What do you do when things dun go ur way and u can't do anything about it?

Wow time really flew pass this week, it's like i just watched F1 yesterday and before you know it it's Friday again. I think this week go by faster cos there's a public holiday. I like to blog on Friday it's like i can take sometime to think about the days that has passed and have the weekend to look forward to. This week is even better cos got a free day on Wed. I was thinking if every week our work or school or just simplr our lives can be interjected with a day off. It will be quite awesome man, can sleep later the nite before and wake up late. Then just go do watever u wanna do! Then work another 2 days and it's weekend again! Shiok! Haha alrite enuff of daydreaming...

Well i haven have much time to post lately but oso because i was lazy to post. Haha guess it happens... Anyway everytime i wanna post something my brain goes blank, it's not like the writer's block kinda blank but a dunno where to start kinda blank. I guess it's cos haven post for long time so got a lot of things wanna say but dunno where to and how to say it.

So i'm gonna share wat's on mind, well Lucien (Lubin's brother) has been studying the bible and is progressing quite well and i'm looking forward to it! it's definitely been encouraging studying the bible with him, helps refresh my faith and convictions. Oso help me revise how to study bible wif people. Haha super rusty... But it has also helped me in many other areas as well. Like last sunday when we watched Passion of Christ together, my heart haven be soften for a long time and it was a good reminder. I cried a bucket load and i am proud of it. I dun think i can watch the Passion wifou t crying.... Anyway the most important i learned thru the bible study is about God's forgiveness! The one thing tat can heal the world and wat we all need.

So all said and done please go find someone u can study the bible with, better still come to the teens we'll find someone u can study the bible with! Jokes aside i really think this is the best way for us to remember wat it is like to be a Christian, a Christ imitator. To God be the Glory!

I guess we know the importance of our QT, to be close to God, to help our lives and etc... I think the importance of God's word is not just for us to our QT. It's like why we study, so that we can use it for our work next time. So that we have a skill in life.

In order to do God's work we need to read God's words it's as simple as that. They go hand in hand, you can't say that you are doing God's work when it contradicts the bible. Similarly you can't do God's work if you don't know what He wants you to do. At the end of the day we all belongs to God and we need to do what God wants us to do. We are God's fellow workers how can we not do our parts?

1 Corinthians 3: 5-16,

5What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.

16Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

18Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness"[a]; 20and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."[b] 21So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, 22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas[c] or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.

We all belong to God, so we need to do what God wants us to do. Have you done your QT? Are you prepared to do God's work today? Remember in the book of James it says faith without works is dead! Work without God's word is meaningless! So the meaning and importance of our works lies in our QT. So lets be eager about our QT so that we can go out there to reach out to people. We're God's field, God's building.

Love
David

Well i started out this week terribly, you see what happen was i went and collected some of the band member's tailored shirt last Saturday. So i brought along the shirts on Sunday cos i wanna pass it to them. But i left it on the bus! i wasn't even sure at first if i had even brought it outta house so i just went a long with the day hoping that it might be at home... Guess what? Haha it wasn't so i called up the bus interchange and the Train Stations asking if they have seen a bag full of clothes... They say they didn't find anything... I was quite discourage about it cos i have to replace the shirts which will cost me about $200...

I thought, what in the world! I help them to collect the shirts and now i lost it! I shouldn't be a smart alec shouldn't be so kaypoh... I was angry at myself for being careless but i wanna find someone to blame so I blamed God... I remember feeling like i was just trying to help yet i made it worst, God why did you let it happen? Why did you not remind me when i was getting down the bus?

After sulking to God for awhile,(it's already tuesday) i thought bo pian i lost the shirts i need to replace it. Blaming God wouldn't solve the problem so i called up the tailor to tell him to re make the shirts. Then he told me the good news, the bus company called him up and told him that they found the shirts cos his contact was printed on the bag. I was so relief! So i got back the shirts and passed it to the band members...

Now as i thought more about it i realise God of coz didnt let me down but He still blessed me even though i blamed him. Thanks to the kind soul who found the shirts and decided that he or she doesn't really like it. Thank God for the honest tailor, he could have not tell me that they found the shirts and make another $200 off me. I guess this is my highlight of the week... This week haven really ended yet so i hope it can only get better!!!

I think patience is something i will always struggle with, for me a good day is when everything is on schedule and there is no need to rush. I am a control freak i guess, i hate waiting and spending time doing nothing... I dun like people waiting for me but i hate waiting for people. I wish i can take a step back and enjoy the free time that have just sprout up. I would ask myself why am i rushing and then i realise because i dunno wat to do with the free time... Especially when i' tired, and i start to think the faster i finish this the faster i can rest. I guess i just need to slow things down and breathe slower. There are too many 'I' in this entry, think i'm gonna go pray help me to calm down and think of God's timing and not mine.

I just took a few days holiday to Malaysia these passed few days. It was a wonderful time many good food and fun! A great time to go away from Singapore, running away from reality for awhile... Haha not that i have a very tough life...

Anyways well i was thinking what kinda troubles have i been running away from?
Work? Well work has been quite busy lately but still manageable.
Ministry? Erm... I guess every ministry has it's challenges but i think my small group could do better... HAHA! (Get Ready!!!)
What else can there be? Life as a single is so much more simpler... (Being a teen worker helps to complicates things alittle :p)
I have to think real hard for this but i cant seem to come up with the answer maybe it's just running away from life's mundane cycle. But i thought if life is not mundane or 'normal' then i will have a crisis everyday! Maybe it's not so bad after all...
Come to think of it the past few weeks have been a roller coaster ride, more downs than up though... I guess there are some reasons for me to take time off after all.
Even today after coming back from the trip i have to worry about the tonnes of housework i gotta do since i was away for a few days... Of course the laundry as well, guess it can wait until tomorrow when i come home from church after leaders meeting....
What am i still doing here blogging? PROCRASTINATING of coz!!!
Hiaz back to life....

I am doing my QT on ACTS as part of my revision for Passage to Patmos.

In Acts 7:1-53

It's quite a long passage that share briefly about the histories of the Israel from Abraham to about Moses time where they eventually inherited the land, in the latter part of the passage this was what Stephen told the Pharisees just before he was stoned.

Acts 7: 51-53

51"You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! 52Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him— 53you who have received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it."

It definitely takes alot of courage to say that and i respect Stephen for that, the heart to please God more than Man. And you know that Stephen said these not because he is self-righteous or hated the Pharisees but he said it just before they stoned him even just before he died he prayed 'Father please forgive them for they don't know what they 're doing'. He loved his enemy more than himself, someone who wants to murder him and stone him!!!

I must admit i don't have this kinda love, i'm struggling to just be loving every single day. There are more angry thoughts and complains than thoughts of sacrifice and love. I really wanna do something about this, to be more positive and loving. To think more about God than my complains! So my motto is complain less!!! please keep me accountable thanks.
Have a great day!

Well it's been kinda a busy month for me. I'm not complaining i'm just saying i'm busy. Well i like an eventful month but i guess not everything is fun this month. I shall not bore you with the details but those who know me know how hard i work, i hope i dun sound boastful. sorry if i do.

Anyway this is not what i want to talk about, what i want to talk about is the that i felt like i was struggling. So i decide to ask God to help me out a bit. Well so i look through the bible and i think this passage helps me the most. Luke 11:9-12

So maybe u need something from God go ahead ask it don't feel guilty, but have faith and have patience. That is what i learn at least. Too many times i wanted immediate results and of cos i was disappointed many a times.

I guess we will never always have things our ways.
Have a good day :-)