Every time I hear of unusual phenomenon taking place in the cosmos, I am constantly drawn to the fact that these are yet another sign from God to tell us that the Lord's Return will be round the corner.
Recently, an article was posted on this website http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63076 and he talked about the blood moon and sun eclipses coming right up in the two years of 2014 and 2015. And here we are not talking about just one such occurrence but possibly four in total. Now that is a very odd phenomenon.
Immediately I am drawn to the word of our Lord in Matthew 24:29, "Immediately after the distress of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken." Jesus was asked by His disciples when the End of time will be and He responded with the above verse which very much sums up what NASA scientists have predicted based on their mathematical calculations.
So what does all these mean? Well, for one thing, the End of the World will come to pass when the Lord comes back to Earth and rule and there will be a new Jerusalem and a new Earth. Now will this really be the End? Nobody knows for sure but certainly I am not a fool to pass this up and ignore. I will certainly want to put this in order and enjoy the Lord's Presence in my life. I don;t know about you but I believe that the Lord will certainly come back for His own - His Bride, the Church - very shortly and then the Tribulation will start and from then on, you can rest assured the End will be here for there will not be any more Christians around for a start and then there will be an official countdown of 7 years and then the End will really fall upon everyone and those who do not know Jesus as their own personal Lord and Savior will regret as they will have to face the Judge and explain why they rejected His Sacrifice for them.
My question to you my readers is this - are you ready for the Lord when He returns?
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Harvest-Time Comes Immediately After Seed-Time
Miracle Seed Sunday at New Creation Church on April 20, 2008 was indeed a miracle in and of itself. The church had a record attendance in excess of 18,700 ( the previous record was about 18,250) on that day and, hear this, the amount collected was a staggering S$18 million. Yes, your eyes are not playing tricks on you - $18.0 million!! - and there will be more as some members were not ready on April 20 but sowed on April 27.
So why the overwhelming response? I am confident that everyone who sowed is believing Abba Daddy for his/her harvest and already there are great reports of harvests coming into the church. The Lord promised in Genesis 8:22, "as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." Whenever the farmer sows his seeds, he expects a harvest to spring forth in summer and early autumn (depending on what seeds he sowed. As surely as night follows day, harvest time will always follow seed-time.
I started sowing into the One-North Project of New Creation Church back in November 2007 and again in February and I will tell you that I have already received 10 times what I sowed. Now I have decided to sow on a regular monthly basis and I am believing Abba Daddy to send me a bigger harvest. Abba Daddy is a God who makes our 'hap' happen. Our 'Karrah' or 'God-appointed' moments will always come and when it happens to us, we receive the blessings and give thanks for them.
So why the overwhelming response? I am confident that everyone who sowed is believing Abba Daddy for his/her harvest and already there are great reports of harvests coming into the church. The Lord promised in Genesis 8:22, "as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." Whenever the farmer sows his seeds, he expects a harvest to spring forth in summer and early autumn (depending on what seeds he sowed. As surely as night follows day, harvest time will always follow seed-time.
I started sowing into the One-North Project of New Creation Church back in November 2007 and again in February and I will tell you that I have already received 10 times what I sowed. Now I have decided to sow on a regular monthly basis and I am believing Abba Daddy to send me a bigger harvest. Abba Daddy is a God who makes our 'hap' happen. Our 'Karrah' or 'God-appointed' moments will always come and when it happens to us, we receive the blessings and give thanks for them.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Miracle Seed Sunday
This Sunday, April 20, 2008, has been designated as Miracle Seed Sunday and all members of New Creation Church have been encouraged to plant a seed into the One North Building Project of the church. Now don't get us wrong; the church is not in dire straits and need the finances. On the contrary, the financial health of the church is in a fantastic state and the huge amount needed to complete the building is already starting to pour in.
So why then did Pastor Joseph Prince dedicated this particular Sunday to the project? As surely as harvest follows after sowing time, there will be a financial harvest whenever we sow into the Lord's Kingdom. What we give to the Lord as our worship will be so blessed that when the blessings come around, they will be "a good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Luke 6:38. And so Pastor Prince is actually interested in each of us receiving our portion from the Lord.
Interestingly also, the Hebrew word for 'seed' is 'zara' but when that same seed is planted (sown), the word changes to 'zarah'. An extra letter 'hey' is added to the seed for there will be grace when the seed is sown and a harvest comes back to the sower at harvest time. So often we want to see results but many a times we forget that the results or blessings come only because someone else had done the sowing and we become the beneficiaries of those blessings.
Remember, all our blessings come to us because Someone had laid down His life (act of sowing into the Kingdom of God) and quenched the Father's righteous demands on us and thereby opening the floodgates for His blessings to flow towards us. So for of us who want a harvest, start sowing into His work. There are numerous ways for us to do that. Ask the Lord to show you and when He directs your path towards that sowing ground, start to sow and then sit back and watch the Lord giving the harvest. That was what the Apostle Paul was referring to in 1 Corinthians 3:1-7 when he chided the Corinthian church for their divisive thinking of who is more important and completely missed the mark that it really did not matter who performed which portion - it is the LORD Himself who enables things to grow (v7).
So why then did Pastor Joseph Prince dedicated this particular Sunday to the project? As surely as harvest follows after sowing time, there will be a financial harvest whenever we sow into the Lord's Kingdom. What we give to the Lord as our worship will be so blessed that when the blessings come around, they will be "a good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Luke 6:38. And so Pastor Prince is actually interested in each of us receiving our portion from the Lord.
Interestingly also, the Hebrew word for 'seed' is 'zara' but when that same seed is planted (sown), the word changes to 'zarah'. An extra letter 'hey' is added to the seed for there will be grace when the seed is sown and a harvest comes back to the sower at harvest time. So often we want to see results but many a times we forget that the results or blessings come only because someone else had done the sowing and we become the beneficiaries of those blessings.
Remember, all our blessings come to us because Someone had laid down His life (act of sowing into the Kingdom of God) and quenched the Father's righteous demands on us and thereby opening the floodgates for His blessings to flow towards us. So for of us who want a harvest, start sowing into His work. There are numerous ways for us to do that. Ask the Lord to show you and when He directs your path towards that sowing ground, start to sow and then sit back and watch the Lord giving the harvest. That was what the Apostle Paul was referring to in 1 Corinthians 3:1-7 when he chided the Corinthian church for their divisive thinking of who is more important and completely missed the mark that it really did not matter who performed which portion - it is the LORD Himself who enables things to grow (v7).
Friday, April 4, 2008
The Benjamin Generation Preachers Are Bringing Reconciliation To Ethnic Groups In Conflict
Ever wondered how ethnic strife can be healed? Well, the Lord has the perfect answer - by raising two young eight-year olds among the children of Poso on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to preach to the very people who just a few years ago were butchering each other and razing their homes to the ground; literally out of the ashes, the Lord is doing a new work.
The Lord prophesied about the end-time church that He will raise a new generation to evangelize the world, we are now witnessing this happening right before our eyes.
Monday, March 24, 2008
This World Is Not Perfect Because Of The Fall Of Man
Alas this world is not perfect because of the Fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden. You see, Adam and Eve were created in the image of God and were given authority over everything that God had created. However, they disobeyed God and sinned by doing the very thing that God told them NOT to do.
God told them that they could eat of everything in the Garden EXCEPT for the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God had intended them to eat of the other Tree - the Tree of Life - but they chose to disobey and decided to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Here is the principle of the Tithe! Imagine the whole Garden with millions of fruit trees laden with delicious fruits and ready for their enjoyment and to top it all, they were the only ones in the Garden. But they decided to challenge what God had expressively stated not to do.
And so when they fell, the authority which they had over the created order was handed over to the devil to whom they had listened to and therefore submitted themselves to. And that is where the problem started. Since the Fall, you will notice that the Earth is not the same any more. The Bible tells us that thorns and thistles grew (Genesis 3:18) where they were not there before and Adam and Eve were driven out from the presence of God the Creator. In fact it was for their own good that God drove them out else they would have eaten the fruit from the Tree of Life in their fallen state and salvation would not have been possible because the fallen nature would have existed for eternity. Praise be to the Lord He foresaw what would have happened and executed His Salvation plan for mankind.
This fallen world will have to come to an end and a new order will come in when the Savior comes back for His Bride, the Church, and start His physical reign for a thousand years (the term thousand is used in the bible to represent a LONG time because in the eyes of God, one day is like a thousand years and so a thousand years will be like a thousand times 365 times a thousand and you can work out the mathematics of that).
Yesterday was Easter Sunday and it was a day set aside by the Church to commemorate the resurrection of Christ from the dead. It really does not matter which day we chose to remember His resurrection but the fact remains that He did rise physically from the dead and even walked, talked and dined with His disciples and was seen by more than five hundred persons at one instance. The authorities in the days of the early church tried to dispute the resurrection facts but the important piece of the puzzle was that they could not produce the body to dispel what the disciples claimed.
The clock for this fallen earth had already started to tick the moment Adam and Eve fell and there is a time limit to the clock. Soon it will run out of its time and everything will disintegrate. Ever noticed that the fallen earth is getting hotter and hotter because it is so full and ready to explode? Well, I believe it will and that is not until the Lord had taken away His Church in the Rapture which I believe will be very shortly.
Scientists had made some calculations and predicted that the resources on Planet Earth will only be able to sustain humankind for another 50 years at the most. At the present consumption we are experiencing, I believe we would not be able to produce enough to feed every mouth soon (maybe in 20 to 30 years time). What will happen then? I believe the Lord will return sooner that that and we need to be ready for Him.
Are you ready? For those of us who have received the Lord Jesus Christ into our hearts as our Lord and Savior, we will be physically raised up to meet Him in the air but for those who have yet not done so, I urge you to believe in His redemptive work on the Cross and receive Him into your hearts and you will immediately join in the body of the Church His Bride. And the benefits of sonship start immediately.
God told them that they could eat of everything in the Garden EXCEPT for the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God had intended them to eat of the other Tree - the Tree of Life - but they chose to disobey and decided to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Here is the principle of the Tithe! Imagine the whole Garden with millions of fruit trees laden with delicious fruits and ready for their enjoyment and to top it all, they were the only ones in the Garden. But they decided to challenge what God had expressively stated not to do.
And so when they fell, the authority which they had over the created order was handed over to the devil to whom they had listened to and therefore submitted themselves to. And that is where the problem started. Since the Fall, you will notice that the Earth is not the same any more. The Bible tells us that thorns and thistles grew (Genesis 3:18) where they were not there before and Adam and Eve were driven out from the presence of God the Creator. In fact it was for their own good that God drove them out else they would have eaten the fruit from the Tree of Life in their fallen state and salvation would not have been possible because the fallen nature would have existed for eternity. Praise be to the Lord He foresaw what would have happened and executed His Salvation plan for mankind.
This fallen world will have to come to an end and a new order will come in when the Savior comes back for His Bride, the Church, and start His physical reign for a thousand years (the term thousand is used in the bible to represent a LONG time because in the eyes of God, one day is like a thousand years and so a thousand years will be like a thousand times 365 times a thousand and you can work out the mathematics of that).
Yesterday was Easter Sunday and it was a day set aside by the Church to commemorate the resurrection of Christ from the dead. It really does not matter which day we chose to remember His resurrection but the fact remains that He did rise physically from the dead and even walked, talked and dined with His disciples and was seen by more than five hundred persons at one instance. The authorities in the days of the early church tried to dispute the resurrection facts but the important piece of the puzzle was that they could not produce the body to dispel what the disciples claimed.
The clock for this fallen earth had already started to tick the moment Adam and Eve fell and there is a time limit to the clock. Soon it will run out of its time and everything will disintegrate. Ever noticed that the fallen earth is getting hotter and hotter because it is so full and ready to explode? Well, I believe it will and that is not until the Lord had taken away His Church in the Rapture which I believe will be very shortly.
Scientists had made some calculations and predicted that the resources on Planet Earth will only be able to sustain humankind for another 50 years at the most. At the present consumption we are experiencing, I believe we would not be able to produce enough to feed every mouth soon (maybe in 20 to 30 years time). What will happen then? I believe the Lord will return sooner that that and we need to be ready for Him.
Are you ready? For those of us who have received the Lord Jesus Christ into our hearts as our Lord and Savior, we will be physically raised up to meet Him in the air but for those who have yet not done so, I urge you to believe in His redemptive work on the Cross and receive Him into your hearts and you will immediately join in the body of the Church His Bride. And the benefits of sonship start immediately.
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