1. Didn't Realize I've Got So Much To Talk About!

    Tuesday, February 19, 2008
    By johnny
    Today I had a chance to talk with my Gan-Ma(god-mother) over the phone. She was hanging out with Annie and Judie. I haven't seen her for a VERY LONG time(definitely more than 5 years)! But knowing that she's totally radical about Jesus, I'm totally overjoyed! She's been living in Ottawa( I think) for quite a long time in this little French town(!!!!!!!I wanna go vist!!!!!!). Great to have talked to her!
    I spent quite a lot of time doing some audio interface researches since there were sales today online for music instruments and all. Learned some more about putting a home studio together, pretty cool(and pricy). I'd say I would spend at least $5,000 on my recording studio! However, I don't even have $500 lol....so I guess it's a step by step work. Hopefully by spring break I'll be able to have an audio interface to doodle with along with my Macbook beauty. Thank You Lord, I really desire to have a keyboard/midi controller to go along with the audio interface. I want to learn more about self recording. Lord would You let me connect with those professional sound engineers on campus!
    I'm considering to minor in Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts (ICAM) to learn more about music and electronic music. I've just started to work on Get Connected remix(just the tracks without the vocal) and we'll see how that would come out. Hopefully I'll be able to at least have the basic structure of the song planned out by the end of March. Gotta squeeeeeeeze some time for that.
    Anyhow, I dragged Alex to bible study simply because 1) I wanted to go out and get some air and 2) I want Alex to go to some fellowship and focus on God for a while. I love Alex, he's a really awesome person--just always chillin' and upbeat and encouraging. He went to the baptist church in Alhambra and he's not been to church since he got to UCSD. Keeping him in my prayers.

    I needa go get some sleep so I'm just going to share some goodies from Genesis:
    Chpter 24 - Issac's wife Rebekah
    Go read this crazy story yourself. I want my wife to be chosen like that--totally by God. I mean, Issac's papa Abraham even asked this servant to SWEAR that the wife of Issac would not be from the land of Cannan--his request was THAT specific. And God did it. One really cheezy scene: Issac met Rebekah at a field in the evening(pretty darn romatic right there, Lord). God I pray that my parents are constantly praying for my future spouse and You would just use some crazy ways to let us meet!

    Chapter 25 - Jacob & Esau
    Y'all know this famous story. I'm still a bit confused about why God would pick Jacob over Esau--or Abel over Cain(Gen 4). I think there are two reasons why these two(Jacob & Abel) were chosen by God: 1) God's will(mostly in Abel's case) and 2) The desire(mostly in Jacob's case). Our desire to get that birthright--the heavenly identity--would totally shake the heavens and actually change God's heart. God looks at our hearts, eh? Then He would definitely give us no less than what we desire; never more will he give unless the desire is unbearable: to exchange all the blessings from heaven with some freakin' stew. Jacob you surely are something--just like your mother: the secret commander of all who would do anything she can to get the blessings for Jacob. We need parents who would do anything they can to get the blessings even though the blessings are meant for others. You might feel like, "what the...that's totally stealing!" But you also need to see how much Esau valued his birthright: a bowl of spammy stew(yew..(they rhyme!)). So there you have it: the desire in your heart would have a HUGE effect to your blessings in the days to come--it might even change your destiny!

    Chapter 26 - Like father, like son
    The same king was not very smart at all since he was fooled TWICE by the father Abraham and the son Issac about their wives as their sisters. I've got not much to say about this chapter besides King Abimelech, you need to go see a doctor. You just got owned, again, with the exactly same trick. *snap*

    Chapter 27 - Hairy = Good?
    Um....I'm not a hairy guy at all. I would say yes, though, after reading through how Jacob tricked his dad Issac to think that he's actually Esau to steal that blessing away from Esau--by putting on some fake hair all over his body. Man, was Esau a red monkey or what(ch 25)? Anyhow, that's not important. What's important is that Jacob REALZED what the blessings meant and took his chances. And he did it with some fake hair stuck on his smooth skin! Was Jacob sweating when he was lying to his father? lol....just a thought.

    Anyhow, the conclusions are:
    1) We gotta have parents who are praying for us constantly--you will totally receive crazy blessings when you've got your father and mother praying over you--inevitable blessings, that is.
    2) We gotta increase your desire and see what God sees! We gotta be like Jacob who would sacrifice a little in order to get that grand prize!
    3) God wouldn't increase His blessings for us unless we first increase our desire.
    4) Be hairy(optional)

    Lord I thank You and I love You
    Reading Your words is so much fun!

    Johnny

    ps. The impact God has brought through the Love Tent to this community is immeasurable: people's hearts are being stirred up for no reason and they feel the love and warmth when they entered into the chamber of love!
    pps. What I want to see happen on the UCSD campus for next quarter is this: believers would start performing signs and wonders in power and in faith and calling forth massive conversion through these miraculous testimonies! That's what I want to see. I'm still praying about it for some specific numbers or events, or maybe I'm wrong. But I want to see this school completely transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit.
    ppps. Woah, I just checked my email for no specific reason, and guess what I got?
    From Brian: Dear Passion Church friends, We are having Carol and Bill Dew share and minister to us on the 20th this month. They train God's warriors to know how to heal the sick, not only in a church setting, but out there on the street, on campuses, even in supermarket. The way they train is simple and powerful. Come and receive more training so you can have more boldness and confidence in praying for the sick, getting results and bringing in the lost who need to be healed. You can bring the sick to receive prayer.
    Duddddddde! I just finished typing my "pps" and then I received this email XD.....what the...Alright, Lord, if this is what You're speaking to my heart, please give me 2 confirmations tomorrow about seeing signs and wonders all over campus, and I will go to this meeting on Wed night instead of Intervarsity! I mean, I've gone through 3 city invasion trainings already, but I think this one might be something different, who knows?

    Jesus You're awesome! I'm raising my expectations of You daily!

    pppps. Go check out Jaeson Ma's blog about crazy revival in Taiwan!!
    ppppps. This thought just crossed my mind and I'm going to give it a try for the entire day tomorrow: I will not talk to anyone and simply pray in tongue for 12 hours straight starting the moment I wake up! Let's see what God can do with this. I don't know whether this is gonna do anything, but I've been lacking some praying in tongue time anyways! I'm excited!
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  2. My Left Knee Didn't Get Healed!!

    Monday, February 18, 2008
    By johnny
    Praise the Lord. It was an awesome night.
    Had some awesome laughs for sure! =)

    Went to house church at Robbie's apt with all these amazing people. Robbie shared tonight and his point is to get us all thinking why we are Christians. We talked about miracles, dreams and science--things that shake our faith on a regular basis.
    Lately I've just been stuggling with my doubt. And Lord I simply hate that thought. This little voice inside of me has been asking me the same question over and over again: Is God real?
    Let's face it. We all have this little voice inside of us. I mean, I have no doubt(or at least I think I have none) that Jesus is real and alive because of the multiple things I've experienced. Sometimes I would want a crazy testimony that I can tell the world about, yet there was no crazy conversion testimony for me to tell all those "humanists" and "athiests". I don't think my testimony holds much juice even though I know that it is a powerful one, but to those unbelievers, a simple healing of my headache would not do it(even though God's definitely working somehow). I want to bring those humanists to Christ. I really do feel sorrow for them because this physic prof Fred does not live for any purpose. If there is really no God, then why are we here? If Jesus didn't raise from the dead, then we might as well not live at all because there's no reason for us to live anyways! For real though. This is some crazy thoughts yet they are very reasonable. Just linger on this for a while.
    One thing is: God has been real to me so far, so I will still stick with this Son of God unless I can find proven facts that Jesus did not raise from the dead because His bones are found and "identified"(which is nearly impossible to do). However, nothing has been found yet related to Jesus' death. Thank You Lord. I really am amazed by You. Tonight's message totally opened my eyes to another field of looking at my belief and what it is that I'm doing what I'm doing--pick up my cross and follow Jesus.
    We also talked about signs, wonders and miracles and how we haven't seen many miracles on campus and how this school needs serious miracles to draw men back to God. Lord I ask for a release of Your power upon Your servants ready to serve others as You have served us. Empower Your sons and daughters to release Your power upon the sick and afflicted ones on campus. We want to see huge miracles! We are raising our expectations! We are not restricting ourselves inside a box because we know that You are not in a box! You are alive!
    We separated into two groups to pray for one another--5 guys & 3 girls. So all these four awesome crazy sons of God--Jeff, Robbie, Victor, and Jon--were determined to pray for my left knee to be completely healed: with new skin growing back instantaneously. We all believed that my knee would be healed through prayers. Jesus raised someone from the dead, how about repairing my scarred knee completely with new skin without any scar? I mean God can do whatever He wants, but we were really longing for the Lord to just come down and heal my left knee. So for like 30 minutes they were all laying hands on me; Victor and Jon actually laid their hands right on my wound! And here comes the crazy part that totally cracked us all up: Jon suddenly said, "I think I should blow on his knee." And we all burst out laughing because it was so random! So hilarious. Anyhow Jon did that and we prayed for some more, yet my knee still looked the same. I'll make sure I get pictures that Robbie took before they prayed for me. God I think it would be totally amazing if You just give me new skin over my left knee, Ya know. But we had a blast laughing too...lol. Anyhow, that's about my knee and all. Oh right, Victor said the word "shower" when he was praying for me, so we'll see whether that's a sign from God(I hope it is!).

    Just some good verses from Matthew 17-19:

    Um.....why did Peter, James, and John know that it was Moses and Elijah that appeare before them? Did they know what did Moses and Elijah look like? Oh well...just a thought.

    "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' an it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.
    Yeah, we were all praying God that we could have faith as BIG as a mustard seed, which is extremely tiny, that we can totally what Jesus tells us to do in Matthew 10:8!

    "From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes--from their own sons or from others?"
    "From others," Peter answered."
    "Then the sons are exempt," Jesus said to him.
    I think this has something significant, but I can't say much about it. I think it has something to do with our sins and how our debts are forgiven because we are His sons and daughters.

    One funny thing about the disciple: Jesus told them about being humble and becoming like a little child in order to enter the kingdom of heaven in chapter 18, yet the disciples didn't quite get it. In chapter 19 they actually stopped the children from going to Jesus and being prayed for. So Jesus told them yet again: "the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these [children]."

    I'm a bit confused about this camel thingy: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. What??? what does that camel thinger have to do with entering the kingdom of God? Camel going through the eyes of a needle--what does that mean?

    Lord I still love You so.
    I still believe that You'll heal my knee!

    Johnny

    ps. I watched the movie I, Robot again today with my suitemates. And I really do appreciate God's intention of creating human. We are created with emotion, unlike robots. That's beautiful, Lord.

    pss. Had a chance to chat with Garrett last night(it was actually 5am...) on skype. He's now at Chile chilling. He was listening to some music I gave him before his departure and he listend to my songs lol...I totally forgot that I put my songs in it. Anyhow he sent me his song and it is superb. I can feel his love for God within that song. Garrett you rock, dude. I'm keeping you in my prayers.
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  3. First Saturday

    Sunday, February 17, 2008
    By johnny

    Today's the first Saturday I spent on campus since zero week! Went to sleep a tad before 4am. It got quite cooooold! But sleep in the Lord's presence? I'd do it whether it's freezing or not! Anyhow, I woke up at 7:40 and started to break down all the stuff while the last group of people were jamming it out for the Lord before the end of Love Tent. After we were all packed, 11 of us gathered and just give thanks to the Lord.
    God's moving. The head of Price Center(the student center where theres' a free speech zone) came to Jeff and told him that he really liked the Love Tent and said that WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS EVERY MONTH! You gotta get this, this is the person who kicked JHOP out of Price Center last year when they were preaching the Love of God! Woah. William saw this vision how God's using Love Tent to shift the culture of this school, and he also said that many times new strategy would just kick in and we gotta throw the old ways away. And this might be the new strategy to reach out to the campus: we're not forcing them anything, we are simply having a great time loving God in public! There are so many testimonies regarding to those who are curious about the tent! Eddie was also saying that this school is like Nazereth, does not have enough faith that Jesus could not perform signs and wonders! However, the school has been moved by the Spirit of God and people are starting to get curious about Christianity!
    Robbie was talking to Fred, the Physic prof, head of Adult Thought yesterday afternoon.
    "If that guy was healed right there at the spot, would you rethink about[Christianity]?"
    "If he was really healed, I would strongly reconsider"
    I was surprised that Fred said that. I mean, he's the last person on earth that would believe in God, yet he said that he would strongly reconsider believing in God if he sees God's power with his own eyes! Lord right now I just ask You to release Your Spirit upon this campus like never before so that multitudes of signs and wonders would break out for people to see that You are real and still living among us! Thank You Lord. Come shift the culture! We won't stop praying in faith! And we just pray that the works we put into the Love Tent would not be in vain.
    I met these two awesome guys from LA -- Matthew Williams and Ryan Holly. They are in a film school in LA right now, and I told them that they are totally going to bring the Gospel into Hollywood. It's cool to connect with them and all. They came down just for Love Tent! Good stuff. Bless them totally.
    Went back to the room. Took a good shower. Had a good breakfast. Started to watch 3:10 to YUMA but I fell asleep an hour into the movie. Took a nap at 12:30ish. My suitemates woke me up at 5:30! I was planning to sleep for an hour, not five! Anyhow I went with them to play some tennis. I didn't play cuz of my left knee(it's healing bit by bit! Thank You God!!) so I was making some music on my Mac on the side. I hope to at least finish making Get Connected remix version on my Mac beauty.
    We went down to Chipotle and grabbed some amazing burrito and then we went to this good play called The Physicists. My friend Seth's in it. I was impressed at the acting, the set, and the play itself! It's about these three patients in a Mad House in Germany, sometime in the 60's I assume. One consider himself as Issac Newton, another Albert Einstein, and another King Solomon. Very interesting play with an unexpecting ending. The characters totally cracked me up. It's a comedy/drama type of play. Has some good & deep stuff. I'm now addicted to going to plays since La Jolla playhouse--it's literally right across from my dorm!
    And then we went to watch the movie Jumper(I know, what a night!) for $8.50 & $15.00--a ticket, a large popcorn and two large drinks. TOTALLY NOT WORTH MY $23.50!!!!!! DO NOT WATSE YOUR MONEY TO WATCH JUMPER! Bad plot, good concept, yet many holes to poke. The movie does not really have a lot of stuff in it.

    "It's not even worth downloading illegaly..."
    - Kumar(not his real name for legal reasons), my awesome suitemate who has over 150 High-Def movies in his computer(shhhh....don't tell anyone....).

    However the trailers were pretty good(kind of)--Semi-Pro(Will Ferrell), 21(the gambling movie), Wanted(Angelina Jolie & Morgan Freeman...I'm excited for that movie), and the crazy Indiana Jones 4(Oh Em Gee....pleeeeeease)!

    Anyhow, that's about what happened today: Tent, Food, 5hr nap(totally awesome), Music, Food, Play, Movie, Blog + Romans.

    I urge you to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,
    holy and pleasing to God--
    this is your spiritual act of worship.
    -Romans 12:1-

    Lord, I pray that my worship always please You.
    When the worship goes up, heavens come down.
    I love You Dad.

    Johnny

    ps. Romney endorsed McCain yesterday. Saw that coming already. I don't know what God's doing, but it'll totally take a miracle for Huckabee to win the nomination while McCain is just 87 delegates away from nomination!

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  4. Straight from Love Tent

    Saturday, February 16, 2008
    By johnny
    It's 2:58 right now. I'm at the Love Tent.
    The presence of the Lord is so tangible and lovable! I can't describe how I feel right now even though it's 42 degrees right now....my Lord, You're my Fire in the night. I need You to come and fill me up. From head to toe Lord. Maritha is leading worship and it's absolutely amazing. And so was Hatty's worship--she's got a beautiful voice! Thank You Lord that I have the privilege to know all these sons and daughters of You! We just want to love You Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength! There are 10 people here right now.....man....I love it.

    You have ravished my heart
    with one glance of your eyes.
    - God

    I really do feel God's unconditional love for this school and campus. He's been so awesome in this place. There's no word can express how great He is. Lord I want to dwell in You as You dwell in me. What can I do for you!? What kind of song would You like me to sing?

    There were definitely more than 40 people in here once. I just pray for those people who were curious about the tent to be stirred up and want to know more about this Jesus who died for them.

    I had my math quiz today, not bad, I guess. Thank You Lord.

    I did worship from 2-3pm and from 1:30am-2:30am. Give God all the praise cuz new songs just came so naturally! XD.....Lord I love to be in Your presence! I find a freedom that I can't find elsewhere. I'm so warm right now, wearing two layers of pants and four layers of shirts + a really awesome comforter borrowed from Jeff.

    Jeff told me another awesome thing: He started to sing "Come Holy Spirit" when he went back to the room the other night, and he sang a new song to the Lord! "It just came so naturally. I didn't force myself to sing!" Come on!!!!! Thank You Jesus. Jeff really enjoyed Love Tent even though there's no powerpoints to the lyrics and he did not really know all the songs. But he's good at making stuff up now. Nice.

    Jesus I love You. I am Yours.

    My heart was aching when I read about the shooting at Illinois yesterday. A guy just came into a classroom and killed 5 students and injured 14 others. And then the killer killed himself. My God!!!!!!!!!!!! This is not right!!!!!!!!! How could this happen? There have been so many deaths from shooting lately--around LA, San Diego, and now, Illinois. Dear God, I ask for peace and comfort in those places. Lord I ask for Your justice to come quickly! I bet Your heart is aching right now for those 5 students. I hope they are all with You up there. Thank You Lord.


    Thank You Jesus.
    You're mighty to save.
    Alright, I'm going to get some rest.
    God's doing amazing things on this campus!!

    Whether you turn to the right or to the left,
    your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying,
    "This is the way; walk in it."
    -Isaiah 30:21-

    Johnny @ 3:31 AM
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  5. Rest in Your Love

    Friday, February 15, 2008
    By johnny
    I spent over 3 hours doing my math homework. Oh Em Gee.....I love You Lord....but I don't love math as much. You only tell me to love You and my neighbors, not math. Thank You Lord.

    All you guys dat stay tired from working hard,
    an stay trying fo handle all da heavy kine stuff
    dat da Rules say, come!
    Come ova hea by me.
    I make you guys rest now.
    Jalike da oxes get yoke on top dem fo pull da load,
    you guys put my yoke on top you,
    an go learn fo do wat I teaching you.
    I stay gentle an I like take care peopo befo me,
    so yoa hearts goin rest inside.
    Cuz my yoke real good, an my load real easy.
    Matthew 11:28~30 - Pidgin Version

    Pidgin, a language in Hawaii, actually has their own words and I bought this "Da Jesus Book" aka New Testament on Amazon.com. Recommended by our beloved Mark Hendrickson. This is not a make-fun version of the Bible, it's actually a version of the Bible intended for those speakers of the Hawaii Pidgin language! This version completely speaks to the heart and cracks me up because I'm not used to this language. The Gospel is already so simple, and it gets even simpler when it's written in Pidgin(sort of). Thank You Lord. Yoa yoke real good. You make me rest now.

    Love Tent has been totally awesome. So many people passed by and peeked in, and I just pray Lord that You would tirred up their hearts when they see us loving You without holding back! You are a beautiful bridegroom. I love you!

    Please keep on praying for the Love Tent UCSD & UCR. I think something big's going to happen tomorrow! Come pour down Your zealous love upon these two campuses, God!

    Johnny
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blind eyes open you only live once.
open your eyes.
His love never fails. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
~Ephesians 2:10~

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