I have my first new-year resolution!
To respect my identity as a child and ambassador of God.

H2H talk with Jo today made me realise how horribly i've been treating myself and i really dont have the authority to do that because i belong to God. because i am God's precious child.

and so, i want to give myself the life every child of God deserves to live.

- A life that is not wasted but a life that has meaning in every second spent. As a child of God, i deserve a life that's worth so much more than this.
aka less fbking, simsing, neopetsing (dont laugh) and more studying/serving/worshipping

- I'm not going to allow anything to make me hate/feel lousy about myself because i am God's wonderful and special creation. and no one should ever despise God's creation because they are all wonderfully and specially made and loved by Him.

I think we all need to respect ourselves for who we are - a child of God.

So it is important that we sleep well, eat well, rest well and LIVE well because it's like taking care of something that is precious to God.

so if you always sleep late (hi5)/ starve yourself to become skinnier/ overeat because you love to eat (hi5)/ eat super unhealthy food/ slack (hi5)/ stress. it's time to get things right and find a healthy balanced diet and life (: we deserve to eat healthily, sleep healthily and work healthily.

CANT WAIT FOR 2010. <3
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oh by the way, i was clearing out my room and i found a mixtape someone gave me for christmas last year which i never got around to playing it until now (im sorry!) but I LOVE IT SO MUCH. so mystery person please let me know who you are if you think this is you. there are no song titles/artistes ): thanks much. =D



Verse 1:
He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

Pre-Chorus:
And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

Chorus 1:
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.

Verse 2:
We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
So Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…

Chorus 2:
He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.

Verse 3:
Well, I thought about You the day Steven died,
And You met me between my breaking.
I know that I still love You, God, despite the agony.
...They want to tell me You're cruel,
But if Steven could sing, he'd say it's not true, cause...
You're good

Chorus 3:
Cause He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us.
Whoa! how He loves us.
Whoa! how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.
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Dear God,
help me to be able to tell people how much YOU love us. Lord you love us so much, why is it that we find it so hard
to even just step up for You. Dear God, i pray that we'll learn to be unashamed. I pray that you will teach us,
so that we'll learn to overcome our inequities and put aside out self-consciousness and let others experience this love
that is just so amazing and so inexpressible and awesome, that no one will ever be the same when they've come to know you.
God, it's so hard when we fall and feel like giving up. But God i know you won't ever give us something more than we can bear.
You promise to lift us out of the mire, out of the mud and steady us as we walk. God i pray that we'll learn to pull through our struggles for your sake because You love us, and have called us.

This post's gonna be about the many things that i took away from church camp, the theme was be, love, to serve. It's long, but please read!! ((: & sorry if my thoughts're all over the place =/

Be- being God's children, what our identity as God's child is.
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. -Ephesians 2:10
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. -1 Peter 2:9-10
So basically, we are God's chosen people, we are His children, we were bought with a price. and we should not be 'vampire christians', meaning we only want Jesus' blood, we only want the benefits, and are only interested in the saving grace of Christ, but we dont want to follow in His footsteps, we dont want the hard part of being a christian, we're unwilling to Deny ourselves, take up the cross and follow Jesus (Matt 16:24).
But as children of God, Christ should be our model, there should be an ongoing conversion of our heart and mind, and it is only obedience to God that would bring about this transformation. And you know it's hard, but we're not alone! We've got our fellow brotheres & sisters in Christ to run this race together and God has given us a spirit of power, love and self-discipline. If we really want this, God will enable us to do it. What really stood out to me in this message was that i should be assured and secured in knowing my identity in God. Meaning i should stop going back to my empty wells (seeking the approval of people), but be satisfied in who i am to God. His love for me is more than enough, and it's the only thing that would ever fill and satisfy me, and the only thing that i need. And His love lasts forever.
God created me, so i'm His masterpiece, and He does not make junk. When people look at me, i dont want them to see me, but see God in me, cause that's what He made me to be, so i want God to chisel away everything that is the me of this world (laziness, self-consciousness...), so i can be who He really made me to be. It's not going to be easy, but it needs to be done.

Love
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. -1 John 4:7-9
Love is not just a feeling, but willing (quote kimmie) It means that even though you may not feel like you love the person, you're still willing to do things because you love. Dont let love stop at the emotional level! Love is practical & selfless. & because God is love, love comes from God so when we feel like we're unable to love, we should go back to our source.
We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. -1 John 4:13-16
We have the capacity to love cause we're enabled to do so by His spirit, cause God has given us the Holy Spirit, and one of the fruits of the spirit is LOVE. So our ability to love is a manifestation of the presence of the Holy Spirit ((:
We encounter God's love in our daily walk with Him so we'll be encountering love everyday! So we'll be so filled with love it's overflowing, so spread/share it! =D

Service- Love in action. Service is no about what we do, but about who we are, and what God does in & through us.
Three things about service:
1. LISTEN:
A person who serves is a listener, cause you need to listen for cleansing, nourishment and direction. Cleansing- clear the junk from our lives, like the distractions in our lives. Nourishment- we need to constantly be fed by God so we can give ((: Direction- How can we be serving God if we dont know the direction He wants us to go in?
So, we gotta listen, & listen hard. Again, it's hard, BUT God will give us the discipline to if we're willing. "He who has ears, let him hear."- Matt13:9 & of course, after listening, we gotta OBEY
2. LIGHT
In giving light, we're to change the environment around us, to have a positive influence on those around us.
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. -1 John 1:5-7
3. LIFE
Life produces life in the Holy Spirit so persevere even if it seems like what you're doing isnt working cause you never know when/how it works in the person's heart. We just gotta do our part, & pray. & dont ever judge & think that a person's impossible to save. you're not God. & dont look down on the little things you do! You never know when the littlest things you do is used in God's kingdom.

So yes, basically, this is it! Just wanna share this last thing that really spoke to me on the prayer journey. We went to a cemetry, and there are verses on the plaques right. One of them really stood out to me & it was "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 When i die, i want to be able to say this.

Overall in this camp, i felt that God was just telling me one thing: Focus on ME, not people.

WX: oh my i'm like, posting, after the longest time.

"I think for us growing up we never saw anything that was outside of God's vision. The idea that if he created this skin that I'm in, if He's created this moment for us to share right here, if He's created music and all these things, then suddenly every conversation becomes sacred instead of secular. Every time you go into the grocery store, every times you hop in your car...you're not turning off and on your Christianity. You're bringing the very temple of God with you. So suddenly playing shows down the street at the church becomes a sacred thing, just as much as playing down at the bar when we�d get kicked out because none of us were 21."
"I'm just more and more coming to the conclusion that we serve an incredibly large God who wants to do incredible things through this generation. I feel like there is a spirit that I get from many kids...it's the attitude that it's not impossible, things can happen...whether you are talking about Africa or even your own backyard. Wanting to actually interface with the world and not run away from it. That's really exciting for me. I'm sick and tired of Christians that are just simply waiting for the rapture. I feel like we've been given an incredible job opportunity, we've been given the Holy Spirit; we've been given the spirit of the living God inside of us to change the world. That's our calling. It's not to sit around and wait. So when I see kids and the passion in their eyes to go out and actually interface with the world around them that inspires me."

channel change... live love :)

"There's a certain amount of humility that is attached to wonder, and a certain amount of pride attached to knowledge and I think the moment you say 'we know beyond a shadow of a doubt this exists', you can't have faith that it exists. Faith is no longer possible. So faith is only possible when doubt is possible. Faith is only possible when humility and wonder is possible. .."

maybe worship is when God communicates His presence and awe to us, thats why our heart believes in worship but our head doesnt. our heads, ego and image cant comprehend a being greater than ourselves.

love,
kim

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