3 tips on how to sleep well during the night.

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Sleep Balloon
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Do you have a good sleep during the night? I always sleep well during the night. However, there are still some nights that I couldn't sleep well just like everybody does. However, after learning how to sleep well through the past years, I believe that I have already grasp some formula that may not just work for me but for many people as well. Do you want to improve your sleep? Or do you want to know how to sleep well during the night? If your answer is yes, just take a look on my following 3 tips on how to sleep well during the night.

1. Have a glass of cold water

Don't under estimate this power of this tip because it is for sure one of the easiest way but useful way to claim down your nerve. Some may think that it may force you to go to washroom again and again during the night. Well, if you have some problem with your body, drinking too much water before you go to bed may not be a  good advice for you. But for those who has no problem with their digestive system, a cold water always give a big help in calm down your nerve system.

2. Say goodbye to your worry

There is always one thing that will border your sleep, "worry" is it's name. It is not a good thing to worry about anything. you can worry about what will happen about your work, about your meeting for tomorrow, about the person you are going to meet tomorrow. Whatever it is. Try to take the word from the BIble that “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." ( Matthew 6:34). You can just download all the things you still have to worry about on a piece of paper near your pillow or desk. Then just tell yourself that you have already done your best for today and tomorrow is another day. Then juts give it all to Jesus, that's it. It maybe hard for you in the beginning especially when you are not a Christian yet. However, you can speak to Jesus as what I have said before in your shortest prayer before you try to close your eyes. Once you have download your burden, then you will have a good sleep after a few night of practice. Try it, and you will see the differences. Your worry really give you no help for your sleep and tomorrow may not be that worse as you think. Sometimes, you just worry too much and always create something in your  mine that really disturb your own sleep. It is time to say goodbye to a thinking habit like that.

3. Pray until you will sleep

It is a very good habit to talk to Jesus before you sleep and after your hard working day. You spend lots of time to others during the day and leave no room to yourself. When you finally have time for yourself, you just want yourself before you find your mind is keep on have dialogue to itself. One part of it saying something positive and the other part sometimes saying negative things. That's part of the reason why people don't like to have a sleepless night for their mind really giving them a hard time. However, if you can just speak to Jesus who always love to listen to you all the times. There is no better person you can talk with in this Universe especially before your bed time. I do that all the time and I know that Jesus is always listening to me especially before my bed time. You can do that too. No matter what kind of person you are, you can just speak to Him. After your great speech, you will find yourself getting a bit drowsy and then it is the time you will fall into sleep. Again, try it and you will find it useful.

Conclusion

Although my tips sounds so simple but not everyone will do it. However, I can guarantee you that if you can take my advice each and every night, you will have a big improvement with your sleep after just one week or two.

Have you ever visited the homeless during Christmas ?

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Homeless Street...

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Homeless Street...

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It was a great thing to enjoy our Christmas with all our family members and our friends as well. After I have enjoyed my Christmas for so many years, I have just had a new insight in the last Christmas. I started to visit the homeless people on the street of the poorest district in my city.Rather than singing Christmas songs on the street like most of the churches do( it is also a good way to proclaim gosple during the Christmas day.), I started to visited the homeless people on the street on Christmas Eve. Have you ever visited the homeless during Christmas ? I don't think it is big thing to do that since many social caring groups and some of the churches will do that as well. However, I think it is not the things I can give to the homeless, but what are the things I can learn from them are the most important issues for my visit. The following three things are the things that I have learned during my visit :

1. I need to be humble

Christmas Eve 2012 was a time to celebrate for lots of people in the city. Everybody is trying to go near those big shopping mall to encounter with others or  have a taste with the excited atmosphere near  the ocean terminal where people could take pictures with all the interesting decoration on the main entry. However, I choose to spend a few hours in the poorest district in my city where homeless people can be seen anywhere in this place.It was a pretty cold night and I was wearing a thick jacket and walking pass by a market area. I saw many homeless people lying on their bed or sitting in a chair chatting with each others. I think the Lord Jesus directed me to focus on a special homeless person who was covering his whole body with a very thick bed sheet laying on the his bed. When I spoke to this old man who was in his 60's , he woke up.  I asked him if he has eaten his dinner already and he said no. I then offer to buy him a dinner with take out from the near by restaurant and asked him to wait for me as I went to but the take out. After I bought him the take out , I have another opportunity to speak with him.Then I asked him a few questions after we chat for a while. I asked him that what do you think the homeless people who are living on the street need the most ? I was surprised by the answer he reply. I thought he would probably say something like money ,clothing or something materials. But he said only one word : "love". He then spoke with about his sadly life history. I then understand that he once had a family but after he made some bad choice in life, he has nothing now. I could sense hoe he regret for the things he did and the lost of his lovely family  by the way he spoke to me. He really taught me something that night. We surely need to treasure our family and the love we can experience in this world. We should never take things for granted because everything is surely a grace of God. I then lay hand on his chest to pray for his disease and sickness and encourage him that God loves him and promise him that I will return to visit him again.

2. I need to be humble again

On Christmas Day,  I went back to the same old place to visit the same old man again. He seemed to be happy to see me again. This time he invited me to see on his nasty and dirty bed and I did. I started to share the gosple of Jesus to Him and told him how Jesus loves him. he warmly accepted Jesus as his savior in a a word of prayer even the whether was pretty cold. I lay hand to pray for his sickness again and promised that I will return with some Bible material again to assist his faith within a week. I shook his hand again before I leaved and encourage him to go forward with hope in life since Jesus will never leave him even this old man is still living on the street. ( He refused to go to the government shelter, nor any of the social agencies where he can find a better place to stay. Actually many of the homeless people just want to keep on stay on the street because of the freedom after I talked to some of them later on.) I leaved with a joyful heart on this Christmas Day after I have bought him something to drink from a nearby store. It was not an easy thing for me to shake hand with the homeless people  and also seat on their dirty bed on the street (some more very dirty stuffs around his bed as well) because I always loves clean. However, it was really a breakthrough and new experience for me. I really sense the love of Jesus to all the people in this world and never reject anyone to come closer to Himself. Jesus always enter into the sinner's house and play a visit to all the socially rejected people happily according to the Bible. Jesus truly lived a humble life with passion while he is still in this world. I could really feel his love and passion on this Christmas experience and I really thank God for all these.

Conclusion

This experience has opened my eyes to experience the love of God in a new way and I hope I can do more of this work in the future which will show the homeless on the street that how Jesus really loves them. We can always say many words about love (especially when I preach in the pulpit) but if I can't even help the poor and the homeless with some action, what good about my sermon then? This is what I learn from this experience and Jesus came to this world as God became flesh to live among us. His love really came with action and really touch people's life and I am happy that I  can participate in ministry like this without anybody to invite me to do so. I think God has already invited me to do so by doing himself two thousands years ago. If many people can start to share more love to the homeless and poor, the world will always be a place where love remains. I feel happy that after I visited these homeless people a few more times after Christmas, another people joined in because of my action. with the help of other Christians, I have the opportunity to get to  know more homeless people and offer my prayer and some drinks to them in such a cold weather. I think once our life can impact others and be a blessing to others, it is truly a life that worth living.

The following youtube is a good example on how the Christian teens in United States are doing in visiting the homeless. Take a look.

How do you like being a hero ?

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Jesus Christ...
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Napoleon...
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When I was a kid, I started to admire many heroes. The cowboy on the horse back, the superman who can fly faster an eagle, the Roman soldiers who fought with his sword and many cool guys as well, and of course Bruce Lee who would move and shouted with a strange voice all the times. At first I thought that being a hero was cool and fun to be one. However, when I grew up, I started to have different opinion if you ask me " How do you like being a hero? " I think that the following three reasons will be my answer for your question.

1.A hero needs to sacrifice

It is easy to walk in  front of people and keep on shouting for anything when there is no danger 
situation involved. However, when  one needs to be put into prison or even to lose everything one has including one's own life, things will be different. Anybody who wants to be a hero surely need to do some Maths before one will step on the heroic stage .  No wonder people would say that " either I will become a hero or a zero". There are many situations that if the hero failed, he would lose everything .

2. A hero needs to solve a problem

A hero is no hero at all if one cannot solve a problem for someone or some situation. There is no need for any hero if there is no problem or no trouble involved. It means that a hero has his value if a situation arise. The bigger the need it is, the more honor the hero will get. Think about people such as Dr. Martin Luther king who arose in American History in such a time when the black people were sick and tired of the unrighteousness situation in USA. His peaceful march  and movement without really fighting with violence in an era where seems impossible to win. He really earned his reputation and made himself in human history as  a hero who can win the battle without a bullet to fight against guns and power. He really lead the black people and righteousness in a new century.

3. A hero needs to have courage

If a hero just keep on shouting on a stage but will never encounter the tough and difficult situation by himself, he will always be viewed as a coward and can never get the name of a hero. A hero always needs a lot of courage to face the situation where nobody is willing to take the leadership role . At the same time, a hero sometimes may keep stay in the situation until the last minute when nobody is willing to stay in the situation. The recent Nobel Prize winner of  Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi is always a hero with this kind of character that many women or men in this would would recognize her as a hero for Democracy.

Conclusion

Among all the hero in this world, I highly recommended a a hero of the heroes who I also admire and love the most.Jesus is His name. Jesus is the only one I know in human history that who consists of all the three characters that I have just mentioned in the above reasons.The Bible clearly states that He is the son of God but willing to lay down His glorious position in heaven and came to this earth and took the form of human that's what we mean by sacrifice. Jesus is also humble enough to be nailed on the cross just because His love to all mankind and shed His own blood to paid the ransom of all mankind. that's how he solved our problem of sin and rebuild our relationship with God as well. He was born in a humble manger and died in the most insulted cross in human's eyes. It really took a great courage to do that. As a result, Jesus sacrificial love has drew billions of human life to accept Him as their Lord and Savior. His life has not just transformed a country or a generation, but has really turned the human history upside down and His work still echoes in eternity. He is truly a hero who deserve us to admire forever and I am one of His follower. He is my hero forever. I highly recommended this hero to you. Jesus is really a hero ---- a real one.