A Walk With Christ

PRAYER

Sometimes you hear someone say “we've done all we can. The only thing we can do now is pray." Prayer really should be our first resort rather than our last resort. Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer as a model prayer and Jesus himself often went off to pray, setting an example for us to do the same.

Have you ever received the sudden urge to pray for someone at the most unusual time? Or have you ever felt the need to just stop for a moment and just say a prayer for yourself well Mrs. Lozan Smith can testify to such happenings. Mrs. Smith is an elder in the Spur Tree Seventh Day Adventist church she is best known for her spirit moving prayers and many feel she has a direct connection with the Lord.

  

When asked how her relationship with God got so serious she said, “The Lord has worked many miracles in my life and over the years I have learnt to appreciate the presence of the Holy Spirit”. She says now she has a more than personal connection with the Lord, her days begin at 3:00 o’clock, at which time she gets up brushes her teeth, washes her face a prepares for the arrival of the Holy Spirit she then says that she spends at least two hours in deep commune with him. She says this discipline and dedication are her main reasons for such a deep relationship and that she will never stop until the day she dies because the Lord has been amazing good to her and that is the least she can give back to him.

Discipline and dedication are just a few ways in which one can communicate with the Lord but for Mr. Daniel Williams it is much different. Mr. Williams believes that he is a servant of God and he thinks that living a life similar to that of Jesus is all he can do to say thank you. “back in my time deh enuh  mi a did bad man, bad ,bad, bad and den through going to a crusade and being  backtized  mi reach where I am now and mi jus haffi serve God and give him thanks ‘cause him save mi”.  He went on to explain that he owes his life to the Lord and he will forever serve him.  

So there we have two people who have dedicated their lives to the Lord, based on what he has done for them. For many who feel it might be too late it is never too late to share that deep connection with the Lord as he is always there, ready and waiting to hears our cries.

The Sunset Is My Heart

Call Me Sunshine

SUNSHINE STORY

The sun was setting with all its power and glory 

on the horizon behind the sea as I stood there 
on the sand which lay along the water's edge.

        The clouds in the sky had the effect of evolving translucent light 

             yet as the sun sank further down into the sea 
              this light was changing to a sombre silver-grey. 

              Darkness was descending upon me where I stood 
                  yet in the far horizon before me daylight was 
                 making its impact once again on the earth.

It was getting chilly and darker and a slight breeze 
was beginning to arouse the waters of a once calm sea. 

The tide was going out and I could feel the moisture
from underneath my feet being taken away. 
The sun was drawing away the very waters of the sea before me it seemed and everything was beginning to have a haunted aspect, 
for without light all seemed to attain a gloomy and ghostly atmosphere.

The sun was now but a tinge of orange
giving off its last rays of light being swallowed by the sea. 
What a splendid sight it was I thought seeing something alive 
and wondrous making its last impact with beauty and significance before vanishing temporarily and rising again on the opposite to where it set. 

It seemed to suggest that where there is light there is life 
and where there is no light life would be unbearable and dark.
 

Dusk had come and night was here so I thought that I had better depart
in order to live and enjoy the sight just seen at some other date. 

PICTURES ARE WORTH ENDLESS WORDS: but for these pictures I have only one KNOWLEDGE

Photos by Craig Phang Sang