Prayers!!!

Actually right, i got so many thousand things to write on my blog!! just that i always don't have much time...cause my CA is coming up like next week...so i will be like a mugger this week..
Anws, i just couldn't contain all the info that i wanna say on my blog any longer..so i decided to release some of them today!!

Today, i wanna talk about last fri!! we had our prayer group cell thingy in school and amos lead worship and taught a lesson on prayer!!! i just wanna share with you all what i learnt from him! cause i think it is really good^^

He asked us this question..."What is prayer to you? what is the purpose?" there are like thousands of answers! like to bond with God, to spend time with him, for healing, a form of worship, it is important..etc...
There are so many things that can be done in prayer...but what are things we shouldn't do regarding prayer? there are like only a few...one of them that he shared was that prayer is unlimited and shouldn't be confined...
If you still don't get what i mean, here is an example...(this is not to condemn like the catholics or anything..)
In luke chapter 11, "He said to them, 'when you pray, say: 'Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day your daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation." Because i am from like a catholic school, so everytime i hear this prayer in the morn, especially like in my sec school..
It is just like an everyday ritual...like it is so confined to this...but when Jesus taught the disciples how to pray, it is just an example..
For example, for the first line, it is praising God and asking for his will in our lives to start off a prayer...and the second one, asking God to forgive us of our sins when we love others and forgive them first...something like that la..
So it is not just confined within that prayer which will make prayer very limited!

Anws, he talked about "God is not a gene in the bottle" He is not someone who like when you need help then you go rub the bottle and find him and ask him for things and He will grant you kind...
He is a God that emphasize alot on your everyday relationship with Him...
What i heard from Leng shan is that at the end times, at the rapture, those which are able to go heaven will hear a ringing or trumpet sound first before they are being brought up to heaven...
So it is like if you didn't hear the trumpet or ringing sound, you won't be taken away but left behind...
Even though you may serve alot in the church ministry, being friends to church and manage to save many and stuff, all these things will not bring you to heaven..the one most important ingredient is your relationship with God!
So it is very important to place your emphasize on praying, reading His word and really spend time bonding with Him! cause you will never know when will He return...
Scary right?

Anws, as i was saying, "Prayer should no longer be a difficult duty, but a grateful delight!"
What this means is that prayer should not be a tiring thing and you really hate doing it and you do it because of your duty as a christian...
God always gives us choices so that He can recieve true love from us unlike robots..so it is the same when you do your qt or spend time with God for the sake of doing it...
Pastor Ronald previously gave a sermon example...he said, "There is a husband and wife...then the wife want her husband to give her a goodnight kiss for example...then she tells her husband...then her husband took out a pen and a note book...he wrote "goodnight kiss tonight at 12 pm. Then the wife wanted a hug...then the husband take out his notebook again and he wrote, "give hug after goodnight kiss." then whenever he finish doing what his wife wants him to do as a husband duty, he will tick done at the side.." will the wife ever experience true love? or it is merely just a duty of her husband to do all those things?
This story is just like our relationship with God...
Think about it^^

Oh! let me continue..
The one thing that drives prayer is FAITH.
It is FAITH that reaches your hand out to God!
Prayer is like putting a card into an ATM machine...
you can put in the card and press the no.s, you need the faith to believe that the money will come out..
If you wait a while and nothing comes out and you walk away, the money is not recieved by you...we must always be patient and wait for the money and stretch out your hand to reach out to God's just like reaching out to take the money...cause it is God timing you are looking at...and when we pray, God is working! so don't stop praying k!

Prayer is also very powderful!!
things like revival, miracles, healings are happening!
You may not see how powerful your prayers are right now...but as you pray, God's angels are sending and chasing the demons away in the spiritual realm!!

Also, prayer transcends time!!
An example is in a christian orphanage, there is this one time whereby they are in need for a bottle and they are quite poor...they need the bottle to contain milk...
Then there is this girl that said, "why not we pray and ask God for a bottle?"
The teacher, being an adult and don't have very strong faith, she just agreed but was quite doubtful...
The the girl kneel down, closed her eyes and hands and said, "Dear lord Jesus, i pray for a bottle. Amen"
Then, you know usually they will have this box of toys donated by organisations for the kids being sent,...and in the midst they found a glass bottle...(which is kinda weird cause usually they do not place the bottle in the box because it is to the orphanage and there are children there..so it is kinda dangerous.)
So cool right?
So, before that like weeks ago, this bottle was already placed inside! because God knows! and He can transcend time!!!

Lastly, i wanna tell you all that every single one of your prayers are very important!! and they are like treasures to God! so pray more!!
And Praying can be done anywhere, at any place at any time!! so convenient!
Just rmb that when you persist in your prayers and have faith that God will work, God will reveal His works to you! because even an unrighteous and sinful man, if you keep on asking and asking and persisting, he will give you what you want..
What more God right?
Jia you!

God loves you!!