Your Expectation

Your Expectation

What you expect is what you believe. And whatever you believe, you receive. (Mk 11:24)

The world tells us "Do not expect this. Do not expect that." This is to prevent disappointment and discouragement.

But the Word tells us that God can do exceedingly abundantly above ALL you ask or think, ACCORDING to His power that is at work WITHIN us. (Eph 3:20)

If it's ACCORDING to what is WITHIN us, it means that you and I play the VITAL role.

When I have seen something happening over and over again, I stop praying, commanding or using words. I start expecting it to take place again and again.

There are certain ailments and sicknesses that I have seen healed over and over again, such that I no longer pray or command for people to be healed. I expect it each time when I see it.

To make it practical and easy for you to understand, I give you an example. If there are uneven legs due to uneven spine, when I lift up the legs, I expect them to straighten up. Without a word spoken, the leg starts moving on it's own; the spine starts straightening by itself.

Because the world outside us responds to the Word within us. Our expectation causes the external to conform to the internal.

The Word doesn't submit to anything or anyone. But everything and everyone must submit to the Word. Because ALL things were created by the Word and for the Word (Col 1:16).

Each time when we EXPECT the outcome, the Word manifests Himself. Your expectation goes way FASTER than the words coming out of your mouth.

Your inspection of the Word must move you on the inside to your expectation of the Word, so that the world outside you will respect what you expect and submit to it in obedience.

Christmas

Christmas

The fear to talk about Jesus in any required situation is not wisdom. Neither is it being sensitive to others.

It is the fear from the pit of hell.

We don't have to talk about Jesus all the time with our lips. But when the situation arises, the fear of God must triumph the fear of men.

The birth of Christ was not on 25th December. It was the birth of the Roman sun god Sol Invictus. It is believed that Constantine later instituted Churchianity and chose 25th December to celebrate Christ, an attempt to co-opt the pagan holiday of Sol Invictus in order to restrict paganism.

Most scholars believe that Christ was born between June and October based on the biblical incidents.

The question is... does it matter?

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. - Romans 14:5

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. - Col 2:16-17

The specific day of Christ's birthday is not significant. What is important is Christ Himself as the True Substance.

Because He was indeed born, crucified, died and rose from the dead to crush the gates of hell and sin, we can now experience true freedom from the inside out and live with a defining purpose.

Christmas is not a Day in life. It is the Way of life.

It is the New and Living Way, because you realise that what you have been living for has been changed 180 degrees so that the Way you value things/people and the Way you see things/people are no longer the same.

On this day, I wish you Christmas ------ may you experience the New and Living Way as your eyes are opened to the Way of Life, Christ Himself as the True Substance.

Singapore - The Weight & The Sin

Singapore - The Weight & The Sin

Every culture is reflected by it's people. The life, health and behaviours of people reflect what is deeper in the Spirit.

Singapore is a first world nation, but in many ways, a third-world spirit. We are rich in many ways, but poor within. The orphan spirit is manifested in so many areas, even in the churchianity.

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. - Heb 12:12-13

This passage has been popping up in my mind and spirit several times and it points to the reality of our nation --- Singapore.

The context of this begins with, "...let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely..." - Heb 12:1

The result of weight ('burden' in Greek) and sin is weak hands and feeble knees (Ezekiel 21:6-7). What is physical is simply a reflection of the spiritual.

People in Singapore struggle with feeble knees and weak hands. If you have seen people in various countries, you will know that this is not exactly the norm, especially among middle-aged people. We are not even talking about the aged.

The unhealthy burden/weight (bondage) in this country is likened to that of the land of Egypt, and the sin like that of Babylon. It's not going to be resolved just by dieting, eating healthy and joining scores of fitness programme.

The solution is "...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of faith." - Heb 12:2

This is not found in churchianity or cellgroup programme. If it is so, the result would have been evident. But the reality is that more often than not, we see the same culture, life, health and behaviours among the supposedly called-out assembly.

If we are to be any different with the Spirit of Christ and Life within us, one evident manifestation is healthy hands and feet, the New Covenant that is free from the result of burden/weight and sin.

If we are not breaking through this culture of Singapore, we are not preaching fiercely and boldly the Gospel of the New Covenant.

The Modern Day Samaritan Woman

Two European ladies came and sat for spiritual reading. One is from Italy while the other is from another part of Europe. Apparently, they just got to know each other that night.

We asked the Italian lady if she had sinus issue and she said "yes". Ministered healing.

As the lady had different tattoos all over her, we requested, "Can we read the tattoo on your hand?"

She curiously replied, "You can read tattoo?"

So we looked at it and answered, "You have great leadership in you, like that of your father. But at the age of 19, suicidal thoughts came rushing into you. You wanted to die. Yet these are darkness trying to take you out of this life because they realise how valuable and powerful you are as a woman. These are dark spirits who wanted you out, but God protected you from death so that you can be here today."

She was so blown away that she was completely lost for words, while drinking a can of fruity beer. Her eyes were watery and she kept saying, "What the fu*k?! You are fuc*ing amazing! I have no words to say."

She kept pausing in silence and repeating the same words. So we read the other European lady first. That will be another story altogether.

We came back to the Italian lady. She continued, "This is fu*king amazing beyond words. You just read my whole life! Do you know what the words on my tattoo say?"

We replied, 'No, we don't know the language."

She exclaimed, "This tattoo has words written in our language saying, "Take me out of this darkness."

Just then, a group of young people came. They were the friends of two Singaporean ladies who were being read spiritually earlier. They brought their friends to the booth.

The Italian lady stood up and started going around telling them who were waiting in the vicinity. "I don't know him. I just met him here. And he just fu*king told me about my whole life. I attempted suicide when I was 19 and I this was how I got this tattoo."

We shared about Jesus with her. She was bruised by the church. Her mum is a strong believer, but she doesn't know if she really believes in this God-thing. Well, we believe that this encounter will bring her back.

She said that I should post this encounter on IG. She added, "Why are you doing it for free? You should maybe collect $1 per reading or something. You should share my story. You can even do video sharing. I'm willing to be in the video to testify what happened."

We responded, "Have you seen Jesus collecting money after praying?"

There was a pretty long conversation with her and her new European friend, revealing the love and the goodness of Christ into their lives.

Modern day Samaritan is possible when people encounter the goodness of God. Jesus!

Fears Are Lies. Faith Is Truth

Even when it seems I’m surrounded by many liars and my own fears... Ps 116:10 (TPT)

Fear always lies before your sight in order to hide truth from your faith. Fears triumph in the face of lies, while faith triumphs in the face of truth.

When your faith meets truth, it explodes in confidence and power. 

Faith is the evidence of things not seen (Heb 11:1).

Faith is the evidence of truth.

Faith comes from hearing and hearing the Word (Rom 10:17).

Hearing and hearing the Word is the evidence of things not seen.

Hearing and hearing the Word is the evidence of truth.

The Word is the evidence of things not seen.

The Word is the evidence of truth.

Your faith only explodes in confidence and power when it meets the Word.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. - John 1:1-3

The Word is Christ. 

Meeting the Word is the same as meeting Christ (2 Cor 3:18), since you cannot see Him face to face literally on earth until He returns.

Many of us are surrounded by fears (which are lies) but we don't know that we have been lied to. We even try, in our own wisdom, to differentiate between lies and facts.

But the Bible is clear that outside of truth is, but lies. These include facts. Facts are still lies when they are outside of truth. Nothing is going to help your faith unless you meet the Word. Only the Word is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:16).

People say, "Well, these are the facts. Doctor so-and-so said so. So I can have faith to win this sickness."

No. You can't have faith in the absence of truth. What you have is emotional satisfaction in the face of facts. Truth is only found in the Word.

And the only way to differentiate between what is lie and what is truth is the Word.

Streets Hit-and-Run Prophetic Encounter

I was in a rush, walking in the streets quickly to get to Dhoby Ghaut MRT.

Two well dressed guys walked in the opposite direction. They went past me, before one of them turned back and said, "Excuse me..."

I looked back as I thought he needed help with directions. He said, "Excuse me, your face is very lucky. You have a very lucky face."

He shook my hand and added, "In these two months, you will see lucky things."

I saw a globe and Asia as I shook his hand. So I said, "I see you travelling around Asia, spreading word, and you are leaving soon."

He was surprised and replied, "Yes, I travel around. I'm going to Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, etc. I'm an astrologist. Are you also an astrologist?" And he proceeded to shake my hand again.

I responded, "I do spiritual reading because I'm into Jesus."

As I had to rush off, we left it as that.

I have done thousands of hits-and-run healing encounters on the streets because you need to walk up to the person quickly and finish off the healing. But this is the first time I encountered a hit-and-run prophetic reading while moving fast and furious on the streets.

This sets me thinking of greater possibilities of reaching out to the lost in the streets as a natural lifestyle.

If we can "excuse me" and release healing while walking in the streets, then we can "excuse me" and release a prophetic word while walking in the streets. Jesus!

P.S: My face is always lucky because I am always blessed in Christ.

God Gives You The Charge

God Gives You The Charge

The heavens are the Lord's heavens, but the earth He has given to the children of man. - Psalm 115:16 ESV

The heavens belong to our God; they are His alone, but He has given us the earth and put us in charge. - Psalm 115:16 (TPT)

The earth is under men's dominion. This is both a privilege and responsibility given by God. This is nothing new unless you don't understand Genesis Chapter 1.

When believers only hide in the four walls praying and interceding for the nation, thinking that God will somehow work things out regardlessly, they miss the heart of God.

Yes, there is a time and space for prayer and intercession. But it is only a fraction of our responsibility. If you are in charge on this earth, you must take action. Faith is not just a fact. Faith is an act.

This is also the reason why believers must vote for the right government. We don't just pray, "Oh God, let Your will be done." No, He has sent you to do His will. When you VOTE for the right government, you are DOING His will.

The Lord's Prayer is not a religious prayer to recite day and night. It is the heart of the Father to be demonstrated and manifested through His sons ----- Jesus did it first (Jn 5:19; Heb 10:7), and now it is our turn (Phil 2:13).

The King's heart is for His Kingdom to be reflected on earth as it is in heaven. We cannot do it simply by praying & interceding. We are given the charge to DO and ACT on His will. This is why He put us in charge on earth. This is also the reason why He instituted the whole governmental system on earth.

Unfortunately, many believers still do not understand how the Kingdom works. They are so stuck with religion and churchianity that they miss the Kingdom purpose.

They leave the secular, political and governmental realms to unbelievers. They focus on praying & interceding, and telling others to trust God and let Him do His will on earth. That is not Christianity.

How do we vote for the right government that is according to God's will? It is simple.

The policies that reflect the most of that of the Kingdom are the ones we should support and vote for. It's clear and indisputable. God wants His Kingdom to be manifested on earth.

You don't vote according to track records. You don't vote according to the mainstream and popularity. You don't vote according to personal preference or personality. You vote according to Kingdom alignment.

I have heard so many people (believers or non-believers) talking about Trump and why he shouldn't be elected as a person with so many issues. Well, if you understand the Kingdom, you will know why he is rightly elected.

Singapore will have our turn. But voting, while extremely important (because it concerns the lives of the people in the nation), is only one aspect of taking responsibility on earth as believers.

If we are in charge of this earth, we must take dominion in every arena until they look like heaven.

Rightness Delivers

Rightness Delivers

...they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness... - Ezekiel 14:14

In the Old Covenant, righteousness was on credit by faith (Gen 15:6). In the New Covenant, righteousness is a reality given by Christ (2 Cor 5:21).

If righteousness by credit could deliver Daniel, Job and Noah's lives as mentioned by God to Ezekiel, righteousness by reality should be way better.

Righteousness always delivers, because the Deliverer has not only appeared, but He lives in us.

In the Old, God raised deliverers (Judges 3:9) to deliver Israel from their enemies. In the New, God sent the Greatest Deliverer into us so that deliverance is a thing of the past (Col 1:13; 2 Cor 5:17), but many believers are still thinking about receiving deliverance from ministries. Because they don't understand that the Deliverer is INSIDE them.

You and I have now become 'a deliverer' because of Righteousness. Righteousness is not only right standing before God. It is also right standing before anything that is wrong.

If a person does something wrong (or criminal), he is afraid to stand face to face with a police/law officer. In the same way, our role as a 'deliverer' is to confront what is wrong in the lives of people.

This means that we deliver what is Right into what is wrong.

Sickness is wrong. Disease is wrong. Demonic oppression is wrong. As long as the soul and the body do not function according to God's original design, it is wrong.

So when we come face to face with what is wrong, what is wrong is afraid of us because we deliver 'right-ness'.

Healing is right. Health is right. Freedom is right. We deliver right-ness into the person, so that wrong-ness leaves.

Right-ness has been paid for by Christ. As a deliverer, we simply deliver what Christ has paid for to wrong situations.

The next time when you see sickness, you can boldly declare, "Because I am right and you are wrong, you have to go."

Believing and Manifestation

Believing and Manifestation

Your believing will keep working until your thoughts and words say otherwise.

This is why Joshua 1:8 says that the Word of God must not depart from our mouth (words) and meditation (thoughts).

Everything in life is designed to distract you. Worries and cares, in the Greek, mean distraction and division. They are meant to divide your thoughts so that you cannot believe completely.

This is why it is impossible to keep believing if we don't keep meditating His Word day and night as Joshua said. It can't even be departed from our mouth.

Mark 11:24 says that if you believe, it will be yours. It says "will be", which means that the manifestation may or may not be instantaneous. I believe that the strength of your belief will determine the speed of the manifestation. Nonetheless, as long as you believe, it will keep working until the manifestation comes.

This is why there are non-believing believers and believing non-believers. Non-believers can also get the manifestation with their belief. This is called the Law of Attraction. However, a believer's belief should be way more powerful than a non-believer because the latter depends on self will power or demonic power, but we depend on the Spirit of belief, the Power of heaven.

A believer's belief should get the manifestation way faster than a non-believer.

If we don't get the manifestation, we can trace back and honestly discover that at some point, we let our thoughts or words say otherwise (either consciously or subconsciously).

Apart from that, believing cannot stop working because God is not a man that He should lie. His Word always works and never returns to Him void.

The Difference between False Prophets in New & Old Covenant

The Difference between False Prophets in New & Old Covenant

False prophets in the Old Covenant were easy to detect. If they prophesy something and it doesn't come to pass, God is against them (Eze 13:8). In fact, they shall die (Deut 18:20-22).

The reason is simple as follows:

Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭, and have seen nothing! - Eze 13:3

In the Old Covenant, it is impossible to miss God's voice because no one was born again yet. They didn't have the Spirit living inside them. The Spirit was always 'outside' (upon) them. The voice of God comes from without, and hence, they either follow the voice of God (God's Spirit) or their own spirit.

This is why if you prophesy wrongly in the Old Covenant, the consequence is death.

In the New Covenant, false prophets are NOT those who prophesy wrongly, but those who lead people AWAY from Christ (Matt 24:11, 1 John 4:1-3). That includes those preaching in the pulpit who draw people away from Christ-centred messages to themselves.

In the New Covenant, we are born again. The Spirit of God lives inside us. The voice of God comes from within. Hence, we get to LEARN and GROW in hearing His voice as we prophesy. There is no death sentence, but there is a responsibility in the hearers to test the prophecies (1 Thes 5:20-21).

Ezekiel is known to be a drama-mama prophet in the Old Testament. He did so many prophetic acts from Chapter 1 to Chapter 12. 

An interesting principle is this... after he obeyed God to do the prophetic acts, God's interpretation came. The Word of the Lord came to him. But you can see the progression as the Word of the Lord began to come to him faster and faster.

From chapter 13 onwards, almost every subsequent chapter begins with "And the Word of the Lord came to me". Ezekiel didn't even perform any prophetic act yet.

Obedience precedes understanding (revelation). As Ezekiel obeyed God through the prophetic acts, understanding was given to him more and more (Matt 13:12). Eventually, he received understanding (the Word of the Lord) directly from heaven without prophetic acts.

If we want understanding from God, we must first be willing to obey what He says without understanding. If we want to grow in hearing His voice, obedience is the key.

Spiritual Property Investment

Spiritual Property Investment

As a real estate agent, I look at statistics and figures for property investment. This empowers me with the earthly knowledge on where the real estate market is moving in each segment and area.

But I'm first a believer, before any vocation. This means that I must live from the Spirit (faith) beyond earthly knowledge. If I live just like any other real estate agent, I am not living first as a believer.

Our works either confirm or contradict our beliefs.

As I was praying today, I saw a pot of plant that is evergreen. Various living things including birds and insects came to take from this plant. Yet this plant continues to grow and gives life regardless of how much it has been taken from.

Immediately I am reminded of Psalm 1:3.

He shall be like a tree

Planted by the rivers of water,

That brings forth its fruit in its season,

Whose leaf also shall not wither;

And whatever he does shall prosper.

The rivers of water is a type of the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of Life.

Because the Spirit of Life is in a believer, the tree will never wither. It stays evergreen. It can keep giving life because it has BECOME life, just like God.

God gives life to good and evil, for example, sunlight. Similarly, as a believer, good and evil can keep taking from you. But you never run out. You never run dry. Because you are LIFE.

Of course, there is only one key to have and become this LIFE. You need to search out this on your own, else you will not study the Bible.

When we become this tree, whatever we do shall prosper. It says, "WHATEVER", which means... Yep... Whatever.

In other words, your property investment goes beyond the physical into the spiritual. Because whatever you do shall prosper, whatever property you lay your hands on shall prosper.

It goes beyond statistics and figures. The LIFE of the tree in you will CAUSE the property to prosper, because you shall prosper.

Instead of focusing on statistics and facts, focus MORE on LIFE. Whether you are buying a property or helping clients to buy a property, let the LIFE in you produce the result.

This is spiritual property investment. This is beyond what your real estate agencies teach you. Yes, they have the experience but they are also biased for the sake of goals and money. This is why they keep pushing for clients to buy new projects / new condos.

You and I have the wisdom from above, which is beyond any earthly knowledge. Live like a believer, not just any agent you can easily find like any drop in the ocean. Jesus!

Longevity

God Already Changed You

Stop waiting for God to change you. He can't.

Because He already did it on the Cross. If His works were not completely complete and perfectly perfect, Jesus died in vain.

The New you is already given. It's called the New Creation (2 Cor 5:17). When we get born again, we are instantly changed.

Christianity is not a self-help programme. You don't become better. It's a ONE-step change. Jesus didn't come to make you become better. He killed the old you so that you are changed to the new you.

This is why you begin complete in Him (Col 2:10).

The reason that you don't see yourself changed is because you are still looking at the flesh. But God sees you in the spirit. He sees you already changed.

He's waiting for us to renew our mind to see the New Man in us. Until we see who we really are in the Spirit, we won't see any change in the flesh.

But just because you don't see any change in your flesh doesn't mean that you are still the same. You are a brand new, changed man who just hasn't realised it.

When we change our view of ourselves (mind renewal), we change the way we live.

God did His part to change us. Now it's our turn to think, see and live changed.

Worship

Worship

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. - John 4:24

We often relegate worship to slower-moving songs. But worship is beyond songs.

Worship involves presenting the whole of you to the whole of Him (Romans 12:1). Yes, in songs of worship, we can lay hold of that moment of His manifested presence to surrender ourselves to Him in spirit and truth.

During songs of worship, the communion with Him must be from the spirit. That allows the soul and the body to be renewed and transformed.

While worship (songs) affects our emotions (soul), it must not start there. It must flow from the spirit affecting our emotions. More often than not, worshippers begin from emotions and end with emotions.

This is the reason that people could remain bitter, upset, unforgiving and hold grudges RIGHT AFTER a session of worshiping Him in songs. That is NOT worship. It's simply a moment of emotional experiences, self-gratifying the flesh and "feeling good" but without communion in spirit and truth.

In worship, we humble ourselves before Him because we give Him the highest worth. That means that whatever bitterness, unforgiveness, grudges, etc must be surrendered before the King who is Love, Forgiveness, Grace and Truth.

When we worship Him in truth, we have to 'abandon' those emotions that keep us bitter and battered. Those are not the truth. We let His truth triumph over what we are experiencing. We lay down those stuff at His feet so that we can have His mind, which is victorious. This is humility ---- thinking of yourself less and exalting Him fully.

Such worship in spirit and truth renews our mind and transforms us. We walk in with unforgiveness, bitterness, grudges etc, but we walk out of a session of worship (songs) liberated, forgiving, joyful, surrendering all grudges to Him. That is worship. Because you become who you worship.

If you walk out of a session of worship (songs) having the same (negative) emotions as before, you are not worshiping God. You are worshiping you.

Death And Life Are A Decision

If death and life lie in the power of the tongue, it means that death and life lie in your decision.

When we were in the first Adam, we had no power. We had no choice. We had to live from death.

Now that we are in the last Adam, we have power. We have a choice. We DECIDE if we want to live from death OR live from life.

We decide death or life. God doesn't. That doesn't make God small or less omnipotent. It reveals His love and grace for mankind by granting us the power to decide.

Death and life are just the main connections where everything else flows from. Those who love the tongue will eat its fruit (Prov 18:21) ----- if death, every form of death follows; and if life, every form of life follows.

Since we are now IN the last Adam, we are living FROM life. We still have to make the decision every day if we want death or life to flow in us and through us.

Many who live from the church will put the responsibility on God thinking that it's exalting Him to be sovereign and in full control. But if you understand and live from the Kingdom of God, the responsibility is on us who decide death or life in our lives.

Our lives are a total combination of what we have permitted or forbidden. For whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven and what you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven.

Paul and Peter decided their lives. So can we.

Destroying The Enemy's Works

Destroying The Enemy's Works

More often than not, we think that destroying the works of the devil has to do Matthew 10:8 and Mark 16:17-19.

Heal the sick

Raise the dead

Cast out demons

These are but the fruit (aka result) of destroying the devil's works.

1 John 3:8 tells us that "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil."

At the same time, 1 John 3:5 says "You know that He appeared in order to take away sins..."

In other words, because Jesus appeared to take away sins, He destroyed the works of the devil.

The removal of sins = the destruction of the works of the devil.

The works of the devil have to do with the practice of sinning. If we practise sin, we are doing the works of the devil.

1 John 3:8 - Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning.

It is impossible to be a Christian and keeps on sinning (1 John 3:6). 1 John brings deep conviction to our hearts. For example, you can't be a Christian and stay LGBTQ at the same time.

Since Jesus had appeared to take away sins, the works of the devil had been destroyed. This is the reason why we can be healed and delivered, because the cause of sicknesses and death had been done away with.

Each time when we practise righteousness, we are reminding the devil that his works are destroyed. The practice of righteousness includes freedom from sin and sicknesses. Jesus!

God Pursues Passionately

We closed the "shop" at 10.30pm but the crowd kept coming. Ended up staying close to midnight. People were so hungry for the spiritual. Most of them were young people from Singapore.

There were so many encounters but two of them revealed so much about the love of God.

A youth came with three friends. As he sat down, we pointed to his left shoulder. After he got healed, his eyes were wide open; he jumped out of the seat and shouted, "What the f**k?!" 

Somehow I like to hear these vulgarities when people encounter Jesus. You don't get this privilege inside the church in case the holy compound gets polluted.

But Jesus likes the outside world and only real encounters get these responses.

When he came back to the seat, we said, "Your family needs reconcilation in relationship and you need to release forgiveness to your father."

He was astounded, turned to his friends and said, "What the f***!"

We added, "You have a very sensitive and tender heart, like my son. You care for people deep inside. And you are studying psychology, right?"

His friend said, "He knows you are studying psychology?!!" 

By now he was so stunned like vegetables that he exclaimed, "Bro, I don't know what to say. But I cannot get up from my seat now. My legs are unable to move. They are stuck."

Since he got stuck, we shared about Jesus. He confessed that he's a Christian but never encountered something like this. We shared how personal and how loving God is towards him. It impacted him so much that he took a while to slowly get up from the seat.

A Vietnamese lady sat down with her sister and her BIL. We told her that she had a curved spine at the lower part of her back, after doing spiritual reading. She got completely healed. Then she requested for her shoulder to be healed and she received it.

Through translation, she began to share that she had a dream three days ago that she would meet us at this place to be prayed for her health. The God of heaven is powerfully pursuing her.

We shared the Gospel with her. Her eyes began to be filled with tears. But she was afraid of her family as she's a Buddhist. So she wasn't ready to take that step. That's totally fine because salvation is not that one step of prayer. Prayer isn't going to get anyone saved. It's about believing and surrendering, which has already begun in her. Left our contact number so that she could contact us.

The God of power is also the God of love. Seeing how He pursues them passionately ministered to my heart. I feel like I wasn't there to minister. I was there to witness God Himself loving and pursuing people.

How To Read 1 John 1:9

How To Read 1 John 1:9

For many years and even now, 1 John 1:9 has been the go-to Scripture if any believer sins. While God forgives our sins, this passage isn't about confessing your sins to receive forgiveness and cleansing.

A word without the context always becomes a pretext for a proof text.

1 John was written in a time when false teachings penetrated the church because there were no New Testament Scriptures. John had to establish basic understanding on faith in Christ because Docetism & Cerinthianism (parts of Gnosticism) were prevalent.

Now re-read the whole chapter 1. There were plenty of powerful words deliberately chosen by John to argue against these false teachings which were confusing the believers in the church.

Verse 7 - But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

We can only have fellowship with one another IF we are in Christ. Fellowship (koinonia is reserved only for the Body of Christ). This verse is talking about being in Christ (in the Light). Only when you are in Christ (born again) can His blood cleanse you from all sin. If you are NOT in Christ, you are still a sinner whose sins are not cleansed.

Verse 8: If we say we have no sin...

Read verse 7 again, for it sets the context for verse 8. To say that you have no sin is to say that you do not need His blood; you do not need to be cleansed; you have no need for a Saviour.

This is why John said, "...we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." (1 Jn 1:7)

Verse 9: If we confess our sins...

Read Verse 7-8 again. It sets the context. If we confess our sins, meaning... if we confess our need for a Saviour, if we confess we need to be cleansed, if we confess we need His blood, "He is faithful to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Back to verse 7 --- only in Christ can you be cleansed from all sin / all unrighteousness.

Verse 10: If we say we have not sinned...

This is repeating verse 8. It's called Bible parallelism. If you say that you don't need to be cleansed, if you say that you have no need for a Saviour, "we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us."

1 John 2:1 - My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you MAY NOT sin.

Read previous verses in chapter 1 again. How can John tell you to confess that you have sinned and immediately tell you that he wants you NOT to sin. He must be schizophrenic to tell you that you surely have sins and at the same time, tell you that you can live free from sin.

Unless John was trying to establish the foundational truth in chapter one that EVERYONE needs a Saviour and His blood, instead of mere knowledge (false teachings of Gnosticism) in order to be cleansed from all sins and walk in the Light and have Christian fellowship with one another!

Thus, 1 John 2:1 is telling us that as born again believers, we can walk free from every sin. "BUT if anyone does sin, we have an advocate... Jesus Christ the righteous." - 1 John 2:1

As a believer, you have already confessed your need for a Saviour (1 John 1:9) and you have been cleansed from all sins / unrighteousness.

Now, if (not when) you sin (1 John 2:1), remember that it is Christ who is your advocate and your Righteousness. You can't confess to be forgiven because you are already forgiven in Him. Now He lives in and through you, so that you don't have to sin (Gal 6:1).

Jesus is BOTH

Jesus is both Grace and Truth.

He is both Saviour and Lord.

We preach a gospel that says that "God is love and God is good, would you like to receive Him?" Then we start preaching to the same person after he comes to church service "Jesus is Lord. You need to surrender your life to Him and live out the Kingdom values." We separate the two, thinking that the former is salvation and the latter is discipleship.

If I were the hearer, I would feel cheated by the initial message.

Jesus didn't preach this kind of gospel.

Neither did the early disciples.

Nor the early church fathers.

If the gospel you preach doesn't include Lordship, it is not the Gospel and you ain't getting people saved.

Re-studying The Parable of The Sower

Re-studying The Parable of The Sower

I was planning to read 1 John when the Spirit intercepted and invited me to go back to Mark 4.

This is the foundation of the Kingdom which gives understanding to every other parable about the Kingdom.

Read Mark 4 (Jews & Gentiles), Matthew 13 (Jews) and Luke 8 (Gentiles) again.

25% rejected the Gospel of the Kingdom.

25% received (in the Greek, it means to 'receive with the mind') but either took offense (Jews) or departed from it (Gentiles) due to tribulation/persecution.

25% remain unfruitful / never mature due to worldliness.

Only 25% accepted = held fast = understood the Gospel of the Kingdom.

The Gospel of the Kingdom has only 1/4 who will respond to it. Many are called but few are chosen. Those who accepted/held fast/understood the Gospel are chosen.

Today, if the Gospel you preach has 100% response, perhaps you are not preaching the Gospel.

Why You Shouldn't Fast As Believers

Why You Shouldn't Fast As Believers

Warning: This post might awaken some religious spirit.

Fasting has its own benefits but the followings are just religious mindsets that do not lead to those benefits:

❌ When we fast, God hears us

❌ When we fast, our prayers get answered faster

❌ When we fast, God forgives us and heals our land

❌ When we fast, we are genuinely repenting

❌ When we fast, we get more power and anointing from God

❌ We can fast from media, TV, games, etc. (That is simply called 'breaking a bad habit', not fasting)

❌ When we fast, we can move God's hand

You will never find these in the New Covenant. God had to explain it to the religious ones (Isa 58:6-7).

✅ Biblical fasting has always been food. Let's not change the Word for our own comfort. If you can dethrone your stomach (gullet), you can dethrone your god (Phil 3:19)

✅ Fasting reminds you that you are dead (Rom 6:6-13) because you are first a spirit being, alive in Him

✅ Fasting helps you to stay more focused and more conscious of who God is in you (Rom 8:9)

I would like to add that fasting helps you in personal healing. In the natural, fasting allows some parts (tissues and cells) of the body to regenerate and repair. But it is way more powerful when you get the principle in the Spirit.

I'm not saying that fasting produces divine healing. But fasting trains you to deny the visible and the physical so that you magnify the invisible and the spiritual (Rom 8:6). Most believers cannot minister healing to themselves while they can minister healing to others. 

Why? Because the symptoms in the flesh appear and feel more real than the Spirit of Life inside them. When you fast, you are training your flesh to shut up so that if you have symptoms in your flesh next time, you know how to shut the flesh up and use a loudspeaker in the Spirit.

Don't fast for the wrong reasons. You don't gain any brownie point with God. Fasting is not work-based. That's pure religion. Fasting is grace-based because you have been made complete in Him.

The Possible Biblical Death

The Possible Biblical Death

The early disciples and last century disciples knew how to walk in the life of God until they were ready to depart from this earth.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. - 2 Tim 4:6-7

Paul knew when his time of departure was near. God revealed to him. He completed his assignment entrusted by God. Before that, he knew that he had the power and life of God to decide if he should live or die (Phil 1:21-26). He didn't die of sickness. He was beheaded as a martyr.

...since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. - 2 Peter 1:14

Peter knew when his time of departure was near. God revealed to him. He was crucified as a martyr.

F.F Bosworth, after completing his assignment, knew that the time of his departure was near. God revealed to him in 1957.

For a few months, he continued to be alive. Few weeks before his departure, he gathered all his family members to inform them and pray for them.

But he still couldn't depart. So he asked T.L Osborn to come and pray for him to leave this earth. He said to Osborn, "I have been preaching this for too long. I have been walking in it. The life of God is strong in me. My body doesn't want to let me go. Pray for me, so that I can depart and go."

Osborn visited and prayed for him for a few days. Finally, F.F Bosworth slept and went to heaven. He didn't die due to sickness. He died because he finished his assignment and God had revealed that his time was up.

What's the possibility that the biblical death is one without sickness and one that has completed the assignment, when God reveals that it's time to depart?

Kenneth Hagin, too, experienced that. I believe we, too, can experience this.

No One Has Seen Christ Part Two

No one has seen Jesus literally after His ascension. It will actually destroy His own words of the purpose of sending the Holy Spirit, which is to our advantage.

I wrote about this some time back with many Scriptures about Christ who is STILL seated in heaven beside the Father.

When people share testimonies of seeing Jesus, they only saw a vision of Him but not the literal Person of Christ.

The following passages further nail this truth.

James 1:23 says that when we read the Word, we are reading who we are, because as Christ (The Word) is, so are we in this world. 

The Word is our mirror. The more we see The Word, the more we become like the Word (2 Cor 3:18).

However, we have yet to see the 100% Christ. Thus, there is a tad dim in the mirror. But we keep going after seeing Him more clearly in the Word.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. - 1 Cor 13:12

When Christ returns literally in Person, we will see Him face to face. Two things happen when we see Him literally:

1) We shall know fully (1 Cor 13:12)

2) We shall be like Him (1 John 3:2). The word 'like' in Greek here means 'likeness in nature and condition'.

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is. - 1 John 3:2

It is impossible to see the literal Person of Christ (aka face to face) without gaining full knowledge of Him and without being transformed to His nature and condition.

So hear those testimonies with a pinch of salt when people tell you that they saw Christ face to face.

Identity & Mirror

If we can release healing to others but not to ourselves, it's an identity issue.

If we can hear the voice of God for others but not for ourselves, it's an identity issue.

Identity in Christ has to do with the understanding of righteousness. We see the most issues with ourselves. Unless we regard ourselves not according to the flesh, we cannot walk in identity.

We must look past who we think we are into the true mirror (James 1:23-25), which is the image of Christ. Verse 25 says that we need to look and keep/continue looking. We cannot afford to forget who we are in Him, just because we see the issues and flaws in the flesh.

You were born of the first Adam (sin) regardless of what you do. Nothing can change that even if you are a good person.

You are now born again of the last Adam (righteousness) regardless of what you do. Nothing can change that even if you struggle, stumble and fail.

The rights that Jesus had with God the Father have become your rights. This is why you have the rights to hear from Him for yourself, and you have the rights to walk in healing for yourself.

Sin is no longer the issue with a believer. Identity is. And if we don't know our identity, we can never walk in healing and the prophetic for our own lives.

You Are gods

If He became sin so that we can become righteous in Him, then we are now identified with Him. We are not identified with sin, but the righteousness of God.

Since Jesus in the four books of the Gospel is the Righteousness of God revealed, and that we are now identified with Him, every time when you read the four books of the Gospel, you cannot see yourself as the sinner, or the sick person needing help or healing.

You must see yourself as Jesus. As He is, so are you in this world.

You see yourself ministering healing, deliverance, casting out demons, raising the dead, etc. You see yourself having the Kingdom of God and the Spirit of God. You are the anointed son and daughter, the righteousness of God revealed.

This is why only a Christ-centered message will empower you into sonship. Apart from that, you will identify yourself with the wrong person.

This is not blasphemy, crazy, proud or whatsoever. It is who God intended us to be. It doesn't make you become Yahweh but it makes you become gods (Jn 10:34).

Get Out Of Religion

It's interesting how careful and holy we phrase our words when we pray, but we don't watch our tongue outside of the prayers.

This is called religion. I was guilty of that.

We remember to say beautiful grace prayers before we eat, but we forget thankfulness in our daily lives outside of the meal prayers. We forget that He provides not just during mealtimes.

We remember to pray 'healing' prayers when praying for people, but we forget that God is the Healer outside of that prayers.

More often than not, we are spiritual during spiritual moments/meetings but we become secular outside of those moments/meetings.

God doesn't listen to our prayer moments only. He listens to us 24/7. If we spend more time contradicting what we pray in our prayer moments/meetings, we cancel off every spiritual thing.

This is what religion does to us. Religion never focuses on lifestyle or the way of life. It focuses on the moments/meetings.

Faith is not just an event or a day in life. It is the way of life.

Tongue Or Prayer?

Tongue Or Prayer?

Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. - 1 Peter 3:10

1) Keeping our tongue away from evil is not just about saying evil things. Saying anything that contradicts what is good (The Word of God) is evil, because we are calling God a liar.

2) Jesus kept His lips from every deceit (1 Peter 2:22). He loved life because He is The Life (John 14:6). This is probably why He saw 100% results 100% of the time. Deceit includes every white lie.

If we want to see good days in our lives, just as healing and health, the first thing to watch is our tongue.

What have you been saying in your daily life? What have you been lying about in your daily life?

Your prayer life is only as strong as your tongue. How powerful and long you pray doesn't have any impact until your daily tongue has changed.

Prayer doesn't change our world. Our tongue does. If we realise that every word that comes out of our tongue is prayer, we will shift our whole mindset about what prayer is.

Don't Change

If your idea of healing is based on whether you feel the symptoms in your body or not, you still don't understand identity.

Since faith is the evidence of things unseen, the evidence of healing is not based on what you feel or see in your body. The evidence of healing is based on "By His stripes".

People might say that you are lying. Ignore them. They don't understand the Word and identity. You speak what the Word says. Since the Word is the only absolute Truth, when you speak what the Word says, you are always telling the truth.

The people around you and the enemy are always trying to get you to speak out what is contrary to the Word. Jesus said that Lazarus was sleeping when everyone around Him was telling Him "No, Lazarus is dead!" But Jesus understood the Word; He understood identity. He spoke the Word because He is the Word.

And He raised Lazarus from the dead.

If your evidence is based on the result and what you see, you don't need faith. In fact, you don't need Christianity. You just need doctors. They will tell you the medical result. They will tell you what they see.

But if you want to be "The righteous lives by faith", then you have to base your evidence on the Word. 

"What does the Word say?" becomes your only evidence. "By His stripes, I was healed."

People will say all kinds of things about you when you keep believing and speaking the Word as your evidence. They want to knock you out of the ground. Some do it on purpose; some are just sincere and genuine but they don't understand the Word yet.

The more people say you are crazy, lying and weird, the more you drive your legs deeper into the ground and stay unwavering, unchanging, unshakeable, steadfast and immoveable. Because after you have done all, STAND. Don't move.

The Word is the most stubborn and firm thing in the entire universe. It does not change regardless of anything. Therefore, you cannot allow anyone to change what the Word says in your life.

Living Without Sin & Deceit

Living Without Sin & Deceit

The early Pentecostals believed that if you sin, the power of God will not move.

The Grace message believes that if you sin, the power of God will still move.

It cannot be that one is fully correct and the other is fully wrong. There must be some parts of truth in each school of thoughts.

Since the Pentecostals focused alot on experiences and encounters, they must have experienced in reality that sin stops the power of God from moving.

Yet the Grace school focuses on the Scriptural truth that where sin abounds, grace abounds even more. And since sin didn't stop Jesus from healing everyone who came to Him, sin couldn't stop the power of God from moving.

Which school is correct? I believe the answer is Yes.

Both.

In my previous post, I shared about how lying in our daily lives has an effect on the manifestation of the Word of God in and through us.

Today I read this passage.

1 Peter 2:22 - He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth.

Jesus did no sin. Neither did He ever lie because He is the Truth (Jn 14:6). Since He always spoke the Truth, His words (coming out of His mouth) and His heart were fully aligned with the Word of God. He saw 100% results 100% of the time.

Since He did not sin, He fully trusted God (1 Peter 2:23). The root issue of sin lies with a lack of trust in God. He believed God the Father fully, thus He did not sin.

A fully yielded heart that trusts God 100% produces 100% results 100% of the time.

Does sin stop the power of God from moving? No! 

But sin stops the power of God from moving through you 100% of the time because you have a trust issue. Sin proves that we don't fully trust God 100% and if we don't trust Him, we cannot see 100% results 100% of the time like Jesus did.

Jesus did no sin and there was no deceit found in His mouth. He had 100% trust in the Father. If we want to walk like Him, we will need to live like Him.

Why Are You Lying?

Why Are You Lying?

It is human to err and human to lie, especially white lies. Sounds about right. But little do we know that lying has a powerful effect on how the Word of God comes to pass in and through our lives.

When we got born again, the Spirit in us is the Spirit of Truth (Jn 16:13). This Spirit is at war with the flesh (human) as said in Romans 8:7. As believers, we can no longer say "I'm just a human" and yet expect the Word to manifest all the time. It's contradictory.

I believe that Jesus had 100% result in and through the Word, not because He is the Word, since He had to be an example for us by becoming a Man living in the Spirit to demonstrate the Kingdom of God, but because He only spoke the Truth (John 14:6).

1 Peter 2:1 - So put away... ALL deceit...

I just read this verse today and I was reminded that it's not some, but ALL.

God exalts His Word above His name (Ps 138:2). He holds the universe by the Word of His power (Heb 1:3). It is impossible for God to lie (Heb 6:18). He is the Word (John 1:1). The integrity of God's Word lies in the integrity of His mouth.

If God were to tell a single white lie, the whole universe would fall apart. That means that His Word would become void of power.

If this is so, we need to re-think about how lying impacts the effectiveness of the Word of God coming out from our mouth.

Lying as a lifestyle or in our daily lives may seem harmless, especially white lies and sales talk, but it actually hinders the Word of God from manifesting in and through our lives. There is NO separation between the secular and the spiritual because the Word is going to come out from your soul and body.

Death and life lies in the power of the tongue (Prov 18:21). Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks (Lk 6:45). We speak what we believe (2 Cor 4:13).

In other words, each time when we lie (including white lies), death is released, because lying is in the realm of death. Each time when we lie, our heart is reinforced to believe in the lie, since we speak what comes from the heart. Each time when we lie, we wire ourselves to believe in lies, instead of truth.

Here's the thing. When you study the Word of God and speak the Word of God, because of lying in your daily lives, you can't get to the point of truly believing in the Word of God because your heart is living in the tension of truths and lies.

Out of the same mouth, truths and lies flow out. You cannot separate the Word of God (Truth) and your own words (lies in daily life). It's like blessing and cursing (James 3:10) from the same mouth. Therefore, you stumble (James 3:2) and become double-minded (James 1:7-8), where you don't see the Word of God manifest in and through your life.

The next time when we don't see the promises of God coming to past in our lives, don't ask, "Where is the faithfulness of God?" Instead, ask, "Have I been lying in my life, thus causing the Word to become powerless in my life?"

Grace & Truth

Grace & Truth

When we lean on Truth to the extreme, we can step into legalism.

When we lean on Grace to the extreme, we can step into licentiousness.

Jesus is neither Grace nor Truth. He is both Grace and Truth.

For the law was given through Moses, but Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ. - Jn 1:17

While Titus 2:11 says that the Grace of God (Jesus) has appeared to all men, John 14:6 says that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

How we perceive Jesus not only affects how we receive from Him, it also affects how we conceive the representation of Him into the world.

One obvious misrepresentation is through the way we present the Gospel. Jesus didn't teach His disciples to lead people into the sinner's prayer. He told them to preach the Kingdom so that people could repent and believe in the King.

In street evangelism, I hardly hear the Kingdom being preached. Majority, if not, all the time, I only hear Grace being preached. We hide Truth for fear of rejection. It is often the half-preached Gospel that leads people into the sinner's prayer. I was so guilty of that.

Why are we rushing to close the deal (of sinner's prayer) when the person is not ready to repent and believe in the King? Why are we rushing to clock another testimony and showcase through the social media to the world?

Why are we trying to exalt God in the disguise of exalting ourselves and our own ego? Why are we trying to follow popularity in the expense of Truth?

I know an extremely popular figure who brought lifestyle evangelism to the world through social media. He impacted me many years ago, which was why I did the same by following what he did. But his mentor somehow never did the sinner's prayer thingy in the streets. I wondered a little, then.

Fast forward to a few years later, I understood the Gospel of the Kingdom. But there wasn't a change in how I presented the Gospel in the streets, even though I knew the message of the King. 

Last year, there began a strong nudging in my heart by God to re-look into how we present the Gospel to people in the streets. Suddenly, it clicked. The Gospel of the Kingdom must match with how we present the Gospel in the streets.

Just few weeks ago, I heard a message by Curry Blake. He shared, "God has been speaking to me this year (2024) ----- to get people truly saved and truly healed."

I truly believe that the time has come, where God is speaking to individuals all over the world to re-present the Gospel message in the streets ----- not to lead people into sinner's prayer, but to preach the Kingdom so that they could repent and believe in the King.

Unplanned Attack

Unplanned attack is at the very first opportunity.

The moment you see an opportunity, you minister immediately so that the enemy cannot stop you.

When you try to wait for the next opportunity, it is a planned attack. The enemy knows it and he tries to stop you.

Resting Destroys satan's Works Part Three

Resting Destroys satan's Works Part Three

In the past two posts, we talked about how peace within us is untouchable by the storms and the waves in the outside world.

Peace is both offensive and defensive, because it not only crushes the works of the enemy (Rom 16:20), it also protects us from his works.

As shared earlier, peace is a result of faith. When there is faith, there is peace. Since the default mode of a believer is peace (Col 3:15), the default mode of a believer is faith (Rom 12:3). We HAVE the spirit of faith (2 Cor 4:13). Faith is already IN us.

That makes things simple. It means that you and I are naturally walking & living by faith (Rom 1:17) until we lose that peace because of what we see in the circumstances around us.

This is why Phil 4 is important.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. - Phil 4:6-7

The word 'anxious' in Greek is 'merimnaó', which means to 'be divided and distracted.' Our mind can only be fixed on one thing ---- God.

You keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. - Isa 26:3

The word 'keep' in Hebrew is 'to preserve, to guard from danger'. The fact that God keeps us in Shalom Shalom (perfect peace) means that our default, natural mode is peace. It also means that our default, natural mode is 'preservation and protection from danger' by God.

The peace of God remains in us as long as our mind is stayed (aka rest) on Him. When we are restful internally, perfect peace becomes the primary power to offend and defend for us.

In Phil 4, it says that we should pray with thanksgiving FIRST. Thanksgiving after a fulfilled answer is gratitude. But thanksgiving before a fulfilled answer is faith. When you thank God in advance, you are believing that "It's done". 

When your prayer is fulfilled by God, peace overwhelms you. This means that you are living by sight and manifestation. But what Phil 4:6-7 teaches us is that the SAME peace can overwhelm us before our prayer is fulfilled by focusing on Isa 26:3 ----- by fixing our mind on Him. Because we trust Him, we can thank Him FIRST without seeing any change externally.

The mind that stays restful (on Him) is the one that stays in perfect peace. It keeps you untouchable and it crushes every work of the enemy in your life. It destroys the sickness and symptoms in your body.

If you simply block out unrest, you block out unbelief. If you simply stay restful, you are walking in the most powerful realm of Peace where the storms couldn't reach you. Jesus!

What If You Didn't Really Get People Born Again?

What if I told you that getting people to raise their hands and say the sinner's prayer doesn't get them born again?

What if I told you that preaching Jesus loves you and died for you on the Cross to forgive all your sins, and getting them to receive Jesus right after that doesn't get them born again?

What if I told you that being born again into the Kingdom doesn't depend on what you pray but what you believe? And how can you believe if the Gospel message is not properly preached?

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? - Rom 10:14

The Bible has to be read in context. You can only call on the name of the Lord and be saved (Rom 10:13) if you believe. You can only believe the right God if you have heard the right Gospel message. And you can only hear the right message if the preacher preaches the Kingdom message that Jesus and His disciples preached.

Matt 4:23 - Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching... preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.

Matt 10:7-8 - And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of God is at hand.’ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons.

Luke 10:9 - And heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near to you.’

Mark 16:15-18 (added emphasis) - Go into all the world and preach the Gospel (of the Kingdom) to every creature... And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons... they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.

Matt 28:19-20 - Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations... teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you... (This includes Matt 10:7-8 / Luke 10:9)

'Make disciples' is synonymous with the Gospel of the Kingdom, because the Kingdom message only produces disciples.

Luke 24:47 - ...repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name...

Repentance and remission of sins are the complete message of the Kingdom. Receiving the gift of forgiveness and praying sinner's prayer are incomplete to be born again. Repentance is not saying "Sorry God, forgive me." It's the decision to give your life to Him, change your mind about who the King is and surrender to the Kingdom's way.

This is the reason why whenever the Gospel is shared, the signs and miracles must follow to confirm the King and His Kingdom (Mark 16:20). Not to confirm how anointed the preacher is.

Only when the King and His Kingdom are being preached can people hear, believe and call on Him to be truly born again (Rom 10:13-14).

Perhaps we have been doing street evangelism wrongly.

Perhaps the church in general has been preaching the Gospel wrongly.

Perhaps we have been leading people to Christ wrongly, feeling so pumped that we have many salvation testimonies (when they are not born again), especially those whom we have brief encounters in the streets and in our daily lives. I was one of such.

Don't lose the fire and zeal. But don't lose the truth too.

P.S: Check out how Curry Blake led people to be truly born again in my earlier post. No sinner's prayer is involved.

Healing Is Not The Proof of God's Love

Healing is not exactly the proof that God loves you. The Cross is. Whether anything changes in your life or not, the Cross is the proof that God loves you.

We cannot preach the love of God using signs and wonders as the proof. Because the absence of signs and wonders doesn't remove the presence of His love.

Healing is the proof of the Kingdom. Read Matt 10:8; Luke 10:9; Mark 16:15-18; Matt 12:28 and Luke 11:20

When we don't understand the Gospel (message) of the Kingdom, we preach healing as the proof of God's love. This is why people get disappointed with God. It is not God's fault. It is our fault because we, as messengers, did not bring the right message.

Healing is the proof that there is a King and His Kingdom. He has come to reign. And He reigns over chaos & darkness (sickness).

The disciples were commanded to preach "The Kingdom is here!" where healing is a confirmation of the message. Signs and wonders confirm the message that the King is present.

Resting Destroys satan's Works Part Two

Resting Destroys satan's Works Part Two

In the previous post, we talked about how peace within us is untouchable by the storms and the waves in the outside world.

Peace not only crushes the works of the enemy (Rom 16:20), it also protects us from his works. It is both offensive and defensive, as shared in the previous post about Mark 4. It is uninterrupted and untouchable.

When there is faith, there is peace. Because faith releases peace. When there is unbelief, there is no peace.

Peace, therefore, is a powerful indicator of faith.

In Matthew 17, the disciples tried to cast out a demon from the boy, but they failed to do so. Jesus cast it out, and explained to them why they couldn't cast out the demon in Matt 17:20. He said, "Because of your unbelief."

In fact, He rebuked His disciples and said "O faithless generation!" (Matt 17:17)

The peace within Jesus calmed the demonic chaos in the boy. It wasn't what Jesus said out of His mouth that crushed the demon. Because the disciples must have said THE SAME THING while trying to cast it out.

It was the peace within Jesus, when released through His mouth, crushed the demon. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The peace within Jesus produced result in the world without.

The disciples had no result because there was no peace within them. Because of their unbelief. They might appear to do the same thing as Jesus, said the same thing as Jesus but it wouldn't work. i.e. the seven sons of Sceva.

Alot of believers can appear to be doing and saying the same thing on the outside. Yet it is only the Peace within (unseen by appearance) that is going to make a difference.

When we are restful, God is faithful. The faith of God is demonstrated by the rest of God. When we walk in that rest, when we walk in that peace, the world outside has to conform to the image of the Son and His Kingdom.

In the next part, we see how peace destroys sickness and how to walk in it.

Resting Destroys satan's Works Part One

Resting Destroys satan's Works Part One

Last night, I was spending time in prayer when I saw a vision of Jesus rowing a boat peacefully in the midst of surrounding chaos. He was totally uninterrupted in His own world, smiling as He was rowing.

Then He spoke to me, "The peace on the inside of you overcomes everything that is in the world." And the Holy Spirit revealed to me that as believers, our default (natural) mode is faith!

The God of peace will soon crush satan under your feet. - Rom 16:20

Why isn't it the God of war or the God of power that will crush satan under our feet? Peace must not be underestimated, since it crushes satan and his works.

When the disciples were on the boat in Mark 4, a windstorm arose. Water was breaking into the boat, causing it to begin to sink. But Jesus was still sleeping in the boat. Uninterrupted!

The disciples were panicking. They woke Him up. Jesus spoke to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And He said to His disciples, "Have you still no faith?" (Mk 4:40)

I like to read Scriptures forward and backward. In this case, the disciples had no peace because they had no faith (aka unbelief). Jesus had faith, thus He had peace.

And the peace He had within changed the world outside which had no peace. That peace crushed the enemy's works.

When you have peace, you rest. Jesus rested in the boat when the disciples wrestled with the storm. The reason Jesus had to wake up and rebuke the storm is for the sake of His disciples who were crumbling in fear.

Otherwise, all of them could have slept through the storm and the sinking boat, and still reach the other side of the island (Mk 4:35). If they had peace like Jesus did. If they rested like Jesus did. 

Because the peace within Jesus is not only uninterrupted, it is also untouchable. The storm and the waves could not touch Him. He didn't need to wake up from His beauty sleep to release that peace into the atmosphere. There was NO NEED to calm the storm and waves.

I could imagine the water and the waves surrounding Him, moving along the perimeter of His body as He was sleeping, BUT they could not touch Him. That's the kind of peace that surpasses ALL understanding.

If you have peace within, if you rest within, the storm and the waves cannot touch you.

I have more to share on this important aspect of peace and how it crushes your sickness. Stay tuned for the next part.

The Five Points Of The Gospel

The Five Points Of The Gospel

1. Jesus Christ is the only God and the only exemplary Man

2. He died for you

3. He died as you

4. He lives in you

5. He lives through you

Most of us were taught a little of point 1 and much of point 2. That became the foundation of our Christianity and how we share the Gospel with others. I did that for many years too, until I had a revelation of the Gospel of the Kingdom.

No amount of altar calls, conferences, and Spirit-encounters change my life as much as the revelation of this truth. It really proves that Romans 12:2 is true ---- life transformation is the result of mind renewal.

Truth always demands us to respond, either negatively or positively. It is impossible to stay status quo.

When we surrender and renew our mind to the truth, it has only one result ----- the change of life.

My desire is that more and more people encounter the truth on His Kingdom.

Jesus!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Jesus Is Not The Way To Heaven

Jesus Is Not The Way To Heaven 

Jesus came preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom. He revealed the King, His Kingship and His Kingdom. He's full of Love & Truth.

But He didn't come to get you say a prayer to go heaven. Neither did Peter and Paul do that.

Jesus is not the Way to heaven. It's not in the Bible. He is the Way to the Father (Jn 14:6).

Dan Mohler nailed it when he shared, "We teach people that God sent His Son to forgive our sins so that we can go heaven. We preachers like to say this, 'If you die tonight and don't know where you are going, pray this prayer.' We teach this self-centred gospel. Jesus doesn't preach the Gospel that way ever!"

He added, "Jesus didn't forgive us so that we can go heaven. He forgave us so that we can get back to the Father."

This is Bible.

We make it about prayer when Jesus made it about surrender. He came to restore sonship and purpose. Our response is to surrender our lives to Him and live according to His image.

That's repentance. That's repenting unto the Kingdom. And that's what get us saved - spirit, soul and body.

I like what Curry Blake do before he ends a preaching service. There is no altar call to get people to pray a prayer of salvation. That's not Bible. He challenged the unbelievers to make Jesus Lord of their lives --- "If you do not know Jesus, you need to decide today to make Him Lord and live according to His ways."

Faith is a decision. Repentance is a decision. Don't pray a prayer to get to heaven. It doesn't work that way.

Redemption For Health

Redemption For Health

The first compound Name that God revealed to Israel after bringing them out of slavery is Jehovah Rapha. It points to the work of Redemption by Christ.

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. - Exo 15:23-25

When the tree was thrown into the water, it reversed the curse of bitterness. The water became sweet. 

And God revealed Himself in Exo 15:26, "...I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your Healer.”

The tree was a foreshadow of the Cross. In Gal 3:13, it says, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.”

This is quoted from Deut 21:22-23. In fact, there was a whole list of curses in Deut 28 that would be brought against anyone disobeying the Law. It included every kind of sickness (Deut 28:61). 

Jesus had to die, put sin to death and be hung on the tree (Deut 21:22-23), in order to redeem us from the curse of the Law.

The Old Covenant is a foreshadow of the New Covenant which is the true substance. Just as the tree was thrown into the water to turn bitterness into sweetness, Christ had to be hung on the Cross to redeem us from slavery into liberty.

The compound Name 'Rapha' doesn't mean 'Healing'. It means 'Completely Healed'. Because you have to read in context. He said, "I will put none of the diseases on you..." This means that you are PROTECTED from diseases. You don't get healed. You live healed.

This is confirmed by Gal 3:13 where Christ redeemed us from the curse of every kind of sickness (Deut 28:61), when He was hung on the tree. The Name "Jehovah Rapha" is the revelation of the work of Redemption by Christ on the Cross!

1 Peter 2:24 says, "He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, that we might die to sin, and live to righteousness. By His stripes, you WERE healed."

There's alot to expound on this one verse. But we just look at the last part. You WERE healed. Past Tense. If you WERE healed, you don't need any more healing. Because for the believers, there is NOW divine protection from sicknesses and diseases.

Not many people will preach on this. If you preach divine healing, you already get slammed by others. But if you preach divine health and protection from every sickness and disease, you might be labeled as heretic.

And this is the reason why many get sick. Because they only believe in healing. 

Christ did not just come to heal you. He is also your Jehovah Rapha ----- for you to live healed and protected from every sickness. 

We need to start preaching this more. Stay tuned.

Why Believers Seem Harder To Get Healed?

Why Believers Seem Harder To Get Healed?

If we think that believers are harder to get healed, you will see what you believe. Because according to your faith, it is done.

God shows NO partiality. If the finished works of Christ paid for ALL to be healed, ALL means ALL, whether you are a believer or not.

After seeing thousands of individuals healed in the streets, I saw the Word remaining steadfast and true. Whether it's believer or not, all get healed the same.

However...

Not all stay healed. Believers are the ones who don't stay healed as easily as non-believers.

It used to baffle my mind until I realised that Matthew 28:18 and Mark 11:24 have been given to believers.

The same authority of Christ has been given to believers. Therefore, what a believer says has power to his body (Prov 18:21), either life or death.

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. - Mark 11:24

Prayer is not just what you say in a prayer meeting. It is not just what you say when you end with "In Jesus' name. Amen." That will be religion.

What you say out of your mouth IS prayer, regardless of the location and time.

Non-believers don't know God. They don't have an idea of who God is. They have NO belief of God. When they get healed, they realise it is God. Period.

Believers know God. More often than not, they have WRONG belief of God. They have an idea of who God is that is not rooted in Christ. When they get healed, while they realise it is God, they still have wrong belief.

Mark 11:24 says that you receive what you believe. It doesn't say what kind of belief. So if you believe wrongly, you can receive that too.

If the enemy throws darts at a believer (after receiving healing), the believer with a wrong belief of who God is thinks that it is God speaking in his mind about the healing, he can receive what he believes wrongly.

This is probably why we see believers experiencing symptoms back in their bodies after they get healed. It is not that they didn't get healed, but they welcomed the sickness back with their wrong belief (Mark 11:24).

If we don't right our belief, you can get healed but not stay healed.

Understanding Is Received By Faith

By faith, we understand... - Heb 11:3

The word 'understand' in Greek means 'to perceive with the mind.'

The mind of Christ is operated by faith. To understand the things of God, it is not by research, study, our experiences or our analytical mind.

Understanding must be received by faith. If we want understanding, we must walk by faith.

This is the reason why some cannot understand the things you do. They think you are out of your mind. But what is out of their mind might not be out of the mind of Christ.

The opposite of faith is not fear, but sight. People who live by sight have no understanding. They based their understanding by what they see with the physical eyes.

Walking by sight always produces fear and timidity (Hebrews 10:38-39). Walking by sight always shrinks back (which means timidity in Greek).

People who live by faith have understanding because they perceive with the mind of Christ.

Walking by faith always produces confidence (Heb 10:35; 11:1) because the mind of Christ is confident. 

When we get understanding by faith we walk in confidence.

Simple Chart

An image that the Holy Spirit gave me when I was praying about nothing.

Grace = ALL that Christ paid for. God has already GIVEN.

Reality = Actual manifestation

Faith = The bridge to expand the PIPE in order to get from Grace to Reality. How much we want Grace to flow to Reality depends on Faith.

Love = The source for Faith to push the upper line of the Pipe vertically. Faith works through Love.

Christianity is that simple. And it is that mechanical. Don't complicate things.

Unstoppable Domain

Unstoppable Domain

You and I have an unstoppable domain on the inside of us. It's called the Law of the Spirit of Life.

We can either be 'controlled' by the Law of the Spirit of Life or the law of sin and death ( Romans 8 ).

As a New Man in Christ, we have a new operating system. We can still function in the old operating system if we choose to. It's the law of sin and death. But if we choose to function in the new system, the Law of the Spirit of Life is an unstoppable domain.

Two days ago, I had a packed lunch. The vegetables tasted strange. The rice and meat tasted like it was left overnight. Nonetheless, I finished the whole packet.

At about 10pm at night, I had one round of diarrhoea, followed by three rounds of throwing up. I knew it was food poisoning as I already suspected the lunch had issue.

As usual, my wife was concerned. She wanted to give me probiotics, trying to convince me that probiotics is not medication/drug. I said "No. I only need Jesus. By His stripes, I am healed."

So I kept releasing the Law of the Spirit of Life from the inside out. I knew that I had to wake up early the next day to minister healing to someone with stage 4 cancer. We just saw one crushed and I was ready to crush the next one.

The enemy is merciless. He won't give you a single chance. He whispered on my mind that night, "Why not just change to another day?" I said, "No way. I'm heading there. Because I'm healed."

The next morning, I woke up feeling weak, because of the loss of sugar and minerals. But you either let your body move you, or you let your Spirit move you. The Spirit on the inside is an unstoppable domain.

I drove there, shared the Word, ministered and was re-charged. Headed to work before I came back home. And I began to make my hand drip coffee. My wife said, "You can't drink coffee because you just had food poisoning last night. How can your stomach take it?"

I said, "Yes I can. Because I am the healed of Christ." So I drank. And all is well.

There is an unstoppable domain on the inside of every believer. It's called the Law of the Spirit of Life. We need this to be more real than anything else in the world. The only way is to live by faith. For the Righteous Shall Live By Faith.

If we can minister healing to others, but not to ourselves, we merely understand the foundation of healing but we do not grasp hold of the foundation of identity.

Walking in divine health requires the understanding of identity, not healing. If you understand healing, the enemy can still stop you by attacks. If you understand identity, the enemy cannot stop you with attacks because there is an unstoppable domain on the inside of you.

Let's keep crushing the devil.

No Big Deal

No Big Deal

Two months ago, I bit the inner part of my cheek so hard that I knew it would become an ulcer. The track record had always been the case.

As I was driving, I suddenly thought, "Why should I even tolerate this, even though it is such a minor thing that I normally don't bother about? If I walk in divine health, this is easy and possible for Jesus."

So I commanded the wound in the inner cheek to close as I was driving. Nobody knows how loud I am when I'm alone with Him. I bet the motorists outside could hear. For I was not going to tolerate this little discomfort.

You dominate what you don't tolerate.

Then... I didn't know how... but before I knew it, the wound disappeared within a short time.

Last week, the same thing happened. I accidentally bit the inner part of my cheek again. Just as hard.

So I yelled at it again. Cos everything is demonic (kidding). I deal with every physical issue the same way and it has gotten me the most results.

And the wound disappeared again within a short time.

Biting our inner cheek and ulcers might not be a big deal for us. But the Power of God is more than able to deal with both the big and the small issues in your life.

If you don't want anything common (such as common flu) to be common to you, you need to rise up against it and stop tolerating what you should dominate over in Christ.

Sinner's Prayer Part Four

Sinner's Prayer Part Four

The origin of the sinner's/salvation prayer could be traced back to the 18th-19th century. D. L. Moody, an American evangelist (19th century) was one of the early advocates of the sinner's prayer.

Billy Graham, another prominent American evangelist (20th century) made the sinner's prayer popular all over the world.

Do you realise that most of them were Americans? Do you realise that America has a different culture from Asian countries?

America is a Christian nation. People in the country have some basic ideas about Christianity because it was taught in the schools. Hence, the sinner's prayer is more appropriate in their context and culture where the idea of Jesus and God is already in the mind of most people.

Yes, as Asians, we are largely influenced by the West. The sinner's prayer has become 'our approach'. But what is used in another culture cannot be copied into our Asian culture where many do not have an idea of the Gospel.

What matters therefore, is the message of the Gospel of the Kingdom that we share with others, especially in the streets.

David Platt, a prominent Southern Baptist evangelist and pastor in Birmingham, said, "Many assume they are saved simply because of a prayer they prayed. It's not that praying a prayer in and of itself is bad, but the question is what kind of faith are we calling people to?"

This is precisely what I have been sharing in the past few posts. What kind of Gospel are you calling people to believe in? You can preach a Mother god gospel and still get people to pray the sinner's prayer. You get my point.

David Platt added, "The emphasis on the sinner's prayer is unbiblical and damning."

He continued, "I'm convinced that many people in our churches are simply missing the life of Christ, and a lot of it has to do with what we've sold them as the gospel, i.e. Pray this prayer, accept Jesus into your heart, invite Christ into your life. Should it not concern us that there is no such superstitious prayer in the New Testament? Should it not concern us that the Bible never uses the phrase, 'accept Jesus into your heart' or 'invite Christ into your life'? It's not the gospel we see being preached, it's modern evangelism built on sinking sand. And it runs the risk of disillusioning millions of souls."

Platt shared similar concern as I have. He said, "Some people say they believe in Jesus, say they have accepted Jesus, say that they have received Jesus, but they are not saved and will not enter the kingdom of heaven."

In conclusion, he said, "Do I believe it is 'wrong' for someone to pray a 'prayer of salvation'? Certainly not. Calling out to God in prayer with repentant faith is fundamental to being saved. But I urge us, as we go to all people among all nations with the good news of God's love, to be both 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐳𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞."

The Southern Baptists are clear. So shall we. Zeal without knowledge is not good (Prov 19:2).

In our zeal to reach the lost, let's be biblically clear with the presentation and the demonstration of the Gospel of the Kingdom, so that others have an opportunity to respond to the complete Gospel and believe in the Jesus whom Peter and Paul preached.

Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. - Romans 10:1-2