Oct 5, 2010. Psalm 89:38-52

This psalm is actually from an unknown psalmist.
but people believe that he was around during fall of Israel. he first talks about how God is rejecting them in a bad time, yet at the end he glorify God by saying that he is with us.
As Christians one of the most important things we need to do is to glorify God in the dark time. just like the song blessed be your name, we need to just jump for joy and reach out to God during our bad time as we have to do the same during our good times. God has all the rights to take things away from us.
Sometimes we misinterpret delayed prayer to rejected prayer. sometimes we just have to be more patient and just love our God.

Oct 4. 2010, Psalm 89:19-37

in this quiet time it really talks about how much God cares for us. and how important it is to be with him. what he will do for us and how he will love us forever just like He loves king David. but the second part (v.30-37) is what gets me the most. it says that the sins won't go unpunished. he punishes because he loves us. he will never stop loving us but he corrects us because he loves us so much.
sometimes we complain to God about why we suffer, but we always sins and when we get punished we shouldn't beable to say anything. we deserve every little things that happen to us that's bad. God still loves us and in the big picture we will see that God gives us victory.

importance of prayer

i started reading colossians recently for my devotional. i do quiet time with duranno (part of ounri (my church's mother church)) and it got to me. in the book Colossians Paul writes letter about colossians and he tells them that he prays for them. he never knew them he just knew the guy who went there and built the church there.
This got me really thinking. ever since jama, where i heard from Dr. Kanayama, when he answered a question "how do you know when God's telling you something?" he answered "if we pray to him a lot he talks to us and we know", just like if Alice called me i'd be like "hey alice" because i'd recognize her voice" we need to beable to recognize God's voice and really just believe in him. and to do all that we need to pray, and we really need to just pray about everything.
I always start out praying these days praying about myself and then friends and then church and then the world. there is so many things that we need to pray about and i really am ashamed about myself that i tend to not pray much.
These days i want to change that, i try to pray more and i try to reach out to God, because if we're reaching out to people first, then all we're doing is socializing. we're saying that we're evangelizing but we really aren't we are fufilling our selfish need of socialization. We need to reach out to God and really have a relationship with him. without that we are nothing.
God wants us to reach out to him and talk to him. God wants us to have a relationship with him. just like i call alice and talk to her we need to do that to God and really just get to know him and he will tell you what to do and what his will is.
i'll end with a quote i heard from someone who came back from haiti.
a pastor that's living in haiti was asked a question "why do you want to serve God in such a dangerous place as haiti?" and he answered "there's no safer place then God's will."
God has plan for all of us and if we have relationship with Him. everything will unfold

Proverbs 22:6

“Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.”- Proverbs 22:6

christianity is a life that we choose to live. because of that we need to choose to live our lives for him. We need to grow and sometimes we are young and sometimes we're just baby spiritually and we need to learn to grow in him from the beginning and learn the basic. We need to be reminded of God's love and we should never turn from what we learned as we are young.
let's love...

5.11.2010 - Ephesians 4:32

“Be kind and compassionate to one another,

forgiving each other, just as in Christ God

forgave you.”- Ephesians 4:32

one of the major thing that Christ did for us is that he died for us and he died for our sin. he forgave us of our trespasses, which means we need to forgive others just as he forgave us.

As christians what we gotta do is that we need to become a different kind of people. we need to be different and one of these things is that we need to forgive others. It is very hard specially when people do wrong to you it's hard to forgive but we need to learn to forgive and to love.

4.14.2010 - 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

When bad things happen we try to seek right information. and when we do have right information then we don't freak out. the qt today talked about a person in a plane, 15 minutes into flight the plane started to shaking and the pilot said the plane was having a trouble, but the flight attendent explained what was wrong and why they were going back to the airport, so the people in the plane didn't freak out or anything. Bible is the flight attendent that's giving us the right information and with that right information we can live our lives without freaking out. we can trust and believe God with all our hearts and we will be able to have a good ending.

death or second coming (which the verse talks about) is a very harsh topic in the real world. world ending or death should freak you out, but with God we should be happy. We love God and we trust in him, and let's live for him and we shall fear no more... (idealy... but we will always fear...)

4.11.2010 - Ecclesiastes 2:1-11

what brings happiness?

in many movies or things say that glory, popularity or money brings you happiness. even the movie pursuit of happiness said at the end that pursuit of happiness is money goods, but something that is more worrying is that many people believes that, but it seems like people like tom brady to many people who does have a lot of money have said that they are missing something, someone who is earning crazy amount of money and that bought his offensive linemen escalades for winning the superbowl, said that they are missing something.

God's amazing love can only fill that spot. We as christian have something that many people look for even if they have more possession then us.