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The Glory of God

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Ever wonder why so often we failed to cut off from bad habits?

Ever wonder why we always repent for our sins and yet after a few days, we stumble again?

Ever wonder why you do all you can to prevent from stumbling, yet you stumble again?

asking forgiveness upon forgiveness, grace upon grace until to the point that we do not even know how to face God anymore because we wonder whether God will still ever forgive this non-stop of bad habits or sins? Have you discovered that, in the past, you may have desired freedom for the wrong reasons? What were those reasons?

This is because our motives of being set free is wrong in the first place! Please take time to think. Are we trying to be free from all these bondages so that we can feel better about ourselves? so that we can be more 'holy'? so that we can be the 'leader' that God wants us to be? so that our future life and marriage will be bless by God(for sexual sins)?

All these motives are self-centered. When we all do things that are self-centered, it means that we are not involving God in this matter. That is why, we often depend on our own strength to be free from bondages. We need our motives to be CHRIST-centered! Setting motives right is the first step to gain freedom! So, what is the Christ-centered motive?

1 Cor 10:31 says Therefore whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do ALL to the glory of God.

It says here very clearly. We need to do it for the glory of God! Our motive has to be: we want to be free from all these bondages, so that our God can be glorified! Not glorifying one-self (such as to feel good about ourselves, to be mroe 'holy' etc etc).

To be free, we need to change ourselves and convince ourselves that we want to cut all these bad habits and sins because we want to glorify God and stop hurting God, not because we want HIS blessings! (obviously when God is please with you, HIS blessings flow unto you but this should not be the reason you want to cut off from habitual sins)

now why we need to glorify God with our body by stop sinning?

1 Cor 6:19 - 20 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

It is simple here. We need to honour and glorify God with our body. How? simply by cutting off from our habitual sins.

Therefore we really need to set our motive right to be free from habitual sins! Glorifying God should be our main motive!

Just my thought to share, hope this helps! Take care and God bless (:

Real

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It may seem like 'lala', but the friendship is real, love on the solid rock of Christ! (:

First Year - DONE!

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Yes, I've finished my year! Praise God! And guess what? It ended with a blast! SEGi REVOLUTION PARTY 2010!

It's been loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong since I last updated about myself! Been busy (not so, and yes) all these while. Let me bring you my first year's half highlights!

January February and March
SCHOOL time as usual. Busy and Yes Feb 16th, is the one day I'll never forget!

April
I went for Victory Weekend, conducted by Eaglepoint church! There, I truly experience God's grace. I think everyone should go Victory weekend, and let Jesus do the healing and set us free from sins and bondage.

May and June
It was my exam period. But Praise God for HIS favour and grace, my results were out now, I got 3A and 1B for my first year Pharmacy! (:

July
It was REVOLUTION party. Though we started promotion late, but thank God, HE filled the Auditorium with more than 270+ people, 61 people responded to the message, 17 confirmed salvation! PRAISE GOD! It must have been God that is being so REAL in that event!

All in all, thank God for HIS astronomical grace! HE is always faithful even though sometimes I felt dry inside, and HE always fill my cup when I'm empty again! I love you JESUS. Thank YOU for using me, as an instrument of YOURS and become a blessings for others!

I've also get to know Subang CF people through REVO planning. The likes of Melissa, Fee Vien, Jevin and Ailynn and many more, they are so committed and come for meeting and practice everytime! Great people to be with!

Now, I'm back in Penang, I'm gonna use this one month and a half to refresh myself again and go back on my pharmacy track again this Sept. As the saying goes, there's a season for everything, and I'm on holiday season! But still, that doesnt mean I will stop SERVING HIM. I will do what HE says. I will choose only to PLEASE HIM.

That's all for now! I'll revive my blog from this post onwards!

Greetings from Penang!

Facing the Mountains

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Lots of things happened recently. But God is GOOD, HIS mercy renews every morning and HIS GRACE is always sufficient for me. That is why I'm still alive here (:

100MCQ was okay, but I'm aiming high this time. I name it, claim it and gonna take it! But still I'm humble enough to prepare the marks that I'll get. Still give thanks anyway!

Next would be, this Sat, Campus VIBE will have an outing to Lake View Garden in KL. I heard it's one of the best gardens in KL. Forest in the city? haha Anyone interested can let me know!

Gonna go off now, Nights!! Cheers!



New Year!

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Readers, please bare with me. I wont shut this blog up. But there will be less post already. Been busy nowadays. Exams are coming up.

I pray that 2010 will be a God's favour-upon-you Year!

Blessed 2010 guys!

Blog

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So sorry readers cause I haven't been updating my blog for days. It seems though as if it's dead. Well, I'm actually considering to shut this blog already because what Melvin says is true. Sometimes our blog is just merely reporting back what had happened recently.

But all these while, I wanted my blog to be more than that. I want it to be a book of testimonies where people can be encouraged and also trying to keep this blog as informative as possible.

So I really want to listen from you readers! Tell me, how this blog has been to you thus far?

Useful? Informative? Encouraging? Boring? A blessing?

Please feel free to voice out! =)

Btw, some updates, I just got back from Pg, had a great time with IGNITE-Youth! 3 more weeks to winter break!

Weekends

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Yesterday, me, Samuel and Fugi decided to go to Tesco, the Curve and IKEA to grab what we needed to grab. So 3 bachelors going for grocery shopping, can you imagine that? Haha. After that we cooked ourselves dinner. Played futsal under the rain until 12midnight and had a good swim till 2. By the way, I got myself a new Christmas tumbler! I want the penguin eh but sadly, it's sold out. So this is the rabbit one! LOL. And Toffee nut latte is so niceeeeeeee! =)

Tumbler

Trying out some angle for my photos. Still learning and discovering!

Today, I had dance practice so went to church early. And we watched Indescribable in the service! A very good reminder! Thank God for HIS astronomical GRACE!

2 more weeks to church's 3rd Anniversary! =)

MPharm 2

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With Dr Paul Carter this time and he's got a hot son at the age of 14, came here with him. He has gone back to UK too already. I wonder who's next? LOL



"I'm obsessed with Powder Flow"
Dr. Paul Carter, Oct 2009

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It's November already! Time really flies. In 50 days time, I'll have my 2 weeks of break already! =D

MPharm

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Class with Dr G. Taylor =)

A lot of people ask me how am I doing,
My Ans: I'm doing fine, through the Grace of God. =)

Yo People!

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I noticed it's been a while since I updated my blog. Sorry, I was very busy. Busy with works, church and all. But so far, I'm enjoying myself. My timetable is rather weird, certain days very hectic and certain days very free. But for me (Group A), I have to wake up everyday before 9! SIGH. Anyway, I'm used to the life here already. Looking forward for weekends, because of CHURCH. I love going to church! God is indescribable!

Cant believe that this week is my 5th week of my term already, 2 more weeks and I'll be in midterm! Amazing, time really flies. And sooner than you think, it's Christmas! Oh how I love Christmas! Time of reunion and celebration for the season.

Ultimately, Jesus is the reason for the season!

I guess I'm going off now. Btw, I've moved into campus already. Love it! So happening during the nights, be it library, futsal court, badminton court or the pool area! AWESOME!

Take care!

Of YA Cycling Trip

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YA (Youth Ablaze - SEGi University College's CF) had a cycling trip in Bukit Cahaya Agricultural Park, Shah Alam. It was awesome! It's way bigger than Penang Botanic Garden and it's so beautiful! I really enjoyed myself with the YAs, loving to be part of them. Mrs Vicky, our advisor really put in effort in teaching us and discipling us! We had a great time. I'll just let the pictures do the talking. We set out from SEGi UC at 8 in the morning and lunch in Old Town Sunway Damansara before heading back at 3 noon. =)


We were doing some task required as we cycle along =)

Munya, Nicole, Emmanuel, Samuel, Fungai, Grant, Ms Vicky and me at the front!


Christine and Fungai, LOL

Me, I think I look slimmer now! HAHAHA

Samuel




Fungai


Nicole's friend, Nicole, Munya, Look at them! HAHA

YA

For more photos, feel free to have a look at Facebook.

I had fun! =) It's an ideal place for camp! Seriously would love to go there again! =)

FireProof

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I am sad, by knowing disasters happen around us in just these 2 weeks. It's so saddening to see news happening in Samoa, Tonga, Phillipines, Indonesia, Vietnam, China and even Japan. I feel it as though the world is heading no where. Somemore with news of some "x" people from other country wanted to have riot in Malaysia. I mean, what is it going on?

Alan's blog and the movie Fire Proof really reminded me on so many things. It teaches about LOVE, PATIENCE, PASSIONS towards the people around us, people that we don't even know and of course towards our almighty God.

Sometimes, we have this "poor God" mentality. For example, Genie mentality, Buffet mentality and Pie mentality.

Genie mentality, we always tell God what WE want. We always remind God that we have served HIM, tithe faithfully etc etc and all. And trade it with God's blessings. It is like as though we trade our RELATIONSHIP with God with God's inheritance and provision (like the parable of lost son in Luke 15:11) We always tell God, we want this and we want that, but never see what other people needs.

Buffet mentality, when we know God draws near to us, we often make a whole lot list of request (self-centered ones). Then we just sapu all non-stop. We want this, we want that.

Pie mentality, if God bless someone more or you see someone's life are better off in terms of everything (financial and promotions etc etc) we often get jealous, thinking that God gave them a bigger portion of the pie. But remember Proverbs 22:2. The Lord is the creator of both sides!

You see, God never promise us to be a no fire life. Because the very ministry of Jesus is full with fire, it's Jesus that able to withstand the fire and go through it. It's the same goes to us. Fire will always come and try to burn us down, but it's whether or not we're fireproof. And God is training each and everyone of us to be fireproof, we all were once broken, but God is always merciful and gracious enough to restore us (the lost son was back and his father restored his sonship - if you read the latter part of the parable). HE is always there to care every single needs of us. Sometimes, we ask something, HIS answer is always yes, no or later. He knows best, HE knows which type of fire u will pass the test and which one not but YET.

I'm very blessed by the movie Fireproof and sermons by Pastor Shaun.

Fireproof doesn't mean fire wont come, it means when fire comes, we're able to withstand it =)

God bless!

Of SAM

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After looking at Kylie's blog, latest post on Nature Rocks, I started to go down the memory lane and flashed back some moments last year when I was in SAM.







That's my SAM, I love them, not a doubt! =)

Freshies Week

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Hello, everything is good, got my timetable already. It's hectic, but I'll learn how to enjoy every bits of it. Being here myself is not by chance but by the blessing of God, I would have been somewhere else doing something else. But I just want to thank the Lord for this opportunity and friends that really pray for me and alongside with me =) Thank you.

In this freshies week, Pharmacy has been really brought out and discussed. I really do have a clearer picture on what is Pharmacy all about and the public always mistreat and got the wrong idea on Pharmacy, even myself, it's beyond just dispensing medicine and making drugs.

The materials that I'll be needing next week onwards.

I got no holiday until Christmas eve!

Haha, So that's basically all about it. I miss Penang FOOD, seriously! LOL

PS: Thanks KYLIE for the advise and reminder! =D

A Sunday Blessed with Spiritual & Physical Foods

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Hey people! Time for some updates! Last Saturday night, I went out with Samuel, Fungai and Kauumar. We had dinner together in mamak stall somewhere nearby. We had a great time together joking and sharing with one another. Then before I hit the bed, William called me, meeting up with him the next day.

On Sunday morning, I took a cab to KelanaJaya LRT station, took a train to AsiaJaya and walked to PJ Hilton to wait up for William. Then we went to Glad Tidings to meet up with church board members like Uncle Peter, Richard and Louis. The sermon was good by Ps Vincent, on moving the hands of God. Later we hit SIBKL, didn't know that they're actually gonna record live for their second album until we reach. Awesome Praise and Worship session and sermons by Ps Chew! So honored and blessed to be so called part of their album! HAHAHAHA Kenny and Sara were part of the band too!

After lunch in SS2, we went down to KL, after dropping uncle Richard, Peter and Louis at Pudu, me and William head down to Pavillion before going for a Japanese buffet. We ate a lot! That's why the title for this post is, blessed with Spiritual and Physical Foods. I had a great time, God is so good where William came to KL on the right time, where my place everything is close due to Raya.

After dinner, headed to Midvalley before going back to Sunway Sun Inn.

Me and William



The food, tempting isn't it? Haha


Some decors in Midvalley, William asked me to take so that can bring it back home to share about their props.

LOL, MPH actually do sell in their decors hut.

William, as vain as usual.



God is really good! God is breathtaking!

ME, again

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Hey people, it's me again! I can't believe I'm already here for a week. And now it's Saturday evening, where now usually I'm preparing myself for Ignite. But now, here in KL, Saturday evening seems to be so less-exciting. I'm now in Uni's canteen blogging, thinking where should I grab my dinner and all, nothing much. Besides, tmrw is Raya, KL is so empty! Haha

And guess what now the whole house is mine! Roommates and housemates were all back to their hometowns. So house party anyone? Haha Anyway last night Vibe Youth was great. Met a lot of people round the world. Great fellowships with friendly people that loves to joke around. I never had so much fun with people for a long time already. The joy of the Lord is overwhelming each and everyone of us.

Anyway, the sky here is getting darker, thought of playing futsal with my friends from Africa today after this but oh well, it's gonna rain soon so I guess I better get going! See ya people! Take care and God bless!

Updates

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Hey, I'm still alive. I managed to walk to Giant, it took me 45+ minutes! Can you imagine that? Haha On the way, I have to pass through Dataran Sunway. It's like shop lots and park. I found a Starbucks there! Nearest Starbucks to my place! I'll go there often. Hahaha. There they have Kayu nasi kandar too, but super expensive lo, teh ais cost me RM1.60! What more about my rice? RM8 with only cabbage, fried squid with papadam. Tsk tsk tsk.

Anyway, Kamm Siaa Chuu, for it's a blessing to live another day. I know HE will never let me go hungry eh, never ever! Been through so many testimonies with Him and I'm still walking through with Him. =)

People in KL are getting ready to balik kampung for Raya holiday, but I'll be staying here over the Raya. I guess that's all about it, I have to do my own laundry too, using hands! I'm getting used to the campus life, everything is fine, Praise the Lord.

It's random, but I love this photo.
Eefen, Gee Gee and me

I love them, they are my friends that I made while I was in Starbucks. And I really admire them, their FAITH towards God, superb! And they have been a blessing to me! Very random isn't it? Haha

Hello

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Hey people! I'm still alive if you're wondering. I'm now still staying temporarily in a unit. Should be moving out in few days time. So I didn't really settle down yet.

Everything is okay, definitely Penang food is better, been eating Nasi Lemak only for most of the time.

No internet for now in my condo, got to subscribe for the line, so I only get to online during the day in my college. My campus is HUGE! Haha

So basically that's all. Praise God for everything! =) I'm going off to Giant later to buy some necessities. Gonna WALK there. More walking from now onwards.

Blessed Birthday Melvin

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Tmrw is my bro's birthday! No matter how busy I am, still must post this up! Hahaha. Anyway, Melvin has beeen an awesome friend of mine since I was born. We played, laughed, cheered, cried, sad, encouraged with each other all the time. He's been a great blessings to me.

Melvin, sorry because I cant celebrate this year's birthday with you but I wish you all the best in everything you do and wish you well. May the Lord grant you all the desires of your heart and HIS favor will be upon you like no other year before! Take care and I'll see you soon!

I miss those days when we PARTY together, BURGER together and HAPPY HOUR together!

And Happy Belated Birthday Melissa Tan! Her birthday was last Friday (911).
I wish you all the best and may the Lord guide you all the way in your future undertakings especially in your trials and SPM.

And Blessed Birthday Mabel (in advance)! Hahaha.
Take care ya, I'll see you soon! All the best in everything you do! God bless you!

PS: I'm already in KL. Everything went well. Kam Sia Chu!


Thank You

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I'm just speechless. I never expected it, seriously! I have this so called mini shopping wishlist in my heart which I seldom or rather never revealed it to anyone.

It's beyond my wildest dream larh, SERIOUSLY. As you all know I got my hair cut yesterday in Komtar and you know ler, you can get cheap and nice shoes there. And I have this habit that is to go into a shop and will look at the stuff that I like for quite some time and in the end I didn't buy it. But yesterday, I was this close to put in effort to try out sizes and buy already eh! But somehow, my heart says other days, so I just left in the end.

God is amazing, my friends are all amazing as well!!!! Really Kam Sia all of you!!!! I'm overwhelmed!

Thank You!

Ivan Y, Ivan N, Vivien, Ben Teoh, Melanie, Melissa, Mel Teoh, Edward, Gladys, William, Kon Way, Shir Hoay, Adrian, Neil, Aaron, Gabriel, Sir Tatt, Kylie, Renee Y, Steph & Mabel J, Alan P, Winnie T, Pastor Wai Fong!

Thank You

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