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Cover of The Power of Vision
P2U Initiatives – Peace to You
PBS, PBRS UPKO
Topic: Formation of P2U Yeshua Institute (PYI)- Christ centered non-denominational bootcamp
Vision: A better to-marrow for Malaysians
Objectives:
- Back to basics – God's purpose for man/kadazan
- Knowing God and making Him known.
- Responding to our final Call.
- Entering and embracing His Kingdom
- Preparing for Rapture and the Wedding of the Lamb; and
- Growing in maturity and intimacy in and with Abba Father and His Son Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ) through the empowerment of His Spirit and towards our individual's role in His Eternal Government.
INTRODUCTION:
SOME RELEVANT BIBLE VERSES:
- Isaiah 45:18 For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited:
- Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and there were those who sat down on them, and power of judging was given them. Yes, I saw the souls of those executed with the ax for the witness they bore to Jesus and for speaking about God, and those who had worshiped neither the wild beast nor its image and who had not received the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand. And they came to life and ruled as kings with the Christ for a thousand years. 5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.)
- Revelation 22:22 And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of its broad way. And on this side of the river and on that side [there were] trees of life producing twelve crops of fruit, yielding their fruits each month. And the leaves of the trees [were] for the curing of the nations.
Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Sometime in the late eighties, when the advent of internet and ICT had not been that developed and advanced as it is to day, I received a vision of a “better to-marrow” for Malaysians generally and for the Kadazans in particular. By His grace, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit on 5th September 1989 in rather a dramatic manner which had led me to total immersion in the reading of the Bible and study of God's word from whatever sources made available to me, writings of the early Church fathers, books and novels written by inspired man and women of God, poems and songs, sermons and speeches and practically everything on the earth I could lay my hands on, including at a later part the Al-Quran and some writings by authors from other faiths, with the intense desire and passion to know the “perfect plans and purpose of God for the Kadazans individually and corporately.”
Today, with the blessing of the advancement in global communications through internet, social networking and open sourcing, knowledge, and the access to it, indeed had been so much more advanced only if we are discipline enough and passionate enough to keep abreast of the time. Indeed what is happening today is the fulfillment of one of the prophecies in the Bible found in the Book of Daniel, that knowledge and travel will increase in the latter times.
Daniel 12:4 (KJV) But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
I have included some of the videos, books and websites that I thought are relevant to this topic; I am sure that there are millions more out there, but the point that God is indeed speaking to each and every one of us, in multitude of ways if only we believe in Him, is well illustrated.
The concept of a better tomorrow underlies the assumption that we are living 'today' in a world that needed a lot of improvement, is degenerating and needs perfection, to achieve that 'better tomorrow', a world that exudes the utopian value system. This had been defined by Wikipedia as “ an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system” but since the dawn of time, history had documented that mankind had live in constant rebellion, struggles and wars with each other, each culture and civilization that had existed on planet Earth had tried to claim sovereignty and control, robbed, killed or manipulated its way to achieve its version of a “better tomorrow'. This also is the fulfillment of Bible prophecies and man's attempt to exist without Him.
As one goggles the term “ a vision of better tomorrow”, one can find millions of versions but most of them have excluded God's role in it, or at the least be silent about it, most probably trying to cater for a wider audience by avoiding the religious label or promoting their secular or atheistic belief system. Take for instance the following
... with its mission to raise the funds necessary to develop the entire …. Community and create the educational and experiential programs, research studies and green technology initiatives needed for strengthening ….. long-term competitiveness, improving its natural environment and the overall well-being of its citizens.Its mission will be to empower individuals, families, and business toward creating environmentally sustainable communities and healthier lifestyles.... will be a physical place with three distinct centers coming together to educate and inspire environmental stewardship, corporate social responsibility and healthier lifestyles. As the educational centers grow and prosper, plans to invite sustainable business and industry as community neighborhoods would be planned.
Though their mission and objectives are laudable but this group defined Healthy Lifestyle - as a way of living based on identifiable patterns of "healthy" behavior based on an individual's choice, influenced by the individual's personal characteristics, their social interactions, and socioeconomic and environmental factors. This definitely is a 'new age' term which is an old form of satanic deception, worshiping the 'created' instead of the 'Creator', a concept propagated to man through the woman that one can be God.
I purposely took a bit of time in explaining the term “ a better tomorrow” because a full grasp of its definition will help us convey its true and intended meaning, at least in our context as a believer in the Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent Creator of the Universe for by doing so, I have excluded viewpoints coming from secularism, paganism, pantheism, atheism, polytheism and so forth. Neither do I validate pluralistic approach as the ideal solution to man's degrading and degenerating tendency towards self-worship and apostasy towards making ' a better tomorrow' for himself without God or equal to God.
OBJECTIVES
Back to Basic – God's purpose for man/kadazan
Before the Fall:
- "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it" (Genesis 1:28). God was building a family.
After the Fall:
- To be reconciled with Abba Father, through faith in His Son Yeshua, that we may be restored into fellowship with Him and reign with Christ in His Eternal Government. (Ephesian 1:3-10)
Video to see:
Books to read:
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Our Response
Let us unite to do the perfect will of God for us as individual child of God and as a Chosen Generation for making known the wonderful message of Christ, that the Devil had been defeated and has no more authority over men, to every race and nation. Let us also work hard to equip ourselves and become skillful in tapping the resources of Heaven and become Jesus' good friends.
By doing so, we are continuing the works of Jesus in destroying and pulling down the works of the Devils. Let us enrolled in the Army of Christ, be trained in spirit, mind and body; put on the full armor of God and joined in the company of Joshua and marched in Victory! Jesus is our Commander-in-Chief and He has already Won. We only declare and proclaim His victory to the defeated enemies. Hallelujah!
That is how one can contribute positively in keeping God fearing leaders, and the Party they represent that God empowers to form the Government, right on its track in doing HIS will for this Beloved Nation of ours.... SABAH & SARAWAK
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