Experiencing God’s Protection At Workplace

Everyday we need the protection of God to keep our heart at peace with Him, our mind refreshed by Him and our strength provided by Him to do His will at our workplaces.

At times, our bosses and colleagues may hurt us by their behaviours and words in ways even beyond our comprehension, but we can trust God to protect our heart as His beloved children of God Almighty.

Jesus walks alongside us to empower us to overcome every temptation and trial so that our heart is constantly guarded giving no room for any discouragement, disappointment or depression that might rob us of the joy we have in Christ.

To experience the protection of God is about abiding in His presence. This is also about trust, complete trust in God as talk with Him about our thoughts and feelings, albeit quietly. This is a deliberate choice on our part to lean to Jesus constantly and to trust Him for His healing, deliverance, restoration and victory when we go through rough and difficult patches in our workplace. Through the psalmist, God is assuring us of His protection:

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."  - Psalm 91:1-2 ESV

May this day be a great time of mediation, reflection and application of this wonderful assurance from the voice of God to us through this scriptures. Let’s have a blessed Wednesday with Jesus!😇🌻🙏💕RP

Making A Difference With An Act Of Kindness

Yesterday it was a special day for me.  It was an interesting conversation with a Malay lady from JB working in SG. Sharing a table with her in a cafe at Toa Payoh bus interchange, I felt led to buy her a cup of hot Milo as she was eating mee goreng for her dinner without any drink.

Knowing I am a counsellor, she began to share about her struggle with various life challenges after the demise of her husband 5 years ago. Her only daughter living in JB is a single mum, unemployed, and now parenting her 6-year-old son. Her daughter divorced her husband because of his adulterous lifestyle. While working in SG, she has to support daughter and the grandson. Moreover she has to pay regular visit to her brother-in-law at Changi Prison who had committed some drug offences.

Giving her a listening ear and showing much empathy, I left her with these words and calmly assured her in Malay that God loves you and you can pray to Him. She was grateful and thanked me with a warm smile. Both of us indeed experienced something unusual and out of the ordinary. This is indeed a divine arrangement. May she experience the love of God soon.

As I took the mrt train home, the thought of having demonstrated an act of kindness to a stranger warmed my heart. Then this verse just flashed through my mind.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?  - Micah 6:8 ESV

Thank you for reading and let’s continue to be a blessing to hearts that long to have a divine touch from our Lord.

LGBT People In Churches Today

Many such liberal churches today claim that they don’t discriminate LGBT people but love and value them as they are for this is demonstrating God’s love. They would mention that this is why Jesus came for sinners like them and we shouldn’t be judgmental by being exclusive.

However if they simply accept them into their churches without challenging them to give up their beliefs and lifestyle, and to open their heart to Jesus and let Him empower them to be straight, then such inclusiveness is superficial love at best.

As they enter our churches and fellowshipping with the Body of Christ while still practicing immorality, we are opening the door to all kinds of lustful spirit like sexual immorality, sensuality, adultery, fornication, etc.

The infiltration of many anti-Christ spirits into the Body of Christ is real and ever increasing through Christians and non Christians alike worshipping in Churches with us. Many of them have been swept by the worldwide movement of LGBT without any inkling that this is the spirit of anti-Christ at work.

It is a battle that we fight with the armour of God, prayer and intercession corporately as the Body of Christ guided and empowered by the Holy Spirit.  Deliverance from such spiritual bondage can only be found in the cross of Christ and His resurrected power.

Many passages admonish Christians to stay away from all kinds of sexual immorality and those who indulge in them shall not enter the kingdom of God.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. - 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. - Revelation 22:14-15