So today's passage is simple... Was reading Genesis 25 and was like, whaaaa Abraham's seriously fruitful ah... olddd and had a wife (at the age of 100+ and still attracted men...) and concubines. Haha! Well, but it's all after God called him out. :) Ohohohoh now here our attention gets shifted from Abraham to Isaac... Any questions any one? :) Haha... i should go explore in detail how and why was it that since birth, Esau and Jacob were fighting.

Matthew 8 is pretty exciting... there are a few stories contained inside... simple to understand but can all be explored in detail. :)

Haha... oki i gotta admit this about my own bible reading to you all: Remember i said before 4 chapters a day to me is super simple? I wanted to do the super in depth study... but i honestly haven't started it yet... (well partially cos i couldn't get myself to wake up early enough every day... needa make that more consistent haha) But yesyes, public declaration so that u guys can help check on me... make me start on my in depth one verse kinda study k. :)

Hee... here's something you would wanna watch... (download the "Click above to hear Ps Phil's message of the power of the Bible and the passion behind Bible Connect")

Well as usual had lots of thoughts... but just in advance of tomorrow's old testament reading (i decided to move ahead with the story first), just looked at Gen 13-17, "After Lot separated from him, God said to Abram, "Open you eyes, look around. Look north, south, east and west. Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever. I'll make your descendants like dust - counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the earth. So - on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; i'm giving it all to you." This reminded me of something someone shared with me before - Abraham was kinda already in the promised land (canaan), but this piece of land was still a piece of land. It was only after that in Genesis 15:13-16, that the second part of the promise was released; it was only after the forth generation returns, that the promised land became the promised land. Interesting thought - hold it, we'd explore it more as we go along, but any preliminary thoughts? :)

Think i shared this with you guys too - pointing the way, and when that purpose is done, he leaves for the Messiah to come onto the scene fully. John was supposed to have been put into prison around 60 days after he actually baptised Jesus. Jesus took 40 days in the desert, so if you do your math, yeps should be around that timing. V12, "Now when Jesus heard that John had been put into prison, He departed to Galilee."John's ministry had influence in Judea, Jerusalem and until Jordan. Jesus's ministry had influence in Judea, Jerusalem, and beyond Jordan. :) Hey but there's so much more to this passageeee... :) Roar! :) I will probably come back to this passage again tomorrow! :)

Anyway... woohoo it's prayer today, so will probably post a prayer post later. :)

Enjoy bible reading... it's more than essential. :)

I dunno about you, but i'm sick of the times when i say "i love God", but i have no idea what that actually constitutes. When i say "God is good", i want to know what i mean by that. I don't desire to have an airy fairy christianity just repeating and saying and doing what others are doing... i want a real relationship with God, a real alive relationship so that when i sing "the God i know", i truly know who He is. :)

That was just a bunch of honest ramblings... and really, at this point of time in my christian walk, i'm still looking at the bible and thinking, "wow". How bout you? :) What makes you read the Word of God? :)

Anyways... today's bible reading has been interesting. (It always is... haha!) :)

Genesis chapters 7-9, tells of Noah during the flood and after it. Hmmm... what's your idea of the flood? :) I remember Shaunster sharing this before - Noah's ark can be likened to Jesus. :) Nice idea, here's my elaboration on it (better say mine, cos i cant totally remember 100% what he say about it)... Well Jesus saves everything in Him, everything outside Him perishes. :) But God's provision of that salvation is just amazing... :) Thoughts thoughts? :) This can be daybreak scratching the surface first lesson (Fall of man and salvation...) but taken to a deeper level. :) 

Of course, when i reached Matthew 3 i smiled widely. :) John the Baptist. :) Haha... remember one of our focus this year is really to be the prophetic voice... to prepare for the way of Jesus and to usher the revival in this year. To point the way to Jesus for others, by being an example in our living and proclamations to them. To say "change your life, God's Kingdom is here!". Hah oki enough about this... i can really talk about it a lot, but probably the long elaboration would come in the chapter that records John the Baptist's death. :) Today my thoughts were more about water baptism... wheee... oki i remember hearing a sermon about that before... well, i have one whole entire day to try to catch that sermon about water baptism... i'll take down notes and then come comment back here k! :)

-- Your happy overseer cos God is good (Psalm 84:1-2, "What a beautiful home, God of the Angel Armies! I've always longed to live in a place like this, always dreamed of a room in your house, where i could sing for joy to God-alive!")

Watched this sermon just now about reading the word of God, thought it was quite cool... it's a series in 3 weeks, but think the 3rd week will do if you're hard on time. http://www.lifechurch.tv/message-archive/watch/TXT/3/low-res :) Go load the link, similar to youtube, and watch it after u load it. :) 

Anyway there are other messages on the webby, just browse through, see what's there, listen to those that you think would be useful for you, be impacted, be transformed, and have the Word of God imprinted in your life. :)

Press on and persevere! :)

- Your kind and nice and wonderful overseer, Shujing.