There is always a reason for us to worship the LORD, our God.
There is always a reason for us to give thanks to the LORD, our God.
There is always a reason for us to lift up our voice and praise His Holy Name.
There’s 10,000 reasons to bless the LORD.
Tag Archives: Thoughts
Overcoming Failure
I’ve been reading Renee Swope‘s book, A Confident Heart, for one of my Summer readings.
At the end of chapter 7, she shared about failing forward, failure and how we can overcome it. She wrote,
“When we disappint God and other people, it can automatically make us feel like a failure. This reinforces Satan’s lies and destroys our confidence. Fearing failure can distort our perspective and keep us focused on the fear of failing again. Instead, we need to ask God if there is something we need to di differently.”
What is failure? What are the causes of failure? Renee answers those quetions from the Truth:
“One of the main themes of the Bible is overcoming failure. Throughout Scriptures we see that failure is something caused by disobedience (Num.14:40-45), sin (Josh. 7:3-12), lack of faith (Matt. 17:15-21), not following God’s ways (2 Chron. 28:1-5), lack of counting the cost (Luke 14:28-29), unbelief (Heb. 4:6), and wrong motives (James 4:3).”
Isn’t that true? I know it’s true and happens to me. Satan always try to get to me through “making me feel like a failure” when I disapoint God or someone (especially my husband, daughter and parents). Satan knows well our weak spot in our life and he will use it over and over again to destry and draw us away from God and His love.
I would be so down and discouraged when that happened to me. But God is so good, so gracious and so faithful. He shows love, grace and mercy to me. He speaks to me through His words, patience husband and wise, spirit-filled mentor&friends I have. He makes sure I know well that He is there and guides me step by step to the victory in Jesus.
Overcoming failure is only by coming to Jesus, searching God’s will for your life and live it!
Five Minute Friday: Dance
First thing came up in my mind when I saw the promo word for today is the song from The Civil Wars: Dance Me To The End Of Love. Here’s part of it:
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
And dance me to the end of love
Yeah
Dance me to the end of love
I am not gonna write this is an analogy to something, I just like it 😀
Nothing spiritual or telling about Jesus in this song. But I have experienced that my husband has been the one who dance me through the panic, worries, and difficult times with me. He has been the one that lift me up in time when I was down. He has been the one that God uses to show me that He never leave me along, He is there for me through my husband, and I can count of Him at anytime. God has show me the beauty of love through my husband for he loves me that much.
I am so thankful to have my husband, Dave, to dance me and with me till the end of time.
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Five Minute Friday: Risk
I remember about 7 years ago when I said “Yes, Lord, it’s me send me to go,” at a National Student Mission Conference, in Indonesia. I kneeled down and cried out loud to the Lord for the heart and passion for the people on Indonesia. That day I made the commitment to obey His calling in my life, to walk with Him wherever He leads me and to submit to Jesus’ Lordship for the rest of my life.
Sounds so spiritual, right? But risky.
Yes, I take the risk to leave all my dreams behind, and take God’s dream, vision and desire for all nations as mine.
Yes, I take the risk to go alone (I was single that time ^_^).
And now, I take the risk to go to the mission field with my family – my husband and a toddler (soon will be 2 kids!)
But I have God with me, I trust Him with all my heart, my mind and my life. God who has called me, also called my husband, and also called my kids to go, to serve Him in Indonesia. We trust in Him that He is the one who will provide ALL THINGS that we need spiritually, physically and financially. He is the one who sent us to go and will make His own mission success through us. He is the One and Only who will receive the praise and glory from all people, the people of Indonesia who speaks over 700 languages.
Now, the risk seems so small because we have BIG God!
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I Have A Confession
Today, I realized that I have not done any scrapbook layouts, or crafts, or anything that I think I like to do in my free time. Why? That’s because I have set a “kind of very” high expectation of myself lately. That including how I would like to make 1 layout a day, but I couldn’t keep it up with all things that had happened lately.
I have missed about a week, that means I didn’t do any scrapbook layouts in this last week. I am not particularly saying that “I have to” but, you know, it is just some kind a lesson for me not to have a high expectation when I am not so sure if I could do it or not.
I learned and still am learning.
There are some things that more important that my hobbies. I have to have a list of things that primary and important to my life, rather then just “go with it” life style anymore.
My very top of the list is serving the LORD, my God, seek Him each moment through praying and reading the Bible, than serving my family as wife and a mom. And then house works and ministry to others at church and online (I have some translation works online for mission agencies). And now we are members of Wycliffe, that added commitment of serving God and others, building partnership team and getting ready to go as missionaries overseas. These are the main things that I put as my priorities.
And then followed by hobby when I need that free time to put myself back together, a time when I do things that relaxing me. There might be something will put my hobby down to the list, but it’s here where it is now.
Hopefully, I can make more that just one layout a week, but for now I stick to one layout a week.
To live is to learn to change to be better…Never stop learning, that’s for sure.
(hopefully that makes sense to you in English! :D)