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Reflections on the first 3 day of prayer

Since I want to get protection, love and wisdom from God, I have to totally devote to my religion and live by God’s law, God’s word and Holy Spirit. One thing cannot be denied is that only with the sense or feeling of God’s strong presence, can we live by his standard, obey him and live for him. I say, if God’s presence can be felt in every moment in your life, your life is one in which you are living for God in Jesus name. So I want to write some to reflect what God has command me and change me, by which his presence in my life will be stronger.

The first day: The great buffet
God spoke to me: Long before he shouts her whispers. But are we listening? Have we drowned him out with our keyboards, guitars and loud speakers?” Yes, In daily life, we committed a lot of sins most of which we realize before we do it. Sometimes God whispers about it, remind me, but I never listen to him. God has showed me that watching movie and getting too much entertainment will spoil my career my study (in the first and second semester). It is his whisper. I can see if I make effort in the following semesters, I can still get a very good grade. What if I don’t listen to him continually with a stubborn and blur mind? He will shout to me: You are out--Out of your competition, out of your dream, out of God’s initial plan, at least, temporarily. So here, I ask for change and ears that heat and understand—before god has to shout at us through a prophet or perhaps, even through a disaster.

The second day: the great trap
He teaches me a new word, façade of piety. And what rebellion I take now? I think the absence from cell group is one. Yeah, everyday, I look so busy and cannot leave 2 hours for got while I have 10 hours to watch movie and chat online. Yeah, from now on, go to the cell group if no urgent things happen.

The third day: the great farce.
Don’t waste my fast: let it work deep in my heart. I think I will fast one meal in a week, which accompanied by heart change, character transformation.

it is not student's fault to fail in their study

~Cherish every moment in ur life~


It's not the fault of student if
he/she fails because the year ONLY
has 365 days...
typical academic year for a student:

1. Sundays - 52 Sundays in a year, you know Sundays are for rest.
Days left 313.


2. Summer holidays - 50 where weather is very hot and difficult to study.
Days left 263.


3. 8 hours daily sleep - 130 days GONE.
Days left 141.


4. 1 hour for daily playing- (good for health) means 15 days.
Days left 126.


5. 2 hours daily for food & other delicacies (chewing properly & swallowing) - means 30 days.
Days left 96.


6. 1 hour for talking (man is a social animal) - means 15 days.
Days left 81.


7. Exam days - per year at least 35 days.
Days left 46.


8. Quarterly, half yearly and festival (holidays) - 40 days.
Days left 6.


9. For sickness - at least 3 days.
Days left 3.




10. Movies and functions- at least 2 days.
1 day left.


11. That 1 day is your birthday.
How can you study on that day ?!?!?!?!?!

Balance = 0
' How can a student pass ?????'


*Please pass this on and you will have good luck for your
examinations through out your life studying =)

losing consciousness

Losing consciousness

Genesis 2:17: but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.

Adam and Even eventually eat the fruit of knowledge and their eyes were suddenly opened, like what serpent told them, that they suddenly realized that they are naked. They were ashamed of being naked and used leaves to cover themselves. Surprisingly, after eating, they didn’t die, whereas the knowledge of good and evil and many consciousness emerged. Did God lie to them while the serpent said the truth? Yes, to certain extent. Nay, from different angle.
As soon as God create man, he blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." (Genesis 1: 28) God doesn’t use ‘be fruitful’ instead of ‘become fruitful’. Yes, we have had our living purpose and we are born fruitful and multiplied. I n God’s eyes, we are qualified to rule, to excel, to succeed naturally. However, after our ancestors—Adam and Eve—ate the fruit, we become self-conscious. We feel shame, rejected, fear and care too much what other think of us, like Adam and Eve, they are conscious of others’ thought and feel shame of being naked.
My fellow friends, have you ever thought of the life in which we needn’t care about others’ opinion? Will you live a very happy and fulfilled life? We dare not reach out to make friends and express ourselves, being afraid of rejection; we are forced to follow the most and reluctantly stand out, being afraid of shame; we dare not try new things and act as ourselves, intending to avoid fear; Whenever encounter problems, we finger point others, shifting responsibility. Fear, Shame, Rejection and shifting responsibility rise with self-consciousness when we are other-opinion orientated. And these are the obstacle in the road of success.
What can we do? Cast all the Fear, Shame, Rejection and Shifting responsibility to God, to Jesus. Jesus is rejected, so we will never be rejected again. Jesus bear the shame, fear for us, we needn’t care others opinion too much. We are born fruitful and successful. Don’t feel inferiority, because you are perfect in god’s eyes; you need not be worried about your appearance any more; you are set free by Jesus. Follow God’s Law, get protection from God and believe in God and Jesus. When you are tested you grow. Only if we use the blade of God to blow down the tree of self-consciousness and use lopper of Jesus to cut down the branches of fear, shame, rejection and shifting responsibility, can be bear the most fruit in our life dwelling in Christ. We are set free by following and believe in Jesus. You believe in God, God also believes in you that you are a success.

I love you,but I cannot

why is it so hard to love one?! I have two times that I wanted to give her all my heart. First time is in sec 3, the second time is this week. Now I fail. I failed to grasp her heart. I fail to deposit my love, my hope on her. Also the first time. When I have the hope and was in love, I could not sleep;when I lose the Chance and hope I have not appetite to eat. Today, I gave her my gift and suprise. She replied: hope that you can find your own love and happiness. Oh my goodness, It is very clear that she didn't accept my heart. What a difficult job of running after a girl it is!!!! What should I do? without her, do I have the motivation to work,study and excel???????

I believe God.I know that it is the special design for me. I know this is the protection that god wants to provide for me. yeah, everything is in his control. Serving him is the main task for me in my life. I always say I need a person who I am willing to work hard for. Actually, I have. I have god. I can do the thing to glorify him. yeah, sin,the sinful nature, don't follow me any more!Holy Spirit, please fulfil my heart and let me see the great grace and love for me!!! Amen!!!!

power

Power
Today I read a book about power. After reading, I have a more detailed and conceptual perceive of power.
What is power?
Power is generated in the interaction between people.

You have power over one when you can let one do what he won’t do without your instruction;

You have power over one when you can let one not do what he planed to do.

Power is an ability to either harm or benefit.

Power is the influence in the process of making decision.

You lose power when you have to compromise what is less valuable in order to protect more important interest.

You lose power when you only have one source to turn to.

Yes, power is an uneasily defined concept. There is nuance between power and authority and leadership.

The most important period in Singapore history

The most important period in Singapore history


I. Introduction
The history before the arrival of Sir Stamford raffles, colonial times and the time from independence and forth on are three main periods in Singapore history. The colonial times from the arrival of Raffles to the early 20th century is the most crucial period in Singapore history. On one hand the history before 1819 had little direct influence on today. Like the history of U.S, the period before arrival of May Flower contributed little to today’s U.S which is of the white culture, the white politics and economy now. On the other hand, today’s Singapore is of a continuous development of the development under British Empire. Thus, the period from 1819 to the early 20th century is the fundamental of today’s Singapore in social, economy and culture dimensions.

II. Why this period is important
The phase of history that contributed most to or had greatest influence on today is most worth studying, especially for a country with a short history. Singapore has a short history, the plot was not so complex and we can easily find the relationship between one period and another period. 1.Kwa Chong Guan pointed out that Singapore history is much about what happened on the island. However, little happened in the period before arrival of Stamford raffles. Thus, the history before 1819 has little relationship with today. The phase from 1819 to the early 20th century is the fundamental of today’s Singapore in social, economy and culture dimensions. At that time, 2. European elements in the region also lay important networks of trade, culture and political influence. Roughly, the money earned from trade and port service is the largest income of Singapore government today and Singapore is famous for its great port. The growth of port was also a main plot of colonial times. Today, Singapore has four main races, which started forming from this period. Today, Singapore has diverse culture, but most things that are standard are of British pattern. From this aspect, we cannot ignore the colonial times.

(1) The development of port and economy
During this time, Singapore developed from a village to a global port city and the developing patterns and policy still influence today’s Singapore. This period was colonial times, so let us see what British did for the development of Singapore.3. Firstly, British established a tie between Singapore and British Empire trading activities, which provided Singapore convenience to develop as a colonial port. Secondly, the continuous technological change and development of port facilities made Singapore available to serve the more and more advanced ships. Thirdly, the capitals provided by British and other Europeans made Singapore competitive. Fourthly, since the arrival of raffles, Singapore has been a free port. With these factors, the development of Singapore is very fast and a total trade of around4. $11 million in the early years had grown to $55 million by early 1860s and $1200 by late 1920s when Singapore is really a global port. Without this period, how Singapore could develop into a global city today? Moreover, let’s look at today’s Singapore. The free port policy has been persisted up to now. There are great berthing facilities, great airport, many insurance companies, banks, financial companies and agency. Singapore also focuses on maintaining as connecting centre around world to maintain the global port. We can see that today’s policy and developing patterns are based on the development experience in colonial times which had successfully made Singapore a star city. Therefore, the history from 1819 to early 20th century was most important to the aspect of the development of port and economy.

(2) The development of society.
From population and races point, in colonial times, Singapore was forming a multiracial society like today. The booming economy in 19th and early 20th century should have been sustained by enough labours. Thus, many migrants came to Singapore in 19th century. Population grew from around 16,000 in 1827 to over 80,000 by 1860 and 65% of that population were migrants from China working here as coolies. There were also a lot of people from India and Malaysia to work in Singapore as craftsman, soldiers, wage earners, public workers and traders. From this period, Singapore’s society became a diverse society with three main races, Chinese, Malays and Indians. Because governors at that time were mostly British, today’s population also includes %1 Europeans. We can see what Singapore society is like today from that period. Therefore, from the aspect of development of society, the colonial time is very important.

(3) The culture
A nation should have common spirit and culture. The colonial time was just the period when mainstream culture today was formed. Although Singapore is a multiracial society and has diverse culture, but the main one is British culture. During the colonial time, British were high class and governors, so British culture and English became the mainstream gradually. Language is a very important form of culture. In today’s Singapore, all the students are educated in English. Papers and publishes are mostly in English. Moreover, education system, government system are inherited from British. Most spiritual value is also western value. Today’s Singapore’s culture is totally different from 200 years ago because of the colonial history. Therefore, from culture aspect, the history from 1819 to early 20th century is important.

III. Conclusion
Singapore is a very unique country. We cannot understand today’s Singapore without knowing the history after the arrival of sir Stamford raffles until Singapore was abandoned by Britain before World War II. Singapore is a small country, how come it can be so prosperous? What’s the ‘trick’ that Singapore became a global port state? What was the developing process? How come does Singapore have so many Chinese and consist of four main races? How come English is the most popular language while most citizens are Asians? The answer can be mostly found in the period between 1819 and early 20th century.

1. Kwa Chong Guan. Early Singapore 1300s-1819.chapter 6, sailing past Singapore, p.183. [reading material]
2. Colonial intensification and the rise of Singapore.p.117.[reading material]
3. Colonial intensification and the rise of Singapore.p.107.[reading material]
4. Colonial intensification and the rise of Singapore.p.108.[reading material]

My Blessing

This Monday, I started my 100k blessing. I wanted to bless a roommate in the first day. However, Tuesday was our test day, and everyone was preparing for the C Programming test. He took it as a joke and was afraid me to waste his time. As it turned out, his prayer request was just the blessing for his exam. When i asked him whether there was any others, he said 'no' descisively without thinking and then came outside. I even have no chance to let him to listen to my blessing to him. However, I still blessed for him in front of god with all my soul, hoping he can get a good mark! And he really did! Praise God!