Praise And Worship

“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” John 4:23-24

“In the day of my trouble I will call to you,

for you will answer me.

Among the gods there is none like you, O Lord;
no deeds can compare with yours.

All the nations you have made

will come and worship before You, O Lord;

they will bring glory to your name.

for you are great and do marvelous deeds;

You alone are God.”

Psalm 86:7-10

I believe that most of you are familiar with this verse when it comes to worship. Well, let me ask you some questions. What does worship mean to you? Does it revolve music alone and how much time you spent in church during worship session? In my opinion, worship is all about the heart which is pleases Him and gives your best to Him for what He has done in our lives. From this statement, we can say that worship is more to lifestyle whereby it is what you practiced daily. Thus, a single deed you have done to anyone around you is equivalent to worship regardless of this deed is a big thing or a small thing.
Well, this is just a brief introduction on what is worship is all about. If I want to further elaborate what is worship is all about, it will take more than 2 posts to explain. As we know that, on that very night what we were focusing on is to rededicate our faith to God so that we can stand strong for God and be a living testimony to those who does not know God. Besides that, that night is a night of restoration whereby those who were wounded were healed; those who were dried in the Spirit had been filled up by His living water, those who lost the fire due to various circumstances had been rekindled, those who were lost in their direction had been realigned, etc.
Personally, I can see that God was in the midst of us whereby His presence was very strong and I can see that everyone was putting their heart and soul to worship God. Apart from that, His peace filled everyone’s heart whereby we were too busy on our schedules till we had neglected the goodness of God in our lives. On that very night, what struck me the most on that night whereby every member prayed for one another It touches my heart so much that we are in unity to make CF a place whereby members received edification from their brothers and sisters-in-Christ and a place where our friends who do not know Him received the goodness of God through our love towards others for God is love.
The momentous part was during the candle lighting session. I believe that most of you what does the candle signify. A question that we need to ponder every day is “Are we still keeping the fire going on for God regardless of whether you have a great time with Him and even when you are in your most down moments?” Remember the line we sang on that night? “We want to run to the altar, to catch the fire, to stand in the gap between the living and the dead, give us a heart of compassion, for a world without vision, bringing hope to our land.”So, everyone! Are you ready to stand strong for God and make a difference to our land, UTAR, Kampar?
In conclusion, although we had a great night on that night, what matters the most is on how we react to life with faith or fear, it depends on our focus. I’m learning right now! How about you? =)
Let me end this post with a quote.
“If you keep in tune with Christ, you can sing even in the dark.”

Much Love,
Wendy Lee

Brothers and Sisters,

For those of you who’ve missed the earlier announcement during our weekend Week 12 meeting here it is:

In the New Testament church that was led by the apostles, there were basically three kinds of regular meetings that the believers gathered together to take part in:
1) The breaking of the bread and the wine, to remember the Lord.
2) Prayer meetings and,
3) Meeting together to study the word.

If we accept that searching the Word of God is not a thing that can be separated from any Christian or any Christian community (which is what we are), then we are faced with the realization that just maybe, the word of God has been something that has been neglected?

Of course, you might ask, why do we need to have Bible Study, if we already have Bible study in churches? Here we have maybe 5 reasons:
1) Free from denominational bias?
2) Since all of us will be running and leading it, the responsibility will be a great learning experience, rather than just going to Bible Study to receive and receive.
3) It is an essential form of fellowship (we are a Christian Fellowship!)
4) We are university students!
5) We can invite our friends who are yet to know Christ – this is not an activity under the banner of a “church” – but a friendly group.

Perhaps the most important thing is perhaps that we want to make this into a culture and a way of life rather than a programme that we sort of have to do out of obligation or anything. Read Psalms 119 and see how they long for the word of God! 

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So how do we get started? Here are five questions that have maybe crept up in your mind:

1)      What exactly are we going to study?

2)      How are we going to study?

3)      How often do we study?

4)      Where do we study?

5)      Who will lead these studies?

As a student driven Bible study, this will ALL be up to how God leads us as a group. I will simply be acting as a coordinator, while ANYONE who has the passion and desire can just contact me, and we will talk.

Just email me at ilikesaikang@gmail.com and tell me
1) That you’re interested and
2) What topics you think we should study/what direction do you think we should take and
3) Why you think so.

In a sense, I could’ve just gone out and arrowed people that I would want to join and take responsibility in this, but I felt that it is not right to first do that, because this should be an open invitation for all Christians who want to take up this role in the building of His church here in UTAR and Kampar.

It’s very risky in a sense that maybe nobody will respond (so far, only one brother has expressed commitment) but I believe that the Spirit will lead if it is His will. After all, this is not my work, or your work, or even our work – it is His work.

In Christ alone,
Derk

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom,”

-Paul’s letter to the Colossians.

Fire

10 August 2010

Praise God that Brother Michael William is willing to come to teach us about God's word.. but i think it's more on life application.. I'm amazed by how much He has uses Michael to speak to us.. I believe there are much to reflect on after what he says..

Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction product.

Fire is also an element which can transfer from one to another. Just like human. Are we transferring the Passion that Jesus has taught us to do?  To love the Lord with all our heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves and also to share gospel to the world. Are we doing so? Can we do so?

However, fire can go off when wind element appear, water element appear, or even when there is no oxygen in this world. But the fire we are looking at is fire that is within us. Passion, Love for Christ or maybe towards certain things. Michael says that fire is an element that can go off and also that can continue burning.. It is inconsistent. How to make it consistent?

John 15 : 5 is the answer to it. However, we must always accept the fact that we are weak and therefore are able to fall or tumble.. But are we going to stand again?

Winning UTAR, winning the world or changing the world.. God is moving in it.. But are we moving? are we changing ourselves to try and see like how He sees it? are we using our feet, hand, mouth, ear properly to be able to see Him working in every aspects of our lives and on others?
 


Remain in Him and He in us.