Pure Coincidences?

Children of The Light#16 Come forth September....(22 Aug 2015)

Dear..... The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.         2 Peter 3:9 Come September, in all probability Singaporeans will go to the polls. It will be a mite strange not to have the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew in this General Election. And come September, there is a strong possibility my family will miss the opportunity to partake in the voting, given we are away in UK, our ex colonial masters. But interestingly, come Sep 13, Sunday, the day I arrive back in Singapore is predicted by some to be the red letter day, when the U.S. Dollar is expected to collapse!! We had an unexpected foretaste of a sudden devaluation as in the case of the Chinese Yuan. But like the Tianjin explosion, severe it was for the impact of the Chinese Yuan devaluation was like the magnitude 2.7 on the Richter Scale that was measured for the Tianjin explosion. The U.S. Dollar with its breadth and depth of influence on the world as we know it is a much larger animal. But will this latest doomsday scenario making the rounds come to bear? Below is the Youtube link to a video production that I have been blessed to be involved in. Like many, I was a sceptic right to its completion, for does the world need to be inundated with another hype of the end of the world? Man plans, God directs and thanks to my brother in Christ Eric who was the faithful main driver of this call from God, to remind the oblivious world that Christ will return and we cannot afford to tarry. This video is meant to present a factual historical perspective of the markers God has put in place, to remind and affirm to men that He is Sovereign and much as He is patient. http://youtu.be/aa5K8rPG-a8 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do to be saved?            Acts 2:37 Much as we are in this world, God knows our needs. But it is less about provisions and all about God our Provider. "Stock up on food and water," as some are apt to to prepare for the coming disaster. But it is more about spiritual food rather than food for the stomach that one should focus on. For God wants to prepare our hearts, for come the day or rather days of shaking. Only those who bought gold as refined by Him( ie our spirit man) will be able to stand fast. And it is not about gold as in the yellow metal, which will melt in the great heat of tribulation. No one knows when Christ will return. But we do know that as sin permeates more broadly and deeply in our troubled world, the days of His return are nearer, and the shaking will intensify, for God wants to bring us out of our spiral to eternal damnation. For much as we work not for our salvation, we must work on our salvation. It's not about when, but rather about whether we are ready when Christ returns. For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.             Matthew 16:27 God blesses Eng Hieang 16 Aug 2015 An afterthought (22 Aug 2015) This sharing was penned about 10 days back, the markets are on a tailspin since, and while it is anyone's guess as to how much down south things should head, the months going forward will be at best challenging.  But thanks be to God He is Sovereign, and God is Whom we must put our all on. See my new blog "MoneySense." This was birthed recently as our Lord leads. Not about how to get rich, but rather, as stewards of God's provisions, how does one live out that privilege that God has blessed us with. And how does one navigate through the treacherous seas of the global financial system, even as it is undergoing the throes of the birth pangs of a future reset. http://hieangmoneysense.blogspot.sg/

Children of The Light#15 The Spirit within (8 Aug 2015)

Dear....

And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

           Mark 9:29

The natural and the spiritual world, different dimensions they might seem, but in reality both are very intertwined. The Bible has a myriad record of our Lord Jesus Christ casting out evil spirits, and ditto for His disciples.

that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. 

     Luke 8:10

Yet for many people, including Christians, we tend to associate spirits as in the form portrayed in the horror genre. Physical manifestations that is discernible by our eyes and other natural senses. Is our understanding of the spiritual world too narrowly based, a result of the delusion that Satan created in our world?

For from many of those that had unclean spirits, they came out, crying with a loud voice: and many that were palsied, and that were lame, were healed...'

      Acts 8:7

Spirits often manifest themselves through the manipulation of our emotional behavior.

Be it anger, lust, pride, impatience, greed, deceit, bitterness and the whole works that go against the fruits of the Holy Spirit that God commands us to foster.

In the main, most of us tend to associate emotional angst and disorder as a character deficiency that should be treated with counselling and medication. And oft than not, these remedies does not have the full efficacy.

Are we missing the point?

Apostle Paul reminded all who call themselves Christians that 

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms

         Ephesians 6:12

Christ when queried by His disciples as to their inability to remove the spirits possessing the crazed individual were told that only by prayers and fasting will it work.

But we must

- first want to repent of our sins and acknowledge Christ as our Savior.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. 

           Psalm 32:5

- And Apostle Paul reminded us we can only overcome the spiritual forces 

Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

    Ephesians 6:13-14 

This being the onset of the "Hungry Ghost" month, it seems apt to pen this. But truth is when our Lord led me unto these thoughts, it never struck me that we are entering the season of ghouls. It not just that the spirits from the nether world are set free to roam our world for a month. But rather, they are here with us throughout the year. But the "they" are not the souls of the deceased. But rather the fallen angels masquerading in whatever form that is deemed needed to lead us the living down the path to eternal damnation.

And the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the Christians who have died will rise from their graves.

         4 Thessalonians 4:16

"Once saved always saved?" Many have been told that once they accept the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, God will always forgive them even if they continue to sin from here onwards! 

The bible tells us that much as we cannot work for our salvation, we must work on our salvation. Belief and repentance allows us to start all over again. But like a clean slate, we need now to let the Spirit of God mold us unto Christlikeness. A humble and contrite heart is what God looks for.

Like the parable of the man whose body was cleansed of evil spirits, only to have even more evil spirits come back to take residence in him.

When we believe and repent, we also invite the Spirit of God into our hearts.

But if we continue to transgress, we would have chosen to follow the same evil spirits hovering over us, ignoring the in residence Holy Spirit.

Saved we might be, but all are accountable on judgement day to our Lord.

'if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.'

Colossians 1:23

God blesses

Eng Hieang

8 Aug 2015

An afterthought - SG50

Spirit of God? Indeed the SG has blessed our nation these past 50 years. We are an economic miracle. A great transformation from 3rd World to First World. But are we regressing in the midst of plenty? Worshipping our provisions and forgetting God our Provider?

'When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray towards this place, and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them.. Then hear in Heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants,...'

       2 Chronicles 6:26-27

This verse seems to describe present drought stricken California. A once bountiful land, that God bless a young America with. Yet today a place which is the hotbed of the proponents of a new Sodom and Gomorrah. Will the people repent and turn back to God or a bigger shake is needed, for seismic activities are increasing off the California coast.

Interesting for me for come next June, California is where I will be. Just as come next month, I will visit Ireland, the once bastion of the Christian faith, but recent convert to LGBT and institutionalize godlessness. 

What about Singapore. Is SG still about the Spirit of God or will it be Sodom and Gomorrah?

The Israelites flocked to the Wailing Wall, for they remembered the prayer of Solomon that asked for God's grace on a repentant heart.

It is good that we look to Christ the author and finisher of our faith. For the end of times are intensifying. For the battle lines are drawn in the spiritual realm, much as for many, they are still mesmerized by the natural world.

'See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven: whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the Heaven.'

              Hebrews 12:25-27