Lamb of God - What Is Faith!

Someone asked me why my blog is Lamb of God Gift of Faith, yeah, Lamb of God is understandable, but why and what is Gift of Faith, I shall share about what is this Gift of Faith in my future posting.

So, what is Faith?

Faith

Lord, I believe

in the sun, even when it is behind the clouds,

in the seed, even when it lies unsprouted under the ground;

in faith, even when I have been betrayed;

in love, even when I have been rejected;

in hope, even when I have been hurt;

in God, even when you do not answer my prayers.

Amen.

.......Dr. Robert Schuller

Lamb of God - Soar Like Eagles!

Today's "My Daily Bread" mentioned that John Sorrentino, the recording artist KJ-52 wrote a song, I find the lyrics very encouraging. I would like to share it with you.

Understand you can always find strength in Christ;

God has a plan for every single part of your lives.

That might be hard to understand in your troubled times;

But anywhere you go, He's there with arms open wide.


Today reading:-

Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.


Isaiah 40:31
But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with winds like eagles.
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.



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Lamb of God - I Could Not Eat!

During those 3 months after I left the Navy, I applied for jobs and went for interview, but not a single offer of job.

I like drawing, guess I was influenced by my uncle who was a draftsman. So I was applying jobs like furniture designer, my dad was running his own furniture shop, so I grew up in that shop together with the furniture. I also applied as an interior designer.

Of course, because of my uncle, I would not miss out the job opportunity as a draftsman. Hey, I did very well in my technical drawing in school. :o)

During those 3 months lazing at home, in order to save money, I skipped lunch, avoiding going out. Our apartment was then a very small one situated at the topmost floor. The roof finishing was not good. At noon time, our room was heated up like sauna.

My sweat would flow non-stop through out the afternoon. Once, a postman knocked at my door, and when he saw me, he thought I just came out from a shower.

Even in the evening, it was hot like an oven. I wondered now how my family managed to sleep at night.

Because of skipping meals, I developed gastric pain and digestion problem. It tortured me very badly, it affected my life.

I could not take proper meal, I would vomit after each meal and I could take up to 1 hour to finish just one simple meal. Meal time was a nightmare to me. I tried to stay away from eating with friends, coz it was very pressurising for me to finish the meal with them a the same time, I could not eat fast. If I tried, I would vomit.

I became pretty weak, my weight dropped and I could not resume my sport routine.

But the Lord is good ................. the Lord healed me miraculously 10 years later................... to share more in my future post.


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Lamb of God - I Was Paralysed!

Two days back in the afternoon, I received a call from the bank saying that the cheque I issued was rejected as I had no enough fund in my account.

I was feeling worried and in fact was pretty disturbed.
I left my job end September last year working from home on the internet, but the income was not much as the first year was more on learning the ropes.

I was feeling the stress to the extent I lost my temper to my poor dogs.

When I woke up yesterday morning, my heart was beating so fast, I felt paralysed, I was at the edge of burning out.

I recalled at end 2003, I embarked on a business venture while I was still holding a day job. After 6 months of hard work, I was burnt out, I broke down before my friends at one meeting.

And now the exact feeling is overwhelming me.
I have been working hard yet see no result, I am going to burn out again soon. Real soon.

I knew the Lord, the Lamb of God would deliver me as He called me into this venture. And times after times, He proved to me that He was always that to comfort me, to pick me up with His hands of mercy. Through all these difficult times, I build the Faith in Him.

So, I reject this feeling in the name of Jesus. I got up and went for my usual quiet time.
I read the Bible, a daily motivation by Dr. Robert Schuller and the "My Daily Bread"

The message for yesterday "My Daily Bread" reading was

Psalm 93.
"The floods have lifted up their voice.
The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, than the mighty waves of the sea."

Truly the Lord reigns, my spirit was lifted up.
I was feeling much better.

I decided to put all work aside for a day and just seek the Lord.
In the afternoon, happened that I logged on to my PC, I discovered there was some commission coming in. In the evening, when I shared this with Kate, the Lord dawned upon us there were resources that we could call upon. Praise the Lord.

I had a sound sleep.

This morning, when I read the "Daily Bread", the reading was
Psalm 30:5
"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning."

Truly, the Lord is Faithful.

Next came the most amazing discovery.
I discovered, for the past 2 weeks or so, I have been reading the WRONG messages. I have been reading the November messages instead of October.

And these two days message just fit into my circumstances and they comforted me.

The Lord knew beforehand that on this day I would be feeling down and miserable, and He used the 'wrong day message' to lift me up. How a loving and powerful God we have.

Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.


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Lamb of God - I Need The Money!

After two years of National Service in the Navy, I was about to return to the civil world.

I received a letter from Housing Development Board asking me to attend an interview for the post of a Clerk of Work. Well, I wasn't interest in working at the site, I rejected the invitation.

My college result was not good enough for me to attend the local university.
I planned to further my study in Australia with the consensus from my mom.

Well, why Australia?
My aunt's whole family was migrated there and she said she would support my study. She would provide everything including accommodation, transport (a car), meals except school fees.

So, I needed to make money. Anyway, I saved quite a fair bit of money though the Navy allowance was not great. But when I was 8 year-old, I told my mum I wanted to study in a university, she told me to save up the money. Since then I started saving every penny, even skipping meal to save the lunch money.

When I was in the Navy, I always ate onboard ship or in camp before booking out, just to save the money. I saved every allowance I received during those 2 years.

When I left Navy, I had almost 10,000 in my bank. I was pretty proud of that.

During those days, I was only thinking of making money and further my study, God was not in my mind at all.


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Lamb of God - Are You Preparing Me For Something?

One of the days last week, my wife and I went for a movie.

We have not been for a movie for quite sometimes.
It was a pretty interesting Chinese movie "Banquet" based on Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

After the movie, it was about 7pm, so we decided to go for dinner.
Kate my wife suggested the cafe at the same shopping centre where the theatres were located.

Hm...... I have not been to a cafe or restaurant since I quit my job last October (will share more about that in my future postings), food at the cafe is normally cheaper than a restaurant but nowadays my meal is usually a $3 deal.

Anyway, Kate said she would give me a treat. :o)

We came to this cafe before and learnt that their serving was quite huge, so we just ordered one main dish, a plate of salad and two 'soup of the day'.

When we were done and the bill came, I almost jumped, literally, it was $40+.
When I looked at it again, "$40+". It was not that expensive cause the food was very good so as the service, but nowadays, a meal costs more that $5 is quite something to me.

Going to restaurant and spending more than $60 for a meal was common to us.
And we liked and enjoyed going to different restaurant for food tasting.

I have changed! Or God has changed me.

Since I left my comfort zone, I needed to be very careful with my expenditure. I eat simple meals, have stopped shopping which I used to do quite often especially buying books, Hifi gadget and other high end products.

Life was rosy then.

Do I feel miserable? Nope, God changed me. I don't crave for these earthly possession anymore. My life is simple, and I like it. It is big change, but our Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God injects into me the joy and peace money can't buy.

I no longer turn on the aircon whenever I am at home. In fact since I moved into this new house for almost 9 years, the windows were always shut as the aircon was always on.

I never knew my life could be this simple. I love it and praise the Lord for helping me to adjust to this new lifestyle.

Yes, there was once I needed to go through a shopping centre in order to get to somewhere, when I walked pass those shops I normally frequent and seeing people selecting their stuffs, I kind of feeling a sense of loss, self-pity. But I know God is giving something more than gold and silver one day.

But many times, I wonder........ is God preparing me for something?



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