Why must we be strong in Christ?

Hello! I'm back to live again! Well.. for the past two days I have a very troubled mood. I feel myself collapsing spiritually. Unable to open to people. But today during the prayer walk, I have revived as Holy Spirit once again touch my soul! Today I also realized how important it is to be strong in Christ. As I pray to Jesus our Lord for blessings and guidance, some message appear in my thought. I hear one of the brother say that God will use us and do something that is within our capability, and God will not expect us to do something that is beyond our capability. So I realized that how important is it that we must develop strong character in ourselves, learn and develop different areas of strength. It is so that God can use us in His work! Imagine if you are a boss, I am sure you will only send the men who possess suitable skills to work on suitable missions. As our wisdom never as high as God, we do not know how is He going to work, how and who is He going to use! Therefore, it is important for us to equip ourselves with every necessary abilities so that God can use us more! Maybe if you find that God didn't use you too well, it is probably you do not possess the suitable characteristic for the particular mission! Although it is understandable that we have our uniqueness individually, but lets not make it an excuse to stay in our comfort zone. Let's go all out for Lord! It is our responsibility to bring God's blessing to others and be God's light to the lost soul. Therefore, we must not laze! Brothers and sisters, I will need you guys to help me out in expanding my area of strength too! Let us qualify and fill the necessities of God's work! Let's pray!

Dear Jesus! Thank you for reviving my soul and lighten up my life through the men's conference this morning! Lord I thank you for strengthening us all along. But Lord tonight I want to pray that you will strengthen us in the widest fields of strength! Let us all be qualified in your standard so that you can use us in your project! Lord I pray that every brothers and sisters who pray this prayer will decide in their heart to go all out for you. So that you can equip us with the necessary abilities. And so that we can be strong and influential to the people around us. And so that we can live up to your standard. Lord I pray that you will nurture us in the likeness of Christ! Oh Lord we promise that we will always seek you to empower us in different areas and we will not stay in our comfort zone all the time! Lord I thank you for your presence here tonight listening to our prayers. As we commit our life in Christ, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen!

Prayers

I believe God has the greatest plan for all of us. As an individual, we should be firm in Christ and live a strong believer. I will always expect the best in whatever I do because my Lord gave me everything the best, I must serve Him the best in every ways. Prioritizing God has been my regular practice. I believe in His way and His moral law. Having Lord in every parts of my life finally make me feel complete! Even so, I believe there will be greater challenges ahead that will tempt me away from Lord. I am well prepared and ready for the battle! Lord is a loving God! Lord is a faithful God! Lord is almighty God! Lord is a wise God! I gave myself to Him and live with the Holy Spirit! My commitment to God!

Dear Jesus I wanna pray specifically for a few brothers and sisters... Thank you Lord for giving them to my life. Thank you Lord for the privilege to pray for them...

Pray for Richard:
Lord, bless bro Richard with great strength and wisdom so that he can pass out ERS safely. May be the light in the darkness of lost souls. May your transformation in him advanced and influence the people around Him to seek for goodness in you, Lord. Lord, bless Richard's life to be fruitful through this career of his and prosper Him so he may share his blessings and grow stronger spiritually.. and physically too!

Pray for Kim:
Lord, let Kim seek and find strength in you. Lord may you strengthen her in her faith and inspire her in leading a God prioritized lifestyle. Lord, may you speak to her more as she seeks and listens for you desirably. Lord please fill her hollowness with the Holy Spirit and bring her to life, the life she will live in your name, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pray for Donald:
Lord, thank you for working so closely with bro Donald for so long. Lord, I know that being a leader is not easy. Lord, I pray that God will use him more and work in his life. I have always sense holiness in bro Donald. Lord may you continue to guide him in life especially the next stage of life, the career life. Lord may you bless his working environment with loving and caring people because I feel that he deserve it for his love and care for us is far excellence! During his struggle and stressful time, Lord may you comfort him in your love.

Pray for Alina:
Thank you Lord! For such lovely sis, Alina. Lord I pray that she will grow strong not only in faith, but also in biblically knowledge. May she be blessed in every ways by you Lord for she is such a keen believer and always chasing after you Lord. Lord I pray that sis Alina will grow and became close in the relationship with Christ. May she be guided closely by Holy Spirit in her growth.

Pray for Zhi Jian:
Lord!! This is so exciting! Lord I thank you for inspiring Zhi Jian in coming to know God. I can see that bro Zhi Jian is trying his best to learn. Lord, I pray that you will guide him along and inspire him with the Truth in Lord. I pray that Zhi Jian's heart will be softened and opened so that he will have the chance to experience God's grace. Nothing is more realistic than experiencing God personally! I pray that his faith will grew strong in no time! Praying so much that he will become my spiritual brother which tie thicker than anything, and eternally!

I pray in Jesus' name! Amen!

Water Baptism & God's Love

Hello brothers and sisters! Sorry that I haven't been blogging for quite some time yeah?! Well, the good news is Alina, myself and other new believers are baptized in Christ's name! We have died to our old self and revive again as Christ's child. We promise to repent our sin and follow Christ and obey his commandment to the end of our lives or until Jesus came back to earth! Joyful.. indeed joyful! My christian name is Ebenezer. It's a name of the stone that Samuel elevated to celebrate victory over the philistines. It is a Hebrew word that means "the stone of help". This is how I get the name. I prayed to Lord to help me in getting a Christian name and hopefully a name related to my sherpard's christian name (Richard). So the first Christian name I found in google search engine is Ebenezer!

Today I am inspired by my Holy Spirit to write this during my way home from an outing with my lovely brothers and sisters. My sherpard once tell me this: "The brothers we knew that is binded by earthly matters are temporary. But you are my brother that God comes between. For this, our brotherhood is eternal. Because God's love for us is eternal.". He said something like that and honestly I don't really understand. Today, while sitting at prata shop with Zhi Jian and Alina, I explained what is it by being spiritual, and the answer came to me. During my thanksgiving prayer while walking home from where Zhi Jian dropped me, my Holy Spirit inspired me to blog it.

In this world, everyone of us has a personality and conscience. Why do we tremble with fear when we attempt evil deeds like murdering or robbing? And why do we feel joy and happiness when we attempt good deeds like giving or helping? Because there is morality in us. Whether we are a believer or not, this Moral Law still affects us. The value of morality in us measures how spiritual we are. Giving and helping others without recognition, condition or repayment is unconditional love. God teaches us to love others one another like how Jesus love us, unconditionally. No matter what kind of person we are, Jesus still love us. As a Christian, we must shine for God in following Jesus' way of life and love. For my personal experience, I have receive unconditional love from my brothers in church. Especially my sherpard, Richard. I can feel with my heart that he is always monitoring me and my growth. He would help me and love me without repayment or recognition. He has always been there feeling for me. (hope u understand e previous sentence). My other brothers too always share their blessings with others without anything in return. All of us also support one another with emotional needs. Whenever I see my brothers, I feel that they have filled the emptiness in me and Christ came among us. No word can describe this feeling. I always have a very strong desire to meet my brothers and sisters. I really need God and them with me so much! By obeying the commandments of God, we experienced what unconditional love. God is nurturing us to achieve greater Act-Of-Love. In these exchanges, I feel God's love among us which spoke in silent yet loud promise of eternal bonding.

Brothers and sisters, I sincerely thank you guys for filling up the emptiness in me as Christ came among us. I Love you all! I Love you even more, Richard! I Love you even even more, Jesus!

Dear Jesus, today is the day that we, the new believers, chose to die to ourselves and born in Christ. Lord, this is to declare our faith to you, repentance, and promise to obey your commandments as a new born self. We thank you for providing for our needs and guide us in this long journey on this earth, and we know that you will always be with us to guide us along with your great plans for us and our trust in you. Lord, please bless us with the Strength to win against the temptation of satan. Lord, please purify us and teach us the best moral with your way of life. Lord, please allow the Holy Spirit to remind us to always soften and open our heart to you, Lord, so that we could have you dearly in our life. Lord, I also want to pray for the lost soul who have yet to receive you as their Lord and Saviour. Lord, please bless shine the light onto their path and show them the way to the Truth, which is the ultimate joy when we unite in you, Lord. Lord, I thank you for forgiving us of our past sins and continue to guide us and strengthen us to fight against satan's will. Lord, we need you very much in our lives. Lord, thank you for comforting us in your love. Lord, thank you for being here listening to us. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen!

Lord, hear my prayers!

Brothers and sisters, please help me pray for Father's presence after reading this post as I really need Him here with me tonight.. together as I pray for you all, the believers all over the world.

Dear Lord Jesus Christ... brothers, sisters and myself, we need you so much in our life. Lord please fill your spirit in us and come to our life, bless us with great faith and live daily with your presence. Inspire our thoughts, speeches and actions through the holy spirit Lord.. For you have the best plan for us and we will abide your words and have our trust in you along the walk to the destination of our life. Please continue to lead us and attach to us daily cuz' we yearn for every moment your holiness. Lord, help us to gain greater faith so that we could do strong prayers. Lord, transform us to the best of we can. Lord, bless us in courage to make disciples of all nations. Lord, bless us in wisdom to see your plans working in our life. Lord, bless us in prosperity so that we could help others through your blessings. Lord, bless us in purity so that we can bring your glory to people by being your light in the darkness of others'. Lord, bless us with a golden heart so that we will love others like how you love us. Lord, tonight I desperately need your presence... I need your utmost attention tonight Lord.. I'll be in my prayers.. In the almighty name of Lord Jesus Christ we pray, Amen!

p/s: For those who wonders why, there is no specific reason for me to feel desperate for God's presence. I just feel that I need Him tonight.

My method to exercise prayers

Hello brothers and sisters! Hope you're having a good day! Well.. if it's no good, doesn't matter aright..? We have downs so that we receive the opportunity to pray to Lord and exercise our relationship with him. We have ups so that we show appreciations and gain greater faith to our Lord. It is heart wrenching to learn that sometimes as a Christian, we don't feel God and turn dry... My peers told me that it's pretty normal and encouraged me not to backslide when the time comes...

In the beginning of my walk with Lord Jesus, I am already prepared for this day to come and I'll make sure I don't backslide. At the same time, I begin my faith by focusing a lot in prayers and reading bible. This blog as a sharing medium also play a part in occupying my time speaking about God. You know, I love to talk to people about our God... I just don't know why? Isn't it weird if I keep talking about God to people? haha~ so whenever I feel inspired or I feel like talking about God, I'll be here! Knowing that my words can be seen by you guys all the time! I really feel sense of comfort in me and for that I really want to thank God for making internet possible! And thank to you readers too!

This post, I want to share about my weird habits in exercising our relationship with God. I may have posted something similar before.. but I still hope you guys would read'em..! haha~ So.. what are the reasons are there for us to pray all the time? Every little little things in our life we can pray about it, but sometimes if we keep repeating our prayers, isn't it boring? Recently I have this inspiration about this thought (maybe a bit kiddish), which is the very very basic reason for us to pray about, that is, pray and give thanks to Lord that we're still breathing! What I mean is that.. as you know God created us, give us life and give us breath, the moment when we're conscious and alive, it proved the existence and presence of God. For this, we could give thanks to Him! Whenever we get to pray for others, it is a privilege God gave us.. so we can also pray and give thanks to it! While we're traveling or waiting for friends, we can also pray and give thanks to Lord for the time given to exercise our prayers! Scientist says that we can have up more 10,000 thoughts per day and or every thoughts we have, we could do it as a prayer in a form of sharing with God! For some of you who know me, I practice martial art and especially now that I'm serving NS, I have less commitments, I could spend more time praying to God. If I am brainstorming about how to improve my martial art training, my fight styles and etc, I make it as though I am discussing them with God. A life, a living thing, who has a pumping heart and brain, is a creation of God. Our existence determine the presence of God, therefore every ability (including the usage of a brain) that He gave us, we use them wisely and with God.

So, exercise prayers more.. Pray for:
1) Faith
2) Purity
3) Love
4) Wisdom
5) Spiritual Gift
6) Strength
7) Forgiveness
8) Sensitive to presence of God / Holy Spirit
9) Guidance
10) Advise
11) Discipline
12) Talent

Soo many things to pray for! Remember to give thanks okay! Let's pray for now! Oh ya.. today I have no inspiration to blog, so I wanna thank God for inspiring me on this post! =D

Dear dear Lord Jesus... Thank you for inspiring me in writing this post! Lord I thank you for giving me plenty of strength and guidance! O Lord this moment, I want to pray for some specific brothers and sisters... I want to pray for those who find themselves turning dry and lost in touch of your presence Lord. May you fill your spirit in them again and remind them of their First Love with you Lord. The times when you are with us during our struggles. The gifts you gave us to satisfy our needs. The comfort you gave us with your Love. Lord, we understand that your plan for us is the best one and it is far beyond our intelligence. Therefore Lord, we just need to have faith in you, remember how much you love us and trust in you and your great plan. Lord only you know what is best for us and we live our life and destiny in you, Lord. Lord, bless those who are in need of your wisdom to clarify doubts. Remind them that doubts are attributes of faith as doubts are the stepping stone for us to gain greater faith in you. Lord I am also unsatisfied with the amount of faith I'm having, Lord I pray for your blessing once again to strengthen us and our faith. Lord thank you for your presence here listening to our prayers. In the powerful name of Jesus Christ we pray, Amen!

Our Lord's Kingdom

Hello brothers and sisters... as I read through the bible today, there is something inspired me to write this post. In the book of Acts, verse 14:22 says this..

"where they strengthened the believers. They encouraged them to continue in faith, reminding them that we must suffer many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God." - said by Paul and Barnabas

I remember the day I receive Jesus as my Lord and Saviour, the moment with Richard praying for me, I can never forget. I do not know how to describe, the moment is full of joys and sense of belonging. As we all know, when we receive Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, we are given joy, holy spirit, and a chance of eternal life. Why do I say chance? Because, not all Christians are able to enter God's Kingdom. As the verse said, we must suffer many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God.

A journey of a True Christian is never easy. Not only that we have to struggle within ourselves to achieve God's standard in morality(internal), we also face rejections from many people(external), and it is exceptionally painful when it's from somebody close to us who we love. Therefore, we have brothers and sisters to remind one another that entering the Kingdom of God is hardship and that we must exercise Faith and keep walking our life with Lord. Lord not only gave us only the holy spirit, He has given us precious friends, brothers and sisters who will give us a hand to get up when we fall. So, remember to spend more time praying for our friends, brothers and sisters whenever we can. During the moments of waiting is the best time to pray!

About internal struggles as a Christian, we struggled against temptations which sometimes shaken our Faith. The thought that we think, the words that we say, the actions that we do, the habit and character we develop in ourselves, need to meet God's standard. The truth is that we want to pass God's judgment that badly so that we could be with Lord.

Externally, no matter how far we are in achieving God's standard, we continue to spread the Good News to the people around us. Sharing the words of God often turn ourselves in rejection. Well.. the encouragement is that, our Lord Jesus has been rejected countless times, why should we be afraid of rejection and what is our rejections compared to His?

We're lucky to be born in this little island where God shields upon us. There are much unfortunate brothers and sisters in the foreign countries faced with life-threatening hardship. So, the point is, being a Christian we receive plenty of gifts from our heavenly Father, we thanked him. When Father put us into tests, we reject him. This shouldn't be the way. I just want to say that, Christianity is not about receiving all the good gifts, we must also strengthen our Faith through hardships, and that is the only way. Somehow, the greatest gifts are given only by overcoming hardships. Fellow brothers and sisters, I will pray for each and everyone of you who sincerely want to walk your life with Christ, where tears and joys are shared.

Dear Jesus, you are the life and you are the way.. you are the model we yearn to learn from.. you are the greatest for you are the only one who willingly crucified on the cross to set us free. Not only you did not hate the people of sinful nature, you prayed to your Father for his forgiveness and mercy upon us. Lord I want to thank you and this is what we can never repay you. We want to give you our lives so that you could work through us, Lord. Lord, I pray for great wisdom you may grant us to help us understand the true way of Life and Christianity. Lord, I pray for the powerful faith you may help us grow in a step closer to you. Lord, I pray for acceptance of all your people so that they can receive your guidance closely and used by you wisely. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen!