Rest

the day before yesterday i slept late because of a car
olling activity that we took part in. The next day, i attended two church services and had lunch outside. when i went home, i was very tired but have not spent time with the Lord yet, but i felt a desire to spend time with the Lord first. so with much tiredness, i tried to spend time with the Lord. I used to pray long prayers that i nearly fell asleep  while praying and cause myself to forget the passion for praying. But God knew how i felt and, the Lord gave me a very comforting poem from the book streams in the dessert.

This is a poem by Ella Conrad Cowherd

http://www.avbbf.com/forum/thread-918.html

I thank God for his sweet words to me and i went straight to sleep after that. Im so glad God know sus so well  and he wants to give us rest when we need it!

The Amazing... ~ u ~

Woohoo, God has been so utterly AMAZING throughout my exams!!

First, the english essay. Always before i study, i pray to God for wisdom first. So i did when i studied for english. Thank God so much for giving me the desire to write an essay before the exam and you know what, the essay question that came out enabled me to write the exact essay i had practiced the very few days before. I believe when God puts something in our heart, He will just guide us mysteriously and we will feel in our heart to follow that desire. All we have to do is trust and try it out.

Then, it happened today again. I was never good at Chinese and i dont think i ever really got an A in my school exams in this subject. That is why i feel the butterflies in my stomach and get so nervous thinking about how I am going to take this big exam. My mom gave me a test 2 days before i was to sit for the test, that is today, and it consists of 5 essay questions and i am supposed to choose one of it. Though i planned long ago to go for the facts kinda essay, but somehow i felt that i should write the first question, titled " Coming Home". And so i wrote that day. You know, when God did something great for you just like the previous english test, you just tend to believe God wants to do it again. Actually i half-believed that the question might come out something like the essay i had written before my exam. I kept on wanting to read and re-read my and even to memorise it, but my mom didnt know what was in my mind and so she said that it might not come out. I mean the scope for essay questions is so so wide that practically anything might come out, hence spotting the question has so little possitbility, that was what i thought. And lo behold, when i opened my test paper today, the first question was " Coming Home". Wow. My heart was thumping so hard that at once i prayed to thank God for being so amazing. It is like, the same exact identical question. PHEW, and it was the only essay that i practiced before the exam. praisssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee God!!!!

Welps, im  not saying that i am certainly going to have an A but im just so glad that God had been so real in my exams , helpin me pull through though it was tough, and setting me free now, wheeeee~~~~

Thank you Lord for being an amazing God. Thanks for your faithfulness throughout my exams though i complained quite a lot. I praise you for i am fearfully and wonderfully made!!! Please make our hols fruitful for you and that everyone around us will see your light and be blessed by your love. I love you God, in Jesus' name i pray, Amen!

just a useful reminder to all students : The Lord helps those who help themselves.


GOD , THE  AMAZING .

Exams~~~

 I used to love exams because i wouldnt need to do homeworks during my  exams =)
but recently, aahhh...  , so stressful i felt.  I tried not too, and prayed lots, and then i felt God tell me to, you know, blog what i feel right now. So here i am, doing it by faith..

It was crazy, i practically felt white hairs sprouting when i was forcing myself so hard to study. its not that i dont like to study but its the pressure that i felt. Its the kind of once a  lifetime exam so you just gotta try your best and prepare real well. But when you know that you still have a great deal you haven't gone through, its really discouraging and i had a thought like " ahh, let it be, maybe not to study is better, then i wont feel so stressed. I suppose i can remember tomorrow.." I never did it though. I would feel too guilty to do it, hence i studied just as hard as i can............................................... and take the exams and then, I feel GREAT. I believe we are responsible to try our best for God since He had given us much wisdom and grace and opportunity to take exams and leave the results to Him. Thats the way exams would seem to come and go well, and you actually feel a bit sad when you realise that its over. ^^

I suppose the moral behind the story is that, don't stress yourself too hard by comparing with others how much you have studied ( its not worth it, really ), and try your best at living a balanced life and studying hard and rejoice after every exam, cause its God's gift. In a nutshell XD, lean back on God throughout your exams babe~

Ecclesiastes 8:15
So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

The First Post =)

" ' When the cloud tarried...then the children of Israel...journeyed not.' ( Num. 9:19)

Wait, young man, do not be in a hurry to make a change! Minister, remain at your post! Until the cloud clearly moves, you must tarry. Wait, then, thy Lord's good pleasure! He will be in plenty of time!"

- Daily Devotional Commentary (Streams in the Desert)

I found these words impacted my thoughts and hence i posted it, since i am not sure of what to post for the first time. Hmm. Surely we must wait for God's timing in everything, hard it may be, but we must get our hearts ready for waiting and  not be impatient, for He shall make the tarrying sweet and meaningful in time.

So often, i found myself sad and gloomy and i didnt know that it was taking over me. Soon, i realised that i became sad for a reason i myself do not understand and altogether for me life became gloomy, days became gloomy, my thoughts became gloomy. What to do. I am still young and desperately do not want to live a sad life. But there seemed too much things in this world to worry about, to be sad about. Even when i committed them to God, i feel no joy.

By and by, i realised the source of my problem. When you commit something to God, you should really lay it at His feet and leave it there. Dont be like the person who was sitting on the back of a lorry but still carrying his heavy bag, not putting it down because he didnt want to burden the lorry too much. It is already on the lorry! Forgive and let things go. When you trust God, really trust Him and dont limit Him. His thoughts and ways are greater than ours. Get positive, look around and see that the bright sunshine is shinning at you! Be thankful and joyful for our days are short and this is the day that the Lord hath made. There is not a problem to great and terrible that it will last forever. If you have God of the Universe as your Help,  what then is too hard?