Campus Light
A place for CMers to share prayer requests, devotions and encouragements...
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16)
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Friday, May 21, 2004
Monday, May 17, 2004
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
Thank you very much for praying for me. Our Father always answers prayers. Thank God that my sales skills have improved quite a bit. Thank God also for bringing me more customers, for my sales performances were much better for the past two days. Thank God for today, my first off-day after one week's work.
God bless,
yixian ^_^
Saturday, May 15, 2004
God Gives Wings
I want to share something wonderful today and give God glory for how He has showed Himself mighty once again. Some of you may know that I had my IPPT (army fitness test) this afternoon. As I have to take the test before my next birthday, there was no opportunity to postpone it any longer. And I haven't been training.
I'm not a very fit person physically and always have trouble passing IPPT. I can hardly run the 2.4 km within the time limit, and recently I realised that it was a struggle to do pull-ups. The reason I didn't train was not because I was lazy, but because of injury and illness. Over the past 2 weeks I had a cough and could not train. It totally broke my training cycle. I told the Lord that if He did not want me to take my IPPT, he'd make it clear and I would take an MC. That would mean failure by default and I would have to spend some 8 weeks doing Remedial Training twice a week to build up my fitness.
This morning I felt in my body that the cough had left. During my Quiet Time, the Lord gave me a verse from Psalm 18: "by my God have I leaped over a wall." I recently came across this verse in the book Heavenly Man and saw how the Lord literally fulfilled this word by enabling the author to escape prison by leaping over the wall. I didn't think much of it but the verse kept coming back through the day. God used the verse to tell me that He could enable me to do physical feats that are humanly impossible.
I fully expected to fail my IPPT. I didn't even feel that I should ask God to let me pass because I felt I had not done my part by training (even though there were valid reasons). But God kept prompting me to ask, so I asked.
When I went to the first station - pull-ups - I just wanted to do the bare minimum of 5. But as I did the 5, it was a breeze! So I thought I'd try for 7, then 9. The Lord enabled me to do 9 perfect pull-ups with ease! Previously I had so much trouble with it!
When the 2.4 km run came I wasn't too optimistic, but I kept asking God to enable me to clear it. The requirement was to finish the run in 12.40 minutes. I knew that unless God intervened, I would surely fail. God let me finish it in 12.29 minutes. I not only passed, but also got an incentive award!
God is so good. I was fully ready to submit to His will if He wanted me to go for Remedial Training, but He had something else in mind. He allowed those injuries and illness to force me to not train so that the glory of passing the test could only be His. Thank You, Lord.
"For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him."
~ Psalm 18:29,30 ~
Friday, May 14, 2004
One more thing to add. :D
Can you please keep me in your prayer? Pray that God will give me wisdom to do my job better and the strength to finish the things I need to finish everyday.
*bow* with *thankful smile*
I want to thank God for what he has done in the past few days.
For those who do not know, I am working as a sales girl in a shoe shop now. It is a both physically and mentally taxing job. At least for now, I strongly feel it is so.
Firstly, I want to thank God for taking away the pain in my feet. My feet were very^5 painful after a few days of standing. (By the way, we are required by our boss to wear black slippers and stand for the whole working day except the about 20-min lunch time.) I wondered my feet would ever recover while I am working at my present post. But, a miraculous thing happened yesterday evening. As I walked in the undergroud tunnel to the outram park mrt from harbour front mrt, I suddenly felt my feet were light and comfortable. It is strange! And who can do it if it is not God?! I was totally amazed! Thank God. *smile*
Thank God also that my boss doesn't scold me for my poor sales performance. My sales performance is really disappointing. My boss even said jokingly that I am helping him to lose customers. *sigh*
Thank God for this opportunity to learn, to make mistake.
Thank God for little encouragements during my work. Thank God for sustaining me.
Thank God for transferring me to a nicer working environment after two tiring days at Bugis.
Thank God also for some nice and supportive people I met today in my work place, Joycelyn, auntie Tracy, Mr. "Almond" (haha... I had a good laugh at his name), a few nice aunties.
Thank God that hooiying and another one of my friends moved to my cluster last week, due to the renovation that is going on in PGP. Thank God for these two good companions. Thank God for providing me someone to talk to.
Thank God for this working experience. Though I feel like giving up very often, I thank God that at the end of each day, I have so many things to thank him for. And as I complain to my friends each day about my work, I am often amused at my own encounters. Hahah.
The list of thanksgiving goes on...
"O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever."
~~~~~~ A very encouraging pslam: Psalm 136
Kong getting his tan! Don't rock the boat, Kong! Ha ha... Thank the Lord for great weather that day we went snorkeling :)
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Show Thyself Strong
Not long ago the Lord encouraged me with a verse from 2 Chr 16:9 which says:
"For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him"He did just that as we were preparing to leave for Tioman.
On Thursday night, I just got to sleep after coughing like crazy when an SMS came in at midnight. It was Justin, and he just realised that his passport had expired. And our bus was departing at 9 in the morning! I found out from the internet that the immigration office opened at 8 a.m. and told Justin that he needed to go early to queue and be the first to get his passport done. Even then we did not know how long it would take. I asked the Lord to let him be the first in line.
When I got to the immigration office (thankfully it was near the bus terminal), there were some 40 people in front of Justin waiting for the doors to open. I asked Justin to go to the front and explain his situation and try to be the first in line. The security guard told him to get back. In my mind I was thinking that unless God intervened, there was no way he could go to Tioman with us.
That morning Kong also smsed me before I left the house. He had diarrhoea the whole night and felt he should pull out. I asked him to reconsider but left the decision to him and committed it to the Lord. In my mind I was thinking: God could have stopped them from going at any point in time if that was His will. Why did He allow these things to crop up at the last minute? If they didn't go, it would have been only Ian, Lilis, Yixian and myself; and I wasn't sure if we had enough money to pay for those who didn't go.
After Justin went in to the immigration building, I went to meet Yixian in the MRT. When she arrived, I told her the situation and we prayed. We prayed specifically that God would let Justin get his passport by 8:45, and that Kong would be well enough to come. Just after we prayed, both of them smsed me. Kong was on his way and Justin had renewed his passport. That was at 8:20. When I asked Justin how he got his passport done so quickly, he told me that he was first in line as all those in front of him when he was queueing were not going to the immigration office. Praise God!
Throughout the whole thing, the Lord gave me peace in my heart and I did not panic. If you ask me why the Lord allowed it to happen, I would say that He did it to show Himself strong. Thank You, Lord :)
Sunday, May 09, 2004
Praise the Lord! Thank the Lord for answering prayers. We were praying for you guys and the children while in Tioman.
Thank the Lord for blessing our trip to Tioman. We had a great time and the Lord blessed us richly not only from the time we spent together but also through the worship and sharing from His word. We also saw many of His creations and His hand at work to open doors for people to come.
Keep an eye on this site! More updates coming up!
Thursday, May 06, 2004
Tho't for the day (taken from GLCC mail):
"We are always seeking the reason. We want to know why.
But God does not reveal His plan. He reveals Himself."
Sunday, May 02, 2004
Praise God for today's children's ministry. God is good!
Today was a great improvement from last week, and the Lord brought in several new children. The Lord was gracious to us to make the children much more cooperative, even the more active ones. He also helped us work together as a team to manage the young ones.
Just wanna thank God for Cheng Siew, Yixian, Aly and Lova who availed themselves for the Lord's use. I'm very encouraged by their active participation and their faith. None of us are experienced workers with children, but God can still use us when we surrender our wills to Him. Great job with the kids today, guys! Also wanna thank the Lord for the others who wanted to serve but could not join us today. The Lord knows your hearts :)
Thank the Lord for little encouragements along the way too! One of those encouragements is how Mark offered me a sweet when I was on my way out of church. However, due to my cough, I told him he could save it for himself and thanked him for it. Mark is a very active boy and can be a little disruptive at times, but you know, he's actually a thoughtful and sweet boy inside. He even remembered the meaning of my name which I shared with him the previous week!
Another thing that amazed me was some of the things little Paul (Mark's younger brother) drew on the white board before we started our session. He drew Jesus saying the word "Come" to himself, and himself replying, "I am come." He also drew the picture of God on one side, man on the other, and the cross of Christ bridging the gap.
May the Lord open our eyes to the inner beauty of these children and enable us by His Holy Spirit to bring these hidden treasures out, training them in the way of the Lord.
