When everything goes wrong
+[ Micah 3:12]
+[2 Timothy 3:1-7]
- The world will always get worse before Jesus returns, so we do not expect things to improve when it is already going wrong now
- Israel was nearly wiped off
- God used Micah to rebuke Israel
- Now, we learn about the 3 responses that we receive from God which may be caused by our negligence.

1. When God doesn't help: Ask if you are treating others fairly (v1-4)
- v4: God will not answer the people for He hides himself when we treat others unfairly
- Even the leaders embraced evil!
- corruption and bribery in society
- Imporvished people
- God's response to this unjust treatment of His people is His silence
+[ Proverbs 21:3]
- God will not help mean people
- The way we treat people thru words-- whether we laugh at people
-- Whether we treat them disrespectfully
+[ Colossians 4:1]
- If we treat people badly, we forget God is our master and that He'll treat us the same way.
- The elitist mentality causes us to forget sometimes.
- We treat people inconsistently based on skin colour, profession etc.
- Racist mentality, treating people with better qualifications better, discrimination
- Inconsistency in the way we treat people causes us to bully people smaller than us causing God to shun from us.
- Start doing good by treating people justly from where we are
- Stop taking advantage of another.
+ [Leviticus 25:17]
- Do not take more than you need especially from the same person

2. When God doesn't give revelations, ask if you're not compromising the Word (v5-8)
-v6: God stops speaking to you
- The prophets and leaders are disgraced.
- God stops giving revelations
- Prophecies become inaccurate
- God used Micah to preach to a group of prophets, his faith was strong to boldly speak the words that God used him to deliver
+[Jeremiah 20:9]
-when will your faith be compromised?
- underpressure
- when you are tempted by short term pleasures
+ [ 1 Thessalonians 1:4-5]
- Treating the Word of God lightly
- cause backsliding
- compromise will make you compromise even more
3. Ask if you are taking God for granted when God doesn't give protection (v9-12)
- v12- visual signs of God will leave
- God's abscence
+[ Amos 5:14]
- God leaves as punishment
-seek Good, not evil.
- Israelites lived without the glory of God
- they took God for granted
We drift when:
a) We're too busy for God
- being complacent
+[ Revelations 2:2-4(NLT)]
b) When we want something from God
+ [ Romans 8:15-18]
c) when we become complacent in our hunger for God
+ [Deut 4:29]

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Hello CE2!

God heard our declaration of commitment to 40 today. (:

Let's really give Easter our best shot. You wouldn't want to look back on this period and regretfully say, 'I could have done more.'

- Mia.

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"Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned; they were sawed in two (ILL =S) ; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.

These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Hebrews 11:35-12:2

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Adam = Man
Seth = Appointed
Enosh = Mortal
Kenan = Sorrow
Mahalalel = The blessed G-d
Jared = Shall come down
Enoch = Teaching
Methuselah = His death shall bring
Lamech = The despairing
Noah = Rest and comfort
Now let's read these translated names as a sentence…
Man – appointed – mortal – sorrow - the blessed G-d - shall come down - teaching - his death shall bring - the despairing - rest and comfort.
WOW, here is G-d's plan right in the Torah! Is there any question that our G-d is making sure we know of whom He is talking here? Here it is obvious that G-d is making sure (again in our Hebrew Scriptures) that, if we are willing to look for Him, we will unquestionably find Him!
"Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow, (but) the Blessed God shall come down, teaching (that) His death shall bring (the) despairing comfort/rest"

found this interesting while blog hopping :) Amazing how God speaks to us indirectly :D

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hello ce2! (:

to the j2s who happen to check this blog out to take a breather from the crazy studying:

we're almost halfway through the week! hang in there. heh. i love starting every morning with our prayer meet, before the paper. certainly makes me feel more empowered, no matter the lack of preparation. since caregrp is on friday this week, at least we have something to look forward to at the end of the week!

look UP.

<3 fae.

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Hi CE2! Your friendly CL here. (The one who scolds)

Got some updates about some stuff that'll be coming up in the coming weeks!

8th March Caregroup in school as usual
9th March Corporate prayer meet at 730pm
10th March Central seed after service at 6.15pm
11th March Water Baptism for Liping and Fung
14th March Metamorphosis! 1015am - 8pm. A must go for NBs and everyone else because it's our caregroup day.

7th April Easter service and Central gathering right after that (we're going for steamboat at Marina!)

That's all for now. See ya all and have a good week with Him!

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Hi CE2! Your friendly CL here. (The one who scolds)

Got some updates about some stuff that'll be coming up in the coming weeks!

8th March Caregroup in school as usual
9th March Corporate prayer meet at 730pm
10th March Central seed after service at 6.15pm
11th March Water Baptism for Liping and Fung
14th March Metamorphosis! 1015am - 8pm. A must go for NBs and everyone else because it's our caregroup day.

7th April Easter service and Central gathering right after that (we're going for steamboat at Marina!)

That's all for now. See ya all and have a good week with Him!

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March third.

Sorry for the long absence of everything!! I shall start posting again. And today i'll stay with today's sermon by pastor shirley :D

Dying for more- truths of covetousness
+[ Micah 2:1-5] (NCV)

- Covetousness- 1. The extreme greed for material things
2. Insatiable desire for wealth

1. Covetousness is an endless pit(v1-2)
- the people in the passage are not poor -> old times, only the rich have "beds"
- they are powerful as well -> "power to do so"
- they want more at the expense of others
- they will never be satisfied and will always want and need more
- Covetous people always will say they want "a little more"
+ [Ecclesiates 5:10]
- "those who love money will never have enough"
- Would we feel less if we're less well off?
- Dangerous to base our confidence on what we have
+[ Luke 12:15 (NLT)]
- Our identity is secure in Christ :))
- Serve with whatever we have and God bestows even more when we're a channel of blessings
- whatever we have is given by God and we should give back to Him and thank God for whatever we have instead.
- Covetousness is an endless pit.
- Learn to be satisfied.

2. Covetousness guarantees eternal loss (v3-4)
- God plans trouble against covetous people
v5: you will never receive anything from God anymore
- If God is against us, who is with us :(?
- We are blessed so we can bless.
- Be giving :)
+ [Luke 16:13]
- You cannot strive to serve both God and money
- money is a great servant but a TERRIBLE master
- God uses it to bless our lives and to bless others
+[ Leviticus 27:30]
- Our tithe is a tenth of what we get or earn
- We're not giving to God but giving BACK to God.
- he first gave to us :D
+[ Malachi 3:10]
- bring tithe to the house of God and let the house of God bless the people :D
- Giving to the kingdom is na opportunity to bless others :D
- not an obligation but an issue between you and God.
- If you want to give, give the best to God
- Don't practice left over giving- > Don't insult God
- Let's give the best -> our time and money:)
- Let's be content with material things and covetous for spiritual things!
- HUNGER for God :D
- Spend the best time with God
- God has made a standard, should we give Him any less?

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