I feel the loneliness of the ocean

as I sit by the shore

not a sound except the waves

against the rocks.

 I feel the loneliness of the prairie

as I view the vast expanse of the field

except for the mournful howl of the coyote

I feel the loneliness of the mountains 

 broken only by the sighing of the wind.

I think of the thousands in loneliness of solitude

In mental institutions and in prisons

I think of the thousands in great cities among the crowds

Yet walk in loneliness

without speaking a word

And inside him are found burdens

of grief, pain and anxiety......

but how can i forget

the bitter pain and the heartache. 

How could this happen? 

Into the empty sky i sit thinking,

my dazed wet eyes just staring.

My swollen eyelids upon tired eyes

for how many days crying unending,

my inner feeling wanting to die.

My happiness torn apart like a flower.

It's now all over. 

               The heart is so fragile

that it's so easily broken.

Love is what it longs for.

In everyone there's a need and a void

that needs to be filled.

Love is the foundation of any happiness.

Our past can control us,

our regrets and bitterness of heart.

Regret comes from our wrong choices;

bitterness comes from choices

other people make.

Bitterness can turn the mind into

a black hole of anger and revenge,

from which it's hard to escape.

The bitter person thinks only

the hurt caused, the wrong done,

the pain inflicted.

 ......

Where do i begin

To tell the story

Of how great a love can be

The great love story

That is deeper than the sea

a simple truth about the love

that compels me

Where do i start

With Your first come in

You gave a meaning

To this empty world of mine 

You enter into my life

And made the living fine

You fills my heart

You fills my heart

With very special things

With angel songs

With wild imaginings

You fills my soul

With so much love

That anywhere i go

I’m never lonely

With You along who could be lonely

I reach for Your hand

It’s always there

How long does it last

Can love be measured by the breadth,

length, depth and height

I have no answers no

But this much i can say

I know the love of Christ

passeth all knowledge

And You’ll be there...

How long does it last

Can faith be measured by

our understanding

I have no answers no

But this much i can say

I know I’ll need you

as Your love compels me so

And you'll be there...

God’s thoughts are good thoughts.

Many don’t know.

For them, God is not real.

When men think of God,

they think of religion.

For the communists, it’s an opium.

The truth is God is no religion.

God is the One who created you.

He is as real as you are real.

Without Him, there is no you.

God thinks of you everyday.

God loves you dearly like precious gold.

Actually much more than gold.

He loves you dearly with a true love,

That’s willing to sacrifice

everything for you.

Cherish His love.

You might not know it or feel it.

But He’s by your side day and night

 watching over you.

He knows everything…

your thoughts, your heart.

God knows you;

He can see you through.

Is He real?

Like these glorious angels

whom you can’t see,

God is always there

although you’re not aware

of His presence.

God has never given up on anybody…

 Not even the worst criminals.

So what right have we

to give up on ourselves?

God is ever ready to accept you

with open arms.

Listen deep inside you,

to the still small voice

that’s speaking to you.

Open your ear, open your heart

and you’ll see your life

changed for the good.

Open up and give yourself a chance

to feel God’s love,

to feel that you’re so accepted

to feel so secured you never felt before.

Do right and don’t go

against your conscience.

Sometimes you doubt yourself.

Have peace in your heart;

hold on to the things you believe in.

Put your trust in God

For He’ll never leave you.

He’s ever faithful,

the One who created you.

Don’t let others pull you down.

Don’t let others talk you out of things.......

Compared to eternity

our lives are like vapour.

 Naked we come into this world,

naked we will go.

Forget taking your Rolex watch

when it’s time for you to go.

Many foolish and harmful desires

have plunged

many into ruins and destruction.

Let not the cares and worries

and men’s approvals,

concerns for things of the world  

bring choking bondage hard to let go

but only can disappoint

Seek not men’s approval or glory.

What glory can come from men?

or even from relatives and friends

because they are only fleeting

and temporary

hollow and empty

that can vanish...

if you want to avoid painful disappointments,

it’s up to you.

A strong tendency to esteem highly

those most popular,

being so consumed by all

that is passing away

than seeking that which last and endure.

Why not seek after the real glory

the true, eternal, pure glory from above

that’s from everlasting to everlasting

like the angels’s glory you see

but even more glorious

where your treasure is, there your heart is

What is great gain?

Godliness with contentment

How?

Develop secret relationship

with your Creator

making you positive with positive thinking

Put yourself in a place

where you can touch eternity

If you have faith

as small as a mustard seed

you can move mountains.

This smallest seed when in God’s hand

has such power

even to bind the strongest demon

Knowledge and good behaviour

 are not good enough

If you lean on your own understanding

You will still go astray

It’s God’s truth in your heart…

the love of truth

that’ll keep you strong......

 to harm  

 your wife or your children  

 because of  

 pride and anger  

 because of  

 something that happened  

 stop your violence  

 stop blaming  

 stop claiming  

 your every right  

 What right?  

  You should be ashamed  

 not knowing responsibility  

 because of  

 egoistic thinking  

 that needs rethinking  

  Are you  

 refraining from  

 anger  

 turning from  

 wrath  

 that leads to evil  

 like  a hot-tempered man  

 commiting evil  

  to be humble  

for the storms

we went through,
    

and for the hard times

we'll never forget.

We are where we are today

by the grace and mercy of God.

Gratitude

brings peace for today

and a vision for tomorrow.

Gratitude

turns anger into humility
it turns dissatisfaction into satisfaction;

 it turns enough into more than enough.

Gratitude

turns chaos into order,

confusion into clarity.

It's common to see people

doing the right things,

but their lives of obedience

often fail to acknowledge

the simple things,

and to say a simple thank you for them.

It is easy to get lost

in the discipline of obedience.  

Human nature

does not lend itself to gratitude.

It lends itself to complaining.

We like to see thankful people,

and hates a murmuring,

grumbling,fault-finding,

complaining people.We all face hard times

in our lives one time or another.
 

Often we're not aware

we are ungrateful people,

and we like to

justify ourselves.

And through

events in our lives, or through other people,

we face afflictions and persecutions. 

is it important?

Friendship with

your husband and wife,

between children and parents,

with friends

and people around youis it

important? 

Why?
 

Because good friendship affects

our own happiness...
 

friendship with others, en

friendship with God.

How to build this friendship?
 

It is like buiding a house.
A house needs a strong foundation.

The same with friendship.

This foundation

needs the help of God.

It requires of us

to develop a good, strong character,

with honesty,

faithfulness

and ability to persevere.

That is,

it takes a lot of sacrifices,
for what you sow is what you reap.


Why is honesty important?
With falsehood and dishonesty,

we cannot develop friendship.

Why is faithfulness important?
Unfaithfulness is the cause

of breakdown of many friendships.

Perseverance is needed

to make honesty and faithfulness work.

We need to keep going,

Do you believe

we can be

as glorious as

the angels

and even more

even our bodies?

We're commanded

to change

from a catterpillar to a butterfly

so we can fly.

How?  

Develop good habits,

allow God's Word

to change your thinking.

You're what you think.

As your thinking changes,

you appearance also will change...

your outlook, your countenance,

your expression, your response.

The spiritual affects also the physical.

 

First thing is

don't fill your mind with the garbage

from the junkyard of this world.

But sadly for many,

the rubbish things of the world...

unholy attitudes and behaviours,

unrighteousness,

choices that'll lead us down a bad path

and ruin our futures...

have become so acceptable

in their thoughts and outlook.

If we don't quench

the small still voice,

our conscience will lead us

in the right direction.

But if we choose to live in corruption,

we'll start to accept it as normal...

marital fidelity, honesty,

spending habits,

eating and drinking

what the world offers

through advertisements, romance

novels, soap operas,

violent movies and video games,

sex and violence, fun and pleasure

that deceive.

 

The first command here is

don't conform to this world.

How?

Develop good habits.

Learn discernment.

Seek wisdom.

Have the fear of the Lord.

Be humble.

That's how to receive blessings.

 

The second command is

 allow our minds be transformed

from the inside out

by God's Word,

so that......

I seek You

with a humble heart

on my knees

in truthfulness

with an open heart

for You know everything

you see everything

Without You

life is meanigless and empty

I do not want

to stray away from You

nor to complain or to murmur

 nor to judge another

but to think positively of others

nor to take

 Your grace and mercy

for granted

 nor to take things lightly

But with holy fear

come into Your Presence

to repent from my old ways

to be convicted of my wrong doings

to open my heart, to open my ear

to Your still small voice in me

Help me to be wise

in everything that I do

To act justly

to love mercy

to walk humbly with You

to be stiill

in Your Presence

  Have mercy upon me

O God

according to Your loving kindness
 

according to the multitude of

Your tender mercies
 

blot out my transgressions.
 

 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
 

and cleanse me from my sin.
 

For I acknowledge

my transgressions,
 

  and my sin is always before me.
 

Against You

have I sinned and done evil.
 

I was brought forth in iniquity,

and in sin,

when my mother conceived me.
 

You desire truth

in the inward parts,
 

and in the hidden part

You will make me to

know You.
 

Create in me a clean heart,

O God,
 

and renew

a steadfast spirit within me.
 

 Do not cast me away from

Your presence,
 

and do not take

Your Holy Spirit from me.
 

For You do not desire sacrifice.
 

The sacrifices of God

 are

a broken spirit,
 

 a broken and a contrite heart
 

these

O God

You will not despise.

A thought is a seed

if not aborted

will produce off-spring

somewhere in your life.

Therefore choose carefully

what you meditate upon.

An evil thought

will rearrange

your goals and dreams

 it can be planted by the evil one.

A thought can feed

on an incident in the past

 and grows,

and weaken you.

A thought can be as

as the action itself.

Remember the Korean boy in an American school,

who rehearsed how he was going to get even.

It materialised.

Therefore you must quickly cast down an evil thought

before it becomes part of you,

before it drains away your commitment to excellence

and leaves you crying in the valley of regret.

Who will know what you really think,

but God knows.

You reap what you sow, even in your thoughts.
Sow good seeds and reap the rewards.

If no one knows what you think,

why shouldn't you allow your minds to collect rubbish and poisons, without regard to cleaning and renewing your mind?

Even the computer needs clean-up to function properly,

what with so many modern day viruses.

We become what we think.

 It is not just the lust and greed we must clean out,

but pride, anger, hatred, unforgiveness,

arrogance, envy and jealousy.

If you are impregnated with a bad seed,

better abort the baby before full term.

Most people who are unsuccessful in their lives do not lack talent.

Why? 

Why are such talented people unsuccessful?

There always seemed to be some little thought they entertained

that affected their commitment to excellence.

Some dwarfed self-image,

or over-inflated ego,

or anger and hatred that leave them no peace of mind,

or arrogance and over-confidence,