11 years of friendship

Yoyoyo... welcome to my blog once again... I want to dedicate this post to my friend whose friendship with me has been the most enduring so far. That is.......... Ang Bee Yean!!!

Rmb very clearly that in primary 6, i always sabo her kena scolding from Mrs Yip. Because i kept talking to her. Yet, she like not angry de leiz? Still continue to talk to me. Hahaha... But because i am about to know her for 12 years (since primary 1) in 7days time. I decided to dedicate a song and a post for her. I wanted to dedicate this song, "That's what friends are for." But as i dunno how to put a song in the blog, Bee Yean, please sing yourself. Thanks.

Zone Camp revelations

Truely the zone camp has given me many many revelations. And they were all from that particular day. Even as I look back and think about the zone camp, i am still getting revelations out of the events that happened.

These are just few of the incidents that impacted me.

1. Everyone has a part to play in the preparation.

"The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ."

-1 Corinthians 12:12

In the preparation of the Skid, many of us came up with ideas and ways to improve the skid. As a media student, i was tempted to take control of everthing that they were planning and be the Director or should I say "Dictator" of the Skid. However, when one particular member took over the control and begain to give instructions, oblivious to what we have already planned, there was this grieve in my heart and this verse was impressed in my heart.

Another verse that burned deeply within me is this:

"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But he who heeds counsel is wise."

-Proverbs 12:15

Thank God for the reminder that we should never think too highly of ourselves. I could have allowed pride to take over and challenged for the leadership. No doubt that I have been trained in scripting and directography ( Thanks to Mr Beh). But I have learnt a lesson of dictating idea generation from the dommed drama of "The Wave".

"For Humility is not thinking less about yourself, but thinking of yourself less"

-Pastor Phil Pringle

2. The type of people whom God doesn't give up in.

At YMCA, Gabriel shared a message on Luke 15. About the three parables in the Powerful Chapter( in fact the whole Bible is powerful).

The three parables are.

1. The Parable of the Lost Sheep.

2. The Parable of the Lost Coin.

3. The Prarble of the Lost Son.

The similarities of the three stories are just that simple, all of them are lost.

Its really talking about the celebration of Heaven when one soul on earth enters into the Kingdom of God.

But yet, thank God, He showed me a different aspect of the three Items or persons that were lost.

1. The Parable of the Lost Sheep

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance."

This Passage is really talking about God looking for the most unnoticable person around. I mean out of a hundred sheeps, how many can notice just one little sheep that is missing. The Shepherd must have known His sheeps very well, and possibly by name too. If God can notice the most unnoticable, what about your family members that are unsaved, your friends that are not saved. I mean if u can think of them, den they are truely not the most unnoticable person around.

2. The Parable of the Lost Coin

“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!’ Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

This shows the heart of God over the least in society. When the woman found the coin, she said to her neighbours, lets rejoice! In the Hebrew culture, rejoicing would mean a festival or a party, to celebrate. How much has the woman recovered? Just one coin. Can this one coin pay of the party that is being thrown? Certainly not. But the woman still rejoices over the least that is being found. Our friends is the same. They might seemed worthless to society. ( Btw i was worthless to society before being saved.) But this doesn't change the fact that God loves even those who are the least.

To be conti......

Zone Camp

Woohoo!!!! Recovered from zone camp already... Physically recharged. Zone Camp is absoulutely awesome!!!!

Woo!!! The most memorable thing from zone camp is the ending off at YMCA. Man!!! Everyone was pumped up. We know that everyone was tired and physically drained but when it comes to praise and worship, no one held back and gave their all to the Lord.

We started out at sentosa. Rmb the night before i slept at 1.30am, den gotta wake up at 5.30 to finalise all my kit and to meet them early at harborfront. Unexpectally met Bee Yean on the train and end up travelling together to Harborfront Mrt. Den we had breakfast with Lynn, Isabeland keat while waiting for the rest. Woo~~~ Was having so much fun talking and joking.

After Rina joined us, it was all the way to sentosa. Planned the team cheer and den doing it once for the camera..

So who are the powerful Sheng Zhe?(team 4)
1. Yun Li
2.Rina
3. Zheng Xuan
4. Guang Xiang
5. Jace
6. Lynn
7. Isabel
8. Zon
9. Bryan
10. Guan Keat.

We started playing the games and man, it is tiring. There's pass the egg, Waterbombs, Tug-Of-War, Beach Soccer, Frisbee and the finale Telematch.

after that we went to wash up and begun to travel down to YMCA.

At the GTz nights out, We acted a skid based on a comedy, Jesus V.S. Terminator.
It was great!!!! and funny as well.

Truely the camp has given me many revelations and helped me grow stronger. Praise The Lord.

Only Tired people change the world

Gosh... I am tired man... Since after my O levels, i have been 'baptised' in ministry work. So after the Exams, i have finished all these stuff.

1. Cell group multiplication BBQ
- Taking note of food prices. (at Bedok reservoir Sheng Siong, Bedok interchange NTUC and Giant, Food Fair@expo. ALL IN ONE DAY!!!)
- Budgeting
- Comfirm the order list.
- Plan the transportation of food.
- Purchasing.
- Preparation for the food.
- Transporting during the 10km walk.
- Prepare the place for Cell Group and refreshments for the 10km walk participators
- Start BBQ fire.
Skew the Chicken Wings.

2. Cell group multiplication games.
- Scout the starting point of the 10 km walk, chalet and where games will be held.
- Plan for games.
- Plan what we need.
- Double check with Royston.

3. Cell Group Multiplication.
- Helpers meetings. (We are planning from a completely white sheet of paper. Start a cell group from scratch.)
- Settle the portfolio
- Get everything into place.
- Treasurer stuff.
- Chase people around for stuff.

4. Bedok North Sva Video.
- Attend their pitches.
- Give comments.
- Rejected a chance to be screened. ( No time for that commitment.)
- Meeting them up again soon.
- Sit in at their editing sessions.

5. Bedok North.
- Given Discipleship.
- Arrange some dinners and lunch together. (My greatest desire is for all the Bedok North people to be able for once have a dinner together and fellowship.)
- Prepare for the discipleship.

6. Visitations.
- done visitations to Chua Chu Kang. (Wow, thats super duper far.)
- Planned another home visitation in Pasir Ris.

Man!!!! I am tired. But the work of the Lord must go on.
That is what really impacted me during last week's prayer meeting when Pastor said that.
You can literally sense and feel the burden that Pastor has for the Church, For Asia and for Singapore.

If my leader is slogging his guts out there in the world, den what am I supposed to do. Slack around on the crouch and be a potato? Play some games that has no purpose in my life other than destressing (or even stressing me). Btw i do play games, Football manager is my fave. But the Lord has convicted me on playing it for such long hours.

I am really tired. But if we calculate like how pastor does, we only have so much time left to make an impact, to leave behind a legacy. What strike my heart so deeply is when Pastor says that he have only about 1500 weekend sermons with City Harvest Church, but he is going to make every single one of them count. Wow!!! A leader in the church once said, " Live your life everyday as though Jesus is returning tmr, but plan you days as if Jesus is not returning all your life." Woah!!! From now on, I am going to make every bible study, every discipleship and every visitation count. (So guys whom I give Bible Study and Discipleships, better be there k? Or else you are going to miss that count. LOL!!!)

Btw 4 days to water baptism. Woah!! can't wait man. LOL... Think about it, Jesus became so so close to the Holy Spirit after water baptism. Hehe, I can't wait for this experience of a lifetime.

Hallelujah!!!! Thank God for a fruitful week. Praise God....

What we allow in our life will gradually be our life.

I was going about in my daily life when I felt an urging to clear up the mess in my room. While doing so, I sensed something deep in my heart.

"What we allow in our life will gradually be our life."

A Christian life is often compared to the life of a tree.

We got to stay planted, growing in a spot where there is most exposure from the sun.

All plants grow from a seed.

The type of plant we are depends on the type of seed we sow in our life.

Barley seed =Barley Harvest

Durian seed =Durian Harvest

Weed seed=Weeds Intrution

Unremoved weeds= More weeds grow rapidly.

Weeds will eventually compete for the nutrients of the soil.

leaching the tree.

causing the tree not to grow to its full Glory and potential.

What weeds are in our life?

removed them, or they will become a burden to us.

Leaching our precious time away from us.

causing us not to grow to our full glory and potential.

Lazy life, low potential

Hardworking life, high potential.

Remove those weeds.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore.

Imagine
Christopher Columbus, the man who discovered America,
was afraid to lose sight of the shore.
Where will America be like now? Will his name be known today?

Imagine
Guang Xiang to be in his shoes ( I know abit difficult larz, Jux try k)
With i am to look back at the shore all the time, how am I going to make history?

Imagine
Bedok North can't move on.
Bedok North was blessed to have great leaders like Kenneth and Xianbi
But, what bout the future?
What goes on from here?

Christianity is never to stand where we are.
We either move forward or backwards.
There is no stagnant cell group or revival.
There is only growing cell groups and revivals
or
backsliding cell groups and revivals.

We gotta move on from our past.
No doubt, E149 was glorious.
But the new cell group is going to get even more glorious.
Bedok North is moving from glory to glory.

Water Baptism

Hallelujah!!! There is this white slip of paper with some words on it. Then suddenly, my mum signed it. Hmm... what paper is it? Take a closer look, its a parent consent form for water baptism. Praise the Lord!!!

My mum used to reject water baptism at all costs. She would jux shut me up if the two words were to come out of my mouth. However, thank God for faith. I jux knew that i would go for this round of water baptism.

Truely, faith is the substance of things hoped for.

NLT puts it as Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.

Woah!! One thing that Kenneth taught me is this," Knowing is one thing, Experiencing is another. Many times as a believer, this verse heb 11:1, is so familiar. It is not an "uncommon" verse, yet how many times have we experienced it.

What happened was when my mum still shuts me off whenever water baptism is mentioned. I can already see a signed baptism form in my spirit. Praise God. Whenever the other helpers asked if i am getting water baptised this round, i would jux say yes!!, den add most prob behind jux to be sure. I somehow know that, i know that i know this would be the time.

Praise God. But now, i am having a headache. What will my baptism name be? David, Joshua, Mohammed, Guan Yin Mah, Sun Wu Kong. Haiz... Jokes aside. I am hung in the middle of David or Joshua. Hmm.. Joshua Tan, sounds not too bad. David Tan, Sure sounds like a genuis' name.

Hmm... Guess i will go with? David??

Multiplication Day

Multiplication Chalet

E149 was great. Undoubtly, it was glorious. E149 is a place where there is many first for me.

1 It was my first cell group.
2.It was my first group of friends in church.
3. It was where I first found my first discipler.
4. It was where I first had a burden for the School.
5-42. It was the place where i first met 38 wonderful people.
43. It was the first time i went through a reshuffle of the cell group
44. It was the first cell group that i brought my friends to.
45. It was where i first rise up.
46. It was where i first started to lead.
47. It was where i first experienced combining cell groups.
48. It was where i first became part of an extraordinary team of 8.
49. It was where i was part of a miracle attendance of 63 of svc.
50. It was where i first experienced my first rebuke.
51. my first excouragement.
52. My first O'levels(hopfully the last.)
53. My first Bible Study.
54. My first mulitiplication.
55. My first birthday in Christ.

I do miss E149. Having spend so much time in the cell group. But sorry guys. I gotta move on. If E149 is so glorious. The new cell can too.

Praise God for multiplication. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Eagles

Your Attitude determines Your Altitude.

There was this story about this majestic Eagle that is soaring high up in the high skies. An Eagle can fly the highest in the whole of the animal planet. Their eyes are one of the sharpest in the whole world and they are the only living creature that can look directly at the sun. So this Eagle had 5 eggs in the nest high up in the mountains on the canopy of the tallest tree. The eggs hatched eventually and the Eagle has to hunt to provide for the baby eaglets. So being an expert hunter, the eagle has never once failed to provide for the baby eagles.

But one day, there was a thief who climbed the mountains and reached the peak. He looked up to the tree and devised a plan. The thief then stolen all the 5 eaglets from the nest and sold it to a farmer. The farmer had many animals and poultry in his farm. He decided that since the eaglets still couldn’t hunt, their best way of surviving is to place them with the chickens. Then the hen will be able to protect and provide for the eaglets. Days passed, and days turned into weeks, weeks into years. The eaglets were now all grown up. All five of them had this sudden dream of soaring into the sky. But because they were raised as chickens by the hen. They have not learn how to fly. They can only gaze up into the skies.

Then one day, one of the eagles gazed up into the sky and saw this majestic eagle soaring in the sky. The young eagle told himself, that creature in the sky looks like me. And is it possible for me to fly like him. He excitedly told his brothers about that vision and they mocked at him. Laughing and joking about this so called vision. They told him to be practical. Disappointed but not discouraged, that eagle ran to the fence and hopped on it. He stretched opened those wings that have been unproductive for so long and flapped them once. Nothing happened. Twice, but still nothing happened. He flapped and flapped with all his might. And out of a sudden, he rose up from the ground into the air. He begins to soar higher and higher into the air and eventually alongside that eagle whom he saw, which turned out to be their daddy eagle.

The Difference between the one eagle and the other 4 is in their attitude. The one who flew was carrying the attitude of the majestic eagle, unlike the 4 other eagles who still tot that they are Chickens.

"Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes."

-Eph 4:22-23

No wonder this verse calls us to put off our old attitudes and soar with the potential in front of us. Praise God!!!