Thursday, 15 Apr 2010

Wednesday as usual was our life group's prayer meeting day. Really want to thank God for even providing us a place to gather every week, I personally enjoyed the new way we are doing prayer meeting, we brought back our praise & worship songs and the new gathering place is more spacious, giving us more room to move around in.

Things were going well, we prayer for people, our life group, pastor etc. During prayer for personal requested where we prayed for each other in our small little groups, Ian open up to Yu Xian and I more than he normally would.

I personally don't know Ian very well and I rarely speak to him or even hang out with him. I was surprise that he was willing to share something personal with us. He told us some of his insecurities and disappointment in our life group. One of things he mentioned was that he did not felt loved by a lot of people in the life group and the love and concern he received from us was not what he had hoped for.

As we begin praying, I felt Holy Spirit urging within me to pray for opportunity where we can all spent more time with Ian and care for him more. After prayer i realised that God had gave us this opportunity, we were planning to hang out on friday with the army boys.

Earlier in the day, I was told by Anderson that Ian and him had plans on that day and couldn't make it. So we did not bother to invite them again. But I tried my luck anyways and asked Ian if it was possible to change their plans and go out with the rest of us. Ian and Anderson both agreed.

I am thankful that God gave us the opportunity to spend time with the army boys and the soon to be army boys.

Recently i watched Evan Almighty. In the movie, something that Morgan Freeman acting as God said that caught my attention.

"If someone prays to God for patience, do you think God gives him patience? Or the opportunity to be patient? If someone prays for courage does God give that person courage? Or the opportunity to be courageous? If someone prays for the family to be closer, do you think God gives them the warm fuzy feeling of happiness? Or he gives them the opportunity to be closer?"

I think God gave us an opportunity to show love to Ian. We can pray for Ian to feel loved, but faith without deeds is dead. We should take the opportunity presented before us and make a change.

When God is at work, nothing is coincidence. We just need to look out more for God's opportunity. Ask and you shall recieve, maybe not in the way we want, but it is God's way.

See you guys on friday.

Cheers!
Jerrold