Rach is freely surging with the waves...
SEARCHSERVESOAR Read how God has renewed my life & touched me... @ ignite4him.blogspot.com Rejoicing over my breakthrough.

Rach is freely surging with the waves...
SEARCHSERVESOAR Let Go & Get a Grip On God. I'll shout an anthem of love. Higher in Him. BACK AT... ignite4him.blogspot.com

Rach is freely surging with the waves...
SEARCHSERVESOAR Let Go & Get a Grip On God. I'll shout an anthem of love. Higher in Him. BACK AT... ignite4him.blogspot.com

The Glorious day is here!!!

HURRAY! HALLELUJAH!! THE GLORIOUS DAY OF REJOICING IS HERE!!!

I've been redeemed! I've been set free! I've surrendered it all! I've returned!! The rain has stopped! I'm no longer alone! I'm home, back to my beloved's side! I'm back to my Father's arms, for good! I HAVE OVERCOMED!!!!

yeah!

back from Ignyte SURGE camp! God has spoken. God has redeemed me. I've FINALLY let go and get a grip on God. The chains have been broken. I've stopped struggling. I've stopped trying by myself. I'm letting God take over. I've been pulled out of the quicksand that used to threatened to eat me up whole. I'm filled with joy. I'm filled with blessed assurance. I'm filled with a renewed passsion, commitment, and determination to get out of the old ways, and be faithful to the Lord, my God, and to persevere even through challenges or mundanity, never letting go.

Today is the day that the Lord has made, and I will rejoice and be glad in it! God has never gave me up. God was always waiting for me. God has long forgiven me, even before i came back to Him.

Today is the day
I'm casting my cares aside
I'm leaving my past behind
I'm setting my heart and mind on You
Jesus

I'm reaching my hand to Yours
Believing there's so much more
Knowing that all You have in store for me is good
Is good

Today is the day You have made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
Today is the day You have made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
And I won't worry about tomorrow
I'm trusting in what You say
Today is the day.
Today is the day.

I'm putting my fears aside
I'm leaving my doubts behind
I'm giving my hopes and dreams to You
Jesus

I'm reaching my hand to Yours
Believing there's so much more
Knowing that all You have in store for me is good
Is good

Today is the day You have made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
Today is the day You have made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
And I won't worry about tomorrow
I'm trusting in what You say
Today is the day.
Today is the day.

I will stand upon Your truth.
(I will stand upon Your truth)
And all my days I'll live for You
(And all my days I'll live for You)

Today is the day You have made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
Today is the day You have made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
And I won't worry about tomorroww
I'm giving you my fears and sorrows
Where you lead me I will follow
I'm trusting in what you say
Today is the day
Today is the day


There stood a child, weighed down by the numerous heavy chains on her back, all around her, so heavy that she is struggling under them. She could hardly move, under all those weight. She's so tired, so exhausted, but she can't break free. Then came the sword. Her Father used His powerful sword and were slashing at the chains on her. Chains broke, one after the other. The chain of sorrow, the chain of guilt, the chain of shame, the chain of fear, the chain of doubt, the chain of the devil's lies, the chain of despair, the chains of various sins, the chain of loneliness, the chain of uselessness, the chain of 'nobody', and more... The chains were all broken. But she stood there, still hunched, still bend low, for the weight of the chains have been there for so long that she simply had no strength to stand up straight and face her Father. But the Father loved her too much to just leave her there. He bend down, took her in His arms and carried her. In His embrace, she was strengthened. She was set free! She is now back into her Father's arms of love.

RACHEL HAS RETURNED TO HER PREVIOUS BLOG!!!
SHE IS NO LONGER GONNA BE HERE ANYMORE BECOZ SHE IS NO LONGER ALONE IN THE RAIN!!!
SHE'S BACK TO HER BELOVED'S EMBRACE AND PRESENCE, PERMANENTLY!!!

FIND HER AT... http://ignite4him.blogspot.com/

My morning devotion, Our Daily Bread...

"The word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith." ~Hebrews 4:2 ~

"Sometimes life can seem like an arid desert. But God can quench our spiritual thirst in the most unlikely circumstances. When by faith we believe the promises of God's Word, we can experience rivers of living water and grace for our daily needs."

Drink deep of God's goodness, His faithfulness too,
Leave no room for doubting and fear;
His Word is the water of life pure and true,
Refreshing and cooling and clear.
--Hess--

Rach is finally been set free, and she's surging with the waves... SEARCH SERVE SOAR Let Go and Get a Grip On God!! I'm gonna shout an anthem of love. Higher in Him.


will update soon...

rach is surging at Ignyte camp!!!
will be back from camp on wed, 17thdec. cya.

Only God could create the cosmos out of nothing

"There can't be a God!" the learned fool scoffed
As he studied the bees at their business aloof
And gazed at the spider suspending its lace
And pondered the planets unchained yet in place."
--TLG--

Nostalgic regrets

i regret. i love those memories, those sweet memories. but they bring about regret. why? becoz i realised i'm not a good friend keeper. it hurts.

i regret.

i regret not taking the initiative to keep in touch with my primary school friends, especially with Jin Wen and Yan Khee. I regret losing touch with Zhimin and Xiaotian. i regret not holding tighter to my friendships with jos, cy, and janelle, missing the good old times we had. i regret not staying in closer touch with my teacher-friends. i regret not keeping close ties to PHS. i regret not coming for GB more often this year. i regret not keeping in touch with adam side folks, losing my very close friendships with cass and rina. i regret not keeping contact with kristen, and totally losing her. i regret not learning to treasure and appreciate my cell during my lower sec years in passion! min. i regret spoiling my image and 'reputation' this year. i regret being so caught up with myself, with my own 'problems' (which compared to others aint so big) that i've neglected friends. i regret not being a better SP and support and encouragement to my buzz group leader, sis pauline, and fellow SP, andrew, being as little involved as possible, last year. i regret taking a break from SOF, leaving asaph alone there to struggle by himself and with the younger ones, leaving him the responsibility of the team leader and not offering help. i regret that that decision of mine led to a drifting of friendship between me and asaph. i regret not being a better friend and help to andrew last year, especially since we've been in the same cell/section since sec 1, letting him do most of the facilitation of the buzz group, otherwise maybe we would have become better friends, and i wont have that awkward feeling i keep getting everytime we meet. i regret not spending more time with my brother, leaving him now to be addictively rotting in the cyber world. i regret being so self-centered in carrying out my own life that i did not spend time chatting with my brother nor playing with him, especially during that period when he kept asking me, just before he got into his addiction. i regret losing contact with my fun and nice 'gor', my one and only 'gor' i ever had thus far, till now we totally dun communicate at all. i regret losing a friend in samuel when he became an adult leader, letting that status get in our friendship, and like all other friendship, not holding on. i even more regret losing my cousin michelle when she became an adult leader, and the promises we made to each other when we were young that we will be best friends forever are no longer kept, and now i feel there's a big drift between us. i also regret losing the close friendships with my other cousins, joel and amos, as we grew into our teenage years. i also regret not grabbing opportunities to try new things, to get new experiences. i regret not being a better friend to the new friends i make this year. i regret not being a better support as an SP this year to my just-appointed-this-yr cell leader chloe, and the other supporting SP shermaine, especially as we all transited into Z2 leaving our old buzz group and meeting new people. i regret abandoning andrew last year, and chloe, shermaine, asaph this year. i regret being a tough nut (kinda) for my adult leader, not being there to support, letting myself be lost and out, and not sharing.

well, that's all the nostalgic regrets i can think of for now.

but i'm thankful for certain things though.

i'm thankful that my pri sch friend louann took the initiative to keep that group of us in touch, so still quite on okay, comfortable zone with her, jolene, kaili, szehan. i'm thankful that my upper sec group also still quite closed, despite my twinnie being in a different JC, and the rest of us in different classes in NY; that mich, lin,yt,wl we still hang about and still comfortable with each other. i'm thankful for my sis whom we share and chat with, whom i received a lot of encouragement and support from, who has been a great listening ear to me, although i guility feel that i'm not that good a listening ear to her though. xp sorry gal.

okay, that marks the end of nostalgic regrets for now. and i'm feeling better now. haha. dun worry. i'm NOT leaving this post with negative feelings.

instead, i feel great finally, honestly, openly getting it off my heart. and now i'm gonna happily get busy making gifts for people, so i wont have another regret of not fulfilling one of my life's goal, to bless others/be a blessing to others, and bring joy to their lives. =D oh, and to encourage them to. :)

THE END! (time to get to work~! and be a willing and happy factory worker)

sKyLiGhT

phew. last night's skylight party was tiring for me. not physically, like the skilight comm, but emotionally. Going about making new friends, meeting lotsa new people, talking with strangers... well, not really my thing. But yet, i could not just sit there and not go talk with the new frens, esp if they're by themselves, esp if those who brought them are the busy busy comm pple.

Guess that's why God has prepared me to step out of my comfort zone during this kinda situation. Now i understand the 'training' i got by Him putting church frens starting with Bro. Terence and Jean in sec 1 to break me out of my ice, and also through SOF, to teach me how to open up and talk to new people.

Still, i prefer a small group of close friends. That's my more comfortable zone. :D and it usually seems to come better in groups of 4-5, which is the group size i usually hang out in. Be it my pri school group, various sec sch group, or jc group like the night out at the playground.hahah.

anyways, ytd one of the new frens brought back much memories, and regrets. He reminded me a lot of a gor i once had, but was only a short time, and after that, we never talked to each other anymore, just cut off like that. and somehow that guy, even how he behaved, had some similiarities with that once-upon-a-time gor i had. the one and only gor i had. nostalgic regrets. they get at me at times, like just on tuesday, i had them when i passed by my 3rd home, when i took the bus back, just as i have done for four familiar yet quickly passed years of my life. nostalgic regrets. they do get at me at times. and maybe, it's time i throw them out here. maybe it'll help me...

rach loves making gifts for others...
http://giftsfr-theheart.blogspot.com drum is soooo fun!!! hahaha. luv my drum.

Absolutely Nobody

"There's a downside to insisting that we are "nobody" if it is to avoid doing what God commands (Exodus 4:1-17). We may treat ourselves and others as having no worth. But remember, God doesn't make nobodies. If we surrender to God, we can do anything God wants us to do - in His strength. Without Christ, we can do nothing. With Him we can do everything He wants us to do."
--Our Daily Bread--

rach enjoys her drum and thinks maybe blogging it out was good...
to watch korean dramas or not to watch. to think or not to think.

okay, upon demands and request, there's a voice corner for those whose voice wants to be heard here.