He can do it all for you

Today, during lecture, I realised that my all time favourite uniball figno 0.38mm blue pen was running out of ink. There was only like 2mm worth of ink left inside and decided not to use it anymore to copy down notes in lectures cause I only had that one blue pen with me then.

Then, when I reached home, I decided to write my notes using that same pen since I had the refills at home. I started writing my notes and before I knew it, I'd already written one whole page of notes with it. And I guess only bel would know how densely condensed my words are on that one sheet of A4 paper. I was amazed. There was still 1mm of ink left inside that pen even after I wrote that much words. Then, it struck me. That if the ink can still keep flowing even though there's 1mm left, that God can use whatever that we have, no matter how little and turn it around into something that WILL flow non-stop and never end.

From there, I was reminded once again, of the five loaves and four loaves thingy. Cause it reminded me that once I commit something into His hands, He'd multiply them.

Matthew 14:17-21
"And they said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.” He said, “Bring them here to Me.” Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained. Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children."

Mark 8:5-10
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"How many loaves do you have?" Jesus asked.
"Seven," they replied.

He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people, and they did so. They had a few small fish as well; he gave thanks for them also and told the disciples to distribute them. The people ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. About four thousand men were present. And having sent them away, he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha."

Pastor once mentioned that the reason why Jesus fed 4000 men with 7 loaves and fed even more men and women with five loaves, was implying that the BIGGER your problem is, the easier it is for God to solve it!

I can't help but fall in love with Jesus more and more each day as I find out and am reminded of His love towards me from small little things like a pen that I've used for many years.

He's just amazingly amazing.

edification

Got bored from doing my lab reports at 1.40am and I've decided to blog about a whole new revelation that I've gotten from Daddy God.

Just 2 weeks ago, on a Monday, I was bored of studying for my 38 drugs and decided to open up my bible and flipped through the pages. Suddenly, this verse caught my eye, it was Matthew 15:17-18 (NKJV)

"17 Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man."

I was shocked. Daddy was correcting me. At that point of time the first thought that came to my mind was, "Sharks, this is so obvious that even a simpleton would also know what He is trying to tell me." I got an outright correction from God. Who am I to deny that correction when I know that I myself have been having problems in that area of speaking things which are well, unedifying. After mediating on it, I realised that sometimes, whatever that comes out of our mouths without us thinking is something that is from the heart and most of time, would be truth. Hey, I thought to myself, sometimes, the truth hurts right!? So I thought to myself, alright, maybe this means that I should let my brain filter out whatever that I wanted to say. But that would be super self-effort lah!

The next day,a Tuesday, I continued flipping the bible, I saw another verse that caught my eye. It was 1 Corinthians 11:33.

"Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another."

Then, I was like OH NO! again! This means that I am supposed to wait for the rest before I start eating! Sharks. Kanna correction twice in a week, on consecutive days somemore!

Then on service just yesterday, I was kinda feeling really tired and was trying my best not to well, take 2 winks from the sermon. But when I was really awake, the first thing that Pastor shared about was the part whereby he said that if you ever feel like saying something that is going to curse, slander or well, isn't good for the other party, just pray in tongues. I WAS SHOCKED! To me, it's all happening again. The corrections came again.

And today, at around 1am, I was flipping through my bible and I saw this phrase from 1 Corinthians 8:1. This might be out of context as this passage is talking about food offered to idols. But, read on lah....

"...We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies."

Then, it all made sense to me. Remember I mentioned earlier on that the truth might come out of the heart and the truth hurts. But if you truly love that person from your heart(be it a fatherly, motherly, sisterly, brotherly or even pacar-ly love), whatever that you say out of your heart would be edifying that person and not hurting that person.

This is all that I needed to do. No need to use self-effort to filter the words that come out of my heart. All I need to do is just change my heart. To let the love of Jesus for the people fill my heart and naturally, love edifies...

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Somehow, the past 2 weeks have been the emo-ing period for most of my friends. It's hard taking out time to listen to their problems, nodding my head, giving encouragements to them. Many a times, bible verses came to my brain, but I was afraid to say it out loud. But I am glad that I was there for my friends, praying FROM victory ground, that they'll know about the love that Daddy God has for them. Plans to prosper them, to give them a future that is super blessed, etc. I've experienced so much love from Daddy God that I just can't help but spread the love around! It's amazing, knowing that He is doing something inside me, changing me even without me knowing it.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Acts 20:35
"...And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive"