Follow Me...!

Ignore the one who is talking behind your back. That is where he belongs... behind you. This one always rushes you with demands; pulls you and provokes you from your back...

Pay more attention to the One who speaks to your face. He is in front of you. He always leads you and He always guide you with abundant grace... His sheep know His voice.

Jesus said, "Follow Me...!" (Luke 8:22)

In Remembrance Of My Belated Father: Hiu Kiang Fen

My belated father migrated from China to Borneo in his youth. His motto and principle throughout his life on earth was: "If one treats you kindly, you have to be doubly kind to him in return." He taught us this principle since we were young and personally practiced it until his breathed his last on earth. He made sure that he brought trouble on no one else and had been carrying his own burden throughout his life. Because of this principle of his, we children sometimes found it a bit frustrating in our dealings with him because if we gave him a treat, he would find ways to give double to us instead.

My belated father was a good man. He lived a good and conscientious life. We are proud to learn from his friends that he was a good man, even a very good man… Surely we are proud to have him as our father and grandfather. Anyway, a good man also needs to be saved.

Many use the noun 'God' for their gods. Our Chinese character, '神’  is made of '示' （which means 'god') on the left and '申’ (which means 'proclaim, declare' or 'three o'clock in the afternoon') on the right. So who's the God that is depicted by this Chinese character '神‘? Jesus on the cross (note that '申’ is made up with '口’ (mouth) and '十’ 字架(cross)) from whose mouth cried 'It is finished!' on the cross at 3pm 2,000 years ago IS the God that '神’ portrays.

 My father came to know this '神' and accepted Jesus Christ 10 years ago when he was 75 years old. The Lord had been good and gracious to him and fulfilled all his wishes on this earth. He'd lived a full life indeed. As he had carried his burdens on his own all his life, he was tired… he needed a rest and I see that his physical death is a good thing for him now as he is finally released of his burden and rest in the bosom of our dear Lord Himself today in heaven. I am not speculating on where he is now. I am very sure that he is with the Lord Jesus Christ today in heaven, to the place where He 'd prepared for him. Psalm 23:6 says: "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."

Today is the 23rd of June (the 6th month). We used this scripture verse for the obituary as well but not knowing the coincidence then...  The Lord had chosen this special day for my father's funeral and burial to assure us of His goodness and mercy and where my father is at now. Hallelujah! There is no fear in death. We have to die to go to heaven just like a baby needs to leave the mother's womb in order to be born into this world.

My belated father used to share with me when I drove him to church on Sundays. Once he spoke to me in parable, just like our Lord Jesus. He didn't use birds in the air nor flowers in the field as examples. He spoke to me about fish instead. He said both salted fish and fish in the sea come in contact with salt , however one is dead and the other is alive. He said we as Christians should live out the abundant life within like that of the fish in the sea, not as the dead salty fish. What a profound message the Lord had revealed to his dear child, my elderly brother in Christ, my dear father in his old age!

I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who had served and shared fellowship in Christ with my father in the past 10 years of his walk with the Lord. Thank you for all that you did for him.

And I would like to say thank you to all who offer your condolences, love gifts and all kinds of help during our bereavement and your presence with us today at the memorial service.

Thank you very much.

The A to Z of Me In Christ

Grace Might Reign Through Righteousness

Grace Might Reign Through Righteousness mp3 

As sin has reigned to death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Listen to this fresh revelation and find out how righteous you are in Christ and see His grace reigns in your life!

 The Word of God describing SIB Grace, the church that Jesus love. 

 We are the pearl of great value!

 The Chinese Character on Tongue is derived from the picture of a serpent and its tongue.

He Qualifies The CALLED

Noah was drunk

Abraham was old

Sarah was impatient

Jacob was a cheater

Tamar was a prostitute

Moses was a stutterer

Miriam was a gossiper

Gideon was insecure

Rahab was a prostitute

Elijah was moody

Ruth was a Moabite

David had an affair

Jonah ran from God

Martha was a worrier

Lazarus was dead

Zacchaeus was short

Simon Peter was wavy

John had a temper

Matthew was a tax collector

Thomas was a doubter

Paul was a Pharisee of Pharisees 

and Moses, David and Paul were once a murderer too....

God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the CALLED.

Fear vs Faith

Fear is for those who are left alone facing the evil one themselves and believing the evil one could overpowered them... Faith on the other hand is for those who never walk alone and believing the Lord had already overcome the evil one...


John 16:33 ~ I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.


FEAR "puts faith" on the evil one, whereas FAITH "puts faith" on the Victorious One!

"IT IS FINISHED!" ... The Victorious One said.


Colossians 3:1 ~  If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.


We are now in Christ who is seated at the right hand of our Heavenly Father.

Shalom...

Gold Dust That Grows and Glows

It has been 5 months since the manifestation of Gold Dust in my pockets... Since then, this same pair of pant which I was wearing on last Friday, has been washed for numerous times and I did not notice any residue remained in my pockets during this period of time.

On last Friday morning, I found Gold Dust again in the pocket where I put my handphone. Mind you, if by any chance that there are any residue remain, they actually have grown bigger in size and yet, glowing... Wow!

Giving weight to the Right Words

Spirit lifting words from Inexhaustible Grace by Jeannie Tan.

Whatever contains the anointing never grows old.

It always remains fresh.

I realised that sometimes when people say words that hurt and tear down, we just simply have to become dead to it. Just don’t have to bother or react and let those un-edifying words fall to the ground. The voices of accusations and the voice of condemnation screaming in your ears, sometimes even by your loved ones.

Sometimes, I reckon that they don’t even know what they themselves are saying, because it’s all done in a fit of anger, frustration or emotions, they know not what they do because they don’t know God, and they don’t know that the power of death and life lies in the tongue.

And mentally you know it’s done in a fit of emotions, but somehow your flesh still wants to react (not just retaliating, reacting by feeling bad, reacting by receiving the condemnation and accusations, receiving the hurts). Which is just stupid. Happens to me almost all the time. It’s ok and natural to feel hurt at the moment, but take a moment to think again.

I’ve always wondered what it means to let their word fall to the ground. You are the high priest, and whatever you value that you set on a certain object, that certain object takes on it’s value.

Giving weight to the right words.

It just dawned upon me, maybe this is what the Lord’s been trying to teach me. Whose words do you give weight to? Whose words do you esteem? The reason why you reacted in such a way is because you are actually giving weight to these words. But if you control the way you give weight to these words, you’ll realise that you won’t react the way you used to.

The reason why we feel so troubled about something is because we are 1st giving weight to the wrong words, 2nd thinking and meditating on wrong words, 3rd fear worry and anxiety comes in, 4th start attracting what you fear.

E.g. Someone said this about you. You feel angry / bad about it. You continue to think about it for the whole day – and you go about talking to others about it, doing self-evaluation and introspection. It continues and develops into something you fear.

Fear, worry and anxiety comes from meditating on the wrong words.

If you say that the words that man say don’t matter, and you don’t esteem them, their words simply fall to the ground. It’s not the matter of words that they use or the negative things that they speak into your life. It’s the matter of how you give heed to those words. You cannot control what people say about you, but you can control how you want to give heed to those words. Let this be revelation to me.

What you give heed to will manifest.

And He Shall Be Called...

In Genesis, Jesus Christ is the seed.
In Exodus, He is the passover lamb.
In Leviticus, He is our high priest.
In Numbers, He is the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.
In Deuteronomy, He is the prophet like unto Moses.
In Joshua, He is the captain of our salvation.
In Judges, He is our judge and lawgiver.
In Ruth, He is our kinsman redeemer.
In 1st and 2nd Samuel, He is our trust.
In Kings and Chronicles, He is our reigning king.
In Ezra, He is the rebuilder of the broken down walls of human life.
In Esther, He is our Mordecai.
In Job, He is our ever-living redeemer.
In Psalms, He is our shepherd.
In Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, He is our wisdom.
In the Song of Solomon, He is the loving bridegroom.
In Isaiah, He is the prince of peace.
In Jeremiah, He is the righteous branch.
In Lamentations, He is our weeping prophet.
In Ezekiel, He is the wonderful four-faced man.
In Daniel, He is the forth man in life's "fiery furnace."
In Hosea, He is the faithful husband, forever married to the backslider.
In Joel, He is the baptizer with the Holy Ghost and fire.
In Amos, He is our burden-bearer.
In Obadiah, He is the mighty to save.
In Jonah, He is our great foreign missionary.
In Micah, He is the messenger of beautiful feet.
In Nahum, He is the avenger of God's elect.
In Habakkuk,he's God's evangelist,crying,revive thy work
In Zephaniah, He is our Savior
In Haggai, He is the restorer of God's lost heritage.
In Zechariah, He is the fountain opened up in the house of David
In Malachi, He is the Sun of Righteousness, rising with healing in His wings.
In Matthew, He is King of the Jews.
In Mark, He is the Servant.
In Luke, He is the Son of Man, feeling what you feel.
In John, He is the Son of God.
In Acts, He is the Savior of the world.
In Romans, He is the righteousness of God.
In I Corinthians, He is the Rock that followed Israel.
In II Corinthians, He is the Triumphant One, giving victory.
In Galatians, He is your liberty; He sets you free.
In Ephesians, He is Head of the Church.
In Philippians, He is your joy.
In Colossians, He is your completeness.
In 1st and 2nd Thessalonians, He is your hope.
In I Timothy, He is your faith.
In II Timothy, He is your stability.
In Philemon, He is your Benefactor.
In Titus, He is truth.
In Hebrews, He is your perfection.
In James, he is the Power behind your faith.
In I Peter, He is your example.
In II Peter, He is your purity.
In I John, He is your life.
In II John, He is your pattern.
In III John, He is your motivation.
In Jude, He is the foundation of your faith.
In Revelation, He is your coming King.

He always was, He always is, and He always will be...
Unmoved, Unchanged, Undefeated, and never Undone!
He was bruised and brought healing!
He was pierced and eased pain!
He was persecuted and brought freedom!
He was dead and brought life!
He is risen and brings power!
He reigns and brings Peace!
The world can't understand him,
The armies can't defeat Him,
The schools can't explain Him, and
The leaders can't ignore Him.
Herod couldn't kill Him,
The Pharisees couldn't confuse Him, and
The people couldn't hold Him!
Nero couldn't crush Him,
Hitler couldn't silence Him,
The New Age can't replace Him,
He is light, love, longevity, and Lord.
He is goodness, Kindness, Gentleness, and God.
He is Holy, Righteous, mighty, powerful, and pure.
His ways are right, His word is eternal,
His will is unchanging, and His mind is on me.
He is my Redeemer, He is my Savior,
He is my guide, and He is my peace!
He is my Joy, He is my comfort,
He is my Lord, and He rules my life!

I serve Him because His bond is love,
His burden is light, and His goal for me
is abundant life.

I follow Him because He is:

the wisdom of the wise,
the Power of the powerful,
the Ancient of days,
the Ruler of rulers,
the Leader of leaders,
the Overseer of the overcomers, and
the Sovereign Lord of all that was and is and is to come.

His goal is a relationship with ME and You!
He will never leave me,
never forsake me,
never mislead me,
never forget me,
never overlook me.

* When I fall, He lifts me up!
* When I fail, He forgives!
* When I am weak, He is strong!
* When I am lost, He is the way!
* When I am afraid, He is my courage!
* When I stumble, He steadies me!
* When I am hurt, He heals me!
* When I am broken, He mends me!
* When I am blind, He leads me!
* When I am hungry, He feeds me!
* When I face trials, He is with me!
* When I face persecution, He shields me!
* When I face problems, He comforts me!
* When I face loss, He provides for me!
* When I face Death, He carries me Home!

He is everything for everybody,
everywhere, every time, and every way.
He is God, He is faithful.
I am His, and He is mine!

by: Tammy Smith Lytle

Gold Dust

When I arrived at my office this morning, I discovered Gold Dust scattering on my office table as I took out my mobile phone from my left pocket. As I reached out to my right pocket and pull out my hand, the Gold Dust in that pocket scattered on the floor.

I was greatly amazed by the phenomenal. Wow...! Isn't this the sign and wonder that many Charismatic circles are looking for and now, this sign and wonder follows those who preaches the Good News... the Gospel of Grace, the WORD OF CHRIST!


Mark
16:15  He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the GOOD NEWS to all creation.
16:16  Whoever BELIEVES and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
16:17  And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
16:18  they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."



Mark my word, this is the last day and HE means business.... the FATHER's business!

John 
6:54  Whoever eats my flesh (the WORD OF CHRIST) and drinks my blood (the WINE HE CHANGES) has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.


What this verse means is:- Those who eats the WORD OF CHRIST and drinks the WINE HE CHANGES, He will RAISE (stand up in original Greek) him up to preach the WORD OF CHRIST at this last day!


This is the last day..... sign and wonder follows the preaching of the significance of GRAIN, NEW WINE and OIL which expounded a fresh insight on HOLY COMMUNION!

Amen!

Gold Dust In My Pockets

I discovered Gold Dust in my left pocket as I took out my mobile phone when I arrived at my office this morning. I was greatly amazed when these Gold Dust scattered all over my table...


1 Corinthians
3:11  For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
3:12  If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
3:13  his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work.

A Quote From The Lord

I woke up at 3.00 am this morning due to the excitement that I have over my preaching appointment at the Main Service this morning... I started to rehearse and preaching to myself in the spirit for about half an hour. All of a sudden, the Lord reminded me with a very profund statement... 

"WHENEVER WE STOP BELIEVING, THE GRACE THAT WE THINK WE ARE IN, HAS ALREADY BECOMES A RELIGION...!"

Oh... I just preached myself happy and I went back to my sleep.

"Favor and Mercy" vs "Grace and Righteousness"

Under the dispensation of Law in the Old Covenant, in order to obtain favor from God, the Israelites needed to perform according to what the Law required plus, offer up the various type of sacrificial offerings ordained by God. 

In the account of Moses praying to God to lead His people, he prayed: “If You are pleased with me, teach me Your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with You. Remember that this nation is Your people.” Moses as the minister of Law, needed to perform and comply with the requirements of the Law in order to have favor in the eye of God.

Likewise, when we look at the account of prophet Daniel, he also needed to resolved first not to defile himself with the royal food and wine from king Nebuchadnezzar, then the Lord granted him favor and mercy in the eye of the official. Under Law, men needed to perform to deserve favor from God. This favor from God in the dispensation of Law was conditional.

As for mercy, the Israelites in their dispensation were blessed not because they obeyed the Law completely but they offered sacrificial offerings according to the provisions of the law when they failed. Their blessings were also depended on their high priest. If God accepted their high priest that year, they were blessed. It was the mercy of God to ordain His people to offer up sacrifices the moment Moses brought down the two tablets of stone from Mount Sinai. God could be merciful and forgive all their sins, but they were still sinners and needed to offer up sacrifices repeatedly. This is what mercy could do...

In the dispensation of grace after Jesus had died on the cross and resurrected on the third day of His death, His shed blood and His finished work at the cross had turn God's favor into GRACE and God's mercy into RIGHTEOUSNESS! After the cross, we do not have to do anything to deserve His grace. 

2 Timothy 1:9 ~ Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, 

While we were still sinners, His grace was there waiting for us. We did not do anything good to deserve God's favor to be saved. We were all saved by GRACE through faith. When sin abounded, grace much more abounded! That is why we needed these extra words of “unearned, undeserved, and unmerited” to be added in front the word "favor" in order to define His GRACE. His GRACE is unearned, undeserved, and unmerited favor from God!

Likewise, when we received Jesus as your Savior, Father God not only had mercy on us by forgave ALL our sins, and because of Jesus' shed blood and His finished work at the cross, He went beyond the limitation of what mercy can give by giving us Jesus’ righteousness and consequently, made us a righteous man! We can now come boldly unto His throne because He did not just give us mercy, He added on to His mercy and gave us Jesus' RIGHTEOUSNESS! Oh Hallelujah...! What a finished work that our Lord Jesus Christ had done! Indeed, the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ speaks better thing! Wow...!!!!

We are all made righteous by faith not by work. If you understand this truth, you will not ask for favor and mercy anymore but instead, you will be wise enough to ask for the abundance provision of grace and the gift of His righteousness. 

Romans 5:17 ~ For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

Do not settle for the things that we deserve. This is the mentality of a servant. In the dispensation of grace, we are all called the sons of God and we have the best. So receive the abundance provision of grace and the gift of His righteousness and you will reign in life!

Let There Be Light

Recently the Lord brought me back to the very first chapter of the Book of Genesis where He began to show me yet another precious revelation that I could never comprehended before. 

In the third verse of the first chapter, God said:  “Let there be light!”  And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided between the light and the darkness. And God called the light, Day. And He called the darkness, Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 

We all know that God used His Word to create this universe and His Word is light. I never really noticed that there were no sun and moon yet on the first day of God’s creation. The sun and moon only came to existence on the 4th day of God’s creation. But in God’s prospective, the sun and moon already existed in and between these three days. This could be the reason why He declared the light, day, the darkness, night and the evening and the morning in the first day. 

From here, I began to understand that the Word of God is the source of life and is brighter than the sun. That is why in Psalm chapter 36 verse 9, the Bible says:  “For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we shall see light.” 

With this Light shining into my heart, the Lord began to connect chapters and verses to show me His revelation. WOW... in Your light, I see light!

If ever you have heard God speak to your need or situation and you are yet to see the manifestation, you can rest assured that the promises shall come to pass! I am telling you this because our God is faithful and just. From the very first book and chapter of the Book of Genesis, when He spoke in the 3rd verse, the sun and moon only came into existence in the 14th verse. Therefore, I hereby submit to you that every one of us who are yet to see the promises of God come to pass are actually stuck in between the first day and the fourth days of creation or the 3rd verse and the 14th verse of chapter one of the Book of Genesis. Bearing in mind that, the work of God from the second day to the fourth day did not involved man. It was all by His speaking. It was all by His grace… not human effort. After He had created everything on earth, He then created man… and that was on the sixth day of God’s creation.

Therefore, in this dispensation, unless we are good listeners of the Word of CHRIST, which is the Gospel, we can never understand what the grace of God is about. We will always be struggling with our own religious mind through our performance to gain favor from God. Our human mind can never comprehend what the grace of God is. Even though some “elderly” Pastors or Pastors with “big name” have given their definitions on the grace of God, those definitions can never satisfy our heart but our logical mind because they are from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. We need the Holy Spirit to reveal to us the grace of God.  As Apostle Paul was saying, he received the revelation of God’s grace from the Lord not man.

For those believers who have been enlightened by His grace, these are the good listeners of the Word of Christ. They listen to the messages that expound only on the Finished Work of Christ. They hear about His grace, His Favor, His Holiness, His Forgiveness, His Righteousness, His Redemption, His Salvation and all His goodness. They are not self centered...

The Word of Christ is the word from the resurrected Jesus and always speaks of what He had done for us at the Cross. Because of what He had done at the cross, we who are the redeemed, are now holy, righteous, justified, healthy, prosperous, anointed and full of wisdom. But most of us do not see this in our life and we find it hard to believe. Whenever we look at ourselves, we will think that we are still sinful, unrighteous, sick, poor and helpless… This kind of mentality is earth bound and we are actually stuck in between verse 3 and verse 14 of first chapter of the Book of Genesis. Whenever we engage our logical mind, we will be stuck in between these verses.

The Word of Christ had declared that we are now holy, righteous, justified, healthy, prosperous, anointed and full of wisdom. As far as God is concerned, He see us holy, righteous, justified, healthy, prosperous, anointed and full of wisdom. As He is, so are we in this world! 

We have to believe in the Word of Christ and the sun and moon will come into existent! The moment we engage our heart to receive this revelation, our faith manifest because we are focusing on grace, the unearned, undeserved and unmerited favor of God. When we see His grace, He see our faith, and the “sun” and the “moon” will manifest!

My friend, I encourage you to listen to the Word of Christ. Listen to the Good News, listen to the Gospel, and listen to what He says about you. Because of His grace, whenever you receive a word for your situation in life, you can rest assured that the manifestation is coming your way. Not because you are good but because He is faithful. That is why faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ… and the Gospel of Christ is the Word of Christ and is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes. In this Gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith and the just shall live by faith. 

We are now in the dispensation of Grace; we are the "just" and we are to live by faith not by sight. When we live by faith (faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen), we are looking at the manifestation of the fourth day and we are not stuck in between verse 3 and verse 14!

So, let there be light…! And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good... and the "just" say, "Amen!"

See The World Through His Heart

See the world through His heart… what a blog title! This blog was started because of  the Mango Cheese Cake made by my wife. I could still recall that moment while I was enjoying my Mango Cheese Cake, the Lord spoke in my heart with the verse from Mark chapter 16 verse 15:  And He said to them, Go into all the world, proclaim the gospel to all the creation. While looking at the pieces of MANGO slices in the cake, my heart connected with His prompting as MANGO..., "MEN GO" into all the world, proclaim the gospel to all the creation...! My first blog post was the picture of that Mango Cheese Cake made by my wife Penny, and I called that Mango Cheese Cake an Evangelistic Cake. 

As I walk and grow in the Lord through this blog, I was amazed to realize that as I learnt to see this world through His heart, I started to see thing the way He see and the whole Bible become real and alive…. So with this insight of the function of our heart and seeing thing through His heart, I recompile and post this revelation under the title of  "SEE THE WORLD THROUGH HIS HEART".

I have been wondering and asking the Lord why is that some believers who have tasted His grace and still shy away from Him after a short period of time… With this question, He is not slow in revealing the answer to me. To my surprise, His answer has become a series of my preaching in 3 separate sessions.

Ever since He started to reveal His answer, He has been showing me the biblical truth in respect of our mind and our heart.

Way back in the Garden of Eden, we could find the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. In the wilderness, we could see the Israelites asking for the two tablets of Stones even though they had the leading of the Lord. Even in this dispensation of grace ever since the resurrection of our Lord, we, the believer, the temple of the Holy Spirit, have been using our mind instead of our heart.

The Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, two tablets of Stone and our mind have the same characteristic, whereas the Tree of Life, the Lord’s leading and our heart are of the same characteristic. With the help from the structure of the tabernacle, we can actually see the picture of the two Trees at the outer court, the two tablets of Stone and God’s leading at the inner court and our mind and heart as the Holy of Holies.

In the outer court, Adam and Eve had chosen the wrong Tree and were driven out of the Garden. In the wilderness, the Israelites had chosen the two Tablets and they took forty years to complete an eleven days journey. My oh my… in this dispensation of grace, believers are using their mind, intellect, and their head knowledge to walk with the Lord. These three eras shared the same consequences which gave birth to human religions…

2 Timothy 1:9 -10 ~ who has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

It is NOT only those who preach GRACE is under GRACE... GRACE is not for Christians only, but as long as you are a human being, you are under His GRACE. As long as you are born after the death of Christ, you are under this Grace Dispensation! Believers of Christ are no more under law but under grace. Believer did not invite Moses into their heart to be their Saviour... Believer has invited Jesus into their heart, and Jesus is their Saviour. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time...!

From the picture of the tabernacle, we could understand that Jesus’ death had already positioned us in the Holy of Holies where we can freely commune with Father God. The problem with many believers is that, we are using our mind, intellect, and our head knowledge to dwell in the Holy of Holies. As a result, we are moving the furnitures that are supposed to be in the inner court into the Holy of Holies. We are practising the rituals of the inner court in the Holy of Holies. We are still abiding to the law even though we are now in the dispensation of grace.

Because of these reasons, the Lord pointed me to a verse in Philippians chapter 3 and reminded me to watch out for dogs. Yes..., He meant dogs… dogs that bark, and there are two dogs!

Philippians 3:2 ~ Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh.

Although the Lord had used this verse to speak to me before and warn me to be aware of those who used the Law to bind believers, but He regards that incident as in the outer court when I was still in “Babylon”. He wanted me to look at this verse again from a different point of view in the Holy of Holies.

I then realized that He was referring these dogs as our brain. Our brain has the shape of the two tablets of Stone brought down by Moses from Mount Sinai. Our brain is the storehouse of our memories, rules and regulation, our intellect and etc… Our desire to work and to abide the law is from our brain. Our brain is also our religion stronghold. Our brain barks at us whenever we made mistake… and we might consider this as self checking. Our brain pushes us to do well… Accuse us of our failures… condemn us of our pass mistakes, sins, failures… and even condemn others! Our brain is actually the shadow of the two tablets of Stones. Our brain is also the shadow of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

If we associate our intellect with what Apostle Paul called flesh, we will have a better understanding on what Paul meant by living according to the sinful nature and according to Spirit.

Romans 8:1 ~ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh (using their intellect), but according to the Spirit (using their heart).

We are under the dispensation of GRACE. We are already in the Holy of Holies. We cannot use our intellect anymore; we have to use our heart…Or else, we can never walk in His grace and we can never walk with Him. Grace is not in line with our logical mind. We need the Holy Spirit to reveal His grace to us. Can you still remember the moment when you decided to put your faith in Our Lord Jesus, you invited Him into your heart...!? From that moment onwards, He has given you His own heart and His heart is the way of grace.

In respect of the revelation on our hearts that He has given me, the Lord used the Chinese’s writing character of  LOVE （爱） to show me His heart.

In the old way (I see it as Old Covenant) of writing this character of LOVE (愛), there is a heart （心）in it… But in the new way (I see it as New Covenant) of writing LOVE（爱), it is without a heart （心). This is the question I have been asking the Lord for a long time; and He answered my question with a revelation of His heart.  

Matthew 22:37 ~  Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

In respect of the Old Covenant writing on LOVE (愛), The Lord said we have to use our own heart to love God… that is why there is a heart（心）in the old writing. But for the New, He said He had already help us to love God with all His heart and with all His soul, and with all His mind. We cannot find the heart in the new way of writing (New Covenant) because He has given us His own heart.

Ezekiel 11:19 ~ I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. 

Our heart that is now beating is the heart from our Lord. By the grace of God, He has given us His own heart for us to believe in Him. It was this heart that healed the sick. It was this heart that casted out demons.  It was this heart that feed the multitudes. It was this heart that sympathized our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. It was this heart that accomplished all the written code of the Ten Commandments. It was this willing heart that sent Him to the cross. 

It is this heart that understands the grace of God. It is this heart that understands the will of God. It is this heart that is full of love and compassion. It is this heart that Jesus has given us. He has given us a new heart…. In this mortal body of ours, only our hearts are new and living. With this statement from the Lord, He led me to a deeper understanding on what the Bible meant by "Do not walk in flesh but walk in the Spirit".

Our mortal bodies are subject to death. Apostle Paul was actually struggling in Roman chapter 7 and his struggle ended with him asking WHO would rescue him from this body of death not how or what he could do. He did not ask HOW but WHO. By asking WHO, the WHO, Who is always faithful, revealed to him that there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.  The Who did not revealed to him that he must repent… The Who revealed to him that there is now no condemnation. Who would have known that Paul condemned himself because of the tenth commandment which was nailing his innermost being? It was the dogs (his brain) barking at him... The 1st to the 9th commandments are of external behavior, while the 10th deals with the hearts of men.

From here, the Lord asked me to add the word “brain” in bracket after the flesh and the word “heart” in bracket after the Spirit.

In the Garden of Eden, the eyes of Adam and Eve were opened. Their minds were activated by the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. When their minds were activated, they started to see their nakedness. They started to see their lack and fear came into them.

On the road to Emmaus, the couple by the name of Cleopas, ate the bread broken by the Lord and their eyes were opened too, but they see the Lord and their heart was burning. The Lord said "Shalom...!"

Romans  8:1 ~ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh (our brains) , but according to the Spirit (our hearts).

The revelation from the Lord at this point of time becomes very clear and easy to understand. If we walk according to our flesh (using our brains) condemnation will come! Remember the Lord reminded us to beware of dogs? Our brains are the shadow of the two tablets of Stone and they bark at us when we fall short. If we walk according to the Spirit (using our heart), there will be no condemnation. It is so clear that under the dispensation of grace, we cannot use our brains anymore. To walk in flesh (to use our brains) is death; to walk in the Spirit (to use our hearts) is life. After all, when we put our faith in the Lord, we never invited Him into our brains but into our hearts.

Our whole body is death… there is no life. In this resurrected body, only our hearts are new and are from the Lord. But the hope is found in Romans 8 verse 11 where we can find the Trinity God appears together in one verse…

Romans 8:11 ~  But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you (our heart), He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you (our heart).

Oh Hallelujah! The power that gives life to our mortal bodies is in our hearts! He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to our mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in our heart. It is all by grace through faith, not of us; grace and faith are gifts from God not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

We can do nothing. We are human being not human doing. We don’t do good deed to become a believer but as a believer, we produce good deeds. The Lord did not ask us to do anything. He said He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to our mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in our heart. Being in Christ alone, is already doing our good work because we are His workmanship, created in Him to produce good work...!

Proverbs 4

20: My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

21: Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;

22: For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.

23: Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.

Proverbs 4

20: My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

-             Romans 10:17 ~ Then faith is of hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ.

We can only listen to the preaching of the Gospel of Grace. Let His living water washes our feet day in day out. This Gospel of Grace will point us to see Jesus and His finished work. We are then transformed from glory to glory by beholding our wonderful Lord Christ Jesus. We can do nothing but give attention to His words; incline our ear to His sayings. Let His living water washes our feet...; It is finished,,,!

21: Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;

-             On the road to Emmaus, Jesus expounded the Word from Moses to the Prophets things concerning Himself, He broke bread and their eyes were opened to see Jesus and their heart was burning.

When we read the Word be it Old and New Testaments, we must find out the Spirit of Jesus. Where the Spirit is, there is freedom.

22: For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.

-             Romans 8:11 ~ But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.

He has given us His own heart. That is the fountain of life, the abundant life that He has promised.

23: Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.

-             Matthew 12:35 ~ A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings out good things; and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings out evil things.

A verse before this is “Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” His definition of good and evil is : When you trust in His grace that is good. If you trust in your performance by abiding the law, He calls that evil. There is nothing good coming out from our performance through obeying the Ten Commandment because a man of sinful nature can never abide to the holy standard of the commandments.

Coma patients have non-functioning brains yet as long as their hearts are still beating, they are considered alive.  Heart Attack patients are dead because their hearts stopped beating... Patients suffering from Heart Attack are certified dead once their hearts have stopped beating...and Heart Attack is caused by stress and the root of that lethal stress is from our mind...

Matthew 6:34 ~ Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow; for tomorrow shall be anxious for its own things. Sufficient to the day is the evil of it.

Faith is to depend on Jesus' performance while work is to depend on our own performance. The Lord said, "It is finished...!" It had all been taken care of... It had all been done by our Lord Jesus... ! Go now, and preach this God's news, i.e. the Gospel, the too good to be true news. Go into all the world, proclaim the gospel to all the creation... and see the world through the heart that He has given you.

He Had Given Us His Heart

This post is the continuation of my previous post entitled  His Heart ~ The Way of Grace. In respect of the revelation on our hearts that He has given me, the Lord used the Chinese’s writing character of LOVE （爱） to show me how He has given us His own heart.

In the old way (I see it as Old Covenant) of writing this character of LOVE (愛), there is a heart （心）in it… But in the new way (I see it as New Covenant) of writing LOVE（爱), it is without a heart （心). This is the question I have been asking the Lord for a long time; and He answered my question with a revelation of His heart.

   Old Way of Writing "LOVE"            

New Way Of Writing "LOVE"

Matthew 22:37 ~  Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

In respect of the Old Covenant writing on LOVE (愛), The Lord said we have to use our own heart to love God… that is why there is a heart（心）in the old writing. But for the New, He said He had already help us to love God with all His heart and with all His soul, and with all His mind. We cannot find the heart in the new way of writing (New Covenant) because He has given us His own heart.

Ezekiel 11:19 ~ I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. 

Our heart that is now beating is the heart from our Lord. By the grace of God, He has given us His own heart for us to believe in Him. It was this heart that healed the sick. It was this heart that casted out demons.  It was this heart that feed the multitudes. It was this heart that sympathized our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. It was this heart that accomplished all the written code of the Ten Commandments. It was this willing heart that sent Him to the cross. 

It is this heart that understands the grace of God. It is this heart that understands the will of God. It is this heart that is full of love and compassion. It is this heart that Jesus has given us. He has given us a new heart…. In this mortal body of ours, only our hearts are new and living. With this statement from the Lord, He led me to a deeper understanding on what the Bible meant by "Do not walk in flesh but walk in the Spirit".

..... to be continue

His Heart For You Is Revealed In Joseph's Story

Pastor Joseph Prince

We Ain't Heavy, He Is Our Brother!

Pastor Joseph Prince

It is not a question of "Are you worthy?"... It is a question of "Is He worthy"...!?

PASSWORD

I sent my home modem to the authorized dealer for servicing this afternoon … and when I reached my office, I got a call from the Technician informing me that this modem needed to be reprogrammed. He was asking for my Streamyx (Broadband Service Provider) password…. and my oh my… how could I remember this password? This password was used only in installation and I was not familiar with it... I started to scan my memories, trying to recall this password… then I realized that for the pass twenty years, I have “owned” for myself quite a number of passwords…

Have you ever think of this question…?

How many passwords do you have?

As for me, I have three passwords in my work place. One for my PC, one for my Lotus Note and the other one for SAP system. I have been bucking by these three systems regularly to change my passwords every now and then. At times, I find myself running out of password to use...

Apart from my workplace, I have passwords for my mobile phone, my iTune account, bank accounts, internet banking accounts, e mail accounts, Streamyx (Broadband Service Provider) account, facebook account, Podbean account, Blog accounts，home WiFi access and the security system in my house!

When I was thinking “hard” for this long forgotten password, my office mail suddenly popped up…! “PASSWORD!”... It was a mail from my IT Department asking for my passwords to my PC and Lotus Note so that they can configure my new PC…! Wow… PASSWORD again…! What a "God incidence" moment…! Yahoo… New computer for me? At the most undeserved moment? (Actually I was in the midst of my flustration... struggling to recover that password... Can somebody tell me... is this not GRACE?)

In a flick of a second, I was prompted by the Spirit to realize that our Lord Jesus through His perfect work at the cross had torn down every single password that had been set up by religions for man to reach God. Because of His love, He lavished His grace, the unearned, undeserved and unmerited favour to us at the cross… and whoever believe in His Son shall not perish but have eternal life. The password to this salvation is to “BELIEVE”! To BELIEVE in the One He had sent...

In today’s IT world, whenever we clock in to our office for work, we must first log in to our PC with our password... So, are you serious to work for God? If you are really serious, you must also log in with your password too… The password to His work is also to “BELIEVE”!

John 6:28 ~ Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"

John 6:29 ~ Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to BELIEVE in the one he has sent."

With this revelation, my heart was warm, and suddenly came with an understanding knowledge of this long forgotten password… I rang up the Technician, tell him the password and the rest is history! With this modem being installed back to my home PC, and here I am, publishing this yet another "God incidence" post!

Thank you Jesus!

Whoever Has, More Will Be Given!

If we need to use our intellect to understand everything about what the cross has accomplished for us before we can believe in Him, I can tell you that you can never believe because our intellect can never understand the wisdom of God. But when we choose to believe in our heart and we confess in our mouth that Jesus is Lord, the mystery of the cross started to reveal in our heart. This revelation is given by the Holy Spirit whom the world does not process. The work of Jesus at the cross is the wisdom of God and you need the Holy Spirit to reveal to you this spiritual truth. Thus, to walk with our Lord, we need to use our heart instead of our mind simply because from the beginning, we invited the Holy Spirit to dwell in our heart...!

Therefore, if we are unable to comprehend what His death is for, we can never understand what His resurrection is for. If we cannot comprehend what He had taken away from our life at the Cross, we will never understand what He has given us in our resurrected life. With the help of the Holy Spirit in our heart, we can start to comprehend the purposes of His death and the power of His resurrection because this is the duty (so called) of the Holy Spirit to reveal things concerning Jesus, and to glory Him.

At the cross, Jesus was righteous and holy, and without sin. He chose to identified Himself with sinful man like us by laying down His garments and seamless tunic and bore all our sufferings, curses, sicknesses, depressions, bondages… Through His perfect work at the cross, a divine exchange of status occurred. He had totally taken away all the "bad"  from us and had given us His Shalom peace, blessings, health, freedom, prosperity... Through the cross, He had taken away our SINNER status and had given us His RIGHTEOUS status. We are saved by grace through faith. This faith is now available to each and everyone of us because of His finished work at the cross. Because of His RIGHTEOUS work, we can now have our RIGHTEOUS walk in Him.

Indeed, our Father God is very pleased and proud of what His Son had done for us at the Cross. Our Father God is also very satisfied with what He had taken away from us. If not, Jesus would not have shouted: "It is finished!"

NOW... Father God is also very pleased and proud to see His redeemed one identifying themselves with Christ and acknowledging what He has given them. Most of all, personalizing all these blessings and counting these blessings that He has given us as OURS! For the Bibles says:"For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through Him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God."  We are glorying God when we say amen. Is this not an act of acknowledging and receiving His abundant provision of grace and the gift of His righteousness?

We know deep down inside our heart that we have nothing good if not because of the grace of God... and we are not being self righteous when we humbly acknowledging His grace... When we acknowledge this truth and start receiving His grace and the gift of righteousness, we reign in life and He is glorified… Wow… What a way to live our abundant life and at the same time, glorying Him and boasting in Him!

Mark 4:25 ~ For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”

In the context of this passage, our Lord was talking about the sowing of the Word. Therefore, find out what kind of word are you listening to... Are you listening to the Word of God or the Word of Christ? The word of Christ is the gospel. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of Christ.

The Word of Christ always points you to His Finished Work. His Word always tells you who you are in Christ, what you have in Christ, how secure you are in Christ. When you know what you have in Christ, more will be given. On the other hand, if you do not know what you have, the evil one comes and take away what you are actually have without your knowledge... You are already in Christ... As He is so are you in this world!

Therefore, to acknowledge and personalize His promises and blessings are not pride but humility... It is written: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." Father God is glorify when we acknowledge and personalize the promises and the blessings, for whoever has, to him more will be given!