{"id":582,"date":"2011-04-29T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2013-01-12T19:26:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T11:26:50","slug":"april-2011-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"April 2011 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>21 April, 2011<\/p>\n<div>\n<div itemprop=\"blogPost\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\">\n<div itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<div>\n<div>Hi,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In this Good Friday, we are reminded that Jesus had borne our griefs and carried our sorrows (Isa. 53:4).\u00a0 In all our afflictions, He was afflicted (Isa. 63:9).<\/div>\n<div>How does God feel when we are suffering?\u00a0\u00a0God understands our pain and absorbs it to<br \/>\nHimself.\u00a0When we suffer, He suffers also.\u00a0\u00a0On the Cross, God was never\u00a0more human than<br \/>\nat that hour.\u00a0God was never nearer to us than when He hurt.\u00a0 In that suffering, God is most<br \/>\nlike us.\u00a0 Touched with our\u00a0trials and sufferings, He understands and stretches out His<br \/>\nnail-pierced Hands to help\u00a0and to hold\u00a0us.\u00a0 In our suffering, we can see God like never<br \/>\nbefore.\u00a0 It may be the closest we will ever get to God.\u00a0 God\u2019s effort becomes the strongest,<br \/>\nwhen our efforts are useless.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On the Cross,\u00a0He stepped in and made us alive, forgave us, cancelled our debt, took<br \/>\naway the record, stripped the powers of spiritual rulers, won the victory and showed<br \/>\nthe world through His resurrection. (Col. 2:13-15).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thus we become the sons and daughters of the living God, heir of God and joint\u00a0heirs<br \/>\nwith Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Each of us is a\u00a0new creation in Christ, of infinite worth, deeply loved,<br \/>\ncompletely forgiven, fully pleasing, totally accepted and absolutely complete in Christ<br \/>\n\u2013 one of a kind, a designer original.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This Good Friday, we should, ever the more, put our hands into His nail-pierced Hands.<br \/>\nHis marvelous love is passionate, personal, purposeful and pursuing.\u00a0 His eternal love<br \/>\nis unconditional, unchanging, unending and untainted.\u00a0 In Him, we are saved and safe<br \/>\nand secured in His Hands.<\/div>\n<div>May the good Lord bless His love and salvation into all our hearts!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please pray as the pastors and leaders of a fellowship of some 60 country-side churches<br \/>\ngather for special training times in Tanzania.\u00a0 I will be there from Sat. April 23 to Tue.<br \/>\nMay 3.\u00a0 There will be three days of training for Bible College students, three days for<br \/>\nthe pastors and leaders and a graduation service on Sun. May 1<sup>st<\/sup>.\u00a0 God is given us the<br \/>\nprivilege and joy to be ministering to them.\u00a0 May souls be saved, saints equipped and<br \/>\npastors and leaders raised up to minister to their own.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks again for your prayers and support in so many ways to enable us to train Nationals for Nationals.\u00a0 Please visit the blogspot at<a href=\"http:\/\/faithatworksfellowship.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/faithatworksfellowship.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May the good Lord bless you and all yours greatly.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cFor God\u00a0<i>is<\/i>\u00a0not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which you have shown toward His Name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister\u201d (Heb. 6:10).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Your because of Calvary Cross,<\/div>\n<div>Rev. Goh Seng Fong\u00a0\u00a0 (John 12:24)<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Good Friday, we are reminded that Jesus had borne our griefs and carried our sorrows (Isa. 53:4).  In all our afflictions, He was afflicted (Isa. 63:9).<br \/>\nHow does God feel when we are suffering?  God understands our pain and absorbs it to<br \/>\nHimself. When we suffer, He suffers also.  On the Cross, God was never more human than<br \/>\nat that hour. God was never nearer to us than when He hurt.  In that suffering, God is most<br \/>\nlike us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}