Monday, September 29, 2008
Beauty of Life
Excitement- Lost & Found
My clumpsymiccy sister lost her i-phone few days back then. We don’t have much hope that we will get it back. However after 5 days we all decided to give it a try. I told her to call up digi center to check on the last call. Thank god the phone was still activate and it recorded a few calls. We track the number and found the person that is holding the phone. Surpirsingly they agreed to return the phone. Praise the Lord! My sister was so happy and say God answered her prayer and will give more offering this week! Haaa..human nature. You gotta experience it baru believe
Disappointment- Phone call from Dubai
Client has requested that she needs Arabic speaking hostesses for the event. Called a few modeling agency and apparently all are booked. Client is stress I am stress. 2 girls are flying out tomorrow and I don’t have a place for them to stay. There is but cost 600/nite. Walao ey! Rompak meh..God ah. You need to intervene and help! I need You!
Excitement- Crazy Street Party
It was about 12 mid nite, clumpsymiccy rushing up to my room and said her car broke down and need my help. Rushed down and checked the car which is parked outside. Little did I know I saw internetsien standing there. The conversation as follow
BlurHui-Sian why are u here?
InternetSian-I, paktow with your sista ma [correction. InternetSian told me is I limteh with your sista. You cannot blame me to think you paktow with my sista ma. It was like 12 mid nite and you were there with my sista]
BlurHui- [thinking…shit sian must be very stress and need to talk to me, quickly rush to the car to try so that can attend to InternetSian, I turned my back and want to counsel Sian]
Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
It was a set up. They were about 6 crazy teenagers rushing from all side of my house throwing all kinds of unidentified items at me. I heard laughter and screaming. Apparently my SleepyMum told me later that neighbours called and asked where our house got rompak. Hahaa.
Anywie, thanks to InternetSian [the director], CrazyJun [she kept on saying u deserve it], PeperLoong, EggFen, FlourSteve, BoBotheDog, JieztheCameraMan & ClumpsyMiccy. By the way my mum knew about it all the while….sigh….
Thank God for ups n downs in life. I guess this make you appreciate people and things around u more.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Offering
Today went to church late (almost missed the church) i guessed i have overworked my eyes. should spend less time in front of the computer. turning to a computer nerd. will do that after my dubai assignment.
Ya. Church. Had a good time enjoying the sermon today. It is a sermon that I wished the church has preached my years ago! Hallelujah!. God has answered my prayer. A topic that most gospel church do not touch on. OFFERING! it has been too long that we have neglect this topic. we have talked about God's love, God's grace, God's mercy, God's ability to provide. But we do not talk about our obligation as a christian, our duty as his servant, our responsible as his money keeper.
I thank God that I have attended church that has really challenged me in terms of offering. Later did I know that giving my 10% to God has in return blessed me so much. During my uni years, I have faithfully offer God the 10% of my monthly allowances. It wasnt an easy task. I started working as a sandwich artist at Subway, I have more income- I get paid AUD11/hour. So I normally get about AUD120/week. (10% was like AUD12, on top of that I normally offer AUD10-20). Ey. AUD32 is like about RM100 okay. somemore i masih uni student..walao ey...my parents money somemore. but i really pray to God. God, I follow ur instruction. You gotta lead me in this.
But praise the Lord, He is able and He is truely our provider. He has never short changed me.
Little did I know that by practising giving 10% offering for AUD120/mth has make me to develop such a habit to offer and tithe. It never crossed my mind that I could ever earn 10k/mth which means a whoppy offering of 1k offering/month. but i have peace and not lacking anything until now.
Today's msg might not be the most popular and be the A list sermon for the year, but i think its time to keep us thinking and bring us to another level of offering instead of tipping.
Lesson learnt:
-With the little you have, start giving.
-Money is like flesh n skin so close to our body, cutting 1 inch of it we feel the pain.
-Plan your financial properly (God come before PSP, Nokia/Sony Ericson New Handphone/humm.maybe lexus convertable as well)
-Put your priority right
In 1857, an American businessman named Jeremiah Lanphier was sent out by his local church to begin a noon-day prayer meeting on Fulton Street, right around the corner from Wall Street in New York City. A simple prayer, a willing heart, and an act of obedience resulted in city transformation throughout the United States.
However, at that very first meeting, no one showed up in the first 35 minutes. But Jeremiah waited. Gradually, six people wandered into the room at 35 minutes past the hour. Six months later, 10,000 people were meeting for prayer throughout New York City. This led to one of the greatest spiritual renewals in the United State's history.
24 Sept-The Church
Please remind me to pray instead of complain, to pray instead of get angry, to pray instead of feel sorry for myself.
When the Body of Christ - the Church puts its collective resources together to solve societal issues, our enemies; crime, poverty, sexual perversion, etc. will fall by the sword of a unified Church.
25 Sept-God is God of Success
Dear God, today I come to you and ask for a special touch upon the leaders of the United States [Malaysia] and upon those who must make decisions that affect the world economic and financial conditions. Please provide wisdom and clarity of mind.
"If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth" (Deut 28:1-2).
26 Sept-God is God of Success
Dear God, I pray for teens and for adults who may be trying to live in "Never, never land" and not grow up, that you would guide them to become mature, to remain or become pure, and to serve You in daily life and ministry. I pray for the proper nurturing environment and spiritual enlightenment to come their way. May they grow stronger in their faith each and every day, and may that faith always be in You, "Abba" Father. In Jesus' name, amen.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
20-26 September (Devotion)
God, help me to see my work and my daily activities as a means to worship to you.
God is the source of all creativity and innovation. He created the world in seven days. He has made you to create. If God has placed on idea in your heart to do, ask the Lord for His help in bringing it to reality.
Faith plays an important role when considering stepping out to launch a new endeavor. "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for" (Heb 11:1-2).
21 Sep- Modelling Christ to your Employer
Sometimes, Lord, it seems I'm "in the fire." Things are hectic, I'm bombarded with trials and temptations, and it is not easy. Please help me through the fiery times. I
Paul felt the way to win over your employer was to follow several key principles: 1) don't talk back, 2) don't steal, and 3) be trustworthy.
22 Sep- Empowering Others
Help me to wait when I should wait and to act when I should act.
The CEO was excited that he'd found the right man to be general manager of his growing enterprise. He had all the training, the right skill set, and great people skills. The CEO gave him all authority to fulfill his role. However, after six months the CEO had to fire him. It seems the general manager refused to use the empowerment given him to accomplish his tasks.
Great leaders, mentors, and managers must empower others to fulfill the mission of any organization.Inspiration.....
However, I am very encouraged by the young people in church. We were being challanged but Ah Jun thedevotionsuperwoman to submit all our devotion findings to her everyweek. I raised up the issue that guys aka mutouren aka zai nan like us spend more time online then picking up a pen and write down our thoughts. Hence, I came up with this crazy idea *normal la..i always have strange strange idea one* which is to blog down our thoughts. challenging people in my little inner group to blog down their daily finding.
So I shall dedicate this page to purely showcasing my daily spiritual battle and new discovery in the love of Jesus. I have titled the page as Hide n Seek. I think many times in life, we do that to God. God seek for us and we hide. God want us to submit our problem to him but we hide it all...so well..we thought...I have learnt throughout to submit all things to the almighty HIM! Learn to never give up and continuing seeking regardless the situation that we are facing! Declare HIS promises!
Matthew 7:7-8 - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. (NIV)
Matthew 6:33 - But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. (NIV)
I hope this will be a good start of my brand new blogging experience. May this blog live long life..haha..will blog some interesting life stories which I encounter. Hope you will be inspired and be encouraged.
Still waiting for the brother-in-christ to take up the challenge!