psalm 31

PSALM 31

1 In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge;

let me never be put to shame;

deliver me in your righteousness.

2 Turn your ear to me,

come quickly to my rescue;

be my rock of refuge,

a strong fortress to save me.

3 Since you are my rock and my fortress,

for the sake of your name lead and guide me.

4 Free me from the trap that is set for me,

for you are my refuge.

5 Into your hands I commit my spirit;

redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth.

6 I hate those who cling to worthless idols;

I trust in the LORD.

7 I will be glad and rejoice in your love,

for you saw my affliction

and knew the anguish of my soul.

8 You have not handed me over to the enemy

but have set my feet in a spacious place.

9 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;

my eyes grow weak with sorrow,

my soul and my body with grief.

10 My life is consumed by anguish

and my years by groaning;

my strength fails because of my affliction, [a]

and my bones grow weak.

11 Because of all my enemies,

I am the utter contempt of my neighbors;

I am a dread to my friends—

those who see me on the street flee from me.

12 I am forgotten by them as though I were dead;

I have become like broken pottery.

13 For I hear the slander of many;

there is terror on every side;

they conspire against me

and plot to take my life.

14 But I trust in you, O LORD;

I say, "You are my God."

15 My times are in your hands;

deliver me from my enemies

and from those who pursue me.

16 Let your face shine on your servant;

save me in your unfailing love.

17 Let me not be put to shame, O LORD,

for I have cried out to you;

but let the wicked be put to shame

and lie silent in the grave. [b]

18 Let their lying lips be silenced,

for with pride and contempt

they speak arrogantly against the righteous.

19 How great is your goodness,

which you have stored up for those who fear you,

which you bestow in the sight of men

on those who take refuge in you.

20 In the shelter of your presence you hide them

from the intrigues of men;

in your dwelling you keep them safe

from accusing tongues.

21 Praise be to the LORD,

for he showed his wonderful love to me

when I was in a besieged city.

22 In my alarm I said,

"I am cut off from your sight!"

Yet you heard my cry for mercy

when I called to you for help.

23 Love the LORD, all his saints!

The LORD preserves the faithful,

but the proud he pays back in full.

24 Be strong and take heart,

all you who hope in the LORD.

Verse 19 "How great is your goodness,
which you have stored up for those who fear you" filled me with doubts and fear. Doubts of whether I have the fear in the Lord and fear of how come I do not know what fear in the Lord means?!?! Ppl are always saying u must have fear in the Lord but what is that?! I don understand. Thn because I do not know what is fear in the Lord, how am I gonna have His goodness? Lord, my prayer is that You teach me what it is to have fear in you. Slowly reveal your answer and really let me have the fear in you.

Verse 21 He showed His wonderful Love to me. Yup He definitely did. Blessings over blessings that he had blessed me with. Most importantly the blessing of LOVE. How do one know that Jesus loves him/her? To me, it is thru His blessings and what is happening around me. I have a strong family. My parents cared for me, saved money and planned for my studies. Even when it is a small matter such as cutting hair or going to the doc, my mum would accompany me. I have great cousins as well. Gatherings here and there. I have great ppl around me too, in church, ARC, and frens not forgetting Lurvin. They have encouraged and helped me so much. These are really God send ppl into my life or else I wouldn't have such a fufilling life! I marvel at the great moments of my life that I had went through from overseas trips, chalets, birthday parties, outings, gatherings and also times that the Lord has touched me.

All I can say is Thank God for His Love!

psalm 28

ok.. I nearly forgot my password! hahaha.. luckily still managed to rem. During sunday's service siokyit came leh!! On sat night, I was looking thru my hp pictures thn I stopped at this pic.


I dono why, but i just stopped there. Had a very strong prompting to pray for siokyit to come back to God. Budden I thought that it'll be difficult for it to happen and my mindset was "aiya wont come back one lah, pray for wad?!" So i din pray lo.

paraphrased from "Battlefied of the Mind"
~If we know in our Spirit that doing the thing is correct,
we should not allow reasoning to talk us into NOT doing it~

Such faithless thought!!

BUTBUT!! siokyit came for service leh. wa lao was super stun when i recalled God's prompting for me to pray for her. Indeed, God is always faithful even thou when one is faithless. I'm sure siokyit is touched by God's grace!

Psalm 28

1 To you I call, O LORD my Rock;

do not turn a deaf ear to me.

For if you remain silent,

I will be like those who have gone down to the pit.

2 Hear my cry for mercy

as I call to you for help,

as I lift up my hands

toward your Most Holy Place.

3 Do not drag me away with the wicked,

with those who do evil,

who speak cordially with their neighbors

but harbor malice in their hearts.

4 Repay them for their deeds

and for their evil work;

repay them for what their hands have done

and bring back upon them what they deserve.

5 Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD

and what his hands have done,

he will tear them down

and never build them up again.

6 Praise be to the LORD,

for he has heard my cry for mercy.

7 The LORD is my strength and my shield;

my heart trusts in him, and I am helped.

My heart leaps for joy

and I will give thanks to him in song.

8 The LORD is the strength of his people,

a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.

9 Save your people and bless your inheritance;

be their shepherd and carry them forever.

Today is psalm 28. to me it is a psalm of plea and a psalm of praise.

My prayer.
Lord, I pray that u hear my heart's desires to be sensitive to ur voice so that Lord I can hear loud and clear of what u want to tell me or to want me to do. Not only that, I pray for COURAGE to do the things that u tell me because, Lord, I'm sure these things are not out of the ordinary but from the extra-ordinary. Father, I thirst for dreams of u. Dreams like the first one that I had when I first knew u.

Lord, my covenant with u during the first dream still holds and I will remember it even thou there are many obstacles and challenges to come.

"The LORD is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in him, and I am helped.
My heart leaps for joy
and I will give thanks to him in song."

No matter what happens, I'll never pang sei u.

Psalm 25

I will start puting my psalms devotions here. Cos if i don, I will just read the psalm of the day and NOT ponder, reflect and seek God on it. So here it goes. Will start with today's psalm.

Psalm 25

4 Show me your ways, O Lord,

teach me your paths:

5 Guide me in your truth and teach me,

for you are God my Savior,

and my hope is in you all day long.

First of all, this 2 verses spoke to me quite abit. There were lotsa times when I asked God to show me the career path that I need to take. After grad from NP I wanted to get into MOE for the post Special Needs Officer (SNO). Did not know God thn so wasn't praying abt it. Hohoho.. did not get in. Very soon I gotta know God and my first few prayers were to find a job that i like.

First there is Savaskool. Learnt alot there, really alot. Games and dances for children. thn kinda kenna sacked. Quite sad, budden turned out the employers were quite indecent in some ways.

Thn i went to Justkids (childcare centre). Taught the kids all that I have learnt in Savaskool. Was a total fun with them. Learnt some leadership and interaction skills. Because of Justkids oso gotta know Lurvin (principal) and Oscar (kid with autism who draw me back to become SNO). After I quit thn me and lurvin chatted quite alot and we shared alota things such as how we know God, how she touched her family members, and I grow deep in the Lord partly through her. She's been a big blessing to me! Really thank God for her.

So now here I am being an SNO all over again. This time i prayed super hard. hahahah.. So I got in after all the beating around the bush. But looking back, I'm absolutely sure that God has really guide me to experience and learn alot during these times. Ultimately, God showed me His ways teach me more about him.

I'll continue to praise the LORD!