The Kitchen's Fellowship had been launched for more than 2 months now and well, like all ministry, there are ups and downs.
"Well, why do you have to waste all the money, is it worth it?"
"Is what you are doing what God wants?"
"God gave you management skills to manage your money well, why are you not managing it properly?"
Those are the questions that had been bogging me 2 weeks ago. I felt insecure and I felt a great urge to seek God and find peace in Him.
I am a human and I am weak. Sometimes as I walked on with Christ, I am not sure if the decisions I made were right. Therefore, I can say that I am weak.
However, as I seek God in prayer and quiet time, He gave me His assurances through a wonderful verse, that is, Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
After reading this verse, I am assured that the Holy Spirit who lives in me will pray for me for I do not know what to pray for myself. At that moment, i do not know what best glorifies God but i do know one thing; the Holy Spirit will pray for what most glorifies God. I just have to be ready to be obedient to any outcomes for it will most glorifies God.
One thing is for sure, I do not know for what reasons all of these things happen whether good or bad but all i know is that i will be conformed to His will.
After much praying and praising God, I felt peace in my heart that all the sacrifices me and my friends poured out for the Kitchen's Fellowship is pleasing to God as the next verse really impacted me. Hebrews 13:15-16
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise - the fruit of lips that confess his name. And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
After that night, I found assurances that as I surrender and submit myself to God, the Holy Spirit will pray for me as I am weak and I cannot perceive the things of God. All i can do is to offer to God a sacrifice of praise as that is the only thing i could offer to Him for He is my song and strength, His righteousness is my salvation. Amen.
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- Matthew Wong
- Believing that dining on the table is a sacrament as people come together to enjoy a simple meal; not differentiating culture and nation.
Half-Hearted Creatures
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are far too easily pleased.
- C.S Lewis
All gracious affections that are a sweet odor to Christ, and that fill the soul of a Christian with a heavenly sweetness and fragrancy, are broken hearted affections. A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable, and full of glory, is a humble broken hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit; and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behavior.
- Jonathan Edwards
- C.S Lewis
All gracious affections that are a sweet odor to Christ, and that fill the soul of a Christian with a heavenly sweetness and fragrancy, are broken hearted affections. A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable, and full of glory, is a humble broken hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit; and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behavior.
- Jonathan Edwards
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