The Band all squeezed together..
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Monday, February 27, 2006
Went to a Fairytale wedding and floated home on a cloud...:)
1) Dinner setting...all painstakingly personalised
2) Candles amidst the hand-made flowers
3) Sweet sisters all part of the entourage
4) Lovely ribbons with confetti in the wind...
This had to be the most beautiful wedding I had attended so far...I think for myself I am totally sinking in dreamy mode and was really awed by the wedding and the beautiful sights that I have seen yesterday.
I was part of the band that played for Steve and Gelene's wedding at the National Orchid Park at the Botanical Gardens yesterday..to put it simply a very sweet picture, what I have also dreamed of...hahah a dream wedding for me if you call it ...macham like those movies kind...garden wedding with lovely chairs, ribbons in the wind....having your food al fresco ...before the hot sunny weather of Singapore zap you back to reality that we really have to pray for no rain and a nice cool weather...otherwise...hahah sweat bath...:P
The garden walkway where the couple held their Holy Matrimony
The band, led by Jacob belted out Jazz hit some of Steve and Gelene's favourites all afternoon and thank God that the rain stopped after much prayers....it was really a nice colonnial bungalow atop a small hill set in the Orchid Park called Burkhill Hall. The surroundings are just filled with beautiful orchids and willow trees...our music and crowd had certainly attracted a lot of tourists busy snapping and filming away...Korean, la Indians la...Ang mo lah....swinging to the music....
I played the opening verse of "What a wonderful World" for the couple with much trembling and the cute little flower boy and girl simply ran in with the basket of flowers and the rings and caused quite a lot of laughter when the little boy ran to the wrong "uncle"!!
Remember me and Pam had teased Steve backstage when we were on duty when he says his wedding vows, "If all else fails...get THAT NAME RIGHT!!"It was really amazing the Steve's mother side are all relatives from Taiwan and were mostly pastors!! We were intrigued by his interesting relatives and friends from all over.
The highlight of the wedding should be when Steve and Gelene took a a dance to the song "L-O-V-E"and then Steve playing Desafinado for his lovely wife under the stars...:P okay someone grab a hammer and wake me to my senses... more photos coming up...someone PULeease teach me how to overlap the photos when i post them! this is terriblE...:P
Here's to a dear bro and fellow band member Steve, and his wife Gelene, Congratulations to you both! May God continue to bless you with much flames of love and joy in your marriage!!
Friday, February 24, 2006
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Don't cry my dear...:)
Don't cry my dear, don't cry...
The Lord is nigh and He hears you,
The Lord loves you and He comforts you...
Dry your tears, it really breaks my heart..
"Call unto the Name of the Lord and be saved!!"
Don't cry my dear, don't cry...
This is just a phase and it would soon pass.
Let the Lord lead and not the devil have a foothold!
Stormy weather and cold harsh winds...
Are there to make us appreciate the sunshine better...
Don't cry my dear, don't cry...
Know that we will be there to be with you praying...
The Lord is nigh and He hears you,
The Lord loves you and He comforts you...
Dry your tears, it really breaks my heart..
"Call unto the Name of the Lord and be saved!!"
Don't cry my dear, don't cry...
This is just a phase and it would soon pass.
Let the Lord lead and not the devil have a foothold!
Stormy weather and cold harsh winds...
Are there to make us appreciate the sunshine better...
Don't cry my dear, don't cry...
Know that we will be there to be with you praying...
Sharing from a good read part 2
(Continued from Part 1)
The apostle Paul had the same response to the presence of Christ in his life. In Philippians 3 he presented a long list of credentials and accomplishments (v 5-6) that would impress all his readers. A "Hebrew of Hebrews", this Pharisee had established well his significance in religious circles. Yet Paul realised that all this was worthless if he was to truly gain Christ. In the face of the supremacy of Christ, he regarded all things but "loss for the sake of Christ" (v7).
When Christ enters the arena in our lives, there need to be no competition, for He has no peers. No one is even in second place. He is, and deserves to be, fully supreme. Therefore magnifying Christ in our lives means a total, non-negotiated commitment to His significance.
Living to magnify Christ also means that we reflect His essential nature. Since He is truth, for example, we are truthful. His mercy, justice and compassion, righteousness, love, grace and patience should be clearly evident in all we do. And as people note the unique difference, we readily give to God the credit for what we have and and have become in Him.
Ironically, some Christians, obsessed with their personal significance, when threatened will readily lie to maintain their worth; they will withhold love, mercy, and grace when it conflicts with their sense of significance. This is not kingdom living. To cross the line of righteousness to accumulate or guarantee our significance will always be a competitor with Christ significance through us. It is not until our significance compulsion is satisfied by our applying redemptive realities that we are free to magnify Him even at a loss to ourselves.
The apostle Paul had the same response to the presence of Christ in his life. In Philippians 3 he presented a long list of credentials and accomplishments (v 5-6) that would impress all his readers. A "Hebrew of Hebrews", this Pharisee had established well his significance in religious circles. Yet Paul realised that all this was worthless if he was to truly gain Christ. In the face of the supremacy of Christ, he regarded all things but "loss for the sake of Christ" (v7).
When Christ enters the arena in our lives, there need to be no competition, for He has no peers. No one is even in second place. He is, and deserves to be, fully supreme. Therefore magnifying Christ in our lives means a total, non-negotiated commitment to His significance.
Living to magnify Christ also means that we reflect His essential nature. Since He is truth, for example, we are truthful. His mercy, justice and compassion, righteousness, love, grace and patience should be clearly evident in all we do. And as people note the unique difference, we readily give to God the credit for what we have and and have become in Him.
Ironically, some Christians, obsessed with their personal significance, when threatened will readily lie to maintain their worth; they will withhold love, mercy, and grace when it conflicts with their sense of significance. This is not kingdom living. To cross the line of righteousness to accumulate or guarantee our significance will always be a competitor with Christ significance through us. It is not until our significance compulsion is satisfied by our applying redemptive realities that we are free to magnify Him even at a loss to ourselves.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Monday, February 06, 2006
Sharing from a good read...:)
Been reading this rather small but "heavy" in content book that can really pierce right into your heart...
It's a book called "Perilous Pursuits" by Joseph M. Stowell. Took me quite some time to come to that book cos I found it a bit tough to grasp, plus all the other books that are lined on my shelf..sorry Jeannie and Jer! :P
It touches about the Christian's search for significance and the ultimate source of our significance in our service to the Lord. Simple and powerful, this book has touched on the intimate details in my walk with God and has actually really "rebuked" me, by allowing me to do a spot check on my heart motives in serving the Lord and also to let me see where I was drawing my sense of significance and assurance from.
Many a times, I have stepped onto the bandwagon of ultimately wanting to do many things and fulfilling my time up for God and also have felt the strain and insecurity when people do not seem to recognise my efforts. The book actually brings me back to recognising God as the source of our significance, and got me questioning each and every of my actions and my thought pattern by simple everyday events, events which I have seemingly masked my other "right" motives.
I realise that deep down lying within me is someone who could really want that attention, that pat on the back, that extra affirmation from ..People...ultimately serving God and honouring Him with my thoughts and actions could be so easily waivered when I remember a particular sharing by Alan back in Uni days, when we are tested by our trigger point. To me my trigger point is easy, its simply getting that attention. I remember Alan ever shared, what's our first response when we receive that praise? or that question on who had done that great job? that great presentation? My huge sense of self worth would start screaming, "Me! Me! Me!" At the same time, trying my very best to stay composed that the people would eventually realise who was to get the credit.
Let me share about two sections from the book how we should go through the process of redemptive restructuring when we realise that our lives are simply living off the wrong source of significance:-
Excerpts from "Perilous Pursuits" Chapter 7 - Redemptive Restructuring
"It's always worked for me before." How many times have you heard someone say that? Whether it's in business, at home, or in the culture at large, most people fall into familiar patterns or modes of behaviour. The problem is things change, and the old ways don't always work.
Some business learn this lesson too late and lose out. Boarded-up factories all over the country prove this. Other change, retool, and grow. The same principle hold true in the spiritual realm. How much retooling do we need as people who have been redeemed from the old way of life? Let's see.....
Two Kingdom Objectives
American industry realised quickly that new objectives needed to be established in this new global environment. Instead of mere quanitity, quality became the objective of corporate output. Instead of policies that served the company, it became necessary to make policies that served the consumer. Citizenship in Christ's kingdom also requires that we adopt two new objectives.
GOD'S GLORY
At the beginning of this book, I referred to Westminister Shorter Catechism, which teaches that our chief purpose is to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." Here is the first objective of kingdom living. Obviously, this cannot be lived out until we have secured our significance in Christ. Liberated from the obsession with our significance, we are now capable of dedicating all that we are and do to His glory.
Paul spelled out this objective clearly:" Do you not know that your body is a temple of God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your body" (1 Cor. 6:19-20). As we saw earlier, the scope of objective takes in every activity (1 Cor. 10:31).
So pressing was this agenda for Paul that he declared it to be his objective of his life as he sat in a Roman prision waiting for Nero's decision on his life. "I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain" (Phil 1:20-21). The objective of Paul's life was Christ, and his gain awaited in the next world. Most of us live as though our gain is here and now we gobble up every opportunity to gain advantage for ourselves. Not so! Kingdom objectives direct us to invest our lives in magnifying Christ in this world and experiencing our gain in the world to come.
When we have the significance in Christ, we are secure and can step aside to let Him live through us. Two models who sought to advance God's glory and gain through Christ living within are John the Baptizer and the apostle Paul. Christ became preeminent in their lives, both in action and attitudes.
John the Baptizer gladly heralded the coming of Christ even though the Gospels report that the baptizer was a stellar, well-known leader of his day. He had all the headlines! Crowds followed him. A household name, John was the center of many discussions among the intelligentsia and the religious leaders of his day. When Christ appeared, though, this high profile leader has an immediate response:"He must increase, but I must decrease" (NASB). John recognized the supremacy and priority of Jesus Christ; he was glad to humbly advance the significance of the Messiah.
(To be continued...)
It's a book called "Perilous Pursuits" by Joseph M. Stowell. Took me quite some time to come to that book cos I found it a bit tough to grasp, plus all the other books that are lined on my shelf..sorry Jeannie and Jer! :P
It touches about the Christian's search for significance and the ultimate source of our significance in our service to the Lord. Simple and powerful, this book has touched on the intimate details in my walk with God and has actually really "rebuked" me, by allowing me to do a spot check on my heart motives in serving the Lord and also to let me see where I was drawing my sense of significance and assurance from.
Many a times, I have stepped onto the bandwagon of ultimately wanting to do many things and fulfilling my time up for God and also have felt the strain and insecurity when people do not seem to recognise my efforts. The book actually brings me back to recognising God as the source of our significance, and got me questioning each and every of my actions and my thought pattern by simple everyday events, events which I have seemingly masked my other "right" motives.
I realise that deep down lying within me is someone who could really want that attention, that pat on the back, that extra affirmation from ..People...ultimately serving God and honouring Him with my thoughts and actions could be so easily waivered when I remember a particular sharing by Alan back in Uni days, when we are tested by our trigger point. To me my trigger point is easy, its simply getting that attention. I remember Alan ever shared, what's our first response when we receive that praise? or that question on who had done that great job? that great presentation? My huge sense of self worth would start screaming, "Me! Me! Me!" At the same time, trying my very best to stay composed that the people would eventually realise who was to get the credit.
Let me share about two sections from the book how we should go through the process of redemptive restructuring when we realise that our lives are simply living off the wrong source of significance:-
Excerpts from "Perilous Pursuits" Chapter 7 - Redemptive Restructuring
"It's always worked for me before." How many times have you heard someone say that? Whether it's in business, at home, or in the culture at large, most people fall into familiar patterns or modes of behaviour. The problem is things change, and the old ways don't always work.
Some business learn this lesson too late and lose out. Boarded-up factories all over the country prove this. Other change, retool, and grow. The same principle hold true in the spiritual realm. How much retooling do we need as people who have been redeemed from the old way of life? Let's see.....
Two Kingdom Objectives
American industry realised quickly that new objectives needed to be established in this new global environment. Instead of mere quanitity, quality became the objective of corporate output. Instead of policies that served the company, it became necessary to make policies that served the consumer. Citizenship in Christ's kingdom also requires that we adopt two new objectives.
GOD'S GLORY
At the beginning of this book, I referred to Westminister Shorter Catechism, which teaches that our chief purpose is to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." Here is the first objective of kingdom living. Obviously, this cannot be lived out until we have secured our significance in Christ. Liberated from the obsession with our significance, we are now capable of dedicating all that we are and do to His glory.
Paul spelled out this objective clearly:" Do you not know that your body is a temple of God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your body" (1 Cor. 6:19-20). As we saw earlier, the scope of objective takes in every activity (1 Cor. 10:31).
So pressing was this agenda for Paul that he declared it to be his objective of his life as he sat in a Roman prision waiting for Nero's decision on his life. "I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain" (Phil 1:20-21). The objective of Paul's life was Christ, and his gain awaited in the next world. Most of us live as though our gain is here and now we gobble up every opportunity to gain advantage for ourselves. Not so! Kingdom objectives direct us to invest our lives in magnifying Christ in this world and experiencing our gain in the world to come.
When we have the significance in Christ, we are secure and can step aside to let Him live through us. Two models who sought to advance God's glory and gain through Christ living within are John the Baptizer and the apostle Paul. Christ became preeminent in their lives, both in action and attitudes.
John the Baptizer gladly heralded the coming of Christ even though the Gospels report that the baptizer was a stellar, well-known leader of his day. He had all the headlines! Crowds followed him. A household name, John was the center of many discussions among the intelligentsia and the religious leaders of his day. When Christ appeared, though, this high profile leader has an immediate response:"He must increase, but I must decrease" (NASB). John recognized the supremacy and priority of Jesus Christ; he was glad to humbly advance the significance of the Messiah.
(To be continued...)
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Ai4 Sui4 Mai4 Mia3
Famous Hokkien verse for "wanting to look good, forsake your life" (loose translation)...
Brand New Shoes, bite your toes!
Black lace trims, cut your heels!
Put them on, flaunt your new buy...
And start limping your way to the copier!
Pry them apart, when no one is looking...
Plaster the feet with already blisters, half-cookin'!!
Dragged my feet past the Singapore River,
Great temptation to throw them over!
Kept my cool and con't limping all the way to dinner...
Wished my feet were at least two sizes smaller!!
Brand New Shoes, bite your toes!
Black lace trims, cut your heels!
Put them on, flaunt your new buy...
And start limping your way to the copier!
Pry them apart, when no one is looking...
Plaster the feet with already blisters, half-cookin'!!
Dragged my feet past the Singapore River,
Great temptation to throw them over!
Kept my cool and con't limping all the way to dinner...
Wished my feet were at least two sizes smaller!!
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Take time, smell the roses...:P
Wow, today absolutely felt like a tourist....Kim had complimentary tickets to take the river boat ride, which is the mini bum boats along the Singapore River..so exciting my first ride along the river! Me, Mingzhu and Kim were so thrilled!
The weather and night scene is simply wonderful! Fresh cool air, really feels like we are somewhere in cool nice temperate countries before ZAPPP! back in HOT HOT Singapore...the lights along Fullerton, Raffles Place , all pubs and night places...the banks.....then of course the Esplanade... even wowed myself at the sight of the "Bungee Ride" that was going on along Clarke Quay...Kim also snapped some shots on the boat and the night scenes...can't imagine that we just zap past our life like that taking little things and pleasures in life for granted..for me i really felt so relaxed and its really taking just 30 minutes of my time to appreciate what's happening around me and i realised that somehow that's how much i have missed...
It's just so so beautiful! I cannot believe it i was just there enjoying myself in the breeze...marvelling at things and sights that i have neglected through the drones of work load...
Work and our daily stresses seem to have drained us of simply just taking time to smell the roses and to really take a good look at the places around us...i din know that my current work place could really look so wonderful...a far cry from the hectic and high strung environment the dull office , though majestic building which i just stepped out from just hours ago...
We all digged at each other..."Nice weather, lovely night scene, super romantic boat ride, BUT (*pause to look at each other*) WRONG PERSON!!!"
We laughed ourselves crazy on the boat ride , definitely adding on to the definition of the "uncouth Singaporean" whaha , amidst the lovey-dovey couples, and the tourists who were snapping away...hey you don't get to do this often...its really some sorta of an indulgence...:P
The weather and night scene is simply wonderful! Fresh cool air, really feels like we are somewhere in cool nice temperate countries before ZAPPP! back in HOT HOT Singapore...the lights along Fullerton, Raffles Place , all pubs and night places...the banks.....then of course the Esplanade... even wowed myself at the sight of the "Bungee Ride" that was going on along Clarke Quay...Kim also snapped some shots on the boat and the night scenes...can't imagine that we just zap past our life like that taking little things and pleasures in life for granted..for me i really felt so relaxed and its really taking just 30 minutes of my time to appreciate what's happening around me and i realised that somehow that's how much i have missed...
It's just so so beautiful! I cannot believe it i was just there enjoying myself in the breeze...marvelling at things and sights that i have neglected through the drones of work load...
Work and our daily stresses seem to have drained us of simply just taking time to smell the roses and to really take a good look at the places around us...i din know that my current work place could really look so wonderful...a far cry from the hectic and high strung environment the dull office , though majestic building which i just stepped out from just hours ago...
We all digged at each other..."Nice weather, lovely night scene, super romantic boat ride, BUT (*pause to look at each other*) WRONG PERSON!!!"
We laughed ourselves crazy on the boat ride , definitely adding on to the definition of the "uncouth Singaporean" whaha , amidst the lovey-dovey couples, and the tourists who were snapping away...hey you don't get to do this often...its really some sorta of an indulgence...:P
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006
19th January 2006- D Day
It was the 14th of January a hot Sat afternoon where Poy had booked the badminton courts at Hougang Sports Complex...met Alan..Poy's good fren there for a game of badminton...wow those who were there were really impressed with his smashes...after what seemed like a while later when we really sweat it out...my mum called..
Mama: "Hey, guess what...the mail came in and it states "ON GOVERNMENT SERVICE" I
took the liberty to open the mail for you!!"
Rac: ...... ....... .......
Mama: " YOU GOT THE PERMANENT POSITION as a teacher!!! You would start teaching
officially on the 20th March 2006! and your salary scale is $XXXX!! so high!!"
Rac: (*thinking to herself..O man is that the only thing that you are interested in?*) *cue:
a jumping Rachie Rach around the badminton court with lots of shrieks...*
Just on CG that week, our discussion group leader Mr D had asked us to think of just one minute, with our eyes closed and prayerfully on what we foresee our future would be according to God's will...
I saw two visions of me: one would be where i would be successful in the corporate world, my world would be surrounded by many people from all over the world...macham successful corporate business woman...
Then the next vision i see myself..surrounded by kids and my hair turning white...i do believe its what GOD is trying to tell me...that i actually have two paths...and the path that i have chosen would be is to be with kids and that vision actually show myself enjoying the presence of kids....i was still playing with them..i know then God wants me to impact the life of kids ...through teaching....true enough the letter came that Saturday after only 2 days after CG....
Well the next part of my vision what i saw...got the guys teasing me like crazy...i was the only gal in discussion group that week cos MZ could not make it mah....:P I actually saw my son!!! I saw my this cute son again from all those years ago that little dream i had...this boy with big eyes...look like me a bit....this time round with more details...he ran to me.." Ma ma, mama..." carrying a small violin then he was playing on stage!! I was right there backstage cheering him on ...
silly Poy digged at me..."so the boy must look like the father..." i immediately shot back "well, that's subjective!!!" it seems that a few of us on the table that day had actually shared about the future and getting married and all...well.....
19th Jan came...i went to sign the contract to confirm that i accept the offer..really hope that this is the path for me ...i actually feel a sense of excitement...:)
Kids...to be surrounded by them till i grow old...Kim mentioned that i am a big kid myself...wahahh could not agree more....
show you all some pics from my mum's school which i have been teaching the first part of last year...:)
Mama: "Hey, guess what...the mail came in and it states "ON GOVERNMENT SERVICE" I
took the liberty to open the mail for you!!"
Rac: ...... ....... .......
Mama: " YOU GOT THE PERMANENT POSITION as a teacher!!! You would start teaching
officially on the 20th March 2006! and your salary scale is $XXXX!! so high!!"
Rac: (*thinking to herself..O man is that the only thing that you are interested in?*) *cue:
a jumping Rachie Rach around the badminton court with lots of shrieks...*
Just on CG that week, our discussion group leader Mr D had asked us to think of just one minute, with our eyes closed and prayerfully on what we foresee our future would be according to God's will...
I saw two visions of me: one would be where i would be successful in the corporate world, my world would be surrounded by many people from all over the world...macham successful corporate business woman...
Then the next vision i see myself..surrounded by kids and my hair turning white...i do believe its what GOD is trying to tell me...that i actually have two paths...and the path that i have chosen would be is to be with kids and that vision actually show myself enjoying the presence of kids....i was still playing with them..i know then God wants me to impact the life of kids ...through teaching....true enough the letter came that Saturday after only 2 days after CG....
Well the next part of my vision what i saw...got the guys teasing me like crazy...i was the only gal in discussion group that week cos MZ could not make it mah....:P I actually saw my son!!! I saw my this cute son again from all those years ago that little dream i had...this boy with big eyes...look like me a bit....this time round with more details...he ran to me.." Ma ma, mama..." carrying a small violin then he was playing on stage!! I was right there backstage cheering him on ...
silly Poy digged at me..."so the boy must look like the father..." i immediately shot back "well, that's subjective!!!" it seems that a few of us on the table that day had actually shared about the future and getting married and all...well.....
19th Jan came...i went to sign the contract to confirm that i accept the offer..really hope that this is the path for me ...i actually feel a sense of excitement...:)
Kids...to be surrounded by them till i grow old...Kim mentioned that i am a big kid myself...wahahh could not agree more....
show you all some pics from my mum's school which i have been teaching the first part of last year...:)
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Shepherd - 10th Jan 2006
Had missions meeting at Teck Keong's place today...again rains has made it really ley chey to go out...
We were supposed to go for missions trip to Hope Jarkarta last year but it was last minute postponed due to many things..My team consists of :TK the leader of the group, Jeremy, Keng Suan, Doreen, Addy, Jasmine and myself.
It was a good time of worship and sharing..we looked through Teck Keong's old photos and had lot of fun hee digging at him not really changing his looks after all those years..some ppl always look so young! :P well...he used to play "erhu" the chinese instrument in his high school days..that was why i was surprised that he knew how to grip the bow of Anthony so well and could even control how to play on the strings!!
All of us wrote down and pondered on two questions:
1) What is Missions to me?
2) Why do I want to go for the Missions trip?
I wrote:
Q1) Missions to me is doing God's work, out of a personal conviction and obedience and love of Jesus, to spread the love of Jesus and the Gospel to people who may not have heard the Word before...
Q2) I want to go fot the missions trip because I have a burden of being a missionary, because I have many friends of different races. And also wanna be learning how to trust to depend on God more ...Learning to be cultural relevant.
TK had asked each of us to write down the team members' response to the second question and to note it down...purpose is not to compare our reasons as being more "holy" than the rest but to note that each of us go with a different understand and with different expectations on how we want to grow..It really serves also as a good reference when before and after the missions trip when we gather again to present our views of our reasons for going to a Missions trip now..
Many plans and dates were set...we are all so excited...we had even set dates to start training for the coming trip..plans to go gym la..running la...etc etc...so farnie....we must really be fit for being in the field as God's workers!
Sunday morning wor!! can we wake up on time? wahahah...
Met CC and Kim straight after that for shepherding...hence the title of this blog..
We had a good time also sharing our views and goals for the coming year and me personally also wanna pray for God's specific verse for me this year...
We even sat down and evaluated our shepherding relationship with each one of us on separate pieces of paper and we had good laughs when we saw what was written..making a pact not to argue what was written but to think through personally why and what was written....you could see the difference..when suddenly as least for me...i was really conscious of my speech after i read what was written about me..:P tried to argue my way through also....so farnie...:P
Had music practice at Nexus straight after that and this week we are singing are mostly Paradise Church's songs....and came across this one called "Shepherd" I thought of my human shepherds, my heavenly Shepherd...really blessed by the thought that all the shepherds are watching over my life... this song really speaks my heart..dedicate to you all...
1 Cor. 10:13
" No temptation has siezed you beyond what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted. He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."
Shepherds that shed blood and tears over my life, shepherds that watches over me...:) Looking forward to a exciting new year together with you all!
Shepherd
I will give my heart to You,
Forever faithful God,
Guide me in Your truth.
I will go where You may lead,
Your hands of grace will guide,
They draw me to Your side.
Bridge:
I'll praise Your Name forever,
Join with the shouts of Heaven, Glorify.
Chorus:
You are the King of Glory
You are the Lord Almighty.
You are the Shepherd of my heart.
I will give You all my praise.
I 'll follow You always,
The Shepherd of my heart.
We were supposed to go for missions trip to Hope Jarkarta last year but it was last minute postponed due to many things..My team consists of :TK the leader of the group, Jeremy, Keng Suan, Doreen, Addy, Jasmine and myself.
It was a good time of worship and sharing..we looked through Teck Keong's old photos and had lot of fun hee digging at him not really changing his looks after all those years..some ppl always look so young! :P well...he used to play "erhu" the chinese instrument in his high school days..that was why i was surprised that he knew how to grip the bow of Anthony so well and could even control how to play on the strings!!
All of us wrote down and pondered on two questions:
1) What is Missions to me?
2) Why do I want to go for the Missions trip?
I wrote:
Q1) Missions to me is doing God's work, out of a personal conviction and obedience and love of Jesus, to spread the love of Jesus and the Gospel to people who may not have heard the Word before...
Q2) I want to go fot the missions trip because I have a burden of being a missionary, because I have many friends of different races. And also wanna be learning how to trust to depend on God more ...Learning to be cultural relevant.
TK had asked each of us to write down the team members' response to the second question and to note it down...purpose is not to compare our reasons as being more "holy" than the rest but to note that each of us go with a different understand and with different expectations on how we want to grow..It really serves also as a good reference when before and after the missions trip when we gather again to present our views of our reasons for going to a Missions trip now..
Many plans and dates were set...we are all so excited...we had even set dates to start training for the coming trip..plans to go gym la..running la...etc etc...so farnie....we must really be fit for being in the field as God's workers!
Sunday morning wor!! can we wake up on time? wahahah...
Met CC and Kim straight after that for shepherding...hence the title of this blog..
We had a good time also sharing our views and goals for the coming year and me personally also wanna pray for God's specific verse for me this year...
We even sat down and evaluated our shepherding relationship with each one of us on separate pieces of paper and we had good laughs when we saw what was written..making a pact not to argue what was written but to think through personally why and what was written....you could see the difference..when suddenly as least for me...i was really conscious of my speech after i read what was written about me..:P tried to argue my way through also....so farnie...:P
Had music practice at Nexus straight after that and this week we are singing are mostly Paradise Church's songs....and came across this one called "Shepherd" I thought of my human shepherds, my heavenly Shepherd...really blessed by the thought that all the shepherds are watching over my life... this song really speaks my heart..dedicate to you all...
1 Cor. 10:13
" No temptation has siezed you beyond what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted. He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."
Shepherds that shed blood and tears over my life, shepherds that watches over me...:) Looking forward to a exciting new year together with you all!
Shepherd
I will give my heart to You,
Forever faithful God,
Guide me in Your truth.
I will go where You may lead,
Your hands of grace will guide,
They draw me to Your side.
Bridge:
I'll praise Your Name forever,
Join with the shouts of Heaven, Glorify.
Chorus:
You are the King of Glory
You are the Lord Almighty.
You are the Shepherd of my heart.
I will give You all my praise.
I 'll follow You always,
The Shepherd of my heart.
Monday, January 09, 2006
8th January 2006 - 11:00pm
Flashbacks of things that came and went,
Tears mixed with fears of the things to come,
"Approach the throne with confidence, " the Bible says..
Words of prayers to soothe this aching soul and heart..
Words of comfort from a trusting friend,
Gives a vision of God's love and comforting strength,
"Lord, this year is YOURS", I pray,"May I not cry again that same way.."
"Lord You are good and Your mercies endureth forever, calm my hurts and grant me love ,"
"Heart of forgiveness to set the old things straight, renew my heart, my soul my strength!"
"Lord, I know You would catch me when I fall, Lord Your love is so much better than life!"
Bittersweet, yet wonderful the past year has been..
May the forthcoming be as wonderful... if not more spectacular that You have purposed it to be!
:)
Tears mixed with fears of the things to come,
"Approach the throne with confidence, " the Bible says..
Words of prayers to soothe this aching soul and heart..
Words of comfort from a trusting friend,
Gives a vision of God's love and comforting strength,
"Lord, this year is YOURS", I pray,"May I not cry again that same way.."
"Lord You are good and Your mercies endureth forever, calm my hurts and grant me love ,"
"Heart of forgiveness to set the old things straight, renew my heart, my soul my strength!"
"Lord, I know You would catch me when I fall, Lord Your love is so much better than life!"
Bittersweet, yet wonderful the past year has been..
May the forthcoming be as wonderful... if not more spectacular that You have purposed it to be!
:)
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
3.00pm
Lightning strucks..
Screen went blank..
House in darkness..
Heart skipped three beats..
Flashes of light so close to me..
Screen went blank..
House in darkness..
Heart skipped three beats..
Flashes of light so close to me..
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
