Sharing and Blessing

  buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. ( Colossians 2:12)

My water baptism was on 8th April. Baptism means immersed in the water. This was a public confession of my faith. It also brings me into a covenant relationship with God.

I accepted Christ many years ago but this is the day I am born again in Christ. Before my baptism, Iwent through some hardship that really pressed me down. Series of problems attacked me either spiritually, emotionally and mentally.

One week before my baptism, it was spiritual attack. It happened during my sleeping time. I was overwhelmed by the enemy. The enemy was like attacking me physically and bothered me. I struggled and try my utmost strength to get rid of the disturbance. I didnt pray immediately for God’s protection. The attacks seems getting worst and aggresive. The more I fight back the more terrible it goes on. At that moment, I surrendered to God. Wow… I experienced peace. I sense God’s presence and protection. The enemy has subsided. This happened for few days and I was so afraid to sleep. I think I ve developed sleeping phobia!

I thank God that my roomates prayed for me. Corporate prayer is powerful. No matter how powerful the enemies are, it’s just temporary victory. All problems are temporary.

What I learnt was God is always there, no matter what difficulties we face. It’s temporary but God is eternal. God can use hardtime to draw us closer to Him. Through the hardship, my relationship with God is restored. I pray that our relationship can blossom into Christ-centered relationship. thank God for all the problems. It strengthen me in a creative way! Praise Him…

My 2nd year exam was over! Thank God that this time I was so blessed during my exam weeks and study week. I was blessed with a good health, good short term memories ( for those who know me, I used to study at veryyy last minute) It’s not good though but God has truly blessed me. Study at eleven hour is torturing, stressful and worrisome, but God is sooo good, He share my burden during my hard time. Though I was pressed, not crushed. Not weakened but stretched out. In the midst of busyness tru out the exam period, I can say I was crack up but at the end, I feel a sense of satisfaction. not by my own strength, not by my power, not my wisdom but all I ve are provided by God.

      This exam was different from the previous one. I can answer the questions with much time left over, I am not saying I can score with flying colors, and I am not blowing my own trumpet, I cant boast anything but one thing I can boast is God. God have a sense of humor. He will surprise you with such amazing things. god is faithful all the time, the question is, are we faithful to God in return?

Every time I am alone, I know God is there for me. Waiting for the bus alone, sitting in the bus with strangers, sitting in the ferry…Every time I am alone, something amazing will happen. Every time blessed by the people around me, the strangers somemore. I am afraid and cautious but God confirmed me with their friendliness and hospitality they offerred to me. We have some nice conversations, each single word they speaked was an eye opener to me. Most of the strangers I met were the elders or I can address them as uncle. I met a lot of Vietnamese in the ferry one night.. They just sat around me and even just beside me. At that moment, I was so uncomfortable and insecure. I start to pray that  I can relax and do something else, but what in my mind was can I approach to the Vietnamese? For some people, they are just foreign workers and we just mind our own business.

I have some burden for the foreign workers and so that those Vietnamese. I was always promted to speak to them but I remain silent due to language barrier. I was like waiting for them to initiate! Yea, this happened! One of the Vietnamese guy initiate to talk to me, amazingly, he spoke in mandarin with his own accent, but surely I can understand them clearly. Wow! Then, after he talked for a while, I started to ask whether he know what is "church", anywhere, he seems did’t catch what I mean. I was thinking, how wonderful if I have a bible in Vietnamese’s language so that I can give it to him. Know that it’s tough for them to know Christ due to persecution and plenty of obstacles in their country.. but I know that God sent them here with a purpose. God sent them to our country even at our door steps. I really pray that they will be blessed and saved…We didnt realize that they have blessed us a lot..

They need love and they are particularly open to spiritual message. We should not look down on them but try to humble ourselves to approach them and their needs as well.