"Amazing Grace"

"Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me,
His Word my hope secures;
He will my Shield and Portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, Who called me here below,
Shall be forever mine.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun."

-Amazing Grace.


when things of the earth fail,
when doubts seep in, shattering all that i've ever got,

i shall cling even more tightly unto the Lord and His hopes and promises,
i shall rejoice and praise Him even more, because of His love, mercy, and amazing grace.


-kimmy.

The Truth & The Joy.

The Truth.

"But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead."
-Philippians 3:7-11 [New King James Version]


The Joy.

"Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy - meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity. Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
-Philippians 4:4-13 [New King James Version]


God is good. all the time.

-kimmy.

Love means Action.

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock; and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."
-Matthew 7:15~27 [New King James Version].


so much easier to sing of love than to truly love.
so much more convenient to sing of love than to act upon love.
desiring to love, yet not knowing how.
desiring to love, yet not capable of loving.
my love so shallow and vain,
selfishness and idleness are on my way from loving more deeply.


-kimmy.

"There is None like You"

"There is None like You"

there is none like You
no one else can touch my heart like You do
i could search for all eternity long
and find there is none like You

Your mercy flows like a river wide
and healing comes from Your hands
suffering children are safe in Your arms
there is none like You

-Lenny LeBlane


it's inevitable that every man fall, and the point is not to never fall.

but the key is to never give up; to pick ourselves up; to run back to the wide open arms of Our awesome and loving Father with all our might and to pray with all we've got; and to have our hopes in, to yearn and to strive for the one goal in our lives, Jesus.

oh, how much we need Him...

"I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptations. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience etc. don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes in the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give it up. It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us: it is the very sign of His presence."
-C.S.Lewis.

sweet dreams friends!

-kimmy, praying for courage, strength and discipline so she will be able to truly live it out, this life of a Christian...

"TRUST"

let me share something that my roommate shared:

T ake each day at a time [Matthew 6:34]
R emember all things work together for good [Romans 8:28]
U nder no circumstances should you worry [Philippians 4:6]
S tart everyday with prayer and thanksgiving [1 Thessalonians 5:16-18]
T he Lord will never forsake you [Hebrew 13:5]

have an AWESOME week friends!
lots of love,
-kimmy.

God loves you so much!

"Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain."
-Philippians 2:12-16 [New King James Version]

i begin to understand more and more what it is to fall in love with God, and to desire to share the gospel, so that others may also be saved, healed, loved and live!

God loves you so much for who you are,, just as you are. He really does. :)

-pumped kimmy, joyously dancing and smiling, because she is loved.


:D

The Beauty of the Way of the Lord.

my friend introduced me to this one funny youtube clip. check it out:
"Ah, Bibliotheque."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJk7pWeDHcM&mode=related&search

the theme verse of last night's roommates talk:
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths."
-Proverbs 3:5-6 [New King James Version]

:)


God sometimes loves to see us smile by surprising us with His most unexpected and wonderous ways. He is very cool indeed...


-kimmy.

p.s. i am going to miss my roommates sooo much! i have the most awesome, the coolest, and the loveliest roommates in the world!! :D
p.s.s. there is something so special and valuable about friendship. good friends are truly the real treasures on earth! love you lots my friends!!! :)
p.s.s.s. someone told me that happiness is found in little things in our given circumstances.

"The Prophet" : Reason and Passion.

learning to embrace, to control and not to be blinded by my emotion, i quote this:

"And the priestess spoke again and said:
Speak to us of Reason and Passion.
And he answered, saying:
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rising above its own ashes.

I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would tow loved guests in your house.
Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason."
And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion."
And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion."

-"The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran

wow.

-kimmy.