God's Day Of Prayer

When we reached Stadium Melawati, I was halfly expecting the police to usher us away from the stadium, or at least bar people from entering.  Then when I got in, I half expected to have people barge in with guns.  After all it was a place when the chosen people were gathered as one...what better way to get rid of one major influencial group of people...but I was disappointed.  Eh...I have vivid imagination--blame my lefthandedness =)

Anyway...only one word can describe the whole event: GOD!

Yes, how on earth can you randomly get so many commited people and talents to gather in one place if not for one purpose: to praise HIS name...and we did!

You can call it crowd mentality...or even diffusion of responsibility, but I believe God is (not was) happy about yesterday.  It didn't matter of the worship was not as high as you would expect it to be, but I still gave it my all...I made it a point not to rob God of His glory.

Imagine the crowd...I would estimate at least 8 thousand people. EIGHT thousand people gathered for one purpose! AMEN!

GOD OF THIS CITY

You’re the God of this city
You’re the King of these people
You’re the Lord of this nation
You are

You’re the light in this darkness
You’re the hope to the hopeless
You’re the peace to the restless
You are

There is no one like our God
There is no one like our God

For greater things have yet to come
And greater things are still to be done in this city

For greater things have yet to come
And greater things have still to be done in this city

For greater things have yet to come
And greater things are still to be done in this city

For greater things have yet to come
And greater things are still to be done here

There is no one like our God
There is no one like our God

For greater things have yet to come

And great things are still to be done in this city 

 For greater things have yet to come

And great things are still to be done in this Malaysia!!

You are the God of Malaysia!

Let the fires of revival fall!

The Real Encounter

Today at the SANDS worship workshop...i had the best encounter with the One Whom I believe In =)

At first I felt like just falling forward...but I knelled instead.  But When I knelt down, I still had that 'feeling' that I still needed to go forward.  I went up to be prayed for...then the next thing I knew, I gave in to God.  I just fell forward, and stayed there for a long time....just feeling satisfied in His Presence.

My only mistake was that I tried to get back up...and I forced my way up...hence I have a reminder of that experience, a backache.  But now I think about when Jacob became Israel...how he fought with the Lord and therefore walked with a limp for the rest of his life...is this MY reminder that God is real?? I really don't mind =)

Holding On

I am...

Worn out...

Tired...

Frustrated...

Angry...

Confused...

Stressed

Why??

I'm worn out because of the pile of things that are going against me...walking in the opposite direction of the world is hard and tiring.

I'm tired because of the heap of disappointments around me...

I'm frustrated with people who are just plain stubborn, with those who are annoying, with PARENTS who don't know what COMMITMENT IS!!! with the world for being so crazy...

I'm angry at myself for keeping so much in, for taking in so much, for ignoring the inevitable until it was too late, for thinking that you were actually my friend...now I know I am just your backup plan, when there's NO ONE left to talk to.

I'm confused with the complexities of the ADULT mind.  It's so hard to know what they think. 

I'm stressed because of the friction caused by responsibility pressing me against a wall...

Well at least I'm holding on...I am...somehow.

The surprise is that this time my problems have to do with my social life instead of my academic life...

OOOOOHHhhh Reuben is getting more sociable =P  

The Serenity Prayer

I know this is not a new prayer...it's a pretty old one, but it still has its relevance.

Know the difference between wisdom and knowledge?? 

Wisdom is knowledge in application...

There is a research saying that there are three circles of influence:

The first circle is the smallest one around us which we can manipulate into any way we want it...

The second circles is the one that is bigger than the first in which we can only partially manipulate...

The third circle is the largest one in which we have no control over at all...

So can you accept the things you cannot change??

Will you have the courage to change the things you can??

Do you know the difference??

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As I'm up to another semester...I hope to make this prayer my motto...

I WILL meet things that I can't change 

I WILL meet things that I CAN change

And I WILL need to know the difference between the two

So HELP ME GOD

*amen*