Showing posts with label loving the Lord. Show all posts
Showing posts with label loving the Lord. Show all posts

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

What would be your prayer to the Lord for the new year?

This is a question that all the believers in Christ have asked themselves before the end of 2011 and probably even in these first few days of the new year, 2012. What would be your prayer to the Lord for the new year? I asked this question on Facebook on the 31st of December 2011 and I had so many good prayers from my friends - so I was thinking to post them online here on the blog. You can also place a comment below with YOUR prayer to the Lord for this year - what is in your heart as a prayer to your Beloved Lord Jesus concerning year 2012? Oh, Lord...

What would be your prayer to the Lord for the new year?


  • That I would humble myself when I come to His Word to receive His speaking and shining.
  • Oh Lord Jesus, deliver us from self and save us to the uttermost, spirit, soul and body. Oh Lord Jesus, prepare us as Your overcomers to rule and reign with You! Oh Lord Jesus, we consecrate our lives afresh unto You, no longer I but only You Lord! Let Christ be expressed in everything. Oh Lord Jesus!
  • To open myself to much more to the Lord's grace for the sake of shepherding the younger college brothers.
  • That we would have a fresh love towards the Lord, to have a single and pure heart for the Lord. That we would see Him afresh, to have a controlling vision that would direct our living - for His body!
  • To pray more for his heart's desire
  • To pray more for Europe!
  • To realise that God has a need!
  • To enjoy Him more
  • Please come!!!
  • 'Lord Jesus, Your will be done in us!'
  • Lord, give me a heart for Your house!
  • Dear Lord, we allow You all work in us; become our true Reality and make us Your Testimony!
  • Dear Lord Jesus ... I only want to enjoy you MORE!!!
  • A deeper experience of resurrection life for the Body of Christ.
  • O Lord, deepen the pure flow of life! That we would give you the first place in all things!
  • To know Him and the power of His resurrection, being conformed to His death.
  • I was thinking about this question... It's good to "set goals" and bring them to the Lord, even "give them to the Lord to pass through death and resurrection". Lord, make Your heart's desire be my heart's desire, and may Your will (Christ and the church) be done in my life! Gain the building! Prepare the Bride! Come, Lord Jesus!
  • Jesus, take care about all saints in every city!
  • Lord Jesus, we consecrate ourselves to you to be your stepping stone for you to come back SOON. Do not pass me by. It's now. It's us.
  • Lord, may Christ be our life and the church as our living where we spend our time (in our mingled spirit). More spirit, more church.
  • Lord Jesus, be my new beginning each day of the coming year!
  • Lord Jesus, I need Your grace in this coming year. Make me into what You would have me to be. May I enjoy, experience and express You daily.
  • Lord, use me this year. Speak through me to those around me, so that they too may be saved.
I have omitted the names of the saints / my facebook friends who shared these prayers, and I may have not posted some of them. Concerning the last week / day and first week / day of the year, it is very good to be before the Lord concerning our life, our situation, our growth in life, our relationships, the things we have, our heart, out attitude, our accomplishments, our failures, and everything about us. Just to be open to Him - o, Lord... a new beginning with You! (picture source: Happy New Year)
[your comment / your prayer is very much appreciated :) ]

Friday, 28 May 2010

The Goal of the Gospel is that loving the Lord Jesus with the first love...

What is the goal of the gospel? Why do we believe in the Lord Jesus? This song, based on many experiences of the Lord and much truth discovered and recovered in the Bible, says that

The goal of the gospel is that
Loving the Lord Jesus
With the first love
We would pour out upon Him
Pour out upon Him
What is most precious to us.
Even our most costly and valuable
Spiritual treasures
Wasting ourselves upon Him

Even the disciples asked the Lord Jesus - Why this waste? Mary poured out her love offering upon the Lord - and to many, this was a waste. We do the same, as a goal of the gospel - we waste everything on the Lord Jesus, whom we love! We treasure the Lord so much that even our most costly and valuable treasures - both physical, psychological, and spiritual - we just waste upon the Lord. He is more precious and more worthy than our experiences, as dear and real they are. We love Him to the uttermost, and for Him we give up everything. This is the Gospel - the Saviour loving us so much that He gives Himself up for us, and the goal is that we love Him so much that we give ourselves to Him and "waste" ourselves upon Him(Matt 26:8).

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

I love You Lord Jesus, Nothing Compares to You - Howard Higashi Hymn

I enjoy the way the hymn writer describe why he does he love the Lord. He describes the Lord as "the most Precious One", "no other one compares to You". I was really touched by the words "most" and "compare" - "most" is actually the highest description for the things that are compared one to another(not just "more", but "most"), and to compare means to put two or more things all together and see which one is better. When the hymn writer says no other one 'compare' to You this means that he had tried lots of things before. And the conclusion is "No one compares to You" - we really need this kind of experience and growth until we realize and find out that no one actually compares to our Lord Jesus Christ! Sometimes, I myself actually still have someone/some other things on my mind that compete to the lord. While listening to this hymn, it is just like the Lord wants to reveal Himself to me so that I would love Him more -I don't love Him enough, I don't have the right and highest "taste" about Him yet. Lord Jesus, I want to love You more!
I love You, Lord Jesus!
I love You, Lord, precious One!
No other one compares to You!
I love You, Lord Jesus!
I love You, Lord, precious One!
No other one compares to You!
Jesus, Lord Jesus,
Dear Lord, most lovely One,
Nothing compares to You!
Amen, Lord Jesus, I love You! [by bro. Howser]