Jan’s blogs about life

Is it human nature to complaint and murmur? Perhaps that it is so. We can all be very pessimistic about life in general especially when life is giving us frustration sometimes caused by ourselves and sometime by our family members, friends, colleagues and people in authority over us. Taking the example of Exodus of God’s chosen people, they too complaint about their situation to God and Moses for taking them into the harsh condition of the desert, even though they have escaped from their cruel Egyptian masters. Read more »

Received this interesting message about a Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage. An encouragement to believers out there. Though there are some who might frown upon using other people’s culture for spreading the message of God. But do not forget, “All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 1 Corinthians 6:12 (KJV)” and besides, “Keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don’t ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise. Philippians 4:8 (CEV)” Read more »

The recent presentation for Father’s Day in Grace Assembly USJ Church video was a lot of fun for everybody. The Fathers decided to take over the praise worship for Sunday morning service. And after that, did a presentation (with the the help of the Mothers) as a tribute to Fathers! Read more »

One thing about prophecies including the Juseleeno (Jucelino) Nonulega Da Roose prediction, you have to take it with a pinch of salt. Nothing is certain about the future. As Albert Einstein said, “God do not play dice” because He knows with a great amount of accuracy what will happen in the future, but if it has not happened, it is not written in stone until it happens. Read more »

What was it with Hanoi, Vietnam that makes even planning a trip there perilous? If there was some kind of jinx set upon a place I would most certainly say there was something about that holiday destination that didn’t seem to welcome us. Read more »

Forgiveness. This seems to be a recurring theme for the past week. My cell was having some discussion about forgiveness; and today I receive in my inbox a pdf file titled, “A letter to the Global Church from The Protestant Church of Smyrna” about the horrific murders on three Christians on the 18th April,2007 in Malatya, Turkey. [http://www.izmirprotestan.org/] Read more »

Prayers are good. The cry of desperation keeps me hungry for God and for success. Doesn’t make sense, but the Bible did mentioned that it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. So perhaps what I’m experiencing now for the lack of true success for some of my venture is perhaps God’s way of saying, “Don’t trust in the mechanism of man, but trust in the Lord.” He did release me from an oppressive tyrant. And he did heal my wife’s skin rashes in day when we tried all kinds of medication to no avail. His Spirit was so strong during my Sabah mission trip that people were slain in the spirit when I prayed over them. Read more »

Fear is the mind killer. I shall not fear for the Lord is with me. But at times, you do feel the need to know where is God while you going through life challenges. Having gone through it, I know it was a very difficult situation to go through it.

Last Thursday, Janet who was in charge of Children Church together with her husband, Lena and I were making a visitation to family. To the mother actually. We made the decision to visit because her daughters were absent from Children Church for quite sometime now. Read more »

With the looming Chinese New Year just around the corner, traffic really was getting into a snarl for the past few days. Fortunately I was able to come back home early after making a sales call. I had been fasting since Monday and intend to carry on till Friday. It was just a simple fast, having some breakfast and fasted till late afternoon/evening. The purpose for this fast was seeking salvation for unsaved family members, to have child, and financial freedom from work drudgery. This was not a full fledge fast as I still get to drink water which helps. Seems to work, especially on work, orders seem to come by smoother. Hope it will continues as I try to find the time to work on my website. Read more »

It was a big crowd at Grace Klang. My wife decided to bring along the parent-in-laws to witness firsthand what it is all about. Unfortunately my parent didn’t want to come saying they were tired and it was too far away. My mom is a Catholic and my dad an atheist weren’t very keen to come for any Christian rallies. Someday they might come to the Lord, but sadly without any convincing victory in my life, and it is difficult to persuade them to accept the grace of God. Read more »