Beautiful Feet Cell: March 2009

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Intimacy with God

S - sin to confess
P - promise to claim
A - action to do or avoid
C - commitment/character to change
E - encouragement

Do follow this S.P.A.C.E format if you want to while doing your QT and send it to WanHui & Joe's email for the coming week. Don't forget! Have a blessed week ahead. (:

Matthew 6:34 "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

Love,
Sophia

Thursday, March 26, 2009

No One Will Succeed By Strength Alone

1 Sam 2:9,10

He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step,

but leaves the wicked to stumble in the dark.

No one makes it in this life by sheer muscle!

God's enemies will be blasted out of the sky,

crashed in a heap and burned.

God will set things right all over the earth,

he'll give strength to his king,

he'll set his anointed on top of the world!

1 Sam 2 talks about Hannah praising God, after God granted her a son (Samuel). I was meditating on the verse and was struck by verse 9, when it says "No one will succeed by strength alone". How many times have I strive by my own strength? How many times have I felt that I have not tried hard enough? The Word of God reminded me, that sheer hard work is not good enough. Ultimately, God provides, He's in control. I'm such a control freak!!

Teach me Lord, how to release EVERY situation into your good hands. Nothing is too difficult for You. Thank you Lord, for your assurance, that you will "set things right" and I'll be exalted on top of the world : ]

Shepherd

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Hey BFC. Just want to let you guys know that I believe that some of us really appreciate the prayers that you guys have made for our studies. Even though sometimes we come for cell looking half dead, I can't emphasis how much I (or we) look forward to see you guys!

Just like to share with you guys some things that has been in my heart today.. As you would have known, my school has morning worship everyday, whereby we start our day right with God. And I kinda have to do morning prayer.. which is like.. let's just say I prefer to do worship rather than rally people to pray more.

Anyway, I didn't have much time to prepare for it but God spoke to me about this passage in Psalm 107. I kinda shared it impromptu with the people, but as I was sharing.. I begin to see the importance of prayer.. Psalm 107 is actually about the people in Ezra's days when they returned from exile in Babylon back to Jerusalem.. and they were back to rebuild God's temple which was in ruins. And this is actually in line with the 40 Day Prayer and Fast booklet we had for SAJC.
The psalm is really cool because it talks about how people from different walks return back to God.. and this part of the psalm really struck me..

³³ He turned rivers into a desert,
flowing springs into thirsty ground,

³⁴ and fruitful land into a salt waste,
because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

³⁵ He turned the desert into pools of water
and the parched ground into flowing springs;

³⁶ there he brought the hungry to live,
and they founded a city where they could settle.

It's really amazing! How God can turn rivers into desert (which is quite scary if it really materialises), and also desert into pools of water! And I would say that if our prayers for our friends begins to 'dry up', how can we expect God to turn a parched land into a place with living water flowing to every corner of our school/church/nation? We need to keep asking the Holy Spirit to fall like rain on this barren land, into the hearts of our friends who are lost and have no place to settle (v4)!
Yeah.. Even for me, I felt that it really spoke to me because there I was, tired of sharing the gospel and doubting if my friends would ever turn to God , and serving Him in this evangelistic event that is meant to save souls (which is quite ironic). I just want to encourage us to start praying for our friends and invite them for Evoke or even better, Reinhard Bonnke's evangelistic crusade on 10th-12th April. See goodnewssingapore.com for more details. (= May this post be an encouragement to you.

Jace

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Invite your friends to Evoke Your Dreams! It's on Good Friday, so there won't be school on that day. Details of the event's on top. Register with me asap, tickets will be going at $4 each. Also, let them know that there'll be a post party from 9.30pm to 11pm. Hurry, it's just 3 weeks away! (:

Love,
Sophia