Lesson on Gratefulness : Short video in Thai language with English subtitles. Must watch!

Dear Reader,

Thank you for stopping by!

Today, I woul like to share with you a Video in Thai language with subtitles in English. This is a very touching, heartwarming and encouraging Thai short story about a son, who is a Teacher, and his grateful love and care for his mother with Alzheimer, who gave birth to him and took care of him when he was a child. His actions became lessons and influences his students' life and also touched their parents heart. This is a video on gratefulness to mothers. 

Thank God for giving me and my siblings a very caring and kind mother. She was a housewife all the days of her life. She always put her children's need above her own needs. She taught us many precious lessons on life. She was very friendly to people around her, even when she met strangers. They remember her fondly and always very happy to see her. 

On 8 November 2015 my beloved mother was taken Home to be with her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ at the age of 75 after 5 months of battle with metastic colon cancer that had extended to her liver and lung. 

On her tomb stone, it was inscribed the Bible verse from Psalm 23:6 "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever." This verse in Chinese Mandarin Bible was also included "我 一 生 一 世 必 有 恩 惠 慈 爱 随 着 我 ； 我 且 要 住 在 耶 和 华 的 殿 中 ， 直 到 永 远." 诗篇 23:6, Chinese Union Version (Traditional). 

Truly, with the Lords Jesus Christ as her Shepherd, she had been the recipient of His goodness and mercy all the days of my life and now I dwelling in the house of the Lord for ever to praise Him together with the Lord's beloved people in Heaven. 

I missed her very much and thankful to the Lord Jesus Christ for saving her out of darkness into His marvellous light. By the grace of God, I hope that one day I will see her again in glory! Thank God for His tender mercies and lovingkindness. To God be the glory!

 

May the following short video be a blessing and encouragement to you on the lesson of gratefulness to parents.

https://youtu.be/qloCf34E0lU?si=MsCen9h3MYVigKQi

Thank you for stopping by. Have a blessed day! 

Best Regards

Nancie

(28 September 2024)

The great Promises of God in His Words, the Bible, for comfort and encouragement in Christian life

Dear Reader,

Thank you for stopping by. Below, is a sharing from a very comforting and encouraging excerpts taken from the Devotional by Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 19 September, Morning.

May God encouraged and comfort you too as He guide you through the various changing scenes in your life. If you are facing difficulties and your are hurting, grieving and or in pain, may God comforts you through His Words and this devotional by CH Spurgeon:

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Galatians 5:1 (KJV Bible, King James Bible)

This "liberty" makes us free to heaven's charter--the Bible. 

Here is a choice passage, believer, "When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee." You are free to that. 

Here is another: "The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee"; you are free to that. 

You are a welcome guest at the table of the promises. Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace. It is the bank of heaven; you may draw from it as much as you please, without let or hindrance. 

Come in faith and you are welcome to all covenant blessings. There is not a promise in the Word which shall be withheld. In the depths of tribulations let this freedom comfort you; amidst waves of distress let it cheer you; when sorrows surround thee let it be thy solace. This is thy Father's love-token; thou art free to it at all times. 

Thou art also free to the throne of grace. It is the believer's privilege to have access at all times to his heavenly Father. Whatever our desires, our difficulties, our wants, we are at liberty to spread all before him. It matters not how much we may have sinned, we may ask and expect pardon. It signifies nothing how poor we are, we may plead his promise that he will provide all things needful. We have permission to approach his throne at all times--in midnight's darkest hour, or in noontide's most burning heat. Exercise thy right, O believer, and live up to thy privilege. 

Thou art free to all that is treasured up in Christ--wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. It matters not what thy need is, for there is fulness of supply in Christ, and it is there for thee. 

O what a "freedom" is thine! freedom from condemnation, freedom to the promises, freedom to the throne of grace, and at last freedom to enter heaven!

To read Online:

https://www.biblegateway.com/devotionals/morning-and-evening/2024/09/19

To listen Online:

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/devotional/morning-and-evening/0919m

Thank you for stopping by. Have a blessed day! 

Best Regards

Nancie

(19 September 2024)

Finding comfort and encouragement in difficult time

Dear Reader,

Thank you for stopping by. Thank God for His tender mercies and lovingkindness in my life. Below, is my sharing from a very comforting and encouraging excerpts taken from the Devotional by Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 15 September, Morning.

May God encouraged and comfort you too as He guide you through the various changing scenes in your life. If you are facing difficulties and your are hurting, grieving and or in pain, may God comforts you through His Words and this devotional by CH Spurgeon:

"He shall not be afraid of evil tidings." Psalm 112:7

Christian, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved his faithfulness as you have done, and it is no wonder if they are bowed down with alarm and cowed with fear: 

But you profess to be of another spirit; you have been begotten again unto a lively hope, and your heart lives in heaven and not on earthly things; now, if you are seen to be distracted as other men, what is the value of that grace which you profess to have received? Where is the dignity of that new nature which you claim to possess?

Again, if you should be filled with alarm, as others are, you would, doubtless, be led into the sins so common to others under trying circumstances. The ungodly, when they are overtaken by evil tidings, rebel against God; they murmur, and think that God deals hardly with them. Will you fall into that same sin? Will you provoke the Lord as they do?

Moreover, unconverted men often run to wrong means in order to escape from difficulties, and you will be sure to do the same if your mind yields to the present pressure. 

Trust in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Your wisest course is to do as Moses did at the Red Sea, "Stand still and see the salvation of God." 

For if you give way to fear when you hear of evil tidings, you will be unable to meet the trouble with that calm composure which nerves for duty, and sustains under adversity. 

How can you glorify God if you play the coward? 

Saints have often sung God's high praises in the fires, but will your doubting and desponding, as if you had none to help you, magnify the Most High? 

Then take courage, and relying in sure confidence upon the faithfulness of your covenant God, "let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

(Excerpts from: CH Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, 15 September, Morning)

To read Online:

https://www.biblegateway.com/devotionals/morning-and-evening/2024/09/15

To listen Online:

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/devotional/morning-and-evening/0915m

Thank you for stopping by. Have a blessed day! 

Best Regards

Nancie

(16 September 2024)

Prayer Answered by Crosses By John Newton

This poem is very true in the life of a Christian. God answers prayers by sanctifying him/her. 

Prayer Answered by Crosses

By John Newton

I asked the Lord that I might grow 


In faith and love and every grace, 


Might more of his salvation know, 


And seek more earnestly his face.

’Twas he who taught me thus to pray; 


And he, I trust, has answered prayer; 


But it has been in such a way 


As almost drove me to despair.

I hoped that, in some favoured hour, 


At once he’d answer my request, 


And by his love’s constraining power 


Subdue my sins, and give me rest.

Instead of this, he made me feel 


The hidden evils of my heart, 


And let the angry powers of hell 


Assault my soul in every part.

Yea, more, with his own hand he seemed

Intent to aggravate my woe, 


Crossed all the fair designs I schemed, 


Blasted my gourds, and laid me low.

Lord, why is this? I trembling cried; 


Wilt thou pursue this worm to death? 


This is the way, the Lord replied

I answer prayer for grace and faith.

These inward trials I now employ 


From self and pride to set thee free,

And break thy schemes of earthly joy, 


That thou may’st seek thy all in me.

God moves in a mysterious way

There is a poem called "God moves in a mysterious way". This poem also reflects my experience and I believe that of many people. God works His ways in our life.

God moves in a mysterious way

His wonders to perform;

He plants His footsteps in the sea

And rides upon the storm.

Deep in unfathomable mines

Of never failing skill

He treasures up His bright designs

And works His sov’reign will.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,

But trust Him for His grace;

Behind a frowning providence

He hides a smiling face.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;

The clouds ye so much dread

Are big with mercy and shall break

In blessings on your head.

Blind unbelief is sure to err

And scan His work in vain;

God is His own interpreter,

And He will make it plain.

His purposes will ripen fast,

Unfolding every hour;

The bud may have a bitter taste,

But sweet will be the flow’r.