How To Talk To God

This is a praying guide written by Ren Xi and edited by Jerome. Feel free to ask any question if you have one:

Why Pray To Who-He-Knows-Everything
Personally, praying is talking to God, telling Him what you want to tell Him. Though God knows everything about us but He wants us to talk to Him. This is because He wants us to realise that we need Him in our life. It is just like your love one know that you love him/her, yet it is important to say "i love you" out orally.

Matthew 7:7 
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

A Guideline To Pray

Beginning: We can start our prayer with Our Father in heaven, our heavenly Father, dear Jesus, Abba Father. It is like we want to call out for someone before we start praying. Just like we will call "Mum" or "Dad" before we want to speak up.

Middle:

1. Thanksgiving - Give thanks to God, thank You for bringing me here or thank You for gathering us here or thank You for today.
2. Confession - Confess my sin. Sometimes we sin without our realisation. Ask for forgiveness and also forgive people who sin against us as He command.
3. Praise - Praise the God: God You are great, everything is in Your control (Optional, you may praise God with your prayer request).
4. Chatting - Telling God how is your day, what are the things you have gone through and how you feel, chatting with God. He is like a father, best friend, listener to us besides God.
5. Surrender - Talk to God about the thing you concern. You may pray for others, family and friends. Must learn to surrender everything onto God after pray. We do what we can do and let God does the rest.

Ending: You can end with "in Jesus' name we pray, Amen".

What Should i Do To Accept Christ

For those who are not christian and wish to accept Christ but don't know how, you may read this Sinner's prayer once and approach us or any christian to know more about christian:

Sinner Prayer (taken from http://www.sinner-prayer.com/)

"Father, i know that i have broken Your laws and my sins have separated me from You. i am truly sorry, and now i want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. i believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive and hears my prayer. i invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. In Jesus' name i pray, Amen."

Examples of prayers

Prayer For Food
"Dear heavenly Father, thank You for today, thank You for gather us here today for this time (if there are others). God, i want to pray for the food, thank You for the food that You had prepared for us. Bless the hands that prepared this meal and blessed this food into our body, will help us to stay healthy and strong. In Jesus's name i pray, Amen."

Prayer For Family
"Dear Lord, i thank You for Your grace that had saved me and cleanse all my sin. i want to uphold all my family especially those who hasn't heard about You or heard about You but ignore You. Lord, please use me as Your living testimony in my family so that they may see the changes in me and see You in me. Use me as a tool in my family. Give me the wisdom and courage to share Your gospel with them. Lord, please soften their heart to listen and to come to know You and Lord, i pray that one day they will come to acknowledge You as their personal saviour. Lord, i also want to pray for myself. Please strengthen me and comfort my heart. Help me to forgive them. i know sometimes what they say will hurt and make me doubt with my own faith. Lord, please help me to stand firm in You and help me to go through all the difficulties and persecution that i will faced. Please send Your Holy Spirit to guide me. Lord, i pray that You will send Your Angel to protect my family. Pray that they will live healthily In Jesus' name i pray, Amen." 

Pray For Own Self
"Dear Abba Father, i know i am not a good person and always sin. But Lord, Your mercy is always shown to me and love me even i have sin against You. i pray for my study. please help me, give me wisdom and knowledge in my study, help me to concentrate in class and help me to have a good communication with my lecturers. Lord, please help me to love others as You had loved me. i know i can't love everyone like You do. Sometimes it is hard for me to love someone but Lord, please help me to love those i find hard to love. Lord, please help me to seek Your will in my life. Help me to be able to listen to You and obey to Your words. Help me to humble myself and serve others. In Jesus' name i pray, Amen."


Another really good example of prayer is the Lord's Prayer.

The New Look Of Kuala Terengganu

For those who hasn't know (especially my ex-university's mates), the local government has actually "changed" the view of China Town. It is located right behind our KT China Town. One of my friend named it as "Ice-cream world" since the "light trees" look exactly like ice-cream from a distance!

"Ice-Cream World" from across the river.

Bridge that links to "Ice-cream World".

Our friend - Shawn with the "Ice-cream".

The view of the river with our friend inside - Da Da.

I think it is nice that least there are some works that have been done to make Kt to have a new look! Feel free to go have an experience there by yourself. It is really romantic as there are old couples walking around there and chatting around =)