Resting in the Vision

Restoring the Vision Part 2

We have seen how we must birth the vision and pray it to come to pass. It does not end there because there is an enemy that seeks to steal, kill and destroy the visions that we all hold.

He knows that by taking away these visions from our lives, it will take away our hope and our only means of fulfilling God’s will of establishing His Kingdom on earth. That is why when you do not have a vision, your life becomes fruitless and purposeless and mundane! Or better yet, he tempts you and gives a vision that will stray you away from the will of God in your life!

The devil can only do what God allows him to do in our lives and to speak lies to us to blind us from the vision that God wants to impart to us or to dim and dissipate the vision that God has already given to us.

Through trials that God has put in our lives to mold us, the devil tells us that God doesn’t love us and tries to twist and turn what is good for our soul into lies that seeks to draw us away from God. Or he will taunt us when we see ourselves constantly falling into the same sin that we will never be free, when God is calling us to rest in His grace and depend on Him to be victorious in our lives. And when we see our friends’ hearts hardened against the Gospel, he casts doubts in our heart in whether the vision we received for them is true.

That is why sometimes, when you pray and receive a vision about ppl and you get really excited but lack the perseverance to see that vision come to pass. The daily grind of work and school takes its toll on the vision and you forget about it or neglect it, and thus the vision fizzles away. That is why Pastor calls us not to quit! And to persevere!

So, what does it mean to be a Warrior of Light? We need to know what we are fighting for and who we are fighting against!

Firstly, we are fighting to receive and see come to pass the visions that God has for our lives, our family members’ and friends’ lives!

Secondly, we are fighting against the enemy who seeks to steal, kill and destroy these visions that God has given to us!

That's what it means to be a Warrior of Light!

God has a vision that every man and woman would be filled with His glory in their hearts and walk out Godly values in their lives. This is what it means to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. It is not just to make more people say the sinners’ prayer, but that the hearts of men would be eternally transformed to follow Christ!

“The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”

2 Corinthians 4:4

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms”

Ephesians 6:12

From the verses above, we see that the devil constantly seeks to blind us and we as believers must fight against him.

There are 2 things that will stop us from fulfilling the vision of God in our lives:

1) Our Flesh

This can come in the form of temptations to sin, greed, laziness, and simply wanting to go our own way. When we sin, the shame and the condemnation blinds us from God’s love and we feel inadequate and unworthy to carry out God’s will in our lives. And when we go our own way, we quench the voice of the Spirit and justify our own actions to the point that we think we are right in every thing that we do.

2) Doubts and Fears

The devil also uses emotions to cast doubts in our hearts. He questions us on whether the visions or what we hear is real and really from the Lord. Should we falter, we will allow unbelief and fear to creep into our hearts, thus crippling the vision! He also uses natural circumstances to challenge our visions, like showing us how inadequate we are or how impossible a situation is. He even uses words from people to discourage or to put fear into our hearts.




This is where spiritual warfare comes in.

There are 2 aspects of Spiritual Warfare:

1) Prayer

We need to constantly declare against the lies of the enemy that seeks to oppose itself against the visions of God in our lives. There is power in our words and what we declare will change the spiritual climate around us and in our spirit man.

When Jesus shared about His vision of dying on the cross and then being raised on the 3rd day, Peter rebuked Him saying it shall not be. But Jesus, recognizing that it was the words of the evil one, turned on Peter and said, “Get behind me, satan!” Jesus used words to rebuke the devil and stayed on the vision. We must do the same for the visions in our lives! When we hear doubtful thoughts or feelings, we need to reject it and pray and claim God’s vision in our hearts again until the peace of God returns to us.

2) Moving in the Opposing spirit

More than just using words, many times, we need to move in the opposing spirit. The culture in the office or workplace where you work in may be filled with grumbling and complaining. The Lord may give you a word to counter the culture by going against the spirit of complaining and grumbling. And as we do that, people around us begin to notice the difference in our spirit and start to ask us why we can remain unaffected by the circumstances around us, and that is when we can share Christ’s love to them.

“Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe…”

Philippians 2:14

Principalities and spirits have an influence over the environments that we stay in. I was oppressed by a spirit of fear before and it caused me sleepless nights. I would enter my room and feel the fear creep into my heart. It was until one day as I was spending time with the Lord that He revealed to me that there was a principality set against me that I began to pray against it, rebuking it in Jesus’ Name. Slowly, I began to feel the atmosphere in my room change and the fear lift from my room. It was then that I began to be able to sleep peacefully. Now, when I feel the presence of the spirit of fear trying to creep into my heart, I rebuke it and move in the opposing spirit by standing strong in my heart against it.

So, boys and girls, remember that this is a Year of Victory! And we are called to be WARRIORS OF LIGHT!!

What are we fighting for??

The Visions of God for our PERSONAL LIFE, our FAMILY, our MARKETPLACE!!

Who are we fighting against??

The enemy, who seeks always to steal, kill and destroy the visions that God has given to us.

How does he come against us??

Through our flesh and casting doubts and fear in our hearts through circumstances and words.

How do we fight against him??

By praying against him using the mighty name of Jesus and continually declaring the visions of God. And by moving in the opposing spirit that is coming against us!

The Vision is EASY.

Restoring the Vision Part 1

This is the Year of Victory!

and with that I will be posting a series of sermons that I'm currently preaching to my cell group so as to spur us on to seeing the visions that God has given to us come to pass.

"The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full."

John 10:10

In the beginning when God made man and the world, He had a vision. He made Adam and Eve and gave the Garden of Eden to them to stay and multiply.

God's original vision was to see us live with Him in harmony and become fruitful and multiply.

But there was an enemy which came from the very 1st order of creation which God made. It was the serpent and his army of angels. The serpent knew the vision that God gave to men and he was furious and seeked to rob that from men. So he came to tempt Eve and from then on, mankind lost his inheritance to satan. The serpent blinded men with shame and guilt and forever robbed the vision from him. What was left was only an impression of what could have been but never will be...

But God had always wanted us to fulfill His vision of eternal life with Him. That was why He sent His Son Jesus to come and restore that in our lives.

More than just salvation, ppl! Jesus came so that He can impart to us the same abundant life that God had originally intended for us in the Garden of Eden.


Now is the time for us to shine as Warriors of Light and restore that very Vision of Eden back into the hearts of many...

1st in our our PERSONAL LIFE because though some of us are saved, we are still find ourselves unable to experience the abundant life that Christ has given us.

2nd in our FAMILY and...

3rd in our MARKETPLACE

How do we shine if we are not ourselves first the LIGHT? Hence we need to come to the Holy Spirit and receive from God the Father His vision for our own lives; how we should conduct ourselves in the light of His salvation! Then as we percieve this in the spiritual realm, we begin to effect our natural realm, by acting out what we see. i.e. when the Lord shows us certain areas in our lives we need to change and how we should live, as a person pleasing in His sight, we begin to act on that vision and live it out. Then will we find victory in our PERSONAL LIFE.

Our FAMILY members are the closest people around us and they see how we live, day in day out. When we start to shine in our PERSONAL LIFE, they begin to see the change in our lives, and thus start to ponder about this change. We too need to receive a vision for our FAMILY. We must pray and ask God what He sees in them and then pray for that vision to come to pass. A brother of mine sees his parents going to Hokkien service. In his spirit, he chooses to believe and claims that vision and commits himself to pray that to pass!

In the MARKETPLACE, we have schoolmates, colleagues and friends whom we hang out with probably 80% of the time. We need to shine in our PERSONAL LIFE so that they too can see the change in us. A cell member of mine received a vision of his basketball team mates coming to know the Lord. I tell him to go write it down, paste it on his walls and pray it to pass! Another cell member of mine saw a vision of her volleyball girls come to know the Lord and lo and behold, she has won 4 of them to the Lord!

HALLELUJAH!! The VISION is EASY!

Why is that so?

Here is a biblical explanation of how by envisioning something, and praying for it to come to pass, it will be done.

God, when He first made the world, had a vision of how evey single thing would be, ranging from the trees, the flowers, to the birds, the animals and the seas and the earth. When He sees it in His mind's eye, He spoke it to pass and when it was spoken, which is the Word of God (Jesus), His power, (the Holy Spirit) brought it to completion.

and guess what? God made US in HIS image! Which means that if He made US in HIS image, it means that we are also capable of doing so!

I was traveling up an escalator at Takashimaya when I saw a banner that read, "Imagination is your greatest gift" and I thought to myself, How True! Because if we can dream it, we can fulfill it! Of course, such visions must be Godly and must be a direct revelation from Him, if not, we will birth forth evil and fleshly visions...

I tell my guys, I have a vision!

I have a vision that I will be a Pastor of 144 men and 144 women! I will form my 12 this year, and next year disciple them to be strong men for the Lord!

I have a vision that we will hold our combi meeting at TOUCH CENTRE auditorium! I want to be like Ps David Yonggi Cho, and go measure the auditorium and claim it for Jesus!

I have a vision that my band will be used mightily by the Lord!

I'm still birthing a dream for my family and my prayer is powerless because I still cannot see clearly in the spiritual realm the vision for them. I will pray and seek the Lord till I see it more clearly and able to pray that to pass.

I told my guys that there are 3 things we need to do:

1) Pray and ask the Lord for a vision for the 3 areas of our lives

2) Write them down and don't just keep it in your journal to collect dust; but paste them boldly on your walls so that every morning you wake up and are reminded of the visions that God has given to you!

3) Pray the visions to come to pass and allow the Lord to move you to act out those visions!

I told my ppl that I will take a photoshoot of every one of them and paste their pixes on my wall to remind myself of the vision of the 12 and the 144! Then I will pray that to come to pass in Jesus' Name! Amen!

If there's anything, I want to test God in this.

Fulfill the visions Lord! :)

what I just said is nicely summarised by Paul in the below passage. The fall of creation, the redemption of man to restore creation to its orignal intent and receiving the vision through prayer in the Holy Spirit to birth forth the Kingdom of Heaven in this present age.

"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the chidren of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up ot he present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who does hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will."

Romans 8:18-27

Oh my BIG MOTHERBOARD!

as you all know by now, my PC has been down for the last 3 weeks and its absence has caused several unfortunate inconveniences...

1st up, I missed several info with regards to ministry matters...

2nd, I missed an email correspondence pertaining to a secondary school friends' outing which resulted in me missing the outing itself! Darn!

and many many many... spam mails... wahahaha... isn't too bad really...

but perhaps the thing that I missed most is blogging and reading the tagboards... hahaha... never fails to amuse me!

well... all that's done and over with but let us pay a tribute to my dead motherboard that has served me so well for the past 4 years :)

"about time liao la... " somebody might say... sniff...

so presenting... the tribute to dead motherboard MSI K7T TURBO2

goodbye Motherboard!


























































They do look like little buldings don't they? I find it pretty fascinating taking pixes of it at close-ups. It's like looking at a model city.


BUT... Now I got a faster and better Dual Core Motherboard!! Wahahaha...!!