____ is calling you? Don't UNDER-spiritualize... spiritual_ _ _s...

I was recently accused of "over-spiritualizing" some things as a "*seminary* nerd"... but I am reminded of "tears of the prophets"... who didn't "see the results" right away and people thought they were either CRAZY... and/or HERTICS... and/or LIARS....

So let's open with some bible verses perhaps... "back to the beginning..."

1 Kings 22:17
Then Micaiah answered, "I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the LORD said, 'These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.' "

2 Chronicles 18:16
Then Micaiah answered, "I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the LORD said, 'These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.' "

Isaiah 53:6
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:5-7 (in Context) Isaiah 53 (Whole Chapter)

Micah 2:12
[ Deliverance Promised ] "I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.
Micah 2:11-13 (in Context) Micah 2 (Whole Chapter)

As Christians we should be leaders at church, school, work and other places to plead our non-Christian friends and the world to the right path. And the greatest "leader" of all is Jesus who was sent to bleed and die for our sings on the cross. So the theme behind the name is "Be leaders in Christ".

I typed something like this before on my blog:
That's why there's us Christians, to live in the world as it ought to be, to show it what it can be...

Something we should keep in mind that it is not as simply as saying WE are serving God or that I AM serving God, but we need to keep in mind that it is ACTUALLY Jesus using us as His vessels to serve Him-self. Christ is the one that empowers as if you remember the commission of Moses back in Exodus:

Exodus 3:14-17 (New International Version)

14 God said to Moses, "I am who I am . [a] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' "

15 God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The LORD, [b] the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.

16 "Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. 17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.'

As we can see, it is really Jesus (AKA The Lord) doing both the calling and empowering. Yes, we need to be submissive and do our part, but we need to also learn to trust in God's provision that those He calls, he will also empower to do the work He asked them to do. Like the analogy I was telling my CD team on Sunday, it's like we as human beings are similar to the dual-core computers of our day, we have one-core which is our own dreams and aspirations, but also contains our sinful nature. But yet we have another core which is our "Jesus Core" that gives us that extra something else, makes us different from non-Christian, allows us to understand, follow and execute the instructions from God as well.

Exodus 4:10-16

10 Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue."

11 The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD ? 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."

13 But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it."

14 Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you. 15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. 16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him.

People in our society often talk about giving it one hundred and ten percent (110%)... You do realize that from a logical point of view, this is complete rubbish because a person can only try his/her best. It is not possible to do better than one's present limits. Granted if 110% means that it is better than a previous attempt of the same thing, that is certainly plausible... However, it is my personal belief that anything more than our own 100% comes from God...

My conclusion to this post is that we shouldn't under-estimate God or under-spiritualize spiritual powers as well. We are on a spiritual battlefield fighting for the hearts of men, only with Christ as our vessel can we smile at the storms that come our way.

OMG! I AM THAT P?!? Or am I that P?

"You have the opportunity to become the greatest contradiction in history... the fatherless boy-from-the/DA-hood that goes uptown to bring up more souls to the Kingdom..."

Yesturday, I joked to myself that this video/remake of Prince Caspian must be Raphael Chow from my old church joking about giving GIFTS to me during my B-day...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDNDu5TlAhM&NR=1

One particular comment caught my eye...
panicandfoblvr (1 month ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply i thought this was a very good movie (though not as good as the first) but only because i am not as familiar with the prince caspian book as i am with the LLW. i really need to go read it again so i can pick out the parts that were messed up...i do know that prince caspian was supposed to be a boy, and caspian and susan never had a 'thing'...

Well as

BUT...

I felt a divine inspiration to SHUT OUT all other lines of communication on my computer, phone, etc... to try to listen to what God is saying to me tonight after I had some rest after exams....

OK LORD... on the SAME DAY I finally figure how to add PICTURES into my blog, you do this to me???

(oops... they are on the OTHER computer)...ZZZ then... but they are INSANE...??? Or IN-SANE? The first one I sent to a friend without even looking at it yet and then I went to a few more and I was like OMG... Sorry I know you told me not to use OMG... but... OMFG in this case! Oh My Fervant God...



:'''''|||.... OK... that's a little better... Remember KP: "I know it's a little SCARY now... but you'll GET OVER it... the FEAR, but like MK from CC told you... If God is calling you to SERVE more... don't BACK DOWN!"

I just added too much SALT to my Pretzel... BUT prior to that...I was *randomly* (I thought to myself a lot yesturday, am I *random* or just plain spiritual...) trying to see the SPIRIT behind my 'strange' behaviour at times... am I really just "crazy" or perhaps there is some spiritual method to my madness? And in all the past examples God brought to mind, there is in fact His method behind it... this is too much Jesus, I don't DESERVE TO BE USED BY YOU!

Friend who gave me my i-Pod: "JESUS EXTENDS HIS GRACE..."

My blog clock is actually off, not sure if I maybe left it like that to see if God has his plan behind that, but it's actually 2AM EST now...

Gonna continue/fix this in the morning, but believe me, it was all actually revealed tonight...

STAND 'WATCH-MEN'

"The world will stand up and SHOUT... SAVE US..."

With all the suffering we have in our modern day, wars, divorce, rape, theft, drugs, unemployment,

stress, arguments, essays, exams, _____. etc... it is clear to see why a lot of people think the

answer is "No..."

A TA once said: "As you can see... _ _ _ _ _ness increases..."

Where is the inspiration... Bleh... forget that, even motivation to TRY to even DO OUR PART?
"The WORLD is going to destroy itself anyhow, why even bother..." ->->-> "You SAVED it but look at

it... it's all MESSED UP..."

You know... like COMPLETELY ___D up...

G** may be slow (to us) in comming at times... but He* not stupid!

The ****

DID NOT BECOME A PHILOSOPHY
A THEORY, OR A CONCEPT
TO BE DISCUSSED, DEBATED, OR
PONDERED. BUT THE WORD
BECAME A PERSON TO BE FOLLOWED, ENJOYED, AND *****!

**

Why so serious _ _ _ ? A_K_A Who Am I?

Ok LORD... I can see you aren't going to let this go and maybe I never should have asked my friends and others to PRAY for me... because you won't stop putting things in my life to remind me! SO oh well...

-=-=-=-

I'm sure that for some of you, the idea of stating your intentions at the beginning of a relationship is distasteful. Mentioning the possibility of marriage up front is foolish, you'd say, because it makes the relationship too serious, too soon.
...
I also agree that it's foolish for a couple in a courtship to immediately assume they're going to be married. But stating your intention to explore and consider the possibility of marriage is very different from assuming that marriage is inevitable. By clearly stating the intent of the relationship, a man is asserting that he is open to marriage. He is acknowleding that unless there is clear intent to consider that level of commitment, the girl has no reason to waste her time developing anything more than friendship with him.
...
This is why, in one _ _ _ _ _, courtship is a commitment--it's a promise not to play _ _ _ _ _ with another person's _ _ _ _ _. It's ***serious***. It's a willingness to honestly explore the merits of a lifelong commitment. The man is setting a clear course for the romance by answering the "What's the _ _ _ _ _?" question abotu the relationship at the very out***. The _ _ _ _ _ of the relationship will be to consider marriage.
What is courtship? It's dating with a purpose. It's friendship plus possibility. It's romance chaperoned by wisdom. That's what I mean by setting a _ _ _ _ _ course for romance. It's not without risk; it's simply a way to be careful with the other person's heart _ _ _ _ _ opening up your lives together to God's joyful best.

Who Am I?
KTF
JDK
RPK

Are the answers to all the _ _ _ _ _ the same? ;)



"...from one scar*ed hand to the other..."

Because she puts a _ _ _ _ _ on His face and mine :D "I don't D- _ _ _ _ _ you!"

Because that's what people do. They leap, and hope to God they can fly, because otherwise you just drop like a rock, wondering the whole way down, why in the *hell* did I jump? But here I am, Sarah, falling, and the only one that makes me feel like I can fly... is you.

I'm a guy. Since when do we get anything right the first time?

I'm like a vault baby, locked down!

Don't...ever...do that again!

I saw that going differently in my mind.
[last lines] Basic principles - there are none.

S _ _ _ _
-=-=-=-=-
Relationships are for people who are waiting for something better to come along.

Give me a ring... sometime. [Laughs] I mean, on the phone.

Can you believe what a beautiful day it is?

Sometimes it's really hard to see the forest through the sleaze.

Albert
-=-=-=-
You know what it's like getting up every morning feeling hopeless? Feeling like the love of your life is waking up with the wrong man? But, at the same time hoping that she still finds happiness, even if it's never going to be with you?

I've waited my entire life to be this miserable.
You can't stop it... [shouts] You cannot stop it...

"What's the point of KNOWING if there's nothing you can do to stop it..."

[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hitch]

Commercial BREAK... ;)

Since I am in the middle of exams, I will have to temporarily suspend updating this blog with my "Blog-mons"... hehe... So I was playing around with the Google and have a DIFFERENT msg from God based on the "Grand Turino" movie...

"Mint condition DOG..."

Not exactly my lovely 95... but STILL GOOD like if you know the movie...

50,*** + 20,000 = 70,*** km... ;)

GTK

Invisible Man...? Another "Christian Friendly" version for the redeeming of our "inperfect world..."

Invisible _ _ _ (unscramble: DOG)

Oh, oh, oh, yeah

You can hardly wait to tell your friends...
How his bread taste sweet like wine...
And how He always makes your heart skip a beat...
Every time He spirits by...

And if you're feeling down
He'll pick you up
He'll hold you close cause you're deeply loved...
He's everything you've been dreaming of, Oh PAGAN...

I wish you'd look at me that way...
Your eternal eyes looking deep into mine
Telling me more than any words could say
But do you even know He's alive?
_ _ _-me to you I hope I'm like the invisible God...

Oh you don't see me pagan...But He loves you... yes He loves you...

You've probably spend hours all alone...
Talking about nothing at all,
It doesn't matter what the conversation
Jesus Christ as He calls...

Lost in a world so deal and so insincere
He'll wipe away all your tears...
My face lights up whenever he appears...

I wish you'll look at Him that way
Your beautiful eyes looking into divine...
Showing you more than any words could say...
But do you even know He's alive?
Pagan to you is he only the invisible God?

Oh you don't see him pagan...But He loves you... yes He loves you...

I see you all the time pagan,
Your viewpoint of the world.
I wish you look to Him, lost one...
Boy I wish I could give Him to you....

I wish you'll look at Him that way
Your beautiful eyes looking into divine...
Showing you more than any words could say...
But do you even know He's alive?
Pagan to you is he only the invisible God?

I wish you'd look at me that way...
Your eternal eyes looking deep into mine
Telling me more than any words could say
But do you even know He's alive?
_ _ _-me to you I hope I'm like the invisible God...

Eagerly and PATIENTLY awaiting for Princess SEEDS to return from His field... (now now, that's NOT THE ONLY definition of a 'missionary position', get your mind out of the gutter...)

Come... now is the time to worship... OUR God...

Our song, reloa... revisted... :)

When we were there before...
Couldn't look you in the eye...
You're just like His angel...
His touch makes me cry...

Your wing spare a feather...
In this inperfect world...
In Him we are special...
Christ's so very special...

But we are creeps,
I'm a weirdo...
To hell I was going there...
Man don't belong there...

I don't care if it hurts,
'pals' say self-control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul

I want you to notice
Me even when I'm round
Christ's so very special...
More than just special...

But we are creeps,
I'm a weirdo...
To hell I was going there...
I don't belong there...ohhh ohhh

She's running out the door
She's running out
She run run run run...
run... run...

Whatever makes Him happy...
Whatever You want..
To me your are special
I wish I was special

But we are creeps,
I'm a weirdo...
To hell I was going there...
Man don't belong there...

K don't belong there...:)

She's starting to believe.... (non-capital l...)

A friend of mine recently asked: is b_ _ _ _ the name of a girl?

"Are you sure...?" You wanna know LOL...

I dunno why a certain person from my previous church doesn't want to be my friend anymore, but good riddance, regardless of whether I am MARRIED or even ENGAGED by the "date" that rolls around, there's no way even if I have to listen to my mom _ _ _ __ _ __ the rest of my life am I attending your wedding my EX-FRIEND... you can take that wedding and....

Me and my 5AM posts... sometimes I wish I can just bottle whatever substance or "stuff" my mom spills out of her mouth that can stimulate this insomia in me unconciously/conciously that I can just bottle it, but nah... then it wouldn't be the mom-formula... the stuff that can keep me wired non-stop I dun know what to do with my time when my mental energy can't necessarily keep up... Enter the BEST PARADODY my blog will ever have LOL...


Enter the one good classic paradody I wish I had actors and actresses for!!!

"The Witch-trix" LOL...

Characters:

*) Veo (someone once said I sound like the 40 year old virgin, this word sounds something like the animal used to analogize what exists between me and this person but more like a 40 Oz STEAK than "Veo" LOL...)

*) Mom-phesus

*) Agent K (AKA KAY-ARTHUR LOL)

OH THIS IS CLASSIC!!!

Mom-phesus: "She will be da b _ _ _ _."

...

Agent K: "Mrs. L _ _..."

Veo turns around and the big fight to end our friendship begins...

Mom-phesus: "She's starting to believe..."

OH YEA... BEST PARODY EVER!!!

"Complementarian"

You know I found this thing sitting in my draft and I was like "why? It's already 'made perfect' in Christ..." It doesn't have to be "CERTIFIED" and "E-TESTED"... it's already perfect "as is"...

LOL... I recently took a few hours off cramming for exams to catch the Dragon Ball movie because I was a big fan of that show even through highschool even though some of my non-asian friends thought it was a bit kiddish to still watch Cartoons when you're in your late teens not fully understanding the level of maturity of some Japanese Anime... yes, it's true... Sailor Moon (not that I've seen the rated X/R version) but I heard, that it WAS in fact a Porno, just not the version you see over here in North America, but you can probably guess which part of that anime showed the most nudity in the original nonetheless LOL... "super" indeed... :P If you did not watch the original anime, you may not like this movie so much. I found it was a bit overly hyped like The Dark Knight. Overall it was better than some of the other recent movies that were pretty garbage but one of the main factors I liked about it were the surprise TWISTS in the story line that were different from the anime making it amusing for me. So again, if you don't know the original, you might not like this one.

Most of the other people watching weren't exactly KIDS either... doubt it... didn't really pay attention, I like to keep to myself when I'm "ENJOYING WHAT I HAVE LEFT OF THE SINGLE/BACHELOR LIFE" in my few hours of HIDING from all responsibility LOL...

I closed my MSN in haste so now I have nothing to work from, ah well, all the better to kill my insomia I suppose, would like to maybe do some more cramming for exams, but a hot shower might help more with the inability to sleep perhaps...

ANYHOW ANYTHING BEYOND THIS POINT CONTAINS SPOILERS...

I don't pertain to be an expert in Mandarin or anything, but it certainely was not Cantonese or wait... hmm maybe I don't know that word in Cantonese actually haha... but anyhow in the movie it was a bit confusing they used a word sounding like "key" to refer to internal energy they were channeling to do their special moves. In other English revisions of a similiar concept, most people would expect this to be refered to as "chi".

Anyhow let's look at this "key" thing for a second. Recently I was reusing an analogy from EE training that illustrates sometimes we may not be right with God even though we can be "right about God". The basic idea is the only way to salvation and everlasting life in heaven is "trusting in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life" as stated:

Christ Took Our Punishment
21 But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses[a] and the prophets long ago. 22 We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24 Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.
[Romans 3:21-24]

There are two ways of getting the salvation concept wrong with are not enough in themselves to get you into heaven:

1) Mere Head Knowledge i.e. I know God exists and he is Jesus Christ (but yet the person does not have anything to actually do with a relational or experiential connection with Jesus)

2) Mere temporal Faith i.e. Praying to God for his help in a particular situation

Thank you for reading, here is the correct "key" to empowering yourself and being accepted as a child of God:

3) Trusting in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life:

5 he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.[a] 6 He generously poured out the Spirit upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior. 7 Because of his grace he declared us righteous and gave us confidence that we will inherit eternal life.”
[Titus 3:5-7]

Ephesians 2:8-9 (English Standard Version)
8For(A) by grace you have been saved(B) through faith. And this is(C) not your own doing;(D) it is the gift of God, 9(E) not a result of works,(F) so that no one may boast.

Cross references:
(A) Ephesians 2:8 : Ephesians 2:5
(B) Ephesians 2:8 : 1 Pet 1:5; Rom 4:16
(C) Ephesians 2:8 : 2 Cor 3:5
(D) Ephesians 2:8 : John 4:10; Heb 6:4
(E) Ephesians 2:9 : 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 3:5; Rom 3:20, 28
(F) Ephesians 2:9 : 1 Cor 1:29; Judg 7:2

PK's SS

1. Water (re-baptism :P)
2. Tea (clean out the SINBAD)
3. *5*..._ _ _
4. *****
5. Jesus

HEhehehehe...

S.Jojo: "You spelled Prince Caspian wrong..."

Oh this is so fun... can't wait till the final chapter... CG not DG =) "Break will be over soon!"