Celebrating Nick's 20th Birthday

At the airport with Sarah who has been away in Adelaide for the last 9 months

F4L#47

God is my sun and my shield.

I am protected by a shield of faith around me.

When darts of discouragement or hopelessness come my way,

i put my faith in my God is for me.

I will not fail.

My mind stays on God's help and deliverance which is my helmet.

My mind is fully stayed on God's possibilities.

Love, Ron & Grace

Yum.. My all meat dish in Hong Kong before we board the plane home

Grace with Angelina Jolie at the Madam Tussaud's, The Peak, Hong Kong

Hana finally got to meet with her dream man, Brad Pitt

Nick and Sarah with Michelle Yeoh

At Macau's St. Paul's Cathedral

Having a chat with one of my fav actors, Sir Anthony Hopkins

The night scene at Hong Kong's harbour is probably one of the more popular tourist sites

Grace and I at Ngong Ping's hill top after the cable car ride

HAVING FUN WITH GOD

Chinese New Year is just around the corner. To those of you who might already be back in your hometowns next week, we wish you ‘Gong Xi Fa Cai’. May your reunion with your loved ones be meaningful and may the light of Christ in you shine and bring hope and joy to your folks. We pray for your journey mercy and that God may send His angels to protect and accompany you. To those who are not married, may your pockets be full of angpows!! We'll save you some 'blessing cookies'!!

One of my desires in New Life is to help our folks to enjoy the life that God has created them to live.

Religion has taken the joy and the fun out of Christianity because the devil comes ‘to steal, to kill and to destroy’. He knows that if he can remove the element of joy from their relationships with God, many will find Christianity to be dissatisfying and return to the world and missed out on God's salvation. Many have also left their faith because it has become a burden and a chore.
Jesus empathized with many sincere Christians (like Nicodemus) who were weighed down by religious laws and so he said

Mat 11:28-30 "Come to Me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest…… For My yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light."

Another word for fun is joy. They need to know that joy is a fruit of the spirit. That means, we will not know true joy, satisfaction or fun unless we are made alive (born again) in our spirit through Jesus.

We are spirit beings. Being spiritual is not boring but fun and joyful. In fact, when we live in the spirit, we have more fun than we ever had. Most people find Christianity boring because they have not stepped into this realm of the 4th dimension. They have just live life according to the flesh which brings deadness rather than life.

Our children need to know that following Jesus is not following a list of dos and don’ts.

Pastor Kenneth Toon testified:
“My wife and I are really having fun in our room……praying and communing with the Lord. There is a real sense that God is listening to us and speaking back to us. This reality is flowing into the church as we found that our church members are beginning to enjoy ministering to our Father and being in His presence. We have found that when we seek God first, our prayer lives are transformed and we receive wisdom, divine revelations, directions for life and the Holy Spirit is powerfully at work in our lives. Christians cannot run their lives with their tanks empty but they need to be filled daily with the Holy Spirit, the oil that comes when we seek God. God has also convicted me to not talk to any human being without first talking to our Heavenly Father first.

Folks, let us ask God for the grace to restore fun and joy to the following areas this year:
-Our Faith (Our daily relationship with God)
-Our Family
-Our Friends
-Our Finance

Let God, the creator of joy, laughter, enjoyment and pleasure teach us how to have fun as a Christian!!!

Joh 10:10 I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of. (MSG)

Love,
Pastor Ron Hee