God help the outcasts, hungry from birth.
Show them the mercy they don’t find on Earth.
God help my people we look to You still
God help the outcasts or nobody will.
“I ask for wealth, I ask for fame”
“I ask for glory to shine on my name”
“I ask for love, i can posses”
“I ask for God and His angels to bless”
I ask for nothing. I can get by.
But i know so many less lucky than I.
Please help my people, the poor and downtrod.
Cos I know we all are the Children of God.
Joy In Suffering - Jesus at the center.
Any idea why Paul in the Bible was able to ask the peoplerepeatedly in Phillipi to rejoice?
Yes, he has discovered the secret to a full and deep life, and that’s to have Jesus at the heart of it. :)
“For to me, living means living for Christ, and dying is even better.” (Philippians 1:21)
This week, the passage in the scripture the saved me was this,
“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done. Then you will experience peach which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honourable, and right, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” (Philippians 4:6-8)
I pray that it blesses those who are going through a rough time. :)
Signing off..
Hello world.
I’m sure everyone has questions and doubts about life’s purpose, destiny and calling. Things like these certainly is a natural concern to people over time. Whether believer or not, it daunts on you. Because we are all created with a specific purpose. Something that we were made by our Creator to fulfil, and that only we (individually) can fulfil.
I’ve heard questions or matters about this recently last week. About dreams, calling and issues about pursuing it. Here are my personal thoughts.
I’ve also been on a 7 day, scripture, thing, with God about my life.
God doesn’t want us to be confused about what we’re supposed to be doing in life. :) During this one week, I read the following scriptures. A scripture a day, and as i read the words and think about them, i ask God what purpose He had in mind for me when i was born.
Day 1: Jeremiah 1:4-10
Day 2: Amos 7:14-15
Day 3: Isaiah 6:1-8
Day 4: Exodus 3:1-4:17
Day 5: Matthew 28:18-20
Day 6: Jeremiah 29:11-13
Day 7: Acts 9:1-19
These scriptures has blessed me, and it also gave me strength and the security from God to trust Him for the plans that He has for my life. :) I hope it’ll do the same for you. :)
Signing off,
Lay yi
Who is that woman?
What is her name?
She is so different than the other ladies these days!
What could it be, that makes her so strong?
How could she be so confident and happy in her life’s song?
What is it we dont know? What could it be?
Her smile says it all, but we still cant see!
What they couldn’t find, nor understand
Was that this woman knows God has a plan.
She knows God loves her and sent His only Son
To pay the price for all the wrong she has done.
Her smile mirrors the hope inside,
That confidence of salvation is what they see in her eyes.
A woman of God is sometimes hard to find.
But when one comes around, it blows people’s minds.
Work, labour, Sunday morning rain
Why in the world is there so much pain?
Where are the roses, melodies and rainbows?
Am I in the wrong place? Or running on wheel barrows?
Sometimes I wonder when i try,
with all my effort arranged solid on the same line
Towards what i thought was smooth and glamorous,
Towards my dreams that i had in my slumber
Maybe this wouldn’t work out for me
Maybe this isn’t the right way
Excuses of defeat that form in my mind
Could only produce poems without their rhyme
But whenever i picture my destination
All that is before my eyes was eaten
With anticipation, victory and glory as my heros
Out of the treadmill i leap from the “scrawnies” and the “zeros”
Every night i dream of my end goal
It is far, but sometimes it seems close
Because the journey i am on now are
Manifesting baby steps of my destination as i go
With gratitude i look at my feet where i stand
And the footprints left behind me in the sand
Although there are odds that i ought to withstandde of the rainbow, again i know, that it is worth the ride.
Wanna be sweet? (if it sounds familiar) hahaha.
Hello world!
Its been going on great in my life, i thought the picture above describes what’s been on my mind recently. Isn’t this sweet? :)
You all have got a lovely, sweet plum at your back.
Do you know that?
Bye bye! ~ (^~^)M
Hello world.
I just want to encourage those who are discouraged, broken, and afraid.
My days recently was not very smooth sailing for me in my spiritual life. There have been lots of ‘God meetings’ this few weeks, and all i experience was the awkward, insecure and upset feeling of not meeting God at all.
I wondered if this was a really bad thing. Thank God He hears me even when i’m not talking to Him directly, He answers silent prayers! :) I was so broken, i asked God, why? Why did you pass me by? Having asked that question, deep inside me i knew as if He did that on purpose. In this short period of time, i’ve been crying out to God so genuinely more than anytime before. With a broken and contrite spirit. God helped me figured through people around me, that He is bringing me through the Consecration and purification of my life. Which is rather encouraging, although it isn’t easy to take. The fact that i know this and i’m able to be encouraged is because I know that i’ve been called, and that gives me the ability to persevere. :)
In ‘i don’t know how long’, God’s not going to give me anything until i learn how to seek Him. Sounds a little scary, but i’m going to press on. Such humbling process of life that is directed by God, i hold valuable in my heart. Nobody can have the experience i have with God, as much as i cant experience the things other have been experiencing over the pass few meetings. Yet, i know that my time will come. :)) isn’t that wonderful?
Someone on the bus encouraged me today. And i believe it was God who did that. :) He said “the longer the wait, the greater the price you have to pay to receive the things of God”. And people may have the encounter now, but i’ll have the process of assurance, trusting Him, seeking Him, and then the encounter. Isn’t this even greater? :)
Be blessed! You are not alone. :)
Signing off,
Pressing On.
Hello world.
Whoo ~ idk about you but school’s been rather an interesting, funny, fascinating and exciting place to be for me. Which is kind of, rare.
Recently i’ve been really grateful to God about many things. Small or big, i find myself acknowledging them and praising God for them. One of them is the fact that God opened a door for me in Changkat Changi Secondary.
If i think about it now, if i hadn’t meet God, i would feel terribly ashamed, disappointed, angry at myself for being in Changkat (or other events where i think of myself as a failure while not able to meet my own expectations). I’m a perfectionist, and i just want to be at the top no matter what i do. I would want to please the people around me and earn the favor of man. However right now, i find myself thanking God for all that i have, even if this is not the ‘best’ i expected for myself. It seems like i’ve genuinely accepted who i am and am secured in what God made me to be.
Imagine how it would be like to be at a unfamiliar place with anomalous people. You’ll probably have a glimpse of the fear of the unknown. Yet, it was an adventure for me. All thanks to God’s grace and love.
Looking forward to even greater. More to come! Don’t give up wherever you are and whatever situation you are in right now. Remember, that you’re never alone. You were never meant to be alone. When you heart is grateful for the things you already have, you’ll never be able to notice the things that you do not own. But at the same time, when your eyes are set on the even greater things, all others shall be added unto you.
Signing off,
Lay yi. <3
Hello world.
I’ve been overwhelmed by praises, goodness and blessings recently. It does feel good.
What made me so special these days, its that i went for the bonding camp in my previous school, missed school for a whole week a while after that and now i applied for a really quick transfer out of that school.
Doesn’t make sense? You got it. I’m truly humbled by God’s goodness and His faithfulness to me. This year is definitely going to be an abundance.
As the second month of 2012 hits the 14th day i went to school again, not for lessons, not for remedials, but to pack my stuff. It was a heart-sinking process, and although i know it in my mind that all things work out for the good, all i could see was the abrogating side of the coin.
Walking up those cold stairs, i thought of the things that i failed to accomplish, failed to leave behind in my originally given platform. The presume of disappointed or shrugged people began to fill my mind, with the fear of bumping into any of my classmates/school mates.
However, things did not turn out that bad. In fact, it was the best thing that can happen on anyone who belonged to a class.
Group hugs were thrown to me th moment i was outside class. I felt so showered with support and belonging. My class was sending me off with such a joy knowing that i’ll be fine and trusting that i did what i did for a greater cause. Such a cornerstone is more than enough for anybody to move on with their heads held high. I enjoyed the entire time when they all spoke about me, how i impacted them and made a difference in their lives and in the class, how i brought them together as 1. They were just blessing me with all that they have. I was truly adjoined, and God was highly lifted up.
And of course receiving gifts and meaningful cards from them was a no brainer. All of them glorified God indeed.
14th february 2012. “Who was your valentine?”
A questioned popped from fromspring.me.
Blessing, I answered.
The fact that people were blessed and impacted by God through me, the fact that i’m blessed to have shone my light and i am rewarded by giving Him His glory. That was what i meant by, ‘blessing’. And i’m in love with the sight of ever-flowing love through blessings such as these.
Freely give, and freely receive. But its more blessed to give then to receive, agree? :) All i have, I give to You.
How was your valentines this year?
Signing off,
Lay yi <3
Hello world.
Wore a red dress tgt with Harriet today. We did this last week as well!(pics on fb)
Today’s message in church was about Missions, and getting the people in the world who doesn’t know Him, and are in need of Him to worship Him.
As blessed, privileged people. Do we wish to worship Him?
Signing off!
