When tough times come, the first thing that people do is try to solve the problem on their own. When they cannot handle it anymore, they run to friends and love ones. Typically, it’s at their end point that they remember calling on to God and asking Him for the solution.
Don’t you know that you are insulting God when you depend on yourself and others in your problems? Sometimes He allows His children to experience great pain for them to be able to know that dialing on their uniden phone to call on others is not the real solution. It’s when you kneel down and humble yourself in prayer for the Lord’s help that you realize He is more than enough.
Posted on December 1st, 2010 by Pastor Jeff in Prayer
This month, December, my wife’s cousin will be taking an exam which will allow her to apply for a job as a nurse in the United States. She is already a registered nurse here in our beloved country after getting experience in hospital duties, using nursing scrubs and getting her nursing cap. We have been praying that she will pass this test so she can continue on her journey to finding a nursing job abroad.
Lately, many of our young people are looking for jobs. They are in need of obs for different reasons. Some have just graduated and need to find work right away. Some are in the process of transitioning to a new job. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Pastor Jeff in Prayer
“And He went a little farther, and fell on His face, and prayed.”
Matthew 26:39
There are several instructive features in our Saviour’s prayer in His hour of trial. It was lonely prayer. He withdrew even from His three favoured disciples. Believer, be much in solitary prayer, especially in times of trial. Family prayer, social prayer, prayer in the Church, will not suffice, these are very precious, but the best beaten spice will smoke in your censer in your private devotions, where no ear hears but God’s.
Worrying is what many people like you and me normally do when we do not get what is expected. We worry about bills to pay, finding resolution to problems we face and many other things.
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Pastor Jeff in Prayer
I am requesting for prayer for my nephew, Jonathan Louis. He is only 5 months old and he was diagnosed as having a 1.2 cm hole in his heart. I believe that even with the availability of skilled and trained doctors, technology, medicines and even prenatal vitamins to make sure of a baby’s health even before birth, God is the One who is in control so we put our trust in God rather than other things. Pray that God would use the doctors as instruments to fix his heart.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Pastor Jeff in Prayer
“Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken Thou me in Thy way.”
Psalm 119:37
There are divers kinds of vanity. The cap and bells of the fool, the mirth of the world, the dance, the lyre, and the cup of the dissolute, all these men know to be vanities; they wear upon their forefront their proper name and title. Far more treacherous are those equally vain things, the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches. A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show. Unless we follow Christ, and make our God the great object of life, we only differ in appearance from the most frivolous. It is clear that there is much need of the first prayer of our text. “Quicken Thou me in Thy way.” The Psalmist confesses that he is dull, heavy, lumpy, all but dead. Perhaps, dear reader, you feel the same.
We are so sluggish that the best motives cannot quicken us, apart from the Lord Himself. What! will not hell quicken me? Shall I think of sinners perishing, and yet not be awakened? Will not heaven quicken me? Can I think of the reward that awaiteth the righteous, and yet be cold? Will not death quicken me? Can I think of dying, and standing before my God, and yet be slothful in my Master’s service? Will not Christ’s love constrain me? Can I think of His dear wounds, can I sit at the foot of His cross, and not be stirred with fervency and zeal? It seems so! No mere consideration can quicken us to zeal, but God Himself must do it, hence the cry, “Quicken Thou me.” The Psalmist breathes out his whole soul in vehement pleadings: his body and his soul unite in prayer. “Turn away mine eyes,” says the body: “Quicken Thou me,” cries the soul. This is a fit prayer for every day. O Lord, hear it in my case this night.
