Posts Tagged ‘Faith’
{ May 5, 2010 @ 9:47 pm }
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It has happened to God’s greatest servants, and it could happen to you. The night may come, if it hasn’t already, when you lie awake in violent outrage beseeching God: “How should I answer these false accusations? I’ve done nothing wrong! What should I say? What should I do?
God’s answer may come as a shock. He may instruct you to say nothing at all. Joseph, set up by Potiphar’s wife; David, slandered by Saul; and Jesus, whose trial was a total mockery, all behaved the same way: By exercising incredible self-control, they trusted God for their defense.
David described himself as being like a mute, restraining his mouth with a “muzzle” while the wicked were before him (Psalms 38 and 39). But unbeknownst to him, God was using these trials to prepare him for greater things.
It is possible that God is preparing you to face future persecution, through your experiences with false accusations now. What you are learning to handle and the way you handle it could bring great glory to Him.
As He told the disciples: “Now when they bring you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer; or what you should say. For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say” (Luke 12:11-12, NKJV).
As difficult as it is, look at these painful accusations as a training ground for unprecedented progress in the Lord. He has tremendous things in store for you!
{ May 4, 2010 @ 10:06 pm }
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A 30 year old vietnamese, working in a wood factory presented to A@E with alleged industrial injury. His left hand got stuck in a wood cutting machine, while working. Post-trauma, no LOC, no nausea and vomiting, no headache. But c/o left hand bleeding with severe pain and deformity. O/E, the left hand was totally crushed. 1st and 2nd finger totally gone and not viable. 3rd to 5th fingers viability questionable. Case was attended by Medical officer with me in the A@E itself. Patient’s BP was intially low, probably due to excessive bleeding, but then later responded to fluid resus. About 5 pints of Gelafundin was run.
This patient will need a hand microsurgery, which is not available in this hospital. He has to be referred to a hand microsurgeon which is about 3 hours journey from here. But another problem, since this patient is not a malaysian, a deposit of at least RM3000 is needed prior to surgery. My MO then consulted his employer regarding this option. As we expected, his employer is not keen to pay RM3000 for him, instead ask us to do wat we can for him.
So we planned a wound washout, wound debridement, K-wire insertion, and toilet and suturing under emergency GA, Keep In View Below Ankle Amputation if the 3rd to 5th fingers are not viable. consulted bout patient and his wife regarding this, and they signed the consent form.
So MO and me went in the surgery. Fortunately, his 3rd to 5th fingers were viable. So we did a wound washout, wound debridement, K-wire insertion and Toilet and suturing under GA. Patient was stable thoughout admission and discharge after 4 days.
Pre-surgery
Post-surgery
I do wonder, will he ever get back to work…. Will his employer give him any compensation…. the life of foreign worker in Malaysia is really a sad case…. Many more are like him….
One little mistake and he lost 2 fingers…. Thinking of this, sometimes I just give thanks to God for whatever I has. Having a full function limbs is already a blessing from God…
{ March 12, 2010 @ 11:40 pm }
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“I just don’t understand her!” “He’s impossible!” These little phrases have caused many sleepless nights.
How many times have you gone to bed with your mind churning over someone you just can’t understand? Questions like, “Why is she so miserable?” “Why doesn’t he change?” or “How could he do this?” rage on and on.
You soon discover that there’s no peace in trying to figure this person out for yourself; you need God’s help. Only His understanding can give you the serenity necessary not only to sleep well, but to deal with the individual later on.
How can you “tap into” God’s understanding? Merely desire it and seek Him for it and it’s yours! He says, “apply your heart to understand; Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding… Understanding will keep you, To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things, From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness” (Proverbs 2:2-3, 11-13, NKJV).
By gaining His understanding you will enter into a love and appreciation of those who now trouble you. No longer will you be in bondage to the distresses they cause. Through His understanding you will be free!
{ March 10, 2010 @ 7:49 pm }
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Have you become totally impatient with yourself? I have heard even the strongest Christians cry in utter frustration, “What’s wrong? I’m supposed to be a ‘new creation’ in Christ, but nothing seems to be changing. It’s the same old me!”
You may spend wakeful nights, feeling you can’t possibly measure up to God’s expectations of you, but put your mind to rest. Realize that spiritual growth is a process; sometimes a long process. Genuine maturity does not happen overnight.
The following Scripture, with which you may be very familiar, offers some helpful insights: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NKJV). In the original language the full meaning is that old things are in the process of passing away; behold, all things are in the process of becoming new.
This refers directly to your life. What God is telling you is that all things in your soul and your innermost being are in the process of being transformed in and through His Life!
Don’t be impatient. Don’t be frustrated with yourself when progress doesn’t come as quickly as you’d like. You aren’t failing God. In His time He will complete a work in you that far exceeds what you could ever imagine or believe!
{ March 8, 2010 @ 6:53 pm }
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As you prepare for bed tonight, consider what is troubling you the most at this point in your life. What (or whom) have you been calling on to help you with this problem?
How easy it is, in moments of panic, to call on everything we can think of (except the Lord) to relieve an uncomfortable situation. Maybe we call on the refrigerator, an aspirin or a coke. Anything to give us relief.
Or there are other alternatives, too…like complaining, venting our feelings on others, sleeping to escape, or just giving up.
Yet all these temporary means of relieving discomfort do little to help us cope any better the next time. Only the Lord can do that. That is why He urgently tells us over and over again to call on him. He wants us to get into the habit of letting Him come to our rescue, day and night. He promises us, “He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him…the LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth” (Psalms 91:15; 145:18, NIV).
{ March 6, 2010 @ 11:04 pm }
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Hidden unforgiveness is the root cause of many sleepless nights – yet how many of you are aware of it? Sometimes our negative hold on others keeps our own spirits in a vise far below our conscious thoughts. Unforgiveness can be a tormentor.
One very powerful testimony is from a man named Bob who didn’t believe God wanted him to forgive his neighbor for molesting his child, yet ever since the incident he had been plagued with many tormenting physical ailments. A clergyman convinced him to go to his neighbor and freely forgive him. The impact of this meeting was so powerful that the neighbor accepted the Lord several weeks before he died. Meanwhile, every one of Bob’s symptoms was healed.
Jesus once told Peter to forgive his brother “seventy times seven.” Why? I think it may have taken Peter that many times to deal with unforgiveness in himself! Forgiveness is a very serious matter for God says: “…if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matthew 6:14-15, NKJV).
Ask the Lord to search your heart tonight and reveal any buried resentments of which you may not even be aware. Once they are purged, you will have sweet dreams.
{ March 6, 2010 @ 1:29 pm }
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Are you fretting tonight about someone who is almost driving you crazy by rationalizing everything to his own advantage? Most of us, at one time or another, have been almost driven to the end of our ropes by people who hide behind their own carnal or twisted reasoning in order to avoid the truth and manipulate others.
“Don’t worry about the bills,” one man told his wife. “Just live one day at a time.” “I don’t know why you fuss over taxes,” another one said, “When they want my money, they’ll come get it.” It can be maddening! But it’s comforting to know that Jesus, too, had to deal with folks like this. Perhaps one key to His serenity was that He didn’t let their distorted thinking get to Him. He took them all with a grain of salt.
“‘What can I say about such men?’ Jesus asked. ‘With what shall I compare them? They are like a group of children’…John the Baptist used to go without food and never took a drop of liquor all his life, and you said, ‘He must be crazy!’ But I eat my food and drink my wine and you say, ‘What a glutton Jesus is!’…I am sure you can always justify your inconsistencies” (Luke 7:31-35, TLB).
If someone’s mental gymnastics are irritating you tonight, try taking the same attitude Jesus did. Pray that his darkened mind will one day be enlightened by another Source and hold fast to the serenity He has promised you.
{ March 6, 2010 @ 12:44 am }
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This song ‘Who am I’ by Casting Crown caught my heart. A song that speaks of our human weaknesses and meakness, which also speaks of God’s wondrous grace and might. The lower and humbler we get, the greater the God in us. Grace comes when there is repentance. His strength comes when we are weak. He is the Alpha and Omega of our faith. A tower of shield in times of trouble…
As a house officer, I owiz aware of my limitations and incapabilities. But God is there, and He is owiz there. As long as we empty ourselves, He will fill us up back again…
Who am I – Casting Crowns
Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the bright and morning star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart
Not because of who I am
But because of what You’ve done
Not because of what I’ve done
But because of who You are
CHORUS:
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I’m calling
Lord, You catch me when I’m falling
And You’ve told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours
Who am I, that The Eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
And watch me rise again
Who am I, that The Voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me
{ March 5, 2010 @ 7:07 pm }
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If you were to look outside on a dark, stormy day, would you think the sun had disappeared, just because you couldn’t see it? Of course not.
Yet, some of you may be beside yourselves tonight because you’ve failed the Lord so badly you can’t imagine Him still being faithful to you. “After all,” you reason, “we reap what we sow. I’ve hit hard times and haven’t sown anything, so I guess I can’t expect anything from the Lord. I don’t know if I’ll ever pull out of this rut.”
But, as valid as God’s principle of reaping and sowing is, there’s another part of His Word, even more powerful, which says, “If we are faithless…He remains true (faithful to His Word and His righteous character), for He cannot deny Himself…He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you” (II Timothy 2:13 and Isaiah 30:19, AMP).
So, tonight, rest securely in the knowledge that there is nothing you can do to diminish His faithfulness to you, even if you haven’t been faithful to Him! Believe that He will be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. When He hears it He will answer you! He understands the circumstances of your life and wants to help you draw close to Him again!
{ January 28, 2010 @ 10:31 pm }
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I was oncall last 2 days. Tat was an eventful call, cuz i oncall with a ‘Jonah’ MO. That was this patient, referred from a peripheral hospital. 60 year old malay lady, known case of diabetes melitus, hypertension, congestive cardiac failure and chronic kidney disease. She complain of right abdominal pain with vomiting and diarrhea. The working diagnosis was, 1) Sepsis secondary to ? source, TRO Pneumonia, 2) Acute kidney injury on chronic kidney disease, 3) Underlying DM, HPT, Chronic kidney disease, Congestive Cardiac Failure. She was having spiking temperature with urea about 44.0 and ABG of metabolic acidosis.
Patient was attended by MO oncall in A&E. He then call me thru the ward and asked me to trace the PT/INR and then to do a Peritoneal Dialysis(PD) for this patient after reviewing the PT/INR. PT/INR results came back normal and I was requested to PD this patient.
So then I did the PD for this patient. I inserted the PD cathether into her abdomen. She complain of abdominal pain. Managed to run in 1 litre of hypertonic fluid. But when I tried the outflow, initially came out clear fluid, but then came out about 50-100cc of turbid, yellowish fluid with some whitish material. Being afraid of perforating her bowel, I quickly alerted the MO oncall.
MO came and see this patient. After looking at the PD fluid, he said ‘Its shit!!! And U r in deep shit!!!’ Then he said ‘Initially we planned this patient for maximum medical management, but now that u have perforated her bowels, we have to HD this patient!!!’ Now that he has tonnes of work to do, he was kinda irritated with wat I has done.
We then referred this patient to surgical, TRO Perforated viscus. Also refer to GA for Haemodialysis via femoral catheter. I got myself into writing referral the referral letters.
The following day, the surgical team came to review this patient, their impression was, TRO perforated viscua. They then planned this patient for exploratory laparotomy. Patient’s condition was optimised and then she went for exploratory laparotomy.
But, thanks to God’s wondrous grace. Post op diagnosis was appendicular abscess and pus collection over right illiac fossa. Bowel was normal!!! Patient was actually having sepsis secondary to appendicular abscess. and the turbid yellow fluid during my PD insertion was the pus discharge from the appendicular abscess.
I dunno whether I will be requested to present a morbidity review on this. But Im glad that, my so-called ‘Traumatic PD’ lead to the correct diagnosis. She is currently in ICU. Pray that she will walk out healthy….
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