praise & pray for Ken [TW]

had lunch with Ken today - he's a few weeks fresh in Brisbane!

after enjoying a cheapskate lunch ($6 for the 2 of us!) Father in His goodness brought an opportunity to share the gospel! (over a juice drink he bought me! :)

"i don't believe in religion because i'm scared of hell"

-- Ken

"religion is good for near the end of life, so i'll think about it then"

i sensed Father had obviously been doing some work in Ken's heart such that he'd make those satements above!

i still took Ken through the commandments, ... still practicing to share the gospel CORRECTLY~!(see www.sohmer.net/wotm_only_way.php <-- DO take the time to read it -- THE ETERNAL DESTINY OF SOULS MAY REST IN IT!

in the end, he seemed to understand his guilt, and his need to repent & trust Jesus before he neared the end of his life!

:D PRAISE! :D
:D blessing us with time together & helping me to learn from my mistakes! -- :D bringing me across that article i linked to above in good timing!
:D we're not manufacturers of God's Word & Gospel.. just distributors!
:D many of Ken's friends in Taiwan are christians!

*PRAY*

* Holy Spirit would bring conviction of sin to Ken's heart, that he would flee to The Only Saviour before it's too late!

* open Ken's blind eyes to see Jesus!

* open Ken's deaf ears to hear Jesus!

* breathe life into Ken's dead soul so he can live to glorify Jesus!

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

pray for the unreached!

"He (the angel) said in a loud voice, 'Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship Him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.'" Rev. 14:7
Notice the finality of what the angel said. His judgment has come! This is a final boarding call for anyone who would heed the word of God! Since we don't live in the very last days, we must use our time wisely in taking the Truth to the nations before they must face the judgment. There is an analogy we can use for the Halwais, a people who sell sweets throughout India. Though God's wrath is terrible beyond imagination, there is a sweetness in His glory.

Pray that many from the Halwai community will taste the sweetness of the Lord and make Him the center of their lives.
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~!

praise & pray for Yuji, Chiko, Aiki, Genki, Taka, Yuki, Minhee, Toshi, Seki, Neil, Young, Owen, Mina, Thomas, Kevin, Charlie, Joy [JAP, KOR, TW]

those i met through English corner today! [discussed an Inconvenient Truth-- from global warming to sin!]

:D PRAISE! :D

:D bringing them here!

:D Yuji, Chiko, Aiki & Genki are the first Christian Japanese family i've met! how special they are!!]

:D The God we've offended [the most "inconvenient" truth!] has made a way in His great love for us to have life through forgiveness of sins by Jesus' sacrifice!

.. in hindsight, i failed to capture the opportunity to urge them to ask God for forgiveness as the only way of dealing with this most "inconvenient" of all truths! :"(

:D the good conversation He let me have with Kevin sharing the answer to our last discussion Qn: "In pairs, what is one thing you have done wrong this week? What can you do about it or what have you done about it?"

*PRAY*
* stir up a hunger in these precious souls to want to know The One who Alone is worth trusting in life!

* we'd see these dear lost souls in heaven, loving Jesus much because they received revelation of Jesus, along with others who're there because they didn't keep the treasure of His Kingdom to themselves!!* 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 '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 :)

* raise up laborers for the harvest to help in these English Corners, especially for the new one starting in the Gold Coast!

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

rejoice with me & pray for me~!!

Firstly, I do apologize if my last update stumbled anyone... I’m sorry & confess my foolishness & stupidity :(
Please forgive me!!!!!!!

However, praise God!!! – I can truly *feel* that your prayers have made impact!

. . . always valuing your prayers as we journey on toward HIM! :)definitely not an easy journey but ever exciting =)

if you have any qns / comments, please let me know!
Or just ask~! my life's an open book ;)
:D rejoice with me! :D :D the wonderfully encouraging & supportive responses from many of you to my last update that made my ‘coming out of darkness into the light’ an incredibly liberating thing!
:D the effect this has had on my life –though the temptation to ‘dive’ back into this long-struggled-with-sin is still there, the desire to flee from temptation to Jesus is much stronger!!
OH! BLESSED FREEDOM!
:D providing a free bus trip! :) [even if it meant missing the bus i originally intended to catch!]

:D pouring out super-lavish grace through loving, supportive friends & family ~! [i.e. YOU!] ..
*PRAY*
* my all-consuming desire would be to *know* Christ, the power of His resurrection & the fellowship of His sufferings!
* i’d leave my sinful past dead & buried with Jesus!
* i’d not waste more time / money on this “earthly hut” that is my body but focus on His Kingdom & all that’s eternal!
* keep freeing me from the idol of food that I’ve made! >_<
* my heart would be fully sold out to Jesus!
* Jesus would be my magnificent obsession [see link to awesome music video with lyrics at bottom]
* the driving force of all i do would be to please Jesus!

- my mind has been way TOO overactive in my sleep. ie I keep dreaming I’m running / falling / riding / doing all sorts of other activities stuff .. would love prayers for a more rested mind when I’m sleeping!
* i’d know what is THE MAIN THING that He wants me to do & *FOCUS* on that! .. i have been feeling for too long I’ve been neither here nor there, involved in all manner of “good” things without actually being still long enough to ask Father if they were actually the things HE wanted me to commit to. :(

* keep healing my soul & mind that’s been polluted by lies for so long. I can see He’s working :D
* all of my self would be lost in order to gain Christ!

~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!!
Watch / listen to the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXVCqd3HDDM
Magnificent Obsession Steven Curtis Chapman

Lord, You know how much I want to know so much In the way of answers and explanations I have cried and prayed And still I seem to stay In the middle of life’s complications All this pursuing leaves me feeling like I’m chasing down the wind But now it’s brought me back to You And I can see again
Chorus: This is everything I want This is everything I need I want this to be my one consuming passion
Everything my heart desires Lord, I want it all to be for You, Jesus Be my magnificent obsession

So capture my heart again Take me to depths I’ve never been Into the riches of Your grace and Your mercy
Return me to the cross And let me be completely lost In the wonder of the love That You’ve shown me
Cut through these chains that tie me down to so many lesser things Let all my dreams fall to the ground
Until this one remains You are everything I want And You are everything I need Lord, You are all my heart desires You are everything to me You are everything I want You are everything I need I want You to be my one consuming passion Everything my heart desires Lord, I want it all to be for You I want it all to be for You, Jesus Be my magnificent obsession!!

praise & pray for Jacob [CHI]

had lunch with Jacob yesterday - this guy is mad keen on English, and i mean *mad*!

in the course of our conversation Father used my blessed gift of yawning to stir the conversation to Him!

Jacob thought i was yawning because i was tired - and i was - having gone to bed the night before and trying unsuccessfully to sleep, i got up & talked to Father, and finished re-reading an awesome book "The work God blesses" by Oswald J Smith - talk aout convicting stuff!

still didn't feel sleepy [no idea why .. :] so i started on another book in my pile of "to-read" books - "More than a carpentar" by Josh MacDowell - see http://www.josh.org/ :)

i was reading the book before i met Jacob, pulled it out to show him & he showed an immediate interest in it, taking it to read right there & then!

after enjoying a cheapskate lunch ($6 for the 2 of us!) Father in His goodness brought an opportunity to share the gospel! (well, part of it, anyway :)

as i was taking Jacob through the commandments, he kept diverting attention away from himself & talking about some sincere chistian guy he knew .. i kept bringing it back to him & God, we'd move onto the next commandment but again he'd divert! i could sense he didn't get how serious his sin was before God, and so wasn't quite ready for the cross yet .. i always hate leaving such conversations only having gone through the bad news when there is such glorious good news to get to! but i didn't want to share the gospel INCORRECTLY~!(see www.sohmer.net/wotm_only_way.php <-- DO take the time to read it -- THE ETERNAL DESTINY OF SOULS MAY REST IN IT!

:D PRAISE! :D

:D blessing us with that time together & helping me to learn from my mistakes!

:D giving me a copy of "More than a carpentar" for free! Jacob has it now!

D we're not manufacturers of God's Word & Gospel.. just distributors!

*PRAY*

* Holy Spirit would bring conviction of sin to Jacob's heart, that he would flee to The Only Saviour before it's too late!
* open Jacob's blind eyes to see Jesus!
* open Jacob's deaf ears to hear Jesus!
* breathe life into Jacob's dead soul so he can live to glorify Jesus!
* use the book to those ends prayed for above~!
~thanks~!GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY~!!*** ETERNITY WILL SHOW THE FULL FRUIT OF OUR PRAYERS- BE ENCOURAGED!!***

praise & pray for Tanya, Jeremy, John, Jace, Ryan, Ken, Frank, Juhan, Youngha, Niro [SeRBi, KOR, TW, JAP]

those i met through English corner yesterday! [discussed Faith- ramadan]
:D PRAISE! :D
:D bringing them here!
:D The God we believe in is a Faithful God!!
:D giving us increasing favor with the The City Library :)

:D Gold Coast English corner is growing!
:D the Good dinner time afterwards, answering more good Qns Niro brought up, which easily led to talking about the sacrifice Jesus made for us!

*PRAY*

* stir up a hunger in these precious souls to want to know The One who Alone is worth trusting in life!
* we'd see these dear lost souls in heaven, loving Jesus much because they received revelation of Jesus, along with others who're there because they didn't keep the treasure of His Kingdom to themselves!!
* 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 '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 :)
* raise up laborers for the harvest to help in these English Corners, especially for the new one starting in the Gold Coast!
~thanks~!GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY~!!*** ETERNITY WILL SHOW THE FULL FRUIT OF OUR PRAYERS- BE ENCOURAGED!!***

"Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake." Rev. 8:15
Yikes! The bowls of incense we are filling up will come hurling down upon the earth in such a way that there will be catastrophic change. The earth will never be the same after the prayers of the saints fill the golden bowls. Are you ready for that?

Pray that as India Gospel Outreach workers spread out throughout Uttar Pradesh that they will teach not only about the loving-kindness of Christ, but also of the wrath to come. Pray that God will prepare thousands of hearts to repent and turn to Him.
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~!

pray we'd share the gospel CORRECTLY~!

precious ones, came across this article:
http://www.sohmer.net/wotm_only_way.php -- DO take the time to read it -- THE ETERNAL DESTINY OF SOULS MAY REST IN IT!

i'm convicted for too long i've proclaimed a "half gospel" - going light on the law, sin & judgment parts to get to the grace, mercy & salvation parts :"(

... if i'm just following a sad modern trend away from the biblical & historical standard, i'll only be contributing to the numbers of unconverted, unsaved & 'lukewarm' who think they're ok with God when in reality they are NOT. :(
excerpts:
"People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell... Let us expound and beat out the Ten Commandments, and show the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of their requirements. This is the way of our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount. We cannot do better than follow His plan. We may depend on it, men will never come to Jesus, and stay with Jesus, and live for Jesus, unless they really know why they are to come, and what is their need. Those whom the Spirit draws to Jesus are those who the Spirit has convinced of sin. Without thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world."-- J. C. Ryle

There is a dear Christian young woman in my community who was recently diagnosed with Leukemia. Since her diagnosis, she has endured painful chemotherapy, a barrage of drugs, a large drive was held to find a marrow donor for her, and she has to live in a germ-free environment for a year or more.
Imagine walking up to her and saying, "I have a proposition for you. I'd like you to undergo radiation therapy that will not only nearly kill you, but send you to great nausea, vomiting, and give you unattractive hair loss. Then I want you to go into debt to pay for a whole host of prescription drugs, each with their own side effects. I also want you to inconvenience your community by hosting a bone marrow drive where people must give up their time to have tissue samples given. Finally, I want you to live in an ultra-clean environment, so you can't even hold your children for a year or longer."
The chances of her buying into this plan are 0%!
But that's because you left out a small detail, which is this: you have Leukemia, and unless treated, you'll certainly be dead shortly.
That knowledge makes all the difference! In fact, that knowledge makes her THANKFUL that she can do all the steps outlined above!
In the same way, how ridiculous is it for Christians to tell sinners that they must repent of the sin they enjoy and believe in a man they don't even know. "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness" (1 Corinthians 1:18).
Ah, but show the sinner that he is seen by God as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and that "it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27) and that God commands "all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness" (Acts 17:30-31), then it all makes sense!
The gospel makes no sense if we do not first present the Law!

Using the Law of God to humble self-righteous sinners has always been the way the church has evangelized. It was only in the 19th and 20th Centuries that many in the church stopped majoring on righteousness, judgment, and sin, and changed the message to peace, fulfillment, and happiness. If you ever find yourself saying something like, "You have a god-shaped hole in your heart that only Jesus can fill" then you've likely fallen into the 19th/20th Century human-centered false gospel. Please return to the gospel of "law to the proud and grace to the humble" that the church has always used!

may we be faithful to tell this lost & dying world the only message that can truly save!

pray for the unreached!

Dom People In India
* MUCH MORE about this people group at the JOSHUA PROJECT
The walls of Ramea's hut were once again stained with the fresh blood of a pigeon, but still she felt the weight and burden of her guilt. Animal sacrifices to a god who never answers are useless, she mused. But even if there were another way, Ramea would never hear about it, for her husband and all her neighbors are equally committed to serving gods or ancestors who never seem to answer.
As a Dom woman, there is no hope for anything else other than the crushing weight of her spiritual darkness. As she leaves in the morning to supplement her husband's income by begging, she is met with reminders of her second-class status: her lack of education, lack of status or respect in the community and no chance for her outside the Dom community.
A welcome relief from the realities of daily poverty for the Dom people is their artistic expression through music, poetry and dance. With a rich oral tradition, and a desire to recount the history of their people, there is never a lack of stories to tell.
Christ alone can bring true value and worth to a people, and specific communities like theirs require specific ministry by people committed to representing Christ where He is not being worshipped.

Pray for the Lord to thrust forth His representatives to show the Dom people the way to the final sacrifice, that of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.-MB

"And they sang a new song: 'You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because You were slain, and with Your blood You purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.'" Rev. 5:9b

The Dom people of India are noted for two things: Their low status, and their artistic abilities. Some of them deal with the dead, even dead cows, a sacred animal to the Hindus. Yet, Wikipedia notes that they have a "rich oral tradition and express their culture and history through music, poetry and dance." Could it be that we will one day find Dom people gratefully rejoicing in the blood that was shed for their sins?

Pray that this day will come soon!

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~!

praise & pray for Sean, Tony, Vicky, Niro, GiHo, Takeshi, Shirin, Belinda, Liang [KOR, TW, JAP, IRA]

those i met through English corner yesterday! [discussed Sleep - Dreams]

:D PRAISE! :D

:D bringing them here!

:D Father is the source of all rest!

:D Father wants people from ALL NATIONS to come & be glad in Him!

:D giving us favor with the The City Library wo've generously provided another room (the theatre) because of the student numbers.....which is wonderful... however we now have 90+ students coming!! anyone in Brisbane would like to come and help teach?? please prayerfully consider it!!

:D Gold Coast English corner is growing!

*PRAY*
* stir up a hunger in these precious souls to want to know The One who Alone can give them True rest!

* Niro asked the question "if people haven't heard of Jesus, will they go to hell?"

inon reflection, i didn't answer the Qn well. :"(

what i should've done was turn the question back on him -- he's heard the gospel [thankfully, was able to share it with him a few weeks ago!] will he trust in Jesus to escape the oming wrath?

* we'd see these dear lost souls in heaven, loving Jesus much because they received revelation of Jesus, along with others who're there because they didn't keep the treasure of His Kingdom to themselves!!

* 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 '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 :)

* raise up laborers for the harvest to help in these English Corners, especially for the new one starting in the Gold Coast!

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

pray for ladies!

Prayer Topic for: Aug 9, 2009
Restoration Ministries / Lady Care
"One of the greatest deceptions the women and girls have is that they can walk away from prostitution anytime they desire. Even if the women are not pimped, demonic hooks keep drawing them into this behavior. Only the power of Christ can truly set them free." Dorothy, from U.S.-based Restoration Ministries, was sharing with a group of women at her church. She said, "One of the greatest things that helped me in my work with women who are trapped in the slavery of sex trafficking and prostitution was when I had the opportunity to work alongside Christian workers with Lady Care Ministries." Lady Care is a reconciliation ministry that offers limited health care, crisis intervention counseling and education for women who are or have been involved in prostitution.
Prostitution is illegal in India, but it is not hard to find women for sale. When offered a bribe, corrupt politicians and police officers overlook it. Poor Indian families sometimes sell their daughters to pimps and brothels. Women in India often are victims of abuse since their society places them in a lower status.

Pray that ministries such as Lady Care and Restoration Ministries will be empowered by God to minister to thousands of women and children. Pray that more Indian men who follow Christ will be living witnesses of God's instruction in the treatment of their wives as found in Ephesians 5:25, that they are to "love their wives as Christ loved the Church."-PD


"I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling." Rev. 2:21
It's very easy to see God as harsh when you read verses like this in Revelation. But here is one of the verses that demonstrates God's patience with those who desperately need to repent. God is patient with those who worship false gods, but there will come a day when His patience will end. And ultimately, there needs to be a willingness to repent. God has given us a free will.

Pray that ministries like Lady Care will turn many hearts to the One whose heart is loving and patient, yet loves His bride, the Church, more intensely than any husband loves his wife.

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~!

rejoice with me

dad bought me a new quilt inlay yesterday .. when i didn't know it, he put it in my existing quilt cover - it was sooo nice & soft & warm when i went to bed last night .. i felt sooo incredibly well loved, quite literally resting in a cover of love!

:D Father is UNCEASING in His goodness toward me!!

may our eyes ever be opened to see, acknowledge & appreciate the many many ways He expresses His love to us every moment of every day!

"Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to him as a living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That's the most sensible way to serve God.
Don't be like the people of this world, but let God change the way you think. Then you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to him." Rom 12:1-2

rejoice with me & pray for me~!!

There’s been a growing discontent in me at the status quo of living in lies & superficiality, in my own life & all around me.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find. Rom 7:18

Coming out of the dark & into the light! . . .

This ‘update’ might be shocking to some, “too much information” to others, but I find the hunger in my heart to be real, authentic and genuine is just uncontainable!

i really don’t mind if i lose your respect, or if you look down on me & apply all sorts of shameful labels on me as a result of my honesty.
I realise now that I can only ever enter into deep, genuine relationship with Father and those He puts around me if i step out of the darkness of shame I’ve hidden in for too long & step out into the light to be honest & transparent!

… so here goes ..
I’m so sick of being unreal, projecting or trying to keep up an image of who i am that’s simply not true.

The fact is, for too long, i’ve been struggling alot with sexually lustful thoughts.
Which has sent me down over & over again on the slide to masturbation, only to end up in a pit of crushing shame & guilt to despair again & again such that i can only cry out “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Rom 7:24)

.. yes, if it were not for the God’s amazing grace, you’d see my face / name in newspapers making headlines for all sorts of wicked, filthy sex crimes. :(
Disturbing I know, but such is the harsh reality of the truth. :”(

I’ve seen it played out in my mind too many times to ever think it’d be impossible for me to fall as so many others have :(
I’m so sick of trying to ‘be pure’ only to fall flat on my face time after time.

O, how I need Jesus!
I really, really need HELP!!
O, To know what it means to be “crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. Gal 2:20

Just listened to this podcast on ‘Honest To God’ & found it really helpful ...
listen here: http://thegodjourney.com/audio/2009/090710l.mp3

Perhaps the reason why i struggle relationally is because I’m simply not honest.
Paranoid [i.e. stupid] fears of total loss of friendships if the naked truth were known about me have subconsciously driven how I relate [or don’t relate!] to people in life.
Enough precious life has been wasted in the dark...
Now is the time to enter into the light to live free & live full!

So if by this point you haven’t given up on me as a hopeless sex fiend, thank you :D
. . . always valuing your prayers as we journey on toward HIM! :)

definitely not an easy journey but ever exciting =)

if you have any comments, please let m know!
Or have any Qns, just ask~! my life's an open book ;)

:D thank God! :D

:D being right with God is not dependent on me!

:D He’s at work in me to produce in me the desires and actions that please Him.({Phil 2:13) .. even though i don’t always see / feel this, it’s true regardless!

:D pouring out grace upon grace through loving, supportive friends & family ~! [i.e. YOU!] ..

:D energising me to go further than I expected for THE MOST WORTHWHILE walk I’ve ever be done!
[on less sleep than i desired too!]

:D providing me with a ‘Paul’ relationship [i.e. someone more mature in the faith I can journey with & learn from!]

*PRAY*

* I’d know what it is He wants me to do, not simply following my idea of what’s good or what I think He wants!

* i'd stay in the light to live free & live full, not to run back to the darkness again!

* i'd cooperate with Father in what He wants to do in / through my life!

* the person of Jesus would so captivate me that i'd be transformed to be more like Him!

* i'd live with one aim and one aim only – to glorify Christ!

* i'd stop being pulled away by so many small, trivial, and petty things which waste so much of my time.

* i'd see a Christ that fills me, a Christ that so much greater than me, larger than I can fathom, an indescribable Christ that overshadows, overwhelms, and consumes me through and through!
* i'd keep relaxing into His Love, no more trying, no more resisting!

* keep me trusting in His truth so I’d not keep swallowing whole the lie that I can find goodness apart from Him!

* He’d keep my heart from wandering after idols. [I know I’m super-susceptible to this, I’ve been doing it all my life!]

* i'd faithfully proclaim a narrow gospel because that’s the only gospel there is! [Matt 7:13-14]

* He’d grow me in yieldedness to Jesus as Lord, making me ever softer clay in The Potter’s hands!

* i'd live in the arms of mercy, letting His undying love for me free me & restore my brokenness rather than seeking to live by fear of His judgment or confidence in my performance (or lack thereof!)
* guard me from idleness & letting my eyes & thoughts wander into sin!

* i'd live out my salvation with great seriousness (fear & trembling! Phil 2:12!)

* i'd pour out my life instead of always trying to save it!

* i'd learn what it is to live by faith [faith is spelt R.I.S.K.!]

* keep healing my soul & mind that’s been polluted by lies for so long. I can see He’s working :D

* all my of self would be lost in order to gain Christ!

* grow me out of ‘the ‘Babylon’ religious way of thinking & behaving that’s become so ingrained in me! :O

* keep me wise & discerning in what I eat so I won’t needlessly self-destruct!

* i'd be a free-flowing channel through which to share ALL He’s given me!

~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 Joseph, Kaushik, Dennis, Nin, Clair [KOR, IND, THAI, TW]

those i met through English corner today! [discussed Ekka - parable of soils]
:D PRAISE! :D

:D bringing them here!
:D Father is able to trasform unreceptive hearts, full of worldly worries, into fertile ground for receiving & multilpying His gospel!

:D Father wants people from ALL NATIONS to come & be glad in Him!
:D The City Library has generously provided another room (the theatre) because of the student numbers.....which is wonderful... however we now have 90+ students coming!! If anyone in Brisbane would like to come and help teach please prayerfully consider it!!
:D Gold Coast English corner started off well!
*PRAY*

* stir up a hunger in these precious souls to want to know The One who Alone can give them Truth & Life!

* we'd see these dear lost souls in heaven, loving Jesus much because they received revelation of Jesus, along with others who're there because they didn't keep the treasure of His Kingdom to themselves!!

* 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 '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 :)

* provide more teachers/ helpers to reduce group sizes for better quality time with students or give me better skills in dealing with big groups!!

* raise up laborers for the harvest to help in these English Corners, especially for the new one starting in the Gold Coast!
~thanks~!GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY~!!*** ETERNITY WILL SHOW THE FULL FRUIT OF OUR PRAYERS- BE ENCOURAGED!!***

pray for the unreached!

"He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed." Daniel 7:14
How glorious and how comforting! We know from this verse that God has not given us an impossible commission; there will be some from every nation who will bow their knees to the Lord.

Let's do our part, remembering that our prayers will be answered as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow!

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~!

] praise & pray for Go the Extra Mile!

:D praise! :D

:D putting on such a *BEAUTIFUL* Day for us to walk in!

* all 100+ walkers who took part - funds raised so far= $37,657 AUD = 1,453,560 Indian Rupees!!

[still have 'til Sept 30th to bring in all the pledged funds!]

:D He loves the poor & outcast!

:D the many poor who've found hope & love in the gospel of Jesus Christ!

:D empowering me to walk further than i'd planned on much less sleep than i desired!

*PRAY*
* 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's given us & all His lavish blessings!
* raise up more walkers, supporters & child sponsors for this fundraising event for future years to help break the poverty cycle!

** pray bout sponsoring your own child?** i've got 3! ;)

GO HERE: http://www.walk4charity.com/Qld/sponsorchild.asp

Keep being a channel of His blessings as you live in Fathers affection for you :)