Saturday, April 26, 2008
The short one week holiday is coming to a close. Would it even to be right to call it a holiday? per say maybe. The only difference during the so called holidays was that I was able to sleep later and wake up later. But I still set my alarm clock daily. It would have been awesome to say the holidays passed without incident, But it wasn't the case. My beloved PC, that was built from scratch officially kicked the bucket on Tuesday. Taking along with it all the myriad of files and documents and photo's which I had accumulated over the past 3 years. Now I'm more less the kind of person that takes things in stride. So was I unhappy about it? Honestly yeah. An hour later was I still upset about it? Not really I was more worried about how I was to complete my homework as I have 6 assignments and 2 presentations due the following week. I'm usually a pretty laid back person. But with all of this due, It sent my mind and sadly my stress level past hyper drive mode. I'll be brutally honest to the extent that before last year I hadn't the slightest inclination of what stress was like. And this year has been a year of learning to deal with stress and finding peace in the most dire consequences. Dire is a pretty strong word, But you get my drift. I've always been the type of person who wouldn't dwell much on the present but look forward to what the future held. Or as an optimist would quote, To look past my current level but to visualize my potential maximised. So what did I do from there? I went out and bought myself a laptop. Bought a small nifty but power packed machine. Pleasant on the eyes yet awe inspiringly powerful to boot. Am I happy with it? Well I'm contented with it as it does it's job and helps me get my presentations and assignments done in time. Some people my say I splurged more then I should have for the laptop, But I'm a firm believer that if you want something that will last and serve you faithfully for years you better be prepared to invest some cash. It wasn't too expensive at RM4.1K. A 13" screen with a 2MB auto face recognition camera built in, Intel T7300 2.0GHz 800MHz bus Duo core processor, 160GB 7200rpm HDD, Nvidia 8400MS Graphics Card, 4GB Ram, Biometric thumb reader for security and a touch screen pad with neon lights for my hot keys. I am thankful for getting it, And God's awesome for allowing me to get one.
I do hope that I can recover all the photo's from my old hard drive, They have high sentimental value to me. To lose those photo's would be as to lose part of my life. I have already lost every single photo of my childhood and have lost every single family photo we had. So to lose the last photos of my dad while on our trip to Thailand and my 21st Birthday when my Mum was down would grieve me to no end. I do hope they'll be fine . I'd go as far as to pay top buck to some lab for the recovery of it. You cant place a price on sentimental value. Regardless, At the end of the day I'll bless the Lord with all my soul and all that is within me.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Im here looking for once person.... I love to see crowds burn but I know it can shape history if I could find just one person...... You hear people say often that if we could a thousand people united in prayer we could do it and get it fixed! Yeah maybe.... Maybe the prayer of one faithful usually would do it.
Anyone can burn in a crowd... I want to find a person who can burn by themselves. Anyone can burn in a movement. I wanna find the one person that would pray when theres no
prayer meeting called, That would get up in the middle of the night to pray when there's no crisis. The one person that gets their personal victory when noone else is looking. That defeats their lions and bears so that one day when they have their day against Goliath they have all the confidence in the world and it isnt arrogance.
Where does the water of the last outpouring go to?
In the natural when it rains in the mountains..... where does the water go? We talk about these mountain top experiences, where these explosive invasions from God happen.. And man don't I love it. But where do these waters go? They go down into the valleys! They go down to your lowest point...
God had concealed the rain for the last outpouring in the soil that you are standing on. The darkest moment in a persons life is the greatest moment to find promotion if they would simply turn the attitude of their heart from the dread of the moment to the impossibilty that God would abandon you to a season of dryness. In Psalm 84 It says they go through the
Valley of Weeping this place of dryness and barrenness. But listen to this! They turn it into a spring. They take the crusty soil their standing on and they realise "Wait a minute! God would not abandon me to dryness" He has put me into a place where I have to press past what is obvious to find what he has hidden for me, not from me.
He has hidden refreshing within reach. It is always within reach, Its always a step beyond convenience. It's a change of heart that says He would not abandon me to dryness. He is the God of extravagance and of abundance
And a simple turning of the heart that says I know that I'm standing on pregnant soil , I do not care how dry it is. This crusty soil that I stand on. And the bible says that person takes that valley of weeping and breaks through the crust of that soil and suddenly the water from the last outpouring starts to bubble up.It says as that spring starts bubbling up the clouds come.
A valley that was dry. A people that were crying out for a great outpouring couldn't get till they discovered the water they were standing on. They couldn't get it til they turned their heart to realise he is good all the time. He wouldnt put me in a place where there
is not refreshing available for me now. I will change the attitude of my heart. And I will stop the moaning and groaning and stop calling it intercession.
Extracted and compressed from a sermon by Bill Johnson
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