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Hi ppl out who read my blog or happen to drop by... here's my new blog address
Hi ppl out who read my blog or happen to drop by... here's my new blog address
Just to let u ppl know bout my updates.
I won't be free during from now till 17 November 2007 due to exams.
Next,I have a camp organised by the CF of University of Malaya from 24-26 November 2007.
Then 27 Nov 2007 -2 Jan 2008 ,I will be back in Penang during the semester break.
Here's another once in a while update
After training hard,going tru sicknesses,injury,unfinished assignments,studying last minute for a test,activities,meetings.......I just wanna THANK GOD that I got to play for the 3rd College football team and managed to reach the quarter-final.Today we lost ...haih...This is my first time at the left-back position throughout the competition.
Last year we also reached the quarter final and lost too.This year,we played 4 matches in a row in 4 days...that's crazy...we didn't get a chance to rest and so losing today was just not worth it.
Coming back to why i wanna thank God .I was still not well the night before the first match and what made things worse was that i had a test the next day which i had not studied much because i had been sick almost the whole week before. I slept late coz i had to study.It was frustrating.All i could do was pray.Of coz i have been praying the whole week before but somehow the sickness didn't recover.The miracle came in the morning coz that pain and dizziness in my head was gone but i had a cold or flu coz i didn't have enuf sleep.I didn't do well in the test...argh...dun care la..over dee....so i slept in the aftenoon...when i woke up i felt so much better than the past whole week or more....
So we played the first match,and the second and the third...winning the first and the third game,and a draw for the second game.Only today we got beaten by a fresher team coz they only had 2 games and a day's rest.I can't deny that they were good but we just couldn't give them a better fight.
This morning,a young guy died after his motorbike collided with a truck.It happened just 2 houses away from my house....
It was scary...it woke me up from my complacency and reminded me to cherish my life.Thank God i am still alive today,there so many many times i escaped accidents or even death on my motorbike.
The scariest thought was whether that guy will end up in heaven or hell...
I thought bout it and i was reminded that even a christian who does not obey God and is not willing to change will not go to heaven....
Most people say u can't prove that heaven exists....Yup...i face this question all the time...But,U ALSO CAN'T PROVE THAT IT DOESN'T....
A funny friend of mine once said...."who cares....go to hell even better....go to hell got "leng lui"(pretty girls)....heaven where got?"...LOL...
As much as i would want to be like them...i can't....I'm a child of God and no matter how far i stray and sin...i still have to run back to God coz i find peace in the hands of God...
haha...this is wat i will be doing from time to time....but i don't wanna do this most of the tme la...got other stuff to do oso....
lol...
Dear bothers and sisters in Christ.
How's life?As for me,i'm struggling with something.It may seem like a small matter but its what all of us christians face.I have not been consistent with reading the bible since my exams ended last month till now.Surprisingly,I seldom skipped reading the bible during the exam period and before.But after the exams when i'm so FREE,I slack to the max!!Amazingly i can remember everyday that I'm reminded (i believe by the Holy Spirit)to read it but i just ignore that reminder.
A portion of the booklet below has encouraged me before this but i forgotten bout it.But thank God today i heard a sermon bout it.So i searched for the full booklet and read it again.So,I hope u all will be encouraged.Lets run this race together!
A Booklet by George Mueller
May 9, 1841
It has pleased the Lord to teach me a truth, the benefit of which I have not lost,
for more than fourteen years. The point is this:
I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not how much I might serve the Lord, or how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished. For I might seek to set the truth before the unconverted, I might seek to benefit believers, I might seek to relieve the distressed, I might in other ways seek to behave myself as it becomes a child of God in this world; and yet, not being happy in the Lord, and not being nourished and strengthened in my inner man day by day, all this might not be attended to in a right spirit.
Before this time my practice had been, at least for ten years previously, as an habitual thing, to give myself to prayer, after having dressed myself in the morning. Now, I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God, and to meditation on it, that thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, warned, reproved, instructed; and that thus, by means of the Word of God, while meditating on it, my heart might be brought into experiential communion with the Lord.
I began therefore to meditate on the New Testament from the beginning, early in the morning. The first thing I did, after having asked in a few words the Lord’s blessing upon his precious Word, was, to begin to meditate on the Word of God, searching as it were into every verse, to get blessing out of it; not for the sake of the public ministry of the Word, not for the sake of preaching on what I had meditated upon, but for the sake of obtaining food for my own soul.
The result I have found to be almost invariably this, that after a very few minutes my soul has been led to confession, or to thanksgiving, or to intercession, or to supplication; so that, though I did not, as it were, give myself to prayer, but to meditation, yet it turned almost immediately more or less into prayer. When thus I have been for a while making confession or intercession, or supplication, or have given thanks, I go to the next words or verse, turning all, as I go on, into prayer for myself or others, as the Word may lead to it, but still continually keeping before me that food for my own soul is the object of my meditation. The result of this is, that there is always a good deal of confession, thanksgiving, supplication, or intercession mingled with my meditation, and then my inner man almost invariably is even sensibly nourished and strengthened, and that by breakfast time, with rare exceptions, I am in a peaceful if not happy state of heart. Thus also the Lord is pleased to communicate unto me that which, either very soon after or at a later time, I have found to become food for other believers, though it was not for the sake of the public ministry of the Word that I gave myself to meditation, but for the profit of my own inner man.
The difference, then, between my former practice and my present one is this:
Formerly, when I rose, I began to pray as soon as possible, and generally spent all my time till breakfast in prayer, or almost all the time. At all events I almost invariably began with prayer, except when I felt my soul to be more than usually barren, in which case I read the Word of God for food, or for refreshment, or for a revival and renewal of my inner man, before I gave myself to prayer.
But what was the result? I often spent a quarter of an hour, or half an hour, or even an hour, on my knees, before being conscious to myself of having derived comfort, encouragement, humbling of soul, etc., and often, after having suffered much from wandering of mind for the first ten minutes, or a quarter of an hour, or even half an hour, I only then began really to pray. I scarcely ever suffer now in this way. For my heart, first being nourished by the truth, being brought into experiential fellowship with God, I then speak to my Father and to my Friend, (vile though I am, and unworthy of it), about the things that He has brought before me in His precious Word.
It often now astonishes me that I did not sooner see this point. In no book did I ever read about it. No public ministry ever brought the matter before me. No private intercourse with a brother stirred me up to this matter. And yet, now, since God has taught me this point, it is as plain to me as anything, that the first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is, to obtain food for his inner man. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time except we take food, and as this is one of the first things we do in the morning, so it should be with the inner man. We should take food for that, as every one must allow.
Now, what is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering over it, and applying it to our hearts. When we pray, we speak to God. Now, prayer, in order to be continued for any length of time in any other than a formal manner, requires, generally speaking, a measure of strength or godly desire, and the season, therefore, when this exercise of the soul can be most effectually performed is after the inner man has been nourished by meditation on the Word of God, where we find our Father speaking to us, to encourage us, to comfort us, to instruct us, to humble us, to reprove us. We may therefore profitably meditate, with God’s blessing, though we are ever so weak spiritually; nay, the weaker we are, the more we need meditation for the strengthening of our inner man.
Thus there is far less to be feared from wandering of mind than if we give ourselves to prayer without having had time previously for meditation. I dwell so particularly on this point because of the immense spiritual profit and refreshment I am conscious of having derived from it myself, and I affectionately and solemnly beseech all my fellow believers to ponder this matter. By the blessing of God, I ascribe to this mode the help and strength which I have had from God to pass in peace through deeper trials, in various ways, than I had ever had before; and after having now above fourteen years tried this way, I can most fully, in the fear of God, commend it.
In addition to this I generally read, after family prayer, larger portions of the Word of God, when I still pursue my practice of reading regularly onward in the Holy Scriptures, sometimes in the New Testament, and sometimes in the Old, and for more than twenty-six years I have proved the blessedness of it. I take, also, either then or at other parts of the day, time more especially for prayer. How different, when the soul is refreshed and made happy early in the morning, from what it is when without spiritual preparation, the service, the trials, and the temptations of the day come upon one.