On 28 August, I inquired God what gift I had. My eyes fixed to D & C 6:10 "Behold thou has a gift and blessed art thou because of thy gift. Remember, it is sacred and cometh from above...."D&C 6:12 "Make not thy gift lnown to the world unto any save be those of thy faith. Trifle not with sacred things." The gift is the spirit of revelation-to receive things divine and the gift to preach the gospel."
D&C 6:13 "If thou will dogood and hold out faithful to the end,thou shall be saved in the kingdom of God, which is the greatest gift of all the gifts of God, for there is no gift greater than the gift of salvation."
Salvation is the greatest gift which includes other gifts. Salvation means deliverance
1. from outward dangers,
2. victory over enemies,
3. remission of sins through the acceptance of Christ and obedience to His laws and eternal exaltation.
Until a man can triumph over death, he is not saved. A knowledge of the Priesthood (and obedience) alone will do this (History of the Church Vol. V p.44)
Jesus is the source of divine revelations as the Word and Redeemer of the world and the light which shines in darkness. The darkness is the state or condition of the world not affected by the light of divine revelation because of ignorance, superstition/tradition and the enemity of men due to the carnal nature of men with their lust, pride and idol worship of money and worldly things and pleasure. The darkness of the world remains unrepentant, unyielding and unpenetrated--and in such condition, the world cannot comprehend the light of revelation.
D&C 6:26 "Verily, verily, I say unto you that these are records which contain much of my gospel, which have been kept back because of the wickeness of the people."
"My word is spirit and life" Christ repeatedly said
Covers mercy to those who believe--- the living and the dead!
Hosanna! Hosanna to Christ! Let's rejoice and sing,
Let's praise with one voice and honor our God, holy King!
The voice said in my dream a few days ago : "The chosen gives".
and two weeks ago remarked: "You are born rich",
Composed by Anthony Lim,31 August, Malaysia Independance Celebration.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Questionaire from Sunday Primary children.
16 August,2009
As a grandfather, I was invited to answer some questions from Primary children about my activities when I was at their ages. Questions were picked by them and Joyce read them out.
1. What was your favorite activity at 9? Kite-flying and kite-fighting by cutting others’ kites with glass-made-strings.
2. What was your favorite hymn then? There is sunshine in my soul today—was also the first hymn I sang at my first meeting in church.
3. What did you remember most what your mom and dad taught you?
My mother taught me to treat a beggar who came to the house as if she were the angel or god in disguise. She was given the drink she wanted and food which I served her. Many times my mom would chat with beggars as if they were friends she knew well—and they in return would say: “Bless you , boy”. I taught they would make good priests. From these episodes, I came to believe easily that Jesus was God’s Son in human flesh. Strangely enough, even injured birds and dogs or cats would come to our house for recovery aid from us; they seemed to know where to get kindness and service from!
From my mandarin father, I learnt English. Every evening he would pick a word from the press headline and asked me to define its meaning from the dictionary.
Then he asked a sentence be constructed. How would you use the word for conversation? These would go on every day and I improved my English and loved English and poetry which later, I loved writing and poetry.
4. What was my favorite food and fruit?
Mixed rice with vegetables and fish/chicken and egg was my delicious choice.
Banana was the cheapest fruit I could afford then. Now papaya because of its enzymatic effect and bowel movement.
5. Which drink do I love most?
Milo with milk for nutritious value.
6. Which movies I love to see when I was young? Tarzan, Mickey mouse, bugs bunny and Donald duck movies.
7. Have you been caned by your parents? No, never! Because I was obedient and
smart student in class as the top student in every standard! So they had nd reason
to scold or punish me!
As a grandfather, I was invited to answer some questions from Primary children about my activities when I was at their ages. Questions were picked by them and Joyce read them out.
1. What was your favorite activity at 9? Kite-flying and kite-fighting by cutting others’ kites with glass-made-strings.
2. What was your favorite hymn then? There is sunshine in my soul today—was also the first hymn I sang at my first meeting in church.
3. What did you remember most what your mom and dad taught you?
My mother taught me to treat a beggar who came to the house as if she were the angel or god in disguise. She was given the drink she wanted and food which I served her. Many times my mom would chat with beggars as if they were friends she knew well—and they in return would say: “Bless you , boy”. I taught they would make good priests. From these episodes, I came to believe easily that Jesus was God’s Son in human flesh. Strangely enough, even injured birds and dogs or cats would come to our house for recovery aid from us; they seemed to know where to get kindness and service from!
From my mandarin father, I learnt English. Every evening he would pick a word from the press headline and asked me to define its meaning from the dictionary.
Then he asked a sentence be constructed. How would you use the word for conversation? These would go on every day and I improved my English and loved English and poetry which later, I loved writing and poetry.
4. What was my favorite food and fruit?
Mixed rice with vegetables and fish/chicken and egg was my delicious choice.
Banana was the cheapest fruit I could afford then. Now papaya because of its enzymatic effect and bowel movement.
5. Which drink do I love most?
Milo with milk for nutritious value.
6. Which movies I love to see when I was young? Tarzan, Mickey mouse, bugs bunny and Donald duck movies.
7. Have you been caned by your parents? No, never! Because I was obedient and
smart student in class as the top student in every standard! So they had nd reason
to scold or punish me!
WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR?
WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR?
Friends, How many of you need some miracles every day?
Or are you doubting if they’ll ever happen this way?
Yet we never know how many miracles we’ll need.
God can grant our wishes when we urgently plead.
Miracles work on higher way, than natural laws,
Let God operate his divine care than relying on yours.
When someone means alot to you, do for her the best.
Your kindness and love will move God to help you the rest.
A ball is a circle, no beginning, and no end.
It keeps us together like a Circle of good Friend.
What you see is the treasure of friendship you grant me.
Today I pass the sweet friendship ball to you, you see.
MY OATH to you ... When you are sad.....I will dry your tears.
When you are scared.....I will comfort assuredly your fears.
When you’re worried and nowhere to turn.....I’ll give you hope.
When you’re confused, and give up, cheer up, I’ll help you cope!
And when you are lost and in darkness, and can't see the light,
Call on me, I shall be your beacon....Shining so bright!
For what are friends for, but to give solid support call.
With God and angels on our side, we’ll win all!
Composed by Anthony Lim, 28 August, 2009(copyright)
Friends, How many of you need some miracles every day?
Or are you doubting if they’ll ever happen this way?
Yet we never know how many miracles we’ll need.
God can grant our wishes when we urgently plead.
Miracles work on higher way, than natural laws,
Let God operate his divine care than relying on yours.
When someone means alot to you, do for her the best.
Your kindness and love will move God to help you the rest.
A ball is a circle, no beginning, and no end.
It keeps us together like a Circle of good Friend.
What you see is the treasure of friendship you grant me.
Today I pass the sweet friendship ball to you, you see.
MY OATH to you ... When you are sad.....I will dry your tears.
When you are scared.....I will comfort assuredly your fears.
When you’re worried and nowhere to turn.....I’ll give you hope.
When you’re confused, and give up, cheer up, I’ll help you cope!
And when you are lost and in darkness, and can't see the light,
Call on me, I shall be your beacon....Shining so bright!
For what are friends for, but to give solid support call.
With God and angels on our side, we’ll win all!
Composed by Anthony Lim, 28 August, 2009(copyright)
Sunday, August 9, 2009
The Importance of Spiritual Preparation. 9/8/09
Speech delivered by Anthony Lim to KL Branch members of about 120 members.
How many of us are willing to enter into the Celestial Kingdom? Raise your hands. I see all of us want to go there, including myself. All of us have the will to go the Celestial kingdom, but most of us lack the will to prepare to enter there. Today, I am here to talk about the Importance of Spiritual Preparation in order to be accepted into the glorious Kingdom. The will to prepare is more important than the will to win the crown....because eventually, when you have done well in preparing, you are sure to win the crown!
It took me a week to prepare the talk, each time I asked Heavenly Father on how to make you understand the urgency of the Spiritual Preparation--so that you can appreciate and feel the need to prepare properly. First, what is SPIRITUAL PREPARATION?
Let me put it so that you can clearly see it.
Spiritual Preparation, to me, can be liken to a process of a pupa or cocoon stage where the ugly caterpillar is slowly changing and developing into a glorious butterfly to enjoy the heavenly bliss of freedom. Mind you, it is a few weeks process of inner complete change and development--the longest time for the utmost beauty of a new creature to evolve.
So it is the same with Spiritual Preparation to change and develop from a carnal man to a spiritual holy man of God. The beauty of the Gospel is to transform from an ugly duckling to the beautiful and graceful white swan. Hence the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not just to inform but to transform us fit to dwell in the presence of Heavenly joy with our Father in Heaven, Christ and holy angels and saints. We are commissioned by the Lord not just to share the Gospel but to shape the destiny of individuals and all mankind., calling to repentance and acceptance of Christ as the Saviour of mankind. It calls for the remarkable change from a natural man to a holy man. The Lord promises his Holy Spirit to guidance and bring about the conversion and ultimate change for the better.
In Amos 4:12: "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel". We have been continual going through the emotions of Spiritual Preparation from baptism to priesthood ordinance, sacrament, scripture studies at home, school and institutes of higher learning, temple work, and fellowship with the saints, and heavenly beings in the temple work.
For those who are prepared they shall not fear about the outcome. D &c 38:30.
We should be willing to support these activities as well as lending support to our church leaders and saints in every possible way.
D & C 109:8 emphasised to prepare EVERY needful thing.
Apart from the above mentioned preparation in need of spiritual and mundane duties, the vital spiritual preparation is to watch for the Second Coming of Christ. By so doing, we actually go through every possible fulfilling of our callings and anxiously engaging in every good cause of charity and love to our fellowmen, and pay our worship to our true God and Christ...John 17:3.
Let me give three short stories.
Abish, a lamanite woman, got so excited when she saw the king, queen and Ammon, and her people fell down in the worshipping place that she knocked at every household to come and witness the power of God. Most of them got converted. Alma19:17.
The Samaritan woman at the Jacob's well was enchanted by Jesus knowing her past five husbands, and the last was live-in man, she went out the city broadcasting that the Messiah was here already! Nearly, The whole city of people were converted on hearing Jesus' word.. He was indeed the Christ,the Saviour of the World!they proclaimed. John 4:42.
At the Sea Tiberias, Jesus advised the disciples to cast the net a little towards the right, and they obeyed him. Overflowing catch of fishes nearly sank the two boats.Luke 5:6.
What have these stories in common?
Three objectives: They simply obeyed the first law of Heaven to get overflowing productivity. Implicit faith to follow the master and the Spirit. Last, they gave their utmost enthusiasm in their efforts to spread their joy of knowing Heavenly blessings.
Lastly, my personal experience of personal preparation of my son, Elisha Lim for his two -year mission to Oden Utah, USA. Elisha was staying in Taiping, 200 miles from me for ten years without the church or the book of Mormon. No testimony of the gospel though he was taught when young. After much prayer and fasting, I cried unto Father and Christ for help. For the months he was with me, at the time of the terriorist attack on the Twin Tower of Trade Centre in New York 11Sept. 2001, he said he needed the testimony to go on the mission. For 26 days, we studied the scriptures,and Book of Mormon, three hours morning and three hours at night, with help from Institue and Seminary manuals, Q & A from Fielding Smith, Richard's Marvellous Book and Wonder, Jesus the Christ, Magazines, we managed to produce the synopsis of the Book of Mormon, too. Four miracles happened which were beyond our expectations-
1. His mission was reverted to Ogden: US Embassy allowed Malaysians to go to US, and the Church reversed his mission to the original area from Brisbane,
2. The urine test was clear which at first appeared pinkish bacterial sign,
3. His passport was received at 8 pm to urgently go to Singapore for a Patriarchal Blessing, which normaly was issued at daytime,
4 and most of all--He received a clear testimony of the gospel and was well prepared for the mission!
He was indeed elated that all things turned to his favour--which he couldn't believe his eyes! He requested for my personal blessing for his mission. Out of the blue, ironically and coincidentally (?), Bro. Gary Orgill Singapoe Mission Counsellor, called me to give him his mission calling and blessing!
It was indeed a huge spiritual preparation which resulted in spiritual manifestations and miracles beyond our beliefs. I gave him the best mission call blessing--with leading baptismal results and outstanding Zone Leader: a gangster leader and wife were converted, as well as a national dancer and mother, who practically had no time to listen to the gospel the past three months. Elisha Lim also achieved the top student in his Univ. class, and accepted the job of Supervisor Auditor at BYU for internship.
Thus, for Spiritual Preparation to be effective, we must be willing to sacrifice four T's:-
1. Talents should be sacrificed to God to build his Kingdom.
2. Treasure..money to help charity and service.
3, Tireless Efforts no matter what the situations are.
4, Total SELF SACRIFICE TO SHOW YOUR WILLINGNESS TO PREPARE GOD'S KINGDOM.
Let us put our shoulders to the wheel: Just get the will to spiritually prepare for the Second Coming of the Saviour, and you shall get the crown!
(At the end of the talk, more than ten foreigners thanked the speaker for the unique talk and they would treasure the four sacrifices of T's and personal experience of preparing mission)
How many of us are willing to enter into the Celestial Kingdom? Raise your hands. I see all of us want to go there, including myself. All of us have the will to go the Celestial kingdom, but most of us lack the will to prepare to enter there. Today, I am here to talk about the Importance of Spiritual Preparation in order to be accepted into the glorious Kingdom. The will to prepare is more important than the will to win the crown....because eventually, when you have done well in preparing, you are sure to win the crown!
It took me a week to prepare the talk, each time I asked Heavenly Father on how to make you understand the urgency of the Spiritual Preparation--so that you can appreciate and feel the need to prepare properly. First, what is SPIRITUAL PREPARATION?
Let me put it so that you can clearly see it.
Spiritual Preparation, to me, can be liken to a process of a pupa or cocoon stage where the ugly caterpillar is slowly changing and developing into a glorious butterfly to enjoy the heavenly bliss of freedom. Mind you, it is a few weeks process of inner complete change and development--the longest time for the utmost beauty of a new creature to evolve.
So it is the same with Spiritual Preparation to change and develop from a carnal man to a spiritual holy man of God. The beauty of the Gospel is to transform from an ugly duckling to the beautiful and graceful white swan. Hence the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not just to inform but to transform us fit to dwell in the presence of Heavenly joy with our Father in Heaven, Christ and holy angels and saints. We are commissioned by the Lord not just to share the Gospel but to shape the destiny of individuals and all mankind., calling to repentance and acceptance of Christ as the Saviour of mankind. It calls for the remarkable change from a natural man to a holy man. The Lord promises his Holy Spirit to guidance and bring about the conversion and ultimate change for the better.
In Amos 4:12: "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel". We have been continual going through the emotions of Spiritual Preparation from baptism to priesthood ordinance, sacrament, scripture studies at home, school and institutes of higher learning, temple work, and fellowship with the saints, and heavenly beings in the temple work.
For those who are prepared they shall not fear about the outcome. D &c 38:30.
We should be willing to support these activities as well as lending support to our church leaders and saints in every possible way.
D & C 109:8 emphasised to prepare EVERY needful thing.
Apart from the above mentioned preparation in need of spiritual and mundane duties, the vital spiritual preparation is to watch for the Second Coming of Christ. By so doing, we actually go through every possible fulfilling of our callings and anxiously engaging in every good cause of charity and love to our fellowmen, and pay our worship to our true God and Christ...John 17:3.
Let me give three short stories.
Abish, a lamanite woman, got so excited when she saw the king, queen and Ammon, and her people fell down in the worshipping place that she knocked at every household to come and witness the power of God. Most of them got converted. Alma19:17.
The Samaritan woman at the Jacob's well was enchanted by Jesus knowing her past five husbands, and the last was live-in man, she went out the city broadcasting that the Messiah was here already! Nearly, The whole city of people were converted on hearing Jesus' word.. He was indeed the Christ,the Saviour of the World!they proclaimed. John 4:42.
At the Sea Tiberias, Jesus advised the disciples to cast the net a little towards the right, and they obeyed him. Overflowing catch of fishes nearly sank the two boats.Luke 5:6.
What have these stories in common?
Three objectives: They simply obeyed the first law of Heaven to get overflowing productivity. Implicit faith to follow the master and the Spirit. Last, they gave their utmost enthusiasm in their efforts to spread their joy of knowing Heavenly blessings.
Lastly, my personal experience of personal preparation of my son, Elisha Lim for his two -year mission to Oden Utah, USA. Elisha was staying in Taiping, 200 miles from me for ten years without the church or the book of Mormon. No testimony of the gospel though he was taught when young. After much prayer and fasting, I cried unto Father and Christ for help. For the months he was with me, at the time of the terriorist attack on the Twin Tower of Trade Centre in New York 11Sept. 2001, he said he needed the testimony to go on the mission. For 26 days, we studied the scriptures,and Book of Mormon, three hours morning and three hours at night, with help from Institue and Seminary manuals, Q & A from Fielding Smith, Richard's Marvellous Book and Wonder, Jesus the Christ, Magazines, we managed to produce the synopsis of the Book of Mormon, too. Four miracles happened which were beyond our expectations-
1. His mission was reverted to Ogden: US Embassy allowed Malaysians to go to US, and the Church reversed his mission to the original area from Brisbane,
2. The urine test was clear which at first appeared pinkish bacterial sign,
3. His passport was received at 8 pm to urgently go to Singapore for a Patriarchal Blessing, which normaly was issued at daytime,
4 and most of all--He received a clear testimony of the gospel and was well prepared for the mission!
He was indeed elated that all things turned to his favour--which he couldn't believe his eyes! He requested for my personal blessing for his mission. Out of the blue, ironically and coincidentally (?), Bro. Gary Orgill Singapoe Mission Counsellor, called me to give him his mission calling and blessing!
It was indeed a huge spiritual preparation which resulted in spiritual manifestations and miracles beyond our beliefs. I gave him the best mission call blessing--with leading baptismal results and outstanding Zone Leader: a gangster leader and wife were converted, as well as a national dancer and mother, who practically had no time to listen to the gospel the past three months. Elisha Lim also achieved the top student in his Univ. class, and accepted the job of Supervisor Auditor at BYU for internship.
Thus, for Spiritual Preparation to be effective, we must be willing to sacrifice four T's:-
1. Talents should be sacrificed to God to build his Kingdom.
2. Treasure..money to help charity and service.
3, Tireless Efforts no matter what the situations are.
4, Total SELF SACRIFICE TO SHOW YOUR WILLINGNESS TO PREPARE GOD'S KINGDOM.
Let us put our shoulders to the wheel: Just get the will to spiritually prepare for the Second Coming of the Saviour, and you shall get the crown!
(At the end of the talk, more than ten foreigners thanked the speaker for the unique talk and they would treasure the four sacrifices of T's and personal experience of preparing mission)
Durian Feast 4/8/09
I invited Missionary sisters and elders to a durian feast at Jalan 2/65, P. Jaya on Tues. night 4/8/09. Cindy Teh the Pahang owner, gave a special deal for foreigners.---Sis. Russel, Sis.Carlk, Sis McCurdy, and Elder Peters and Elder Longmore. Along came Joyce Goh, Frendrich, Nievel. Jaszlyn was with me. 'Eat all you can' for RM 10 pax.
I described to them--Durian was the King of Fruits In Malaysia, It was a thorny fruit with succulent flesh in each seed. It smelt and stunk like Hell and tasted sweet like Heaven. Aphrodiasac. Nausating. The result: Two elders ate 71 fruit pulps, leaving the seeds, Sis Russel 14, Clar 3, and McCurdy half seed, Jaszylyn 20, Anthony 24. The Elders were champions eater of Durian!
I described to them--Durian was the King of Fruits In Malaysia, It was a thorny fruit with succulent flesh in each seed. It smelt and stunk like Hell and tasted sweet like Heaven. Aphrodiasac. Nausating. The result: Two elders ate 71 fruit pulps, leaving the seeds, Sis Russel 14, Clar 3, and McCurdy half seed, Jaszylyn 20, Anthony 24. The Elders were champions eater of Durian!
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