JESUS saved ME

The Story…

So… okay. I grew up in an awesome home where we kind of went to church, kind of didn’t. I basically went for social reasons, and that was just to Sunday School, we didn’t have a youth group or anything. My last couple of years in high school, I knew there was something attractive about the whole “church thing” – but my church at the time was stagnant, and didn’t reach out to students and share with them. (I can say with great joy that this church has turned around 100% and is now thriving with young families and students and I am so happy to hear that Christ is being preached there!) Anyway, so I went to church, longing for something – meaning, significance, truth – but didn’t find it there. That time I was like so called “MAFIA”, all bad things I done before, just name it.

Then 1999, I passed my upper six and went to university. There I was still continued with my bad attitudes, even sometimes I went to the church or followed church camp, In short I never charged.

Graduated 2003/04, I moved to KL/Shah Alam, my life jobs kept changing every 2-3 years, that time I was thinking, looking for big bucks. Year 2008, I found very good job, 5K++ salary, good position, but then I felt, there’s something went wrong, my life doesn’t Blessed, full of debt.

Slowly, I started talked to HIM, asked for His mercy. Then He sent me 1 person , he’s name Joseph Lim. He always shared with me about how good is Our GOD, JESUS.

Since then my life changed…….

I believed in God all my life, but for the first time I heard that He loved me and wanted to help me live a good, clean life. I wanted that more than anything but I knew I couldn’t stop what I was doing. But there was a restless hunger growing in my heart, a hunger to know God and be close to Him. I didn’t understand what I was feeling but it was pulling me to Him. The preacher said that all I needed to do is come to Jesus just like I was and He would do the work, that I couldn’t even if I wanted to. But I was so afraid of God. I didn’t want God to punish me. So with my old attitude of ‘I don’t have anything to lose so why not’,

I decided to have a conversation with God. I sat on the couch in the living room and told God I knew He was real; that I had always believed in Him. But I found it very hard to believe in Jesus. I thought it was a fairy tale that God had a Son who He sent here to die for me because I couldn’t get to Heaven on my own. I was a sinner and God can’t look on sin or be near it, so I couldn’t be near Him and I felt like I was in a hopeless situation. As I was sitting there thinking about this, I felt an urge to open the family Bible that was on the coffee table (as a decoration-not because it was used).

I had never read the Bible and never wanted to so I didn’t know where to start reading. So I just flipped it open. It rested on 1 John 5 and it said (I paraphrase) “If you believe in Me but don’t believe in the One that I sent, you are calling Me a liar”. My mouth fell open and I knew that God was somehow speaking to me through the Words of His book and I said, “God I would never call you a liar. If you will show me Jesus is real, I will believe”. I sat on the couch and cried for 3 hours and when I finished, I was a new person

I was so changed, so full of peace and joy. I felt so clean on the inside, I knew I would never do "MAFIA" things again. I knew that Jesus was real; I couldn’t tell you how I knew. Nothing had changed on the outside. But on the inside I knew and I was changed by that knowledge. He loved me, He died for me, and He was in Heaven rejoicing with the angels that I had decided to believe in Him. I knew I was going to have to finish my probation and face the future, but I wasn’t afraid anymore; for the first time in my life I was not afraid and it felt wonderful. Love welled up inside of me. I felt the peace and joy that Jesus had promised in His Word. I felt safe, really safe for the first time in my life.

Now, I been blessed by HIM, my debts getting lesser and lesser from 25k+++ now left only about 4k++ PRAISE TO THE LORD. I believe in Jesus name in short period of time these gonna be fully settled, credit cards dept now over after many years struggled for it.

The good new was, GOD answered our prayers. HALLELUIA!!! me and my wife now got our own Double Story House and got a good job, after many years we dream of it. The best thing, we can see our parents often after we left them alone many years. PRAISE TO THE LORD HIS's good GOD. - amen

Wish this testimony will encourage all readers. The most importance thing is put God 1st in our Life.

As He said; I am able to do more for you
than you could possibly imagine.
Ephesians 3:20

The 7 Rivers Of Holy Spirit

7 RIVERS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Turn to the book of Rev. 4. We are going to look at the Holy Spirit as a river. The Holy Spirit is the only manifestation of God where the bible does not record His form like a man as it records of the Father and the Son sitting at His right hand.

All the seven rivers manifest the redemption and the fullness that Christ has redeemed for us. Just as the Holy Spirit as a dove reveals the Father, the Holy Spirit as a river reveals all the redemption of Jesus Christ.

All these seven fold spirits is found in the book of Isa. 1:1-2 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

First River : New Birth

The Spirit of the Lord speaks about the work of the Holy Spirit in giving new birth. That is the first river you and I get into. The Spirit of the Lord comes into our lives and the bible tells us no man can call Jesus Lord accept the Spirit of God is the one who does it through them. In I Cor. 12: 3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. That is the first river we experience that is the born again experience. That is the first river that flows from God on high.

Second and Third River : Wisdom and Understanding

Rev. 2:11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers shall not be hurt by the second death. That is the river that I will call the spirit of wisdom. See wisdom and understanding flow together.

So here we see that Solomon received the spirit of wisdom and understanding.

The spirit of wisdom and the gift of supernatural revelation and understanding that he could into. And Isaiah says all these are rivers. When you move into a river you flow in it. But as you move into the river you slowly move into it. In the spirit realm you walk into the river and let the river submerge you and you flow into it. We have to be sensitive that when you minister for the Lord, you should know the various rivers of the Holy Spirit you are moving in. So ministering in the Spirit requires a lot of flowing with the Spirit of God and the rivers of God. And the rivers of God that flow is rivers of the Spirit of the Lord. Wisdom and revelations and wisdom and understanding flow together

Fourth and Fifth River : Counsel and Might

In the bible when it talks about the spirit of counsel, it especially talks about the Spirit of God manifesting the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why it's tied up to the rod. The rod represents authority and it flows together with might. Might talks about the healing virtue, the power to break bondage, the power to bring healing. If you read in Mk. 6 when the hometown folks of Jesus saw Him, they make this exclamation, "From whence comes this wisdom." So they saw the Spirit of wisdom on Him. See it is the Spirit of might that produces the work of Jesus Christ. It’s the Spirit of might that brings forth healing virtue. That is the river of healing that we talked about the Spirit of might. And it flows together with counsel.

. Rev. 2:26-28 He who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, I will give him power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received power from my father; and I will give him the morning star. That is the spirit of counsel.

Then in chapter 3:5 He who conquers shall be clad thus in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. So there are two aspects of the spirit of counsel and might. The spirit of might is mentioned in chapter 3 clothed with the garment of righteousness. If you studied the word counsel and the word might, the word counsel always speaks about counsel in authority. It talks about the counsel of the Lord. Its only when some one has more skill in certain area or more knowledge in another area that you seek counsel from them.

The river of counsel speaks about authority. Healing takes place because of the authority of the Lord. That is why if you want to flow in that river you have to flow also in wisdom and revelation. If you began to have a few people healed in any meeting the river will increase and it becomes easier for another person to be healed. For one person's healing leads to another person's healing. And the healing just flows forth. You notice counsel and might work together. Counsel in authority. There has to be a realm of authority you move into. Notice when Jesus gives a command, He would command; He wouldn't say, "Please rise."

Sixth and Seventh River : Knowledge and the Fear of the Lord

Rev. 3:12 He who conquers I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God; the new Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven and my own new name. That is the river of knowledge as found in Isa. 11:2. Finally in chapter 3:21 He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Both these rivers are similar. They are like the blue and the purple colors. There is one that says you shall be a pillar in the temple of God. The other that says you will sit on the throne of God. Both convey a depth of fellowship of God's presence. One is the spirit of knowledge and the other is the spirit of the fear of the Lord. One of God's names is the Fear. In the book of Genesis 31 it talks about God as the Fear of Isaac. It is not a negative fear in a sense for I John says that perfect love cast out fear. So he is not talking about the natural fear. But he is talking about the awesomeness. The word fear in the Hebrew is not just the English word fear. It is what I call the awesomeness of God. The closest word you can find will be the Spirit of the awe of the Lord. Just to see the relationship between these two turn to the book of Proverbs. 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Can you see the relationship? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of "daath" knowledge, knowledge of the Lord, knowledge of His presence. Then we have in Prov. 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

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Solomon's Last Days

Distractions / Compromising / Disobey GOD to sins Solomon has fallen

• Solomon was famous world-wide for his wealth, power and wisdom. So famous, a Queen from Sheba came to hear him answer questions that had stumped all others. 1 Kings 10:1,3
• She was incredibly impressed, and acknowledged that God was the source of Solomon's glory. 10:6,7,9
• But even the wisest man on earth could be drawn away from God. For Solomon, the influence of his wives was enough to draw him away.
• 11:1,2,4 Solomon loved his foreign wives enough to break two of God's laws: not to marry foreigners and to have more than one wife.
• Solomon's wives worshipped idols. At first Solomon was careful to separate these wives from God's service. But as his wives begged and he gave in, one by one he supported them in their worship until he was worshipping idols himself. 11:8
• Discussion Point: Solomon fell into this sin slowly and reluctantly at first. He may even have never "believed" in the idols, but worshipped them to please his wives. Even the wisest man on earth was influenced by those closest to him. What does this tell us about the friends and spouses we choose?
• God was angry. Remember God's promise depended on Solomon obeying God's commandments. 11:9
• God fulfilled his part. He would take away the kingdom, but not until Solomon's reign was over, for the sake of David. 11:12,13
• Discussion Point: Solomon's sins caused the kingdom to be torn apart. David's influence kept it from destroying the country utterly. Both kings had a great influence on Israel - one for good the other bad. We, too, can have influence. What kinds?

To Remember:

We can all be influenced by those around us, as you can learn from those lessons above mentioned, Solomon let himself to be distracted, to be compromised those sins and disobey God’s laws make him fallen to the ground.