OCF

Ok, my first time in OCF as a CGL....wow, this sounds rather ermm....daunting

It was an amazing feeling to be able to actually be given the chance to extend a minister beyound your own like comfort, home or rather I place which I was not trained in. I was nervious, yes its true someone who has been a CGL for almost a year, can till be nervious when leading studies. However take it from this point of view, if someone goes into a lesson, feeling fully confident, not nervious at all, feel that he/she has did a very detailed study on the topic of that day...than my question here is this "Feeling fully confident of self, how much will be allow God to guide us then?"

This is great man first day on the job and I got shaken already, not by the lesson, but by what happened before the lesson. Matt 6:33, well, I'm sorry Mei, but I don't take the stand point of basic needs such as food, water and clothes. My stand point would be the "all" here would refer to everything that God has intended for us, form basic needs to things that will help our ministry and of course whatever God see fit to give us.
HOWEVER, looking into this verse, I discovered something even more interesting, lets throw out both views and start from zero. I was looking through commentries after commentries and surprisingly, most of them, gladly left out the part of "and all these things shall be added unto you." I felt very puzzled about this, and I was able to find writtings that support both stand points, of basic needs and everything, than this point strucked me, sometimes its not that we are unable to find the answer we're just looking at the wrong place.
Lets look at the whole verse "Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Noticed this "BUT seek ye first" and the line ended with a ";". What my take on this would be, its is NOT a matter about what the "all" here means, that is not the important thing in this verse, and it sure isn't the guiding principle of this verse. I would say, don't even bother about what will God give us, don't care about it, God will give what God sees fits to give, let Him decide the giving, what is our part here, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness" don't bother about what God will give or what is it that He will give, just seek Him, just know Him, just focus on Him. That's it....as simple as that focus on Him.

Of course there are much more and yes I would like to continue on Hebrews 12:1-3 for the benefit of some of my friends back in Singapore....

Ok Hebrews 12:1-3 lets just skip the verse...and get to the question HOW??? How do actually do what that verse says?
"let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us" - Hmm 2 things were mentioned in here, "every weight" and "the sin". Have anyone ever wondered? If it is sin, why mention it twice, so its obvious the first section "every weight" would not refer to sin, now lets not focus on the sin part, that part is easy to know and look into, lets focus on "every weight" if this is not refering to sin, than what is it refering to?
Life? the daily things we do? material things? BUT can it also refer to our ministry? Our ministry in church? can it? Lets zero in on this fact, well we do our ministry for God so our focus is God, so thus it can't be, but think again....You know the 35 parables told by Jesus, You know the 35 miracles done by Jesus, You know the 7 "I AM"s that address Jesus or You can even know that there are 77 generations from Adam to Jesus......but do you know Jesus?
Looks like it is possible after all...how many times have we been so or rather overly concerned about doctrine, about truth, about that "experiancial feeling" that we seem to forget the basis of it, knowing so much about God, that we do not know God....

I guess running the race does not always mean doing....its about being. Doing can be so easy to measure, but what about being? Is it even possible to measure being? So it just leads back to seeking God all this time. Why is it does so many things lead back here....Why Why Why? Why is it so important to seek God, to know God, rather than just doing??? John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Now do you know why doing is important, BUT even more so being...