If only I could make you realise.

# 373 winds of change,

It's time to get deeper, to move to another level and not be contented with where I'm at now.

God has been amazingly faithful. and its time for miracles.

Sometimes you need to see it happening before you begin to believe in his promises in the Word.

Worship is becoming a new experience, not the same old just singing and jumping and praising. But its going deeper into understanding the true meaning of it. The meaning behind the songs, the words, the parts that really matter.

Something that's been on my heart that I wanted to share.

1 John 4:4

Why should I allow Satan supremacy over my life when He that is in me is greater than he that is in the world.

This is geared towards people who might be struggling with something, be it habitual sin or anything that's holding you back from progressing in your relationship with God.

The victory is won for you, all you have to do is to claim it. The same power that conquered the grave and rescued all of us, the same power that raised the dead, the same power that did all those signs and wonders we read about in the bible. It lives in us. If it can overcome the power of death, it can overcome the strongholds, it can overcome the bondage whatsoever.

If the same God that saved the Israelites time and time again is on our side, does this thing you're facing stand the slightest chance? The nature of God, he never changes and is always the same, yesterday, today and forever. the same.

It's time to get up. to get out of the rut we're stuck in. Time to get out of that apathetic mentality, that passiveness that seems to have creeped its way in. Things like Church and worship have become a norm. What does lifting up our hands mean to us now? Do we really mean the words we sing in every song? Do we value this religious freedom we enjoy? or are we just taking it for granted?

Do we look the cross and marvel at the work done to save us from our sin? Or do we just brush it aside and say, yeah Jesus died for me. Some of us, myself included, have lost the revelation of the cross. It's about time we get back into that same attitude we once had, one of reverence and true worship.

Things so simple like doing our daily devotions or quiet time seem the hardest now, we spend hours and hours online on sites like facebook, we spend hours in theatres watching movies that do us no good, but we don't feel that spending time with the one true God is worth it? Just that fifteen minutes needed, to spend in prayer and reading his Word. We fall asleep while doing so, but we're wide awake when we read other story books.

We spend thousands of dollars adorning ourselves with the latest gadgets, laptops, mobile phones, musical instruments, cameras, whatever you fancy. But we measure out our offerings to God. We struggle to give. We hold back and do the math. we count "oh i need this money to buy a new phone, so God I'm gonna hold back a bit this month". Is this the way we should carry on? Something I heard over a sermon podcast awhile back really hit me hard. "If you're still measuring out your offerings to God, you haven't seen his true worth yet" We've kind of lost this sense of God's worth. What he's done for us, we forget and neglect. Instead of lusting for more things, we should be thankful and just count the blessings that He's given to us.

We place value on things, education is of utmost importance, but where do we put God's plan in our lives? We say that God is above all, He created the universe afterall, but do we let him take the wheel? Do we seek Him and ask Him to grant us clear direction on which institution we end up in next? We recite verses like Jer 29:11, but do we believe in the promises? Do we actively claim the promises over our lives?

We're caught up in the things of this world when we should be caught up in the things of God. When was the last time we took the active initiative to share the Gospel with someone we know? Do we just treat those around us as friends, or as people we know, who need the Good News so badly. The lost don't realise that they are lost until they are found.

His Kingdom is coming and the time is near, it's about time we're awakened our slumber and to get back to where we should be and moving forward from there on.

#371 it doesn't feel like a major exam

I don't feel very stressed.. but yeah.

CD expenditure this few months has been mad. why are all the bands releasing their records now!

Just pre ordered SF's Hello Hurricane..

I want to order Battle Studies (JM) with the limited edition shirt, but it costs $35 usd. thats fine. but shipping is a whooping 29 usd. MADNESS.

I neeed vpost!

# 370 because that which was broken for you still stands today

# 369 maybe..

maybe sometimes living in my own world of musical madness does have its plus points. hm.

i miss the times when i sat on a roller chair with all the little pedals around me, and just me with my strat. making the loudest and noisiest noise from my amp. Geez, those were the days. letting the beautiful feedback from my amp ring through the house, toying with a completely wacked zvex fuzz factory that i so regret selling.

Messing around with the endless delay possibilities of my eventide timefactor. good times good times.

Now its time to change an axe for a book. or two.

# 368 - havent blogged in awhile

Os in a week.

4 half-written songs. mmhmmm.

writing one for the victims of the recent quakes/tsunami.

Here's an excerpt.

Hungry, thirsty, broken and alone
Got nowhere to run, nowhere to go
You see the ground shaking, the waves crashing
as your lives crumble to the ground

You're looking for reasons to go
Searching for something, a lifeline to hold

You're not alone, you're not alone in this world
where we're searching for ourselves
you're not alone, you're not alone,
he's watching over you, waiting for you
to run into his open arms

ciao.

# 367 boredom drives you to do stupid things..

like joining twitter.

www.twitter.com/jmsmusic1

wowzers.

# 366 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESLYN CHIONH!

hahaha. Happy 16th, have fun!

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