Greetings from the Philippines! (:
It's so good to be able to use the com again eh?
this is my first time ever since i arrived in Philippines.
God has been so so good.
Today and tmr is our day of rest, Wed we start again.
We're in the island of Cebu now.
Preached the gospel to 24 000 students so far and 17 000 made decisions to trust the Lord. Praise God!
The Lord too has been teaching me many lessons on ministry, calling, spiritual gifts, spiritual battle, evangelism and discipleship. I hope to be able to share em here when i get back.
We arrive back home on 17 Aug.
Thanks for all you who have been praying. (:
We really need ur prayers.
Pls keep Yu Fei in prayer too, as he's down with fever.
Stay strong in the Lord and God bless! :D
Monday, July 27, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Are You Easily Edified?
June 30th, 2009 I don’t know about you, but I sometimes find myself suffering from a sense of over-familiarity with God and the gospel. Reading my Bible doesn’t excite me. Listening to sermons becomes routine. Even worship feels common and mundane. At times like these I crave something new and compelling to jolt me out of my spiritual rut. I figure that if I only had a better devotional book, a more powerful preacher, or a worship band with slightly more musical gifting, then my heart would become responsive again. Sin makes us stupid like that.
Of course, I’m not denying that there are better devotional book or more powerful preachers. We should read great books, not mediocre books. We should look for churches where God’s Word and the gospel are faithfully preached. But I often find myself dissatisfied with truths — however poorly presented — that should thrill me.
“A mature Christian is easily edified.”
Two weeks ago I stumbled across that statement by Dr. Harold Best — and it hit too close to home. Easily edified? That doesn’t sound like the Brett Harris I know. To borrow from friend and blogger, Justin Taylor, too often an accurate assessment of my life would reveal that I am easily annoyed, easily irritated, easily impatient, easily hurt, easily angered, easily distracted, easily arrogant, etc. Justin concludes:
Wouldn’t it be great if those who knew us best could honestly say, “It is so easy to edify him. It doesn’t take much. It doesn’t need to be the best sermon ever preached or the most excellent song ever composed or the most powerful book ever written or the most theologically eloquent statement ever uttered. Just the simplest truth was enough to refresh his heart in Christ.”
Not a bad way to pray — for ourselves and for others.
Over the past few months God has been working in my heart to restore a sense of awe and amazement — to ignite the idle sticks of my heart into a roaring blaze — but I am still God’s work in progress. Pray for me, as I pray for all of you, that we would grow together into men and women after God’s own heart.
“In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches. I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word. I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!” — Psalm 119:14-16, 32
Heavenly Father, enlarge our hearts we pray!
I came across this website - www.therebelution.com when i was reading the book "Do Hard Things". I have been blessed many times by the posts in the blog and i pray it will be a blessing to you to. I do desire to share more things about this "Do Hard Things" book that I have read and will be reading again, but maybe another time soon.
This post is just so close to my heart, cos recently, my heart just seems so cold to the things of God. Lord, please revive my heart.
Another interesting website to check out, esp for all teen girls - http://www.therebelution.com/modestysurvey/browse
This website has helped me alot esp with regards to modesty cos modesty is a topic that is not commonly addressed. Many times, its quite awkard to go up to a guy to talk to him about modesty. What he thinks is modest or not and what kind of dressing or posture or attitude or whatever may be a stumbling block to him. I know guys are visual persons and lust is a very real thing they struggle with.
As Christian girls, we should be careful not to cause our brothers in Christ to stumble or sin unnecessarily especially if it has to do with our dressing. Of course, modesty has more to do than the dressing. It's also about the heart. Well, i think that's enough about modesty for now, hmm...i think that's quite an interesting topic and maybe we can do more discussion about that topic in the future. ;)
btw, what's found on the modesty survey website are just views and commements combined from guys all over the world. take it for how much you deem it worth. Let us pray and ask the Lord to teach us and lead us in this area of modesty and staying pure for Christ. :)
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