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Monday, February 06, 2006
8:06 PM
Food for thought: (for girls only):

If a guy whom you just met or know for a few days, suddenly talk to you on the phone non stop for 4 hours although you couldnt speak (coz probably you lose your voice), and he told you that he has never talk to someone for so long, is that the grace of God working?

Well, there are certain issues here:

1) The guy might have a crush on you
2) The guy likes you

Some questions have to be raised:

1) Is it only you that he shared with you for this long?
2) Other intentions behind this motive?

I apologise if the story line above is a replication of somebody's life, but this is one example that struck me. There are many types of Christian believers but i shall discuss 2 types of christian here:

1) One who believes everything that is good belongs to God and everything that is bad belongs to the work of the devil.

2) One who doubts unless seeing, one who constantly searching for proof that it's the work of God. If you dont understand what I mean, take Thomas the apostle as an example, he doubted when the other apostles told him that they have seen Jesus (after his death). Only when he managed to put his fingers into the holes in Jesus palms, he believed.

Those people that belonged to the first category are probably happy people. For Jesus also said "Happy are those who have not seen but yet believe". But however, it can be a danger.

If you ask me, I would probably prefer the second category of Christians. One who adopts "seeing is believing" attitude. Why? cause do we really understand the spiritual world?

There are some ppl, that got so obsessed with charasmatic masses, live worships, praise that the screw in their head went off. Is that the work of the holy spirit that these ppl lost their mind? In my opinion, the role of the holy spirit comes in through these areas:
1) Music.. the spirit guides the musicians the way to play.
2) and of course, if you open your hearts to the spirit, the words and music will touch you in their own ways and healing takes place, those crying and laughing. (if you see case studies of
3) Well, the 'slaining' of the spirit is something which I couldnt explain. In faith, I will say it's the work of the Holy spirit.
In another words, you can say that charasmatic prayer meet is a form of music therapy with spiritual power inside it. All those proclamations is an act of faith. You can say it's a psychological thingy too. That's why obsession with it will make the screw in your mind go bonkers. Please dont get the wrong idea, i do strongly believe that there is a spiritual element in charasmatic prayer meet.

I manage to meet up with one of my senior. We were talking about speech therapy (as she is doing the course) and i shared with her my ambition (music therapy), and we came to the topic on charasmatic prayer. She is a non-christian... a free thinker. She told me about her experience in one of the charasmatic churches. She told me about how scary things get. I shared with her my personal experience. Well, if it's the holy spirit working, there shouldnt be any fear even for a new comer right? Is it the fruits of Fear of the Lord working?

The evil spirit can disguise themselves as Christ. One thing for sure, we can never understand the spiritual world. It's normal to have doubts cause our faith level are low as humans. Well, even the religious has their own doubts when someone claim to have seen the Lord or mother Mary.

If one can raise questions over certain issues like (whether is it the grace of God) allowing a guy to speak to a girl (whom he just met) on the phone for very long hours, we should not be quick to assume. Sometimes it's human nature. U have a crush on someone and naturally, u will speak to someone for hours on phone. Well, the assumption on whether the guy likes the girl can be seen. Cross reference.

These few days I have wondered why these happened. I am a deep thinker, I believe that things that happened are interlinked and things just revealed through me after thinking and analysing things.


You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord
who abide in his shadow for life
Say to the Lord, "My refuge,
my rock in whom I trust!"

And He will raise you up
On Eagle's wings
bear you on the breath of dawn,
make you to shine like the sun
and hold you in the palm of his hand

The snare of the fowler will never capture you
and famine will bring you no fear
Under his wings your refuge,
His faithfulness your shield

And He will raise you up
On Eagle's wings
bear you on the breath of dawn,
make you to shine like the sun
and hold you in the palm of his hand

You need not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
though thousands fall about you,
Near you it shall not come.
And He will raise you up
On Eagle's wings
bear you on the breath of dawn,
make you to shine like the sun
and hold you in the palm of his hand

For to his angels he's given a command
to guard you in all of your ways;
up on their hands they will bear you up,
lest you dash your foot against a stone
And He will raise you up
On Eagle's wings
bear you on the breath of dawn,
make you to shine like the sun
and hold you in the palm of his hand

Eagle's Wings