a challenging experience :)

hey u all,

its been a while since i wrote something and it is definitely an odd timing right now as im having exams. but...oh well, i really felt like sharing this to you all :)

on wednesday night we had a choir and worship team practice. we started off with a short worship session first then right after praying, the presence of God was so strong there. then randomly, the worship leader ask everyone of us to randomly find some one and minister to them. which means, we were to prophesy over that person. I WAS SO SCARED!!!!!! i never prophesied over anybody what more to someone i never talked to!! i partnered with a fren, well i know who he is and stuff but i never talk to him...not at all!! and i had to prophesy over him....(*&^%$#$@^&*(&%^#$@....so i told him this would be my first time ever haha..so we started praying first.

i really prayed so hard!! i was asking God to give me something, a word, a picture or just anything that i can actually see..u know..like..see see...something i could interpret out la hehe then i saw a bright shinning light..i thought it was just a weird sight cuz i was closing my eyes so i tried again, prayed even harder and still, that was the only thing appearing. so ok..i settled with that. as i was trying so hard to put up my own sentence, i prayed that God will give me words, right words and there and then, words just flow through my mind. with all that i just prophesied over my fren. i said everything i had in my mind!!...and after that my mind was really blank hahahah SERIOUSLY!!

then after everyone is done, the worship leader asked who was prophesied accurately...MY FREN RAISED UP HIS HAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was like..looking at him..in total shock!! i was thinking like.."are you serious?"..haha then he told me the night before that, he was listening to online sermon and the verse that caught him was about the light of the world. AMAZING AIN'T IT!??

haha kinda proud of myself :D but true enough, when you put your trust in God, He is definitely on your side!! faith not tested is faith not proven. it was truly an amazing encounter with God :)

but anyways, at the end of the day, i truly learn that God put ppl in our lives for a reason. be it good or bad. it is through ppl that we learn the most!! and..we need to learn how to communicate with God as well as to speak out. there's so much i want to share with you all but its hard to type it in here. will share with you all when i see you...NEXT WEEK!!!! YES..NEXT WEEK!! I'LL BE HOME....WEEE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

cant wait to see you all.

love,

angelica :)

MUST WATCH!!!

Well i stumbled upon this person, Nick Vujicic a few weeks ago and i stumbled upon it again tonight, realising that i should have shared about it!

Maybe you have heard of this guy, maybe not, but he's born in Melbourne (here!), and without limbs. He's now a preacher and a motivational speaker around the world.

More info here in Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Vujicic

And the main thing of this post is VIDEOS!

This here is a shorter video, and showing him speaking to students in school:


And if you do feel motivated, this next longer video is an interview at church, like sharing, and you can get deeper insight on what the guy believes, which i hope really speaks to you:


Hope you all spend some time watching the videos.. it's worth it!

Uh. Okay, I guess I should blog about the Eklektos Celebration thingie we attended last night. Hahaha.

So yeah, the speaker was this guy called Jay Koopman and he currently lives in Hollywood, California. Yep. And so he shared this amazing testimony of his, which - as he did tell us before starting on his story - really did sound like a movie of some sort.

I don't exactly remember every single detail of his rather long story, but to say it in one sentence would be that he had a very difficult childhood. His parents sold, dealt and actually did hard drugs. He found out that his mother was actually prostituting herself to get drugs and money. He soon found himself involved in selling drugs, and eventually, doing them himself. When he was in his late teens, he ended up in jail. (Again, I only remember certain points of the story, and I'm sorry if I might have told some parts wrong, so those who went and listened to him speak, correct me if you find any errors in what I'm writing, okay?)

So, growing up in such harsh conditions and circumstances made Jay a very angry, bitter and difficult person. He ended up hating his mother and everyone/everything else that had made him that way. He was angry at God.

His [Christian] aunt was the one who started his unique journey to finding Christ. She showed him unconditional love. She got him to enter this Christian teen program thing for jail inmates, and although he only agreed to go because he wanted to be any other place but jail, and it was difficult to get in, he did. After a series of events (I seriously can't bring myself to remember much of them, to be honest! I'm horrible -_-) he came to God and was released from the anger that were his chains. He felt free again.

So yeah. Darn, it really was moving. Hahaha. Again, sorry if my story has some inaccurate areas!!

ODJ: above the mud (may 21)

by jennifer benson schuldt

read> Psalm 69:1-33
Let all who seek God’s help be encouraged (v.32).

more> Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with My victorious right hand (Isaiah 41:10).

Bog snorkeling is a popular sport in Wales. Competitors wear flippers and diving masks with snorkels attached and try to squirm through trenches cut through peat bogs without using their arms! While I have no idea how bog snorkeling got started, I know that getting “stuck in the mud” is nothing new.

David was in that spot—emotionally speaking—when he wrote, “Rescue me from the mud; don’t let me sink any deeper” (Psalm 69:14). If you’ve ever been depressed, you know what he was talking about. That struggle to stay above the mud can be overwhelming, frightening, and tiring.

David expressed feelings of hopelessness, but he also tried to encourage himself despite his despair. For example, he believed that he would eventually get out of the bog. He envisioned the end of his suffering as he wrote: “Then I will praise God’s name with singing, and I will honor Him with thanksgiving” (v.30). David believed God would set him free.

And check this out—David went on to say, “Let all who seek God’s help be encouraged” (v.32). The key phrase here is “seek God’s help.” Sometimes I think we’re too quick to outsource assistance to alcohol, advice from friends, or self-help books. Why are we so reluctant to beg for God’s help when we know He’s the only one who can truly rescue us?

After all, God “hears the cries of the needy” (v.33). He’s not going to dismiss our struggles and tell us to snap out of it. He’s “the God of compassion and mercy” (Exodus 34:6). He’s the One who is always available, always listening.

Do you know someone who’s sinking in the bog? Perhaps you’re that person. If so, remember that God can and will help you to stay above the mud. Seek Him today—no snorkel needed.

next> How can asking for God’s help revive a soul in despair? How does David’s example give you encouragement?

Birthday!

It's someone's birthday today!!

Yup, that's the one in the picture above.. scary, right??

haha! wish her now if you haven't! go Facebook! MSN! SMS! Call! e-mail! write a note!
or even write a letter!! Do it NOW!!!

HAPPY BLESSED 21st BIRTHDAY, ANGELICA WONG (engine car wrong)!!!!!!!!