Saving Grace - Hillsong United

Night and day
I seek Your face
Long for You
In the secret place
All of I want in this life
Is to truly know You more

As the waters cover the sea
So Your love covers me
Guiding me on roads unknown
I trust in You alone
I trust in You alone

My saving grace
My endless love
Deeper and deeper
I'm falling in love with You

My one desire
My only truth
Deeper and deeper
I'm falling in love with You

And I will rise on wings of eagles
Soaring high above all my fears
I rest in Your open arms of love

My saving grace
My endless love
Deeper and deeper
I'm falling in love with You

My one desire
My only truth
Deeper and deeper
I'm falling in love with You

As the waters cover the sea
So Your love covers me
Covers me......

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hCkfu4nzBtk

I could sing of Your love forever

Over the mountains and seas
Your river runs with love for me
And i will open my heart and let the Healer set me free

I'm happy to be in the truth
And i will daily lift my hands
For i will always sing
when Your love came down

I could sing of Your love forever
I could sing of Your love forever
I could sing of Your love forever
I could sing of Your love forever

Oh I feel like dancing
It's foolishness i know
But when the world has seen the light
They will dance with joy
Like we're dancing now yea...

- Delirious

I miss Melbourne Part 2

I miss Melb Uni OCF.
I miss everyday Friday night 7pm go to North Dining Hall in Melb Uni Union house to attend OCF.
I miss attending the prayer meet before OCF.
I miss the bible study within CG.
I miss CG retreat.
I miss OCF Victoria Easter Camp.
I miss Melb Uni July Camp.
I miss OCF Australia convention.
I miss the camp fire.
I miss seeing lots of OCFers got touched and changed by God.
I miss the sharing, the love, the concerned poured by the brothers and sisters in Christ in OCF.
I miss OCF friends. (REALLY MISS THEMMMMMMMM)
I miss Jeri-Uni prayer walk. (prayer walk around Melb Uni, something like Jerico walk. Yes we walked 7 times around uni during our 7th time prayer walk. And we did SHOUT hahaha... really crazy...)
I miss the craziness of singing praise and worship songs in the middle of Uni.
I miss coffee ministry.
I miss pushing the whole big pile of hot water from Architecture building to Ballieau Library for coffee ministry.
I miss baking muffins/cakes/cookies to bless the OCFers.
I miss the young, passionate, fearless OCF members who stand up for Christ.
I miss the talented yet humble OCF worship team.
I miss prayer meet until 5am in this small little room in Arrow Heights with a few brothers/sisters who have BIG BIG heart for Uni students.
I miss playing all the crazy games/sabo in camps.
I miss cooking and preparing food for Malaysia national day celebration and lots of CG "pot-bless" (coz we don't believe in "luck")

To be continued...

I miss Melbourne (Part 1)

I miss Melbourne

Let me talk about the food first.
I miss Lygon street, the Italian restaurant street, with lots of yummy authentic italian pasta, pizza and Gelato ice-cream (esp. roche ice-cream!!)
I miss Chinatown, where you can get lots of nice and oily food eg. A1, K.O.K., Supper Inn, Shanghai Dumpling, Dessert House, Nam Long 1 and 2, Shark Fin House's Dim Sum and etc.
I miss Victoria St authentic Korean restaurant (esp. the Hot pot and the Kimchi!! so niceeee..)
I miss Elizabeth St Mala Steamboat.
I miss the Stalatite Greek restaurant near QV (it's very meaty, guys will love it)
I miss Hungry Jacks along Swanston st that open til 4am (hehehe)
I miss Melb Uni Union house' sushi (salmon onigir!!)
I miss Breadtop greentea cake.

Next, groceries shopping. Overseas students in Melb Uni are very slack ppl, esp commerce students who only have 12 contact hours per week (that's me). So what will they do during their free time then? Lepak in groceries store. My favourite place? Safeway in QV......
I miss buying $1.80 Tim Tam, and the excitement of seeing the offer lol...
I miss searching recipe on the net, printed out the list, and went to safeway for the beginning of the adventure... of cooking new dish... well, most of the time, it was successful, except tiramisu and Loh Mee...
I miss sms-ing my good friends when i saw some offers in Safeway.
I miss using the Safeway enviromental-friendly green bag.
I miss buying LOTS of chewing-gum.
I miss shopping with my sister and friends in Safeway.
I miss bumping into my friends in Safeway (that's why i told u most of us like to hang out there hahaha)
I miss buying fruit juice.
I miss buying $1.98 bread.
I miss buying Betty-Crockers brownies ready-to-bake pack (oops... now u know why my brownies so nice hehehe)
I miss buying super cheap Indo Mee instant noodles.

Wah, i'm so tired of writing... had a long day today...
Shall be continued next time (hopefully tomorrow hehehe...)

Conclusion: I miss Melbourne

Take my life - Chris Tomlin

Take my life, and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to Thee
Take my moment and my days,
let them flow in ceaseless praise
Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of Thy love
Take my feet and let them be
swift and beautiful for Thee

Take my voice and let me sing
always, only for my King
Take my lips and let them be
filled with messages from Thee
Take my silver and my gold
not a mite would I withhold
Take my intellect and use
every power as You choose

Here am I, all of me
Take my life, it's all for Thee

Take my will and make it Thine
it shall be no longer mine
Take my heart, it is Thy own
it shall be Thy royal throne
Take my love, my Lord, I pour
at Your feet its treasure store
Take myself and I will be
ever, only, all for Thee
Take myself and I will be
ever, only, all for Thee

Here am I, all of me
Take my life, it's all for Thee

Here am I, all of me
Take my life, it's all for Thee

Here am I, all of me
Take my life, it's all for Thee...

Take my life, and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to Thee......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEzbwcMG9Gc

Psalm 73:21-26

When my heart was grieved
and my spirit embittered,
I was senseless and ignorant;
I was a brute beast before You.
Yet I am always with You;
You hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with Your counsel,
and afterward You will take me into glory.
Whom have i in heaven but You?
And earth has nothing I desire besides You.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion
forever...

Caught the fire

Today, i went to the last session of JG (Joshua's Generation) class, where Hope Singapore senior pastor Ben was invited to share to us about how he and 4 other ppl planted the church in Singapore 16 yrs ago, the hardship, the faith, etc etc... It was amazing to see how the church grow from 5 ppl to 3,500 ppl now. But behind the success, there's always the hardships and trials that need to be gone thru.

I asked him how he managed to balance his life style as a church leader that time and his work, since he was an auditor as well b4 he became a full time pastor, and i'm just curious how did he manage his life, esp. his walk with God, coz i know auditors' lives are super crazy. He said, when he first started the church and work, he sometimes need to carry all those big chunk of files (that time no laptop yet, *gasp*) to church meeting, and after the meeting he will go back and continue to do his work. He also said that time he woke up 5am in the morning, just to shepherd his sheep by going to the sheep's office, only then he went to office to work. My jaw dropped that time. CRAZZZYYYYY....... So so much sacrifices made, and i realised i'm so so much blessed right now. Chinese way of saying is 身在福中不知福...

When christine asked him, what are the things that keep him going, keep him on fire. He replied, as long as there's one person who's lost out there, his job is not done yet. WOW...

After hearing his stories, i realised planting a church is almost IMPOSSIBLE, esp in Singapore (lol...) But really, becoz he caught the heart of God, he caught God's visions for His lost children, he is still going strong, and the church is still going, and growing strong. Because of his love for God and His ppl, God honoured him, and granted him the strength, the perseverence, to make the impossibles became POSSIBLE.

Oh there's another thing that he said that's super inspiring. He said, he made lots of mistakes during the church planting in Singapore, but one mistake that he never made, is that, he didn't give up. I gave him another big WOW...

I thank God that i'm in this church now. And i am so proud to be in this church. I love God. I also love Hope Singapore =) Pray that this church will continue to be a blessing and a fire-igniter to Singapore and around the world. Amen.

I am so inspired and fired up by sharings from Pastor Ben.

Thank God indeed.

祷告

祷告
因为我渺小
祷告
因为我知道我需要
明瞭， 你心意对我重要
祷告
已假装不了
祷告
因为你的爱我需要
你关怀
我走过的你都明白

有些事我只想要对你说
因你比任何人都爱我
痛苦从眼中流下
我知道你为我擦
在早晨我也要来对你说
主耶稣今天我为你活
所需要的力量你天天赐给我
你恩典够我用

Coming back to the heart of worship

This is a very powerful song written by Matt Redman. Everytime i lost focus on God, and i lost the true meaning of worshipping Him, i will always listen to the song and the lyrics. And it is so meaningful, really spoke to my heart. Well yea, i'm sort of losing the focus on Him recently, and i really do want to come back to that heart of worship, again.

Heart of Worship

When the music fades and all is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring something that's of worth
That will bless Your heart

I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You're looking into my heart

I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about You
It's all about You, Jesus
I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing I've made it
And it's all about You
It's all about You, Jesus

King of endless worth, no one could express
How much You deserve
Though I'm weak and poor
All I have is Yours
Every single breath

I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You're looking into my heart

I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about You
It's all about You, Jesus
I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing I've made it
And it's all about You
It's all about You, Jesus


22 Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take whatever pleases him and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing-sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
23 O king, Araunah gives all this to the king." Araunah also said to him, "May the Lord your God accept you."
24 But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it, I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.
- 2 Samuel 24:22-24


I live to worship You, Lord Jesus