Wonder what would happen?

Wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phones?

• What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
• What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
• What if we flipped through it several times a day?
• What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
• What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?
• What if we gave it to kids as gifts?
• What if we used it as we traveled?
• What if we used it in case of an emergency?
• What if we upgraded it to get the latest version?

This is something to make you go..hmmm...where is my Bible?

Oh, and one more thing, unlike our cell phone, we don't ever have to worry about our bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill!

Sunday Re-cap 23rd July 2006

Know Your Identity
by Michael Lee

People are moulded and their mould comes from what they see, hear and speak. Hearing, seeing and speaking produces the activities of our lives and works. What Eve heard and saw produced what she spoke through her action that changed her identity (Gen. 3:1; 2:16; 3:2-7)

What we hear enters to our spiritual realm and produces fruits whether good or bad. There is a difference bwtween facts and the truth. It was not what Adam and Eve ate that changed their identity, but rather it was what Eve took heed when she heard the serpent.

Gen 1:26 – Our identity is of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. We were made in God’s Image. This is our real identity.

Gen 3:1-6 – Adam & Eve forget who they were and the followed what the cunning serpent said to them. Adam & Eve gave in to the serpent’s temptation by hearing, seeing, speaking and doing what the serpent wanted them to do. That was to disobey God and forget their identity as the sons of God.

Eph 1:3-6 - If we know our true identity then we will live as a son of the Living God. We will be like a butterfly with beautiful colours being displayed, enjoying the nectar of the flowers (enjoying the Word and the fellowship of the saints), and doing the work of pollination (carrying out the Great Commission).

Many times people do not realize they have a identity crisis and they become like caterpillars, just taking rather being a blessing to those around them.

Eph 3:10 -11 - Saints of God – having the image of God
“to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,”.

~ God sent his Son Jesus Christ to restore our identity with God and know the reason why we were created; and made known the manifold wisdom of God.

~ We are one family and we are called to be here.

~ We are called to read the Word of God and know that we are sons of the Living God and feed on the His words.



1 Chronicles 4:9-10
“Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain." And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested.

1. Proverbs 18:20 -21 - Power of the tongue. “A man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth, From the produce of his lips he shall be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.” Jabez understood the power of the tongue.

2. Ps. 119:9 - How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word. Jabez knew that change in his life can only come when he decreases and God increases in his life. He prayed for an enlarged territory to contain more of God's Word.

3. Jabez prayed that the hand of God will be with him, moulding and shaping him to be a blessing.

Know your identity, for we are the product of what we identify with!

Enter to worship, depart to serve

"In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said: 'Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!' And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. So I said: 'Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.' Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, and said: 'Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' Then I said, 'Here am I! Send me.'" (Isaiah 6:1-8)

Isaiah had the worship experience of all worship experiences. He came into the very presence of God. He had a vision of God that literally changed his life. I am convinced that our daily walk, our daily service is directly proportional to our vision of God. That our concept of God determines how we much we love and serve Him. That how we worship God has a lot to do with how we live and serve Him throughout the rest of the week. Shallow worship translates into shallow service. And meaningful worship translates into meaningful service.

Enter to worship, depart to serve.

Have a great day!

Alan Smith

Sunday Re-cap 16th July 2006

Obedience Brings the Presence of God
Ps. David Lai

Text : Jonah 1 & 3

2 Peter 3:7 ~ Heaven and earth are preserved by the Word of God. We can trust that preserved Word of God. The Word of God (WOG) is the real world to us.
Obey the Word, then the presence of God is there.

Jonah 1:1-3 ~ Jonah received the WOG but not the presence of God because he went on another direction. Man of God can come and go but the WOG remains.

Mark 4:15 ~ Satan will try to snatch the WOG when it is sown. Obey God’s word and enter the supernatural and experience the presence of God in your lives.
- Peter walked on water by obedience to Jesus’ words.
- It’s the WOG that God wants to manifest, that will enable us to move on to the next step in our walk with God. Joseph experienced that all through his life.
- Obedience to God’s word will always bring the blessings.

Jonah 1:10-17 ~ Jonah fled from the presence of God. The sailors prayed and threw Jonah into the sea and he went into the belly of the fish.

Jonah 3 ~ Jonah finally obeyed the Lord’s word and went to Nineveh. God already knew that the people of Nineveh will repent.

No matter what happens even in the hour of our testing, we must persevere and keep the WOG and trust Him. We need to give our hearts to God.

Lucifer, one of the arch-angels was once with God; and Judas was in Jesus’ presence but they both failed because they never fully surrendered their hearts to God.

~ It’s always about what God wants to do in us and through us by the Word of God.

1 Kings 17 – Elijah in obedience to the WOG, received his provision.

When we obey the WOG, the provision is already there.
Receive your provision by what you say!

Youth 4 Christ

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Special Meeting

SRI PELITA SCHOLARSHIPS

A leading, Christian-based private education institution, Sri Pelita, celebrates its 6th year of providing quality education in Penang by offering 10 SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS to deserving students, primarily for secondary school from Form 1 to Form 4. (Primary school students may apply too.)

“Sri Pelita School was established six years ago by a community of parents and teachers who believe that learning should be a joyful experience for students. Throughout these six years, they have been resolutely working to establish a conducive environment whereby students studying in the school can reach their highest potential.

Today Sri Pelita School is known for her richness in curriculum and her care for her students. One of the hallmarks of Sri Pelita is its emphasis on the development of Multiple Intelligences. The essence of Multiple Intelligences is to respect the many differences among people, the many ways that they learn and the almost infinite number of ways they can leave a mark on the world.

Thus the goal in Sri Pelita is to create an environment to cater for these individual differences. Our prayer is that through this environment, we will be able to nurture a generation of students who will be independent, confident, ICT literate, well-spoken and well-read.” – quoted from website: www.sripelita.com.my “Welcome from the Principal, Dr Seow Siew Hua.”

SCHOLARSHIP QUANTUM
Scholarships offered at 50% of fees with consideration for up to 100% for deserving students.

BASIC CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

1. Income level of parents will be a significant consideration for selection. (Scholarships designed to provide equal opportunity to financially constrained, deserving students to receive quality education which they may otherwise be deprived of.)
2. Academic and extra-curricular merits will also be taken into account to determine quantum of scholarship.
3. Good character reference by church pastor.

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION

1. Electronically – by completing and emailing the attached application form to:

“The Sri Pelita Scholarship Board”
Email address: fgacen@streamyx.com or fgacen@tm.net.my

1. Mailing the completed application form to:

“The Sri Pelita Scholarship Board”
c/o Pastor Prem Kumar
Fettes Park Baptist Church
15 Jalan Meranti, Fettes Park
11200 Tanjung Bungah
Penang

The Sri Pelita Scholarship Board members are:

1. Dr Seow Siew Hua – Principal
2. Pastor Prem Kumar – Member
3. Pastor Albert Tan – Member

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATION
Closing Date: 31 August 2006
Note: Scholarships are available for the remaining of the 2006 school year or for the new school year beginning 2007.



Blessings
Albert
On Behalf of Sri Pelita Scholarship Board

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Sunday Re-Cap 2nd July 2006

Our Weakness God’s Strength
By Ps Dong Campoy

TEXT: 1 Cor 1:26-29

1. OUR WEAKNESS, GOD’S WEAPON

• One of the clearest principles in the Bible is that God uses weak things. He uses men and women who abandon their reliance on their natural abilities and resources and cast their dependency, totally upon God.

2. GOD’S WAYS ARE NOT MAN’S WAYS.

• God uses nobodies from nowhere with nothing but who are willing to depend upon Him for everything. 1Co 1:28, Isaiah 40:29,2 Corinthians 3:5


• The word “strength” is the word “dunamies”, from which we get the word dynamite. It is the same word used in Act 1:8 translated POWER. The word “perfect” is the same word used in John 19:30 translated “finished”, complete in our weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:10 Hebrews 11:34


• Our weakness is the best backdrop for God to display His power.

3. WEAKNESS DEMANDS HUMILITY

• A humble man has a proper evaluation of himself. He realizes that all of his intellect, his training, his experience, and his position in life mean absolutely nothing apart from the supernatural enabling of god.


• 2 Cor 12:7

4. HUMILITY BRINGS US DEPENDENCE (1 Cor 2:1-4)

• Humility - means rating ourselves insignificant. Phil 2:5-6 (MSG)

The fact is that God uses those who are dependent upon nothing but Him alone.
He has to removed first our strength and brings us to the end of ourselves so that we will look at the task and say,


“God, I cannot do this without you”.

Sunday Re-Cap 25th June 2006

When God Speaks
By Ps Kul Bal

1 Sam 3:9-10

• Many times we say “Listen LORD, thy servant speaks..” instead of “speak LORD, thy servant heareth”.
• The Most important thing for a believer is to hear the voice of God.
• We may think our Eli is calling i.e. sickness, depression, poverty, old nature; if we don’t recognize the voice of God.

God will test us in 4 ways (Gen 22)
4 TEST pressure points:

1. Present Reality

• Whatever is happening currently.


• We must realize that God is watching us on how we respond and not our current situation. Many times we focus on the situation when God is focusing on something else.

2. Time

• Test of time.


• Building Faith and Patience.

3. Oppressors

• Oppressing and diminishing our vision.


• Often people who are close to us.


• We have to ignore the opressors and the negative voice within.

4. Adversities

• Demonic.


• Stop us in the direction that God is taking us.


• Distractions.

When God Speaks we normally go through 7 stages:

1. Excitement

2. Doubt

3. Fear

At this point we must:

4. Remember, Repeat, Rehearse the WORD

5. Apply FAITH

6. Put into ACTION

7. Joy (Gen 22:13-14)

Most of us go through these steps. However many people stop at point 3 and miss their victory. Let us be people who carry it through from steps 4-7. Let us be like JESUS.

Heb 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Phi 2:5-11
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth; And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Sunday Re-Cap 18th June 2006

The Christian Father

Text:
Deut 6:6-7

The role of the Christian Father is extremely important in nurturing their children. It is said in a statistic that ~80% of all criminals in one western nation had problematic relationship with their natural fathers. This however should not be an excuse for those of us who did not have good fathers. We now have the greatest Heavenly Father!

The 3 Key Biblical Roles of The Christian Father towards his family in the home which are found in our TEXT today are:

1. Teach The Word

• The role of teaching the WORD should not be only the responsibility of the mother. Fathers must take up this primary role except in the event of the father not being physically present or is an unbeliever.

2. Talk To Them

• Fathers must overcome their previous mindsets and talk to their children. We must learn to say words like “I’m Sorry”, “I Love You” to them. It’s not wrong for a Christian Father to hug his children.


• The importance of Family Altars and partaking of the Holy Communion together.


• Affirm our children by encouraging and positive words. Col 3.21


• If we don’t talk to our children, someone else will. MTV, Movies, wrong friends, etc.


• Watching TV, Movies together is not considered spending quality time.


• We should not substitute spending quality time by buying expensive gifts for our children as this communicates a very wrong message to them.


• The way our children relate to their fathers is how they are going to relate to their heavenly Father. Are we approachable or do our children fear us?


• To our children LOVE is spelt as T.I.M.E.

3. When we sit in the house, walk by the way, lie down and rise up.

• these speak of the most intimate times we have with our families.


• Do they see the same person or are we one thing in church and in the public and then another thing at home.


• What do they hear us speaking at home and in the bedrooms?


• Children learn more through examples then through all that we can say to them.


• Help them to thank God for all that He has done before they sleep and show them by example that God has great things in store for them when they wake up in the morning. Help them to plan their day by planning your day.

Let us be the kind of fathers that God wants us to be through the strength that the Holy Spirit provides us. We’ve only got ourselves to blame if our children are not turning to the LORD. It’s still not too late even if our children are teenagers and have grown up. Anything is possible through prayer and the AGAPE love that we can show to our children.

By Ps Samuel Hari

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RAPHA NIGHT 1st July 2006

Combined Youth Meeting with Ps KUL BAL

NASA proves that the BIBLE is True

For all you scientists out there and for all the students who have had a hard time convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible here's something that illustrates God's awesome creation and shows He is still in control.
Did you know that NASA's space programmers are busy proving that was has been called 'myth' in the Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, and a consultant in the space programmes, relates the following incident:
One of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland. They were checking out the positions of the sun, moon and planets out in space where they would be 100, and 1000 years from now. We have to know this as we do not want a satellite to collide with any of these in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite and where the planets will be so the whole project will not bog down. Computer measurements and data were run back and forth over the centuries when suddenly it came to a halt, displaying a red signal, which meant that either there was something wrong with the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out, and the technicians asked what was wrong. The scientists had discovered that somewhere in space in elapsed time a day was missing. Nobody seemed able to come up with a solution to the problem. Finally one of the team, a Christian, said: "You know, when I was still in Sunday School, they spoke about the sun standing still......." While his colleagues didn't believe him, they did not have an answer either, so they said: "Show us." He got a Bible and opened it at the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with 'common sense'. There they read about the Lord saying to Joshua: "Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not be a man of them stands before thee." (Joshua 10:8). Joshua was concerned because the enemy had surrounded him, and if darkness fell, they would overpower him. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right ? "And the sun stood still and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Ja'­sher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day." (Joshua 10:13).
The astronauts and scientists said: "There is the missing day!" They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it, but it was not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes ? not a whole day. They read the Bible again and there it was: "about (approximately) a day." These little words in the Bible were important, but they were still in trouble, because another 40 minutes were still unaccounted for, and this could mean trouble 1000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible which said the sun went backwards. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but once again they opened the Book and read these words in 2 Kings. Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet, Isaiah, who told him he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for some sign as proof. Isaiah said: "Shall the sun go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?" And Hezekiah answered: "It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees; nay, but let the shadow return backwards ten degrees." And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord, and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." (2 Kings 20:9 >?11).
Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and twenty minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in 2 Kings accounted for the missing day in the universe! Isn't this amazing? Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth!

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B-U-S-Y? Then read this!

Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.
In his opening address he said,

"We can't keep Christians from going to church."

"We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth."

"We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with
their saviour."

"Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is
broken."

"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish
dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a
relationship with Jesus Christ.."

"This is what I want you to do," said the devil:

"Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that
vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.

"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable
schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.

"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."

"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to
work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their
empty lifestyles."

"Keep them from spending time with their children."

"As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape
from the pressures of work!"

"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small
voice."

"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive."
To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home
and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays
non-biblical music constantly."

"This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."

"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers."

"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."

"Invade their driving moments with billboards."

"Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs,
sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free
products, services and false hopes.."

"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their
husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and
they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. "

"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night."

"Give them headaches too! "

"If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin
to look elsewhere."

"That will fragment their families quickly!"

"Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children
the real meaning of Christmas."

"Give them an Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection
and power over sin and death."

"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."

"Have them return from their recreation exhausted."

"Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation.
Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and
movies instead."

"Keep them busy, busy, busy!"

"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip
and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences."

"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek
power from Jesus."

"Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their
health and family for the good of the cause."

"It will work!"

"It will work!"

It was quite a plan!

The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians
everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.

Having little time for their God or their families.

Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.

I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes?

You be the judge!!!!!

Does "BUSY" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?

Sunday Recap - 21st May 2006

APPRECIATION
By: Bro. Michael Lee

Today many lack of appreciation which causes families, relationships to fall apart. Even many find it difficult to come to church because of the lack of appreciation.

What is appreciation? (Oxford Dictionary)
To understand and enjoy fully in a right way.
To be thankful for.
To let become in value.

First we need to know how to appreciate God before we appreciate one another. When we appreciate God we:
1. Give thanks and praise (Ps. 100:4)
2. Honor Him (Pro. 3:9-10) – Gratitude is a God Honoring attitude.
3. Remember Him (Ps.103:2-5). Holy Communion for us to always remember all the benefits of God. Exo.32:1-14 – The people of Israel were spared because Moses remembers not only the Lord but also His words. But the people perished because they could not remember the Lord their God (Deut 8:19).

When we don’t appreciate God, we will fail to give Him thanks and fail to understand and enjoy Him fully in the right way which eventually causes us to be:
1. Running on empty – no vision lost and confused in life.
2. Burning bridges – become murderers, bitter, cause strife & quarrels.
3. Dissatisfied – become critical, negative & grumblers.
4. An abuser – We abuse one another and ourselves. (Rom.1:20-32)

In short, when we have lost the ability to appreciate, we open the doors to elements like: fear, pride, anger, greed, lust, unforgiveness and success. (Lk.8:37-40; I Sam 11 & Lk.17:11-19).

Let us be contented with what we have and what we are in Christ; and continue to appreciate God and one another always!