Our Problem = Small Potatoes

"These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us." 2Cor 4:17

"Sebab penderitaan ringan yang sekarang ini, mengerjakan bagi kami kemuliaan kekal yang melebihi segala-galanya, jauh lebih besar dari pada penderitaan kami." (2 Kor 4:17).

Semua pergumulan dan kesulitan yg kita alami sekarang menurut alkitab adalah "small potatoes" (kentang kecil), jika dibandingkan dgn reward yg akan kita terima sebagai buah dari salib yg harus kita pikul.

Ingatlah, tidak ada kesuksesan tanpa kerja keras, tdk ada kemuliaan tanpa salib - no cross, no crown.

GBU and Keep Winning by hard working!!!


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*TRUTH & DARE*

Following God is....

When
u are smart and blossom
U can do all things well
Fast in every task
offered some great jobs!
big salaries are waiting
high prestige are knocking
And the TRUTH is
God wants you to give up all those things
Choose the path, that u don't ever think
Do you even dare?

When
you are handsome enough to be liked
Funny enough to be chased
Girls are waiting..
To choose is not a difficult task
To play on! Is something that bangs your door
And the truth is
God wants you to wait, and say nothing...
Do you even dare?

When
U are rich enough to have fun
To trash your checks is not a problem
U can have lunch and set dinner everywhere
Just name it!
Five stars hotel? World class
restaurant?
U can bill those branded bags
U can drive those latest cars
And the truth is
God wants you to give and give
Do you even dare?

When
U can walk the easy way
Put aside the darkest valleys
Color your day with the sun, and morning sky
Skip the rain, and ask for rainbow
Pause the laughing days,
forget the mourning days
And the truth is
God wants you to
Walking through the storms
Do you even dare?

I know a man
That point on others
Telling God that he might chose a wrong one...
And run

I know a man
That point on himself
Telling God that he might not that strong
And stay

You choose....


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Al.Kira

Front Gate

Psalm 118:19-20 > 19 Open for me the gates of righteousness; I will enter and give thanks to the LORD. 20 This is the gate of the LORD through which the righteous may enter.

The Bible wrote a lot about front gate; the activities and the people. In modern times, front gate can be interpreted as our mind. Filtering what/ who goes in and what/who goes out, this is the main job of our mind/thoughts.

Ezekiel 33:2-3 > 2 “Son of man, speak to your countrymen and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, 3 and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people,

What are the purposes of front gate?
1) Security Tower
There is always people watching over the front gate from on top of the tower. The tower keeper will    guard and inform the others if there’s something happening on the outside. The front gate will be opened or closed depending on the tower keeper.

It’s the same like our mindset. We have to filter what’s going on outside there, we have to decide whether we ought to let the “saying” to enter or out from our mind.

2) Passageway
Front gate is a passageway where people enter and leave one place. Eyes and ears are the passageway where information enter and leave our mind. However, mind decides whether or not the information is accepted.
e.g. (1)when A sees so much money on the table, his mind will be arguing if he should take the money that clearly doesn’t belong to him or not.
The mind plays an important role here. Good way of thinking will lead to a good life.
e.g. (2) 2 King 5:19-20 told the story about Elisha’s servant, Gehazi, who was greedy and was not honest. He was punished with the disease leprosy for the rest of his life and his descendants forever. All of this happened just because he saw so many treasures that belong to others and he claimed it to be his.

Philippians 4:8 > 8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

What are the purposes of front gate in Jesus’ time?
1) As a place for business transaction
e.g. Genesis 23:18 > Abraham bought a land at the front gate
Ruth 4:1 > Boaz met someone for business there

2) People with high position usually sit at the front gate
3) Blessings are made at the front gate
What does front gate have to do with our mind?

- Proverbs 31:23 > Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land. People who use his mind well will be respected by people.
- If enemy is in front of the gate, we have to win the war. War in this term happens in our mind. Whether we win or lose, it depends on how we control our mind. There’s a saying, when you want to hold a snake, hold its tail, not its head.

It’s the same as our sin, repent our sin from the small one first, which is the argument that happen in our head. The tower of the front gate is like Word of God. If we know WOG well, we will know which ones are bad, which ones are good. When we know it, we cannot allow the bad things to get into our mind. If we lose the argument in our mind, we already lose in life.

However, we have WOG to help us win the war! From our mind and action, only blessings that should come out.

Bible examples of front gate and the war in mind:
1) Both Abraham and Isaac bless their sons saying that they will seize the gates of their enemies.
It means so that they can always control their minds to be clean always.
Genesis 22:17, Genesis 24:60
2) Judges 16:3 > 3But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.
Samson was so strong when he could control his mind and action. But by the time he fell for a girl and his hair was cut off, he lost everything.

Thoughts:In everything we do, action/talking will always appear in our mind first before it is acted out. That’s why the fight in our mind is very important. From a thought only, good or bad things can happen. Everything starts from a simple thought.
e.g. when someone is jobless and he’s very hungry. When he saw money or food, his mind will fight if he should steal it or not. If he doesn’t have a good way of thinking, he will steal it. If he has positive thought, he will struggle to find a job and feed himself.

O Lord, be glorified Your Name. Thank you for guiding us with your Word, so that we will not fall into sins. Remind us always of Your Word so that we can be blessings for others too. Our minds, our bodies and our souls belong to you. Keep us from bad things Lord, so that we can be example for others. Thank You Jesus. In the name of Jesus, we pray and we ask, Amen.


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Ps. Jacob

Tuhan Selalu Bersama Kita

Apapun persoalan kamu hari ini ,mungkin saja kamu sedang bete, sedang dalam masalah, sedang bertengkar dengan seseorang, dll. Tetap ingat kita mempunyai Tuhan yang baik, Tuhan yang selalu peduli terhadap kehidupan kita semua tanpa terkecuali.

Tidak masalah sudah seberapa dalamnya kita jatuh atau seberapa hancurnya kehidupan kita sehingga kita selalu mencoba untuk melarikan diri dari padaNya, Tapi ingat satu hal, Dia sanggup menggapai kita kembali.

Tidak masalah seberapa sakit dan pedihnya luka hati kita, tetap ingat Dia juga sanggup menyembuhkan dan memulihkannya.

Jadi ayo kita buka hati kita dan berbaliklah pada-Nya

Keep Winning and God Bless you


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Masalah = Membuat kita kuat

Banyak orang berpikir kenapa hidup ini penuh dengan masalah?
Kenapa Tuhan menciptakan masalah buat dunia ini?
Apa Dia tidak sayang dengan manusia didunia sampai menciptakan masalah buat dunia ini?

Coba kita renungkan jika Tuhan yang kita kenal sebagai sesosok yang maha pengasih dan Dia yang menciptakan masalah itu
berarti Dia adalah sesosok yang jahat donk dan bukan sesosok yang maha pengasih
Apakah kamu setuju dengan saya?

Tapi jika mindset kamu berkata begitu, maka cepat ubah mindset itu sebelum terlambat
Karena harus diingat Tuhan tidak pernah menciptakan masalah buat kita semua

Jika bukan Tuhan yang ciptakan masalah, kenapa masalah itu bisa ada?
Masalah bukanlah Tuhan yang ciptakan, tapi Tuhan izinkan masalah itu ada.
Supaya dari masalahlah nama Tuhan dipermuliakan.

Mank ada hubungannya antara masalah dengan nama Tuhan dipermuliakan?
Ini ada berberapa point untuk membahas masalah diatas ini
1. Kenapa nama Tuhan dipermuliakan karena ketika kita menghadapi masalah, Tuhan akan setia dan selalu disamping kita buat melawan masalah kita
2. Kenapa nama Tuhan dipermuliakan karena ketika kita menghadapi masalah, kita akan mengandalkan Tuhan dan kita akan melihat Tuhan itu lebih besar dari masalah kita
3. Kenapa nama Tuhan dipermuliakan karena ketika kita menang dari masalah yang kita hadapi, orang lain akan melihat Tuhan di hidup kita

Tapi Manknya ada keuntungan buat kita dari masalah yang kita hadapi?
Jawabannya adalah "Ya", karena dari masalahlah hidup kita akan menjadi solid dan rohani kita akan menjadi bertumbuh dalam Tuhan ketika kita mengandalkan Tuhan dalam masalah kita.

Jangan Takut ketika kita menghadapi masalah karena Tuhan selalu bersama kita menghadapi masalah kita
Ayo mulai detik ini kita mulai berpikir dan tanamkan mindset ini di dalam hidup kita "Masalah Boleh datang menyerang saya, tapi saya akan tetap keluar menjadi seorang pemenang dan tidak akan mati karena masalah"


Tuhan Memberkati

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The Love of God

The passage below tells us of how big the love of Christ for us is. The love of Christ itself is beyond any human’s imagination and once you understand it then you can do what is beyond your expectation. And that is what Paul wants us to know through what he has written, he want us to know how important to understand the love of Christ is.

Ephesians 3:14-19

“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

The love of Christ is not a simple thing that you can understand it in an instance. Paul himself must kneel before the Lord and pray so that he can understand the love of Christ. This shows us that to understand the love of Christ it takes time and effort. The love of Christ is so big that you must come and pray before Him to know how big the love of Christ for you is and once you understand the love of Christ then you must grasp it so that you could know how wide and how deep the love of Christ is.

There are two things that He will do when the love of Christ is within us and you understand it well, which are:
1. Strengthen Your Inner Being

When the love of Christ is within you, He will strengthen our inner being because it dwells in our heart. Once your inner being is strengthened then He will lead you to do thing that is beyond your own imagination.
2. Give Impact to Other

By having the love of Christ live in you, you can give an impact to people surround you by sharing the love of Christ with each other. This way you may give an impact to the other party for example, I, myself, used to have a problem with my temper and I was unable to manage it. Once I was angry I would show my anger to whoever that annoyed me but because the love of Christ is living in me now, He enables me to manage my temper and teach me to forgive everyone who annoy me. It is not easy and I admit it. However, if I am able to do this through Christ who leads me, then He will lead you as well.

And how to accomplish this mission? In Ephesians 4:2 “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love”, God told us to be humble, patient and bearing with one another in love. This way you can apply the love of Christ that is within you. But how if you meet the limit of forgiving other people that has been hurting you? As what have been explained above, the love of Christ is not effortless and will need a long time for us to understand it. The time taken to understand it, is for us to learn and grow more in understanding the love of Christ and you will understand that the love of Christ also bring healing for your heart until you will not know the limit of forgiving other.

Thought:

I believe each of us has experienced the love of Christ and it is living in each and every one of us. But let us together learn more to understand the love of Christ and grasp it with everything that we have so that we know how deep and how wide is the love of Christ for us. Without the love of Christ we might end up destroying ourselves and others.

Mighty Father in heaven, here I am Your child comes to You with a humble heart Lord. I want to use this opportunity to ask for an understanding of Your love, Jesus and grasp it with my everything. I want to learn how to be patient and bearing with one another in love. So, Jesus leas me and remind me always of deep and wide of your love. Thank You Lord, in your mighty name I prayed. Amen.


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Ps. Jani Pritam

Jangan Menilai kepahlawanan dari Tanda Jasa

Jangan nilai kepahlawanan seseorang dari banyaknya tanda jasa,
melainkan dari perjuangan dan pengorbanannya sehingga dianggap layak mendapatkan tanda jasa tersebut.

Keep Winning!!!

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Al.Kira