Well, this is after my baby was born and i need to get back to work after 60 days maternity leave. I have to find a baby sitter and have not gone round looking for one yet as i was blessed that my three other children, my mum-in-law took care of them while they were young. However, due to age we do not want to trouble her. We prayed for baby sitters and then out of the blue my hubby went to ask one pastor's wife if she would recommend one. Immediately, she went to another pastor who has young children taken care by baby sitter and he gave my hubby the contact no.
But then i also got a few other numbers with me but mostly non-believer family. I went to a couple of them, mostly those near my block (i stay in a condominium, so baby sitters in the same condo would be most ideal) but somehow don't have the feel that i want to leave my baby with them.
Then my office called up and asked me to come back to work by next week which is a few days away! I was like desperate and i prayed one more time for God to show me the family to put my baby with....and guess what......YES!...THE LORD ANSWERED MY PRAYER!!!.....
As i was driving to the last two families which is away from my condo outside the vicinity in a nearby housing estate.....in my mind was to go to this Chinese family but then somehow my sense of direction went haywire and i just drove and found this other Indian family's house quite easily. This happens to be a Christian family of different church and was the pastor's baby sitter and .....yes ....she became our baby sitter for my little baby.
I did not immediately agreed to send my baby there.....but i managed to go to another family. When i went home..... a few hours later....my company called to say i need to start work like in 2 days time....!!! Horrors!!!... I was like where on earth should i place my baby but somehow i just called back the Indian family to check if i could send my baby the next day for a try to see if he is ok at her place for half a day. She agreed and said i can start anytime...Thank God for that. However, i still have my reservation and it was that , i have never given any Indian family to look after my kids....call me racist.....but that happens in this part of Asia! Anyway, i was thinking in my flesh that is quite difficult to send my baby to this Indian family cos my own family members would be saying WHY? and i can imagine all the not so good things they will say but then somehow i keep praying for an answer ....as though i can't hear God's voice but then there is the little conscience that tells me to just go ahead and not bother what others will say....and i could not sleep that night....so i was up like 3am and i just read the bible and suddenly....it just became clear in my mind that what i prayed for i already received and the events that led up to now just plainly shows that it is God's will that i just should leave my baby with this Indian family and have faith that this is the best arrangement the Lord has made for us. We should just obey when we heard....let those who have ears hear ......all these just came into my mind and it was then i decided that's it we are going to put our baby with this family.
So i went to bed without any disturbance and the next day i sent my baby there in the morning and he was fine there until evening and i confirmed immediately that i will send my baby next morning to her and paid her. She was actually giving me a good price as compared to the rest of the other nearer baby sitters and the rest.
God has a way to bless us......as he bless me with a baby sitter......my fees to the baby sitter is a blessing that she was asking God for which indirectly i am blessing her.....i found this out some months later as we were chit chatting and she said in fact she was praying for more financial help so she could provide for her family....she is looking after her own grandchildren, the pastor's children, another child and my baby.
I have never have any qualms since that day and my baby has been with them since 2 months old until now 3+yrs. Only just recently i don't send him there cos he needs to go to kindergarten next year and going to the child care centre.
This incident reaffirmed my faith in prayer and that i should ask God for his solution and when i receive it....obey and follow and things will be fine. This is not the first time it happened....it happened one more time again after this which i will write in another testimony.....to be continued......Amen
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
COMMIT AND IT HAPPENS
Well, believe it or not but whenever you commit anything to the Lord like"Cast all your burden to the Lord all you are weary".....the Lord will take care of everything. My eldest is the worry and he is such a good performer that we at times can't tell if he is saying the truth or otherwise. However, since i committed his everything to the Lord daily in my prayers, the minute he does something wrong, the Lord will prompt us and the cat is out of the bag!!! His follies are exposed each time he goes the wrong way......and the Lord inform us in strange ways so that we can deal with the issues immediately and not cause further problems. I really thank God for that....there are so many instances....
I will try to recall the times.....start with the most recent.....
He was trying to collect back RM370.00 from his ex-schoolmate from his previous school who apparently extorted the money from him when he was there the last time and was supposed to collect on last week Wednesday. He was in a hurry to go off from his tuition class to meet up his friend who will accompany him and the tuition teacher asked his reason for being in such a hurry. So that was when the tuition teacher advised him to inform me and the tuition teacher spoke to me and brought out the number of points that indicated that he should not go to collect his dues that day.
I really thank God for the information as the points that the teacher brought up striked the balance chords and it reminded me of the further danger and the seriousness of the issue at hand and that it needs his father's attention on this issue as well.
You know sometimes these teenagers think they know and can handle everything! They can cook up a story and make it in their mind as though so real....well, we told our son not to go collect the money and also don't send his friend either. What if something bad happens to the friend...how are we to answer to his parents! Forget the money...although we don't have that much but we don't need it if it will cause danger to anyone! We do not know who that boy is and his background!
Well, at least at the moment, we have got this charade stopped in time by the Grace and Mercy of our Lord!!! Thank God for that!!!
That is why i keep telling my son....whenever he tries to disobey or do something not right he will be reprimanded immediately as the Lord has a way to inform us strangely immediately.
Like the other time, he told a lie on the last day of his final year at the primary school that he was just having lunch together with his friends at a nearby Mc Donalds around his school and i permitted him trusting him that he was telling the truth and wanted to allow some space for him...and it turns out that he actually took a public bus down to town to a shopping complex where they have the amusement parks with his classmates and he did not tell me!
What happened was he got stranded as there was no bus back cos got strike or something cannot remember but there was no public bus back to our house. So he took the train instead but after that he still need to walk home a pretty long way as the train stops elsewhere.
Thank God halfway, he met a neighbour who is passing by and manage to give him a lift back in time for him to fetch his two younger sisters home. After that incident, he himself confessed to me as somehow, the Lord impressed upon him to do so.....cos he said himself i don't know why i have to tell you this after all it is settled but i just cannot help myself but it just blurted out of my mouth....so i told him...you see....again...the Lord is at work.....it is between himself and God...if he does something wrong....he just have to own up...well, i would like to give Glory to God for keeping my children out of mischief each time.....as i continue to commit them to the Lord. Amen.
I will try to recall the times.....start with the most recent.....
He was trying to collect back RM370.00 from his ex-schoolmate from his previous school who apparently extorted the money from him when he was there the last time and was supposed to collect on last week Wednesday. He was in a hurry to go off from his tuition class to meet up his friend who will accompany him and the tuition teacher asked his reason for being in such a hurry. So that was when the tuition teacher advised him to inform me and the tuition teacher spoke to me and brought out the number of points that indicated that he should not go to collect his dues that day.
I really thank God for the information as the points that the teacher brought up striked the balance chords and it reminded me of the further danger and the seriousness of the issue at hand and that it needs his father's attention on this issue as well.
You know sometimes these teenagers think they know and can handle everything! They can cook up a story and make it in their mind as though so real....well, we told our son not to go collect the money and also don't send his friend either. What if something bad happens to the friend...how are we to answer to his parents! Forget the money...although we don't have that much but we don't need it if it will cause danger to anyone! We do not know who that boy is and his background!
Well, at least at the moment, we have got this charade stopped in time by the Grace and Mercy of our Lord!!! Thank God for that!!!
That is why i keep telling my son....whenever he tries to disobey or do something not right he will be reprimanded immediately as the Lord has a way to inform us strangely immediately.
Like the other time, he told a lie on the last day of his final year at the primary school that he was just having lunch together with his friends at a nearby Mc Donalds around his school and i permitted him trusting him that he was telling the truth and wanted to allow some space for him...and it turns out that he actually took a public bus down to town to a shopping complex where they have the amusement parks with his classmates and he did not tell me!
What happened was he got stranded as there was no bus back cos got strike or something cannot remember but there was no public bus back to our house. So he took the train instead but after that he still need to walk home a pretty long way as the train stops elsewhere.
Thank God halfway, he met a neighbour who is passing by and manage to give him a lift back in time for him to fetch his two younger sisters home. After that incident, he himself confessed to me as somehow, the Lord impressed upon him to do so.....cos he said himself i don't know why i have to tell you this after all it is settled but i just cannot help myself but it just blurted out of my mouth....so i told him...you see....again...the Lord is at work.....it is between himself and God...if he does something wrong....he just have to own up...well, i would like to give Glory to God for keeping my children out of mischief each time.....as i continue to commit them to the Lord. Amen.
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