Saturday, November 10, 2007

There's such joy in tis Psalm...

Today's service started with Psalm96
" 1Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord , all the earth.
2Sing to the Lord , praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.
3Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
4For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.
5For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.
6Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and glory are in his sanctuary.
7Ascribe to the Lord , O families of nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
8Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come into his courts.
9Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness; tremble before him, all the earth.
10Say among the nations, "The Lord reigns." The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.
11Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
12let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;
13they will sing before the Lord , for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth."


I am deeply touched by this psalm that as i closed my eyes to start worshiping God, there's this fire in my spirit that wanna shout & tell everyone HOW GREAT IS THE LORD THAT WE WORSHIP!!!

As i re-read
this Psalm again & again, tears start to filling my eyes as i think about the goodness of our God, how magnificent & GREAT is He that no other names will i call out but His & only His alone...

My day...
This morning is freezing....and i was wearing layers & layers and indeed winter is here...

Today's service i am encouraged by the Word of God preached by P.Erick & been awhile since i heard english being preached...
I was coughing so badly during service that i decided to just not sing & be still before the Lord. As i lift my hands up to the Lord, i felt His presence filling the place & i prayed in my heart that the members of this church will experience His presence.

After service there was a women fellowship (heehee now i am a woman... i am still adjustin to that age thingy heehee) and i was sharing the word of God to them. I was sharing on James 1:2-8. About how should we consider trials & temptations in our lives? Do we go through it with a big burden in us or should we like what James asks us to do... "Consider it all JOY when you fall into various trials..."

1)Why JOY? Bcos (psalm23) His staff & rod are with us! He prepared a table (feast) in the presence of our enemies! (1cor 10:23) He provide a way up for us to stand up under it!.... etc there's so many verses tell us that we are not alone facing the problems BUT He is with us & He gives us the solution & lead us through the problem & not away from the problem. Can we learn from David to face the "giants" in our lives?

2) Going thru the trials produce
Perseverance and after letting that to grow, it makes us mature, complete & NOT lacking anything!!!
Wow! The moment i saw that... i feel like jumping hahahha (i am not charismatic thou i am fr Charis MC heehee)

And that doesn't make a clear point that we should consider ALL JOY when face all/various trials & temptations... Come on ppl, the Lord doesn't make all these trials it is the world we live in that causes trials (who's the prince of this world? Mr Sa.Tan)... So we rejoice cos God will see us through and when we go through it, we are also being molded & shaped & mature too...

I personally is very very encouraged as i prepare the sharing for today... i pray that those who were there are encouraged...

just thot that blogging this out to share this Truth & excitment with all of you who are reading it...



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