Recollection of 2008

Well menz if you haven't realise, 2008 is coming to an end (eh don't blur leh, understand!?)

this year alone, I felt that I have grown so much. As in...

1) I started to care more for people
2) Learnt how to love at own expense
3) Learnt how to be sweet (and charming, because someone said sweet = charming :D)
4) Recognise the gifts that I have
5) Recognise some underlying problems in my life
6) Started to talk more to people

But most importantly...

7) I started to tell people what is going on in my life before I come to church and N339 (that's my cellgroup for YOU!!!)

I was very close up, simply because
1) Many doesn't understand what they are hearing
2) Many doesn't really care about the past
3) Felt its insignificant because the past is the past
4) No guts (act blur live longer...)

but then it caught up to me that what you experienced in the past could affect what you think or how you lead your life in the future. Recently I just "mini-exploded" on someone who likes to think that the world revolves around him and when things aren't going his way he's going to deceive himself that it is going his way.

Common grace at work, I would say...

and in 2008 I understood somethings like:
1) There are things you bring along with you as you grow up (mentioned above)
2) You do not have to scold/punish people in every situation when they do wrong, sometimes they just need a little more encouragement
3) It's your heart that thinks for you, not your campanions

4) The power of your tongue
I literally saw this coming to past many times. I would say something and it would happen later on. A good example is...I said "Let there be a prima cab or a maxi-cab" at a remote area at East Coast Rd where only buses 197, 196 would go through and lo and behold a prima cab appeared. But we did not board the cab because it cannot sit 6 people (we thought it could...)

5) The power of dreaming/vision
I was talking on the phone 1 day with weiying while she's going home from work. I literally saw in my mind that she was walking towards a corner flat and she entered the gates. And from there I saw her house, her room, her kitchen, toilet blah blah blah. I even knew she was changing her pants (I didn't see it but I heard it in my mind :D) I got proof...guys I got proof that what I saw was correct. surprisingly she wasn't as freaked out as I thought she would...

6) The power of prayer
I was sick (food poisoning >_<) so I decided to first think about what I normally would say "what can't kill you makes you stronger". So I stood on this thought and then I remembered God and His word concerning eating poisonous stuff and not dying from it. I asked God to help me to stop the vomitting (because I cannot tank puking) and I really did stop vommiting. I prayed for a few other things to happen on different occasions and they did. Praise God :D

7) The power of encouragement
I tried this on different occasions, once when someone is feeling dry in the Spirit and wished not to come back to church anymore. I SMSed her everyday to encourage her and let her feel positive about what is going on during that few weeks of examinations and in the end she came back and is still in church since then. PRAISE GOD!! :D

last but not least I remembered about the people around me that are significant in my life this year in no running order except the first:
1) God, who is always there to teach me stuff I never realised (though I might knew it long ago)
2) weiying, who, in the first place, taught me how to love people
3) Shirley, who tried to come into my life and I let her in on some stuff that I normally wouldn't even tell others
4) Peiting & Joanna, for your havocs in the cellgroup so I have more laughs than usual :D
5) Marcus, who is always telling lame jokes but still cares enough for you as a brother
6) Ashlynn, who taught me what does it mean by being a victim of your own mindset
7) Juliana, who sometimes accompany to go to church when she is off duty
8) Sau bing, who taught me the difference between knowing and experiencing generosity
9) All the pastors who preached to me, even though I may not be using all of your teachings in my life yet but it's good to know that there are somemore things for me to work on :)


(>^^)>THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS!!!<(^^<)