Shortly after I wrote the previous post, the news came fast and swiftly, the last hope of the job was quenched. The prayer was effective as K's plea for quick closure came.
Despite my belief that he will be delivered through this job, I know that it was only recently that I came to it. Before, I've always been praying for a job that will glorify God and God, the alpha and omega of all things know what we can take. If it's beyond us, he will give us strength to go through it.. Or close the door on us.
Faith is believing when you can't see. And right now with the prospects empty in this horizon, it's like the army has vanished but the enemy is trudging close every day. Where do you find your soldiers? How do you train them up quickly?
Yet like how Gideon defeated the Midianites with only 300 soldiers instead of 32,000 that he had at first.
God will provide and we continue to trust in Him.
Love,
Principessa
Monday, 16 January 2012
Sunday, 15 January 2012
It is such a luxury to stay at home
Truly! When you are time pressed and are always out of the house, home becomes so sweet a sound. I made the choice to go home for dinner with my family today. Haven't been at home for some time and I miss them so much! I didn't sit down and have a dinner with them but we shared the same food.. And seeing them before they actually go to bed is something I cherish too. I am usually home so late that the lights are off...
It becomes my new year resolution to come home earlier on Sundays to have dinner with my family, to eat food cooked by my loving mum, to spend time bathing earlier than midnight and luxuriate around at home. Things so simple becomes so precious! Even cutting fruits and asking my dad to eat it, the short exchange of words (my dad does not communicate verbally too much), even just checking on my Sis... Helping to wash the dishes as an act of appreciation to mum who cooked the food, sitting here in my room typing this with a book in hand (my next 'mission'), thinking about the simple piano practice I had... And the vacuuming of my bedroom.
All these are such a luxury oh Lord! Thank you for allowing me this time that I treasure so much. Thank you for bringing me into your presence this morning just to worship you and wake up early to attend the bible study classes. My 2012 has been so productive already if I just commit myself to Sunday bible study early in the morning and sunday dinners with my family. I'll be so content!
Well, there are other goals too and 1 is to get some fitness into my life and lower my cholesterol. A wedding this year and coping with the move and the big event and having enough finances to pull through this (my fiancé is still jobless) are all things I have to deal with!
But God is gracious and loving to me. God is good and i have faith that He will give me strength to pull it through, and I have faith that everything will work out so perfectly and amazingly even beyond my wildest imaginations!!! Today's class is about "live by faith and not by sight", and indeed even if the situation looks somewhat downcast, my Lord is good and He will deliver!
Here is my faith in what God will provide is with, I am listing it here to record my prayers and I want to testify and when God answers, all glory be to Him!
1) Fiancé WILL get the job he has been interviewing for since OCT, even though the competitor is strong and the signs point otherwise! God has provided us many godly people and signs that He will provide us with this as long as we wait upon Him!
2) Our wedding finances WILL be sufficient for us! We won't spend unwisely but God will bless us with His faithfulness and everything will be enough for the honeymoon, for the banquet & church & for photos .. Everything. God will give us enough and we will have enough savings for our house too.
3) We WILL be able to fill out an ambitious 40 tables at our wedding banquet with people we love and care about! It is not a real choice because we want the ballroom size, the hotel, the date and the cost they state and we need at least 35 tables for "must invite" friends & relatives. How do we get the other 50 people??? God will lead us to people who will love to spend the day & celebrate with us. :)
4) That wedding arrangements, relationships with boss & colleagues over the wedding & all it's preparation WILL be good & work out. Photographers, florists, decorators, caterers, makeup artists, hotel people, bridal boutique... Everyone will work well together and everything is smooth
Love,
Principessa
It becomes my new year resolution to come home earlier on Sundays to have dinner with my family, to eat food cooked by my loving mum, to spend time bathing earlier than midnight and luxuriate around at home. Things so simple becomes so precious! Even cutting fruits and asking my dad to eat it, the short exchange of words (my dad does not communicate verbally too much), even just checking on my Sis... Helping to wash the dishes as an act of appreciation to mum who cooked the food, sitting here in my room typing this with a book in hand (my next 'mission'), thinking about the simple piano practice I had... And the vacuuming of my bedroom.
All these are such a luxury oh Lord! Thank you for allowing me this time that I treasure so much. Thank you for bringing me into your presence this morning just to worship you and wake up early to attend the bible study classes. My 2012 has been so productive already if I just commit myself to Sunday bible study early in the morning and sunday dinners with my family. I'll be so content!
Well, there are other goals too and 1 is to get some fitness into my life and lower my cholesterol. A wedding this year and coping with the move and the big event and having enough finances to pull through this (my fiancé is still jobless) are all things I have to deal with!
But God is gracious and loving to me. God is good and i have faith that He will give me strength to pull it through, and I have faith that everything will work out so perfectly and amazingly even beyond my wildest imaginations!!! Today's class is about "live by faith and not by sight", and indeed even if the situation looks somewhat downcast, my Lord is good and He will deliver!
Here is my faith in what God will provide is with, I am listing it here to record my prayers and I want to testify and when God answers, all glory be to Him!
1) Fiancé WILL get the job he has been interviewing for since OCT, even though the competitor is strong and the signs point otherwise! God has provided us many godly people and signs that He will provide us with this as long as we wait upon Him!
2) Our wedding finances WILL be sufficient for us! We won't spend unwisely but God will bless us with His faithfulness and everything will be enough for the honeymoon, for the banquet & church & for photos .. Everything. God will give us enough and we will have enough savings for our house too.
3) We WILL be able to fill out an ambitious 40 tables at our wedding banquet with people we love and care about! It is not a real choice because we want the ballroom size, the hotel, the date and the cost they state and we need at least 35 tables for "must invite" friends & relatives. How do we get the other 50 people??? God will lead us to people who will love to spend the day & celebrate with us. :)
4) That wedding arrangements, relationships with boss & colleagues over the wedding & all it's preparation WILL be good & work out. Photographers, florists, decorators, caterers, makeup artists, hotel people, bridal boutique... Everyone will work well together and everything is smooth
Love,
Principessa
Thursday, 12 January 2012
My God works in amazing ways
Dear diary,
Know I haven't written for a while but I must share about how God has worked in amazing ways in people's lives.
My fiancé is retrenched since Dec as the company he is working is heavily affected by the Europe debt crisis, his boss and him and half of his department has been retrenched. Praise God for though income is uncertain... He has got to the final round of interview with an established & credible company. No job in sight yet with this very stretched period of waiting. Yet.. Praise God for his provisions as we have enough to get by. :)
His ex-boss have found a job too. He was initially quite lost but a sermon in church gave him faith in our Mighty God, with the story of Peter walking on water.
The apostles were in a boat in the middle of a heavy storm, their teacher/spiritual leader was not with them. Worried and fearing for their lives, the storm tossed and swept the boat from side to side. In the middle of the night, they saw a figure in a distance and it looks like.. Jesus. "Can this be Him?", they thought. Jesus was walking on water! No one was quite certain if it is a ghost or the teacher himself but Peter called out excitedly and amazed, he asked Jesus if he can walk on water too. Yes you can, come to me. And Peter, with his eyes fixed on Jesus, stepped out of the boat and put his feet in the water. He started walking on water! "This can't be real", some probably might have thought. "But it is! It is a miracle!"
After a while Peter took his eyes away from Jesus and started looking at the water around him, he is really walking on water! With a storm that had just passed, surely this can't be true that he can indeed walk on water?? Peter panicked and then he started sinking. He flailed his arms around and shouted for help, "Teacher, please save me! Jesus, help me!". As he looked upon the Lord again, he felt an arm pulling him up of the sinking scary depths. It's Jesus, our savior.
Encouraged by this story, his ex-boss found faith in God again. He know that even if his situation is uncertain and he is out of his comfort zone, God will help us when we fix our eyes on Jesus and depend not on our own human understanding. :)
Soon after, a client of his who had always admired his work hired him immediately after hearing that he has lost his job. And there again, God has truly provided!
Isn't our God amazing? He works in wonderful and mysterious ways that we do not know! Put your faith in Jesus.
Love,
Principessa
Know I haven't written for a while but I must share about how God has worked in amazing ways in people's lives.
My fiancé is retrenched since Dec as the company he is working is heavily affected by the Europe debt crisis, his boss and him and half of his department has been retrenched. Praise God for though income is uncertain... He has got to the final round of interview with an established & credible company. No job in sight yet with this very stretched period of waiting. Yet.. Praise God for his provisions as we have enough to get by. :)
His ex-boss have found a job too. He was initially quite lost but a sermon in church gave him faith in our Mighty God, with the story of Peter walking on water.
The apostles were in a boat in the middle of a heavy storm, their teacher/spiritual leader was not with them. Worried and fearing for their lives, the storm tossed and swept the boat from side to side. In the middle of the night, they saw a figure in a distance and it looks like.. Jesus. "Can this be Him?", they thought. Jesus was walking on water! No one was quite certain if it is a ghost or the teacher himself but Peter called out excitedly and amazed, he asked Jesus if he can walk on water too. Yes you can, come to me. And Peter, with his eyes fixed on Jesus, stepped out of the boat and put his feet in the water. He started walking on water! "This can't be real", some probably might have thought. "But it is! It is a miracle!"
After a while Peter took his eyes away from Jesus and started looking at the water around him, he is really walking on water! With a storm that had just passed, surely this can't be true that he can indeed walk on water?? Peter panicked and then he started sinking. He flailed his arms around and shouted for help, "Teacher, please save me! Jesus, help me!". As he looked upon the Lord again, he felt an arm pulling him up of the sinking scary depths. It's Jesus, our savior.
Encouraged by this story, his ex-boss found faith in God again. He know that even if his situation is uncertain and he is out of his comfort zone, God will help us when we fix our eyes on Jesus and depend not on our own human understanding. :)
Soon after, a client of his who had always admired his work hired him immediately after hearing that he has lost his job. And there again, God has truly provided!
Isn't our God amazing? He works in wonderful and mysterious ways that we do not know! Put your faith in Jesus.
Love,
Principessa
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