HEYY PEOPLE!!!

Jo-ANN here!!!!!!!!! XDDDDDDDD

YEP I TOTALLY AGREE GREAT WORK CELESTE!!!!! WWOOHOOOO i cant wait for shu xian to come down!!!!!!!! X))))

Okay I wanted to blog because something totally great happened yesterday!!! AND GUESS WHAT. it was september 11, so I guess this can totally change your mindset of sep 11!!!!!!!!!!

Okay maybe it may not seem like a great miracle but I think it was THE GREAT PIVOTAL point of my spiritual life. for ssssssooooooooo long I havent done my qt because of school and stuff but yesterday I just felt an urge to do so I just put down my chinese work and did my qt for ONE HOUR!!!!!

I'm REALLY glad!!!!! and I think God spoke to me yesterday and my journally experience was good too!! And what's more, my mum said somethings to me yesterday that really encouraged me this time even though I heard them so smany times before. So, yesterday's qt was SO GREAT!!! And I just wanted to urge you guys to do qt too coz I finally realised how great and touching they can be!

Sometimes we may say ''QT isn't fun and God doesnt tell me anything''

But actually, the quality of your quiet times is not all dependent on God. Whether or not they are interesting depends on whther YOU make them interesting. If you do your qt with an open mind and an expentant heart with faith that God will speak to you, EVERY qt session would be filled with FUN!!!! God is always there, it's just a matter of whether you let Him reach out to you. X)

So, be encourage my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOOO!!~~

Praise the Lord in all you do!!! In all that happens...........

I love this song's chorus!

And i surrender to you,
I will give to you everything
Show me what to do
And I will give to you all that I am
PLacing my soul in your hands

AND YES! I CANT WAIT for the day that we are allowed to help lead worship upstairs for primary school kids and THE DAY WE ACTUALLY DO IT!!! WWHOOO!!!!!!!!

With love, <3 jo-Ann

changeme.
2:15 AM

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

HELLO CG PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jo-ann here. X) IM BLOGGING!!!!!! WWOOOHOOOOOO

Anyway celeste that's really cool!! OH MY GOSH YOU SHOULD REALLY INVITE HER DOWN TO CHURCH!!! IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEP PRAYER WORKS!!!!! It really works, no matter if it's in small or big ways, we can see that God is there for us all the time and it really encourages all of us X)

CELESTE IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!! HAHAHAH.

OKAY PEOPLE I'VE GOT GOOD GOOD GOOD NEWS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOPPEEEEE X) my cousin has decided to join our church !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESYESYESYESYESYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS she thinks our worship rocks and the people are really friendly. GOOD WORK PEOPLE!!!!!! XD I'm really glad that she decided to come to our church after all, fellowship is as important as personal growth too and church helps us in all aspects of this life. Anyway!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

One outreach has already done so much for all of us, and I hope that through this, we can also know how important and effective prayer can be! We may not be able to invite friends down for outreaches all the time BUT if that's the case, then we should actually tell our friends the gospel! Prayer REALLY works and if we just pray hard enough and keep the faith that GOD will help us through, then our friends may also receive CHRIST through these conversations about CHRIST. Sometimes we might fear rejection or being laughed at by friends, but we dont have to fear these. I used to be afraid of these too, but then we just have to know that God is there for us all the time and He is our friend, our Saviour, our Father, our Lord.

''I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength''Philippians 4.13

Most of us should know this verse from the bible and maybe, we know it so well that we start to be TOO familiar with it and no longer see the truth behind it. Now I understand what Dave said before about how familiarity comes into picture when it comes to keeping the faith. We have seen this verse so many times, we can memorise it backwards! But, we dont see the deeper meaning it has.

Only recently I started to look at this verse from another perspective after a terrible incident that happened. Someone's relative died and I know that I can never relate to her and emphathise with her fully. But when searching for verses to encourage her, I came across this verse and an evil though just went through my mind. This verse is too simple.

But, in the end, I just though that it was the most appropriate verse. strength. what is strength really? Strength is what we all need, strength is so broad an issue that it can be related to almost everything we do. strength to face up to peer pressure, strength to do what's right, strength to go through obstacles, strength to have the faith. God can give us everything, God allows us to do everything through the strength He provides us with! And so, everything is possible because of this strength, it only depends on whether we WANT to use it and whether itis the BEST way for us, depending on God's will, which is for all our best interests. X)

I guess what I'm trying to say is, This verse can be seen from so many perspectives and simple as it seems to be, it carries a much deeper meaning that God can use to speak to us.

If God can use a verse as short as this to speak to us, He can speak to us through EVERYTHING. and what's important is that we allow Him to. X)

HAHA I kind of squeezed a lot of what I wanted to say in this post and I think it must be very confusing but... God's love is SO BROAD YOU CAN NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!!!! HAHAHA YEAH!!!!!!!

WITH LOVE, <3 jo-Ann

changeme.
7:33 PM

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Hey my fellow CG friends. I have come to BLOG! Cause I loved today's outreach:) I hope you all enjoyed the outreach today! The music workshop and the Captain's ball. I have been praying really hard for it and I'm glad everything worked out FINE! At least, I think so... Anyway, I had 2 friends who came for the Music Worshop today and it was great. We were learning guitar, for those who don't know. And, one of my friends was super open and accepted Christ!!!:D:D:D:D

I think it's like really great cause I have been praying really hard for another friend to come and she wasn't allowed to come. Then when I asked this friend, she said she could come. And i prayed really hard that she'll be open. So it's like very very encouraging to see this cause I was rather upset that my other friend couldn't come. Being able to see my friend saved is better than her coming for this outreach!

I don't think you can understand this whole chunk of words cause the language i'm using is rather weird. So, to sum up the whole entire thing, is that prayer changes and you should continue praying and praying even though something you want does not happen. Something GREATER may happen. Pray Until Something Happens!!!!!

LOTS OF LOVE, CELESTE:)

P.S: PRAY FOR JOANNA!:D

changeme.
8:25 AM

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