I felt really uplifted at this week's tuesday because i was encouraged!! yea, by some words spoken prophetically thru prayer group time and one of the leaders. 'bout moi. yea lil' ol' moi. see, often we see ourselves as soo little...we don't think we're significant...but yea the cliche "God knows me" is said and we wonder...how or why or who is God. or why would God "know me".
That remains a mystery....or does it?
Friday, April 18, 2008
expose! (joseph's story)
one of my Bible study lessons i had with one of the
Crusade (Nus and Ntu combined batches. about 3 batches combined)
our group did the study of Joseph.
His brothers did not love him at all. (some because of jealousy, some because of
anger at their father's lack of fairness). But of course, some were good.
That was just the childhood/teenager stage.
Throughout their lives, some were up to, well, a lot of immoral stuff and some had
serious anger issues, due to the same reasons mentioned above and other reasons
(envy of favour from the father, rights).
At the end of Jacob's life, he finally exposed and scolded his sons' wrongdoing
(not all were scolded, some were righteous). And gave them a character summary.
(kinda amusing yet...shocking)
I wonder why Jacob knew everything but didn't talk about it or correct them till
the end.
Crusade (Nus and Ntu combined batches. about 3 batches combined)
our group did the study of Joseph.
His brothers did not love him at all. (some because of jealousy, some because of
anger at their father's lack of fairness). But of course, some were good.
That was just the childhood/teenager stage.
Throughout their lives, some were up to, well, a lot of immoral stuff and some had
serious anger issues, due to the same reasons mentioned above and other reasons
(envy of favour from the father, rights).
At the end of Jacob's life, he finally exposed and scolded his sons' wrongdoing
(not all were scolded, some were righteous). And gave them a character summary.
(kinda amusing yet...shocking)
I wonder why Jacob knew everything but didn't talk about it or correct them till
the end.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
the tears he sees
.... (oopz warning...another un-lighthearted post ahead)
"When you were under the fig tree I saw you." John 1:48
This week was somewhat changed by a video i watched. One might think "oh its one of those lame videos on youtube" But no. this was a real one though not from our country. And though i happened to watch it on wednesday by sheer chance because this man out of nowhere (well he was the printer toner changer), was so overwhelmed by this video his friend took of his own country, depicting a scene of well, a mild crime done by a young girl (about 13-14 yrs old) but the group took serious vengeance on her which was way more than "tooth for tooth" for her mild crime.
This was in the man's own country (not here) and there he was exposing his own country. If there was one thing positive and beautiful about the whole thing, it was that this man knew what the group of people did was wrong. And was exposing the sin of his own nation to us from another nation and telling us how sad he felt about his countrymen's violence. He also felt very bad for the poor girl.
I thought about this: why would a person not overwhelmed by grief for his own people and their wrongdoing tell this to someone not in their own country?
"When you were under the fig tree I saw you." John 1:48
This week was somewhat changed by a video i watched. One might think "oh its one of those lame videos on youtube" But no. this was a real one though not from our country. And though i happened to watch it on wednesday by sheer chance because this man out of nowhere (well he was the printer toner changer), was so overwhelmed by this video his friend took of his own country, depicting a scene of well, a mild crime done by a young girl (about 13-14 yrs old) but the group took serious vengeance on her which was way more than "tooth for tooth" for her mild crime.
This was in the man's own country (not here) and there he was exposing his own country. If there was one thing positive and beautiful about the whole thing, it was that this man knew what the group of people did was wrong. And was exposing the sin of his own nation to us from another nation and telling us how sad he felt about his countrymen's violence. He also felt very bad for the poor girl.
I thought about this: why would a person not overwhelmed by grief for his own people and their wrongdoing tell this to someone not in their own country?
Thursday, April 3, 2008
interesting
**this post has been edited and improved as it was first written at a bleak season. the bleak season has since changed to....a lighthearted one so thus the edit**
SOZO, a Christian outreach ministry that particularly ministers to Healing came down to church recently.
And they conducted full day workshops for people from church who signed up for it (like say 200 people). And they didn't charge us for the workshops.
The amazing part was their sensitivity to God's voice. (surprisingly quite accurate)
Like there were cases of people with for example, childhood or teenage issues that did affect them but
they never really really dealt with the issues properly, nor sought help
and some might have even forgot the issue altogether!
But the thing is the issue itself resurfaced in later stages of their lives, like say in dealing with a certain type of people,
they may get more agitated or may get more fearful etc. And people around wonder why on earth this person is
acting this way or simply label them as "always like that" or "he/she's like that one".
For this kind of cases and people and labels, 65% could be because of their parents (can be a mother or a father issue),
siblings, close friends who brought about hurts, rejection, fear, etc. BUT there's still 35% which is their personal choice. I mean come on.....how can issues be 100% due to what happens to us? There's still the Holy Spirit (for Christians) to guide etc.
So if you meet people with "interesting traits" they most likely may have, childhood roots. But i still want to mention the 35% is the individual's choice of how to react to the bad situation.
Had some strange dream i had on fri night about 3 strange life stories of 3 guys (3 different stages in life), oh well....
SOZO, a Christian outreach ministry that particularly ministers to Healing came down to church recently.
And they conducted full day workshops for people from church who signed up for it (like say 200 people). And they didn't charge us for the workshops.
The amazing part was their sensitivity to God's voice. (surprisingly quite accurate)
Like there were cases of people with for example, childhood or teenage issues that did affect them but
they never really really dealt with the issues properly, nor sought help
and some might have even forgot the issue altogether!
But the thing is the issue itself resurfaced in later stages of their lives, like say in dealing with a certain type of people,
they may get more agitated or may get more fearful etc. And people around wonder why on earth this person is
acting this way or simply label them as "always like that" or "he/she's like that one".
For this kind of cases and people and labels, 65% could be because of their parents (can be a mother or a father issue),
siblings, close friends who brought about hurts, rejection, fear, etc. BUT there's still 35% which is their personal choice. I mean come on.....how can issues be 100% due to what happens to us? There's still the Holy Spirit (for Christians) to guide etc.
So if you meet people with "interesting traits" they most likely may have, childhood roots. But i still want to mention the 35% is the individual's choice of how to react to the bad situation.
Had some strange dream i had on fri night about 3 strange life stories of 3 guys (3 different stages in life), oh well....
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