Living under open heaven

What happened to that pure and simple heart of serving? That in every small little things I do or say, it is to put a smile on His face?  Was reminded of what Jason Wong had shared during the camp. how he humbled himself to serve.  Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.  Gentleness, also translated “meekness,” does not mean weakness. Rather, it involves humility and thankfulness toward God, and polite, restrained behavior toward others. The opposites of gentleness are anger, a desire for revenge, and self-aggrandizement. It takes a strong person to be truly gentle. “And with his hard, rough hand he wipes / A tear out of his eyes.” This is gentleness. Might restrained. Humility and grace. When we are filled with the Spirit’s fruit of gentleness, we will correct others with easiness instead of arguing in resentment and anger, knowing that their salvation is far more important than our ...

come away with me,  come away with me,  it's never too late, it's not too late, it's not too late for you. I have plans for you, I have plans for you. It's gonna be wild, it's gonna be great, it's gonna be full of me.   For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ( Jer 29:11) Trust in the LORD  with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. (proverbs 3:5-6) And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28) there are still too many conundrums that i am grappling with, but i do pray that in the near future, things that seem so divergent now may cease to be parallel lines, that somehow it may converge in the most beautiful of ways when i least expect it. all is not lost when...

\ \we have this hope as a anchor for our soul, firm and secure.. One of the girls did this and shared with me what love is to her. "Love is try to feel what they feel. It is giving more than receiving. It is being there when all else fails. It is acceptance. Love is learning to love yourself before loving another. Love is when you don't give up. " It speaks to me with regards to this job. To love and hope like a kid again. Love is patient and  kind; love  does not envy or boast;  it  is not arrogant   or rude.We  It  does not insist on its own way; it  is not irritable or resentful; it  does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but  rejoices with the truth.     Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,  endures all things. "I got a dream.." Feeling surreal to hear this from the girls. Having dreams means they still have hope. and hope, faith and love is what a broken world needs. From 2013 to no...

One, be it just one drawn closer to You. All would be worth it. now to You who is able to do immeasurably more than all I ask or imagine, according to Your power that is at work within me. People are precious to you. So precious. So precious. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. This career that You had divinely placed me in, I thank You. When work gets tough, may I choose You all the time. Fixing my eyes on You, knowing that there is hope, and You are my anchor. You who call me is faithful. 1 Thessalonians 5:17-24 Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for y...

"You that seek what life is in death, Now find it air that once was breath. New names unknown, old names gone: Till time end bodies, but souls none. Reader! then make time, while you be, But steps to your eternity." -Baron Brooke The apostle Paul said that in weakness we discover the glory, power, and grace of God. This is how God works.  Anne Lamott recently said it’s okay to realize that you are crazy and damaged because all of the best people are. Suffering has a way of shaping us as people and as ministers. It has a way of equipping us to lead in ways that are helpful and not harmful. A healer who himself has not been wounded is limited in his ability to heal. Some of the broken people in Scripture seem to be the ones through whom God did the greatest things. Hannah experienced bitterness of soul over infertility and a broken domestic situation. Elijah felt so beaten down by ministry that he asked God to take his life. David repeatedly asked his own...

  First Bread with love at TPY! Man does not live on bread alone.. but with Sherlynn.. :p What a joy to be able to serve and be His hands and feet in anyways I could, however small it may seems..  Met a 80 year old uncle while distributing bread.. and His story really breaks my heart. It has been a week since I met him but I still feel so burden till now. It feels as though God has placed his emotions in mine.  He works as a social worker, but in the midst of giving, he became skeptical that God is good. As he go on to share about his resentment towards God's silence in natural evil; such as earthquakes and death, and how God can go on sitting comfortably at His throne and watching his people suffer, my heart can't help but to break, for I know all that he is sharing about others is just a facade of what he himself have experienced that compelled him to doubt His goodness or existence.  How can you hate something that you don't believe exist?...

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I will live to love you,  I will live to bring you praise, I will live a child in awe of you.. As I became more aware of my sins, flaws and imperfections in the presence of God, I am undone. I confessed my fear, is that He will turn His face away from me. I desire so much to hear from Him that He is proud of me as His daughter that it gets me when I kept falling. I know in His words that I am righteous because of Jesus's blood shed at the cross. I am now not a sinner but a saint in the making (romans 6, 1 cor6). It awes me to know that nothing I can do or not do can separate me with the love of Christ (romans 8:38). As I looked down in disappointment, finding it hard to even love me, his presence and words gently embraced me. He led me to Matthew 3:17 , as He is saying this to Jesus His son, He also meant that for me. " I am proud of you. You are my daughter, whom I love; with you I am well pleased. Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you (Deu 31:6) Ahhhh.....

"Who are you?" sounds like a simple question requiring a simple answer, but it really isn't.  Most would say their name, for instance, "I'm Davy Geraldine." But no, that's just your name. "I'm a youth worker."  No, that's what you do. "I'm a Singaporean."  No, that's where you're born. I could also say I'm tall and lean. However, my physical appearance and dimensions aren't me either. if you chopped off my arms and legs would i still be me? Yes. If you transplanted my heart, kidneys or liver would i still be me? of course! Who I am, though, is far more than what you see on the outside. The apostle Paul said" we recognize no man according to the flesh "(2 cor 5:16)  and the question for myself is; Is who you are determined by what you do, or is what you do determined by who you are? We tend to accept the false belief that good appearance plus the admiration it brings equa...

Parables of talent, taking risk to face fear will lead to growth. Control. Is there anything harder to release from our grasping hands? I've waged war with the issue of control in my own life and yet I still have to tell my heart to "let it go" and allow God to be fully in charge, especially when wrong is done to me. But to risk disappointment is better than to have no hope at all, because to risk disappointment is to let faith arise and take over. And as I claim all Your promises, somehow I know in my spirit that You won't disappoint. Don't just have hope, an inward desire, but also faith, an outward demonstration. Faith is made complete by what we did God would never, ever actually ask someone to do this, stops it all, and says, “You passed the test.  You’ve shown your faith.  I’m providing a sacrifice.  There’s a ram over in the thicket bushes.  Go sacrifice that ram.  You’ve been obedient.  I can bless you.”And here’s how James describes the ...

"Don't you desire a relationship?" One's immense desire to get a life partner isn't out of the norm, but this question  raised by a brother caught me off guard. I looked away, reciting in my mind Matthew 6:33, with his question kept me thinking what exactly my desire should be. Don't get me wrong, having such desires aren't wrong.. I learnt that delights in Christ brings desire for Christ. He gives the heart its desires- that is, he works in us (Philip 2:13) . This is why he can say in john 15:7 you shall ask what you will, if you abide. the branch takes its sap from the vine, the same surges the vine feels hen become the surges of the branch. My will becomes his, and i can ask what i will, if i delight myself in him, only then can my desire be attained, when it is his desire.   God knows the desire of our heart, and he wants to be our desire. All i have asked has not been given, and the fathers withholding has served only to intensify my desires. he...

Fresh thoughts come, and I have failed to record them, so now they are gone.  Last month was a time of transition, while feeling rather sad to say goodbye to the Uni ministry that grew me to who I am today, I am entering and taking up new challenges in the transition grads group. In merely 2 weeks I have taken and seen so much of God, or perhaps this is just a glimpse of it.  It's been a while to be so filled in the spirit through fellowship. True fellowship is like 2 mild lit candles that were initially far apart. As they share life, the closeness between them unintentionally caused their flame to touch one another, feeling encouraged and refreshed. Fellowship isn't suppose to be structured and rigid, where people are far apart and we have to intentionally lit the candles up with a lighter. The stirring emotions within me when I speak with like-minded people, it is more than just iron sharpening iron, but is that moment when Jonathan met David, someone who is run...