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Brother Ongkie

5 Oct  2008  TBA

12 Oct 2008 LIVING A GOD CENTERED LIFE                 
Ps Gersnon

God has a purpose,  a will and a plan for our lives. God loves you, heals you , protects you and prosper you. All the blessings coming into our lives are a result of God’s will.  Consider your blessings in the center of God’s will. Not our plans but God’s purpose.

In Genesis 12:1-3, we see way God deal with Abraham. Abraham just go out in response to God’s call. Abraham  is focus on God and living in God’s will. God’s will is revealed through Abraham- I will show you, I will bless you, I will make you…..etc

Living a God centered life – means seeking God, asking God, walking with God, abiding in His Word  and His presence and making Him the center of our life. What/Who  is the center of your life – career, husband /wife, money, wealthy father.

There are many distractions in our lives. Just like Eve was tempted by Satan in Gen 3:6 and Joseph was tempted by the flesh. In both cases, we see different results. Joseph was centered on God and  the Holy Spirit counsel him and he did not yield to the temptation.

Godly confidence and self confidence are different in character. Godly confidence means anchoring on  and embracing God’s word and not prideful,  it is a total dependence. Self confidence can at times make a person puff up. In Moses and the twelve spies, we see how the 10 spies were negative- they do not have Godly confidence.

Number 14:8

⁸ If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.

There is  time limit to our physical life, so while we are here, it is worthwhile to consider how we can touch lives and make a difference. We must desire to have the mind of God, that we may understand what God is about to do, to fulfill His purpose.

2^nd Timothy 1:9

⁹who has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

John4:35

³⁵Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

 The Kingdom of God is in the heart of Jesus and His believers.

Kingdom of righteousness

Kingdom of Joy

We belong to the Kingdom of God – a part of the eternal heavenly Kingdom. In Thailand earthly Kingdom – the Thais revered their King- they respect,  and are faithful and loyal to the King. In our spiritual Kingdom- where is our loyalty  to Jesus ?

19 Oct 2008  God’s creative Love                               
Brother Ongkie

Ruth 1:1-5

In our life, we experience difficult problems,  things that we do not deserve, which make us question why God allow bad things to happen, and it makes us bitter. In the same way, ingredients such as flour, oil and egg  taste bad when uncook but when put together, it can become a delicious cake.

God work in the same way, in our difficult times and events, just keep trusting Him because He loves us- he choose to live inside us.

Ruth 4:14-15

¹⁴ The women said to Naomi: "Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! ¹⁵ He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth."

If your heart is still bitter go to the lord’s clinic. As an analogy, a sister went for  checkup for blood pressure and was found to be low in tenderness, with 40deg of anxiety, and arteries were blocked and found to be short sighted – cannot see Jesus and deafness- stop listening to Jesus. So the prescription goes like this—Every morning take a glass of gratitude, when getting to work, take a glass of peace, every hour, take a pill of patience, one cup of brotherhood, one glass of humility, when getting home- one dose of love, and when getting to bed, take capsules of clear conscience.

God loves you  and know how you feel even as  husbands, wives, parents and pastors do not.

26 Oct 2008