Personal Encounter with God (Part 1 & 2)

Part 1

About Charles Finney
http://truthinheart.com/EarlyOberlinCD/CD/Finney/Biography/finneybi.htm

Part 2

3 misconceptions
1. The days after Finney's transformation is perfect (Scriptural reference: James 5:17-18)
2. Finnney must be one of God's few favourites who never experience our usual problems and troubles
3. With great success in evangelism,, Finney must be feeling great

Scriptural reference:
Psalm 88:1-5 NKJV
Psalm 89:1-2 NKJV

Revival is about passion for God and His Kingdom
2 opposing kingdoms - God's & Devils

Warfare and fighting existing for 3 main things:
1. Glorious truth of God
2. Excellent name of the Lord to worship
3. Precious soul for whom Jesus died for

How do we develop passion for God? It starts from the mind and our thoughts.

8 Laws of Habitual Thoughts
1. You have the power to choose what to think
2. What you constantly think will become real and relevant to you
3. Your habitual thoughts will become the driving force of your life
4. You willl eventually become what you habitually think
5. Your will eventually put your habitual thoughts into action
6. Your translated action repeated will eventually become a habit
7. Your driving thoughts and habit will reinforce each other
8. You can only change that pattern of living by first changing your thoughts

3 immediate things you can do:
1. Read the bible
2. Ask the Holy Spirit for revelation
3. Pray and seek the Lord

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If kids write to God

LOVINGLY LOVE AND SUBMISSIVELY SUBMIT

The Bible commands husbands to love their wives and wives to submit to their husbands. Is this command outdated? The world equates love as all physical and submission as illogical. This message will help husbands and wives to love and submit in a God-pleasing manner. Come and discover the 10 destroyers of marriage.

scriptural reference:

Eph 5:22-29

Col 3:18-19

A. Wives submit to your husbands:

1. As to the Lord

2. In everything

3. With genuine respect

4. With gentle and quiet spirit

B. Husbands love your wives by:

1. Regularly sacrifice for his wife

2. Not becoming bitter or harsh

3. Nourishing his wife

4. Cherishing his wife

5. Fervently loves his wife and never allows his love to grow cold

C. Killers of affection:

1. Unforgiveness

2. Apathy

D. 10 Destroyers of love:

1. Distraction

2. Debt

3. Disagreement

4. Distance

5. Disunity

6. Disappointment

7. Downgrading

8. Distrust

9. Drinking

10. Devil

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and The 8th Habit are Dr Stephen Covey's inspirational books

The 8 habits:

1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End In Mind
3. Put First Things First
4. Think Win/Win
5. Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the saw

8. From effectiveness to greatness

Some read-ups:

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~tanguay/7habits.htm
http://www.profitadvisors.com/7habitlist.shtml
http://www.stephencovey.com/

the Week with Bobby Michael

http://www.musicianaries.org/

Certain Faith For Uncertain Times

Scriptural Reference: Luke 7:1-10

1. The faith of the centurion

• Religous people judge worthiness by externals (Luke 7:4-5)
• "Just say the word"
• Jesus marvels 2 times in the gospels:

1. When those that shouldn't believe, do believe (Luke 7:9)

2. when those that should believe, don't believe (Mark 6:6)

How to disable the start up programs (in WinXP)?

This may be too easy for IT savy people. But is quite useful if you haven't come across this.

The small icons seen on the system tray are the programs running in the background. Some of them are ran automatically when you login to windows. However, you can disallow them from running automatically.

1. Click on "Start" button

2. Click on "Run"

3. Type in msconfig

4. Click "OK"

5. Click on "Start up" tab

6. Uncheck the program you want to stop fro running automatically when you login.

7. Click "Apply"

8. Click "Ok"

9. Restart when prompted.

acts - one:eight

How to be an effective witness?
P-R-A-Y

Persistant in prayers
Resist the devil and temptation
Ask for soul and wisdom
Yield to the leading of Holy Spirit

S-A-L-T

Sharing the gospel
Asking to determine needs
Loving the way to victory
Testifying for the Lord always

Notes taken during ACTS-ONE:EIGHT session

==to be continued==

Revival Series 4 (the gates of hell can’t prevail & the triumphant church)

7 Characteristics Of A Revived Church & the Consequences Of An Absence of Church Revival

1. The church is filled with divine love and power, acting as the extension of Christ’s healing hands
a. Scriptural reference: Acts 2:42-47
b. Consequence of a unrevived church:
The church will lose Christ’s intended purpose for her existence

2. The church is prayerful, powerful and positive
a. Scriptural reference: Acts 4:23-31
b. Consequence of a unrevived church:
The church will be distracted and weakened by internal strife

3. The church is respected for her purity and power
a. Scriptural reference: Acts 5:12-16
b. Consequence of a unrevived church:
The church will stink as she dies of corruption and yet not know it

4. The church upholds the morality and morale of the land
a. Consequence of a unrevived church:
The church will conform to the worldly standard of behavior

5. The church holds back the judgment of God
a. Consequence of a unrevived church:
The church will be in danger of God’s judgments

6. The church has the answers to life’s problems
a. Scriptural reference: Psalm 91
b. Consequence of a unrevived church:
The church will lose its credibility and relevancy to the world

7. The church is triumphant and prevailing
a. Scriptural reference: Matthew 16:13-19
b. Consequence of a unrevived church:
The church will take a longer time to fulfill God’s plan
c. Scriptural reference: 2 Peter 3:10-12


== Notes taken during Sermon by Ps Rony Tan @ Lighthouse Evangelism ==

Revival Series 3 (How to have a personal revival?)

What is righteousness?
§ Rightness of God in thoughts, attitude, actions, speech; in home, office, church, etc.
§ To have rightness of God and reject the wrongness of the devil
§ To be careless in life means to have the besetting sins un-dealt with

Backslide:
§ Slide back to the original position of unbelief
§ Always in taken place in church
§ Always happens gradually


8 Main Symptoms of Backsliding

1. Growing cold toward the things of God
2. Giving up the life of faith [Scriptural reference Proverbs 14:14]
3. Losing sight of eternity
4. Becoming self-centered and worldly
5. Being overtaken by the cares of life
6. Being hypersensitive and easily offended
7. Be reactive and critical constantly

2 extreme manifestations of backsliding:

a. Total indifferent about things in church
b. Always complain and grumble

8. Surrendering to some besetting sin/s [Scriptural reference: Heb 12:1-2]

5 Searching Questions

1. What do you think about most of the time?
2. What do you do most of the time?
3. What is in your heart most of the time?
4. What is your usual manner of speaking?
5. Do you realize each time your thoughts, words or deeds have grieved the Holy Spirit?

3 Disciplines of Spiritual life

1. Regular hearing from Jesus through His word
2. Regular communicating to Jesus through prayer
3. Regular listening to your spirit-filled heart for a personal word

== Notes taken during Sermon by Ps Rony Tan @ Lighthouse Evangelism ==

Revival Series 2 (Consequences Of An Absence Of Revival)

The fake revival:
1. Focus not on Jesus Christ
2. Major not on life transformation
3. Huge crowd not equals to revival (but revival will draws huge crowd)

Why is a real revival necessary?
1. It is an antidote to backsliding [Isaiah 53:6]
2. Avoid going to the point of no return [Habakkuk 3:2]


7 Possible Consequences Of Absence Of Personal Revival

1st possible reason
The risk of losing the purpose in life
§ Purpose of life: Hinged upon God and all things eternal
§ Things Eternal: Word, Prayer, Worship, Ministry, Winning Souls

2nd possible reason
The risk of tormenting conflicts in the heart
§ Life will be simplified when heart is close to God

3rd possible reason
The risk of forfeiting spiritual inheritance
§ Royal priesthood (with power and authority)

4th possible reason
The risk of being vulnerable to Satan’s deception and attacks
§ Satan like a roaring lion (no power)
§ Deceive and cause misunderstanding

5th possible reason
The risk of being in bondage
§ When compromise, we come out of God’s protection and boundaries

6th possible reason
The risk of being a stumbling block to others
§ You are either a stepping stone or a stumbling block to others
§ Criticism

7th possible reason
The risk of backsliding to the point of no return
§ Theological issue: “Once saved always saved”
§ Not the case, example: King Saul and Judas
§ It is about the heart
§ Be vibrant for Jesus
§ Scriptural reference: Hebrews 6:4-6



== Notes taken during Sermon by Ps Rony Tan @ Lighthouse Evangelism ==

Revival series 1 ( What is a Real Revival?)

A devoted Christian that will impact 3 groups of people:
1. Christians that are dry and down
2. Backslidden Christian
3. Non Christian

Revive: Meaning to resurrect or restore a dying or dead thing or person back to life and vitality or to awaken again

10 aspects of personal revival

1. Believing and trusting God again in everything I do and say
2. Realizing, repenting and rejecting specific sins out of my life
3. Getting into a closer relationship with God again
4. Giving God and His kingdom first priority
5. To be on the side of God and His word again
6. An emphasis on spiritual and eternal things
7. Being more conscious of God’s presence and power in me
8. To surrender and die to self so that the new life is manifested
9. Living life of love and faith
10. Acting as God’s ambassadors of great destiny

3 hallmarks of real revival

1. The self life is being crucified
2. The new life of Christ is being resurrected and reflected
3. Other lives are being impacted by our revived lives to also live the crucified and new life


== Notes taken during Sermon by Ps Rony Tan @ Lighthouse Evangelism ==