mazmur 119 : 93

Untuk selama-lamanya aku tidak melupakan titah-titahMu, sebab dengan itu Engkau menghidupkan aku.

Much like the rules parents have for young children -- don't drink what's under the cabinet, don't play in the street, don't walk behind parked car...

God's guidance is not intended to restrict us, but to protect us. His commands, both positive and negative, are for our protection and perfection. By them we find life and have it preserved.

Prayer : 

Holy Lord, help me see your words as life. I know you have given your commands, your will for holiness, to bless me and protect me. Use your Spirit to make my heart less stubborn and my life more nearly conformed to your will. Through Jesus' power I ask it. Amen.

Is God Calling You to a Speaking Ministry? (Linda Evans Shepherd)

As believers, we're all supposed to tell what God is doing in our lives, to encourage, and to present the gospel. But your question is, is God calling me to step behind a podium?

Perhaps it would help to take this quick 'Should I be a Speaker?' quiz. Ask yourself:

1. Do I have a great lesson or story to share? 
2. Have I been presented with an opportunity to speak? 
3. Is God nudging me to do so?

That was a pretty short quiz. But notice what I did not ask you...

"Do you get stage fright?"
If God's provided a platform for you, trust God to get you through it. Psalms 56:3 says, "When I am afraid, I will trust in you. "

"Have you ever spoken before?"
Again, I didn't ask this because more than once I've seen a young woman, who's never spoken in front of an audience, step to a microphone and share how God has transformed her life. I've seen her words electrify the room.
Wow! So the question is not whether you have ever spoken before, it's whether God has opened a door for you to speak and tapped you to do so. If you are planning to use the excuse of 'stage fright' to say no, reread the bulleted point above this one.

"Have you perfected the craft of speaking?"
I defer to the young woman speaking before a group for the first time. There she is, palms sweating, knees knocking, grammar missing, AND she's popping 'p's into the microphone, and STILL God's Holy Spirit sweeps the room.
How delightful.
If God has called you to speak, 'perfecting the craft' is something you should always work towards. And, in the coming weeks, I will discuss different aspects of perfecting your message. But, don't let 'lack of craft,' stop you from sharing with your own women's group or other God-given opportunity. So, what if you do make a mistake? I know a professional speaker who once got a laugh because she mispronounced a word. Now she mispronounces the word ON PURPOSE, to get the same laugh. She does this because she knows the audience loves speakers who are real and make mistakes.
It's the same for you. Your audience will admire you just for having the courage to stand before them. If you make a mistake, they will most often find it endearing.
But in closing, if you are a new speaker, do pay attention to your time limits. Do not stand before your event and say, "I've never spoken before, and I was given five minutes to tell my testimony, through I'm not sure what I'm going to say. Therefore, I'll start at the beginning....I was born at an early age."
YIKES.
All I'll say about that for now is prepare your remarks before you open your mouth, even if it means jotting down an outline on a napkin before you stand to speak.

So, from this point on, whether you are standing behind a microphone, or chatting over the back fence, you are on assignment to share your story and to give answers to those who need them.

Allah itu baik...

Hari ini...mmg terbukti bahawa Allah itu bekerja... Dia tidak pernah meninggalkan kita...

Kita semua sbagai umat Kristian yg takut akan Tuhan seharusnya hidup benar...

 Jangan lupa berdoa dan membaca firman Tuhan setiap hari...=)

Tuhan itu tidak pernah jauh dari kita...Dia hanya sejauh doa kita...

Saya susah untuk berkata seperti ini didepan orang lain...

tapi sebenarnya dalam hati saya itu..saya berkata-kata....

one more thing...saya cuba untuk mencari lebih ramai pmm untuk hadir ke greja....saya ada jemput seseorang tapi tidak pasti sama ada dia akan hadir atau tidak sunday ney...

 klu dia hadir, haleluyah !!!

tonite.. 080910

oppss..malam ni Tenom blackout...macam mana nak buat persekutuan doa malam nie d greja...??

tpi jemaat2 SIB Pekan Tenom mmg best...walaupun blackout,ttp dtg untuk memuji dan menyembah Tuhan bersama-sama...haleluyah !!! Tuhan melihat semua itu...a few minutes later...suddenly Tenom terang benderang!!! tak blackout lagi...YES...YES....YES.... Tuhan tidak pernah tinggalkan kita...persekutuan berjalan seperti biasa...bersyukur sangat2...THANKS LORD... 

EFESUS 5:15-21

Pergunakanlah waktu yg ada...

The "Inner-Stances"

Why is it that while the same things can happen to us all, they may not have the same effect upon us all? The same thing happening to two different people may have entirely different effects. Why should this be so? It depends not so much on the circumstances, but on the "inner-stances" - or, in other words, our inner attitudes. As someone has said, "What life does to us in the long run depends on what life finds in us." Life's blows can make some people querulous and bitter, others they sweeten and refine; the same events, but with opposite effects. The Gospels tell us that there were three crosses set up on Calvary on the first Good Friday. The same event happened to three different people, but look at the different results. One thief complained and blamed Jesus for not saving Himself and them; the other thief recognized his own unworthiness, repented of it and found an open door to Paradise. Jesus, of course, saw it as the climax of His earthly achievements and made it the fulcrum on which He moved the world. What counts, therefore, is not so much what happens to us, but what we do with it. The same sunshine falling on two different plants can cause one to wither and die, while the other will blossom and flourish. And why? It all depends on the response the plants make. Although, of course, they both need water, one plant is more suited to hot sunshine than the other, and therefore responds with more life and growth, while the other shrivels up and dies.

Out Of Weakness - STRENGTH

When I first felt the urge to write on the theme: "Strong at the broken places," I had great difficulty in tracing its origin. Then someone wrote to me, quoting the full phrase from the writings of Ernest Hemingway, who said: "Life breaks us all ... but many are made strong at the broken places." I felt this to be a gentle nudge from the Holy Spirit, and began at once to put my thoughts together on this thrilling theme. It is a principle of life that the place in which a bone breaks and then heals will be so strong that, generally speaking, it will never break there again. In the same way, when the skin is cut and scar tissue forms, the healed part becomes tougher than the surrounding skin. If this happens in the natural, why not in the spiritual? The writer to the Hebrews tells us, in the passage before us today, that God is expert at taking the weaknesses of His children and turning them into strength. What an encouraging truth! A traveler in the Netherlands tells how his guide pointed out an historic site. "This is where the sea broke through," he said, "causing thousands to drown. But see - it is now so strongly reinforced that it will never break through there again." Have you been broken by life to such an extent that you feel an overwhelming sense of weakness? Then take heart - God specializes in matching His ability to your disability. By His transforming grace, your frustration can become fruitful. You can be strong at the broken places.