Our Daily Gift

I wake up each morning with a gift from God - the privilege of asking anything I want from Him in prayer.

I've been praying for Nepal over the past couple of days since finding out that a political leader has threatened to bomb all Christian homes in Nepal and is demanding that all Nepali Christians leave the country within 1 month. A lady has been detained for bombing a church in Lalitpur that killed a few people and injured many others. 

I feel sad hearing this news, and I can't help but think of how the Nepali Christians are feeling right now.  The only thing I can do right now is pray for them and that is the best thing to do at this moment. 

I pray that God will bring peace and harmony to Nepal and that every Nepali will know that God is loving and gracious, and would never do evil to anyone. I pray for His angels to guard all His children and for His blood to cover them. If God is for them, who can be against them? I pray that Nepali Christians will be strong and courageous at this time, not paralysed by fear but to be able to follow His command to overcome evil with good. 

"Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. Psalm 91:14

My morning prayers

I pray each morning driving to work. I start by asking God to forgive me of my sins (like David says, they overwhelm me and are more than the hairs on my head) and I know my prayers won't go through when I have a whole bulk of sins blocking my prayers. So need to get the sins out of the way. Then I thank God for His love, grace and mercies towards me. Because I honestly don't think I will be alive today (or can make it alive for the next few minutes) without it. Then I pray for my sick friends and relatives. Sadly, there are so many people with sicknesses nowadays and every prayer counts. Sometimes I think whether my little prayer will make any difference to someone who is so sick, but then I think again, maybe it means everything. And if I were sick, I'd really appreciate someone praying for me.

Then I pray for my stuff - my work, my ministries, my life. Everyday, I ask God to lead and guide me, to make His will my will, and that His will be done. Sometimes I'll feel worried praying that, because I have no idea what God has planned. But then life is really not worth living if I miss out His will for me completely and do something I wasn't created to do. And I remind myself daily that I am nothing without Him. I usually add in little things in my prayers, like now I'm praying that God will make my 2 dogs Bully and Spottie love each other so that they will not fight. And so far they have been really good!

Then the end is my favourite. Not because I'm ending the prayers, but because the end part keeps me alive. Everyday, for the past... maybe over 10 years, I've prayed this. I ask God for His protection and good health for my family members (including my dogs & parrot) and I ask Jesus to cover us with His blood. With His blood over us, nothing can harm us. Then I just see all the evil stuff fleeing from us :) Then I say, in Jesus name I pray, Amen!

"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:5

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:4