God's fight

Exodus 14:14

The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.

Kids@Play, our first ever evangelistic carnival is over. Organised as a non-denominational Singapore-wide activity for the churches of Singapore, it was a humongous task because everything was uncertain but the vision to do it.

When we have no budgets, no idea of how many churches would participate, concerns about crowd control, uncertainties about everything and anything under the sun, it made sleep very unrestful. 

How does one go ahead to live life as normal as possible when you have no idea how to put things together, who to call for help and what would be the best thing to do? 

As the Lord delivered the hebrew slaves out of Egypt, He too brought us through. Churches who came together, many did amazing carnival games of high standards. Others rallied and provided manpower and logistics assistance that made the carnival event lively and full of vibrant life.

What a feeling it is to be able to stand and witness on the actual day the deliverance of God. The dream given was actually fulfilled by the dream sender-God.

For such a time, I walked around the carnival grounds silently acknowledging God@work while kids were@play. Because the fight is always the Lord's, the battle is victorious and importantly, the praises belongs to Him.

God be praised forever and ever.

M.

  

Providing for family

1 Timothy 5:8

Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

I was just having a lunch conversation with an ex-colleague today and we happened to talk about the issue of her relatives not providing for their aged parents and it infuriated her that they were not being responsible adults.

Consider the amplified bible's explanation of this verse. "If anyone fails to provide for his relatives, and especially for those of his own family, he has disowned the faith [by failing to accompany it with fruits] and is worse than an unbeliever [who performs his obligation in these matters]."

Providing for the family is akin to the fruits that are accompanied with your faith.

M.

Blessings to God

1 Chronicles 29:11

Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.

There are day where tons of things hit you and your mind can go round and round, and yet the liberation comes when you focus on God. Not just think about how big or strong He is, but simply just profess the greatness of God and allow your spirit to be consumed by the simple act of proclaiming all the blessings back to God.

As I return from my business trip, it has been exhausting and coming back to reality is no fun. I slept at 5am and woke up zapped and groggy and headed back into work to do my stuff and worried about solving issues regarding the upcoming RR event. 

Tons of stuff uncompleted, yet when the online radio played this song which proclaimed blessing to God, it made something in me still and calm. I know there and then that there is such a freedom when we offer a blessing to God. In spite of and regardless of, nothing really matters when we put it all aside to proclaim the truth that God is worthy of all blessings.

Someday, heaven will be like that. Tons of fellowship and happy moments will stop just because we'll find it so much more a pleasure to worship and give blessings to God who will inhibit amongst us.

My God reigns forever and over everything.

M.