BLESSING UPDATES

One day my cousin told me about how she used to update her status on Facebook. She used to write things such as "Oww... hungry!", "I wanna go home", or "Getting stuck in a traffic jam!", until one day her mother asked her not to write such statuses again. Why? Because she believes that such status isn't important to share to the public. Her opinion might be too old fashioned for most people,...

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DON'T PLEASE THE FLESH

"Untuk siapa kulit cantikmu?" This question is used in a lotion advertisement in our country. It means, "Whom is your beautiful skin for?" Models in the advertisement give different answers for the question. Some of them say other people's name, while the last model says, "Me." If you receive the same question, what will your answer be? Some people, especially women, do beauty treatments...

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HUMBLE AND OBEDIENT

Some people question about why the Highest, the most magnificent God, came to the world in a form of an ordinary child? He even had to be placed in a manger. When I asked my students about where they were born, even the poorest child among them said that he was born in a house, not in a sheep pen. God wants us to learn a lot from Jesus. He is the Son of God, but He knows that God has a big...

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THE INVISIBLE CAMERA

Do you have CCTV at home? Do you study in a school which has CCTV camera? Or, do you work in an office which is provided with CCTV camera? If yes, will you act foolishly or do something stupid in front of it? I believe that everyone who knows that they have been watched over all the time will keep the way they behave. If not, someone behind the CCTV will know their bad habits. We sometimes...

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FOR THE LORD ONLY

What kind of present do we want on our happiest days? If it is possible... the most expensive, the biggest, the most useful ones. The point is, we want the best. Am I right? So does God. He wants the best from us. He wants the best life to offer. He wants the best offering to present. He wants the best heart to give. He wants the best of us before Him. If we now live, it's time for us...

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BE WISE AMONG...

My father and my mother came from different small cities. But since the distance of both places are not far, they have almost similar culture, tradition, and dialect. But now we live in another city, where it is more "city" than those two places. I mean it is more crowded, more traffic, more people, more business places, and more national. When I am home, the way I live is influenced by my...

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MY FUTURE IS YOURS

When hope begins to fade and sadness trembles my faith I close my eyes and see Your face shinning on my ways I have set plans on my head, but I know that You own my life I could have forced those plans, but I choose to obey Yours Forgive me if I become angry and tell bad things about You Forgive me if I refuse to follow the path having been shown by You I want to obey, God, I want to obey I...

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FROM A to Z

A woman was sitting on her house bench. She was looking at people who were wandering in front of her house. She wondered, were these people ever heard about Christ. She knew that she's just ordinary woman. She's not a preacher or a pastor. She's not a church activist, but she did love God. Realizing that she's getting older everyday, she decided to do something in order to make other people...

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A GOOD TEACHER

Do you believe that a teacher's life can be transferred to his student? One day my friend told me that she has a problem with her attitude. She's just realized that she is a kind of person who is easy to make a prejudice over people. When people disappoint her, she'll try to make them pay for it, or at least make them feel guilty. Noticing her feeling, she told me that she wanted to be free...

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THE HELPER

Once my friends and I talked about something "great" we wanted to do in the future. Unfortunately, at the end of the conversation three of us realized a thing, we wouldn't be able to do it for each of us considered ourselves a good follower and helper, not a good leader or pioneer. Noticing this fact, I was truly a little bit upset. I know that I'm a good helper, if someone needs a hand, I'll...

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STRONGER CHRISTIAN

When we were little, our parents gave us milk, porridge, and any kind of soft food. When we grow up, we learn to eat solid food. Both soft and solid foods are given according to our readiness. No parents will force their 3 months old child to eat peanut, it even has no teeth yet. The same thing happens with our spiritual life. They who are very young in theirs spiritual life will face test...

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WALKING WITH JESUS

I am surrounded by people but somehow I can't remember a face I know some of them but somehow I feel like they don't know me I want to speak to someone, someone who can understand me but they're all busy, doing this and that in their own plans I'm wondering, "Do they have my name in their plans?" What a silly question! Of course not! People will be busy with themselves They won't notice that...

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BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORD

When I was a child, my parents used to call me, "tuyul." Well, for those who haven't heard about it, it is a spirit that obtains wealth for its human master. It takes form of a small child, that's why they called me that way, because my body was small compared to other children. I knew that they never meant me to be like one of it, a thief, they just thought that it's a "nickname," "the little."...

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NEVER ASK "WHY"

Many people feel disappointed to God Many people didn't give thanks for His plan They failed and hurted, and they asked, "Why, God... why?" "Why" question has filled the earth for so many complaints coming from people's mouths They are questioning His decision, and asked how come bad things happen to them Don't be like such people for they do not understand God's heart Don't ask "why" or question...

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PURE HEART

Being a pure heart person is not an easy option. Those who have been contaminated by the world will find it difficult to be one of that person. You might want to ask this to me, "What are you talking about?" When a fierce-look man approaches us, what will come into our minds? Most of us will be a little bit afraid, and think, "Oh no... why is he coming at me? What does he want from me." "What...

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SEE IT WITH ...

  It's very difficult for some people to believe that a prophet could pray for rain to fall or rain to stop. They might think that it was impossible. It's very difficult for scientists to believe that there are ghosts, except they can prove it with scientific explanation. Whether it is praying for rain or ghost, both of them are just two examples of unresolved mysteries in the world. Faith...

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THANK YOU FOR HER

It was one night before presentation. I had to present a topic if I wanted to pass my final year course. I had almost set everything, the material, the research... except that I had to made a hard copy for the presentation. I was busy studying when my mom passed by my room and saw me typing. She said to me, "Honey, is there anything I can do for you? You look so busy these days, preparing...

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JESUS SAYS ...

People say, "You can't do it." Jesus says, "You can do everything in me." People say, "I don't know you or even care about you." Jesus says, "I love you more than you ever know." People say, "I will love you if you give me something I want." Jesus says, "I will love you with nothing in return." People say, "I love you for now." Jesus says, "I love you until the eternity." People say, "You...

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GOD'S PARENTS

Most of us who have sons or daughters must have great expectations for our children. We want them to be successful in life; have a good academic performance; have a great achievement outside of school; become a doctor, a pilot, an engineer, a great musician, etc. All these wishes are okay and acceptable for what we want is the best for them. But in order to make these dreams a reality, some...

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HERE IN OUR SECRET PLACE

In the quiet place, I find You In the secret place, I meet You Feeling Your love, enjoying Your presence All I know, I don't wanna leave this place Worshiping You with all of my heart Praising You with all of my soul Your beauty has captured me forced me to stay and dwelt in Your house I love to be here in Your presence when hopes and certainties fill my days I like to be here in Your throne when...

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ON GOD'S SIDE

My friend is not a Sunday school teacher, but she often helps us to share about the Bible with the children in our project. One day when I joined her class, she told the kids the story about David and Goliath. She told them that it was awesome that David the young shepherd boy could defeat Goliath the giant, not with sword, spear, or javelin, but with a sling and a stone. I might have heard...

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OFFERING OF FAITH

Do we realize that our offering to God has something to do with faith? And it is not just a faith faith, we are talking about the right faith. When Cain and Abel learned from their parents, Adam and Eve, about giving an offering to God, I believe that both of them did try to give the best from whatever they have; Cain with his agricultural products, and Abel from his cattle. Unfortunately,...

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LOVE OUR EARTH

Learning again from "The Happening," perhaps anyone who hasn't watched it should watch it first. Here you will see fiction defense mechanism given by trees against human. The fact is some plants are capable of producing special compound that makes living organism around it difficult to grow or even die, such as allelopathy. Well, I think after this we should reconsider hundred times about making...

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NOT ONLY TO SURVIVE

One of our favorite movies while we were still in the college was "The Happening." A story telling about trees "rebellion" upon human in a certain area in The United States made us thrilled and wondered what if it really happened in a real life. A fact that every living creature in this universe has a sense of self defense personally interests me. (According to this film, plants feel threaten...

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MY WORSHIP

  Worship, I worship You Praise, I praise Your name I lift my hands to Your throne I bring my heart to Your heaven Worship, You are worthy to receive my worship Praise, You are The Marvelous One of my praise I stand before Your place I surrender before Your grace Awesome, the Awesome One God, it is what You are My mouth is filled with songs and psalms, unstoppable upon Your...

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ALWAYS

You are always near... always Your hand always holds mine... always I'm glad although I can't see You for You are always near You are always faithful... always In difficult times, in joyful moments You are always faithful... always for it is what You are, God... faithful I love to say, always, always, because the word really suits You Your kindness, Your mercy, You are always good Your power,...

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