Art of God, you.

We did personality test during the care group - I am quite a distinctive Melancholic. 6.2% Perfect Melancholic and 2.1% Peaceful Phlegmatic.

Ticked strength -analytical, persistent, considerate, sensitive, planner, scheduled, orderly, faithful, detailed, deep, thoughtful, loyal, perfectionist and behaved.

Ticked weakness – alienated, negative, withdrawn, too sensitive, depressed, introvert, loner, suspicious and critical.

I literally live on schedule, calendar and To Do list; I have to make it as table and graph to understand something completely; everthing have to go back to where it belongs. Whatever tasks given to me, can be considered done. In the other hand, I tend to think Too much about everything, to the extend of imagining what may not be exactly true. I am good at playing with myself and would rather stay quietly alone over a big party.

It took me many years to come to understand that God has made me so unique and special. I used to dislike my personality and admire extrovert people, believing they are superior in everything. It was only after I have learnt about the different types of personality (‘Personality plus’ by Florence littauer) and their unique strength and weakness, that I finally began to see myself as God’s successful work.

Today, I really appreciate different personalities and their mixture of strength amongst us, it makes life fun and dynamic, also sharpens each other for the better. (Yes!) We may experience certain personality crashes here an there, finding it hard to get along with certain type of people. But above all the differences between us, we can appreciate each other for the different flavors they bring into our lives!

Thank God for Powerful Cholerics who move things forward. Thank God for the Popular Sanguines who make life fun and exciting. Thank God for the Perfect Melancholics who make life beautiful.(!) Thanks God for the Peaceful Plegmatics who balance the rest of world with peace and calmness.

I appreciate you today, for who you are.

Rejoice

It was a long, long day.

The first client I met today, expressed an obvious disapointment when she saw me outside the door, because I was not her favorite nurse. While my intervention, she and 3 other family members were giving me an attitude, making it ver clear that they are not happy.  ‘Rejoice..’

..Today the office atmosphere was very low and unreasonably depressing, even usually jolly people were cranky at small things today. (yea, small things like, my mistake..) “That’s not the way it works!” they shouted.   ‘Rejoice….’

…When I came back home, I received the phone bill from Telstra, of 650$! I rang up Telstra and learnt that someone somehow has cracked my personal detail and had fun with his/her mobile phone.  ’Rejoice……’

… together with phone bill, Josh’s school tuition fee and other bills has arrived as well, I realised that I am unable to pay that until due date. My dear bro said he needs new school shoes and winter jumper.  ‘Rejoice…..!’

I have to visit a lady with touch of dementia every morning first thing. She always repeats the same thing literally every morning, which is,  ” You know, I always remember what was written on the wall of the medical centre:

     ‘I have complained for having no shoes, until I saw a man having no foot.’ “

I thank God her short term memory loss, that she always repeats this to me every morning.  

Today, I am learning once again how to rejoice in God. Our joy does not depend on circumstances or situation, but it comes from knowing that we are perfectly in God’s good hand. Even when the whole world around us spinning in madness, we can be in perfect peace because of God’s protection. Like the vision I once saw, the eye of the storm, He said, Peace be with you. Yes, Lord. the Peace.

Today my joy is my worship unto God.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him,

so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:13

New Chapter

5+ yrs ago, I was in ‘Daniel 1′ where 4 other groups has sprung forth from. A year or so, me and other working people has formed a group called ‘Daniel 4′ (now NG3) A year and a half later, God called me to uproot myself and move to ‘Daniel 1′ which was already different with the original daniel 1. Just about a year later, our group has combined with Ray’s group that time called ‘Daniel 2′. Again just a little more than half a year later, which is on July, me and 10 others will form a group call ‘Daniel 2′ which is different with the original Daniel 2.

Lots of things has been changed for the past years. I know, to some this is the first experience of changing group structure, unlike me. Of course I also have gone through some hard times understanding why we should keep changing groups and multipling.. emptiness and jealousy made me struggled big time back then. 

 I realised that I have been always goer and pioneer. When working people were multipling, when God called me to leave my comfortable nest of Daniel 4, and this tme when the mega group is finally multiplying, he always called me to be the goer. I now understand why we should continually multiply and that’s the whole reason why the groups are existing at the first place, God has said ‘Be fruitful and multiply!’ was the first order God has given to the human being.

 My heart is filled with excitment as God continually given me a grace and favor in being a part of this wonderful movement. We are consistantly on the go, and we will never stop growing quality and quantity. Even though our enemy Satan is trying very hard to bring us down and make this plan fail, we know the victory is already given to us, that all his effort is in vain. It is like playing the game knowing that it is already programmed to be won.

Counting down to the day of celebration. May the joy of new born baby fill the heart of all daniels as well as God’s.

2006 dANIEL 1 UNIT SNAPSHOT

  

2007 dANIEL UNIT SNAPSHOT

Oops. I wore the same shirts..

H2O Baptism in the Spa

Yes, for the first time in HBCC history, we daniels had a water baptism in the Spa, Vue apartment! It was real fun, the water was really warm, we wanted to stay inside. The weather today was quite cloudy and windy, so the water bap in warm spa was fantastic idea!

Congrats Leon and Kimmy, who has declared their faith and commitment to the Lord today. My prayer is that the Lord our God will continue to grow you to the fullness of knowing Christ, and fulfill your life as he has destined according to his good and perfect plan.

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Starcraft

I am reading the book of Samuel 1 and 2. The life of King David and his deep love of God really inspires me whenever I read about him. What an amazing men of God..make me speechless with his faith and trust onto God. (I haven’t reach the 2 Samuel where he committed adultery, YET). One part that made me pause for a long time, was 1 Samuel 30:6

“David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God..”

When David and his army came back from the battle, they found out the enemy has taken captive all their wives and children, including David’s own family. The whole army was bitter and planned to kill David. How he might have felt in this desperate situation?!! He went into the quiet place and began to cry out to God in praying, but not in a blaming shouts but in deep trust and worship unto God! His words are recorded in Psalms..

” To you Lord, I lift up my Soul; In you I trust, O My God.. No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame….Good and upright is the Lord..All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant..May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in YOU!..”

Here I have to share the story about the me and the Starcraft.

 

When I was younger, I played the game called Starcraft, I quite enjoyd this game until one day this horrible thing happened. My whole army was moving on to the next village under severe attack of the enemy, here, I hear one of the Terrans (Human soldier) saying “We are under attack!” repeatedly. O My, He was the most faithful and sacrificial soldier I have used to built the bunkers and attacking the enemy. He was building the bunkers while the rest of the army has gone to the other village and now he got stuck between the buildings and could not escape. I couldn’t do anything to help him out, the enemy was too near to approach!

Don’t laugh, it was a purely torturing experience to me, He has faithfully served me and now he is only looking at me repeating “I’m under attack! I’m under attack!” and here I can’t do anything to save him..I couldn’t see him perishing under the enemy attack, as I was looking at the enemy firing the bunker to get him, I couldn’t stand anymore and switched off the computer power..  I came out of the Internet cafe nearly crying. That day I decide that I will never be a leader.

Over 10 year has passed. Today I am leading the army of God! Even in that, like King David we meet a situation that we can only run to God, crying out loud. But here is the difference. We are not to trust in our own leadership skill or strategic plannings only, but the leading of Holy spirit and the voice of God. I am glad that God has given me the powerful weapon, with prayer, we can stand against the vast army of the enemy. Battle belongs to God, and he will fight for me!

As I read these scriptures today, God brought me back to that Internet cafe 10 years ago. Now, I won’t allow my enemy to disqualify me because of my weakness. Never again.

 

Jump!

During the care group, I got people to draw the view of storm seeing from inside of the boat. Imagining Peter standing at the deck of the boat in the crazy storm, asking Jesus ” Tell me to come to you on the water!”, it challenges me greatly. Especially looking at such view of angry storm, what a boldness to actually JUMP OUT OF BOAT and land on the water! It is purely incredible thing to even imagine. It was only possible because he was looking at Jesus, not the waves, lightnings, thick black clouds and panic-stricken people behind him screaming. It is all about focus on the right thing.

Looking at the circumstances will always discourages you. Looking in yourself will never fail to disappoint ya. You will not be ‘less busy’ than how busy you are right now, and ’tomorrow’ will never come. But, hey. Look to Jesus, and it will be, like..

(Chris sings) “Turn your eyes upon Jesus~ Look full in his wonderful light~and the things of the world will grow strangely dim~ in the light of his glory and grace…~~”

and JUMP! Out of that Boat. and you will see yourself walking on the water.

“Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid!”

Matthew 14:27