Birthday Blessings and spiritual blessings in disguise

For 23 Aug, Wednesday

Came back yesterday to my office to find many more gifts and a few cards on my desk. So sweet. My dear colleague YY has gone to Taiwan, and the Taiwan colleagues bought me gifts for my birthday, so sweet.
Dear Patricia (a sis in Christ) gave me a card with 'Prayer' hands and many crosses on it and a nice sea shell heart shaped 'jewellery' box with a very nice white heart-shaped pendant neck piece. A simple accessory and easy to match.
Shan shan and Wendy Wu (a very new colleague) together bought me a 'diamond' necklace packaged in a very nice cute small flowery red hear-shaped box with ribbon.
While my dear YY colleague got me a hair clip made of 'barnacles?!' argh.. Bit geli but has purple shells around it to make it look like flower. I like the purple but the barnacles still look geli. I may wear it though..
And a very nice card.

Then in the eve, a new friend Zhang Na met me for dinner to pass me a nice pair of butterfly shaped like purple ear rings!
Looks quite nice.

Thinking why all accessories. I went back to M'sia and bought quite some accessories already including many many pairs of ear rings (need to find silver ear rings).

Anyway, above are some nice surprises for me.

However on the same day, my 'acting' HR/ office administrator told me that my CPF will be 24% from this Aug/this month.
Huh.. Is it? I didn't realize. 1st year for PR is 9%, 2nd year 24% and 3rd year 33%.
Oh ok.. Yah. Already 1 year. I was taken a backed by this fact that my salary's gonna be cut by.. $300?

I went to check CPF Board website.
1st year: employee's contribution - 5%
employer's contribution - 4%
2nd year: employee's contribution - 15%
employer's contribution - 9%
3rd year: employee's contribution - 20%
employer's contribution - 13%

Hmm ok, hoping not all the 24% will be cut from my salary. Coz Employer's suppose to contribute a partial amount. So the 24% is all from me or not?
But I calculate my current pay, seems like 9% is deducted from my salary leh..

Need to check my pay slip again, check my coming pay slip and clarify if any disparities.

Above is like a blow to me, wanting and needing more pay from God and now I got a pay cut (although it goes to the long term account). Deeply saddened, troubled initially and challenged in faith.

I kept calculating my budget again and again yesterday to see how I could survive.
Very concerned though in my heart trying or believing God will make a way and put thing into place.
- 1 remedy action is to pay off the remaining pledged CBFund in advance (since my computer loan repayment only start this month and the accumulated funds can be used rather than sitting there), and hence I can channel the extra 100 into my monthly expenditure. Else I'll only be left with 150 upon minus-ing 150 for (minimum) transport and HP bills.
Pathetic rite? Hahah.


The days before God showed me the verse:
Hebrews 10:36 - You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

24 Aug 06
Today I was thinking -
God's continuing to do His work on me in this 2 areas - relationship and finance,
So what needs to be done for this 2 (or any areas)?

To be filled by, to be trusted and surrendered to Him.

Subconciously I have been thinking, what will of God that needs to be done..? or am I doing, or not doing..

The only 'God's will' that came to me today was the verse:
'Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstance, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.'
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

P/S: Oh,btw, my boss was busy busy since he came back and I haven't approached or initiated any up front confrontation with him yet about my job promotion aspect. And what I can Expect!
Seems negative but I still wanna believe and pray for God to work.

Wanna continue reading Ps Cho Yonggi's 'A/The Fourth Dimesion' book on spiritual realm Prayer!
Powerful principles to apply after I discern if it's biblical!