Psalm 143:8

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Dear Mister God, for months I have prayed to you to bring M to repentance while I secretly wished he would never get back on his feet again (I'm sorry, I know that was wrong). However, for the past few nights, I have been getting these dreams of M again (how unsettling!). Before long, I found myself playing sleuth and found clues that M might actually be doing well after all. Mister God, I was so overcome with emotions that my body shook violently in fear. Was it an evil spirit or the guilt of lying to you about my feelings towards M? I have not been able to forgive and move on, worst of all, I was harbouring bad thoughts and evil wishing against M all this time whilst you had helped him get up again to face the world. My dearest Mister God, if he has truly repent and was forgiven by you, then you have answered my prayers (albeit my insincerity). I had no right to wish ill of him. Please forgive me, Mister God and please show me the way I should go forth now. I know I can't do this on my own, so please Mister God, please make today the last time I think of M and dream of him again. Mister God, please hear me as I ask this boldly through Jesus Christ. Amen. xx

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Dear God, I am earnest in seeking the truth but lately I have been seeking to find evidence that Jesus is not truly the son of God. I am still finding it difficult to accept that he is divine and that he had died for my sins. Instead I marvel at his ethical and moral teachings and way of life more than believing that he is my one true God. Please help me God by showing me that Jesus is indeed my Lord God. Thank you. Amen.

Philippians 4:6–7

Romans 6:4

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Ma, on the occasion of your Baptism, I'd like to pray that you'll forever rejoice in the light and love of our Lord, Jesus. Amen. xx

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20

For the lot of man and of beast is one lot; the one dies as well as the other. Both have the same life-breath, and man has no advantage over the beast; but all is vanity. Both go to the same place; both were made from the dust, and to the dust they both return.

Dear Mister God, the news today made me feel uneasy. I do not know if it is right or wrong. I don't think these scientists people intend to cause harm. In fact, all they want is to save lives. Isn't life on earth worth fighting for even if the methods seem immoral? On the other hand, is it your plan for us to temper with the life that you have created or should we just leave it you? Mister God, I don't know what to think. Please let these people in the position to make a difference do the right thing today. Amen.

You Are Perfect In God’s Eyes

Hebrews 10:12,14, KJV
12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God… 14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

God sees you with no flaw, spot or imperfection, so honour His Word and the finished work of His Son by saying, “Amen!” Don’t doubt your perfection in Christ.

To see yourself as far from being perfect is not modesty, but a failure to understand the perfect sacrifice that Jesus has made for you.

The Bible tells us, “For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified”. Did you get that? You have not only been sanctified, that is, made holy, but by the same offering of His body, you have been perfected. You are both holy and perfect in the eyes of God!

Your sins have been purged perfectly. Today, Jesus is seated at His Father’s right hand not because He is the Son of God (although that is true), but because His work of purging your sins is completely finished and perfect! So instead of being conscious of your sins, which is to have an evil conscience (Hebrews 10:22), you can have a perfect conscience, a conscience that is free from the guilt and condemnation of sins.

When you find yourself conscious of your sins, just say, “Thank you, Lord Jesus, for Your wonderful work at the cross. It is a perfect work that has removed all my sins completely. Holy Spirit, thank you for convicting me of righteousness, not my own, but God’s righteousness given to me as a gift. Keep on convicting me in the days to come, reminding me especially when I fail that I am still the righteousness of God in Christ.”

My friend, God sees you perfect without any spot of sin. He sees you covered in the beautiful white robes of His own righteousness. He treats you like a righteous man because that is what He has made you. So expect good things to happen to you because blessings are on the head of the righteous! (Proverbs 10:6)

Philippians 4:13

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

This is a book written by the same author of the Narnia chronicles. Here are a couple of excerpts that really struck a cord because we are all relatively new christians who used to be either ignorant or hard-hearted so if you ever find it in a bookstore, I hope you'll pick it up like I did. ;-P

"Now Faith...is the art of holding on to things your reason 'has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. This rebellion of your moods against your real self is going to come anyway. That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods where they get off, you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion. Consequently one must train the habit of Faith."

"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. Of course, I could have given up my idea of justice by saying that it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my private fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist--in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless--I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality--namely my idea of justice--was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

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.

Dear Mister God, thank you for giving us wisdom for being aware of the temptations around us. Mister God, is temptation like the cold that is constantly present and doesn't have a cure? Also, what is repression and suppression and why do people seem to get really sick when they consciously make temptations go away themselves? Mister God, if temptation is as common as the cold, please dispense your heavenly medicine to relief us from its symptoms and do not let us waste our minds trying to suppress or repress all these bad stuff. Afterall, it was you who removed my smoking habit overnight, no? Mister God, please let us be cool Christians who don't have to sweat the small stuff like temptations so that we can live fulfilling lives according to your plans. Amen. xx

i had a revelation

hi pat khim reina el and kiah

my first blog entry! sorry last time never really put in much effort.
i will be getting baptised on 25th may at east coast beach. you are all cordially invited. (got food and bbq.)
i didnt really have any strong urge to get baptised but this time round i felt that god has done so much in my life and this is the least i could do. and my cell ladies kept asking me so partly i just wanted to get on with it so that i wouldnt have to come up with any excuse anymore. so it was more like a ok just do it lor...kind of decision.
but little did i know that this small step of very small faith changed something big inside me.
i went for the baptism class on sat and was falling asleep la coz the topics were q dry until suddenly during the second half that everything seemed to make so much sense. i think it was only then did i fully understand wat jesus was about. it felt like it made perfect sense. how the tabernacle was built in the past (the steps the olden day people had to take to go in and how it is reflected in the way we do praise and worship today and the curtain that separated us and god was torn in 2 when jesus died)
then suddenly i just felt a revelation> something changed inside me. a kind of joy and realisation that all the things that were important to me were so trivial in comparison to god's plan for us.
i suddenly bumped into alot of old friends who either spiritually refreshed me or people i had not seen for years and i wanted to share the joy of being god's children w them.
and on sunday our pastor was talking about how we need to remain in jesus. he mentioned something about how it is actually considered immature (in terms of spirituality) to keep worrying about things after we have prayed and trusted god to take care of them. he didnt touch alot on this point but it really stuck in my mind. i was always worried even after i prayed. not knowing that by doing that it simply meant i didnt trust completely that He could help me do EVERYTHING.
alot of other things were 'revelationalised ' - of achievements in my life. i used to think that one's achievements (even how much salary u earn at ur age) were measures of how much u have achieved. but as i read the bible yesterday it dawned upon me that it really dosent matter at all how much money we have or how hard we strive to do things to achieve a sort of recognition for ourselves. it all aint gonna matter if we truly believe in eternity. if we focus on the bigger picture of wat path god has planned for us, other things are secondary and thus we can actually do those things better bcoz we dont hold on them so tightly anymore.
and alot of other things that suddenly click in my mind...too many to list

anyway wat im saying is that god will bless us beyond wat we can imagine when we obey him. ( in my case even when i did not do it full heartedly in the beginning)
hope this revelation will be a blessing to ur day today, we all belong to this big god who can give us a peace that transcends all human understanding and is just waiting to pour abundant blessings on u.

j

Luke 18:9-14

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Dear Mister God, last week I asked if you loved everybody, even my friend who doesn't know you the way I do. Last night, my friend told me that you had just given him strength and courage to do something new and exciting and he said that it couldn't be anyone or anything else other than you who had blessed him with these gifts. Mister God, you are real to me and there is truly only one of you in the whole wide world. Please continue to guide my friend and may he have confidence to give you thanks the way he knows how. Thank you. Amen.

1 Corinthians 15:42-44

So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

Dear Mister God, please take Trishabelle with you to heaven today to be with Felix and may they play catch, have all the raisins and crab sticks in heaven and be happy for eternity. Please tell them both to wait for Patty to come home and I miss them both so terribly much. Mister God, I am sorry I feel so sad right now and wish I could go back in time to make it right. And I am sorry for having anger against anyone who is going to tell me that Trish and Felix have no souls hence there is no need to weep nor pray for them. Please I beg you, Mister God, please help Trish ascend to heaven to be with Felix today and forever. Amen.

Choose The Good Part And Profit

Isaiah 48:17
17 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go.”

God instructs us for our own benefit. He wants us to profit in every area of our lives — our health, finances, social life, marriages and family relationships. The Bible says that it is God who teaches us to profit. And it is God who leads us in the way we should go. He always has our best interests at heart. We only have to sit at His feet, listen to His word and just have fresh, daily communion with Him, and He will make our way prosperous.

We are constantly bombarded with things to do every day, like sending the kids to school, attending a business meeting or making a sales presentation. Likewise, in church, there are just as many important things to attend to — ministering to the needy, reaching out to the lost and healing the sick. But you know what? All these things will be taken care of when we sit at Jesus’ feet and listen to His Word.

What was the Lord’s response to Martha’s complaint that her sister was sitting at His feet and listening to Him, instead of helping her with her many tasks? “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:41–42)

Yet, many of us are like Martha. We worry about many things. We are so busy that we have no time to sit at Jesus’ feet to listen to His Word and enjoy communing with Him. When we fail to draw from Him, we end up running on our own strength, and relying on our own flesh and wisdom to get things done. Listen, you can never have a plan that is better than God’s!

My friend, let’s choose the good part like Mary did. Let’s follow God’s way today. Spend time with Jesus, open your Bible and say, “Lord, speak to me.” You will find that your heavenly Father takes care of your troubles, and teaches and leads you to profit!

(taken from http://www.newcreation.org.sg/resources/dailydevotion/dailydevo.asp)

Matthew 6:28-33

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Dear Mister God, thank you for providing me with everything that I could ever want and giving me the confidence that no matter how little money I may have in the bank right now and how uncertain my future may seem, Mister God, I know you will provide for me. Oh and Mister God, was it you who arranged for me to see that flat at Mile End today? I love it, Mister God! And the girl who lives there, she is a nice Christian girl who is going to invite me to your Church...I think it's called New Frontiers, if I decide to move in with her. Mister God! You are amazing! I l..l..l..l..l..love you, Mister God! xx Amen.