Dark or Light?

Wow.. I'm in church now and I'm going to play soccer with pastor how and some of the staff later. It's going to be a great time with pastor and the staff. 

A time where the dynamics of the dream team increases in teamwork, bonding, etc. Woohoo.

Anyway, Man U Vs Barcelona match is tonight! I pray that Man U will win. Amen!

The past few days, many people have been saying that I'm not as dark as I am, etc. They really meant it. They said that I need to go for some tanning, etc. Maybe I should have a Sentosa Outing with my Cg after their exams.

My conclusion why they said that I'm not as dark as I am.

Indian Dance

Wei jie and Me (feeling the joy after a breakthrough in life)

Yes..It's us dancing!!

Light. I'm the light of the world.

My Journey In CHRIST - Part 2

So, that's me when I was young if you read Part 1. Cheers.

Look at the cheeky smile on my face 8 years ago. What does it tell you? muahahaha.

I was a very naughty, playful and mischievous person.

I'm not ashamed to share what I'm going to share with you in this post but I think you will be shocked to believe.

ALL these were when I'm still not a Christian...

1) When I was Primary 6, I remembered that I hated one of a classmate. I really doesn't like him. It was just the feeling that we can't relate to each other. During the last few days of school, I actually plotted a plan to push him down the stairs. It was a success and within hours, I was brought to the principal's office and I received one stroke of the cane on my butt.

2) Being the naughty Jian Ming, I will always finds troubles in school. In chinese lesson, before I can even sit on my chairs, I will be called to sit outside the classroom. Every spelling test, I will sure get 100%. Why? Copy. There was once where it was so bad that my chinese teacher cried half way during lesson as she doesn't know how to control me.

3) I will always sabotage one classmate of mine in class. I did many things to her.. I will make sure I throw her pencil case around during recess, hide her bag, make her bag dirty, hide her chair or put her table and chair in another class. The objective is to embarrass her in front of everyone. You can't blame me for all these. She was a very proud girl when she's a primary school student. Must teach her some lesson.

Anyway, everyone of you know her. She's Samantha Foo. Yes..we were primary school classmate. Believe it or not? So ironic, we are both now CGLs of B Zone, building the kingdom of God. Truly God has His plans for us.

4) I saw the DNT Table. I think this is famous to all of you!

5) I fought with one of my schoolmate when I was Sec 1. he used a metal chain and whack me. So I started beating him up. We got one stroke of the cane on our butt.

6) After school, I took out my water bottle and wet the whole windows of my classroom. I was caught red-handed. I told the teacher that the classroom was on fire. 

7) there's more, but i don't think i got the time to list down everything. I can sit down and share with you all the nonsense. There's the Ezlink joke, You you you you you joke, etc. haha. Sit me down and I share more with you about my past.

So that's a little about me in the past. 

Shocked? But it shows that God is real and I had changed. 

Stay tuned for My Journey in CHRIST Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, ... , etc.

You make my day!

I just can't wait to share my happiness with everyone of you! (I haven't ended my week but I must tell you that I had a fruitful and productive week)

It's when you received sms like the following that will make your day!

“Hey Jian Ming, yesterday after follow up, when I left church. I just felt something different. I feel joy and I’m very happy. I can feel the change in my life before I came to church and now that I’m in church. Thank you.”

“Hey Jian Ming! The worship session just now was really cool! Haha. Is there any day you are free so that we can have follow up?” 

“Hey Jian Ming, thank you for persuading me to attend the talk for the preview! It was really helpful and I have placed a seating at pgsm J Thank you!”

It's not me but God. Woo hoo.. I'm excited about my life. 

If you are reading this, learn something.

Obedience is greater than willingness.

You can be willing but not obey. You cannot obey and not be willing.

You need to be willing and just obey.

Let me sow this in your heart, Obedience is greater than willingness. Catch it.

They obeyed, that's why they are experiencing the breakthroughs in their lives.

Let today be the day, choose to obey today. Obey God, obey pastors, obey your leaders...

Anyway, it has been nearly a week of blogging for me. I noticed something. Everyone has a different way of blogging. This is my style. HAHA.

Oh.. I must blog about this too. Jazreel, Sili and Kenn. From the expressions and sharing that you shared, I felt your loyalty. The loyalty that you have towards F3 shows me the loyalty that you have to God, HOGC, Pastors, Leaders and your zone. 

You are going to be history makers and world shakers. Keep growing and not give up, God will move when the time comes.

My Journey in CHRIST - Part 2 is coming up... Stay tuned.

My Journey In CHRIST - Part 1

Hi Everyone! I thought that it will be good for me to blog about MY TESTIMONY. This is going to be a series of posts to show you guys the journey of my life. 

I will try my best to blog about every single incident and event that I can think of. I think I will forget to include some incidents and encounters. Nevertheless, be inspired. 

I remembered that I live a boring life! Everyday I will just be at home waiting for time to pass. Eat, study, play, sleep, eat, study, play, sleep, eat, study, play and sleep. These were the things that I did many years ago. 

Every afternoon, I would be found under my block playing catching with my neighbors and cycling. I had a maid then! 3pm was my Tea Time! (I love tea time!)

Tea Time! 3pm would be the time where my maid and I gathered with the rest of the maid and all the kids under the block to have a party. Pizzas, hotdogs, snacks, ice cream, etc. woo.. It was a feast. 

My weekends were "fruitful".

9am: Wake up and have breakfast. 

11am-1pm: Watch Chinese TV serial.

1pm-2pm: Lunch

2pm-4pm: Watch Chinese Movie on Channel 8

4pm-6pm: Sleep

6pm-7pm: Dinner

7pm-10pm: Watch TV

10pm-1030pm: Do homework

1030pm: Sleep.

This was my life before a Christian. (From Pri 1 to Pri 6, Year 1994-2000). 

But I must say that during this period of my life, God had already noticed me . My Aunt and her whole family and my grandmother got saved. When I was Primary 6, I actually went to their church for at least 3 Sundays School before. It was St James Church if I remembered correctly.

 

Jian Ming (Year 2000)

I'm the one in RED. This is when I was Pri 6 (Year 2000)

I'm the one in black and white T-shirt.

CGL of two CGs today? Head of Department for Usher Ministry? Leading 150 ushers? Leading 50 people in the CGs? Event Coordinator?

God is real today. Truly, God says in the bible:

26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” 

All these are possible today because of God, my pastors and leaders.

I'm enjoying every moment of my life now. 

I can do it, so can you!

Have Faith.

faith...Faith..FAITH..FAITH!!

RANDOM

This is CARPET! PeiWei's dog. I thought it's very cute. haha.

Zone F USHER ICs..the next generation. Future head usher?

Woo. I'm being random. 

Had a great week! I think there's lots of things for me to catch up with.

I'm running after You!

Photos!! the power of visualizing

Chief Ushers!

Good Night! (I'm Relieved)

Hi everyone, it's 2am now..did lots of things today. I came home after having a CG worship session with F3 and then followed by B1. Went for dinner with them and travelled home.

Just for everyone's information, I got my enlistment status. It will be on the 5th of June 2008!! haha. Don't panic. I am going to defer my army. haha. So most likely I will only go in army in Dec 08. Whew.. I still need to grow the kingdom of God for the time being. Going in on the 5th of June is crazy. Just after Red Rain Concert and Before School Seminar.. It's so unwise to go in during this period.

Whew..Whew and whew.. I still need to complete all the follow up, running of Zone F service, etc, etc, etc that I'm currently doing. 

whew...

In hokkien, they will say, "Heng ah!"

Good night,

Jian Ming 2.0

Breakthrough Stories

Follow up with Jun Zhou (F3):

Last Sunday, I had follow up with Jun Zhou and I did on the Lesson about Talking to God. After the follow up lesson, we have additional 10 minutes. So we decided to pray in tongues for 10 minutes and build our inner man. I started teaching him about praying specifically when we pray. So I asked him what do you want to pray for this 10 minutes. He started sharing that he wants to pray for his school (Hwa Chong) and see his classmates coming to church. We started praying in tongues for 10 minutes.

Pray, pray, pray and pray.

After 10 minutes, we ended the prayer and his phone rings. His classmate from Hwa Chong, called him up and ask where is he now? Jun Zhou said that he’s in church now. The friend then went on and asked what time is the service timing and he said that he wants to come. After the phone call, his friend quickly changed and rush down to church to meet Jun Zhou. All this happen 2 hours before the service starts. Praise God!

 

Pastor Lia! Here’s the good news that I want to share with you. You sowed a seed in my heart when I sit in your follow up lesson and learn from you, I could feel the different in the way I do follow up nowadays. More than the impartation of the skills, I think there’s an impartation of your anointing. Thank you pastor.

 

Regular (B1):

You must clap for this girl!

She has only been in church for less than 2 months. This weekend will be her 2^nd month in church. Being a new believer in God, there’s just the child like faith in her. No matter what happen, she will be around in church and come for every activity in church since she first step into HOGC, from services to prayer meeting and even connect group meeting, etc.

Because of this, her parents started to be a little upset with her. There was one night where she was traveling home and her mum threatens to beat her up, etc. She was very afraid and started praying to God. She prayed specifically to God. She prayed to God that when she reached home, everything will be alright and if her parents really beat her, she will not feel any pain.

When she reached home, her mum really beat her up. Arrh..Sec 3 already still like that. But the amazing thing that she shared is this, “Yes, my mum beat me but every stroke that she hit seem to be a miss. If not, I don’t even feel any pain at all. God is real and He answered my prayer.”

I’m proud of you! (:

Regular to be (B1):

He has been coming for services regularly for the last 6 weeks. Every week he comes, he will tell everyone that I will just come for service every week but I am not a Christian and I don’t want to be a Christian. Just last week, we talked to him and find out if he accepted Jesus in his life because he loves us, loves church and he worship God with us, etc. He said yes. During Easter weekend, he actually accepted God in his life. Just yesterday, we started our first follow up lesson and he’s a changed man. He is so much more open in his life.

More than that, we were playing basketball during one of the weekdays, someone accidentally hit him on the eyes and he was very angry. He scolded vulgarities. But you know what? He felt bad and sorry about it. After the match, he walked to me and shared that he tried to control but he can’t.

Haha. Guess what I told him? I told him, it’s ok! Yea. Habits take times to change. Furthermore, he’s sincere about it.

That's all for now! more to come..

THANK YOU!

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who celebrated my birthday and thank you to those who wish me a happy birthday.  Words cannot express my gratefulness to you. 

Arrrh.. I think I didn't have a chance to really thank everyone. I will take this opportunity to thank everyone over here.

Thanks to you, you, you, you, you, you, you AND YOU!!! Thank you! (I hope I didn't miss everyone!) 

Anyway, this year I felt very loved by everyone. B1 celebrated my birthday after CG Meeting last Thursday by giving me 20 presents in total and a video! You guys are amazing! All thanks to everyone in B1 who made it happened. Especially Xin Chi and Wei Ling! wow.. I will blog about you individually in my upcoming post.

Sili!! I love the photo album. you really love your leader! I'm really very touched when I received the gift from you. I really don't know what to say. Just want to assure you, your leader is always here for you as you are always here for your leader. Though many things are happening, I love you for who you are and I don't love you based on the performance of yours. Thank you!

F3!! Thank you for all your love and care for me. wow! leading you guys is the best birthday gift for me. I love you all!

Usher Ministry and all the Chief usher!! thank you for the surprise and the "security" that I felt after service (last weekend) with all the security crews ushering me to the back of the auditorium. I'm excited to bring usher ministry to Usher Ministry 2.0! We are a dream team in the Operations.  

What's my best birthday gift?

My best birthday gift is to be able to celebrate my birthday with Team CTSS. Clementi Town Sec School! I thank God that I got to celebrate my birthday with the newer people in B1 like Pei Wei, Lala, Jia Xian, Alicia, OCK, Kavin, Kelvin and many more. Not forgetting JOHN from Sembawang Sec School!

Another best birthday gift is to see BRENT last Sunday! It's really amazing to see you back. I am really happy to see you and I'm very touched. You have a place in HOGC. I can't wait to see you every week! I hope you will be reading this.

Revival! Thank you Lord.

Anyway, I love my birthday wish. How many of you can remember the past birthday wishes that you made every year? Honestly, I forgot every one of my wishes for the last 19th years but Year 2008 (my 20th birthday) wish is going to be in my heart forever. I kind of got this wish last Monday when I started to seek God when I was alone at home in the afternoon. I started to have the thought, "Hey, my birthday is coming! I need to make a wish. It's the most difficult thing to do when it's your birthday." So I decided to ask God for a wish. How cool is it? God started to show me about the spirit of Elisha in 2 kings 2. Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me." I was worshipping God with the song,  "I surrender all" and the presence of God is simply thick. So I decided, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me." How bold am I?

Immediately, I sms-ed pastor how and pastor lia and told them, "Pastors!! This is my birthday wish for Year 2008: Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me."

Pastors replied, "Double portion to you!"

As our church moves on to HOGC 2.0, I must also move on. It's a powerful birthday wish. Like I always tells myself, perhaps it's going to be Jian Ming 2.0! Thank you Lord.

I'm loving every moment of my walk with God now, 6 months ago, it was a real test for me to really grow. Everything that I touched seem to not breakthrough or grow but now, it's different. Everything that I touched, it seems to be turning into gold. I will always remember what pastor how shared with me. I think it's because of this, something hit me when I read it.

Pastor How's message:

If you are great, you never fail.

Still believing in you.

Just want to take this opportunity to encourage those who are having a struggle and longing for a breakthrough. Be inspired. Believing in you.

Before I end, I must say a BIG Thank you to God, my pastors and my leaders.

Jian Ming 2.0!

Prayer

Father,

I lift up this blog at Your hands. 

I pray that for every post that I blog, let it not be type out of my mind but let it be out of my spirit.

I pray for everyone who is going to read this blog, let your presence touch them. 

Touch them, lead them..

So Father, lead me, guide me and mould me. I glorified You.

In Jesus's name,

AMEN!