Are we leaking?

I believe my water bill this month will be quite high, because the tap in my room's toilet is leaking. Super irritating, especially in the middle of the night, when everything is peaceful and quiet, when the slightest drip of the water droplet into the basin sounds like it's being projected through a fully blasted speaker. Kind of remind me of the horror movie dark waters.

Then I started to ask myself, "Are we like this faulty tap? Are we constantly leaking away spiritually?

Every sunday, we leave the Yellow Doors of Expo totally recharged! Spiritually full tank i called it. But as monday comes to an end, tuesdays pass by, scraped through boring wednesday, are our spiritual Fuel tank still max? or like the tap? we leak away?

Sad to say, we will certainly leak away spiritually. Due to pressure from out teachers, school work and the other hustle and bustle of our everyday life. But the Good news is that we can return daily to our Spiritual Petrol Kiosk. Return back to the presence of God to be recharged!!

The Bible in John 7:37-38 says: "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."

So bros, let's make every effort to come back to the presences of God everyday to drink of Him!! so we can be healed. The Lord not only wants to heal our physically infirmities, But He want to heal us back to our tip top spiritual conditions.

Jasper Bro

P.S
listen to the 2 songs ya. meditate on the words of the songs. :D

Spiritually Overweight

Has it ever occured to many of us that we all have alot of head knowledge when it comes to the Christian faith. Within a span of one week, we sit through Pastor's teaching at church service, cell leader's teaching at cell meetings and our own quiet time revelations from God! Wow! With so many power packed teachings through the week, by right we should really be steady pom pi pi Christians walking right with the Lord right?

But why is it that many of us still fall easily into the trap of sin?

Why is it that when it comes down to the crunch time, we fail to live out what we have learnt throughout the week?

I would like to present to us all that many of us are Spiritually Overweight.

Physically, we need to regularly exercise to keep our body fit and also to build muscles so that we don't become scrawny or overweight. What happens when we are not fit? We fail our NAFPA test... We fall sick easily.... We become unhealthy!

Similarly in the spiritual realm, we MUST exercise our faith to keep ourselves fit in this spiritual walk and to gain spiritual muscles so that we do not fall easily into sin when tempted! One can be the best bible scholar, but yet if he doesn't learn to exercise and live out what he has learnt, he will just become spiritually overweight and unhealthy!

Laziness, lack of discipline, giving up easily, poor attitude (or bo-chup attitude)... these are some of the issues/excuses that causes us not to exercise regularly. Relate this back to our BASIC Quiet time with God.. Do we have such attitudes too?

Sons, let's really get serious in our faith with God. God really really really really really does want to bless us with many blessings in our lives. But if all we do in the faith is just to give half-past six attitude, then we are not going to see breakthroughs in our walk with God. I am not talking just about clocking cell group and church attendance, but really MAKING EFFORT to live our the Christian Faith every day and every moment of our lives!

May I implore everyone to really reflect on our walk with God and make every effort to change our attitude. Let's stop giving ourselves excuses anymore. Remember, we are either HOT or COLD.. being lukewarm is distasteful!

Seasons change but God is still the Same!

Wow, our Tribe blog is getting abit out of control ya. Let's all be watchful of the post we post, as we are going public real real soon. We must be responsible bloggers because it's good example for others and Eejay is working in CRuSH! He's an ambassador for Cyber Wellness.

The title of this post seems a little PC (Politically Correct) right? However, how politically correct it seems to be, it is really true and it's a statement that I'm trying and constantly reminding myself to live out right now.

Looking back over the past months and even years, I really can see all the blessings the Lord have blessed me. From Slack Attachments, to providing for my FYP. Blessing me with good results and a smooth poly life. From changing a low self-esteem boy to who I am today. Indeed, God is a God who blesses.

Some days, It really seems that one can take on the whole world!!! But some days, Faith is all that you need. Faith to see you through for a better tomorrow.

Here are some of my prayer requests.
-My whole family are quite worried now, because my Grandma was admitted to the hospital last Tuesday morning. She was vomiting and feeling dizzy since the night/early morning before. When she was admitted to the hospital, the doctors confirmed that she had a mild heart attack. She was sent to the intensive care unit. Her conditions have stabilized over the last few days, and she was discharged at 1pm this afternoon.
However, after dinner, she felt dizzy and started to vomit again. So my family rushed her to the hospital again. So keep her in prayer, ask the Lord to bless her with health!

-Pray for Oswin too. He's having some problems at home with his family. Going to miss service again for a second week. Pray that the Lord with grant him favour at home. The Lord is in the business to turn the Hearts of the father back to the son, and the son back to the father.

Bros, just want to let you all know that, even in difficult and and unfavourable situations, The Lord who blesses you, is still right there near you looking upon you and it is our choice to take faith and cling on to His presence even though you can't seem to feel it.

It's the Year of Sabbath, who says the battles we will fight is going to be easier? The battles we will face may be tougher and harder, But God's presences and provisions will be Greater if you choose to lay hold of it.

P.S
Remember to pray hor!!!

Jasper bro!! :D wahaha

YO BROS!!!

haha, its has been a long time since i blog here le..

God bless all of u.

really miss u guys!!

hope to have a meal with ur soon ya??

well, many happy things and sad things happened.

but the most confused thing is tt 3 gals like mi at the same time and i dun noe hu to choose..

1 from sec4 and 2 from sec2..

haiz, how??

thought of giving the sec4 gal a chance coz can study together then chong for O'.

but come to think, if before O' break how??

wun concentrate to studies de lah..

then both will be hurt..

can anyone give mi advice??

PLS HELP MI!!!!!

WAH, SLACK job....no need to use brain 1

Dear guys,

For your information if i haven told you, i have just gotten a job at standard chartered tampines branch...Woa, the pay is quite good and the job is quite GOod cos it doesnt require me to think much to do the job, think a sec sch kid can replace me with lower pay.. I just need to exercise my eye and finger powers to do the data entry

Jasper, finally i got a job as xin lan as what u did for your attachment...haha...working conditions quite well, pantry has a big giant vending machine that provides free drinks at the press of just a button...

Dear all, pls bear in mind this job is not part of my training process..haha, i know u guys always like to disturb me by saying "woa, data entry can train your fingers to be more fit fit." Oh pls no, the job can gets very tiring when u look at the static com monitor screen for too long and your fingers can get numb... oh well, hope by the end of my stay at the job, my myopia wont up to more than 500 degree..haha, still wanna try for pilot vocation 1...

Leo(lion)

DilemmA WitH A GaL?? HelP!!!

Hi to all my BeloveD bros!!! Im nt lying....Tis is my 1st time blogging.....Pretty excited.....Hope tat nt onli ah pa will see tis, all my other bros will oso see tis n gimme advice n encouragements!!! Yah, juz in case u guys 4gt....2day,25 March, is my sister, Vivien's birthday. Okok....Hw shld i start leh...Remember its on e 22Dec 2007,tats e 1st time n 1st service at FCBC. My 2 sisters bring me back 2 E Great O MightY God!!! Amen!!! I remember i was sitting nxt 2 Sijia BUT R.E.L.A.X...She is nt e leading actress of e story....Wahahahahaha!!!!! Then suddenly e gal sitting in front of me drop her pen,i pick it up 4 her n pass it 2 her.When she turn back her face n smile n at me.....My reaction was OH MY God!!! She is e 1!!! Till nw i still can remember tat smile....Initially i onli think of her after every service but things r getting worst. I think of her everynite b4 i slp. She even appear in my dreams......Imagine e Unchained Melody plying as e background music, me n her at both ends of e beach running towards each other,i calling her name,she calling my name. After we hugged each other,nxt thing is im awaked, looking around my room. Bros!!!  Ah Pa!!! Gimme ur opinions!!!

The Cost of Following Jesus (Luke 9:57-62)

57As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

58 Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

59 He said to another man, "Follow me." But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."

60 Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

61 Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family."

62 Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."

Reflection:

What is it that we want in our Christian Walk with the Lord?

The paradox of human ideology is this:

- We want God to bless us, yet we refuse to devote time to pray or commit to His ways.

- We complain and grumble that life is not fair and God doesn't care about us, yet we have never been fair to God nor cared about Him.

The truth of the matter is this. We want all of God's blessings but yet only wanting to give the bare minimal to Him without any disturbances or inconvenience to our lives and the things we like to do.

Whenever asked to served God and His community, we tend to be calculative and evaluate how much can we gain from it or whether it is economical and effective for us. We are always counting the cost and only give to God when we feel it will reap us immediate tangible returns.

We tend to give to God only out of our convenience. We simply want everything at our own comfort.

Ungrateful, stiff-necked, stubborn, selfish... these are just some words to describe how much we have fallen. May God reveal to us the true conditions of our hearts so that we will wake up from our slumber and passive attitude.

"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God." - Luke 9:23-27