Saturday, April 30, 2011

Ghosts & Spirits

Speaker: Joe

Humans are tripartite. This means that Humans are composed or divided into three parts, namely our Body, Soul and Spirit.

It is the Spirit of a man that enables him to worship and connect to God.
When we die, our Spirit is the only one to continue its journey to everlasting life.
Then, our Soul, which where our emotions, personality, character, feelings, moral values and more are sourced from.
Thirdly, our Body, it's simply just our Physical being, which when we die would remain on Earth.

1 Thessalonians 5: 23-24
23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.

Questions to ponder:

1. Do Ghosts really exist?
- The definition of Ghost, simply means INTERCHANGEABLE.
- The belief of "ghost" among men, already existed several thousand years ago.
Matthew 14:26
- In the Bible, Jesus also talks about the 7 evil spirits. Matthew 12: 44-45

2. What happens when we Die?
- Obviously, there's only two places to go: Heaven or Hell.
2 Corinthians 5: 8
8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
- Jesus already promised us that we would have a place in Heaven, when we accepted him into our hearts. John 14: 1-3
- Thus, we shall not be afraid to die.

3. Are there such thing as haunted houses?
- The ghosts that are in these haunted houses are usually predicted by psychics.
- These ghosts aren't those who died in that house, but rather are the demons, evil spirits or fallen angels. They could manifest themselves.
- On the other hand, a psychic means in ancient Greek, of the mind or mental, or also called sensitive.
- The psychic is very sensitive to the supernatural world and somehow claims to have a sixth sense. Well, though some say they are true and some oppose to this, there is such a thing in reality.
- The reason why psychics exist is because of the opening up of one man's Spirit to the spiritual world of darkness.
- 1 Samuel 28 talks about a spiritist and Saul.

In conclusion to this topic, we end with the question: In your opinion, do you think Demons could harm us? Why, or why not?
- Certainly, we, as Christians believe that they couldn't.
1 John 4: 4
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

2 Corinthians 13:5
5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?

Isaiah 43: 1
1 But now, this is what the LORD says—
he who created you, Jacob,
he who formed you, Israel:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

Well, hope you all are inspired!
This really put our mind in thoughts. I can honestly say that I, personally asked questions that I couldn't answer and had been in my head for quite some time. Well, I had a satisfaction of the answers I got today and some couldn't be answered because it's far beyond everyone of our logics and comprehensions. I guess God have some wonderful secrets to share with us after all. Maybe that's the reason why some questions couldn't be answered. Who knows?

God bless!
~grypers

Monday, April 04, 2011

Hmmmm... What's next?

Hi there fellow GRYPERS! Great to be here again posting/updating this blog!
Well, let's go back to the 2nd April, which is last Saturday... We played AWESOME-ly or in other words we're just SUPERB.

Futsal
The boys played well, Applause.
For more details, refer to the guys, I'm not that sure either.

Netball
Yeah, we trained. Of course, we played hard.
Team work was seen among us.
Aunty Phoebe was a great coach. haha.
As well as Aunty Amy. (:
Though we may not achieve victory at the first few games, but we had shown our best at the last. Not bad, not bad.
Got lots of motivation from our supporters.
It was great and a really good experience for
all the players.

Overall, it was worth the try. We did our best and pushed ourselves beyond our limits to achieve the very most of our games. Of course, we didn't forget God, who was the main guide and referee in our game. Thank God for his divine protection and strength upon us. WIN or LOSE, we would still praise God. We had fun, and the most important thing is we enjoyed ourselves and bond with one another, united as one body of Christ. hehe. :)

Well, after this event, of course we hadn't stop! What's coming up next...
YEAH! IT'S SWITCHFOOT AND THEIR COMING TO MALAYSIA!
ARE YOU A FAN? WANNA COME WITH US?
Go to our Facebook page or contact John Tan to book tickets fassssstttt! Or you could just visit this event's page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176239085756905

Venue: Dewan Mutiara (4th Floor Kompleks Mutiara), Jalan Ipoh, KL
Date: 1st May 2011
Time & Day: 8pm, Sunday

If you are interested hurry up, contact GRYP now! Come with us, we'll have a splendid time together!

That's all for now. God Bless!
©grypers

Friday, April 01, 2011

Youth Tracting

Youth has its tracting last Saturday which is the 27th March 2011.
I'm not that sure about the details... lol. **(will update soon.)
Sorry.

Tomorrow would be the AG Futsal and Netball, where all AG churches meet for a tournament. Whoo-hoooo! God bless the players involved! Whoots!
Would hope to have awesome supporters for Hosanna Praise Assembly. Gambateh!
Hahaha.

That's it for now. God bless ya'll.
More updates to come. Stay tuned.