can help you do this.
ACCEPT AND ENJOY YOUR SHAPE
Since God knows what's best for you, you should gratefully accept the way he has fashioned you. The Bible says, "What right have you, a human being, to cross-examine God? The pot has no right to say to the potter: `Why did you make me this shape?' Surely a potter can do what he likes with the clay!"
Your shape was sovereignly determined by God for his purpose, so you shouldn't resent it or reject it. Instead of trying to reshape yourself to be like someone else, you should celebrate the shape God has given only to you. "Christ has given each of us special abilities-whatever he wants us to have out of his rich storehouse of gifts."
Part of accepting your shape is recognizing your limitations. Nobody is good at everything, and no one is called to be everything. We all have defined roles. Paul understood that his calling was not to accomplish everything or please everyone but to focus only on the particular ministry God had shaped him for. He said, "Our goal is to stay within the boundaries of God's plan for us."
The word boundaries refers to the fact that God assigns each of us a field or sphere of service. Your shape determines your specialty. When we try to overextend our ministry reach beyond what God shaped us for, we experience stress. Just as each runner in a race is given a different lane to run in, we must individually "run with patience the particular race that God has set before us." Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you; just focus on finishing your race.
God wants you to enjoy using the shape he has given you. The Bible says, `Be sure to do what you should, for then you will enjoy the personal satisfaction of having done your work well, and you won't need to compare yourself to anyone else." Satan will try to steal the joy of service from you in a couple of ways: by tempting you to compare your ministry with others, and by tempting you to conform your ministry to the expectations of others. Both are deadly traps that will distract you from serving in the ways God intended. Whenever you lose your joy in ministry, start by considering if either one of these temptations is the cause.
The Bible warns us never to compare ourselves with others: "Do your own work well, and then you the shape he has given you. will have something to be proud of. But don't compare yourself with others." There are two reasons why you should never compare your shape, ministry, or the results of your ministry with anyone else. First, you will always be able to find someone who seems to be doing a better job than you and you will become discouraged. Or you will always be able to find someone who doesn't seem as effective as you and you will get full of pride. Either attitude will take you out of service and rob you of your joy.
Paul said it is foolish to compare ourselves with others. He said, "We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise." The Message paraphrase says, "In all this comparing and grading and competing, they quite miss the point."
You will find that people who do not understand your shape for ministry will criticize you and try to get you to conform to what they think you should be doing. Ignore them. Paul often had to deal with critics who misunderstood and maligned his service. His response was always the same: Avoid comparisons, resist exaggerations, and seek only God's commendation.''
One of the reasons Paul was used so greatly by God was that he refused to be distracted by criticism or by comparing his ministry with others or by being drawn into fruitless debates about his ministry. As John Bunyan said, "If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me."
KEEP DEVELOPING YOUR SHAPE
Jesus' parable of the talents illustrates that God expects us to make the most of what he gives us. We are to cultivate our gifts and abilities, keep our hearts aflame, grow our character and personality, and broaden our experiences so we will be increasingly more effective in our service. Paul told the Philippians to "keep on growing in your knowledge and understanding," and he reminded Timothy, "Kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you."
If you don't exercise your muscles, they weaken and atrophy. In the same way, if you don't utilize the abilities and skills God has given you, you will lose them. Jesus taught the parable of the talents to emphasize this truth. Referring to the servant who failed to use his one talent, the master said, "Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents." Fail to use what you've been given and you'll lose it. Use the ability you've got and God will increase it. Paul told Timothy, `Be sure to use the abilities God has given you.... Put these abilities to work."
Whatever gifts you have been given can be enlarged and developed through practice. For instance, no one gets the gift of teaching fully developed. But with study, feedback, and practice, a "good" teacher can become a better teacher, and with time, grow to be a master teacher. Don't settle for a half-developed gift. Stretch yourself and learn all you can. "Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won't be ashamed of." Take advantage of every training opportunity to develop your shape and sharpen your serving skills.
In heaven we are going to serve God forever. Right now, we can prepare for that eternal service by practicing on earth. Like athletes preparing for the Olympics, we keep training for that big day: "They do it for a gold medal that tarnishes and fades. You're after one that's gold eternally."
We're getting ready for eternal responsibilities and rewards.
DAY THIRTY-TWO THINKING ABOUT MY PURPOSE
Point to Ponder: God deserves my best.
Verse to Remember: "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth."
2 Timothy 2:15 (NN)
Question to Consider: How can I make the best use of what God has given me?
Saturday, March 19, 2011
If you love your kids; then don't over pampered them
Angelique Syn Thia II Unhappy wt my boring n totally controlled n not independant lifestyle with him. His family should have train him from young for not be dependant too much. Boring lifestyle makes me lack of energy!
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Nicholas Yeap So what's the solution?
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Angelique Syn Thia II Good question.
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Angelique Syn Thia II 帮人家教一个28-30岁的儿子真的很痛苦！我又不是他妈妈啦！
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Nicholas Yeap Think of best friend approach
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Angelique Syn Thia II I dun understand. Can explain further. I m so the mat salleh style; then har my mom told me: who ask me to look for a typical china pek style!
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Nicholas Yeap We can keep focusing on the worse n negative things which we won't hv any solution. Why not focus on what you can do best for him? If u treat him as ur best friend, what wud u do to help him?
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Angelique Syn Thia II I help till cant help already. Teach one thing for two year, improvement. 30% lucky enuf that i m still alive. My best fren listen to me more than he listen to me. I also need he to guide me, not me guide 100% then my knowledge would be stagnant. Women need e guy to lead, not she lead the guy forever
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Angelique Syn Thia II Age is not the problem. Family education plays a very important role. Independant! Family cant pamper their kids too much. 不是疼他、是还死他。
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Nicholas Yeap Yeah it takes 2 parties to makw things work.. Do cont to pray for breakthrough sister
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Angelique Syn Thia II Thank you bro. God bless
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Nicholas Yeap So what's the solution?
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Angelique Syn Thia II Good question.
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Angelique Syn Thia II 帮人家教一个28-30岁的儿子真的很痛苦！我又不是他妈妈啦！
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Nicholas Yeap Think of best friend approach
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Angelique Syn Thia II I dun understand. Can explain further. I m so the mat salleh style; then har my mom told me: who ask me to look for a typical china pek style!
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Nicholas Yeap We can keep focusing on the worse n negative things which we won't hv any solution. Why not focus on what you can do best for him? If u treat him as ur best friend, what wud u do to help him?
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Angelique Syn Thia II I help till cant help already. Teach one thing for two year, improvement. 30% lucky enuf that i m still alive. My best fren listen to me more than he listen to me. I also need he to guide me, not me guide 100% then my knowledge would be stagnant. Women need e guy to lead, not she lead the guy forever
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Angelique Syn Thia II Age is not the problem. Family education plays a very important role. Independant! Family cant pamper their kids too much. 不是疼他、是还死他。
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Nicholas Yeap Yeah it takes 2 parties to makw things work.. Do cont to pray for breakthrough sister
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Angelique Syn Thia II Thank you bro. God bless
Friday, March 18, 2011
基督教與佛教（勸世人別把這兩個教混為一談，誤人誤己）
文摘自 http://www.ddbc.org/gospel/budda.htm
讀前警告：文帶攻擊性以達到警惕效果，請以平常心閱讀
基督教與佛教
作者:龔天民
一、基督教有上帝；佛教拜多神，或無神。
一切宗教皆有信仰，就是最低級的宗教有時也十分虔誠；但重要的問題不是你有信仰，乃是你所信仰的是誰？因為你所敬拜的神不同，你的生命人格、思想、生活、受用也隨之而異。青年人實在要謹慎選擇他的宗教、比選擇職業、婚姻更重要。佛教在敬拜上，實在夠虔誠，只可惜敬拜多神。
而且那些神皆不是神。近年來新佛教有所覺悟，只敬拜釋迦、阿彌陀佛、及觀音菩薩；可惜這三位也不是神。觀世音菩薩尚在修行地位，阿隬陀佛不過是千億萬佛之一。佛教中最尊貴者，當推釋迦佛，但釋迦佛也不是神。他並未叫人把他當神來敬拜。佛與眾生平等。人人皆可成佛。
按佛學說：禽獸也可成佛。徹底說來，佛教是無神可敬拜的。結果，佛教祖師把佛像劈開燒火。自己就是佛，自己就是宇宙間最高大的。可憐，卻不知道自己的渺小、微不足道、有多樣的軟弱、低能。基督教則不然，上帝即在古時藉著眾先知，曉諭人類，雖然在各民族，深淺不同，先知所知道的有限，但在這末世，藉著祂的獨生子耶穌啟示於世人（來１：１）。這位宇宙間獨一的真神上帝──耶和華，不但是真理，太初的道，自有永有，而且是最高權能、智慧、仁愛、聖潔、公義、有位格的獨一真神，這才是人類所應當敬拜的。
二、基督教看世界是上帝所創造，有計劃，有目的的；佛教看世界是因緣和合，四大皆空，無計劃、無目的的。
佛教看這閻浮提娑婆世界，眾苦充滿，都是由於一切眾生業感而來，果報而來，故佛教徒看不出被造之物、大自然界之美，及上帝創造之恩典。基督徒則不然，以為世界萬物俱是天父上帝所創造，奇偉美麗無比，其中蘊藏財寶豐富，用之不盡，取之不竭。人苟能靈能眼開了，則無論太空宇宙之大，原子之小，處處皆可見到上帝創造之奧妙。吾人對於山水花鳥，音樂美術，在在皆可寄情欣賞．因為這一切，皆是天父上帝為人類預備的。
三、基督教看人生是樂觀的；佛教看人生是痛苦煩惱的。
佛教看人生有八苦，故不願來生再做人；基督教則不然，無論音樂、美術、科學，皆應努力研究。家庭、社會、世界，皆要努力服務。以為愈能做得多，愈能榮耀上帝。
四、基督教看人與禽獸有分別；佛教看眾生平等。
佛教之所謂眾生，是指胎，卵，濕，化一切生物。佛教又謂一切眾生六道輪迴。所以不敢吃牛豬雞鴨，以為恐怕是祖宗投胎，吃到了自己的祖宗。縱然不是祖宗投的胎，也不可吃。因為一切眾生，佛性平等，殺一眾生，來生要投為牛豬雞鴨被殺，以償還業報。故有買魚投之江河以放生，買豬牛送到廟中去養老。基督教則主張；人與獸之間是大有分別的，上帝創造萬物之時，唯有人有上帝的形象（品格）．唯人有上帝的靈氣（Pueuma）。其餘一切生物，只不過有魂（Psyche），有血氣生命而已。佛教徒時常批評基督教的愛狹小，只愛人，而不愛禽獸。其實不然，應該說：佛教的愛不正確，過份注重禽獸，而了忽略愛人之特殊。
五、基督教勸人信耶穌，出發點是赦罪得救；佛教勸人信佛修行，出發點是離苦得樂
佛教徒出家，或吃齋念佛，集功德，原因都是為離苦得樂。修修來生，或圖往生西方。出發點，並不是想到罪的問題，只想到苦的問題。此又與基督教不同，基督教叫人頭一件想到罪的問題，倒並不一定要離苦，甚至要甘心樂意吃苦，背十字架，在家庭中、在社會中，愛人、服事人。
六、基督教有救恩；佛教講因果。
這是基佛二教最大區別，釋迦佛只是教主、導師，指示人離苦得樂，教導人自已修行之方法。他並未說：我能代替眾生擔罪，只要信我就得救。耶穌則不然，聖經清楚地說：我的寶血，是為你們的罪流出來，使罪得赦（太廿六28）．信的人就有永生（約三15）。
七、基督教的究竟是永生；佛教的歸宿是涅槃。
佛教修行之目的，是在乎八涅槃。涅槃梵音（Nirvana）意為寂滅（tranquil extinction），是令人很難捉摸的名詞。到底進入究竟涅槃後，還有我（inividuality）沒有？我問過好多法師，回答卻是不同。有的說仍有我存在，有的說那時絕對沒有我存在了。如一滴水歸入大海，還有一滴水嗎？有的說：一滴水固然歸入大海，其滴水之相，了無可得，但此一滴水性還是存在於眾水之中而未消滅的、甚至有兩可的回答說：存在，不存在。存在是因為涅槃是不生不滅，不增不減，不垢不淨，回到法性實相。不存在是法性本來空寂。達摩說：本來無一物的境界。基督教對此問題，卻有了相當確切的回答，就是肯定說有永生。永生希臘原文（Zoen Aionion），乃指屬靈的生命¬¬屬上帝的生命。此生命人在世時就能得到，假若此人真能悔改重生的話。
佛教之所謂眾生，是指胎，卵，濕，化一切生物。佛教又謂一切眾生六道輪迴。所以不敢吃牛豬雞鴨，以為恐怕是祖宗投胎，吃到了自己的祖宗。縱然不是祖宗投的胎，也不可吃。因為一切眾生，佛性平等，殺一眾生，來生要投為牛豬雞鴨被殺，以償還業報。故有買魚投之江河以放生，買豬牛送到廟中去養老。基督教則主張；人與獸之間是大有分別的，上帝創造萬物之時，唯有人有上帝的形象（品格）．唯人有上帝的靈氣（Pueuma）。其餘一切生物，只不過有魂（Psyche），有血氣生命而已。佛教徒時常批評基督教的愛狹小，只愛人，而不愛禽獸。其實不然，應該說：佛教的愛不正確，過份注重禽獸，而了忽略愛人之特殊。
讀前警告：文帶攻擊性以達到警惕效果，請以平常心閱讀
基督教與佛教
作者:龔天民
一、基督教有上帝；佛教拜多神，或無神。
一切宗教皆有信仰，就是最低級的宗教有時也十分虔誠；但重要的問題不是你有信仰，乃是你所信仰的是誰？因為你所敬拜的神不同，你的生命人格、思想、生活、受用也隨之而異。青年人實在要謹慎選擇他的宗教、比選擇職業、婚姻更重要。佛教在敬拜上，實在夠虔誠，只可惜敬拜多神。
而且那些神皆不是神。近年來新佛教有所覺悟，只敬拜釋迦、阿彌陀佛、及觀音菩薩；可惜這三位也不是神。觀世音菩薩尚在修行地位，阿隬陀佛不過是千億萬佛之一。佛教中最尊貴者，當推釋迦佛，但釋迦佛也不是神。他並未叫人把他當神來敬拜。佛與眾生平等。人人皆可成佛。
按佛學說：禽獸也可成佛。徹底說來，佛教是無神可敬拜的。結果，佛教祖師把佛像劈開燒火。自己就是佛，自己就是宇宙間最高大的。可憐，卻不知道自己的渺小、微不足道、有多樣的軟弱、低能。基督教則不然，上帝即在古時藉著眾先知，曉諭人類，雖然在各民族，深淺不同，先知所知道的有限，但在這末世，藉著祂的獨生子耶穌啟示於世人（來１：１）。這位宇宙間獨一的真神上帝──耶和華，不但是真理，太初的道，自有永有，而且是最高權能、智慧、仁愛、聖潔、公義、有位格的獨一真神，這才是人類所應當敬拜的。
二、基督教看世界是上帝所創造，有計劃，有目的的；佛教看世界是因緣和合，四大皆空，無計劃、無目的的。
佛教看這閻浮提娑婆世界，眾苦充滿，都是由於一切眾生業感而來，果報而來，故佛教徒看不出被造之物、大自然界之美，及上帝創造之恩典。基督徒則不然，以為世界萬物俱是天父上帝所創造，奇偉美麗無比，其中蘊藏財寶豐富，用之不盡，取之不竭。人苟能靈能眼開了，則無論太空宇宙之大，原子之小，處處皆可見到上帝創造之奧妙。吾人對於山水花鳥，音樂美術，在在皆可寄情欣賞．因為這一切，皆是天父上帝為人類預備的。
三、基督教看人生是樂觀的；佛教看人生是痛苦煩惱的。
佛教看人生有八苦，故不願來生再做人；基督教則不然，無論音樂、美術、科學，皆應努力研究。家庭、社會、世界，皆要努力服務。以為愈能做得多，愈能榮耀上帝。
四、基督教看人與禽獸有分別；佛教看眾生平等。
佛教之所謂眾生，是指胎，卵，濕，化一切生物。佛教又謂一切眾生六道輪迴。所以不敢吃牛豬雞鴨，以為恐怕是祖宗投胎，吃到了自己的祖宗。縱然不是祖宗投的胎，也不可吃。因為一切眾生，佛性平等，殺一眾生，來生要投為牛豬雞鴨被殺，以償還業報。故有買魚投之江河以放生，買豬牛送到廟中去養老。基督教則主張；人與獸之間是大有分別的，上帝創造萬物之時，唯有人有上帝的形象（品格）．唯人有上帝的靈氣（Pueuma）。其餘一切生物，只不過有魂（Psyche），有血氣生命而已。佛教徒時常批評基督教的愛狹小，只愛人，而不愛禽獸。其實不然，應該說：佛教的愛不正確，過份注重禽獸，而了忽略愛人之特殊。
五、基督教勸人信耶穌，出發點是赦罪得救；佛教勸人信佛修行，出發點是離苦得樂
佛教徒出家，或吃齋念佛，集功德，原因都是為離苦得樂。修修來生，或圖往生西方。出發點，並不是想到罪的問題，只想到苦的問題。此又與基督教不同，基督教叫人頭一件想到罪的問題，倒並不一定要離苦，甚至要甘心樂意吃苦，背十字架，在家庭中、在社會中，愛人、服事人。
六、基督教有救恩；佛教講因果。
這是基佛二教最大區別，釋迦佛只是教主、導師，指示人離苦得樂，教導人自已修行之方法。他並未說：我能代替眾生擔罪，只要信我就得救。耶穌則不然，聖經清楚地說：我的寶血，是為你們的罪流出來，使罪得赦（太廿六28）．信的人就有永生（約三15）。
七、基督教的究竟是永生；佛教的歸宿是涅槃。
佛教修行之目的，是在乎八涅槃。涅槃梵音（Nirvana）意為寂滅（tranquil extinction），是令人很難捉摸的名詞。到底進入究竟涅槃後，還有我（inividuality）沒有？我問過好多法師，回答卻是不同。有的說仍有我存在，有的說那時絕對沒有我存在了。如一滴水歸入大海，還有一滴水嗎？有的說：一滴水固然歸入大海，其滴水之相，了無可得，但此一滴水性還是存在於眾水之中而未消滅的、甚至有兩可的回答說：存在，不存在。存在是因為涅槃是不生不滅，不增不減，不垢不淨，回到法性實相。不存在是法性本來空寂。達摩說：本來無一物的境界。基督教對此問題，卻有了相當確切的回答，就是肯定說有永生。永生希臘原文（Zoen Aionion），乃指屬靈的生命¬¬屬上帝的生命。此生命人在世時就能得到，假若此人真能悔改重生的話。
佛教之所謂眾生，是指胎，卵，濕，化一切生物。佛教又謂一切眾生六道輪迴。所以不敢吃牛豬雞鴨，以為恐怕是祖宗投胎，吃到了自己的祖宗。縱然不是祖宗投的胎，也不可吃。因為一切眾生，佛性平等，殺一眾生，來生要投為牛豬雞鴨被殺，以償還業報。故有買魚投之江河以放生，買豬牛送到廟中去養老。基督教則主張；人與獸之間是大有分別的，上帝創造萬物之時，唯有人有上帝的形象（品格）．唯人有上帝的靈氣（Pueuma）。其餘一切生物，只不過有魂（Psyche），有血氣生命而已。佛教徒時常批評基督教的愛狹小，只愛人，而不愛禽獸。其實不然，應該說：佛教的愛不正確，過份注重禽獸，而了忽略愛人之特殊。
End of Times
No one knows when is the end times; but it wont be in Dec 2012
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Low Tee Juan maybe yes, maybe no, could even be tomorrow... but the best way? live the best of ur life than you ever could without any regrets =)
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Angelique Syn Thia II This defination I very much dislike; it leads confusion. When we mentioned 'live the best of ur life than we could'. Means we shld return to Him, our only God, repent as there was not much time left or we must indulge in vice as much as we could. That particular sentence is a hanging up where n incomplete. It would mislead others to stumble in their faith n obedience to the Only God- the creator of heaven n earth n everything else. God bless.
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Angelique Syn Thia II It would be after dec2012. Not before but when I do not know.
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Low Tee Juan maybe yes, maybe no, could even be tomorrow... but the best way? live the best of ur life than you ever could without any regrets =)
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Angelique Syn Thia II This defination I very much dislike; it leads confusion. When we mentioned 'live the best of ur life than we could'. Means we shld return to Him, our only God, repent as there was not much time left or we must indulge in vice as much as we could. That particular sentence is a hanging up where n incomplete. It would mislead others to stumble in their faith n obedience to the Only God- the creator of heaven n earth n everything else. God bless.
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Angelique Syn Thia II It would be after dec2012. Not before but when I do not know.
God's promise
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS (click on the underlined verses to read them)
The earth will pass away. Revelation 21:1-4, 1 John 2:15-17
The earth will be burned up. 2 Peter 3:10-13
God will shake and remove the heavens and the earth. Hebrews 12:26-29
The earth will be shaken, broken up, and split apart. Isaiah 24:17-23
The earth will perish like a worn out garment. Psalms 102:25-28, Hebrews 1:10-12 (quoting Ps 102 ).
God will sweep everything away from the face of the earth. Zeph 1:1-3
The hills will melt. He will make an utter end of this place. Nahum 1:3-8
At the Messiah's coming, the mountains will melt. Psalms 97:1-6
The earth will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into liberty. Romans 8:19-22
The earth will pass away. Revelation 21:1-4, 1 John 2:15-17
The earth will be burned up. 2 Peter 3:10-13
God will shake and remove the heavens and the earth. Hebrews 12:26-29
The earth will be shaken, broken up, and split apart. Isaiah 24:17-23
The earth will perish like a worn out garment. Psalms 102:25-28, Hebrews 1:10-12 (quoting Ps 102 ).
God will sweep everything away from the face of the earth. Zeph 1:1-3
The hills will melt. He will make an utter end of this place. Nahum 1:3-8
At the Messiah's coming, the mountains will melt. Psalms 97:1-6
The earth will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into liberty. Romans 8:19-22
Jesus in the market place
I have just report back to Jesus after a long holiday (2months, to be exact)>>> means didnt attend Church, didnt read the bible and didnt read any devotional books.
The first lesson I study after the long holiday granted by Him; walking in the Christian way>>>
1. Even though you have been treated unfairly, being oppressed- still we need to forgive as how our Heavenly Father has forgiven us. Be obedience; not an easy path to take.
2. >>>continue to fulfill the work you have been assigned to no matter how demotivated as you have been. The work in the market place was a purpose from God. We do our best in our work (not try our best) this is to glorify Him. Personally, I hate someone/ myself saying: "I'll try my best". The actual respond & sincere confirmation of conducting so as: "I will do my best no matter what is happening" >>> and make sure we really do so. The rest is in His good hands.
3. Leaving a good testimony; not to others to remember us/ me (Syn Thia). The desire sincerely is for others to recognize Him- our Lord Christ Jesus. At the end of the days; no one shall be remembering...Syn Thia is a kind person, Syn Thia is a good person, etc... . By the end of the days; others should recognize and acknowledge: Lord Christ Jesus. "Syn Thia conduct in such way because it was Him- Lord Jesus has thought her to be that way. Our Heavenly Father is a faithful and full of mercy. He has forgiven Syn Thia of all her past sins; so may she forgive others and be just in His ways."
4. There is not much time; for us/ me to repent. The only chance is now and only now.
The first lesson I study after the long holiday granted by Him; walking in the Christian way>>>
1. Even though you have been treated unfairly, being oppressed- still we need to forgive as how our Heavenly Father has forgiven us. Be obedience; not an easy path to take.
2. >>>continue to fulfill the work you have been assigned to no matter how demotivated as you have been. The work in the market place was a purpose from God. We do our best in our work (not try our best) this is to glorify Him. Personally, I hate someone/ myself saying: "I'll try my best". The actual respond & sincere confirmation of conducting so as: "I will do my best no matter what is happening" >>> and make sure we really do so. The rest is in His good hands.
3. Leaving a good testimony; not to others to remember us/ me (Syn Thia). The desire sincerely is for others to recognize Him- our Lord Christ Jesus. At the end of the days; no one shall be remembering...Syn Thia is a kind person, Syn Thia is a good person, etc... . By the end of the days; others should recognize and acknowledge: Lord Christ Jesus. "Syn Thia conduct in such way because it was Him- Lord Jesus has thought her to be that way. Our Heavenly Father is a faithful and full of mercy. He has forgiven Syn Thia of all her past sins; so may she forgive others and be just in His ways."
4. There is not much time; for us/ me to repent. The only chance is now and only now.
His Unknown Ways
His Unknown Ways
by Charles R. Swindoll
Read Genesis 39:19-23
If anybody knew about unfair treatment, about a false accusation, about being an innocent victim on the receiving end, it was Joseph.
First, he received unfair treatment from his family. His brothers hated him, wanted to kill him, but sold him into slavery instead. Next, his circumstances were unexpectedly restricted. He became a slave in a land where he didn't even know the language. One minute he was a seventeen-year-old boy with his whole life before him, and the next he was totally at the mercy of---actually the property of---some stranger. Following all that, he was falsely accused. After earning the favor of his master, Potiphar, the master's wife tried to seduce Joseph. When he didn't submit to her wishes, she lied and said, "This slave tried to rape me." As a result of her lies, he was unjustly put in prison and abandoned.
Remember those words from Isaiah's pen as he repeats God's message?
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Look carefully at the contrasts. There is a vast difference between "My thoughts" and "your thoughts" says the Lord. "My ways" are not like "your ways." They are higher; they are far more profound, deep, mysterious---and I would add, surprising.
Our human ways are based on what seems fair. We firmly believe that when someone does what is right, rewards and blessings result. When someone does what is wrong, there are serious consequences, even punishment. But that's our way, not necessarily God's way. At least not immediately. He's been known to allow unfair treatment to occur in the lives of absolutely innocent folks---for reasons far more profound and deep than they or we could have imagined. How slowly He steps in!
by Charles R. Swindoll
Read Genesis 39:19-23
If anybody knew about unfair treatment, about a false accusation, about being an innocent victim on the receiving end, it was Joseph.
First, he received unfair treatment from his family. His brothers hated him, wanted to kill him, but sold him into slavery instead. Next, his circumstances were unexpectedly restricted. He became a slave in a land where he didn't even know the language. One minute he was a seventeen-year-old boy with his whole life before him, and the next he was totally at the mercy of---actually the property of---some stranger. Following all that, he was falsely accused. After earning the favor of his master, Potiphar, the master's wife tried to seduce Joseph. When he didn't submit to her wishes, she lied and said, "This slave tried to rape me." As a result of her lies, he was unjustly put in prison and abandoned.
Remember those words from Isaiah's pen as he repeats God's message?
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Look carefully at the contrasts. There is a vast difference between "My thoughts" and "your thoughts" says the Lord. "My ways" are not like "your ways." They are higher; they are far more profound, deep, mysterious---and I would add, surprising.
Our human ways are based on what seems fair. We firmly believe that when someone does what is right, rewards and blessings result. When someone does what is wrong, there are serious consequences, even punishment. But that's our way, not necessarily God's way. At least not immediately. He's been known to allow unfair treatment to occur in the lives of absolutely innocent folks---for reasons far more profound and deep than they or we could have imagined. How slowly He steps in!
Refer below devotion
At first i putting my daily journal in front of me while reading my daily devotional from internet. While waiting for this page to load, i read my own journal. Insiide my journal, i wrote something went on like this:
".....I bless my enemy. I feel very peaceful as i pray to bless my enemy. God said bless your enemy, consider others more important than you and love your neighbors like you love yourselves. It works! I realise as i pray for my oppressor, praying God to use my circumstances to build my character, I feel peace & alive!"
after finish reading above, I thought about you. I thought of sms you seeking you to bless your enemy and show love. Before i decided to send you the sms, below devotional loaded in front of my laptop. It says exactly the same thing!! BLess those who curse you, pray for those who ill-treat you.
Remember, God's way is always different from world's way. The world may say take revenge or fight back or get even. But God's righteous way say, plant love, bless those who mistreat you, sow love and you will get well. That's our Father!!
May be this is a lesson of love that God wants you to learn ? because we will continue / always meeting people who mistreated us. And how shall we respond? by Love!
We persecuted Jesus, put Jesus to death. Jesus send paul to save the us and love us in return.
".....I bless my enemy. I feel very peaceful as i pray to bless my enemy. God said bless your enemy, consider others more important than you and love your neighbors like you love yourselves. It works! I realise as i pray for my oppressor, praying God to use my circumstances to build my character, I feel peace & alive!"
after finish reading above, I thought about you. I thought of sms you seeking you to bless your enemy and show love. Before i decided to send you the sms, below devotional loaded in front of my laptop. It says exactly the same thing!! BLess those who curse you, pray for those who ill-treat you.
Remember, God's way is always different from world's way. The world may say take revenge or fight back or get even. But God's righteous way say, plant love, bless those who mistreat you, sow love and you will get well. That's our Father!!
May be this is a lesson of love that God wants you to learn ? because we will continue / always meeting people who mistreated us. And how shall we respond? by Love!
We persecuted Jesus, put Jesus to death. Jesus send paul to save the us and love us in return.
My first prophecy
Angelique Syn Thia II The first test- humility: There are two ways we can be humble, we can either humble ourselves or be humbled by God. I received a prophecy from my colleague -sis in Christ last week; God wants you to be OBEDIENCE. That is the thing He wants from you ♥ after I asked her to prayed for me n help me to get the msg frm Him.
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Angelique Syn Thia II Sometimes, I have listening to Him problem. Whether the msg is from Him or not? I enjoyed the most when I can hear His msg; during one of my prayers for another sis, may she not being transfered. Then as usual I read my daily devotions- He gave me the msg; it is transition. His msg was always peaceful without sterring fear nor scared.
After the msg of obedience, in all my daily devotional readings, all was abt what His tests are, His times n seasons n how to listen to His voice.
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Angelique Syn Thia II "That is My purpose for her; transition. No matter what, she will be transfered". That msg was strong n so assured that it will happen n it is His way.
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Angelique Syn Thia II Sometimes, I have listening to Him problem. Whether the msg is from Him or not? I enjoyed the most when I can hear His msg; during one of my prayers for another sis, may she not being transfered. Then as usual I read my daily devotions- He gave me the msg; it is transition. His msg was always peaceful without sterring fear nor scared.
After the msg of obedience, in all my daily devotional readings, all was abt what His tests are, His times n seasons n how to listen to His voice.
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Angelique Syn Thia II "That is My purpose for her; transition. No matter what, she will be transfered". That msg was strong n so assured that it will happen n it is His way.
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1 Kings 17: there will be no rain to the land due to sins n wickedness. The prophecy I rcv is tht no increament of sales. Repent, repent.
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