I'm thankful for many things...

Since Sam has shared her thanksgiving, I will continue to share too.

Firstly, as most of you should know. I just came back from Thailand.

And I would like to thank God for his protection over me and my mum especially while we were in Bangkok. No problems despite being one meter away from the red shirts =)

And also thank God for guiding my decisions in booking hotel. I was deciding between 2 locations and He led me to the better decision (farther from the protests = less traffic jam problems)

Secondly, I attended an interview for the University Scholars Award recently. Thank God for the opportunity to interview. Not too sure whether I will get it or not but I tried my best. I finished the Powerpoint slides in less than 2 hours just 2 days before the interview. So, thank God for the speedy work and for keeping me cool and clam throughout the interview.

Thirdly, must mention FYP. I left NTU for Malaysia and then Thailand before the submission deadline. So many people mentioned that I had LOTS of faith.....that's true but I'm human so I did go through some times in that one week plus (recess onwards till I left Singapore) when I was worried too. But thank God for team mates who are understanding and who pray for you through Facebook (referring to Mr Ho Teng Seng). Although it was FB, but I really felt a calming presence when I saw the typed prayer. And thank God for the miracle, a few hours before I left for Malaysia, the prof emailed us saying "Yes, the results look fine. You may start writing now!" And then , I wrote and wrote and wrote. And I did my part, and handed over to my reliable teamates subsequently!

Fourthly, must thank God for guiding me as I took on the position of Spiritual Multiplier (SM) in Campus Crusade which is like a cell group leader, but for a smaller group, and more focused on evangelism. I had received the calling from God at the end of my second year, but I was scared that I was not "able" and decided to tell God, "Later, please..."

I was challenged again in my 3rd year, and this time I could not ignore God. Because each time I turned to the Bible, I would see the word "Faith" .....it was killing me......So, in the end, I surrendered and said Yes! After saying Yes, God did provide for me. Due to my internship, I only attended 1 out of 3 trainings. And there was a camp for SMs in late July, but I did not attend as I was back in Malaysia. But God is great! When I started DG (discipleship group) in August, somehow I had no fear???!!! It's definitely not from me , but from God because I was not properly trained, and had ZERO experience in such things.

And this post is getting longer and longer, so I better stop now. All I can say is that my 4 years in NTU have been filled with blessings (too many to name one by one). And coming to NTU is a blessing (as Adrian shared)!

So good night and God bless!

A thanksgiving to God and Grace!

Hmm, it has been a long time since I wrote on this blog..

Wells, just thought of rambling here since I have just experienced kindness and love from a senior, Grace Ngan!

It is just amazing to be able to meet a senior who is from MSA and not from cell group, yet is so on fire for God. And to my amaze, she makes a point to keep in touch with me and to pray for me. I am so TOUCHED!!!

When she shared to me about how she turned away from God once till how she came to realise that only God can fill her empty heart, I just can't stop thanking God that how awesome is He to give His grace to Grace! This second touch from God has even prompted her to end a relationship with a man whom she likes so much, so that she can serve God more. I was really very encouraged by her testimony!

She has reminded me of another senior called Rachel. Both of them are really caring sisters. Even though we seldom meet up, whenever we meet up, I am always open to share and we will end our meeting in prayer. Somehow that prayer has brought us closer and closer together! =)

Just wanna thank God for such a wonderful sister and such a blessing to me. I feel your love for me Lord! =)

So I guess maybe we can be brought closer whenever we remind ourselves to actively pray for cg members, not only when we are alone in our rooms, but also when we happen to meet each other and have time for a short prayer for each other?

We can openly share about our prayer requests here! Should we be shy doing so?? OF COURSE NOT!!!!! Hahahahahha....

Anyways, enough rambling.. If any of you see this post and hope to pray for me, then just pray for me that I could secure a job soon and do well in my final exams. I have tough modules this sem and I want to do well in them, hehe.... Thanks! Kamsahamnida!!!

And and... If you want me to pray for you, ALSO CAN!!!! Sms me lar!! HAAHAHAAHAHAAHA.....

Our Priority is in Our hands...

When we are Together...

THE POWER OF LOVE

It was a bitterly cold Christmas eve in Korea in 1952. A pregnant young mother, Bak Yoon, hobbled through the snow toward the home of a missionary friend where she knew she could find help. Tears of sorrow froze on her face as she mourned her husband. He had recently been killed in the Korean War, and she had no one else to turn to. A short way down the road from her missionary friend's house was a deep gully spanned by a bridge. As Bak Yoon stumbled forward, birth pains suddenly overcame her. She fell, realizing that she could go no further, and crawled under the end of the bridge. There, alone, under the bridge, her baby boy was born. Bak Yoon had nothing with her except her heavy, padded clothes. One by one she removed all pieces of her clothing and wrapped them around her tiny son, still connected to her body by his umbilical cord. Then feeling exhausted she lay back in the snow beside her baby.

The next morning Miss Watson, long-time missionary, drove across the bridge in her car to take a Christmas basket of food to a needy Korean family. On her way back, as she got near the bridge, the car sputtered and died - out of gasoline. She got out of the car and started across the bridge. Through crunching snow under her feet she heard another sound - a baby's faint cry. She stopped, unbelieving, and heard the cry again. "It's coming from beneath this bridge!" She crawled under the bridge to investigate and there she found a tiny, bundled baby, warm but hungry, and young Bak Yoon frozen in death. With a knife from her toolbox she cut the cord and took the baby home with her. After caring first for the child, she, along with some helpers, brought Bak Yoon's body back to near where she lived and buried her there. She named the baby Soo Park, and adopted him. He was strong and healthy and so grew up among many other orphan children that Miss Watson cared for. But to her, Soo Park was special. She often told him, "Your mother had great love for you, Soo Park," and about how she had proved that love. He never tired of hearing of his beautiful mother.

On Christmas day, his 12th birthday, snow was falling. After the children had helped Soo Park celebrate his birthday, he came and sat beside Miss Watson. "Pastor Watson, do you think God made your car run out of gasoline the day you found me?" he asked. "Perhaps He did," she answered. "If that car hadn't stopped, I would not have found you. But I am so glad it stopped. I love you and am very proud of you, Soo Park." She put her arms around him. He rested his head against her. "Pastor Watson, will you please take me out to my mother's grave? I want to pray there. I want to thank her for my life." "Yes, but put on your heavy coat. It's very cold." Beside the grave, Soo Park asked Miss Watson to wait at a little distance. She walked aside and waited. As the astonished missionary watched, the boy began to take off his warm clothing, piece by piece. Surely he won't take off all his clothing! She thought. He'll freeze! But the boy stripped himself of everything, laid it all on his mother's grave, and knelt naked and shivering in the snow. She waited one minute, two minutes. Then she put her gloved hand on his snow covered shoulder. "Come, Soo Park. I will help you dress." Then in deep sorrow he cried out to his mother he never knew: "Were you colder than this for me, my mother?" And he wept bitterly because he knew of course, she was.

Jesus stripped himself of his royal garments to come and live among us. Was he that cold for us? Surely we never have to wonder if he loves us, or even how much he loves us. He demonstrated that to us nearly 2000 years ago. Celebrate in his love.

A Heart of Gratitude!!!

I find this article very encouraging and it really gives us a reason to smile and realize that we are actually a bunch of BLESSED people that God is looking after! Hope you enjoy it!


A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.



A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"




The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."

I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?




Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have.. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively.

When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear.

The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling…

And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!!!

Enjoy your day with a heart of gratitude.

Be aware

Dear all, I saw this internet news, please be aware.

The bible tells us to be as wise as serpernt, but harmless as doves.

Matthew 10:16: "See, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as serpents and as innocent as doves. (International Standard Version)

Date-rape drugs, illegal online pharmacies on rise

Date-rape drugs and abuse of prescription medicine are on the rise, drugs monitoring agency INCB warned Wednesday, while pointing to an increasing number of illegal Internet pharmacies.

Date-rape drugs, illegal online pharmacies on rise

Date-rape drugs -- so called because they render victims unconscious or provoke memory loss, facilitating rape -- were increasingly easy to obtain, the International Narcotics Control Board said in its annual report Wednesday.

"The 'date-rape drug' phenomenon is evolving rapidly, as sexual abusers attempt to circumvent more rigorous drug controls by using substances not restricted by the international drug conventions," it noted.

Rohypnol, the best known date-rape drugs, is subject to strict checks, but others like GHB, ketamine, an anaesthetic, and GBL, a solvent, are becoming more and more common and are easily available through legal channels.

This is a "worrying" development, the Vienna-based agency said, calling on governments and drug-makers to raise awareness and introduce dyes and flavourings in these narcotics to make them more visible to potential victims.

Abuse of prescription drugs -- including morphine, codeine and methadone -- has also spread in recent years to become a "major concern" in many countries, with the number of users even surpassing the combined figure of cocaine, heroin and ecstasy users in places such as the United States, the INCB said.

"Almost all countries are confronted with trafficking in and abuse of prescription drugs ... in many countries, prescription drugs are the second or third most abused category of drugs," it said.

In parts of Europe, 15 percent of students were believed to use sedatives or tranquilisers without a prescription, the UN-affiliated agency said.

"Despite the fact that the abuse of prescription drugs is a fast-growing global problem, it continues to be difficult to obtain comprehensive data on the actual level of abuse of such drugs," it noted however.

Rarely associated with health risks, the non-medical use of pain medicine was "underreported and not adequately studied" and remained a "hidden problem," the board said.

A related issue was the emergence of illegal Internet pharmacies and telephone call centres -- many of them based in India -- allowing abusers to purchase drugs without a prescription, the INCB found.

This "puts consumers of those substances at an inordinate risk," board president Sevil Atasoy noted in the report, calling for governments to shut these services down.

Greater efforts must also be made to prevent drug abuse, in conjunction with non-governmental and community organisations, and to target vulnerable groups such as children and young people.

"Even a single early experience with drug abuse can have serious consequences, such as unintentional injury, overdose or arrest," Atasoy said.

Things your mum will not tell you about Yong Ching Seng (Part 5)

Luke 14:27 (New King James Version)

"And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple."

Third year

Third year was an eventful year. Before the start of first semester, I invited a friend of mine to attend Benny Hinn's crusade here at Singapore Indoor Stadium. God touched him mightily and he immediately decided to change from a "tidak-apa" (lukewarm) believer to a serious soldier of God. Eventually, he caught the vision of having a cell group in NTU for our community, and decided to fight this battle alongside with me. During that time, there were only 5 of us, including our good friend Adrian who was still happily dealing with his own agenda (please approach him for more details haha). Since this friend was so overwhelmed and excited for God. We joined FOC and led a group of freshmen together. Through our "legendary" lepak skills and lawak skills, we managed to know quite alot of new friends and invited about 50% of the total freshmen to enjoy the fun of "Festival of Praise" at Singapore Indoor Stadium before semester 1 commenced.

For the first semester, both of us did endless visitations and attended numerous "yumcha" sessions at "Ah Fang" to build relationship with friends. During this semester, the church service was only held at Expo so we were having tough challenges inviting not just the new friends, but fellow believers as well. Cell group was still far out from NTU (at Eunos) so only me and my friend were able to attend. Despite of all these hardships, both of us were still hungry for more.

After months of laboring, suddenly, at the end of first semester, there was a surprise: the church is going to have services at two locations (Expo and Jurong West) starting in December 2007, one church in two locations! Upon hearing this announcement during the service, my heart was pounding strong and I felt strongly a voice in my heart which tells me that it is time for the NTU cell group to come to past!

With this, I proposed to my leader (Joanne) to follow the church's direction and have one cell group in two location haha. Initially she was reluctant but after a while, she felt that this is the direction we should go and agreed with it. With this plan, she would lead cell group for twice a week in two locations (thursday and friday), and also attend service in two locations (saturday Expo, Sunday Jurong West). Her sacrifice was really amazing. With all these great news, I went overseas for a vacation joyfully.

Upon my return from the vacation trip, I got another surprise: this good friend of mine who had been fighting alongside with me as a good comrade, suddenly decided to move on to other direction in life. Now, I am left devastated to fight this battle alone.

However, God is always faithful. As I was going to give up, it was during this period of time that God continued to use Joanne to encourage me, besides, something happened and Adrian suddenly had a change in his attitude and behavior (for more details, please approach him again haha). So when second semester started, I continued the journey and Joanne recommended me to attend leader's meeting (yes, we need recommendation to attend leader's meeting, it took me few years in church to start attending it).

As I started attend leader's meeting. God gave me another surprise. Initially, our zone leader, Ian, was not so keen for our cell group to be in two locations. Then one night after the leader's meeting, he told me to stay and asked me "Ching Seng, I prayed and saw your face, I knew about this plan for the Malaysians in NTU, I was not keen but now, please tell me what can I do to make it happen?" I was too shocked and almost cried in joy when I heard this. I took this as another confirmation from God to proceed with this plan to set up a cell group in NTU starting from the Malaysians community.

After the confirmation from Ian, I went for an interview and started to attend "Home Cell Leadership Training" class which lasted for 13 weeks. It lasted throughout my second semester until exam season. It was a long and tiring training but a memorable one. By God's grace, I managed to complete my training and also managed my school work, eca, and ministries. I also managed to source out for a IO (10-week industrial orientation) company before going into final year.

For now, the cell group has around 7 to 8 people. As everything seems to work fine. I got hit by another trial again. With C+ as my best grade, I got the worst results of my entire study in NTU during third year second semester, although I was quite satisfied with my performance. To make things worse, I appealed two subjects and got rejected. With this kind of results, I started to doubt whether I am capable or fit to be a leader, and experienced some depression.

Then, I remembered the verse from Luke 14:25-33.

In order to be faithful disciple (not just mere believer), we have to carry the cross. Carrying the cross signifies self-denial. I have to deny my own pleasure, plans, comfort, feelings, talents, attitudes, finances, etc. By denying of ourselves, we are surrendering every part of our life to adjust according to God's plan, and not asking God to adjust His plan according to our life. His will be done, not ours!

With this, I surrendered to God and He brought me to a new level, preparing me for the final year of my study in NTU...

(To be continued)

2010 soar

Hallo! I've been meaning to post something on our weblog since the holidays but have not due to procrastination =P

Since coming the NTU a few months ago and joining this cell group, I have experienced significant growth in my leadership and planning abilities, social networking and more importantly, spiritually. When I came to Singapore, I was just starting to learn how to speak in tongues. I feel that joining City Harvest and being involved in cell group has helped me tremendously in learning how to move in the Spirit. I'm very excited about what is to come in this year! I believe it will be a year of breakthrough.

Just want to share something I felt God impress upon my heart during my morning devotion:

Matthew 3:17 And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." (This was after Jesus' baptism)

Matthew 17:5 ... "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!" (This was after the transfiguration)

I checked the other Gospels and I found that only after the transfiguration is the phrase "listen to him" included. I feel that this holds the significance of spiritual growth which was mirrored in Jesus' personal life. After we receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, we need to continue to grow and God will eventually raise us to positions of influence and authority - "Listen to him!".

Romans 8:30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

Our identity is hidden in Christ and is not based on our own abilities. Today after attending the leader's meeting, I feel that this message was confirmed when Ian reminded us that we are merely the branches, not the vine. I believe all of us are destined for greatness! Not of our own, but towards extending God's kingdom and for His glory. Start where you are right now =)