Ok on behalf of Vera (was asked to post this on our cg mail box, but we don't have one, so I post it here), I'm supposed to ask you guys for some feedback on last friday's session. Please write your comments under this post, thank you.
Overall, did you learn anything?
Was the session too overwhelming?
How else could we improve on last friday's session?
And etc etc that you guys might wanna comment on.
Here is another post I got from Vera to be posted on cg mail.
Hi All,
(Pui Fun, Pls forward to all your CG members. Tks)
I hope I didn't take the Fun out fof CG last Friday. If you are wondering what I was trying to share.. well I have only one message : "Seek God to Discover His Purpose for you, especially in 2008"
For that I have made ref to the Bible, drawn examples and have tried to show you how God aligns all our plans for His purpose. (If you are asking Huh?? or Really ah?? then I have failed somewhere in trying to pass this message to you..)
I have drawn examples of the type of character we need to have to hear God when he speaks and I encourage you to chase after God with the important questions that you need answers to...
As I read and kept pondering about Noah, how he was a righteous man and yet later slipped up because he let his guard down (that was when he got drunk and lay naked - Interesting?? Go read your Bible to find out more)..
I wonder how God felt?? I wonder how Noah felt?? I guess I have to meet God and Noah to ask them..
But this one things I know.. no matter how close we are to God we need to realise that we can easily slip into sin any time.. Why ??... because Satan is waiting for our weak moments to make us slip / fall.. and our Human body is sinful..
So my dear Brother and Sisters Be on Guard.. Learn all the GOOD from the Bible immitate it.. Be alert on what can cause us to slip and don't copy the Bad..
Read on.. what I received as This week's promise..
This week's promise: Obeying God brings Great Joy
Could be as consistent as Noah?
So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him..
Genesis 6:22 NLT
A man of consistent obedience
Imagine someone who doesn't pay employees cheap wages event though he enjoys a fancy house and swanky cars. Someone who doesn't indulge in movies full of sultry sex scenes. If you know such a person, you may have found someone seeking consistent obedience to God and his Word.
Noah went against the grain of his generation. As Genesis 6:9 says, "Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless man on earth at the time. He consistently followed God's will and enjoyed a close relationship to him." He stood out from others of his time whose thoughts and actions were "consistently and totally evil." (Genesis 6:5)
Apparently folks had never seen rain fall out of the sky (Gen. 2:5), but Noah obeyed God's instructions: hammering, sawing, and building for 120 years (Gen. 6:3). Noah warned people of God's judgment (2 Pet. 2:5), but even if he had never said a word, his pounding hammer rang a warning of wrath to come. Later, the truth of those words echoed as the ark floated above a world of corpses.
After Noah's family of eight emerged into a washed-out world, he held a thanksgiving service. If God was pained by a world of ungrateful human beings (Gen. 6:6), he must have been consoled by a grateful Noah (Gen. 8:20).
Sadly, the father who was buoyed atop a world of water got drunk on land (Gen. 9:20-27). It only takes one indiscretion to mar a life of righteousness.
A bow with arrows was a principal weapon in ancient warfare. After the world was washed away in Noah's time, God set a (rain) bow in the sky to remind us that we would never again destroy the world by water. Our God is consistently faithful.
from Men of Integrity Devotional Bible with devotionals by the editors of Men of Integrity magazine (Christianity Today, Intl), Tyndale House Publishers (2002), p 13
Content is derived from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale Publishing House
Happy CNY to all and happy holidays. God bless.
Overall, did you learn anything?
Was the session too overwhelming?
How else could we improve on last friday's session?
And etc etc that you guys might wanna comment on.
Here is another post I got from Vera to be posted on cg mail.
Hi All,
(Pui Fun, Pls forward to all your CG members. Tks)
I hope I didn't take the Fun out fof CG last Friday. If you are wondering what I was trying to share.. well I have only one message : "Seek God to Discover His Purpose for you, especially in 2008"
For that I have made ref to the Bible, drawn examples and have tried to show you how God aligns all our plans for His purpose. (If you are asking Huh?? or Really ah?? then I have failed somewhere in trying to pass this message to you..)
I have drawn examples of the type of character we need to have to hear God when he speaks and I encourage you to chase after God with the important questions that you need answers to...
As I read and kept pondering about Noah, how he was a righteous man and yet later slipped up because he let his guard down (that was when he got drunk and lay naked - Interesting?? Go read your Bible to find out more)..
I wonder how God felt?? I wonder how Noah felt?? I guess I have to meet God and Noah to ask them..
But this one things I know.. no matter how close we are to God we need to realise that we can easily slip into sin any time.. Why ??... because Satan is waiting for our weak moments to make us slip / fall.. and our Human body is sinful..
So my dear Brother and Sisters Be on Guard.. Learn all the GOOD from the Bible immitate it.. Be alert on what can cause us to slip and don't copy the Bad..
Read on.. what I received as This week's promise..
This week's promise: Obeying God brings Great Joy
Could be as consistent as Noah?
So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him..
Genesis 6:22 NLT
A man of consistent obedience
Imagine someone who doesn't pay employees cheap wages event though he enjoys a fancy house and swanky cars. Someone who doesn't indulge in movies full of sultry sex scenes. If you know such a person, you may have found someone seeking consistent obedience to God and his Word.
Noah went against the grain of his generation. As Genesis 6:9 says, "Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless man on earth at the time. He consistently followed God's will and enjoyed a close relationship to him." He stood out from others of his time whose thoughts and actions were "consistently and totally evil." (Genesis 6:5)
Apparently folks had never seen rain fall out of the sky (Gen. 2:5), but Noah obeyed God's instructions: hammering, sawing, and building for 120 years (Gen. 6:3). Noah warned people of God's judgment (2 Pet. 2:5), but even if he had never said a word, his pounding hammer rang a warning of wrath to come. Later, the truth of those words echoed as the ark floated above a world of corpses.
After Noah's family of eight emerged into a washed-out world, he held a thanksgiving service. If God was pained by a world of ungrateful human beings (Gen. 6:6), he must have been consoled by a grateful Noah (Gen. 8:20).
Sadly, the father who was buoyed atop a world of water got drunk on land (Gen. 9:20-27). It only takes one indiscretion to mar a life of righteousness.
A bow with arrows was a principal weapon in ancient warfare. After the world was washed away in Noah's time, God set a (rain) bow in the sky to remind us that we would never again destroy the world by water. Our God is consistently faithful.
from Men of Integrity Devotional Bible with devotionals by the editors of Men of Integrity magazine (Christianity Today, Intl), Tyndale House Publishers (2002), p 13
Content is derived from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale Publishing House
Happy CNY to all and happy holidays. God bless.
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