Let it all go =)

Yo!

Had talentine yesterday and it was good! haha Sheila and I won 2nd place in the duet division, but I really didn’t care about winning, I just wanted to perform =D We sang ‘Nothing is Impossible’ in a government school with Muslims in it! Haha the non-muslim teachers notice it was a Christian song played in ACTS29! Woo =D

I gave my trophy and certificate to my friends haha I really didn’t care about winning, I have better things in life than a trophy haha and another thing is I got this letter saying I’m invited to a ‘Student’s high achievement award ceremony’ I was like 0.0? what did I achieve? I asked my friends what was this letter all about and they replied ‘Wow, did you achieve anything great? Like achieving all A’s or something like that?’ I replied 'I have no idea 0.o ' haha this is the first time I receive such a letter =D still thinking whether I should go and attend this ceremony =P

Went to nativity play last night, had so much fun with the guys! Haha and there was this application in Josh’s phone, that can switch people faces with one another hahaha! gosh the victims of Josh's application looked so retarded! haha Peh han looked like Yao Ming haha =P

Friday we had an awesome seminar with Ps Benny Ho. When people mention that he was an awesome bible teacher that teaches with great simplicity and clarity, they weren’t joking, he really is that good! And not only that, some of you may not know this but when he first started teaching at 2 pm, he hasn’t eaten anything since then, when the seminar ended at 10.30 pm, he still insisted in sharing with the older leaders. He sacrifices a lot, just for the sake of sharing with us and imparting what God has to say, what an awesome man.

And Saturday Josh, Mark, Dave and I were all doing [Selah] haha a very long instrumental song =P I think we jammed more than we practice on Sat o.o

We went out and watch 2012, ‘the movie was depressing’ – Alisa Lau haha

For me it was boring lah cause I’ve watched it twice, I kind of understand how Sophia would have felt that night haha plus the atmosphere wasn’t as enthusiastic as the previous time when we were watching the same movie; previously everybody clapped their hands and laughed real loud and etc but not this time, it was silent! I felt depress man haha

Went to MacD and Rachel gave a surprise to Alisa =D why? Because it was her birthday!

So with that said HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY ALISA! Have another awesome year yeah? =)




Anyways, FOR THESE 2 DAYS, I am going to share certain issues that majority of young people may face each and every single day, I know you all will be bless =)

For today, ‘Loosening our grip’

Let’s read Matthew 6:19-24; a very famous verse

I've read this short story: ''An American tourist traveled to Poland to visit with a respected religious teacher who was known for his wisdom. The visitor noticed that the man’s room had nothing but a table, chair and some books. Puzzled by such austerity, he asked, ‘Where is your furniture?’ The teacher answered, ‘My Furniture?’ ‘Where is your furniture, my friend?’ the American protested, ‘Furniture? but I am only a tourist passing through.’ ‘So am I’ said the man.''

And so are all of us.

Doesn’t that relate to us somehow? Whatever we have here on earth is not permanent and isn’t it temporary? Because it is true that we’re just passing through this world, we need to learn to loosen our grip on our EARTHLY possessions. This declaration from Jesus should help us: ‘One’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses’ – Luke 12:15

How many times have we feared to let go of something so dear to us? A preacher in my church once said, ‘whatever you’re holding back from Jesus, is what you are worshiping’ let me give you a few setbacks that I once experience and had to went through.

When I had my first girlfriend, I loved her so much to the point where I didn’t want to let go, and I was SO afraid that I might lose her. Many people might say being afraid of letting go proves and shows that a person ‘truly love’ another person but the truth is once you are afraid of losing a certain person in your life, it shows that that person is seated in the center of your heart, clearly that person that you are so afraid of losing is SO much much more important than God Himself.

You have such a tight grip on that person that it ends up being an obsession and Jesus is not the center of your attention anymore; and believe me when I tell you by doing that it’s not going to help you in your relationship either, being obsess isn’t going to keep your relationship, cause if you do not put Jesus as your number 1, and if you do not surrender it COMPLETELY to Him, (surrender it even to the point of losing it) then He can’t help you even if you needed help because He is a gentlemen, He will not come and intervened if you do not allow Him to. So you need to ask him! And be specific =)

I know this because I was exactly like this and Jesus wasn’t the center of my attention, but that was ages ago when I wasn’t a committed believer.

Another RECENT example, like I’ve mentioned in one of my previous post, I fell for someone extraordinary a few months back, for the first time I wanted to live a very God-conscience relationship, a relationship that isn’t as jealous, as worrisome and isn’t as over protective compared to previous relationships that I had, a relationship that was optimistic, that was positive in thinking at all times and etc (of course it wasn’t like that at first, I still had a lot of work within myself to reach the standard but thankfully by God’s grace I was able to do it) but that wasn’t enough, God challenged me ‘Do you really put Me first in your relationship? If you really do, then you TRULY have to surrender EVERYTHING and COMPLETELY commit to me your relationship even to the point of you losing her, are you ready to make such a commitment to me? Are you really putting Me first?’

It was truly hard but God was testing me, if I didn’t do that, it showed that I was holding something back from Him, but I was sick and tired of having the same kind of relationships over and over again because I really wanted to have a Godly relationship for once! So by faith I said ‘Father, I want you to be the center of my attention, of my life, of my heart and of my soul, I know if I put you first in whatever I do, and even if things may not work out, I know you would want the best for me; so I am going to COMPLETELY surrender this relationship into your hands, even to the point of losing her because I want you to be my number 1 and I want to put you first in my life. I don’t want to worship anything else besides you, I don’t want to hold anything back from you, what I have is yours and yours alone, I give it all to you.’

It wasn’t easy, but I was loosening my grip, I truly held on to Him more than anything else, I truly surrendered everything and the situation was entirely in His hands. A few months passed and the relationship didn’t work out, *dum *dum *dum haha but note that because I HAD surrender it to God earlier on, this situation was STILL in His hands, and even though she and I have gone our separate ways emotionally, our friendship was still there because God was there, intervening the situation from the very beginning that I had earlier on surrendered to Him and we have became better friends than ever since =)

Even if it didn’t turned out the way I wanted it to be, I believe it was for a good cost =) the fruits have shown over the course of these 3 months =)

Let’s say IF I DIDN'T surrender it to God and I didn’t really let go and completely surrendered to Him, I am confident that she and I would not have been on such good terms as much as we are now =)

Rather than acquiring and holding tightly to earthly things, we should be obeying this directive given by our Saviour: ‘Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven’ Matt16:19-20

That statement alone is so simple but yet so precise, I've mentioned before, things of the world no matter how good it is; it will always come to an end, because sin is there to take it all way, because that is the nature of sin. Treasure of the world such as cars, house, clothes, money and even relationships or maybe even people, are opened for the enemy to come and to destroy, but as you give it up to God, as the situation becomes under His control, as you begin to loosen your grip on certain things in your life and choose to surrender COMPLETELY to Him, you are storing up treasures in Heaven, and as you do that, NOTHING can take your treasures away from you because God is taking care of it =)

HOLD ON TIGHTLY TO WHAT IS ETERNAL,
HOLD ON LIGHTLY TO WHAT IS TEMPORAL =)

Is there something that you are afraid to lose? Let it all go =) Cling onto what’s important =)

Jesus Christ =) that is my challenge for you today =)

tomorrow will be my last post before fresh fire =)