Gabriel, the guest speaker

Months ago, Gabriel came to our church to teach student Sunday school for a month. the past Sunday he came to our church again. When I saw him walking in the door, I was  like oh! No! I forgot what is his name. And then it was the prayer meeting, so I thought, I'll ask him to write down his name for me later, that way it'll easier for me to remember his name.

After the prayer meeting, I saw him put on the wireless microphone. His name is already printed in the weekly bulletin. Ha! Ha!

Prayer meeting - October

Good morning everybody, welcome to HarvestLA prayer meeting.

Today first I want to share one of my collections, peppercorns.

You probably won't pay attention about what the container the peppercorns are in, what kind of material, color, size and such.

In this case, it inside a plastic bag which is inside a blue bag.

And you know it is peppercorns base on what I am telling you, by the color, the shape you see or the smell of it.

How about ourselves, how do others identify you when they see you or how do you identify yourself, what is your identity?

Let's pray, dear Heavenly Father, we praise You and we love You. Lord, we are willing to empty ourselves, sometimes there is maybe anger, worry, hurt, doubt, unkindness inside our hearts. Lord, help us to let go, and let God's Holly Spirit, mercy, love, healing, power, blessings and wisdom fill us up.
So when people see us they see us as God's precious sons and daughters.
We are first loved by You so we can love others, we are fist blessed by You so we can bless others.
In Jesus's name we pray, Amen!

Let's quickly go through the prayer listings before we can break down into small groups.
Also pray for the world, for the past week there are a lot of things going on.
There are earthquakes, typhoon and flood in Japan, the fire in California, bridges broken down in Taiwan and China and the political issues.

And we will close our prayer meeting around 10:55am so can have the service start on time.

FM 100.3

This week I discovered a radio channel, FM100.3, it is a Christian channel, it plays a lot of Christian songs.

I am thinking if only I can install some speakers outside my car, so everyone can join me in worshiping.

Ear wax

I have to apologize, but you may find this picture gross.

This early morning when my younger son was trying to say something to me and I found that I can hardly hear him. I got so scared, my left ear already has a minor ear infection and couldn't hear very well now my right ear.... And I have Sunday school to teach tomorrow. Should I call Ruth to have someone sub for me? I also have chores and an event to attend today, which I have to drive the car. How am I going to drive with the ears that could not hear well?

I was panicking, then out of nowhere I thought about cleaning my ears with the Q-tip, and this is the thing that I got out of the ear. (Of course, this is not recommended, some said this will push the ear wax even further and/or damage your ears)

trauma

Recalling back my life, there were lots of pain and hurts, most of them, I just simply keep them to myself, the people that harm me may or may not know it.

For I cannot say, won’t say, don't want to say, afraid to say, ashamed to say them out loud.

I don't have Post traumatic stress disorder that is not merely luck.

Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, 
and before you were born I consecrated you; 
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

I may not be a prophet of the nation, but I know He has a plan for me.

God is my friend, Father, protester, comforter, stronghold, power, healer, savior, counselor and everything that I need.

Who You Say I Am - Hillsong Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKw6uqtGFfo

Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) [Official Lyric Video] - Hillsong Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyYoe678yI

我多麽需要有你

我多麽需要有你 I need You more 盛曉玫 泥土音樂授權 含經文禱告旁白 國語詩歌）

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y0WqswuR4mk

This is the song that I heard this morning the first time.

Why is so special that I want to share with you? Somehow I cannot resist to listen to it.

Today I was the one leading the worship at the rehabilitation center, I pick 4 songs, and normally, I’ll only concentrated on the songs that I am going to lead, I listen to them over and over again, try to get as familiar as possible with these songs.

And there's a bible verse that I tried very hard to memorize so that I can recite it during the worship time but I cannot, until I heard this song.

joy

This morning when I woke up and look into the mirror, feeling kind of sad, I don't know why, then there's a little voice say to me, “ be happy”, "should I pretend to", I reply, "no, be really joy", the voice say to me again.

who's the boss? who's the decision maker?

Lately my sensitive bronchial hit I again, so I tell myself that I should do some adjust for my schedule. One of the thing that come into my heart is, I should reduce the times of my community service routine, from 4 to 1 or 2 per month, because that involve a lot of talking, which has a big effect on my sensitive bronchial. And I just cannot stop myself to talk to all the loving residents over there.

Later find out that 2 of the services been cancelled, the only one time service that I am the one leading the worship, so I am mandatory to be there. And the funny thing is, I’m not the original ones been sign up for the worship leading, someone switch with me.

God knows my limitation, He makes the adjustment and I’m just following the direction.