Father's day.

It's merely 2 days after father's day. Yet I feel as though it hardly existed. It got me thinking, do I only appreciate my father on father's day? What does the bible say about this?

"Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord" Colossians 3:20

Obedience, 顺服. Sounds familiar?

As Preacher Pau has mentioned on Sunday, It is not easy to be obedient at all times. But take a look at Daniel's friends and the burning furnace! It was obedience that led Daniel's friends to victory! Victory over the burning furnace!

So, we have seen the reward we receive if we obey God, how about obeying our parents?

Deuteronomy 5:¹⁶ "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Longeity! Praise the Lord! I believe that if you respect and obey your parents, not only will God shower you with long life, but shower you with many blessings!

Let us give thanks today, for our parents. Our parents who have been through so much to bring us up. (try babysitting children, it's not easy) Our parents who slog to provide us with our daily needs.

After giving thanks, this is what I hope we as youths can do together. Show some concern over your parents, let them know that you love them too.

Today, try and speak to your parents for more than 10 minutes. It could start with a small question such as "Dad, how was your day?" "Mom, you just came home from work, do you want a drink?"

Or simple things like accompanying your parents for grocery shopping or walking the dog together. It is moments like these God can look at us and smile. (:

ODB 22 June 2009

Kar Keat's response to ODB 22 June 2009

OT: Esther 6-8
NT: Acts 6

This morning I awoke, daunted by the challenges that lurk ahead in my work and personal arenas. But thanks be to God His Spirit gave me joy (Fruit) when I recall Hillsongs', "All things are possible", and when I read my Bible reading for today.

Thank You Lord, for the victorious story of Esther & Mordecai over Haman, the enemy of the Jews (Est 8:1). When God moves, the enemy has no chance, whatsoever, because the battle belongs to You.

Thank You also for the reminder in Acts 6, about Stephen's example. These things You have spoken to us, that in You we may have peace. In the world we will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, Jesus Christ has overcome the world! (from John 16:33)

Say your grace and grow in Christ, youths.

Yours by Messiah's grace,
Kar Keat

Why say grace?

Hi guys!

Just to clarify things said during the briefing by Reuben, we'll be using this blog as a Pre-Youth Day Activity, as we ponder upon the meaning of the theme '饮水思源'.

So as we go on during these week, we'll be posting stuff for you guys to do and think about.

For today, we'll begin with thinking about something we have been doing for a long time:
Praying before our meals.

Often, when we see our food in front of us, we might be tempted to immediately tuck in, but we'll be reminded to pray and thank God for the food. Then this might come into our mind: why do i thank God for my food?

Sometimes when we stay in our comfort zone for too long, we fall in the danger of taking things for granted. We see the news about people in Africa, and even some of the neighboring countries such as Cambodia, where poverty is widespread, with some just living on water.


Statistics from The World Bank in 2001 shows that 1.1 billion people had consumption levels below $1 a day and 2.7 billion lived on less than $2 a day. The proportion of the developing world's population living in extreme economic poverty fell from 28 percent in 1990 to 21 percent in 2001. Looking at the period 1981-2001, the percentage of the world's population living on less than $1 per day has halved. Can anyone imagine living on $1 a day? What can we possibly buy with $1 these days.. its like one nugget (30cents) each for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

For more details, check out the link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty

Thus, we need to think about all that we have and where it all comes from.
In the bible, there are many examples of bible characters needing, and God provided them with what they needed.

Exodus 16 & 17 - Moses brought out the Israelites out of Egypt and they complained about lack of food and water. God provided them with manna and quail and water from the rock.

1 Kings 17:1-6 - Elijah is in hiding while a famine and drought takes place; God sends ravens to feed him and a spring for his water source.

As we pray for our food to be clean and nourishing to our body, let's remember the people who prepared them, and more importantly, those who do not have a ready access to food and water.

Matthew 6:25-34 tells us not to worry as God cares for the birds of the air and lilies of the field, how much more will He provide for us, His children?

Therefore the homework for all is that when we have our meals, let's take time to pray and really thank God for all we have, acknowledging Him, the giver of all.
Write in your journals, which you'll be starting, your thoughts on remembering the people in poverty as you pray for your food.

With that, please add comments on your thoughts to this post too.

God bless and have a great week!

God bless!

Hey ppl,


GOD bless your week!

Why is our blog's display pic like that?

HEY ALL!

You guys must be wondering why our display picture is this man looking at himself in the mirror.
The theme verse for the blog is adapted from James 1:22-25

"²²Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. ²³Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror ²⁴and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. ²⁵But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does. NIV


When people wake up, the first thing they do is go to the mirror to check how they look and make the necessary adjustments. Maybe its the messy hair, or the dried saliva at the cheeks; these are the many things which we all want to correct so we look fine.

That's what the passage in James 1 is talking about: where the mirror is represented by the bible, where we should check our lives, if we are living in accordance to His word. Where we see anything which is wrong according to God's law, we should immediately do the corrective action, or else as James put it, we will forget what we look like.

The intention of the blog is to challenge all of us to be like the man who constantly looks at the word of God, through the devotions and messages through videos. That way, we will be blessed in what we do.

God bless

First Post!

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