good bye for good life...

Today i learn about Ruth in my devotion...

She had good characters which we can learn... Even though her husband had been dead, she was very loyal to her mother in law... She left all her family to follow her husband, mother in law and also God.

Her mother in law, Naomi, didn't want her lived in sadness anymore... Naomi wanted Ruth to leave all the sadness and started to see her future with Boaz.

What an amazing thing that Ruth did... She obeyed what Naomi said to her... She put off her old dress and put on a new dress to meet her future husband, Boaz.

For a woman...i believe that it isn't easy to do something like she did...

Shy and afraid feeling might be mixed in her heart...

But she still obeyed... and passed all the challenges till she got married with Boaz.

In our daily lives... many things that we have like Ruth had...

We have many different backgrounds, experiences, families, feelings, etc...which are good to remember or are good to forget.

Things which should be forgotten we should forget and leave them. Because if we want to hold them in our lives, we can't move forward. They could be big obstacles for us to move.

So... Leave them behind!!!

Catch what God wants in our lives...!!!

Take a new step in Faith with Him....

Through this story of Ruth... I am strengthened again to have a brave heart walking in His promises until the end of my life and until all His purposes are done...

How about you?

Let's say good bye to our past... good bye to what left behind... good bye for just a good life... because a best life is waiting ahead...

and Let's Walk in Faith with Him... ^^

He is with us.... :-)

~novitz~

New Life in Christ

 ^{Galatians 2:20}

^{I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life now I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave me Himself for me.}

New life in Christ...

A simple statement but sometimes we forget about its meaning in our lives...

I am not who i am but Christ lives in me...

If Christ lives in me, it means that i have to think, act and respond like Christ.

Things make us worry...

Things which aren't clear...

We don't have to give up to all of those things...

Let's have good response to face them...

Because the life now we live in the body, we live by faith in the Son of God.

Surrender our lives to Him... He will do His part...

~novitz~

little good things...

 Well... i've just got a lit bit of time to share...

Remembering my birthday last month, God spoke to me that He will give His blessings all the days of my life.

I got a confirmation from my friend in Medan who text me about Deu 28:1-14.

You know? He revealed some of His promises through some of friends and my cousin. They gave me presents which are I hoped and wanted to buy.

Even though those are little things, I could learn something about thanksgiving and how great is my God that I have because He doesn't answer big things only but also little things.

And for big things that I hope for, i have to wait for His time come into my life.... 

Still do not know when, how, He will reveal it....but I am sure the time will come.... Ec 3:11

~novitz~

when...

when i am weak, You make me strong...

when i am poor, i know i am rich...

when people see an impossibility,

i believe there is a possibility in You...

when things go wrong, i know that all things work together for good 

to them that love God,

to them who are the called according to Your purpose...

now...

i have seen many things You've done in me

things which are good for my life...

even though i couldn't see what the goodness is at the beginning...

but now...

You've shown me...

Your Love...

Your Power...

Your Purpose...

and i wanna say,

"thanks God for everything..."

love

~novitz~

Vietnam - Cambodia Part 1

As I told before on my last posting that September was my happiest month, especially for this year... It's because I did a long trip to two different countries... They were Vietnam and Cambodia... ^^

at Mekong River - Vietnam

It started from May, when my aunt asked me if I wanted to join in her trip with her friends (co-workers) at office... She said to me that she wanted to pay the tickets then I'd pay the rest.

I agreed with her and started to arrange my schedule, then informed my leader to ask his permit for my leaving... I was surprised by every little thing I could face...

My trip was started on Sept 10 - Sept 15...
I went to Ho Chi Minh and Phnom Penh City... It was a nice trip in Ho Chi Minh because I had a handsome Indonesian tour guide...hahahaha... but he is younger than me...his name is John :p even though he is younger, but his face didn't show that he's younger... wkwkwkwk... :p (you can see the pic below)

John and I @ Chu Chi Tunnel

Here's the Diary...

Monday, Sept 10

We went to airport at afternoon because the flight was about 5pm... it took for about three hours until we arrived at Tan So Nhat airport - Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon City).

After our arrival for about 9pm, we changed our US Dollars into Dong first (Currency of Vietnam). Fortunately I had some Dong from Jakarta, so I just changed my US$ 40 = Dong 832.000.

After that, we went out then met with John, our tour guide who comes from Indonesia. It's a great opportunity to meet him, because we could speak Bahasa freely... hahahaha...

He took us to have dinner at an old Vietnamese resto. We ate a Vietnamese traditional food, pho (read: ve)... it's a rice noodle with vegetables and meat, where you can choose beef or chicken... at that night I chose chicken....

it's my chicken pho with cakwe (fried dough), chili, lemon, fish oil and Vietnamese tea

Next activity after finishing our dinner, we went to the Hotel... we stay at Tan Hai Long Hotel, near Ben Thanh Market... what a strategic place it was... ^^

Here is the story about my first night in Ho Chi Minh City....

~tbc~

nice fellowship in Sept 2012

This September was my happiest one for along my journeys...

One of moments I had in September was a fellowship with my mentee and a friend from another city...

It was right a day after I came back from Vietnam and Cambodia...it's on Sunday afternoon...

We ate at Pasta de Waraku resto... It was fun and nice fellowship moment which I could enjoy...
Even though I had to pay extra effort to get there (Grand Indonesia Mal), but it was valuable, I think...
After we had the food, I continued one on one discipleship with my mentee, Nerissa... We moved from Grand Indonesia to Taman Anggrek Mal.... ^_^

Full day it was...but i was excited... ^_^
Waiting for the next nice moments...

~novitz~

something good...

Sometimes we can't avoid some bad things or what we do not like happen in our lives....

We have to face it even though some unpredictable responses are appeared....

But actually, beyond our minds, there is something good for us through the things which are allowed to be happened in us.

I have one experience this year...

On my latest post, I wrote about Respecting Authorities which is very important for us to have as our habit...

It happened when I joint in a teamwork a few months ago.

It became a hardship when I faced it...but it changed into a joyful thing when I knew the goodness behind for my life.

I could learn many from that experience... I learned to trust my new authority even though it was just a temporary for along the training was held... I learned how to have and build a good teamwork where there were many weaknesses in every person. I learned how to have a humble heart despite of the fact couldn't support me...

More than those things above, I can have something which people can't buy and people can't steal it from my life... It's a new good character!

When I tried to share that experience to people after I won it, a few weeks later, there was a news for me... Even though it wasn't a happy thing or it related to my ministry that I had to do... I got something good which could bring me to enter my new and my bigger experience.

It was about a duty to serve people in a training camp in Medan. It will take for about one week for me to be in that city.

It was beyond my thoughts!!!

But it was real!!!

Beside that, last month, a present came for me.

It looks like a long long trip whereas it's usually hard thing for me to leave the office because of my busy job.

And two months ago, I just took a leave for my one week holiday in Vietnam and Cambodia.

I thought it would be impossible to have a permit from my leader.

But I was surprised when my leader said that I would be allowed to go. Woow!!!

It's something good, right?

Something good which happened after a process which I have won...

Maybe we often think that process is a hardship...

Maybe we often avoid it...or

Maybe we often fail to pass it...

But right now I can change my mind about "process"...

I can say that a process is an interesting and challenging thing....

It depends on our minds, i think...

So...what do you think about it?

If you think as how I think, you'll get that "something good" in your life...

Something good that you will not find easily... and can't be stolen from you...

Because it is about your Character...

~novitz~