26.5.06
1:03 PM
How Great is our God
HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD????
Hmmmm... Thats a pretty interesting question dont u think?!
Lotsa times ive said,yea God is so WOW and all that. Ive even sung the song. Not that i ever did doubt how great He is but i've never really understood it till now.
When we first arrived in Australia,our very first blessing was the fact that we had good friends who helped prepare the house for us. Nicely furnished and the fridge was filled with food. We had beds and everything to comfortably settle in. Of course we have sheena who made us feel SO much at home.
There was this one day when we didnt have any cash left. Dad was working but cldnt get paid..haha....some legality thingy to do with our visas. So dad was getting paid on a love gift basis. One day,with hardly any food left in the fridge,with no money in the house or in our account(FOR REAL),and FIVE mouths to feed plus one BIG Indian one, mum of course was very very worried!
However dad always always said,DONT WORRY! it'll work out. The next day,someone blessed our family with a very big amount of cash saying it was for our future education. Is God WOW or what?!!!! Apparently this family had a dream of blessing some family. And they had no idea who we were. They had the dream way before we even arrived in Australia. : ) If this doesnt convince you that our God is great......
Another time, someone had heard that my parents were sleeping on a mattress on the floor and all that. They blessed us with some cash to buy beds and all that. : )Not that it mattered to them except mum was sleeping with crawling milipedes.
Winter was approaching and when autumn came,we were freezing and we needed proper quilts to keep us warm. Now quilts are really realy expensive. Especially when there are 6 of us in the family. And mum was stressing again on how we were gonna get them. Finally we decided we had no choice we are just gonna have to spend and get the quilts. We cant wait for sale. That Friday night,mum was asking one of our friends where was the best place to get good long lasting quilts. I mean, if you're gonna spend a whole lot of money we should get good ones right?!! The very next day(im NOT kidding) the very next day,this family got each and everyone of us a quilt!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good quality quiltss!! I was just so in awe of what God can do and has done. NOt only did He bless us with the physical stuff, through all this,we came to believe with all our hearts that this is definitely where God wants us to be.. And thats just more than WOW!
When Influencers came, That was another stressful time because believe it or not, Church staff had to pay for their own fees. Kelsey,Ryan and I were going to Influencers Youth and that costs $132 each person,plus mum and dad which was $145 each.Now,that is alot alot of money. Again,someone blessed my parents and paid for their fees. Isnt God just amazing?!!
Remember how i said i really really wanted to dance for INfluencers? I did dance for Influencers. Not the way i imagined it though,but that was a blessing as well,because i learnt a great deal from that experience.
Just last Sunday,i attended my very first discipleship traning. My youth pastor asked me if i would be happy to 'mentor' a few Australian born Chinese girls here in Solid. He has also said that he wants me to get more involved in Solid and all that. Im so so so excited because its like a dream come true. The one thing that i kept saying over and over again was.."God,please please use me" and He is!!!!
Also,just blessing me with frineds like sun,gracie,anne,cynthiA,orange lane boys(zie,ben and david)AND MARKOO!!!,lynn,ernestine,renu mary thomas ;)jess,katrina,jaye,christine..SHEENA...and all these people....
I complain alot about not having friends..but i fail to realise the measure of how God has already blessed me in the past four monthss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I could go on and on and on about how great my GOd is!!! I only hope u'll come to know in your life how great He is!! : )
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niCcima
19.5.06
1:19 PM
:randOm:
Its been a long gOod week.
itS the Weekend again. YAAYY!!
We've got Sanga at sOlid tonight!! Am very very excited..Im so so so loOking fOrward to church tonigHt and this sunDay!!! canT waitt!! church rOckkksss!!!!! ;)
Ive got no moOd to actuaLly sit dOwn and write some substantial...inspiring post,eventhOugh there has bEen so many thiNgs happEnin... i will do sOon thoUgh!! fOr now, im just goNna pOst sOme very vEry randOm pictUres..... :) :) :)
(some pictures i 'edited' whiLe having NO schOol to atteNd)
CHRISTMASSS!! Oooh,i miss thOse practicEs.....
AMMONNDD!! lovE youuu...
I miss you both soooo much.. sooo much.
HAHAHHA..... NOT COOOOLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) ;)
Mr Dalvin diNshawww!!
Ah..rememebr this??!! Tien miNg,i trusted youuU!!!
YUenzz...i owe you!!
WE miss u mr K.K.M.L!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FAMILEEEEE!!!
Sigh, i miss hOme so so badd!!!
:) :)
Now,thats a whOle lot of picTures?!!!! weLL, just Got a little bit emOtionall!!!
Have a gOod weekEnd..
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niCcima
5.5.06
2:26 PM
For the weEkend..enjOy!!!
Kristy dEarest,
I just want you to knOw that i love yOu so much. You've been a hugE encOuragemEnt!!!!! :) :)
You are one of a kiNd, babE!!!! SEriOusLy!!! :)
I think theSe pictUres are sOOooOOoo adOrabLe!!!!
Have a gOod wEekenD yOu guYs!
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niCcima
4.5.06
1:32 AM
You are there
With each breath
With each waking moment
With each step
You are there
With each fall
With each regret
With each failure
You are there
With each smile
With each victory
With each success
You are there
You are there.
niCcima
3.5.06
1:41 PM
humility??!!
Yaknow,
I auditioned to dance for Influencers Conference. Gracie and i did 'I Could be The One'...
The person auditioning us, told us that we were really good and blabla...
In my head, i was pretty confident that i would make it into the top 10 dancers. ofcourse,i never did say it aloud because i didnt wanna get my hopes too high.
So as days went by, i was told that i did not make it into the top 10 ,and at first it didnt really bother me. I was just happy that i was gonna be dancing for Influencers.. really..
But as i went for practices, i was sooo unhappy. I would cry and be really moody about it.
It was really really tough going for practices.
One night at practice,i smsd my mum telling her that this was so hard and that i didnt wanna do it anymore. Told her i did NOT wanna stand at the back of everyone for 1 minute of the dance and clap my hands. thats pretty much all i did.. Clap my hands...
It was so so so tough to do that.
For those of you who know me,u'll know that i have major pride and ego problem!!
yes senor???!! ;) ;)
When i told mum that, she said "it will be alot easier if you did this because you love GOd"...
That just really got me thinking..
Bieng in YC and all that. I realised that i have forgotten why i serve God. Why it was so hard for me to stand at the back,not noticed and do my thing.
Seriously... i want to serve God because i love Him.. because whtever little bit of talent i have is because of Him.
After that night,i kept reminding myself that i was doing this because i love Him.. because i love Him.. and it got easier. I was able to smile while dancing and stuff. Ofcourse it wasnt easy. I didnt just tell myself once and wooo hoooo..i was happy doing it.. no....But as i kept reminding myself and just praying about it..it DID get easier..
Its soooo easy to be in the fore-front ministry. where evryone can see us.
I honestly thank God tht He put me in that position. Because if He didnt,i wouldnt have realised how 'blinded' ive become!!!!!!!!!
Sheen said this the other day... "its about standing in the corner for years"...
If we're faithful in the littlest things, God will bring the big things our way...
easier said ofcourse... But its the only way!!! :)
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niCcima
