Sunday 22 September 2024

Event

Sunday Worship

Practices in Church for the Anniversary

Here and Now

I watched Oyo and Tin's interview with Toni G. last night and it was inspiring because I could see the husband loved GOD more than his wife but only there was less love between both Oyo and Tin. I fell asleep almost 12 and I still was able to say prayers for Stephen falling asleep.

SOAP

Scriptures

Deuteronomy 29:9-28

18 Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit, 19 one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

Psalm 123

English Standard Version

Our Eyes Look to the Lord Our God

A Song of Ascents.

1 To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!

2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us.

Luke 14

The Cost of Discipleship

25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

ObservationI have been observing my feelings and I praise GOD it is no longer hurting me, thanks to Pastor and Achi's prayer for me. But at the same time, I feel much comfort after hearing David and Kim's advice to me to be content and thankful for everything that I have right now. At this very moment I am thankful and content thanking GOD that I am not married yet, I have come to that trust in GOD where in I believe whatever state I am in right now, is HIS control and if I am not yet married, it's because I am not ready for it. And so as the Psalmist writes, I look to GOD and wait on HIM, just as a maidservant waits for her mistress.

ApplicationI am thankful that even if I love Stephen, I am not married to him because he doesn't have JESUS in his heart and this is the thing why I cannot be with him. I also do not want to be with any other person else, who is a Christian and just because they are already with JESUS, it doesn't mean that I will settle with them because I am not willing to settle down with anyone that I do not love because GOD has not put them in my heart. I may be looking for something that is giving meaning to my life right now and it is tempting to think it is love in marriage that will fill my emptiness and void but I am clearly seeing right now with my being, that it is not that, but it is my GOD who is in me, who is with me, who is leading me, that gives meaning to my life. Someday when GOD sees that I am fit to be married, I will be married to the best man HE has prepared for me. But even so, I cannot be completely GOD's if I love something more than HIM and this is true for me, I would rather be with JESUS right now than keep living and fighting and struggling being in this world.

PrayersDear AVI,Great are YOU O LORD GOD Most High O Most Worthy to be praised!!! Great is YOUR Love for me, YOUR goodness, faithfulness and being true to every WORD YOU Said! For YOU are HOLY O GOD, HOLY HOLY and full of grace and mercy. I am safe with YOU, thank YOU for giving me the peace and contentment in my heart, thank YOU for the prayers of everyone for me, thank YOU O GOD, I pray for YOUR grace upon us all. I ask let YOUR Kingdom come and let YOUR will be done unto Stephen Lao Yu and his mother Benita Lao Yu, my parents, Dennis and Myra, all of my siblings, all of my workers, all of my friends and all that YOU have put in my heart to pray, all my relatives and church family, here on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today O GOD, YOUR comfort, YOUR WORD, YOUR Provision, YOUR Revelation, YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, YOU! YOU are all that we need. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that have wronged us, do not lead us to temptation but deliver us, deliver Janine Rose, Carlo, Sandro, Kyle, Jennifer, and heal us all O GOD from the hurts and pains in our lives. I pray heal my family, our relationships, heal Stephen and his past, give us new lives, and I pray that YOU fill Stephen, and I with YOUR HOLY SPIRIT each day, I will always ask YOU to pour out YOUR Spirit upon me and my future spouse because I believe YOU have put it in my heart to marry and be a wife to someone YOU have chosen. I thank YOU for this man and I ask that YOU cover us always with the blood of the Lamb and fill us with the WORD of thy testimony. For YOU O GOD alone deserve all the glory honor and praise, our worship and highest devotions belongs to YOU alone. Please KING JESUS have YOUR WAY in us and be glorified in everything we do and say. For YOU are my all, my everything! Let me always be in love with YOU, let me always look to YOU O GOD of my Salvation! My deliverance!!!
In the name of JESUS Amen!