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Wednesday, February 27, 2008♥ 6:06 PM
here i m!

HO! :D
our tribe blog is suddenly bursting with life(posts)
and im here to post again!

remember this song?

A heart of worship

 you did want our sacrifice and offerings
 but a broken spirit nd a contrite heart
 you will not despise
 you will not despise
 Lord a broken spirit and a contrite heart

 Lord a heart of worship is what you desire
 a heart that burns with passionate fire
 a heart that's undivided in love you

 (in spirit and truth)


yea, the one we sang on sunday! :D

and ever since that day i heard it on thurs, i dunno why but it kept replaying and replaying in my head. and somehow i knew that God was trying to tell me something, to tell me to have a broken spirit and contrite heart, a heart that longs for him. but really, i tried to be 'broken' before Him but somehow i just couldnt, i have no idea why. perhaps it was pride, i really dunno. i have to admit really i wasnt that close to God during the past few days/weeks cos of stuff, and i would just quickly do quiet time with God and im off to dreamland. yea and on sunday though i went for altar call, perhaps it was only 'partly broken' HAH it sounds weird. yea but anyway, so yesterday i did my 1 hour and i fell asleep! (again!) :/ and God somehow told me that verse that jesus told his disciples before he was arrested, ' pray that u will not fall into temptation, the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.' though i really really wanted to spend that 1 hour with God that day, somehow i ended up falling asleep. and He said that he knows my heart, he recognises my effort, and sees how much i've tried. and somehow i dunno how i just broke before me, and it suddenly just dawned on me how tiny and how i m really really nothing without him, that all i m , what i've achieve, is not me, but Him. (ok perhaps cos of the Lord's great blessings, i've maybe taken things for granted, like aiya dunno how to explain) anyway, my heart just felt 'full' again, even now as im typing! :D and i think God speaks to me through songs/lyrics! :D cos after that, the song 'from the inside out' kept replaying and replaying in my head! especially the first 2 lines. A thousand times I've failed, Still Your mercy remains And should I stumble again, I'm caught in Your grace it speaks for itself right. ok, this post is getting real long.
ok anyway, today for my 1 hour! i was determined NOT to fall asleep! :D and ok i think my 1 hour is a bit warped anyway i worshiped for 1/2 hour, (if not there's nothing to pray) and then i prayed and i almost almost fall asleep! my eyes were closed on my pillow, and then i suddenly realised 'AHHH im gonna sleeep!!!' then i remembered the verse! :D and i decided not to lie down, HAHA. and congrats i managed to spend 1 hour with God WITHOUT sleeping!! :DDD

YAY YAY YAY YAY

im so proud of myself, and i know God is v proud of me too! :D

anyway just wanted to share how awesome God is, and how im caught in his grace over and over again! :D

LOVE LOVE,
JOLINE!

Tuesday, February 26, 2008♥ 9:47 PM
[:

YO DARLS<3

okay my turn to post![: uh i think this is my 2nd time posting or sth heheheheh. anw i admit i was quite reluctant to post at first cos i've lost touch with blogging [comeon look at my own blog :l] plus plus everytime im online i cant watch dramas or mvs too! but for God, my darling cell and all the people who reads this blog uh im here to share the glory of God in my life :D

well the 40days fast and prayer thing was ok so far i guess[: although i will just gorge myself with food after i break fast and sometimes just fall asleep while praying that one hour(or skip the whole hour ;l)
the first few days of fast was hard! in school during recess and lunch everyone will be EATINGGGG. and its weird because suddenly everyone is asking me why am i not eating [because usually im always eating?] for me the hard part is not just the sacrifice of food for God, but rather how i had to explain to my friends that it was a corporate church fasting thing, the initial response i get would be "aiyoh why must fast?!" then i started to question myself that way too. at first it was rather hard to tell my friends that i was doing it for God. while praying one day, i set myself a resolution which is to make it a point to have the selfdiscipline to fast a meal a day and do it without anycomplaints or making myself think of other reasons why i should fast [dieting or saving time etc!] [its hard not to think that way but im still trying to!] then God told me i will survive this 4o days definitely, He told me that because i gave up a meal a day plus my favouuuuuuriiiiite drama and mvs for 40 days, He will provide me with everything else, all my other needs, and give me more than i expect for the rest of my life[;

since that day, i realised through this 40 days fast and prayer thing, God has blessed me with really dear friends who would encourage me alot, and even tell me that in 40 days they will watch this drama thing with me hehehhe :D and God has also blessed me with a dear friend in my class who fasts with me to encourage me and also not tempt me by eating infront of me. and while i (we) am fasting, she will chiong hw with me :D so i will be distracted from my hunger[: hence im reallly thankful for her. and i hope that God will bless her always [;

WE ARE DOING THE 40DAYS FAST AND PRAYER FOR GOD [: in the other 40-9 = 31 days to come, we shall let God know that it is possible to survive 40 days without a meal a day and uhh games/tv/drama just for him[: its hard but we will not give up, because God is here with us [:

LOVELOVE. SHIRLYNN!:D

Monday, February 25, 2008♥ 10:06 PM

Dear everyone,

Yay yay yay yay! Cos God has been speaking to us. =) =) =)

God is very good...for the little steps we take towards Him and the sacrifices we made, He blesses us. =)

Hi Vanessa, I am blessed by your sharing. God must really love us to listen to all our complaints, many really petty ones, and record them down. =P

Just wanna share...

this morning, I felt quite burdened and unhappy at work - there was a lot of fear in my heart to go to work and face everything.

When I read Psalm 56 in the morning, Psalm 56:3-4 spoke to me
"When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?" It is repeated again in Psalm 56:11.

Cos I felt unhappy I went to spend some time with God during my lunchtime, and repeated this Psalm 56:3-4 a few times and prayed.

God also told me during that time that He loved me. I was reminded of John 3:16 but with "dawn" inserted in "the world".
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

I felt much comforted at that time and was able to carry on the day. Praise God! =) =)

Things are not easy still but I can trust in my BIG GOD and HE LOVES ME!

BLESS YOU THAT YOU CAN TRUST IN YOUR BIG GOD AND HE LOVES YOU!!!! =) =)

dawn

♥ 4:29 PM
MY GOD IS A BIG GOD!

here to blog about the psalms now! firstly, i feel that doing this you must blog this wk cause it's your turn thing makes it a bit forced? i dunno. but i am not blogging cause i have to ok. but cause i want to. yes? hee hee. alright. anyways. the psalm i read today is psalm 56. to be honest, i think it's really hard to share about this first part of psalms cause they're all quite similar and straightforward lah. but this verse, although is straightforward really speaks to me.

Psalm 56: 8

'Record my lament;
list my tears on your scroll-
are they not in your record?'

okay lament would refer to complaints here, non? so although God says not to complain, as humans we always still do, conciously or subconciously. partly also cause we singaporean kids are sooo terribly spoilt every little thing requires complaint. like my aircon is not cold enough. the abalone not authentic. my maid so clumsy. the service of the waitress so slow. i mean compare ourselves to those in the not so fortunate countries. say, for example, the more poverty-stricken parts of indonesia. they are so poor, that they have to leave their families to come to overly blessed countries like singapore to work for us. what do they complain about? does your maid sleep in an aircon room? do they have maids? they "serve" you. if they dare to complain you'll probably scold them!

so can you imagine a great king like our Lord, we like His servants. We complain to Him all the time but does He scold us, punish us, or like dock our pay? No. In fact it says here that He actually listens to our complaints and records it all. Our God loves us so much that He would record each and every one of our complaints be it stupid ones or not. There are billions of people on this earth. And God listens to and records each one of them. Impossible for God? No. Because He is not human like us, but He is the God who created heaven and earth. He is almighty.

Being someone with overactive tear glands and a heart that melts like butter in a microwave, I am crying at almost the littlest thing. When I'm sad, angry, laugh too much, touched, anything! Ask my cousins, last time I was like a tap. Say no to anything only, CRY. play games i don't get to be leader, CRY. cannot go their house to play, CRY. and for the past 15 years of my life, God has been listing each of my tears on His scroll. No matter what the reason, ridiculous or serious. Each tear I cry, God sees and He comforts me and writes it down.

VANESSA
27 tears- Failed a test
129 tears- Hamster died
101 tears- Quarelled with mother
30 tears- Watched 'I Not Stupid Too'

Quite retarded right? But because God cares about every little part of our life, this is one way He cares too.

so anyway yeah. this is one song i remember i loved singing in children's ministry last time.
"My God is so BIG so STRONG and so MIGHTY
there's nothing my God cannot do
FOR YOU!"

we would sing the song soooo enthusiastically with actions and all that. haha. so fun. God rocks my world and He is there for me all the time. He's there for you too! Just ask Him yeah? He will not get angry with you, I promise!

LOVE ALL YOU DARLING PEOPLE! have a great week ahead fasting and spending the hour with our Lord. :D

loads of love and care with a CHERRY on top! VanessA!

Saturday, February 23, 2008♥ 9:15 PM

Though its my turn to share on the psalms. i wont share on it because honestly, i haven't been reading it, because i have been busy, very busy. its like having school till like late afternoons or cca till 6 or 7. and now i have to juggle with cheer, and seriously, my house cheer is only 30 seconds done, after today. and i have like 3 or 4 tests a week. but i don't want to give that excuse anymore that because i am busy, i cant spend time with god, i cant read a psalm a day because i have been sleeping late and waking up late, so i cant do this i cant do that.

i felt no point of sharing a psalm as i felt that i have lost that sensitive touch with god. even at the alter call last week, i didn't feel anything. and sometimes even at when people pray i don't feel much, i sometimes wonder why people can go so emotional and cry when i felt nothing, maybe it was because i was new and i didn't really knew god, i told myself. i ever asked myself if i was the problem, like if i was the one that didn't want to go too close to god, that i couldn't release everything to him.maybe it might be so. but then there were really times where i really felt god. i need to go encounter again! haha but maybe not now, sorry god but i am still very busy even if i go i wouldnt be able to concentrate.

back to the point.

"ITS TIME TO WAKE UP MAVIS!" i think that is what god is trying to say to me, though it might sound a little funny, but i have to admit, i really do need to wake up.

i need to discipline myself, if not someone will do it for me and i don't like it, yet disciplining yourself is really hard. no matter how hard i try to avoid temptation, there is always a time where i cant resist and do something which i shouldn't. like breaking fast, once, in school. because i ate something accidentally, then i said to myself that, ah since i broke fast, never mind la, just eat lor. and watching tv, because the tv is just outside my room every time i walk in and out i will pass by and sometimes, i will naturally sit down and watch, then i will realise that i shouldn't be watching tv. ya. but i couldn't resist to watch the yog hais! i was suppose to be there to support. but it was the last day of Chinese new year so i ate at home. but oh wells.

BACK TO THE POINT.
ah hem

so i spent about 15 minutes, kneeling down, telling god that i am sorry and started to worship him. sadly it was only for 15 minutes as my aunt and uncle came. so they interrupted and i feel very conscious when they are around. so ya. i am very easily distracted.. but i am happy as i felt that as i sing, i felt something really different, i couldn't resist but my hand was moving to my heart (as i already had one hand there) and it touched my other hand, i felt that it was not my hand but god's. he was telling me 'i am coming back here'. i felt really relieved after that and was smiling. haha. lucky i didn't cry like terribly, if not my aunty and uncles will think that i got bullied or something.

haha i think this is rather the long. so i made my point and i hope that when you guys read this, something will apply to you!


♥ Mavis

♥ 7:31 PM
GOD LOVES ME!

hey. here to share too. as i had tagged, i fell asleep the first day spending time with God. Ifelt really quite bad lah. cause like joline, i was lying on the bed to pray. i was at the praying for the world part when i fell asleep cause i really dunno what to pray lah. aiya.then tues, wed and thurs i had cca reached home at like 7:30, by the time i ate my dinner, bathed and finished my work it was like 9:30. then i studied for my test till like 10:20 and my father came in to scold me and make me sleep so i couldn't spend the time with God. ):
In the word it says Honour your parents right? lol. okay lah i know that's just an excuse, but I find it really hard to spend that time with God leh. but really God told me smth that I really heard so clearly and has since con firmed God's amazing love for me. When I fell asleep that day I really felt so bad so I prayed and asked God for forgiveness and this strange thing just came into my mind, I think it's Jesus. heh :D He told me that it's okay and He loves me so much that when I was sleeping, He was watching me sleep and He takes joy in something even as small as that. I was really touced cause I know sometimes when people sleep they look so innocent and you feel like you love them so much and you could just sit there and watch them sleep so when I heard God tell me that I felt all fuzzy haha. cause i really felt so loved.
and this whole wk whenever i was walking from the track back to my class after assembly and I wasn't talking to my friends, i really felt (like ps khong said "He walks with me, and He talks with me and He tells me I am His own) like God was beside me and holding my hand and I was like tou xiao-ing to myself haha. anyway. I got into cheer! haha. and that's one thing I really thanked the Lord for! but now, with cheer, schoolwork, so many tests, cca and our funfair coming up, I'm sooo busy. i've been praying for a few things this wk and it's mostly, that I won't be a reserve for cheer, and that i'll be able to do well for my tests. I trust that God will help me cause He loves me and He wants the best for me. He has already shown it to me when I got 16/20 for my e math test and quite good for my eng compre test! thank you Lord! sooo yeah.
i gtg study and do work now, see you all soon! LOVES. hey my heart screwed it up too. why ah? anyway. LOve, Vanessssss-AH!

Friday, February 22, 2008♥ 6:41 PM

hello sweeties!

( ahhh the heart just screwed up the blogger!! )):

ok i feel like blogging though it izin my turn!
so i shall just blog! :D

its just barely a week since the 40 days fasting/no tv no games/ 1 hour daily with God thingy. and im already struggling. its hard, ITS REALLY HARD. and really, 1 hour a day is ALOT of time. and on monday,(the first day) i was like really really tired, and i really didnt feel like spending that 1 hour with God, honestly i wanted to just go and sleep. then i was thinking 'ok i today just do 1/2 hour then i slowly increase'. but then, i felt really bad, cos after all i had stood up and promised God. yea so in the end, i decided that fine i just do for 1 hour lah. ok then i pray for like 20 min, i had nothing to pray about anymore. and so i lie on my bed and close my eyes and ask God to tell me wat he wants to tell me if there is anything lah. and pray in tongues for like 2 min. and after that i just laid there and after a while, naturally i fell asleep!! :X and when i woke up, btw, my mum came into my room, thats how i woke up. and BOOM the 1 hour was over, and so i just went to bed. but then, i guessed God really told me what he wanted to tell me. that is :
the real challenge is not just spending 1 hour with Him, the real challenge is when u are really really busy, and u still choose to spend that 1 hour with Him, and put Him first, more important then all ur other stuff.

YEA.

but still, i find it really really hard, theres really nothing much to do in that 1 hour. the most i can pray is just like for 1/2 hour, and there was this one day i spent the other hour learning the choir songs, so thats considered praising him right? :D YAY.

and the fasting thingy is also really hard. like FOOD is really very impt to me, when im hungry, i eat, when im not hungry, i eat, when i have nothing better to do, i eat. when i see other eat, i eat. so, really fasting is soooo hard for me. and my friends find it really really weird why im not eating, cos im practically always eating. and i dont spend recess with them, which is really SAD ): and they ask, 'why are u always fasting? fast for wad?' and honestly i dunno how to answer them. :/

and and the tv thingy. i accidentally watched tv! and i dint even realised. i was like just looking at the tv, and i totally forgot, and them i suddenly remembered, and i quickly look away. on the bus also, its just such a habitual thing to look at the tv. DD:

OK. enough of my ranting :/
since i promised God, i will keep my word, and i believe that GOd will help me through it! and HE will help u all through it too! :D

ok, gtg. my stomach's really really HUNGRY!

LOVE,
JOLINE.

Saturday, February 16, 2008♥ 9:20 PM

hi everyone, im here to fulfil my duty of blogging.
though my six sense tells me this blog is a little less than alive.
ok anyway, this week has been sort of a boring week. and my quiet time with God in the morn reading psalms did not really touch me that greatly this week yea. i have really no idea what to post, but i shall just post psalm 46.

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
therefore, we will not fear, though earth give way, and the mountains fall into the heart of sea,
though its waters roar and foam, and the mountains quake with their surging.
there is a river whose streams make glad the city of God. the holy place where the most high dwells.
God is within her, she will not fall, God will help her at the break of day.
nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall. he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
the Lord Almighty is with us, the God of Jacob is our fortress.
come and see the works of the Lord. the desolutions he has brought on the earth.
he makes wars cease to the ends of the earth, he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shield with fire.
Be still, and know that i am God. i will be exalted among the nations. i will be exalted in the earth.
the Lord almighty is with us, the God of Jacob is our fortress.

alright, i think this psalm speaks for itself yea.
God is always with us wherever we go, though we may not feel like he is always there, though we sometimes doubt his presence, but he is always watching over us and always with us! and HE is our refuge and strength, some one we can always depend on, and he will never ever fail us. so thankGod that you, and I have such an awesome God.

God loves us ALOT ALOT! :D

anyway, late happy valentine's day darlings! heart heart!

choir duty tmr!

-joline

Saturday, February 9, 2008♥ 11:28 PM

Hi everyone,

Happy Chinese New Year! =)

Here to share God has been speaking to me through the reading of the psalms...

2 things:

1) Through the reading of the psalms, it helps me to pray to God. The psalmists are often very honest with God and pour out their feelings and thoughts and troubles to God. I am learning to tell God what I think and feel and worry about as the psalmists do.

2)
Psalm 33:10 -11 really struck me when I read it.
Psalm 33:10 -11
10 The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.
I am struck by the truth that it is only God's plans and purposes stand firm forever and have eternal value. All my own purposes and plans that are not in line with God's purposes have only temporal value.
It causes me to think about my life: am I living my life with God's plans and purposes? What is God's plans and purposes?

Psalm 39:6 spoke to me as well.
Psalm 39:6
Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it.

Psalm 39:6 describes A LOT of people, even ourselves, very well. We spend so much of our time on our work and our studies forgetting God when all of the 'wealth' will be left behind when we pass away.

God has really asked me to examine my own life and my purposes through His Word.

For myself, this past year since I started work, I have been distracted and caught up by work and have lost some focus on God's kingdom and purposes. I want to focus on God's kingdom and purposes in my life.

Some of the purposes of God that He has reminded me of is: winning people to know God, praying for people and for God's purposes in my life, spending time with people I love (and God loves), worshipping God, building and blessing my family and spiritual family.

Prayer: Dear God, I don't want to live my life and build treasures on earth that are temporal. I want my life to fulfil your purposes for my life. I want my life to be a meaningful one. I don't want to live my life and regret it. Please show me more and more Your purposes for my life. Thank you God.

dawn

Saturday, February 2, 2008♥ 11:05 PM

hey dearies!! :D

i've changed the erm blogskin, cos i was getting a little bored the ugly old grey one. YUP.
i hope that u all dont mind, this will be quite a common scence, cos as u all prob know, joline changes skin really really often. YEA. so until we come up with a permanent skin, i'll do my little magic! :D

anyway, u all have been complaining that the font is hard to read and stuff, i personally think that this one is even worse yea, so u all can change the template anyway u all want to i think. yep i shall try to edit it afterwards. ok so today reunion dinner was FUN :D

yep, see u all lovelies tmr!! <33

-joline

♥ 11:15 AM
Psalm 33

january's done a disappearing act a little too soon cos i'm not sure i want to leave 2007 behind so quickly! my slow brain has a some trouble digesting what just happened in between the transition from cresecent to nj...

anyway. i just popped in here (tuition at 2!!) to share a little of No. 33 cos i think it's really good!

16 No king is saved by the size of his
army;
no warrior by his great strength.
17 A horse is a vain hope for deliverance,
despite all its great strength it cannot save.
18 But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him,
on those whose hope is in His
unfailing love,
19 to deliver them from death
and keep them alive in famine.

of course nowadays 21st century cool, sophisticated schoolgirls and lawyers and civil service workers like ourselves don't really depend on armies and strength in the literal sense, but in those days these things were the crowning glories of kings and warriors, things that made them great and powerful awe-inducing.

what are our crowning glories, then?—our friends, our savings, qualifications, talent, skill, ability, eloquence, our image and whatever else you can think of to add.
Are our securities, confidence and hope based on these? of course these things are very good and i'm sure all of us have at least two or more of the above mentioned x), but these things can neither deliver nor save.

finally, a solution. (rather much the same solution to almost everything else, but it is a good reminder nevertheless.) The eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His everlasting love. If God's eyes are upon us then we can certainly trust Him to deliver us from the JAWS OF DEATH (in our cases nasty teachers, nasty bosses, nasty office politics, nasty things)!

and then we have no need for the strength of warriors or the armies of kings from long ago to outwit, outlast, outplay! go survivors! ha ha.

so just a little of Psalm 33 to think about.

Love you guys, and see you all later!


<^)))>< Julienne