Stephanie Ng

My Beloved is a Carpenter. Let others boast of wealth. Let others marvel at fame. Let others be impressed by the achievements of men. Other men build businesses, reputations, and monuments to their own names. My Husband is building a place for me. My Beloved is a King upon a throne. He is a Shepherd over His flock. He is a Warrior who will return in righteousness and glory. Yet when I think of Him, my heart often lingers on something simpler. My Beloved is a Carpenter. Others see the crown. I think of His hands. The hands that formed the stars. The hands that shaped the mountains. The hands that touched lepers and blessed children. The hands that bore the nails for me. The hands once stained with sawdust are even now preparing a home for His bride. I cannot see that home yet, but I know the One who is building it. Every room is planned with perfect wisdom. Every stone is laid in love. Nothing will be forgotten. Nothing will be unfinished. Nothing will be lacking. My Husband has always been a Builder. He formed Adam from the dust. He instructed Noah in the building of the ark. He filled men with wisdom for the tabernacle. He gave the pattern for the temple. He walked among us as a carpenter. He is building His Church even now. And at this very moment, He is preparing a place for me. I never worry about the home my Husband is building. Everything He has ever purposed, He has accomplished. Everything He has promised, He will perform. His plans do not fail. His measurements are never wrong. His work is never abandoned. And this is what amazes me: He is not building a palace for Himself. He is building a home for us. The King desires His bride. The Bridegroom awaits His beloved. And He is making ready a dwelling place where we will never be parted again. So while the world chases treasures that fade, my thoughts often wander home. Not because of streets of gold. Not because of gates of pearl. Not merely because sorrow and death will be gone. I long for that place because He is there. For what makes a house a home is the one who lives within it. And every promise of Heaven shines because my Beloved is its light. How could I not boast about my Husband? His love is stronger than death. His faithfulness has never failed. His word stands forever. His scars testify that I was worth redeeming. And soon, very soon, the work will be complete. The trumpet will sound. The shout will come from Heaven. My Bridegroom will come for His bride. Faith will become sight. The home He has prepared will be revealed. And I will finally see the face I have loved without seeing. Until then, my lamp remains lit. My eyes remain lifted. My heart remains fixed upon His promise. I am listening for the trumpet. I am waiting for the shout. And with joy I say: "My Beloved is mine, and I am His." I trust His hands. I trust His heart. And I cannot wait to be home with Him.

Let’s normalize thanking God when life starts feeling ordinary again. You are sleeping. You are laughing. You are making plans. You are living. That's restoration 🤍

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There’s a man in Genesis who never died. And the Bible gives him one sentence. Genesis 5 is the chapter most people skip. A list of names. Ages. Sons and daughters. And over and over, like a funeral bell, the same three words: “...and he died.” Adam lived 930 years, and he died. Seth, and he died. Enosh, and he died. Eight times the bell rings. And then, in the middle of the list, it doesn’t: “Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.” - Genesis 5:24 No death. No burial. No explanation. He was just... gone. The book of Hebrews confirms what it means: “By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him” (Hebrews 11:5). One man in the whole ancient world skipped the grave. Only one other in all of Scripture shares that: Elijah, carried up in the whirlwind. So what was so special about Enoch? The Bible tells us exactly one thing about his life. Twice. He walked with God. That’s it. No miracles. No kingdom. No great battles. Just a walk. And the details are surprising. It started late. Verse 22 says Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah, when he was 65. Something changed when that child was born. Whatever his life was before, it turned there. It was ordinary. He walked with God for 300 years, and the same verse says he “had other sons and daughters.” Enoch wasn’t a hermit on a mountain. He was a father. He raised kids, worked, ate, slept. He walked with God in the middle of an ordinary, busy, family life. It was constant. The Hebrew verb is a special form, hithallek, meaning to walk about, to go to and fro, a continuous, ongoing walk. It’s the same form used in Genesis 3:8 of God Himself walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Enoch got back what Adam lost: walking with God, side by side. So what does walking with God actually mean? It’s not a feeling. It’s not a single dramatic moment. It’s a direction. Every day, going the same way He’s going. The prophet Amos asks: “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” (Amos 3:3). Walking with God means agreement. His way becomes your way. His pace becomes your pace. You stop running ahead and stop dragging behind. And Hebrews tells us what made it possible: “Before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please him” (Hebrews 11:5–6). Not perfection. Faith. Trusting the One walking beside you. There’s an old saying about this verse. Enoch and God walked together every day, and they talked, and they walked a little further each time. And one day they walked so far that God said, “Enoch, we’re closer to my house than yours. Why don’t you come home with me?” That’s the end of every true walk with God. For Enoch, it came without death. For us, Jesus has gone through death first so that it can never be the end of the road. “I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also” (John 14:3). He took Enoch. He will take you too. Just keep walking.

Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao being initiated as an Entered Apprentice Mason in 2021 at the Mamamayang Pilipino Masonic Lodge of the Philippines

The older I get, the more I understand why people choose Jesus, gardens, books, home-cooked meals, and long walks. The world tells us to chase money, attention, and approval. Jesus teaches us to seek Him first. At some point, you stop chasing what the world offers and start protecting the peace only God can give.

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WHY ARE SINNERS RICHER THAN BELIEVERS? I WILL TELL YOU THE BITTER TRUTH TODAY I have watched it with my own eyes. A man that does not pray, does not fast, does not even go to church , he builds 3 houses in one year. But a brother praying every midnight is still struggling to pay house rent. I asked God, WHY? And God opened my eyes to 5 secrets that many Christians don't know. 1. NOT ALL RICHES IS BLESSING, SOME IS BAIT The devil can give you money to keep you away from God. That is not blessing, that is trap. Matthew 4:8-9 The devil showed Jesus all the riches and said worship me. 2. SINNERS USE WICKED STRATEGY THAT BELIEVERS REFUSE TO USE They can lie, cheat, inflate price, sleep with someone, do rituals, sell their soul. A believer says NO. So it looks like they are faster, but their foundation is sand. 3. BELIEVERS ARE TRAINED BEFORE THEY ARE TRUSTED God does not give you a car before you learn to drive. Many believers are in God's training school. God is teaching you management, contentment, faithfulness with small. Sinners have no training, they just rush. 4. THEIR MONEY HAS NO PEACE INSIDE Go and check that rich sinner at 2am, he is not sleeping. BP drugs on his table, fear everywhere, no peace. Psalm 73:3-19 , Asaph almost fell until he saw their END. 5. GOD MEASURES RICHES DIFFERENTLY Sinners count money. God counts soul, peace, health, name, eternity. What is the use to gain the whole world and lose your soul? HEAR ME TODAY: Don't envy a man whose ladder is leaning on the wrong wall. He will climb fast but he will fall suddenly. Your time is coming. Your God does not forget labour. Your little with God is better than their plenty with sorrow. Proverbs 10:22 says The blessing of the Lord maketh rich and addeth no sorrow with it. STOP COMPARING. START BUILDING. Your blessing has no sorrow attached. If this message is for you, sa¶!y: My blessing with no sorrow is coming. Sh∆!are this, deliver someone from envy.

How do you get closer to God when you feel absolutely nothing? Most people assume closeness to God is supposed to feel like something. Warmth in your chest. Tears in worship. A sense that He’s right there in the room. So when you pray and the room stays quiet, when you open your Bible and the words just sit on the page, the conclusion comes fast: something is wrong with me, or He’s gone. Neither is true. But almost nobody tells you that, so people quietly drift away during the exact season God is doing some of His deepest work in them. Look at who felt this before you. David wrote, “How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?” Psalm 13:1. That’s not a backslider talking. That’s a man God called a man after His own heart. Jesus Himself, on the cross, prayed the words of Psalm 22:1: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Feeling far from God is not proof that you are far from God. It is one of the most human experiences in the entire Bible. And notice where God actually showed up for Elijah. Not in the wind that broke the rocks. Not in the earthquake. Not in the fire. After all of that came a low whisper, 1 Kings 19:11-12. Sometimes the reason we feel nothing is that we’re waiting for the earthquake, and God is speaking in the whisper. So here’s the honest answer: you get closer to God the same way you get closer to anyone. You keep showing up when it isn’t exciting. “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you,” James 4:8. The promise isn’t that you’ll feel Him draw near. It’s that He will. Your feelings are weather. His faithfulness is the climate. “His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning,” Lamentations 3:22-23. Try this tonight. Don’t perform. Don’t try to manufacture a feeling. Sit down, open to one psalm, read it slowly, and then tell God the truth: “I don’t feel You right now, but I’m here.” That sentence is not weak faith. That is faith in its purest form, trust with nothing propping it up. You may feel nothing tonight. Come back tomorrow anyway. One day you’ll look back on this quiet stretch and realize He never left the room. He was teaching you to love Him for who He is, not for how He makes you feel.

Love deeply, forgive wisely, speak truthfully, give generously, establish healthy boundaries, and walk humbly with God. When your achievements are forgotten, your possessions are left behind, and your titles no longer matter, the love you gave will continue to speak through the lives you touched. At the end of the day, the greatest question is not simply, “How much did I accomplish?” It is also, “How much of God's love did I allow to flow through me?” Because in a world competing for power, recognition, wealth, and influence, the person who learns to love as Christ loves has discovered something greater than applause: the power to make another person's world a little brighter. Be rich in love. Be generous with grace. Be careful with hearts. And never become so successful in life that you forget how to be kind. For faith is essential, hope is precious, but as 1 Corinthians 13:13 reminds us, the greatest of these is love. #PstKimeamihia

THE BIBLICAL WAY OF MARRIAGE IS NOT A WHITE WEDDING. We have a generation that has been taught to equate marriage with a wedding ceremony, yet the Bible never commands Christians to have a white wedding, marry inside a church building, walk down an aisle, wear a wedding gown, or have a pastor officiate the ceremony. Show me the verse. The Bible commands marriage, not a particular wedding format. Genesis 2:24 says: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Jesus Himself referred to this passage when teaching about marriage in Matthew 19:4–6. Marriage is a covenant. Malachi 2:14 calls marriage a covenant. The Bible records wedding celebrations. Jesus attended a wedding in Cana in John 2:1–2. But Scripture never establishes the modern white wedding as a requirement for a marriage to be recognized by God. A white dress is cultural. A church building is cultural. A wedding reception is cultural. A wedding cake is cultural. Walking down an aisle is cultural. None of these things is what makes a man and woman husband and wife before God. You can have a beautiful wedding ceremony and still dishonor the covenant of marriage. You can have a simple marriage without an elaborate ceremony and still honor God. We must learn to distinguish between biblical commands and cultural traditions. Marriage is biblical. The modern wedding ceremony is a tradition. Let us not make traditions commandments. “And you leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” — Mark 7:8 The issue is not whether someone has a white wedding. The issue is whether the man and woman are entering marriage as a covenant before God and are prepared to honor that covenant. Marriage is the covenant. The wedding is the ceremony. Do not confuse the two.

Now I understand... why God allows our blessings to reach a certain point and why we are forced to resign from a workplace... It turns out God wanted to save us from being continuously weighed down by the world. God wants us to truly depend on Him, to cry out to Him, and to seek Him in prayer. God doesn't want us to fall deeper into a job that torments our soul and ruins our health. God wants us to stay grounded rather than chasing after the worldly life. God wants to provide us with better blessings. God wants us to live simply and be free from the burden of debt. And most importantly, God knows what we do not know. God wants us to draw close to Him again, to cleanse our hearts, and to find who we truly are.

Brothers and sisters, I can’t wait to go HOME 🙌🏻🥹

𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗣𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗦 𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧 Worship is more than singing. You can lift your hands, dance, cry during worship and still miss what God truly desires. God looks beyond the outward expression. He looks at the heart. Here are 7 forms of worship Scripture warns us against: 1. 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 God does not want songs from lips that refuse to obey Him. “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.” — 1 Samuel 15:22 2. 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗨𝗡𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦 We cannot deliberately cling to sin while pretending everything is right between us and God. “Wash you, make you clean.” — Isaiah 1:16 3. 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗩𝗔𝗟 When worship becomes about being seen, praised, or admired by people, the focus has shifted from God to ourselves. Matthew 6:1 4. 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗩𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 Many words and repeated phrases do not impress God when the heart is far from Him. Jesus warned against praying like those who think they will be heard because of their many words. — Matthew 6:7 5. 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗡𝗘𝗚𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗦 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗬 God rejects religious activity when we ignore righteousness, mercy, and the way we treat others. “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.” — Hosea 6:6 6. 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗨𝗡𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗬 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦 Our outward worship cannot replace inward surrender. God desires truth in the inner being. “Thou desirest truth in the inward parts.” — Psalm 51:6 7. 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦 𝗚𝗢𝗗 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗦 𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧 Jesus said, “This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.” — Matthew 15:8 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗢 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗦 𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬. 𝗜𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗪𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗢𝗗. “Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” — Romans 12:1