My personal view and knowledge

Don't listen to world's noise, Listen to God's voice

The advantage of speaking in tongues
- is unselfish prayer
- connect your spirit with God's Spirit
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Any association between Feng Sui and Christianity?

The OT is a shadow that point people to Jesus
All the measurement, articles and how they were placed and which direction they are placed and what color used are all pointing to Jesus

Did the NT mention anything about Feng Sui?

Jesus died facing the north. Does that means that we have to stay in a house that faces the north in order to be prosperous?

What is Rest? Why we need to be restful in the midst of challenges? Living a Carefree Live. Living a Let Go live

Rest..... is a weapon given to us by God. The enemy hates it because he wants you stressed and occupied.

What is Rest? Rest is not inactivity, Rest is God's directed activity. It's about emotional rest. Relax and not to worry. In solving the problems and challenges in live, let your mind be focusing on God, not your problem. Let your eyes beholding God, not your problem. Let God take care of you. Let God take care of the challenges you're facing. Let God direct your activities and handle the situation for you.

Philippians 4:6-7New American Standard Bible (NASB)

6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all [a]comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 5:7New American Standard Bible (NASB)

7 casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

Matthew 6:25-34New American Standard Bible (NASB)

The Cure for Anxiety

25 “For this reason I say to you, [a]do not be worried about your [b]life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the [c]air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27 And who of you by being worried can add a single [d]hour to his [e]life? 28 And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, 29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! 31 Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But [f]seek first [g]His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be [h]added to you.

34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will [i]care for itself. [j]Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Live in the now. Don't live in the future by asking, "What if...." and don't live in the past by saying, "if only....." Don't waste your present moments. If you're spending time with a loved one, enjoy the moment Don't worry about that project deadline.

You may ask, "if I don't worry, then I'm not being responsible."

Well, let's look at your idea of "responsibility." If you're worried now about next week's responsibility as you spend time with your loved one, your loved one will not get the best of you because you are there physically but mentally, you are miles away! Secondly, when next week comes, your worring won't put you in a good state of mind to handle that responsibility well.

Beloved, to believe that by worrying you are being responsible is to believe a lie from the enemy! Jesus wants you worry free, anxiety free and carefree - every day (Matthew 6:25-34, Philippians 4:6-7, 1 Peter 5:7)! Why? Because He is there to supply you with whatever you need. Do what you need to do, but refuse to worry and live each day like a child. Live in the NOW enjoying every precious moment you]ve been given because you have a faithful heavenly Father who will take good care of you!

Are the Jews, Muslim, Christians and Roman Catholic technically worshiping the same God?

The Jews worship the Almighty God like the Christians, are they saved?


Since the Jews observed the 10 commandments and all the Laws in the old testament, are they saved?


Since the Muslim and the Jews also worship the God of Abraham, are they saved?


Do the Jews believe in the Holy Spirit since they don't believe in Trinity?
The Jews believe that the Holy Spirit is the inspiration of God, it is also God's messenger. But never believe that the Holy Spirit is God as the Jews don't believe in Trinity.


Islamic view of the Christian Bible

Does the Qur'an teach Muslims to believe in the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel?

The 12 Tribes of Ishmael

If Abraham is justified by having faith in God, then all the following will also justified by having faith in God.

No one is anti-God because everyone believes in a God, there only such thing as anti-Christ (doesn't believe that Jesus is God)

Islam
1. Believe in Monotheism
2. Jesus is a prophet
3. Believe in the books of Moses and the Law of God
4. Worship the God of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac
5. Having faith in God
6. The Arab world is from the lineage of Ishmael

Jews
1. Believe in Monotheism
2. Jesus is a prophet claim to be God
3. Believe in the books of Moses and the Law of God
4. Worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
5. Having faith in God

Christian
1. Believe in Trinity (God, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are God in One)
2. Jesus is God
3. Believe in the books of Moses and the Law of God and the New Testament (The Gospel)
4. Worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
5. Having faith in God and having faith in Jesus, believing that Jesus is God

Catholic
1. Believe in Trinity (God, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are God in One)
2. Jesus is God
3. Believe in the books of Moses and the Law of God and the New Testament (The Gospel)
4. Worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
5. Having faith in God and having faith in Jesus, believing that Jesus is God


Family Tree from Noah to Jacob

Are the Arabs from Ishmael lineage?

Speaking or Praying In Tongue

Hey! In my time spent with God, I learnt more about the subject of speaking or praying in tongue and the benefits, hence, I was so excited that I have decided to write a blog about this subject.

Why speak in tongue or pray in tongue?

There is a slight difference between speaking in tongue and praying in tongue

When we speak in tongue, often in the public, we need someone to interpret, if not, the tongue spoken will not have any meaning an it can't edify anyone in public or the person whom we speak to.

1 Corin 14:13 NIV
For this reason anyone who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret what he says

But when we pray in tongue, we don't need a interpreter. This is because we are not speaking or praying to man, we are speaking and praying to God. God who design the tongue for each individual will obviously understand what we are praying about. In fact, it is He who help us to pray or intercede for us when we pray in an unknown language.

1 Corin 14:2 NIV
For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit

Tongue is one of the many spiritual gift of the Holy Spirit

1 Corin 12:7-10
Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.

It is the simplest and most basic gift


Can anyone have the gift of tongue?

Yes of course. Because it is the simplest gift to achieve.

What do we expect the Holy Spirit to do before we can speak or pray in tongue?

Do we wait for God to zap us or expect something to happen as a indication that God is giving us this spiritual gift of tongue? Do we expect the earth to shake, expect fire come down from heaver, expect some sensational feelings like my body feel warm, my tongue feel warm etc before we can be filled with the Holy Spirit and start praying or speaking in tongue?

Of course NO. Just like a small child want to learn to speak, first start of with "ge ge, ga ga", then as time progress, they start to have more syllabus, more words, more sentences and then they start to pick up a language. Likewise. we need to have a desire to speak like a child, then we can start using ge ge, ga ga" to start our new praying language.

Can everyone can have this gift?

Yes of course. Anyone and everyone can have the gift of tongue to speak to God and for self edification.

How to speak in tongue?

As I have explain earlier, start with a desire and start speaking. When you decide to start you can start, when you decide to stop, you can stop. You can switch between tongue and the language you know.

1 Corin 14:15
So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind

Why should one speak or pray in tongue?

When we pray in tongue, we let our spirit pray and not our mind. Our mind has limited language and vocab, so what we can pray is limited by the language we know. But when we pray in the spirit and not our mind, that open up the spiritual realm and God gives us that language to pray to Him.

1 Corin 14:14
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful

Why allow our mind to be unfruitful in our prayer?

So that we can pray without ceasing. Focus on what we are doing, example driving, and yet still praying and speaking to God. Praying in tongue is speaking to God. 1 Corin 14:2

The Benefit

* Edify ourselves

1 Corin 14:4
He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself

* Speaking to God directly

1 Corin 14:2 NIV
For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit

Sin Consciousness vs Righteous Consciousness

Genesis 3:9
Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:8-11

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LordGod among the trees of the garden. 

9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

* Are you Sin Conscious or Righteous Conscious?

* Were Adam and Eve naked all the while?

* Did Adam and Eve naked only when they were disobedient to have ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

* Why didn't Adam and Eve aware of their nakedness before their disobedient when they had fellowship with God everyday?

* Didn't Adam and Eve hang out with God daily in the cool of the day in their nakedness before their disobedience?

Disobedient (Sin) caused us to be sin-conscious, be introspective, Self-condemning, then we run away from God or hide from God's presence. Don't feel worthy to meet God or face up to Him

The physical awareness of our nakedness is the same as our spiritual sin-consciousness and see ourselves unworthy of God.

Prior to Adam's act of disobedience, when God am into the garden, he would hang out with God without any sense of uncleanness.


Lesson learnt

Sin-consciousness only made us run away from God or hide from God, feeling a sense of uncleanness and unworthiness. Don't dare to face Him or hang out with Him in the cool of the day.


The Solution

New International Version Rom 5:19
For just as through the disobedience of the one man (Adam), the many (all of us) were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous

We are called sinner not because we sin or our disobedience. It was because of Adam's disobedience. Not our doing, but what Adam had done. We are not sinners in the first place. We were MADE sinners because of Adam

Hence, we are called the righteous not because we do righteous things or we are obedient. It was because of Christ's Obedience. Not our doing, but what Christ had DONE on the Cross. We were MADE righteous because of Christ.


Our Response

New International Version Rom 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

Know that once we are in Christ, there is No More condemnation. Hence, don't have to be sin-conscious. But look to Jesus and what He has done, and be righteous conscious and be in fellowship with Him and hang out with Him on a daily basis, don't run away from Him or hide from Him or afraid of Him, then we can live our Christian live in joy and in favor of God and in holiness.

The word Holy is set apart and untouchable by others. We exclusively or only belong to Christ and God. Nothing can remove us from the relationship and fellowship because the covenant had been sealed by blood shed and by God's own blood.

New International Version Phi 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

Know that the righteousness that we had gained, not from our obedient to the law, but Christ's obedience to the law, and because and purely because of our faith and confession of Christ that we are made righteous.


Be assured by the word and promises of God

New International Version Hebrews 10:17
Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."

So come out of our sin-consciousness, our hiding places and hang out boldly with God. It's in His presence that we are empowered, refreshed and recharged. It's in His presence that we receive from Him!

God will help man to find his spouse. Man just need to relax in God

Gen 2:7 God made the 1st human being
Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.

Gen 2;18-20
18. Then the Lord God said,"It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him."
19. So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them and the man chose a name for each one.
20. ----------- But still there was no helper just right for him.

God has a sense of humor

God created wild animals and birds of the sky to be the right helper (spouse) for Adam. Until experiment was enough, concluded there is no helper among the animals and birds just right for Adam, then God create woman, the right helper.

Here we see that God was trying to find Adam a helper (spouse). God created various kinds of animals and bird for Adam to choose one to be helper. Fortunately, Adam didn't satisfied with wild animals or birds of the air to be his helper (spouse). If not, it will be very funny now.

Here we saw that God created and brought them to Adam to allowed him to choose for himself a helper and named them at the same time. Happened that Adam was smart enough not to have chosen the animal or bird to be helper, hence, God finally cause the man to go into a deep sleep, from his rib, God created a suitable helper. When Adam worked up from the sleep, his respond was, "this is bone of my bone, fresh of my fresh," and Adam named her Woman.

If we learnt the important of 1st mention in the bible.
- Here we saw that Adam had a choice (not the general idea that Adam had no choice but to pick the woman as his spouse).
- Here we also saw that Adam didn't go out to seek for a spouse, it was God who brought her in front of Adam and asked Adam was she suitable to be his helper.
- Here we also saw that there is no effort from Adam, he rested. God caused him into a deep sleep, then it was God's effort and initiative to take from his body and form a woman and brought her before his eyes.

Will the Holy Spirit (HS) jump in and out of the us (the temple of the HS)?

Will the Holy Spirit (HS) jump in and out of the us (the temple of the HS)?

Are Christians justified (made Holy and Righteous) by Faith or by our Self-Righteousness (Work)?

The bible said our body are the temple of the HS, The HS is so holy that He will not feel comfortable residing in if there is a little bit of stain of sin. If our sins (past, present and future) are not completely cleansed, the HS will be jumping in and out of our body. Once we confessed our sin, He will be in. Once we sin again and not confessed yet, He will be out of the temple until we confess our sins. But, we are only confessing those we know and based on our standard of knowing, what about those sins we don't know and based on our own standard, we did not recognized those areas are sins? If we have a wrong perception and wrong opinion of God, how can we live our Christian lives correctly and how can we leave in peace with God?

English Standard Version Rom 5:1
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

This verse is very clear

- We are justified by faith, not by our doing. When we have faith in Christ, we are justified already.
- When we are justified, God and us had made peace through Jesus' death. Therefore, God is no longer angry with us. When God want to be angry because of our sin, God no longer looking at our sin, He looked at Jesus on the cross, the finished work of Jesus on the cross had justified us. Therefore, God can never see a stain of sin in us. Hence, God sees us holy and the Holy Spirit sees us holy and peacefully dwell in our body, who is the temple of the Holy Spirit permanently.