I Want It Now.

How many of us have actually said that sentence or something like it before?
I'm sure you would've especially when you were in your younger days.

'I want my candy now! '

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'I want that toy now! '

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'I want to go out with my friends now!'

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'I want you to be my girlfriend now. It's now or never'

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'I want my pizza to be delivered to my place this instant!'

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'You better get out of the toilet because i wanna use it now! '


We are a generation of NOW.
We barely want to wait for anything we want. If we ask for something, we expect it to appear right in front of us the moment we want it to be there.
We hardly have the time to wait for anything, since we are so busy in our lives that even a few minutes spent in a traffic jam is enough to make us go bananas.

Would you call yourself a patient person?
What kind of patient are you?
The enduring kind?
The waiting kind?

If your friend turns up late for more than 15 minutes, would you blow up at her?
If you are constantly faced with the same difficult situation over and over again, is there a time where you just felt like giving up?

In Galatians 5:22, Patience is a fruit of the Spirit, along with many others like self-control, kindness , love, joy, peace etc.

Do you have it?

I'm sure we all do once we have the Holy Spirit in us.
But we differ in our level of patience.

As much as we love the promise Pizza Hut has to offer to make our pizzas and place it right on our tables in exactly 15 minutes ,
we should NEVER expect the same thing with God.

God is not a vending machine or a fairy godmother. He is so MUCH MORE.

When you can't have something you asked from God ,something you've been waiting for from Him, an answer from Him perhaps, and you don't get what you expect,
it doesn't mean He isn't there to listen.
It doesn't mean He doesn't care.
On the contrary, He does care so much that He was willing to die for you.
If He was willing to die for you,why wouldn't He be listening to your prayers?
And when He listens, He does respond.
The question is when.

If you're going through a hard time, waiting for deliverance from it, make use of the gift of patience which the Holy Spirit has given you.
Patience is being able to wait calmly,even through the hard or boring times. God allows hard times to happen to his children to help them to learn to be patient.

'Consider i t pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

because you know that the testing of your faih develops perseverance (patience)'.

James 1:2-3

As Christians ,we can wait patiently on the Lord knowing our life is in God's control.

Psalms 27 :14

Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

A character in the bible, Job had the worst of it all. Probably what we've been through was only 10% of what he had to suffer.

Before the bad things happened, he had everything any man could ever want in those days.

~7000 sheep
~3000 camels
~500 oxen
~500 donkeys
~ 7 sons and 3 daughters

The most important of all, he had ...............

A. his wife

B. his house

C. his faith in God

D. his good looks

You've got it right if you answered C !!! * round of applause*

He places his relationship with God was more important than anything he owned.
Then the hard times came.

~All the mentioned animals were stolen
~Except the sheep, which were killed by the fire.
~Worser still, all his children were killed in the house when a strong wind blew the house down.

Think you've had a bad day ? What about Job?

Despite his unimaginable sorrow, ( probably sorrow couldn't even used in this context )

 Naked i came from my mother's womb, and naked will i depart.

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away,

May the name of the Lord be praised'

Job 1:21-22

He praised GOD!!!!!!!!
He did not blame God for his condition.
The bad things did not stop there. If you continue to read Job,
he had painful sores and
his wife,friends discouraged him about his faith in God.
Yet, he was patient because he believed God is in control.

Most of us would be questioning God by then but yet, he didn't.Moreover, he had it worse than us.

And did God just stand by and let him continue to suffer?

No, God rewarded him!

'The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first.'

Job 42:12

He had twice of everything he used to have!

Today, we might be asking for a salvation of a friend or family member,
or someone's recovery from an illness, family problems, financial crisis,
enduring is difficult and patience will hardly be there.

But always keep in mind that

God knows and holds the future in the palm of His hands.
Part of being patient is knowing God will do what is best for you.
Patience is trusting God to do what is best in His time.
Patience is having faith in His timing, omnipotence and love for us.
God is never too early or too late. He is always on time.


God bless ya'll and have a nice day!

Lest We Forget.

A few years back, this was the theme of the Easter conference in my church, 'Lest We Forget'.

The theme came from a song entitled "Lest I Forget", and the chorus went something like this:

Lest I forget Gethsemane,

Lest I forget Thy agony,

Lest I forget Thy love for me,

Lead me to Calvary.

It's so easy to forget. We're so used to hearing it over and over again, we become complacent and never truly remember the weight of such a sacrifice.

The Son of God Himself, came down as a man, and gave His life up for us sinners. He didn't have to, but He did it because He loved us so much. Not just today, because it's Good Friday, but every day of our lives, every moment we have breath.

Galatians 2:20 says, "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but He lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."

Are we living for Jesus?

Do we remember what He did for us and what it means?

Or is it just the same old story?

Romans 5:6-8

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Easter!

EASTER is around the corner!

KTT Christian Fellowship has planned something up for this occasion.

We are going to make something special, and we invite you, our Christian Fellowship members to join us this Friday, after CF at 2.30pm onwards to make them together.

What are they? All I know is they are cute!

It'll be fun to do this together, as a family of Christ, here in our college, to bless others.

Come to CF this Friday for more info and updates!

Have a very wonderful week ahead, God bless you heaps! =)

Something In You

YOU have something special in you. There is something about YOU that's different. Do YOU know that? From the time you were in your mother's womb, God has ordained your life and specially designed you to be different. He gave you a heart, a personality, a mind, and gifts. Some people have a gift of knowledge. I've heard that popularity is a gift too. Some people just have a high tendency to be popular, even if they don't do anything. Of course, popular for a good cause. Using your talents for the right purposes enables you to impact many lives. Most of all, you were given a talent so that you can use it to help others or touch their lives in a way no others can. And that is through the mighty power of God, who has designed you from your inside out, and custom made you. It's amazing that God purposefully placed in you certain talents, and when you use them during occasions in your life, or throughout your life, the feeling of gratitude that comes out of it really surpasses anything else, because you know that God has thought about ALL of these events where you can use your talent mightily, and He has thoughtfully given it to You, so as to use You as an instrument. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. Touching people's lives demands sacrifice, effort, belief in others, but the fruits you reap at the end of the day is more than all that you've put in. Similar to giving birth - they say, even a man can't endure labor pain; but the child God has given you to raise, is a lifetime reward and fulfillment, to watch your child grow and mature, to be somebody, a man after God's own heart. Expand your gifts, and use it for others, because it goes a long way =)

Beauty of the Lord

How do you measure the beauty of something, or of someone?

What makes you say, “Hey, that’s really beautiful”, or “Aw, so pretty!”?

Chances are, you find beauty first of all from external appearances. First impressions are lasting, and this is mostly because our brain chooses to interpret and remember striking external features, and we will subconsciously (or consciously) categorise them as either aesthetically pleasing or otherwise.

By and large, there is nothing very wrong about measuring beauty using that approach. And yet, if you look at the Bible, you’ll find that the Scripture does describe God Almighty as being ‘beautiful’, and many hymns and songs attest to the wonder of His beauty.

One thing I ask of the LORD,

      This is what I seek:

that I may dwell in the house of the LORD

      all the days of my life,

to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD

      and to seek Him in His temple.

Psalm 27:4

In the verse above, King David writes about his longing to see the Lord in His beauty. The odd thing is, if we apply our method of judging a person’s beauty by their physical appearance, then how could King David, along with other men and women of God, declare that the Lord is beautiful? It is highly unlikely that these people have seen God face to face. It is also very much improbable that they were merely throwing in adjectives to describe God.

The beauty of the Lord that is widely described by most people is in reference to His nature. Our Yahweh is the best Father we could ever have. There is not a single living soul who can compare to Him.

His heart overflows with compassion and grace. His mercy is never-ending, even for sinners such as us. He is just and righteous. He upholds His people with His unfailing love, and leads us through all things, big and small. Being a just God, He punishes the wicked in His time, and yet we know that in His compassion, He is slow to anger.

He will never turn anyone away; all we have to do is seek Him wholeheartedly, and we will find the fullness of His grace, renewed each morning like the dew of dawn. He forgives us of our sin, washing us whiter than the snow with His Word. He holds true to His promises.

And the greatest evidence of His beauty can be found in the source of our salvation: His love for us, so strong and everlasting, that He gave His only Son to die for us, that we may be reconciled to Him. Because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and His resurrection three days after His crucifixion, we are now called heirs with Jesus.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13

‘Beautiful’ doesn’t even begin to describe a God who would do all that – and so much more – for His people. No words known to mortal men is sufficient to describe the splendour that rightfully belongs to the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

I will declare the beauty of the Lord, for nothing compares to the beauty of the Lord.

Beauty of the Lord – Desperation Band

The Bell

I received this through email some time in 2008, and I’ve kept it since, because I like it.

So I thought I’d reproduce it and share it with you.

I’m sorry if the words are too small. You can always press Ctrl + to zoom.

God bless! =)