First Morning of 2010…

... I surrendered my life to Jesus. Again. 

(I could feel the music playing...

Times of refreshing,
Here in Your presence;
No greater blessing
Than being with You.
 
My soul is restored,
My mind is renewed;
There’s no greater joy Lord,
Than being with You.

My soul is  restored,
My mind is renewed;
There’s no greater joy  Lord                                                   
Than  being with You. )

Through the counseling of Ptr Jessie, I talked to God earnestly.

That was the time I felt his overwhelming presence again.

Have I been so stubborn over the past years that I overlooked the significance of His presence in my life? 

What keeps me away from trusting the Lord?

Last Sunday, during our Singles Fellowship, we talked about trusting the Lord. According to Ptr Rick Warren, we will be able to please God by trusting him completely… It’s easy to say that you trust the Lord but proving it lays the problem. How could you trust somebody you don’t know fully well? Trust is built from familiarity and closeness. If I ask you as to whom among your friends you trust most. You would think of your closest friend or your best friend. You trust your best friend because his dependability is proven over time.  Doubt has no space between the two of you anymore because you’ve been together for so long that you become at ease with him. Now, if I ask myself the question above, “What keeps me away from trusting the Lord?” I would definitely say DOUBT – doubt keeps me away from trusting the Lord completely.  I always tend to doubt him. I doubt his promises, his being a Sovereign God, his being Omnipresent and Omniscient. I doubt the fact that His ways are better than my ways. I doubt his plans for me. I doubt so many things about Him. This doubt of mine hinders me from trusting the Lord completely, and this same doubt of mine blocks me from experiencing the abundance of His blessings. Doubt roots from a gap or a distance between myself and God. It comes from not knowing Him completely. I would definitely not trust a stranger. But God whether I admit it or not has been a stranger in my life…

Father, forgive me for doubting you. My doubt comes from being away from You. Father, I want our closeness  back. Draw me near to You again. I feel so helpless and incapacitated without you Lord. I feel so lost without You. It’s only You who could fill the voids in my heart. From this moment on Father, I want You to be in complete control of my life…

In Jesus’ name I pray.

Amen.

      It's only by knowing God intimately and thru a fervent prayer of humility and surrender that we'll be able to trust God completely. Get to know our Father, let Him work in our lives... experience the fulfillment of His promises.

But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.-- Jeremiah 18:4  

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