Skytrex 27Nov 2009 Trip

Praise the Lord for a very exciting and wonderful outing. It’s a new adventure to many of us and it was great. This outing reminded me of the importance of the people around us in giving support and encouragement for us to be courageous and to go higher. We literally needed to go “higher” as we had to climb some tall trees to begin our sky trekking journey. For the sake of our readers, jungle trekking means walking, trekking or going through a jungle. Therefore sky trekking means you are on the sky, going through it. LOL. Due to some misunderstanding, we were delayed and needed to wait for a very long time. Many times, I felt like giving up because of the waiting was tiring and it was getting a little bit late. Besides, fear started to creep in during that long wait. Though it did not look very scary, the height can be quite frightening if you stare at it long. Remember, God always reminds us to look at HIM, then faith will rise up! If we focus too much on our trouble or circumstances, fear will creep in instead. Praise the Lord, this is the time where our brothers and sisters come along, encouraging and urging us to not to give up; go for it, you can do it and let’s try it! WOW, it’s great to have people like these around you and I believe your life will be very different. Yes, we need to have such wonderful people around us. Therefore, its important what is the heart condition of the people around you as they are influencing you in some way or other. Are they influencing you to move higher, better and to grow in the Lord? Or is it the other way where you lose the purpose and excitement of life, being bound by meaningless, purposeless, with no faith, hope and love kind of life? I have seen many people who think they can worship God by themselves. Some Christians join fellowship but never really invest into such a relationship. Let me tell you, fellowship is neither a duty nor a spiritual requirement. Fellowship is something real that can affect who you will become. Invest into proper fellowship and not just for the sake of having fun or with any other purpose in mind. Give your heart to it. These are the wonderful people who will be around you when you need them. They will pray for you, cheer you up, support you and cushion you. Don't think we don't need others as this is pride, a seed Satan uses to kill our relationship. Like Daniel in the Bible, (Daniel 2:17-18) when he faced great challenges in life, he turned to his friend and ask them to pray for him. The thing Daniel faced was a life and death situation and if he can’t solve the problems given by the king, he will be killed! Ask yourself, do you have people whom you can turn to and ask for prayer?? Do you dare to entrust them your life and death situations? If you don't, it’s time for you to reflect on whether you have invested enough time and put in your heart on the people (whom you can trust) around you. Or have you all these while care only to have friends whom you can have fun with? Prayer, support and care are very wonderful resources in our life and because of them, we can be a better of ourselves. And believe me, prayer is very powerful and you can only receive it from people who walk closely with the Lord, people who love God and love one another. Not just in difficulties, even in the midst of peace, we can then see joy and glory glowing in our life! 1 what do you say?

JOYed by CALEB at 11:20 PM

An Honorable Ambition

I thought leadership was for other people-until an encounter with broken relationship showed me a new way to live. I came from a broken family. Since young, I lost my childhood daddy. I lost his love. Facing a totally broken family opened me to what my life could really be. I became self-centred. I made my life busy and busy. I focused on study, don't care others feeling due of losing trust. And kept telling myself, life relied on own-independent. Over the span of twenty-five years, I lived a life unhappy. I couldn't find real joy, real happiness.

I never dreamed that I would find one at twenty-five, I find God. I am transformed, thanks to God. What set me on this path was a simple message on my cell phone, left a question mark in my doubted mind. Until I followed a friend for a movie at a small room of church, I found an answer that I want. An answer I keep asking myself since childhood, what is the real purpose of my life. After few times went to church and listened to pastor's preaching, I was beginning to crystallize a vision for my life. After one year being at church, I was appointed a group leader. This is not I wanted because I have never felt interested in being a group leader. "I don't want to lead." Because really, I can't handle the pressure of it all. I rather to stay at my comfort zone. I think what I enjoyed most was just helping people know themselves better so that they could be more discerning about what they were called to do in life. And I loved my this job, I liked to do good work. But deep down, I had to admit that I didn't like to be a leader.

One grey evening, one short, simple verse was brought in front of me. It went like this, To aspire to leadership is an honourable ambition, 1 Timothy 3:1. Most Christians have reservations about aspiring to leadership. Just, they are unsure about whether it is truly right for a person to want to be a leader. After all, is it not better for the position to seek out the person rather than the person to seek out the position? I used to read a book about being a good leader. It asked me to refer another verse, Jeremiah 45:5. These two verses have brought me a clearer mind. When our ambition is to be effective in the service of God- to realize God's highest potential for our lives-we can keep both of these verses in mind and hold them in tension. I was still not satisfying. I went to find the meaning of a spiritual leader through internet dictionary and I found this as below:-

Or refer this: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spiritual+leader

I smiled. Because it gave me even blur mind. In my heart was thinking, only God could settle my doubtful mind. And He really made it. He opens my small, narrow mind to become wider. God says, all Christians are called to develop God-given talents, to make the most of their lives, to develop to the fullest their God-given powers and capacities. Another thing, Jesus taught that ambition that centers on the self is wrong. Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good. A good leader is easily distinguishable by being a role model. Instead of just teaching, a good leader preaches and leads by example. If you come late and expect discipline from your team members, then you can never be a good leader. Leadership is not about exhibiting authority, it is about channelizing resources effectively for a fruitful result. A good leader never demands respect, but earns it. You should have the strength of character and personality to be respected and loved by everyone. A good leader is confident and sure about himself/herself and their work. A good leader is one who has a clear vision about his/her future. You need to be able to effectively bind your team members as a united group.

Waooooo....such a leadership journey to go~ Yet, it is a great journey to go. It is full of exciting, challenging, tough work though, it is fun and enjoyable. It's all depending on what condition you put your heart at. If you put heart at negative side, surely you can't be a leader. However, if you put heart positively, this is a journey you won't regret for the rest of your life. Anyway, I'm loving my way which God leading now. Please, let God's ambition becomes my ambition, this is what I am praying and hoping for the moment...

Thanks for spending your short time reading this simple sharing...

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JOYed by ~Mabel~ at 11:03 AM

Because of You, Jesus

Because of You, Jesus
Zoel Lai

(Verse 1)
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Because of You, I’m born again
Because of You, I’m got the new life
Because of You, Jesus, I saw the light in the sky

(Verse 2)
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
Because of You, I’m saw my future
Because of You, I know my own way
Because of You, Jesus, I saw the moon at night

(Cores)
You raise me up, when I failure and fruitless
You raise me up, so I can saw the mountain
You raise me up, so I can reach the higher

(Bright)
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Because of You, Jesus

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JOYed by Zoellai at 4:35 PM

Memory : Taman Pertanian Trip March 2008

This is the video clip of our march 2008 trip to Taman pertanian prepared by Ashley Hiew. 27 November 2009, we will going again to Taman pertanian, but this time we will go to SKYTREX. It will be a great and awesome time together. As well, we will go thru all the wonderful challenges together. Praise the Lord. More details and picture will be uploaded soon. Don't miss it ya. God bless you all.

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JOYed by CALEB at 10:41 AM

FACING THE GIANTS

There is this parable I listen in a movie “facing the giants” mentioning there are 2 farmers who desperately need rain. Both of them pray to the Lord to ask for rain. However only one of the 2 farmers going to the field, work on it and prepare for rain. From this simple parable, who do you think believe God will give rain? It’s very obvious the one who work on his farm, prepare his farm and prepare for the rain to come. Faith without work is dead.

This parable might be a very simple, but I found it very profound. How many of us, we always blaming on this and that yet without giving our best. How many of use, we will only give our best when we see the best situation around or when there is favor or when God answered our prayer? How many of us wait till things happen, than only we give in our best? This is not faith at all. As we know nothing is impossible for God, let us do our best in all situations and leave the results to God. In life it’s not about gaining and achieving what we want to achieve. God put us here for a PURPOSE. All that we achieve or pursue, if only for ourselves will one day be meaningless. Do think about it. Do you remember who is the richest person 20years ago, who is the greatest person 20years ago? In the movie, the coach tell his player, winning for their own glory is only short term, very soon people will forget about that, very soon their trophy will be there collecting dust. It’s very true, I remember I study very hard to achieve a good results, yes I get straight A’s in some government exam, good results in SPM, get my degree and all those stuff. Yet, it all became nothing now. I don’t mean we shouldn’t have goal, or we are not to do anything with our life. As I have mention, we need to do our best in all situations, and bring glory to God. First, let us understand our purpose, God said the greatest thing we to do is to love God wholeheartedly and love people fervently. This is the most important and primary; as we love God our life will be in the correct perspective. We will use our life for bringing God glory and not anymore for our selfish ambition. Jesus Himself had died for us for this reason so that we are connect back to God. God love us so much, in all that we our do or pursue God will certainly there to bless us because HE care for us and HE care for the thing which we care as well. Only never let those things take the place of God.

I had found sometimes we do not do our best because of various reasons. We might think we are small, weak, definitely will lose or we will fail badly. But as we know our purpose, it’s not anymore regarding failure or success; it’s all about giving our best. Never give up, never back down, never lose faith. Do you prepare your field for the rain God will pour down? Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and HE shall make your path straight. FOR GOD NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

Ps: Facing the giants is a very meaningful and touching movie. As you watch it, I believe as well it will impart faith, strength and confidence to you

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JOYed by D 45 at 11:57 AM

姑娘, 你很漂亮 Girl, you are beautiful - 例外人, Nick Vujicic

This video is nice and wonderful. The reasons are because "you able to get variety of benefits from" such as God's Love, confidence and daily lifestyle. This is what we all are facing in everyday and experience it. haha: ) 1 2 3 Smile: )

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JOYed by Zoellai at 11:25 PM

8th Oct 2009

Dear restless heart, be still; don't fret and worry so;
God has a thousand ways His love and help to show;
Just trust, and trust,and trust, until His will you know.

Dear restless heart, be still; for peace is God's own smile;
His love can every wrong and sorrow reconcile;
Just love, and love, and love, and calmly wait awhile.

Dear restless heart, be brave; don't moan and sorrow so,
He has a meaning kind in chilly winds that blows;
Just hope, and hope, and hope, until you braver grow.

Dear restless heart, recline upon His breast this hour,
His grace is strength and life, His love is bloom and flower;
Just rest, and rest, and rest, within His tender power.

Dear restless heart, be still! Don't struggle to be free;
God's life is in your life, from Him you may not flee;
Just pray, and pray, and pray, till you have faith to see.

My God is a good God. He knows every single things in my life, He knows i am upset, He understand how i feeling about. Today i have bump into varies blogs from different minister which i do not know, and through them i hear, and that I know i am love, i know He cares. Some time life is like a mess, some time hurt, but He is by your side, He watches every bit, His grace is sufficient for me, Amen~ 0 what do you say?

JOYed by D 45 at 12:51 AM