can't wait
Desperate People - Hillsong United
You cross the great divide, You took our place
You offered up Your life, for we have failed
The veil was torn and love remained
You are holy Lord
Distraction costs us, how we seek Your face
We offer up our lives to bring You praise
A love the walls cannot contain
You are holy Lord
We're rising up in spirit and in truth
A living sacrifice we worship You
People undivided Lord hear us sing
We are Yours and You are our King
This is our love
Hearts joined as one
Desperate for all You are
Lord break down these walls
And see how we love
Desperate for all You are
We chase Your heart
We didn't come to leave here entertained
Or worship under any other name
We're crying out for You alone
You are holy Lord
We're rising up in spirit and in truth
A living sacrifice we worship You
People undivided Lord hear us sing
We are Yours and You are our king
This is our love
Hearts joined as one
Desperate for all You are
Lord break down these walls
And see how we love
Desperate for all You are
We chase Your heart
Show us the way to Your heart
We found our voice
We found our cause
We're on our knees, the carpet's worn
We join our hearts
With distant shores sing to You Lord
This is our love
Hearts joined as one
Desperate for all You are
Lord break down these walls
And see how we love
Desperate for all You are
This is our love
Hearts joined as one
Desperate for all You are
Lord break down these walls
And see how we love
Desperate for all You are
We chase your heart
We chase your heart
- Can't wait to start to skate.
ELEVEN PM TONIGHT
Tomorrows a very big day. MATHS COMMON TEST day. I don't like Math. Quite some stuffs to remember, so shall wake really early tomorrow... Econs paper was quite alright, though I didn't finish. Heh I've frequently start Math papers with a heavy/stony brain that can't think straight! Shall sleep real early tonight, for once in the past month or so, at ELEVEN. Shall not panic.
Oh God I pray that the Math tomorrow isn't really painful. I feel like the next song.
God of all time!
Although oneway does QT every night, I felt that I don't think of God very much in the day. Like suddenly everything kinda gets busier, more hectic and I sorta made decisions on my own. Maybe because it's faster, more convenient? For some very unimportant reasons, I know. I don't want THAT. I want to always be asking and conscious of God as my priority, instead of letting Him come to the top of my list only at night when I do think of Him. I want to be reminded of God and all time time and every time.
I wanna pray that I always remember Him during the daytime as well, and I shall start by saying grace for anything I eat wherever I am.
xiah
owe a few million, tell me how do I pay it back.
helped and helping
2 Chronicles 19:4-11
Hm oneway has always always wished to be a pillar of support for all those around me. Last year, I was way too obsessed over a certain issue which made me neglect my surroundings, including some of my friends. This year, I'll make sure that changes.
But, there's something I had to achieve first, which I learnt in today's QT that I don't think I've accomplished yet.
1) Practise what you preach.I'm really not qualified to tell my friends, "Stop slacking!" Gotta change that.
2) Don't say what you think, rather go find it out exactly, what God says.I need to know more about the Word of God.
3) Avoid the temptation to close one eye to wrong doing.I've fallen for the temptation many times, and fall short of God's ways.
4) Be fair and don't judge by appearances.Okay okay at the moment...
5) Be honest.I think although I do not lie directly, I tend to make stuffs lean towards one side of the argument. Which is simply un-Godly. Big fat liars are big fat sinners.
6) Be brave.I'm not a very courageous person yet. Advising people what to do, I'm honestly terrified some of the times. Still, God would've done the same if He was in my shoes, so will oneway.
reAFFIRMED
2 Chronicles 18:1-22
Heh although today I was quite shaken as to what to do about the matter that is bugging me, I was affirmed by what I thought God would do if He was in my shoes now, and my friend talked to me a lil about it too. But I was reaffirmed by today's QT on Life's Crossroads. I've got to do what is Godly, not what I want( though it's best if it's what I want too, like in this case), not what the majority thinks.
Oh it's just so amazing, this lesson is what I really need to reaffirm my choice. God is just so amazing that He gave me what I really needed at the time I really needed it the most, and that's why He is the only one for me!
p.s. I wanna be Micaiah.
refreshed
oneway went to mug today, but ended up sleeping most of it. Didn't study much :P Heh but felt really so much better than today morning! Thanks to Donald and YEC and of cuz undisputedly God! xD
p.s. YEC ROCKS!
From The Inside Out - Hillsong United
A thousand times I've failed
Still your mercy remains
And should I stumble again
Still I'm caught in your grace
Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
My heart and my soul, Lord I give you controlConsume me from the inside out Lord
Let justice and praise become my embrace
To love You from the inside out
Your will above all else, my purpose remains
The art of losing myself in bringing you praise
Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart, in my soul, Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out Lord
Let justice and praise become my embrace
To love You from the inside out
[Chorus 2x]
Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart is to bring You praise
From the inside out Lord, my soul cries out
shucked.
Yesterday's been quite a bad day. Things just didn't turn out very well, and I just found out about something I rather not. Seriously not. It's messing up my concentration and stuffs, but I know I've still have to study for CTs. And I don't know that to do about that matter now.
To really concentrate, I don't want to do anything about the matter now. Shall just do what I have on hand. Gonna listen to this song, my motivation. Love the chorus.
p.s. Lyrics in the next post!
God as my study partner
oneway used to hate studying for tests, schoolwork, grades. Just dislike them really bad. The minuscule motivation I get from studying is the underlying desperation that, if I do not study, I won't get a good job and be able to live a good life. Still, that's a long time away and I derive such little... satisfaction thinking about that.
BUT, after camp and stuffs, when I decided to start mugging again, I began to start to forget about the good job, good life. Instead, the great God sorta became my motivation afterward. I'm really trying to OUTREACH! to more people, and I realised after a while that one thing I really must excel in is my grades and studies. Even if I have a lot of social life and such outside of school, in the eyes of my peers, my below average grades would just prove that I did not have my priorities right. Only by having my job as a student done well, which is achieving good grades, can I show the world that I am in control of my own life.
And only by that can I begin to OUTREACH! and influence, and let more people know of God's greatness and magnificence. And with that, I became kinda okay with studying. Oh God, here and now I want to declare that I'm studying for Your sake, all to glorify You! And so I'm going to really MUG! :F
for Granted?
2 Chronicles 15:1-9
"Have you been taking God for granted?"
When I saw this question, I can't help but really reflect on my whole spiritual life thus far. A short 3 months or so. Well, most of the 3 months are like, so stagnant. Only the week before camp and after did oneway TRULY had a growing spiritual life. I felt that occasionally, I tend to cheat the system by keep sinning the same things and asking for forgiveness. Ugh, hate myself. I really really really want to do something about that!
One thing I learnt from today's QT is that, God is not a problem-solving tool. He can, of course, without doubt! He is God, and precisely because God is God, and He loves us so, we cannot throw ALL our problems to Him, do nothing and expect things to be resolved by God automatically.
God loves us, and because of that, I feel that He would not want us to just wait to be spoon fed by Him. He wants us to do our part as His servant, humans, and leave the Godly parts to Him, our GOD! That's why when we face problems, we should try to solve/resolve it as we know how to, and God will naturally make the problem evaporate. Verse 7: "But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded."
Unless of course we're totally stuck as to what's the first step, then there's nothing we can do, but ask God how should we start.
Decisions
It's really late, so to sum up what oneway learnt in QT today:
When stuck on a decision, choice A or B, there's only one thing to do. ASK God. He knows best after all! And He once helped me decide a crossroad in my life, and I think that choice was the only right one. The Godly one.
-Don't conform to peer pressure!
everyday efforts
"It's true that our everyday efforts are what allows us to make progress, but the opposite is true as well. Our everyday efforts also define our weakness."
Hm I just saw this sentence from Onemanga, and it seems super complicated at first. But on 2nd thought, it's actually true. Through our everyday efforts, we do grow, in terms of many things. Mentally, personality, spiritually, studies, sports, other interests, they tend to get better as we continue to do them everyday. Yet, the reverse is also true, which is that basically we continue to do such stuffs everyday because we also know that we're not good at that particular area. Thus, we strive to become better at it.
The other half of the quote to make the above complete and not nonsensical is actually this: "Make sure we work keeping in mind the things that we lack and need."
p.s. I think.
That's how we'll get ourselves to grow to everyday efforts! And so I'm going to continue with all the spiritual habits EVERY day, so that I can grow more in God and know more about Him!
let God take control
Before I met God, oneway was an absolute control freak. Got into trouble for that too actually. But now I'm so much less of a control-freak already, and is all cuz of God! Still, God, I tend to take things into my own account. I know it's not right, I know that I've placed my faith in you and I shouldn't let myself take over, but You, to really do the right things. And God, I've made the big mistake of "squeezing You into my plans". So hereby I ask of you God, use me according to Your plans, however You want to.
I'm but one person. So let God take His own course, and I'll follow Him.
to Donald
ehh sorry luh! my phone didn't tell me! >< okay I shall remember June 22's from now on aye. shall cele one for you, dun demote me T_T
p.s. let's learn skateboarding :D
favourite praise song!
Saved the Day - Planetshakers!
We're living for a God who saved us
A destiny, a hope that's found in truth
You walked before my fears and failures
My heart cries out, this life I give to You
This life I live for You
All my praise goes to the One
Who made a way, who saved the day
My God He made a way
My God He saved the dayForever we will shout Your praise
This world will fade away
But Your word remains forever
Jesus we will shout Your praise
We shout Your praise
God of all ages
My life is found in You
FIRST POST!
FIRST POST of this blog! Haha and oneway's asking around what everyone wants to be called in this blog, and someone suggested being called art club no.1, art club no.2, and art club no.3. Therefore this person shall be called art club no.1(tentatively). BUT that's super funny, something only art clubbers can think of. No wonder this person is called art club no. ONE.
Yo houston! HAHA you nearly got yourself called art club no.2! LOL.
Okay today was actually quite a slack day. Went to MPCC to get a SingPass, and picked up some brochures along the way. Didn't see any skateboarding though arrr. Then got one painful heck of a dose of Histo-Freezer. Ouch. Ate at Old Hong Kong with Dad, and went off to mug! Half a chapter of Chem. Cialat. And I dozed off on the way home... ugh! I don't like waking up to rush down a double-decker buss. Nearly bang into the stairs blah.
Okay thats the first post! Yo art club no.1, hope your headache's better ya, takecares~! houston go mug heh.
