i think i'm in love =)

I'm in love with Jesus =) If you have fallen in love before, then you would know how's e feeling like. It's a nice feeling to be in love & to be loved in return.When I'm so conscious of His love,it makes me spill out e love to everyone around me.I especially felt so in work today as I sat alone writing my notes.Hope I didnt send any wrong signals to those who came by.Haha =)
After what has happen yest, for me to ever doubt His love would make me lose out on His superabundance blessings He has for me.I still cant fully believe it myself after wat has happen yest.How he has blessed me in a most unexpectant way!
For those of you who are in new creation, I'm sure the Ben Gen camp is nothing unfamiliar to you.For those who have no idea wat i'm talkin about, it's a camp catered for singles and singles alone.Haha.Whoever who came up with this idea deserve my *applause* =)when I first heard about it, the first thing that came across my mind was...It all sounds like a match made in "heaven"-a gathering of believers.Mind me.Hehe. But I think it's really cool cause it's only for those who are NOT married and age between 17 to 70 years old!Haha.yup 70.And I really hope to see one there too =) Am already excited about it!not about e match make thingie heheh but wat God is going to do in e camp!
If this sounds interesting to you, it did for me!The price?For students is 350 & adults 450.Mmm.Dun sound too nice after all rite Hehe My heart longs to be there but my bank account dint tally with e price fix for registration.Hehe My frens tell me to trust God, to go ahead and sign up and e supply will come.I cant remember how many people have told me that. The sunday before, I talk to cindy on e phone about it. She ask me to pray in tongues & go ahead in faith to sign up! Honestly praying in tongues has been easy on my side but to ask me to go to e counter to sign without e amount takes real faith.
On Sunday, I spoke to Cindy again before 3rd service in e overflow room.Told her that my mum dun even know that I'm going although I did mention to her before.And that also she didnt sound to happy about it.Reason because it's pretty expensive.And guess wat she didnt mention to her parents too!Haha ok...at least I dun feel too bad now=) tsk tsk
As I was on my way down e lift(I was rushin then cause I have an appointment with my kl frens & I'm like an hour late!), I ran into one of e children's church teacher.I was held for some time talkin.Oh gosh, here I am rushin for time but at e same time I wanted to catch up with my fren..and suddenly a lady came up to me."Hey you look familiar???....." She was e aunty I got to know below my block e last time I was looking for a room who happens to attend NCC too! Then I went on to ask her "You going for e singles camp?" Oh boy, you know I really thought I have blab out e most inappropriate/"crude" question cause she was in her 50's.Mm.Asking that question to a single 50 years old lady would mean differently to different people.Hehe.And e majority going for it are mainly from campus and young adults.Ooppss..Did I said e rite thing?
And you know wat, she said "Ok, lets sign up together"??!! I really thought she was kiddin.At e counter, when she realize I didnt have enough to pay & would probably need e approval of coach Maddy....she just willingly said" Dun worry about e money, I'll PAY for you!"
Wow.That was like a blessing fresh from heaven =) Never would I have imagine God would bless me this way. And it was just a few steps away before I sign up that I met her. And if I didnt run into my CC fren, I wouldn't have met her.She was like an angel send to me =) You know, i've always admired people with testimony like this, and now it happens to me?!! I'm still recovering from that "shock"....keke.It's all by e Grace-undeserved/unmerited favour of God!
To sheryl, I really thank God that you finally agreed with me to sign up by faith. I spoke to Maddy & she said that you could pay up next week.It's my pleasure to have you as my bunk mate =) You've been a blessing to me beloved sister.Talkin about coach Maddy, when I told her & one of e YAM leaders about it after third, she was so amazed at e very fact that I actually got a 50 plus aunty to sign up for it Hehe and goes on to say " You got to share this in e camp! & we should sent you guys to ask more aunties & uncles" =)
And He reminds me in His word that says...
"And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shall hearken unto e voice of the Lord thy God" Deuteronomy 28:2
yup, you can never out run God's blessing in your life.
It's just so excited to walk in this journey of faith. I realised that most of e blessings I received comes a few days before e due time like e room I got or it's a choice between trusting His ways/your own. And He never fails is we are obedient to His voice.
It was also thru obedience to His Word that His promises were fulfilled. Remember pastor was preaching about tithing? A way for us to remember His resurrection & Holy communion His death? I love e way how Pastor illustrate it on tithing. To ask "Do we really need to tithe?" is like asking your wife on e wedding nite" Do i really need to kiss you??" Hehe. It's just so true. Tithing is a way we show our love to Him. Just e nite before, I was asking God a question and he pointed me to a verse in 2 Corinthians. And I ended up meditating on chapter 8 & 9 about giving.It's a confirmation to me when pastor preach on sunday.
I went out to get the tithing envelope and tithe e amount God purpose in my heart with e little I have. When you start to tithe in gratitude & joy, it activates e power of God in our lives, expecting our needs to be met abundantly. Scriptural tithings stirs up faith! Amen =)
Another great stuff happen too. Remember I was about to meet my kl frens for lunch. When I got there, I was already all excited about e news. I told em about it, and my fren who sat thru e service with me told em that"yea, she was just telling me just now how much she wanted to go." And e boyfrens who's a non believer said "You seem to be always blessed, even e last time I met you" He wasnt at e service. I was just sharing to them how bless it is to live by faith. Steven(from ipoh & my cg)who didnt intend to go got up & said"I'm signing up now" & He left us to sign up for e camp!
The boyfren who's not into church said he dun mind following me to fourth service! He was suppose to leave after worship but He sat thru e whole service! And e reason I went for 2nd was because I wanted to come home earlier to read my articles. Amazingly, I felt more refresh sitting in for fourth.

Thanks to my fren for looking up e journals for me. It meant a lot to me =) I was a little worried then whether I should wait till Sunday to get it from you or go down NUS(which was pretty far.Heh) on friday myself.And I wanted to go bible study on friday as well. Remember you told me to follow e life in me? Well, I really did ask God about it, and He told me "Let him get it for you" I obeyed Him & I just felt so much peace thereafter.
The reason God is blessing me & you as well is e very fact that He wants e people around you to know that He Lives!
⁸ In this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one receives them, of ^R238 whom it is witnessed that he lives on.Ephesians 7:8
Yea, pastor explain this verse very nicely on Sunday. Dun think I'll share it here =) but If you need to know, just get back to me ;)
Hope you've been blessed reading it. Continue to be Beloved-conscious!
May His Grace continue to abound in you more beloveds!=)

A word in time

As promised =) a glimpse on the power of silence I spoke about in my previous post.
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A Word In time 

Can u keep a secret?Sometimes being able to keep a secret is important to receiving God's blessings.Words spoken out of season can get us into trouble. Sometimes you have to keep to yourself the details of those great and wonderful promises, until the appointed time. Remember, we are partners with God in this blessing thing. You can make it easy, or you can make it more difficult than it has to be.
Not everyone is going to be happy about the things God has promised you. Satan certainly wont be. He will raise his ugly head to question you to dislodge your faith. Others will be just plain jealous because God didn't promise them the same thing. People who wait on God's promises may be viewed as unrealistic dreamers. And people don't like dreamers. Dreamers make people uncomfortable, perhaps because dreamers expose a lack of vision and a sense of purposelessness that other people may be feeling. Joseph found this out the hard way.
Genesis 37:3-5 "...37:5 Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more.
You know e rest of e story. The brothers focused on Joseph's dream even more than he did, I think, and they were so incensed that they sought his harm.
Genesis 37:9-11 
⁹Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, "Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me."

¹⁰So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?" ¹¹And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

¹⁸Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him. ¹⁹Then they said to one another, "Look, this dreamer is coming! ²⁰Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, "Some wild beast has devoured him.' We shall see what will become of his dreams! "
Joseph had spoken too soon. Although he didn't know it, his dreams would not be realized for years. Now, mind you, God used e evil plot of Joseph's brothers to position Joseph exactly where he needed to be in order for his dream to be fulfilled. The bottom line is that sometimes we bring unnecessary complications into our lives by speaking out of time. I find it interesting that when his dreams were fulfilled, Joseph wasn't as quick to reveal his identity to his brothers. he had learned a thing or two about timing.
Even God doesn't tell us everything at once. Although He already knows all e details of our lives. He gives us only as much as He knows we can handle at any given time. Too much information at e wrong time is not a good thins. It leaves too much room for error, misunderstanding, confusion, and strife of various kinds.
Sometimes you just have to keep things to yourself until they come into ful manifestation. The enemy of your soul wil use others to try to steal , kill, and destroy e dream God has placed in your life. Even after e dream has been birthed, he keeps on trying. But we can sometimes prevent e abortion of God's dreams by learning how to hold our words for e right season.
Ecclesiastes 3:1,7,11
 ¹To everything there is a season,

A time for every purpose under heaven...

A time to keep silence,

And a time to speak;

¹¹He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

Now e word wait is not a pasive word. Waiting can be quite active. Wait on e Lord to take care of what He said while you delight yourself serving Him. Keep moving forward toward His promise. Do what it takes to be in position to receive His blessing. The best position to be in is as close to God as you can get, right smack to e center of his will, doing what He's called you to do. God tells us secrets so we will draw closer to Him to hear and see e rest, not so we will burst into action trying to bring about what he has spoken or to convince others of what He said. The proof will be in e pudding soon enough.

What You Say Is What You Get

Truly e power of life & death is in e tongue. Have you ever shared a secret longing with others only to have them destroy your hope? They spoke doubt and death to your dream. They took e joy out of it and killed it for you. Perhaps you walked away resolved to no longer pursue your dream. You convinces yourself that what they said made sense. You disregarded e power of God to do e impossible.He knows what our mouth can do;therefore He will either not tell us whta He is going to do, or He will arrest us by His Spirit to keep what he has spoken under wraps. We must be sensitive to e leading of e Spirit when this occurs, recognizing e right moment to speak up.

When e angel told Zechariah, e husband of Mary's cousin, Elizabeth, that they would have a son in their old age who would be e forerunner, e poor old man had a hard time believing.

Read Luke 1:18-22,57,59-64

²⁰But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time." .

 

²²But when he came out, he could not speak to them; and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple, for he beckoned to them and remained speechless.

 

⁶⁴Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, praising God.

How's that for keeping a person out of e way?

Zechariah was not able to speak until he was able to confess e Word of God Notice that Elizabeth had no problem aligning herself with God's chosen name for e baby. She was adamant and would not e moved by e crowd.

If you must share what God revealed to you, make sure you choose someone who is able to match your faith. An inspiring minister Tim Story says, " Look for your Elizabeth." Mary knew whom to seek out when she was overwhelmed with her miraculous situation. She sough out e companionship and encouragement of Elizabeth, & Elizabeth was able to exhort Mary because she was experiencing her own miracle!

Even so God will require you to do as Mary did and ponder what He has told in your heart. Even if others receive a witness in their heart concerning God's promise to you & they confirm what has been resting in your spirit, even then continue to guard it.

Mary & baby Jesus..."Mary treasured up all these thing & pondered them in her heart"

When God has spoken a word to you, He will send others to confirm it.They will be people who are in e Spirit. They will be people who anxiously await e fulfillment of God's agenda, not their own. They are not selfish or self-consumed.Their will is lost inside His;therefore, they are not inclined to think negatively about a person who is being set up for promotion or blessing. When you are believing for e incredible, extraordinary blessings of God, chances are you're going to have a long labor in e birthing process.

Birthing e Vision

God's blessings & promises are like that . Others who induce labor for whatever reason typically find that pain of e delivery process is intensified. The body is unprepared for delivery. When we to make things happen either though our actions or e things we say, I believe it sends shock waves through e spirit realm that cause unnecessary tension or pressure. But e mother who simply lets nature takes its course, though not escaping e pain, fares better than e one who induced e delivery.

Prosperity theologians urge christians to "name it, claim it, and frame it". They say that confession is evrything & if you cant confess it, you can't get it. We must find e balance in this line of thinkking. What we must confess daily is who God is and what He is able to do, not e specific expectation of blessing.

Can God keep a secret?

From e beginning God was plotting & planning e salvation of e world, giving hints along e way that could not be fully comprehended. I have this picture in my mind of all e angels in heaven saying,

"What is God up to?"

"What is He going to do?"

"Why is e Lamb going down e earth?"

"Why is God allowing His son to be killed?"

"What is this all about???"

Then all if a sudden-bam!The entire picture is revealed. Christ dies, resurrected, & ascends back to heaven with e keys of death & hell in Hi s hands. And all of heaven has one giant "Ah! Now I see!" moment.

Satan couldn't mess up e plan because, for one thing, He didn't even know it. God didn't utter a word, He just did His thing, and now we are blessed because of it. We have favor because of e blood of Jesus.If satan had known what e crucifixion would have accomplished, he would never have had Jesus killed. Remember, silence is your friend. A word out of season can be your worst enemy & rob you of your blessings.

So do you feel like you Will just burst with anticipation of what God is going to do in your life? If He said it, he will do it. So for your sake, before you explode, write it down. The written word has power and is subject to no one.

Habakkuk 2:2-3

"Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that

herald may run with it.For the revelation awaits an appointed time;

 it speaks of the end and will not prove false.

Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay."

For no word of God shall be void of power (Luke 1:37)

Seek validation & confirmation only form e Spirit of God. When He is e One who has spoken e promise, he will surely bring it to pass. The gate of hell cannot prevail against e blessings He has stored up for you, but waiting wisely for their delivery is key.

Mary didn't run around screaming to e world, "My baby is e Son of God, and things He's going to save everybody~"No, she rested in e knowledge of e things that had been told to her, pondering them in her heart, and she was blessed!