Sat Service
the sermon is abt "struggling with prayer". Pastor jeff challenged us a few things yesterday...

#1 Pray for the ppl ard us.. our families, our friends, our bro and sis in chruch. pray for the non-believers to know Christ.

#2 Pray for daily needs.. start the new day by praying in the the morning.. dont be waked up by the alarm.. wake up 5 mins earlier... pray in the morning.. and anticipate it when ya go thru ya day...

#3 Closer relationship with God... aware of invisible reality in ya life.. the outcome -> quicker to repent, less fearful when bad times come. living in the presence of God. let God to be so real in ya life... so that the non-believers ard ya can witness it..

#4 Know ya temptations.. pray specifically everyday that you will overcome it... for me is laziness...

things to take note in today sermon teaching.. i find this sentence very powerful.. ritchie got share with me once.. and its alr firmly anchored to my heart..
God will only test us and NOT tempt us.. only devils tempts us...
God gives us testings in our life to overcome it so that we will be stronger after we went thru the testings. the testings he gave is to mature our characters and refine our characters to be more Jesus-like... our faith will increase each time we overcome each testing...

Differences between testings and temptations:

Testings	Temptations
God test us hoping that we will pass, so that we will become more like God.	Devils test tempt us hoping that we will pass fail, so that we will become more like God devil.

Brothers and sisters.. must remember this!!!! Dont fall for devil's trick.

Verse to Read!!
1 Cor 10:13b ~ And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.