(Back Posting) : 2 weeks since I blog. anyway,
many or few things has passed. Had my CG's retreat from 18-20th Fri nite -Sun morning, at Holiday Flats Pasir Ris, courtesy or Qiu Yan's mum. at a very low price.
What i enjoyed most was the relaxing greenery from the window, the park, the play ground! and the quality time spent with the sisters (although very little) and the rest as a CG. Quite fun actually. BBQ was great.. seeing how Jarain, Shireen they all came up with the menu, got everything ready, got the guys to buy stuffs - travelled to White Sands together , and then I left for Turbo Group session at RIver Valley min house unfortunately but timing was ok..
came back and everyone was eating and food was cooking. Quite amazed..(reason below)
and at the end of the whole thing, felt it was wonderful and the objectives of the little Retreat was met..
coming CG (which is today) should be on reflection of the CG Retreat..(but found out at CG it's not! (William don't simply anyhow disseminate wrong info!!!!!!)(but it was good change for me to charge myself to reflect. Coz reflection is not my full time habit. which w/o it many things may pass by without me making sense of, capturing or learning from it) :)
so i got myself to reflect.. or tried to.. okie.
so the 2 Objectives set was:
1) Revitalise our relationship with Jesus Christ!
2) Reenergize our relationship with one another
Upon reflecting on this two things
the 2nd objective was what i could easily recall intially.
and felt the relationship and fellowship atmosphere was very positive and different the last time we were together for extended period of time (altough this wasn't fully extended for everyone.
3 points:
Unity (waiting for one another etc. ),
care (Service- BBQ- cooking, Gavin - Worship song prep and help singing, Qui Yan..calling Jarain, blanket) and etc.
love (tolerance-despite being complained.)
just short pointers here. no time to elaborate yet. was thinking of affirming ppl on CG blog..re-consider/see if i manage to
then i tried to reflect upon the 1st Objective -my relationship with Christ during and through the retreat.. eh.. how come can't really think of.. But few days later (only last night i recalled something..)
- the distinction between my relationship with God and ministry (The 'spiritual' things i do for Him and busy myself with). It just dawn upon me as i felt myself taking a step back on Sunday morning.. attending the morning SubD prayer meeting at Singtel Comm care (where Tricia works!!! haha. Many a times i felt i was just too pre-occupied doing things for God and trying to accomplish them, that my relationship with Him is rather neglected or dry.. not deep.. although i do communicate with HIm. Maybe it's the little quiet time a spent on Saturday morning (when i woke up pretty early, before 7am! when QiuYan have to leave for work and I woke up and can't sleep any more. even though i slept 3AM plus that nite. The pillow was uncomfortable. But didn't bother to change it to something else (my portable pillow!)That morning, just took out the bible again and sat down, cool peaceful morning, with windows open, the grass and greenery outside..
how nice.. haven't done this for a long time and actually miss it.
and actually i was trying to seek God and piece my Worship songs together!! had been doing that since 1am plus the night before!!
poor apple . see me playing guitar before sleeping and waking her up with guitar in the morning..:P as if i'm a guitar freak..
pardon me!
(think my Spirit's not very right.. as if angry with something and have bitterness like that, the way or things i'm writing..)
haha.(& I can still laugh. jialat) (28 Nov)
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Paradise Worship Concert & Seminar 2-3 Nov 05 ~ Power or Praising God!!
After that, I really asked God loh, should I go for the Paradise Worship Seminar?
In my heart, i felt the Holy Spirit says 'go'..
well, upon getting the go ahead from, God, i executed my plan!!
haha. In the end, i've actually talked to Charmaine about missing the few hours of Hope Sem Life & Teaching of Christ class and come in after lunch. Well, because the Hope Seminary's rule is that a student must not miss more than 20% of any particular course duration (in order to be counted elligible for the course credits, Charmaine counted the number of hours that I would miss (in to my amazement, and joyfully thanking and praising the Lord, the number of hours I would miss is just right before 20%!! or almost near there but not. Praise & thank the Lord!!
with this official consent,
I went for Paradise Worship seminar loh!! on Thurs 3 Nov 10-2pm!haha, actually the day before that (3 Nov), i managed to go for the Paradise concert as well!! was asking around for friends and visitors to come along, but in the end, my call to Liwen was an answered prayer to her to join me and William to read the bible at Macdonalds!! (she was trying to look for a place to read the bible after she bumped into a closed Jurong East Library on Hari Raya Public Hol, And she prayed to God that she hope to go to Macs, and there would be someone ordering food or drinks there so she wouldn't have to order anything. (she is very tight on $, and actually God just granted her the job that leads her into the Clinial Trials/research area she wished to go into a few weeks ago.)
This sister really has a lot of amazing and wonderful testimonies to share.. about her encounter with God..how God healed her, worked through her to minister to people etc. etc. ' My ex shepherd Daisy told me, she has a desperate heaert for God, that's why God shows Himself very real to her.. coz i told Daisy after that night that I felt lacking in those experiences with God which she shared.. which my ex-shepherd put in words as 'loud, outward'. Daisy shared in her sms that "God works differently in all our lives, not all the time loud/outward, sometimes inward". and that can pray for deeper experiences with God..
aiks.. and usually the deeper experiences with God is when you go thru though and hard times loh.. scary leh.. like praying for difficulties, hardship, trials and challenges.. and it's true.. Liwen's life has not been easy, or how the circumstance that came to her and how she has to handle it at her level or faith.. she really struggled but trusted God.. she really fervently and desperately seeks God... through prayer, fasting.. really hungry for God and spiritually for His Word and presence.. really encourages me much wheni meet her and she shares her woes and struggles. But that night, it was very much faith and encouraging testimonies..
she was struggling to go for Water baptism, or had uncertian fears.. but she rally shared, prayed and responded to God.. through the worship session, altar call. I responded also, for a miracle for God to work in, and so happen she wanted to go down to respond to altar call, so I went down with her. Kill 2 birds in 1 stone..(accompanying her also), though, i would not have gone down to the front by myself.. see, she is even more aggressive in seeking God than I who will give in to intimidity to respond outwardly in an intimidating setting like that..
Praise the Lord. the respond was link to what Pastor Paul Zaia (The worship Pastor/Music director of Paradise worship team). Power of Praising God!
Something that struck and a reminder to me, to Praise God still no matter what circumstance, and it's an action or FAITH to claim God's victory and promises even though I don't see it yet. The other things that i brought home that night was the message of God's plan for us is victory, God's plan for us is to be MORE than counquerors,...forgot already.
Looked for Daisy up the auditorium after the session. and we shared a little. Liwen and she caught up. Then it was supper and Kok Siang dropped addy, Liwen and me home. The amazing thing is, even Kok Siang says he was blessed by Liwen's testimony of healings, God's working and goodness and how we must not be consumed by anger.. in order for God to work. etc. etc.
great day..
In my heart, i felt the Holy Spirit says 'go'..
well, upon getting the go ahead from, God, i executed my plan!!
haha. In the end, i've actually talked to Charmaine about missing the few hours of Hope Sem Life & Teaching of Christ class and come in after lunch. Well, because the Hope Seminary's rule is that a student must not miss more than 20% of any particular course duration (in order to be counted elligible for the course credits, Charmaine counted the number of hours that I would miss (in to my amazement, and joyfully thanking and praising the Lord, the number of hours I would miss is just right before 20%!! or almost near there but not. Praise & thank the Lord!!
with this official consent,
I went for Paradise Worship seminar loh!! on Thurs 3 Nov 10-2pm!haha, actually the day before that (3 Nov), i managed to go for the Paradise concert as well!! was asking around for friends and visitors to come along, but in the end, my call to Liwen was an answered prayer to her to join me and William to read the bible at Macdonalds!! (she was trying to look for a place to read the bible after she bumped into a closed Jurong East Library on Hari Raya Public Hol, And she prayed to God that she hope to go to Macs, and there would be someone ordering food or drinks there so she wouldn't have to order anything. (she is very tight on $, and actually God just granted her the job that leads her into the Clinial Trials/research area she wished to go into a few weeks ago.)
This sister really has a lot of amazing and wonderful testimonies to share.. about her encounter with God..how God healed her, worked through her to minister to people etc. etc. ' My ex shepherd Daisy told me, she has a desperate heaert for God, that's why God shows Himself very real to her.. coz i told Daisy after that night that I felt lacking in those experiences with God which she shared.. which my ex-shepherd put in words as 'loud, outward'. Daisy shared in her sms that "God works differently in all our lives, not all the time loud/outward, sometimes inward". and that can pray for deeper experiences with God..
aiks.. and usually the deeper experiences with God is when you go thru though and hard times loh.. scary leh.. like praying for difficulties, hardship, trials and challenges.. and it's true.. Liwen's life has not been easy, or how the circumstance that came to her and how she has to handle it at her level or faith.. she really struggled but trusted God.. she really fervently and desperately seeks God... through prayer, fasting.. really hungry for God and spiritually for His Word and presence.. really encourages me much wheni meet her and she shares her woes and struggles. But that night, it was very much faith and encouraging testimonies..
she was struggling to go for Water baptism, or had uncertian fears.. but she rally shared, prayed and responded to God.. through the worship session, altar call. I responded also, for a miracle for God to work in, and so happen she wanted to go down to respond to altar call, so I went down with her. Kill 2 birds in 1 stone..(accompanying her also), though, i would not have gone down to the front by myself.. see, she is even more aggressive in seeking God than I who will give in to intimidity to respond outwardly in an intimidating setting like that..
Praise the Lord. the respond was link to what Pastor Paul Zaia (The worship Pastor/Music director of Paradise worship team). Power of Praising God!
Something that struck and a reminder to me, to Praise God still no matter what circumstance, and it's an action or FAITH to claim God's victory and promises even though I don't see it yet. The other things that i brought home that night was the message of God's plan for us is victory, God's plan for us is to be MORE than counquerors,...forgot already.
Looked for Daisy up the auditorium after the session. and we shared a little. Liwen and she caught up. Then it was supper and Kok Siang dropped addy, Liwen and me home. The amazing thing is, even Kok Siang says he was blessed by Liwen's testimony of healings, God's working and goodness and how we must not be consumed by anger.. in order for God to work. etc. etc.
great day..
Phew, not much time to blog man!!
Worship Seminar – Sonic Edge, Power of a New Song!Like many weeks ago, suddenly my shepherd told me of a worship seminar which I told her about some time ago (which I couldn’t go). I thot, huh.. are you sure? Which one? Got meh? .. haha. In the end found out it’s actually a repeat seminar organised by Campus Crusade Media due to overwhelming response, and the Seminar was ‘ A Refreshing Approach to Worship’ by Robert Brenner of Integrity Music Label Group.
Oh course I went man!! That was so happen the only week I was free from Hope Sem class (because it was a study week/break before the exams the week after! Didn’t realize..)
Of course God is good.. haha. I end up messaging many many people about it and asked if they wanna register to go, as I called up the organizer and they asked me to fax in registration.
In the end Shirley signed up through me. Others like Benaiah, Rachel has already signed up long time.
I was so thrilled. Initially Shirley said someone is going. I was then like overjoyed and bewildering my 2 colleagues who probably think I went crazy suddenly laughing and smiling to myself!
In the end both Shirley and the person didn’t come also. But dear Sijia came in Shirley’s place. Had a great time of Praise & worship sessions. We had time to sing worship songs to God every available slot before, between, after every breaks between the 2 topics of seminar and tea break! Wahh.. that was really great.
But the thing that made the whole seminar great was the Sonic Edge band!!
They were really making great music with their instruments. All guys, only 1 girl back-up singer among the whole worship team!
But it was the worship leader who was pretty cool and amazing.. I was initially amazed when he played the lead guitar and while singing lead.. wah..
In between trying to appreciate the music and admire the team & worship leader (quite good looking also from far), I thought and say to myself ‘Thank God the lyric projection screens are not right behind the band, they were up high to the left and right of the stage. Yeah.. really thank God, if not would have a hard time worshipping my God looking at the lyric of new songs with the band in view, trying not to admire or pay attention to them when I’m worshipping my God.
The topics were ‘Biblical Worship (something like that.. and something what Hope Sem had earlier on ‘Worship from Genesis to Revelation’ which I couldn’t take also)
And Power of A New Song!
The teaching on Power of a New song really gave me a new freedom and new understanding of the truth of singing a new song to God. Every other worship sessions I in church has been doing that, which is the ‘free worship’ part.. where you sing a new song (anything,, from your heart to God) or sing in the ‘spirit’ or tongues. Hmm.. think I’ll share this in my CG blog.
Anyway, the new understanding that I captured is that singing a new song is about expressing your joy, thanks giving after God has touched you or you has touched or meet God in worship in the songs before! That was really amazing. Previously, during free worship sessions, I would sometimes, or most of the times, just sing some tunes with whatever came to my mind. Think I was more of singing a new song for the sake of singing a new song.
But now I understand and experience the joy and power of expressing to God in a fresh way because of what He has done..
There are many other things I learnt or am reminded about worship.. like we were created to worship God, we will be worshipping God in heaven, worship is an obedient response to God.. worship.. a life (lifestyle) that’s lived as pleasing, honouring and glorifying unto God..and about leading people to meet God..
Need to go back to my notes for better description =P. Forgot many other things.. but this is roughly what I captured.
Yeah.. that's the Faith Methodist church venue which they used. cool. can see the Sonic edge lead worshipper on stage?
btw, saw many others there too, like VIVIEN.. haha, my DL (what's his name? oops..)etc etc. the WAM ppl. (including spencer, Sarah, USM ppl
Worship Seminar – Sonic Edge, Power of a New Song!Like many weeks ago, suddenly my shepherd told me of a worship seminar which I told her about some time ago (which I couldn’t go). I thot, huh.. are you sure? Which one? Got meh? .. haha. In the end found out it’s actually a repeat seminar organised by Campus Crusade Media due to overwhelming response, and the Seminar was ‘ A Refreshing Approach to Worship’ by Robert Brenner of Integrity Music Label Group.
Oh course I went man!! That was so happen the only week I was free from Hope Sem class (because it was a study week/break before the exams the week after! Didn’t realize..)
Of course God is good.. haha. I end up messaging many many people about it and asked if they wanna register to go, as I called up the organizer and they asked me to fax in registration.
In the end Shirley signed up through me. Others like Benaiah, Rachel has already signed up long time.
I was so thrilled. Initially Shirley said someone is going. I was then like overjoyed and bewildering my 2 colleagues who probably think I went crazy suddenly laughing and smiling to myself!
In the end both Shirley and the person didn’t come also. But dear Sijia came in Shirley’s place. Had a great time of Praise & worship sessions. We had time to sing worship songs to God every available slot before, between, after every breaks between the 2 topics of seminar and tea break! Wahh.. that was really great.
But the thing that made the whole seminar great was the Sonic Edge band!!
They were really making great music with their instruments. All guys, only 1 girl back-up singer among the whole worship team!
But it was the worship leader who was pretty cool and amazing.. I was initially amazed when he played the lead guitar and while singing lead.. wah..
In between trying to appreciate the music and admire the team & worship leader (quite good looking also from far), I thought and say to myself ‘Thank God the lyric projection screens are not right behind the band, they were up high to the left and right of the stage. Yeah.. really thank God, if not would have a hard time worshipping my God looking at the lyric of new songs with the band in view, trying not to admire or pay attention to them when I’m worshipping my God.
The topics were ‘Biblical Worship (something like that.. and something what Hope Sem had earlier on ‘Worship from Genesis to Revelation’ which I couldn’t take also)
And Power of A New Song!
The teaching on Power of a New song really gave me a new freedom and new understanding of the truth of singing a new song to God. Every other worship sessions I in church has been doing that, which is the ‘free worship’ part.. where you sing a new song (anything,, from your heart to God) or sing in the ‘spirit’ or tongues. Hmm.. think I’ll share this in my CG blog.
Anyway, the new understanding that I captured is that singing a new song is about expressing your joy, thanks giving after God has touched you or you has touched or meet God in worship in the songs before! That was really amazing. Previously, during free worship sessions, I would sometimes, or most of the times, just sing some tunes with whatever came to my mind. Think I was more of singing a new song for the sake of singing a new song.
But now I understand and experience the joy and power of expressing to God in a fresh way because of what He has done..
There are many other things I learnt or am reminded about worship.. like we were created to worship God, we will be worshipping God in heaven, worship is an obedient response to God.. worship.. a life (lifestyle) that’s lived as pleasing, honouring and glorifying unto God..and about leading people to meet God..
Need to go back to my notes for better description =P. Forgot many other things.. but this is roughly what I captured.
Yeah.. that's the Faith Methodist church venue which they used. cool. can see the Sonic edge lead worshipper on stage?
btw, saw many others there too, like VIVIEN.. haha, my DL (what's his name? oops..)etc etc. the WAM ppl. (including spencer, Sarah, USM ppl
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