Blessings chase us down the street!

Pastor Prince preached about 2011 being the year of the Lord's crowned goodness. Psalm 65:11 says 'You crown the year with Your goodness. And Your paths drip with abundance.' The word 'crown' has to do with protection like how God crowned Adam with glory and honour in the beginning. Abundance (deshen in Hebrew) means abundance in fertility and blessings. Pastor Prince said many of us are going to experience a baby boom in NCC and we are going to have fat babies! God wants us to follow His paths because where we put our foot on these paths, they drip with abundance and fatness!

God's goodness is following us. Like what King David said in Psalm 23:6 'Surely goodness and mercy will follow (hunt) me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.' We are to get ready to meet these blessings of goodness every which way we turn. We are to be conscious of being crowned with God's glory and honour. We are to be conscious of God's goodness.

Our family had a chance to experience this goodness of God recently. I know what it means when Pastor said when you are conscious of God's goodness, His blessings chase us down the street. We celebrated our Valentine Day last Wed at Resorts World Sentosa. Of course we brought Joshua along for the buffet lunch. We had a good time as a family. The lunch was $39.90++ for adults and $19.90++ for kids. With a credit card discount of 10%, Heng worked out the bill to be at least $103. But guess what, when the bill came, it was only $45.90! We didn't know that there is a weekday one-for-one promotion at the cafe as the F&B staff did not inform Heng when he called to make the reservation. Besides, there was no charge for kids! It was indeed a pleasant surprise for us! Praise the Lord for such good deals laid up in His paths!