Read This Book Too!

Joel Osteen's Become a Better You

The best book after Pastor Prince's Destined to Reign.

I love these Pastors!!! They should write more books!!!

Keep singing your song

The song that God has put in your heart!

He's put a song in our hearts - a song of joy and love and peace. I believe that this is what the Holy Spirit who dwells in us does - He gives us this song to sing.

This song that fills our hearts with gratefulness, with His love and His joy.

What's the song that's playing in your heart? Is it a song of regret? A sad song? Or a song of worship? A song of awe and wonder?

So many things may get us down in the course of the day... but keep this song of praise and worship in your heart. It changes your perspective!

Made to Worship

You and I are made to worship
You and I are called to Love
You and I are forgiven and free

You and I embrace surrender
You and I choose to believe
You and I will see
We were meant to be
- Made To Worship, Chris Tomlin

Worship fills my soul with unspeakable joy.
- Me, 17 Jan 07 10.33pm

The disciple whom Jesus loves

NCC played a video of Pastor Prince's message overseas and the title of His message, I believe, was the Definition of Love.

Now I thought of 1 Cor 13 immediately in my heart but he pointed out that those were the characteristics of Love - ie love is patient, love is kind...

The definition of love is found in 1 John 4:10
This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

I never caught on to this: that John in the gospel repeatedly and shamelessly pronounced himself as the disciple whom Jesus loves! Instead of writing "me" or "I" or "the author" or even "the other disciple" - John's identity was revealed in this - he is the one whom Jesus' loves!!

Here are his amazing (and sometimes amusing) proclamation of himself in this strange but wonderful way -

1. John 13:23-35
2. John 19:26-27
3. John 20:2-4
4. John 21: 4-7
5. John 21:20

Does that mean then that Jesus didn't love the other disciples? No - He died for all of them! But they didnt catch on to this agape love. They didnt personalise it for themselves.

Just like what we would do now - we recognise that God so loved us/the world that He sent Jesus to die on the cross - but has it sunk into your heart that actually, God so loves YOU that He sent Jesus to sacrifice on the cross. It's not they, them, us... it's ME & YOU!

I used to have this phrase that I hold dear to my heart - I am the beloved of God. And i cherish that identity - that i belong to Him, that no matter what i do, have done, will do - I am His beloved.

I think that is the crux of Christianity - not what I do, but what He has done for me.

Always on your side

God is... always on Your Side.

Romans 8:31 If God is for us, who can be against us.

This has been on my mind for the past few days.. of how much God is FOR us. Imagine - He didn't have to send His only Son to die. Im sure there are many alternatives. But He sent His very best. The ultimate sacrifice. There's no stopping Him now.. He has done the extreme for someone He loves the most. Me. and You.

Why should He stop at giving us substandard health? Why stop at giving us some material blessing? Why give us a mediocre career or payslip? Why bless us with some things and not everything?

There is NO reason why. It's so crucial to have a clear revelation of God. Of how much He has loved and is loving. Then we will never have any doubt that He wants the best for us. After all, He has given His best to us.

To my friend

To my friend: We hooked up in 1994 and it was one of the funnest n bestest BFF relationships i've ever had! we were inseparable in JC...or so i thot...sniff*.

Jac
11:01pm September 13th

oh GOD! I realise i didn't say CONGRATS on your marriage...must've slipped my mind coz so distracted that i found u. Tell me more ley. how long were u dating before? when was the wedding? who is he? what did u do in melbourne? what u been doing since JC? But most important of all, even if u don't have time to fill me in, can u pls tell me what on earth happened all those years ago that came btwn us? I'm still totally bewildered till today, and it always left me feeling so confused coz one minute we were so close and the next we weren't even talking and u were with michelle and her frds :( did i do smthg bad? pls tell me. whatever it may be ok? for what it's worth i'm sorry, coz it really was a pity, to have our friendship end. sniff sniff.

k, hv a gd wknd! my no. is xxxx if u wanna sms or call anytime.


Me
7:50pm September 16th

And about us... i actually thought for a few days about what happened... and the wierdest thing is... I really can't remember!!! I dont think it was anything we did.. we were so close and I guess we needed some space.. but i dont know why we werent even talking??? really? Im sorry if i seem to have a memory lapse.. which i tend to have... but really, i think it may have been me - i tend to withdraw from people sometimes.. and i just didnt know myself that well then.. Im much more aware of my crazy temperament now..I wasn't very good at expressing myself.but hey, no worries.. everything's good.

but the biggest change about me isn't really all that... i think the most important thing that happened to me was/is that i became a Christian right before i met my husband... and that has definitely changed my life completely :)

I'll give you a ring one of these days? my husband's always travelling and when he's back, i try to spend as much time as possible with him :)

Jac, I'm sorry I never called. It was the bestest and funnest BFF relationship I had... thank you for your love and your friendship. I wish I had told you that in person.

Loss of an old friend..

I got news that my college friend passed away today.

We've lost touch for 12 years... and how fast these years have gone by. We recently got in touch again through facebook and she shared about her failing health.. and she gave me her number and I promised that I'll call her... and I let it slip for nearly a month now.

I regret that i didnt get the last chance to speak to her. I really wanted to visit her, pray for her and offer her my friendship again.

Im glad we managed to clear some things up about why we fell out, and why we didn't keep in touch.. I should have known something was wrong when she stopped the emails.. i really didnt think it would be so fast.

sometimes we just got to do what we want to do.... else life just passes us by...