Tuesday, November 21, 2006
:: Little Miracle ::
Wow as I'm writing this post, I'm really thankful to God for what He has done yesterday. Our project group was rushing our report and powerpoint yesterday for today's presentation. Then after when we are almost done with the report and powerpoint, my friend's laptop suddenly crashed. The worst thing was that we did not have any backup for the report and powerpoint and if we can't recover the files, we will have to redo everything. On top of that, I was not feeling very well and if we were to redo the project, I don't think I will be able to do it. Time was running out as well as it was about 5.10PM. Then my friend restarted the laptop countless times but all failed. The laptop can't start up the OS. Then we tried to go to the admin office in SIT to seek help but was in vain too. After that my two friends headed back home to try to recover the files while I went to MacDonalds to celebrate Xing Xing's birthday. Xing Xing's birthday celebration went quite smoothly and really thank Yi Quan for hosting the birthday celebration so well. Meanwhile I received an SMS from one of my friend and he told me that the first recovery of the files failed. I was not really anxious as I had a believed that God will make a way. My friend asked me to pray that everything will turn out smoothly as he was going to try again. Then at about 7.30PM, I headed home and took bus 13 with Andrew. After Andrew alighted, I was praying in my heart that everything must work out as I have told my friend that I will pray. If it doesn't worked out, I'm afraid that my friend will doubt God. Then soon after, I fell asleep on the bus. When I woke up, I found out that I've missed my bus stop but fortunately it wasn't very far from my bus stop. Then before I alighted, I received an SMS from my friend and he told me that the files are being recovered. Praise the Lord! I was overjoyed and replied him that thank God and also thank him for his effort. I'm sure that my friend knows that God has worked as I have told him that I will pray. Its really amazing that how God can turn things around in such a tight situation and I know that its really God at work that we are able to recover the files for the presentation today. =)
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
I'm Really Very Thankful And Greatful To God!
Woah! I'm really so thankful and greatful to God. God has been faithful to our caregroup NYP 6. Through prayers and fasting, God answered our prayers and the caregroup started to grow. Still remember the time when we prayed and fasted for the group to grow and weeks later growth started to come. Firstly was the touch of God that changed Kelvin's life around. Secondly was the Easter outreach and we had two converts, Victor and Liang Bing. Lastly was that the caregroup's people hearts that are changed and they became more willing and more initiative to serve God. All these things can't be achieved by my own human strength and effort. It has to be God moving in each and everyone's hearts that their life can experience change. And also without the caregroup's people working together, (Richard, Yi Quan, Donovan, Lester, Xing Xing, Kelvin) the caregroup will not have grown or grown so much. I'm really very thankful to my caregroup people for supporting me since the start of NYP 6. Without them being faithful in sharing the Gospel, calling their friends and leading in the caregroup roles, NYP 6 will not have grown or grown so much as well. Therefore I really want to say a big "THANK YOU" to God and to my caregroup people.
Distance Hearts, When Rejoined As One...
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Monday, April 24, 2006
Something I Thought I Would Not Do!
Last Saturday and Sunday, I did one of the things I thought I would never do in my life. Guess what, I used my shaver to trim my hair. On Saturday when I reached home after dinner, I thought to myself, should I cut my hair or should I not. I was a little reluctant to cut my hair as I had just cut it about a month ago and it would be a waste of money if I cut it again. Just then I remembered seeing the word "trim" on my shaver the other day when I used it. I was caught in the middle as I was afraid that I would fail trimming my hair. Then a while later after much consideration, I took my shaver and switched it to the "trim" mode. The shaver was rumbling away as I took the courage to trim the side of my hair. As I trim the side of my hair, I thought my shaver was lousy as I thought no hair was trimmed off as my hair looked the same. But when I looked at the sink, I saw some hair on the sink and I knew that it worked. Then I used the shaver to work around my hair. I managed to trim the side of my hair much thinner. (Even though it may still looked the same. -.-) Thank God everything worked out well and my hair turned out quite nice.
On Sunday, Yi Quan and I went to follow up on Liang Bing our Easter new believer. We met him at Kovan and after the follow up, Liang Bing and I left to play basketball with Richard, Donovan and some DI brothers. And Yi Quan went over to his friend's house to teach guitar. Really enjoyed myself as its been quite some time sinced I played basketball but what I enjoyed the most was the time spend with the brothers. Richard brought two of the Easter friends that we have shared Christ to and we all had some great time of basketball. After the basketball, we left and I headed home for dinner with my parents. After dinner, I once again took the courage to trim my hair. This time I trimmed the top of my hair as I find its too thick. Then I used the shaver to trim my hair and everything turned out well. I also enjoyed myself as this was the first time I trimmed my hair myself. But I really want to thank God as He had blessed my hands to trim my hair well. =)
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May Find The Light Within
Sunday, April 23, 2006
What An Enjoyable Day!
Last Friday was one of the most enjoyable day at work. I really had the joyful approach to my work. Though there was much work to be done, but I felt really joyful. In the afternoon, my Officer In Charge of my attachment, Bee Kay and my colleauge Aziza went to the Transit Area. (The place where people are about to board the plane.) We were there to do some inspection on the shops in the airport. The walk was a little awkward at the start as its the first time the three of us go outside for a walk together. But soon, conversation started to pop up and during the time of inspection, I really enjoyed myself. One of the topic I had with Bee Kay was on liquor and cigarettes. Then she shared to me about some staff trying to smuggle the liquor and cigarattes but failed. But what surprised her was that I told her that I had not drink liquor or beer before. Despite sharing to her that I had not drink before, I don't feel ashamed or guilty for not drinking even though some people had told me before its ok to drink a little. The reason I had for not drinking is because firstly it harms the body and secondly if I try, I may get addicted. On top of that, the Bible also mentioned in Proverbs about drinking too much and getting yourself drunk is not good. To prevent any harm or addiction, I made the stand of not drinking for the rest of my life. It may sound a little extreme but I will do what I can not to drink. =)
After the walk, I went back to the office and after a little chat with Aziza, I left the office and headed back home. =) Oh... just realized that I left out a small part of my Friday. =) In the afternoon after my lunch, I went back to my office and Aziza wanted to borrow the camera for some photo taking. Then we went to the person in charge of the camera. Her name is Badariah. (She looked like a Chinese though she is a Malay. =)) Coincidently she had brought some chocolates in the chocolate fare. Then she opened one box of the chocolate for us to try. (But I can't remember the brand of the chocolate. -.-) At first I kindly rejected but she just asked me to to take one and try. So I just took one and try. Thank God I tried it because its one of the best chocolates I ever tasted. It taste really nice as the chocolate has a very special taste. Then at 3pm, I then left the office with Bee Kay and Aziza for the shops inspection. =)
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Another Day At Work...
Today had been like any other working day just that today I had more things to do than usual. Work seemed to be getting more and more tiring as I seemed to have not enough rest as I reached home late almost everyday. In this attachment period, I realize how tiring work can be. Having to wake up early everyday and working till late evening. I think till now I'm still not very used to the working life as I find it totally different from school life. Being in school I do not need to work all the time and there are much breaks in between but in working life, I have to work all the time continuously except for an hour of lunch break which seemed to past really fast. Also during my time in school, I have more time on ministry and meeting my people, time in school is much more flexible. But in attachment, I find that time is less flexible. On top of that, the time I spend with my family had been much lesser than before. But on the other hand, in this attachment, I learned to depend on God more for strength and I realized that during my time of attachment, I had been spending more time reading the Bible. Without God substaining me, I think by now I would be in a really bad state. Really want to give thanks to God for His grace and mercy on me. Now with about one and a half months left in this attachment, the challenge ahead for me is to really plan my time well for ministry, family and work. But most importantly I have to keep my walk with God strong. =)
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Monday, April 17, 2006
A Day I Enjoyed!
Today I woke up at 6am to switch off my alarm on my phone just to realize later that I overslept. Instead I went back to sleep and got up at 7am. As it was, I was late for work but thankfully my supervisor did not know. It was not a very good start to a week especially on a Monday morning. I did not do much from the morning till about 4pm as there was not much work given. The day seemed totally draining as the time went by. Then I met this Indian guy in the toilet. His name is Bi Lian and he knows how to speak chinese. I felt joyful when I met him because I felt compassionate to share the Gospel to him. Previously I had met him a few times but did not talked to him until last week but I've forgotten his name. From then, I was determined to share the Gospel to him while I'm still having my attachment at Changi Airport.
At the same time, there was some unsolved issue going on as I was holding on to the ministry house key and there was an NYP meeting at 6.30pm. As I knock off work at 6pm, I know I would not be able to reach on time to open the ministry house door as it takes about one and a half hour to reach the ministry house. I was anxiously trying to find who has a spare ministry house key but was in vain. Then Li Yan suggested that I take a cab down after work. I did not have much money at that time so I went to borrow ten dollars from my classmate who is having attachment with me. Then I was told that if I take a cab from Changi Airport will cost me four dollars more as one dollar is for peak hour and three dollars is for extra charge. Then I contacted Richard and told him to go to the ministry house after his class at 5pm to see if there is anyone there. Then I prayed in my heart and thankfully to God, I received an SMS from Richard saying that he is already in the ministry house and that means that I can save the amount of money that is going to be used on taking the cab. Praise the Lord. =)
Then after the meeting, Leslie and I went for dinner at the coffee shop nearby the ministry house. Later Ken and Wei Hong joined us. During this dinner time, I really enjoyed myself as I felt close to the brothers even though I did not spoke much. I really enjoyed the time of fellowship and I know that this type of fellowship can't be found else where and this type of fellowship can only be found in God's Kingdom. =)
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Sunday, April 16, 2006
Turn On The Style!
Woah its been quite some time since I've last blogged. Sorry for the long wait for my posts. I will try to update as much as possible. =)
Really first of all I want to say a big "Thank You" to God for the two converts (Victor & Liang Bing) and also for bringing my caregroup NYP 6 for outreach on Easter last Friday. Its really a boost of faith for all the whole caregroup to see these two converts as its been a long time since there are converts in the group. But God is faithful always and will definitely help the group to grow as long as we have faith, persevere and be faithful. Also very glad to see the caregroup having the unity to fast together on Thursday and Friday even though some of them are having attachment. And God did a great work in us on Friday as we all shared the Gospel boldly together. Really enjoyed the time of sharing the Gospel as its also been a long time since many of us in the caregroup shared the Gospel.
Secondly, I'm also really glad that Kelvin has came back to serve the Lord. Can see that now he is on fire to serve the Lord. Really want to give praise and thanks to God because of the work that He has done in Kelvin's life as its only God who can turn his life around.
And lastly want to welcome Xing Xing back to NYP 6 as he has just arrived back in Singapore today as around 3am. Really looking to have him back in the caregroup and also looking forward to this new semester as its going to be an exicting semester as we will see freshmen coming to know Jesus through us. I here wish Richard, Xing Xing, Andrew, Ken, Khok Yen, Wei Jie to have a fruitful semester ahead. =)
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Saturday, April 15, 2006
oii, Karshun blog lei. Or i think I'm taking over your blog liao.
Hey do you know that you have had 2 converts on friday 17th april 2006? They are Victor and Liang Ping. Both sec4s and are both from your alma mater Maris Stella High and Hougang Sec respectively. Both of them are converted from your caregroup NYP 6 and occurs at Somerset MRT!
Should I salute you or be proud of you??? If you don't follow-up on these new born spiritual babies, I shall chop off your Yagumi head and cook some curry ok.
Bond brother,
Leslie Sun
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
Abiding in Him
Below are the words of Joshua Harris which is so so so very true. He is experiencing the same thing as me! I tried to be a good careleader, a shepherd, a student, a son, a brother, a sower, a good friend, a good host etc etc. It's not that I don't think I need Jesus. I know I need Him! But its the subtle confidence or trust in myself or thinking that I could handle it that makes me don't wanna trust Him. I wonder what will become of me if I were to depend and rely on Jesus alone, and feed on Jesus like a parasite, what will become of me? All I know is that Jesus wants us to depend on Him fully, not on other things, not on ourselves....
To have true spiritual life, Christians must maintain constant union with Jesus. We must abide in him. We do this by reading his word, communing with him in prayer, and pursuing fellowship and worship centered on Christ with other saints.
Abiding doesn't come naturally to me. As I read this passage I was struck by how often I try to accomplish and achieve without abiding in Christ. I attempt to grow, to parent, to be a husband, to preach or lead, apart from the constant discipline of abiding in Jesus. It doesn’t work. Actually, it works for a while. But then it withers. Like a vase of cut flowers, self-sustaining effort can be beautiful, even impressive. But it never lasts. Without vital connection to and reliance on the Savior our best efforts die.
What is the opposite of abiding? I guess it’s moving on. Not remaining, pulling up the stakes and heading out. So often, my inclination is toward independence and self-sufficiency. This is never in the form of outright rejection. It is subtle. It’s self-confidence. It’s believing that I know how to handle what’s coming next.
It’s not that I think I don’t need Jesus, because I know I do. But I start thinking, “I need Jesus to get saved and to forgive my sins, and I will definitely be checking in frequently, but I can’t sit around and abide all day. Good grief, I have places to go and people to see and kingdom work to accomplish!”
To all this Jesus simply says, “apart from me you can do nothing.” Nothing is not a whole lot.
Do I believe that? I need to. It’s true. Apart from his words feeding me, apart from daily communion, apart from constant prayer and reliance, apart from the sustaining grace of gathering with those who call on his name, apart from the discipline of fighting anything and everything that draws me away from him, I will dry up and die spiritually.
Jesus is not just the Savior who died to save me from sin 2,000 years ago. He’s not just the Savior who gave me life on the day when I first repented and believed in him.
He is my life today.
He is the vine and I am the branch. All that I have and all the good fruit I hope to bear—in my marriage, family, and church—is the direct result to my connection to him.
I cannot bear fruit by myself. I must abide in him.
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Monday, January 16, 2006
Leslie's sermon
.....Then I taught a caregroup lesson on "How to be more like Jesus?" Here are the outline.
Luke 6:27-3627
"But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. 30Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. 31Do to others as you would have them do to you.32"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' love those who love them. 33And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that. 34And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' lend to 'sinners,' expecting to be repaid in full. 35But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
What Jesus taught in this very famous long sermon is in the end(his death) even more clearly demonstrated in his own life. Jesus did not merely say these things but he did it well. Below is the sermon outline without associated verses.
1.) Do good despite circumstances. v27-28
Jesus already warned very clearly there will surely be people who hate us, persecute us etc but we are to still be good. It is no excuse to be like the rest of the world and respond the way typical man did. Jesus endured crufixion, criticism and humiliations yet He prayed for them. When Jesus was being insulted and all that, He chose not to send down the angels to destroy them because he loves them. The backbone of doing good despite unlikeable or unfavourable circumstances is love, not legalism.
2.) Deny your rights v29-31
We are called to deny our rights. To be the sons of God is to deny the rights of being the son of this world. And in this world, if we cling on to it and to all that the worldly pursuits and desires in it, we would become part of it and we will never be more like Jesus. We mist recognise Jesus, His ministry, what the Bible says and follow His example. He gave up His rights in order to do what the Father told him to do. Do we give up our rights for pleasures and other sinful desires for the Kingdom of God?
3.) Be different from the world v32-35a
Being different from the world is not to be alienated from them but to just be different in good deeds and mindset like Jesus. Being different from the world starts off from knowing and recognising our identity. When we fix our eyes on what is eternal; Jesus Christ and His Kingdom then our previous identity of pursuing what the world does fades away. We should display our good deeds more yet not hypocritically thinking that in these efforts, our actions can put us higher before 'sinners'(those who've not yet believed in Jesus' Kingdom) or a chance to condemn them.
4.) Desire to be more like Jesus v35b-36
Many things is achieved not just be sheer hard work. If our hearts is not engaged, God will not hear our prayers. We should pray for our hearts as well to be more like Jesus. Jesus' intention of saying these words:"Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful." is to want to spur us to be more like Jesus. Without desiring, we will not accomplish very much.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Mission Trip To Hope Kota Samarahan!
Woah! As I'm writing this post, there are really alot of things that came into my mind. Memories of the people and place flashed in my mind. On the overall, I'm very blessed to be able to go to the mission trip as its the best trip that I've ever been. The people there are very sacrifical as they always want to pay for our meals even though they may not have alot. The people there also took care of us very well as even though they are still studying, they took out their free time to take care of us and bring us around. I really want to thank the Hope Kota Samarahan people there. Very big thank you to all of you. (Too much names to list. Haha... :-)) In this mission trip, I really had a great fellowship with the brothers and sisters there and I really felt very touched and loved by them. They also blessed us with gifts. :-) I also learned alot in this trip from Pastor Dennis' teaching and also through the sharing of the Gospel in the campus, UNIMAS. Also learned alot from the brothers and sisters there.
Tuesday
Day 1:
Still remember the first day of the trip, I had a very bad headache during the fligh, when I reached the airport, Kok Hing and Florence were there to fetch us. They drove us back to the ministry house as we were staying there. We unpacked our stuffs and met Valerie, Ah Bing and Jeffery. We shared our objectives of this mission trip and later set off to visit the campus, UNIMAS. Li Lian, Florence, Gladys, Valerie, Kok Hing brought us to the campus. When we reached there, we attended a Korean lesson taught by one of our brother and sister. They are Jeong Heong and Min. They are teaching this lesson as part of their assesement. We went there and we learned how to cook Korean pancake. Its really delicious! Then later we went around the campus for visitation. After the campus visitation, we went back to the ministry house. We later had a BBQ at night and we had some games then. I remembered playing this game and was forfited. Then I picked the forfit message from the box and guess what I've got, "Cry In Five Different Ways." Its so difficult as I thought there is only one way to cry and its to tear. Then I and Joyce started to act in five diferent ways of crying. I also thought we are supposed to do five in all but actually its each person do five. So we did and we had a good laugh. :-) We later had our dinner which is prepared by Qiu Lian and some other sisters. We had a great dinner and we also manage to taste the "Bamboo Chicken" which is actually chicken put into a bamboo shoot with some ingredients. The taste is really fantastic. It taste so nice and nutrious. Then I got to meet Kelvin, Florida, Cindy, Derrick(UL), Shelia, Dan, Mun Kit, Frankie and the others. After the whole event, we went back to the ministry house to rest.
Wednesday
Day 2:
We had our morning prayer meet but the we(brothers that went for the mission trip) were late as we woke up late. The prayer meet was held at the church which is very near the ministry houses and Kok Hing drove us to the church. We later had breakfast with Pastor Dennis. I had a pleasent conversation with him. I also got to try this 3 layer of "Teh C Beng". After the breakfast, Kelvin drove us to Indian Street and we shopped there for a little while. We were splited into two groups and I was with Liyan, Jennifer and Jaron. We first visited the Museum and the place was fascinating. There are alot of animal specimens and its really an eye opener. There are also lots of weapons and other stuffs there. Later we went to Indian Street and I brought some key chains there for the caregroup members back in Singapore. The place sells alot of souvenirs and there are alot of funny stuffs. Jaron brought a blow pipe which is like a weapon for hunters to hunt animals in the past. After the shopping. we went back for a short rest and later we had practice for the praise and worship before the workshop. Lennon was our guitarist and Jaron and I practice the songs, History Maker, Jesus Lover Of My Soul and two more I forgot the names... Haha... Then later we went to have our workshop. When leading the praise and worship, its really difficult. I thought its not so difficult as I had tried to imagine how I can dance and sing on stage but when its time for the real thing, its so difficult. Its a great experience leading about 30 people on stage in praise and worship and its my first time. We later had a SOW workshop and I shared the story on the "Ticket To Heaven". Its been a great and tiring day and we later had supper at Xiang Xiang and the food there is really nice. Especially the Kolo Mee. After supper, we went back for rest.
Thursday
Day 3:
We had our morning prayer meet and we were late again... (not on purpose one... Haha...) After our prayer meet, we went to have our breakfast and set off to the campus to share Christ later. We were together in groups and I went with Frankie. We did survey with 3 Indian guys (If not mistaken). Later I went with Kelvin to share Christ with a group of 3 people, but they did not receive Jesus. Then later, I went to share Christ with Frankie and met a person Jeffery (Contact). We shared Christ to him but even though he did not convert, he yold me something that encouraged me alot. He said I was the first person to share the Gospel to him. Then later on, we set off to another cafe in the school and continue to share Christ to the people and I managed to share Christ to a brother's classmate. Hui Mei manage to have one convert. Praise God! :-) After the sharing of the Gospel, We went to the church with Lennon, Jaron, Kelvin, Li Lian, Gladys to practice for the praise and worship led by Lennon later before the workshop. We had a great praise and worship and we sang, Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble, Church On Fire, God Of Wonders and Great Is Our God. We later had a Follow-Up workshop and had a great time of sharing. After the workshop, we went to Xiang Xiang again to have our supper. Haha... Then after supper, we headed back to the ministry house to rest.
Friday
Day 4:
As usual, we had our prayer meet in the morning and later had breakfast. After breakfast, we headed to the campus to continue to share the Gospel. On that day, Xhu Zhen and Frankie both have a convert. Praise the Lord. :-) We then left thr campus at about 2 plus and we went to Indian Street to shop again. We had KFC with the people there for lunch and later proceed on to shop. We just stroll around the place but did not brought anything except for Kok Hing, who brought some sago biscuits. (By the way, its very nice. :-)) We later took this boat over to another place to visit a prison. The place is actually an old place where prisoners are put. We (Kok Hing, Florence, Lennon, Jaron, Tuck Choy and I) took the boat there and it cost 30 cents RM. Is quite a pleasent boat trip. When we reached the place after alighting from the boat, it soon started to rain and we had to run all the way to find a shelter. We prayed for the rain to stop and soon the rain became smaller. So we continue to walk on but after awhile of walking, the rain poured even more heavily. So we went to this police station there and rest for a little while. The police station had huge drums and trumpets. (I wonder what's a police station with instruments... Haha...) Then one of the people there gave us some newspapers to cover ourselves from rain. Then we later continue to set out to the prison. The place was rather cosy and but we saw some guns and the prison cells were rather dark. (Maybe because its raining therefore making the cell darker...) After a while, we decided to leave and head to the Civil Tower. (If not remember wrongly... I remember its Civil something... Haha...) We then found a place with seats and waited for the rain to stop. As we waited, we ate the sago biscuits that Kok Hing brought. The atmosphere of eating sago biscuits in a rainy whether is quite nice. Later we took the boat back and set off to Civil Tower. On the way, Kok Hing drove us to the Medic Ministry house not becuase we are sick but its because we (Lennon, Jaron and I) were all asleep and Kok Hing decided to drove us there for a rest. After some rest a the Medic ministry house, we had our dinner. During dinner, Lennon and Jaron had ordered Coke that tasted really weird and they decided to order barley instead. Haha... We later had our prayer meet at Kuching there and I really had a wonderful time. As we prayed, I can really sense God moving and I felt really touched by the prayers of the brothers. As we sang the son "Its A Small Small World", I was deeply moved by the Holy Spirit from within to give my life fully to the plans of God and I prayed in my heart, "Here I'm God, send me, I will go where you want me to go." It really had been a fruitful time and I enjoyed every moment of the prayer meet. After prayer meet, we went to Xiang Xiang to have supper and I met Johnson who shared to me about his ministry and his testimonies really build up my spirit and I felt really inspired and encouraged. After the supper, we headed back to the ministry house and rest.
Saturday
Day 5:
We too had prayer meet in the morning and later breakfast. We later then set off to the new campus site. The new campus is really very big and Joe drove us to the place. He was also the first time there to the new campus so was kind of blur of the road. We went around the campus and had a great time of foto taking. Later at about 2 plus, we went back to the ministy house for a rest. And we later set off to church at about 6. We went to service after the dinner and I had a great time there. We (Hope Singapore) were involve in a presentation and we do a mime about hands. (The whole mime was funny and I almost can't control myself from laughing on stage. :-)) Later, Pastor Dennis teached the Word Of God on "How To Know Jesus More". It sounds simple but I learned alot from the teaching. The overall of the service was great and Shelia was the praise and worship leader.I enjoyed the service and the people there in Hope Kota Samarahan have a spirit of excellence that they want to give their best in Service. Later at night after Service, we had fellowship. We gather in the ministry house to share about this mission trip. Before the sharing, when we were still waiting for other brothers and sisters to arrive, I sang "Qing Tian" with the guitar. (Sounds funny as I sang but the chorus was too high for me to sing... Haha...) During the sharing, the atmosphere was touching and warm. I shared about the love and the hospitality of the people (Hope Kota Samarahan) and also the bonds that I felt between the brothers and sisters there. Even though we don't know each other long, I felt that we were very close as I believe its because of Christ Jesus. :-) I was very touched then. We stayed and fellowship till about 2 plus and went back to our brother's ministry house. We did not have much sleep as we had to leave by 6.15am in the morning.
Sunday
Day 6:
We set off to the airport at about 6.30am in the morning and had breakfast at the place where I tried the "3 Layer Of Teh C Beng". I ate the same thing which is Kolo Mee and it still tasted so nice. After breakfast, its time for us to leave... I felt unwilling to leave but I know that I have to leave. We took some fotos before leaving. When we went to check in, my eyes were still looking at the clear window as the brothers and sisters were still there. I kept looking at their direction as I can't bear to leave. Then after check in, I had a last look at the brothers and sisters and wave a last good bye and I turned and rush off as the plane was about to take off. When I was on the plane, I still had a heavy heart as I felt unwilling to leave. Then as the plane took off, I sat silently and plug into my MP3 player. Thankfully to God when I was on the plane, there was no headache as I thought I might have a headache again as I got a bad experience when I first arrived. (Actually I felt that the headache was coming but I prayed to God in my heart to not let my head hurt and praise God! It did not hurt. :-))
Well, this sums up my whole mission trip to Hope Kota Samarahan. There may be cretain events that I left out but as much as I can remember, they are all written here. May the people reading this be encouraged in spirit someway or another. God Bless. :-)
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Exams Results
My exam results had just been released today. Really want to give thanks to God because He had blessed me so much in this exam. I got "A" for E-Commerce, "B+" for Business Environment and E-Commerce Project, "B" for TCP/IP and Business Communication, "C+" for Finance and "C" for Database. God helped me alot in my Finance and Database as I thought I would get "D" as the paper was not too easy for me. But thankfully, its turned out to be better. My grades are much better than expected and there is also an overall improvement on my GPA and I'm really very thankful to God for my results. :-)
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Friday, September 16, 2005
Exam Period
Its here again... exams! Every semester will come a time of exams except the time of attatchment. But this exam period so far had been as interesting and memorable one. Its interesting because the modules taking are all different and their difficulty are at different level and that makes things interesting. :-) But its memorable to me because God did a great work in me during this exam period. God had been always faithful in good times and bad times. He's always been my refuge and shelter in times of trouble. During this exam time, I have not been able to keep myself focus to study as much distraction and my heart was not at the right state. But then, when I looked to the Lord in repentance and prayer, my burden are lifted up and my heart began to have peace. Just yesterday, I had my first paper. Its been one of my weakest subject, TCP/IP but the Lord helped me and I managed to do the questions in the exams that I did not expect myself to remember during revision. And today I had my second paper, E-Commerce. This module requires alot of memory work and understanding to study and during my revision yesterday, the Lord gave me an incredible memory capcity that during my time of study at night yesterday, I remembered about 95% of the study materials. Its a total special experience with the Lord. Then when I took the paper today, I remembered the things I've studied and I can do the whole paper. Praise the Lord! People who knows me will know that I have a very bad memory... Haha but the Lord is faithful and God. :-) Now the upcoming challenges are Finance and Database and I know God will continue to do His work in me. :-)
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The Heart Of Worship
Recently I came across this song that I long heard before, "Heart Of Worship". While listening to this song, this song put me into deep thoughts. I felf a yearning to worship the Lord and to submit my life fully to Him once again. This song moved me alot and has been an inspiration of my revision in this exam period. The lyrics of this song is also very meaningful as its talking about coming back to having a heart of worship and its all about Jesus. Here is the lyrics, hope it may bless you in some ways or another. :-)
Heart Of Worship
Verse :
When The Music Fades
All Is Strip Away
And I Simply Come
Longing Just To Bring
Something Thats Of Worth
That Will Bless Your Heart
I Bring You More Than A Song
For A Song In Itself
Its Not What You Have Required
You Search Much Deeper Within
Through The Way Things Appear
You're Looking Into My Heart
Chorus:
I'm Coming Back To The Heart Of Worship
And It's All About You
It's All About You Jesus
I'm Sorry Lord For The Things I've Made It
When It's All About You
It's All About You Jesus
Verse:
King Of Endless Worth
No One Could Express
How Much You Deserve
Lord I Weak And Poor
All I Have Its Yours
Every Single Breath
Words & Music By : Matt Redman
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Monday, August 22, 2005
Double Surprise!
Today had been another normal day until a contact of mine Jasper message me and told me that he got some questions to ask me. Then I thought he has some doubts to want to ask me about God. So I fixed a time and place to meet him up during my break. When I met him in school's Food Junction, He asked me a question that shocked me. he said with a sincere tone: " How to receive Jesus?" I felt a sense of unspeakable joy. Then I replied: "You can receive Jesus by saying a simple prayer with a sincere heart." Then we went to the NYP dome to pray as Food Junction was not a condusive environment to pray. (Too much people and noisy.) Then I explaind to him about God looking at out hearts and not at our outer appearence. Then we said the sinners prayer together and praise the Lord! He received Jesus into his life!!! Then later Leslie caught up with us at the dome and we went to the library to get some rest. At about 3pm, Jasper and I left for our respective classes. The second surprise is that I got 28/30 for my financial test. :-) Praise the Lord. :-) I still remembered my previous test I just got a pass and I pass by moderation. (Supposed to fail without moderation.) But God is faithful and He helped me to do well in this test. :-) Thank God for all the blessings that he gave but the most important and joyful thing is that a soul is being redeemed and saved today. :-) Praise the Lord. :-)
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Friday, August 12, 2005
Another Great Day!
Its been another great day! I just found out that I won a ticket to the upcoming horror movie "The Maid". But first need to attend an hour of the making of the movie. But this is not the main thing I want to share here. What I want to share is that I got to do my E-Commerce project on the part where can add into the database using ASP.NET. I really want to praise God and thank God for this because I tried to figure it out for quite some time but still can't get it. But my classmate came to help me and now, I can add to the database. :-) Also want to take this time to tell you guys reading this that the song "Yours Is the Kingdom" by Hillsongs is very nice. Try listening to it. :-)
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Monday, August 08, 2005
Great Evangelism!
Praise the Lord! :-) Today we had a very wonderful evangelism in school. We had proclaim our Faith to our school people. Though we did not see converts today but God gave me a greater burden and desire to see people being won for Jesus. My courage also greatly increased when I shared to people about Jesus. I also learnt that we should not be ashamed to share about Jesus. If Jesus is real in our lives, the more we should share to others how our lives have changed. I really have a blessed day today and I believe God will continue to work in our lives. :-)
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Sunday, August 07, 2005
Fine Day
Yesterday's service was great. The praise and worship was good and the teaching was also good. I learnt alot from the sermon and on top of that, the sermon was also very funny with Pastor Jeff cracking quite some jokes. I'm looking forward to the next week's start as our caregroup came up with new strategy to bring people to know God by bringing them to caregroup. Really also looking forward to see Zhang Liang, Zhou Ti and Andrew (First time joining us for caregroup. :-)) Really want to thank God for everything that He has done for me and all the blessings that He had bless me with. :-)
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Great Day In Caregroup!
Today we had a great day in Caregroup. One of our new-believer Zhang Liang turned up for Caregroup and I'm really thankful to God as this is one of the few times that he joined us for Caregroup due to his busy schedule. (He is teaching tuition.) We had a time of sharing of God's goodness in our life and there are also alot of laughter caused by all the Caregroup members. (Leslie, Xing Xing, Donovan, Kelvin, Zhang Liang and me. :-)) We also had a great time of teaching as I learnt that as when God speaks to us, we will have a sense of assurence from God and God will surely fulfill what He had spoken. I really enjoyed myself today. :-)
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Monday, August 01, 2005
Unexpected Grade
Today had been a great day. Its one of my classmates birthday and I also got back my result for my module Business Communication 2. I was very thankful to God when I got my grade. When the teacher start announcing the grades, my grades was the highest among the rest of my classmates as I got a B+ (My teacher told me that my grade is near to an A. :-)) which is an improvement from the first time which I got a B-. Then when my teacher announced one of my classmates who got an A-, I was not thinking on "Why I was not first?" but I have a thankful and greatful heart that God had blessed me a good grade. I had a great day on the overall. :-)
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Friday, July 22, 2005
Long Time No Post!
Its been a long time since my last post... Cause been busy with school work and also lazy to blog... Haha. I recently got back a few results on my tests. I got a B for my Database Management System and Business Communication. I also got a D for both TCP/IP and Financial Management. But really thank God dor the results. :-) Still have alot of work to catch up. :-)
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Sunday, July 17, 2005
Breakthru event
Today attended the BreakThrough event. Nothing spectacular about the event. But I know that there is something going on in the spiritual realms. I think and feel that this is exactly where our church shoudl be heading to. That is to leave and abandon all our comfort zone or places where we have ventured into for a very long time. To stop living in the status-quo. To stop having unfruitfulness in our lives. To not live luke-warm lives.
My vision is to see more and more people growing spiritually, leaving the nets that entangles their spiritual lives during this 21-months window period. At that end of it, we should see barriers and walls falling down, that the gospel advances more quickly and radically in our campuses. And people whose hearts are hardend, deceived and illusioned to think that they were right, but they were wrong all along, becoming salt and light.
Prayer, fasting, Word of God in our hearts...these 3 are the best tools and instruments God have given to us to overcome all oppositions and strongholds of satan. And I damn the unfruitfulness in me. I gonna damn away all the things that displeases my God. As I remember my pledeg, I wanna live lives worthy of Him.
Col 1:10 says
And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
This verse confirmed the truth that as people who live a life worthy of the Lord, he will bear fruit in every good work. Good work here is preaching the gospel, any works that is inspired to extend God's kingdom. Growing in the knowledge of God means having a more intimate relationship with God. Knowing more of God and being closer to Him. When we grow in our spiritual gifts such as administration, prophesy or teaching, we are already growing in the knowledge of Him.
Those who missed today's Breakthrough event, it's alright! But more importantly, don't miss this chance together to tear down barriers and live a life so exciting because of Jesus and His Church :)
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Saturday, July 09, 2005
A New Convert!
Woah! Its been a long time since I've post on my blog. Been really busy with school work as there are many tests and a project. Really thank God that on Wednesday, our caregroup got a new convert. His name is Zhou Ti from ECC. (Praise God. :-)) Really very happy to see this contact receiving Jesus into his life. Really want to welcome him to our caregroup NYP2. :-)
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Saturday, June 25, 2005
Superb Saturday!!!
Yesterday was amazing, really amazing. God brought many visitors to our caregroup. At first 3 visitors was confirmed, 1 from Kelvin, 1 from Andrew and 1 from me. Then later on Saturday morning, I received a call from my visitor that there is another 2 visitors coming. Later just before the prayer meet, Andrew confirmed another 2 visitors. Just before service, my visitor brought another visitor. Total we had 8 visitors. (Thats a size of a caregroup! :-)) Although only Kelvin's friend, Zhang Liang received Jesus, I really want to thank God for every thing because the visitors get to hear the Gospel. :-) (Praise God man!) Had a great time after service too as I went to have steamboat at Bugis. The steamboat was not bad bu I did not eat much variety of food cause much of them are pig's intestine and stuffs. (Which I don't like eating. Hehheh... :-))
Want to take this time to congratulate and welcome our new-believer Zhang Liang. Welcome brother. :-) You are very important to God and to the caregroup. :-)
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Sunday, June 19, 2005
My First Time In Seoul Garden
Today's been a wonderful day. :-)I studied my Financial Management in the morning and manage to understand. (Praise God. :-))Later at noon had a great time in Seoul Garden. (To be honest its my first time there. Haha...) Had a great time as my family celebrated Father's Day along with my dad's friend who came from Korea. Really had a very bloated stomach. Haha... The beef meat was fantastic. (Never tasted such nice beef before. :-)) The chicken meat was nice too. But I enjoyed the family atmosphere the most. Its been quite some time since my family had such an outing. Then later my mom brought my brother and I a T-Shirt. Haha... Its been a cool day. :-)
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