Brand New Experience

Three days ago; 27th Oct, I was prasing the Lord through singing when I was on my way to class. I was kinda surprised or rather shocked because I experienced something new. When praising the Lord, I felt the joy and shalom in me. The more I sing, the more I felt happy, peace and the time goes slower O_O''...

On the Thursday morning, I felt the urge to pray in tongues out of suddenly~ Without noticing, I spoke/uttered something that I don't understand at all =.='' How I wish I understand what did I just uttered out~

My each day begins with a prayer daily and I end my prayer with "Lord, I submit my day to You~ Let you will to be done unto me".

An Abundant Life 27/10/10

The pastor had been sharing about abundant life for the pass two sundays. Have we been practicing it? I hope I do cause I'm definitely sure I forgot about the sermon the moment I step back to my hostel. But thanks God that he still continue to remind me. Today we had our prayer meeting and the theme is an abundant life.

Abundant life in the spirit require us to submit ourselves fully before God, to be humbled so that God is able to lift us up. As we humble and submit ourselves to God, God will start to implement some changes in our lives and also start to work miracles in us. This is what I wanted to see. Most of the time, I just can't help it to be worried and be extremely pessimistic about all types of situation. Well, Pastor Sau Fong hit straight to the point at that with the parable of the sower. The thorny soil, where torns of worries and luxuries keep poking us. Inhibiting us from growing each day in God.

So, in short saying, to be worried is actually to hinder God's work in our life. ever thought of that? I thought of that but always forget that in daily life...Alzheimer disease? LOL!! But all those worries, for example, studies, future and even how to do God's will. That will be hindering us from coming closer to God. @.@

And bro Chee Lim state one thing that caught my attention the most. The fruit and the tree. Good tree bear good fruit, bad tree bear bad fruit. And God chopping of unfruitful trees and burning them. But I realized one thing today. That is gifts that God give us, the talents as well as God's assignments and calling and instructions are actually branches too. If we delee dalee or just don't get serious and fervent in using our talents or doing God's assignment, one day God's patience will run out and that particular gift or assignment will be withdraw from us, chopped off. God will say: "That's it, I will take this and give it to others and he will be doing YOUR part of my perfect plan. " And so we lost the chance to bear fruit for Christ. And we all know what unfruitful trees end up right?

So lets not be discouraged or fearful of our assignment in Christ and also our worries in life. Just do our best and leave the rest to God. All worries to Him, and all remember, all glory to Him too for it is by His power that we complete God's usually mysterious plan in great abundance. What we need to do is, just to be optimistic, submit ourselves to God and be ready to do God's will..=D

To serve--

Well, I have a wonderful experience in joining the Praise and Worship Team of Hope Ipoh yesterday as a backup singer =). First of all, I would like to thank sis. Jessie for giving me an opportunity to serve God together as a team. Though I know my singing may be flat x.x, but then I know God wouldn't care about that as long we have the right attitude and sincere heart to praise and worship HIM. Thank God the mic wasn't that loud, or else it would have been more obvious =p. I enjoyed every moment in Praising and Worshiping Him though it was just a short period. I seriously need to find my pitching and "fix" my little tone deaf before it gets more serious. I realised that I need some vocal training too.

After the sermon, i felt sad when I talked on phone with my mum. I told her about my schedule for my upcoming exams and tests. She told me "Don't go church near exams because later got no time to study", but I told her "Don't worry, I've set my time-table when to study, when to go church and when to play." I don't really blame her for that because she hasn't taste the sweetness of the honey' yet and the importance of Sunday Sermon. So, I need to study smart and hard this week for my Vector Calculus test and Modern Music assesment on Wednesday; Petrography Quiz and Test on coming Thursday. Pray for me as I will get to score well; as I want to glorify the Lord in every aspect. I don't want my mum to blame christ as a reason of my academic decrement. 


Lastly, I know the Lord is always with me through the Holy Spirit. Lord I want to serve you with my my strength, mind and soul. I want to serve, not to be served~ =)

Agape

"Was when HE ran to me, He took me in His arms

Held my head to His chest, said “My son’s come home again” 

                                                    -When God Ran~ Phillips, Craig And Dean-

Do they sound familiar to you? What is the first thing pops up your mind? The HE above refers to the Almighty Lord, not anyone else =). Well I have encounted an opinion; It is we, who run to God not the other wise. Well, there's no right or wrong opinion since I asked for opinion. But, in my opinion this song has a big significance showing God's Love towards us. Everytime when I listen to this song, I felt like hugging someone and say "God loves you too." For the past weeks I've been introduced a word called "AGAPE" through reading Daily Bread.i was like "Aiks? Seremban's church name is here?!?" but now I understand the meaning of it is the love of God or Christ for mankind. 

Though, I've just accepted Christ not long [approximately 3 months] but I understand and felt the love of God. I know the Lord has been kind and loving as he takes care of every single needs that necessary for me to grow well in Christ. I felt really blessed at every end of my day because the Lord had exposed me with different kinds of learning; academically or non-academically. The Lord also had accompanied me through my good and bad times~ Thank you Lord.

Certain Doubts People May tought of~
1) We're sinners, how can God still love us?
--> To be speak the truth, God will STILL love us. You know how and why? God sent His son,     
     Jesus to die for us while we're still sinners.  [Romans 5:8]~ God demonstrates HIS own love for 
     us in this; while we were still sinners. Christ died fo us. It's rare/seldom/ you can say NEVER 
     someone in your life would send His children to die for us. But God did. Jesus has pay for our 
     sins on the cross and to save us!


2) God is a loving God, if that's the case, why HE punishes people?

--> Many has a wrong perception towards the word LOVE. The concept love it doesn't means you 
     will not be hurt at all. Example, many may complain "My parents don't let me do this and do that,
     My parent punished me for this and that." Instead of complaining much about all these things,  
     have you ever wondered why? In the process you may hated them, but then they still love you 
     and wanted you to know that they love you. Sadly most of them don't realise this! Back to the 
     question, the same concept applied here...God wants to give you a wake up call on your mistakes 
     and help you to grow. You may hate HIM for now, but then you surely will realise one day why 
     would HE did that. God will be always waiting for the day where you return to HIM.

How can you demonstrate your love to God?
1. We should try not to do something that breaks His Heart.
2. Repentance, and turn your self back to Him.
3. Building a two-way relationship
4. Serve Him in many ways~

Well, it's my first experience to publish this genre of article and I found it interesting to share my personal experience with everyone. If you have time, googling the song entittled "When God Ran Phillips, Craig And Dean". I hope my article can bless someone's life too. Thank you for watching over me and love you, Jesus~ Lord, Revive our passion for you once again! 

God Bless~

Holy Spirit, are you sighing?

I had so many titles for this blog running throughout the whole day...different titles....but in the end my affliction tilt towards this title. haha.


And so the title. I must say and I must admit, something is still wrong in me. Maybe it's the busy schedule or too much indulgence in certain things, perhaps in orchestra. But for sure the busy schedule is taking its toll on me. I was unable to concentrate and to spend time with God. But God's kingdom won't wait. I must start spending more time with God.

5 person turn up for the live group tonight. Christon shared about submitting ourselves to God in James chapter four. Honestly, I like brother Christon sharing. He capture and provoke my mind to think into a more deeper level. So often, we had forget about God, we had forgotten that our first love. Like how bro Christon said, God is not far from you, but it's us that is far from God. So true in that. So long a time since I had spend really a quite time, perhaps one hour to pray and sometimes to read the bible. But I won't have such time to do this in a short time, perhaps during the study week or after the projects. But I think I need to promise myself to really spend some quality time with God each day starting from tomorrow.

One line caught my heart from the sharing session. Your relationship with God is not a game. God want us to turn back to him, to get serious with him. And often, he gave knock knock calls on our spirit. Perhaps one of them is Wee Liang's breakdown today. His breakdown breaks me too. Seeing him in the darkness, trying to find a meaning of life, but end up nothing every time. It hurts my heart. My soul wept.

Love is like fire, I want to live a life that loves, Holy Spirit is nudging me. Telling me to get serious before God, revival is coming, there are still souls waiting to be safe and Godly assignments waiting. I want to equip myself, not by words alone. I WANT COMMIT IN ACTION...

But in everything, give thanks to God, I'm sure God teach us something new each day, take today, God taught me of getting behind him. in short shield of faith=Jesus. In every situation, trust in God, no matter how disastrous and hopeless the situation may look. I want to live an optimistic life, with all worries to God, living with a purpose, fearing no evil and living with His smile with me. Assignments won't take me down!!

I want to renew myself with God, to put Him as my first love. I LOVE YOU, GOD!!!!!

Is Jesus Famous? -- 21/10/2010

How will you rate the popularity of Jesus in UTP? Out of 10 marks, how much you think Jesus deserve. Yeah, sure, everyone heard of Jesus, indirectly teasing of Christians always include: You becoming Jessus, Jesus will help him/her etc etc. But do people really know the saviour that came to earth 2000+10 years ago?

The prayer meeting of the day guess what? Only 3 people turned up. Brother Chee Lim, brother Christon and me! I even thought I was late, in fact I was. but when I got there, I only saw bro Chee Lim there with a bible in hand, a bag besides and guitar at the sofa. It's such a sad scene. . . Bro Chee Lim said, you want to know how passionate is the church? Don't see the numbers in sunday services, see the numbers in the prayer meeting. But like what Jesus say, two or three gathered together n my name, and I'm in the mist of them. And truly God was. We sing, we pray and we feel God's presence despite the number.

We pray for God's guidance, pray that God built His temple in UTP, pray that we put down our pride and lots more which I don't really remember. But I do remember about praying for Pik Wan and Sato's wedding. But back to the question, is God famous?

Oh how strong the Holy Spirit sigh when I saw people lost and trying to define their life,destined to be doomed. And how great my spirit sigh when I saw Christians friends succumbing to the world.. assignments, tonnes of events, wordly songs, computer games. It all leads back to one word, distractions. The youths need a vision. Need a passionate vision to move towards to.

I want to make a difference!!
I want to see revival!!
I want to change myself!!

Be strong and courageous, Elden. God never fails, proof? Avalon, Khay Min, Sze Kiet, Chee Lim and the vision-assignments to move towards to.

God, renew my love in you, I want to love you, love you to the greatest my heart can give, to the greatest I can spent. don't let distractions hinder me...

God Never Fails