Busy CNY...

This year is an especially tiring new year...dunno why oso...but feel like I'm totally busted at the end of the day! Still, I have to thank God for the good weather...tho it's a little hot, but still it's better than if it were to rain

Yesterday, the pastor spoke abt using this new year period as a platform to spread the word of God to our friends and relatives... I missed my chance for my paternal relatives and was wondering how can I continue to witness to them...

I've also often thought...we always pray for the salvation of my grandmother and all my aunts and uncles, but at a loss for what action to take....I guess we'll just have to start somewhere and so all that we can to share our own testimonies, invite them for evangelistic events, pray for them etc...

I pray that 2006 will be a breakthrough for my paternal relatives and I pray the Acts 16:31 be fulfilled in my paternal family this year! Amen!

Answered prayer

I'm so happy! Yesterday morn Mom msged me to ask me if I've got plans to get engaged this year....my reply was "no plans, tho I really wish to...", then she said "den get engaged on 23 Oct, your birthday"...Ironically, it was that very morn that I was looking at a 2006 year planner, marking out all the public holidays, and found that my birthday this year is on a monday before Hari Raya Puasa. I'm planning to take leave on that day and was just thinking to myself how nice it would be to get engaged on that day!

I don't call this a coincidence...Mom told me she sounded me out to sorta get a confirmation if this was a prompting, and we're pretty sure it was. I'm just so happy that God has really answered my prayer...He knows my heart's desire although I didn't say it out....

I have been quietly praying to Him about this and was holding the attitude of "My plans, God's time and God's resources".....I thank God for the wonderful timing, cos this answer came in the midst of uncertainties for both myself and Hun in terms of our career.

We want our marriage to be a testimony to God and a blessing to others.....we have been praying and trying our best not to take things into our own hands, trying our best to honour our parents....we're not perfect, but we have really been trying.

Thank God that He cares for me even in small ways...Looking forward to my birthday this year :) May You, O Lord, continue to lead us as we plan for our marriage!

Uncertainties

2006 is indeed an exciting year....both Hun and I are facing uncertainties. Some decisions made by others have affected us, and there are some decisions that we have to make ourselves. It's really a challenge to decide on something not knowing what your step is gonna be.

First time experiencing what it's like to step into the unknown. And for the first time, both Hun and I are glad that we aren't making preps for our marriage yet....wonder how we can handle all these at the same time.

Will continue to trust in God's providence tho....He has never failed me before, and will not this time either. When the right time comes, I'll finalize my decision and move on from there. Meanwhile, pray and await the Lord's direction.

It's a good timing that the cell is touching on the topic of Waiting on the Lord. Good time to put into practice too! Just wanna share this passage of Isaiah 30:15-18...

15 This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:
"In repentance and rest is your salvation,
in quietness and trust is your strength,
but you would have none of it.

16 You said, 'No, we will flee on horses.'
Therefore you will flee!
You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses.'
Therefore your pursuers will be swift!

17 A thousand will flee
at the threat of one;
at the threat of five
you will all flee away,
till you are left
like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,
like a banner on a hill."

18 Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you;
he rises to show you compassion.
For the LORD is a God of justice.
Blessed are all who wait for him!

This pretty much sums up what I'm going through now and what I ought to do now :)

Trust in the Lord

It's been eons since I wrote in my blog.....

Just wanna write that God has been wonderful! I'm glad to have spent my first moments of this year in a church at a watchnight service celebrating with other fellow christians. It just makes the start of the year feel so right! And I think that God honors that I spend the first moments in His house :)

Well, wanna keep record that the theme for Jan 2006 is this: Trust in the Lord, He will make a way when there seems to be no way.

Was just sharing with Hun that we're victors in Christ! When good things happen in our life, we can praise and thank God for it. When bad things happen, we have the chance to really trust and depend on Him and watch how He delivers us from it. In hard times, we too can give thanks that He is our refuge and strength, and our ever present help in times of need! We can rejoice in either situation! If we're not victors then what are we?

This will be a wonderful and exciting year I believe....and I want to remember to trust God at all times.