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Friday, March 14, 2008


you know those moments that you're about to talk to your boss about something 'bad' and you're just hesitating on your desk, thinking on how to start the conversation, praying that boss is in a good mood, hoping that he will not scold etc
well i just had that..
sometimes i wish that i could just ignore certain things but avoiding cannot be done forever, so i mustered all my courage and 'chanted' one of my fave verse, if God is with me, who can be against me? as i walked to my manager's office.
LOL.
i just love moments like this.. knowing that i'm in good hands.

it's good to see the sun today too! the weather has been really really bad.
last nite i went to rachel's wedding rehearsal, it was raining but stupid (or lazy) me didn't carry umbrella from office. i was stuck at the bus stop, wondering if i should just run to the church and endure 5 minutes under the rain. i did at the end and it was a bad choice... the good thing about it, i wasn't late.
i was feeling a bit weird in the beginning considering that i didn't really know anyone there (except for the bride and the bridesmaid), then i saw a few familiar faces like kevin, emma.. well.. familiar faces. it's interesting.

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do not be stingy with encouragement.

i was thinking about this today.
this week has been really great. i feel that there's certain breakthrough in my walk with God.

last week, i spent more than 4 hours in the salon just to fix my stubborn hair, so i decided to read the book that roy & shuz gave me- just walk across the room by bill hybels. i haven't finished reading it, but the book talks mainly about evangelism and how simple it is actually, all you need is to just 'walk across the room'.
when you happen to be at the same time and same place with certain strangers, sometimes the holy spirit will just tell you 'hey, why don't you talk to this person?'
seriously, you won't know how you will make a difference to this person. it may be a long process, there may be no result soon, but at least you know that you're doing something. you are throwing a seed. you are sowing. others may reap it. it doesn't matter.
courage. that's one thing that we all need.

at that moment, i decided to close my book and started to talk to the 2 girls who were busy putting all the 'chemicals' onto my hair. we simply had a small talk together, sharing about certain things at work.. it was not that hard after all ><
i am so glad that i did. well, reading tons of books is not enough, i need to apply it.

on tue (hope sem class), yin san asked us to grab someone that we didn't know at all and pray for one another, prophetic prayer. a girl from tertiary group whom i've never talked before approached me, so we started praying.
i've never been really 'prophetic' before so it was pretty scary when i'm being asked to.. but certain things just started to come into my mind and naturally being spoken out. at the end of the prayer, this girl looked at me and her face seemed to glow, she thanked me and told me that my prayer was really spot on, and she thanked me again and again.
at this moment, i told her 'no, i should thank you instead'
i felt really encouraged. God could use me to speak into a stranger's life.

this week, another 3 brothers affirmed me for what i've done during the cg's pnw and the short sharing. i have to say, once again i felt really encouraged. i just did my best and let God take control. i didn't realize what kind of impact it could bring to another.
God can use me. i'm happy that He does.

sometimes, all we need is just a bit of encouragement and affirmation, it makes a big difference.
of course we don't serve and do things with only affirmation as an objective, but knowing that what you do matters and helpful for other people is a real great feeling.
so i thank the Lord for all these ppl around me who are great encouragers.
maybe because my love language is words, it matters even more =)

in returns, i gotta ask myself, have i encouraged someone else lately?

*livi* 6:23 PM

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