Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Hey guys, I wanna share with you one chapter that I have learn today from a book called Facing Your Giants. This consist of 2 parts... Very sorry if it is very long for u guys. But I really hope that you guys will read, and this will encourage you!! *Cheers.. Today I decided to fast and pray and I did it!! As after the sermon about fasting and praying, I fail everytime.. A. [Be quick to pray, seek healthy counsel, and don't give up.]How do you handle yours? When hope takes the last train and joy is nothing but the name of the girl down the street...when you are tired of trying, tired of forgiving, tired of hard weeks or hard-headed people...how do you manage your dark days? With a bottle of pills or scotch? With an hour at the bar, a day at the spa, or a week at the coast? Many opt for such treatments. So many, in fact, that we assume they reenergize the sad life. But do they? No one denies that they help for a while, but over the long hau? They numb the pain, but do they remove it? Or are we like the sheep on the Turkish cliff? Who knows why the first one jumped over the edge. Even more bizarre are the fifteen hundred others who followed, each leaping off the same overhang. The first 450 animals died. The thousand that followed survived only because the pile of corpses cushioned their fall. We, like sheep, follow each other over the edge, falling head long into bars and binges and beds. Like David, we crash into Gath, only to find that Gath has no solution. Is there a solution? Indeed there is. Doing right what David did wrong. He failed to pray. Do the opposite: be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ, who invites. "Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to see me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest." (Matt. 11:28 MSG). God, who is never downcast, never tires of your down days. David neglected good advice. Learn from his mistake. Next time you lack the will to go on, seek healthy counsel. You won't want to. Slumping people love slumping people. Hurting people hang with hurting people. We love those who commiserate and avoid those who correct. Yet correction and direction are what we need. I discovered the importants of healthy counsel in a half-Ironman triathlon. After the 1.2 mile swim and the 56-mile bike ride, I didn't have much energy left for the 13.1 mile run. Neither did the fellow jogging next to me. I asked him how he was doing and soon regreted posing the question. "This stinks. This race is the dumbest decision I've ever made." He had more complaints than a taxpayer at the IRS. My response to him? "Good-bye." I knew if I listened too long, I'd start agreeing with him. I caught up with a sixty-six-year-old grandmother. Her tone was just the opposite. "You'll finish this," she encouraged. "It's hot, but at least it's not raining. One step at a time...Don't forget to hydrate....Stay in there." I ran next to her until my heart was lifted and my legs were aching. I finally had to slow down. "No problem," she said, waving as she kept going.Which of the two describes the counsel you seek?"Refuse good advice and watch your plans fail; take good counsel and watch them succeed" (Prov,15.22 MSG).B. [Take a long look at the shore that awaits you. Don't be fooled by the fog of the shump. The finish may be only strokes away.]
Don't make the mistake of Florence Chadwick. In 1952 she attempted to swim the chilly ocean waters between Catalina Island and the California shore. She swam through the foggy weather and choppy seas for fifteen hours. Her muscles began to cramp, and her resolve weakened. She begged to be taken out of the water, but her mother, riding in a boat alongside, urged her not to give up. She kept trying but grew exhausted and stopped swimming. Aids lifted her out of the water and into the boat. They paddled a few more minutes, the mist broke, and she discovered that the shore was less than a half mile away. "All I could see was the fog." she explained at a news conference."I think if I could have seen the shore, I would have made it"Take a long look at the shore that awaits you. Don't be fooled by the fog of the shump. The finish may be only strokes away. God may be, at this moment, lifting his hand to signal Gabriel to grab the trumpet. Angels may be assembling, saints gathering, demons trembling. Stay at it! Stay in the water. Stay in the rain. Stay in the fight. Give grace, one more time. Be generous, one more time. Teach one more class, encourage one more soul, swim one more stroke. David did. Right there in the smoldering ruins of Ziklag, he found strength. After sixteen months, in Gath. After the Philistine rejection, the Amalekite attack, and the insurrection by his men, he remembered what to do. "David found strength in the Lord, his God" (1 Sam. 30:6 NIV).It's good to have you back, David. We missed you while you were away.公主YVONNE (=
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Today is my first day of work at ST Logistic. Woke up at 6 plus, I wanted to sleep more but cant already, if not I will be late for work. Yesterday couldn't sleep, suddenly alot of thoughts came into my mind, hmmm...Thank God I am not late today, and I nearly lost my way there, I was so scared, but... I did pray!! And God give me peace immediately. Hehe.. Morning, do QT was so GREAT!! I'm cultivating the habit to do QT in the morning, if you all always do it in the night, try wake up early to do in the morning, you will feel refresh.. :) As I remember one brother told me "mediate the word day & night" N NOT "mediate the word night & night."
When I reached the place, need to surrender our camera phone to them, sad... few mins after i surrender, I already MISS MY PHONE!!! :( But, never mind, I keep telling myself, that time in YI camp, i also surrender my phone for the whole 4 days. [ps: although I did miss my phone that time, haha..] If this I can do it, why cant I surrender for 9hrs. Haha..
I will be working in a warehouse office, which my jobs will be to key in their "stock taking", some of their admin work which requires me to key in their stock, They will give me list of numbers & codes, which makes me headache & confuse. But when I hands on and do, its quite alrite. "Practice makes Perfect!!" In the office, quite slack, today I finish my work very fast!! Hopefully, everyday, I will be that fast, and not make any mistakes. Haha.. Today when I do my job halfway, my muscles suddenly very pain & tense. Then headache came & visit me.. :( I also stupid, wear wrong footwear, my legs are so red and pain now. Haha..
Every day I will have to change my sim card to another phone without camera, which is so troublesome, well, no choice lor.
After work, went bugis with danny, weida, huiqin and ezekiel. We just blindly walk walk, then we walk from bugis to Suntec City, I didn't know it was so near only. Haha.. Dinner-ed then walk awhile, then we go home.
Sorry for this bo liao post, I need go rest already, cannot take it, headache very pain.. :( Nites guys!! ^_^公主YVONNE (=
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10:35 PM
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Today during work, not quite good. Alot of customer but its ok.. Today get alot of scolding by manager, customer, kitchen staff, Which I didn't do anything wrong at all. Feel very upset. Some customer just cannot be consider enough, they have eyes to see that there is still other customer who we need to attend to, some want extra this & that, some scold us say we are too slow and stuff. Then for the manager wise, I key 2 items in another table's order, then i just void it, when i realise its wrong, "just nice" the manager saw what happen, she scold me in front of the customer say "don void void void hor! Later night when I do calculation, I see it, you pay all of it hor!" Then few seconds later, I go do "that customer's coffee, as she say now." Manager scold me again, say "still do, soup out liao you never see ah!" Then as for the kitchen staff, early afternoon, I ask one kitchen staff help me heat up the brownie, and I go do my thing, and I forget it was still inside, when one staff ask me, "you take the brownie already?" then I quickly go kitchen ask the guy to help me take out, as it was very tall, then one staff scold say "eh, you don know how to take yourself issit, we inside also have alot of things need to do one leh" I just walk off, didnt want to answer or reply back. Thanks sister for sending me the prayer message!! I feel much better already, until when I am on my way home, I teared in bus while listening to worship song. As I sense that God is trying to console me, says: "My precious daughter, no need to be so upset over this things, I know that you didn't do anything wrong, Just do what you think is right, don't need to care about what other says you, I still love you no matter what." Oh man!!! I am crying now as I post. Ok, I have to go out already, to watch movie... Yeah!! Bye~!!公主YVONNE (=
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6:04 PM
Hello guys!! Here to blog again... Today go for 3 job interview. Woke up at 8 plus, go for one at science park. 11 plus went for second one, its located at around queensway there, where i took cab down from science park, as I was about to be late. Didnt have a second thought, just flag for one cab. Expensive leh, but no choice.. Then the third one is at 4.30, the company is located at tuas there.. We nearly lost our way. Haha.. Still not sure whether can get the jobs or not. But I still want to Thank God for giving me this 3 jobs, although the last job is really like last min one. It's really by God's Grace that I have these job interview..THANK YOU GOD!!You will think that why I suddenly go for so many interview, not I despo or what. Cos this job that currenly I am working now, can't survive. As in now I have to help my parents to support the house. Can't expect them to keep working so hard and pay this pay that. They also have to give allowance to us. I really wants to be independent enough to help my family, and pay my handphone bills, probably give my siblings allowance? I don't want to keep asking them for money, as I am already big enough to work le. I need to find a more stable permanent job which has more high pay than what I am earning now. After the last interview, I went to Jurong Point to get one thing which I want to buy for myself, and I bought it!! Yeah!! So happy... hehe. Then head back to west mall mac to find danny & huiqin. We really slack awhile at mac, then go west mall walk walk, while waiting for zw to come meet us for dinner. Suddenly I like almost all the things that is sold in Precious Thots, including the Christian books, cds corner.. Whoot!! Felt like bringing ALL home.. LOL!! I just asked 2 people, sorry if I didnt ask you along.. Talked awhile, then head home. Very tired, legs are pain... Tmr still have to work, don feel like working. Pray for me also, that I will change my lifestyle. And change in one way or another. As many parts of my life, I need to change. Pray that I will have discipline too. Pray also that I will not be so much affected by what people say.
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12:42 AM
Saturday, October 4, 2008
This thing happens yesterday, 3/10/08...
Hello everybody, I am yvonne from zealot 4 and I'm here to share my testimony about how God spoke to me. For your information, my walk with God has slacken this few days, cos of some stuff that i am going through. I skip doing Quiet Time, I didnt pray. Somehow have given up on God but God has not given up on me. He is really very mercyful enough to forgive me. The following situations, will tell you why. This morning I received a call from an agency. They helps us to find jobs. For a little background of it. I went to 2 agency to find permanent jobs. They call me to tell me the information of other company which is their so called clients. If the company which needs staff, they will ask the agency to help them find also. So the person in charge called me, and say there is a company wants you to go for interview today. Of cos I reject my friend to go out after work to go for the interview. As this job, the pay quite attractive. It pays us $7.50/hr, and if you work OT, you can claim back the cab fare. The pay is $3.50 more than what I am currenly working now. :(
To be frank, its my own will to go for this interview. Less than an hour, I had miss call from the agency again, awhile later, i go toilet to call back. Right after I call back the agency & tell them i can make it at first, on the way back to work, suddenly feel giddy, like wanna shiver de feeling. My back, near buttock there are aching, feel like vomiting, feels cold. And i began to pray & ask God to heal me, He didnt heal me immediately. So I send prayer request to people and ask them pray for me. I feel so terrible at that point of time. I also tries to drink warm water, but it didn't help at all, but rather, my body gives out sweat, its cold sweat. When my colleague ask me, "did you ask God about it. Is He really want you to get this job?" I realise its could have been God is telling me something, and I began to think, yeah, I didnt seek God for my decision for this job thing, thats why I feel so sick. I began to doubt Him, until one thing which reminds me is that one of my cell group members, which is also a brother in Christ, shares this to some of us that he experience this kind of situation also. He didnt seek God's will, the next day, he has headache. So I choose to believe that it confirm is God who wants to punish me, as I didnt seek Him, when I am making a decision and in whatever I do. And through this, I knows that GOD NEVER WILL FORSAKE US. He still chose to forgive us no matter how much we break His heart. After work, I went home to have a nap. When I woke up, I still feel so weak, muscles are pain everywhere, have slight headache, still feel very sleepy. I dare not tell my parents that I am sick, as they will not believe me and will scold me. Some lesson I learn, - ask God to help you make decisions regarding it is small or big.
- "Let your will be done and not mine."
- In the old testament, God's people disobey God, and God punish them. I am currently reading old testament, it can happen to them, it can happen to those who disobey Him too.
- Whatever thing happens, we got to PRAY!! As it is our only useful weapon!!
* * I CAN DO IT, SO CAN YOU!! ALL THE BEST!!! =D
公主YVONNE (=
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11:37 AM
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Today, working till 4, then go town with her. She shops for shirt, and we chat, shop, enjoying ourselves. Everything seems not rite for me this few days. But after sharing to her, i feel much much more better already! Thanks ya!!! Just wanna say, Thanks for being there for me when i need you.. :D For those people who reads this post, don't ask me what problem i am facing, just don feel like saying anymore. Sorry about it. I will be glad to know you guys out there who cares for me. ^^ While we walks to one shop in Wisma, its Isetan i think. Haha.. We saw a person taking photo of a black tall french guy, the way he pose, we thought it was a maniqueen. When he moves, the both of us laugh at him, the guy actually ask her why is she laughing cos he saw. She tells him that we thought he was a maniqueen and then we walk off. We walk n walk n walk to Takashimaya, when we came out of the mall, saw that guy again, we chat awhile then she decided to get that shirt and we go HMV to buy. When we walk back to Takashimaya, and we saw that guy again! LOL.. We chat awhile more, and we bus-ed home.. Tmr work again, not sian, just that i worked 4hrs, which i dont like.. Wants to work more hours, but...well, haha.. After work, go out with her again! WHEE~!! EXCITED~Hehe... 公主YVONNE (=
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