.Thursday, July 02, 2009 ' 1:00 AM Y
let me do a quick update for today:
supposed to go maritchie hike with dear dear. woke up 745am in the morning (thats like super early!) and before i go out of the house, the sky turned grey and there were flashes of lightning. so again, we postponed our hike to friday. it seems like we keep on postponing. haha.
went back to sleep until 1230pm (!!!luxury!!!) and do some job searching and took a small nap (!!! ultimte luxury!!!) before i went out for tuition. met up wangyan for a dinner and had a great fellowship with her!
sometimes i prefer one-to-one fellowship. these few days, have been fellowshipping in a non-church setting with some ple. felt so edified after each fellowship.
everytime when we go cgm or church, we zapped in, do our stuff, and we zapped out. dont reli have the luxury of time to reli talk to every single person. meeting before and after service, bible study.... i feel real ministry time is monday-thursday.
after fellowshipping at Ben's place on monday; fellowshipping with cgls on tues; meeting wy up for dinner today, sharing with her sr's testimonies; reading Jim's testimony just now, im assured that God is still in the business of changing lives.
im just so amazed by those little divine appointments that God has installed in every one's lives! it might be just a casual invite to church, but that could possibly change the whole destiny of a breaking up family or a whole future of a youth delinquent. some cases worthy to be mentioned:
1. Ben's dad's colleague extended a casual invitation to Ben's dad, whom subsequently brought the whole family to church and since then, experiencing breakthroughs in family relationships and businesses.
2. Ruxin reached out to a stranger, Tobbie, tru friendster (can u imagine that?! God uses technology like friendster and facebook!), who subsequently brought Cleo Clive and Cliff to church, who are all serving the Lord wholeheartedly now in church.
3. Jim, who used to be involved in the underworld and drugs, was brought by a friend to church and is now in Bible school and took his O levels at the age of 25!
4. Sirong, who WAS my tutee (imagine her in sec 3! haha oops!) brought by me to church, and now her relationship with her sister restored and her maid and grandma now christians. Mind you, her grandma is alr 80+ years old and still so opened for God to come into her life! n now believing for her father to come to church too! (go girl! if u are reading this, we are praying tgt w u! =))
many many many more. indeed, testimonies like these will truly shut the mouth of the devil. sometimes we might think activities and events are v superficial, but no doubt that it is tru such "excuses" that peoples' lives are changed! it might be just a very small random casual remark of inviting them to come. lets arise and allow someone to ride on our faith just as how we have rode on others' =)
Being a Christian might not be as easy or as smooth-sailing, but it definitely brings more joy and purpose in my life. sometimes when tings are rocky in life, one just have to persevere on and await the glorious future that God has alr planned for you. after all, our Savior Himself went tru all that we are going tru and resurrect gloriously on the third day. We can have the same resurrection spirit in us too!
if you are yet a Christian today, why not try church-ing this week? maybe its gona be a divine encounter. trust me, your life is worth so much more than you can ever think =)
thank you Jesus =)
