life's SHORT, PRAY HARD!

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2012-01-31T21:38:00.001+10:00

:D the great day spent catching up with Yoshi & some mutual friends at their new coffee shop & over dinner!

.. the stress in his life keeps piling up ..

* use all this stress in Yoshi's life to bring him low & see his need for a Saviour!!

* work out His glory in the life of Yoshi & his loved ones .. take what satan intends to crush, kill, steal & destroy to backfire in satans' face to bring life, healing & blessing in lavish abundance!!!

WAHOO~! WHAT A MIGHTY AWESOME SUPER DUPER INCREDIBLY WONDERFUL GOD WE SERVE~!!

.. discovered from the trauma he's experienced, he's since built his life on a foundation of anger & bitterness (which keeps him from receiving the healing & abundant life Jesus came to bring him!)

... scary thing is he's not going to let go of this foundation ... :(

* pray with me for breakthrough!!

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2012-01-30T12:46:00.000+10:00

would really appreciate prayers for Yoshi as i catch up with him tomorrow - that i persevere in loving him as a person made in God's image, disconnected but desperately in need of relationship with Him! esp. to have the right words to speak into his life at the right time!

praise & pray for Syed [BNGDSH]

2012-01-30T09:16:00.000+10:00

.. met Syed again yesterday after my afternoon walk ..
:D the rain held up for long enough to go for a walk & get home with out getting drenched!
:D giving us a blessed time of getting to know each other!
* give me wisdom & love in being Christ to him - feel lke i have so little to give him [in worldly terms] & he's already offering so much to me ...

* i won't take advantage of him & our new friendship as a means of selfish gain!

* give opportunity in future to share the gospel with him!

* convict him of his sin & his need of a Saviour to save his precious soul!
... i see much "good" in Syed, by human standards. :|

UPDATE praise and pray for ignite conference!

2012-01-28T20:15:00.001+10:00

WOW!! of all the "BLT" conferences I've been to in my many years of conference going, this years' was THE BEST!! .. maybe it has to do with how Papa's led me in the journey ..

...

*especially* if you're a worker, i don't know of anywhere else you'll get such solid, challenging & encouraging & transformational truth on the topic of work, workplace relations & money! i don't know if your church ever deals in depth with those topics but if it doesn't, why not? they occupy such a huge slice of our lives!! make it your aim to come to the next Refresh / Ignite! see www.qcca.org.au

:D rejoice with me! :D
:D revealing to us Who is *truly* worthy for us to give our whole lives to!

:D firing up the new year with a renewed vision of life lived for the One who is worthy of all our worship and service!

:D enabling [most] of us to sleep well throughout the week!

*PRAY*
* we not only be hearers of The Word, but doers!

* use the teaching, discussions, conversations, prayer times, training & all material that got out to encourage, inspire, challenge & mobilise His children to gladly pour their lives out for The One who alone is worthy of our lives!

* empower us to faithfully [and fruitfully!] apply the much we've been given to see much increase for His Kingdom glory!

*fan into a massive, bright burning, consuming fire His Spirit of Revival as His Powerful, Liberating Truth goes out clearly & unashamedly in our lives & His church!

praise & pray for Syed [BNGDSH]

2012-01-24T01:01:00.000+10:00

.. was out walking this arvo in an attempt to gt tired so i'd sleep knowing i have to wake up in 4 hours [!] but it didn't work :O was on the way to my sisters' place to pick mint when Syed cam out to his car .. i greeted him .. was about to walk past but ... God [??] turned me around & i asked where he was from ... we made some small talk ... then his housemates [??] came back, they got talking & i was off to pick mint.

as i was picking mint, i got a prompting in in my spirit to pick some & give it to him. i hadn't a clue whether mint was used in Bangladeshi dishes, but it wouldnt hurt to try ;)

so i picked some, praying he'd still be there as i walked back.

YESSSS! ;)

he was quite delighted to receive the mint, & gave me some free pens from his company in return ;D

strangely enough he said after i walked away from our brief 1st chat, he hoped i would return!

.. must've been God :D

we got talking more, i sense this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship :D

[but i must wary not to take advantage of him as he has "much to offer"].

please pray i'd be empowered to give into his life in ways that would make HIS Name great, seeing HIS Kingdom coming & HIS will being done!! thanks :D

*sigh* .. pray i can finally fall asleep or have 4 hrs of super-hi-quality sleep - got a packed wek ahead at the Ignite conference!

rejoice with me & pray for me!

2012-01-23T13:35:00.000+10:00

My precious siblings in Jesus:

Celebrated & will celebrate a few precious milestones since my last mail & coming up:

:D Celebrate with me! :D
:D 16/1 was the 3rd anniversary since my 2nd accident falling & hitting my head on a brick wall.

:D tomorrow[24/1] will be my 10th anniversary since the brain injury .. I’m 10 years ALIVE!! (truly alive!)

Hehehe.. I should really quit head banging :P

Great nuggets of truth:
Living in the future causes our fears to stand between us and ‘I AM’, who says, ‘Do not fear for I am with you’. He’s the ever- present God!

I AM is the God of today. He simply asks that we trust Him and live throughout today in uncompromising obedience to Him. He asks that we make right choices, with right heart attitudes and motives. This is proof that we love Him. Then His unswerving promise will be ours today; ‘And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose’ (Romans 8:28).

source: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c8bd0c9f1e30d0a87dcb4c085&id=e4b997e5fb&liket=The%20great%20unchangeable%20I%20AM.&likeu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seedsofthekingdom.com%2Fdevotionals%2F1238%2Fthe-great-unchangeable-i-am.php&fblike=fblike-aa0178f6&e=[UNIQID]

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D the revelation He gave me for this year the day after the 1st Sozo basic training night = ‘Transformation’ .. the picture was that of a caterpillar ‘metamorphaeing’ into a butterfly.

WAHOO~! DO IT PAPA!

:D He’s the Great ‘I AM’ - ever able to redeem the past and restore us. Nowhere does He ever call Himself ‘I was’.

:D every potential disaster / fear / worry that could have been real in my life, that wasn’t, because of His restraining hand of grace!!

:D the new track He’s leading me on this year! .. more later ;)

:D tearing the walls down I’ve built around my heart & trusted in for so long, to be set free to love & LIVE!

*PRAY*

I’ll be away at Ignite 24-28th Jan. Please pray!

See http://lifesshortprayhard.blogspot.com/2012/01/praise-and-pray-for-ignite-conference.html

* do encounter course? See http://lifesshortprayhard.blogspot.com/2012/01/update-praise-pray-for-sozo-this.html

* keep growing me to be a good & faithful steward , continuously consulting Holy Spirit for guidance, letting Him train my vision on my ultimate goal – Jesus, the model of stewardship & the prosperous soul.

* keep me living as a lover, embracing those He puts around me ¬ running back to the unreal “safety” of the walls I once hid behind to self-protect against possible pain.

* help me live courageously - journeying into the unknown with a known God! (I’ve wasted far too much of this precious life I’ve been given in slavery to spirits of fear! .. it’s time to live the truth of my freedom!!!)

* I’d be a wise, good & faithful steward in selecting the best phone deal to go on now my contract has expired .. prepaid? contract? need Papa to show me the next week or two whether he'll have me stay in Brisbane for the Encounter Training course or not which would influence my decision :)

:D there's no end of great cheap, high-value deals going at the moment!

.. but at the same time i don't want my decision to be come from a poverty spirit .. :
~thank you~!

What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The Son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D

Please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

"Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle." Missionary C.T. Studd (1860-1931)

UPDATE pray for Richard [KOR]

2012-01-18T20:29:00.001+10:00

thanks for praying~! had a good li'l catch up last Friday :D
he's been having a few nightmares lately .. challenged himself to pray every night before sleep .. enemy's attacks?

i encouraged him to pray for peaceful, restful sleep without nightmares & to grow more connected with God.
pleae keep praying for him ~!
... just two weeks left in Aus ..

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2012-01-18T20:13:00.000+10:00

.. honestly, its very rare that I've felt so good deep inside of me to see someone again!

:D bringing Yoshi back safely from his holiday overseas!

.. wasn't too sure what Holy Spirit's been doing in his life .. seems to be coming under much stress at how key relationships in his life have taken a turn for the worse :"(

some of his loved ones in situations that seem hopeless ..

:D as long as God is, there is hope!

* work out His glory in the life of Yoshi & his loved ones .. take what satan intends to kill, steal & destroy to backfire in satans' face to bring life, healing & blessing in lavish abundance!!!

WAHOO~! WHAT A MIGHTY AWESOME SUPER DUPER INCREDIBLY WONDERFUL GOD WE SERVE~!!

UPDATE praise & pray for Sozo [this weekend!]

2012-01-15T21:03:00.000+10:00

:D wahoo! for the awesome encounter it was with Papa, Jesus & Holy Spirit!

:D the precious revelations given, the healing & freedom that's going to flow to a hurting world as more & more people get equipped with this 'Sozo' tool to bring His salvation, healing and deliverance to a lost, wounded & dying world! to see CAPTIVES SET FREE!

it really piqued my interest in joining their encounter ministry course (see

www.nexuschurch.com.au/bssm-info)

.. would really appreciate your prayers for Holy Spirit leading guidance & confirmation if NOW is the time to do this! ... because it seems like such a "good idea" but is it a GOD idea? ;)

~thanks~!

UPDATE pray for Sho [JAP]+ Cindy [TW]

2012-01-15T15:36:00.000+10:00

.. i met Sho last Friday .. nothing of spiritual matter took place .. it seemed (?!) he brought his housemate along who's been in Aus 2 weeks & was bored ... but quiet ... i wonder why i tend to go quiet in situations of more than a 1-on-1 setting? ... anyhow .. God willing, we'll meet more in the short few months he has left in Aus. he wants to eat KFC .. guess who just put out coupons ;)
pray for wisdom & strategy to best connect him to Papa, Jesus & Spirit!

praise and pray for ignite conference!

2012-01-12T13:48:00.004+10:00

Who or what is worthy for me to give my whole life to?
Is a degree, job, spouse, house or reputation worth shaping my life around?
Come to Ignite 2012 and fire up the new year with a renewed vision of life lived for the One who is worthy of our worship and service!
see

http://www.qcca.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121&Itemid=146

:D the blessing of living in a land with so much great teaching from the bible!

* we not only be hearers of The Word only, but doers!

Delegates:

* everyone who's registered will actually make it to Ignite [no last minute hindrances!]

* That no-one will leave without God's convicting, transforming work through His Word

* protection and safety traveling to and from, and during the Conference

* sweet peaceful rest that will let us get the most of everyday!

Speakers, Strand Leaders, Workshop Presenters

* wisdom, clarity, and faithfulness to God's word as they prepare and deliver their material

* mental and physical strength and stamina through a long week of serving

* the speakers' families in Sydney and Melbourne while they're away with us

Other teams

* all the teams serving in many ways to support this ministry of God's word: the music, cooking, admin and logistics, PA, babysitting etc

* protection from things going wrong, encouragement as they serve, and unity in the Gospel

* use the teaching, training, fellowship & the Gospel For Asia table of materials I’m manning at the weeklong Training conference to encourage, inspire, challenge & mobilise His children to gladly pour their lives out for The One who alone is worthy of our lives!

* empower us to faithfully [and fruitfully!] apply the much we'll be given to see increase for His Kingdom glory!

praise & pray for Sozo [this wewekend!]

2012-01-11T10:17:00.000+10:00

i'll be going for this basic training this Fri & sat.

Sozo is a Greek word translated “saved, healed and delivered”.

The Sozo ministry is a unique inner healing and deliverance ministry in which the main aim is to get to the root of those things hindering your personal connection with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Thus with a healed connection with Father, Son and Holy Spirit you can walk in the destiny to which you have been called. The focus of this training will be on the development of the skills and tools that help people come to a new freedom in God.

Sozo is an inner healing/deliverance ministry. Sozo is simple, fast, Spirit led and effective. Sozo finds issues in minutes instead of years. Sozo helps heal your relationship with God to enable you to fulfil your destiny.
http://www.nexuschurch.com.au/component/content/article/119-training-overview/270-sozo-training

:D for all the aceess we have to many means of healing Papa wants to do in our lives!
* we'd be fully open receptive to all He wants to do in our spirits, soul & bodies!
* in fulfilling our God-made destinies, we'd be HIStory makers to make His Name Great, see His Kingdom come & His will being done!

UPDATE pray for Chris [AUS]

2012-01-08T20:03:00.001+10:00

Chris, a troubled youth who's been coming to RBC lately has had his ugly past come back & haunt him & his sister.
he's now in a life-threatening situation & is so scared he sleeps with a knife nearby!
he's longing to get out of the whole drug world he was once entangled with, but thinks it's too hard to get out.
we serve The God of the impossible!!
let's pray for him to do His specialty with Chris & his sister~!
may many captive souls be set free in Jesus' Name!!
pray also for the warring gangs in the drug scene be turned from enemies of Christ into friends~!

UPDATE pray for Richard [KOR]

2012-01-07T20:48:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying~!

:D giving us a great time together last night & today - he cooked dinner for a few friends + me :) . . . though it felt like nothing of real spiritual significance happened, it was good to just hang out with them & be human ;)

:D he's been joining a bible discussion time last week, looking at the bible ..he's finding it all interesting but feels shy to ask his questions. :D giving me an interpretation for some visions he's had as he's been wanting to experience Jesus & have relationship with Him!
1st vision, a few weeks ago. in his attempt to connect with God, he tried praying out loud for the 1st time.
the 1st thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a spider!
he killed it :O

2nd vision, the morning after - upon waking up, he saw his room door was open, even though he'd closed it before going to bed. ... the 1st time he asked me what it meant i had no idea .. in prayer with The Giver of interprtations of dreams Friday morning, i sensed in my spirit the spider = fear. so in seeking to conect with & experience God, he would face fears. the open door = Papa opening up the door of opportunity to enter relationship with Him. but in order for Richard to embrace this opportunity to enter relationship with God, he'd have to leave his "room" behind .. deny self, lay down his fears, "control" he has over his life, accept that it'd mean death . not immediate euphoria & happyhappyjoyjoy :|

* keep seeking & saving Richard, especially as he goes away next week to be a conservation volunteer in Toowoomba~!

pray for Richard [KOR]

2012-01-07T06:53:00.002+10:00

. pls pray for me to be an instrument of His love to Richard
- meeting him @11am today .. really wanna connect him to JESUS!

rejoice with me & pray for me!

2012-01-04T21:26:00.001+10:00

My dear precious siblings in Jesus:

BLESSINGS to you in the new year!!

:D
may this year be one of growth in intimacy with PapaJesusSpirit!! :)
keep LIVING LOVED AND LOVING!!

.. for anyone who’s ever felt like they were ugly, unwanted, terribly imperfect, UNwonderful .. listen to the truth of this song until it sinks deep into your spirit~!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKQb9228Uiw
- “Meant to Be” by Steven Curtis Chapman

A thought I had as I was eating dinner a few nights ago:

In every bite of food I chew, God lets me taste Love.

In every breath of air I breathe, God lets me breath Love.

In every thing I can see, God lets me see Love.

In every thing I can touch, God lets me touch Love.

In every thing I can smell, God lets me smell Love.

In every thing I can hear, God lets me hear Love.

With every sense my Papa God has given me, God lets me know, I am loved!

I am one happily content man!!!

I have been totally dumbfounded & humbled by how much JUNK I've thrown out as I've been progressively cleaning my room the past few weeks :S [stuff i once thought was useful, precious, even necessary!]

Play song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rl45JnnRSw

I’m looking into the new year ahead, expecting a year of having to face my “giants” [fears], growing in the area of love, which includes putting to death my instinct to avoid pain & suffering which is so very often part of the journey of love.. all the while, resting assured that Papa will send His angels to strengthen me in any suffering to go through it to emerge victorious, looking more like Jesus on the other end!

“Today, if there are what seems like shambles of destruction in your life and hopelessness grips your heart, I pray that Isaiah 61:3 will remind you of the One who owns your life. If we’re willing to yield to His work, He has a plan for beauty and restoration and redemption that is beyond our comprehension. Our Father God is at work redeeming and restoring our lives, every day that we offer them to Him – whether we realise it or not, whether we see the beauty yet or not”
source: http://www.seedsofthekingdom.com/devotionals/1219/redeeming-renovations-.php

Father God, You know my life’s circumstances and that I haven’t received the love that You meant me to have. I want so much to be loved. Would You show me my worth through Your eyes and would You give me Your love. May I experience the fullness of it. I want so much of it that I can freely pass it on to my brothers and sisters, knowing that I won’t lose any for myself. I accept that experiencing Your love is not a one minute event. I’m prepared to grow in it at Your pace and in Your way.

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D reigniting my faith, stirring up my passion afresh~!! .. through an incredible team of young Korean missionaries from Sydney who visited a month ago to partner in the gospel with us here in Brisbane ..they are SOOO *infectiously* PASSIONATE FOR JESUS~!! .. how thirsty I’ve been to hang around such company!!

:D the awesome year of spiritual highlights that filled 2011! (Revelation of my Heavenly Papa going from mere “head” knowledge to heart experience! … opening up my spiritual eyes to be sensitive to Holy Spirit & the whole supernatural realm! … moving me to an incredible [spiritual] family that lives & moves in synch with His Spirit! .. all the inner healing that’s taken place in my spirit, soul & body through key people, courses & events!

:D the great expectations & sweet assurance that as I’ve witnessed His faithfulness in 2011, I will even more in 2012!!

*PRAY*

* show me what He wants me to do, where He wants & when He wants!

* I’d have supernatural discernment to know what’s best from what’s good!

* show me how I can work with Him in what He’s doing & use what He’s given me to build character!

* grow me in relational intimacy with Papa that works out in every area of life!

* I’d live ever ready for the return of my King!

* I’d live as my name is – “GOD is Able to SAVE” & DO THE IMPOSSIBLE! - i am NOT powerless & useless!!!

* I’d learn through constant glad surrender to know The Lord of love in a new way to experience unbroken union with Him!!

*grow me in humility – to be known for who I really am in spite of the consequences!

~thank you~!

What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The Son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D

Please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

"Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle." Missionary C.T. Studd (1860-1931)

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!
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love Aye-bul, Your Friend in Prayer =D

The one concern of the devil

is to keep Christians from praying.

He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion.

He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

We have to stop looking at prayer as the spare tyre in the boot - - and start seeing it as the steering wheel!

-- S.D. Gordon

http://www.global-prayer-digest.org/ <-- great site to pray daily & impact eternity!

AWESOME free book thousands said has changed their lives –

www.gfa.org/freebook .. REVOLUTIONISED my life too!!

UPDATE pray for Richard [KOR]

2011-12-29T09:14:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying -

:D giving us a great time together last Saturday - he even joined my family for dinner :)
:D he's interested to look into the 10 commandments. wow! SALVATION SPRINGBOARD OR WHAT??!! :D
* The Answer who seeks & saves the lost to find Richard's lost soul~!

.. he concluded our time with "i've been getting closer to Jesus"
* arrange another meeting time & wok in his conscience as we look ast God's law, to see his desperate need for a Saviour~!

UPDATE pray for CHRISTmas Sleep Over Party

2011-12-27T09:27:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying - had an awesome time~!

the weekend was great ^.^.
had a VERY blessed & encouraging time!!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D Joyce, who last year remembers hearing stories of God changing the lives of Christians, this year was a Christian telling people of how God has changed her life~!!

:D the powerful skit that communicated the Good News of Jesus so well~!

:D getting me through despite a gross lack of sleep!

* PRAY*
* keep working in the spirits, souls & bodies of all who came & witnessed something of the awesome Life & Love of Jesus, to woo their lost souls back Home to Father~!

praise & pray for Richard [KOR]

2011-12-23T15:19:00.000+10:00

:D i've been enjoying journeying with Richard a s he's been asking the BIG Qns of life ..
meeting him tomororrow afternoon, then he's joining me for RBC's Christmas eve service, then the CHRISTmas sleepover party Christmas day!
please pray~!
*PRAY*
* The Answer who seeks & saves the lost to find Richard's lost soul~!

.. he concluded our time last night with "i think i'm getting closer to Christianity"

i encouraged him to get closer to Jesus .. not a "thing" or religion but a PERSON!

he's heard many testimonies of people experiencing Jesus .. wants it for himself too.

* Spirit work to reveal Christ to Richard!

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2011-12-21T12:30:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying - had an awesome final few hours of the year withhim before he flew off!!
:D rejoice with me! :D

:D the incredible way He's grown our friendship this past year - he wrote me an awesomely encouraging letter!!

:D the gift i gave him [a pulling cart from Gospel For Asia's Christmas catalog] inspired him to [indirectly] give to them too! give the best gift of all this CHRISTmas - the opportunity for many who still wait to hear the Good News of Jesus and His Love to finally hear the Good News of Jesus and His Love! :) :D =D 8D XD
see - http://www.gospelforasia.org.au/christmas_catalogue.php

:D the spiritual progress that's happened - Papa is drawing Yoshi closer to Himself!!!

*PRAY*

* help Yoshi's interactions with people while he's overseas not confirm his fears,

* help Yoshi to clearly communicate wht he needs to communicate with important pople in his life.

* arrange His True disciples to keep rubbing shoulders with him, to connect Yoshi to Jesus!
* keep pursuing Yoshi, and all precious souls who would be forever lost unless they turn from themselves, obey the law of love & give themselves to Him who is Love Personified!!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

how about for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

pray for Chris & Dylan [AUS]

2011-12-20T12:07:00.000+10:00

met Chris & Dylan on Sunday, who've had tragic upbringings .. :"( .. they're "giving church a try" to see if it'll meet their needs in a way drugs / the world hasn't met.

please pray for Papa, Jesus & Sarayu will very powerfully meet their deepest needs & set them free from the strongholds of self, sin & satan that hold them in slavery!!

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2011-12-20T11:58:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D thank Papa for the incredibly consistently beautiful days He blesses us with, to rest & enjoy His Creative beauty!! :D

:D he's started "praying to The Lord" !! though he thinks He's not received any answers ... ;)- i'm having 1 last catchup with Yoshi today @ 5pm before he jets off overseas for a month .. pls pray!

*PRAY*

* open Yoshi's eyes to the True all-satisfying beauty & desirability of Jesus, that will far surpass all bad images / reflections of Christ through false disciples !!

* arrange His True disciples to keep rubbing shoulders with him, to show Yoshi the above!

* keep pursuing Yoshi, all Japanese, and all precious souls who would be forever lost unless they turn from themselves, obey the law of love & give themselves to Him who is Love Personified!!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

how about for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

pray for English Corner CHRISTmas party!

2011-12-19T21:38:00.000+10:00

tomorrow night [20/12] English Corner is having their Christmas party!

7 Hampstead Road, Highgage Hill from 6.00 pm.

Bring a $5 gift for Secret Santa and $5 for Christmas dinner

Hope to see you there!

please pray for Divine appointments - connections & conversations that'll make this CHRISTmas a truly LIFE-GIVING CHRISTmas to those yet to receive the CHRIST who was sent as God's gift to ALL NATIONS!!!

praise & pray for Richard [KOR]

2011-12-17T08:08:00.000+10:00

Richard's recently been asking the BIG Qns of life .. have met him a few times the past couple of weeks to go through John Blanhard's "ultimate quesions" booklet .. whch is proving good for his English study too ;)
* The Answer who seeks & saves the lost to find Richard's lost soul~!
.. he concluded our time last night with "i think i'm getting closer to christianity"
i encouraged him to get closer to Jesus .. not a "thing" or religion but a PERSON!
he's heard many testimonies of people experiencing Jesus .. wants it for himself too.
* Spirit work to reveal Christ to Richard!
.. we'll see each other next Tuesday at an English Corner christmas party .. then meet for our next session Christmas eve ;) please do pray for us~!

pray for REVIVAL~!!

2011-12-14T21:08:00.000+10:00

every moment spent with our AWESOMELY PASSIONATE & INSPIRING mission team from New Life community Church has been a HUUGE encouragement! surely Papa sent these agents of revival 'for a time such as this' !!

... see

www.facebook.com/pages/New-Life-Community-Church/167099019973607

how will a lost & dying world ever come to know The Powerful Life & Love of Jesus when His followers are letting the toxic rot of judgmentalism, hatred & disunity spread like cancer in His Body?!

so Papa raised up a young brother with REVIVAL fire burning in his heart to stir us up to hunger & thirst after repentance that leads to revival that ends in reformation!!

i challenge you as he challenged us to pray "God, give me revival or let me die!!"

... because i don't want to live with mediocrity, lukewarmness, compromise and never see Revival in my lifetime!!

will we live & die without leaving an eternal impact on our families?

will we live & die without leaving an eternal impact on our friends?

will we live & die without leaving an eternal impact on our neighborhoods?

will we live & die without leaving an eternal impact on our communities? [work/school?]

will we live & die without leaving an eternal impact on our world??

i don't know about you, but i don't want to waste my life!

Papa, Jesus, Spirit, please show me how i may partner with you to bring in revival in this generation!

pray for Rafi & Selma [SDAR]

2011-12-10T21:18:00.000+10:00

praying for the outreach with the AWESOMELY PASSIONATE & INPSIRING mision team from Nerw Life community Church [see http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Life-Community-Church/167099019973607]
.. asking Papa for an image of who He wants me to talk to & a Word for them.

He showed me a muslim woman wearing the veil.
that threw me off! ... it's like, social taboo for a man to approach a woman & interact with a woman in public for their culture.
.. and so it was also when Jesus approched the woman at the well! :)
i love it how Papa keeps breaking out of my boxes!! :D
so i alerted the team i was with to be on the lookout for any muslim women wearing a veil ..
.. up & around the mall abit, i felt led to go into the food court.
and there was Rafi! it was like, totally awkward hey, .. can you picture a strange guy going up to a muslim woman in a shopping centre food court with the message of "you have a Father in Heaven who made you and loves you, and He just wants you to know He thinks you're beautiful, precious & a treasure!" .. though it felt so crazy to deliver that, i knew it was what He gave me & i had to be obedient to pass it on .. later her friend Selma came to join her.
we were engaged in semi-dialogue for most of the time before we had brfore meeting the rest of the team to debrief.

.. i've experienced with muslims they really don't let you talk much at all, they are really admirably well trained in being missionaries of their faith!]
oh well, i was just an ordinary, weak, foolish messenger passing on an AWESOME, powerful & wise message!

the ugly reality of how women suffer under the muslim religion is something i pray they can be won out of into the full freedom of His Light, Love & Life!!

please do join with me in prayer for them, and the 1 billion+ muslims who'll forever be lost in their sins .... .. how can they ever have truly live if they never have their sin-disease cured by the perfect sacrifice of God's lamb for them?!

"They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God."
2Corinthians 4:4

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2011-12-07T20:43:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D thank Papa for the incredibly consistently beautiful days He blesses us with, even though it was raining all day .. still, rain is beautiful too! to rest & enjoy His Creative beauty!! :D

:D we got to finish off Christianity Explained! :D

- he wrote on his feedback form that the main thing holding him back from becoming a Christian is 'christians' .. so far much of his experience with those who claim to be "christians" is repulsive /offensive :[ .. so logically, the last thing he'd wanna do is be like them!

*PRAY*
* open Yoshi's eyes to the True all-satisfying beauty & desirability of Jesus, that will far surpass all bad images / reflections of Christ through false disciples !!

* arrange His True disciples to keep rubbing shoulders with him, to show Yoshi the above!

* keep pursuing Yoshi, all Japanese, and all precious souls who would be forever lost unless they turn from themselves, obey the law of love & give themselves to Him who is Love Personified!!
GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

how about for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2011-12-06T21:29:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D Papa is working in Yoshi's life to explore spiriruality for himself!

:D thank Papa for the incredibly consistently beautiful days He blesses us with, to rest & enjoy His Creative beauty!! :D

:D He wants to finish off the remaning couple of sessions of Christianity Explained before he heads overseas in a few weeks :D

*PRAY*

* we're meeting again tomorrow ;D*Jesus The WINNER manifest His victory over Yoshi & shame satan as the loser that he is!!

* give him personal revelation & experience of Papa God's love, that doesn't demand control but frees him to truly live!

* overcome all that holds him back [past bad experiences with "churchians", generational bondages, etc] from truly turning from self & sin, to throw the full weight of his confidence onto Jesus!!

* Yoshi, & many, many others held captive by mental blocks be completely set free -- free to live fully in Christ, and free to live fully for Christ!!!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

how about for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

rejoice with me & pray for me!

2011-12-03T21:04:00.000+10:00

My dear precious siblings in Jesus:

Wow... another year has flown by... and as I look back, I’m simply incredibly thankful!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D the deep spirit, soul & body work He’s done & continues to do in me, uprooting the lies that’ve grown like poisonous weeds, choking His Life & fruitfulness in me!

:D giving me a deeper & more intimate relationship with Him!

:D restoring my broken spirit!

:D bringing my identity away from what I do, back to who I am in Christ!

:D the deep personal revelations from His Spirit He’s given me through various sources!

:D leading me through the journey to manhood & the men’s’ rites of passage!

:D constantly amazing me with AMAZING Grace~!

:D leading & guiding my every step .. to places & people I’d never thought I’d go / belong to .. but He’s The Driver & He knows how to best get me to where He wants me~!

[able people are different from me .. ] yes, I do have an advantage .. even in my disability .. because the greater the struggle .. the more glorious the triumph! - “The butterfly circus”

– watch inspirational 20 minute short film here - www.vimeo.com/17150524

woohoo everyday IS CHRISTmas! .. a cause to celebrate the gift of Jesus & gladly give our lives as a gift to Him!

:D bringing me on a great adventure .. to trade my crippled feet for hinds’ feet, going from the valley of humiliation to the High places of His Kingdom of Love!!

*PRAY*

* I’d stop wasting time broadcasting my weaknesses but focus more on my strengths in Christ!

* show me what it is He wants me to succeed in

* help me not to waste this life ‘playing it safe’!

* I’d keep cooperating with Him to obey the law of life – living to love – giving myself away for others!

* grow me in longsuffering (bearing with acceptance and joy the results of the mistakes and wrongdoings of others.

* Please see http://lifesshortprayhard.blogspot.com/2011/11/pray-for-christmas-sleep-over-party.html

It's a very very special time of year; your Christmas interactions can lead others to wonder about Jesus and His love, how are you going to show the love of Jesus to those who are still in the dark?

~thank you~!

What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D

please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

"Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle." Missionary C.T. Studd (1860-1931)

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!

e_e A-bleh e_e

Have an AWESOME & _glorious_ CHRISTmas~!

The glory of CHRISTmas is a Person.

If you have missed The Person, you have certainly missed the centre,

the meaning, the preciousness, the beauty and the glory of CHRISTmas.

So, will you have a _truly_ glorious CHRISTmas?! :)

NO Jesus, NO CHRISTmas!

KNOW Jesus, KNOW CHRISTmas & know peace, joy & hope :)

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http://www.global-prayer-digest.org/ <-- great site to pray daily & impact eternity!

pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-12-01T15:49:00.001+10:00

.. i had planned to meet Yoshi tomorrow but he's got work ..
pls pray for him .. his teeth have been giving him pain .. pray with me for healing, that God's kindness to him will lead him to true repentance & trust in Him~!

pray for CHRISTmas Sleep Over Party

2011-11-29T13:31:00.000+10:00

... while many Aussies spend christmas with friends & family, many precious international souls our Father has brought here will be lonely & bored over this mega long weekend ..

:D PRAISE! :D

:D Christmas is truly an occassion for people from every nation, language & tribe to TRULY *celebrate*!!

:D the folks at Windsor Road Baptist Church who have such a heart to reach out to the international community by hosting this sleep over party!

*PRAY*

* Christ would be given the supreme & highest place at this sleep over party!

* bring those He wants along to be brought closer to knowing The Gift of Jesus this Chtistmas!

* sovereignly work to allow these precious souls to accept The Gift of Jesus this Christmas & pass it on to others yet to receive Him!

* The Son of God would rise & shine especially in those yet to receive a revelation of our Long-Awaited Saviour now come!

* help JIMS (Jesus Is My Saviour - cool name huh? ^_^) as he coordinates everything for this time!

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

pray for english corners

2011-11-28T14:30:00.000+10:00

in the lead up to this christmas .. many free English conversation classes will be presenting The Real CHRISTmas story .. pray many students come to know Jesus and this be their first real CHRISTmas!

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2011-11-25T21:04:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D the life he shared with me & giving me helpfully challenging words as needed in his spiritual confusion!

:D thank Papa for the incredibly consistently beautiful days He blesses us with, to rest & enjoy His Creative beauty!! :D

:D He's got Fridays off this month, so at least we have a little more consistency in our meetings ;)

- i can sense there's a real war raging in the heavenlies over him. may Jesus The WINNER manifest His victory over Yoshi & shame satan as the loser that he is!! XD

*PRAY*

* give him personal revelation & experience of Papa God's love, that doesn't demand control but frees him to truly live!

* overcome all that holds him back [generational bondages, etc] from truly turning from self & sin, to throw the full weight of his confidence onto Jesus!!

* Yoshi, & many, many others held captive by mental blocks be completely set free -- free to live fully in Christ, and free to live fully for Christ!!!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

how about for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2011-11-19T20:47:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D keeping spiritual things on Yoshi's mind even though he doesn't really have the headspace for it in his lifestyle!

:D another incredibly beautiful day to rest & enjoy His Creative beauty!! :D

.. although it doesn't seem like he's really made any progress closer to Christ ... i'm still patiently awaiting the breakthrough! please !PRAY! with me that
* Yoshi be won into Jesus' love!
*PRAY*

* supernaturally awaken Yoshi to see his desperate need of Jesus, & overcome all his 'discomfort' with thinking about afterlife questions ..

* overcome all his that holds him back from truly turning from self & sin, to throw the full weight of his confidence onto Jesus!!

* Yoshi, & many, many others held captive by mental blocks be completely set free -- free to live fully in Christ, and free to live fully for Christ!!!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

how about for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

praise for Kaji, pray for Richard, Sho & Yoshi [JAP, KOR]

2011-11-17T22:10:00.000+10:00

Japanese missionaries .. a rare & precious jewel in The Kingdom of Love!

:D the precious lunch time i got to share with Kaji [Japanese missionary]

* help him finish his time as a campus missionary in Aus. well, to head into the next chapter of his journey well!

* keep raising up more laborers for the harvest in Japan / for Japanese!

- Richard has many questions about the genuineness of his faith. do pray he keeps seeking The Shepherd for answers!

.. meeting Yoshi in 12-13 hours .. pray I'd keep faithfully pointing him to Jesus!

:D the way He uses death & tragedy to bring precious souls to recognise their need of Him!

:D giving me grace to not walk away from my chat with Sho without sharing The cure for death with him!

* use the recent tragedy in Sho's life to draw him to The Only Saviour from death & enslavement to self!

rejoice with me & pray for me!

2011-11-15T09:22:00.000+10:00

My dear precious siblings in Jesus:

what a wonderful Shepherd we have who leads & guides us from the valley of humiliation to The High Places of His Kingdom of Love!

Some food for thought: "Hebrews realize that whenever a God asks a person to do something, He's already done it. i.e. our ability to love God & others comes out of realizing that God ALREADY, fully & completely loves & accepts us before we do ANY work. Lol lol lol that takes the pressure off. My ability to love God & people rests solely in how I freely drink of His intoxicating love for me. Sounds indulgent right? That's cos it is & it must be otherwise we'll just do things as dead works, devoid of power. We won't be lovers but rather slaves, or maybe robots. Either way there will be no real joy. Lol lol lol that sucks!!! Ive Been there once or twice! HAHAHA"

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D giving me breakthrough from a sinful addiction that has enslaved me for far too long!
:D every moment of this beautiful journey He lets me enjoy & also share with others!
:D The Good News is so good I must not keep it from others!! [but I do … what the . ..??!!]

*PRAY*
* as He brings me to people to journey alongside with, help me to tune into Him, to express His heart in the language of those I’m with!

* as I live in His costly & inconvenient Love, He’d help me to love Him & others in costly & inconvenient ways!

I’ve lived for too long thinking cheap & convenient expressions can still pass for “love” :[

* healing & open doors so I can join Ellel’s young people’s team!

See http://lifesshortprayhard.blogspot.com/2011/10/pray-for-young-peoples-teams.html

* I’d be intentional in sharing Jesus’ story & stop robbing myself of great joy!!! By keeping myself from sharing with silly empty excuses!!

* I’d keep meeting Jesus as I push through my fears

* I’d let His love ooze out of me 'in abundance', IN ALL DIRECTIONS, that the world will know that JESUS lives!

* I’d give up the “power” & “safety” hiding in lies’ promises to me!

* show me how to pour my life out, to see His Divine Revelation increase so future generations can inherit an even greater spiritual life than I had!

* my joy in Jesus would be a cause for accusation!! :D

* show me how to be an incurable fanatic for justice & righteousness! See http://www.nefariousdocumentary.com/

* _please_ give me better sleep at night!! >.< still experience times of being tired & weary but just lying in bed for hours [?] and not actually sleeping . . . sems to be getting better ;D

~thank you~!

What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D

please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!

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love Aye-bul, Your Friend in Prayer =D

The one concern of the devil

is to keep Christians from praying.

He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion.

He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

We have to stop looking at prayer as the spare tyre in the boot - - and start seeing it as the steering wheel!

-- S.D. Gordon

http://www.global-prayer-digest.org/ <-- great site to pray daily & impact eternity!

4 me :)

2011-11-13T20:44:00.000+10:00

just a shorty for now ..
really appreciate prayers for better sleep at night!! >.<
i've still been experiencing times of being tired & weary but just lying in bed for hours [??]
but not actually sleeping . . .
and then in the morning i dont feel like waking up because i'm unrested :[
*argh* .. looking forward to Heaven!!
thank God for whatever strength He does give me to do what i can through the day though :D

praise & pray for english corner camp! [11-13/11]

2011-11-09T09:31:00.000+10:00

yup.. it's on again this weekend .. only i'm not going this time .. but can still support it in prayer!! :D
:D PRAISE :D

:D giving another weekend away with precious souls in the midst of His beautiful creation!

:D all He's going to do in & through the camp!

past students have often remembered these camps as *the* highlight of their time in Australia!)

*PRAY*

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

* bring the students & leaders HE wants to come along!

* He'd arrange Divine appointments & eternally-significant interactions in abundance!

* the Christmas story presented through speech & drama would really sink into the hearts of those who come, to bear much fruit to the Fathers' glory~!

* the Son would rise & shine especially in those yet to receive a revelation of The only Saviour!

* use His children at the camp to show AND tell the gospel in 3-D, living colour!

* strengthen & empower JIMS [leading camp for the 1st time!]
~thanks~! GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY~!!*** ETERNITY WILL SHOW THE FULL FRUIT OF OUR PRAYERS***

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2011-11-07T12:19:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D thank Papa for the incredibly consistently beautiful days He blesses us with, to rest & enjoy His Creative beauty!! :D

:D He's got Fridays off this month, so at least we have a little more consistency in our meetings ;)

- lately he "hasn't had time" to dwell on spiritual issues . . . a whole lot of other things going on in his life & filling up his mind at the mo. :[
.. nobody comes to Papa unless drawn by His Spirit!
*PRAY*
* all the "cares of this life" won't choke out his interest & desire to explore a relationship with Jesus!

* he gets a personal revelation & experience of Papa God's love, that doesn't demand control but frees him to truly live!

* overcome all his that holds him back from truly turning from self & sin, to throw the full weight of his confidence onto Jesus!!

* Yoshi, & many, many others held captive by mental blocks be completely set free -- free to live fully in Christ, and free to live fully for Christ!!!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D
how about for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-11-03T10:36:00.000+10:00

how may i pray for you? i'm meeting Yoshi 2morrow, please pray i'd partner with Papa, Jesus & The Holy Spirit in what HE'S doing!
.. He really needs personal revelation of The Living Lord Jesus Christ!
thanks so much!

praise Jesus for His wadrobe!

2011-10-31T07:14:00.001+10:00

Hand-me-down clothes... they’re my favorite! All my best clothes have been given to me, and they seem to last longer than any I’ve gone out to buy. I wore Jack Wang’s left-behind clothes to a baptism today.. Iris & Sherry recognized them as Jack’s & called me Jack. What a compliment! ;) It made me think about how, to a certain extent, wearing someone else’s clothes gives you their identity. As those trusting in The Perfect work of God’s Son & King, Jesus Christ, and been immersed into His death & resurrection, He gives us His very best “clothes”!!

pray for Young Peoples' Teams!

2011-10-28T10:39:00.003+10:00

10 days later & i i've not heard from Ellel India yet but The Grange & SpringHill [WA] both advise it'd be better for me not to join the YPT given my health concerns .. :S

.. but, i'm still keen to join!!

so i'm looking into going to their next trauma / healing retreat?
or maybe i'm chasing a "good" idea thats not yet a GOD idea?!

.. appreciate your prayers~!
an exciting opportunity to join the Young People's Team with Ellel ministries has been brought to my attention! :D
more info here: http://www.ellelministries.org/india/support/ypt
... this is the same ministry i joined a short course eaerlier in the year with - see

http://lifesshortprayhard.blogspot.com/2011/05/rejoice-with-me-pray-for-me.html

i have hesitations about joining, (health related) .. otherwise i'm all-keen to join!!
the Qn is: where to join & when?

am waiting on Papa for His will ..
.. my heart leans toward India .. since I'm storing up treasure in Heaven there [sponsoring missionaries & Dalit children through Gospel For Asia]
see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVqAjZxqPAI&feature=youtu.be
but have been advised by my spirirual big sister thjat it may be most fruitful to join the YPT @ The Grange [UK] .. just thinking of the higher cost of travel etc repulses me :S
but, if this is Papa's way ... :)

do pray with me Papa keeps resourcing Ellel with staff/volunteers/financial/prayer supporters to keep the ministry flourihing all over the world, fulfilling His great Commission!
thanks!!
please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!

would really appreciate prayers for
Papa to open & close the right doors in His timing .. i've made inquiries .. gonna rest in Him to make the way clear ;)

pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-10-27T09:17:00.000+10:00

he's loved. he needs Jesus!
praying for Papa to reveal Himself to Yoshi .. please pray for our time together on Saturday .. to not only be his friend but be part of his befriending Jesus!
thanks!!

UPDATE praise & pray for Sam!

2011-10-24T08:11:00.000+10:00

following on from my post:
http://lifesshortprayhard.blogspot.com/2011/10/praise-pray-for-sam-ind.html
:D rejoice with me! :D

:D it so happens Sam gave his life to Jesus after chatting with pastor Paul 2 weeks ago & has been radically changed ever since!

:D the Life of Christ which now lives in him & through him!!! [SO exciting to watch!!]

:D the joy inexpressible & forgiveness that've flowed freely from him to those around him since Jesus came into his heart!

:D everything Papa has done in his life to prepare him for relationship with HImself!!

i'll be catching up with him on Tuesday .. he's keen on yunderstanding more of what he's reading in the bible ...
*PRAY*

* ground him firmly in the love of Christ!

* grow him daily in the revelation of Christ, that Christ would increase & self would decrease!

*save his wife & their families too!

pray for Sho [JAP]

2011-10-23T07:55:00.003+10:00

... Sho is seeking a dentist open today [Sunday!] .. his teeth hurt ..

pray with me for Dr. Jesus to meet him in his pain!

Jesus, show yourself 2 Sho in his pain. if he can know U better by taking away his pain or taking him through the pain, let it be. i speak LIFE & HEALING 2 him!
... 20 minuts later he replies by sms:
thanks for your pray. they got better now ^.^ and see you soon

[pray for His appointment!]
i replied "JESUS LOVES YOU SOO MUCH!!! you've experienced Jesus 'love & goodness.
He wants to show HImself to you in deeper ways. will you let Him?

... after words: i realised he was referring to his knee which my dad worked on when we met last Tuesday & not his teeth.. thy still hurt.

he'll go into the dental hospital tomorrow to find the problem .. if it needs major surgery,
he'll have to negotiate with his insurance company as he's not covered for dental :[
.. i just talked to him on the phone & prayed for him.

this is all quite new to me, i'm thankful Papa doesn't need me to have a PhD in prayer ministry before i can pray for others ;)

Jesus, show yourself 2 Sho in his pain. if he can know U better by taking away his pain or taking him through the pain, let it be. i speak LIFE & HEALING 2 him!

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2011-10-22T10:33:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D thank Papa again for the *blessed* time we had resting & enjoying Father in His Creative beauty!! :D

:D bringing another brother from RBC around last night to join the conversation & share his story of Papa very real & powerful intervention in his life & his families'!

- i think he's hindered from having relationship with God because he's yet to experience God for HImself. :[

*PRAY*

* he gets a personal revelation & experience of Papa God's love, that doesn't demand control but frees him to truly live!

* overcome all his that holds him back from truly turning from self & sin, to throw the full weight of his confidence onto Jesus!!

* Yoshi, & many, many others held captive by mental blocks be completely set free -- free to live fully in Christ, and free to live fully for Christ!!!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =Dhow about for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

pray for B.A.R.?? [AUS]

2011-10-22T09:26:00.000+10:00

.. i was out last Thursday getting my bus day cap saver [hooray for Translink's bonus for disability concession card holders!!] .. as i normally do as i get off bues, i thanked the driver & told him i really appreciate them ;D
he told me i could be a busdriver too.
i replied, "not with my disability!"
that got into a whole conversation of how i got my brain injury, how i nearly died but because Jesus is alive & still does miracles today, I'm alive :)

he took that as me preaching to him [[?!]
he shared how he thought religion was all man made garbage, to which i fully agreed.

.. he's nearly died from some health issues hmself, but thinks God's not taken care of him

... *sigh* .. we don't wrestle against flesh & blood!
i couldn't seem to find a way to draw his attention to Jesus .. it seems "religion" has really corrupted his whole view of God.

pray with me for him & all who are Bitter. Against. Religion. [i didnt get his name] to be found by The Good shepherd who knows how to seek & save His lost sheep ... and show them who He really is!
GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

pray for Setha [THAI]

2011-10-22T09:13:00.000+10:00

.. following on from my episode of losing money last Tuesday, silly "free money addict me" was at it again yesterday! :S
:D but thankfully, this time there was no loss of money :D XD

.. i was served by Setha, who i must admit was a work of God's art :D [i.e. she was very "pleasing to the eye"] .. Papa knows how to create beauty!! .. praising Him is a great preventative to lust!
she counted the right amount but entered in $1000 less than the total into the system.

:D thankfully, Papa let me notice before i left the shopping centre & she corrected it with much apology ;P

naturally i'd chuck a spack & change banks for all the mony i've "lost" with them .. but i decided against it ;)

... so i left her with a "women only carpark" gospel tract ;) .. if Papa can keep using my ability to get free money yet lose money in the process to help bring a lost son or daughter home to Him, then i figure it's worth it ;)

please pray with me for the salvation of Setha, her family & her people!!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

pray for Theresa [AUS]

2011-10-22T09:00:00.001+10:00

i was going about getting my EFTPOS cashout bonus in the city on Tuesday ... when i got to the bank to deposit it, it was $50 short
[ARGHGHGHGH NOT GAIN!!!!]
.. i was served by Theresa who was quite friendly, helpful & very apologetic about it.

i dont know how i keep losing money doing this

.. thinking maybe it's Papa's way of telling me to stop wasting my time & energy juicing my special account for all the free money i can get :P
but i left the encounter with Theresa on a friendly note, and gave her a $1,000,000 gospel tract ;)

.. if Papa can use my ability to get free money yet lose money in the process to help bring a lost son or daughter home to Him, then i figure it's worth it ;)
please pray with me for the salvation of Theresa & her family!!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

rejoice with me & pray for me!

2011-10-19T21:32:00.000+10:00

My dear precious siblings in Jesus:

“so many people fail to enter into the wholeness and healing that the Lord longs for them to enjoy, because they’re hanging on to unclean trash, thinking that God wouldn’t want it!

But the truth is, He really does want the bad and the ugly of our lives, as well as what we believe to be good! That way we really can be whole.

“it was the mess that I died for and unless you give it to Me, it will always be your master.” - Peter Horrobin

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D Habitual sin does not need to be a part of my identity anymore after an encounter with Papa, Jesus & His Spirit!

:D I can walk into each day without guilt & despair & wariness of diving into habitual sin that sucks the colors of life out of everything!!

I’ve believed so many lies. .. :D BUT I don’t need to believe them anymore!!

:D I’m loved for who I really am, mess & all!

:D I can be finished holding onto my junk... & give it all to Him, that He’d make whole all that’s broken in me!! =)

:D I’m a new creation in Christ!

:D it’s not my job to change or convince people. I’m free to love with no agenda!!!

*PRAY*

* strengthen me to persist in allowing the old to die and let new growth happen, so I’ll be more fruitful for Your Kingdom!

* I’d stop protecting my sin & pain, hiding it from Jesus, so I’ll know the real joy of what it’s like to be free!

* free me to live to love fully by healing the lie I’ve taken on & lived out for far too long that ‘to be [relationally] close is to be hurt, to be [relationally] distant is to be safe’ :[

* kill my independence!! That I’d wholly depend on His Life, to see with His eyes, hear with His ears, touch with His hands, and think like He does.

* help me live as part of the church Jesus is building that’s all about relationships and simply sharing life.

* help me be open and available to others around me. “His church is all about people and life is all bout relationships we can’t build. That’s His job & He’s the best at it!”

* I’d keep living in the simplicity & purity of a growing friendship with Jesus & those He puts around me!

* help me trust Him with the little faith I do have, and grow in loving people around me with the same love He has loved me with.

* I’d not give up on working through the possible pains of relationship before I’ve even begun!! ;P

* keep me living to give, not to get!!

~thank you~!

What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D

please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!

=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=
love Aye-bul, Your Friend in Prayer =D
The one concern of the devil
is to keep Christians from praying.
He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion.
He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

We have to stop looking at prayer as the spare tyre in the boot - - and start seeing it as the steering wheel!
-- S.D. Gordon
http://www.global-prayer-digest.org/ <-- great site to pray daily & impact eternity!

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

UPDATE pray for Sho [JAP]

2011-10-19T10:38:00.000+10:00

.. wish i had something spectacular to share ..
but i don't :"(
it's a strange feeling, to be *saturated* in Eternal, Unconditinal, Unbounded Love, and yet to hold it in instead of just overflowing with it to those around me!!

.. as i was out & about yesterday, i felt awkwardly silent at bus stops / on buses ... wanting so much to share His love & Life .. but feeling like my butt was superglued to the ground or my lips superglued shut :"(

***ARGHGHGH!! ***

meeting with Sho didn't *seem* to go anywhere, he injured his knee [again!] last weekend & thought he needed surgery .. i took him home to see my dad, even though he knew he couldnt afford it.
i'm so thankful to have a dad who can heal [using natural therapies] .. whose heart is more to heal than to make money from other peoples' misfortune!
so after treatment, Sho felt much better & pain-free!
he cposted on my facebook: "thanks bro, for today!!"

i replied: "my pleasure mate .. i pray one day you can also join God's family & really be my "bro" ;D

.. pray with me that it be so!!

pray for Sho, Yoshi & Winny [JAP, KOR]

2011-10-18T10:23:00.000+10:00

how may i pray for you? i'm meeting Sho tonight, 4.40pm AUS EST
- appreciate your prayers for us. he needs Jesus! pls pray i partner with The Holy Spirit in what He's doing!
"He must increase in importance, while I must decrease in importance." John 3:30!

thanks so much!

.. then meeting Winny for lunch or dinner this Thursday [20/10] ..
then Yoshi Friday [21/10] all day from 10am?
.. enjoying the journey of knowing Jesus & making Him known!! :)

praise & pray for Peter [AUS]

2011-10-17T12:35:00.000+10:00

:D bringing this lost son back 'home' recently & joining us at RBC yesterday!

:D giving him desire to want to know Him more!

* keep revealing more & more of who He really is to Peter, grow him in His love & to be a True man - a ver like Him!!

praise & pray for Sam [IND]

2011-10-17T12:33:00.000+10:00

"i was directionless in my life but know the best way to live life is by devoting my life for Jesus Christ." - Sam

:D bringing this lost son to join us at RBC yesterday!

:D giving him a desire to want to know all about Jesus!

:D the great chat he had with pastor Paul!

* win Sam into His loving affection for him, a Living Relationship not a life-sucking religion!!!

pray for mormon missionaries

2011-10-14T15:49:00.000+10:00

.. it was a strangely hot spring day, i was waiting for a bus home to escape the oncoming "severe storm warning" looked over to watch for it, a strangely dressed-up guy smiled . i smiled back .. dressing so formally in shirt & tie on such a hot day rang the "cult missionary" bells in my head. ah well, he was also incredibly loved by Papa :)

conversation started, he talked about Jesus & religion, i talked about Jesus who came to bring Life, Liberty & Love through Relationship, NOT through religion that only seeks to control people.

my bus came, left him with a gospel tract. pray for these precious souls who're so deceived that they'd travel the world to convert a soul then turn him into twice as much a son of hell as they are! :S

may The Lamb that was slain for their salvation receive the full reward for His suffering!

UPDATE pray for Yoshi[JAP]

2011-10-11T10:47:00.001+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D thank God for the *blessed* time we had resting & enjoying Father in His Creative beauty!! :D

:D Yoshi wants to have relationship with God!

:D giving us a great conversation on relationship, living, loving & the deadness of religion!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

- he's hindered from having relationship with God because of all the 'religious baggage' in his mind that comes with it ..

*PRAY*

* he gets a personal revelation & experience of Papa God's love, that doesn't demand control but frees him to truly live!
* overcome all his that holds him back from truly turning from self & sin, to throw the full weight of his confidence onto Jesus!!

* Yoshi, & many, many others held captive by mental blocks be completely set free -- free to live fully in Christ, and free to live fully for Christ!!!

.. think i also need to speak to him more about sin, righteousness & judgement next time .. pray for courage to not chicken out on this most essential topic! how about for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-10-09T20:20:00.000+10:00

how may i pray for you? i'm meeting Yoshi @ 10 2morrow, please pray i'd partner with Papa, Jesus & The Holy Spirit in what HE'S doing! thanks so much!

pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-10-05T18:55:00.000+10:00

... we didn't meet today as planned :[
i [intentionally] forgot to take my anti-epileptic meds last night
[and have been doing fine the past ~2 weeks?!]
.. but for some reason last night i think i was on the verge of a seizure .. totally broke my sleep & woke up this morning really sleepeee & weak .. :"(
"oh no, can i still spend the day with Yoshi?"
my heart said yes but my brain said no :[
my spirit urged me to trust Him - He is The Saviour, not me!

. .. though i was more than a little disappointed i wouldn't be able to play my small role in helping to nudge Yoshi towards The Saviour today, i knew i my spirit Papa had better plans for me, and that i could trust Yoshi in His hands :D
.. so do please keep praying with me for His Saving work to be miraculously active in Yoshi's spirit ... i look forward to the next time i'll have the joy of catching up with what His Holy Spirit is doing in in Yoshi's life ;D
stay tuned!

pray for MISSIONARIES from home!

2011-10-05T13:12:00.001+10:00

Presenting the Gospel to someone God loves, somewhere in the world every 2-3 seconds!

Indicated first-time decisions or recommitments to Christ: 1 person every 30 seconds!

a fellow brain-injured brother in RBC http://www.rochedale.org/ told me about this site - www.missionaryfromhome.com .. i LOVE how the siblings @ RBC are SO Kingdom-living!!]

I've just applied to be an online ministry volunteer with them!
talk about redeeming the time i spnd on the computer logged onto the web for MAXIMUM ETERNAL IMPACT!
Pray . . .

* effectiveness of the Gospel presentations.
* people viewing them.
* their decisions and response back to me & others on this online volunteer team!
* God’s wisdom and discernment as we respond.
*we'd address each Visitor’s question or comment to the best of our ability.
.. maybe you could also join the team reaching out to the world from your home!!

I'M EXCITED!! :D :) =) XD =D

Please check out our evangelistic web sites at http://www.globalmediaoutreach.com/

Each dollar contributed to GMO shares the Gospel with three people around the world. Should the Lord lead you to help support this ministry on a monthly basis, your gifts are greatly appreciated and can be made via the Giving Opportunity tab on our website http://www.globalmediaoutreach.com/get_involved/donate.html

We need a growing staff of Online Missionaries! Share the vision, and send them to our website at http://www.globalmediaoutreach.com/
.. pray about encouraging a brother / sister in Jesus to join!

pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-10-03T12:09:00.000+10:00

meeting with Yoshi this Wed [5/10] - covet your prayers for us. he really needs an encounter with The Risen Lord Jesus!
:D i'm increasingly encouraged at how our conversations more naturally go into the spiritual ... evangelism is beautifully unforced! :D

~thank you~!

please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

restoring hope conference 15/10

2011-10-03T07:37:00.000+10:00

... better to get this topic out in the open light because i know far too many of us hide it in the dark ..

the purpose of those who run this conference:

"Freedom from sexual brokenness, not through a method, but a person, the Lord Jesus Christ."

more info see: http://www.libertyinc.org.au/

while sexual brokenness is not *the* biggest issue in my life at the moment, it has been an ongoing problem for far too long & could easily go out of control if i dont get help!

also, i guess this is part of wanting to seriously repent rather than treat my sexual brokenness as a light matter. :[

:D we can know The One who is Truth, and be set free!
:D where The Spirit of The Lord is, there is freedom!

* The Spirit draws people that need to hear this information and be in this environment

* people won't be afraid to come, and clearly understand this is a safe place

* His spirit transform people in mighty ways on the day & afterwards!

* set many captives free from pornography addiction, sex addiction and love addiction!!

* the venue be filled to cover all costs in putting this event on

* the video recording of the speakers goes without technical hitch!

pray for family holiday 7-9/10]

2011-10-03T07:08:00.000+10:00

.. going away on a family holiday this Fri-Sun. it's been decades since our last family holiday!
all of a sudden i feel like a little kid all over again :P
... we'll be staying somewhere in this picture, i think :P

:D praise Him! :D

:D Abba Yahweh wants us to bring *everything* to Him in prayer!
:D the blessed gift of family :D

*PRAY*
* precious, quality interactions that'll encourage & deepen love in our relationships with Abba Yahweh & each other!
* especially treasure prayer for mending of the relationship with my older brother ... for as long as i remmber things have been awkwardly silent in our interactions :[
i long for meaningful connection with him, but am pretty clueless as to how to go about it :S
.. and i fear how i have gone about trying to mend our relationship may have made things worse?!
.. it really doesn't help when i reach out to him but i get no response / a negative response :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
* at very least pray for grace on my part to keep loving him, not always thinking the worst about our relationship & creative ways to bless him!

~thank you~!

What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D
please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

UPDATE pray for Sho [JAP]

2011-10-01T17:16:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

thank God for the good time we had today!! :D

:D got to share at length about who Jesus is & whatHe came to do, he retold me his favorite bible sories he'd heard at other free English classes & was very openly honest in shring his life with me!

* please keep praying with me for Sho & all Japanese people to have a real, personal *revelation* of The Resurrected Jesus for himself -- that'll undo all the damage that's been done by baaad misrepresentations of Jesus by organised religion!! >.<

* may they see the all-urpassing preciousness & worth of Jesus Christ, that 'd they'd leave all their old ways / beliefs behind for good!

* supernaturally work through the miracle of his mothers' 7 year surival since diagnosis with cancer to eternally transform his his whole family!!

* doesn't feel a deep "need" for God as his life is cruising along pretty well, which he thinks is by his own doing .. may God's kindness lead Sho to repentance!
* he's very open & wanting to keep meeting .. may He direct our meeting times & interactions!

.. i trust Father to move as we, His children, pray! :D

pray for Sho [JAP]

2011-09-30T12:40:00.000+10:00

how may i pray 4 u? i'm meeting Sho 2nite, 6pm AUS EST - appreciate your prayers for us. he needs Jesus! pls pray i partner with The Holy Spirit in wot He's doing! John 3:30! thanks so much!

pray for Karthik [IND]

2011-09-30T11:09:00.001+10:00

met @ Garden City busway just now - Hindu frm Hyderabad .. he's named after the hindu god of life ..
pray The Giver of Life Eternal & Abundant finds his lost soul!
he 'respects all religions' .. gave him an eternity tract ..
maybe i shouldn't have bothered talking about religion .. what an absolutely pointless topic! :(

.. he's open to coming along & checking out Rochedale Baptist sometime since he lives near~ish
... pray for good opportunities to input Jesus into his spirit!

rejoice with me & pray for me!

2011-09-29T15:44:00.000+10:00

My dear precious siblings in Jesus:

How long has it been since you last shared the good News of Jesus with someone?

I was challenged by this question through the bible storytelling weekend.

Jesus gave them a command to obey: Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. This is a command, not a suggestion. “Interest in missions is not an elective in God’s university of grace. It is something in which every disciple is expected to major.” (Ironside)

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D keeping me secure in the miracle of His daily delights in me because He made me!

:D everything I’ve ever wanted that Abba, in love, did not give me! :D

simple things in life i thank God for:

* normal bowel motion!

* being able to eat food without it exploding out the other end!

* painful lessons learnt to break bad habits!

* sleep that’s not broken up with crazy running to the toilet!!!

I’m happy :D ~thank You Jesus~!

:D I am NOT just a hurting person destined to live in the broken-ness of my past!!!

:D I am a covenant child of God being made whole and walking into my true destiny!!

:D teaching me more about who I am & my singlehood!

:D I am so much more than just my disability, inadequacies, weaknesses, past failures & future fears!

:D all my “failures” are really opportunities to learn & grow!

:D my greatest wickedness can be redeemed by God!

:D My past mistakes don’t disqualify me, but train me for His high call!

*PRAY*

* help me see interruptions as opportunities and not obstructions (opportunities for Jesus to be at work in so much more than I could have planned for the day to bring life, restoration, dignity, worth and value to someone!

* Help me be able to live each day fully using all of the strength, power and grace that He desires to give me

* boldness to seize every opportunity to share a bible story as His Spirit leads!

[i hold myself back way too much!]

* help me move forward in faith when He calls me to move!

* Help me look beyond the darkness and impossibility and see possibilities in Him and Him alone.

* Help me trust that He is there and will always be there, even if I fail!!

* Help me to desire above all else to walk day by day within the provisions of His covenant blessings.

* lead me the right avenues where i can apply all i've learnt, to encourage God's people & share Him with those still outside his kingdom!

* help me to not put circumstances before Him!
.. disability.. limitations .. Inadequacies... Weaknesses...

I DON'T want to keep quiet about my Lord Jesus, yet too often I do! :(

* PLEASE HELP ME! To proclaim Christ loudly & proudly!!! .. I’ve been given The Greatest News to tell to the whole world!!!

~thank you~!

What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D

please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!

=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=
love Aye-bul, Your Friend in Prayer =D

The one concern of the devil

is to keep Christians from praying.

He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion.

He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

We have to stop looking at prayer as the spare tyre in the boot - - and start seeing it as the steering wheel!

-- S.D. Gordon

http://www.global-prayer-digest.org/ <-- great site to pray daily & impact eternity!

For a free book that thousands of people have said has changed their lives,

click here- www.gfa.org/freebook ..REVOLUTIONISED my life too!!

Urgent Prayer Needed!

2011-09-29T13:27:00.000+10:00

IRAN: Pastor Stands Firm in Faith, Faces Execution

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani refused to recant his Christian faith yesterday at the fourth and final court hearing in Iran to appeal his death sentence for apostasy (leaving Islam). Applying sharia (Islamic law), the court in Rasht gave Nadarkhani, 35, a final chance to recant Christianity and return to Islam in order for his life to be spared. Nadarkhani refused.

It is critical for foreign governments to negotiate and engage in diplomacy with Iranian authorities about Nadarkhani’s case, a defence lawyer said, adding that advocates in the international community fear that authorities may execute Nadarkhani as early as midnight tonight or any time in the coming week. The court said a verdict on Nadarkhani would be issued within the next week. “They probably won’t kill him today, but they can do it whenever they want,” the source said. “Sometimes in Iran they call the family and deliver the body with the verdict.” Source: Compass Direct

* Pray God's perfect peace that passes all human understanding over Youcef and his family. Thank Him for giving Youcef the grace and strength to remain faithful. Ask the Lord to intervene in this case.

UPDATE praise & pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-09-27T21:05:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D rejoice with me! :D
:D thank God for the *blessed* time we had today enjoying Father in His Creative beauty!! :D

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

:D giving us a great conversation on spiriuality!

*PRAY*

- he's still confused spiritually. .. doesn't know his identity .. :(

* he gets a personal revelation & experience of Abba Yahweh to show him his true identity that'll overcome all his that holds him back from truly turning from self & sin, to throw the full weight of his confidence onto Jesus!!

* Yoshi, & many, many others held captive by cultural & religious spirits be completely set free -- free to live fully in Christ, and free to live fully for Christ!!!

how bout for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

pray for Sam [KOR]

2011-09-23T11:15:00.000+10:00

had a short & sweet time with Sam yesterday before he left Aus.
.. didn't get around to talking about spiritual matters, ..

* please pray with me Holy Spirit will keep working in Sam's soul to reveal who Jesus really is to him, & draw him into a saving relationship with Himself!

UPDATE pray for Bible story telling workshop [16-19/9]

2011-09-20T12:07:00.002+10:00

had an awesome time learning to craft bible stories - thanks for praying~!

strongly encourage you if you haven't done it, do pray about doing bible storytelling training with Wycliffe!?
see: http://www.wycliffe.org.au/category/events/

* God would raise up many to get equipped to share the story of His glory in ways that communicate effectively to people's hearts!!

* lead me to the best avenues to share Bible stories, building up His people, & declaring His truth to those still outside His Kingdom!

even though a was sick & sleepy for a good part of it, Father let me be sick around the most loving & understanding bunch of siblings in Jesus :D

~SO~ GOOD!! TO BE IN HIS FAMILY!!!

i'm looking forward to the day when i'll be free from diarrea ;)

* He'd lead me the right avenues where i can apply all i've learnt, to encourage God's pople & share Him with those still outside his kingdom!

Father taught me a good, hard lesson on giving up my gluttonous ways .. so please pray for grace to resist giving into my ridiculous capacity to eat more than i need to!
though i'm still not fully recovered, [at the time of writing this] i'm praising my Abba & loving the sweet songs that come from deep distress! :)

.. a few days later ... i'm fully recovered ~!! PRAISE GOD ... FOREVERMORE~!!

UPDATE praise & pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-09-15T20:12:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D rejoice with me! :D:D thank God for the *blessed* time we had yesterday!! :D

:D giving us a great conversation on following Jesus vs. religion!

*PRAY*
GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

- he's still confused spiritually.

* he gets a personal revelation & experience of The Risen Lord Jesus - in HIS all-surpassing beauty & worth that'll overcome all his that holds him back from truly turning from self & sin, to throw the full weight of his confidence onto Jesus!!

* Yoshi, & many, many others held captive by religious spirits be completely set free -- free to live fully in Christ, and free to live fully for Christ!!!

how bout for you ? anything i could pray for you? :)

pray for Bible story telling workshop [16-19/9]

2011-09-14T21:24:00.000+10:00

i'll be away at this Bible story telling workshop Fri-Mon

i've heard it's a great non-confrontative way of sharing God's story with people (who doesn't enjoy a good story?!)

.. seen it in action quite a few times & found it a really good tool for communicating God's truth for all people, all ages, all cultures, all places & all times!!

... so I would really covet your prayers for us there as we get equipped to share the story of His glory in ways that communicate effectively to people's hearts!!

especally praying i dont just go & come back without any REAL LIFE APPLICATION!
(this is really my weakest point!!) .. feel free to check up on me & ask me how i'm going with this!

thanks!

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!

PLEASE DO LET ME KNOW! is there Anything I can praise with/pray for you? :)

=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@

love Aye-bul, Your Friend in Prayer =D

The one concern of the devil

is to keep Christians from praying.

He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless

religion.

He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

We have to stop looking at prayer

as the spare tire in the trunk

and start seeing it as the steering wheel.

-- S.D. Gordon

www.global-prayer-digest.org <-- great site to pray daily & impact eternity!

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!

pray for Ryan, Tony [Christopher Paul] & Jo!

2011-09-13T17:26:00.000+10:00

SO thankful Abba Father has me in the spiritual family i'm in with Rochedale Baptists!

SO ALIVE in The Spirit & actually LIVING for The Kingdom!!!
on Sunday, i was struck by this Qn brother Rog used in his doorknocking to plant a church in an inner-city suburb
- if God could do a miracle in your life, what would it be?

. .. then pray for them, that God would do miracles in their lives & so bring peoples to Himself!

-- i was looking fwd to using it on the checkout clerks i'd often see while getting my cashout bonuses, but often they're too busy :(

.. so i was on my way to lunch yesterday, got on the bus and sat next to Ryan with his big guitar case, got talking about guitars, after i'd asked about huis guitar playing, he asked me about my guitar playing, which was a natural springboard to share about the brain injury :D
- how i'd nearly died but because Jesus is so real, alive & powerful, i'm ALIVE!! :D

so i asked him, "if God could do a miracle in your life, what would it be?"

he replied to live for his music .. he's an audio engineer .. who really wants to live for his music .. i had to get off to transfer to the next bus .. i started praying Father would do the miracle of turning Ryan into a white-hot worshipper & living for music that brings great glory to Jesus!
.. please do join with me in prayer~!

then on the next bus which ended up being empty for a good while, i got talking to the driver, found out his name = Tony. asked him "if God could do a miracle in your life, what would it be?"
he replied to be well & happy.

i asked him if he wasn't well & happy already?

he said he was fairly well & pretty happy. so I asked him again,

"if God could do a miracle in your life, what would it be?"

he replied for his son (Christopher Paul) tocome back from Rockhampton & get a job .
. that would be a miracle!

please do join with me in prayer~!

this morning Jo - a Dodo customer service caller offered me something i didn't need
[a "better" plan i've switched to in the past but ended up costing me more, even though i thought i was getting more for the same price!]
without spiritually discerning, [my weakness!] i mistakenly asked her the same question of "if God could do a miracle in your life, what would it be?"

she replied for world peace .. [that's a miracle coming soon!
"He stops wars all over the world; He breaks bows, destroys spears, and sets shields on fire." Psalms 46:9

.. especially in her country.
but she was not at liberty to tell what her country was .. [my bad, she was only calling to sell me something, not to discuss personal matters . .. oh well, no harm trying!

speak shalom over Jo, her family & her country .. may healing be brught to her nation [Abba knows!] as Jesus shows His supremacy & increases, as self decreases!

the real punchline of the Qn was that after promising to pray for them is to make contact after 1 week to see how God had answered prayer.
but chicken me didn't get Ryan, Tony or Jo's contacts so i could check back with them

... praying for more courage to do so next time, and trusting Abba Yahweh to work, regardless, in the meantime! :)

~SO~ **EXCITING*** to be living in the supernatural~!

ejoice with me & pray for me!

2011-09-09T14:57:00.000+10:00

dear precious siblings in Jesus:

The past 3 weeks has been quite an adventure! Father has taken me to higher highs... also lower lows :[
The song lyrics at the end “Everytime I Fall” by Jaci Velasquez really capture where I’ve been & am :D

lately, I’ve been especially weak against habitual sins,–even more crazy given the wonderful encounters with God I’ve been having!

.. but the speed of recovery has improved! :D

Some awesome tidbits from David Guziks’ commentary on the denial & desertion of Jesus by His disciples:

even if we deny Jesus or forsake Him, He still loves us and wants to woo us to repentance and restoration.

Jesus’ love and restoration is greater than your failure. Come to Jesus and let it be about Him, not you!

… I was struck at a recent bible study at how most of Paul’s prayers in his writings were for Christians, not non Christians!
It’s to my loss I’ve not sent out an update for a few weeks... the weakness in my life is proof of that =( so dear brothers & sisters, let’s keep lifting each other up in prayer before The Throne of Grace!!!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D for the amazing time of feeling vulnerably safe at the mens’ rites of passage, and all the precious revelations He gave me!
(ask me more if you wanna know, I’d love to share!)

:D I’ve been made by Abba to be a blessing, so I am a blessing! Anything other than this truth is a lie!

:D He is King of my sin as well as King of my “righteousness”!

*PRAY*

* help me also to have the same focus through life as Jesus had – on the joy of glory ahead, past the cross, not on the cross of suffering itself!!

* help me to recognise opportunities to share HIS story & not let them pass by so easily~!

* give me the gift of quality sleep! With dreams purely fixated on the glory of Jesus & NOTHING ELSE PLEASE!! [keep having disturbingly bizarre dreams, so when i awake, I’m tired, vulnerable to temptation & confused :|

* keep me all about Jesus & NOT about my failures!

* help me see Jesus in me – to see myself correctly, so help others see themselves more clearly & be a life-giver to them!

* keep me living as a man & leaving my boyish thinking dead & buried!

Jaci Velasquez - Everytime I Fall

Chorus: Everytime I fall a little bit harder* Everytime I fall a little bit farther*
Everytime I fall* I fall right back into Your Arms

Verse 1: Everytime I try* To explain the reason why* I have let You down*
I fall to the ground* What is it You see in me* That makes You believe * No matter how far I stray *I will still find the way

Just when I think I'm not strong enough* You reach out to me and You lift me up
(Repeat chorus)

Verse 2: Time and time again*When I think I've reached the end*
It's Your voice I hear* That draws me near*
I don't know what makes You stay*When I act this way* No matter what we've been through* I can turn to You

Just when I think I'm not strong enough* You reach out to me and You lift me up
(Repeat chorus)

Bridge: You find the beauty in my imperfections* The guiding light in all my misdirection*And when I think You've finally given up*You fill my heart with unconditional love
Everytime I fall*I fall right back into Your Arms

(Repeat chorus 4 x

A closing word from K P Yohanan:
Let’s return to loving the Lord above all our programs, possessions and our very lives. Then our service, our giving and our praying will turn from being a burden into the greatest privilege and joy we have on this earth.

~thank you~!
What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D

please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!

let us pray, let us pray, everywhere in every way, every moment of the day

it is THE RIGHT TIME~!

for the Father above, He is listening WITH LOVE & He WANTS TO ANSWER US so

LET US PRAY!

- Steven Curtis Chapman

http://www.global-prayer-digest.org/ <-- great site to pray daily & impact eternity!

For a free book that thousands of people have said has changed their lives,

click here- www.gfa.org/freebook ..REVOLUTIONISED my life too!!

UPDATE praise & pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-08-31T20:12:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D thank God for the great time we had yesterday!! :D

:D it was quite slow going as we had a 3rd party join us [his gf, Clair] . . . i'm definitely a 1-on-1 guy, my relational skills beyond that seem pretty retarded! :S

somehow got onto people with uneven legs & i remembered how God had supernaturally grown limbs @ Rochedale Baptists ~2 months ago, tried it on him
[his legs were very slightly uneven in length] with no hugely dramatic effect :S

felt like a total dill holding his feet telling the shorter left leg to grow & match the right one with zero sensation or growing for some time . . .

. .. but i was thankful for the few small gaps i had to talk with Yoshi & Clair separately, to catch up a little on what God has been doing in their lives :D
:D revealing Himself to Yoshi through the inexpressibly sublime glory of His creation in their tour of Tasmania!

* woo Yoshi & Clair deeper into His love

* set Clair's friends' husband free from what seems to be demonically-induced epilepsy!!! [so bad that Clair's friend feels suicidal watching her husband suffer so bad]

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

rejoice with me & pray for me!

2011-08-22T17:34:00.000+10:00

My dear precious siblings in Jesus:

Have been on this journey for awhile now as a recovering pharisee
.. detoxing from the drug of organised religion!

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D Papa keeps exploding every box I’ve tried to contain Him in! :D

:D the faithful few siblings in Jesus who love me enough to speak the hard but needful words to me!

:D helping me to step put of the boat of dead wood that is my comfort zone onto the water & Walk to eat of The Tree of Life – Jesus!!

:D blessing the GFA table @ the BLT + conference
1 missionary sponsored [woohoo!!!] & 10+ free books given out!

:D the opportunity to hang around greatly encouraging, challenging and inspiring siblings in Jesus who’ve gone through the fires of persecution & emerged victoriously triumphant!!
.. and so the great adventure of journeying with Jesus continues ..

*PRAY*

* keep “Remembering those in prison as if you were in prison with them. Remember those who are mistreated as if you were being mistreated. –Hebrews 13:3

* we who are “free” to share The Glorious Gospel would unashamedly take every opportunity to share it .. remember our beaten, battered & bruised brothers & sisters who would love to do so but have been imprisoned for evangelising!

[not such a bad thing, prisoners & guards end up coming to know Jesus too!]

* bless the missionaries taking His Light & Life to places where His Name is still unknown to pierce the darkness & establish indigenous church planting movements until the whole world hears!

* every book / magazine taken would be passed on 7 times & reap a HUGE harvest of eternally changed lives & lost souls found!
- I’m away tomorrow-27th @ a Mens' Rites of Passage
see: www.mtmaustralia.org.au/rites-of-passage.html

* we’d be open, wisely discerning & receptive to all Father wants to do in our lives there!

* we'd let go of all that needs to be let go of!

* GOOD, QUALITY REST before & DURING the nights!

~thank you~!

What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D
please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!

=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=
love Aye-bul, Your Friend in Prayer =D

The one concern of the devil

is to keep Christians from praying.

He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion.

He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

We have to stop looking at prayer as the spare tyre in the boot - - and start seeing it as the steering wheel!
-- S.D. Gordon

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

For a free book that thousands of people have said has changed their lives,

click here- www.gfa.org/freebook my life too!!..REVOLUTIONISED

pray for Mens' Rites of Passage [23-27/8]

2011-08-22T12:57:00.000+10:00

will be away from the 23-27th @ a Mens' Rites of Passsage -

see: www.mtmaustralia.org.au/rites-of-passage.html

i covet prayers specifically for:

* us to be open & receptive to all Father wants to do in our lives there!

* we'd let go of all that needs to be let go of!

* GOOD, QUALITY REST THROUGHOUT!

- the last camp i was at i spent almost all night listening to the symphony of snorers :S

...i am a light sleeper & haven't been sleeping well of late :{

~thanks~! expecting to return less of a boy & more of a true man in Jesus~!

UPDATE & pray for English corner outing [17/8]

2011-08-17T19:26:00.000+10:00

even though i'm on 'sabbatical' from English corner, the opportunity to join them on this public holiday in the glory of His creation was one i couldn't resist ;)

. . . didn't really seem to have any gospel opportunities as such, except just to show interest & concern in them.

not a whole lot more than the average non Christian friend could show i wonder :|

well, just wanted to report that i'm not the raging evangelist at all times.

but still pray for:
Jeff, Clair, Monica, Sho, Chan, Kheng, Michael, Geri, Doris, Clare, Min ... [KOR, JAP, COL, FRA, TW]
time away from their home seems to often lead to major lifechange!

may Father be pleased to do so on an eternal scale!
.. not only in their lives but in their families, their people group, country down through future generations!!!

pray for Jeff & Lorraine

2011-08-16T20:50:00.000+10:00

misplaced my public transport card [!] but a missionary brother gave me his he wasn't using. :D
foolish me i frantically searched around my messy room
[which seems to refect my life .. all over the place & NOT 'together' :P]
but couldn;t find it all last night & this morning .. praying, praying & praying.. but nothing.

so i gave up.
too early it turned out!
so silly me goes & calls to report it as lost & cancel the card putting it beyond reactivation :[

then as i get ready to go out, wouldn;t you know it, it turns up in the rear pocket of the very pants i planned to wear! :S
D'OH!!!

. .. another tough lesson in learning to WAIT on The Lord & not act UNTIL He says so!
can you believe i'd just read this [below] that very day i realised my card had gone missing .. yikes, my slothfulness in acting on what i'm taught is baaad =(

. . at the bus stop i met Jeff who didn't have a transport card & looked like he could use it - he was totally not the kind of guy i'd normally initiate contact with [white aussie, foul mouthed, odorous] but Dad spoke to me today about seeing His beauty & image, in the face of every person I meet – treating them with great dignity, respect & LOVE as I would treat Him!
so passed it to him, he was grateful. in the course of conversation on the bus a gospel sharing opportunity seemed to present itself .. but it didn't turn out well in the end .. tempted to give up on attempting to evangelise to the average aussie.

or maybe my approach is all wrong?!

*sigh*

pray for Aussies like Jeff . . . breaking through hardened hearts is Dad's specialty after all!
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Waiting on the Lord

"But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness." Isaiah 40:31, BBE

We tend to think of waiting as something passive and often boring, as when we have to wait for a bus or train, or when we wait for hours at an airport for a flight. However, when the Bible speaks of waiting on God, it is completely different. It means being still in God’s presence, expectantly looking to Him, and as we do this our strength is renewed.

Those who serve at tables are known as ‘waiters’. A servant waiting at table would be watching and listening for the slightest instruction from his master. It is partly in that way that we should be waiting on the Lord. Psalm 123:2 says: ‘As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God’.

Another example of waiting is that of a working sheepdog. Between a well-trained dog and its master there will be perfect understanding. There are times when the dog will drop to the ground at his owner’s command, keeping completely still, waiting for the next instruction. The dog fixes his eyes on his master, not moving a muscle, watching and waiting. He will not move until he is told, and often the slightest signal is enough for him to know when to move and what to do next.

Have we learnt to wait on God in that way, or are we too easily distracted? Can we follow God’s instruction to ‘Be still, and know that I am God’ (Psalm 46:10), or do we find our lives constantly filled with noise and activity. Brother Lawrence, a 17th-century monk, encouraged people to ‘practise the presence of God’. Have we learnt to do that?

Today’s verse promises that as we wait upon on the Lord He will renew our strength. Instead of relying on our own resources, we will be receiving from Him. An exchange takes place between our weakness and His strength. We will then be like eagles which soar on the thermals, seemingly without any effort. Why not resolve to do that today?

Prayer: Lord, please teach me how to wait on You and to be still and know that You are God. Forgive me for the times I have failed to do this. Amen.

Copyright © 2011 Ellel Ministries International.

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Dear diary 14/8/11 – dream of basket~

2011-08-14T23:21:00.000+10:00

My dear precious siblings in Jesus, just wanted to share a vision Abba Yahweh gave me today.

Picture a basket in the middle of a country road.

It’s abandoned. Unwanted. Rejected.

A car comes along and crushes it, leaving it a broken messy bundle of sticks. Useless, worthless.

Most would have thrown this basket away, but Jesus comes along, picks it up and mends it.

Jesus patiently, artfully mends it, restoring it to its original design, bringing it back to wholeness again, and He puts something in it – treasure! Not just any treasure, but life-giving treasure!

. . . And then He carries this once broken & tattered basket around, and from it gives out this life-giving treasure to the dying and hurting multitudes.

I realised this was a picture of me. How often I have felt like I was abandoned, unwanted and rejected, Useless, even worthless!

And yet in that very broken & messed up state with every imaginable negative feeling & perception toward myself, Jesus comes along!

He pays attention to me, even if I’ve been ignored.

He seeks for me, even if I’ve been abandoned.

He wants me, even if I’ve been unwanted!

He accepts me, even if I’ve been rejected!

He takes my broken, messed up life & gently, patiently, artfully, restores me to my original design, bringing me back to wholeness again, then He puts treasure in me! Not just any treasure, but life-giving treasure!

And then He carries me, broken & tattered as I once was, and gives out this life-giving treasure to the dying and hurting multitudes!!!

I’m still a work in progress. Only Jesus would bother to spend the time to mend and make something good & beautiful of my life!

Thank you Jesus!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

. .. and you know what, beautiful sister, beloved brother?

this is a picture of you too! Father knows, and you know only too well the wounds you’ve suffered, every trauma, every heartache, the neglect of simply existing in a cruel, loveless world.

It just occurred to me that the prodigal son who came home in all his filthy messed up brokenness, and wanted just to be a slave in The Fathers’ house, received way beyond his wildest expectations & was instantly & unconditionally restored to the full rights, authority, privileges & position of a son! [fully & completely loved!]

. . . but the older son who’d “done things right” & had been in The Fathers’ house the whole time, but “living” as a slave rather than a son, missed out in the end.

His choice.

His loss :(

Jesus wants to meet you in all your messed up brokenness.

He longs to heal you, make you whole & restore you to The Fathers’ original design.

But . . . will you let Him? Or will you hide from Him? The face of perfect love?

For too long, I foolishly pushed Him away, as if “life” was better in the twisted way it had become.

. . . but I’m coming home, coming to my senses!!

It’s your choice.

Will you enter into His fullness & live who you are as a beloved daughter, a beloved son? Or would you rather be a slave?!

[adapted from dream by Mr. Wong p15 of Taiwan ghost month prayer guide.pdf]

rejoice with me & pray for me!

2011-08-09T14:56:00.000+10:00

My dear precious siblings in Jesus:

Some food for thought:

To be disappointed in yourself is to have trusted in yourself.

Why haven’t we yet fulfilled the Great Commission? Why are we so ineffective in building God’s kingdom?

Is it because we lack money or literature or because the Bible is not translated into all the world’s languages? No, I don’t think so.

The deepest reason is this: We who form the Church—that’s you and me—are not real in our walk with the Lord and in our obedience to God’s Word. Unless our hearts change and we become genuine, transparent, open and humble in our faith (and through that, in all areas of our lives), we will never make an impact on the lost world! [KP Y]

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D I am SOOO GREATLY LOVED by Father, Son & The Holy Spirit!!!

:D He’s given me His BEST because He’s made me worthy!!! [Gal 4:4-6]

:D He knows me the best yet loves me the most!

:D He loves me because of who I a, NOT what I do / can’t do!

:D He’s made me His beloved Son and He is well pleased with me!!!

:D He was pleased to save me!

:D He will trade my ashes for beauty, my sorrow for joy, weeping for dancing & make me a blessing!

:D introducing me to the joys of journaling! Go here: http://lancelearning.com/21Questionsfor2011/tabid/299/Default.aspx

:D bringing clarity, speaking to me & giving me grace to act on what He says, despite my fears / hesitations / “good” reasons not to! :P

:D I’m free .. free to be *me* in Jesus’ arms!

:D guiding me out of my “living by sight/ reason” into living by faith in His Spirit!

:D life isn’t about me. A liberating truth I need constant reminders of!

.. and so the great adventure of journeying with Jesus continues ..

*PRAY*

* change my heart to become genuine, transparent, open & humble in faith (and through that, in all areas of life!)

* I’d stop trusting in myself, and so not be disappointed in myself!

* my journey to healing & wholeness would simply be one of immense gratefulness for already having it! [think about that!]

* use the Gospel For Asia table of materials I’m manning at the Brisbane Leadership Training+ conference this weekend [12-14/8] to mobilise & equip His children to be involved in evangelism to the ends of the earth!

* I’d take what HE wants for me from the Mens’ rites of passage week on 23rd-27th/8

~thank you~!

What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D

please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!

=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=

love Aye-bul, Your Friend in Prayer =D

The one concern of the devil

is to keep Christians from praying.

He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion.

He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

We have to stop looking at prayer as the spare tyre in the boot - - and start seeing it as the steering wheel!
-- S.D. Gordon

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

For a free book that thousands of people have said has changed their lives,

click here- www.gfa.org/freebook ..REVOLUTIONISED my life too!!

UPDATE praise & pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-08-04T22:56:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

:D thank God for the great time we had today!! :D [today was my dad's birthday .. dad was happy to include Yoshi for dinner + a DVD 'the king's speech'] :)

:D .. getting unstuck from programs & agendas, was led to just show him love & learn to be a friend rather than "pushing" for him to join a religion [which he's had enough of in the past & was much put off by, understandably!]

:D he does want to know God, & is curious about what it is to have relationship with God, without religious fluff!

* pray he gets a personal revelation & experience of The Risen Lord Jesus - in HIS all-surpassing beauty & worth that'll overcome all his that holds him back from truly turning from self & sin to throw the full weight of his confidence onto Jesus!!

* set Yoshi, & many, many others held captive by religious spirits be completely set free -- free to live fully in Christ, and free to live fully for Christ!!!

GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

PRAY FOR MUSLIMS!!!

2011-07-28T20:43:00.000+10:00

Why Pray For Muslims?

Introduction / part 3:

Muslims do not generally realize :

... that Jesus, the Messiah, is to be obeyed.

... that Jesus has the ability to forgive sins.

... that Jesus has conquered death through his resurrection.

... that Jesus has power over evil spirits.

... Muslims think of Jesus as a great prophet who preached an earlier form of Islam.

... Muslims generally believe that they can earn God’s approval through religious activities (prayers, fasting, giving money).

... Muslims do not think they can know God. They only think that they can know about Him.

“Worthy are You ... for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.” (Rev. 5:9)

This is why we are praying.

Thank you, God bless, Ron, Victor and the 30-Days team.

You are welcome and encouraged to forward these e-mails to others.

rejoice with me & pray for me~!!

2011-07-28T14:12:00.000+10:00

My dear precious siblings in Jesus:

When I was panic-stricken, I said, "I have been cut off from your sight." But you heard my pleas for mercy when I cried out to you for help. Psalms 31:22

:D the place of my incompetence is the place for God’s mercy! *phew* . . . I can relax!

.. some of what Abba Yahweh’s been revealing to me:

+ God may be asking you to step away from all that makes you feel safe so that your trust in Him can be complete and you can experience the joy and freedom of living in His safety & protection!

+ It’s ABNORMAL to be in a SUPERIOR covenant yet experience inferior blessings!!

+ If you believe you’re a sinner you’ll live as a sinner by faith!!

+ If you believe you’re righteous, you’ll live as righteous by faith!!

+ The Bible never refers to Christians as sinners but as saints!! – RIGHTEOUS ONES!

+ therefore, Sin is NOT the norm anymore!!

+ God is not consumed with our sin anymore!!

[so neither should we be consumed with our own sin, because It’s ALL been consumed by Jesus’ body on the cross!

+ We NEED to be more righteousness-conscious than we are sin-conscious! Is Christ’s work on the cross greater or is sin greater?!

.. and so the great adventure of journeying with Jesus continues ..

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D God is a God of mercy & deals with our messes!

:D the incredible privilege of joining MTM

[see http://www.mtmaustralia.org.au/] - journeying with a brotherhood of men who share their lives in great depth, with incredible [sometimes shocking!] honesty & openness!

:D Jesus truly cares for His people!

:D taking me away from being busybusybusy so I can simply be, and invest time solidly grounding myself in Him & who He wants me to be!

:D my identity & worth is not just wrapped up in what I do! [or can’t do!]

:D the absolute true rightness & beauty of His timing & ordering of events in this life He’s given me!

:D all I’ve ever “lost” in this life He’ given has been restored by my Father in greater measure with what is truly priceless & invaluable! (more intimate relationship with Him, better relationships with others, faith, hope, love, peace, joy, … the list goes on!)

:D every mess I make that He also gives me the grace & strength to clean up! 

:D the awesome time I had in the Elijah House course - part 2 this weekend – please pray!!

*PRAY*

* He’d cut me open, search my heart, my thoughts, reveal to me who I am, and change me, at any cost, to become what His Word says I ought to be.

* HELP ME always remember that the boat He sends me on cannot sink because JESUS IS ONBOARD!!

* I’d simply rest in who He’s called me to be rather than be driven by things [purpose, calling etc]

* reveal any self-protective measures I have in life based on lies, preventing me from moving forward in this life I’ve been given.

* Help me take leaps of faith, knowing that He’s my rock of safety!

* grow in me the fear of The Lord, as well as abandon fears that aren’t of The Lord!

* show me what restitution I must make in keeping with godly repentance!

*** Let us guard jealously our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and allow nothing to interfere with it.

The ultimate responsibility of staying alert rests with ourselves.***

~thank you~!

What a joy it is to be journeying with Abba Yahweh, Jesus The son by His Holy Spirit!! XD 8D =D

please tell me how I can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

GOD WORKS WHEN WE PRAY! I'M LIVING PROOF!!

=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=
love Aye-bul, Your Friend in Prayer =D

The one concern of the devil

is to keep Christians from praying.

He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion.

He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

We have to stop looking at prayer as the spare tyre in the boot - - and start seeing it as the steering wheel!
-- S.D. Gordon

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

For a free book that thousands of people have said has changed their lives,

click here- www.gfa.org/freebook ..REVOLUTIONISED my life too!!

pray for Cara [AUS]

2011-07-25T16:53:00.000+10:00

Cara served me at the bank today - gave her gospel tracts in the past -- she sad "that's not my thing"
"it's your life" i replied
"sure is" she replied.
"make sure you make the right choie!" said i.
"that's the great thing about living in this country, we get to decide for ourselves about these things" she replied.

.. bid her farewell, feeling like that was a terribly powerless encounter :"(

*groan*

*pray for her spirit!

also went away thinking that it might not be too long before people living here won't have a choice when it comes to deciding their religion -- if a certain forcefully imposing religious group gets their way ... it'll be "choose I****" or die!"

* may all the schemes of satan working through religious spirits come to nothing & precious lost souls be wooed into The Love of The Good Shepherd!

UPDATE praise & pray for Yoshi [JAP]

2011-07-20T10:57:00.000+10:00

thanks for praying!!

thank God for the good time we had today!! :D

though we didn't quite get through all of Chrsitianity Explained #5 [on repentance] .. please ray withme --
he really needs personal revelation & experience of The Risen Lord Jesus - HIS all-surpassing beauty & worth that'll overcome all his mentally trying to "get Christianity" !!
but GOD IS WORKING AS HIS CHILDREN PRAY!! =D

how bout for u ? anything i could pray for u? :)

praise & pray for Stacey-Sofia [AUS]

2011-07-19T23:35:00.000+10:00

i was served by Stacey in my bank -- her name means 'resurrection' ... she's obviously converted to islam & took on the muslim name Sofia which means 'pure' [!]
it's truly sad how many the enemy has deceived (especially western women!) into converting to islam

.. how can she ever be 'pure' unless she comes into the fulness of all Jesus achieved for her in His death & resurrection, that all her religious works & devotion can never achieve?!
gave her an 'eternity' tract... please pray for her & the 1,000,000,000+ other souls like her!

praise & pray for Elijah House course! [15-17/7]

2011-07-12T13:58:00.000+10:00

finally! this Fri-Sun, i'll be taking part in this Prayer Ministry Training Course after a long wait!
my spirit, family relationships & other relationships has been deeply blessed through the few day courses i've gone to,
for more course info see: www.elijahhouse.com.au/pages/page91.asp

:D rejoice with me! :D

:D raising up ministries like Elijah House that teach such fundamental keys to living & being God's children in a broken world that doesn't get taught in the average 'church' setting! WHY?! ... to our loss =(

:D always providing ways & means for me to grow & get to things like this!!
*PRAY*

* we’d embrace & enter into all God has for us, dealing with hard issues in our lives in need of deep healing that are easier to just leave ignored!

* Quality rest before & during the course so we'd be fully alert & receptive to all He has to show & tell us!

* work powerfully by His Spirit, in our bodies, souls & spirits, to bring about tremendous fruit in transformed lives that bering great glory to Him!what a joy it is to be walking with The Wisest, Richest, Most Loving & Generous Father & King of all kings!!! :D

please tell me how i can best support you before His throne of Grace too!

praise & pray for Mark [AUS]

2011-07-12T12:46:00.000+10:00

-met at the bus stop yesterday .. got talking & found out he once was a "full-on Christian" but has stopped going to church .. he knows these are the end times & isn't ready for Jesus' return. :"(

:D his godly parents who have given him a bblessed spiritual heritage!
:D saving his life more than once!

* give grace to his sick mum, draw her closer to Him in her suffering
* help him get over all that holds him back from being totally committed to following Jesus & to be ready for His soon return!

praise & pray for J & H[CHI]

2011-07-12T12:40:00.000+10:00

:D J, a visting scholar & member of the c party, ended up coming to know The Saviour along with his wife while here!
:D giving them soon-to-come twins!
* daily grow them in The Revelation of Christ, that He'd become more & more precious to them than anyone/ anything else in this world!
[desire to be baptised, but holding back for fear of negative esponse by other c party mermbers]

* give them courage to not be ashamed of their allegiance to Him (Mark 8:38)
* help them to work out their new identity in Christ in their marriage, families & work!

* bless the delivery of the babies!

* help them know how to be godly parents who lovingly encourage, nurture, affirm, discipline & give their children the freedom to fail & have a good, living picture of who their Heavenly Father is because they see it in their lives!
* the new lives coming would be raised uyp to beHIStory makers in that land & to the ends of the earth!

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thanks for praying!!
:D praise God for the good time we had yesterday!! :D
- The Spirit led me to go through Christianity Explained #4 'salvation by grace not works' with him, following on from something he brought up during our last time together on how God could save a criminal who "became a Christian" just before he was executed for his crimes ..

operating with The Spirit in evangelism is soo cool & exciting!!!

there were times he'd bring up points of contention & i'd be stuck as to how to respond to him, but shot up quick prayers to The Throne & he'd put a thought / illustration in my mind!!! :D

so while he seems to "get it" [in his head] that we can only be saved by God's grace & not by our works,
* please do be praying Father makes the seed of Ephesians 2:8-10 & Mark 10:15 real in his life!! .. may Father work through the bible verses + the tract he has to read as homework to convict him of sin, & draw him to The Only Saviour!!
'Scientific facts in the Bible'
[see http://onemilliontracts.com.au/p/booklet-way-of-the-master-scientific-facts-in-bible]

- i suspect his past involvement in martial arts + the spirit of his culture may be blockages from him totally repenting & throwing the full weight of his confidence on Christ.
he revealed an interesting cultural insight into Japanese & Taiwanese people, that they tend more towards "balance" than extremes, and so their response to the person of Christ may tend to be more moderate than full-on.
* take authority over every spiritual power & cultural spirit holding him captive from finding his true identity & "home" in Jesus, NOT in the martial arts!
* may Yoshi, & my others held captive by cultural spirits be completely set free -- free to live fully in Christ, and free to live fully for Christ!!!

* pray for our next time together - he seems keen to continue on with Christianity Explained - just 2 more to go!

.. i trust Father to move as we, His children, pray! :D

praise The glory of The King building His Kingdom!

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from David Guzik's online commentary on Mark 4:

see:

http://www.blueletterbible.org/commentaries/comm_view.cfm?AuthorID=2&contentID=7897&commInfo=31&topic=Mark

c. The harvest has come: Just as a field’s crop may be unnoticed when first planted, but can’t be missed when mature, so it is with the Kingdom of God. It has small beginnings, and its root may be small, but when God develops the work it cannot be missed. i. This is the glory of Jesus’ work in us. It was prophetically said of Him, a bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not quench (Isaiah 42:3). Jesus takes something as small and insignificant as a seed, buries it, and makes it rise up to something glorious. So, we should never despise the day of small things! (Zechariah 4:10)

ALL praise to The Lord Jesus!!! How glorious His Kingdom that He can make so great a Kingdom from such miniscule materials!

HE REALLY IS NOT LIMITED BY THE “MATERIALS” (that is, YOU & ME!!) HE WORKS WITH!

.. and so, my dogged feelings of not "being enough" are gloriously thrown into the garbage bin!! :D

and he goes on =)

a. It grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches: Some regard this as a beautiful picture of the church growing so large that it provides refuge for all of the world. But this mustard seed plant has grown into a monstrosity, and it harbors birds - who in the parables are emissaries of Satan, according to the foundational parable of the soils (Mark 4:13).

i. “The growth of the kingdom will not result in the conversion of the world. In fact, some of the growth will give opportunity for Satan to get in and go to work!” (Wiersbe)

b. Jesus, in considering the growth of the work of God, reminds us that size and status are not necessarily benefits. There has never been a great curse upon the world than corrupt Christianity, of the form of godliness without the power.

~DON'T HIDE YOUR LIGHT, FELLOW SAINTS~!!

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We must not hide this light. If you have the truth of God, you have a solemn responsibility to spread that truth in whatever way God gives you opportunity, even as someone who has the cure for a life-threatening disease has the moral responsibility to spread that cure. God didn’t light your lamp so that it would remain hidden.

-- David Guzik

We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour

before sunset in which to win them." - Robert Moffat

life's SHORT, PRAY HARD!

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pray for REVIVAL~!!

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4 me :)

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Urgent Prayer Needed!

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pray for Ryan, Tony [Christopher Paul] & Jo!

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