Lord of Politics

In the sad state of politics in Malaysia today - If we run away, what about the others who are left behind?

Little updates of my life:

I just have this growing sense of God's destiny in my life - something greater than I can think or imagine.

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To my fellow peer Christians who are in Malaysia,

Permission letters to build churches end up in Syariah courts.
The judiciary is corrupted.
Lina Joy is not vindicated.
Malay Bibles are restricted.
Words in Malay Bibles are banned.
Pastors are being charged for preaching.

This is the response of our brothers,

Statistics show that the Christian population in Malaysia is about 10%++

Statistics show that of all the people who emigrate Australia, Christians comprise of about 50%

God - He is the Lord of Politics. He plants one ruler and uproots another. He is sovereign. Long before the Romans ruled, or the Great Persian Empire - God has revealed by Daniel the Prime Minister that Daniel will stand before Empires. God has shown him who shall rule after another. God holds the future, He has plans to prosper us and not to harm us, to give us a hope and a future.

Please stay, Malaysia would not turn better when people flee.

God will bring deliverance, but let us not let God find us going to Tarshish when we ought to go to Nineveh. When God brings us on to fight all manner of injustice, oppression, and corruption in the country, let us not be those who stay at home. Let us be those who count our lives as nothing, but march forward for His honour.

He has bought us - and He has assured us a good end.

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance ... will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come ... for such a time as this?" Esther 4:14

Let us not give up, but intercede for the country, and stand up when God calls. God is the Lord of Politics.

If we run away, what about the others?

With Top Leaders in the country declaring that Malaysia is no longer a "secular state", our religious freedom is oppressed - of course, today is not the first day that such things happen. For Jesus' sake, for the sake of the peace of Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs. For the sake of the peace of our children -

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled

2 Corinthians 10:3-6

William Wilberforce
Politician and Slave Liberator

William Wilberforce (August 24, 1759–July 29, 1833) was a British politician and philanthropist. A native of Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780 and became Member of Parliament for Yorkshire (1784–1812), and independent supporter of the Tory party. A close friend of Prime Minister William Pitt, in 1785 he underwent a conversion experience and became an evangelical Christian. In 1787 he came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Beilby Porteus, Hannah More, and Lord Middleton.

At their suggestion, Wilberforce was persuaded to take on the cause. He became one of the leading English abolitionists, heading the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade, which he saw through to the eventual passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807.

Wilberforce also championed many other causes and campaigns, including the Society for Suppression of Vice, Charity schools, the introduction of Christianity to India, the foundation of the Church Mission Society, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

In later years, he supported the campaign for complete abolition, which eventually led to the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.^[1] This Act paved the way for the complete abolition of slavery in the British Empire.^[2][3][4] A tireless campaigner for the abolition of slavery, Wilberforce died just three days after hearing of the passage of the Act through Parliament. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to his friend William Pitt.

Martin Luther King Jr.
Minister and Champion of the African Americans

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), was one of the pivotal leaders of the American civil rights movement. King was a Baptist minister, one of the few leadership roles available to black men at the time. He became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first president. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Here he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.