First day of the week!
Read the daily bread!
Didn't really have much time to pray yet.
But I do thank God for a good night rest!
Dear Lord Jesus!
Please give me a good and productive day/week!
Please give me the strength to spend more time with you today!
In Jesus Name I pray!
Amen!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
1 month in the wilderness!
It has been a month since I did my QT!
During this time i have been sinning!
I have an addiction that is very hard to break and it is this addiction that is causing me to be far away from God!
Actually it is not just one addiction it is actually it is a life style and habits and priorities that is all wrong that causes me to not spend time with the One I profess to be my God and Saviour, whom I profess to love above all else!
However there is one main addiction that is the killer of all!
Well yesterday I took a hard step to be obedient to God! And Boy am I glad I did! Because right after that, I was driving my brother-in-law's car and usually I have no problems using my HP while driving. But this time I felt someone telling me to put the phone down. And as I did that, I saw an accident happen on the fast lane (on Federal Highway). I was just far enough to avoid it, but it was still a close call! If I had use my phone, I am sure I would not have had time to avoid the accident!
It is things like this that makes me believe in my God!
HOWEVER...The more important story behind this is that my old friend actually (miraculously) called me up that evening and ask if he could follow me to church! This guy through he was a Christian, hardly ever goes to church and it was almost impossible to drag him to one! So I was shock when he called and asked to follow me.
I am glad that I had taken steps to obey God and deal with my addiction, because if I had not I could not haveprayed for him or even worship God properly today!
Today verse in Daily Bread is really appropriate for me!
Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. —Isaiah 40:3
I had to play my part and to take physical steps to obey God in order to prepare the way for him to enter my heart again and also to bring change to my friends!
In church today, we sang God will make a way! The devotion today ended the same way.
Maybe God is telling me that if I am willing to obey he will make a way to help me overcome my addiction!
I am willing Lord! Please make a way for me!!
AMEN!!
During this time i have been sinning!
I have an addiction that is very hard to break and it is this addiction that is causing me to be far away from God!
Actually it is not just one addiction it is actually it is a life style and habits and priorities that is all wrong that causes me to not spend time with the One I profess to be my God and Saviour, whom I profess to love above all else!
However there is one main addiction that is the killer of all!
Well yesterday I took a hard step to be obedient to God! And Boy am I glad I did! Because right after that, I was driving my brother-in-law's car and usually I have no problems using my HP while driving. But this time I felt someone telling me to put the phone down. And as I did that, I saw an accident happen on the fast lane (on Federal Highway). I was just far enough to avoid it, but it was still a close call! If I had use my phone, I am sure I would not have had time to avoid the accident!
It is things like this that makes me believe in my God!
HOWEVER...The more important story behind this is that my old friend actually (miraculously) called me up that evening and ask if he could follow me to church! This guy through he was a Christian, hardly ever goes to church and it was almost impossible to drag him to one! So I was shock when he called and asked to follow me.
I am glad that I had taken steps to obey God and deal with my addiction, because if I had not I could not haveprayed for him or even worship God properly today!
Today verse in Daily Bread is really appropriate for me!
Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. —Isaiah 40:3
I had to play my part and to take physical steps to obey God in order to prepare the way for him to enter my heart again and also to bring change to my friends!
In church today, we sang God will make a way! The devotion today ended the same way.
Maybe God is telling me that if I am willing to obey he will make a way to help me overcome my addiction!
I am willing Lord! Please make a way for me!!
AMEN!!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Harder to spend time with God when all is good!
I found this truth in struggling for quiet time with God!
Whenever trials and problems comes my way, I will always have time to spend with God! However when times are good, I always have problems looking for time with God!
I know God isn't just someone you can call to come and go as and when you like!
I KNOW THIS!
But knowing this and doing something about it is 2 different things!
I do always give glory to God and praise Him for all his blessing and grace in my life. But somehow I know this is not enough!
SO how do I force myself to have more urgency in spending time with Him?!?
?????? I don't' know!
Anyway my QT reading today is....
Genesis 17:15-22 (New International Version)
15 God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. 16 I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
17 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?" 18 And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!"
19 Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. [a] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year." 22 When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him
The only thing that jumps out at me when reading this was......Ishmael did not seem to be part of God's plan at first. In fact Ishmael came as a result of Sarah and Abraham's lack of faith from God! Yet God said that He will "surely bless him" as well!!!
Wow how wonderful is God's grace for us!! It seem limitless!! But I know better that to tempt God in this area!! I know I need to fear and give reverence to Him!
I KNOW THIS!!
But knowing this and doing something about it are 2 different things!!
ARGH!!!
Whenever trials and problems comes my way, I will always have time to spend with God! However when times are good, I always have problems looking for time with God!
I know God isn't just someone you can call to come and go as and when you like!
I KNOW THIS!
But knowing this and doing something about it is 2 different things!
I do always give glory to God and praise Him for all his blessing and grace in my life. But somehow I know this is not enough!
SO how do I force myself to have more urgency in spending time with Him?!?
?????? I don't' know!
Anyway my QT reading today is....
Genesis 17:15-22 (New International Version)
15 God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. 16 I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
17 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?" 18 And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!"
19 Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. [a] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year." 22 When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him
The only thing that jumps out at me when reading this was......Ishmael did not seem to be part of God's plan at first. In fact Ishmael came as a result of Sarah and Abraham's lack of faith from God! Yet God said that He will "surely bless him" as well!!!
Wow how wonderful is God's grace for us!! It seem limitless!! But I know better that to tempt God in this area!! I know I need to fear and give reverence to Him!
I KNOW THIS!!
But knowing this and doing something about it are 2 different things!!
ARGH!!!
Monday, April 6, 2009
His mercy is new every morning!
Yesterday, my fiancee face a big problem. Very massive!!
Made me realise how insignificant everything else is when you face a huge problem with what is really important!
Needless to say she was very scared and shaken up!
I have not really got down to pray and read the bible until yesterday when this thing happen!
How lousy Christian I am. Going to God only at my time of need!
Funnie thing is that a saying just pop into my head a couple of weeks ago and it still did not leave me.
The saying is" it is not really trusting in God when you come into a situation where you have no choice but to trust in God!"
Well behold what happen! I am in a situation where I have no choice but to trust in God! Because the only way my finacee can get out of this problem is to trust in God!
But nonetheless I prayed earnestly yesterday and this morning! And the verse I read in the Daily bread did gave me some comfort.
Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s. —2 Chronicles 20:15
I shared this with my financee. Hope it will comfort her too!
It is funnie how only during times of trouble that we turn to God!
Thank God his mercy is so great! Or else I would be in so much trouble too!!
Made me realise how insignificant everything else is when you face a huge problem with what is really important!
Needless to say she was very scared and shaken up!
I have not really got down to pray and read the bible until yesterday when this thing happen!
How lousy Christian I am. Going to God only at my time of need!
Funnie thing is that a saying just pop into my head a couple of weeks ago and it still did not leave me.
The saying is" it is not really trusting in God when you come into a situation where you have no choice but to trust in God!"
Well behold what happen! I am in a situation where I have no choice but to trust in God! Because the only way my finacee can get out of this problem is to trust in God!
But nonetheless I prayed earnestly yesterday and this morning! And the verse I read in the Daily bread did gave me some comfort.
Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s. —2 Chronicles 20:15
I shared this with my financee. Hope it will comfort her too!
It is funnie how only during times of trouble that we turn to God!
Thank God his mercy is so great! Or else I would be in so much trouble too!!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Small step of obedience!
Small but very difficult!!
It seem so black and white in today's verse!
Obey God and you live!
Disobey God and you die!
Sure I wanna obey God lah!
BUT!
Not so easy sometimes!
My selfish desires and indiscipline gets the better of me sometimes.......
Actually most of the times lah!
I fear God! I really do fear God! Especially reading the verse below. I really fear not obeying God!
But sometimes I forget where I put my fear!
Dear Heavenly Father,
Please help me not to lose my fear when I am about to disobey You!
In Jesus Name I pray!
AMEN!
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 (New International Version)
15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Resting on God!
Its been almost 2 weeks since I have done proper QT.
However this time I believe I have gone stronger in faith. You see in my pass few entries I had meditate on trials and temptation and to learn to rest in God. At that time I didn't think it was so relevent to me. However as this two weeks pass I realise that God was giving me those scripture to prepare me for what's to come. This two weeks was indeed tough and mentally and physically draining. I have been sick and very busy with work. Normally I would look to other stuff for rest and comfort. However remembering on my pass meditation I decided to look to God for renewed strength and comfort and I was not disappointed. Somehow as I prayed and prayed, God indeed gave me the strength and endurance to go through.
PRAISE GOD!
I know what I go through pales in comparison to what others in the world go through, thus I am a bit worried if what I am going through is just the tip of the ice berg?!? I know it is not good to worry but just to trust in God! Well this is a struggle I battle within myself! Thus it is good to have this reading today!
John 20:24-29 (New International Version)
26A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 27Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
28Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
My prayer!
Dear Heavenly Father,
I thank you and give all honor and glory to you for sustaining my strength and refreshing me! Please help me never to doubt in your love, your grace and your power!
In Jesus name I pray!
AMEN!
However this time I believe I have gone stronger in faith. You see in my pass few entries I had meditate on trials and temptation and to learn to rest in God. At that time I didn't think it was so relevent to me. However as this two weeks pass I realise that God was giving me those scripture to prepare me for what's to come. This two weeks was indeed tough and mentally and physically draining. I have been sick and very busy with work. Normally I would look to other stuff for rest and comfort. However remembering on my pass meditation I decided to look to God for renewed strength and comfort and I was not disappointed. Somehow as I prayed and prayed, God indeed gave me the strength and endurance to go through.
PRAISE GOD!
I know what I go through pales in comparison to what others in the world go through, thus I am a bit worried if what I am going through is just the tip of the ice berg?!? I know it is not good to worry but just to trust in God! Well this is a struggle I battle within myself! Thus it is good to have this reading today!
John 20:24-29 (New International Version)
26A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 27Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
28Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
My prayer!
Dear Heavenly Father,
I thank you and give all honor and glory to you for sustaining my strength and refreshing me! Please help me never to doubt in your love, your grace and your power!
In Jesus name I pray!
AMEN!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Every Good and perfect gift is from above!
Yesterday I tried to do my QT after work.
Not good idea!
DIdn't have time to do it in the end!
So force myself to do it in the morning.
However I still feel a sense of rush when I do QT in the morning.
Nevermind I will meditate on the verse below for the whole of today!
James 1:16-18 (New International Version)
16Don't be deceived, my dear brothers. 17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
Not good idea!
DIdn't have time to do it in the end!
So force myself to do it in the morning.
However I still feel a sense of rush when I do QT in the morning.
Nevermind I will meditate on the verse below for the whole of today!
James 1:16-18 (New International Version)
16Don't be deceived, my dear brothers. 17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
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