*CLEAR DUST*

hellooooooooooooo WD,I believe you guys are all longing for an update right! Hahas ;D

Im sure you guys enjoy yourself during today's MASQUERADE ESS right! Althought today we didnt complete our schools BUT DO NOT LOSE HEART PEOPLE! GOD is still faithful to us! Cause in today's svc,god still bless us with 3new sisters! PRAISE THE LORD! And not just that,let us count the blessing that god has given to our group during the past 2months.

In the past 2months God has bless our group with a total 10new brothers&sisters(including today) AND not just that i believe that god has also bless people with money to go for camp etc etc. And in the same way,i believe that god has also bless your life during these 2months right? So why not lets set some time n really sit down to count the blessing that god has given in our life and be greatful&thankful about it!

And people, do not lose heart ohhkays! Cause if god is able to give us so much blessing in our lifes, im convicted about it that our schools WILL BE COMPLETED! As long as we continue to work hard and believe that god will work in our friends/contacts hearts, the harvest will be here! Always REMEMBER THIS, we are god's victorious army who are here to make an impact to the youth out there! Have FAITH people,as FAITH IS THE KEY! CHIONG AH!!!

Blog by Mr Nice Guy 1 & written by Mr Nice Guy 2 ;D

TAKE MY SON!!!!!!!

ALOHA WESTDEEE!!!!!!!! pls read this!! =D

A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art.

When the Vietnam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.

About a month later, just before Christmas, there was a knock at the door.
A young man stood at the door with a large package in his hands.

He said, "Sir, you don't know me, but I am the soldier for whom your son gave his life. He saved many lives that day, and he was carrying me to safety when a bullet struck him in the heart and he died instantly. He often talked about you, and your love for art." The young man held out this
package. "I know this isn't much. I'm not really a great artist, but I think your son would have wanted you to have this."

The father opened the package. It was a portrait of his son, painted by the young man. He stared in awe at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was so drawn to the eyes that his own eyes welled up with tears. He thanked the young man and offered to pay him for the picture. "Oh, no sir, I could never repay what your son did for me. It's a gift."

The father hung the portrait over his mantle. Every time visitors came to his home he took them to see the portrait of his son before he showed them any of the other great works he had collected.

The man died a few months later. There was to be a great auction of his paintings. Many influential people gathered, excited over seeing the great paintings and having an opportunity to purchase one for their collection.

On the platform sat the painting of the son. The auctioneer pounded his gavel. "We will start the bidding with this picture of the son. Who will bid for this picture?"

There was silence. Then a voice in the back of the room shouted, "We want to see the famous
paintings. Skip this one."

But the auctioneer persisted. "Will somebody bid for this painting. Who will start the bidding? $100, $200?"

Another voice angrily. "We didn't come to see this painting. We came to see the Van Goghs, the Rembrandts. Get on with the real bids!"

But still the auctioneer continued. "The son! The son! Who'll take the son?"


Finally, a voice came from the very back of the room. It was the longtime gardener of the man and his son. "I'll give $10 for the painting." Being a poor man, it was all he could afford.

We have $10, who will bid $20?" Give it to him for $10. Let's see the masters." 10 is the bid, won't someone bid $20?" The crowd was becoming angry. They didn't want the picture of the son. They wanted the more worthy investments for their collections.

The auctioneer pounded the gavel. "Going once, twice, SOLD for $10!"

A man sitting on the second row shouted, "Now let's get on with the collection!"

The auctioneer laid down his gavel. "I'm sorry, the auction is over." What about the paintings?"

I am sorry. When I was called to conduct this auction, I was told of a secret stipulation in the will. I was not allowed to reveal that stipulation until this time. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever bought that painting would inherit the entire estate, including the paintings. The man who took the son gets everything!"

God gave His son 2,000 years ago to die on the cross. Much like the auctioneer, His message today is: "The son, the son, who'll take the son?" Because, you see, whoever takes the Son gets everything.

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHO SO EVER
BELIEVETH, SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE...THAT'S LOVE

Jiayou for ya week ahead guys!!! loves,Regh...

i'm amazed by the fact that this is my 2nd post in westd blog for this week!! haahs..sihui n huichuen i'm joining ur clan!!! hahazx..well, i guessed its partly due to the fact that i;ve jux finish my exam!! so u guys..gota cling onn mann!! =D

well, it sets me thinking of just what had happen this week...things happen so fast, so quickly!! till i think it feels like i've jux taken a picture! it all happens in just a click!!

my eyes welled up in tears as i chance upon one of our dear sister's blog...she has parental objections and it all happens in a split second that her parents found out she is a christian just ytd..things dun go too well..but then when i saw her post...i couldn't hold it..i teared!

This is part of the post, it was titled(to westd) :

But I want more spiritual food.
I want to grow more with god.
I want to fellowship with him and others.
I want to do more.
If we are all friends, I will not ask you to do this.
But as a family, I want you all to still help me and encourage me to the fullest esp WD2!
I don't want to drift away from god just because of this
I don't want to sin again
I still want to be a student of Christ.
I still want to be a child of God.
I still have had not enough of WOG.
I still want to work hard for the kingdom of god.
I still want to glorify and outreach for Him.
I still want to be part of the church.
I still want Him to lay a table before my enemies!
Throw me with lots of bible verses!
Force me to remember grace!
Keep sharing testimonies with me!
Control me a bit!
求求你！拜托！
But don't worry! I myself will not give up and will keep on praying and reading and hiding the bible!
I know god has a reason for doing this! Testing my faith like what shepherd had said.
I'm starting to appreciate god and wanting to do more QT.

today...i begin to grow a leap further on appreciating how much i can do for God openly and publicly...i begin to give thanks for how much i can do quiet time as and when i like...how openly i can place my bible etc. it sets me thinking how fortunate we r to be able to serve and yet sometimes we dun give it all...as for this sister.......She's dying to serve!!! i put myself in her shoes...i felt pain n lost!!! though i dunno what the chinese words meant..

i want to tell this sister that...once she steps into westdeee...she's forever our family!!! so bros and sis!!! let's rise up to this!!! let's pray together and see a big miracle coming!!!! BELIEVE!!!!!!!!

("V")Regh

HELLO!
I think this will be a short update. (I suppose)

Prayermeet cg on thurs @ Zaccheus' house


Unit fun & fellowship on Sat @ Asia Room





Okok I think that's all for today's post.
Jiayou for your exams.

Exams seem to be a big problem to you perhaps,
When you focus on God,
Exams is actually small,
You can actually defeat examinations by scoring well.
So, don't rely on your own strength, seek God for it!

Bye!

regh's testi...

Thinking of giving "UNSTOPPABLE" a miss???

hey..to my beloved unit and to all who chance upon westdeee blog...i would like to share a story of a girl and her way to leadership in hope...

5years ago, there's this girl whom pursue freedom and does not like being tied up..therefore decided to backslide from God and do this thing called church-hopping! she just roam anywhere a church available for her to be in..finally, she found hope and settled down, but then realize that she still doesn't want to commit herself, so she decided to attend hope and often even before the whole service ends, she's already gone!

she doesn't like church crowds but love to keep her weekend occupied with pubbing and clubbings and more of SENTOSA!!!! she love hanging out with her gp of so called "cool" friends and get herself cooked by the sun..so often she would attend the first half of the service to give her leader "face" then whoooo..she's off partying!!!!

when she's in secondary4, attenting service, she heard about camp!(she nvr hav good impression of camp and hates it as she thinks its the same as her scool's camp) so therefore when the pastor says" turn to ur neighbour and giv them a pat on their shoulders saying..SEE YOU IN CAMP!!" she often thinks they are insane! however her shepherd ask her if she would lyk to join..w/o even a thought, she says she has badminton camp in school, and thus gota giv this camp a miss! but then again her leader persued on and barely managed to ask her for the last night of camp! the fact is there isn't any badminton camp at all!

so finally the day of camp have arrived! 7am she reach the camp venue and then found it real boring!! then up to the night!! with a time of teaching,prayer and worship etc. God spoke to her!!! that day, that familiar voice, that one touch, changed her entire life!!! on that night, she decided to re commit her life to God!! then the pastor said "gather in your schools and pray" lo and behold, she only has 2 person in her school!!! God said to her "look...your school needs me!! " then God gave her a combo by adding a verse to her "no matter you turn to the left or turn to the right, you'll still hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way..WALK IN IT!!!"

that night!! that second..God changed the life of this aimless girl ,one's life full of confusion to the girl who is typing this entry in the hope that you register for camp..NOW!!!! that girl is me!!! Regina!! that is not a made up story...it's my real life story!!! people..if u r still comtemplating..i really wana urge u to take this leap of Faith!! if you have any objections from your parents, try again!!! NEVER GIVE UP!!! its a $140-$150 in exchange of a donkey? a cow? a monkey?? NO!!! its in exchange of YOUR NEW LIFE!!! c'mon!!! God is waiting!! =D

the prayer box in the blog is free of charge!! so if u need prayers, be sure to type it in so that we can pray for u!!! =D

HELLO!


Westd blog cannot be inactive, since we created this blog, we should update it regularly! 我们不可以半途而废！
Haha and here comes me, huichuen!
I apologise for being mysterious and invisible, as you can see from the last two posts, the person who updated was me, Potato(for the benefit of people who don't know my name but know my nick -,-)

OHHH!
Mid-year examinations have finally commenced!
Have your leaders given you your exam kits? If no, bug them to!! HAHA.
Okok, my post isn't any fantastic I can say, you know I'd feel sense of satisfaction when the blog is really active!
I am really busy! I'm multi-tasking actually and I'm not good in it!

Count every blessings.
God blessed me a lot this week!
I should take this opportunity to share now!

I was actually bothered by the camp money issue this morning. MOE stated that my bursary award money will be transferred to my bank account by the end of April, to no avail I did not receive that amount of money. I could actually feedback to MOE and ask about it, but I didn't! Haha! The reason is because, I was told to send the giro form and my photocopied IC to MOE before I could get my money, to my horror I forgot I send my photocopied IC to MOE! If you don't send your IC, they won't believe that you are the prize winner of the bursary award and therefore, they won't transfer the money to you! In fact, I did not even talk about it anymore when I realised I forgot to send my IC, I know if I trust God in this, instead of trusting in MOE, God will honor me with that amount of money! I prayed every single day about the bursary thingy! Hallelujah! I don't grumble even though my bursary award money isn't that much, at least I am able to register for the camp! Give thanks and be content, praise the Lord. Oh ya, I forgot to share how did I get the money! My mama called me and told me she received a notification letter from MOE! MOE stated I have received the bursary award money and it is transferred into my bank account! TRUST IN THE LORD IN GOING FOR THE CAMP!

UNSTOPPABLE CAMP!
I am so excited and looking forward for the camp!
I really believe that you must do something about it if you want to sign up for camp! Camp is better than spa I reckon, it is awesome man!

Before you can even trust God in going for the camp! Practise your faith, you need to use your faith on something, start with small little things as our faith will grow! It is similar to climbing a ladder, we don't climb on the top rung. Faith is like our muscle, we need to strengthen it so we can support heavier loads as time goes by. Get in line with the Word of God first, put your faith in the Word, in God!
TRUST GOD IN THE SMALL LITTLE THINGS BEFORE WE TRUST GOD IN BIG ISSUES!
Don't get too foolish or naive, stop presuming that God will touch your parents' heart in letting you to go for camp or even He will bless you with the camp money if you do nothing about it! Do something about it! If you proclaim you have faith in going for camp, start by actions! What kind of actions? Pray, save up the money and also start practising your faith!

I'm anticipating for the camp!
For the first-timers, you will never regret in going yeah!

The laojiangs were refreshed after the HEROES camp!
This photo was taken during the last day of the camp!



GAMBATTE FOR YOUR EXAMS MAN!!

HEY WEST D!
*just a short update

Let us not forget to thank God for everything, thank God for His unconditional love 无条件的爱，感谢主!
[Psalm 86:12]
¹² I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart;
I will glorify your name forever.

Through this tough period of time which is the examinations, don't rely on ourselves, rely on God. I used to ignore the presence of God and assumed I could do well in my examinations, at the end of the day, what I got was 7 over 25 for my science test. I flunked my class test pathetically, I came to a point of wanting to change when God spoke to me through many people like Regina, I didn't want to flunk my exams again and you know, my conduct in school wasn't good and neither I had a consistent relationship with God. What I want to convey is, balance well between your spiritual walk with God and also your studies. 玩归玩，读书归读书！Wait, there is no such thing as ‘serve God 归 serve God’!
[Romans 14:17]
¹⁷For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

We cannot compromise in the KOG, like today's pm, we shouldn't be neither hot nor cold for God, we should be HOT for HIM! Do you know that God is so hot for us? He yearns to hear from us, He yearns to have prayers from us, so...we must 'yearn back'. Like the baby chimpanzee and the mother chimpanzee story shared by Yunian during pm, the baby chimpanzee is like 阴魂不散, he kept clutching onto its mother! Our Christian life must be like that baby chimpanzee! Don't be realistic, you think God will honor your studies if you just stick to Him through your tough times? NO! God does not deserve us to be like that, we please Him, we long to seek Him, have these kind of thinking every time yeah.

Why are you studying for? Why do you go to school and go for study groups?
Some people would. say, "I have no choice" whereas some would say "Going to school is also part of serving God". Don't harvest the thinking in your heart that you study for the sake of studying, you just want to mingle around our cg mates and so and so. If that is so, why waste your time studying when you are not?

You always hear your shepherd or leaders adding on... be salt and light, what was on your mind then? Salt? You mean acids, bases and SALT? NO! Be the light in your class, be the light in your family, that is what your leaders mean!
[Matthew 5:16]
¹⁶In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Study for what? To please your teachers with the good marks? Or to get temporary rewards from your parents? When we study for God, we glorify Him through the things we do, we then have eternal reward from God, and the eternal reward is in heaven!
[Matthew 5:12]
¹²Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

If you want to do it, you can do it.
If you want to score As for your subjects, you can.
If you want to please God, you can.
Love God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind!
Then you will see God's widest smile and His white teeths, whiter than the 'colgate whitening' you know. At the end of the day, our glory goes to God! Without God, nothing can be achieved!

GAMBATTE!

We had west prayermeet yesterday at Sherwood's Tower function room, let's thank God for the venue!
We prayed for our own prayer needs, studies, unity in the group, family, economy, swine flu and so.
Is your relationship with God drifting away?
How are you going to trust God if you feel God is not here for you?
How will you react?

The exams devotional is really useful, I love it as God speaks to me the most when it comes to doing devotionals, daily qt and so. And it is when I feel God everywhere and everytime, I feel so good, woah hallelujah! Can you imagine yourselves not spending your time with Him daily? Have you ever pondered over the cause of why God is so invisible to you?
Every little thing said here was what I experienced and how I overcame!
[Psalm 105:4]
⁴ Look to the LORD and his strength;
seek his face always.

This post is literally about management between your relationship with God and your studies. Did I say this will be a short post? I realised I had written much, the Spirit is flowing in me even though the time now is 1.40am. God is working in me everytime! You might be asking why am I staying up until so late, the reason is because I had sleep just now! Haha!

There is service later and I am so excited about it!
The excitement is always there although I have been to service for don't know how many many times. Another optional study group will be later after udmm at SMU!
Eh, really study uh, if not don't come, haha! I'm serious about it, when it comes to study, you should get down to brass tracks already! HAHA, I will pray that everyone will study instead of play, uh! Haha and I pray that you are reading this in the morning later, not at night la!!! Lol I admit this is a super late post.

[Isaiah 58:11]
¹¹ The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.

Dear Lord,
I pray for the brothers and sisters here in westd, give us strength and the willingness in doing Your Work, especially during the examination times, let us see the value in studying as well as serving You! Bind off all the temptations which stop us from getting closer to You, and give us wisdom in our studies! I thank You Lord and I pray in Jesus' name, Amen!

GOODNIGHT!!!!
I'm signing off, sleeping, woots!
God is so understanding, He created men to sleep and eat, understanding right?
HAHA,
BYE!