Even in my darkest hour, I will sing

I woke up feeling crappy this morning, feeling like I had no ammunition for the battle of the day.

As I trudged my way to table, I flipped my daily devotional chart.

"The Lord bless you and keep you--the Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace." Numb. 6:24-26.

The Lord blessed me 3 times this morning. And it was just for me. This is the personal God I know. Always providing for each moment.

May the same multifold blessings be on you and more this week.

the mountain is mine!!!

woah MX. that is one cheena post!! you go girl! your chinese has improved by LEAPS and BOUNDS!!! haha i have full confidence that you will bu bu gao sheng!(yay i use cheng yu)

anyways, was just going through my notebook of stuff written during sermon and during QT this morning.. and i want to share something!

you know how the whole world loves the song Hosanna and how the whole world loves the bridge:
'Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me, break my heart for what breaks yours, everything i am for your kingdom's cause, as i walk from earth into eternity'

i was singing it like over and over again one day in history, and i felt that God wanted me to stop.

why? cos i wasn't singing it in faith. i kept asking God to open my eyes open my eyes open my eyes.. (so naggy)

so i changed it to 'you have healed my heart and made it clean, opened my eyes to the things unseen, shown me how to love like you have loved me, broken my heart for what breaks yours, everything i am for your kingdom's cause, as i walk from earth into eternity.'

I needed to sing believing that God was doing it for me already.

do we feel the same for our 'mind barang'?

today i believe God by faith for

victory over my stress
victory over my worries
ability to love others
to have self discipline to study
to be touched by God

do we let it change our perspective of others, and the people that -seem- difficult?

today i believe by faith that God will

heal their hearts, minds and bodies,
open their hearts to God,
give my brothers and sisters breakthrough,
that they will be fruitful

Beloved people, when we have a mind of victory like that, when we interact with people believing in God for them, we will be what we were created to be, the answer, the solution to the world. Not the problem, not the cause of pain.

Know who God is, and there's no reason not to step out in faith! let's believe together today! the mountain is ours!

你们好？ 我现在过得还好，我有点适应这里的生活。 学校还好，虽然我平时会孤独一个人，但是现在有时会和班里的同学谈天说地。 希望过了一度时间我们会成为比较好的朋友。只有我是新来的，所以是很难进陆他们的圈子。而学校太小，我是唯一的新加坡公民，所以没有SSA :( 我觉得老师们还好， 但是我讨厌办公室里的人，因为是他们搞的错让我被罚50yuen! 他们说我可以一边上课一边登记我的房屋的资料，但是当我到警局他说我应该抵达中国24小时以内登记！Arghhhhh!!!!!!

And I will run to You..

Today was the NUS prayer run around NUS!! *Clap clap clap*

And.. well.. honestly speaking... I felt that God's presence was really with us, and I could feel His presence even as we ran.. even as we walked.. even as we prayed.. and even as we sang. It was all somewhat surreal at times, to know that our God is with us, even as we run, that He is running along with us.

Running up slope and down hill of NUS was really... quite tedious and taxing.. but Glory to God! =) As I ran, I kept asking Him for strength, for stamina, and prayed about NUS... God imprinted on my heart His desire to bless the University.. and all the students that come in... I did a little search on the etymology (meaning the history) of the word "university" and my findings are rather interesting... here they are!

(1) the whole, entire number, universe
(2) in later and mediæval Latin (chiefly in legal use), a society, company, corporation, or community regarded collectively

It's really an interesting thing, cause Sharon asked me to look at the word university, and asked me to think if it spoke to me. She later said that it meant to her two words: united and diversity. It was rather astounding, cause I felt God telling me universal versatility, which has somewhat similar meanings. I really felt God's heart to bless the students that came, as well as to unite them under NUS, and send them out, hopefully, to do the work that the Lord has placed them to do.

Though tiring, but we all ended with high spirits, and it was really a testimony of God's grace, as well as His heart! =)

A little cross culture...

不知道为了什么，忽然间有一种想要用华语来写这个信件。=）

或许自己读书读到有点无聊，所以想以母语来通信，或许 Michelle 会进一步地运用她现在正在吸收的语文练习。抱歉，因为不知道大家的华文名字，就得以英文名来代表谢意。请原谅这位无知小弟。

好了，没什么，只想对大家说：“主爱你！耶稣也爱你！“

以上之信
Daniel上
=）

A farewell for further shores...

Today we will bid farewell to one of our dear sisters, Michelle...

Michelle and Audrey

Mich, even as you venture for further shores, may the Lord's grace go with you. That His angel goes before you to make your path smooth, and your direction clear. Seek Him daily, and with all your heart, sister.

Wishing you a smooth journey and a wonderful encounter with God ahead. Walk forth with faith!

Dear YOU...

Yes you, whoever you are that's reading this...
On behalf of the 10 of us, we wish you nothing less than a

WARM WELCOME!

Yes... that's right!
This is a blog of God's grace, maintained by His children, with the simple objective of glorifying Him.

We walk by faith and not by sight.
We endeavour to walk with Him every day.
And we live because He saved us. *AMEN!*

We are children of God.
And we will walk this path knowing that we are precious in His sight.

So, we do welcome you with open arms, and pray that you'll be blessed/ encouraged/ even inspired by our posts.

Do be warned... we can get rather corny at times. =)
But to the 10 of us here...
Welcome to our journey together as a mini-family in the tribe. =)

Luv,
Daniel