prayer walk & food

This is the cell group I am in - Jia Yin. Which means good news, or gospel.

The guys…From left standing - Chocky, Bennedict and Sitting - Lawrence (CG Leader)

The girls….Jo and YewChing

Niny and I

It was decided, that Sunday, we’ll have an outing! Firstly, it’s prayer walk.. but the temperature was -6 or -7. Cold!

But we manage to pray for the town, for God’s love to be poured onto His people!

Next stop - Chong’s Sushi House. [ I gave that name myself, it's actually called something else but I can't remember what].

The menu

We ate

and ate

and ate

Till everything was gone…

Yummy!

The food was ok, but the fellowship was great. We had a chance to get to know each other more…..

hardtimes establishes you! Part 2

Remeber the previous post about how hardtimes establishes you? I didn’t manage to go into the title even! aha..and it was already long enough for a post. Everyone faces hard times, sometimes we feel it’s too much for us, and it’s better to just give up! Well….do you want to give birth to a better/new you? Soar higher above the storms? or Take off into the clouds? Or do you just want to give up when trouble comes….

God promised never to give us something we cannot handle.

1corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

Do you remember the bible story of David and Goliath. David, being the youngest in his family, a shepherd that never went to war before, came and face the giant, Goliath. David knew who was with him - that’s the Lord God almighty!

Know who is with you today, God is with you, the Holy Spirit dwells in you.

David did not saw Goliath as a problem that will bring him down. David saw Goliath as an opportunity to glorify His God and also to establish him for the future.

2 Cornthians 12:9
And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”

Often we see our problem bigger than us, but when you turn your eyes to Jesus, you’ll see that God is bigger than your problem! And this small struggle that you are facing now, will establish you for greater things ahead. Just as Goliath was there to establish David, a step for David to take for him to be the king of Israel.

There is nothing too hard for you because your God is with you! And the hard times you are facing today establishes you for the future!

hardtimes establishes you

I was just speaking to one of the leaders in church and he shared with me something so encouraging!

Most of the time we faces hard times…times we struggle to do the things we are supposed to do. And we wonder why. Alot of churches out there has the same encouragement for the members that felt dry, worn out and even struggling. I believe most of us know, that our breakthrough is just around the corner!!! Just a word of encouragement….press forward and dont give up! The darkness knows that the breakthrough is near, and you are going to rise higher than ever, that is why he’s trying to bring so many attacks against you so you’ll fail and fail to go higher to where you can go!

A few encouraging words I heard. One is about a woman, going to deliver…and as we all know, it’s hard, pushing, breath in breath out, push..it’s hard, and sometimes she feels like giving up but she knows she will not and she wont, she persist and finally the baby is born! Then joy overcomes all the previous struggles. Push on, persist till you get your breakthrough! And you’ll see a great thing is being born in you!

Another was about the resistance that an airplane faces when it is taking off. So hard, the resistance is so strong, and control of the ‘wheel’ needs to be right and perfect..but right after that moment of greatest resistance, the airplanes glides with the wind as it carries it higher into the clouds!

And be like the eagle, the bible says. The eagles flies through the dark and thunderous clouds and comes out the other side soaring higher than ever! It does not avoid the dark clouds but uses it to bring him higher when it comes out at the ther side. Isnt that great? Joyce Meyer had a series of sermon on flying like the eagles and I found this article by Joyce Meyer - Learning to Fly.

Isaiah 40:31 (Amplified Bible)

31But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired.

Wolves

Son : I wanna be Wolverine the superhero. He’s so cool!
Father : Aha, I’ve got a story for you! In every person, there are 2 wolves and they
are constantly fighting!

Wolf 1 : anger, jealousy, pride, condemnation, depression, low-self esteem,
lies, chaos, manipulation, lust, unforgiveness, superficial, fear,
you name it..anything’s negative
Wolf 2 : Peace, patience, love, hope, authentic, courage, purity, joy,
basically anything positive…

Son : Wow, a battle!! Which one wins dad??
Father : Well, the one you FEED..

Wow, it’s such a simple illustration but yet carries such great revelation in it! I read it in one of my best friend’s blog. And God reminded me again of His great love for us, His creations.

In each one of us, there are 2 wolves. One is our flesh that carries all those anger, jealousy, pride, condemnation, depression, sin,etc….and another is the Spirit of God that is in us that is full of love, grace, patience, love, courage, joy. In the bible it says, that if you do not want to reap the corruption of the flesh, then walk in the Spirit. Walk in love, and in joy and peace.
If you do not want to be so nasty, full of anger, then do not feed it. Instead, learn to care and love, learn to forgive and be gracious.

Currently having Pediatric Sugery cycle.

Till next time,

great music & movie

Currently listening to Chris Tomlin’s God Almighty from Hello Love. I love the album. All the songs are so wonderful, great worship songs!

Also, currently is downloading…

Your Love Never Fails from Bethel Church’s Jesus Culture Music.

and Chris Tomlin’s See the Morning.

Any great worship album, please let me know, I would love to listen to it!

Btw, just did a very impromtu thingie…shall share about it next time. Also, I watched a very nice, heart-warming movie last night, Miss Potter. At first, I was thinking it’s a teen movie, who knows it turns out to be about Beatrix Potter, the author of best-selling children tales, one of it is Peter Rabbit.

Familiar? It sure does to me, when I first saw the drawing in the movie. It’s definately worth watching. Besides for the beautiful and breath-taking sceneries in Scottland and supposing London, I love the English spoken in the movie, it was…perfect!

Till next time….

things that matters

There are a lot of things that can happen in a day. From the things nearest to us till the things that seemed far away or maybe really has nothing to do with us. For example someone didnt win his match today. It is something that happened, affected himself and the people he’s with but us???? If you look into it, it really has nothing to do with us.

I wanted to follow the match between Federer and Simon today but I was too tired and decided to go and have a nap. After I woke up, I totally forgotten about the match until I saw a sms saying that history seemed to be repeating itself. Haha…of course I was a bit sad, just for one moment (one second) but then, in any matches, there are people that win and lost. No big deal.

It does’t matter if

who wins the next match, or if your favourite player lost in a match
or if your favourite artist is getting married
or if the album is no longer no.1 in the chart
or someone famous person bought a house somewhere

What really matters is..

when someone does now know God’s promises for them and lives so recklessly,
when they are ignoring His grace and His love for them,
when someone dies without knowing God.

A christian walk is so EASY when you come to realised what Jesus had finished on the cross. The Father’s grace for us every single day surpasses anything that we can ever encounter in our life, our work, our relationships… The grace that enables us to receive His blessings and all the promises that are in the Bible.

We can live all our lives following our favourite player, favourite singer/actor/actress and when those things passes away, or circumstances changes, you will find emptiness in you because these things cannot fill the place for God that is in everyone’s heart. In the Bible it says, everyone has a knowledge of God because He is our creator. The creation knows the creator, but it just the the matter if they see God or not. Everyone at a point in their life will have the question - is there a God? And there is only one living God! Only when God is placed in that place in our heart, then everything will be filled one at a time and you’ll begin to see your life transformed more and more like Jesus, moving from glory to glory! (2 cor 3:17-18)

Passover, The Significance

Ever heard about the Passover? It is found in Exodus 12. It is the day that God saved His people, from Egypt. It begins with the 10 Plague that hit Egypt with the last plague, that was killing of all the firstborn. The Israelites were instructed to mark the doorposts of their homes with the blood of a lamb, and upon seeing this, the spirit of the Lord passed over these homes, hence the term “passover”.
Often we always think it is just an event in the Bible, a story, but really, it is more than that.

It is amazing how the old testament all points to Jesus.
When men (adam) first fell, God already had a plan to restore the broken relationship back.
And everything that God did in the Old testament is a shadow of Jesus’ coming! Amazing!!

Wokie, let’s be marvelled with God’s wonders…lets start –

1. It is the first step of getting saved – is to believe that we need a saviour. A beginning of our walk in the new covenant.
2. The lamb of Passover is reserved for 4 days before being offered. It is placed in front of the family’s house so everyone will know that this is the lamb that will cover their sin. Jesus prayed 4 days in the temple before He was crucified and people saw Him.
3. The Lamb has to be without blemished. Jesus was examined by Herod, Pilate, and Caiaphas and found not guilty.
4. It has to be the lamb of 1st year. Meaning a young lamb! Jesus was the only Son of God and He came once.
5. It had to be male lamb. Sin entered through man.
6. Every household needed a lamb. Jesus died for you and me. It is a personally thing!
7. The lamb was to be killed between evening of the day till the next day. Jesus died in the middle of evening.
8. The whole assembly must kill their lamb. Jesus died for all.
9. The blood was applied to the door post. It symbolizes the cross.
10. Lamb had to be eaten. It is us partaking the body of Christ.
11. It has to be eaten quickly because they were leaving Egypt the very next day. It is to show that we must get out of our sin quickly!
12. This is the Lord’s passover. God’s redemptive plan for mankind.
13. The whole thing was done in evening. Jesus came and the last meal – Last Supper – evening.
14. no bone of the lamb should be broken. Jesus’ bone will not be broken. It was clearly only His blood that make atonement (cleaning) of our sin.
15. Lamb was killed outside the city. Jesus was crucified outside of the city.

Every year, they celebrate this feast of Passover! It is to remember the day that God brought them out of Egypt! They are all to go to Jerusalem to offer the lamb. But, if there are Israelites that were not in Jerusalem, they were to offer a shank (thigh) of the lamb.
Isaiah 53:1 – arm of the Lord ( Hebrew Zeroah = arm)
Symbolizing that if you are outside the fellowship for Christ, the arm of the Lord is not too short to save!