Ministered by children =)

Today is the Relationship Day at DUMC Children Church. I was really happy spending time with my children in my Cell group - Playing with them, talking with them and pray with them.

I was ministered by them today. Last few days, I was kinda down and felt a little not so comfort in my heart and also didn't sense the peace in my heart. But today, seeing them so happy, enjoying eating the bread together and all their smiles and laughters on their faces really gave me the peace.

And I believed that today, God used the children to ministered into my life by giving me peace and comfort! =)

After Children Church, I was so calm and peaceful down deep inside my heart... Right now, I am so calm typing this post and very relax... =)
This Orchid is one of my children gave it to me... My heart was melted! =) Thank God for the healing through the wonderful children! All praise and glory to the Lord!

Last Day Of The Class!

Last night was the last class for the course; 'New Testament Survey' at Bible College Malaysia (BCM). Time flies... 3 months just passed me by so fast! I started this class on January and I wrote a article about my first class too and posted on the blog itself (refer to my January 2008 blog archive).

I'll still continue with a new course next month. But not with my friends anymore :-( I'll continue the class alone. Last night, we all took a picture together with our lecturer, Rev. Ng Kok Kee...
(from the left; me, Wen-I, Ivy, Rev. Ng Kok Kee, Calvin, Melissa, Jamie, Irena and Stanley)

During the 3 months, I learned and gained a lot of knowledge about the Words of God especially from the New Testament. Plus, I also enjoyed the fellowship that we had during our supper time. All praises and glories to the Lord for the great and blessed time studying His words and also for all nice and wonderful fellowship that we had together! (^o,^) Miss ya!

Agape (pronounced "ah-GaH-pay")

Yesterday, I was doing my revision and reading bible on my bed. I was lying down looking up to the sky. Then, I put my right hand up and pretend to reach the sky and touch the sky. I tried to take picture of my hand reaching out to sky like reaching out to God for hope. But I failed to take the picture because the exposure was not nice. Suddenly, the word "AGAPE" came to my mind and the word came out through my mouth unconsciously. Then, I asked my roommate what is the meaning of Agape? I also asked Melissa and Pastor Nancy the same question. They gave me the same answer - God's Love! I believed that the Lord is reminded me about His unconditional love for me and for the world. Amen! =)
Agape - found in the biblical New Testament, Agape expresses the spiritual, not physical, love of God for his people. It is an unconditional love and concern for others. Agape is a love that accepts everyone for who they are. This is the same love that God expressed through the death of Jesus Christ, His son (1 John 4:9-10). It is a selfless love! (the definition is taken from the Agape Center website)

I'll Never Leave You!

In my previous post, I shared about the movie; Martian Child. It was really touching but I didn't cry; big boy already! hehe... After watching this movie, I found out some parts of this movie that related to my life about the relationship between father and son.

"In the movie, Dennis' parent abandoned him, therefore, he's lack of parental love. Eventually, Dennis ended up being a strange boy and he like to steal things".

I grew up from my childhood to my teenage life without my father because he seldom at home especially during my growing up period; my primary school time! Sad but true, I'm lack of fatherly figure. In addition, I'm not very close to my father. As a teenager, I didn't know about the need of having a father because I was so use to live without him, as a result, my life was not balance. After I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour, He restored back my relationship with God as heavenly father and son. But then because I was so used to not having my 'Earthly' father with me, so, God's fatherly figure still very much missing even though I knew that God is my heavenly father. But during my Baptism and Membership Encounter Weekend (BMEW) last year, Pastor Chris was teaching and sharing about God the father and His wonderful love. After the lesson, we were knelt down and prayed. Then I saw this vision that I was sitting on the swing at a garden or playground. Then I saw God was pushing me and I was swing up and down.
I had so much joy and fun. From that moment onwards, I can really sensed the fatherly love that was missing for so long. Then, I was broke down in tears because I was so touch and happy!

"There is one part in the movie that I love the most when Dennis told David that his parent from the Mars is coming to get him back but David told him that He's not going anywhere. Cut the story short, Dennis is crying and asked David why his parent left him ='( Then David told Dennis that his parent are stupid to abandoned him and didn't see the potential in him. Then David said to Dennis that he'll never, never, never, never, never leave him. And then, Dennis run to David and hug him. It was really touching".

This reminded me that God promised me that He'll never leave me nor forsake me! There was one day, my spiritual life was so dry and I couldn't sense God. He seems like very far away from me. I was so doubtful and upset. Then, one of the church members prayed for me and he told that God said to me that He'll never leave me nor forsake me. Then, immediately I cried...

This promise is not just for me alone, it is for you too! From the Bible, God said that He "will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you - Deuteronomy 31:8", this is God's promise for everybody!

Are you lack of love today? Or do you feel discouraged, hopeless or feel like being abandoned? What are you waiting for? Accept Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour now and He'll restore back your relationship with God as father and son or father and daughter! Just pray this simple prayer:-
"Lord Jesus, I want to accept you as my personal Saviour. I believe that you died for my sins on the cross and you're son of God. I confess all my sins to you and please forgive me. In Jesus' name I prayed, Amen!"

And now, you're the Children of God, another God's promise for you! It is so privilege to known as Children of God! (^o,^)

Martian Child; Good Movie!

Last Sunday, I watched this movie called Martian Child. It is a good movie and very touching too. Here's the synopsis of the movie:-

David Gordon (John Cusack) is an eccentric science fiction writer who considers adopting Dennis (Bobby Coleman), a young orphaned boy who claims to be from Mars.

Ignoring some sage advice about the perils of parenthood from his sister, Liz (Joan Cusack), and the qualms of children’s group home director, Sophie (Sophie Okonedo), David decides he wants to be a father to the odd youngster who keeps insisting he is an alien. Even with the support of his sympathetic friend, Harlee (Amanda Peet), the aspiring dad soon finds himself in way over his head.

For starters, he’s in danger of missing his next publishing deadline and that has his nervous agent, Jeff (Oliver Platt), pretty worried. And then there is the social worker, Lefkowitz (Richard Schiff), and his review board who also have some serious doubts about David’s suitability as a dad. In the midst of all this, young Dennis exhibits some pretty strange behavior and adamantly insists that he does indeed come from the red planet. A series of inexplicable events ultimately leads David to wonder if the boy’s claims are based on fact or fantasy.

Whatever the true origins of this strange little boy, David gradually finds himself growing more and more attached to him. Finally, when Dennis tries to live out the last chapter of his fantasy and unknowingly puts himself into serious danger, David discovers the transformational power of his love for the ‘Martian’ child.

An Apple A Day, Keeps The Doctor Away

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control - Galatians 5:22 & 23 (taken from the Bible)

Today at Children Church, the junior children learned about the first fruit of the Spirit - LOVE! And we are using Apple to represent the first fruit of the Spirit; Love! Actually, I don't really know the main reason why we're using the apple to represent love.

But in my own opinion, Apple is a very healthy fruit (Ok, all fruits are healthy! =P). It contains Vitamin A, Vitamin c, Folate, Vitamin E and others minerals. If you take an apple a day, it can keeps you healthy and keeps the doctor away. Hehe... Therefore, when you practice loving attitude everyday in your life, you can stay away from all the bad and unhealthy attitude like hatred, unforgiving heart and easily get angry and grumpy because these bad attitudes can lead to consequences!

As the conclusion, practice your loving heart everyday like sharing your lunch box with your friend or lend your helping hands whenever people need help... Never say that you can't, remember Practice makes Perfect! God bless ya! (^o,^)

My Cambodia Youth Mission Trip

On the 6th of August 2007, I went to Cambodia for my second mission trip for nine days. Team of 10 people; Maureen Ooi (leader of the team), Jonathan Lim (assistant leader), Troy Lim, Mike Chang, Jamie Ang, Sara Leong, Carol Yap, Jamie Lee, Jared Sze and myself, Jacky Lai.

We were assigned to serve the community at Cambodia by doing teaching and preaching at two Christian Youth Camp at Kampot and Baray. This trip was a blessed and a memorable trip to me. I had a lot of testimonies about this trip on how God provided me and blessed me. But there is one testimony that I must share with you all:

Three day before the trip, I received a bad news. My actual final exam date was on the 20th of August but my lecturer brought forward the examination date to 13th of August which I am still at Cambodia. Plus my course mates all agreed with the date. I was so sad. I went to a stairs near my hostel, I broke down and cried. Then, I prayed... At night of that day, I got a skit and dance practice for this mission trip. Then, I shared it with my team members. Suddenly one of my team members shared with me, "God will honor those who honor Him first!" I was so blessed to hear that and I knew that God is answering my prayer. So I skipped the exam and went for this mission trip.
So I needed to re-sit my exam. Then, my lecturer told me that he will never recycled the question. So, those question that had come out, I didn't memorize them, I just read through them. Do you know, on that day of my re-sit, he gave me the same question paper. Then, I was panic. I prayed and asked for God's wisdom. Then, I sensed the peace. I did my best and surrender the rest to the Lord. Guess what, in my class, only three people scored 'A' and I was one of them... Yeah!!! Indeed God will honor those who honor Him first! All praises and glories to the Lord!

During trip, I was truly blessed. I got to know more about my team members. Right now, all of them are my best friends. I learned something from each and everyone of them. I also learned about the heart of servant hood. Here, I learned how to serve with love. I also learned how to depend on God and walk by faith. I was blessed to know and meet my church, DUMC missionaries here at Cambodia. Their testimonies really inspired me! As well as the pastors there. So thankful!

The foods are great and delicious. I really enjoyed eating the Cambodian foods. I love it very much. My favourite is the Ice Cream inside the coconut. I also tried eating spider. Wow, never thought that it can be taste so good.

We went for river cruise, horse-cart and cow-cart. We also did a little shopping at Russian Market and Central Market. Here, I can get a lot of in-expensive stuff like clothes, souvenirs, etc.
I cried when we were at Phnom Penh International Airport. I think I missed the missionaries especially Aunty Esther, she like my mummy and she take good care of me and my team during the trip and I also missed the Cambodian! Inside the plane, I prayed and told the Lord, "Lord, if you call me again to serve You here at Cambodia, I will follow and go!"

This trip was really blessed by the Lord. A truly blessed, fruitful and memorable trip! Thank God and thank everyone who made this mission trip possible for me! All praises and glories to the Lord! Love ya =)