QUOTE

Proverbs 15:30, "A cheerful look brings joy to the heart and good news gives health to the bones."
"When you put your faith in others, you can help them reach their potential. And you become an important influencer in their lives."

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

OPRAH.... DENYING CHRIST...??





When I watched this, I was really disturbed by how many people are now being misled to believe in her new age teaching and support for such demonic religion. Though many are now being led to believe that there is no God... I pray that the Lord will convict your hearts and mine to keep guard our faith and not to be drawn by such doctrines (teachings).

2Corinthians 10:3-5
"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretense that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."

2 Corinthians 11:3
"... But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your mind may somehow be led stray from your pure devotion to Christ."


Thursday, April 24, 2008

PSALMS 145

I worship Him not just because of His love for me, but because HE IS GOD! HE IS AWESOME....

Psalms 145:4
"One generation will commend your works to another; they will tell of your mighty acts."

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

CHINESE...?



What makes Chinese-CHINESE?

Please check the list to see how Chinese you or your friends really are:

There are 29 ways to know if you're Chinese. You will laugh at yourself when you read all of them.

1. You unwrap gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping
(and especially those ribbons).

2. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has move out.

3. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.

4. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers. You use the grocery bags to hold garbage.

5. You hate to waste food:

(a) Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them. (Your mom will give a lecture about starving kids in Africa ).
(b) You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.

6. You don't own any real Tupperware- only a cupboard full of used but
carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take out containers, and jam jars.

7. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every
time you stay in a hotel.

8. You wipe your plate and utensils or wash them in a small basin of hot
water before you eat every time you go to a restaurant.


9 . You own a rice cooker and a slow cooker


10. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.

11. You fight (literally) over who pays the dinner bill.

12. You have a teacup with a cover on it.

13. If you're under age 20, you own a really expensive walkman if you're
over 20, you own a really expensive camera.

14. You're a wok user.

15. You only make long distance calls after 7pm.

16. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached-it,
means they're fresh.

17. You never call your parents just to say, ' Hi. '

18. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they'll ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.

19. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay indoors when you get
sick. They also tell you not to eat fried foods or baked foods because
such food are ' heaty' (yeet hey in Cantonese).

20. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you only sit 10 feet apart.

21. You always cook too much.

22. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last
piece of food on the table.

23. You starve yourself before going to ' All You Can Eat ' buffet.

24. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or
electronics, computers.

25 . You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.

26. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.

27. You call a sausage a hotdog.

28. You wrap with napkins all the knives, spoons and forks of the airline that you fly on and put in your travel-bag as souvenirs

29. You never forget to take with you all the unused bath and facial tissues when you check out from the hotel because you believe that you have paid its all.

BIGGER DREAMS

"There is really only one thing standing between you and everything you can be - and that's your dream. Never be afraid to dream too big. Enlarge yourself by growing your vision."
I pray that our vision be Christ Jesus. The size of our dream is directly propotional to how we preceive our God. And... HE IS AWESOME!

DARE TO DREAM BIG!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

"GIVE OTHERS A CHANCE..."

Its quite a challenge when we need to consider the things that are important in our lives. Lately, I find it more challenging since I've taken the role of a youth worker in my church. The transitions are not as smooth as I wanted it to be but, this is a tough world and somehow I just need to adapt.

One of the hardest thing to adapt to is the fact that people tend to forget that you're a person and focus on the "job" - meaning that we are related to based on the job we do, like the sick going to a doctor. I know I'm guilty of doing this to others as well. However, the pressure is consistent and just being a youth worker seems to make people feel either they're not worthy or I'm not worthy to be a person and a friend. This may not be true, but this is just how I feel about it.

As a youth worker or pastor, I'm expected to be on my toes at most times. I should know what's happening and like a magician that would pull rabbits out of a hat, I must have plans for everything I do. It may not be perfect but I do try.

A really good friend of mine prayed this, "Jesus, help Stephen to be a leader that we need him to be."

I think it was a very profound and powerful prayer, but it also tells me that there are certain expectations I've yet to understand and grow into. I wouldn't try to fulfil these expectation, rather I'd learn to grow into them. I praise the Lord for the friends that are constantly supporting me. There are times, however, I feel completely lost. Obviously, everyone's been here. It does hurt sometimes when people put a label on me... then again, I must accept it and work toward improving myself. I can't change what people think about me, but I can change my attitude and be thankful.

In the midst of loneliness, I've wanted to feel pity for myself. I realise how selfish I would be because I hadn't given a chance to others to encourage and build me. I know I do have friends. I love them. Though they may not completely understand what I'm going through.... they are still here! And I love them for being who they are!

Someone said this once, "Give others a chance to encourage and compliment you."


"I need to put a new picture here... of my friends of course"


Saturday, April 12, 2008

ENCOURAGEMENT... it goes a long way!

"It goes a long way.... It really does!"

Without your encouragements life would have been tougher and I'd give up! You were my pillar to lean on and the shoulder to cry on when ever I needed it. I love you...

Mummy & Daddy, Che-Ming & Dex, Che-Ching & Yoyo, Raymond, Gaby, Lorene, Chester, Ben, Terence, Matt and Pete, Stephen O, Uncle Andy, Clyde & Chel, Christina.... I'd like to name everyone!! Thank you for givin up so much... I thank the Lord for each of you.

Your encouragement... it goes along way!