Ps Samuel visit

Last Friday, we had Pastor Samuel from Indonesia as our preacher in the care group meeting. The number is more than what I expect :D. Even Budi who are from Muncie, IN come along the way to hear Pastor Samuel's preaching. For those of you who don't know, I include his you tube slide (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z447sRw2KEw) on the invitation. It was really interesting since I need to pick him up from the airport on Thursday night and there is some little miscommunication between me and Pastor Chris about his departure date in Indianapolis. Thanks God, I'm reading his text message on time so I can go directly to the airport to pick him up (he use Indonesia number, so he can't make any call, just text message). He's a really humble guy and so simple, I learn a lot when we're (me & Wennie & him) take a trip to see Indianapolis downtown. He also helped me in changing my computer memory :d, now my computer memory is 2 GB. It was much2 faster than what it used to be. The most important thing is that he also installed a lot of important programs in my computer :D. Now my computer is like new since I reinstalled my computer with black XP professional edition (which is surprisingly has similar looks like Vista) and it works really fast :D.Back to topic, I almost once again drive crazy since we're almost behind schedule, well I learned something about not being do everything in a big group since it'll be hard to organize each individuals. Maybe I'll break up into smaller group when we do something so it'll be quicker just like when we do trip to New York :D. So the point from Pastor Samuel preaching last Friday is: The thing that we need if a heart to understand the Lord it's not that we want the Lord to understand us all the time, it's all about Him and not about us. So we must have 2 kind of attitude, they're Maria and Martha's attitude.

1. Luke 10:38-40, in here as it is written there are 2 kind of attitudes. The first one is Martha who is busy preparing everything, this kind of people works really hard to pleasure his guest and also have a big generosity since Bethany was a really poor village whose life depends 100% on God's word (that's one of the reason Bethany became Jesus favorite's spot on earth beside Mount of Olives). The second one is Mary who likes to spend time on Jesus feet. Just sitting there, listening what God's said. We need both of those attitudes, a lot of people have Martha's heart but most people didn't have Mary's heart, a heart that longing to just stay close and listen to the Lord (This is crucial).
2. If we see how both of this attitudes have a big difference in Jesus reaction as in John 11:17-33. You can see that both Mary and Martha reaction was exactly the same, both of them said the same words from their heart. But see Jesus reaction, when Martha said that it result in Jesus lecturing her before he take action. But take a good look at Jesus reaction on verse 32-33. Jesus didn't said anything when Mary felt down to Jesus feet and weeping, Jesus heart was moved and he took action immediately in the following story. That's our mistakes most of the times that we don't realize. A lot of times we lift a lot of unimportant prayer. Our God is our father too, he knows our need more than we. Without we say out loud in prayer, He already prepared it for us. But if we only have heart like Martha, you know the result. But if we have heart like Mary who just sit in the feet of the Lord and listening to Him. He'll take action immediately.
   

That's a little summary about Pastor Samuel preaching last Friday. personally I feel really blessed and it's like God answering my prayer, For long time I already felt that I have lift up a lot of unimportant prayer but thanks God it shaped me until what I am today :D.Well, here is some picture after the care group:

(We'll have Hery do the photoshop to do the photoshop to make it brighter :P. Too bad Livita you can't make it but all the best int he work place)