After SMT retreat at 기도원 Josh found out he was accepted into University of California, Los Angeles!! Congratulations Josh!
So we went to Family Restaurant to celebrate. A handful of UCLA people came, and when we were eating, I dared anyone to eat 3 pieces of 산겹살 fat and in exchange I would buy their dinner. Surprisingly, half the table were like "I'll do it! That's easy" so then I upped it to 10 and noone wanted to do it. Then Kathy said she would do it for 5 pieces, and I agreed on 6, and I'd have to say it was worth it to watch kathy struggle to eat 6 fat pieces.
Kathy Yum eats 6 pieces of San Gyub Ssal Fat from John Lee on Vimeo.
After, Chris Kwon, Stacey, Eddie, Chris, and I all went to Yellow Cafe in LA, where we found out Chris does not know how to tie his shoes traditionally! Crazy..
Chris Minjae's shoe tieing method from John Lee on Vimeo.
Loving my camera! (: check out www.flickr.com/photos/kirbee for pictures.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The Longing for Intimacy, Fulfilled temporarily or permanently...
Fasting created a longing for intimacy. The issue is not whether or not I have the hunger, the issue is whether or not I will fill that hunger with the Lord. As I fill up this hunger with the Lord, and He begins to download divine, heavenly plans into my mind, my mind, body, and soul's capacity for intimacy enlarges as well. If I do not continue to sit at His feet, I need to fulfill that intimacy with something else, and it's a HUGE hole.
Enter stage left, satan.
When the longing for intimacy is absent, satan will not even bother to tempt you because he knows that there is no way you can grow if your desire for a relationship with God is absent. He begins to work when a vaccuum is created within our souls for something greater, God's work. What previously seemed to be a easily overcomable temptation now becomes the very thing you literally fight with your mind's fists and legs.
At every corner, the temptation seemingly grows at an unmeasurable rate. You turn and run, and its right up in your face. Turn again and again and again. Until you look up...
You place yourself in the 3rd heaven, where the glory of God is. You no longer are battling the longing for intimacy from the 1st and 2nd heaven (1st being the physical, 2nd being the spiritual realm, demons and angels), you are now in a place where hope is in every crevice and despair is not even in existence. The longing for intimacy is filled with the ever flowing fountain of life (which comes from Jesus Christ).
When all seems to be crashing in around you, look to the 3rd heavens and pray from the 3rd heaven, where hope lives and death is defeated.
Enter stage left, satan.
When the longing for intimacy is absent, satan will not even bother to tempt you because he knows that there is no way you can grow if your desire for a relationship with God is absent. He begins to work when a vaccuum is created within our souls for something greater, God's work. What previously seemed to be a easily overcomable temptation now becomes the very thing you literally fight with your mind's fists and legs.
At every corner, the temptation seemingly grows at an unmeasurable rate. You turn and run, and its right up in your face. Turn again and again and again. Until you look up...
You place yourself in the 3rd heaven, where the glory of God is. You no longer are battling the longing for intimacy from the 1st and 2nd heaven (1st being the physical, 2nd being the spiritual realm, demons and angels), you are now in a place where hope is in every crevice and despair is not even in existence. The longing for intimacy is filled with the ever flowing fountain of life (which comes from Jesus Christ).
When all seems to be crashing in around you, look to the 3rd heavens and pray from the 3rd heaven, where hope lives and death is defeated.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Becky Testimony
03-31-09, Tuesday
In my room, Becky and Tiffany ask about the things on my wall and begin to ask me questions about God. I begin to answer their questions of curiosity (contrasted to questions of evil to stump me). In the middle of it all, I debate with myself whether to ask God for a word or not to share the love of God with them.
Then in the bathroom, there God gives me a word of knowledge about Becky: something about her parents and her sister. At first it was just her sister and her mom & Taiwan, but then God gives me her dad. So I ask her about her dad, and she just shares that her dad has some sort of disease. Then I ask about her mom & sister.
At first, I don’t believe that she heard me, so then I ask again “Is there something about your mom & sister and Taiwan?” She begins to tear up and break down into tears sharing with me of how her mom and sister just got sick last weekend and how her mom was extremely ill and Becky only got to see her for only a little bit at the airport. She didn’t realize how much it meant to her.
The words that I spoke over her, she did not realize that it meant that much to her. God knows the things that are close to people’s hearts. She begins to pour out her heart to me. As she is sharing, she reveals that she feels alone at home and cannot connect with people and sometimes has a longing for intimate conversations even with people in the frat, but everyone that she is close to is away from home.
Then I begin to prophesy over her that there is a calling for her to be a missionary to people abroad, specifically: children, lost, and alone. Hopefully, she will soon give her life to Jesus, but the timing is impeccable. God is perfect. Victor and her best friend very recently have been devoting their lives to God.
Crazy thing is after all this, Becky shared how secretly she wanted a miracle to see if God was real the whole time. Through tears and a pouring of the heart, she definitely had a leap of faith and is thinking hard about giving her life to Jesus Christ. More to come soon… but there was an assurance in my heart a peace about her salvation. Amen and Amen.
God is incredible. Undeniably great and all-knowing.
In my room, Becky and Tiffany ask about the things on my wall and begin to ask me questions about God. I begin to answer their questions of curiosity (contrasted to questions of evil to stump me). In the middle of it all, I debate with myself whether to ask God for a word or not to share the love of God with them.
Then in the bathroom, there God gives me a word of knowledge about Becky: something about her parents and her sister. At first it was just her sister and her mom & Taiwan, but then God gives me her dad. So I ask her about her dad, and she just shares that her dad has some sort of disease. Then I ask about her mom & sister.
At first, I don’t believe that she heard me, so then I ask again “Is there something about your mom & sister and Taiwan?” She begins to tear up and break down into tears sharing with me of how her mom and sister just got sick last weekend and how her mom was extremely ill and Becky only got to see her for only a little bit at the airport. She didn’t realize how much it meant to her.
The words that I spoke over her, she did not realize that it meant that much to her. God knows the things that are close to people’s hearts. She begins to pour out her heart to me. As she is sharing, she reveals that she feels alone at home and cannot connect with people and sometimes has a longing for intimate conversations even with people in the frat, but everyone that she is close to is away from home.
Then I begin to prophesy over her that there is a calling for her to be a missionary to people abroad, specifically: children, lost, and alone. Hopefully, she will soon give her life to Jesus, but the timing is impeccable. God is perfect. Victor and her best friend very recently have been devoting their lives to God.
Crazy thing is after all this, Becky shared how secretly she wanted a miracle to see if God was real the whole time. Through tears and a pouring of the heart, she definitely had a leap of faith and is thinking hard about giving her life to Jesus Christ. More to come soon… but there was an assurance in my heart a peace about her salvation. Amen and Amen.
God is incredible. Undeniably great and all-knowing.
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