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Friday, April 30, 2010
8 'A's of Prayer - part 1
1)Avoid-AVOID WHATEVER WILL HINDER YOUR PRAYERS-
For our prayer life to be meaningful, we must avoid what Bill Hybels calls “prayer busters.” These are the obstacles we create between us and God that can impede our prayer life. In his classic book Too Busy Not to Pray, Hybels lists unconfessed sin as one of the big culprits in disrupting our communication with God.
“Your iniquities have separated you from your God,” says Isaiah 59:2 (NIV) “Your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.” Said Hybels: “If you’re tolerating sin in your life, don’t waste your breath praying unless it’s a prayer of confession.” The Bible also says that unresolved relational conflict can thwart our prayer life.
God is so serious about having us deal with fractured relationships that the Bible says we should stop in our tracks on the way to church, turn around, and seek reconciliation with those we are in conflict with. Only after doing what we can to repair the relational rift should we then come to church. It is important to take whatever steps you can to resolve strife before you pray. This might mean apologizing for unfair words that you hurled at people in anger or initiating a frank discussion about the tension in your relationship. Romans 12:18 (NIV) says, “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”
“Motives are crucial to prayer because prayer is totally based on the relationship between God and us,” said Leith Anderson in his book Praying to the God You Can Trust.
Relationships mean everything to God . . . He delights when we are on good terms with Him and is deeply disappointed when we are on bad terms. What all of this means is that God answers our prayers more on the basis of our relationship with Him than on the depth of our desire to have our prayers answered.
2)Approach -APPROACH GOD WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE-Approach God both in faith and in humility. Hebrews 11:6(NIV) tells us, “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Faith is more than just believing something and hoping against hope that it’s true. Christianity isn’t true because we believe it; it’s true and we believe it. Our faith is anchored to the absolute truth of Scripture and the resurrection of Jesus. So when we approach God, we do so with a confident assurance that what the Bible teaches is true. R. A. Torrey said that it is by studying the Bible, especially God’s promises to us, that we learn the will of God.
“We cannot believe by just trying to make ourselves believe. Such belief as that is not faith but credulity; it is ‘make believe,’” he said. “The great warrant for intelligent faith is God’s Word. As Paul puts it in Romans 10:17(NIV), “Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.”
And we should always approach God with a sense of humility. When Larry King went on a personal quest to understand prayer, Rabbi Marvin Hier advised him that the best prayers never contain ego. Interestingly, he said a famous rabbi had studied the difference between two names for God, Adonoi and Elohim, and found that Jews only used the name Adonoi in prayer. He explained:
This is because Elohim defines God as the creator of the cosmos, of the vast universe. . . and when we think of such a God, he’s far from us. He is distant. That is the God that man thinks of when man is in the mode of being a conqueror. . . successful in his career. When man looks at God from that vantage point, hell always find him at the end of the galaxy. To find the God named Adonoi you must be willing to be defeated, willing to surrender, to know you cannot be a conqueror all your life. . . A man must know how to say “I surrender” before an all-powerful creator. In that moment of defeat. . . he meets God not in the distant ends of the galaxy, but he meets God as a friend, as a confidant, as someone whose shoulder he can lean upon.
So when we pray, it should not be from the perspective of someone arrogantly demanding what we think should be ours. Instead, we should come as individuals who recognize our brokenness before the Lord and who respectfully and unpretentiously present our requests to him, as a child sits at the feet of a generous and loving father.
As Christians, we know that God is always near us. In fact, he is closer than any individual, because the Holy Spirit actually dwells inside of us. And we can approach our Savior as a friend who cares about us, who wants the best for us, and who delights in talking with us. “You are my friends,” Jesus said in John 15:14, “if you do what I command.”
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
hotlines
Oh, dear fellow friends, let me reveal the answer
When in sorrow, ......................................... call John 14
When men fail you, ..................................... call Psalm 27
If you want to be fruitful, ............................. call John 15
When you have sinned, .................................. call Psalm 51
When you worry, ................................. call Matthew 6:19-34
When you are in danger, ................................ call Psalm 91
When God seems far away, .............................. call Psalm 139
When your faith needs stirring, ...................... call Hebrews 11
When you are lonely and fearful, ....................... call Psalm 23
When you grow bitter and critical, ............. call I Corinthians 13
For Paul's secret to happiness, .............. call Colossians 3:12-17
For understanding of Christianity, ....... call II Corinthians 5:15-19
When you feel down and out, ......................... call Romans 8:31
When you want peace and rest, .................. call Matthew 11:25-30
When the world seems bigger than God, .................. call Psalm 90
When you want Christian assurance, ................ call Romans 8:1-30
When you leave home for labor or travel, .............. call Psalm 121
When your prayers grow narrow or selfish, .............. call Psalm 67
For a great invention/opportunity, .................... call Isaiah 55
When you want courage for a task, ...................... call Joshua 1
For how to get along with fellow men, ................. call Romans 12
When you think of investments and returns, .............. call Mark 10
If you are depressed, .................................. call Psalm 27
If your pocketbook is empty, ........................... call Psalm 37
If you are losing confidence in people, ........ call I Corinthians 13
If people seem unkind, .................................. call John 15
If discouraged about your work, ....................... call Psalm 126
If you find the world growing small and yourself great,..call Psalm 19
Alternative hotlines: For dealing with fear, ............................... call Psalm 34:7
For security, ....................................... call Psalm 121:3
For assurance, ........................................ call Mark 8:35
For reassurance, ................................... call Psalm 145:18
And congratulation all! Our phone number is Revelation 3:20
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Jeremiah 33:3
yo peeps! E462 has something to post! its quiz time. this time round is not asking you guys to guess song title and singer/ composer! this will be fun, i guarantee!i wonder how well you guys know your/ the bible. this quiz is going to be on the bible. everyone knows that God's Emergency Directory or rather His telephone number is Jeremiah 33:3, right? that's when you need someone, and that someone is the Almighty one. but, do you know that all hotlines to Heaven is 24 hours open? What number do you call, when...When in sorrow, .........................................
When men fail you, ....................................
If you want to be fruitful, .........................
When you have sinned, .............................
When you worry, .................................
When you are in danger, ................................
When God seems far away, ..............................
When your faith needs stirring, ......................
When you are lonely and fearful, .......................
When you grow bitter and critical, .............
For Paul's secret to happiness, ..............
For understanding of Christianity, .......
When you feel down and out, .........................
When you want peace and rest, ..................
When the world seems bigger than God, ..................
When you want Christian assurance, ................
When you leave home for labor or travel, ..............
When your prayers grow narrow or selfish, ..............
For a great invention/opportunity, ....................
When you want courage for a task, ......................
For how to get along with fellow men, .................
When you think of investments and returns, ..............
If you are depressed, ..................................
If your pocketbook is empty, ...........................
If you are losing confidence in people, ........
If people seem unkind, ..................................
If discouraged about your work, .......................
If you find the world growing small and yourself great,..
Alternate numbers: For dealing with fear, ...............................
For security, .......................................
For assurance, ........................................
For reassurance, ................................... Lastly, do you all know that Jesus makes house calls? He phones us too! we can call Him, so is vice versa. and do you know what is our united house number? make a guess.answer will be revealed in the next post. read your bible NOW!!!
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
i think i'm going to throw up
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E462
We are a happy family in Christ who are also faithful followers of Christ!
Our zone supervisor: Pastor Edmund Tay
Our Cell Group Leader: Sister SuTing
Members:
Alexis
Belle Sng
Donnie
Eugene
Jeremy/JianYun, Jerome, Justin Quek, Justin Tan
Kimberly
Maria, Michelle
Nadine
Samuel Ng, Samuel Tng
Vivian
YuTing
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