Hillsong Conference 2009 Opening

The video is awesome. Hillsong is blessed with the most creative people in the whole world!

HC2010

I have just finished viewing KC Gan's Hillsong Conference 2009 photos on FB. I loved the photos! Okay I'm so excited already about attending the conference next year! Gonna buy the tickets soon.

Hillsong Conference 2009 Highlights

I heard from a friend that he met Sidney Mohede, David Yem and KC at the conference!

Don't Give Up

It took 40 years for Moses to stay in the wilderness waiting for his calling to lead the Israelites out of Egypt to come to pass. 40 years are 14,600 days (super long time eh?). Have you ever wondered what if he decides to give up on God on the 14,599th day? He would have missed God's best for his life! Moses is a man of faith indeed!

I know I'm still believing for God's best in my life. Often times I cannot figure out what He is currently doing in my life. But I know that He knows what He is doing. He never makes mistakes. My desires to find a better paying job and a life partner, He knows very well. He makes me wait because He wants to grow/stretch my faith in Him. I just need to put Him first in everything that I do, all the needs and desires I have, He will take care.

Let's hear His voice today..."Don't give up, my beloved son/daughter"

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What Success Means To Me

AR B. preached an awesome message at leaders meeting today. I was so excited and happy to hear him talk about how we, as leaders, need to serve our people. The higher we go up in leadership, the more servant to others we need to become. I could relate to what he was getting across to us because last week God spoke to me about the same thing. You can read my entry titled 'Let Me Serve You' to know more.

On another note, in the afternoon, I had some thought about the question 'What does success mean to you?' To some people, success means becoming a millionaire. To some, it means becoming a famous singer. To some, it means having a big house and bla bla bla...I'm sure you can figure the list out.

But what does it mean to me? I think success to me means having a godly family. I really want to have a godly family. A family that loves God, people and life. A family that will expand the Kingdom of God. I'm really excited to see my future kids raising up to become men and women of God. I know some of you may laugh at what I have just written. But heck, this is really what is in my heart and my vision for my future.

Rest = Diligence = Rest

Was reading the book of Hebrews chapter four today. "...be diligent to enter that rest.." Here the author is talking about the rest of faith. It dawned upon me that we need to be diligent to enter that rest. To be diligent is an action, we need to do something on our part. I guess we always think that the rest will come by itself so we tend to just wait passively for it. I think to be diligent here means to be diligent in the basics like feeding upon the Word, praying and seeking God everyday. We need to be active. Faith is always active. Be diligent so that we can rest.

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Pearl And Swine

Recently I learned something new about myself. I'm more open up to share my feelings with a select few of people these days. It used to be that I would hide my feelings from all people.

To be clear here, I do not anyhow share my feelings. I only share them with people that I can trust.

Even with people that I trust, I am fully aware that they may change as a person. The fact is that people do change. If I find a friend cannot take the sharing of my feelings, I will just stop and be careful with I share to that friend next time. I will not put that friend down for sure. I will still love him/her.

I just wanna be transparent to my closer friends. I really believe that I should be accountable to them about what and how I feel. As a human being, I need support. I cannot live on my own. God puts people in my life for a purpose, to encourage and support me because I am not perfect.

The Bible talks about how we should not cast away our confidence easily. Don't cast your pearl into the swine because it will spitted out and they will attack you. I think I can replace 'confidence' here with 'feelings'. We should not cast away our feelings easily because some people may not be able to take it. It's something I learned recently too.

Ps. When I talked about feelings, I was talking about feelings that have depth and are not shallow. =)

The Bay State

I enjoyed watching this acoustic performance by The Bay State.

Transformers Two

Went to watch the movie with A & E. It was a LONG movie. Not bad but I still prefer the first one. Or maybe I was physically tired and could not really appreciate the good movie it was. I guess I have to watch it for the second time. =)

I was excited when I heard The Fray's Never Say Never song in the movie. Really love that song. Although it is a secular song, I can always feel the presence of God when it comes to the bridge 'Don't let me go, don't let me go'.

Let Me Serve You

Last night when I met Weiwei at the airport, I saw he was pushing his trolley with his luggage on it, then I found myself saying these words to him 'Let me serve you' and I took the trolley from him and pushed it for him.

A few seconds after I said 'Let me serve you', it suddenly dawned upon me that I had never said those words before to someone whom I lead. And God began to speak to me about how we should serve those people whom we are leading in this lifetime.

Often times, we can do a very good job in serving our leaders but we somehow neglect serving our people. I think a good sign of humility is when we, as leaders, are willing to go down to our members and tell them 'Let me serve you'. No pride. Just let them know that we want to serve them. Just wanna show them that we love them. I am sure our people will be touched and impacted.

Jesus was and is the Greatest Servant of all. He showed us how to serve those whom we are leading. We should learn from Him. He is our Great Example.

In our serving others, be it those above us, those peers or those below us, we should serve with a pure heart. Don't serve with the fear of rejection. Certainly don't serve with the expectation for approval or recognition of people. But, let's serve out of genuine love for others.

So, to end this entry, let me serve you.

Till We Meet Again, Weiwei

Heart For The House

I wanna have the heart for the house of God. What's the house of God? To me, it is a house where God and people dwell together. What it means to have the heart for the house? I think it simply means loving God and His people. His house shall be a glorious house.

On My Mind Today

I think I am longing for a mature relationship (friendship). A relationship whereby two people are sensitive to each other. Always esteeming each other. Always understanding each other. Always encouraging each other. The two would not be flippant in their words but be very careful. The two would always take time to build each other's life. The two can have fun together but would not take the other for granted. O I long for this kinda relationship.

The Meet Up Number Five

It all started way back in February when I organized the first meet up and today we had the fifth one! I guess new friendships have grown to a new level. I never thought that it (the meet up) would last this far. Thank God for that.

Although most of us were physically tired because of the long day we had, we still had a great time together. Just fellowshiping was awesome.

We celebrated Lynn's 21st birthday and Emil's belated. It was a simple celebration for them and I hope they enjoyed it.

I really thank God for these friends of mine.

A Letter From Weiwei

Dear Willy,

What can I say for such a friend, buddy and a leader over my life? My utmost thanks goes out to you for watching over me for all these years! If I were to list of all the things you have encouraged me and helped me, it would take at least a 2,000 word report to do so. Overall, your impact over my life has always left me speechless. I don't think I could find someone like you to replace in my life. You are like a catalyst. You are indispensable. That's why I am always against the idea of you transferring into another cell group. However, your life progress is much more important than my own personal selfish gains of you over my life. Whatever your choice maybe in the next one year or so, I wish you for the best. When you move on, remember me.

Throughout the two years of my army life, I thank God that you were always there. When I was down and depressed, when I was being punished and given extras, you were always there to encourage me. When my school timetable clashed with ministry and cell group, you were there too to support and encourage me to serve and help out on Sundays by booking seats. In the first half of the year, you were always praying and interceding with me every Wednesday night without fail. Although I did not see you nearly every weekend, I could still connect with you spirit to spirit. Thank God that now you are back in Expo, but my happiness is short-lived. I will have to leave soon and I pray that our friendship could still maintain at the optimum level.

I remember when we first met, it was in Bugis and there were Angie, Qiuyan and you. Initially, God gave Angie the responsibility to watch over me. Then it's Qiuyan. Then Qiuyan's gone and it's you who always help me to grow in the Lord. Finally, I wish you all the best in your career pursuit, I believe God's best for you will come to pass, where you will prosper and live in God's abundance!

Yours truly,

Zheng Wei

Classy

God is a classy God. He reigns on His throne with such a class that is beyond description.

Since God is a classy God and I worship Him, I wanna live my life with a class too. I wanna express my spirituality in and through the way I dress up, the music I listen to, the way I organize my things, the photos I take, the videos I make, the blog I design, the tweets I post on Twitter,...(too many to list down here)

Basically I wanna have a CLASSY lifestyle!

To me, a classy lifestyle simply means living life by loving God, loving people and loving life. I will always try to keep it simple and neat.

20 Years...More To Come

SOS Finale was AWESOME!!! After going through this Bible study series for the last few weeks, all I can say is that I want to love God even more!

I have been walking with God for 20 years now and, like how Pastor Kong would say, it feels like it has just begun. There is more to my walk with God. He has MORE in store for me. I have not arrived yet and thus I will keep on walking with Him.

When Pastor spoke about the second wilderness, I think I identified myself with that well. Over the 20 years, God brought me into many seasons. There was initial phase of my walk where God dealt me with sin and all that stuff. Baby Christian stuff basically. And now I am entering a phase whereby God is bringing me into greater maturity in my faith in Him. A phase whereby I really need to fully trust Him even if the circumstance is not easy.

I am so blessed to know a God who really loves and who is always faithful to me. He is my first love and I will love Him till the end!

Indo-Trip-O-Nine//Bogor

Career In My Mind

I have been thinking a lot about my career lately. Like most men, I really wanna have a steady job with a steady income and a steady career path ahead. I was reading the book of 1 Timothy yesterday and there the word of God says if I do not know how to provide for my family, I have denied my faith and am worst than an unbeliever. This word really got into me. I really wanna give my best for my future family and I have to do something now. Of course I won't do anything according to what my flesh tells me. I have to hear from God.

If you know me personally, you would know that I have been praying for a new job. More than a job actually, I have been praying for a good position with good benefits. I think if I did not have strong faith in God, I would have given up praying about six months ago. I trust that God is faithful in His promises. It is never easy but I will still trust.

After reading this entry and you feel you wanna pray for me, please feel free to do so! I really need your prayer. =)

Un-Homely

This week is rather interesting. It's a PACKED week! I got so many things to do and so many people to meet. I really need to believe God for extra energy. But, overall I'm pretty excited about this week. I guess one change I see in myself this year is that I have become an un-homely person. What does it mean? Well I grew up as a homely person i.e. staying-at-home person. These days I find myself becoming un-homely. I go out more often to spend time with people. Having said this, it does not mean I don't like to stay at home. In fact I still love being at home. Home is where my family is. And where my bed is! Haha...I think Mom has made our home a very good place to live in and it is very difficult for me not to enjoy home.