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| Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| mind-blowing conference |
So many people came and went in 4 days.
Mindblowing... Gonna share bit by bit all the lessons I learnt so far.
Basically I am just going to keep it simple. AMEN? AMEN...
This week is also going to be the last week of my holidays... and my last week in campus ministry... wooo...
thank you God for the conference that helps to prepare my heart for the transition... :)Labels: a queen thinks |
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| Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| what is discipleship? |
Hi everyone,
I just wanna wish to share this link (http://www.ldolphin.org/disciple.html) that celine shared with me today. I went to read it just now and felt that I MUST share with you all... Like what Celine said, I felt that the message I read from the link was quite similar to the message being preached in the series of kingdom-focused church.
Two points that really set me thinking: the first point is what kind of believer am I? Am I a outward disciple or a disciple that has inwardly committed myself to the Word? Recently I shared with the sisters some new diet resolutions I am going to follow in order to really put my health in shipshape. It only has been a few days so far and I find myself bordering on being easily grumpy and easily irritated. Not exactly being Christ-like focused as I made my lifestyle changes. Why is that so? Is it because I am not totally inwardly committed to wanting to make that lifestyle change? I think the answer is yes. In order to make that TOTAL inward commitment, I have to trust God in this. And it takes a 100 percent trust, not 99.9 percent even. Please pray for my heart to be pliable to the Word and to be surrendered to God. I pray that my approach to this diet is one of overwhelming joy and gratitude instead of being overwhelming annoyed and disgruntled.
The second point that got me thinking is: Jesus promises that I follow him, hear his word, and continue in it, that a most amazing thing will happen; that "the truth will set you free." Wow... It made me ponder. A lot of times I will read the verse (John 8:32) and I will share with people how the truth will set us free from sins and so forth. Yet I often forget consciously how Jesus has set me free in terms of helping me to become more real and not to be trapped in the world's perceptions. I have a lot of friends and it saddens me to share that quite a few of my friends are going on a path of depression and some have even stayed quite permanently on it. I have a few friends who lost their lives as they lost the battle with depression. It always made me tear when I think about it... we young people are supposed to be enjoying our lives and supposed to have the world at our fingertips. Yet even as our basic needs are so easily met and our material wants quite easily fulfilled, emotional voids are appearing in so many people's lives. Thankfully I am a Christian and no longer trapped in a deathtrap with my insecurities and my fears. I can now at least disagree wholeheartedly with my friends and not quake in my shoes in how my friends think about me. I no longer need to wear so many masks that I lose my real identity as a person. I no longer need to be the 'strong' one always... Jesus has freed me from a lot of these but sometimes I admit I am reluctant to shed some of these burdens. I have been so comfortable in these burdens that I want to deny that I have these insecurities. They have become like a security blanket - a kind of like a 'valid excuse' to shine at people when people give me feedback. Scary to know how I can be so delibrately sinful. Yet Jesus has never given up on me. He is waiting for me to give to him my fears and worries about having multiple sclerosis. He's waiting for me to free myself. He has already cut the bounds off me... he's just waiting for me to shrug them off.
I will just like to ask you all to think about what Jesus has set you all free from... and then let's rejoice together that we are free from them! (Next time, I shall try to squeal less when someone suggests we go on a nightwalk. Sisters, just let me hold your hands very tight k? I am still learning how to overcome my fear of the supernatural.) |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 10:37 PM |
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