Gracious hand of God

The Spirit of God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

2 Timothy 1:7

It’s always the circumstances that talk or tell us how bad we behave, how should we live our life according to certain standard, the world keeps giving us formula or equation on how to live a successful life. Which when we could not hold to that standard, they called us failure, loser or whichever words came to their mind.

Indirectly, we accept what they offer instead of to fight back! Without speaking up for ourselves, we live in the barrier of what life offers to us.

The problems come when we started to give in and accept it. If we let it go unresolved, intimidation and fear takes charge of our life. It’ll steal our possession – time, energy, money, relationship while we’re distracted. Living below the truth, leads us to believe we are not good enough, we are never up to God’s standard.

But today, I would like to remind us and myself, God had conquered the lies, God had conquered it all. We are called to be His children! By His gracious hand, by His unfailing love, we are conqueror, we are victory, we have it all!

For Jesus came to give us abundant life! Believe His word, hold dearly to His words.

For no one have the authority to comment us or even judge our life but our life had been bought by Christ’s love and the deed He done on the cross had freed us from the enemy.

If you’re falling apart recently, grab your Holy Bible and read through His words, start from 1 Peter, learnt from Peter, who denied Jesus 3 times, but yet God still accepts who he is and called him out, when Peter thinks he had failed God. But God never view Him as the world’s standard.

Today, God’s still calling us by our name, embrace who we are, He is great and glorious, God of forgiveness, merciful, slow to become angry and rich in unfailing love.

Come, come back to His embrace. He is more than willing to call us and lift us up.

Never believe any lies that tried to intimidate us, caused us to fear and fall to sin, return and you will once again be found by a loving God.

Fall in Love

Have you ever love someone that you feel like dying when things d’nt work out the way you expected?

I do. Even though it is been 3 years, still when my mind is into it, my heart hurted so bad.

But now I was able to share about it freely not because now that I am not feeling that pain, instead I am embracing the pain and move on.

Through such love towards a person, I was able to learn what is true love. Because of such love, I get to learn the heartbeat of God, of His longing heart for His child, His lover — human, to seek him back.

It is never an easy process, for God to endure such hurtful feeling. It would be easy for Him to just vanish the earth so He won’t feel such painful journey to witness each of the precious creation died without knowing Him.

I am grateful for such loving experience. It truly teaches me a lesson of love.

We all love in a certain way. Be it to seek for security, peace or even for fun. But only when we came to know what perfect love is, it cast out fear within us. Perfect love make us whole. It is God’s love that make us whole. For God is love. When we know of such love, it is so difficult to not love God back.

Because of fall in love towards someone so deeply, that I came to know the compassion love our Abba Father has towards each and everyone of us. He teaches me to show compassion towards others.

It is only when we truly experience the love of God, only then we able to share to others how Great is His love;

It is only when we taste of His goodness that we able to tell how good is our Heavenly father is;

It is only when we been hurt so deeply that we are able to show mercy towards others who are hurting;

It is only when we been through the darkness moments of life, that we can share of how great our Father’s grace that shower upon us;

It is only when we meet Him face to face, that we can share of His marvellous love that is in store which is always awaits us to draws near to Him.

Life revolves around Love, for Love itself is God alone.

I think I will keep on falling in love with my Lover, again and again. For His love just keep me drowning into the sea of love.

 

God’s own Timing

God has His own timing in each and everyone life.

This is truly a huge topic to share, but I will just narrow it down to my personal journey with God. For I believe God created each one of us uniquely so that we able to live our life the unique way as well.

God always long for a intimate relationship from each of us, it is through our personal relationship with Him that we able to discover our unique purpose on this planet earth. Hence, never take it lightly of your personal relationship with God.

To be honest, I am actually dint take a serious thought of my relationship with God initially when I first came to know Christ. For instant, it was just a conversion to accept Christ as my personal Lord and Saviour during 2010. As to me by that time, God’s Salvation and Good News is all about knowing the Creator of this earth.

Thus, I was trained to be commit to a church and serve in church as how the Holy Bible tells us about. I never given a second thought to ponder on every action that I take. But God is good all the time, He created us to have freewill, to be able to question things we don’t truly understand…

Consequently, one thing leads to the other, I started to question and had argument of certain things or matters that I don’t understand. It was truly a roller coaster journey. Moreover, God knows my heart very well, His grace is always sufficient to me. Through much of the searching to understand God’s own heartbeat for His child, I was blessed to get to know more deeply about God’s word, His heartbeat and His will for us.

As a consequences, I discovered it is actually a good way to start when we started to dispute on things we truly don’t understand. It is an opportunity in life that we can encounter God more and more. The more we questions, it actually helps to make the unclear clear.

It is really a funny process to me, but I am eternally GRATEFUL to God for His unfailing LOVE for me. To be specific on a certain issue in my life, it would be the most question that everyone ask, “If God truly love me, why would SUCH THING happened?”

I think everyone would started to question their faith when a TRAGEDY happened. In this issue, I won’t say that God let the tragedy happened, but instead we are living in broken world, which hurting and pain is unavoidable. But in God, we are able to find rest and peace.

For me, during 2012, one of my close aunt passed away because of cancer. I was so enthusiastic  and active in serving in church for God, but I never take time to spend with her. Hence, when such tragic happens, I question God! “Why you didn’t take away the cancer? Why you let such things happened? Why you dint give me chance to share gospel to her?” A lot of ‘WHY’ questions keep pop up in my head.

Gracefully, God is good. From that moments onwards, I learned to argue in matters that I don’t understand. One step at a time, God answered my prayer. He never let me go even when I doubt about Him oppositely it is a chance that God leads me to know Him deeper than the previous way of my knowledge of Him. It is an adventurous journey to be leads by the Holy Spirit.

All I can conclude, God is marvelous and magnificent in teaching me life lesson.

God has His personal timing in telling me matters of my life. He know when is the exact time that I need to learn LESSON A, when is the exact location to tell me LESSON B or even when is the exact situation to teach me LESSON C. He is like a coach to me, a father that teach His daughter to learn.

There is no any other teacher or coach that be able to teach me so precisely. Which is why I always felt grateful to had know Him more deeply and build such eternal relationship with Him. It is such a privilege, just like having a superstar friend that willing to share His plan and life with you, or you had a billionaire friend that willing to teach you about investment without require your payment!

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As I walking my life journey with God, one step at a time, is just like climbing a mountain. It is never an easy way to go but for sure it is a joyful journey. I am not sure how many of you love hiking, but hiking requires stamina. If you never once climb any mountain or hill, it would be similar like you are taking staircase for may be 11 store high?! haha

As I climb up the hill, there will be time I am exhausted, that need a stop, there will be time I am able to climb easily (especially at the beginning), there will be time I need a long rest, there will be time as well that I felt like giving up, or just say that is it!

But the journey with God is an eternal journey, I know that my journey and my story with Him is everlasting, and I believe as long as I stay connected with Him, He will always keep me on track.

Certainly, there will be a time I felt wanna be rebellious, but God know it all, He is always patience and kind to wait for me. There is no one on earth that has such capacity of love. All I can see in the world, is everyone is rushing to fulfil their dream, if you are not in his or her plan, soon you will be out of the picture of their life. But in God, it is a different story!

He always wanted us to be in His story. He remember every single moments of our life, He knew it all, even when we run away from Him, His loving heart still there with an everlasting open arm awaits for us to return.

In the course of time, never give up in seeking His face even when you are mad at Him or even blame Him for anything, just try to give a chance for God to tell you something. Doubtlessly, someday in the future you will found the answer.

Never give up in your relationship with God. Hang in there.

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Keep your curiosity on, keep on questioning in life, search for the answer of what you doubt with, for certain, someday somehow you will find it!

For God is good and He indeed is a loving Father that we able to call Him friend, Abba Father, our Redeemer, our Saviour, our Hope and eternality Lover in life.

Time

Each and every day is a gift from God, each and every person we met in life is a precious person to which we able to share life together even a slot of time, be it one hour, a day, a week, a month,a year or years to go.

Always treasure that very moments we had together, as we never know how life will take us to. There will be moments when a friend that is intimate with us someday we will  be apart due to different circumstances.

What is ahead of us, we never know. Hence learns to treasure the present, now. Who is with you at such moments today? I was spending my day with my sister, even though she is watching her drama while I am writing this post. Despite we are doing different things at the time, but we are together. Such moments are to be hold dear, as it will soon become our past. We would not be able to get back to the previous moment ever again.

Therefore, spend our time wisely with people we cherish most, for the time we share with them is a portion of our life that we willing to give them as a present.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (ESV)

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.

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Time management is always a life long learning course for us. Each of us is given the same amount of time each day, 24 hours. It is a fair gift from God, no one can ever deny such fact. Thus, it is up to us how to use our time.

Thus, it is always a wise decision to make who you will spend your time with, what you will do with the time given, where you want to be at a time like this or that, how you will spend the time or such and such.

Ultimately, the choice and decision is ours to make. No one can made those decision for us, for God given us free will to choose and make decision. We are born with free will, and so, spend your life wisely.

Make your life count! Yes, I am working on it!

Best wishes to all of you.