MY LIFE, GOD'S WAY. 365 days of PRAISE and LOVE.

11:05 am

Hello blog: my life, God's way. I'm starting this because two friends of mine JennyH and JoshK inspired me. JennyH and her 365 days of love challenge and JoshK and his 365 days of praise! Praise God in igniting their hearts with this challenge. As for me, I plan to do both starting TODAY! And I hope that this will really keep me accountable. I don't usually write in diaries (I think it's a waste of time), but since this blog is about my 365 days of love and praise, I will definitely blog about how God has changed my life; ultimately, how my life is, God's way.

Day 1.
I guess my challenge of love today would be 3:00pm handing out surveys to see what my fellow university mates think about Jesus Christ. It's funny, because I cringe when I see people handing out surveys. And I feel bad when I don't take one, but I know that I end up throwing it out (recycling!). However, I feel that this will be a great challenge, because well, I hope someone challenges my faith. If my faith isn't challenged, then I can't grow stronger and understand what it means to be persecuted. I mean, really now, I'm so comfortable in my life. I'm so blessed to have a healthy family, a family that loves me, food and warmth, and friends that I can keep accountable with! Praise God! And so I'll see what happens today. I guess ever since this term in September, I've had this huge yearning of Doing Something for God. But I always think, and never do. And watching my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ pouring their love onto the campus, well, makes me feel bad about myself. I mean, JennyH and AndyT, man, they're amazing at doing God's works! I'm really proud of them, and I look up to them! (Yes, I do!) hahah. I'm glad to have met them :)

SO here's my approach to my challenge of love. 1 Corinthians 13.

¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Today, during prayer meeting, Li pointed out something that striked me (striked isn't a word. but it did strike me). I told him I was doing devotions on Matthew 5:7, the challenge the speaker Matt (was it matt? I don't remember -.-) talked about during ccf winter retreat: 5 minutes, 7 days a week. AND IT'S HARD. I've already fallen behind on the devos!! butbutbut, I'm gonna work on that! I personally think it's better to do it in the morning, when your mind's blank. BLANK. it's easier to focus and whatnot, and that's the best. You can just focus on GOD and Him only. Anyways, Li said that there isn't much point if you're just reading the Bible. You HAVE TO APPLY IT TO YOUR LIFE. So what he's doing is reading one verse and before he moves on, he has to apply it first. So I am going to do that. Thus I shall begin! starting on 1 Corinthians 13:4 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud." So with this verse, I will apply it: patience, kindness, not envying others, not boasting about the works I do, and that I am not proud. Easy to say, HARD to do. But with JESUS, I KNOW I CAN!!!


PRAISE #1:
Let us sing praises to our King, our Lord and Saviour. He is worthy of our praises.
I hope to always remember that God is with me. So now, whenever I walk to classes or walking back to rev, I always look into the sky and give praises to God. I'm so undeserving of His Love, and so one thing I tend to do now is to always smile and look up and say 'thank you' for all that He has done for me. THANKS GOD!

One more thing that is on my mind right now. The song, King of Glory by Chris Tomlin. Great song :)

There is ONE GOD, HE IS HOLY.
There is ONE LORD OVER EVERYTHING.
There is ONE KING, HE IS JESUS
KING OF GLORY, (WHO'S) STRONG AND MIGHTY.

PRAISE GOD.

10:32 pm (oh so close to when I blogged this morning!)

JamesN's campus challenge was fun! Which, by the way, he owes me lunch cause he was late!! hahah he told me to meet at turnkey at 3pm SHARP, and guess what?! He was late! haha yaaay, free timmies lunch.

We approached this lady (student) named Megan (Meghan?). She was sitting in the cafe area by herself doing sudoku (great puzzle!). So JamesN and I introduced ourselves, and we got acquanited. We asked her the survey questions and turns out, she's roman catholic. but what I'm sensing from her is that she says shes catholic. and I say this because from her responses, she doesn't really acknowledge the presence of God. I don't know; I don't really remember -.- short term memory. But the good news is...she was really interested in ccf! haha she asked us about our fellowship and what we do - we told her that there are non asians in our felly hahah! and I'm sure God sparked a fire in her heart. I hope so. I pray so.
Our second surveyer was Jay. He was sitting on the great hall area, with his toshiba laptop out. JamesN went up to him and asked if he wanted to do a survey; Jay told him that he only had two minutes. As it turns out, we spoke for probably 20 minutes! (Praise God!) I definitely think God's working in JamesN and I, because the people we approached today were interested. Jay told us that he actually had this philosophical conversation with his buddies when they were drunk (huh.) nevermind the drunkenness, he was interested and he was also VERY analytical. He's a frosh too! He is in environment, so I guess you'll have to be scientific and analytical? I don't know. But he questioned us a lot. And haaah, apparently I questioned him a lot too, cause JamesN ended up saying "don't turn it into an argument" -.- I guess I couldn't help it; I think God really helped me though, cause I didn't feel nervous or scared - I just kept at it (go figure.) but I'm really interested in Jay. He asked questions that challenged my faith. I personally become sensitive and "shy" when asked what I believe in - so when JamesN asked whether Meghan (I think it's with the h) and Jay wanted to hear what we believed in, I basically let him go first. I'm really scared, because what happens if I say the wrong thing? Or that something I say is not what I should believe in? Hope that made sense :\ Oh! Jay never read the bible before, and so JamesN gave his new testament bible to him (JamesN's act of love!) I pray that Jay will open it when he's bored or better yet, interested and I pray that God's presence will be with him and stir his heart and ignite the fire.
All in all, I hope to keep in contact with both Meghan and Jay, and I want to keep on going with JamesN's campus challenge! Praise God for moving his heart in doing this!

at 7 pm, JoshK and I went to Haiti Prayer Meeting led by JamesN. We watched a video that stood out to me. A young boy was screaming on top of his lungs, screaming "WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY" from the pain he was suffering from and I thought in my head: "why have you forsaken me?" - and this shook me HARD. I felt my heart beating really fast, I felt this tight tension and I thought I was gonna faint or have a panic attack. I couldn't even look at the pictures JamesN was showing; it hurts too much to look at. And it basically comes down to this: I am blessed. I have food, warmth, packload of clothes in the closet, a mattress, a blanket, a stuffed animal, a nice green laptop, a big monitor, a cell phone, WATER, and the BIBLE. I couldn't really be asking for more. Yet I go onto websites and look at the latest what-I-need-to-get (it's a habit, I really like those clothes). And thus, I feel very fortunate and I felt I needed to slap myself because people in Haiti have no homes and yet, THEY'RE SINGING! Hallelujah! It is amazing, and this links back to how the rich will be the poorest, and the poorest will be the rich. I'm sorry, I don't know the exact verse (shows how much I really know the bible - I plan to work on it!). I praise God that I am given the chance to know Him, and I feel that I have drawn closer to Him, YAY!

at 9 pm;
cwang's vball game! haha James and the GIANT PEACHES! They are really improving and I enjoy watching them! Jackie's improving! AllanW's serve was baaam! AndyT's serve was WHAADUP and his attempts at penguin flopping was well - needs improvement (haha!) and cwang, woooo! soo goood! haha awesome how God gave her great athletic skills! haha keep up the good work GIANT PEACHES!! or should I say, GROWING peaches!

And finally,
My act of love:
opening doors for people behind me, even if I had to wait a couple of seconds. but those couple of seconds weren't wasted. they came with smiles. didn't really match what I wrote earlier about showing my love to JamesN's campus challenge, but hey, first day of love, still good enough! :)

I like blogging. it is fun, THANKS JennyH and JoshK for encouraging me!

prayer items:

• JoshK going back home before 11:00 and better yet, sleeping before 11:30 for his english muffin!
• Chilie, pray that she will by God's will, heal and recover, and that through this tough time, she grows stronger and strengthens her relationship with God. and pray for those around her. again, easy to say, hard to do.
• cwang's grandma and herself, and family
• cwang's econ midterm, JennyH's math and lyryx, MiltonC's pile of work;
• in general, everyone who has midterms and tests and assignments due, WE CAN DO IT!
• AndyT's CTI fundrasing - he needs some confidence!
• MichelleL, that she can be stress-free and not suffer from panic attacks again
• HAITI, that we will keep praying for them!!
  

:)