rediscovering eden
Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the bright and morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart
Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours
Who Am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
and watch me rise again
Who Am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me
whom shall i fear
whom shall i fear
i am yours
dailies
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
-6:19 AM
Let the morining bring me word of your unfailing love, O Lord, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143: 8
This post is specially dedicated to my dearies in my sec2 cell and my cell members who have been stressed lately. This is for you gals.. Love you all. *big hugs*
So i was doing my devotion on the bus coming back from school yesterday. I was reading on the book of Ekekiel the past week and yesterday's reading was Ekekiel 37: 1-14, The Valley of Dry Bones. I'm always very inspired by this passage of how dry, useless bones were transformed to flesh and full human form by the breath of God. It always never fail to remind me that my God is a powerful God and there's nothing that can stop Him. But yesterday it was more than the miracle that God made. It was about me. It was about the people around me whom I loved and not known the power of God.
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, "Son of Man, can these bones live?"I said, "O Soverign Lord, you alone know." - Ekekiel 37: 1-3Those bones in Ekekiel are like the lives of those around me whom have not either accepted Christ, friends who have lost their 'life' and special people on my heart whom have wandered away. I have been hurt, demoralised and trust me the pain of seeing people you love, disciples you have taught going astray and being hurt is painful. Sometimes being human you doubt that anything is going to happen. Should Jesus ask me today, " Sheena, can these bones live, can these people whom you thought will never 'live' because there's just no life and they are dead. Do you think they can become alive again?"
We all know the correct or model answer, definitely anyone trying to win heaven points would say Yes oh Lord without hesitation. But i asked myself what would i say to God? I questioned the faith I had in God. The faith in believing that these dry bones can live. Now you see i dont doubt He exists, no questions asked on that part. But to answer that question of whether those bones live could is different. I dont want to answer a question without believing that it would surely happen. For faith is more than just saying yes i agree in words but yes i agree wholeheartedly, i truly see your point and i will act upon it.
As i asked myself this question yesterday, what came upon me was an assurance and a hope that definitely He will bring life to the bones i know in my life. But being human, i asked God to teach me to overcome such faith-less thinking and to enable me to believe that these bones can be made alive! Show me that these bones can be alive! Make them alive! And make it such that i will see them alive in my lifetime! I know it will be made alive. And i want to activate all Heaven's resources to enable them to be alive. through prayer definitely! Go God! Go Go Go!!!
to my dearies who are reading this right now. I know most of you are struggling in your own walk. Life thesedays somehow have too many dry bones around us and it may seem hopeless, tiring and somewhat unmotivating as well. But dear gals should Jesus ask you today, "Can these bones live?" what would you say to Him? If i believe the dry bones around me can live, and trust me the dry bones around me are definitely a hard nut to crack, i dont believe yours wont. :) I love you all....
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
-1:52 AM
Blessed is the man who perserves under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life the God has promised to those who love him. James 1:12Got a picture from Amanda, my cell leader.. she's the one in the shades in the extreme left. haha she came up with this very cute layout of some of the photos she took last saturday at Kampong Arang. There in the group shot are some of my gals in church.
Group shot: (Left to right) Me, Charis, Sasha, Rachel, Steph, Peiqi.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
-9:18 AM
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Psalm 23:6
Today Love Cope had a post National Day Celebration at Kampong Arang. Though it's like 10 days after the 9th, i guess we can still celebrate. Celebrate that Singapore has turned 41 and still growing stronger. Celebrate the fellowship. Celebrate to know that you'll be seeing a breakthrough on the way.
I partcipated in the telematch this afternoon together with the residents and man We're really good! Green team rocks! haha... We had this game of flipping waterbombs to the next pair of teammembers with this net n we're like super pro at it la. Though we didnt win in the end, it was really alot of fun.. You should see the aunties man.. they are really more active n pro than i am. Not that i am pro in the beginning but haha yeah. Our group really have the cutest bunch of people la. We had this 4 malay siblings who are totally so adorable. Really. Cant really remember their names but they're ranged from K1 to sec1. The youngest girl is just so sweet. i wished i had the photo we took with them with me. Sadly it's with amanda now.. so guess i'll show u all when i get it..
After the event Eunice, Bevie, Rach, Jonk, Jon E, my bro, Charis n i left for Kallang Macs to have our dinner. We gals on the way to Macs suddenly burst out talking about Singapore Idol.. How Paul twohill should get out and not Maltida. That Jasmine is improving (but i still dont think she can sing..) n then the next min we found ourselves singing the Spice Girls song that Jasmine sang.. cant remember what's the title... But haha ermm amongst the 5 of us, one of us(i shant mention names here...) remembered distinctively the lyrics to this song! The rest of us just tired to catch the lyrics from her.. So anyway Charis left halfway, then the guys had to cycle back so they left too. And then it was just the 4 gals.
We were talking about our own prophetic encounters, how God has been speaking to us, Rachel's dream, Bevie's father and it was an amazing time. We started affirming each other and I believed strongly that today wasnt an accident. I believed that God had this planned for the longest time. So anyway we started praying after that n i'm really glad we did. Strange and uncomfortable it may be, coz next to us was this group of muslims discussing some stuff and at that time Macs was relatively crowded, it was still impactful.. The Spirit of God fell and touched us. I really think that the fresh touch of God came upon us, to equip us in our daily situations, to convict us, to frshen our walk with Him once more. Thank you Lord for the amazing time and i believe that today's prayer will be fufilled!
Monday, August 14, 2006
-10:26 AM
God has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have reedemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1: 13-14
I lost my phone. Again. This time at Lavender Food Square. Probably lost it while i was coming out of the taxi or while walking along the stalls. And when Eunice called my phone, this bangla answered. Then next time we tried calling, it's off. Hopefully he doesnt do some stupid prank like what the last one did to me. Called and said they were from CNB and i'm involved in a drug case. Stupid. But anyway thank you dearie for lending me your phone for the time being and thank u for cheering me up. I know it kinda spoilt our tim sum. oh wells.
But seriously i'm really thankful for the chance to meet Dr Richard Blackaby in person before supper last night. He's an amazing author and i'm just so humbled by the way he relates to people. Even though he's tired from speaking 5hrs in a day and after autographing books after books, he remained strong. He even ministered to a lady during the autograph session. Well i'm currently reading his book on Spiritual Leadership and meeting him in person does help in understanding him as a author and a spiritual leader much better. I usually wondered if these kind of motivational speakers are consistent with what they say and what they do. He proved to be an excellent writer who is not only real in both words and character, he showed himself truly to be a powerful instrument that God is using to touch many lives out there. He touched mine.
