Remember what God has prepared for you in heaven

Colossians 1:5 (KJV) 

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

OUR hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring All and the mainstay of our joy here. It will animate our hearts to think often of heaven, for all that we can desire is promised there. Here we are weary and toil- worn, but yonder is the land of rest, where the sweat of labor shall no more bedew the worker's brow, and fatigue shall be forever banished. 

To those who are weary and spent, the word " rest" is full of heaven. We are always in the field of battle ; we are so tempted within, and so molested by foes without, that we have little or no peace ; but in heaven we shall enjoy the victory, when the banner shall be waved aloft in triumph, and the sword shall be sheathed, and we shall hear our Captain say, " Well done, good and faithful servant." We have suffered bereavement after bereavement, but we are going to the land of the immortal, where graves are unknown things. 

Here sin is a constant grief to us, but there we shall be perfectly holy, for there shall by no means enter into that kingdom anything which defileth. Hemlock springs not up in the furrows of celestial fields. Oh ! is it not joy that you are not to be in banishment for ever ? that you are not to dwell eternally in this wilderness, but shall soon inherit Canaan ? 

Nevertheless, let it never be said of us that we are dreaming about the future, and forgetting the present ; let the future sanctify the present to highest uses. Through the Spirit of God, the hope of heaven is the most potent force for the product of virtue ; it is a fountain of joyous effort; it is the corner-stone of cheerful holiness. 

The man who has this hope in him goes about his work with vigor, for the joy of the Lord is his strength. He fights against temptation with ardor, for the hope of the next world repels the fiery darts of the adversary. He can labor without present reward, for he looks for a reward in the world to come.

By C.H.Spurgeon, Morning by Morning 

God is Good - Psalm 84:11

Psalms 84:11 (KJV) 

For the Lord God is a sun and shield:

the Lord will give grace and glory:

no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly

BOUNTEOUS is Jehovah in His nature ; to give is His full delight. His gifts are beyond measure precious, and are as freely given as the light of the sun. He gives grace to His elect because He wills it, to His redeemed be cause of His covenant, to the called because of His promise, to believers because they seek it, to sinners because they need it. 

He gives grace abundantly, seasonably, constantly, readily, sovereignly ; doubly enhancing the value of the boon by the manner of its bestowal. Grace in all its forms He freely renders to His people : comforting, preserving, sanctifying, directing, instructing, assisting grace He generously pours into their souls without ceasing, and He always will do so, whatever may occur. Sickness may befall, but the Lord will give grace ; poverty may happen to us, but grace will surely be afforded ; death must come, but grace will light a candle at the darkest hour. 

Reader, how blessed it is, as years roll round, and the leaves begin again to fall, to enjoy such an unfading promise as this : " The Lord will give grace." The little conjunction and, in this verse, is a diamond rivet binding the present with the future : grace and glory always go together. Gad has married them, and none can divorce 'them. The Lord will never deny a soul glory to whom He has freely given to live upon His grace ; indeed, glory is nothing more than grace in its Sabbath dress, grace in full bloom, grace like autumn fruit, mellow and perfected. 

How soon we may have glory none can tell ! It may be before this month of October has run out we shall see the Holy City ; but be the interval longer or shorter, we shall be glorified ere long. Glory, the glory of heaven, the glory of eternity, the glory of Jesus, the glory of the Father, the Lord will surely give to His chosen. Oh, rare promise of a faithful God ! Two golden links of one celestial chain : Who own grace shall surely glory gain.

By C.H.Spurgeon, Evening by Evening 

My prayer list

1. Have faith in Christ alone, who died for my sin once and for all. keep close walk with God everyday. Give thanks and praise.

2. God alone has perfect knowledge in all things. It is God perfect will for things to happen. Always seek for God's will in all things that i am going to do. 

3. Trust and obey. grow in God's grace and His knowledge. The great commission.

4. Church works, pastor Er Len and pastor Poh, and their family, keep them safe and grant them your peace. The Sunday schools (English and Mandarin). All your people in the Church. 

5. The persecution happen to your people, keep them safe and may God peace be with them. Pastor Raymond, may God you keep him safe, give strength to his family to go thro' this difficult time. 

6. To attend Sunday morning and evening worship. To sleep early the day before. 

7. The old folks. The out reach.

8. My family salvation. My father, sisters and brother. Ah B to recover from her sickness. keep them safe. 

9. SCAS shelter to go well, other who contribute so much for the strays. keep them safe and grant them peace. No strays in Malaysia.

10. my study. to do my best. 

11. my future husband ?