tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96624892009-12-06T16:54:15.621+08:00An Honest Search For True Happiness In Lifebenjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11682396308259999506benjiquek@gmail.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9662489.post-91117832959617866362009-12-06T16:52:00.001+08:002009-12-06T16:54:15.629+08:00

It seems as if everything is turned upside-down in our culture today. Think about it: Good has become bad and bad has become good. This is even true of the slang expressions we use today. Back when I was a kid, words like "far out" and "groovy" were popular, although I could never bring myself to actually say "groovy." Some of these terms have gone by the wayside, but certain expressions dating

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

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Many of us try to hide our true problems. Many fake it till they make it. Some of us just find ways to keep busy so that we don't have time to handle our true problems. Many times we also hide how we feel with a big smile on the outside or even with a drink or two. It's natural for us because we are humans. "To hide is human." We tend to hide what we really are on the inside because we are afraid

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Some of us have heard the saying, "The happiest place you can be in is the center of God's will, the most frustrating place to be in is outside of God's will." Personally, I believe that saying. Do you? Lets see what God says, "Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore."* So now I guess the question is, "How can I

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Location: Angel Stadium of Anaheim, CaliforniaSpeaker: Greg LaurieAudience: 29,000Occasion: Harvest CrusadeDate: 14 August 2009, Friday NightCase Study: Madonna, Simon Cowell and Solomon----Some 29,000 people kicked off the 20th Southern California Harvest Crusade Friday night with this...His name was Solomon, a king who lived hundreds of years ago,evangelist Greg Laurie told thousands at Angel

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Here is a picture I took on my recent trip to the Philippines. The Coca Cola promotion team sure believes everyone is looking for happiness. Great advertisement Coca Cola!

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For those who are still seeking for a short, sweet, and simple daily devotional, I recommend Greg Laurie's daily devotions:https://www.harvest.org/devotional/get-connected/email-subscriptions.html

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People care about what we know when they know how much we care for them! Do you know everybody is looking for that one thing? One thing that will make them complete. Many find it in family. Others in friends. Some in fame. A few in fortune. It is something personal that we find it hard to explain some times. I think it's call love. One that recognizes and appreciates. One that is personal and

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Many people think that the Bible is hard to understand and not practical to today's life. If that is you, have you ever tried reading a Proverb a day? There are 31 chapters in Proverbs, which means that you can read one every day according to the date. For example for today, 20 June 2009, I can read Proverbs 20. And when you read, ask God to give you a verse that you can apply to your life today.

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Quote of the Day (The Straits Times, Wed, Aug 27 2008, Page B13)"I have just played in the most important competition of my career. Is my life over?" YAO MING, China's Basketball star, suffering from post-Olympic blues. Isn't it interesting to find a honest remark by a world-class athletic? It's almost as if Yao Ming has come to a road-block/reality check in his life's passion. Nowadays many

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Proverbs 16:20 "He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he." Yes, God tells us it is a good that one can handle a matter wisely but God had more to say. God says you will be happy when you trust in the Lord. There is a matter God knows we cannot handle unless we trust in the Lord. He knows the matter of happiness is what people are really

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Proverbs 16:20 "He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he." During my short time in the Air Force, I learned a term call 'Situational Awareness' aka SA. One who has good SA has a high chance of becoming a good pilot. Why? It is because he/she is able to response quickly and wisely to situations that occur in the air. One recent example occurred

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Have you ever tried talking to someone who is not paying attention to you? It is really hard. Especially when that person cannot really multi task. I know of many people (including myself) who are just like that. Sometimes we have to repeat ourselves or even shout in order to get that person's attention. Though it's like that with humans, it's not so with God. Thank God He is powerful and

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Lose the Guilt  Following the Shepherd into Missions    | by Jeff Boesel |    Mobilizers of the missions force often let their passion to see more harvesters in the  harvest field push them to lay a guilt trip on believers who don't sense the same  urgency. I am sure you have heard it. "Millions are dying without Christ each year and  yet so few are willing to go. Why work here in the United

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"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10.   "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." Acts 1:8   Many Christians try to live the Christ life themselves. We trust God to secure

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"There is a way that seemth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 16:25.   It has been 96 years and 7 months since that great ocean liner was lost. Constructed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, that ship was the largest vessel at that time. The world was waiting to see this magnificent ship make her first voyage between Southampton and New York. The date was April

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"Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them." Ps 119:165   Let us not say we love God's Word if we are always worried, upset and complaining about things that go on in our lives. Do you find yourselves doing that? God says great peace have they that love His word! If things that go around us affect the peace in us, we have to check up on our hearts. Something must

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Joshua 1:8 "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success"   I remember I used to spend lots of time reading the YO-YO manuals and watch videos on how to do tricks. I read about it,

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Two Things Every Christian Should Do Everyone who wants to follow Jesus Christ should first commit himself to obey the Lord in all things. There must be the absolute surrender of discipleship. And there should also be some definite commitments made about many areas of Christian activity, service, and behavior. We should forsake our sins, and plan not to go back to them. We should firmly resolve

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Two Errors About Following Jesus We are to combine the two concepts of temperance in order to live the victorious Christian life. But there are those who miss the Biblical balance and veer to one extreme or the other. There are some who talk as if they live for the Lord by faith without the element of discipline. I have met some who have made a mess of spiritual living by talking this way and

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Two Views of the Christian Life When Jesus called men to be His followers, the call involved commitment and self-denial. See the call to discipleship in Luke 9:23. "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." Of course the call to discipleship is repeated in many places and in many ways in the first books of the New Testament. Look up Matthew

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Two Views of Temperance In I Corinthians 9 and Galatians 5 we see two views of temperance. Both of them are Biblical, and both of them are correct, although they seem to be in conflict. This is one of those wonderful paradoxes we find in the Word of God, mysterious contrasts in truth that, through close examination and meditation, reveal greater truth. We are told in I Corinthians to exercise

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By Doc. Rick Flanders   "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it

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