30 March 2005

Today I was reading through my daily email devotional and was reading through this one by Katherine Kehler. Man, it really touches my nerve a little. It doesn’t matter how many bombastic words we use, how simple our prayer is, how short or long it is…God still listen to us. In order to share this devotional out to you, I’ve copied and pasted it into my blog for your perusal. I hope you will be blessed by this blog too. Have a nice day, readers.

God Listens To Us

By: Katherine Kehler

“The Lord sees the good people and listens to their prayers” (1 Peter 3:12)

Recently I received an email from a new Christian. She had read my devotional on the elements of effective prayer and asked an interesting question: “What words would I use?”

I have given that some thought. How do you teach a new Christian the words to use to begin to talk to God? When a mature Christian has walked and talked with God for a long time, they forget what it was like at the beginning of their walk with Christ.

She would need to be told that prayer is simply talking to God. He isn’t as interested in our words as He is with the attitude of our heart. Because more mature Christians often pray long prayers (whole paragraphs — even a whole book) in one sitting, new Christians are intimidated. They know they can’t pray like that - nor do they need to.

Using the acrostic, Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Asking, I would teach her to pray in short, simple sentences - something like this:

- Adore

“Father God, I love You.”

- Confess

“I was (name a bad attitude or action) today.”

- Thank God

“Thank You for cleansing my heart from these sins.”

- Ask

“Please fill my heart with Your Holy Spirit and empower me to please You and get to know You better.”

When she begins to feel comfortable praying one short sentence prayers, she could begin praying several sentences for each element.

Too simple? For some people it would be. Others will welcome a very simple, “how to pray” outline. Regardless of how few or how many words we use, we can be sure that God listens to us — and to our hearts.

~Jesus, Your disciples asked You to teach them how to pray. We also ask You to teach us to pray. Amen.

27 March 2005

27 March 2005

PK Resources Group of Companies Annual Dinner was held tonight. The group which includes Nilai International College, Allson Klana BBN, Allson Klana Seremban, BBN, Nilai Spring Golf Club & many more. SO many of us were dressed to the nine, sashaying on da red carpet into the ballroom. … capturing as many photo shots as we can with colleagues.

Dressed in Traditional Costumes… L-R: Madam Ang, Me, Joanne and Jess.

This is me and Jess. I am wearing a black Cheongsam while she is with her black saree….

Closer shot of Joanne Gan and myself dressed in sexy cheongsams.

I have more shots in Kelvin’s camera and it so happened my batteries died off in this important event just now at Allson Klana Resort, Seremban.

It was so bored to sit with my colleagues from my department and I didn’t know what to talk about besides waiting for food time and admiring those dancers on stage. Haihh.. Jason and Alan were at the other table with the IT dept… while me… stuck next to Madam Ang. Thank God after the dinner time, I grabbed a seat at their table [IT dept  and Jason and Alan], at least I wouldn’t feel alienated and fret no more.

LUCKY DRAW…emmm… I don’t have the luck as usual. For a couple of years… Alan managed to get a portable stereo video cd system. So LUCKY of him. I just drank a glass of Tiger Beer down while being disappointed of the lucky draw. The grand prize was a PDA!!