Hey guys, I just wanna say that I'm very encouraged by all your posts! :) continue to post and encourage each other using this blog okay. I was thinking of what I could blog about, and I was really having a short-circuit in my brain cos this whole week has just ZOOMED past me. So many things to do and so little rest for me dear brain. But, I just thank God that He has continued to speak to me through my friends. Anyway, I was checking my mails and stuff and I thought I should blog about prayer.

Sometimes ago pastor sam emailed the leaders saying that in addition to WWF (word, worship and fellowship - i hope you all still remember!) focus in speedlight, we should also have a new focus on prayer. And then, the VCF (varsity Christian Fellowship) of NUS also decided that their focus this year should be on prayer! On top of that, I've been feeling a burden to pray, cos this is an area in my spiritual life that I'm lacking, and struggling with. Reading about Daniel in my devotional book 'Encounter with God' has also really taught me a lot about prayer and spiritual disciplines. Back to the point, many times prayer has been soooo overlooked, and I also am guilty of it almost everyday. just because we don't see the effects of prayer drop from the sky immediately doesn't mean that God is not doing His work! I have many unanswered questions about prayer too, but faith in God should be enough to keep us going in prayer. to cut the long story short, i just wanna share something that VCF forwarded:

1. "No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; The people who are not praying are straying; The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; The prayer closet allows no showing off. Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, She is most stricken here in the place of prayer. We have many organizers, but few agonisers; Many players and payers, but few pray-ers; Many singers, few clingers; Lots of pastors, few wrestlers; Many fears, few tears; Much fashion, little passion; Many interferers, few intercessors; Many writers, but few fighters;

Failing here, we fail everywhere."
2. "Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound. Prayer is the simplest form of speech that an infant lips can try. Yet so sublime that it outranges all speech and exhaust man's vocabulary."

~ Leonard Ravenhill ~

3."God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans." ~ E. M. Bounds ~


So guys, even though we do not see each other during the week, let's continue to keep each other in prayer, and I cannot emphasize that more! Anyone who hasn't been coming, PRAY; anyone whose soul you feel a burden for, PRAY; any questions you have about God's will in your life, PRAY. PRAY PRAY PRAY!!!

P.S. Dino, hope your dad's okay :)

Love, Jess