Since my last post on Feb 07, so many good things had taken place.
1. I have been kept busy in my business - running two project concurrently and doing training courses
2. more business opportunities have opened up
3. Great news on the family side of things
At the end of December 2008, Pastor Joseph Prince of New Creation Church, my senior pastor, heard from our Lord Jesus and proclaimed that this year will be the acceptable year of the Lord and he went back to Isaiah 61:1-2 and Luke 418-19 to check out the original text to find out what exactly was meant by the phrase 'acceptable' and he came across the Hebrew "Ratsah" which simply means 'be pleased with, to be favorable to' (as in Isaiah 61) and in the Greek "Dektos" as in Luke 4.
Now the Greek word is more amazing. In 'dektos' one gets the meaning of "the most blessed time when the salvation and the free favors of the Lord profusely abounds". And so when I heard that, I told the Lord that I want to be in that dektos position to be able to receive His super-abounding profuse blessings for my family and I for this year. And I am already beginning to see this taking shape and form in my life, to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Staying Focused
In these trying times, the majority of us would be tempted to throw in the towel and admit that the way forward would be tough and be resigned to 'fate' and allow the external circumstances dictate how and what we feel. Certainly the signings out there in the world are very uncertain and looks gloomy.
Three evenings ago, I was at a dinner with some of my former colleagues and we were comparing notes about how each person felt and the general mood was one of deja-vu - let whatever will happen fall on me - and anxiety. Well, throughout that evening I had to keep reminding myself that I am wonderfully created, redeemed and now blessed to live and enjoy all the blessings of my Abba Father.
To doubt Him after what He had achieved for us on the Cross is a big slap on His wrist and reject His grace and mercy to us. Indeed it is precisely that He wants us to be above our situations that He went to the Cross and took our punishment by dying so that He can then appropriate His righteousness on us. Where a righteous person is, there will the blessings be and I choose to believe and claim that promise over my life and to continue to enjoy His shalom peace over my every moment of life.
Sure, the devil will want to steal the word in us that we are the blessed children of our Lord Jesus Christ and when we lose our focus and start to feel and be dejected like the rest of the world who do not know Him, he has just robbed us of our joy and peace. When we are not in the place of rest, we will not be able to enjoy the Father's peace in us and open the door to sicknesses and diseases (dis-ease). No wonder so many live miserable lives and do not go on to enjoy length of days as the Father had promised us.
So, as for me and my household, we will feed on the Lord, enjoy His every blessing and go on to live good days for a very long, long, long time.
Three evenings ago, I was at a dinner with some of my former colleagues and we were comparing notes about how each person felt and the general mood was one of deja-vu - let whatever will happen fall on me - and anxiety. Well, throughout that evening I had to keep reminding myself that I am wonderfully created, redeemed and now blessed to live and enjoy all the blessings of my Abba Father.
To doubt Him after what He had achieved for us on the Cross is a big slap on His wrist and reject His grace and mercy to us. Indeed it is precisely that He wants us to be above our situations that He went to the Cross and took our punishment by dying so that He can then appropriate His righteousness on us. Where a righteous person is, there will the blessings be and I choose to believe and claim that promise over my life and to continue to enjoy His shalom peace over my every moment of life.
Sure, the devil will want to steal the word in us that we are the blessed children of our Lord Jesus Christ and when we lose our focus and start to feel and be dejected like the rest of the world who do not know Him, he has just robbed us of our joy and peace. When we are not in the place of rest, we will not be able to enjoy the Father's peace in us and open the door to sicknesses and diseases (dis-ease). No wonder so many live miserable lives and do not go on to enjoy length of days as the Father had promised us.
So, as for me and my household, we will feed on the Lord, enjoy His every blessing and go on to live good days for a very long, long, long time.
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