24 Nov 2007 Youth Service

The 01 Dec 2007 Youth Service playlist is up so for rememberance purposes here is the 24 Nov 2007 Youth Service playlist:

Prayer Meeting

PRAYER MEETING

Activity: Special Prayer Meeting for Youth (Youth Camp, Youth related stuff)

Venue: PPHBC Level 2 Hall

Time: 8p.m, (28 Nov 07, Wed)

8 Reasons Why I Don't Share My Faith

wow, amazing stuff.
its great to hear how God has been using songs to touch His youth! :D

Well, I read Josh's post and I agree with him.
our hearts matter to God.
I don't know about you guys but sometimes when I'm at home, I go search up lyrics and read and think about the song and you'll realize that even when there's no music and we're just using our voices, our praise can be really great too. do we mean what we sing?
when we sing, I won't turn back and go their way, cause I'm running after You are we really willing to put our old self and take up our crosses to follow Him. if we were in Paul's position, would we still praise God. if we were in hard times, would we still submit to Him knowing that He'll provide? the question that may be running in our minds is, "but I'm only a youth! what can I do!" well, God said in Jeremiah 1:7-8: But the Lord said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a child.' You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the Lord.
man, with such assurance from God, we need not be afraid.
another verse, 2 Timothy 1:7: For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

we would face persecutions, trials, temptations but its how we face up to it. no one can overcome your giant. we have to put on our own armour and face our giant(s). we're a ministry and being in the same ministry, we have brothers and sisters in Christ willing to listen and pray for us and with us. (amazing how God puts these people there :D)

now my turn to share a song (: its from Hillsong/ To Know Your Name (Saviour King)

The precious blood of Jesus Christ redeems
Forgiven I’m alive, restored, set free
Your majesty resides inside of me
Forever I believe
Forever I believe

Arrested by Your truth and righteousness
Your grace has overwhelmed my brokenness
Convicted by Your spirit
Led by Your word
Your love will never fail
Your love will never fail

Cause I know You gave
The world Your only son for us to know Your name
To live within the Saviour's love
And He took my place,
Knowing He’d be crucified
And You loved
You loved
A people undeserving

Jesus knew He would be crucified, though He pleaded with God, He still went to do it, because He knew He would be (and is!) the one who would bridge the gap so that sin would no longer separate us from our Father in heaven.
God's love is Agape & unfailing & never-ending!
oh wait,
God is Love :D

Fall In This Place

Hey all.

God touched me when I listened to this song... and I felt that I need to share this with all of you.

Fall In This Place

Verse 1

Take me to that place Lord

Where there's nothing else but me and You

Longing for Your presence

I know that You're calling me to You

Prechorus

Here I stand

And long for Your embrace

Nothing else

Could ever take Your place

Chorus

Come Holy Spirit

Fall in this place

I need more and more of You

Fill me again with the power of Your Spirit

Lord I'm crying out for more and more of You

I mean, for me personally, the Youth Ministry and God's revival fire comes to my mind when I listened to this song. So let us keep praying for the Youth Ministry!!

Oh yeah... P.S this song is from Pick It Up album by Planetshakers... If you really want details its the 4th song on the first disc

aye..it's times like these when i feel really spiritually challenged and stuff :/
i think i've been through a rather..uneventful week?
i guess...i've had stuff ranging from pimples all the way to parents.

And surprisingly.i'm still able to post despite all the nonsense that i've been through so far.

But aye, i'll cut to the chase.
i've been wanting to share this song for quite a while i guess :/
cuz it's been..hm..rather touching for me.

Like in the first verse it goes.
I want to see the broken hearts,
Finding hope in God above,
I want to know, I’m doing all I can,
So with this life, with all I am,
No matter what the cost may be,
I pray to see your love become our cause,

i kinda have a broken heart right now. i think.

oh well. this may not mean much i guess but aye. just felt like sharing.

Lyrics

I want to see the broken hearts,
Finding hope in God above,
I want to know, I’m doing all I can,
So with this life, with all I am,
No matter what the cost may be,
I pray to see your love become our cause,
I wont stop believing,
You alone are,
you alone are God,
In you there’s freedom
Chorus
Your love brings me to my knees again,
We're gonna bring an anthem of love,
We're gonna live for you now.

This perfect love, I can’t explain,
This way of life that has no end,
The mercy satisfies, its all I need,
My purpose found in you alone,
To love the lost and bring them home,
That we were made to glorify our King
I won’t stop believing,
You alone are,
you alone are God,
In you there’s freedom
Chorus
Your love brings me to my knees again,
We're gonna bring an anthem of love,
We're gonna live for you,
May your love, become our every thought,
I want to learn the sound of your heart,
I want to live for you now
Bridge
For you, for you, its all for you, its all for you,
Singing you, you bring me life,
you bring me hope, you’re all I need

PPH Pentecostal Charismatic Issue

For those looking for the message pointers Pastor Kok Fai was talking about on 17 Nov 2007, you can find them at http://pphpentecostal-charismaticissue.blogspot.com/ (thanks Joel for putting them up).

I really think that Pastor did a superb job in clarifying certain issues and challenged us to lives that are truly Spirit-Filled. If you have have not heard the message, you can do so below.

Formalities

Isaiah 29:13 “The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.”

Worship of God pertains to the whole spectrum of living our lives but for the sake of brevity I shall focus on the corporate worship sessions at church. I am the sort of person who believes (and still striving to be such a person) that when we worship, we should put all formalities and opinions of others around us aside; let’s lift our voices, dance, raise our hands, kneel, cry… whatever God inspires us to do as we use all of our heart, body soul and mind to reach out to Him.

My initial mindset usually relates “rules taught by men” as those sort worship sessions where some people feels it’s their obligation to give the very solemn (sometimes pained and glum) look, remain very still as if they were part of a marching contingent, etc. Just to clarify, I am not trying to criticize such worships; I truly believe that God looks at the heart above all.

But on the flip-side, could our “rules taught by men” now be the raising of hands, jumping etc.? Do we think to ourselves, “Oh the music is starting to build up; time to start raising hands” or “This is the sort of song where everyone jumps so I ought to join in”? Our outwardly exuberant appearances and postures of worship are of no significance if our “hearts are far from” God.

Moreover, this more visible expression of worship could be a greater stumbling block to others. Imagine if others see us worshipping God with all these outward expressions but do not see the change in our hearts when we leave the worship hall. I am sure that would cause a lot of doubts to fill their minds vis-à-vis our reasons for worshipping in such a manner.

In a rather crude way of putting it across, I sometimes would rather people look as if they were mannequins if their attitudes for worshipping were wrong and if they do not let their experience with God transform their lives lest outsides conclude that God was not working through the lives of others who were worshipping God with all their might.

This being said, I also hope the contrary does not happen where people think, “My life is such a mess, I am not worthy to give my all in worship to God today or else others may think I am a hypocrite.” Do not be discouraged if you do not find yourself turning into a saint after the worship session. Instead, having examined our hearts, let us endeavor to give everything we have to Him in worship despite how distant we may seem from God. Allow the Holy Spirit to convict and empower us to change our lives. I believe that there will definitely be a change in one’s life if we continually do so, if not, let’s re-examine our lives.

Just as we worship in song with all our might, live the life He wants us to live with all our might.

The Stand by Hillsongs..

haven't decided if i'll lead this song the next time i lead worship... but well... this is really a great song... the vid's a bit lame though... haha...

Verse 1:
You stood before creation
eternity in Your hand
You spoke the earth into motion
My soul now to stand

Verse 2:
You stood before my failure
And carried the cross for my shame
My sin weighed upon Your shoulders
My soul now to stand

PreChorus:
So what can I say
And what could I do
But offer this heart O God
Completely to You

Verse 3:
So I'll walk upon salvation
Your Spirit alive in me
This life to declare Your promise
My soul now to stand

Chorus:
So I'll stand
With arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One who gave it all
I'll stand
My soul Lord to You surrendered
All I am is Yours

10-11-2007 Youth Service Preview

Hi,

Haven't had much time to blog this week and I guess this probably comes in a little too late. As I'll be leading worship this Saturday I just wanted to share a few things on the "newer songs" in as few words as possible lest I get dreary like now.

Song: Break Free
Reason: It does not matter where we may be spiritually, we can always return to Him / offer Him so much more because God's love (that caused Him to give His one and only son) is never ending, so let's respond to that! As we rededicate ourselves to Him, He gives us joy (hence so much dancing) and the power to break free from whatever is holding us back from obeying Him more.

Song: Your Unfailing Love
Reason: Sometimes though we tell God we want Him maginified in our lives, we let darkness fill our senses and our memories take the place where Jesus ought to belong. In such a state, way back in our minds we know that we need more of God but we unable to translate that into a conviction from the heart. In order to really break free from this we need to lay down our pride and allow Him to search us again; return to His unfailing love.

Song: None But Jesus
Reason: We may be in a state of confusion as to why certain things are happening. Let's cut out all distractions, focussing on God in the quiet and stillness, tell Him from within that there is no one else for me, none but Jesus.

Song: You Are My Strength
Reason: As the songs above have called us to believe that God can help us break free, regain a fresh sense of His unfailing love and to rededicate ourselves to Him as we declare that there is none but Jesus, let's affirm that He is our strength, hope and that He lifts us up.



These songs merely help facilitate a time worship but it's up to YOU whether you allow God to minister to you. CHOOSE TO WORSHIP EVERYDAY, DON'T BE A SPECTATOR.

Hi,

It's been a while since I've come up with something new to put on the blog. Far-fetched as it might sound, though I have officially ORDed, this week and the days ahead really seem quite busy. But yep, that's good because with this proper stuff to do and wanting to spend my time more fruitfully, it's helped me regain my focus on God. The whole of last week was more or less spent slacking and unfortunately many times I chose to put other earthly things (e.g. playing games, sleeping, watching vidoes etc.) before seeking God and ministering to others which I had originally planned to do.

Not sure if anyone can identify with me since some of you are having your holidays too. But yah, God gave me a timely wake up call when I was reading from Isaiah Chapters 10 to 22. It kept talking about how God was going to punish all the wicked nations (rather gruesome and scary stuff). As I reflected on this, I felt that God was warning me of the wrath that awaits those who choose to turn away from Him. For a while there was that sense of fear. But I He assured me as I remembered what Woon Chong said about the old covenant being the new covenant concealed. The fact is that God paid the ultimate price to shield us from His wrath by pouring it all out on His son Jesus. That cruel crucification and the curse of death which we were meant to suffer was broken as amazing love and grace flowed down nail pierced hands and feet of our Saviour King.

Looking at how things have changed so much since the old testament days and the freedom we now have in Jesus, I was really just so thankful and humbled that God, despite having every right to punish me severely, would provide such scum like me a way into His arms and call me His own despite the many times I have shelved Him into a corner.

I don't want to be fooled into thinking that I can live this life on my own now that many stresses have been removed. Instead, I want to make Him my sole desire at all times in both tough and good times. I don't want to forget the many times He has helped me through the stroms. Instead I want to see Him continue His mighty work in ever increasing magnitude in my life and other's.

So yep, for those of you who find yourselves with more free time on your hands now, I challenge you not to just remember God, put let's strive to make Him an even bigger part in our lives now (e.g Spending more time with Him, pray more (prayer meetings at level 4, 3p.m, Sat) reading Christian books, finding areas where we can serve Him, reaching out to others etc.). Especially now as we sense God working something mighty in the YM (there are just so many exciting things happening, gosh!), let's really reallly not be complacent but press on even harder, with greater intensity and passion. There's still so much more God can and wants to do with us so let's prepare ourselves for it and usher in His Spirit to continue it's work.

Drum cover for BREAK FREE as you can see.... (:
ANYONE Who needs to learn how to play break free by next week can come to this blog to see!
BYE BYE

hola amigos :D

well, i'll be leading worship this sat and there's a cool new song i would like you guys to learn!
(so exciting right!)



it's called Take it all :D

Verse1:
Searching the world
The lost will be found
In freedom we live
As one we cry out
You carried the cross
You died and rose again
My God, I’ll only ever give my all

Verse2:
You sent Your Son
From heaven to earth
You delivered us all
It’s eternally heard
I searched for truth
And all I found was You
My God I’ll only ever give my all

Chorus:
Jesus we’re living for Your Name
We’ll never be ashamed of You
Our praise and all we are today
Take take take it all
Take take take it all

Bridge:
Running to the One
Who heals the blind
Following the shining light
In Your hands
The power to save the world
Is my life

okay, toodles :D

gif. file

Hi,

I was chatting at home on MSN and notice all those cute little moving "emotions" people use when conversing. So I thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be convenient and perhaps "cute" if I had something like that to use when talking to my friends or anyone about the camp". Hence I've created a little something that you can upload as an emotion on MSN and perhaps use it =). So here it is:



2 more days to Youth!