Xinying :)

had fellowship & bs with W519 peeps today!

Yayyyy. 🙂

always feel encouraged by the word of God.

Because, yes, i can do anything through Christ who strengthens me 😀

sometimes i feel i’m such a faithless person. sometimes i doubt, sometimes i don’t put God first in my life where He should be. Well did Jesus say “How long shall I bear with you, O faithless generation?”

so yes. i aim to be available, teachable, faithful, willing 😀 along with being a person of prayer, radiating fire and getting up close and person with the Holy Spirit. and of course, putting God first, always, in my life.

sometimes i really do feel spiritually dry. like times when i am not able to attend cellgroup meetings, and a few days after service and i feel i’m distant from God.

and so i really want to make it a point for myself, that i should set at least half an hour for God daily 😀 there are times when im free, anfd i spend more than an hour with God, but when time is scarce, i spend barely 15 minutes.

so yes, i must make Him my priority. everything in my day should be planned around daily quiet time.

Ame shared with me a really lovely verse in Psalms 73:26.. “My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”

keep drawing on strength from God! (:

Without God, what kind of a person would I be today? Even if it has been only a few months.

I don’t want to think about it.

It’s by the grace of God that I have what I have now. (:

Got back my prelim results already, and all I can say is that all glory goes to God ((:

esp for my humanities! omg, two content papers in ONE day, history and social studies, and i studied so little, bcos i fell asleep on the sofa, then went out to celebrate Mama’s birthday the day before.

Had totally no time to study anything, only a few chapters i guessed would come out. Prayed like crazy that night, and before and after the paper that I would do okay, that the chapters I studied would come out.

And those chapters did! 😀 ended up with a 42/50 for history, 39/50 for social studies. When I received my results, the real proof that God had heard my prayers and answered them was right there in front of me. The rush of love and gratefulness from my heart was so dizzying my eyes actually blurred, and it was suddenly like God was right there in the classroom with me.

I even passed the Chem P1 I thought I would fail.

Praise be to the LORD (: and happy that I can make the time to go svc this weekend to praise Him (:

will update again soon bcos actually I have alot more things to say. Haha. But gtg now.

Have a blessed day 🙂

Indeed,

Luke 1:37

“For with God nothing will be impossible.”

God has heard & answered so many of my prayers 🙂

I remember on the 19th of August when we were due to collect our MT O Level results, I thought I would do horribly. I prayed almost nonstop the whole day, whenever I had a moment to myself, that at least I would be granted an A for my results. I told myself I’d be happy even if it was just an A2.

But my God is generous, He gifted me with more than I expected to receive 🙂

And I knew God was real, that He hears my prayers, that He answers them.

This Monday, I started my food fast for the first time. I have gastric problems if I don’t eat, so I was praying that God would relieve me of these problems that day to help make the fast easier for me. And hey, it really happened 🙂 my gastric problems didn’t affect me at all. I went pain-free for the whole day 😀 (well, despite the hunger, haha..)

God is real, He lives in us. He loves us, He created us.

JOSHUA 23:14

“…And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.”

Amelia taught, to pray with faith, belief 🙂

She also said to be a loud person, a person radiating with fire xD

Radiate is one of my favourite worship songs. Everytime sing until v. high. Hahahas (: so yes, I must learn to radiate. To become a participator instead of merely being a spectator. To give testimony during Cgm. To voluntarily say hi to new people I meet. Start conversations.

I pray for this ability. 🙂

Even though you pray, sometimes things don’t turn out the way you want them to.

At times like these, even if prospects should seem bleak, just think that hey, God willed it this way. And He knows what’s best for us, way better than we do.

So I try not be discouraged, and to look on the brighter side of things.

Surely, it’s for the best. 🙂

There are many reasons why I cannot really speak about my love for Christ and the Holy Spirit in my personal blog.

I daren’t even refer to the Bible.

There is one very important friend in my life, Herman, and I have so much to thank him for.

He was the one who first brought me to City Harvest Church, the one who first introduced me into the House of God. 🙂

Because of him, I am able to embrace Christianity and truly understand that I am one of God’s children, and no matter how low I am or how dejected I may be, the Holy Spirit will always be there for me.  That I am here in this world with a purpose, that God wishes to use me to do great things.

He was there at times when I was down (even if he didn’t know it, haha), and never failed to make me laugh when I didn’t even feel like smiling. He is a really important person in my life, and pray for him I always do, when I speak to God.

I don’t come from a Christian family, though the religion was never foreign to me. I believe I was always destined to join the House of God one day, and that my friend was a person God worked through to bring more of His children back into His House.

Technically, I have converted my religion. But I know that in reality, all I’ve done is to embrace my relationship with God. I speak to Him daily through prayers, and I believe to the bottom of my heart that He hears me, understands me. The proof lies in so many of my prayers He has answered subtly, yet I am still comforted, awed by His love and grace, that I know He has done these wonderful things for me.

God’s presence I have felt many times, whether it may be during Bible Study lessons with Amelia, during service where the whole church sings and worships the Lord, or during Cell Group meetings when Clement preaches the Word of God.

The day I bought my first bible (Amelia helped me xD), I remember well that after service, Clement gathered W519 together and told us to read the bible every day, even if it was only a single chapter. That left a really deep impression on me and I had promised myself to follow his instruction.

Even when time is scarce, even when I am so busy that I barely have time to rest, even in a day where I rush from morning to night, I make it a point to read at least one or two chapter a day. Even when the time nears midnight and the whole house is asleep save for me, I draw my bible out from under my pillow and read two, three chapters before my nightly prayers and sleep. It always calms me, soothes frazzled nerves and makes me restful.

On afternoons when I may be alone at home, my first instinct is usually to turn towards the computer or television, the way I was last Friday.

But I recalled what Amelia had told us over the phone, that we should spend more time with God when we’re free, instead of on computer games and such.

So I turned to my bible instead, and spent almost an hour with God 🙂

Words, phrases and certain verses of love and encouragement really motivate me to work so much harder 🙂

Mark 11:23 -24 ❤

This verse really left a deep impression on me.

As long as we truly believe that our prayers to God will be answered, it will be. Even if we will the mountain to be removed into the sea, as long as we believe, it can happen.

It’s just the strength of the belief.

Goodnight people! 🙂

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