The Power of Your Name

The Power of Your Name (click it!!)

Verse 1
Surely children weren't made for the streets
And Fathers were not made to leave
Surely this isn't how it should be
Let Your kingdom come

Verse 2
Surely nations were not made for war
Or the broken and due to be ignored
Surely this couldn't be what You saw
Let Your kingdom come
Here in my heart

Chorus
And I will live to carry your compassion
To love a world that's broken
To be your hands and feet
And I will give with the life that I've been given
And go beyond religion to see the world be changed
By the power of Your Name
The power of Your Name

Verse 3
Surely life wasn't made to regret
And the lost were not made to forget
Surely faith without action is dead
Let Your Kingdom come
Lord break this heart

Bridge
Jesus Your Name
Is a shelter for the hurting
Your Name
Is a refuge the weak
Only Your Name
Can take the undeserving
Jesus Your Name
Holds everything I need


Nb:
Such a great song. This song was made by Lincoln Brewster with His son's and grandma's heart beattt on it....
OMG...it's very cool and touching song and lyric!!!
Hope you enjoy this song and become a blessing for u.

Thanks Stephanie, a great friend of mine in United States for your posting about this song :)

Who Am I?

Who Am I (click here to watch the video)

Who am I?

That the Lord of all the earth,
Would care to know my name,
Would care to feel my hurt.
Who am I?
That the bright and morning star,
Would choose to light the way,
For my ever wandering heart.

Bridge:
Not because of who I am,
But because of what you've done.
Not because of what I've done,
But because of who you are.

Chorus:
I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean,
A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, you catch me when I'm falling,
And you've told me who I am.
I am yours.
I am yours.

Who am I?
That the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
And watch me rise again.
Who am I?
That the voice that calmed the sea,
Would call out through the rain,
And calm the storm in me.

Not because of who I am,
But because of what you've done.
Not because of what I've done,
But because of who you are.


I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean,
A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, you catch me when I'm falling,
And you've told me who I am.
I am yours.

Not because of who I am,
But because of what you've done.
Not because of what I've done,
But because of who you are.


I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean,
A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, you catch me when I'm falling,
And you've told me who I am.
I am yours.
I am yours.
I am yours.

Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear
I am yours..
I am yours..

Suffering

2 hari yg lalu ketika saya baru selesai mengikuti intesive course di salah satu gereja di Jakarta, saya harus mengejar waktu les. Between 2 kegiatan tersebut saya ada wktu kosong selama 1 jam.

Saya nyetir mobil kira2 dari daerah kemayoran ke sunter membutuhkan waktu kiar2 15-20 menit (cukup cepat oleh karena saya sudah mencoba sepelan mungkin untuk ketempat tujuan sehingga saya tidak perlu menunggu di tempat les hingga waktunya tiba )

Ketika saya masuk kerumah lause saya dan tidak ada orang didalam so saya memutuskan menunggu sampai jam 2 teng didalam mobil dan kebetulan saya parkirnya pas dibawah pohon =)

pas didalam mobil, I was wondering what I am going to do?

and then saya memutuskan untuk membaca kitab roma pasal 5.

Di dalam pasal tersebut saya tercengang dengan roma 5:3-6 "....kita malah bermegah didalam kesengsaraan kita, karena kita tahu bahwa kesengsaraan itu menimbulkan tahan uji. Dan tahan uji itu menimbulkan pengharapan. Dan pengharpaan itu tidak mengecewakan, karena kasih Allah telah dicurahkan didalam hati kita oleh Roh Kudus yang telah dikaruniakan kepada kita. Karena waktu kita masih lemah, Kristus telah mati untuk kita orang2 durhaka pada waktu yg telah ditemtukan oleh Allah".

Saya merasa bahwa ayat ini menyatakan kehidupan kesengsaraan yg kita alami sebagai orang percaya dengan begitu detail, precise dan sangat bermakna. Oleh karena kesengsaraan yg kita alami tidak berhenti pada keadaan menderita saja tetapi juga ksesngsaraan yg menghasikan kita menjadi seorang yg lebih tahan uji. Tahan uji akan tantangan hidup kedepan, tidak mudah takut menghadapi situasi yg sama dan tak terduga itu, sehingga iman kita pun tidak goyah ketika berhasil menghadapi tantangan/kesengsaraan hidup itu sendiri. Sifat yg tahan uji itu memberikan kita pengahrapan didalam Tuhan. dikatan bahwa pengharpan itu datang oleh karena kasih Allah yg telah dicurahkan bagi kita anak2Nya ini.

Our suffering ga berhenti sampai pada kita sekedar menderita tetapi merupakan suatu proses daripada exercising our muscles of faith =)

Here I am, Lord

Here I am, Lord

I, the Lord of sea and sky,
I have heard My people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin,
My hand will save.

I who made the stars of night,
I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear My light to them?
Whom shall I send?

Here I am Lord, Is it I Lord?
I have heard You calling in the night.
I will go Lord, if You lead me.
I will hold Your people in my heart.

I, the Lord of snow and rain,
I have born my peoples pain.
I have wept for love of them, They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone,
Give them hearts for love alone.
I will speak My word to them,
Whom shall I send?

Here I am Lord, Is it I Lord?
I have heard You calling in the night.
I will go Lord, if You lead me.
I will hold Your people in my heart.

I, the Lord of wind and flame,
I will tend the poor and lame.
I will set a feast for them,
My hand will save
Finest bread I will provide,
Till their hearts be satisfied.
I will give My life to them,
Whom shall I send?

Here I am Lord, Is it I Lord?
I have heard You calling in the night.
I will go Lord, if You lead me.
I will hold Your people in my heart.

Ps:

Biarlah lagu ini boleh menjadi berkat bagi setiap kita yg telah menjadi HambaNya dimana kita telah diberikan suatu hati, beban yg merupakan privilege daripada Tuhan untuk dipilih olehNya sebagai hamba pilihanNya.

Ingatlah panggilan mula2 kita sebagai hambaNya untuk terus maintain purity of life in His eyes:)

Gbu all!!!

Kasih yang Polos

topik yg cukup menarik dan uncommon untuk dibicarakan.

Topic ini keluar di pemikiran saya ketika mendengar sharing dari teman baik saya.

Long story short, saya belajar banyak hal dari sharing yg kami lakukan, yaitu:

1. Mengasihi dengan hati yg polos tidak mudah dan tidak banyak bisa kita dapat di dunia ini oleh karena kasih yg polos adalah kasih yg murni oleh karena kasih itu belum menjadi cacat (dilukai, etc) sehingga ketika kita mengasihi sesama, kita menggunakan kasih yg utuh (tanpa menquestioning dia, tanpa meragukan dia, jujur, dll).

2. Alangkah baiknya ketika kita bisa mengasihi Tuhan dengan kasih yg polos; yg tidak dicemari dengan motivasi2 yg tidak murni, keinginan dan dosa kita. Hubungan yg didasari dengan kasih ini akan menjadi sangatlah nikmat, bukan?

Begin and End it in Christ

Hari ini saya baca kitab 1 timotius 2-4, kitab dimana ditulis oleh Paulus dan ditujukan kepada Timotius yg dia anggap sebagai anaknya sendiri yg sah didalam Tuhan (1 tim 1; 2 tim 1).

Ketika saya membaca kitab ini, 2 Tim 4:7 "Aku telah mengakiri pertandingan yg baik, ak telah mencapai garis akhir dan aku telah memelihara iman". Ayat ini memiliki arti yg sangat significant bagi saya mengenai bagaimana kita sebagai seorang anak Tuhan harus mengakhiri hidup seperti Paulus. Tidak banyak orang bisa mengatakan kalimat ini (dlm term psychology, kalimat ini telah merepresent the highest level of cognitive domain which is evaluation level).

Bisa mengakhiri hidup kita didalam spiritual warfare bukanlah hal yg gampang dan adalah suatu pengalaman dan proses seumur hidup yg harus kita jalani hingga kita bertemu dengan Bapa disurga. Bagi saya, untuk bisa mencapai garis akhir dan mengakhiri hidup kita dengan baik didalam Tuhan diperlukan beberapa hal, diantaranya:

1. Selfless attitude

Begitu banyak tantangan dan tawaran yg begitu mengiurkan dari dunia membuat kita kadang kala mencoba untuk berkompromi untuk hidup benar, kudus dihadapan Tuhan. Sikap ini sangat diperlukan oleh karena tanpa selfless attitude; meninggalkan apa yg kita inginkan, ambisi kita, dll, kita tidak akan mungkin bisa maksimal dalam mencampai garis akhir dengan sesempurna mungkin. Seperti paulus didalam Filipi 3:8 "Malahan segala sesuatu kuanggap rugi, karena pengenalan akan Kristus Yesus, Tuhanku, lebih mulia dari pada semuanya. Oleh karena Dialah aku telah melepaskan semuanya itu dan menganggapnya sampah, supaya aku memperoleh Kristus"

Paulus melihat dan menilai pengalaman dia dengan Kristus dengan nilai yg sangatlah tinggi hingga dia bisa mengatakan "segala sesuatu kuanggap rugi...menganggapnya sampah.." Wowww such amazing deep and precise words that represent his personal experience with Christ!!!

2. Perjuangan

kalo kita perhatikan didalam kitab filipi ketika paulus di penjara, dia masih menasihatkan jemaat difilipi untuk tetepa berjuang!!! kita yg hidup tidak didalam keadaan penganiyaan seperti Paulus, seharusnya lebih bersemangat lagi!!!

3. Pengenalan yg dekat akan Tuhan

Pengenalan yg tiada hentinya sangat diperlukan karena dari inilah kita baru bisa berjuang dan memiliki selfless attitude. Selain itu, kasih dan setia akan datang karena kecintaan kita dan pentingnya Tuhan dalam hidup kita membuat kita tergila2 hingga mengorbankan apapun untuk Dia yg telah terlebih dahulu memberi diri untuk menyelamatkan kita.

Love and Purity

After reading the Passion and Purity by Elizabeth Elliot, I learn and get a lot of things from it about how we should give our love live to Christ.
From this book, I learn new concept and thought that probably I have been go through so the concept it self become a reminder for me to always live as God wanted me to be.

There are several interested concepts I learn from This book:
1. Contentment
Contentment we can get only in Christ alone. We cannot taste the real and pure love before we content fully in Christ. How do we know we are in the real contentment zone? It is when you wont depend on material and worldly relationship,you wont replace God with worldly things that you think is very important (spouse, parents, friends, car, etc). The main point of the contentment it self is "Seeking God first". Everything should be sacrifice for the sake of Christ for He is our creator, the omnipotent and he already paid us off, which mean he loves us and he never will hurt us even sometimes in circumstances that is difficult to see He still loves us.
The absolute contentment is in Christ. Marriage is not the main things that we use to fulfill our contentment to feel secure. marriage it just a gift that God given to us and a plus things from the contentment it self.

2. The real love
The real love is only when the relationship involved God in it. Love means we have to be selfless and charity. why Elizabeth say it is charity? coz when you love someone, you will give your best without taking for granted. We will do our part without ever asked them to have to give something that we think we suppose to have. That is the real love!!Somehow I wonder how many people can love their spouse in such a way when their spouse is different from their expectation? one thing that I belief is that when the person already lived in Christ, it is possible to happen for he/she loves their spouse by not using a worldly love but the love of God that lives in him/her.

3. the real man after God's own heart
I belief most us want to have a Godly man or woman as their spouse (I will emphasize from woman's view). What I experienced and what I red from this book is a man after God's own heart is the man who is willing to sacrifice everything even their beloved one (his GF) for the sake of Christ. It sounds very dramatic, huh? yes it is but this is how it suppose to be. It happens because he feels very in with God so God is too important for them. When the man has already in this point, they will more faithful and loves you for they are love you not because you are worth to be loved but because God call him to loves you to be his helper and the love that he used is the unconditional love to loves you.
we can see from Jim and Elizabeth Elliot relationship. Jim told her that he will give her to God as Abraham has already offered his precious and beloved son for God and he also said "I give my heart for you that I have given to Christ".
Besides, he is also willing to sacrifice everything even he has to give up his beloved one for her work in God's ministry. He wants the best for her with Christ.

4. Maintain purity
God commands us to live holy and pure for we are not our own but we are owned by Christ-"for you were bought with a price. So glory God in your body" 1 Corinthians 6:20. We are no longer the owner of our own body but He is who has died for us in the cross to clean our sin!

Great Mom ever

It is a blessing for me to have such a great and loving mom "EVER".
I found out that I have a great mom who try her best in her imperfection as a mom.
In her confusion and difficulty to understand her daughter, she has already tried her best to understand her daughter's feeling and struggle.
I was cried alone in my room because of a struggle that I have to dealing with. My mom noticed it and she entered to my room, hugged me and said "it's ok to cry. I will be here with you".
I was shock and I cried out loud until I calm.
My mom gave a sentence that made me change my perspective about her.
she said "do you want to share something with me? if u don't want to share with me, it's ok, but remember even though your mom doesn't and not allow to help you, you still have God who always will be with u. He never leave you. Human can not understand u, but He will."
Wow,,my mom can said such a comforting words for me!!! She also sleep over night with me and pray for me while she was crying with me. It was very memorial moment for me :)



in the mother's day, we have a great night together with small surprise for my mom.
I wish all of us have these kinds of memorable time with our mom and always be thankful to God to have them in their imperfection for we are here because of her.