20101004:Ps104:4 Winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants

I thought I found this verse in only Heb1:7. BUT TODAY, I REALISED IT WAS REPEATED IN PS104:4!

"He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants"Ps104:4

"He makes his angels winds, his servants flames of fire" -Heb1:7

Ps104 is a rather long psalm. 35 verses.

It begins and ends with "Praise the LORD, O my soul"

All throughout this psalm, it speaks of His greatness, splendor, majesty, His creative power in creation - the heavens, the earth and all that is in it..the sea creatures and all the animals and birds. How He looks after us all!

• His Power in creation,
• His Provision for his creation,
• His Purpose in His creation - may the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works (Ps104:31)

As I reviewed this kite video, taken at the Marina Promontory last month Sep 2010, I couldn't help imagining as if the kites were 'angels' flying in the wind!

Have you ever try to start the BBQ fire? Many a times we need to fan the wind into the fire to enable the flame to fire up strongly.

Heb1:6"when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says" Let all God's angels worship him" ..v14"Are not angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?"

V23 then man goes out to his work to his labour until evening.

V29 when the LORD take away our breath, we die and return to dust

V30 when the LORD send His Spirit, they are created and He renews the face of the earth.

I thank God for his angels. They stir us up to continue to be the flaming fire servants.

Why? Simply so that our hearts will continue to burn for Him.

V33 I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. May my meditation be pleasing to him as I rejoice in the LORD"

Is the fire in your life dwindling ? Losing sight of your first love?

I pray that the Lord will send his angel right now with a gush of refreshing wind to stir up that dying fire.

Be renewed - Sing. Meditate. Praise - all my soul. Let this be our OBSESSION in life - that we will sing praise to Him as long as we live!

20100927: Ex14:21!Winds parted the Red Sea! It's true!

Exodus 14:21 "Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left"

Breaking news!! IT'S TRUE! What men thought it was impossible, today with the help of computer simulations, science has one again proven the bible to be true - at least for this Red Sea parting! Wow!

This is fantastic wind discovery!!! My bible study on wind this month is a blown-away! What a timely scientific discovery unveiled!

The more I seek you, the more I find you! Listen to this song as you read the recent discovery. Shalom!

Researchers link parting of the Red Sea to strong winds

Sunday, 26 September 2010 10:25

Moses might not have parted the Red Sea, but a strong east wind that blew through the night could have pushed the waters back in the way described in biblical writings and the Koran, US researchers reported on Tuesday. Computer simulations, part of a larger study on how winds affect water, show wind could push water back at a point where a river bent to merge with a coastal lagoon, the team at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder said. “The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus,” Carl Drews of NCAR, who led the study, said in a statement. “The parting of the waters can be understood through fluid dynamics. The wind moves the water in a way that’s in accordance with physical laws, creating a safe passage with water on two sides and then abruptly allowing the water to rush back in.” Religious texts differ a little in the tale, but all describe Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt ahead of a pharaoh’s armies around 3 000 years ago. The Red Sea parts to let Moses and his followers pass safely, then crashes back onto the pursuers, drowning them. Drews and colleagues are studying how Pacific Ocean typhoons can drive storm surges and other effects of strong and sustained winds on deep water. His team pinpointed a possible site south of the Mediterranean Sea for the legendary crossing, and modelled different land formations that could have existed then and perhaps led to the accounts of the sea appearing to part. The model requires a U-shaped formation of the Nile River and a shallow lagoon along the shoreline. It shows that a wind of 63 miles per hour, blowing steadily for 12 hours, could have pushed back waters 6 feet deep. “This land bridge is 3-4 km (2 to 2.5 miles) long and 5 km (3 miles) wide, and it remains open for 4 hours,” they wrote in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE. “People have always been fascinated by this Exodus story, wondering if it comes from historical facts,” Drews said. “What this study shows is that the description of the waters parting indeed has a basis in physical laws.”—Reuters

20100926:Heb 1;7 ANGELS WINDS -Harnessing the wind

Heb1:7" He makes his angels winds, his servants flames of fire"

We heard of agriculture , hydroponics ,animal ,fish , prawn farms etc, but what about wind farms?

Have been pondering over the winds in the wake of the kite-flying. Actually wind farms are nothing new. The first was started in 1980s in the States I think. Man is always energy resource hungry. We tapped the rivers to make hydro-electricity. We dugged into the sea for the oil. We created solar panels to generate power. So harnessing the wind for the same energy is nothing new. But today, the meterological weather has changed. Some of the rivers of the world are dying up while others bursting its seams. Man has short term memory. The recent Deep Horizon Oil spill that happened just a few months back is no longer in our minds.

Renewable alternative energy! Well, few days ago, the world's largest offshore wind farm off England South Coast was officially opened. The Thanet Offshore Wind Farm consists of 100 wind turbines and will generate enough electricity for the equivalent of 200,000 UK households

Each wind turbine at the facility is up to 115 metres high. The wind farm covers an area of 35 square kilometres, around the size of 4,000 soccer fields. The cost of the project, funded in part by the UK Government, was approximately EUR 1 billion.The wind farm took just over two years to construct and will be in operation for at least 25 years.

So much money poured in just to harness the winds! Problem is that the winds blow wherever it pleases! (John 3:8) So whether the positive effects of this energy thing is yet to be really seen.

There is something about WINDS:-

1. It is invisible - John 3:8 Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3 that "no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again" He is not referring to the physical birth but rather the invisible spirit birth - that awakening of our inner man - the Spirit man.
2. It gives life - Ez 37 . Ezekiel prophesied and commanded the 4 winds to breathe into the slain and the dry bones came to life - a vast army
3. It is angelic - Heb 1:7 God makes his angels winds. His messengers! The beauty of simply embracing yourself in the winds, letting them caress your face especially at the seaside!
4. It is judgment -Rev7:1 4 angels, standing at 4 corners of the earth, holding back the 4 winds of the earth. Here in Rev 7, these 4 angels were given power to harm the land or the sea or the trees. Similar vision given to Daniel in Dan7;2. But they were asked to hold back judgement until another angel from the east with God's seal told them to delay until the seal on the foreheads of the servants of the Lord were put on. I believe this is the Glorious Return of our Lord Jesus as mentioned in Matt24:31and Mark11:27 "He will send his angels with a loud trumpet call and they will gather his elect from the 4 winds, from one end of the heavens to the other"

Reflections:

No one can see God. Just like wind. But we can see the effects. God is Love. A small act of kindness can create ripples beyond our imagination. God made angels winds. But He made us to the flames of fire. The energy that never dies so long as we focused on Him. He is the source of our life. Do we know Him? Do we have that seal on our foreheads?

Open your heart to Him - to be born again, to be rejuvenated. God assigns to each of His precious child a guardian angel - to watch and protect us and seal us from the judgement to come.

20100904: Ecclesiates: A Chasing after the Wind - a kite flying experience!

Bought a kite and tried flying it on 4/9/2010 for the first time at Marina Barrage (beginning to enjoy this place!)

Then on 10/9/2010, along with a couple of friends, we decided to go kite-flying again! But alas, this time, the wind was rather weak and so we could not really launch it.

It was then we decided to literary 'chase after the wind' by moving from the Marina to Labrador Park and then to the West Coast, then back to MARINA by night fall. As it turned out, there was no wind at all these places too. So we could not launch the kites! Kind of disappointing and anti-climax!

This futile effort brought to my mind of King Soloman's search of the meaning of life. Wisdom, pleasures, toil, achievements, advancement, riches, wealth, possessions, honour, appetites -all are but " a chasing of the wind"

Ecclesiates is only a 12-chapter book. But the verse "a chasing after the wind ' is repeated 8 times! V1:14, 17, 2:11, 17 & 26, 4:4, 16 & 6:9!

What did the kite-flying lesson teach me?

1. We are like kites who needs the wind of the Holy Spirit at all times

A kite can easily take off when the wind conditions are right effortlessly. John 3:8 "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Apart from the Holy Spirit, we can do nothing indeed. With the aid of the Holy Spirit, life is never the same as we can soar like an eagle and not waddle on the ground like the chick.

2. It is a meaningless act to chase after the wind.

There will be times where we are meant to be grounded - no kite flying! Times to just simply relax and be laid back and enjoy the blue sky and clouds or the stars at night. There is no point for us to run in the open pulling the kite along for a lift off. It is a draining & tedious effort!

Conclusion of the matter? Eccl12:13 -14

"Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgement, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil"

20100828:Remembering Rainbows_Ezekiel 1:28

Have been pondering over rainbows of late. Ever since the Lord painted the 3rd one for me on 8/7/2010 at the tennis court.

I was reminded of my previous rainbows - the 2nd in 2004, Perth and the very first sighting in 2003.

Back then I thought the word rainbow was only found in Genesis 9 and Revelation 10 (first and last book of our bible). But now I realised that Ezekiel wrote about the likeness of the glory of the LORD - glowing metal as if full of fire, brilliant light surround him. Ez 1:28 "Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him"

Life is like a rainbow. It will be full of ups and downs. But it is still a rainbow - full of colours. Life is not black and white. It changes in seasons - displaying the colors of spring, summer , autumn and winter. At the end of the rainy day, the clouds will come out and the sun will still shine! (This you can bet on!) With rain showering through the glorious sun rays - light is deflected and the bow is formed. We get a RAIN+BOW!

So, remember when you behold a rainbow - we remember Yeshua - the Covenantal God of love.

Let our hearts leap for joy and hope. May our faith be steadfast - in Him and Him we trust and revere. He remembers us. We only need to believe.

My first attempt in making a youtube movie...RAINBOW. A bit amateurish must admit. Abrupt in the ending because I do not know how to fade off the music as yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb6QlkAF-_Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player

All photos/ videos taken personally using the old Casio Exlim, Sony and the recent one via the I-phone. The first photo was from the Marina Barrage with the Marina Bay Sands as backdrop. A very nice place indeed to fly kites. The aero display was from the apartment in the reverse direction of MBS taken on our very own 45th national day 9/8/2010. Memories of the 3 rainbows captured over the last 7 years (what a perfect number!), spanning over 2003 and 2010. Fireworks? Those were taken in 2008 at the Fireworks festival.

Like rainbows, fireworks are awesome to watch. One is natural glory, whereas the other man made. Both display what the brilliance of light is like. The shekinah glory of Yeshua - I believe is beyond such comparison. But this is perhaps just a glimpse of His glory. Greater things are yet to come! Beautiful song by Chris Tomlin.

It is my prayer that you be lifted up in spirit as you view this music video. Intercede for our nation. Worship Yeshua, the King of Kings and Lords of Lords - Hosanna in the highest!

Come, Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen [Rev:22:20-21]

20100813: Rev18:22 The music of the sun? S*T*A*R

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/06/22/scientists-decode-song-sun/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7840201/Music-of-the-sun-recorded-by-scientists.html

Recently in June 2010, scientists have found a way to translate those eruptions of the sun flares into music. Very interesting. You can hear that music of the sun in the links above.

Actually the sun is a *star. What are they and what are they made of? Surprisingly, there are merely made of largely about 75% hyrdrogen and 25% helium and of course other gases.

Something struck me thinking after my keyboard lesson this evening. In the study of the Mystery Babylon, I was led to Rev 18:22. there will come a time "where the music of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters will never be heard again" REALLY? I love music and this really woke me up. And then I came across this article of how scientists had recently decoded the song of the sun. Some people thinks it sounded like the "F" - f-a-c chord tone. Have a hear.

1. S*- Splendor & Supernatural Creation

I am reminded of Genesis 1. No one today fully understands the universe - the sun, the moon and the stars and the world of cosmos in the outer atmosphere of our little planet earth. Scientists are still in the midst of discovering new things - like the recent music of the sun conorary flares.

The bible answers it all. In the beginning...

And in Day4, God created the sun and the moon and the stars. And they were given authority. Yes - to govern the day and the night!

We are His supernatural creation. In 1 Cor 15:38-41. God gives each of us a body as he has determined. All flesh is not the same; Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. There are also heavenly bodies and there are earth bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind and the splendor of earthly is another.

The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and the star differs from star in splendor. WOW!

2. T*- Time : The day of the Lord is at hand

The article talks about the sun's activity- when the solar flare production increases, the resulting "space storm" can have catastrophic results here on earth, destroying electronic equipment, overheating power grids and damaging satellites. Nasa warned that the sun's activity is starting to increase following an extended period of low activity and is on course to throw out unprecendented levels of magnetic energy into the solar system by 2013. (that's about 3 years' time...)

Luke 21 talks about the signs of the end of age. In verse15:" There will be signs int he sun, moon and stars"

In Joel, 3 times, V2:10,, 2:31 & 3:15" The sun and moon will be darkened and the stars no longer shine" In King James, it says "withdraw their shining"

Acts2:20 and Rev 6:12 speaks about "the sun turned to darkness/ black and the moon to blood/ red"

Well well, so if the sun is now making music, when the time comes where it darkened, the flares will no long be flaring, & there shall be no longer music. Rev18:22 Music stops? Kind of sad, isn't it?

3. A*- Awestruck?

By which time, when this happens - well it could be in our lifetime of this generation, we will all be awestruck and fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim He is the amazing God! Like the song by Chris Tomlin "Indescribable" which I just learnt this evening "Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night - Indescribable, uncontainable, You placed the stars in the sky and you know them by name - You are amazing God, all powerful, untamable...." (God has given us 10 fingers - Learning keyboard just made me realise how difficult it can be to coordinate the brain and finger actions! Some of the fingers on the left and right hand just fail to obey what I want it to do! This waltz rhythm is very tough! Walking those fingers is not an easy feat! Ha ha!)

Something for fun: Try using your right hand and leg to move in opposite direction - you will realise that the leg will auto be in syn with your hand on top...

4. R* - Rend our Heart -Seek Refuge in the Sun of Righteousness - Jesus, Son of God

Joel exhorts us to repent and return to the Lord with all our heart with fasting weeping and mourning. Joel2:13 Rend our hearts and not our garments. Return to the LORD our God for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love and he relents from sending calamity. Who knows? He may turned and have pity and leave behind a blessing..

Mal4:2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.

Final thoughts:

Even when the physical sun stops shining, we have a spiritual sun of righteousness who is imcomparable and unchangeable. When the music fades and all is stripped away, let us come to the very heart of worship of Almighty Heavenly Father. Some third world countries do not even have proper electricity - so one cannot really have the keyboard to play. But out of the heart the mouth speaks. The Lord has given us an amazing vocal chords that can produce lovely harmonious music (unless one is tone-death). Together with that and a right heart of attitude, we can still please our Father above. Even the dumb and mute can worship. It is the heart the Lord seeks.

20100801: The F-I-S-H spa experience!

Today my niece Charlotte treated me a an ever first fish spa experience! It was a pretty expensive 15-minute nimbling and ticklish experience!

Had just done the bread experience and now going thr0ugh a fish experience!

F-I-S-H!!!

1. First Disciples:-

Jesus called his first disciples, Peter, Andrew, James and John in Galilee as he started his ministry. All the first 4 of them were fishermen! And we too are supposed to be fishers of men and make our beautiful cleansed feet be used for the extension of His kingdom of preaching the Good news!

2. IF Question -Inquiry:- Luke 11:11 "If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?" Oh what a wonderful kind-hearted Father we have!

3. Supernatural Provisions:-

The bible records the miracle feeding of the thousands using only 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, or 7 loaves and several fish. The coin in the fish mouth too speaks of the timely provision by Jehovah Jireh! (Seems to me that the diet of those people during Jesus' time was pretty healthy - BREAD & FISH, bread & fish....Fillet-O-Fish Burger!)

4. Honouring Jesus

Jonah was gobbled up by a big fish for 3 days 3 nites. It reminded me of Matt 12:38-42. "Jesus answered the pharisees that a wicked an adulteress generation asked for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was 3 days 3 nights in the belly of a huge fish, so will the Son of Man will be 3 days & 3 nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Ninevah will stand up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here. The Queen of the South will rise at the judgement with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Soloman's widsom and now one greater than Soloman is here" Who is the one greater who is here?? Jesus Himself declared as the Bread of Life. He is also our greatest mentor in helping us to be better 'Fisher of men" Hence to God be the glory! Hosanna to the King of kings - Jesus! Lift Him higher and He will draw all men. He shall increase and we shall decrease.

Thinking of a fishing retreat or spa? It would surely rejuvenate you up indeed! Fishing is serious and can be yet fun! Being tickled by a school of more than 50 little fishes was indeed rather therapeutic - squirmish experience indeed!