代禱

近日，常常在腦海浮現的urge就是為身邊的人禱告 ...

世界上太多人被各樣的經歷torture, 

我沒什麼可以做到，

但我卻能為他們祈禱，

我深信要deliever他們的不是我，

卻是神。

After all, 我總覺得在苦難中經歷神其實是多寶貴 ...

我就要安靜的聽聽聖靈要我如何為我身邊的人禱告 ...

And it is interesting how God draws me intimately to Him through prayers ...

It's just like the passage that we focused on in my online class last week ... in John 15. 

If it wasn't God's loving forgiveness and grace, I would not have such privilege to be in an intimate closeness in my friendship with God. (p.s. I wrestled and argued with God too at time!!!)

... 我不再稱你們為僕人，因為僕人不知道主人所作的事；我已經稱你們為朋友了，因為我從我父那裡聽見的一切，都已經告訴你們了。不是你們揀選了我，而是我揀選了你們，並且分派你們去結果子，就是結常存的果子，使你們奉我的名，無論向父求甚麼，他必定賜給你們 ... 

What a lesson that God has been teaching me about prayers ... 

God is so good ...

Yup ... that's the song keeps playing in my head all these weeks ...

I learnt this song when I was in grade 9 sunday school ... and I remember how our fellowship counsellor shared this song with us when I was 22 (??) ... 

As simple as such ... God is so good ... God is so good ... God is so good, He's so good to me ...

A love that we undeserved but graciously given ... thanks Dad :)

You are not guilty anymore ...

Then each went to his own home ... but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 

At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he saw down to teach them.

The teacher of the law and Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to jesus, made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, 

"Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?!"

... but Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finder.

When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, 

"If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her"

... Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time ...

the older ones first ...

until only Jesus was left ...

with the woman still standing there.

Jesus straightened up and asked her, 

"Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

"No one, sir," She said.

"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared.

"Go now and leave your life of sin."

This is the forgiving Grace of God ... Repent ... and leave your sins ... embrace the freedom in Christ that you have never experienced before.

還有390日 - 影相日

哈哈，對呀對呀，上個禮拜影左相 lu ...

<-- 因為，要用手機偷影，所以，quality也是這樣吧！！

其實，影相開心之餘，我同亞Ken也上左一課信心的功課呢。A week before the photoshooting day, the wedding shop owner called us and asked if we want to take the picture within 24 hours, as the forecast said it would rain on the day that we booked for photoshoot. 

Ken and I went for a little field trip in the park we were planning to take our pictures. As we walked, we prayed aloud to God and trusted that whatever He provides on the day we originally booked, we would have happily take that as a gift. It sounds stupid, but somehow, we both felt even it turns out to be a cloudy (unless it's a thunderstorm) day, we would still do our happy pictures. 

We turned down that offer and trusted in our Lord. But it's true scary, as we were following the weather forecast, it said it would have 100% rain. OOPS! there were moments when I turned to Ken and said "Opppps ... dim suen dim suen". Ken would say "Hey, where's the faith!?" ... We kept on trusting ...

2 days before that photoshooting ... hahaha ... the forecast suddenly said "0% rain, cloudless, sunny, +13C" ... hahaha ... God is good ...

During the whole day taking outdoor pictures ... Ken and I kept looking up to the cloudless blue sky thanking God for the smallest thing that He prepared. It was such a warm day in the midst of the chilly autumn weather. We can't ask for more ...

Throughout the whole day, I kept having a saying in my head "Long, you and Ken have to have this kind of faith in the path ahead of you. I will always prepare the best for you ..."

The next morning, I was prompt with a scary question since the moment I opened my eyes on my bed ... (will be continued ...) 

Oh no ...

Ahhh ... Ahhh ...

Today's headlines

I took my Subaru Babe to shop for replacing his window shield today ... I walked over to Tim Horton's to wait for my buddy to pick me up for work  ... 

Tim's was so busy in the morning ...

The entertaining part was that for the 45mins I sat there to read for my papers ... I overheard dialogues of the top 3 headlines on today's paper ...

1. 要救市

2. Election today

3. New Mac Announcement

haha ... basically, I didn't miss my daily routine to listen to news on radio ... :P

White Horse

As I was leading worship tonight ... I kept on praying for a pure worshipful spirit in each of our soul. When I looked at our choir standing at the back

... a glimpse of  snapshots of how our life stories unfolded and tears shed as our fellowship grows over the months and years,

... a glimpse of snapshot of a friend whom I have known for years, grew together, served together, offered our lives together to God to use, but severely attacked by many tribulations in life, struggling to find his identity as a man ... after all, his identity in Christ, 

... bondage and chains holding Christ followers back from experiencing freedom and peace in Christ ...

Slowly a very stern image anchored in my heart ...

a picture of a white horse ran quickly, with authority and force, in the darkness ... breaking metal chains after chains (some were rusted and some were shinny) that were entangled ... the white horse ran and ran ... it turned into such a glorious light as it travelled to a green pasture ... no longer I saw the horse, but the light ... the light was very warm and bright ...

Without plan ...

... God gave me tears to cry and to pray for those who are entangled ... 

and I read  

我們坐在黑暗中，死陰裡，被困苦和鐵鍊捆綁 ... 

... on and on ... 

我回家也趕快告訴Ken這些事，他也用同一句話回應

「Satan好不笨，會去attack D 越來越走得近上帝，行的近光明的人 ...」

求上帝憐憫 ...