ThE BeAtiTuDeS
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Sleeping Beauty
After eating a bit of food, I went back to sleep all the way till close to 5pm then my mum woke me up...now, i'm still feeling the pain in my head...but yet I can't sleep due to the sleep that I had the whole day..felt like a sleeping beauty....but a sick one though and of course one without my knight to wake me up...hehe...
Sad to say, when my brother came back he is down with flu and fever too...looks like everyone in my family is sick...
Lord, will you heal all of us....I don't like being sick..this feeling is so horrible...makes me moody and restless...
I wish that there is something that can cheer me up...I guess it's only when You heal me, Lord...
Okie...it's time to meet God before I turn into a sleeping beauty...probably have to listen to the smurf goodnite song and see if it has any effect on me to put me to sleep tonite....tts the little ger side of me...to think of it, as what guo hong had said...my new hairstyle really suit my personality and of course with nik saying that I look cute...hmm..but I was hoping that it would be more of a stylish than a kiddy look...well, it's really okie..coz I simply love the coolness that I can feel and no longer the heat...if I could I will want to cut it even shorter, but I just lack the courage to do so....sweet dreamz...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Day of Solitude
still feeling bothered about having made that person upset...somehow there is a sense of fear talking to this person again...never know when I do and say things wrongly again...
Leon did a recording on the guitar for my song Your Loving Arms...It really came as a surprise to me as I never expected him to do that...Thanx Leon...It's really sweet of ya...Somehow, because this is afterall the first song I ever penned so thats why it means alot to me..The feeling of seeing it being finished is really very nice...and now I even have two versions of it..one on the piano and the other on the guitar....
Today, my throat seems to be even more sore and I have diarrhoea. in the evening...wat a horrible feeling...and of course it affects my mood...
maybe because there are so many many things on my mind that I need to look into...and so many things bothering me right now that today just seems like a day that I only wanted to be alone....
Spent some time in God's presence this noon..the feeling was really great...it's so great to know that even in times like these, He will go ahead of me and open the way for me...also fighting with and for me...Lord, You are really my only source of strength right now...No matter how dark the road is ahead I know that with You this darkness will turn into light...And because I know that You are with me, I know that I need not be afraid to go through this valley....Thank You for your affirmation...
Cousin terence happened to be confused over whether he should take his S papers...seriously if I was him I will also be...when I know about this I really don't know how to deal with it because I seriously am a very bad decision maker and often rely on people to make decisions for me...it's all due to the environment that I was brought up where I just can only do what they have in plan for me but never able to pursue what I really like...Then later when I graduate I felt that I wanted to make my own decisions but realised that I just did not know where to go...Finally, one day alot of dreams and desires just flow through my mind as I decide to go into teaching..At that point of time I was thinking...Oh Man...I finally know what I really want...and I want to pursue them....Hmm...but this decision is really not easy to make...because of all the discouragements and persecutions that came along the way...but I thank God that I made that decision already and carried it out although the road ahead is still very uncertain because I never know if this is the wrong route..... As I started to advice my cousin I felt that my thoughts seems to be so different...begin to feel that I have became someone who is willing to venture and step above my fear and pursue what I really want....because thats what I adviced him to do...especially when I know that he desire to pursue a scholarship but worried about his CCA record and his other modules...Somehow I believe that God really had changed me so much lately...I really hope that God will change me even more that I will no longer be a woman that will blame and give in to circumstance but rise above them and even overcome my own fears...Because, I believe that I got a destiny...and God did not give me a spirit of fear but of power, of love and of a sound mind...
Just received a message to fast as a cell group this thursday for the easter event...I am really looking out for this event...I really hope that God will let me have an opportunity to reach out to my friends..because so far quite a few have turned me down...but I am not going to give up..I will pray for more people that I can reach out to....Also, I want to believe that friends that are attending the service with us will also be open and that they will experience the touch of the Holy Spirit on that day...
I always remembered the day that my two cousins raised up their hands and even walk down the steps...I really wanted to cry but I held back my tears..Because all along they have been attending church but it was only then that they gave their live to Jesus...And it's really my greatest wish to see my whole family saved....Because, in this family of mine there are people who are back sliders and even people who refused to step into church....and also a handful who are actively serving the Lord and loving Him fervently....And through these recent years, the Lord is really good because some have started coming back to the Lord...so I am sure that one day all will come to Him...For people out there...don't ever grow weary of trying okie...because one day you will see the fruits of your labour and when you do, you will be so so so happy....
Pleasant day that ended with misunderstanding and a little sadness
My first love song to Jesus finally have chords written. All thanx to leon. He's really so good at writing music. Made my song so much nicer than what I initially sang it. The feeling of having my song completed is really really so great. However, the bridge still yet to have chords but I really spent so much time listening to it over and over again. Reali feel so happy..Hehe...Looks like I really got to learn more about music if I want to write more songs. Have decided to pick up music theory which I always learn a bit then give up because I really can't stand all the 'dao gei'...hehe...But hopefully, leon's book will be simpler to digest. Already thought of what I will do...Once I start work will get myself a keyboard. Somehow, my passion for music seems to have increased ever since I started writing songs. So, i'm going to pursue it. I know that I know nuts about music but I believe that my desire to learn will bring me somewhere. I do hope that one day I can write more songs for God. Hmm...as for guitar i can't seem to breakthru in playing praise songs. Mayb I have already become complacent in learning guitar. I really got to put in more effort in it in order to improve. But somehow I really love and enjoy worshipping Him. I simply love God's presence.
Another happy event was that I finally found out my neopets's username and password. I felt so dumb, because I actually typed the wrong username the other time and was just waiting and complaining when they did not send me my password..hehe...finally today david told me what was my user name. So many years already and he yet to forget everything about me. Even my neopet's username. I felt so touched....Because I usually thought that he won't remember small little issue like this but he did...So glad that I am finally reunited with bunnyhubby and it's pet bunnybaby....played game just now but I guess I really lost touch of neopets...
Hmm..sadly I made someone unhappy close to the end of the day...really feel that I need to take stock of my life and think of what are the changes that needs to be made...and i guess a little separation away from each other is really good
Throat beginning to sore...guess it's because of the intake of chocolates that I had lately...looks like I am going to put on the kgs that I shed over the past weeks...must really discipline myself...
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Faith Transferred
Had a little sms talk with him late last night...somehow I do wish that his friend will come to Christ too....because somehow lately his name have been flashing through my mind and felt prompted to pray for him.
I was just amazed that because of asking this little talk with this brother I realise that he has a defeated mindset after been rejected by his friend when he invited him for service...
Then I really begun to wonder....our mind is really the greatest enemy of ours..because it is how we think that determines how we would take the next step. If we don't renew our mind, we will some how be captivated by our own wrong thoughts...
Rejection??How can our rejection be compared to what Jesus faced? Not at all!! If we just have a defeatist attitude after a rejection from our own friends, how can we still reach out to others? I guess we should really know that when they reject they are actually rejecting the gospel not us. Also, we ought to know that to win the lost is really not an easy job. You urself is also a lost one b4, just imagine how much time and effort the person who tried to bring you to church had to go through too...It's just a price that we got to pay if we love the lost.
Also, don't ever give up...because once you start sowing a seed in a person's life..that seed will grow one..it probably need to take time and prayer to change things..most importantly, you tried and did not rob them of an opportunity to know about God...Remember it's worth running the race for Jesus, brother...:)
Monday, March 21, 2005
A Saturday After A Drastic Change In Cell Group
Also, the praise today was really exuberant..everyone seems so enthusiatic and alive in praising...Of course jerel did a very good job today..he really played very well..I would say the best I ever seen or heard for a long time...worship was pretty good too...that most of us could just get into the presence of God...Somehow, I just believe that God will take him to another level in his guitar ministry...because I saw how much he improved these past months...I really hope that one day when he plays he will play with greater anoiting and by then his skills will no longer matter because it's the anoiting and presence of the Holy Spirit that can change things
We went for Sy Roger's service as a cell group...it was really very good although I heard of his story b4 the other time when he came..but being there in the auditorium is really so different from listening to him preach over the internet...the whole preaching really made all of us laugh and it was really really good...
Also I am pretty amazed by how much my little cousin Terence loves the Lord...He actually went to attend the 4.30pm service all alone..I really hope to see him grow even more in the Lord...
But i guess what really caught my attention most was went Rev Tan actually talk about where our source should be. We must really always remember that our source should be from God and not man. Also, about the part of it does not matter what people's intention is but how we actually perceive them. It's really really so true...as this was the revelation that I got weeks ago that makes me want to renew my mind every day...and till now I am doing it...
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Healing from God and other thoughts
During the service just now when Pastor Kong was preaching the itch came back...But thank God for the healing service..because when I was prayed for, the itch became less and I begun to feel a "sting" feeling over my neck and also a warm feeling flowing through me...
And now, the rash and the itch totally subsided...Lord, thanks for healing me!!
Also, Lijun shared with me a vision that she saw..that my skin will become flawless... due to the sleep that I lack and the chocolates that I ate I have been having a very serious pimples outbreak...Actually I have been relying on medication for my face but I stopped it for a period of these 2 weeks because of laziness and somehow the pimples just outbreak so badly...I really hope that God can heal me such that I no longer need to rely on medication...when she told me this I was really so shocked but I am going to hold on to this vision because I believe that God can heal my face and give me flawless complexion...also I am trying to drink lotsa water and eat lotsa fruits too...
Lord, somehow I am really so amazed by how much this friend really changed so much...His mindset seems to have been broken and his thinking seems so different..and he no longer does what he used to do.Seems to be more understanding..I'm really marvelled by how much change is seen in him...
Thursday, March 17, 2005
God Being So Real To Me
Also, I really want to thank God for the 4pm healing conference which was impromt to. Because, my mum and relatives really had a hard time convincig my grandfather to come down for the 7pm healing conference..He simply refused to come because his eyesight is really really bad at night..He lost one of his eye to a failed surgery and now his another eye's vision had begun to deteriorate that doctors are advicing him to go for a cornea transplant but he is afraid that the surgery will fail so he held back from making the decision to go for it. So he could only rely on eyedrops and medication to slightly improve his eyesight...However, till now where ever he goes he needs to bring an umberalla to aid him in walking so that he can use it to poke and check out what's in front before taking steps..other than that he needs people's guidance....But when I broke the news to my mum about the 4pm service she was so excited and on saturday morning she woke up so early and even woke me up from my sleep as she came into my room to use the phone...guess what she not only woke me up but also my aunts...because my grandfather was willing to go for the 4pm service...at the end they all went down together and also when I had a chat with my grandfather at the stadium he was so enthusiatic and even said that he has come to receive healing from God...believing that God can restore his sight...
During the service I was really praying so hard and I even asked Beverly and Lijun to pray for my grandfather's healing..Because I believe that if he is healed, it will bring forth a great revival in my family...When people came up to testify how God had healed them I was hoping that he would walk up too..but as I looked over to his seats I realised that he's still in his seats...so I felt dejected but I kept on praying that God will improve his eyesight...
When I reached home, my mum was already asleep and the next day when I woke up she was not at home...so I just waited and waited till she got back from church and she told me that my grandfather's eyesight was clearer even when they left the stadium...although there was no full healing but I believe that God will one day restore his full sight...so I will keep on praying for that healing to take place....
Personally I also was touched by God, through out all 3 services I felt the strong presence of the Lord...On friday night when Pastor Benny Hinn prayed for the choir I heard a loud bang and even people breaking into holy laugther....On friday night I also was slained and I felt a very very warm feeling in my heart and also I saw a vision of a child running into the arms of the Father and the Father just hold this little child in His arms...after being conscious, I realised that God had begun to heal my wounded heart and I felt the sense of comfort over me and there was great joy upon me...Later for the last service, the choir slained again and this time I begun to weep so much...and I felt that very warm feeling at the back of my head and also through my body...and I felt that God is telling me that he has renew my mind and my thoughts will be changed...also, my life will be totally transformed this year...
Also, something that had been bothering me so so much had been lifted out of me...felt that I had broken free from so many things...God actually restored a friendship that had turned really ugly then we don't even want and feel fearful of talking to each other....It is something that I have been praying for so much and finally through this season God restored it. I guess He did it only when I begun to really let go and let Him take control of it...Now, I seem to enjoy his company and talking to him so much more than before...somehow I felt that our friendship has been brought to another level that I could have no explaination for too...Also, I really saw a few changes in him and I am really so happy to see them..especially in seeing that he finally understands that there is power in intercession and support from cell group and that for the first time since I know him that he ever will message me to ask me to pray for him.Often I don't even know that he is sick until I see him in church.Just so amazed by how much he changed in such a short span of time..I just hope that this friendship that God had given will be beautiful always and forever....and also God will continue to change this brother to be more and more beautiful too...
Lord, I just want to thank You for all that You have done in my life through this season...indeed my life have changed and I am really so glad that I could have such great encounters with You....and really You seemed so real and close to me lately....
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Gathering With Travel Mates
But I was pretty blurr that day...because beverly woke me up from my sleep and ask me to go over..so I brought my laptop along but guess what? I forgot abt my power supply and battery...amusing rite...so conveniently forget both...I was juz thinking if bing wen will kill me for it..but luckily he didn't say anything much..because he had been bugging for the photos and videos that we took during the trip but i never get the chance to send over..hehe
Hmm..finally I got to see bing wen's fren...a so called toro look alike..hehe.. but actuali he doesn't really look like toro but overall quite an above average guy but seems a bit shy sort...
When it was about time for us to leave, bing wen started with some teasing and dating session..hehe..but at the end the ball was shot at him..and beverly also was not let off...all thanks to them trying to pull me into the picture...but they both also were not spared...cats were let out of the bag then...but seriously we had quite alot of fun in bickering with each other...also i manage to see some of beverly's poem..she's really a good writer...some of them are so beautifully written..she's really good in her usage of words as well as expressing her inner thoughts...
Reali so thankful that bing wen drove and drop me at my place that day because i was feeling so lethargic at the end of the day...also really thank God that we did not meet an accident then because bing wen did not check his blind spot...God is really so good..always sending His angels to protect us and keeping us safe from danger...
Today just passed so fast...really enjoyed the time spent with them...haven't gotten so much fun and laughter..hehe
Friday, March 11, 2005
Devastation Turning Into Hope
However, God is really good to me...Matthias my very good friend and also my guardian angel started talking to me on wednesday afternoon over msn...he seldom ask if I am alright but this time he did...when I told him that I was, he somehow sensed that that I am so he said that he will call me at night and went off to prepare for his meeting...
While talking to him I really cried and poured out everything. Things that I never wanted to say...Why? Because he just simply knows what was totally bothering me all these weeks and that it was a real difficult time for me.
After talking to Matthias, my mindset really changed and I told myself that I will let go and move on and also to resolve the issues within me...Because he reminded me that since that day when I asked him more in depth about discipleship and telling him that I want to go through discipleship and also that I want God to really change me from inside out by refining me so that He can use me...I should have expected such times to happen...So he told me I can just tell God that I don't want to go through it anymore or I continue to push through and break out of everything and grow...
After hearing these I told myself that I will never give up...No matter how painful it is I will be willing to go through all these...Because it is my desire to really become stronger...and also remembering that Bro Lester told me that I am already on the verge of breakthrough and i have to perservere if I really want to break through....
Lord, I just want to tell You that I am willing to go through all that I need to go through, all for your sake...Mould me and Use me like never before....You are all that I desire...
I am just so amazed by how God always send Matthias to counsel and comfort me when something is happening to me even without me looking for Matthias. Also, Matthias will always have the Godly wisdom to know how to deal with me and my situations. So all along I really felt that Matthias is really like a guardian angel that God sends in times of needs.
Also, Matthias is a really a great friend of mine....someone whom I know that even at wee hours if I need to talk to him he would be there for me...because quite a few times he just did that and also he never fails to protect me....seriously, talking to him is really nice but I rarely have such opportunities because he's so busy...so everytime when I get to talk to him I will be so excited...because he's really a very good story teller...also he has a very powerful voice and sounds real nice when he plays the guitar and worship or praise God.....
Lord, I just want to thank you for Matthias...he's really a great friend in deed...even from the very first day we started becaming friends was really kinda special because he actually taught me recursion when I had problem with it...But once he teaches me I do exceedingly well in it...He's really a great teacher too....From then on our friendship just developed even till now when we don't really spend much time talking as we used to anymore but I know that he will always be a great friend to me.....because it is You, Lord who placed Him in my life so that i can grow and learn from him...
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Sing O Barren!!
Lord, thank you for giving me the opportunity to sing for You and I really love the new songs that we learnt.Seriously never expect that after coming back to choir after 2 months of break I could actually play a part in such a maginificient event...
Somehow, I believe that the Holy Spirit will fall like a dove on the Healing Conference when the whole choir worship Him....Also, God will heal many and lots of miracles will be seen...Although it's not my first time witnessing such events but I am really excited about it.
Monday, March 07, 2005
Farewell...
The preparation was really quite time consuming and tiring but seriously we really enjoyed ourselves so much in getting all of these up...We met up on wednesday at 8.45 at city hall mrt station control as it was the only common time slot that we had...Later we just proceed to esplanade are to do the filming...I would say that I really had so much fun then...Seeing that all of us were so united was really really great..Managed to capture some funny shots of them...Hmm..but I felt a little disappointed because we had to scrap off one of the song that was specially written for them, using the graduation song as the melody...also I did not manage to get the shots that I intended to do so...all due to the lack of time...but really so thankful that all of them were so cooperative...
I guess I really can't stand the camera...I kept having so many NGs and my eyelids will keep on blinking when I face the camera...and Beverly wanted to smack me if I were to get NGs again..but I realise that when no one is around I just could take the videos without any NGs...But seriously we had so much fun in trying to take videos and I guess the funniest video we could actually produce would be the sisters' interviews for jerel but there was a lack of time so we only manage to rehearse but not captured them...hehe..but i seriously wonder if jerel will be amused by them..hehe
After capturing all that I could..it was really time that I had to sit down and start viewing them and think of how to piece all of them together...it's really tough to do such a thing in such a short span of 2 and a half days...
Thank God that lijun was around to help me with them and also contributing some ideas to the video.And seriously it had been a real long time since university days that lijun and I worked with each other...hehe..looks like this time round we really got fedup with each other at times and that we lost our patience..But I sense that lijun is really sweet and sacrificial because she stayed up till so late when to her sleep is really really so important..also she really had became a much greater host than before. Indeed she really had grown up...
Of course not forgetting guohong who helped with the last part of jerel's video as I was totally worn out by then and also having availing himself when we needed him urgently even when he is preparing for his test. Also helping to get small minor little things done like printing of song sheets and helping to message rirong to remind him to bring his guitar on wednesday morning. I guess he really helped lijun alot in helping with the conversion of the videos...also in helping to film videos of morgan, victor, shuxian etc...it's not easy carrying his laptop and the web cam around..also I did not forget that when I told him that I ask rirong to bring a his guitar he told me that he also has a guitar so I asked him so will u rather carry a guitar together with your laptop too?It just came across my mind that he was willing even when it was troublesome...what a good attitude...but at the end I told him I would bring instead...also being willing to do the rap when he never tried before...
As for nicole she really was sacrificial too..she also stayed up late to send photos over to lijun and also even made the effort to go back to her hall to send photos over as there was something wrong with the connection and we needed them urgently.
Hmmm..Haoyi did a great job too..she made the effort to go down to NUS and film those videos that were undone and also transferring them over late at night...She's really so cute then..Because she felt so sorry that the videos could not be used and that we need to do conversion which means extra time....and also for falling asleep without sending us the videos...what a silly gal...
This is going to be funny...when lijun called stanley and ask him if he can do rapping...he thought the he had to 'wrap' ...so he was like saying that he can't do that..till I took the phone over then I really begun to break into laughter...but when he know that it was a rap he was so enthusiastic and was willing to try...of course he practice it even when he was in the midst of preparing for his test...
Rirong, was also so excited about the whole thing..when I asked him if he knows how to play the two songs that we selected, he immediately said he can try and he even went to search for the chords...so it not only saved up my time in searching for them..but also his enthusiasm hit me..
Not forgetting beverly...Although she have left the cell group but yet she came and joined us and even helped out with the lyrics of the graduation song...Know that things was not easy for you back then but really thanks for helping to make things work out well too...
Morgan was really so busy lately but at least he even tried to make time and even offer to come down after work but just then it's really not feasible..but really thankful that even when he's busy he took time off to let guohong film his video..and seriously i reali like ur candid shot...it's just so funny
Of course not forgetting Victor and Shuxian...It was Victor who planned for such an event to take place and then delegate the job and let us take up the responsibilities to make all the possible...of course not forgetting how concern he is about me, about whether I can cope with what I need to do...He would message and check up on me...Also, having to teach in the day and then go for leader's meeting was already tiring enough but he came after the meeting and help in organising and getting things done...A great leader to be....As for shuxian, she's really a wonderful woman..someone who is always so concern of the cell group members even in the midst of busyness.She went to bible house to collect the camera from Simon..Actually I manage to have a talk with her over dinner...felt so encouraged of what God had done in her life...
I should not forget simon too..because he actually lent us the camera and also helped in playing the guitar for us..thank you so much brother...because I could see that you were actually very very tired but you avail yourself and help us with it...
Also, God really stretch and expanded my capacity so much through these period of time..I felt that I could do more than what I initially used to...He really sustained me through these days and nights so that I could so the videos..although the sleep that I had was really really so little but He's really so good to me....
Through this season I sense that love has been rebuilt in E298 and also there was a sense of unity within E298...Every single one played a huge part in helping to piece all of these together..without them I could not even have all of the videos up...it was not my own effort but theirs too..they also were deprived of sleep and were around even when we just give them a call and say we need this and the next moment we would have it...
But I felt that God should be the one whom all tribute should be paid to...Because without Him i really felt that all these are not possible..because He is the source of our strength...
Somehow, I felt that I begun to love my cell group even more...and seriously I felt that the friendship that we all had in E298 seems to have been brought to another level...of course E298 will definitely be known of a cell group full of love....
When it was the day of farewell, we also had a birthday celebration for haoyi.Though simple but that element of surprise was really there. Because she didn't even know that the cake was for her and when we turned, walked towards her and started singing the birthday song she really jumped...and I am so glad that she likes the card that I made for her even though when there are really flaws on it..But seriously I want to thank God for giving me that spirit of creativity to do that card because lately I just simply felt quite drained...
Hmm...of course, cards and presents were presented to the 3 of them too...Glad that they like them...I would actually say that the standard of card making in E298 had really increased and everyone of them are really so good because they are able to produce cards in short notice...Keep up the good work!!...
When viewing the videos, i realised that the videos were not very well done..especially the behind the scenes section and also it seems like there is some confusion in the voice as well as the background music....hmmm..but i guess i should be grateful that they can be viewed...
Of course, there is great sadness in knowing that the 3 of them are leaving but I believe that God has a purpose for placing them in N75 and that they will grow tremendously there...Will always miss you all...of course not forgetting the good times that we all had shared...of course we really missed your presence when we did the videos...and when I was going through all the photos and videos that we took all these past 1 year plus I really felt that sense of sadness that we got to part...of course seeing how much all of you change these years, is really so nice...coz you all have really grown from glory to glory..