Tuesday, August 08, 2006
My Story (2)
I'm a very busy woman and I have things to run.
It's all work and no play for me. I'm literally married to my work. I own a big company and I can't afford to make any mistakes.
A small mistake can mean my tombstone.
Anyway, I'm proud to say I'm a Catholic. But I just don't have any time. But I DO still go to mass every Sunday.
I do not agree that I'm a Sunday Catholic. I still attend camps and lessons, though I'm 33. But sometimes I can't concentrate and have to think about my work.
Then I attented a camp organised by my church. A 3 day 2 night camp.
It was when I was sleeping when Jesus came to me.
All at once I'm 10 years old, and I'm in Jerusalem at Golgotha. And Jesus is on the cross in front of me.
Then He says to me:
"My child, I had time for you even when I died, can't you even spare a few days for me?"
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 6:57 AM
My Story
It was that day when daddy and me went to buy vegetables for dinner. Daddy saw that the road was very quiet. I ask him why. Daddy say something must be happening. Then I saw a lot of people shouting and screaming. They were saying things like "get up" and "move".
Daddy said I shouldn't see. But I really want to. He says I'm too young to look. But I'm already 10, why can't I understand everything he can?
I followed daddy secretly to the crowd. Then I saw the man that daddy said he loved a lot. But he looked so horrible. He had a crown of thorns that pierced through his head. There was blood all over. I almost wanted to cry. He seemed to be in pain. He was carrying something like a gigantic cross. Why is he carrying it? Is it so important? Then why is he feeling so painful?
I followed the crowd to the hill where people go to Heaven. I ran to daddy and hugged him. Daddy looked so surprised. I asked daddy if the man was going to Heaven. Daddy kept quiet and just looked at the cross.
When I looked at the standing cross, I saw the man nailed to the cross. He was crying and raising his head to the sky. Then he said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
I wanted to cry. But then the sky turned dark and daddy and me ran home. When I turned back to look at him one last time, he looked at me and smile very brightly.
Then I saw daddy crying.
Why did he have to die? Was it something he did?
Was it because I had been a bad girl?
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 6:41 AM
My Story (2)
My name is Faith.
I'm a very busy woman and I have things to run.
It's all work and no play for me. I'm literally married to my work. I own a big company and I can't afford to make any mistakes.
A small mistake can mean my tombstone.
Anyway, I'm proud to say I'm a Catholic. But I just don't have any time. But I DO still go to mass every Sunday.
I do not agree that I'm a Sunday Catholic. I still attend camps and lessons, though I'm 33. But sometimes I can't concentrate and have to think about my work.
Then I attented a camp organised by my church. A 3 day 2 night camp.
It was when I was sleeping when Jesus came to me.
All at once I'm 10 years old, and I'm in Jerusalem at Golgotha. And Jesus is on the cross in front of me.
Then He says to me:
"My child, I had time for you even when I died, can't you even spare a few days for me?"
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 6:57 AM
My Story
My name is Grace. I live in Jerusalem. My house faces the hill where daddy said men go to Heaven.
It was that day when daddy and me went to buy vegetables for dinner. Daddy saw that the road was very quiet. I ask him why. Daddy say something must be happening. Then I saw a lot of people shouting and screaming. They were saying things like "get up" and "move".
Daddy said I shouldn't see. But I really want to. He says I'm too young to look. But I'm already 10, why can't I understand everything he can?
I followed daddy secretly to the crowd. Then I saw the man that daddy said he loved a lot. But he looked so horrible. He had a crown of thorns that pierced through his head. There was blood all over. I almost wanted to cry. He seemed to be in pain. He was carrying something like a gigantic cross. Why is he carrying it? Is it so important? Then why is he feeling so painful?
I followed the crowd to the hill where people go to Heaven. I ran to daddy and hugged him. Daddy looked so surprised. I asked daddy if the man was going to Heaven. Daddy kept quiet and just looked at the cross.
When I looked at the standing cross, I saw the man nailed to the cross. He was crying and raising his head to the sky. Then he said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
I wanted to cry. But then the sky turned dark and daddy and me ran home. When I turned back to look at him one last time, he looked at me and smile very brightly.
Then I saw daddy crying.
Why did he have to die? Was it something he did?
Was it because I had been a bad girl?
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 6:41 AM
Thursday, August 03, 2006
USE YOUR TALENTS!!!
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 11:30 PM
USE YOUR TALENTS!!!
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 11:30 PM
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
What's keeping you from God?
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 9:17 PM
What's keeping you from God?
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 9:17 PM
Sunday, July 16, 2006
A story about........
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 10:21 PM
A story about........
THE PENCIL PARABLE
In the beginning, the Pencil Maker spoke to the pencil, saying, "There are 5 things you need to know before I send you into the world. Always remember them and you can be the best pencil you can ever be."
He told it:
You would be able to do great things, if only you allow yourself to be used in someone's hand.
You would experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but this is necessary in order to allow you to become a better pencil.
Remember, you would always be able to correct whatever mistakes you make.
The most important part of you is always be what's inside.
No matter the condition, you must continue to write and leave a clear and legible mark no matter how difficult the situation.
The pencil understood, and went into box fully understanding its Maker's purpose.
Now replacing the pencil with you, always remember them and you can be the best person you can ever be.
You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in God's hand. And allow other human beings to access you for the many gifts you possess.
You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, by going through various problems, but you'll need it to become a stronger person.
You will be able to correct mistakes you might make or grow through them.
The most important part of you will always be what's inside.
On every surface you walk, you must leave your mark. No matter what the situation, you must continue to serve God in everything.
Everyone is like a pencil...created by the Maker for a unique and special purpose.
By understanding and remembering, let us proceed with our life on this earth having a meaningful purpose in our heart and a relationship with God daily.
You were made to do GREAT things!!!
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 10:21 PM
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
I have been Inspired...
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 5:20 PM
YES CAMP 2006 was held from 15th June to the 18th of June
where people from all walks of life gathered together
for one purpose:
TO FIND HIM.
~God's Rhinos
~Immaculate Heart of Mary Church
~Word Among Us
~Gift of The Holy Spirit/a>
~Father's Love Letter
~Serangoon Youth District Rally 2006
~The Holy See: The Official Website Of The Vatican
I have been Inspired...
For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son. That whosoever knew him, believed in him should not perish but would have everlasting life.
John 3:16
The fear of the Lord is the begginning of all knowledge.
Proverbs 1:7
Pray continually.
Thessalonians 5:17
It's been such a loo00o0o0oo0oong time since YES! camp and I'm feeling all groggy and stuff. But I know that the Lord has always been by my side. So many things have happened since YES! camp, such as trying to evangelise among my 'die-hard don't belive-there's-a-God' friends. It's just so hard to get a distinction when God throws you a test but remember: OUR WHOLE LIFE IS A TEST.
The quotes above there are just some quotes i drew inspiration from. Most of them obtained from YES! camp.
Back to the topic: how did God play in my life???
It all happened on a sunny day in Chong Boon Secondary school when I tried to evangelise but my friends mocked me. I, well, sort of condemned them.
But on Sunday, I was reading a Bible passage and there was a line that struck me, It goes something like this:
Condemn others and God will condemn you
Give to others and God will give to you
Show mercy on others and God will show mercy on you
Something like that.
As if that wasn't enough, God allowed me to meet my Church's father, Father Robertos and he sort of asked me to write a short story of how Jesus entered my Life.
This REALLY DOES sound more of a coincidence, right?
Anyway, God comes to us in MANY different ways. Your existence here means something. It may not change the fate of the Iraqi war but it may change someone else's life.
Here's a story:
There was an old man who was blind. He was a devout catholic and always obeyed the Lord's commands. One day, he went for a healing session to cure his eyes, he was very confident that his eyes would be healed but it didn't happened. He was utterly disappointed but carried on praising the Lord.
He went for another session five years later but again, nothing changed. But this old man continued to give thanks to the Lord.
Then, ten years later on another session. He went with his non-believer grandson, who said that science could prove every miracle. But on that day, his eyes were healed and the boy believed
Remember my story, I have to go now.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you always
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 5:20 PM
Friday, July 07, 2006
Life after the mountain is tough! But God is good!
At the end of the camp it seems that nothing was impossible for us to accomplish for God. Today, I can barely hear Him, if at all, and wonder is He still there? Was all that I felt and seen in the camp for real? Was everything that happened just a case of mass hysteria?
All too often the transition from the safety and structured format of a retreat/camp to the real world is like stepping out from a room with a nice fire going, into a cold wintery night. At first we still feel snug in our winter gear which still keeps us from feeling the cold, but very quickly the cold begins to creep in and we don't remember the warmth any more, and begin to wonder if we were even next to a fire to begin with.
How do we keep that warmth within us after the camp? How does one prevent that fire that has been lit inside us from going out, with the winds that blow around us, seeking to bury our spirit?
STRENGTH (and WARMTH) IN NUMBERS
Our spiritual walk was never meant to be solo one.
A strong supporting community that shares our faith and beliefs in a Real and loving God, that is active in our lives, will help us remind us of the reality of a relationship with God. They keep us warm in the cold winter that surrounds (as penguins gather together for warmth against the antarctic winds).
The different members of the community are given different gifts and varying extents of the gifts to help sustain our fire of faith, and even help re-ignite it if we ever lose our footing and fall.
We also learn to re-start our own fires through the community, knowing that there are times that we must go it without the community. But at that time we know how to speak with the source of our fire...and get Him to be with us, sustain us and even light our way.
STARTING OTHER FIRES
"One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty." (Proverbs 11:24)
The key to progressing beyond just sustaining our little fires, is to spread it.
As a little lamp generates only so much heat, so too is our own fire if we keep it to ourselves.
But when we learn to share the fire with others and setting them alight for God, we are soon joined by more people who will burn with us for God. In the process our flame burns brighter.
And with the warmth of all the lamps burning together, it gets quite warm, and when that many lamps get together, WATCH OUT! An explosion of wildfire is bound happen!
KEEP YOUR FIRE BURNING
Give your fire what it needs to keep burning. It's fuel.
Spend that Quiet Time with God.
Let Him refuel your lamp, let him re-light it if it's gone out.
Can't connect with Him? Find the community to help you reconnect.
Don't ever give in to the winter's cold.
DOOMED TO FREEZE?
As you are reading this, you may be wondering, we are doing our bit to keep from freezing to death.... but the odds are stacked against us with a seemingly very unwelcoming and unreceptive environment.
But remember who is the one that is on our side. Pray for Him to lift the winter, and let His sun shine into our lives, and the lives of those we want to set on fire. It's so much easier to start a wildfire in summer than in winter! And He will do it! We need only ask as a community.
The world is looking for warmth, if you let your fire show, they will be drawn to the warmth. Ask God for the Summer to open everyone up to the fire! And let the fire burn!
God Bless,
Bernard
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 12:47 AM
Life after the mountain is tough! But God is good!
It's been almost a month since the YES camp and it's hard to feel the Spirit anymore!
At the end of the camp it seems that nothing was impossible for us to accomplish for God. Today, I can barely hear Him, if at all, and wonder is He still there? Was all that I felt and seen in the camp for real? Was everything that happened just a case of mass hysteria?
All too often the transition from the safety and structured format of a retreat/camp to the real world is like stepping out from a room with a nice fire going, into a cold wintery night. At first we still feel snug in our winter gear which still keeps us from feeling the cold, but very quickly the cold begins to creep in and we don't remember the warmth any more, and begin to wonder if we were even next to a fire to begin with.
How do we keep that warmth within us after the camp? How does one prevent that fire that has been lit inside us from going out, with the winds that blow around us, seeking to bury our spirit?
STRENGTH (and WARMTH) IN NUMBERS
Our spiritual walk was never meant to be solo one.
A strong supporting community that shares our faith and beliefs in a Real and loving God, that is active in our lives, will help us remind us of the reality of a relationship with God. They keep us warm in the cold winter that surrounds (as penguins gather together for warmth against the antarctic winds).
The different members of the community are given different gifts and varying extents of the gifts to help sustain our fire of faith, and even help re-ignite it if we ever lose our footing and fall.
We also learn to re-start our own fires through the community, knowing that there are times that we must go it without the community. But at that time we know how to speak with the source of our fire...and get Him to be with us, sustain us and even light our way.
STARTING OTHER FIRES
"One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty." (Proverbs 11:24)
The key to progressing beyond just sustaining our little fires, is to spread it.
As a little lamp generates only so much heat, so too is our own fire if we keep it to ourselves.
But when we learn to share the fire with others and setting them alight for God, we are soon joined by more people who will burn with us for God. In the process our flame burns brighter.
And with the warmth of all the lamps burning together, it gets quite warm, and when that many lamps get together, WATCH OUT! An explosion of wildfire is bound happen!
KEEP YOUR FIRE BURNING
Give your fire what it needs to keep burning. It's fuel.
Spend that Quiet Time with God.
Let Him refuel your lamp, let him re-light it if it's gone out.
Can't connect with Him? Find the community to help you reconnect.
Don't ever give in to the winter's cold.
DOOMED TO FREEZE?
As you are reading this, you may be wondering, we are doing our bit to keep from freezing to death.... but the odds are stacked against us with a seemingly very unwelcoming and unreceptive environment.
But remember who is the one that is on our side. Pray for Him to lift the winter, and let His sun shine into our lives, and the lives of those we want to set on fire. It's so much easier to start a wildfire in summer than in winter! And He will do it! We need only ask as a community.
The world is looking for warmth, if you let your fire show, they will be drawn to the warmth. Ask God for the Summer to open everyone up to the fire! And let the fire burn!
God Bless,
Bernard
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 12:47 AM
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Blessed be Your name
Life is pretty much back to normal yet, thought I drop in a testimony, main purpose is to let other browser know how great is our God, second to remind the participants of some moment that they might have forgotten, third to affirm all the facil for Jesus was truly working in all of you, hope you guys will keep that engine running. Last but not least, as a prayer to our almighty Father.
Ok enough of those stuff, I am going to keep this testimony short else there will be no space for the other participants. Actually I wasn’t planning to come for this camp, just so happen that the neophytes (people who are baptise and not confirmed) of CTK are involve and so decided to go together. I guess God really has a wonderful way of calling people to him. Before this I was slack in my prayer life and my relationship with Jesus has reach this stage where I know he is there looking out for me and I will pray lying on my bed and the next thing I know it was time for school. My bible started to collect dust sometimes I can’t even find it.
For this I can truly say that God's graces found me, on the first day of camp, I discovered why I am called to this camp, and it is to renew my relationship with Jesus. In the entire camp I did not get rested in the Spirit, nor did I get any charismatic gift, even my gift of tongues seems to me like it was from me. To me, I went home with something much more, I truly felt the love of Jesus, and this experience is truly mine and no one else. Nobody can tell me how much Jesus loves me because I have felt it and it truly is my experience, it is the closest experience I had as a catholic.
It happened during the third day when I was praying for Jesus to touch me and renew my relationship with Him, when I went up to Daniel to be prayed over, Jesus was truly present in Daniel connecting to me. For that moment there was a lot of comfort and love. After that I just remembered me singing with joy and proclaiming How great is our God, raising my arms and dancing with Joy. Indeed today we can boast of our God.
The strange thing is that when I came back for the follow up session on Sat, when we were worshipping in the upper room, when I saw this picture it reminded me of that moment that Jesus touches me through Daniel. I shared this moment with Daniel over the msn and it was really very exciting to know how God reaches out to us and I know this experience is going to last me for a long time.
Life is back to normal down the hill but still the excitement for God has not ended, my bible is no longer on the shelf collecting dust and my prayer life is restored. I know that when school reopen and when I start to get busy I may fall back into the same trap but this round I know I am equip the whole armor of God and with the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.
Special thanks to my group facil Angeline and Jerry, I know the both of you sweat blood worrying about the group but at the end of the camp, I guess the fruits of your labour can be seen. Really want to thank you guys for putting in the effort to share with us and to always take care of our needs in the camp. Of course the rest of the facil, and most of all our beloved God who has provided for us.
Amen
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 8:57 PM
Blessed be Your name
Hey People,
Life is pretty much back to normal yet, thought I drop in a testimony, main purpose is to let other browser know how great is our God, second to remind the participants of some moment that they might have forgotten, third to affirm all the facil for Jesus was truly working in all of you, hope you guys will keep that engine running. Last but not least, as a prayer to our almighty Father.
Ok enough of those stuff, I am going to keep this testimony short else there will be no space for the other participants. Actually I wasn’t planning to come for this camp, just so happen that the neophytes (people who are baptise and not confirmed) of CTK are involve and so decided to go together. I guess God really has a wonderful way of calling people to him. Before this I was slack in my prayer life and my relationship with Jesus has reach this stage where I know he is there looking out for me and I will pray lying on my bed and the next thing I know it was time for school. My bible started to collect dust sometimes I can’t even find it.
For this I can truly say that God's graces found me, on the first day of camp, I discovered why I am called to this camp, and it is to renew my relationship with Jesus. In the entire camp I did not get rested in the Spirit, nor did I get any charismatic gift, even my gift of tongues seems to me like it was from me. To me, I went home with something much more, I truly felt the love of Jesus, and this experience is truly mine and no one else. Nobody can tell me how much Jesus loves me because I have felt it and it truly is my experience, it is the closest experience I had as a catholic.
It happened during the third day when I was praying for Jesus to touch me and renew my relationship with Him, when I went up to Daniel to be prayed over, Jesus was truly present in Daniel connecting to me. For that moment there was a lot of comfort and love. After that I just remembered me singing with joy and proclaiming How great is our God, raising my arms and dancing with Joy. Indeed today we can boast of our God.
The strange thing is that when I came back for the follow up session on Sat, when we were worshipping in the upper room, when I saw this picture it reminded me of that moment that Jesus touches me through Daniel. I shared this moment with Daniel over the msn and it was really very exciting to know how God reaches out to us and I know this experience is going to last me for a long time.Life is back to normal down the hill but still the excitement for God has not ended, my bible is no longer on the shelf collecting dust and my prayer life is restored. I know that when school reopen and when I start to get busy I may fall back into the same trap but this round I know I am equip the whole armor of God and with the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.
Special thanks to my group facil Angeline and Jerry, I know the both of you sweat blood worrying about the group but at the end of the camp, I guess the fruits of your labour can be seen. Really want to thank you guys for putting in the effort to share with us and to always take care of our needs in the camp. Of course the rest of the facil, and most of all our beloved God who has provided for us.
Amen
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 8:57 PM
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Coming down the mountain....
Haha... I must agree with Dillon in his earlier post that God does send messengers. However, whether we wanna listen to His messengers or not it really depends on us.
We are faced with temptations everyday in our lives and we really got to listen hard to the Holy Spirit.
So i pray that God would continue to open our eyes so that we can see, open our ears so that we can hear and open our minds so that we can understand.
Yup.... so let us continue to praise God with every move that we make! I'm a fool for Christ! :)
Charmaine :D
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 1:43 AM
Coming down the mountain....
Hey guys.... yes it was a wonderful 4 days that we had. But now its time that we come down from the mountain.
Haha... I must agree with Dillon in his earlier post that God does send messengers. However, whether we wanna listen to His messengers or not it really depends on us.
We are faced with temptations everyday in our lives and we really got to listen hard to the Holy Spirit.
So i pray that God would continue to open our eyes so that we can see, open our ears so that we can hear and open our minds so that we can understand.
Yup.... so let us continue to praise God with every move that we make! I'm a fool for Christ! :)
Charmaine :D
SHOUT TO THE LORD! 1:43 AM
SING PRAISES WITH US!
YES CAMP 2006 was held from 15th June to the 18th of June
where people from all walks of life gathered together
for one purpose:
TO FIND HIM.
SHARE THE LOVE WITH THEM!
~Little ROCKS~God's Rhinos
~Immaculate Heart of Mary Church
~Word Among Us
~Gift of The Holy Spirit/a>
~Father's Love Letter
~Serangoon Youth District Rally 2006
~The Holy See: The Official Website Of The Vatican
SHOUT TO US!