NS....tell this to your heart: that you will disallow yourself to stray from God...

dun even give yourself a thot that you may backslide



you may not be serving as much...but service does not equate to your devotion to God.



from the moment you step into the grounds of the navy...



that is where your ministry is.



your ministry is your testimony. your words of encouragement. the times your hold on to God in the darkness...and the times you shine His light into your mates..there. From then on...these will be your ministry....no longer music director of WAC....hahaha!



~Si'er

Close to Your Heart



Hearing your whispers

The lover of my soul

Seeking You Jesus

Your arms of love were never closed





So now i'm here

My only desire

To be



Close to your heart

Close to your heart

Close to your heart

Forever





Being here with you

What can i ask for more?

Your majestic presence

I know there's no other God

off to slp



the ulcers in my mouth are killing me



yes

i m complaining again



nitez

my lips are back in pink shade

but the ulcers are still there...



remind me

the next time i go overseas

to bring vitamin C and more tea

back from camp at port dickson

this is my first church camp at WAC and it's one of the best camps i have ever attended..

gee... it's really hard to pen down all the thots running thru my head at this moment..

okok... slowly..



i bunked with Denny... Disney could not make it so just me and him with an extra bed

i learnt quite abit just by observing the way he works

the way he unpacks and pack up at an amazing speed... his time of worship and devotion...

he's really a pretty disciplined person in my opinion... and a passionate person

yep... and he played flute for us for one of the worship sessions...

it was soooo beautiful...

pity we were too tired every time we meet in our room to worship together...

but still.. really blessed with the fellowship with this wonderful bro.. :)



the sessions were great...

the worship, the "hot tips" and the sermon

it's really different when you have a group of people who are really hungry for God and desires so badly for His presence in the midst

even with just a guitar and keyboard (plus once in a while either paul or denny would play the percussion instruments)



it's just plain simple yet dynamic worship



and it made me somehow wished that we didn't have drums in church



now i really understand what pastor mentioned to me some weeks back that how important it is for musicians to flow in the Spirit and be ready vessels for His annointing to flow thru to the congregation.

if the worship team don't worship, why does it exist?



ok enuff abt the worship...

activities were packed but fun..

went swimming on day 2 and ate durian

that was when my mouth area started to act up

first, ulcer, then sore throat

then till right now as i m typing this, i'm still recovering from sore throat, ulcer on tongue and lips and a very slight fever

feeling sore all over because i din warm up proper before gym...



day 3.. the scavenger hunt

din have telematch because of the haze

talent nite

it was fantastic man... our church is indeed blessed with many many many talents

from the children to the elderly...



day 4..

had the last session then communion

initially pastor wanted to just close with a prayer but we ended up praying for a very long time for different groups of people in the church...

auntie joyce asked the youth to come forward for prayer,

and i just started tearing for no apparent reason while ministering with the guitar...

paul came over and offered to take over the guitar and i went forward to pray

it was so real... the presence of God...

somehow someway God just open my eyes to things i may have overlooked..

after i was prayed for, i looked over to the guys sitting in one row and God just prompted me to move over to pray with them...

hesitated a little, then tina went forward and prayed for augustine

edward, timothy, jonathan, jethro all gathered around auggie and prayed...

all of us started tearing...

after praying for augustine, i gathered the guys and prayed on a whole for all the guys in YF...

this bunch of young guys are so precious... even though they may not have much older guys whom they can look up to.. but i m so thankful to God that He has blessed and kept them in the house of the Lord...

i was reminded of the verse Pastor shared

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land - 2 Chronicles 7:14



serious... i really believe.. when a group of people who are really hungry for God are gathered together, it's really a powerful thing...

there is power here for miracles, set the captives free, make the broken whole



gee... there's really too many thots to pen down at this moment...

shall stop here... anything else.. just ask anyone of us who attended camp... :)

yahoo mail has gone up to 100mb storage!!!



plus 10mb each msg...

superb huh!!!



i'm glad i'm a yahoo user all these years... =)

came across this beautiful song by hillsong worship series

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Faithful



You know my future like you knew my past

And Your word concerning me was made to last

Forever



And I know Your word is Your integrity

And that You'd do just what You said You would

You are faithful



Heaven and earth will pass away

But Your word will remain

Your word will remain faithful



Now all I have be stripped away

But to You I remain

To You I remain faithful



I know that Your love is forever strong

And I will sing about it all day long

Forever



I know that there is no one else like You

And no one else can do the things You would

You are faithful

a day at ubin



Arlene, Peixuan, Wanling, Augustine, Edward, Jun Hoong, Weiqiang and myself

the famous nasi lemak at changi

heavy downpour

decided to get 3 reels, some extra hooks and weights, plus a tupperware full of fat juicy worms

dash for the jetty

taking a breather outside the police post

heavy/ light drizzle

top-leaking bumboat

hiking in the drizzle instead of cycling

slightly drenched n took a photo under a small shelter outside the c.c.

a huge spider (which for some reason, the camera refuse to take a shot of it)

augustine tried to fish part 1 - at the beach

augustine tried to fish part 2 - at the swamp/river

junhoong emitting 'smoke' thru his whole body

edward's energy bars

wanling's new found friends (ok.. shall reveal it here - worms)

saw kids wearing the "home run" t shirt cycling in the rain, and somehow regretting a little why we din rent bikes at first :P

weiqiang and his funny noise when he tried to kick something and his slipper flew over a fence :D

back to the jetty and unpack our fishing gear

augustine tried to fish part 3 - at the jetty

weiqiang hooking all sorts of things out to sea as he threw his line out (including my pen knife which was used to cut the worms)

junhoong and wanling took a nap

i passed my reel to peixuan to let her try out

after some time, peixuan and arlene thot the line was stuck

then we thot we lost a potential bite

upon reeling up the line, to our surprise, we found a small fish!

took a plastic bag filled with sea water and transfered it in

more fishing for about half an hour more

530pm, we decided to call it a day

washed my hands with soap twice but couldnt get rid of the reddish glow of worm blood on my finger tips

took pictures of peixuan and her catch!

and then we released it back to the sea

took a better bum boat back to mainland

freshen up a little and took 29 back to tampines

slept on the bus

dinner at a food court outside tampines mall

majority of us went for handmade noodles, plus chilli!

something hot and soupy! :)

went to mac to have icecream

8 of us sitting at a table eating cones

edward and myself helped augustine brainstorm and finalise the games for church camp

took train back to the west

continued playing 4 player golf game on edward's ericsson phone

arlene off at clementi, junhoong and weiqiang boon lay, rest of us transfered at JE to cck



though it was raining

and at first i thot it would spoil the fun

plus arlene and myself would not get the tan we wanted

still

i really enjoyed myself tremendously

the fellowship and all :)



the photos of our trip to ubin

my phone bill gonna bust this month

or rather because of this week alone



other than organising the ubin trip via calls and smses (yes, i even hooked up my earpiece on tuesday nite while i was outside),

also smsed quite a number of my friends to come for the movie thing

but these are the common responses i get

- NSMen's friday out with g/f

- NSMen's friday out for chiong/ gathering

- NSmen, tired and want to slp

- Undergrads got holiday job. would be tired after that

- Not free (no reason given)

- Don't want to come church

- already have plans

- quite lazy, next time bah

- what movie is that? i've never heard of it



i smsed about 10 of em...

called a couple of them

it's just going around in circles...

but well... i hope the two who said "will confirm again" get back to me soon





shall



p r a y

good morning! =)



it's great to see the sun rise!

Praise God!