CHECK! Did you lost something important?

Human beings have this inborn nature in us that we are always afraid we will lose out on something in our life. Because of this attitude many of us do not want to commit to some 'good' commitment that seemingly will tie us down. For example, 'I do not want to believe in God even though I know He exists and whoever believes in Him will have a free ticket to Heaven because I am still young and I still have time'. 'I want to play enough first' or 'I want to enjoy my life first' or some older adults might be saying, 'I still haven’t die yet when I am weak then I will believe'. All this excuses is because we think that believing God will take away 'something' from us.

I used to have all these same thoughts yet I changed because I heard of this great story...

Many years ago, there is a businessman in South Korea facing bankruptcy due to some business problems. One of his friends introduced him to a local pastor as he planned to commit suicide to settle the problem. After hearing godly words of encouragement from the pastor he decided to trust God to face his business problems since that’s the only way left. He joined his faith with the pastor and went into intensive prayer. One day he told the pastor that he heard from the Lord that he is going to change his business to selling salt. Wow! The pastor marvel over it because he still have debts and lots of business problems to settle yet because he claim its from God so the pastor again joined faith with him in prayer to trust that he will have all the favor he needs to see it fulfilled. At that time, selling salt looked so impossible to everyone. The Lord indeed opened the way for him, and a bank was willing to lend him a sum of money to start the business despite all the debts that he was carrying.

The man started his business near a river bank. The favor of the Lord was upon him; his faith in God grew as he prospered in his business. After many years, he finally paid off all his debts and he start to prosper and finance the kingdom of God and he always followed the pastor to travel to places to minister to the poor with the gospel.

One day, the greatest flood ever recorded in local history swept through South Korea...

The river bank where the man had built his salt factory was immersed under the great flood. The pastor panicked, because this man almost committed suicide when he failed in his first business so this time he predicted the worst thing will happen to the businessman and he might have doubt in God. So the pastor quickly ran to the salt factory. Because the flood was so bad, the pastor had to get there by boat. When he reached the factory, he saw many nylon packs floating everywhere; all the salt had already melted in the flood. He saw the businessman, standing in the midst of all the floating salt bags and jumping and shouting, he thought of the worst: that the businessman was insane already or had a mental breakdown. But when he came near to the businessman he heard that he was praising and giving thanks to God! The pastor said in his heart, ‘Oh God, I am so sorry that he is so out of control in his mind till he praised Your name at the wrong time. I am so sorry, God.’

When the businessman saw the pastor he ran and hugged the pastor and started to thank him... oh this made the pastor even more worried...

The businessman knew he had lost everything and he is again in debts because the factory was fully packed with all the stock and he lost everything in the flood but he said, ‘I can lose everything but one thing I will never lose is my salvation in Christ Jesus. All things come from Him and I own nothing of mine, this factory belongs to God. He is the One Who gives and surely He can bless me again, I give thanks because I lost nothing!’

His immoveable faith in Christ had stunned the pastor!

The businessman lost his salt factory and entered into another round of serious financial debts. The pastor and the businessman again entered into serious prayer and asked God for guidance on how to go about. Again the man heard from God that he is to start a salt factory. He followed what the Lord had said and went to ask for a bank loan. This issue had triggered the concern of the local government since he used to be a successful salt seller. The bank approved a sum of money with extremely low interest and the government gave approval for a piece of land that are much bigger than the previous land that he had and as a bonus, the first few years are free of land tax. When he viewed the land, it was a piece of land that is at the high ground and with beautiful mountains as the backdrop; it’s just so suitable for his factory! The Lord prospered him in all things in his hand. Finally he was able to clear all his debts and he became the owner of the second largest salt factory in Southern Korea! Now he is a billionaire that travels actively with his pastor to everywhere to testify of the goodness of God.

After i heard about this testimony, immediately i check on myself... Did i lost somethings? Of course not! I have Him in my heart all the time.

So, friends... Check it yourself, did you lost something?

The millions frogs

A farmer came into town and asked the owner of a restaurant if he could use a million frog legs. The restaurant owner was shocked and asked the man where he could get so many frog legs! The farmer replied, 'There is a pond near my house that is full of frogs - millions of them. They all croak all night long and they are about to make me crazy!' So the restaurant owner and the farmer made an agreement that the farmer would deliver frogs to the restaurant, five hundred at a time for the next several weeks.

The first week, the farmer returned to the restaurant looking rather sheepish, with two scrawny little frogs. The restaurant owner said, 'Well... where are all the frogs?' The farmer said, 'I was mistaken. There were only these two frogs in the pond.. But they sure were making a lot of noise!'

The moral of the story is...

Next time you hear somebody criticizing or making fun of you, remember, it's probably just a couple of noisy frogs. Also remember that problems always seem bigger in the dark. Have you ever laid in your bed at night worrying about things which seem almost overwhelming like a million frogs croaking? Chances are pretty good that when the morning comes, and you take a closer look, you'll wonder what all the fuss was about.

Distance of our hearts

asd



One day, there is a smart professor ask his student the following questions:
Why must people shout when they got angry?





All the students think for sometime, one of the student say:
Because we lost our 'patience' thats why we shouted.



Professor ask again,
"But the people just next to you, you still shout, why can't you speak lower volume? Why must always shout?"



Almost all the student just noisy and busy discussing yet not an answer can satisfies the professor.



Finally, the professor say:
"When two persons get angry, the heart distance are very far, to cover the distance between two hearts so they have to shout so that the other person can hear."




"But shouting makes people feel more angry, more angry make the distance of hearts further, further is the distance, shouting got to be lauder..."




Professor continue to say:
"What is going to happen when two persons are deeply in love? The situation is just so opposite, there is not only no shouting but there is only soft and kind words, why?"



"Because their hearts are very near to one another, there is almost no distance between their hearts, thats why couple that are in deep love almost talk near the ears yet the love in the hearts grow deeper and at the end no words can be express,



"All they need to do is from their eyes there speaks the feeling, when it happen there is already no distance between two hearts...
Finally, Professor make a conclusion



"When two persons are quarreling, do not allow the hearts to have distance, also do not speak those words that will make the distance between two hearts grow further away,

After a few days, very naturally the distance between two hearts no so far away then can have a good talk!!"

Turtles's Story

A turtle family decided to go on a picnic. The turtles, being naturally slow about things, took seven years to prepare for their outing. Finally the turtle family left home looking for a suitable place.

During the second year of their journey they found a place ideal for them at last! For about six months they cleaned the area, unpacked the picnic basket, and completed the arrangements. Then they discovered they had forgotten the salt. A picnic without salt would be a disaster, they all agreed. After a lengthy discussion, the youngest turtle was chosen to retrieve the salt from home. Although he was the fastest of the slow moving turtles, the little turtle whined, cried, and wobbled in his shell. He agreed to go on one condition: that no one would eat until he returned. The family consented and the little turtle left.

Three years passed and the little turtle had not returned. Five years...six years... then on the seventh year of his absence, the oldest turtle could no longer contain his hunger. He announced that he was going to eat and begun to unwrap a sandwich. At that point the little turtle suddenly popped out from behind a tree shouting, 'See! I knew you wouldn't wait. Now I am not going to go and get the salt.'

The moral of the story is...

Some of us waste our time waiting for people to live up to our expectations. We are so concerned about what others are doing that we don't do anything ourselves.

愛與被愛

愛與被愛，數不清的交織的網，怎會教人說精采？

愛與被愛，真心真意珍惜珍貴，只怕最難求是愛。

哀傷裡尋到擁抱，低谷裡能夠升高。

艱苦裡能同心禱告，在跌倒時來鼓舞！

原來神是愛！太初開始己是存在。

全憑神是愛，護蔭一生使我空虛不再。

為我擦亮眼，曉得愛與被愛，這種感覺極期待！

用愛照亮我，福杯滿滿盛載，豐盛無更改！


原來神是愛！太初開始己是存在。

全憑神是愛，護蔭一生使我空虛不再。

原來神是愛！太初開始己是存在。

傳揚神是愛，地老天荒不變不死的愛。