Japan here Come

Me andMy wife have been blessed by her dad.... we got a free tour to Japan ! Praise God. We are in the midst of planning our trip. Tickets are already bought, now is the anticipation of waiting for the day to arrrive.I think this is the first time i am going on an actual holiday... i think forthe past 8-9 years its always been thailand, singapore, and other states of australia. Come to think of it, most overseas holidays are to visit parents or go to convention...This time... its a holiday.Can't wait to eat the Kobe beef, visit the amusement parks......

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Sowing and Reaping

Everything in life needs hard work to make it work, if we want the farm to be fruitful we need to sow in hours of backbreaking work to plow the soil and plant the seed. Nothing in life comes just because we want it.Therefore to grow a care group or unit and even our own life, we need to sow into the things we desire, if we do not sow then we cannot reap the rewards of our labor. The amount of effort and time you put in determines the result.To build a strong group we need to sow - time and love into people's life.To build strong spiritual life...

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Testing and Temptation

Gen 2: 8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.Testing and TemptationI was wondering why would God plant the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden knowing well that it might be a temptation to Adam and Eve. And why would "Satan" or the serpent...

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Living a Legacy

7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing. Living A legacyWhen you mention your name to people, what is the first impression that comes into other head? I know of people, whose mention of their name remind of people – a drug addict, a drunk, a gambler, a good-for nothing cheat, a lazy and spoilt brat.I know enough people...

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Being a far-sighted person

2 Peter 1 : 5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed...

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Sick

Been sick these past couple of days... someone is passing on the flu bug... around... the church ..... God bless.Good thing is i get to rest... the doctors here are also atrocious.. i had a 9.20am appointment but onlny get to see the doctor after more than 3 hours of wait... The doctor took 3 hours plus to see 4 more patient in front of me !If had known i should have gone home and sleep...first...Will be posting the devotion later... need to zzzzzz......

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God's Timing

I recently watched a documentary on Exodus revealed by James Cameron. It really struck me as to the awesomeness of God.As i am currently reading the life of Moses, I look back on what the documentary tried to analyze on the crossing of the red sea. If indeed God used climatic events in the world to fulfill his prophecy,then everything Moses say to Pharaoh have to be right on time.In recorded history, there indeed was a pharaoh named Pharaoh Ahmoses, whose Hebrew name was - The brother of Moses. I did a search on internet and found the history...

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Learning to enjoy life

Matt 6:25-34 Do Not Worry 25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]? 28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not...

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Kattaning Roadtrip

The roadtrip to Kattaning was pretty fruitful for the fact that we managed to listen to alot of sermons on the way there .... 6 hours worth of sermons...I find the trip to Kattanning really refreshing because i enjoy the occasional trip to the countryside. sadly though Kattaning has no cinema ... I wonder what the 4000 folks do for entertainment. Propbably counting sheep...Me and my wife and prossibly andy was thinking of investing in Kattanning... saw a block of land $29K. so cheap...there is a lot chinese there... the best part of the Sat evening...

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Stricter Law better country

One of the topics that came up during a dinner conversation during Care group was the protection criminals get in Australia. Somehow many people seems to have an understanding that the law here protects the criminal rather than the victim.Apparently unlike asian country, if somebody gets hurt trying to break into your house, or if you beat them for coming in, you can get sued. Maybe that is why petty crime is still rampant, because criminals know they can get away with it.I think police here just give up, I remember once when my housemate got beaten...

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Something interesting

Was doing accounts today, and found somtehing interesting about banks...The crazy thing is when you close a bank account, the bank account is never truly close, and people still can deposit money in it... sound wierd huh... but its true...Somehow i feel the bank is trying to scam our money... how in the world can Banks be so rich yet can't close an account properly.So guys.... please check your old "closed" accounts.. maybe you will have money in it from people who send money into that account.Maybe must ask some of my friends working in the bank...

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The life humbled - Listen to God

Exo 4:10 Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue."11 The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD ? 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.13 But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it."14 Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can...

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Love is the visible attribute of an invisible God.

Love is the visible attribute of an invisible God.1 John 4:12 says, No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. In other words, even though no person has ever actually seen God the Father, we are able to see God's character as we love one another.Remember that God is love (1 John 4:8); so, when we walk in love, we are like God. Thus, although we can't actually see God, we can see his character in our love for each other (and in his love for us). Indeed, Romans 5:8 tells us that God...

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Some Daily update

For my Singapore friends who find that this seems like a devotion blog... thought i should update you abit about life here in Perth.We are about to have our annual church camp here and have been waiting for this camp for quite awhile, we got a very good speaker this year. And I can't wait for it. Apparently this camp is going to have lots of games and also lots of spiritual food.Also this Sunday, I have been asked to go to Hope Kattaning to share the word of God. Its six hours drive from Perth .... hallelujah. This time going with my wife, Andy...

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The Life Humbled II

Exodus 3 Moses and the Burning Bush 1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn...

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A life Humbled

EXO 2: 11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?" 14 The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid...

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A life refined IV - Annointed Leader

Gen 39 : 2 The LORD was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. 3 When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did, 4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. 5From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on everything...

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The Life refined III

The Life refined IIIToday I would like to share another insight hopefully that will bless you, as I reflected on Joseph life, I began to see similarity between mine and his… of course I don’t have that many brothers nor have been sold into slavery. But I have gone through many issues in my life that many times I had to choose if I should stand strong or fall.God had great plan for him, but because Joseph needed refining, God had to send him through the fire. It took Joseph almost 20 years for the prophecy to fulfil. The thing is I learned that...

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Life refined II

Gen 37:2 Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.Gen 37: 26 Judah said to his brothers, "What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 27 Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed. 28 So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and...

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A quick word

Just in case, anyone things i am too holy and start doing like so many devotions in one day... this was the devotions i deleted... the latest ones is called Life defined....One thing i learned - when you delete something make sure you know what you are do...

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The symptoms of sin

The Symptoms of Sin Rom 7: 23-25 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sinThe symptoms of sinFor friends reading the devotion, this week I am trying to deal with the power of the mind and how to breakthrough...

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Breaking the mindset

Eph 4: 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. BREAKING THE MINDSET I always wonder if people want to live their life in mediocrity? Sometimes I hear people saying that they do not want to change because that is the way God made them. Some even say that this is how I am and cannot change. Well if you have been thinking...

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Acknowledging our weakness

Col 1 :21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of[f] your evil behavior. 22But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 23if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel Titus 4: 15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16They claim to know...

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The power of the holy spirit

ROM 8: 5-8 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6The mind of sinful man[e] is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7the sinful mind[f] is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Today is the last day of the week and weekend is around the corner. And...

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What does your mind say ?

What does your mind say ? Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. 11 Then these men went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help. 12 So they went to the king and spoke to him about his royal decree: "Did you not publish a decree that during the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or man except to you,...

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Is God your first love ?

Is God your first love? Mark 12:30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'Deuteronomy 6:5Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.Is God your first love?This verse is one of the most popular verse among many Christians. We all know we must love the Lord but recently I gained a deeper understanding of this verse in my life.I used to only think that i have to love God because he first love me and that if I walk in his...

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God's ultimate desire

God's ultimate desire Matt 5:13-15 - Salt and Light 13"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. 14"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father...

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A life refined I

A life refined. (Devotion)Paul's Amplified version of the life of JosephFrom the day he was born, Joseph knew he was someone special. Being the youngest in the family of 10 children, Joseph could talk by the age of 1, by 3 he could play a string instrument. By 5 years old, he was amazing people with his understanding of philosophy. Growing up, he was the apple of his parents eyes, everything he needed he got. He accepted the Lord at age 11 and at age 13 completed a bible study degree at the temple. Of course being so gifted with abilities, his...

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Thousand Apologises

My My... what a boo boo i made.. i accidentally deleted my own blog when i was suppose to delete the other blogs i created...I am not sure how to retrive all the blogs... i made but i am sure I can upload all... my deovtions..unless someone knows what to do.....Save ...

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