PRAISE THE LORD!

wow! i have been so extremely blessed today that even though it is 2am and i am dead tired i feel ----- to share my blessings.

i started the day out normal...went to work cuz its my day off from uni...was pretty tired afterwards, but Brian Park (who is a Pastor/missionary from LA) was speaking at come mission and i really wanted to go and hear him speak. i didn't know much about him....actually, i didn't really know anything about him...but i went to hear him anyway.

i was so blown away by his simple and powerful message. he was talking about our mission as christians, or to be more specific, God's mission for us as christians. because its not about us...its about God. and when we go on missions to spread the message of the gospel...its not about the messenger but its about the sender. our role as the messenger is to know who has sent us. if we want to be a good messenger of the gospel...we need to know the one who has sent us intimately. as long as we KNOW the one who has sent us...we are able to tell others about Him. all we need to do is share with others how we met Christ, and God will do the rest.

--------------KNOW THE SENDER------------

Brian and his wife are awesome people. i feel so blessed to have met them. their love for God radiates from them and overflows into their love for one another. we had the privilege of hearing Brian's testmony. the only thing i will say about it is "UNBELIEVABLE". he has such a powerful testimony and it is so awesome hearing about what God has done for him and how God has changed his life.

Brian also has the gift of prophesy...and he took the time to pray for each of us individually. his two requests were that we don't tell him anything about ourselves except our names and secondly, that we don't thank him but that we thank the One that sent him. when he was praying for me i truly sensed that it was God talking to me through Brian. He knew exactly what my concerns were and he knew exactly what to say. his words brought me great peace within my heart and also strengthened and encouraged me. afterwards he was saying how our God is a gentle God and i think that is so true. how BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL, AWESOME, GLORIOUS, MAGNIFICENT, ALMIGHTY our GOD is! and what else could be more joyous and fulfilling than serving our God. i can't think of anything i'd rather do and anything that could bring me more pleasure than serving our God. AMEN!

well...i think i might leave it at that... need some sleep before uni tomorrow T.T

massalama~ 

heya....wow....i haven't posted in so long...i think ive gotten so caught up in stuff that i haven't had time to write...and i miss it because when i write it helps me reflect and take time out to think about the things ive learnt...

i think i'll have to take the time to start posting again

anyways...today is the first day of our EM retreat 2005! im so excited. we have guest speakers Walter and Toni Kim and i can't wait to go through turbo groups with them. they are awesome!

as i think about my life since i gave my life to Christ i cant stop thinking how blessed i am and how thankful i am to God for bringing me out of the darkness and into the light. He is my everything.

wow...its been so long since i've written in here. i've been so busy and stuff that i haven't had time to write. so many things have happened since my last entry and there are so many things i've learnt. but one thing that hasn't changed is God's mercy and grace in my life.

as i continue to sin and sin again, He continues to forgive and forgive again. His love and compassion never cease to amaze me...

"Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness" Lamentations 3:22-23

...He will never forsake me. how awesome is our God. i am so unworthy...as i refect more and more on all the wonderful things He has done for me and all the blessings He has given to me despite my downfalls...i cannot help but to live my life for Him.

everyday i try to think of ways in which i can honor and glorify Him...and although many times i fail because of my human nature...i don't let that get me down but i keep on striving harder to reach the goal that He has set before me.

as i think about this year's mission team i become filled with joy because i know that they will experience something so amazing. and as i watched them leave at the airport i couldn't help but to feel a little sad because i wasn't going with them. i can't wait to see them when they get back and to hear all the wonderful stories about how God worked through them. Let's keep them in our prayers...

i can't believe it's nearly Christmas. this year has flown by so quickly and so much has happened. it doesn't really feel like Christmas with the hot weather in australia. i really hope and pray that people will come to understand the true meaning of Christmas. that's it's not just a pointless time for exchanging gifts...but that it's a time of celebration, of the birth of Jesus Christ, our Saviour!

well...that's enough from me today...

May God continue to bless you and keep you close to His heart~

tonight i went to Sydney Full Gospel Church for the Kingdom Conference. the speaker was truly awesome. he had so much passion in his voice as he talked. i really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. let me just share with you some things that i thought were pretty cool...

our God is a God of purpose.

God's purpose has been the same from the beginning and He has never needed to change anything (Malachi 3:6). everything happens for a purpose. nothing has ever gone out of God's control because God is in absolute and complete control.

most people just live their lives, not knowing the purpose of why they live, and then eventually die. we are not alive just so that we can die later. do you have something to live for?

God planted eternity in the heart's of men (Ecclesiastes 3:11). He divinely implanted a sense of purpose which only He can satisfy.

even if the whole world rejects you God will never forsake you. He loves you no matter what and His love is sufficient. 

but until you are rightly in the purpose of God, you will never truly be satisfied.

if the only purpose of our salvation is to go to heaven, then we may as well die now.

we are saved because God chose us before creation (Ephesians 1:4-5). He has a purpose for you.

also...God always makes provisions before the need. before sin even existed, God had already prepared a saviour (Revelation 13:8).

God planned that sin would not stop us from fulfilling the purpose He gave to our lives.

we are agents, created to change the world back to the way it rightfully should be. so the reason for our salvation is to not just wait to go to heaven, but to bring all of creation back to God, because that is God's greatest desire.

God has hope through His work in you...and He will be faithful to complete it.

we are the light of the world...and darkness cannot push back the light.

if you've got something to live for, you live differently. so live with a purpose!

heaven is a benefit not the purpose.

earth has been waiting for a generation who know their purpose and who know why they have been saved...let's be that generation!

don't go to heaven before you fulfill your purpose here on earth!

after missing a week (which i was really sad about because i love our home group bible studies), we finally had a home group meeting today...by the way, i'd just like to say that i love our home group...DURAL/HORNSBY HOMEGROUP RULZ!...anyways...instead of doing bible study today we discussed local outreach ideas. i was a little bummed because i was really up for a mad bible study session. but it was still awesome all the same.

as we discussed our ideas it really started to excite me and i can't wait til we actually start. i think when it comes to outreach we really don't need to look much further than our neighborhood in regards to people who have yet to receive the Gospel.

although world missions is a vital part in the Great Commission we also need to open our eyes to the need in our current place of residence. so i think we should start with local outreach in the country where we are living now and use that as preparation and training for future missions.

let's begin in our homes, schools, churches, and communities and work from there!

Matthew 24:14

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."