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Ok before I start, just wanna say that I have no sponsor for writing this and certainly don't get any $$ from saying what I'm about to say.
It's been a few months since I found out the wonderful world of PODCASTING..and it's been AMAZING...!!
If you asked me 3 months ago what podcast was, there's a fat chance I couldn't tell you the answer. Not only did I not know about it, I just did not want to know about it and wasn't interested in what it could do. Until..................
It was love at sight...with my ITouch..hahaha so lovely...that day was still fresh in my mind...first time we met. It was simply MAGIC... (you must think I'm sick rite? haha guess what? I don't care)
Then when I got it, it was like oh wow..I have this new toy I have to adjust in using it. So at first I did the usual - downloading games, music, applications, movies, and other trivial things. But then out of nowhere I started to get curious with podcast and what it could do. So I researched it and browsed it and tried it. Long story short, I got my first podcast and it was Brian Houston's sermon. Then when I started to get the hang of it, I started browsing for some more and I got Joel Osteen's, Joyce Meyer's, Phil Pringle's and recently I got Kong Hee's which was so O-SOME.
I'm not gonna talk about all of them and what I got from the wonderful world of podcasting. I'm just gonna share about 1 sermon I heard from Ps Kong Hee that was really powerful to me. In one of his sermons he talks about the Sacrifice of Praise.
He says "God is not interested when it's easy for us to praise or worship, God is interested when it hurts us to praise Him and when it feels excruciating when we lift up our hands". Then I searched for a verse in the bible and found this Hebrews 13: 15 "Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name." I wonder when I read this verse why it's called "a sacrifice of praise" and not just "praise". Then I realised that the only thing that makes the difference is the word SACRIFICE and guess what? we have to do this continually/on an on-going basis/never stops/in all circumstances/no matter what is happening to us --- get it? Which brings us to Psalm 34:1 - "I will bless the Lord at ALL TIMES". It certainly doesn't say "I will bless the Lord when I feel like it or I will bless the Lord at happy times only" but sometimes this is what we do, we tend to be controlled by our feelings/mood/emotions to praise & worship HIM.
I'm not saying I'm an expert in doing this, certainly not. But I've been trying to do this and attempted this a few times before I came across Ps Kong Hee's sermon. I tried this before and realised just how hard sometimes to lifts our hands up to praise Him to worship Him or even to utter a few words seem so hard and nothing would come out of my mouth..only tears. I could easily succumb to my feelings and followed what I felt like doing which was Nothing, but I tried to keep going and got my guitar. The next thing I know I was sitting there crying my eyes out (i was crying in bed before i did this you see hahaha) with my guitar sitting on my bed in my dark room with no lights whatsoeva. Just me + HIM. I started humming at first coz I couldn't say anything and I started slowly uttering a few words that I know.."You're faithful" and kept repeating it coz I couldn't say anything else. It's not like suddenly within 1 second a miracle happens or something like dat. The next day the problems still there, the following week - still there, the next 6 months - still there, the next year - still there and even got worse sometimes and I sometimes forced myself to keep praising & worshipping HIM regardless of what I'm feeling.
To be honest with you, it's still hard to do this. The phrase "practice makes perfect" doesn't apply to this situation I reckon hahaha coz it's just difficult...and justru He knows how difficult our situation is at times and yet we still choose to offer up our Sacrifice of Praise & Worship to HIM - this is when it will make the difference. Things start to happen, enemies start to back off and bow down to HIM, HIS glory surfaced everywhere and last but not least our lives become a living testimony. Where we can touch other by just talking about our lives and not about this random person who received miracle. I reckon it is far more effective to impact/touch others by sharing our "crazy" experience with God rather than passing on hearsays from 1 person to another.
Oh there's another thing in his sermon that struck me and opened my eyes. Ps. Kong said "we should praise HIM in advance". I was like..what?? why? I thought we praise HIM for what He has done/already happened/blessings already received but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I reckon it's easy to offer our praise to HIM when we're blessed in every area of our lives, when things work out the way we wanted it to work out .. but it's just a praise and not a Sacrifice of Praise. So I realised from then on, we should offer up our sacrifice of praise IN ADVANCE - when the blessings not yet received/things got worse/situations got harder to handle/when we're about to give up and that's the true Sacrifice of Praise. One more thing, we shouldn't expect something in return from HIM but just purely focusing on HIM and HIM alone.
Wow it's a long one this time..hahaha
I'll post some more in the near future..I got so much to share about from what I got from the podcasting & from journalling. This already took me almost 2.5 hrs to write ahhahah...dunno bout the journalling ones...might take even longer!
OK that's all for now..hope you guys got new insight of what HE wants from us ...
Til next post..
Muach muach ampe monyong....
GBU ..
PS: Apple should pay me big time from promoting their product..hahahahaha. .. u reckon? hihihihihi ga deh
Ok before I start, just wanna say that I have no sponsor for writing this and certainly don't get any $$ from saying what I'm about to say.
It's been a few months since I found out the wonderful world of PODCASTING..and it's been AMAZING...!!
If you asked me 3 months ago what podcast was, there's a fat chance I couldn't tell you the answer. Not only did I not know about it, I just did not want to know about it and wasn't interested in what it could do. Until..................
It was love at sight...with my ITouch..hahaha so lovely...that day was still fresh in my mind...first time we met. It was simply MAGIC... (you must think I'm sick rite? haha guess what? I don't care)
Then when I got it, it was like oh wow..I have this new toy I have to adjust in using it. So at first I did the usual - downloading games, music, applications, movies, and other trivial things. But then out of nowhere I started to get curious with podcast and what it could do. So I researched it and browsed it and tried it. Long story short, I got my first podcast and it was Brian Houston's sermon. Then when I started to get the hang of it, I started browsing for some more and I got Joel Osteen's, Joyce Meyer's, Phil Pringle's and recently I got Kong Hee's which was so O-SOME.
I'm not gonna talk about all of them and what I got from the wonderful world of podcasting. I'm just gonna share about 1 sermon I heard from Ps Kong Hee that was really powerful to me. In one of his sermons he talks about the Sacrifice of Praise.
He says "God is not interested when it's easy for us to praise or worship, God is interested when it hurts us to praise Him and when it feels excruciating when we lift up our hands". Then I searched for a verse in the bible and found this Hebrews 13: 15 "Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name." I wonder when I read this verse why it's called "a sacrifice of praise" and not just "praise". Then I realised that the only thing that makes the difference is the word SACRIFICE and guess what? we have to do this continually/on an on-going basis/never stops/in all circumstances/no matter what is happening to us --- get it? Which brings us to Psalm 34:1 - "I will bless the Lord at ALL TIMES". It certainly doesn't say "I will bless the Lord when I feel like it or I will bless the Lord at happy times only" but sometimes this is what we do, we tend to be controlled by our feelings/mood/emotions to praise & worship HIM.
I'm not saying I'm an expert in doing this, certainly not. But I've been trying to do this and attempted this a few times before I came across Ps Kong Hee's sermon. I tried this before and realised just how hard sometimes to lifts our hands up to praise Him to worship Him or even to utter a few words seem so hard and nothing would come out of my mouth..only tears. I could easily succumb to my feelings and followed what I felt like doing which was Nothing, but I tried to keep going and got my guitar. The next thing I know I was sitting there crying my eyes out (i was crying in bed before i did this you see hahaha) with my guitar sitting on my bed in my dark room with no lights whatsoeva. Just me + HIM. I started humming at first coz I couldn't say anything and I started slowly uttering a few words that I know.."You're faithful" and kept repeating it coz I couldn't say anything else. It's not like suddenly within 1 second a miracle happens or something like dat. The next day the problems still there, the following week - still there, the next 6 months - still there, the next year - still there and even got worse sometimes and I sometimes forced myself to keep praising & worshipping HIM regardless of what I'm feeling.
To be honest with you, it's still hard to do this. The phrase "practice makes perfect" doesn't apply to this situation I reckon hahaha coz it's just difficult...and justru He knows how difficult our situation is at times and yet we still choose to offer up our Sacrifice of Praise & Worship to HIM - this is when it will make the difference. Things start to happen, enemies start to back off and bow down to HIM, HIS glory surfaced everywhere and last but not least our lives become a living testimony. Where we can touch other by just talking about our lives and not about this random person who received miracle. I reckon it is far more effective to impact/touch others by sharing our "crazy" experience with God rather than passing on hearsays from 1 person to another.
Oh there's another thing in his sermon that struck me and opened my eyes. Ps. Kong said "we should praise HIM in advance". I was like..what?? why? I thought we praise HIM for what He has done/already happened/blessings already received but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I reckon it's easy to offer our praise to HIM when we're blessed in every area of our lives, when things work out the way we wanted it to work out .. but it's just a praise and not a Sacrifice of Praise. So I realised from then on, we should offer up our sacrifice of praise IN ADVANCE - when the blessings not yet received/things got worse/situations got harder to handle/when we're about to give up and that's the true Sacrifice of Praise. One more thing, we shouldn't expect something in return from HIM but just purely focusing on HIM and HIM alone.
Wow it's a long one this time..hahaha
I'll post some more in the near future..I got so much to share about from what I got from the podcasting & from journalling. This already took me almost 2.5 hrs to write ahhahah...dunno bout the journalling ones...might take even longer!
OK that's all for now..hope you guys got new insight of what HE wants from us ...
Til next post..
Muach muach ampe monyong....
GBU ..
PS: Apple should pay me big time from promoting their product..hahahahaha. .. u reckon? hihihihihi ga deh
posted by christina at Monday, February 02, 2009
1 Comments:
omgoshhh.. thanks for sharing that cwis!! that's what i'm going through atm.. and it's so true.. no matter how much it hurts, we keep on praising HIM!! we remain faithful coz He's faithful to us..
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