Hello there ! ;D well , I'm going out later , so I guess I'll just blog now because will be back home pretty late . Going to cell group early today because yaoshu is going to teach us how to make mooncakes , not bad huh ;D I know mooncake festival had already passed , but can belated one right ? hahaha , so yeah , it was great today . Mummy cooked curry and after blogging , I'm gonna eat my yummy lunch . woohoo ! I'll be sharing on Sunday , pray for me alright :) Day 18 and 19 below , God bless and loves you :D
DAY 18
A new kind of honesty
- Jesus' conversations have a different kind of honesty than most of us ever practice or experience
- Because Jesus wasn't constrained by others' opinion of him and his love wasn't stained by selfishness. Jesus is refreshingly , strikingly , wonderfully honest .
- Honesty is the work of thinking through the right way to say something , of making sure our motives are pure , of talking through a difficult subject .
- If we want our relationships to grow , honesty us nonnegotiable
- When we're honest , we will always be "speaking in love" ( Ephesians 4:15 )
" Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths , but only what is helpful for building others up according to their need " ( Ephesians 4:29 )
- Love without truth us equally disastrous
-Honesty sometimes brings bitter pain of rejection
- As we communicate honestly , we'll invite ourselves and others to refreshing life change through our words
- Honesty is not for the faint of heart , because it is a risk- a risk well worth taking to open yourself up to a remarkable potential for change
DAY 19
God is in the conversation
- Prayer is not an exercise reserved for bedtimes and bad times , it's like a show , a kind of a spiritual medal to be worn proudly and openly .
- More important than the way you talk to someone is the way you talk to God about them
- Prayer is a conversation. There are three words to mark the tone of our conversations with God : persistence , confidence and reverence
Persistence
- Your persistence is an indicator of your desire and your dependence on God
- Persistence in prayer is born of knowing that the answer is only with God
- Pray until one of two things happens : God changes the situation or God changes you
- "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance . It is laying hold of God's willingness"
DAY 18
A new kind of honesty
- Jesus' conversations have a different kind of honesty than most of us ever practice or experience
- Because Jesus wasn't constrained by others' opinion of him and his love wasn't stained by selfishness. Jesus is refreshingly , strikingly , wonderfully honest .
- Honesty is the work of thinking through the right way to say something , of making sure our motives are pure , of talking through a difficult subject .
- If we want our relationships to grow , honesty us nonnegotiable
- When we're honest , we will always be "speaking in love" ( Ephesians 4:15 )
" Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths , but only what is helpful for building others up according to their need " ( Ephesians 4:29 )
- Love without truth us equally disastrous
-Honesty sometimes brings bitter pain of rejection
- As we communicate honestly , we'll invite ourselves and others to refreshing life change through our words
- Honesty is not for the faint of heart , because it is a risk- a risk well worth taking to open yourself up to a remarkable potential for change
DAY 19
God is in the conversation
- Prayer is not an exercise reserved for bedtimes and bad times , it's like a show , a kind of a spiritual medal to be worn proudly and openly .
- More important than the way you talk to someone is the way you talk to God about them
- Prayer is a conversation. There are three words to mark the tone of our conversations with God : persistence , confidence and reverence
Persistence
- Your persistence is an indicator of your desire and your dependence on God
- Persistence in prayer is born of knowing that the answer is only with God
- Pray until one of two things happens : God changes the situation or God changes you
- "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance . It is laying hold of God's willingness"
- Martin Luther
Confidence
-Pray with confidence
- God is answering many of your prayers in ways you can't yet see
- The better we know the will of God revealed in the Bible , the more confidently we can pray
Reverence
- The awe is not found in considering God as distant and untouchable
" Our father in heaven " ( Matthew 6:9 )
- Our invites us to ask " How small is my God ? " , Notice that there's no I or me in the Lord's prayer , it is all our and us .
- Father brings to the surface the question " How close is my God ? " - as close as a loving father
- In heaven includes the question , " How big is my God ? " , it points to the eternal place of power and control . As Go's children , we have instant access to our powerful father .
-Pray with confidence
- God is answering many of your prayers in ways you can't yet see
- The better we know the will of God revealed in the Bible , the more confidently we can pray
Reverence
- The awe is not found in considering God as distant and untouchable
" Our father in heaven " ( Matthew 6:9 )
- Our invites us to ask " How small is my God ? " , Notice that there's no I or me in the Lord's prayer , it is all our and us .
- Father brings to the surface the question " How close is my God ? " - as close as a loving father
- In heaven includes the question , " How big is my God ? " , it points to the eternal place of power and control . As Go's children , we have instant access to our powerful father .
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