Living the victorious life.

Was in church last Sunday. Out of the blue, I felt God telling me, "John, I want you to live a life, that before I bless you, will be the same as after I bless you, that you would not change, you will be the same, you must be prepared". Hence, for me, my resurgance of faith recently. I believe God is preparing me recently. Preparing my heart and mind for bigger things in store and the Big thing is very close. I feel as if I can almost touch it.

To some extent, trying to be prepared, it's almost ambiguous, I don't really understand or know what does it mean to be prepared. Hence recently I've been so hungry. Hungry for more spiritual food and spiritual growth. I want to seriously demand more, and pursue for more. I've been downloading alot of great men of God, their sermons and just been listening, and slowly trying to hit the main source, which is the bible. But i'm not there yet. I want to be at the stage, where the day I don't read my bible, I feel theres something missing in my life, unlike now, when I do read the bible I go 'uh' 'what the'. :D

In terms to being blessings, Like Spiderman says, great power comes great responsibility. I know I am not responsible, I know I am not smart, I know I am not wise, I know I am not strong. But with God, all things are possible. I believe he will empower me. He is my teacher, he is my business partner, he is my Daddy God. Hence, I want to learn to hear his voice more. In every circumstance of my voice.

In terms of my first step. Jesus says believe you receive. Mark 11:24, not the other way round. It sounds easy enough. But believing is more than just mentally knowing that you have it, but knowing also in your heart, in your words. You can tell whether a person believes by the words of his heart. And I want to start saying words of victory in my life. Hence, I want to live the victorious life.

How real is God to you?

I dunno this question just struck me recently. How real is God to me? Do you believe God is God? Does he really exist and how much influence does he has on my life. Since joining planetshakers. I really learned how to resubmit alot of my life to him. Put down my life, many aspects of my life that I haven't given up to him. Put it on the altar, and let him take control.

And you know what. God is very very very very real. Makes me wonder what have I been missing out over these last couple of years. What life lessons he has for me that I have been missing out? What has the devil been robbing me off these past few years? I want it back! I want to live a spirit-filled life, I want to be a man of God, I want to live an empowered life. Not like the life that the world offers, but the life that only Jesus offers.

I believe I've just taken my first step into a new and exciting life. I've been a Christian all my life, but strangely enough I've never taken this road down before. A road that is just fully led by him.

The bank account mystery

I've been giving and giving and giving money away. To blokes on the road (I like this guy on bourke street who plays the harmonica and guitar, and some violinist on Elizebeth) and been giving my tithes to church and abit more. And the strange part is, my bank account is constantly at AUD300. Hahah. I don't believe I've worked that much or anything, but Its constantly there. Praying now for 100 times more of that. :o)

When I had 70 dollars in my bank and 60 dollars in my wallet like 1 month ago, I was looking at it really hard. But without worry or shed a tear, I told God "Hey Dad, I'll leave it to you". And then wa-lah. Seems to stick at 300. And I got a good job, and everything seems set. Now to start building up on my savings. I really thank God for everything. He's just been so good, and it's only going to get better.

God is so good to me! :)

Yes he has been. And he is.

I've just been spending some moments of reflection on the time I since I came here to Melbourne. I mean, there's been some really wonderful and blessed moments. Some down moments, but overall it's been a great experience.

I guess some of the biggest blessings that strike me would be my job. From how I managed to work in Fry's, eventually moving on to Melbourne Uni and currently. All the way I went, I suffered none, and all my jobs have been relaxing in a good working environment with encouragement and good supervision. I felt working at Melbourne Uni Law Faculty a really great and wonderful experience. From learning to work with people and under a great boss Heather Thomas. There's so many things I've learned especially the style of management.

Secondly, probably my apartment. Everyday the more I stay here, the more I'm falling in love with this place. You know thats a great feeling. That when you got something, and everyday it's surprising you in many different ways. The only big problem I have with it it's just the parking lots. :P

Thirdly, probably church. I mean, Planetshakers. It's been a real blessing to my life. It's like a fresh renewing of my faith and my belief. Thats the strange part, I have too much knowledge but of no love. Well, not that I have alot of knowledge, but I do have with some confidence more bible knowledge than the average joe I suppose. And I think Planetshakers is a great church for me to grow, to take the next step into a new realm of faith.

Fourth, Just simply living here. I haven't had any bad experience I could think of. Mostly have been either just a blur. Which means either boring. And good memories. :P I guess some of the good experiences are going out with friends eating around, and simply living here. Like I said. Going to victoria market, buying all sorts of weird and interesting food. Cooking and eating!

Planetshakers. My new home church?

Today I went to Planetshakers with my cousin Ai Ling. It was very very good, great worship as expected. The preaching was alright.

But what struck me very powerfully and positively. Is that, it's a church that listens to God's voice. I was talking with Billy, a new made friend for nearly an hour. Was chit chatting about his business, and then about church hopping. He was really honest about his opinion and of course he has the best intentions for me. But what struck me was the genuiness and power in his words.

It wasn't a normal intelligent speech, or mind games or play with words. But it was a heart searching prophetic word of knowledge. How it made me search myself.

I've been very blessed to learn from the best, I have knowledge, but I have not found love. Hence I believe in my Christian life I have been somewhat an empty gong these past couple of years. But I think i've found a church where it is just the next step for me in my spiritual growth.

God is Love

I was talking to a friend few days ago. She said that she perceives that Christians act differently from other people. And she asked why. I personally thought that she was very extremely insightful. I probably never thought that way. I told her it's because we have a different perspective on life and love.

Whats the difference between Christianity and every other religion? They love God. And not fear him. Every other religion can claim God is powerful, God is great, God is just. But only Christianity can say God is love.

John 3:16- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whosoever would believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

Every other religion, it says, if you want God to show his favour on you, if you don't want to be punished, you must DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO. Do Good, Do 5 times prayer, Do...

Jesus said, It is DONE.

I used to thought that unconditional love especially from parents to their children is a normal thing. But truly it's not so. I know of many chinese parents who would easily beat up their kids because their love is conditional. Some don't even love their kids. You get all kinds of screwed up people in this world.

True love is unconditional, where someone would like you whether your good, or whether your bad. But how can you say God is love? God is a judicial God that good and evil must judged. How can God love you and bless you if you've done evil.Even the bible says that no evil deed shall go unpunished. (proverbs 11:21).

Thats where Jesus comes in. He is the loop hole. The sacrifice, the man who shall take away the sins of the World. The Jews believe in th transference of sins, so does Christians. That a person may suffer the consequence in your place if he wills to do so. God is a God of love, but at the same time he is a judicial God. Jesus is God in the flesh, the physical manifestation of God. Thus, he took it on to himself because he loves us. That there would be a way out for those who believe in him and receive his love.

Thus 1 John 4:10 says; Herein is love = Not that we loved God, but that he Loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

4:12 IF we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us.

4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment (punishment) he that feareth is not made in perfect love.

Every religion in the world Fear's God. They fear his punishement. Hence they worship God in Fear. But Christians don't fear God. We are the only one's who can call him Father (Romans 8:15).

The perception of God is different, the outlook on life is different because of it. Even the way we worship God is different. See all our songs, there are songs of praise and worship thanking him for what he's done on the cross.

hence, the bible teaches us to love everyone else like Jesus does.Hate the sin love the sinner. You don't have to like the sinner, but you must love him. Everyone's a sinner, there is no BIGGER sinner or SMALLER sins. Sin is a sin irregardless of whether it's murder or looking at a girl with lust. Hence, Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God. Romans 3:10 - There is none righteous no, not one.

Movies say, the biggest lie the devil ever told is making people believe he doesn't exist.
The biggest lie the devil ever told is that you can do it on your own without God.

God is love. He loves you, and he cares for you. He doesn't want you to suffer thats why he sent Jesus. Christ came that he took your sins that you are righteous, he took your poverty and gave you prosperity, he took your sickness that you may have divine health. Why? Because JESUS LOVES YOU.

My new blog

Hi everyone, This is my new Christ related blog.

After some thought especially after talking with my brother about it, I decided to move my Christian thoughts to this website rather than from my friendster blog.

I think it's for the best. I prefer my Christian blog to be somewhere more private than broadcasted as this is my private walk with God and my thoughts as I go through it. So do enjoy yourself here.