This is one of my favourite songs of all time. Be blessed!
Have Your Way - Youth Ailve South Australia : Phenomena
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
without You, here in my life …
I looked back at my first year of work (which I didn’t elaborate here), and all I could see was traces of God’s leading and guidance in my life. How He saw me through my situations, even though they were not major ones that would shake a person up, nor were they too minor to make an impact on my life.
The song below speaks so much about what I’ve gone through this past one year, not only at work, but life as a whole. Though I have not walked on water, nor felt the waves beneath my feet, but at His word, I’ll receive His faith to walk on oceans deep.
Yesterday’s Quote of the Day reads,
One of the mysteries of faith is that, although it constitutes our deepest response to God for what He has done for us in Jesus Christ, yet it is, at the same time, a gift from Him when we lift our eyes beyond ourselves. He meets us with faith when we want to have faith. - John Gunstone
It says that God meets us with faith when we want to have faith .. and when we receive God’s word, instruction .. we need faith to obey cause .. it’s hard. For those who find it hard to hear from God will find it even harder to LISTEN to God, because listening requires obedience, action, and sacrifice.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
- John 10:27
God has challenged me beyond what I think my calling encompasses. He has not only challenged, but already provided for it even, and how does that not give you faith to go?
And you know where it all started?
Obedience. That’s an entry for another day.
Here’s the song. Be blessed!
Here in My Life - Hillsong : Saviour King
These past couple of weeks have been a time of discovery, particularly of the women kind. It’s interesting how women’s make-up is so different from men. The way they function, the way they think, the way they react to their circumstances and situations.
My own family is predominantlly male, and having spent more time with Elizabeth’s family which is predominantly female .. gave me a new perspective of family life. Women talk 3 times more than men, so having 66% of the family talk 300% more than the males in the family .. that’s quite .. fuh.
And it made me think about what God had in mind when He crafted women.
What do you think God had in mind?
Keith Urban - God made woman
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RM5 could buy you a mountain, you know?
I’ve been having mountains of economy rice. All for only RM5.00. My lunch buddy, Jason Chai comes over quite often to have lunch together at this place near my office, and I almost always pig out.
A good appetite is a great indicator of proper health, praise God.
Liz made me breakfast over the weekend on Saturday, and boy .. I sure did feel like a boy again.
My mom used to make us breakfast on Saturday mornings, where we’ll be treated with pancakes, sunny side up eggs, baked beans, sausages, and french toast. But as we grew older, the Saturday morning breakfasts became less frequent .. and our demand for it dwindled too.
Yeah, I do have breakfast everyday now .. and weekends, I treat myself to expensive dim sum breakie sessions together with Nick .. but nothing beats .. home cooked breakfast of champions filled with love!
Thanks, love.
You know, it’s so easy to lose grip on life.
It only takes one slip, and next thing you know .. you’re sliding downhill.
Yesterday, I felt under the weather. Took the day off, and slipped. That subconsious abyss that exists deep in my soul consumed me whole, left me alone in the dark.
As I waded through the darkness of undealt frustrations I had buried in that abyss, I feel deeper. Deeper into frustrations with my own inability to achieve excellence, even though I strive and toil at, with all my heart, soul and strength. Loneliness overcame me, in areas that few are concerned about. Even fewer, address the issue and manhandles it by the neck.
Maybe I am not alone. Maybe I’ve narrowed my perspective and vision within the confines of my own abyss.
I slept, after getting off the phone with Elizabeth.
I awakened, and spent some time in quietness with God.
And then He reassured me.
Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope;Because of God’s great love we are not consumed
for His compassions never fail.They are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness.I say to myself,”The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for Him.”The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him,
to the one who seeks Him;it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.Let him sit alone in silence
for the Lord has laid it on him.- Lamentations 3:21-28
The revelation of His word never fails to capture my amazement.
Found, by United Live - All of the Above
“The point when we forget the meaning of the cross is the point where we forget the meaning of our lives.”
Lead Me to the Cross -United Live : All of the Above
Is that really You, calling?
Whenever I struggle to hear God’s voice, the story of how God called Samuel presents such a perspective to how we should always respond. Don’t we, one time or another ever thought twice about the voice of God, whether we heard right or not?
1 Samuel 3 starts with Samuel being under the covering of Eli. Oh, how essential is that. If we are serious about hearing from God, even though the word of the LORD has not come upon us [in which the phrase "word of the LORD" I think would mean the rhema word of God], we need to minister/function under a more mature and godly person. The rhema word of God means the REVEALED word of God released for that season in your life. Here’s the entry on it. And when we are not sensitive enough to God’s voice, the mentor will always be there to help us discern. And in the case of Samuel, it was Eli.
The story also depicts how God had to call Samuel 3 times before he responded correctly. Actually, he DID respond correctly, only to the wrong person. It is easy to mistake someone else’s voice as God’s. Especially when that voice is so familliar and prominent in your life. It could be your pastor, or youth leader, or maybe parents. And when you step out in faith based on the voice of a human being, the basis of how you function is rooted on a foundation that is not directly on God’s word. When the strong winds come, you begin to shake.
Samuel responded,”Here I am, you called me.” all three times. His character is amiable, with such meekness, ever ready, ever willing. I have to admit, it is tough to always be ready to go, ready to serve. But we try our best! And when you do, God speaks.
And after God speaks, we must guard that word like how Samuel guarded the Lord’s word for him.
The LORD was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let none of his words fall to the ground.
I feel God calling me.
Though all this while I have had no issues obeying what He has spoken and called me to do, but this time it is quite beyond what I expected. Yeah, it doesn’t come as a surprise considering the fact that I shared about it once, in Cell. But STILL!!
I love the way Samuel responded in the end.
Speak, your servant is listening.
.. is something that hasn’t come easy for me.
It took a while, not because I didn’t but because I didn’t know how to. It’s something that isn’t natural for someone who grew up in a typical Asian family with a distant father and a disciplining mother. Of course, I thank God for who they are and how they have shaped me, and that they are still together, alive and well .. but I can’t help to think if things would have turned out differently had they verbally affirmed their love for us while we were growing up.
It’s no matter, really. I’m learning to express my love more verbally, and I did.
I whispered into her ear, and meant it with all my heart.
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