Faith or risk

Pastor Eugene shared an interesting insight about faith and risk. Faith is about God while risk is about us. Thus, if we are risk centred when we exercise faith..we are really focusing on what we would lose if the action failed to produce the outcome. On the other hand, faith in God is about obeying and trusting the outcome to God.
very interesting insight. we need to know and move by faith - because the righteous shall walk by faith.

Obedience

As i reflected more about this season of God's word...i felt that the key word is OBEDIENCE...only in obedience can we truly lived out Jesus as Lord of all in our lives. We need to know that only in obedience to the Truth that we are building our lives on strong foundation. Foundation is not built overnight. it requires true commitment to follow / obey His Word. Have you obeyed today?

Monday Church

I like the term "Monday Church". We are reminded that church is not meant to be only on Sunday. Instead we must live out our faith on Monday to Saturday. I want to encourage all of you to seek out the plans of God for your "Monday Church", the community you are in, and pray for wisdom to establish His will.

You can be another "Daniel" which brought about a change in his high school because he believed and acted with his faith. God can use another vessel who truly believed.

And for those of you who came forward to be commissioned....start praying...i will available together with my 12 to help you discern God's will and start your Monday Church. It is time to Pastor the City!

reflection at pre planning

we are reminded again about the need to pause and reflect on the sermon lest we, pastors, are mere "professional" without authencity. how can we be challenged about the Lordship of Jesus without making some changes in our lives; be it inner life or our manner in speech and action. so often we can justify our actions and speeches but when we come before His Lordship, the appropiate response should be repentance.
questions; who am i when no one is looking? why am i responding the way i am? how is Jesus reflected in my words and actions?
IS HE LORD?

My children, i pray that when u read this entry, that you too will allow the Holy SPirit to shine into the inner recess of your heart. Allow Him to show you where we have "fallen" whereby He is not given the reign in our lives.

Jabez's Prayer

God bless me. Enlarge our territory! Let Your hand be upon me and deliver me from evil!

Where is our territory?
I am asking about your personal territory?
This prayer is meaningless if you are not mindful of what you pray ie where is your territory.
Start asking God and believe Him for that territory!

Miracle Catch and G12

We are thankful to the God for the experience of miracle catch. as a church, we saw 33% increase in total attendence, we saw more salvations than last MOL in december 05, etc.

But i agreed with the poem from our tribe, this is just THE BEGINNING. we need to be good parents to the new converts. we need to go beyond these new converts and continue our sacred tasks of making disciples and not counting decisions.

In fact, i am appreciating more of the call to make disciples and see every harvesting events as ways to increase the pool for discipleship. Thus, leaders and members, if you are reading this blog, return back to lead your group/people to Jesus. Send them to consolidation. Pray real hard that they encounter Jesus. Help them to grow under your care and through the LOS. Fast and lay hold of God till they become leaders/disciples in God.

Don;t waste time, we have only 5 more months to see the growth God desired to bless us. Go and make disciples!!

Life is simple. Life is complex. Life is NOT Complicated

I find myself explain this very often. Thus i decided to blog this for all my readers. Life is not complicated! This means that Life is not so intertwined that we cannot make sense or meaning out of it. Life is complex! This means that life is interrelated to other factors of life. But because Life is interrelated, it can be untangled. Let me illustrate with "body soul and spirit". Our body can influence our soul eg if you are sick, you can feel down and depressed. This can happen the other way around too. Thus, by sleeping, you can untangle depression within. While sleeping (physical) is not directly related to emotion (arena for depression), the physical dimension of our lives can bring wholeness to our emotional dimension of life. Thus, when dealing with life, make sure you are not compromising Physical, Emotional, Intellectual and Spiritual dimensions of life. They are all interrelated and thus bring complexity to your life. But if you are not developing them systematically, you will be able to live life simply. it is that SIMPLE.