*CLEAR DUST*



Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooo all, panda here again ;DD hahas! Anyway, how was your valentine week and this week? I'd a wonderful week, not with boyfriend but with many boyfriends and girlfriends!



Last saturday, aft valentine svc (which was rly a great one, praise God tht so many peeps came to know God!), WD came down to my hse for so called valentine party (it doesnt rly looked like one). All of them had steamboat, noodles, rice etc. Hope everyone enjoyed themselves!



Yesterday(saturday), Hope church had a combined service at suntec convention hall. It was rly great & fabulous to be there once again aft th first time at thr for PM! I rly feel so happy to see Hope Singapore gathering together to worship God ;DD



We prayed for Pastor Ben and Pastor Dinah who're going over to America and help out. We also prayed for Pastor Jeff and Pastor Claudia who took over the role of taking care of the church. Of course, we'll continue to keep our leaders in prayers! (Bcos once satan striked, they strike th ldr first!) Pastor Jeff was the one preaching. He preached about:



Preparation to conquer the land (Joshua 5:1-15)

1) Circumsise my heart- a life of repentance (v2-9)

Colossians 2:11, Revelation 7:9, John 15:2, Psalm 139:23-24, Numbers 32:33



2) Celebrate God's love- a life of communion (v10-12)

Exodus 12:12-13, John 3:16, Romans 8:37b



3) Commit to God's relationship- live a life of surrender (v 13-15)

Ephesians 5:23-24, 1 corinthians 2:1-3, revelation 19:7



Th 3 things tht we need to continue to pray and work on in order to get ourselves prepared and tht're doing the psalm 139 deal, keeping our life accountable and keeping one another accountable!



I was rly reminded by God once again thru this sermon about wht God spoke to me about few days ago. Tht we should live everyday as if Jesus is coming back at tht time bcos no one knows the exact time except for the Father when the Son is coming back. If we continue to slack, to procrastinate, to waste time and invest our time wrongly, then when Jesus come back at th time when we are slacking, how shameful will you feel! I dont know about you, but i'll definitely feel so shameful tht i will volunteer to go hell (exaggerating). So guys and girls, instead of living everyday as if it's another day, another ministry day, another day when you need to rush it off before th next day will come, live it as if Jesus is coming back on th day and then use the rest of the time for all you want!



Tho sch/cca/homeworks/projects/parents/family/finance/ etc and many more tht rly make us stress up or feel like running away from it, but tht's not the solution by running away. The only solution is to face the fact tht God is watching all the times. Jesus is coming back anytime as well. So keep watch of one another so tht we wont fall into satan's trap.



Jiayou guys and girls. I'm always keeping you into my prayers! Jiayou ;DD Too apologetic to say tht thr's no photo due to recent amount of photos taken. Hopefully next time i've, i shall so you more! ;DD SEEYAHH!

ARGH! UPDATE HERE!

Oh well, I'm not sure if there's still anyone guessing who am I.
Let me reveal now, DRUMROLL!
I'm huichuen la, hahahahha!
Not bad eh, I supposed myself as an invisible blogger, okok not funny. HAHA


Haha! Actually I left this blog dead for 5 days is because I wanna see if who will update, rawrrr but to no avail, no one had updated this precious and lovely blog! I got HOLY discontentment, my holy discontentment lasted for 30 seconds only la, taoyan haha!


Alright, I will not crap anymore. Yesterday was the FALL ESS! I know everyone had done their very best in inviting friends for this but it's not the end, we still have to do confirmation weekly, hahahahaha! Still need to invite friends weekly although the ESS is over, evil laughs.
I feel that Christians are super cool, we spent our Valentine's with God and our unit cg people unlike the other people spent their times with their love ones.


P.Shirley preached for the ESS yesterday.

The God Who Loves Me

[Psalm 23:60] "Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever."


1) God Gives Me A Brand New Start Each Day
[Lamentations 3:22-23] "Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."


- God's love for us is new every moment, everytime, everyday and so.
God's love is totally different from any human's love.


Analogy:
Sometimes when we quarrel with our friends, family or people, we will always rake up the pasts of what they had done wrong. Hence, our love for them is not holy, as we have bitterness in them. We claim that we forgive, but we don't forget. Fortunately, God has a different outlook on love, whatever is a past, it is a past, if only we repent for our wrongs.


- We do not fear to face problems or circumstances


It is so normal for us to fail something in our lives, to fail is to be human but not a loser.


[Romans 8:28] "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."


We are called to do things for God. God intentionally place problems in our lives so that we can overcome it. He can even turn terrible things into miracles, no doubt, for He is God. Christians are merely people who receive changes for the better. When we overcome something in our lives, means that we got breakthrough.


2) God walks with me forever
[Psalm 23:6] "Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever."


From this verse, you will see this word 'forever'. People always say "Yay friends forever!" I used to proclaim that too but actually my friendship now with that person lasted, LOL.


This word 'forever' also means eternally, until the time when we go heaven, God is still by our side.


- We can walk with God every moment.
"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."


Walk with him everywhere, everytime and every moment. Even if you are doing your business in the toilet, even your DM in school is reprimanding you for some reasons, you can converse with God! Erm, I mean talk to him in your heart, if you choose to say it out, your DM might send you for counselling I suppose.


*Faith may not know when it is being led, but it knows and loves the One who is leading.


[1 Corinthians 13:4-8]
"Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails."

*Try changing all the 'love' and 'it' words to 'God'.

I really thank God for P.Shirley, I'm convicted after the whole teaching. Even though I'm considered as those who have been in this church for quite long and also heard of this teaching before, God changed my perspective. Every night I will repent, and have a brand new start with God the other day. It feels that, we are newly born everyday, haha!

I do think my mum is super cute. She came into my room and saw my sermon notepad, and she unintentionally saw my handwriting. She commented "Eh, your handwriting is like that one ah"? Is this a good sign that she is trying to praise my nice handwriting OR she is telling me that my handwriting had become worse??!!

Nevermind, I'm ultra secured in God. Not like someone right? ChXX Sze HXXX, that person lo. LOL, kidding.

I want to urge everyone who is reading this post to continue pray for the whole church. Pray for the schools, pray for the new-believers, pray that they can be retained! Last but not the least, JIAYOU!

This week ahead will still be as busy as per normal. School, cg, shepherdings, evax, outreach and so on! Cling on to God! His word is the most important one, our daily bread, our resources. We need food and water to survive physically, but we also need God's word to SURVIVE SPIRITUALLY! HAHA.

[Psalm 119:28] "My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word."

Wow what a long post here, and my eyes are blurred now!
JIAYOU EVERYONE!

,Huichuen.

UPDATE!!

Hello WestD!
I don't mind updating the blog! But you all also do update ok!
Even if you don't have time to, maybe you can share your testimony or some encouraging words! God wants us to have the spirit of sharing, don't keep them to yourself! Haha!
After knowing God for two years, I tasted the joy in serving Him and sharing. (Don't you think that our blog seems to be more lively now?) Argh, random again! :P

Yesterday we had this West PM at the Sherwood Towers beside Bukit Timah Plaza! Well this is quite random, but we were the first among the whole West to reach! Not boasting or what, keep it up! Have the sense of urgency, yeah! Let's thank God for this brother from West (A/B/C/E/F), if not for him we wouldn't be able to use the function room there :)

We prayed for our physical and spiritual family, ourselves and also this coming ESS! Last but not the least, we prayed for ourselves in studies! Sometimes we study for the sake of studying, ultimately we are studying for God! We are the salt & light in everywhere, schools or work. So, do study for your common test! Shine for Him! Other than studies, also in everything we do, we do it for God. We don't serve God for the sake of serving, we serve Him because He first loved us. We don't wait for our leaders to do, we do!

[Philipians 4:13]
"I can do everything through him who gives me strength"

Lastly, our Gou Zei leader! HAHAHA



YEAH! Have fun guessing who am I :)

Hello everrrrrrrrrrrrrrryone (:



Somebody complained to me last night tht west d blog looked a pretty dead and so like wht quansheng said, i shall clean up bit of th dust due to th timing i'm left with! LOL. Anyway, this is th week of ESS- fall th valentine day. I bet everybody will be like, "Oh God!! gimme fruits!!" Hahaa! But yeah, remember to give thanks to God in whtevr circumstances you are in. It may be time of harvest, it may be time of waiting, time of .. whtsoever luh. Always rmb tht God has His best plan [:



Ohyah, th previous fri, west d gathered together w/ dewen for party world at tanjong pagar. Many came but many left. Thr were only 4 survivals all th way till 5am going to 6am. In fact, th only one left singing th MOST was huichuen. HAHA. Anyway, th 4 survivals were regh, jen, huichuen & me. Man, it was a "supreme" night. I want it again!! Ohkay, so aft tht we headed home & went down for svc. Dont you guys find it a little weird? I find it weird not to see bh & sy ard. But yeah, will still see thm in JC group! :D



Svc was preached by p. jeff. Continued th shepherd series and we'd unit gathering aft svc. At ard 6 plus, we all went to dhoby ghaut and had a shannon good-bye session just right outside th mrt ezlink place. Some cried, some felt very unbearable. SHANNON! JIAYOU IN MELBOURNE! WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN! [:



Shepherd's meet- we climbed th dono how many steps up to th location. OHMYGOODNESS. Tht was like so way high up. HAHA. Whtevr it is, we'd a wonderful shepherd's meet. learned a lot [:



alrighht. just wanna share w/ you guys wht i learned & it's still in my mind from a book tht my shepherd showed me. i cant rly rmb wht th name it is. aiyah, go ask her more ohkay?



well, as we are serving God in all types of ministry. Maybe in choir, in info counter, in shepherding, as a CL etc. Unknowingly, we want to do things to attract attention onto ourselves, or like want ppl to know i'm th lao da listen only to me, or like show ppl how pro you are etc. As time goes by and this part of us is not being revealed to ourselves, we'll realised sth is wrong between God and us. Like why God recently doesnt speak to me, why God doesnt want to allow me to feel Him etc. Actually, thts nt th truth. God is still thr but bcos you're too focused on th surrounding, th environment tht you are in tht you blocked yourself up unknowingly. Even when sometimes you are praying, worshipping or praising, you tend to be like "will ppl be listening to my prayer, will ppl hear my voice zhao sia or not, when i jump will my clothe messed up" etc. Th qns is, whr are you focusing?



alright, my breakfast is here. needa rush off for sch alr! BYEEES [:

see you guys at prayer meet later!



sihui th panda here :P

UPDATEUPDATEUPDATE!



Haha, here's th update & continue from ytd de entry [: it'll just be flooded w/ some camp photos & videos! Enjoy! Also, thr's a video on huaiqian sharing th testimony of how westwood was completed :DD seeyah guys on this upcoming friday or saturday :DD ENJOY!





PANDA

Let's hunt down regina & jency & whoever tht holds th pictures of MCG on tues!

still tryin to upload hq & shann's videos asap!

SINCERE APOLOGY



Was too busy to really update but shall do it now [: here's a list of th recent events tht we had for JAN & first week of FEB ((: Do enjoy th photos & videos below! Of course, UPCOMING EVENTS too! Do get updateddd :DD



JAN:

#01- school started

#02- restructuring

#03- church coporate prayer meet

#04- OHANA

#05- WEST HUDDLE CNY

#06- CNY weeks

#07- bh & sy moved over to JC

#08- shannon farewell MCG

[cg & meeting not included]



UPCOMING EVENTS:

#01- SHANNON's farewell partyworld!

6PM at tanjong pagar MRT.

this coming friday 06FEB09

prepare $18.

they'll be staying over night so pls bring extra clothes.

Come ONLY if you can.



#02- SHEPHERD'S MEET

630PM to 830PM

only for shepherd(s) those who've sheep.

this coming saturday 07FEB09 [:



#03- VALENTINE ESS- FALL!


click picture to enlarge

START INVITING YOUR FRIENDS NOW!



Gallery time! ENJOY [[:


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Thr'll be more updates tmr! Do come in & visit us :DD

*videos some problems in uploading, shall do it asap ;D