Pray for Others

Please remember our Monday JOYFUL PRAYERS TIME (JPT); please forward your prayers’ requests; via SMS or Email, to one another, by Monday before 3.30pm, so that we can pray for one another needs.
Also wish to share with you the below article from Pastor Rick Warren.
God’s bless.
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by Rick Warren

"In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy." Philippians 1:4 (NIV)
The more specific you are in prayer the more specifically you get an answer.
Isn't it an encouragement when you know people are praying for you?

If you're struggling with a relationship today, let me tell you this: The quickest way to change a relationship from bad to good is to start thanking God in prayer for people.
Praying for them will do two things -- change your attitude and change them. Positive praying is much more powerful than positive thinking. People may resist our help, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions and not listen to our suggestions, but they are powerless against our prayers.
When you say to somebody, "I'll pray for you" what do you say? What do you pray? Most of us are good at praying in a crisis but on a normal basis, what do you pray? God, bless them? That's so general. The more specific you are in prayer the more specifically you get an answer.
In Philippians 1:9-11, Paul spells out exactly what he's praying for people. "And this is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight so that you may be able to discern what is best and be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God." (NIV)

These verses give you four things you can pray for people today -
"Abound in love ..." Pray that they will grow in love.
"Discern what is best ..." Pray that they make wise choices.
"Be pure and blameless ..." Pray that they will do the right thing.
"Filled with the fruit of righteousness ..." Pray that they will live for God's glory.

Year End Celebration Camp !!!

Hi Gang:

Welcome to bring your family and friends to join in the fun!

Wish to share with you the benefits for coming to this retreat; here they are:

In addition to celebrating what God has done for you (us) in 2010; and how He has used you (us) for His glory,
1. Come to the Retreat and be refreshed spiritually by HIS Word.
2. Good time to deepen your connections with God and also:
• With SG members, as well as,
• Others in the Church that you do not know.
3. It is also a good time to relax and do things together with your family.
4. Finally, as always, it is another opportunity to bring new friends.

Please feel free to get in touch with me or Elder Yeoh HH if you have any questions.

Please mark your calendar. You may sign up via me or at the Church counter.

God Bless.

Stop, Look, Listen

Day before yesterday was very much Irritated and got furious , but God’s words came timely…

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"A fool gives vent to his anger but a wise man keeps himself under control." Proverbs 29:11 (NIV)
"Anger, like every other emotion, is caused by the way you see a situation. If you want to control your anger, one way to do it is to change your point-of-view."

Why is it so important to keep our anger under control? Because uncontrolled anger can become a habitual way of responding to life. Pretty soon, your anger controls you instead of you controlling your anger.

The Book of Proverbs is filled with practical steps on how to control your anger. Let me share three. The easiest way to remember them is to remember a little phase that you may have learned as a child when you were taught to cross the street: Stop, Look, Listen.

1. Stop. Stop and think before you speak. I don't know why it is but angry words always seem to come easily. I know some people who, when they get angry, are witty, sarcastic, quick! But a sharp tongue is the quickest way to cut your throat.

2. Look. Look at the situation from God's point of view, not your point-of-view. That means be mature enough to overlook minor hurts, frustrations and insecurities. If somebody insults you, criticizes you, or puts you down, be mature enough to say, "It's not going to bother me." Proverbs 12:16 (NIV) says,"A man's wisdom gives him patience. It is his glory to overlook an offense."

Proverbs 14:17 (NIV) says, "A quick tempered man does foolish things." And Proverbs 15:1 (NIV) says, "A gentle answer turns away wrath but harsh words stir up anger." The starting point in dealing with anger is to stop and watch what you say.

Anger, like every other emotion, is caused by the way you see a situation. If you want to control your anger, one way to do it is to change your point-of-view.

3. Listen. Listen to the needs and hurts of those people that you're tempted to be angry against. Any angry person is just a hurting person. They're hurting inside, they're frustrated. When you listen to their needs, it's easier to respond and not get angry.

"Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry." (James 1:19 NIV) If you do the first two, the third will come automatically. If you are quick to listen and slow to speak, it is going to be automatic that you are slow to become angry.

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God Wants You to Enjoy Life

At time I was asking what type of lives God want me to have? ?? Many time we are living under worry, anxiety & fear....
Just hope to share the below article written by Pastor Rick Warren with Joyful gang
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God Wants You to Enjoy Life

Article by Pastor Rick Warren


"Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment" (1 Timothy 6:17 NIV).


You may be under a lot of stress right now because of the economy, but God still wants you to enjoy life.

He doesn't want you to live without fun. The apostle Matthew spent three years with Jesus and he wrote, "[Jesus] came, enjoying life" (Matthew 11:19 PH).

As a Christian, you can enjoy life because your conscious is clear. You can enjoy life because you are secure within God's love. You can have fun, laughing in church. You can enjoy friends who don't manipulate you --- because they are learning to be like Jesus and that means they are learning to look out for the interests of others.

Unfortunately, there are many people who do not want to let God into their lives because they fear God will make them give up anything that is fun.

In other words, they think that to become a Christian is the same as saying the party's over, that to be spiritual is to be miserable. People are frantically looking for fun fixes, but that means they operate under the law of diminishing returns. They spend more time, more money, and more energy to get less and less of a thrill. They go around asking, "Are we having fun yet?"

The way you fight fear is with truth and the truth says God "richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment" (1 Timothy 6:17b NIV).

God wants you to enjoy life!

Update from Pastor Moses ... Manipur

Please remember Pastor Moses & his ministry in our Prayers.

God's bless.

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Dear Friends,

Thank you so much your constant prayers for us.

As mentioned earlier we are organising a Seminar and Celebration from 5th to 7th October, 2010 with the Theme: Redeeming our Land. Manipur needs redemption. The Programme is organised by Indo-Agape Ministry, and the Resource persons will be mainly from South Korea. They were here last year and having witnessed the good response from the people (Christians) of Manipur they have invited themselves this year. Not only are they coming on their own expenses but they will also contribute towards some of the local expenses too. So we are left with only half of the expenses to raise.

Although I am not part of the Indo-Agape ministry, I was asked to co-ordinate the programme. Since it is a huge programme covering most of the Districts of Manipur, we needed to raise active volunteers to mobilise the programme. The challenge is great, with less than a month before the Event we are working overtime to make it happen. It is also encouraging to see the young peoples' enthusiasm. We meet almost everyday working on how to control/organise the expected big crowd especially on the 7th Oct. evening. From last year's experience we learnt that there will be unexpected elements/groups who could be disruptive to the programme. We are praying hard for the weather too. October is towards the end of monsoon and when it does rain it could be heavy. So please uphold us in your prayers for the weather, health, unity amongst the organising team and needed finance.

Thank you for your concern also for our land. We are crawling back to normalcy. As I said earlier it will take time to heal. The real consequences will be slowly felt, when the harvest will be below normal since most the people depends on the results of the crop (0ver 70% of the people of Manipur are farmers, dependent on farm products). I was thinking of sending you a picture of the queu at petrol pumps. Fuels are distributed to the general public thrice a week and one vehicle can fill only 6 ltrs at a time. so you can imagine the queu, only the patient ones are able to get hold of the limited stock available. I am not one of those, especially with the busy schedule, mine is a motor bike so I dont need huge amount of fuel. Most of the other essential commodities are now available but not much changed in the price tag. Although the Eco-Blockade is still in force it is low key and quite insignificant. It doesnt have much impact on the society as was earlier. Yes, we are slowly back to normalcy. Thank you for your prayer and concern. God bless you.

Lalita continues to look after the home well since I am most of the time away from the family, I go to work about 8 in the morning and return after dark, when the baby is about to tuck in to bed. So very little time with our little Jedi. She also helps with the Friday Mothers Bible Study and Prayer Fellowship in the locality, she is doing great in her own little capacity. She understands what I do and I am encouraged and Thank God for her.

A brother
Moses

Moon Cake Festival Gathering 18th Sept 2010 (Joyful + EM2)

"Lantern RIDDLES"

Sunny: My answer is....

Clairs: I got it...

F4???

"Sparking night...

Herbal tea eggs...

God's 26 Guards - power of prayers

Dear Joyful gang:

Shalom!
I think all of us agree in the power of prayers.

As every Monday at 10pm is our Joyful Prayers Time , please forward your prayer requests to one another (via email or SMS), so that we can prays together for our needs.

I hope to share the below story received from one of the sister in Christ to testify the power of prayers.

God’s bless.

Ben.




God's 26 Guards - power of prayers

Be thrilled by God's wonderful protection for His beloved children.
God's 26 Guards

Here's a message that will bring you chills.

Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and then just put it on a list and said, 'I'll pray for them later'?
Or has anyone ever called you and said, ‘I need you to pray for me, I have this need?'

Read the following story that was sent to me and may it change the way that you may think about prayer and also the way you pray. You will be blessed by this....

A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church in Michigan.

'While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I travelled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at the halfway point.

On one of these journeys, I arrived in the city where I planned to collect money from a bank, purchase medicine, and supplies, and then begin my two-day journey back to the field hospital.

Upon arrival in the city, I observed two men fighting, one of whom had been seriously injured. I treated him for his injuries and at the same time talked to him about the Lord.

I then travelled two days, camping overnight, and arrived home without incident....

Two weeks later I repeated my journey.
Upon arriving in the city, I was approached by the young man I had treated. He told me that he had known I carried money and medicines.
He said, 'Some friends and I followed you in to the jungle, knowing you would camp overnight.
We planned to kill you and take your money and drugs. But just as we were about to move into your camp, we saw that you were surrounded by 26 armed guards.

At this, I laughed and said that I was certainly all alone in that jungle campsite. The young man pressed the point, however, and said, ‘No, sir, I was not the only person to see the guards, my friends also saw them, and we all counted them. It was because of those guards that we were afraid and left you alone.'

At this point in the sermon, one of the men in the congregation jumped to his feet and interrupted the missionary and asked if he could tell him the exact day this happened. The missionary told the congregation the date and the man who interrupted told him this story:

'On the night of your incident in Africa, it was morning here and I was preparing to go play golf. I was about to putt when I felt the urge to pray for you. In fact, the urging of the Lord was so strong; I called men in this church to meet with me here in the sanctuary to pray for you.

Would all of those men who met with me on that day stand up?'
The men who had met together to pray that day stood up.
The missionary wasn't concerned with whom they were, he was too busy counting how many men he saw.

There were 26.

This story is an incredible example of how the Spirit of the Lord moves in behalf of those who love Him.
If you ever feel such prodding to pray, go along with it, you don't know what it can mean to that person.

Nothing is ever hurt by prayer except the gates of hell.
I encourage you to forward this to as many people as you know. If we all take it to heart, we can turn this world toward God once again.
As the above true story clearly illustrates,
' With God all things are possible'.

More importantly, how God hears and answers the prayers of the faithful.

After you read this, please pass it on and give God thanks for the beautiful gift of your faith, for the powerful gift of prayer, and for the many miracles He works in your own daily life... And then pass it on. Who says God does not move on the earth today?

I asked the Lord to bless you as I prayed for you today.
To guide you and protect you as you go along your way.
His love is always with you, His promises are true, and when we give Him our cares you know He will see us through.
So when the road you're travelling on seems difficult at best, just remember I'm here praying, and GOD will do the rest.

Pass this on to those whom you want God to bless

I Can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

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"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
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