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david hoe.
NorthC.
catholic junior college.
(more to come. haha.)

The truth is, i'm extrememly lazy to type out a post for now. The resounding voice of my bed, has been reverberating around the four corners of my brain! lol.

Anyway, i just had my personal best record in running. I ran 17km today. From my house to tangs, then back home! This time round, God taught me something different. Or will i put it, a lesson of reminder. We started this race in faith, we will continue in faith and end off in faith. The rational for this lesson began, when one of my friend, darly commented that many people detest running because it requires a great level of determination. Obviously, i won't disagree to it. Running long distance is not whether you are a born runner, rather, mind over body. So i decided to push myself a little further, and test out the theory of determination. Frankly speaking, i wanted to compromise along the way but i held on to my end pt, tangs. So i kept pushing on. If you realized, having a goal is very important, just like what is mention in the bible, all runners run with a goal. Apparently, that was not the pt. You see, this whole determination thing, begins in the mind and continue with the mind and it resulted into persistence spirit. Likewise, in our spiritual life, we feed on the word of God that build up our faith, and the word of God firstly soaked the mind, then it flows down to the heart. If you haven't realized, in times of our sturggles, it's the word that strengthens us may it be through people or some stuff. The word resides in our mind, which therefore builds up faith. To last in this race, the determination comes from God's word.Therefore, to continue this race, we so need the word that will build our faith. :)

alright, that was for learning! anyway, EXAMS 'KIND OF' ended today, though i have another paper the following tuesday! whee! time to enjoy life and ministry even more! lol. Anyway, i was out with few of my classmates today and we went to island creamy and then queensway and IKEA. lol. It was a memorable fostering our relationship! WHA, thanks to darly, who sent me so many new songs that ran with me. I enjoy their presences. I pray that you will save them too.

hoe!

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just a few minutes ago, i was merrily reading the word of God with great sense of anticipation that the Lord will speak to me. As i was reading 2kings18, two passages within it caught me spellbound.

5 Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. 6 He held fast to the LORD and did not cease to follow him; he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses. 7 And the LORD was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. 8 From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.

19 The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah: " 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? 20 You say you have strategy and military strength—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 21 Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 22 And if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"-isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem"?

On what are you basing this confidence of yours?

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just a few minutes ago, i was merrily reading the word of God with great sense of anticipation that the Lord will speak to me. As i was reading 2kings18, two passages within it caught me spellbound.

5 Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. 6 He held fast to the LORD and did not cease to follow him; he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses. 7 And the LORD was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. 8 From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.

19 The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah: " 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? 20 You say you have strategy and military strength—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 21 Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 22 And if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"-isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem"?

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a close encounter to death

firstly, i'm truly glad and elated to be back in my homeland, Singapore.
Roads that i have once passed by have never felt that close and alive to my heart, while i was on the cab with Joseph and Dominic. :)
Though it was a mere three days two nights expedition, i had many memories. :)
Encounters with death, attacked by the sand flies and mosquitoes and not forgetting the nostalgia pungent smell that hovers around every odacer body.
Before this expedition, i was at the refreshing spiritual retreat at Singapore Sports School. :) I was renewed about my purpose in youth ministry and at the same time encouraged by Pastor life story and God's working in north c during this enitre camp. :) Indeed, i truly enjoyed it though one of my obejective was not truly met. To reconcile certain relationships. :) I met the other two objectives, God's heart beat for the entire world and foster relationships with my unit. Indeed, i'm awed and marvelled by God's power in North C lives. :)
Alright, back to the topic on expedition. I went to expedition with two simple objectives. God's voice and sowing. :) Both were met.
While we were doing our caving, i was bottled with much anticipation within me, initially. After about 20 minutes, the antcipation was dampened but the same sight that appeared before my naked eyes. Limestone caves are exactly the SAME. NO DIFF. lol, but i was dumbfounded by the creation of God. Magnificent. There was a portion of the whole trip where we have to go on our fours to get through loop which was filled with water. :) haha. The cave was a complete darkeness, and we were walking aimlessly. We kept following the guide to nowhere, and true indeed we ended up at some spot where we finally saw the beam of light, and we took a photo there and then. However, we took a detour back into the dark to finally explore the cave. The entire aimless walking took about hours. Tired, restless and hungry were ther best adjectives to describe us. As i was walking through the dark, then the lord spoke.
The worst thing that a leader can do to his people is to lead the people aimlessly. The people have to know the the directions where have been steered. AH YAH, the point is, people need to have a goal, a direction and a vision. As leaders, it's our role to do that. :)
Next up, my close encounter to death. White water rafting. After caving, we had lunch then we head for rafting. Any logical DHTC, will be filled with much excitment. I was appointed as the leader of my raft, which means i will recieve countless splashes of water and fall off and hit the big boulders. Ture enough, i was flinked off the raft for at least four times. The first flink was horrendously bad enough can. We fell off the rapids from our back, then my back and head hitted the surface of a big huge boulder. Obviously, we all got flinked off. Surely, it hurts. After awhile, we continued the ride. Then i do not know why it was only me out of the entire the whole raft, that i have to bang against the huge rocks and flew off the raft. The second and third flink was not that tormenting. But the fourth will be an incident that i will never forget in my life, till the i rest beneath the earth. I flinked, after hitting a boulder that came as a surprise, but projectile motion took my horizontal displacment to a great extend from my raft, and with the strong torrent currents and boulders i got hitted on which ever side of my body that it met. I drifted further and further from my raft, and at then the thought of death caught up with me. It will be either i will be hitted by those rocks till i die, or simply swept away by those currents. It was at that moment, where God reminded me who precious life is. We will never know when will it end, so we have to keep going out to share his love to others. Life is just too short, and unpredictable. ")
Overall, i enjoyed the expedition though i had 34 bites on my hand excluding my legs and with some bites on my eyes. :) yup. it's recovering. :) hehe.
anyway, it's time to plan shpding nw. haha. exams are coming, and the truth is i have not completed studying everything. :) God, help me. The itch and all. lol

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i caught pirates with yk and mel today.
we had the whole of first row to oursleves.
Initially, we sat on the floor and so on therefore.
Not a show that i will recommend people to watch, unless ya have ample amount of aimless time. Alternatively, you could catch something more worthwhile.

Anyway, i enjoyed care group today.
Am truly glad to see all the AI new believers. :)
unit tee on the way. :)

dare to imagine. :)

hoe

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I just came home from a long run, which was approximately about 12km. :)
good job! i had the intention to do that for this morning, but my determination was not strong enough to pull me out of my luxurious bed. Intentionally, i laid down my bed and got changed into my running shoes when i reached home. I started my run at around 12.01am. Yup. In every long distance run, i learnt something new from the lord. While running, God taught me an interesting lesson which diverts from all the other lessons that i usually learnt. If you are curious to figure out why I was remined of this, ask me personally. I looked through the array of verses and those beautiful words paint to me his convictions. Guys, make this you prayer man. :)

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