First Prayer Answered!!!

On Tuesday, during the cell group meeting, we made our list of specific prayer requests and started to pray to the items. I made a list of 12 items. On item 8, I wrote that I wanted God to provide someone to coach me in my singing, FOR FREE. When I wrote it, I thought this must be one of the craziest request in my list. FOR FREE??? Today, one of my customer walked in to pick up her medications and we had a long conversation to sort out her dosages and all. I have no idea how it went into the topic but she mentioned that she sings professionally and coaches too. Of course I siezed the opportunity and ask her some questions on singing techniques. She was very helpful and gave me some tips. Although it was just 5-10mins of teaching, but I GOT MY FREE SINGING LESSON!!! Just 2 days after praying. God is AWESOME! I know this is the first sign that God is showing me that he hears our prayers and more importantly, He is ready to answer if we pray.

We Speak To Nations

Hear the sound

The sound of the nations calling

Hear the sound

The sound of the fatherless crying

Who will go for us Who will shout to the corners

Of the earth That Christ is King

We speak to nations be open

We speak to nations

Fall on your knees

We speak to nations

The Kingdom is coming

Near to you

O we speak to strongholds

Be broken

Powers of darkness You have to flee

We speak to nations

The Kingdom is coming near to you

We speak to you Be free

Hear the sound

The sound of the nations worshipping

Hear the sound

Of sons and daughters singing We will go for You

We will shout to the corners

Of the earth

That Christ is King

Training Progress

It's been 1 week since I started training with J Wong. There much to learn in every session. The exercises he puts us through, some of them really look weird to the people around us. It's been tiring and I feel that I have not got much energy everyday and I have been sleeping very well. It's probably due to the energy sap. I have not seen any changes in my waistline yet but one thing I have changed is that I have been cooking more because of the low carbs, high protein and fruits diet. It's a struggle cos I running out of ideas to cook my 3 -5 eggs in the morning. SF and I have each bought 1 tray of eggs (30) last wednesday and we have finish the first tray already! Have never eaten so many eggs in 1 week in my life. It's hard work trying to get back to shape. Have to get my butt out of the house to the exercise corner more often to huff and puff....

Power of Exercise+Diet+Vitamins

I started taking my multivitamins today again and I felt great today with lots of drive at work.

I stopped taking my multis for the past 4 weeks and was very sluggish and down. I didn't think that it could affect me so much until I started taking them today, again.

I was talking to J Wong regarding the new diet and how has helped my energy levels but I think it's the EXERCISE + DIET + VITAMINS combination that has made a difference.

Hope I can maintain the discipline

Extracted from Ps YC's Blog Look Far in the Vision - Family or Mere Friends? In G12, every person is eventually cornered and faced with this question - "what is family to you?" There is a distinct difference between family and friends. The foundation of friendship is closeness, the foundation of family is commitment. For friends, commitment MAY happen with increasing closeness. For family, closeness WILL develop as we remain committed. In family, mutual responsibility is supreme. Among friends, space for mutual rights is key. We cannot choose family, we surrender to God's wisdom as he "places" us, and we accept our responsibility. We choose our friends, we exercise our rights & determine who they are. Friends are so much safer and fun, after all, less is at stake. We keep our distance. Family is tough, the more we give, the more we are likely to get disappointed. In fact, friends who hurt us are close friends, almost family-like. So if friends are all that more fun and less binding, why do we ever choose families? Why not just have friends and all be happy? Because we came from families. Family gives us an unmovable sense of security - it is where we reproduce and host a suitable environment for the next generation. Friends simply give us pleasure. Nobody reproduces in a friendship. Except maybe among these kinds of friends: We need ONE family, but we can have MANY different friends. We can change friends. Just let them do what they please and we'll find a bunch. But we cannot find families, we cannot decide them. Someone else chose commitment, that's why we were born into family. Kids love friends, developed adults treasure commitment. The number one reason why adults do not want to bear kids is for their personal freedom, their rights - perhaps they did not grow up to gradually give up rights for responsibility -which works out right as well, the kids will suffer anyway if unconditional commitment is not in place. Eventually that generation passes away without descendents, and their influence and impact fades away. As you prepare to look far in the vision, are you ready to accept your place in the family? Start with commitment and soon you'll be the host to lots of happy children. And when they experience what love is (followed by discipline to teach responsibility), we start to see God's kingdom grow. There is never a better time to start than with your family NOW.

江西之旅 - 23 - 28 Feb 2007