An Invitation to Sing

I received an invitation from Sarah Tan, who happened to be my sister and the one who led me to Christ, to sing a beautiful song!

Pastor has been asking around for people to give song presentation, he even invited a Jew who visited us twice, to give a song special! Let's hope that he won't be frightened off, haha!

Anyway, this beautiful song is entitled "祢爱永不变", which means "Your Love Changes Not".

And, WOW, I found a video clip on YouTube which was very nicely done. It uses scenes from "The Passion of Christ", which is a controversial movie full of violent and has a very strong Catholic background, which I am NOT for it, but I'm amazed at how it portrayed the sufferings of Christ. It rend my heart watching how my Saviour was willing to suffer for me in order to save me from hell.

Romans 5:6-8
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

羅馬書5:6-8
因我们还软弱的时候，基督就按所定的日期为罪人死。为义人死，是少有的；为仁人死、或者有敢做的。惟有基督在我们还作罪人的时候为我们死，神的爱就在此向我们显明了。



祢流出宝血, 洗净我污秽
将我的生命赎回
祢为了我的罪, 牺牲永不悔
显明你极大恩惠

我深深体会, 祢爱的宝贵
献上自己永追随
或伤心或气馁, 或生离或死别
愿刚强壮胆永远不后退

哦~
祢爱永不变, 从今直到永远
深深浇灌我心田
或天旋或地转, 经沧海历桑田
都不能叫我与祢爱隔绝

Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

羅馬書8:38-39
因为我深信无论是死，是生，是天使，是掌权的，是有能的，是现在的事，是将来的事，
是高处的，是低处的，是别的受造之物，都不能叫我们与神的爱隔绝；这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的。

Thank You God for Your Great Love for us. You loved us when we were still sinners, ugly, sinful and undeserved.

Thank You Jesus for Your Sacrificial Love for us. You took our sins upon Yourself and died on the cross for us!

Thank You Holy Spirit for opening my eyes and heart to see and receive the Love of God!

Update: This song was later suggested by my dear hubby to let Peter and Tong Hak sing instead... because they have known what is "经沧海历桑田" and will definitely present it well.

I agreed to even though I have kind of "fallen-in-love" with this song, haha! Sarah even thanked me for "releasing" this song to be sung by Peter and Tong Hak... Hey, she really didn't have to, 'cos I truly agree with what hubby said: With they younger son, Ezra, fighting against Leukaemia, they really have been through storms~

I'll certainly take a clip of their presentation, but it would be next year then. Almost all Sundays until the end of the year were taken up by song presentations from the Music Dept. to teach us new worship songs and also by some special one like yesterday's Communion Special by Daniel Lau(started solo on "阿爸天父") who sang "Above All". I will write an entry on that this week, stay tuned! :)

Abba! Father!

Last Sunday was Father's Day. When I was in the church, the term "Abba, Father" was mentioned extensively throughout the worship.

During testimony, someone stood up to thank God for her earthly father, and at the same time she wished God - her Heavenly Father, a blessed Father's Day too. How sweet was that, I thought.

The senior Youth gave a Father's Day song special: 阿爸天父(Abba, Father). It was a lovely song and I was touched by it... 阿爸天父~ 阿爸天父~ 从我心深处呼求你名字~

My thought were brought back to when I just accepted Jesus as my Saviour. That was the time when the Almighty God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, became my Abba, Father! Awesome!

This word "Adoption" came to my mind when I was pondering on the awesome truth of being able to call God my Abba, Father. I was being adopted by God when I opened my heart to receive the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm so glad that out of the multitudes, God chose me and saved me and brought me into His wonderful light. Through faith in His Son - Jesus Christ, I have received the Spirit of adoption and become a child of God. And I can call Him: "Abba"! WOW!!

Romans 8:15-16
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.

Abba is an Aramaic word which means "daddy" or "papa". What Paul is saying is when we accept Jesus as our Savior we are adopted into God’s family. We become His children and He becomes our heavenly Father. The relationship is so deep and so personal that we can call him "daddy".

Some pics and clips from the special:

Daniel starting solo

The Senior Youth

Daniel played and sang so well~
(Hear Thaddea harmonizing in the background, haha!)


The group~


Hmmm... Thaddea didn't allow me to take a decent video of the presentation, so here's a clip of the whole song by SOP that I found in YouTube, enjoy!

The song that captivates my heart:



Thank You God that I can talk to You intimately, to have You as my Daddy, my Papa, One Who is merciful and loves me unconditionally.

Blessed Father's Day to my Heavenly Father ~ Abba
Thank You for loving me and taking care of my everything!

Blessed Father's Day to my earthly father ~ Dad
Thank you for loving me and taking care of my earthly needs!

Also...

Blessed Father's Day to my spiritual father ~ Pastor Joseph
Thank you for loving me and taking care of my spiritual needs!

Hey... I have 3 daddies! Yay!!

To all my friends: God can be your "Abba, Father" too~

Talking eCard

Philip sent me an eCard with the following message:

"Dear Lydia, blessed birthday. One more year and you'll be turning into a flower. Woman 40 is a flower. However, beauty is fleeting and charm deceptive but the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Though we are losing our outward beauty as time passed, may we grow inwardly to be more like Jesus. Lastly, just want to say that you'll always be beautiful to me. I love you. Muah! From someone who'll love you always, Philip, your lover."

Sweet~ Didn't know I'll be turning into a FLOWER next year, though!

Anyway, Philip wanted me to copy the message and paste it in a link which has a cat who can talk! (Choose a male voice and preview!) Very cute! The part when it goes "Muah!" was too funny!

If you have time, try it out!! You may like to type in other message instead. I type in the following, chose a female voice(Valerie!), preview it and it was hilarious!

"Aww... thank you Philip, you are so sweet! Smoochie! I love you toooooo!"

Here's the link: BlueMountain Talking eCard

Have fun!

Update: Okay... we just made the cat speak in Mandarin(ni how ma, wo i ni.) and Teochew(lur ja ba buay), haha!

I'm 39!

Today I celebrate my 39th birthday~

I look forward to what God has instored for me as I step into the last year of me being in the thirties. I hope to do something exciting for the Lord before I enter into the BIG four-zero... something that will make me smile whenever I look back at my 39, something that would be sweet and savoury :)

I remembered when I turned 35, I was feeling sober by this verse in Psalm 90:10 - "The length of our days is seventy years — or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away." If my life span is 70 years like what the Psalmist said, then I would have lived(used up) half of it... what am I going to do with the other half left??

I wonder would I have the same sentiment again when I hit the big 40 next year, being sober thinking of having left with another half of my entire life span if I were to have the strength to live a neat 80 years... hmmmm...

ANYWAY, if God called me home today, then all these thoughts are but just a waste of time! Being SOBER is GOOD, as long as I move on and stop dwelling on it and rot, that is, nope!

I neeeeeeeeeeeeed to LIVE LIFE to the fullest by LIVING LIFE FOR MY GOD! What have I been doing with my past 38 years huh? HUH??

Seize the year, Lydia!

Seize the time!!

Seize the moment!!!

My prayer, O God, on this my 39th birthday, according to Psalm 90:12 onwards:

Teach me to number my days aright, that I may gain a heart of wisdom. Have compassion on me - your child. Satisfy me in the morning with your unfailing love, that I may sing for joy and be glad all my days. May your deeds be shown to me, your splendor to my children. May the favor of the Lord my God rest upon me; establish the work of my hands for me — yes, establish the work of my hands.

In Jesus' gracious Name I humbly asked.

Amen and Amen!


Blessed 39th, Lydia!

Have fun in the Lord with your dear husband and children today :)

Perhaps Today!

~ The Rapture ~

"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words." ~ 1 Thess 4:16-18

Titus 2:13 says "while we wait for the blessed hope — the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,"

"You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him." Luke 12:40

The Rapture, which is the Second Coming of Jesus is an established fact. It is a promise that Jesus gave us when he said in John 4:1-3 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."

I may not have the priviledge to be at His First Coming which had happened some 2000 years ago when Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem, Israel, but I have the greatest definite priviledge to participate in His Second Coming! Glory!!

Even if I were to died before the Rapture takes place, I would still be a participant, in fact... "the dead in Christ will rise first!"

Totally Awesome! =)

The Imminent Return of my Savior, my Lord Jesus Christ, means that He could return at any moment, at any time, it is even at the door!

Perhaps today is the 2nd Coming! While there is no "Perhaps" in regards to the event of His return, the "Perhaps" here is refering to the TIMING~

Following is a super-nice poem written by J. Danson Smith. I SO love it! Hope you like it too :)

PERHAPS TODAY
(The unedited version)

Today? Perhaps! Perhaps today!
The Lord may come and catch away
His ransomed Church, His blood-bought Bride
To take her place at His blest side,
When dead and living saints shall share
One trumpet summons to the air.

Perhaps today! Yes! He may come
And call us to our Heavenly Home,
That wonderous place beyond compare
Which He, in love, doth now prepare--
Our Father's House! How sweet! How blest
To be forevermore at rest!

Today? Perhaps! Tis true! Today!
Ere nightfall we may be away,
Transported Home! How blest! How grand!
Transported Home to Gloryland!
One twinkling moment, then to be
With Him for all eternity.

Perhaps today! Then why the fear?
Tomorrow we may not be here!
The thing so dreaded may not come
Till we are safely gathered Home!
The threat'ning storm-cloud may not break
Till, in His Presence, we awake.

Perhaps today! Oh, lonely soul,
Thy heart shall reach its longed-for goal;
The fellowship, the joy, the bliss,
Which now thy heart doth sorely miss,
Perchance may be thy heart's delight
Ere closes in another night.

Perhaps today! Then much-tried saint,
Look up, nor let thy spirit faint;
The stretching road thine eyes may see
May never be traversed by thee--
One moment's space and then above,
To find thyself in cloudless love!

Perhaps today, afflicted life,
Thou shalt be taken from the strife,
From all that hatred to thy word
Which comes as thou dost please thy Lord.
And then, ah then, how shall the pain
Compared with all thou then shalt gain!

Perhaps today the fight will cease,
And then, eternal wondrous peace!
The evil hosts which rage and roar
Shall reach us there? NO, nevermore!
O blessed hope, to them be free
For ever through eternity!

We'll meet again - perhaps today
The dear ones who have passed away--
The loved ones who now softly sleep
When Jesus now doth safely keep,
Oh wondrous joy to meet them There
At that blest union in the air!

Perhaps today this mortal frame
With all enfeebled nature's claim
Shall be exchanged, and we shall own
A "temple" where shall not be known
A sense of weakness or decay,
Or strength that surely ebbs away.

Perhaps today we all shall stand
At Christ's tribunal, wondrous grand--
There gathered through redeeming love,
All ransomed, yet to have Him prove
Life's service, and to gain reward
Where life or labour pleased the Lord.

Perhaps today! He'll come most sure!
This hope He means to keep us pure--
To have us watching, ready, free,
Untrammeled with iniquity,
That we may meet Him without shame
Or conscious sense of guilt or blame.

Today perhaps! Perhaps today!
Yes, He may come! Then watch and pray!
This "blessed hope" keep much in view,
Nor deem it dead, though taught by few.
And be as urgent as you may
In winning souls, while 'tis "Today"!

~ Written by J. Danson Smith~

Published in the book, Maranatha Bells,
by Arno C. Gaebelein,
Copyright 1935

I SO look forward to meet the Lord in the air and the transformation of my lowly body to that of Christ's glorified body at the Rapture!! Can't wait~

We are called to be ready at all times for we do not know when Jesus will return for us. What is known is that He promised to return. The Lord keeps His promises.

May we be ever ready to meet the Lord Jesus in the air.

May we expectantly await to meet the Lord in the air.

May we pray fervently from our hearts, "Come quickly, Lord Jesus."

不住祷告! Persistent Prayers!

A very nice song that reminds me to pray, pray, pray! :)



我以禱告來到祢跟前，
我要尋求祢。
我要站在破口之中，
在那裡我尋求祢。

(副歌)
每一次我禱告，
我搖動祢的手，
禱告做的事，
我的手不能做。
每一次我禱告，
大山被娜移，
道路被鋪平，
使列國歸向祢。

主我是軟弱及無助，
祢卻是我的力量。
祢以親切的手引導我，
那就是我的得勝。


A simple translation of the song:
I come before You in prayer, seeking You.
I stand in the gap, there I seek You.

Everytime I pray,
I moved Your Hands.
Things that prayer can do,
I can't do it with my hands.
Everytime I pray
The mighty mountains are removed
The paths are made straight,
And the nations turned to You.

Lord, I'm weak and helpless,
but You are my Strength.
You lead me with Your Hand
and that is my Victory!


Very nice song indeed! Pastor was sharing in the prayer meeting about "The Parable of the Persistent Widow" in the context of Jesus' Second Coming.

Luke 18:1-8
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!'

"And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"


Dear Lord, I want to be found faithful in praying for my children, for my loved-ones, for the salvations of my friends, for the world, for everything that You have put in my heart to pray, when You come again for us. Yes, faithfully and persistently praying until Jesus returns at the Second Coming!

I don't want to be fooled by the devil who has been discouraging me to pray. Lord, please help me to never give up praying. Help me to be persistent!

Satan hates to see us praying because he knows that prayers move the mighty Hand of GOD that's why Satan is trying his utmost best to distract us from praying, making prayers look boring and pointless... But, NO! I don't want to be fooled by the devil! So Lord, this is what I pray:

Help me to be "be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."(Romans 12:12)

Help me to "pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints."(Ephesians 6:18)

Help me to "devote myself to prayer, being watchful and thankful."(Colossians 4:2)

Help me to "pray continually" (1 Thessalonians 5:17)

In Jesus' Name! Amen!!