Lamb of God - And The Blood Stopped Flowing!

Today I received an email from my church requesting the church members to pray for a very young Brother-In-Christ Gabriel (in his twenties) who is suffering from Cancer. He is in stage 4 and receiving Chemotherapy treatment.

I am not quite sure of the type of cancer he is having but it was mentioned in his mail that blood is flowing out every time he goes to the toilet to pass motion.

But he said "I'm not feeling defeated or depressed. I think it just means I need to pray earnestly that God will use medical results to prove His Prowess in my life."

"Don't worry tho, I'm feeling pretty fit and healthy...And in good spirits :-) I"m completely reliant on God and all your prayers...."

I admired his courage and complete reliance on Jesus, the Lamb of God.

His incident brought back memory of His power and mercy showered upon me.

Some years back, on one morning after passing motion, I saw blood in my stool. I did not pay any attention as I was busy preparing for my overseas job posting.

This happened on and off, but slowly it turned into a daily morning affair.

Not long after that, I went to USA for about 4 months for a project work, and by then the blood was not just on the stool, it actually dripped every morning when I passed motion. This continued through out my stay in USA.

The dripping did not stop after I came back to Singapore. I was worry but did not want to frighten my parents and I also dared not to see the company doctor. I was in my twenties, just graduated, was pretty blur then. :o)

And this continued for quite sometimes, I was feeling really down especially every morning after coming out from the washroom.

One morning after the normal "business", again I saw blood flowing out, I was so down, I didn't know what to do, who to turn to, I was desperate.

At that critical moment, I remembered God.

Right in the washroom while still sitting down, I prayed to God to stop the blood dripping, and I claimed His word for healing. Up to that time, I was still a doubtful Christian (not even a Sunday Christian) ....... Having said the Sinners' Prayer without knowing why.

But the Lord was merciful to answer my prayer. The blood flow stopped there and then on that very day.

Praise The Lord. To me, that's a miracle, the dripping of blood just STOPPED!!!!!

It did not happen the following day, the following following day. It Did Not Happen Again!!!!!

God is merciful and He is REAL!!!!

Hallelujah.



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Lamb of God - His Love Is Mine!

Today, I just like to share a song written by my friend and church mate Daniel.

The title of the song is "His Love Is Mine".

Whenever I sing this song, it reminds me of the love of my Heavenly Father that never leaves me through out all these years even when I was so occupied by my own agenda and forgot about Him totally.

Thank you Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God for your love that knows no end.

His Love Is Mine

His love is coming over me

Softer than the breeze, warmer than the sea

His love is flowing right through me

Cleansing all my sin, lifting up my grief

And I could sing, I could smile

I could shout out loud

I'm in His love

I could run, I could race

I could soar to the sky

His love is mine

Thank you for your love that never leaves

Through the stubborn years, healing all my fears

Thank you for your love that stays with me

Through the lonely tears. You believed in me

And I could sing, I could smile

I could shout out loud

I'm in His love

I could run, I could race

I could soar to the sky

His love is mine



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Lamb of God - I Was Deeply Touched!

Since I was a young boy, put it in a nice way, I was always obedient.

To be frank, I was a follower, not a leader. I just followed the crowd.
Which school to go to? Which college should I attend? I just followed my classmates.

There was only one time, I felt that I was in control.
That was when I played as a mid fielder during a soccer match. I ran up and down the field covering every position except the goal keeper. I felt GREAT. I liked that feeling of leading the team.

When I was in college, there were 18 of us in my circle, I was the quietest, just followed the group wherever they went or do.

I guessed the Lord wanted to change me. He sent me to the Navy.

Not only I learnt swimming but also trained to be a leader.

My National Service was very important phase of my life.
Before my enlistment, all the people around me were the 'nice people'.

But during those 2 years, I got in contact with people from all walks of life. I had to learn to live with them.
I discovered that there was something good about everybody even they were gangster liked.
Guess during those period, I learnt to related to the heartlanders.

I talked to them, listened to them, spent time with them. Slowly I gained their trust and respect.
And slowly, I found that I could influence them to the extend of dropping some of their bad habits.

The greatest satisfaction was when they shouted and waved at me even when I was passing by at a distance. At that moment, I knew I meant something to them. And of course, they left an unforgettable impression in me.

One of them, 'Lee' happened to be posted onboard my ship.
During one of the trips, the sea was really rough, most of the crews were either lying down and vomiting.

I was on duty, most of my team members were also down and I needed to cover almost all the duty roles. When came to going for rounds, I had no manpower. Lee though feeling wick insisted to go for rounds on my behalf.

Subsequent, I learnt that he was carrying a plastic bag while going for rounds as he was having very bad seasick and vomiting. People saw and asked him why didn't he rest, he answered - and I never forget - because I was his leader. I was deeply touched.

This is just like the love of our Lord, He loves His people so much that He would send His only begotten son, Jesus the Lamb of God to die for us, so whoever believes in Jesus would not die but have eternal life.



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Lamb of God - I Was Almost Drown EVERYDAY!

Many a time when we take ourselves from our busy lives, spend sometimes for reflection, recalling the past and where we are now, we will be amazed what the Lord has done to our lives.

A lot of happenings are interlinked to each other. Because of one incident, it triggered another, it just led on to a series of happenings and placed us where we are today.

everything that happened to us was not by accident. It was placed there by God's will.

Ok, lets follow me to the day of my enlistment.

On that very day, after registration, I was led to a army truck which supposedly to bring us to the camp.

When the truck drove off, one of the new recruits said that we were going to the Navy Camp.
"What?" I shorted, "It Can't Be!, I can't even swim! If it is really going to the Navy Camp, it MUST be a MISTAKE!"

"The army office is in serious trouble in sending me to the wrong camp!"

Yeah, it was a serious trouble but not the office but ME. They really sent me to the Navy.

The swimming lessons were on everyday.

I missed the first 2 swimming lesson because I was sick. I felt sick the second day I joined the navy!!!!! I shall share more about it in the future.

So, when I re-joined the swimming lesson, I was with the non-swimmer group, but I could not catch up with the rest.

I could not even stay afloat!!!
When I was practicing at the edge of the pool, I was ok as it was shallow, but when came to actual swimming, I sank. I really sank and the life guard had to dive into the pool to rescue me.

Every time when I came out of the pool when the lesson ended, I could not walk up right because I had drunk so much water. They could save the meal for me!

I was almost drown many times, whenever I was in the pool, the life guard would not be free. They sure needed to dive into the pool to save me.

I got so sick of this drowning exercise, I kept on telling the swimming instructor to teach me the basics, but they didn't seem to understand.

So I kept on jumping into the pool, struggling in the pool, shorted for help, the life guard would dive in and pulled me out of the pool, and I pent for air lying by the pool side. This sense kept repeating every day. I was sick of it, I was sure the life guard was sick of it too.

Was I fearful of swimming then?

NO, I was dead tired of this whole thing and other physical training was really tiring me out too, I could not think of 'Fear' at all. My mind was blank.

When came to the term end, I failed my swimming test as expected.

So how?

One can get frustrated and angry, and do nothing about it.
One can refuse to accept the failure and work hard on it.

I chose the latter.
I seek help from friends and I swam whenever I had the time, and during weekends when I was out from camp, I went swimming.

Slowly, under my friends guidance, I got a hang of it.
In a few months time, I was swimming pretty well.

Of course I passed the next swimming test without any problem.

Praise the Lord, I was not drown. Thank you Jesus, the Lamb of God, for His protection all this while at the pool.

And there was this young boy saw me swimming and asked me to coach him. Wow.
I did and trained him from a non-swimmer to quite an ok swimmer.

I was a non-swimmer too, not only I became a swimmer (and I thought it was a mistake to put me in the navy) to coach the young man. Till now, I do not know what swimming has done to this young man's life. Who knows, it might save his life one day.

Everything we do, every person who we meet, there is a purpose. Our Lord makes it happen.
Ultimately, its to point the pre-believer to the cross and for His glory. The Lamb of God.

Just be faithful and obedient. We will get our rewards in heaven. :o)



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Lamb of God - I Survived!!

How great is our Lord, His love for us never change.

His love for us is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

God is good all the time and all the time God is good.

Jesus, the Lamb of God saw me through my 2 years of National Service in the Navy.

I went for 5 overseas exercise trips. My ship was not a modern worship, it was in fact pretty old.
I remembered once we were sailing off to Philippines, there was this merchant liner sailing off with us at the same time.

We met a typhoon somewhere approaching Manila, finally we arrived at the port safely, but to our shock, the merchant liner which was bigger than our ship, supposed to be more stable, capsized!

And there was a trip to Taiwan, we went through Sea State 8 (the highest is 10, the higher the rougher the sea condition). Our ship was rocking and rolling. I think it was rocking at about 30 degree.
Most of my colleagues were lying down vomiting, but praise the Lord, I was up and running performing sea duties.

In fact, I was feeling so high when I stood at the bridge looking at the choppy sea. I though I must have come from the sea. Like the TV series "A Man From Atlantic".

But that was also the first time, I felt like I might die there.
Whenever the ship was heading downwards from being thrown up by the wave, I was not sure would the ship stay afloat, the sea water was sweeping across the main deck, the wind was blowing so strong that we could not walk up right. But we survived because of His grace.

There was another trip, the sea condition was not so rough but we went through 7 days of rock and roll. When finally we arrived at the foreign port, I still felt that I was still rolling even though I was standing on soild ground ashore, maybe I was actually still rolling physically. :o)

There was a trip in another country, when we hopped onto a local taxi, it just drove off without listening to our destination. It went through the busy streets and finally stopped at a back lane. The driver asked us to dropped the bar run by his brother.

We said no, and a group of people came out from the bar surrounded us, playing (or flipping) with their 'butterfly knives' (but I must said the way they flipped it was stylish). We had no choice but went in and took some drink, sweat talked to them. Slowly and secretly, one by one we slipped out of the bar. The moment we stepped out of the bar, we ran like crazy as if we were chased by monster.

The Lamb of God is always merciful.
Once we give our lives to Him even with little faith, He never leaves us but continue to protect us, bless us. His commitment to us never change. Praise the Lord.



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