Recently, one of my friend suggests this song called "God will make a way", I find this song encouraging after listening to it. It reminds me again to seek him and look to him as I continue on my life journey, for he is the one who knows what is ahead and is more than able to pave the way.
"Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guides me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Saviour, and my hope is in you all day long." -Psaml 25:4-5
Song: God Will Make a Way
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Forgiveness and love from God
Throughout the past few week, I was struggling to fully put my trust and faith in God in the partnership development process. I became frustrated and discouraged, and felt sad about a sense of failure. Overall, there was a battle of despair and deception.
After some quiet time last night, I realized that it was my pride that served as barrier to rely on God, I was trying to hard to achieve and make things happen on my own. I needed to confess my sin and brokenness to God, and asked for forgiveness. After bring my brokenness to God, there is forgiveness, mercy, grace and love from God. I realized how beautiful are God's love and grace (Psalm 25: 6-7; Psalm 103).
Thank you Lord, for your love, compassion, grace and mercy. Continue to lead me to seek you, to look to you for grace and hope in you. Thank you for giving your children everlasting satisfaction in you.
Psalm 25:6-7
6 Remember, LORD, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
7 Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, LORD, are good.
Psalm 103
1 Praise the LORD, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the LORD, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD works righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his deeds to the people of Israel:
8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 He will not always accuse,
nor will he harbor his anger forever;
10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
14 for he knows how we are formed,
he remembers that we are dust.
15 The life of mortals is like grass,
they flourish like a flower of the field;
16 the wind blows over it and it is gone,
and its place remembers it no more.
17 But from everlasting to everlasting
the LORD’s love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children’s children—
18 with those who keep his covenant
and remember to obey his precepts.
19 The LORD has established his throne in heaven,
and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Praise the LORD, you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his bidding,
who obey his word.
21 Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts,
you his servants who do his will.
22 Praise the LORD, all his works
everywhere in his dominion.
Praise the LORD, my soul.
After some quiet time last night, I realized that it was my pride that served as barrier to rely on God, I was trying to hard to achieve and make things happen on my own. I needed to confess my sin and brokenness to God, and asked for forgiveness. After bring my brokenness to God, there is forgiveness, mercy, grace and love from God. I realized how beautiful are God's love and grace (Psalm 25: 6-7; Psalm 103).
Thank you Lord, for your love, compassion, grace and mercy. Continue to lead me to seek you, to look to you for grace and hope in you. Thank you for giving your children everlasting satisfaction in you.
Psalm 25:6-7
6 Remember, LORD, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
7 Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, LORD, are good.
Psalm 103
1 Praise the LORD, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the LORD, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD works righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his deeds to the people of Israel:
8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 He will not always accuse,
nor will he harbor his anger forever;
10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
14 for he knows how we are formed,
he remembers that we are dust.
15 The life of mortals is like grass,
they flourish like a flower of the field;
16 the wind blows over it and it is gone,
and its place remembers it no more.
17 But from everlasting to everlasting
the LORD’s love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children’s children—
18 with those who keep his covenant
and remember to obey his precepts.
19 The LORD has established his throne in heaven,
and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Praise the LORD, you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his bidding,
who obey his word.
21 Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts,
you his servants who do his will.
22 Praise the LORD, all his works
everywhere in his dominion.
Praise the LORD, my soul.
Casting Crown-Who Am I
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Learning to live by faith, not by sight
This week has been a week of spiritual battles against a sense of uncertainty and discouragement. I find myself wondering where every needs would come from. However, these time of trials is an opportunity to learn how to "live by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). Not that I have master this already, but it is only a part of a lifetime of the faith journey. I know that the Lord promises that he "works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose", and "the Lord your God...led you all the way in the desert...to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart" (Romans 8:28; Deuteronomy 8:2). Hence, he uses these time of challenges to equip his servant , to draw his people closer to him.
There are lessons of faith throughout, as the Lord reminds me of what is faith, and what it takes to live by faith. I am once again reminded of "faith is sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Hebrews 11:1). God also lead me to look to him and put my hope in him with 2 Cortithians 4:16-18, it said, " therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseed is eternal."
Desert Song by Hillsong, this song is a powerful reminder that God can use trials to refine us, and he is God of all season
There are lessons of faith throughout, as the Lord reminds me of what is faith, and what it takes to live by faith. I am once again reminded of "faith is sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Hebrews 11:1). God also lead me to look to him and put my hope in him with 2 Cortithians 4:16-18, it said, " therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseed is eternal."
Desert Song by Hillsong, this song is a powerful reminder that God can use trials to refine us, and he is God of all season
Friday, February 18, 2011
Sharing
I am thankful and feel honoured to be able to share God's work in Papua New Guinea through Wycliffe Bible Translators with others, and the invitation from the Lord for me to teach missionary kids. Please pray for my upcomming sharing opportunities, that it gives God glory, and "may the word of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be pleaseing in [God's] sight" as written on Psalm 19:14. Also, pray that God will use these sharing opportunities for His purpose.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths."- Proverbs 3:5-6
Recently I found Proverbs 3:5-6 as a devotional verse from my planner. This verse has been one that I have known and memorized. However, I have not think about it too deeply in the past. Now I use this as a reminder to trust God to pave the way toward this journey to Papua New Guinea (PNG) as a teacher for missionary kids with Wycliffe Bible Translators. As I am in the season of anticipating going to PNG and in the process of partnership development, I need to completely put my trust in the Lord and not try to make it works with my own strength.
Thank you Lord, that I can depend on you, and let you pave the way and direct my path. Lead me to keep seeking you as I journey with you.
Recently I found Proverbs 3:5-6 as a devotional verse from my planner. This verse has been one that I have known and memorized. However, I have not think about it too deeply in the past. Now I use this as a reminder to trust God to pave the way toward this journey to Papua New Guinea (PNG) as a teacher for missionary kids with Wycliffe Bible Translators. As I am in the season of anticipating going to PNG and in the process of partnership development, I need to completely put my trust in the Lord and not try to make it works with my own strength.
Thank you Lord, that I can depend on you, and let you pave the way and direct my path. Lead me to keep seeking you as I journey with you.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Trust and allow him to pave the way
After going through some spiritual and emotional highs and lows, I believe God is using these time to prepare me for the adventure ahead. For "in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28).
I was also encouraged by the message at church from the past Sunday from Genesis 12:1-4, which showed how Abraham followed God's calling for him with faith, even though there are uncertainties. It also reminded me to trust and obey the Lord, and let my life be a worship to him by faithfully following him.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow coem down from heaven, and do not rreturn to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will now return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."- Isaiah 55: 9-11
Now I need to continue to put my confidence in the Lord and let him pave the way.
I was also encouraged by the message at church from the past Sunday from Genesis 12:1-4, which showed how Abraham followed God's calling for him with faith, even though there are uncertainties. It also reminded me to trust and obey the Lord, and let my life be a worship to him by faithfully following him.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow coem down from heaven, and do not rreturn to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will now return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."- Isaiah 55: 9-11
Now I need to continue to put my confidence in the Lord and let him pave the way.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Running the Race
The Father really knows how to give good gifts to His children, and "every good and perfect gift is from above, comming down from the Father of heavenly light, who does not change like shifting shadow" (James 1:17)! God has been giving me words of encouragement to persevere and run the race with him as I prepare for the journey to Papua New Guinea. He shows me that in him we can overcome and be victorious through Hebrew 12:1-3, which stated, "let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of God. Consider him who endured such opposition form sinners, so that you wil not grow weary and lose heart." Galatians 6:9 reminds me that there is the eternal reward in Him, so "let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
God uses 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 to tell me to "rejoice alsways, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." He also reminds me of his faithfulness with 1 Thessalonians 5:24, "the one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it." Please pray that I keep trusting in him, allow his will to be done, and find joy in knowing the Father who is faithful, along with prayer requests from previous posts.
God uses 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 to tell me to "rejoice alsways, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." He also reminds me of his faithfulness with 1 Thessalonians 5:24, "the one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it." Please pray that I keep trusting in him, allow his will to be done, and find joy in knowing the Father who is faithful, along with prayer requests from previous posts.
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