I Hate Being A Cry Baby

But can I help it?

Occasionally some things will come along the way, touches your heart in its deepest corners, triggers the emotion centre of your heart and the floodgates of your eyes will just give way.

I wanted to post this video yesterday, because it made me burst into tears when I was just trying to kill time over lunch before I head off to church. I just watched it again, and well... you already know what happened.

Stories like Team Hoyt are indeed meant to strengthen us through all kinds of difficulties and struggles. Like Dick Hoyt (the father) who gave his all just to spend more time with his son and allow him to experience more of life, the same way has God wanted us to experience more of life through the blood of Jesus Christ.

I love my Father, and I'm not ashamed to make it known to the world. Pray that His amazing strength will work in us, and let us not fail to continue to spread His Word and love to those around us. I had done so little for Him thus far, and I can do _so much more_.

We can do all things in Him who strengthens us.



When asked what one thing Rick (the son) wished he could give his father, his reply was "The thing I'd most like is that my dad would sit in the chair and I would push him once."

The Evangecube

My colleague was showing me an actual evangecube today. I thought it is really neat as it will help put across an important message to pre-believers of Christ succinctly.

However, since I have no idea where to get one of these, I probably can't show it to any of you. But well, praise God for there are videos already available made to spread this important message. :)

Wonder if we could probably get our church to buy in bulk, so that this may be one of our evangelistic tools? Just some thoughts. :P

10 August 08: LE Prayer Items

1. Miracle Service
   Spiritual TNT Prayer Guide
   
   • Prayer #13 - Unity
   • Prayer #14 - Recruitment Of Participants
   • Warfare: Binding & Loosing
     • Bind
       Disobedience
       Sin & Vices
       Sickness
     • Loose
       Obedience
       Holiness
       Healing


2. Powerlight Ministry
   • Increasing faith, anointing and wisdom upon all Powerlighters
   • To continue serving with care, compassion, love and unity
   • Divine protection, health and blessings upon them and family members
   • More Lighters to join this ministry of touching lives

The Singapore Song

This is the song composed and sung by Pastor Rony.

I really want to thank God for this heart of his, for it really inspired and touched me deeply. For many years of my life, National Day probably just meant a plain and simple public holiday; a day to have fun and be free.

The question is how are we able to experience the fun and freedom now, if our forefathers never paid the price? It was a price that we could *never* comprehend or experience; the pain, suffering, poverty and struggle. How many of us actually know how it feels like to _struggle to survive_?

Even as I write this post, strong emotions are crashing upon my heart. I'm thankful for God's protection over this land, that we may have peaceful days, a clean government with no known corruption, an island that's free from natural disasters, and a considerably safe society that we can be assured of our safety when we're out on the streets.

All these are things that are too easy to be taken for granted when we are born and raised in a time of peace. With this song, I do feel a lot more appreciative for this land that I stay and live in. This is the place that I call...

Home.

Somewhere In The Middle

This is the song by Casting Crowns that I shared during cell tonight, and as promised, here it is. :)

Just wanted to share some things before jumping straight into the song. In the lyrics of the song, I believe we all can see ourselves. We are always in the middle for God; sometimes hot other times cold, sometimes righteous other times in sin.

Yet in all of these situations when we can't even see ourselves, it's just amazing that God always manage to find us. Always. He never let us go just because we sin again, He never refuse to listen to our concerns, and He never abandon us.

Even when we are somewhere in the middle, His mighty arms are always outstretched forth to us, waiting for our return like the prodigal son. His love never fails.

With eyes wide open to the differences,
the God we want and the God who is.
But will we trade our dreams for His
or are we caught in the middle.

16 Jul 08: Prayer Items

Praise God for the many many testimonies again this week! :D

Here's the prayer list for this week:

• Trovan
  • For his cough and health
  • For his basketball competition this Sunday
  • Career


• Harry
  • Career


• Lionel
  • For his 24hr coding competition this weekend
  • For LEW's choir to be in pink of health and ready to serve the Lord

The Word Is Alive

Not too sure if you guys have heard of this song called "The Word Is Alive" by Casting Crowns? It contains a very strong message that really encouraged me, and I hope it will encourage you and all who stumbles upon this blog post too. :)

The Bible was inscribed over a period of two thousand years, in times of war and in days of peace; by kings, physicians, tax collectors, farmers, fishermen, singers and shepherds. The marvel, is that a library so perfectly cohesive could have been produced by such a diverse crowd over a period of time which staggers the imagination. Jesus is its grand subject, our good is designed, and the glory of God is its end.

Powerful eh? Here's the full song with lyrics. ;)

Casting Crowns - The Word Is Alive