Phil 4:6-7

bible memory verse #2:
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Phil 4:6-7)

Amen.

Feeling secure

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not
parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek
its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil. (1 Cor 13:4,5)
A wise mom once said, "Take it as a compliment that other girls think
your guy is great, too." Be secure enough to acknowledge their good
taste. If your relationship is about love, then jealousy can't be part
of it. Paul spends this whole chapter defining love. He is clear to
point out that true love is not jealous. Somehow we've confused this
and begun to think that if you love someone, you're supposed to act
jealous and possessive. Love is about serving, selflessness and
caring. Arrogance and jealousy are for the insecure. Have faith in
Jesus. He will bring the perfect mate for you. Learning to love and
trust someone means that you don't have to worry about who he talks
to, or who he's in the same room with. If your guy isn't trustworthy,
then he's definitely not the one for you. Don't even start a romantic
relationship with him. Start making friendships instead of dating.
That way you can spend time with different people until you find one
who lines up with your beliefs and values, the one you can have fun
with, the one you love, the one you trust completely. The possibility
of boyfriends and girlfriends will come and go. Don't give in to the
"gotta have a date" mentality. Commit to having holy courtships and
let God bring the one He has chosen for you. When it's really about
love, jealousy will lose out and trust will win.

Inside my beloved bible, the above spoke to me : )

Prayers work

Prayers do work. God is faithful. Keep praying and meditate on His promises.

(17 june 2005)

He will not let you go. He loves you.

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

Not by chance

This must be told since nothing happens by chance, but that said, it never failed to amaze me still.

On Sunday 19 June, the sermon at my best friend's church was on the perfect will of God. So along that line of thoughts, she was wondering if she should still be as adamant on switching her line of work, cos’ looking back, one can't help but acknowledge that she has been very blessed. All the chances and lessons she received seemed to prepare her for her current job. Though it's never been her dream to be doing what she's doing, let's just say she enjoys her work, and many would die to be in her position. So, she thought maybe this job was God's will, so she shouldn't change it, since it does appear that He's more than led her here..

On Tuesday morning, I was doing my daily bible-reading. That morning's reading was Eph 4.. As I flipped thru the pages, I stopped at Eph 2 to look at the footnotes beneath:

Promise: He Promises To Have A Plan For You.

For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them (Eph 2:10)

"Most days just seem to go by like every other day. Same old stuff. Same old everything. Blah blah blah. One day runs into another one. You close your eyes and wake up to do it all over again. Doesn't seem like much of a plan, does it?

Maybe not. But God has an exciting plan for your life - a plan that will give you purpose and fulfillment beyond your wildest dreams. Following God's plan takes what He's planned for you to do. You don't just accidentally fulfil what He's planned for you to do. You've got to seek God and ask Him to reveal His plan to you and to give you understanding about how you can fulfil it. Then, you've got to determine to make every day count for Him and for His plan.

Pay attention to every decision you face - even the ones that seem so insignificant. Take seriously every person you meet - even the ones you don't like. Embrace every situation you find yourself in - even the ones that seem to make no sense at all. They're shaping you, moulding you, preparing you for the next decision, the next person, the next situation.

Lose yourself in doing what God wants with every aspect of your life. Live your life in light of His plan!"

Upon reading the above, I immediately checked my Daily Devotional. Guess what? Sunday morning's bible-reading was EPHESIANS 2. I hadn't read the (above) footnotes earlier cos’ I'd used a different bible that day. But look, God speaks, and I always find it so amazing whenever Q&A situations like that happen. God can speak right to our hearts and answer our questions specifically. Just never stop asking, seeking, knocking. I love God. He is my Only God, my love, my Lord.

A healing miracle!

There is a miracle, so miraculous I didn’t know how to react to it, except to keep thanking Him.

After my prayer that night, I went back to bed to read my bible. My sister was sick and she was coughing the whole night. It was so bad that all the coughing made her start to wheeze, and the inhaler did nothing to help… Just hearing her cough made my heart ache cos I know how terrible she must be feeling since I am asthmatic myself. Halfway thru my bible-reading, I noticed her walk to the living room, so after I finished my quiet time, I went out to the living room to look for her. Mum had asked her to sit instead of lying down hoping it would help in her breathing. I sat down beside my sis, and assisted her with two puffs of the inhaler. After the medication, I asked her to close her eyes and think about God. I then laid hands on her and started praying. The whole time I was praying, I noticed that she had STOPPED coughing. There and then, I really didn’t know what to do, except to keep praying and keep thanking Him for healing. After a while I removed my hands, and asked her to lie down to sleep as I laid opposite her. Soon after, I heard her breathing normally as she fell asleep. In my heart, I was just so amazed, cos it was healing right before my very eyes! I so much wanted to jump up and kneel down to thank God but I didn’t wanna wake my sister up, so I just continued praying where I was. The first thing I did in the morning, was kneel before Him and thank Him. My sister went to the doctor subsequently and now her coughing’s completely stopped. Praise God!

Extraordinary, way beyond the ordinary, EXTRAORDINARY!

Daily encounter

We must have a daily encounter with God.

“Life sometimes get pretty routine and you find yourself feeling stale and soggy on the inside. You find that you can’t spruce up your own heart… He promises to ‘quiet you with His love’. There is nothing that adds zest to life more than the breath wind of the spirit of God blowing thru your heart. It does more for you on the inside than a squirt from the garden hose on a steamy afternoon. It brings you back to life. It gives you passion again. It refuels your energy. And it stokes the fire of God that is inside of you. He does it all without thunder and lightning. He does it with such tenderness – just by His love, which touches all your deepest places. Zeph 3:17 (..He will quiet you with his love, He will rejoice over you with singing.) Never ever forget that you are the one who makes God sing and He is the one who ‘will quiet you with His love’.

I prayed to God to enrol me for bible school next year. As I prayed about it, I was touched by the presence of God. I told God I was hungry for greater understanding of His word and I have a deep desire to be discipled. Although I know there’ll be challenges but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Towards the end of my prayer, I opened my eyes and looked up into the sky. Staring at me was a face of a goblin formed by the clouds! I was so frightened that my heart started beating very quickly. Staring at the clouds, I kept proclaiming, “There is no fear in Jesus” And I kept repeating that till the facial features of the goblin started blurring to reveal just a plain cloud.

This taught me something. Wherever you are, whatever you do, especially in the face of fear, keep proclaiming Jesus! “Greater is the Spirit of God that is in me than any obstacle that stands before me.” (1 John 4:4) You have all authority! There is no fear in His perfect love. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.” (1 John 4:18)

Thank you God, I am just so glad to experience You in my midst.

Indeed we all need a daily encounter with God.

1 John 4:7

Today, I make a decision to memorise 60 bible verses
Lemme start with my favourite verse...

bible memory verse #1:
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God;
and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7 (NKJV)

Preaching challenge

What I also learnt from EMERGE:
The preaching challenge - "REVIVAL"

-by Crystal
#1 ONE-MAN REVIVAL
Be a revival carrier: Revival can happen thru ONE!
ONE Queen Esther!
ONE Moses!
ONE Nehemiah!
"Don't let anyone think less of you because you are young.
Be an example to all believers in what you teach, in the way you live,
in your love, your faith, and your purity" (1 Timothy 4:12)

-by Wayne
#2 COMPASSION FOR THE LOST
Aaron, who ran to the altar, caught the fire and saved Israel.
He literally stood in the gap between the living and the dead.
Are we gonna stand in the gap?
Are we gonna leave and abandon our parents who are unsaved?
Are we gonna leave and abandon our brothers and sisters who are unsaved?
Are we gonna leave and abandon our friends who are unsaved?
Are we gonna leave and abandon our loved ones who are unsaved?

"I want to run to the altar
And catch the fire
To stand in the gap
Between the living and the dead
Give us a heart of compassion
For a world without vision
We will make a difference
Bringing hope to our land"


I never really understood revival till now.. Indeed, revival CAN happen thru ONE.
There must be a daily encounter with God. An encounter with the Holy Spirit will not quench your thirst, instead it will make you all the more thirsty for God, more hungry for God.

"Like lovers who never met, their hearts pounded."
Does your heart pulsate to the beat of God?

We are made to worship God.

I want to think of Him everyday, miss Him everyday, hunger and thirst for Him every moment, every minute, to love Him and seek Him in all things.

Spiritual hunger

Night service I @ Emerge conference:
I must admit I wasn't as fit as I was in the morning.. I hate it when tired-ness creeps in and I dozed off duing worship. Sheesh I felt so quilty. During the Word, pastor then spoke about spiritual hunger and elaborated on what it meant to lose the hunger and what happens.. (put almost in a rather biological/ medical way)

When you lose your hunger:

1. Weight declines: you lose glory, lose substance
2. Protein in your muscles break down: there is no more strength
3. Lose the desire/ ability to repoduce. You become Impotent. Unfruitful.
4. Temperature drops. You lose your senses
5. Immunity system breaks down. Can no longer say no to temptations
6. Lose your mind: Brain fails. You go towards carnal thinking
7. Heart failure: heart stops beating for God, cannot pulsate. No longer look Vertically up to Him, you stop loving Horizontally across; There is no more cross in your life.
8. Death: Spiritual death
9. Dehydration: no more water. (Jesus says Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." John 7:38)
10. Lose salt: No longer salt of the earth. (You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. Matthew.5:13)
11. Fever, lose spiritual judgement, discernment. No tears when you come before God. You are hot for the wrong reason.
12. Kidney failure: Can't cleanse yourself from impurities. you lose the sanctification.

Perhaps I had lost it a little somehow, but today God reminded me of how I used to come before Him. With hyms of love & intimate fellowship.

I need to renew my love for Him. We need to encounter God DAILY..
Thank you Lord for never giving up on me and I know You will never leave me.

" Draw me, O' draw me away
Messiah today
To Your presence I stay
O' Jesus
Change me
Mould me
That I can be
Evermore true to thee "

Amen.

church

Church is not just church, if anyone will realise that.
It is beyond the singing of hyms, paying our tithes, fulfilling our weekly dues by attending service
It is a life.

I am at the right place

To start this, maybe I need to refer to a previous experience to explain this better. I thought Pst. Phil is such an annointed man. I was in such awe of him. Someone who looked so hip to be so annointed. Anyways, let's fast-forward this to last Sunday. I was in church when they showed us the trailer for the EMERGE (youth) conference. In it, one of the footages was that of Pst. Kong preachin'. Within that few seconds, I was suddenly overcome by a tremendous emotional charge. There was only one thing in my mind:
" I a m i n t h e r i g h t p l a c e . "
That day, I seriously believed that Pst. Kong is such an annointed man of God.

Yesterday was the first day of the EMERGE conference, and like the woman with the issue of blood who pressed in through the crowds believing that if she only touched the garment of Jesus, she will be healed. I thoroughly believed that the annointing of God would flow through to me, when Pastor called us down to be prayed for. Immediately after I came back to my seat, I was in great tears. Shortly before I recovered, Pastor said he wanted to pray for those in the media and the arts, including Mass Comm students. This time, Sun would lay hands on us. With some hesitation tho', I walked down again. As I was worshipping God, Sun walked towards me, I closed my eyes, and as she laid hands on me, my hands were shaking as I fell! (I used to wonder why people tremble when they fall..) Yesterday, I felt it. Pastor Kong and Sun are truly annointed. Indeed the Holy Spirit is right.
" I a m i n t h e r i g h t p l a c e . "

Pastor says, if the economy is flourishing, it doesn't mean that the individal will also flourish, but if the church is moving, its members will be led with the flow. Not just any flow, but with the strong current of God. Thank you God for placing me here. I am in the right place. Amen.

I love my friend

The Bible speaks of a friendship that knows no limits. "A friend loves at all times," said the wise man (Proverbs 17:17). And "there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother" (18:24). Jesus said, "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends" (John 15:13).

Jesus is both our Great Physician and our Friend, and He promised that He would never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). He calls us to stand with our friends and family in His name as their earthly journey nears its end. That's what a true friend would do. —David McCasland

A friend is he who always knows
When the cold wind of trouble blows,
Who comes in dark and stormy night
With friendship's glowing lamp alight. —Mason

A true friend stays true to the end.

From Our Daily Bread: June 5, 2005

... OK, yes Amen

God will never disappoint me

Ps 42:5,6 "Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Saviour and my God."

1 Jhn 2:15,16 "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world."

Matt 21:22 "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."

Yes, Lord.
Thank you for the peace in my heart. I love you Father. I will put my trust in You O' God, and look to You in all things. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

How to pray

"Five-Finger Prayer"

· When you fold your hands, the thumb is nearest you. So begin by praying for those closest to you—your loved ones (Philippians 1:3-5).

· The index finger is the pointer. Pray for those who teach—Bible teachers and preachers, and those who teach children (1 Thessalonians 5:25).

· The next finger is the tallest. It reminds you to pray for those in authority over you—national and local leaders, and your supervisor at work (1 Timothy 2:1-2).

· The fourth finger is usually the weakest. Pray for those who are in trouble or who are suffering (James 5:13-16).

· Then comes your little finger. It reminds you of your smallness in relation to God's greatness. Ask Him to supply your needs (Philippians 4:6,19).

James 5:13-18 (NIV)

The Prayer of Faith

¹³Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. ¹⁴Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. ¹⁶Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. *The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

¹⁷Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. ¹⁸Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.

*The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. (NKJV)

transformation..

It's true, I haven't felt this way before.

I know I've been transformed. Not that I can see the transformation now. But inside me, I have this very strong feeling that confirms that the work of transformation.

Ps. Phil Pringle is an amazing man.. So annointed, so captivating. The week that just passed was life-changing. It's not something I can pin-point. I do not feel physically light, or happy, or emotionally touched.. I just feel like something's happened to my heart.. To put it in pastor's words, we are writing a new book, not a new chapter.

What did I learn last week?

- Destiny ; divine alignment
- To be loyal (to the church)
- Obedience & Reverence; fear of the Lord
- Respect authority: Obey the man God has appointed
- Tarry in His presence
- Be Faithful. whatever is not from faith is sin (rom 14:23)
- We Are Leaders (Accountable. Visible. Responsible.)
- Authority in Jesus; Do not doubt in your heart (mark 11:22-24)

I feel a renewal.. a transformation coming.. like the shedding of skin.. like strings cut loose..




Yesterday, someone sent me this email:

I want to stir up your mind to remind you that you have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness. But it is up to you to guard what God has given you.

And now in this hour, faith and the anointing of the Spirit of God
are in our hearts. But it's up to us to guard those treasures!
Source: From a Pastor's Heart by Kenneth E. Hagin. Jr.

offering and worship

Hear this:

Worship is not worship when God is first.
Worship is worship when God is ONLY.

An offering is an offer, NOT an acceptance.
Give the Lord, your God, your BEST and Honor Him with your giving.

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You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve. Luke 4:8
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind. Luke 10:27
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Rev. Dr Phil Pringle nite III

Last night is a definite documentation into my prayer journal. The power of God so strong; the man, Rev Dr Phil Pringle, so annointed; the presence of God flowed thru, even though I was at home watching it online, via my laptop, into the room and filled our hearts. My sis and me were deeply touched…

The messages struck the very minute I stepped into the room.
Pastor said

"Our destiny is in the people of the world, with whom we align ourselves with."

Shock! My destiny? With the people of the world? Well, after a while, it made sense.

"Therefore it is important who/ where/ what you align yourselves with."

Then pastor spoke about loyalty.

- The spirit of loyalty is constructive; spirit of disloyalty is destructive;

- Friendship is not higher than loyalty

- Loyalty is not loyalty till you’ve been challenged with disloyalty

Major lesson learnt. (take example from Absalom 2 Sam 13, 14)

Unresolved offences breeds disloyalty.
Unresolved offences occur when you were offended and you did not forgive. Nursing a grudge will disqualify your destiny. Hence, forgiving; forgiveness, is a daily affair.

The Lord’s prayer:

Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

“Tonight, none of you will walk out without forgiving.”

There are a few types of people, some who are results-oriented; who will compromise in order to achieve their desired results.

Psalms 15: Keep commitments/ integrity even if it jeopardizes results.

Make decisions based on what God wants.

sometimes, People who demand the most, give the least.
sometimes, People who demand the least, give the most.

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If our tents are to be enlarged, the stakes of loyalty need to be entrenched deeper so that winds of adversity do not blow it down.

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Watch out! part III

I always ask God to reveal to me my calling..

On 2 May
During Children's Church revival fire conference, Bill Wilson (in the video) said the need is the calling.
Very often, we listen to God's voice and when God doesn't say anything, we don't do anything.
He gave us an example, when he went to Africa, where he saw a hut in a land where everybody had forsaken. There he saw skinny children that nobody remembered. Then he said, "at that point of time, do you still need to pray about it?!"

As I was singing,
"One with Jesus
One with my Lord"
I then wondered, how do I be one with Jesus? I prayed to God that I want to walk in His perfect will, that I will not stray from the left to the right, nor from the right to the left. That is how I can be "one with Him" :)


On 4 May
I read Romans 8

Life Through the Spirit

¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,^{[a] 2}because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. ³For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature,^[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.^[c] And so he condemned sin in sinful man,^{[d] 4}in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.

⁵Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. ⁶The mind of sinful man^[e] is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; ⁷the sinful mind^[f] is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. ⁸Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. ⁹You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. ¹⁰But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. ¹¹And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.

¹²Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. ¹³For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, ¹⁴because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. ¹⁵For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.^[g] And by him we cry, "Abba,^[h] Father." ¹⁶The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. ¹⁷Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

²⁶In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. ²⁷And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.

More Than Conquerors

²⁸And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,^[j] who^[k] have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. ³¹What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³²He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."^{[l] 37}No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[m] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


In conjunction with the above, the book that I read later in the afternoon, "Creative Ministry", says, "He has to be and become more and more an obedient man - that is, a man who allows himself to be guided by the voices he hears, He has to be obedient to the voices of nature, to the voices of people, and to the voice of God."
(this book is about creative evangelism, and this chapter "Celebration" speaks about the celebration of life in all its glory, joy, sorrow and misery. To be able to celebrate the present along with the past)
My revelation here is that we are no longer enslaved to sin, sin is no longer our master. We have a new covenant with the law, with the Spirit. I need not struggle with sin. All I need to do is to yield to the Spirit.


The same night, as I was walking home, I prayed to God to bless my life to bless the others, to use me to minister to my friends and to encourage those around me.
I happened to speak to N, who was feeling a little tired, finding it hard to pray recently. After sharing with her on my revelations, she got very excited and said that she couldn't wait to hang up the phone to do her quiet time immediately! I was glad and of course we ended our conversation there. I thank God that I can be used by Him to encourage my friend :D

To wrap this series, lemme end off with something light.
Before I blogged, I wrote a list of things God has blessed me with & my revelations:
1) His comforting words from the bible
2) Ps Derek prayed for me
3) I do not live for the approval of man
4) Not to be a lukewarm Christian
5) The need is my calling
6) Rom 1, 2, 3 on homosexuality
7) Romans 8, I am set free
- Creative Ministry on obedience
8) J's sis, A's trust
9) God used me to encourage N
10) Preserve my body
- Body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
11) J thinks I am a Godly person. All the more, I should live for His glory.

(However, I took out point (11) subsequently cos I thought it wasn't so much a revelation.)
Afterwhich I started to pray and give thanks to God.
As I was praying, I received a shock when I suddenly remembered what I prayed for a week ago, when I was feeling weary, I told God, "God I know that You will never let me go, and pastor says that if I take one step towards God, God will take 10 steps (or was it 100 steps?) towards us."
When I looked at my ten points, I was just shocked! It couldn't have been a coincidence! I know it is God telling me if I draw close to Him, He will draw close to me. (Don't let go of God and God won't let you go.)

"Lord You are always here with me
There is no changing God in thee
You are the same yesterday and today and forevermore
Here on Your promises I stand
You hold my future in Your hands
My solid rock
Almighty God I worship You"

Amen.

Rom 1, 2, 3

Romans 1
²⁵They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
²⁶Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Romans 2
²¹you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

Romans 3
²⁰Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.

Watch out! part II

There are so many revelations at different points of time and I just know that it is God's encouragement. One thing that has been speaking to me the whole time, God can use me. I can do mighty things for God. And everytime I am reminded of that, I have to remind myself I have to consecrate myself.
On 29 Apr:
Overnight prayer meeting Pastor prayed for the youths to preserve their body and I thought that spoke to me, for I should preserve and keep myself pure for God.

On 30 Apr:
Pastor Eileen asked Jervon how his trip was, then he said he learnt not to take things for granted. I know that God can speak to us in any moment, so I took that down. Not to take things for granted. That day, teacher Wendy wanted me to act for her in her bible object lesson. I was to play a little girl who prays to God. Simple scene actually. All I hadda say was,
" Dear God I am very sad because mommy and daddy are quarelling.
God, help me depend on you and trust you no matter what happens.
Thank you for giving me peace in my heart.
In Jesus' name I pray Amen."
Before the scene, I just kept praying to God that I will perform with God's annointing. I didn't want to take things for granted and although it was a simple scene, I prayed to God that I would be able to play the role with conviction, that the children would be able to relate to the message.

After the service, pastor came to me and said that the most touching moment that day was when little Lingual (my character) prayed to God.. She said children would be able to relate to that. Woah! Thank God! Indeed we must develop sensitivity to Him, He can speak to us any moment, and we must also give him the best because He deserves the BEST! Amen.