Carry your cross

Awesome!!
We complain about the cross we bear but don't realize it is preparing us for the dip in the road that God can see and we cannot.


Whatever your cross,
whatever your pain,
there will always be sunshine,
after the rain....
Perhaps you may stumble,
perhaps even fall;
But God's always ready,
to answer your call....
He knows every heartache,
sees every tear,
a word from His lips,
can calm every fear...
Your sorrows may linger,
throughout the night,
But suddenly vanish,
dawn's early light...
The Savior is waiting,
somewhere above,
to give you His grace,
and send you His love...

-Shared by Alexandria Kucha

A simple tree

A little poem by Edwin Luebefreed ----- Quiet Self:

I think the tree has taught
me more
Than all the things I adore.
It clings to the earth, yet
Sees the sky,
And never has it question why.

-shared by Sophia Ngiaw

Holy Alphabets

HiYo,

Just want to share something with you guys..

JESUS REPLIED, "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR THE
WORD AND OBEY IT!"
( LUKE 11:28 *NIV )

It is written; "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU; IT IS IN YOUR
MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART," THAT IS, THE WORD
OF FAITH WE ARE PROCLAIMING. ( ROMANS 10:8 )
FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND ACTIVE.
SHARPER THAN ANY DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD.
( HEBREWS 4:12 )

The Holy Alphabet

A-lthough things are not perfect
B-ecause of trial or pain
C-ontinue in thanksgiving
D-o not begin to blame

E-ven when the times are hard
F-ierce winds are bound to blow
G-od is forever able
H-old on to what you know

I-magine life without His love
J-oy would cease to be
K-eep thanking Him for all the things
L-ove imparts to thee

M-ove out of "Camp Complaining"
N-o weapon that is known
O-n earth can yield the power
P-raise can do alone

Q-uit looking at the future
R-edeem the time at hand
S-tart every day with worship
T-o "thank" is a command

U-ntil we see Him coming
V-ictorious in the sky
W-e'll run the race with gratitude
X-alting God most high

Y-es, there'll be good times and yes some
will be bad, but...
Z-ion waits in glory...where none are ever sad!

In closing, always remember, the shortest distance
between a problem and a solution is the distance between your
knees and the floor. For the one who kneels to the Lord can
stand up to anything! Amen.

Have a Blessed week ahead,
Salina ;->

Open your eyes!

Who God Uses

God, grant me the Serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the Courage to change the one I can, and the Wisdom to know it's me. The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember...

Noah was a drunk

Abraham was too old

Isaac was a daydreamer

Jacob was a liar

Leah was ugly

Joseph was abused

Moses had a stuttering problem

Gideon was afraid

Samson had long hair and was a womanizer

Rahab was a prostitute

Jeremiah and Timothy were too young

David had an affair and was a murderer

Elijah was suicidal

Isaiah preached naked

Jonah ran from God

Naomi was a widow

Job went bankrupt

John the Baptist ate bugs

Peter denied Christ

The Disciples fell asleep while praying

Martha worried about everything

The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once

Zaccheus was too small

Paul was too religious

Timothy had an ulcer

and Lazarus was dead!

Share this with a friend or two. In the Circle of God's love, God is waiting to use your full potential.

May God Always Bless You !

-Shared by Isabel Fong

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Do you know what Valentine means???

'For God so loVed the world,
That He gAve
His onLy
BegottEn
SoN
That whosever
Believeth In Him
Should Not perish,
But have Everlasting life.'
John 3:16


Amazing eh....

-Shared by Stella Sayang

What God Can Do With "57 Cents"

A sobbing little girl stood near a small church from which she had been turned away because it was "too crowded."



"I can't go to Sunday School," she sobbed to the pastor as he walked by. Seeing her shabby, unkempt appearance, the pastor guessed the reason and, taking her by the hand, took her inside and found a place for her in the Sunday school class. The child was so happy that they found room for her, and she went to bed that night thinking of the children who have no place to worship Jesus.

Some two years later, this child lay dead in one of the poor tenement buildings. Her parents called for the kindhearted pastor who had befriended their daughter to handle the final arrangements.

As her poor little body was being moved, a worn and crumpled red purse was found which seemed to have been rummaged from some trash dump.
Inside was found 57 cents and a note, scribbled in childish handwriting, which read: "This is to help build the little church bigger so more children can go to Sunday School."

For two years she had saved for this offering of love. When the pastor tearfully read that note, he knew instantly what he would do. Carrying this note and the cracked, red pocketbook to the pulpit, he told the story of her unselfish love and devotion.

He challenged his deacons to get busy and raise enough money for the larger building.

But the story does not end there...

A newspaper learned of the story and published it. It was read by a wealthy realtor who offered them a parcel of land worth many thousands.
When told that the church could not pay so much, he offered to sell it to the little church for 57 cents.

Church members made large donations. Checks came from far and wide.
Within five years the little girl's gift had increased to $250,000.00--a huge sum for that time (near the turn of the century). Her unselfish love had paid large dividends.

When you are in the city of Philadelphia, look up Temple Baptist Church, with a seating capacity of 3,300. And be sure to visit Temple University, where thousands of students are educated.

Have a look, too, at the Good Samaritan Hospital and at a Sunday School building which houses hundreds of beautiful children, built so that no child in the area will ever need to be left outside during Sunday School time.

In one of the rooms of this building may be seen the picture of the sweet face of the little girl whose 57 cents, so sacrificially saved, made such remarkable history. Alongside of it is a portrait of her kind pastor, Dr. Russel H. Conwell, author of the book, "Acres of Diamonds"

This is a true story, which goes to show WHAT GOD CAN DO WITH 57 CENTS.

Blessed Ministry's Retreat

Sorry for the late update but here's the pictures from the Blessed Ministry's Retreat last month.


More pictures can be located HERE!

Visits so far...

Sorry for the late reply, been kinda busy with my own life.....



I've checked Nuffnang's analytics and this is what I've found from the results...





Ahhh.. so far only Malaysians?? Help us spread the blog k!!




How??

1. Word of Mouth / Messenger ^^...
2. Send e-mails to your friends
3. In forums, leave this blog's address as your signature
4. Any other legal way
   

Let's do it!

ABC's of Friendship

ABC's of Friendship

(A)ccepts you as you are
(B)elieves in "you"
(C)alls you just to say "HI"
(D)oesn't give up on you
(E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
(F)orgives your mistakes
(G)ives unconditionally
(H)elps you
(I)nvites you over
(J)ust "be" with you
(K)eeps you close at heart
(L)oves you for who you are
(M)akes a difference in your life
(N)ever Judges
(O)ffers support
(P)icks you up
(Q)uiets your fears
(R)aises your spirits
(S)ays nice things about you
(T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
(U)nderstands you
(V)alues you
(W)alks beside you
(X)-plains things you don't understand
(Y)ells when you won't listen and
(Z)aps you back to reality

So.... now you know the ABCs, do it wit otherz!!! Like them below!!

JOYFULLY with A WIDE SMILE ON YOUR FACE!!!

Nuts...

One thing you should might want to know about the Blessed Ministry is that somehow, somewhere, we can find something fun out of nothin... It's remarkable...

This post is actually about NUTS!!!!

When you put Sarah, Carl and Joel together... you'll never know what might happen ^^

We were at ExPert in BDC and we were munching on some nuts AKA ~Kacang~. Then, Sarah, Carl and Joel kinda arranged the skin of the nuts in a formation. Suddenly, they formed something like this...

See anything?? K, let me turn that a bit.... ^^

Now??? Sarah did a little of adjustments...

There... looks like a dog right???

Then, Sarah did a few adjustments...

Transform to a CAT!!!

They can't control themselves!! Next is a....

BaBooN...

You might say, "Sakai" ahha... But, honestly, God gave us this world and they are so many stuff we can do... Be grateful for what you have, cause some people, just don't have any...


Take care!!
-Cyril

Amazing Photo

This is a photo taken by NASA

Some say it's God's eye... What do you think??

-Shared by Alex Kucha

What happen to the 12 apostles???

DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED?

Matthew Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound.



Mark Died in Alexandria , Egypt , after being dragged by horses through the streets until he was dead.



Luke was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous preaching to the lost.



John faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution in Rome . However, he was miraculously delivered from death. John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos. The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve as Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey. He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully.



Peter was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross. According to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die in the same way that Jesus Christ had died.


James, Just The leader of the church in Jerusalem, was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's
club.

* This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the Temptation.

James the Great, son of Zebedee, was a fisherman by trade when Jesus called him to a lifetime of ministry. As a strong leader of the church, James was ultimately beheaded at Jerusalem. The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended his faith at his
trial. Later, the officer walked beside James to the place of execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge and knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian.



Bartholomew also known as Nathaniel Was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey. Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death by a whip.



Andrew was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras, Greece . After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words: "I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it." He continued to preach to his tormentors for two days until he expired.



Thomas was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church in the sub-continent.



Jude was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. Matthias The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.



Barnabas, one of the group of seventy disciples, wrote the Epistle of Barnabas. He preached throughout Italy and Cyprus. Barnabas was stoned to death at Salonica.



Paul was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment which allowed him to write his many epistles to the churches he had formed throughout the Roman Empire . These letters, which taught many of the foundational
doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the New Testament.




Perhaps this is a reminder to us that our sufferings here are indeed minor compared to the intense persecution and cold cruelty faced by the apostles disciples during their times for the sake of the Faith. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake:



"But he that endureth to the end shall be saved"

-Matthew 10:22.

So. next time when you think your life sucks...

-Shared by Stella Sayang

Verses that will help

Here's a beautiful message I received from our beloved sis, Adeline Liaw.


There are times when we feel like we are at the bottom of a bottomless pit, so to say. We just feel down and not confident. Suddenly, everything is like a burden on your shoulders, dragging you to an endless loneliness and misery. You feel left out and alone. You feel distorted and unclear. You feel wanted but left alone. You feel dead and uncared for.


Youth is the starting spring of life. It is a pity to hear and read about news of youth throwing away their youth by committing suicide and indulging themselves in an endless realm of drugs and self-pity. Smile and rejoice, for God Loves us so much.


You were always thought that our Father loves you so much. Every single day, God Loves you, God Loves you. Accept it as it is the truth....


By the way, here's some bible verses I received in an e-mail. Hope these verses will help you!



YOU SAY
GOD SAYS
BIBLE VERSES

You say: "It's impossible"
God says: All things are possible
(Luke 18:27)

You say: "I'm too tired"
God says: I will give you rest
(Matthew 11:28-30)

You say: "Nobody really loves me"
God says: I love you
(John 3:16 & John 3:34 )

You say: "I can't go on"
God says: My grace is sufficient
(II Corinthians 12:9 & Psalm 91:15)

You say: "I can't figure things out"
God says: I will direct your steps
(Proverbs 3:5-6)

You say: "I can't do it"
God says: You can do all things
(Philippians 4:13)

You say: "I'm not able"
God says: I am able
(II Corinthians 9:8)

You say: "It's not worth it"
God says: It will be worth it
(Roman 8:28 )

You say: "I can't forgive myself"
God says: I Forgive you
(I John 1:9 & Romans 8:1)

You say: "I can't manage"
God says: I will supply all your needs
(Philippians 4:19)

You say: "I'm afraid"
God says: I have not given you a spirit of fear
(II Timothy 1:7)

You say: "I'm always worried and frustrated"
God says: Cast all your cares on ME
(I Peter 5:7)

You say: "I'm not smart enough"
God says: I give you wisdom
(I Corinthians 1:30)

You say: "I feel all alone"
God says: I will never leave you or forsake you
(Hebrews 13:5)


May you have a blessed weekend ahead you. For those going to the Blessed Ministry's Retreat in Santubong, may God be with you and don't you dare leave Santubong without feeling His Love for you.


Cyaz, Peace!

Communications

To hear what other people are really saying, you need to listen to what they are not saying. No matter how hard people may appear on the surface, mostly everyone is tender inside and has a desperate need to be understood. The following poem captures this need.

Please hear what I’m not saying

Don’t be fooled by me,

Don’t be fooled by the mask I wear,

For I wear a mask,

I wear a thousand masks,

Masks that I’m afraid to take off,

And none of them is me.

Pretending is an art that is second nature with me,

Don’t be fooled.

I give the impression that I’m secure,

That all is sunny and unruffled with me,

Within as well as without;

That confidence is my name,

Coolness is my game,

That the waters are calm and that I’m in command

And I need no one,

But don’t believe it, please don’t.

I idly chatter with you,

In suave tones of surface talk.

I tell you everything that’s really nothing,

Nothing of what’s crying within me.

So when I’m going through my routine,

Don’t be fooled by what I’m saying.

Please listen carefully

Try to hear what I’m not saying;

What I’d like to be able to say;

What?

For survival,

I need to say but I can’t say,

I dislike the hiding.

Honestly I do.

I dislike the superficial,

Phony games I’m playing.

I’d really like to be genuine,

Spontaneous

And me;

But you have to help me.

You have to help me,

By holding out your hand,

Even when that’s the last thing

I seem to want or need.

Each time you are kind,

Gentle,

And encouraging,

Each time you try to understand,

Because you really care,

My heart begins to grow wings.

Very small wings.

Very feeble wings,

But still wings.

With your sensitivity,

Sympathy,

And your power of understanding,

I can make it.

You can breathe life into me,

It will not be easy for you

A long conviction of worthlessness

Builds strong walls.

But love is stronger than strong walls,

And therein,

Lies my hope.

Please try to beat down those walls,

With firm hands,

But with gentle hands,

For a child is very sensitive,

And I am a child.

Who am I??

You may wonder,

For I am every man,

Every woman,

Every Child,

I am every human you meet

So, treat your friends, siblings, parents, and whoever you meet, well because they are God’s creation and no matter how old they are, they are still sensitive and feeble as a child in the inside. They need you to reach out to them with your gentle hands and love, for every man, woman, and child needs….

What's happening to the world???

Word of Wisdom

Anything.... for that ticket...

People on the right, don't look out of the window!!

Fortune Chicken!!

Me First

NOT MY JOB!!! I just have to mark the road!!

LOOK Where the Camera is facing!!

The Surgeon Says..

Interesting Shirt Design...

Natural Style....