real love in practice...

Yesterday when i had my devotion in the morning, i thought about Love that I learned from last week Sunday Service.

I saw a picture above on my mobile phone that i took last Friday on Anny's birthday.

Anny is someone whom i have mentored for about 4 years. I do it with Cen and Dj. Cen and Dj are my partners in my ministry at Education Department.

Actually, I know Anny from Dj and we have good relationship until today.

When the first time i knew Anny, she wasn't as she is today... I can see she has changed in her heart, emotion and characters since she knows Jesus more deeply.

It wasn't the easy thing to mentor Anny because she has no good background of life.

These days, i am amazed of God's doing in her life.

I realized about real love to practice when i mentor Anny. Not only me but also Cen and Dj.

God teaches me to be more and more patient even though there was much suffering that i had.

Spending time frequently to meet her.... to have a chit chat.... to teach her about positive thinking and to know the Truth...

I can't count all things i've done but I can't count more and more blessings that God gives to me and especially to Anny so that she can mentor other people whom God gives to her life now.

I just can pray for her to have a strong spirit to live her life and be bold in everything she does to share God's love to other and especially to her family because she longs for God to touch her family too.

That's what i want to share today about what i feel and experience these days.... Maybe next time, after i have a permit from Anny to write more about her life, i will share it on this blog....

Love... Love... Love...

~novitz~

Psalms 16:7

I praise You, Lord, for being my guide. Even in the darkest night, Your teachings fill my mind.

(Psalms 16:7 - CEV)

I like this verse so much when i read it this morning...

It reminds me about my days with Him since i was still a student of Junior and Senior High School. I remember every i went out lonely and had to go home lately at night, He guides me even until today.... I don't fear anything because one thing that i know He is with me.

Many times for along i am on my way back home after working, He leads and protects me...even though for a few times the pick pocket tried to take my belonging...

This verse is the basic thing that reminds me every day to think about what He has done in me and to give Him thanks... Sometimes i can take a note before sleep at night when i remember something that make me amazed.

His teachings fill my mind...

Even to a little thing, He reminds me...

Actually, the time before I sleep is the best time to have a journal for a day...

It is a lovely thing i usually do since i was at junior high school.

~novitz~

FHL #6 ... How majestic is Your name...

O Lord... our Lord...

How majestic is Your name in all the earth...

You have set Your glory above the heavens...

Suddenly after reading this verse, i felt amazed.... i said to God, "How great is my God... who am i that You have given your life for me on calvary?... Thank you for loving me... You lifted me up from my sins and cleansed it away... Beautiful is Your love, Lord... How powerful is Your name... I am nothing without You..."

My faith is raising up...

My soul is longing for His love...

Every day and every time i think of Him...

He strengthens me again and again...

~novitz~

FHL #5

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

I thank God for these days...  I believe He has made my days beautiful... 

This morning He speaks that i may not see every circumstance through my own perspective... I should consider every thing i do if it is appropriate with the Bible or not...

Be carefull with my words is the thing i should learn more and more...

Faith

I believe that my words can give big impact for everyone i meet...

My words can encourage and build their spirit and faith...

Hope

I hope for a new level of faith in my life...

God speaks to me that everyone is being trained by Him to face a great war...

The biggest enemy is in us...ourselves that firstly should be conquered...

Love

Love one another...

When love fulfills our hearts, it will make our words and acts be a great impact for others. 

~novitz~

FHL #4

Colossians 3:24

Remember that the Lord will give you as a reward what He has kept for His people. For Christ is the real Master you serve.

This morning, God comforted my heart with this verse. It was like a real voice i heard. Mostly i think that i have to make a maximal achievement in every thing i do.... all things have to be perfect done.

Lately, i feel that i've done wrong things... i think that i've done my best but there's nothing i could get from it.

When i read this verse, i realized that i've done bad response and i want to change my heart and thoughts.

Faith

I want to entrust my life to God and believe that God has kept His best reward for me.

Only God who gives the reward.

Hope

There's a time for every thing...

Keep believing that His time will come...

Love

I have to love people who have rejected and humiliated me.

Even though it isn't easy... i want to learn doing those things...

I believe that i can do every thing with Him.

~novitz~

FHL #3

Day 3 of my FHL Challenge....^_^

Colossians 3:3-4
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. (NIV)

Faith

My life is for Christ.

If i live for Christ, i have to live in spirit and in truth.

All the parts of my body is belong to God.

Hope

Christ is my hope of glory.

Appear with Him in glory is my burning desire.

Love

Loving Christ = offering my body as a living sacrifice to God.

Let's live our lives for His glory... ^_^

~novitz~

FHL #2

Strenghthening my faith...

This second day of FHL Challenge I read Colossians 2.
I found an interesting thing at verse 7...
"rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing in thankfulness."

Faith

My faith has to be strengthened day by day... The question is by what?

It is surely by His Word which has been taught in my life.

I have to be rooted and built up in Him by His Word, so that i can grow and become a strong person in spirit and in truth.

Hope

Christ is the Hope of Glory.

I have to reach it till the end of the day.

Love

To love His Word and meditate it day and night is my desire.

How great He is....

~novitz~

FHL #1...

Starting on Monday, i challenged myself to have a new breakthrough about Faith, Hope and Love... I just want to have a new mind set and discipline in doing something like this... reading, writing and sharing...

As we know that it isn't easy to face these days but we have to...

We can only face our lives with Him... We need God to help us... We need the power of His Word to change hearts and minds...

Here's the sharing of my first day in FHL Challenge...

I read Proverbs 22... When i read verse 29, - "Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men." - i got something in my heart... i felt God spoke spesifically for my life...

Faith:

In everything i do, i believe that God is still in control.

I do my job not for men but for God...

I believe that i will gain something which He has prepared for me...

Hope:

Even though i see bad or wrong circumstances around me, i wanna see like God sees because I believe that would be better days of working or maybe a challenging new place someday...

Love:

I learn how to love my job, even there's a list of boring job i have... hahahaha... beside that... God also teaches me to love my co-workers although some of them are not cooperative... 

In conclusion, I can't change every thing around me... the one thing i have to do is changing myself... ^_^

Praise God... *_*

~novitz~

in freedom....

Brighter sunlight...

Brighter shine and shine...

Brighter days of future from now on...

Sounds of freedom crying out on my ears...

Make me wipe away all my tears...

My heart shouts aloud i hear...

To Your court You draw me near...

Because of Your power...

Because of Your righteousness...

I can be stronger...

I can have courages...

In the freedom i'll dance...

In You i have my repentance...

For You died just once...

And i am saved and have acceptance...

~novitz~

sacrifice...

Thinking about sacrifice...i remember about my experience last month when i went to Surabaya for attending my best friend's wedding...
Actually, it was hard for me to decide that trip because i thought about the high cost to go there, especially the flight cost... but someone motivated me to go... and finally i did it...

When i got the best price of ticket, i made a plan to go to Malang City for one night...
In every trip i usually have good planning... but not for last month...
Starting from the first day i arrived, i wanted to have time going from market to market at noon... i did it... but i didn't have enough time going with someone because there's another friend who has been her boyfriend... it happened until my last day in Surabaya...
I planned for a private trip with some close friends only... but the reality was different... hahaha... some new people came and joint the trip... and once again i had to release my comfort zone...

For along the trip i could enjoy...but not at the end of my day... When i arrived at Juanda Airport too early...my heart started grumbling... "How can it be?!?! How fool i am in arranging my schedule...i have never been like this!!". I blamed my best friend for the bad schedule we had...
At that time, i knew that i was wrong... i knew that i had bad response... and i tried to control my feeling and thoughts... 
At the airport, God spoke to me that i had been too egoist... i'd been too perfectionist... Until today, He still speaks to me about what He wants me to learn...
To Love...
To be Ready in everything...

To Love is about to sacrifice...
Sacrifice what we love, what we like, what we want...
To Love is not only about pleasing other but also pleasing God...
I realized that i would have a big satisfaction which couldn't be paid by large amount of money when i see a happiness in someone because of my deed...even though she/he doesn't know how i do it... ^_^

Sacrifice is about feeling pain...
Behind the painful thing we have, there's a beautiful thing that God allows for us to learn...

These days i thank God for the lessons i might learn...
It is not easy but i believe that i am not alone facing those things because He is with me...
Whatever sad or bad experience we have, He is with us... ^_^

~novitz~

Fighting Spirit....

Year 2014, i have passed seven months by the grace of God...

It is not easier than 2013... 

At the end of last year, i was very very under a lot of pressures when i imagined the new year ahead...whereas many hard things had to be faced before leaving 2013...

Finally, i found new strength when i was in Surabaya... I came to church to celebrate old and new with my friends... The sermon strengthened me so much and God spoke to me so clearly about 2014... He said that i had to keep walking no matter what... "Just keep walking on, Vi!", His voice was so gentle and comforted my heart...

I didn't know how i should response that voice... even crying nor laughing, i couldn't do it... I just wrote all things that i felt and what He said to me...

Day by day... Week by week... Month by month... even it's up then down, i tried to fight all the feeling and thoughts... i tried to find new strength...

One thing that i know, i couldn't get any recharge from people around me... I just can have my recharge from The One and Only my God...

Seeking Him in a quiet could give me new power and strength...

Are the problems getting away from me?

NO!!!

They're even added in my life...but the difference is how i face them...

Does the future (God's plans) become more clearly?

IT IS NOT!!!

It's too complicated to say...but i believe that He is always with me to accompany me facing all the "giants"....

He is with us... ^_^

~novitz~

the Happiness of Election Day...

Finally... Today my family and I did our obligation as Indonesian citizens to choose our new president for 2014-2019...

This election day is very different than before...

Full of hope and happiness...

Many people could express their expressions through camera which were posted in many social medias...

Even though we haven't known the real result, we are still waiting with one hope for better Indonesia.

I believe that God very loves Indonesia so that He will reveal the best of His plan for this country.

Bravoo Indonesiaaa...!!!

~novitz~

Election Day 2014

Tomorrow is the Election Day for new President of Indonesia... 

Wooww!!! Will be a great party of democracy in Indonesia.

It has never been like this year for along Indonesian's Election Day...

Will be New Beginning...

Will be New Reformation...

Will be New Breakthrough...

New Indonesia!!!

God bless Indonesia!!!

Love my Country ^_^

~novitz~