There was an occasion in my life which I always remember until today. In the matter of fact, I remember each of the detail of it. Whenever I remember that occasion, it really encourage me to be closer to Jesus.

When I surrendered my life to Jesus in November 1993, my life was totally changed and people would notice that there was something in me which is different. My friends told me that I have changed and I was not the one they used to know. I was happy with my changes and I felt God was moving in me. (Continue reading…)

Today I received a forwarded article from one of my friend in Jakarta. I have read this article long time back, but today when I read this article again it really touched my heart.

The articles goes like this:

A priest passing through his church in the middle of the day,
Decided to pause by the altar and see who had come to pray.

Just then the back door opened, a man came down the aisle,
The priest frowned as he saw the man hadn’t shaved in a while.

His shirt was kind of shabby and his coat was worn and frayed,
the man knelt, he bowed his head, Then rose and walked away. (Continue reading…)

And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?

I just came back from 10 days vacation in my hometown in Jakarta. I really missed that place, the food, the people and especially I really did miss the church. My spiritual life grew in this church and I was baptized and filled with Holy Spirit also in this church.

There were many changes in the church, specially the people. Few of my friends told me about what was going on with the church and the people. I felt very sad to hear many people who used to love God and dedicated themselves to God have left the church only because of bitterness against each other.

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Sometimes back, Bro. Linu Thankachan from Bangalore share us a story about one Rupee coin. One Rupee coin travels more than any other notes or coins in the church, because people are most convenience to give one Rupee coin than any other notes.

This story is very interesting and it really stuck in my mind. One Rupee coin today is equal to USD 0.025. I’m not saying that giving one rupee coin is wrong, but it is surely something wrong if someone who are blessed by the Lord and could give more has chosen to give one rupee coin than giving more.

Being in the country where you see many temples or religious places every 100 or 200 meters, I found many interesting things from the way people give to their gods. People came with beautiful clothes, fancy cars, expensive watch, but when it was the time to give, you would see only coins came out from their pockets. (Continue reading…)

Last week I received a very interesting junk mail in my inbox. I normally never read junk mails, I always delete these mails without reading them. But this one was very interesting because the title was quite good “Get nominated for MBA”, when I read it I knew that this mail is all about instant graduation. You can choose which title that your graduation whether it is Bachelors, Masters, MBA, or PhD. The process is very easy, you just have to make a phone call to particular number, pay some money and there… your name will have the MBA or PhD as the tail.

But one thing which was the most interesting part of this junk mail which really taken me aback was the footnote. It was written “Call now - your Graduation is a phone call away.” (Continue reading…)

Couple of nights ago, when I was working in my home, I listened to some songs from my laptop. There was one song which I really like and I searched the chords from the internet last week as I want to teach this song to our team in the church.

And that night I heard the same song again and I replayed this song for many times, slowly I began to worship God. But one thing was bothering me… it was the voice… the singer who sang this song. I really enjoyed this song… word by word… the way the song writer compose this song, it’s just too beautiful. But it was the voice which really distracting me, the voice is so beautiful… I really fell for the voice… (Continue reading…)

Psalm 139:13 - For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

If I want to look back 20 years ago when I was about 11-12 years old, I couldn’t thank God enough for saving my life and I know that I owe my life to Him.

It was a beautiful day, me and my sister went back home from school. As usually, I rode my bicycle and I took my sister with me on the back seat. When we were near to the crossing, we got down from the bike and slowly we crossed the street. (Continue reading…)

Collossians 3:16 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Last Sunday we had guests from Malaysia, they are Bro. Mari Muthu and Sis. Susan Muthu. They have brought an excitement to our service, we were so blessed to have them among us. Bro. Mathu leaded the healing prayer, he prayed for all who were sick, and praise the Lord! God has shown Him love and He has blessed our church with the healing.

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Today I received a mail about the fight between the Christians from different members of the church. This really brings the sadness in my heart, why is it so easy for people to be deceit-ed to do the wrong thing? I got the answer, because people don’t live their lives in walk with God.

Jesus said in the book of Mark chapter 12 verse 29 – 31 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”

My opinion which came from my experience living in the place where the mixed culture, religion and background. Religion is not a heritage. You cannot passed your religion to your children or your grand children, etc. You cannot force anyone to have the same religion as you have. It is a matter to believe on the God whom you think has given you live. I have seem many people surround me, they took religion because their parents hold that religion, but it has become a name tag. First of all, we must all know why we are holding that name tag. I’m a Christian, and I’m proud to say that I’M A CHRISTIAN. Christian is from the words “Christ Like”. To be a Christian I have to live a life like Jesus, do whatever His commands. I don’t know about Hindu, Muslim, Budha, etc. But if you are Muslim, do whatever Mohammad said, if you are a Buddha, do whatever Buddha said and if you are Hindu, do whatever your god says. Follow all the steps of your gods whoever you believe. In most of the cases, people only wants to take the easy part. They hate the teaching which is not convenient to them, in result, people have their religions according to whatever they feel or think, not whatever their God feel or think. (Continue reading…)

Since the past few days I had a problem with my tongue, I bite it accidentally and it had become a problem since. It caused a big ulcer on my tongue near to my throat, it feels very terrible as I couldn’t eat, couldn’t drink and I feel very difficult to talk as it feels very pain whenever I move my tongue.

For few days, I could only eat a very liquid porridge but still I couldn’t eat it without crying in pain when I swallowed it. (Continue reading…)