by God's grace and for God's glory

today Tueston commented on my status! i wonder how he is doing and how he is coping with life in the army. Dear Lord, may You bless this old classmate of mine, may You take care of him and his mum, and i pray that they will have a life that although may not be smooth-sailing, they will still be able to find joy in You. Lord, i ask that you will give them hearts that are soft towards you, that they will be able to recognize and acknowledge the vacuum in their hearts that desires after you, and i pray that you will place people in their lives to help them and be with them and to lead them into Your Kingdom. Lord, i pray for these people in their lives, i pray that You will anoint them and give them the words to say, Holy Spirit work in them so that Tueston and his mummy may receive salvation one day. thank you Father for what you are going to do.

I thank God for His blessings! as usual, i am writing this here because i know that people who know me don't usually visit this place, and if they do, it is by DIVINE COINCIDENCE and God wants to tell you if you are here today that this is HIS WORK and that JESUS LOVES YOU ;)

in any case - i got my stats test 2 results and comm fund results! i did quite well for stats despite not having studied much due to good friday weekend and 3 tgif parties and service... but God honoured my work for Him and i did well! see, the quiz works this way: its an online quiz, so there is a pool of questions created, and in order that not everyone gets the same questions especially if you sit next to each other, they choose 10 qns for each person out of the pool. and i got 10 very easy questions!although i didn't know how to do 3 of them. haha. so in the end i got 8/10. praise God! its so amazing! you know i was telling God, God, i don't really care what people think of me as long as You think well of me, so it doesn't matter even if i do badly because i know my hope is secure in You. I'll just study all I can and i shall leave the rest to You. so the thing is that God was very nice and He helped me so much! the thing is that God can only do something in your life if you decide that you want to let Him. so its no use saying God help me with this and still try to cling on to it and not let God work. like you say to someone please help me add coffee into my sugar and you refuse to give the person your cup of coffee. quite silly i know it sounds but its true. so i learnt that God desires to help us and He desires to give us what we want in life - but we must first give it up to Him and allow Him to work. and definitely, easier said than done. but thank God that by His grace and promises we know that God works for the good of those who love Him(it says so in the bible)

i have a busy week ahead; i had to re-schedule my jap class because friday there's suddenly a meeting.... so my week looks like this now:

wed: stats group meeting, choir

thurs: renew passport?, jap class make-up

fri: econs tut, econs test, meeting

sat: choir, jap class

sun: church, SOL1

mon: written report due

tues: comm fund presentation, stats project due

so busy! God grant me strength!

easter sunday, resurrection!

i always say that i want to revive this blogging thing. i think i need to try harder...

this is old news by now, but i want to give thanks this easter sunday.

i thank Jesus that He was tried and He had to go through fear and intimidation so that we can be set free from fear and intimidation. I thank God that Jesus had strength from God to go through this so that we can receive this freedom.

I thank God that He is the power of salvation and I thank God that sw has been saved. I don't think he reads this, so it should be pretty safe for me to put this here. I'm so so glad that God has touched him and that he decided to accept Christ. you know, accepting God as your personal Lord and Saviour means so much more than just making a decision to acknowledge Him as God. it also means that you want God to come and take over your life and you want His will to be done. its very humbling to say that someone else knows how to live your life better than you do, but its true. because God's plans are perfect and His plans are to prosper us and never to harm us, we are always able to trust in Him. this truth is so awesome to know. i thank God and i pray that many more people will be able to come to know the redeeming love of Jesus. in retrospect, i feel that maybe i should have spoken to him more about God. the thing is that all the people i love, i find hard to bring to God. maybe because i'm not the best testimony for Him. like my sister, it only occurred to me to bring her to church when her friend jiangyin started bringing her to church, so i guess i'm quite fail at these things of loving people. but i know that God's grace is sufficient for me in everything, and that i don't have to kick myself over my inadequacies because it is sufficient when i am willing to let God work through me and use me.

i hope i get accepted into bible school because i want to learn more about God and His word and I want to love God more and more and more and more and more. I want more of God in my life and I want to share His goodness with everyone I love! so, if i ever talk to you about God, or offer to pray for you, or bless you in the name of Jesus, it means that i love you :)

the coming week is going to be very busy and i pray for strength and sustenance from God, Holy Spirit lead me and guide me in all that I do, that I may be able to glorify your name. Lord, your Kingdom come, and Your will be done, amen.