As always the theme was the presence of God and His love. I think that every message of mine, covering different areas and subjects always lead back to the declaration that God loves us so much. As in every all night service, God gave new songs, and even now the tune of the new song of John 3:16 kept ringing in my head. Truly when we are filled with His Spirit, His melodies keep flowing through our spirit man (Ephesians 5:18-19). As led by the Spirit, at the end of the meeting we prayed and travailed with tears for those who do not know God yet and those who know Him but have backslidden and not walked with God.

I loved the all night prayers and spending time in God’s presence. Really looking looking forward to next year when we can do it every Friday (it will be broadcast online so anyone can join us via the internet). Well, I have to rest now, but keep the song of the Lord flowing in your hearts, as long as the song in you never dies, you will always have your breakthrough in God. Sing and make melody in your heart unto the Lord.

Blessings and love to each of you.

Being like Jesus is the highest calling in our life, greater than all natural goals, ambitions and achievements and the greatest spiritual ministry goal that any minister would have. It should not only be our goal but it is also our divine destiny in God before the foundation of the world (Romans 8:29; Ephesians 1:4). When we set our goal, ambition and destiny as being like Jesus, it changes the way we do everything in this life.

1. Definitely, the way we speak, think, act and relate to people would be different; it would be considered abnormal by most of the people of the world (even Christians whose goals are different in life) but we would learn to develop love and compassion the way Jesus has for everyone. This does not mean that one does not make the hard decisions in life but it does mean that we will always examine our every decision in life with the love of Jesus, which is the greatest commandment that He gave to us (John 13:34-35). Jesus did say that the way that people would know that we are His disciples is by our love (not miracles, signs and wonders, the supernatural or giftings which each have its own place in the ministry of God).
2. We will also need to pray like Jesus did and spend time with God the Father like Jesus did. Quality and quantity time with God is a routine and part of Jesus’ earthly life. He got up a great while before daylight many times just to be with God (Mark 1:35). He spent nights in prayer alone with God to pray through things (Luke 6:12; John 6:15). One of the tests of whether a Christian or minister of God has the goal to be like Jesus, is to find out how much time they spent with God or desire to pray. It is only in prayer that we behold our Lord Jesus and are transformed proportionally to His image (2 Corinthians 3:18). Jesus’ life on earth is a life of prayer (Hebrews 5:7).
3. Being like Jesus is to understand the lesson of the cross and to willingly allow others to crucify you in words, deeds or actions, without chosing to retaliate or justify oneself. This is one of the hardest lessons in life but it is the only way that Christlikeness can come forth with the death of the self-life. It is not easy to be misunderstood in life or to be painted as evil when you are good, to be pronounced as the dung of this earth when in God you are a treasure in His heart. The way of the cross means that one is willing to suffer injustice and allow God the Father to justify you and bear witness to you, while the witness of men maligns and condemns you. The way of the cross means that you release love and forgiveness to those who are spitting out hate and anger at you (Luke 23:34).
4. The greatest is love, not faith or gifts or any other hope and desires of human spirit, soul or physical (1 Corinthians 13:13). If we truly want to be great in the next life, than we should aspire to be the greatest in love on this earth. This life can last only for 120 years at most for each of us and very soon we will be living millions of years in eternity. In the Spiritual World, the greatest achievements in our earthly life are measured by the currency of love. Whether it be agape love or the subsets of love that points to agape love – phileo love, storge love or eros love between husband and wife; all expressions of love, no matter how misunderstood, when they contain seeds of agape love are highly extolled and sung about in the Spiritual World for eternity. We make the stories of love on earth that will last as lessons and teachings for eternity in the Spiritual World. We are sent on earth with the goal and destiny of loving like God our Father and Creator does, that we might live a true life story of love to be told for all eternity. And every love expressed on earth, no matter how imperfect, is taken into the archives of eternity to be taught in stories and songs of eternity.

So dearly beloved in the Lord, aspire and set your heart to be like Jesus and you will never be wrong. Walk in love all the time no matter how imperfect and you will always see the light. For God is love and God is light. When you seek to walk in light, you will find the God of love; when you seek to walk in love, you will find the God of light.

God bless and keep you in His love and grace

Without seeing the heart like God does, it would have been so easy to reach the following wrong judgments like the following people in the Bible:

1. Samuel thought that Eliab the oldest son of Jesse was to be king but the Lord said that he was refused (1 Samuel 16:7)
2. Eliab accused David of pride and insolence when all David had was confidence in the Lord (1 Samuel 17:28)
3. Michal, David’s first wife, regarded David as one of the base and immorally shameless fellows when David danced before the Lord freely (2 Samuel 6:20)
4. Shimei of Saul’s clan, regarded David as bloodthirsty man and a rascal, throwing stones at him, saying that David was caught in his own evil (1 Samuel 16:7-8)
5. The Pharisees regarded Jesus as demon possessed and said that He cast out demons by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons (Matthew 12:24).
6. Jesus was delivered to Pilate by the Jews who view Him as an evil doer (John 18:30).
7. The Pharisees hired their best orator and labelled the apostle Paul as a plague, a disease, a creator of dissension (Acts 24:5).
8. Our Lord Jesus has told us not to judged because when we do so, we are actually judging ourselves by our own attitude (Luke 6:37). Jesus told us that men will hate us, exclude and excommunicate us,  revile us, and cast out our name as evil (Luke 6:22).

How then do we learn to judge righteously and lovingly the way Jesus does, without bringing condemnation to ourselves? (Yes, those who judged wrongly will be condemned in this life and in the next life).  To truly understand oneselves and who others are, we only have to look at five areas:

1. What is in a person’s  heart? Only God knows each person’s inner heart and inner workings and motivations
2. What is in a person’s mind? Expressions of the mind can reveal explorations and thinking processes and not necessarily intentions; eg. Elijah’s desire to die was expressed but he did not really wanted to die otherwise, he would have let Jezebel killed him (1 Kings 19:4)
3. What is in a person’s soul? God saw the inner emotional loneliness of Elijah that even Elijah did not know, and told him to appoint Elisha as his servant and prophet after him (1 Kings 19:14, 16).
4. What is in a person’s actions? David’s actions in taking other wives during his years as a fugitive might have stumbled Michal so much that she can no longer see any good in David (2 Samuel 6:20).
5. What are a person’s strength and weaknesses? Always a person’s strength is their weakness and their weakness a potential strength. We should never reject a person based on their failures or weaknesses because those are the same areas of potential strength.

Since this blog is like my diary, I hope through the years, I can be more and more embolden to share all of my thoughts, feelings and viewpoints so that people will know the inner workings of my heart, mind and soul and not just know me from the outward ministry point of view. As we all know, what we see of ourselves and what others actually see of us can be a very different picture. As we all grow in Christlikeness, through time the two view points of human experience can be synchronize with God’s view point and destiny for all of us in Christ. Anyway, here is a self analysis of myself based on the above five areas, with much room to improve, of course:

1. The heart – I have always sought to love God with all my heart, mind, soul and strength as often as I can consciously do so. And have always sought to love everyone as much as Jesus loves. The expressions of it might not always come out right but that has always been the core of my heart, and God our Father, our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit knows which is why His presence and love still continues to flow, no matter how imperfectly I expressed myself in God through word or deed.
2. The mind – I am a dreamer and an explorer in words, imagination and thoughts. Knowing that there are physical boundaries of space, time and barriers; I have many times allowed my mind in its quest for knowledge, understanding and wisdom explored in all areas of human knowledge and science. In these areas, I consider all possibilities, all situations, all scenarios, all extremes without necessarily acting on them. It is in imagining and allowing myself to think through all possibilities and extremities that I can then philosophically find the balance between two extremes, which sometimes come out in my teaching in one sentence but probably took days or weeks or months of thinking through. This is not the normal mind, I must confess, but that is the way God made me and in the mind, I allow myself “to go where no man has gone before” :-) (Star Trek phrase). I do finally compare all knowledge with the Bible to draw the final conclusions but this gift of understanding (Daniel 1:17) is to me not something I can own, it is purely the gift of God to enable me to serve the body of Christ as a teacher, challenging traditions and perceptions handed down to us wether it be philosophy, science, biology, physics or traditional Christianity. There are still many areas of research and writing of books that I am doing, so I am still learning in all areas (Hope to at least complete the portion of knowledge we can acquire on this side of life before entering eternity living to 120 years, if God so pleases).
3. The soul – my soul areas have much to grow in and many times have found myself trying to balance the emotional soul, which desires affection and companionship, with the intellectual mind which desires aloneness and concentration. I have yet to explore all the dynamics of the human soul and sometimes have an intellectual curiosity to all the colours of the soul or psyche as the Greek word calls the soul.
4. The actions – always in every way, I have sought in my expressions of actions to bring blessing, benefit, love, kindness and caring to everyone I meet and come to know. I have never at any time in my whole life ever sought to do harm or hurt anyone. Of course, in human life and affairs, our expressions are not always perfect and we unintentionally hurt others when we should not but never has there been intention to hurt or harm anyone or do wrong. I always try to pursue the goal that all who come across my life in any shape or form would be blessed and benefited in some manner, always.
5. Strengths and weaknesses – I would regard my greatest strength to be love and my greatest weakness to be love. There are four types of love: agape, phileo, storge and eros. Agape love is God’s love, phileo love includes both spiritual and soul love, storge love is family love and eros love is physical love reserved for husband and wife. The gospel of John and his epistles remain my favourite books in the Bible. I don’t think that I have learned all of the various aspects of love yet but hope to end this life and ministry as an apostle of love like John was. No other gospel (Matthew, Mark, Luke) saw Jesus through the eyes that John saw Jesus. We have much to learn from the apostle John.

Friday night tomorrow, all night prayer…always looking forward to that. Hopefully, we can stream it live tomorrow. God bless each of you.

Through the years we’ve walked together
Side by side, we’ve weathered storms
And through the years to come, we’ll ever
Praise the One who keeps us strong

Here today, we find each other
Poised for more great years to come
And day by day the path grows brighter
As hand in hand we journey home

Chorus
What could I have done to earn your favour?
What could I have said to merit your love
All that we have is His hand upon us -
Our Father of perfect love

Who are we that have His favour?
Who are we who bear His name?
But for the grace that draws us onward
To endless life, His love to proclaim

Indeed in Christianity, the greatest is always the love of God (1 Corinthians 13). Thank you Daniel and Annabelle for reminding us again of the love of God.

One day there will be not just 24 hour prayer but also 24 hour worship that will inaugurate in the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in all His glory. Until then, we need to pray and seek the Lord in whatever we can to usher in this revival that He is bringing to us. The restoration of 24 hour worship in the church is a part of the predestined endtime church. It will usher in the finest hour of the church of Jesus Christ.

My wife and I are thankful for those who continue to surround us with encouragement as we seek to do God’s perfect Will and destiny in our lives. We have heard from God and are holding fast to His words, visions and leading. In times like these, many come with diverse advice, opinions, judgments, counsel, etc. but finally, it is our lives and our destiny at stake and no one else; thus we will continue to follow from our hearts the direction that the Lord is giving to us in building our home and family strong, to build the work and ministry that He has called us to strong.

We have heard from the Lord. We know what we need to do. The Lord has spoken and we are obeying His leading. In the next couple of months and the next few years, it will be clearly seen that the direction taken is the right direction in simultaneously building both our marriage and the ministry strong. There are six more years of the decade of glory (2006-2016) to go. It is necesary that all things that should be tested are tested to the stage of the present greatness of brokenness so that the Lord can bring forth His glory. Within me is a sense of a pemanent brokenness that the Lord has wrought within me that will forever render me a broken vessel before the Lord for His use and His glory alone. Now when the Lord uses this broken vessel, all will know that it is definitely not me, for I am an imperfect clay vessel, but that it is truly the Lord and the Lord alone who has so chosen in His mercy to call and appoint this broken vessel to do the work of His kingdom. To Him be all the glory always.

On the ministry side, we want to thank those who have stepped up to help out and are grateful to Ps William and his team who are looking at what help that they can render to us in Sydney. And we are also grateful to our local church congregation in Sydney who are finding their places to help out in the ministry and to play more active roles. It is indeed in a time of crisis that we see who are friends are and where people’s hearts are really at.

And here is a word from Ps Amy…”whatever crisis happens in your life, you have to determine to let the love of God to continue to fill you and overflow you. So that whatever comes out from your heart, you remain pure and lovely. I want to thank those who have been with us through the past five months when the crisis was at its peak who have helped to pray us through and see us through. We would not be where we are without each of you. A great lesson I have learned is to never despise your spouse in the way Michal despised David and think he was a worthless base fellow (2 Samuel 6:20). Most of Israel do not think of David in that manner nor God Himself. Today we do not think of David in that manner either but consider him one of the Bible heroes. The key to the restoration of a broken relationship, a broken heart or a broken marriage lies in keeping your heart pure and lovely at all times. I will be constantly praying together with my two intercessors, Lindy and Irene, during this time and also having heart to heart talks with my husband and praying together with him. We are making progress in our efforts to mend our marriage and make it strong again.”

So once again, we want to thank everyone for all your prayers, support, encouragement and help during this time. In foreseeing the time of Peter’s failure and denial of Jesus, Jesus said that He had prayed for Peter’s faith not to fail (Luke 22:32). It is through so much prayers and intercessions offered that we know that we will definitely make it strong and not fail. Thank you for all the prayers and intercessions. We look forward to giving a good report at the end of these three month period but will update this blog on our progress from time to time.

My failures in 1996 is public knowledge to all and I take responsibilities for that which nearly destroyed our family. We sought refuge in Australia in 1997 and managed to rebuild our family life away from the public eye. We did everything we could to rebuild our lives and to a certain extent succeeded, raising two beautiful and lovely children, and re-establishing our family life spirit, soul and body.

With the onset of a more public life since 2008, there have been additional pressures added to the family life. While the family life has been stable living a private life, the pressures of a public life including the frequent travel to do the work of the ministry began to put pressures and strains on our family life.

Lest anyone say a cruel word regarding my wife, Amy, I want all to know that she has been an extraordinary woman of faith and courage to marry me. She has played a part of me being who I am today. Like every young couple, we had struggled through our own imperfections and weaknesses; she has borne a large portion of the pain and sufferings of my personal growth spiritually and in the ministry. I know she would receive a great reward in eternity for all that she has input into my life and made me who I am in the Lord.

She has bravely borne the pain and the burdens with me through the valleys of life and ministry. For this she is to be commended and encouraged. It has taken an extraordinary person like her to have lasted that long with me in life and in ministry in the Lord. The toil and toll of the ministry life has been greatly borne by her without complaint.

She has put up with my idiosyncrasies, my unearthly schedules, my need of time with God, my habits and my ways of doing things. It would have taken a supernatural infusion of the Lord’s strength and love to have lasted with me these thirty years. I cannot have asked for a more understanding companion than that which the Lord has provided for me these thirty years.

If there is any failure in our marriage, all the responsibilities lie with me and not with her.

We ask for prayer during this time.

Despite the negative news, this year is supposedly also a year of new beginnings and breakthroughs. So do expect that there will be much shaking still going on. The sad part about about new beginnings is that it is preceded by old endings. So a lot of things will end with new things beginning. It is in the Word of God that everything that can be shaken will be shaken (Hebrews 12:27-28). The only safe place is to be in the Will of God. It is important that we pursue the Will of God for our lives with all our hearts, minds, souls and strength. Jesus lived only to do the Will of the Father (John 17:4). When all that is said, done and completed of our lives, what remains is whether we have actually done the Will of God. Some may actually find themselves ending their lives without completing or doing God’s Will (1 Corinthians 3:11-15).

Papa God we pray that you continue to help all our loved ones, friends and partners of the ministry, students and members of the ministry to establish the perfect Will of God in their individual lives. Your Will be done and not ours. In Jesus Name. Amen

Some time early this year, a message was shared on what the year 2010 will be like and I made mentioned of the dream vision of the collapse of the two islands (one an island and the other an energy type of island); both of which are definitely symbolic as shared in the prophetic message for the year 2010. Well, the first island has gone down and this is with the recent happenings in Greece and the Euro. Of course, eventually the Euro will climb back up again as it will become the default currency of the 21st century. The energy island has not collapsed yet and what ever it represents will be taking place also this year.

In the meantime, all the rest of the message for this year of 2010 as shared in the beginning of this year still applies. It will be a year of breakthrough and the launch of many new things.

Keep walking in the Lord and in prayer as these things occur in the world, of which the Spirit shows us things to come to be prepared for them.

The Lord bless you and keep you in His grace and strength