PSALM Mlang-SBC

16/08/2017

08/08/2017

04/08/2017

A little reminder.

04/08/2017

In Jesus, you're free from rejection.

08/02/2017

Yesterday is the 3rd founding anniversary of PSALM Mlang... we thank the Lord for the committed individuals of psalm kabacan who planted the ministry extension at SBC Mlang... We thank the Lord for the lives of students at SBC mlang who responded to the call of leadership and be a full blooded psalmist... My prayer that this 2017 would be a year of revival and breakthrough in the ministry... Thank you for ur lives, my joy w0rking with u all

your campus missionary,
tatay ryan

07/02/2017

Love = Life Laid Down for Friends.

07/02/2017

Love = Jesus dying on the cross.

04/06/2016

MISSION: CONTROL.

Some things come naturally, things like breathing, blinking, sleeping, navel lint, and if you're a teenager zits.

Other things require a little effort like learning to stand or walk. Like hitting a baseball. Or singing a solo in front of your entire school. Or growing potatoes in your sock drawer (actually, that probably comes naturally to most of us).

Still other things are completely beyond our abilities no matter who we are or how hard we try like leaping tall buildings in a single bound (only Superman can do that). Like understanding the opposite s*x. Like exhibiting self control.

"Wait a minute," you say. "What was that? You mean I can't exhibit self control no matter how hard I try?"

Yup.

"Well then," you say, "what's the point? Why am I reading all these Bible verses that say, 'Be self controlled and that talk about controlling my anger or my language or my this or my that? If being self controlled is beyond my ability, I might as well give up, right?"

Right. Oh, you can control yourself from time to time. Every once in a while, you can wrestle your temper under control and bite your tongue and not give in to your passions by using a little willpower. But you can't be self-controlled all the time. Nobody can.

"Wha-?" you say. "Well then, I mean, what. . . how . . . uh . . . ?" Take it easy. Don't blow a brain cell. It's true, you'll never succeed in being self-controlled all the time. It's just not possible. Just like you can't succeed in being totally pure or loving or righteous all the time. So you might as well give up.

That's the bad news. But the good news is, you don't have to. It's not your job to obey God's commandments totally under your own power. It's your job to surrender to the power of the Holy Spirit and, day by day, let him fill you and control you. Then you will obey God's commands including his command to be self controlled. But it won't be you doing all the work it'll be him.

"Oh," you say. "So I can only be self controlled if I'm Spirit controlled." To which I would say, "Hey! You're pretty smart!"

REFLECT: When it comes to self control, what's your job and what's the Holy Spirit's job? How can you submit every day, every moment to God's Spirit?

PRAY: Begin right now this moment to let the Holy Spirit control you by praying this simple prayer: "God, I know I cannot control myself or my passions. I need you to take control of my life through your Holy Spirit. I trust you for salvation and believe that your Spirit fills me. Please remind me to submit every day to his control and, moment by moment, to trust him to live a holy and self controlled life in me. In Jesus' name, Amen."

© Josh McDowell's Youth Devotions

04/06/2016

YOUR INVISIBLE FENCE.

Let's say that one day you noticed that your friend's gigantic dog is not kept on a chain or inside a fenced area.

"You let your dog run around loose?" you ask your friend.

"Naw," your friend answers. "We've got an invisible fence."

You roll your eyes. "Yeah, right. "Your imaginary friend installed it, right?"

"No, I'm serious," your friend says. "There's an electric wire buried under the ground. Brutus wears a collar that gives him a little shock if he gets too close to the wire."

"Really?" you say.

Your friend nods. "He hasn't gone anywhere near the wire since the first time he got shocked."

"Wow," you say. "That's a pretty smart dog."

"He just stays away from stuff he knows is going to hurt him, that's all."

Actually, you've probably heard of invisible fences. You may even use one to keep your pets in your yard. As a matter of fact, you have something like an invisible fence that's designed to keep you away from stuff that's going to hurt you, too. It's called self-control, which we learned a lot about earlier this month. But did you know that self-control is one of the fruits of the Spirit, too?

Suppose you're tempted to lose your temper because your little brother used your favorite baseball cap to protect his head from the orange and purple paint he used to paint his clubhouse. If the Holy Spirit controls your life, you'll probably feel a surge of strength in your spirit, helping you not to do it.

Or say you find yourself alone with your boyfriend or girlfriend, and your heart starts racing and you feel more in love than ever before and you want to do some things you know your parents would freak over. If you're controlled by God's Spirit, you'll have a fighting chance to say no to temptation and find somewhere else to be and something else to do.

The Holy Spirit already lives in you if you're a Christian. But you still need to submit to his control every day. One way to do that is by beginning each day with prayer and worship and Bible reading. Then, as the Holy Spirit controls your life, he will reproduce his own nature in you, and you'll begin to see his fruit or characteristics in your life: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

REFLECT: Do you think the Spirit produces his fruit in our lives in order, one at a time? Or do you think he produces the fruit of the Spirit all at the same time? Is he producing fruit in your life? If so, how? If not, why not?

PRAY: Express your thanks to God for this promise from Jesus: "I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15:5).

© Josh McDowell's Youth Devotions

02/06/2016

BINTI SAVES THE DAY.

While visiting Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois, with his family, a three year old boy climbed a railing and lost his balance. He fell eighteen feet into a rocky pit containing several gorillas. The impact of his fall knocked the boy unconscious, and he lay there, at the mercy of the apes.

Now, gorillas can be pretty rough customers they don't exactly have a reputation for being particularly gentle. So everyone in the place screamed and ran around, trying to figure out how to prevent the boy from being attacked and mangled, perhaps killed, by the great apes.

Then an amazing thing happened. An eight year old female gorilla named Binti Jua, apparently sensing the boy was hurt, went over to the child and gently picked him up. Waving off the other animals, she toted him to the door of the enclosure, where eventually a zookeeper came and retrieved the boy, unharmed.

Binti's gentle heroism made newspaper and television news headlines for several days. People expressed astonishment. Crowds flocked to the zoo. Television crews from all over the world came to film the gentle gorilla. For a few days she became the most famous gorilla since King Kong.

Later news accounts revealed that the heroic gorilla had been nursed and raised by human caretakers in the zoo's infirmary. It was believed that she learned gentleness from those caregivers.

When a wild animal displays gentleness, that is considered "news," because everyone recognizes that gentleness is a moral behavior, something that's rare enough in humans! But it shouldn't be rare among God's people because it's a fruit of his Spirit. If God's Spirit lives inside you and controls you, he will show you that gentleness is right and cruelty and rudeness are wrong. He will give you a heart of gentleness and help you treat others with the gentleness that is part of his nature.

REFLECT: Do your attitudes and actions show that you have learned gentleness? From whom? Have you thanked the person for teaching you gentleness?

Have you treated anyone cruelly or rudely in recent days or weeks? If so, have you sought forgiveness for your behavior? How can you allow God to produce gentleness in your heart and life today?

PRAY: "God, thank you for being gentle with me. Help me to submit to your control every day and show your gentleness to others."

© Josh McDowell's Youth Devotions

31/05/2016

GOODY TWO SHOES!

Every school has one.

You know, the teacher's pet, the guy or the girl who never gets into trouble. The kid who likes cleaning chalkboards and erasers. The kid who volunteers for stuff. The one who walks the first grader who fell on the playground to the nurse's office. The one who actually defends Old Man McCracken when the other kids start calling him names and talking about how mean he is. The one who shares his lunch with the hamster in the science room.

When this kid gets to high school, he or she might be on the yearbook staff or student council or the prom committee. This kid actually seems to like school! Does extra credit work. Visits his or her grade school teachers. Seems willing to do anything for anybody. Seems to be happy all the time. The kind of kid who makes you want to throw up!

These kids usually get branded with names like "goody goody," "goody two-shoes" (where'd that come from?), "teacher's pet," or "brown-noser." And although it's true that some kids do all that stuff just to try to earn points with teachers or other people, goodness is a good thing, not a bad thing. Goodness whether it's sharing your lunch with a hamster or being nice to teachers is a godly virtue, one of the fruits of the Spirit.

That's what the apostle Paul said of the Christians who lived in Rome. He praised them for being full of goodness. If they saw a chariot on the side of the road with a flat tire, they stopped to help. If they heard that a neighbor lost her job at the toga factory, they dropped by with a bag of groceries. They even had a cheerful word for those annoying camera-toting tourists from Crete! They had a positive attitude and took every opportunity to help others.

Of course, that kind of attitude doesn't come naturally for most people. It's easier for some people to act that way than it is for others. But it should be true of you, if you're a Christian, because goodness is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, who lives in every Christian's heart.

REFLECT: Do you know anyone who is "full of goodness," as Paul said the Roman Christians were? What can you learn about goodness from them? Like any fruit, goodness needs certain things (like water, soil, and sun) to grow. What can you do to cultivate the growth of goodness in your heart and life?

PRAY: If you're honest, you may want to tell God what Paul said in Romans 7:19. "When I want to do good, I don't." But you can also be glad with Paul, who knew the answer to the dilemma: "Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord" (verse 25).

© Josh McDowell's Youth Devotions