By Josephine Lim-Weston
It's not easy to hope when you're in despair. It's not easy to hope when all that's around you is screaming impossibility. It's not easy to hope when our minds are so clouded and blocked with sadness, regrets and pressure. That's when we've got to choose to surrender ALL our CARES to God. By our own "cleverness and effort" we can't but only by Him and through Him all things are possible.
God is waiting for His people to seek Him. To call on His Name for help and deliverance. He's not just God Almighty sitting on His pretty throne. No, not indeed. He's in fact sitting on the throne of grace so we'll receive His mercy and find grace in time of need (Hebrews 4:16).
I've learnt each time when I lose track and direction in life, when situation seemed overwhelming and I do not know what to do and all I want is to escape and start all over, I have a God of hope and I have a God to whom I can surrender and ask for deliverance and help. I am then being given a new hope and receive renewed wisdom on how to overcome. I begin to visualise in hope what I want to see change and praying towards it. It's not easy to visualise exactly, but God is asking us not to limit Him. He's a big and generous God who is more than able to answer and grant us our prayers. Ask with a big vision in mind. As someone said before, "Aim for the moon and land on the stars". So aim big as you'll not know what God can do when you have a big and confident faith in Him.
Lets make our hopes into visions and pray towards it. Believing that someday, and even now, our hopes and visions can become a reality. Let us not lose hope and not be afraid. Let us visualise as we pray and trust in Him. Choose to surrender and choose to believe that what is a miracle is not impossible. Choose also to allow Him to transform our minds and be conformed to His likeness. Choose to be led by His Spirit and be humble to change. Choose to remain steadfast in hope when a miracle is taking awhile to materialise. Lets choose to visualise in hope (on His super-abounding grace).
Sunday, 24 July 2016
Monday, 18 July 2016
Boldly Believe (Boldly Ask, Pray and Act Upon)
By Josephine Lim-Weston
On Tuesday morning of 6th July, I woke up with a burden in my heart toward the political situation in Malaysia. The injustices are so overwhelming. Good and exemplary leaders are being persecuted and some irresponsible people in authority are stirring racial disharmony. I wondered when will justice prevail and wickedness be rooted out. Then the thought of UK political and economic situations came to mind too. Before I allow myself to be burdened further, the Lord prompted my heart to believe in Him boldly. To pray bold prayers and have the boldness to believe Him for great things to come and for great transformation - now the UK has a new Prime Minister and pound sterling is on the rise. I also believe eventually Malaysia will experience breakthrough that its people are hoping for.
Also with my two missed miscarriages, that happened in 2014 and 2015, I was disheartened but the desire of overcoming the unfortunate overwhelmed me and I prayed for the supernatural to happen. I prayed boldly for "Birthing the Miraculous" - yes the same title with a highly recommended book written by Heidi Baker. Before 2015 came to an end I was two months pregnant and we saw our first live baby on the ultrasound for the very first time. Now we await for the birth of our first child at any moment.
This year God has been challenging me to boldly believe Him for the things I pray and hope for and I'm sure many of you too. It can be anything. Believing Him boldly with our health and healing, relationships, marriage, career, future, financial provision, ministry and calling He has for us, salvation of family and friends, smooth and healthy pregnancy and delivery of baby and much more.
So now whenever I have concerns, instead of letting them develop into worries, I choose to quickly surrender to God in prayer and have that boldness to trust Him that He is a God that answers prayers and more than able to carry me through and make the impossible possible. Matthew 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
Exodus 34:10 Then God said, “Behold, I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will do wondrous works (miracles) such as have not been created or produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you live shall see the working of the Lord, for it is a wonderful and awesome thing that I am going to do with you.
God's promises apply to all generations and His kindness (grace) endures forever. So lets boldly believe in Him in all circumstances and we shall see the breakthroughs and miracles we long for. He never fails and those who trust in Him will never be put to shame.
On Tuesday morning of 6th July, I woke up with a burden in my heart toward the political situation in Malaysia. The injustices are so overwhelming. Good and exemplary leaders are being persecuted and some irresponsible people in authority are stirring racial disharmony. I wondered when will justice prevail and wickedness be rooted out. Then the thought of UK political and economic situations came to mind too. Before I allow myself to be burdened further, the Lord prompted my heart to believe in Him boldly. To pray bold prayers and have the boldness to believe Him for great things to come and for great transformation - now the UK has a new Prime Minister and pound sterling is on the rise. I also believe eventually Malaysia will experience breakthrough that its people are hoping for.
Also with my two missed miscarriages, that happened in 2014 and 2015, I was disheartened but the desire of overcoming the unfortunate overwhelmed me and I prayed for the supernatural to happen. I prayed boldly for "Birthing the Miraculous" - yes the same title with a highly recommended book written by Heidi Baker. Before 2015 came to an end I was two months pregnant and we saw our first live baby on the ultrasound for the very first time. Now we await for the birth of our first child at any moment.
This year God has been challenging me to boldly believe Him for the things I pray and hope for and I'm sure many of you too. It can be anything. Believing Him boldly with our health and healing, relationships, marriage, career, future, financial provision, ministry and calling He has for us, salvation of family and friends, smooth and healthy pregnancy and delivery of baby and much more.
So now whenever I have concerns, instead of letting them develop into worries, I choose to quickly surrender to God in prayer and have that boldness to trust Him that He is a God that answers prayers and more than able to carry me through and make the impossible possible. Matthew 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
Exodus 34:10 Then God said, “Behold, I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will do wondrous works (miracles) such as have not been created or produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you live shall see the working of the Lord, for it is a wonderful and awesome thing that I am going to do with you.
God's promises apply to all generations and His kindness (grace) endures forever. So lets boldly believe in Him in all circumstances and we shall see the breakthroughs and miracles we long for. He never fails and those who trust in Him will never be put to shame.
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