Nancy’s Personal Blog

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On 27/7/2008, almost all New Apostolic Church members from the whole Malaysia had gathered in Ipoh, Malaysai to attend the Divine Service conducted by our Beloved District Apostle Leslie Lactorcai. The word he used was taken from 2 Timothy 1:7 (For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.) He elaborates more on our faith and love.

Key points.
• Do not fear, God has given us the power of Love and Self-Control what can man do to us.
• Love one another as you love yourself.
• Do not compromise with our New Apostolic Church faith.
• The important of our prayer life.

Beside that our Malaysia District Elder Hans Jeyakumar and his wife received their 25th silver wedding anniversary blessing and their daughter received her marriage blessing on the same day from our District Apostle Apostle Leslie Lactorcai.

Ingredients
1. 1 kg medium sized prawns, shell and devein.
2. 1 or 2 potato cut into cube 1cm by 1cm
3. 5~10 pcs of curry leaves
4. 6~8 table spoon of cooking oil.
5. 1 big onion (cut slice)
6. 1 pc medium size of tomato cut into 4.
7. Small pulp of tamarind (extract the juice with 50 ml of water)
8. 100 ml of water
9. Salt to taste

grind to a paste :
20~25 dried chilies
½ onion
3~4 cloves of garlic
Tomato ½
50 ml water

Method
1. Heat the oil in frying pan and fry onion until it turns to yellowish.
2. Then add in the grinded paste and mix well. When it is fragrant add curry leaves and stir.
3. Next add the tomato, potato and salt to taste. Add 50 ml plain water and stir well.
4. Next add the prawn and stir well and let it cook for 3~5 minutes under slow fire.
5. Then add the tamarind juice and stir well.
6. Taste it and make sure the potato is cooked before turn off the fire.

In the town of Canaan lived a boy named Joseph. He had 10 older brothers and one younger brother. Their father Jacob liked Joseph very much. This made his older brothers jealous of him and there is another reason why they hated him.

Joseph had two dreams. In both dreams his brothers bowed down to him. When Joseph shared his dreams to his brothers their hatred grew even more than before.

Some time later the brothers had gone to Shechem, to find pasture for their sheep. Jacob began to worry and he told Joseph “Joseph, your brothers have been gone so long, please go and see if they’re all right.” When Joseph’s brothers see him coming, one of them say: “Let’s kill him!”, but Reuban, the oldest brother say, “No don’t do that”.
Instead they grab Joseph and put him into a pit.

At that time some Ishmaelite men come along. Then Judah says to his brothers: Let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites”, and that’s what they did. They sell him for 20 pieces of silver and Joseph was led away to Egypt.

Joseph just could not keep from crying. “Will I ever see my father and my little Benjamin again?’ wonder Joseph. Now, what will the brothers tell their father? They kill a goat and dip Joseph’s coat into the goat’s blood. This is to let his father know that a wild animal had killed his son. After hearing to his sons, Jacob cried out and no one can comfort him.

Even though Joseph’s brothers knew he was still alive and they saw how sad their father was they still didn’t tell the terrible thing they had done.

Deception is never the right choice. One lie leads to another. God can help to keep deception out of our lives if we ask Him.

When Noah and his family came out of the ark, the first thing he did was he made an offering to God. Noah offered this gift of animals to thank God for saving his family from the great flood.

Soon the land was all dried off, Noah and his family began a new life. God blessed them and told them: “You must have many children. You must increase in numbers until people live all over the earth”.

Later when people would hear about the great flood, they might be afraid that a flood would happen again. So God gave something that would remind people of his promise that he will never destroy the earth by flood again. Do you know what he gave to remind them? It was a rainbow.

Rainbow is often seen in the sky when the sun shines after it has rained with many beautiful colors.

This is what God said: “I promise that never again will all people and animals be destroyed by a flood”. When the rainbow appears I will remember my promise that had given”.

So when we see the rainbow what should it remind us of ?? Yes, God’s promise that will never destroy the world again by a great flood.

Outside the ark, the people live their life the same as before. They still did not believe that flood would come. They laughed more than ever. But they soon stop laughing.

All the sudden water began to fall down from the sky. Noah had been right! but it’s too late now for others to get into the ark. They door had been closed tight by God.

All the low land was covered with water. The water became like big rivers and pushed and rolled around big stones and made a loud noise. All the people were destroyed too. The rain continued to for 40 days and 40 nights until it covers the tallest mountain. It just had happened as God said, all the people and animals outside the ark died but everyone inside was safe.

The water lifted the ark up and it floated right on top of the water. Then one day, after the rain stopped falling, the sun began to shine. There was a big ocean everywhere and only the ark floating on top.

Then God made a wind blow and the flood began to go down. After some time the ark came to rest on top of the mountains. The water kept on going down. Then Noah let the bird called raven out of the ark. It would fly away for a while and then it would come back because it could not find a good place to land.

Next, Noah sent a dove out of the ark but the dove came back too because it did not find a place to stay. Then Noah sent it out for second time and it brought back an olive leaf in it’s beak. So Noah knew that the water had gone down. Noah sent the dove a third time and finally it found a dry place to live.

Then God spoke to Noah. He said: “Go out of the ark. Take your whole family and the animals with you”. Surely Noah and his family must be very happy to come outside and to be alive.

Ingredients

Noah is a very faithful man. He has 3 son’s and their names were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Each of these sons had a wife. There were eight persons in Noah’s family.

One day God told Noah to do a strange thing, he told him to build a big ark. This ark was large like a ship. God had advised Noah how the ark should be build.

God told Noah to fix up the ark so that no water could leak in. God said “I am going to send a great flood of water and destroy the whole world. Everyone not in the ark will die”.

Noah and his sons obeyed God and started to build the ark but the other people just laughed at Noah. Nobody believed Noah when he told them that what God was going to do.

It took a long time to complete the ark because it was big. Finally after many years the ark was completed. Now God told Noah to bring the animals, both a male and female. But of other kinds of animals, God told Noah to bring in all the different kinds of birds. Noah did just what God said.

Afterward, Noah and his family also went into the ark. Then the door was shut. Inside, Noah and his family total eight of them and the animals waited. If you are there in the ark, do you think there really will be flood as God said ??