Wednesday, July 29, 2009 @11:44 PM
SSS 26.7.2009
Higher Hands
Tho it seems I’m oft unnoticed
And lost in time and space
God above is watching o’er me
Tho I cannot see His face
Chorus Higher hands are leading me
Higher hands are leading me
I am not alone I know
As I walk this world below
For Higher hands are leading me
O how sweet to know He hears me
When I go to Him in prayer
And I tell Him all my troubles
When my heart is bowed with care
All my times are in His keeping
He has numbered all my years
And some day He’ll take me yonder
Where there’ll be no pain or tears
There’s a great eternal purpose
In the life of everyone
And someday we’ll know its meaning
When our days on earth are done
So I face an unknown future
Full of faith and unafraid
And the peace I have thru’ trusting
For the world I would not trade
Chap 5 Partners in Prayer by John Maxwell
Today we are learning to expand our prayer focus
John records Jesus' final words of instruction and encouragement before His arrest and His death
He spent intimate moments with His disciples interceding for protection and unity for them and believers in the world
3 Concentric Circles
The Prayer Of Jesus John 17
Jesus prays for Himself, that God would be glorified 17:1-5
in the death of His Son
as He has been in His life
For the 11 disciples 17:6-19
that they would be united, protected and set apart in their service for Him
And for His future followers, that they might know God and show God in their daily lives 17:20-26
Like 3 concentric circles,
Jesus moves from His "personal" needs
to His "family" needs, and finally
to the "worldwide" needs of His Church
This is a model for powerful prayer life patterned after the Lord Himself.
5 mins of daily prayer adds up to 30 hrs of talking to God in a year.
Pray and plead with God on behalf of others and be an intercessor like Christ
Rom8:34 Who then will condemn us? No one-for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honour at God's right hand, pleading for us.
A Day without prayer is a day without blessing
A Life without prayer is a life without power
Bruce Wilkinson Your Daily Walk
Lest we become spiritual skeletons and die from starvation.
We must open our Bibles and feed on God's Word
Thank you Lady Jeanette Lady Jun and Lady Eunice for your honest sharing
It takes courage and grit to unburden difficulties listlessness and inexperience
I am thankful for the trust we have each with another
It makes time-out together with Sparkers so worthwhile
so fulfilling. I love to meet with you.
Always love you
U:P
Monday, July 13, 2009 @1:12 AM
The Day Of The Lord is ComingWe continue to be motivated by the
FEAR of the LORDThe Theme for Sparkers this year. (5Jan2009)
2 Peter 3From the Apostle Peter to Christians to grow in faith and in the knowledge of Christ
3 Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. 4 They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.”
5 They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water. 6 Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood. 7 And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.
8 But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.
9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.
11 Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, 12 looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames. 13 But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.
14 And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight. 15 And remember, the Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved.......
All glory to him, both now and forever! Amen.