Posts by Jerry Chee (Page 3)

Dear LifeSpring Family, In the past several months, I have been mulling over this question of, “Am I a Christian who prays or am I a praying Christian?” I think I heard this question/challenge in one of P2C’s weekly staff chapel time. It got me thinking about my approach to my prayer life. After much thought and listening to God, I have come to see that I am neither. I have come to see myself on the continuum between a Christian who…

Dear LifeSpring Family, As we just celebrated Father’s Day, I would like to take the opportunity to honor and appreciate all the fathers in LifeSpring while reflecting on the ultimate Father—the one who is the source of all love and goodness, our Heavenly Father. In the embrace of a father’s love, we catch a glimpse of God’s unwavering care and protection. Let us celebrate the fathers who have walked alongside us, and remember the Father in heaven who loves us…

Dear LifeSpring Family, Recently, as I was doing my scripture memory verses, Ephesians 2:10 spoke to me. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. After reminding us that we are all saved by grace and not of our own doing, Paul tells us in verse 10 that we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. And we all know that God and our Lord Jesus…

Dear LifeSpring Family A few weeks ago, I finished a course that was offered to us missionaries in Power To Change. Soul Care taught and reminded me to look deeply and care for my soul. In doing this, it brought to the surface the pride in my life that I still default to when hard pressed.  Below is the devotion from Soul Care that challenged the way I sometimes think and operate – Pretend, Presume and Push.  How about you? …

Dear LifeSpring Family, While I know it is not the Christmas season, I was reminded of Matthew 1:23 last week while I was in Orlando.  “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). Last week I was at CRU International Head Office in Orlando for our semi-annual World Wide Day of Prayer. Our President encouraged us to never forget that our Lord Jesus Christ is with us. For sometimes, in our passion, eagerness and love for the King, we get so busy doing the King’s work and…

Dear LifeSpring Family, This past Monday, in our Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) group, we were studying the weeping prophet, Jeremiah. In all the doom and gloom of the situation that Judah and Israel found themselves, we have the famous Jeremiah 29:11 verse: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. While the BSF group of men were discussing how many of…

Dear LifeSpring Family, As we get closer to Easter Sunday on April 9th, the most important event on our Christian calendar, it got me thinking of our Gospel truths. What are the truths that I believe and base my eternity on? In his book, Gospel Fluency by Jeff Vanderstelt reminds us of the principle of the “fruit to root and root to fruit”. This principle simply states that the fruit we see in our lives is directly connected to our…

Dear LifeSpring Family, We all know this verse from the bible: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” I am thankful for our LifeSpring family as we make every effort to know and live out God’s love for the world. God’s love in our hearts has brought the family of LifeSpring to many communities in Canada and countries in the world. By the…

Dear LifeSpring Family, I am writing this devotion on Ash Wednesday, February 22nd. Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer and fasting in many Western Christian denominations. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and marks the first day of Lent. Wikipedia For many years I did not fully appreciate Ash Wednesday and the period of Lent.Lent is a period of 40 days during which Christians remember the events leading up to and including the death of Jesus Christ, whose…

Dear LifeSpring Family, Most of us know the universal acronym S.O.S means Save Our Souls or Save Our Ship. However, it currently means ‘Strengthen Our Soul’ to me. This is because I am in a course to Strengthen Our(My) Soul. Power To Change (P2C) has made this course available to all staff because Soul Care has been the primary focus of P2C as we transition out of the pandemic. The first assignment centres on the 3 Ps – Page, Person…

Dear LifeSpring Family, I have recently started walking at Markville Mall before the stores open. I do this as part of my exercise routine as well as to listen to the Lord. I took the opportunity to ask God for His message to me and LifeSpring regarding Kingdom Parenting this week. I sensed God affirming the need for Kingdom Parenting for the following reasons: Helps me mature a little more in Him as I focus on the needs of others…

Dear LifeSrping Family, Do you have one? Allow me to share a hymn that most of us are familiar with. Be Thou My Vision Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heartNaught be all else to me, save that Thou artThou my best thought, by day or by nightWaking or sleeping, Thy presence my light Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true wordI ever with Thee and Thou with me, LordThou my great Father, and I Thy true…