" God is not a man "

God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should change his mind.
 ( Number 23: 19)

The ears of God hear a cry.
The eyes of God have indeed seen the misery of his people.(Exo 3:7)
The heart of God knows our pain.
The hand of God holds his people's hand to show His way.

The mouth of God speaks  ensured promises:
"Do not afraid.I go before you always.I will be with you and never leave you nor forsake you."
"I will come to you to fulfill my gracious promises.
I have a plan for you declares the LORD. Plans to give you prosperity and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future."
"For the mountain shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from you."

The mind of God is firm.
" The faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousands of generations! " (Deu 7:9)

The son of God ,Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,today and forever. Jesus is our righteousness.

The word of God never fades.
"The grass withers, the flowers fades, but the word of God stands." (Isaiah 66: 22)

God is not a man.
God is King of Kings.
God is  LORD of Lords.
God is " I AM WHO I AM."

Jujulay. ( 30 / 8 / 2027 )

Let this Voice be Heard from Heaven and the Universe

   

      Last week, I had a chance to meet our Voice President in New York.  I was very excited to meet him not only  as a Vice President but also I have already known that this position is God’s plan for him. 

     Since 1997, a lady named Daw Hau Khan Luan , known as Nu luan had a dream that one day a man from Chin ethnic nationality  will become one of the top leaders in Myanmar. She was a lady from Zomi tribe and lived in 12^th street in Yangon. She passed away. There are various tribes among the Chins. The Vice President belongs to one of these Chin tribe,but not from Zomi. Here, I describe this in detail to express God’s blessing and plan in the land of Myanmar. She and her prayer group, and her family, and some of her relatives prayed without bias because God said to her a man from the Chins will become a leader. They prayed to God for His plan. When does God bless us? In the bible, Psalm 133: 1; “How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity. It is like precious oil poured on the head running down on the beard, ---. It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion.  For there the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.”      I really want to share this blessing to all who read this article and other Myanmar ethnic groups such as Kachin, Kaya, Kayin  and so on.The blessing from God will come to us when we are united in prayers.

 The Vice President urged us with three words during his visit, “Work hard : when others go one step, we need to go two, three steps according to the needs of our country. Good will: when we work, we need good will on our jobs. Unity: live and work with unity.”

    We do not want anyone left behind because of armed conflict. While Myanmar’s future has a glimpse of hope for democracy, every Myanmar nationality has an opportunity to work for our own states and divisions as leaders or good citizens.

When do we get this opportunity?  In the bible, Abraham who was one of the fathers of faith did physical circumcision before he got a son Isaac.  This son came from the promise of God.   (Genesis 17:11)             The blessing from God came into his life after he did circumcision by the command  of God.                                                      

 He obeyed God and then Abraham obtained the promised son at the age of a hundred years.

 (Genesis; 21: 5 ).  

      Nowadays, we do not need to circumcise physically to obtain God’s blessings but we must circumcise our heart from envy, hatred, greed, pride, racism and chauvinism.

     On the road to Democracy, some  passed away and some are still alive.  Why don’t we give our lives for Satan and the power of darkness?  I met one man coming back from one of rebel groups. He is now taxi driver in Yangon. Everybody has own purposes, beliefs and convictions. I accept it but I want to know the answer from his heart. I asked him. What is a big difference between living as a rebel and living a new struggled life as a driver?

He answered; “You’ve been working experience in the dark without any light and also working in day light. So, you will know the difference between them. ”                                                                 
 This is the answer from his heart. His answer was very clear and touched my heart.   How many of our siblings are still walking in the darkness?     How long will they walk in the darkness?  Please come back to walk in day light.  There is a glimpse of hope for democracy in Myanmar.Siblings who walk in day light should give our hands to them.  Therefore, we can walk path by path on the road of Democracy.

  I can also hear and feel their parents prayers by the echo of the pastor‘s prayers in our church every Sunday. 
The prayers of Pastors around the world may be the same.                                                             
 “ Dear LORD, save our children’s lives who are in the front line and in the battles. Please bring them back home safely after their duty.”

Let this voice be heard from Heavens and the Universe.

JuJuLay. ( 22 / 7 / 2017)

"Only by the grace of God"

 “Only by the grace of God”

(From the darkness into the love of the light, Jesus Christ)

   In 2016 April, we had to move from Ottawa, Canada to New York for temporary for a few months.  Our colleagues from Ottawa worried about our health. Everybody knows that living without health insurance could have many unexpected affects.  I told them; “Don’t worry. We have the best insurance, that is, Jesus.”

   After arriving New York, in a few weeks, a new colleague gave me a present that I have never received before in my life.  That was an emergency hammer.  According to this present, I realized that New York has not only heavy traffic but also people who live there need safety.  Later on, our friends who work in New Life Insurance Company visited us and gave two cups with their company logo as presents. I told myself in my heart “My insurance is Jesus.”

   One month later, we went to a church nearby our residence and talked about this new experience with the Pastor of the Church. The Pastor prayed and said; “Your insurance is Jesus Christ as you said.  Your faith is assured in Jesus.  So, Jesus will ensure to keep you during your temporary stay in N.Y.”  That was true we never had health problems in that time.

    Three months later, my husband got transfer from Ottawa to New York. We moved to New York officially in middle of 2016 . We have had  many new experiences among the experts in various areas and the expatriates from my country and around the world. We also have health insurance now.

   To continue about my faith in life insurance, we cannot control situation to be assured whilst our faith is assured in Jesus.  According to the bible in 1 Peter 5:8; “Our enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”  Last week, I was involved in car accident and had minor injury on my upper lip, but only by the grace of God  we are saved. My great life insurance is Jesus. The devil cannot devour our life. God has already destined a birthday and the date of leaving from the world  for everyone since in the mother’s womb (Psalm 139:13).  The devil cannot devour our faith and our life before God’s time. The devil can disturb only the situation, when we are weak. Do not worry about your weakness. The more you are weak, the more you see the power of God and His grace. Whilst the devil prowls for someone to devour, God will not let your foot slip. The God of Israel, he who watches over you will not slumber nor sleep.

   King David had good relationship with God.

 In the Bible, Psalm 27:1, 2; “The LORD is my light and my salvation – The LORD is the stronghold of my life  -- .”  King David built his kingdom among the enormous enemies. His stronghold was The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. If the leaders who have been appointed by God in any areas have a good relationship with Him, they will succeed more than their effort. Sometimes leaders cannot do everything though they have good desire for their countries or communities. Take refuge under the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. He will lead you, protect you and make straight the way before you.

 The LORD is watching over us coming and going both now and forever.

JuJulay .( 8/ 4/ 2017 )

ျပာမွဳန္ ဗုဒၵဟူး ေန ့

  ျပာမွဳန္ ဗုဒၵဟူး ေန  ့  ( Ash Wednesday)

    ျပာမွဳန္ ဗုဒၵဟူး ေန ့သည္ လူအမ်ား သိေန ေသာ ရွင္ျပန္ထေျမာက္ရာေန ့(Easter Sunday ) မတိုင္မီ၊ရက္ ၄၀ ၏ အစ ပထမေန ့ျဖစ္သည္။

   ထိုေန ့ ကို ျပာမွုန္ဟု သမုတ္   ျခင္း မွာ - လူသားသည္ ေျမ မွဳန္ မွဘုရားသခင္ ဖန္ဆင္းေတာ္ မူေသာေျကာင့္ ေျမမွဳန္၏ သဘာ၀- ဇာတိစိတ္(ပင္ကိုယ္စိတ္) သည္  လူသား တြင္ ပါလာသည္။ စိတ္ပညာ ေ၀ါဟာရ အရ အတၱ စိတ ္(id)ျဖစ္သည္။ ဥပမာ- ဆာေလာင္ေသာစိတ္၊ေဒါသစိတ္၊လိုခ်င္ေလာဘစိတ္၊ ကာမစိတ္၊ စသည္တို ့ျဖစ္သည္။  သဘာ၀ပင္ကိုုယ္စိတ္ ျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ ဆာေလာင္စိတ္၊ လိုုခ်င္စိတ္ စသည္တို ့သည္ အျပစ္မဟုတ္ေသာ္လည္း ဗိုက္ဆာသျဖင့္သူတပါးကို ရန္ျပဳ ုျခင္း၊ လိုခ်င္၍ ခိုးမိျခင္း၊ သူတပါးသားမယားကို အာရံု ငါးပါး ျဖင့္ ျပစ္မွား မိျခင္း တို ့သည္ အျပစ္ ျဖစ္သည္။

      အျပစ္ဆိုရာတြင္ မိ္မိ၏ ဇာတိစိတ္ေျကာင့္ျဖစ္ေသာ အျပစ္မ်ား သာမက သူတပါး၏ ေသြးထိုးျခင္း၊ စာတန္၏ ေသြးေဆာင္ ဖ်ားေယာင္းျခင္း နွင့္ မလြန္ဆန္  နိုင္ေသာ အေျခအေန မ်ား ေျကာင့္ က်ဴး လြန္ ေသာအျပစ္မ်ားလည္းရွိ သည္။ မိ္မိကိုယ္ကို အျပစ္ကင္းသည္ ဟု ဆို လွ်င္ အာရံုငါး ပါး အျပစ္ႏွင့္ လြတ္ မလြတ္ျပန္လည္ဆန္းစစ္ဖို ့  လိုသည္။ မ မွားေသာ ေရွ  ့ေန၊ မေသ ေသာ ေဆးသမား မရွိ ဆိုေသာ စကားပံု ကဲ့သို ့ ဘုရားသခင္ ေရွ  ့ေတာ ္ တြင္ အျပစ္မျပဳ ေသာ လူသားမရွိေပ။

      ျပာမွဳန္ေန ့သည္ မိမိ တို ့၏ အျပစ္မ်ား ကို ျပန္လည္သတိရရန္ နွင့္ ေျမမွဳန္ နွင့္  လုပ္ထားေသာကိုယ္ ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ မာန ေထာင္လြွား စိတ္နွင့္ အထက္ေဖၚျပပါ အျပစ္မ်ား ကို မိမိခြန္အားျဖင့္  မပယ္ရွား နုိင္သျဖင့္ သခင္ေယရွဴ လာေရာက္ ကယ္တင္ျခင္း ကို ျပန္ အမွတ္ရျ႔ပီး၊ အားနည္းခ်က္မ်ားကို ျပန္လည္  ျပဳျပင္ျကရန္ျဖစ္သည္။ ထို ့အျပင္ လူသားသည္ ေျမမွဳန္ မွ လာသျဖင့္ ေျမမွဳန္သို ့့ျပန္ရမည္ ကို အမွတ္ရ ရန္ နွင့္ ကိုယ္ခႏၵာသည္ ေျမသို့ ျပန္ေသာ္လည္း ၀ိဥာည္ ကယ္တင္ျခင္းကို ေပးေသာ သခင္ေယရွူ  ရွင္ျပန္ထေျမာက္ေသာ ေန ့ရက္ တို ့ကိုျပန္လည္ေအာက္ေမ့ ျပီး၊   ျပဳ ျပင္သြားျကဖို ့ျဖစ္သည္။

     သခင္ေယရွဴ ကမာၻေပၚ တြင္ ရွိစဥ္ကာလ၊ အစၥေရး လူမ်ိဳး တို ့သည္ ေမာေရွ၏ ပညတ္ခ်က္ေအာက္တြင္အျပစ္ေပးေလ့ ရွိ ေသာ ဓေလ့ တစ္ခု မွာ- အျပစ္ရွိသူ ကို ခ်ိဳင့္၀ွမ္းထဲတြင္ ခဲနွင့္ေသသည္ အထိ ၀ိုင္းပစ္ျခင္း ျဖင့္ အျပစ္ေပး ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။   ေလာက္စာလံုး ေသးေသးေလးျဖင့္ ထိ္ မွန္္လွ်င္ ပင္ အင္မတန္နာျကင္ လွ်င္ ေက်ာက္ ခဲ မ်ား နွင့္ပစ္သျဖင့္ခံ ရသည့္ ေ၀ဒနာ ကို ခန္ ့မွန္းျခင္းျဖင့္ သိရွိနိုင္ပါသည္။

   ရွင္ေယာဟန္ခရစ္၀င္က်မ္း အခန္းျကီး (၈) တြင္ ျပည့္တန္ဆာအမ်ိဳးသမီး တစ္ဦးကို က်မ္းျပဳ ဆရာ တို ့ႏွင့္ ဖာရိရဲတို ့ က သခင္ေယရွဴထံ ေခၚ လာျပီး ထိုမိန္းမ ကို ေက်ာက္ခဲႏွင့္ ပစ္ရမည္ေလာ၊ ေမာေရွသည္ အကြ်နု္ပ္တို ့ကို ပညတ္တရား တြင္ စီရင္ ထံုးဖဲြ ့ေစပါျပီ၊ ကိုယ္ေတာ္က အဘယ္သို ့မိန္ ့ေတာ္မူမည္နည္း  ဟု ေလွ်ာက္ျက၏။ သခင္ေယရွဴသည္ ေအာက္သို ့ငံု ့လွ်က္ေျမတြင္ လက္ညိွဳးေတာ္ႏွင့္ ေရးသားျပီးေနာက္၊ သင္တို ့တြင္ အျပစ္ကင္းေသာသူသည္ ေရွး ဦးစြာ ေက်ာက္ခဲႏွင့္ပစ္ေစဟု မိန္ ့ေတာ္မူ ျပီး မွ၊- တဖန္ေအာက္သို ့ငံု ့၍၊ ေျမ ေပၚတြင္ေရးသားေတာ္မူျပန္၏။ ထိုသူတို ့သည္ ျကားရလွ်င္ မိမိတို ့စိတ္ႏွလံုးသည္ မိမိတိို ့အျပစ္ကို ေဖၚျပသျဖင့္၊ အသက္ျကီးသူမွ စျပီး၊ အငယ္ဆံုးေသာသူတိုင္ေအာင္ တေယာက္ေနာက္ တေယာက္ထြက္သြားျက၏။ ေယရွဴသည္ တေယာက္တည္းက်န္ရစ္ေတာ္မူလ်က္ ထိုမိန္းမသည္  အလယ္ တြင္ ရပ္ေန ၏။ ေယရွဴသည္  အခ်င္းမိန္းမ သင္၏ အမွု ကို အဘယ္သူမွ် မစီရင္သေလာ ဟု ေမးေတာ္မူ၏။ အဘယ္သူမွ် မစီရင္ပါ ဟု ေလွ်ာက္ရာ၊ ငါသည္လည္း သင္၏အမွဳ ကိုမစီရင္။ သြားေလာ့။ ေနာက္တဖန္ ဒုစရိုက္ကို မျပဳ ႏွင့္ ဟု မိန္ ့ေတာ္မူ၏။

ယေန ့ အျပစ္ျပဳမိသူမ်ား (ေနာက္တဖန္ အျပစ္မျပဳေတာ့ေသာသူမ်ား =စစ္မွန္ ေသာ ေနာင္တရသူမ်ား) ၊ အျပစ္ႏြံနစ္ေနသူမ်ား (မိမိတို ့အျပစ္မွ ရုန္းမထြက္နိုင္ေသာသူမ်ား ) မ်ားစြာထဲတြင္ အကြ်ုန္ုပ္ ေရာ သင္ေရာ ပါ၀င္ေနဆဲလား။ ကြ်ုႏု္ပ္တို ့လူသားမ်ားသည္ အျပစ္ျပဳ ျခင္းမွကင္းေ၀းရန္ ကူညီမည့္အစား၀ိုင္းျပီး အျပစ္တင္ရွံဳ ့ခ် ျကသည္။ ထို လူစုထဲမွာ ကြ်ႏု္ပ္တို ့ပါ၀င္ေနသည္လား။  ျပာမွဳန္ ဗုဒၵၵဟူး ေန ့ မွာဆန္းစစ္ျပီး၊ျပဳ ျပင္ျကပါစို ့။

ဂ်ဴး ဂ်ဴး ေလး ( ၁ မတ္လ ၂၀၁၇။ ျပာမွုန္ ဗုဓၵဟူး ေန ့။)

"FromThapyegone fellowship to the Union Baptist Church in Naypyitaw"

Churches mostly became from fellowship groups. Over seven years ago, Thapyegone fellowship was appeared during the time of construction of new Capital City Naypyitaw in Myanmar. Construction workers and civil servants had to move during that time and some had to leave their families and churches where they belong to. There is an old city called Pyinmana situated near Naypyitaw. Most Christians could not go to the churches in Pyinmana because transportations were not settled. One Karan Lady, a midwife, opened her home to Christians for worship and fellowship every Sunday. Senior pastor from Pyinmana Baptist Church, sent some Pastors every Sunday. When the group became large, it was not enough the pastor coming only on Sunday.

 Whilst Jesus is our Shepherd wherever we are, believers need a Pastor to look after closely in spiritual and in human life as a guide on behalf of Jesus our Shepherd. Believers requested Senior Pastor to send one shepherd for fellowship group, who could stay in Naypyitaw.  The Fellowship group got one, not an ordained Pastor but dedicated couples with two children. Now blesses with more children.

Fellowship group was poor in new life.  Salary was very low although some are senior position in the civil service. Some are construction workers when engineers could be count less than five fingers attending fellowship.  When our tithes was around 10000 kyats, and offerings were between 50 to 500 kyats, transportation charges cost more than offerings amount. There was no public transportation. Most people had to send some amount of income back to their families who could not follow them. During the struggle time, the fellowship group became bigger and bigger. As I say in the beginning of this paragraph, fellowship group was very poor in new life but strong in faith. Under the scorching sun, they had to walk until they got cycle taxi after service around at noon. Fellowship building is two stories bamboo hut, like a manger where Jesus was born.  When the place is crowded, the building was slightly swinging back and forth during service. Under the roof of the bamboo hut, believers came from different churches and various denominations gathered with one goal to build spiritual home church for those who have to come in Naypyitaw   on duty or visiting.  

It was like a saying in Myanmar; “An ant with weak waist to fight a big mountain.”  The Bible said that if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can move a mountain. Therefore believers started a plan with a scripture; “Let the hands be strong that the temple might be build.”  (Zechariah 8; 9). It was a motto for calling to build spiritual home.

 Then we worked various ways such as giving Tithes, First fruits of work, offerings, and fund raising among the groups, and sending donation voucher books inside the country and abroad.  Whilst church fund for construction was increasing, the price was rising sky rocketing.  After three years, some were retired and some got transfer orders. We cannot control the real situation. Nevertheless, we were working, working in hope, keep in faith .

One day my husband and I went to Maymyo, a city in Mandalay region to give a lecture at a Christian summer camp. The pastor from AG church invited us to attend Sunday service when we were there.  When we arrived and saw the church, we thought this church got a sponsor from foreign countries. My enthusiastic question was come out to the Pastor. We were amazed when we heard his answer. There were no sponsors from foreign donors. His answer was rather simple and precious.  The answer was “We built this church through Dawn  Prayer Service.”

Since 2013, after coming back from Maymyo, Thapyegone fellowship has been conducting morning devotion. Believers worked with strengthen hands in human efforts but God leads us to strengthen the weak hands for praying and some believers knelt down before Him at dawn prayer service.

In 2016 December, our Pastor of Thapyegone fellowship who came from Pyinmana Church, was ordained. On Christmas day 2016, Thapyegone fellowship was recognized by Myanmar Baptist Convention (Upper Myanmar) as a full-fledged church known as Union Baptist Church, Thapyegone, Naypyitaw. For Northing is impossible with God and blessed those who believe in him. Thanks be to God what the Lord has done.

Walk with God. Work for God for His will by the guidance of Him. Then, He will help you in needs and lead you in the right path.

Ju Ju Lay. (16 / 1 / 2017)