Favor of the Lord

Woke up early in the morning getting ready to go to work as usual; it has been exact a month yesterday. I enjoy worshiping the Lord during my commute; at first I just keep silent in my car for a least 30 minutes just me talking to Him. Then I will turn on the radio listening to the sermon or Focus on the family etc. I find that it’s refreshing my spirit and soul when I start my day with worship and praise the moment I wake up.

Continued my day with lot of design related work, something is rather confidential. But nevertheless, I begin to hang out with my colleagues more and more. After work, me and another two designers went out for the happy hours; I just had two beers and we sat by the fire ring right by Van Nays Airport and chatted for a while. Looking at the sunset as the airplanes took off and landed; what a beautiful view!

Quickly drove back to the Prayer Room. Finding me alone in the Prayer Room; actually I was happy because I could sing as loud as I wanted and prayed as loud as I could. I sat there and picked up a guitar and started to play the songs that I still remember. I really enjoyed my quiet time before God.

Left around 8:45pm to play badminton with Annie. Totally got slammed by a 22 years old guy, Ohm is his name. He plays very well. I got his number now. I am getting ready to touch one life at the time! God, hear me.

My spirit, soul and body all got REFRESHED in a day!

Enjoy the favor of the Lord. For He delights in showing mercy.

Hebrew 101

Read it with me!

Y’va-reh-cha-cha Ah-doe-nigh v’yeesh-m’reh-cha, Ya-air Ah-doe-nigh, pa-navh ay-leh-cha vee-choo-neh-ka, Yee-sa Ah-doe-nigh pa-nahv al-leh-cha ve-ya-sem l’cha Shalom.
(Numbers 6:24-26)

The Lord bless you and keep you, The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you, The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. (Numbers 6:24-26)

Good job! Now memorize it!

Unfold the mystery in Christ

Book of Ephesians
Ch. 2:8-9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast.
Ch. 3:12 In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.
v. 13 I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
v. 16-20 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.

As I was reading the book of Ephesians during Prayer Room last night, I got encouraged once again by the Gift of God – Jesus Christ, who died on the Cross for me. Let’s put it this way, God kept a secret which was revealed when Christ Jesus died on the Cross for us. That’s the new path to Him. Not only that, He marks us a seal, the promised Holy Spirit. Such a wonderful mystery that God has for the mankind! Now we can come to Him fearlessly accomplishing things that are far greater than us according to His power that is at work within us. That’s such a revelation from God.

Below it's a story I listened this morning, I hope you all get a chance to listen to this sharing from Focus on the family broadcast. Tears were in my eyes while listening to the story, such a beautiful testimony. You are ALWAYS good, God.

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Focus_on_the_Family/archives.asp?bcd=2008-2-27

Forgiveness in the Wake of Tragedy
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
On December 9, 2007, 24-year-old gunman Matthew Murray entered the Youth With a Mission (YWAM) training center in Arvada, Colo., killing two young missionaries and injuring several others. Hours later, Murray showed up at New Life Church in Colorado Springs - just a few miles from Focus on the Family - and killed two teenage sisters before taking his own life. For the next three days, we will be airing some unforgettable broadcasts focusing on God's grace in the wake of these tragic events. Peter Warren, director of YWAM's Arvada facility, discusses the question of why God allows evil and talks about the power - and necessity - of forgiving those who hurt us."By forgiving someone, you relinquish the right to be the judge, to be the one who is going to exact a payment for what they did, and what you do is you hand over to God the right and responsibility to punish or pardon them. When you don't forgive, evil triumphs." - Peter Warren

Impact Spring Encounter Retreat

People get ready! Jesus is coming!

30 days Fast & Pray from March 7th to April 5.

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Hosanna - Savior King

Hosanna

I see the King of glory
Coming on the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes
The whole earth shakes
I see His love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing
The people sing

Hosanna Hosanna
Hosanna in the Highest

I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith
With selfless faith
I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We're on our knees
We're on our knees

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You
Have loved me
Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything I am for Your Kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity

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Tears just start to come out when I sing this song at work...listening to it over and over again, I just can't stop crying out to God Hosanna Hosanna!

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

This should be fun..

Thank you all for praying for me and Annie this past Sunday, Impact.
I hadn't had such a serious headache for a long time; woke up on Sunday morning feeling my head was going to explode, carried that headache to Sunday service but I just couldn't focus on worship and the message at all. Sure it took me a long time to grasp what was going on; I felt that the world was going to end in my head...that's how painful it was. Anyways...thank you all for your prayer again!
Went down to SD to have dinner with Mark and Debbie Hendrickson, still in pain but much better. Tried to initiate more dialogues with Mark and Debbie, but just didn't feel like talking too much. They did share alot of cool insight! I liked that better!

Pastor Tong is coming to LA next week; maybe we would meet up, maybe not. This should be fun. I think... Now Pastor Tong is aware of my situation; I wonder what he is going to do about it. Oh well...I just keep on doing what I do. Just don't bother me when I need to focus.

I didn't sleep for too long last night, came back from SD at 1am. Thank you, baby for driving. I prayed to God that I must have enough rest and regain full energy when I wake up. God is always faithful. I woke up with much energy although I only slept for 5 hours. Hmm...I like You, Jesus.

oh well...back to my fun...

dilemma

why me? gerr....
dilemma >.<

I need to focus, not being distracted by them. What do You want me to learn from this? I don't know. Again, one had tea with me last night and another one called me today. One says that he will talk to LT regarding this matter; but LT is in Africa now. Whatever... I don't get it. Nothing is going to change no matter whom he talks to if God says no. haha...silly. I need to find a way to build Impact to be a solid/strong/living Church.
KH was in a dilemma similar to this before when his church was young and small...He didn't compromise; that's why CHC is strong now. Should I take the opportunities or believe what I believe? I say...

"Let me pray about it" Does that sound "political"? Although I have been praying about it, I think I still need to trust my gut feeling, eh? I mean, of course God will give me the peace from above.

This also reminds me of those poor ones lost in the hills and valleys...who is looking for them?...Sigh...

Restore the ruined Tent of David

Let my generation go! Stand at the gap and pray for revival! It's time to restore the ruined Tent of David.

God!!!!!! Now!!!!!!!!!!

God is my strength

What a day!
I prayed to God this morning hoping that I won’t grow tired and exhausted today because of my lack of sleep last night. God is good! I am not even feeling any drain of energy; God keeps me going and going and going…just like Duracell bunny!
Anyway…yesterday, Sunday was crazy busy. Thankfully I didn’t need to preach; God just took care of His people by pouring out His Spirit onto them. I pray that they all soak in the love and power of the Holy Spirit. Afterward, I had to drive down to Irvine to pick up Johnny’s god-mother; it took me a while to go down and come back because of couple of the wrong turns and slow traffic.
Enjoyed the dinner with Annie, Auntie Jane, Judie and Joe; by the time we done chatting, it was 11pm. Got home really exhausted, but I realized that I wanted to talk to Aaron, Enoch’s friend, so I did. His testimony totally blew me away! Sweet Jesus! Anyway…finally I got on bed and it was already 12:30am. So tired but couldn’t fall asleep right away. After couple of twists and turns, I then slept pretty lightly; the next thing I know, my crazy alarm clock went off. I begged God to give me strength…really! I need to complete a lot of stuff at work today...>.<

Well…what did I say about God? Come on, He is really awesome!

Getting ready for more exciting things tonight! :)

what's a 24/7 worship?

I randomly read Jennifer's comment/post on Johnny's blog; and here is the comment and my answer to this question.

Jennifer comments on Johnny's blog:
Love your attitude on worship. God's been speaking to me a bit about worship too except he says, "Worship Me." It always takes me aback because the way my human mind interprets that would be arrogant and egocentric. Two traits that does not fit into God's characteristic so it has to be something else...but what? I ask him, "How?" but I don't recall him giving me exact instructions. Even now, I don't know how. Sure i can sing and twirl around but when he says, "do you worship me constantly" what do you do about that? You rejoice and say, "yes, this is what I have to do. Thank you for reminding me. Now I will have to be in 'worship mode' all the time, or try too." Well, you seem like you know what you're doing. So tell me how. I remotely remember Jack preaching about this but atlas, I still don't get it. What is worship mode 24/7? How do you do it, and how are you DOING it? I have a feeling the answer is going to be ridiculously simple and obvious but tell me anyways.-kneefur


The Bible never use the word, 24/7 worship; but instead, the Bible says "day and night worshipping before the Lord". What's day and night? What's worship anyway?

Some say day and night is the 24 hours in a day; the other say whenever you are awake. But in my opinion, it's not about the hours, it's about our attitude towards God. Does our attitude reflect a worshipful and humble heart? Does our attitude submit to Him? Attitude/heart is what God is looking for, not hours.
How do you worship 24/7 anyway? What should one do to worship 24/7? In my opinion, it's simple just as breathing air. Whenever I enjoy God, I am worshipping. We are created to worship God, yes; but angels can do a better job worshipping God, correct? Then why would God want people to worship Him? Always remember, it's not a format that God is looking for.

It's just that "enjoyment" that God wants; He enjoys you as much as He wants you to enjoy who you are and what you are doing every minute. Every minute you breath, it's like God saying " I want you to enjoy this air; for I am the air you breath". Stop trying to "perform" any format of worship when we can't enjoy every breath. Whenever you can enjoy being yourself and accepting yourself, you will understand what it means "in spirit and in truth".

Think about that Samaritan woman at the well. Jesus wants to build up her faith by helping her to accept who she is, not what she has done. Remember "in spirit and in truth".

Jack

3:10 to Yuma

Yes, I watched the movie, 3:10 to Yuma last night. I was so tired after a long day at work; but I wanted to return the DVD since I kept it for a week. Then I decided to watch it without any expectation of how good the movie is or not. At the end, the movie got me thinking quite a lot because of the outstanding moral value behind the plot. Basically the main character, Dan, a small town rancher who agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. As much as the outlaw tries to allure Dan with increasing prices, he couldn't buy off Dan's conviction of sending the outlaw to the train station.

Aren't we facing the devil the same way everyday? The devil is being captured and bound by the blood of Jesus although he is walking closely with us trying to lead us into temptation. The devil seems like a "nice" guy just like the outlaw but he kills, steals and destroys to survive! All we need to do is keep pressing in during trouble times! Don't give up. Don't sell ourselves out to the devil no matter what the prices are! Just live by the Word of God till the day comes!

Wow...that's a revelation!

Go watch the movie!

Youth Leaders Wanted!

hey there,
We are looking for youth leaders for this generation. If you are interested, please reply. Anyone? Please...
Sincerely,
God

I have this mental picture/message that God is posting an ad everywhere in the world.
Especially during this week, again some church senior leaders approached me and Annie in regard to "join" youth ministries; so that we can become BIG and influencial. Yes, the idea or the intension is great. Don't get me wrong, I am down with unity and teamwork among churches. But how exactly do we make it happen? I honestly don't know.

I raised some questions, some sensitive ones.
Such as, do we want to have a “youth group in a church” or a “youth leader movement”? Do we want to babysit these second generation Christians or make them radical for Jesus? What would the parents do if I tell the young kids to love Jesus more than SAT? Do you mind if I ask your young people to be martyrs? Etc. Fun questions, eh?

My challenge to the church leaders is, are you willing to send your young people away to another youth group? Because chances are, we might lose them when they go to college anyway if we keep doing what we used to do to the young people. I have no problem with all Impact goes to another church if they decide to; I will still be doing what God calls me to do. I am committed to the success of the next generation leaders.

Lastly, I don’t have any agenda for our ministry; but my heart is to build up as many young patriarchs (spiritual fathers/mothers) as I can. I don’t intend to keep anyone with me unless God wants them to stay; they need to be released to do His work after all.

Everyone is looking for youth leaders, even God Himself! And they are the "minority", rare to find nowaday!

So, rise up and become one!

Super Tuesday

So I tried my best to stay closed to the news yesterday the whole afternoon, hoping to find out who would take California and other States for both GOP and Dem.

That's when I started my "non-stop" prayer for the candidate I root for, which is Mike Huckabee. Although I don't have the privilege to vote, I have my greater weapon; that is prayer. I don't know who will sit in the White House next year, but I know that God is still sitting on His throne with everything under His control.

In my opinion, I would not cast the vote if it were Obama or Clinton and McCain representing the parties. That's my loud and clear statement for those who have been asking me who I would vote for.

Why? I read, so can you.

the Call 2007 - One Thing IHOP

Kingdom Identity - Weeper

A weeper, simply means a person who cries over certain things or people. A weeper of God, is a person who cries what God wants him/her to cry; he is a man/woman who receives the God's sorrow and bears His yoke. Just like Jeremiah in the Old Testment, he wept and wept because the judgement had come to the people of the Lord; yet they didn't seem to repent for their sin. Just like the apostle John, he wept and wept when he saw the revelation on the island of Patmos; he received the message but no one would understand him. They all wept before the Lord.

What about you and I? God is looking for those who are willing to weep for Him. You weep, but not comforted; then you will start to feel what He feels.

Waking up early

Thank God that I've been waking up early to catch the sunrise. Once again the sunrise reminds me of His unfailing mercy and love; everyday I am new and fresh in Christ.

This morning especially, as I woke up my tongue was hurting due to the canker sores. I've had these canker sores for about 3 days, and suddently I remembered that I had some bbq last night, which caused me more pain this morning. "Ouch!" I said, as I was still on my bed. Right away I prayed a simple prayer hoping that God will heal me instantly. I then got up for shower and got ready to hit the road; little did I expected, my canker sores got healed on my way to work. Isn't God just amazing? He is good all the time!