Lightness of being #39 God is suffice (30th Mar 2014)
Dear...
Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning;
for in thee do I trust:
cause me to know the way wherein I should walk;
for I lift up my soul unto thee.
Psalms 143:8
Every breathing moment, swirling in our midst are diverse thoughts with a common intent - to stir the devil in us. Or maybe more appropriately, to bring into overdrive, our inclination to judge, a direct consequence of the eating of the forbidden fruit from the Tree of knowledge by Adam and Eve.
Envy, fear, pride, anger, lust, greed, impatience, selfishness and the whole myriad of emotions made all of us their favorite haunts. And indeed it is no jaunt in the park for these are more than emotions, but evil spirits that not just taunt us, but seeks to lead us down the slippery slope to hell.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
2 Corinthians 3:5
God is perfect. We are not. Someone recently classified me as religious. The sheen of holiness I might seem to have, but it is ever so easily penetrated from within, whenever my carnal self succumb to the lure of the devil.
Only when we submit to God can we overcome the wiles of the devil.
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
Titus 3:8
And lately, I have found by the grace of God, this new resolve to always consciously at every fork road of thought, put aside my finite understanding, and instead to take time to rest in our Lord, to know His will.
And knowing God's will is not about Him telling us what to do for every situation, for if we have diligently taken time in His Words, we will know what Christ would have done.
But to the carnal man, such Christlike actions are not the way the world meets her selfish needs. Can we, who are determined to obey God, be in this world, yet not of this world?
Christ will bring about victory in all situations that God put us through.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
2 Corinthians 2:14
这一生最美的祝福，就是能认识主耶稣, 就是能信靠主耶稣
God blesses
Eng Hieang
30th Mar 2014
An afterthought - Just enough
"Just do it," that's Nike's catchy advertising jingo. "Just enough!" You can be sure that is not the motto of the gnomes of Wall Street.
Being stuck in the confines of the plane, one have plentiful time to read, which I did, savoring over the wealthy class that Forbes magazine promotes as its mantra.
And thinking about one's relationship with God, and why did He put me in not just the cattle class in the plane, but in life?
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Titus 3:4-6
Thanks be to God, His Spirit residing in me always not just convict me of my sins, but corrects and brings me into His perspective.
Riches of the world I might not have in surfeit, but a richness of life He has blessed me with, since His Spirit fell upon me at age 40. And that is more than enough for me.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee;
yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41:10
My response must continue to be, as shared above, be one of a thankful heart that is fully opened to His Spirit emanating forth from us as His lamp upon which the love of Christ will illuminate the encapsulating darkness upon this world. What a privilege for all who believe and are willing.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Lightness of being#38 When God calls (16 Mar 2014)
Lightness of being #38 When God calls (16th Mar 2014)
Dear...
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,
I will make known my words unto you.
Proverbs 1:23
It has been close to 14 years since the bursting of the dotcom bubble. It has also been about that time since our good Lord sanctified my very being and realigned my wandering heart back to His. It has been a wonderful adventure and the only constant was the joy and peace of experiencing the love of our Sovereign God upon my life, and that of others He placed in my path as fellow sojourners.
Proverbs 1:23 is a stranger to me. This is the first time that this verse captured my attention. Yet it is a very special verse, as if God is drawing me back to the still vivid memories of the night 14 years back when He brought me across the chasm of doubt and gave me the faith that was always just beyond my grasp.
And I said, This is my infirmity:
but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
I will remember the works of the Lord:
surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
Psalms 77:10-11
Proverbs 1:23 in all precision describes the defining moment in my life, when the Spirit of God fell upon me that one wee morning in Bangkok. God woke me up at 4am to reproof me for my lack of faith. Alway being thankful after the fact, and even then only fleetingly. "Why can't I thank Him even before I see the conclusion?" He asked.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7
His Spirit fell upon me twice that fateful night. The first was one of deep cleansing the moment I repented and decided to entrust my all to Him. The second was this indescribable joy and peace that brought my very being into this intimate communion with my Abba Father.
There was no longer any doubt about the truth of God's omnipresence.
Because I have called, and ye refused;
I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Proverbs 1:24
The word God gave me after He lifted the veil upon my heart was a simple rebuke from the Book of Psalms "stop questioning and start following."
Thanks be to God, His Spirit imbued in me that night the great love of God for me that by His grace and empowerment, I have and continue to grow in desire to respond to His leading,
主告诉我如何献上我的生命，带希望入人群中
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Matthew 10:1
As I closed this segment, was I missing something. Twelve Apostles I am not, and neither did I cast out demons, nor did I partake in any physical healing.
But our good Lord impressed upon me that as His faithful servants, He has and will continue to use us to bring about spiritual healing. Physical and emotional ailments are but the manifestation of lives lived in misalignment from the will of God. With agape love, the Spirit of God empowers us to cast out the oppressive and delusive evil spirits encapsulating the very being of many.
God blesses
Eng Hieang
16th Mar 2014
An afterthought - 'Allo, 'Allo !
And he said, Draw not nigh hither:put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Exodus 3:5
Borrowed from the title of an old British sitcom set in occupied France in World War 2, it did strike me that when it comes to communion with God, many erroneously assumed that God will engage in a spoken conversation with me when I tell them that He spoke to me.
God spoke to Moses through a burning bush. And God told him that he was standing on holy ground. Did God speak to Moses via the audio senses or was it through the heart?
God has and continues to speak to me not via the audio route that humans are well acquainted with but through
- His Words in the times I immerse myself in His living word
- people and circumstances that clarifies or affirms the thoughts in my heart
- visions though I prefer to call them dreams because it happens in my non waking hours
- impressions upon my heart. A conviction by the indwelling Holy Spirit
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary:
who is so great a God as our God?
Psalms 77:13
直到我在祭坛哪里得着命定，无怨无悔我在这里
This was a line from a worship song in Mandarin. It expresses an unqualified willingness to wait upon our Lord in His sanctuary till God shows us His will.
Indeed, the Bible exhorts all to seek God with our all, to be still and know His will.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart;
and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalms 34:18
God will and in fact is speaking to all of us this very moment. But truth is, most if not all only tune in when they find themselves in humbling circumstances, and even then, God's communion with us has greatest resonance when our hearts are truly contrite.
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found:
surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Psalms 32:6
,
Dear...
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,
I will make known my words unto you.
Proverbs 1:23
It has been close to 14 years since the bursting of the dotcom bubble. It has also been about that time since our good Lord sanctified my very being and realigned my wandering heart back to His. It has been a wonderful adventure and the only constant was the joy and peace of experiencing the love of our Sovereign God upon my life, and that of others He placed in my path as fellow sojourners.
Proverbs 1:23 is a stranger to me. This is the first time that this verse captured my attention. Yet it is a very special verse, as if God is drawing me back to the still vivid memories of the night 14 years back when He brought me across the chasm of doubt and gave me the faith that was always just beyond my grasp.
And I said, This is my infirmity:
but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
I will remember the works of the Lord:
surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
Psalms 77:10-11
Proverbs 1:23 in all precision describes the defining moment in my life, when the Spirit of God fell upon me that one wee morning in Bangkok. God woke me up at 4am to reproof me for my lack of faith. Alway being thankful after the fact, and even then only fleetingly. "Why can't I thank Him even before I see the conclusion?" He asked.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7
His Spirit fell upon me twice that fateful night. The first was one of deep cleansing the moment I repented and decided to entrust my all to Him. The second was this indescribable joy and peace that brought my very being into this intimate communion with my Abba Father.
There was no longer any doubt about the truth of God's omnipresence.
Because I have called, and ye refused;
I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Proverbs 1:24
The word God gave me after He lifted the veil upon my heart was a simple rebuke from the Book of Psalms "stop questioning and start following."
Thanks be to God, His Spirit imbued in me that night the great love of God for me that by His grace and empowerment, I have and continue to grow in desire to respond to His leading,
主告诉我如何献上我的生命，带希望入人群中
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Matthew 10:1
As I closed this segment, was I missing something. Twelve Apostles I am not, and neither did I cast out demons, nor did I partake in any physical healing.
But our good Lord impressed upon me that as His faithful servants, He has and will continue to use us to bring about spiritual healing. Physical and emotional ailments are but the manifestation of lives lived in misalignment from the will of God. With agape love, the Spirit of God empowers us to cast out the oppressive and delusive evil spirits encapsulating the very being of many.
God blesses
Eng Hieang
16th Mar 2014
An afterthought - 'Allo, 'Allo !
And he said, Draw not nigh hither:put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Exodus 3:5
Borrowed from the title of an old British sitcom set in occupied France in World War 2, it did strike me that when it comes to communion with God, many erroneously assumed that God will engage in a spoken conversation with me when I tell them that He spoke to me.
God spoke to Moses through a burning bush. And God told him that he was standing on holy ground. Did God speak to Moses via the audio senses or was it through the heart?
God has and continues to speak to me not via the audio route that humans are well acquainted with but through
- His Words in the times I immerse myself in His living word
- people and circumstances that clarifies or affirms the thoughts in my heart
- visions though I prefer to call them dreams because it happens in my non waking hours
- impressions upon my heart. A conviction by the indwelling Holy Spirit
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary:
who is so great a God as our God?
Psalms 77:13
直到我在祭坛哪里得着命定，无怨无悔我在这里
This was a line from a worship song in Mandarin. It expresses an unqualified willingness to wait upon our Lord in His sanctuary till God shows us His will.
Indeed, the Bible exhorts all to seek God with our all, to be still and know His will.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart;
and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalms 34:18
God will and in fact is speaking to all of us this very moment. But truth is, most if not all only tune in when they find themselves in humbling circumstances, and even then, God's communion with us has greatest resonance when our hearts are truly contrite.
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found:
surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Psalms 32:6
,
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Lightness of being #37 Thirst (5 Mar 2014)
Lightness of being #37 Thirst ( 5th March 2014)
Dear...
'....But the rebellious dwell in a dry land."
Psalm 67:6
After the exceptional lovely breezy December, weather has taken a decided turn for the worse right about Chinese New Year. The heat is stifling and this prolonged drought has resulted in an increased proportion of Newater added to our reservoirs to make up for the shortfall.
Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
Proverbs 26:11
Forbid the thought, but truth is we are literally drinking the discharge of many humans.
Is that a reminder to be mindful that we reap what we sow?
'The earth shook; The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God...'
Psalm 68:8
And is the dry weather an indictment of our continued disobedience to God Who has blessed our island nation? Is the lack of rain a reflection of the absence of God in the hearts of many in our nation?
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“when I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
Amos 8:11
Sinful and lustful thoughts often look for opportunities to proffer itself to "weak in the flesh" types like me. And with technology, the opportunities to hook up with complete strangers for that quick fling is now the prevalent trend. This is new to me, not the dalliances, but the availability of such social apps, for the closeted dinosaur that is me.
How does one flee from the bewildering array of temptations that floods our daily living?
Submit to God, then can we overcome the devil.
'Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law......My soul is consumed with longing for Your laws at all times.'
Psalm 119:18,20
你是我心里的满足，你是我唯一的喜乐
Indeed, as I take time on a daily basis, to dwell upon the words of God in the Bible, in listening to hymns in Mandarin( part of my efforts to ratchet up my Mandarin proficiency), and just in a quiet moment of communion with our Lord, one's desire for the world pales into oblivion, in the sanctifying presence of our Lord, in His Words.
I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary:
who is so great a God as our God?
Psalms 77:12-13
God blesses
Eng Hieang
5 Mar 2014
An after thought - Take time
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east,
they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Amos 8:12
The world is in a hurry. Or at least evil is. With the Western Governments keenly imposing gay rights on the rest of the world, be it in Arizona or Uganda, and with US big business providing the economic 'gunboat diplomacy,' we are indeed heralding the inevitable return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is increasingly absent from the public arena and even more so in the privacy of many lives. Imagine a world without God, or rather not just the lack of the Bible, but an unfamiliarity with the good news of the Bible.
I am not referring to the great indoctrination of the communist regimes of past or the present repressive North Korea. But rather, the insipid but very real indoctrination of the present world, especially our next generation.
The internet and its wares have distorted and numbed many to the value system that defined civil society of past, and created the presentself centered law of the jungle attitude.
Indeed, the mark of the beast is already upon us, for many are manifesting the behavior of the denizens of the jungle.
It is not too late to take time with our Lord. It is not for us to turn this creeping tide of godlessness on our own strength But God will. Question is, which side will you be on?
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee:
my soul thirsteth for thee,
my flesh longeth for thee
in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
To see thy power and thy glory,
so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life,
my lips shall praise thee
Psalms 63:1-3
Dear...
'....But the rebellious dwell in a dry land."
Psalm 67:6
After the exceptional lovely breezy December, weather has taken a decided turn for the worse right about Chinese New Year. The heat is stifling and this prolonged drought has resulted in an increased proportion of Newater added to our reservoirs to make up for the shortfall.
Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
Proverbs 26:11
Forbid the thought, but truth is we are literally drinking the discharge of many humans.
Is that a reminder to be mindful that we reap what we sow?
'The earth shook; The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God...'
Psalm 68:8
And is the dry weather an indictment of our continued disobedience to God Who has blessed our island nation? Is the lack of rain a reflection of the absence of God in the hearts of many in our nation?
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“when I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
Amos 8:11
Sinful and lustful thoughts often look for opportunities to proffer itself to "weak in the flesh" types like me. And with technology, the opportunities to hook up with complete strangers for that quick fling is now the prevalent trend. This is new to me, not the dalliances, but the availability of such social apps, for the closeted dinosaur that is me.
How does one flee from the bewildering array of temptations that floods our daily living?
Submit to God, then can we overcome the devil.
'Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law......My soul is consumed with longing for Your laws at all times.'
Psalm 119:18,20
你是我心里的满足，你是我唯一的喜乐
Indeed, as I take time on a daily basis, to dwell upon the words of God in the Bible, in listening to hymns in Mandarin( part of my efforts to ratchet up my Mandarin proficiency), and just in a quiet moment of communion with our Lord, one's desire for the world pales into oblivion, in the sanctifying presence of our Lord, in His Words.
I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary:
who is so great a God as our God?
Psalms 77:12-13
God blesses
Eng Hieang
5 Mar 2014
An after thought - Take time
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east,
they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Amos 8:12
The world is in a hurry. Or at least evil is. With the Western Governments keenly imposing gay rights on the rest of the world, be it in Arizona or Uganda, and with US big business providing the economic 'gunboat diplomacy,' we are indeed heralding the inevitable return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is increasingly absent from the public arena and even more so in the privacy of many lives. Imagine a world without God, or rather not just the lack of the Bible, but an unfamiliarity with the good news of the Bible.
I am not referring to the great indoctrination of the communist regimes of past or the present repressive North Korea. But rather, the insipid but very real indoctrination of the present world, especially our next generation.
The internet and its wares have distorted and numbed many to the value system that defined civil society of past, and created the presentself centered law of the jungle attitude.
Indeed, the mark of the beast is already upon us, for many are manifesting the behavior of the denizens of the jungle.
It is not too late to take time with our Lord. It is not for us to turn this creeping tide of godlessness on our own strength But God will. Question is, which side will you be on?
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee:
my soul thirsteth for thee,
my flesh longeth for thee
in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
To see thy power and thy glory,
so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life,
my lips shall praise thee
Psalms 63:1-3
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