Saturday, August 02, 2003
When the meek inherit the Kingdom
I had such an encounter with the Lord yesterday night as I was worshipping in church. Pastor Tan's message was on how christians need to have spiritual hunger, and he preached on the prayer of Jabez.
Do u noe that Jabaz in Hebrew means pain? Imagine yourself being known as a pain all the time, and I was especially stuck by Jabez's prayer that requested that he would not cause any pain to anyone else! Wow, such a selfless prayer.
Jabez's prayer went like this: "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that i may not cause pain."(1 Chron 4: 10)
Why enlarge Jabez's territory, and how many of us have also prayed this prayer before? I have...I have asked the Lord to increase my capacity in serving Him, in speaking more eloquently, in being able to reach out to more pple in campus and around me.
But somehow, this prayer, instead of being expressed as a prayer of humility, a prayer that says, Lord, how much I need You, it has turned into some inspection of my own inadequacies that have crippled me with much fear.
Together with the reminder of JC days, I was reading my autograph book a few days ago. Someone wrote that she was impressed with my "undying faith in God", haha, I was shocked and almost fell off my chair. TOday, as I inspect my own life, it seems to fall short of the faith I had in JC. A simple faith that trusted God, and each day I awoke, I was filled with such a sense of expectancy of great things, that He will speak something to me, and use me to be a blessing.
Really thank God for this revelation, that nothing else matters except to please Him. Really pray that ministry will not be a distraction to really loving the Lord with my whole heart and soul.
There is a testimony I wanna share. I made one simple prayer as I was walking along the road on thurs. I said, Oh Lord, that You would show me Your realness. And then I said, i would have faith to expect and believe!
The v same day on thurs, Vene sms to ask me to lead worship this sat! Wow, praise God, I was really v excited, and went home to pray... and asked God to show me a song in season for the CG. The song came up to me as I was praying ,"There is a longing...only You can fill".
On fri service, after Pastor Tan preached such a good message, there was a time of ministry, and then, low and behold! We sang the same song!!
I just felt God encouraging me, that as I had prayed a pray for Him to reveal Himself to me, He really did! And I just kept weeping cos I knew then, that HE had heard every prayer I had made in desperation to Him!
God is always faithful, and these few weeks has been drawing me back to Himself. though man be faithless, He is always faithful and loves us very much. =)
Luv from a very satisfied gal
I had such an encounter with the Lord yesterday night as I was worshipping in church. Pastor Tan's message was on how christians need to have spiritual hunger, and he preached on the prayer of Jabez.
Do u noe that Jabaz in Hebrew means pain? Imagine yourself being known as a pain all the time, and I was especially stuck by Jabez's prayer that requested that he would not cause any pain to anyone else! Wow, such a selfless prayer.
Jabez's prayer went like this: "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that i may not cause pain."(1 Chron 4: 10)
Why enlarge Jabez's territory, and how many of us have also prayed this prayer before? I have...I have asked the Lord to increase my capacity in serving Him, in speaking more eloquently, in being able to reach out to more pple in campus and around me.
But somehow, this prayer, instead of being expressed as a prayer of humility, a prayer that says, Lord, how much I need You, it has turned into some inspection of my own inadequacies that have crippled me with much fear.
Together with the reminder of JC days, I was reading my autograph book a few days ago. Someone wrote that she was impressed with my "undying faith in God", haha, I was shocked and almost fell off my chair. TOday, as I inspect my own life, it seems to fall short of the faith I had in JC. A simple faith that trusted God, and each day I awoke, I was filled with such a sense of expectancy of great things, that He will speak something to me, and use me to be a blessing.
Really thank God for this revelation, that nothing else matters except to please Him. Really pray that ministry will not be a distraction to really loving the Lord with my whole heart and soul.
There is a testimony I wanna share. I made one simple prayer as I was walking along the road on thurs. I said, Oh Lord, that You would show me Your realness. And then I said, i would have faith to expect and believe!
The v same day on thurs, Vene sms to ask me to lead worship this sat! Wow, praise God, I was really v excited, and went home to pray... and asked God to show me a song in season for the CG. The song came up to me as I was praying ,"There is a longing...only You can fill".
On fri service, after Pastor Tan preached such a good message, there was a time of ministry, and then, low and behold! We sang the same song!!
I just felt God encouraging me, that as I had prayed a pray for Him to reveal Himself to me, He really did! And I just kept weeping cos I knew then, that HE had heard every prayer I had made in desperation to Him!
God is always faithful, and these few weeks has been drawing me back to Himself. though man be faithless, He is always faithful and loves us very much. =)
Luv from a very satisfied gal
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