TCSI

ooh..! got email couple of days back..! accepted by TCSI! need to meet up one or two(?) more times for briefing.. think thats all.. so i can set a date.. was thinking of late aug or early sept.. think sept seems more likely... perhaps 1st week of sept..

then can do stuff like insurance, open bank account.. think abt how i want to do the money thing and the email thing.. write my prayer letter.. spend time at home w family and frens.. oh and need to buy camera.. think abt wat i want to pack.. settle lodging there.. and perhaps shadow my maid a bit and learn cooking..

seems like a lot to do areadi..! :)

i want to thank God for provision.. cos according to my mom, the shares she bought for me increased in returns again or something.. and my part time work at private went well.. a few nites had good returns too.. was q fun too.. moving fr place to place, meeting new pple in the clinics.. plus the nite i met Yihui.. ( she made appt w me and we both didnt know she was coming to see me!) pleasant surprise.. felt God was smiling to Himself as He planned it.. hee.!

i may even have a roommate.. LY email says a lady foreign staff there has an apt w 3 bedrooms that i may be able to stay w her temp or perm while i'm there.. :) honestly, dear Father, i hope to have a room mate..

me going to Hongkong on mon! 25th to 29th July, to make visa.. thankful i called the visa company today.. then learned mus bring my old passport that i had jus renewed, cos den hv proof of entry, or else can only make 6 mths visa..

gng HK for first time. staying w cousin.. mayb alone when i reach.. cos cousin prob working.. hope to find my way ard on touchdown and till wed when Xianhua will join me.. feel a bit apprehensive actually.. but ya.. dear Father, thank You that You are with me always.. when i remember this, i feel better about it.. cos God brings hope, and its not a wishful kind of hope, but a strong certainty kind of hope.. yah. i'm so blessed that You are with me, Lord.. i'm so forever blessed.

later on in the nite..

haha.. later on, my mysterious sms person sent me a verse..

1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

yah.. Father did His use-diff-pple-to-tell-u-the-same-thing thing again.. i felt it affirmed the word He gave to me.. so cool.

there more cool stuff nearby as i looked it up.

1 John 5:14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

confidence in answered prayer.. as we ask in His will..

1 John 15:8"My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

i loved this verse too.. cos it says to me that God is pleased that we should bear much fruit and bring glory to Him.. dat means, God wants us to bear much fruit.. and also that as we are close to Him and remain in Him, fruitfulness is a natural thing that happens, for my God is a God of fruitfulness.

liked this one too.

1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.

am glad God promises His commandments are not burdensome. sometimes i look ard me and my fellow family of God and feel they seem so burdened as they serve Him. so i'm glad that this is not how God intends it.

1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.

liked this one too! self explanatory.. :)

love one another

was reading yest at work when i had a moment. read John 15 (service verse) and had new revelation.. yah, cos alwiz thot these verses sound good but don really know what they mean.. thank You Father.. :)

conversation went something like this..

John 15:5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

i want to bear much fruit too! but God, what does it mean to remain in You..?(??)

John 15:9 "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

ohh.. so i remain(abide) in You when i obey Your commandments.. hmm.. what does it mean to obey Your commandments. so many...

John 15:12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

ooh.. okie.. so to sum up.. it is to love one another, up to being willing to lay down life.. thus, we will bear much fruit when we love one another.. yah makes sense, cos i remember another verse somewhere dat says 'this is how the world will know You are my disciples, when you love one another.' okie.. now i think i understand this verse better. :) wat does it mean to love one another.. wah think this one mus take longer to think...

the lion will eat straw

this verse happen to come up in conversation recently.. so i looked it up.. thot it was really cool.. and mind blowing..

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb will feed together,

and the lion will eat straw like the ox,

but dust will be the serpent's food.

They will neither harm nor destroy

on all my holy mountain,"says the LORD.

its about what heaven will be like.. and as i read the verses preceding it, tho i cant quite explain why.. i found it comforting too..

can you imagine.. the lion will eat straw. if that can happen.. what else cannot happen..

bonus!

yep, got my last paycheck from NDC.. and they gave us our bonus for the first time this year! normally they dont give to officers leaving the service, u'd have to stay till july for that.. so this year, they changed the rules.. so cool.. (re: my posting weeks ago when i was debating whether to extend and stay till july for the bonus). praise God! He is Jehovah Jireh..

yeah.. jus feel blessed and that God is finding ways to give me money..

thank You Father..

new days

jus finish 1 the forms that i need tomo.. tired..

well.. glad.. thank You.. was a bit intimidated by the questions.. so prayed.. then just did it.. eg what 3 experiences had the most dramatic impact on your life etc.. 10 of such qns..

still have other forms to fill.. tomo first interview with TCSI side.

tonite working 6-9 pm at tiong..

its a bit unsettling not to hv a routine.. but.. ok la.. stressful moments seek God.. He will see me thru.. He promise He will catch me..

jus feel so much in my mind? unprocessed from the gateway city convention.. awesome anointing as the youths fr the cities shared abt their country, church and youth situation and their prayer requests.. though the sharing was simple.. some with locally accented english.. but their passion was evident.. and the anointing of God was strong as we prayed for each nation.. sometimes cry also don know why crying.. but.. yah loh..

hmm..