Lord i lift my friend to You

Lord, I lift my friend to you
I’ve done all that I know to do
I lift my friend to you

Complicated circumstances
Have clouded his view
Lord, I lift my friend up to you

I fear that I won’t have the words
That he needs to hear
I pray for your wisdom, Oh God
And a heart that’s sincere
Lord, I lift my friend up to you
(Casting Crowns, Prayer for a Friend lyrics)

Was the first of the 4 evangelistic service today. My dear friend attended the service today and i'm glad he did. Usually he would refused on the spot but i guess something in him made him come, or probably God put a yearning in his heart. But i thank God that he came anyway, even though he did not accept Christ. Well, i think this song really fits into this situation. I've done all that i could, i prayed, interceed and fasted. The rest is really up to God and His perfect timing. Thats why when my friend asked if i was disappointed at him not accepted i said nope, because i know one day God will show him how needy is he. I just pray that when that day comes, he will not harden his heart. Well praise God a billion times over!

B.O.M.G (2)

WOOHOO! Praise GOD! It's just so overwhelmingly amazing that i just gotta tell the whole world about the absolute amazing-ness of this amazing thing God has done!

It all began in September 2007... God gave me a burden for the youths and i got up and went to spread the Word! Okay i shan't repeat the whole story which is posted here under the 25th of September post. All along i thought i was really dumb by not getting any form of contact from the students i spoke to and all i was left to do was to pray.

Time passed and i was wondering how are they doing? I began to pray that i may get a chance to see them again and to be really encouraged by their growth though i was half expecting that they are not going to church anymore. Well i prayed for a few months and still no chance of seeing them. I admit i kinda stopped praying for that. What God did was truly amazing. He granted me the opportunity to meet one of them.

It was after service at dinner in Bishan. I sat down turned back and i saw this familiar face. It's that guy from Guang Yang Sec! I smiled to him and he smiled back. After that was kinda funny. I gotta first admit that i forgot whether he was among those who accepted Christ whom i have spoken to. Then i recalled "yea! He's in fact the first guy to respond!" And God just played a video of remembering that he was the first to raise up his hand with head bowing down without even the slightest hesitation. Praise God!

But. I was in fear of disappointment. What if he had stopped going to church? What if it was just like a one shot thing to him? I admit i took a little long to decide to walk up to him and said "hi". And it was amazing. I asked how he has been and he said that he's attending church regularly! I then asked him what he has to thank God for in this period of his life. I reassured him that it wasn't a test or a trick question. He answered me that he really thank God for sending his son to die for him and went on about God's amazing love that was lavished on all of us! WHOA PRAISE GOD!

I asked him if he knew the others were doing well or not and he said that the backslided one was now attending church regularly. PRAISE GOD! Then he said that one guy stopped going after the first time there and he was praying for him. He's also attending cell group meetings and bible classes. Total shiokness. I prayed for him and then i went back to my own table to share of God's awesomeness with my life group members.

I really thank God for this. After so long of wondering how they were doing, God answered my prayers and displayed His work in the lives that He has touched. Thoroughly encouraging.

Purpose.

Hmm i've been pondering. What's the purpose of my life now that i know that there is one God and He is alive and that He is mighty to save? The answer from the Holy Spirit was direct and simple. This is the purpose of my life: "To let people know that God has reconciled with the human race through the death of His son Jesus Christ."

Simple as that. I'm glad God gave me this answer or i'll be joining millions of others who question the purpose of their life. Well i know that there are more specific purposes of my life but i've yet to receive any answers yet. But as i continue to ponder and read the Word of God, God illustrated to me what it truly meant to be a Christian in this era, this time, this hour.

"He [Aaron] stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped." Numbers 16:48

I dont know how this verse speaks to you but it spoke tons to me. The Israelites were a stiff-necked generation. They never stop complaining even after God has shown them that He is their Lord and God thru so many miracles and works. Whenever something bad comes up they would cry out that they rather have stayed in Egypt.

God's wrath was upon them as a plague. Moses asked Aaron to grab his censer and fill it with incense and hurried to the assembly to make atonement for them. Aaron rushed and ran and stood between the living and the dead [I pictured the plague like a wave and the Israelites like Kallang wave liddat, row by row dropping dead], and he made the atonement and the plague stopped.

The same thing happened to the world. A world which deserved nothing but destruction. But God did not flood the world or sent a world wide plague, He sent His one and only Son as the everlasting atonement. "For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." Rom 5:10

Jesus stood between the living and the dead. It's our turn to do so. "But what can i do but pray?" It was at this point the Holy Spirit spoke to me in a heavier tone. "Prayer is never the least thing, it is the greatest and most important thing that you must do!".

"All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. " 2 Corinthians 5:18-19.

Reconcile

And so that was the end of the 3 long arduous weeks of studio project. 2 and a half weeks of hard work just kinda went down the drain at presentation when my friend got my Artificial Intelligence code broken. I was kinda devastated on the spot. I could've cried or yell something but i did not. Well, no idea why but i was really moody after that; even after a 2nd presentation of my AI codes by itself.

Spiritually, i kinda hit bottoms. Bed at 3 or 4 am is not helping anything at all. QT is compromised so many times and my relationship with God took the toll. I guess thats why my emotions are getting hold of me and the enemy's having a good time attacking me in every way.

I'm really glad that it's all over. However there's something that i'm more glad about. It's really none other than reconciling with God once again (i'm really glad that i didn't take a long time on this as i would have in the past). It's so good to stand before God once again in His presence just soaking in all the peace and really casting out all the burdens and baggage from the past weeks.

The sermons on both days are great. I must really admit that, yea i know who's the Holy Spirit by God's Word but I have really yet to come intimately close with this third person of the Trinity. On Saturday, i just committed myself to God once again and i told the Holy Spirit that i want to start this journey with Him right now.

"And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever" John 14:16

this is going to be so exciting!

At the Cross

It's been a really really busy week. Days of not tiredness and disappointments. It's the 2nd week of my studio project and all i've got to say is that my progress is really really slow because of nasty bugs in everything i do and i was just stumped looking at the errors and wondering where they came from. I've got to admit, the time i spent praying and QT has been cut short for a few days and on one day i did not do QT at all because i was so tired that i just fell asleep. I could not wake up early to pray either because i was just so drained with only 3 to 4 hours rest each day. The worst of it came when i got hit with a cold near mid week.

But God has been good! Ever so forgiving and comforting. Earlier this week God answered one of my prayers which is to love Him with tears and i was glad that when i worshipped Him with the song "At the Cross", tears just kept flowing. All along i thought my heart was so hardened that it cant be touched! Another thing was that i felt God prompted me to write down my convictions and remember them as they become my boundaries in my life. Gotta keep praying over them as God sanctifies me thru and thru with His grace.

So yeap! It's been a tiring week but i still praise God for it!

the Love they never knew

It's been a busy week. 9 to 8 in school on most days is certainly no fun. Well at least the weekend's are coming! Hoho spent my Valentines' Day in school with 2 other friends doing project like really sad people.

Valentines' Day hmm, didn't really celebrate it before but i must admit i did something real stupid in my adolescent years but hey thats something so long ago. Hmm well, i'm not sad that i'm not with some hot date on Valentines' because i'm already in the greatest Love story of all times. A love that's so wide and long and high and deep (mind you, thats 3 dimensional!). And I thank God, that i may have the privilege of being in His Love story.

A Love story that He wrote since the beginning of time...

A Love when He breathed life into man and made him rule over all creations,
A Love when He made the promise that there will never again be a flood to destroy earth,
A Love when He made Abraham father of the nations,
A Love when He led the people He redeemed out of Egypt, out of bondage,
A Love when He said to David,"I will be his Father, and he will be my son",

A Love that He sent His one and only Son to the world,
A Love that healed the sick, the blind, the deaf, the fallen,
A Love that did not cast the first stone at the sinner,
A Love that raised Lazarus from the dead,
A Love that hung there on the cross on Calvary.

A Love that saved a sinner like me.

Save my family please.

Just had a heated argument with my parents. Is money the most important thing in this world? Yea probably to them but not me. Money, money, money is that what the world is revolving around? If the world was to revolve around what God's love then what a good place earth will be!

I just cant seem to get my message across to them. Yes, money is a important need, but if you put it as your focus in life then i guess you will never have happiness. You will probably be consumed by your own greed and the constant need for more to satisfy yourself.

Bah, probably it's my young age, they think that i'm still pretty immature with my thinking, believing everything i've heard in church. They might probably be even thinking that i've been brain-washed or being swindled by church. Or plain naive thinking? meh.

On Christ's solid rock i stand, i'm glad that i understood this hard truth regarding money. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you." All these things, money, material needs, jobs, will be added unto me if i truly put God in the first place in my life. Praise the Lord!

But i guess they will never understand this truth for they have never met Christ and His saving grace. In Him there is true joy, true peace, a love that is so freely given to all who believes. I need to pray more, fast more, intercede more for them. God, they need Your saving grace!