I am tired. I have not packed my stuff for the trip which is about 24 hours away. But I want to blog some thoughts after coming back from The Festival of Praise 2011 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
I thank God I went because John Bevere's message tonight was like a prelude to my personal retreat.
He was speaking on "Grace" and I was reminded that God's grace gives me the ability to live an extraordinary life. This grace is God's free empowerment that gives me the means to go beyond my natural ability.
"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me." 2 Corinthians 12:9
I also learnt that faith is the pipeline to grace.
"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God." Romans 5:1-2
There were many other lessons I took home but the above two are the most relevant in the current state of my journey with God.
The past one and a half years or so, I have forgotten that God has given me His grace, more than sufficient, to live an extraordinary life. Instead I dwelled on the struggles I was going through in handling family matters, discouraged by my foiled plan to go into full-time ministry and in turn letting all these affect my relationships with my loved ones.
This also speaks of the lack of faith I had in God to help me overcome the above struggles.
John Bevere at the closing of his message challenged everyone in the stadium to tap on this grace that God has freely given us to live that extraordinary life but we are not to stop there. We should go a step further and win lives for Christ by the way we live!
The reason why many Christians are living a mediocre lifestyle is mainly due to our lack of knowledge of God's grace. If only every child of God can live that extraordinary life through grace, our walk with God can never go dry or mundane.
Well, this is a good start to more lessons I will learning from God during my retreat.
For this trip, I am really going by faith because I am packing my bag to travel into an unknown territory which I did not really research on like my previous holidays. In a way it is good because this lack of knowledge of the new environment will not distract me from the very objective of being refreshed by God and also to seek Him for my future direction in life.
Throughout the course of typing out this blog, I have been blowing my nose constantly. I think I have the flu and I am praying God will make me well before I leave on early Monday morning.
I shall end here.
I thank God I went because John Bevere's message tonight was like a prelude to my personal retreat.
He was speaking on "Grace" and I was reminded that God's grace gives me the ability to live an extraordinary life. This grace is God's free empowerment that gives me the means to go beyond my natural ability.
"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me." 2 Corinthians 12:9
I also learnt that faith is the pipeline to grace.
"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God." Romans 5:1-2
There were many other lessons I took home but the above two are the most relevant in the current state of my journey with God.
The past one and a half years or so, I have forgotten that God has given me His grace, more than sufficient, to live an extraordinary life. Instead I dwelled on the struggles I was going through in handling family matters, discouraged by my foiled plan to go into full-time ministry and in turn letting all these affect my relationships with my loved ones.
This also speaks of the lack of faith I had in God to help me overcome the above struggles.
John Bevere at the closing of his message challenged everyone in the stadium to tap on this grace that God has freely given us to live that extraordinary life but we are not to stop there. We should go a step further and win lives for Christ by the way we live!
The reason why many Christians are living a mediocre lifestyle is mainly due to our lack of knowledge of God's grace. If only every child of God can live that extraordinary life through grace, our walk with God can never go dry or mundane.
Well, this is a good start to more lessons I will learning from God during my retreat.
For this trip, I am really going by faith because I am packing my bag to travel into an unknown territory which I did not really research on like my previous holidays. In a way it is good because this lack of knowledge of the new environment will not distract me from the very objective of being refreshed by God and also to seek Him for my future direction in life.
Throughout the course of typing out this blog, I have been blowing my nose constantly. I think I have the flu and I am praying God will make me well before I leave on early Monday morning.
I shall end here.
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