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I GOT IT ALREADY!  I DON’t KNOW WHY BUT ALL I KNOW IS THAT MY MUM WAS AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME!!! MAYBE ITS A MISTAKE BUT ITS AWESOME!

Wondering what it is?  Hillsong Live’s NEW ALBUM THIS IS OUR GOD!!!  It is scheduled for release on the first day of the Hillsong 2008 conference on July 7th but for some reason this particular Christian bookstore has started selling it and my mum happened to be there!  Not even the website is selling it yet!  they are still advertised as preorders!

I’ve listened up to track 8 Healer and already love the album!  The songs are awesome and there is something different about this album, i think Hillsong has experimented a little bit with new time signatures and its awesome.

awesome awesome awesome.  =D  I can understand why the video on the hillsong website shares that something in the spiritual realm broke that night!  amazing!  God is really stirring up the universal church!

proof that i am not lying haha

they say a picture says a thousand words.

What happens if you’ve got 1000 pictures… that means they say collectively 1000000 words!

well that is how many pictures i have of myself on facebook.  I offically reached the 1000 tagged photos mark today.

and the winning photographer… LAURANNE THAM!!!

haha check it out!!

and keep taggin… next goal… 2000!

the other week zach from hope singapore asked me if i wanted to see something cool.  Of course i said yes and he gave me a link to a video redramatizing the events of Khalil, a muslim in Egypt that persecuted Christians. He was given the task to find contradictions in the bible and write a book to beat Christians logically.  He found no faults and soon realised that maybe what he was following wasn’t the truth.  He prayed to God to reveal to him the truth and saw a vision that night of Jesus.

This amazing story reminded me maybe 6 or 7 years back or even more.  I remember i had just read a book about somebody that asked God to show him heaven or something and God took him on a journey through heaven.  I was so stirred by that book… i wanted soo bad to have a glimpse into the eternal life that waited for me so that night i prayed to God desperately asking God to show me heaven… even just a glimpse.

That night i had a dream… i sat up in a field of grass with hills and sky all around me.  I felt at peace and it was so beautiful.  That was it … i woke up the next morning wondering what had happened… did i see a glimpse of heaven or did my mind just play a trick on me?

To this day i still remember that dream so clearly… but i am still unsure of what i really saw…

His here! God is in the house! I have been floored by the work of God over the past few Ablaze Services. Absolutely floored. There is no doubt that God is doing something in our midst and I am so excited! This is what the local church is all about, this is what our lives are all about… impacting and serving others in our generation.

But most of exciting of all is something is stirring in our Highschool ministry. In the past 2 weeks we’ve seen 2 grade 11 (WOO) salvations and a couple of new year 12 contacts. I am 100% confident that we hit an all time high in service attendance last night and the this years camp is gonna be so awesome I am litterly jumping out of my seat every time i think about it!

I was so excited last night that I couldnt even sleep!!!! haha

And if you havent heard… WE RAN OUT OF COMMUNION CUPS ON FRIDAY NIGHT! ok we had 4 left… BUT WE PRACTICALLY RAN OUT!!! PRAISE THE LORD!!!!

check out Chris and Mei’s entries about Friday!

edit: 1 grade 12 and 1 grade 11 =D

sweet because… I HAVE NO MORE LECTURES FOR SEMESTER 1!!!!!!!

bitter because… i made some really awesome mates this semester.

so why is that bitter… because if i pass all my biology subjects i will only have to finish the geography units i have left meaning i won’t beable to do any biology subjects unless i want to do an unnecessary extra 4th subject for the sake of friendship hmmm.

but above all i reackon this group of people i met have definetly been God sent. In the past i struggled to make friends that stuck by beyond uni talk and because my weakness is also my strength (passion for people) it felt like i was walking into university alone. Like they say the loneliest place is in the middle of a crowd.

How i met the mates i have now are actually pretty random. My anatomy friends i met because my mate who works at subway with me went to the cricket instead of the practical so i walked in on my own found a table sat down and eventually found out that the table i was sitting at was the table my mate usually sits with. From there we never moved from that table… occasionally being frustrated by the randoms that seemed to just pop by and rather than help seem like a burden.

The renal prac crew haha… that one is completely random. I signed up for Human Physiology 1 month late and only knew one person (my mate from work as well) so he introed me to his prac group. During the first prac we kinda got bored and talked to teh group next to us. The next week we had a prac testing our urine (hence renal prac), 4 of us were there and the other 3 from the other group were there… we need to make a group of 6 so we opted for combining and made a group of 7 then the other fella came around and we had a total of 8 peeps. We joked about our pee, took pictures of our pee (inside the lil sample bottles) and even joked about becoming a crew, the renal prac crew with facebook group and all. And wouldn’t ya know it, that night the renal prac group was born.

We hardly sat together in lectures, hardly saw each other outside of the biom2007 but every time prac came around we had non-stop laughs. And although our 2 or 3 attempts to have dinner together were foiled by my work, annettes scouts or just being plain poor university students… we still gonna get together on the hols haha.

So God has done a strange and amazing work in my university life. Thank you Lord, you really know how to make a fella feel good.

Half of the Renal Prac Crew. More pictures coming soon!

This is anatomy study at its best!  Thanks to a whiteboard marker and many places to write on with it in the science learning centre

Today was actually a fun day of uni.  For some reason from the moment i hoped on to the bus to uni to the bus ride home i was actually happy about the day of uni.

I think it is because my final assignment due on friday is basically done in my mind and all i need now is to type it up.  Don’t worry guys its only 250 words =D which is a big big plus.

So despite beginning at 8 am and ending at 5pm i had fun, particularly in the Human Physiology prac we had today.  i totally owned in the vitagraph thinge… my FEV for the average male that is 198cm tall at 20 years of age is 5.18L/min.  Mine is 5.60L/min =D  And i went off the scale for one of the machines… nice

Ablaze Service last Friday was pretty awesome especially for me personally.

I had many moments of just laughing at God’s lil quirks as he spoke to me and as well healed me!

In the day i had some lunch that didnt really sit well with my stomach, it tasted awesome but a dish that is rice, chicken, some onion and a whole lotta oil isn’t the best thing for ya and my stomach was proclaiming it!  So I rocked up for set up for Ablaze Service and as time went by it got worse and worse.  I was extremely tempted to just say to everyone hey i’m feeling real sick so can you please do this for me.  But i remembered what Ps Mark Edwards shared with us last week “Come to the church with a spirit of giving not getting” and wanting the ABS team, for that night, to express that, I knew that i had to push through the pain and give of myself to serve.

I said a lil prayer to God asking him for strength and forgiveness for my selfishness as I carried equipment around and set up the drum kit.  I didn’t think to ask for healing but just said “God i want to serve without complaining and just be a blessing to everyone around me”  Set up continued and to my discomfort the pain got worse.  But i just kept on chuggin’

Prayer meeting came around and soon after prayer finished i realised something.  The pain in my stomach was completely gone!  I thought maybe i had a sudden adrenaline rush and it would come back but then i asked God what happened and i just felt a peace as God reminded me of my faithfulness to serve the church despite the discomfort.  I thought to myself “wow God!  I didn’t even ask you for it.  Thanks heaps!”

The other aspect was in regard to the Build Unidus Faith Pledge.  Coming to the Friday i was dead set on what I knew God wanted me to give, in fact i already knew the friday before!  I was not even close to fulfilling my pledge from last year and i knew God wanted me to give the same amount PLUS the amount i still had left.  But i thought to myself, hey God why don’t i just round it out, i like rounded numbers.  The time came to pledge and i was just about to write down the amount when I felt God just nudge me so I stopped and just simply said “God what is the exact amount want me to give?”  Instantly a number flashed in my mind - i looked at my e-mails for the total amount that i gave last year and low and behold the two numbers added together was exactly the number that God placed in my mind… well $1 extra which gave me a lil laugh.

So its gonna be a MEGA stretch.  I pasted my personal copy of the pledge in my diary and underneath it i said “God this amount literally makes me go X_X “  But i know He will provide!

ok so i was flattered the first time i saw an incoming link from a random blog of a girl where the text read

“he moves me”

but i now have an incoming link from a rather inappropriate not cool location.

anyone know how to block it?