Tuesday, December 31, 2013

The Potter's Touch

You made us
You see the finished work
From the pile of clay
Bringing beauty 
Out of Your love
You are the potter 
We are the clay
Fill us with the life and light of Christ
We yield to You
Come in Your love
Come in Your power
Bring wholeness and fullness
Speak life into our mortal being
Bring hope in our darkest hour
Lord, do a deep and a lasting work in us
Touch our hearts
Transform us
By the power of Your Spirit

Monday, December 30, 2013

We are Only Passing Through

We have set on heart on pilgrimage
With unwavering commitment
We offer our life to You
Our dreams
Our hopes
Our aspirations
Our desires
We give them all to You
Lord, do a deep and a lasting work in us
Help us to see Your purposes
Help us to know Your will
Help us to hear Your voice
We lay our life at Your altar
We run after You
To seek Your face
To see Your hand of love
To touch the hem of Your garment
To hear Your heart
Lord, we are on pilgrimage
This world is not our home
We are only passing through

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Steamboat with Our Family

Last evening, my family came over to our home for steamboat. Monte prepared dinner. This afternoon, I had to bring my mother for a medical appointment and Monte spent hours to prepare for the dinner. He cooked up a storm. We had chicken, pork, carrots, tomatoes, button mushroom, eggs, fish balls, Bak Choy and cabbage. We had steamboat with fragrant Thai rice. The dinner was so scrumptious. Cooking for people is a labour of love. God has blessed me with a wonderful and loving husband. 

The dinner was one of the ways to tell my family that we appreciate them. On their end, I saw that my family deeply appreciated the dinner invitation. God is good.


Friday, December 27, 2013

Scaling New Heights

You have given us feet of deer
To scale new heights
To climb new mountains
You lead us in victory

From faith to faith
From glory to glory
When we reach the summit
All we see is Your glory

Your strength
Your might
Your dominion
Enable us to take one baby step at a time

Trusting in You in full faith
Though we do not see
We believe
Though the odds are against us
We persevere
For You are ever faithful
To see that we reach our destination

We see Your face
We feel Your hand of love
We see the sign of Your goodness
We behold You in Your glory and beauty

Thursday, December 26, 2013

God Speaks to Us Through the Waves

Last evening, as Monte and I sat on the beach, we enjoyed every moment of that precious time. We love to hear the sound of waves.  It is calming, soothing and wonderful.  

God speaks to us in different ways.  Very often, He comes through to us through His creation. 
 
Everything He created draw us to Him; to the gentle nudge of His love, to His loving embrace, to His mercy and grace.  God works in wonderful ways. 

As we offer our self to Him, He will never short-change us.  He lavishes His love on all who purpose in their heart to seek and love Him.

(Blog posting made on 26 December 2013 at Jee Fong's Corner.)

In a Morning Like this

In a morning like this
We come humbly before You

King of kings
And Lord of lords

We see the smallness of our strength
We feel the feebleness of our knees
We are vulnerable

We lean on the arms of Jesus
We cry out to You our maker

We declare our everlasting love for You
Touch us 
Mould us
And make us more like You
We love You

Lovely Evening at the Beach

Yesterday evening, Monte and I were at the East Coast Park. We have barbecue chicken, button mushrooms, pita bread, baked beans and cherry tomatoes for dinner. Simple pleasure in life. The simple things are the most precious things in life.

After dinner, we laid on the beach and enjoyed the awesome view and the sound of the waves as they hit the shoreline.

Count Our Blessings

We count our blessings
Your abiding presence
The body of Christ
Family
Friends
Ministry
Career
Home
Health
The list goes on
Teach us to be mindful of You
To count our abundant blessings
That flow from above
Every good gift 
You have blessed us 
Is treasured in our heart
Every blessing 
You have poured into our life
Is Your sovereign 
And divine providence

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

We Give You Our All

This Christmas morning
We come bearing gifts to You
Our gratitude
Our heartfelt appreciation
Our worship
We give You our all
We offer our live anew and afresh 
To our only God and Father
Our helper
Our refuge
Our stronghold
Our fortress
Our hope
The eternal God who reigns 
Through all eternity
This Christmas morning
We declare our everlasting love for You
Our maker
Our redeemer
Our lover
Lord, we pour our heart out to You
We sing the song of the redeemed
We dance with all our might
With sounds of rejoicing
We cannot contain our joy
We worship You with all of our heart

Monday, December 23, 2013

Soften Our Heart

Soften our heart, Lord
We long to hear Your voice
We long to see Your glory 
We long to taste Your goodness

Soften our heart, Lord
Melt us with Your love
Embrace us in Your bosom
Touch us, today
So that we will hear Your heart cry
We will see Your purpose and will
Grant us sensitivity to Your Spirit
Draw us by Your Spirit
Conquer us relentlessly by Your love

Soften our heart 
We enthrone You 
We give You the preeminence
We give You everything
Fill our heart with Your abiding presence

Hear Our Cry

Lord, You hear our cry for mercy
You bring relief and release
You deliver and rescue us
When our heart is dry
Your living water flood our soul 
When we are hungry
Your manna fill us up
All sufficient one
All powerful
All knowing
Almighty God
We cry out to You
The one who deserves all honour
All glory
All praise
Be exalted, O Lord

Saturday, December 21, 2013

He is the Reason for the Season

Jesus is the reason for the season
It's got nothing to do with Santa Claus
Rudolf the red nose
Snow men
Jingle bells
Christmas trees
Mistletoe
Pretty lights
Glittering tinsels
He is the reason for the season
We celebrate Jesus during Christmas
And every moment of the day
We celebrate the birth of Jesus
Because He gives us purpose for living
Our destiny is in Him
He makes our life beautiful
For He is the reason for the season
And the purpose of it all

Friday, December 20, 2013

Flow Through Us

Ministry takes place when we reach out to touch someone's life.  God is raising a nameless and faceless people who are not concerned with titles.  All they desire to do is to love and serve in whatever manner the Lord desires to do in and through their life and ministry.

Down the corridors of time, we have witnessed and read stories of people of lowly estate.  Illiterate, insignificant, simple but Godly people who minister in God's grace and anointing.  The Bible is full of examples of God raising up simple people; people who seemingly have very little to offer.  He brings out the gem in each unpolished stone.  He used the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.

Today, the Lord is still actively working in many of our lives.  As we yield to the Potter, He brings out the best in us to touch this dying world. Broken people who need the Lord desperately.  Lord, flow powerfully through each of us as we abandon our self to You in humble submission, love and gratitude.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Salvific Motifs of Renewal Theology

Monte and I thank God for ministry opportunities.  Recently, Monte was asked to contribute to a blog post for Renewal Dynamics, Regent University School of Divinity.  The link below will lead you to the post.

We continue to allow the Lord to lead and guide us.  In recent years, there have have some developments and opportunities that God has sovereign opened to us.  We can only stand amazed at Him

Salvific Motifs of Renewal Theology

Empower Us

You've poured in the oil and the wine
You picked us up when we were in disdain
You cleansed and made us whole again
You gave us beauty for ashes
The oil of joy for mourning
Lord, may the meditations of our heart
Be acceptable to You
Restore and renew us today
Strengthen and empower us
To live in and through You
Our heart overflow with gratitude
To Your faithfulness and goodness
All the days of our life

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Divine Providence

On 16 September Monte was invited to chair a session for the Society of Pentecostal Studies (SPS) Practical Theology Interest Group, at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies.  The meeting will be held on 6-8 March, 2014 at Evangel University, Springfield, Missouri, USA. We are very thankful to the Lord for the open door.  We stepped out in faith to believe God for the finances to make the trip.  God is good, some funds came in and last night, Monte settled the registration fee and meals for the conference.  We are continuing to believe God for the funds to buy the air ticket, accommodation and transport expenses.  God is so good.  He miraculously provided for Monte's last two SPS conference in 2012 (Virginia, USA) and 2013 (Seattle, USA).  We are thankful for God's goodness and grace.  We are excited about what God is doing in our life.

Our Stories

We are always  captivated by a story. The Bible is full of stories. The power of narratives, images, imagination, and plots allow us to get into the story as it unfolds. 

Today, God is writing the story of your life and mine. The experiences, the ups and downs, everyday living, our dreams, aspirations and hopes are the fodder that go into the writing of our life stories. No experiences we have gone through is wasted. Even painful experiences enrich our lives.

As our life stories continue to emerge.  God continues to empower us daily. We live in His love and grace. We grow from strength to strength. In His love, we morph from cocoons into beautiful butterflies.  

He brings out the beauty in each of us.  He sees boundless potential and helps us to continue to grow and develop daily.  

We want to be more like Him. For when the light and life of Christ radiates, He ministers in and through our lives.

As we faithfully entrust our life completely to His lordship, God begins to unfold His purposes and plans to us.   

Someone once said that the safest place is to be in the centre of God's will. We do not want to be found in any other place other than to be in His will. We allow God to develop our individual stories. His grace is sufficient. His promises sustain us every moment of the day.
  
Lord, we turn our lives into Your hands. You are our maker and redeemer.  

We echo the words of Mary's hymn of praise to the Lord in the Magnificat. (Luke 1:46-55)

"My soul magnifies the Lord
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
Because He has regarded the lowliness of His handmaid;
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed;
Because He who is mighty has done great things for me,
and holy is His name;
And His mercy is from generation to generation
on those who fear Him.
He has shown might with His arm,
He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and has exalted the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich He has sent away empty.
He has given help to Israel, his servant, mindful of His mercy
Even as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his posterity forever"

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Purify Us, Lord

The pure in heart shall see Your face

Come with Your refining fire, Lord
Come with Your consuming love

Come in Your power and Your strength
Come, Holy Spirit

We need Your touch today
We long to see You
We long to hear You
We long to bask in Your sweet presence

Let Your fire fall
Let Your fire consume us
To purify and sanctify us

We live to see Your glory
We live to taste Your goodness

We worship You
For You have put eternity in our hearts

Monday, December 16, 2013

We Need You More

Lord,  You sustain the weary with Your precious word. You heal the broken hearted with Your divine love. You raised the downtrodden with Your unending hope.

You speak life into the parched and dry hearts. You speak wholeness to our broken bodies.

We need You more today than yesterday. We need You more this second than the last.

Like fish that need water. Like plants that need sunlight. We need You more.

Only You

 Only You can give us total liberty
Only You can soften our hardened hearts
Only You can quench our dying thirsts

Only You can satisfy our deepest longing
Only You can bring us eternal hope 
Only You can restore our broken lives

You are the reason for our being
You are why our hearts are beating

To breathe
To thrive
To rise up again

In Your love 
In Your hope 
In You
We live and move
And have our being

You hold all things  together
From You
We gladly receive  

You and You alone 
deserve the highest praise
We magnify Your holy name

Oyu and Eliska

My niece, Eliska turned two on 9th November 2013. She is seen here with her cousin, Oyu. They are so sweet.

Fall Afresh on Us, Lord!

Spirit of the living God
Fall afresh on us
Purge and cleanse us 
Sanctify and renew us
We live in You
We thirst for You
Fill us this day, Lord
Till we overflow with You
Brimming over with so much
That others around us
Will be touched by You too

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Finishing Strong

We are not racing in a 100 metres sprint. We are running in a marathon. 

God began a good work in us and He will bring it to completion. 

This race is not marked by personal glory or acclaim, but one that is peppered with God's goodness and mercy. He showers us with His kindness, hope and joy unceasingly.

It is a race marked by triumph and fulfillment in God. In this race, faithful men and women of God persevere and press into the presence of God. We desire to live in the centre of His will. 

No obstacles or challenges can stop us. Nothing will set us on the quitting mode. God is in charge of our destiny. God is in complete control.

We experience undying hope and divine grace daily. Our lives are in the hands of our loving God. 

Deep within us a fire is burning ever brighter and stronger. In the depth of our being, a cry rises up to the Lord. A cry that touches the heart of God. 

We press into His presence.  We savour His goodness. We bask in His glorious presence. 

Running the race takes on a new meaning when our sole desire is to follow hard after our maker. The lover of our soul watches over us. 

We long to see His purposes and plans unfold in our life. Our lives revolve around the Lord.

Thank you, Lord for showing us  Your patient love and  goodness.  

Thank you for doing a deep and  lasting work in us. Teach us Your ways and we will follow You till the very end. We will finish strong by Your unfailing grace and strength.

Friday, December 13, 2013

We Serve a Mighty God

We serve a mighty God
Even the wind and the waves obey Him
Boundless
Matchless
Infinite
Immortal
Changeless
On bended knee we bow
With broken heart and spirit we surrender
We serve a mighty Saviour 
Ever faithful and true

Saturday, November 02, 2013

Awaken Us, Lord

Awaken us to Your love, Lord
Awaken us to Your stirring
Awaken us to Your still small voice
For we long to hear You
We long to see Your face
We need the touch of Your love
In all that we do
In all that we say
In all that happens this day
We give You full control
We submit fully to Your lordship
Out of reverence and love for You

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Seek the Lord

Seek the Lord and He will be found. He will show us signs and wonders. He will reveal things that will blow our mind. God is earnestly seeking for those who will seek Him with all of their heart. He promised to shower His love and blessings on each of us. He calls us His beloved. We are the apple of His eye, His prized possession. Anyone who says that we are insignificant has missed it all because the Lord is on our side and we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. He empowers us to live each day triumphantly.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Immanuel

Thank You for Your comforting presence
Thank You for the song in the night
How can we ever thank You enough 
For all that You've done for us
Our heart is full of singing
There is a spring in our feet
Amazing God
Immanuel
God with us
The beginning and the end
Alpha and Omega
We come before You today
To acknowledge that there is no higher calling
Than to worship You
In Your spendour and beauty
In Your strength and glory

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Give Them All to Jesus

Give them all to Jesus
Our pain and our sorrow
Our grief
Our unanswered questions
Things that we may not understand
Circumstances that are not in our control
Heartaches that weigh like tonnes
Broken hopes and dreams
Broken relationships
We have no reason to carry all these
The Lord beckons us to come to Him
To lay every burden and pain at His feet
To trust Him to soothe, comfort and strengthen
To believe Him
To see His divine intervention
To have the full assurance
In Him who created this universe
He is more than able to rescue us
All we have to do is to give them all to Jesus
He brings beauty out of our brokenness
Through our complete reliance on Him
To lean on the arm of Jesus
To find the strength to take another step
To allow Him to carry us through it all


Saturday, October 26, 2013

We cannot be Shaken

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
"All those minds shall be truly stayed, that are stayed on God. They shall be as Mount Zion, firm as it is; a mountain supported by providence, much more as a holy mountain supported by promise. They cannot be removed from confidence in God. They abide for ever in that grace which is the earnest of their everlasting continuance in glory. Committing themselves to God, they shall be safe from their enemies. Even mountains may moulder and come to nothing, and rocks be removed, but God's covenant with his people cannot be broken, nor his care of them cease. Their troubles shall last no longer than their strength will bear them up under them. The rod of the wicked may come, may fall upon the righteous, upon their persons, their estates, their liberties, their families names, on any thing that falls to their lot; only it cannot reach their souls. And though it may come upon their lot, it shall not rest thereon. The Lord will make all work together for their good. The wicked shall only prove a correcting rod, not a destroying sword; even this rod shall not remain upon them, lest they distrust the promise, thinking God has cast them off."

Thursday, October 24, 2013

We Remember Your Covenant

We remember Your covenant with us
We remember Your loving kindness

We remember Your unending mercies
We remember Your faithful promises

We can only bow down 
In humble adoration
To Your love
To Your lordship 
Almighty God 

We have come so far 
Solely by Your grace
Your hand of love
And Your continual leading

We remember Your covenant of love
You have inscribed our names 
On the palm of Your hands
We are precious 
And priceless in Your eyes

We remember Your covenant of love
We are eternally grateful to You

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

We Look to You

We look to You
For You have the words of eternal life
We look to You 
For You are the life giver

We look to You
For You are our endless love
We look to You 
For You are our only hope

The anchor of our souls
The hope of our glory
The sole desire of our hearts

We look to You
To seek and love You
To know and embrace You
To pursue You wholeheartedly
For You are the lover of our souls

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Grateful to the Lord

This morning as I look out of my window, my heart is overwhelmed by the goodness of God. I thank God for a loving husband, wonderful family and friends. I see the smallness of my strength and the greatness of the Lord. I see my weakness made perfect in His strength. God is all powerful, all knowing, great and beyond comparison. No one can ever run out of things to thank Him. As a pilgrim on earth, travelling light is easy as long as we lay our life at the altar daily. Giving our life completely to His Lordship. Soaking in His loving kindness and love till His holy presence permeate through every part of our being. Thank you for Your everlasting love, O Lord.

God is on our Side

God is on our side
We have nothing to fear
Trials and troubles cannot knock us down
Discouragements and disappointments 
Will not dampen us
Dark clouds of depression flee 
At the mention of His name
Tragedy may strike
The storms of life may brew
But our eyes are on the Lord
For God has put eternity in our hearts
Nothing else matters
As long as God is on our side

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Consuming Fire

Try us, O Lord. You desire truth in our innermost being. Search our hearts this day.

We long to see Your face. Reveal Your heart to us as we worship You. Consume our lives.

You shape and mould us through the fire of Your love. You spur us to love You with each passing day.

Try us and let Your fire consume us. Purify us like gold. Try us and test us.

Holy Spirit, we invite You into our hearts. Do a complete renovation of our hearts.

Speak life and wholeness into us. Speak Your words of love. We want to follow hard after You.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

God of the Seasons

Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter
You are God of the seasons
Beautiful are the works of Your hands
Glorious is Your beauty
You are resplendent
Who can compare with You
You are glorious
Marvelous
Magnificent
Your handiwork speaks of Your greatness
You are the God of all seasons
God of purpose and hope
You carry us through each moment of the day
To live in the light of Your glory and Your grace
We exalt You in the greatness of Your majesty 
To declare Your faithfulness as long as we live

Friday, October 18, 2013

We Need You

Your promises preserve our lives
Your blood cleanses our sins
Your Word sustains us
Your Spirit empowers us
Your presence comforts us
How can we live without You
Just like the fish that needs water
The flower that needs sunlight
We need You
We cling on to You
Hear our cry,  O Lord
For nothing can separate us from Your love
From now till eternity

We Serve a Faithful God

We serve a faithful God
We need no other
He walks with us
He talks with us
He holds us by the hand
Through life's rugged paths
His faithfulness reaches to the sky
And His word remains forever
Our Lord
Our rock
Our anchor
Our hope
We serve a faithful God 
Who never fails nor falters

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Your Unending Mercy

Create in us a clean heart
Grant us a right spirit
Let Your mighty river wash over us

You revive the hearts of the contrite
You fill the hearts of the destitute with hope
You will never break a bruised reed

Thank You for Your unending mercy
Thank You for Your out poured grace

You keep our feet firmly planted on the ground
To scale every mountain
To conquer every fear

For those who wait on the Lord
Find refuge in the shadow of Your wings