slow down to live a fulfilled life
19 November 2023
Pastor Gabriel
Declare the glory of the love of my soul, Lord my Savior, my Redeemer Jesus Christ
He will never leave me nor forsake me
Stand on His promises
Psalm 37:25 The righteous never be forsaken
"...Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken..."
He is lover of my soul
He loves me with an everlasting love
John 10:10
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
work is finished, perfect work, Jesus paid the price for forgiven of my sins
There is enemy come to steal, kill and destroy, everything beautiful wonderful in my life
Jesus come to my life and my life more abundantly
John 10:14
I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
He is a good shepherd who gives His life for His beloved sheep
Jesus allowed Himself to be arrested
He allowed Himself to be subject to all manner of humility
He allowed Himself to be nailed to the cross
He allowed His body to be broken in love for me
All condemnation and sins, He paid it all for me
Work been completed, price have been paid
God have final say
I worship Lord to acknowledge He have first given me the increase in my life
God loves a cheerful giver
Pastor Mark
Important => Be conscious of His presence in my life
He is always with me
He is Emmanuel
For me to enjoy Him is a conscious effort
Once conscious, whole world became so beautiful
Rapture around the corner
Number my days (Word of God) => to be conscious (to really count)
Entangle of challenges, worries, stress, God want me to live my last day on earth => value time on earth
Psalm 90:12 NET
So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.
Everyday is precious
I am not pursue about money, cars, house, not worry about inflation and expenses, this are thoughts of things of the world
Let me be heavenly minded
to know => my God will supply all my needs
What comes forth from the treasure of my heart
What I focus on, is where energy goes to
Full Filled Days and life
How to have full filled life
Psalm 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”
God wants to satisfy me
Satisfy => fill to satisfaction
I am fill to satisfaction despite in my circumstances because of Jesus, God wants me to live life knowing I am truly bless
When I see Jesus, I am so full of Him, that will come out in my life
Life into my years
Between growing and ageing
Growing => adding life to one's year
Ageing => adding years to one's life
Important to have more life into my years enjoying my time
Growing involves adding life to one's years and ageing involves adding years to one's life
Life is fulfilling only if it is a process of growing. Growing up in life involves adding maturity and joy to every moment in life.
I must know Jesus in my life
I am with Him, everyday become different
I am full of Him, He filled my times
nagging and complaining make my life more worse
Don't complain!
God wants me to number my days
Know that Jesus in my life
Growing up maturing and life
Maturing comes in the Lord
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!
1 word say wrong, bite and devour (swallow, cannot stand)
We tend to focus on small mistake, then we bite and we devour
growing => nurture
Happiness is with in my life, I can go through life, despite on differences, we still love one another
Jesus came to give me life
Come to a place at home, enjoying each other
Home is a place safe and I find refuge
Church => House of God
Jesus preached => I have a Father who love me
I have Heavenly Fatehr
Jesus is Emmanuel in my life, I can life my life with relationship
I learnt life
Everything got to do with relationships
Jesus comes to give me life and life more abundantly
John 10:10
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Eternal life
"life" => zoie life
Jesus came to show it to me => life above this life totally different
My Lord is perfectly Holy, Perfectly Righteous, Perfectly Beautiful
He came into a toxic world which came against Him and rejected Him, He is not affected by it
He came to show God is love and who God is despite of us
When I see Him, everything become beautiful
Abundant life => everyday got to do with Jesus
Age well 活到老
Learn well 学到老
Beautifully well 美到老
Learning grow in grace in Jesus Christ
Grow enjoy life with Him
God really despite of me still love me
2 Peter 3:18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
"Grace" undeserved favour to me everyday
where I become to enjoy life
Grace accepts me for who I am
Jesus never thinks I am troublesome
Jesus came to leper, He overdo it, He cleanse Him and touch Him
He forgiven me, take away my sins and help me
Make my life everything beautiful
I have perfect one in my life
grow in grace => keep receiving it
growing => is always receiving
I am not going to be affected
I am always so good
Being love, I am not affected by the words and give grace to the person
羊 Lamb +大 Big =美 Beautiful
When I put Jesus big in my life, everything become beautifully well
without Jesus, nothing is well
focus on child exam focus on sales, nothing will be well
Beautiful got to do with lamb
Lamb of God who took away all my sins
When I see Him, everything became beautiful
Biggest problem => self
we want to do things ourselves, where flesh is everything became me, ourselves become very big
自 self +大 big +。dot =臭 smelly
God wants me to always look at Jesus
Be kind and to be gracious 善 lamb + eyes 良
Eyes look at Him, I will become kind and gracious
Only looking at Jesus
Grow in Him, See Him, look unto Him
He wants to make my life beautiful
Encounter Him daily, see Him everyday
Gospel of grace, despite of me, God makes me to see Jesus who knew no sins, became sin for me, I made the righteousness of God
2 Corinthians 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
We always look at bad, not good
flesh like to think about the past, wake up seeing His mercy renew every morning
God telling me: "I will be merciful to you"
Receive the mercy
God don't remember my lawless deed
Learn to age well, live well, full filled life => See Him don't remember all my sins, I don't remember all my sins
He have already paid for me
Waking up everyday knowing Jesus paid for me
Look at altar, always facing altar
Be consciousness, merciful of His love for me
A relationship with God
Interaction with Him
Make Him big in my life
I will fall in love with Him, so fill with Him
Relationship can't broke down
How to oversee all things, small things, quarrels?
Let me learn to pause and receive the grace
Psalm 18:29
For by You I can run against a troop,
By my God I can leap over a wall.
Always learn
"For by You (Jesus)"
"By my God" wall of my flesh
flesh like to react first
God wants me to pause, build myself to see full of Him, every time by Him
I can see others undeserved, overcome this flesh by Him
You can always say I am always like that, I can answer you are always good
What drain me everyday? because of relationship
flesh don't like, they judge
Woman caught in adultery, Jesus said those have no sin cast the first stone. Bible said, starting from the oldest
Judging others, it is not me, the old man is crucified at the cross "I am like that one"
I am born again "I am not like that"
1 John 4:17b
because as He is, so are we in this world.
Those born of God's love
Allow the word to come in
Learn is a process
I am accepted and forgiven
Always learn to give it to others => fruits
Right believing is important
Lord enjoy spending time with me
I grow more in grace of Jesus Christ
Fruit of it => enjoying with spouse, kids and others
What I appreciate, appreciate in value
Common = flesh/ judge
that is not me, part of me born again is love
Paul wrote to Ephesians Church Ephesians 5:14
Therefore He says:
“Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.”
Isaiah 60:1 "Arise Shine"
In life, wake up who I am in Christ, I wake up differently
I can face this flesh without fear, every emotion is already condemn at the cross
Romans 8:3
For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God didby sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
want to bite and devour => this is not me
feelings come back, it is already done with
Holiday => Holy Day
Common => find fault, murmuring, became agitated
Stop! this is not me
no more self, think of Jesus, Be filled with Him
Enjoy time with my family in the now
Be happy for my holidays, enjoy the journey
To see through and be awake
Uncommon => to see through awake
Christ shine on me, I am loved, accepted
No more about me, all about Him, I can enjoy
See Him in the moment
For by You Lord, I can go into this and face all this
not afraid of flesh
First thing at the cross => not cursing but a prayer, "Father, forgive them". This is grace
He came to restore
If I really see the rapture, most important in life, pause and think
grace => put to slow speed
Slow down and think
Pause, see what is important
Being awake, filled with spirit
When I am filled, making melody in my heart (in a queue)
I rise up all circumstances
I learn to grow
Bible says => nothing separate me from the love of God
Romans 8:37
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
The love of God in Jesus Christ
In God's eyes, every sin He took at the cross, it is not too troublesome to save me
He don't find me troublesome
So full, set free
always to be filled
no matter what circumstances, not be overcome by other's flesh but able to extend grace to them
Romans 12:21
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Do not overcome evil with good
In life, be treated unfair, flesh likes to take revenge, angry
Lord wants me to understand, in this last days, let me be merciful, don't keep record
I receiving, I reign over my flesh, I forgive
Ephesians 4:32
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Submission always
Full of spirit, I became humble
In relationship, accepted, forgiveness
I find life fulfilling, worth living for
Jesus said => To be greatest, is to serve others
Only through grace that I can
Filial priority is Christ's
He honoured His Father
Always conscious of His Father
Giving is first by receiving
I able to receive, to be with them, this moment becomes beautifully, life become meaningful
Learn to slow down, enjoy with family, enjoy full fill life
Everyday receive abundance grace, gift of righteousness and reign in life
Jesus is alive in my life, my imperfect on Him, to receive His grace and mercy everyday
Psalm 112:2 The seed of the righteous shall be bless
His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
Love is never feel troublesome
Christ love me, He comes to die for me, He transformed my life, life will be transform, my family will be saved
Choose to bless not to curse, I will live life above
Thank you Jesus!
Amen!