What I Really Think -- Simply Lisa

Wake-Up Call From An Unexpected Source

2011-08-18T08:37:00.000+08:00

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It's Not About Me!

2011-08-09T07:28:00.002+08:00

I was thinking today if we could all just "get over ourselves" the LORD would be able to get a lot more done in the Kingdom!

He Still Answers!: Prayer Request

2011-07-19T21:22:00.000+08:00

He Still Answers!: Prayer Request

In Honor Giving Preference To One Another

2011-07-19T00:43:00.000+08:00

...in honor giving preference to one another.
Romans 12:10

"The place where encouragement is most needed is the home, where our flaws are exposed and our selfishness is most likely to exert itself. But marriage works best when spouses are less selfish, more selfless, and when they understand that it's not about making themselves happy but about making the other happy--in honor preferring one another. It is God's plan, and it works!" -David Jeremiah

Made Me Giggle! ;)

2011-07-15T02:26:00.003+08:00

Ha! ;) American pop culture is so pervasive and embarrassing! Just because they say it on tv doesn't mean everyone likes it! My 60 year old eye surgeon was instructing me about how to use the various antibiotic drops he was prescribing after my minor eye surgery the other day. Quite a classy guy, trying to make me feel at home as a foreigner-I appreciated him. Just when I thought he was finished he perked up with an, "oh and by the way (that's for you Fei Lin) when you get up in the night to pee, put them in again." You know, I don't think I've ever actually said that word out loud. ;) ;)

He Still Answers!: What is SMCI?

2011-07-08T12:33:00.000+08:00

He Still Answers!: What is SMCI?

The Deeps

2011-04-20T21:11:00.000+08:00

I have no master but Thee,
   no law but Thy will,
   no delight but Thyself,
   no wealth but that Thou givest,
   no good but that Thou blessest,
   no peace but that Thou bestowest.
I am nothing but that Thou makest me,
I have nothing but that I receive from thee,
I can be nothing but that grace adorns me.

Quarry me deep, dear LORD,
   and then fill me to overflowing with living water.

The Valley of Vision
A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions

He Still Answers!: Here We Go!

2011-04-13T22:00:00.000+08:00

He Still Answers!: Here We Go!

The Rumor

2010-09-22T06:14:00.000+08:00

The effective and well practiced use of the rumor is one of the greatest tools of the enemy. Gently dropped properly at the right moment from the right lips, it effectively to stop ears, stops giving, stops prayer. It is to be defended against, it is to be deliberately rejected. I am conscious of this today especially as I fear too oft I have been the author and the victim.

Lord, forgive me. Lord, protect your work. Lord, enable me to recognize and deal with the wiles of the enemy especially as he would attack in this way.

Amen.

The LORD's Point of View

2010-08-20T20:36:00.000+08:00

"To obey is better than sacrifice..."

Are You Ruined?

2010-08-14T23:59:00.000+08:00

Just because once you were a round peg someone tried to force into a square hole doesn't necessarily mean you are a bad risk!

Weapons

2010-08-08T13:33:00.000+08:00

It only takes a flicker of light
to completely break the power of the darkness...

A Fine Line Seperates An Opinion From A Judgement--A line we must not cross!

2010-07-19T19:51:00.000+08:00

In essentials, unity;

in non-essentials, liberty;

in all things, charity.

Unknown

"Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way."

Romans 14:13

"Don't Tear Apart The Work of God Over What You Eat!"

2010-07-15T13:36:00.001+08:00

The LORD knew I personally needed Romans 14.

Thanks Lord

A Quote From Experience

2010-07-08T02:57:00.007+08:00

I think we would be much better off if we criticized less

and prayed more.

Join me?

Thoughts from "Chinese Diamonds For the King Of Kings"

On Faith...

2010-07-06T01:55:00.001+08:00

"If we cannot trust God when the circumstances seem against us,we are not trusting him at all."

C.H. Spurgeon

Words I Wish I'd Said #1

2010-06-19T14:29:00.001+08:00

"Jesus told me to go. He never said I would come back.

Isn't this the life of a Christian?"

--Celso, a 70 year old Colombian evangelist reaching Marxists guerillas in the jungles of Columbia

Today I Was Reminded ...

2010-06-12T14:49:00.004+08:00

"Life is not a game, and it's not about me! "

I Think These Verses Also Apply to Facebook, Blogging and MSN

2010-06-01T20:45:00.004+08:00

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Ephsians 4:29

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:16

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Proverbs 18:13

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Proverbs 18:21

Tears For the Lost

2010-05-18T22:43:00.008+08:00

We met a lovely young couple today. They are on the way to start ta new life together... they want to spend it for Jesus. Somewhere in the talk of travel, life and the future there were tears for lost souls, tears for a lost nation, tears out of a desire to know God's will and to it.

I think surrendered hearts are the only ones in which God can plant those tears. I think God will use them. I was glad to know them. They lifted my heart in hope.

It's All Bigger Than Me . . .

2010-05-15T18:43:00.003+08:00

"Who can find a virtuous woman?
         For her price is far above rubies.
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her,
        So that he shall have no need of spoil.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life."
                       Proverbs 31:10-12

In such a wife the heart of her husband may safely confide, for he finds in her love and unselfish affection treasure so vast, that, let his circumstances be as they may, he can never be in poverty. Her influence is for good and not evil all the days of her life. It is a lovely picture of the mutual relationship of Christ and the Church: the latter owning Him as Head and delighting to love and serve Him; while He finds His joy in her and beholds in her an inheritance of untold value?

Notes On Proverbs
H.A. Ironside

"But made himself of no reputation..." (Christ-Our Example)

2010-05-14T13:34:00.000+08:00

Recently, I have had some interesting questions pushed my way...

I think I need to ask the LORD to help me in understanding "testimony and reputation." It seems one we are to guard. One we are to surrender.

If I am to obey, I need to know the difference.

Relationships That Work

2010-04-28T15:40:00.001+08:00

"... be of one mind, united in thought & purpose."
1 Corinthians 1:10b

how big is a man's soul?

2010-04-24T16:57:00.003+08:00

Geoffrey Bull, missionary to the Tibetans at the time of Mao's long march was talking to a Tibetan farmer one night:

Suddenly the old fellow turned to me and murmured half confidentially: "I want to ask you a question, I somehow don't like asking those lama fellows. Do you think you can answer me?" Without waiting for my reply he went on, speaking with increasing seriousness. At last it came. "How big is a man's soul?" he said quietly. I looked into the fire and then into his worn and quizzical face. "A soul," I replied, "is measured like the wind, not by its length and breadth, or even its height, but by its power." Only as a soul is linked with the Eternal Spirit of the living and True God can it grow to any size. How often I had thought of that arresting phrase, "Hell is no vastness, it is full of little rotting souls." I suppose if we viewed the lake of fire materially, it would be no bigger than a pinhead and yet able to contain all the millions who have shrivelled themselves in alienation from their Creator and Redeemer. Eventually we broke up. The ploughing and the sowing were not easy. I wondered just how much the old chap understood. I wondered, too, just how big my own soul might really be.

An Excerpt from: When Iron Gates Yield
By Geoffrey T. Bull

Moody Press Chicago

A Wife Thinking...

2010-03-07T16:31:00.003+08:00

Consider why you don't let him lead...?

Perhaps lack of faith in your husband to lead you well is really a lack of faith in God. We obey God because we trust He really knows best. Do you trust the Spirit to work in your husband? Consider...

You can believe he is supposed to lead you,
you can believe he is able to lead you
and still not allow him to lead you...

If you are not, please allow me to encourage you to let the Spirit to lead your husband... step out in faith and surrender and follow! It's the best choice and for me, it has been a lovely life... looking forward to the rest-for you and for me!

Matt. 21:21 "If you have faith, doubt not..."

every day i remember ...

2009-12-20T22:12:00.001+08:00

God still sits on the throne, and the devil is a liar.

The Details Are Important To Our LORD!

2009-12-19T17:15:00.003+08:00

I think that God is so generous that He is concerned about all the details of my life. He took time to paint the beautiful wings of the tiniest insects... He has taken time to paint the most intricate details of my life as well!

About Every Life & The Great Commission

2009-11-17T08:30:00.000+08:00

Since the Great Commission is given to every Christian... then it stands to reason that every Christian's life is "a great missionary biography" in the making! We just need to let God write it--in His own handwriting, in His own way, in His own time!

All My Brothers

2009-11-16T20:37:00.002+08:00

Anyone who has trusted Christ as their Saviour the Bible Way is my brother. This requires no "qualification."

Got This By Email From Dad & Mom Today...

2009-10-31T09:48:00.001+08:00

A father wanted to read a magazine but was being bothered by his little girl, Shelby.. She wanted to know what the United States looked like. Finally, he tore a sheet out of his new magazine on which was printed the map of the country. Tearing it into small pieces, he gave it to Shelby and said, 'Go into the other room and see if you can put this together. This will show you our whole country today..'

After a few minutes, Shelby returned and handed him the map, correctly fitted and taped together. The father was surprised and asked how she had finished so quickly. 'Oh,' she said, 'on the other side of the paper is a picture of Jesus. When I got all of Jesus back where He belonged, then our country just came together..'

We Have Made A Fatal Mistake!

2009-10-30T00:28:00.000+08:00

Too many Christians have forgotten who the enemy is. Sometimes I do too...

My Favourite Letter In The Word Baptist Is...

2009-10-04T21:43:00.005+08:00

" P "

About Mission Boards

2009-08-25T12:07:00.012+08:00

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I heard the greatest quote today during training:

"If a mission board doesn't cover their missionaries with prayer daily, it is criminal!

It's like telling the soldiers fighting in Afghanistan,

"I'm sorry, the Airforce only works

one day a week!"

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--Pastor Paul Choo
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About Music

2009-08-19T00:01:00.001+08:00

I think there are really only two kinds of music that matter. One is the kind that our LORD accepts, the other is that which He rejects ... and the determininng factor rests in the heart of the musician/worshipper.

All the rest is secondary...

God Is Just, But He's Not Fair

2009-08-18T09:20:00.004+08:00

. . . and that's ok . . .

What I Really Think: a list

2009-08-17T18:19:00.002+08:00

1. the best colour is light

2. grapefruit is not a great scent for bath gel

3. bugs are my favourite work of God's aritstic hand

4. travel is more fun if only the LORD knows where you are really going--which is always! So...... may I say.... travel is more fun when we realize only the LORD knows where we are really going! I will trust Him.

5. agar agar is not the same as jello

6. solid is not a word I would like linked to my name

7. 2 ply is better than 1, but one is better than none

8. peace seldom lasts, but does return

9. lips are lovely gentle connectors of heart to heart

10. gossip destroys without preference to race, creed or colour

What's Valuable? Focus

2009-08-16T10:38:00.004+08:00

I think a wasted life
is one spent evaluating others
to see if they are living their's correctly.

I've done it. I am ashamed to say it.

But, it has become a life's ambition with some folks-- often fueling a lack of love, absense of unity, unforgiveness and failure to restore biblically---even encouraging comparison and spiritual ranking. It sends broken people to other movements where there is love instead of evaluation, forgiveness because of mercy and acceptance.

And we blame them for going! Ruin their reputations. What is that? It's not Jesus Christ's kind of Christianity.

Stolen Identity

2009-08-15T09:58:00.000+08:00

People love to go to visit the ministry in the Philippines where Mike Redick is the President of Student Movement For Christ International. They meet our team and think how marvelous it is to see this sort of fearless, simple faith--joyously zealous--unquestionably obedient. They feel refreshed after just being with them for a short time. Many want to pack it all up immediately and go to join this move of GOD because they have never experienced Christianity like this before!

And why not? Aren't we all hungry for something more? I want to experience my living God in the way of the Bible! I know I believe it, so couldn't I please experience it just a little?

Considering all this should cause us to pause and re-evaluate our individual Chrisitianity. Why are they like that and I am not!? I think those new Christians in the Philippines are living closer to the what Watchman Nee meant when he wrote about The Normal Christian Life, or when he outlined the Character of the Christian Workman-- He said that those Christians aren't special--they are simply normal--even average.

I think the rest of us are the out of sync ones---and not only that, we reproduce other who are even more out of sync. We perpetuate "clinging vine" Christians generation after generation--clinging to pet-peeves and idiosyncratic preferences. These Christians entwine themselves and cling to identities forged by who you know, who approves of you, or by what you wear. Sometimes it's how high you jump or even a Godly heritage. Not that the LORD doesn't have a lot to say about these things, but one thing is clear, there is no joy and life in an identy forged from anything other than who I am in Christ.

Living that way, our true identities have been stolen! The baby Christians in SMCI don't know any better than to believe that the "such were some of you" means them! And that they really are seated with Christ at the right hand of God--that we are all the same bunch of sinners, and all forgiven... completely washed... standing just as if we never sinned before man and God. Their true identity is in Christ!

Shouldn't that mean something to me and to you too?

Fire Is Required

2009-08-14T23:30:00.000+08:00

It's tough when the fire is unleashed in my life! Sometimes though, I actually think it is tougher on those who hold me dear than on me! When I suddenly had seizures out of the blue when Mike went into evangelism, I was unconscious! Those around me in church when the first one happened were shocked and fearful that they were doing the right things to protect me. Mike was in Burma with Jeff and John and Josh. He could not come to me for 5 days.

Even though it was a shocking set of events, this fire was the first of a special refining which I am immensely thankful for. It was what the LORD used to expose the working of the flesh in my life in a destructive, covert, disguised sort of way. If the fire had not come to me in such a drastic way, I would never have known how much pride was keeping me from knowing the beauty of the victory Christ had attained for me on the cross.