Posted on: Sunday, September 23, 2007
Posted at: 6:59 AM
i feel...the intensity of parental objection...
i feel...so proud of my brother..
i think...it is all linked, my brother is strong even in the face of parental objection and peer persecution..
ONLY GOD can fulfill the needs for acceptance, security and love. Not friends nor family but only God... hundreds of thousands of people have experienced His Love and His unexplainable peace. I am one of them. You can experience the same thing too. He is more than willing to give it to you, completely free of charge on our part. What He only wants in return is your love...
I am sophisticated seventeen! i insist that i am not old! thankew Pastors for the card! thankew Charleston, Ivan and Samantha for the earrings, loves them! thankew Sylvia and Naomi for the donuts, so sweet! thankew Hannah and Lynn for the cards, so beautiful! thankew B4 for the cake, its chocolatey! i shall not feel pain for the cg fund...LOL... and thankew to those who bothered to sms, really appreciate it! =) Last but not least, Thankew God, for all the blessings and for the wonderful people, loves them all!
Posted on: Friday, September 14, 2007
Posted at: 11:47 PM
Samantha's sharing was so very powerful! the tongue is a very very powerful tool, how many deaths it can cause and how many lives it can redeem...just by the power of words. it is very very scary if B4 is just like any other group of friends in the world. what B4 must really really have is God. no more guys for me, its just God.
the truth always hurts, oh yes it does, but nevertheless, im gonna keep on running the race based on the promises and truths of my loving God. God once said to me i think 'Slow BUT Strong.' Pastor How once told me 'a woman of COURAGE.' So what if im growing slowly? So what if i appear to be the least courageous of all people? God's Words and His promises will always always come to pass. Always.
He works in unimaginable ways, He is dealing with every small detail of my life, maybe that's why im growing slowly, cuz He really goes down to the real minute detail and makes sure that every single spot of blemish in that particular area is gone before He allows me to move on to another area. i realise that is how He works with me. haha. and i realise that when He does that, even though i grow very slow, once i break through out of it, i seldom encounter the same problem or revert back to old ways and faults again. Yes i do sometimes, very seldom, but it does not come as strong, as tiring and as irritating. haha.
'out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.'
Posted on: Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Posted at: 7:48 AM
i shall blog about more serious stuff and not all the weird superficial crapping i always come up with...haha
yea, i can feel the changes, the changes in the cell group... like sylvia said, it is the pruning season for God. And there is a need, more than ever, to pull the whole cg together. People are changing, so am i, either we drift apart or we come up together stronger than we were before. i was reminded of one occasion when ger(twin!) asked me why my close friends are all church friends or why i spend so much time with my church friends..cant exactly rmb but it was smth like that... i think at that time i said something like cuz they are really true friends and they are different. not that those in school are not good friends, but there is smth different. now, as i think about it again, yes, there is something more.
the fact that my church friends are the closest to me even though we only see each other once or twice a week is because we have the same Vision, the same Purpose. We know each other's past, we run alongside each other, helping each other along thr0ugh the race, through our walk with God, we know that OUR PAST IS REDEEMED, OUR PRESENT IS FULL OF PURPOSE AND OUR FUTURE IS SECURE. We know that we have all these because of our same God, our same Father. my thoughts, my visions are shared with this group of people in church. through them and through God, i learnt to trust again, i learnt to love. its amazing, truly amazing to see my growth and others as well. though i cant say im perfect and there are many others who are even better than me, i notice the change in me and i am really really grateful. where else can i find this vision and purpose and this chance to define myself as a person except in church, in God? where else can i find friends who share such intimate relationships with each other to the point that we have no qualms in receiving discipleship or rather, correction? of course, this have to be gradually cultivated and learnt, together with our own desire to grow. i was and am still learning how to take discipleship with an open heart.
i feel so much joy when i see the changes in people, the joy of the Lord that really truly emanates from them. i marvel at the lives that have been turned around by God. i want others to experience this too, of course, it does not gurantee an easy life, but it gurantees a relationship with a God that's real and with friends that are true.
and a random phrase. Happiness may leave, but Joy stays. =)
