The Kingdom Subjects

Boys Night Out. We had a great time playing settler at ZZ's place. Gary in red, Aaron in blue and looks like a newscaster, Chris with the Coke endorsement, Jeremiah the tallest on the right, and the face of our lively host.

My "Indian" family...All of us have something Indian in mind. Rupa, with her roots, Raymond and Sher lee Wee who long to go to India, and me who wants to have an Indian-themed wedding in the future.

The Big Boys of North East.. (Frm Left to Right)

Jeremiah, Aaron (my discipler), me, ZQ and ZZ.

June and the Joy it Brings

JUNE HAS ARRIVED!!!

June has come and its just another wonderful chance for disciples to get up and go. Today is Sunday and John Louis has preached a wonderful sermon about the Kingdom example. I have made quite a lot of good notes about the topic and I wish to share them to all you soon.

My dear mentor ZQ and 'favorite' brother Jerick

A spate of good things happening this June. Most of all the SEA Conference! I am really looking forward to those four awesome days that we could spend time with Christians from Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea and Japan. It would be interesting to get to know disciples of different cultures and walks of life. What's is even more interesting is how as Christians, we are bonded together in God's love despite the distance we came from and the seas that set us apart. It is a time to realize for ourselves, how God has made disciples of all nations.

June 9 is brother Roger and Sister Wandy's wedding day. I could see for myself how awesome a disciple Roger is and I know that God has blessed him with sister Wandy as a bride. My only wish for them is to love God more, as He is the source of love, loving each other will come naturally.

June 2 by the way is our dear ZQ's birthday. I still get it confused with Ms. Grace's, whose I think is on July 2. I haven't the chance to spend any time with him during that day, but I really do miss spending time with my dear mentor. Mentorship is something I value a lot, and I am not the type of person who just listens to everyone. Mentorship for me is special, for it is the foundation of a certain change in my life. I realize how with every chapter of my past 11 years God has sent someone to guide me personally. Beginning of highschool, end of highschool, start of university days and end of it, I saw four people who had direct influence in my life. Now I am in Singapore, I had a mentor at my work, and more recently, ZQ, my mentor in my new life as a Christian. I wonder if he knows how important a part he has played?

So there you go my dear brothers and sisters. I am sure you all have some plans in mind to make the fullest of June. I for myself plan to do something special for this month. I was thinking of embarking on a book writing project. Yup, you read it right. Book writing project. My topic will be on how to reconcile our careers with our Christian life. I would be needing material to write this book and a great amount of motivation and inspiration of course. Please pray for me.

Lastly, before I forget, I would like to greet sister Joanne Low a belated happy birthday! I pray that you will have a better and more awesome year with God. Amen.

An Awesome Turning

Another year...

I'm 23 now. I thank God so much for everything. I have a lot to be grateful for.

God has truly blessed me with so much. I felt it would be appropriate to head this post with the title An Awesome Turning. For it has veritably been a turning point of my life when I decided to be Christian.

A lot has changed, but more needs to be done. But at least I am on the right track. I hope that you all will pray for me. That my turn towards God will be permanent and complete. I do not want to lead a double life of Christian and non-christian. I want to live a life that is just purely Christ-centered. I know this will come with time. For now, I am trying my best to learn from the examples that older Christians are showing.

As I am typing this, Sister Pat's Dad had a serious heart attack. She sms'ed Sher while we were in Raymond's car driving. I was really amazed how Raymond and Sher without hestition suggested we pray right there and then. So Raymond tuned the radio down and he started praying. It was really God's kingdom working. We were communicating with God and asking that He be with Sister Pat and for her Dad to recover. Somehow, with this experience, I understood a part of how a Christian should be.

Let us pray for Sister Pat's Dad, that God may place His healing hand upon him. Let us also pray that God will be with Pat and her family, to give them the strength and the faith to endure through this hard and trying time. Amen.

A Faithful Sister's Poem

Thank you Sister Joanne for sharing this wonderful poem with me and giving me the right to post it. I haven't been active in my blog for quite some time and I'm glad that my next posting is so meaningful. God is truly awesome!


Who am I but
a speck of dust in universe wide?
A flower whose beauty fades
as day turns into night-
Like a mist that vanishes
when the sun peeps from the sky.

Yet as insignificant as I
God treats me as the Apple of His Eye.
He goes to all length to show His love,
even if He has to die.
He longs for me like a groom
would long for His bride.
To Him I am His joy, His song and His pride.

What could I do to repay such love
but to make Him Lord of my life.
With Christ in my life, I am truly satisfied.

Thy loving kindness is better than life. ( Psalm 63: 6 )

- Low Wai Kin Joanne

I had an awesome time with sister Joanne when I visited her gallery "Ode to Art" in Raffles City. If you are interested in art I really recommend that you visit her place. One story that she told that really struck me is her interpretation of one of the Vietnamese paintings. She conveyed how the Vietnamese women in traditional clothes looked as if they are meeting for Bible study. How kingdom-focused can you get?

Sister Joanne, if yo are reading this, I am so grateful to have you as a sister. The way you treated me in the gallery just shows how much you love God by welcoming a brother without any reservations at all. I truly pray for success in your career.

To the others who are reading this, please pray with me for Sister Joanne to have a productive time in her career and that God will bless her more and more financially and moreso spiritually.

God Loves Me

This is a picture of the clouds from the 11th floor deck of my block after I went for morning prayer with the Brothers...

It has been an awesome week with God! Often I have asked God whether He truly exists and if He can manifest Himself to me. However, the more I ask, the more frustrated I became. For God does not reveal himself physically- for He knows our unbelieving nature-instead He chose to reveal Himself in a way that is totally unmystical. Without any pageantry and ostentations, God has revealed Himself to us through our Christian brothers and sisters. "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?..." (1 Corinthians 6:19). The Bible- the Word of God- says that we are temples of the Holy Spirit, which is from God. The Father does not confuse us. His Words itself says that He lives in us throught the Holy Spirit. We are His temples. Therefore, we do not need any grand and miraculous sign that God exists! No, sign and miracles are for the unbelievers to believe. But for the children, whom the Father has chosen to reveal Himself, He has given us our brothers and sisters as the living proof of His love and existence.

And so it is with this truth that I believe we should lay our foundation of faith. God asks us to put Him as number one priority, and since in our hearts we harbor God, the Father then requires that we love each other. It is the love for our neighbors that signifies and concretize our faith. "...I tell you the truth, whatever for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." (Matthew 25:40).

So as children of God and heirs of Christ, we need not look elsewhere to find God and show Him our love. He is within us and among us. All He commands is that we love each other, and by that we are expressing our love for Him.