My Favourite Bookmarks Quote

There are quotes you find now and then that can be such a strong encouragement for yourself in life. It can be sweet and also a strong reminder. Here's mine.

-Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. (Deu 6:5)
-基督是我们的生命，祂显现的时候你们也要与祂一同显现在荣耀里。(Col 3:4)
-生命流露基督，性格拖住基督
-晨兴带来活力，
祷告带来能力，
相调带来动力，
产生冲击力，
带来爆炸力。

-我们是基督活肢体，
我们都在身体里，
彼此服侍作肢体，
建造一同在一起。

-清早享受主，
主话勤祷读，
读经有规律，
唱诗赞美主，
警醒且祷告，
书报常追求，
涌流主丰富，
同伴相互持。

-此地为一别，
弧枝他处归，
天下皆幻影，
为我主实际，
把望名玮姐，
永活召会中，
当那日来临，
辉煌胜太阳。

The Four Crucial Subjects In The Divine Revelation – Divine Economy, Divine Dispensing, Organic Union and Expression of God. [PART 2]

I want to say this out loudly - The leaders in Christianity today need at least a slap in face so to be awakened to realize God’s economy. God does not want a religion and a religious people. Read the post if you are interested to know why.

Must Go here for PART 1 before reading this part.

God's dispensation which is through the revelation concerning the Triune God in the holy Word is not for doctrinal understanding but for His redeemed people to experience and enjoy Him. Yes, we can enjoy God.

The relationship which God desires is to have man and Him be grafted together and thus become one in an organic union. Never heard of this?? Go read Roman 6:3-5 and 1 Cor. 6:17. He created man for the purpose of entering into man to be one with man and to make man one with Him (Gen. 1:26; 2:7). Grafting is a good illustration for this matter. In grafting, two similar lives are joined and then both grow together organically. How is it possible?? This is because our human life was made in the image of God and according to the likeness of God, it can be joined to the divine life (Gen 1:26). And then in another hand Christ has to pass through the processes of incarnation, crucifixion and resurrection in order for us to be grafted into Him. (John 1:14, 1 Cor. 15:14b, 2 Cor. 3:17a. In the grafted life, the human life is not eliminated but is strengthened, uplifted and enriched by the divine life.

Therefore we need to believe into Christ which is also receiving Him as the divine life into us that we may have an organic union with Him in the divine life. (John 3:15, 15:4-5)

Through this union there will be God’s expression. God’s original intention is that man would receive His divine life and divine nature and thereby become God’s expression. (Gen. 1:26, 2:7-9). How do you tell?? Well easy. You see God created man in His image, and Christ is the image of the invisible God; therefore, man was created in the image of Christ. Hello…this is very obvious…for the expression. Furthermore God does not want just one expression, and that is why the matter of the church is brought in. The basic function of the church is to be the corporate expression of the Triune God in Christ. Church is the called out congregation who are being called out from the world by God. Here you also see a oneness which is the Body of Christ.

In this aspect of oneness, everyone’s self have been fully denied and is enjoying the glory of the Father as the factor of their perfected oneness and thus express God in a corporate, built-up way. Eventually, we will be brought into the divine glory, be glorified with Christ and bear the glory of God for God’s expression in the New Jerusalem.

I thank God that I can be shown to know God’s economy and I thank that I know how to live my everyday life in this world. I can live in this world for another purpose which has the eternal glory – New Jerusalem.

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Noisy Toys (Newcastle Science Festival Part 1)

I can a bit geeky when it comes to science. This year science festival in Newcastle has been very interesting. There were a whole colourful and exciting science events and programmes scheduled throughout Newcastle which cater for the kids and also adults.

Today we went to see the Noisy Toys in Discovery Museum. Noisy toys??? Yup! That was my first impression when I read the brochure. =) But it was really cool. I feel there is a chance for me to DJ-ing some hot and funky music if given more time and chance to play with these toys. Who knows, I might produce cool track like those kind you get in Madonna’s songs from the latest few albums – a bit techno and electric. But seriously this is what they are now using to make their music stand out from other artists.

The noisy toys are special because they are sensitive to either by touch or light. They produce pitch at high and low by touching different parts of the instrument or using your hand to shade the light sensor. Kids love it. There was also this voice transducer that can change your voice to a very deep manly voice and another to change to a very funny voice like the one you get after swallowing some helium gas from the helium balloon.

Go Green, Growing Green Green

WOW. How exciting! I’m growing something. It is my favourite herbs – coriander and basil, oregano (not sure about this but just grow it).

I bought this pot which come along with compose and seeds from Wilkinson half price £2, isn't it a bargain huh?!? If you look at the pot you notice it has 4 smalls opening at the side and one big one in the middle. I grow two of the sides with basil and another 2 with oregano then the middle with coriander. The pot is also kept in a transparent bag to act as a green house for it. =)

What do you think about vintage wear?

I quite like it but you have to be good in mix and matching them so it will turn out Pretty and Punk. I was there with Margaret and we had a wonderful time. I found a vintage BURBERRY trench coat for sale at £35. Yes BURBERRY. It would have been like £1000-ish pounds else where. But I didn’t get it. Why? Nah…Just I’m not going to spend that much on clothing now.

The Vintage Fair has been in Newcastle on the 1st Mar this year. It takes its turn to hold around cities in England like Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, etc. Google it if you want to know is this fair coming to your place.

The stuffs in the fair were pretty interesting. Ranging from jewelleries to shoes, handbags to scarf, belts to hats…so the list go on and on. I noticed some people who were coming to this fair do match vintage stuffs quite nicely.

My conclusion for vintage clothing is that it is really something like your mum or granny has been wearing in the 60s or 70s time. It has a touch to that kind of nostalgic feel and it will turn out really good looking when you successfully match it with something else that does match.

Words and Literature that You Must Get Into

Very useful and enjoying read to understand and enjoy.
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翻译圣经，历代是逐渐进步的。惯例总是承先启后，后者借助于先者，进而更有所见。本新约圣经恢复本，乃以华语中最通行的国语和合本为参照，尽力保留其语体、节奏、以及人地名音译，各面的优美；并以英语中所有权威译本，以及华语中所有寻得的其他译本为参考，不但为得借鉴、启发，也为避免偏见、误断。凡较佳辞句，无不尽力采集，务求圣言中的启示，能在华语中，得到差异最少，达意最准的发表。

翻译圣经，除基于对圣经原文之明了外，也在于对圣言中神圣启示的认识。历代圣徒对神圣启示的认识，也是基于他们所得之亮光，逐渐前进的。本译本所根据者，乃此类认识之集大成，加上附注，可谓二千年来，各方圣徒对神圣启示认识之结晶，希能继往又开来。

鉴定圣经原文古卷，乃翻译圣经之根据。最新发现，或为时最古之古卷，并非最为准确、可靠。任何一节或一段须考量之经文，均须根据其书及其章之上下文，并须比较其相同记载之经文，而作鉴定。本译本之古卷鉴定，即以此为原则。

本译本竭尽所能，探究原文精意，用中肯、浅顺之国语表达之。凡难照原文语气表达者，均加注解释。

本译本每卷书的主题、纲目，乃以史事为根据，并以灵意为发表。注解重于真理的启示、属灵的亮光、以及生命的供应，过于历史、地理和人物的解释。串珠不仅指引到相同的辞句与史事，更根据属灵的启示，指引到有关的事物和经言。

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Throughout the centuries, translations of the Bible have steadily improved. In general, each new translation inherits from previous ones and opens the way for later ones.While a new translation derives help from its predecessors, it should go further. The Recovery Version of the Holy Bible, following the precedent set by the major authoritative English versions and taking these versions as reference, not only incorporates lessons learned from an examination of others’ practices but also attempts to avoid biases and inaccurate judgments. This version, frequently guided by other versions, attempts to provide the best utterance for the revelation in the divine Word, that it may be expressed in the English language with the greatest accuracy.

Translating the Bible depends not only on an adequate comprehension of the original language but also on a proper understanding of the divine revelation in the holy Word. Throughout the centuries the understanding of the divine revelation possessed by the saints has always been based upon the light they received, and this understanding has progressed steadily. The consummation of this understanding forms the basis of this translation and its footnotes. Hence, this translation and the accompanying footnotes could be called the “crystallization” of the understanding of the divine revelation which the saints everywhere have attained to in the past two thousand years. It is our hope that the Recovery Version will carry on the heritage that it has received and will pave the way for future generations.

As with any translation of the Bible, the determination of the original text, based upon the available manuscripts, forms the basis for the text of the Recovery Version of the Holy Bible. The translation of the Old Testament is based on the current scholarly text of the Hebrew Scriptures, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS; revised 1990 edition). The New Testament follows, for the most part, the Nestle-Aland Greek text as found in Novum Testamentum Graece (26th edition). However, in determining the original form of any verse, the translators of the Recovery Version gave careful consideration to the larger context of chapter and book and to similar portions of the Old and New Testaments. The most recently discovered manuscripts or the manuscripts of oldest date are not necessarily the most accurate or reliable; hence, the determination of the text for this version was based largely upon the principle stated above. Departures from these editions are generally indicated in the footnotes.

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Everyone's heart sank including mine

At then, it was silence. Everyone's heart sank including mine.

I called Oo~~h Lo~~rd Je~sus. So did the news borther me? Yes it did but not in a lightning strucked way.

Then towards the end of the meeting, I got a revelation from yesterday's message. Brother was saying that in today's living many people has lost their purpose of living or has confused about their purpose of living. Therefore "working hard to make money to support the neccessities" has become their purpose of living. This is so horrifying. Imagine your existence is just to work hard to make money to pay your mortgage, your kids tutition fees, your fashion thrist, your food appetite, your travel lust ….. Well people may argue there are also other things like family and friends. But I would still say in the end for them is still work hard to make money for their neccessities.

OMG. I don't want this and this cannot, let me stress CANNOT be my purpose of living. There has to be something greater than this. Of course I still need money to pay rent, bills and food, and of course I need money for my family and have great time with friends. But I'm not making myself a slave to this - having have to appeal when pay rise is not treated properly, worrying what is the bank account saving interest rates now, how much pay rise do I get, how can I find better car insurance, where to compare for better bargains, how much can I spend on cloth, on food, etc…. NOOOOOO…Don't get me wrong, I work hard in my job because I respect the allocated authority by God on earth which is my boss and also I am a responsible/concern person to my job.

I really appreciate that I have this reliazation through brother's fellowship. Our existence is for God's economy. He created us not so we can live and work for ourself to have a better living standard. Gosh I'm so please to know this. That releases my stress. You maybe say I'm weak, but I'm not. My stress is released because I come to realize my existance is much better than anyone else - which I am for God's economy and for His kingdom.

Then you may ask me again, do you think it is possible to over come your need for money? I honestly say no. But when I abide in Christ, I have the abundant grace from Him. Therefore I can use my money and manage my money in a sanctifying way - which is be grateful/happy to what I receive and willing to give back to Him for the church life and be contend with what He gives me for my living, either rich or poor, I amen because it is sanctified and it is for God's economy. I ask God to strengthen my faith and be my strength and let me still rejoice and enjoy Him to fullness even if I have to starve.

This is not self comforting. This is my realization to today's living. I will abide to Him even stronger. Praise the Lord! even though there is no pay rise for us all. May you still bless the company and staffs there. Your abundant grace is enough for me. I live for you.