Sunday, July 26, 2009

~~God never sends you out alone主绝不会让你孤军作战~~

Photo: My hometown, Penang from afar....
照片:远在天边的是我的故乡, 槟城。

When I feel like giving up... when I feel like letting go... when I think I can't go on anymore... when I think I have nothing much to contribute... when I try to limit God with my own limitation...when I try to walk my path, my way and my life with my own strength... when my best simply not enough... when I am exhausted...the list can go on and on...
当我想要放弃时,当我想要放手时,当我觉得我无法继续时,当我认为我无法在神的国度里作出任何贡献时,当我想凭着自己的局限来限制神的大能时,当我企图走我自己的道,行我自己的路,开创我自己的人生的时候,当我的最好还是不够的时候,当我很疲惫的时候。。。类似的举例可以不断的延续下去,可说是没完没了啊...

Those are just feel negative thoughts that surface so naturally when we lean so much on our feeling and thinking. Praise the Lord for His wise word: Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
这些消极的举例很容易就会浮现在脑海里如果我们凡事都单靠着我们的感受和想法。感谢主赐给我们聪明的话语:箴 言 3:5 - 6 你要专心仰赖耶和华,不可倚靠自己的聪明:在你一却所行的事上,都要认定他,他必指引你的路。

Isn't the core of the problem become crystal clear now? We are confused, distressed, discouraged because we lean too much on our own feeling which God don't intend to =)
听了神的话语,事情的症结不已显然易见了吗?大多时候我们会觉得困惑,压力,失去信心,那是因为我们倚靠自己的直觉去办事。这并非是主原先为我们所安排的,这也非主的意愿。

Instead of viewing it as Satan's attack, such a doubtful situation can serve as a good measuring cylinder to help us take inventory on how much faith we have in the Lord and how firm do we stand on Him.
与其把这看作撒旦的袭击,倒不如借此机会在心灵上自我整顿,自我调整,来个心灵测试。 究竟我们对于神的信心有多么的大,究竟我们对神的信念有多么的巩固。

I have learned that whenever this kind of discouragement surfaces, the very first thing we should do is surrender it fully to the Lord. Only the Lord has the ability to reveal to us the different perspective and angle of the issue. More often than not, our thinkings are pretty much dictated by our self-centredness. No matter what happens, the first response is how about me? Have you considered how I feel? Have you put yourself in my shoes? Why done it another way round? Even our great Father did not come to be served, bu to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many (c.f. Matthew 20:28). If anyone of us can have such a great love inflames in our hearts, all the conflicts can be prevented/solved easily, isn't?
随着面对的事多了,每当我处于人生低潮的时候,我学会了我的第一个反应应该是把所有的事都一一的事都交托给主。只有主有能力睁开我心灵的慧眼让我从而用不同的角度去看待身边发生的事。我们的想法往往都是一味的任由“自我”来操纵。所以不论发生任何事情,我们第一个反应就是对方是否有站在我的立场想过?对方是否有考虑过我的感受? 对方是否有为我着想过? 马太福音20:28 正如人子来,不是要受人的服事,乃是要服事人,并且要舍命,作多人的赎价. 如果大家都能够让如此的博爱在心中不停的燃烧,那么世上很多的纠纷不就可以迎刃而解了吗?

(Father, I pray that You continue grant me the ability to view things from Your lens and from Your window of Love. I thanked You oh Lord)
天父啊,我诚心的向你祈求,愿你赐给我智慧及力量,让我有机会从你爱的窗口去观看世间的一境一物。我感谢你啊耶稣。

Have you ever think of the only WHEN that we need is WHEN we have GOD?
你可否有想过往往我们最需要的所谓“时候”是当神与我们同在的时候?

The question is have you looked closer enough for His blessings that spread all over the places? Do you firm enough in His walk to give thank in all circumstances?
你我可否有用心去寻找,去体验神所赐给我们片地的祝福及福气?你我可否能够无时无刻的赞美及歌颂神的大能?

by Max Lucado 取自陆可铎

God never sends you out alone. Are you on the eve of change? Do you find yourself looking into a new chapter? Is the foliage of your world showing signs of a new season? Heaven’s message for you is clear: when everything else changes, God presence never does. You journey in the company of the Holy Spirit, who “will teach you and will remind you of everything I have told you” (John 14:26 NLT).
神绝不会让你独自的去开拓神的园地的。你是否正处于蝉变的边沿?你是否即将踏入人生新的路程碑? 你正处于如同红叶般脱落的枯叶的意境是否象征着新季节的来临? 从天而降的讯息是如此的清晰:哪怕所有的事情都在改变,主一直都与你我同在。约翰福音 14:26 但保惠师,就是父因我的名所要差来的圣灵,他要将一切的事指教你们,并且要叫你们想起我对你们所说的一切话。

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

~~Count to Eight (Woe, Be Gone)~~

Another beautiful article by Max Lucado... Simply love it!!!~~ Pray that the Lord will continue build and bring up such a talented writer...May the peace of the Lord be with them. Amen.

“We have here only five loaves and two fish.” (Matt. 14:17)
How do you suppose Jesus felt about the basket inventory? Any chance he might have wanted them to include the rest of the possibilities? Involve all the options? Do you think he was hoping someone might count to eight?
“Well, let’s see. We have five loaves, two fish…and Jesus!” Jesus Christ. The same Jesus who told us:
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. (Luke 11:19 NIV)
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. (John 15:7 NIV)
What ever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (Mark 11:24 NIV)
Standing next to the disciples was the solution to their problems…but they didn’t go to him. They stopped their count at seven and worried.
What about you? Are you counting to seven, or to eight?

Here are eight worry stoppers to expand your tally:
Pray, first. “Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him…(I Peter 5:7 AMP)
Easy now. Slow down. “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him (Ps. 37:7).
Act on it. The moment a concern surfaces, deal with it. Don’t dwell on it. Head off worries before they get the best of you. Be a doer, not a stewer.
Compile a worry list. Over a period of days record your anxious thoughts. Then review them. How many of them turned into a reality?
Evaluate your worry categories. Detect recurring areas of preoccupation that may become obsessions. Pray specifically about them.
Focus on today. God meets daily needs daily. He will give you what you need when it is needed.
Unleash a worry army. Share your feelings with a few loved ones. Ask them to pray with and for you.
Let God be enough. “Your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.” (Matt. 6:32-33 NLT).
Eight steps. Pray, first. Easy, now. Act on it. Compile a worry list. Evaluate your worry categories. Focus on today. Unleash a worry army. Let God be enough.
P-E-A-C-E-F-U-L

Sunday, July 5, 2009

~~My Struggles are About Him~~


A beautiful article by Max Lucado... Hope you all will like it too ^.^

What about your struggles? Is there any chance, any possibility, that you have been selected to struggle for God’s glory? Have you “been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake” (Philippians 1:29)?

Here is a clue. Do your prayers seem to be unanswered? What you request and what you receive aren’t matching up? Don’t think God is not listening. Indeed he is. He may have higher plans.
Here is another. Are people strengthened by your struggles? A friend of mine can answer yes. His cancer was consuming more than his body; it was eating away at his faith. Unanswered petitions perplexed him. Well-meaning Christians confused him. “If you have faith,” they said, “you will be healed.”

No healing came. Just more chemo, nausea, and questions. He assumed the fault was a small faith. I suggested another answer. “It’s not about you,” I told him. “Your hospital room is a showcase for your Maker. Your faith in the face of suffering cranks up the volume of God’s song.”

Oh, that you could have seen the relief on his face. To know that he hadn’t failed God and God hadn’t failed him—this made all the difference. Seeing his sickness in the scope of God’s sovereign plan gave his condition a sense of dignity. He accepted his cancer as an assignment from heaven: a missionary to the cancer ward.
A week later I saw him again. “I reflected God,” he said, smiling through a thin face, “to the nurse, the doctors, my friends. Who knows who needed to see God, but I did my best to make him seen.”
Bingo. His cancer paraded the power of Jesus down the Main Street of his world.
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
Through your problems and mine, may God be seen.