TRUELY BLESSED =)
Sunday, Sept. 15, 2002 - 6:16 p.m.
Dearie Diary,
It had been a long time since I last wrote in here...
Since school started, I had been loaded with many projects, tutorials and tests. Even now as I write in you, I still had many outstanding assignments not yet complete. However, I decided to write this diary entry since I had not written in it for so so so long... If I do not start writting in soon, I fear I may forgot about this GREAT diary of mine.
Firstly, I would write in the WONDERFUL things that happen to me in the month of August. As Lord Jesus had been blessing me a lot, it is impossible for me to write in ALL the things He had done for me. So I would write about the 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th of August.
<<3-4 August 2002>>
I wrote "But I feel that I did not feel much break through in my relationship with God. For the finally 1 week of fasting, I pray for that." in my diary entry on 2nd August. Indeed the faithful God saw this and did something GREAT on these 2 days!!
On 3rd August, it was my cell leader's birhtday and it was ALPHA weekend! The whole Alpha weekend (which consist of 3 talks and many games) was supposed to last for the whole day. However, I can't make it in the morning due to activities in school. I only managed to come at 2pm and that means I missed 2 sessions of talks that was scheduled in the morning. But I still thank God that at least I managed to come for one... (You COULD be thinking that missing the talks which are boring are not big deal. So just want to let you know that I believed that they will benefit me and I missed them once already.)
The talk that I went for is titled, "How can I be FILLED with the Holy Spirit (just in case you are wandering... Holy Spirit a gift from God when one recieve Christ)?" Before the talk, I thought that it does not really matter it a Christian had the Holy Spirit or not. After all it is a gift and one can choose to reject it. After the talk, my mindset was changed as I learnt a lot from the talk. I learnt that every Christian have the Holy Spirit but there is a whole lot of differences in having the Holy Spirit and being FILLED with the Holy Spirit. I learn more about the benefits of Holy Spirit. I learn the barriers in preventing us from recieving the Holy Spirit.
Ok! Enough is said about the background. I will now go to the point about how the faithful Lord did something GREAT. I was saying in that diary entry on 2nd August that I feel that I did not feel much break through in my relationship with God and the next day (3rd August), God lifted me up with the talk. After the talk, I went forward to get prayed for. I prayed that God would filled me with the Holy Spirit. I believe that recieving the Holy Spirit would help me a lot in my spiritual walk with Christ.
On 4th August, my team was on duty for Celebration Kids (CK). Part of my duty was to set up the PA system. I had just started to learn and needed more practice. Our theme for that week was National Day. It is to teach the children to love the country and to submit to the governing authority (as God has commanded in Romans 13:1).
We also did the FUNDANCE. FUNDANCE is a dance that Singaporeans learnt this year as we celebrated the National Day. The team members had learnt the dance.
Also, one of the songs that we sang in CK was "We want to see Jesus lifted high". The song had action which I thought was simply GREAT! The best part is that when the children sang and dance so sincerely. In my heart, I can imagine how PLEASED God is with the children. It really touches my heart. I thank God for letting me see the JOY of serving Him.
As I was being blessed, I had this strong urge to tell someone about this JOY and EXCITEMENT. This someone was a good friend I know in Church. I will not disclose her name here but I shall refer her as J in my diary. I just got this sudden urge to tell J my JOY but I could not find her after church as she is attending a course. So I send her a SMS telling her that I got something to tell her and will call her at night.
So on 4th August night, I was sharing with J the JOY in my heart as God bless me. She told me that she was encouraged and uplifted by my sharing. We then chatted for a while.
After that, J said that she was praying to God for a soulmate. She shared that many of her friends and cell group members are GREAT. But she wanted a soulmate whom she feels comfortable to share about anything. In her heart, she was thinking that someone whom she knows might have been the soulmate God gave her but she wasn't sure. As she was sharing these, I wanted to ask her if the prayer was answered or not but I did not dared to. I was afraid that she said that her prayer was not answered yet. BUT She told me that her prayers was answered.
Almost immediately, I wanted to ask her who that soulmate is but again I did not dared to. I was hoping that she would say that it was me but I was afraid of being embarrassed if she said it was someone else. Then she said, "It's you." At that moment, the joy that I experienced is beyond what I can described. I wanted to cry and I did not know why. I guess that is what some people called JOYFUL TEARS.
J can feel that I wanted to teared and told me not to. If I were to cry, she would cry too. THANK GOD for her. THANK GOD for all these blessings. THANK GOD!!!
<<10-11 August 2002>>
On 10 August morning, when I prayed, I felt God telling me that I should appreiate people around me that had blessed me in one way or another. So I started SMS-ing a lot of people around me whom I remembered that they had blessed me in one way or another. I sms to J, my mentor, my fellow cell group members, some church friends and close friends. I did not wrote 1 SMS and send it to all of them. Each SMS wrote how each of them blessed me and some SMS were really long. After sending all of them, I was thankful to GOD for bringing them into my life. I believe I did not know them by chance. It is GOD's will that I know them.
On 11 August morning, I was told the following thing happened in J's cell group on 10 August night. They were asked to share something GOOD that someone had told them in the past week. J shared my SMS to her cell group. After that, 2 more people also shared about the SMS that I had send to them.
At first they they thought that I wrote 1 SMS and mass send to all of them. After reading what I send to them, they realise that the SMS were different.
When I send the SMS, I did not expect something like that to happen. It was so coincident that the 3 persons whom I send the SMS to are from the same cell group. Then such a topic was shared. Through this thing that happen, I THANK GOD that I could encourage people by saying sincerely that I appreciate them. THANK GOD!!
Next, I want to write about a course that I attend. The title of the course is "SPIRITUAL FORMATION". I went on the 25 August, 1 Sept, 7 and 8 of Sept. It was a course where I gain SO MUCH from it. I wish I could write down ALL that I learn here but time do not permit me to do so NOW. Prayfully hope that I could pen them down, so that I would be able to remember what I had learnt.
I had recently got my test results. BY GOD's GRACE, I scored WELL for all my module. I think I got 80 plus for all of them. Even the persuasive paper that I thought I would failed, I passed with a score of 69. PRAISE BE TO LORD JESUS!!!
Wow! I had written such a long entry about God's blessing in my life. I could write and write on forever about how God had bless me but I think I should stop here. Better go and rush my assignments.
-Shu Ling-
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