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Prayer Email archive: (09/15/2002) give thanks always |
Hello prayer warriors,
1. Prayer note: give thanks always [1 Thes 5:18] In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Isn't this strange? How can we give thanks in all things. What if something bad happens to us? Something tragic, or a death, or a departure, or a betrayal, or calamity. How can we give thanks? I think giving thanks is a matter of perspective. It is whether we are looking at Jesus or the circumstances. Are we looking at God as still being in control and are we still believing that He is working for our good? If we are, we do not fear circumstances or fear man because our security is in God. This is harder to say than to do. I can't say that I am very good at this either. But I've learned some lessons in life. Firstly, if the devil can steal something from you, it is probably not worth keeping. Or if it is something good, God is going to restore many fold what the devil has stolen. Look at Job, he got double. Look at Joseph, he had more at the end. Look at Jesus, He lost his life for us and we gained eternal life. Perspective is the key, coupled with faith in a good God. These two elements keep us trusting and hoping and I believe that our hope in Him will not leave us ashamed. Here is an excerpt of one of my old prayer emails which I feel is relevant to this topic: --- beginning of excerpt --- [Jonah 2:9-10] 9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. 10 And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. I was listening to one of Marilyn Hickey's messages on tape, and she said that one revelation that she had on thanksgiving is that ... when we enter into thanksgiving, we enter into grace. Grace is the supernatural enabling of God. When we enter into grace, we enter into the supernatural. So, let us persevere and offer to Him the sacrifices of thanksgiving, even if we are in the belly of a fish and everything around us doesn't look too good. But let us give Him thanks, lift the situation up into His hands and enter into grace and the supernatural. --- end of excerpt --- In short, give thanks to the Lord because He is GOOD and He will keep us and bless us. His plans for us is for good and if He is working for us, who can be against us? 2. Special note: i. SPAM MAIL I am being defamed by all the spam mails. I'm receiving emails supposedly from myself selling all kinds of things ... get rich quick schemes, other web-sites, even other people's web-cams. Of course, I know that this is a result of the Klez.E virus which sweeps email names off other people's list and send emails off with my name as a header as I am in so many people's list. So, as a precaution, every email that I send out will have a subject starting with "mydevotion:". Otherwise, please kindly delete or ignore the email. This is the price I have to pay to have a web-site. ii. PRAY FOR MY BUSINESS I'm having some problems with one of my existing deals and I really need your prayers as it will affect my business. Would appreciate if you could lift up my business to God in your prayers. Thanks again prayer warriors. 3. Prayer requests: i. peace and guidance -- steelers http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=2201 ii. Lost from God for a while -- dsprinks http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=2205 iii. Need a job -- guest http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=2211 iv. Prayer for healing -- lisa101 http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=2212 v. healing -- guest http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=2215 vi. healing -- guest http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=2216 vii. a friend in need -- cheerdiva1985 http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=2218 4. Praise Report i. Thank Everyone for Praying -- razier http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=2217 5. Number of prayer warriors: 1449 We welcom jane, dsprink, shanita, amyevone, disciple tcojc, shibu14672, mayflower, victoria, cohiba, chas510, awilson, belo, terin85, margaret, lyann, mabglitter, shog, mclean, lazysquirrel02, anjsjax, dizzykid, dcgarre, arch_kate, deecrystal, juniormalu, sanddale, thomas, dmaull, leave, bramley, easy, jane m, brightblue, ronniebaga, cmshelton, baby_girl, jmwright, terry36251, pansygirl, pearls02, nslater, missionsgirl, jarmstrong, gurl4christ05, myson, lduncan, klb11, dreamangel, shlpn, tuteja, candace, tahoward131, knorton, terrilucasrn, servant, tllucas, jdsn, graceoboe, gods trumpeter, ymims, donnah, favour, smiles, godsangel, rebekah, rkaras, peacedf, 3357, sbrown and ronnie into our prayer group. Your sister in Christ, Wai Hun -------------------------------------------- Pass this email to your friends & invite them to join our prayer group. i. Please vote to encourage more visitors: http://mydevotion.com/mailvote.asp ii. To go to the site and pray for others: http://mydevotion.com/prayer.asp iii. To read previous prayer-emails: http://mydevotion.com/archive.asp iv. To join the prayer group: http://mydevotion.com/register.asp v. To unsubscribe, reply with "unsubscribe" in body text. copyright 2002 Wai Hun See |
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