Tuesday, September 30, 2008
-9:25 PM
i finished both my paper 1 for english and chinese today. it was great i guess. prayed a little before each paper started and i could already feel the faith rising! haha. prayer that move mountains. :) left for church soon after and Sean said he wanted to follow us to church ahha okay so we went. managed to study a little until the cat high people came! ahaha! then hong jie, indian and sunny came along too! ahhaa. it was super funny!
totally full of laughter today man :) it was so funny, but we managed to study though, except for False Prophet Marcus. -.- ahhaa. it was some epic fun disturbing hong jie with all the high pitch screamings ahhha!
okay, can i tell you about a guy in my cg by the name of Lim Yu Feng! okay, he's like super zai okay. he so far, has brought 4 friends to church, when he is only 2 weeks old in our church! super cool person man. :) today, he brought another friend called Nicholas Shen. (why is the whole world having my name!!! maybe i should change my name when i get water baptized LOL). so we chatted for awhile, hung out a while and left for home later since he stay at loyang point! yea yea. it was great man. i found out more about Yufeng and Nicholas Shen. it was great man. Yufeng even asked me, "how many people do we have in F23 currently?"
i told him, "12, why eh?"
he answered, "no la, i want F23 to grow to 15, so i shall bring more friends to church this saturday. we shall not lose to Jiaxin's CG!"
OWN ALREADY I TELL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D JIAXIN AHAHHAHA! we got secret weapon leh! hehehe. he even told me that he remembers that one of our 7 pillars is giving, so he has already prepared the offering for this week's service. awesome guy man. i pray that more people like Yufeng are going to come. we are easily going to hit 15!
called Cheryl, and she was like super happy! :) we are changing our faith target to 20 man. twenty. er shi ge ren leh! ahhahaha! that's right. with God, all things are possible :)
i can't wait for the meeting with Cheryl tomorrow! it's going to be awesome man. we gotta plan for F23 if not, we are going to miss the harvest!!! haha yea, after that, there's follow up for Jedric WOOO! F23 is going to get stronger man. even Yufeng can start follow up :) hehe. awesome man. we are going to grow grow grow. just wanna thank God for all these man. gonna worship him and give thanks some more later. you are a great God man. :)
today is great, but tomorrow's going to be better!
goodnight all :)
Monday, September 29, 2008
-9:47 PM
i'm starting to feel the heat piling up. maybe because my first paper starts tomorrow? ahaha, i guess that's the reason. okay, so i spent the whole night reading past year compositions, and practising the format for letter writings. ahha. so funny how the person's face flashes in my mind when i read the author's name.
i guess i'm just gonna pray, read my bible, worship God somemore and really depend on Him already. so these are the songs that kept me studying.
- Alleluia to Christ the Lord
- Captivated
- Did you feel the mountain tremble?
- For your glory
i guess these are the songs that will keep me through until 10th oct! ahha! eng paper 1 and chi paper 1 starts tomorrow, gotta do well man. just gotta keep praying and studying. some people drift away from God when exams are drawing near, but let us be a different generation. let us be closer to Him even as the exams are approaching. not saying that we aren't close to God when exam's aren't here, but we should be doubly as close since we need all the strength, all the wisdom that is of Jesus. as the Bible says, as we draw near to God, he will draw near to us. :)
prayers that move mountains. one day, my prayers shall move Mount Everest. yes, it will! gonna study in church tomorrow after my papers. gonna mug geog and chinese. lol @ chinese. those words are like sklaoqkflasntosjt to me. -.- oh well.
can't wait for examinations to be over. was just talking to my sister just now, and she said. "whoa, now your holiday more than 2 months sia! machiam 1 whole term of holidays!" ahha, come to think of it, yea, it's quite true! ahaha. just can't wait for examinations to be over. gonna do so much more in church, going have so much more fun, going to grow in so many areas in my life! :)
give me godly and heavenly strength, wisdom, knowledge, and photogenic memory for tomorrow's exam, o'God. Amen.
goodnight all! :)
Sunday, September 28, 2008
-10:21 PM
so today started out weird.
i slept til 10am. watched anime til 1130am. then i went back to sleep until 130pm! WHOA IT FELT GOOD! but weird at the same time! ahhaa, it's been awhile ever since i could sleep in on sunday mornings! ahhah! so i decided to go study with Jordan and Wayne at pasir ris library since i couldn't come church today cos Dom wants us to study ahhaha! met Jordan and Wayne there, and had some inside jokes! i think really, i need to find people that can REALLY REALLY REALLY study to study with! ahahha. i really need to study! ahhaha. man man man. after awhile, we went to macs to study cos some librarian chased us out. ahah! upon reaching macs, we were seating infront of some really really really noisy people. so we did some stupid stuff! LOL. we asked them to shut up, and when they left the place, we really shouted "YAY" LOL EPIC MOMENT!!!!! we even raised our hands ahahahahhah! xD so funnayeeee!
i really couldn't study -.- so the plan is to chiong tmr!!! ahhaa. so we played around, and waited for Ivan to come out from camp!!! ahhaha you know, the feeling of waiting for someone to precious, it's like waiting for your super close sister that has gone overseas to study for 2 years to come back. but in this case, it's only 2 weeks!!! :) ahha. it was great man! we met Ivan, and talked to him for quite a bit on the train! :) it was totally awesome, being able to talk to Ivan again!!! when we reached outside of Singpost, everyone went googoogaga over Ivan's return! ahahha so funny man. everyone was staring at us! xD ahaha. everyone missed Ivan like crazy! ahhaa. then we had an epic moment with Pastor How and Pastor Lia in the admin's office!! it's so funny. the way Ivan hugged Pastor How, Charleston, Jianming, his bro Elgin and his sis Brenda! :) it's so warmy cosy homey feeling! ahaha. :) spent the rest of the day with Ivan hehe.
then, i had a meeting with the F2 leaders! whoa, our zone is really growing man!!! it. is. GROWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we F2 alone hit 80 people man. eighty. ba shi ge ren leh! ahahhah! :) the best part is, it's actually the exam period, and the revival is happening! who says that people can't come to church during the exam period? it's precisely during the exam periods that they need God even more! :) hehe. F23 brokethrough 12, and i believe they are going to stay! :) hehe. so many exciting things happening in F2. someday, we are going to overtake D Zone and be the largest and fastest growing zone in church!!! :) it's going to be possible yeaaa!
okay, i think that's all for tonight. YES IM GOING TO STUDY TOMORROW! :)
goodnight all, goodnight Ivan! looking for your blog post :)
-1:20 AM
service was great today! :) just had a revelation that was double mentioned! ahaha, gotta take note of that already! :)
F23 hit a record of 12 people today! man, HARVEST IS HEREEEEEEEEEE! :) grow us man! :) hehe. i pray that all of them will stay and planted in the house of God! :) hehe. yea yea.
i'm not going for service tomorrow, cause Dom wants to me stay home to study. but i'll be finding Ivan after service tmr!!! he will be out by then! WOO!!! :) it's just a few more hours, Ivan! YES! finally! we can talk for a good long while after 2 weeks!! miss you, Ivan!!! :) see you man!
goodnight all, i'm going to sleep already ahha. tired!!! :)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
-8:40 PM
and i figured out that soccer is like guitars and Bibles. the more you play, the better you are, the more fun it gets! ahhaa. i had a great time learning some street soccer tricks and juggling moves from Naresh's bro, aahha. he's good man! ahaha.
somehow, i still don't feel the intensity of exams kicking in. i still find myself slacking -.- ahhaa. i think it's a good thing cos i don't feel so stressed up and pressurized after seeing some of my friends in other schools ahahha!
i'm going to study with F23 tomorrow at 430pm! ahha, i hope i won't be distracted by things man. ahhaa! gotta get all the sci and geog facts into my mind! yea! ahhah! :) i believe tomorrow's going to be great! ahhaa!!!! yes, it will! :)
going to study in a bit.
goodnight all! :)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
-11:00 PM
playing the guitar is like reading the Bible! the more you play the guitar, the better you get at it, able to play more songs, then you will enjoy playing the guitar even more! where as for the Bible, the more you read the Bible, the more knowledge you have, the more interesting it gets, hence you want to read the Bible even more! they are so similar! ahhaha. i think really, it's all about cultivating a habit, and making sure you stick to it!
i guess that's all for tonight!
Goodnight all! :)
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
-10:07 PM
today was fun ahhaa. initially, i was supposed to study with Kenn and Bryan at pasir ris library, but instead, we went to Bryan's house! ahah, obviously we didn't study there! we were jamming on the guitar for the whole afternoon! it was great man. playing some great songs ahaha. i thought Bryan how to play Hosanna. ahahha! coolio. Kenn and i were playing friends forever LOL. ahah it was so funny. it was great spending time with them ahahha!
went home after that with Kenn hehe. one day, after exams, we should all jam again! man i feel like getting a new guitar. one that has uber good action and sound! ahhaa. my current Epiphone has great sound, but the action is too imba already. playing for 30mins can kill your fingers hahaha! studied only for abit, but i think i've pretty much covered most of the topics for geog except for rivers ahahh! chiong ahhhh! :)
tomorrow, i'm seriously going to study! ahhah. like serious. woo! :)
5 more days 'til Ivan's return! countdown! ahhahaha! hehe. :)
i heard Bryan's batch of anglican high students have prayer meetings ahhaa. awesome la. lol, he told me that he will play hosanna for the prayer meeting hehe. practise and practise man! ahhaa. cool guy. ahhaha! i'm off to do my stuff already ahahha.
goodnight all! :)
Monday, September 22, 2008
-10:04 PM
it was great talking to Ivan on the phone yesterday! :) haven't seen him in exactly a week now! gotta taupok him when he comes out man!!! :) 6 more days!! come on!! :)
school today was okay i guess. as usual, mondays are always like these. went home after that, did my usual routine and all. studied with distractions all around me, *COUGHmsnsmsbedCOUGH* but overall i think today was quite good, memorized quite alot of stuff! yea man. hahaha. :)
role models? they are people that you see as great people and want to follow after. but the most important thing about this is growing yourself, to BE yourself, and not to be the person. yes, you can look at the way your role model does things, but ultimately it's about you catching the heart and convictions about the whole thing. it's about just being yourself while growing in all areas. no point trying to be someone else. unknowingly, i've been role model to quite a few people already. maybe for the weirdest reasons, but whatever man. just be yourself! :)
goodnight all. :)
Sunday, September 21, 2008
-8:11 PM
let's start with saturday's discipleship class! hahaha.
i asked Ivan before he went to army about the foundations of being a great cgl, but Charleston answered my question instead. ahahha. Charleston told me that a great cgl should:
- emotionally stable
- have favour with people
- have flow/chemistry (very important)
- character
emotionally stable, we must be prepared for problems to come! with great power comes great responsibility. that's very true! whatever we face, we have to pick ourselves up! we cannot always depend on our leaders to push us on, check if we are okay. we really have to move to a whole new level of stability in my emotions! be dependent on God and not other people, or even your own successes! :)
favour with people. very obvious isn't it! how to lead your sheep with they curse you eat fish ball choke, walk on the road kena bang, walking step on banana skin. -.- we really have to grow favour with men! how to lead when people hate us? we must have a likable character! people need to love hanging out with us! :)
flow/chemistry. what Wayne always says, "whoa you no flow ah" ahhah! yea, it's really true! no flow no link no efficiency. :) we really have to flow with our leaders, let their visions be our visions, hang around them, know what they like and whatnot. we need to have open hearts towards our leaders, and great relationships. will our leader think of hanging out with us when they have a free day? do they enjoy spending time with us? this is not a question about insecurity, but really, it's about flow and chemistry. we mustn't draw people to ourselves! i mean like... why make them love you more than they love Pastor's the first leadership and ultimately God? yea lor.
and lastly, character. integrity, perseverance, convictions, and basically the 7 pillars of HOGC. will we do our QTs faithfull everyday even if we don't feel like it? even if we are super tired? will we not be stagnant in our spirit, but rather grow in God and lead people by revelations? do we love to evangelise and love people? do we smoke our leaders? or do we tell the truth? these are all character issues. really. build our character strong man! :)
moving on to Zone F service! :) it's always to power packed with Pastor Lia's preaching. i'm already looking forward to next week's service! :)
faith makes us able, and not, being able gives us faith. faith brings about abilities, abilities do not bring about faith! besides, we should also live our lives expecting miracles, expecting the presence of God to touch us. be EXPECTANT!!!
though faith enlarges us, fear shrinks us! do not react the natural way, but react supernaturally when you face a problem! pray about it, seek God! faith is EXCITING! :) Zone F's service totally just went up a whole new level. we are ready for the harvest of 180, then 200! the atmosphere really changed yesterday. everyone was just so simply engaged. nothing beats seeing your zone growing stronger by the week, days and even hours. it's so awesome! coming to past, whatever we have been praying for! not only a breakthrough in atmosphere, but a breakthrough in attendance! the last 10 minutes of the service was mind blowing. we were praying as loud as the youth service! that was totally ready for 180 people. why should it only be at the end of the service that we have such strong atmosphere? it must start and end with a BANG!:) now, the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few! even as we grow, i pray for more leaders to rise up! :) catch the heart behind this man!!! :)
after service, we went to t3 as a zone to have some serious fun! food was great, fellowship was awesome! then after all that, we decided to go to the viewing gallery. but suddenly, chunkit and i got lost LOL. so we found Lynette and Joanne! we decided to colour some stuff at the airport, but in the end, the 4 of us started making paper aeroplanes! AHHAH! it was super funny! and we flew our planes. man Joanne's plane sure can fly! ahhaha. it was totally funny!
heart to heart session with Dom up next!
Dom shared a really powerful sermon! it talks about pressing towards our dreams, goals and visions, but at the same time, be unsatisfied with what we have. we are built to hunger for me. ever at bak chok mee and still crave for macdonalds? yea, that's the point! while being unsatisfied draws us to our dreams, just a fine line across, discontentment brings us away from our dreams. contentment = peacefully happy. the best person = contented, but unsatisfied. contentment is about being secured in who we are and be happy, and not jealous. unsatisfied is about pushing for more in a godly manner.
1 Timothy 6:6
Now godliness with contentment is great gain.really powerful verse. this verse is revelation to Ivan and Dom. it is revelation to me also. we are all godly people, we love God, give God our all, but are we contented? that's the question to ask. keep the fine line of unsatisfied and contentment! :)
sunday!
ops meeting like 830 in the morning. -.- ahha i slept like for 6 hours 15 mins. ahahha! for us as ministry people, we really need to be carriers of God's presence. we are like Obed-Edom! gotta be strong physically and spiritually man! :) we need to be God dependent and not self-sufficient! sometimes we wonder why are we doing the mundane, week in week out the same stuff each time! it's because we don't live by revelations. we need first-hand revelations, not revelations of our leaders, and Pastors. although it's good to have all these, but ultimately these are only guidelines! we need revelation straight piping hot from God! also, we need to maintain and stay consistent! :) flow with God, Pastors and leaders! ops meeting was great! :)
sunday service with Pastor Lia! :)
spirits make man.
spirits make us the way we are. we need to have a strong spirit! everyone rises and falls to the level of the stature of their spirit! it's not about what you have, it's about who you are! titles do not make a man, a man makes a title. but what is in that man? a stong spirit! :)
this is what i call a fruitful week! :)
goodnight all! :)
Saturday, September 20, 2008
-11:53 PM
today was awesome. too much to blog about. will blog about it when i'm more sober :) i've updated, howteng! heheh! hahhs.
Friday, September 19, 2008
-9:52 PM
today was -.-
although school ended at 940 today, i went to play soccer and it was a total disaster. i got owned by some random junior school kid. he rammed a soccer ball at my ankle and BOOM. it's sprained already. -.- that's not cool at all. went to the sinseh after that. it's always scary when he has to 'pop' my ankle back. whoa it really hurts! gosh. -.- okay then he wrapped my ankle with some herb thingy. luckily it's only for 8 hours. which means i dont have to go church with that smelly thing tmr. ahhah! :)
went to study with Yulian and Randyne at pasir ris today. we were supposed to study at tampines library, but i realised it was so crowded! okay, so from today onwards, pasir ris library will be my mugging place. ahahha! yup yup. ahhahh! everytime i mug with friends in the library, we will definitely make too much noise! ahhaa. today we got asked to shut up by some cedar girls -.- it was totally embarrassing, but whatever! ahhaha. okay so we were joking around and everything, then i said
"randyne, you no need study ah?"
"my first exam is english. no need study one, i'm english SPOKEN"
then LOLOLOLOL. that was when they asked us to shut up. AHHAHA. LOL. joke of the day. the rest of the time there was funny as well. i smsed randyne, "Hi, LOL. :)" when i was just beside him. the power of starhub! unlimited smses! :) ahhaha coolio! i just realised that my standard of science is almost as good as dunman high's standard! WOO!
after studying with Yulian, i went home with him. i had a great talk with him man. i've been talking to alot of people about their lives recently! ahahha, it's going to be great man. don't be so stressed Yulian! take a break, have a kit kat! :)
tomorrow's going to be great! having discipleship class, zone f service then main service! Pastor Lia's going to preach in zone F service! it's going to be great as usual! :) be sure to come man! see you tmr!!!
goodnight all! :)
Thursday, September 18, 2008
-10:09 PM
i played for Wayne's cg today, wasn't the best of skills, but i guess it was okay. Wayne told me that sometimes, it's not about the skills, but it's because of the Presence of God that ministers to people. i'm still going to really brush up my guitar skills until i become really really good. like really really really good! ahaha! yea yea. Dom preached today in their cg, but i didn't stay cos i went home earlier.
i realise i cannot nap cos my nap will turn me into someone who wastes the night away. i didn't study for the last 2 nights already cos i was napping away. so i WILL NOT NAP ANYMORE! yes, i will pray for supernatural strength instead! :) ahhaha.
tomorrow's going to be great! meeting Yulian and Randyne to study at Tampines library! hehe. okay this is my plan tomorrow.
935 end school
1030 reach home
1030 - 1100 nap(i will wake up!!!)
1100 - 1130 exercise
1145 - 1430 STUDY!
then 1500 meeting them at tampines library STUDY till 1800?
yea, tmr's going to be a great study day! chiong ah!!! MUG MUG MUG! hehhe
how are your eoy preparations man? ahhaha, give it your all for the last one - two weeks of the preparation! don't regret our decisions! let this be our finest hour. :)
goodnight all! :)
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
-9:47 PM
today's lesson was okay i guess, as usual! ahhaa. our chinese teacher came back, after marking the n levels. every lesson was good i guess.
cg was great today! we experienced breakthrough man!!! 8 people for the first time :) yes yes, 10 then 15 is going to be easy peasy! we played pepsi cola before cg, and it was great! jedric brought 2 new friends, and we got to know them better through pepsi cola! if you cg hasn't played pepsi cola yet, i really encourage you to play it! it is really super fun! :)
i guess it was pretty good, with 2 new friends around. :) and so Cheryl preached about the new 7 pillars of Heart of God Church.
- Prayer
- Strong in Word
- Giving
- Ministry/Discipleship
- Convictions
- Character
- Glory Of Virginity
we don't want just any 1400 Christians, but we really what Christians that are strong in these 7 areas. can i tell you that there are just awesome people in my cg! :) there's Prophet, Jedric, Yufeng and Caleb! while on my way home after cg, i found out that Yufeng stayed really near me! ahaha, we can go eat supper together one day man! yup, i really talked alot, for the whole journey home with him. he is really awesome man. i actually forgotten to bring my wallet home from church, so i actually had to go back to get it when i was already at the mrt station. so i told Yufeng to go first cos i didn't want him to wait. but he actually went back with me and searched for my wallet with me :) he is cool man. Caleb's awesome too. he is really friendly, and really nice :) whoa i hope both of them really get planted!!! then it's a blessing already man. PRAY PRAY PRAY!
LET'S GO!
playing From the Inside Out tomorrow for Wayne's cg. i believe that it's going to be great! :) chiong ahhh! hahaha. awesome man. tomorrow's going to be great cos it's 11 more days before Ivan can come back!! :) oh yea, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLESTON AND PRISCILLA!
and this is for you, SL FATTY202 TAKE THE NAME OF SL/FATTY202
goodnight all :)
Monday, September 15, 2008
-10:52 PM
Ivan's left for army, and i won't see him for 2 weeks already ahahha! so not coolio oolio!
today was pretty good, i didn't fall asleep during lessons! ahhaha! everything was great i think. then i went to meet Jason at city hall today. he said he wanted to buy Kustom Culture, so i brought him to the place ahhah! nice right, Jason! ^^ i bet you are going to wear it to church this saturday! ahahha! anyway, went home after that. man i was supposed to sleep for only 30 mins, but i slept for 1 and a half hours! that is really bad. ate my dinner, and did my QT. studied studied and studied later on.
tomorrow's going to be great! going to have a study outing with xq tmr! whoa i hope really can study, otherwise, it's going to be a waste of time! ahahha! yup yup. :) ahahha! great great great. chiong ah! just 2 more weeks from my exams! by the time Ivan comes out from the army, my exams will be over! then whoa, it's going to be even better than now! :)
good night all :)
Sunday, September 14, 2008
-9:50 PM
Glory of Virginity. where else would be a better place than learning about his awkward topic in church?
One Thing One Time One Person One Lifetime. awesome sermon today.
Ivan's going army in a few hours time. really sad that his leaving, MAN! it's more than just friendship, it's something more profound, something deeper.
this week was the highlight of the month.
goodnight all, and good bye Ivan :(
-1:29 AM
quadruple portion of anointing.
today was the highlight of the month. it's super awesome. firstly, i had discipleship class with Ivan. it was his last discipleship class with us cos his going to army on monday! sian, so fast! anyway, it was just talking, worship, praying and Q&A. it was great. we wrote down our heart's burning question on paper and passed it to paper. one question that Ivan answered really ministered to me. how to increase our capacity. we need to firstly, plan, live by the revelation of God and keep on pushing with whatever we do! sometimes, it's all about pushing on! it's just a little further, just a little more, just a little stronger. i feel that i really need to grow in that area! i don't want to be someone that has competency but has no capacity. i not only want to be competent with 5 people, but i also want to be competent with 50! yea. sometimes it's also about practical stuff that we do! just chiong ah!!!
after that, we had Zone F service. it was awesome!!! Pastor Lia was preaching today, and she preached about Faith! faith faith faith, when Pastor How and Pastor Lia mentions about Faith so many times, then we must really apply what she said! we must be more than listeners, but do-ers of the word! Pastor Lia preached about the power of our tongues, and our minds! our tongues are like the rudders! although it's small in size, but it's power is deadly. as the Bible says, the tongue has the power of Life and Death. yes yes yes! and the mind? it's all interlinked! it's so powerful how it will works together. during ministry time, it was really amazing! we shouted, "WE BELIEVE, THIS IS OUR GENERATION! GIVE US OUR GENERATION! I WILL BELIEVE THAT MY GENERATION WILL COME!" it was simply a milestone. let us really take responsibility of our own zone! it's not just our Pastors and leaders job to grow the generation, but it's ours now! few years back, Pastor Lia was praying for our generation. but now, it's our time to pray for our own generation, and the generations to come! let's grow grow grow!
main service was next! it was totally great! Zanele Makina preached to us about leadership. the Divine feature of leadership. the main point is to be humble! humility is the way! the way up is the way down! whoa, it's really true! sometimes as leaders, we really need humility! it's all about having a big heart, and being spirit-led. sometimes, we let our emotions to rule us, our will to rule us, and our minds to rule us! maybe, it's time we let our spirit man take the driver's seat! during ministry time for main service, when Zanele Makina was praying for our leadership, i took the opportunity to go infront. 4th dimension envisioning!
lastly, i had heart to heart session with Mae Ann. it was awesome! Mae Ann preached about leaders being broken or professional. it is really amazing. sometimes, we all get so caught up with our lives and the things we do, we do things so professionally, sometimes, we do things because we are told to do so and only want results from our sheep. but sometimes, all we need is just to meet the needs of our sheep, and fulfill their dreams. she also said that pride and insecurity that gets in our ways. sometimes, our peers do better than us in the things that we do, and all we do is compare ourselves with our peers! while doing so, we will lose track of our destiny that God has planned for us! i feel, we really need to grow until we become someone who seeks security in God and no one else.
talk about capacity grow. 4 ministries in a day! grow grow grow in capacity! awesome yo! tmr's going to be even better! :)
good night all!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
-12:11 AM
school was pretty good today, i think! ahhah! i didn't fall asleep in class today! wooo!
went to meet Ivan at Dhoby Ghaut after school! we then went for buffet lunch! whoa super nice man i tell you :) awesome! hehhe. we ate til we couldn't take any more! ask Jiaxin how much she ate LOL! ahahh! yea yea, it was great fellowship too! we talked about soccer to WWE to everything under the sun! ahahh! yea yea, there's also a super funny inside joke about SMU, This Fashion, City Bank and CATHY! ahhah! funny man :) ahhah!
after eating, we went to soccer! ahahh! it was okay i think. hehe. shared with Ivan how i felt though. felt much better after that!! :)
went to city hall to chill out for abit after soccer, hung out at macs and we all said that we would never eat at macs ever again! whoa, the price is super crazy!!! ahha, shared quite alot of stuff with Jordan Wayne and Prophet! ahhah! then headed off home in Jordan's dad's car! ahahha awesome day man! :)
tomorrow's going to be even better!!! yes it will be :) pretty tired already, going to bathe, read my bible for a while and sleep! see you guys tomorrow in church! :)
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
-10:17 PM
school was okay today, i think! ahha! ponned training and went to church after school. met Prophet and we were headed to church! he was going to have follow up! hahah! it was awesome. Follow up lesson (3), relationship with God! ahhah! yea man. it was coolio! ahahhah! hung out with Ivan a little before going down to get my Ramly!
i asked almost all of the people i saw in church who wanted Ramly, but only GongHua and Sinfei wanted, so oh well. yea, went down with Prophet, joked about with him and stuff ahahh! oh yea, can i tell you that Prophet memorized the whole sequence of the new testament on the bus ride to church! cool huh?! okay, back to what i was saying, so we headed down for Ramly! ahahh! it was good, i think! bought some stuff and went up!
i was actually about to eat, but went for prayer meeting instead! ahahh! it was great! :) ate with Sinfei and Gonghua later. it was so funny! especially Gonghua! she said that we were eating so slowly, but in fact, she's like the slowest! and she purposely made me talk while eating just so she could call me unglam! LOL. butttttt! she's the most unglam one ahhha!
went to find Ivan after my Ramly! ahhaa, joked with him about Nadine's pitching! "do you need a tuner?" ahahha! xD didn't stay too long cos Ivan had cg, so yea, i went back to lights with Howteng. as usual, she taught me some stuff that i didn't know! hahah!
was planning the games for CEG tmr! i believe it's going to be great!!! :) ahhaha! yea munxzx! going to have loads of fun games and good food! not only physical, but spiritual too! :) ahha gotta come man! coolio olio!
had a revelation whilst reading my bible yesterday. more of a reminders' revelation if there ever were a term! ahahh! was just reading a short chapter of 1 Samuel 12: 12 - 15. in modern context, it talks about why we should have worldly "kings" over our lives rather than our Heavenly King? in other words, why should we let insecurities, guilt, unforgiveness, anger, hatred, and sin reign over our lives when we have Jesus? also, it talks about the Fear of God. for h2h people, doesn't that sound really really familiar? yea, Fear the Lord and obey his commands! :) go read it, it's awesome! that's all for tonight!
good night all!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
-10:31 PM
Zone F broke through yesterday! :) we had an all time high of 161 people attending service! man man man! it's awesome :) on the whole, our church hit 1108 people! whoaaaaaaaa! super cool! :) at this rate, we will definitely hit 1400! :) but it just depends on what kind of people do we want. we want strong Christians, built on the 7 pillars of Heart of God Church.
Prayer
Presence
Word
Giving
Ministry
Discipleship
Fellowship
yes, once we have all these, we will be a strong army for God! from there, we shall advance to 3000 people!! :)
let's keep on praying for the new friends to come back, and get saved! it's so close already! so close to our target! really begin to see the auditorium packed with youths, on fire for Jesus! as for the practical side, we must already build up our praise and worship atmosphere already! let's be pregnant in the spirit with 200 people! so, let's praise God with the loudness of 200 :)
i think Ivan's latest post is really inspiring! please go read it! it talks about Faith.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
that verse pretty much sums up faith. powerful verse! :) some times all we need is just a little more faith! believe believe believe!
the song i'm doing for service is changed to You Derserve! i went down to programme some stuff, it was pretty cool! ahhah! then Howteng came down, she taught me quite alot of stuff as usual, it was great having her around ahahha! bong had a meeting so she couldn't come and check it out! most prolly programming again tmr :)
good night all! :)
Monday, September 8, 2008
-10:33 PM
let me show you what Prophet Marcus wrote in a poem. it's really beautiful.
I Was A Little Cheerful Kid
A Kid That Thought Too Much
A Little Too Much Amidst
Everything Happening As Such
I Took Primary School Into My Stride
But When Peer Pressure Kicked In
I Found No One Was On My Side
On The Inside, I Was Bleeding
I Hated Everyone In My Life
I Lost Faith In God's Promise
A Fateful Day I Took A Knife
I Was Ready To Be Gone Like The Breeze
There And Then, I Lost Composure
I Dropped On My Knees And Started Crying
I Felt Depressed, I Felt Unsure
I Lost Hope In Everything, I Stopped Trying
I Lived My Days Without Emotions
I Didn't Bother About A Thing
My Life Continued Like The Sea In Motion
The Waves Continued, Stopping For Nothing
I Started Looking For Inner Peace
The First Place Was Fame
I Tried My Best, But Still Got Teased
Even After 3 Championships To My Name
I Continued My Life With Gangsters
Gave Up Searching In Rugby
It Was Already Complex In All Angles
Times Were Hard But I Let It Be
I Left Them Soon Enough
As I Felt We Were Total Thrash
I Continued To Shut My Mouth
Even Though My Life Was Smashed
The Emptiness Soon Consumed Me
I Needed Peace In My Heart
No One Saw What I Could See
We Had Different Opinions From The Start
I Completely Gave Up On Myself
Stealing, Scamming, Fighting
I Increased My Stealth
Bad Habits Became More Exciting
It All Changed One Fine Day
When Our Lives Cross-Path
I Felt Something That He Just May
Be Something To Me Which Is Of Worth
Jordan Brought Me To Church That Saturday
A Place I've Failed To Step In In A Long Time
I Felt The Anointing Of God That Day
Tears Were Squeezed Out Of Me Like A Lime
The Following Week I Continued To Go To Church
I Rededicated My Life To God That Day
I've Felt In My Heart A Surge
I Continued Everyday To Pray
This Is My Life
It Has Been Painful Daily
So Much Things I Had Strive
But God Has Worked In Me Quietly
The Future Holds Great Things
For Which I Must Have Faith
To Serve My Lord And King
I Will Evangelise And Save
whoa. can i tell you it's like one of the best poems i've ever heard. awesome, Prophet Marcus! you are simply awesome :)
okay, moving on, today was great i think! ahhaa. was pretty slack. i managed to stay awake! i've already set my heart on not falling asleep during lessons! it's the last 3 weeks already! gotta chiong studies! :) ahha! lessons were quite fun today. but, man i lost my pencil case in school today! -_- i don't know how i lost it man!!! i'm not sad cos of my pencil case, but the stuff inside!
after school, lunched with sean. it was pretty funny with narash and his jokes! ahha! yea. and all of us thought that we were fitness test, but it turns out to be the most slack training ever since the finals. ahha! it was great. if only everyday was like today! ahah! :) kicked around with the ball after training, and went home with Sean and Jordan. it was a long journey home, slept in the bus ahha! coolio.
did my usual routine, but God just told me that, we shouldn't just do our QTs as a routine and see it as a chore. we don't see drinking water and eating our dinners as a chore do we? then why do most of us see HAVING (not doing) our QTs as a chore? it's a mindset change over here! yea!
tmr's going to be great. follow up with Marcus, then most likely programming with Bong ahhaha! wooo! gogo stay focussed!!!
good night all :)
Sunday, September 7, 2008
-8:21 PM
i remember at the start of the year, during rugby training, i saw Marcus Tan and i didn't like him cos he tackled me LOL. but now, he's on the same team as me right now, against the Devil. awesome and ironic isn't it? aha! anyway, marcus is awesome! :) but i still own you in street fighter LOLOL! ahahhahahhah! ^^
had lights training today, learnt how to use more of the board ahha! awesome yo! then went to have lunch with lights people! as usual, we had alot of laughter with kwei hong already! CHINA MANNNNN! hahah! he's so funny! :) slacked around, hung out with bong and kwei hong.
went for prayer meeting, and i can sense that marcus' prayer life has gone up a level! keep growing man :) ahhah yea! service was great as usual! though it was the same message as yesterday, it was still as powerful! haha! opportune timing! moment -> momentum -> movement! gogo lets move and shake the world! let's be significant!
went for usher meeting, and Peck Hoon and Gang Yuan got promoted to 2nd IC! whoa cool! :) and i've completed my BMT (B)! man so many of them misses me and wants me to stay in usher LOL. just kiddng :) ahaha! so now, it's all about lights! i'm programming for next sunday's service, For Your Glory with How Teng and Kennen. :) it's going to be great! ahhah!
celebrated Cheryl's birthday in a moment, but man. she was busy, if not, she could have eaten the cake! ahha, but oh well, there will always be another time! :) hehehhe! really glad that you liked the presents :) hehhe!!!
school's going to start tomorrow already. brace up, nick! exams are coming, rugby's taking up time, stay focussed! i've just realised something cool about myself today. i can't stand undone work, i need them to be done. i don't like my work to be piled up otherwise i would be kinda stress! :) yea, awesome fact about myself ahahha!
good night all! have a good day tmr! :)
-12:36 AM
my morning was free today! no h2h session, no discipleship classes. though it felt weird, it was good. allowed me to sleep in a little! ahahha! i haven't been sleeping much this holidays! everything was bam bam bam, tiring but definitely fulfilling! :)
reached church around 12, hung out with cheng ming, heard 41st prac. awesome yo! then i played street fighter with jordan and marcus! ahhaha! man, i need to brush up on my skills!! then i reported for usher! it was my last usher duty already heheh! pretty sad, since ushering is so fun!!! it really is :)
Pastor How's message was really good today!!! it tells us about how opportunities come about and factors leading to opportunities! for those who missed it, it's something like this! but be sure to come back tmr!!!
Faith & Confidence
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abilities, talents, giftings ---> opportunity <---- human needs, problem solving, social skills
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Convictions & Character
whoa such an awesome message today! gotta come back tmr for more :)
did our usual usher stuff, debriefed and hung out a little in church before going down to eat with our usher team! ahah, first time eating with the ushers! :) it was super fun! we ate at kfc, fellowshipped, really had alot of fun, and unexpectedly, 1 hour had passed ahahha! whoa, time really flies!
nothing much after that, headed home with randyne, man his the ultimate racist LOL! yea man. i still have got lights training tomorrow, but i'm still not asleep. man im so dead! ahhah!
good night all :)
Friday, September 5, 2008
-11:47 PM
ahha! today had a great sleep! really just what i needed after a few days of not sleeping! ahhaa. woke up at 11am, started to do my homework and slacked a little. did my stuff and headed to church! it was weird, seeing no one in church on a friday afternoon! weird indeed. but i saw bong's lightings for this week's service! it was great :) no wonder she's called bong! but do you guys know how did she get her name bong? it's because in secondary school, someone spelt her name wrongly! AHHA! her real name is Heong Yee. sounds korean right? but bong told me it's hokkien LOL. weihong and i couldn't stop laughing! ahhah!
hung out with noni and a few ushers & securities at the game consoles! man i'm going beat you noni! i willllll! xD ahha! it was fun. meet fifi and pansuri(?) i was supposed to be studying! ahhaa, fifi told me to study, but i went to find a guitar instead! man, i always see pan with a guitar! like everytime i see her at the console, she's always with a guitar! ahhaha!
a shocking news, i saw furong with SHORT HAIR! yea, that's right, he cut his hair LOL. even my hair is longer than his now!!! xD so all of us hinted to keegan, when is he going to cut his hair! LOL. and furong is no longer sarah cos he cut his hair, so we are calling him... SAMUEL NOW LOL! :) hehe.
helped noni and keegan with the chairs, it was so funny, testing out the chairs and replacing the spoilt ones. yea, so we set up 400 chairs! then we waited and waited and waited for the audience to come in! it was the KO night, organised by old school, affiliated to chc. ahha! i did lights for that event! it was pretty easy, after bong told me what to do! ahhaha! yyea man. yeaaaa! headed home after that already!
there's no zone f service tomorrow! sian! but i've got usher tmr, and it's my last bmt usher! :) ahha! i believe that it's going to be awesome!
IVAN! i'm going to do lights the following sunday! i'm doing for your glory! watch out for the lights! it's going to be awesome :) heheh!
good night all! :)
Thursday, September 4, 2008
-10:19 PM
Heart Fest '08 was awesome! ahah! we did alot of crazy stuff together!
we played human table soccer, foams and bubbles, moving house, world's fastest eating competition, water bombs and more! it was great man. having fun in the house of God. :)
but what's more important here? it's a seed that's being sown into the lives of our new friends! heart to heart session with Ivan really paved the way how i should integrate my friends. be a FRIEND, not just FRIENDLY! we also gotta have the wisdom and heart to integrate our friends. though our passion may last a moment, it's our convictions that lasts us a life time! what keeps our leaders like Ivan, Cheryl keep on doing what they are doing despite the mundane? it's convictions like this! i've already convicted my heart. i wanna tell all of my friends that i brought to heaven, i want to see you saved because i can't bear to see you go to hell. that is the cry of my heart. and lastly, we just have gotta pray and envision. :)
beyond all the fun and laughter, today's message was great! Dom preached about races, and how it brought the best and worse of men. it's so true! i felt like that sermon was for me. sometimes, it's not about winning. it's about finishing the race! as a sportsmen, i think it is already within me, that desire to always win! but i remember very long ago, when Ivan told me that channel this drive into something that i can use for God. this, i will never forget! :) one day, i'm going to have this drive becoming a conviction in my heart, that i can use for God! :) yup! had a great day today!
approximately 1 hour and 41 minutes to Cheryl CHM's birthday!!! :) yea man!!! :)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
-11:57 PM
too tired to post anything today.
goodnight all!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
-11:27 PM
chalet was awesome. uber uber uber fun i tell you! :)
first, we arrived at some ulu ulu chalet in middle of no where. it was super creepy. we took like 15minutes to get to that place -_- then, we did BMI in that place. it was. totally. FUN AND FUN AND FUN and definitely very wet. the funniest bmi ever! we all "back slided" LOL. Jianming even "back slided" 3 times! ahaha! don't get me wrong, backslide means, we were sliding on our backs! ahahh! get the videos from Jianming! it's so funny! ahhah! highlight of the afternoon.
after that, we washed up and did our own QT. what more to ask than to do QT with friends that go through thick and thin with you? it was awesome. presence was definitely here. after that, we headed for dinner at changi village! it was a tiring walk, but definitely a fun one! we were talking, and trying to scare people! i also tried to trip afew people! xD ahha had a great time! dinner was great, then we headed back to the chalet!
rested for awhile, met Ivan, Dom and Mae Ann! it was great seeing Ivan after not seeing him for the whole day ahha! then we geared up for heart to heart session with Dom. it was amazing. having the Fear of the Lord. how important! it is even more important that loving God. what really hit me was, though we people may love God, be touched by His Presence and cry non-stop, but it is only by the Fear of the Lord that they will be changed from their old ways. how true is that! God clearly told me that, i must have the Fear of the Lord even with the littlest of things! wow. awesome. leader of thousands starts by leading youself!
pretty tired after that, went to sleep with Ivan, Dom and Jianming! ahha it was super cold. man i really need to bring a jacket to chalets nowadays! ahah!
had a funny and casual talk with jason, josephine, chelsea, mark, eeshen and kenn this morning! ahha it was so funny seeing how all of them don't wanna go to school even though they had already woken up! especially jason! ahha his so funny! xD the rest is pretty much history!
did my stuff and everything, headed to ikea. fellowshipped with Eugene and a few of our zone f people. it's great. ahah! going to Jordan's house tomorrow to get ready a few items. ahha. i learnt how to play "Take all of me" today during SOW, man it's hard, but i'm going to over come it! what if? why not? ahah! :)
tmr's going to be great. going to play soccer with ivan! ahah :)
good night everyone! i need my quality sleep! please keep ivan in prayer as he goes for his napfa tomorrow! :) jiaaaaa youuuuu, Ivan!!! :)
Monday, September 1, 2008
-10:01 AM
yesterday was awesome. knocked out yesterday though man.
Pastor Tan preached about role vs purpose yesterday. awesome message. as men, we should not like the ladies take the driver seats already for God created us for greater things. let's really depend on God and not make excuses for any mistakes we made. i'm just so blessed by the service yesterday. oh Lord the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. let us rise up to bring the harvest in o God. yesterday during Pastor Tan's service, when he was praying for all the cgls and pcgls, i hesitated. i didn't know if i should up. man. i totally missed it. gosh i won't be a girl anymore!!!
3 more months. grow & expand in all areas, i pray. something really hit me yesterday. sister Mae Ann told me casually, "hey nick, when you were sharing your testimony, really carries God's presence." it was totally awesome, very uplifting. because i know i've been headed in the right direction. sometimes, it's just all about going that extra mile, to pray more, to pray louder, to pray a little longer during our QT. even for some of us, it's that a little more to even START doing our QT. as we be faithful in the small things, God will entrust greater things to us! how can God give you 300 sheep to lead when you can't even lead 3?
also, on saturday, during heart to heart session with ivan, he asked us to pray for one another. it's just so amazing how the Holy Spirit drops information about a certain person to pray for. imagine what can we be without our Holy Spirit? we wouldn't even know what need to pray for that person! so after i prayed for Kenn, he shared with me, that everything that i prayed for him was on mind all the while. i really hope everything's going to be alright man. it is!
so the holidays are here! are you going to spend 12 hours a day on the computer? or are you going to make use of this time to make a difference in other people's and your life? Heart Fest, thursday 1-6pm at payalebar mrt. COME AND HAVE FUN!!! see you there man! :)
cya soon man! i'm going to chalet, no internet for 2 days! ahahha!