My thinking palace.. where i deposit my emotions, my thoughts of what i feel, see, hear...

Monday, May 30, 2005

Moving in the Holy Spirit

Last saturday during the worship @ cell group, sis kless gave a word and she quoted the verse: Psalm 92:13: Those who are planted in the house of God shall flourish.

What sis kless said during that few minutes truly ministered to my heart, and I was so blessed. Yes, indeed, as we choose to be planted in the house of God, and not be a potted plant, we are in the line, where God can begin to pour His blessings into our lives, so that we can start to be a blessing too. And she also says that many atimes, we may ask God, we are so busy serving Him, but we can see where is our "reward". But then, God says, be patient. I will not forget you. Yes Yes, God is faithful even when we are faithless. And God says, one of the characteristic of his steward is faithfulness. Yes, I make a decision that from today one, I will be a faithful STEWARD.

I was so excited when she shared that verse, because that wa exactly the same verse that God put into my heart during the worship. I had very much wanted to share the verse to encourage the people, but I lost my voice that day...so i was like...er....God how.....But God is so good....He just used Sis Kless to encourage the people with the same verse that He laid in my heart.

It reminded me of the importance of exercising the gift of moving in the spirit, be it prophesy, giving a word, healing etc etc. And indeed, God give the same words to the people who are flowing in the same spirit.

Wow....this is so exciting! I am really thrilled and is truly encourage to move more in the spirit from now on! :-)

Saturday, May 28, 2005

A Place Of Influence and Authority!

Been very blessed since last week sermon that Pastor Kong preached. Pastor talked about being an influence in the market place and this week was a continuation. It was really a message that literally blown my mind off !

The key: God loves the rich just as much he loves the poor. And we need to have a change in our paradigm mindset. Pastor talked about we should get out of our traditional mindset that is hindering us by keeping us in our past. Its really while u take a step forward, u are taking 2 steps backwards.


From the simple parable that Jesus taught the disciples in Luk 19:5-26, there are 3 things we can learn:

A) In this world that has rebelled against Jesus Christ, God still wants us to excel in whatever we do in our marketplace, be it our school or work place.

B) To the degree that we excel and prosper in the marketplace, that determines the degree of auithority we have in the market place.

C) Jesus Christ will not return to deal with his enemies until all his servants have begun to rule and reign in the marketplace.

Therefore, always rememeber: Influence and respect is never automatic. It comes from servanthood. As we serve people and serve God, we begin to earn the influence of them for Christ.

I love the part especially when pastor talked about Servanthood. We must have a servanthood mind and heart. And we are all ministers in what we do. This simply means that ministry is not only the 2 hours that we spend in church, but it is something that we do 24 times 7: EVERYDAY should be where we minister that every person that we meet in our lives.

So the question: What is your mindset about your work and your work place?

Ans: There are 4 levels of mindsets that God wants to change in the workplace:

Level #1: Just a Christian
(Someone who treats the world as the enemy and always think that the world is an evil place. Only thinks that he should go into full-time ministry and stay away from the unbelievers)

Level #2: A Witnessing Christian
(Someone who is more concerned about winning souls for Christ at the workplace than concentrating on the job)

Level #3: A Christian who apply biblical principles in workplace
(Someone who just wants to overcome temptation and be a good testimony.No more, no less)

Level #4: Total Transformation
(Someone who is a leader in the industry they are in, walk in the presence & bring down the Kingdom of God in the market place)

Yesh! Level #4 is what we should pursue.

I make a decision I must move towards level #4, so that I can be used by God to change the world as I begin to change the marketplace.

I am so excited about what God is going to do in my life, in City harvest and in E335. I am so excited that Pastor is preaching about shining in the marketplace. I believe that is really a message in time for me.

Thank you Pastor Kong for preaching such an awesome message that impacted and convicted me.

Thank you Jesus for everything you have done.

God, tell me what should I begin with?

Thursday, May 26, 2005

A tiring week....

Phew! Been a really tiring week at work man!

Anyway, just want to share a mini revelation today..:-)

Just had my appraisal with my manager today. Throughout the whole session, it was really more like a chit chat session man...ha..this is the first time in 6 months ever since I joined the company, that I had such an opportunity to talk to my manager in such a casual manner..cos he hardly talks to the assistants...anyway, to cut the long story short, after the whole conversation, I had much peace. I had been so worried for the past few days for the session, thinking what he would say about me. However, in the end, he only discussed with me abt my days in EY for the past 6 months, and telling me the areas i can improve on and his expectations of me if i get promoted this coming july. Whew!

After the conversation, I realise one thing............... I ve worried and anxious for nothing! aiyoyo....i really too gan cheong man...should ve relax more..haha..anyway, I suddenly remember this verse from the bible : His thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are higher than our ways. I kept thinking negatively before the appraisal, worrying what will happen. But should ve more faith lar...Really a lesson learnt...Sorry God...:-) Indeed God is so good.. I believe He already had something great installed for me, just like a present there, waiting for me to go and open it. Hallelujah! God is Good!

Anyway, I believe everything ended on a good note. Now I will just keep praying and believing for my promotion. Cos I believe that promotion comes from God.

All praise be to God!

To love your neighbour as yourself

Finally I got down to write my first post in my own blog...haha...

it had been really encouraging reading sis kless, xuan's and bro isaiah's blog...they have posted so many of their revelations, thoughts and many many things there...

so i decided to do up my own blog too.. yupiz!

Although this week is a short week, but it seems so long to me...cant wait for the weekend to come again..haha...

still misses the great time of fellowship at the settlers' cafe last week with my spiritual family...been a long time since i had such a "crazy" time playing card games...the only memory i ve was during my secondary school days...wow that seems so long man!

this week so tired leh...got to handle this supervisor who really gets on me and my friends' nerves...so we got to be stressed abt completing the job on time for the manager's review, and yet at the same time, got to manage this supervisor on the job who does NOTHING! wow cant stand her man...i need greater capacity to love her..haha...cos Jesus says love your neighbour as yourself ..I tell myself everyday I will try.

I just hope after this friday, i will not get to book to work for her again...thank God for pulling me through this job! :-)