Sunday, September 21, 2008
381st post, goodbye (:

After various considerations and lagging by blogger, i've decided to shift to a new blog which has been sitting untouched for months.

Saviourslove.wordpress.com.

The new wordpress revolution  yeah but in new things come new blessings and new anticipations.(:

Goodbye blog of 5 years (:
Thank you for the memories maybe i'll be back to visit.

cale(:

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

- 1 Kings 19: 11-13

Its the night before your birthday. And you can't really sleep.
You're thinking about the presents, the party, the friends and everyone that'll be with you on that happy day. That anticipation of something great that is about to happen.

That's how i feel. Just a fraction. Except add in a little fear, a little excitement and a little surprise.

I keep feeling that God is just right about to move. Anytime, anywhere. Like a thief in the night. IN the most unknowing moment.

And i just can't help feeling a tad bit unprepared. It could come! ANYTIME. EVEN right now!
Something great is about to happen! Something great is about to happen!

I can't help but cry out tonight , Father don't pass me by! Elijah stood through the earthquake, wind and fire, and listened to that gentle whisper.

Can I quieten down my heart to hear it? Because God is about to move his hand in the harvest. God is about to move in the hearts of people to grow and mature people. God is about to raise up leaders and shepherds of his flock. 7 years of harvest. About to begin.

Am i ready?
Honestly, i don't know. Because i don't know how much more powerfully can God move.
But God is my provider, He will make a way.

I only can lift up my camp to you, lift up my sheep to you, lift up my caregroup to you, life up my family to you and lift up my life to you.

Because when i do i come closer to you, to hear your will.

Past the roaring gale, the earsplitting earthquake and burst of fire, Father i will listen out to your gentle whisper. Because its the most powerful of all.

The nudging of the spirit is moving and this scripture stepped out of the pages of the bible today.

Because Elijah waited patiently and stepped out of the hole, naturally without a second thought of which of these amazing things was God in. I couldn't help but ask, God could i know if i were in Elijah's shoes? I couldn't find my answer, so all i can do is cry out that God you will show me when you pass by! And to share this spirit with all of you, because when the amazing things come.
The nets of the fishers of men will be full!

Its just around the corner!

Monday, September 08, 2008
my left ear is still pressure blocked yikes!

Just a fast post before to plonk on my dear bed (:

finally back from HK after a fruitful, spirit nourishing and physically tiring LC!
it was such an amazing time of learning and absorbing our vision and meeting God (:

10 randomly small tid bits before a longer post :
1. Every meal was a game, "catch-the-pastor-before-he-gets-booked"!
2. Ocean Park wasn't very oceanny but the rollercoasters was insane (:
3. the HK brothers and sister were AMAZING Hosts !
4. dim sum, zhu chang fen, century egg porridge, po lo bao, la mian, TEH BING....
5. shop till you drop
6. catch indegenous chicken at kfc while learning to be an indegenous church in an indegenous culture ( that is some indegenous phrasing...)
7. 238 in 2-0-1-5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. Do you know how to say the sinner's prayer?
9. Will the true MEN of God please stand up!
10. God is AMAZING!! THE GC WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED!!!

till tmr or sometime...
good nite!

Thursday, August 14, 2008

I see the little struggling figure and i admire the spirit.
I'm praying for you so jiayou jiayou jiayou (:
I don't think you read this blog but i'm so proud of you (:
God will work great things in you as well as your group.

BTT in a few hours and i'm not really sure why i'm posting!
Maybe coz i'm a little nervous (:

But its in God's hands (:

I think i've always known this and maybe everyone knows this.
But i just felt like blogging it down today.

The greatest pleasure in growing a person is not seeing what you get in the end.
Not about glorifying yourself.
Not about getting something in return.
But simply watching him or her grow. (:

The joy is whoopyliciously incredible (:
I just made that word up (:

But you know, when these people are grown something even more incredible grows and its EVEN MORE joyful watching it grow.

The kingdom of heaven starts as small as a mustard seed but will grow into the largest of all trees.

Because God loves people and God wants to grow people (: in his love, grace, mercy, joy, peace, patience kindness, goodness, faithfulness and every single good fruit of his character.

And the world is made a better place while more people get to know the goodness and love of Christ (:

I think i'm getting excited (:
God you make the simplest truths the most exciting ones so let us be your harvestors, your shepherds, your babysitters, and most imptly your imitators (:
That's a lot to ask but if i don't ask i can't receive!
So thank you God in advance!

IN Jesus name
Amen.

-- Cale (:

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
BTT in 3 days and a wonderful pool day (:

The pool is slowly turning into one of the most biblical grounds ever.:P

+[ 2 Corinthians 5:7]

" We live by faith and not by sight."

Man has the irresistible urge to live by sight contrary to the popular slogan, " Seeing is believing." But God like He always is, gives man the greatest challenges. Live by faith and not by sight.

But i think now that actually living by faith instead of living by sight may very much be easier. A revelation that floated into my thoughts as my brain disengaged itself from the occasional splish-splosh of the pool and the muted silence beneath the azure waters.

Ever ran a race or swam a distance soooooooooooooo, sooooooooooo, soooooo very long that you wish you could just give up on the spot and say, " Forget it, i'm never gonna make it." or wish you could just die on the spot. It sure felt like that when i first swam with goggles today.

The laps seemed to number so slowly as i stared through the murky water towards the other end of the pool. Not to mention that my sight continually misted, which annoyed me to no end.
Then i tossed the goggles aside and just swam. Every time i touched a wall, it felt indescribably satisfying and laps and time just flew.

Maybe living with faith works the same way.

Sight limits faith.
Because we tend to judge how much we can achieve.

Simply put,

Sight leads to : human effort + human expectation = human results
Faith leads to : human effort + miracle-sized expectation + God's work = unlimited possibilities and results

God didn't want us to limit our own potential, he wanted us to live out our fullest.
With the little faith and the little effort we have achieve more.

Small is the NEW Big.

+ [ Matt 17:20b]
" I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

Let start to move our mountains (:
I wanna move mine real soon :D

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Everyone has dreams, ambitions, aspirations and hopes.

Flying off somewhere to study something.
Scaling a new height.
Gaining a gold, silver or bronze medal at a competition.

What happens to the goalless and the sightless?

More often than not i look at the trivial and materialistic things i chase for... a new computer or a new mp3, how about a certificate? The eternal search for the right course and the right area of study. Not knowing but constantly worrying. I reckon the urge to worry ostensibly seems to be a primal reaction to me.

But what does it all matter?
Am i truly doing these things because i love it or because the world deems it to be desirable such that it enraptures my thoughts to be an alluring choice?

God all i need now is a little more of your wisdom.
A little more of your love.
A little more of Your presence.

Because seeking it on my own accord, brings no reward.
But when you seek it with me, i know my paths are made straight in Your precious name.
Even if i seek what seems to be a worthless choice, where its not recognised by the world, and people deem it pathetic, does it matter if it has the approval from You who made the weak and the strong, who seek to anoint the humble and fell the strong?

I need to set my eyes solely on You once again.

Not anymore on the decisions i want.

As Peter inquired, " Father, if you will" as He stepped onto the pristine lake of galilee.
So i hope to make the same.

Father if you will, let my footsteps be within Yours which have paved my way. For you light a lamp onto my feet and have made my paths straight before me.

Proverbs 3:5-6
" Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding,
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and He will make your paths straight."

Friday, August 08, 2008

Time flows on.

In the eternal scheme of things, who am i?
Nothing but a bygone memory, come and gone with time and dust.
But if we work in the name of Jesus Christ,
we live in his eternal salvation, for an eternal purpose, contributing to an eternal cause to bring more people into the Kingdom where God's love and joy fills up the emptiness.

If we focus on stumbling, we will stumble.
If we focus on the goodness that eventually will come, we will simply use every stumbling block as a stepping stone.

"Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,
and i dwell in the house of the Lord forever."

Psalm 23:6