No Good Thing Would He Withhold

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord of Salvation! Nicholas Foo accepted the Lord as His Savior!

And I am soo soo happy for him. God has shown Himself strong, mighty and powerful the past three days and I can only say that I stand awed and marvelled at His saving grace and power. I believe God saved more than half of the souls that were placed before Him. Prayer prevailed and "moved the hands of God". The gates of hells prevailed, satan stumped at one corner whining and cursing, while God is exalted and glorified by His manifestation of His power to convict and save. Hallelujah! What s Savior! Halleljah, what a great God do we serve!

Psalms 84:11-12 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!

Blessed is the man who trusts in God! Why? Because we serve and worship the true God. Because not only is He real, He is powerful. Because He isnt only powerful and real, He loves us all! It is beyond man's ability to understand or phantom. I was sitted at my sit the past three days, and really, I had to say something that I simply couldnt figure out was this matchless grace. To me, God worked a miracle. And this miracle may be one or the biggest miracle I have seen in my life thus far. And I realise how much how much I need and have to trust this God who, firstly shown Himself strong, secondly shown Himself loving and lastly, shown His way to be the bestest of the bestest.

God saved more than 20 souls in three nights. Even amongst men whom had intelligence and might, amongst men who may be skeptical and scornful, God's Spirit prevailed and saved those who chooses not to bow down at the will of the devil , but to submit to His will. And to nick: I was really so excited and so thankful that you made that decision. It is really not embarrasing to profess Christ among men. You are God's testimony and evident that He really exists and is powerful and working to me! I can never doubt God now. I don't think so, at least for now.


Thank the Lord for victories!

Yet I have to admit that I have failed the Lord even amongst the victories He gave unto me. Such exhilaration was there last night, yet such disobedience surfaced after the meeting. Decieved? I wasnt aware that even tho the devil was defeated, he never quits! Lack of discipline to be back home after the meeting I guess, caused me to fail God.

"No more church activites from now" were the last words I got from my dad after he made a call and asked me to return home right away. I was stumped as I set in the taxi. I was about to tear, well I did, a little, before realising firstly that I made a mistake and I needed the Lord's forgiveness. I can't help to thank God how He has prepared each trial and testing before He ever tests us. After the sermon by Jim Berg on The Wilderness: Good for what and Elizabeth Elliot's very encouraging and blessed book, Keeping a Quiet Heart, I was able to calmly rest in whatever was to come. I knew I had to accept what was my portion and my will, with humility. I learn that I was the clay and God the potter, whom am I to complain, and not abide in His way. I learnt God's way of humbling His children is through the wilderness. I knew I sometimes was distracted by the fun and enjoyment in church and struggled to seek Him, and wilderness might even be to discipline my mind. I knew I would have the liberty, not only that, but the passion and fervour to seek Him earnestly, after His wonderful works, after His grace and faithfulness in my life, even though I couldnt come to church. To be honest, I expected a ban for several months. I thought I couldnt risk my dad's salvation and my testimony before him to fight for my chance to go to church. Humility, and submition and to know that I was in the wrong would be better I thought, and to accept whatever my "portion" was in faith.

But I guess the words from "Thanks for the Victory" were true. "Sometimes I failed You Lord among the victories You gave And yet You never cast me down you willingly forgave Yet even through the failures You designed a sure defence Of knowledge strength and lessons learnt and made a difference " God never cast me down amongst my many failures in my past, He never did and never will. In my failures, God refines, God prunes, and God designs a better way. Notice that it was after King David repented that Solomon's descedants and Nathan's descedants to be the earthly parents of Jesus! God was in control, God knew where we would stray, God picks us up from there and leads us to His perfect will. "Of knowledge strength and lessons learnt, He made a difference." Looking back, how many lessons were learnt after I realised my mistakes. Looking back, how I grew as a christian, through those trying times and difficult times I faced. How I can never be as I am, if God had not pruned and refined me. How can I forget often the prayer I make to God to, sanctify me, to purge me of sin and wrongdoings. And when God does so, we dont understand that it is only in a form of trial and tribulation that we are able to be sanctified and refined. How God taught me not to lie through many difficult times. How God has taught me patience and to wait on Him, after I've made so many mistakes to run ahead and before Him. I thought all in all, God has a good plan for me, plans to prosper and not to harm me, as mentioned in Jeremiah. So I submitted, I accepted whatever my "portion" was to be.

Praise Him for His mercy when I was able to explain, speaking only the truth, after much teaching and "rebuking" though he wasnt scolding, he said I was not to go church this sunday. Ha ok. SO I expected worse. But God was merciful to let this happen. I thus wasnt upset or depressed, but I want to take this time to study, to really seek and grow in Him as much as I can even not being able to come church.

Well, I have so long been haunted by the fact that anytime, my dad would just stop me from church on sunday. I was truly on a line that was going to snap anytime, any wrong moves, any mistakes would snap this line and really, there goes my freedom to come every sunday. I guess there are many who are, I wouldnt say fortunate, but are blessed to be born in a christian family, and have the freedom to come to church freely. Blessed are they. I have always been struggling with myself, at times, really in tears in great and deep despair why I have to be the "unfortunate" one. And really, when I stugggle with this, it really was such a tough struggle. I give God the glory when I will say that I realise I am so blessed too to be one who will give light to my family. Just as I have seen in Nicholas case, how he wants his family to be on their way to heaven and to God, how (note nick) he has to be the light for God in his family and how I have heard about the first generations of our church of how the founding members were seeking, and hiding. Haa, seeking God earnestly while hiding from their buddhist, unbelieving, strict parents. We are blessed you know? We are like riding on the pain our fore"siblings" in Christ have to bear to pave this smooth road for us to seek God. Yet, because of peace and comfort, we do not understand how much people had to suffer to love God, else we would be so ready to give our lives to God. Taking things for granted I guess. I still continue to give Him glory as I say that I am not unfairly treated, but am so blessed to be able to taste a lil of what our forerunners did in their love and fervour for Christ. But of course, I had many things the easier ways. I don't have to read and pray in the toliet, I didnt have to hide my bible, I don't have to sneak to come to church on sundays! And there are also many out there with parents whom may not be so receptive, rejoice with me as we are blessed. Now we can see what this wilderness is for! To test us, to humble us so that God knows what our heart truly desire, to love and keep His commandments? Read Deuteronomy 8. Reading from the book, Keeping a Quiet Heart, realise that everyone has his or her own portion, God designed each person's life according to His perfect plan and if we choose to follow His way, we can be used no matter who we are, weak or strong, smart or not, rich or poor. God has never not used those who will faithfully follow Him. NEVER. Despite our inability to see the big picture now, He promises that without faith it is impossible to please Him, but those who come to Him must belive that HE is, and IS a rewarder of those who dilligently seek Him. I heard before someone said, that behind every great men of faith that we so know of well, there lies a person not mentioned, but who gave the gospel of Christ and sown the seeds of God to that person. Though not known, but without him that great man of God may not even be there! Whatever you portion may be, take it in faith and trust that if you do your best to follow it, it wil only lead to God's fulfillment of His plan in you!

There is so much I wanna share about how to keep a quiet heart. Elizabeth Elliot's book has blessed me so much. But its really alot alot to learn and if you fully comprehend and pray that God will help you live them out, we can really have such a life resting and trusting Christ.

Its quite amazing how God picked me out of despair just one week before and lifted me up and higher late last week and this early week. God has blessed me so much that I do not want to remain stagnant in my faith and do what my flesh pleases to do. I so desire to seek Him and just to grow to love Him and to adore Him as every day passes by. What about you? Have you decided what you are gonna do with Jesus? One who has proved, powerful, loving and faithful to all of us in our own ways. To be seeking Him with all your heart, to love Him with all might and serve Him with all strength, OR harden our hearts to His faithfulness, to His speaking. I pray that we will be refreshed and be revived to go out to preach so boldly to our friends, not doubting God's power to convict and save, after we have witnessed Him do so right before our very eyes.

O Lord of Hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in Thee!