Life's Missions

The Mind of Christ

lifemission — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:35:04 +0000

Joyce Meyers says “If we want to follow after Jesus’ footsteps we must start to think like he did”. To that we may says impossible since Jesus is perfect and we will not reach perfection until we see Him face to face.

Take a look at Ezekial 36:26-27

A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

And I will put My spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them.

She further says in one of her million-copy bestseller “Battlefield of the mind”

We would make tremendous progress simply by learning how to discern life and death. If something is ministering death to you, don’t do it any longer

Here is an example she quoted by what it means “something is ministering death to you”

Say I am thinking about an injustice I suffered because of another person, and I began to get angry. I start thinking about how much I dislike that individual.

If I am discerning I will notice I am being filled with death. I am getting upset, tense, stressed out – I may even be experiencing physical discomfort. Headache, stomach pain, or undue fatique may be the fruit of my wrong thinking.

On the other hand, if I am thnking about how blessed I am and how good God has been to me, I will also discern that I am being filled with life.

Fear or Love? Which Is More?

lifemission — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:15:31 +0000

Recently while I was sitting down to journal some events in my life, a phrase came to me very strongly and here is the phrase :

” THE FEAR OF BEING HURT IS GREATER THAN TO LOVE“

Then it came upon me that some people I knew was strongly affected by this fear. To the extend of with holding love from others.

In relationships we are bound to hurt one another. It is a known fact. But learning to give & take, forgive & forget and excercising grace that Jesus can and will supply us abundantly is something we should strive towards to.

No one says it is going to be an easy task. In relationships, it is never easy. But removing the pride to admit we are wrong when we infact are will heals lots of hurts. The Bible says “Love covers a multitudes of sins“; in Living Bible Edition (Prov 10:12) it says ” Hatred stirs old quarrels, but love overlooks insults“

When I ponders upon this verse, I really wonders when we retracts from loving another for various seemingly valid reasons, to what extends have we exercise LOVE?

Maybe for this new year 2007, we should strive to overlook insults, offenses, bickerings, injustices, and a millions of other scenarios that causes us to have no peace in our hearts?

My Love In Action

lifemission — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:08:46 +0000

Recently I felt a nudged when I am sitting behind a lady who happened to be a single mom. I am not quite sure why the husband left her & her teenage son when the boy is still young. But the nudging won’t goes away & I reckon it must be My Dad (MD) asking me to do something about it. Although I am just a beginner & an amateur, I took up the couraged to asked her whether she is ok for me to trim her hair & also colour it.

I told her that I will call her the next few days to arange but my schedule were tight & on the weekend, I was also tight up in an early Christmas party. Well, I was feeling a bit guilty for not making the extra effort to just pick up the telephone to call her. After all, how much it will take me to call her?? I asked myself.

Before the party, I was rushing my way right after work, to a charity event organised by our local churches & low & behold .. I saw her there! Now, MD was pretty smart & wouldn’t want me to let go of this idea of his. Well, I walked right up to her & told her to wash her hair when she goes home & don’t put on any oil nor cream in order for the colour to sink in. I told her I will go backs to her house after church to start the work.

Let me give you a little bit more of her background. What I heard from some members .. she is illiterate or with very little education. So, she only survives on cooking/baking cakes or some other special dishes. On top of that she has recently also work as parttime cleaner for offices. But she told me one of the offices have been delaying in paying her.

So, when I was packing all the tools, I felt like giving her beyond something she could imagined, just like MD promised me as well. I took my whitening face mask to give her a nice facial mask while waiting for the hair colour to sink in.

Now, this is how she looks before anything was done (notice the length of her hair?)

After 3hours of work, here is how she finally looked