God's Unfailing Love

A beautiful worship song which I discovered recently is Nicky Chiswell's Psalm 143. It's a song which you can sing each morning as you wake up to a new day knowing that He is faithful and His mercies are new every morning. Here are the lyrics:

Chorus
Let the morning bring me word
Of your unfailing love
I put my trust in you
Show the way that I should go
To you I lift my soul
I put my trust in you

1. I remember days long gone
I remember all you’ve done
Like a thirsty soul in the desert am I
Answer quickly!
My spirit fails!

2. I remember all you’ve done
I remember Christ your Son
Like a thirsty soul in the desert am I
O come quickly!
My spirit fails!

© 2006 Nicky Chiswell

What if your blessings come through raindrops?

The new year saw greater challenges in work and life. A quarter of the year has passed but time flies on as the intensity of work goes up. Just as Laura Story asked, "What if the trials of this life are mercies in disguise?" Then the mercies of God are indeed rich and in abundance!

Here is the lyrics of her song which I find a blessing in the midst of the busyness of life...

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights 
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we have faith to believe

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights 
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise!

Copyright 2011 New Spring Publishing (ASCAP) / Laura Story (ASCAP)

2011 in retrospect

2011 came and soon it would be history! There were many events this year but the highlights were:
1. MYMCA Ballet Concert - "One Day" in September
2. Men's Ministry Retreat @ Gunung Ledang in October
3. A Holiday on the West Coast of USA in November
4. Visit to M.V. Logos Hope in December
Thanks be to God for His love & grace towards us.

We look forward to 2012 as we ask of God who is utterly faithful to be our guide again.

Praise God from Whom All Blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below,
Praise Him above ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.


Enjoy!

Guarding our hearts

"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure" so writes the prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 17:9). Whatever captures your heart will control your life. Guard your heart for the heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart. But Jeremiah also goes on to speak of a time when God would make a new covenant that involved the changing of the heart.

Jer. 31: 33 "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God; and they shall be my people."

Following Jesus Each Day « Godspace

We were created by Him and redeemed with His life. It follows that His agenda rules, not ours.

A necessary corrective for all of us: Read Following Jesus Each Day « Godspace

Wisdom with age?

A year older for the country and a year older for me. May God give me wisdom to live wisely all my days.

John Stott: In his own words

Evangelical statesman and giant, John Robert Wamsley Stott died 27 July 2011. He was 90 and lived a full life for Christ impacting and influencing many worldwide for the Kingdom. He has no less an impact in my own life. I have heard and met him in person, heard him on tape and certainly read his many books. He is one person whose one thing in life was for the glory of God and left a blazing trail for us all to follow after.

Here's Uncle John (as he is affectionately known as) recounting how he came to the throne of grace:

"As a typical adolescent, I was aware of two things about myself, though doubtless I could not have articulated them in these terms then. First, if there was a God, I was estranged from him. I tried to find him, but he seemed to be enveloped in a fog I could not penetrate. Secondly, I was defeated. I knew the kind of person I was, and also the kind of person I longed to be. Between the ideal and the reality there was a great gulf fixed. I had high ideals but a weak will. . . . [W]hat brought me to Christ was this sense of defeat and of estrangement, and the astonishing news that the historic Christ offered to meet the very needs of which I was conscious.

Whether you are estranged from Christ or walk with Him, may this memorial site be used by God to draw you to the only source of life for us all, Jesus Christ."

(extracted from John Stott Memorial site)