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/ 10/19/2008 07:11:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Why worry when God, the being who made you from the inside out, created the world around you, a God who burns with love for you, the God who redeemed you from death, LIVES in your Heart? (:
there are billions and trillions of crap things that go on in life..but what's worth running the race for? Faith. Hope. Love. out of everything these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is love. |
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/ 10/19/2008 06:43:00 PM
hey havent been posting for quite a while
just want to release some of my thoughts out buzzing around in my mind right now.. In every endeavour, in every work, every opportunity, there is a temptation to slack off, not work hard. Draw your attention to something else. Procrastination. So what keeps me working hard and going strong? I got this drive for God..i got this drive for people. I really have this desire to build on other's lives..develop their inner men, their spiritual strength. that's what i like to do. on the other hand.. Things in this world beg me not to have a vision and purpose of living out God's dream..working hard for ministry. Many issues in my life press me to give up trying to be a competent and successful person as a Child of God should be.. Many other desires to stop working, just slack off in class..play msn, get on girls.. But i understand that there's a fear in my life..not a bad fear- but a good fear of God. Fear of losing myself to an ungodly lifestyle. Fear of falling into temptation and being the opposite of what i've become. to have my desires right now and then, and lose everything i have in my future. Call that a vaunted and twisted sense of spiritual justice and emoness, but that's how i feel, what i feel. what i need to do. "Serving God is all about a continuous cycle of surrender, obedience and worship." yeah i got my own personal life on one hand..and an endeavour to change for the better in another. People will say to me..billy have faith, believe in yourself, God will make a way..YEAH. i know all that. I know i'm supposed to serve God. But the thing that troubles me is that i have doubts. But i know that whatever it is, God is there for me. (: ANYWAY. SCHOOL is really cool! great to be back and kicking with the people. : P anyone up for a class outing? |
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/ 10/05/2008 02:39:00 AM
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Just some stuff from the D20 Blog I've posted over the few months!
GOVISIT - www.d20hogc.blogspot.com -------------- Billy here! Acts 20:35 "It is more blessed to give than to recieve." Wow, these few weeks have been stressful yet amazing. If you guys know i've been helping out in The New Charis Mission: a society formed to rehabilitate, renew, and launch forth ex-convicts in Jesus's name. I've been doing their website and working with them in a project for the Boy's Home. I just came to a really amazing revelation just now. I had the descision to go for archery tml, but i really decided to skip it although my trial for the competition's next wk. I was really thinking that even though this is out of church, it's God's work and God's foundation..and that i shld put in my best for this as i do for my own ministry back home in Church! and God really put this verse into my heart, Acts 20:35. It is more blessed to give than to recieve. I realised that serving in the house of God or for God's causes is like really placing our talents as offerings to the Lord. Be it worship ministry, Usher, designing, Cafe, bookstore, Admin, etc, it's all for the Glory of God. It is one way of giving. How many of you know sometimes when we give our tithes and offerings, we can see ourselves being blessed in money, in faithfulness, in character? Like how some of you have seen yourselves blessed because of your monetary offerings to God, i saw how i was blessed when i really started working with these people and serving in church playing CG! I started to grow in many ways: convictions..character, spiritual awareness on what is right and wrong. I really felt myself grow up in another level in music even though it was just a few wks that i've started playing for CG and a few months i've been taking classical guitar lessons. I also started to grow stronger in perseverance and in the principle of putting God first in my life. Although the change is small..it is wonderful and amazing to see how God blesses those who give. Indeed it is more blessed to give than to recieve! you can give in the areas of money..but how about your time, skills and talents? why not place them on that altar along with the other things you have sacrificed as an offering to God? (: Our lives, His Glory..think about it! Love in Christ, Billy ------------------ hey d20! I just wanna share about reaching out to others! Matthew 28: 16-24 16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." God gave us in the Matthew the command to reach out to our friends and fellow men, not just to make converts out of them but to make disciples out of them! yes? Some of you guys may pause here and think 'wait, i dont think my friends can do the things in church that we do! i dont think he/she will like it here. it's impossible! that thought of them here in cg is really out of my reach!' I once felt like this some time ago in my walk with God! i was so discouraged about inviting friends after i was rejected time after time after time after time for a long time! It really left my spirit down and out. But God gave me an encounter and a wonderful experience not long ago! i had the priveledge of working the The New Charis Mission, A social enteprise whose aim is to rehabilitate ex-convicts to be competent, successful and good workers for the market, and to remove the label of "ex-convicts = bad" on them! The prisions in singapore commit some of their graduated prisioners there, and the NCM rehabilitates them. It's not just a social enteprise, it is a social enteprise founded on Christian Fundementals. I went to visit them the other day and i was suprised! the whole organization is run like a chuch! there is the Pastor (Pst Don wong) and His PA! there are different groups of workers in there and different leaders in their own ways. Pst's wife, Vanessa, also contributes actively and shares alot like Pst Lia does! They have worship sessions in this little house somewhere in kovan, and they run moving services from there. I had the priveledge working with Two of these ex-convicts, Marvin and Robin. At first, i thought that they were part of the hired staff working in the New Charis Mission, because they carried themselves very well, they worked great and they were VERY polite! they also were proeficent and skilled in their own ways (Robin in Photography and IT, Marvin in Project Management, Moving and IT!) However, I read their testimony in their newsletter. They both used to commit crimes, theft, etc. I later discovered that woah, Pastor Don himself used to be a convict! But one way or another, God stepped into their lives and Changed them from the inside out completely! Where they used to do bad and ungodly things, God has changed them and put new character in their lives! The transformation was amazing, they changed from criminals to converts, to disciples and sucessful leaders in Christ! 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! Galatians 6:15 Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation. I just wanna tell you guys that if these people can change and transform in character to become the people that they are, YOU CAN!! I think that many people would have alrealdy given up hope on these people a long time ago, but their transformation in New Charis Mission has shown me and many others that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE! Pastor Don didnt take NO for an answer and he approached the situation in a new way. And Here he is today leading this wonderful House of God! Some of you may feel discouraged but i want to encourage you, dont give up! There is a transformation that is waiting for your friends and family who yet to see the Glory of God! It is a transformation which will change them from the inside out, Mold their Character, renew their spirit, bring joy to their hearts! Like the people in the New Charis Mission, They may seem impossible to change but God has changed them from the inside out! People may reject you now, people may put you down, but you can always pray, you can always sow seeds, you can always reach out again! In the name of Jesus and by FAITH It is EASY! For His is the Kingdom, The Power and Glory, forever and ever, amen! Faith & Success, -Billy ---------- 39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” Matthew 26:39 Hey guys! this is billy typing (= Yea! i just wanted to share with you guys a revelation that God gave me some time ago while i was in church. It was during Dom's sermon about others can, I cannot. Dom preached a really amazing sermon about surrender and obedience to God regardless of the circumstances. Dom shared about His life and what he had to surrender in His life to God! And what really was amazing was that when Dom and our leaders prayed for us during altar call, God really spoke into my life and told me many many things regarding my future, my descisions and paths to take. One of these things was really about going to mass communication in Ngee Ann Poly! Taking mass comm has been a dream for me since the start of sec 2. I've always been inspired to design well and produce beautiful artwork. Advertising has always been fun doing, and designing for events has been even more fun! I looked into the Job prospects and i've been amazed at the pay some good mass-comm people get..and i really though that hey! this is my forte and it's gonna work for me in my life! On that day however, God told me this: "My son, there are many paths in this road that you can take. i want you to take the path that's the narrow road. That path that glorifies me." God then really spoke to me about my future in Ngee ann..and told me that Mass communication was not His plan for me. It was a hard thing to take in and understand..and i really thought that it was just me thinking randomly. I thought over it again and again..it wasnt rational. It wasnt ideal..at all for me. But how many of you know that God has plans for us to prosper us? (= I knew in my heart that it was not my mind..bu it was God calling out to me and showing me his plans. After the release of my posting results, true enough, i got into a course in Business and social enteprise! God has placed me in a class which is unique and amazing..there are many people from many backgrounds in there. funny..hardworking, fun, talented? yep..and one thing i realised is that God placed me in a class that has so many Christians! I think that it is truly not a coincidence that things have turned out like that. I was reflecting over what would happen if i went into mass comm the other day..and i realised that nothing, NOTHING would have been the way it was..the advances spiritually, the friendship and bonding in class, the New Generation BZSE connect group..the many churched people in Ngee ann. Yup..and now i understand why God didnt want me to take mass comm! What i want to encourage you guys to keep in your hearts is that God always has a plan for you and this plan will never fail you in any way..God gives us directions and things to obey..sometimes easy..sometimes really hard. Sometimes a small sacrifice in finances..sometimes a big sacrifice in possible futures and destinies. But whatever God tells us to sacrifice and give up..it's for a reason. God always does things for a reason..never to bring hurt to us but to always prosper us! (= Will you start to serve God by first surrendering the things in your life that needs to go? Will you take the path that God has set before you? Will you live a life of others can I cannot? Again..some of us face these descisions in life. Again i have to say..it's your call! Serving God..Our lives. Think about it (= Romans 8:2828 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. ------------- hello, this is billy typing. It's your call during these trials! Sometimes life doesn't turn out the way you expect it to turn out. But well? God's God and you're not..no one else is. What happens now, is what you choose to do during your trials. Will you choose the broad way, or the narrow way? I've chosen the narrow way on this one..and i'm trying my best to walk the narrow path. I've never regretted my descision. It's your call. whether or not to stay there and keep loving Him. whether or not to stay in church even though there are trials and tribulations. it's your call. God is waiting to see what you're going to do..give up? or keep going..keep it there. During trials and tribulations, only you can make the descision. It's YOUR CALL. ------------------- Hey! this is billy speaking, or typing for that matter. yup! ------------------ |
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