re-union

I enjoy the Chinese New Year, though some may find it boring or meaningless.

I like being with people, especially family. It's great meeting at least once a year, where you get to catch up with everyone what they are doing. And i get to know them better, and how to pray for them better too!

I met 14 uncles and aunts, 19 cousins (including their spouses) over the first two days of CNY, some of whom i only get to see once a year. We heard good news that a cousin in Brunei would be getting married in June.

I also met up with my niece and nephew, and then 7 more distant nieces and 8 more distant nephews (my cousins' or hubby's cousins' children) , the oldest of whom is 29, and the youngest, barely 2. All of them on just two days. I played board games with two young nieces.

We have more aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces we have not met in Singapore, in Australia, Brunei, China, England and UK, and one nephew on the way back from Amsterdam.

I received a precious email from one of my cousins, and chatted with another cousin on FB.

I laughed, listened, (teared discreetly at one point) and allowed the love of GOD to just flow through.

rest in His flow

I woke up in the middle of the night, and was aware of the presence of the Lord in my bedroom.

Lying in bed, i began to thank Him for what i recognised as His healing flow from His very throne. I was hesitant at first, because i was not sure whether the healing was manifest in my body. (i had been confessing my belief that i am the healed of the Lord, and by Jesus' wound, i had already been healed.)

Then, i realised that i was trusting my physical senses more than my spiritual.

The truth is i have already been healed according to the Word of the Lord. The physical fact is i am still troubled by symptoms, though less intense at that time, so that i was not sure whether they were still present as i was just woken up.

I then gave my entire focus to just praising the Lord. I even got up, danced for a while, then lay down again. I felt my doubts drain away.

It was a joyful time. :D

God and impossibilities

"Impossibilities don’t scare God – He works with impossibilities!"

~ Patsy Cameneti ~

angels encircling

I was worshipping the Lord last night - at times kneeling, at times prostrating, at times just sitting.

At one time, i had a sense in my spirit that there were angels encircling above me. The strange things about this was that though i had heard of reports of angels - huge, warrior-like, and had seen in my spirit one that had his head above the ceiling, these angels i saw were not huge.

Were they far away, and therefore, i saw them as small? After all, there is no distance in the spirit.
Or were they near and actually that small?

These were of course, afterthoughts.

At that time, i just had a strong sense of the presence of the Lord, and i just soaked in His presence.

Christianity

"Christianity is just receiving in faith what Jesus has done for us by God's grace!"

golden liquid

Hubby and i were praying for an extended time last night. I received the word that i shared in the previous post during the extended prayer.

I took a short break and returned to prayer. Hubby never stopped.

I then saw in my spirit two sources of what i believe was a golden liquid (thought i did not see the colour; it was just a sense that it was golden) being poured into one. It was not transparent, not water, but a denser liquid.

I knew it my spirit it was time to receive, so i just cupped my hands and received.

I received it as His Shalom Shalom.

shalom shalom

Isaiah 26:3 "The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you." (BBE)
"You will keep [him] in perfect shalom, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you." (HNV)

Perfect peace is shalom shalom in Hebrew.

The Strong's concordance defines Shalom as completeness, soundness, welfare, peace:

• completeness (in number)
• safety, soundness (in body)
• welfare, health, prosperity
• peace, quiet, tranquillity, contentment
• peace, friendship of human relationships, and/or with God especially in covenant relationship
• peace (from war)
• peace (as adjective)

focus for 2012: that i may know Him

My very first entry for 2012 is my focus for the year - Hosea 6:3 - which is about knowing Him.

This entry is related.

I was meditating on Hosea 6:3 this morning - what it means to know Him and what it takes to press in to know Him, when the Holy Spirit reminded me of Philippians 3:10.

"That I may know him,
and the power of his resurrection,
and the fellowship of his sufferings,
being made conformable unto his death;"
(KJV)

I was alerted to the fact that Paul resolved to know Christ, His resurrection power AND His sufferings. I so often leave out that. I'm not talking about the suffering that Jesus suffered on our behalf, though through our identification with Him, that is, our death, burial and resurrection through Him and in Him, we share in that. More pertinently, Jesus underwent suffering as our example too. In the same way, we suffer persecution for righteousness' sake, and as a result of walking in the straight and narrow way that is His calling. Note that "the power of His resurrection" is mentioned before the "fellowship of His suffering", emphasizing not only the primary importance of the first, but also the presence of the second.

My attention then turned to 2 Peter 1:2-7
² Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, ³ as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, ⁴ by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
⁵ But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, ⁶ to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, ⁷ to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

Knowing Him is knowing His power and His promises, which in turn enables us to deal with all of life's issues.
In knowing Him, we increasingly experience His grace and peace, which fortifies us with essential qualities and traits for life's journey with all its nuances and complexities.

provision for 2012

I received the following verse in an sms yesterday and i love it, especially in the version sent.

Psalm 65:11 (NLT)

"You crown the year with a bountiful harvest;

even the hard pathways overflow with abundance."

focus for 2012

Hosea 6:3

(King James 2000 Bible (©2003))

"Let us know,
let us press on to know the LORD:
his going forth is prepared as the morning;
and he shall come unto us as the rain,
as the latter and former rain unto the earth."