A tax assessor came one day to a poor Christian to determine the amount of taxes
he would have to pay.
The following conversation took place:
"What property do you possess?" asked the assessor. "I am a very wealthy man,"
replied the Christian.
"List your possessions, please," the assessor instructed. The Christian said:
"First, I have everlasting life, John 3:16
Second, I have a mansion in heaven, John 14:2
Third, I have peace that passes all understanding, Philippians 4:7
Fourth, I have joy unspeakable, 1 Peter 1:8
Fifth, I have divine love which never fails, 1 Corinthians 13:8
Sixth, I have a faithful wife, Proverbs 31:10
Seventh, I have healthy, happy obedient children, Exodus 20:12
Eighth, I have true, loyal friends, Proverbs 18:24
Ninth, I have songs in the night, Psalms 42:8
Tenth, I have a crown of life, James 1:12"
The tax assessor closed his book, and said,
"Truly you are a very rich man, but your property is not subject to taxation." I pray
that all of us will have this kind of tax free "wealth."
Author Unknown This is what it means to be rich....... Rich with the blessings of our
Almighty God. Blessed be His name forever. Amen!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
A Christian's Possessions
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Hi guys...
然而靠著愛我們的主，在這一切的事上，已經得勝有餘了‧ 因為我深信無論是死，是生，是天使，是掌權的，是有能的，是現在的事，是將來的事，是高處的，是低處的，是別的受造之物，都不能叫我們與 神的愛隔絕‧這愛是在我們的主基督耶穌裡的‧ (羅馬書 8:37-39)
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Building Ourselves Up
But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the center of God's love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life! (Jude 1:20-21 — The Message)
This is the real life; we immerse ourselves in God, allowing Him to come in and live through us in such a way that it is hard to tell where we end and He begins. He is to be our life, not Him being just a part of our life. This is real life; this is Jesus living through us. This is how we build ourselves up and stay strong, by connecting our hearts with His daily, praying, reading His love letters to us, and most of all listening to what He says to us. All of that is real life. Live the real life daily. Get and stay connected daily with His heart.
Live intentionally, purposely, free and with passion,
Pete Reinbold
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Jesus Saves
Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who was better at using the computer.
They had been going at it for days, and God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally God said , "Cool it. I am going to set up a test which will take two hours and it will judge who does the better job."
So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They used the mouse.
They did spread sheets.
They wrote reports.
They sent faxes.
They sent E mail.
They sent out E mail with attachments.
They downloaded.
They did some genealogy reports.
They made cards.
They did every known job.
But ten minutes before the time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder
Rolled , the rain poured, and of course, the electricity went of. Satan stared at his blank screen
And screamed every curse word known in the underworld.
Jesus just sighed.
The electricity finally flickered back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started
Searching frantically screaming, "It's gone! It's all gone ! I lost everything when the power went out!
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out al his files from the past two hours. Satan observed this and became even more irate. "Wait! He cheated! How did he do it??!"
(You'll love the punch line.)
God just shrugged his shoulders and said:
JESUS SAVES!!!
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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The Gift We Can Give to God
Article by Tom Gilbert — ©
When we look at all the incredible things God has given us it seems impossible that we could return the favor. True enough. Don't worry, God's not looking for repayment. He gives to us freely and with love. His greatest gift of all, Jesus as the sacrifice for all of our sins and the one who redeems us and brings us fully into a relationship with God, is the springboard for all the other things He gives us. If you love someone then you will want to give to him or her. It's a natural expression of our love. In the case of God what can we possible give? It's the ultimate "what do you give to the one who has everything"? The one great gift that we can give to God is…our self. Totally. Completely. Utterly and without reservation. God wants us to abandon ourselves to Him. That's what He's looking for. He has some big plans for each of us.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Approching result
Hi there, first of all thanks a lot a lot to all people's prayer support, we have finish the 1st step of approaching. The result was ok as we did approach around 80+ juniors. Thanks to all the people who work together in IVCC and especially those who pray hard for us. May God bless you always and hope that you can always cont to pray for IVCC ya. Thanks to sister niang yen also as she help us a lot especially d list of juniors from Sarawak. Through d list we did approach other juniors especially all their friends and coursemate around.
So this is just the very beginning. We are now doing preparation for the welcoming night. We did face a lot of difficulties during this preparation but thank God for always be with us hand His guideness and teaching which always helps us to solve all the prob. Also thank God that the budget is almost reach. Also for the van, really happy to see that finally IVCC has avanza...haha...
Seriously i'm a bit worry for the welcoming, actually not a bit la, i really worry about the welcoming activity especially for the night and camp. I really do hope that bro and sis who does not come back yet plz prepare yourself at home and please come back here faster. We want to work together as a team and fullfil the work where the God given to us. Let us prepare our heart, mind and soul to be use by God. Also please ready and follow up your work with me so that we can work and sort things out.
Hope to see you guys soon in IVCC. We are all here waiting you back and serve the Lord together. So please cont to pray for yourself and pray for IVCC ya.
GOD loves you more than you know. So let us use all the gifts that we have and turn it into blessings for many people. May the God's love always fills our heart!!
Sunday, June 22, 2008
COUNTDOWN!!
peace to all brother and sister,
we all gonna meet in a few days left but oni to those who are comin back at 27th which falls on friday. so i'm askin who wanted to go back UTM at 27th pls contact me. u can post it in this blog shoutout as well. juz let me know if u are goin back. i nit to jot down how many ppl will. pls pass this news to bro and sis who haven't read de blog.
and i reli reli hope tat most of us can make it back as well. because we might need more helping hands in the welcomin activities concerning having a close relationship with the new students. the results of the Uni are out and we already knew who's coming to UTM. so i hope u all can keep up the close up with anyone who u knew is coming to UTM! i already let a few students know my contact number and i know they will need some help when they are lost in UTM, and tat's when they will seek for our help and how we gonna show Christianity to them. we are not juz hoping more people come to the welcomin activities but we want them to come into the presence of God! tat's our major priority as well!
so let us strengthen our heart and become more like Christ, all of us have an important roles, there's no "kalefei" or supporting actor or actress. so let us pray more and do more action as well. with just praying, God won't answer our prayer if we don't stand up and do the work. a few more days left! ganbatte-kudasai minna san!!