king david Ps 91:7

A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

Its very easy to be afriad when you see teh swine flu, you see students taking their lives, you see so many people in the hospital and etc. Its easy to paranoid and worry. But for christians, dont worry. remember Ps 91:7

we all know how scary 1000 people dying looks like..Ie: Lord Of The Rings..
But we who are saved, have Jesus who has defeated Death. He was the slain lamb who's blood was smeared on the doorpost of the children of Israel's door in Egypt. And because He has already died for us, none of us has to die. Amen!

You may be surprised at this.

The old testament is a very somber and harsh testament to read as opposed to the new testament. The word "gospel" is originally translated as "good news" because it bears the good news of Jesus. When we read it, we discover Jesus and His love.
So why then is the old Testament(OT) in the gospel since its so harsh and Jesus isnt alive at that time?
Because the old Testament was by God the Father. As any lovng Father, He loves to talk about His Jesus. So as we dig deep into the Gospel, we will learn that alot of things that God has made the children of Israel go through/do reflects Jesus. Its a symbol or representative of Jesus.
The OT also prophesies Jesus coming.
As my pastor would say, study the New Testament (NT) first then go down to OT because in NT, we learn of Jesus and in OT, we will learn to recognise Him in the midst.
Example? As Jesus died for our sins and redeemed us from death, the children of Israel were spared from having hteir 1st born killed whent hey killed a lamb and smeared its blood on the doorpost of he house. So that day, the lambs died on behalf of hte children of israel while hte egyptians had to grief for al their 1st borns dying.
And when the children of israel went out into the desert and God taught them to give offerings to God to clear their sins every year. As a child of Israel comes with his unblemished (perfect) lamb, he would place his hand ont he lamb's head (symbolising placing of sins unto the lamb) and the lamb will be slain and burnt and chopped up etc and the smoke of the offering will raise to heaven.
Jesus is our lamb who saved us from our sins once and for all.

Another example. Noah's ark. Noah was made to build a big ark to contain his family and the pair of animals and save them from the flood. The ark is Jesus.
Jesus was made man to save us and we who believe will have Him in us and us in Him. When God The Father sees us (when we go to see Him) He will see Jesus instead.
So in Jesus, we are safe from the flood and all other forms of troubles and tribulations because we are in Him as Noah and family was in the ark.
The wood was chopped and nailed together and the whole ark was covered with tar to make it waterproof. So no evil shall flow in.
The wood used for the ark is cypress wood that is known for its hardiness. It does not decay easily. Like how Jesus is perfect and not sinful.
Note also that God spoke to Noah only but his whole family was saved. Likewise for us. our families will turn to God. I claim that.

How great is my God. :)

God Bless

hard day...

so a few things happened that made me feel sucky but I immediately turned to God. As I sat under a tree (abit unglam) and wiped of the remains of tears (no I did not sob like a baby)...I praised His name. I praised Jesus with tears and all. It gave me courage.

If theres somethign I learnt through the years...its that not everything can be controlled by you. everybody has a part to play on how big an issue can be. Even if it was your fault, whats done is done...

I know some people dont think very highly of me now. Amazingly...I dont feel to hurt by it. I only teared because I felt frustrated......in fact of any of hte students complaint and I was to meet the Principal and Director..maybe I could go in scared...but the most that could happen is that I resign. As it is, alot of my friends have encouraged me to do so....

So now as I sit in the midst of the storm...hearing of hte oncoming of another wave....I will look to God. He knows the intentions of my heart. He knows everything I do and feel and think.

All this happening as I was visiting my granny in the hospital. So my visit wasnt very long coz while I was talking on the phone and handling the situation...I was made to leave the hospital. So I cudnt say goodbye to granny before I left.

What hurts the most..is that my lack of experience and x-ray vision and foresight has caused my clubs to suffer. Its something I cant explain but maybe the more I know Jesus and fight to be in peace, the more my clubs have problems..mostly by fellow students who misunderstand them and talk bad about them...If Satan has learnt to use this tactic to counter me...its a good move. But it seems like this is his last resort....

Going back to Jesus.

When Jesus and his disciples went onto the boat and a storm came and rocked the boat so hard that even His disciples (who are mostly fishermen) got scared. Thats what I feel like now. Rocking in a boat, facing the storm with Jesus in me and yet being scared and trying to handle things on my own. the disciples tried many methods to save themselves..except looking to Jesus.
After all the miracles each of them saw..wouldnt they 1st think of Jesus as the best solution? But no. And then the storm probably got stronger or the boat seemed like it might not be able to take the storm anymore, then did htye call on Jesus. Jesus woke up from his sleep when the disciples called Him. He rebuked the storm and the storm abaited...

Did u notice that Jesus didnt wake up until they called Him? He had peace in himself soo much that a HUGE ASS storm couldnt wake Him up?!! But He woke up at the cry of his disciples?!?!
Is a storm not big enough for Him to be scared of? Like an alarm clock ringing in the morning and all we do (provided its not an urgent matter) is cover our ears with our pillow or hand and continue going to sleep. is that how mild a HUGE ASS storm is to Jesus?
But His disciples 1 cry woke Jesus up immediately.
And Jesus just rebuked the storm! Just like that!

Our troubles may seem like a Tsunami to us but God is bigger than the mightiest Tsunami. He's bigger than death. He who created life would be able to repair life.
Did you also notice how timid the storm became at His words? Doesnt it remind you of the shadow of the valley of death? As we walk through, it would seem liek both sides of the valley are looming over us, higher than us and looking down at us.
But as Psalm23 goes, God is w us even when we are the ones who got into the valley to start with.
Did u also notice that its only a shadow of death? Or the storm was only being rough and nosy and overbearing but would always end up cowering to a corner when Jesus is near and orders it,

Well..the Holy Spirit is in us...Jesus has given us His health, power etc. So no matter how noisy n overbearing our obstacles are..by Jesus Christ name, we can move it.
We have the same amount of power as Jesus since Jesus gave us the authority to continue to work miracles.

Im not expecting any repentance coz I dont see it coming but I pray that God will deal witht eh students as He wills. I dont ask for Jesus to do something to them..in fact..I wanna bless them.

So these things were my valley of shadow of death.

Centurion

So the CCA showcase was smoother than the others Ive done but it had its glitches. Think I'm getting very tired with this...my relationship with the sound guys are still okay so I really hope to keep it that way.

My granny has been having a rough time these days coz she's been in the hospital. 2-3 times she's had heart problems through the stay but she got through.
My faith stands that she has recovered. Dont ask me why I believe so or how I believe so. I just believe that she will recover.
God doesnt play with lives. Satan does and I know very well that Satan is hte coz of all this because he knows how things would go if my grandma dies.
Well, I put my feet down and I claim her recovery because I know my God's will is never death.
As I flipped open my bible on the 1st day of her warding, I landed on Matthew and Jesus with the Centurion.
Here's the few things I noted from this story and this is my personal reflection..
- Centurion was a Roman with abt 100 roman soldiers under his lead and with a commandor over him. He probably didnt grow up under the jewish religion but grew up with A whole encyclopedia of major and minor gods.
- Jesus grew up as a human, is a jew and went around doing miracles in Capernaum when the centurion came to Him. By that time, Jesus was so well-known that the centurion would have heard of Him but not heard of the Jewish laws and regulations
- As His servant was sick, the Centurion did not consult his other gods but went to Jesus to request for help. Maybe He realized that his other gods didnt answer prayers and saw that Jesus is willing to heal anyone who was willing to believe and ask Him for help.
- So the centurion or sent men to go to Jesus and Jesus immediately said " I will go to heal him" But the centurion said that all Jesus had to do was say and he would be healed. Which is a very brave step for anyone esp someone who didnt know the whole history of the coming Saviour.
- This particular incident is akind to any current incident of us prayer for the people we love. On their behalf, we go to Jesus to ask for healing and Jesus answer is " I will go" and " Go! As you have believed, it will be so" How powerful those words. How powerful is Jesus that He can heal people with a single word. In fact in Luke, it didnt even mention Jesus say "Go!" It said that Jesus only spoke to the crowd around Him.
- The servant was healed that very hour despite how he was so sick that he was on the verge of death.

I find so much comfort in this story and Im holding on to this story as the proof that my grandma will be healed and is healing.

Did you realize that the centurion never said anything to qualify himself for hte blessings? In Book of Luke it says that the elders of the jews that the Centurion sent before him, were the ones who tried to qualify the centurion. In fact, the centurion felt so unfit to go to Him that he sent men to speak to Jesus (According to Luke) He didnt do anything, didnt say anything. he just asked for a word. Simple question. Also notice that Jesus was a human so He wasnt omni-present. He physically walked to places to heal most of the times. Yet despite the distance, the servant was healed.
And this is 1 of the rare times that Jesus was not physically with the sick that the sick got healed.
The other incident happened (in Book of John) when a royal official asked Him to heal his son.

Never once did Jesus refuse to heal. Jesus even resurrected the dead and healed those who were close to dying.

The best part of it all is....Jesus now lives as our high priest. The Holy Spirit lives in us and can work miracles, healings and blessings through the Holy Spirit. We dont have to go physically to Jesus to get Him to heal us. The Holy Spirit in us helps us with prayers to the Father straight. We're talking abt Direct Satellite/Cable/No need for transfering to an operator. We dont even need an interpretor/translator.
My God is good! :)

God Bless!

today was not great

CCA Showcase day 2... day 1 was okay..not very stressful...still enjoyable..

Today was not as smooth.

As i was on teh train...I teared. Not stressed...just tired...And irritated that I wasnt good enough.

Speaking of good enough, 1 of my girls said she wanted to lose weight because she wanted to prove to her ex bf that she was better off w/o him. Lose 12 kg!
All in all, the aim objective is for him. After all the time trying to let go..and she is still doing stuff for him.
BTW let me just say that this girl of mine is a pretty, fun and sporty girl and and guy in the right frame of mine and right heart would want her as a gf but the ass of an ex dumped her for other girls.
Im not against losing weight. Im against losing ALOT of weight for a person who doesnt care abt u anymore but whom u still care abt. (at least enough to bother abt what he thinks)
If I had a chance to talk tot he ex bf, Id say "In a month or 2, you'd realize that slim girls are only so slim coz thhey hae nothing inside to show for. And our girl has left only to see u for who u really are!" A skirt chasing loser.

So as I was abt to say before i stated my views...I was abit sad and dissappointed w myself at the end of the day. I was on the train and I listened to hillsong songs. As i leaned forward and looked down at my hand..I counted 5 fingers.
5= number of grace in the bible
If 5 is grace...then why do we have 5 fingers per hand?
then i picked up my other hand and saw in both hands (as I had them side by side)..10 fingers
10= number of ten commandements..of law..of fulfilling the demands of the law by ur own efforts
And it hit me..or maybe the Holy Spirit told me...

Every hand has 5 fingers for us to do our work in God's grace. Notice that the lightest works we do are done w mostly 1 hand? 5 fingers..

But when we have to exert more strength and time and effort into stuff..its like carrying a HUGE crate of things/burdens/responsibilities. We need both hands..10 fingers
Doing all the extra time, slogging like crazy and having the mentality that we have to use our own effort to make things right..instead of depending on God's grace.
Stressing on stuff, getting little pay, worrying etc etc etc all 10 fingers..

All God wants us to do is be conscious that He has finished all our works and we should not be worrying abt life when we are already placed in the finished work.. All we need to do then do is give Him praise. Praise Him for His grace and His provisions and His fulfilling hos part of labour sot hat we can be at peace when faced w probems and we can throw them to Him.
And as we lift our hands to praise Him, both hands high up ands arm wide open to form not 10 fingers...but 2 seperate hands...2 times of 5 fingers=double grace.
Double grace = double blessings = double peace = double everything God will give. And mind you..God is willing to give everything....so long as we ask and believe.

Double grace to accomplice double things w the same strength or same stuff w half hte effort. Double grace for our problems to be solved and more strength to do other stuff we like.
Surely the time we give to praise Him is not lost time..but it means that we gain more time for other things..

As the idea soaked in...I smiled. :) I smiled
I smiled at God's assurance that He loves me and that I am His child. Amen!!!


God Bless!

The lack of music background

So I was around Moberly and in a certain time, I had 3 groups of students practicing for cca showcase.

I guess its me pulling them in to perform and stuff and I feel bad at times.. Haiz..

Point is...all 3 groups had their problems. Singing, performing or corodinating wise. And while I sit by and try to listen out or try to pick out problems...half of me wonders if Im being too picky and making problems out of no problems. I guess being the bigger/older person in the room...they listen to me and my opinions but ...exactly how right/wrong am I.

I checked out the SPG rehearsals and picked out a few things but I found it soo hard to put my finger on exactly what the prob was. I'm not even close to deciphering the level of treble, bass and etc that YQ or Phey Yoong does when they listen!
Pretty much all I did through the SPG rehearsal..was pick on the vocals. the most obvious thing...while YQ or Phey Yoong (if they were there..) would check the other sound quality stuff.

And the bands think Im fierce...how?

After seeing all these bands and talented blood...i wondered...how good it would be to be a student again. Was telling 2 of htem how I was like when I was studying in SP. Wear big shirt and beach shorts...slippers...wore lanyard on wrist or stuffed the card holder in my pocket but left the lanyard part to hang out & swing around.

The more I see kids these days..the more I either feel that Im very fortunate or that Im very untalented. I come to a conclusion that if being with "kids" doesnt make u humblier 1 way or the other..then u are the 1 w the problem.
God's way of saying..."time to grow up"

for the next 3 days..it will be hell again. this time its nearer to the office. I am going to crawl into bed soon and pray for a good blessed day of sunshine and smooth sailing performances tomorrow. God is my Father and Jesus my Saviour and Holy Spirit my inner guide. :)
I sorta wished that I could literally hear God speak to me coz that would be ubber cool and I wouldnt have to be thinking "wah?" all the time. Of course..Bible says that God's voice is loud and thunderous..probably not possible for a mere man to hear. Could burst his eardrums and make him deaf? ..mmmm dunno.
But how magical it would be to have Jesus call you and say " u of little faith...why u worry?"
Better yet! Jesus doing it in singlish " why u so kiasu? Eng Eng Qeng Qeng Wu Se Gan Worry ah!" Or " Dont worry lah. If God with you, you worry wat?" *imagine Puah Chu Kang accent*

Yep!!! Best would be, " Ning..ning. am I not here to help you? Ask..just ask."

AMEN!

Gotta sleep or panda will work on my behalf.

God Bless!