Amazing Service

Singing and playing had been tiring on Saturday, but I can really see how God had brought me and the whole band through the whole praise and worship session. I was amazed by how it all turned out; the overall sound and the response from the congregation was simply overwhelming. I never knew that a 4-piece could sound so full and dynamic. I think technical stuffs aside, I believe it was really God who was in control of the team. We were just used by Him as instruments to deliver His presence to the people's hearts.

I'm very convicted and excited to carry this on for the subsequent services. I saw how an extra attention paid to the technical parts like sound, choice of effects and fill-in notes etc. could make so much difference to the overall dynamics. Let's keep it up man! Praise and worship can change lives!! :D

Psalm 33:2-4

2 Praise the LORD with the harp;
make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.

3 Sing to him a new song;
play skillfully, and shout for joy.

4 For the word of the LORD is right and true;
he is faithful in all he does.

Sending off the NS guys

Today is the day that a few of my close friends are enlisting into army: Shawn, Luke and Shem. BOYS TO MEN!! LOL wahlao I woke up at 6.30am to travel all the way to PASIR RIS interchange(thank God my mom fetched coz it's near her workplace if not I'll just die on the train.)

Anyway not really in the mood to write stuffs now, so I'll just post some pics.

God is closer than you think

Hey guys I've got a testimony to share! Though it's just a couple of small things, they're still very impactful to my life and hope they can impact yours, too. :D

Okay today is tuition day. I was gonna have to go and teach that fantastic p5 boy again LIKE SIAN. Haha I seriously felt like ponning tuition(just like the good old days back in JC.) Okay la my shep told me to try a different approach towards him. Initially I was like no point la seriously. Then the thing is somehow I was reminded by what Shirley mentioned in her sermon last week. I think she said something like 'at times we keep complaining that God didn't answer our prayers but the thing is did we even pray abt it in the first place?' Haha okay la so I decided to pray and ask God to somehow work something out for today's tuition as the past few had been blood-boiling experiences.

Then I thought since I'm praying so might as well pray for more. Lol so I prayed that the bus to that boy's house would arrive at the interchange immediately after I reached there so that I don't have to wait for it. And it really happened, so thank God I wasn't late in fact 15 minutes early.

And you know what guys the surprising thing was that today p5 boy suddenly became smarter and could understand what I'm saying. Lol yes and it was quite enjoyable teaching him abt reproduction(no hints.) The scary thing was that halfway through the tuition, 2 GIANT BEES flew into the house and got me quite disturbed coz I didn't wanna get stung or anything, so I prayed for them to either DISAPPEAR or DIE. And to my amazement, one of them just disappeared and the other one died mysteriously on the floor(I think it sprained its ankle or something.)

Okay tuition ended, I took out my thermometer in the lift and stuffed it into my blood veins and thankfully it wasn't boiling. Lol yeah alright man! Okay next when I was crossing the road I saw this familiar looking bus so I dashed with all my might in my flip flops and sling bag which constantly hit my butt while I was running haha err okay. And as I was running and throwing my arms around in the air trying to get the bus driver's attention, I kinda recalled that my ezlink was only left with -$1.20. I was like OH CRAP! So at that moment I only had 3 choices,
a) Act as if I'm crazy and just run pass the bus
b) Act as if I was running for the bus behind
c) Tell the bus driver I got myopia

Haha okay I knew all these couldn't work so I just quickly prayed that somehow the bus driver would let me off. I went up the bus, tapped my card, and was greeted by 'PAY CASH' and flashing red lights and alerts from the small machine. Then I reached into my wallet and pretended to be shocked and turned around and gave the bus driver a pitiful face and said, 'Uncle, wo mei you coin.' Then he went like 'MEI YOU COIN?! MEI YOU COIN?!' He repeated that like 3 times, and then he went 'never mind la.' Woah thank God man! I thought all bus drivers are niao ppl, but today I encountered otherwise.

Basically that's my little testimony, thank God for all the answered prayers. Small things but yet very significantly proving that He's closer than I think.

Once skinny, now FAT.

Okay guys I found this picture of myself taken 3 years ago. And so this is how 65 kg feels like. Haha SIAN.

Ankle-spraining spree

Just played basketball with some random ppl: Shawn, Martin, Rayson, Junliang, Luke and Freedy. AND GUESS WHAT GUYS, I SPRAINED MY ANKLE AGAIN!! HOHO! It's really traumatizing when you land with your foot in the awkward(tilted) position, and the next thing you know is that you have rested your whole body weight on your ankle and you just totally twist it to one side(OUCH!). Sian I think I'm developing a weak joint, sprained the same spot for like 5 times alr. Haha oh well.

Since Shawn was the 'culprit', we got him to pray for my ankle. And you know what guys, the cool thing was that the pain alleviated almost immediately after the prayer(I even tried walking, NO PAIN!) Now I can even rotate my ankle without feeling any pain, amen God is good man! :D Maybe Shawn has the gift of healing, but then again he also did pray for no more injuries from then on. Haha then the funniest thing was abt 5 minutes after I sprained my ankle, FREEDY SPRAINED HIS ANKLE! LMAO so we're like the casualties of the day. Haha but okay la his was only a slight sprain(but trust me it's still very painful.)

Despite all these, still wanna thank God for the great weather and a great time of fellowship with random ppl. Haha alright gotta go meet some random guy to sell him my acoustic hardcase for $20. Yay money! And that's gonna last me till Sunday -_-' Hmm shall pray that God will provide more! :D

God is a random God to us

This is a very random thought, but I think God is a random God, at least to me la. One way of explaining this is that God has everything in control, and with human eyes of course we cannot see everything. So we can be thinking of one thing at one time when there are like a few million other things going on. And since God is in control of everything, so He can be spotting where Mas Selamat is hiding, AND at the same time feeling very sad for the starving kids in Africa, AND also making sure that Hillsong is writing that new song in the correct key, AND many many other things like holding back the rain for a great bbq session for a particular CG, guiding us for our test the next day, calculating if this particular plate movement will cause any major earthquakes, is that ship gonna sink, whose the next president of Taiwan, how to save the polar bears because of global warming, etc. AND of course, listening to all prayers.

Therefore to us God is a very random God doing alot of random stuffs, but to God Himself He's just controlling everything. And as we learn to grow to be more Christ-like, the randomness of God in our sight decreases more and more as we are able to see Him and comprehend His ways better. Haha okay I seriously have no idea how to explain this more clearly but I do hope it makes sense to you.