Last week, there was an article in the newspaper entitled: "Ah Boy, You Deaf Ah?", mentioning about having youngsters blasting music off their hp or mp3 in public places is on the rise.
Last night I took the MRT home from Genevieve's place and the train carriage was quite vacant. A second later, I heard very loud thumping beats from a distance away. I scanned the area of 2 carriages away from me where the direction of the sound is, but I don't see anybody with a hp blasting music. Everyone around there just look at each other with their earphones in their ears, minding their own things. So you can imagine how loud the music was when the distance was more than 2 carriages away yet I can hear every single lyric clearly. The person could probably be using a N73 or N80?
Putting that aside, I don't mind if the guy is playing some sentimental or nice music where he can share with everyone else. But no, he is blasting off techno! I'm not trying to put down techno-music listeners over here cos I myself also listens to techno. But hey can't these people be more considerate? For me, I seriously dun mind them doing such things in a place where there are only young people, thou it may be a lil' annoying. But considering a public place where there may be elderlys and even foreign visitors, what will they think of these people with their music?
The train carriages were quite vancant, probably that's why the music can be heard so clearly. How I wish there were much more people in the train and all of them will be giving the person the killer-stared look, so that he will learn how to lower down his music and blast it off at the right place at the right time.
But that's all for now folks! God bless him with his music for all things were created by God and we shall treat everyone for whom he/ she is in God.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Delirious?
Had an awesome time during service today with Delirious? leading us in the Praise n Worship. Its really great to have them back. Their songs always touched me in my heart with their lyrics. During the song, "Majesty" I experienced something which I nv experience before in my life; after singing the 1st chorus, I came to a standstill, next I felt it within my face that my spirit is trembling inside. Its a very strong feeling and I can literally saw my spirit being shaken as thou someone is shaking me up, 3 times! And next, tears just flow down my cheeks uncontrollably for the rest of the song. I wonder what's that, self manifestation? Haha... I dunno, but I know its the work of God in me..
Had a great time fellowshipping with the cg after service in Suntec before going for my ministry. Finally able to catch up with the crossroad sequence with the help of practising the drumming sequence in the morning before I left house. After ministry, I'm finally able to play the whole crossroad sequence.. Phew... Praise the Lord
Back to the service, during the offering message, this answer for offering giving suddenly struck me thus I decided to blog it out:
Many times, people are asking me why must the church always ask us to give offerings? Why money? But I do not really know how to explain to them, so now I finally understand it myself.
A: Our purpose in life is to do the calling of God and be more Christlike. By being a giver, we are most like God. Why?
John 3:16 : For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life
Q: But why? Why must it be money and not other things?
A: See that God gave his ONLY begotten Son and this means he gave His most precious. Ever heard of the phrase: "Where your treasure is, your heart is", we believe that this is about the area in our finances. Ain't its true? Be true to yourself, aren't issues related to $$ sensitive to you? When you are buying gifts for friends whom you are not close to, you won't want to spend much on it, but why when it comes to buying gifts for your loved ones, ie: your gf/ bf, it doesn't matter how much it cost, so long he/ she likes it, you will get it for him/ her. Why is this so? Because money is our treasure and we are willing to give it to only those that we truely love.
Thus, that's the reason why we give money as an offering, because this tells God how much we love him, not in terms of the value that we give but how precious the amount is to us and how much of the precious value we are willing to part with, for His sake. This links to the next question.
Q: Sometimes pastor was saying that don't give your loose changes as an offering to God, you can keep it to youself, God doesn't need it. And people are asking me, why is pastor saying that? It seems like our church only want big offerings and not small little coins.
A: Look beyond what pastor is trying to say. Why did he mentioned that you can keep your loose changes and not give it to God as an offering? Because loose changes are of no precious value to you. Ask yourself, when you want to get a gift for your loved ones, will you use what you are leftover with for the week to buy it? No! cos the amount isn't precious to you. So the same applies here. What pst is trying to say is to encourage us to give a precious amount to the Lord, not actual value in terms of a few coins. Even a few coins can be very precious to a person. Why is this so? Look at the next question
Q: If I'm only left with a few coins for the week, and that is all I can give. Will God mind?
A: Luke 21: 1 -4: And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites (2 cents in their era). So He said, "Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance(left overs) have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had."(Precious value)
So like I was saying, God doesn't look at the value, He looks into our heart, how precious the amount is to us. Say for example, 2 people give 10% of their weekly income as an offering. A small little primary school boy only have $4.50 for that week, so he gives 45 cents. For a CEO, he has $1,000 as a weekly income and he give $100 as a weekly offering. Thou the little boy can only afford 45 cents and the CEO gives $100, it seems to be a very big difference but ain't both of them giving the equal sacrifices to God? See what I mean?
Q: But if we keep giving to God, ain't we worried that we do not have enough to spend?
A: Deut 8: 18: And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day
God is the creator of all things, and this includes money. Therefore, we believe that we will never be able to outgive God. We gain faith by hearing and hearing by the word of God. BUT, Faith without action, is DEAD. Thus, by giving, we exercise our faith since we believe that we will never be able to outgive God, thus, we trust in Him in the area of our finances that we will not be in lack. The more you exercise your faith, the greater it grows.
Q: Someone once asked me an interesting question. What if a very very poor man who comes to church but even have problems settling his own meal. Must he still give?
A: This is the only reply I can give: "Let it be done according to your faith"
Had a great time fellowshipping with the cg after service in Suntec before going for my ministry. Finally able to catch up with the crossroad sequence with the help of practising the drumming sequence in the morning before I left house. After ministry, I'm finally able to play the whole crossroad sequence.. Phew... Praise the Lord
Back to the service, during the offering message, this answer for offering giving suddenly struck me thus I decided to blog it out:
Many times, people are asking me why must the church always ask us to give offerings? Why money? But I do not really know how to explain to them, so now I finally understand it myself.
A: Our purpose in life is to do the calling of God and be more Christlike. By being a giver, we are most like God. Why?
John 3:16 : For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life
Q: But why? Why must it be money and not other things?
A: See that God gave his ONLY begotten Son and this means he gave His most precious. Ever heard of the phrase: "Where your treasure is, your heart is", we believe that this is about the area in our finances. Ain't its true? Be true to yourself, aren't issues related to $$ sensitive to you? When you are buying gifts for friends whom you are not close to, you won't want to spend much on it, but why when it comes to buying gifts for your loved ones, ie: your gf/ bf, it doesn't matter how much it cost, so long he/ she likes it, you will get it for him/ her. Why is this so? Because money is our treasure and we are willing to give it to only those that we truely love.
Thus, that's the reason why we give money as an offering, because this tells God how much we love him, not in terms of the value that we give but how precious the amount is to us and how much of the precious value we are willing to part with, for His sake. This links to the next question.
Q: Sometimes pastor was saying that don't give your loose changes as an offering to God, you can keep it to youself, God doesn't need it. And people are asking me, why is pastor saying that? It seems like our church only want big offerings and not small little coins.
A: Look beyond what pastor is trying to say. Why did he mentioned that you can keep your loose changes and not give it to God as an offering? Because loose changes are of no precious value to you. Ask yourself, when you want to get a gift for your loved ones, will you use what you are leftover with for the week to buy it? No! cos the amount isn't precious to you. So the same applies here. What pst is trying to say is to encourage us to give a precious amount to the Lord, not actual value in terms of a few coins. Even a few coins can be very precious to a person. Why is this so? Look at the next question
Q: If I'm only left with a few coins for the week, and that is all I can give. Will God mind?
A: Luke 21: 1 -4: And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites (2 cents in their era). So He said, "Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance(left overs) have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had."(Precious value)
So like I was saying, God doesn't look at the value, He looks into our heart, how precious the amount is to us. Say for example, 2 people give 10% of their weekly income as an offering. A small little primary school boy only have $4.50 for that week, so he gives 45 cents. For a CEO, he has $1,000 as a weekly income and he give $100 as a weekly offering. Thou the little boy can only afford 45 cents and the CEO gives $100, it seems to be a very big difference but ain't both of them giving the equal sacrifices to God? See what I mean?
Q: But if we keep giving to God, ain't we worried that we do not have enough to spend?
A: Deut 8: 18: And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day
God is the creator of all things, and this includes money. Therefore, we believe that we will never be able to outgive God. We gain faith by hearing and hearing by the word of God. BUT, Faith without action, is DEAD. Thus, by giving, we exercise our faith since we believe that we will never be able to outgive God, thus, we trust in Him in the area of our finances that we will not be in lack. The more you exercise your faith, the greater it grows.
Q: Someone once asked me an interesting question. What if a very very poor man who comes to church but even have problems settling his own meal. Must he still give?
A: This is the only reply I can give: "Let it be done according to your faith"
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