My Cute Niece Again

Having a baby is really a joyful thing. Look how cute it is!

Thank God for sharing the gospel

On Saturday evening, I shared the gospel with someone. Actually she wants to believe in Jesus but she is counting the cost. She is thinking about the things that she have to give up for being a Christian. She knows what it means to be a Christian. I think that it is good that she is considering. I prayed that God will change her heart and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Saviour. Thank God that I manage to share with her why Jesus is the only way and why Jesus have to die for us. Why other religion cannot save us. She is more or less quite convince. Now it is only the Holy Spirit that can work in her. May God be merciful to her soul.

My tribute to a demise friend

Today, I have received a shocking news. A friend of mine; a good video speciallist, Mr Astley Wong, who had rendered help to me before in various competitions had died in a fatal accident in Malaysia enroute to KL. He passed away in the early hours of this morning and his body is now in a hospital inKL.

I felt sad for my company for losing such a great worker. Through the emails that I have received about him, I know that he is a very responsible and hardworking person. My former 2006 primary six students who involved in SVA, do you all still remember him teaching you all how to shoot a good video and also how to edit videos? He is the man who died. I still remember the help that he had rendered to me last year which I have mentioned in
http://alant80.blogspot.com/2006/11/thank-god-for-completed-entries-for.html

Thank God that I have learnt a lot from him. I even got a ring tone from him. This is the one and only thing that I have gotten from him. I will cherished it in remembrance of him. Farewell my friend! Great man may have gone forever but what left behind are the beautiful memories.

5 Days of Thanksgiving

These five days, I feel that I have been greatly blessed by the Lord. On last Friday night, in the youth camp, I heard a touching story from my friend that make me cry in front of so many members of Shomerim. This friend of mine nearly died in a few occasions but God had saved him from the grip of death. Stroke doesn't kill him, multiples attacks of strokes and related illnesses never stop him from walking or paralysed him, committing suicide from jumping off the building did not happen to him. Were not all these happens by the mercies of God? If he still cannot see it, he deserves to perish in hell.

How about my role in his life? Taking about that, let me tell you, I did not do much things for him. All I did was that I sms him when I feel like it. When God burdened my heart a particularly day, I would pray for him. I did not do this everyday and I did not called him to speak to him for a long period of time. Ultimately, it is the Lord who moved his heart. Cause him to bring to remembrance how God's people has been good to him. Well probably an sms at the right time will encourage someone. However, how can I be so accurate to send the right words at the right precise time? Were not our God is so powerful, great, marvellous, amazing, miraculously and plenteously good? My prayer is that this person will realise God's goodness upon him and that he will not reject God's calling again. If such a person will harden his heart, God's judicial hardening of the heart will come in. God will harden his heart and make it impossible for him to repent and receive the Lord Jesus Christ. Likewise friends, if God moves you to do something good, do not harden your hearts anymore.

On Sunday, I heard a very shocking and sad news from a friend. After the news, I felt very troubled. Miraculously, God's messenger speaks to me about loving one another as Christ love the church. I started tearing in my heart, I know that God wants me to do something for brethren. I decided to yield to the Lord's calling. I don't know how it can be accomplished, but I know that by God's strength and enabling, I will be able to do it.

On Monday, I received a news that I was able to get the ticket for this Friday fireworks festival. Actually, i was too late when I want to get the tickets. At the last minute, one person cannot go so I took the ticket. I couldn't believe that God is so good to me and answer my simple prayer to allow me to go to the festival.

On Tuesday, I was so forgetful that I nearly lost my handphone. At 19:26; Bedok MRT Station, I make a public phone call to my phone. The phone rang for a long time but nobody picks up the phone. In my mind I was thinking, “This is the end, I am going to lose my phone again!” At 19:41, I decided to make a call again. This time, it is a lady who picks up the phone. She told me to meet her at Yishun. At 20:44, I stop at Yishun MRT to make a call again. Thank God that a kind soul borrowed her phone to me. I followed her instructions to take bus service 811 from Yishun interchange and stopped at the 3^rd bus stop. I was frantically looking for a public phone but couldn't find any. In desperation, I approached two person to borrow their phone to me but they declined my request. At 20:58, I approached the 3^rd person; which is a lady issuing traffic offence notice. I called my phone again and finally got back my phone from a guy.

I am sure this few days are the most blessed days that I have encountered this year. All praise and glory unto God on high!

Thank God for pay increment!

I am greatful to God that I got a higher increment this year. This job is not very stressful and I can meet with students almost everyday. There will be opportunities to share God's Word. Praise the Lord!

Thank God for sharing the gospel with a friend

Yesterday, I thought of sending an sms to a friend. It is my prayer that this person will come to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ soon. Thank God that I share the gospel of Jesus Christ with this friend. I sms this chinese poem below hoping that this person will acknowledge the LORD soon! All praise to God on high!

知心良友不已找，

金玉良言不可少，

费尽心思献良友，

只为博得红颜笑，

不求是否有回报，

只求红颜蒙主恩，

尽早信主得永生，

是我生命大乐事！

Yet another sharing of God's goodness in my life!

When I was at a young age, I heard that my father's godmother was admitted to the hospital for an operation. After that, she recuperates in the ancestral worship place near Pasir Panjang area. We went to visited her quite often after the operation. One day as I was walking around the vicinity, I saw that the apartment next door had a swing. There is a low wall that I can climb over to the swing. I decided to play the swing so I climbed over it often. One day while I was on the swing, an angel like lady walk to me and shared the Christian gospel to me. Not knowing why, after some talk with her, she prayed the sinner’s prayer with me. Salvation is by God’s gift; meaning when God calls you to believe in Him, you will not resist. You will eventually believe if you belong to God. After that, I started to attend church for some time. After some time, I stopped going to church because of parental objection and also that I myself did not have at strong urge to attend church.

However, God was good. He remembers me after so many years. After my ‘O’ Level in my new house; which is my current house, I was staying at home doing something. A lady came and asks me whether I want to attend a church camp. At first, I did not want to. However, my mum finds that I am too quiet and it is not good to always stay at home so she persuaded me to go with this neighbour of mine. Her name is Miriam and she is still in my church now. In the end, I followed her to the church camp. That year, she is the camp mistress; the person in charge of the whole camp. It was there that I heard the gospel the second time. Again, God touch my heart again. I even decided to baptise with Shuhui and Amos. It was at that camp that I met up with two of them. At that time, they are still at young as me. They are not a couple yet. In God’s timing, I started to attend church from then on. As I have told you, I always failed my English in my secondary school, passing it in ‘O’ level, to me is a miracle. I believe God is the one who make it possible.

After a few years, I backslided and did not go to church. However God is good, he sent people to encourage me with cards and visitation. In the end, God bring me back again. My turning point is when I am in the National Service (NS). As I have shared with you the difficulties that I went through, I pray everyday for God to give me strength to go through all the tough training. I even spend time to read the bible even though I feel tired. Why did I do that? This is because the Bible to Christian is a very powerful tool. God can encourage and speaks to you through the bible. Not literally speak to you but what I mean is that the verses that I read will give me comfort and direct my steps in my life. I draw strength from the Bible to endure the hard training in my army days. It is also at this time, my faith in God increase tremendously.

Some time after my NS, I decided to pursue music. God had sent a person, in another church that I have been attending on Sunday morning to teach me. She is a very patient teacher and it was that teacher who had helped me in getting distinction in my Grade 5 practical piano exams. If it were not for God that had made me believe in Him, I would not have known this teacher in church. Well, you might be saying that it is because I am practising hard enough and I have the talent to do it. Let me ask you. I did not even take the lower grades exam; I jumped straight to grade 5. What probability that you think such a person, without the lower grades foundation, can get a distinction in a piano exam? The possibility is very low; I even struggled when I started to learn the pieces. Who make all these things happen? I would attribute all these to God.

After some time, that piano teacher finds that I should get a better piano teacher so I stopped attending her lessons. I prayed very hard to get a Christian piano teacher because I was thinking of serving in the church as a pianist then. I hope to train up for it and even lead in training the choir some day. After I prayed for sometime, aunty Mee Mee, our church pianist got a contact for me. She is my current piano teacher. She had studied degree in piano and church hymns playing overseas. Again God sent another wonderful teacher. She is the teacher who teaches me song composing in Grade 5 theory exam. She also gives me lots of exercise so that I can be prepared for the exams that I took last year. I agree that I myself have to play a part in doing the practice papers. How often can a person that did not take the lower grades theory exam, and jumps straight to grade 5 theory exams can get a distinction? The possibility is very low, as I have shared that the song composing part and other parts like musical terms are not easy to get full marks unless you memorise very thoroughly. I think if you are taking it yourself you will know that it is not easy to obtain distinction not to mention full marks.

How about my life? How has God changed my life? I am actually a very quiet person. When I just came to the church, I don’t usually talk to people, I always wait for people to talk to me first. Even if I talk, I will only say a few words. Some people may find that I am trying to act cool. I am not because I just find that I don’t really know what to talk about and I am not really interested about other people’s business. However, God had changed me. I find that I cannot remain silent as before. I have to talk to people, encourage people, share concern and pray for people. God did not call me to be silence but to witness for Him, to tell people how He has been so good to me.

Thank God for a friend who agrees to attend Youth Camp

There is a friend that I have been working on for a few years. Thank God, that now he is more open up to Christian teachings. He agrees to go to the coming Youth Camp. Pray that God will touch his heart of stone through this camp.

Thank God for my niece growing cute and healthy

One month after she came into this world, this is my niece!

Thank God for my sister smooth delivery

Thank God for my sister's smooth delivery of my niece Mayvia. At first, my sister was a bit worried because the baby vomited the milk that the nurse fed her. Thank God, that after two days, she accepted the milk. Isn't she cute:)