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Today was one of the best days I've had in a long time:) Not that there was anything so spectacular about it, but I haven't felt so much peace in a long time...

Over the past two weeks, I've been feeling pretty sick, as well as burned out from school. Every day just seemed to pass in a blur. During Chinese New Year, well, it was nice visiting my relatives and all, but even with all the bright red going around, I was still not in the best of moods...until friday... that was the first worship prac out of the two. My voice was croaking away, and I hadn't prepared what exactly to say, but I went for the practise after a day of staying at home to rest and all. The thing was, during the practise, I still sounded terrible, I couldn't believe how off-key I was 1/3 the time, and I was still feeling sick, but it was different from the days before. Somehow, I still had the great assurance that God wasn't looking at how good I sounded or how chim whatever I said was; He was looking into my heart to see if I was truly meaning everything that I said and sang. And that's all that matters to Him.

Friday was the 2nd time I carried out a new style of doing the worship prac. After everyone has tuned their instruments and warmed up, we came together, sat in the center, and had our own time of worship first. The first time I tried it, we sang a song together and then broke up into small groups to pray for different things, but for this time, I let them hear a track from the avalon album, Renew me. Somehow, things like that helped to bring our focus to God instead of purely creating music. The practice later on went really well; we actually managed to run through the whole list twice...and my horrible voice was no longer the center of my attention:)
On Saturday, the practice was really great too and I felt the ultimate source of comfort and peace fill me for the first time in a long while. Only because I had finally decided to let go and surrender to God and not do things my way any longer.

Today, I wouldn't say the worship was good or bad, but I felt it was really powerful. A whole room of youths coming together to truly worship God. There was no place for the devil at all. And if you were there, whatever I said didn't come from a planned script, like it usually does. Planning what to say is good, but at that moment, when leading a whole congregation, the message will be a lot more powerful if the leader simply be led by the Spirit. It's a feeling I can't experience anywhere else...be led by the Holy Spirit:)

Later on, for the Valentine's Day programme, the guys and girls were split up for the different talks. Obviously, I attended the guy, I mean, girl one....haha...Anyway, I know there are reasons why they didn't want everyone in the same room, but I'm going to leak out the main points of the talk, because I think it applies to everyone :)



Presenting...
the 7 tips on love and dating:

tip#1:Do not be ashamed or fret over your loneliness.

Trust the God who loves you. God will provide The One for you. Really.

tip #2: Do not hunt for The One. Be the One.


tip #3: Don't be unequally yoked. Prefer a partner in ministry.

tip #4: Do not be "on call". Live life to the full.


tip #5: Do not rush, Go slow, really, really slow.


tip #6: Do not engage in sexual immorality. Stay pure at all costs.
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tip #7: Do not ignore red flags. Deal with them swiftly, responsibly, and prayerfully.
If these signs do show, you know you should break up with that person. BUT, no matter who that person is or what that person has done, no one deserves to be dumped. Have a good talk and apologise that the relationship is not working out. According to the speaker, breaking up is really, really tough. It will be painful, but it has to be done.


Remember: God wants you to have the best, do not settle for second best:)


God bless you! Tomorrow got test. Gotta go. Bye!