RETURN TO GIVE THANKS / ARISE AND WALK

Click on the titles to read these two devotions - "RETURN TO GIVE THANKS" AND "ARISE AND WALK"

Just wanted to share a bit of my thoughts ...

1. Remember to give thanks to the Heavenly Dad, no matter how you have performed for your school exam or PSLE. Please don't treat God like a servant or a magic wand or a genie in a magic lamp. Don't be an ungrateful person, especially when you have scored well in your results. Even if you have not, you still have to give thanks to Him.

2. Sometimes, when we pray to God on our requests or needs, we don't get what we have asked. Has God not answered our prayers? After reading the second devotion, I come to believe that He has already heard and He has already answered .. and His answer may be a "no" or "wait, not now" or "I got something better than what you are asking for". In other words, He has answered but He felt that your request is not suitable or is asked not at the right time ... or whatever reasons God may have ...

"Our loving Father always hears our prayers - and He always answers. His answer to prayer is either yes, no, or wait...and sometimes He answers with, "Here my child, I have something much better for you."

Study hard for your exam and do your best for God. Here's the exam prayer which we have recited last week .. you may like to use it again for your own prayer to God ... (Prayers For Exam koped from galvin,worshipsingapore.com)

Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank You for the love You have for me that endures forever, and for the faithfulness that You have shown throughout my life.

As the days draw near towards the all important exams, Father I pray that You will draw me even closer to You, to know that You are the God who brings me through it all.

All the stresses and pressure to achieve or even to pass the papers can get a little bit daunting at times... Father I pray for strength not of myself but from You, to know that You will sustain me even as I revise my work.

Teach me to commit the results into Your hands, to know that my worth as a person is not in the results that I will get, but wholly in You alone. Lord I pray for Your will to be done, not Your will for me... but Your will alone, not asking that You bless me with disctinctions... but for the results that You have purposed.

Teach me day after day to know that it's not the results that matter but it is the attitude that I am putting in that testifies. Lord I acknowledge that it is very easy for me to succumb to peer pressure, but I also know that Holy Spirit You are in me to guide me and rise above the temptations to simply follow along.

Grant me wisdom in the way I uphold myself as Your child... so that others may see the difference. Above all, grant me closeness to You, that I may continually commit everything into Your hands.

In Jesus' most precious name.

Amen.