Sunday, April 11, 2004

-= Easter service revisited =-

A touching 20 mins message revisited by me in the live telecast. I din actually know why my friends cry yesterday night. But somehow after hearing the message again. My heart is stirred. Somehow .. i think i have not liften all my past onto the lord. I am still living in and with my past. I'm not being sentimental. It's just .... i dunnoe

What is the Cross + ??
It is a minus that has become a plus ..
Jesus took the minus in yr life and turn it in to a plus

1) Jesus wants to cancel the pain of yesterday
The no. 1 cause of unhappiness of people is the holding on of the pain in the past

Especially true for me ...

The 2 most common things people hold on in their life
- resentment ( over what others did to us )
-regret ( over what we did to others )
He give u the power to overcome every resentment in yourr life
He released u form the prison of regret.
Stop living the "If only" game. If only things are like this ... if only life is like that.
God has the ability to carry your burdens if you let him do so

2) He wants to cancel the pressure of today
Do u often get tired of the duties u have to fulfill in your life
The reason u r tired is b'cos u cannot live and achieve great things by yr own strength.

[ My own personal opinion : Yes it's not fair to say all great figures achieve great things because the lord is with them. But the point of this is ... the amount of pressure this great people face might be something that we cannot imagine. Or even something that we cannot endure. Maybe u can say if he/she can do it, y can't I ? The fact of what the pastor is trying to say is ... yes u can endure ... but we r not made to endure. How much can u really endure? Where is the limit ? the sky ? Be realistic. A strongheaded belief that yr endurance can last forever is a premature thinking. If that is the case, y r there breakdowns in human beings? Y do some great figures fall ? A penny for your thought if you have any counter-arguments for my opinions. But the fact is we r not made to be superman or supergirl. But to be workers of the lord. To be the sheeps of the shepherd.]

The power that raise Jesus from the dead has the same capability to revive yr current relastionships

3) He wants to cancel the passimism of tomorrow
There are lots of pessimistic feelings in society today. People feel helpless when
The purpose of life and the struggles in life has somehow seem lost.

You can live 40 days without foood
You can live 5 days without water
You can live 8 mins without air
But you cannot live one min without hope
Because the minute you lose hope..
Yr life is nothing but just of existing .. alone

" Though the mountains and hills can topple, my love for you will never be shaken. Nor my covenent of peace will be removed."
Isiah 54:10


"It's not about what u know about god but whether Do u know god."
"He cancel the minus of your sin and turn it to a plus"
"What is sin? Everytime u speak a lie, u sin against god. Even pride and selfishness is sin"
"If u have hands are dirty, you can wash it with Soap. When your heart and soul is dirty, what can you wash it with? It's by the precious blood of Jesus that yr heart n soul is clensed!"

-Quotes from Pastor Kong

Thx Great Teacher

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