How Beautiful

How beautiful is Your name, O God
How worthy are You, Lord of all creation
A God whom we can call "Abba Father"

Holy & Anointed One
Strong tower
Refuge
Mighty Fortress
Strength
Hiding Place

We exalt Thy name
We worship Thee
How beautiful You are

The Unshakable Kingdom

Got introduced to this new song by Christy Nockels "A Mighty Fortress" some time ago, actually it's in her new album "Life Light Up", which I hope I'll be getting soon since I've already placed my order.

And when I first heard it, oh my goodness, it's as if God's weight of glory just fell on me and consumed me there and then... the line that goes:

"Your Kingdom is unshakable..."

My heart just sank...

and it totally woke me up from the reality that YEAH! I'm part of this unshakable kingdom, and God has made me to be a part of His big plan, He has made everyone on this earth a part of this big big huge mega humongous extraordinary great awesome amazing wonderful beyond words can describe plan that He has.

And just the other day, I was watching the opening of Hillsong Conference that happened in the 1st week of July, and in the final part of that video came this verse:

"Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe. For our God is indeed a consuming fire"
Hebrews 12:28


Again, that reality sank in even more...
Just imagine, how blessed and privileged we are to be part of this... just who are we to be called to this great plan? How unworthy we are...

who are we that God is mindful of us...

But it is God who chooses us first, to savour Him... and if we think that what we are, who we are and what we have right now is it... think again! This is only a small teeny weeny piece of the puzzle...


Break me, Lord!
Shake me once again to the reality of Your great kingdom!
Wonk me out again....

This I pray, Amen!

Let God Reign

Let not the praises of men be in the way between us and the Lord
Do not settle for meeting the expectations of men
But let the peace of the Lord reign over you

Let the Holy Spirit lead you to fullness and completion
Let him lead you to meet the Lord
Do not give up until You come face to face with our eternal God

Let us boast in nothing,
If there is anything we wanna boast about,
Let us boast in Him, Jesus Christ our Lord

Let the peace of God reign over you...
Let it drench all over you...
Soak yourself in it...
For the grace of our Lord is sufficient

it is in giving that we receive

U know how humans have the tendency to gravitate everything towards themselves? Everything becomes about me me me... I don't care about what others feel, as long as I feel good can already, because what's most important is that I feel good.

And it's true, we all are like that! We expect people to listen to us, we expect things to work around us, we wouldn't wanna be inconvenienced, we just wanna receive, receive, receive... we don't go out of our way to help someone anymore, we don't go out of the way to serve anymore, we don't go out of the way for God.

It becomes so natural that sometimes, the conversation u have with another becomes all about u and u just forget to care for that person... because it's all about u! everything becomes about u!! How selfish we can get sometimes.

I'm no exception, because I'm not perfect.

When things start to cloud and fall apart, u realise that HEY! how come i'm feeling so empty and why am i ending up complaining so much? that's cos for the longest time, it has been all about u.

Pray to the Lord, ask Him to fill u with love in ur heart again, pour out that love God put in u to someone else. Try making the conversation u have with the next person about that person, and u will realise it is in giving that u receive...

Amen!

Desperate Cry

My soul cries out desperately to You, O God

If I were a kite and You hold me by the thread
Why have You cut me away from You
And allowed me to fly freely, swayed by the wind, engulfed by the rain

If I were a toddler and You hold me by the hand
Why have You let go of me
And see me tumble and fall

My soul cried out desperately to You
Remembering the times I spent with You on that mountaintop
How close I was to seeing Your Glory
And now You seem so far, so far away

You heard my desperate cry
You couldn't bear to see me in pain anymore

You came back
And You picked me up from where I was
And held me back in Your loving arms


Thank You, Lord

Blood Poured Out

A Holy Week Reflection


How can it be, that You are willing to suffer for a sinner like me?
How can it be, that You are willing to shed Your precious blood for a world (You created) that has turned their backs against You?
How can it be, that You have humbled Yourself, turned into a single cell, to be born out of the womb of a human and walked among your creation, knowing that You mission to come is to die?

Why would anyone do this, knowing that the love You give will not be reciprocated, knowing that You will be betrayed by Your very own creation?


You have forgiven time and again, saved Your creation time and again, yet they keep falling back to their old sinful ways.

You must have been so desperate to the point that the only measure to take is for Your love to be shown in the most extreme way - to be tortured, humiliated, scorned, scourged, detested, mocked at and to die like a criminal.


An unworthy, sinful, ungrateful creation.

Yet, You still poured out Your blood for us unconditionally.

happYness

On a happier note in the midst of all the bad news going on recently... Jesus came to redeem us all!!

happy happy happy! Easter is coming!!

Few things I'm looking forward to:

1. Meeting up with bbff
2. Visit my cutest God-daughter
3. Volunteers' Day
4. EASTER! And Amplify's Easter Lunch!!
(someone think of where to go this year!)
5. iPhone
6. New com in office
7. 1 May long weekend (for once, i don't have to work! yipppeee!!)
8. September trip... highlight of the year!!! YAY!!!

Thank You, Lord!