~One life, live it~

To all my dear co-workers in Christ,

Jesus’ question to his followers, ‘And who do you say I am?’ still challenges us today…..

To choose to follow Jesus is to accept Him and all that he is. It is to choose to receive his cleansing, his guidance, his love and his power to make us into the people we were meant to be.

To say ‘yes’ to Jesus is to accept responsibilities. It is significant that in many of His miracles, Jesus asked for others to help Him. Others fill the jars with water in the wedding in Cana, others served the bread and the fish to the five thousand and others rolled the stone away at Lazarus’ tomb. Jesus was not a one-man-show: where He could, He involved His followers. Ultimately, He left his followers the task of telling the entire world about Him. Those who decide to follow Jesus must be prepared for Him to give them responsibilities that will stretch them to their limits.

                                                              Taken from "THE LIFE" by J.John

Dear brothers and sisters,

This year will be full of many opportunities and responsibilities….

This year YOU will be able to pour water into jars that turns to wine, serve bread and fish to five thousand, and move giant stone away…

This year, let’s serve the Lord with all your heart and all your soul.

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you might have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.  [Colosians 1:9-14]

Why is that srcripture up there you ask? Well, because I feel we ought to pray for each other. I would like you all to pray that I will (1) understand God’s will, (2) gain spiritual wisdom, (3) please and honour God, (4) bear good fruit, (5) grow in the knowledge of God, (6) be filled with God’s strength, (7) have great enduranve and patience, ( stay full of Christ’s joy, (9) give thanks always. All believer’s have these same basic needs. When you don’t know how to pray for someone, i encourage you to use Paul’s prayer pattern for the Colosians.

And if you would like me to pray for you for such basic needs, feel free to message me, and i will gladly do so.

And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed."

Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

"You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, `Who touched me?’ "

But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."

                                                                                            Taken from NIV Bible [Mark 5:25-34]