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| wanted to share something that i learned today..
so today i went downstairs to get some water and i noticed my mom was
watching TBN (trinity broadcasting network) and joel osteen was giving
a sermon. my mom was like have you heard about this guy? and i said
yeah. and i was telling her about all the negative things i heard about
him. about how he is only about prosperity and that he is a false
prophet. and then my mom was like you shouldnt judge him and she was
like following Jesus does bring prosperity.
so that made me think alot. i heard so many negative things about him
from other people. people would say like yeah hes a false prophet and
hes misleading so many people. i was thinking dang is my mom misled? i
started to think about my own life and i saw that ever since i started
following Jesus there has been prosperity. then i was like crap am i
being misled too? am i really following Jesus Christ in the right way?
am i being deceived by the devil??
then i prayed God help me to understand all this. God give me understanding I want to follow you, I dont want to be misled.
so i started to think i need to look at his fruits, i realized i never
did any research about Joel Osteen on my own. I just went by what other
people said about him. I went on his church's website and i read his
ministries statement of beliefs. and I saw the many ministries that his
church is involved in.
Jesus says Matthew 12:33 "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad;
for the tree is known by its fruit.
to me it seems that his fruits are according to what God says. helping those in need as it says in
James 1:27 - Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this:
to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself
unstained by the world.
it seems to me that his ministries are striving to be pure in the sight of God.
oh and about prosperity, i saw this in a friend's profile
"prosperity has very little meaning if it does not bless others" - Pastor Brian Houston
and i think dat is true.
so my lesson that i learned today is not to judge people and to not go by what
people say but instead to do my own research and ask God for help.
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Testimony for India
Tony Min
Nothing
happens because of coincidence is something I believe in. I believe that I am
in the position I am in for a reason. I believe I meet the people I meet for a
reason. I believe it is God that orchestrates our lives. However, I have the
free will to make the most of every opportunity that God gives me. I can
squander my gifts and opportunities or I can obey God and live for the glory of
His Name. This India
mission trip was an opportunity that God gave to me. God put in my heart over
my winter break to go out on this overseas mission trip for one month. God was
telling me “Go”, I was saying “why?” but God did not answer my question but
just said “Go”. I chose to obey even though I had to make a lot of sacrifices
but now that I am back I am so glad that I listened. I would have been filled
with much regret if I did not. Even though it is hard suffering from post
mission syndrome, my life has completely been changed because of this
opportunity that God has blessed me with.
During this
trip God showed me many things and helped me realize many insights about life.
I can’t go into everything because it would take way to long to think about and
write about and since this testimony is last minute. God showed me that there
is more to this life then what is just around me. There are people suffering
and living in situations that I did not imagine. I have heard and read about
these situations often but viewing it firsthand was different. It opened up my
mind and helped me to see how much I have. It’s funny because I read these same
things that I am writing now and I thought my mind was opened because I read
it. I realize now that partly sharing in their suffering was the only way my
mind could be opened. I say partly because there is no way I could take part in
their situation. I remember one family sleeping in a pile of trash and there
were many families like these. I thought the homeless people in Los Angeles have it good.
The life I live is like a king and I complain so much and always want more. How
selfish and wicked I am, never happy and always wanting more for me and only
me.
God
answered my prayers that I prayed before the mission trip. Something I realized
is I always forget about the prayers that God answered and I always think about
the ones that has not been answered. God humbled me through this mission trip
and showed me how wicked and sinful I am. God is making Himself more clearly
known to me and expanding my spiritual mind. God has given me more wisdom,
understanding, knowledge about Him. This mission trip did not happen by chance
but I got to go because God answers my prayers.
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| they say a pictures worth a thousand words so heres a million words about our India trip on this website.
www.kcm.phanfare.com
also I will be giving a testimony tommorrow at my church so please pray for me!! I need your prayers!
and den ill post up the slideshow and stuff on here
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| jus wanted to clarify the first entry of my xanga was not written by
me, its a hacker or something.. i cant delete that entry, if anyone
knows how please tell me.
and for the ppl that thought it was me! why would i write stuff like that??? hahahahaha
oh and im back from india so much stuff happened dont wana write about it now tho.
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| in the past week I've been wondering how God could send people to hell.
I would see people enjoying their time with their family at a
restaurant or a couple walking together in peace. I would think what
have these people done to receive eternal condemnation. It seemed like
an unjust punishment to me, why couldn't it be something less severe as
being punished for 100 years? I mean 100 years of constant torture is
in itself a punishment that seems excessive. I asked God to show me why
this is fair and why this is the way it is.
This Sunday, Pastor Eunice was talking about how we all deserve hell.
And then it suddenly clicked in my mind, we all do deserve hell because
we all have sinned. None of us can say we didn't sin. No matter how
good a person looks on the outside, they still have at least sinned
once. Since all of us have sinned, we deserve eternal condemnation in a
place called hell. It is not God sending us to hell, it is because of
our decision to sin which we made because we are inherently evil we
should be going there. To me its like a mathematical law. For
instance 2+2 = 4. So, in a mathematical sense Human + sin = hell. It is
something that just is and not because someone wanted 2+2 to equal 4.
However, God because of his mercy, grace, and love sent us a way to
change the equation. Human + sin + accepting Jesus = heaven. So I
realized that we all do deserve hell but God has made a way to heaven for all of
us.
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