Even though two of my sisters were not around, last night was one of the happiest times we have as a family. We gathered together to pray and thank God. My mom read verses of the bible. Then each of us had our thanksgiving and prayer requests. It was so great because we  know what is going on in each other’s lives. We prayed for our sisters who are in other countries that God will take good extra care of them. We were so thankful to God for answering our prayers. The last time we gathered together was I think 3 weeks ago, we were praying to a specific situation of one of the members of our family. God is so faithful for He did good things out of the situation. I wish we could do that again more often.

Today we went to our church for our Saturday prayer meeting. My uncle was the one who was assigned to share God’s word. I was reminded with the one verse he shared. He shared a verse in Matthew 4:4, it says, ” the man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” It reminds me that we will not just concern about nourishing our bodies with food but we must be concern on nourishing our souls with words of God by reading the bible, praying, listening to sermons, and quiet time with the Lord.

One of the new year’s resolution is to read my bible daily with the goal of reading the whole bible for one year. I have a Walk Thru the bible. It has a corresponding chapters what to read each day. I confess that sometimes I failed but I am trying to cope it up the following days. Today in my quiet time, I was reminded that true prayer is a way of life, not just an emergency detour. It’s humbling thing to acknowledge that we cannot solve our own problems- but when we let God be your problem solver, don’t be surprised if we see enemies flee and fireworks begin.