Sel Faustina Surabaya

Human nowadays living in an era of technology. To find out what’s happening across the sea, we can just switch the TV on and have the reporters giving their direct reports, regarding the weather, traffic, and so on.

Such is what happening within every believer. At times of difficulty, or confusion that we don’t know how to pray, God has provided a helper for us, The Holy Spirit.

Rome 8: 26, “ In the same way, The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express”.

The Holy Spirit reports directly to our God concerning our situations, and what we may need to overcome it, in accordance with God’s will. Isn’t it amazing?

~ I long for Thee, Thou Lord of life

A life so bliss, Thy bless lavish

Living secretive, Thy Holy Ghost

To give us guide, Safety in path

I was joining in an on line conference with some friends, until I left the room to have a private conversation with the others.

That I realized, some errors occurred, and I can STILL see the previous group were talking about. They did not see me of course. I laughed at their topics, got stimulated by their actions and responses.

Our God, the only sovereign and omniscient God, dwells in His most holy place. Yet, He is also with us in this world. He sees us, knows our minds and deeds. No hidden actions or sins can escape His inspection.

He laughs when we are doing good, shed a tears when we are committing evil and blesses us when we are in prayer. God is at work somehow around us, at least within the 3 dimension.

So laugh with God, cry with Him, and pour out whatever feelings we have toward Him. Present Him always in every minute of our lives.

Psalm 121: 5 “ The Lord watches over you,

The Lord is your shade at your right hand”

~ Not an eye to see

Not an ear to hear

Not a touch to feel

Only a heart to sought Thee

Do you know that the statue of Liberty was supposed to be a lighthouse at Suez Canal instead of a lighthouse at the New York Harbor?

Auguste Bartholdi went from France to Egypt in 1856. During this trip, he met with another French visitor, Ferdinand de Lesseps, who was there to sell an idea to cut a canal from Red Sea to Mediterranean Sea. That canal would save merchant ships from taking a long journey.

Taken by this concept, Auguste decided to design a lighthouse to this canal. He worked 10 years on the idea. He drew plans, made clay models and scrapped plan after plan. Then he had the perfect design.

One major problem arose. Nobody was interested and would pay for his design. Auguste went back to France, defeated and disappointed.

After his returning home, the French government sought his artistic services to design a gift to America. The colossal robed lady , holding the book of justice in one hand and a torch lifted high in the other hand to give light. One that was designed to light the Suez Canal.

This demonstrates that what happens in the midst of disappointments, can often be a prelude to good things beyond our imagination.

We can always have confident in God’s powerful hands, guaranteeing the outcome of every difficult and defeating situation.

Ref: Anchors in The Storm, by Joe Stowell

~ I know that You can do all things;

No plan of Yours can be thwarted (Job 42:2) ~