Wednesday, May 14, 2003

It has been almost a week since I made any entry .

This serves to update on some feedback and observation on the Prayer Meeting Last night

Among items prayed for and noted are condensed as follows:.

1. Unity in all levels in the church enhance by being more sensitive to the needs of other. greater transparency, and aspire to achieve excellence for God in all areas
2. For men in the families to take up divine roles & responsibility to be the leader. Pray for sins & stronghold of old habits, mindset to be broken. Pray for strong spiritual discipline, devotional life.
3. For the Lord to raise up more spiritually mature girls/ladies inm the Youth & Young Adults
4. We are to have breakthroughs through reaching out to others despite our own needs or pain
5. John Lee quote : "delight yourself in the Lord and he will grant you the desires of your heart"
6. Thankfulness- for the apstm the present, let us not be quick to complain but maintain a thankful/grateful heart
7. Pray for the healing & Miracle Rally by Evangelist Michael Petro - salvation of souls, healing of the sick whether or emotions. For intercessor team to be raise up
8. for Henry's friend healing - thank God for the visons of a tree of life budding and growing for this brother
9. Mandarin speaking ministry - more and more came but we need to cater for them. Interpreting system


The willingness to die ...will be effected only after we know the author of life personally.

Exerpts from John Wesley's biography - This was record in John Wesley's life when he was returning from a not very succesful from a mission trip to America. He established his Holy Club in Oxford while studying there to seek God and be pious. But he did not have a personal assurance of his own salvation - read on... .***************************

As God sent a whale for Jonah, so He whirled across the path of John's boat a raging storm. Had the boat been heavier, or the storm not blown up with the fury of doom riding in its wake, Wesley's soul travail might have been told far otherwise than we today read of it. [This must have been a very decent storm, and I'm a sailor.] But the storm came and the boat being light rocked on the blood-curdling waves of the deep. John was distraught...the passengers despaired of their lives...the crew pictured the horrors of Davy Jones locker.

While the storm was raging, John looked at the Moravians, whom previously he had thought of as heavy-minded and dull-witted folk, and they were calmly singing a hymn. The wilder the waves, the calmer the Germans sang. The storm passed as all of God's storms do when their missions are fulfilled. But the storm in Wesley's turbulent soul could not be quieted by the soothing efficacy of a still sea.

"I thank God, no," came the answer from one whose soul had been anchored to the Rock of Christ.

Then John wondered if the women and children were afraid, for he thought the strong man might have found a source of quietude in his physical vigor. So John asked, "But were not your women and children afraid?"

Answered the man, "No, our women and children are not afraid to die."

John had been previously thinking about his soul's welfare, and when a storm arose on November 23, he entered in his diary, "Sun. 23. At night I was awakened by the tossing of the ship...and plainly showed I was unfit, for I was unwilling to die."

But when he had gone through that sail-ripping, ship-soaking, skin-drenching storm and had come out alive, he was certain those Moravians had an experience to which he was a total stranger. This discovery was a startling one and at the close of that day he entered in his Journal, "This was the most glorious day which I have hitherto seen."

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