Alerts! Jews were told to evacuate

NSC Israel has warned Jews to evacuate from the list of 40 countries on the newspaper dated Mar 8th. This is the first time the NSC has issued an evacuation order to Jews around the world to leave the country and this time 40 countries. One of the explanations being, US or US-Israel are launching an attack on Iran which will increase terrorist attacks targeted at Jews.  As Jesus has said, there will be rumours of Wars, and here it goes.

Linvoy Primus – A footballer and a Christian!

I have a new found respect for Portsmouth and Linvoy Primus! Read this article from Christianity Magazine UK.

Pre-match prayer meetings, Alpha and community projects are transforming Portsmouth FC. Premiership soccer star Linvoy Primus tells Emma John how faith, football and fame mix.

There’s something strange happening at Portsmouth Football Club, and it’s so extraordinary that everyone in the Premiership – players, fans, managers – knows about it. Pub conversation about Pompey usually revolves around manager Harry Redknapp’s latest signing. Now there’s a new topic, and it’s prayer.

A few months ago, a couple of Christians in the Portsmouth team decided to pray together before each game, huddled in the club’s laundry room. Their numbers grew, and now the Laundry Room Prayer Huddle is general knowledge across the country. It has been mentioned in match reports in almost every single national newspaper. And it hasn’t hurt that in that time, Portsmouth’s performances have lifted them into the top half of the Premiership. Of course, says Portsmouth defender Linvoy Primus, they don’t pray for a victory. “It would be nice if we could pray for a win and God guaranteed it but that’s not the way it works,” he smiles. “We just want to give back to Him the ability he’s given us and ask that He’ll use it to glorify him.”

Sporting glory has become one of the most valuable commodities on the planet. Billion-dollar businesses are sustained by the never-ending global demand for sporting competition. The media obsesses over one man’s ability to kick a football through a pair of posts, or one woman’s ability to hit a tennis ball past her opponent. We make sportsmen and women the darlings of our aspirational culture, feting them with money and fame until their skills themselves become irrelevant, subsumed by their sponsorship deals and their celebrity. In such a world, where do Christians fit?

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Linvoy Primus was 26 when he was bought by Portsmouth, then struggling to stay in the second tier of English football, for a quarter of a million pounds. Primus had spent the previous eight years playing in the lower leagues for Charlton, Barnet and Reading. Both his footballing career and his personal life were unfulfilled. Married, but with problems at home, Primus and his wife were struggling to find genuine friends. Being a footballer, it seemed, made people keen for a piece of him and he didn’t know who he could trust. “In my head, in my heart, there was turmoil,” says Primus. “People said I had it together – I had a lovely wife, two children. I’d think, ‘Yeah, it looks good from the outside but you don’t know what’s going on inside.’ I worried about what was going to happen at the end of my playing contract; that stopped me enjoying the football. I wanted to play well in every game, but I was being lied to by the enemy who told me I was never good enough.”

A couple of his wife’s friends invited Primus and the family to a local service and introduced them to the church. And when Primus decided to commit to Jesus, it didn’t go down well at work. “When I’d first come to the club I wasn’t a Christian, so all the guys knew about me, they knew the way I was. When I first told them I’d found God I got a lot of stick and grief over it. “There was one other Christian player – Darren Moore – and they assumed he had a lot to do with it. Actually, he hadn’t at all.”

The first few months were the hardest. “I had believed up until that point that I wasn’t a bad person. So when I explained to the guys about Jesus, they knew what was going on in my family life, about our problems. And no, I didn’t change dramatically, but I knew something had changed in my heart.” Six months later the situation began to ease and gradually his teammates started turning to him. “Guys started asking for prayer – they wouldn’t ask outright, only on the quiet, for members of their family,” he remembers.

With former player Mick Mellows, Primus prayed for more Christians to come to the club and over the next three years the pair began to see God answering their prayers. Their core of Christian players and staff grew to 13 – they were even able to run an Alpha course. Primus had become a vital member of the side, helping Pompey to win promotion to the Premiership in 2003. By then he was a favourite with the fans who voted him their player of the year. He also scooped the Professional Football Association’s divisional player of the year award – a major honour.

“In general our faith has become respected; no one frowns on us or laughs at us, or considers us a cult. There’s been a really obvious spiritual turnaround at the club. It’s amazing to think that a year ago we wouldn’t have even thought about having prayer before a game.” Primus was careful to respect the manager’s authority, and make sure the timing would not interfere with team preparation. “Now others have joined us, like the kit man and the masseur. Even some of the non- Christian players come in to pray.”

Playing hard on the field has long been linked to playing hard off the field. After all, sport is traditionally a social activity; and it’s not that long since even the nation’s greatest sportsmen could be found doing their pre-match training in the local pub with a fag in hand. Professional sportsmen today are, of course, far more aware of the importance of healthy living. They’re also far better paid than their predecessors, and hedonism and materialism are two very real temptations.
By Emma John.

I thank God for this man who has been a light to his fellow team mates in Portsmouth and to make you known! Should i support Portsmouth now? hick hick.

Wise Words from Bill Piper – John Piper’s father

I love this article, which Pastor John Piper wrote when he found a note while packing his dad who passed away on the 6th March. It is what i seek to live up to in life, and may i not lose focus on the finishing line and on God.

1. The right road always leads to the right place; therefore, get on the right road and go as far as you can on it.

My father was totally persuaded that wrong means do not lead to right ends. Or, more positively, he was persuaded that living in the right way—that is, doing the right things—are means that inevitably lead to where God wants us to be. This is why he told me, when I asked about God’s leading in my life, “Son, keep the room clean where you are, and in God’s time, the door to the next room will open.”

2. There is only one thing to do about anything; that is the right thing. Do right.

This is what one might say to a person perplexed by a difficult situation whose outcome is unknown. The person might say, “I just don’t know what to do about this.” It is not useless to be told: Do the right thing. That may not tell you exactly which good thing to do, but it does clear the air and rule out a few dozen bad ideas.

3. Happiness is not found by looking for it. You stumble over happiness on the road to duty.

My, my, my. How was John Piper born from this? I would never say this. The main reason is that the Bible commands us to pursue our joy repeatedly. “Rejoice in the Lord, and again I say rejoice.” “Delight yourself in the Lord.” I think what he meant was: 1) Joy is always in something. Joy itself is not the something. So we seek joy in Christ. Not just joy in general. 2) When duty is hard and we do not feel joy in doing it, we should still do it, and pray that in the doing it the joy would be given. But what we need to make plain is that duty cannot be contrasted with joy, because joy is a biblical duty.

4. The door to success swings on the hinges of opposition.

Remarkably, this saying implies that opposition is not just a natural accompaniment or antecedent of success, but that it is a means by which the door opens. One can think of many biblical examples. The opposition of Joseph’s brothers opened the door to his leadership in Egypt. The taxing of the empire opened the door to getting the Messiah born in Bethlehem, not Nazareth, and thus fulfilling prophecy. The betrayal of Judas opened the door to the salvation of the world.

5. God in the right place in my life fixes every other relationship of life (Matthew 6:33).

I wonder if this was tucked away in my mind so that unknown to me it controlled my analogy of the solar system to our many-faceted lives. If God is the blazing center of the solar system of our lives, then all the planets will be held in their proper orbit. But if not, everything goes awry.

6. It is never right to get the right thing in the wrong way—like good grades, wealth, power, position. Don’t sacrifice your principles.

Again, he hammers away at don’t use bad means for good ends. Be a principled, not a pragmatic, person. O how we need to hear this today. Churches need to be principled, not endlessly adapting to culture. Persons need to make a promise and keep it no matter how much it hurts.

7. It is a sin to do less than your best. It is wrong to do [merely] well.

“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might” (Ecclesiastes 9:10 ). But be careful. Sometimes the “best” is a B+ sermon and spending time with your child. In other words, “best” always involves more decisions than the one you are making at the moment. That one means many other things are being left undone. So “best” is always the whole thing, not just the detail of the moment.

8. It is wrong to be yoked to one who refuses the yoke of Christ.

Don’t marry an unbeliever (1 Corinthians 7:39). Not all relationships with unbelievers are ruled out. Otherwise we could not obey Jesus’ command to love them and bless them. But “yoke” implies a connectedness that either governs where we go or constrains where they go. And you cannot constrain faith in Jesus. It is free.

9. The part of your character that is deficient is the part that needs attention.

This is the counterpoint to the advice: Go with your strengths. There is truth in both. Yes, be encouraged by every evidence of God’s grace in your life, and use your gifts and graces for his glory. But you will become smug and vain if you do not keep your deficiencies before you and work on them.

10. Don’t quit. Finish the job. God can’t use a quitter.

Warning: “He who endures to the end will be saved” (Mark 13:13). Promise: “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6).

11. Anything you do that hinders your progress for God is wrong.

O how thankful I am that this was the dominant way my father pressed me to pursue my sanctification. He did not mainly impose lists of don’ts on me, though we had them. And they were clear. Mainly he said: Maximize your progress in knowing and serving God. That ruled out a hundred foolish behaviors, some bad and some uselessly innocent.

12. Beware of any society in which you feel compelled to put a bushel over your testimony.

This implies that you can go into a group of people who are evil if you are willing to open your mouth and take a stand for Jesus and righteousness. Nevertheless, 1 Corinthians 15:33 stands: “Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good morals.’”

13. It isn’t enough to be good. Be good for something. The essence of Christianity is not a passionless purity.

This is what I have meant in talking about a merely avoidance ethic. Don’t just think of righteousness or holiness in terms of what you avoid, but what you do. As my father said in another place: Don’t be a don’ter; be a doer.

14. Positive living produces negative effect[s].

This is wise counsel that affirmation of the good always implies negation of the bad. If you think you can live your life without negating anything, you have lost touch with reality. “Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good” (Romans 12:9). You cannot love without hating what hurts the beloved.

15. Learn to be sweetly firm.

This was what he said to my mother over the phone when she was exasperated with her one disobedient son: Be sweet and firm. I think she succeeded.

Taken from Desiring God Newsletter @ Desiringgod.org.

It is so hard to live right, where sometimes i feel the heat, and the feet dragged as if they were made of pure lead, and every steps an colossal effort, carrying the weight of the world responsibilities, fighting against the evil within, desperately searching for a trace of faith which i can cling on to, hoping Jesus was there because in His presence, there is a gentleness that soothes like a healing balm, a refreshing scent of the roses, and all that wearies, wearies no more. God help me to apply late pastor Bill’s wisdom and live with one single desire – to love you with all my heart, soul and mind, and stand for what’s right. Take one thing at a time, work, finances, etc, one thing at a time with God.

Ain’t monks cute?

Ain’t these Carthusian Monks cute???? Are we suppose to be monkish in order to look ‘holy’? What’s wisdom and holiness?

Mercy’s in Hawaii

Mercy’s away in Hawaii and I miss her! Oh well, i am glad she had this chance to relax and get away after working so hard. All these talks of Hawaii made me wish i was elsewhere and not in Singapore.

Where my ministry is going…

For so many years, i choose not to commit into a ministry because i do not want to do something which i am not called to in the first place, and just waiting for God to show me where i will serve, and until recently, Mercy, whom God has put in my life, and has been a great source of encouragement, and she really does push me in my walk with God says….

I am called to the mission field, to teach and equip people for the Lord.

I wonder am i? I know when i was in india for mission trip, my heart cried when i saw the multitude, and my heart still burns to teach His Precepts and His Words, to present a message of grace and mercy and of love to those who has no hope, no love, and in bondage. I am starting to write my novel (although it is slow moving, but i am making progress) which its main theme is about a boy who died without knowing God despite being surrounded by Christians. I am surrounded by non christians constantly and yet, why is my heart not burdened to tell them about God? Is this coldness a deadly disease that strikes in my spiritual indifference, it terrifies me! Lord, let it be null and let me burn. My heart that the short story will put the passion of telling someone, at least one a day about Jesus, that there won’t be another Joe in our lives (Joe is the boy in the novel).

Some thoughts of late

During a talk with my beloved Mercy…

The problem with the world is not that we do not have enough love, in fact we have too much love, the problem is that we lack a strong moral guide.

The world today’s is not lacking of love, we have too much. We talked about love for the homosexuals, love for the elderly, love for the sick, love for the cancer patients, love for dogs, love for plants, love for dolphin, etc etc and the list goes on and on and on. However, there is no end to the world’s problems – immorality continues to go skyhigh and even within the Christian community where the last bastion of morality stands, is now tattered and torn. TS once commented, why can’t Christian faith goes hand in hand with theology and experiences, it can’t because one or the other needs to be subjected to a fundamental principle, it is either our christian faith is carried forward with how we feel, or what is laid out in the eternal principles of God’s Words.

We talked about showing love to the homosexuals, and yes we ought to, but does that love compromises the principles in God’s Words that homosexuals will not go to heaven? It is showing love when we point out to them that there is a need to repent and homosexuality is a sin. We cannot outrun God’s Words by flaunting His Grace in the sinful lifestyle. His eternal laws point out our sins, and yet, i thank Him for His Grace, that Jesus died for our sins unconditionally, and there is hope for the homosexuals, repent, and turn away from their lifestyle, and accept Jesus as their saviour, for that all those who call on the name of Jesus will be saved!

I am convinced, that when Christians turn to their experiences, no matter how convincing, how godly, how good it feels, these MUST subject itself to the authority of God’s Words.

Kim Clement’s Prophecy

This is taken from Kim Clement’s prophecy dated: 9th March. Let’s bear in mind the words and be discerning.

The Spirit of God says, “They would say this shall not be done, for this generation has turned away from God. Do not say it cannot be done. Is there anything too hard for the Lord? Tonight, I will take great pleasure in proving Myself. Show Me a problem, and I will solve it. Bring Me a wall, and I will break it down. Build a tower, and I will confound your language. Nothing will stop Me from penetrating into the darkest, darkest regions and hearing the sound of My righteous people.”

“There is a place for you that I have kept for this hour. People don’t even realize what I’m doing and where I’m working. I have not forgotten My promise for this year. There will be three great moments of favor. The month of March, the month of May, and the month of October have been set aside as months of great divine and unique favor for the Body of Christ and the Kingdom of God. This month, I will uncover so many things. This month, I will do things that men never dreamed would happen.”

“This nation shall be brought to a place of great, great honor as the saints of the Most High God have prayed. Take note–this favor that I have granted unto you is yours for the taking. I encourage you to take it with great extravagance. The favor that I speak about shall bring about a speediness and will bring about an acceleration. Did I not promise you that this is the season of multiplication? You can not stop the season from coming upon you. This is the season of multiplication, acceleration and favor.”

A Revolution Far Greater than the Jesus Movement

God said, “I wanted a platform and I found it in Southern California. I wanted to stand, once again, where once many, many years ago, there was a great revolution that took place. In this territory, there was a great movement that came–they called themselves hippies, and the Jesus movement came forth. From this region, many great things happened; many great miracles took place; great Churches were raised up, and many people were reached in the streets. Baptisms of the Spirit took place in the places that they least expected. A spirit of powerful religion grabbed a hold of them.”

“Now the time is right, and the season is right for another revolution far greater than the Jesus movement. Can you not taste that which is in the atmosphere that will breakthrough and reach the unreachable and touch the untouchable? The same ingredients are present that were present in the 60’s.” Now God says, “That is over, and it’s time to bury it. For what’s about to be raised up will be far greater than what took place in the Jesus movement. Get ready, for the Heavens are opened up to make a declaration that this revolution has begun in Southern California.”

God says, “Watch the children, for they will begin to prophesy, and they will have dreams and visions.” God says, “Watch how I take the 8, 9, and 10-year olds and raise them up to be the ones that will speak forth. I will extend the years of the elderly that they may be there to cover the young men and women of this day.”

“Alzheimer’s is being destroyed. The cure for AIDS has already been discovered and about to be released,” says the Lord. “For in this time that the young men and women rise up, they will begin something that will go on and on and on. There will be no end to this that I begin. This that I am speaking about, as it started in Southern California so again, you have been chosen to bring forth this great revival.”

My Prophets will Annihilate the Power of Control

“In the presence of My people, who would handle this great thing? May this announcement be made, ‘I will honor the men of yesterday, the greats that stood the test of time, but died before their time.’ They pioneered a movement,” and yet, God says, “that has now come to an end. The seeds that have been sown have been sown. Religion has once again clothed the Son of Man, endeavoring to place Him before mankind, acceptable. It is now time for Him to arise again, and to come to a generation who are dissatisfied.”

The miraculous intervention of God shall begin in the month of March. God says, “I wish to keep My prophets in the midst of this movement. They will exalt and acknowledge the Church and the governing powers, but yet, they will completely annihilate the power of control–the misrepresentation of the Christ that is about to raise from prisons and go into the depths of sin and despair, and once again, raise up a generation, this time, with no hair. No, it shall not be the hippies,” but God says, “As you know now, you have a strange looking generation upon you, and I love them.”

“Give Me your children. Give Me one child, and I will give you ten thousand swords. Hannah, would you give me a Samuel?” If you would, God says He would annihilate the Eli-controlled priesthood. God says, “Hear My voice one more time, what I shall do, shall bring about dead bones, and I will make them an army–your children, your grandchildren, and those yet unborn inside of you. Every form of spiritual barrenness will now be locked. This that you call a revolution,” says the Lord, “starts with the same words, ‘REV.’ They want revival. A revolution must take place before there is a great revival.”

Kim Clement, 9th March
Email: hope@kimclement.com

Mercy and I

Over the weekend, I’ve proposed to Mercy and she said YES. We went to the first place we had our first date and i popped the question. For the last one year, there was lots of ups and downs, but we made it, because of Jesus, not by our own efforts. We till today, remains very happy despite being poor or rich, nothing will steal our joy in Christ. We got a letter from HDB that our application for a flat is preliminary approved and has been placed in the ‘first timer group’ in the ballot for a place at Bt Merah, and we will know the result in May.

When death visits….

Just got to learn that a former churchmate’s father has passed away, reading from his blog about the thoughts at his dad’s side in the hospital, i began to reflect about life. How the death of a man and the son’s vigil stay by his side is not a picture of hopelessness and despair, knowing that his father is in heaven today with Jesus ought to bring a strange but familiar warmth in our hearts knowing we can face tomorrow because our Jesus lives today. I pray for Melvyn‘s family right now and let the comfort and assurance that the Holy Spirit can bring to overwhelm the family.

The change within

While walking to try out the clothes at Jeanie’s place, i realised one thing, being happy on the inside is what really God meant by Being contented. I can be extremely poor, the poorest of the poor, or extremely rich, richest of the wealthy, it doesn’t matter. What matters is are we contented in Christ, and is Christ where my security lies, and i can really trust Him for my tomorrow. (Really!! – nod nod)

Hearing from God

Surprisingly, i read about this specific article Pastor John Piper read on Christianity Today – My Conversations with God? and now Pastor John sharing his experience when God spoke to him without a shadow of doubt.

Something that Pastor John Piper said ” I grieve at what is being communicated here. The great need of our time is for people to experience the living reality of God by hearing his word personally and transformingly in Scripture. Something is incredibly wrong when the words we hear outside Scripture are more powerful and more affecting to us than the inspired word of God.” is so so so so true. There is a great need to translate the reality of God into our lives, however, it is just wrong when such experience, be it when we call it Rhema word or what, takes the importance away from the Word of God itself – the Scriptures.

I’ve always held to this principle – our first and fundamental foundation is what’s written on the Word of God – the bible, the scriptures. It takes precedence to the extrabiblical revelations, the experience when God spoke to us for these reasons. God will not contradict Himself, how can God tell us one thing but plainly in the scriptures, it is written otherwise? Second, if God were to tell us something, would he trust our hearing without confirmation in His Scriptures? Next time, when we hear a prophecy, a Word of knowledge, or some Words from another preacher, do we take it wholesale or did we check it on the Word?

There is indeed a fine fine line between a truly inspired preaching and one that’s from our own understandings and the Word of God must be our guide, our foundation by which if i were to preach, i preach the Word of God not my own words nor understandings.

No other name but Jesus

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: ‘Rulers and elders of the people! If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. He is ‘ the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.’ Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.’ Acts 4:8-12

Apostle Peter (Whom the Roman Catholic attributed their traditional authority under the order of Peter), in the scripture attributed that ONLY in the Name of Jesus, can salvation be found, and NO OTHER NAME! So why is Mary the co-redemptrix of Salvation? If this is not the doctrine of demons, then i do not know what gospel is this?

It is me!!!

Coolz!!!! Try this if you got a webcam…..

Daniel’s on FIRE!!!!! whew.. human torch!

It is snowing in my office!!!

Simple life

I love this picture, which reminded me of the evening walks I took in Finland. The houses are like that, the streams running along the banks of frozen snow. It exudes the quietness of the evening under the red warm sunlight. I realized suddenly how much i miss those times, the simple life and to one of my favourite passages in the bible.

There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven. – Ecclesiastes 3:1

My heart longs for the quiet intimacy shared in the closed fellowship of my God, the gentle whispers of a friend carried on the strong northern wind, and as the running streams bear the eternity slipping past with minutes too short to spend in conversation with an eternal God. But soon, the time will come, when the Master is calling to arms, picking up that Shield of faith, putting on the breastplate of Christ’s righteousness, the belt of truth, the sandals of peace, and dorning the Helmet of Salvation, and raising that Sword of the Word of God to battle, battle and rallying behind my commander in chief, my Lord, my God – Jesus against the hordes i will stand. That time will come, and i want to make the stand and to be counted for my God. In the meanwhile, let me just bask in stroll of God’s timing.