tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335911831669183382024-03-19T11:16:21.315+08:00One man's Journey in the Holy Spiritwalking in the Holy Spirit
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger913125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-29568683164841251102024-03-08T12:11:00.004+08:002024-03-08T12:11:36.888+08:002024 not abandoned: a new spiritual journeyHow may we hear God and understand Him more accurately? Last night while praying my heart purposed to start afresh the unfinished journey over the uncharted spiritual rough waters of Bible words. It is not a time to ask why. It is a time to ask how. How may this be done consistently and persistently? I believe the Lord has put this desire in my heart and will help me get going…I have put a link Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-78474369287629358142024-01-17T10:59:00.002+08:002024-01-17T10:59:32.472+08:002024 how not to grieve over a devastating tearing asunder and loss of a beloved? In the utmost sorrow and chaos inside out, spirit, soul and body, how does one stay sane and live on at least from day to day, eating and sleeping, halting the mind and the heart from a repeated constant reprise? It was impossible. Without God's grace and mercy and the immense working of the Holy Spirit, I could not have lived through the grief. I am still in its process and a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-28011387729184314682024-01-17T09:58:00.000+08:002024-01-17T09:58:02.648+08:002024 Jan 17 how to draw a line between the spiritual and the physical?2024 JAN 17 PROLOGUE: I assumed that life would be all sunshine and blue sky. That was to be the story of my life. And that would always be. Pure assumption. It did not happen. My earth world came crashing down over a decade ago. I had to part with a partner (of twenty years). I thought we could still remain best forever friend for the rest of our lives, mine at least, as I am 15 years her seniorUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-21433271073206339372023-01-14T21:11:00.004+08:002023-01-14T21:15:57.027+08:00You may think your marriage/family is over. Yet with God nothing will be impossible. Come January 23-26 meet!If you have a spouse/partner/girlfriend/boyfriend who is fluent in Chinese only, then you fit the target audience. Whether you are married or thinking about marriage or not, this free online sharing and counseling will be useful for you and your loved ones and neighbors. Please also share with your church members and encourage those with needs to come!This is organized by a volunteer mother with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-52060291693257576382022-12-06T16:09:00.005+08:002022-12-06T16:09:42.120+08:00the Life of God in a believerThere is really no option to choose otherwise. For no word from God shall be void of power. Said the angel. There is a God-side and a man-side. God-side is where the impossible always happens.The Scriptures are quoted from New King James Version (NKJV) unless otherwise specified.Luke 1:37 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition 37 For with God nothing is ever impossible and no word Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-64198151858776621402022-12-06T15:57:00.005+08:002022-12-06T15:57:54.107+08:00when Jesus replied to Peter's request, “Come”, who responded?Be surprised. It was not Peter. I always thought of how Peter, or rather, the body of Peter responded to Jesus saying one word, “Come!” And the body of Peter merely got down the boat, while its back was facing the voice of Jesus, and stepped onto the surface of the water in the midst of the sound of the wind and the raging water.Was it Peter who heard the sound of Jesus and responded with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-78547550435297773212022-10-22T17:41:00.004+08:002022-10-22T17:42:04.151+08:00Be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.Col 1:4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints; 1:9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-69386573376802481422022-10-22T17:30:00.005+08:002022-10-22T17:30:46.189+08:00a watershed! how to walk the next step in Christ?The point is, the physical world is openly exposing itself as what it has become. The spiritual world too has revealed itself just as real but toward another direction. The two paths have now merged into a physical-spiritual watershed point. It has come to a point where the divide between the physical and the spiritual is growing into a chasm. No, this is not a premonition. This is not a prophecyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-84284806021514645972022-10-22T17:08:00.003+08:002022-10-22T17:08:59.637+08:00the watchman’s dream on 2022-10-16The watchman’s dream and 2 Thessalonians 2Nothing could be more ridiculous. The only good thing about it is that it was only a dream. The watchman was with a small group of people for no particular reasons in a large gated house. There was an alert that the enemy were coming so they had to prepare themselves. There was no indication of who and why and when and from where and how, all the details Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-29910062978013512662022-07-11T13:31:00.000+08:002022-07-11T13:31:05.336+08:00Worship God and know He is presentI like to imagine that out there we are the living and walking street lamps. The switch is our awareness of God’s ever presence in us, and He is our constant ever flowing power current.In a Bible sharing meeting in response to a sister’s question on how she may overcome the persisting adversities in her workplace, the teacher suggested that she worshipped in those situations. After he left she Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-51657262849525683472021-05-20T19:10:00.004+08:002021-05-20T19:10:57.299+08:00Yet now be strong, alert, and courageous. In this place will I give peace and prosperityThis came to the watchman today as the Bible opens and continues to reveal the truth that sets free the current captive. The requirement is be strong. The reward is peace and prosperity. All in terms of the rebuilding and refocusing of the eyes and hearts of the people on God and His plan.“In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, in the second year of Darius the king (of PersiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-85218398320419389052021-05-15T17:52:00.002+08:002021-05-15T17:52:22.740+08:00seeing through the Spirit: two witnesses, one attitudeBoth witnesses were in the darkest possible moments, being held in captive in the enemy’s stronghold, and yet both saw God appearing in glory. Why?God’s presence being revealed to Ezekiel in Babylon also demonstrates that holiness has nothing to do with geographical location, but rather the condition of people’s hearts. God is moved by the faithfulness of men like Ezekiel, who became His priest Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-8704890457573008072021-05-02T13:42:00.001+08:002021-05-02T13:42:21.386+08:00Nehemiah’s pre-cautionary rebuilding —a lifestyle: Building and Guarding Materials and Weapons (expanded 2021-05-02)On January 6, 2010 after a Sunday experience with the Holy Spirit, the watchman decided to spend time in morning worship and Bible reading on his own. The Book of Nehemiah came to his mind and he read the verses aloud. The reading was different from his previous reading of the same Book. The whole Book brought to him a clear message about re-building a church.He saw how Nehemiah processed the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-26771662886029479672021-05-01T14:57:00.003+08:002021-05-01T14:57:33.597+08:00Unboxed: Where are the prophets today? Watchman, what of the night?Yes, where indeed are the prophets today? Are there any more prophets in this highly digital technological age full of once futuristic prophecies fulfilled? No Christian would deny the importance of prophecies for two reasons: They are part and parcel of the Bible. They have come true in human history —some are yet to come true and many Christians are waiting for that to happen. My question todayUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-20825318048218362262021-04-29T16:35:00.007+08:002021-04-29T21:11:02.490+08:00an incredible yet most credible witness for the accused Lord. Who is this brave good man?You guess rightly. Peter the defense witness. One look at his resume before the resurrection you would not normally elect him to be the spokesman for the accused, Jesus. And yet Jesus deliberately chose him to be His spokesman. Did Jesus choose wrongly?Peter’s credential and defense (narrated as Peter himself)I am Peter. I was the first to call Jesus the Son of the Living God – the Messiah (Mark Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-64340563232832752042021-04-29T16:31:00.003+08:002021-04-29T21:11:36.676+08:00Seeing the dead Lord coming back to life: post-resurrection shock and transitionWhat do we normally do after a burial? How would we react when we see a dead man come back alive from the tomb after three days or more?Jesus’ resurrection is stunning! It is only a beginning. He stayed on for forty days. What did He do? What did His disciples do? Let us start at the dawn which heralds in the beginning of a new world order for the believers of Jesus. Just as the apostle Paul has Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-38135135546396740382021-04-29T16:20:00.005+08:002021-04-29T21:12:18.197+08:00a skeptical and condescending half brother of our Lord as a defense witness? a most misunderstood manPrologueI found it difficult to put up a case for him. So I put on hold for quite sometime and prayed about it. The answer finally came. “Heureka! Heureka!” (I have found it!) I will write about his relationship with Jesus, his half brother.Prologue: James, the half brother of JesusJesus grew up in a sizable family that included four half brothers—James, Joses, Simon and Judas (who would Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-14503706082957870822021-04-29T16:15:00.002+08:002021-04-29T16:16:24.816+08:00Five hundreds credible eye-witnesses, all hand-picked by the Lord HimselfWhile being prompted to write this episode on the five hundreds eye-witnesses, I asked the Lord who they are. Then I realized that they had to be honest, reliable, accurate, living persons who knew Jesus personally, and because of their own personal miraculous experience with the supernatural Son of God, they became credible as witnesses for the risen Christ because many people already knew of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-43502351703505217272021-01-21T19:59:00.007+08:002021-01-25T19:55:30.990+08:00God’s last words —His best solution to end the curse on earth (six last prophets)What is God speaking today? Can we hear through the prophets? Today we read some “last words” from God through six prophets as recorded in the Bible (735-430BC). Let the timeless words from God speak to our heart and give us the power and strength and hope we need. I have included the last few prophets here, who were confident to speak because they walked with God closely and listened to Him Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-6249942153842073312020-12-13T20:53:00.004+08:002020-12-13T20:53:42.093+08:00A list to reaffirm our position in Christ todayI BELIEVE JESUS IS THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD. I HAVE LIFE IN HIS NAME“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:” (John 1:12 NKJV) “but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.” (John 20:31 NKJV)“And I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-73083828054713445242020-12-13T12:18:00.006+08:002020-12-13T12:18:48.052+08:00Have the right “mark” (seal) and win the race: God’s winning strategies in Revelation 2-3The essence of strategies is to choose what to do. This is a really difficult one unless you have been sealed with the right mark on you. What? Do all who profess to be Christians have mark too? Wait. We shall see who has the mark and who does not, according to Jesus.Firstly, beware of the wrong mark, the mark of the beast, as warned in the Book of Revelation (13:16, 17, 14:9, 11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-28463623950177250372020-12-13T11:55:00.003+08:002020-12-13T11:55:29.470+08:00Align, finish the race, win: God’s winning strategies in Revelation 2-3“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” I learned and practiced this even when employed in the corporate world. Today a Generation Z asks me why do I bother to write this blog? Why bother with the serious stresses of the world when I can just write fun things and get on with a relaxed life? After all, there are many good Christian blogs out there. What makes one blog special Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-59989164337227451792020-12-13T11:48:00.003+08:002020-12-13T11:48:18.277+08:00Begin at the finish line and win the race with focus and boldnessIn my corporate days, I have taught a useful leadership management topic called, “Begin at the end”. What it means is that when you know your finish line, you will run with focus, boldness, and even ease. How do we know what the finish line of our life is? The Bible is our plume line. When we know what God uses to measure our lives, and what resources and abilities He has richly given us, we knowUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-59787568238012684872020-11-22T23:46:00.001+08:002020-11-22T23:46:05.260+08:00December 18, 520 BC. Haggai 2:18 (revelation received on Nov 22,2020)Today’s revelation received by the watchman (Nov 22, 2020)December 18, 520 BC. Haggai 2:18Message to the priests about holiness, not getting themselves defiled by association with those defiled by sin, and rebuilding the Temple of God2:10 On December 18 of the second year of King Darius’s reign, the Lord sent this message to the prophet Haggai: 11 “This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533591183166918338.post-78381928074931867202020-11-22T14:19:00.002+08:002020-11-22T14:39:25.904+08:00Today’s word of hope: hornet, Holy Spirit, and pattern for victoryWhat have these in common: hornet, pattern, the Holy Spirit? The watchman asks the Lord for the meaning of the vision he saw on the previous day during a 24 hours fast. In the vision he saw granular compartments in hexagon shape joined together. The word he receives today is “hornet”. Then he realizes that what he saw looks like a hornet nest.There are two things to note about the hornets. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0