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Yesterday night, I received a sms from my friend, "Pray for me.  I am very angry".  We can identify with this situation.  A mother is angry when the child messes up the whole place as she is reclining after a hard day work.  We get angry when our colleagues misunderstood us or when things are not going smoothly. This morning, I read a book which I bought yesterday "What to say when people need help" by Selwyn Hughes.  My friend is angry.  According to this writer, wrong thoughts or angry thoughts in themselves are not sin.  "We can't stop the birds flying over our heads" said a theologian but wrong thoughts only become sin when the mind fondles them, nurtures them and continues to hold on to them. The best way to handle wrong thoughts or angry thoughts is to lift them up to God in praise.  It sound unscriptural but as I pressed on, I began to understand.  If we push the wrong thoughts into our subconscious mind and try to bury them th...

Psalm 84:6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. Psalm 107:35 He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs. We can take great comfort in God's word.  Though we pass through the Valley of Baca, we are not alone.  Though in our walk, at times, the journey seemed difficult and tough, like the valley of Baca, we can take courage that God is with us.  As we focus on Him and not on the siutations, He turned the desert into pools of water and also the parched grounds in our lives into flowing springs.  As we received comfort from Him personally, with the same comfort we can comfort others.   In the past, I like to wiggle out of a situation and not willing to turn to God to learn the lesson He has planned for me.  Thus I lost many blessings in term of knowing Him deeper.  However, as I learn to pray for His grace and hel...

Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:3 Praise the Lord!  Today we visited an old lady whose heart has been very hardened and not willing to accept Jesus as her Savior.  It has been many years.  But lately for the past few months, we started to see changes in her.  In the past she could always scold her maid and would complain non-stop.  However, as the brothers and sisters visited her, the grace of God also comes upon her.  She welcomed each visit. During the visit, the brothers and sisters will sing simple hokkien song "真正好" and read a simple bible verse with her.    Today, it surprised every one that she said "thank the lord" in hokkien.  No one is able to say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.  Today, the verse we read with her is "Roman 10:9 你 若 口 里 认 耶 稣 为 主 ， 心 里 信 神 叫...

Joshua 4:21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ 23 For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea [ b ] when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. 24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God. ” I have not been blogging for awhile.  However, once again I was reminded to put down my experiences in writing.  Each time as I set aside my fear, disappointment, discouragement and trust in His promises, I am in fact collecting a small memorial stone to remember this experience.  When I am down or forgot about His faithfulness, I can once again take out these stones which I have collected in my blog to remember God's ...