Saturday, February 10, 2007

Just a sharing

Dear Brothers and Sisters (I know you all read our blog too) in Christ, greetings...

I suppose this is my first blog entry, haha...

Anyway, let's see... What i wanna share is about prayer. As we all know, Jesus told us to pray, Pastor encourages us to pray, and we know we should pray. But are we doing it? I know i am, so why not you. I wanna share some things that happened recently and not so recently regarding my prayer life.

"Therefore 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." - James 5:16

Well, i cannot say that I am truly righteous, but whenever I pray for someone else, and I know that I pray with the heartbeat of our Lord Jesus, He answers my prayers.

So what is the heartbeat of Jesus? I'm sure most of us know a little about it. He wants to Heal us, Deliver us, Bless us, He loves the weak, the poor and the humble.

Let's see, when i was still a young Christian, during my Poly school days, which is 2 or 3 years back, I remember specifically praying for my classmate Bryan for his driving test. He is a backsliden brother, and I told him that I will be praying for his driving test and not to worry so much. Guess what, he passed his driving test. (Of course right, if not share for what)

Anyway, recently, or should I say last night at the MHA(Ministry of Home Affairs) Annual Dinner, something happened also. Not a big thing, but big enough to let me know that God is working His miracles in my life and others. As any other Dinner and Dance events, there is a lucky draw for anyone who attends. So what happened was my Team Leader(we work in teams) couldn't make it for the dinner, but we registered him for the lucky draw anyway (Typical Singaporean mah). And I dunno why, I prayed this simple prayer, "God, bless my friends, let them win something." Lo and Behold, the Lord used me to bless my Team Leader. His ticket was with me, by God's will, and he got the 10th prize of a Phillips DVD recorder, not bad huh...

Some of us may say coincidence la, but guess what, you're right. Because coincidence is God's way of working in our lives. What else you want God to do? Make the earth shake and walls crumble everytime He works in our lives? Then we would be living in ruins already, cos so many times God has worked in our lives.

A quote from a book I read, "When God Winks" by Squire Rushnell

Co-in-ci-dence
A sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged.

Wink
To give a signal or express a message

God's Wink
A personal signal o message, directly from a higher power, usually, but not always, in the form of a coincidence.

So, are we recognizing God's winks in each of our lives yet? Or are we still dismissing it as coincidences and ignoring what God has for us?

So brothers and sisters, let us start each day afresh, with the Word of God, knowing that He is ultimately in control of our lives. Submit ourselves to His will, as we all know, His will and not ours be done. And be ready to receive His great blessings poured out from Heaven above.

Take care, God bless.
Joe Choo
Joe Choo || 1:23 PM