which never fails! woohooo. haha. i just read something in my TGIF digest which i thought was really cute!

Be as Little Children
TGIF Today God Is First, by Os Hillman

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! - 1 John 3:1a

"I have an important business meeting in the morning. Would you please set the alarm for 5:30 a.m.?" I said to my wife."Oh, that won't be necessary. Just tell the Lord what time you want to wake up. He does it for me all the time," my wife said.I rolled my eyes in disbelief. "Well, I'd feel more comfortable if we set the alarm."
"Okay, ye of little faith. But just to prove my point I am going to ask the Lord to wake us up just before 5:30."

The next morning I awoke before the alarm went off. I looked at the clock. It read 5:15. I looked at my wife, who had just awakened at the same time with an I-told-you-so smile.Sometimes we wrongfully view God as someone we go to for only the "big things." The idea of "bothering God" for such a trivial matter seems foolish and presumptuous. However, when you were a child and had to get up in the morning for school, didn't your mom or dad come wake you up? They were your parents, and you could come to them with the most trivial concerns or requests. Why would our heavenly Father be any less approachable?

Perhaps our problem is that we simply have not developed a level of intimacy with God so that we feel the freedom to approach Him at these daily, routine levels. We often operate with an unwritten code that says our needs must have a certain degree of importance or crisis before we come to God with them. This is not God's character towards us.

Does the Lord desire this level of intimacy with you and me? The apostle Paul exhorted us to "pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17 KJV). There is never a caution to pray only about matters of greater importance.Today, go to God with matters that you might view as trivial and would normally avoid bringing to God. Ask God to increase your level of intimacy with Him. You may even be able to get rid of your alarm clock.

AMEN to that!!!!! =)) haha after reading the extract i've decided that i must testify myself.

i think i shall forget abt setting alarm clocks soon. after all i have a sick tendency to just sleep through the alarm and its God who wakes me up every morning when i ask Him to.

case 1: sometime last year, we had this geog lesson at 1130am in school. i slept through my 9am alarm clock without realising it (hurhur). then God sent tania to call my house at 11am and that made me drag myself out of bed to pick up the phone. whew!! not only did He wake me up..i actually got to school on time that day! :D

case 2: another time last year, on the day of some chinese test, i slept through my alarm clock (again) which was set for 7+ am to get to school by 830am. at 8am i dont know why but i mysteriously woke up and managed to get to school on time!

case 3: after an early morning nap (aka sleeping at arnd 3am), i slept through my 6am alarm (yet again) and was seriously in deep slumber. it was a nice and cold morning, the perfect weather for sleeping IN. then mysteriously i jerked awake at 625am and was on time for meeting enghui downstairs at 645am. even managed to eat some breakfast. hahahaha.

...perhaps i shld really forget abt using an alarm clock! hahaha.

anyway moral of the story is...God always listens to our prayers! (even sometimes when we dont pray for tiny little things, He takes care of them anyway because He cares). all these tiny things in our life..like waking us up in the morning, making sure we reach home before it rains, helping us regain balance when we accidentally slip and fall..they let us know that God cares.

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