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What Would You Do After Your Summer Mission Trips?

Out of that understood unfairness, instead of conviction, I sat with my guilt.

Guilt isn’t helpful.

I’ve never heard anyone being stirred to action because they felt guilty about an issue—it’s a very passive emotion and a selfish one. It’s relating every issue back to me.

Source from: InterVarsity Blog: Life After Summer Missions.

Urbana 12 is InterVarsity’s 23rd Student Missions Conference, December 27-31, 2012 in St. Louis, MO.

That is the feeling of some of those who came back from their Short Mission Trips. Guilty is what they felt after seeing what they saw on the trips. But you cannot just sit on it for the rest of your life. You have to move forward, overcome the feeling. The questions you should ask yourselves are:

What should I do after this?

How should I react or response to it?

What is the next step that I need to take?

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God’s Invitation

Hear me as I pray, O Lord
Be merciful and answer me!
My heart has heard you say,
“Come and talk with me.”
And my heart responds,
“Lord, I am coming.”
~ Psalm 27:7-8 ~

Isn’t that a beautiful prayer from David? I made that as my prayer too, today. We are invited to come and talk with God at anytime, anywhere, and in any circumstances/conditions/situations in our life.

We often say, “I don’t have time today,” or “May be tonight I can spend a little time to pray.”
Why not now? Why not where you are now? Why don’t you stop whatever you do now and spend time with God? He loves to be with you and he always be waiting for you to come and to find him. We have time, only the question is “What do I want to use my time for?” It’s all up to you.

God is waiting for you to come to him and have relationship with him. He keeps on waiting for you to say something because he is ready to listen to you (Jeremiah 29:11-14 & 33:2-3).

Have you spent time with God today?

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The Dates of Ramadan

“to open their eyes, so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and be given a place among God’s people, who are set apart by faith in me.” (Acts 26:18, NLT)

This year most of the countries in the world will start their Ramadan (the fasting month) on August 1-30, 2011. The dates of Ramadan always change every year, here’s why:

The dates for Ramadan are established according to the Islamic lunar calendar of 354 days. Starting 11 days earlier each year, it takes about 33 years for the Islam calendar to go through all the seasons.

Because of the changing nature of the Islamic year the 2011 booklet is actually our 20th edition. There have been 20 Islamic lunar years since the beginning of “30 Days” in March 1993. This is the year 1432 of the Islamic lunar calendar.

(C) 30-Days of Prayer for the Muslim World

Our Muslim friends will use this whole month to meditate their Al-quran, ask forgiveness for their sins, and longing for the Way, The Truth and the Life – the guidance to the right path, which only can be found through Isa Almasih. There’s one website that provides all information and knowledge about Isa and Islam, you can visit their website here. All you need to know you can find them on that website.

Would you join me to pray for the Muslims in the world this month?

 

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Five Minute Friday: Still

Hey today is Friday (like 10 more minutes to midnight ^_^)… and it’s time for 5 Minutes Friday. Today is at the (In)Courage website.

It’s been a while for me. The 5 Minutes Friday is about we write in 5 minutes, no more no less, play the words on the prompt, this week is “Still.”

Okay… here we go…

Still. The very first thing come up in my mind when I read the prompt word for today is “Be still and know that I am God.” This verse is an answer and confirmation for me, the reply from God for what I’ve been praying in this week.

We have postponed the plan to go to Chicago for a conference because we didn’t have enough money for it. Then earlier this week we got an e-mail from a missionary and he asked us to go with him to the conference and help him to share the needs and ministry in Indonesia. We don’t know what to say because we know we cannot go or even register for financial wise. But we kept on praying until 2 days ago I got an e-mail a friend who has been praying with me for something that my husband and I hope to see how God leads us to go and to do his will. That’s the first confirmation for us that God wants us to go.

I asked God for one more confirmation from the Word of God. And today I got this verse clearly I heard inside my heart and head saying that we need to be still and know that he is God, the God who is calling us and will equip and provide whatever we need to accomplish his calling and plan. It’s not about us. It’s about God. If we can go, it’s not because we have money or we can, but it’s all because of God and his will be done.

Being still is not easy for me and my husband. Our mind cannot stop thinking about how we could get the money, or what we should do to get more money, or how much money we should put aside so we could get enough, or even how we can get the money to pay the registrations on time, and more and more. The more we thing about it, the more see clearly that there’s no way we can make it. But God order us to be still and know that God is God.

From my understanding being still is stay still, don’t do anything base on human mind or way. By being still means we wait upon God in prayer and Spirit, then we will know who God is, what he can do, and we will see and know more of him, we will get the answer.

So that what we are going to do, “Be still and know that God is God.”

 

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How Do I Know?

“Lord, I pray for these needs… please bless and provide the ways…”

That is may be one of the lines in your prayer every day when you pray and ask God to provide what ever you need in your life, family and ministry. The next step is waiting for God to answer that prayer. The question now is “How do we need to wait for God’s answer to our prayers?”

“Perhaps He already has,” wrote Jon Graf (Pray! Magazine, Issue 5, p.4). But you say, “How do I know that God has answered my prayer?”

Jon Graf explains the 4 steps to find God’s direction and confirmation:

1. Pray: ask God for confirmation in your heart. Pray about all aspects of what you are contemplating doing. Keep an open mind to hear something else God might be telling you to do.

2. Read the Word: go to God’s Word and seek Him for a confirmation. It can come through God speaking through a passage and by a growing peace in your heart.

3. Study: if it is something you heard or read about that worked somewhere else, read everything you can on the subject. And don’t be afraid to read something that might be critical of or have warnings about what you are considering. God can still confirm in your heart what He wants you to do.

4. Confirm through others: have fellow believers pray with you about what you believe God is revealing. If God is leading you to do something, He will confirm it through others.