Obadiah - The Leader Obadiah was a godly man and trusted by the prophet Elijah. He was also trusted by the most ungodly king in Israel's history, Ahab, and his wife Jezebel. He was entrusted with looking after all of the King's 'house'. He managed the money and other private affairs of the King and Queen. Obadiah walked the fine line of engagement in an extremely corrupt world yet maintained a godly, upright life of worship to God. This demands extreme wisdom. This wisdom positioned him to deliver 100 priests doomed to Jezebel's sword. Godly leaders with credibility in this world position themselves to bring deliverance to this generation. Pst Phil Pringle - The Leadership Files

Wah, been a few days since I last updated my blog. Busy days this month because of duties in camp and trying to juggle with time to spend with family, cell group and ministry. This month is really a testing phase for me and so many challenges oncoming and ahead of me.

I want to be strong in Christ, to do my best for Him. Even in the face of downfall, I still want to be at my best and be weakened with my moods. Been quite a bad testimony in camp and I didn't even realise it myself. All the carelessness at work and not being excellent in them. U can consider that I deserve it but the consequence is really quite bad. Almost 'kana' mark le. Haiz.
Need the strength of God to make things right and to make sure I won't fall short of the glory of God in my camp! Amen to that!!

Balance of time, commitment and not losing the important values of my life and compromising them because of the values of the world.

That's what I'm going to achieve in this season. And aiming for the next level.

I learnt finally, that promotion comes from God. It's ok to desire for promotions coz that's your desire, but wanting it for your own and not for God will cause all to be delayed. You may be meeting the requirements for the promotion but your Promoter ain't gonna do so because you are not focusing on the Promoter but the promotion. I'll always have people reminding me about that but it just stays in my head. I have to learn to integrate that into my heart.

I know God has a purpose for me. I'd failed once. Though recent but it seemed so long ago. The end result was that I had to take a longer route to reach the same destination. God is good coz' I'm still able to arrive at the same destination, fulfilling His purpose. It hurts because along the way, I had disappointed many people (my peers, leaders and people close to me) and it brought down the standards of my life, finding myself degrading by the day. Yet at the same time I was still very prideful and thinking my chance would come. Yes, my chance will come, but not when I change myself from within with God, not without God.

Somehow I thank God that whenever I blog, I release what's within and not hide it, hence learning to share and relate. I actually become very frank with myself and with God. (i know He's reading as i type, haha)

There are so many things that I need to do, but

one thing to really focus on: God.

Fear God

Mrs. Ima Terror chased her husband through the crowds at the zoo, waving her umbrella and unleashing insults like invisible missiles. Her perspiring and winded husband, seeing that the lock on the lion's cage had not quite closed, yanked it open, jumped into the cage, slammed the door, pushed the astonished lion hard against the bars, and peered over its shoulder. His frustrated wife shook her umbrella, stuttered in anger, and finally managed to explode, "Ralph, come out of there, you coward!"

Ralph, in this fictitious story, is like the people of Israel that we read about in the book of Numbers. They were confused about whom they should really fear. They saw themselves as grasshoppers when compared to the giants in the land where God wanted them to go (13:32-33).

If we are so afraid of people that we stop following the Lord, we're not trusting Him. It shows that we have doubted His plan, His power, and His promises. We have failed to recognize that He, above all others, is the One to be feared—which means that He is to be reverenced, trusted, loved, and obeyed.

Our love for God should always move our hearts to do what's good and right. Love also fears His judgments true and stands in awe of His great might.

Fear God, and you'll have nothing else to fear.

Ministry

yosh!

Just came back fm sailing.. Quite a zuobo one but the returns are great really. Could sense the presence and the purpose of God in the NS field. Gonna exploit more of that. Haha.

A revelation just hit me, about knowing the purpose of God in your life and why have you been called to serve. Was reading Sing Yee's blog and it hit the topic of servanthood, what's the purpose of serving in a ministry? Because of the needs to be met through the ministry to bless others. Quite simple but we tend to forget this as we achieve the small little achievements in the ministry.

Was on this topic with Vic the other time on serving either 'too much' in cg or in ministry. But she brought me to this attention for the fact in whether it's in CG or in ministry, it's still serving God in different areas. Well that really widened up my scope on the way we can serve God but yet not being 'jin jin ji jiao' on how you serve God.

Since the day i started in ministry, (in short) the story of Mary and Martha (did i spell correctly) haha on serving Jesus in their house when He came by for a visit.. Mary was wholeheartedly serving Jesus, beside Him and fellowshipping with Him while Martha was beside doing the 'necessary' to make Jesus comfortable in their place.
See the difference in how Jesus was served?

So, are you the Mary or the Martha?

For me, I choose to be the Mary~ (shall evaluate more on this story in my next entry)

Fellowship

Key to maintaining a relationship with be the constant fellowship with each other. Because that's when you would press into the life of the other and vice versa, where you would know the other better. Bonds are then strengthened due to the in-depth knowledge of understanding each other.

Today I had the chance to be able to fellowship with Vic and Olivia today. I love to fellowship with her really coz she's always the one to disciple me and watching me grow, giving me the advices I need which I feel blessed about. Anyway the fellowship was a impromptu one but I'm glad I was there. =)

Well, on my way back home suddenly thought of calling up Lifang and Chris to fellowship again and manage to settle ourselves down at Subway. Things were really going crazy as we were laming around etc. It just went out of control until we were like so loud inside! Lol.
I muz say Chris is really good as the way she cares fpr people is really from the bottom of her heart and although she's young and all but her thinking and behaviour has exceeded of mine. Plus I'm truly blessed by her existance, wanting to be there for people she cares yea. And she's a sharp kid in terms of emotions to. Lol.

Anyway that's all for now.. tata!

Yest did my C1 duty for Expo. Man the duty was great and things went on smoothly although there will hiccups here and there. (if a duty is ever perfect, it's only because everyone worked together to work things out.)

Challenge in the morning was I had few ushers (4 as of 8:30am), zone wasn't set up till near 8:40am, got 3 trainee ushers + 1 trial usher attached to my zone.. And doors really opened late. Haha.. Another thing was trying to secure the seats fm members who were very stringent on their reservation of seats.
Some things I liked about duty was my briefing really improved!! *claps* Actually had the aim in the past to focus my briefing on the spiritual needs of the ushers rather than the technical coz it's really, reallly boring to teach ushers how to usher when they are ushers themselves!! And I'd managed to get the attention of the ushers as I gave the briefing which means I just hit another level of success as a leader. Hehe.. Shall maintain this standard of my brief and hitting beyond. Gonna make it a point to make things more fluent as I talked my connect grp and fellow cg members..

Muz really thank HS for making that possible and a good one!

Another pt is the ushers that worked amazingly hard and the ICs that i had were simply wonderful like Xiao En and Jess. Yea.. Blessings of God really came and it's really so wonderful, able to worship the Lord and ushering His presence in.

Actually I was pretty much blown away by how God had blessed and showed Himself to be so true during the duty itself because the difference is really there and it's just so amazing really. Truely He's the one that's ever faithful and stand true to His words, with his never-failing grace. =)

Guess I'm just going crazy thanking God! Haha..

1st offical blog

Finally started blogging after a long time.. Kind of influenced the friends that blogs a lot and it really got me back into the interest of blogging. Haha..

Stage of preparation. That's where I'm in now.
Feel that God's preparing me now. With all the trials and the challenges and it's really difficult at times but God's gonna pull me through. Not to forget I have a wonderful grp of ppl that's supporting me, especially my dear leader... =)

Weekend just passed as usual, so it's back to weekday schedule of having to go to work etc... Seems normal right? but that's when God shows Himself to be so true, being the extraordinary in the mundane life. That's what I like about God and that's how we learn to appreciate Him.

Above all these, it's important to have the respect and fear for God, to allow Him into our lives to change us from within, to be more and more like Him. God is ever faithful and true and His promises never fail to amaze and keep you motivated to do His will, fulfilling His purpose for you. God's really amazing.

But as they say, it takes 2 hands to clap. God is always there for you, but it's up to you to seek Him everyday, in your own quiet time and space where it's just you and Him alone. It's only then you are fueled up, geared up for your destiny and doing the many great things for God.

That's me, wanting to be so. Where it's the basics but yet it's the key to my future successes. =)