When I was sick last wednesday and I stayed home we watched the book of Daniel and Esther. There is one stong thing that I really noticed. They have all been obedient to the kings of different generations of different time and Nations that have conquered their lands. Both Daniel and Mordecai honoured the authority given to the kings as their way of honouring God. I was so amazed in the faith of Daniel for really obeying God though it will cause him 70 years of waiting and obedience to the king of the foreign land. He hold on to the promise of God through the letter of prophet Jeremiah which I was trying to read again this morning in the book of Jeremiah. I was so surprised that it was just the verse before the most popular verse in the book of Jeremiah. In Jeremiah 29:10 10 This is what the LORD says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. Daniel and his friends really served the kings with full obedience and humility and truth so as Mordecai. They both have said that as God commanded they should serve the kings who are in authority but time will come that He will free them. I was reminded and moved by this act of obedience from them. I suddenly realized our own status in our workplaces. In the lifetime of Mordecai He remain faithful and taught Esther well, in the movie this verse has always been quoted in addition, Ecclesiastes 3:7b "There is a time to be silent and a time to speak." (During their presentation of Mordecai raising Esther.) This verse repeatively mentioned as for those days their honour for sabbath was not given to them and In relation to what is to come, when finally Jews generation are in harm, Esther 4:13-14English Standard Version (ESV)13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Both of the stories showed obedience of the best way they can to the rulers of this earth as their act of obedience to God. Both stories shows the character of waiting for the right time to speak and act or do nothing but be silent and obey. Both stories made me thinking of how I should react somday when I will be put in the same position. Both stories made their obedience and faithfulness upon the rulers as their way to show the great mercy and power of God to the rulers. They have shown their faithfulness to show how good is their God. But both stories showed courage from them once they were tested in WORSHIPPING the king and their Gods and praying to them over the God of Israel. That is a complete different case that was both brought by trick by the wicked people in the story. I was again reminded, in those lines, what if the king commanded this and God commanded the other way which one will you obey? How about you? There is always time for everything. Rulers are put in authority for such a reason and such time and we must obey them by all means but nevertheless obedience to God is much more important. 😊😊😊🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 He is the God Almighty. The beginning and the end. 🙏🏻 If you want an unending Joy, get it from someone Eternal. God! He gives the true and authentic Joy. Living for Jesus may not seem like the joy of this world where you have limits of the longing of your flesh and full of test and struggles but there is joy in knowing that living this life for Him gives delight to our Most Holy God. If you base your happiness of something and someone if this world which is temporary, more likely your happiness will also be temporary and can be snatch from you anytime. Choose wisely! #reflection #devotion #morning #Godmoves #Godspromise #GodsJoy #joy #happiness #love #favoured #eternaljoy #heaven #allglorytoGod #allforJesus God will not give you a partner just because you are lonely. When you are lonely He will make sure that you are solely into His presence because He is the only one that can comfort you and give you the true peace and joy. When you pass the test of loneliness and have come to the point of satisfaction in life of having God in your life, wherein you value life how God designed it not on how you planned your life to be that is when things will get clearer. It is not like when we tantrums and demand from our own desire from God and when we go emo emo and show Him how miserable we are He will quickly give what we want. He don't anyhow give what we want. He gives what we need. Same goes, He will provide the person to be with you, support you, love you and respect you next after Him when you are ready. How many of you knows that before anyone can be ready all goes into preparation? There's always a process for everything, even instant noodles comes instantly!!! You need to boil water and pour all things and seasonings in and WAIT! Take heart my friend! God knows His timing! What if our tongue are made of glass which is very fragile, will we be more careful to use it? Would we be more fearful that it may break and the first one that will get wounded is ourselves before we spit it out and hurt anybody else? In this world there is no perfect life, and perfect person. Our family and friends will never be perfect. We all have our flaws and weaknesses and every human beings will have there down side. We will always find wrongs among other people that is for sure, but you see my friend you are the same thing. People will also see something wrong with you. So if you will try to think about it what if before we speak out anything we try to tell the exact words to ourselves? How will that sound? If in any case you got hurt maybe you will think twice before you slip the words from your mouth. Words that we have spoken are like feathers that once blown by the wind we can never take it back. The bible says in proverbs 12:18, "The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing." Words hurt more than physical wound because physical wound stays only in the outside and once healed there will be no more pain while harsh words will cut through the inside and it will stay there within, we never know how long. We always have a choice, we can always choose whether to bring healing and encouragement and life or pain to the people around us. And the sad part in this cases, mostly the people that we hurt with the misused words are the people we love and close into our hearts. The saddest part is that when we slip those words out then we realized afterwards, the person that get hurt the most is US! We are all guilty of this, and it is never easy to control our silly tongue but then let the peace and love of God always prevail. Guard your mind and heart in that way you can also guard your tongue. In any case that we failed to hold our tongue and it slipped, always remember to forgive yourself and apologize. God will forgive us and will always love us, but let's try our best to love others, understand each others lackness and weaknesses like how God want it. Life is full of meaning. The more we try to see how rich life is the more we find out the value of it. God created life with such beauty, joy and mystery that the more we try to discover and find it, the more we get to see the meaning of it. The bible says, those who love life and protect it will lose it but those who live their lives for God will find and enjoy it even more. 😊😊😊 Truly living in God's timing, purpose and will is the best way to live and enjoy life. Don't just travel to see the world; Travel to witness life and witness God's power and magnificence in the beauty of His creation; travel with an expectation of seeing God in every place you go. Don't just travel because it is you passion but because you are passionate to meet God and bring God on every places you set your feet on. Give travelling the right justice.😊 So, I haven't unpacked my trek pack from my last trip and I just came back last tuesday night but i need to pack my things again tonight for my tomorrow's travel. Hahhaahah..😂😂😂 water and beach meet you soon! Time for rest! Time for getaway! Time for friends! Gift and reward from God. 😊 #traveller #feetonthego #lovefortravel #beach #getaway #vacation #friendships #christianlife #rest #livinglife #passion #growbeautifully #Godlytiming #Godslove #loved #blessed #favoured Life is full of meaning. The more we try to see how rich life is the more we find out the value of it. God created life with such beauty, joy and mystery that the more we try to discover and find it, the more we get to see the meaning of it. The bible says, those who love life and protect it will lose it but those who live their lives for God will find and enjoy it even more. 😊😊😊 Truly living in God's timing, purpose and will is the best way to live and enjoy life. Don't just travel to see the world; Travel to witness life and witness God's power and magnificence in the beauty of His creation; travel with an expectation of seeing God in every place you go. Don't just travel because it is you passion but because you are passionate to meet God and bring God on every places you set your feet on. Give travelling the right justice.😊 So, I haven't unpacked my trek pack from my last trip and I just came back last tuesday night but i need to pack my things again tonight for my tomorrow's travel. Hahhaahah..😂😂😂 water and beach meet you soon! Time for rest! Time for getaway! Time for friends! Gift and reward from God. 😊 #traveller #feetonthego #lovefortravel #beach #getaway #vacation #friendships #christianlife #rest #livinglife #passion #growbeautifully #Godlytiming #Godslove #loved #blessed #favoured People always have the tendency to rush things. It's like we are in a marathon or quiz bee that has time limit or a distance that is needed to be accomplished. Life is made of time and time is created by God. Why do we need to worry or rush? Will you just get pressured and stressed trying to catch up with the time frame of this world? When people get into their 30's or when all of their friends get married while they don't even have a partner is like there's a time bomb ready to explode anytime soon. I guess its the trend of this world. We usually make our own time schedule or others make schedule for us. Stop relying on the timing of this world and start trusting the timing of God. He created time in the first place He sure knows the best timing of all. Be still! Stopping running after the worlds tik tak tik tak. Wait upon God's timing. It's always the best time ever! 😊😊😊 I'm finally back in my second home. What a long journey back home and when I was about to rest suddenly i missed the kids. Then tears started coming again. I just missed those kids. It's like part of my heart was left there in Chiang Mai. Then i scroll to my gallery again and saw my collage of my last night with them where in they Really slept later than usual to spend time with us before we leave. They really hugged us like they don't want us to go. I missed all of them with all my heart. Thank You Lord for breaking my heart once again with so much to witness out there. Your love is overwhelming. 😭😭😭😭 I will pray to never get tired on serving You. I was reading about how to find a treasure or get clues in your treasure map to do ultimate treasure hunt. The author said about the "word of knowledge or message of knowledge" that can only be obtained by the power of the Holy Spirit." Then these lines really captured me, "Most people know what is wrong with them, what they don't know is what is right about them." They have destiny with Christ and God's plan is always to prosper them and give hope right? That is God's promise in Jeremiah 29:11. It is all there. It has been there many years ago but most of the people don't know that promise. Then I got to the thinking, some people I have encountered before, they felt this emptiness and longing and unexplanable sadness and some are blinded by the wealth and lust and success of this world. There are those times that the Holy Spirit will prompt me to say something that they might be feeling that moment and it really turns the table. But there were those times that some people suddenly ask you just to have a debate over religion and I totally need to wait for the Holy Spirit to intercede and give me a word of knowledge and our conversation will eventually ends with silence. It is true that most people knew what is wrong with them and got sucked up by that idea that everything about them is a mess and completely wrong and unchangeable. Some people will only be aware of the truth if somebody will dare to open their eyes and let them see the truth. Which ever the scenario is somebody needs to do something. When Jesus waited for the Samaritan woman in the well He did both to her. Definitely the woman knew what is wrong with her, even being a samaritan is considered wrong about her that time. What Jesus did is letting the woman know that He knew what is wrong about her and how to make it right. For the woman to believe that He is the messiah that is all knowing He begun saying about the wrong doing that the woman is commiting but Jesus did it with such grace. He let her know that there is hope. Jesus told the hard truth so she can be free from the lies and eventually Jesus offered the cure and eternal offering. Jesus intentionally waited there for that woman so He can help her and save her by revealing what is wrong with her without exposing her to the people and condemning her so Jesus can also tell her what is the right thing to do. Jesus corrected and protected her by the truth, by grace and by love. My question now is, Are you a follower of Christ? If you are, will you also hunt, seek, look and wait for those precious treasures that awaits you? Will you correct your friends and loved ones with the truth? Will you help the blind to see? Or Are you in those class of people? Are you blinded? Are you not aware of what is wrong with you? Or what is missing in your life? Or you don't know the promise of God? You don't know or not sure if God loves you. Well, He do. He really do my friend! He died for you. He wants to save us all😊 With so much excitement to testify God's favour I couldn't contain my Joy Lord! Favours overflows! I believe why! God said when we fully put our trust and hope in the Lord we are like trees planted by the waters, our favours flows continiously. We will not fear to be dried out or to be short of anything or to blossom ourserlves. God will BE THE ONE TO BLESS, FAVOUR AND LIFT YOU UP! I am so favoured to be lifted up by God. Thank You Lord for the Divine fear and obedience. When I surrendered my life fully unto Him i can see God in every turn of my life, of my days. Every decision and every move. When God asked me of something my answer is Yes and His favours comes with it. Before sending me out there He provided the salary I requested, exactly! No more, no less! How supernatural it is to receive the salary after a month you tithe that exact amount. Favours follows me in my workplace. He knew He will send me somewhere in SG50. How supernatural it is to let me experience sg50 the week before the event for free. He planned it before I even said yes. Amazing how I got to experience SG50 in breakfast with love wherein we are not supposed to be the volunteers. We are just the relievers but God planned it to happen, we have free shirts and photos! That is favour! My workplace family day was arranged yesterday, august 1 in such a way that we can enjoy the last full rehearsal for sg50 and was able to watch the fireworks, wave sg flags together, sing the theme song and had my photos printed with sg50 plus an sg50 facepaints and many more funtimes. All of those was specially arranged by God because He knows I will not witness it on the exact day. He is the best DADDY EVER!!!! Thank You Lord! Help me to Always put my trust and hope in You. I want to be planted always by the waters. Thank You God!!! You deserve all the Praises and Love! All glory belongs to you.Jeremiah 17:7-10New King James Version (NKJV)7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, 9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, I, the LORD, search the heart, |
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