Reasons of Living

Phillipians 4 : 6 - 9 ; Never worry about anything

2007-02-16T16:52:00.000+01:00

Phillipians 4:6-9

"6 Never worry about anything, but in every situation let your petitions be made known to God in prayers and requests, with thanksgiving. 7 Then God's peace, which goes far beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is fair, whatever is pure, whatever is acceptable, whatever is commendable, if there is anything of excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy-keep thinking about these things.
9 Likewise, keep practicing these things: what you have learned, received, heard, and seen in me. Then the God of peace will be with you."

It says never worry about ANYTHING, is that still not clear enough? :p

Is there any other religion or believes that can say such a bold sentence? Is this what you have been wanting to hear that can calm you down from all is happening around you at the moment?
Well you've heard it right, do not worry about anything at all but let all your petitions, problems and needs be made known to God in prayers and requests with thanksgiving. Rejoice for all what you have right now as everything is from God.

God Bless

Setting your mind

2006-03-31T15:43:00.000+02:00

Where are you right now in your journey of life? what have you learned and what can you do with your knowledge so far to help you go further in this journey?

Lately i have been in God's blessing shower for a while and i just want to share this with anyone reading this blog.

1. It begins with 2 free return tickets Amsterdam - Jakarta in 2006.
2. Relationship with a really great girl which I admire so much as she has become a helper for me
in my journey towards Jesus.
3. My first great job with a fine salary
4. A new house to rent with a great price, great location and of course God provided all the furniture
when it was supposed to come from my own wallet.

I can tell you about the details and spend like thousands of words to describe each events where God send his blessing and help me with all these but even then I can not describe how happy I am and how much I want to thank Him.

This last few months I have been spoiled or should i say Loved so much and been given so much that I don't know why and how can I receive all these?

But when I ask this to myself over and over again, the answer is because I have not been worrying about my future, about everything I do, about every plans that I have and just letting all go and giving it all to Jesus.

Miracle happens when you start to give and letting go all your worries to Him, blessing comes when you start to believe that God will provide what you need, and of course faith will start to grow when you start to get closer to God and receive His love for you.

These are just the beginning, when you started to live the life God have planned for you then you will start to see how amazing God is around you, your family, even in the whole world through you.
So start to believe and let go all your worries, and live your live day by day with Jesus and ask the Holyspirit to guide you and help you with every single daily activities that you do.

God Bless.

How deep can I go?

2006-03-23T15:08:00.000+01:00

What should I write? hmm.. Or precisely where should I begin?

Have you ever feel like you know everything inside out about a subject?
I have, even till now. If you asked me about Christianity (in terms of how should we relate to God) 90% of the time I will have an answer. Why? Because all my life I have been a Christian and my house is a church (literally), which means that my mum and dad are both pastors.

In me, I know what I should do and what I shouldn't be doing, but also deep down in me there is something that wants me to be a bad boy, the worst I can be (the deepest area of sin I dare to go in to). Am I testing God? Or am I testing myself? Am I losing my mind? Or am I just dying to get more attention from God? just like a little boy wanting attention from his father.

I am back smoking even though i don't like it (luckily only around 1 - 2 days a week that i smoke), lazy to pray, basically watching porn and stuff, and many things that i might not recall anymore.
What am i doing? I really don't know.
But God is teaching me something, the fact that I am always aware that what I do is good or bad make me realize that Holy spirit is still with me, reminding me every time i am into something bad or good. I am just felling so lucky that I still know that what I i am doing is wrong.
Many people don't realize what they are doing and when they are told that they are wrong, it is still very hard for them to accept.

Where am I going with this subject? I don't know, what I know is I just want to share this.
I guess the point so far is, God is always with you even in your deepest most secret place or even your most humiliating or worst part of your life, He is there with you.
I just hope one day soon He will help me giving ALL my life (I really mean ALL my life) to Him only.

Love

2005-12-30T15:23:00.000+01:00

1 Corinthians 13 : 4 - 7
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Don't ever say you love some one if that feeling you called "love" is not like this.
I admire people who can love another person like what said in Corinthians.

It is hard to say you love someone, but it is easy to say you care about someone.
Now just think, God says so many times that He loves us, what do you think about that?

Christmas?

2005-12-23T02:34:00.000+01:00

Christmas ? what is it all about? why are people all over the world celebrating it?
Why is Christmas day so significant for christian people?

How many people celebrating this day without knowing the true meaning of Christmas? true meaning for them of course. Not the true meaning for christians, but the true meaning for each of us.

I have been talking mostly about our individual relationship with Jesus lately and for Christmas day i want to say the same thing.

Every year i have been celebrating Christmas with reasons such as :
1. Yay its holiday for at least 2 weeks!!
2. Whoohoo food and party in the church after the service
3. Gathering of the whole family
4. Going out with LOTS of friends
5. Lots and lots of invitations to a Christmas party
6. Gifts of course

They are pretty familiar reasons aren't they?
I want it to be different this year, i want it to have a special meaning this year..
i really want to be very grateful for the existence of Christmas day, i want to have a personal reason for celebrating Christmas.

I haven't found out yet the specific reason to celebrate christmas this year.. what i have been thinkin is being grateful that Jesus was born but it is pretty obvious and general or for me it is too common.
Maybe i am a bit selfish but i want a reason that will make me very happy in chirstmas day, all about my relationship with Jesus.

Please help me with comments or give some testimonials about your personal reason celebrating christmas. Thanks
and God Bless
oh yeah
Have a merry christmas

Bestfriends?

2005-12-10T17:44:00.000+01:00

I was thinking about the word "bestfriends", what does it means, and who should i categorized in terms of "my bestfriends". What is the different between friends and bestfriends?
I have some kind of theory about this, i don't know if it is correct or not but gonna give it a go (please comment if i say something wrong :p)

here it go:
the equation in terms of his/her relationship with you
a person you know =< a friend =< a bestfriend

a person you know :
- a classmate
- a roommate
- someone from church
- someone from school
- etc (basically people you know and ever had a conversation with more then twice)

a friend is "a person you know" that:
- you care about
- you are comfortable talking and chatting with
- you like to know better
- you often spend time together

a bestfriend is "a friend" that:
- you treat like your own brother / sister
- treats you the same way
- that cares about you and understands you the most

well you can go on with the list but i really thinks that "my bestfriends" are the people who cares about me and understands me which i really consider as my brothers and sisters.

Now, in many verses in the bible Jesus consider us as a friend which means, He cares about us, He wants to know us better, He likes to spend time together with us and much more. That is why i consider Him as my bestfriend so that he will also consider me not just as a friend but as His bestfriend.

Mountain of God.mp3

2005-12-07T02:23:00.000+01:00

This is a very nice song to hear (if you are using mozilla you might not see the player, but if you are using Internet Explorer then it would be okay)

The lyrics you can see at this page

Who is God?

2005-12-06T11:06:00.000+01:00

Ok, why am I starting to talk about this? Actually as Christians each of us must know the answer of this question. Everyone can say he is the creator or he is someone up there, but what do you personally think? Who is Jesus? Who is god?
For me, Jesus is my best friend, my counselor, the one who leads my life and mostly He who stands beside me every second of my life.

I have been changing these last few months, I don't know when it started but it just did. I stopped smoking, which I am very grateful for. I stopped one of the game i am addicted to (one more to go). I think about Him every where i go, i am letting him lead my life. Its like riding a rollercoaster without holding on and with your eyes closed, you don't really know when will it turn or go down or even go upside down.

When I said letting him lead my life some people might think that:
1. Ignorant and don't care about my life
2. Become lazy and not responsible
3. Not independent
4. Many thing else

It is actually the other way around, I care about my life that is my I want God to use me to the max. And I care about other people thats why I want to introduce God to everyone (thats why i have become more talkative than ever). It is not that i am not responsible, but letting your life to God is the most responsible way of living because he will give u the best for you, maybe not the exactly what we want or the best according to us but it is always the best for us which a bigger plan always waits ahead of us.

Today I was talking to one of my best friend about Love, life and future. I just realized that most of us thinks that this life is like a puzzle even living with God, we always try to finish that puzzle and know what the final picture like (most likely we need to see the final picture while doing that puzzle). Honestly, I would agree that we are like a puzzle but we DON'T have to finish that puzzle because God is working on it, and we don't need to know the final picture because God knows.
What i am trying to say is God have the final picture thats why He is the only one who can finish this puzzle correctly, we can't finish this puzzle because don't have any clue what would this puzzle be like.

I am really amazed with what can i learn from other people's oppinion and testimonies. That is why don't be affraid to talk to people about your self and to testify about God to your friends, it might be a very ordinary life or testimony according to you, BUT to other people it is extraordinary and a life changing story.

Remember, God is the one who will knock or make the first move to you, just be ready to open up your heart and let him be in the middle of your life. I am not saying life would be easier or run smoothly, but i asure you that you will live this life with assurance of God and all His promises are yours to claim as well.

God loves you and me.

22th Birthday

2005-07-06T13:15:00.000+02:00

I am 22 :/
Now what have i done last year ? anything useful ? anything that i am proud of ?
NOTHING is the answer. Everything i have done only goes to the word FUN.

I can't seem to make myself useful or even be organized in life. I can't even use an agenda, every year i bought a new agenda but it always and always have 90% of it empty at the end of that year.

ok, i got an electronic agenda now, got it from my grandma for my birthday. It is almost one week since i got it so as you can expect , it is full of writings and notes. I just wish i can keep updating my agenda and using it, remind me please :( any of you who can :p

ok, back to the topic.. what have i done last year? hmm.. counter strike all the way, i went to england for a LAN party just to play game, i sleep at 2 every single day
just to play CS. isn't it useful? :/

what else? smoking.... ok just don't want to talk about that one. only one statement
-- Friends' influence are very strong -- i am trying to stop but seems like its not really working. Well i am stopping .. :/ but yeah commitment is a difficult thing to keep.

aaaarghhhhh!!!!!!!! why is this life so boring? i hope friends back there in indonesia realize that you guys are lucky to study there, FUN all the way :D

oh well.. there are many choices you have made in life either useful or not so i just wanna pray and say to God : "God please help me with my life".

Tired........

2005-06-15T15:40:00.000+02:00

Some people comment that i say the word "tired" to much and they said that i am not actually tired but just lazy. Well when i say i am tired i really do tired and most of the time i do feel very tired.
Maybe because i don't sleep that much or maybe i just over do my self or maybe because i am not as strong as everyone else physically; you might think i am lying but i am often tired and forcing my self to do stuff.
Back home in indonesia, every morning i have flu and it gets better as the days goes by, but every morning it takes me a lot of effort to go to school and stay focus in early lessons.
I always thought that it is because of the cold airconditioner in my room but when i came here i realize that it is because of the warm weather and the bugs flying in the air. In the winter i never have any problems but when it comes to summer
oh my.. you will see me sneezing around the whole day.

I feel bad that i am like this, especially at work. I already have too many sick days and today i am trying to hold on and not go home early. It is so difficult ... but i am holding on and another 2,5 hours to go.

The meaning of this moaning and whining story of mine is that we need to realize that other people whom ever they are; they have expectations from you and sometimes a lot from you. You can say that people expect you to work good, be a good or succesful person, have time for them or they expect some attention from you or maybe they just want to know everything about you. But don't think that you never expect anything from other people; Where ever you go you expect something. We have always expectations for everything ( a big word "Always" but it is suitable in this case ).

Everybody is not perfect, God made us like this for His purpose, so that we don't get arrogant of ourself being so perfect. Expectations from other people we will get but not all of them we can achieve. We can't make everyone happy, we can try but we won't be able to. Don't ever try to satisfy other people in the cause of sacrifying yourself. ( I am not saying that we can't help other people ). You need to be wise on deciding things, that is why you need God to help you, ask Him what to do on everysingle decision you have to make even a very simple one. Walk with Him everyday, talk to him, pray and listen.

I don't know where this story is going but what i know is when you are in need there will be always someone there to help you and try to be there also for other people in need.

B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l

2005-05-31T12:25:00.000+02:00

This morning i have been singing this song , don't know why i can't stop
singin this song, so i thought i should write it down some where

Give us clean hands

We bow our Hearts
We bend our knees
Oh Spirit come make us humble
We turn our eyes from evil things
And Oh Lord we cast out our idols

So give us clean hands
Give us pure hearts
Let us not lift our souls to another
Give us clean hands
Give us pure hearts
Let us not lift our souls to another
And oh God let us be
A generation that seeks
Seeks your face
Oh God of Jacob
And oh God let us be
A generation that seeks
Seeks your face
Oh God of Jacob

Me?

2005-05-30T23:18:00.000+02:00

I don't know what am i doing with writing this blog, maybe i don't have anything to do or i think i am just starting to realize that you can express your self and your feelings more concrete in writing than in words; plus you can even read it again later on and have a laugh about it hehehe..

Well time to say hello to everyone who reads this blog, my name is Ardylles David, currently living in amsterdam, doing his internship and going to start his 4th year soon at Inholland University (IT programme) ;)

What am i going to write in this blog? i dont know, but lets start with something....

Until now i don't really know whats God's purpose for me here in holland, i have been down, also up but mostly down :p . I know He is good and he has a purpose for my life, teaching me everything i must know, giving me experiences i need and preparing me for something that He has planned even before i was born.

Just hope He will keep on reminding me when i do something wrong, alarm me when i need to pray to have a chat with Him, as well as providing all i need everyday.

Remember one thing friends, He consider us as His children, He loves us, He cares about us, search Him and He will find you , ask Him and He will give you what u need, talk to him and He will listen.

verses to think about (from daily words english bible):
Mat 6:33
But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

Mat 6:34 :
Then have no care for tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Take the trouble of the day as it comes.