forgiveness & healing

We ended our time of sharing with prayer. I asked the brother to start, them my wife and I will end. When they have finished, I knelt before the brother, tap him on the shoulder and told him that I am going to ask him for forgiveness for hurts that I have caused him. It was not planned. I was just obeying the prompting of the Holy Spirit.
We had been edifying one another and sharing about personal journeys and breakthroughs and at that particular point, I was suddenly made aware of his pain that has been trapped and accumulated inside. Who's Right or wrong was not the issue. As an authority figure, being his pastor, I asked him to forgive me. He placed his hand over my shoulder, his eyes red with tears, but a smile on his face, he told me that I am forgiven. As I prayed with choked words for healing, I felt his tears falling on my hand and his assuring hand tapping gently on my shoulder. P.Nellie kept passing us tissues papers -her anointed ministry.
I had told him that he was a good man, a man like Nathaniel, a man without guile,smiling 99% of the time, but I also realized that his pain need to surface and wounds healed. He might be leaving to go to Bible School, and I wanted a new freedom in our relationship.At the end of our praying, I felt a great lightness in the room - a new glow on that smiling face. I think he felt it too. P. Nellie still wiping her eyes.

the monkey and capricon

What has the pastor to do with the monkey and capricon?

Nothing-lah.

I don't quite like monkeys and the only star I want is The Bright Morning Star - Revelation 22:16

Let's move on!

You visited me while I was in prison

I took the Bible's admonition to visit the Lord by visiting someone in prison yesterday Mt 25:39,44. This is the second time for me to visit the prison. Quite a feeling to go through auto metal doors and walking through bare non-ventilated corridors. It is not easy to look at your brother in prison and see the Lord in him. But listening to my brother through the 2-way -phone, helps me to appreciate what JC had done in his life and through his life. Robbie sang " A better man".My brother sang the song in his own words. God had even use this time to walk within the prison walls to share His love through this brother. Through him I also heard JC said -" Thank you for coming to visit me"...I cried within.

Venturing into new territory

Finally, succeeded in getting my own blog. Feel a little scarry.
Not sure how to start or where it will go. But you never know if you never try.
Tommorrow happens to be my 48th. birthday. Like to think that I am moving into a new part of my "being" and "living" and contributing as a human being on planet earth for the good of eternity.
I definitely need your encouragement to keep this going. So wish me happy birthday and here we go....