My Palette: February 2007

Monday, February 26, 2007

人在困境中, 仍能喜樂,顯明人對神的信靠, 相信主會很快來幫助.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

.. 心靈固然願意、肉體卻軟弱了..

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble. Mark14:38

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Mom, Thanks for coming back for me on my critical situation!!

老媽, I Love You!

Saturday with Joy Art Club (4)

Ebenezer: Up to now the Lord has been our help

撒母耳將一塊石頭、立在米斯巴和善的中間、給石頭起名叫以便以謝、說、到如今耶和華都幫助我們。撒上 7:12

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:Ecclesiastes3:1

凡事都有定期、天下萬務都有定時

Friday, February 23, 2007

Spain (Japan) may look good to you, but what does He want for your life?

When things don't seem to work out the way you plan, God is still at work. Paul planned to go to Spain; it was certainly a good idea, but God had a better one and Paul landed in prison. It was there he wrote his prison Epistles---words that would last far beyond his short lifetime, and touch multitudes more than the small group of believers who were waiting for him in Spain. Listen, child of God: "In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps" (Proverbs 16:9, NIV). Sometimes your disappointments are His appointments.

David said, "You . . . Scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe" (Psalm 139:16)

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Contact Lens And The Ant

Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was scared to death, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold on the rope, and started up the face of that rock. Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. As she was hanging on there, the safety rope snapped against Brenda's eye and knocked out her contact lens. Well, here she is on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet below her and hundreds of feet above her. Of course, she looked and looked and looked, hoping it had landed on the ledge, but it just wasn't there. Here she was, far from home, her sight now blurry. She was desperate and began to get upset, so she prayed to the Lord to help her to find it.
When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the lens, but there was no contact lens to be found. She sat down, despondent, with the rest of the party, waiting for the rest of them to make it up the face of the cliff. She looked out across range after range of mountains, thinking of that Bible verse that says, "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth." She thought, "Lord, You can see all these mountains. You know every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help me." Finally, they walked down the trail to the bottom. At the bottom there was a new party of! climbers just starting up the face of the cliff. One of them shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?" Well, that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it? An ant was moving slowly across the face of the rock, carrying it.
Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist. When she told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he drew a picture of an ant lugging that contact lens with the words, "Lord, I don't know why You want me to carry this thing. I can't eat it, and it's awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do, I'll carry it for You."
I think it would probably do some of us good to occasionally say, "God, I don't know why you want me to carry this load. I can see no good in it and it's awfully heavy. But, if you want me to carry it, I will."
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
I love GOD. He is my source of existence and my Savior. He keeps me functioning each and every day. Without Him, I am nothing,but with Him I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.(Philipians 4:13)

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

kksteinway

by Artist Shee

-我要為你的慈愛高興歡喜．因為你見過我的困苦、知道我心中的艱難。你未曾把我交在仇敵手裡．你使我的腳站在寬闊之處。詩31:7-8

I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place. Psalms31:7-8

-我曾尋求耶和華、他就應允我、救我脫離了一切的恐懼。詩34:4

I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears. Psalms34:4
-心裡多憂多疑、你安慰我、就使我歡樂。詩94:19

Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul. Psalms94:19

-我在急難中求告耶和華、他就應允我、把我安置在寬闊之地。詩118:5

I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.Psalms118:5
-有耶和華幫助我．我必不懼怕．人能把我怎麼樣呢。詩118:6

The Lord is on my side; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?Psalms118:6

-我坐下、我起來、你都曉得．你從遠處知道我的意念。詩139:2

You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.Psalms139:2
-我的肺腑是你所造的．我在母腹中、你已覆庇我。詩139:13

My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body Psalms139:13

信還是怕？

-照著你們的信給你們成全了吧。馬太福音9：29

-你們所遇見的試探、無非是人所能受的、　神是信實的、必不叫你們受試探過於所能受的．在受試探的時候、總要給你們開一條出路、叫你們能忍受得住。林前10:13

-他對我說、我的恩典夠你用的．因為我的能力、是在人的軟弱上顯得完全．所以我更喜歡誇自己的軟弱、好叫基督的能力覆庇我．林後12:9

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

宣告神的名..1

-不叫我遇見試探,救我脫離兇惡

-以後當見負面的時侯,求聖靈提醒我想起主的話,不再害怕和胡思亂想,使我在真理中得自由

-我奉主的名棄絕一切在我思想,言行,愛好與撒但同流合污的束西,立刻完全離開我

-因此在甚麼環境,也不用怕,因為在神沒有難成的事

神的自我宣告:"我是自有永有的!"

....他們的哀聲達於神...

神看顧以色列人,也知道他們的苦情.

出2:23-25

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

A Poem from my wonderful niece, Rachel (10 yrs old)

An artist is an artist.
An aunt is an aunt.
It is very hard to combine these two to become a fantastic aunt.
But mine is different from hers or his.
Mine is both and she has one kid.