"Chilled"
Well! It's another Sunday already and for once, even as I sit here with my fingers poised or maybe frozen at the keyboard, I can't think of anything worth saying although I that will probably change once I get started.
I suppose, if I had to say something, I would describe my morning devotions from yesterday. I was wrapped in my lovely warm duvet (and I constantly thank you Lord for it, although it makes it harder when I battle to wake up in the morning), and reading from Proverbs still. I am a slow reader when it comes to serious reading. As in the majority if not the whole of Proverbs, it was talking about wisdom and what it means to live wisely. I won't go into great detail of what I got out of it since that would take a whole lot of space and surely you MIGHT feel it was more a waste of time to hear me waffling since you can always go and read the passage for yourself and you'd probably get a lot more out of THAT if you listened to the Lord than from listening to me.
Anyway, when I had finished reading Proverbs 13, and noticing how he starts off from being a wise son to being a wise father, I thought of Jesus as both. Do you ever have moments in your quiet time where you start singing some delightful song of worship to the Lord and it leads to another and another and another and soon you find yourself singing all day? That's kinda what happened to me yesterday and I began to notice that they were ALL songs that described the awesomeness (is that a word?) of God, our Abba Father. I can't even remember what song I began with but I think it was "You are beautiful beyond description". I'm ashamed that everyday doesn't start like that since I'm now convinced that it should. I mean, what better day than to start with Christ and sung throughout the day until the sun sets with my eyelids? I think I was especially comforted by His overwhleming presence after Friday. You might now think I'm silly since I felt really lonely particularly after a whole evening about relationships (by this I do not merely mean boy- girl relationships). I suddenly missed the many friends that I have across the globe whom I have only contact through the phone or email or MSN. Those close friends who I am particularly accountable to yet am not able to speak to face to face. Well, if you KNOW that that is you, I was thinking of you on Friday and missing you all very very much indeed. "But never fear, Christ is here" =0)
I think I shall keep it short today. The only excuse I have for this is that my fingers are a bit frozen since our heating is not yet on. As usual, thank you so much dear dear friends for your faithfulness in keeping in touch. On lonely days, even though I'm surrounded by people, I really really REALLY do appreciate your letters, notes, emails...the works. For my friends reading this from my blog or MSN thingy or whatever else besides the OCF blog, I do have a few prayer requests that I would appreciate prayers for:
- As some of you might or might not know, I am STILL in the process of trying to get my National Insurance number so that I can get my student loan so that I can continue to study. I have recently had contact with a guy from our adopted church here in the UK (Emmanuel Evangelical Church) that is willing to employ me and assist me in getting the application through, which is a GREAT answer to pray as well as a HUGE encouragement. So thanks for your prayers in this matter as well as your continued prayers- they are NOT and NEVER in vain.
- This week is my 'Reading Week', which means I do not have any lectures or tutorials or anything that requires me to go to school, which I am of course, graeful for. However, there are a lot of things happening this week on that requires my time away from math related stuff and I DO have 2 tests on the following Monday so please pray that I will be able to focus on my priorities- first being that I will be able to use this time to FIRSTLY rest in the Lord and then to manage between studies and the rest.
- Please pray for my dad as he is away and sounding VERY busy. Although this is usual, my mum and I never believe in giving up praying for him as it always is tiring and there are always SO many people to meet. Pray that he will be constantly refreshed each morning as he draws from the Lord and that God will continually give me a new word and the RIGHT word for each individual that he meets.
- There are a lot of upcoming events that I am either involved with or attending but requires prayer: OCF retreat- The Christian fellowship that I have been attending at University is having a retreat from the 17th to the 19th of November. I am very excited about it since it will be my first one where neither of my parents are there and my dad is NOT the main speaker. Don't get me wrong, I love having my parents around and listening to my dad but I also feel that it's important for me to be able to discern for myself truths spoken by other godly men and women. Pray that God will already bgein to prepare our hearts to listen to what He wants to tell us this weekend. I have other prayer repuests concerning this event but I will save them for perhaps another time. GAMES DAY- My dad has decided to invite the OCF people on the 25th of November as well as a few others to come to our Forest Hill office for a day of rest and general fun. It does not have a program but is supposed to be for people to mix, get to know one another better and generally to just relax from daily 'stress'. Pray that people WILL come and be blessed. Christmas Outreach- The OCF group is having a Christmas Outreach on the 3rd of December, which promises to be great. I am excited to see what they have in store. Obviously, please pray that MANY non-Christians will come and at LEAST hear what God has to say to them and that many many seeds will be planted and hopefully will spring into life that will pour into many more lives. It's always an exciting time of the year and what better time than to share the Love of Christ with those around us?
SO much for keeping it short today. =0)
Grace and peace to you all, my dearest brothers and sisters in Christ,
Debbie Gan
