Saturday, April 30, 2011
The breath of life
Ps 39:5 says "Each man's life is but a breath." NIV.
In fact once there is no breath in us, we die a physical death.
In fact scientists have shown by putting participants aged 60+ on a treadmill to measure how much oxygen they can consume, participants who consumed or processed more oxygen (aerobic capacity) lived longer. These participants were followed up for a 11 year period.
Aerobic capacity, often referred to as VO2 Max, this can be measured in a gym or a physiological lab using a treadmill or bicycle with a gas analyzer. It measures how much oxygen your body can make use of each minute. Studies have shown that higher VO2 Max correlates with a longer life-expectancy. Aerobic capacity indicates how well your lungs take in air, how much oxygen is coursing from your lungs to the bloodstream, how well your heart is pumping it to the muscles and how well your capillaries are delivering it to your cells. Most people’s VO2 Max declines as they move past 35. This decline is reversible with aerobic workouts. As you reverse it, your body will grow younger and your mind clearer.
Ref: 1. Blair, S et al. Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality. J of the American Medical Association 1989, 262: 2395-401
In fact once there is no breath in us, we die a physical death.
In fact scientists have shown by putting participants aged 60+ on a treadmill to measure how much oxygen they can consume, participants who consumed or processed more oxygen (aerobic capacity) lived longer. These participants were followed up for a 11 year period.
Aerobic capacity, often referred to as VO2 Max, this can be measured in a gym or a physiological lab using a treadmill or bicycle with a gas analyzer. It measures how much oxygen your body can make use of each minute. Studies have shown that higher VO2 Max correlates with a longer life-expectancy. Aerobic capacity indicates how well your lungs take in air, how much oxygen is coursing from your lungs to the bloodstream, how well your heart is pumping it to the muscles and how well your capillaries are delivering it to your cells. Most people’s VO2 Max declines as they move past 35. This decline is reversible with aerobic workouts. As you reverse it, your body will grow younger and your mind clearer.
Ref: 1. Blair, S et al. Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality. J of the American Medical Association 1989, 262: 2395-401
Friday, April 29, 2011
Good health
It is amazing how people go to church asking for God to heal them from many lifestyle related disease like diabetes, high blood, high cholesterol etc and their subsequent cardiovascular problems.
For instance diabetes may be genetically related but its expression is lifestyle related. The degree to which your propensity to express these genes are dependent on your diet and exercise.
It is futile to keep telling some of them that they are already healed 2000 year ago though it is biblically correct. More often than not, they won't be healed coz though God can perform miracles but He wants us to address the root problems. How to expect God to heal you from lifestyle related disease if you still eat like a pig, smoke like a chimney and drink like a fish.
I do a lot of running and hashing with many friends. So far none of them have complained of lifestyle related ailments.
For instance diabetes may be genetically related but its expression is lifestyle related. The degree to which your propensity to express these genes are dependent on your diet and exercise.
It is futile to keep telling some of them that they are already healed 2000 year ago though it is biblically correct. More often than not, they won't be healed coz though God can perform miracles but He wants us to address the root problems. How to expect God to heal you from lifestyle related disease if you still eat like a pig, smoke like a chimney and drink like a fish.
I do a lot of running and hashing with many friends. So far none of them have complained of lifestyle related ailments.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
8yrs old Rhema Marvanne
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Come clean or don't come at all
2 months ago a friend rang and said wanted to introduce a Christian colleague of hers to me, and she only wants to meet Christian guys. But this girl has a boyfriend but not happy with the boyfriend.
My friend asked me to add her on my facebook which I did. After some time I asked her to have dinner on a weekend, she said she can't that weekend as she needs to accompany her boyfriend to Ipoh. I immediately deleted her from facebook for the follwing reasons:
*she must be honest to herself and the BF.
*any unresolved matters will be brought to the next relationship.
My friend asked me to add her on my facebook which I did. After some time I asked her to have dinner on a weekend, she said she can't that weekend as she needs to accompany her boyfriend to Ipoh. I immediately deleted her from facebook for the follwing reasons:
*she must be honest to herself and the BF.
*any unresolved matters will be brought to the next relationship.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
The Lord choses the weak
It has been a long haul. We have worked hard to be where we are. Our biz is finally positioned to be where the Lord can filled our barns and vessels to the brim. We rely on His way as that is the only way.
We are in the zone. We have to make it happen. We let Him lead. We lean on His wisdom, not ours. Only fools can say min effort ---> maximal return. We had to go through so much. Biz is not for the faint-hearted. Fortune favours the brave.
I have sacrificed and gone through much pain to get the China biz up.We were undercapitalized from the beginning and started with little. God really used the weak the humble the strong. I asked God why and it is simple. What story would there be if a rich man went abroad and ventured and got richer?
We are in the zone. We have to make it happen. We let Him lead. We lean on His wisdom, not ours. Only fools can say min effort ---> maximal return. We had to go through so much. Biz is not for the faint-hearted. Fortune favours the brave.
I have sacrificed and gone through much pain to get the China biz up.We were undercapitalized from the beginning and started with little. God really used the weak the humble the strong. I asked God why and it is simple. What story would there be if a rich man went abroad and ventured and got richer?
Friday, April 22, 2011
Never make a woman angry
A woman arrived at the Gates of Heaven. While she was waiting for Saint Peter to greet her, she peeked through the gates and saw a beautiful banquet table. Sitting all around were her parents and all the other people she had loved and who had died before her. They saw her and began calling greetings to her, "Hello. How are you! We've been waiting for you! Good to see you."
When Saint Peter came by, the woman said to him,
"This is such a wonderful place! How do I get in?"
"You have to spell a word," Saint Peter told her.
"Which word?" the woman asked.
"Love."
The woman correctly spelled "Love" and Saint Peter welcomed her into Heaven.
About a year later, Saint Peter came to the woman
and asked her to watch the Gates of Heaven for him that day.
While the woman was guarding the Gates of Heaven, her husband arrived.
"I'm surprised to see you," the woman said. "How have you been?"
"Oh, I've been doing pretty well since you died," her husband told her. "I married the beautiful young nurse who took care of you while you were ill. And then I won the multi-state lottery. I sold the little house you and I lived in and bought a huge mansion. And my wife and I traveled all around the world. We were on vacation in Cancun and I went water skiing today. I fell and hit my head, and here I am. What a bummer! How do I get in?"
"You have to spell a word," the woman told him.
"Which word?" her husband asked.
"Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", she replied.
****
Moral of the story: Never make a woman angry . . . there will be Hell to pay!
NB: The longest word currently listed in the Oxford dictionary is the supposed lung-disease
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters).
(Now you've learned a new word.)
"The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling
and even more beautiful is to know that you are the reason behind it."
Keep smiling ...and keep mailing.
When Saint Peter came by, the woman said to him,
"This is such a wonderful place! How do I get in?"
"You have to spell a word," Saint Peter told her.
"Which word?" the woman asked.
"Love."
The woman correctly spelled "Love" and Saint Peter welcomed her into Heaven.
About a year later, Saint Peter came to the woman
and asked her to watch the Gates of Heaven for him that day.
While the woman was guarding the Gates of Heaven, her husband arrived.
"I'm surprised to see you," the woman said. "How have you been?"
"Oh, I've been doing pretty well since you died," her husband told her. "I married the beautiful young nurse who took care of you while you were ill. And then I won the multi-state lottery. I sold the little house you and I lived in and bought a huge mansion. And my wife and I traveled all around the world. We were on vacation in Cancun and I went water skiing today. I fell and hit my head, and here I am. What a bummer! How do I get in?"
"You have to spell a word," the woman told him.
"Which word?" her husband asked.
"Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", she replied.
****
Moral of the story: Never make a woman angry . . . there will be Hell to pay!
NB: The longest word currently listed in the Oxford dictionary is the supposed lung-disease
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters).
(Now you've learned a new word.)
"The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling
and even more beautiful is to know that you are the reason behind it."
Keep smiling ...and keep mailing.
Why did Jesus fold the napkin?
This is one I can honestly say I have never seen circulating in the emails so; if it touches you, you may want to forward it.
Why did Jesus fold the linen burial cloth after His resurrection? I never
noticed this....
The Gospel of John (20:7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes..
The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was neatly folded, and was placed separate from the grave clothes.
Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, 'They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!'
Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see. The other disciple outran Peter and got there first. He stooped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in.
Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was folded up and lying to the side.
Was that important? Absolutely!
Is it really significant? Yes!
In order to understand the significance of the folded napkin, you have to
understand a little bit about Hebrew tradition of that day. The folded napkin had to do with the Master and Servant, and every Jewish boy knew this tradition.
When the servant set the dinner table for the master, he made sure that it was exactly the way the master wanted it.
The table was furnished perfectly, and then the servant would wait, just
out of sight, until the master had finished eating, and the servant would
not dare touch that table, until the master was finished.
Now if the master were done eating, he would rise from the table, wipe his fingers, his mouth, and clean his beard, and would wad up that napkin and toss it onto the table.
The servant would then know to clear the table. For in those days, the wadded napkin meant, 'I'm done'.
But if the master got up from the table, and folded his napkin, and laid it
beside his plate, the servant would not dare touch the table, because...........
The folded napkin meant, 'I'm coming back!'
He is Coming Back!
This is one I can honestly say I have never seen circulating in the emails so; if it touches you, forward it to friends you wanted blessed.
Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Phil 4:4
Why did Jesus fold the linen burial cloth after His resurrection? I never
noticed this....
The Gospel of John (20:7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes..
The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was neatly folded, and was placed separate from the grave clothes.
Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, 'They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!'
Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see. The other disciple outran Peter and got there first. He stooped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in.
Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was folded up and lying to the side.
Was that important? Absolutely!
Is it really significant? Yes!
In order to understand the significance of the folded napkin, you have to
understand a little bit about Hebrew tradition of that day. The folded napkin had to do with the Master and Servant, and every Jewish boy knew this tradition.
When the servant set the dinner table for the master, he made sure that it was exactly the way the master wanted it.
The table was furnished perfectly, and then the servant would wait, just
out of sight, until the master had finished eating, and the servant would
not dare touch that table, until the master was finished.
Now if the master were done eating, he would rise from the table, wipe his fingers, his mouth, and clean his beard, and would wad up that napkin and toss it onto the table.
The servant would then know to clear the table. For in those days, the wadded napkin meant, 'I'm done'.
But if the master got up from the table, and folded his napkin, and laid it
beside his plate, the servant would not dare touch the table, because...........
The folded napkin meant, 'I'm coming back!'
He is Coming Back!
This is one I can honestly say I have never seen circulating in the emails so; if it touches you, forward it to friends you wanted blessed.
Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Phil 4:4
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Cheap skates
I went to a healing seminar last weekend. It was a Friday- Sun thingy. On Saturday when I went I thought I better pay the enrollment fee of RM20 even though I was only there for a few hours. The person who collected the money from me said many didn't want to pay.
In my heart I pondered, what is the use of lifting holy hands in worship and praising God when there is not only no charity at heart but just take, take, take rather than grace, grace, grace.
At the seminar, I spoke to someone who was a former medical technologist and knowing that I was in the milk powder business told me that cow's milk is not for humans plus loads of other related things which even if I didn't know won't kill me as long as my products sell. There are just too many professors around!
Oh well, God bless us all nontheless.
In my heart I pondered, what is the use of lifting holy hands in worship and praising God when there is not only no charity at heart but just take, take, take rather than grace, grace, grace.
At the seminar, I spoke to someone who was a former medical technologist and knowing that I was in the milk powder business told me that cow's milk is not for humans plus loads of other related things which even if I didn't know won't kill me as long as my products sell. There are just too many professors around!
Oh well, God bless us all nontheless.
