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2009-09-03T21:27:00.001+08:00

SONG WRITE UP

Praise Him
This song was concieved on the basis that I just wanted to write a song that praised and thanked God after thinking back and reflecting of all he has done for me. Through my life God showed me so much love and grace that nothing else could compare to. That is what this song is about. Believing in God's powerful work in our lives.

Download the Original IGNYTE Songs from the Media Page. They are all up now!

4 ONE is happening THIS WEEK!!! So make sure you remember to call up your friends to remind them and to arrange a time to meet! If you haven't managed to find anyone yet, you still have a few days to invite them! Your friends will come!

"Lord, I pray for every Ignyter who has invited or will be inviting a friend to 4 ONE that they will be filled with courage and the love of God to persevere and invite a friend! May they be your hands and feet to their friends!

"Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:16
And Remember: 1 Person 2 Invite 3 Friends 4ONE!

2009-08-28T01:42:00.001+08:00

4 ONE

The title of the event has really caught my attention and has kept me thinking of what 4 ONE really means to me. 4 ONE; a simple title yet it holds so many deep and significant meanings that varies to different ones of us. In my daily living, I always remind myself that whatever I’m going to do and the way I’m going to live my life is ALL 4 ONE GOD. Thus, it caused me to make every effort to live a pure and blameless life. Living 4 the ONE has definitely not been an easy journey but God has never failed to show himself faithful. He constantly reminds me to stand firm in what I believe in and to keep faith to believe for something that has yet to take place. It is also about learning to find hope in Him whenever I encounter a situation that seems too overwhelming and I thank Him for sending a family in church to encourage and spur me on. Indeed, I’ve kept faith, and something that I’ve always believed and waited for has finally taken place: THE SALVATION OF MY FIRENDS! (: For all my life I’ve been asking God, why is it so hard for me to experience the salvation of my loved ones despite doing care acts and praying for them. God revealed to me to loving people is not a duty that the Lord has called all of us to do but it must come from the heart! Thank God they are saved now!

To me, 4 ONE means living out a life according to His word, fulfilling the Great Commission, come what may and recognizing that our rewards are in heaven! Be reminded that you are not alone in this as the Lord has blessed you with a great IGNYTE family that will cheer you on!
1 Life 2 Live 3 Values (Faith, Hope and Body/Unity) 4 ONE!(:

Emily (:

2009-08-26T23:48:00.004+08:00

1 Person 2 Invite 3 Friends 4ONE!

SONG WRITE UP

Unified In Praise

I wrote this song based on one of Sister Gwen's sharings in worship min when the year first started out. It is mainly based on Ephesians 4. Verse 1 talks about Speaking the truth in love, to not hold a critical spirit nor gossip. Verse 2 talks about Supporting each other in love by not forgetting anyone and treating each other with importance, and verse 3 talks about being transformed by his spirit. With all that in mind, the song is about being unified in one spirit, praising his name.

Download the Original IGNYTE Songs frm the Media Page

Next write up will be out on Friday 28th August, stay tuned to find out more about these God inspired songs from our songwriters!

2009-08-26T14:09:00.000+08:00

Hey IGNYTE!

4 One is coming up and I just want to share what 4 One means to me (:

Last Saturday night, at adult service, Pastor Jeffery’s message on Finances reminded me how bless I am to live in Singapore, to have a school to go to, not worrying about the need for food and a place to stay in.

[Yes even though my parents are still providing for me, THANK GOD FOR THEM!, the sermon still spoke to me.]

As I reflected on the sermon, I realized what 4 One means to me is to truly serve and meet the needs 4 One Generation! My Generation! God brought me to this passage in the bible in Matthew 25:40 it says, "The King will reply, I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it for me." I am sure there will be times when our friends, be it Christian friends or not, turn to us for help or advice with the problems they are facing in school or at home.

I strongly believe that as IGNYTErs and God's children we must not be a selfish generation, but just like in Matt 25:40, be selfless and to care and meet the needs of our Generation. We are all Christ’s ambassadors, and whatever we do, we do it as if for Christ. For Christ first loved us, and this love is not only for us to keep but to share it with our non-Christian friends and love ones (: They will too experience who God is and His love through our actions.

So I hope this short post would encourage you to be a blessing to others for we are indeed truly blessed by our God and to share God's love with this generation! Remember to invite them 4 One! (:

All 4one JESUS, 4one GENERATION!(:

- Eugene

2009-08-24T23:54:00.006+08:00

1 Person 2 Invite 3 Friends 4ONE!

SONG WRITE UP

I Believe:

I Believe was birthed from a time of reflecting on how much Jesus has done for us on the cross. I felt the song welling up from within me as a very personal response to the achingly beautiful love of Christ. I just had to put into words the great joy and gratitude I felt at His sacrifice, at the freedom and power available to us when we believe in Him. It's one of the rare few times when a song just comes out almost spontaneously in one sitting so it must have been God! :)

The chorus is a very simple declaration of faith that comes from a place where we are intimately convicted of His love, which itself compels me to want to give my life, my all, just to love Him and follow Him. That is the kind of response I felt arising from a heart so captured by Jesus. I pray that this song will also resonate with you, just as it has become my personal anthem of faith and response to my Saviour and King.

Download the Original IGNYTE Songs frm the Media Page

Next write up will be out on wednesday 26th August, stay tuned to find out more about these God inspired songs from our songwriters!

4 ONE

2009-08-21T01:43:00.007+08:00

4 ONE
Has that got you wondering? What does 4 ONE mean? Who is the “ONE”? Maybe you’ve got an inkling to what you think it means. But do you really?

Over the next few weeks we’re going to tell you what it means. We’ll be releasing demo versions of songs written by IGNYTErs for this generation that express this declaration, “4 ONE!” You’ll get the opportunity to hear from the songwriters on what inspired them and where the song was birth from. You’ll be able to download the songs from the media page. So you’ve got to stay tuned every week not only to download the songs but to hear the heart behind the songs. More importantly you need to check back in to find out the heart behind “4 ONE”! Are you ready? If you are, then expect the first download to be out this weekend! And remember:

1 Person 2 Invite 3 Friends 4ONE!

4 ONE – IGNYTE Combined Worship Experience & District Gathering
Date: 4 September 2009
Time: 730pm
Venue: Trinity@Adam, 4th Floor Auditorium

Remember to download the songs from "MEDIA" and MSN logo from "COMBINED EVENT" and use them as conversation starters with your friends

Don't be afraid to Stand Out.

2009-08-20T12:02:00.003+08:00

I just feel as your pastor I needed to input this at such a time.... as this. :)

"In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven."

- Matt 5:16

Here's a song from a spunky youth for a spunky generation. IGNYTE for Jesus!

Review: http://popreviewsnow.blogspot.com/2009/08/britt-nicole-lost-get-found.html

Awesome album btw...new release from Britt Nicole... let the words speak to you. :)

Your co-labourer in Christ,

PDa.

Photography Outing

2009-06-30T20:28:00.000+08:00

Join us for a time of fun while learning!

Do send in your name, centre, section, adult leader, level and contact number to ignyteweb@gmail.com so that we can estimate the number of people coming!

See you there! :)

It's about the God of Abundance.

2009-06-25T13:29:00.001+08:00

Four months. Four EXCITING months in this journey... and it's gonna climax tonight at the opening. I've been moved by the unity and the sacrifice of everyone in this project - from the leaders to the youths - you are AMAZING! And let's not forget those who really rallied around the project in prayer and support, even though you are not directly involved - it made a huge difference!

It has been quite a roller-coaster ride... with some personal challenges... but yet again - God never fails - your Grace is SUFFICIENT...

We're all ready to go...all excited.... but let's stay focus what this is all about. It's about reaching the needy for God. It's about offering our two copper coins in gratitude, and watching God do the rest. It's about you Lord. :')

Your tired but elated Pastor,

PDa

P.S. The music blurb is up! Those of you who want to catch a glimpse of the music, check it out HERE!

GooseBerry.

2009-03-29T10:08:00.001+08:00

Was talking to someone yesterday and the word 'Gooseberry' came out. Decided to do some research and here's the Cambridge Dictionary definition:

- a small yellowish-green fruit covered with short hairs, which grows on a bush and has a sour taste:

- to be an unwanted third person who is present when two other people, especially two lovers, want to be alone

That was really interesting as I never knew about the 2nd definition. My first encounter with the gooseberry was a pleasant one - it was place as a decoration on my birthday cake - and it really caught my eye - a rare fruit that gave the cake an exquisite look. Here:

I was so intrigued by it that I took it with the cake- it had a nice refreshing taste to it. It is a good source of vitamin C and fibre too, and certainly - when used in the right place - brought 'icing' on the cake.

My point? :-) Well - it's interesting why would the second definition come about at all... but I'm sure it has its history. Important thing? We are all created special in God's sight - no one is an UNWANTED. :-)

Ps 139:14

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

-PDa

Life.

2009-03-07T15:46:00.002+08:00

Life is fragile. Reading some of the articles on paper today - you'll catch the drift... NTU prof encounter with the student... infant in plastic bag found in riser...sighh.... never take life for granted. I'm glad to here...ALIVE. Though sometimes we wonder how we barely make it? :\

And as I was looking through some of my photos again - this macro shot reminded me that life can be resilient! I believe God has given us the will to live, the will to fight for what we believe in - no matter how harsh the environment may be. Apostle Paul said, "I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow..." Yes. God will cause us to grow into the destiny He has for us - if we would only believe in it, fight for it - HANG on to it.

Hold on to Your Destiny In Eternity! :-)

"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed."

- 2 Cor 4:8-9

- PDa

A Moment

2009-03-04T15:40:00.007+08:00

Was driving Kendrick home the other day and stumbled upon a moment that I wish I could just freeze and bottle to revisit over and over again....

"RAAAAINBOOOOW!" came the excited cute little voice from my VIP (very important passenger) behind. I looked up...(and I'm sure many other drivers did the same as the traffic ground to a halt)... there was not just one...but TWO rainbows. WOW. Double WOW.

Maybe it's just me and my family - but we do get really excited with God's paintwork in the sky...whether it's sunrise, sunset, or just plain patterned clouds. What an escape - for a moment- away from the routine of life, the peak hour traffic, the disappointments of the day...and to be reminded that God is still interested in the us. :')

"Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."

- Gen 9:16

- PDa

Love is in the air.....

2009-02-26T16:57:00.002+08:00

The air quality in Singapore reached a PSI high of 57 for Feb on the night of Valentine. I suspect there's a lot more burst bubbles than love...or it could be all the candle light dinners. lol!

But I did noticed that all that talk on TV and Adverts didn't help- many young people inadvertently think towards that direction... it was as though Cupid was working overtime to ensure he was not retrenched in an economic crisis like now.

Well...maybe I will do True Love Waits earlier next year... just to make sure the air quality in Feb stays sane. :)

"This is the air I breathe

This is the air I breathe

Your holy presence living in me

This is my daily bread

Your very word spoken to me

And I

I’m desperate for You

And I

I’m lost without You"

-PDa

High Places

2008-11-08T23:02:00.004+08:00

Not long ago, I picked up the book, “Hind’s Feet on High Places” again. I wanted to glean an insight from God about the long and difficult phase of my spiritual journey.

The “high places” seemed to elude me for a long while now.
“High places” are a metaphor for new heights of love, joy and victory.

Since January, like the female protagonist in the book, I had to deal with pride, resentment, bitterness, un-forgiveness, self-pity in different situations. Sometimes during those battles, I felt beaten, bruised, completely broken and wanting to give up. I would ask God, “Why has this molding period been so long? Is there so much of me You have to prune? When will it stop?” I had doubts whether I will ever experience joy and victory again.

In retrospect, this difficult phase actually brought more depth to my walk with God. In each of those battles, when my feet grew heavier and my fighting spirit dwindled, God would always provide a way out. Be it sustaining and renewing my strength and hope in Him so that I would persevere or turning things around in His timing, His love and faithfulness prevailed (Psalm 145:13b).

Also when it was tempting to take matters in my own hands, God would never fail to guide me in submitting those circumstances to Him - His ways and sovereignty.

In the book, there is a part where the female protagonist was brought to the granary by the Shepherd. The Shepherd told her gently that there are various methods used for grinding the different varieties of grain, according to their special use and purpose and quoted Isaiah 28: 27-29 and Jeremiah 18:6.

Caraway is not threshed with a sledge,
nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin;
caraway is beaten out with a rod,
and cummin with a stick.

Grain must be ground to make bread;
so one does not go on threshing it forever.
Though he drives the wheels of his threshing cart over it,
his horses do not grind it.

All this also comes from the LORD Almighty,
wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom.
Isaiah 28:27-29

"O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
Jeremiah 18:6

Though the molding process has been long and hard, the revelation reminded that God is molding me for a special use and purpose for His glory.

In spite of the “suffering” I may face now, there is comfort and joy in God’s love for me and victory when I grow deeper and learn to be more steadfast in God.

“High places” have not eluded me; it’s my narrow human perspective which has obstructed my sight of God’s perfect will and purpose.

- Sis Coco

Lessons

2008-10-25T10:50:00.006+08:00

I’ve been grumbling a lot lately. If anyone would to catch me unawares during the course of my day, you would most probably find me walking around in the middle of the day muttering to myself and complaining to God… Why?? Because many things in the past month have truly not been going my way... From work to relationships, family, ministry… and even stupid traffic lights!!! Turning red only when I am approaching and especially when I am rushing for time (for those who know me, you know how this absolutely drives me crazy!!).

For the past month I have been complaining and questioning God on the way things have been turning out and the reason for certain things that have surfaced. In fact during this season, different books and a good friend commented that she believed that God was teaching me patience, one which I have gladly ignored in my busyness. Then on Wednesday, this week God stopped me mid-rant, and put me in my place. I was reading Isaiah 55, and versus 8 – 11 jumped out at me.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth; It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”

I almost heard a pin drop after that… then suddenly God said “Candy, is this clear enough?”... Even though these versus may have been “over preached” or “over quoted”, it still almost always stops me in my tracks. God will sometimes allow us to go through things we may never understand, nor ever fully accept, but yet it is not what happens that is important but rather our response to it that is crucial. Because our response is our responsibility and can be what he is trying to mould in us.

Like rain and snow, which may not be always the most comfortable situations, it can under Godly submission bring about much fruit and growth. Growth not always occurs under the most comfortable situations.

What are the lessons that God is trying to teach you today? How would you choose to respond? In grumbling or submission and reliance in Him? How loud would you like him to speak before you listen? How loud must he knock before we open our hearts to what he may be trying to say?

As for me, Lord, my eyes are open and I will listen!! I hope each of you will do the same.

- Sis Candy

Facebook

2008-10-19T00:18:00.009+08:00

Remember the Facebook's application that enables you to compare your friends based on various areas?

Well, I was in for a surprise, when I saw what my friends think of me, a few days back. Your truly here, was being voted as the most powerful person!

My first reaction was like, "Yah right!? How could that be?"

Always had the mindset that 'powerful" is a term reserved for someone great and high up there, etc... You know what I meant... But I was reminded of one FUEL lesson, whereby we learnt about leadership. Leadership is simply about influencing others. (Not just because of our position, but is how we live out our lives.)

So, out of curiosity, I actually checked out the definition of "powerful".

Powerful means "having great power, authority, or influence."

It really made me think hard about how I live my life and how have I influenced others. Being involved in Exit, this question of how I live my life has been upon my heart as the truth of eternity, the urgency of time, and how purposefully I have live my life continuously highlight itself in my mind...

"What if tomorrow never comes? What if I only have 24hrs left on earth? What if...”

Would I live life the same? Would I make my exit full of regrets? Or would I rejoice and be confident that God will welcome me into His kingdom with open arms?

I don't know how many of us actually thought of these questions before, but one thing I know is that many or even all of us are more powerful than what we think we are! We are all influencing people with or without ourselves knowing. It is a scary yet exciting thought to know that our actions impact the people around us! We are all leaders in our own rights!

Have you influence someone purposefully today?
Have you embraced the truth that you are a leader in wherever you are?
Have you lived a life worthy of the heavenly rewards?

For it is said in 1 Timothy 6: 12
"Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses."

Our actions influence others and how we live in eternity! The time is NOW for us to arise and make an impact in our friends' lives! Live Purposefully!

- Sis Varina

Press On

2008-10-17T23:08:00.004+08:00

Press On

Philippians 3:12-14 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

A few months ago, I was facing with challenges and discouragements. I got so overwhelmed by my circumstances which I felt like giving up and saying ‘This is too hard, God.’

Through a running session, God gave me encouragement to press on.

To confess, I haven’t been running for the longest time! We began jogging slowly to Serene’s Macs and we continued until the other side of Botanic gardens, halfway through I was already panting and exhausted.

Then I stopped, walked and run. I felt a little discouraged and frustrated because my stamina isn’t as good as the rest of them. Friends stopped to encourage me to run and not stop; they ran together with me, cheering me on.

Towards the end point, one of them said, ‘Let’s have a race (about 100m) and the last one to reach the end point to be called tortoise!’ So, I went ‘No! God help me please!’ Then God spoke: ‘Press on my child’ so I ran slowly with wobbly steps while the rest dashed.

Even our wobbly uncertain steps please him; he will never give up on us and never be disdainful of our imperfect attempts to obey him. He sees our heart which we want to please him and he cares so much more about our hearts than our perfect performance.

When we feel discouraged, frustrated or tired, we need to fix our eyes on Jesus where we will find just what we need to press on.

Many times, the challenge that we are facing threatens us and we think about the challenges but actually we forgot to pray about them.

If you are discouraged, tired and overwhelmed. This day, I pray that you will find comfort in realizing that God knows all about your feelings and all about your circumstances. As you fix your eyes on God rather than your problems or imperfect performance, he will give you strength to press on and not to turn back.

The bible says in Psalm 37:24 – Though he stumbles, he will not fall for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

- Sis Esther

X-Rated, Keep Away! Brother Andy's sermon

2008-10-08T18:05:00.000+08:00

Title: X-Rated, Keep away!
Below you will find a brief summary of last week’s sermon:

When we hear the term X-Rated, most of us would link that with pornography, R21 movies, or maybe sexual sins.

Today’s topic is broader than that: ‘X-Rated’ refers to the activities, behavior, thinking or lifestyle that is deemed as ‘wrong/ sinful’ when measured by the standard of God.

When we talk about the X-rated, we must consider the works and the tactics of the enemy because the truth is that the enemy is actively at work in this world ensuring that both believers and non-believers are occupied and indulging in sin, resulting in destruction and death.

1 Pe 5:8
Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Many times we stay oblivious to the works of the devil and the demonic spirits. But the truth is that not only they exist among us, they are actively at work.

Enemy’s tactic 1: Deception – lies
Jn 8:44
When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Enemy’s tactic 2: Temptation
Mt 4:1
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

Enemy’s tactic 3: Accusation
Re 12:10
For the accuser of our brothers,
who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

The devil’s ultimate goal for employing these tactics is to keep us in sin; because the devil knows the devastating effect sins have on us!

10 truths about sin
1. Sin enslaves/traps us
2. Sin usually leading to more sins
3. Sin leads to worse sin
4. Sin steals our time
5. Sin steals joy – Guilt and shame
6. Sin steals our confidence
7. Sin will never truly satisfy us
8. Sin hurts the people around us
9. Sin grieves the Holy Spirit and affects our sensitivity toward His voice
10 Sin affects our relationship with God

Galatians 5:19 briefly list for us that which is ‘X-Rated’ to God:

19 The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

• Sexual sins – Lust, internet pornography etc…
• Sin of Idolatry – things that you place above God
• Witchcraft – You may not be directly worshipping evil powers, but indirectly through satanic card games or computer games, satanic music, ghost story books or movies
• Drunkenness – All form of addictions)

As you read this blog entry, stay open to the voice of the Holy Spirit – don’t numb your heart, some of us here are trapped in sin, and we need to deal with it.

IGNYTE Ministry, God is calling us for our response today.

I. Our 1st Response:
Repent, Renounce & Reject

Today God is calling some of us to repent, confess your sins, and renounce your involvement with the X-rated. And some of you are trapped in the lies of the enemy, and you need to reject that which has been spoken over you.

1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

There is great power in repentance and confession because when we come to God in repentance, the devil no longer can bring accusations into our lives.
God’s desire is never to bring condemnation, but to bring conviction so that we may be restored when we confess our sins.

Conviction says:
You have sinned, come back to me!

Condemnation says:
You are guilty, get away from me!

God is calling us to return to Him in repentance, for He loves us and does not desire for us to be destroyed by sin.

Eze 18:22-23
23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
Ps 51:17
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Besides repenting of our sins, we need to learn to be Ruthless with sin.

II. Our 2ndResponse:
Be Ruthless with the enemy and sin!
➢ Be Ruthless with the enemy!
Jesus was tempted by the devil, but what did he do?
Matt chapter 4:
• “It is written, man shall not live by bread alone.”
• “It is written, do not put the Lord your God to the test.”
• “It is written, worship your God and serve Him only.”

Jesus used the Word of God to rebuke the lies and temptations from the enemy.

We can stand up against the enemy using the Word of God!

Some examples of powerful verses:
John 1:12 – I am a child of God!
1 Cor 3:16 – I am the dwelling place for the Holy Spirit
Rom 8:1 - there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus
1 Cor 2:16 – I have been given the mind of Christ. He gives me wisdom to make the right choices

When we begin to know all these verses well, we can use it against the enemy – if they sow lies in our mind or bring temptation in our paths, we can declare the Word of God.
For example, when tempted, you can declare: I have been given the mind of Christ, I choose to do what is right, away from me satan!

➢ Be Ruthless with sin!
Mark 9:43 - 47
43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life (may-im) maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell

What Jesus is saying in the passage is not for us to literally cut the different parts of body away, but explain to us that we need to be ruthless with sin.

So how can we be ruthless with sin?

• Go the extra mile to to ensure that we will not be caught in a place of sin

Example: Someone addicted to Internet pornography chooses to move his computer out from his room into the living room so that there will always be someone watching him. He was so determined that he decides confessed to his about his struggle – He wants to be ruthless with sin.

• Be accountable to people around you about your sin and allow them to pray for you and with you.

• Choose to give up or destroy possessions that cause us to sin.

Let’s make a commitment to be ruthless with sin, as a Ministry we will bring together all the items that are X-rated and burn them up together.
Last weekend we came before God in repentance and made a new commitment to be ruthless with sin, living a life of purity.

This coming week we will gather together all the trash bags, and make a new commitment – as well as the 2nd Part of this X-Rated series – be prepared for a powerful message from Pastor Gary!

Next week, we will burn all the items up with fire – the entire process will be record and screened during service.

God desires to free you from the accusations of the enemy and restore you today – repent and make a new commitment to be ruthless with sin.

If you are reading this blog and you know you need to come to God in repentance, just begin to pray and ask God for forgiveness for the X-rated things you have been involved with. After which you should renounce the activities. If it is the lies of the enemy that is causing to be trapped, reject the lies of the enemy, find verses in the Bible that build up your faith.

Make a commitment to be Ruthless with sin!
Come and join us in the next service along with all your trash bags of items which are causing you to sin!

-Brother Andy

Procrastination

2008-10-05T02:01:00.002+08:00

Procrastination

When asked to write on the topic of procrastination by IGNYTE’s Web Media Team, I felt that it’s a timely reminder (more of a wake up call really) badly needed. As you can see from the opening sentence, I’m not claiming to be someone who does not procrastinate, but in actual fact, someone who is in the process of overcoming the bad habit of procrastination. Through my sharing, I hope that the people who read this entry would become, or at the very least be in the process of becoming good stewards of the time given to them.

If you do not have the habit of planning out your schedules, start doing so. If you have the habit of planning out your schedules but not sticking to it, start to. If you used to have the habit of planning your schedule but have stopped doing so, get back on track. Now, I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be flexible when the situation calls for it (e.g. putting aside everything to take care of our loved ones when they are sick), I’m just trying to help us keep track of know our time are being used up.

It is my belief that procrastination is one of the most powerful obstructions in denying our effectiveness in the things we do because of how subtle it appears to be. Subconsciously, you’re telling yourself that you’ll do it, eventually, one way or another. In actual fact, we’re leaving things we need to do undone and allowing ourselves to be subjected to the stress of not completing the things we need to do. When we leave things close to the eleventh hour, we may inevitably sacrifice the quality of our work and shortchange ourselves and the people around us by accepting work that could have been better. Some people may say that they work well under pressure. Well, the fact is that when we’re working under pressure, we may be subjected to being short tempered and it’s often the people who are closest to us that suffer from our own lack of discipline.

When was the last time you heard a gentle whisper (1 Kings 19:11-12) from within you to do something for someone? Do you know that some of the things we choose to do or not do may have ripple effects and undesirable consequences in our lives or the lives of others? It could be a simple prompting asking you to care and connect with a particular person in class or camp who is ostracized by the rest of the people, or a warning not to go to a particular place as it will lead you to sin and trouble.

For all you know, the person who is ostracized in your class or camp may be thinking of killing himself. But because you cared, you managed to bring him to Christ and saved his soul from eternal damnation. Am I sounding too extreme? I guess not, because I just heard of how one of my guys in AF successfully prevented someone he doesn’t really know from taking his own life 3 days ago. The key to his success? He obeyed the still small voice from within and acted out in faith.

As Christians, we are God’s children and we have the ability to hear His voice (John 10:27) but we are also given the free will to act upon hearing or disregarding it totally. To obey is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22), it’s easy to understand but challenging to carry out. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I’m Brother Kelvin. I’m God’s child and I’m still faced with the challenge of obeying Him all the time, but I believe that I’ll be living an exciting life if I choose not to procrastinate and act upon hearing His still small voice. Would you choose to do the same?

- Bro Kelvin

Getting out of the swamp

2008-09-26T23:07:00.003+08:00

Getting out of the swamp

Hi IGNYTERs, this was the image I saw while we were praying for all the IGNYTERs on Friday night at the SP empowerment on 5 September 2008. I saw a picture of us rising up and stepping out of the swamp. Many of us have been taken a tow by the “swamp” - friendship, family, school problems, attacks of the spirit and mind. Struggling and pulling ourselves through in the mud, causing us to feel tired, aimless, hopeless and lonely.

But this day, the darkest season has faded, because the Lord has overcome it. For those who are still in the swamp, take heart, it's just a few steps away to the shore. Let's be encouraged by these verses:

Psalm 91: 4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. 5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

We all can have the same Christian name, that's “Victor”, because victory belongs to the Lord and we are victorious sons and daughters of God! Let's get ready to charge and bring IGNYTE to a new level of victory together!

- Bro Zhihao

The Olympics

2008-09-19T15:39:00.001+08:00

Watching the different matches and competitions in the Olympic Games make me marvel at the strength and determination of the athletes. The most exciting event that I’ve watched is the swimming event where Michael Phelps won by a margin of 0.01 second. My jaw was literally dropping when I saw the scores as I thought that Milorad Cavic would have won the gold medal instead.

I would have imagined the amount of hard work and discipline that had gone into the training for this world event, such schedules that would have been too crazy for most of us to upkeep. However, the taste of victory was exhilarating. It is not just about the achievement of the individual, but a celebration of victory for the entire world as many cheered for their own nations or their favorite athletes.

We are also part of God’s exciting “Olympic Games”. In 1 Corinthians 9:24-27:

“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize”

We are all running a race, the difference is that we compete for something that is eternal and in this race, everyone is a victor! However, it requires us to go into “strict training”, through equipping ourselves with Word of God and seeking God in the times of prayer would give us the stamina and strength in running the race. It requires both discipline and perseverance to stay on the race. Sometimes, it also requires us to give up the things that are precious to us in order to achieve that goal or destiny that God has prepared for us.

My prayer is that we would not run this race aimlessly, going through life and school for the sake of it or just for our own pleasure, but to run with a goal and a mission in mind. Knowing that God is there at every part of the race and as we stay focus, let us not allow the devil to distract us or disqualify us from the His “Olympics”.

Let’s run to the end ya? (:

- Sis Joanna

Crayfish

2008-09-16T18:24:00.006+08:00

While I was having steamboat for dinner, I saw a crayfish in the pot. But when I flipped it around, what I saw, gave me quite a shock, and then, I felt sad for it. The image of a little scrunched up human-look-a-like crayfish was a reflection of pain, hidden pain. Its tightly shut eyes really depicted suffering.

Everyone has a ‘normal’ and good-looking side, and many times we look at our friends, thinking that they are so complete. They are confident, they smile, they laugh, they joke and take everything easily. They never seem to let their needs and pain surface. We think that they will not want to hear about God because they think that they do not lack anything.

But just like how the crayfish has its flipside, our friends have their sides of hurt and emptiness too. And these can only be healed and filled, by God. Beneath the happy faces, everyone yearns for a perfect love that truly cares for them.

Everyone needs compassion, a love that’s never failing, let mercy fall on me.
Everyone needs forgiveness, a kindness of a Savior, the hope of nations.

People Need The Lord

Everyday they pass me by
I can see it in their eyes
Empty people filled with care
Headed who knows where

On they go through private pain
Living fear to fear
Laughter hides their silent cries
Only Jesus hears

People need the Lord, people need the Lord
At the end of broken dreams, He's the open door
People need the Lord, people need the Lord
When will we realize people need the Lord

We are called to take His light
To a world where wrong seems right
What would be too great a cost
For sharing Life with one who's lost

Through His love our hearts can feel
All the grief they bear
They must hear the Words of Life
Only we can share

People need the Lord, people need the Lord
At the end of broken dreams, He's the open door
People need the Lord, people need the Lord
When will we realize that we must give our lives
For people need the Lord
People need the Lord

Let’s use our time wisely and find opportunities to share our God’s love with our family and friends. =)

-Sis Hannah

Open Heaven

2008-09-15T19:59:00.005+08:00

Recently, we have all been hearing the words ‘Open Heaven’ rather frequently ya? But do we know what ‘Open Heaven’ means? Honestly, I’ve been pondering a fair bit over the significance of these words…

Early this year, I’ve been spending quite a lot of time with my cousin. He fell out of love when his girlfriend decided to end their 4-year relationship. My cousin and I have not been close (usually, we meet twice a year – Chinese New Year & Christmas). When I heard that he was feeling out of sorts, I decided to reach out to him. He was amazingly opened to the Gospel - he came for the Easter Guilty! Presentation as well as attended adult services, care cells and other church events.

Two months ago, I took a taxi home after TCA classes ended at about 10pm. As the taxi driver felt it weird to pick up a passenger (dressed in business attire) along the quiet street outside Trinity @ Paya Lebar, he asked me why I was out so late. I responded that my Bible classes just ended. He then shared that he is a new Christian and he was trying to search for a Chinese church where he can know more about God. We spent the rest of the journey talking about who God is and I invited him to visit the Chinese service at our church.

A few Sundays ago, I was out having afternoon tea with 4 business contacts from China. I don’t really know them well but I knew that God had placed them in my path for a purpose. I decided to spend time knowing them so that I could invite them to church eventually. Half an hour into our gathering, one of them started to share about how she was lonely and afraid when she first came to Singapore. But, things changed when she became a Christian. We spent the next hour talking about who God is and what Jesus did on the cross! I also had the opportunity to share my salvation testimony!

Last week, I had buffet dinner at a Japanese restaurant (Yum! Yum!) with a friend whom I met in New York last year. He has just moved back to Singapore. After knowing that I usually spend my weekends in church, he started asking me a number of questions about church. Finding it a bit strange, yet glad that he was curious, I decided to ask him – “Are you a Christian?” He told me that he used to go to church years ago but not anymore. Wow! I hope that I can care & connect him to church.

Through these encounters, I finally and truly realize what ‘Open Heaven’ mean.

'Open Heaven' is about flowing freely in God’s abundant grace and ministry power. God will open the doors and grant us opportunities to reach out to people around us (even strangers!) who are so open and ready to hear the Gospel or return to Him. Somehow, people will just open up to us AUTOMATICALLY. We don’t really have to toil the soil without much labor or sweat on the brow. We will also see prayers answered and miracles happen.

You know what?! For IGNYTE ministry, we see a total of 10 salvations and 2 rededications for the single month of July, at the FTV lounge itself! This is not including those who responded to the altar call during services. I believe that the whole of Singapore (and not only on the actions, fun and excitement in what God is going to do through you. Let’s desire our church/ ministry) is going to see a revival coming our way! As you can see ‘Open Heaven’ is already here!

Arise, Mighty Warrior - there’s gonna be ‘Open Heaven’ in your school, in your army camp, at our work place, in our families, on the streets etc. Let faith arise! I’m sure that you wouldn’t want to miss out to glorify God in all that we do! =)

Heaven is OPEN - Death is broken!

- Sis Cheryl

Exit from the kingdom of darkness into God's kingdom!!!

2008-09-03T17:46:00.002+08:00

Hi warriors of God!

First of all, I want to thank all of you for giving your best by inviting your friends for the event.

Last weekend, many people came for the first time and many gave their lives to Jesus. I manage to speak

To a young lady that God loves her very much. That was very much the order of the day as various ones

open their heart to the gospel.

I believed the reason for because the people believed and they prayed. It is because of your prayers that moved the hearts of your friends to Christ. The best part is, this is only the beginning. God gave us a mission, a mandate and that is to bring this generation and exit to the Kingdom of Heaven and not the pits of Hell. Remember, every word you spoke, every prayer you made has not gone unheard, unnoticed but they are accumulated according to God’s timing so that Ignyte can experience the greatest growth yet.

As many of us are preparing for the exams, tests, project, remember to stay close to God and draw deeper in Him! Give God all the glory!

Revelations 14:15 ‘Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe!

-Pastor Gary

happy birthday singapore

2008-08-08T15:03:00.001+08:00

There is a song we sing in very often in Singapore. That’s right, it is our famous national anthem, ‘Majulah Singapura’ which means onward, Singapore.

As we approach the birthday of this maturing nation, some thoughts we can think through for example, are you proud that you are a Singaporean, do you believe that God
has placed you in this nation for a purpose?

If your answer is I am not sure, chances are you are not alone. In Singapore, we have everything! We're self sufficient, we've got clean water that is easily available for us and a great environment that is safe for us to go out at night! Not sounding nationalist here but isn’t it a blessing to be called a Singaporean?

So as you celebrate national day this weekend, say a prayer for your nation and ask God for a revival for this young generation in Singapore!

-Pastor Gary

carebear!

2008-07-17T09:18:00.004+08:00

There's been a carebear craze these days in office. It all started with Pastor Gary's Funshine bear. That's the bear in yellow. And slowly but surely, Brother Andy jumped onto the bandwagon with the lovealot bear. That's the pink one with the hearts. And so the two of them were talking about how good the bears looked and stuff. And well i resisted and fought the urge, but in my heart of hearts, i'm like a carebear fan and i recall having tenderheart, the leader of the pack. So okok, i jumped on too and from one, to two, to three. Then suddenly, MULTIPLICATION! Sis Cherie bought a bear for herself and sis serling, and suddenly there were FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahaha! but ok, carebear craze aside, i think we can learn a very important from this. CARE & CONNECT! Hahaha! that's right guys! you got it! from one to two to three to five?! i think from the different testimonies you've been hearing in service plus looking around, its really about caring and connecting. (: And i just wanna commend you guys for doing a great job. Keep up the good work and remember, don't do it for the sake of doing it. But let it stem from a heart that loves God, and thus you love His people too. That's the whole heart behind why we're caring and connecting. Love (:

Enjoy the pictures and errr, no more bears please. How about chocolate bars instead? heehee...

-sis raine

ps: thanks brother andy for taking the pictures! (:

thank you! & you! & you & you....

2008-06-24T17:09:00.002+08:00

so last weekend, guess who made me what?

heehee

My cell, (Legends) made me the HUGEST COOKIE EVER! check it out! As big as my pretty face. Haha! thanks guys you all really made my day. i love cookies. Absolutely LOVE cookies and this one was like whoa! :D And the song! It was realllly sweet. I so know you all wanted to make me cry right? But heehee, sorry to disappoint you. I was just really proud of all of you. For all the effort and the notes and the song and the COOKIE! :D

But i guess more than that i just want to tell all of us, that let's not just wait for a one day thing to make us appreciate our leaders. Your leaders are human and once in a while a little bit of encouragement will go a very long way! I've seen how different leaders have gone on their knees in prayer for their youths. I've seen how they've gone the extra mile to make sure that they smile and look approachable even after a long hard day at work. I've seen how they've sacrificed their own personal time and their weekends, and weekday nights to spend time with their youths. So kudos leaders! You've done a great job!

And Ignyters, remember this verse

Hebrews 13:17

"Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you"

And i know that sometimes, your leaders may come down hard on you, but ultimately, they have your best interest at heart. Keep growing and one day when you become a leader(that's right, i believe everyone of you can rise up to become a great leader!!!!), you'll understand and you'll know but until that day comes, may this verse be a gentle reminder! (:

So, on behalf of all the leaders, i thank you all for the writing/baking/singing/everything that you've done to show your appreciation. And as a leader, it'll be my greatest joy to see all of you rise up to the all, take your place in the Kingdom and really grow so much more for Jesus!

Have a great week at school!!!!!

-sis raine

2008-05-12T01:24:00.001+08:00

Hi Mighty Ignyters, I want to share with the second part of the sharing. Last week I was sharing that Noah learns to put his trust his God in building the ark. His trust came from the times of moment in intimacy with God.

The second thing we can learn from is his obedience to God.

When Noah was called to build the ark, it was almost a senseless task. First of all, that place was not known to have rain at all, secondly, there was no such model to build the seize of a medium ocean cruiser which was unheard of.

He has three qualities in his obedience. The first quality is Undivided attention to God’s plan

the ark was a big mega project at the time of their day. God gave Noah the specific instructions to build it. that was the first ocean liner being built and till today, it is the model for building ships. It did not take Noah to build the ark within three days but it took him at least one year to build. So you can imagine, for 365 days or more, the people were laughing at his silliness. People were laughing at his blind obedience to God.

And sometimes it seems that when God calls us to do something, it may seem senseless and will require obedience to work through it. but if Noah been distracted with the people around him, he would not be able to accomplish what God had called him to do. Many times we can get distracted with things in life. We get distracted in making our studies first, our friends first etc.

The second quality is Testing through time - Our obedience is often tested not when we are in church but when we are with our friends outside and that moment to make a stand or compromise is often separated by a moment of second. Many times it will be tested and that is where our friends will know whether Jesus is real and active in our lives. The Testing in our life will cause us to search deep in whom we are and our faith in God. It is those times that our convictions will go through the fire.

Our character will reflect of who Jesus is in our lives.

Through this, Noah’s obedience showcase the faithfulness of God and that is where the secret of the Rainbow.

When we made a choice to be righteous before God, we can experience his faithfulness. God made a covenant with him and that is never again, a flood like this will happen again and the Rainbow will be a sign of his promise to mankind. When we see that rainbow, remember his promises in our lives. When the bible talks about and all these things, it would mean when we pursue his righteousness, our life will experience transformation in our relationship with Him. It brings us to deeper level of understanding God’s heart for our lives.

Noah’s righteousness touches the heart of God and the Promise of his rainbow means that God will be faithful in our walk with him, he will give us strength, wisdom, blessings because we pursue God’s righteous in our lives. So let’s us make every effort to love Jesus, walk in his love and show to the world what it means to be a fool for Jesus!

-Pgary

Design a pass-it-on card!

2008-05-08T10:19:00.002+08:00

For such a time as this.

2008-05-07T11:25:00.003+08:00

The other day I started to ponder why I'm called an Ignyter..

.. and why IGNYTE was set up in the first place...

I believe they wanted a generation to rise up and reach out to the youth of today.
A ministry that stayed relevant with the passion for God and for His people.

... To own the call of "His purpose. My generation''

Queen Esther was placed by God in a strategic position. She took advantage of her access privilege to the King to fight for the lives of the Jews. Her passion for God gave her the strength and the reason to stand up for her people and fulfill God's purpose in her generation.

Likewise, will you be able to take advantage of the position you have as a youth for God to reach out to the people around you?

Think about it.

Living out “His Purpose. My Generation”
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the secret of His rainbow part 1

2008-05-06T17:46:00.002+08:00

Hebrews 11:7 ‘By Faith, Noah when warned about things not yet seen in holy fear built an ark to save his family, By his faith, he condemned the world and became heirs of the righteousness that comes by faith.’

I want to share with you some things that Noah went through in his journey of faith.

The definition of Righteous means ‘standing on what is morally right’ or desire to live according to God’s ways.

In Genesis 6:9-22, God was grieved by the wickeness of man. It was so bad that He had no choice but do something drastic like flooding the earth. Today we are seeing similar cultures emerging where things are getting more and more out of hand in our generation today. And all these things are not oblivious to us. They are right at our doorstep, crepting to our lives, numbing our feelings towards immorality and evil of our day.

We begin to see everything that is happening around us as part of progress and not decline of God’s order for us. But in the midst of all these, one man stood up to and was commended by God.

The first thing we can learn for Noah was He found Favor with God
God saw something in him that no one had. He was able to stand up on God’s righteousness. He stood up not because he has been going to church faithfully or he has been faithfully giving to church. I believe the reason why he found favor with God was because of his lifestyle of intimate faith with God.

In the same manner, we wake up every day only to experience the reality of the world around us. We take it as a norm in and begin to desensitize our identity in God to the identity of the world. We can go to many ignyte camps, we can have lots of worship experience but unless we begin to walk lifestyle of intimacy with God, we will not walk in God’s righteousness.

Noah found favor because he has learnt to spend precious time and moments with God. When he prays, he would listen intently what he would want to say. He would probably going through this daily in his walk with God.

Because of his intimacy with God, he was able to withstand the pressures of what people are doing because his love for God’s righteousness guard his heart and his mind.

Do you guard your hear and mind? Do you send precious time with God daily? If not, why not make a point and hear from God?

I will share with you my second part on the secret of his rainbow so just hang on and see you soon!

Love, P.Gary

the mysterious egg face

2008-04-30T17:10:00.003+08:00

my mommy made me breakfast the other day, and just when i was about to devour it, i realized, EH?! THERE'S A MYSTERIOUS FACE ON MY OMELET?! and it looked just as surprised as though it was saying "GASP?! AM I GOING TO BE EATEN?!" haha! *burp* well...no prizes for guessing what happened to my friendly egg face.

And just in case you think the exams are driving you nuts, and you're seeing strange things on your omelets, or on your toasts, or your alphabet cereal is forming strange messages to you, do know that you're going to be alright. (:

Remember Isaiah 40:13

But those who wait on the Lord

shall renew their strength;

they shall mount up with wings like eagles,

they shall run and not be weary,

they shall walk and not faint.

so in the midst of your exams, remember to wait on God. Spend time with Him and you will be renewed.

Hang in there guys! (:

sis raine

refuge

2008-04-22T16:20:00.003+08:00

The other day I had dinner with a few close friends and while walking back to the car, (their car, not mine), I saw this sign that really amused me. It said, Area of Refuge. And I was like huh? What a name, and why would they call this particular place in the carpark the place of refuge?

Ok, honestly, I have no idea, so if you do know, please tag on the tagboard to tell me. Hahaha..

But it reminded me so much of my own place of refuge. The word refuge to me is like a place where I can just run away to hide from whatever is pursuing me. Maybe its work, maybe its like people, maybe its like all these expectations, maybe its like family, maybe its like… the list goes on and on, but in this place of refuge, I can head in and just be myself. I don't have to pretend to be someone else I'm not. I can leave all the troubles outside, and for that moment, in my refuge, I will find strength. I will find peace. I will find that though its crazy out there, I'll be fine.

Psalm 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

Perhaps right now, you feel that you're letting go of God, but may I encourage you, to run back to this refuge. May I encourage you to hold onto the Hope giver. May I encourage you to continually run back to this refuge, and that is God. His arms are ever ready to catch you and ever ready to hold you and strengthen you. And don't under estimate the power of this refuge either.

so in the midst of your exams, hang in there guys. and know that your leaders are praying with you!!!!

sis raine

ravenous

2008-04-09T16:20:00.000+08:00

today i'm having juice for lunch!

then you'll look at me and think, aiyoh! diet ah sis raine?! hahaha! NO! sis raine never diets. Or rather i hope i don't ever have to diet. But today i'm fasting for can't let go. The worship experience this coming saturday. The whole worship team is embarking on a one meal fast to pray and really hungering after God. Fasting has never been easy for me, because i'm the world's biggest foodie ever. I don't eat a lot at one sitting, but i eat lots of small meals all along the way. So i can be walking along say orchard road and i'll pick up like a pretzel from auntie anne's then a doughnut from this donut store, some yaki tori, and maybe a beard papa, and then i'll end if off with the cheap and good roadside ice cream. And yes yes, it carries on! haha!

BUT, i also understand that there is power in fasting and prayer. Its like a total reliance on God. And now my tummy is seriously growling, but you know what? i just feel that this worship experience will be something awesome and something different. And i'm absolutely ravenous for God. Like how you keep thinking of food when you're like in class and recess is just one period away and then your stomach is growling and you look at the clock and it seems to slow down so much so that one minute feels like a million years, and then you catch a whiff of that lovely smell of....mmmm.. fried chicken wings... or just food. suddenly you start to drool and all you can think of is, "MOVE FASTER CLOCK!!!!!!!! I WANNA EAT!!!!!" and similarly, for this worship experience as i fast, all i can think about is, COME ON!!!!!I WANT MORE OF JESUS!!!

I don't want it to be just the same old worship experience. I want something fresh. And i'm believing that it'll be a different one. Believe and expect with me friends! Come expecting a huge great mighty move from God!

Pray along side with the worship & tech team too. And let's not forget our Pastor Gary!!!!!

And come desperate. Come ravenous. Come ready to meet with the King of Kings and the Lord of lords. Come expecting stuff. And bring a friend who's starving in the spirit.

You never know what might happen!!!!!

-sis lorraine

can't let go

2008-04-08T08:56:00.000+08:00

How many of you love to worship God? Say a loud amen!!!!! As we approach ‘Can’t let Go’ worship experience, I believe it going to be an amazing time of really encountering God in an intimate manner. Worship is more than just singing songs and jumping around. That is our expression of our worship but the essence of worship comes from the heart within us that desires to meet God in a special way.

When we gave our worship to him, you are declaring your love for him, that itself is a very powerful act unto God. The question is why worship is so important to God?

Some of the people gave their definition of worship on certain ideas. They have thoughts that maybe God needs some affirmation so better sing song so that he will feel loved or maybe we feel that our God has egoistic nature that demands us to give him the worship. It is strange that how different people view worship as.

But really, God is neither in the place of needing affirmation or has some ego issues.

The truth of the matter is He is the Creator and we are his Creation and we have been purposed to give him our praise and adoration to Him. We give him our whole heart worship because of what He has done in our lives. We give him whole heart worship because we have been saved by his grace through Jesus Christ. Worship brings our focus on who He is in our lives and guess what? He desires to pour out his wonderful love into our lives so that we can experience and encounter him in a very intimate manner.

Because we have experienced his faithfulness and his love over our lives, we will never let of go of his promises for us. We will never let go of him because He is the way, the truth and the life. I always tell this to my guys, your degree of passion will determine the power of the worship you will have.

So ignyters, whether we have worship experience or not, let’s learn to give him the best worship in our homes and church! See you soon round the corner.

Can’t Let Go!

P.Gary

the big mystery!

2008-03-30T08:47:00.004+08:00

today, I came to my desk and a mystery awaited me.

this is the perfect way to make my day and to make me play Sherlock Holmes.

and so I headed to the fridge and this was what I found

and then I couldn’t take it, I just had to open it and THIS IS WHAT I saw

there you go folks. 3 simple steps to make anyone happy. :) use this to make some friends or family happy k? and thanks cherie! :D

His Grace is Sufficient for Me

2008-03-27T09:36:00.003+08:00

Luke 24:30
“As they sat down to eat, he took a small loaf of bread, asked God’s blessing on it, broke it and gave it to them. Suddenly, their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him. And at that moment He disappeared!”

As I spent my first Good Friday out of home and Trinity, I recounted the many “firsts” I have had thus far after arriving in Australia to pursue my studies. First Chinese New year with friends, first Christmas party I organized, my first meal that I cooked myself and my first baking session when I nearly burnt my house down. I had the very first taste of living overseas alone, living with friends who became strangers overnight and having to learn to cope with the many “sudden” incidents. How exciting is studying overseas!!

Having been in Australia for close to 10 months, my experience is like that described in verse Luke 24:30- Taken, blessed, broken and given. I was taken into the hands of God and received prayers and letters of blessings before I left Singapore. The first few months in Australia was close to a scary place called hell..haha.. The misunderstandings that arose from different lifestyles and values made 3 of my housemates shift out of my current accommodation.

The struggle to fit within the church and the campus ministry and dealing with school demands did not really help with the process of settling down. I never felt so vulnerable, and all I could do was call upon God’s name and pray even though I witness the deterioration of relationships and circumstances. After one incident has appeased, another came along. Those were not big hurdles. The greatest one came when a very treasured friend whom I really trusted, broke an important promise and got me hit rock bottom. It got so bad, I did lose my faith in believing that God will come and rescue me. My desperation drove me to tears and I will sit in my room calling out to God silently because I was so afraid He will not answer.

Then He came and called out my name, whispered into my ears, “I am giving you a promise now while the seed is still in the barn, before you have harvested your grain and before the grapevine, the fig tree and pomegranate and the olive tree have produced their crops. From this day onward, I will bless you.” Haggai 2:19 Bearing the brunt of all the rumours from the happenings was really challenging. I was challenged not to retaliate in language even when I underwent verbal attack from people whom I thought were good friends, I was challenged not to hate when they set out to teach me a lesson for the flaws that I had. The anger crept into me and made me gave up in believing these are people that deserve forgiveness. However, He called me to love them in all circumstances because Jesus did.

1 Corinthians 13: 13 “There are three things that will endure- faith hope and love and the greatest of these is LOVE.” When He chose to die on the cross even when people did not accept Him, it was love that kept him on the cross for men’s sake. If Jesus could still love these scary people who crucified Him, surely I can love these people no matter what they had done- Love the sinner and not the sin.

It was a humbling process- breaking of pride and surrendering my rights to hate and fight for what was my rightful way to address the grievances I suffered because of people’s actions. I asked God why I am the person who has to go through all these things. The breaking of every aspect of my life took a toll on my emotion basket. I got into really weird moods that my friends could not bear to see at times. 2 Corinthians 12:8- “Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time He said, “My gracious favour is all you need. My power works best in your weakness.”

I really did not want to love them for all the bad reasons I could give. I chose to but I struggled to love. My daily prayer was like Jesus did when He hang on the cross- Luke 23:34 “Father, forgive these people because they do not know what they are doing.” Then I looked upon that cross and He asked me- John 21: 15 “Do u love me?” 21:17 “Lord you know everything. You know I love you.” Jesus said, “Then feed my sheep.”

I envisioned that coming to Australia will be all fun and rosy, exciting things that will happen in my life. Fun and rosy things there were, but the tough times that came along were really tremendous testing of my faith in Jesus, my love for people and my focus on the race. 1 Peter 1:7 – “These trials are only to test your faith to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold- and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. If your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trails, it will bring you much praise and glory and honour on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.”

The most amazing part of this journey- The love I chose to show, to people who were against and misunderstood me, liberated me from fear. “Such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of judgment and this shows that His love has not been perfected in us.” 1 John 4:18-19 “Since I know it is all for Christ’s good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong” 2 Corinthians 12:10”

As I look back on the things that have happened, it may seem like it’s all over but the hurt that has been done will take time to heal. The greatest joy was to know that even as I endured the past 10 months of seemingly never ending pain- I grew stronger because of the love of God that taught me to forgive and love. As Luke 24:30 states, as I was taken into the hands of my Father, blessed and broken by His grace, so that I can be given to do the will and work of God in this world that so needs the love of our Father in Heaven.

Sis Vivian
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Sis Vivian is currently studying in the land of the kangaroos (:

2008-03-19T20:06:00.009+08:00

Change. They say it’s the only thing that’s constant in life.

It’s what causes the leaves to turn beautiful shades of red, brown and orange in autumn.
It’s what causes the tulips and daisies to bloom in summer.
It brings about magnificent sunrises and sunsets..
And the fading in and out of stars and moon that glitter in the sky at night.
It causes the caterpillar to transform into a butterfly, and the wind to blow through your hair on a hot day.

Then come the days when change is what causes us to move classes, move schools, move houses or perhaps even- move countries. We find that old friends drift away, and new friends are made. The pain from leaving the past behind is real.. but so is the anticipation of what lies ahead. Old love is lost.. and maybe, just maybe- new love might be found.

When i first heard the news that i was coming to IGNYTE, Trinity @ Adam, i was like whaaaaaaaatttttttt??? then i was like nooooooooooooooo... [what?! i'm being honest :P] then i was like *sniffle* okay. so maybe it won't be so bad. Don't get me wrong.. it's not because i dislike being at Adam. but like everyone else.. i don't like change very much. :S

But like what P.Gary preached at service last week- time for change- change can also bring about joy.. and stepping into an amazing destiny that God has in store for you and i. And when we run like a little child to Him, realizing just how much God loves us.. that His plans are only to prosper us and not to harm us- then we place our dreams, our life, into the palm of His hand. And there, in the midst of change, we throw our hands up in surrender and say "Father, have your way with me." We renew our passion to grow in God when we lay our heart before him in abandon and go "Lord, you can do anything you want with me. make me more like You."

So i realized- change isn't a good or bad thing. it's a how-i-respond thing. (:

it's true we might never be ready for change when change comes. but God is looking at my heart.. about whether He really is the Lord of my life- as i call Him to be. Now i'm beginning to see the meadows that lie ahead.. the opportunity, the future of what God can do through me in IGNYTE here at Adam. and i'm getting excited! :D

... God is looking at your heart today too. How open are you for Him to change you?

Love,

Sis Cherie (:

Easter

2008-03-18T13:02:00.003+08:00

How deep the Father’s love for us
By Stuart Townend

How deep the Father's love for us,
How vast beyond all measure
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure

How great the pain of searing loss,
The Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the chosen One,
Bring many sons to glory

Behold the Man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders
Ashamed I hear my mocking voice,
Call out among the scoffers

It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life
I know that it is finished

I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection

Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom

It was really early. And I mean really early. Ok not that early, but early enough for me. Fresh into my two weeks at work, my body’s still trying to get used to waking up early and squeezing with the multitudes in the bus and stumbling out of the bus and trudging to work. Now don’t get me wrong, work’s fun, but the waking up isn’t. Haha!

So whilst walking towards the towering overhead bridge, I noticed, a golden ray of light breaking through the thick foliage around me. And as I peeped through the trees, there I saw, the glorious sun. Finally breaking through the mist and the fog and warming all that was around. It has been raining bulls and elephants for three whole days and finally at last, the sun came out!

I paused for a moment as a gentle breeze swept my through my hair and right there and then I thought I heard God whispering something into my ear…

It was as if took a step back into time, into the past…I can just imagine how on Easter Sunday, it could’ve looked like this. Fog all around, the atmosphere must’ve been cold(its been raining so much these days!), and suddenly at the break of dawn, when all had been gloomy, the sun broke through the fog and the stone was rolled away and along with the stone, all our sins were rolled away too. On a Sunday, when everyone thought that all hope was gone, He rose from the grave. Wow..

I stood staring at the scene for a moment, and then I remembered this old song that I used to hear. How deep the Father’s love for us, how vast beyond all measure. That He should give His only son. And make a wretch His treasure.

May this Easter truly be one where by you’ll experience God’s great love for you. The vastness and how He truly loves you beyond all measure. May the greatest love story of all time grip your hearts with a new meaning. Take a moment to stop through the busy and crazy schedule that you have and look out for all these small little ps:I love yous from the heavenly Father up there. And remember, the greatest gift ever, was that He came for you.

“I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.” John 10:10(The Message)

Sis Raine

Valentine Special 3

2008-02-12T02:22:00.000+08:00

If you ask me.
we all need love.
love is subjective, it differs from person to person.
yet love is universal, everyone can relate.
that in itself is an amazing work of art.

love is what I feel for music.
it is my remedy for the days on which I feel under the weather.
and making music’s the best part.
every note and every chord sings such beautiful, drowning expression.
when the music seems to flow through you.
like it touches and soothes every nook and cranny inside.
something connects so deep within.
indeed, music brings me to another place altogether.
and yes, I love it.

of course, I had my share of romantic love as well.
it sought refuge with me for three and a half years.
from what I can recall.
the good times were really good.
but the low points did get quite depressing.
life then was pretty much a game in which the consoles were our mind.
anyway, those days have become bittersweet memories.
fun fact.
never once did we spend a valentine’s day together.
quite odd, come to think of it.

to a criminal.
love is killing her jealous husband so they can be together.
to a priest.
love is to be faithful and never marry.
to an autistic.
love is an outstretched palm with all five fingers spread.
to a poet.
love is an hourglass, which fills the heart as it empties the brain.
what is love then, to you and i?

let me make a wild guess and take a stab in the dark.
80% of the songs in your mp3 player are about love.
half of what you watch on tv and in cinemas portray the theme of love.
out of 5 friends, 2 friends often blog about love, crushes and relationships.
and somehow, we, too, find ourselves searching for our own personification of love.
whether knowingly or unknowingly.

so we all need love.
those who say they don’t.
they lie.

Vday Special

2008-02-12T02:20:00.000+08:00

Valentine Special 2

About Love…

Since Valentine’s Day is coming… I guess it’ll be aptly suitable for me to write something about love in my blog here today… As a boy, I like many girls… but out of the many girls, there is only one whom I really love… she’s the one I hope to marry… but this one girl, changes from time to time… I guess it’s either because I lose interest in her after some time (finds out some nasty secret or habit of hers), either that or it’s because she doesn’t love me back… You know, it’s very tiring to love somebody who doesn’t love you back… most times I give up, but sometimes, I really try my very best to make that one girl love me back – so far all such efforts have been in vain. I’m currently still waiting for that special girl to turn up…

While I go on dating in search for my princess, I hope to find her and sweep her up onto my horse like all knights do, save her from the evil big fat fire-breathing dragon and bring her on my adventure… but oftentimes, I wonder if my armor and sword is strong enough to save her from that dragon… what if that dragon kills me? And I wonder what if I save her and she just thanks me and goes off for another man… I guess this is where many men give up on love… they aren’t knights… they’re wimps… they do not want to sacrifice, to fight for their special someone, to at least risk for something wonderful… I guess that’s when they turn to the alternatives of love – the substitutes… like pornography, promiscuity and all those abominations – these are the false princesses…

You know as I grow older, I realize just how real the word infatuation is… you know like crushes… they come and go… so just what is real love? Is it a crazy little thing? Or a knife that leaves the soul bleeding? Or a flower, so beautiful and sweet…

You know right now, I am just a young boy… but I guess I have been looking for love even when I was much younger… Just where do I find love? Is there really a God who has prepared someone for me? Or is there a little angel called cupid going around shooting arrows?

I sure hope to find her soon… where art thou? my wasabi pea in a jar of green peas… my special one… : )

Okay so late already… I’ll blog another time my friends… so long and I hope all of you find your special someone… : )

Valentine Special

2008-02-05T11:30:00.000+08:00

Valentine Special

There's a song that says love is a crazy and funny little thing. It's true, you know. It's the only thing that can make people do insane things. Love takes many forms, love for family, love for sisters and brothers, love for friends, even love for objects.. but when the word 'love' is used, the most common thing it refers to is the love between a male and a female- romantic love.

They all make a big deal out of love. It's the main theme in an astounding number of movies. It's used for commercial purposes and all. But I, I think it has diminished in its significance. The word 'love' is used too flippantly these days, and an 'I Love You' is no longer reserved specially for truly cherished ones, but serve only as mere exclamations. I do not watch romance movies, because I feel that it warps my ideals of love. Some may say I am an idealist. It's true, I believe that true love overcomes all obstacles. As cliched and 'lame' as it may sound to some, it's something I really have faith in because love is such a beautiful thing given to us by our creator. I believe in romantic notions. And I don't want to lose faith in this beauty, I don't want to become disillusioned.

When it comes to love life, some people throw open their hearts and invite others to manipulate their feelings. One of the most painful things, they say, is to 'love' someone so much that you make yourself vulnerable to that person's actions and words, hurting yourself in the end. The person becomes the major determinant of your moods and emotions. To be so controlled can only be pure agony. For me, when it comes to romantic love, it's been about guarding myself, guarding my heart. The cruel thing about love is that it can go unreciprocated and unappreciated. And that, has to be one of the worst feelings on earth. No wonder so many people would rather undergo physical pain than suffer this emotional torture.

But of course, the ideals state that true love means you would want the person to be happy, even if he or she does not return your affection. But how many of us can really stand firm in these 'ideals'? How many of us can watch someone you love be with someone else and feel genuine happiness? Of course, you may feel happy for that person, but something inside you is writhing and burning. Such agony it brings! Sometimes you think it's better to just give up and love a pillow or a singer instead. Like how some people have undying love for Jay Chou or their own bolsters.

Despite the pain love brings, it can also bring about the sweetest, most joyful feelings on earth. The feeling that you are almost the whole world to someone, the feeling that you make a tremendous difference, for the better, in someone's life. The spring in your step, the chirp in your voice. It's obvious at times. Someone being completely selfless for you. And things like these, all make the whole process worth it.

Faith, hope and love - and the greatest of these is love. They say that the greatest joy on earth is to love and be loved in return. Guess what? I believe it's true.

Incredible Unity

2008-01-11T11:51:00.000+08:00

Proverbs 24:6 ‘for waging war, you need guidance and for victory many advisers.’

Many times we lose the battle with the enemy because the friendships we have outside are stronger than those in church. We have to turn the situation around by first actively build strong friendships in your carecell, after which we turn our focus to the world outside! Because if you want to encounter and grow in God like never before, your friends in the cell has to be the ones who will be your 'advisers'. However, to have friends is not enough - we must have Incredible Unity.

An example of Incredible Unity is found in Acts 2:42-47

Here, we see a picture of Incredible Unity working in God’s Kingdom. The church in the era of Acts was a flourishing church. It functions like buzz groups, carecells in action! It was a church that demonstrated God’s power in best way possible. Without learning to serve together, live together, the church cannot rise up to fulfill its calling. I want to share with you three practical steps to exercise Incredible Unity.

The First practical step is to:

Devote to grow each other’s Spiritual Strength

Ephesians 4:2-3

'Devoting to grow' means you must have ownership over your cell. When you step into Ignyte every Saturday, you got to say, this is my church, this is my family. I am proud to be an IGNYTERS, this is where God has called me to grow! That would mean that this will be your spiritual family where you were grow, laugh, cry and spur one another to grow in your faith. The second thing you must do is to make every Effort to share your life. To keep the unity means we need to include other brothers and sisters into our lives. Many times, we struggle because we don’t want to feel exposed and weak in front of others. But Friends, regardless whether you are afraid of how people look at you, YOU MUST MAKE THE EFFORT. :)

The second practical step to Incredible Unity is to:

V45 – Exercise Love for one another

1^st John 3:-16 ‘this is how we know what love is:Jesus Christ laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for each other’

When you exercise love for one another, you learn to accept each other’s weakness and encourage each other. we can see people like Matthew (During Watch-night Service) who testify how God changed his life from addiction to freedom. Why? It was not by his own effort, it was because God places the people in the cell to encourage and support him. It was because of the love he experience in the cell that his desire to go through water baptism and to go Spiritual Parenting course grew.

The third practical step is to make:

Make Your Presence Count

You can make your presence count by welcoming new people into the group every week. In Nov 1992, I made a decision to follow Jesus Christ. At that time, I did not know what church is all about. All I knew was since I received Jesus, I knew the next thing i had to do was to come to church. I did not know anyone at all and I was introduced to new-found friends in the church. I wanted to run away because I did not know anyone at all. Over the next few weeks, a few of them (Youths from church) called me to go to church. By that time, I was opening up and I begin to grow in my relationship with God. But you see, though I was saved, many areas in my life were still messed up. I will say things unknowingly and hurt people. I will purposely irritate my leaders to see how ‘Christian’ they are but they were patient and they kept encouraging me. As a result, I became more committed to God and I became an encourager to others too.

This year, 2008, I believe God has planted new beginnings in our lives. We are going to grow in many areas and one of the them is incredible unity. We don’t need to wait for camp to get to know each other, we can start where we are now. Some of you may feel just like me when I first came to church, I encourage you to allow the love of the family to touch you.

Let’s exercise Incredible Unity in IGNYTE!

Genesis 11:6 ‘The Lord said, if as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible.

Love, P.Gary

We are one of the Greatest Evangelistic Tools!

2008-01-07T10:10:00.000+08:00

We are one of the Greatest Evangelistic Tools!

I’m into my new job for slightly more than 3 months now. I do have a few testimonies to share about my new job, but I’ll stick to just this simple one.

One of my responsibilities is to do stock take once or twice per week. My job is to verify that the number of goods that are being sent out for the day tallies with the daily order form.

After a few sessions, the person in charge of the store came up to me and asked why I bothered to do the stock take seriously when the delivery man and himself had already checked it. Furthermore, my colleagues who did the verification on other days simply signed the daily order form and did not really check the stock physically.

My reply was simple. I told him that I believe in the spirit of excellence. I believe that my life on earth is filled with many tests for me to grow in my character and ultimately be more Christ like. From there, I managed to open up a platform to talk about my faith.

2 Peter 1:5 - For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;

You see, it’s important to know what values we are driven by. If we are not driven by Godly values, are we driven by worldly ones? When I was younger in faith, I was overly consumed by what I did not know. As I grew older, I realized that it’s not a matter of how much we know, but how we conscientiously choose to live out what we do know.

Acts 4:13 - When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.

It does not take a PhD to live out the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19). We do not even need the title of pastor, leader or spiritual parent in order to lead people to Christ. What we need is to continually be at the right posture in our faith. Knowledge will come along with being hungry for greater intimacy with God. Don’t rely on someone else to get the people around you saved. We must understand that we may be the only Jesus (by the way, Christian means little Christ) that they will ever get to see. Don’t be hindered by thinking that you are too young either.

1 Timothy 4:12 - Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.

Therefore, go and make full use of our church’s upcoming evangelistic event, The Father’s Love as an opportunity for you to play a part in His-Story and extend God’s kingdom!

Cheers,
Brother Kelvin.

The Potter’s Hand

2007-12-10T14:12:00.000+08:00

The Potter's Hand

You will never know until you try.
An analogy:
As much as you would love to swim, you can only learn to swim when you jump into the pool.

When you first jump into the pool, you will be scared
And you will try your best to stay afloat
Then you struggle and try to swim your way through
Sometimes, you want to give up yet you persevere
The more you struggle, the further you swim
Perhaps, someone will guide and swim alongside with you

Eventually, you become an expert
And you will be able to swim far
Now that you have the stamina to swim.
If you are being Thrown into a deep sea
Would you be able to swim and overcome the huge waves?

God places us in different situations in life for us to learn.
Knowing that many things are beyond our abilities,
God will make a way,
when you obey his calling

Overcoming your struggles is when God will bring you to next level of faith
To believe in greater things that you can never imagine
God is always stretching His hands out, waiting for us to hold onto Him.
Are you willing to stretch out yours for Him to hold?

I'm captured by your holy calling
Set me apart, I know you're drawing me to yourself
Lead me Lord, I pray
Take me, mold me, use me, fill me
I give my life to the potter's hand
Call me, guide me, lead me, walk beside me
I give my life to the potter's hand

Keep the Child like faith

James 1:3 says: Because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

Sister Esther

Holidays are here!!!!!

2007-11-23T11:59:00.000+08:00

Holidays, oh how I missed the word! For most of us in ignyte ministry, it is the best season of the time because it is the time where we can ‘stone’, sleep, eat and go out with friends. Who don’t enjoy holidays right? I do miss the good old days when I was in secondary school. I really enjoy going out, playing soccer, play all kinds of sports including video games.

But sometimes, it can get a little bit boring when you really got nothing to do. I mean how much money can you spend given the allowance we receive from parents? So to beat the boredom, I suggest to all of us to make your time meaningful! The whole idea is to plan your timetable well so that you will feel productive in enjoying your break. Now, here are some suggestions you can do:

Invest in buying Christian books that interest you and take time to read it!
Find a flexible pay job that gives you extra pocket money so that you can save more for the future

Build relationship with your unsaved friends, invite them to church!
Volunteer to do some house work (Sure score points with your parents)
Offer to plan cell outings or events so that your cell people can be blessed
Ask your Pastor out and treat him to lunch or ice cream! (Ok, that’s just kidding)

These are just some of the ways you can make use of the time. Of course, you can plan for outings but have other stuff in your schedule so that it will not be just outings after outings ya…

Get ready for BattleCall Camp soon, I believe this camp experience is going to be totally different from what we have experienced in the past. See you soon! P.Gary

“Stamina”: Re-defined

2007-11-13T16:28:00.000+08:00

What comes to your mind when you see the word, “stamina”?

“Stamina” – the ability to complete a race?

I discovered a new definition for the word, “stamina”. Recently, to me, “stamina” is defined as “the ability to study continuously in the library from 9am to 10pm”!

Wait – before you gasp and think that Sis Yin Ting is a psychotic mugger, let me clarify that I am indeed not one. Some of us, like Sis Kimberly, Bro Aaron, Sis Joanne and myself, we are having our university exams real soon (yes, while you are enjoying yourselves, we are having exams. Boo…). That’s why my university classmates and I have decided to camp at the library, be the first to enter, last to leave.

However, what God impressed upon my heart is neither the athlete’s stamina nor the mugger’s stamina, but the Mighty Warrior’s stamina.

Do you know what is “spiritual stamina”? Serving your generation and doing God’s work – do you know that we need an extraordinary “stamina”?

The media often deems us, the youths of this generation, as the “hedonistic generation that glorifies instant gratification”, meaning we are generalized to be pleasure-seeking, and tend to quit halfway when they encounter challenges. Well, I am not sure whether this is true, but I am certain that this DOESN’T apply to IGNYTE warriors!

A well known verse from the bible:

“But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3: 13-14

Paul tells us not to give up, not to be distracted and continue striving towards the destination. I have the privilege this year to be learning from a senior leader. I always salute and admire how he manages to stay steadfast in God, holding on to his faith and his ministry for so many years despite the ups and downs. I learnt that his staying power and “stamina” comes from pressing on and fixing his eyes not on man or circumstances, not on success or failures, but on God, and God alone. This is real “spiritual stamina”!

Remember what Ps Gary always said about IGNYTE Mighty Warriors? As we prepare our hearts for camp and the new year, let’s have in us the “stamina” of a Mighty Warrior!

He trains my hands for battle;
my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
You give me your shield of victory,
and your right hand sustains me;
you stoop down to make me great.

Psalm 18: 34-35

Signs of Revival

2007-10-26T11:37:00.000+08:00

Signs of Revival

I think the title is enough to put some thoughts into our minds?

Some of you have finished your exams and others still have major exams to clear, but regardless, this question is real isn’t it? Deep within us, we want something that is awesome, real and life changing. Some of us have been in IGNTYE for less than a year and for some, donkey years!!!

But if you really have been catching the heartbeat of IGNYTE, you will understand that it is to bring revival to this generation and beyond. What would take God to open up the rivers of revival into IGNYTE ministry? I don’t have the ready made answers but let me offer you some thoughts that may points us to signs of revival.

Jesus said in John 14:12 says we will do greater works than these. That means that we are called to do greater exploits than ever before. But to do greater works, I believe there are few things that as a child of God we must do:

Rise up to the Calling

– we must learn to surrender daily to God, allow him to work within us, change us around so that we can be ready to fulfill his purpose. We must always remember to live is Christ, to die is gain. But not just surrendering but rising up and stand counted for Jesus.

See the Unsaved as lives and not Projects

– We are not here to promote ignyte ministry, we are here to do God’s work for IGNYTE ministry. Many times, when we reach out to our friends, we see them as another project and not lives. Because of this, our attitude for reaching out often ends in disappointments and discouragements. But when you see them as precious lives, you are not worried about rejection or how many times the person has said no to you but you can persevere and believe for their salvation.

Prayers of the Saints

– We are called to rule and reign with Christ Jesus. That means we have the authority to trample over every thing that exalt itself against the knowledge of God. The WAY TO DO IT IS TO PRAY! Many of us are good in personal prayer, like ‘Lord, please help me, bless me etc..’ but revival prayers comes with the saints crying out to God saying ‘ Lord my life is yours, use me as you please, bring revival to my schools, army camps, Lord I want to see you move!’ Sometimes it takes a while for our prayers to be answered but God hears our prayer and he answers it by his divine timing!

Unity in the Body of Christ

– It is important to be united on one purpose and in one spirit. The church in the book of Acts Chapter 2 displays all the traits of unity. They were of one heart, they were outward looking and not inward looking. They encourage one another, motivate one another. Because of that, the bible records that many were added daily to the church! If we learn to love one another, accept each other weakness and grow each other in our faith in God, we will be able to be a strong voice to the world.

These are not exhaustive of course but this is how I feel for ignyte ministry right now. For those who are in holidays, I want you to consider how you can spend your time effectively for God and allow him to use you. When you go for outings with friends in your school, how you can invite them to church. For those who are having exams, consider how you can be a blessing to your classmates and friends.

IGNYTE warriors, let’s us not lose track of the vision but march forward and believe for greater things! Amen??

PGC

5 loaves and 2 fishes

2007-10-05T10:47:00.000+08:00

It always touches me how God uses the small, the weak, the least significant things/people to do His most amazing and powerful works and miracles. (1 Cor 1:27)

Through a wooden staff, He brought His people out of Egypt

He anointed a shepherd boy as King

A manger was the birth place of Jesus

He spoke through a donkey.

Recently, one of these miracles that impacted me greatly is one that is very close to my heart, or rather, my stomach. Haha…it is about food.

While listening to Corrinne May’s latest album, the lyrics of “Five Loaves & Two Fishes” was a big reminder for me. During that season, I was going through road blocks in my life and they seemed impossible to overcome. Sometimes I would just cry myself to sleep (yes, I do cry), because the hurt and the pain I experienced made me feel so small and insignificant. It seemed that nothing I do matters anymore. Slowly, I begin to feel the fire and passion within me die out.

But as I listened to the chorus…

Take my five loaves and two fishes
Do with it as you will
I surrender
Take my fears and my inhibitions
All my burdens, my ambitions
You can use it all
To feed them all / I hope it's not too small / You can use it all

… a small lump formed in my throat, and before I could control myself, tears were streaming down. It is just so true. So what if I’m small? So what if I’m insignificant?? If God can use a boy’s lunch to meet the needs for over 5000 men, women and children, what more can He do with my life? All I have to do is to present myself to God and let Him do the rest. Why do I have to worry that what I am doing may mean nothing? 5 loaves and 2 fishes are probably nothing to thousands of hungry people, but in God’s hands, they fed the thousands till everyone ate their fill. A friend once reminded me, “We are not saviors of the world, but our God is.”

So let’s just leave everything in His mighty hands.

I often think about that boy
When I am feeling small
And I worry that the work I do
Means nothing at all
But every single tear I cry
Is a diamond in His hands
And every door that slams in my face
I will offer up in prayer
So I'll give you every breath I have
Oh Lord, you can work miracles
All you need is my "Amen"

Bro Aaron

The Coolest thing~!!

2007-10-02T11:50:00.000+08:00

The coolest thing happened at service last week!! Not very ordinary..... and... cool! =D heh.

Was on stage when P.Gary asked us to fix our eyes on the screen.

Since my view to the screen's kinda...blocked, i just kinda swept my eyes across the chapel la, looking through darkness for nothingness hahahha. Thennnnnnnnn, suddenly i saw heads bobbing up&down, and again, there on the corner of my eye i see some MORE heads sailing through the aisles! All these..in the midst of *KABOOM*s and *BANG*s and machine gun shots. Later at almost a blink of the eye, i saw that lights were on some of those fierce looking men pointing their rifles on some of the folks!!! rawrrrrrrrrrr! There was even this guy who was pointing right at P.Gary la! Then..everyone left just as soon as they came.

Just as everyone was buzzing around, wondering what was going on, our lively host came in with COOL NEWS!!!! C.A.M.P!!!!!!

One annoying thing though .... camp, army men, surprise "attack".... what has camp got to do with the setting just now? And what was all that about?! HMMMMMM.................... Arhhh.... ohwells! Ha~

But hey, i must say though, it was pretty cool to have a feel of those funky army-fying stuff.. *grin*. =D

Francesca

what to do when you don't know what to do????

2007-09-25T10:51:00.000+08:00

Have you even caught in that situation before??? I remembered in my most vivid memory was, doing my Math Paper . Out comes the question and you just stare blank blank, blink blink and hopefully there is some magical ink that will surface for you to see and write.

I think sometimes it like that in my walk with God. When I faced with big challenges, I really do not know what to do! Surprise? Pastors are also human too!!! In my mind there are always three options! What are they? Well maybe you can identify,

Run away!!!! (Easiest and the best options)
Don’t care!!! ( Can't be bothered, wait for things to happen)
Take Courage, FACE IT! (Siong man)

If you are neither of this, then something wrong with you!! hahaha kidding., but isn't it.. option 1 and 2 the easiest way out?

Often, Option 3 is the hardest to do but actually this is what God wants his children to do, is to take courage and face it.

God has to remind Joshua the young commander who was leading the entire nation to take courage and face it and he repeated three times!!! God did not tell him the solution but first take courage and be strong. i think young Joshi was caught in that situation, "What to do Lord????" "Why me????" But he made the decision to be strong and courageous even though he was not sure what to do at first.

You see, God only reveals his plans to us ! when we say Lord we want to be strong and courageous. It is not the ot her way round. So friends, when you are caught in that situation that tempts you to go to option 1 and 2. Always remember young Joshi who made option 3 as the best way to go! Remember, be strong and courageous!

Pastor Gary
IGNYTE Ministry
His Purpose . My Generation
http://www.trinity.net/IGNYTE

Have you ever...?

2007-09-18T10:08:00.000+08:00

Just 2 weeks ago I went for a 4 days holiday in.........

SINGAPORE.... :)

Wahahaha... Actually i have planned for a trip in Tioman or Rendang, but some precious brothers of mine (You probably know who?? Ha...) pull out of the trip last minute and I had to settle for LOCAL holiday.

As it turns out, the experience of a local holiday is not too bad, in fact it's GREAT~!!!

Who says we can ONLY have fun OVERSEAS??? Local can be just as FUN! >.<

So guess what, i decided to do something out of the ordinary - Dive with the SHARKS~!!!

WOOO HOOOO~!!! Ha ha...

This is one of the picutes from the diving experience~!

Have you EVER had an Eagle-Ray (Sting-Ray) as big as about 60-70cm swam around you?

Have you EVER touch the belly of a Sting-Ray as it swam pass you above your head? (It's really Smooth... Hmmm... and Nice... Hmm... Suddenly Adam Hawker comes to mind... I wonder why...)

Have you EVER had a Sting-Ray eating out of your hands?

Have you EVER swam beside a shark?

Have you EVER hug a leaopard shark in your arms? (I was a little tempted to kiss it actually, but decided not to after touching it... You go guess why)

A great experience it was.... :) Btw, if you are thinking of going... Erm... sorry folks, you must be at least 21 years old... :P

Although it was kind of like just swimming in a huge aquarium, I am already very impressed with the creation of God - the fishes, eagle-ray, sharks.

I consider the vast ocean on earth and the millions of sea creatures and Genesis 1 comes to mind... The greatness of God... Wow... Our God is a great God!

Hey folks, I just want to encourage you,

Recently I heard that some of our IGNYTE people are feeling rather discouraged because they did not do so well for their examination.

A reminder of the principles I shared with you during service:

You reap what you sow principle (If you have given your best, Dont worry)
Seek Ye first the Kingdom of God principle (If we honor God and put God first, God will honor us)
It all works for the good of those who love Him principle (An exam result will not change our great destiny that God has for us! - God has great plans for His people - Jeremiah. God can turn it all around)

Just like the reminder that God gave me during my diving experience, let's remember that our God is BIG, real BIG.

Trust in Him. Amen?

NDchen

Jigsaw Puzzle

2007-09-05T20:14:00.000+08:00

Phew! I never know that fixing a jigsaw puzzle can be so eye straining until I fixed one.

I came across the game at msn and I decided to give it a try, thinking it may be easy. So after passing so many easy levels, I moved on to the hard level. To my surprised, it was really tough to fix as all the puzzles look the same to me and I had a hard time finding the right one to fix at the right corner. I was on the verge of giving up but my friend who was fixing together with me asked me to continue. She had the feeling that I was losing my cool, if you know me well, I am quite impatient. Ha-ha. But seriously, I felt frustrated and wanted to close the window. Anyway, I hanged on there for another 15 minutes trying very hard to figure out the pieces and fix them up. Eventually, I gave up and closed the window. Then I thought to myself: ‘If only I had persevered on....’

It is easy to fix a puzzle at an easy level and you will have the sense of satisfaction when all the loose pieces form a full picture. And then you move on the hard level, it gets tougher for you to have the loose pieces to form a full picture, perhaps more time needed to complete it.
As Christian, we need to know our destiny in God. Just like fixing the jigsaw puzzle, we will not know our destiny until we embark on the journey of searching. Fixing a puzzle, we need time to find the loose pieces, the harder level, and the more time we need. As we begin to embark on the journey of searching, God will reveal different things at different timing, you begin to have bits and pieces of your life which God has crafted for you.
As you grow older in your Christian faith, you will see that slowly God will not reveal as many things as before and this is where you need to seek God, hear from him the directions of your life. Many times, we tend to give up because we misunderstand that God is supposed to reveal everything to us. Right? Or we thought that God will show everything and have wonderful plans for you ahead then the end.

I mean, yes God has great plans for everyone but to a certain point of life, we need to learn to come before God and seek ye first. It is only when we come before him; let him know our desires and he will then give us the directions. I agree that we may feel frustrated when we do not see the full picture forming, but we do not just give up easily because we need to persevere! God wants us to hang on there in the midst of searching, so as to build up our faith and character. When the time is ripe, God will reveal more things and that you can have a complete picture.

It is not easy once you embark on the journey but always know that you are not alone walking through the journey, God is with you. You will encounter struggles and go through trials in the midst of searching also, but choose to trust in God and believe that he always have the best for you! Just like the jigsaw puzzle, we persevere until we find the last piece to have a complete picture. When you have the full picture and you look back at how God has directed you, you will still have to say ‘You have been good.’
James 1:3-4 says because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Therefore, are you on this journey yet if not embark on it and I promise that it will be a fulfilling one. =)

You have a destiny in God because you are a child of God!

Sister Esther

They need a Miracle!

2007-09-05T20:01:00.000+08:00

I was having my favourite peanut butter toast at Vivo City today when I bumped into a new-found friend whom Ive just met this week. Amazingly, this is the 3rd time that I am seeing her …in a short span of 5 days!

I first met her on Tuesday while waiting for the kindergarten bus to drop off my 3-year old niece at the foot of my block. As I was on M.C that day, I wanted to give my niece a surprise by “picking her up”. I’ve never had the chance to do so as I’m always at work during daytime. As this lady was also waiting for her son and there weren’t much for us to do while waiting, we started chatting. The 2nd time we met was during the National Day holiday. I was having breakfast with my sister and niece at the food centre when Mrs Tan and her family walked by. When she saw me and my sister, she came by to have a friendly conversation.

Ok, back to my peanut butter toast story… As I sat there, I felt it strange that I would meet Mrs Tan on 3 separate occasions in a short span of 5 days. So, I asked God, ‘God, are you trying to tell me something here?’ At that moment, I remembered that I had picked up 2 additional copies of the ‘I Need A Miracle’ brochure so that I could invite my colleagues in the coming week. I told myself that once I’m done with my food, I would walk over and pass one of the brochures to Mrs Tan. In fact, I was rather pleased with the idea and was really determined to walk up to her later.

However, when I was almost done and attempted to look towards Mrs Tan’s direction, she wasn’t there anymore! She’s gone! I felt awfully upset for having missed the opportunity to hand her the brochure containing many testimonies. God, how could I let the opportunity slip by?! Why I was so slow?! Somehow, a similar incident came to mind. Well, I was on the MRT when I saw this elderly woman who looked really sick and was leaning on the shoulders of a teenage gal (probably her grand daughter). At that moment, something within me told me that I should walk up and pray for the sick lady. As I found it awkward to so in the train, I told myself that I would alight at the stop with them wherever it might be so I could find a more appropriate spot to pray for the elderly lady. The ‘divine’ moment came and the pair alighted. I followed them and squeezed through the crowd to get out of the train. Once I was out of the train, my eyes roamed frantically to look for the pair. Unfortunately, I lost sight of them and the precious moment to pray for the elderly lady was gone in just a few seconds!

As I sat there staring at my last piece of the peanut butter toast, I was really upset and disappointed with myself for not acting on the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Yes, on both occasions, I had been self-centered and had placed my own comfort and convenience above what is important to God. While lamenting over what had happened, God implanted an idea in my mind. Perhaps it was a way that God has allowed me to ‘redeem’ myself. I realized that I could attach a short note to the brochure and ask my domestic helper to pass it to Mrs Tan the next day i.e., when they meet while waiting for the school bus. I thank God for this wonderful idea and opportunity to ‘redeem’ myself this time round. For the MRT incident, sigh…. the chance had slipped by ….

If you think that God has called you to reach out to your generation (His Purpose. My Generation), good for you! = ) But I believe that God has greater things in-store for you and me! It’s not only our generation who needs Jesus, folks. For those in Z2, you would remember me sharing 3 weeks ago about how my ‘target’ list has always included the same old group of people. But as I prayed for God to bring new people into my life and create new opportunities or me to reach out them, people around me (some of whom I don’t even know of their existence) started to come up to me and share their problems. My friends, don’t hesitate to exercise audacious fervor in asking God to open doors and create opportunities for you to reach out to those around you -- your teachers, your CCA mates, your primary school friends, your neighbors, your cousins (the list is endless)

Alrightie… I am taking a 20-minute drive to my auntie & uncle’s place to pass them the ‘I Need A Miracle’ brochure and invite them to come for the evangelistic event. It’s 10pm and it’s raining out there. But it’s not going to be a deterrent for me. I do not want to let another opportunity slip by.

Seize the opportunity to be a blessing to someone! I’ve learnt my lesson.

Sis Cheryl

How Big is Our God?

2007-08-14T09:34:00.000+08:00

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of having a short holiday at Cameron Highlands. Aside from the bumpy roads and houseflies, I enjoyed every minute of it, appreciating the scenery and God's Creation. I am convinced that we serve a Creative God.

The bible says in Isaiah 45:18
For this is what the LORD says-
he who created the heavens,
he is God;
he who fashioned and made the earth,
he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty,
but formed it to be inhabited.

Indeed, God loves us so much that He decided to decorate and fashion Earth as an interesting place for us to live in. Within a span of just 6 days, He created the sun and the moon, the mountains and the seas, the flowers and all living creatures, and most importantly, He created us --- each of us creatively and uniquely different.

It puzzles and amazes me till now that the God of Wonders who made the majestic mountains is the exact same Creator who made me. How big is God?

Here is a picture that I took at Cameron Highlands.

I tried to measure the size of God through this verse in Isaiah 40: 12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?
Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,
or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?

God measured the earth by the 'breadth of His Hands'! Try stretching your fingers and measure how long is the distance between your thumb and your little finger --- This is how God measured Earth! God is much bigger than the hills at Cameron Highlands! In fact, He is much much BIGGER. Those who study Physics will know what a 'light year' is. Light moves at a velocity of about 300,000 km each second. So in one year, it can travel about 10 trillion km. More precisely, one light-year is equal to 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers.

So can you imagine how Big God is?

Not only did God created the living creatures, He made sure they look good as well, like the beautiful flowers below. (also taken during my trip)

But to me, the most amazing thing is the same God who is so huge beyond our imagination, has the same dedicated Pair of Hands that created all the individual habitants on Earth. He is the same God who held our hands and be our Father and our Friend, and the same God who pursues us with His Love.

Isaiah 49: 16
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands...

This verse, again from Isaiah, shows how much God loves us. In fact, He is no different from those madly in-loved people who tattoo the names of their loved ones on their arms!*

What more can I say? Are you confident that the God of such sheer size is bigger than all the problems you face in life? Are you convinced that God cares and watches out for you, and you are significant in the eyes of God? Are you convicted by the Love of the Creator and the Father today?

If you are not, then maybe God is saying to you the same thing that He said to Job,

Job 37:14
Listen to this, Job;
stop and consider God's wonders.

Be blessed by the Pursuing Love of God today!

*Disclaimer: Please don't go tattooing yourself though... Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, please don't hurt it!

Sis Yinting

Onward Singapore

2007-08-10T12:12:00.000+08:00

Hi Mighty Warriors!

Just want to share some thoughts with you today. Have you ever wondered the meaning of our national anthem you sing everyday in your school? Perhaps most of us sang it out of obligation, we sang because it just a national anthem. I have the same attitude when I was in school. Why must I sing? It seems like no meaning! The English title for our national anthem is called, Onward Singapore! It speaks of marching, moving forward as one, to emerge as a strong nation.

As I was watching the national day parade, I was filled with awe. It is a miracle where a nation where there is no natural resources could survive and go on from a third class country to a first class country. Her resource is only people like you and I that will make Singapore known. I want you to know that God has called you and I here to make a difference in our nation. Maybe you don’t feel really what’s the big deal about being a Singaporean, but if you really take time to go to national library to find out about our history, I assure you that you will be amazed at how God could raise up a nation this far. The bible says in Proverbs, that ‘Righteousness exalts a nation!”

I want to encourage you to pray for our nation. You and I have a part to do in this country in the days to come. So now how can you contribute to the nation? Simple, when you gather for national anthem, as you are singing, pray in your heart, pray that God will continue to use this nation to touch the world. Through the progress of the nation, people will marvel the greatness of God in this nation. Let’s make it count for our Lord Jesus in this land he has placed us in!

Onward Singapore!

Pastor Gary

The Holy Spirit

2007-08-01T17:02:00.000+08:00

John 15:17
If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever- 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
NIV version.

Jesus speaks of this counselor who is the Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit is no less than the Father and the son. All of them have equal status and none is lesser than one another. He give us strength to withstand the pressures of the world. In Ezekiel 36:27 ‘I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues, and you will keep my judgment and do them. He is gentleman who does not force but guides us to God’s will and we have to make a conscious effort to walk close with the Holy Spirit.

Many times, we get the wrong idea that by speaking in tongues is not expression of the power of the Holy Spirit but it is a gift and evidence that Holy Spirit lives in us. It does not mean when we speak in tongues more, it means we are more holy but by speaking it, it edfies and encourage our spirit within. That is why we must move beyond just speaking in Tongues but to fellowship with the Holy Spirit daily so that we can know Him intimately.

When we commune with the Holy Spirit, our thoughts and actions begins to change. Our heart finds the courage to stand firm in what we believe, what we have learnt in FUEL will help us apply to our everyday living. I want to challenge you to expect God to speak to you through your TAWG. It’s time to jump into the supernatural because God wants to put his heart into ours!

We live in a spiritual world in a natural reality. We may not see it but we can feel it just like how we experience in our times of worship. We know something wonderful in the atmosphere but we can’t see it but we experienced it. The greatest battle we will face is choosing between the human and the supernatural. Our culture and our education system teach to us to depend on our own flesh, our own reasonings, our own mind and even our own past experiences. But if you want to truly experience the power of the Holy Spirit in your life, you have to strive to live a life of Obedience and Faith for things yet unseen. Only then, you can tell the whole world about the great things God has done in your life. Since when Great man or woman of God accomplish great things without first going through trials and sufferings but they depended on the Power of the Holy Spirit to fulfill God’s will in their lives. I like what Zech 4:6 says, “It not by might and not by power but by the Spirit says the Lord!”

P Gary

A little blog from our Fran...

2007-08-01T16:33:00.000+08:00

July was a super exciting month i say!!

why??

simple. =)

1. MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!! mwhahahahhaa. Along with MANY happening people's birthdays.=) candy, kim, grace, marcus, and my lovely friends in PL (yve,ber,etc)!

2. our very FIRST and very much YIPEEEEE combined IGNYTE event!!

3. i had my lovely sleepoverssss!! (and a lot of secrets spillers.=P)

4. embarkation of SS (Sporty Sundays)!!!!!!!=D ahahaha... like, every sunday a good bunch of us'd go sporty-people-ing. =P be it bball or soccer or blading or cycling.. as long as its sports!! we're on.=D

5. and many other random stuffs i think yguys might get bored about ahahahhhah.=P

Now, along with these yipadeedoodah stuffs also came the departure of several ppl and things...

1. vivian and joy(my fellow alpha tracker) leaving singapore for their new season in other countries..

2. went through a season of discovering how heartfelt people closest to your heart can kinda drift apart due to you-dont-exactly-know-what kind of a reason..

3. some other thoughts that leaves us wondering what the future holds that kind of a thing.=)

Well for one, i do know that it is in this month that God has been re-living and sealing the dreams i've known and had in the past few months.Ever wondered how sometimes, as more and more problems come tumbling down in the various different areas of your life, you can actually find yourself stuck in a familiarly unfamiliar spectrum of just being very much alone? not the "nobody loves me,everybody hates me" kind of a basis, but more of the...alone and away from the heartish bonds that really REALLY matter to you,while on the surface,everything is A-ok!.

Its like, with people you look up to when troubles come, those you go to for comfort, advice, etc... Somehow things just orchestrates themselves in such a way whereby you are left quite "far" away from them when you need them most. i know. i've been there. =) and i sure didnt like it. didnt like it at all... =]

But then. God's voice only grew stronger and stronger in this above mentioned period.

As men's voice went dimmer, Daddy's voice came in brighter... ynoe guys, this is sth that hit me pretty strongly. =P

y'see... many times we get into this whole pendulum of being a good child of God and taking up a whole lot of matured ideas on how to grow and groom ourselves (and fellow friends), that this facadification of having good advice and all (having people constantly encouraging and affirming us), can actually come in our way in our pursuit to reach God Himself.

When was the last time you let God Himself tell you that He enjoyed your service to Him, rather than letting your leader's affirmation serve as the sole motivation for you to serve? ynoe how sometimes certain songs just get stuck in your head over different seasons of your life? =)

Well, there is this song thats been very very VERY close to my heart since may, while i was in a certain peak moulding season in alphatrack. It goes: Lord, i want to know You more, deep within my soul i want to know You, Lord i want to know You, To feel Your heart and know Your mind, Look in to Your eyes stirrs up within me, A cry that says i want to know You, Lord i want to know You more...

and guess what? for my birthday, my beautiful bunch of leaders gave me this great book entitled "to know You more" . Neat huh. =) Exactly what i need. =D so....KEEP THE PRAYERFUL SPIRIT ALRIGHT GUYS!!!!!!!! i mean, i find it really amazing how, to know Him more, really, all we need to do is keep that prayerful and worshipful life ongoing.. =D

hahahah.. ok as you would've noticed by now, i'm a very random blogger...=) if you ask me, i'd say i LOVE the prayer chain we had for Played Out.. =P had to take time off various schedules (BIRTHDAY PARTY hahahaha, rehearsals, etc), to pray with dear Ann and Julian. =) And!! It binds the buzz group tighter in prayer, unity, and also in His love. =) But of course, dont just stop at prayer chain la!!! right Lyanne?? =P NOW is the time to step OUT and step UP. I'm really excited to see different ones of you rise up yo!!!! Esp those i've met up with hehehe...=D LETS GO FAN THE FLAME YEAHHH!!!!!!!!

Anws...Something thats really CLOSEST to my heart now is...well, hahaha..something that God just reminded me of several days ago. And.... hehehe...its not exactly anything complicating or "wong".. just sth very simple, but significant. Very, significant.=] Why am i here in IGNYTE ministry, right now, in this season of time.

Have you ever been in a situation or experienced a calling that have in time, grown to become a going? but when the going got going, y'just kinda go without knowing which direction the calling's coming to? and things just get kinda abstract-ish, but you're actually still going on the right path.

Only, without the the calling CALLING OUT to you constantly in heading to THE path. Well for one, i'm quite certain that this kinda thing is bound to happen some time in your life. You go, without knowing exactly where/why you're going. Chasing something without knowing how to grab it. Its like, dangling a carrot in front of a rabbit (having it tied around its head kind of a thing) and making the rabbit chase after it endlessly. You go in the direction where you lead yourself to. But hey...=) we dont have to always feel like a rodent running aimlessly, going all around in circles thinking we're on the right track (with our 'goal' -the carrot- still in focus), while at the end of the road realising that we actually end up at the very same place where we started off. We have much more to a chase than just an aimless race.

Me, i get reminded of this illustration every time i find myself going into this situation... =] By Tommy Tenney:

Its like playing chase with my daughter. Often as she arrives home from a day of school, we play this little game that countless fathers and children play around the world. When she comes and tries to catch me, even with my hulking frame, i really dont have to run. I just artfully dodge this way and then that, and she cant even touch me, because a 6 year old just cant catch an adult. But thats not really the purpose of the game, because a few minutes into it, she laughingly says, "Oh daddy," and its at that moment that she captures my heart, if not my presence or body. And then i turn and she's no longer chasing me, but I'm chasing her, and i catch her and we tumble in the grass with hugs and kisses. The pursuer becomes the pursued.

So can we catch God? Not really, but we can catch His heart. David did. And if we catch His heart, then He turns and chases us. Thats the beauty of being a God chaser. You're chasing the impossible, knowing its possible. and so you see... things and people close to your heart may lose focus certain times along your path of life.. But one pursuit that you can always claim beautiful, is really, this pursuit of being a God chaser. I think through the past 19 years of my life... if there was ONE thing i've learnt more than anything else, and if i could choose ONE thing to stay on unwavered for the rest of my life, it'd be for me to be a God chaser. Being a God chaser means i dont have to chase after anything else not knowing why and how i'm chasing after what i'm chasing after. =]

What are you chasing after today?

LIZARDS? ALL RITEE! =P

2007-07-19T09:30:00.001+08:00

It’s been what…many days after the Thailand missions trip and thou things are back to normal, having to be a humble housewife for now (my parents are in Korea =( and while cleaning the house periodically, I had spine chilling encounters with e fourth kind – creepy crawlies which drop out of nowhere, arrghhhh!) and preparing school stuff for my P3 kids, I feel that I’m living my life with a renewed passion and greater purpose.

So many things went on during missions…

Just like how I was forced to stare at my NEMESIS – lizards! (there were lizards in the hotel room and the house of the Thais ^__^) in the face and refused to let them affect me while ministering for God. In my personal life, I was faced with some aspects of an unpleasant past which God is asking me to move on from. It was difficult and there was a struggle but as I chose to do it, God was faithful and ta da! a breakthrough!

From God’s powerful presence during simple times of worship to praying with faith from His word and stepping out to unknown grounds to share about God, it was AWESOME! =) The Thais also showed me what it means to truly serve God and His people with heartfelt devotion, it really taught me to be more appreciative of people and things around me!

I also saw how the basics (which we take for granted at times) like prayer, worship and turning to Him for everything, are so impt for us to grow and experience the victories God has intended for us!

I learnt so much! And I pray that I’ll reflect all these in my life and inspire those around me!

“Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord”
Romans 12: 11

Coco

Another lizard experience

2007-07-10T22:17:00.000+08:00

As I took my first step into the toilet on a sleepy tired night, my heavy eyelids were suddenly lifted up and my eyes widened. Back in NUS hostel, i was known to be the lizard catcher/chaser amongst my friends cos i'm a kampong girl from Malaysia and I AM NOT FEARFUL OF LIZARDS.

BuT BUT BUT, i don't really like it when they suddenly appear in front of you especially when you're in the toilet and you want to brush your smelly teeth! So, with all my might and courage, I took the shower hose and turned the tap to full and BIIISSSSHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I tried to drown the lizard by using the water to push it into the toilet hole (whatever you call it). I couldnt believe that I killed the lizard that way.

Oh lizard-feared people, let's Praise God. But as I was brushing my teeth and thinking about Lcamp & Mission Trip, I was rather amused by the scene which I just created and thought how appropriate it was to see our lives being occupied by fears sometimes. Mission trip in Thailand was something which God has called me to go beyond my fear of rejection by strangers, fear of language barrier, fear of failure and even fear of riots.

All we did was trust God and He will surely give us strength. Pgary addressed this issue in Lcamp that we all should take the authority of God and pray against the works of the enemy. Friends, this is the season to be victorious and overcome the negative mindsets and fears in our lives. Don't give in to the devil anymore.

Lizards are just lizards, full stop. love deep deep,

Brenda Errrrrrr

Played out - reality bites

2007-07-03T13:48:00.000+08:00

Dear IGNTIANS!

How many of you can testify at the ‘Played Out’ event that God’s spirit was really moving in the hearts of your friends?

Our very 1st combined evangelistic event just goes to show that when everyone makes an effort to bring their friends, things can happen. I believe many of you were touched and blessed by the drama. I was personally impacted by the true story of Sister Carol and Brother Eric. You know what? Both of them are true testimony of transformation by the power of God.

Their change in life is not because one fine day they decided to but because they found Jesus and they realized that only He can bring hope and love to change their live. I want you to know when you bring your friends to God; his love will come and change them from the inside out. We thank God for the 60 salvations in IGNYTE ministry, one of the biggest numbers of decisions to date in a single event. Truly, God is moving in our generation.

Prayer is the key to win the spiritual battles against the evil ones. When we pray, the enemy will have to flee because of our faith and authority in Jesus Christ. I want to encourage those whose friends have yet to receive Jesus. 2nd Peter 3:9 says that the Lord is not slow in keeping his promise as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance. God wants your friends to be saved but we must be faithful to witness and to continually war over the souls over our friends.

As the Pastor over IGNYTE ministry, I am proud of all of you. For those who served in the production, who sacrificed time and little sleep. Those who really went all out to do salting at Bishan, salting at the event itself, this is really a happening ministry. May the glory of God continue through this ministry so that all people will be drawn to God, IT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE HARVESTING. Can you say a loud amen? =p

Love you all!

Pastor Gary

Seize the seconds

2007-06-26T18:08:00.000+08:00

Seconds was all it took.

Seconds from this:

To this:

Just like that. I was a winner of an auction, and suddenly in a matter of seconds, I lost my bid. SECONDS. And this wasn’t the worst bid. There was once when I bidded and I was actually the winner until like the last 1 second, then suddenly, I lost! :O

I mean it was terrible! One second I was so excited about getting my camera, and the next second, I was left with a “you’ve been outbidded” phrase.

How fleeting the moments are on ebay. ): and up til now, I haven’t won a single auction via bids. I normally have to find those buy it now buttons then click on them, and win it. If not, I’d always lose to these sneaky bidders who always bid so late! GRRRRR…

But more than that, I think there’s a valuable lesson to be learnt here. In life, sometimes, it’s the seconds that really count. It could be that spilt second when you’re walking past this friend in school that you’re not exactly close to, and suddenly, you just feel like, maybe he’s having a bad day, and you wanna say something, but you let that moment slip by, and then its gone.

Or perhaps you see one of those quiet classmates at the bus stop, and in a spilt second, you figure, maybe you can strike up a conversation, and then your bus comes and the moment passes you by.

I’ve had my fair share of spilt seconds. I will never forget this day in JC. I was pushing my way through the crowd, and trying to get to my next class. In the midst of the sea of people, I saw her, a classmate from my secondary school. She was all the way at the other end of the throng of people, and it was so packed, and in that spilt second, I felt the urge to just shout out her name, “HEY! HEY! How’s it going?”. I felt the urge to say hello, and smile. I felt the urge to yell but in the midst of that crowded corridor, and the jostling folk, I let that spilt second pass me by. No big deal, I’ll see her tomorrow.

Tomorrow never came.

That morning as I entered the school hall, a solemn hush filled the air, and a teary eyed friend told me that that afternoon, the very afternoon when I had the urge to say something to her, she went home to her 20 storey high home, slipped off her shoes, placed them neatly beside her school bag, folded her glasses and arranged it by the shoes and the bag, then she leaped.

She leaped.

That one leap opened up a whole sea of questions for so many people. That step off the ledge, crushed so many dreams that her parents had. That jump off ended a life so full of potential, a journey that could lead to anywhere. The world was her oyster and in her hand she could’ve held that precious pearl.

That leap, made me wish so hard, that if for a moment I could turn back the clock, I would’ve yelled out across the throng and the hordes that day in that crowded corridor. I would’ve called out her name, and smiled and asked her if she was doing ok. That was my spilt second, and that was the spilt second that I felt, in my heart of hearts that perhaps if anyone had done that, the act of stopping and giving that spilt second to a friend by just saying hello or sharingn something, or sharing Jesus, these are the spilt seconds that changes things. These are the spilt seconds that changes a person’s life. These are the spilt seconds that save lives. These are the spilt seconds that create destinies.

With the up coming July event, seize the seconds friends. Ask your friends, to head down with you. If they reject you its ok, continue to be a friend. A good one who reads them well, a good one who knows when are the right moments to sweep in to make that difference. In the July event, when there’s an altar call, turn around, and perhaps your eyes may meet someone else’s eyes, and then in that spilt second, you have to make a choice. Do you go up to start the conversation to ask them if they wanna know more about Jesus? Or in that spilt second, do you avoid the confrontation and just pretend that the chair in front of you suddenly grew some very interesting fabric patterns. But more than the July event, its about the everyday seconds that we miss out.

Up until today, I wish, I so wish I had caught hold of those spilt seconds. Its ok that I lost that camera, but its not ok that I lost a friend.

Seize the seconds.
Relish in the minutes.
Bask in the hours.
Embrace the days.
Savour the weeks.
Revel in the months.
Glory in the years that God has given.

Time is truly a blessing from God, and time is what we make of it. Seize it.

Sis Raine

Sit back, enjoy!

2007-06-25T00:43:00.000+08:00

I’ve just came back from Hong Kong for my school’s band competition. The weather in Hong Kong is even more unpredictable than Singapore. One moment, it can be as high as 36 degrees Celsius and the next moment, it will be raining heavily with strong winds. Anyway, after the competition on the second day, we brought the kids down to Ocean Park on the third day and I was badgered by the kids to try the roller coaster there.

If you know me well, I have a serious fear of heights. And I think my last roller coaster ride was like so many years ago! So, to be honest, I was really scared yet I wanted a challenge. Sounds familiar? So I went on this roller-coaster, with the band leader, Pamela, sitting next to me. This roller-coaster has 360-degree turns and every time it turned, I wondered why I am on the ride.

It was quite hilarious actually. Pamela was screaming and shouting “Halleluiah!” (for no reason) and I was like, “God!!”. So we sounded like two Christian fanatics throughout the ride.

I was just thinking, many Christians often liken their relationship with God as one roller-coaster ride. This means that their relationship is a tumultuous one; sometimes, you are on a high and sometimes, you are on a low. But what exactly are the characteristics of a roller-coaster ride?

It’s short though it seems long at that time.
You hate it but you love the thrill.
It seems to be going everywhere but you always end up at the same place.
It has highs and lows and 360 degree turns that bring you nowhere.

Hmmm….I think it does make some sense afterall, though not in a negative way. Here are my own reasons:

Sometimes, when we are going through tough times, we feel that the season is exceptionally long. However, when we look back, it seems like it was only a short while afterall.
We hate the moulding parts of our walk but we love the thrill when God whispers to us in our pain or when we have a sudden revelation when reading His word.
Our walk with God seems to take us through different seasons and different places but we always end up at the same place-the fundamental truths about God. Sometimes as we progress in our ministry, we forget that the most important thing is not to strive or to achieve and God will always break us and bring us back to the basics- we are children of God and we love Him because He first loves us. Our walk with God does not hinge on how much we do but who we are in Him.

We do have highs and lows in our relationship with God. But the ‘lows’ are not bad in themselves but they bring us closer to God and are instrumental in our development. Without the valleys, we can never see how high the mountains are. Sometimes, we feel that we are on the verge of breakthroughs only to discover that we are at the same place like the 360 degree turns. But perhaps, God is leading us through the wilderness- because we are to learn desperation and thus, complete dependence on God.

Is your life like a roller-coaster ride today? Perhaps, we should sit back and enjoy the ride because God is teaching us through every turn, every high, every low.

Love, Sis Lee Min

Are you a Hero?

2007-05-24T09:22:00.000+08:00

Hey mighty warriors, how’s everything???

This coming week is so exciting la with the movie special and other events in the coming weeks!

At this point of time, I am with a team of 12 dynamics leaders and youths to go for the Thailand trip! Yes, these were chosen because of their heart and love for the lost. We are preparing our skits so that the people will be blessed! So do pray together with us on this.

You know Spiderman 3 has just come out not too long ago. I am sure many of you have watched the movie already. I have not watched yet but I heard it was quite good, guess I will find some time to watch soon!

Anyway, I had a interesting dream just the other day. I dreamt that I was like the Hero rescuing and fighting against the forces of the enemy. It was pretty cool I must say. I did not exactly wear attire like spidy, batman nor superman. I was wearing ordinary clothes fighting with extraordinary powers. I must say it was so cool la! In fact, some of the youths were teaming up with me to fight against the evil forces. I woke up feeling really good, almost felt real for the moment.

I think in our lives, we all want to be a hero at one point or another. Every hero has one common characteristic. That is they want to save the world! Do you know that God has placed within us powers that are unseen but yet real? God’s word to us is, He has given authority to trample over snakes and scorpions. Sometimes we may not know the power within us to set the captives free, to help the spiritually blind see the light of God. When we unleash it, the power within us will penetrate the darkness of man and bring it to light.

So are you a hero today or a potential hero? A potential hero will always remain a potential but when you become a hero, you become the fulfillment of the promise to the world. The world needs heroes that will show the way, will you?

Blessings, PGC

A reflection

2007-05-17T14:00:00.000+08:00

It's been quite a long time since I added onto the entries of IGNYTE blog. I am quite a mountain turtle- and computers crash on me for no apparent reason so your Sister here is pretty fearful of doing anything extra on it. AND 1 of them is blogging:)

I am finally done with my three years in NYP( FINALLY~) when the entire world of third year poly students had moved on with their lives in March, I had to continue with studies, projects and exams. Pretty depressing when everyone else is enjoying and you are the only ones loitering around in a quiet school.

I remembered that I went into NYP after my A levels, I did not apply to any university. When the whole world thought Vivian was quite a silly girl to enter a poly with decent grades where she graduates with a diploma and her peers with a degree, I decided to follow where I felt my calling was. That three years wasnt easy- far more tedious and treacherous that i thought it could have been. Polytechnic studies- no joke ( and all the poly folks say AMEN!)

Finally, I could join the group of people who can call it quits for studying, I began to take time to reflect on my 3 years. My 3 years in NYP- GRACE abounds. 2 Corinthians 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."

By His grace, my living expenses were taken care of when I was granted a scholarship to study physiotherapy although I had pretty humble grades to speak of. Nothing of straight A's with S papers yet He set me against all odds and provided for my education.

By His grace, I manage to maintain a decent grade point average in my 3 years. That is after failing a particular module's practical for 4 times and taking a total of 8 tests. Despite all the failures, He provided the miracle for me to pass for my very last practical of my study year in the module.

By His grace, He orchestrated good and amazing supervisors in my attachments and i never failed any one and scoring a distinction in my 2nd year.

In the midst of my study years, it was not difficult to throw in the towel. Failing my tests multiple times and having to meet requirements for my scholarship- I often asked God why it had to be me failing.

As I look back, I was regretful for not having to TRUST Him for the best results. 1 Tim 2:13 If we are unfaithful. He remains faithful for He cannot deny Himself yet again reminds me that our Father had never let go of us. Perhaps I failed to realise that my failures were a reminder of His faithfulness that He so wanted me to embrace. Ironically, I felt really honoured because no one else could ever been through what i have to endure but it was an experience God had just for me.

Esther 4 : 14 – Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

I am glad that I knew why I entered NYP for such a time as this.

Sis Vivian

If you don’t try, you won’t know!! – Lesson Learnt from being a Gardener

2007-05-16T14:23:00.000+08:00

“No lah, I cannot one…” was how I reacted when a friend gave me a pot of flowers from Hong Kong. He insisted that I should try gardening, which is not my cup of tea, and I certainly don’t want to break the commandment “Thou shalt not kill”.

In the end, all my excuses like “don’t want to breed mosquitoes”, “this flower might be considered an illegal immigrant here”… didn’t work. I carried that pot of flowers home.

In fact, it doesn’t look like flowers to me at first. The buds still haven’t opened except for one. Here is how it looked like at Day 0.

I thought I might really kill the plant. I don’t have an impressive record when it comes to pets and plants – when I was in primary 2, my pet snail, Janelle, was drowned; my goldfish, Big Eyes, died of toxicity because I fed her too much food (I think); my morning glory plant died before it barely had flowers; my colleagues’ money plant turned from a healthy green to dull yellow under my “tender loving care”… I have 1001 reasons to reject trying this.

But am glad that somehow I decided to give it a try, and can’t believe I actually enjoyed it, even though I felt like an inadequate gardener. And so I am thinking:

If Moses dared not put his staff into the waters, the red sea would not have parted.

If Esther dared not look for the King and present her request, many Jews would have died.

If Gideon dared not step out to be fight the war, the Midianites would not have been defeated.

Inadequacy applies to most great biblical characters. A recent conversation over lunch with a respected senior IGNYTE leader changed my perspective of handling inadequacy. God honors the courage that we have to step out in faith. Courage is not the absence of fear, but it is act of stepping out in spite of that fear. God see our heart, and not our skills.

Even if we fall and make mistakes, we can still grow and learn along the way. (I made quite a big mistake with the plant at first. I mixed 1 part of the fertilizer with 10 parts of water at first, and only realized after a few days that the correct ratio should be 1 to 100 instead… I think I overdosed the plant. Thank God it survived through without being intoxicated. Heh.)

All of us experience inadequacy in different areas of lives. Maybe more applicable for us now is exams --- Even if your grades have not been up to your expectation for the past few months, don’t worry, just step out in faith and give your best shot. Never mind about your past failures and inadequacies, simply take this as a new beginning and try again!

I do freak out during exams too, but every time I enter the exam hall, I will try to recall the bible verse that Sis Limin used to encourage me with when I was doing my A’level exams.

“No king is saved by the size of his army; no warriors escapes by his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save. But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is his unfailing love...” Psalms 33: 16-18

Continue to tout your confidence in God, study hard and be the best student for Jesus! J

Btw, here is how the flowers look like after 2 weeks: (beautiful?)

Sis Yinting

Relentless Belief

2007-05-15T13:11:00.000+08:00

Hi Mighty Warriors!!!

It’s been a long time since I wrote in. Things has been really running fast pace for me and Bro Andy so I did not really have time to write but I promise you that I will try to write an article or some thoughts from my hearts at least once every two weeks. Anyway I feel that I want to share with you in a nutshell what I shared with all of you at the service a couple of weeks back. I pray that as you read, you will remember that God has Relentless Belief in you!

John 20:19-20 and John 21 reveals to us three times Jesus appeared to his disciples. There are three keys we can learn from.

1. His Relentless Belief breaks the Fear Factor

The bible says in 2nd Timothy 1:7 says, God did not give us a spirit of fear but of Power and of love and of sound mind! We must always bear in mind that God has already given us the Power and of love and most importantly the mind of Christ to make the right decision every day in our lives.

2. His Relentless Belief ignite Faith within us

Thomas, one of disciple of Jesus was having difficulties believing the resurrection of Jesus even when his fellow disciples told him that they have witness to it. Jesus knew Thomas’s faith was based on almost to the point of being cynical. Jesus wanted to breakthrough the Door of doubt in his lives. Perhaps some of us have the door of Doubts in our life. Doubts paralyze our faith in God. It disconnects us from the power of God and misleads us to rely on our own abilities to resolve issues. To overcome doubt is to appropriate Faith in our lives and lay claim to the promises of God according to his word!

3. His Relentless Belief renews divine Purpose into our heart

In John 21 shows us another group of disciples were back to the fishing business. I mean these were the people who once followed Jesus. They heard his teachings; they heard him sharing with the end times. They were closer to Jesus than anyone of us in this room but YET instead of doing what they were called to do, they went back to their own favorite line and that is Fishing. But Jesus knew that this was not their destiny and not their purpose.

Sometimes we lose sight of what God’s purpose in our lives. We go to camps, experience transformation. We made promises to God that we will hear and obey his voice to make a difference in the world we live in. what was that? It was the divine purpose that God put in our heart. But alone the way, the pressures and distractions of the world wore us down and we conveniently forget the purpose of God in our lives.

The disciples were called with a divine purpose to preach the gospel to the world but they went back to their own ways. And my prayer is that every mighty warrior in this place will guard and move in the divine purposes of God and we must never forget the purpose of God in our lives. Philippians 2:13 ‘for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

God’s relentless belief brings us to alignment to his will. The purpose of God in our lives will direct us and lead us to enjoy his blessings and the joy of loving him so live in God’s relentless belief because He believes in you!

P Gary

STOP! Hunger Revisited

2007-05-11T09:10:00.000+08:00

Looking at past few services, ever wondered why services couldn't end on time?

So many of us witnessed the beautiful work of God at the altar. This got me thinking much. I've asked God, "What is it Lord? What is it that you wanna do?"

Sometimes i picture my special moments with God when i felt like i was being held by God and sometimes i picture myself holding on the hand of Jesus and walking in a big field towards the sunset. I remembered the many camps that we all went through before, the stillness which captivated me. The thoughts that said, "I wish I could be like this forever" or "God, just take control" or "God, I just wanna be real with You". There and then, I want to be more hungry.

I couldn't remember when was the last time that i got hungry but one thing for sure is that there's a revisit to hunger, one which gets us more hungry when we stop everything and drown ourselves in God.

Love deep deep,
Sis.Brenda

amigos para siempre

2007-05-02T18:49:00.000+08:00

Guess what the title above means?

amigos para siempre means you'll always be my friend,
amigos para siempre means a love that cannot end.
friends for life's not just a summer or a spring.
amigos para siempre..
=]

Grads farewell yesterday..
Well, it was a really bitter sweet time i must say. mostly sweet though, dont worry.=)
haha.. seeing all my close friends transiting out of ignyte, i must say that a part of me really really REALLY miss them so much (already!). yea, the thought of them proceeding on to YAS (at PL! while i'm at adam), not being able to see them every week... man, if i could stop time i would've made the memories last.

but hey, ynoe on sat, as i stood there on stage, looking across the line of my fellow peers as pgary prayed over them... through it all, the intensity of how proud i am of them just wiped off the miss-you-tugs in my heart.

i mean, amongst that line of graduating IGNYTE warriors stood some of whom have walked the path together with me, others whom i've personally seen grow in the Lord as they hung in there through their circumstance. there were also those who've chosen to step out and step UP, who've gone and came back, and they were those, who just mean so much to me --- for just being who they are.

i must say that God's truly blessed me so much with these ppl.
those who were from my crescent cell, SA-PJ-JJ cell, and Lcell.
guys, i love you all so so so much. and i just wanna say that, as how i'm ever so proud to be your friend (and FRAN!), God is ever so proud of yguys (times a million compared to me), for just being the YOU that you are.

keep growing in the Lord, and even as we run this race in different directions, know that with God as our ultimate keeper, we as one body will reach our final destination together. its for the glory of our King!!=D

cuz true friends are the ones that can go separately, without growing apart.=)

crescentcell: remember, we're UNDER HIS WINGS, Princesses, Warriors, Conquerors!!
SA-PJ-JJ cell: UP&ON! for the glory of our Lord!!
Lcell: covenantal relationships in God. new season, new calling!!

These memories are playing like a film without sound.

And as far as i'm concerned, i'm glad i've got the chance to say, that i do believe i love you..=]

much loves,
fran.=)

Blank.

2007-04-26T17:34:00.000+08:00

People had been asking me to blog but seriously, I am feeling a writer’s un-itch. It’s the nemesis of a writer, the blankness that you feel when nothing comes out and all the words seemed wrong. It’s easy to put across a series of alphabets but it can be done almost emotionlessly with the finesse of a polished writer. But the feeler in me refused to do that. I guess that’s the way God made me. I must feel the writing.

Writing has been such a big part of my life. I scribbled and daydreamed of plots and scripts in my head in class when I was a student (opps) and I love buying notebooks and journals to satisfy my fetish. With all the blogs nowadays, it makes writing simpler, convenient and I wonder why teachers are complaining that their students don’t write. Just look at all the blogs!

Anyway, back to the topic of blogging, someone asked me why people blog. We are so scared that people will stumble on our blogs and find out about our hidden feelings and yet we publish it on the world wide web. Is it an irony?

Well…I blog. And I can understand why I do so. I blog because it’s an outlet for me to express and I blog because I want to share how I feel. It’s really as simple as that. And why is blogging so popular? Well…I believe that we all have a need to be known for who we are and we have a need to be heard.

Think about it. As a baby, the first thing we do is to cry. We cry because we have a need and we cry because we want to be heard so that our need will be satisfied. That’s the most primitive, basic, straightforward part of our lives. As we grow older, we put on facades, fake personas, adopt an image and we stop being ourselves and start presenting ourselves as we want it. Some of us even hide our true selves to be someone that we are not. But, in moments of aloneness and when we face the mirror, we know who we really are. And in blogs, this need for attention comes out strongly.

Of course, to under gird all the above, some people do use blogs to present yet another façade or even use it as a tool to criticize. I’m not saying that you cannot be honest in your blog but remember that whatever you say will be permanently etched on people’s minds. And sometimes, the beauty in writing or living lies in what remains unspoken.

I always have this belief. The most talented person in the world is God. Really. So I’ve always thought that God is the most talented writer. Just look at how He chose to communicate. Through the Bible. In fact, God is the most avid blogger. He even published His journal on the world wide web and in different languages. And I believe that God in all His almighty ways had a need too. A need to be known by us and through His word, He is crying out for our attention.

Like Mary in the secret garden, let’s walk through the weeds, pry open the stubble, rub away the clingy moss and reached out for a door that has never been latched. The secret journal is no longer secret and the best writer is waiting to share His thoughts for you.

Lee min

A 'not so serious' Blog :)

2007-04-24T14:02:00.000+08:00

It was late as i, cinderella got home just before 12. I had a late night at work, and coming home was really such a blessing and such a relief.

I opened the door quietly and slipped off my shoes quickly and made my way to the kitchen. I didn't switch on the living room lights because sometimes the lights wake up my mom who sleeps with her room door slightly a jar for ventilation.

Tired from the day, and wanting to get into bed, i looked around for my towel(of course being such a clean freak, i just HAD to bathe before sleeping. Tsk tsk.) But i just couldn't find it anywhere. "Rats" i thought. it must be in my room, by then the kitchen light was on, and suddenly i caught sight of something on top of the wall.

now what ever was that thing. It looked so surreal curved up like that. HRmm... now wait at minute... it looks cold and very much like a.. a... LIZARD!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have i ever told you all how much i absolutely HATE lizards?! they give me the creeps. THose cold sinister eyes that seem to taunt me every time i see them on the wall. They seem to tell me "heh heh heh, i know you're scared of me. i'm 'here to scare the living day lights out of you." And there's just this cold clammy look to them *shudder* and now there was one standing in the way between me and my room. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mustering up all the courage i could, i ran, no wait, i sprinted, no WAIT, i FLEW under that beam and FLEW out again. YUCK YUCK YUCK! The thought of the lizard above me was horrrrriiiibbbllllllleee.. but i did it and by the time i bathed and came back out, it was gone. Phew. But still the lizard came back to haunt me.

In my dreams i dreamt it grew BIG AND FAT but thank God my dad was around, so he caught it for me! (: So there's a happy ending! but i have no idea where that real lizard went to. I'm hoping it just ran back into my brother's room. *shudder* but yes, i can't believe i actually took a picture of it.

Yuck. Boys, eat your heart out. Girls, skip the pictures. The next blog post i'm doing will have better pictures. PRomise. (:

all things bright and beautiful the Lord God made them all. but lizards?! aiyoh... ;)

Raine

How fleeting life is

2007-04-19T09:53:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, i switched on the computer at work and signed into msn as usual. My eyes however caught something a little more unusual.

The headline read something like "33 killed in school shoot out". The worst school shoot out ever in American history had just taken place yesterday.

A young man went into a campus area and without warning shot and killed 32 other people and finally turned the gun upon himself. Just like that. 33 lives snuffed out without warning. And just like that heaps and piles of questions thrown into the air. Families of those who were killed are grieving for their huge loss. Many who died were students. Young, full of life, full of ambition. They could've been the leaders of tomorrow, but yet, in one moment, all that was gone with the squeezing of a trigger.

I guess more than anything guys, this really reminds me that life is so fleeting. Non of those who died knew that they were going to die that morning. Just imagine, you wake up, your last words to your mom before leaving the car may even just be a grunt. Like how parents love to tell you to have a good day and that they love you, and you just say "yeah yeah yeah." and slip out of the car quickly. And you head to class and sit beside the person whom you've always sat next to. And all of a sudden you hear screams and all of sudden before you can react, you see someone pointing something and you, and then suddenly...

How fleeting life is. The bible says that our lives are but a breath. How fleeting that is. How quickly and within the blink of an eye, so many things could happen.

More than anything friends, may we learn to treasure out lives, and the relationships around us.

More than anything may we begin to sense the urgency of the hour and tell our friends of a hope that is alive in our hearts. About a God who hears them when they cry themselves to sleep.

May we open our eyes to see, that there are people who are hurting all around us, and sometimes, we need to take the first step to reach out our hand.

Raine

Winners that were 'SPOT ON'~!

2007-04-05T14:28:00.000+08:00

Ladies and gentlemen~

Here are the teams that took away our top prizes for SPOT ON~!

3rd Prize for Category 1 (13 - 16yrs old)

3rd Prize for Category 2 (17yrs old and above)

2nd Prize for Category 1 (13 - 16yrs old)

2nd Prize for Category 2 (17yrs old and above)

Champion for Category 1 (13 - 16yrs old)

Champion for Category 2 (17yrs old and above)

As promised by the committee, it was fun, fun and fun~!

IGNYTE, stay tuned for more events coming your way~!

SPOT ON Committee

Friends...

2007-03-28T17:55:00.000+08:00

Friends… they are wonderful… like a gift from God… very precious…

It is something that is so important to all of us but many times we failed to acknowledge and appreciate them.

When was the last time you went up to a friend to tell him/her: “Hey, I appreciate you.”?

Think about it:

When we are bored,
And would like to have a good game of basketball or soccer (Or any other sports), who do we go to?

When it seems that we have fallen in love with someone,
Who do we share our excitement and anxiety with?

When we feel lonely,
And would like to talk to someone on the phone, who do we call?

When we achieve success,
Who do we share our success stories with?

When we are frustrated about certain things,
Who do we look for to ‘download’ our frustration?

More often than not, we look for our friends isn’t it?

This is a reminder to appreciate all our friends, all those who chose to stay by our sides even when the going gets tough, all those who despite our imperfection, still accepts us, all those who genuinely cared, loved, laughed, shared, gave and sacrificed…A big ‘THANK YOU’ to all of you…

Just last Saturday, IGNYTE Ministry gathered at SPE for ‘SPOT ON’.

I believe it was more than an event or an activity; rather, it was more like ‘a gathering of friends’…

The smiles and laughers, the teamwork and unity, the shouts of triumphant, they were all genuine. Just watching the different group playing and completing in the various games brought joy to my heart.

To all those of you who played your hearts out at ‘SPOT ON’ last Saturday, well done~! I’m so proud of every one of you who played because what I saw was determination, integrity, fighting spirit and unity.

And of course, regardless whether you went away with vouchers from World of Sports or Island Creamery, at the end of the day, every single one of you is a winner – you have won a greater rapport, a greater friendship, a greater connection with your friends.

Finally, I just want to take this chance to appreciate my greatest friend, one that I have known for as long as 10 years of my life – my Lord Jesus Christ… Thank you Jesus… You are indeed my greatest friend…

Bro Andy

Help, my handphone Batt is running Low!!!

2007-03-22T14:38:00.000+08:00

Have you ever experience times when you forgot to charge your hand phone and just go out? The next thing you know is, you hear a warning signal that tells you the handphone batt is running out fast and knocked out pretty soon! And what happens when your hand phone batt goes flat out? Obviously you can’t message or call the person and immediately you are cut away from hundreds of people connected to you. All of sudden, you feel a part of you just went missing. You begin to feel disconnected with the world and wonder what if someone important decided to give you a call and that you will miss the important piece of information?

Many of Christians today falls in this category! They get charged in church services but once they get out of the church, their battery starts draining out. Probably come Tuesday, they come to a spiritual low batt and next thing they go to a knock out mode where there is no connection with the living Savior who loves to communicate to them everyday! Many disciples live a powerless life today because they have failed to understand the true meaning of having a relationship with Jesus Christ. We always think that our spiritual batt will never go out and it will somehow stay there. But there’s a wrong mentality which needs to be corrected. IGNYTE warriors, if you want to be a mighty warrior, living a victorious life then you need to cultivate a relationship with God.

So how can we get our spiritual handphone charge daily?

Psalms 55:2 says Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you: he will never let the righteous fall. Before I continue, can you speak with deep conviction, say, “I am righteous!” That’s good! The bible tells us that we are called to be righteous. That means you are a person of strong values, living in the power of the Holy Spirit.

In this world we are living, we have many distractions, worries that we need to place before God. The Key is to CAST means throw off, give away. When you learn how to cast your cares on the Lord everyday, the Holy Spirit will impress upon you how to deal with the situations, giving you confidence that God is with you. Each time you depend on the Holy Spirit, you will begin to see prayers answered coming your way. That builds faith and understanding who God is in your life! You got to try it and remember to constantly pray in the Spirit, pray with an understanding that God will sustain and renew you in the Spirit.

Remember, charge your phone regularly!

P Gary

Goodness and Love

2007-03-21T16:39:00.000+08:00

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever." Psalm 23:6

I was writing some cards just now.. for sis and her bf, as well as mum's birthday card.. :)
Interestingly, God just led me to Ps 23; v6 and 1-2 respectively for them..

It sort of reminds me of a sermon by P Dennis back in feb.. He shared some powerful truths using just v6 itself.. It really comforts me to know that God is actively pursuing after me with His love and goodness.. meaning that in all situations, yeah.. All~ even the tough times.. i know He is pursuing me with His unfailing love.

Well, know what? the word surely means it's affirmative, no doubt about it..
While love (mercy) speaks of a covenantal love of God.. Unfailing~
And in the verse, the word follow is actually talking about a pursue.. meaning it's active!

One thing that really spurs me is that, King David did not wrote this psalm when everything was going on fine for him. Instead, he wrote it during the period of time when he was attacked by his enemies and facing deaths. . Yet he can proclaim of God's love and goodness despite his circumstances.. I also want to be like him, to be able to proclaim of God's goodness and love always, despite all the things that i'm facing.. :)

Cool right? I always think that this verse simply speak of God's goodness n that's it.. but when i heard the sermon.. i realised that, beyond the surface.. it's really a powerful truth to embrace.
To embrace the fact that, God is the same at all times and He will never fail to love us, bless us as we dwell in Him. Oh ya.. not forgetting to add.. the word dwell means return again.

I think this week as we had heard of what P Gary shared in the service; that we are to be consumed by His passion and be committed to the end.. let us be living a life like King David, one that recognised that we served and love a God that never fails to love us and actively pursue us with His goodness. It will cause us to make room for Jesus each day n not coming up with all the different excuses..

Amen to that? :p

Last but not least, i pray that as we continue to walk in this journey of faith, many more will come to know God thru our lives that speaks of His goodness and love.

Varina

One CRAZY outing

2007-03-16T10:29:00.000+08:00

(click on picture to enlarge)

YES! its the holidays, and YES! i know i haven't been blogging.

Pls accept my sincere apologies, but look, i'm gonna make it up to you guys, by showing you a whole variety of pictures! Haha! today my section went for a march holiday section outing and boy was it CRAZY. Upper sec folks, you guys are NUTS! (: i had heaps and piles and LOADS of fun, from playing in super hot sand to walking on cool sand and feeling for fine sand (*winks at fifi*).

So here's just some pictures of what took place. More pictures to come! heehee, and more section outings to come guys. (:

Raine

Are you LOST?

2007-03-16T09:52:00.000+08:00

I remembered in my army days in my vocation as a scout.

Basically a scout in the army goes behind the enemy lines to survey the enemy’s firepower and then feedback to the HQ for information. Many times, in order to get to the destination, my team has to open up the map and then use the compass to decide the best route to go to in order to reach that place. I have to confess that there are many instances where we got lost and not sure how to go back to the original route that we planned.

Sometimes, we can be like that. We have the spiritual Map in front of us but sometimes in order to get the destination, we made choices that cost us to lose our focus on God and as a result, we can get really lost in our relationship with God.

Maybe you are feeling lost in your relationship with God. You are not sure what to do with your situation. Somehow the love for God just doesn’t seem to be as passionate as before.

IGNYTE warrriors, never worry when you feel that way because that’s the best time where God can come in and intervene in your life! The bible says, Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. I want you to know no matter where you are right now with God, He will point you back to the cross! Why? It is because through the cross, we can find victory and hope. Through the cross, we know our Savior is not dead but very much alive to direct our paths so that we can be the best Christians we can be.

Proverbs 3:5 says that when we acknowledge God and not lean on our own understanding, he will direct our paths.

A jungle survivor expert will tell you that if you get lost in the wilderness, your best chance of surviving is to get close to the river bank and follow it as close as possible and most likely, you will find a community living nearby. Likewise, when you are not sure and you feel lost, get near the spiritual river bank. Start worshipping God even you don’t feel like. Start praying and commit to God again even when you feel God is far away. Start reading the bible so that you can find your direction again.

We all get lost at times in our spiritual journey with God but most importantly when you get lost, you must know what to do. Get close to the source which is Jesus! Don’t despair but always put your hope in God, He is MIGHTY TO SAVE!

Pastor Gary

Specially dedicated to the A’ Leavers…

2007-03-03T10:34:00.000+08:00

As a TV-holic, I need a therapeutic dose of at least 20 minutes of TV every night. So it was the Monday night after the Chinese New Year week…

Channel 5 happened to be showing Oscars 2007. I am not really a fan of English movies (except Disney or Pixar cartoons… J). My goodness, Leonardo DiCaprio has gained so much weight since Titanic! Heh, that’s not my point.

I was about to switch channel when they were about to give away this special award called the Humanitarian Oscar to Sherry Lansing.

Sherry Lansing is the grande dame of female executives who led the famous Paramount Pictures Motion Pictures Group. There was a short clip that featured her life story, how she entered the film industry as an actress and finally decided to work behind the scenes instead.

But other than being a film maker, she is one that has been giving her time and energy passionately to her cause – cancer (stem cells) research and education.

During her speech, she acknowleged those purposed-driven ones who had been quietly working hard in their own ways for their individual callings, especially in the teaching and medical line.

The interesting thing about her is that she started off wanting to be an actress. She acted in a few movies and realised that acting was not her cup of tea. So she switched to working behind the stage.

Her speech struck me and I kinda teared. Maybe that’s because I belong to the 2 groups of people that she mentioned. The remarkable thing about her life is she was not invloved in both acting or in cancer drugs research, but she supported and funded these two areas with all she could. And because of her passion (which is “zeal with actions” -- as mentioned by Ps Gerald last year), many inspiring movies were made and new progress in the drug and medical industries were developed.

God indeed has the masterplan of our life in His Hands. Sherry Lansing could have felt disappointed when her dream of being an actress was not fulfiled but guess what, God has a greater plan for this humble, yet influential lady who had touched many lives.

So this goes especially to the A-Leavers who have just collected their results. I remembered few years back when I collected mine, I was strikened with mixed emotions. Relieved that finally the long wait was over, yet apprehensive about what my next step would be.

But know that no matter what happens, no matter how many As we get or where we go to after this, God is in control, and God has the best for us, nothing less. Sometimes it is just so hard to let this truth sink in especially when the tides turn against us (I think most of us, esp the leaders would have been through that). But this is a truth and promise that is given by God.

The bible has said it all. Let’s hold on to this truth!

“Many are the plans in man’s heart but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” Proverbs 19:21

Yinting

Potato Couch or Beaver?

2007-03-02T15:31:00.000+08:00

Potato Couch or Beaver?

What a question isn’t it? For those who do not know what the definition of these two is, allow me to help you understand.

A person who is called a Potato Couch is one who sits there who does nothing and just allow time to pass by.

A person who is called a Beaver is one who works hard for the family by finding and storing food.

God’s purpose for us is never to sit around and wait for things to happen. It is God’s heart for us to step out to reach out to people who needs a change or a new purpose in their lives. Matthew 28 speaks of the Great Commission declared by Jesus to his Disciples. He said, ‘GO!’. The word ‘GO!’ does not just refers to later on, see how, wait till I have a degree in bible studies. It simply means it’s time to get up and get out becoming a person of influence in our daily routine.

When we carry the Great Commission in our hearts, it will cause you to get excited to impact and change lives. It will cause you to become impatient in the godly sense to reach out even beyond the shores of Singapore! As our church is hosting 20 over nation in our conference, perhaps God has placed within you a country in your heart to reach out to. Or maybe God has given you compassion for certain group of people in our society? Whatever God placed within you, do not store but begin to nurture it and grow it to completion!

God’s Kingdom is never for those who laze around with no purpose but made up of people with GREAT COMISSION IN YOUR HEART! I would like to lead you in a prayer and read it aloud and speak with faith in your heart.

Dear Lord Jesus, I thanked you for the privileged and the honor to serve you. Lord, teach me to have the beaver’s mentality. I am willing to be a vessel to impact the nations. Reveal to me so that I can stand in the gap for the nation. Grant me a heart of compassion for the lost and be a history maker for your glory wherever I go! In Jesus name I pray, Amen!

Love you, PGC

Sunrise

2007-02-27T11:10:00.000+08:00

I recall tellin pgary once about the time i missed a beautiful sunrise.

the story goes, that one morning my dad was driving me to school and i just so happen to catch an absolutely pretty sight of the sun rising up ahead in the highway. now, being an advocate of the natural beauty lovers club (hehe), i went *zoop zooooop* to equip myself with my 1.3megapixel camera phone. not as good as camera quality, but its good enough for me. (anw i look good in any picture taken on any camera what right? HAHAHAH just kiddingggg.=X)

but anyway, to cut the story short, i didnt manage to catch the shot in the end. (timing issues..) and i was telling him (while comforting myself!!=P) that ITS OKAYYYY!!!! THE SUN WILL SHINE AGAIN!!!!! while receiving an affirming affirmation (haha) from our dear pastor.

eh? sounds familiar?? heh. to me it did ring a bell indeed. was facing a tough time in accordance to my studies last year about that time (A levels period eh!!!! BTW SIDENOTE: ALEVELS RESULTS COMING OUT SOON SO DO KEEP US IN PRAYER PLEASEEEEEEEE!!! THANK YOUUUUUU!!!=DD), and as commonly as the sun will rise (in fact), very often you hear such a word comin out from ppl in an attempt to comfort or cheer you up in a bad time of your life. and sometimes we go, "yeah..right... ofcourse.. so cliche mannnnn..." (and if i may add, with a 'haha-thankyou-i-appreciate-it-but-wait-til-you're-in-my-situation-then-you-see-for-yourself-if-the-sun-will-really-shine-the-same-again' kind of a grin.=D)

i mean, DUH, on one side its a known thing to every boy and girl in the world that the sun WILL rise every morning (unless of course you live in the north/south pole where night&day are like, 6months apart?=P), the question is, will i ever catch such a great opportunity again..?

sorry to tell ya, nope, we wont be able to catch that same great opportunity anymore...=(
BUTTTTT!!! thats the thing about havin your hopes and dreams placed in God ynoe!!=D He doesnt give you same'o opportunities that you've missed. but instead, He gives us even BETTER opportunities!!

just look below!!=)

if y'think you've messed up something real bad, no worries!!!!!!!
THE SUN WILL RISE AGAIN!!!!=P haha whack me for being cliche, but lets just see for ourselves eh? *winks*.

this time i managed to CATCH this opportunity after the 1st one that i missed. are ya gona be ready to catch the next big door open for you from God?=)

enjoy the sunrise and take flight!!=D
(attach hereee!! picture 006's from the plane.=))

Francesca

Total Defence Day

2007-02-21T15:12:00.000+08:00

15 Feb was Total Defence Day.

And I am like supposed to bring my P1 angels to the hall to assemble after the second alarm. So the first alarm went off and caused a small commotion with 10 kids running up to me and shouting, "Miss Yong? Is there a fire? What happened?"

Okay...as usual, I shot them a "Please don't ask me any questions now" look while I calmly took the passes (in case they want to go to the toilet in the middle of a fake fire or a terrorist attack) and got them to line up (which took 7 mins which in the case of a real emergency, would have killed us).

When we finally reached the hall, we had to watch this video. But one interesting question that my colleague posed was, "What does the national anthem represent?" The answer was, "emotional defence."

This means that singing the national anthem gives us emotional defence.

Think about that! Woah! It was a revelation to me! The army is millitary defence but singing the national song is also a kind of defence-patriotism!

It made me think about God. Praising Him is also like an emotional defence that we have against the enemy of our soul. When the enemy advances, we sing praises to declare and raise our spirits emotionally to war against the enemy. You may think, just a song will be a form of defence? But truly it is!

I guess I'll look at the national anthem in a different way from now on.

Limin

Rejoice! All you that were out at sea!

2007-02-16T10:17:00.000+08:00

February 10 & 11...

2 days of Joy, Gladness & Excitment...

Why?

Because 35 new brothers and sisters stepped into my Father's house...

But that's not all.

As i was on my way back home that quiet Sunday evening, I had a picture in my mind...

What?

I see an ocean filled with boats of all sizes, some big and rusty, some small and newly built.

It seems that the fishermen were all on their way back to shore.

As I look closer, I realised some came back with many, some came back with few, some none.

BUT, they all had one thing in common - they were smiling, some chatted away excitedly. Yes! They were rejoicing!

How come?

Ha... You see, they know that when it comes to their Father's house, it's never about how much which boat has more filled in, Cos as long as they gave their best out at sea, they can all await for that one great feast!

I pondered for awhile, I gave thanks again.

What this time? You may ask

Ha... Well, I'm just so glad that that everyone were out at sea and no one's sleeping in!

Hey fellow mates! I say to you.

All you who came back with much, little or none. Let's continue to say our prayers and get ourselves ready.

Cos when the next morning comes we would all want to be out at sea!

Bro Andy

Faith precedes Action!

2007-02-14T14:40:00.001+08:00

Hi Mighty Warriors!

It’s wonderful to be back here sharing my thoughts with you. Just last week, we just had our V-day event, Y=MX+C. Many of your friends came and were blessed by the event.

Altogether, I am pleased to share with you that we have 11 decisions and more than 100 FTVs that came through in just one service!

Many of you really went all out to invite and bring your friends for the event.

Many of you believed that God is going to do a special work in your friends’ lives.

In fact, some of you are still inviting them for the next IGNYTE service.

Warriors, I want to encourage you not to stop praying and believing. Saving Souls is the heartbeat of God and we need to carry his heartbeat to the schools and army camps.

Was I disappointed that not many came forward to receive Jesus? Honestly… of COURSE! I am only a human with real feelings after all right? But God reminded me of his promises that this will be a year of growth. Just in the month of January, we had more than 20 visitors passed through our services and each week, we have salvation and rededication decision for our Jesus.

If we want IGNYTE to grow then we must fight the battle on the ground which is in our school and army camps everyday! James 2:17 says, “Faith without Action is dead!”

Now we have made the first step by believing and bringing our friends for the event and now to the next level. If we want to go the next level, I believe the key is to pray EVERYDAY, see the need, and meet the need. We must keep sharing and inviting them to every service over the weekend and not just EVENTS! You must understand when you have God-filled faith within you, it cannot be contained but it will have burst out of you to touch the people around you!

A true mighty warrior does not give up easily but they will continue and carry the mission mandate where they go. Every opportunity, every open door, every chance is another step closer to see IGNTYE grow! God has been reminding me to intensify the level of prayer in IGNYTE lately. So folks, let’s really start praying even more for the war is at hand. Let’s us do his work so that the name of JESUS will be glorified, can you say a loud amen?

Next week, I will be preaching on how to have a faith filled life. I am sure you and your friends will be blessed.

Come on, don’t come alone, bring a friend next week!

PGC

Valentine’s Day Special – What is love?

2007-02-05T22:51:00.010+08:00

Below are some quotes that were collected from an interview with kids ranging from 4- 8 years old – You will be pleasantly surprise what came out of it…

“If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,"

“Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.”

“Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you."

“Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."

“When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."

“My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.”

These are cute quotes isn’t it?

Below are some from me!

“Love is when you buy your girl her favorite fruit for supper when she just had a wisdom tooth extraction.”

“Love is when you buy vitamins and wait for that special someone at the void deck to pass it to her when you know that she has flu.”

“Love is when you buy a teddy bear to pair up with hers, saying: “Now we’re all not alone…”

“Love is when you would spend a day at the goat farm with that special someone even when everything around you is nothing but hot, smelly and dirty.”

HOWEVER, nothing beats this…

“Love is when the entire universe is created just for us.”

“Love is when the Red Sea was parted for a group of people.”

“Love is when a shepherd boy was protected from a giant warrior.”

“Love is when a person is rejected, hated, spat at, laughed at, mocked at, but still died on the cross for us.”

“Love is when you were going about doing your daily things, He was thinking of YOU…”

Have a great V-Day! :)

Bro Andy

Can you hear the sound of Revival?

2007-02-05T22:51:00.008+08:00

It’s happening so fast! We are approaching our special V-day, Y=MX+C! I have been hearing great reports of you inviting and bringing your friends for this event. Do you want to know how many people have confirmed their attendance? At least 100 plus confirmed coming for this event! Can you say a loud amen?

There is this verse in Acts 2:21, “those who call on the name of the Lord will be saved!” I believe this verse will apply to many of your friends who will be coming on this Saturday. I want to encourage you to continue to war in prayer over these precious lives! Remember the Prayer guide? *wink*

Case in point here, we must always remember that it is NOT THE FANTASTIC acting or stage setting or the great music that will get your friends to receive Jesus. Ya, maybe for a while but not for long at all. So the question is, what will help them move beyond just a one day Christian to a long term committed Christian. The answer is YOU! You are the expression of God’s love to the people around you. Remember what Bro Andy shared? See the need and meet the need.

Bringing people to Christ is an everyday business and Heaven’s door never closes to those who want to receive Jesus anytime, anywhere. I believe this is the year of growth for IGNYTE Ministry and as we approach Y= MX+C, pray for God’s constant, unfailing, faithful love to pour out in their lives. Regardless whether your friends receive Jesus or not, most importantly always remember that a seed is sown into their hearts and with much prayer, salvation will be within distance! IGNYTE Warriors, let’s us persevere with such great determination with every follow up, sharing and loving them into the
Kingdom of God! God is moving.

Can you hear the sound of Revival? =P

Love you all!

P Gary

My Best Friday

2007-02-05T22:51:00.007+08:00

2nd Feb is the best friday that i could ever thank God for!!

It was my younger's brother birthday on 2nd feb and it was also the LAST DAY OF MY LAST ATTACHMENT!!!

I am happy cuz i can dunk my uniform into the bonfire with my friends and celebrate the days of an intern be gone~ I have been endless attachments at various hospitals since my 2nd year in physiotherapy and it really amazes me how i survive the scrutinizing, the daily questionings of patient's conditions, the endless medication list i have to memorise and the ever kiasu attitude to make sure my patients dont faint, collapse, fall or die on me.

As I looked back and recalled the first attachment till my very last one, " GRACE" just fills my mind and soul. Though the days in the hospital were tough, nevertheless my day will always begin with a prayer in bed for our Lord's grace and mercy, everlasting favour and wisdom to be upon me. I heard of people struggling at the other hospitals or centres, scary supervisors that haunt them constantly for answers to their professional inquisitivity. I will never fail to go down on my knees and ask God for a good, friendly and mentoring supervisor.

To this day, I have not yet met nasty ones by the grace of God! I understood the amount of time and energy that i have to give in order to juggle school, attachments, club matters and not forgetting ministry. I had to hand to God my involvement in the canoeing team in school so as to give more time unto ministry.

As I served GOd with all i can and all i have, I found myself still struggling with studies. I asked God why with all this faithful serving, I do not get blessed in return. I failed a particular module 3 times for its practical component. I felt stuck. stuck in a wrong place, feeling that perhaps i had gone to the wrong place.

IN His timing He revealed 2 Tim 2:11-13, V13: If we are unfaithful, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself. I felt some kinda housefly, swanked by newpaper when i saw that verse. I have been seekin God with the wrong motive. I came before God and asked Him to forgive my ways and change my thinking. I had one thing in mind: MY GOD WILL NOT FAIL ME. I persevered through my attachments and when i arrived the to the one i failed 3 times, i prayed to God really hard to reveal His power and grace for that attachment phase. And i can proudly speak of my Father's love that is ever bountiful, ever forgiving, ever ready to give because in ALL of my attachments to date( INcluding the scary module that i failed) I passed my second year with a disctinction and have cleared ALL my 3rd year attachments. PRAISE GOD!!

The assurance God gave to me about my performance during attachment covered all the inadequacies and anxieties i had in my heart.. and like in the bible- He can never deny Himself, He is the same today , ytd and forever more. I remembered one supervisor telling me: YOu might become one of the good physiotherapists around. When i hear of these, you can just imagine the guilt and shame i had in doubting God but the peace and joy knowing that my Father in Heaven is in control.

It doesnt matter how many times u fail, what counts is your faith in our Lord to lead and guide you onto the rightful path.

Sis Vivian

BELIEVE, ACTION AND PERSERVERE

2007-02-02T10:36:00.000+08:00

It’s Friday! Yeah!

Can’t wait for another exciting IGNYTE service! Last week I had the privilege to go to IGNYTE, Trinity@Paya Lebar to preach. It was an awesome time and God just moved in the hearts of the youths there. I shared about being a generation that is deep in their faith and not shallow in their faith. I am not sure when I am going to preach this but I really desire to see my youths rise up with deep conviction in their faith.

I remembered my best learning years were in school. I was really a committed youth serving ministry and loving God but sometimes the testing comes in school in the form of integrity, peer pressure and school commitments. To be honest, sometimes I just want to drop everything in church and just enjoy what the world offers to me. It was hard but God’s reminder of his love for me pulled me through and I think I have became stronger in my faith and understanding of God in my life.

Let me share with you my secrets to grow in your faith. Sometimes when God shares with you his secrets, you have to BELIEVE, ACTION AND PERSERVERE.

That carried me through my youth days. That perhaps deepen my faith in God, to trust him with everything I have. Sometimes it can be very tiring and scary but the benefits of it are tremendous!

My prayer is to every IGNYTE Youths both in PL and Adam will be a person of substance and not shallow!

Jesus Reigns Forevermore!

Love you all!

P Gary

Can't sleep? Read on...

2007-01-30T16:38:00.000+08:00

I was having my TAWG just now and the memories of my last holiday in Tioman just came to me. It was memories of me resting (falling a sleep in the beach), just enjoying myself during the trip and not worrying of anything.

*at first wanna put my own pic... wahaha~
but in the end decided to put this.. think this is more cute..

So i asked God is there anything that He wants to speak to me about..
Then this verse from Ps 4:8 just pop out again; "IN peace i will lie down n sleep, for you alone, O LORD, will keep me safe."

This verse really reminds me that God is watching over me n protecting me at all times.. its like a jet booster or booster jet.. whatever u call it.. :P
Most importantly, it really blessed my heart to have this assurance that God is in control of all circumstances n He has the best intention for me.

I know that sleep does not come easily during a crisis, so if you are lying awake at night worrying about what you can't change, all u need to do is to pour out your heart to God n thank Him for being in control. Then sleep will come...

Be confident that as you trust n focus on God, everything will turn out according to His perfect will... :)

Time for bed~
;p

Sis Varina

Fresh paint??

2007-01-28T23:58:00.000+08:00

My door is pink....cool!

My mum decided to repaint our walls and doors. And now, I have a rose pink door!
Okay...I am not that into pink anymore. I've now moved on to sunny yellow.

But seriously, I was thinking how a fresh coat of paint can cover all the blemishes, cracks or other unsightly spots in an instant?
And it's like amazing how it can totally transform the way your house looks?

Perhaps, in this new season, it's time that we put on a new coat of paint. It could be choosing a new attitude or a new perspective.
Sometimes, learning to put on a smile instead of a scowl can dramatically transform the way you look!

And if anyone is wanting to repaint your house, here's a tip. Never-apply orange with yellow. I know. Cos I reached home one day and I nearly fainted. It looks like you are living inside a sunkist orange. Thank God, the painters changed that the next day.

Limin

I want a KITTY!!!!!!

2007-01-26T15:04:00.000+08:00

I WANT A KITTTTTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

*sniff*okok, i just want to look at the kitty and hug it and squeeze it. But pets are serious business. Its really a lifetime commitment. And i'm not going to play with a pet's life just because i have a sudden craving for wanting to hug a cute little critter.

So in the meantime, i will just "kope" my friends' pets. murhahahahahhahahahahaha....but don't you think the kitty is soooooooo cute??????

-raine

The Master's Plan

2007-01-25T14:55:00.000+08:00

What a week it has been!

I am still thinking, praying through what I should share for IGNYTE, Trinity@Paya Labar...

Anyway, I am still nursing my wounds from the loss of my beloved Manchester United to Arsenal! Not when Rooney scored the first goal, not when arsenal’s got fortunate with first goal, not when Henry scores from his head instead of his feet!

Manchester United

I thought that wasn’t fair, that wasn’t right, ManU played so well!

Anyway I felt so lost and so sad. In any case, that taught me one thing from there! That’s right. I have learnt that we must be vigilant in our Faith at all times. When you thought you are in the winning mode, the enemy will change strategy to bring you down. Like it or not, sometimes we will lose but at most times, through Jesus, the battle is often won!

Maybe you have lost many times before but that’s alright. The most important is how you rise up and say to the enemy, you will NOT stand in the way of what God has for me! The key to victory is always to lean on the Master’s plan, listen, follow up his plan and be sure that Victory is at Hand! Glory Glory Jesus! =p

Love you all, PGC

Handball

2007-01-24T20:43:00.000+08:00

Introducing a new favourite sport that i've picked up recently.... HANDBALL!!! =)

I started playing handball last year when i came into Kent Ridge Hall and it was a game that my hall mates loved to play. As months passed by, my friend asked me to attend this outside training formed mostly by NUS people called the Handball Federation where you get to participate for NUS and Singapore. Not really national because it is not a recognized sport in Singapore. So we're sort of the pioneer batch who tries to make Handball big in Singapore.

Oh well, learning Handball has been and still is something which I learn many truths about myself. Handball is a fast and violent (in the positive sense) game because the defenders can "clamp" your hands down when you wanna shoot. And there're many formations you can form to attack. A lot of times in trainings i get irritated over myself when i cant get what is right. When my ball keeps slipping off my hand when i try to shoot, i would scream at myself "ARGH! NOT AGAIN!!"

A lot of arm power is needed for this sport and i always think that would make my arms big. Arh, that's not the point. haha. But it is a sport which i learn much about my level of patience and perseverance.

Along this course of journey, i also wanna thank God for this backslided Christian whom i grew closer with over past few weeks. She suddenly shared with me about her life and God convicted my heart to reach out to her. Indeed, God is everywhere even in my handball trainings.

Do you see God in every situation of your life? =)

Here's a short clip of one pro Handball player.

http://www.youtube.com/v/CFqV8AZdBPE

Sis Brenda

The Jab that Handicapped Me :'(

2007-01-24T13:18:00.000+08:00

When was the last time you saw an invasive needle puncturing through your skin and leaving a stinging pain on your left arm? I just experienced it…

Due to possible contact with pathogenic microorganisms in my research, it is mandatory that I take a *tetanus injection.

So I took it last Friday. At first the pain was bearable but by evening when.the Upper Sec leaders had our lcell at Bro Terence’s house, I couldn’t fully enjoy my KFC chicken with them; it seemed like I just wanted to slouch on the sofa and not do anything.

When I woke up on Saturday morning, I almost couldn’t move my left arm at all. I couldn’t join in the Pegging Game that we played during FUEL. (Thank you Upper Sec Section for excusing me from the game… and making sure that I don’t get pegged).

But the worst of all was – I found it so hard to clap and lift my hands during service. It was like every part of me desires to give my best praise to God but there was a wriggling pain on my arm that stopped me from giving my full 100 percent.

Thank God the pain went away on Tuesday. Looking back, I feel deeply that it is a true privilege to be able to lift our hands and worship God; I felt so handicapped when I wasn’t able to do so. No wonder the bible says that if we don’t glorify and speak of God’s greatness, even the rocks will cry out! (Luke 19: 37 – 40) Our very nature is to proclaim His Name, so the next time we step into the chapel, let every fiber of our being praise Him, creating a vibrant worship atmosphere in IGNYTE, Trinity@Adam

(*for those who may not know, tetanus is a disease condition where patients suffer muscular spasm. Our parents might have told us before to be careful not to step on rusty nails? A particular type of bacteria that thrives in rust and contaminated soil can cause tetanus)

Do you know what is the name of this bacteria? The first one who can tell me the correct answer will get a prize! Heh...

Sis Yinting

Bro Andy's 1st Blog of the year! :P

2007-01-23T11:00:00.000+08:00

Hi all!!

Greetings from Bro Andy to leaders as well as youths! Wooh~ Yeah!

YEAR OF '07

Ha.. First of all, let me jus share briefly about the new year!

Wow... 3 weeks has passed so quickly that I didnt even realised that we are coming to the end of the first month!

Now I know why they say the work of pioneering is never easy.. Ha.. Some people uses 'running' to describe the pace that they are working at, if i were to describe our pace (IGNYTE Leaders) then it would be 'flying'! :P

Managing and handling all sorts of work and ministry, I find myself really feeling the 'heat' as I dived into almost every areas which i can dive into.. :)

However, though at times tired and weary (I must be honest with you..), BUT i must say, as of today, I am still filled with great Passion about doing God's Work, a 'never say die' attitude, having a fighting spirit that says, I want to CONQUER, I want to ADVANCE the Kingdom of God! - Even as i am typing these words, I could feel my heart leaping in excitement and joy!

WHAT KEEPS ME GOING

Jus wanna share with ya all one thing i learned through these years of ministry is "The Joy of the Lord is my strength."

Joy is such an impt thing when it comes to ministry,

- Joy of being able to communicate with the creator and partnering with Him in spreading His love and grace (It's such a Joy to know that my work is one that brings eternal life to people!)

- Joy of having precious brothers and sisters to go through tough times alongside me (I can never forget the past 2 youth camps... :'l )

- Joy of seeing how God is working in the lives of those around me (Those of you who have prayed alongside people and see how God turned the situation in their lives around wld know what i mean)

(I have so much more to say... but in order not to make my 1st blog seem wording and boring i shall stop here.. Maybe I'll share them in my next preaching slot??? ha ha... stay tuned...)

MY IGNYTE FAMILY WHICH BRINGS ME GREAT JOY

Since I am on the topic of JOY, below is One of my greatest joy - my IGNYTE Family @ Adam. (Thanks Raine for the photo!!)

Dont you even think we are quiet and boring people...

To get a pair of white shoes for school,
$25+ (Buy at cheap cheap store...)

To get a entire set of School uniform,
$40+ (This was during my time...)

To have a meal at the school canteen,
$5+ (You might even get a dessert at Primary Schools :P)

To see your IGNYTE Leaders in Uniforms....
Priceless

See you all at IGNYTE Service this weekend!!

Bro Andy

Victory is the Lord's!

2007-01-23T09:32:00.000+08:00

Wow, it's been three weeks into the New Year already!

As a grad, I really wonder what God has in store for me as I step into a new season in university. In the same way, I think most of us have a certain amount of uncertainty in our hearts. As we move into a new season in our lives, each and every one of us, we tend to want to know exactly what lies ahead. For sure, it's happening right now.

IGNYTE ministry is moving into this season of unprecedented growth; the Sec Ones and JC1s have just started school and are adjusting to the new environment; my fellow grads are all wondering where they are going next.

But you know what? That's fine; indeed, more than fine, because it induces us to have a greater, unswerving trust in God. Sometimes, we want so many details that faith is often taken out of the picture. Remember what P Gary preached last Saturday, about being a mighty warrior for Christ? A mighty warrior is one who listens and acts upon the voice of God and steps out in faith! Revelation about God's plans for us is often gradual – if God told us everything in one shot we wouldn't need to rely upon Him at all! So let's continue to walk in partnership with God and with the people around us as we find our destiny in Him.

Romans 8:37 – Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

All of us are familiar with this verse. Yet, as I was reflecting upon this verse in my quiet time, God began to speak to me about us not being conquerors, but MORE than conquerors! There are so many great conquerors in history:

Mark Antony

Alexander the Great

Genghis Khan

Why did they remain conquerors and not join us in the realm of being more than conquerors? You see, many of their victories were merely temporal ones. Mark Antony strove for the extension of the Roman Empire, winning many battles over his enemies. Today, the Roman Empire remains a mere shadow of its former glory. Our victories, on the other hand, are eternal, purposeful and God-given. We know what we're fighting for, and we know that we're going to save souls for Christ, so let's continue being mighty warriors and declare that victory is the Lord's!

Have a great week ahead!

Cheers,
Kelly T

Mr Furry

2007-01-19T16:59:00.000+08:00

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Hello hello! Meet my new furry friend! I found him, or rather he found me at punggol jetty. I was taking some pictures on a hot sunny afternoon, and he was strolling on the beach. Like any nice gentleman, the moment he saw me from afar, he came running to me from the beach, and before i could even say "GASP!" He was standing beside me and checking me out (rather ungentlemanly if you ask me, to check out a lady so quickly). Then he followed me all over the jetty.

I bet if he could talk, he'd ask me "what are you doing here? Are you alone? How about a belly rub?"

But alas, he spoke little if not at all, and i left my furry friend at the jetty. He wasn't too upset about it, as he'd already found another two ladies to check out.

(: So, meet my furry friend, who kept me company at the jetty that day. (:

Mr Furry.

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Sis Raine

The ability to Walk...

2007-01-19T11:22:00.000+08:00

Guess what! I have sprained my foot ;( Was in a state of shock as i lost my footing while walking down the stairs.

Thank God i did not fracture my foot. It was really amazing. I was actually holding a bowl of soup (my dinner) and I SAVED my soup! The soup really meant something to me..Haha..In any case, I believe that my God will heal me of a swollen ankle!

For now, I am still limping. This accident has caused me to appreciate the simple things in life - the ability to walk normally. SOmething that I have always taken for granted.

One thing i know.....Must not be so clumpsy! Haha....I am a rather clumpsy person! A lesson learnt!

Sis Kassey
19/1/07

Flying off...

2007-01-18T09:25:00.000+08:00

Flying off for my ONE MONTH holiday tmr!!!!!!!!!!!!! "=D and =( " all at once.

haha..y'see.. for fran here who's just graduated from her JC (and is 'patiently' waiting for her Alevel results---not having to go to school&bla)... wearing the school uniform had become something she looked forward to with all her heart soul and mind (hahahahhaha), and knowing that she wont be around for this coming sat's service had caused her to land a weeee bit on a sad note.........

=D heh. alrighty.. not that bad. but stillllll!!! such a pity that i cant wear my beautiful SAJC (!!!!!!) or crescent girls' school (!!!!!!) uniform la..... but thennnnnnnn... *slap slap*!!on a higher note, =D anticipating service and knowing i wont be attending the upcoming few services had led me on to think about how i can keep myself updated with the going-ons.. with regards to my fellow lovely upp sec, leaders, sch mates, family(i'm going only with my grampsss!!), peers, bla, bla, and bla.=) but of course, there's the marvelous invention of internet, msn, and emails (YAYYYYNESS!!) so i wont feel like a complete mountain tortoise, not knowing anything that's going on in planet earth.=Dand then... in a very subtle way... a thought came into my mind. how do i, or have i, been and will continue, updating myself with God?

hahaha i duno how interesting this may sound to all you guys out there, but IT REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION EH hohoho..=D see, there's this thought in me that says i should continue to take ownership of my place in His Kingdom... another that says 'fran, you really are fortunate to have such great friends/companions to spurrrr you on and run together with you in this race of life for the glory of your Lord Daddy!'.

well both hold as much truth as the other does!!! and what did my train of thoughts lead me on to from there? simple. a personal-ified reflection of what the past 2 weeks' service spoke to me about. Mighty Warrior, and All for One!

just a few hours ago, i was with a couple of my awesome friends learning and playing around with the guitar. there came a point where our 'teacher' asked us to pick out the dynamic and 'umph!'ful parts of THE FREEDOM SONG!!!!!!

do you wana go to a place they call freedom....... (you noe how the rest of the lyrics go dontcha??) and the one that was most 'umph-ful' (something with a punch to it!) to me was'YES I WANT TO GOOOoooooooo'

do you wanna go to where God leads you to, going hand in hand with the friends He's placed around you in IGNYTE?sometimes the complications of the world can be solved by the simplicities of God's love. one we find in our fellow Mighty Warriors, as we go alllll out together, as ONE. love as lovers see it, is when two hearts become one............ (eeeee so mushy!!) love as i see it, is..................................................................................... WHEN MANY MANY HEARTS BECOME ONE!!!!!! mwahahahhahhaa. one for all, one for Christ, that is.

*bzzzzp*. fran, over and out. *bzzzp*

Sis Francesca

Mighty Warrior

2007-01-17T19:00:00.000+08:00

Today is 16th January 2007. In the twinkle of an eye, two weeks has passed. It’s really been a mentally tough week for me. Just last week as I was preparing the Mighy Warrior Message, there were a lot apprehension and struggle within me and for the life out of me, I did not know what it was!

Maybe it was fear, inadequacies or something but I knew it wasn’t good and that went on for a few days till the weekend service itself. I begin to pray and sing whatever songs that came to my mind but somehow things just did not turn out the way it was. Even minutes before the service, I was feeling a little down. As I was just pondering, God spoke to me and said the war is at hand, rise up! So I begin to command every ounce of strength I have and keep on declaring to God that it is going to be a great service and it really turned out to be awesome!

I really hope the people know what it means to be mighty warrior for Jesus though. =p This coming weekend, is mission mandate. To me, it is one of most exciting service and also the most important one. I know this is a something like a do or die mission..hahahaha. Not really sure how to describe it but I know and I sensed that this will set the tone of for the rest of the year!
I have many dreams I want to share but the people must be ready to receive and learn. I thanked God we have salvations every week! But I just want more of God to show up in our service. If I were to pray right now, I will probably pray this prayer:

‘Dear God, only you know the hearts of the young ones and I pray you will open up the heavens and reveal your secrets to them. Let them catch your heartbeat for the schools, army camps and every other education institution. Lord, teach me to raise up a group of mighty warriors that will build your Kingdom for your glory, not mine but yours alone!"

Sigh… wear uniform or not? Ahahahaha, All for Jesus!

Pastor Gary