God's great "medicine bottle"

God's Word is so varied and wonderful in its working that it provides not only spiritual health and strength for the soul but also physical health and strength for the body. In Proverbs 4, God's promise perfect healing and health to every believing child of God. God's great "medicine bottle" is contained in Proverbs 4: 20-22.

My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body.

They are four fold :

1. "Give attention to my Words."

2. "Incline your ear."

3. "Do not let them depart from your eyes."

4. "Keep them in the midst of your heart."

[This excerpt is taken from Foundational Truths For Christian Living by Derek Prince]

The Right Kind of FAITH

My faith is not in my ability to control my own destiny.
My faith is not in my good name and good living.
My faith is not in my church or its ceremonies.
My faith is not in my ability to improve myself.
My faith is not in my ability to push all negative thoughts out of my life.
My faith is not in my own sincerity.
My faith is not in my power to tap some inner, godlike resources.
My faith is in Jesus Christ.

[This excerpt is taken from Do I Have The Right Kind Of Faith? 2001 RBC Ministries.
Read it online at www.discoveryseries.org/q0603]

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, former pastor of London's Westminster Chapel said: "Faith is holding on to the faithfulness of God and, as long as you do that, you cannot go wrong. Faith does not look at the difficulties..... Faith does not look at itself or at the person who is exercising it. Faith look at God..... Faith is interested in God only, and it talks about God and it praises God and it extols the virtues of God.

Steamboat dinner

We were invited and blessed with a steamboat dinner at 'Zi Wei Yuan Steamboat' along Jalan Raja Uda, Butterworth yesterday. The restaurant is situated opposite the busy 'Apollo" open market. The place is spacious and there are wide varieties of choice.

There were also a good company of friends to share the good food.

CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP BUILDS US UP AND BINDS US TOGETHER.

Musical Performance

We were blessed when we attended our first musical performance at PenangPac
, Straits Quay, Tanjung Tokong, Penang on 12 January 2012.

MALAYSIAN GIRLS show us the existing world of a beauty pageant. It is full of catchy songs and explosive dance moves on high-heels together with glitzy costumes and high energy performance. The music is a bold fusion of iconic and equally captivating numbers.

Fostering Strong Family Ties

DAP national chairman Karpal Singh wants the government to enact a law making it a crime for children to abandon their aged parents.

He said this in view of a latest survey, conducted by the National Malaysian Population and Family Survey which showed that 675,000 citizens, or one out of three people, aged 60 and above, have been abandoned and do not receive financial support from their children. The survey based on the 2010 Population and Housing Census included senior citizens abandoned in hospitals and those living in welfare homes.

He proposed the government to enact a Maintenance of Parents Act to protect parent’s rights from callous children. He also highlighted the high penalty imposed on children in other countries which have implemented similar acts where the punishment included hefty fines or imprisonment.

In India, children who fail to provide monthly allowance as ordered by court can be punished up to three months in prison or imposed a Rs5,000 fine (RM305.50) while in Taiwan those who abandoned their parents may face up to a year in prison or a fine up to $200,000 (around RM20,740).

In Singapore, the Maintenance of Parents Act 1995, states that parents are entitled to make maintenance claims from their children. The punishment for failure to provide maintenance, included a maximum fine of S$5,000 (RM12,200) or up to six months imprisonment.

A healthy relationship between parents and their childen can only take place through the power of love, not by enactment of law.

In the Ten Commandments which are divided into two tables, the first lays the foundation of all duty in our relation to God, while the second rears the superstructure in the various offices of love between man and his fellow.
God honours his own ordinances, the family. He gives parents rank next after himself. Filial love stands near, and leans on godliness. Love to parents ranks next under reverences to God.
Honouring thy father and mother is an ornament of solid gold.

Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. NIV

Honoring our parents has no age limit.

Mother Teresa said : "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty".

Our time on earth is limited

Time and tide wait for no man.

The relentless ticking of the clock reminds us that our time on earth is limited. Despite the joys and pains of life, time always marches on. For the believer, our time on earth is an opportunity for gaining wisdom.
" Let's ask God to "teach us to number our days" (Psalms 90:12) so that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

One way of numbering our days and make good use of our spare moments is to ask :-
How can I become more Christ-like?
Am I reading the Word of God regularly?
Am I devoting time to prayer?
Am I meeting together with other believers?
Am I sharing the gospel with other pre believers?

The psalmist wrote : "LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee." (Psalm 39:4-7 KJV)

Don't spend your time - invest it.