Friday, October 24, 2008

Having Faith

Having in faith and believing in people is very important.
People who do not believe in themselves have a hard time believing in other people.

Judgment is important.. right judgment is very important.
It is the basis of decisions.

The things we decide upon is very important.
It steers where we are going and e things we speak.

When to do and when not to.
People are mirrors..

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Joy

In the process of achieving the goals we set for ourselves, we need to make sacrifices.
For example, if I want to be thinner, I cannot eat supper.

Sacrifices are tough. And some of those sacrifices are not as simple as supper.
One of the more difficult ones would be to make right the relationships in our lives.

The word of God says that it is longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me.
Sounds great but it means dying over and over again to the flesh.

Just when you thought you have given it all up, growing up requires you give up another of your dearly held beliefs or treasure.

God digs deeper into people. There is no way to survive it without praying. The natural tendency is to walk away from pain.

But we must believe God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. That He is a giver and not a taker.

Then take joy in life and in Him. Only then we can win the prize, that is to reign with Him into eternity.

Once again... this is a difficult to read post.
so.. lol. sorry ah..

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Problems

I believe that 80% of the time, a problem is not solved not because we do not have the solution.
80% of the time, we do not solve a problem because we feel that its too big.

Like a friend whom we have not contacted for a long time because of a misunderstanding.

A criticism which came because of a mistake we make.

plus many others.. exams, stress, shame.... even low self esteem, a situation that went out of control.. the main problem is identifying the problem itself.

If you identify it then actually its no problem...

Actually most of the problems we face are as big as we make them out to be.
And usually, the bigger u think the problem is, the more time u take to resolve it.

I learn this by experience, that seriously there are 8 solvable problems out of every 10 we face, even with people.

Its a matter of perspective and faith and of course some brains.

BUT no matter, everything also can one...

yea... Rememeber the stone from the sling that hit the forehead? He did it cos he made it sound so easy to himself and he refuse to listen to losers. Amen. To hell with losers...

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Destiny

Sometimes man can be so blind.
God has given into our hands the powerful weapons of prayer and faith and we look to other means.

The Kingdom He has placed into our hands.
His people, the lives of young lives given into our hands and we look elsewhere.

He said," Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and all its Righteousness and all these things shall be added to us"

And I look at all these things.
The Kingdom of Heaven is given into my hands.
The lives that will shake this world and the heavens itself and I despair.

I look upon God and He is eagerly waiting to place a piece of His Kingdom into my hands and I look elsewhere.

I receive tt piece of Heaven and I eagerly wait upon those cities and glory of which I am heir to.
I am a King no less in Christ Jesus and I look elsewhere.

And I found fear, doubt and failure when victory and glory is waiting.
It is mine and He wants to give it to me and therefore I will grab it.

With lust I will chase after the Kingdom and shake the heavenlies.
I will hold my sword alongside the Almighty and tear down walls.
May those who choose to follow follow and those who choose to stay behind stay behind.

As for me and even if it is me alone push forward and lay hold of the glory that was reserved for me and me alone even if it is me alone.

I will not only cast the vision but I will chase that vision down.
When I encounter the enemy, I will cut him down.
I will gaze upon his face and smile.

Convictions of our everyday lives

This is gg to be a very theological argument. without the verses yet because including the verses will cause this entry to be even more systematic and therefore boring.

The main idea is the main cause of depression and distress is the inconsistencies between the desires of God and our own.

In our lives, there needs to be a consistent set of values for Christian living.
I am talking about the everyday life which we lead.

Not having a set of consistent values will force us into situational ethics.
When we are in this position, we undermine our own spiritual lives.

Some prophets in the Bible have very clear ideas of God's purpose in the long corridor of Time, but have failed in their personal living because they have faced strong circumstances. I am not criticising them but all I am saying that humans have a tendency towards situational ethics or rather situational values.

We have to remember the prophets faced dangers who are threatening to claim their lives.

Situational values lead to despair and hopelessness in life. e.g. Jonah, Elijah, even Jeremiah.
Consistent values ensures the source of those values is God Himself and that He is with us in every situation we are in.

That means we will not get the things we want. The consistent values of God will steer our lives towards His plans and His desires for us.

The challenge would be to believe that that which He wants and we do not want is better than all that we want.

Its not easy. The human flesh is a great prison.
To be a leader in today's world, we need to be experts in everyday issues for today.
We need to hold the conviction, live the conviction and preach the conviction.
We are the source of strength for those putting in effort to live God's ways.
The Word of God is the fuel and we are the employees of the Shell Petrol Station.

After all that we have said, the annals of history belong to overcomers. Self Pity kills.

Again some argue that doing God's will will ensure that you will experience the anointing and the joy and that it will be the most natural thing to do.

If then why the many people who choose to deviate from the perfect will of God when they know perfectly the will of God in their hearts?

The things God wants might not be the things we want. We pray and we know that God will turn our hearts as He has turned mine many times.

He showed me a vision and it is a far off dream to me now... it will take me many years but I am glad He showed me... now I know I will not die but I will fulfill that... He showed me way beyond I can think or imagine and I can even believe it.

It is something that I will not believe 2 months ago.
But I can now.
I see it... it is real in my belly.
and from the belly flows.....

ok fine I know u dun understand what I am talking about.
I will add in the verses and the links between the ideas when I have the time.
I just needed to quickly type it out and keep it.

I think this can become a sermon IF i simplify it by about 200%.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Life

We have control over how we choose to live our life.
When we realise that much of what is happening to us is what we did to ourselves.. its a little bit easier..
Cos you know that whatever needs to be done is upon us too.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Social Anxiety

I just read this from a exhibition of the psychology society in NTU.
I din noe about this... think I need a bit of psychology knowledge if I want to do counselling.

Very dangerous Illness being described here:
Social Anxiety

People who have social anxiety tend to:
1. Think very lowly of themselves
2. Magnify mistakes
3. Feel that other people are constantly evaluating them

Bad things that can happen:
A. Avoidance of People
B. Low Self-Esteem
C. Depression
D. Substance Abuse (could be food abuse or even k-box abuse)
E. Academic & Occupational Difficulties
F. Interpersonal Difficulties

The last one is the most disastrous... no help can come to the person.
The 3 Symptoms are very common in varying degrees in all humans.
But the result is a full whammy, perfect recipe for disaster.

And guess what the remedy for this condition is...
The professional term is Exposure.
Which means what it means... Open up oneself to all the situations that caused the problems in the first place.

Which means there is no running it... You just gotta face it, confront it, challenge it and kill it.
If not, it will come back for your soul again and again until u die....

Blog

Cannot believe still got people read my blog when its so dead... haha..

Monday, October 6, 2008

piangz

I am gg crazy today.. need to go gym and sweat abit liao..

Read the Bible but today nothing lei.. so weird sia..

There are things I cannot figure out..

There are lots of things I cannot figure out..
I have been told I got low self awareness..
maybe...

SHI FEN JIALAT...

Tell u all ah... the worst thing I can imagine is life being totally routine.
And I cannot tahan routine life...

NOT because its boring. (I am generally uninteresting)

BUT because it means things are staying the same way they were.

AND that is SHI FEN JIALAT....

Sisters

I just found out that I mix around with sisters and almost no brothers at all nowadays in church that is...

CG.. Meng, Rach, Qin.
CCH.. Esther, Tracy, Susan, Yuncui, Grace..

Maybe a few brothers.. Delai, Kenneth, Nicholas, thats about it?
jialat.. will I become Ku Niang anot?

Think a bit liao lo... jialat.

Giving up and Quitting

When I see people quit, it is scary..
They just give up.. and it all seems so natural.
Its tough, its not worth it, its not gg to happen anyway. Its dumb.

All the things they hold dear in their lives... even if it takes some time, why can't people work things out?

We just dun get all the things we want all the time. BUT if the things are the right things.. then why give them up?

nothing starts out perfect, nothing goes perfect and nothing ends perfect for that matter.

I dun know if you call that an interesting part of life or sorrows of life.

But the point is I need strength to see things through.
Its tough. Anything worth getting in this life is tough.

I want to dwell in the house of God forever.
I want to be able to take care of other people.
I want to other people's pillar of strength.
I want to be a constant blessing to other people.
I want to be a CGL.
I want to be....

IIIII
ok.. so I got to work things out.
Bo pian... can't afford to leave things the way they are.

Being Emo and all.. Being Spiritual and all..

OK I am not supposed to be blogging now.

Was talking about emo people and all a few days ago.
I was thinking there is actually no one who gets along well with another person easily all the time.

There will be conflicts, times when the person goes completely bonkers and stuff.
Love is not easy to come by.. not jus the feeling.. the actions alongside it..

Tough tough tough if we rest on our flesh..

People are just people.

Breathing heaven's air is needed.

Keeping on with a decision is hard without trust and love in God, in the people around you.
We never know where life takes us.. and a lifetime is long time to waste..

Takes lots of effort to keeping life and people running.. If someone ever put up an ad for the post of God.. count me out.. its gg to kill.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Blessers and People waiting to be blessed.

I find people who are blessers the happiest people in the world.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.

People who are waiting for good things to come by their lives are often the most miserable people in the world.

So I seek to make other people's life easier.
I will bless people who will let me and make their day with the things which I do!

If they do not wished to be blessed by me, i will go find someone else to bless.
Lack of self-confidence is selfishness, so is lack of skills.. they are all products of selfishness.

I seek to give the people I know the best I have.
The best of myself.
To the best ground...
Yup so if I am destroying someone's life I will stop whatever I am doing.
That includes my own.

so help me God..

Help needed to renew the blogskin.

Ok I admit, I am a dinosaur from Jurassic Age.
I went to a blogskin website, downloaded the code and is unable to change my blogskin.
So..... Yuan Xing needs help.. any form of help to get a new blogskin!

Thank you.

I just changed my clock on the blog so now the time is Singapore Time now..
Never took the effort to check things out.
So I realised all the past entries are 16 hours behind time.
lol.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

October

Its october, gotta hit the books real hard tis time... yesh.