At 10:56am yesterday morning i sent peter a SMS , "You will receive the job today"

That was the clear instruction that i felt God had through me wanted to convey to peter yesterday. I cant explain how it happened, I was busy attending to user requests in my office and then out of the blue, I hear some one talking to me... "He will receive the job today" and i sent the SMS.

We have been praying hard for this for a long time, for our career, for our finanical break through for our success in the secular arena.

Then early this month came my break when i was offered my current position with Barclays, but we still not hear anything for peter and we continued to pray.

Yesterday, Our prayer was answered. Peter was offered a job with Smith & Nephew as a Sales Exec in the pharmaceutical field. Some thing that suit him and most of all some thing relevant and prestigious in his line. He was offered a high basic and transport allowance, with good comission too.

To me, that is the power of agreement. We agreed at the begining of this year that we will see ourselves a norch higher, that we will believe we will gain a higher success, that we strive to be the head and not the tail and we submit our plans to God... though we encountered set backs half way we did not gave up and now, compared to our peers we are more than a norch higher, we got a higher sucess and we became the head in our career among our peers.

Why power of agreement? because we shared the vision together, we believe in each other's ability to be able to achieve what we asked for, we asked God to be involve in our vision and now we give thanks for what God say given.

Interdependency ... thats whay Steven Covey call it
interdependency ... thats what Peter thought we have acheived

Am I arrogrant to publicly declare that we are better then the rest? Yes i am , but I am only arrograntly proclaiming the testimony of God in our lifes because i am totally convince that without supernatural intervention from Him, i would probably still be a pathetectic underpaid worker for NCS.







This is where i heard the voice:

Ladies and gentlemen...

Presenting to you.. HP HW6828





Got a call on saturday morning from my bro telling me that there is an exchange program by HP in sim lim sq / funan that allows exchange of my Dopod 818 for Hw 6828 for FREE ... or a matter of $99 in my case.

I immediately flew down to SIM LIM...

The Hw6828 is infact O2 atom as they were manufractured by the same company (Quamtar) but HP packed in a better camera and mp3 player thus made the difference... but most of all, the after sales from Hp will prove more reliable.

I would like to thank my Bro Philip who informed me first thing in the morning about the offer.

Friday!!!!!

Saturday!!!!!

Sunday!!!!!

Haha, its weekend again... time to complete my research, clear off anything outstanding from first half of the year.

Time flies .. apparently much faster as you grow older...

I thought we were still hving fun , hola hola in the christmas party not long ago and then now we are suddenly going into the remaining month of the 2Q year.

I thought i fought a good victory over Zzzzzzz Monster this week. Getting up everyday at 4 to work is really no mean feat... BUT TGIF ... simlpy love it..

Alot of stuffs are coming up this week,
1.) Prepare for offering challenge
2.) Prepare for Camp
3.) House viewing
4.) Sunday hi tea with family
5.) I need a new camera, got to go for some window shopping to look for a useful one.
6.) I need to find a sponsor for number 5,
7.) I need to get rachel to pay attention to number 6.
8.) laundry
9.) I need to do journey guide.. its dso overdue... with some of the CG members
10.) I need to excercise..

haiz, I wan to blog more but there is so limited time... but i will be back next week with nice new photos... if i managed to buy a camera.

Vision

I had a vision from God

That the church will grow to 5000 members in 10 years

Hallelujah

how far would you go to take responsiblity of your mistake

Attended a wedding dinner last sat of a couple neither me nor Rachel knows of, but we were there just to fulfill some family obligations.

The bridegroom was 23 and the bride 21 ...

I am not sure about you, but most pple including myself would come to a quick conclusion before we would find out anything else about the weds..

wah... confirm shot gun...

That comes the almost immediately reply that I would give almost 99.999% of the time.

But as I sat at the table among the self justified to be righteous pple, I had a chance to re evaluate my paradigm of shot gun marriage.

Most pple would argue that s/g marriage is by itself a marriage borne out of mistake and anything with a bad starts leads to a bad end, that it is a publication of diagrace that should not be celebrated and infact shouldnt have happened, that a couple without proper moral standards cannot outlive the strenous requirements of a healthy marriage or marriage decisions forced by pregnancy does not beat marriage decision that is properly considered by the couple,advised by the parents and consulted by a judging panel of relatives who probably determines the feasability of the marriage based on the income of the couple.

Now all the above mentioned can be right, but we often forgot these are mere asumptions of the standards of a marriage. And putting these standards of marriage aside, do we still remember the basic reason/concept behind the existance of a marriage?

a simple search of "what is marriage" on google.com produces the following definition, "the state of being voluntarily joined for life"

Thats that, period

When 2 couple make a serious decision to unite and live their lifes together till death does them part.

So if at any considerson, the couple involves ..whether they are old, young, rich or poor.. is commited to being united with each other till death, they qualify totally for mariage.. whether they have sex b4 or after marriage only determines the quality of the marriage but NOT the marriage.

Who says pregnant woman and a young man can not make a serious commitment to a marriage?

A love Relationship is a decision, anyone firm with this decision qualify for marriage.

That being said, the problem most people have with a shot gun marriage is infact not the marriage it self, but the 'gun shot'.

And in my opinion, thats pathetic...

Whats wrong with mistakes, how many of us could really stand up and be responsible for our mistakes? There is practically nothing wrong with stumbling or falling as long as you can be responsible of your failure.

Imagine, if the couple would be any time less responsible .. then we probably would have 1 more abortion? 1 more broken family? 1 more youth at risk?

And infact, we should appluade this couple .. not for the mistake, not for the marriage ... but for the courage they have to live the best out of their situation.

And we should dedicate a Kallang wave to the parents, who are not only forgiving to their children but are yet supportive and loving to them.



P.s : This blog is in no attempt to glorify shot gun marriage or premarital sex.

The fear of your life

Cell group ended on a high note yesterday, pau.dawn.pete + me initially wanted to go Coffee Embassy after CG but was stalled on the way back by a major accident at the junction of the AMK AVE 1. But that was also good , as we then had fellowship in the car chatting about a sucidal case pete encountered yesterday. Some one in his hospital apparently jump off the 5 storey building and then pete was the first to reach the patient and performed resucitation on him.

As we discuss about the inicdent, i couldn't help but to think about the topic peter shared in cell group top day, which was about The fear of the lord (II).

a) It puts way pride and arrogrance
b) It puts away evil intention
c) It encourages speech of love

The above are the significants pointers discussed, but what caught me was simply the mere fact that whatever being the fear of your life will equates or turn out to be your god.

If you fear of losing money, you may end up sacrificing your fellowship/church/ministry time to earn more

If you fear of failing your exams, you may end up sacrificing your fellowship/church/ministry time to study more

But if you fear God, you may end up spending more fellowship/church/ministry time, which is good.

What then is the fear of my life? it used to by money issue, it used to be social status, it used to be enjoyment. But all this i realised was taken care of when i started to fear God in stead. I love you Jesus.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Often in life , we tend to see to many variations and maniuplative reasoning towards a single decision that in the end we lost the simple , ardent truth or motive behind the decision..

why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other side of the road.

that's that ... period.

In my younger days, I always stick by the simple principle of trust.

"I would rather to err in over trusting then to under trust a person."

But now, it seems harder as i begin to realise and see the tendencies in man to fail. I wouldn't like to feel trash up so often, but i think i have been trashed up all the time in this area. So much that i now have became a spectaculation machine, always deducing a person worth and always judging a person behaviour.

are we what we want

It a new week and also new start in my life... weeks have pass that i have not comtributed much in the build of my wealth. But now here I am in the middle of a smoothing night within the CBD zone ... working.

As i am only beginning to get a taste of high life, i found my self hard to justify the cost of such standards... but while i am still trap in this prestige entanglement.. i found that there is still much to learn within the cold spectrum of performance driven sector.Thats life, you work hard but you do not definitely assume a comfortable return, but you take some risk ... who knows you may just get it...

The new social element of sucess now = diligent work + a high risk profile.

How true is that.. in HP i work hard... but i was back stabbed, kick out and left to die... but now in Barclays, took a risk ,got good return... but do i still have to work hard.. yes..

My point... The society has turn cruel . in the 70s and 80s just working hard bring you some where.. then in the 90s the buzz word was 'working smart'... welcome to the late 2000... and then we have evolved to an era where so much more is now expected. But can we let go, can we release ourselves from the chase of being a social elite , an achiever in our work, marriage, studies, church or family? ... it does seems like we can only continue to helplessly play by the rules of this game and then hope that we are in the game that we want to be in...

on a separate note

When was the last time you praise someone? when was the last time you listen to someone instead of imposing your idea on some one? when the was the last time you sit down and ask yourself.. is the most important thing in my life really important?

like freda, I watch i not stupid too(2) over the weekend and i was touched they set me thinking about the questions above and i thought i have been renewed for a while . Please go and watch the show if you can... no point for me to blog about this cos the movie tells it all. Ps. i have the DVD so shout out if you wanna borrow from me.

Its been a great day for me..
Exploring my seat , my new job and my new collegues...

I feel excutive... and i love it....

Its true when we built God's house , built ours... i tithe fervently and God keeps his promise of abundance...

Anyway... had a good time planning for the camp with the Ignite planning commmitteee...


I wanna go on blogging but i am very tired...

Got to wake up aT in 3 hours time...

But i will make it...

HebRews 1:14 But angels are only servants. They are spirits sent from God to care for those who will receive salvation.

Its funny how most girls like to be refered to as angels , now we no though the bibke that , the fact that us being seen as an angel is degrading to our identity in Christ..Cos God make us in his own image!

Thats important to know, Like pastor said last week... Our Subconcious determines what our future is like because if you dont see it you will not have it.

Now i am so gald in the middle of the night spelling out my new position in Barclays tomrrow. But i am here today because of only of one reason. I saw that I will be a sucessful person in my career, family and ministry.. though still working hard at it but the first step have begun...

To be continued....

Man or Mehhhhhhhh

Its been really fun and interesting over the last two weeks..

In the midst of my job search, i turned to temporary full time of the church and WOW... its not easy man, just like how a pastor i met on friday put it... A sherperds role is never for the faint hearted... now i raise all limbs in awe to say AMEN.

I love Jesus, I love God

Why did i quote the above, because I loved too... As I wrote the above, all the activites of the past 2 weeks came into my life and I felt a gush of feeling let out of me.. I guess thats joy and i thank God, cause in Him my joy was completed. Heard alot of that in the bible but i am grateful to experience it..

So whats next ,

I have been offer a role with Barclays Capital , Though extremely high paying but the most positive aspect of the position is that I will get to learn alot and of course i will have a chance to work with traders... couldnt wait..

But in the mean time, i will have one more day tomorrow to round up my ministry work... I hope i will can 'preserve' the feeling of being complete as long as possible.

I originally wanted to blog about the wait of MAN... but too tired liao... Its freaking 2am...