Something close to my heart

"Yesterday"

Somehow I am mysteriously sucked into this song.
Maybe because he is singing something close to my heart.

:)

Dear Melvin,

I know I have said countless thank yous to you since you have became
my leader and friend. But the thing is, you have said before, that -
the great is in what is unfailing. And, you have never failed... To not fail
to deliver God's motives to us through God. What was real during the
meeting was that, a living example whom I personally know was doing
exactly what he was sharing. This really captivated my thoughts.

Even writing this email, I could feel His presence and I know that I
have reconnected my bridge and slowly rebuilding what was lost in Him
once again. I was doing so many things, and yet failed to do the most
important thing since this year begun.

I really do not want to walk away from Sunday feeling it was a meeting
filled with emotions and fire and zest, because it will all die down
someday. But I will walk away this time, filled with sustain and with
faithfulness.

This will probably be my I-don't-know-how-many-times-of 'thank you',
but Thank you, Melvin.

Because you sacrificed.

Impartation

"Mel. I want to remember what happened in the discipleship today. Thank you for teaching the Word. I try to recall what happened, I think God's grace hit me in the discipleship. Thank you so much."

"Melvin. Wanted to say that the discipleship today on impartation was really awesome! I could feel something different when you shared the whole message. Is like we are going on a whole new level on our perspectives! =) Thank you for preparing this word and bring forth an impartation to us. There was a conveyance happening! I'm spiritually filled. Thank you Melvin!"

"Wow! What happened!"

Thank you

"Your worship.. Good. I can totally feel the presence. It is actually very good." - YL
"You are good." - Pst Meng
"You are already pro level." - WE

"Thank you, Melvin. I could even hear it all the way upstairs. It is very good."
__________________________

"hey Melvin, I have been reading your cell's blog. Awesome la."

"You know, Melvin. There have been people reading this blog of yours. They teared! Because they immediately could identify what you were writing about!"

Closer to

Forgive.

And if you can represent this status quo in your heart, soul and spirit.. You are proven unfailing.

An important truth: "Something is called great is in it being unfailing." - cranberriesempty

What's greater.. It's unfailing.

What a powerful truth. When I heard it from a Children's CD, I thought to myself, "This is even better than the adult CDs I have heard..."

Not because the adult CDs are not good.
But because the Children's CD has faith.

Too many intelligent words recently, but lacking something.
I like what Pst MJ told me, "It is not the technicalities. It is the raw faith."
Pst YL reminded me," It is always the Spirit behind the Word."

"The Greatness of all is the Servant to all."

The Servant is at the point of all social failing.
Simply because its status quo is at lowest returns.
But this status quo is where you are most revealed.
The returns for this position is passed on to God.
And if you can represent this status quo in your heart, soul and spirit.. You are proven unfailing.

What you reveal to God is returns to God.

There is a transcendence of what you can be when you are not.
You are not needed to be a servant.
But when you choose to be one.
That is the transcendence of what you can be when you are not.

Jesus said, "be". He did not say, "you are".
Because He knew that if He could get to you, you would get to where He will be.

Because only He can extract life.

Finding loose change does not equate to issues. It equates to the extraction of value from life itself. It is representative of what life can be for one person. I would join anyone in the endeavor of “extracting life”.

The issue of forgiveness can never be an issue of letting go 10-cent.
No sane (or insane, for that matter) person would value unforgiveness.
The issue of forgiveness is always associated with anger and madness because it deals with robbing your eyes and mind.
It takes away things.
It is the loss of a good thing that causes the madness.

I read recently about an issue about an elderly person stooping down to pick up a ten-cents coin.
Was she being irrational?
Is 10-cents is of no value to any strata of society?
Someone who will not pick up 10-cents simply because it was not “worth it”.

The bystander is someone who detests the prodigal son.
The bystander is someone who will scoff at the sight of 2-mites.
The bystander is someone who will immediately cast the first stone.
The bystander is someone who doubts the possibilities of Zaccheus.
The bystander issues summons readily because he does not seek to extract life.

There was already no life in these things.
God designed HIMSELF to extract the best life He can find.
He came in Man-form (be it Jesus or not) so many times.

God is someone who runs towards the prodigal son.
God is someone who actually waits for the 2-mites to be transferred into His account.
God is someone who repels the first stone without violence.
God is someone who extracts the possibilities out of Zaccheus.

The older lady stooped down lowly to search for that one 10-cent.
Only simply, because she knows that only she can extract the value out of that 10-cent.

The bystander misses the whole point because he is eager to do every other thing, rather than what God is doing.

God seeks to extract life, to redeem life, to produce life.
One who does not do likewise, is like someone who laughs off at the Savior slogging to the Cross.

Because only He can extract life.

Different perspective

"I just read your email.
You have a different perspective from everyone.
It is one notch higher.
I like reading yours.
I learn something from you." - YL

"I am going. Let's go."