u Akuou: February 2007

AKUOU
"And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust
to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others." - 2 Timothy 2:2 (NIV)

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Prayer Requests

Late update of prayer requests..

Singapore focus -

1) Praying for the poor & needy
2) People who are slightly more well to do - who could be poor spiritually and emotionally
3) The elderly

Regional focus -

1) Erratic weather
2) Natural disasters
--> Preparation of people, God's mercy & grace, Believers who know about the end times to be ready to reach out to non-believers

Abby:
- Wisdom & God's mercy for people whom she knows are struggling with questions about "faith in God"
- Continual focus to seek the Lord and accomplishing all her bs homework, 1 Thessalonians & James

Shashi:
- Less stress (wedding prep, school floorball, cross-trainer's programmes)
- Prioritisation

Jason:
- Time management
- Prioritisation
- Been arrowed to play Cupid around Somerset MRT on 2 weekdays before Valentine's

Wanlin:
- Stress management
- Time management
- Prioritisation
- CCA in charge of Live Concert for evangelism during Easter (1st wk of Apr)

Denise:
- Time management (unending work)
- That everything be God-centric -> God in the middle of her life's pie chart

Haoguang:
- Health à to be well before 8 day field camp this wk
- Field camp à that he'll be ok (yes, u'll be HG)

Gladwin:
- thank God for rest, for being more firm
- for God's Will in his life
- relationships with maid at home, sister encouraged to lie to maid

Winnie:
- thank God for holidays
- work in holidays à prep for next school time, planning for school
- mission trip in March to Thailand

Jean:
- Discipline in all aspects of her life, especially to spend a proper quiet time with the Lord
- Wedding plans are delayed also due to the lack of discipline leading to procastination. Please pray for Shashi and her to find time to settle all issues asap.
- Also pray that they will have time to even prepare themselves individually & together for a proper marriage life. Being able to settle any mental, emotional & spiritual back lock towards one another so as to start their new life together.
- Pray also for her sister who is assigned by the church to take on a mentoring role. That she'll be able to juggle her time well in school and with her church commitment. She is currently pretty stressed out in school.

Viona:
- Thank God for the opportunity to speak to her guy colleague who she found out was baptised when he was young but he is not following the Lord now and do not know much about Christianity still. Please pray that the book which she's thinking of giving to him (Road to Emmaus) would help him out.
- Previously she was feeling unappreciated by her boss but thank God that He showed her that He has a purpose for her being in the company.
- Time management

Kelly:
- Time management
- Thank God for the follow-up with which God has provided for her good NIE guy friend. He has been posted to ACS Barker for his practicum and one of the YM leaders is there and they share a pretty similar background. She has been praying for this for a while, so this is really an answered prayer.

Chris:
- Thank God that her 2nd x-ray review went well, doctor says that she'll just need to go for therapy and she'll be fine.

Huineng:
- She has been working for a month or so now and the working hours have taken a toll on her physically. Please pray that she'll get accustomed to the working hours soon and have good rest every single night after work.

Shuying:
- seeing a skin specialist. Very very itchy, flaky and bleeds when scratched

Kexin:
- Thank God for more time
- Time management

Sarah: I'm not going back for CNY although I much want to. No money and too rushed. =(
- I did exceptionally well for my last term and I really thank God for the results! -- I will only receive all the grades either in the middle of Feb or end.. will update all then. =)
- I'm sick again -- it's really horrible.. like I'm sick every other week. seems like it's due to the extreme cold on some days and lack of rest on other days (i get to sleep about 7-7.5hours most nights -- I'm aiming for 8 from now..) Please pray for good health and also the discipline to get work done asap and not procrastinate and start when nearing sleep time.
- My family's coming over for my graduation in June. Please pray that I can find cheap accomodation for 6 people