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Five Minute Friday: On Forgetting

Ok. Let’s get started, I guess. I found Lisa Jo’s website from a tweet about it by Jessica Turner. It’s in an interesting thing that Lisa Jo wrote:

I remember how powerful the written word is. To encourage, to laugh, to cheer, to pray, to listen, and love. Sometimes all it takes is five minutes. Five minutes to just write, and not worry if it’s just right or not.

I decided to join her ride every Friday. Well… I’m going to start today. I know it’s Sunday! But hey I hope I can catch up the ride from last Friday 🙂

This topic on Friday was: On Forgetting. OK! Let’s get start before my 5 minutes is up!

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Good Soldiers

On this Memorial Day, all of us remember those who sacrified their lives in the wars, those who have served and survived, and also those who are serving now in other countries. We praise God for all of them! We thank you all for willing to serve God and others in this way.

When I was sitting and thinking of God, I was reminded of a passage from the book of 2 Timothy 2:1-13: “A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus.”

What strucked me a lot were faithfulness and obedience. Those are the main characters that should be found in a good soldier of Christ. Apostle Paul wrote, “No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him,” (2 Timothy 2:4).

Moreover, Apostle Paul warned us that we have to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might (Ephesians 6:1). For “our battle” now is not fighting flesh and blood, but againts the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12).

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Personal Prayers From Colossians

by Terry Gooding, a prayer leader from El Paso, Texas.

Personal

Prayers

from Colossians

1. Lord God, help me to remember to give thanks to You, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in all things and to maintain an attitude of prayer (1:3).

2. Build in me a strong faith in You and a love for all the saints (1:4).

3. Fill me with the knowledge of Your will in all areas of my life (1:9).

4. Teach me to walk in a manner worthy of You and to please You in all things (1:10).

5. Help me to bear fruit daily in the work I do and increase in the knowledge of You (1:10).

6. Help me to be strengthened with Your power that I may have endurance and patience (1:11).

7. Help me to always remember that, as a believer, I have been delivered from darkness and brought into the kingdom of Your beloved Son (1:13).

8. I pray that You will have first place in everything in my life (1:18).

9. Father, I ask You to make my faith strong, stable, and fixed on the truth of the gospel (1:23).

10. Please knit my heart together in love with other believers in the body of Christ (2:2).

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First Top Off -Jeep Drive

We had a quite lazy morning because it was kind of cloudy but we had a delicious breakfast made by Dave. That cloudy morning didn’t last for a long time. Around 11 am we saw some sunshine at our back window. And Dave said, “It’s too nice to be inside the house. Let’s go out!”

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Who Shall Dwell in God’s Presence

Who may enter your presence on your holy hill?

Psalm 15 gives us the list of the characters of the people who shall dwell in God’s holy presence.

And they are:

1. Right doers who has clean and pure hearts (15:2)

2. Just and love their neighbors (15:3)

3. Fear God, faithful, have no doubt (15:4)

4. Not greedy and not love money (15:5)

Let’s pray together that God will help us to be the people who can stand in His holy presence. Holy Spirit will help if we ask humbly.

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