Live.Walk.Breathe - Christ. Even today.

Tonight we had the Christchurch highschoolers visiting us here in Dunedin. About 12 of them shared. Their sharing was so pure, so genuine.

It made me reminisce the times when I was a highschooler. Appreciating those times. It was actually because of those times of being preserved in the meetings, trainings, personal and corporate pursuit, constitution, captivation and enjoyment of the Lord that has sustained me till today.

AND NOW, just need the Lord's mercy to keep me simple. To constantly be renewed in the spirit of my mind. Things always happen, but everyday, just need to focus on one thing:

CONCENTRATE on enjoying the Lord.

He is our real, pure, fresh, eternal and unfailing satisfaction.

Really appreciated the portion of Christ in the highschoolers.

1 Tim 4:12 Let no one despise your youth, but be a pattern to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in paith, in purity.

Also appreciate being in the Body of Christ, with the saints around me. Preserving me and supplying me, encouraging me to go on in the Lord.

1. I'm thankful that God has placed me
   With you to build up His Body.
   Christ in you is the hope for me!
   You also need Christ lived in me.
• I live, if you stand firm in the Lord.
  You live, if I stand firm in the Lord.
  My going on is for you,
  Your going on is for me,
  Not sep'rate entities,
  I need you saints desp'rately!
2. Oh, what a sweet church life have we!
   Built up in Him, His bride to be!
   In Him steadfast, you help me be;
   Encouraged by Christ whom I see.
3. Your faith in Christ helps me pursue;
   My progress depends upon you!
   As I seek Christ, with you in view,
   My heart, full of prayers, is for you.
4. God's heart longs, desires that we,
   His lovers, seek Him corp'rately.
   On each other spent constantly;
   My life is for you, yours for me.
5. I want to encourage you all,
   Without your supply I would fall.
   Never think that your Christ is small.
   Christ needs you, and so do we all.

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Lord I still love You. Keep my heart always true to You. amen Lord. Thank you Lord.

Such Love

The love of men; the essence of weakness,
A facade of strength yet an interior of feebleness.
The strength of man is but the weakness of God,
The love of God so mighty and flawless.

A love sweeter as the years go by,
A love that will never die,
A love burning brighter in darkness and gloom,
A love that will forever bloom.

What love but the love of God,
Eternal and in time, fine and broad,
Without Him all is vapour and will be nought,
Thus may His fullness in us be wrought.

If we would set ourselves as a seal upon His heart,
And from Him never depart,
Then we would experience a love sweeter as the years go by,
And dearer as the ages roll by.

by Christine Tan

I am Black, You called me Lovely (Song of Songs 1:5)

Stanza 1
I am black, You called me lovely.
I am hopeless, but glorified.
Get out of time mentality,
Look from eternity.
(repeat)

Chorus
Remind me Lord, it’s Your work not mine.
You are conforming me to the image of Your firstborn Son.
It’s toward this end that all things work together;
Nothing’s happenstance, He is never mistaken in the way He deals with us.

Stanza 2
So don’t look to your feelings to measure the extent
Of your sanctification or transformation.
Don’t allow your feelings to blind you from God’s goal.
His organic work within us can never be undone.

I am Black, You called me Lovely - Heidi and Vanessa

Living "TODAY" today

Yes, it is always good to have something to look forward to, but may we not live to look forward for the future nor linger in the past. Not to be anxious for tomorrow for today is sufficient of its own evil. We need to live in the present and appreciate the Lord's presence in the present! May we be one with the Lord TODAY!

Lord, make us people who care for Your dispensing into us. Make us see that in situations good or bad, it is Your dispensing that will last till eternity. May no moment go by without us gaining You as our rich life supply. Your riches are vast and unsearchable.

Job 15:31
Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity will be his recompence.

1 Tim 6:17
Charge those who are rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches but on God, who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment.

Just see how uncertain money is. With global financial crisis, the value of money just plunged overnight. People who trusted in money and held onto money took their own lives because they hoped in money. Without money, their hope vanished.
O saints, but Christ in us is our hope of glory. May we live Christ. May the Lord have mercy on us that we will learn to give to the Lord financially and not be deceived and hypnotised by money.

May the Lord have mercy on us, that we may see through the lies of Satan and all that he has to offer is vanity.

Lord we love You. Not because we initiated this love, but because of Your strong, constraining tide of love.

Lord, we give ourselves to love You for there is no other way that is so safe, so sweet, everlasting and prevailing.

1. Give yourself to love the Lord.
   No other way is so prevailing
   And no other way, no other way is so safe.
   
   
2. Give yourself to love the Lord.
   No other way is so rich,
   And so full, oh so full, of enjoyment.
   
   
   • Each morning we must rise up and say to Him,
     "Lord Jesus, I love You."
     
     
3. Give yourself to love the Lord.
   Do not care for anything else;
   Just love Him! Do not care!
   Give yourself to love the Lord!
   
   
   • We are not our own, Lord;
     All we have we give to You.
     Lord Jesus! Lord Jesus!
     Lord Jesus, we love You!
     
     
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Happy New Year

It's a new year. It's a new start. It's the last year of university. It's probably my last year in the sisters' house. It's probably my last year of student life...
It's 2009!

So many things are for the last time... but may our love for the Lord be always first. May He be our first and fresh love. Just find that we need to be renewed day by day because we get old so fast. Our consecration gets old so fast, and we dry out so fast. That's why our consecration needs to be renewed. Not only yearly, but daily. Not even just daily, but hourly. O how we need to pray to fellowship with Jesus. To seek His face constantly.

Today in the young people's meeting, we sang a hymn which was my favourite when I was in high school. Though it was a familiar song and I could sing it almost by heart, it was a new song to me. New in experience and enjoyment of the hymn.

It is a hymn and reminder we all need from day to day. May our consecration to the Lord never grow old but always stay fresh.

One way is by calling on the Lord. The Lord is ever new. We need to absorb His newness moment by moment. The Lord is RICH to those who CALL.

Another way is by being WITH THOSE, encouraging one another POSITIVELY with the Word and share each other's experience of the Lord. We can apprehend His breadth and length and height and depth when we are with the saints (Eph 3:18). His RICHES, His inheritance is in the saints (Eph 1:18b). I was talking to a sister through the phone. Her encouragement and our prayer together was very encouraging and energizing. Praise the Lord!

Much more, His RICHES are in His Word. "Your words were found and I ate them, And Your word became to me The gladness and joy of my heart, For I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts", Jeremiah 15:16. We need to pray-read His Word!

Lord, we consecrate ourselves to You afresh. May our love for You be forever fresh, always burning, never dwindling; always shining bright for You.

May this year be a year we offer ourselves as a burnt offering to the Lord, a sweet smelling savour for God's satisfaction.

1. Lord, keep my heart always true to You,
   Never backsliding, always viewing You,
   A heart that is pure that sees only You,
   A heart that loves You and treasures only You.
   
   
• Your love constrains me to give my all to You.
  Lord, I can't help it; my heart is drawn to You.
  Oh what a privilege! I give myself to You!
  I love You, Lord, dearest Lord.
  I love You! I just love You!
  
  
2. Lord, keep my love burning brightly for You,
   A love never dwindling always hot for You,
   A love, shining brighter all the way for You,
   A love, so fresh like the day I first touched You.
   
   
3. Lord, take my life, I present it to You!
   If I had a thousand, I'd pour all on You!
   Nothing withholding, my all is for You.
   My life and my future, dear Lord, is all for You.

by Bro. Howard Higashi
Music and lyrics can be obtained from www.hymnal.net

God has called us for a purpose

1. God has called us for His purpose,
   His economy so glorious,
   For which He was fully processed;
   Consummated now is He!
   As the Spirit, He indwells us;
   As our God alloted portion,
   Working out His full salvation,
   Making us the same as He is.
   
   
   • Oh, may a clear, controlling vision of
     The Lord's economy direct my heart,
     And burn in me until my spirit's wholly set afire!
     With spirit strong and active we'll press on
     To consummate God's goal—
     New Jerusalem, Hallelujah!
     
     
2. Jesus lived the God-man pattern,
   Set the way for us to follow,
   He denied His natural man and
   Was obedient unto death,
   Once He was the only God-man;
   Now we are His duplication.
   As the many grains we're blended
   As His corporate reproduction.
   
   
3. Living out His resurrection,
   Dying to the flesh and soul-life.
   Living by the mingled spirit,
   Natural man we will deny.
   Now we're living in the Body,
   Every day we're overcoming,
   Striving for the peak of Zion,
   Watching for our Lord's appearing.
   
   
4. God and man will have one living,
   Always in the mingled spirit;
   We two are incorporated
   One organic entity!
   This the vision of the ages
   Will control our daily living
   That the Lord may have His Body
   Shining as the holy city.

God Has Called Us For His Purpose - NY YP

Lyrics from www.hymnal.net
Music from album:Splendid Church Life by NY young people 2005

A person of Life

1. When I first believed and His life I received
The seed was sown into me

Now this seed must grow and this zoe life flow

As on to maturity

Chorus:

Am I a person of life?

Do I experience life?

Does my living bear the issues of life?

Good trees bear good fruit;

Healthy plant, healthy root;

Oh Lord! The ground in my heart!

2. We know that life’s seed is growing indeed

When fruits of life are expressed-

Such virtues of-joy, peace, faithfulness, love

Does my daily life pass the test?

3. When these virtues show-others surly will know

The beauty of life will shine

And the gospel word of life will be heard

Bringing many to know life divine!

4. Lord grant me today, a new start in this way

A person of life I will be-

Just expressing You in all that I do

Oh may this life flow out of me!

OKC Truth School 2008

A Person of Life -