Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the bright and morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart
Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours
Who Am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
And watch me rise again
Who Am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me
Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear
I am Yours
who we are
Most happening...
Thursday Urban Life!
Boss : Daniel Koh aka Dugong
Part of PlanetUni
Planet Shakers City Church, Melbourne, Australia
important dates
IMPORTANT: CHURCH SERVICE TIMES HAVE CHANGED TO 3PM AND 5.15PM AND PRAYER MEETING AT 2.15PM!
15 Feb, Fri - John Wee's 23rd!
17 Feb, Sun - Church @ Dallas Brooks Centre. 3pm and 5.15pm. Prayer meet at 2.15pm. Pastor Russell speaking! VISION SUNDAY!!
21 Feb, Thurs - OUR VERY FIRST URBAN LIFE FOR THE YEAR! Venue to be confirmed. 7.30pm.
23 Feb, Sat - Beatrice's 20th! (wow, so young. haha)
24 Feb, Sun - Church @ Dallas Brooks Centre. 3pm and 5.15pm. Prayer meet at 2.15pm. Pastor John Cameron from Arise Church Wellington speaking! ANNIVERSARY SERVICE!!
2 Mar, Sun - Church @ Dallas Brooks Centre. 3pm and 5.15pm. Prayer meet at 2.15pm. Pastor Matt Fielder speaking!
6 Mar, Thurs - 2nd Urban Life of the year. Derek's apartment @ 409 Concept Blue. 7.30pm. WELCOME PARTY!
9 Mar, Sun - Church @ Dallas Brooks Centre. 3pm and 5.15pm. Prayer meet at 2.15pm. Pastor Russell speaking!
11 Mar, Tues - DNA, Inner Champion and Kingdom Purpose courses starting! 7.30pm @ Melbourne High School, South Yarra.
For the peeps back home over the Summer Hols
Summer Urban Life (Malaysia, Singapore & Melbourne) information can be found @
http://www.planetuni.com.au/urbs.htm
posts and updates
Saturday, March 22, 2008
-13:20
The Miracle of Almolonga. This is really awesome you guys! A land once struggling with sin and poverty, God brings a revival and now they have crazy crops yielding 8 harvests a year!
Isaiah 24:5 - The earth suffers for the sin of its people. Genesis 3:17 - the ground is cursed because of you.All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.19 By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made.
The earth had been cursed, but Jesus came to remove the curse! Click on the link!
Heyyaaa... Sorry its beeen awhile since I last posted, but today, something the pastor said at my church really caught my attention.
'If you ask a person who refines silver, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He'll tell you that it's done when you can see your reflection in it.'
=D
God is always cleaning us up. And He'll only be done when He can see Himself........ in us.
Love, Bea
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
-00:48
Hey guys! Hope you guys have been great... I know I have been, even though I have to be away from home (Malaysia in case some of you don't know), I feel as though I AM at home right now in Melbourne! :)
I know it's been forever since I've posted something... But I really felt that I needed to post this up - which was the sermont Pastor Sam preached just 2 days ago. It really touched my heart and I don't want you guys who weren't here to miss it. Because it really moved me.
Okay, basically the title's called Giving Yourselves Completely to God. It is just a very simple thing. We should all know that God loves us so much that He gave His only Son Jesus to die for us right? But deep down, do you truly know that God? Do you actually have that kind of relationship with Him?
Romans 6:12-14 "Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace."
(And more for deeper reading: Psalm 69:9, Matt 19:16-24)
Are there areas in your life and heart where you have locked away and thrown the key away? It may be that hurt or pain or suffering or sin or whatever it may be, don't hold it back. God sent Jesus to die for us for a reason. He wants to take away all our burdens. Not some, but all!
Matt 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ' Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!"
This may sound weird to you. At first, Jesus died for us and shows how much He loves us. But at the same time, He doesn't recognise us. He even said He never knew us. Why?
It is because we never actually had that relationship with Him. We may be serving in church or "doing things" for God and be so involved, but still don't have that intimate relationship with the Saviour.
We want to be a church which believes that Jesus is our everything. He is all we've got. We shall be a church who doesn't want position or recognition or whatsoever - we just want to be close to Him. It is all about having a whole-hearted devotion to Him.
Now read this many Scriptures (if you truly love Him, you would want to) :-
Eph 2:4-5, Phil 2:9-11, Romans 5:8, Isaiah 26:3, Eph 1:6-7, 2 Cor 5:21, 2 Cor 3:17, 1 Cor 1:9, Eph 5:1-2, John 15:15-16, Gal 4:6-7, Isaiah 43:2, John 10:27-29, 2 Cor 9:8, Psalm 107:9, Phil 4:19
If you have read them all, your heart must be filled with joy. And at the same time, there is that ache in your heart - because you have learnt to acknowledge how much He truly loves you. And that we ache to be closer to Him.
What more can you ask for? What more could we possibly need?
Just give ourselves completely to Him. Every area of our lives - our relationships, finances, thoughts, studies, our homes our possessions and everything and anything.
This is just a challenge for each of us. Okay, don't take it as a challenge. Do this only because you want it. You want it so much - to be close to God. And to depend wholely on Him only.
This will be an incredible year for us. I believe that there is so much in store for us. It will bea year filled with seeds, plants and even fruits! :) COME EXPECTING!
Hugs everyone!!
Loves,
Ai Ling.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
-23:27
Ethiopian Woman Raised from the Dead after 12 Hours—Tells about Heaven Aimee Herd (January 29, 2008)
"I came back, because it was the will of God for me to live with my children. But I would be very happy to go back there. Now I have seen when a Christian dies, he goes to a better place…."
Fatuma Shubisa(Ethiopia)—Fatuma Shubisa, had married an evangelist, and had converted to Christianity from Islam. But the Ethiopian mother-of-nine fell sick and, after some time, she was found to have passed away by her mother who had come to care for her. (Photo: CBN)
There was great mourning in the small village of Alelu, as Fatuma's death was made known among friends and family members. But word of Fatuma's passing also reached the ears of a Christian missionary named Warsa Buta, who was in the area.
Acting on a promise he says the Lord gave him the day he was saved—that God would raise the dead through him—Buta sought out the deceased woman.
A non-Christian crowd gathered as Buta the missionary continued to pray over Fatuma's sheet-covered body. They asked, "Why is this Pentecostal man praying over a dead body?"
Warsa related what happened next, "I had faith the Lord would work through me. I prayed as Peter prayed. 'Fatuma, be raised. I ask you in the name of the Lord. Come to life.' When I prayed that prayer—'Fatuma, rise in the name of Jesus'—she sat up in the bed."
It had been 12 hours since Fatuma had died.
"…Immediately I found myself in my body," explained Fatuma, "I sat up in my bed and started asking, 'What is this? What's happening? What's going on?' Then everybody was surprised. Some were commenting, 'A Pentecostal man can call back a dead soul to a body? If this is real, then we all will become Christians.' And they were shouting."
During the time she was deceased, Fatuma apparently experienced some wonderful glimpses of Heaven, and of family members who had gone before, which she talks about on the CBN video report.
Watch this amazing account on video by accessing the link provided.
Prophetic painter, 12 years old. Jesus came to her, and she said angels taught her how to paint when she was just 4 years old. Amazing!
Sunday, January 6, 2008
-00:22
Hi guys, Happy New Year! Although to be honest it's 6 days late. Too busy gobbling food and Planetshakers Conference. Oh Man, it was awesome. But don't fret. Next year, Shakers Conference Revolution would be held in April. Thus, all University students would be able to attend.
Just wanted to stir you guys, that tonight (5th Jan) was the last night for the Shakers Conference, and Pastor Judah Smith blessed and prophesied over the all the leaders, especially Youth & High School Pastors. The word God gave him was Genesis 15:5
Genesis 15:5 Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”. 6 And Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.
The issue he wanted to talk about, is our perception, our view on what God is doing. If you read Genesis chapter 15, Abraham was sitting inside his tent. And he even complained to God, when God gave him a promise. The manner in which he talked to God by retorting in verse 2 that he doesn't have a Son was a wrong attitude. So God brought him outside the tent.
This is such an amazing sermon in line with what Pastor Russell said the morning the day before, to dream big. Let us dream with God. Let us step outside the tent of what life has been dishing out to us, what life has been showing us. Let us take on the perception of God, and dream with him. Let us step outside the tent, see the stars, that is our promise. And to every word the Lord promises, it will come to pass.
Galatians 3:6 In the same way, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”7The real children of Abraham, then, are those who put their faith in God. 8 What’s more, the Scriptures looked forward to this time when God would declare the Gentiles to be righteous because of their faith. God proclaimed this good news to Abraham long ago when he said, “All nations will be blessed through you.” 9 So all who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith.
Pastor Judah Smith then prayed a prayer of blessing and called for all the Youth Pastors to come forth, and prophesied that there will be a 2000 people ministry. I don't know if he was only referring to a Youth Ministry like Boom, but heck, I'll take that for PlanetUni.
PlanetUni is touching 500. 2000? All things are possible in Christ.
Guys, get ready for a wild ride in 2008. I can see that there will be tired hands, tired legs, tired eyes. There will be some of us, who will be juggling work, university studies and truth be told, it's the final year to some of us! (Hehe, I've been there, done that!), then PlanetUni activities, like our monthly outreach programs, serving in Church and Urban Life will still go on.
And some of us will feel bummed out, even wondering to ourselves whether is this all worth it?
But fear not, Isaiah 40:31 "But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles.They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint."
We serve a great and mighty God, and it is by His Grace that would empower us to do above and beyond what we can imagine, if we falter not but continue to press in. His burden is easy, his Yoke is light.
Let us continue to be faithful and passionate labourers planting seeds in the field called "peoples lives". :)
-John Wee-
Monday, December 24, 2007
-17:34
Hi guys, just want to wish you all Merry Christmas and have a awesome new year!
Although I know that it's technically not really the day that Jesus was born on, some historical theological scientists say it could however be around the day where Mary was conceived by the Holy Spirit (thereabouts) as the Shepherds were outside at night so it's too cold in Israel for them to be outside, and the historical date of the census during the time of Herod was during a certain phase of the year. So Jesus couldn't have been born in December, But enough of technicality.
As we all eat eat eat, let us not forget as well the significance of this special event is all about. We may give gifts to each other, but let us also be reminded about God's greatest gift to us, Jesus Christ.
That he may come to us as a baby, to live among us, and ultimately to be the ultimate sacrifice that tore down the veil from up to down, that we may enter boldly into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus poured out for us. (Heb 10:19).
Let us celebrate Christmas with rejoicing for his perfect wonderful gift. That truly God loves us, even if we were the only person on the planet, Jesus would still come down and die for you. There are no 2 snowflakes the same, no 2 people, our fingerprint, our iris, there is no two the same. God in all his omnipotence and love for us have designed you and given you something special only for you. A hope, a future, and a destiny fulfilled through Christ working in us continually changing us to be more like him. To be great men and women of God, to make a difference, that we shall be in one accord Planetshakers.
So rejoice rejoice rejoice brides of Christ being forever remindful of our fathers perfect gift. For we are a people moved by love, moving in love towards the author of love.
Romans 8:38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So, Eat eat eat, and hopefully lose all the weight off when you get back to Melbourne by jumping up and down and dancing like theres no tomorrow every sunday in church.
Thanks again Daddy God! for this wonderful perfect Gift. For God So Loved The World, that HE GAVE his ONE and ONLY SON. (John 3:16) Your wonderful perfect gift. All for me. Because you love me. Thanks Again Dad!
