Monday, November 12, 2007
You have a sense of destiny
You have a gift
You have a vision
You have a purpose
You want to have this, that and those..
You want to do this, that and those..
Then you realised you only got 24 hours a day
('16' to be precise)
(alot lesser than that to be more precise)Labels: discipline, success
---------------------------------------------------------- 5:59 PM, peace =)
Saturday, November 10, 2007
WAHAHAHAHAH WOW!! never never be the same! amen!
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It has come to my first 'Arise and Build', and nowadays i've been listening to quite a few sermons and then the principles of sowing & reaping kept jumping out from those sermons.
So just some thoughts..
It came to my awareness nowadays that people often say things like,
"why is this happening to me all the time?"
"see here it happened again, guess i'm fated to be like that until God knows when it's gonna end."
almost all the time i hear the 'S' word in different versions, "SIAN...", "wa SIAN!" or "SIAN, SIAN, SIAN...", etc.
I understand what they've been going through becaused i've been through that kinda sh!t too and sometimes still. But the truth sets people free, so i hope what i'm about to share would hit a few buttons of theirs and contribute abit to their well-being.
Yes this is to do with the truth of 'sowing & reaping' (the law of nature), the beautiful thing about truth is that it's always there, people tried ways to avoid it, push it aside/someone else, cover it up, even destroy it, but truth is indestructable like an indestructable.. er.. rock, also like a cock it always surfaces, always true, always there. We need to get use to this law of nature which is truth.
Because as much as we don't want to face it, we need to learn about it, get use to it, flow with it like a surfer on the waves. Because you can't change the waves, your only job is to flow with them and enjoy the ride.
Truth never changes, so if we want to see change in our lives, we've got to learn about it, get use to it & flow with it (not try to change truth nor avoid it).
that's the intro, here's the truth i want to share:
What is sown into your life is LOVE (You may be surrounded by loving people who cares), but if what's thriving in you is Bitterness/Anger/Hatred/Unforgiveness/Distrust.
You may not be able to manifest the life of loving relationships with the people around you.
Mother Teresa said "If you judge people, you have no time to love them"
What is sown into your life is EXCELLENCE, but what is thriving in your life could be Mediocrity/Complacency/Laziness/Sianzation.
What is sown into your life is FAITH & HOPE, but what's thriving in you could be
Doubt/Defeat/Fear.
What do these examples tell you?
Well for me it tells me that
- If one is unwilling to accept truth, no matter how hard you try to help them, you'll never gonna see change.
- You can never help somebody in denial
- The first step of getting help is when one starts accepting responsibility because it always starts with the person
- Unless one makes a decision to change, he/she will never have a breakthrough
The seed is in your hand. If you want the harvest you sow the seeds.
you're responsible for the change you say you wanna have.
Like a farmer on his field. He can walk around the field all day complaining about the hot weather, and the pest, and the quality of the soil, etc, etc.
Unless he starts sowing, nothing will ever ever happen. Nothing.
What has been your hot weather/pest/circumstances? let's make a decision to start sowing seeds. sometimes it hurts facing the truth, but it's a guide and meant for your good, it SETS YOU FREE.
The key to Change/Breakthrough is the willingness to accept truth and say "you know what, if i want that harvest so badly, imma sow these seeds right now if this is what it takes, let this day be the day of change!"
A change is not a change until it's changED
Something has gonna stop forever and sth has gonna start from NOW on.
Let's do sth radical to mark/celebrate this day of your breakthrough.
Anything you can think of.. maybe stop saying the 'S' word from now on? (you might be surprised man lol serious! i know because i've done that already hahaha)
Let's really do sth for ourselves & others man.
Life is fun & colouful because IT IS, dont make it dull =D
Peace!! lolLabels: attitude, discipline, giving, hope, love, mindset
---------------------------------------------------------- 1:36 PM, peace =)
It's my fourth day at work haha
It's an admin job in an insurance company, 10 minutes walk from Boon Keng station.
I feel that it's time for me to work, to start moving my "wheels" because they were rusty once. Thank God they've been "oiled" again. But what's the big deal, if I'm not gonna move them anyway?
Anyway, I've just found out lately how lazy and irresponsible I can become or rather am.
Work starts at 8 30am means I have to wake up at 6am plus.
Came home late at night from grandma's birthday dinner yesterday haha.. so I really really had a tough time waking up this morning, didn't feel like going to work man.
So after I was disturbed by the alarm there was a battle going on in my head on whether should I go to work or not until a "voice" interupted:
'Make up your mind NOW!'
Boi I was awakened right away, I felt convicted and immediately my integrity(conscience) being questioned.
It's amazing how powerful a thought.. so delicate yet intangible could manifest itself.. when I set my mind on how I was feeling then(the fatigue).. it's almost effortless to come up with lots of excuses on why I can't, which means I could've lied to my colleagues (yuo wouldn't want to tell them you couldn't turn up because you were just pure tired right)
Anyway, the same pattern happened when I start to think of what's right. Immediately it exposed what would become of me if I had given in to the spirit of complacency. It'll probably make me an undiscipline, irresponsible, unreliable person. No I don't want to be deceived, especially if that's the effect of just a mere switch of thought. I don't want to be a person like that man.
Joyce Meyer once said that "We can feel not right but still do what's right"
if only we set our minds fully on what's good and not at all on what corrupts. It always appears to be just a tiny thought.. but this is all it takes for it to instantly manifest and you could wake up one day realising how surprisingly, unknowingly it has cost you.
Indeed.. "make up your mind NOW!". A command. This or that. Yes or no. Obey or not.
Spirit of complacency and that of mediocrity is a deceiving attitude that tells you it's okay, it's just a thought, it's okay it's just a part-time job dont type a big fuzz about it. It sounds great but now we know it's not choosing what sounds good/"what we wanna hear" but what is good. One of Robert kiyosaki's audio CD package is titled: 'You Can Choose To Be Rich' (haha ok abit not-so-link)
Similarly, I was told by Someone that we can CHOOSE to do what's right.
I feel this is one of the ways we overcome evil by good.. by choosing to think of what's good and pleasant instead of the former despite our emotions. It requires discipline ofcourse, there's no need for it if dealing with emotions is easy ahah.. I was really really sianz until that voice interceded for good.. what powerful words hmm..
What's good always prevails in the end.. what's good is victorious in nature. Yay!
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Sianz.. haven't seen 8WF people for weeks le.. I miss you all la LOLLabels: attitude, complacency, discipline, faith, hope, mindset, work
---------------------------------------------------------- 9:55 PM, peace =)
JINLONG - Jay eL . 77 =)