Psalms 1 and 2

Today's preaching was on the book of Psalms 1 and 2 from the Old Testament. I love reading Psalms as they guide you to live a prosperous and fulfilled life. I have also decided to continue tithing to church as a responsible church member. If no one contributes, how is the church going to feed its people, send money for missions and continue saving for the church building fund? I guess it takes revelation and a passionate love for Jesus to be tithers. Most other people are just tipping God with their offerings and I also noticed some don't give at all. My friend who became a Christian in 2004, the year the tsunami strike, has been tithing faithfully to church every week because he believes it is our Heavenly Father who prospers him to find favour with potential clients. That is why the company has projects month after month and the workers are happy working for us with continual work every day.

Tithing Matters

I have stopped tithing 10% of my income to my local church and last Sunday, at the pulpit, the church secretary who gave the sermon commented that there will be no income for the staff if people stopped tithing. I still continue to give offerings every week when I attend church service on Sundays. As I need to safe up for my golden years and considering the inflation rate in say 20 years time, the value of your savings will depreciate so much that you might not have enough to tide you through your life time. I hope to save up at least 80% of my income every month while times are good. But there is no guarantee that it will be like this for the next 15-20 years until my retirement later on. I am already in my late thirties and the key person running the show is already in his late fifties. I pray that God will grant him the strength to continue to helm the company employing about 10 workers with families to feed.

Preaching Bondage and Law

Yesterday's preaching in my local church was dry, and boring, not to mention the deacon preach law and bondage. I feel more stressed listening to it than before coming to church. After listening to Pastor Joseph Prince of New Creation Church, Singapore preach, I feel more liberated with the true teaching of grace and favour. The other churches don't match to this very annointed preacher who also received word of faith to heal people. And Georgetown Baptist Church turned away a potential RM50,000 donation just because it was to be from Penang Turf Club. And to think that BGC needs money in the millions to build its new church for RM10 million with barely half collected - it was foolish of them to turn away money such as these. God can turn unrighteous money into blessed money, so why turn down a good opportunity?

No One Picks Up the Telephone at Penang SOCSO

I have paid the worker’s SOCSO company contribution for April 2009 and until today, 12th of May, I have yet to receive a receipt and form for May payment from them. SOCSO stands for Social Security Organisation that was established in Malaysia to make monthly payments to workers becoming disabled in the course of their employment. It is like a form of insurance. Today, I tried to contact the numbers that I have in the SOCSO letterhead and they have changed to a new number that is non-contactable at all and simply send a thank you message and hang up when you select all the options! Even the operator number leads to automatic message with no one to pick up the phone! I don’t know who is the director or head of department for SOCSO but they sure try to find ways to automate their telephone calls with no single person to pick up calls and attend to enquiries. This is surely the ‘makan ular’ (lackadaisical) attitude of the staff who is missing in action! Typical of the Malays who are so lazy, and depend on the UMNO government to take care of their needs to the exclusion of other races. I am still wondering how sincere is the government in advocating 1Malaysia concept.

Happy Easter Sunday

Yesterday was Easter Sunday and my church in Georgetown Baptist Church put up a wonderplay play with a short movie of the Passion of Christ showing Jesus before his crucifixion. It is also a time to forgive previous grievances and hurts done by others. Easter is to celebrate the resurrection power of Jesus when he died at the cross and he is now alive in Heaven. One day, when all Christians die, they will reunite in heaven and stay there for eternity - which is a very very long time. While it is better to stay in heaven where there is no sorrow, pain or death, it is good to make ourselves useful here on here promoting the Kingdom of God by preaching to our loved ones so that they can be saved from eternal damnation in hell and by tithing.

New Creation Church Raised S$19 million in 1 day

The senior pastor of New Creation Church (NCC) is Pastor Joseph Prince, a very annointed preacher. His church managed to raise Singapore dollars $19 million in 1 day for the new building fund. Previously S$100 million has been paid for the land that was bought for the new church building. This is nothing but God's grace in such difficult times as these where millions are jobless and retrenched, yet NCC is prospering in Singapore. It was out in the local Singapore newspapers and many naysayers gave negative comments about it saying it was a cult, etc. Whatever the unbelievers may say, NCC is one very good church to attend.

20 million are Jobless in China

According to the news, about 20 million people are jobless in China. Although the Singapore government has admitted that it is in technical recession, the Malaysian government still refuse to admit that it is in recession and still paints an optimistic picture of the nation's economy. That is why the system is transparent and honest in Singapore but not in Malaysia where corruption is rampant and this begins with the leaders and those in UMNO. Sometimes I wish for an honest Chinese to be the prime minister of Malaysia like Singapore and give equal opportunities to all ethnic races based on merit and not on skin color. The recession might worsen before it recovers in late 2010 as predicted. And for those who are jobless, I wonder how they manage their lives right now.