Run to win the eternal prize
04 February 2024
Pastor Lawrence
You are faithful and true
Even I’m faithless you remain faithful
Lord, open my eyes today that I see Your goodness and great love for me
I will remember Your sacrifice at the cross
"My God my God why have you forsaken me?"
Psalm 22:2
O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am not silent.
He suffer for me
I am a worm but a man
A reproach of man but despise by people
He trusted in God, let God help / deliver Him
Jesus fulfilled Psalm 22 for me
I pour out like water, pierce
He was forsaken so that today I’m not forsaken by my Father
Paul farewell speech
Remember the word of Lord Jesus Christ, it is more bless to give than to receive
Realised that I am bless
Pastor Lian
I am living in upper room, All shall be provided for me
I’m gonna be so bless this year like never before
1 Corinthians 9:24-25 NLT
24 Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!
25 All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize.
SO RUN TO WIN
Coz I’m in e race
God have eternal prize for every single one of us
This year Lord have prepared everything for me
My part is to step in run and win
Run strong, Start strong, end strong this year
Psalm 18:29
For by You I can run against a troop,
By my God I can leap over a wall.
David, in the name of Jesus, slay Goliath
I shall be conscious by my God
I shall run even it against a troop
Isaiah 40:31 NIV
but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Hope in the Lord
Have confident expectations of God
Eagles soar : when there’s storm , spread out its wings and they rise above the storm
Soar and rise up with wings like eagles above the storm
Have heavenly vision, see beyond the natural
Eyes have not seen ear have not hear
1 Corinthians 2:9-10,12
9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
I will see I will hear , everything God have prepared for me
I see beyond the troop, More with me than with them
When I see evil attack, I will not fear, I’m bold
We trampled on snakes, lions, I shall run to win
Be hungry for the prize
I have fought e good fight
I kept e Faith I finish e race
Eternal prize
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Judgement seat: bema
Bema (from BLB)
The bema is a tribunal for rewards. In the large olympic arenas, there was an elevated seat on which the judge of the contest sat. After the contests were over, the successful competitors would assemble before the bema to receive their rewards or crowns. The bema was not a judicial bench where someone was condemned; it was a reward seat.
He have rewards for me
To reach out, to run, to win, to take it
God have glorious prize for me
God says to me "I have this prize eternal prize for you"
He wants me to appear at bema, receiving rewards that I have done
God can’t wait to give to me
Salvation, God by His grace give it to me, I’m already winner
I will get up there with joy of tears and victory
I have laid out for you and eternal prize
Matthew 5:16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works andglorify your Father in heaven.
Edifies man and glorify our Heavenly Father
My privilege
To start to end, I start strong, I end strong
I will see e lord face to face, He say to me: well done
God loves me when I least deserve it