Wait for your Boaz

For all the single ladies in such a hurry to get married here is a piece of Biblical advice. Ruth patiently waited for her mate Boaz. So while waiting on your Boaz, please do not settle for any of his relatives … Broke-az, Po-az, Lyin-az, Cheatin-az, Dumb-az, Cheap-az, Lockedup-az, Goodfornothin-az, Lazy-az or Married-az and especially his third cousin Beatinyo-az. Please wait on your Boaz and make sure he respects Yo-az!”

—	~Unknown Source~

So easily distracted

We are so easily distracted. like kids.

One moment we are praising God and thanking Him for His goodness, and another moment later we find ourselves entertaining thoughts of unworthiness, thoughts of despair, thoughts of negativity, thoughts that are obliviously ungodly and we forgot to ask ourselves hey why are we even entertaining them in the first place. But instead we let our mind and and body do what we don't want to most of the time.

And we thank God again on Sunday or Saturday, forgetting how we have behaved during the weekends.

And how long do we want to do behave like this? Until He comes back to judge? I dare not think.

Perhaps some of us needs to wake up our idea, and open our eyes to see that we need to live more consistently in our condition of our heart and not letting it rule us but overcome it everyday with the New Spirit that lives within us. I feel so bad, because every time I give in to a negative thought I almost felt that I am suffocating the Spirit that I have invited to live in me. It almost felt like I have been ill treating Him living inside me.

Perhaps what I am struggling is not just a mere laziness, but a peace-less state within myself of how I am living that I find it hard to come before Him. Yet I must, and the longer I procrastinate the longer I delay His work of His will that I am suppose to live out in my life and I missed out the daily work and calling that He has for me simply because "I am away" or "not around".

I personally experience the lost and the pain of the consequences for "not being there" when I know I could have, should have...for somebody. But I was not there. And things happened. And there and then I experienced what you do with your calling is never about you alone.

This is when I realize that it is NOT OK to missed out on God's calling, not even a single day. Because you would not know which day you would make a difference, or MISSED making one. And in exchange devil took your place and seize the opportunity to grab more souls.

IT IS a scary thought isn't it?

Therefore, it should not be out of fear, but in reverse out of a Determined Courage that we continue to live everyday CONSISTENT, INTACT always with our calling, dreams, vision and most importantly a walk with God that is Godly in our every aspect of life, thought life especially. Trust God everyday to keep us strong.

Let "i can't" die with Christ, and let Jesus' friend "I can" take over you every thought, every fear, every anxiety, and let Faith run rampantly in your walk with God.

Vision Boards

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/O-Dream-Board-Envision-Your-Best-LifeTM

What do you want in your life? What images represent your dreams? What words inspire you to move forward? Capture them with O Dream Board. Get clear about your goals, your hopes and your vision for your life. Make the connection to turn your dreams into reality every day.

I dare.. the gardeners to envision your best life..! do share your vision boards here.

 It's gonna be very inspiring !

Take my life and let it be

Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;
Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in ceaseless praise,
Let them flow in ceaseless praise.

Take my hands, and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love;
Take my feet and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee,
Swift and beautiful for Thee.

Take my voice, and let me sing
Always, only, for my King;
Take my lips, and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee,
Filled with messages from Thee.

Take my silver and my gold;
Not a mite would I withhold;
Take my intellect, and use
Every power as Thou shalt choose,
Every power as Thou shalt choose.

Take my will, and make it Thine;
It shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart; it is Thine own;
It shall be Thy royal throne,
It shall be Thy royal throne.

Take my love; my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure-store.
Take myself, and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee,
Ever, only, all for Thee.

Layman's Language ..

Layman's language - 10 commandments .. my ex-colleague shared this with me. Great read !
1] Prayer is not a "spare wheel" that you pull out when in trouble, but it is a "steering wheel" that directs the right path throughout. (Reminded me.. let Jesus be the driver in the driver seat! Amen!)

2] So a Car's WINDSHIELD is so large & the Rear view mirroe is so small? Because our PAST is not as important as our FUTURE. So, Look Ahead and Move on. (a big ... AMEN!)

3] Friendship is like a BOOK. It takes a few second to burn, but it takes years to write.

4] All things in life are temporary. If going well, enjoy it, they will not last forever. If going wrong, don't worry. they can't last long either.

5] Old Friends are Gold! New Friends are Diamond! If you get a Diamond, don't forget the Gold! Because to hold a Diamond, you always need Base of Gold!

6] Often when we lose hope and think this is the end, GOD smiles from above and says "Relax, sweetheart, it's just a bend, not the end!"

7] When GOD solves your problems, you have faith in HIS abilities; when GOD doesn't solve your problems HE has faith in your abilities.

8] A blind person asked St.Anthony: "Can there be anything worse than losing eye sight?" He replied: "Yes, losing your vision!"

9] When you pray for others, God listens to you and blesses them, and sometimes, when you are safe and happy, remember that someone has prayed for you.

10] WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.


Wow, it suddenly just dawned on me that I am really thankful to be able to blog here, this is a place where I blog and think of God.. a place where I spend quality time with God.. expressing my revelations and sharing about God, expressing His Word ..! It's amazing. It's just .. I logged in here.. tunes in to K-Love station and start blogging. God is so Good.. ! Its all about Him!

Why is it so hard to get it right

Poooooi...

Darn bookmark, so hard to get it right. But nevermind all the wasted construction paper can recycle as paper. *cunning face*

Been trying to experiment making my own bookmarks but its okay I learnt alot from the mistakes and some times even got some new ideas out of it!

IT IS just that the frustrations of getting it right and making things consistent that I am still not used to yet; and it can get over the top at times. >_<

Am still experimenting with the different materials. Origami books are arriving this Friday and paper crafting books next week. Gosh I need a schedule planner,oh no, I need to plan my schedule!!!

God guide me and give me patience.


Love you guys!!!  Help me pray for God's flowing creativity!! <3

Starting a blog business idea..maybe?

It is a little sarcastic to add in the word maybe judging from the materials that I have already invested in, but the truth is there is a lot more work involved than I think. I feel kinda embarrassed for saying this when I already knew how much work it’s gonna cost.

It happened when I was just musing with my own thoughts on my bed half asleep, when this image of a blog shop selling "mini" stuff came to mind. These ideas partly came from the conversations I have made regarding blog shop with people who are interested in starting one and I was telling them what might work.


Ever since that morning, I have been having a flow of ideas that is adding on to one another. Somehow, for something that I have already given a “dead sentence” like this won’t work, it’s not productive or its not cost effective sorta thoughts. Elias add on to the thoughts that some else already done it very well before us and it might not work. And yes of course I knew there are people better than me, there will always be people better than me unless I am the best right? But still there is this feeling of peace and encouragement to continue and everywhere I go, whatever I need things seemed to be provided and favour somehow. So, I have decided to take foot on a step of courage and accept this challenge. I am treating it as a learning phase that I am “using” and “sharpening” the gifts that He gave me until I am mature and perfect in His given gifts. BUT today I want to add on that it must also make money thinking tha it won’t be so tough on me for my study years and the loan, and I trust that if God is with me He will surely enable me and bless me to bear bountiful fruits for Him in due season. It must be both fruitful and talent-giving.


So far He has showed me through ideas and thoughts and ways through people around me to get me cheap reference books (thanks Elias), promotion sale and cheaper price on materials (thanks to Lijuan girl) and even colleagues when I asked for advice on where to get the different things and she is so willing to share. That is the spirit I wanna have, a spirit of sharing and learning in my business, DIY or whatever I call it later. I also know that this is a humbling experience as God is showing you the way and you gotta be humble in order to receive well. And yes when I do my research He provides the ways. Loves God.


The idea is to start a blog shop that exudes individual artistic style and craft pieces that is both inspiring and looks professionally handmade.


Here come the problems:

1)      While I understood the shoppers buying nature and am confident enough that I know what might sell I realise that my skills still need more work to meet up to the consumer standard.

2)      As compared to the past, I realise that I am less patient and tend to want to “get things over with” that is obstructing my productivity. Don’t get me wrong I can spend the whole day doing this won’t get tired of it but it is the impatience that is causing me to make more mistakes than I should and expect of myself to.

3)      Money. I need a part time job for now.

However, as it is a journey likewise I have learnt and realize more about myself since childhood. I have become stronger, wiser and less naïve than before and perhaps than most people all glory to God but I have also realize that I am less tolerant, more impatient and hmm perhaps less kind due to distrust in man consciously and unconsciously. I still thank God that He had brought me through a lot to have learnt and receive compassion and acceptance in people and in myself that has brought about the change and confidence in me, through all the suffering and pain.


So perhaps I am really on the right track, judging that God is actually speaking to and through me every day as I hear and obey his calling. That He continues to teach and remind me of the things I need to change and work on until the day of Perfection come. The whole thing is personal only to me, as it feels like He is reversing the effects of the past through actively developing and recreating back the fullness of the trust, love and faith inside me until I am fully restored. How, by using the childhood memory, because every time when I do something for somebody I always think about how it will bless and bring joy to the person that I am gifting to, all the good thoughts about people and good things. I think that is what we need to exercise consciously every day yet; we are not doing enough because we are busy and even worse for hurting people because they are constantly being attacked by bad thoughts.


I am that hurting people but redeemed.


The greater the hurt the greater the extent of the genuine love and joy you need to have to live every day for God.


and yes He provides. But everyone is different, He has given me a way out personally by bringing me back to my “original” state when I was trusting and pure in my visualization, and by giving me a dream, a passion that is greater than the pain, He has spoken life to me and I accepted. We all need to ask God for one too for a way to get out of our pain and live hopefully in His glory everyday.



Working towards Purity, Praise God!

Singlehood?

I shall stay single for God, i shall take up a vow to remain single, i shall not marry and serve the Lord, i shall this i shall that. Well i went through this phrase thinking that it is spiritual to do so. I mean look at Paul in the NT and mother Theresa just to name a few, they dedicated their lives to serving and staying single for God. Single-minded for God.
More over I'm not ready for a relationship, i'm "not yet there", i'm not financially stable, blah blah blah.
Those were my thoughts and feelings. But in reality its all just cover ups for my fears and hurts etc.

These Dreams..Under My Pillow.

 Well.. it all started with this indie song, yes.. yours truly is an indie fan!

Oh Land – White Nights Lyrics

Has it been a day or a week?
As my eyes began to close
I am walking in my sleep
Living in a state inbetween
Do the signs begin to show
See the eyes fare in the dark
As they Glow

These dreams under my pillow
In the twilight of these white nights
these dreams under my pillow
In the bright light of these white nights
Of these white nights ..

Something is about to be born
There's a restlessness in me
Keeps me up until the dawn
There is no silence
I will keep following the sirens
There is no silence
I will keep following the sirens

The highlighted part of the lyrics caught me .. as I sing along.. "Something is about to be born, There's a restlessness in me Keeps me up until dawn.. There is no silence I will keep following the sirens..."

I felt His strength in me to pursue my dreams.. Dear God, let my spirit search diligently for Your voice.. as I sought Your leading. I will keep following Your voice... Lord Jesus, I know You will open the way if its .. Your will for me. Thankful for the restlessness that keeps me up. Lord, I pray that I will follow Your heart, Your dreams for me. I will search diligently .. I will keep following You..Jesus. I pray all with great expectation and great hopes all in the name of Jesus, Amen.


Psalm 77:6

⁶ I call to remembrance my song in the night; with my heart I meditate and my spirit searches diligently:

We're His Precious Sea-glasses

We all have experienced hurt, pain and brokenness. Faces many setbacks, disappointments .. heart shattered. I struggled so much with my past .. and I believe there are many people out there who are also struggling with their past.

The above image, the little 'bottle' holds pieces of seaglass, the little 'bottle' signifies God's heart holding our little hearts dearly to His heart.

Definition - Shattered Glass Becomes Sea Glass when:
- A piece of glass has been tumbled by natural wave action to the point where there are no sharply-defined edges or corners, and natural action of elements in the water along with sunlight and tumbling action have produced a unique frosted or etched surfacecovering all sides of the glass.

We're all like Sea-glass. Sea-glass is formed when broken glass is tumbled in the ocean and sand for decades. We were all like shattered, broken glasses broken deep inside but as we are embrace by God's grace(the ocean and sand) His Love, Word and power heals our broken soul. He smoothens our sharp edges till its round and frosty like a beautiful genuine sea-glass. Every piece of His creation is precious, unique and one of a kind in His eyes.

Thank You God for embracing and turning our broken shattered hearts to beautiful sea-glasses that shines, that shines through Christ.

Let's overcome, reconcile, accept the past hurts through Christ and know today that the hurts of our past came to make us stronger and better. He’s the ultimate healer and He restores. Let the setbacks of our past be the setup for an amazing future as we charge forth on this journey with Jesus!

2 Corinthians 5:17

¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

His Promise

I love the idea of our blog's skin template which has simple designs of Dandelion on the upper right side of our blog. I later found out that the floral meaning of the dandelion is that it is a gift to a loved one that will provide happiness and is a promise of total faithfulness, with the floral meaning of the dandelion, they give it out to show their faithfulness to their partner.

Dear God, Journey of His Gardeners blog is a dedication to You our Lord.. to show our faithfulness to You like the faithful bride that we are called to be. Lord, we pray that this blog would be a inspiration and light to others. God, in the times of trouble we will look right up to You because Jesus You're the Promise, the Promise of Happiness, Peace and Total Faithfulness. We love You and all in the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

The Book of Ezra

The enemy always wants to oppose people who are doing something for God so that he can stop their work. We do not have to be afraid when we are expriencing opposition, because God is with us.

Even though the enemy does not give up easily, HE IS A DEFEATED FOE, and we will eventually overcome him if we stay "STRONG, ALERT, AND COURAGEOUS."

It's amazing that the Book of Ezra cover a period of about eighty years and tell the stories of diligent faithful people who overcame opposition and resistance in order to rebuild God's temple and restore it to its former glory. When I study this.. tears started flowing because its so true that we grew weary and discouraged because of the taunts of the enemies. We're thankful that God sends people into our lives to encourage us along the narrow path. The narrow path we're called to walk with Jesus.

 In the Book of Erza, God sent the two prophets Haggai and Zechariah to remind them of God's faithfulness. I'm thankful for the people in my life who are great reminders to me.. my sister and brother, Ariel and Elias are the peeps in my life who reminds me to be strong and have courage and provides me with Godly advices.. Hui Min & Miran my sheperds they walk with me down the road.. I'm very grateful, Thank You God. They are the Haggai and Zechariah in my life.

Haggai 2:4,5 ".... be strong, alert, and courageous, all you people of the land, says the Lord, and work! For I am with you, says the Lord of hosts.. My Spirit stands and abides in the midst of you; fear not."

Amen! Let's work it, let's fear not, worry not for .. His Spirit stands and abides in the midst of us! God has great plans for our lives, the enemy will resist us but God is our side. The ENEMY IS A DEFEATED FOE.

God always wins and in Him, we do too.

Look at the new look we have!!

I just logged in to see what's up with us and look at the sunshine new look for our blog!!! It looks... so much more alive now, really like a garden too bad we can add flowers on our bed. hehehe...

Apologies first, I took the liberty of "copying" the new look to the other 2 blogs so that the whole blog looks consistent. ;p

Well done Lijuan, keep it coming!! >_< I will be here to help as and when yay?

Thank You God + Jeremiah 29:11

Ah-uh, "DREAM BIG" has been on my mind all my life. Most of the time it has been merely a thought, a sentence that passes through my brain that screams "fantasy!" .."fancy, dreamy!" .. Gee. By the grace of God.. I'm so thankful that I finally truly comprehend "DREAM."

adjective - DREAM

most desirable; ideal: a dream vacation.

Most desirable.. that must be God. He is the primary, the foundation of life ! O Lord, I have been thinking so much, way too much! I thought about the big big things that doesnt matter.. what matters most is God's will for me. God's will for me - now that is my dream, my most desirable. It got to be all about Him, to glorify Him

"It's not about dreaming big, it's about dreaming authentically."

Well, before all came to light, there was a time where I a breathing person, but deep down, I was spiritually half-dead. I lost my spark, binged on junks (deep insecurities, doubts) I did not know what I wanted to do with my future. I was just living-walking, day by day the pain grew.. the nudges.. I remember was so strong. I kind of know what should be done but I didn't care much. I got knocked down but all I did was jumped back up with no plans or goals in mind. I listened to seniors' advices, yeah merely listened no disgestion!

Looking back, those were the gloomy days. I have learnt to accept my past, I would not have had it any different way. By the grace of God, my entire experience has made me a stronger person, and has shaped me into the person I am today. Thank You Jesus !

It's amazing now, It's all falling into place. I trust God and I believe that He has great plans installed for us all, plans that prospers us! We're so blessed ! Let's keep praying and when the time is right we shall rise up from our bended knees and stand in the position of Faith with God.

  A never-ending Love like His.. lights up the whole sky. The sun is the Son, Jesus :)

Stand in Faith with God.

Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Adding your own writing gmail account into Group Blog

Step One – Inviting yourself

Log in with hisgardeners gmail account àClick on hisgardeners blog àSettings à Basicà Invite Authors
Key in your own writing gmail account into the rect box à Click Invite à Log out of his gardeners account from gmail 
àthen log into your own gmail account, check for email and click the link to accept invitation

 àGo to My Blogs and do the same for ALL THREE blogs

 heisevident is for testimonies
 teachmewog is for keeping all the resources, media of the word of God



Step Two – Set your Own Blog Display Name

You should see your own writing account in the list of authors àclick on blogger profile (situated at the top right hand corner where you see your profile pic) àClick Edit Profile àSet your display name



Step Three – Set your OWN email account access rights to “Admin”

Log out of you own account àlog in with hisgardeners gmail account à Setting à Basic à Change your own writing account from “Author” to “Admin”


 àGo to My Blogs and do the same for ALL THREE blogs


PS: If you do not change the access rights, you realise you will not be able to see the “pages”or edit the pages when you log into your own writing account.



Happy Blogging!

Regarding the Main Blog

Hey gardeners,

to establish the blog, kinda need your our help in "plotting" the land.

There are a few pages on the top as you can see, so would like you to fill your "seeds" and set your infos on the "grounds". :) Feel free to explore them, and add or even change the layout as you wish if you feel the format is not your liking, as currently I have used the linear name approach in each page to start things moving.

Don't worry about not knowing what to put, just follow your heart and write down your dreams, prayerlist, etc so that we can start walking together! <3

3 in one Blog!!

Congratulations to us!! ^_^

We have successfully set up our own blog for our walk!

If you log in with "hisgardeners" account you will be puzzled to find 3 blogs instead of 1. Please sit back and let me help you understand how our "dynamic" blogs work!

Currently our main blog "hisgardeners.blogspot.sg" is the place where we post our daily walk with each other- the sharing of our daily woes, joy ,daily thoughts or whatever that you wanna share, and of course our everyday revelations from/for each other in our everyday walk in Christ and in our fellowship.

I am sure the main blog will be able to serve us well in the beginning. But to better organize or document our walk together, I have decided to enhance our experience with the extra 2 blogs that will serve us as where we document testimonies and our "word of God" resources separately so that it will be more organize to refer to when we need them. 

1) "heisevident.blogspot.sg" = where we keep our testimonies

IF you click on "His Harvest" from the main blog, you will see that the blog links to "heisevident.blospot.sg" where we keep all our testimonies together. I figured it is a more "organize" way to keep all the testimonies in one place, since we are going to do a lot of sharing on revelations and walking in the main blog instead. hehe ^_^ This way with one click "His Harvest" you can see and remember all His goodness to us!

You can go back to the main blog (hisgardeners) by clicking "His Gardeners" when you want to get out of the "His Harvest"(heisevident.blospot.sg) page.

2) "teachmewog.blogspot.sg" = where we keep record of our "Word of God" Resources for reference and studying

IF you click on "His Resources" from our "hisgardeners" main blog, it will link you to the 3rd blog "teachmewog.blogspot.sg" which is where we keep all our research/findings of the word of God to help us Sharpen our Spirit and our "Sword".

Well, honestly I know how Elias likes to share a lot of sermons via blogs, website, youtube and all. I super support him and I feel that we should start doing our own studying and strengthening in our own quiet time and share them with each other as well. 

So the objective of this 3rd blog is to help keep/record/share a database of our "Word" resources we have researched/found all in one orderly blog. That is why this blog serve like a tumblr, or instagram, or tweeter, or facebook post or youtube or whatever research you want to throw in it, where we can use it as a platform to share our findings and help sharpen ourselves in the word of God whenever we need it to do our quiet time. :) Because other than the revelations, there is also the important part of deepening our understanding in the word of God.

I suggest that we do it with maximizing the advantage of new media to exchange and share the word of God with each other, so that we can also help each other grow stronger, sharper but also help checking on each other that what we are reading and studying is totally sound and true with the Bible.

And also perhaps we can tag our posts with a category, this will help us keep a good database of the posts we need when we wanna read or share them with each other. ;p