Friday 29 October 2021

Media as False Prophets

Media as False Prophets

While believers are slamming one another’s pulpit calling out false prophets, I believe that the devil is having a party behind with his demons laughing at our stupidity and our lack of unity.

Because while Christians are still thinking religion and it's inner circle, the devil is thinking about the whole world for his kingdom.

The word ‘false prophets’ in Mark 13:22 also means ‘one who specialises in the art of misimpression.’ Sounds familiar? Just take a look at the world media today.

How can the enemy deceive many at one go, including the elect (believers)? I don’t think it’s as simple as using the pulpit, because that will only deceive a small handful of believers and you know what? Non-believers are NOT there!

For him to deceive the world and many of the believers at one go, perhaps MEDIA is the system of false prophets that he’s using to create misimpression of what truth looks like.

Behold! We need to be spiritually discerned, lean on the Spirit of truth and go after the Good News way more than ever before.

Wednesday 27 October 2021

Confess Your Sin Or Confess Your Righteousness

Confess Your Sin Or Confess Your Righteousness

The traditional belief is to confess your sin and ask for forgiveness. The modern belief is to confess your righteousness if you sin.

Which is correct? Both.
Which is wrong? Both.

Anything taken to the extreme without understanding truths & identity will not yield the right result. Right believing leads to right living.

Therefore, as ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ž๐ฆ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง for all men, so ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ž๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž for all men. - Rom 5:18

Sin leads to condemnation, while Righteousness leads to justification and life ('zoe' - God-kind of life).

The traditional belief is stuck at sin. There is nothing wrong to confess your sin, as you would in any relationship. However, to camp there and to be introspective will lead to condemnation. The devil does not condemn you. Neither does God. Your own heart will do it (1 John 3:19-21). If there is condemnation in your heart, you won't have confidence towards God. And whatever you pray, it won't be done (Mark 11:24; James 1:6-7).

The modern belief is stuck at righteousness, which is not wrong technically. However, it can produce a mindset that undermines repentance, IF the person eventually ignores sin.

๐‚๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐†๐จ๐ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ. God calls a sin a sin. But He also calls you righteous in Christ. So we need to understand the difference between ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.

You confess your condition by acknowledging your mistake/sin.
But you confess your position by acknowledging your identity/righteousness in Christ.

You don't ignore the former, but you don't stay there. Because it will lead to condemnation. You move forward to the latter. That is the true you in Christ. Without believing that you are justified, you have no confidence before God, thus you cannot live the 'zoe'-life of Christ.

Your position will eventually triumph your condition, if you believe it.

Should you confess your sin or confess your righteousness? The answer is "Yes".

Monday 25 October 2021

The Experience Of Healing VS The Truth Of Healing

The Experience Of Healing VS The Truth Of Healing

After ministering many years in the area of divine healing, I saw more healing in the lives of non-believers than believers. That's my experience, but experience is not meant to be our teacher. ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ซ (Jn 16:13; 8:32).

I'm constantly evaluating on healing, and desiring to grow further and deeper in it. I know that there is always more to grow until I represent Christ accurately in this area ----- that means 100% every single time. Apart from that, I will not find any excuse for myself. I will keep going after it.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž, now that ๐ฐ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐, shall we be ๐ฌ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž. - Rom 5:10

The word 'saved' means 'sozo', which includes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wholeness. The word 'much' refers to 'greater quantity' and the word 'more' refers to 'better in comparative'. While we were non-believers, we were made right with God by His death.

Now that we are believers, it should be 'greater' and 'better' than when we were non-believers, when it comes to wholeness because we have the life of Christ aka His resurrection power.

For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, ๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. - Rom 6:5

In other words, ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐›๐ž ๐„๐€๐’๐ˆ๐„๐‘ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ. This is truth, and truth must triumph over our experience.

While healing is meant to be ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ฌ of the Gospel of the Kingdom for the ๐ง๐จ๐ง-๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ (Mark 16:17-18; Acts 1:8), healing (health) is meant to be a daily, continual life for the believers because we are plugged into His life.

If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž to your mortal bodies ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐’๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ. - Rom 8:11

It is supposed to be 'harder' to put life into someone without (aka a non-believer) than to put life into someone who already has (aka a believer).

I suspect that we who minister healing need to renew our mind MORE and EXPECT life to flow way easier into believers than non-believers despite our experiences.

Saturday 23 October 2021

Is Your Confession Above Your Profession?

Was speaking to a buyer halfway when the Holy Spirit spoke to me about his lower spine. Apparently, he had a slipped disc at that area. Ministered healing to him.

Your profession does not have to stop you from your confession of who Christ is in you and who you are in Him. 

If your profession is above your confession, you have merely incorporated Christ into your life.





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Thursday 14 October 2021

Prophecies Between The Old & New

Prophecies Between The Old & New

If we don't understand how biblical prophecies work, we will wonder about them.

In the Old Covenant, the Spirit of God was upon the prophets. He did not abide IN them. So the prophecies were accurate because the prophets only needed to repeat what God said. God's words came from without. Period. And this was the reason why God was strict with the prophets (and would judge them) when it comes to the prophetic words.

In the New Covenant, the Spirit of God is now abiding IN us, because believers are born again. The charismatics like to h̵a̵v̵e̵ ̵d̵i̵f̵f̵e̵r̵e̵n̵t̵i̵a̵t̵e̵d̵ ̵m̵e̵a̵s̵u̵r̵e̵s̵ differentiate between 'upon' and 'in' by playing with words. When you understand the context of what Jesus and the epistles were saying, you will understand that there is only one ------ the Holy Spirit now abides IN you.

As a result, God's words now come from within. He speaks to us from the spirit. Prophecies now have to pass through a person's soul (mind, emotions and will) before it comes out of his body (mouth/tongue).

In other words, a person's soul WILL influence the original prophetic word from God. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐€๐’๐’ ๐“๐‡๐‘๐Ž๐”๐†๐‡ the person's personality, his theological view of God, the unrenewed areas of his mind, his imperfection, etc. ๐๐„๐…๐Ž๐‘๐„ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก. The prophetic word often becomes contaminated by the time it comes out of a modern-day prophet's mouth. 

This is why the New Covenant prophecies are not 100% accurate and God is gracious with that.

To be accurate in releasing prophetic word in the New Covenant, apart from hearing His voice, more importantly, we need to grow in having the right view of God, in mind renewal and in becoming like Christ in every aspect.

Saturday 9 October 2021

7 Steps To Protect Yourself & The People Around You From Kovic

7 Steps To Protect Yourself & The People Around You From Kovic

๐Ÿ) ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐†๐จ๐จ๐ ๐๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐“๐ก๐š๐ง ๐๐š๐ ๐๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ

To renew your mind with absolute truths, you have to choose the Word (Romans 12:2) over the media and above what human experts say.

If reading the media makes you fearful, shut it off. And keep yourself away from it.

๐Ÿ) ๐Š๐ž๐ž๐ฉ ๐Ž๐ง ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐’๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐ž๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ ๐…๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ

The more you focus on His faithfulness in the Word (Rom 10:17), the more you have faith. And faith in Him overcomes the world (1 John 5:4).

๐Ÿ‘) ๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ž๐ฎ๐ญ ๐…๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐๐ฒ ๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ ๐‹๐จ๐ฏ๐ž

You cannot cast out your own fear by casting out fear. You cast your fear by knowing His perfect love (1 John 4:18).

Soak in His love until His love saturates you. If He is for you, who can be against you?

๐Ÿ’) ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ ๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ & ๐๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐ˆ๐ง ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ˆ๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ

Don't shift your stand. Don't budge. Be stubborn. It's called sanctified perseverance.

After you have done all, to stand (Eph 6:10-18).

Nothing can change you if nothing in you changes.

๐Ÿ“) ๐ƒ๐จ ๐€ ๐๐„๐“ ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ ๐Ž๐ฎ๐ญ ๐€๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž

๐rayer: You are not praying to get protection from God. You already have it. You are praying yourself up (Jude 20) so that your protection protects the people around you because you are present. They get healed, protected and made whole because you are there, and they don't even know it.

๐„xhortation: You exhort your soul and body by speaking from your spirit. What do you speak? You speak truths of who Christ is in you and who you are in Christ. You are ONE with Him. Therefore, you are untouchable (1 John 5:18).

๐“rust: After you have prayed and exhorted yourself, you trust Him and stay in perfect peace (Isa 26:3).

๐Ÿ”) ๐๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐

Count it all joy that you are being restricted. You actually have more freedom than you realise. You CHOSE your freedom to stay unvekseenated, while many (not all) are simply being forced into it blindly.

I see it as freedom, because to live is Christ.

Having said that, be prepared to answer people who may really wonder about your decision. Give them the reason for the hope that you have (1 Peter 3:15). For your unwavering stand has actually convicted many without you realising it.

๐Ÿ•) ๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐€๐ซ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ญ ๐€๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ž

If you are unvekseenated, know that you are not alone. Plenty of people all over the world are not vekseenated too. Forget about the naysayers. Don't allow those who do not understand you put more burden on you.

There are many battles in life. Choose the right one to fight. Because you are to run your own unique kingdom race.

Stay connected and be in touch with those who stand with you (Heb 10:25).

Wednesday 6 October 2021

The Faith of God

The Faith of God

Some believe that disbelief and unbelief can stop the power of God from flowing. But it remains an idea and experience that does not match up to the word of God.

What if some were ๐ฎ๐ง๐Ÿ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ? Does their ๐Ÿ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ฒ the ๐Ÿ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, - Romans 3:3-4

While the context is about God's plan of salvation for both Jews and Gentiles, it reveals the nature of God that is consistent throughout the Word.

The word 'unfaithful' is 'disbelief' in the Greek, which is often applied to unbelievers (Mk 16:16; Acts 28:24). The word 'faithlessness' is 'unbelief' in the Greek, which is often applied to those who have wrong beliefs (including believers) (Heb 3:19; Rom 4:20; Matt 17:20) .

The word 'faithfulness' is also 'faith' in the Greek, which also points to the faith of God that God puts in a born-again believer (Rom 12:3). The word 'nullify' means 'to make of no effect'.

If you put them altogether... whether it is disbelief or unbelief (wrong beliefs), whether it is from unbelievers or believers, ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐Ž๐“ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐†๐จ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ง๐จ ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ.

What does it mean when it comes to the salvation of the body aka healing? ๐€๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐†๐จ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐†๐จ๐, NOTHING can stop healing from flowing into unbelievers or believers, regardless of their spirit, mind, soul and issues.

If the healing doesn't take place, God (His healing) is still true, but the minister, technically, becomes a liar. It sounds harsh. But the Word says that God is true though everyone is a liar. Liar... in the sense that we don't fulfill the Word of God, not because we tell a lie.

The Scriptures are so rich as we keep digging and reading them.

P.S: For believers who minister to the sick, the focus is not on the sick, nor questioning their problems. We look to the faithfulness of God so that we walk in the faith of God to deliver the answer to the sick. Someone said, “If the answer is always the same, the questions do not matter.”

Tuesday 5 October 2021

Done, not Do

Done, not Do

Almost all Christians believe that Christianity is 'done'. In other words, they believe that salvation has been purchased for us by Christ on the Cross. We don't earn or work our way to get to God. It is done for us, so that we can be in a relationship with Him.

However, many simply stop short at this truth. Christianity is not just done in the area of salvation. ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐Ž๐๐„ ๐ข๐ง ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐š. Salvation includes spirit, soul (deliverance) and body (healing) by the way. I can pull out plenty of Scriptures to show that it is already done.

The epistles are full of what Christ has already done, not what He is going to do. Apostle Paul was resolved to know Christ and Him crucified (1 Cor 2:2), ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž (2 Peter 1:3) ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐Ž๐๐„.

The moment you think that you need to do in order to get/earn/move God, you fall short of Christianity. I know many charismatic horses like to think that God is going to release this and that, as if Christ has not given. It is not from a biblical perspective. To them, it is not done. But to God, it is DONE.

The instant when you switch from DONE to DO, you miss Christianity at it's core. This is so simple, yet so profound that most of us cannot grasp hold of. We almost keep fluctuating between DONE and DO, which is the reason why we struggle between resting and striving.

It takes effort to enter into that rest (Heb 4:11), because every ounce of our flesh will scream "DO SOMETHING!" But the Spirit says, "It's DONE!"

Your salvation, deliverance, healing, providence, righteousness, peace, joy, etc are all DONE. You are not trying to do something to get it. Christ has already given. You just need to simply believe and receive (Mk 11:24).

My son had been struggling with hair issue since few years back. Whenever he saw a strand of hair, he would feel like vomiting. This is abnormal. I tried all that I could spiritually, but to no avail. Few years back, I even tried the charismatic nonsense inner healing approach (some called it Sozo, but it's actually copied from psychology aka the world's method and re-packaged into the church). Holy Spirit's job is not to trigger past trauma and memories so that the person can be healed. That's not Bible and nowhere be found in the Bible. His job is to bring to your remembrance all truths (Jn 14:26).

We run to extra-biblical stuff because of a lack of truth and power. Myself included in the past. But when I got a revelation of true Christianity aka DONE, I went back to my son and enforced what Christ has done on him.

I laid my hand on his head and shouted, "You, spirit of fear, get out of him! And you are not allowed to return." Immediately, I said to him, "You are free from fear, J. You can touch a strand of hair now. Go, do it!" He went to grab it, look at it, stare at it closely and he's totally fine. He said, "Papa, I don't dare to step on hair when it's wet in the bathroom. Can I try it?" I said, "Go." He did it a few times and he's free from fear. 

When we get hold of the revelation of DONE, everything within you will rise up to defeat every power of the evil ones. You can stop all the nonsense on inner healing and start walking like Jesus did throughout the Gospel because He never ever did a Sozo on someone who needed deliverance.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ž. Period.

Monday 4 October 2021

Well-Doing Requires Patient Endurance

Well-Doing Requires Patient Endurance

It is vital to re-read AND re-read the Bible again and again without being presumptuous that we already knew what was written, even after reading it many times.

The more we read, the more we find consistent connections throughout the Bible because the Scriptures cannot be broken. If our interpretation cannot be linked to another part of the whole, then it is likely incorrect.

The Scriptures, no matter how many parts are taken apart, can still be joined together as one consistent message. That is the beauty of the Word, since Jesus, the Word made flesh, is the same yesterday, today and forever.

This morning, something stood out to me as I re-read Romans.

He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by ๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ-๐๐จ๐ข๐ง๐  seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. - Rom 2:7-8

Well-doing requires patience. The word is actually 'patient endurance' in Greek. '๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ž๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž' appears 7 times in the book of Revelation, because it is the main theme of the book.

You don't just endure in hardships and tribulations. You also endure in doing good. Why is that so? Because it is easier NOT to do good. Impatience is the key to earning mammon in this world.

In the industry that I work in (and I believe it applies to many industries too), it is way easier to take shortcuts to get wealth. Let's face it: Many believers fall into it. And don't be naive and think that leadership (be it political, governmental or religious) is clean and has integrity, whether in Singapore or other countries, whether believers or non-believers.

I have encountered enough to learn. And my wife has reminded me a number of times, "Do not be too trusting. Be as shrewd as serpents.", as she witnessed my various encounters. But we both agree that regardless of these, we just need to endure to do what is right in the eyes of God.

If you are doing good and you find it tiring (because you are still living among the wolves and goats in this world), take heart. For your patient endurance in well-doing will be rewarded in the life to come.

We need to see the end from the beginning by perceiving what God sees. For those who seem to enjoy abundantly right now are perhaps short-sighted, because their end is near. What you and I are experiencing is truly temporal.

We have a more important life after this: To reign with Christ over new cities. You can reign in this life without patient endurance in well-doing, for 80-100 years, but being reigned over in eternity. Or you can endure patiently in well-doing now, and reign over many in eternity.

It depends on which world is more real to you. And it reveals what you really believe.

Saturday 2 October 2021

The Faithfulness of God Draws Faith From You

The Faithfulness of God Draws Faith From You

You cannot produce faith by trying and striving. It is by trusting and resting.

The fruit of the Spirit includes faithfulness, which also means faith (in the Greek). In other words, faith is part of the fruit of the Spirit. It is given to you when you are born again.

More often than not, we like to say, “I don’t have enough faith” or “I need to grow more faith”. By thinking and trying to work on our faith, we stifle the very aspect that we want to walk in.

Your faith is not the issue. You have been given the standard of faith (Rom 12:3), which is why the fruit of the Spirit is in you (Gal 5:22-23). 

Your perspective is the issue. You cannot put faith in your faith. You have to put faith in the Author and the Finisher of faith (Heb 12:2).

Since faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Rom 10:17), each time when you hear the faithfulness of God, faith comes.

In addition to that, the more we experience His faithfulness, the more faith is drawn from within us.

Instead of praying, “Father, grow my faith!”, you say, “Father, I thank You for Your faithfulness. I am going to see Your faithfulness in my health/finances/relationships, etc.”

And you watch how your faith comes as His faithfulness is unveiled to you.