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Sermon via Saddleback: Rick Warren - Getting Ready to be Used by God
Hey guys!
Today I felt like I needed more rest, after studying Chemistry until 2:30am this morning. Woke up a bit late as well, so I felt that maybe watching an online sermon could help. Well it did, and it was one of the most enriching messages I’ve had in a while. Basically Pastor Rick Warren’s message was about how to get ready for God to use you, and it was a very casual 55min message.
So basically, the 4 major points of the sermon was:
- Purifying my heart
- Sanctify my body
- Simplify my schedule
- Fortify my faith
I feel like I need to practice these more often. Also, he talked about how important it is to get into small groups, and also get a ‘buddy’ so that spiritually, physically, mentally, you can lean on each other to continue the walk with God.
It was a really good message, and really felt empowered by God’s word through Pastor Rick.
So now, I’m off to eat something and then carry on with mini-mocks revision, with my Spanish Oral being tonight, when I have to Skype with my Spanish teacher. And yes, an exam on a Sunday night. Oh well. Take care everyone, and God bless!
Wednesday, 18th April 2012
Time started: 4.31pm
Current location: Malmö Central Station
So back again to another post. Today has been quite tiring, and honestly I feel really drained out by the languages, English and Spanish. Basically for English class, we have to go for SL classes which are optional while it is compulsory for HL students. I really want to skip English classes because although I try to find them enjoyable, in the end I always lose out and somehow find it super mundane to go to. Spanish, well there’s just so much work to do. I’m not even concentrating on my 3 HL subjects as much as I should be. Well since today is a break from my usual gym sessions, I guess taking a break at home can be rather essential at this point of time.
Thank God for good friends also. There’s a few guess still back in Singapore still keeping in contact with me, whom I very much appreciate. Many are too busy to keep in touch with me, but there are still some really great people! Of course without having to mention the many friends I’ve made at Borgar, and that’s something I’m also very thankful for.
Also, haven’t really been browsing on tumblr lately. Only long, no where meaningful posts like these.
Still looking forward for my trip back to Singapore, need a break really. Or just a break from school perhaps. It’s horrible to live so far away from my friends in Malmö, while in the land of Copenhagen my mac is my only friend outside my family. Not too pathetic, but it’ll be much better if I could actually spend more time with my friends.
Well that’s it for now, I’d better get reading on the optional book in English, The Outsider by Albert Camus. My friends say it’s a rather good book, but well I guess I have to read it. Or spark notes it. Thanks for reading this blog again!
Time ended: 4.41pm
Current Location: Øresund’s Bridge
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Time started: 4:12pm
Current location: Øresund’s Bridge
Just got my Chemistry test back. Things not looking so good. First time I’ve actually studied for a test, but then things didn’t seem to work out as planned. I guess this is a wake up call for me to stop slacking the nights away and start studying. The problem is that every time when I go back home after a gym session, I always feel a little tired. But then now I have to do what’s necessary, if I have to study I have to study then. Things will get better! Just have to set my mind that I will do well for mini-mocks, and it will be alright.
Yesterday there was a university fair at my school, and there were quite a lot of universities present really. This brings me to a point where I start asking myself, what do I want to do in life? I’ve been considering medicine lately, but well, a PCMe student can only go as far as I can get. Some universities do accept students to med school taking PCMe but then most of other want a BCM student. Back up plan? Probably somewhere in the banking sector. I hope I can clearly define what I want soon.
Alright looks like Internet has been restored and I’m back in Denmark. Time to check my twitter feed again. Take care, and thanks for reading this post!
End time: 4:18pm
Current location: Copenhagen Airport
A typical Friday during March
Friday, 9 March 2012
1527 hrs
Now playing: Here (In your Arms) - Hellogoodbye
Hey guys!
It’s been awhile since I updated this blog, not cause I forgot about it but actually cause I had no time time update it. I’m on the quiet section of the train again and actually still in Malmö Central station as I’m typing this on my iPhone’s notes and just cut and paste to tumblr later.
School’s going really fine, and everything really couldn’t be better. We just got our EE (they call it extended here) briefing and I’m thinking of doing it in chemistry or economics. Mixing stuff up and blowing them up is fun but I like economics too, just cause I like to see how companies work, where the heck is all the lost money from economic crisis going to and all that fun stuff that a typical Asian businessman would know. I’m not trying to be stereotypical but it’s kinda funny just thinking about a typical Asian businessman and the suits and really big glasses most of them wears! Okay, moving on. Well if you have any advice I would like to hear it! Any advice is appreciated a lot.
Came across the soundtrack of the game The Sims 2 (brings back loads of memories) and I was thinking of getting that game ( or The Sims 3) up on my mac soon when it hits the summer hols.
Gonna take a nice break in Singapore for the first 1.5 weeks, get some help for EE and work the rest of the weeks. Maybe I should find some teachers in AC and ask them for revision stuff for the typical PCMe student. And try to return the books dad bought for me (Dad if you’re reading this thanks a lot but I think I’ll return it cause I already have the material). Already decided to leave 2 days out of my Singapore trip, 1 to spend with some BB guys, and the other to get together with some of the year 6s from AC and study with them. Hopefully I won’t be distracting them! Sounds like a really good opportunity to get some help with my EE and PCMe stuff. Maybe TOK. Or possibly just everything IB related. Maybe I’ll go overseas with Dunstan to Malaysia or something, spend a day with him and just have a pretty relaxing time. Gonna take a much needed break and get ready for IB2, and gonna massacre all the work that’s given to me. 45 points here I come!
So now my train has just passed a station called Hyllie, pronounced as Hill-luhyeah. And we’re crossing the bridge to Denmark, back to where I live now. Architecture of this Øresundsbron (øresund’s bridge), pronounced Er-re-sunds-bron, is pretty amazing. A 8km long bridge across the Baltic sea (according to my dad) and 4km tunnel underwater. Go google up some images and you’ll see that it’s pretty fantastic. I’ll be hitting the gym later after I get back home. Was a little sick the past week so this is the first time I’m going in a week and I’m super happy that I’ve recovered and can go back to training, thank God!
Looks like I have Internet now and will be tweeting that I’ve updated this blog. Here we go underground the 4km tunnel!
qt
22:22:22 on a saturday night
Usually when my parents and I are ready to go to bed, we usually have qt. I’m just wondering that when I have qt alone, I find myself praying for more things personal than with my parents, no it’s not because I don’t trust them, but I find opening up to God so much more easier. Like when you have a HTHT, honestly do you feel like confessing to a group is better, or having a dialogue with a person one-to-one would be more intimate, and a more personal conversation?
Matt 18:20 says “For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.” but I prefer having it alone sometimes, not everyday with my parents. It gets quite hard to pray, and I feel like I’m reading off a script while praying rather than having a conversation with God. I find that when I pray alone, prayer for me is more impromptu.
I wonder what others think about this. Hope anyone else can leave an opinion about this about what they do. Most of my friends do qt by themselves and find it perfectly alright. I was thinking about that too, because it allows me more freedom. I wouldn’t really say that my peers have influenced me but after trying out different alternatives I find that this is better. Read our daily bread a couple of months ago (http://odb.org/2010/05/19/secondhand-faith/) and it says that we can’t live off the faith of previous generations. I think that’s true too. With a more personalized relationship with God, it makes it easier to communicate.
inspire.
I might post these two verses up on my study wall
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
-Philippians 4:13
And looking at them Jesus said to them, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
-Matthew 19:26
people.
Typed a really long post before this but then I deemed it to be unfit to be posted up here.
If I had to sum up that post, I’d basically be thankful for some of the friends I’ve had throughout the years in AC/TP/Church (and borgar people are on the way!) to make I’ve made. They’ve always been with me and I thank God for that.
Sometimes we all try too hard in chasing someone, be it a person of the same or opposite gender, my story is more of just platonic relationships. I’ve always been never satisfied with the company I had, and always thought that the grass was always greener the other side. I have a few pretty bad memories but nawh that’s not really significant and related.
Coming to realization just rather recently, I come to think of it that God puts the key people whom are really genuine close to me. You don’t need to be friends with the guy who’s a douche yet gains respect from everyone, you just need a genuine friend who’ll be with you always.
I always try to remind myself that God places some people in my life for a reason and I thank him for that. It’s always very comforting to know that some people really do care for you.
I can’t list down ALL of the people because many people have been very important in my life and I thank God for you.
I’d like to start of with my family first.
Thanks mom and dad, and Dunstan.
Good morning world!
Title says it all!
Just gotta be reminded of how God has blessed me so richly everyday and forget the worries. Sometimes I wonder. Even with so many things God has granted me, why am I feeling disappointed? There’s no reason to be!
Have a wonderful day ahead guys!
(Source: starryeyeddxo)
Chapter 2012, Page 2
I was just wondering, it’s been a year since I’ve collected my O Level results. And I was thinking, if I actually hadn’t screwed up, gotten the 8 points which some of my friends predicted I would get, where would I be now?
Probably back in AC doing IB. Or if 10-12 points, I’d be in acjc. If I was still in acsi, things would’ve been WAY different. My life wouldve taken a different course, and I wouldn’t be in Copenhagen now. I would be with my friends, in Primers, God knows what. I’d still be in my little deluded world that you don’t have to work hard to get good results. I did try really hard for my O levels, and well, things didn’t turn out the way it was supposed to be (in my eyes). I’d probably get 39 points (taking slightly below the average of AC’s) and land a pretty good spot at med school somewhere in the world (don’t think NUS med accepts 39pts PCMe guy).
Or say I went to acjc. I still would’ve been in primers and do PCMe and probably get ABBBB or something like that (hey im not hardcore).
[oh hay it’s 11:11]
Going to TPJC made me wonder, WHY GOD WHY. I’ve worked so hard from my personal opinion and yet I get a below average JC? (TPJC IMHO is great, but the morale of everyone is so low everyone just feels like crap whether you are enthu or not. Teachers for one are the nuts, cause they are far more willing to help you than the AC teachers GENERALLY) 6 Months and whoosh I’m out and God opened the door for me in Malmö.
But then right here, 2 Jan 2012, I’m in Copenhagen, Denmark. Who would’ve known? In my eyes, snagging a spot in AC’s IB would’ve been the BEST alternative. But sometimes I question myself, why Borgarskola in Malmö? After a few months of studying here, God’s plan is starting to unveil progressively. I get to meet more people, expand my networks, and not get such a narrow minded view of the world (4 years in AC is pretty long and I roughly get how IB in year 5 and 6 is like from seniors’ experiences).
So what’s the point? Well, we might see our way as the best alternative, as for me it was IB in AC, but God wanted to give me something better in His eyes, and that’s just being here. The people back in Singapore (be it AC or TPJ or anywhere else) are great don’t get me wrong, but getting to know people from a different back ground here is really a life changing experience. The culture here is different, everything is not indifferent in contrast to the Singaporean culture. The people here are awesome, and everything else is great.
Reflecting back, I’d personally like to thank God for getting me out of the rat race in Singapore. There’s just too much pressure, and too competitive for me.
So guys, if you’re facing the same problem I did, asking God “Why the heck did You put me in this situation/ why am I here?!” well I’d say wait. Although it might not seem the perfect plan according to our eyes, waiting will indeed help us just slowly be mesmerised by God’s plan and yes, it will be better than what you will be expecting.
Takeaway: Waiting helps unveil God’s divine plan
