HIS healing compassion flows

Hubby was ministering at a lunchtime fellowship in town last week. He was sharing about healing, and then gave an altar call to those who needed healing to come forward. He also extended it to those who needed prayer for their work.

I prayed for the women while hubby prayed for the men. There were perhaps about 10-12 people who came forward. As i prayed for the first few women, i did not 'feel' the power of God but just believed with them for their healing or for change in their situation. The second last woman i prayed for, however, God's healing compassion became substantial in me. I actually felt a gush of God's love all over me, gushing out from within me, and flowing into the woman. Tears gathered in my eyes. She felt His love after a while, then began to sob, as i laid my hands on her in prayer. She had gone through much and was fearful, but i sensed His love overwhelm, flood, even drive out the fear in her. I felt a release in her as she cried quietly. I believe she had been healed in her body and in her mind.

This is God's healing love and compassion. It was interesting that i had been reading about divine compassion one or two days before the meeting. This was not the first time i felt this gush, but i was able to identify or recognise this flow better.

my brother's birthday (revised)

My brother celebrated his birthday today.

And i want to write a special blog for him on his birthday.

You were born more than twenty years ago today.

You were plucked from the jaws of death, saved by papa''s God-inspired response in driving away from the heavy and huge truck carrying a full load of sand and gravel, charging at their new car; and mummy's divinely-led, yet instinctive move to the centre of the back seat in order to get a more direct flow of air from the air-conditioner. You were barely one month old then. God's hand of protection has been on you ever since.

You give yourself fully to things you are passionate for:

You love listening to music - different genres and styles. When you were just six or seven, you could sing word for word almost all the songs from Les Miserable the musical, listening to the CD over and over again.

You taught yourself to play the drums as well as the guitar. You were involved in a band with your school friends, and now you play with various bands in church.

You love playing football - and you have had a fractured finger (now healed) to prove it.

You enrolled yourself at Bible School, spending almost 1.5 years of your life, 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, studying the Word of God and learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit.

You write love songs to God, and about God, "pouring your heart out like water before the face of the Lord" (Lamentations 2:19)

You lead worship in church services, in youth meetings, at prayer meetings, cell group meetings, and even at weddings and in family events, just wanting to serve Him and bless His people.

You expound on the Word of God in your writings and in your conversations, and in preaching, clarifying and revealing to them the practicality and relevance of His Word in the world today.

You seek out the homeless, and take time to listen to their stories, and sometimes, when led to, give them money, to minister to them.

You love your steak - medium rare, and your salmon - Norwegian, and eat your chicken clean, biting off even the white crunchy joints from the bones.

You never fail to say hi to your nephew, or give him a little cuddle, no matter how late you reach home. You take countless photos of him, and even bought him little t-shirts from your recent trip.

You have a heart for the marginalised, those sidelined by society, and will visit a friend in hospital every day, who was suffering from depression, just to bring cheer and encouragement.

You love to read, especially books on reaching out, and are building up your library full of treasured books.

You love to get together with your friends, just to chill out, but even more to talk about life and purpose.


Brother, this is my birthday gift to you... Hope you like it...

Continue to live life the way God wants you to - fully and passionately, and obediently adhering to His plan for you.
I know He has more in store for you.

I thank God for you in my life, and am inspired by your passion.

what God just did

i'm just amazed at what God just did at prayer meeting last night.

His love for the church is so great He visited us. I did not seem to be able to prepare anything for the teaching session. I'm not sure whether this was God's intention in the first place, or a lack of my waiting on Him. I did ask Him but perhaps did not spend enough time. But really, it is not about me, but God.

I continued to focus on God as I went about my tasks and appointments that afternoon, though my mind was coming up with different angles i could take at the prayer meeting regarding the teaching. I did mull over Ephesians 4 about equipping the body of Christ the most, and that did come up during the 'inspired utterances' in tongues and interpretation, and also just in English.

The presence of the Lord washed over us like a river when we started worshiping. The worship leader sensed His presence so strongly, that he changed the entire order of songs, there and then, directly entering into the flow of His sweet refreshing.

It was in the second or third song, the refrain: "Lord, have your way in me" leapt out at me. I'm not sure whether all who were there 'picked this up' in their spirit. I did, and i believe the worship leader did. And some of us just sang this phrase repeatedly for a while. This became the cry of our hearts for our lives, for our ministries, for our church.

The exhortation i felt in my heart for the people, especially the leaders of the church (including cell leaders) was that they must carry out the agenda of the Lord, not their own agenda or pet project. They must hear from the Lord and then obey what He has put in their hearts to do. His plan is foremost and is that which will work.

Secondly, everyone in the church had a specific role to play, and they were to obediently step into that role. No one is deemed greater or lesser than the next person. No one can substitute another. Each had been given their own gifts and callings, and were to hear from the Lord as they waited on Him to discover or uncover what they are.

Another young man had the scripture passage from Proverbs 4:20-24 (NKJV) and exhorted the people to guard their hearts and focus on the Word of God which will guide them -

My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;
For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.
Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.

Another person exhorted the members to 'hook up' with the Holy Spirit, depending on Him for direction and wisdom, and not on their own thinking or their own minds.

Tremendous start to prayer meeting in 2010.

We continued to pray for leaders and the pastor corporately, and then had a brief sharing on various church concerns, complete with testimony from a new believer whose smoking habit, which he had been attempting to quit on his own for months and months, just disappeared overnight, the desire to smoke no longer existed, and whose ulcers had been healed. This was followed by group prayer.

Amazing grace of God!

3-D - the power of virtual reality

I just watched Avatar in 3-D last night with hubby. I was grinning in the first half an hour as i was plunged into a world of fantasy, captivated by the sci-fi story which has all the right elements of love and betrayal, intrigue and conspiracy, loyalty and sacrifice. Of course, the special effects and animation enhanced my whole experience.

The 3-D glasses sometimes got in the way, but minimally:

• I was slightly light-headed when i first put on the glasses because of the weight, but this lasted less than ten minutes.
• The 3-D glasses dropped a few times throughout the movie as they were just hoisted upon my own glasses on a tiny groove.

It was cool, the way i was immersed into the movie with weapons pointing at me, seeds floating around me, and people walking in my direction.

However, hubby and i were disturbed by the nuances of nature worship that permeated in this fantasy world of Omaticaya People. Idyllic and idealistic, the natural world has a corresponding spiritual realm which keeps it in balance. The deity worshipped has no values, and does not judge good and evil, or take sides. These would be absorbed by the naive child or unsuspecting viewer. Even the more discerning among us, whether believer or unbeliever, might ponder over or reflect upon the

It has been reported that many viewers became depressed after watching Avatar because they were so impressed by the perfect fantasy world, their own reality paled in comparison. This attests to the power of media, the impact that the visual virtual reality has on the human mind and imagination.

The word Avatar itself has a 'spiritual' origin. Various dictionaries concur with the following definitions:

1. Hindu Mythology. the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god (my addition: Hindus see Jesus as an example of an avatar.)
2. an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life.
3. Computers. a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet.

Definitions 1 and 3 are portrayed in the movie.

The transfer of the life essence from one being to another is an example of incarnation. So beautifully depicted in the guise of true love transcending all odds, even the boundary of the physical body, this philosophy of life or religious belief is subtly introduced into the viewer's consciousness towards the end of the movie.

what we need...

The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender.

There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind.

There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined.

We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith.

We have enough greed; we need more goodness.

We have enough vanity; we need more virtue.

We have enough popularity; we need more purity.