Be Encouraged - By Merry Wirawan

  47  When the woman realized she couldn’t hide any longer, she came and fell trembling at Jesus’ feet. Before the entire crowd she declared, “I was desperate to touch you, Jesus, for I knew if I could just touch even the fringe of your garment [ a ]  I would be healed.” – Luke 8:46-48 (TPT) We must have experienced some desperations in some stage of our lives. Do you remember when the last one you felt so desperate in your situation and you cried out loud to God to rescue you? The feeling was as if you are at the edge of the cliffs and you had nowhere to go and you know that He is the only one who can help you. There are differences when you send a prayer request to God for your problems with when you are crying out loud to God in your desperation. God can sense our desperation. He can differentiate it and He will not ignore our desperation. When I am in desperation, I become highly anxious that I can only cry to God because I don’t even know how to express my feel...

  36  When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.   37  Then he said to his disciples,  “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.   38  Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” – Matthew 9:36-38 Few days ago my good friend came to me and told me about her dream. She said that she just had a dream of a young girl was sexually assaulted and she woke up very sad. She then told me that she has been praying for many sex trafficking victims all over the world so that the angels of God will always protect them. Her heart is so close to these victims and she was thinking what we should do to bring awareness to the people. Another story, few years ago my husband, Rical, was prompted in his heart for Domestic Violance (DV) Victims in our regions. He felt that God wanted him to do something in this area of ministry. He ...