Restore me the joy of your salvation

10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence
    or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation
    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.


Restore me the joy of your salvation

It's not my salvation, it's God's

Yes life can hit us, and sometimes hit us hard.
Disaster, tragedy, people come and go, death and birth

david's prayer:
- pure heart, motivation, whatever happens
- steadfast, unwavering, stable, tak tergoyahkan.. he knows issue/problem will hit
- joy - not happiness, it's God's not earthly
- your salvation - reason of joy, not our own salvation, but His. only by accepting Jesus and following Him.

Questions:
how's your relationship with God?
what motivates you to serve?

God's Kingdom parable

Hi guys,  how are you doing?

Just want to share a bit of what I got when reading this passage. Before hand, on Mat 6, Jesus said do not worry so many times, and in the middle he said: "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well". 

So what does he mean by His Kingdom or Kingdom of Heaven? In later chapter, 13, He explained it all with parables.

- a man who sowed good seed in his field/the parable of the weeds

- a mustard seed

- a yeast that got mixed 

- treasure hidden in field

- fine pearl

- net caught all kinds of fish

What I find interesting is, he explains couple of His parables! huh, very rare of him to explain parables, hehe, but nonetheless, he did explain about the parable of the sower and the parable of the weeds. 

And then, on verse 29 & 30, interestingly, it seems like Jesus 'let' the weeds grew altogether with the wheat (good seeds)... in here Jesus said let the evil grow, let every bad things happen, for it already rooted together with the wheat!  I guess that's why we see so many bad things happen, brokenness here and there, and this is where we're growing, along with the weeds!  

But do not worry, in the end, God himself will separate the weeds from the wheat! That's where grace comes in and separate us! Once we belong to Christ, nothing can separate us (Romans 8:35), we're the wheat and He himself will pick us up and separate us, and in the end God's barn sounds so much better than fiery furnace (Mat 13: 42-43) 

:)

Keep up your daily bible reading! and Have a blessed day!

Unity and persistence

Luk 5:17-20 / Mark 2:2-4

Men came to carry a paralytic on a mat and tried to take him to Jesus, too full, must be crazy full otherwise they wouldn't go to the roof, they lowered a mat through the roof ..

Paralytic man - his friend? family? we don't know, but someone that they care enough to climb up and digging through the roof. 

The house - they couldn't find a way because of the crowd.. like really full, no other way.

Imagine, 4 people - with a paralytic man in a mat.. carried them over to the roof, and digging through the roof, made an opening (well, do you think they prepare before hand? ) they must quickly gather tools and stuff to make hole..  and even rope, to lower it? 

And then God rewarded their persistence, and faith of these 4 people  -  and the man was healed.

We're like those 4 people that carried the mat.. we're a tool, we have faith, and persistence. Sometimes we don't get the reward, but what we did make a difference... not just in someone's life, in this 'paralysed' person life, but other people that witness it, even for the Pharisee life, stirred up something.. offensive faith!

We're musician, singers, multimedia, we have to give our best, we do make a difference, we have faith, know that Jesus can heal, restore, and we need to persist. As Pastor Gagan mentioned, we are the mediator, we re-focusing people and congregation attention to God himself, we all are the servant of God and our music ministry serve as a 'bridge'. That's our goal, as a music team! we need to work together, not 1, 2 but 4 people! 

and in the end: verse 26: Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. 

Keselamatan merupakan rencana agung Allah

Acts 2: 14-41

Salvation is planned by God, far before Jesus was born, God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that salvation will comes from His chosen nations, Israelites and his descendants
- Moses (Exodus: 2:24- 3:22)
- Joshua
- Judges
- 2 Sam 7:12-13
- Psalm 132:11

Fulfillment of the prophecy
- Daud - Maz 16:8-11
- Joel - 2:28-32
- Isaiah - 52-53


1. Allah telah menetapkan Yesus untuk mati dan bangkit kembali

Men have been trying to fail God's plan, to steer off.. however only to find out that they're actually fulfilling His bigger plan and prophecy. 

Example: Joseph, Job, Noah, Jude

? Why Jesus has to die ?

Mat 26:26-28 - Yesus mati untuk menyelesaikan masalah dosa
Isaiah 53:4-6 - Yesus mati untuk menanggung dosa kita
Roma 3:23 - kehilangan kemuliaan

? What is sin ? 

It is whatever separates us from God and others. Sin has a way to slowly killing ourselves, our soul, our body.. it hurts our relationship to God and others.

? Why Jesus has to be risen ?

Rom 6: 3-4  -  new life
1 Tim 2: 3-4 - knowledge of truth - man & God
Col 2:6-7 - continue lives in Him

What is the salvation? - It's God's unconditional love to save us, to forgive us.. It's receiving His gifts of forgiveness from sin and grace to empower us to love God and others

2. What shall we do? Response

- Hear the word of God
- Repent 
Rom 10:9-10
1 John 1:9

- and be baptised

...for the forgiveness of your sins and receive gift of Holy Spirit - Acts 2:38

...And live up the new way. 2 Cor 5:15-18

 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
 16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

source: pastor Gagan sermon