Romance, spice and oil

Recalling what Pastor shared with us during 2006 Chinese New Year Reunion dinner... They prepared a hand-out with their thoughts on life and its titled the same as this blog post. But pastors words will always carry a heavier weight and convict on a Godlier power.

Romance
It is love...
Life is a journey.
We all want to be successful.
But what is life when you have success but have noone to celebrate with?
Life sure has its ups and downs. But what is life when you have noone to lean on, and overcome difficulties together? What would friends for? Why would God create family.
You need love in life...
You can't say you have love when you are alone. You have love someone. Family? Friends? Mates? People?
No man is a lone island.
We all need people. we all need love.
It is called Romance.

Spice
Food taste awful when it is raw.
They need flavoring. Salt enhances the taste of MOST foods. So do sauces.
They are the spices of gourmet. Without them, food taste bad. No one would look forward to eating.
Spices are the emotions in life. Without emotions, life is bad.
Spices are the colors around. Without colors, life is black and white. Dull.
Spices makes life fun.
Spices makes life colorful.
Spices makes life enjoyable.
Have emotions.

Oil
Oil lubricates. It is very important for machinery.
It makes things smooth.
Smooth is so important.
When something is not smooth, people get fed-up.
Imagine your family car breaks down every 5 minutes while your family is going out for dinner. Atmosphere turns sour, mood flies away.
What is oil?
Oil is like the chemistry that people can have with each other. Whenever you interact, have chemistry.
let people like you... don't offend people.
let people enjoy you... don't be self-absorb/ self-centered/ self-fish.
Oil is liken to the Holy Spirit... When the Holy Spirit is in your life, you become a nice person to hang out with.
It seems as though you have chemistry. It is true.
When you are a true born-again Christian, God is in you... your character change.
People like you.
You have chemistry
There is oil in your inter-relations.
You enjoy company.
company enjoy you.
Life is great.
You will love life.

You have 1 life... live it to the fullest. Don't waste it...
I live my life with my family... with my spiritual family too.
My Ang family.
My Heart of God Church family.
We love our lives.
We help each other enjoy lives.

You can do the same too.
Let Jesus help you.

Long fruitful day

Today, I woke up at 10am...
Check my emails, cleared it...
Did my workplan... and RAN it...

went jogging, from khatib to yishun, and back...
then started doing up databases, ready for the next collation...
Did up a new template to plan for CG members!

my mandate?
step 1: Treat everyone as God has the BIGGEST vision for them... (that is exactly how God sees every one of you!)
step 2: Plan and think for them on how to bring them further (Moment: Character, revelation, leadership)

The rest... come and ask me...

What else did i do...
i help my parents cut newspapers.
went to find wee hoe for dinner and taught him A-math... woo. I still know my stuff (proving identities, trigo...) I feel so proud. haha.
Met Ai Lin to tell her plans for C5, what we did right, and we can improve on... We are so gonna grow!
Then roderick came along, we hung out, plan for Building Fund... Wee Hoe joined in and started getting so excited! and soon, I were hearing him crying out "i am falling asleep... my eyes are closing"... haha. he is so cute!

Then roderick and me walked to khatib bus stop and chatted, JOKED big time... internal joke** haha...

then settled my workplan, planned for the members..


AND!!! Did up the organisation chart for Zone C!
so ready... so ready.... sent to Nicholas Lee. cool. i am getting excited. haha...
Need to finish up database...
Need to do 60days goal...
Need to sort out to-do list...


TAKE IT ALL...............
DO IT ALL....................

processes

Service, Sermon, Sermonette, discipleships, teachings, comments, casual remarks, ministering, encouragement, shepherding, concerns.......... ALL helps you progress in your life. The only concern are 2 things:
1) Who said them?
2) What are you going to do about it?

Moment, Momentum, Movement, Monument... have you got yourself Motivated?

going running now... starting a Momentum. =) to get My Mind Meditating on this Mandate! =)

Love is administration

Just had meeting with Roy.. getting so excited... so many things we can do... Admin side, pastoral side, events side...

People placed into position. Structure set for process.
All over the place
But we are going to rock all over this world!

As a zone, we are going to grow! 300 is easy. I see it...

Do you?

Playing in the Big Game

Take 5 minutes to blog... I told myself. I want to blog out my thoughts. here it is...

Last few weeks have been really nice, thinking, expanding, finding ways to know myself and settle down. We always are.

1 thing for sure is I am loving to LIST things. I always have this piece of paper and pen with me, that whatever I need to do, I will write them down... It helps me to remember things. (Not to forget about it after writing down) So every week, I will be doing it, maybe twice a week... 2 different sheets of papers, 1 after another. To-do list never FINISHES! lest you are finished....

We must grow! We will grow! We want to grow!
Judges 5:2
1)When leaders lead in Israel,
2)and the people willingly offer themselves,
4)bless the Lord.

There are 4 statements here. Statement 3 is for you to fill in. Although in the bible, there are 3 statements, but I believe God is trying to tell us that we fill in that blank. That blank will signify WHY we bless the Lord... because of breakthrough, miracles, successes, achievements, prayers answered, etc...BLESS the LORD!

So leaders, please lead! Make things happen..
Members, lets follow the vision.. we are together in this..
This is our primary mission on Earth.

A few more thoughts:
ABC for good CG:
Atmosphere : atmosphere, hype, fun, excitement. (Does people enjoy themselves, love the CG)
Bonding: Closeness, relationship, share good news, and bad, share secrets. (Is there real relationship in the CG)
Connection: Physically and spiritually. (Does the CG literally meet up, and are together. When together, do they do spiritual things and connect to God, to church?)

Another "D" for leaders to note:
4D: Desire for growth, Desperate for breakthrough, Determination to hang on, then you will Discover talents!

Got to go out!