RELIEF Dear all, Many thanks to all of you who have been keeping my dad in your thoughts and prayers. He underwent his left leg below-knee amputation on the 15th of April; we are glad that the operation was a success. Dad was still in much pain when I arrived at the hospital that afternoon...
LEFT FOOT IN PAIN Dear all, Following his first angioplasty procedure on 14 March 2013, dad had his second one done on the 19th, in an attempt to clear the remaining two clots in leg. The doctors managed to clear one; the last one remained. He was subsequently discharged back home for recuperation. Our hope...
TWO MORE CLOTS Dear all, Thank you for keeping to date with all that’s been happening with my dad and for praying for him. He was admitted back to the Singapore General Hospital last Wednesday for preparation for his angioplasty procedure on Thursday. The procedure went well; of the three clots found in his leg,...
1 John 2:4-6 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself...
Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. (KJV – Formal Equivalence) but his delight is in the law of the Lord , and on his law he meditates day and night. (ESV – Formal Equivalence) but whose delight is...
CONTINUED PRAYERS APPRECIATED Dear all, It has been three months since I’ve written an update on my dad. It has been a slow journey of recovery; he continued to experience water retention issues in his leg initially but with a strict restriction of water intake enforced and continued medication, it has since been under control....
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (KJV – Formal Equivalence) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. (ESV – Formal Equivalence) My sacrifice, O God, is a...
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (KJV – Formal Equivalence) I have been crucified with...
John 21:15-17 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou...
1 Samuel 13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee. (KJV – Formal Equivalence) But now your kingdom shall not continue....
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (KJV – Formal Equivalence) We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are...
Genesis 4:3-5 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord . And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto...
James 3:7-12 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men,...
Isaiah 40:28-31 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord , the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the...
