WORTH THE WAIT

14 December 2013

(read ate anna's blog and was deeply moved on the trials that she and guru is facing... Just this morning, heard this song about holding on to God's perfect timing. Believing that He has a beautiful plan even while waiting. I am with you in prayers te anna and guru, that God will continue to strengthen you and give you joy while waiting for His perfect will.)

"God keeps no one in the waiting unless  He sees that it is good for him to wait."

-C.S. LEWIS 

Isaiah 40:31 
"But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint"

WORTH THE WAIT

33 Miles

I can see your heart is yearning

Everything is so unclear

Is the answer ever coming

After all these years

It's not an easy feeling

Sometimes it seems unfair

But He knows just what He's doing

With unanswered prayers

So hold on

It's worth the wait

Just keep believing

God has perfect timing

Never early, never late

It takes a little patience

And it takes a lot of faith

But it's worth the wait

What if what you're desperate for

Isn't what you really need

What if there was something more

Than what you dreamed

We may not always see

We may not understand

But He knows just what He's doing

He's got a bigger plan

So hold on

CHORUS

In His time, you'll be fine

All this waiting, now, is by design

CHORUS

In His time, you'll be fine

All this waiting, now, is by design

A DIALOGUE WITH GOD

October 01, 2010

A DIALOGUE WITH GOD

But God, I am not happy as I am

Would you be happy in any state? Would you find reason to murmur against Me if you were married? What is happiness for you? Don’t you think I’m aware of your situation and concerned for you- I who gave My life blood for you in My Only Begotten Son?

You promised to supply all my needs. You said that they who seek the Lord will not lack anything good. So where is my mate?

In my Sovereign wisdom, knowing your present measure of sanctification and the fulfilling life which I now have for you, singleness is My best and most precious gift. Do not use My promises against Me as though by loving Me you would be able to obtain your own needs.

Why did You pass over me and  not my friend?

I have other things for you, especially for you. He walks a different path with different problems which would only bring you much unhappiness. Do not envy but rejoice and be glad for her.

Will I be single forever?

You no more know that you knew ahead of time that day of your conversion. These things are yet to be revealed and still remain in My secret will. Even marriage is not forever but only comes as My gift one day at a time. And now I will ask some questions:To whom does tomorrow belong?

To You, God, I have given my life, plans, hopes, needs, my all. Therefore it is no longer mine to demand what I will. I do not even know whether You will deem it best that I have life tomorrow.

Can tomorrow be different from the past?

No Lord, Your grace all sufficient has been with me through some rough days, and if I can face tomorrow with Your grace as a single person, then, yes, also the tomorrow forty years from now.

Why do you want marriage?

Well, companionship and fulfillment of all my anxious needs. It won’t provide that, will it? Only You can do that whether I’m married or single. Lord, help me to seek to be only what is most glorifying to You, that I may love You with the obedience of my life.

I do not answer all the whys and wherefores’. I call you to trust in me, in who I am, in Me very nature Me. Believe Me.

GOD CAUSES ALL THINGS TO GROW

September 29, 2010

GOD CAUSES ALL THINGS TO GROW

Steve Green

Dreams dressed in white
Vows made by candlelight
Hoping to find out what true love is all about
A quiet fear
Where do we go from here
So many wake and see love slowly disappear

Chorus:
God causes all things to grow
Through every season we know
He will guard the life
That He's planted in our souls
And when we feel the cold winds blow
We'll hold to what we know
God causes all things to grow

You know where I've failed
My weakness has been unveiled
And yet by grace you choose to love and to forgive
So come what may our home is here to stay
A witness to the lasting promise He has made

Chorus (2 times)

And we know God causes all things to grow

TWO HANDS, ONE HEART

September 28, 2010

TWO HANDS, ONE HEART

Don Moen

What can I give
What can I bring
That would be pleasing to my King
I'll give my heart not just a part
I'm lifting up everything
Well it's all I have to offer
And it's all I have to give

Two hands one heart
One life to offer You
Two hands one heart
That's what I give to You
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/d/don_moen/two_hands_one_heart.html ]
Use me today I know You can
Lord I surrender to You plan
You made this heart
You made these hands
Take me and use me as I am
Well it's all I have to offer
And it's all I have to give

Little becomes a lot
When it's in Your hands
Take me and make me more like You
Well it may not seem like much
But with the Master's touch
I know that I'll be more like You

That's what I give to You

It is GOD not me

September 23, 2010

It is the process

Not the outcome

It is the journey

Not the destination

It is the climb

Not the view

It is the faith

Not the trials

It is the hope

Not the reward

It is GOD

Not me

Best thing that ever

Happened to me

When God found me

Saved me

Loved me

And continues to love me

What am looking for a man?

September 21, 2010

What am looking for  a man?

 

-       Genuine faith

-       Firm believer

-       Loves You deeper and wants to know You more and more

-       Gladly accepts infallibility and flaws yet is grateful and joyful for Your grace

-       Knows how to laugh

-       Knows how to be silly yet witty

-       Who can make me smile and cry out for laughter

-       I can believe and support

-       Doesn’t pretend to be someone else

-       Caring, sweet and loving

-       Knows how to dig You deeper

-       Teacher

-       leader

More to See

September 03, 2010

 

MORE TO SEE

HILLSONG

 

Well I know that I may have had 
My share of failing and falling 
But I have come to understand 
One thing remains 
By all He’s done
I have been made holy
Worthy of serving the One
The One who wrote eternity 
So deep in my heart

Open your eyes and see
The wonder of a life 
So wonderfully free
Lift up your head believe
There is more 
There’s so much more to see

You remind me still 
Of the hope and promise
Daring my heart to be brave
And all the while 
You strengthen me 
So deep in my heart

His mercies are new every morning
His mercies are new every day
His mercies are new every morning
Beautifully new every day

Lift up your eyes and see
Lift up your eyes and see
Lift up your eyes and see
Lift up your eyes and see

 

The Waiting...

September 01, 2010

Being in love is a feeling. Real love goes far beyond feeling.

-       Elisabeth Elliot

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)

 ⁴ This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience—it looks for a way of being constructive. It is not possessive: it is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance.

 ^5-6 Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage. It is not touchy. It does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.

 ^7-8a Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.

Lord, You’ve always been my guide and my help.. you have guided me on my life’s journey.. ffor every decisions I made, for every confusions and doubts, for every fear and longing, Lord You are there, always..

And so Lord, my hope is in You.. yes I will wait on You.. I will wait on You and wait for someone who’s waiting for me…

Lord make me a woman for the godly man You have created and prepared for me..

The Covenant of Grace

August 26, 2010

THE COVENANT OF GRACE

-       Martyn Lloyd-Jones (WALKING WITH GOD)

Exodus 6:7

English Standard Version (ESV)

⁷ I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God.

God has made certain promises. So what is the  great central promises that He has made in the covenant of grace? He has promised to a GOD UNTO MAN. That is the great promise: “I will be to you a God.” Do you see the importance and significance of this? God had been the God of Adam, but Adam sinned against Him and fell, he became the slave of Satan and broke the connection with God. And the remarkable and the astounding thing is that God turned to man and assured him in the covenant of grace that He had a way whereby He could still be a God to man, “I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God.”

Make a note of that because as you go through the Scriptures you will find that this great promise is repeated time and time again. You will find it in Jeremiah 31:33. 32:38-40. You will find it in Ezekiel 34:23-25, 36: 25-28, 37:26-27. You will find in in 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 and in Hebrews 8:10, and in a marvelous way, in Revelation 21:3 where we read

Revelation 21:3

English Standard Version (ESV)

³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place^[a] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,^[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.^[c]

That is the final state. So you see that is the very essence of God’s promise in the covenant of grace- that what had been broken by sin and the Fall was going to be restored. And the supreme blessing therefore, the ultimate blessing, the blessing of blessings, is that GOD IS MY GOD AND THAT I HAVE A RIGHT TO SAY “MY GOD”. And that whole salvation is included in that.

How often do we tend to define salvation in terms other than that? Yet the greatest thing a human being can ever say since Fall is this: “GOD IS MY GOD”.

Cannot help but to be awed.. amazed… silenced.. by this wonderful truth.. YOU ARE MY GOD!

What a wonderful privilege that You are my God. That I am Yours.. I am Your child, You are my Father, my God! Amen and amen!

Praise be to You my God!

Amazing! Wonderful! Powerful! Omnipotent! Omniscient! Omnipresent! Magnificent! Indescribable GOD!

All I can do is to praise You, worship You, adore You.

I am speechless by Your love.. by WHO YOU ARE!

Lord, Here's My Heart

July 31, 2010

2 Samuel 24:24

²⁴  I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.”

“ Lord,” I said, “here’s my heart.”

-       Elisabeth Elliot (Passion and Purity)

Lord, I’ve always told You that my heart was the weakest in me… the desire to be loved and cherished are always the longing of my heart. My heart who aches for a man that will love me as I am, care and need me… treasure me.. as I am to him…

And my heart was filled with hopes with this man. Will our time come? Will the time comes when he can look me in the eye and say that “I am only his” and no one else… time when he can hold my hand, my only hand. Time when his heart will be offered to me and only me… as a man gives his heart to his only “woman”.

Lord I kept this things inside my heart… wishing, hoping, that one day we will be together, til death could only separate us apart.

But Lord, You have shown me, how I sinned in my heart and my thoughts. I coveted to someone who is already with someone.

The pain was there…

And You have shown me that I couldn’t hope for that “someday”

.

That someday will be Yours to make if You will it to.

The man will be given if is Your will to give…

So now Lord, here’s my heart…

I entrust my heart to You.. all what’s inside my heart…

The one that I long for is in Your hands…

The pain to surrender it to You Lord, was for now… but I give it to You

I could only hope to You… and in You

I could only trust that You know what’s best…

Trust that Your goodness never fails..

Trust that You hold my future in better hands

Trust that Your promises are true.

Mark 9:24

English Standard Version (ESV)

²⁴  “I believe; help my unbelief!”

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke,
I love, as you would have me, God the most;
Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost,
Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook.

This say I, having counted up the cost,
This, though I be the feeblest of God's host,
The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook.

Yet while I love my God the most, I deem
That I can never love you overmuch;
I love Him more, so let me love you too.

Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such
I cannot love you if I love not Him,
I cannot love Him if I love not you.

-       Christina Rossetiti

What do I really want? Was it love what God commands, in the words of the elect and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?

-       Elisabeth Elliot