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Monday, 24 March 2008

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    Heart Revolution
    By Hillsong United
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    The Stand By Hillsong


    You stood before creation
    Forever within Your hand
    You spoke all life into motion
    My soul now to stand

    You stood before my failure
    And carried the cross for my shame
    My sin weighed upon Your shoulders
    My soul now to stand

    So what can I say
    And what could I do
    But offer this heart O God
    Completely to You

    So I’ll walk upon salvation
    Your Spirit alive in me
    This life to declare Your promise
    My soul now to stand

    So I’ll stand
    With arms high and heart abandoned
    In awe of the One who gave it all
    I’ll stand
    My soul Lord to You surrendered
    All I am is Yours

Sunday, 17 February 2008

  • A day of tests and rewards

    Today was a pretty cool day f  or me. I learned a lot when i started my day off with Purpose Driven life. It taught me that I should always be ready for HIS day is soon and that I should be ready for any test that He plans on giving me. It seemed like the whole day was a test....which sort of made me afraid that I was going to do something wrong. The first thing I did was take the light rail with a friend to Dunkin Donuts. When we were walking there, some people from a school were fund raising. At first I passed by as if nothing ever happened, but it seemed like there was something in me that said....you know what, just do it.....the light was green so I turned back, reached into my pocket, and took out a few quarters and put them in. I felt good inside,not only because i gave a charity and also gave to my enemy school, but the fact that it could have been a test of my giving ability and to see how greedy and selfish i may be, was pretty cool. Once we finished eating we had to stop by for some quick shopping stuff. Once we were done with that we walked to the ice rink to go skating. On the way there, someone in a wheelchair said hi to us. At first i thought....who is this punk talking to me but i realized if they said hi, we should say hi as well, as a sign of politeness and respect. As I looked back to see who i was saying hello to, I realized that the person didn't have any legs and by the looks of it he wasn't very "rich" and was just sitting there because he had nothing else to do. Any sign of politeness goes a long way and in this case it opened my eyes to a perspective of not only being kind to the ones you know, but the ones that are less fortunate then we are as well. Once we got to the rink, i noticed we were and hour and 15 minutes early so instead of waiting inside, we went outside in the freezing cold and i stood on a wooden table and started to sing Praise and worship songs as loud as I could. It felt very cold but I also felt very warm hearted and I could feel my "spirits" being lifted up by the songs that I sang not being embarrassed by the people staring at us when they passed by. It felt cool to do something that might have been embarrassing in other peoples mind but in your heart, you knew that someone else was being pleased.....we came inside and skated 45 minutes later...my face started getting numb;) ......

    That night i went out to go and get bubble tea. It felt nice to be inside a pretty coffee shop with the light being dimmed to make it look like a cooler place setting sort of thing....i don't know what i said either :)). But at the end of the day when we were on the way home, before we left the shop, the waitress came and gave us a piece of paper that said....

    " God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing."
    -Ephesians 2:10

    It made my day, and for all I did that day, I think it was a reward for the tests that I completed. If you ever get a chance to go to Bayonne NJ go to Robert's Cafe. :)
       

Friday, 12 October 2007

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  • Are you ready?

    Have you received the gift of the Holy Spirit? Have you been baptized? Have you come out and become separate? Have you denouced the world? Are you studying your Bible with an open mind? Do you know what the state of the dead is? Do you know Jesus comes at the last day not seven years before hand? Do you know the Bible talks of earth being desolate during the 1000 years?

    - think about it -

Wednesday, 15 August 2007

  • One of the Greatest Moments of my Life

    Well, you know what? I actually did cry at the wedding at least 3 times!!! Both tears of joy and sadness.
       
        Starting on Wednesday, my family and I (mom, dad, my brother(Loc)and his girlfriend), drove from NJ to Binghamton, NY. ( If you haven't upstate, you probably don't know where it is and probably until now didn't even knew that it exists.) From there we drove to Rochester,.NY ( you probably don't know where that is either),. where my brother (the groom)  and his soon to be wife lived.We left around 12 in the morning  so we got there around 7a.m,Thursday. So from there we went to our hotel, and so, while my brother, Loc and his girlfriend went to go help decorate the Chapel for the wedding, my mom, my dad, and I stayed at the hotel and got some shuteye!  (HA HA!My brother had to work and i got to go to sleep even when he drove all the way here which was a seven hour drive!   Even though he was the one that was the one that was sleepy and he was the on that was tired!! But i heard that before he went to go help, he got some sleep anyway.) So afterward, around 3 or 4, my other brother came to pick me and my parents up to go to someone's house for a barbecue. So for the rest of the day we stayed there (which was probably until 11 or 12) .

                     The next day around 3 o'clock, I went with my brother to the Chapel to help with more decorations. Man!!! It was really big and really hottttt! and guess what?! There was only a small little fan. After about 2 hours I thought I was just gonna die of heat but it all was worth it because that day I met my new sister,(technically, she was there the whole time(meaning even though i never met her before this she was still there) and she is pretty old (not that old!!!)! NO, for all of you out there who think that i just met my new sister-in-law ( if you did slap yourselves!).
    But anyway she was my blood related half-sister. Seriously, at first I thought that it was not going to turn out well and that it was going to take a while before I wrapped all of this information around my head and even till today I am still a little confused. It was hard for me to accept the fact that I had more family, but even though I was scared I had to suck all of it up and take it because even though I was afraid either way she was my sister and if that is how God wanted it to be, then who am I to say no?... Anyway I always wanted a sister! After a while, people came to the church so that they could rehearse the wedding reception. ( Even then except for saying hello, I didn't really start to talk to her yet, so at that time we didn't) After they rehearsed it once, they decided to rehearse it again. Loc said that it was pretty hot and that Gerry(my sister) was hungry, so since I was hungry too I decided to tag along with them. Until then Gerry and I didn't really talk and even then we really didn't. But then, when all three of us were in the car I felt a little more comfortable and I started to open up more. When we came back because 1 we couldn't find any place to eat since we didn't know where to go, 2 the rehearsal was done, we came back. I tag along with Gerry more and we got to talk a little more. When we came back, people started leaving so we left too but this time, all of us siblings were there and my brother's girlfriend, but Tommy , Gerry's brother also wasn't there though probably because he is only seven and there was no more room in the car. During that time, I felt very happy and warm hearted, and I know that everyone felt the love that was be passed all around. We laughed a whole lot and at that moment I knew that I would have never wanted that feeling of being with my brothers and sisters to ever change. I knew at that moment that God was giving me a love that he knew that I wanted to feel for a long time. Even though I did not talk to my sister that much, I felt that she knew everything about me and that her love for me would be a love that would never change or fade away. God put some thing precious in my life and I would never ever forget what great thing that he has given me.Even though the day started out rough, it turned out to be one of the best days of my life.

        Wedding day!! The reception was great.The wedding dress was pretty awesome and my brothers looked sharp as well. After it I went to eat BBQ at my brother's house. A while after I got to go to my sister's hotel It was nice because we went swimming and i got to hang out with her. She is a really great person and I thank God every day because he gave us that chance to meet each other. The Dinner was awesome and I enjoyed the company of friends and family being around me. The farewell was a little hard for me. I was so happy to see my brothers again and enjoyed being around them all at once. I was happy to be able to have met my sister but sooo sad that she had to leave so soon. But I know that I will be able to see her again soon. It was a great change in my life and I am very thankful that I have this opportunity. I'd like to end with this... God is great and I am glad for all of the things he put into my lives especially my brothers and sisters.

        

Saturday, 11 August 2007