precious thoughts

I was drinking coffee during my quiet time last thursday. Then it hit me, I was having coffee with God! I didn't have a cuppa for Him through, don't think he needs His daily fix of caffeine, though I think He likes His daily fix with me.

Coffee, Tea, or me?

Psalms 138: 17 "How precious to me are Your thoughts, o God! How vast is the sum of them."

I've been reading "Growing Deep in God" by Edmund Chan, and it talks about integrating prayer with theology. This is important because prayer is contingent upon right theology. Imagine praying the wrong things! (God, please heal so and so from cancer, although God may want for so and so to go home with Him)

A definition of prayer is "what the Holy Spirit" inspires in our hearts to lift up to the throne of God. Therefore, when we pray, we should not just "say" our prayers, going down list of things that we would like God to fulfill, but rather, we should ask the Holy Spirit what God wants us to pray for, and when he impresses something upon our hearts, we should then "pray" it.

Which brings to light the above verse. If praying means, lifting up the thoughts of God to Him, then His thoughts much be what we seek, and what we ask Him to reveal to us.

O God! How precious are Your thoughts to me!

God alone

The Supremacy of God

You are God Alone

You are not a God created by human hands

You are not a God dependent on any mortal man

You are not a God in need of anything we can give

By Your plan, that's just the way it is

You are God alone from before time begin

You are on Your throne You are God alone

And right now in the good times and bad

You are on Your throne You are God alone

You're the only God whose power none can contend

You're the only God whose name and praise will never end

You're the only God whose worthy of everything we can give

You are God, that's just the way it is

Unchangeable, unshakable, unstoppable

Hui left yesterday. bye bye pocky seahorsey!

uni

I was talking to Pastor Daren Tay from Coos over lunch last Thursday, and he mentioned something about economics. When he said that, I felt God telling me that I was staying in Singapore for my uni. Well... All along, I've been praying and hoping that I could get into Carleton College in the U.S., and I believed that if God granted me a place there as well as a scholarship, it'll be a sure sign that I was meant to go there; rationale being, it's so difficult to get Carleton, not to mention, get a scholarship too, so if God gives me both, it means that He wants me there. However, what if He gave me that option, and then ask me to stay in Singapore? How now brown cow?

Anyway, that troubled me because I really wanted to go to the U.S., and I had been doing the apps, working hard over the essays, and placing a lot of hope on it. :(

Nevertheless, God's plan is always the best, and I must trust that He has something greater planned out for His glory.

I was reading "Growing Deep in God" by Edmund Chan, Senior Pastor of Covenant Evangelical Free Church, and it talked about Moses. In Hebrews 11, it says that Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. History suggested that the daughter of Pharaoh was Hatshepsut, daughter of Thothmes I, who had ordered the massacre of the Hebrew babies. Thothmes had only one son, but he was mentally and physically handicapped. (unlike in The Prince of Egypt where Moses had a bro, sorry fans) As a result, Hatshepsut co-ruled with him. When the handicapped son died, Hatshepsut was the supreme ruler of Egypt, and therefore Moses was in line for the throne as the adopted son of Hatshepsut. So from history, we can see that Moses was giving up much. How could he have done so?

Well.. in order for us to give up something, we need to have something of a higher value in exchange for it. So what did Moses have?

Moses had seen God, God's Glory, and God's Power, and I believe that that glimpse of God allowed him the grace that was needed to cast all the power, fame, and riches aside, to catch on to something greater.

Carleton, U.S. sounds real neat, and I really want to be there. However, if God wants me here, He must have a higher intent, and a greater purpose. I couldn't ask for more.

Happy Chinese New year!

Happy Valentine's Day!