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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 - 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!
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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?
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
mostdesirable;ideal:adreamvacation.
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.
