Me

Long gone are the polytechnic days. I'm now awaiting acceptance into the university. I've applied for NUS, SMU and UWA. Well, for the former, hopes have already been dashed. Or rather, there was never really much hope of getting into it, neither was there the intention anyway. Haha. Oh. I really love SMU and UWA. I love the SMU education system. (SMU students will shake their heads in strong disapproval. HAHA.) But I love the Australian lifestyle. If I go to SMU, I have my family, my beloved Lighters, really beloved and all my friends! If I go to UWA, I still have my family as well as my irritating cousins, well not to mention lovable too.. Oh well. I really don't know. FCC's a great place too.. which reminds me of the song 'Holy Ground'.. haha. okay. maybe no link to you.

But whatever the choice that's made, if there's even a choice, haha.. I thank God that He is in control. I know that the answer that He'll give me will be the best for me. And all things will fall neatly into place simply because He loves me.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Thank God!

With a thankful heart...

Psalm 7:17
I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

I thank God because He is so faithful and good.
I thank God because He always answers prayers.
I thank God because in whatever kind of situation I face, He is in control.
I thank God because He gives me not necessarily what I want, but the best for me.
I thank God because He paid the full price of the penalty of my sin by sending Jesus Christ to die on the cross of calvary.
I thank God because of His Sacrifice, I am no longer a slave to sin.
I thank God because my whole household is saved.
I thank God because He has healed my Dad of Rhinitis through the Miracle Service.
I thank God because He has healed my Mom of high blood pressure, piles, frozen shoulder etc through the Miracle Service.

I thank God for being God. A loving God.

His Agony

He gave all that He could so that we could receive.

But yet sometimes we choose not to receive.

He must be grieving.

All for love's sake.

Persistence in Prayer

Something that has been on my mind lately is the importance of being persistent in my prayers. Yes, I know God says He would give whatever we ask for as long as we remain in Him. As He says in John 15:7, "If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you." But yet why, at times, it seems as though God doesn't answer my prayers? I've asked, believed, and exercised my faith. Why didn't God answer my prayer? The answer is found in this parable.

Luke 18
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!' "

And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly."

Another verse, Acts 12:5

"So Peter was kept in prison, but fervent prayer for him was persistently made to God by the church."

At times, God wants us to be persistent in our prayers. Maybe the answer is just around the corner. Don't stop praying. Keep asking, knocking. He will give whatever we ask for at the appropriate time unless He reveals to us otherwise. And when He shows us otherwise, it is probably either that we have the wrong intentions, which is why His answer is 'no', or He definitely has something better in store for us, which is why His answer is 'wait'. But while He reveals that to us, let us be persistent in our prayers.