Balloon

After two months of labouring every night, I finally had time for family. We had a great family time today.

As we were at Plaza Sing, Jeshua saw balloons at the atrium where Challenger was having an exhibition. The balloons were part of their decorative items.

We went to ask the salesperson if we could take one. Jeshua chose the blue one. He was overjoyed.

Later, he felt asleep on my shoulder as I was carrying him. Little did I realise that he dropped his balloon as he went into a deep sleep.

When I came to the realisation, it was too late. We were already at Orchard and I didn't know where he lost it.

An hour later, he woke up from his nap. The first thing he asked for was the balloon. I promised him that when we are back at Dhoby Ghaut to take North-East line, I would go to Plaza Sing to get a balloon for him.

Took one orange balloon and hurried to find Jeshua and wifey, with excitement. I was imagining how delighted Jeshua would be when I show him the balloon.

From a distance away, he saw me with the orange balloon. He was unhappy. Feeling sulky, he kept saying, "I don't want orange. I don't want orange..."

At this point, I had to teach him about being grateful. I decided not go back to take a blue balloon, though that would solve the whole issue.

Sometimes, God answers our prayers but in a different way from what we are expecting. Instead of being thankful, we grumble that God is not answering us specifically, when He actually did. Just because the balloon is not blue doesn't mean that it is not a balloon.

I told him that he could choose, either to take it or leave it. In the end, he chose to take :)

More Lord More!

My wife felt some pain at her right wrist.

I laid my hand on her right wrist and prayed for her.

To my surprise, my son laid his hand on her left wrist and did the same thing.

I commanded, "In Jesus' name..."

My son commanded, "In Jesus' name..."

I said, "More, Lord. More, Lord!"

He said, "More, Lord. More, Lord!"

There was an inexplicable burst of joy in my heart.

I am looking forward to bringing him to the streets where a 3 year old child (he is now 2 years and 4 months) starts praying for the sick and seeing healing everywhere. He has to encounter God at the earliest age possible... and consistently.

Precious... Precious...

Jeshua was suddenly down with high fever yesterday. There was no other symptom. But he was totally fine this morning.

In the evening, his fever came back. About twenty minutes past midnight, he went into a seizure as his temperature reached 40.6 degrees Celsius. This was his second time having a fit. Last year, it happened and he was hospitalised for three days.

After praying and doing the necessary procedures, he was still unconscious for quite a while. Thus, we called a cab and rushed to KK hospital. He was unconscious for close to thirty minutes. Throughout the journey, we kept praying for him. I told my wife that we got to pray from the position of rest - Jesus already completed His work on the Cross. We just needed to rest from that place of victory and declared to Jeshua's body.

As we got out of the cab, he finally regained his consciousness. It was a moment of relief. Thank God for protection!

He is such a precious boy. He has unusual and extraordinary favour of God upon his life. He will be a mighty warrior of God. Nothing shall by any means harm him. God has marked out his life for His kingdom.

I'm glad that I have made the decision to follow what God is saying and focus on fathering him in his foundation years.

Helping God?

My son tried to help me push the stroller even though I was doing it effortlessly.

Without his help, the process would be much faster. By allowing him to partner with me, the journey became slower. Nevertheless, our communication enhanced during that moment of partnership.

More often than not, God allows us to partner with Him for the work of the kingdom. He doesn't have to. But He chooses to. We are not helping Him to make the process faster. But the King of the Universe chose to give His complete attention on an individual, celebrating the partnership and effort of that individual so that the whole focus is placed on building a loving relationship with each other, rather than the work itself.

We can see this in the example of Uzzah and David in 2 Samuel 6. In trying to hasten the process of getting a task done, Uzzah died as a result. David learnt a tough lesson on this. Eventually, he cultivated a process of completing the task with the main focus on relationship with God through worship. He sacrificed an ox for every six steps he took. That was radical and slow. But I'm pretty sure that God was pleased with the act.

Partnership is always God's intention and desire, because the essence of partnership is relationship.