"Relax.. God is in control"

was talking to a brother on msn and this is what he told me:

"when I believe that my hands can achieve success for me, when I put God aside, that's when I get extremely concerned and conscious of success and tiny things will matter to me, I will allow anxiety to overtake and overwhelm me but when I know God is in charge, and I believe in God, I know I just have to learn the lesson/message that God wants to tell me, and he will decide the outcome since he will decide the outcome, I rest my anxiety upon him, be ready for the outcome and get ready for things that he has prepared after the outcome, even though it may be a worst one for things will not end after the worst outcome, as long as God lives, he will still be working or has worked a way out for you."

after reading i went "wow" literally. I've lost my focus that God is sovereign and in control. why do I worry? Why do i panic? why am I downcast?

Do I not trust that God knows best and has the best installed for all of us?

I gave an encouragement card to my little brother some years ago and the picture on the card speaks a thousand words. haha.

true and false?

Human beings can let me see how God is real yet at the same time human beings can also caused me to be disillusioned with God and Christianity.

This week

This week's been a hectic week esp the past 2 days. I seem to be wheezing through a time tunnel or something. Almost every week is the same. i can only stay at home on Monday night. the rest of the week i'm meeting people. :S

Monday night was wonderful. went jogging and then I continued to walk around this more desserted part of my neighbourhood while praying.

Wednesday meet Beatrice together with Jingwei and Lydia. It's good time spent and we had the very nice steamboat again! woots! Glad and encouraged to see Beatrice eagerly reading the bible and she will ask when there are things she does not understand. Praying and hoping that this weekend she may go to church with her sis-in-law's mom who is attending CHC in JB. :)

Tonite i'm gg for a trial pilates class with my colleague. I hope there'll be chance to get to know her more and share the gospel with her! I shared ah long's testimony with her last week! cos she's an ex-auditor and I thought she will be able to appreciate the testimony much more :) i'm glad she was willing to listen to the testimony :) God is faithfully at work in the lives of people around me and this always brings me joy.

God is faithful!

Yday was watching Banned from the Bible on Youtube when Kelly sent me a message to confirm the meet up on Sunday. We chit chat a bit through Whatsapp and she asked me what am I doing. I merely told her i'm watching Youtube. haha. then she asked me what am i watching. hahaha. I told her i'm watching Banned from the Bible.. its a documentary blah blah.. thought she will just "orh.." Instead, she proceed to ask what is it about! I tot to myself "Man! this is an opportunity!"

I briefly explained and she was interested! :D Praise God! we chatted on msn subsequently and talked about Adam and Eve, touch a bit on the canonisation of the bible and then she told me what she know about Noah. She told me also that she read an article about work in the newspapers and got this one man commented that work is a punishment from God and he quoted verses. but she can't remember the verses.

She finds the stories interesting and ask me to tell her what other stories are there. hahaha. I told her i'll tell her more on Sun. She say okay!

Thank God for working in her heart! God has been faithful as always! cos Meiming and I hoped to be able to share with her.. although we have met up a few times, most of the times its we did not talk about spiritual stuff.

Praying that the Holy Spirit will work in her heart and be with us as we share more on Sunday!! woots! Praise GOD!

District meeting

On way home from the district meeting. Thank God for the district meeting. Much needed after a draining day/partial week. Was feeling super low. But God is still good in my life.
He has always been good and faithful. And he will continue to be faithful! I'm simply amazed by God :)

Spiritual highs and lows?

Why do I get affected so easily by ppl's response?

Relying on the Holy Spirit

I am currently doing a bible study series on the Holy Spirit. Today's study is on the fulfillment of the promise (the baptism of the Holy Spirit). Thank God for speaking to me of the importance of the Holy Spirit. More often than not, i under-estimate the power of the Holy Spirit or should I say I'm not really clear in my understanding of the Holy Spirit. only remember that its for empowerment. but empowerment for? ........For witnessing for Christ!! You may be going "duh..of cos.. if not then?" But it's really a revelation for me. cos many times i don't rely on the Holy Spirit during outreach even though its given to me for this very purpose. I rely on my own skills in communication, relating with people etc. That's why i struggle in bringing the message of salvation across to people.

From Acts 2:37 we can see that the response to a Spirit filled message is repentance. wow. its what we hope our friends will respond when we share the message of salvation!

Praying for a spirit filled meet up later and that the Holy Spirit will move in a very powerful way!

Surprise on Mon night

Beatrice asked me "how to read the bible?"

PTL!! Although kind of caught off guard. It's a wonderful thing to be caught off guard with!

Meeting her tmr with Cuifen. Hope can get to talk more about God. :)

Holy Spirit pls move in a powerful way!

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A Father's love

I was walking to the bus stop and was approaching this sizable puddle of water (due to the rain). There was a pretty and slim OL and a father and daughter in front of me. Pretty OL walked through the puddle while maintaining her composure. The father stepped into the puddle and retreated. I thought the father and daughter will take another route. I was really surprised when the father bent down and piggyback his daughter through the puddle. The little girl's white school shoes remained white and dry. What a heart-warming scene to witness on a drizzling monday morning.

"If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!" ~ Mattew 7:11 ~

My 16.05.2010

Woke up feeling tired as I usually would feel on every other Sunday. And as usual, I wake up once at ard 8 or 9 plus then go back to sleep and wake up at ard 10:23 and then force myself to get out of bed. Ha. What a pig I am.

But really thank God that today the cab came almost right after I step onto the side of the road to wait for one. Really blessed by that. But I duno why I felt super tired as the cab head towards Cuppage. Prayed for the strength and sustainance for the day cos today is gg to be a long day with WFL classes after lunch.

Thank God he must have heard my prayers. Although still a bit letargic, I was able to really worship God and be attentive through out the service. God really spoke to me thru the entire service. Holy comm reminded me to place God in the throne of my life and not myself at the throne. The sermon also spoke to me about making use of every opportunity that God has given to us in our life. My current job, the colleague sitting next to me, my friends on my msn list etc. Actually I have more opportunities than I can imagine to impact someone. Ps Jeff told us the difference btw Kainos and Chronos. One is making most of the opportunity and the other is like just gg thru the motion. I have the Chronos mentality at work and in cg and also at home. No wonder there's not much fruits in my life. Another point that spoke to me was knowing the God of the word vs the word d God. When we obey God's commands without understanding the heart of God we are just like servant doing the will of the master and not as sons and daughters. I struggle so much cos I have not capture the heart of God. I hope to change and really make full use of every opportunity I have with my cg, friends, colleagues. And to have a deeper relationship with God by capturing God's heart in his commands.

God is always so good and patient with me. Thank God!

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Lazy Saturday

I Am sitting at coffee bean at Forum the Shopping Mall now waiting for Meiming to come pick me up. Meet Jingwei for lunch and then went for facial. Hope the treatment will help and relieve my face of the blemishes. The scars will need some time to go away I guess. Need to be patient.

Sometimes I wonder, will I be able to do so many thing on sat if not for the fact that I work in the morning. Was thinking if I never work on sat, i'll probably wake up when half the day is gone. Haha. Good that i'm startin to see some good in working on Sat. At least I have a job that's not very stress, pays well and located near my house.

Later Meiming and I gg to Sileas house for steamboat! And the great thing is that many ex-colleagues are coming!! Woots! Dear God, I pray that we will have a wonderful time of sharing and catching up. Help me to be sensitive to the needs of my ex-colleagues and be able to bring your love to them. In Jesus name. Amen.

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Yesterday was a terrible day. today seems like going to be a terrible one too and the weekend that's going to come.

God, please let me see beyond the current situations and praise you. For you created me and gave me life so that I can enjoy all things. I want to look to you in all that I do. Give me a bigger heart to love and accept people who are different from me. You will make a way for me. I trust you Lord.

Thank you Lord. In Jesus's name. Amen.

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