Be Blessed

While walking with a brother this morning, he told me a wonderful piece good new, of course, it did not come easy. He has to go thru "sort of" a valley of the shadow of "death" before the Lord brought him to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; (Exo 15:27). Glory be to GOD!
And that remind me of my own experience while my dad went for his 2nd "balloon" surgery for his heart recently. My dad was asked to sign a form where he was told by the doctor that in this surgery, there are 3% chances where it will go wrong, causing him to suffer stroke or heart failure, and it will be a 2 hrs surgery.
At the moment, to me, it was like a clean sheet of paper having a "tiny black dot" on it. That "black dot" signified that 3% failure in the surgery. Although i pray and pray, but somehow i was still drawn to think of that tiny "black dot" instead of the other 97% successful. Full of fear and anxiety :) And after waiting for over 4 hours instead of 2 hours, that tiny black dot seem to be bigger and bigger. After waiting for almost 5 hours, finally, my dad was push back to the ward. The reason for the delay? well, it was due to a emergency case that the doctor have to attend to before attending to my dad :( and praise the Lord, my dad is well and normal now. But i believe, thru this, my dad got to know a name : LORD JESUS CHRIST!., to me, i was once again being trained by the Lord with regards to how much do i really cast my cares upon HIM, and believe that whatever it is, Jesus doeth all things well.
Dearest brothers and sisters, Isn't this what we are going thru daily. We just like to focus on that tiny "black dot" on a piece of clean sheet instead of the other 97% of the clean sheet. Oh, how we need the Lord Jesus Christ to preserve and sustain us daily. So often, we are lost when we face with so many problems in our lives, full of fears and anxiety.

May we learn to cast our care on HIM and continue to believe in HIM what comes may. You know, saints, before the Lord brought my dear brother to "Elim" where there were wells of water, while he was in the midst of the valley, althought he felt sad and despair, he did not blame or give up the LORD, yet he continue to pursue and before he realised, he reached not one but 12 wells of water, not one, but 70 palm trees. Be Blessed!

Surely HE is among us.

"Knowing" that Papa love him, surely whatever he ask papa, Papa will say "Yes", especially so if that day he behave so well before Papa.....So one afternoon, Bryan (my son) asked me : "Papa, can i use the computer?" having to see him so confident that say: "surely Papa will be "Yes".
I replied: "NO", and immediately he replied "Huh............" and of course i gave him the answer for saying "NO"
He asked me a question and i answered him. Be it Yes or No to him.
Today if we behave well by reading His word and pray and serve faithfully, and we made a prayer request and seemingly the answer or replied was "No" or "Negative", do you take it as the Lord did not hear your prayer or do you take it as the Lord has answered your prayer and HE is saying "NO"?
Do you take "NO" as a answer from the Lord? and that is my concern for many saints today.
If you see that "No" is the answer, i believe you will still pray such a prayer : "Lord, YOU know that it is hard for me to receive this reply, (be it rejection in jobs application or no bonuses, no promotion or even no pay increase), but i thank you for being here with me. I believe whatever had happened, YOU know what is best for me. I will continue to trust in YOU and continue to let YOU lead and direct my path."
But if you do not see that "No"is the answer from the Lord, you will become hopeless, lost and you will begin to wonder and gradually the next question you will asked will be :"Is the Lord among us or not?"....what HE never seem to answer my prayer request. Why whenever, i ask, HE never grant it to me.
Is not that i say 'NO' to Bryan for the fun of it or just to agitate him, is that HE has not finish his homework and i do not like my wife to scold him. Likewise, i do not believe that will our LORD has the time to make fun of us or to agitate us, right?
Dearest saints, may we continue to believe in HIM! Be Blessed!

Exo 17:7
So he called the name of the place Massah (tempt) and Meribah (contention), because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

Teach the children how to pray

I was amazed by the verses that i read this morning Gen 21:15-17, Hagar lifted her voice and wept, but our God heard the voice of the lad (his son, Ishmael). Do you see the important of teaching how children to pray to our LORD Jesus Christ. Many of you may think that Ishmael is so young, how could he pray? but if you look at the subsequent verses that i have provided, Ishmael is over 13 years old. It is good to teach them how to pray when they are young, instead of saying:"papa or mummy will pray for you". Otherwise, they will grow up never know how to pray. Be Blessed!
Gen 16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Gen 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
Gen 17:19 Then God said: "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.

Gen 21:15-17
And the water in the skin was used up, and she (Hagar) placed the boy under one of the shrubs. Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, "Let me not see the death of the boy." So she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept. And God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Peace to you!

"A boy has marbles and a girl has candies, they met and agreed to exchange. They did the exchange but the boy "kept" some of it the night before. After the exchange, the boy has no "peace"........".no, i guess many of you may think that the reason for him to have no peace was because he did not give all of it, and he felt guilty, right?
But the right answer is "HE HAS NO PEACE BECAUSE HE WAS THINKING DID THE GIRL GIVES "ALL" TO HIM".
Are you still doubting over did our Lord really hear our prayer? or could it be that you still 'KEEP" some for yourself when you ask the LORD to help you? You "act" before your prayer or you pray before your "act"?
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Neh 2:4-5
Then the king said to me, "What do you request?" So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may rebuild it."