be thank-FULL & pray for the World!

Heb. 6:19-20

"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf."

Reflect for a minute how much you have to be thankful for. Christ Himself entered on our behalf. He is the one who paid for all of our sins, past, present, and future. God's promise is certain, He cannot lie, because He is holy and righteous. We can walk in this assurance daily. There are many who attempt in vain to achieve these things through their own righteousness. Be thankful! But don't forget those for whom you prayed this month who still don't know these things.

Pray that the nations will crave fellowship with the only One who can pay for their sins.

source: www.global-prayer-digest.org <-- GO HERE & pray EVERYDAY!!

praise & pray for me!

- ever realising my own need for prayer .. can't live without depending on Jesus for EVERYTHING!

:D I'm still alive =) [sick, yes, but ALIVE!]
:D being sick is a part of "all things" in Romans 8:28!
:D there's so much more!!! to life than what I feel :D
:D I'm still breathing =)
:D I'm still His child (FOREVER! - Romans 8!)
:D I get to live the best life: really LIVING LIFE & [trying to!] follow Jesus!
:D giving me rest =)
:D all the "small"things in life that are actually lavish blessings He pours down to us!
:D He's healing my body, even if I can't see/feel it!
latest challenging tidbit from KP Yohanan's "the beauty of Christ through brokenness" p41-42
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.

If you want to make sure of keeping your heart intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries, avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in the casket –safe, dark, motionless, airless, -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable . . .
The only safe place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love is . . . Hell.” -- C.S. Lewis

[C.S, Lewis The Four Loves (Florida: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1988), p121.

* help me to love & be vulnerable, especially when i don't feel like it!
* deliver me from selfishness in all its subtleties!
* ever keep me humble & broken before Jesus!
* help me embrace the cross in every way!!
* I'd not resist His working in my life by being proud, self-loving & unbelieving!
* wisdom & sensitivity to love those i find harder to love.
* conform me to the image of Christ
[super-dangerous payer i know, but 777% GUARANTEED TO BE ANSWERED MOST GLORIOUSLY!]

praise & pray for us!

Heb. 1:2

"...He has spoken to us by His Son, Whom He appointed heir of all things, and through Whom He made the universe."

This great statement affirms that Jesus Christ shapes the boundaries of human history. He is the beginning, the Creator of all things, the Maker of everything that exists. And He is the end, the focal point to which all history is moving. Since Christ is the beginning and end of human history, what a tragedy that 40 percent of the world's population has little chance of knowing Him! They are cut off from any effective means of learning about Jesus by barriers of religion, culture, language, and race.

Lord Jesus, we praise and thank You for redeeming us. Enflame our hearts to give to others the knowledge we have received. source: www.global-prayer-digest.org <-- GO HERE & pray EVERYDAY!!

praise & pray for Sunny (KOR)

- met last week @ JoJo's, has 10 days remaining here, asked me if i knew any good seafood restaurants.
HA!
me the cheapskate king = stay farrrr away from the super-overpriced seafood restaurants that prevail in Brisbane :P

i did know of one fish & chips eatery near the uni [never actually eaten there before, just heard it was good .. a shop near uni can't be too expensive!]
so we arranged to do lunch @ salt & Battery.
wanting this meal not to be any ordinary one but one that'd lead to eternity-impacting stuff; I spent the bus trip & lunch just getting to know him, praying for an opening.. and he brought up the topic of Christianity!
so the conversation picked up from there (thank you, Jesus!) & led to sharing the whole gospel with him, (thank you, Jesus!!) .. went through wdjd with him so now he knows what to do in response to Jesus.
(see www.livingwaters.com/wdjd.shtml)
please praise & pray!
:D PRAISE! :D
:D He can turn an ordinary lunch appointment into an extraordinary eternity-impacting moment if you let Him!
:D the gospel of Jesus Christ is really GOOD NEWS !! --for sharing!!!

*pray*
* reveal Christ to Sunny!!!! [says it's been hard to 'feel God']
* bring Sunny to forsake all for the sake of the call... to follow Christ!
* have mercy on Sunny, work supernaturally in his heart to forsake sin, follow Jesus, the Son of God in a life of faith!

praise & pray for Wook, Jin, Stephanie, Daniel, Brian (KOR, TAI)

- my English corner group yesterday! [discussed Amazing Grace]
- also met Tommy, Sungmin, Mamiko, A, Ashley, Eriko & Aishwa!
:D PRAISE! :D
:D bringing them here!
:D There is Amazing Grace available to all -- wretches like us can be saved!
:D those once lost can be found!
:D those once blind can see!

*PRAY*
* work through the film 'Amazing Grace' to draw many to experience His Amazing Grace through Jesus Christ!
* reveal Himself as Lord to these precious souls, bring them to repentace to prepare them for that Great Day He'll judge everyone of righteousnes "He has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead." (Acts 17:31)
* work by His Spirit through all the 'English corners' globally to draw lost souls into Living, Personal Relationship with Himself!
* Nations would be impacted as they send their bright future leaders abroad to study English!
* have mercy on them & send them back to 'home' eternally-changed souls, to join the missionary force He's raising up there!

~thanks~! GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY~!!
*** ETERNITY WILL SHOW THE FULL FRUIT OF OUR PRAYERS
- BE ENCOURAGED!!***

praise & pray for our churches!

Philemon 6

"I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ."

It has been observed that only when we share the gospel across cultural barriers can we fully comprehend the gospel message ourselves. When we see the truths of the gospel through the eyes of another culture, those truths come alive for us in a new way. Sharing our faith with another people group forces us to examine what in our worship must be universal and what is only cultural. Perhaps the confusion which pervades so many of our churches about the content of the gospel message is due to our failure to seriously share this message with other groups.

Pray that a frontier missions priority in our churches will result in our greater understanding of "every good thing we have in Christ." source: www.global-prayer-digest.org <-- GO HERE & pray EVERYDAY!!

praise & pray for Zee (CHI)

:D PRAISE! :D
:D our new baby brother in Christ!!
:D saving Zee's soul :D
:D bringing him to us through a simple poster advertising our church's English Conversation Class!
:D working in his soul to allow him to Admit his sin, Believe Christ as Saviour & Commit to living with Him as Lord!
*pray*
* daily see Christ increase & self decease in & through Zee!
* have mercy on Zee's family & friend's & use his testimony to bring them to repentance & faith in Jesus!
* his remaining time here would grow him in the steps of Christ so he be sent back home as a missionary to his people & beyond!

praise & pray for me

- my computer is sick again... hard drive problems *again* = more time to pray ;) woohoo!

:D PRAISE! :D
:D there is more to reality than how I feel (like a big walking ball of germs!) - Jesus is the ultimate reality & in Him I'm perfect & complete!
:D loving me enough to let me be sick so long = more time to pray & be with Him~!
:D giving me the grace to let go of the things that tie me down ..
:D if God ever had a 'Hard Drive' of my sins & failures, it died 2000 years ago & was wiped clean !!
*pray*
* keep me in the state of health that'll best glorify Him!
* keep me ever humble & broken before Him, perpetually tuned in to His frequency!
* keep me free from holding onto idols & continue utterly destroying & shattering all idols, anything keeping my heart from loving Jesus first & foremost!
* grace to REALLY LOVE others intensely with all my heart~! (1 Peter 1:21-22
*** boy what a challenge! only to show the same love we've been shown! :) ***
* help me never separate loving God from loving His Children (1 John 5:1-5)
* deliver me from the sin of unbelief - believing something in my mind but not living out this belief in practicality :S

~~thanks SO much~!

appreciate you . . . for an eternity :)

praise & pray for Hun (KOR)

- going home soon.

:D PRAISE! :D
:D Papa's been at work in his life during his time here :)
:D all God's children Hun was able to meet & befriend during his time here to change his mind about Jesus!!
:D shared The Gospel with him over lunch!!
[his reaction was "you're only telling me this now?" felt sooooo bad. should make it a point to share gospel with people EARLIER -- only by God's grace was he kept alive until today to hear The Gospel clearly explained to him!]
:D giving him understanding of The Gospel -- he now knows what He has to do!
*pray*
* reveal Christ to Hun & bring him to True Repentace & Faith before it's too late!
* his irreligious, disinterested girlfriend wont be a hindrance to him pursuing Jesus!
* lead him to more of His children at home in Korea to see & be shown the gospel in his heart language!
* we'd be MORE URGENT about something SO GOOD as The Gospel without taking our short time on earth for granted!

praise & pray for Jun (KOR)

- just did CE #5 (of 6!)
:D PRAISE! :D
:D he says he's "becoming Christian"!
:D getting us this far thru the course!

*pray*
* reveal Christ to Jun!!!!
* bring Jun to forsake all for the sake of the call... to follow Christ!
* have mercy on Jun, work supernaturally in his heart to forsake sin, follow Jesus, the Son of God in a life of faith!

praise & pray for Amirsh (PAK) * botched witnessing encounter?!

met on bus last night, found out he'd never heard of Jesus .. went through wdjd with him
(see www.livingwaters.com/wdjd.shtml)

turns out that his conscience was telling him he'd never sinned, (never lied, stolen nor looked with lust [!!] had always lived a perfect life ...
was so surprised when he said he'd never ever loked lustfully at a woman, i asked if he was gay then I think things turned sour :S
perfect timing as our bus stop was coming soon, he looked eager to get away. wish I had some gospel resources in his native language of Urdu, totally forgot about the "Life of The Messiah" DVD in my bag that had an Urdu language option (>_<) of course only after the encounter did I think of what I should've said/done, namely; gone through all of the comandments [following the biblical principle of

law to the proud and grace to the humble]

maybe not raising up the gay issue woud've been wise too :|
should've shared this withhim too: [source: www.intout.com]
God will judge you for every thought you have ever had, He will judge you for every word spoken, and also for the intents of your heart.

Imagine for a moment that we could take every thought that you have had for the past week, and make it available online for people to see.

Would you like it to be seen by everyone? Probably not, yet God sees every thought, and hears every word you speak...

:D PRAISE :D
:D growing me through tough witnessing encounters with those who throw a spanner into the works [when your whole witnessing approach aims to address the consciece using God's law to bring about knowledsge of sin & therefore need for a Saviour, and you meet a guy who says his his conscience tells him he's never sinned, WHADDAYA DO?!
.. FALL DOWN ON MY KNEES & PRAY!!!
:D He's BIGGER than my failures!
:D He's ABLE to break through even the proudest & hardest of hearts (see Saul of Tarsus, Acts 9!)

* PRAY*
* have mercy on Amirsh's soul & reveal Christ to Him in a way that'll break him of all his hard-hearted pride & supposed "sinless perfection" & bringhim to the cross in true repentance & faith!
* turn this rebel into a Spirit-and-Truth Worshipper of Jesus & proclaimer of His mighty gospel that is mighty to save!

praise & pray for Arjun (IND)

- met on bus few weeks ago, got talking, turns out he doesn't believe in God
[convenience factor?]
he needs prayer!
:D Jesus loves Arjun though he's an enemy & completely ignorant of Him!
:D Jesus wants to save Arjun more than he wants to be saved!
* have mercy on Arjun & snap him out of his "blissful ignorance" of the God who made him, reveal Himself to Arjun & save him from death, bring him to LIFE IN CHRIST!!
* send him back to 'home' an eternally-changed soul, to join the missionary force He's raising up there!

praise & pray for Tim, Dongho, Jin, Chen, Brian (AUS,KOR, TAI)

- my English corner group yesterday! [discussed the Good News - Phillip & the Ethiopian]
:D PRAISE! :D
:D bringing them here!
:D There is Good News to tell -- Jesus lived, died & rose again for our sins!
:D bringing more helpers to share the gospel with this ripe harvest field He's brought to us!
*PRAY*
* reveal Himself as Lord to these precious souls, bring them to repentace to prepare them for that Great Day He'll judge everyone of righteousnes "He has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead." (Acts 17:31)
* work by His Spirit through all the 'English corners' globally to draw lost souls into Living, Personal Relationship with Himself!
* keep working in Jin's life who shared how He's "becoming christian"
* use the 'Christmas in July' dinner party + Jesus movie this Saturday to reveal Christ to lost souls desperately needing Him!
* Nations would be impacted as they send their bright future leaders abroad to study English!
* have mercy on them & send him back to 'home' eternally-changed souls, to join the missionary force He's raising up there!

~thanks~! GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY~!!
*** ETERNITY WILL SHOW THE FULL FRUIT OF OUR PRAYERS
- BE ENCOURAGED!!***

praise & pray for stewardship!

1 Tim. 6:20

"Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care."

Each of us has received a "trust" from God; that is, a deposit of knowledge, resources, and gifts. God expects us to exercise responsible stewardship of this "trust," both to maintain it and to invest it so as to accomplish His purposes. This is the essence of stewardship: using resources to fulfill responsibilities. God entrusted to Abraham a "blessing" which he was to use to "bless the other families of the earth." Each of us has received a similar "deposit" from the Lord. What kind of stewardship are you exercising?

Lord, help me to be a faithful steward of all that You have given me, using it to bring Your salvation to those who still need to hear. source: www.global-prayer-digest.org <-- GO HERE & pray EVERYDAY!!

praise & pray for stewardship!

1 Tim. 6:8

"But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that."

Food and clothing: the list is short when we tally the real necessities of life. Even if we expand this list (e.g., adding shelter, health, etc.), the list is still much shorter than that of our monthly budget. Today a bottleneck in frontier missions expansion is due to a lack of funding for new ventures. Mission agencies are willing to lead. Young people are willing to go. But finances are not available. Why? Did God miscalculate the resources needed to accomplish His work? Or have those resources, committed to his stewards, been diverted to other uses?

Father, may we be found faithful stewards of what You've given us.

source: www.global-prayer-digest.org <-- GO HERE & pray EVERYDAY!!

praise & pray for beig stewards!

does 1 Tim 6:6 describe you? if not, WHY not?? :)

1 Timothy 6:6

"But godliness with contentment is great gain."

A materialistic society tends to measure gain exclusively in financial or material terms. Paul here reveals God's counter-cultural value system. Gain is not measured by material wealth, but by a godly contentment with what we have. Can you imagine what would happen if every committed Christian were to covenant with God to be content with necessities and to use extra funds to support new missions outreach? What a fantastic leap in world evangelization would result from such a response!

God, give us Your perspective on things. Teach us to be faithful stewards of Your gifts.

source: www.global-prayer-digest.org <-- GO HERE & pray EVERYDAY!!

praise & pray for HIS Kingdom, HIS power & HIS glory!

feel free to respond to this lil snippet as He leads you :)
"For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory forever. Amen" (Matthew 6:13b).
The final word is: "Amen - may it be so, henceforth and forever." We proclaim it, not to bring it forth (as if it depended upon our confession), but to acknowledge it as a present reality which is
breaking forth upon all that stands in opposition to it, and to establish once and for all that we have chosen - individually and corporately - to align ourselves with God's Ultimate Purpose and
Will, making us co-workers together with Him towards the Goal of
CHRIST FILLING ALL THINGS

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VISION: the glory of The Son WILL SHINE THROUGH!! even through eyes shut tight!

after a good nights' rest [felt SO loved!! -- "Don't you know he enjoys giving rest to those He loves? Psalms 127:2b]
talking to Papa about the burden He's placed on my heart for those precious muslim souls we met so trapped in the darkness of the enemy's deception.
I sat outside lifting my eyes up to the morning sun. so bright is the glory of the sun that even with my eyes shut tightly its light still shone through!
it was like Papa was telling me, "my child, notice how you try to blind yourself to the glory of the sun but it still penetrates through your closed eyes -- how much brighter & impenetrable will be The Glory of My Son by whom I created the sun?"

. . . WOW!!

how foolish & short-sighted I was to feel down-hearted about the blindness that seeemed so heavy upon many muslim souls.

yet, THE STARK-BLINDING REALITY IS:
that no matter how "blinded" & in blatant denial of Jesus as The Very Son of God they may be, nothing, nothing, absolutely NOTHING is going to stop His glory from shining through!

"After these things I looked, and there was a large crowd that no one was able to count! They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. They were standing in front of the throne and the lamb and were wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the lamb!" All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshiped God, saying, "Amen! Praise, glory, wisdom, thanks, honor, power, and strength be to our God forever and ever! Amen!" Rev 7:9-12
:D PRAISE! :D
:D man's hard-heartedness is not ultimate: His glory will triumph in the end!
:D there will be multitudes from every "muslim" people group gathered before the throne to worship Jesus!
:D not even the efforts of the god of this world to blind the minds of unbelievers (2 Corinthians 4:4) will prevail: the light of the gospel of the glory of Jesus Christ, The Son of God, will triumph in the end!

*pray*
* we'd live lives that hasten the time that will surely be, when "the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of God as the waters cover the sea! Habakkuk 2:14)
* make our lives such bright reflectors of The Glory of The Son of God that knowledge of Him will penetrate even the blindest of eyes & hardest of hearts!

praise & pray for heaven!

back from outreach to muslims, my body incredibly weak, getting overtaken by some nasty virus [drinking heaps of warm water but my throat feels insanely dry all the time??!! + still blowing out copious amounts of mucous :|] the thought of "being away from the body but at home with the Lord" has never seemed so appealing =D
my soul is lifted high as I think of a quote from the late Doug Sutphen .k.a. "brother David" who lead "project pearl" - when 1 Million Chinese Bibles were smuggled overnight by barge to thousands of waiting brothers & sisters on a beach.

"when I die, I want a revival and not a funeral. how about you? do you want a revival too? Then begin crying out to God. Stop shrinking from His will and begin working under His direcion. Take the time to be alone with Him and His Word, and He will begin blessing and giving guidance to you as He has done for me.
our time on his earth is short, and getting shorter every day. there are so many people whom Jesus wants to reach out to, and He wants to do it through people just like you. God bless you. I look forward to getting to know you in heaven. "

:D PRAISE! :D
:D this life is not ultimate: ETERNITY in heaven is!
:D this body is not ultimate - we'll receive glorified resurrection bodies when He returns!
:D being "down" with sickness = more time to spend with Jesus in prayer!!!
[why He would love me so much as to give me such a privilege, my mind boggles!]
:D no matter how ill we might feel in this body, we can still pray & therefore impact eternity!
*pray*
* help us live lives so that when we die there will be revival, not a funeral!!
* help us Stop shrinking from His will!
* help us work under His direcion.
* help us take the time to be alone with Him and His Word
* help us make the most of these ever-shortening days we have left here on earth to be His vessels to reach out to the lost!

VISION!! Re: praise & pray for Muslim outreach on Gold Coast

this might sound ukky but .. :P
was out @ the local park this afternoon praying with my head bowed on my arms resting on my knees with my mouth open.. when a litle drop of saliva fell from my mouth hitting the dry parched ground below.

what difference did my li'l drop of moisture do to the dry, thirsty land?

nothing immediately observable.

. . . but the rain is coming!!


then I heard the voice of my Father say, "Able, my child, you do know that much of what you do here on the Gold Coast will seem just like that litle drop of saliva falling on dry parched ground?

. . . but what you don't see yet, my child, is that the rain is coming!!

I understood exactly what He meant.

a conversation, a gospel tract given here & a conversation, a gospel tract given there
-- much of what we're doing here reaching out to precious lost muslim souls might seem to make no immediately observable difference.



praise the Lord, He never leaves us short of encouragement when we make the time to be still & listen to Him!

yes, much of of what we do here on the Gold Coast will seem just like a litle drop of moisture falling on dry parched ground, with no immediately observable difference,

. . . but what we don't see yet, is that the rain is coming!!

all we can see now is a conversation, a gospel tract given here & a conversation, a gospel tract given there but I'm truly excited at all we cannot see right here & right now!!

working "behind the scenes" doing what He does best is The Holy Spirit, working through each & every interaction exchanged, each & every word spoken, each & every tract received, each & every Arabic bible given -- working powerfully to reveal Christ to lost sinners whom He loves so dearly!

it's *SUCH* a God-thing that He'd take muslims escaping from lands of insanely hot summers to holiday in a place with complete freedom of expression, worship & evangelism!

WOW.

He loves them THAT much to get them outside their oppressive religio-political regimes so they might be able to be have access to The Truth, The Way, Light, True Life & True Love found only in Jesus Christ!

so though I can't see me making any huge dramatically different impact on the muslim world through simple conversations, giving out Arabic gospel tracts & Bibles, Papa reminded me that
. . . but what I can't see yet, is that the rain is coming!!

Oh! to learn to stop looking with mere limited finite mortal eyes, to see the unseen & Ultimate Spiritual reality!!

after all, hasn't He always used small, weak, seemingly foolish means to display His huge, glorious might & wisdom?!

so I cast myself completely at the disposal of a God who can take a wee li'l drop of saliva, send His Holy Spirit rain & completely saturate a ground once dry & dead transformed to life!

indeed our God is the God who makes a valley of dry bones to live again!!

so be encouraged dear fellow child of The Most High God, even in your seemingly small, weak & foolish efforts, coupled with prayer to our Almighty Father who makes a valley of dry bones to live again!!

keep persevering..
. . . for what you & I can't see yet, is that the rain is coming!!
keep putting yourself at HIS disposal. through you, yes, even small, weak, seemingly foolish Y.O.U., He wants to IMPACT ETERNITY!!

won't you let Him?!
WHY rip yourself off & give yourself to anything less? :)

His is the delight of working this way. to Him be all the glory, as we commit to this dangerous duity of delighting in HIS work done HIS way :D

please especially praise Papa for the incredible way He's drawing lost muslims to find the Saviour through dreams & visions, and ask Him to do so all the more with all those precious lost muslims holidaying here & bring them across our path that we might point them to The One who is The Truth, The Way, Light, True Life & True Love!

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY~!!

*** ETERNITY WILL SHOW THE FULL FRUIT OF OUR PRAYERS - BE ENCOURAGED!!***

praise & pray for the team on GC!

w00t~!

:D bringing the mission field to us!!
:D getting us here safely (thank God for dads!!)
:D though we are few, those with us are more than those against us!
:D Papa DELIGHTS to do GREAT things through weak & small means ;D
:D the good contacts made last night!
* keep giving us HIS strategy to reach outto those ion the darkness & rescue the perishing!
* we'd be joyful in reaching out to the lost with The Greatest News in the World: THERE IS SALVATION FULL, FREE & AVAILABLE IN JESUS!!

thanks SO much. WE PRAY TO A MIGHTY MIGHTY MIIGHTY GOD!!!
[this may be my last post for the week ... KEEP PRAYING IN FAITH FOR THESE PRECIOUS LOST SOULS~!!!]