2 Corinthians 13:14

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

 Today's Thought: Let us keep the communion with the Holy Spirit for us to have the comfort we need. 

There was once a story of a little boy who was taken to a new Sunday School class by his parents. His mother told him, “They will play some games, sing songs and then you will be introduced to Jesus.” When he came home his father asked him how he got along in Sunday School. His son said, “We played games and sang songs but Jesus wasn’t there. I’m afraid this is true in many Churches today. 

In our worship to the Lord and in our everyday living, let us be certain that the Holy Spirit is with us. It would be miserable to continue serving and worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ without the fellowship of the Holy Spirit because all who come unto Him must do so in spirit and in truth. If we miss the opportunity of fellowship with the Holy Spirit, we will also miss the opportunity of joy and comfort the Holy Spirit brings. 

Let us always make sure we do not grieve nor quench the Holy Spirit. Let us endeavor to feed the spirit within us that we may have a good fellowship with the Holy Spirit of God. 

Psalm 121:1

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

Today's Thought: The Lord is always our help when we seek His help.


There are several self-help books today. You can even have self-help videos in Youtube. It reduces our dependence on the help of others. It makes independent and allows us to be strong on our own. It's as if the world is telling us we can do it on our own. This is the attitude of the world and has create vacuums in our lives.

The truth of the matter is that we need help - and our help must come from God. He is the only real help that we need need. Let us not be mistaken on this one. When we are in trouble, we would be asking other people from helping us, but we forget to come to the Lord for help. David exclaims that when he needed help, he only looked unto the hills of God and His help was there. In our lives, we only need to summon heaven and the Lord is always our present help in the times of need.

Our trust in the Lord is the direct volume of our prayers unto Him. When we trust Him, He is the one we come to when we are in trouble. Let us always look and lift unto the hills of God, for he said that He will never leave us nor forsake us.

1 Samuel 1:27

For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

Today's Thought: The Lord is always near and He will answer prayers.

Dr. Helen Roseveare, missionary to Zaire, told the following story. "A mother at our mission station died after giving birth to a premature baby. We tried to improvise an incubator to keep the infant alive, but the only hot water bottle we had was beyond repair. So we asked the children to pray for the baby and for her sister. One of the girls responded, 'Dear God, please send a hot water bottle today. Tomorrow will be too late because by then the baby will be dead. And dear Lord, send a doll for the sister so she won't feel so lonely.' 
That afternoon a large package arrived from England. The children watched eagerly as we opened it. Much to their surprise, under some clothing was a hot water bottle! Immediately the girl who had prayed so earnestly started to dig deeper, exclaiming, 'If God sent that, I'm sure He also sent a doll!' And she was right! The heavenly Father knew in advance of that child's sincere requests, and 5 months earlier He had led a ladies' group to include both of those specific articles." 

Many times we forget the power of the Lord. We forget the nature of our God - that He is a God who answers prayers. Many times we miss the blessings of God because we forget to ask Him fervently and faithfully. Our God is not a God who is distant and numb to our pleas. He is a God who hears and whose God is merciful to answer our prayers.

The more we pray the more we will know our Lord. When we have tasted the sweetness of answered prayers, we would want not to leave its altar. Prayer is the strongest weapon against our feeble knees and failing heart. Prayer is a weapon for us to continue serving the Lord amidst the difficulties.

Jeremiah 17:7

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

Today's Thought: Trust always in the Lord for everything in your life.

A television program preceding the 1988 Winter Olympics featured blind skiers being trained for slalom skiing, impossible as that sounds. Paired with sighted skiers, the blind skiers were taught on the flats how to make right and left turns. When that was mastered, they were taken to the slalom slope, where their sighted partners skied beside them shouting, "Left!" and "Right!" As they obeyed the commands, they were able to negotiate the course and cross the finish line, depending solely on the sighted skiers' word. It was either complete trust or catastrophe. 

This is a clear picture of the Christian life. We don't know the events tomorrow, but we need to trust in the leading of the Lord. He knows what is ahead and we only need to trust His love for us. It is the everlasting love of the Lord that should keep us on track of everything. There are times when we cannot just see the light ahead, but in the darkness we only need to trust the one who says: I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.

The Lord knows best for us. The promises of the Lord are sure. We need to trust Him for all these. We need to hope for the Lord's answer to our prayers. Let us learn to be blind skiers and just trust Him who sees everything.

Isaiah 42:3

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

Today's Thought: The Lord will not despise our brokenness if we come unto Him.

Here's a story:

One day a beautiful, but very troubled little girl came through the door of my day nursery. The little girl was nonverbal and had very little control. Whenever somebody approached her, she became violent for long periods and ended up in a fetal position on the floor crying out. I found myself praying for her day in and day out. As months rolled on, I began to bond with this child that no one wanted. She and I worked very hard taking one step forward and four steps back. During our rocking time I sang "Jesus Loves Me." She always settled down and became very still at the melody. Though she never spoke, peace seemed to fill her face as she listened to the song. One day after a very long battle I held my special girl to again calm her fears and pain. In silence we rocked back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. Then she looked at me with tear-filled eyes and spoke for the first time, "Sing to me about that Man who loves me."

When we are injured and broken, the Lord is a merciful God who will accept and embrace us with His love. What God is asking is a contrite and broken spirit where His Spirit can work in a slow, painful, but loving manner. When there is just a small flicker of light in our life, in our Christian service, the Lord is always willing to light that up and put our lives burning again.

We only need to come to the Lord for healing and lighting. There is an unlimited supply of mercy and grace from the Lord. Let us just open our hearts for the working of the Lord in our lives. Let us ask for the oil that will keep our lamps burning until the day we finally go home.