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Saturday, January 06, 2007

I lost my phone!!! I lost my phone!!!I lost my phone!!!I lost my phone!!!I lost my phone!!!I lost my phone!!!


wahhh!!!..veryy irritated LOOOO.. .i 've totally no idea how i dropped my phone..and where i left it. . .it could probably be in the alley or that drainage..or the grassfields..(yeah..and yanne..for once i hate your grassfields..LOL)..and i searched every nook and cranny of the road leading towards the busstop..looking really stoopid holding a phone..trying to call..while LOOKING and finding my phone along the roads..AND i looked really pissed and bu(2) shunag(3) sitting on the bus and mrt..and looked veryy black-faced..throughout the whole entire trip to jurong point..i got quite a lot of weird stares..cuz i probably looked as if i'm gg to kill someone or smthing. .

wahwah..i neo i'm whining lyke crazy..but i can't help it..!!..now i have to use my sis old phone that doesn't seem to work somehow..and its LG..(yeah..YANNE..it's LG..li ying ai being the spokesperson of it.LOL)..not that i have anything against LG phones..but i'm totally not used to using LG phones.. i'm so attached to my sony erisson.. phone.. .and oHHH..my jaychou keychain that cannot be bought in s'pore is gone forever. ..and to think that i actually got chensi to buy it in shanghai for me..!..losing my phone is a big loss man. . .

YEAHHH..and as usual .i was late.. for our proj/sia meeting. .and luckily i met zona at the mrt station..else i don't know howi 'm gg to contact the rest.. .sometimes..i feel tat i'm too dependant and over-reliant towards my PHONE>.lyke you can't live w/o it.. .ex..i always switch on my phone the 1st thing i come bk from overseas..and i'm NOW not used to that fact that i can't check my messenges and smses on the phone. .

anw..met up with zona/soph/cyn/qiuting..AND AS USUAL..the dbsk fans started talking bout their dbsk stuff..and trying to download their dbsk songs(HEH..qiu..ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING HORS..)..it wasn't when i reminded them that we were meeting up to do SIA..did they stop talking bout dbsk..

and heheh.I"VE felt proud of our grp..cuz i din't neo that these peeps can actually be so serious when they work..LOl..we managed to discuss everything..and to delegate tasks..and to ensure we're on-task.hah..

so in lyke 1hr..we FINIshed everything..and den i rushed off to chensi's hse..


in the end, we ended up watching deathnote 1..and it was extremely COOL..L and kira acted really well..and it was a brillant detective kinda story.. .very cleverly manipulated. . .yeps..and i really really want to catch deathnote2.. .

but after watching the movie amde me think that perhaps..kira at first was actaully a good kind-hearted soulll..whose dream was to become a policeman to help mankind to get rid of evill..BUT..he found a deathnote book which changed his desitny and fate entirely.. .apparently..he actually wanted to use this deathnote to kill and eliminate all criminals..basically..he aims to get rid of all evil on earth..]

but later..you'll find out that he resorts to killing anyone that comes his way..so as to save himself from the police..to get himself off the suspect list..he even killed his own girlfriend..i was veryy disturbed with the fact..that actually when one posses the pwoer to kill and destroy....that even an innocent soul would be infleunced by the deadly, greedy, vicious, and evil root of all. ..in fact..the ironic tihng is that..on the way in search of justice..peace and a more rightoues society..you end up creating more havoc..and trouble..creatinn mroe bloodshed on the way..


OH>.great..this sounds so L.A..sebby will be proud that after year of teaching..i've improved so much..LOL..anws..it's sad that she's leaving.. :(

OHH..and serving in children's club is so fun..i always find it a joy to teach the kids there..even tho it's hard and difficult..but to see them so serious and so setermined to finish their work makes me feel so sastified and happy. .workin with children is always so FUn..they never stop to give you a smile..and they are always so contented with what they have. and YESYES>.they are always so cute..!!


harhar.. so.. i already make it a point to serve at children's club every week..sokpeng says we the young ppl always so ON..haha.. .


6th jan
Chap 25 “transformed by trouble”

God has a purpose behind every problem. He always uses problems to mould our character and shape our attitude. He depends on circumstances to develop our character and to make us more like Jesus, in fact he relies more on circumstances more than us reading the bible. The reason is simple, we face circumstances 24 hours. Therefore, God feels that this is the most convenient and easiest way to transform our character. God warned us before hand that we would have problems in the world. Everyone is prone to be ill or sick someday, and we are bound to face problems and difficulties in life, no matter how big or small. Life is a series of problems, after we solve one problem, the next problem comes by. Not all of them may be BIG problem, but they re all small and significant to God’s sight because they all contribute to your spiritual growth.

Problems are always normal in life therefore we should not fear them. however, we must always learn to overcome these problems, because if we fail to, we will definitely feel that life is a despair and grew to hate life, and eventually living a LIFe that has no LIFE. (does that make sense..living a life that has no life)

God often uses problems to draw you closer to him. Only when we are feeling lost, desperate and hopeless, then will we turn to God and ask for help. Our most intimate relationships with the lord will be those times that our loneliest, depressed, saddest and worst times in our lives. when we are stuck at a deep end, and we’re running out of options, when our heart has shattered into many pieces and is barely possible to mend the broken heart, when we feel rejected and abandoned, then will we turn to God alone. It is only during suffering that we will turn to God to find shelter, comfort, love, hope, peace and love. Only in great pain, we will learn to pray true, genuine, authentic prayers, not superficial prayers that we do them all year round, but real prayers that come straight from the heart. I was reminded by ps. Khong preaching about the drug addicts in hongkong, where they are so desperate to get rid of their drug addiction that they come in front of the lord to confess their sins so that they can gain a new life and to totally completely get rid of their drug addiction. These are people who really are hopeless beigns who simply have no way out except to take up their cross and follow jesus.

We learn things about God in suffering that we cannot learn in any other way. Brother yun also suffered greatly in china during the revolutionary years, where china undergo a lot of changes in the midst of transforming to a communist state. He wanted to preach the gospel far and wide china, to expand churches as big as thousands and tens thousands, to heal the sick and blind, perform miracles so as to testify the power of the living God. Yet, the officials took notice of him and he became a wanted criminal in china, he was charged with various unknown crimes and later thrown into prison without much of a trial. During all his suffering, he never denied the lord jesus Christ, nor did he ever made himself more distant from God, he remained closer to God even when times he got whipped, beaten and electrocuted. He constantly, fasted, prayed and even spread the gospel to his in-mates. This is a man of faith who leaned on God’s goodness and grace during times of suffering and pain. He never ever stopped giving up, continued to persevere on even though he faced many obstacles in his path. He continue to put his trust in lord, and the lord never let him down, God showed his mercy in many things that he had done and let him escape from his enemies unhurt and unscathed.

Monday, January 01, 2007

1st jan 2007!!
Sermon devotion / ps khong / when the spirit comes in power—the gifts of the holy spirit today / 1 corinthians 12 : 7-13

We have to learn to move in the holy spirit each and everyday of our lives. To be able to show others that Holy Spirit lives in us, and therefore to manifest the fruits of the spirit, by loving, caring and helping others.

Gifts are supernatural works of grace:

Spiritual gifts are always supernatural; they are always God-given. Thus, an unbeliever does not have supernatural gifts because he/she had not yet received the spirit in their lives. They cannot move in the Holy Spirit and perform miracles nor heal the sick. However, it’s important to note that spiritual gifts are very different from that of natural talents, they are 2 different things and thus cannot mix with each other. Natural talents that are acquired since you were young, but spiritual gifts can only be obtained when you are a believer and its God’s work of grace. For example, ps khong illustrated a story whereby a powerful prophet may be blessed with the spirit of prophesy but he/she may not be walking right with the lord and is a homosexual. However, God has given this gift not because he’s faithful but rather he’s gracious to all. This shows that all spiritual gifts are God-given and thus it’s of the spirit, not by the flesh. We cannot say that these spiritual gifts are from us and thus boast about it.

Supernatural gifts means that we’re able to communicate between spirit to spirit. God can actually also use our natural talents to be spiritual gifts. Therefore, he can sue our natural talents to serve others or to share the gospel. Spiritual gifts are charismata__works of grace. Charis means grace(means you can call me grace too ..LOL) one who is spiritual does not equivalent to one who exercises spiritual gifts. He may only be given spiritual gifts because of grace that the lord has given him. he has been given this particular gift because the lord has shown grace and mercy on him. God is such a great and wonderful God that he gives spiritual gifts to us freely.

Gifts are situational manifestation of the spirit:

We are often given the spiritual gifts only at that moment and then it disappears. Therefore, everyone who exercises spiritual gifs feel empty. We are only able to exercise the spiritual gifts there and then and it disappears after that. God allow us to exercise the spiritual gifts so that we be of a blessing to others and serve them. We can be always available to God, to be a warrior of light anytime to fight in the battlefield.

Gifts must be stirred up in the body of Christ:
It needs practice to be able to exercise the gifts of the Holy Spirit!!