Singing of Your faithfulness

I will sing of Your great love forever
With my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness
through all generations
I will declare that Your are so trustworthy and no one
who trusts in You will be abandoned at any time
That doesn't promise we won't face hardships and challenges in life
As any other, we too will go through ups and downs in life.
 Your hand will always will be there to take us through
the shadows of valley of death and wilderness of dried up lands
It's at this time, the joy of the Lord becomes my strength
And the comfort of Your presence become my shield
Lead me on my Lord till the end of my years
Guard me from deceptions and guide me in Thine grace.

Lord,
You are my strength and my shield

My heart trusts in You and I'm always helped

My heart rejoices greatly in knowing You

And I will raise my praises in songs and prayers.

To the end of my days, may I sing Your praises and not be silent

O Lord, my precious One, I will give thanks to You forever.

Thanking You for this Day

It's my birthday today, my Lord
A day to celebrate, a day to worship
And a day to thank you for blessing me to see this day.

As I knelt down to talk to You this morning
Words refused to come
but tears came down instead
Heart overwhelmed with gratitude
found no words perfect to express

You called me Your own when I was young
Never did You leave me at any desperate hourI thank You my Lord for the
 In my joy and sorrows
Laughter and tears 
You stood beside me
And watched me walk in Your grace
No one other than You
Have loved me as You do day after day

I thank You Lord with all my heart
for Your  faithfulness and mercy all my life
Take my hand and guide me
 for the rest of my years on this earth.

Hazy vision

I can see and understand only a little of You now, O God
It's hazy and blurry at times
Like a  little reflection on a fogged mirror
With such a poor vision and understanding
I try to estimate Your love and power
How foolish I can be
How stupidly I get angry with you at times

Can the tiny ant know who I am or what I do?
Does it have knowledge to judge me for what I do
It may know all about its own ant world
How to follow its ant mates in a line
find its food and carry it safely without dropping it
But does it know anything of what man does or
capable of doing it?

Does it know about the stars in the sky?
or ships that sail in the sky?
Does it know anything about man landing on the moon
Or  about Google and  Internet we are familiar with
If we can't expect ant to know about me and my doing
How can I, with my finite mind fathom Your love and doing my God, Almighty One?

I will lift up my eyes to my God

I will lift up my eyes to my God
From whom comes my help
My help comes from God, Almighty
Who made heaven and earth.

My Lord will not allow my foot be moved
He who has kept me so far will not slumber
Behold, the One in whom I put my trust
Shall neither slumber nor sleep

The Lord is my keeper
He is the shield and shade for me
In His arm, I'm always safe
In His will, I'm always secured.

The Lord, who has called me
Shall preserve my soul till the end
He will direct my path
And preserve my being now and forevermore

You are my God

You are my God, and I will give You my praises
You are my God, and I will bow before You with thanksgiving
In my anguish, whenever I cry unto You
You always came to my aid in compassion
Like a mother towards her child in the cradle
I know I don't need to worry nor fear
When I have You always with me.

Am I worthy to deserve such love my God
Am I worthy to be called thine child?
What have I done to earn such love
How can I repay Your kindness and faithfulness
day after day?

Is there a loving God?

If there is God, why so much pain and suffering in this world
ask people who have no faith
If there is no God, how come so much good happening in this world
question those who put their faith in a God.
Who are we Lord to question Your existence or absence
with our limited knowledge and understanding?

Can an ant fathom the proceedings of a human being?
Or can it analyse the strategy of human thinking for it's extermination
No, it cannot and will not
And, so are we, in our finite mind and ability before Sovereign God
then why do we waste arguing about His goodness or justice in matters
we neither understand nor foresee with our human resources.

The source of evil is not the absence of a loving God
but the freedom He gave to the mankind in His love
Because He didn't want us to be His puppets
He gave us the freedom to choose good and evil
The pain, suffering and the evil on earth are nothing
but the results of our doing and our choice of the freedom given
Yes, it's easy to point upwards for all the mishaps we face on this earth
than to accept and acknowledge our part in the play that has turned tragic

So, let us take time to examine ourselves before judging the love of God
And see how we could repair the damage and represent His love and mercy
so that others would acknowledge the existence of a loving God
because we became His hands and feet to reveal His goodness to the world!

Why, why...Oh why my Lord?

Why, why....Oh  why my Lord?
Why was the question many of us asked
when we learned to talk in the tender years of toddler hood
And why is the question we ask even today in our graying years of life
Many of us would go to our graves still asking the question why?

If we could find answers to all the whys we ask
Who knows, we may not even turn to God to worship
that may be the reason, God has kept our questions unanswered at times
and made us to realize the limitation of our thinking and doing.

How can we not ask the question why
When we see what's going around us in this world
Why do some suffer so much and for too long
while some rarely know even the pinch of pain
Why do so many children cry out in hunger
while some kids in another part of the world diet to keep in shape
Why do kids growing up amidst abuse, hunger and violence
put in jail for stealing to survive or put food on the table for family to eat
while those in higher ranking stay free out in the world
 in spite of mega crime and corruption they've committed

Why, why oh why
That's why the world in hunger and injustice are crying out today
Politicians have failed them; religion have failed them
with no one to give them the answer and no one to come to their aid
they have turned their question to You, Sovereign God
Because they cannot see or hear You to find answer to their misery
they keep doing what they know to do and go on crying which no one see or hear.

Is it fair or is it right, my righteous God?
That's my question for You today
It's easy for me to tell the poor and abandoned, to trust in God and to take comfort
But, if I'm in their shoes, I too would snort and walk away
for if no godly want to look at me and love me not in words, but in  action
I wouldn't want to love and trust their God either.

Hear my Prayer, O Lord

"Hear, and O Lord and answer me,
  for I am poor and needy.
 Guard my life for I am devoted to You.
 You are my Lord ; save Your servant
  who trusts in You.
Have mercy on me, O Lord,
  for I call to you all day long.
Bring joy to Your servant,
  for to You , O Lord
I lift up my soul.

You are  forgiving and good , O Lord,
abounding in love to all who call to You.
Hear my prayer, O Lord;
listen to my cry for mercy,
 In the day of my trouble I will call to you
for you will answer me.
                          (Psalm 86:1-7)

The Offering

"Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom
  and knowledge of God1
 How unsearchable his judgments
 and His paths beyond tracing out!
Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been His counselor?
Who has ever given to God
that God should repay him?
For from Him and through Him and to Him
are all things.
To Him be the glory forever! Amen"
                                      (Doxology)

The glory belongs to God and not to me
for whatever good or great I do
it's through Him and by Him, I do
It's in His strength, I'm able to do the impossible
It's by His grace, I'm able to walk in love and share love
It's in His wisdom, I look life and the world with a different perspective
It's in His mercy, I learned to show mercy to others
So, without Him, I'm nothing and I've nothing to boast about
But with Him, I've everything to boast about
If I believe, my life is a gift from Him
Then, what I do with my life is a gift I give to Him!

Be at Rest Once More, O my Soul

Be at rest once more, O my soul
for the Lord has been good to you
Remember, He has been good to you all the time
He did allow you to walk through pain and problems
But has He ever left you to walk alone?

His hand of mercy was always there to help you
And His tender whispers gave you the strength to walk ahead
When frightened and cried for help, His arms  always reached out to rescue you
In times of sickness, He gave you the healing
When loved ones passed away, His comfort enveloped you like a soft cushion
Have you forgotten the time, He stopped a winter blizzard at your cry and took you and yours to safety?

So why are you troubled now, O my soul?
Why are you so downhearted?
Just look back at the road you've traveled
And see how the Lord had been good to you. 
Be at rest once more , my soul
for the Lord's goodness will never leave you!

Meditation on Psalm 19

O Sovereign God,
The heavens declare the Your glory
  the skies proclaim the work of Your hands
Day after day they pour forth speech
   night after night they display knowledge

There is no speech nor language
   where their voices are not heard
Their voices go out through out the earth
   their words to the ends of the world.

In the sky You have pitched a tent for the sun
  which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion
Like a champion rejoicing to run his course
   It rises at one end of the earth
And makes its circuit to the other
   nothing is hidden from its heat.

Your ways are perfect
  reviving the soul
Your statutes are trustworthy
  making even the simple wise
Your precepts are right
 giving joy to the heart
Your commands are radiant
  giving light to the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is pure
  enduring forever
The ordinances of the Lord are sure
  and altogether righteous.
They are more precious than gold
  than much pure gold
They are sweeter than honey
   than honey from the comb.
By them is Your servants warned
  in keeping them there is great reward.

May the words of my mouth and the
  meditation  of my heart be pleasing in Your sight
O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer!

Let this be Written

 Let this be written for a future generation
   that a people not yet created may praise the Lord
 Let them know that He is worthy to be praised
 His power and majesty are evident in the creations all around us
 His unending love all before us to embrace
 No time has He abandoned those who put their trust in Him
 No man can make Him to give up on us however sinful we maybe

Oh come and taste the goodness of the Lord
Bow down and worship the One who made the heaven and earth
The foolish can tell that there's no God
But those who have eyes to see and ears to hear
can only raise their voices in praises
Even the blind have raised their voices in worship
thanking the Lord for His goodness and mercy
the lame had walked in His strength
and the mute have voiced God's goodness in great paintings
Even if the mankind go  silent and tell no more of God's greatness
the birds and butterflies, the trees and mountains
the stars above and oceans below would shout and declare them
for generation not yet created to praise and pray to the God almighty!

Psalm 71 in my words

O God, I'll always have hope
And I'll praise You more and more
Doubts and dryness do come and go
but I'll continue to grow in You day by day

My mouth will tell of Your righteousness
Of Your faithfulness  all day long
I will continue to proclaim Your mighty acts
O Sovereign Lord
though I know not its measure

Since my youth, O God, You have taught me
And to this day, I declare Your marvelous deeds
Even when I'm old and gray as I'm today
I declare Your goodness to the next generation.

Your righteousness reaches to the skies
Your amazing grace stretches out like vast oceon
Though You have made me walk through troubles
some bitter and painful
Yet, You were there always to walk beside me
Your presence never left me to face the struggle alone

I will praise You till my last breath
My mouth shall praise You with joyful lips
My tongue will tell of Your righteous acts all day long
Yes, my God, I will continue to worship forever!

Revere the Lord at all times

O Heavenly Father,
Your Word is right and true
You are faithful in all You do
You love righteousness and justice
this earth is full of Your unfailing love

By Your Word the heavens were made
The breath of Your mouth brought forth the starry host
You spoke and it came to be
You commanded and the waters of the sea stood in its places

Who are we Almighty God to argue with You
Or to rebell against Your ways?
We may think we are winning in our ways
But the end will teach us who is in the winning end
In Your grace, You forgive us again and again
In Your love, You await patiently for our return

Let us all fear You in reverence
Let us worship You in utter devotion
Let our mouths praise You with joyful lips
And let our walk reveal Your grace and power to the world!

Examine me , my Lord

Examine me O Lord,
Test me and try me
See whether there's anything in me
that grieves Your heart
Any doing of me acted in selfishness
Instead of love and kindness
Is there a dark part in my heart
that I wouldn't allow Your love to reach
Or any doubts in my mind
that wouldn't allign with my faith
Help me to see me as You see me in Your righteousness
Pardon me in Your mercy, if I have ever offended You in my pride
Cleanse my heart and mind
So that I'd be worthy to be calledYour follower
Chaste me then and there
When I act out of love and in disobedience
And do not ever let me be the hypocrite
whose talk rarely match the walk.

I ask You my Lord in sure earnesty
to live a life that always please You
with no tinge of darkness to overshadow
the Light You desire to shine through me.

Let my Mouth be Filled with Your Praises

O God, You are my God
You are worthy of my praises
All day and night
Who am I to come before Your presence
Yet You delight when I come
You hear my prayers from heaven
Even the silent and groaning ones
Like a father that pitieth His children in trouble
You heeds to my cry and always come to my rescue
And like a father who acts in tough love
You at times says no to my request
or say "wait " for my ownsake.
But there is no time you've refused to hear me
nor let me abandoned with no help.

"Do not fear!....Have faith," You say to me again and again
And I cry, " Increase my faith, so I'll believe more and fear less."
What a blessing to have come to worship a loving God like You
A holy and merciful One with all power and glory
Though I'm not worthy to come into Your presence
In Your love, You've called me to be Your own
And sent Your Son to redeem me and show the way to You

I thank and praise You my God forever
Let my mouth be filled with Your praises day and night
Help me to walk in Your ways with love in my heart
And guard me from the pitfalls of falsehood and pride.

Psalm 84 in my words

"My soul yearns, even faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out
for the living God."
So cried the psalmist in Psalm 84
And I too, this morning cry out to you
yearning dearly for your presence.

"Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
they are ever praising you, the psalmist further said
I too long to dwell in Your presence
day and night
praising and praying to my heart content
Blessed we become when our strength is in You
and our hearts are set on pilgrimage towards You
And we go from strength to strength
till we appear before You in heaven

Hear my prayer, O Lord God Almighty
Listen to my plea, and come to my rescue
Better is one day in Your presence
than thousand days elsewhere;
I'd rather be seated at Your feet
learning of You and delighting in Your presence
than seated on high places parading my worthyness

You have been my sun and the shield
You have bestowed favor and kindness on me
No good thing have You withheld from me
No time have You left me abandoned.

I would praise You with all my heart
And with all my strength I would love You
Help me to keep me love You till the end
And see that my lips praise You till my last breath.

Be Still and Delight in His Presence

Lord,
In Your  presence, I want to kneel still in silence
I want to embrace Your holiness
And say nothing, but wait in adoration
Like a deer pants for water
I too thirst for You day after day
I hunger after Your righteousness
so that my life would become beautiful to You

Though I long to spend more time at dawn in Your presence
And learn of You more and more
I find myself sleeping more and doing other things
for which I regret later.
Lord, wake me up to seek You more

Let me enter Your presence
with thanksgiving and praises
Let my prayers be all worship
And let them become sweet aroma in Your presence
Let them become more about You
And less about my needs
Lord, I love You and want to dwell in Your presence more
For You are worthy to be loved and worshipped for ever more.

Who Am I to Judge?

O Lord, how blessed I need to be
Where I am and who I am because of You
Oh, how foolish I could become
when I judge others for who they are
And what they do.
Do I ever stop to think that circumstance
could make a person to do weird thing
poverty could force kids to rob
and women to sell their bodies
young boys may choose to bear arms
either they are misled
or being promised that their families
will be well taken care of

If they had been born in a better surroundings
Had the love and care of the family
Enough money to eat, dress and study
And a place called home to come to for shelter
An opportunity to have a decent job to work
No doubt they wouldn't have chosen what they do

Who would love to live on the streets after dark?
Who would protect them from hunger, cold and violence?
It's easy for me to judge them from where I stand
But if I'm put in their place and made to live in their shoes
What would I tell, or how would I view those
Who are quick to judge and try to avoid me at any cost

Lord, You told us not to judge by appearance
And showed me how to love the outcasts of society
Mathew, the tax collector
the woman caught in the act of adultery
the Samaritan woman at the well,
Mary Magdalene, a woman of the street
Lepers, lame and the destitute
No one seen outcast in Your divine loving eyes
So, who are we to judge them for who they are.

Forgive us Lord for not following Your ways
Help us to love as You do
If we don't love and share what You showed us to do
Our preaching and prayers won't be of any help.
Help us Lord to be real followers of You
And make Your love rule over this earth.

Wakens Me Morning by Morning.

O Sovereign Lord, You have given me an instructed tongue
to know the Word that sustains the weary
You try to wakens me morning by morning
to listen to You as one being taught
I confess that I've become lazy these days
and long to linger longer in bed
than be at Your feet to listen early every morning

I thank You Lord for all You have taught me
in my quiet time with You
Oh how precious are these hours
and blessed I am to be taught
and led by Your Holy Spirit

Give me the yearning heart
to learn of You more
and to share about You more
Holy art thou in every way
and holy are the moments
I'm at Your feet to be taught by You.

Wakens me my Lord every morning
at the quiet hours of dawn
so that when the world around is sleeping
I'll be at Your feet listening
And You my Sovereign Lord
will be speaking  all I need to hear.

Go...tell it on the Mountain

O God,
I't's said in Malachi 3:16 that You listen to me, when I talk about You  and extol You in my day to day conversation.
You even get that written in a book of rememberance which is kept before You
In that case, You must have seen my name again and again written in that book
For I can't help it, but keep on boasting of Your goodness and faithfulness whenever I can
I'm neither a speaker, an evangelist or a lay preacher who speak about You and spread Your message
I'm just an ordinary woman saved by Your grace and dwell in Your goodness
Nothing delights me more than talking about Your faithfulness and  loving kindness
If I'm asked to name the passion I've got in life
That's what I'd say, the passion to go on talking about my Lord and the longing of walking in His path
You know it I'm not lying to say so to earn a great favor from You or to get applauds from others
I do it because I delight in talking about You
I wish all those who carry Your name would delight in talking of Your goodness and seeing Your faithfulness in their day to day life.
So many are so busy working for You rather than delighting in Your faithfulness
I too have become sluggish in my prayerlife my Lord
I do not meet with You early at dawn like years before
And spend long hours in Your holy presence
I pray and I pray for Your help to revive my slumbering spirit
and set it on fire so that I'd not only talk about Your goodness
but blow the trumpet from every hill-top
to tell about the comfort of Your leading
and the power of Your indwelling!

Praise and Worship

I will bless You Lord at all times
You are so worthy of multitude of praises
Your praise shall be in my mouth day and night
Let my soul make boast of Your loving kindness constantly
And let others hear of Your grace through my mouth and my writing
And magnify You with me with all their hearts.

I pray and earnestly request that
At no time and under no circumstances
I stop praising You
You know my sitting down and my rising up
You have hedged me in and around
And laid Your precious hand upon me
Such knowledge is too wonderful to contain
And so, I want to keep on praise and thank You
for all your mercies and kindness
How could I ever stop praising You , my Holy One
And if I ever do, I'm not worthy to take another breath
Or to call You in time of my need and trouble

I love You my Lord with all my heart
And I want to love You with my life all my days
Keep me protected from self -centeredness
So that I'll live for Your glory at all the times.

Prayer for 2013

2013 is here Lord,and I thank You for blessing me to see this year
I bow before You in utter reverence for guarding me and mine in the last year
Like a shepherd leading the sheep along still waters and merry meadows
You've led us and restored our souls through valleys of uncertainties
And hills of great opportunities and happiness for Your righteousness sake
We feared no evil or calamities because You were only a prayer away
Forgive me and mine if we have grieved or offended You in any way
Grant us the wisdom to always to choose obedience and follow Your ways
I pray that our walk with You this year would be much closer and more fruitful
I thank You with all my heart for being our refuge and mighty rock.

I pray also for the world we live in this year.
It's so sad that last year ended with twenty innocent children killed in a shooting within minutes
I cannot imagine how the families of these kids and the five adults sacrificed to save the kids
cope up with this tragedy and enter into this new year
No one, but You only can provide the strength and grace to make them to will to live this year
I cannot imagine how a twenty-year old, a mere youth could commit such an evil thing
What has become of the world, my Lord?
Where is it going ?
Life has become so cheap in so many eyes that killing has become a game
You came down to give Your life to lead us to abundant life
What have we, the church done with the Good News
Have we twisted and quenched it to suit our taste and glory?
Have we sold Your name for our sake that the name Christians
has become a name the world try to avoid at all respect.

Lord forgive us for our greed and self worship
We talk sweetly, hug with smiles, do You see genuine love in that
We consider our problems as persecution and take comfort living as martyrs
We have failed to live the life of early Christians
Where love, sacrifice and Your glory were expressed
Have mercy upon us, precious Saviour
Rehabilitate and revive us so that we live for Your glory
And the world would see and receive Your Light!