{"id":13503,"date":"2023-03-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=13503"},"modified":"2023-04-10T12:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:40:44","slug":"discover-god-from-our-stories","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/sermons\/discover-god-from-our-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover God From Our Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-gdm-google-drive-embedder-viewer\"><iframe width='100%' height='100' frameborder='0' scrolling='yes' src='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/12MVIemXNEaROjRIGU9H4l97wWAD9vy5y\/preview?usp=drivesdk' allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n<h4>READ<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Psalm 139<\/p>\n<h4>CONSIDER<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Understanding God\u2019s plan in my life is not an easy journey for me.&nbsp; It took a while for me to understand why God called me to be a pastor when my experience dealing with computers was way more than ministering to people at that time.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even now, I don\u2019t understand fully why God called me to be a pastor though I am totally certain that God called me to be one.&nbsp; I know that God has a great plan for me.&nbsp; Even though I could not fully grasp why it was happening this way, I submitted to God\u2019s will and trusted God that He will navigate my journey with me.&nbsp; During my 25 years as a Christ follower, I continued to search and discern how to live my life to glorify God. Through examining my life stories, I slowly discovered what God had done in my life and things started to make sense for me.&nbsp; I was amazed how God has always been in my life even though I was not aware of God at that time. &nbsp;&nbsp;The Scripture said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><sup>1<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><sup>6&nbsp;<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>Your eyes saw my unformed body;<\/em> <em>all the days ordained&nbsp;for me were written in your book<\/em> <em>before one of them came to be.<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em><strong><em><sup>17&nbsp;<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>How precious to me are your thoughts, God!<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em><em>How vast is the sum of them!<\/em> <strong><em><sup>18&nbsp;<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>Were I to count them,<\/em> <em>they would outnumber the grains of sand\u2014<\/em> <em>when I awake,&nbsp;I am still with you.<\/em><em> (Psalm 139:16-18)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">God knows us better than we know ourselves. &nbsp;&nbsp;Let us be humble before God and discover God from the life stories He has given us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Pastor Julian Wong<\/p>\n<h4>PRAY<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Lord Jesus Christ, search me,&nbsp;and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way&nbsp;in me, and lead me&nbsp;in the way everlasting.&nbsp; May the Spirit continue to guide me to discover who God is and what amazing things He has done in my life.&nbsp; Thanks be to God, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray, Amen.<\/p>\n<h4>DIVING DEEPER<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Download \u201cDiscover God from your stories\u201d worksheet () and find a quiet time to reflect on how God is shaping you through your life stories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ask yourself two important questions from each story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1) What did you learn about God?<br>2) What did you learn about yourself?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You can repeat this exercise as many times as you want as I believe God is with us every second of our lives.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 139<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":13445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[55],"ctc_sermon_series":[538],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[520],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/13503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/13503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13671,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/13503\/revisions\/13671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=13503"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=13503"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=13503"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=13503"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=13503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}