" Life or Death: Choose Life! - Lessons from Deuteronomy"

Moses , the same person who told God in Exodus 4:10 that he has never been eloquent and that he is slow of speech and tongue, gives the longest sermon in the Bible, the book of Deuteronomy. In Deuteronomy Moses repeats the Law and in Deuteronomy 30 he gives one of the greatest challenges in the Bible:

Deut 30:15-20
See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.
For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,
I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.
Now choose life, so that you and your children may live
and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

I gave a message on this subject and I posted the powerpoint presentation on Scribd. You may view and/or download it at this link:

Life or Death: CHOOSE LIFE! - Lessons from Deuteronomy

"Lessons from 2 Timothy, Paul's Farewell Letter to His Disciple"

a painter's idea of Apostle Paul (this depiction may be
"sanitized", the prison was probably much filthier
and Paul didn't have anything with him in prison,
much less a sword)

If you knew you were going to be executed for your faith in Jesus in a few days or weeks, what kind of letter would you write to your closest disciple? I would certainly like to learn from the farewell letter of Apostle Paul, who considered "all things a loss compared to the surpassing glory of knowing Christ Jesus." In the book 2 Timothy, Paul tells Timothy how to love and remember Christ always and stand firm in the face of apostasy and persecution.

Here is the link to the powerpoint presentation of the message I gave in January 09. I uploaded it on Scribd.

"Lessons from 2 Timothy, Paul's Farewell Letter to His Disciple"

Harvest Time!

me with the pineapple before we harvested it (the proud gardener!)

just right- all yellow (this was planted from a Dole Tropical Gold pineapple top)

just a few twists and off it went

above: my husband slices it up

we had eight slices - 4 gone, 4 to go!

my younger son enjoying his pineapple slice

"The Disadvantages Of Backsliding"

I would like to share this powerpoint presentation of a message I shared a few months back. I posted it on Scribd. It's called "The Disadvantages of Backsliding:Lessons from the Life of Solomon".

Some Christians think that they can "schedule" backsliding...like "test the waters for a season" or "jump over the fence for a few months". Then afterwards they'll "repent" and "go back to God" after the said period of "testing the waters". They don't realize that backsliding, even for a short season, has its far-reaching, life-altering, sometimes life-ending, consequences. What's worse is when one is King of Israel and he backslides, and brings the whole nation along with him. Here I gave lessons from the life of Solomon.

Funny Pic from the Internet: "So Near, Yet So Far"

I just saw this in a powerpoint presentation of a dental professor in the US.

It had no title, but I would like to give it one: "So Near, Yet So Far". Or "Poor Doggie". :-)

Lyrics of Baptize My Heart by Misty Edwards

If there is one song that will surely shake you, this is it. Baptize My Heart is a song of submission, obedience, and hunger for Jesus. You will ask yourself: am I in love with Christian "stuff", Christian people, Christian fellowship and its trappings and blessings, or am I in love with the Lord Jesus Christ? This song is all about Jesus, and Misty's cry to follow and serve God's heart and to be in love with Jesus and Jesus alone, even "when it's all coming down".
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And I can hear the song
Of the Creator singing over creation:

I played the flute ...did you dance?
I sang the wedding song over you ...were you romanced?
And I played the funeral dirge...did you lament?
I told you My judgments were in the land ...but did you, did you repent?
For even children know when to dance!
And even children know when to lament

And I played the flute for you ...did you dance?
And I sang the wedding song over you ... were you romanced?
And I played the funeral song ...did you lament?
I told you My judgments over the land ...but did you repent?
Repent, did you repent?
For even children know when to dance!
And even children know when to lament

What shall I liken to this generation,
Like children in the market place
They sing:
We played the flute…you did not dance
We played the funeral song, you did not lament

Oh God
Teach me how to dance
How to lament
Show me what You’re looking for
What kind of response You’re asking of me, oh

Baptize my heart with Your fire, desire,

Come and baptize my heart with Your fire, desire (Repeat 3x)

’Cause I don't want to be offended,
No I don't want to be offended
No I don't want to be offended
When it's all coming down

No I don't want to be offended
I don't want to be offended
God I don't want to be offended
When it's all coming down

Baptize my heart with Your fire, desire,

Come and baptize my heart with Your fire, desire (Repeat 3x)
’Cause I don't want to be offended,
No I don't want to be offended
God I don't want to be offended
When it's all coming down

I don't want to be offended,
No, no, no I don't want to be offended
God I don't want to be offended
When it's all coming down

Once again You are going to shake everything that can be shaken
Jesus desire of the nations
The only, only safe place is on the center of the flame
The only, only safe place is in You

Baptize my heart with Your fire, desire,

Come and baptize my heart with Your fire, desire (Repeat 3x)

’Cause I don't want to be offended,
God I don't want to be offended
I don't want to be offended
When it's all coming down

I don't want to be offended,
I don't want to be offended
God I don't want to be offended
When it's all coming down

‘Cause I wanna be for You not against You
I wanna be with You where You are

I wanna be for You not against You
I wanna be with You where You are

God I wanna be for You not against You
I wanna be with You where You are

And I wanna be for You not against You
I wanna be with You where You are

and I pledge my allegiance to Jesus, to Jesus
and I pledge my allegiance to the Lamb
(repeat 3x)

When the nations are raging against You
The nations who are at ease
When the nations are raging against You
I wanna be with you where You are God

I don’t want to be swept away with the wicked
And their wave of delusion
I wanna be with you where You are
With you where You are

So baptize my heart with Your fire(the only safe place), desire,
Come and baptize my heart with Your fire, desire,
Baptize my heart with Your fire, desire

Cause I don't want to be offended,
God I don't want to be offended
I don't want to be offended
When it's all coming down

I don't want to be offended,
NoI don't want to be offended
No I don't want to be offended
When it's all coming down


To the son of David
To the Jewish carpenter from Nazareth
When it’s all coming down
And when the nations are raging against Him

I pledge my allegiance to Jesus Christ of Nazareth
The Jewish King
The Son of David
The Slain Lamb
Oh for I know that He is the Magnificent obsession
And He is the desire of the nations
He’s gonna turn it all around
Its just a matter of time . . .
I am going to choose this day to love Him, to serve Him
I am going to choose this day to cling to him and him alone

For I pledge my allegiance to Jesus, to Jesus
And I pledge my allegiance to the Lamb
When it’s all coming down

Once again You will shake everything that can be shaken
Oh Righteous Judge of the nations
Beautiful Bridegroom
Lover of my soul
Do what you have to do
Just come

Come make the wrong things right
Come make the darkness light
And turn the world upside down, `cause
There is no peace until You come back Jesus

until You return Return,
return, return,
Return, return,
return, return, return
Jesus please come back

Creation is groaning and waiting, waiting and groaning, groaning and waiting,
waiting and groaning, groaning and waiting
For your return
You are the only Man of Peace
That we want
You are the only King that we cry to come again
Return
Jesus come
Come again Jesus

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Baptize My Heart is on iTunes
View Misty Edwards' MySpace Music page

Listen to it on imeem:

Baptize My Heart - Misty Edwards

Watch Me Grow: Pineapple Plants Batch 2 (May 1 '09 pics)

These are recent pics of my new pineapple fruits in my parents' backyard. My last post about them was dated April 10, 2009.


Above: My pineapple plant #1

Above: I am holding Pineapple #1. I have Size Small (latex examination glove size) hands so you can have an idea how small the pineapple is.




Above: Pineapple #2 . The fruit showed up later than Pineapple #1 so it is still small.


Above: You can see that Pineapple #2 is so small compared to my hand!