Thursday, August 16, 2007
he came to my desk with a quivering lip,
the lesson was done.
"Have you a new sheet for me, dear teacher?
i've spoiled this one"
I took his sheet, all soiled and blotted
and gave him a new one all unspotted
And into his tired heart i cried
"Do better now, my child"
i went to the throne with a trembling heart,
the day was done."
Have you a new day for me, dear Master?
I've spoiled this one."
He took my day all soiled and blotted
and gave me a new one all unspotted.
And looked into my tired heart he cried,
"Do better now, my child."
- a school teacher
from can man live without God, Ravi Zacharias
Felt like you messed up the day?
God is willing to forgive us.
maybe we're tired, but theres still hope of doing better with the coming days.
Each day is a gift from God, so lets not take it for granted.
let us make full use of each day :D
-posted by rachel!
____only JESUS.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
I'm just glad all of us chose the path that leads to God. ha. imagine having to turn back then walk towards the right path again.
with love, eug(:
____only JESUS.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
HAPPY NATIONAL DAY, everyone! Haha. Yep.
Wanted to post this a few weeks back, but did not. But since now that I have the chance, I should, heh?
Prayer list [Prayer is powerful! May we always remember that :) Let's see change in lives!] :-
The 'karebears' wrote out a list of people who have not come for some time, and names of people whom we wanted to pray for. Feel free to edit or add to the list the names of people. [You may also write down the names of people you want to invite. :)] Sorry if I missed out anyone's names! >.< Do edit and add in names if I did.
Have not been coming to church for some time already:
~ Si Min
~ Shi Ying
~ Yue Shi: Came during Christmas last year
~ Mandy
~ Samuel
~ Vinolia
~ Handy
~ Nat: Facing parental objections
~ Adrian: Came back last week! But only for a while...
~ Andrew
~ Victoria
~ Rachael
~ Trisha
~ Wei Ming
~ Adelene: CCA clashes with church
'O' levels upcoming:
~ Jacklyn
~ Chia Yee
~ Samuel
~ Vinolia
~ Handy
~ Zi Jian
~ Sarah
'A' levels upcoming:
~ Timothy
People overseas/away from us:
~ Audrey
____only JESUS.
Friday, August 03, 2007
A good reminder of God's Love.
Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at the church, the Pastor and his eleven year old son would go out into their town and hand out Gospel Tracts. This particular Sunday afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his son to go to the streets with their tracts, it was very cold outside, as well as pouring down rain.
The boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said, "OK, dad, I'm ready."
His Pastor dad asked, "Ready for what?"
"Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and go out."
Dad responds, "Son, it's very cold outside and it's pouring down rain."
The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking, "But Dad, aren't people still going to Hell, even though it's raining?"
Dad answers, "Son, I am not going out in this weather."
Despondently, the boy asks,"Dad, can I go? Please?"
His father hesitated for a moment then said, "Son, you can! go. Here are the tracts, be careful son." "Thanks Dad!"
And with that, he was off and out into the rain. This eleven year old boy walked the streets of the town going door to door and handing everybody he met in the street a Gospel Tract. After two hours of walking in the rain, he was soaking, bone-chilled wet and down to his VERY LAST TRACT. He stopped on a corner and looked for someone to hand a tract to, but the streets were totally deserted.
Then he turned toward the first home he saw and started up the sidewalk to the front door and rang the door bell. He rang the bell, but nobody answered.
He rang it again and again, but still no one answered. He waited but still no answer. Finally, this eleven year old trooper turned to leave, but something stopped him.
Again, he turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on the door with his fist. He waited, something holding him there on the front porch!
He rang again and this time the door slowly opened. Standing i n the doorway was a very sad-looking elderly lady. She softly asked, "What can I do for you, son?"
With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world, this little boy said, "Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but I just want to tell you that*JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU* and I came to give you my very last GospelTract which will tell you all about JESUS and His great LOVE." With that, he handed her his last tract and turned to leave.
She called to him as he departed. "Thank you, son! And God Bless You!"
Well, the following Sunday morning in church Pastor Dad was in the pulpit. As the service began, he asked, "Does anybody have testimony or want to say anything?"Slowly, in the back row of the church, an elderly lady stood to her feet.As she began to speak, a look of glorious radiance came from her face, "No one in this church knows me. I've never been here before.
You see, before last Sunday I was not a Christian. My husband passed on some time ago, leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday, being a particularly cold and rainy day, it was even more so in my heart that I came to the end of the line where I no longer had any hope or will to live.
So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into the attic of my home.
I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the roof, then stood on the chair and fastened the other end of the rope around my neck. Standing on that chair, so lonely and brokenhearted I was about to leap off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairs startled me. I thought, "I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away."
I waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell seemed to get louder and more insistent, and then the person ringing also started knocking loudly.
I thought to myself again, "Who on earth could this be? Nobody ever rings my bell or comes to see me." I loosened the rope from my neck and started for the front door, all ! the while the bell rang louder and louder.
When I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes, for there on my front porch was the most radiant and angelic little boy I had ever seen in my life. His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you!
The words that came from his mouth caused my heart that had long been dead, TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed with a cherub-like voice, "Ma'am, I just came to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU." Then he gave me this Gospel Tract that I now hold in my hand.
As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold and rain, I closed my door and read slowly every word of this Gospel Tract. Then I went up to my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them any more. Yousee---I am now a Happy Child of the KING. Since the address of your church was on the back of this Gospel Tract, I have come here to personally say THANK YOU to God's little angel who came just in the nick! of time and by so doing, spared my soul from an eternity in hell."
There was not a dry eye in the church. And as shouts of praise and honor to THE KING resounded off the very rafters of the building, Pastor Dad descended from the pulpit to the front pew where the little angel was seated.
He took his son in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably.
Probably no church has had a more glorious moment, and probably this universe has never seen a Papa that was more filled with love & honor for his son ... Except for One.
This Father also allowed His Son to go out into a cold and dark world. He received His Son back with joy unspeakable, and as all of heaven shouted praises and honor to The King, the Father sat His beloved Son on a throne far above all principality and power and every name that is named.
you see, it’s our enthusiastic-ness in sharing the gospel that makes a difference. yeps. (:
with love, eug(:
____only JESUS.