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I searched the bible using Gateway. I was searching the exact words – “A LOUD VOICE”.
These exact words appears in the NIV Bible 33 times - 7 times in the Old T, 26 times in the New T. Out of the 26 times in the New T, 16 times from the book of Revelation. As i ponder on the these three words, a new word formed in my mind.
“Proclaimation”
“God uses zeros to show that He is the hero.”
Ps Wenan
27/05/07 @ 17:30pm
“When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.”
Ps Wenan
27/05/07 @ 17:30pm
“Behind every action, is a reason;
After every action, is a consequence.”
Steven Lee
27/05/07 @ 2:37am
OH Lord, What is IT?
Verse1
I am tired, I am weak.
So many days, i struggled to live.
I have to hide myself, in the shadows of my dreams.
But You call me to live the dream,
You call me to stand for my belief.
But it’s a life, that i can only dream.
Chorus
So Lord, what is it?
That you placed in my heart.
That you called me to believe and to live.
So Lord, what is it?
That you placed in my heart.
That you called me to believe and to live.
Verse2
Let Your Joy lives in me.
Let Your Patience moulding me.
Let Your Gentleness reigning over me.
Let Your Kindness falls on me.
Let Your Peace comes on me.
Let Your Love grows deeply within me.
Bridge
It’s a Dream of Joy
It’s a Dream of Patience
It’s a Dream of Gentleness within me.
It’s a Dream of Kindness
It’s a Dream of Peace
It’s A Dream of Love within me.
Written by
Steven Lee
on the 13th May 2007 at 12:20AM
Reading Luke 8
One Sentence and One Word cross my mind.
1. He who has ears to hear, let them hear.
In the early part of Luke 8, Jesus spoke a parable and said “The knowledge of the secret of the Kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others i speak in parables.” And He begin to explain the parable to His disciples. (because His disciples ask Him to)
As Christians, God has given us the ability to understand the “deepness” of the Word of God. But we have to “ASK IN RESPONSE”.
The Rehma Word of God are often laid into my heart by the Holy Spirit. Often i do not understand what it means, sometimes finding hard to do what i was asked to. In respond, i have to ask God to reveal to me His Words, otherwise His Words will just be wasted on the path where the birds of the air just pick it up and flew off with it.
Do i want to carry on with my current standard of understanding the Word of God? Why can’t i respond the first time God speak?
In His grace, despite me not responding at the first instance, He still continues to speak those words again and again till i respond. God really knows my character best but i believe for me to grow stronger in knowing Him, i have to change myself to respond faster to His Words.
Therefore, “ASK IN RESPOND”
2. Fear
The disciples got scared with a squall rocking their boat in a lake and ask Jesus for help.
The people of the region of Gerasenes got scared of what Jesus has done with the ‘legion’ and asked Jesus to leave
The woman who had been subjected to bleeding for twelve years touched Jesus and got healed. But when Jesus asked her to step forward, she became scared. Eventually she came forward.
Jesus said to Jairus, the man who has a dying daughter: “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.” And Jairus believed.
Fear can stop me from responding to God in the first instance. It stumbles my walk with God, it stops me from responding the way God wanted it to be. Once i understand the moment Jesus lives in me, with me and around me, i can be bold and do the things which God calls me to do.
Just as Jesus would say “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and it will be done.”
I wrote this: “Lord, I nail ‘MY BEING’ into your hands, where your hands are nailed unto the cross.” So what is MY BEING?
My Being begins with my birth,
the right to be someone worthy of this world.
It learns how to cry for things of the world,
and grows to learn how to crawl into the pace set by the society.
It begins to take form and the change happens day by day,
and things begin to root in the heart of the Being.
It takes on ideas, methods, ways of the mind,
and it also takes on issues of the heart.
Over 20 years, it learnt independence,
and survival skills to take on the world.
But an incident changed the Being,
and it lost its confidence.
One day, the Being begins to change again,
when something got rooted into the heart.
The call of love and joy touches the Being,
and returns a positive response.
But 20 over years of independence, ideals, methods, ways, issues of the heart,
does not just go away at the call of love and joy.
Today the Being crys out to be changed once more,
into a Being worthy of God.
Only the hand of God can change this Being,
because His hand had experience that on the cross.
I can see that as the Being begins to change now,
In the future, the being will change again at the call.
I read this blog today on a man. A man whom doctors has proclaim that has only 3.5 weeks to live. There are about 30 fractures/ broken bones in his body. He is sicken with the last stage of cancer. Instead of wimping in his own pain, this man knows God like never before. He stands before his congregation and continues to preach the Word of God. He shows conviction and passion. He shows strength. This is the man whom God used to speak into my life.
What is sickness? I am not even worthy in comparision with this man. I kneel ashamed of my behaviour. Someone once said that even the sick wants to be with God and should be ashamed of oneself wanting to take sick leave. That person is right. There is no sick leave in the Kingdom of God, only more passion and excitment to see the commission being fulfilled before the end of one’s lifetime.
Today the radio spoke a verse on ‘a cheerful heart heal the sick’.
Oh God, speak your heart into mine.
Come change my attitude and change my life.
Oh God, it is time for the commission to be fulfilled in my lifetime.
For i shall be the leader you want me to be.
Oh God, i believe the time will come when you call.
And i will take this time to prepare and be ready for your call.
Oh God, break all bondage in my life.
And let freedom be found for eternity to come.
Amen
Have you been so sick that you feel like dying?
Well i do.
I hate having an asthma attack. On top of having an asthmatic attack, i have a nagging cough, block nose, a constant headache, a bad stomach and a sore leg (GOUT is back). It just make me want to give up once and for all.
“God just take me as you find me”
I rememember there was this one time when this scene played in my mind.
Narrator: Steven died and went to heaven.
Steven: Here i am God.
God: I am banishing you to Hell.
Steven: Okie, if you say so.
Well, I can hear some of the comments, sitting where i am.
“God will not banish people to hell”, or
“You won’t die, it is not your time yet”, or
“That is an evil thought, not of God”.
Are you missing the point of the story?
The Day I Die
I will not say why Lord, didn’t i serve you enough?
I will not say why Lord, didn’t i love you enough?
I will not say why Lord, didn’t you promise me eternal life?
I will not say why Lord, are you so cold hearted?
I will say Lord, i will serve you as you send me.
I will say Lord, i will love you no matter where i go.
I will say Lord, i will always be with you forever because your spirit lives in me.
I will say Lord, I will trust in your ways and obey that command.
Even if i do not understand what are your plans, i believe it is for my good.
Even if i do not like that path, i believe it is for something good.
I will choose that journey which you have asked me to embark.
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