Meditate on God's Word

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (New International Version)

7 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations,
   there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."
   Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
10 That is why, for Christ's sake,
     I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.
    For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Psalm 1:1-3 (New International Version)

1 Blessed is the man
       who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
       or stand in the way of sinners
       or sit in the seat of mockers.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
       and on his law he meditates day and night.

3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
       which yields its fruit in season
       and whose leaf does not wither.
       Whatever he does prospers.

1 Timothy 4:15 (New International Version)

15 Be diligent in these matters;
     give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.

Deuteronomy 7:14-15 (New International Version)

14 You will be blessed more than any other people;
     none of your men or women will be childless, nor any of your livestock without young.
15 The LORD will keep you free from every disease.
     He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.

Psalm 63:6 (New International Version)

6 On my bed I remember you;
   I think of you through the watches of the night.

Genesis 26:1-3 (New International Version)

1 Now there was a famine in the land—besides the earlier famine of Abraham's time
   and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar.
2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. 3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you.
   For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 26:12-14 (New International Version)
12 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him. 13 The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.
14 He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

My Blessed Increase

Can you believe how great is God?
When Pastor Prince said that this is the year of restful increase, I can't believe how it unfolds in front of me this very month!

A short history as I go along... It's been a few years since my 2 preemies were born (Thank God they are both in good health), and ever since my mum has been giving my family some allowance for the kids. My mum retired in Jan 2010 and told me beforehand that she will no longer be giving me the extra allowance. Was a little worried as I was mainly handling the bills and kids expenses, as my wife is based on commission  salaried.
No worries, I told her and never really put this worry on my mind.
After my company's yearly financial report this month, I received my review from my boss that he has obtained the full increment amount put up for me! And this is slightly more than the allowance given by my mum! And my bonus was about 70% more than last year!!! Praise the Lord!

When one supply stops, He can surely provide another source.
All Glory to Jesus!!

The Year of Restful Increase

Pastor Prince shared that this year will be a year of Restful Increase. Believe in Jesus and have faith that all things will turn out right!

Verses shared

Genesis 2:2-3
²By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. ³And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Hebrews 4:1-3
¹Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. ²For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith. ³Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,
   "So I declared on oath in my anger,
   'They shall never enter my rest. 'And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world.

Genesis 1:5, 13, 31
⁵God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
¹³And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
³¹God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Leviticus 25:19-22
¹⁹Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety. ²⁰You may ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?" ²¹I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. ²²While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.


Deuteronomy 28:8
⁸The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.


Matthew 11:28-30
²⁸"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

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Consider The Lilies Of The Field

Matthew 6:28–29
28“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

You may think that you must work very hard to provide for yourself and get ahead in life. But God wants you to consider the lilies of the field — they do nothing. They toil not, spin not and struggle not. Yet, they grow and are clothed by God while simply resting and basking in the sunshine of God’s love! And when God clothes them, they look even more glorious than King Solomon, the richest king who ever lived.

Like the lilies of the field, God wants you to let Him take care of providing for your material needs, instead of striving to do that yourself. When you let go and let Him, you will see Him bless you supernaturally, abundantly and generously!

Consider what happened to one of our church members who had been looking for a job. Initially, he received only two calls for interviews after sending out 12 resumés. Refusing to be discouraged, he believed that God wanted to bless him not just with a job, but with a position of influence too.

God was faithful. This church member soon became business manager of an engineering company even though he had no engineering background. He was offered a very attractive remuneration package and within his first week on the job, was asked to quote on two projects. He knew that this was God’s doing because it was difficult enough just to secure an appointment with contract managers to discuss projects, let alone be asked to quote on not one but two projects. Before long, he was offered the position to run the entire Singapore subsidiary with only one other business development manager. He was then only 25 years old!

My friend, God can do for you what He did for this person. Just believe that if God clothes the lilies and grass of the field which are here today and gone tomorrow, how much more will He clothe you, His eternal and precious child, with beauty and riches! All He asks is that you cease from your striving and allow Him to take over!

God Is Not On A Sin Hunt

1 Thessalonians 5:9
9For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

When you think of Sodom and Gomorrah, what comes to your mind? God’s wrath and fiery judgment? The truth is that God was not out to judge the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. He was not on a sin hunt. He was, in fact, on a righteousness hunt!

This is evident because if God was on a sin hunt, He would not have allowed anyone to stop Him. But we know that He let Abraham in on what He was about to do and even allowed Abraham to entreat Him.

Abraham asked God if He would destroy Sodom if He could find 50 righteous people there. God’s reply was, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.” (Genesis 18:26) Abraham then asked God if He would destroy the city if there were only 45… 40… 30… or 10 righteous. And each time, God’s reply was that He would spare the place for the sake of the righteous.

Abraham stopped at 10. If he had gone down to just one righteous one, I believe God’s reply would have been the same because God was on a righteousness hunt.

Now, if God was not out to destroy then, how much more today, when God has already judged our sins in the body of His Son? At the cross, Jesus exhausted all of God’s fiery judgments until there was no more fire of God’s wrath left for us!

Today, God is not judging us for our sins because He has found the righteousness of the one Man that would allow Him to spare us. So do not let anyone tell you that God judges you for your sins and punishes you with cancer, car accidents, business failures or brokenness. God would be unjust if He punished the same sins twice — in the body of Jesus as well as in your body.

So God is not out to judge you but bless you today, not because you deserve it, but because Jesus was judged and punished in your place!

Thanking God At All Times

Hebrews 13:15
15Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

“God, I can’t thank you enough for this miracle!”

“Thank You, Father, for answering my prayer!”

“Father, thank You for the windfall!”

Lifting up your hands and thanking God is spontaneous and easy when you have just received a wonderful blessing. Perhaps you came so close to being killed, but God protected you and plucked you out of danger just in time. Or your grandmother, an unbeliever for many years, finally received Jesus as her Saviour and got healed of a long-term disease.

But there are times when you don’t feel like lifting up your hands to thank and praise God — yet you do it!

Perhaps you feel very discouraged lately. Perhaps everything is going wrong for you and you feel like you are not in control of your life. You can’t even control your tears. Still, you make a conscious decision to lift your hands and thank God for being in the situation with you. You open your mouth and begin to praise Him even though you really don’t feel like doing it.

In the midst of the trial that you are going through, you praise Him that He is Your righteousness in spite of all the mistakes you have made. You thank Him that He is your Prince of Peace, and that He will bring His peace into you and His calm into your chaotic world.

My friend, God sees and appreciates such times when, despite feeling so discouraged and depressed, you offer a freewill thanksgiving offering to Him. In fact, your thanksgiving during such times is more highly prized by Him than your thanksgiving during those times you are feeling joyful because you have just been blessed.

And when you choose to thank Him for His unfailing love and His faithfulness to deliver, protect and provide for you even when you don’t see it yet, before long, you will find yourself experiencing and enjoying the blessings! So lift your hands and praise the Lord, for He is good, and His mercy endures forever! (Psalm 106:1)