Being Obedient To The Prompting Of The Holy Spirit

Last evening, I attended a funeral memorial wake service of a dear brother in the Lord who went home to be with the Lord in the early hours of Tuesday (Monday night) after suffering a heart failure. He was 88 years old and he left exactly one year after his beloved wife went home to the Lord (Jan 30, 2010) leaving behind three children and 5 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. 
Now what was amazing was that on Saturday evening, I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to approach the ushers after the second service to take five sets of holy communion elements and visit mr friend's father in the hospital after lunch on Sunday and to administer the holy communion (five sets - the brother, his two daughters, my wife and myself). And the prompting was very strong as I was reminded again on Sunday morning over breakfast and I even asked my wife to collect the elements should I missed the opportunity.

I was surprised when my wife told me that the ushers had kept everything after the service and that they could not give me the communion elements. And so, undeterred I approached the ushers myself and spoke to the team leader about reopening the boxes to hand me the required sets for my hospital visit and, praise the Lord, one of the ushers apparently had already taken the initiative and handed me the required number.

After lunch, we proceeded to the hospital and we had a good time of fellowship over the Lord's supper. The Lord is so good in that He arranged for all the family members to be present at the hospital and so there were eight of us there. After communion, I took the anointing oil and anointed the brother and spoke over his situation and so when our friend texted me in the morning I knew the significance of the hospital visit and the communion.

But what thrilled my heart most was when this dear sister (our friend) shared with me after the service that she and her sister discussed on Saturday evening and were believing the Lord that the father would have an opportunity to take communion in the hospital and also to be anointed with oil. They approached the pastor of their church and were told that it was not possible because of timings. Unbeknown to them the Lord had already planted that assignment on my heart and so, when I announced to the two sisters that I was going to share communion, they were amazed at the answer to their prayer and were further thrilled when I opened the bottle of oil and started to anoint their father.

And so, from this experience, I am now more sensitive to what the Holy Spirit puts in my heart. I believe this is just the beginning and there will be more miracles taking place after this.

To Jesus be the glory and honor. AMEN

Stethoscope - Listen To Your Heart!

In today's hectic world where we are constantly being bombarded with thousands of requests and demands, it is very easy to lose track of what are the most important things in life. Can I recommend that each of us take a brief moment and take stock by listening to what our heart says....

Will Psalm 111 Be Fulfilled in Year 2011?

Recently I came across this TV broadcast where Gary Stearman and JR Church were discussing the significance of Psalm 111 and whether this particular psalm would be fulfilled this year 2011.

To watch the program, please click on the URL here

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Please pay particular attention to what JR Church shares about the construction of this psalm and also the way the Holy Spirit uses Psalms 111 through 117 to send us a picture...

British Actors Poking at Technologies

If you are a techie fan, you might want to watch this video. This is really hilarious...!

Farewell to our dear Scot...

Today, I had to officially sign the euthanasia form to put our pet beagle of 15.5 years to sleep. It is indeed a sad moment but in the condition he was in, we felt this was the best solution. He had cataract in his right eye, sore feet from boils, liverproblem (vet suspects cancer), skin problem, skin cancer on his scrotum plus he started vomiting this morning (which was not the case prior) and his appetite was affected.

Over the past 14 odd years he had been with the family, (he came home on Dec 22, 1996 as a 15-month old puppy) he had seen many changes in the family as well as to the house he grew up in. There were two rounds of renovations through which he survived the dust.
When he was about four, he had a very severe attack of tick fever and when we brought him to the vet, he was practically a bag of bones but praise the Lord, he was healed and he actually grew bigger.
Here you can see he has his own comforts of life - his very own towel blanket as the floor could be rather cold at night.

His favorites were to be scratched
1. on his forehead
2. under his chin
3. under his chest.
Another favorite was when we use a brush to bathe and scrub his back especially during his shampooed weekly bath.
When he was younger, each time there was a thunderstorm and at each clap of thunder he will be very uneasy. He actually ran away from home five times and we had to hunt the neighborhood for him.
     It was such sheer delight for him to sneak into the house that when he was actually caught sleeping inside that my wife and daughter decided to make him wear a worn-out old male t-shirt that had been discarded.

And it was like ecstasy when he finally discovered he was allowed into the house and sleep in the kitchen. Previously by training he was not allowed to enter the house.

Indeed, Scot gave the family so much happy times that we felt such an attachment towards him; my apologies to some of my friends who may be reading this when there were times I had to rush off so that I could feed him his dinner. Our times together were precious and we were enriched by his presence with us. There were also many occasions that the Lord taught me many object lessons by simply examining his life and learning from him.
He was such a good natured dog that even when we placed him in the car for his journey to the vet, he would sit or lie down quietly and 'enjoy' the journey. He was always in the pink of life and you can see that in his tongue.
However, as the days go by we noticed that he became weaker and weaker and he could not stay awake for extended periods of time. Here we can see he was really tired while waiting for us during the recent house-move on Dec 10, 2010. He actually fell asleep on the grass in the backyard.


Certainly we will miss him.      Good-bye Scot...