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Prayer List 18/10/08' )

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Prayer List 06/09/08'

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Prayer List- 6th Sept 08' )

 


Here's the prayer list... click the link above...

I hope we'll all take time to pray one for another...
Last night's message on "Intercessory Prayer" @ Sunset, by Rev. Quek was fantastic. Its the same passage on Abraham's intercessory prayer Gen 18:22-33 that we just heard a month or two back... 
I think its an extremely good reinforcement after his messages to us on the "Faith" series... I've been much rebuked by my lack of faith often in prayer...

Please do download from this link below-

http://www.calvarypandan.org/mp3/sgh2008_09_07.mp3

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[ posted by the shing] so big u cant miss

alright guys, just one more paper to go, emath paper 2 to the doneness of my prelims, and yes, comes the real stuff. hm. 
thank God that i had a pretty good amath paper 2 cause i kinda messed up in paper2 and now might still have the hope of getting my dreaded a. but i guess i should be content by the whatever marks award me.

anyway i thank God that im in barker. the ce conducts a prayer for everyone before every paper, not many bother and myself even sometimes dont think much of it. but i kinda realised after someone told me to rmb God before every paper and i actually felt happy and nice when the short prayer was conducted the next day. i guess God's not real enough for me to believe he helps. till then. haha.


i like the beegees ALOT.

talk about blur

[shing says]

on the 20th aug i had my prelim geog human paper. so i left my house normally and reached school at the usual 7am only to discover that my paper was an afternoon paper starting at 2pm. what else can i say... i went home feeling like a major loser.
but thank God that the paper went well in the afternoon, most of it was like common sense kind of thing like "how will the building of the IR benefit singapore's tourism and enconomy? [8marks]". heh.

and talk about blur, i just rmb, on my oral day, like 8 guys from another class but same shift as my class didnt know it was their oral day and went happily home. so i guess i thank God i didnt mess up. no idea whats gonna happen to them too...

Prayerlist 16th-23rd August 08'

Apologies, its a little late...

Karen

T- Piano Grade 5, MERIT
T- Tiring Week
S- GP Mock exam
T/S- QT

IZ
T-Passing Chinese
T-English Orals
S-Perseverance

Benjamin
T-Busy week
T-Lessons learnt in sch, cca
S-CCA, Schoolwork
S-Ca2 Papers

Aaron
T-Studies so far
S-Discipline for studies
S-Holidays
S-Compiling songs for carolling
S-Marcus

Sharon
T-2 weeks of school
T/S-Spiritual life
S-Riding lessons

Jiahui
T-Week, tests. Hw
T/S- Better spiritual life
S-Discipline
S-Ballet exam (24 sept)
S-Wisdom in service
S-Mom, liver
S-Health, checkups?

AA
S-Fever, headaches
S-NTM + Musical prep.
S-Work despite illness

JJ
T/S-Holidays
S-Profile project
S-Flute Exam (11th Sept)

Carol
-Coming back FINALLY (Sat. Morn)

Others
-Evangelism on Friday =) (Jiahui will mail out the details soon!)
-Musical prep.
-NTM prep. (both the Adult's team and ours)
-People overseas! (David Ho/Tan and Alv)
-FEBC (Legal stuff)

James

okay, I get to elaborate a little since I'm typing this.

T-Hebrew/Greek so far, its less of a drag, managed to complete the 19 verses of Esther
T-Reading Test, Hebrew, Rev. Quek said we were the smoothest so far (means we bluff well.)
T-Health, strength, despite having 20 hour days.
S-Spiritual discipline, in thoughts, in prayer
S-Health, I'm due for a liver check (hep. C) soon...
S-Greek Assignment due on Thursday morn (36 hours from now exactly)

I need prayer for the last bit especially. I've got 680 words or so (2 chapters of Thessalonians) to parse, decline, find the root word, function, etc. (that means elaborate on EVERY WORD) by Thursday morning...
Well, by Thursday morning, we've got to hand up our work (17 pages worth) and in class, we have to be able to translate every verse, and we have to know the function and purpose of every single word...
Its not like secondary school. One incomplete assignment means a total failure for the entire subject...

Apologies for skipping PM... Every hour is very much needed, amidst duties and other classes...

I'm not whining. Even though its killing us... its one of the best, and most fun, and vitally useful assignments ever =)

All the best for the O Prelims people =) Praying for you guys!

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shing a song unto the lord all ye lands...

[double orhs fatty chins, this is coming from the shing.]

alright, its been a while. didnt get to share during pm last sat due to lack of time so here i am!

firstly thank God for a good exam packed week last week (and this week). nothing special, just papers in papers out for my prelims. i flung my chinaaaa, in case news havnt already travelled, but im ok withit cause i already know what im doing and what i expect. 

i had my english orals today! and thank God it was easy.. i personally thought i did well, except for the minor slip i had for the passage, but im overall happy and thank God cause im actually kinda sick. i sneezed like one toilet roll full (yes, its alot) of paper resulting with a tomato nose.. hm. but oral was kinda funny... cause in my question, the examiner asked "so whats the subject that u find most boring and a waste of time?" and me being me and being an acsbr boy said "chinese". the examiner actually started laughing! chinese oral examiner laughed at me too! but this was different cause i understood what they were laughing about. then the examiner replied " i guess its just an acs thing huh?". i suspect my mates before said the same thing..... heh.

anyway, amath paper tmr afternoon. im feeling quite confident. to pass. afterall the teachings and certain suanings and sharpening from uncle anthony with hwee and iz, i hope for the best.

and im happy singapore got a medal in the olympics! whoo! go sg table tennis!      ***li jia wei, li jia wei, li jia wei***

im too sleepy to continue anymore............... heh.

behold the carol cometh quickly!

it seems like my randomness has yet taken over...


phileo,
shing              ( i sound like a burger... hm)

Prayerlist - 2 Aug

James

Discipline and time management to wake up early and fulfil commitments(T)

Studies-Rev Quek’s Language classes r S-C-A-R-Y (S)

 

Aaron

Completed all his projects (T)

Hols in 1 wk. YAY(: -> time management and disipline to study (S)

QT not consistent (S)

Trying to invite marcus to anni(S)

 

Amoz

Thank God for army – finished radio course (T)

Going back to bedok camp – Strength and guidance (S)

Close walk with God (S)

 

JJ

Flute G-8 exam aunty janice accompanying him(S)

Project – ability to complete on time w/o advisor(S)

Change of principal ->revamp of sch system (S)

Going to NTM (S)

CE Points – NTM and Musical (S)

 

Lemuel

QT improving with change to the morning (T)

Integrated into sch (T)

Hols coming – gd break (S)

Singapore Development team – cycling (S)

 

Shing Shyan

Time management(S)

Prelims starting on Thursday 7/8 (S)

 

Jiahui

Thank God for the past few weeks(T)

Improved spritual life. (T)

Closer walk with God (s)

Discipline and time management (S)

Promos in 8 weeks (s)

 

Karen

Discipline to study and time management (S)

Friends who motivate me to study and overcome fear of Math (T)

Seeing me through Piano exam (T)

 

Sharon

Aust – thank God for time for reflection abt personal spiritual walk with God (T)

EXCO’s lerthagy due to exco member’s own spiritual walk with God?

Trials – God’s intervention (place in NTU) (T)

Improved spiritual life (T)

Starting sch on mon – 4 yrs – gd friends + Safety (T/S)

Fainting spells – kind lady (T/S)

 

AA

Secured NTM adults tickets (T)

Secure NTM youth tickets (S)

A few families going to pulai springs 6-8 aug – safety (S)

Uncle died in 7th month, wake held after that, so maybe can go for wake (S)

Being Happy?

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Seems quiet here...

This quote from Monday's RPG entry made me think alot...

"We may not be happy Christians due to circumstances,
but we can always be joyful Christians despite any circumstances."

Even though they are closely defined in the dictionary, I think joyfulness has a more Christian-y feel to it...
Happiness seems to have this shade of being just mere feelings, pleasure, an expression, while,
Joyfulness seems to have this shade of being contented, and a cheerfulness unhampered by anything.

Its easy to be happy I think.
Laughter, humour, jokes, presents, surprises, celebrations, possessions, praise...

But to be joyful?

I think its a state within our hearts that might not necessarily translate into our expressions.
I don't smile as much as I should perhaps (*coughs* thanks for the observation)
But I think, whilst facing the difficulties and struggles in this life,
I'm very much joyful within, knowing that I'm alive today,
That its only in this present life, can we feel pain,
When we carry our crosses, burdens,
Through the tears, wounds and weight,
We can give a little smile, knowing our end, our promise, our hope.

Sometimes we're just so sucked in by tv, commercials, films, books... I shudder to see those insurance commercials depicting the standard "family dream" of colgate-white-smiley Mom and Dad with cute son and daughter out picnicking or frolicking at the beach. The son scoring ronaldo like goals at soccer games, the mom never frowning doing housework, hugging the daughter who appears to be a violin prodigy, and welcoming dad home, where the job is as fun as a game of golf.

Sometimes, we're just so content to be lulled into being all warm, safe and happy here...

It makes you think about how the whole world tries so hard to be "happy",
by locking all their problems away with yoga, philosophy, culture, entertainment, the material...

And how we sometimes follow suit so easily, despite we, being Christians,
While knowing true, real, eternal joy,
Readily gave it up for the simple, temporal, obscure, happiness here.

Hmm. Midweek thoughts.

Jamesey

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Sports Day 08

Hello all(:
I enjoyed myself today and just wanted to share a bit of my thoughts on how Sports Day went.

We played dog & bone with disgusting soap, capture the flag, human fooze-ball (which is really tough if u never played) and NETBALL!
I didn't like the never-ending rules of netball at first. But I guess it's a game which grows on you.  from the 2nd match onwards, I kinda like being only allowed to run 1/3 - 2/3 of the court... (cuz I seriously lack the stamina to keep up with the ball la.) I think netball is a good team sport cuz everybody's involved. So perhaps we can play again soon? 

Anyway, i think I got overly rough on court so I do apologise to anybody who I accidentally banged/ran into... I didn't mean to! 

In short, it was FUN! For those who didn't go, too bad for you. But no worries, there'll be many more outings to come(: so look out for the updates! 

love, Karen

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Jul. 9th, 2008

[shing here]

heya guys.. just thought of sharing something with u all along my week.
1thes5:18-" in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in jesus christ concerning you."

this has often been preached by a few pastors, one of which hit me everytime was the serson by rev quek. along this week, i have meet quite  few problems and this verse just comes to my mind.
-my class contains some morons (no other word to discribe them) who screws around all day long and the teachers gets so pissed most of the time they doesnt wanna teach. thank God?
-prelims are 3 and a half week from now and im still stuck with my work. thank God?
-some personal matters arising thats highly disturbing. thank God?
-in the midst im falling sick. thank God?

they're not much or big i know, compared to so many others. but they're big enough for me to ask-  "thank God?". and i wont go around telling people i still thank God for all these cause i honestly wonder whether i can. 

1cor10:13-"there hath no temptation taken u but such as is common to men: but God is faithful, who will not suffer u to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it"
i love this verse :)

[phileo]

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