Boundary Buster Time?

Hi Everyone(oops jus forgot how to spell every! think smsed too much)

Actually I wanted to upload a song for you all which is called 'Praise the Lord, O my soul' but dont know how to. Anyway the song comes from the encouraging verses of Psalm103:2-5...
"Praise the Lord, O my soul
And forget not all His benefits:
Who forgives all your sins,
Who heals all your diseases,
Who redeems your life from destruction,
And crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies
He satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's."

When I didn't feel excited about reading the Bible today, I sang this song hehe and I was encouraged to do it!



Moving on, please do read this Bible passage 1Peter2:9:
"But you are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood,
a holy nation,
His own special people
that you may proclaim the praises of Him
who called you out of the darkness
into His marvelous light."

Do you perhaps feel a little 'out' when you read it? Like, the Bible's talking about us in a very high manner. very esteemed or something..? I did feel this way when I read it. But the truth is, I am! We are! and we just have to believe. God just wants us to believe, no need to understand the techniques or the 'how'.
Sooo, why dont you try saying it out but replacing 'you' with 'I'?

We are so special and great in the eyes of God. We are His prince and princesses and we are His heirs. Because we are great, we are made for greatness too. Great people do great things.. thats why all of us, not only preachers, are called to God's great commission. To make disciples of all nations. Doesnt it all tally? we are priviledged people. and we are also expected to do great things for God.

P.s. guys what kind of year do you think God has in store for you in 2011? Through the Bible study, the Trinitarian magazine, and everything...is it maybe a Boundary Buster Time for me? Is it a time to venture into the unknown and see God's exceeding power for us? Is it?

Candidate for Transformed Life!

Hi I dont know who reads this, except my meimei haha. But just wanna type dwn what I feel.

I just came out from my Church youth camp and I wanna experience a transformed life! My commitment is that I really wanna read God's word every single day from today onwards and the whole of 2011 as well! And just seek God..

Today I woke up feeling normal but then thank God for the Holy Spirit(John 14:26 says But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.) who reminded me and gave me an opportunity to be at home alone and do my TAWG first thing in the morning. I'm currently doing a Bible study which looks at Jabez's prayer in the Bible and I learnt that God promises us results when we ask, seek and knock as long as we are asking with correct motives and in His will. We also need to pray for all men as the Bible says. Thank God for pouring more faith in me that He'll answer and hear us when we just ask. :)

(Evaluating)
Today I spent more time doing God's work and I feel more fruitful:) I dont feel worry in my heart like I sometimes do when I waste my whole day. Hmm I was also tested in my temper today. Although I won't say that I didnt get irritated, thank you God that You still spoke to me in my anger. To recognise and believe once more that we're not in our right mind when we're angry. And to control our anger until it slowly fades away.. Thank you God.

During the camp I had a thought that I gotta stop doubting God. Like, just stop. Just stop. Okay God. I will. Your grace is sufficient for me. I like You to work in me. Although yes sometimes it seems like the seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake, You are the one that can satisfy my soul alone. I pray that we will exercise self-control in partnership with the Holy Spirit. Cos when something is master over you, then Jesus is not Lord in that area.

Unless He is Lord of all, He's not Lord at all...

Hi.

Its raining!~^^

Everytime I want to blog, I change my mind the next instant. Now I'm finally here haha. Whoever's here, check out my Christmas playlist! The songs are all reaaally nice to hear.

I just gave up trying to learn the guitar chords for 'Crazier' by Taylor Swift. My fingers are sore now hehe. I always get my hope back and try to learn some song chords only to give it up and then get my hope back again and....the cycle continues. Aiyo the cycle reminds me of Economics.

Exams are over! Physics Paper 1 left only:P

I reaally hope my results will be ok....................................................................!!!!

My school friends were discussing about what movie we could watch when one of them suggested Harry Potter. Then my Christian friend said immediately, "Hahh dont watch it la! I dont watch Harry Potter." To tell the truth, I am quite encouraged by her to not watch it:) I mean I have never watched it in cinemas before but my mum introduced me an application where I can watch free movies. So after my friend said that, I will not continue watching ok. Although I don't know why it is bad to watch(doesn't mean it is not harmful), I guess we should strive to please God in every possible way right? right. Thanks woman(in Chinese haha), I'm glad to know you aww.

I'm reeeallly excited for cell this weekend! I hope it will be very interesting! Okay even if not much activities, I will still feel excited haha... My whole December is practically packed.

P.S Please Christmas don't be late~!
-by Alvin and the Chipmunks

good.

Hi anybody. haha. umm ok this should be the first time I'm blogging while I dont really feel like. Do you know the feeling of wanting to blog a few hours ago or few minutes ago then when you come to this, you dont feel like it anymore? Sometimes I do.. Just now I did. haha but I remember when I was in secondary school and was visiting other people's blogs, some jc friends always write seldomly but i want to see what they write! so I think just blog now lor. anyway, since i started typing just now, the reluctance is slowly going away ahaha:)

Anyway, I was watching this worship video just now and was delighted. Havent heard this song in a long time. like..1 or 2 years? haha... nice song and was a good time listening and singing along:) Anothher nice song is Amazing Love.

A recent thing that happened was last week's sermon preached by Pastor Janice; about the Fear of the LORD. spoke to me a lot! She said a lot of things that I identified with and I think God was speaking to me through her! I think whatever she said, she said out of the Holy Spirit who told her what we needed to hear and do. umm ya then started crying. one of the things she said was that maybe some of us are wondering do we love God? but today we also need to honour Him as well. to bring this spirit of worship and attention to wherever we go. that the 'fear of the LORD' that we need to have is not to be afraid of Him, but really to respect Him and give Him all our attention and worship You as the God Almighty. when we fear the LORD, it'll bring us CLOSER TO HIM! How wonderful is that? I pray that I may remember this important point.

Ps I like maths!

My teaching experience

Before I talk about my teaching experience, just want to say...I think I like Justin Bieber's vocals! hahaha...at first when i heard this name, it sounded like it belonged to an old man hehe. But when I came across this video above, wow I was delighted at his vocals. The way he changes his pitches, its beautiful~ never thought I would like his singing haha. Guess this guitar coupled with his voice is one of my kind of favourite^^ Listen!

Moving on, I chose to write about my teachin experience cos I was thinking maybe some of you would want to know how my experience is like. As quite some of you would know I'm teaching 3-4year olds ballet lessons at a centre for a few hours every week. I've scaled down to about 1 hour from this month onwards for A levels. So I'm gonna tell you (hopefully) interesting things bout my teaching experience.

It feels very relaxing and enjoyable to teach these cute cute children ballet really cos of my passion for ballet. But I'm not saying that its without worries la cos there are problems like to take care of their safety which is not as easy as it sounds haha. Especially now in my class I have max attendance of 8 girls and for some reason they LIKE to scream. And if one screams, others follow and most of them are influenced by each other's actions. Do you know in ballet, there's always a metal bar for basic exercises? They like to climb on it and by doing that, they are very prone to injuries cos they are still young, and well, short:D AND, the hard part is when they don't listen and also when once I turn my back, they start to climb and run and get hurt. One interesting and cool fact is that I help almost all of them to blow their noses because at one time or another, they get runny noses and one girl even purposely kept on blowing her nose frequently during the lesson for a period of time HAHAHA. Essentially they're all nice:)

At first in this class, it was about teaching them to share and encouraging them to be proud of themselves and their possessions. Then, it was about teaching them how to say nice things and be polite to each other. eg. to say sorry when u hurt someone. Then, its about teaching them to self-control since they're at the stage where its good to introduce this term.(did some homework by reading child development book haha) Doing these all while trying to make the lesson fun and ballet inspirational for them.

Now, I'm moving on to talk about the girls themselves!! I've said at the beginning that I've scaled down right? Now is just one class but I actually had 3 classes so I'm gonna talk about some girls from the 3 classes:) There's this girl AV* who was quite an encouragement to me when I first started teaching cos her mother one day told me she likes to hold my hand! aww so sweet~ that was actually quite a compliment and recognition to me at that time cos it meant that at least I was succeeding in teaching her haha. AV was always an obedient girl in class, ALWAYS. When others were running around, she would just laugh as if she could feel the fun they were having yet she would still stand there and do the whole dance. And she said she likes the ballet which is nice:)/ Then there's this girl CL who was not nice to her fellow ballet friends and at first she would be quite unfriendly. I didnt want to really raise my voice and scold her upside down..so I didnt. Then one day, she suddenly said, "I'm a bad girl." and I was taken by surprise so I talked to her, when I had the chance, and basically told her that I believed she is a good girl. Thank God that at least He used me to talk to her..wonderfully, she was much much happier and better! She would say sorry when she accidentally hurt someone and she would listen to me and do the dances and she would just become such a nice girl that I was glad! Don't know if the staff talked to her parents though. Now since she has graduated from this class, I'm gonna miss her man. I'm gonna miss 'em all!

From the 2 classes which has just graduated from this grade, I have so many 'guai' girls who are so adorable but of course I love them all and I'm glad I got to practise one of God's word; to not show favouritism. To make sure no one is lagging behind. ehh come to think of that maybe bcos of this, I come to embrace more of God's Word(Bible)! yayyy. ok anywayy, oh I also have a girl who's from my Church! She was carried in her father's arms who approached me when I was having lunchig one day in Church. At first, I didn't notice their face so I stared at them. Then I recognised and was pleasantly surprised. oh and across the classes, it was also a pleasant surprise to see the potential and talent in quite many of the girls as they do their dances! Its like, I'll smile and sometimes imagine how they will do when they grow up. I do hope I get to accompany my current class to the future.

All in all, I would say it is a great job haha. And its gonna be better~ hope God'll use me more in future.

p.s. turkish delight rocks hahaha

Sunset

Actually from the long time I haven't posted, I have accumulated many stories to tell..but as I am typing now, I have forgotten many and feel like there isn't much to post!..

The first one thats fresh on my mind is the experience I've had these few days reading, for the first time, Karen Kingsbury's book Sunset which is a Christian fiction book. I've read only up to half the book until today but I'll say about what was interesting in the first half!

I was in the library and decided that maybe I could try to find a good book about reality. cos I've always loved reading fantasy books and thought maybe I should try to change that-be more realistic or something. So I started searching for abt half an hour (i think) and chanced upon a series of books that Karen Kingsbury wrote and found out she is a Christian Fiction writer. Everything from to beautiful sunset picture on the cover to what the readers were saying about her books to the promise that this book was going to be about The power of a family's love and the healing miracle of redemption made me choose to read this particular book of hers cos I was just so captivated by the thought that this was going to be a real good book.

And Karen Kingsbury delivered almost everything that she promised. Unlike other books, I didn't skip reading the tribute section that Karen wrote to her family. She wrote a paragraph full of appreciation and commendments each to all 12 of her friends and families, finishing it with a dedication to God. As I read each one, I was filled with 'wow's of how proud she was of her family members and how much she loved them and how happily tightly her family was bonded in the Lord. And the good thing is that Karen quotes Bible verses almost often in the story that leads me in God's will without worries:)

And now, comes the book itself. The story she wrote for many readers to allow God to speak to us. This story is about the stories of different families, but one spouse of each family is the sibling of the other. Through one family, I made a new resolve to not hide any truth when accounting to my leaders...through another, God brought me into the possibility of how wonderful and loving and blessed a family could be when He is involved (cos I kept thinking that couples will pull each other down when they're together and it just takes one to falter)...through yet another, He spoke to me too that things will turn out exactly the way He planned and "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"... in another chapter, I read about people who turned to God in their moments of ultimate weakness...
But the key of all these stories that Karen wrote was that real-life experiences were integrated into it and all the many feelings written so much so that I really really identified with all of them! I dont know if you do too, but here are some quotes:

[when confessing,] "did he really need to go into details about what happened as the hug between him and randi became something terribly more?"
"Luke dismissed the quiet whisper in his soul. His anger doubled,.."
[upon sharing her fears with her husband,] "I was afraid if I told you, then...then it would be real."
These are but a few quotes. God taught me many things in the peace of reading this book. I'm so glad I found it. I feel like meeting Karen! haha. I've more faith in The Power of a family's love now and I pray that God You will open my heart and draw me closer to You throught the next half of the book~! Thank You.
This is only one story but the most interesting I feel. Maybe will tell more next time~

Read Karen Kingsbury's books!!! 9.99999999/10!

I will search for You and I will find You!

these few days, i've been thinking about 'seeking God'. thinking about whatever that is related to 'seeking God'. Maybe God is leadng me to seek Him in this season!

It first started when I was reminded of the verse that I learnt last month;

Isaiah 56:6-7

And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to serve Him,

to love the name of the Lord, and to worship Him,

all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it

and who hold fast to my covenant-

these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer.

Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar;

for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations."

Then subsequently, I was reminded of the song "I will search for You and I will find You". Today as I was watching the comments of this youtube video, I felt comforted in the verse that some1 posted:

Jeremiah 29:11-13

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord,

"plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

plans to give you hope and a future.

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

I guess I never really thought about the word 'seeking God' before. Not as much as this time. I think these 2 verses might be what I'm holding onto for now:)

But then again, there're so many things that God has taught me and if I keep focusing and remembering this verse, then I might forget many others! Human beings are forgetful people. I think I'm even more forgetful than the norm. oops. So, to curb this problem, I really need to read my TAWG and sermon book regularly to remind myself of what I learnt before.

Thank You God for

today!

being with me even when I don't feel it!

the divine opportunities to share the Gospel, and for the comming ones too!

being the power to rely on.

saving me!

loving me:)

P.S. Seek God and His righteousness first, and everything will fall into place!

So True!