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Heroes are those who rise above themselves

Heroes are those who feel scared but overcome their fears

Heroes are those who work for a bigger cause than themselves

Heroes are those who are willing to stake their reputation for that bigger cause

Heroes are those who see possibilities and not problems

Heroes are those who hear wisdom and discard unfounded criticism

Heroes are those who use what they have to get the job done

Heroes overcome thier own excuses and finishes what they have to do

i know a few heroes...

A young gal from my youth, having been armed with biblical teaching, encouragement from family members, wanted her friends to know Jesus, overcame her fear and stood in front of almost 200 students in her school to share Change Your World!

A young man, has passion to win his whole school for Jesus, took the same project to his school principal only to be rejected...but he still soldiers on!

A 14 year old young man, one of the least people i would expect to get excited about Change Your World...he is a very quiet and unassuming young man...he was the first to get tickets from my youth group!

Another young gal facing major exams soon, takes up the preevent and does it with her school friends despite knowing that she cannot go for the main event...and she does the preevents underground...!!

A few youths after being challenged, knwoing that they cannot go for the main event, were willing to open their wallets and sponsor others to go....

Heroes!

Heroes Change their World!

Thank God for Heroes & I love heroes who live for the Ultimate HERO- JESUS CHRIST!

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Exodus 33:14 (NIV)
¹⁴ The LORD replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

Moses was burdened by the cares of leading 2million people...his training did not prepare him for that...he was leading sheep in the far side of the desert...no wonder he had butterflies in his stomach and could not bear the weight of leading such a group of people....but he did what was right...he brought his burdens to God..

Israelites were free from Egypt and were travelling in the desert...everytime they stop and camped, Moses would erect a tent for God in which if anyone would want to meet God, they could...it was there that God would descend in a cloud to meet his people...

Moses would go to the tent to seek God..and when he did, people will watch until they saw God descend ina cloud...then they will begin to worship God. Lesson: When we connect with God, it will cause the people around us to worship HIm...

In one fo the Moses & God face to face conversations, God promised HIs presence...and his rest...Moses only asked for God's presence...but God gave him more than he asked for...Lesson: God always gives us the better end of the bargain...he gives us more than we ask.

The place God and Moses met, a tent of meeting...a place designated for that purpose...it was a place intentionally set aside-outside the camp..lesson: we need to set time aside from our God given schedule and meet with HIm...it is tehre at our face to face meeting that God will speak his promises and reminders of his presence and provision to us.

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i've met many people and i can't recall their names...this morning, i met a pastor i've met before...in my previous meeting, he walked for about 5 minutes in the rain with an umbrella to receive me from the train station and then walked me back to the bungalow. i asked his name....and remembered it only perhaps fro a couple of days.

Yesterday, i talked to him on the phone not knowing it was this man of God. During today's meeting, i recognized him but had forgotten his name...i asked him about another pastor's...hahaha...eventually i found found out and recalled his name...embarassing...we all have these moments..

but God is so different...oh so different

Psalms 8:4 (NIV) what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

The first few word that come to mind when i think of the word "mindful" is "the mind is full of something"... or "something that occupies the mind".

The concise oxford dictionary's definition is "to be careful, to be concious"

i read up a bit on the original hebrew word...it was significant for me...basically the word meant " to remember"...

Usually we remember those who have made a powerful impression, the really unusual people and the people we know well or are attracted to...remembering someones name reveals the that person's significance to the person who remembers, it also reveals a relationship....value and esteem. 

God remembers man...God remembers you and me...we're on his mind...always...and he can rememebr all of us at one go because he is God...but the powerful, comforting and identity booster is that God's mind is full of me...its beautiful...Big God Remembers Small man...

Surely he loves us more than we know...

a few implication:

God is thinking of me, so there no need for me to think so much of myself...

I should not feel unwanted or unloved because i'm always on God's mind...

I should feel significant and be purpose-filled because i don't have to worry about being accepted.

I should respond to this God who is so passionate about me...

thank you Lord for being mindful of me...

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Young men who are willing to stand up for God at the cost of their life...Young men like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego? Who would not bow down to another and was trusting God to deliver them...and were faith-filled enough to say that even if God did not come to rescue them, they would rather die...they believed that it was better to die at the hands of man than to face the living God who could take more than thier physical bodies...it was a sense of loyalty, a sense of pride, a sense of honour...i will not bow even if...

David, was another who wold not let the Philistines go up against the armies of the Living God...how dare they mock my God and his army...he stood up when trained soldiers trembled... even if he died at the hands of the giant, he could not let him go unopposed...someone needed to stand up to him for mocking God. it was a faith that knew that God won't let him down and will help him over come...and death perhaps crossed his mind..perhaps he counted the cost and the honour of God was not to be mocked...

Daniel...i'm so far from him...such faith...the lion...to live out his faith without fear...no complaining, no fighting, no anger...just trust...he knew his life was in his hands...and if God found him guilty, his life would be taken but if he was found innocent, his life will be spared...he did what he was accustomed to...pray...WOW!

Where are such men? everytime i think of this, my heart breaks because i want to be one and i want to be apart of developing one...

i long to see more David's and Daniel's and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego's.

Lord, please raise them up, your church needs them, your world needs them...please raise up and embolden parents who dare to bring up their children to be such men...we need such men, we cry to you for such men...men who are willing to live their faith out fearlessly. if tehre is any fear is evident, it is a fear of you...

Lord hear my cry and raise up such men...use me to develop such men...make me such a man...

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On sunday, i was shown love by my youths, even tho they didn't know how much it meant to me...it had been a long week and this week will not be any shorter or offer much respite...seems like it'll be like this until the end of the year...meetings, planning, arranging, encouraging, spurring, discipline, preparing, praying, waiting, hearing, reconciling, seeking, calling, dealing with disappointment, channeling people to the right place, helping those who need it-from the littlest things to the biggest thing...personal growth...each one of us will have our own plate of food to digest...

I can only draw strength fro Him who will supply all that is needed to do all that he asks. one way he supplied me strength and inspiration was on Sunday, during sports...for no apparent reason, throughout  our 4-630 time-slot for sports fellowship, 3 youths came up behind me and gave me each a very much welcomed shoulder massage...it felt good to be loved and also have my sore and tight muscles kneaded and relaxed. thanks to my youth who was a blessing to me without knowing it...

Another blessing is my mum who takes care of the home, my breakfasts and dinners and my laundry. i cna't emagine having to do them myself in the midst of all this busyness...not that i don't know how do it or i'm above it...i can and have done it and have no problems doing it...but she takes it as ministry to God to "serve" me as i serve Him.

Thank you Lord for your provision.