Strength

Matthew 16

16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

21 From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.

22 Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!”

23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”


From the above verse, we get to know that Peter firstly was used to be called
Simon. The unstable rock.
Simon Peter the unstable rock.
Then again, Jesus called his Peter the solid rock.
Then again, Jesus called him Satan, its just a few verse down only.

What is the feeling that Peter had, when a moment Jesus called him the solid rock and after a few verse called him satan?

Peter got spiritually charge up and down...used to go up and then down, up again and then down. Especially at that night, he deny Jesus 3 times.

End up, he is the one once Jesus left, he preach the word. Yet Hundreds of people give their hearts to God.

Peter is someone who does not look at his past and live at his past. He will get back every time he was being knocked down.

Strength is the ability to bounce back when you are knocked down.

Just like Martin Luther King, that he have a dream, that the people will not judge by the colours of the skin. But by their hearts.

At that period of times, racist ism occurred out of hand. People being ill-treated and looked down.
Martin Luther King did not lose heart and believe one day it will happen.

Joshua1:6 "Be strong and of good courage..."

2Sam 10:12 " Let us be strong for our people and for the cities of our God...."

1Cor 16:13 " Watch, stand fast in the faith , be brave, be strong."

Eph 6:10 " Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might."

Well... just a small re-cap..lol.. thinking about the past of my life in church or rather spiritual life..
Its really a hard time... went thru all kinds of thing, showing all kind of attitude and play many tricks. But end of the day, I learn every single incidents and submit to God's authority. It's being really an exciting journey.

To be a CGL its always my vision and calling. Its hard to achieve that, why would I say that? Because, U have to go thru many molding in ur character and attitude, the truth things is that no body like to be correct, God is the reasons that we would want to be correct.

Being just a normal member in Cg, to a member that is helping in CG. Then back to a normal member to a member who is helping more than last time, then even more. From there back to normal member. Took 1 Year get back to as helper, within 3 weeks. then now in the midst of leadership class and Sunday was my first Zone meeting. There is many kinds of level as a normal members and many kinds of level as helper.

My first Zone meeting experience on Sunday was an AWESOME ONE!!! Its from 2pm, all the way to 9.20pm but of course half way, there is break-time. ^_^ At first, I was nervous, but all the leaders there were so friendly. lol..haha I still remember what James shared with me that his first zone meeting he though of blending himself on the wall, will be better, but the more he want to do that the more he attract more and more leaders to fellowship with him. lol.. very funny.. Then Jonathan(working at Skin with Ronald) said that then we must well walk around non-stop talking to own self..lol.. i felt so =.= lol... There was laying of hand in the meeting, Pst Zhuang is so awesome! hahaha...

After the meeting, we went to fellowship at bugis at one of the dessert cafe.lol. Edwin keep telling all kind of jokes, can't take it. Cindy Peng, Terence,Sue sze, Bee leng, Sharon, Edwin, Kelvin Guo, Joyce, Rae, Lynn, Qiu Ping, Hui Mei, Jonathan, Shanen, Wendy, Yu Fen and me.. lol...

Thur nite, meet up with Irene at 11plus pm for fellowship.. was great time. She shared alot to me, and thru all her sharing i just felt as if I'm listening to Pst.. Becoz all of her words... its so impactiful and really lfit me up to another level.

Well... couple of things happening among us..

I just wanna take this opportunity to specially thanks Kit meng for all his sacrifices that he had made for this cg... indeed without him. I really dun think that cg will have what we have now. Seeing him thru many things... number of things.. which i actually wanted to advise him to rest, take a break.. each time he just prove to me all things are possible thru Christ who strengthen us. HE have nv fail to show me God's strength and love of God.

I just extremely So PROUD of WAH JU..!!!!! these period is the time of seeing her so stretch out.. Seeing her breakthru its also one of my desire. I still remember that I gave her Salvation bible study.. lol... I just so admire of how preserve she is and keep pressing on... Which Inspire me so much... which is so remarkable. Seeing her stepping out so much nv before.. even thought she is so physically n mentally tired.. but regardless of wat.. She will always there in the cg, regardless of wat incident happened before.. stay till 3am with Clara... she will just go all the way for God without any complaints or bad comments. I got extremely encourage by her... She had nv fail to show me God's love pp around.

Of course lastly.. my dearest Love Clara... SEeing her thru these period of time its one of most long waiting desire vision ever... that She impacted so many youths, Life changing happening by wah ju and her. Even though she having attachment, giving tuition, earning income for own expenses. BUT she nv fail to rush down for members, usually rushing down to meet up is all between 8pm till 5am. Seeing her moving up another level which really motivate me that I should also move up, seeing all those souls on her hand be changed which really touches me.. She nv fail to show me that how God have sacrfices for HIS pp..

ITs being really some time, fighting so much things... in cg.
For souls, for events, for outing, for camp...

I really wanna thanks Kit Meng, Kai Lin, Jia Xiang, John, Fiona.

Kit Meng has being always making things happen!!! He always will still till mid- night just to avail himself for serving. He always take extremely care on the friends that he brings even to the extreme of sending them back home one by one. Even though Sick, he will still turn up and always be a part of making things happen group. Most importantly, he is a humble man, so many things that he had sacrifices and doesn't mention at all.. Which I am so inspired by him. MAN OF GOD!

Kai Lin always have the positive attitude and work together as a team. Even though she have CCA all that, its so tiring but she still always run down immediately to catch up and take care of the new Friends. When She do things, She is so faithful on it. Make sure, it goes well and done it in a perfectly way, keeping the spirit of excellence.AWESOME!!!

Jia Xiang always so committed to the vision of revival and always find someone to pray over the night for cg for sgs harvest. He is young and abit small in size, BUT HE is BIG on the INSIDE. Most of the time he will pray for cg for sgs till mid-night 2am. calling n inviting his friends. Not only that, He is an influence of his friends in sch and CCA. Actually He is a person who is very servant-hood, HE is a person that do the talking but also do the walking .Everyone time, he will ask pp around that "i help u"... " hey, I get for u" this kind of things we may get use to it.. that we actually slip off our memories. But i manage to remember all. I'm so touch abt it. ^_^

John is a person who always will say "hm... ok.." knock his head " ok can!" HE may not do things without pp around realising but always behind doing things faithfully. When Asked him to do something... He will make sure that the things is "siew siew" done finish, and he always avail himself to max. Also always cheer up everyone, and having positive attitude. Sometimes when we face things that is quite hard to make it happen, HE will replied with Positive answer that inspired and change the atmosphere during the discussion.. hahaha full of FAith! A person of Great FAith!!

Fiona just join only not very long. somethings that I wanted to comment over here. Athough there is some of the things that she need to improve.. BUT she is someone WHO is SO obedience and teachable. On top of that... whatever she learn, she applied it. Coming to church for only 2months and so committed in bring souls in. Setting her own vision very serious, wanted to rise up to be CGL by sec4 n now she only sec1. She every times create the jokes n changes all of our moods to a happy mood. Most happiness things is that to see her Changes her life when coming to church. ^_^ SHe always buy gifts for pp. so proud to know her in this cg.