IF YOU CAN SEE IT, YOU CAN HAVE IT
bWhat do i want in my life? Recently i been lost in my lives, lost my passion in church, in God, in businesses, in every thing… i have lost the vision that God has for me when i decide to come into full time ministry. my heart grow cold. Why? That are lots of reason for it and i have no intention to share.
Last Sunday, we having prayer meeting in church at 10am, but i wake up at 8am(thanks to Rod, because i need to fecth him to Anglican church, dont get the wrong meaning, im not complain), and i spend about 1 hour to prepare for the prayer meeting. I felt i wanna to share something to encourage those who coming. And i also been encourage after the prayer meeting, and i have a new goal and vision for the church now. "100 people at the end of this year"!
I hope what i am going to share can also encourage you…
Gen 13:14-18 "…All the land that you see I will give to you…" verse 14-15 show us if we can see what we want in our heart and spirit, God will give it to us(but must be some thing reasonable and right). We must have desire, dream and plan in lives, if not we will be living without a purpose and wasting time on earth. verse 17 tell us we must "walk/work" according to the plan, dream and desire. we need to work hard in order that dream can come true. That is a saying "God only help those who help themselves", if true, the bile show us lazzy people would not success. verse 18, we must let God involve in our plan and dream. we can not work things out with our own wisdom and strength, God need to reign in our career, relationship, ministry and study.
Acts 1:8 "…recived power and be my witness in Jerusalem…" God has gives us power to be His witness in every where, in our office, class room and family. He give us the power to be excel in where He place us and we will live to glorify Him. Deuteronomy 8:18 "He who gives you power to get wealth" this verse always remind me that God is the one who help me in every area of my lives, in business, family, ministry …. we need to learn to give credits to God, dont always think that it is we who did it, but give praises to God, for without Him we are nothing. Phil 4:13 "i can do all thing through Christ who give me strength." it is Christ who gives us the strength to finish our job, so with Him all things are posible.
So what you want to achieve or see in your lives? Can you imaging because of you the whole office or class room become a place for Cell Group? So be excel in your career and study, so that the world will know that your God is strong and powerful, for He is the one who gives you strength to excel.
June 30th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Jacob,,, as i promise to u, i will read ur blog today, hehe…
Jz back from watching transformers, wow, dat’s a nice movie, it’s a nice gathering for all of us, really enjoy it, at last i can relax a while from all the working tension, feel refreshed although sleepy now…
ok, enough for transformers, back to commenting ur blog, haha..
it’s a good n powerful msg, thanks to God that He delivers message to us through u…
u hav given ‘all’ u can give to dis church n cg, it’s not an overstated statement, it’s true, jz wanna tell u dat i really really appreciate all of it, u really deserve it (it’s not jz a praise to make u feel good, but i jz wanna express it from my heart…)
i feel sad to hear dat there is a time u loss the passion for God, although i am jz one member of church n cg, i know i play a part in it… i am sory if there’s a time i make u disappointed n make u loss ur faith in ur vision for church n cg…
ur msg, motivation, commitment, desire for God is amazing, i hav learnt a lot from u, but hav to filter a lot coz got bad things also (haha, jz jokin…)
one thing i promise u, n it’s not me who promise to u, but the Holy Spirit dat gives me the courage to promise u, dis time i wont let ur vision for cg n church fail, we’ll glorify God n get souls for Jesus, Amennn…
PS: i jz realize dat dis msg from me should be inside ur envelope, haha, maybe i should print it out n then put it inside…
July 1st, 2007 at 7:27 am
When i read ur current blog, it reminds me of this verse in Proverbs 27:17 “Iron sharpens irons, so as men(women) also sharpens men”..When we see that others are lifeless or or discouraged it sumtimes affect us in a way leading us to a loss of passion n so on…even i myself admit that sumtimes i felt lost n these few weeks i found out that my passion is going down n down…but is because of the fact that i can meet u guys during weekends n noe that u guys be there, it makes me still hang on n still stands…n thru this i understand y God emphasized on relationships in the BIble..just like u mentioned earlier, part of the reason y u hang on n lookin forward to comin to church is because of ur bros n sis.it shows that u too emphasized in relationships n desire to see them grow as well….
N i do wanna admit sumtimes i felt that there is a lost of passion among some of us, n the fire is getting smaller n smaller…however, this is the time that we shud still hang on n gambate to pull bak the rest up n rekindle the fire…u r not alone n u got some of us to support n togteher help u to rekindle the fire back in GEPC!!!
I hope that the vision n mission is truly residing in each n evryone of us so taht all of us will together push ourselves to the limit to watch the church grow in quantity n oso quality!!!