Boat-Rocker♥

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 ♥

SEVEN ABILITIES NEEDED TO FAIL FORWARD

Achievers Reject Rejection
Achievers See Failure As Temporary
Achievers See Failures As Isolated Incidents
Achievers Keep Expectations Realistic
Achievers Focus on Strengths
Achievers Vary Approaches to Achievement
Achievers Bounce Back

This is just the pointers so hope you learn something new today and if you need the examples TAG then I will edit haha...

Jeremy

Live for nothing or die for something?

Sunday, November 23, 2008 ♥

This is something Pehhan wrote in his blog and ya I took it so thanks pehhan in advance hope you don't mind..

More, Lord..
"If God doesn't send revival to America soon, Lou Engle might get burned out."What a statement.
This man is working so hard to see revival come to America that if it doesn't happen soon, he might just run out of gas, fatigued.

Are we willing to work a little bit harder to ensure that the follow-ups come?
Are we willing to work a little bit harder to see newcomers every week?
Are will willing to work a little bit harder to see the school outreaches grow?
Are will willing to work a little bit harder to pioneer new school outreaches?
Are we willing to work a little bit harder to see the cells grow?
Are will willing to work a little bit harder to see the zone grow?
Are will willing to work a little bit harder to win this generation?

Jeanne Mayo said that the 3 legs of the ministry stool are..

Work your guts out. (work as hard as you can)
Pray your guts out. (pray as hard as you can)
Love your guts out. (love the people as much as you can)

Jeremy

Live for nothing or die for something?

♥

I was reminded of this passage when I was reading mark and it kind of remind me of the message I've preach in Myanmar. So I thought I'll share it with the cell what I am seeing in this passage.

Mark 1:40-45
40. Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, "If You are willing, You can make me clean."
41. Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be cleansed."
42. As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed.
43. And He strictly warned him and sent him away at once.
44. and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing those things which Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."
45. However, he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the matter, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter the city, but was outside in deserted places; and they came to Him from every direction.

If you know anything about a leper or leprosy it actually is a disease and if you read in the bible and if I didn't remember wrongly that people say/believe it was a punishment from God because you are a sinner so in other words leper/leprosy is unclean or dirty. In the past, there was no cure for leprosy and if left untreated, leprosy can be progressive, causing permanent damage to the skin, nerves, limbs and eyes. So when that happens your limbs will stop working because your nerves are damage causing it not to function well and many of us is like this spiritually. Spiritually we are LEPERS. 3 parts to share what I want to say.

Why do I say we are lepers?
1) Simple because we let ourselves be bound in our sins, insecurity, past failures, past mistakes, people's comments and thoughts and all this things causes us to be cripple in our spiritual walk with God because we choose to let it keep us down and not climb back up, we don't know how to face it, how to deal with it and much less have the boldness to face the problem. If you check the world teens today when they face a problem they run away and if they can't run, they cut themselves and if they can cut themselves, they commit suicide. Like many of you I was once a leper and still is because I'm still dealing with issues in my life and sometimes I don't dare to, like the recent case of me being remove from course it was a blow to me but thankfully there was leaders and God to support me and walk me through it. When we don't deal with our issues we are like leaving our leprosy untreated and hence cripple ourselves.

2) In verse 41-42 we can see that Jesus was move with compassion and healed the leper and the leper was cleansed immediately and this is where I come to an exciting point. Understand this that we might be afraid, unable and tired to face our problem much less to overcome it but I want you to know this that the bible says here in verse 41 that Jesus was move with compassion towards the LEPER and let's think for a moment OK. The leper is a non-christian and Jesus was move with compassion towards him so how much more will JESUS be move by His own sons and daughters. What I'm trying to tell you is this that despite all your flaws and shortcomings, Jesus is still moved with compassion and loves you the same. His love never changes be it in good times or bad times HE IS FAITHFUL. So my dear brothers and sister I want to encourage you to begin stretching your hand towards Jesus and let Him heal you of your leprosy come on cause if He can do it for me surely He will do it to you cause we are all human that are the same with weaknesses.

3) In verse 43-45 we see that Jesus asked the ex-leper to go show himself to the priest however the man did not and went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the matter. So you see here that we are also like this ex-leper, after we receive our blessings, gifts, talents, healing and breakthrough we taint to forget God and continue doing our own thing or maybe for some of us we praise God for awhile and then we place God back into a dark corner of your shelf and only take Him out again when we need Him. Let's learn to praise God always in good times and bad times. Giving God thanks would always help us to overcome our problems because we have learned to cast our problems to Jesus and depend on Him. So don't leave God on your smelly, dirty and old shelf any longer it's time to take Him out and walk this life with Him because it's going to be fun, it's an adventure

So hope you learn something from this because I also don't know where I'm going I'm just sharing what's on my heart so hope it inspire, encourage and taught you something. Love you deep deep.

Jeremy

Live for nothing or die for something?

♥

Saturday, 22 Nov 2008

Favour

People who walk in favour realise others will despise you for your vision
People who walk in favour turn every bad situation into an opportunity
People who walk in favour will always have their integrity & heart motivation challenged
People who walk in favour realise it always leads to responsibility
People who walk in favour realise that it always leads to great trials and testings
People who walk in God's favour are dependent on God as their source, not their own strength
People who walk in God's favour realise that it always leads to authority

Sunday, 23 Nov 2008

Personal Pyromania
Pyromania - the uncontrollable impulse & practise of setting things on fire

Fire

Gives light
Gives warmth
Gives protection
Purifies
Gives off an unmistakable odour
Spreads easily

Jeremy

Live for nothing or die for something?

Saturday, November 22, 2008 ♥

Well as you can see I've or rather WE have decided to call this blog - "Boat-Rocker" the reason is simple because I'm very inspire by two things.

1st, it will be your youth pastor, Pastor Daniel because after working under him and knowing him more I realise and agrees with others that he loves to rock people's boat and if you know anything about rocking boats it makes the boat unstable & uncomfortable.

2nd, its in Matthew 14:22-33. I'm so amaze by this passage and it's gripping my heart because if you were to read it; in verse 24 it says that "the boat was in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary." so it means that everywhere around was noisy, wet and uncomfortable and the only comfortable place was to be on that boat in the shelter.
Going down to verse 28-29 you see that peter did the most crazy thing and that is he ask Jesus to let him walk on water and hello reality check, you are comfortable on the boat whereas outside the boat is all stormy what would you prefer? Of cos to stay in the boat la if you ask me BUT I believe right at this moment Jesus must have place something in Peter's mind and if you ask me,
I would think it'll be "Would you want to stay comfortable or do the impossible?"

This few months of dry periods, God has really been speaking to me and doing some stuff for me and I'm very appreciative of what He has done for me and its really shaking me out of my boat to walk on water with him and I've decided to do so. Well cell core & members are you ready to walk on water with me? but let me warn you its going to be hard cause it requires a price, a price to sacrifice and follow after Jesus wholeheartedly. So this is why I decided to call this blog boat-rocker for this reason we will not want to stay comfortable but change the world with Jesus.

I love you all dearly and really enjoyed moments with you all

Jeremy

Live for nothing or die for something?

♥

I felt so strongly the Lord impress this upon my heart and I feel that we should all read this.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
1. To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:

2. A time to be born,
And a time to die;

A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;
3. A time to kill,
And a time to heal;

A time to break down,
And a time to build up;
4. A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;
5. A time to cast stones,
And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;
6. A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;

7. A time to tear,
And a time to sew;

A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;

8. A time to love,
And a time to hate;

A time of war,
And a time of peace

Jeremy

Live for nothing or die for something?