Wednesday, April 29, 2009

praise & pray for Summer, Wonhee, Kevin, Jin, Amy, Carol, Yoshi, Sungwoo, Hong, Terry, Sarah (TAI, KOR, HK, JAP)


those i met through English corner on Tuesday! [discussed work]
:D PRAISE! :D
:D because of all Jesus has done for us, we can rest from all dead religious works to try to earn God's approval & simply respond to His work in us!
:D bringing them here!
*PRAY*
* we'd see these dear lost souls in heaven, because they received revelation of The Risen Lord Jesus whose finished work gives us right standing with Father, along with others who're there because they didn't keep Jesus to themselves!!
* stir up a hunger in these precious souls to want to know The Only One who can forgive their sins & give them peace with God!
* work by His Spirit through all the 'English corners' globally to draw lost souls into Living, Personal Relationship with Himself! see
http://www.youroztown.com/ - look for the "World Free English Classes Timetable"
* Nations would be impacted as they send their bright future leaders abroad to study English to add to the multi-cultural beauty of Christ's Bride, The Church!
* have mercy on them & send them back to 'home' eternally-changed souls, to join the missionary force He's raising up there!
* provide them with friendships / accomodation/jobs/ that will go towards the ends prayed for above :)
~thanks~!GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY~!!*** ETERNITY WILL SHOW THE FULL FRUIT OF OUR PRAYERS- BE ENCOURAGED!!***

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

pray for the unreached!

"Therefore I want you to know that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen." Acts 28:28
In a way, this is a sad ending to the book of Acts. Paul was closing the door to his witness to the Jews because they had so often rejected God’s appeal through him. He wanted them to realize that their hardness of heart was the main reason for his focus on the Gentiles. But in another sense, this is a happy ending. It says that the Gentiles will listen, and, indeed they did! The book of Acts ends as it begins, with God’s concern that the Church should proclaim His salvation to all the nations. From there, we get church history, starting with Acts 29. What part of Acts 29 is your church playing?

Pray that our churches will respond to the Holy Spirit’s promptings to go to the frontiers.


"In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent." Acts 17:30
Repentance is the key to salvation. In this statement, Paul gave the Athenians the gospel in a nutshell. If you do any witnessing, you may be shocked by how many people from the reached West don’t understand that it’s not “being a good person” but repenting from sin that is the key. In most Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim cultures, people believe that salvation rests on having their good deeds outweighing their bad ones. But repentance is an ongoing process. Even the most godly among us sin every day. Do you need to repent from letting the Great Commission slip from your life?

Pray for the Holy Spirit to lead us to repentance whenever we stray from His perfect will.

"From now on I will go to the Gentiles." Acts 18:6
Paul was in Corinth preaching in the synagogue and “solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.” They resisted him and blasphemed. He was then free to go to the Gentiles with a clear conscience. Paul’s example holds lessons for us. He was intent on focusing on those who were responsive to the good news. His obligation to the Jews did not blind him to their resistance. His cry, and the cry of many today is, “How can I stay among a people who have every chance to hear the gospel, yet reject it, when so many have not yet had one chance to hear?”

Pray that the Holy Spirit will teach us our duty to both the resistant and the responsive peoples of our day.

source: www.global-prayer-digest.org/ <-- GO HERE & pray EVERYDAY!!http://www.prayerguard.net <-- GO HERE & pray for an unreached people group EVERY HOUR!!
http://www.vision2025.org/blankbook_clicktorelease.html <--GO HERE EVERYDAY TO release penny's for God's Word to be translated in every language still without His Word!
http://thebiblesite.org/ <-- GO HERE EVERYDAY TO provide your suffering brothers and sisters with a portion of God's Word for free!http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1 <-- GO HERE EVERYDAY & click to help world hunger~!

Monday, April 27, 2009

Praise & pray for Yoshi (JAP)


- he got fired from his nursing job recently .. it was an even bigger blow as he's trying to apply for a permanent residency visa
.. this left him feeling quite lost & worried in the aftermath .. after he told me, my heart went out to him & i wanted to be there for him to journey with him through this dark valley

.. but going through a spiritually dry period myself - left me doubting if i'd really have anything to give Yoshi.. i felt like a dry bone. what good was i to myself or anyone else??

yet again, Father graciously drew my eyes away from myself and onto Him, who's specialty is to take a broken vessel & make something beutiful froim it, to make streams of living water flow even in the desert, to take a valley of dry bones & make it live!
so i just availed myself to Him, and as always, He honored that :)



i spent the whole of last Friday with Yoshi, just listening to him & being there for him & pointing him to Jesus, who is the Oly true security & Hope in this world!
when he first arrived in Aus, he was more interested in religion / the bible etc but this interest all but died .. until now!!
(i kept trying to point him away from religion as a certain dead end, and pointing him to relationship with The Living God who made him & loves him)
so by the end of our day together, he was wanting to get back into reading the bible himself & possibly go back to "church"!
before he always wanted to be in control of his life ..now he's seen where that's landed him and he's ready to let go!
:D PRAISE! :D

:D the way He uses troubles in life to increase Christ & decrease self!


:D giving life to his dry bone that i was!
*PRAY*

* decrease Yoshi that Christ may increase in & through these troubles in his life
* be gracious & merciful to Yoshi, evealing Himself to Yoshi, drawing Yoshi into loving relationship with Himself!
* Yoshi would abandon his own agenda & embrace Christ!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

praise & pray for the [M.E.R.] (Marriage Enrichment Retreat) - THIS weekend!

[in case you're wondering why i post on anything marriage related, given my die-hard determination to stay single,[:P] it's cos my blessed parents are involved, after having their marriage rescued from the rocks!]

:D PRAISE! :D

:D the marriages that've been saved/enriched through these retreats!

:D NOTHING the enemy tries to do to destroy God's institution will prevail!

:D the great team of leading couples involved, united in heart & purpose!

*PRAY*

* OPEN, TEACHABLE hearts & ears to hear & receive God's Word that bears fruit to His glory!

* lasting life change & application of all that'll be learnt!

* marriages would change to look more like earthly reflections of the Divine marriage between Christ & His church!

* Christ be made to look great through the marriages of His people!

* keep drawing unsaved spouses to Jesus through the love, life-and-word witness of their saved spouses & friends!

* thwart every evil scheme of the stealer, killer & destroyer of love & lives, that Jesus would have the manifest preemimence in ALL THINGS!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

praise & pray for Sungwoo, Hong, Terry, Sarah, Thomas, Carina, Pui, Lenor, Carol (KOR, VIET, HK)


those i met through English corner on Tuesday! [discussed peace]
:D PRAISE! :D
:D because of all Jesus has done for us, the war between us & God is over!!
:D peace with God is available!!
:D bringing them here!

*PRAY*
* we'd see these dear lost souls in heaven, because they received revelation of The Risen Jesus as Lord who made peace with them & The Father, along with others who're there because they didn't keep this message to themselves!!
* stir up a hunger in these precious souls to want to know The Only One who can forgive their sins & give them peace with God!
* work by His Spirit through all the 'English corners' globally to draw lost souls into Living, Personal Relationship with Himself! see http://www.youroztown.com/ - look for the "World Free English Classes Timetable"
* Nations would be impacted as they send their bright future leaders abroad to study English to add to the multi-cultural beauty of Christ's Bride, The Church!
* have mercy on them & send them back to 'home' eternally-changed souls, to join the missionary force He's raising up there!
* provide them with friendships / accomodation/jobs/ that will go towards the ends prayed for above :)

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

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

praise & pray for Go the Extra Mile!

"what if by simply taking a walk you could lift a child from a life of poverty - forever?"

see www.walk4charity.com



Be a part of an amazing experience and walk or run to 50kms with your family and friends to help India's most maligned and needy children.It's time to Go the Extra Mile!



Each Australian dollar buys 40 Indian rupees. It is simply staggering what a few dollars in Australian can accomplish in India – we have an open window of opportunity to be able to bring massive change to people’s lives and to ignore that opportunity would be a tragedy.
:D praise! :D
:D He loves the poor & outcast!
:D the many poor who've found hope in the gospel of Jesus Christ!


*PRAY*
* raise up walkers & supporters for this fundraising event to help break the poverty cycle!
* we'd keep our sights, thoughts & treasures focussed on eternal, unseen realities~!
* many more lives would be lifted from a life of poverty - forever!! because we chose to be unselfishly loving with the life He'sgiven us & all His lavish blessings!
- register your walking team in Melbourne / Brisbane here: http://www.walk4charity.com/
- if you can't do the walk, volunteers & sponsors for walkers will be needed to help!!

ejoice with me & pray for me~!!



... ah, praise God for His amazing grace! even when i am dry, weak & weary, He refreshes my soul with His showers of Living Water to break the drought of my soul!.. i was reminded by a dear sister that being involved in God's work puts me on "satan's hit list" so i must keep watchful & prayerful in all things!
but, *sigh*, "busy-ness" [usually over lesser things] distracts me from writing my prayer updates time & time again :S

. . . i've been discovering new depths of my selfishness
... how i can cloak my selfishness in "spiritual / godly stuff" i.e. "ministry"
... how i seem to only love /serve people for what i can get out of them & don’t love people when there's nothing i can get out of them :
i'm a man in much need of prayer!!
:D rejoice with me~! :D

:D God is big enough, and smart enough, to absorb all my weaknesses and failures and still make something beautiful happen!

:D His plan accounts for the fact that I’m going to fail.

:D i don't take God by surprise, or ruin His purpose, by anything i do or fail to do!!

:D His purpose and His plan for my life isn’t dependent on me never making a mistake!!

:D I don't NEED to let fear about my past / present / future keep me from loving God now, and living life NOW!
:D i get to know Father by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of my sins forever wiped clean!

shame has become so reinforced in our religious world that we swim in it like we're supposed to be there rather than in the freedom Christ brings~!
-- The God Journey podcast:
-listen here:
http://thegodjourney.com/wordpress/2007/03/01/the-narcissistic-flesh/

* PLEASE PRAY FOR ME*
* i'd BELIEVE + LIVE Heb 10: 18-22!!
* help me to grasp this relationship i have with Father: that the slate of my sins is forever wiped clean!

* keep me ever going right up to Him "full of belief, confident that I’m presentable inside and out"

* move me from drowning in a sea of guilt & shame to dancing in the vast fields of His love & acceptance~!

* i'd let Jesus become the only source of every desire and need in my life.

* i'd go on the adventure of learning to trust Him and find Him connecting me with other believers who are on the same journey :)
* make me a lover of God for who He is, not what i can get out of Him!

* make me a lover of people for who they are, not loving them for what i can get out of them!

* I'd cease trying to be or do anything, and just allow Him to be Who He is & do what only He can do in & through me!!

"trying so hard .. to stop trying so hard .. jus let You be Who You are .. be Who You are in me" -- Casting Crowns, between the Altar and the door
watch / listen to this latest beautiful song Father's used to lift my spirits to Him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy9CGymYvuA

thanks~!! please tell me how i can best support you before His throne of Grace too!if Father so leads you to be my regular prayer supporter, do check out this prayer blog every now & then :)
Looking forward to hearing from you how i can best support you in prayer & praises!!

pray for the unreached!

"For this is what the Lord has commanded us: 'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'" Acts 13:47
Instead of quoting his own commission to the Gentiles given to him on the road to Damascus, he chose to quote God’s commission of all Jews as found in Isaiah 49:6. In rejecting that commission, the Jewish leaders who listened to Paul not only rejected the Gentiles and Paul; they rejected God Himself. As a result, Paul turned to the Gentiles, who immediately “began rejoicing and glorifying the work of the Lord.” The result? “The Word of the Lord spread through the whole region.” Yes, the nations are responsive to the gospel, if we will only bring it to them!

Pray that the Lord will lead His workers to members of unreached people groups who are most responsive.

"Now those who had been scattered…traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, telling the message only to Jews. Some of them, however…went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also." Acts 11:19-20
In a similar fashion, isn’t preoccupation with “our own kind of people” the norm today?The vast majority of full-time Christian workers are minis-tering to those of their own culture who are already at least nominally Christians. Certainly these people need to hear the gospel clearly, as did the Jews of the i rst century. But how much more do those peoples who know only a shred of the truth deserve full-time workers among them?

Let us rededicate ourselves to the task of telling the good news of Christ’s resurrection to those unreached peoples who have yet to hear this miraculous story.


"'How can I [understand],' he said, 'unless someone explains it to me?' Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus." Acts 8:31-35
Philip asked the Ethiopian (probably a Gentile proselyte) if he understood what he was reading, and the man admitted that he did not. Many valuable literature and radio ministries are being conducted today among some of the world’s unreached peoples. But these peoples often have the same problem as the Ethiopian eunuch: they need further face-to-face explanation of what they read and hear. The Great Commission is a call for God’s people to live among peoples isolated from such opportunities.

Pray for more face-to-face laborers who will begin from the Scriptures and preach Jesus to unreached peoples.
source: www.global-prayer-digest.org/ <-- GO HERE & pray EVERYDAY!!http://www.prayerguard.net <-- GO HERE & pray for an unreached people group EVERY HOUR!!
http://www.vision2025.org/blankbook_clicktorelease.html <--GO HERE EVERYDAY TO release penny's for God's Word to be translated in every language still without His Word!http://thebiblesite.org/ <-- GO HERE EVERYDAY TO provide your suffering brothers and sisters with a portion of God's Word for free!http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1 <-- GO HERE EVERYDAY & click to help world hunger~!

Friday, April 17, 2009

please rejoice with me & pray for me~!!


this is a picture of how i'm feeling ..going through the spiritual wilderness & drought, longing for the water & clear skies ahead . . .
i'm aware of an ever-growing gap between all i'm reading & have read in God's Word & my actual life lived out, between the good intentions i have, the beautiful songs i sing & my actual life lived out ... the contradictions are just too great to ignore anymore and i gotta say it's killing me :(

:D rejoice with me~! :D
:D Psalms 42:5 is true! "Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God."
:D times of refreshing are ahead~! see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy9CGymYvuA
[lyrics below]
*PRAY FOR ME*
* strength to persevere through the wilderness . . .
* grace to trust Him when I can't see what He's doing, when i can't feel Him or hear Him so clearly.
* bridge the gap between all i'm reading & have read in God's Word, the godly intentions i have, the beautiful songs i sing & my actual life lived out ...
thanks~!!
Carried To The Table - Leeland see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy9CGymYvuA

Wounded and forsaken
I was shattered by the fall
Broken and forgotten
Feeling lost and all alone
Summoned by the King
Into the Master’s courts
Lifted by the Savior
And cradled in His arms

I was carried to the table
Seated where I don’t belong
Carried to the table
Swept away by His love
And I don’t see my brokenness anymore
When I’m seated at the table of the Lord
I’m carried to the table
The table of the Lord

Fighting thoughts of fear
And wondering why He called my name
Am I good enough to share this cup
This world has left me lame
Even in my weakness
The Savior called my name
In His Holy presence
I’m healed and unashamed

You carried me, my God
You carried me

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

pray for the unreached!

"...there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12
The Jewish leaders arrested Peter and John after Peter's sermon in front of the temple. The charges against them were that they had taught the people about Jesus' resurrection and had healed the cripple in His Name. Peter's defense the next day was characteristically simple, yet powerful. He once again testified of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, and charged the Jewish leaders with rejecting Him, God's Messiah. He affirmed that the stone the builders rejected had become the Chief Cornerstone. Jesus, and Jesus alone, is the only Way to salvation.

Pray that you will understand from the heart that Jesus is the Chief Cornerstone, the only Name under heaven by which we must be saved.

"It is not for you to know the times or dates.... But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses...to the ends of the earth." Acts 1:7, 8
Here Jesus answered the question, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?" (v. 6). He said that the times and the dates for His return are known only by the Father. Two things we do know, however. We will receive the power of the Holy Spirit, and by that power we will be His witnesses, beginning where we are and moving out to the ends of the earth. Let us yield ourselves fully to this commission, empowered by His Spirit until men and women from every nation acknowledge Jesus as Lord. Then His Kingdom will come with fullness and glory.

Pray that the Father will move us by the power of His Holy Spirit to make us witnesses to the ends of the earth.

"When the chief priest had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money..." Luke 28: 12
It was damage control time for the elders and chief priests. They had Christ crucified, only to see Him raised from the dead. They could have bowed their knees to the Risen Christ and acknowledged their sins, but instead they bribed the guards to say that Christ's body was stolen. Perhaps this sin was even greater than having Him crucified, because they now knew the truth, and covered it up from others who might have believed. In today's world, there are millions who do not know about Christ's resurrection victory, so they are still ignorant of the way to salvation. Who will tell them?

Pray for many to believe when they hear that Christ is Lord over death.
source: www.global-prayer-digest.org/ <-- GO HERE & pray EVERYDAY!! http://www.prayerguard.net/ <-- GO HERE & pray for an unreached people group EVERY HOUR!! http://www.vision2025.org/blankbook_clicktorelease.html <--GO HERE EVERYDAY TO release penny's for God's Word to be translated in every language still without His Word!
http://thebiblesite.org/ <-- GO HERE EVERYDAY TO provide your suffering brothers and sisters with a portion of God's Word for free! http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1 <-- GO HERE EVERYDAY & click to help world hunger~!

Monday, April 13, 2009

UPDATE: praise & pray for OCF camp!


this is a path i've been down so many times before ..
up the glorious mountain top .. then down to the valley .. longing for life change that's *lasting*
O Father, have Your way in us completely!!
:D praise! :D
:D another blessed camp, with beauty in the rain again - Father's specialty - see picture ;) the rain came but went away for the outdoor activities .. wow!!
:D bringing us safely there & back!
:D all He did & will do in & through the camp!
:D the souls who started on a new journey with Father / recommitted their lives to Him!
:D His grace in helping me facilitate a group of seekers / nonchristians with 2 of them apparently indicating a desire to start on a new journey with Father~!!
*PRAY*
* protect & water every seed planted & bring it to fruition to bring much glory to Father & extend His Kingdom!
* continue to mature His people in OCF to be excellent witnesses here & back 'home'!
* lasting lifechange will result!

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

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

PLEASE PRAY for me~!!


this is a call for help .. :(
[note the picture i normally have for my posts of a bright glorious full moon to the picture on this post) =(
yuck .. how terrible .. sad .. been noticing a putrid 'lukewarmness' Jesus said He'd spit out of His mouth in Revelations 3 creeping into my life :S

it could be just another overly pessimistic misevaluation of my spiritual condition . . .

but i'm nowhere near as active in passion for sharing His gospel as i used to be.
... of course i'll still gladly do it given the oppoturtunity, but it's like i've grown calloused to the horrible condition of the lost that i'm content to be passive, mediocre & not make any waves . . . :'(
i can feel the bright reflector i long to be of His glory fading .. aaaaahhh!! >_<

still, precious brothers & sisters, do rejoice with me!! :D
:D He uses every distress (over my sinful self & this world, to drive me to, not away from Him!

**PLEASE PRAY for me~!!**
* i want to have an increasingly more fascinating, dependent, satisfying, friendship with Jesus that's expressed in a 2 way dialogue.
i suspect there must be more to living in relationship with The Living God than just reading a book everyday & saying the same old prayers ...
* i'd stop putting false expectations on myself~!

My friends, by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that comes from the Holy Spirit, I beg you to pray sincerely with me and for me. -Rom 15:30
.. i do trust Father will carry me through this ' spiritually dry season' in His perfect time.
. . . please just understand if i don't seem as 'on fire', or if you see me weak . . .
a passage i recently read in Eugene Patterson's paraphrase that encouraged me :)
When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!" Abraham didn't focus on his own impotence and say, "It's hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child." Nor did he survey Sarah's decades of infertility and give up. He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said.
Rom 4:18-21
thanks~!! please tell me how i can best support you before His throne of Grace too!if Father so leads you to be my regular prayer supporter, do check out this prayer blog every now & then :)Looking forward to hearing from you how i can best support you in prayer & praises!!

praise & pray for OCF camp! [THIS WEEKEND!]


-- i've been invited to come join this camp -- over this easter weekend. [Sat-Mon]
:D PRAISE FATHER! :D
:D bringing this camp together~!
:D all He's done, is doing & will do through Christian campus goups like OCF to advance His Kingdom!
:D all who've registered!
*PRAY*
* in all things, CHRIST BE EXALTED! and as He is, "He'd draw all men to Himself"
* good weather for the weekend [it's a humble campsite!]
* bring the people HE wants to come along & keep them free this weekend!

* He'd arrange Divine appointments & eternally-significant interactions in abundance!
- i've been asked to lead a bible study group of 3 unsaved guys.. woohoo .. haven't led a "bible study" for ages ..feel *so* inadequate .. trusting in His grace & sufficiency! :)
* may their lost souls be found by The Good Shepherd who laid down His life for His sheep :)
* we'll have much more than just a glorious 'mountaintop' experience that fades into a distant memory after-camp!
* lasting lifechange will result from encountering God through His Word & His people!

praise & pray for Myungsu, Jessica, Bowan, Hanmi, Jason, Max, Michael, Kyung, Dora, Sedito (KOR ... )

those i met through English corner on Tuesday! [discussed post-Resurrection Jesus - was He a liar, lunatic or Lord?]

:D PRAISE! :D

:D Jesus is Lord!!

:D all who trust HIm will have true life, eternal life!

:D bringing them here!

*PRAY*

- everyone except Jessica, Michael & Kyung were sure Jesus was Lord ... Michael & Jessica's on their way, while Kyung seemed quite set in his unbelief, thinking Jesus to be a liar. ;'( may Jesus break through in their lives~!

* we'd see these dear lost souls in heaven, because they received revelation of The Risen Jesus as Lord, along with others who're there because thy didn't keep this message to themselves!!

* stir up a hunger in these precious souls to want to know The Only One who can forgive their sins & give them resurrection life!

* work by His Spirit through all the 'English corners' globally to draw lost souls into Living, Personal Relationship with Himself! see http://www.youroztown.com/ - look for the "World Free English Classes Timetable"

* Nations would be impacted as they send their bright future leaders abroad to study English to add to the multi-cultural beauty of Christ's Bride, The Church!

* have mercy on them & send them back to 'home' eternally-changed souls, to join the missionary force He's raising up there!
* provide them with friendships / accomodation/jobs/ that will go towards the ends prayed for above :)
~thanks~!GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY~!!*** ETERNITY WILL SHOW THE FULL FRUIT OF OUR PRAYERS- BE ENCOURAGED!!***

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

pray for the unreached!

"Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter His glory?" Luke 24:26
One of the things we so often forget is that before there is glory, there is often suffering. We know that, like Christ, many of His servants are suffering in places like North Korea and Saudi Arabia for their faith. In many cases throughout Church history, the suffering of the saints has led to repentance and the extension of His Kingdom. You have heard it said that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. So difficult, but so true in our fallen world!

Pray that the unreached will be reached through the suffering of the saints, and that God will be glorified


"No man can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for him-the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough..." Psalms 49:7-8
Did you see the movie, "The Passion of the Christ"? If you did, you may remember the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane where Satan is trying to tempt Jesus into bypassing the cross. He tells Jesus that it is impossible for man to pay for the life of another. So true, but so false in this case! Jesus is the only son of the Living God, so He alone can pay for the sins of the world. Muslims try to achieve salvation by obeying the words of Mohammed, while Buddhists and Hindus seek to obey their way to a better reincarnation. But only Christ can pay for their sins. No sin is forgiven, except by the blood of Christ.

Pray for the Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists to seek out and find to their only redeemer!

"Jesus said, 'It is finished.' With that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit." John 19:30
What is finished? You might ask. Because of the fall of Adam and Eve, Satan claimed authority over the peoples of the earth. With Jesus' sacrifice of Himself, He entered into a horrid struggle to reclaim His own, what was His by right of creation. Jesus won the victory over the evil one. The war over Satan's claim to those peoples still in darkness is finished, and Christ is the victor. Satan's claim is finished for eternity! All he can do now is deceive the nations into taking a path that leads them away from the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
Pray that God's children will quickly tell them the good news of Christ's redemption. Praise God for redeeming those who call on His Name! It is finished!

"He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season." Psalms 1:3
God's child, meditating on God's Word, yields fruit according to His timing. "Whatever he does prospers." Jesus told His disciples in the intimacy of the upper room, "You did not choose Me, but I chose you to go and bear fruit -fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in My Name" (John 15:16). "Fruit" refers both to inner character and holiness-the fruit of the Spirit-and to the life that reproduces itself in others. Jesus calls us to bear fruit in a hurting world.


Pray that the Lord will work out the fruit of His Spirit in our lives, and use us to bring many others to the obedience of faith.

"For the sake of Your Name, O Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great." Psalms 25:11
All of us sin each day, and we need forgiveness. Our sins are an offense to the One who created us, the only One with the power to forgive. This is one of the ways His Name is glorified; by forgiving sinful man. There are entire tribes, tongues and nations that don't yet know that God will forgive their sins if they humble themselves and call on His Name in repentance. Don't stop praying for these peoples who are cut off from their chance to accept forgiveness, and glorify His Name.

Pray that the nations will be stirred to crave His forgiveness, so that His Name may be glorified.





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

http://www.prayerguard.net/ <-- GO HERE & pray for an unreached people group EVERY HOUR!!

http://www.vision2025.org/blankbook_clicktorelease.html <--GO HERE EVERYDAY TO release penny's for God's Word to be translated in every language still without His Word!http://thebiblesite.org/ <-- GO HERE EVERYDAY TO provide your suffering brothers and sisters with a portion of God's Word for free!

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1 <-- GO HERE EVERYDAY & click to help world hunger~!

Sunday, April 05, 2009

praise & pray for [M.E.Rs.] (Marriage Enrichment Retreats)

[in case you're wondering why i post on anything marriage related, since i'm still die-hard determined to stay single,[:P] -- it's cos my blessed parents are involved, after having their marriage rescued from falling apart!]
:D PRAISE FATHER! :D
:D all the marriages that've been saved/enriched through these retreats!
:D NOTHING the enemy tries to do to destroy God's institution will prevail!
:D the great team of leading couples involved, united in heart & purpose!
:D the unsaved spouses have come to know Jesus through these retreats!
*PRAY*
* bring enough couples to register in time & not have to pull out [our LOSER-enemy has a way of throwing up things to prevent couples from coming!]
* OPEN, TEACHABLE hearts & ears to hear & receive God's Word that bears lasting fruit to His glory!
* lasting life change & application of all that'll be learnt
* marriages would change to look more like earthly reflections of the Divine marriage between Christ & His church!
* Christ be made to look great through the marriages of His people!
* keep drawing unsaved spouses to Jesus through the love, life-and-word witness of their saved spouses & friends!
* thwart every evil scheme of the stealer, killer & destroyer of love & lives, that Jesus would have the manifest preemimence in ALL THINGS!

Friday, April 03, 2009

brisk walking + jogging in the rain has never been so much fun!


. . . was called this morning by a friend from English corner who's friend had lost his mobile phone & asked if i still had a spare one he could use . . . as there was limited time for me to go meet her, i rushed off to the shopping centre to meet her & give her the phone.

it was a joyfully brisk walk :) on the way back, it started raining - praise God for His lavish blessings He's been pouring down on us all week!

after walking in he rain a while i remembered i had a raincoat in my bag! :P silly me .. :P

by then my clothes were already soaked through, so i just enjoyed the rest of the walk home literally =saturated= in the blessings of Heaven :)

. . . i couldn't help but think i might get sick, but fathers' been gently teaching me to trust Him with everything. He is good!


thank God for those i can bless through these phones others leave behind - many visiting internationals use mobile phones while in Aus but no longer use them upon returning to their homeland . . . being the big anti-waste man i am, i can't let opportunities for one person's trash to become another's useful treasure~!


not only for those who've broken lost their phone, but even those fresh to the country & yet to buy one~!

we are SO blessed~!!


if you/ or anybody you know has any old or unused BUT STILL FUNCTIONAL mobile phones, it'd be a nice gesture if we could help supply them with a phone in Australia, potentially saving them lots of $$

please:-

* have a dig in your drawers, bring any phones WITH THEIR APPROPRIATE BATTERY CHARGERS whenever you'll next see me or just drop in if you're in the area to: 6 Maisie Place Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane QLD AUSTRALIA 4113 [or else post to me!]

[note: if phone is broken, bring anyway, I may be able to get it fixed then pass it on? just let me know what's wrong . . . ]

* delete any contacts / messages you don't want the next owner to know about ;)

* leave any contacts / messages that would be helpful for the next owner to know about ;)

* call anyone you know who's recently upgraded their phone & might've kept their old one but won't use it anymore

& would prefer for someone to actually use it vs. letting it sit in your drawer doing nothing!


just an idea, if you have other useful /unused items to bless any internationals with, let's keep being blessings with what we've been blessed with!

PRAY! these phones can be a true blessing to those who receive it in the eternal sense!

remember what Jesus said:


In everything I've done, I have demonstrated to you how necessary it is to work on behalf of the weak and not exploit them. You'll not likely go wrong here if you keep remembering that our Master said, 'You're far happier giving than getting.'" Acts 20:35


WE'RE SOO RICHLY BLESSED ... TO BE A BLESSING!!

~PRAY~!!

;';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';'

we are only blessed to be a BLESSING to OTHERS.

we can never out-give God,but there is MUCH JOY in trying~!

the more I shovel out of my life to God, the more He shovels into my life

...and God's shovel is BIGGER THAN MINE~!;';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';';'www.vision2025.org/blankbook_clicktorelease.html <-- go here EVERYDAY!!

For a free book that thousands of people have said has changed their lives, click on this link- www.gfa.org/freebook .. REVOLUTIONISED my life too!


note: i found out later the phone was unsuitable for the friend's 3G SIM card, thankfully i got spare 3G phones too .. please leme know if you oranyone you know can help~!

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

praise & pray for OCF camp! [THIS WEEKEND!]

-- i've been invited to come join this camp -- over this easter weekend.
:D PRAISE FATHER! :D
:D bringing this camp together~!

:D all He's done, is doing & will do through Christian campus goups like OCF to advance His Kingdom!

:D all who've registered!

*PRAY*

* in all things, CHRIST BE EXALTED! and as He is, "He'd draw all men to Himself"

* good weather for the weekend [it's a humble campsite!]

* bring the people HE wants to come along & keep them free this weekend!
* He'd arrange Divine appointments & eternally-significant interactions in abundance!

- i've been asked to lead a bible study group of 3 unsaved guys.. woohoo .. haven't led a "bible study" for ages ..feel *so* inadequate .. trusting in His grace & sufficiency! :)

* may their lost souls be found by The Good Shepherd who laid down His life for His sheep :)

* we'll have much more than just a glorious 'mountaintop' experience that fades into a distant memory after-camp!

* lasting lifechange will result from encountering God through His Word & His people!

praise & pray for Ben, Chris, Jason, Ann, Terry, E, Mina, Sarah, Jed, Seon, Sunni, David, Michael (KOR, TAI)


those i met through English corner on Tuesday! [discussed Jesus' Resurrection]
:D PRAISE! :D

:D christ is risen.. CHRIST IS RISEN INDEED!!
:D bringing them here!
*PRAY*
* we'd see these dear lost souls in heaven, because they received revelation of The Risen Jesus, along with others who're there because thy didn't keep this message to themselves!!

* stir up a hunger in these precious souls to want to know The Only One who can forgive their sins & give them resurrection life!
* work by His Spirit through all the 'English corners' globally to draw lost souls into Living, Personal Relationship with Himself! see http://www.youroztown.com/ - look for the "World Free English Classes Timetable"
* Nations would be impacted as they send their bright future leaders abroad to study English to add to the multi-cultural beauty of Christ's Bride, The Church!
* have mercy on them & send them back to 'home' eternally-changed souls, to join the missionary force He's raising up there!
* provide them with friendships / accomodation/jobs/ that will go towards the ends prayed for above :)

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



pray for the unreached!

"All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one." Psalms 14:4
What a reminder of the true nature of man! We are all sinners, and we all need a savior, no matter how "good" we may appear. God has provided one way out of this helpless dilemma. The only Savior, Jesus Christ, paid for every sin. How all the nations need to hear of His salvation!

Pray that believers will use this Easter season to tell the nations of the savior who died to take away the sins of the world. Pray that the unreached peoples will accept that they have sinned, and that only Jesus can reconcile them to the Father.

"He will judge the world in righteousness; He will govern the peoples with justice." Psalms 9:8
This is a great example of the "not yet" verses of the Bible. God is a perfect judge, and He will govern with perfect righteousness. But for the time being, we still have to contend with injustice coming from man's sinfulness and Satan's deceit. Part of that injustice is that many still have not heard of their only way to become part of His kingdom. Does that concern you? If so, pray fervently for the unreached peoples this month!

Pray that the Lord will speed the day when His righteousness and justice will fill the earth as the waters cover the sea. Pray that many will understand this Easter season that Jesus did come to take away the sins of the world.

"Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow." Psalms 144:3
Man is nothing! Nothing but a breath that lasts for a moment or a passing shadow. Furthermore, other parts of Scripture, especially the first chapter of Romans, tell of man's evil desires and sinful nature. Doesn't it cause God pain to constantly woo the unreached peoples, who are in rebellion against Him? Yes, indeed! But because of His love, His righteousness, and His holy character, God pursues unbelievers so that they may have abundant life just as we, His children do. In order to be righteous ambassadors of Christ, shouldn't we be doing all we can to draw the unreached to Christ?

Ask the Lord how He wants you to pray / give / go to / for the unreached peoples.


"From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind. He watches all who live on earth-He who forms the hearts of all." Psalms 33:13-15
Does this sound like a God who does not care? Does He, who sends us out to give His good news to every people group on earth, not love each one? Yes, this is the same God who sent His Son to die on the cross 2,000 years ago, rise from the dead, and ascend to the Father. What an awesome Savior! Certainly our efforts in the Great Commission cannot "pay" Him back, but they are what we can do to obey Him.

Pray that God will show you how He wants you to serve Him.

"Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world revere Him." Psalms 33:8
The Lord wept at Lazarus' tomb (John 11:35). He wept over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41). He suffered distress of spirit over men's hardness of heart (Mark 3:5). Do you think He is grieved today because "all the earth" does not fear Him, that "all the people of the world" do not yet revere Him? He bore sin's penalty-death on a cross-for each one! Think of it-the only Son of God being brutally beaten and killed a merciless death so that God the Father can show mercy! But millions do not know this. How that must grieve Him! Does it grieve us as well?

Pray that the Holy Spirit will make you more sensitive to His yearning for the unreached. Pray that He will help us to respond to His command to go and tell the good news of His salvation.

"I said, 'I will confess my transgressions to the Lord'-and You forgave the guilt of my sin." Psalms 32: 5b

As we prepare our hearts for Resurrection Sunday, let us think about why it was necessary for Him to be slain. We know that He has victory over death and the sole power to forgive sins because of His death and resurrection. Because of His sovereignty and mercy, He has both the power and the will to forgive sinful mankind. But what can others do that don't know of His saving power? Will it be enough on the Day of Judgment for them to call on the mercy of Buddha or the power of Shiva? Is it right for us to enjoy His forgiveness while others look for truth and righteousness in the wrong places?

Pray for the unreached nations to know that only Christ has power to forgive sins.
source: www.global-prayer-digest.org/ <-- GO HERE & pray EVERYDAY!! http://www.vision2025.org/blankbook_clicktorelease.html <--GO HERE EVERYDAY TO release penny's for God's Word to be translated in every language still without His Word!http://thebiblesite.org/ <-- GO HERE EVERYDAY TO provide your suffering brothers and sisters with a portion of God's Word for free!
http://www.prayerguard.net/ <-- GO HERE & pray for an unreached people group EVERY HOUR!!
http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1 <-- GO HERE EVERYDAY & click to help world hunger~!